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All my connections seem to work fine between my Axim X3i, Dell laptop & linksys adsl/gateway/router. What's really anoying is the fact that I cant get the speed up when transfering files between my laptop and my Axim X3i. It's quicker to transfer files trough the cradle than trough the wi-fi and that shouldnt be the case. Another proof of slow connection is that I can't stream movie content from my laptop to my PDA. It's working, but it's studdering and very anoying.
Ex. One movie plays with a bitrate of 1411 Kb/s and it does not play well. It shouldnt be a problem since it is only about 1/10 of what a 802.11b card should be able to handle.
The tx rate on the router is set on "Auto" (I tried different settings, doesnt work)I've tried different channels (doesnt work) | {
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Scientists called study’s findings upsetting and said toxic air must be cut
Raised levels of nitrogen dioxide pollution increased the risk of losing a pregnancy by 16%, the study reveals.
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Air pollution is as bad for pregnant women as smoking in raising the risk of miscarriage, according to a scientific study. They said the finding was upsetting and that toxic air must be cut to protect the health of the next generation.
The effect of long-term exposure to dirty air on the risk of miscarriage has been analysed previously. Studies from Brazil to Italy to Mongolia found a link, but others failed to do so.
However, the latest study is the first to assess the impact of short-term exposure to air pollution. It found that raised levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) pollution that are commonplace around the world increased the risk of losing a pregnancy by 16%.
“It’s pretty profound,” said Dr Matthew Fuller, at the University of Utah’s department of emergency medicine and one of the research team. “If you compare that increase in risk to other studies on environmental effects on the foetus, it’s akin to tobacco smoke in first trimester pregnancy loss.” NO2 is produced by fuel burning, particularly in diesel vehicles.
The research, published in the journal Fertility and Sterility, was conducted in Salt Lake City in the US, and surrounding urban areas. But Fuller said the results were applicable elsewhere: “There are many places in the world that suffer from pollution that is far greater, so this is not a problem unique to Utah. This is a problem we are all facing.” NO2 levels in Salt Lake City are similar to those in cities such as London and Paris.
Fuller was initially alerted to the issue when a family member lost a miscarried during a particularly poor period of air quality in 2016. He said: “That triggered the question in my mind and then I started noticing anecdotally that I was seeing spikes in miscarriage numbers in the emergency department during and after [pollution spikes].”
Fuller teamed up with the population health scientist Claire Leiser and others to see if the effect was real. They analysed the records of more than 1,300 women who attended the emergency department after miscarriages from 2007 and 2015.
A woman’s exposure to air pollution at the time of the miscarriage was compared with similar times when she did not miscarry, meaning that age, weight, income and other personal factors were accounted for. The strongest link with a lost pregnancy was the level of NO2 in the seven days before the miscarriage.
The average seven-day NO2 level across the whole period was 34 micrograms per cubic metre (μg/m3), but peaked at 145μg/m3. The researchers found an increase in NO2 pollution of 20μg/m3 was associated with a 16% rise in the risk of miscarriage. “Many of us think there is an effect [of air pollution] on our health, but to find out there are actual effects on unborn children is very upsetting,” said Fuller.
Higher levels of particle pollution were also linked to a greater risk of miscarriage, as found in a previous study, but the association in the new work was not statistically significant. However, other recent studies on long-term exposure to particle pollution in Iran, Italy, Mongolia and the US found significant links. Other air pollutants, including ozone and sulphur dioxide have also been implicated in these analyses.
The mechanism by which air pollution could harm a foetus has not yet been established but a likely hypothesis is that the pollutants cause oxidative stress and inflammation.
Dr Sarah Stock, at the University of Edinburgh and not part of the research team, said: “Air pollution is clearly detrimental to the health of millions of mothers, babies and children worldwide. Measures to reduce the impact of air pollution are crucial to ensure the health of future generations.”
But she noted that the risk of miscarriage varied substantially with the number of weeks of pregnancy and that the study had not been able to record this information, potentially introducing a bias into the result.
Leiser said: “If we were able to get the gestation stage that would be a real benefit, to get a sense of when the woman is most at risk. There really needs to be more studies done on this specific issue. But we know enough about air pollution and birth outcomes to say, if you are pregnant, talk to your doctor.”
The best action is to cut overall levels of pollution in urban areas, said Fuller. However he said women could choose to time their pregnancies to avoid the most polluted times of year. This is winter in Utah and many other places, but will vary depending on local conditions.
Fuller also said pregnant women could avoid exertion on polluted days and consider buying indoor air filters. “But in the developing world these are luxuries many people can’t afford,” he said.
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Customers of the Oldham County Environmental Authority can expect to see an average increase of seven and a half dollars in their monthly bills soon.
OCEA, also known as Veolia Water, was granted a 4.5 percent rate increase for sewer charges, as well as a $5.59 flat increase to a monthly surcharge by the Oldham County Fiscal Court Tuesday. According to figures given by OCEA, the increases amount to an extra $7.43 a month for the average customer.
The Oldham County Fiscal Court approved the increase by voice vote at its bi-monthly meeting Tuesday.
The increases are due to work upgrading the system’s infrastructure and plants to conform to EPA standards, OCEA Treasurer Art Hinson said. And the funds also help cover new plants OCEA is in the process of or need to build in the future, he told county magistrates.
“We’re building a new $10 million plant and the debt payments will kick up over time and the surcharge will increase as that happens,” he said.
Hinson said that once the new plant goes active, the hope is new residential and business customers will use OCEA and those funds will offset increased surcharge amounts. But he said the utility hadn’t researched what the future increases could be year after year.
“The projection of what our rate increase will be in the future, we’ve not done that yet,” he said.
Many of the magistrates expressed displeasure at the increase, but said after multiple discussions with OCEA, they weren’t sure how else to proceed.
“No one takes giving OCEA a raise lightly,” Magistrate Kevin Eldridge said. “But we don’t see any way around it. They have obligations with the Kentucky Division of Water, obligations to their creditors and an obligation to the county.”
Magistrate JD Sparks questioned whether the increase should be on the ballot because he said it wa more than a four percent tax increase, but County Judge-Executive David Voegele said the increase is an utility fee, so it doesn’t apply under the same law.
Magistrate Bob Leslie said he would vote against the measure, even though OCEA doesn’t operate in his district.
“I understand your position and where you are,” he said. “But I’m going to vote no, because I made a campaign promise not to increase fees and when I give my word, I keep it.”
Voegele who only votes in a tie, said he supported the measure because he didn’t see any other option for OCEA to cover its debt payments.
“Our back is against the wall, we have all these environmental mandates,” he said. “I believe the service is well delivered, well done, it’s not inexpensive by any means.”
Magistrate Bob Dye, who said three of the communities in his district operate under OCEA, said he supports the increase because the new plant will rid his district of a foul-smelling outdated plant currently.
“I did the math on this, its 25 cents a day,” Dye said. “I guarantee the more than 1,000 residents in those communities would double down and pay 50 cents a day to get rid of that rancid smell.” | {
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Fragmentary remains of a large, robustly built theropod dinosaur were recovered from the marine middle Callovian Ornatenton Formation of north-eastern Northrhine-Westphalia, Germany. The specimen includes a premaxilla, maxilla, lacrimal, postorbital, dentary, several caudal vertebrae, ribs, fibulae, astragalus, and partial calcaneum. It is here described as a new species of megalosauroid, Wiehenvenator albati n. gen. n. sp., diagnosed by a strongly reduced maxillary antorbital fossa on the base of the ascending process of the maxilla, a very short anterior ramus of the lacrimal with an additional pneumatic depression anteroventral to the lacrimal fenestra, a transversely expanded orbital facet in the postorbital, and a laterally flexed proximal end of the ascending process of the astragalus. Phylogenetic analysis recovers Wiehenvenator as a megalosaurine megalosaurid, sister taxon to the Late Jurassic genus Torvosaurus. It thus adds to the considerable diversity of megalosauroids in the Middle Jurassic. A time-calibrated phylogeny of theropods indicates a rapid radiation of averostran theropods between the Toarcian and the Bathonian. This radiation was probably triggered by the Pliensbachian-Toarcian extinction event, which might have been more important for theropod evolution than the Triassic-Jurassic extinction. The fossil record indicates a faunal turnover from megalosauroid dominated Middle Jurassic to allosauroid / coelurosaur dominated Late Jurassic faunas. However, differences in the Middle and Late Jurassic theropod fossil records both in respect to geographic distribution of localities, as well as sampled environments make this inference problematic, at least in respect to allosauroids. An analysis of environmental preferences of allosauroids and megalosauroids indicates that the former preferred inland environments, whereas the latter are more common in nearshore environments.
A partial skeleton of a new megalosaurid theropod, Wiehenvenator albati, from the Callovian marine Ornatenton of northern Germany adds to the diverse association of megalosaurid theropods from the Middle Jurassic of Europe. The new taxon is a derived megalosaurine megalosaurid closely related to Torvosaurus, which might be the only megalosaurid taxon to survive into the Late Jurassic. The available evidence supports a rapid radiation of averostran theropods within probably less than 15 Myr during the latest Early and early Middle Jurassic, during which at least nine important lineages were established: Ceratosauridae, Noasauridae, Abelisauridae, Piatnitzkysauridae, Megalosauridae, Spinosauridae, Metriacanthosauridae, Allosauria, and Coelurosauria. Theropod faunal composition seems to show marked changes during the Jurassic with mainly megalosauroid taxa being reported from the Middle Jurassic, whereas allosauroids and, especially, coelurosaurs gained increasing importance in the Late Jurassic. Ceratosaurs seem to have been rare components of both Middle and Late Jurassic theropod faunas, although this might partially reflect geographic patterns, as some clades might have radiated first in southern Gondwana, a region that is poorly represented in the fossil record in post-Bajocian localities. Both geographical distribution and environments sampled during different times of the Jurassic might have an important impact on our views of theropod faunal composition at different times.
Pterosaurs are an extinct group of highly modified flying reptiles that thrived during the Mesozoic. This group has unique and remarkable skeletal adaptations to powered flight, including pneumatic bones and an elongate digit IV supporting a wing-membrane. Two major body plans have traditionally been recognized: the primitive, primarily long-tailed paraphyletic “rhamphorhynchoids” (preferably currently recognized as non-pterodactyloids) and the derived short-tailed pterodactyloids. These two groups differ considerably in their general anatomy and also exhibit a remarkably different neuroanatomy and inferred head posture, which has been linked to different lifestyles and behaviours and improved flying capabilities in these reptiles. Pterosaur neuroanatomy, is known from just a few three-dimensionally preserved braincases of non-pterodactyloids (as Rhamphorhynchidae) and pterodactyloids, between which there is a large morphological gap. Here we report on a new Jurassic pterosaur from Argentina, Allkaruen koi gen. et sp. nov., remains of which include a superbly preserved, uncrushed braincase that sheds light on the origins of the highly derived neuroanatomy of pterodactyloids and their close relatives. A µCT ray-generated virtual endocast shows that the new pterosaur exhibits a mosaic of plesiomorphic and derived traits of the inner ear and neuroanatomy that fills an important gap between those of non-monofenestratan breviquartossans (Rhamphorhynchidae) and derived pterodactyloids. These results suggest that, while modularity may play an important role at one anatomical level, at a finer level the evolution of structures within a module may follow a mosaic pattern.
Etymology. Genus name from the native Tehuelche word ‘all’ meaning brain, and ‘karuen,’ meaning ancient. Species name from Tehuelche ‘koi’ meaning lake, referring to the lacustrine setting of the type locality.
The discovery of strongly correlated character state distributions in Darwinopterus led Lü et al. (2010) to suggest that major anatomical regions might have behaved as integrated modules that changed at different times and rates during pterosaur evolution. However, Allkaruen demonstrates that, whereas modular evolution might have operated at an inclusive morphological level (e.g., skull + neck versus the remainder of the postcranium), evolution within at least one of these modules (the neurocranium and braincase) seems to have followed a mosaic pattern.
The late Early-early Middle Jurassic age of Allkaruen (Cúneo et al., 2013) also provides new information on the timing of transformations during the evolution of the derived pterodactyloid skull from that of basal pterosaurs. The derived features of the cranium of Allkaruen indicate that some typical “pterodactyloid” skull features had already evolved by the time of the Early/Middle Jurassic boundary (Fig. 7), before the origin of pterodactyloids and the appearance of their modified postcranial skeleton. Prior to this discovery, a large suite of cranial features was presumed to have appeared somewhat later, during the late Middle to Late Jurassic, the age of the basal monofenestratans, Darwinopterus (Lü et al., 2010) and Wukongopterus (Wang et al., 2009) and the oldest pterodactyloids (Andres, Clark & Xu, 2014).
Unfortunately, the Early-Middle Jurassic is a period with a very poor pterosaur fossil record, in contrast to the relatively diverse assemblage of pterosaurs known from both the Late Triassic and the Late Jurassic–Cretaceous (Barrett et al., 2008; Butler, Benson & Barrett, 2013; Benson et al., 2014). The early evolutionary origin and diversification inferred for derived pterosaurs (Fig. 4), adds further evidence in support of the hypothesis that the origin and diversification of major vertebrate lineages (e.g., dinosaurs (Allain & Läng, 2009; Pol & Rauhut, 2012), crocodyliforms (Pol & Gasparini, 2009), turtles (Sterli, Pol & Laurin, 2013), mammals (Luo et al., 2011)) occurred prior to the Early/Middle Jurassic boundary (Allain & Läng, 2009; Cúneo et al., 2013). This pattern was previously obscured by the worldwide poor fossil record of terrestrial vertebrates during this evolutionarily critical period of time.
A new species of the colubrid genus Dendrelaphis Boulenger 1890 is described. Dendrelaphis nigroserratus sp. nov. occurs in a part of West Thailand as well as in the extreme south of Myanmar. Morphologically, D. nigroserratus sp. nov. is similar to D. cyanochloris (Wall, 1921) with which it occurs sympatrically. It is distinguished from the latter by its highly conspicuous neck coloration, high incidence of paired postparietal shields and its much larger size. In coloration, it resembles
D. striatus (Cohn, 1906) from which it is distinguished by several aspects of its morphology. The discovery of D. nigroserratus sp. nov. underscores the notion that the hilly western parts of Thailand are in need of further exploration.
The fluviatile terrace deposits of Khok Sung, Nakhon Ratchasima province, have yielded more than one thousand fossils, making this the richest Pleistocene vertebrate fauna of Thailand. The excellent preservation of the specimens allows precise characterization of the faunal composition. The mammalian fauna consists of fifteen species in thirteen genera, including a primate, a canid, a hyaenid, proboscideans, rhinoceroses, a suid, cervids, and bovids. Most species correspond to living taxa but globally (Stegodon cf. orientalis) and locally (Crocuta crocuta ultima, Rhinoceros unicornis, Sus barbatus, and Axis axis) extinct taxa were also present. The identification of Axis axis in Khok Sung, a chital currently restricted to the Indian Subcontinent, represents the first record of the species in Southeast Asia. Three reptilian taxa: Crocodylus cf. siamensis, Python sp., and Varanus sp., are also identified. Faunal correlations with other Southeast Asian sites suggest a late Middle to early Late Pleistocene age for the Khok Sung assemblage. However, the Khok Sung mammalian fauna is most similar to that of Thum Wiman Nakin, dated to older than 169 ka. The Khok Sung large mammal assemblage mostly comprises mainland Southeast Asian taxa that migrated to Java during the latest Middle Pleistocene, supporting the hypothesis that Thailand was a biogeographic pathway for the Sino-Malayan migration event from South China to Java.
Figure 1. Map of Southeast Asia showing A the Sundaland boundaries and the migration route hypothesis: Siva-Malayan route (black), Sino-Malayan route (red), and Taiwan-Philippine Archipelago route (blue) and B the location of the Khok Sung sand pit (star) and other Middle (red circle) and Late (yellow circle) Pleistocene sites. The Sunda shelf boundaries at the sea level about 120 m lower than the present day are compiled from Voris (2000). Some Middle Pleistocene sites in South China and central Eastern China are shown in the map. Only Gua Cha (Peninsular Malaysia) is Holocene in age (Groves 1985, Bulbeck 2003).
Figure 19. Remains of Panolia eldii from Khok Sung:
A–C DMR-KS-05-04-20-4, a cranium in dorsal (A), lateral (B), and ventral (C) views D DMR-KS-05-03-15-11, a right P2 E DMR-KS-05-03-00-24, a left M1 F DMR-KS-05-03-00-23, a right M2 G DMR-KS-05-03-27-6, a left M3 H DMR-KS-05-04-9-2, a left M3 I DMR-KS-05-03-29-2, a right i1 in lingual view J–K DMR-KS-05-03-27-2, a left mandible in lateral (J) and occlusal (K) views L–M DMR-KS-05-04-9-5, a left mandible in occlusal (L) and lateral (M) views. All teeth are shown in occlusal view.
Figure 30. Cranial and upper dental remains of Bubalus arnee from Khok Sung:
A–C DMR-KS-05-03-20-1, a cranium in dorsal (A), ventral (B), and lateral (C) views and D–E DMR-KS-05-03-21-1, a cranium in dorsal (D) and ventral (E) views F–G DMR-KS-05-03-11-1, a right upper jaw in lateral (F) and occlusal (G) views H–I DMR-KS-05-03-16-3, a partial cranium in ventral view (H) with a right tooth row (I) J DMR-KS-05-03-16-2, a right horn core in dorsal view K DMR-KS-05-03-18-14, a left P2 L DMR-KS-05-03-00-103, a left DP3 M DMR-KS-05-04-29-8, a right DP4 N DMR-KS-05-03-00-7, a right M3. Cross-sections of basal horn cores are given. All isolated teeth are shown in occlusal view.
Pterosaur fossils from the Campanian–Maastrichtian of North America have been reported from the continental interior, but few have been described from the west coast. The first pterosaur from the Campanian Northumberland Formation (Nanaimo Group) of Hornby Island, British Columbia, is represented here by a humerus, dorsal vertebrae (including three fused notarial vertebrae), and other fragments. The elements have features typical of Azhdarchoidea, an identification consistent with dominance of this group in the latest Cretaceous. The new material is significant for its size and ontogenetic stage: the humerus and vertebrae indicate a wingspan of ca 1.5 m, but histological sections and bone fusions indicate the individual was approaching maturity at time of death. Pterosaurs of this size are exceedingly rare in Upper Cretaceous strata, a phenomenon commonly attributed to smaller pterosaurs becoming extinct in the Late Cretaceous as part of a reduction in pterosaur diversity and disparity. The absence of small juveniles of large species—which must have existed—in the fossil record is evidence of a preservational bias against small pterosaurs in the Late Cretaceous, and caution should be applied to any interpretation of latest Cretaceous pterosaur diversity and success.
All other Campanian and Maastrichtian azhdarchids are famous for being much larger, the biggest being as tall as giraffes and, even at their smallest, comparable in size to the largest extant flying birds. The pterosaur is restored here with anatomical characteristics and body proportions predicted for neoazhdarchian and azhdarchid azhdarchoid pterosaurs. DOI: 10.1098/rsos.160333
A new species of the rhacophorid frog genus Theloderma is described from the forested shoreline of the Nam Lik Reservoir, Vientiane Province, Laos. The new species differs from its congeners by having the combination of males with SVL 17.0–20.6; pearly asperities on dorsum; no vomerine teeth; disc diameter of finger III ca. 40% of tympanum diameter; uniformly gray venter; light brown dorsum with darker brown and black markings; and a uniformly bronze iris with small black reticulations. Molecular phylogenetic analysis of mitochondrial DNA sequence data infers that the new species is most closely related to T. lateriticum from northern Vietnam. Evidence for the monophyly of Theloderma is reviewed.
Etymology. The specific epithet taken from lacustrinus L., of lakes, in reference to Nam Lik Reservoir, a large, man-made reservoir formed by a hydropower dam that has inundated the vicinity of the type locality.
Diagnosis. Assigned to the genus Theloderma on the basis of molecular data (Fig. 2). A very small-sized (second smallest known) species of Theloderma having the combination of males with SVL 17.0–20.6; pearly asperities on dorsum; no vomerine teeth; disc diameter of finger III ca. 40% of tympanum diameter; uniformly gray venter; light brown dorsum with darker brown and black markings; and a uniformly bronze iris with small black reticulations.
Distribution, natural history, and conservation.Theloderma lacustrinum sp. nov. is currently known only from the type and paratype localities (Fig. 3), where it was collected at night (1820–2215 h) on leaves 30–80 cm above the ground near two rocky streams (292–361 m elev.) in semi-evergreen forest that flow into the Nam Lik Reservoir (Fig. 1). The two known localities are approximately 5.7 air-km apart. We did not observe the new species at these localities during visits in April, July, and September 2015, suggesting that it may be seasonally active or most detectable during cooler, drier months (e.g., at lower heights in the forest canopy). The vicinity of the two known localities had not been surveyed for amphibians prior to construction of the hydroelectric dam, and thus it is not known how inundation from the reservoir may have impacted the range of the species.
The four forms of Yellow-rumped Warbler, Setophaga coronata, have distinct breeding ranges, with a narrow hybrid zone between Myrtle and Audubon's in western Canada. The researchers suggest that Myrtle, Audubon's and Goldman's are separate species. It's equivocal whether Black-fronted should be treated as a separate species or a subspecies of Audubon's.
Populations that have experienced long periods of geographic isolation will diverge over time. The application of high-throughput sequencing technologies to study the genomes of related taxa now allows us to quantify, at a fine scale, the consequences of this divergence across the genome. Throughout a number of studies, a notable pattern has emerged. In many cases, estimates of differentiation across the genome are strongly heterogeneous; however, the evolutionary processes driving this striking pattern are still unclear. Here we quantified genomic variation across several groups within the Yellow-rumped Warbler species complex (Setophaga spp.), a group of North and Central American wood warblers. We showed that genomic variation is highly heterogeneous between some taxa and that these regions of high differentiation are relatively small compared to those in other study systems. We found that the clusters of highly differentiated markers between taxa occur in gene-rich regions of the genome and exhibit low within-population diversity. We suggest these patterns are consistent with selection, shaping genomic divergence in similar genomic regions across the different populations. Our study also confirms previous results relying on fewer genetic markers that several of the phenotypically distinct groups in the system are also genomically highly differentiated, likely to the point of full species status.
The parrots (Psittacidae: Lophopsittacus, Psittacula, Necropsittacus, Mascarinus) of the Mascarenes (Mauritius, Réunion, Rodrigues) have been relatively poorly studied. Most analyses have been based on a few skins, insufficient fossil material, and unreliable contemporary accounts and illustrations, which have led to erroneous interpretations. The discovery of new fossil remains of parrots and new interpretations of contemporary descriptions and illustrations has clarified many issues. One problematic species, Lophopsittacus bensoni is here removed to the genus Psittacula. A detailed comparative analysis of fossil skeletal elements indicates that the affinities of the Mascarene parrots lie within the Psittaculini, a wide ranging tribe of parrots that occurs mainly in Southeast Asia and Australasia. The Mascarenes are remote volcanic islands and biogeographical evidence presented here suggests that parrots reached this isolated group by island-hopping from India, probably during low sea level stands.
The labrid fish Cheilinus quinquecinctus Rüppell, originally described from the Red Sea, has long been regarded as a junior synonym of C. fasciatus (Bloch). Herein, both nominal species are redescribed, based on examination of the types and additional material from the Red Sea (for C. quinquecinctus) and the Indo-West Pacific (for C. fasciatus). Rüppell's description of Cheilinusquinquecinctus was originally based on three syntypes, and the most representative adult specimen is designated as the lectotype. We show that Cheilinus quinquecinctus is restricted to the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, and it differs from the similar C. fasciatus in having modally fewer gill rakers on the first gill arch, a total of 13–16 (mean 13.9, usually 13 or 14 ) (vs. 13–16, mean 14.7, usually 14 or 15), in developing a ragged posterior margin of the caudal fin with age (versus only upper and lower caudal-fin lobes developing with age), and in its color pattern. The phylogenetic analysis of the COI barcoding region accords with the species status of C. quinquecinctus with the placement of the two sister species in two divergent and reciprocally monophyletic evolutionary lineages. A full description of C. quinquecinctus and diagnosis of C. fasciatus is provided here for comparison. In addition, the data include a table of the results of the meristic and morphological examination of type and additional specimens of both species from throughout their distribution ranges as well as a table of gill-raker counts of all examined specimens. Underwater color photographs are provided for comparison of juveniles, females and males of both species.
All ornithischian dinosaurs are herbivorous or omnivorous. Ornithischian Liaoningosaurus paradoxus Xu et al., 2001 is an ankylosaur. Here we report a new specimen of L. paradoxus from China. It contains a number of fish skeletons. We interpret those remains as stomach or gut contents and hence as strong evidence for the meat-eating diet of the dinosaur. With elongate and fork-like denticles of cheek tooth crowns, L. paradoxus has a dentition capable of penetrating into animals like small fishes. The carnivorous adaptation of the dinosaur is also supported by the ungual modification to a sharp claw in both the fore-and hind-limbs. The evolution of a shield-like ventral armor plate and the loose sacrum-pelvic connection suggest that L. paradoxus may have adopted an aquatic way of life,using the ventral armor plate to protect the body from underwater attacks; as such,the open suture between the neural arch and centrum of the vertebrae cannot be used to indicate the juvenile nature of the type specimen. L. paradoxus is the first carnivorous ornithischian dinosaur since dinosaur was first known in the 18th century and represents not only the first aquatic or semi aquatic example of armored dinosaurs but also the smallest species of ornithischian dinosaur so far known.
This article presents and describes Plantago humboldtiana, an extremely narrow endemic rheophytic new species from a waterfall in Corupá, Santa Catarina state, southern Brazil. The new species is unique in presenting a combination of type-G antrorse trichomes on scapes, pendulous inflorescences and 1-seeded pyxidia. Only one population is known to exist, despite intensive search efforts in nearby, similar environments. Its conservation status is assessed as critically endangered (CR) as the only known population is restricted to a dramatically small area, and is subject to extreme fluctuation due to occasional floods, and also to intense visitation by tourists, which can disturb its fragile habitat. We also present an updated identification key to the species of Plantago that occur in Santa Catarina. The recent description of three narrow endemic, threatened new species of Plantago in Santa Catarina, which is the Brazilian state with its flora best studied, highlights the need for more taxonomic research, especially in the neotropics.
Figure 4: Photographs of Plantago humboldtiana. (A) The only known population of Plantago humboldtiana. (B) Detail of the environment. (C) Isolated individual clearly displaying the pendulous inflorescences, one of the key characters of this species. (D) Detail of inflorescence (photograph by Luís Adriano Funez). (E) Overview of Salto Grande waterfall, in Corupá municipality, Santa Catarina state.
Gustavo Hassemer and Nina Rønsted. 2016. Yet Another New Species from One of the Best-studied Neotropical Areas: Plantago humboldtiana (Plantaginaceae), An Extremely Narrow Endemic New Species from A Waterfall in southern Brazil. PeerJ. 4:e2050. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.2050 | {
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Kickstarter’s website gives entrepreneurs and inventors a place on the Internet where they can take their genius ideas in an effort to gain funding. It works off the idea of crowdsourcing -- but instead of gathering information, Kickstarter users are gathering money. If an idea or project piques people's interest, they can donate money to the individual or team in order to see that project come to fruition.
Donators don't give away their money for nothing, though -- in exchange for their donation, they receive incentives, such as gifts and the product (if there's a physical product).
Kickstarter was founded in 2009, but it looks like someone else had already had the crowdfunding idea. Brian Camelio, a former musician, filed a patent in 2003 for "Methods and apparatuses for financing and marketing a creative work," and was granted said patent this year. Camelio founded ArtistShare, which allows fans to help fund musician's recording projects in exchange for "access to the creative process."
The patent is for a system of "raising financing and/or revenue by artist for a project, where the project may be a creative work of the artist." The method includes "registering, by at least one artist, with a centralized database, at least one or more projects, offering, by the at least one artist, an entitlement related to the artist in exchange for capital for the project of the artist."
So in other words, Camelio has patented the process of offering an incentive ("entitlement related to the artist") in exchange for donations ("capital for the project of the artist"). And that's sort of what Kickstarter does, so Camelio thinks Kickstarter should license his patent.
Kickstarter, needless to say, has requested that the patent be invalidated, or, at the very least, that the court find that Kickstarter is not liable of infringement.
Camelio reportedly told PaidContent in an e-mail that, "As an artist myself, I feel that KickStarter may be hurting artist by focusing on 'donating money' rather than celebrating the artist for what they do. Their model does not build fan relationships but just continually asks for handouts."
An interesting position, coming from the founder of a similar company. | {
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Flash Minisite for Facebook Fan Page
You can embed this Flash Minisite in your facebook’s fan page. The template is suitable for your works or photography. The video is support Youtube or Vimeo. The step by step tutorial is included in the source package. | {
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Am I a Candidate for Invisalign®?
Invisalign® is a versatile and attractive option for patients who are hesitant to commit to traditional braces. The transparent plastic aligners used in Invisalign® treatment are not only an aesthetic benefit for adults, but a practical advantage when paired with many patients' busy lifestyles. Invisalign® trays can be removed when you need to eat, drink, brush, or floss, neatly avoiding the inconveniences that come with bracket-and-wire braces.
However, Invisalign® might not be the ideal solution for everyone's orthodontic problems. If your teeth need significant re-alignment and correction, traditional braces may be necessary to more effectively address your needs.
When Invisalign® Is a Good Option
Although Invisalign® is limited in its ability to address severe bite issues, it can be used in a wide variety of other situations, making it a valuable tool for patients and dentists alike.
Invisalign® is often used to correct:
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Mild to moderate teeth crowding
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Widely-spaced teeth
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Mild to moderate crossbite, overbite, or underbite
The convenience of the clear plastic aligners also make Invisalign® useful in completing unfinished orthodontic treatment — for example, when braces were removed too early — or simply correcting teeth that have relapsed after previous orthodontic treatment.
What to Expect From Invisalign®
When using Invisalign®, you will need to switch out aligners at regular two-week intervals in order to keep your teeth moving towards their final, ideal position. Because aligners are switched out so frequently, Invisalign® treatment often progresses faster than treatment with traditional braces, which are only adjusted every six to eight weeks.
The total amount of time it will take for you to complete Invisalign® treatment will depend upon your specific dental problems. Every patient's needs are unique; there is no standard amount of time Invisalign® can or should be worn. Once your teeth have been examined by Dr. Aaron and Dr. Brandon, we can determine whether or not you are a candidate for Invisalign®, and provide you with an estimate of the potential length of your treatment.
As a patient, three things stand out to me about Cooley Smiles - the great quality dental work, the cleanliness of the facility and thorough follow up. These are major differentiators that I look for in dental providers and to-date, I've always been satisfied with my experience. Thanks for the great patient care, Cooley Smiles team! | {
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gifts or creatures, fair mitten {premiere}
Tomorrow, Kalamazoo, Michigan’s indie/folk americana duo Gifts or Creatures – comprised ofBrandon John Foote + Bethany Foote – releases their third full-length, a ten track piece of work titled Fair Mitten. But while we wait (not so patiently) to own a copy of it for ourselves, we’ve actually got the whole thing streaming for you.
From the lengthy, beautiful instrumental intro on first track “Pontiac’s Rebellion”, to the soft, simple but detailed storytelling in “Trout of The Pines”, to the soulful and rock-tinged “Green Gold”, all the way until the last chords of final track “Conquest Of The Old Northwest”, the entirety of the album offers an almost earthy vulnerability to its sound, making each one of its listeners feel as though they are connecting with the land around them. It’s an absolute breath of fresh air, and the band seems to have had that in mind from the beginning. Explains Brandon Foote:
Ever since I was a child, I have been enamored by the boundless blue water and thick north woods of Michigan. The striking and stunning combination of wooded land and freshwater seascapes has a rich history that is often overshadowed by the coastal cities and towns of North America. I have traveled around the country and always miss the north woods when away. The Great Lakes region has always felt like a secret undiscovered jewel to me.
Do yourself a favor and take a journey over the lush and textured soundscape Gifts or Creatures has provided your ears in our exclusive album stream premiere!
Meredith is often referred to as an entrepreneur, photographer, writer, and multi-media maven. She is currently the Editor in Chief at Imperfect Fifth, Co-Owner/Co-Producer at DoubleTake Productions, a ticket seller at a concert venue in KC, and a freelance writer/photographer. In her free time, she likes to make baked goods and complete DIY projects alongside her trusty – OK, not so trusty – cat Schmidt. She loves Batman so much she named her car Bruce Wayne. You can find her random musings on Twitter and Instagram. | {
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Is Nashville the new “it city”?
According to Forbes, Nashville, TN holds the number 8 spot in the top 10 cities Americans are moving to. I’m not surprised! Whether you’re coming here to pursue your dream of becoming the next big country music sensation or you’re a young business professional looking to expand your career in the big city, Nashville has you covered! It is truly becoming the melting pot of the South and I absolutely love it. Read more here! | {
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“Sometimes the most anger reflects the strongest love.”
When you love one but dislike certain aspects in that person, the push between heart and mind, between love and disliking generates irking contradictions and those eventually grow into anger. When the truth is openly shared however, not in rage but in sincere reconciliation, the heart starts recognizing that when it loves, it does so unconditionally. As it becomes more and more clearer that Love is of heart and liking (or disliking) is of mind, the disliking gradually metamorphosizes into acceptance; then, as the acceptance progressively replaces the anger, one can fully love while openly disliking many aspects in the person they love. | {
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“Beats was always about helping people re-discover the magic in the experience of listening to music,” Jimmy Iovine said. “Now that we are well along the way to addressing the quality of audio playback with Beats headphones and speakers, Daisy allows us to re-introduce the same magic into the process of music discovery and consumption.”
In addition to being well capitalized, “Daisy” will benefit from the investment group’s… | {
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Battery Saving Apps for Android Users
Often we wish that our Android Smartphone or tablet would last longer and the battery life would be prolonged. It so happens that even after using your phone carefully it does end up with low battery. It does seem frustrating especially when you need it. You can apply some custom settings that are available for Android users but then there are its limitations too. Now, the best possible solution is to employ an app that will prolong battery life.
Given here is a list of few apps that will help you prolong battery life of your Android device.
Juice Defender
Juice Defender is a free app that helps in saving battery juice. This app comes handy for saving the day when your Smartphone should be available to you while traveling. It helps by managing various connectivity options like Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and adjusts various modes. Modes like toggle functions include background syncing, scheduling toggles and screen sensitivity by allowing screen on for specific apps.
If you want more then you can opt for the Plus version that is available for $1.99 and an ultimate version that is available for $4.99. Plus offers you customized and extreme functions for setting your profiles based on Wi-Fi connectivity including night hours scheduling. Ultimate mode comes handy for auto-sync, GPS controls, settings for prime time, and weekend settings.
Tasker
If you are looking for an app that helps you make settings to your media, calls, texts and other Android functions then Tasker is the one for you. This app provides you controls and settings for different media and programs that are installed on your Android device. This is available for mere $2.99, and it is worth because you only need to make changes once and let the app handle the rest.
If you are tied to Chromecast then you can enjoy additional features offered by Tasker for apps and programs. Recently, this app is updated to provide custom settings that will help you gain control over HDMI dongle by Google.
This app gives you automated settings that can be adjusted according to your own convenient time. Settings for calls, texts and user-friendly UI are the best that you will get.
Go Battery Saver & Power Widget
This app helps in creating customized modes that will suit your needs in saving battery power. Go Battery Saver & Power Widget is helpful in creating your own settings with mere tap functionality. This app comes handy for keeping an eye on battery usage by apps and programs installed on your Android Smartphone. An analysis by this app will reveal essential features that you can enable or disable to prolong battery life by an hour. The ‘optimize’ button cleans up any extra and unnecessary program.
There are two versions available, the free and a premium version that will cost you $4.99 for in-app purchase. You will be able to gain control over Wi-Fi, CPU, Bluetooth, schedule settings, and utilize the extreme mode. The best part is multiple user modes that helps in making settings for multiple users. This comes handy for a shared device like Android tablet where each user can make his own battery saving settings.
Battery Defender
Battery Defender is yet another battery saving app that gives you simple options to make slight adjustment to your handset without having to delve deep into menus. This simple app comes handy for adjusting toggle functions that include GPS, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and cellular data exchange. You will love it for displaying accurate battery percentage on home screen without having to dive into notifications bar to read it.
The best feature provided by this app is Genius Scan that gives 15 minutes of gap for syncing activity. The mode of quiet sleeping gives you an option to disable Wi-Fi and cellular data when you are asleep. This gives you the advantage of not having to bother about battery drain while you are asleep.
These are few of the popular battery saving apps for your Android device. You can choose the one that suits your requirements. | {
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A companion site to my narrativeblog, concentrating on film and television narratives
The skills of a cinematographer
☞ Cinematic narrative is not merely the concern of the director and script writer. All persons involved in making the film are involved in it, in varying degrees. The role of the cinematographer in the creation if narrative in cinema is still under-recognised. In the following article, the Indian cinematographer, Rajiv Menon, discusses the art and craft of cinematography. He argues that an important aspect of cinematography is the cinematographer’s sensitivity to the film’s narrative. In this regard, the chinematographer’s art is quite different from that of the still photographer, where awareness of narrative, quite naturally, is not a prime consideration.
Ace cinematographer and filmmaker Rajiv Menon shares some tips on what makes for good cinematography and screenwriting.
❝The technical aspects related to lens, lighting and composition are similar to what a still photographer would require, but the skill of a cinematographer lies in using all the available tools for a narrative format and he contributes to the story-telling process. So one of the most important things you must have is the passion for the story you are telling. Lighting, lens and taking pictures won’t necessarily help in becoming a successful cinematographer because beyond these things one has to realise he/she is part of a team that is telling a story.
A basic knowledge of the still camera is very important and the person must like seeing things through the lens. Another requisite skill for a cinematographer is communication as the story has to reach a large number of people who have varying capacities of understanding. It’s very important he/she convey things with clarity. A cinematographer has to keep his thirst for learning alive and keep learning about the latest trends in the business. There is so much to learn in terms of light and composition. One must try to develop ‘new skills for new opportunities’ to keep up with changing trends and be fearless to succeed.❞ | {
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Friday, December 19, 2008
The morning of the trek, our guide company picked us up at our hostel for a two hour van ride out to the start of the trek. Since our party was small (4 guests, 1 guide, 3 porters and a cook), we all fit in the van and got to know each other. The drive was beautiful, just beautiful. Two hours through what is known as the Sacred Valley area which consists of many small farming communities where indigenous Peruvians build their houses out of the same red mud they farm and plow by hand. Where mountains full of glaciers tower over villages and huge rushing waterfalls carry water down for drinking an irrigation. Did you know that Peru is one of the hardest hit places due to global warming? They are predicting these glaciers will disappear in our lifetime. Anyway, if you were wondering, Peru is magically beautiful, and I am not being overly extravagant in my compliments.
We stopped for breakfast in Ollantaytambo about 1.5 hours from Cusco and picked up two of our porters. There is an Incan ruin in this town and it was bustling with tourists and tour companies preparing for the trail. We then had another 45 minute ride to Piscacucho at Km 84 where we began our trek. The day was sunny and warm even though we had been warned that this was the "rainy season" and everyone was pumped to begin.
Little kids at the trail head checking out the blondie. They kept peaking at me from around the corner. Can I take one of these home with me?
This women sold Tom a last minute hanky. The red guys in the back ground were all porters for a large 22 person group from another tour company. We much prefered our small group and three friendly porters.
The beginning of the trail is mostly a level dirt trail that winds along this river. When the Spanish invaded this part of the world, the Incans destroyed this part of the trail so that they could protect the location of Manchu Pichu which is why it is not built with the legendary Incan stones. The trail winds though many little indigenous housing settlements and we passed a lot of local traffic with people carrying their crops out on their backs to sell. The kids living in these little houses were so adorable, I couldn't stop taking their pictures. We also passed our first Incan ruin and Frank showed us how to chew coca leaves the proper Incan way. He was so cute, he brought a lot of photos to explain things as we went, teaching us about Incan history and the history of the pilgrimages that had occurred along this very trail. We loved Frank!
Frank (our guide) told us that this was our training day where he could see what kind of shape we were in. We soon proved that we were accomplished hikers as we just about beat the porters to the lunch locale. Our cook ran by and yelled "speedy gonzales" to indicate that they had to run to set up our lunch tent and cook before we arrived there. We ended up just deciding every other day to skip the lunch until we were done with the hike for the day and just eat lunch and dinner at the campsite (this saved our porters a lot of extra packing and unpacking of the food tent).
Burgers for lunch. Tom was pretty excited about the ketchup, but it was no Heinz but it was much better than much of what he got. Our cook Roberto here was a funny guy who wore a lot of funny hats. Here he is giving us some coca leaves for tea (we drank this many times a day).
After lunch we had another couple of hours before reaching our campsite. This day was really quite easy and we all felt very refreshed at the end of it. It didn't hurt that our campsite was beautiful with a view of amazing glacier capped mountains and its own accompanying Incan ruin. It was situated at around 10,000 feet above sea level and therefore the weather was pretty mild and not too cold.
These porters are hard core with their sandels and their 55 - 75 pounds on their backs.
Relaxing at the campsite. Our view from our tent was amazing... see below.
We played some Incan ruin soccer with some little boys and cards with another little girl who just came right into our tent area and sat down while we were playing eucre. She taught us a game with no apparent rules where we all seemed to win and then we gave her our extra cards (2-8) that you don't use for eucre. She was pretty excited about it. Dinner that night was delicious beef stir fry with chocolate and a plantain for desert. We went to bed early due to rain and to prepare for the big climb which awaited on at the beginning of day two. Training day was over.
I'm just a girl seeking outdoor fun and adventure from a large hot sandbox full of opportunity. Hiking, climbing, biking, rugby, kayaking, adventure racing, camping and ultimate frisbee drive my passions in the great state of Arizona. I love photographing my explorations and then exclaiming "this is so going on my blog."
HEY GUESS WHAT?!
Arizona has flowers...in the winter.
And tons of rocks for climbing.
But did you know Arizona has water?
And of course, Arizona has cactus.
But also big trees, on high mountains.
ARIZONA...It's a dry heat!PS, I am not getting paid by the great state of Arizona...YET. [crosses fingers] | {
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Although Martin Kober always believed that the painting hanging in his childhood home was an original Renaissance piece, Italian art historians pour over it for months before determining that it is an original Michelangelo worth hundreds of millions of dollars. | {
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Shadow of a Doubt by S. L. Rottman
Shadow's life changed forever when his brother Daniel ran away. What will happen now that Daniel is home again?For fifteen-year-old Shadow Thompson, life ended seven years ago--the night his older brother Daniel ran away from home, taking not only Shadow's piggy bank but also his ability to trust. That's when Shadow stopped depending on other people and turned inward, relying only on himself. But now Daniel is back and he stands accused of murder.Shadow's anger at his brother, his parents' struggles to cope with the sudden return of their son, and Daniel's own feelings of guilt create an emotional undertow that threatens to consume the family once again. But as Shadow begins to open up to new friends, he slowly learns to trust and finally, to forgive. Now the Thompsons may get a second chance at being a family.Award-winning author S.L. Rottman once again crafts a powerful story that depicts the complexity of human relationships within the framework of a troubled adolescent's struggles to make sense of the people and the world around him. | {
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The Project of Heart in British Columbia Transcript
Imagine that you are five years old. A stranger comes to your home village and seizes you from your mother's arms.
Imagine he takes you hundreds of miles away to a place where white people in black robes cut off your hair and take away your clothes, the ones your mother made especially for you. They also take away your name and you get a number instead. They separate you from your brothers and sisters and forbid you to speak to one another in your native language.
Imagine being silenced with the shouts.
Imagine toiling in field and kitchen yet going hungry all the time.
Imagine being hit or strapped for breaking rules you don't know or understand.
