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Since the MSM is going so crazy about this Q thing, I've decided to add my $.02 worth.
We started following the Q drops back in December 2017. We, being me and a few members of my poetry group. Two things immediately caught my attention: the historic Q community and the historical precedents of this Great Awakening.
Q, it is believed, is someone (or a group) high up in military intelligence, a Trump supporter(s) with access to the highest security clearance available. Q provides "drops" of information to the public on one of the interweb chans message boards, then transfers those drops to the regular internet. These drops consist of photos, links, and cryptic messages in almost verse format. Then Q anons, anonymous members of the Q community, translate and explain the contents of these drops, and "autists" and "bakers" do additional research to connect the dots between and across previous drops and other information sources. Today, August 4, 2018, we are up to 1815 drops. You can find them all listed at https://qanon.pub/ and explanations and commentary at the reddit message boards The Great Awakening and https://www.reddit.com/r/greatawakening/
But back to the two things that caught my attention. Many years ago I read a book by a non-violent protestor/activist/theologian, The Nonviolent Coming of God, by James Douglass. When I first heard about this new Q I went and pulled the book down from my bookshelf because I remembered something he had written about the Q community of Galilean Jews who were followers of Jesus towards the end of his ministry in the first century. These followers maintained an oral tradition of the teachings of Jesus before his death and these teachings, really just sayings, ultimately made their way into the Gospel of Mark. See the 1996 article, The Search for a No Frills Jesus.
But more importantly, and significantly, Douglass explains that this early band of followers had very specific ideas about the judgement that was about to befall their generation of fellow Jews, especially those who rejected Jesus. In fact, the Q Gospel focuses on the coming judgement of the tribes of Israel, the invitation to the way of peace, and the repentance demanded of the Jewish nation. The judgement came. The Jewish-Roman War of 70 CE resulted in Jewish defeat and the destruction of Jerusalem.
Wikipedia has a good article on Q Source. And this paper, Galilee and the Historic Jesus looks pretty good but I haven't read it yet.
So, the Great Awakening. Current Q followers, researchers, adherents claim to be a part of a Great Awakening of political consciousness as a result of their digesting of Q "crumbs." It is certainly the case that people are having conversations on-line and in message boards that raise their awareness, and many are producing content on blogs, social media posts, and youtube videos. But it is not the first Great Awakening. Just try typing "Great Awakening" in your favorite search engine and see what you get. Duck Duck Go. BlogSearchEngine.com.
The First Great Awakening was a series of religious revivals in churches in Britain and the American colonies in the 1730's and the 1740's. Churches of all denominations had become boring and sterile places and worshippers sought a closer, more personal, and more energetic relationship with the Divine. A handful of British preachers, including George Whitefield, John and Charles Wesley, and Jonathan Edwards began developing and preaching a new theology inside existing churches based on individual salvation and personal morality, but that required a "new birth" that each person experienced directly and personally. A similar upheaval occurred in British churches and was called the Evangelical Revival. See the Wikipedia article on the First Great Awakening. Meanwhile, back in the U.S., the Great Awakening strengthened Baptist and Methodist denominations and left in its wake such institutions of higher learning as Brown, Rutgers, Dartmouth, Columbia, and Penn. Read more of the Colleges of the Great Awakening.
The Second Great Awakening, from 1790 to the 1850's, converted new believers versus the "preaching to the choir" of converting existing believers of the First Great Awakening. The missionary outreach went out to all demographic groups, free men and women and slaves. Camp meetings led by "circuit riding" preachers caused huge increases in membership of protestant denomination churches, especially Methodists and Baptists. Although barely a footnote in most historical accounts, the Second Great Awakening, especially in Virginia and the Carolinas, most certainly gave rise to the slave preachers and slave congregations that produced leaders of the great pre-Civil War slave revolts, Gabriel Prosser, Denmark Vessey, and Nat Turner. The top beneficiaries of the Second Great Awakening were Baptist and Methodist churches, and temperance, abolition and women's rights movements. I don't know why the Second Great Awakening ended though the time period suggests something related to the advent of the Civil War. Here is a good article on Religious Transformation and the Second Great Awakening.
What some scholars refer to as the richest period in American Literature and is considered by tradition as the literary American Renaissance can be connected in many ways to the Second Great Awakening.
The Third Great Awakening (#3) (1850-1890) and the Fourth Great Awakening (#4) (1960's and 1970's) are both somewhat fuzzy in definition. #3 witnessed the end of slavery and the prohibition movement, the growth of churches and church-related learning institutions, new religious movements including Christian Science, Jehovah Witnesses, Salvation Army, and the Ahmaddiyah missions to the U.S. to propagate Islam among the emancipated blacks (area for greater research). A similar revival occurred during an overlapping period in Korea 1884-1910, including the use of many techniques of the 2nd Great Awakening, camp meetings, circuit riders. #4 was either during the post WW2 period of the late 40's and early fifties or during the late 60's, depending on who you read, and its stars were Martin L. King, Billy Graham, and Pope Paul VI.
[Sections to add: #3 and the transcendentalists; #3 and the introduction of Ahmadiyyah Islam; #3 and its effects on American proto-modern poetry, i.e. Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Paul L. Dunbar, E.A. Poe.]
The present Great Awakening, while primarily political in nature, has some elements of previous religious great awakenings. Politics have become boring and stale for everyday people. People have lost a personal touch with their political leaders. The mainstream media has become a propaganda instrument for their subjects, the people and movements they write about (and are paid by). And people, readers no longer pay them any mind, opening the path for an alternative information source.
I have seen mentions on QAnon-related message boards about these aspects of the historic Q community and previous great awakenings. But these mentions get pretty much dismissed by the message board bosses and moderators as irrelevant postings. I predict that, over time, the QAnons will begin to accept this history as their own and see their place in the broad sweep of movements of people and their interaction with information. Just as the 2nd Great Awakening was marked by circuit riding preachers and camp meetings, the present great awakening (and I do believe we are in the midst of some sort of awakening) is marked by message board posts and youtube video producers.
Finally, Martin Geddes' article is pretty good if your mind is open.
"One way of thinking about the Q operation is that we are not only replacing a corrupt elite, but also selecting a new class of enlightened leaders. Those with the necessary discernment, perseverance, & courage are being identified through the Q project via self-selection process."
And another good Martin Geddes article.
Great article in American Thinker: Trump Haters Meet the Sorcerer's Apprentice.
A Brief History of Spiritual Revival and Awakening in America
There will be more to say here and I will probably be making edits. So stay tuned!
I still don't get the trip codes thing and how it relates to Googlebooks. All things in time.
Robert Patrick Lewis: What If #Q, #QAnon, and #TheGreatAwakening are Real?
What might be some long-term effects of the Q phenomenon? (09/06/2018) The future of Q
Q told us to archive everything offline. So I made a program that does exactly that. It stores Q posts, notables from every 4chan/8chan bread, sealed indictments, resignations, human trafficking, and executive orders. Also comes with a handy abbreviations list. All information, including original pictures from Q posts and the anon posts that Q references, is stored locally on your machine.
You do not need an internet connection to view any stored files, but you will need one to update the information to current.
Below is the link where you can find the Setup.msi installer OR the zip file. The zip file requires NO installation, just run the exe. Even if you dont want to run the app, the zip file includes all orginal Q images and all information up to date in JSON format. I have also included the source code for transparency. This is 100% freeware. No ads. No clickbait.
Feedback is always appreciated. If you feel like doing so, please comment on this thread what errors you might come across, or features you really like to see implemented.
WWG1WGA! ArchiveAnon
This update took care of some crashing issues when updating notables and POTUS tweets. Seems to be very stable otherwise.
First post on new blog at new job
Week 10 – August Wilson American Century Cycle – Radio Golf
Week 10 – Radio Golf – some initial thoughts
Very first impression: my wife and I saw this on stage on Baltimore in 2006. It was still "fresh off the press," being performed across the country, not yet ready for prime time on Broadway. Reading it now, at the end of the Century Cycle, I realize that I missed a lot of the plot action when I saw it performed in 2006. It seemed at the time to have no context, no unifying structure. But this time, it all makes sense.
Harmon Wilks, grandson to Caesar Wilks 100 years before in Gem of the Ocean.
Old Joe Barlow, son of Citizen Barlow and Black Mary from Gem of the Ocean. (Recall Black Mary and Caesar Wilks were half siblings)
Sterling, older and wiser but still Sterling, from Two Trains Running.
Mame Wilks, wife of Harmon.
Roosevelt Hicks, college buddies with Harmon at Cornell.
1839 Wylie Street, home of Aunt Ester, willed to Black Mary, left to Old Joe Barlow, her son with Citizen barlow, purchased by Harmon Wilks for delinquent taxes, sold to Bedford Hills Redevelopment run by Roosevelt Hicks and Harmon Wilks.
There is a lot to be said about the reappearance of the Barlow/Wilks family from #9 and the first decade of the cycle, Gem of the Ocean. I saw Caesar Wilks as a type of "godfather" figure and that was borne out in his and his son's paying of the taxes on Aunt Ester's house for all those years. We saw the chemistry between Citizen Barlow and Black Mary. Happy to see that worked out. When Mame says "I tied myself so close to you that there is no me. I don't know if i can carry this any further" I immediately thought about Rose in Fences, who mentions a similar submergence of the wife's personality into that of the husband's. I personally think Mame and Harmon will make it, but the path immediately ahead will be rocky.
It appears that Roosevelt gets his way in tearing down Aunt Ester's house. But the story may not end there. I suspect the Roosevelt/Harmon relationship, business-wise and socially, will not survive this dramatic breech of trust.
The play treads all so gingerly on the subject of gentrification, which is bound to accompany redevelopment of the Hill district due to its close proximity to the center of Pittsburgh.
Radio Golf. What's in a name? Roosevelt Hicks has a minority interest in a new urban radio station, WBTZ, in partnership with Bernie Smith, a white businessman Harmon does not trust. Hicks is the "blackface' that enables purchase of a radio station at a deep discount with an FCC Minority Tax Certificate. Hicks is the front man, in charge of day-to-day operations, even though he has no radio experience. And because he loves golf, he produces a radio program where he offers golf tips. It's also a symbolic representation of an attempt, in sharp departure to the other nine plays in the cycle, to portray the black middle class: Harmon the real estate developer/attorney running for mayor, Roosevelt (his humble origins are betrayed by his first name) the banker/real estate developer, and Mame, the loving wife/government bureaucrat. It's the Cosby/Huxtable family all over again except we never see the children. But they are there.
From the Urban Dictionary:
Huxtable: A reference to an "upscale" or "Upper Middle Class" black person or family. NOT derogatory when used by white people, but can be derogatory if used by blacks, about blacks. Derived from the Huxtables on the Cosby Show. Also used to define "poser" black families, trying to act "white"
On the subject of golf, Roosevelt's monologue in Act 1 Scene 1 where he reflects on his first experience hitting a golf ball was both stirring and moving. Poetic, in fact. But the same monologue also betrays Roosevelt's deep-seated sense of insecurity, if not inferiority with regard to race.
And who is this play's Wilson Warrior? Which character shows the greatest transformation? Which one "finds his song?" Harmon Wilks has my vote. While Sterling and Old Joe have the best lines in the play, the most poetic monologues, Wilks goes the greatest distance in his discovery of his roots and his changing outlook to reflect that discovery. Radio Golf extends the Wilsonian vision to the black middle class and gives them as a class their own separate hero. I think that is a good thing.
Finally, this play is a huge advertisement for genealogy. AncestryDNA should not only be thrilled, they should be tripping over themselves to underwrite local productions of the #AmericanCenturyCycle.
Week 9 – August Wilson American Century Cycle – Gem of the Ocean
Week 9 – Gem of the Ocean
Gem of the Ocean, set in 1904, represents the first decade in the Century Cycle. Itis also the play in the cycle that gives us the full portrayal of Aunt Ester, who is more of a myth in earlier plays (2 Trains, King Hedley), a spirit presence that never actually reaches the stage but lurks in the background.
Gem of the Ocean, we learn in Act 2, is an imaginary boat, a document folded in the shape of a boat, Aunt Ester's Bill of Sale (Sail) from Guilford County, NC. But the document that becomes a model of a boat serves as a prop during the staged journey to the City of Bones.
But what was that voyage? Was it a seance? Was it an exorcism? Or was it just a dramatic ritual? It seemed that Citizen Barlow believed something out of the ordinary was happening. But it also seemed like Eli, Solly, Black Mary, and Aunt Ester had all done this thing before, had practiced every aspect and had it down cold. I think it was a type of ritualistic exorcism. But it works for Mr. Citizen, a recent arrivee from Alabama with a heavy burden on his soul.
Garrett Brown's obituary is the saddest thing I have heard in an August Wilson play. But I'm so happy Wilson included its text in the play:
BLACK MARY (Reads): "Garret Brown of Louisville, Kentucky departed this life on September 30, 1904, at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, at midday, in the midst of a life of usefulness and in the fullness of his powers. He was born of slave parents June the 29th 1862, in Charleston, South Carolina. At an early period in his life, interested parties hurried the mother and three children northward, without the protection of a husband and father, to begin a long siege of poverty. Mr. Brown leaves to mourn his unfinished life, a wife and three children, and a host of family and friends."
Solly Two Kings is another interesting character. He changed his name from Uncle Alfred to Solly Two Kings (David and Solomon from the Bible) after he escaped from slavery in Alabama and fled to Canada, but he missed his family, so he returned as worked as a "dragman" in the Underground Railroad. He now collects dog feces, called "pure," and sells it to tanners for money.