Imagine learning that your family traditions and culture are evil and barbaric while the Christian God is the only one true creator. The god of love.
Imagine a heavy hand on your shoulder pulling you away from the dormitory in the night.
Imagine you're sick, feverish, and alone, other children also coughing, gasping. Some are dying and you know it even though they tried to cover it up.
Imagine running away from it all, desperate to be safe and loved back home. Imagine being hunted and caught then returned to even harsher punishments.
Now, imagine you're a parent, your child stolen from your embrace and taken to the same cruel place you knew as a child. You could face a jail sentence if you don't obey their laws and say your child must go and learn the European ways. If you resist, your child will be taken anyway. You worry that your child will reject your teachings and your traditional way of life, but, most of all, you fear that your child will endure the same abuse you did. The fact you are powerless to prevent that abuse torments you even more.
Imagine the unthinkable. Your child died, far away without you there for comfort.
Imagine your child is buried in an unmarked grave in an unknown place.
Imagine they don't even tell you that your beloved child won't ever be coming home, let alone where their final resting place is.
Truth and Reconciliation Commissioner Dr. Marie Wilson has challenged Canadians to try to feel the anguish of the hundred and fifty thousand Aboriginal children taken from their parents, sometimes forever.
Think of that.
Bear that.
Imagine that.
The BC Teachers Federation has been honoured and committed to working together with many partner groups potentially and nationally to advance reconciliation.
Project of Heart: Illuminating the Hidden History of Indian Residential Schools is one of our recent publications. It is also an ebook, currently shown on the screen and it has also been added to your packages.
"Imagine," the piece you just heard, is the introduction we've used as the opening to our book as we believe it will be through strong emotional connections that we will continue to change hearts and minds and this will be essential for educators and education moving forward.
Project of Heart is about educating students, parents, teachers, and impact all Canadians of Canada's once hidden history: the legacy of Indian Residential Schools.
It was founded in 2007 by Sylvia Smith, an Ottawa teacher who was outraged to discover that there were only 64 words pertaining to residential schools in her students' textbooks.
Determined to gain a more accurate understanding and perspective of Canada's true history, Sylvia and her students took it upon themselves to delve deeply into the true history of residential schools, resulting in the amazing resources for teachers through Project of Heart.
Connecting with and listening to residential school survivors is central to Project of Heart and during the last few years hundreds of schools, thousands of students, teachers, and parents have been engaged in Project of Heart and survivors who have been so courageous to share their stories.
In Grand Chief Edward John's words: "we all collectively owe a deep sense of thanks and respect to all of the courageous survivors whose dignity was put on public display and who were ridiculed for years by unbelieving governments and churches. It is essential that all Canadians have an understanding of Canada's dark past as Canadians generally see the themselves as good, decent, polite people who quietly but firmly do the right thing, play by the rules, stand up for peace, order, and good government. This benign national self-image is actually in sharp contrast to our colonial history.”
Recently, Paulette Regan, author of Unsettling the Settler Within, presented a keynote address and I'd like to share a few of her words. She says, "perhaps we begin by asking ourselves some troubling questions: how is that we know nothing little about this history and what does persistence of this invisibility in the face of living survivors tell us about our relationship with Aboriginal people?"
It is also said that every generation needs to re-evaluate the official version of history, the version that is so often written by people who hold power and unless we can't confront that hidden history in Canadian history, we won't become the kind of people we think we already are.
If we don't explore the historical myths upon which our national identity is based, we then lock a foundation for truth. If we have a foundation based on untruths, how can we ever achieve reconciliation?
For far too long, Canadians have been miseducated about Canada's dark past and, as difficult as it is for survivors to retail their stories, I have witnessed many times the changing of hearts and minds in elementary, secondary, post-secondary, and, most notably, with pre-service educators which translates to a much-needed new path for education, a path of understanding which leads to reconciliation.
How do we reconcile something if we lack the understanding of what were reconciling?
Through this book, we share important elements to complement survivor stories. The links allow you to access video clips, historical documents, downloadable publications, timelines, and photos.
The book takes you from the architect behind residential school to the Medical Inspector, Peter Bryce, who blew the whistle and was silenced by government.
From the stories of survivors to the story of one of thousands. One child of thousands, Gladys who died of tuberculosis in Kamloops.
You'll notice the beautifully designed tiles that have been highlighted throughout the book. The tiles were designed by students from across the province.
While some of the book speak specifically to BC residential schools, much of the content is relevant nationwide.
We've also included an important piece on the resistance and resilience of survivors, their families, and communities.
We also profile the work of Commissioners Justice Murray Sinclair, Dr. Marie Wilson, and Chief Wilton Littlechild.
Through the Calls to Action, special emphasis has been placed on the role of education and the leadership of educational institutions. Educators will play a key role in the Truth and Reconciliation process.
As stated through the Commission, because education was one of the primary tools to oppress Aboriginal people, it must also be the tool to change the damage that has been done. The education systems of this country bear a large responsibility, a large share of the responsibility for the current state of affairs, but it can fix what it has broken and it begins by teaching the truth of our history, but we must understand that it won't happen overnight. It's taken generations to get here and it'll take generations to heal.
The commission also stated that much of the current state of troubled relationships between the Aboriginal and non-Aboriginals is attributable to educational institutions and what they've taught or what they failed to teach over many generations.
Justice Sinclair, in one of his articles to teachers stated, "mainstream Canadians see the dysfunction of Aboriginal communities, but they have no idea how that happened, what caused it, or how government contributed to that reality through such actions and policies as residential schools. In that environment, it becomes easy to blame Aboriginal people for their lot in life and for their failure to overcome it as others have.
This work will require patience as, what is very clear, is that it could take years before we see the results of today's efforts. Just as it has taken decades to realize the damage and devastation left in our communities from the residential school system. We continue to work with educators across the province and, in fact, across the country.
I cannot speak highly enough of the support from the BC Teachers Federation and key staff members like Nancy Knickerbocker, Miranda Light, and the graphics team in the reconciliation work that has been done. Further, I must acknowledge the networking that has taken place between so many amazing people from the First Nations Caring Society to KAIROS Canada, Project of Heart, National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation to the Legacy of Hope Foundation for all the incredible work that they're doing with others to ensure that this dark history is never hidden again.
I would be remiss by not mentioning the incredible work that has been done by Charlene Bearhead who works tirelessly to bring so many of these partner groups together.
We've shared over 11,000 Project of Heart books to date and have received over 30,000 hits to the e-book and to the links.
We are very pleased with the response we've been receiving. But we must remember, with the closing ceremony of the TRC and the Calls to Action, now the work really begins. This is where it will be crucial that we continue to work together.
We most recently worked in partnership with NCTR, developing the Life of a Child module that we just launched yesterday, as a matter of fact. The lessons were piloted in a Grade 3/4/5 classroom and focus on the life of a child, Gladys, who died from tuberculosis while attending Kamloops Residential School.
It was incredible to see not only the depth of understanding and heartfelt connection that these young students made to Gladys but the response from parents who shared their appreciation for what they learned from their own children. The history that they were never taught when they went to school.
Danny, one of the students' dads, commented that he and his wife have learned so much from their own son and have been inspired by his compassionate response to learning the history of residential schools.
He says, "the children's immediate understanding of the injustices and their strong sense that we have to make things right was very moving."
We hope we are making a difference because Canadians who understand our shared history understand how we all have a hand in building a future Canada that advances respect, healing, and reconciliation for future generations.
We must all provide opportunities to learn about our colonial history and its ongoing impacts.
We, as teachers, hold the key to changing the narrative.
I would like to close by sharing two final comments: a quote from Murray Sinclair who said, "we have described for you a mountain. We have shown you the path to the top, and we call upon you to do the climbing."
And second, I'd like to share a video clip from Education Day in Vancouver, also linked to the ebook in your packages.
Many wonder and perhaps question how and if it's appropriate to teach young children about residential school and we can learn much from the students who participated. Children get it. They understand injustice at a very young age as you'll see from the video clip. They gave us so much hope as future leaders.
We know that among you are the future leaders of this country. Among you are those who are going to govern this land. Among you are those who are going to make important decisions about reconciliation and you are going to have to come to terms with this history that you're going to hear a little bit about.
We know that's a difficult process but it all starts with three things. You must watch, you must listen, and you must show respect.
It's finally nice that we realize everything and we learn about it, what really happened.
My grandparents, my mom, have been through this residential stuff so I just really want to know more
about it.
I've learned a lot actually considering that my grandma didn't tell me very much or anything. So, I've learned what abuse they had to go through. I've learned when it started, how long it was for, when it ended. I've learned a lot.
I want to learn about what happened to my dad when he was in residential school and want to learn the healing process and what will help with it.
It makes me feel kind of sad for those kids because it was torture, you know, it's not fair. They just took them away from their homes. So just here, go to that school. I just didn't agree with that. It's just really wrong.
It makes me upset when I think about it because just knowing what my dad and his mom had to go through, it's really hard to deal with I guess. I don't know. It bothers me a lot. Now I realize why my dad drank so much when I was a little kid I guess.
It'll kind of change the way I think about things, like how it would affect someone's life and their kids for, like, generations.
That's one of the worst things that Canada did.
I hope events like this just are able to bring closure to a lot of horrible things that happened and I hope a lot of people now recognize that crime happened and that we need to make amends for it.
I'll never forget this day because today is the first day they ever told us about residential schools and if I ever see anyone that is Aboriginal, I'll ask them if they can speak their language, because I think speaking their language is a pretty cool thing.
I like being around this. I like hear the drums and seeing everybody else and learning about new nations and all these new languages I have not heard of yet.
I think we should start a dance crew and start bringing back our culture, start speaking our language, and everyone should just treat each other equal.
Our traditions carried on and passed down so that all our younger generations and so that my baby knows what happened in the past to her ancestors and so that she can just keep bringing our tradition forward and passing it on to her kids and their kids and everything.
I hope that something like this never happens again anywhere in the world and the importance of letting people know so that it doesn't happen again and it's good for the younger generation to know that so that we all treat each other as equal. | {
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At 5:20AM ET, the blue-chip Dow futures were down 345 points, or about 1.3%, the S&P 500 futures tumbled 40 points, or around 1.4%, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 futures indicated a decline of 126 points, or roughly 1.7%.
Elsewhere, in Europe, the region’s major bourses were broadly lower, with the regional benchmark falling to a 22-month low, as investors watched developments surrounding Brexit talks and Italy’s ongoing budget drama.
The pan-European STOXX 600 headed toward a fifth day of losses, sliding 1.6% to reach its lowest level since December 2016.
Other benchmarks sustained heavy losses, such as Germany’s DAX down 2.4%, also at December 2016 lows.
Earlier, Asian shares fell across the board, as a two-day rally for China’s stock market unraveled. The mainland’s benchmark Shanghai Composite lost 2.2%, while the Shenzhen Index fell 2.6%.
Over in South Korea, the Kospi sank 2.5%, touching lows not seen since March 2017. In Japan, the Nikkei 225 dropped 2.7%.
2. Caterpillar , McDonald’s Earnings to Grab Attention
A huge week of corporate earnings is going to ramp up notably on Tuesday.
Before the market open several major companies will report results, including Caterpillar (NYSE:CAT), McDonald’s (NYSE:MCD), United Technologies (NYSE:UTX), 3M (NYSE:MMM), Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT), Verizon (NYSE:VZ), and Harley-Davidson (NYSE:HOG).
Results out of Caterpillar, often seen as a bellwether for the global economy, will be closely watched for any signs of a slowdown in economic growth or inflation pressures. The industrial giant is expected to report adjusted earnings per share of $2.83 on revenue of $13.24 billion, according to estimates.
Seen as a proxy for the state of U.S.-China trade relations, Caterpillar shares are down 18% this year.
Investors will also keep a close eye on results from McDonald’s, as the company continues its overhaul of many locations. Wall Street expects the company to report same-store sales growth of 3.4% during the third quarter with adjusted earnings per share of $2.00 on revenue of $5.31 billion.
Shares of the fast food giant have lost around 3.5% this year.
3. Dollar Edges Lower
In currency markets, which have remained relatively calm amid the volatility witnessed in equities, the dollar was mildly lower against its major rivals.
The U.S. dollar index, which measures the greenback’s strength against a basket of six major currencies, was down 0.1% at 95.65.
The economic calendar will be fairly quiet on Tuesday with the Richmond Fed’s monthly report on manufacturing activity due at 10:00AM ET (1400GMT).
4. Gold Jumps as Investors Flock to Havens
Traditional safe-haven assets like gold, the Japanese yen and U.S. Treasurys were all higher, as a cocktail of negative drivers from Saudi Arabia’s diplomatic isolation to concerns over Italy’s budget and Brexit talks all depressed sentiment.
Gold, which is often sought in times of geopolitical tension or market turbulence, gained 1.5% to $1,239.60 a troy ounce, its best level since July 17.
Market players also flocked to the yen, another safe-haven currency. USD/JPY was last down 0.55% at 112.17.
Additionally, Treasury yields fell as market participants looking for safety piled into fixed income. The benchmark 10-year Treasury note yield slipped 5.0 basis points to 3.143%, the lowest in more than a week.
5. Oil Prices Decline Ahead of API Report
Oil prices traded near their lowest level in almost five weeks ahead of the release of fresh weekly data on U.S. commercial crude inventories.
The American Petroleum Institute is due to release its weekly report for the week ended October 19 at 4:30PM ET (2030GMT), amid expectations of an increase of about 3.5 million barrels.
If confirmed, it would be the fifth straight weekly climb in domestic crude supplies.
U.S. West Texas Intermediate WTI crude futures were down 86 cents, or 1.2% at $68.31 a barrel.
International Brent crude oil futures were at $78.44 per barrel, $1.39, or 1.7%, lower from their last close.
Prices also came under pressure after Saudi Arabia pledged to play a “responsible role” in energy markets, despite its increasing isolation over the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. | {
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The Seneca's rebuttal starts the next day on WGY 810-AM/103.1-FM, plus stations in three other upstate markets.
The Senecas have bought 35 ads per week on WGY for each of the next four weeks, a spokesman said. It's an average of five ads per day, 60 seconds each.
The Senecas own and operate casinos in western New York complete with "table games," such as poker, black jack and roulette with human dealers.
Cuomo's casino plan, which has early support from legislative leaders, calls for such games to be allowed at harness-racing tracks or other locations—such as Saratoga Gaming and Raceway, in Saratoga Springs.
Senecas argue that Cuomo's push, which involves amending the state constitution, would undercut their economy. The Senecas employ 6,000 people and spends $167 million a year at local suppliers.
The Senecas also argue that expanded casino gambling would violate rights secured in the nation's gaming compact with the state. Disputes over that compact have led the nation to withhold $350 million of contractual payments to the state over the past three years.
The Senecas do not oppose expanded gambling in other parts of the state, including Saratoga Springs, a spokesman said. He said the nation is seeking to ensure the expansion does not occur in the 14 western New York counties covered by the compact.
The New York Gaming Association, which includes the Saratoga operation, has said it's prepared to assemble a budget of $10 million or more to push their side.
The only unknown figure at this point: What the Senecas are spending on the radio ads. A spokesman declined to reveal the price of the ad buy. | {
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The Daily Bible Verse
Mar201227
I wrote to the church, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first, will not welcome us. So when I come, I will call attention to what he is doing, spreading malicious nonsense about us. Not satisfied with that, he even refuses to welcome other believers. He also stops those who want to do so and puts them out of the church.
It should come as no surprise that people use the church for their own agendas. This passage shows us that this problem has been around as long as the church has been in existence. But notice what the apostle John is doing; instead of avoiding the issue, John hits it head on. Leadership has great privilege, but it also has great responsibility, and therefore, accountability. The church is the bride of Christ; are we willing to guard what belongs to God? | {
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I'm having an issue where i'm using node-canvas to render images for an application we previously hosted on a server running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Desktop.
On Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Desktop, they work fine and fonts render properly in multiple languages. We recently switched to the headless Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Server and all the fonts are pretty messed up and not rendering properly. Support for languages other than English is also gone (Foreign language letters are rendered as weird icons instead)
Does anyone have a list of packages or instructions for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS desktop that I can install on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS server so I can get the same fonts & font rendering capability?
I tried to find the list of packages but there are so many that I do not know what packages have to be installed. | {
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HP Pavilion 15-P006TU
HP Pavilion 15-P006TU Sized for life on the go. You will want the HP Pavilion 15 laptop with you all day, every day. The large display packed into a super slim design and unbeatable sound gives you the perfect balance of mobility, performance, and entertainment.light weight which is easy to carry anywhere. | {
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By Howard Meyerson Michigan’s deer, grouse and other wildlife programs are eligible for record federal funding in 2013. Ammunition, firearm and archery sales all surged in 2012. That rise in sales is translating to record payouts to hunting and wildlife … Continue reading → | {
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Emma looks forward to the day when she can let go of her past—both of them. After more than a year on the run, with clues to her parents’ whereabouts within her grasp, she may finally find a place to settle down. Start a new life. Maybe even create new memories with a new family.
But the past rises to haunt her and to make sure there’s nowhere on the planet she can hide. Declan Burke wants his wife back, and with a little manipulation and a lot of reward money, he’s got the entire world on his side. Except for the one man she dreads confronting the most: Noah Tucker.
Emma returns to face what she’s done but finds that the past isn’t the problem. It’s the present—and the future it represents. Noah has moved on and another woman is raising their daughter.
In the shocking conclusion to M.D. Waters’s spectacular debut, Emma battles for her life and her freedom, tearing down walls and ripping off masks to reveal the truth. She’s decided to play their game and prove she isn’t the woman they thought she was. Even if it means she winds up dead. Or worse, reborn.
Noah leads me into a large room with white walls, a white floor, and a white ceiling, but they are not painted. The surfaces are screen-like.
I have seen a room like this many times before, but this is much larger.
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Chesterfield, MO
Lime green Leafy Bench near a bus stop in Chesterfield, Missouri, one of three purchased by the city’s Beautification Committee!Below: Robin’s-egg blue, 6′ Leafy Bench installed near the library and Leafy Bench in sunshine yellow! | {
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Gallup does a monthly poll on the business buzzword "Engagement" - a measure of people actually working instead of going through the motions. Last month it was 32%, which means almost 70% of everybody in America is phoning it in.
This is easily the single most disturbing and least addressed statistic in business, largely because CEOs see research like Gallup's, and rationalize away this stunning data with statements like, "Whadda ya gonna do? Everyone has the same problem. It's just human nature."
Except they don't, and it isn't.
I can point to many dozens of very large corporations and thousands of smaller ones that have much closer to 100% engagement year after year, decade after decade. Yes, the sample size is a small percentage, but it's too many companies over too many decades to excuse them as anomalies; one-offs that either got lucky or have exceptional circumstances. The data shows every single company in the world could be there if they did one thing differently. And it's a very simple thing; it's just not easy.
For five years a client of mine who operates an extremely successful and large real estate staging company (we highlighted them a couple years ago in Inc.) had struggled to get their logistics crew of fifteen inventory pullers, packers and drivers to up their game. Everything they tried, including hiring people at much higher rates, produced dismal results.
It's Not Them. It's Us.
They were very discouraged with the logistics staff, but we broke the hard news with them - there was nothing wrong with their staff. The issue was the "Whadda ya gonna do?", mindset that has been a problem for as long as people have worked for other people.
We had a tough conversation that didn't focus on under-performing people, but on underestimating them. Every time we've seen a malaise of under-performance, with no exception, it is directly related to what we believe and expect of people; how motivated we believe they are or aren't, how much we believe they will care or won't', how much WE BELIEVE they are ready and willing they are to take initiative and responsibility - or not. And that's the problem. Until we believe the best of people, and require that they live up to their best, we're likely to have 70% phoning it in.
Here's just two measures of how under-performing staff were hurting the staging company.
1) Each job could easily be done by one truck in one trip - out and back; done. But 69% of those jobs required a second and sometimes even a third trip to get something they forgot. It was costing the company thousands of dollars a week in lost production and frustrated clients.
2) People would regularly call in the day before they didn't come in, or worse yet, the day of, with flimsy excuses. That, too, cost untold money and disruption in scheduling.
There were a lot of other problems - people distracted in meetings, eating on company time, and even theft. The leadership was deeply concerned but felt they would just have to live with at least some of this - it was their expectation. And that again, was the problem.
People will raise themselves to our lowest expectation of them.
Changing The Expectation
From early in my childhood I was regularly told I was dumb, or, "The dumbest kid alive", and queried with, "How dumb can you be?" Most of it was actually in jest, but I took it on board as the gospel. Turns out the answer was that I could be pretty dumb. I graduated at the bottom of my class and joined the army because I was pretty sure no one else would ever hire me. I started my first modest little company while in the army and began to see that maybe I had something to offer, changed the expectation, and off I went, starting ten businesses in seven industries on three continents.
David Marquet took over the worst rated submarine in the US Navy and in one year turned it into the best rated sub in the Navy. And here's the kicker - he did it with the same 134 people who had made it the worst. He did it by changing the crew's expectation from, "Do what you're told" to, "No more followers - we're all leaders now. You lead me in your area of expertise and I'll lead you in mine." Than he pushed decision-making to the levels at which they would have to be carried out.
He couldn't have done that without having a very different expectation of what those 134 people were capable of than his predecessor. It was his mindset about them that changed everything about the way they performed. He believed they could be great, and they all raised themselves to his highest expectation of them.
Stunning Results
Back to our staging company friends. They're still working through this - a long way to go, but here's three encouraging and radical data shifts since they decided to raise the bar a few months ago:
2) Not a single person has called in and excused themselves from work with flimsy excuses since the leadership changed their mindset about what to expect - not one.
3) They've reduced their warehouse and logistics staff from fifteen to eight, and those eight highly "engaged" people get more done than the fifteen used to.
By the way, they also created meaningful incentives and peer reviews, and turned all their staff into capitalists, which helped make the game interesting. They didn't just "expect more".
You get what you expect, not what you hope for.
What you expect is everything. On a scale of one to ten, most companies function from three to eight - "Whadda ya gonna do? It's just human nature." But without fail, companies that make the simple, dramatic shift to function from eight to ten, create environments where people accept the challenge and step up.
Play an adult's game, and adults come to play. Jack Dorsey (CEO Twitter and Square) says that one of his main responsibilities is to constantly raise the bar. Raise your bar, make sure there is something in it for them, and watch what happens.
What do you expect? That people are highly motivated and want to do well? Or - people will only do so much as to not get fired? Whichever one you believe, it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. Changing out your staff isn't the solution. Your belief in people, or lack of it, and the expectations that follow are the problem, or the solution. You get to choose.
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Monday, July 25, 2011
Durian
Durian
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Larson was the first driver to take to the track in the second round of qualifying for the all star event – which consisted of three timed laps plus a four-tire pit stop – and posted a lap of 143.839 mph that propelled him to the top of the grid.
Kyle Busch took the second qualifying spot, followed by Kevin Harvick, Jimmie Johnson and Kurt Busch.
Larson’s front-row start will be his second in the All Star Race after racing his way into last year’s event with a victory in the Monster Energy Open over Chase Elliott.
This year, Larson was already locked in, thanks to his Cup victories earlier this year at California and last year at Michigan.
“It’s my first time doing this. It’s nice that we had a second round there to get a second tenth out of that. I picked up some time there,” said Larson. “This was all about not making mistakes. Everybody but us made mistakes in that last round. So, I am proud of everybody on this Target Chevy team, especially our pit crew. Our pit crew saved me in that first round to get us into this second round.
“And getting the pole is pretty sweet. It’s so much fun. I’ve been wanting to do that. It’s my fourth season in Cup now and I have wanted to do it every year.”
Ironically, Larson’s No. 42 car will start on the pole on the 25th anniversary of the first All Star Race run under the light in 1992 – dubbed “One Hot Night” – where Kyle Petty, driving no. 42, famously put Davey Allison into the wall at the finish line, sending the race winner to the hospital instead of victory lane.
“I will be 25 in a couple of months,” Larson said. “It would be cool to get the No. 42 in victory lane every week. I don’t think it completes the circle, but I just think it would be cool to get to victory lane here for a big race. We were close last year. Joey (Logano) was able to get by me late and yeah that was a heartbreaker, but hopefully we can get some revenge tomorrow night.
“May is a huge month for Chip Ganassi Racing in what goes on here and at the (Indianapolis Motor) Speedway. So, we are starting with a good starting spot here. I hope we win the All-Star race tomorrow. We were close last year. And the atmosphere of the All-Star race, well, there’s just something about it. It’s a lot of fun and not a whole lot on the line other than a lot of money. So, I’m excited for tomorrow’s events.”
Larson was the fifth and final driver to advance after the opening round of qualifying, which was lead by Harvick who was the first driver out turned in a lap that the remaining 16 drivers couldn’t touch. Havrick’s teammate Kurt Busch was the only driver to even come close to Harvick’s time, but was still more than two-tenths of a second slower.
In the final round, Harvick’s team actually posted the quickest pit stop, but Harvick’s time on the track wasn’t quick enough to unseat Larson.
Kurt Busch actually beat Larson’s time on the track, but was penalized 10 seconds for two loose lug nuts and fell to the fifth qualifying spot, while Jimmie Johnson overshot his pit and was also penalized for his crew coming over the wall too soon.
Harvick was the last car on the clock, but fell three-tenths of a second short of topping Larson.
“We probably could have all done a little bit better, but all in all we didn’t make any huge mistakes and that was the goal,” said Harvick. “I feel like starting up front with the way that the tires are and the way that everything is will be a huge benefit because of the fact of your average position and all of the things that have to happen.
“We just didn’t want to start in the back, so lug nuts tight, not sliding through the pit box, don’t miss pit road and don’t overdrive the car.”
WDUN will have live MRN Radio coverage of Saturday night's Monster Energy NASCAR All-Star Race from Charlotte Motor Speedway beginning at 5:30 pm on 102.9 FM and AM 550.
The No. 3 University of North Georgia softball team's late rally came up just short at the Nighthawks' 2017 season came to an end with a 5-2 loss to Armstrong State in the second game of the 2017 NCAA Division II Softball Southeast Super Regional on Friday afternoon at Haines & Carolyn Hill Stadium.
Aric Almirola is likely to miss 8-12 weeks as he recuperates from a broken back suffered in a crash last Saturday night at Kansas Speedway, possibly knocking his team out of contention for the 2017 championship battle.
Aric Almirola is likely to miss 8-12 weeks as he recuperates from a broken back suffered in a crash last Saturday night at Kansas Speedway, possibly knocking his team out of contention for the 2017 championship battle. | {
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on Wednesday January 17, 2007 @10:10AM
from the good-for-them dept.
Presence2 noted that MGM announced that the Stargate franchise will migrate to the big screen, carrying with it the ending of the last two season's Ori plot-line. The plot summaries listed in the article don't seem like anything surprising... one even has a wacky time-line slip-up plot. Very original for scifi ;) I'll still watch it.
As stupid as that may sound, it seems to be the only way in which SG1 can continue. Due to their contract with SciFi, they can't resume the show on another network / channel after they got axed.One of the problems they have, is that Stargate still has an impressive fanbase, which really can't just be told "No more for you", so rather than finishing the SG1 storyline, they have opted to move it to TV (or Direct to DVD) Movies.
I personally think it's a shame it ended up this way, although it wont stop me watc
You must have watched a different version than I did. What the people in front of the camera were doing barely passed as acting, and the plots, dialog, and sets left much to be desired. The characters were generic, wooden, and shallow, and there was little to no reason to care about them. Technology and science underwent idiotification (No problem.. I can troubleshoot a crystal with my handy multimeter), alienating the supposed target audience, while everyone else was
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Technology and science underwent idiotification (No problem.. I can troubleshoot a crystal with my handy multimeter)
It's science fiction, it requires a measure of disbelief. And besides, how do you know something couldn't be rigged up? Got some real alien technology laying around that you'd like to share with the rest of us?
alienating the supposed target audience, while everyone else was already alienated by the fact that it's a dorky show.
What would be amusing is to take the already-existing cross-over between SG-1 and Atlantis and just merge the two into one show. I'm not saying that it'd make great television, but it would certainly have the "Fuck you Sci-Fi!" charm.
Movies based on a TV show based on a movie. What'll they think of next?
Video games based on movies based on a TV show based on a movie.
I was about to suggest it had already been done, but according to IMDb, the The Dukes of Hazzard games predate the 2005 movie, and the most recent game used voice talent from the series. (The series was adapted from the movie Moonrunners [imdb.com].)
I really, fervently hope so. Whatever it takes to keep these "films" (and I use the term loosely) away from mainstream cinemas. As if we need to give studios one more reason to demonstrate that sci-fi fans will watch anything, no matter how cheesey. This in turns removes any incentive to make good sci-fi, which further contributes to the (accurate) stereotype that sci-fi and art generally don't belong in the same sentence, which further drives th
I agree that stargate has issues, but I think a lot of that has come from them adding in new enemies. The first few seasons were good imho, but then they started adding things in that didn't make any sense. And then they added the Wraith and the Ori, both of which are not very realistic enemies. The Wraith are supposed to be so strong (or have such high numbers) that they overpowered the Ancients, but then can't catch those rascally humans. And the Ori are ascended beings, and can't even realize that so
what exactly was your point with stating scifi fans can't 'tell the difference' between weird sequelish titles and other weird titles, though?
Sorry if I wasn't more clear. It wasn't the titles. Have you read any of the Star Wars/Star Trek franchise books? Some of them are excellent, but the vast majority are utterly horrible. Despite this, they get read with gusto because they afford sci-fi fans one more chance to immerse themselves in their favorite alternate worlds. They exemplify the way sci-fi desp
As far as the science goes, I certainly agree. But have you actually watched many of the episodes in order, starting with the real pilot? I saw the show on TV several times and thought it was weird. The dialog seemed hokey, the character interactions forced, etc. It was only after watching the pilot first that I started to realize the problem was that Firefly relies extremely heavily on on continuity. It's not really very episodic. The characters do quite a bit of growing and changing throughout the e
Yesterday I saw a "comming soon in theaters" advertisement on Dutch TV for "Nacho Libre". I think "Thank you for smoking" has yet to be released as well.
Only the biggest movies (Star Wars, LOTR) are released in Europe with only a few weeks delay, the rest will typically trail by a number of months.
I can't imagine any good reason for this; translation couldn't possibly be so time consuming (no voice sync in the Netherlands, just subtitles), and all it'll do is push people towards illegal download services.
Film costs. If a major release costs between $1500 and $3000 per print in the US, producing 3000 prints takes a large amount of time and money (upwards of $9,000,000.) A staggered release allows time for prints to be returned, inspected, and if undamaged, sent elsewhere.So adding another market, say, Europe, is even more expensive. Also, subtitles can often require <em>wholly new prints to be manufactured</em>. The subtitles are often on the film itself, for example, The Protector showed with su
Just to note - it does work the other way around sometimes as well. I do agree, hollywood 'B' movies certainly come out in the U.S. long before they do in The Netherlands, or they don't at all. Hollywood 'A' movies typically have less of a timegap. Some movies are released simultaneously or just a few days apart, which is the best yet. Sadly that means that I am going to have to wait for "Stranger than fiction" to come out on March 1st, 2007 - long after the 10 November 10th, 2006 release date in the U.
The problem with Crusade was that is was basically 'The Galan Show'. He was, intended or not, the main character, the one pulling all the strings, and by far the most interesting. Unfortunatelly that wasn't really meant to be the focus of the show, which resulted in a confused mess.Was it a Fantasy show or Scifi? Well it had ships, but far too much 'lord of the rings' stuff going on to be the sci-fi successor to the masterpeice that was Babylon 5.
If Shyamalan did it, it would be incredibly dark with a real suspenseful with
the very interesting plot line. Unfortunately there would be something so
extremely stupid that it would make the movie totally unbelievable. It would
be so bad that they would lampoon it on on television and movies for years
to come.
Something, like I don't know, the aliens being allergic to water so they come
to a planet with a shit load of water to do their shit. That or it would
just suck out right.
A final movie to finish off the series would be a great move. 2-2.5 hours of non-stop sci fi action, that finally ends with the Ori facing defeat. I mean, after this point, there's no returning to the story. It's over, all conceivable bad guys that could be a threat are dead. Even the wraith are finished as they'd be hopelessly outgunned technologically by a race far more willing to wipe them out. The second one just reminds me of a last ditch effort to revive some of the time traveling storylines from the series. Bad, bad move. It'll be at best anti-climactic at that point.
I know time travel has been overdone but when it's done well I think it's a lot of fun. For example, Back to the Future I and III were fun movies (II was a mess), and time-traveling in SG1 has been done pretty darn well (in particular, I'm thinking of the one where the team went back to 1969 - I believe titled "1969" - which was played for fun, and the one where they had to send a message back in time to avert Earth's depopulation which is one of my all-time favorite episodes). The plot for the second SG1
Movie 1: The evil aliens do something and one or more of the team are put in jeopardy. The rest of the team accomplishes a harrowing rescue and then the commander says something moderately amusing just before the end credits.
Movie 2: The team goes to another planet that looks suprisingly like Vancouver and then some evil aliens separate one or more of them and the others accomplish a harrowing rescue. Then the commander says something moderately amusing just before Teal'c raises his eyebrow in disbelief.
Devlin(writer of original movie) has, however, stated that he plans to write his own sequel to Stargate separately to its spin-offs, providing two versions of the continuing story.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate [wikipedia.org]
Devlin(writer of original movie) has, however, stated that he plans to write his own sequel to Stargate separately to its spin-offs, providing two versions of the continuing story. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate [wikipedia.org]
Presence2 noted that MGM announced that the Stargate franchise will migrate to the big screen
And end up failing miserably like every other sci-fi tv to big screen endeavour outside of Trek TOS?
While the original SG movie was pretty good the TV series just doesn't have the same energy to it. And what makes this even worse is that just about everything that has gone from a TV series to the big screen in sci-fi just seems to have the same feel as a very long episode of the TV series. Trek at least put a few
And end up failing miserably like every other sci-fi tv to big screen endeavour outside of Trek TOS?
I doubt it, since it seems atm that they'll either be direct-to-DVD or TV-only. Slashdot and the linked site are woefully behind, these movies have been known [gateworld.net] about for at least a few weeks now.
Trek at least put a few years between it's TV series and motion picture release, maybe that was the key to Trek's theater success versus everyone else's failures. Even the Trek TNG films just seemed like long episodes to me.
Trek TOS only had three seasons before it was cancled, and remained in syndication. And actually there was a plan to have another trek series, StarTrek Mach 2 or some such, but star wars sort of encouraged NBC to not release another sci-fi series. The movie (The motion sickness) was ba
How else could you tie a Sci-Fi show to current events? "Enterprise" had nothing to link it to current events (with the exception of the terrorism episode) and it neatly failed. On the other hand, you have Stargate SG1 making a human to Sci-Fi connection: Religious fundamentalism, Crusades, Terrorism, Homicide Bombings (is that the latest "hip" P.C. name for a suicide bomber?) etc.
However, I am curious how they will translate this cultural clash into the big
Samantha Carter single-handedly develops a super-weapon that destroys both the Ori and the Wraith and is unanimously declared Queen of the Universe. Wearing an outfit creatively fashioned from a thin lace hanky, she chooses only the fattest and pimpliest of slobbering SciFi fanboys to slake her insatiable lust.
Beautiful.However, I don't think I'm the fattest or pimpliest so your script may need a little tweaking...Also, I suggest that she will need Valla Maldoran as a second in command or something.. she makes me tingly.
I think MGM needs a big thank you from all of Stargates Fans. SciFi channel wants to end the SG1 franchise, MGM says fuck no. Let's hope DVD sales skyrocket so it'll slap SciFi in the face to pick up the franchise again.
Its my understanding that Stargate: Atlantis is not ending. Additionally, these movies are allegedly going to launch a new Earth based Stargate series as well, it just won't be Stargate: SG1 anymore.
I am aware of this. SciFi dropped Sg-1 and choose to continue Atlantis. Writers/Directors fucked up SG-1. They introduced the Ori too soon. I would have loved to have seen actual end of the goauld. They could have gotten a full season or at very least a half a season from the goauld plot.
I got the impression from SG-1 stars that MGM has more plans for them in the announcement of the ending of the show.
I'm just really sick of time travel and alternate reality crap. It's been done to death
Hey, that could work! Death goes back in time to help his younger self, and ends up playing a guitar solo at the big dance. Or maybe Death gets to see a nice little town at Christmas where Death never happened? A whole series of Time Travel done to Death shows!
Carter: The truth is, we've never really liked you.Daniel: You have no idea how I've been stretched as an actor.Teal'c: Indeed, I believe Dr Jackson has a parting gift for you.Daniel: It's actually from us all. (hands Vala object)Vala: What is it, a weapon?Daniel: Of sorts, it's a device the ancients kept locked away.Carter: The ancients called it the dildo of death.O'Neil: With story lines like this, I'd still be in the series.
As far as I am concerned Stargate SG1 "jumped the shark" when Annubis was killed.
I can't help but agree with you; there have been some good episodes of SG1 after that point (most of season 8's conclusion was decent enough), but season 9 & 10 have been dire overall - the Ori as an enemy are just uninteresting. However, I disagree strongly with you about Atlantis - at first I was reluctant to even watch it and when I did start watching the first few episodes I did so with a very strong bias against it,
They'd been planning to end the series at the end of Season 6. Then it got renewed. And again. And again. The final death knell was supposed to be at the end of Season 8. You don't think that time travel episode back to ancient Egypt, and the end scene with SG1 enjoying some downtime at Jack's cottage had a certain reek of "last episode"? Atlantis was envisioned as a replacement for the series, not a parallel series of events.Then to everybody's surprise, it got renewed. But they'd already defeated the Goa'
They defeated the Goa'uld -- fine. Just keep in mind, this isn't the movie. There were plenty of good Stargate episodes that didn't deal with directly fighting some specific enemy.The same thing is true of Star Trek, by the way. If you remember, there were probably a grand total of -- what -- 3 TOS episodes involving Klingons? Same with TNG -- The Borg are a persistent enemy, perhaps, but we almost never see them.
The Stargate writers need to go back and examine what worked in the plotlines which had absolut
I know, they could re-visit that time loop episode, because, theoretically, if an event loops once -- it loops forever at least in alternate dimensions. So the loop has to be "cut out" becuase it is taking up a lot of cycles amongst the different universes. Everything starts slowing down, so they must risk the device that speeds everyone up.In fact, they could bring clips from every episode into the movie, because they "time loop" was creating a rare, time loop black hole, because the weight of the redundan
Reminds me of the last episodes of ST:TNG. I'd considered the anomaly as effectively breaking the whole timeline into an infinite number of alternate timelines nearly parallel to each other but actually intersecting inside the anomaly.
Maybe I'm just slow to embrace change, after all, I have the same complaint about the new Doctor Who seasons (Eccleston vs. Tennant)
>> That's the whole charm of the Dr. Who franchise... you get to complain that the current actor is a pale imitation of the previous actor.Personally, I like the guy with the big scarf -- the rest are just poor imitations.
"Personally, I like the guy with the big scarf -- the rest are just poor imitations."That is an interesting plot twist. The three doctors who preceeded the "the guy with the big scarf" actually travelled forward in time to see the 4th Doctor so they could then imitate him. Too bad they did an abysmal job of imitation. I guess the 2nd one came closest but I get the idea that the 1st and 3rd didn't even try.
Personally, I like all of them except for the rather abysmal 7th Doctor but that was more for my dee
The thing is, they have a plot device (the stargate), that makes just about any other plot feasible. While the longer story arcs are interesting, I've often more enjoyed the occasional one-off episodes that have no bearing on the continuity of the series.Instead of epic battles between good and evil with the fate of the whole galaxy in the balance, how about just a group of explorers traveling to a planet that they know nothing about. Maybe it takes an episode or two to tell the whole story, but whatever ha
I thought the same exact thing as you did and I didn't really get interested in SG1 until the 5th or 6th season or so as I was flipping through channels and actually watched a few eps. After that I was curious about the show, got the earlier seasons on Netflix, and from then on I was hooked. I thought the show was played out when RDA left the show and thought it was finished. However, I really like the new direction they've taken the show the last 2 seasons. Being in the military and the more militant edge
I first encountered Stargate somewhere in the middle of season 4 or 5 (I'm still not sure, having not worked that far thru the DVDs yet.. I bought the whole set). And what I could get on TV here was spotty at best; frex, the local syndication channel skipped the entire Jonas season. Anyway, I've seen all of seasons 1, 2, 3; parts of 4/5/6; most of 8 and 9. And I've likewise seen about 2/3rds of the first 2 Atlantis seasons (and haven't got to the S1 DVDs I just picked up). Enough for a fair overview of the
I agree on all accounts. I too never really liked Weir, but the current actress is better than the original IMO. However, I still don't like her features. She reminds me of what Skeletor's daughter would have looked like. Yikes! Then again, this past episode, titled "Sunday", let out her feminine side and really softened the character to a likable level IMO.By the way, Tao of Rodney and Sunday are probably the best Atlantis episodes to date. If you get a chance, definitely check them out. Both are very hear
Season 10 is in mid-season hiatus. Just to confuse matters, the SciFi network often refers to the last episode before the hiatus as a "season finale" and the first episode after the hiatus as a "season premiere."According to the official website for SG-1 [scifi.com], new episodes are "coming soon." Looks like the UK already got to see episodes we're currently waiting for, if comments in the Gateworld forum [gateworld.net] are to be believed.
So far, I haven't been able to pin down an exact air date for the US. The Wikipedia entries | {
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By SHAINA STOCKTON, Staff
The Crooked Road, Virginia’s heritage music trail, has proposed that its coverage region of 19 counties and four cities in Southwest Virginia be designated as a National Heritage Area, “based on the region’s unique musical heritage and its significant role in the formation of American music,” according to a press release provided by the organization.
Editor’s Note: This information is taken from open court records and is a matter of public record.
The listings are complete. The newspaper, as a matter of fairness, will not honor requests to omit any listing.
For information on this column or questions, call 236-5178, ext. 213.
District Court
These sentences were recorded in October 2012 in the Grayson County District Court office, Independence. Sentences may be appealed:
RICHMOND — Starting this summer, the state’s Parole Board will have to justify why it has denied a prisoner’s petition for release under a bill that passed the General Assembly last month.
HB2103 requires the board to conduct a “timely and thorough review” of parole petitions and, if denied, to provide specific reasons.
Virginia did away with parole in 1995, but several thousand prison inmates – about 4,500 in 2012 – sentenced prior to that remain eligible for early release each year.
Speed trap
Can you have an investigative reporter determine why the bypass around Hillsville speed limit is only 55 when most areas that have similar features would have a 60 or 65 mph speed limit. I’m concerned that every time I use the bypass it has become a speed trap for the Hillsville Police Department to spend their time trying to catch people doing 55 on a highway that is designed for higher speeds.
The Virginia Board of Medicine reports that three physicians practicing in the Twin Counties were reprimanded for pre-signing multiple blank prescriptions for a nursing home, in violation of state code.
The prescriptions were to be used only for emergencies, but were “not dated or signed by [the doctors] on the day when issued, as required by the Code [of Virginia],” the board found.
The board issued the reprimands in June 2012. All three physicians are still permitted to practice medicine, and their licenses were not revoked or suspended.
By SHAINA STOCKTON, Staff
With the high volume of floodwaters early this year because of heavy rainfall, plans for the Galax Bottom Neighborhood Revitalization Project seem more urgent than ever.
The low-lying "Bottom" neighborhood beside Chestnut Creek includes flood-prone Givens Street and is bordered by Caldwell, Meadow, Shaw and Grant streets.
HILLSVILLE — Having autism is kind of like being in a foreign country and not speaking the language, but one parent has found that an iPad can help bridge the communication gap.
Jennifer Dobbs hopes that www.thepuzzlingpiece.com can provide an iPad that son Tyler can use at home, after seeing a benefit from using one in Carroll County Public Schools.