Feces – Wikipedia – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feces . Dog feces were used in the tanning process of leather during the Victorian era. Collected dog feces, known as "pure", "puer", or "pewer", were mixed with water to form a substance known as "bate." Enzymes in the dog feces helped to relax the fibrous structure of the hide before the final stages of tanning.
Caesar Wilks, the community constable, has been through his own transformation, having been a bit of a thug in his younger days. Through illegal means, he raises enough money to purchase a small commercial property, but not before he gets selected by the crime bosses (politicians) uptown to run their operation and maintain order on the Hill. He let's it all go to his head under the guise of "respectability politics."
Then there is the dynamic relationship between Aunt Ester and Black Mary, Wilks' sister seemingly by a different mother. Wilks' father was a rascal too. And we will see his grandson, along with Citizen's son, in the next and final play, Radio Golf.
p.s. 1839 Wylie Street is the residence of Aunt Ester. 1839 was the year of the Amistad mutiny. And William Cullen Bryant's poem, Thanatopsis, was cited in Act 2 Scene 2 and at the very end of the play, although his later poem, The Death of Slavery also foretold the era of this play and of the entire century cycle. Bryant was a noted 19th century newspaper editor, poet, and abolitionist.
Week 8 – August Wilson Century Cycle – King Hedley II
First play named for a character.
First true tragedy. But was it really? King is sacrificed, the blood spills on the buried cat that belonged to Aunt Ester, and the curtain falls with the sound of a meow. The cat has one more life? Has Aunt Ester been resurrected perhaps? And does that signal a redemption of sorts?
First play with continuation of characters from previous play (Seven Guitars):
1. Canewell becomes Stool Pigeon
2. Red Carter's son: Mister
3. Ruby continues
4. King Hedley II is son of Ruby and Hedley (and Leroy)
5. Aunt Ester, still unseen, dies
6. Louise raises Ruby's son King in absentia.
A few things caught my interest in King Hedley II. First of all the Greek Chorus that Wilson has Stool Pigeon provide in the opening of the play. From Wikipedia:
Greek choruses sometimes had a leader known as the coryphaeus. He sometimes came first to introduce the chorus, and sometimes spoke for them if they were taking part in the action. The entrances and exits of the coryphaeus and his chorus served the same way curtains do in a modern theatre.
So Stool Pigeon, who was Canewell in Seven Guitars, now doubles as Seer, Spirit Guide, Supporter of Aunt Ester (like Holloway in Two Trains) and coryphaeus in Wilson's attempt to connect to Greek classical drama (my spin). Canewell did say in Seven Guitars, "If I could put the music down I would have been a preacher. Many times I felt God was calling. But the devil was calling too, and it seem like he called louder. God speak in a whisper and the devil shout."
Additionally, Stool Pigeon gets his Bible quotations wrong everytime…unless he represents the promotion a new synthesis of religion/mythology, a blending of Christian concepts with local African American spiritualism and all combined with African ideas of philosophy and religious belief, which puts it in line with previous plays in the series that touted African concepts (Turnbo in Jitney, Toledo in Ma Rainey, Bynum in Joe Turner, ultimately Berniece in Piano Lesson, Holloway in 7 Guitars).
Tonya has the longest single speaking role (end of Scene 2). It's a very memorable speech made even more famous by a then relatively unknown Viola Davis, for which she won the Tony.
King signals early on that he is the one "annointed" to make a sacrifice. He asks Mister, and again, asks Stool Pigeon, "Can you see my halo?"
The conversations with King (Act 2, Scene 2) and with Elmore (Act 2, Scene 4) where they describe the choices they made in the taking of human life, both sub-climaxes in the play are troublesome, to say the least. The casual brandishing of weapons, even including Ruby with the palm-sized derringer, is a bit troubling. And all the petty premeditated criminal acts, selling stolen refrigerators, robbing the jewelry store, all signal a community in the final stages of decay . . .
Interesting point raised in class. What if Stool Pigeon really is the Greek Chorus? And what if he is speaking to a specific audience or saying things that no one else could say and preserve their theatric credibility. Taking it a step further, what if Ruby represents the Greek Siren, luring unsuspecting sailors to shipwreck on a rocky course? Could August Wilson be using these classical "motifs" subconsciously to establish his chops and links to the classical and neoclassical tradition? Wouldn't that be something?
The death of Aunt Ester is an additional climax in the play, as is the accidental death of King at the play's end. The play has overlapping and intersecting climaxes, in fact.
Too cool not to include: August Wilson's Poem for my grandfather
And the transcription (HT to Jeannie McClem)
This is a poem I wrote for my grandfather.
Since I never knew my grandfather, I am speaking
in a generational sense, a generational grandfather.
This is your grandfather, my grandfather,
all of us's grandfather.
His chest stripped open
to reveal a raven,
huge with sharp talons,
a song stuck in his throat
and beneath the feathers,
beneath the shudder and rage,
the pages of a book closed
and the raven took flight.
Bynum Cutler.
Savage, mule trainer, singer,
shaper of wood and iron.
Bynum Cutler,
who spread his seed
over the nine counties
in North Carolina,
seed carried in the wind,
by the wind in the sails of ships
and planted among the cane break,
among Georgia pine,
among boles of cotton
planted in the fertile fields of women
who snapped open like fresh berries,
like cities in full season
welcoming its architects
and ennobling them
with gifts of blood.
Week 7 – August Wilson Century Cycle – Seven Guitars
Week 7 – Seven Guitars (some notes)
References to seven: The seventh play written in the cycle. Seven characters. Seven non-existent guitars. Seven years of bad luck. Red Carter used to have seven women. Six angels at the cemetery carry Floyd's spirit away (7). Floyd's seven ways to go. Red Carter counts seven birds sitting on a fence. Contest between Floyd's six strings and Hedley's one (7). Six men killed after George Butler died (7). Seven characters we never see who figure prominently (Pearl Brown, Leroy, Elmore, Hedly's dad, Louise's ex, Mr. T. L. Hall, Ruby's unborn baby). and finally, From Wilson's "Note from the Playwright," the seven characteristics of his mother worthy of art.
Found poetry from Notes From the Playwright:
I have tried to extract
some measure of truth
from their lives as they struggle
to remain whole in the face
of so many things that threaten
to pull them asunder.
I am not a historian.
I happen to think that the content
of my mother's life –
her myths,
her superstitions,
her prayers,
the contents of her pantry,
the song that escaped
from her sometimes parched lips,
her thoughtful repose
and pregnant laughter –
are all worthy of art.
Hence, Seven Guitars.
Hedley is the seer and spirit guy/guide, like Holloway, Doaker, Bynum (especially), Bono, Toledo, and Becker. Root tea drinker (also alcoholic, it appears). Jamaican, maybe, but could be Haitian. Speaks with an accent, a patois. Recalls Toussaint and Marcus Garvey. Ethiopia, rasta talk. In fact, much of his soliloquy in Act 2 Scene 5 appears to be lifted from Marcus Garvey speeches. Wants to buy a plantation, be a big man (in all the plays, the spirit guy/person is always in contention to be the Warrior).