The website was created by Melissa Winter, a mother of an autistic child who wanted to raise and funds to help children and families affected by autism. | {
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There are some brands and tastemakers out there in who have gone has far as to buy their verification on Instagram, Facebook and other popular social media platforms as way increase their influence on other social media users.
When you want to get verified on social, you usually have to go through some kind of application process or submit your account to Facebook or Twitter to get confirmed. But with Instagram, you can’t request a verification badge and it’s given to people Instagram believes is worthy, so that’s why they are in such high demand. But if you know the right people, there are ways you can by a verification badge online from a secret network of middleman connections.
According to a recent report by Mashable, there are people out there who have paid thousands of dollars in the black market for Instagram just to get that little blue verification check mark next to their name on their profile.
“These guys pay all their bills from one to two blue checks a month,” said a middleman source to Mashable reporter Kerry Flynn in a direct message.
One buyer, who goes by James told Mashable he used to sell unique, one-word Instagram names to people he believed would need them. According to him, he was doing that until one day he messaged someone on Instagram to sell a name to and it turned out that person worked at Instagram. He maintained a relationship with that person and began to sell verifications on Instagram with the help of his friend.
How much does it cost to get verification on Instagram?
If the social platform knows you’re a brand, influencer or public figure, they will give you a verification badge. However, in the black market, people without such clout are paying thousands of dollars to digital marketers or Instagram employees to get the blue check of approval.
“I’ve sold verifications anywhere from $1,500 to $7,000,” John claimed. According to James, the Instagram employee he has been working with charges $1200 for each account he can verify, while James charges more to customers. this illegal shady business could be lucrative for anyone with the right connections. According to Mashable, there have been people who have spent up to $15,000 to have the little blue "verified" check next to their name.
Celebrities and other public figures are verified because there is more of a chance someone would impersonate them. So Instagram makes sure those accounts are verified.
For brands looking to increase their following, having a verified account on Instagram could add needed value to your online identity and create more business opportunities. From a technical standpoint, having verification on Instagram can push your profile up in search results making it easier for people to find you and see your work.
Instagram is aware of the Instagram verification market and they advise users not to partake in such business.
In their terms of use section they state, “You are responsible for any activity that occurs through your account and you agree you will not sell, transfer, license or assign your account, followers, username, or any account rights.”
According to James, he knows of several Instagram employees being fired for selling verifications to users. Last year, Instagram deactivated about 30 accounts that were related to cannabis. A former Instagram employee tried to charge people up to $7500 per account to have their accounts reactivated because he still had access to that function. According to James, Instagram found out and that person’s account was terminated. | {
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Jeff Clark’s Ruins (Turtle Point Press, 2009)—nigh-Gesamtkunstwerk (if that means “total work of art”) with its slews of reversed black pages and smeary muss’d photographs (of flower-needling hummingbirds, of garden tangles, of dogs with war-grins, of a wonderfully pensive little girl in a sewn cotton shift), with its titling that looks like words emerging out of watery muck-emulsion Sally Mann-style, with its tender and angry Clark poems and its excellent Louis Aragon translation—arrives bound in slightly dirty white linen-ish boards, and black, black end-papers. A smallish limit’d edition, print’d to accompany an exhibitchez Turtle Point of Clark’s “book covers, collages, wood constructions and paintings.” (Exhibit’d, too, two collages made by Clark for John Ashbery’s forthcoming new book, Planisphere.) One senses a nigh-religious structure to the book, clench and release of the blood pump, the sinner redeem’d, or the anger undone, that contracting systole to drive forth demons. Here, in the form of “Four Fathers”:
My old man was a dead manHe was too youngMy old man face and assThin dark white man from Long Beach, Los Angeles, ColoradoThick-armed stud from the groundMoney, family, I don’t givea fuck about yours Don’t give my money to dick filmsMy old man was a roach, a casanovaGot you high, made you strong, knows art, reads poetryHis house burned, he lost a wife then a sonMy old man made sex of anythingWe’d go out in the garage, I’d jumprope and come for moneyThe lights would be dim in ghetto stadiumsAnd acts of testimonyMy old man snuffed out a daimonStrangled it pig daddyAt a lumber yard in Yorba LindaHe snarled at a man he’d meet him out frontWhen we did it was a group“You gonna mess with me now?”I stood silent behind him, I was seven.How I wanted to lunge, and weptBig beige dream wreckerThe other one, remember him, you should have thrown him against a wallkept his smack in folded-up fashion adsI’m each of them, and in my gardenNowhere else to go, to eatmuscle, music, to excoriate—A child comes in too lateShe’s the one I’ll never love moreThan in this cold poem I find herMy old man was a dead man anywherea mattress was in a photographHe lives in a house inBerkeley I’ve never seenHe lives in a house I’ve been to twiceHe’s dead in a Burt Reynoldsmovie with my faceIn a garden with a little girlassembling a bouquetMy old man drives a red truckMy old man drives a CadillacThe butterfly weed and calendulaSeeds she sewed at threeare bloomingMy old man was a dead man any daya boy was waiting I don’t know what kind
Ungainly, direct, and absolutely without preciosity or smarm. And heartbreaking. What’s recall’d is the kind of fuckall anti-literary messiness of Jack Spicer, the plunge of a relentless going for, “sewed” for “sowed,” no matter. If at “pig daddy” one thinks of Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy” that’s not the point, if the repeat’d “My old man” riff ricochets back in the brain cavity off something out of Anne Waldman’s Fast Speaking Woman, so what. What I like here is a refusal of the current mode of quasi-surreal, quasi-“analytic” (meaning the unanchor’d abstract) hybridity. Clark’s plain (and fierce) willingness to brave the sentimental weathers is admirable and necessary in such a climate. Here’s the final piece, “Remains”:
So long I was hungryfor your love, and lonelywhen it didn’t come, which wasalways. Now I find love in others,doves, daughters, lovers.I feel you every day,fury at what you could notlove, or take care of. I’ll meetyou in heaven where I won’t live but will visit for its wineand warm winters.I’ll love you even thenas I love money, tin,to crave, dark days.
Which spills its guts and erects a questionable marker there, something temporary like a Quonset hut.
Just to note, too, how terrific Clark’s translation of Louis Aragon’s “Poème à crier dans les ruines” is—veering off a literalism only when sticking too closely’d result in exactly the kind of affect’d refinement Clark’s at pains to avoid. The poem begins “Let’s spit you and I let’s spit / on what we used to love / on what the two of us used to love . . .” Here’s a few lines out of the middle, the French:
It’s nothing but a joke to thosewho talk about love like they talk about a cousinFuck all that pretenseDo you know when it truly becomes a storyLoveDo you know When every breath turns tragicWhen the colors of daylight provoke laughterA draft a shadow in shade a name erased Everything should burn and you know deep downthat everything does burnand you say Let everything burnand the sky smells like scattered sandLove you bastards love for youis when you happen to sleep together Happen toAnd afterwards Ha ha all of love is in thisAnd afterwardswe happen to speak of what it isto sleep together for years Do you hearFor yearslike sails collapsingonto the deck of a ship loaded with plaguein a movie I just saw . . .
Jeff Clark
John Ashbery’s Planisphere with Collages and Design by Jeff Clark
I see the (normally) astute Caleb Crain is reduced to quoting Ron Silliman as “literature” in a squib “Against Camel Case” in yesterday’s magazine “supplement” to The New York Times. I suspect Mr. Silliman’s mighty pleased—mention by the object of one’s raillery (to say nothing of desire) always stirs the tickle-color’d pink of the arriviste’s flesh. Mr. Crain’s quote though—the piece is a finicky polemic against the use of (admittedly ugly) InterCaps—rather chops La Silliman’s lines to near nonsense. Crain writes:
Camel case even infiltrated literature. “Deviance or innovation?” Ron Silliman asked in his 1996 poem “Under,” before imagining himself living the erotic life of the insertive capital: “How sweetly, smoothly I slip inside of you where I belong.”
The original makes it sound (thankfully) somewhat less likely that—for all Silliman’s big oyster clamor and originality-insistence—he’s laying claim to the invention of “proper” (“where I belong”) sex. (Or that the “I” is anything lettrist or capital or more than the conventional phallogocentric “I”—comme on disait à l’époque—of Baleful Lyricism 101. What Silliman wrote is:
InterCaps: deviance or innovation? How sweetly, smoothly I slip inside of you where I belong. Cat sleeps in the unused driveway, concrete warmed by the sun.
Flabby imagism. Crain, too, is forgetting Frank O’Hara’s masterly use of the InterCap in “Poem Read at Joan Mitchell’s”:
Monday, November 23, 2009
Signal
CCCXXVIIThe sheer density of occurrence—mastiffwith the inkynewspaper in itsmouth, two chumspitching snowballs atthe red-scarf’d skaters, the reedy-voiced deacon whomulls the cloister tapestry with itsprecise flowers—requiresformal analogy, aleatoryflanged plaiting of its signals, itsstrands. An antwriting its memoirsup the lengthof a grass-blade, a red-cheek’d pheasant slittingthe autumnal air with daggerly misericordia,a smoky bluefig bursting openin a tent.Writing draws letter-forms, and drawing writes object-forms. What an alphabetthe ear iswith its snugcurvilinear conjuncts, factotumto the immiscibleeye’s constant jawing. The glyph-tool’dmoon—color of chert, color ofivory—ax-blade of the tool-strewn Inuit sky.
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Harrumph. I niggled with that piece (“CCCXXVII” is what I call it) in the wee hours and forgot to make portable my changes. Thus, a tenuous reconstruct’d “version of a version”—surely unidentify’d as such by any but the most gnostic (rare in a post-gnostic age). I am “off” tomorrow, and sensing a flagrancy of aims: I know both “flanged” and “signal” to be “wrong,” mere “placeholders” for the “real” (though that conceit is laughable at best). I know, too, that I am lacking a little rodomontade glitz in the final sentence, though what exact wee-hour incomprehensibility that is—je n’ai aucune idée. I did write one day (aged nineteen, in my spurious and unclutter’d youth) that “All art is arbitrary” and I probably well believe it “even” “now.” (There’s a whole story waiting to be writ regarding the ironic life of the invert’d comma and the fetishization of meaning. Directly related to the late twentieth-century’s loss of “faith” in, well, “everything.” “Late” or “early”?) It strikes me odd that Stephen Crane’d bother with Henry James. I hear, though, that Michael Fried says that John Berryman says Stephen Crane took issue with some Jamesian note of writerly detachment:
What, though does the man mean by disinterested contemplation? It won’t wash. If you care enough about a thing to study it, you are interested and have stopped being disinterested. That’s so, is it not? Well, Q.E.D. It clamours in my skull that there is no such thing as disinterested contemplation except that empty as a beerpail look that a babe turns on you and shrivels you to grass with. Does anybody know how a child thinks? The horrible thing about a kid is that it makes no excuses, none at all. They are much like breakers on a beach. They do something and that is all there is in it.
“Empty as a beerpail look.” “Shrivels you to grass.” Phrases themselves like “breakers on a beach,” detach’d and unexcused punctae of the writer’s own “look.” (Here I quote O’Hara for the one hundred and sixty-two thousandth time: “They do have meaning. They’re strong as rocks.”) Meaning: the contemplatory is a siphon, a “prate” (see, “contemplatorie prate”): writing and looking is a surefire way to neither see nor write. (See “recollected in tranquility,” maestro.) (I hear Thomas Stanley (The History of Philosophy (1655)) says that Plato says that geometry is “the Contemplatrix of Planes.”) Oughtn’t all writing be that “empty as a beerpail look,” with its radically uncodify’d way of sopping up a welter of immiscibles (and squirting back “out” a few tangibly botch’d enigmas)? Frivolous and minatory and bulldozing tout à la fois? Robert Walser (out of The Tanners)*, about a painter’s dismal sense of failure when confront’d by the “torment” of the natural, the prospect of “capturing” that beauty that surpass’d all power of apprehension:
Day after day he become more and more puzzled at how I could go on lightheartedly, even frivolously painting, but he admired my talent, which he had to acknowledge. But he wished I would pursue my art with more seriousness of purpose, and I replied that in the practice of art all that was required to accomplish something were diligence, a joyful zeal, and the observation of nature, and I drew his attention to the harm that could and must come about when one approached a matter with exaggerated holy solemnity. He did in fact believe me, but he was too weak to tear himself away from this bullheaded seriousness he’d sunk his teeth into.
And, apropos my incipient jaunt to points east, the enforced listlessness of the mandatory calendric (just to put a goofy knob to it), Walser on vacations:
But vacations, what are they? The thought of them makes me laugh. I wish to have nothing to do with vacations. One might even say I hate them. Whatever you do, just don’t set me up with a position involving vacations. This wouldn’t appeal to me at all—in fact I think I’d die if I were given vacations. As far as I’m concerned I wish to do battle with life, fighting until I keel over: I wish to taste neither freedom nor comfort, I hate freedom if it’s hurled at my feet the way you throw a dog a bone. That’s vacation for you. If you might happen to think you see standing before you a man with a hankering for a vacation, you are very much mistaken . . .
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Back in a week.
* News is out that a selection of Walser’s Microscripts (including pictures) is being print’d in 2010 by New Directions, translated by Susan Bernofsky. Too, Bernofsky is writing a Walser biography.
. . . he was only every connected with the world in the most fleeting of ways. Nowhere was he able to settle, never did he acquire the least thing by way of possessions. He had neither a house, nor nay fixed abode, nor a single piece of furniture, and as far as clothes are concerned, at most one good suit and one less so. Even among the tools a writer needs to carry out his craft were almost none he could call his own. He did not, I believe, even own the books that he had written. What he read was for the most part borrowed. Even the paper he used for writing was secondhand. And just as throughout his life he was almost entirely devoid of material possession, so too was he remote from other people.
Isn’t that the reverie of every writer? To bob unbother’d and untend’d in a pure sea of language? (See Walser’s line here, in “The New Novel”: “And now it was me in the inky blackness. Lost!”—that giddy terror is what “one” pursues, no?) Sebald:
For him, evidently, coming to an arrangement with a woman was an impossibility. The chambermaids in the Hotel zum Blauen Kreuz, whom he used to watch through a peephole he had bored in the wall of his attic lodgings; the serving girls in Berne; Fräulein Resy Breitbach in the Rhineland, with whom he maintained a lengthy correspondence—all of them were, like the ladies he reveres so longingly in his literary fantasias, beings from a distant star.
I am compell’d to recall Walser’s Doppelgänger Joseph Cornell here—in Frank O’Hara’s “hearsay” rendition (out of “5 Participants in a Hearsay Panel”): “Ernestine Lassaw told Franz Kline and Tom Young that Bob Rauschenberg told her that Joseph Cornell saw a beautiful girl in a box, a cashier’s box, outside a movie house and he used to ride past the movie house on his bike every day to look at the girl in the box. Then, one day, Ernestine said Bob said, he—Cornell—picked a little bouquet of blue wild flowers and carried them up and down on his bicycle in front of the movie house before he finally screwed up his courage and thrust the flowers through the hole in the box at the girl. She screamed for the manager who called the police but the policed let Cornell go.” (I seem to recall that Deborah Solomon’s Cornell biography Utopia Parkway verify’d something like that.) Sebald:
That Walser is not today among the forgotten writers we owe primarily to the fact that Carl Seelig took up his cause. Without Seelig’s accounts of the walks he took with Walser, without his preliminary work on the biography, without the selections from the work he published and the lengths he went to in securing the Nachlass, the writer’s millions of illegible ciphers, Walser’s rehabilitation could never have taken place, and his memory would in all probability have faded into oblivion.
Seelig’s Wanderungen mit Robert Walser seems to exist in English only here: surely a print’d edition is call’d for. Sebald, detailing the nature of Walser’s writing:
The playful—and sometimes obsessive—working in with a fine brush of the most abstruse details is one of the most striking characteristics of Walser’s idiom. The word-eddies and turbulence created in the middle of a sentence by exaggerated participial constructions, or conglomerations of verbs such as “haben helfen dürfen zu verhindern” (“have been able to help to prevent”); neologisms, such as for example “das Manschettelige” (“cuffishness”) or “das Angstmeierliche” (“chicken-heartedness”), which scuttle away under our gaze like millipedes; the “night-bird shyness, a flying-over-the-seas-in-the-dark, a soft inner whimpering” which, in a bold flight of metaphor, the narrator of The Robber claims hovers above one of Dürer’s female figures; deliberate curiosities such as the sofa “squeaching” (“gyxelnd”) under the charming weight of a seductive lady; the regionalisms, redolent of things long fallen into disuse; the almost manic loquaciousness—these are all elements in the painstaking process of elaboration Walser indulges in, out of a fear of reaching the end too quickly if—as is his inclination—he were to set down nothing but a beautifully curved line with no distracting branches or blossoms.
A terribly fine Sebald sentence itself, acting it out. Too: “Indeed, the detour is, for Walser, a matter of survival. “These detours I’m making serve the end of filling time, for I really must pull off a book of considerable length, otherwise I’ll be even more deeply despised than I am now.” The opposing forces: the pure “curved line” unadorn’d (Sebald suggests Walser’s “natural inclination is for the most radical minimization and brevity . . . setting down a story in one fell swoop”) versus the overwrought, what Walser himself—speaking of a room in which “intimate misfortune was played out”—calls “brimming with gloomy, fantastically be-palmleaved decoration gilded further by the height and scale of the whole.” Sebald says that Walter Benjamin says that “the point of every one of Walser’s sentences is to make the reader forget the previous one.” Sounds like, heavens to Murgatroyd, a recipe avant la lettre for a New Sentence scheme. One recklessly insists, though, that what Benjamin’s claiming is “merely” the way any writer reads: so wholly “took” by immediate lingual “patch” as to be unable to discern any larger landscape. Reading books in order to admire word-conglomerates, point.
* Sebald’s essay is translated by Jo Catling out of the forthcoming A Place in the Country (Random House).
Odd listlessness and indirection. Reading stump’d. Seem to’ve been days “finishing up” Tom McCarthy’s excellent Men in Space, though without any particular toutable horn to toot regarding it? I do like the sense (imbuing it) of the novel-as-machine (or is it novel-as-chemical-equation?), its characters colliding and pinging-about components, effecting “exchanges”—McCarthy allowing himself (thus) to think through the nature of the novel throughout. Here’s one Anton Markov (a Bulgarian in Prague, ex-referee—“the trick was to see all the near-identical shirts, repeated runs, sudden departures, switches and loop-backs as one single movement, parts of a modulating system which you had to watch as though from outside, or above, or somewhere else”), who’s involved in an art-forgery scheme (of a particular panel of a mural of the Bačkovo Ossuary*), and is jail’d briefly, stuck and uncertain (like a ruminant novelist?):
Motionless now, Anton tries to empty his mind completely, to start from nothing and build up. He stands on the formica floor. He is a human in a cell. The cell has one bed, one toilet, no windows. It could be any space. It could be a hospital room, a lecture hall, a street or a sky beside a mountain, like where the saint is in that picture. There’s no essential difference: you’ve got a space and then a person in it. The rest is contingent: all the events and decisions and complications that have led to this person being here, all the reactions and solutions that might lead him out of it again. He thinks of mystic monks. They lived their whole lives in cells like this; before was a blur of childhood, out again just darkness, death. He’ll leave this cell alive, but it’s not clear how. There are those procedures that he’ll have to pass through, like that labyrinth Helena was talking about—but he should think of them as being exchanges. They’ll present him with questions, he’ll surrender information in return and, according to the value of his information, progress through this labyrinth. Transfers of energy, like engineering—or like a game. He doesn’t know the rules but will intuit them. I will intuit the rules, he intones. I will intuit . . . But when he tries to factor the specifics back in, the whole thought-circuit overloads and he can feel his heart thump in his chest, blood racing down his arms . . .
In a note, McCarthy relates that the book “started as a series of disjointed, semi-autobiographical sketches written in what seems like another era, and grew into one long, disjointed document from which a plot of sorts emerged from time to time to sniff the air before going to ground again. That it eventually found a kind of warped coherence as a novel about disjointedness and separation is to a large extent thanks to . . .” And the usual acknowledgements. Suspect it’s a retrieval of pre-Remainder material, brilliantly rework’d.
* The epigraph to Men in Space, out of Klárá Jelinkova’s unpublish’d dissertation call’d Murals of the Bačkovo Ossuary (writ for the Akademie Výtvarných Umění, the Academy of Fine Art) reads:
Despite the richness of their colour, it is the line that is the basic means of expression in the work of the Bačkovo masters. Executing a rigorous set of formal procedures, lines never allow themselves to become mere accessories to the expression of volume, to imply depth or to confer realism: instead, they help present the world they depict as unreal, flat and dematerialized. Using inverted perspective and multiple points of view which they place within the painting itself, the Bačkovo masters set up a continuous style that enables them to represent several moments of a story on a single panel. As for the human figures, their sensory organs are drawn out and isolated, relinquishing their biological functions as they become sanctified. Their faces, serene and concentrated, are not configured to produce dramatic effect, but rather to foreground their owners’ elevated sorrow.
Another tiny meditation on the novel, particularly McCarthy’s own, proceeding rather effortlessly with its “multiple points of view.” To note: Klárá Jelinkova is, too, a character in Men in Space, leading one to wonder who’s zooming whom? Faux epigraph or transplant’d “real.”
(Seeing references now to McCarthy’s International Necronautical Society—“ a semi-fictional organization closely modeled on European avant-gardes of the early 20th century . . . [that] replays, not without parody, the politically-inflected structures of these avant-gardes, with their manifestoes, committees, splinter groups and purges,” I suspect the former. See the “Manifesto”:
We, the First Committee of the International Necronautical Society, declare the following:
1. That death is a type of space, which we intend to map, enter, colonise and, eventually, inhabit.
2. That there is no beauty without death, its immanence. We shall sing death’s beauty—that is, beauty.
3. . . . Our very bodies are no more than vehicles carrying us ineluctably towards death. We are all necronauts, always, already.. . .
About the day I read Carla Harryman’s Grand Piano (#8) piece, “Feeling(s) Object(s): of the short decade extended” (a title that hardly makes that ineffable “turn to language” in my awkward mouth, turning to something considerably nearer to Weetabix), I read, too, Bobby Baird’s audacious and exemplary report (at the sterling Digital Emunction, that “clearinghouse”) of—among a number of things—“interloping” with the terminally brash and undiscomfit’d Stephen Rodefer at a “post-performance dinner” in Paris with Bernard Heidsieck, Steve McCaffery, Karen Mac Cormack, and “among others, two American avant-garde types” unidentify’d. Baird writes:
Though each side feinted more than once toward open war, the hostilities remained latent for most of the meal, giving me the chance to wonder at how nearly the conversational style of Stephen’s antagonist matched the dense theoretical impaction of his prose. The other poet had a free and easy sense of humor, but she also had the unfortunate habit of interrupting her stories with heavy-handed ideological commentaries, as if she needed to regularly remind herself not to be charming.
Astoundingly, that second sentence, apply’d untamper’d-with to the doings of “Feeling(s) Object(s),” fits perfectly. Regardez le charme (Harryman detailing with warmth and sensitivity a summer 2008 visit with Sandy Berrigan in Albion, California, and her “garden of resonances and feelings beyond repair,” memorial, in part, to daughter Kate, “killed in Manhattan by a motorcycle as she crossed the street on a green light”):
The garden is always changing, not only because of Mendocino’s unpredictable appearances of rain and sun but because Sandy is as much an observer as a cultivator of growing things, allowing sweet rocket , borage, kale, and collards to reseed and spread on their own. In the quilted garden with roses growing wild against a fence, Sandy and I discuss her letters written to Ted Berrigan in the early 60s when she was in residence at Jackson Memorial Hospital. Although legally an adult, she had been institutionalized in this general hospital by her family, who didn’t approve of her marriage. Her letters are amazing, mixed with declarations of love; accounts of her inmates, including one other young woman in a similar situation; a critical commentary on Ted’s translation of Rimbaud’s Drunken Boat; and vivid responses to the books she checked out of the hospital library, a motley spread of classic, modern, and contemporary works: The Odyssey, The Plague, The Little Prince, Lolita, Frannie and Zoe, Big Sur, Meditations in an Emergency, Kaddish, and Howl.
Disregarding the evidence that nobody in the “collective” butt’d in to redact that Salinger to “Franny and Zooey”—I’d say bravo. A scene limn’d and lingering with heartbreak. I wonder if it is so—for me—largely as a result of my love for Berrigan’s terrific early “Words for Love” and—immediacy ascendant, go off to re-read it, with its humble marker “for Sandy”:
Winter crisp and the brittleness of snow as like make me tired as not. I go my myriad ways blundering, bombastic, dragged by a self that can never be still, pushed by my surging blood, my reasoning mind.
I am in love with poetry. Every way I turn this, my weakness, smites me. A glass of chocolate milk, head of lettuce, dark- ness of clouds at one o'clock obsess me. I weep for all of these or laugh.
By day I sleep, an obscurantist, lost in dreams of lists, compiled by my self for reassurance. Jackson Pollock René Rilke Benedict Arnold I watch my psyche, smile, dream wet dreams, and sigh.
At night, awake, high on poems, or pills or simple awe that loveliness exists, my lists flow differently. Of words bright red and black, and blue. Bosky. Oubliette. Dis- severed. And O, alas
Time disturbs me. Always minute detail fills me up. It is 12:10 in New York. In Houston it is 2 p.m. It is time to steal books. It’s time to go mad. It is the day of the apocalypse the year of parrot fever! What am I saying?
Only this. My poems do contain wilde beestes. I write for my Lady of the Lake. My god is immense, and lonely but uncowed. I trust my sanity, and I am proud. If I sometimes grow weary, and seem still, nevertheless
my heart still loves, will break.
“Myriad ways blundering” into that final abrupt beauty. How, I ask, did one “get,” then, to such psycho-pomp and verbiage as this (Harryman considering Hejinian’s “considerations of objects and of description”)?
Objects appear via “pointing,” a relational gesture that “locates a thing relative to the position of the pointing person and implies the presence of contiguous or neighboring things . . .” The conscientious attentiveness to “contiguous or neighboring things” does not only place a demand on the reader of her works to experience language as “defamiliarized” rather than centralized. It encourages one to engage those concerns of living that are unpredictable and that lack clarity. When one makes a decision to do or not do, to say or not say something, one has produced an action in the world. A decision is a selection that clarifies relations that are still precarious and unstable. Just as the object does not draw the focus onto itself exclusively, neither does description delimit a world. As a “method of invention and of composition” description is not definitive. It does not paste the object to a landscape or scene that is already fixed. Description may not be definitive but it is selective. And the objectification of selection becomes a further site for the reflection upon the decision made and the unaccounted-for and unknown contingencies of its environment.
That “objectification of selection becomes a further site for the reflection upon the decision”: too much Latinate shunning and shushing in the undertow of empire, is what I say. Things is partial, yes, things, too, is tedious. Mallarmé, perfectly ages ago, epigraph’d Igitur with “This Tale is addressed to the reader’s Intelligence that itself achieves the staging.”
“Selection becomes a further site for the reflection upon the decision made . . .”
The bonus chapter in the eighth booklet of The Grand Piano is by Alan Bernheimer: a short consideration of narrative levels in the work of experimental filmmaker Warren Sonbert (1947-1995), friend of many of the Grand Pianists. Bernheimer’s supply’d the rather foreboding title of “What Happens Next” and begins with an “onslaught” paragraph detailing Sonbert’s accomplishments (“completed nineteen films in a thirty-year career,” “widely exhibited,” “made over two hundred personal appearances at one-person shows,” &c.) Then: “In the years since his death, what a falling off . . . the screen . . . largely gone dark.” “Sadly, without the cachet of premieres and his one-man promotional juggernaut, some of the most stimulating and resplendent moving pictures in twentieth-century independent filmmaking are settling into film history.” Thereat Bernheimer, refusing to “dwell on posterity,” turns to Sonbert’s sense of film narrative. Odd, though, the starting point, the seepage of something like fear that all’s for naught (particularly without the services of a “one-man promotional juggernaut”)—that that ought intrude in Bernheimer’s initial writing, in a “project” that’s become (mostly) a series of clumsy devotionals its own presumed posterity, a Langpo promo brochure, untaint’d by differences, lacking only the glossy corporate logo.
As for the bumps and exchanges between Sonbert’s (which I have never seen) films and poetry, Bernheimer writes:
Let’s try replacing, substituting the word poetry for the word film in some of Warren’s own sentences. “The job of poetry . . . is to balance a series of ambiguities in a tension-filled framework.” Or, “I believe the nature of poetry lends itself to density: one can’t pack in too much. It isn’t necessary to have the totality of resonances immediately graspable, one should be able to return.”
Bad habit of hurrying (not unlike the dung beetle). I ought to’ve read through Michel Ragon’s Dubuffet (Grove / Evergreen, 1959), work’d up a little oomph for my half-cock’d spouting off (yesterday). One thing: the note to O’Hara’s “Naphtha” reads (in part): “Hattie Smith identified ‘with a likeness burst in the memory’ in line 38 as from a statement by Jean Dubuffet reprinted in the catalog for his 1959 show at the Museum of Modern Art.” (The remainder of the note quotes a letter—“FOH to John Ashbery, February 1, 1961”—regarding a drawing Dubuffet’d sent O’Hara after he’d publish’d “Naphtha” in a 1960 Big Table.) Michel Ragon, though, reports a (scandalous) 1947 exhibit of Dubuffet’s Portraits shortly after publishing (chez Gallimard—Jean Paulhan being a close friend and supporter—and portrait-sitter) “a small treatise entitled Prospectus to Art-lovers of Every Kind, whose main ideas can be roughly summarized as follows: Art is within reach of everybody. Any imbecile is better than professional painters. Hurrah for the imbecile! There is no need to learn how to draw in order to produce art. Down with galleries! Down with museums! Down with art dealers and art critics!” “Scandal,” of course, mostly being merely contextual nudge and readjustment, one notes that: “in 1947 geometric abstraction in half-tints was triumphant in Paris, denying itself any kind of reference or allusion to nature.” Donc, some woolly heads. Ragon:
The invitation to this exhibit of Portraits, with its carefully worked out typography . . . was printed on one of those large folders that have since been imitated by so many young painters who think that they will thereby attract notice and who forget that one never surprises by plagiarizing. This “little newspaper” bore the title:
People are much better-looking than they believeLong live their true facesAt the Galerie Drouin17, Place VendômeP O R T R A I T Swith a likeness extracted, with a likeness cooked and preserved in the memory,with a likeness burst in the memory of Mr. Jean DubuffetPainter
The cows of “Naphtha”: India ink drawings of Dubuffet cows interlarding the text, along with one amongst the tipped-in plates, “La Belle Fessue.” And: “He went through an important series of Cows (‘The Gay Beauty,’ ‘The Buttocked Beauty,’ ‘The Uddered Beauty’).”
Out of a 1957 treatise:
I have always liked—it is a kind of vice—to make use only of the most common materials, those one does not think of at first because they are too commonplace and close to us and appear unsuitable for any use. I like to proclaim that my art is a rehabilitation of disparaged values. The fact is that these elements, which because they are commonly found everywhere and for that very reason do not arrest the eye fascinate me more than all others. The voices of the dust, the soul of the dust, interest me far more than the flower, the tree or the horse because I sense that they are stranger. Dust is a being so different from us. And, to begin with, that absence of defined form . . .
Odd, that “formlessness” put up against allegiance to materials. (I think of O’Hara’s 1950 “Today,” with its “Pearls, / harmonicas, jujubes, aspirins! all / the stuff they’ve always talked about // still makes a poem a surprise! / These things are with us every day / even on beachheads and biers. They / do have meaning. They're strong as rocks.”) (Too, I think of Zukofsky’s “case” “for the poet giving some of his life to the use of the words the and a: both of which are weighted with as much epos and historical destiny as one man can perhaps resolve. Those who do not believe this are too sure that the little words mean nothing among so many other words.”) (And Ted Berrigan’s paring down the lingo to words of one-syllable, that being the chore.) (And, veering, how Dubuffet’s cows—flat, splay’d, gangly (ganglia’d)—look like dust mites . . .)
And (“Thought is made in the mouth,” according to Tristan Tzara, so, like a French fillette with a story—“Et puis . . . et puis”—I keep talking) Dubuffet’s restlessness:
Whereas everyone today tends to cultivate his little specialty, to finick over it, to go to sleep in the intellectual (and commercial) comfort of a patented style, Jean Dubuffet is constantly subjecting his work to challenge . . . “It’s because I’m restless, unstable.” If he constantly changes his “manner,” it is also in order to prevent his art from becoming set. He likes paintings of heavy, muddy ingredients, painted high and in relief . . .
Echo of Valéry’s Je suis l’instable. And why do I recall O’Hara’s “[Notes on Second Avenue]” with its insistence:
To put it very gently, I have a feeling that the philosophical reduction of reality to a dealable-with system so distorts life that one’s “reward” for this endeavor (a minor one, at that) is illness both from inside and outside . . . As I look this over, it seems quite a batty way to give information about the poem, but the verbal elements are not too interesting to discuss although they are intended consciously to keep the surface of the poem high and dry, not wet, reflective and self-conscious. Perhaps the obscurity comes in here, in the relationship between the surface and the meaning, but I like it that way since the one is the other (you have to use words) and I hope the poem to be the subject, not just about it.
Oddly enough, one line of Ragon’s in Dubuffet (“He finds himself, in fact, in the odd situation of being rejected equally by the supporters of figurative painting and by those of abstract painting”) reads like a percipient precursor to Ashbery’s great assessment and defense of O’Hara’s poetry, and how precisely it “has no program and therefore cannot be joined. It does not advocate sex and dope as a panacea for the ills of modern society; it does not speak out against the war in Viet Nam or in favor of civil rights; it does not paint gothic vignettes of the post-Atomic age; in a word, it does not attack the establishment. It merely ignores its right to exist, and is thus a source of annoyance to partisans of every stripe.”
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“Natural savagery” alert. Another find: a copy of the Thomas Hess and Harold Rosenberg-edited (and short-lived) magazine Locations (1963) with Larry Rivers’s report of doing lithographs with O’Hara and Koch, “Life Among the Stones.” Rivers, reporting that “until this moment I’ve never tired to clarify what I was doing when Frank O’Hara and I, and Kenneth Koch and I, put our marks on the same surface”: “Maybe I’m an artist but I have gone from a baby to having the soul of a nail. I get a physical thrill in being cruel. My cruelty consists of destroying the ease I see in the presence of cliché and vogue.” And (talking about working with O’Hara): “I think our point of view can be summed up as ‘Anything is possible if we turn to it’ or ‘You name it we do it.’ What else do we have? Any of us? Being thought “modern.” That begins to feel like a good boy. Or the other great placater of our time “I don’t know if it is any good but I did it first.” How weak to create out of that simple and socially acceptable idea.”
Jean Dubuffet, “Cow with the Subtle Nose,” 1954
Magnify’d Dust Mite
Jean Dubuffet, 1901-1985(Photograph by Sanford H. Roth)
Monday, November 16, 2009
Vents
CCCXXSome big orchestral tutti of sunhitting a red-throat’d rubato, a high unmaestro’d O,a disc shotthrough with timbre-flaws and scuffmarks of aimlesscareening angel accidents. Wash and backdropfor the morinkhuur’s two horse-hair strings bow’dby a Mongolhorseman who isdeftly intersplicing earth(the fatter string)to sky witha series of incendiary runs upinto the highunbinding joyousness ofthrash Guignol farce,stuffing the airitself with notes. A series ofpetites blagues musicalesprepping the devilishassemblage for onelong-song’d syllablethat, unaccompany’d, whollyunhinges the two.
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Thrash weekend, here and there. Uncover’d a tiny cache of heroic-era Abstract-Expressionist artbooks, including a number of little Grove / Evergreen Gallery books, the first, Dubuffet by Michel Ragon, translated by Haakon Chevalier, dated 1959. (Thumbing it I note the sentence, “In 1922 he did his military service as a meteorologist in the Eiffel Tower” and think immediately of O’Hara’s “Naphtha”: “Ah Jean Dubuffet / when you think of him / doing his military service in the Eiffel Tower / as a meteorologist / in 1922 / you know how wonderful the 20th Century / can be . . .” Composed, apparently 3 September 1959. Now, I ought to read it to uncover “Jean Dubuffet painting his cows / ‘with a likeness burst in the memory’ . . .” Not evident in a slapdash peruse (an oxymoron), though there is:
“Art and levity,” Jean Dubuffet wrote at the beginning of his ‘public life,’ “these two orders have blood in common. The unforeseen, the unwonted, is their common domain—and don’t misunderstand me, it is of the highest peaks of art that I am thinking. Of Poe’s tales, of the Chants de Maldoror, of the Easter Island statues. So none of those innocent little jokes that entertain you for a few minutes, but the great big ones, the ones that freeze you on the spot, that turn you to stone. So good and unforeseen are the jokes. “There is no art without intoxication. But I mean a mad intoxication! Let reason teeter! Delirium! The highest degree of delirium! Plunged in burning dementia! Art is the most enrapturing orgy within man's reach. “Art must make you laugh a little and make you a little afraid. Anything as long as it doesn’t bore.”
Which sounds like O’Hara’s credo of wit slung against the boring: “how boring are men of deeds to the wild passions of fugitive verse” (“Historical Variations”), “Only you in New York are not boring tonight” (“Poem Read at Joan Mitchell’s”), &c.
Another find: the B. H. Friedman-edited School of New York: Some Younger Artists, (1959) with Barbara Guest on Robert Goodnough, James Schuyler on Alfred Leslie, Fairfield Porter on Richard Stankiewicz, and O’Hara on Larry Rivers, among others. The O’Hara’s something I don’t recall seeing reprint’d, though in a tumult of the double-shelved, I didn’t locate the Bill Berkson-edited What’s With Modern Art? (Skanky Possum, 1999).* How it begins:
American painting is in such a splendid state of confusion that it is a joy to contemplate. Would that poetry were in the same state! And perhaps it’s approaching it, for the reasons for loving a poem by Allen Ginsberg are the same reasons for loving a poem by John Ashbery, or by Kenneth Koch, or by Gregory Corso, just as the reasons for loving a painting by Franz Kline are the same for one by Michael Goldberg: they are all distinct, individual responses to distinct, individual meaningfulness—which varies so widely in scope, in drama, in contact, that the engaged person is reeling at last from contact with his own life, contact which the rest of society tries to teach him to back away from like a sick leopard who doesn’t know which trainer has his best interests at heart. In this pocket-abyss where one doesn’t know where one is at, where a large red painting may be a Grace Hartigan or a howitzer, where one has nightmares about not knowing what one is looking at, the only thing you have to hold onto is your own natural savagery, and your ability to recognize your own natural savagery has been given to you by this art which in turn is the cause of your anxiety about not being able to recognize anything but yourself. And that is the last thing one wishes to recognize. Most of us would much prefer to be Zen neophytes identifying herbs. Much has been said about the work of Jasper Johns recently—but how anyone can find his big white flag painting enigmatic is beyond me, a painting which forces a recognition in me to where I am at the brink of hysterical tears when my movie-fed head is inclined toward the Raft of the Medusa. (“Boys! Don’t leave me behind!”—Palinurus.) The same thing occurs with De Kooning Suburb in Havana. Why should it have this overpowering effect when we have the House of Seagram in front of us?
How different to the present dander’d up era! Where O’Hara makes a valiant camp’d up call for additional confusion (“reeling at last”), today “we” see our hog-tied critical delivery boys (and girls) with, not only a lack of “anxiety about not being able to recognize anything” (but themselves), but flaunting they own fervent blindnesses (and calling it “lineage”), or shucking it off into some cloister’d booths set up for a two-party “system.” “Natural savagery,” indeed. Tepid careerist me-first though remember to nudge along anybody who’s getting huzzah’d up, go with the groundswell, is the “order” of “business.” “Distinct, individual responses to distinct, individual meaningfulness,” whazzat? Rank and file sycophancy to the left and right: a clumping generalized sick leopard-dom.
* Andrew Epstein writes that the piece is reprinted, in Standing Still and Walking in New York under the title “Larry Rivers: The Next to Last Confederate Soldier.” Ah, memory, that savage slouch!
That, rapidly writ, a kind of gut-level outburst / recompense for a fever-sweat of, oh, envy and admiration, result of opening a brand-new (and sumptuously beautiful) chapbook by Peter O’Leary: Benedicite: From The Phosphorescence of Thought, A Poem of One Thousand Three Hundred and Thirty-Six Lines on the Nature of Consciousness (Answer Tag Home Press, 2009). Envy of the unshakeable presence of a target and a duty: Father Hopkins’s imperative—“Praise him.” I must admit there’s probably something sacrilegious about envy for the way the properly laudatory solves what is (to me) a “merely” formal dilemma: I mean no disrespect. To be allow’d (and to follow) a calling to praise God and His works seems magnificent, a right uncanny measure of unity and diversity, the one and the many—both an act of no little bravery and something of a provocation in a secular age (or in a secular community, that of, loosely, “readers of contemporary American poetry”). The Benedicite (or Benedicite, omnia opera Domini) is a hymn to creation, lauding all the works of God. Here’s a swatch:
. . . make holyyou galactic internal dynamic, you spew of stars, you luminous intensitiesyou waters coursing over heaven and you dynamos generating their poweryou slow-burning yellow staryou socket of lifeyou Sun and Moonyou same sized argentine luminaries drifting in the skiesyou fungal spores into the sinuses huffedyou wicked lunar eclipseyou dais of cooling light years;make holy this song by blessing, by building up with praisesyou telescope of time, you notion of creationyou most antique ledge of energy it peers towardyou aeonic disdain, you horror torusyou flowing forms, you atmospheric womb, you cellular chemistries, you earthly lifeyou showers and dew, you soulsyou tenderly dusted, glimmering mineral energy woundyou little animations of thingsyou prokaryotic cells, you knitters together . . .
And, too:
. . . you corpses, you spent energy, you unspooling tendrils ofmushroom proteinyou anuses extruding that vitalizing hashyou necrophagous moonlight fruitsyou eaters of your own dead and you living thingsyou caloric scavengers and you sex scroungers;make holy this song . . .
Solved at a fell swoop: the aimless “modernist” gabble abstract, talk address’d to no one in particular. In some way, beyond cataloguer Whitman out of King James, the nighest “kin” to O’Leary’s Benedicite may be A. R. Ammons. Or is it simply the nitty-gritty particulars, lingo-registers out of Scientific American (“prokaryotic cells,” etc.) that points me there? Look what Ammons makes out of different particulars fetch’d forth:
Which is, of course, stretch’d out and pinned down by the tenterhooks of terminal irony in a way that O’Leary’s direct address never is.
Benedicite is print’d in an edition of one hundred and fifty number’d and sign’d copies. Covers print’d by Dexterity Press. The covers, pale yellow with the Latin antiphon Asperges me and accompanying doxology print’d in a slightly richer yellow, with the title in rich red over all—O’Leary’s name (appropriately) lacking. So one glimpses some of the words, broken, splay’d out under musical staff with its square-blocky notes: “-sperges me, Dómine, hyssópo et m” and “emper, et in saécu-la saecu-ló-rum. A-men.” It’s lovely. Eagerly await’d: The Phosphorescence of Thought.
Sort of a “pause in the day’s occupations” kind of thing. Tired of limning pretties. Long I suspect’d that I am constitutionally incapable of sustain’d seriousness “about” nigh-about anything. Art, even tremendous art, seems as likely the result of doink-around dishing and goofing as any pursed-lip earnest crouch of pre-triumphalism. Here’s J. D. Reed (“born in the railroad town of Jackson, Michigan, shortly after the trains stopped running”):
Ode to Roundheads
You tell me time’s to fucknot fuck away; but my businessis the exact temperature of magma,the p.s.i. of Whitman’s old lipson the mouth of some feverish Confederate.