Floyd reminded me a bit of Hambone (tell him to give me my money!), but also of Bynum and of Gabe. He also reminded me of Troy Maxsom and possibly of Levee, trying to make it as a musician but seemingly doomed at every corner. Only WWII veteran in the bunch. Floyd is the band leader and the guitarist (recall Boy Willie offered to get Mareatha a guitar in place of the piano). Buys the marker for his mother's grave on Mother's Day. I think Floyd is the Wilson Warrior here. But perhaps he shares it with Hedley.
Louise fits in the character mould of other strong stable women characters (Risa, Berniece, Bertha, Rose, and Ma Rainey). Although Vera does not heed Louise's advice (about her Henry) immediately, in the end fate changes things and she does.
Canewell's riff on roosters at end of Act 1. Naturally, he is the harmonica player in the band, having paid so much attention to roosters crowing. Lives with "some old gal."
Catalog lists (Whitmanian) : roosters (Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi); types of cigarettes (Old Gold, Chesterfield, Pall Mall); brands of beer (Iron City, Duquesne, Black Label, Red Label, Yellow Label); Guns (Smith and Wesson, 38, snub nose 32 (no mention of 45, military issue).
Hedley slashed Floyd's throat with a machete (like Loomis and Risa self slashing and Levee killing Toledo with a knife). Dance scene celebrating Joe Louis victory: Juba (in Joe Turner); Prison song (in Piano Lesson).
Joe Lewis radio scene ages the play and provides multimedia appeal (Act 1, Scene 5). And what about the cabbage song (sexual innuendo) scene right after the funeral that opens Act 1?
Card playing: bid whist, pinocle, pitty pat.
Song list: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0Lvs-e_eIXYQzNGKFRhdwbLYZ1mz6hLK
Week 6 – August Wilson Century Cycle – Two Trains Running – some notes
Some notes. Week 6 – Two Trains Running
1. Title from a blues song by McKinley Morganfield, aka Muddy Waters. Still A Fool. Worth the listening. Railroads and trains played an essential role in America's westward expansion, and in the migration of blacks from the rural south to the industrialized North.
Well, now, there's two, there's two trains running
Well, they ain't never, no, going my way
Well, now, one run at midnight and the other one,
Running just 'fore day,
It's running just 'fore day,
It's running just 'fore day
Oh Lord. sure 'nough they is
Oh well
2. The Non-stop personal narratives in Two Trains Running don't really fit the normal pattern for play construction we have discussed. Even in previous Wilson plays there seems to be more linear structure. Here characters pop in and out, tell their stories in an almost isolated way. Is Wilson changing the format? Is this a move signifying an embrace of modernism or a return to neoclassicism? Or even a foretaste of postmodernism?
3. Plays, like poetry, are autobiographic, ethnographic, and meta-poetic. Two Trains Running shows Wilson's development as a playwright, and draws on his backgraound as a short-order cook in Pittsburgh as a young man. Also shows his exposure to such 60's luminaries as Malcolm X and his black nationalism, Martin Luther King, Jr and his nonviolence, and Pittsburgh's Prophet Samuel (a composite of Washington's Daddy Grace, New York's Father Divine, and Chicago's Elijah Muhammad). Ethnographic in that plays portray the setting, the scene, the immediate environment of the play, in this case, Memphis's restaurant, in the late 60's, urban renewal in cities, a key element of the play's plot and the principal core around which revolve the various narratives of the characters, all restaurant diners. Finally, plays are meta-poetic in that they say something about plays themselves, the play's structure, how the action is organized around the plots (or several plots, in this case). How the play begins, how it proceeds and how it ends are all tell-tale signs of the play's meta-poetic nature.
4. Holloway = Toledo = Bono = Doaker = Bynum. Similarities in these characters as archetypes of human behavior. Older men, survivors, who sort of keep the narrative(s) on track.
5. Risa = Rose = Berniece = Ma Rainey = Bertha. Strong women figures in the plays so far who relate to male characters in various ways, but always a central, stabilizing factor. Risa in Two Trains Running is always kind to Hambone, for example, and give Sterling the time of day when no one else does. She manages the restaurant and keeps it "running' as the central location in action. Her self-mutilation is not something that the other Wilson women have done in overt ways, but it represents a self-sacrifice, physicalized, that they all have performed. (Let's not over simplify things, however.)
6. Hambone = Gabriel = Sylvester. Male characters with a physical handicap who are central to the story as it unwinds (He gonna give me my ham…I want my ham!)
7. And who is the Wilson Warrior? Sterling would be my pick, Stering who comes from humble and horrible origins, abandoned, orphaned, incarcerated, fired from his job, and excluded from economic development in industrial Pittsburgh by a stupic catch-22. Yet he fantasizes about the love of his life, externalizes that fantasy on Risa, and finally finds redemption in commiting a crime to pay homage to Hambone.
Aunt Ester finally appears (but not quite, though we know she is there). There is this triangular thing, a choice between Aunt Ester's spiritual path, Malcolm X's black nationalism, and Prophet Samuel's here and now take on things.
West, the undertaker, who knows all about how the city runs, presents a type of developmental redemption moving from a life of petty criminal activity to a respectable business operator. But Holloway thinks West still had dirt on his hands, notwithstanding the black gloves he wears. West is without love in his life since his wife died.
Wolf makes a good living running the numbers in the black community for the downtown mob. But unhappy because of his loneliness.
Memphis: owns the restaurant that Risa runs. Was chased out of the South when he tried to run a farm he bought. Wants to return to claim his property, but also wants a good value for his restaurant from the redevelopment commission so he can open a bigger restaurant in another part of town.
postscript. 4/17/2018, after seeing the play performed at Arena Stage.
Much to be said about August Wilson's personal experience with the 60's and how that may have informed his crafting of the play. His time as a short order cook, for example, and his short fling with the Nation of Islam, his failed marriage, even the poetry he submitted to Harpers and had published in the Negro Digest are all testament to his direct experience with the 60's, how it shaped him, and how it may have influenced his thinking in writing the play.
Week 5 – August Wilson Century Cycle – The Piano Lesson: some notes
August Wilson called "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" his favorite play, but he referred to The Piano Lesson as his best play. I haven't come across any explanations but my own observation is that this play contains a richer variety of symbols and rituals than the other plays we have studied so far, though each was unique in its display of ritualistic behavior.
The Berniece/Boy Willie interface is reminiscent of the Jacob/Esau birthright conflict as well as the King Solomon cutting the baby in half suggestion. The four men at the table drinking and singing old prison songs until they work themselves into a near frenzy reminds me of a type of communal seance where distant spirits inhabit and emerge from the interplay between the participants. The piano combines the Holy Grail and the Ark of the Covenant mythologies (we'll spend more time on this later in this discussion. Avery's failed blessing of the house is a type of exorcism, again that ultimately fails. Berniece is the high priestess who finally emerges to make a sacrifice to appease the family ancestors (gods). All this richness!
I am calling the the prison work song scene the first climax of the play because of all the action and discussion leading up to it and the falling action/discussion after it. After the song was completed, all four men opened up and spoke freely together, so it was also an "equalizing" event, similar to the Eucharist with bread and wine (note: drinking had occurred, but it was whisky, not communion wine. Anyway, you get the point.). Very moving scene. The prison work song, I propose, not only identified their common experience with incarceration in the South, but, much deeper, identified a spiritual basis or background they shared connecting them to their African roots and origin. The "sacrament" was ended with Whining Boy playing on the piano (the altar, the shrine). Berniece's arrival changes the mood completely. She will have a separate cataclysmic event.
This is the second Wilson play based on a painting. The first one was Joe Turner's Come and Gone. Both were based on or inspired by paintings by Romare Bearden. So already there is an organic relationship between the two plays.
Who is the Wilson Warrior in this play? Is it Berniece, determined to hold on to the family keepsake (a shrine, altar and a surrogate archive)? Or is it Boy Willie, who'd prefer to sell the piano and use the money to buy the family plantation land down south (capitalism and wealth building)? I contend they are both Wilson Warriors per the Riley Temple definitions, characters who
- "take a journey – a pilgrimage of redemption to find and to reconstitute who they might have been, and what they have become. And in so doing they must have the strength and the courage – the faith – to revisit the past in all its several guises and heaviness, to set down the burdens of that past, and become free. The faith is needed to know that the outcome will be as God intends, despite the difficulties attendant to the journey.
- "These men (and Berniece Charles) are warriors in fact, and not merely in spirit (but certainly in that as well), and have that Warrior courage. They make mistakes. Bad mistakes. They pay the price for them. Yet, they are not victims. They are fighters."
- those who fight – sometimes foolishly as Levee has just done, and who should and will pay dearly for such a tragic mistake.
- "like the others: Solly "Two Kings" in Gem, who freed slaves and who turned to helping abused factory workers; Herald Loomis; Boy Willie of Piano Lesson who has to fight off ghosts of the past to help his sister unlock herself….Troy Maxson, of Fences, who battles death and the compulsion to save his son from racial humiliation…"
- "Each one had who they were right within their reach – their song was in their throats – they had to be guided to the soul's destination to sing it."
- "He (Boy Willie) is, after all, one of Wilson's warriors….(his) mistakes have been bad, some not so smart – even stupid. But he's paid for them, he is struggling to walk upright and is determined to do so."
- [He] is no victim. He is a fully redeemed soul. He knows who he is and how he got to where he is. He knows his history; he has called on his ancestors; he knows on whose shoulders he stands; and he is comfortable and free. He remembers his past, and he engages in it – like the children of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, who, as God directs, remember who delivered them.
Berniece is on a parallel development track. She is pursued by men and told she can't be whole without a husband. She is pursued by fears, of ghosts, of what happened to her mother and father and husband. but she overcomes those fears when she plays the piano and calls out to her ancestors (reminiscent of Toledo's African conceptualization in Ma Rainey) for help after her primary suitor Avery's Christian exorcism attempt failed. Berniece is the High Priestess/Warrior in the myth story but she has developed a fear of performing her function as High Priestess. Only when she succeeds in overcoming her fear is she able to quell the Sutter's ghost issue.
The piano is the Holy Grail and the Ark of the Covenant in the myth story. The Holy Grail because it carried the "blood" of Berniece's mother who so laboriously kept it sparkling and polished and it represents the "secret" of what happened to the family unit in slavery. The Ark of the Covenant because it represents the "chest" that contains the archive of the family history through the generations
Finally, what is the Lesson? I propose the lesson is that heritage and family history of struggle and overcoming trump everything else. Money can't buy it, not can it be traded for money. But you have to honor it, preserve it, celebrate it, and add to it with the achievements of each generation. Without the last piece, the life affirming and life-sustaining temple of our familiar becomes just a tomb of memories, a curious artifact of the past.
I wonder if the back and forth between Berniece and Boy Willie over the piano was a sort of distraction, albeit a necessary one, to get to the real plot and character development in the play, the family united in purpose at the play's end? In the end, the play highlights the family unit, resilient and purposeful.
7. Genealogy and provenance of the piano.
1. The first owner of the piano was Joel Norlander of Georgia.
2. Robert Sutter, grandfather of Jim Sutter. wanted to buy the piano for his wife Ophelia as an anniversary present, but didn't have the money. He offered Norlander two of his "niggers" (slaves) in exchange for the piano.
3. Norlander chose two slaves, Berniece (Doaker's grandmother) and Willie Boy (Doaker's father), and exchanged them for the piano.
4. Willie Boy (Doaker's grandfather) became an expert carpenter and woodworker.
5. At length, Ophelia began to miss Berniece and Willie Boy and decided she wanted them back. Norlander refused, and Ophelia became very sick. The Sutters instructed Willie Boy to carve images of Berniece and Willie boy into the wood panels of the piano. The carvings satisfied Ophelia's longing for her sold slaves.
6. Several years later, on the 4th of July when the Sutter house was empty, Doaker's brother, Boy Charles (father of Berniece and Boy Willie), who never stopped talking about the piano, took Doaker and Wining Boy to the Sutter house and stole the piano. They carried the piano to the adjoining county with Mama Ola's people.
7. When the Sutters returned home, they assumed the theft was done by Boy Charles, so the Sutter men went out and set Boy Charles' house on fire.
8. Boy Charles had left and taken the Yellow Dog train in a storage boxcar with four hobos. The Sutters arranged with law enforcement to stop the train, figuring Boy Charles was inside the boxcar, and set the box car on fire, killing Boy Charles and the other four.
9. Doaker moved to Pittsburgh and carried the piano with him. Bernice later joined him after her husband was killed.


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KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Tuesday asked the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) to file a final report about preventive and safety measures in the use of CNG kits in vehicles by May 29.
When a set of petitions about the use of substandard CNG kits and cylinders in commercial vehicles and school vans came up for hearing before a two-judge SHC bench headed by Justice Mohammad Ali Mazhar on Tuesday, the lawyer for Ogra filed a statement in compliance with an earlier order.
The lawyer for one of the petitioners produced a copy of the minutes of a meeting conducted by all the stakeholders in the light of an order issued on the last hearing.
The lawyers and representatives of Ogra, the Hydrocarbon Development Institute of Pakistan (HDIP), All Pakistan CNG Association (APCNGA) and the petitioners have confirmed that a meeting was convened and a detailed discussion was held to improve the condition viz-a-viz CNG cylinders in various commercial and school vans with safety measures.