I have tried to deal with that layer of experience that lies between a Buster Brown shoe and the terrible foot of Christ. The crackling skin of a good pork roast is the only thing keeping the blade from the meat. The heavy air cuts us open.
I dug out Fatback Odes after noting Reed’s sub-editorship of Stony Brook. Truth is, he squib’d a tiny appendum to Dahlberg’s note, huzzahs for Dahlberg’s way of “charging rhetoric with the beat of the goat-foot”:
. . . Argument needs its ornaments to praise as well as damn. An over-concern with thought, concern with it as naked, ultimate activity produces that kind of talk Hemingway called a flywheel with the counter weight gone. And if we find that argument dances, then the prose that expresses it must dance also, and that means, at least, it has its own rhythm. Find even a tub-thump in the quarterlies, if you can. “We cannot perceive what we canonize,” says Dahlberg about Thoreau, “The citizen secures himself against genius by icon worship.”
And Dahlberg himself: “The purpose of any author is to be artistically mirthful; for no writer can persuade who cannot entertain. Chaucer observes, ‘A licorous mouth has a lickorish tail,’ which is a didactic as well as a jolly line.” Too, in the Stony Brook (pick’d up for a buck with some tiny shine of making it centerpiece to contend that during some few years between the anthology wars of the early ’sixties and the new dispenses of petulance and manner’d agressivity brought up by the Language boys some few years later—that some period of détente prevail’d—akin to today’s “hybridity”?—see the (partial) list of contributors: Pound, Duncan, Levertov, Olson, Rakosi, Wieners, Snyder, Louis Simpson, Simic, Laughlin, James Tate, Ammons. Pickard, Eshleman, Tim Reynolds, Antin, Rothenberg, Mac Low, Rukeyser, Jim Harrison, Dahlberg, Paz, Ginsberg, plus a sizeable bunch of translations, Tang poets by Robert Dana, Vasko Popa and others by Simic, Miłosz and Aleksander Wat by Richard Lourie, Radnoti by Stephen Berg and S. J. Marks, Yvan Goll by Galway Kinnell, Robert Pinget by Raymond Federman . . . nothing narrow about it.) Too, therein, J. D. Reed’s longish “Tool and Die Poem,” limning a certain moment in the anthropology of working class life in Michigan:
Sure, whetstone of peasant on saber.You don’t forget these things—The Blue Rabbit,peffered saddle of hareand the small muscles of it,the brass clams and tin wine.
And:
Tantra (Om) Ode
Sawing organic jerky with this cubscout knife, Ah!Filson cruiser.
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Contributing, one supposes, to what’s becoming rather a burgeoning tradition of exposing the neglect’d (to the harsh light of the present—I did “skip” Reed’s poem with the line “And night fell like a bull dike / on a girl scout”—there is that kind of datedness that becomes most obvious if one quits mid-song . . .*) And, looking around for other likely Reed-holes, I pull’d Kayak #23 (1970) off a shelf, and lit up to its pertinence. Without examining the archives, I don’t know if St. Geraud’s “appraisal” is of the “routing out the neglect’d” sort, though I’d bet it is—Lamantia’d probably hold some kind of record for being periodically rummaged up out of torpor by the high-mind’d. (If so, then St. Geraud’s petulance here looks mighty silly.**) A letter, then, to Kayak editor George Hitchcock (a fine American surrealist himself), dateline “Watsonville, Cal.”:
Dear George:
I can’t help but agree with St. Geraud’s generous appraisal of Lamantia (Kayak 22). And Louis Simpson is also a great poet, God knows. But the trouble with them, indeed, with most poets is that they aren’t flashy enough. . . . Lamantia needs a much more identifiable image; needs to become a brand name, a household word like Ex-Lax or Agnew or Band-Aids. Poems like his “Inside the Journey” and “The Enormous Window” wouldn’t be ignored if he could just see his way to advertize himself as the psychedelic super-poet or something that would have the same stimulating effect of the confused consumer. . .
When I think of the resourcefulness of such contemporary prime-time giants as Lafcadio Dogbreath, the inventiveness of such a devastating sensibility as Arshile Smegma’s, I wonder if much of what is called public neglect isn’t artists’ neglect. Can you deny that the divine Lafcadio would not still be languishing in his San Fernando gameroom had he not contrived to present his magnum opus carved on a seven-ton block of ear wax?
Why the poet permits himself to be neglected is a mystery to me. Why, for the sake of art, couldn’t Lamantia get himself arrested for committing an unnatural act with a mail-box? Couldn’t he begin a rumor that his father was a Cossack and his mother an abalone? A simple matter. Or couldn’t he free fall into a garage full of flaming Kenyon Reviews? He could claim to be two centuries old or a text-tube experiment. But that’s the trouble; some poets have no initiative, are lacking in dignity, strength of character, self-respect, honor, righteousness, self-esteem, integrity, decorum, etc. Why couldn’t the “neglected poet” honor the holy Smegma’s memory and do himself honor as well by marrying a llama?
Yours for dignity in art,Msgr. Junipero Balalaika
P.S.—Does he play the guitar?
One wonders if some of the “current crop” of brand-name versifiers didn’t read Msgr. Balalaika’s letter and take it unreservedly “to heart”?
* Looking for a picture of J. D. Reed, I find one in a 2005 issue of a Princeton, NJ weekly accompanying an obituary. “A poet, novelist, and journalist, he had three books of poetry published in the 1960s and won a Guggenheim Award for his book Expressways in 1970. He taught creative writing at the University of Massachusetts in the 1970s and was the director of the Creative Writing Program there for several years. In addition to his poetry, he had two novels published, one co-authored by his wife, and one made into a major motion picture. He then pursued a 25-year career in journalism, writing for Sports Illustrated, Time, and People magazines along with freelance articles and cover stories in many other national publications. He retired from Time Warner, Inc. in 2001 and continued his freelance journalism and personal writing projects.”
** “Bill Knott (1940-1966)” wrote in a letter in Kayak 22: “The best poet to appear in the 1940’s was not Lowell or Berryman or etcetera, but a teenage boy named Philip Lamantia. Because of the fascistic literary atmosphere in the late 40’s and early 50’s, he did not receive the attention he deserved. Perhaps because of this neglect he drifted away from Surrealism into other things. Now he has returned to his original vision and is currently the best poet in America. He and Louis Simpson are my personal favorite poets.” And, later, after mentioning “a new one [Surrealist] . . . Franklin Rosemont”: “Rosemont is serious. The rest of us, except Charles Simic, are full of shit.”
Singularly unfocus’d. I keep thinking of Barrett Watten’s reply to critics—or, pointedly, reply to “A ”” who “questions the practice of quoting samples of our poetry in The Grand Piano” (Watten being the obvious perp and repeat offender). Watten: “Here I would offer a one-word explanation: ‘hermeneutics.’” The mummer’s imperiousness of that—well, do you recall the heartbreakingly young Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate (1967) (dragged off by one “Mr. McGuire,” play’d by one Walter Brooke, who apparently appear’d in one episode of just about every “thing” ever made)? Here, look:
Is that “hermeneutic” poetry Watten quotes (“Is it an analogy to, or a refusal of, the corresponding music?” he asks, somewhere out in a region beyond the query comme toujours) only perceivable as allegory? Watten:
Animals eat words,exorcise this great and glassy news.The end of the road a walking flower as in any direction, another. Peripheries meet, a syntacticforecast through hostile centuries a slow drawing out of detail reflecting greys. To confirm the ear catchesis measured until it disappears.Breaking code, no one recalls appeal to the surface of fact.
Out of Watten’s “Radio.” Blocks of it interspersed throughout The Grand Piano (#8), usually placed epigraph-style to begin sections. One tends, in reading the prose “narrative,” simply to register the intervening botch of impenetrability and jump it. Watten notes that the composition of “Radio” is of “lines cut up and rearranged from Lee Harwood’s exemplary translation of Tzara.” And: “I remember trying to capture the hybrid neutrality of everyday life in its most repetitive forms through a use of language that had been stripped of all associations.” (Watten’s sudden use of the word “hybrid”—though “hybrid neutrality” is, according to Watten, a term associated with some ’eighties visual art practices—he mentions Allan McCollum, who as a child play’d “Jimmy Lane” in Reefer Madness (1938)*, growing up to make an art consisting of enormous numbers of objects and drawings, “each made unique by combining templates according to a combinatorial protocol that never repeated itself.” Hunh. Amazing. Watten’s, I start’d to say, sudden use of the word “hybrid”—isn’t that a kind of marketing catchword right now?) A poetry of the “neutrality of everyday life” and “repetitive forms . . . stripped of all associations” recalls the aims of Satie’s musique d’ameublement, a kind of hardly diverting repetitive Muzak, not unlike a number of mold’d plastic chairs cluster’d in a dining room. (Satie, too, did a ballet piece call’d Mercure—Poses plastiques en trois tableaux (1924).) To arrive there—in a state of implacable “greys,” the sensorium mugged by a leveling, neuter’d by lack, noticing nothing, undernourish’d—I suppose one might aspire to it: “To confirm the ear catches / is measured until it disappears.” (Though I “hear” immediately Duncan’s “Years as Catches” there, confirming what? That the measure remains inescapably there?) I’d like to see a piece of that language “stripped of all associations.” Watten’s “Radio,” by so doggedly disassembling and manipulating the Harwood translation of Tzara’s cut-ups—cutting up cut ups, a kind of mass refining that sounds like that one word “plastics” to me—is certainly going to retain one association: that of “the cut up.” What would be remarkable would be if it didn’t. If the result emerged in the guise of something whole, gorgeous, singular, and just.
Some of us are almost finished, have completed their first drafts years ago, but others begin again, or now. Now is the off-word that extracts the most energy.
“Years ago”? If there is a murk about the self-proclaim’d “experiment in collective autobiography,” it is in its failure to lay out its methods (simple “scientific” protocol—offering means for testing reproducibility and repeatability). If “some” are “finished”—where’s the collective nudge, where’s the trade-off and exchange, the community of making? One assumed a large part of the decision to release the writings in a series of ten booklets stem’d out of a commitment to that “Now” which “extracts the most energy” (the other part being financial? though there’s always the obvious question: why isn’t The Grand Piano simply being post’d online?) Too, it’s plain that a beginning mark’d by individual booklets with loosely-defined “themes” is now abandon’d, numéro 8 is a hotch-potch, the practice of ending with a series of questions for the next member in order largely ditch’d. (Though Señor Watten bravely holds out: “Why did you go West? What is the City you are in now?” Sounding a little like a desperado. Or a commandant.) There is, of course, in the pristine volumes, no sign of rank-splitting, no sign of disagreement: one imagines that a public pursuit of the writing’d reveal “the processual” to some advantage. (At least to the advantage of any who nod homage to—or act out—the benefits of the “social text,” or sneeze at the possibilities of the radical solitary.)
Out of Stony Brook 1/2 (1968), edited by George Quasha, with contributing editors, J. D. Reed and Eliot Weinberger. Edward Dahlberg (out of the preface to The Flea of Sodom):
Longinus has said that a simple prose contains fewer faults than any other kind, not being tumid or obscure; but he also has said that plain writing is less replenishing, and is often a sign of a weak writer who dares not take those risks which a parsimonious Imagination cannot sustain. Simple prose is often conceived for the mind that is dead rather than quick, and it is not surprising that an author who is as timid as a coney when he himself is writing, is bold and waspish in reprehending a Sir Thomas Browne for blemishes that are beyond the powers of his own Muse. However, this is not to say that plain writing, when it is not empty, is not another art, as Thucydides has remarkably shown. What is important is to employ words properly—for as Socrates said, The misuse of words induces evil in the soul—and with a tragical feeling of which our platitudinarian speech is void.
Robert Hooke’s Drawing of a Flea(Out of Micrographia, or, Some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses, 1635)
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Flag’d Fencing
A YEAR
CCCXIVBrevity with blanks,a verisimilitude unfestoon’dby any murmurous complacency of gap-patching or mound-leveling (of the “field”) or bythe presumptuously indiscreetnonsense of chuckle-head’d boorish categorizers with they chuffingsnouts and opines.We are eachcomplete and partialand rioting, nonea scavenging dog,none a bill-cooing Cartesian, noneprone to precocityin earshot ofthe gaseous self-appoint’d who’d like—unstrung by uncontrollablepluck and itch of the whelming sensorial fix—toaffix each swarmingmember by genusin rebuttal ofsingularity, the wayit makes strange,the way anyscrutiny of potsherdbreakage’ll uncover oneoyster-shell splay’d off in beeryparticularity, delirious ostranenieof the ostracized.
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Barrett Watten in The Grand Piano (#8) making big noise about the West, titling the squib simply “West,” unaccustom’d (seemingly) to the way the term, like any direction, is a relational and ad hoc configuration, and hardly an absolute. And hardly the mythic “portal” to the beyond Watten undergirds the Golden Gate Bridge with:
That portal is luminous, sighted in the distance. Endless space beckons from the other side. We see clearly through the opening, not to the Orient but simply onto unending space. The space of the Pacific. For the aesthetic Eastern poet, this was a limit of the imagination, timelessly invoked. We, however, lived with it on a daily basis—not within it, but alongside.
Watten’s talking about (“the aesthetic Eastern poet”—is “aesthete” an expletive to a Language boy?) James Schuyler and how “Once in New York—not thinking of the West,” he heard him read what Watten calls Schuyler’s “ode to the Golden Gate.” [Lengthy and pleasurably distracting spell of skimming through Schuyler’s Collected in hunt of said “ode” aforemention’d—ah, here, I suspect B. W. is referring to the late piece presumably referring to 1988 Hollister earthquake, register’d in S. F.]:
For Watten: “a limit of the imagination, timelessly invoked.” I suppose it’s “the hands of God” that makes Watten say that: I read San Francisco and its blessed bridge as largely incidental to the piece, except insofar as Tom Carey, Schuyler’s friend, a Franciscan, is apparently in the vicinity and Schuyler’s rather conventionally thanking God (and Glenn Gould ceaselessly purling out the Bach) that he is unhurt. Watten’d prefer a myth. In the next paragraph:
Oceanic feelings, we may say. They suffuse the work in its boundlessness—until they become a limit condition in themselves, a necessary precondition of formal or reflexive movement toward . . . the work. Hence, we may say, a region of being is displaced—toward a limit of the imagination projected back, condensed in material form. San Francisco becomes a moment of turning back before its expansion to the unfathomable West, seen through the Golden Gate . . . This would be our passage to more than India—a condensation of the open field at the moment of return.
What, one summarily wonders, is B. W. talking about? E. M. Forster’s India rubbing up against Robert Duncan’s “opening of the field,” overlay’d by Freud’s “oceanic feelings”—all in a kind of pulsing imperialist mash: it’s gobbledygook. It certainly’s got nothing to do with Schuyler’s poem; it may, in Watten-world, provide a kind of airy poetic sustenance. I try collecting refs (B. W.’s habit of dropping in pet phrases, markers of what exactly?) How about mentions of those “oceanic feelings”—a phrase apparently indicating to Freud, one guesses, a sensation of eternity, akin to Auden’s “barbaric vagueness of the sea” or Gaston Bachelard’s “substantive nothingness of water.” B. W.’s o. f.’s in order (a list):
Oceanic feelings, we may say.. . .The opening of the field meant for us not only access to primary process but a more self-conscious return from oceanic feelings. . . .Is the turn to language a defense against oceanic feelings, or a confirmation of them?. . .Oceanic feelings may be as destructive as they are restorative, hence their fascination.. . .Not that “all expression” was a realistic goal, since what had been restricted in our experience of everyday life could only be convertible as some kind of oceanic feeling, which we rejected on principled grounds.. . .The hybrid neutrality of unmarked expression—condensing oceanic feelings—was a formal allegory for me then.. . .Oceanic feelings from which we might try to stage a return, from originary displacement to retrospective construction—but it would never be the same.. . .Beyond identification, an experience of oceanic feeling at a moment of self-undoing, a knowledge of self that carried with it a certainty of ending.. . .Sexuality is always an unrealized potential, to be imitated but never achieved. Because of oceanic feelings associated with it? . . .Oceanic feelings and interstellar space. . . .Oceanic feelings are component parts that articulate complex relations.. . .I am still trying to unpack the alien instructions for a poetics, comprehend my oceanic feelings, and figure out interstellar space.
Against the “oceanic,” Watten’s prose battles forth, leery of any possible admission (“I apologize in advance for the nature of the confession that must be elided here,” he says at one point) desiring, somehow, to be “Stunned into particularity,” even “while engulfed by oceanic noise.” If he manages an anecdote, it’s nearly always in service to a grudge, a puff, or a “rivalry [that] can only reinforce the heteronormative as it unfolds.” There’s (anonymity absconding with a good percent of the profits of “meaning”) “D—’s talk at 80 Langton Street” and how “I became immoderately competitive with him . . . the quick wit of the Easterner against the unsorted agressivity of the West.” [Cue Ennio Morricone’s theme for “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.”] There’s the “first encounter with B—,” where “he toasted the occasion of some of the most important writers of the twentieth century meeting for the first time (I think R— was also in the room).” [Cue gag-reflex. Though: do you suppose that’s Rae or Ron in that room? Or neither. Anonymity with a big kick me tack’d to its back.] There’s the meeting, in the Dordogne, of “the partner of a French Resistance fighter, now in her 80s”:
She asked about my writing. Didn’t Tristan Tzara do all that around 1916? Suddenly I was faced with the realization I had entered into contact with a culture significantly advanced beyond the one I could assume. Consequently, I was charged: that one must now live the truth of one’s belated realization, as the belatedness of one’s culture at large.
Something nigh-medieval in that, portents in the sky. Or, again, “entered into contact,” alien. There’s, too, B. W.’s report of “a book signing for Bad History at a Barnes and Noble in one of the Grosse Pointes.” “I arrived at the appointed time to be greeted by a large-format poster announcing me as the ‘author of Bad History.’ The audience was several rows of chairs while customers milled around, shopping for pet care manuals.” [The hapless Mr. Watten here, like a tramp Chaplin bumbling into a rich man’s parlor: one wonders exactly what course of presumably motivated action led Watten to such a place, even lacking the visceral distrust of any of the “Grosse Pointes” one grows up with in liberal households in southeastern Michigan.] | {
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Robert E. Cooper, Jr., Attorney General and Reporter; Andrew C. Coulam, Assistant Attorney General; Randall York, District Attorney General; and Mark Gore, Assistant District Attorney General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.
James Curwood Witt, Jr., J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which D. Kelly Thomas, Jr., and Timothy L. Easter, JJ., joined.
OPINION
JAMES CURWOOD WITT, JR., JUDGE
A Putnam County Criminal Court jury convicted the defendant of one count of premeditated murder, one count of felony murder, one count of especially aggravated kidnapping, and one count of abuse of a corpse for his brutal attack on the victim, Jennifer Cornell. The trial court merged the jury verdicts of premeditated murder and felony murder into a single first degree murder conviction, and the jury imposed a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. The trial court imposed a sentence of 20 years' incarceration for the conviction of especially aggravated kidnapping and ordered that it be served consecutively to the sentence of life without the possibility of parole. The court imposed a sentence of two years' incarceration for the conviction of abuse of a corpse, to be served consecutively to the sentence of life without the possibility of parole but concurrently with the 20-year kidnapping sentence.
The evidence adduced at trial established that in August 2008, the victim informed the defendant and his wife, Emily Hancock, that the defendant was the father of her 16-year-old daughter. After he initially expressed a desire to establish a relationship with the child, the defendant denied that he was the child's father. Shortly thereafter, the victim went to the district attorney's office seeking a child support order. Deoxyribonucleic acid ("DNA") testing performed in conjunction with that action established that the defendant was the child's father. The revelation about the child's parentage as well as the potential of a money judgment for child support prompted Ms. Hancock to file for divorce. Ms. Hancock testified that she and the defendant were experiencing financial difficulties at that time and that she did not want any part of the defendant's income to go toward the support of the daughter he shared with the victim. The defendant's pastor testified that the defendant and his wife had been experiencing marital difficulties for sometime and that the child support action added to that stress.
The victim went missing on the morning of October 30, 2008. After learning that the victim had failed to arrive at work as scheduled and after he was unable to contact the victim, the victim's husband asked her employer to go to their home and check on her because it was extremely out of character for her to be late for work or not answer her telephone. Her employer found the victim's car sitting near the stop sign at the end of Vaughn Lane, approximately 150 feet from her driveway. The car's engine was running, the driver's side door was open, and the victim's purse was in the passenger's seat.
The defendant's cousin, Wayne Hancock, testified that the defendant borrowed his 1990 Dodge pickup truck on the morning of October 30, 2008, and that the truck was outfitted at that time with wooden stock racks. Witnesses reported having seen a truck matching that description on Vaughn Lane near the time of the victim's disappearance. Another witness saw the same truck drive down Colson Lane toward the sinkhole where the victim's body was later discovered. A coworker of the defendant's testified that the defendant once said, "[W]ell if I was going to kill somebody, I know a place I'd put them and nobody would ever find them. I said that hole over there and he said yeah and just laughed it off, you know." That same coworker was among the search party that discovered the victim's body in the sinkhole, which was located approximately 1, 800 feet from the defendant's residence.
The defendant admitted to both his pastor and his wife that he had seen the victim on the morning she disappeared. He told his pastor that he had picked the victim up so that the two could discuss the child support action and that he had left her, alive, near the Standing Stone bridge.
The victim's body was discovered nude from the waist down with sticks protruding from her vagina and rectum. She had been brutally beaten with what appeared to be "a large wooden dowel rod or like a handle that you would use in a shovel." Splinters from the dowel rod were recovered from the scene and reconstructed by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation ("TBI"). Wayne Hancock testified that a dowel rod consistent in appearance to the one reconstructed by the TBI had been in the bed of the pickup truck he loaned to the defendant. He was unable to locate the rod after the defendant returned the truck. Forensic testing revealed the presence of the defendant's DNA on the dowel rod reconstructed by the TBI.
The medical examiner testified that the victim died from "blunt force injuries to the head." The victim suffered a number of significant blunt force injuries to her head, including some that were "consistent with" the victim's having been struck with a rod similar to that reconstructed by the TBI. One blow above the victim's eye was significant enough to break her skull, causing the "skull bone" to protrude "through the skin tear." An "[o]pen complex skull fracture" to the back of the victim's head penetrated "all the way through to the brain." In fact, her skull was fractured in "multiple places, both in the front and in the back, " significantly enough to make her brain visible. Due to the trauma of some of the blows, "a portion of the brain tore off and actually came out one of these open fractures and lacerations." Pieces of the victim's brain were recovered from the crime scene. The medical examiner noted that the victim's face had "the appearance of a deflated basketball. And the reason that's so is because the facial bones are fractured, her nose, the bone supporting her eyes, her forehead, the center of her lower jaw bone. . . . [H]er facial bones have been crushed." Several of her teeth had been knocked out, and she had bitten nearly all the way through her tongue. The medical examiner stated that, "to a reasonable degree of medical certainty . . . all these blows to the head [occurred] when she's living."
The medical examiner also noted a secondary diagnosis of "blunt trauma injuries to the torso" because the blows to the victim's anterior abdomen and the back were also lethal. He observed that the parallel-line pattern of the bruises on the victim's back and abdomen indicated that they were caused by blows from "a long hard object, a baseball bat, a table leg, a branch of a tree, you know, a stick, a pole." He opined that the blows were consistent with having been caused by the wooden rod reconstructed by the TBI. The victim suffered multiple rib fractures, multiple vertebral fractures, and "[m]ultiple small lacerations of the lower lobe of the right lung." One vertebra "fractured so significantly" that "it actually tore into the space next to it and several of the ribs in that area that attach that area were also broken. And when the ribs broke, the pieces went forward and they punctured the bottom of the right lung." That single blow was so significant, in fact, that it "stretched the adjacent aorta and there are little lacerations, there were tears that you can see on the inside of the aorta. We typically see those in car crashes where there's rapid decelerations." He indicated that the most significant fracture "occurred after death, " as indicated by the fact that the wound produced very little bleeding.
The victim also suffered "[s]mall abrasions in the vaginal mucosa" that were "related to" the "foreign bodies protruding, there were dried vine branches that were in the rectum and that were in the vagina." The medical examiner retrieved two sticks from the victim's vagina and one from her rectum, which stick was placed in her rectum with such force that it "went through the rectal mucosa" into the victim's abdomen. He testified that the insertion of the sticks occurred "peri-mortem or possibly even post-mortem."
The medical examiner opined that all of the blows to the victim's body could have been administered ...
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The answer to this question is down to what you define as a shutter
During our press briefing on the new Olympus Pen E-P5 it was mentioned that the camera is the first compact system camera (CSC) to sport a 1/8000th top shutter speed. It was only later that I realised that Samsung had already released a CSC, the NX20, with a shutter that could go as fast as 1/8000th. So I queried this with Olympus and their response was rather interesting.
It turns out that Olympus claims the E-P5 is endowed with the first conventional electronically controlled two-curtain mechanical focal plane shutter. Samsung, apparently, equipped the NX20 with a hybrid mechanical shutter that only uses one curtain. The function of the first curtain has been replaced by what is called an 'electronic first curtain'. Electronic first curtain shutters do have undeniable advantages but there could be concerns about image quality compared to a conventional shutter, like that of the E-P5.
Curtains
To understand all of this it's essential to understand how a focal plane shutter works. First invented by Leica in 1925, the conventional focal plane shutter lay in front of the film frame and operated horizontally. The curtains were made of of a thin fabric made opaque thanks to the cloth material being treated with rubber.
The exposure is made by the first curtain moving to one side until the whole frame is exposed. The second curtain then follows at the same steady speed until the frame is covered once more. This ensures that the whole frame is evenly exposed. To vary the exposure you simply change the speed at which the curtains move - up to a certain speed limit.
This speed limit is a practical one. Accelerating the mechanically-driven curtains accurately and consistently gets more and more difficult the shorter the exposure becomes. This was especially so before electronic control was introduced in the 1970s. The solution was to limit the maximum speed at which the curtains would travel, but trigger the second curtain before the first had fully traversed the frame. This results in a gap or slit formed by the two curtains moving over frame. The sooner you trigger the second curtain to follow the first the narrower the gap between the two curtains becomes and so the slit is smaller and so the exposure is progressively reduced.
In modern cameras the curtains are no longer rubberised cloth, but very low mass ultra-thin metal blades and the curtains operate vertically because this reduces the distance required for the curtains to travel.
The live view scenario
With compact system cameras that have reflex viewfinder system the view from the camera's rear screen or electronic viewfinder comes directly from the main imaging sensor - the sensor that records the picture you take. So until the moment you take your picture the sensor has to be uncovered in order to provide the live view for framing.
As soon as you press the shutter release home the shutter needs to close fully, the sensor is then reset, and then the exposure is made as described earlier. On cameras that don't have live view modes the shutter remains closed all the time - until an exposure is made. So for live view cameras the shutter is working twice as hard - closing and then re-opening for each exposure. This potentially reduces shutter responsiveness and increases the audible noise of the shutter mechanics in operation. With precision photography the extra complexity of the shutter's operational cycle can mean extra unwanted vibrations.
The electronic first curtain shutter
If you examine the live view focal plane shutter exposure cycle and think about it, the elimination of the first curtain is a natural quest. It minimise the mechanical noise of the shutter, along with vibration, and the simplified mechanics should mean a cheaper and more robust part.
Cameras with live view already have sensors that can record stills and motion pictures without the need of a mechanical shutter at all. This is how live view works, after all. Exposure time is achieved by shifting exposed photosite charges to masked (light insensitive) storage locations adjacent to each photosite. Exposure starts as soon as the photosite charge is reset and stops when the charge that builds up from receiving light is shifted off the photosite ready to be read by the camera's analogue to digital conversion circuitry.
The theory behind the electronic first curtain shutter is that instead of using a physical curtain, you progressively start exposure of adjacent columns of photosites on the sensor followed by the motion of the physical 'second' curtain, which completes the exposure.
If electronic first curtain shutters work, why do we need a second physical curtain?
We have already covered the fact that you can take both stills or motion video without the need for a physical shutter that is separate from the sensor. In fact Nikon's 1-Series J model compact system cameras have completely done away with a focal plane shutter and several Panasonic Lumix Micro Four Thirds camera models offer a 'silent shutter' mode that operates without the focal plane shutter. It could well be that in the future it will become the norm for cameras without mechanical focal plane shutters.
However, for now, there are limitations and disadvantages for completely solid-state electronic shutters.
1. Rolling shutter distortion. Most current CMOS sensors can only process one row or column of pixels at a time. Without a physical shutter to stop exposure when required, time and action continue and are recorded progressing along row by row. The result is a time distortion characterised by objects in the frame that have moved fast enough to be visibly distorted, especially straight lines. This is most evident in movie footage where fast movement of the camera view results in an unpleasant wobbling or 'jello' effect. A still image simply freezes this effect in one frame. The use of 'global' shutter sensors, where the sensor can shift the entire array of charges in one go, will solve this problem but such sensors are not currently in common use. In the mean time camera manufacturers are resorting to reading date off the sensor as fast as possible in order to reduce the unwanted effects of rolling shutter artefacts.
2. Speeds. Where all-electronic shutters have been implemented there has usually been some limitation imposed compared to when using a conventional mechanical shutter. This has been in the form of reduced resolution or a narrowed ISO sensitivity range.
3, Flash. Panasonic does not enable flash to be used with its Lumix Micro Four Thirds cameras when silent shutter is used. If you think about it, the way rolling shutter works it is unlikely to record a whole frame during the very short duration of a xenon electronic flash.
There are likely to be other problems with solid state shutter cameras of today but the above are the most obvious.
Are there disadvantages to electronic first curtain shutters?
The simplest and most honest answer I can give is - I am not sure. I do have a Samsung NX20, (which has an electronic first curtain shutter) at the moment and I will be comparing it with some Micro Four Thirds models to find out as conclusively as possible if there are any interesting differences between this and cameras with more conventional shutters. However, I have read reports from NX20 owners that there are some strange artefacts in some of their photos when using very fast shutter speeds, like banding, which can be explained in theory by the use of an electronic first curtain shutter.
Conclusion for now...
Olympus is right to claim that the Pen E-P5 is the first compact system camera with a conventional focal plane shutter that offers a fastest shutter speed of 1/8000th second. But Samsung can certainly claim to be the first to deliver 1/8000th top speed to a CSC. While electronic first curtain shutter mechanism shutters are theoretically more robust,quieter and more vibration-free than typical conventional focal plane shutters, let me point out that the E-P5 already has a remarkably quiet and well-damped shutter. If you have used an OM-D E-M5 then the shutter feels and sounds much like the E-M5's, which is already pretty impressive.
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There are few things in music right now that get me as pumped as the rolling basslines of Kaytranada. This time he laid an exquisite foundation for GoldLink to rattle off his pitter-patter flow on Meditation. Don't get me wrong, I get why GoldLink is as hot as he is right now, he's got mad skills on the mic. But my goodness, I could vibe out to the instrumental on this track all night.
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The Head Coach Anibal Alvear, grew up fencing in Chile and was an active member of Chile’s National Team for 12 years. Since moving to New York City in 2013, he has continued his dedication to the elite sport. His focal point is to ensure self-confidence, focus, and precision while simultaneously instilling admiration, respect, and sportsmanship within his students. | {
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Tony Montana manages to leave Cuba during the Mariel exodus of 1980. He finds himself in a Florida refugee camp but his friend Manny has a way out for them: undertake a contract killing and arrangements will be made to get a green card. He’s soon working for drug dealer Frank Lopez and shows his mettle when a deal with Colombian drug dealers goes bad. He also brings a new level of violence to Miami. Tony is protective of his younger sister but his mother knows what he does for a living and disowns him. Tony is impatient and wants it all however, including Frank’s empire and his mistress Elvira Hancock. Once at the top however, Tony’s outrageous actions make him a target and everything comes crumbling down. Written by garykmcd
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Google Wave Sunsetting… a cautionary tale?
Late last month I got an email from Google (see below) letting me know that Google Wave would be sunsetting as of January 31, 2012. I can image that people who signed up for Google Buzz got the same email as well.
With the first two of attempts at a social network by Google be a cautionary tale for me and everyone else going forward as with play, learn and explore with Google+… maybe.
Google does have a history of starting projects, releasing them into the wild and then pulling them back in after they see whether they’ll hold water or not. With Google+ I have to hope that the third time is the charm and while I think that they have gotten some things right by pulling from both Facebook — my favorite comment when Google+ came out was “Look Facebook’s white — and Diaspora with their use of circles for friend/privacy control as Drew Millikin points out in Why they’re not going to leave Facebook, no “other new social media too has a chance until the come up with something completely different”.
Brendan Schneider (@schneiderb) also offers a series of reason why he believes “Google Plus is Dead” which parallels much of what Drew points out and on content, connections and features.
What does Google have this time around that should make me/you think differently?
User base – By making Google+ so easy to add to your existing Google account it’s simple enough to do. Problem is you have to get people to use it over Facebook.
The “+1″ button and SEARCH – This is showing up more and more and in the battle for search results this is the first competitor to the “Like” button. The added bonus here is that because Google is “THE GOOGLE” and, for now, owns search, they can build this little button into their search algorithms and leverage that is was that Facebook currently can’t.
YouTube – If Google+ can leverage YouTube content, particularly in Google+ Pages, then I think they have another winner. With YouTube’s library of video content the more they can marry these two together the better (maybe this will even help Picasa too).
“I recently polled almost 500 high school students in San Jose, and shockingly, not all of them were on Facebook. But perhaps not surprisingly, nearly all who were said they were basically bored with the site and had been using it significantly less.
Now, depending on how heavy of a technology user you are, you may find the idea of Facebook on its way out surprising or not surprising. For example, many of the young people I surveyed conveyed that they were ready for something else. Call me crazy, but I firmly believe that Facebook has either peaked or is on the cusp of peaking.”
Now if this is the case for Facebook, which is the biggest player in the space and, again as Dew Millikin points out, if Google+ isn’t doing anything different from what’s been already done, then why should we spend out time there. Time will only tell, but… Burn me once, shame on you. Burn me twice shame on me. But who do I blame if I’m burned a third time?
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Dear Wavers,
More than a year ago, we announced that Google Wave would no longer be developed as a separate product. At the time, we committed to maintaining the site at least through to the end of 2010. Today, we are sharing the specific dates for ending this maintenance period and shutting down Wave. As of January 31, 2012, all waves will be read-only, and the Wave service will be turned off on April 30, 2012. You will be able to continue exporting individual waves using the existing PDF export feature until the Google Wave service is turned off. We encourage you to export any important data before April 30, 2012.
If you would like to continue using Wave, there are a number of open source projects, including Apache Wave. There is also an open source project called Walkaround that includes an experimental feature that lets you import all your Waves from Google. This feature will also work until the Wave service is turned off on April 30, 2012.
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Bill, I think you absolutely nailed it with the +1 comment. After my enthusiastic start, I’ve really been struggling to work Plus into my social media workflow despite my best intentions… it still feels like a secondary destination to me. But +1 — and tying Google Plus +1s into the overall system — is huge if it augments the overall search results.
Maybe this is more a commentary about what we are or aren’t teaching kids, but for too many, search = Google. There is some serious power in all the +1s.Â
I’m sad about Wave. It held so much promise… not even potential, but promise. I love that elements have been folded into other products like Plus, but I’ve got some doubts about Plus that I never would have admitted to a couple of months ago.
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I am going to be curious to see how this all plays out as well. It’s the +1 that I may think will help things out with adoption, but that’s a lot to put on single feature.
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Our company started using Google Wave for business needs since opening. And now rizzoma.com is our main project – it’s alternative for GoogleApache wave.
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pinky and the brain
It is all very well, these Phenomenal cosmic powers in an itty bitty Netkernel, but where do you start when you wake up screaming at 3 am in the morning, sweat dripping and a head full with this one plan to conquer the world ?
Note :If the above never happens to you ... you are a lucky person, trust me !
After the obligatory Muhahaha, you fire up your computer, start NetKernel, ...
Fifteen minutes later you are playing Minecraft or Dwarven Fortress and an hour after that you are back in bed, hoping that the alarm will not go off at 6 am (it will).
The problem wasn't that your plan/vision/idea was bad, but that you didn't quite have the tools ready in NetKernel to build it. You got distracted in creating those, next thing you were looking for stuff on the internet ... <fill in the rest of the slippery slope yourself>.
So, this week (and in future posts too) I'm going to provide a couple of common tools for building a service on the web and next week ... we are going to build one.
JQuery is a good place to start. We can debate whether or not it is worth serving it in NetKernel ... I think it is. So here is my module to do so.Next on my tool list is a framework to build a decent HTML5 webpage. I like Skeleton. And here is my module to serve it.
Typical in a service on the web these days is that there is a free tier or an online working demo. That does open a door to abuse of course and since we - for the time being - live in a dog-eat-dog world, it is best to take this into account and have some kind of protection against it.
My brother-in-law, an excellent web/graphical designer, tells me it is both old hat and annoying for potential customers, but I like to use Recaptcha. Yes, another Google-capt(ch)ure . There is already an existing implementation by Chris Cormack, available on the NetKernelROC GitHub. Alternatively, here is mine (different approach, same result).
There all that is left now is to build a killer application and a teaser website. Come and see next week (or build your own at 3 am) !P.S. I'll be visiting the Twin Cities again next week. If you want to meet-up, ping me ! | {
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DIY Tassel Trimmings
The days of tassel embellishments only belonging to your grandma’s curtains and pillows are long gone.Tassel accents are all the rage in the fashion world these days, and it’s almost impossible not to notice our fabulous new collection of tassel scarves! Whether you prefer exotic tribal patterns, polka dots, or floral prints, tassels are an eye-catching accent for all scarf lovers out there.
Scarves Dot Net is here to teach you how to make your very own tassel trimmings. Homemade tassels can be incorporated into your most important pieces — handbags, jewelry, shoes, and clothing — for a splash of style. After reading this step-by-step guide, you will be able to create additional tassels to complement your new tassel scarf!
Step 1
You can use many different materials to make a tassel: ribbon, thread, lace, yarn, twine, etc. I am using a basic yarn ball and needlepoint thread for this example.
Step 2
Cut a rectangle out of a piece of cardboard to match the size of the tassel you desire. I used a Pop-Tarts box. Then cut a slot out of one side of the card that is the width of your pinky finger.
Cut three small slits in the card to hold the thread. Refer to the black lines that can be seen on the example card.
Step 3
Place a piece of yarn the size of your hand across the top of the card and insert the yarn into the two top slits for holding purposes.
Step 4
Next insert the remaining yarn that is still attached to the yarn ball (as well as any additional materials) into the bottom slit. The slit will secure the yarn while you begin to vertically wind the yarn around the card until you reach your desired fullness.
Step 5
Cut a new piece of yarn and tightly tie that piece around the tassel in the area of the open slot you cut earlier.
Step 6
Remove the length of yarn from the top slits of the card and tightly tie around the top of the tassel.
Step 7
Horizontally cut the bottom of the card so that the ends of the yarn are the same length.
Step 8
Finally, pull the top of the tassel off of the card and voilà! You have successfully made a tassel that can be attached to anything and everything.
Add extra pizzazz to your tassel by stringing some beads and charms onto a yarn piece and tying a knot at the bottom to secure. Use an array of materials such as yarn, lace, and thread at the same time for a unique tassel design. I plan to tie a few colorful feathers onto the ends of my next tassel for an exotic splash of décor. The point is…get CREATIVE with this easy-to-wear accent! | {
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Don't own a Hi-Point, but my local www.ImpactGuns.com only wants $129 for any new fullsize model and $99 for the compact 9mm (C-9). They, like many other gunshops, have a hard time keeping them in stock at those prices.
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The news that Cena would be joining the Bumblebee movie in an unspecified lead role was reported by The Hollywood Reporter. The main character is played by Steinfeld, but it’s possible that Cena will be playing an equal or supporting role to her. At the age of 40, Cena could feasibly play 20-year-old Steinfeld’s dad, or the mechanic who owns the shop where Steinfeld’s character works after high school. Considering his build, and the types of characters he tends to play, I’m banking on Cena playing the mechanic.
The Bumblebee movie will be a prequel to the Transformers films set in the 1980s, with a lighter, Iron Giant-inspired story written by Christina Hodson (Unforgettable) and helmed by Kubo and the Two Strings director Travis Knight.
Here’s the official synopsis of Bumblebee from Paramount:
“On the run in the year 1987, Bumblebee finds refuge in a junkyard in a small Californian beach town. Charlie (Hailee Steinfeld), on the cusp of turning 18 and trying to find her place in the world, discovers Bumblebee, battle-scarred and broken. When Charlie revives him, she quickly learns this is no ordinary, yellow VW bug.”
The film is meant to be a step back from the CGI spectacles that are the main Transformers movies, focusing on the “intimate” story about a girl and her car, Transformers producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura told Den of Geek:
“I think Bumblebee is an incredibly loved character. You pick (director) Travis Knight for a very specific reason. His movies are pretty extraordinary, Kubo and the Two Strings in particular. What we’re trying to do is deliver, a love story may be too strong of a term, but it is a coming of age for Bumblebee and our lead character, Hailee Steinfeld. The two of them, their job in the movie is to support each other to get to the place where they both fully realize who they are in that moment. It’s a very different kind of story. That plot is there, but it’s very muted, relative to the larger Transformers movies.”
Where Cena will factor into this, it’s unknown. While Cena has proven to be an unlikely comedic actor, stealing the scenes in movies like Sisters and Trainwreck, the Bumblebee movie may be where he will get to stretch his dramatic chops, considering the sweet, coming-of-age film that Bonaventura is describing. I would be perfectly happy if the film takes advantage of comedy skills, however. And while it’s unlikely that Cena will change his signature buzz cut hair to match the fashion of the ’80s, I can dream about him donning a mullet akin to that gaudy wig he sported in his SNL gig.
Paramount has updated the release date for the Bumblebee movie from June 2018 to December 21, 2018, which puts the film opposite Warner Bros.’ Aquaman. | {
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Wills vs. Trusts: Which Option Is Right For You?
When establishing the right estate plan for you, it is important to understand the differences between the two most common documents that are used: wills and trusts.
A last will and testament is the primary component of many estate plans. It allows you to make your wishes known for your assets and to name an executor who will oversee the settlement of your estate. You also can appoint a guardian for minor children. A will alone does not avoid probate, and will likely go through the court system.
Through a trust or living trust, you avoid the probate process, but there is still an administrative process that needs to be followed carefully. Just like a will, you will appoint a person who will administrate the trust — in this case a trustee. A trust allows for greater flexibility, including providing for special needs and charitable giving.
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Wednesday, April 6, 2011
From Hulk & Andre to Bret & Shawn--Hasbro WWF Madness
After a certain amount of time nearly everything experiences some sort of nostalgic resurgence. Foods, television shows, cars, fashion, and even decades all become beloved and "in" again after a certain amount of time.
Around ten years ago, the wrestling collecting community was especially nostalgic for the LJN WWF figure line. For those of you who simply remember those "big rubber wrestling dolls" that epitomized the Rock 'n Wrestling era, this is the LJN figure line. The 60-plus character collection full of figures heavy enough to bash your neighbor on the head with were suddenly hot again and prices were skyrocketing. Seeing as that the Jakks Classic Superstars line had yet to be developed, many wrestlers only figures were in the LJN line. Some stars such as Adrian Adonis, Slick, and Special Delivery Jones are still only available in the collection.
Today, the LJN line is still widely collected and loved by fans, but there is one figure line I get more questions about above all others. This line, produced from 1990 through 1994, is the Hasbro WWF figure collection.
When the WWF's deal with LJN expired in 1989, the company seemed to quickly sign a new deal with Hasbro. While the line did not hit stores until 1990, the Hasbro WWF ring mold is dated 1989, showing that the toy company jumped right into production.