The counsel for Ogra argued that some points remained untouched in the first meeting and sought one month to hold another meeting with all the stakeholders. The lawyers for the petitioner also endorsed the request of the lawyer representing Ogra.
The bench fixed the matter on May 29 and directed the Ogra lawyer to file final minutes of the meeting.
At the outset of the hearing, the bench was informed that the meeting of all the stakeholders was held on April 25 and proposed standard operating procedures (SOPs), adding that it contained long- and short-term measures to curb accidents in CNG kit-fitted vehicles and to ensure safety of the public.
It was also proposed in the meeting that the education departments of all the provinces direct the schools not to allow such vehicles which had no valid fitness certificate; HDIP and APCNGA must increase the number of cylinder testing labs, and Ogra should encourage all the CNG stations to develop workshops on the premises of the filling stations.
Advocates Muzammil Mumtaz, Tariq Mansoor and others had moved the SHC and contended that a rickshaw driver was forced to commit suicide as money was extorted from him at least thrice and alleged that it was a routine in Karachi that traffic police were engaged in demanding bribes from rickshaw drivers and motorbike riders on main roads, and on refusal they imposed undue fines on them.
The petitioners maintained that substandard CNG cylinders were being used in public transport as well as in school vans despite the directions of the court and no action was being taken against such vehicles. Impleading the home secretary, transport secretary, DIG traffic, Ogra and others as respondents, they asked the court to direct the respondents to take action against traffic police engaged in extorting bribes and to restrain public transport vehicles and school vans from using substandard CNG cylinders and overloading their vehicles.
SHC seeks ECP members' addresses
The same bench on Tuesday directed the Chief Election Commissioner of Pakistan to communicate the court notices to two former members of the ECP or provide their residential addresses to the court so that notices could be directly issued to them.
The Aam Log Ittehad Party through its head, retired Justice Wajihuddin Ahmed, had moved the SHC and contended that the appointments of all the four members of the ECP were illegal.
About the service of the notices to two retired members, Shakeel Baloch and Abdul Ghaffar, from Balochistan and Sindh, the bench had directed at the last hearing the law officer of the ECP to inform the two retired members about the court notices.
However, on Tuesday the ECP lawyer placed on record a letter of a deputy director of the ECP which stated that after their retirement, the ECP had no connection with both the former members and notices may be issued on their residential addresses.
The petitioner argued that three of them, former judges of high courts, were appointed members of the ECP in violation of Article 207(2) of the Constitution as their appointments were made before the expiry of a mandatory period of two years after they ceased the office as judges of high courts.
While impleading the ECP and it members retired justices Shakeel Ahmad Baloch, Irshad Qaiser and Altaf Ibrahim Qureshi as well as retired bureaucrat Abdul Ghaffar as respondents, he maintained that the fourth member of the ECP was inducted when he was facing a corruption case and his name was also placed on the Exit Control List.
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Who do you wish was great because of how great they are in the comics/movies/mcu. Comment if not listed
Favorite champ you wish was good in this game. !!due explain 79 votes
CaptainPoll Posts: 158 ★DeadpoolBecause...........IM Batman0
Kalantak Posts: 533 ★★★Doc strange,Og n ww2 cap, x deadpool,Loki0
Etjama Posts: 825 ★★Basic iron manBecause Taskmaster is actually really good and the rest of these options are Mutant. The Mutant class along with Cosmic really doesn't need an upgrade. Tech is starting to fall behind.1
DrownedGod Posts: 242 ★Basic iron manIron Man.
Many people playing this game are here because of the MCU and IM is an integral part.3
elTavo14 Posts: 7 ★MagnetoA metion to Sentry, comic GOD tier3
Red Skull
He is super dope, has an infinity stone, and has potential1
Jh_Dez Posts: 1,003 ★★★Phoenix
Jean is an omega level mutant bound to the Phoenix force, a cosmic entity capable of destroying worlds an increase in her stats is sufficient2
Lvernon15 Posts: 3,136 ★★★★★DeadpoolI was expecting a lot more gambit votes tbh1
Tony886 Posts: 497 ★You forgot to add Doctor Strange!!!2
Or he could add a other button and you comment who and whyTony886 said:
You forgot to add Doctor Strange!!!0
Bugmat78 Posts: 35 ★MagnetoHas to be Mags for me - as an avid reader of x-men comics during some of the great storylines in the 90s and 00s I'm so disappointed in how **** he is w/o kabam putting him on BS nodes in EQs.. A mutant who can pull the very iron ore from your blood ( or adamantium from your bones) he's an absolute wet noodle...he should be great from his base abilities.2
Where's the Sentry option? When he was released, I was so excited because I read the comic series as a kid, and he is one of my favourite lesser known Marvel characters. Only then to release he's hot garbage0
TheBestinTuakau Posts: 240 ★TaskmasterThere's always been a place in my heart for taskmaster1
@EarthElite He isn't in the MCU1
Oh, I meant marvel characters. ThanksXxLoganTDCxX said:
@EarthElite He isn't in the MCU1
Mr_Wiff Posts: 230 ★Daredevil and Netflix version. Back in the day perfect block and his auto evade was enough but now he's pretty **** but I love my 4 star maxed OG Daredevil. Needs better crits and maybe a way his sonar sense can trigger true strike.1
J4mmy_d0dger123 Posts: 17 ★DeadpoolDeadpool is just generally a character that needs some buffs, especially the X-Force variant as both are some of the lowest tier champions in the game and considering, especially in the movies, how powerful his healing factor is and the comics as well, he just deserves to be better0
Cassy Posts: 602 ★★GambitGambit, He is so unhandy to play. Even When you ramped Him up (Takes long, lasts short) a duped Storm can Do more damage. No Real Utility and is sig ability does almost nothing.
Especial considering Since his Release there are so much Champs who can Bypass his physical Resistenz1
DPXFistheGOAT Posts: 370 ★★Old school Cap America.Off the top, the champs that are designed mainly to aggressively parry/stun are
* the Caps and DDs (perfect block)
* Red Skull (energy drain/armor up)
* I guess CM (movie, binary charges)
* Omega Red (awakened, spores add when nearby)
* AA (reliant on heavy + inflicts poison only by blocking)
Considering how many champs there are, champs made specifically to parry/stun are pretty rare. And in Omega's case, you need to play more aggressively while in CM's, you need to control when you reach binary. Then with AA, well if the opponent cant be poisoned, then parry/stun goes out the window.