The initial lineup of WWF superstars included Hulk Hogan, Andre the Giant, The Ultimate Warrior, Randy Savage, Ted DiBiase, Jake Roberts, Rick Rude, Brutus Beefcake, The Big Bossman, Akeem, and Demolition Ax & Smash. Introduced on a series of commercials starring Jesse "The Body" Ventura and several of the aforementioned stars, children watching morning cartoon shows were captivated by the "Real Wrestling Action" included in these new toy grapplers.
Each figure included a different mechanism which enabled the figures to perform different signature maneuvers. While some of the moves matched those of the real wrestlers, others did not. Either way, the inclusion of these features proved to be a big hit with kids used to their wrestling figures not moving at all.
Flying off of the shelves, the line ultimately lasted until 1994 producing well over 100 figures if you include paint and design variants. Many of these variants help carry collector interest today. Between differences in card design and even country of origin, many fans collect these "subsets" to further extend their WWF Hasbro collection.
Even during the time that these figures were available at retail, a keen collector could tell which would be more desirable in the future. Peg hooks full of Brutus Beefcake version 1 and Roddy Piper were commonplace while finding a Dusty Rhodes was pure chance. The original blue ring, carried by retailers for years, is still easy to find while the yellow King of the Ring version saw very few shipments.
Beginning in late 1993, the individual figure waves began appearing on color coded cards. While the first few waves saw a red, white, and blue motif, these color coded sets featured yellow, red, purple, blue, and finally green card backs. The green carded series saw limited distribution and was most widely available at Hills Department Stores in early 1995. Rumors of an additional orange carded series have circulated since then and are completely unfounded.
For many collectors it's the sheer range of the line that makes these figures so attractive. From products of the territories such as Kamala, Greg Valentine, Kerry Von Erich, and Hacksaw Jim Duggan to megastars like Andre the Giant, Ric Flair, Randy Savage, and Ricky Steamboat and even "New Generation" WWF stars like 1-2-3 Kid, Yokozuna, and The Smoking Gunns--they're all here.
Glaring omissions such as managers, referees, and female characters have always been a black mark on the line. One has to wonder just what memorable figures Hasbro could've produced of Dino Bravo, Haku, The Barbarian, Jeff Jarrett, and Diesel among others.
However, if Hasbro memories are what you're looking for, look no further than the 2011 WWE Hall of Fame Ceremony. During their acceptance speech, Road Warrior Animal and Paul Ellering paid tribute to their fallen brother, Road Warrior Hawk, by placing his Hasbro representation on the induction podium. It does not get more sentimental than that.
The value of each figure varies greatly and, as always, is due to the demand at the time. While some such as Dusty Rhodes, any of the final green carded series, and Andre the Giant have remained high over the years, other figures such as the various releases of Randy Savage, the second version of Brutus Beefcake, and Demolition have seen hot and cold moments. As always, your best bet is to check eBay for all the latest price trends.
With the wide range of figures alone, you can be sure that this is not the last time the WWF Hasbro line will be visited on this blog. We've only scratched the surface with stories, photos, and memories. Many of the figures could be entries in themselves and let's not forgot a "little" toy with a "big" following that was also produced by Hasbro for the WWF. You may have had to rumble a bit back in 1992 in order to get your hands on one... | {
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iMessage Alternative: iMessage is a messaging service that allows you to converse seamlessly across Apple devices. The most similar Android alternative for iMessage is the Google’s Hangouts. Same as iMessage, Hangouts blends SMS and internet based messaging while providing users a richer experience than just texting. WhatsApp, the largest third-party messaging platform can also serve you the purpose.
FaceTime Alternative: If you are the one using video chatting service in iPhone, you will have to think of an alternative for FaceTime, the video chatting app available on iOS. Of course, there are several third party applications for video chatting on Android, but when it comes to the quality and cross-device compatibility, Hangouts is certainly the best choice. But the party at the other end also needs to have Hangouts installed on his/her device.
Apple Music Alternative: On an iPhone, you purchase the music on iTunes and play it on Music app. But in Android, it is condensed into a single app called Google Play Music. Having a free version of Google Play Music, you will be able to upload almost 50,000 songs which can later be streamed to any compatible device so that it doesn’t take up the storage space on your phone.
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What "Cowbells" Do You Want to See on the Model 3?
In reference to EM's tweet "Of course it will have more cowbells" what kind of "cowbells" do you want to see offered on the Model 3? My vote is for a Jetson's car driving noise (among other choices), and a configurable horn, with an old-style "oogah" being one of the choices.
...as a ESL student, what cowbell means anyway? Like a eater egg? I mean, my dictionary ..says,,,well,,it is a cow bell..
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It doesn't translate exactly to a foreign language. It's kind of a figure of speech. It basically means extra features and surprises. Kind of like an Easter Egg. Somewhat like "bells and whistles" another term used in American English, which oddly enough, has its origins in theater organs, which had a lot of sound effects to accompany movies, literally "bells and whistles."
I guess that could be one interpretation, but I wouldn't say it was heavily implied...
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I'm going to have to agree with PeteW's post, I think not having a steering wheel would be too drastic, although it's a bit early to speculate since we don't know what would be Tesla's option. I'm more inclined to believe that the steering wheel itself is re-invented, i.e., it's a wheel but has some element that makes it unique and revolutionary?
Once again, not to rain on everyone's parade, but some of the changes are currently limited by the FMVSS (Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards). For instance, a lot of people have asked why the outside rearview glass mirrors couldn't be replaced with rearview cameras. There's no technical reason they couldn't be, but there's currently a regulatory reason. Same reason Infiniti had to have a mechanical backup system to its "steer-by-wire" system. In time, once the reliability of new technologies can be proven and demonstrated, the standards may change, but for the time being, there are some limitations as to how "radical" EM and Tesla can get.
One cowbell I think they should include at this point is an easter egg cowbell in the UI.
BTW, for those asking about the term "cowbell", as far as I know, the use of the word cowbell goes directly back to the Saturday Night Live skits with the cowbell. Yes, it's a bell for a cow. In the skits, they had a band that was using a cowbell as one of the instruments, and they repeadly used the phrase "more cowbell" as part of the comedic act. This was a very popular skit, enough so that it has caught on as kind of a running joke about adding more of something (like more features for the Model 3).
I could be wrong, but I'm not aware of the term cowbell being used in such a manner prior to the Saturday Night Live skits.
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It's been months since same-sex marriage became legal in Hawaii, but taxpayers still don't know how much money supporters or opponents spent to influence the decision. Lobbyists are supposed disclose how much money they're spending to influence lawmakers, but critics say the state disclosure system is among the weakest in the nation and prevents a timely and complete tally. Associated Press.
Is it fair that minimum-wage workers in the most expensive state in the nation earn only $7.25 an hour? To put it in perspective, an employee who works 40 hours per week, earns just $290 — before the tax bite. Monthly, that averages out to a little more than $1,200 — again, before taxes. So it isn't entirely surprising that the minimum wage issue is among the big questions facing Hawaii legislators this year. Civil Beat.
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The Kauai County Council approved a bill that will require pet owners to license their cats and set up spaying and neutering requirements for cats allowed to roam outside. The 4-2 vote was made during the seven-member board’s Wednesday meeting. Garden Island.
A slew of House bills aimed at prohibiting outsiders from fishing and harvesting opihi around the island of Niihau died in committee Wednesday. However, the discussion will continue. Garden Island.
The GMO debate is considered one of the most controversial and confusing issues facing our state. Supporters say the technology behind genetically modified organisms is feeding the world at a time when the population keeps exploding and space to farm is getting scarcer. Opponents say it poses health and environmental risks – the full scope of which is unknown, because its application is too new. Hawaii News Now.
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Legislator jousts with U.S. high court over political spending. House Bill 1499 is state Rep. Karl Rhoads' symbolic response to Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the landmark 2010 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court which held that corporations and labor unions can spend unlimited amounts of money on elections as long as the spending is not coordinated with political candidates. Star-Advertiser.
Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie capitalized on President Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech on Tuesday to emphasize his proposals to raise the state’s minimum wage and expand access to early childhood education. Civil Beat.
State House Higher Education Chairman Isaac Choy says legislators would be putting the University of Hawaii "on steroids" to help eliminate its massive repair backlog under a bill that advanced out of his committee Tuesday, over the objections of UH officials. Star-Advertiser.
Manoa Chancellor Tom Apple surprised members of the UH Manoa faculty senate earlier this month when he told them a plan to quell public controversy surrounding the director of the UH Cancer Center by restructuring its administration is a temporary solution to “calm the waters.” Civil Beat.
Gov. Neil Abercrombie and state education leaders pledged their commitment today to significantly boost the number of adults earning college degrees in the islands over the next decade. Star-Advertiser.
Gov. Neil Abercrombie is set to make his third appointment to the Hawaii Supreme Court, making him the first governor in about two decades to select a majority of the five-member court. Associated Press.
A selective list of bills, resolutions, hearings, briefings and events for Wednesday at the state Capitol. Civil Beat.
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A report commissioned by Castle & Cooke, which has plans to build a major wind energy farm on Lanai, has identified three potential wind resource areas on Oahu and six other areas on Maui that would total 813 megawatts of capacity. Pacific Business News.
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Placing liens against property when water or sewer bills are overdue, and shutting off water service for past-due sewer bills were two collection avenues discussed Tuesday by the county Water Board. West Hawaii Today.
A new electronic vehicle inspection system aimed at reducing fraud, errors and time spent on manually processing Hawaii licensed drivers’ data has made the procedure easier on the state and inspection stations, but some residents say it’s costing Big Island drivers time and money. Tribune-Herald.
Hawaii County officials, employees and residents celebrated the completion of a long-awaited repair project in Captain Cook. The renovated Yano Hall at Greenwell Park was rededicated Tuesday morning with speeches, prayer, music, food and pride. West Hawaii Today.
Maui
A bill that seeks to implement disclosure and use restrictions on pesticides and Genetically Modified Organisms in Maui County was introduced before the Council’s Policy and Intergovernmental Affairs Committee today. Maui Now.
Maui Mayor Alan Arakawa is requesting two additional personnel within the Department of Agriculture to conduct pesticide inspections and alien species screening for Maui County. Maui Now.
The owner of the Pagoda Hotel, a popular and affordable rooming spot for many Mauians visiting Oahu for many years, plans to bring the brand to Maui with the prospective purchase of the Maui Beach Hotel. Maui News.
In an effort to promote open dialogue and greater understanding of its farming practices and products, Monsanto Hawaii said Monday that it is increasing its farm tours, holding community meetings and forums and having programs to promote a better understanding of the company. Maui News.
Kauai
A dairy farm could be operating on Kauai next year. Jim Garmatz, manager for Hawaii Dairy Farms, said their conservation plans have been approved by the Natural Resources Conservation Service. They are waiting approval and permits from the Department of Health. Garden Island.
Officials with the Kauai Department of Water came out Monday in hopes of discussing the cost-savings analysis report for the Kahili Horizontal Directional Drilled Well Project. Garden Island.
The Hawaii Judicial Selection Commission has selected six nominees for a vacancy on the state Supreme Court. The commission says Gov. Neil Abercrombie will draw from the list to appoint the judge who will replace retiring Associate Justice Simeon Acoba Jr. The nominees announced Monday were selected from 16 applicants. They are: Derrick Chan, Jeffrey Crabtree, Craig Nakamura, Richard Perkins, John Tonaki and Michael Wilson. Associated Press.
Gov. Neil Abercrombie must now name Hawaii's next associate justice on the Hawaii Supreme Court from a list of candidates that includes four state judges, the state public defender and a private attorney. The state Judicial Selection Commission submitted the names Monday to fill the vacancy on the court when Associate Justice Simeon Acoba leaves late next month because of the state Constitution's mandatory retirement provision at age 70 for judges and justices. Star-Advertiser.
A GMO labeling bill passed the state Senate Health Committee on Monday evening but faces a tortuous path to get through the rest of the chamber. The bill would establish labeling requirements, starting in January 2015, on any food sold in Hawaii that contains or was produced with genetically engineered material. Star-Advertiser.
If Monday’s Senate Health Committee Hearing on a bill to require labels on genetically engineered food is any indication, the debate over genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in Hawaii’s legislative session this year will be emotional. Monday’s hearing was the first time this session that lawmakers took up the GMO issue. The committee approved the bill, Senate Bill 2736, which would require labeling on all food that has genetically engineered material effective on Jan. 1 next year. Civil Beat.
A major seed company in Hawaii wants to improve its relationship with the community after two counties took a stand to regulate pesticide use and growth of genetically modified organisms. Monsanto Hawaii launched a new Web page, www.monsantohawaii.com, as a tool to inform the public about its agricultural practices. Community forums and more farm tours are also planned to respond to concerns, according to Vice President Fred Perlak. Star-Advertiser.
In a decision that strongly reaffirms beaches as a public trust resource, the Hawaii Supreme Court has ruled the state must consider historical evidence when determining the shoreline. The opinion, released Monday morning, also reiterates the high court's 2006 ruling that vegetation may not be planted to manipulate the shoreline, which becomes the starting line for a building setback. Kauai Eclectic
An ambitious proposal that would have mandated air-conditioning in all public schools within the next five years was shelved Monday by a state Senate committee, which instead opted to have the Department of Education study the issue and come up with a strategy. Star-Advertiser.
A group of lawmakers wants to increase the state dental board’s regulation of dentists in Hawaii by clamping down on the ones who misrepresent themselves as certified specialists and legally requiring board approval of dentists who administer anesthesia and various types of sedation. Civil Beat.
Understanding Hawaii’s early-education initiative. Investing in our keiki through effective early-ed programs will save the state money in the long run, if the governor's proposal finds support in the legislature. The question is the overall quality of the program. Hawaii Independent.
Hawaii Senator Wants to Keep Guns Out of the Hands of Drunk Cops. Civil Beat.
Minors, incarcerated criminals and illegal immigrants are represented in the 2012 Hawaii Reapportionment Plan. Military members and their “attached” spouses, as well as non-resident students, are not. A U.S. Supreme Court ruling, issued Jan. 21 in Kostick v. Nago, affirmed the constitutionality of the Reapportionment Plan, issued in 2012. Hawaii Reporter.
Hawaii’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 4.5 percent in December, compared to 5.1 percent during the same month in 2012, the state Department of Labor & Industrial Relations said Monday. Pacific Business News.
Hawaii's seasonally unemployment rate edged up to 4.5 percent in December from 4.4 percent in November, the state Department of Labor and Industrial Relations reported Monday. Despite the increase, the report painted an overall positive picture of Hawaii's job market. Star-Advertiser.
On Tap at the Hawaii Legislature: Jan. 28. A selective list of bills, resolutions, hearings, briefings and events for Tuesday at the state Capitol. Civil Beat.
Oahu
Hawaii lawmakers are responding to last year’s molasses spill in Honolulu Harbor by suggesting any fines or settlements the state collects for ocean spills be put toward restoring coral reefs. Associated Press.
A group of state legislators called Monday for several molasses spill-related fixes to Hawaii law. Their proposals come as the public continues to wait for more details on what caused last fall's devastating leak of the thick substance into Honolulu Harbor — and the full scope of the damage it wreaked on the marine life there. Star-Advertiser.
The latest arrest of a Halawa prison guard for alleged drug smuggling is renewing new calls for reforms. And one of the biggest advocates is the head of the prison system himself. Hawaii News Now.
Honolulu airport has a program to screen and swab any passengers who appear to have the flu but they depend on the airlines to report it to them. KHON2.
Honolulu city councilwoman Ann Kobayashi has introduced a bill that would allow city officials to remove nuisances on a person's property, outside of a home. KITV4.
Hawaii
State and county officials are working with the federal government to get a five-year exemption from meeting security standards at Kona International Airport in order to reopen an international inspection facility that’s been closed since 2010. West Hawaii Today.
East Hawaii drivers might get a taste of Honolulu-style traffic beginning in March as a lengthy road reconstruction project reduces a stretch of Kamehameha Avenue from four lanes to two. The $13 million project will run from Ponahawai Street to near the Wailoa River bridge on one of Hawaii County’s busiest corridors. Tribune-Herald.
Maui
The state Department of Transportation has completed a draft environmental assessment for a nearly $3.2 million project to protect the shoreline and Kahului Beach Road from eroding into the ocean. Maui News.
The Maui County Department of Transportation hosted a dedication ceremony today for the addition of 10 new buses to the Maui fleet. County Transportation Director Jo Anne Johnson Winer said the buses cost a total of $4.8 million and were acquired with 20% county funds, and 80% federal funding through the Federal Transit Administration’s competitive Administration’s competitive State of Good Repair grant. Maui Now.
Kauai
Lawmakers in both the Hawaii Senate and House are pushing for legislation that would prohibit outsiders from fishing around “The Forbidden Island” of Niihau. Kauai legislators, however, aren’t taking the bait. Garden Island.
The state Department of Health and Kauai County are seeking public feedback on a plan for the expansion and continued operation of Kekaha landfill. Officials will hold a public meeting on the proposal Thursday evening at the Waimea Neighborhood Center. Comments may also be sent by mail to the landfill office, Kauai County's solid waste division and the department's solid waste branch. Associated Press.
The CEO of Larry Ellison's America's Cup champion Oracle Team USA says officials are talking with other venues, including Hawaii, about hosting the 2017 America's Cup because San Francisco isn't offering the same terms it had for last year's sailing races. Pacific Business News.
The next America’s Cup could be sailed off a Hawaiian beach, on San Diego Bay or in some other port instead of returning to a San Francisco Bay course bordered by the Golden Gate Bridge and Alcatraz Island. Associated Press.
State lawmakers will hear testimony Monday on a bill that would define "conversion therapy" as a form of child abuse. HB 1789 would ban the act of "conversion therapy" on minors. Hawaii News Now.
A bill making its way through the Hawaii Legislature seeks to provide a small measure of relief for livestock producers by exempting transportation costs for milk, poultry and other meats from the state’s general excise tax. Civil Beat.
Hawaii lawmakers have proposed a number of bills this year aimed at making sure Hawaii is better prepared to deal with a toxic spill in the wake of the September molasses leak at Honolulu Harbor that killed thousands of fish and devastated coral reefs. Civil Beat.
Are you Filipino? The Hawaii Legislature has a caucus for you. Do you like spaceships? There's an AeroSpace Caucus, formed just this year. Support island agriculture? Check out the Local Food Caucus, another new hui. When it comes to getting certain types of legislation passed, caucuses are often the way to go. They allow lawmakers to work closely with like-minded colleagues, build support for issues of importance to them and raise the profile of their bills above the several thousand measures introduced each year. Civil Beat.
Schatz, Hanabusa
Deeper divide shown as Schatz, Hanabusa split on budget deal. U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz and U.S. Rep. Colleen Hanabusa — rivals in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate — cast different votes. Schatz voted with the majority, including every Senate Democrat. Hanabusa was one of just 32 Democrats in the House to vote against the deal. Star-Advertiser.
U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz is giving his support to a package of proposals that includes a significant raise to the minimum wage. Schatz is one of 29 co-sponsors of the minimum wage bill, introduced in November. Tribune-Herald.
Longline fishing boat owners said they expect to lose millions of dollars in tuna catches in the central and western Pacific under an agreement in which the United States will reduce its longline tuna catch for three years starting in 2015. Star-Advertiser.
The search for the next University of Hawaii president, now into its seventh month, is shifting to focus on finding a local candidate and possibly forgoing the hiring of an outside search firm. And that candidate could be interim President David Lassner. Star-Advertiser.
Tom Yamachika was named interim president of the Tax Foundation of Hawaii at a special board of directors meeting Jan. 16. The board acted quickly to name a successor to Lowell Kalapa, the long-time voice of the foundation, following Kalapa’s death in late December. Associated Press.
Oahu
Hawaii Sen. Clayton Hee is advocating for a new law that would create a park by Laniakea Beach on Oahu’s North Shore in an effort to address coastal erosion and get the state to move faster on long-held plans to fix traffic problems by the beach. The proposal is one of two bills that the influential lawmaker introduced last week in response to destructive waves wearing away beaches the North Shore. The second bill sets aside money for University of Hawaii scientists to create a beach management plan to mitigate coastal erosion in the area. Civil Beat.
Authorities have arrested an adult corrections officer at Halawa Correctional Facility in connection with a continuing investigation on methamphetamine dealing at the prison. Hawaii News Now.
Concerns about child harassment and a hostile work environment at a private college-preparatory school in Kapolei are alarming parents, driving away teachers and raising questions about the consequences of letting private schools in Hawaii regulate themselves. Civil Beat.
Hawaii
More than $13 million is headed for the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority to construct a new frontage road and intersections, upgrade a seawater pipeline and renovate administrative offices. West Hawaii Today.
The president of the Drug Policy Action Group told about 75 people at a “talk story” session about medical marijuana on Sunday that it is “a very exciting time to be involved with” marijuana activism. Tribune-Herald.
Maui
Gene Simmons and friend
Looking every bit the rock stars that they are, all dark shades, tight jeans and pursed lips, Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley of Kiss welcomed county officials and other well-wishers Sunday to an event celebrating their soon-to-open Rock & Brews restaurant. Star-Advertiser.
A surge in shark attacks on Maui during the past year, including two fatal ones, hasn’t stopped people from surfing and swimming in the warm ocean waters that surround the island. But it spurred sales of devices that claim to keep sharks away by emitting an electric pulse. Associated Press.
The Maui County Council gave initial approval for the county to pay a penalty of $70,000 for alleged violations at the Central Maui and Molokai landfills in 2011. Maui News.
The state Department of Transportation has completed a draft environmental assessment for a nearly $3.2 million project to protect the shoreline and Kahului Beach Road from eroding into the ocean. Maui News.
The Maui County Council gave initial approval Friday to various bills, including one to keep county pools open during holidays and another to set building height limits in hotel districts. Maui News.
Kauai
The board’s decision stands. Members of Kauai Island Utility Cooperative voted to keep a fee structure in place that charges only members who opt out of using a smart meter. Garden Island.
The Kauai Island Utility Cooperative voted to keep fees that are charged to customers who don't want to use the company's wireless smart meter to measure their energy usage. Star-Advertiser.
The Kauai County Council is reconsidering a measure that may change the tasks for a specialized group charged with framing a study on pesticides and genetically modified organisms on Kauai. That measure, passed on the heels of Bill 2491, sets forth guidelines for a group of at least 12 people to lay the groundwork for an Environmental and Public Health Impacts Study. Garden Island.
Last year, 77,500 tons of trash were disposed of at the county’s Kekaha landfill. And that’s a problem. That landfill is near capacity and will eventually have to be closed. The best way to extend its life is to reduce the amount of waste, an average of 210 tons a day, being delivered there. The county of Kauai has a plan. Garden Island.
The fight over genetically engineered crops is
spilling over onto the floor of the Hawaii State Capitol. On Thursday,
state lawmakers filed a bill that would prohibit counties from
restricting farming practices, including the use of genetically modified
organisms, seen as a response to GMO-related laws Hawaii and
Kauai counties adopted last year. Tribune-Herald.
Two state lawmakers want to strengthen Hawaii's Right to Farm Act by preventing counties from restricting agricultural technology, modern livestock production and ranching practices that are allowed under federal and state law. The bill was prompted by a Kauai County law that regulates genetically modified organisms and pesticide use and a Hawaii County law that bans new GMO crops. Star-Advertiser.
Hawaii Rep. Richard Onishi from the Big Island has introduced a bill that would give Hawaii’s 2001 Right to Farm Act more teeth. Civil Beat.
She promised she hasn’t inhaled, but House Majority Floor Leader Rida Cabanilla said she hopes to legalize cultivation, manufacturing and exporting of Marijuana and Marijuana food products in Hawaii to pay off the state’s billions of dollars in unfunded liabilities as well as make infrastructure repairs and fund public education and human services programs. Hawaii Reporter.
Imagine a day when Maui Wowie and Kona Gold are legitimate marijuana brands sold around the world, when Hawaii factories create legal products such as Maui Wowie cookies, cannabis-infused ice cream and marijuana macadamia nut chocolate candies. That day might not be far off if state Rep. Rida Cabanilla (D, Ewa Beach-West Loch Estates) has her way. The lawmaker has introduced a bill that would lead to a plan to legalize cultivation of marijuana in Hawaii for sale and export to countries where usage is lawful. Star-Advertiser.
The state House of Representatives has introduced a package of bills aimed at improving operations of the Hawaii Health Connector, including one that would move the nonprofit organization under state control, House lawmakers said Thursday. Pacific Business News.
Leaders of two key committees in the Hawaii House say they plan to introduce a package of bills to help fix the state’s troubled health care exchange. The online insurance marketplace under President Barack Obama’s federal health care overhaul has had numerous problems, including a late start to open enrollment and few sign-ups. Associated Press.
Republican leaders in the Hawaii House say they're hopeful their package of bills proposing everything from voter referendums to limits on fee increases will be heard in a chamber dominated by Democrats. Associated Press.
A Hawaii House committee plans to debate a bill that would exempt breastfeeding mothers from jury duty. The bill is part of a package of measures from the Women's Legislative Caucus, a group of women who are lawmakers in the Senate and House. Hawaii News Now.
They are on the front lines protecting children against predators online. But, here and elsewhere nationwide, those teams battling back child porn are often sorely underfunded and ill-equipped. KITV4.
Former Vice President Al Gore will visit Oahu in April to give a free public lecture on climate change as well as energy and water matters, University of Hawaii officials and Sen. Brian Schatz' office announced Thursday. Star-Advertiser.
An employee can collect workers' compensation for exposure to vog that aggravates an asthma condition, the Hawaii Supreme Court ruled Thursday. The Department of Education and the Labor Industrial Relations Appeals Board both denied a claim by Lynedon Van Ness. But in a 51-page unanimous ruling, the high court held that worsening of the 54-year-old man's asthma from the volcanic smog was related to his employment. Star-Advertiser.
In August, the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration renamed one its facilities in Alaska that’s designed to warn large swaths of the coastal U.S. about impending tsunamis. The West Coast/Alaska Tsunami Warning Center would from then on be known as the National Tsunami Warning Center. The name change caused some angst within the ranks of NOAA, particularly for those who worked in the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii. Not only were there initial concerns about operations, but there was also worry that Hawaii’s center might not get as much funding anymore. Civil Beat.
The old saying that “land is power” is still relevant today, and is particularly true out here in the middle of the Pacific, where Hawai`i represents one of the smallest US states by land area. Here’s a brief look at how land is distributed across the main Hawaiian islands, and how it is used. Big Island Now.
Oahu
A $142 million deal to sell Honolulu’s public housing projects to a private developer collapsed Thursday, leaving gaping holes in the city’s budget and potentially submarining Mayor Kirk Caldwell’s ambitious plan to get some of the most chronic homeless off the streets. Civil Beat.
It’s a blow to a key Caldwell initiative, but it may be good for affordable housing. The city’s planned sale of its affordable housing properties has failed. Hawaii Independent.
The state has hired a mainland law firm to handle millions of dollars in environmental legal claims against Matson for last fall's massive molasses spill. Hawaii News Now.
Hawaii House Majority Leader Scott Saiki has followed through on his promise to scrutinize the Hawaii Community Development Authority, introducing eight legislative measures that range from curbing the authority of the agency to getting rid of it altogether. The state organization which manages development in Kakaako and Kalaeloa has been harshly criticized in recent months for approving a slew of new projects last year in Honolulu’s urban core. Civil Beat.
Glenn Martinez spent two days burying the hundreds of tilapia and koi that lived in a pond on his Waimanalo farm after the fish —worth thousands of dollars — mysteriously died Wednesday in one hour. Star-Advertiser.
It may not be the most pleasing to the eye, but sand bags strapped over large tarps equaled success at keeping scarce sand up against North Shore homes. KHON2.
Mall site blessed despite lack of lease. Construction on the first phase of the 1.4 million-square-foot regional mall Ka Makana Ali' in East Kapolei isn't slated to start until late this year. Star-Advertiser.
HawaiiWhen Ben Franklin said, “nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes,” he apparently wasn’t talking about Hawaii County. A comparison of property owners claiming the county homeowner’s exemption against vital statistics from the state Department of Health has discovered 1,200 deceased people benefiting from the exemption, some for as long as 10 years. That’s according to county Real Property Tax Administrator Stan Sitko. West Hawaii Today.
A Big Island charter school principal says bullying is a growing concern on campus, but not among students or teachers. Connections Public Charter School principal John Thatcher said the Hawaii State Ethics Commission and its executive director, Les Kondo, have been so aggressive in their years-long investigation into a conflict-of-interest case that it amounts to bullying. Civil Beat.
Hualalai Academy will close its doors to students in all grade levels at the end of this school year. West Hawaii Today.
Maui
Maui Mayor Alan Arakawa announced he will deliver his 2014 State of the County Address on Wednesday, Feb. 5, from 5 to 6 p.m. in the McCoy Studio Theater at the Maui Arts and Cultural Center. Maui Now.
Faced with a tight deadline, Maui County Council members wrestled well into Wednesday evening with a number of issues arising from the proposed 203-home Kahoma Village fast-track affordable housing project in Lahaina. Maui News.
Eight prosecutors from Mongolia are on Maui to learn about the U.S. judicial system and observe 2nd Circuit Court proceedings, as their country looks toward judicial reform. Maui News.
Kauai
Plans for the nearly 3,000 acres of Kauai agricultural land recently purchased by Tennessee billionaire Brad Kelley, one of the largest private landowners in the United States, call for keeping it predominately the way it is, the president of Kelley’s real estate holding and development company told Pacific Business News.
Green bulbs, shielded lights and a “common-sense,” turn-them-off approach. These are some of the tools Pacific Missile Range Facility is using in its continued effort to protect Kauai’s native and threatened seabirds. Garden Island.
The Department of Parks and Recreation invites the public to a meeting to discuss the restoration and future use of the Hanalei Courthouse facility. The meeting will be at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Hale Halawai Ohana o Hanalei Community Center, 5-5299 Kuhio Highway. Garden Island.
House lawmakers are considering a bill that would ban smoking at all of the state's public beaches. Laws banning smoking at nearly 300 parks and roughly 4,000 bus stops around Oahu took effect on Jan. 1. Hawaii County parks, beaches and recreational facilities have been smoke-free since 2008, supporters of a ban said at a hearing Wednesday at the state Capitol. Star-Advertiser.
A ban on smoking on all public beaches in Hawaiʻi will be considered at a joint hearing before two House committees today. Maui Now.
More than 40 percent of workers compensation claims filed by employees at the state mental health hospital in Kaneohe in recent years involved assaults on staff members, a top state official told a legislative committee on Wednesday. Yet hospital administrators did little, if anything, to stop the attacks on state employees, staff members say. Civil Beat.
State Rep. John Mizuno has introduced a bill to create a "Homeless Person's Bill of Rights." Star-Advertiser.
Republican leaders in the Hawaii House say they’re hopeful their package of bills proposing everything from voter referendums to limits on fee increases will be heard in a chamber dominated by Democrats. Associated Press.
The leadership battles among Hawaii House Democrats have been well-publicized, culminating in Joe Souki taking back his speakership from Calvin Say a year ago. Much less has been said about power struggles among the seven Republican representatives. And yet, right smack in the middle of the fall special session on same-sex marriage legislation, broadcast live for all the state to see, Bob McDermott attempted a coup. Civil Beat.
Discussion of private nonprofit organizations partnering with the state public hospital system is likely to take center stage among health care concerns this Legislative session, according to state Sen. Josh Green, chairman of the Senate Health Committee. Tribune-Herald.
While the governor's call to bring home more Hawaii convicts from the mainland is a positive step, it does little to fix the root problems with Hawaii's prison system. Hawaii Independent.
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U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard's campaign distributed a new re-election video on Wednesday. The spot clocks in at just under three minutes, and it's exactly the kind of message we've come to expect from Gabbard: Poised, ambitious, and savvy. Civil Beat.
The installation of solar photovoltaic panels across areas served by the Hawaiian Electric Companies rose last year at the slowest rate since 2010, the utility reported Wednesday. Star-Advertiser.
Oahu
Two Honolulu City Council members seeking to add sparklers and fountains to the list of permitted fireworks on special holidays say they are hoping a new law can be in place by Dec. 31, if not by Independence Day. Star-Advertiser.
Former state Rep. Marilyn Lee will take out nomination papers on Monday, Feb. 3, 2014, for the seat she previously held. Lee had served as a representative for Mililani Town, Mililani Mauka and Waipio Acres for 16 years. Hawaii Reporter.
San Francisco-based Coastwood Capital Group LLC, a partner in the International Market Place redevelopment, confirmed Wednesday that it has bought the leasehold interest in the adjacent Waikiki Trade Center for an undisclosed sum. Star-Advertiser.
An affordable rental housing nonprofit organization is honoring the late union and social activist Ah Quon McElrath with a plaque. Associated Press.
The 36th annual Pacific Telecommunications Council’s conference wrapped up on Wednesday at the Hilton Hawaiian Village Waikiki Beach Resort, and the conference’s 1,734 registered attendees are expected to make an $8.75 million economic impact in Hawaii, according to an estimate from the Hawaii Tourism Authority. Pacific Business News.
A shroud of secrecy continues to surround the selection of a new legislative auditor, 13 months after the previous auditor resigned to take a job with the United Nations. The County Council ended an hourlong executive session Wednesday with no decision, following months of such sessions and a closed meeting Jan. 7 where it interviewed two applicants. West Hawaii Today.
A Hilo Circuit Court judge granted a summary judgment in favor of the state Wednesday in a legal challenge of the Ka‘u Forest Reserve Management Plan. The order effectively dismisses the lawsuit the Pele Defense Fund and four other plaintiffs filed in November 2012. The plan includes fencing 12,000 acres, about 20 percent of the reserve, for conservation. Tribune-Herald.
Maui
The Maui County Council's Budget and Finance Committee gave its approval Tuesday to various funding requests, including those to support raises for firefighters and other county employees, along with more funding for trash collection and landfill operations. Maui News.
Hawaii chefs and restaurant owners will help to decide the winner of Bravo’s “Top Chef” as guest judges on the two-episode season 11 finale, which was filmed on Maui in October. Pacific Business News.
An Oahu lawmaker is proposing to name the new Kihei high school in honor of the late Democratic Congresswoman Patsy Mink. Maui News.
A Brown Water advisory has been issued for Honokahua Bay on Maui. The Clean Water Branch is investigating the cause of the brown water. Hawaii News Now.
Kauai
Purring along: Cat licensing law heads to council on Wednesday. Garden Island.
There was a lot more than cocktails and pupus on the minds of Kauai’s Chamber of Commerce Wednesday night as they mingled with visiting University of Hawaii Interim President Dr. David Lassner. Many of them were parents of children they want to attend college or adult children who weren’t able to complete their education. Garden Island.
Gov. Neil Abercrombie declared Tuesday that the state now stands on solid financial ground and is entering a new phase in which investments in early childhood education, a minimum wage increase, land conservation and tax relief for seniors are possible. Closing the book on the recession, Abercrombie used his annual State of the State address to mark the state's economic turnaround. The governor said a record $844 million budget surplus provides the state with an opportunity to take action. Star-Advertiser.
The governor of Hawaii began his fourth State of the State address Tuesday asking lawmakers to "set aside our political preoccupations" and reflect instead on public service and the concerns of others. Yet, the major theme in Neil Abercrombie's speech was that the state has an $844 million budget surplus and that "hard choices," "tough decisions" and "fiscally prudent decisions" made it possible. Civil Beat.
Gov. Neil Abercrombie said Tuesday that Hawaii’s solid financial position will allow lawmakers to focus on such initiatives as expanding funding for preschool, providing tax relief for seniors and increasing the minimum wage. Pacific Business News.
Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie used his State of the State address Tuesday to push for priorities that included tax relief for elderly residents, a minimum wage increase and state-funded preschool. The Democratic governor, during his fourth annual speech before lawmakers, also took time to tout the state’s recent accomplishments, notably concerning the state budget. Associated Press.
Governor Neil Abercrombie highlighted the state's $844 million surplus and pushed for tax breaks for seniors, along with raising the minimum wage during his fourth State of the State Address Tuesday morning at the State Capitol. Hawaii News Now.
In his fourth State of the State speech to a joint session of the legislature, Gov. Neil Abercrombie proposed an increase to Hawaii's minimum wage, while also asking for support in setting aside more than 20,600 acres of land on the North Shore and Central Oahu. KITV4.
In his fourth State of the State address, Gov. Neil Abercrombie highlighted the economic turnaround, one of the reasons for the $844 million general fund surplus. KHON2.
"I realize this is an election year. Political agendas and ambitions are being formulated, but let us take children out of these equations," said Gov. Neil Abercrombie. KITV4.
Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie’s 2014 State of the State speech on Tuesday was peppered with facts highlighting the progress that Hawaii has made under his administration. Given that it's an election year and Abercrombie is not shy about showcasing his accomplishments, Civil Beat decided to take a closer look to check whether the statements he made tell the full story. Civil Beat.
A proposal to connect the electrical grids of Maui and Oahu with an undersea cable would save utility ratepayers on both islands an average of 6 cents a kilowatt hour over the life of the project by increasing the amount of renewable energy that could be tapped and allowing the two grids to operate more efficiently, a state officials said tonight at a state Public Utilities Commission meeting. Although the cable would cost an estimated $700 million to construct, it would result in a net savings to ratepayers of $423 million over the 30-year life of the project, state Energy Administrator Mark Glick said in a presentation at the meeting called by the PUC. Star-Advertiser.
An undersea electrical cable between Maui and Oahu will save consumers more than $420 million over 30 years, a state official said. But critics said that consumers will bear most of the upfront costs. Hawaii News Now.
Castle & Cooke is not giving up its fight to build a wind farm on Lanai to power Oahu despite a plan to connect Maui and Oahu instead via an undersea cable. Hawaii’s Public Utilities Commission held a hearing Tuesday evening at Farrington High School on Oahu to hear public comments on the Oahu-Maui connection, which would allow for the adoption of increasing amounts of renewable energy. Civil Beat.
OahuOahu revelers may be able to light sparklers and fountains on New Year's Eve and Independence Day under a new proposal expected to be unveiled by two Honolulu City Council members today. Council members Ikaika Anderson and Ann Kobayashi plan to introduce a bill today allowing sparklers and fountains to join standard firecrackers as items that can be set off via permits. Star-Advertiser.
Results of laboratory tests on drinking water -- conducted after Navy officials found a possible jet fuel tank leak last week at Red Hill Underground Fuel Storage Facility --are continuing to meet federal regulatory Safe Drinking Water and State of Hawaii standards, and the water's safe to drink, according to a Navy news release issued this afternoon. Star-Advertiser.
The owner of Ward Centers is preparing to open a public sales gallery soon for the first two of 22 planned condominium towers envisioned to transform 60 acres of Kakaako into a largely residential community called Ward Village. Star-Advertiser.
Hawaii
It was deja vu for the Hawaii County Council on Tuesday as it voted against a full ban on genetically modified crops while meeting in committee. The vote was the second time the council’s Public Safety and Mass Transit Committee had considered Councilwoman Brenda Ford’s bill. Tribune-Herald.
Hawaii County Council members seemed at odds Tuesday on whether they’d rather have the state give the county back its share of the transient accommodations tax or allow it to raise general excise taxes. The discussion in the council Finance Committee ended with no vote, but it gave a glimpse into which council members preferred which mode of financing county operations. West Hawaii Today.
As chairman of the House Committee on Labor and Public Employment, state Rep. Mark Nakashima has already been hard at work crafting legislation to raise the minimum wage. So it’s no surprise that Nakashima, D-Hamakua, North Hilo, South Hilo, lists a 75-cent increase in the hourly wage over three years as one of his priorities for the 2014 legislative session. Nakashima said he hasn’t yet had an opportunity to review a proposal promised by Gov. Neil Abercrombie, but he said there will be minimum wage legislation heard in his committee this year. West Hawaii Today.
Maui
A Maui-based technology fund called mbloom LLC, the first early-stage fund of its kind in Hawaii, said Tuesday that it secured $10 million through a public-private partnership formed with Hawaii State Development Corp. and East Coast-based hedge fund Rosemont Seneca Technology Partners. Pacific Business News.
The Hawaiʻi Public Utilities Commission hosts a public meeting on Maui this week on the proposed Maui to Oʻahu Undersea Cable interisland transmission project to connect the electric grids on the two islands. The PUC is gathering input as part of its investigation to determine if the Oʻahu-Maui interisland transmission system, or grid-tie, is in the public interest. Maui Now.
Hawaii's C-minus grade on emergency care environment should not totally reflect on Maui County and Maui Memorial Medical Center, which is "always striving to improve" its services by investing in emergency preparedness, the hospital's top official said last week. Maui News.
Kauai
Two local legislators gave good reviews to Gov. Neil Abercrombie’s State of the State speech Tuesday. Garden Island.
County officials announced that Kaua‘i's tsunami evacuation zone maps have been updated, replacing the maps from the 1990s. The updated maps are based on the latest technology, which utilizes bathymetric/ocean-floor mapping and computer modeling done by the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Hawaii News Now.
As Kauai considers new restrictions against dogs that bark too much, some residents worry the rules could fuel arguments between neighbors. Associated Press.
The National Tropical Botanical Garden has announced it is bringing together a host of top musicians from Hawaii with a Grammy-winning artist in celebration of the Garden’s 50th anniversary. Tickets to the Saturday, April 5 “Musical Legends in the Garden” are now on sale for the four-hour concert set in NTBG’s open-air Southshore Visitors Center in Poipu. Garden Island.
State regulators are looking into whether an undersea power cable between Maui and Oahu would be in the public’s interest. The Hawaii Public Utilities Commission is inviting the public to comment on the cable at meetings today at Farrington High School in Honolulu and Thursday at Pomaikai Elementary School in Kahului. Associated Press.
The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld Hawaii's reapportionment plan that leaves out some military personnel and students when calculating population and determining state legislative districts. The justices affirmed a lower court ruling without comment today. Associated Press.
Gov. Neil Abercrombie will address the Legislature this morning in his fourth State of the State address, in which he is expected to tout Hawaii's economic recovery while setting the stage for his re-election bid this year. The speech, set to begin at 10 a.m. in the House chamber of the state Capitol, will likely include Abercrombie's proposal to raise the state's minimum wage and for state-funded preschools. Star-Advertiser.
Governor Neil Abercrombie will lay out his administration's focus for the next year during the State of the State Address Tuesday morning, and one of the key issues he's expected to touch on is Hawaii's rapidly growing elderly population. Hawaii News Now.
Hawaii lawmakers last week started hearing bills to boost government transparency, improve elections and hold public officials more accountable. In the first week of the 2014 legislative session, one of the many so-called good-government bills has already cleared its final House committee and is headed to a final vote before all the reps. House Bill 1072 would make public the financial disclosure reports filed by the University of Hawaii Board of Regents. Civil Beat.
U.S. Rep. Colleen Hanabusa, who's trailing her Senate Democratic primary opponent U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz by 2-to-1 in fundraising, got some high-powered help Monday when she opened her campaign headquarters along Beretania Street in Chinatown. Hawaii News Now.
With the announcement Saturday of former state Sen. Russell Kokubun as Big Island campaign chairman, U.S. Rep. Colleen Hanabusa increased her Hawaii Island presence in a Democratic battle for U.S. Senate that has captured national attention. West Hawaii Today.
The recent death of a 3-year-old girl who went into a coma after visiting the dentist’s office raises questions about the regulation of children's dentistry in Hawaii and whether the state is doing enough to prevent a similar incident from happening in the future. Civil Beat.
Three Hawaii resorts on Maui and the Big Island and two restaurants in Honolulu have earned AAA Five Diamond ratings for 2014, while 20 hotels and resorts and eight restaurants have been given with the organization’s Four Diamond rating. Pacific Business News.
People talk about Hawaii as a racial melting pot but for many years club bigotry was common. Civil Beat.
Consumers who selected a health or dental plan through the Hawai'i Health Connector by Wednesday are reminded about upcoming premium payment deadlines for coverage that begins Feb. 1. Maui News.
Oahu
The crack down on corruption at Halawa prison will likely mean more arrests. Hawaii News Now has learned that up to a dozen workers at the state's maximum security prison are being targeted. That comes on the heels of the recent arrest of prison guard James Sanders, who is accused of smuggling in crystal meth to prisoners.
North Shore residents affected by coastal erosion braced themselves Monday for what could be the largest ocean swell in a decade. Star-Advertiser.
Hawaii tourism is expected to fly higher this year with the addition of scheduled nonstop service from Beijing to Honolulu. Air China, founded in 1988, brought its first group of 270 visitors, including top airline officials, travel agents and Chinese media, to Hawaii on Monday. Star-Advertiser.
The Army is studying a potential biofuel-capable power plant at Schofield Barracks. The public has an opportunity to provide input on alternatives, potential environmental impacts and other issues of concern that should be included in an environmental impact study. Public scoping meetings will be held Feb. 5 at Mililani Mauka Elementary School and Feb. 6 at Wahiawa District Park. Associated Press.
If you live on Oahu, you may not think it's that out of the ordinary. But Honolulu is the only county left in the state where you'll still see plastic bags used in grocery stores. An estimated tally finds 400 million plastic bags are used each year on the island of Oahu. KHON2.
Some city officials want to flip the "pave paradise, put up a parking lot" notion on its head by transforming on-street stalls into parks and plazas. Resolution 13-290, asking the Caldwell administration to establish a demonstration project for "parklets" around Oahu, was approved by the City Council's Transportation Committee on Thursday. The full Council will vote on it Jan. 29. Star-Advertiser.
The rhino beetle has surfaced on Oahu. They're ugly to look at, and what they do to palm trees is even uglier. KITV4.
A senior Pearl Harbor shipyard manager says he was falsely accused of espionage, taken off the job in March and has not been paid since July — even though an investigation cleared him of the "foreign influence" allegations. Gerald "Gino" Palermo, a former submariner who has worked in the shipyard since 1981, most recently in the "Code 930" mechanical group as a process manager, said he was cleared in June of allegations involving contact with several Chinese women and a Japanese female. Star-Advertiser.
Hawaii
A Hawaii House member from the Big Island is introducing five bills designed to keep hunting lands intact and promote the culture of hunting to children and others. Rep. Cindy Evans, North Kona and Kohala, said Friday that hunters should be recognized as conservationists who care about the land and wildlife. Associated Press.
It’s been a whirlwind first week for newly minted state Rep. Richard Creagan, who was appointed Jan. 10 to the District 5 post vacated by former state Rep. Denny Coffman. West Hawaii Today.
Drug reform in Hawaii will be the topic of two talk-story sessions on the Big Island. Hosted by the Drug Policy Action Group and Medical Cannabis Coalition of Hawaii, the meetings are intended to highlight marijuana-related legislation before the state Legislature and take input on ways to improve the Aloha State’s medical marijuana program, according to the groups. Tribune-Herald.
It’s been several years since a group of more than 20 Waikoloa residents gathered in the home of state Rep. Cindy Evans to ask for a library, but plans for the community’s first library are finally under way for 2014. Tribune-Herald.
Hawaii County Mayor Billy Kenoi joined 280 of the nation’s mayors at the U.S. Conference of Mayors 82nd Winter Meeting on Monday in Washington, D.C. Kenoi, chair of the Hawaii Conference of Mayors, will the meeting with Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell, Maui Mayor Alan Arakawa, and Kauai Mayor Bernard Carvalho. Tribune-Herald.
Maui
Longtime politician and former Maui County Mayor James "Kimo" Apana has announced his intent to run for the state House District 9 seat, which covers parts of Central Maui and is now occupied by political newcomer Justin Woodson. Maui News.
When the Hawaii Center of Independent Living shuttered all five of its Neighbor Island offices in July, Nani Watanabe, an independent living specialist working at the Wailuku office, thought, "Here we go again." Maui News.
Public input is being sought on a Community Wildfire Protection Plan for the West Maui Community. The non-profit Hawaiʻi Wildfire Management Organization, in collaboration with the West Maui Fire Task Force, is hosting a series of meetings this month to gather comments and suggestions. Maui Now.
Kauai
The County of Kaua‘i Division of Purchasing has issued a professional services solicitation to procure pro bono legal representation in a lawsuit filed against the County relating to Ordinance 960, regulating pesticides and GMOs. Hawaii Reporter.
The Hawaii Department of Health is refuting a study that reportedly found high levels of metals found in sediment samples in and around Hanalei Bay. Dr. Roger Brewer, a senior geologist with the DOH’s Hazard Evaluation and Emergency Response Office, said there is no indication of any contamination in the samples. Garden Island.
Retired sugar industry executive and former Office of Hawaiian Affairs trustee Donald Bruce Cataluna has died at the age of 77, leaving a legacy of service beyond the plantation. Born in Koloa, Kauai, Cataluna worked almost every job on the sugar plantation, from taking care of the pack mules to managing some of the largest plantations in the islands. He spent his career with C. Brewer & Co., becoming one of the industry's first part-Hawaiian plantation managers. Star-Advertiser.
A storyteller, public servant, family man and instructor whose mind was a trap for details. Friends and family reflected on the life of Donald Bruce Cataluna on Monday after the retired sugar industry executive and Kauai native died Saturday from natural causes. Garden Island.
About Me
Nancy Cook Lauer has more than 25 years experience as a journalist, winning national and state awards for newspapers in Florida and Hawaii. She publishes a daily state government news aggregate and commentary blog, All Hawaii News. Vice President of the Hawaii SPJ chapter as well as former president of the Big Island Press Club, Lauer has a Master of Science degree in Library and Information Studies from Florida State University and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Psychology, summa cum laude, from Old Dominion University. She earned her reporting chops covering the 2000 Bush v. Gore presidential election at Florida's ground zero and was recently honored with a Torch of Light award and a Hawaii state Senate commendation for uncovering questionable spending practices in local government.
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Alumni: Life After Pardee RAND
Since its inception in 1970, the Pardee RAND Graduate School has graduated more than 300 PhDs. Our alumni have gone on to a wide range of jobs in government, business, non-profit institutions, and academia.
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Students participating in programs that provide a comprehensive range of support services are more likely to persist in attending community college, according to research by alum Lindsay Daugherty (cohort '05).
Joe Nation (cohort '85), a professor of the Practice of Public Policy at Stanford and director of the interactive website U.S. Pension Tracker, estimates total United States public pension debt in June 2015 at $5.599 trillion, a 16 percent increase over 2014.
Schools are uniquely situated to whip kids into shape, writes alum Kenneth Thorpe (cohort '80), chairman of the Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease. Children spend most days at school — and typically have at least one meal there. So teachers and administrators could provide students with the resources to stay healthy.
In Forbes, alum Jeremy Ghez (cohort '06) writes that Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon are each trying to impose the most long-lasting business model that will lock in consumers for an extended period of time. But they are not infallible.
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Bible Study / Sunday School
Below are Bible Studies sorted alphabetically by church name. Click on the church name for more detailed information.
(If you're looking for ideas for reading the Scriptures on your own, we have a list of Personal Bible Study Tools to help you out.)
Tuesday 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm. (Beginning September 12) - Discipleship 101
Target Audience: Adults
Location: Staff Lounge
Contact: Register online at http://www.bethanyappleton.org/sign-up
Current Topic: We all start somewhere. The most scholarly theologians at one time had to learn the basics of the Bible and their faith. If youâre new to Christianity or church, join with other individuals who are asking the same questions as you are and come to one of Bethanyâs discipleship.101 classes. Bethany's pastors teach discipleship.101 with a goal of meeting you where you are and helping you begin or develop your connection to Jesus. This nine-week class also serves as a membership class at Bethany, so those who complete it will be eligible to take the next step of membership at Bethany if theyâd like.
Wednesday 8:45 am - Power Hour
Target Audience: Families with children 18 months - 3 years
Location: Multi Purpose Room
Contact: Church Office - 920-733-9561
Current Topic: Power hour is a group where moms, dads, caregivers and their children can learn together, play together, and meet new friends together in a safe and structured environment. Each session features a bible story, activities, books, a snack, and time with friends. Weâd love to have you join us! Power hour is open for children 18 months to three years. A caregiver must be present along with the child during the session. Power hour meets in the multipurpose room at Bethany's Lynndale Campus. The current session is on Wednesday mornings, 8:45-9:45.
Thursday 6:00 p.m. - Thursday Bible Study
Target Audience: Adults
Location: Praise Center
Contact: Church Office - 920-733-9561
Current Topic: Thursday Night Bible Study is open for all ages. Whether we're reading throguh a book of the Bible or studying a theme that flows throughout God's Word, God's Word grows our faith, deepens our understanding, and strengthens our friendships. We approach every study without presuppositions of God or of us, but let God's Word speak simply to our heart. Currently, the class is reading throguh the Gospel of John in a study called, "Knowing God." As we hear Jesus' words and study what he's done, we see God reveal himself to us. The more we know God, the more we know who we are and how we fit in the context of his plan.
Sunday 9:15 a.m - Sunday Studies
Target Audience: Adults
Location: Lower Level Fellowship Hall
Contact: Church Office - 920-733-9561
Current Topic: Pastor Mark leads Bethanyâs Sunday Studies. This group is Bethanyâs most popular study as it comes at a convenient time between the Sunday morning services on the Parkway Campus (9:15-10:15). Pastor Mark rotates through topical studies and studies through books of the Bible. Whatever the study is, you can be sure that it is rooted in Godâs Word and designed to lead Godâs people to a deeper appreciation of the Love that God gives us in Jesus. In July, Pastor Mark will continue "Goliath Must Fall". Each week, he will use a combination of video teaching and group study/discussion to help us fight our "giant." The focus of this study is to help us realize just how big God is, and that with his help we can overcome any "giant" (fear, rejection, addiction, etc.) that is holding us captive and robbing us of our joy.
Sunday 9:15 a.m. (September - May) - Growing in Christ
Target Audience: Children ages PreK 3 to Grade 8
Location: Various Sunday School rooms
Contact: Church Office - 920-733-9561
Current Topic: Growing in Christ is our spiritual growth program for children Pre K 3- 8th grade. The Growing in Christ curriculum teaches children about the love of God from Bible history in an interactive way that reaches them at their level. Each yearly cycle covers the entire timeline of Bible History, so parents can expect that their children have a comprehensive knowledge of Bible History by the end of the Growing in Christ program.
Tuesday 6:30 a.m. - Men's Breakfast Bible Study
Target Audience: All Men
Location: Lower Level Classroom
Contact: Church Office - 920-733-9561
Current Topic: Every Tuesday morning, a group of men gets up early to study the word and enjoy a light breakfast and coffee together. This group is peer led with Mr. Russ Wagner serving as a facilitator. âAs iron sharpens ironâ (Prv 27:17), these men are in the habit of building each other up through the Word and encouraging each other in their varied roles as men of his Word.
Wednesday 10:00 a.m. (September - May) - Midweek Oasis
Target Audience: Adults 55+
Location: LL Fellowship Hall
Contact: Church Office - 920-733-9561
Current Topic: Midweek Oasis is a chance for Bethanyâs 55+ members to take time out in the middle of the week to come together around the Word. Pastor Mark teaches Midweek Oasis at Bethany Parkway Wednesday mornings as he brings the class through books of the Bible. Members of the class regularly bring home baked treats to share, so come early for food and fellowship as well! Current study is "In the Simplest Way" a grown up look at Dr. Martin Luther's Small Cathechism.
Sunday 9:15 a.m. (Offered September - May) - Adult Bible Class
Target Audience: Teens and Adults
Location: All-purpose room
Contact: Church Office (725-1822)
Current Topic: Here adults and teens discuss people or books from the Bible, biblical teachings, or practical topics for Christian living. The setting is informal, where you can ask all the questions you want or just sit back and listen. Refreshments are served each week and babysitting is offered for children too young for Sunday School.
Sunday 9:15 a.m. (Offered September - May) - Sunday School
Target Audience: Children age 3 through 8th grade
Location: School classrooms
Contact: Miss Nancy Flenz (722-6004)
Current Topic: This is where our children from age 3 through 8th grade get to study God's Word at their level in a fun environment, where songs and crafts help to reinforce what they learn from the Bible.
2nd and 4th Tuesday 10:00 a.m. - Brunch and Bible Study
Target Audience: General
Location: All-purpose room
Contact: Church Office (725-1822)
Current Topic: During this biweekly study, we often take a second look at one of the lessons from the week's worship and have a chance to react to the sermon and other parts of the service. After an hour of discussion, we eat lunch together.
Tuesday 7:45 p.m. - Spanish Bible Class
Target Audience: Spanish-speakers
Location: ESL Classroom
Contact: Church Office (725-1822)
Current Topic: This study, which lasts about 15 minutes, takes place after our our English as a Second Language classes every Thursday evening. In it we study various topics and portions of Scripture in the Spanish. When English speakers join us, we do our best to include them, too!
Tuesday 6:00 a.m. - Tuesday mornings - Breakfast with the Word
Target Audience: Adults
Location: Church Basement
Contact: Pastor Ralph Rosenberg - 779-6761 x323
Current Topic: Just as a good breakfast in the morning gives our bodies a good start, time in God's Word gives our souls a great start to the day!
Wednesday 8:30 a.m. - Midweek Bible Study
Target Audience: Adults
Location: Fellowship Hall
Contact: Church Office - 749-9744
Current Topic: We are currently studying the Old Testament book of Isaiah. We are working through this study at our own slow pace, mining the treasures of Godâs Word as we go.
Wednesday 1:00 p.m. (September - May) - Womenâs Study Group
Target Audience: Women
Location: Various Homes (call 554-3920 for current hostess location and information)
Contact: Church Office - 749-9744
Current Topic: A Bible Study of the Book of James for Women: The book of James is a letter written to spur Christians on to live authentic lives of faith.
Sunday 10:10 a.m. (September - May) - Sunday School
Target Audience: 4 years to 8th grade
Location: Church Basement
Contact: Pastor Richard Frost - 722-5550
Current Topic: Grace offers Sunday School for pre-school through 8th grade. From September to May we meet every Sunday at 10:10 am providing our children with a solid-based Christian education in Godâs Word.
Sunday 9:15 am - Kids Grow (Growing Roots of Wisdom)
Target Audience: Children birth - 8th grade
Location: School Classrooms
Contact: Sign up online at www.immluth.org
Current Topic: Your child will learn a Bible story, experience some great music and be engaged in an activity or discussion to apply God's Word to his or her own life. Babies through age 2 are cared for in God's Garden; ages 3-4th grade meet in the gym for engaging music and Bible learning; grades 5 & 6 meet in their own group and do a variety of Bible learning; grades 7 & 8 also meet as a separate group for challenging pre-teen discussion topics.
Sunday 9:15 am (June 24 - July 8) - Next Steps
Target Audience: Great class to take if you recently completed Starting Point or are a newer WELS member
Location: Fellowship Hall
Contact: Church Office - 920-757-5639
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Sunday 9:15 a.m. - Teen Discussion Group
Target Audience: Teens
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Contact: Church Office - 920-757-5639
Current Topic: All Immanuel teens are invited to our "Teen Discussion Group." Several different leaders will cover a variety of topics to challenge teens to live their faith and to address tough, contemporary issues.
Wednesdays, June 6 - August 29, 10:00 a.m. - 2 Corinthians: Servants of Christ
Target Audience: Adults
Location: Chapel
Contact: Church Office - 920-757-5639
Current Topic: The Apostle Paul's second letter to the church in Corinth contains quite a bit of biographical information about himself. From that we learn all kinds of lessons about how to interact with fellow Christians, even those we don't see eye to eye. See how all believers can benefit from Paul's words as we serve each other in love.
Sunday 9:20 a.m. (Sept. - May) - Sunday School
Target Audience: Children Ages 3 through 8th Grade
Location: School Classrooms
Contact: Pastor Rik Krahn 725-1330
Current Topic: This year we will be studying Godâs Word with the help of the Growing in Christ program. This program was designed to teach the Scriptures as they reveal Godâs plan of salvation, to link Sunday School to the worship service, and to unite families in the study of Godâs Word.
Sunday 9:20 a.m. (September - May) - Sunday Teen Bible Class
Target Audience: Teens
Location: Media Center
Contact: Church Office - 725-1330
Current Topic: Once again this year weâll have a class just for our high school students. Rich Frost and Tim Jacobson will be leading this discussion in the Media Center, on topics like the Psalms, as well as other topics you bring up. We meet between Sunday services. It should be fun, so you wonât want to miss it!
Sunday 9:20 a.m. (September - May - Sunday Bible Study
Target Audience: Adults
Location: Downstairs Meeting Room
Contact: Church Office - 725-1330
Current Topic: Does life ever get you down? Do the things happening around you seem to suck any happiness right out of you? We might think thatâs how it was for Paul when he was imprisoned for the crime of preaching about Jesus. We might expect his letter from prison to be full of doom and gloom and âwoe is me.â But we find the exact opposite. His letter to the Philippians is one of the most joyful sections in all of Scripture. Looking to find some joy? Then join us for this class, in the Downstairs Meeting Room.
Monday 7:00 p.m. - Ladies Bible Study
Target Audience: Women
Location: Fellowship Hall
Contact: Church Office - 725-1330
Current Topic: Living in this sin-filled world is never easy. There are temptations all around us, voices everywhere trying to lead us away from our Savior. The Second letter of Peter offers encouragement and strength to follow only the voice of our true Good Shepherd, Jesus. Bertha Kuether leads this womenâs class every Monday evening at 7:00 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall, starting September 17. All women are invited!
Thursday 6:30 am - Breakfast Bible Study
Target Audience: Adults
Location: McDonaldâs on Green Bay Road, Neenah
Contact: Church Office - 725-1330
Current Topic: This informal class meets at 6:30 a.m. every Thursday morning at the McDonaldâs on Green Bay Road, for some breakfast, and some good Christian discussion. We often discuss articles from current events and recent publications, like Forward in Christ. Join us to feed your body and your faith! Itâs worth getting up a little early!
Thursday 10:00 a.m. - Thursday Adult Bible Class
Target Audience: Adults
Location: Fellowship Hall
Contact: Church Office - 725-1330
Current Topic: The book of Ruth is a fascinating one, filled with many themes that are relevant in todayâs society: foreigners and alienation, community and a sense of belonging, family ties and sacrifice, loyalty and faithfulness, and most of all, Godâs direction of everything in our lives to accomplish his purposes. And all that in only 4 chapters! Join us at 10:00 a.m. in the Fellowship Hall.
Sunday 9:15 am - A Closer Look
Target Audience: All Ages
Location: Church Sanctuary
Contact: Church Office (739-9194)
Current Topic: This summer, please join us for âA Closer Look.â Each Sunday from 9:15-9:45 a.m., the dayâs preacher will lead a discussion on one of the three Scripture lessons for that Sunday. If you attend the discussion before you worship, you will get more out of the sermon. If you attend after you worship, you will get more out of the discussion. Take your pick! In either case, you will benefit from a closer look at Godâs Word. The discussion takes place in the air-conditioned comfort of Mount Olive's Church Sanctuary and is open to all ages.
Sunday 9:15 a.m. (September - May) - Upper Grade Bible Study
Target Audience: Teens in grades 6 - 8
Location: 6th Grade Classroom
Contact: Church Office (739-9194)
Current Topic: Students in this Bible Study will have the opportunity to study how the Bible prepares them to face many of the topics and issues they deal with in their daily lives as Christians, and discuss them with their peers.
Tuesday 6:30 am, year-round - Breakfast Bible Study
Target Audience: Adults
Location: Maryâs on North Richmond
Contact: Pastor Raasch - (739-9194)
Current Topic: This early bird special offers a bite of the Bread of Life along with your cup of coffee or stack of pancakes. Join us at Maryâs Restaurant as we discuss how the Godâs timeless truth still impacts our everyday lives.
Sunday 9:15 a.m. - Sunday School (September - May)
Target Audience: All children age 3 through 5th grade are welcome to attend.
Location:
Contact: Church Office - 920-733-3728
Current Topic: Bible lessons and how they apply to their day-to-day lives through our Life in Christ program.
Sunday 9:15 a.m. - Middle School Bible Class (September - May)
Target Audience: Middle School Age Children (6th - 8th Grades)
Location: 7th & 8th Grade Room
Contact: Church Office - 920-733-3728
Current Topic: This class will highlight accounts from the Bible using a video reenactment. Students will also read corresponding sections of Scripture, discuss, and make applications to their lives.
Sunday 9:20 a.m. - Breakfast with the Bible
Target Audience: General Audience
Location: Church Basement
Contact: Church Office - 733-6701
Current Topic: Participants in this Bible study discuss one of the fundamental confessions of the Lutheran church, the Smalcald Articles written by Martin Luther himself. Each of the thirteen lessons includes the text of a portion of the articles.
Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. - Prime Time with the Lord
Target Audience: Adults
Location: Church Basement
Contact: Church Office - 733-6701
Current Topic: The Letters of John
Sunday 9:00 am - Sunday Morning Topical Class
Target Audience: All Ages
Location: St. Peter Ministry Center
Contact: Church Office - 920-739-2009
Current Topic: âPolitically Incorrect Church & Stateâ Why don't we support prayer in school? Who should I vote for? How do I serve as a Christian citizen of my community? We'll take on these issues and many more in this six week series dealing with Church and State.
Sunday morning from 9:00-10:10 a.m. September through mid-May - Bible Discovery
Target Audience: 3 year old - 4th grade; preschool children should be potty-trained. Children are welcome to start attending any time throughout the school year.
Location: St. Peter Lutheran School
Contact: Pastor Sievert - 920-739-2009
Current Topic: Bible Discovery exists to share Godâs love and his plan of salvation with children on a weekly basis. Through interactive Bible stories, songs and crafts children discover Godâs Word. Children learn Bible passages and prayers and participate in Christmas and Easter worship services. Children also have the opportunity to sing in church and help with outreach projects.
Sunday 9:00 a.m. - Basic Bible Christianity
Target Audience: Adults
Location: St. Peter Emmaus Room
Contact: Register at: 922church.com/StartingPoint
Current Topic: Are you seeking answers to life's biggest questions? "Why am I here? What is God like? What does he think about me? Can I be certain I will have eternal life?" Grow in your relationship with God as we discover his answers in his Word! Those new to St. Peter and members looking to review the foundations of our faith are welcome.
Sunday 10:15 a.m. - 19 Minute Bible Study
Target Audience: Adults
Location: St. Peter Ministry Center
Contact: Church Office - 920-739-2009
Current Topic: We'll briefly examine such topics as: Haunted Houses, Visiting Heaven, Overweight or Overfit?, "They posted What?" - Social Media, "I'm spiritual, Not Religious," Tattoos - Still Taboo?, Living Together Before Marriage, and Using Psychoactive Medication. These Bible studies are designed to be brief and equip you to engage in lively conversations with others. Come enjoy some coffee and discussion!
Tuesday 6:30 p.m. - Basic Bible Christianity
Target Audience: Adults
Location: St. Peter Emmaus Room
Contact: Register at: 922church.com/StartingPoint
Current Topic: Are you seeking answers to life's biggest questions? "Why am I here? What is God like? What does he think about me? Can I be certain I will have eternal life?" Grow in your relationship with God as we discover his answers in his Word! Those new to St. Peter and members looking to review the foundations of our faith are welcome.
Tuesday 6:30 p.m. - "Seven Visions, Seven Truthsâ Revelation
Target Audience: Adults
Location: St. Peter Ministry Center
Contact: Church Office - 920-739-2009
Current Topic: Within the book of Revelation God has recorded seven visions, each containing a message about this world you need to know. This study shows how the seven messages combine to explain what is happening in this world every day. This study will require a high degree of commitment, there will be some reading & homework. Cost for materials is $20 .
Wednesday 6:30 a.m. - Early Bird Bible Study
Target Audience: Adults
Location: Ministry Center
Contact: Church Office - 920-739-2009
Current Topic: The Hidden God - "Ben Stein asked famous atheist Richard Dawkins, âWhat if after you died, you ran into God and He said to you, âwhat have you been doing Richard? Iâve been trying to be nice to you. I gave you a multimillion dollar paycheck over and over again from your book and look what you did!ââ Richard Dawkins answered, âBertrand Russell had that point put to him and he said something like, âSir, why did you take such pains to hide yourself?ââ Is God HIDDEN? Where can we FIND Him? Find out at our early morning Bible class! All are welcome!
3rd Saturday of each month at 7:30 am - Men's Breakfast Bible Study
Target Audience: Men
Location: Machine Shed on Fox River Drive
Contact: Church Office - 920-739-2009
Current Topic: All men are invited to enjoy some food for the body and soul! No cost except for your breakfast. No sign up, just show up!
Sunday 10:00 a.m. - Sunday School (September - May)
Target Audience: For all ages including those who are 4 years old through 8th grade.
Location: Campus meeting rooms
Contact: Register online at stlukeslittlechute.com.
Current Topic: Bible stories applied to life today
1st & 3rd Thursday of the month at 6:30 p.m. (September - May) - Women's Bible Study
Target Audience: Women
Location: Lower Level Meeting Room
Contact: Krista Davis at 920-460-4791 or [email protected]
Current Topic: This study will take place on the first and third Thursday of every month. We will be studying the book "Finding I Am". All ladies are welcome to join us in our study of the reassurance we receive in the forgiveness and promise of hope though our Savior. | {
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Adjuvant Therapy in Locally Advanced Pancreatic Cancer
John L. Marshall, MD: We’re going to shift gears to where we’ve done science, and we’ve done some big randomized trials. The adjuvant data that we’re going to review—we were debating before—should have been a plenary paper. It’s really practice changing—big deal, big numbers out there, a lot to talk about in this space. We actually drew straws of who got to review it, and Toni, you were the short straw on that—or long straw. You won, so take it away. Tell us about the new data here at ASCO in the adjuvant setting.
Tanios S. Bekaii-Saab, MD: This is an interesting study, and we’ve been waiting for the results of this study for quite a while. I agree, this should have been a plenary session. It’s almost 500 patients. That’s a large adjuvant study in pancreas cancer, and this study was simple in its design. Patients would get randomized to FOLFIRINOX or to gemcitabine.
John L. Marshall, MD: Modified FOLFIRINOX.
Tanios S. Bekaii-Saab, MD: Modified FOLFIRINOX, as it should be in those patients. The primary endpoint was disease-free survival, and the secondary endpoint was overall survival, and there were other endpoints, as well. The disease-free survival was a little bit less than double but quite significantly improved—12.8 versus 21.6 months favoring FOLFIRINOX, with a hazard ratio of 0.59, so quite significant improvement. I mean, you don’t see that, and disease-free survival is primarily a measure of the success of the regimen. Median overall survival was also improved. It was about 34-plus months with gemcitabine, and it was 54-plus months with FOLFIRINOX—so a very positive study.
John L. Marshall, MD: So, both arms did pretty well, and the FOLFIRINOX arm does surprisingly well.
Tanios S. Bekaii-Saab, MD: Surprisingly well. You can blame some on good biology and selection, but there’s definitely a drug effect. When you look at the disease-free survival from the gemcitabine, it’s not much different from the CONCUR study; maybe 1 month more than that, at least histological. So, I think that when you look at this study, there are 2 effects. The biology effect—there’s definitely the FOLFIRINOX effect; of course, a little bit more toxic. We know these patients that go through surgical resections have a tough time to get even single-agent gemcitabine sometimes. This study just tells us 1 thing: that intensifying treatment is feasible in the adjuvant setting. But the way I look at this—again, to go back into the debate of pre versus post—it is most feasible when we actually give it ahead of surgery, and it probably makes much more sense now that we have all these data that are trickling in that intensification makes sense. So, limited intensification before surgery is more feasible and likely more yielding for a larger proportion of patients.
John L. Marshall, MD: Eileen, get in the weeds on this a little bit. I think about trying to give postoperative adjuvant FOLFIRINOX, even modified, to these patients would be challenging. Can you talk a little bit about who these people were and some characteristics of those folks?
Eileen M. O’Reilly, MD: I would echo Toni’s point. I think this is a very positive practice-changing study for us tomorrow in the clinic, for the next group of people that we see with adjuvant therapy. But who does it apply to? And that’s also going to be critical; it’s not for everybody. It was pretty clear this was a relatively highly selected patient population who were well enough to go to surgery, well enough to recover from surgery, well enough to get on to adjuvant therapy for 12 weeks.They also had to have a performance status of 0 to 1 and had a limitation on their carbohydrate antigen 19-9. So, we’re selecting out a lot of patients.
John L. Marshall, MD: And it’s a postoperative CA 19-9.
Eileen M. O’Reilly, MD: Postop CA 19-9, prestudy and preenrollment, and that was 180. Patients were stratified whether they were less than 90, or 90 to 180. So, it’s clear that this is selected, and it probably isn’t going to apply to our 85-year-old who has comorbidities and who has struggled through the postoperative course. There, I think either gemcitabine/capecitabine or single-agent gemcitabine will remain a standard. Here’s the good news: I think that we now have choices for people. The other big point to acknowledge, and Toni also hinted at this, is that overall survival is compelling. That’s almost certainly contributed to by multiagent cytotoxics that we have available now for treatment in the advanced disease setting, that we didn’t have in the era of other adjuvant studies.
John L. Marshall, MD: Kabir, go through when you’re giving FOLFIRINOX, for the folks out there that maybe don’t do it day in and day out. Modified is, what, 1 drop in the bolus? 150 mg/m2 of irinotecan was the regimen they used here. Coming down to 85 mg/m2 of oxaliplatin, the 2-day infusion every 2 weeks—maybe need growth factors, maybe not. Talk a little bit about managing that patient.
Kabir Mody, MD: So, I think it speaks to what a lot of us do in normal practice. With the advent of FOLFIRINOX in the metastatic disease setting, a lot of us realized we had to make dose modifications for that to be tolerable for a duration of time, for the patient to get benefit and avoid toxicity. So, as you said, dropping the 5-FU bolus really can contribute to helping with the myelosuppressive effect of the regimen. Dropping the irinotecan can help with the symptoms of diarrhea, which can be debilitating in some patients. And then oxaliplatin—obviously, the elephant in the room there is neuropathy. That can be sometimes delayed, and it can be really a problem for patients.
John L. Marshall, MD: I don’t think I’ve ever given 12 cycles of FOLFIRINOX, ever.I’ve never given much more than about 8 in most people. So, should we be doing a 3 versus 6 months of FOLFIRINOX in the adjuvant setting?
Kabir Mody, MD: Well, there are some studies that we’ve alluded to that have used different durations of chemotherapy—4 months or 6 months—so I think that’s quite a valid question to ask.
John L. Marshall, MD: Eileen and I maybe disagree on this, so I’ll ask George instead, because I don’t know what you’re going to say. I’m sure that with FOLFIRINOX, that we need all 3 bits of that. I keep wondering, is this just really well-given 5-FU? What is the relative contribution of the oxaliplatin and the irinotecan to this? Because we haven’t methodically studied this accumulated regimen. We just threw it at folks and compared it with gemcitabine. I worry that we are forever going to have FOLFIRINOX as this regimen and never really study the bits and components of it. What do you think?
George P. Kim, MD: Yes, so I’m pretty set on this. You need all the drugs.
John L. Marshall, MD: Why do you say that?
George P. Kim, MD: Because there’s a famous story about what was important in the regimen, and the lead PI said he had no idea, so he didn’t test it.
Eileen M. O’Reilly, MD: Let me give you some data here just to support George’s point. So, FOLFOX—we’ve looked at it in untreated advanced pancreas cancer. The survivals are nowhere near what we’re seeing with FOLFIRINOX. The best we see is 7 to 8 months, so that, in my opinion, is imperfect. They’re not randomized data.
John L. Marshall, MD: But we have some positive and some negative data with oxaliplatin, right? I’m wondering if that’s the drug. I’ve got more consistent data with irinotecan in this space than I have with oxaliplatin, so that's my only argument.
Eileen M. O’Reilly, MD: But there are similar data with FOLFIRI and versions of FOLFIRI. The Europeans have studied this quite extensively; 7 to 8 months untreated metastatic disease, FOLFIRINOX for 11 months plus. Now we have data from a SWOG/Cooperative Group study. We’ll be talking about this when we come back to stromal modulation. The outcome there was 14 months. In a Cooperative Group setting, in North America, that to me is pretty convincing—that you need the combination of drugs for the optimal outcome for at least a select group of patients.
John L. Marshall, MD: But we deconstructed it in the metastatic setting.
Eileen M. O’Reilly, MD: You’re taking out the thrombosis patients.
George P. Kim, MD: Getting back to your question, we know that oxaliplatin didn’t work by itself—you had to give 5-FU. We know about IROX—the famous IROX regimen interactions between irinotecan and oxaliplatin.Bolus, continuous infusion, yes. So, I think you have to give all components, and if anything, we may try to dial it up. We may try to add maybe a biologic to that regimen. Unfortunately, the PEGPH20—that didn’t work, but you do need to continue to work on building regimens.
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John L. Marshall, MD: We’re going to shift gears to where we’ve done science, and we’ve done some big randomized trials. The adjuvant data that we’re going to review—we were debating before—should have been a plenary paper. It’s really practice changing—big deal, big numbers out there, a lot to talk about in this space. We actually drew straws of who got to review it, and Toni, you were the short straw on that—or long straw. You won, so take it away. Tell us about the new data here at ASCO in the adjuvant setting.
Tanios S. Bekaii-Saab, MD: This is an interesting study, and we’ve been waiting for the results of this study for quite a while. I agree, this should have been a plenary session. It’s almost 500 patients. That’s a large adjuvant study in pancreas cancer, and this study was simple in its design. Patients would get randomized to FOLFIRINOX or to gemcitabine.
John L. Marshall, MD: Modified FOLFIRINOX.
Tanios S. Bekaii-Saab, MD: Modified FOLFIRINOX, as it should be in those patients. The primary endpoint was disease-free survival, and the secondary endpoint was overall survival, and there were other endpoints, as well. The disease-free survival was a little bit less than double but quite significantly improved—12.8 versus 21.6 months favoring FOLFIRINOX, with a hazard ratio of 0.59, so quite significant improvement. I mean, you don’t see that, and disease-free survival is primarily a measure of the success of the regimen. Median overall survival was also improved. It was about 34-plus months with gemcitabine, and it was 54-plus months with FOLFIRINOX—so a very positive study.
John L. Marshall, MD: So, both arms did pretty well, and the FOLFIRINOX arm does surprisingly well.
Tanios S. Bekaii-Saab, MD: Surprisingly well. You can blame some on good biology and selection, but there’s definitely a drug effect. When you look at the disease-free survival from the gemcitabine, it’s not much different from the CONCUR study; maybe 1 month more than that, at least histological. So, I think that when you look at this study, there are 2 effects. The biology effect—there’s definitely the FOLFIRINOX effect; of course, a little bit more toxic. We know these patients that go through surgical resections have a tough time to get even single-agent gemcitabine sometimes. This study just tells us 1 thing: that intensifying treatment is feasible in the adjuvant setting. But the way I look at this—again, to go back into the debate of pre versus post—it is most feasible when we actually give it ahead of surgery, and it probably makes much more sense now that we have all these data that are trickling in that intensification makes sense. So, limited intensification before surgery is more feasible and likely more yielding for a larger proportion of patients.
John L. Marshall, MD: Eileen, get in the weeds on this a little bit. I think about trying to give postoperative adjuvant FOLFIRINOX, even modified, to these patients would be challenging. Can you talk a little bit about who these people were and some characteristics of those folks?
Eileen M. O’Reilly, MD: I would echo Toni’s point. I think this is a very positive practice-changing study for us tomorrow in the clinic, for the next group of people that we see with adjuvant therapy. But who does it apply to? And that’s also going to be critical; it’s not for everybody. It was pretty clear this was a relatively highly selected patient population who were well enough to go to surgery, well enough to recover from surgery, well enough to get on to adjuvant therapy for 12 weeks.They also had to have a performance status of 0 to 1 and had a limitation on their carbohydrate antigen 19-9. So, we’re selecting out a lot of patients.
John L. Marshall, MD: And it’s a postoperative CA 19-9.
Eileen M. O’Reilly, MD: Postop CA 19-9, prestudy and preenrollment, and that was 180. Patients were stratified whether they were less than 90, or 90 to 180. So, it’s clear that this is selected, and it probably isn’t going to apply to our 85-year-old who has comorbidities and who has struggled through the postoperative course. There, I think either gemcitabine/capecitabine or single-agent gemcitabine will remain a standard. Here’s the good news: I think that we now have choices for people. The other big point to acknowledge, and Toni also hinted at this, is that overall survival is compelling. That’s almost certainly contributed to by multiagent cytotoxics that we have available now for treatment in the advanced disease setting, that we didn’t have in the era of other adjuvant studies.
John L. Marshall, MD: Kabir, go through when you’re giving FOLFIRINOX, for the folks out there that maybe don’t do it day in and day out. Modified is, what, 1 drop in the bolus? 150 mg/m2 of irinotecan was the regimen they used here. Coming down to 85 mg/m2 of oxaliplatin, the 2-day infusion every 2 weeks—maybe need growth factors, maybe not. Talk a little bit about managing that patient.
Kabir Mody, MD: So, I think it speaks to what a lot of us do in normal practice. With the advent of FOLFIRINOX in the metastatic disease setting, a lot of us realized we had to make dose modifications for that to be tolerable for a duration of time, for the patient to get benefit and avoid toxicity. So, as you said, dropping the 5-FU bolus really can contribute to helping with the myelosuppressive effect of the regimen. Dropping the irinotecan can help with the symptoms of diarrhea, which can be debilitating in some patients. And then oxaliplatin—obviously, the elephant in the room there is neuropathy. That can be sometimes delayed, and it can be really a problem for patients.
John L. Marshall, MD: I don’t think I’ve ever given 12 cycles of FOLFIRINOX, ever.I’ve never given much more than about 8 in most people. So, should we be doing a 3 versus 6 months of FOLFIRINOX in the adjuvant setting?
Kabir Mody, MD: Well, there are some studies that we’ve alluded to that have used different durations of chemotherapy—4 months or 6 months—so I think that’s quite a valid question to ask.
John L. Marshall, MD: Eileen and I maybe disagree on this, so I’ll ask George instead, because I don’t know what you’re going to say. I’m sure that with FOLFIRINOX, that we need all 3 bits of that. I keep wondering, is this just really well-given 5-FU? What is the relative contribution of the oxaliplatin and the irinotecan to this? Because we haven’t methodically studied this accumulated regimen. We just threw it at folks and compared it with gemcitabine. I worry that we are forever going to have FOLFIRINOX as this regimen and never really study the bits and components of it. What do you think?
George P. Kim, MD: Yes, so I’m pretty set on this. You need all the drugs.
John L. Marshall, MD: Why do you say that?
George P. Kim, MD: Because there’s a famous story about what was important in the regimen, and the lead PI said he had no idea, so he didn’t test it.
Eileen M. O’Reilly, MD: Let me give you some data here just to support George’s point. So, FOLFOX—we’ve looked at it in untreated advanced pancreas cancer. The survivals are nowhere near what we’re seeing with FOLFIRINOX. The best we see is 7 to 8 months, so that, in my opinion, is imperfect. They’re not randomized data.
John L. Marshall, MD: But we have some positive and some negative data with oxaliplatin, right? I’m wondering if that’s the drug. I’ve got more consistent data with irinotecan in this space than I have with oxaliplatin, so that's my only argument.
Eileen M. O’Reilly, MD: But there are similar data with FOLFIRI and versions of FOLFIRI. The Europeans have studied this quite extensively; 7 to 8 months untreated metastatic disease, FOLFIRINOX for 11 months plus. Now we have data from a SWOG/Cooperative Group study. We’ll be talking about this when we come back to stromal modulation. The outcome there was 14 months. In a Cooperative Group setting, in North America, that to me is pretty convincing—that you need the combination of drugs for the optimal outcome for at least a select group of patients.
John L. Marshall, MD: But we deconstructed it in the metastatic setting.
Eileen M. O’Reilly, MD: You’re taking out the thrombosis patients.
George P. Kim, MD: Getting back to your question, we know that oxaliplatin didn’t work by itself—you had to give 5-FU. We know about IROX—the famous IROX regimen interactions between irinotecan and oxaliplatin.Bolus, continuous infusion, yes. So, I think you have to give all components, and if anything, we may try to dial it up. We may try to add maybe a biologic to that regimen. Unfortunately, the PEGPH20—that didn’t work, but you do need to continue to work on building regimens. | {
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That was apparently a valid question to ask tennis great John McEnroe, who has been hitting the media circuit to promote his new book “But Seriously”. Now I’m not sure why that would be questioned, or what that has to do with a book that is about McEnroe’s life after tennis, but more eyebrows are going t be raised with his answer than with the posing of the ridiculous question.
McEnroe said that although he thinks Serena is an incredible player, that she would probably be “like #700 in the world” on the men’s circuit.
I love Johnny Mac. He was the first tennis player I rooted for as a kid (yep I’m aging myself right now… although he was at the end of his playing career back then), which is probably why I ended up having a horrible temper and breaking my share of rackets when I was growing up and possibly still to this day. That brass personality is something that the game has desperately lacked since he retired, and his honest opinions make him a great, if not controversial, commentator for the sport.
This was his honest opinion of where Serena would rank on the men’s tour. I don’t agree with that – I think he is placing her way too low in the rankings – but I respect his opinion and can understand where he’s coming from.
In my mind, Serena is the best women’s player of all time. She’s by far the best that I’ve ever seen, and I was around for Steffi Graf’s dominance and the Monica Seles era before she was stabbed on the court in one of the scariest moments in recent sports history. But what Serena has done consistently in her career is astonishing. She’s the favorite in every tournament she plays in on any surface regardless of how long it’s been since she’s played. She’ll likely be the favorite in her first tournament back after her current pregnancy if she chooses to restart her career. She also dominated on the doubles tour with her sister when they played together, and altogether she has 39 Grand Slam titles and four gold medals. Those numbers alone make her the best ever.
The men’s tour is a totally different animal than the women’s tour. The velocity and precision of every shot on the men’s side is at a much higher level than on the women’s side. The physicality that guys like Rafael Nadal plays with will make even the fittest opponents completely exhausted, especially in the best-of-five set matches. Plus, the depth of the men’s tour is at an all-time high, which is evidenced by what has happened to Andy Murray and Novak Djokovic in the last few months. Those two guys were almost unstoppable for a few years, and now they can be beat by almost anyone at any time if they don’t bring their A game to the courts.
That point makes me think Serena would be much higher than #700 on the men’s side. She’d probably get wildcards into a lot of tournaments, and if she could pick off a couple lower-ranked players in the early rounds, she would probably be ranked around #100. As great as she is, I just don’t see her competing with the players in the Top 50 or 100 on a consistent basis, and the differences in shots and game would take its toll on her both physically and mentally.
I’m sure if McEnroe was given an opportunity to explain his comments, he probably would have listed some of the similar reasons that I just did as to why he thinks Serena would be ranked so low on the men’s tour. The problem is that he didn’t get that chance, and people will just jump to the conclusion that he is making a sexist and insensitive comment about women in sports. You could already see it happening on Twitter on Sunday after the story broke.
But the best response may have been from Serena herself:
Dear John, I adore and respect you but please please keep me out of your statements that are not factually based.
Ultimately, it doesn’t matter how people think Serena would do if she had potentially face male players, and hopefully her answer will make this silly hypothetical go away quickly. With Wimbledon starting in a week, the tennis world should be focusing on the third major and not what Serena’s ranking would be on the ATP Tour. | {
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“I do.” Motto hadn’t taken his eyes from her since entering the room. It was charming and a little odd for him to gaze at her while she was by his side, but the young King was in a dream. She would have him as her husband. She would accept him. She had kissed him and touched his hair and Motto had already made plans to move the wedding to tomorrow. He knew Hector would object but perhaps the day after? Surely that would be enough time. As he resumed the ideal pose before Lady Genevieve, King Motto decided a secret wedding was best. That way he could be her husband sooner and let them make a big celebration of their public nuptials. He would give Gilthlore a fine wedding with flowers, and music, and joyful ado..all of it to honor them as his beloved citizens. He would give them his Queen with all the majesty at his disposal..but perhaps he might convince Hector to be his witness and fetch a Priest after dinner. Or Lunch!