So really theres 3 unique characters (2 clones) out there built for a versatile parry/stun playstyle and Cap is one of them. The main issue is that perfect block is the full extent of this guy's capabilities whereas everyone else can either regen, inflict death spores, gain crazy damage, apply neurotoxins, stun, evade projectiles, or power drain. And they do it so well that Cap's perfect block isnt enough to compensate for his lackluster...well...everything else unless you value the ability to inflict fatigue that high1
Good answers everyone. I'd have to say mine is definitely magneto. Magneto was the definition of awesome bad/good/bad guy and in this game he is an ant.0
Fhfjghhggggjfhfjg Posts: 3,802 ★★★★★MagnetoMagneto and Phoenix1
GambitMagneto needs to be buffed a lot more, but I like Gambit as a character a lot more0
Zuro Posts: 1,547 ★★★★DeadpoolThey did Deadpool so dirty0
GodslayerBlayne Posts: 163 ★Deadpoolgambit is great, look at Swedeah L's 5 star rank 5 one, he got a 114k crit on special 2.2
BDeezy Posts: 96 ★DeadpoolBc Deadpool is awesome0
Was he at 10 charges and with any synergies increasing muts sps by a lot? Probably r3 domino can deal more damage, and gambit is really hard to build up - unlike nebula, his timer resets when he gets hit in block, and final charges are charging too long. There is just no real reason to use him over other mutants@GodslayerBlayne said:
gambit is great, look at Swedeah L's 5 star rank 5 one, he got a 114k crit on special 2.1
Rockon Posts: 246 ★Old school Cap America.I like the iron mans and captain Americas. cool looking but they need work.0


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I ache and I am so tired right now, that Andrew may have to edit this column for nonsense.
I currently sit in my very nerdy home with a body that feels like it's close to falling apart.
I have returned from Fan Expo.
This year was a bit of a weird one for me. In past years, I've covered the convention with my partner in TATANS, Adam Grant. But this year, some very significant life changes for both us, rendered our show a little smaller than it has been. In conference, we decided that we would skip this year and try and come back full force next year.
Then Geek Hard came a calling.
While I've (obviously) worked with the guys in a limited fashion of sorts (I write a blog for the sight and I've co-hosted the show), I haven't done an event like this with the guys and it was the first time I really was working for someone else. Surprisingly, things went smoothly. And I don't mean that in an "I thought those assholes would be difficult to work with". I mean it more in the fact that I was worried that I might be difficult to work with because I was used to being the boss. Kind of like when you've ran your own company and then have to go work for someone else. Sometimes that transition can be difficult. But luckily, everything worked out beautifully.
Or at least for me.
But what about the convention itself? What did we get accomplished? Who did you talk to?
Patience dear reader, we're getting to it.
The Convention Business
I get accused of being a Hobbystar shill from time to time and it's true, I have been a panel moderator for them in the past. Despite this, I have had and probably will always have issues with them. That being said, I really think this was an incredibly well run show. Yes, I'm quite aware of The Star's article and I understand tickets may have been over sold but before anyone jumps on me for having a media pass, not so. Saturday I entered with a standard ticket and had no issues getting in. In fact, I only stood in line for 30 minutes and as soon as doors opened, I was in the building and on the floor. Total time? 35 minutes.
With that being said, yes, the overselling is an issue and it's going to be an issue for the foreseeable future. What a lot of fans don't seem to consider is something that I clicked into a few years ago.
Fan Expo is a business.
This is not to say they don't care about the fans or about the show. I can say without a doubt there is at least one guy who works there who is more passionate about comics than I am. There's probably a few more beyond that one guy but the attitude that it's all about money and fuck the fans, is wrong. Every year these guys have a balancing act between commerce and fandom that they have to perform. Some years are better then others. For me and my own personal tastes, there wasn't much in the way of new guests I wanted to get books signed from. But from Hobbystar's point of view, I can completely understand why they grabbed these people. They are popular and a lot of fans might not have met them before.
When you have that many people wanting into your event, there is going to be issues and logistical nightmares that you wouldn't believe.
But what could they change?
Hell if I know.
In theory a bigger building would be great… except there aren't any. I suppose they could take over both sides of the convention center but booking that would be near impossible (this year for instance, there was a car show in the north building for at least two out of the four days) and the possible money loss would be huge. The money makes the convention continue. Without the money, Fan Expo doesn't run. And as far as cons go, the only possible competitor is Wizard World Toronto. While I think it has potential, it is a very distant second to Fan Expo.
The only complaint I have is how the artists' tables were lined up for the bigger names. I imagine it looked great on paper but the problem is lines bleed into one another. Ethan Van Scriver was right beside Jill Thompson for instance. Ethan has a ton of fans as does Jill and sometimes the lines bled together with no clearly defined area for either. Darwyn Cooke and Amanda Connor had a very similar issue. I'm sure on paper, the layout looked great but in practice, room for improvement.
Interview Anecdotes
I'm not going to really talk about the interviews themselves because they are coming and I want you guys to have something to look forward to (trust me, we've got some great surprises lined up) but I am going to reveal a couple little tidbits to keep you wanting more.
In terms of comics, there was a bit of a buzz on the show floor about a man who wasn't even there: Rob Liefeld. Rob's current burning of bridges with his twitter flamethrower was the talk of the convention with professionals and journalists alike. I was completely unaware of the Scott Snyder twitter war until a pro (who will go unnamed) pointed it out to me.
Jill Thompson is a favorite artist in my household. If she were in your family, she'd be that awesome aunt that your kids love. That being said, the entire Geek Hard crew accidentally followed her all weekend so if she assumes we're stalking her, I wouldn't blame her.
Mike Del Mundo is a guy I'm really glad to see is doing well. We had last ran into each other at Wizard World Toronto and while Mike was doing well then, it's nice to see that his career is really starting to ramp up.
5 time WCW World Heavyweight champ, Booker T has huge mitts. Seriously, he could palm my face if he so desired.
Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to bed until my column next week.
If you're gonna geek out, GEEK HARD!
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049 FIFM – Hey Man, Where is My Money?
Are you making the decision to collide with those who need to get smacked upside the head? If not, then you need to because it's the only way to get results and feedback. It's hard for introverts to confront people who have wronged them, but once you see the results of standing up for yourself you'll find that the more that you do this the more results you will get. You'll have more and more opportunities pop up too.


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Grahame Field.
"Here is my summary of what it is like living here, the reasons for us choosing le Domaine as a place in which to live in our retirement and a summary of what facilities exist here.
Le Domaine is called a "Lifestyle Estate" and is not just for retirees. We have a number of younger families living here. The property is 35 hectares in extent and is divided into 15 villages (suburbs) and 4 apartment blocks, totaling nearly 700 residential units. These range from small apartments to stand alone homes which are owned on sectional title, or are sold on a "life rights" basis. The estate is now fully developed so there should be no need for future "special levies".
Googling the Le Domaine web site gives one a very good idea of what the estate looks like from the air. Security is very well organised, I have never heard of anyone having a problem. There are extensive walkways throughout the estate, much of them following the waterways which connect the numerous dams.
Facilities include both outdoor swimming pools and one indoor "heated" pool, a bowling green and two tennis courts which are free for all residents to use. All gardens are maintained by the estate and residents are free to do their own bit of gardening within a metre of their unit's walls. Only indigenous plants are allowed to be grown in the estate, roses, etc may only be grown in pots.