"I think we should go for a boat ride after this."
“A boat ride it is then, My Lady.”
"After I change of course. I'm certain this blasted gown will sink us should I wear it."
“Sire.”
Motto took the handkerchief held out to him and brought to his nose.
*****
“Ice, Sire?” Hector and his King stood in the King’s chambers while Lady Genevieve retired to her own room. Motto’s eyes were closed and he stood facing his door, leaning his head against it. She would share his chamber soon.
“My King. I have known you since the day you were born. It is in your eyes.”
“I should like that ice please.”
*************
A short time later, Motto paced a little in the grand foyer while he and many servants waited for Lady Genevieve. Word had spread through the castle and in only half an hour’s time, everyone had heard of the kiss and how King Motto carried Her Ladyship out in a fit of romance. Nearly all of the maids just happened to be dusting the paintings in the foyer and most of the other servants had similar “tasks” there as well, all of them watching their blushing King walk back and forth in his preoccupied way.
Outside a carriage waited for the royal pair to take them to the lake.
Suddenly the King stopped his nervous walking and strode quickly towards his personal attendant and asked in a low whisper,
As the day passed and the artist continued, Genevieve found herself completely entranced with the king. His hair, beautiful and thick, she just wanted to play with it. His dark eyes were pools of night she could get lost in forever. She wanted to nibble his perfect earlobes. And his lips? Not a few times Genevieve found herself touching her own, remembering his passion. When they were given breaks to walk around, or drink, Genevieve eyed the King in secret. The way his back moved beneath his coat. His strong hands wrapped around a cup. Genevieve played over in her head those hands sliding up her waist when she had met him on the floor. Images kept popping into her mind's eye. Very improper, very lewd images. How Genevieve had managed to keep any sense of decorum was beyond herself.
After the artist had finished his work, Genevieve bid the King a temporary goodbye. Walking down the corridor was fine. She was calm, collected- Genevieve slammed the door behind her and leaned against it. She felt incredibly stuffy and her breathing began to shallow. "Please, get me out of this dress!" She turned, her hands on either door frame as her maids set to untying the back. As the dress loosened, Genevieve calmed and even began smiling to herself. While in her shift, She couldn't help it anymore. She began to laugh.
"I can't believe I actually kissed him!" Genevieve plopped upon her bed, her maids following her. They were just as giddy as she was.
"What was it like?" Lavern asked. It was such a silly question. All three of them had been kissed before...but never by a king, so of course it was different.
"Well, " Genevieve sat back, resting on one of the posts. "It was wonderful!" She sighed hopelessly. The foot that dangled off the bed swung idly. "His lips were so soft. His hands? Just remembering them sliding up my waist makes me shiver." Genevieve exaggerated one for comedic effect. "When he held me close I could feel his strength. I felt so...so protected."
Genevieve grew quiet as she remembered their embrace. It was something she would not forget. "And when he carried you away?" Mildred pipped in. "What was that like?"
"You know, " A sly smile spread across Genevieve's face and she leaned forward, inviting her maids to do the same. "There's something...sensual about the moment when you realize you're helpless. When your husband to be can just pick you up and carry you away and there's nothing you can do about it, but you know he would never, ever hurt you." Her maids blushed and Genevieve laughed. She loved teasing them.
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Genevieve met the King in the foyer wearing a simple blue gown, ivory gloves, and pearls. She wanted to continue with the blue and ivory theme. The extra servants did not go unnoticed by Genevieve. She was unsure whether to frown, or blush! And she did the latter. Were those a few nobles sauntering by? Genevieve made a mental note to ask the King of he could introduce her to a few. After a curtsy and "My Lord" Genevieve took Motto's offered arm, her free hand holding an Ivory parasol. The carriage ride was a quiet one and all Genevieve wanted to do was kiss him again. Well, she wanted to do much more than that, but she was an adult: she could hold out.
Genevieve began fidgeting with the bunched cloth of the parasol before finally speaking up. "So...you've never had any suitors before now?" Her little smile was back, accompanied with a blush. "I couldn't tell." She raised a gloved hand to her mouth to stop a nervous giggle. She was acting like a silly girl.
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The way her skirts moved was especially pretty. Her little shoulders, her wrists, Princess Genevieve’s nimble fingers and perfect jaw. Motto was entranced much to the delight of a certain General. As the King and his Bride-to-be road off in the carriage, General Shino turned and strode briskly to his desk where parchment lay waiting.
Motto seated himself in order to face the Princess better while still remaining close. He wanted to properly adore her.
"So...you've never had any suitors before now?"
The King blushed at seeing the Lady blush. This was awkward conversation indeed, but it would be necessary seeing how she was to be his bride. Intimacy with a woman was something Motto had privately feared for years, not even his parents knew of the terrible incident with the gypsies. But there was something greater than that to discuss. Something that would possibly affect her Ladyship’s health..although his father had never shown any signs of illness, Motto couldn’t be certain Genevieve was without risk.
“Well..no. I was working hard to keep Gilthlore as it is..” He squirmed a little, Motto would not trouble her with too many unpleasant details. “I fought in many battles and well..I am a terrible dancer. I avoid balls whenever possible.” He laughed as he shrugged his shoulders. “I injured a Duchess and several Lords once. It was awful! Ha haha! The Duchess is fine now, but Lord Stithe has a limp.”
He sighed. “May I ..hold your hand, My Lady?” He would place his atop hers and gently lift it to place his other hand beneath hers before pulling his topmost hand away; slowly. His fingertips would trail along Genevieve’s wrist all the way to her delicate fingers. He would sway ever so slightly with the overwhelming want coursing through his body for her as a result. Lady Genevieve was an angel. A sweet delight of all things known.
Genevieve found herself admiring more than the blush on his cheeks. It was rather becoming, but the rest of him? She wondered at the luck that brought her to Gilthlore. Perhaps not luck, but stubbornness. Genevieve thanked her mother silently. She couldn't help but laugh along with the king when he spoke of his unfortunate dancing casualties and her heart did flutter when he took her hand. His finger gliding down her wrist sent goosebumps up Genevieve's spine and she did tremble. Her gaze smouldered as she admired his physic. Lewd images burrowed into her mind. Images of his bare torso, his hair slick with exertion.
"Ahem." Genevieve cleared her throat, however unladylike it was. She could feel herself getting warm again. "I can help you with your dancing, if you'd like?" Her green eyes fell away and she smiled at her hand in his. Genevieve gave his hand a gentle squeeze. "I've helped my siblings learn to dance, both brothers and sisters." She enjoyed dancing, especially to livelier steps. Genevieve was rather excited for the ball coming up. She would get to see her father and, with luck, perhaps a sibling or two would accompany him. "Of course, I'm sure your fumbling is endearing." Genevieve teased. Goodness, but she was feeling rather bold.
The carriage lurched to a halt and Genevieve exited it, with the help of the coachman who opened the door. She had blushed lightly when he spotted their hand holding, but took her time in pulling it away as if to tell the coachman she wasn't ashamed to show a little light affection to her would be husband.
"This is beautiful!" Genevieve took in the scenery. Green hills surrounded a lake clearer than she had ever seen. Fish, of varying bright colors, darted about seeming to float in glass. The only indicator this was actually water was the occasional ripple across the serene surface. Flowering trees dotted the lake, the fallen pink blossoms drifting along the top of it. A boat, manned by an oarsman at one end, and seats at the other, rocked with the water as it was tied to a dock. The weather was absolutely perfect.
"I am glad to spend some time with you, King Motto." Perhaps she should have said my Lord, but Genevieve wanted to say his name. To feel it on her tongue. "I know we won't get to spend much time together in the coming days." Their footfalls clunked on the wooden deck as they walked.
Genevieve took an offered hand as she lowered herself into the rocking boat. She sent a silent prayer hoping the boat would not capsize and let out an internal sigh when it did not. "Tell me something, My Lord." Genevieve spoke up when they both had settled and the boat drifted on the water. "Anything." A hand held the parasol open, creating shade that half covered her. Her other hand propped her head as she stared dreamily into the King's beautiful dark eyes. "Something I don't know about you." Which was, admittedly, a lot. Hopefully this was a good conversation starter. Genevieve had come to realize that the only real conversations between the two had been arguments, or rather led to arguments
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“My Lady, fumbling is a gentle act. I careen. I jolt. I...would rather you make merry with Hector than be harmed by my oafish striving.” She probably danced well. It was likely Her Ladyship was even more beautiful while dancing. The Princess was already refined and smooth...and small.. and pretty..and soft. And light. The carriage stopped and he hated it. He was gathering the courage to kiss her dammit. If only the lake were FURTHER AWAY. Ah her tiny hand was releasing his. It was most unfortunate, but Motto consoled himself with an image of holding her close to himself. Just the two of them alone in the woods. It would be raining. Droplets would sprinkle down upon her lovely cheeks and she would press closer to his naked chest for warmth. She was dressed in a delicate ivory linen...
"This is beautiful!"
“Yes.” The King was still imagining her hair and her touch but he scolded himself for wasting the precious moment he had with Genevieve and blinked into the present. Indeed the lake was a vision of bliss.
"I am glad to spend some time with you, King Motto."
“and I you, My Lady.” He shifted to face her better. Soon she would be his wife. His dear Queen. He watched her board the craft and felt his heart sing. Ah she was so pretty in her every movement and breath.
Motto blushed and looked away. “I am … I ...I ……..” His mind was a complete blank. He needed to say something but Motto’s panicked mind had nearly forgotten the actual question. She wanted to know about him! Ah yes! “I ……” Oh dear. He knew not what to say. It was foolish and utter nonsense! His brows furrowed and shoulders tensed. He was losing his damn mind! “Forgive me. I am new to this..marrying you..business..I work hard..I take council more often than I like.. but I lack wisdom and experience. I am mostly the boy left behind.” Motto’s eyes lost a little of their light.
“My parents were good rulers and were loved. Gilthlore pours it’s heart into the remaining soul but he is alone and lost. He has no noteworthy skills or value aside from the blood in his veins. I am but a small echo cut off from it’s source. I know not how to be King. I am afraid.” The oarsman had stopped rowing and stared aghast. Motto’s eyes cleared and he sat up taller. His father would be disappointed in him. He was weak and small; just a boy who lost his dear mother and father. He was supposed to be King, but he would never be the King Gilthlore needed. He was simply standing in his father’s castle and trying to hold it up.
Motto laughed at himself and unfastened his coat. “Let us not speak of this. It is a fine day for a swim is it not?” Tossing his jacket to the oarsman, Motto lept into the water. He was careful not to rock the vessel as he did so. The water washed away all of his fears and sorrow. It was cool and refreshing. Most pleasant. Rising up to the surface, he smiled up at Genevieve. “Join me. I will not let any harm come to you.”
He blushed. Genevieve would be lying if she said she didn't enjoy it. The light tint of his cheeks, the aversion of his eyes? They added to his charm and already beautiful looks. Her eyes crinkled at the corners as she smiled at his fumbling, it was indeed, very endearing. His lack of confidence showed her a King uncertain of himself and Genevieve felt a pang of sadness. He was a very competent man. He had mentioned taking council. Perhaps there was someone there causing this uncertainty?
Genevieve's flush was not of embarrassment, but anger. As his wife, she would give him the confidence he needed. Of course, there would always be a need for council, but she would make it her duty to help King Motto believe in himself and his choices. "I am afraid." Genevieve's heart called to him. She wanted to chase that fear away! To make him better! To-
He jumped into the lake. Genevieve exchanged open mouth looks of disbelief with the oarsman. The King. Had just removed his coat. And jumped into the lake.
“Join me. I will not let any harm come to you.”
Should...should she remove her own outer clothing?? It would be a shame to ruin such lovely worksmanship. Of course, she would only be wearing her shift and that simply would not do. Genevieve looked at the King's smile, it seemed genuine and then looked down at her own gloved hands. She had promised herself to teach him to have fun. Genevieve closed the parasol and began removing the gloves from her hands before the pearls from her neck and ears. Her gown was light enough to swim in.
She jumped.
The water was cool to her skin. Her gown floated about her in the clear lake and it seemed almost ethereal to Genevieve. Breaking the surface, Genevieve gasped for air, a wild smile and twinkling eyes taking in the sun. "I never thought you would be one for an impromptu swim!" Genevieve chuckled while tredding water. Her gown was a bit cumbersome and Genevieve almost regretted not taking it off. Of course, Lady's gowns were always so troublesome to remove and put back on. Mirth twinkled in her eyes while her hair stuck to her head. Genevieve brushed back what she could, but it just wouldn't cooperate. "Oh goodness, I must look absolutely ridiculous." She outright laughed.
A mischievous smile pulled at the corners of Genevieve's lips and she started to drift from the King. And then she splashed him! It was not a big splash, just a little, playful one. Genevieve put her face half in the water, the water hitting the bridge of her nose, just under her eyes, as she waited for the King's rebuttal.
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Former warehouse turned into a trendy coffee / roasters shop. Parking available. Inside it has a 'cool' look with overhead lamps, beams etc. And also nice that theres different shops at same location. Due to large area and tables/counter setup I personally miss cozy seats / spot to enjoy my stay, and it's a bit out of way to just go over for the good but pricey coffee etc. Hence for me 3*
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Former warehouse turned into a trendy coffee / roasters shop. Parking available. Inside it has a 'cool' look with overhead lamps, beams etc. And also nice that theres different shops at same location. Due to large area and tables/counter setup I personally miss cozy seats / spot to enjoy my stay, and it's a bit out of way to just go over for the good but pricey coffee etc. Hence for me 3*
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1) What do these identities mean to you?2) Who do you let apply these identities to you?
3) What does it mean when other people get it wrong about you for example, you are POZ with great numbers, never had an OI, and someone calls you an "AIDs Patient"? for example, you have AIDS and made it through some serious infections and fears, and someone says "whats the big deal... I thought the cocktail solved all that years ago"?
4) If they are indeed different identities in the HIV community, how do we in the community deal wih such differences?
5) Are there cross cultural variations in membership in either identitiy. Could one be a PLA in one country but not in another. etc? Any racism? Classism?
6) Do differing identies have a bearing on activist work, or education work?
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« Last Edit: September 30, 2008, 10:45:00 PM by mecch »
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Well, I can say that I have 'the AIDS'. It doesn't mean much to me, 'cept remind me of how sick I was almost two years ago, and how much better I am now. The cocktail does solve it, for many, but one has to be on meds for them to work - I wasn't at the time. I don't now how much it means in the gay HIV+ community, either. I told one guy on Manhunt that I had AIDS when he commented me being HIV+. I don't think he knew that there was a difference.
1) What do these identities mean to you?2) Who do you let apply these identities to you?
3) What does it mean when other people get it wrong about you for example, you are POZ with great numbers, never had an OI, and someone calls you an "AIDs Patient"? for example, you have AIDS and made it through some serious infections and fears, and someone says "whats the big deal... I thought the cocktail solved all that years ago"?
4) If they are indeed different identities in the HIV community, how do we in the community deal wih such differences?
5) Are there cross cultural variations in membership in either identitiy. Could one be a PLA in one country but not in another. etc? Any racism? Classism?
6) Do differing identies have a bearing on activist work, or education work?
I guess "HIV positive" is a much more positive expression, now that we've all learned HIV is simply a "chronic manageable condition". (Yeah, right.) The public seems to think that a person with HIV just pops a pill every night, uses a condom when he has sex, and goes on with life. The word "AIDS", though, still seems to have a sense of doom & gloom attached to it, as though a person with AIDS is knocking on death's door.
I'm not very scared of the word "AIDS" anymore. I got AIDS last fall, and I've felt pretty good this year. There are folks around here who have had AIDS since way back in the 1980s and are still doing well. For me, the specific wording of the disease just ain't that big of a deal anymore.
I guess "HIV positive" is a much more positive expression, now that we've all learned HIV is simply a "chronic manageable condition". (Yeah, right.) The public seems to think that a person with HIV just pops a pill every night, uses a condom when he has sex, and goes on with life. The word "AIDS", though, still seems to have a sense of doom & gloom attached to it, as though a person with AIDS is knocking on death's door.
I'm not very scared of the word "AIDS" anymore. I got AIDS last fall, and I've felt pretty good this year. There are folks around here who have had AIDS since way back in the 1980s and are still doing well. For me, the specific wording of the disease just ain't that big of a deal anymore.
I had AIDS snice 1998, and when I'm Asked, I always tell that person "Yes I Have AIDS" and I'm not just HIV+ I............ find NO SHAME in telling this when asked, but it's still not a badge of Honor to actually have AIDS and not to just be HIV+ so, to me their is a difference between being HIV+ and having AIDSit may not feel any different to me, but their really is a difference in having Full-Blown-Aids.................
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Right, denb45 --- our experiences are just all so different now. I see in your signature line that AIDS was horrible for you in 1997, with 3 OI's and disability soon to follow. When my T-cells dropped down to 68 (in 2007), somehow I didn't have any OI's, and didn't even miss a day of work, was just completely exhausted and worn-down and a little bit anemic. So for me, AIDS didn't really leave a lasting toll (so far), but for a lot of other people, it's been a downright awful experience. I think treatment naive patients and the new meds have really blurred the previous lines of distinction between HIV and AIDS, in a way that long-term survivors weren't always accustomed to.
I've been considering putting them on my profile but not sure I want to. Why or why not I might put them on my profile is, after all, related my views on the themes of this thread that I created.
Dont feel the need yet to share pictures, locale, etc etc. Sorry.
Last spring I was "long-term hiv neg" (with many HIV+ lovers, fuckbuddies in past, a few HIV+ boyfriends, several losses in 80's and 90's - no losses in last 10 years). Suddenly I'm poz AND treated.
Did i need to add the info in the parentheses in order to get HIV cred, somehow??Do I need to learn and use the lingo, such as "OI" to have certain cred in this forum?
Heres one to consider: in my country, LTS with AIDS diagnoses are MUCH more likely to be public about having HIV. If I look for support about treatment - I've only found LTS locally. POZ guys don't disclose to general public - in my country. (So I am very glad to have found this forum where there is a good mix of every possible experience!) My ID had to fish around to see if I, personally, had the intelligence to have supportive encounters with LTS - his worry is that recent seroconverters may or may not have productive interactions with LTS during the seroconvertors "adjustment period". Because the experiences between different "identities" varies so widely. For example he routinely advises recent seroconvertors NOT to look at the Internet for HIV info or support for many months. His fear is that if the newbie doesnt have critical skills to interpret information sources (dates, sources of info, etc.) - could be counterproductive.
Here's another: "POZ" vs "AIDs" identity - related to disclosure to public -- interesting choice in a community, eh? imagine this varies by country and city.Add to that "transmissable" vs. "treated and undetectable" - leads to interesting dynamics as well, no?
PS - my labs dont follow standard science and my ID says I am one of 3 quite unusual cases he has seen in his career. A friend of mine who survived cancer said that, actually, every serious illness comes with a "special case" or "unusual challenge" and treating for that, is the art of medicine. He said I was fortunate perhaps in that hopefully my special challenge was my strange seroconversion experience and now it could be clear sailing. I asked my ID and he said thats a great way of looking at it, and he expects the same.
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“From each, according to his ability; to each, according to his need” 1875 K Marx
Wow, I never thought I would need to deal with a question like yours. My partner was diagnosed with t-cell count of 14, which I believe means he has AIDS. We are both trying to keep up our spirits while we get him back to a “safer” t-cell count. The doctor seems to think we will be able to do this; however I must say I'm not as confident. Sorry for the little detour now back to the subject. I was tested a few weeks after my partner and came back as positive. The t-cell count for me was 465. I guess I'm still at the HIV positive stage, and I have not been showing any "symptoms.” We are both being forced to deal with what it means to have HIV/AIDS, and I do believe as far as society is concerned there is a difference. Sorry for the ramble this is my first post.
Sorry to hear the news about the two of you.Thanks for posting!Welcome to this forum!
I'm wearing similar shoes as you, being newbie. The great thing about this forum is that it mixes all the experiences, and also has good moderation, and the moderators and many of the members have knowledge of the current science so discussions end up productive.
I do not find your post to be a ramble. You'll be thinking about "what it means to have HIV/AIDS" quite a bit. And I do hope you both find yourself back in the comfort zone and that you become more confident about the prognosis for living well with HIV.
Just in your couple alone, you might end up with differing "identities". Whether they be socially applied, or medically applied, or meaningful to you two personally and privately, or not.... you will see.
Best to you!
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“From each, according to his ability; to each, according to his need” 1875 K Marx
This made me think, bizarely?, about OBAMA. You know when he entered the race I considered him metiz - mixed ethnicity. He goes along with whatever people want to apply to him - most people want him to be black, so hes the first "black candidate" - and sometimes he says hes black (?).
Sometimes he adjusts his message to the audience and the moment. Early in his campaign he gave a wonderful and nuanced speech about being, in fact, metiz. The nuance was more at his comfort level of "law professor" talking to intelligent people.
I teach in Europe and I show my students what the options are on a US census for ethnicity. The categories or "identities" don't always make sense to people from another culture. Hispanic???
If I could get 100% medical reimbursement by wearing a PLA (person living with AIDS) identity - gee I might be tempted. For the moment, I wouldn't want that identity socially or on the dating scene.
In my country, up until about 2000, AIDS diagnosis was the magic word that really improved the quality of life of people with HIV/AIDS. Now social and medical services are getting as nuanced about it as the HIV/AIDS community.
As the HIV epidemic continues its natural history, hiv neg and hiv pos people both are going to have to evolve a lot in our identity politics.
The Swiss blew a lot of peoples gaskets when this year they said treated and closely monitored HIV+ people were nontransmissable. This opened a can of worms in epidemiology for the epidemic, and really challenges a lot of established identities related to HIV.
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“From each, according to his ability; to each, according to his need” 1875 K Marx
I dont know with my ever lowest at 220 cd 4s and my 11 years of pill popping whether I m a 'relatively newcomer with hiv' or a 'moderatelylong time survivor with aids', but I dont care either wayI dont feel totally at home in one of the "categories".A rose is a rose by any other name.
I only DO care if being "hiv positive" wd be considered of higher ranking status than"having aids". In that case pls consider me as having aids.
Last time I checked, you had AIDS when your T-Cells dropped below 200. Admittedly I hadn't bothered to check again til just now once I had my own AIDS diagnosis. Does regaining T-Cells and going back above the 200 mark mean you no longer have AIDS? I don't think so. You still have basically the same immune system you had when you were below 200 because all the T-Cells that you lost that were uniquely trained against certain infections do not come back.
As to how I label myself, that depends on who I'm speaking to. If I'm dating, I identify as HIV+, if I'm talking to any of my medical support systems like Doctors, Nurses etcetera I say i have AIDS.
There is a clinical definition definition of AIDS, as others have mentioned above (T-cells below 200, or some series of opportunistic infections).
I have to say that I find your questions overly broad, and also have to potential to be divisive. That's not what our community needs.
It would help me if you could explain more specifically why this issue is of interest to you. To one extent or another, we have multiple identities, some of which are self-applied, others of which are given to us.
Regards,
Henry
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Yessie... once your cd4's drop below 200 your considered to be full blown AIDS... even if your cd4's go back up... with meds and or not... OI's are counted for ssdi to be able to recieve a diability check... so at 1500cd4's with my meds... I'm still considered to have aids... whats one definition of the virus to the other... hiv or aids? as one bug said to another bug... its all the same! I'm alive and so far well... just do the best you can...
I have to say that I find your questions overly broad, and also have to potential to be divisive. That's not what our community needs.
It would help me if you could explain more specifically why this issue is of interest to you. To one extent or another, we have multiple identities, some of which are self-applied, others of which are given to us.
The questions are broad yeah, to spark different discussion tangents - my assumption was people might feel moved to respond to one or another, certainly not all.
All posters responses on any point are equally valid, I think. In any thread, not just this one. (Except if they insult or break this forums rules, of course.)
I agree the questions have the potential to be divisive but I PERSONALLY don't have that intention -- I think the identities can be divisive, and what each person chooses to do with such. Thus one rationale to discuss in a safe place such as this.
No I'm not writing a book, or doing a PHD survey, eek.
(Yes, I like Obama and I'm hardly a white supremacist! Geez that was a misreading, where did I say that?)
I agree very much that I tend to feel multiple identities - thats why I put up the two "identities" to be discussed. To see where I might fit in with the communities thinking on this. I see some people feel like me, somepeople stick to one identity, some people don't care, etc. etc.
My motivation - I felt some unexpressed identity issues reading other threads. So I was just wondering if it could be brought into the clear by posting this thread. The threads on stigma and internet personals ignorance really help me position myself some more, and these two identities were kinda underneath, at least for me.
I learned reading your posts. Hope some of you learned reading each other as well.
For instance I learned that its just a CD4 count that is criteria for AIDS diagnosis? Is that USA definition? Now I will ask my ID if I have AIDS because I had 197 during seroconversion, in May, for a few weeks I guess. So does that diagnosis hold for seroconversion counts, or is it only during the chronic phase when CD4s descend to eventually drop below 200 that one is diagnosed. Gee I thought one had to have OI, plus less than 200 to be diagnosed. I wonder what my ID will respond, he'll probably ask me my motivation for asking - once again calling up the subject of the two "identities"...
Best to all.
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I don't like the CDC definition of AIDS as it doesn't take the person's current situation into account.
An AIDS-patient can be someone who has several OIs and is at the brink of death. It can be someone who has a CD4 count of 199 but is entirely asymptomatic or it can be someone who has had > 500CD4 for over 5 years and hasn't had any HIV-related problems for an even longer period.
I think the WHO categorisation in different stages of HIV infection is a much better system.
The WHO definition defines four different stages depending on the symptoms shown by the patient.
I consider myself to be an HIV+ person who has had AIDS (as defined by WHO Stage 4) and I am now asymptomatic. I find no value considering myself as having AIDS. It would only make me feel like a victim, or it might make me feel more "exclusive" when meeting HIV+ people who have never had any problems.
Thanks Sweden, these other criteria are very useful and quite different way of thinking than CDC.
In a nutshell, in my five months being HIV+, only PLAs are the ones in my daily life who acknowledge that I am poz simply and directly without too much judgments or quick attempts to put me in a safe identity.
Its been interesting talking to friends since I seroconverted because every single one of them wanted some sort of easy identity to put me in, based on their existing knowledge.
For the most part, hetero friends wanted me to tell them that I'm not dying or sick cause I'll be treated when necessary and life will continue. (Surprise, I'm already being treated and felt horrible before and according to USA criteria had "instant" AIDS???.) They all knew I was previously negative and in fine health. So the discussion always comes round to: "But in this day and age, with the cocktail, I'm sure you'll be fine".
Homo friends are ironically more judgmental than heteros about many different issues, and put all sorts of their own fears and agendas on me, a lot of these having to do with their own feelings and experiences with and about "PLA" versus "HIV+" identities. I think this is a natural reaction, and don't take it so personally. I don't have the information to educate them, and some of them think they are experts - but their info is different than my info.
One gay friend told me i was making too big a deal of being POZ and "only spiritually damaged people and drug addicts develop full-blown AIDS these days" and anyway (contradiction?) "it will take many years for your immunity to decline".
Another gay friend, upon hearing my fabulous results on HAART, said, first out of his mouth, "Yeah but youre still contagious." (Contagious was his exact word, yes). And then, when I told him I had a 45 min discussion with my ID about my new life as a poz and my ID said now that I had a low viral load like a "regular poz" i could reasonably start having sex again, but be safe, and that my ID thought me having sex was important, my friend said: "That's a bad idea. You shouldn't have sex until you're undetectable, and specialists just say that now to get you out of the office faster because you're gay and they know poz guys are going crazy and there is nothing they can do about it."
I kid you not.
More: treated PLA guys in my region told me I'd have a hard time finding other poz partners willing to have safe sex. I mentioned this to a gay friend (whos HIV status i dont know) who said that was PLAs acting trashy because they don't care anymore.
I asked my ID about the PLA no condom thing, and he seemed to concur with my gay friend, in so many words - that it was bad advice within the gay community.
Gay friends (HIV status unknown to me) told me I shouldn't tell anyone I am poz (cause, I suppose, they don't disclose? - how would I know, since they don't....). Gay friends told me not to get involved with PLAs. (They don't want me to have that as part of my identity...?)
As I said, I got the biggest feeling of honesty and nonjudment from PLAs, in my area. They seem to know who they are, and have a lot of respect and capacity to share and listen to others. On the other hand, I have to be really strong not to get personally anxious by some HIV war stories.
Its weird that I already experienced HIV war stories, horrible sickness, deaths, in the 80's and 90's, with friends and lovers, but they've been conveniently assigned to "history" that does not bear on today's experience of HIV. Big error?
Reading this forum helps me cope better in such situations in day-to-day life. There are a lot more divere people in this forum, and more diverse sources of information, than I find around me.
Best to all
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When people, eg at work, ask why I taking them tablets I say "for chronic HIV-1 infection". Sometimes i even say the whole shebang (human immunodeficiency virus). The usual reaction is "oh!" then "what's that". The office gossip goes "Matt has AIDS". I am pains to explain I don't but yes I could have except the treatment works so I won't. This is usually followed up sometime later by "but you don't look like you have (er) HIV-stroke-AIDS"... (for I work in an office which does much development work overseas). The best counter to this came from one of the PAs who said "I don't care if he's got the clap, he's good at his job, so shut up". I had to laugh a bit.
personally I like "I am HIV-positive" and "I am a PLWHA" (but never abbreviated) but not "I am HIV" or "I'm POZ" ... (I am HIV is just not English). I especially dislike "I am an MSM+", but that's another thread....
In Canada, AIDS is diagnosed if a person has1. undergone testing for HIV and received a positive result and 2. has one or more of the clinical illnesses, or indicator diseases, that characterize AIDS.
Opinion of the NHS:The term 'AIDS' was first used by doctors when the exact nature of the HIV virus was not fully understood. However, the term is no longer widely used because it is too general to describe the many different conditions that can affect somebody with HIV. Specialists now prefer use the terms 'advanced', or 'late stage' HIV infection.
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personally I like "I am HIV-positive" and "I am a PLWHA" (but never abbreviated) but not "I am HIV" or "I'm POZ" ... (I am HIV is just not English). I especially dislike "I am an MSM+", but that's another thread....
- matt[/font]
PLWHA = I am a "person living with hiv/aids"??
"I am HIV" is ridiculous, yep.
Do people say "I am an male who has sex with men positive" comeon. maybe write that... say it?
I am Curious Yellow.
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I am not sure that you can find what you seek, based on the questions you asked. Let me answer them first and you can see how my perception is very different.
1) What do these identities mean to you?
Absolutely nothing because I am not defined at all by my HIV infection.
2) Who do you let apply these identities to you?
Nobody, at least to my face. I cannot control what others do in private.
3) What does it mean when other people get it wrong about you
I no longer worry about what others think of me, nor will I be ruled by my infection. I do not care what strangers might think about me as I rely on friends to help keep me feeling balanced.
4) If they are indeed different identities in the HIV community, how do we in the community deal with such differences?
This question deserves its own thread. Far too complex for a simple discussion.
5) Are there cross cultural variations in membership in either identity. Could one be a PLA in one country but not in another. etc? Any racism? Classism?
Another question that is too broad.
6) Do differing identities have a bearing on activist work, or education work?
I believe that different experiences guide most people who choose to be activists or educators. Again, I do not like the label of identities, as it is my experience, in 24 years of being poz, that drives my activism or support work. I like what I do and I know that I am good at it, so why would I care what strangers think? In my support work I am very open about my circumstances, so most of these "identities" really become questions regarding my sexual orientation, HIV infection status and how I believe I am viewed within my communities.
It took me years, but I finally learned that you must remain true to yourself and part of that includes rejecting labels that other would place on you. Me and my life are unique, as they only apply to me. I am very capable of describing myself, but it takes time. That is also why I only care about what Stephen and my friends think of me, because they know me best. They know my reality and limitations and never once has any of them referred to me by my HIV status.
I believe that most identities are merely labels and are often used as a way of segmenting society.
What's the old saw? "You can call me anything, just don't call me late for dinner."
Anywho. . . .this is a very interesting thread. If I were to assign a term to my "medical condition", I guess I would say HIV+. I do, however, remember back in 1985 when medical personnel examined me and said that I had ARC . ..not as in Joan of... but...."AIDS-related complex".
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6) Do differing identies have a bearing on activist work, or education work?
Discuss
Three years ago when I joined the Forums and began working as a volunteer to get support for the RWCA Reauthorization, I sent email to a newspaper re: an article I was writing. I did not state that I was a Commissioner on the Sonoma County Commission on AIDS, I have AIDS or any information about me as an individual. I live on less that a thoyusand bucks per month so the County of Sonoma offered to let me use their mail and they would pay the postage.
The first response from the publisher was, "Is this the article? It came from Theresa and anything that comes from the county is automatically considered "prepared" and "predictable". I introduced myself as a person living with AIDS to that paper, got front page on my first HIV funding article. There are many little newspapers a couple of large dailys, and radio stations and 1 TV news in Sonoma, Mendocino, Napa, Marin, Humboldt, and Lake Counties. Between my web site and my disclosure as a person living with AIDS to the press, I got more press than anyone ever has in the C.O.A.. They miss me. Have the best dayMichael
For my first day back, I have been itching to respond to this post, which is one that brings so much to the surface that it needs to be commented on.
HIV, the acronym that means Human Immunodeficiency Virus. I don't let anyone, nor do I myself, ever refer to me as an HIV. HIV is in my body, but it will not and cannot define who or what I am as a person. Using it as such, gives this acronym far too much credential because it is simply a term used to define a "viral protein" and that is all it does.
AIDS, the acronym defining Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. Simple this one. As explained above, when a person has an opportunistic disease which is an indication of Immune deficiency, they are given the proper acronym to define their status for Medical Professionals. I have been given the AIDS description for 14 years now, and it all started with a CD4 of 20. Since that time, I have received mostly very good medical assistance from the VA, but many times I must instruct professionals about the different aspects of living with AIDS, because few are as well versed as I am, living with it for 25 years now.
We are in fact responsible for these short little abbreviations to have become so powerful in defining us. We are the only ones that are going to be able to squash any misuse of them to define us, our station in life or in fact anything associated with this disease.
I personally refuse to let anyone define me by the status of my health. I am a whole and perfect person just the way I am, and the fact that I contain HIV in my body is simply inconsequential to anything that goes on in my life with other people. That is not to say that I am not responsible for personal contact with others, because that goes for anyone, regardless of their HIV status.
Just wanted to comment Thanks.
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FlightAware App has issues
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Woman’s club to meet Monday at YWCA
November meeting includes $1,000 donation and presentation on drug addiction
MEETING HIGHLIGHTS — Iris Craig, president of the OFWC Woman’s Club of Steubenville, welcomed Life Walk of Wintersville representatives Michael Thomas, left, office manager and counselor, and Gene Walker, counselor, who discussed at the club’s November meeting their roles in helping clients deal with opiate addiction.
-- Janice Kiaski
STEUBENVILLE — The OFWC Woman’s Club of Steubenville will wrap up its 2017 meeting before a January and February hiatus with a noon luncheon and business meeting Monday at the YWCA of Steubenville.
The program will feature a performance by Steubenville High School choir members under the direction of Scott Wolodkin, and also, according to the club booklet, will include the Rev. Ashley Steele, executive director of Urban Mission Ministries, as program speaker.
After Monday’s gathering, club members won’t meet again until March 5 when Therese Nelson will be the program presenter. Her topic will be “The Eggs.” April brought the Eggsibition, the latest effort by the Nelson family to bring visitors to downtown businesses to see 17 3-foot eggs that were created and on display through Mother’s Day at various downtown locations.
Nelson will discuss the status of the undertaking.
The club’s November luncheon and business meeting, meanwhile, involved two elements, including the presentation of a $1,000 check to the Steubenville Recreation Department, which was accepted by Lori Fetherolf, city recreation director. The money will be used to purchase games such as air hockey and an Xbox 360 for patrons of the Martin Luther King Jr. Recreation Center to enjoy.
Program presenters were two representatives of Life Walk headquartered in Cincinnati but having a Wintersville presence since its office opening in March. Addressing the club were local residents Michael Thomas, office manager involved in case management and counseling, and Gene Walker, counselor.
The mission of Life Walk, according to its website, is “to help everyone dealing with opiate addiction find a true path to recovery. Our path includes both medical support and counseling. We look to treat both the physical and psychological roots of substance abuse with compassion and dignity.”
“We’ve had 25 deaths since January of this year — that’s not good — and you say to yourself are you doing enough as treatment providers, are we collectively getting the information we need, the evidence-based practices that we need to continue? Well, yeah, I think we are doing a good job. We can do better, and better for me is a residential type facility,” Thomas said.
“That’s a must. You have to have all the pieces of the puzzle in order for the addict to successfully recover,” Thomas told the woman’s club members, noting outpatient services can’t be expected “to solve all the problems. However, I am grateful we do have outpatient clinics and drug and alcohol treatment facilities around.”
Evaluating an addict is what Thomas said he does on a day-to-day basis. “They’re crying out for help. They’re sick. Our job is to get them better, and by getting them better a lot of times during the assessment we can determine whether maybe detox is appropriate at that time or medication. We are a maintenance assistant treatment program,” he said, noting that can involve Suboxone or Subutex, which helps the heroin addict, for example, from being sick.
An addict, he said, can be “very truly smart, manipulative and every other thing you can imagine,” and some addicts, Thomas pointed out, “will become our loved ones, the people we know the best.”
Thomas said family members may often pose the question of what to do or how to help an addict.
“Well, sometimes helping is not enabling the sickness and what I mean is giving money,” he said, noting it’s OK to say “no” and not do that. “A lot of times people are afraid to say ‘No’ and ‘My child will die if I don’t.’ Not necessarily. Believe it or not, they’re very resilient, they will make their way,” Thomas explained.
“What I am grateful for the most part is that I have the blessing to be able to work in this field from my own experiences as well. I had a son that had suffered from that disease of addiction as well as mental illness,” he said, noting his 17-year-old son was murdered three years ago and that drugs “played a part of that.”
“As devastated as I was, and as I still am at times, especially around the holidays because his birthday is in December, it kind of makes me yearn to do more,” Thomas said, “so my thing is early intervention and early detection. We as a society have to learn to stop looking at that disease of addiction as so disgusting with that person because behind that disease is a real person and I think so often people are judged because of the sickness that they carry.
“I truly, truly didn’t want to come out of my mom’s womb and say, ‘I want to be an addict when I get older, I want to use drugs and be a successful addict.’ Never in my life did I do that,” Thomas said. “A lot of times people use for different reasons — pain, trauma from the past, abuse, all types of things, but the thing keynote for me is that we do recover. It can and will get better, and I would like to continue to open up that dialogue with our city leaders, our community and see if we can work together to work on this epidemic because it is truly bad,” he said.
Creating awareness is important, according to Thomas.
“The disease of addiction is a disease,” he said. “I think people think they (addicts) had a choice, they didn’t have to pick it up. Well, they may have had a choice in the beginning when they started but they no longer have a choice in the end. What I am saying is once you are addicted to anything, drugs, marijuana, opiates, heroin, once you pick it up, and it manifests inside you, you’re off to the races. You really are,” Thomas explained.
“What I do know is that another addict does not have to die today. There are so many resources, and we’re working to get more,” he said, advocating the need for a local residential type treatment facility. “I send people out of Jefferson County daily. I am trying to save lives as much as I can, and I am sending them away in hopes we can help them recover and get a foundation to stand on, so we have to do something,” Thomas said, noting people may try to minimize the drug problem. “We may think not my family or my neighborhood, well it’s in everybody’s neighborhood or it soon will be, so we have to be mindful of that.”
Thomas said he works with a variety of community resources. “There are times we have people coming through our doors who have been homeless and addicted so my job is not only to treat the disease, but also to treat that person with a doctor they may need, a dentist, food, shelter, I do all that because an addict is not going to stay clean if he has no housing. How can you treat them and then they are sleeping on the streets? I work my butt off to make sure that doesn’t happen. We use local shelters or get funding through outreach sources to help with that cost,” he added.
Walker offered a definition of drug addiction.
“It is a chronic disease characterized by drug seeking and use that is compulsive or difficult to control, despite harmful consequences,” Walker said. “The initial decision to take drugs is voluntary for most people, but repeated drug use can lead to brain changes that challenge an addicted person’s self-control and interfere with their ability to resist intense urges to take drugs. Drug addiction also is a relapsing disease, the return to drug use after an attempt to stop,” he added.
“My biggest thing is I do this (counseling) because it’s a needed change,” Walker said. “I myself suffer from the disease of addiction. Now I say I suffer from the disease of addiction, not merely addicted to drugs. Everyone who we perceive to be a drug addict does not suffer from the disease of addiction. Some of us can put it down and walk away. Others we cannot. This is a disease that has to do with our behavior, that has to do with our thought pattern, our cognitive thinking,” he explained.
Walker said he has “been clean” for four years but it took him 25 years to get to those four years.
“I stay rooted in my recovery,” he said, emphasizing the need to look at the person behind the addict.
“What do we do now, how do we make them productive citizens? We start to teach them so they can learn,” he said. “When I got clean and got my own apartment, I had to call someone else — how do you get your electric turned on. I had no idea,” Walker said. “Treatment flows farther than what we can give you in the confines of a building. We have to teach you how to live and become a productive citizen — that is what recovery is about. When we talk about recovering addict, we’re talking about changing one thing — everything,” Walker said. | {
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The state Department of Transportation is discussing the possibility of widening Interstate 12 in the western part of St. Tammany Parish between Mandeville and Covington. Jennifer Branton with DOTD says there are two proposals in the works to add one lane to the east and westbound lanes.
“We are in design development right now. The section of I-12 between LA 59 and LA 21. There are two separate projects.”
The plans were presented at a public meeting last week. Branton says currently, the cost of the project is over 100 million dollars, including expanding lanes on the bridge running over the Tchefuncte River. She says this expansion is necessary because of the recent increase in people commuting through the area.
“There are only so many east-west connectors in this area, just because of our geography. We have a lot of water ways that we have to cross.”
DOTD has said there is no money to move the I-12 expansion project forward as the Legislature did not pass any funding bills. Branton hopes funding will become available because a three lane interstate would mean so much to the Northshore.
“The Interstates were built for commerce and defense not commuting but that’s sort of what it has evolved into and so we’re trying to mitigate for that these days.”
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7 Guilty Pleasures All Bulgarians Shamelessly Enjoy Doing
Spend a little time in Bulgaria observing carefully and you will start to notice tiny cultural signals that make the country unique. Spend a month or a year, and you will be a master in practising the contradictory joys all Bulgarians shamelessly enjoy. Here’s our list of the most common guilty pleasures Bulgarians indulge in.
Blissful doing-nothing
Like most Balkan countries, Bulgaria has a deeply-rooted coffee culture based not on the coffee itself but rather on the time spent doing nothing. They even have a word for it: aylyak,referring to the holy ritual of not taking anything close to your heart and enjoying the idleness to the highest point. If you search for photos with #aylyak on Instagram, you will mostly see stretched feet, beers, hammocks, and beaches. While occasionally aylyak may be related to laziness in its negative connotations, most of the time the blissful act of doing nothing is praised.
Indulging in noisy home repairs on early weekend mornings
There’s a famous joke in Bulgaria: that obviously walls are at their softest early on Saturday morning. While this is the day when you have decided to finally decided to catch up on sleep, your neighbor has started breaking, hammering, and what all in all sounds like destroying their own apartment and then rebuilding it from scratch starting from 7 am. If you live in a block of flats, you will have to get used to it.