Our recreation centre has a restaurant provides very good food at reasonable rates, we have a bar, a snooker table, as well as table tennis tables. In the centre, we also have a hairdresser, and wellness salon ('health Hydro'), a laundry, fully equipped gym and a cinema room where movies are shown on a regular basis. In the main centre, there is also a large screen which is used to show important local & overseas sporting events.
The estate also has frail care and supported living facility which is privately run and we have a Lodge with 5 apartments set aside to accommodate visiting families.
Le Domaine is a haven for wildlife and is a major attraction for birdlife hence no cats are permitted on the estate, but one is allowed to have one smallish dog.
There are braai facilities at two of the outside pools which residents are free to use
Indoor activities include bridge and canasta and there is a monthly musical show/jazz club and cinema show.
We have what we call a "Smart Village" facility which maintains our internet connection as well as our e-mail and DSTV bouquet at a total cost of R798 per month. One can however still receive the full DSTV service if one so wishes.
My wife and I purchased a 139 square metre unit comprising two and a half bedrooms(the half being used as a dressing room) 2 bathrooms and a double garage some 5 years ago and these units are currently being sold for around R2 million. Larger units, I understand, are going for around R3 to R 3.5million.
Our monthly levy is now around R3300 which includes the R798 paid to the Smart Village for their services. The estate runs a levy stabilisation fund which derives its income from the sale of units by residents where 20 percent of the profit on sale is deducted and paid into the fund.
In summary, I would just like to say that, considering the facilities available and all the activities that take place, I am not aware of any other estate that can match what we enjoy here.
Oh and not to forget the great Cotswold Downs golf course just over the road where senior members from outside get a really good deal."
I trust that Grahame's article will provide you with a good idea of someone who is really enjoying living in a retirement village. I am very grateful to him for this contribution.
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Past demographic transitions have beenobserved with and without economic progress, but thereis little empirical record of crisis-driven fertilitytransitions. In recent years, several authors haveargued that conditions for such transitions are met inAfrican countries under economic crisis and structuraladjustment. Using retrospective family histories,this study examines fertility responses to crisis inCameroon, a country with a particularly abrupteconomic reversal. The thesis of a crisis-led declineis tested on the basis of five criteria includingtiming of the decline, statistical and substantivesignificance, rural-urban response differentials andsocial salience. Findings are consistent with acrisis-led effect.
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Ruth Patir is a video and new media artist. Selected solo exhibitions include Hamidrasha Gallery (Tel Aviv, 2018) and Danspace Projects (New York, 2017). Her works have been showcased at venues such as MoMA Museum of Modern Art (New York), Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Anthology Film Archive (New York) Kav16 Gallery (Tel Aviv), and Flux Factory (New York). Patir was awarded the 2018 Young Artist Video Prize. Her work Sleepers won first place in the Jerusalem Film Festival Experimental Film and Video section 2017. She holds a BFA from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, and an MFA from Columbia University, New York. Patir was recently selected for the sixth edition of Artport TLV Residency Program.


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This past Father's Day BJA presented Baltimore Jazz Fest, a free day-long festival that featured some of the best jazz in town. I say the BJA presented, but in reality, this was truly a community effort. When we first presented Baltimore Jazz Fest in 2016, at Druid Hill Park, we also had great support, but it was a big effort for our small organization, and while we tried to repeat it the following year, we really didn't have the resources to make it happen right away. | Read more>>
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The United States scrambled on Monday to contain diplomatic fall-out from leaked documents showing Palestinian negotiators offered big concessions to Israel, a disclosure that complicates efforts to revive stalled peace efforts.
State Department spokesperson PJ Crowley acknowledged that al-Jazeera television's release of the cache of memos could make a difficult situation worse, but said Washington would be undeterred in seeking to breathe life into the peace process.
Al-Jazeera's publication of the documents drew condemnation from Palestinian leaders but stirred anger among many Arabs who feared Palestinian negotiators were willing to give too much ground over sensitive issues like the future of Jerusalem.
The papers revealed concessions that Palestinian negotiators were willing to make in 2008, before US President Barack Obama took office and launched his own peace efforts, which have since become bogged down in recriminations between the sides.
"We don't deny that this release will at least for a time make the situation more difficult than it already was," Crowley told reporters.
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The controversy creates new domestic problems for Abbas, a moderate already weakened by the fact that he governs only in the West Bank while Hamas Islamists control the Gaza Strip.
Abbas is a US favourite who has long favoured a two-state solution to the decades-old conflict. But Abbas has had to fend off accusations from militants that he is too conciliatory toward Israel and vulnerable to pressure from Washington.
"The immediate impact of the leaks will be to harm Abbas's negotiating position because the leaks expose him to internal Palestinian political attacks which further erodes his legitimacy," said Haim Malka, a Middle East analyst at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.
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With Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, known as a hardliner, now heading a coalition that includes pro-settler parties, analysts see far less chance of Israel making the painful compromises widely seen as vital to a peace agreement.
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Christophe wrote:
> something like deverbal nouns for actor, patient, etc...).
Deverbal nouns? Of everyone on this list, you have the most unusual
grammatical things (at least imho :). I don't know if you come up
with them yourself or if there actually is such a thing out there.
> It reminds me of a question I wanted to ask: in the active sentence "I take
> the book", "I" is the agent (or actor, I think they are pretty much the
> same), "the book" is the patient. But in "I see the book", "I" is the
> experiencer, but how do you call "the book"? experiencee?
I had the same problem when I tried to come up with cases for Rinya.
I didn't know what case to assign to 'the experienced' (Btw, wasn't that
you Christophe? The word 'originative' comes to mind...). Anyway, I ended
up with ablative (motion from) because if you look at it metaphorically it
kinda makes sense.
> And in "I look at
> the book", if "I" is clearly actor, "the book" doesn't seem like a patient
> for me. Is this also an experiencee?
Hmm... I suppose you could call it Goal 'the thing towards which an action
is directed'. Or do as I do in Rinya and call it Source 'the place of
origin' or 'the entity from which a physical sensation emanates (with verbs
of sensation, attention and speech)'. Yes, Source makes sense.
> This question is important for me because I want to make a distinction
> between all those roles in my trigger system (that would allow me to use
> the same verb with various meanings :) ).
I know there is a somewhat extensive list at SIL. Address:
Any book on Semantics worthy of its name should have good lists on thematic
roles also.
PS. In case anyone (except me) found this a confusing mail: two hours
of sleep, lectures on minimalism all day and three hours of Old Icelandic
this evening, then out for quite a few beers and still I turn on the
computer when I get home... Anyway...
PS2. Hurry with trigger system of Itakian! We all.EXP wanna see it.SRC now!
Huuuuurrrrryyyyyy!!!!! :) I should really sleep now...
PS3. Oops... I just realized I forgot to sign this mail. It's Daniel...
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