Riding the bus without a ticket
Public transportation in Bulgaria is rarely praised, probably due to it being overcrowded, filthy, and generally running late. This is enough reason for Bulgarians to feel riding it without a ticket is a justifiable act of protest. When the ticket inspector asks for their ticket, you will often see them shout, quarrel and finally dash off the bus.
Just hating
Having mentioned the public transportation, it’s worth noting that overall, Bulgarians love to hate. They hate the government (although they either elected it or didn’t bother to vote), hate the police, hate their neighbors and everyone who is better off than them. Whom you hate and why is the topic of endless discussion over a cup of coffee or a beer later during the day.
Eating too much on big holidays
Christmas and Easter are the biggest holidays in Bulgaria, and this is the right time for Bulgarians to consume as much as they can. They heap the festive tables with much more food than they can actually eat for the sake of demonstrating that they are well off. Then, of course, they have no choice but to swallow it all and complain they have put on 11 lbs during the holidays.
Listening to chalga
If there’s one topic that divides the country, it is chalga music, the local Oriental-styled rhythms that people adore or despise. The lyrics tackling topics like why you’ve been left by your boyfriend, how to get rid of your wife’s lover, how your heart is aching, etc., seemingly soothe the anxiety of the love life of many. The anti-chalga society has one particular feature – while they publicly denounce it, once they get drunk, you will find they know all the lyrics and dance to it. This is a guilty pleasure you will hardly find anywhere else in the world.
Driving like Formula 1 racers
If you are not a confident driver, you’d better reconsider driving in Bulgaria. Bulgarians are quite aggressive drivers, living the dream of unrealized Formula 1 racers, roaring the engines while waiting for the traffic lights to turn green or speeding up to 120 mph when the limit is 85 mph. | {
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Sunday, April 30, 2006
ModFab On...United 93
Paul Greengrass' powerful and powerfully-made docudrama, United 93, has received a mountain of publicity and reviews...by this point, you've probably decided whether you want to see it or not. Capturing in tormented detail the only unsuccessful terrorist hijacking of September 11th, the media has gone bananas...not over the film's quality or its dramatic impact, but with questions of propriety. "Is it too soon for a 9/11 film?" Ridiculous. As if art has ever waited for public opinion to grant it permission to do its job.
For despite what Republicans would have you believe, Art serves an important public purpose...it gives context and illumination into the shared experience of humanity. It may do so directly or indirectly, but that illumination is vital to any healthy society. It is asinine, then, to ask if it is too soon for an exploration of our national tragedy; the question should be, rather, why have artists taken so long to respond? No major works of art have appeared in any discipline to help us cope, memorialize and remember. Beyond the occasional play (Neil Labute's The Mercy Seat) and sensationalist TV movies, our collective artistic response has been virtually nonexistent.
This absence is made all the more poignant by the fact that United 93 is not merely a good film, but a great one...a moving yet histrionic-free portrait of a crucibled moment in our collective consciousness. Like all great art, it requires focus and demands attention. It has more to say about our collective failure, our rage, our sadness, our faith, our courage, our mistakes, and our regret than a million reviews (including this one).
My point is not to tell you to see United 93 because it is good, although it is. You should see it because it is necessary. Whether you want to relive that experience or not, it is important that we ALL remember it, in a room full of other human beings, as part of a community. It is why the Greeks listened to Antigone, why the British experienced Hamlet over and over again. It is part of our story, and like all cultures, we need to hear our stories from time to time, in new ways, to make us realize new things. (And you will.) It is the only way we can proceed forward as a people, making sure of our past and learning our lessons from it.
And for what it's worth: my opinion? Paul Greengrass is a hero...an artist who went to the survivors' families and asked to tell this brutally important tale, and did so without succumbing to emotionality or pseudo-patriotism. He is exactly what we need now, in this time. | {
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Tasti D-Lite Faces More Non-Competition
The allegedly habit-forming icy-treat chain, AKA “crackberry,” has signed a lease for a new 600-square-foot shop on Broadway near Columbia University, according to Tuesday’s announcement from brokerage Robert K. Futterman & Associates.
The new Morningside Heights digs will be the fifth New York City location for the West Coast dessert dealer, which has embarked on an aggressive East Coast expansion plan.
Not that Tasti D-Lite is shivering.
As a spokesperson for “NEW YORK’S #1 FROZEN DESSERT” told The Observer back in November (and recently reiterated for the Sun): “We don’t consider it any competition at all… It’s frozen yogurt, and our product is a unique frozen dessert which contains no yogurt at all.”
RKF Senior Director Mark Kapnick and Associate Brandon Eisenman represented Pinkberry in this transaction. RKF is the exclusive retail leasing agent for Pinkberry in the New York Metropolitan area.
2875 Broadway is located between 111th and 112th Streets in the Columbia University neighborhood. The neighborhood is densely populated and is surrounded by fashion retailers, restaurants, cafes and bars catering to students and neighborhood residents. This will be the retailer’s fifth New York City location. RKF recently secured two other Manhattan locations for Pinkberry at 2041 Broadway on the corner of West 70th Street and at 177 Bleeker Street on the corner of MacDougal Street.
“This is a prime location for Pinkberry. It is in an affluent neighborhood with high pedestrian traffic. We couldn’t have found a more visible opportunity on the Upper West Side,” said Kapnick.
About Robert K. Futterman & Associates:
The country’s leading independent real estate firm specializing in retail leasing and investment sales, Robert K. Futterman & Associates, LLC (RKF) serves a broad spectrum of domestic and global clients in services ranging from national tenant and owner representation to advisory, consulting and disposition. With over $4 billion in aggregate real estate transactions to its credit, RKF has been responsible for identifying scores of real estate opportunities throughout the United States for leading American and international chains, retailers, developers and institutional clients. RKF is headquartered in New York with offices in Las Vegas, Los Angeles and San Francisco.
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Making strides for good health
Local residents say that rec. complex programs are giving them their lives back.
“These people put in their time – their knowledge – to help guide me. I would not want to dishonor them. They’re doing this for me. Not for them – for me. I respect that and respect myself enough to hang in there,”
The program is Winning Tomorrow Today and is funded by the Tennessee Department of Health.
Chandler’s recovery really started when he was admitted to the hospital Dec. 26 for double pneumonia.
It was a wakeup call.
“I was scared I was going to die. When I found out I could get in at [the complex] I jumped on the opportunity, and I’ve been working on it ever since.”
In the years leading up to Chandler’s hospitalization, his health had deteriorated to the point that he had difficulty getting around, and that he needed help showering and dressing.
“I was hobbling around with a cane; using a walker sometimes. I was on oxygen and taking four sugar pills a day.
“I had to have surgery on my back. After [that] I laid around and gained a hundred pounds. I got to where I couldn’t even move – dress myself hardly.
“That’s what got me…I’m used to working, but I couldn’t do anything. I just basically gave up.”
Chandler said just a few months in the program, he has dropped over 50 pounds, seldom needs to use oxygen and – most importantly – his cane now stays home on the wall.
“Exercising has helped me a lot. Now, I’m able to work out and am gaining muscle mass. I’ve only lost three pounds these last two weeks, but I’ve lost another percent body fat.”
Chandler said that it has been a slow, uphill process, but he has never wavered in his determination to continue at the rec. complex, no matter how much he hurts and doesn’t want to go.
“This morning I didn’t want to walk. I’ve been in pain for three days. After I got on the track and started walking, I walked two miles, today, and then got in the pool and worked out for an hour.”
Chandler said that his first trip to the center, he made it a total of four laps.
“I was done … couldn’t go any further. About two weeks later it took 47 minutes to walk a mile.
“Everyday I would push myself to go further and further.”
Seeing Chandler walk is to see determination – the set of his jaw, the whole set of his body shifts from his usual lighthearted disposition to one of purpose and focus. It’s the stride of a man not with something to prove, but with a job to do, and that job is to improve his health.
“I started walking for an hour instead of laps. I’ve went as far a four miles.
“But not everyday,” Chandler confided. “When I feel good, I make myself go a little further. I have to make myself do something extra.”
Chandler said that at five weeks, he was able to hang up the cane.
The Winning Tomorrow Today program covers more than just exercise. It is a complete approach to health. For Chandler, this, in part, meant a fresh look at food.
“I started eating Special K for breakfast or grapefruit. I get a biscuit from Hardee’s, but use to, I would go in and get two or three.”
The change included a turn from sugar, and what he calls a Mountain Dew addiction, to eat whole grain bread and pasta.
“When I go to the store, I look at every label. I used to just put stuff in the cart. Now if it says above 20 percent sugar, I put it back. I don’t care what it is.”
Chandler’s wife, Sharon, who has shared the journey to health has seen the changes first hand. “We started eating healthier. He’s been sticking to it.”
She is very impressed with the changes her husband has made.
“Without this diabetes program, he would still be sitting on the couch. He has completely changed his eating habit,” she said.
“When I met Dale he was fit, now he’s getting that back.”
Chandler attributes his success to the center’s staff.
“My trainer, Kasie Meeks, started me out walking. By the sixth week she started me out in the weight room.”
Chandler has progressed from just lifting the bar, to pushing 85 pounds with his legs.
“She would come show me what she wanted me to do, but she knows I’ll push myself so she doesn’t have to stand over me.”
Exercise starts early for Chandler. Each day he comes to the center at 6:30-7 a.m. He stays until he’s tired, at least a couple of hours.
For those like Chandler who are who are regaining the vigor they once knew, it is a sense of pride of accomplishment that keeps them going.
Fellow program participant Elizabeth Ketcherside, a third-shift caregiver at a local assisted living facility, said that her motivation to keep going is, in part, respect for the people who are helping her.
“It’s an honor thing. My doctor believes I should come in here. These people put in their time – their knowledge to help guide me.
“I would not want to dishonor them. They’re doing this for me. Not for them – for me. I respect that and respect myself enough to hang in there.”
Her start came ironically as a vacation.
“It took me eight months to get [vacation leave]. My first days were spent getting up at 7 a.m. and going to the gym,” she said.
“Instead of getting up late and staying up late, I got to get up early.”
Ketcherside said that as a caregiver it is difficult if someone is too heavy.
“It hurts you more when you have to lift people and move stuff down the hall.”
Much of her exercise regimen is in the pool.
“I do the deep water aerobics. It involves all sorts of stretching, swimming.
“I’m not a very good swimmer, but I can stay above water.”
On other days, Ketcherside does water zumba.
“That’s in shallow end of the pool. I’m in the pool most days of the week.”
Ketcherside said that she can also walk a mile in just over 20 minutes.
“It’s hard for some of us to lose weigh. We’re used to going out for fast food. It’s good, but sure does kill the diet.”
Ketcherside said that she’s trying to make healthier food choices.
“I really don’t cook that much at home because it’s just me. My sister cooks a pot of stew and we’ll eat on that.”
Ketcherside said that she and her sister will occasionally go to Olive Garden. They make a meal of the soup and salad.
“I can have three bowls of soup and not feel weighed down like I would with a hamburger and fries. We don’t even bother with the bread.”
The meetings that cover food, health, stress and even help with medicines are mandatory.
According to rec. department information, Winning Tomorrow leads participants “to take charge of their health with nutrition education, a personal physical activity plan and coach, and weight control. The program is free and participants get free use of the recreation complex while they are in the program and they meet goals. Education classes are either Mondays at 9:30 a.m. or 5:30 p.m. and are mandatory.”
Those interested must have a referral form signed by their physician and must have a Body Mass Index of 30 or over, be diabetic, or pre diabetic.
For more information about the program and other programs, call 728-0273.
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According to a charging document filed Friday, Elliott was caught by one of his own: another police officer posing as a child online.
He's charged with luring a minor and online sexual corruption of a child.
According to the court file, Elliott "knowingly use(d) an online communication to solicit a child to engage in sexual conduct. ... and "an explicit verbal description and narrative account of sexual conduct, for the purpose of inducing the law enforcement officer, posing as a minor, to engage in sexual conduct."
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Essential Experience:
Phenomenal track record in Python development and good exposure to all the above tech.
used to working in highly Agile environments
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My client is a digital innovator and disruption start up recognised as one of the best in the world to work with and they are tasked with building a team that will utilise cutting edge technology for a greenfield project. The tech stack across the venture will be Python, Django, React, AWS, Serverless and you'll need at least 2 years commercial experience working with ES6, React & more.
This is a senior role within a small team so some lead experience and strong collaborative skills are essential. This will be limit testing, cutting edge and truly unique, lasting an initial 3 months.
Requirements
Sustained experience in professional software development using JavaScript and React
An appreciation for design, with a focus on building elegant applications that are pleasing to the eye
Provisioning and deployment in cloud environments
A preference for working with cross-disciplinary teams to introduce and enhance behaviour and test-driven approaches, resulting in clean, elegant code and application architectures
A background working in teams using Agile approaches
What will you be doing?
Collaborating with a team of engineers and designers across the venture team to ensure we deliver an empowering user experience
Pearson Frank International is the UK Market Leader in Open Source and Digital recruitment. All our years of experience in the IT industry have allowed us to branch out and specialise in specific markets and we now also have dedicated teams working with in Open Source Development Technologies, Mobile Application Development and Web Application Development.
We are currently working with a number of agencies across the Sussex region, ranging from the tech hubs of Brigton to Portsmouth, who are looking for FrontEnd Developers on a contract basis.
The projects are centred around web development working for a number of high profile clients and they are all looking for the newest technologies to deliver the the best end product.
Skills Needed:
FrontEnd Development experience using HTML5/CSS3 and JavaScript
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Mid-Level React Developer - Initial 4 months contract (likely extensions) - Newbury - up to £275/ day - depending on experience
A highly successful and growing and company based in Newbury, is looking to add a React Developer to their team.
An exciting contract opportunity is available with a digital incubator working on a completely greenfield project, building a brand new start up for the healthcare industry!
As a result of sign-off and funding they now require an iOS/Swift Developer to join their industry leading software engineering team to help scale a new disruptive start-up which is fundamentally different to anything currently on the marketplace.
The successful iOS/Swift Developer will be joining a trail-blazing organisation which is only interested in creating truly Greenfield solutions. They nurture disruptive ideas through the entire product lifecycle into fully fledged start-ups which have potential to become £100million+ organisations.
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Plexus are working with a very interesting Blockchain / Crypto client whom are building a mobile first digital banking application that integrates Crypto and can be spent in the real world.
I am looking for x3 JavaScript Engineers across - React/Redux/D3 - React Native - NodeJS/AWS. Ideally looking for candidates with exposure to all 3 however very comfortable looking at people who focus more on the front end with an appreciation of server side technologies or vise versa.
Long term and good rates. You will have a lot of autonomy over tech / tooling stack and direct liaisonwith the founders.
A top client within the Shropshire area is looking for a .Net Developer with strong experience in C#, .Net, Java Script and a strong background in web-based applications to join them on a 6-month project.
The successful .Net developer will have the following skills:
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This is an exciting opportunity to join a fantastic company with global clients to work on a project within the Shropshire area. If you are a .Net Developer and are available for an immediate start, please apply now with your latest CV or call Elliot at Premier Group Birmingham.
A well established and technology led e-commerce company based in bright, vibrant offices in London are looking for a Front End React.js Guru to join the team. This team are pushing the boundaries with the way they write, how they deploy (20 seconds to deploy via Kubernetes) and how they test, and with full code ownership this could be a great role to demonstrate your React development experience.
This a crucial hire and will be pivotal in the ongoing growth and success of this organisation.
Aside from having your own opinions and being able to effectively debate on solutions and technologies, you will:
Have experience developing and maintaining React and Redux applications
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We're hiring for a Senior Front End Developer (React, Redux) for a Fintech Disruptor. As the Senior Front End Developer (React, Redux) you will be working with a team of hungry and talented engineers. You will be joining a team of 20 looking to double by the end of the year!
The task of the Senior Front End Developer (React, Redux) will be to build our state of the art FX trading platform.
We are looking for a Senior Front End Developer (React, Redux) with a proactive approach and the following capabilities: -
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Citigroup Shares Rise as Earnings, Revenue Beat Estimates
Citigroup Inc. (C), the third-biggest U.S. bank, rose in New York trading after first-quarter profit and revenue from fixed-income trading and investment banking exceeded analysts’ estimates.
The shares climbed 0.2 percent to $44.87 at 4:15 p.m. in New York, the only gain on the 24-company KBW Bank Index, after gaining 3.4 percent earlier today. Net income jumped 30 percent to $3.81 billion and per-share profit excluding an accounting adjustment was $1.29, beating the $1.17 average estimate of analysts in a Bloomberg survey.
Chief Executive Officer Michael Corbat, 52, who oversaw his first full quarter since replacing Vikram Pandit in October, is firing workers and closing branches as he seeks to make Citigroup more efficient. Bond-trading and investment-banking revenue was aided by a decline in reserves for loan losses and a $700 million tax benefit, which bolstered earnings.
“You can’t say it wasn’t a good quarter,” said Charles Peabody, an analyst at Portales Partners LLC in New York. Peabody cited revenue gains, the release of loan-loss reserves and the use of deferred tax assets to trim the New York-based bank’s tax bill. “Those three things are what people are focused on in a positive way.”
Revenue climbed to $20.5 billion from $19.4 billion in the same quarter last year and was $20.8 billion excluding accounting adjustments. The average estimate of analysts in a Bloomberg survey was $20.2 billion. Expenses rose 1 percent to $12.4 billion, “mainly reflecting an increase in legal and related costs and repositioning charges,” the bank said.
Wells Fargo
JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM)., the biggest U.S. bank, last week reported a 33 percent jump in first-quarter net income to $6.53 billion. Wells Fargo & Co (WFC)., the fourth-biggest, said profit rose 22 percent to $5.17 billion. Both lenders used expense cuts to boost their earnings as revenue fell.
The division that contains Citigroup’s trading and investment-banking units, overseen by co-President Jamie Forese, reported a $2.31 billion profit, compared with $1.28 billion a year earlier.
The unit’s revenue climbed by $570 million, or 8 percent, to $7.29 billion, excluding adjustments. Much of the increase came from an improvement in hedges, or bets the bank makes to protect against potential losses on its loans.
Banks’ Hedges
Lower losses on one batch of the hedges, tied to Citigroup’s corporate-lending business, caused that unit’s revenue to jump to $309 million from $12 million a year earlier. Another reporting line called “other securities and banking” had losses of $162 million, a 65 percent improvement on the previous year. That figure also contains hedges, Chief Financial Officer John Gerspach told reporters on a conference call.
Revenue from trading bonds declined 3 percent to $4.6 billion, excluding adjustments, from the same period last year, Citigroup said. David Trone, an analyst with with JMP Securities LLC, had estimated $3.2 billion. Moshe Orenbuch, a Credit Suisse Group AG analyst, predicted $4.2 billion.
The bank cited growth in “securitized products” for the performance in fixed-income trading. The unit, run by Jeffrey Perlowitz and Mark Tsesarsky, deals in products such as mortgage-backed securities. Revenue from interest-rates trading and currencies declined, the bank said.
Yield Search
Investors “looking for yield” helped drive gains in that business during the quarter, especially for mortgage-related products, Gerspach said.
Citigroup’s fixed-income trading business was the second- biggest in the world in 2012, according to research from analytics firm Coalition Ltd. The division employs Andy Morton, interest-rates trading head, Carey Lathrop, head of credit- trading, and Howard Marsh, who leads municipal bond trading.
Corbat oversaw a loan-loss reserve release of $652 million, allowing his bank to boost profit with funds that had been designated to cover future costs on bad loans. Trone had expected a $420 million release while Richard Staite, an analyst in London with Atlantic Equities LLP, had predicted $175 million.
Citi Holdings, the part of the bank that contains distressed and unwanted assets, posted a $794 million loss, down from $1.02 billion a year earlier. Assets at the division, overseen by Eugene “Gene” McQuade, 64, fell 29 percent to $149 billion.
The bank had a loan-loss reserve release of $351 million in Citi Holdings, helping to reduce losses at the unit.
Investors’ Response
“We believe investors are responding to the emergence of two long-awaited trends,” Jason Goldberg, an analyst with Barclays Capital Inc. in New York, said in an e-mail, referring to deferred tax assets and the mortgage loan-loss reserve release.
Investment banking, which includes advising clients on mergers and acquisitions and helping them sell shares and bonds to the public, posted revenue of $1.1 billion, a 22 percent increase. Staite at Atlantic Equities had estimated revenue of $920 million.
Citigroup’s underwriting unit, run by Tyler Dickson, benefited as investors bought more junk bonds and shares through public offerings. The bank helped clients sell $12.3 billion of junk bonds in the quarter, compared with $10.6 billion a year earlier, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Share Sales
The firm underwrote $14.2 billion of global share sales, 23 percent more than the same quarter in 2012, the data show.
Citigroup’s advisory unit, overseen by Raymond J. McGuire, garnered $204 million in fees from advising clients on M&A in the quarter, compared with $110 million a year earlier.
The consumer bank, run by co-President Manuel Medina-Mora, 62, posted a $1.95 billion profit, compared with $2.18 billion in the same quarter last year. Staite had predicted $2.1 billion.
Revenue at the division, which had operations in almost 40 countries last year, was almost unchanged at $10 billion. Staite had estimated $10.3 billion. While revenue and profit increased for the business in Latin America, net income in Asia tumbled 17 percent to $417 million as sales slid 2 percent.
“The issue for us remains Asia,” Gerspach said, citing regulatory constraints in South Korea and Taiwan. “Korea is just a drag on us right now and it’s one we have to work our way through.”
Citigroup increased its net interest margin by one basis point to 2.94 percent. While Gerspach said he expected the metric, which measures the difference between what a firm pays in deposits and charges for loans, to remain above 2.88 percent, it will probably fall in the second quarter by “a few basis points,” he told analysts.
“The ongoing low-rate environment, new regulation, and cost of putting certain legacy issues behind us will continue to put pressure on our earnings,” Corbat said on a call with analysts. “But I am confident we’re on the right course.” | {
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Wednesday, August 4, 2010
I have only had one haircut in my life when I went home and cried. It was in high school, during my short-hair perming years, when the nape of my neck was shaved into the shape of a V. Being much too edgy for my taste, I immediately got my mom to buzz off the point and make a nice straight line instead. Oh, what I rebel I am.
Aside from growing out my bangs and vowing never to get a perm again at age 20, my hair has simply been varying lengths of the same style. It has been as long as my waist and as short as my chin. I had a version of the Rachel at one point and it took so much work to hot-roller every day but I did it anyways. Wearing a ponytail is always a challenge because it is too thick for the average hair elastic and the weight gives me a headache. These days, the increasing prevalence of white hairs is my biggest concern.
And so, this cake really does speak for itself. Akemi loves pandas, is a hairstylist, and is delighted by the comic nature of screaming monkeys. It took extensive brainstorming to marry these three personal elements into one coherent design, but I think it worked. The hairstylist panda is made from Rice Krispies internally and everything else is fondant with royal icing details. An 8" square chocolate cake with mango mousseline is hiding underneath. You could say it is Act 2 to Akemi's previous cake in 2008! | {
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(29-02-2016 10:27 AM)morondog Wrote: Um... Alize but you guys must have noticed by now that a king descended from David is not currently ruling you? Right? Doesn't that kinda pour a bit of cold water on the whole 'eternal royal line' promise?
But we do have the Davidic line. I can point to people today who have family traditions that place them in the House of David. We accept these claims as valid until they prove otherwise. We also understand that there are going to be tons of people who are Davidic who don’t even know it.
The Hebrew bible was written as an internal document, intended for a Jewish audience. There are some cultural and religious expectations that the writers assume that readers have.
We haven’t had a sitting Davidic King for 2,500 years, and at no time did the Jews say, “Hey wait a minute….” The promise isn’t that there will be a sitting king on the throne at any given time. It’s that the line will exist and that any valid, sitting king will be Davidic. A preexisting warning in the Torah says that we could be exiled from the land, so we can’t have a sitting king when we’re in exile. Even when the Davidic promise was made, it was understood that we may not always have control over the land.
(29-02-2016 10:27 AM)morondog Wrote: Um... Alize but you guys must have noticed by now that a king descended from David is not currently ruling you? Right? Doesn't that kinda pour a bit of cold water on the whole 'eternal royal line' promise?
But we do have the Davidic line. I can point to people today who have family traditions that place them in the House of David. We accept these claims as valid until they prove otherwise. We also understand that there are going to be tons of people who are Davidic who don’t even know it.
The Hebrew bible was written as an internal document, intended for a Jewish audience. There are some cultural and religious expectations that the writers assume that readers have.
We haven’t had a sitting Davidic King for 2,500 years, and at no time did the Jews say, “Hey wait a minute….” The promise isn’t that there will be a sitting king on the throne at any given time. It’s that the line will exist and that any valid, sitting king will be Davidic. A preexisting warning in the Torah says that we could be exiled from the land, so we can’t have a sitting king when we’re in exile. Even when the Davidic promise was made, it was understood that we may not always have control over the land.
Aliza I bought the 2 volume series book : let's get biblical , why Jews don't accept the Christian messiah by rabbi tovia singer. Thanks to you , my interest of studying the Jews perspective of the messiah appears. The subject is super interesting even from my atheist point of view. I like to learn about all religions. And I admit , my knowledge of Judaism is very poor. I like to thank you !
Religion is bullshit. The winner of the last person to post wins thread.
(29-02-2016 10:54 AM)Aliza Wrote: But we do have the Davidic line. I can point to people today who have family traditions that place them in the House of David. We accept these claims as valid until they prove otherwise. We also understand that there are going to be tons of people who are Davidic who don’t even know it.
The Hebrew bible was written as an internal document, intended for a Jewish audience. There are some cultural and religious expectations that the writers assume that readers have.
We haven’t had a sitting Davidic King for 2,500 years, and at no time did the Jews say, “Hey wait a minute….” The promise isn’t that there will be a sitting king on the throne at any given time. It’s that the line will exist and that any valid, sitting king will be Davidic. A preexisting warning in the Torah says that we could be exiled from the land, so we can’t have a sitting king when we’re in exile. Even when the Davidic promise was made, it was understood that we may not always have control over the land.
Aliza I bought the 2 volume series book : let's get biblical , why Jews don't accept the Christian messiah by rabbi tovia singer. Thanks to you , my interest of studying the Jews perspective of the messiah appears. The subject is super interesting even from my atheist point of view. I like to learn about all religions. And I admit , my knowledge of Judaism is very poor. I like to thank you !
I learned everything I know about counter-missionary topics from Rabbi Singer and Rabbi Skobac. You'll find a lot of my arguments in Singer's writings. Enjoy the books! They'll certainly be an eye-opener.
(29-02-2016 12:04 PM)Leo Wrote: Aliza I bought the 2 volume series book : let's get biblical , why Jews don't accept the Christian messiah by rabbi tovia singer. Thanks to you , my interest of studying the Jews perspective of the messiah appears. The subject is super interesting even from my atheist point of view. I like to learn about all religions. And I admit , my knowledge of Judaism is very poor. I like to thank you !
I learned everything I know about counter-missionary topics from Rabbi Singer and Rabbi Skobac. You'll find a lot of my arguments in Singer's writings. Enjoy the books! They'll certainly be an eye-opener.
I started to read the volume 1 book and the info of this awesome book is super gold. With this info is very easy to destroy the pathetic Christian arguments or lies. Rabbi Tovia Singer is a brilliant man. I will check Rabbi Skobac books later.
Religion is bullshit. The winner of the last person to post wins thread.
It’s not that the House of David is so super awesome and special, it’s just that according to the bible –the one that Christians base their faith on- the House of David was promised by G-d to be the royal line forever. This is a fact. The Hebrew Bible does state this rather clearly in several places.
The NT writers understood that if they were going to effectively sell Jesus to the Jews (and that was the original intent), then they’d have to market him as a member of the House of David. Of course, their ignorance shines through in providing two conflicting genealogies, both of which are invalid lines.
The thing about David’s story is not so much that it disqualifies Jesus as being a messianic candidate, but that messages gleaned from his life completely contradicts the message that Christianity is trying to sell. By virtue of the fact that NT writers spent so much time and energy explaining how they believed Jesus was Davidic, and how their concept of Messiah fulfills OT prophecy, we can see that they viewed themselves as being subject to Jewish law.
…And Jewish law discredits all of their arguments.
Ok, thanks Aliza for that explanation. Apparently God has favorites. He thinks that adulterers should be put to death, but he makes an exception for David, his beloved one. How sweet and just is he.
Then, I guess it wouldn't really matter if the Messiah came from Satan. As long as God willed it, that's how it will be.
It’s not that the House of David is so super awesome and special, it’s just that according to the bible –the one that Christians base their faith on- the House of David was promised by G-d to be the royal line forever. This is a fact. The Hebrew Bible does state this rather clearly in several places.
The NT writers understood that if they were going to effectively sell Jesus to the Jews (and that was the original intent), then they’d have to market him as a member of the House of David. Of course, their ignorance shines through in providing two conflicting genealogies, both of which are invalid lines.
The thing about David’s story is not so much that it disqualifies Jesus as being a messianic candidate, but that messages gleaned from his life completely contradicts the message that Christianity is trying to sell. By virtue of the fact that NT writers spent so much time and energy explaining how they believed Jesus was Davidic, and how their concept of Messiah fulfills OT prophecy, we can see that they viewed themselves as being subject to Jewish law.
…And Jewish law discredits all of their arguments.
Ok, thanks Aliza for that explanation. Apparently God has favorites. He thinks that adulterers should be put to death, but he makes an exception for David, his beloved one. How sweet and just is he.
Then, I guess it wouldn't really matter if the Messiah came from Satan. As long as God willed it, that's how it will be.
Did I miss something ?
Is Israel planning on installing a monarchy, and dumping democracy, (again) ?
Actually the change from the Tribal Confederation model, to demanding a king, is considered by some scholars to be the point where ancient Israel loses it's unique identity. The Prophet Amos certainly thought so : Amos 5:2 "Fallen is the virgin Israel, never to rise again, deserted in her own land, with no one to lift her up."
Insufferable know-it-all. It is objectively immoral to kill innocent babies. Please stick to the guilty babies.
(29-02-2016 10:54 AM)Aliza Wrote: But we do have the Davidic line. I can point to people today who have family traditions that place them in the House of David. We accept these claims as valid until they prove otherwise.
Why? Why would you accept an unsupported assertion? It's been thousands of years with huge gaps in documentation.
Quote:We also understand that there are going to be tons of people who are Davidic who don’t even know it.
And there could be absolutely no one. In thousands of years the line may well have died out.
There is no evidence either way.
Skepticism is not a position; it is an approach to claims.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
(29-02-2016 10:54 AM)Aliza Wrote: But we do have the Davidic line. I can point to people today who have family traditions that place them in the House of David. We accept these claims as valid until they prove otherwise.
Why? Why would you accept an unsupported assertion? It's been thousands of years with huge gaps in documentation.
Quote:We also understand that there are going to be tons of people who are Davidic who don’t even know it.
And there could be absolutely no one. In thousands of years the line may well have died out.
There is no evidence either way.
If your mother said that your great grandfather was a ship captain, do you challenge her or do you just trust that she knew who her grandfather was?
I accept an unsupported assertion because I trust my heritage and traditions. Also, I know that no one stands to gain anything from being Davidic, so what's the motive for someone to fabricate their history? The people that I know personally are meticulous about maintaining family lines and upholding traditions to a point of neuroticism. They learned that behavior from somewhere. I simply have confidence in my heritage. That's enough for me.
(29-02-2016 06:06 PM)Chas Wrote: Why? Why would you accept an unsupported assertion? It's been thousands of years with huge gaps in documentation.
And there could be absolutely no one. In thousands of years the line may well have died out.
There is no evidence either way.
If your mother said that your great grandfather was a ship captain, do you challenge her or do you just trust that she knew who her grandfather was?
If my mother said that I had an ancestor in 100BCE who was a shoemaker, I don't trust that she knows that.
Quote:I accept an unsupported assertion because I trust my heritage and traditions.
That is faith, not reason.
Quote:Also, I know that no one stands to gain anything from being Davidic, so what's the motive for someone to fabricate their history?
Pride?
Quote:The people that I know personally are meticulous about maintaining family lines and upholding traditions to a point of neuroticism. They learned that behavior from somewhere. I simply have confidence in my heritage. That's enough for me.
Your confidence is unsupported by anything other than wishful thinking.
Quote:I understand and fully respect that that's not enough for you.
No, it isn't.
Skepticism is not a position; it is an approach to claims.
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Too often, the architecture that defines our landscape is razed to the ground and relegated to memory-condemned to be forgotten. In the rediscovery of these often hidden, sealed up or otherwise off-limits locations, I document our adventures through the photography presented here so that they may be remembered before it's too late.
Saturday, August 29, 2015
Second Baptist Church
In the Fall of 1817, John M. Peck and James E. Welch arrived in the village of St. Louis to perform missionary work. At this time, Saint Louis was a town of roughly 3,000 inhabitants. These men performed a dilligent search and turned up a total of seven other Baptists in the entire city. They joined together in the acquisition of a small room on Main Street south of Market for the first meeting place of Saint Louis Baptists. The First Baptist Church was formed on February 18th, 1818, three years before Missouri was admitted as the 24th state of the Union. Their first official church building was an "edifice of brick, forty feet in front by sixty feet deep on the southwest corner of third and Market streets".
The early Baptist church of Saint Louis would see many additions and changes. There would be fires and demolitions of various church buildings throughout the 1800's leading all the way up to the present church. In the early days, they often used Chouteau's Pond in which to perform their baptisms.
On December 8th of 1906, ground was broken for the new Baptist Church building. The cornerstone was laid on April 27th, 1907. Each member of the committee of the church was given a ceremonial trowel. Many of those present used their trowel to help spread the mortar. The trowels were then nickel-plated and engraved as souvenirs.
Under the cornerstone, there was placed a copper box. Inside this time capsule, the committe placed copies of Saint Louis newspapers, church manuals, World's Fair maps, a list of members, an order of the exercises for cornerstone laying (printed on silk), photographs of members, pictures of the building process, many other assorted photographs and documents and a book titled "Saint Louis Through a Camera".
The building was inspired by the architecture of Lombardy and North Italy in general. The brick used was all from the same burning. The darkest bricks were used in the base and carefully, gradually lightened in color towards the top of the bell tower. The trim was all made from special original designs and carefully molded. Altogether, it is comprised of about 1,000,000 bricks. Over 58,000 bricks were ground by hand for the major arches and accented pieces of ornamentation. The arches were assembled at the time they were ground, labeled and packed in such a way so that the masons at the site of the construction would simply reassemble them on-site. It was said that this building represented the finest brickwork in the United States. Unfortunately, however, in 1951 the top 60 feet of the bell tower was removed due to structural problems.
The congregation remained in this building only until 1955, when it moved west along with many of its neighbors and peers at the time. The church building itself would remain in use by a variety of other congregations until sometime in the late 2000's. In the 1980's, the Life Cathedral called this building home and they hosted gospel concerts here which were broadcast on KIRL-AM radio through the 80s and 90s. By the late 2000's, the building was vacant. And as of my first visit, which occurred in 2009, the electric and water were still on. See my first visit here. Since then, however, the building has gone downhill quickly. The basement is filled with water and damage to the shingles has caused water to leak into the sanctuary.
The building was sold recently to Cathedral Square Brewery, who is currently undergoing a $4 Million renovation. The brewery plans call for a restaurant and beer garden. Construction is set to take 8-12 months to complete and work has just begun. Just this past week, they boarded up all doors and windows in an effort to keep out vagrants and have begun clearing up the vegetation.
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I went to church in this building during the 1950's and 60's. It was non-denominational Pentecostal Church then, The Gospel Assembly. It was such a beautiful building. It breaks my heart to see it like this and the thought of it being turned into a restaurant and beer garden sickens me. Such a shame.
This is the first church I ever attended. It was beautiful. The services were very long and I used to sneak off and investigate the balcony, gardens, basement, classrooms and recognized all pictures, except the rooms with fireplaces and bookcases. God only knows what Bro. Jolly did there. Sister and I wanted to see it when our Dad passed in 1997, but we didn't have time. I will be there when they open. I'm excited. I hope they don't ruin it. It should be on the Historic Register. Janet Crafton
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The 1975 Have A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
The subject of major debate around being overhyped and the questionable pretension of frontman Matty Healy, the release of The 1975’s third album was met with trepidation and intrigue – it was distinctly hard to tell whether we were on the precipice of something ground-breaking or disappointingly lacklustre. Fundamentally, it is a retrospective, thought-provoking collection of songs – though diverse and sporadic, at the heart of all of these songs is reflection upon human nature in a modern age.
Perhaps the most poignant moment of A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships is the very first song – opening with ‘The 1975’ in the exact same way as their previous two albums have done is a captivating choice, setting the tone for the album as nostalgic yet embracing of change and growth, and this is prevalent throughout.
The album is inescapably innovative – though the manifestation of this is more successful in some songs than other. The inclusion of ‘The Man Who Married A Robot/Love Theme’, an entire track narrated by Siri, is a wonderfully bold move: a dark meditation on our vehement obsession with and reliance upon the internet, the computerised and unfeeling tone this experimentalism affords the song works in the band’s favour completely.
It is evident that The 1975 have developed some of the better parts of their previous work and mostly this is successful – nevertheless, there are some moments where this feels like it has been pushed too far. ‘Give Yourself A Try’ was the one release which made me apprehensive about the release of their album – jarring and somewhat discordant, it seemed an interesting choice for the first single.
Over the course of the album, it becomes increasingly clear that The 1975 are at their strongest in their more tender, confessional moments – ‘Be My Mistake’ is nothing short of gorgeous, and it attests to the notion that The 1975 are at their best when they are embracing vulnerability and being raw and emotive, rather than being overshadowed by elaborate production.
As a whole, A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships is an impressive album – it’s political, outward-looking investigation into relationships is engrossing and intriguing and symbolic of how much the band have changed since their first release in 2013. | {
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Red Thirst
One of the genetic flaws of the Blood AngelsSpace MarineChapter is a vampiric craving for blood, known as the Red Thirst. The Blood Angels and all the Space Marines of their Successor Chapters generally have pale skin, moderately elongated eye teeth and a strong urge to drink the blood of their enemies which can grow stronger over the solar decades of their service, eventually causing degeneration into uncontrollable madness. These traits have also been passed on to the Blood Angels' most well-known Successor Chapters, including the Flesh Tearers, Blood Drinkers, and Angels Sanguine.
Deep within the psyche of every Blood Angel and every bearer of their PrimarchSanguinius' genetic legacy is a destructive yearning, a battle fury and blood-hunger that must be held in abeyance in every waking moment. Few Battle-Brothers can hold this Red Thirst in check unceasingly -- it is far from unknown for Blood Angels to temporarily succumb to its lure at the height of battle.
The Red Thirst is the Blood Angels' darkest secret and greatest curse, but it is also their greatest salvation, for it brings with it a humility and understanding of their own failings which make them truly the most noble of the Space Marines.
The fate of those unfortunates overtaken completely by the Red Thirst is known only to the Chapter itself. There are tales of a secret chamber atop the Tower of Amareo on Baal in their fortress-monastery complex of the Arx Angelicum, and of howling cries that demand the blood of the living, but none are willing to say for certain what secrets lie hidden in that haunted, desolate place.
There have been incidents when the Blood Angels have been stationed on distant worlds where members of the local population have gone missing only to turn up later drained of blood. It is possible that this is the work of cultists seeking to discredit the Chapter. It may even be that some of the more superstitious local citizens have taken to offering up sacrifices to their godlike visitors. It may also be possible that these folk have been killed by Blood Angels overcome by the Red Thirst.
History
All Space Marines are a dim reflection of the greatness of their individual Primarchs, for they are the inheritors of their gene-father's genetic legacy. Unknown to the Sons of Baal, there was a hidden flaw in the genetic matrix of the Blood AngelsLegion's gene-seed. Within Sanguinius' own bio-type there was a trait that lay buried and waited to be awakened. During the Great Crusade, this strange affliction began to manifest, affecting some of the Blood Angels Legionaries over the course of several decades. The story was always the same -- a warrior of the IX Legion in the throes of battle eventually succumbed to a rage that continued to build and build until his reason was lost. When a Blood Angels Battle-Brother succumbed to this affliction, his humanity would be stripped away until only his feral core remained and all the blood-crazed Astartes wanted to do was kill and kill, satiating himself with blood and more blood.
At the end, at the very worst of it, he lost every last piece of himself, until death was a kindness. Fortunately, only a handful of Astartes had been afflicted over the course of two Terran centuries of continuous conflict. Most would perish in battle without anyone taking note of their growing insanity. But if their degeneration became noticeable, then Sanguinius himself, or the Sanguinary Guard's commander Azkaellon, would usually be the one to end the life of the afflicted Battle-Brother. Yet, in the closing days of the Great Crusade, the outbreaks of this affliction began to occur more often. Sanguinius feared that, in time, this affliction would grow to encompass every member of the IX Legion.
Sanguinius had been aware of the Flaw in his genome for several years, keeping the truth from the Emperor and his fellow Primarchs. He could not speak of this to any of the others, for to do so would diminish his Legion in the eyes of his brothers and the Imperium. Some of his brother Primarchs would see it as a weakness and seek to turn this truth against him. Sanguinius was afraid to confide in his father the Emperor for he could not take the risk of being responsible for the erasure of the Blood Angels from Imperial history like the II and XI Legions. He was determined to not see a third empty plinth erected beneath the roof of the Hegemon in the Imperial Palace on Terra as the IX Legion's only memorial.
Sanguinius continued to search for a solution but continued to fail in this endeavour. Some of the Angel's sons had learned a measure of the truth, but only Azkaellon, First Captain Raldoron, the IX Legion's Master Apothecary on Baal and a few others were fully aware of the extent of this affliction. They were united with Sanguinius in finding a way of repairing this flaw, but ultimately this quest proved futile before the tragedy of the Horus Heresy swept away all other concerns.
As a result, from the day of their Sanguination to their death on the battlefield, the Blood Angels and their Successors fight not only with countless foes but with a burning urge inside them. This is the Red Thirst, the legacy of their Primarch Sanguinius, that plagues many Blood Angels with visions of death. In battle Blood Angels can harness these visions to evoke a ferocity that gives the Blood Angels Chapter its reputation for unparalleled brutal assaults. Sometimes, however, the Red Thirst is so overwhelming that the Blood Angels forget their noble heritage and completely lose control over themselves. It is not unheard of for Blood Angels squads to abandon advantageous positions to engage the enemy in hand-to-hand combat. More often than not these assaults turn out to be so devastating that unprepared enemy forces are simply swept away.
The Red Thirst is one of two genetic flaws to be found in the gene-seed of the Blood Angels and their Successor Chapters. Those who succumb to the Red Thirst or the other known flaw, the Black Rage, are either formed into the Death Company or locked away in the Tower of the Lost on Baal, until they succumb completely to a roiling, uncontrollable insanity. These traits have also been passed on to the Blood Angels' many Successor Chapters. One such Successor, the Lamenters, managed by unknown means to eliminate the flaws from Sanguinius' gene-seed, but has been stricken by extraordinary bad luck in battle and were nearly annihilated before receiving Primaris Space Marine reinforcements during the Indomitus Crusade.
Sources
Codex Adeptus Astartes - Blood Angels (8th Edition), pp. 12-13
Codex: Blood Angels (5th Edition), pp. 12-13
Codex: Blood Angels (4th Edition), "The Flaw," "The Red Thirst"
Fear to Tread (Novel) by James Swallow
Bloodquest Graphic Novel Series:
Bloodquest I by Gordon Rennie and illustrated by Colin MacNeil
Bloodquest II: Into the Eye of Terror by Gordon Rennie and illustrated by Colin MacNeil
Bloodquest III: The Daemon's Mark by Gordon Rennie and illustrated by Colin MacNeil | {
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