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Why China Will Base an Aircraft Carrier Near the South China Sea
The real reasons China is so interested in the South China Sea.
By Shannon Tiezzi for The Diplomat
Credit: U.S. Naval War College
In July 2015, the Canadian-based, Chinese-language Kanwa Defense Review reported that China had finished building its second aircraft carrier base. The first base is in Dalian, in northern Liaoning Province; the new base, the larger of the two, is reportedly based in Sanya, on Hainan Island off China's southern coast.
According to details of the report, which was picked up by Chinese media outlets, the base has a large pier that could accommodate two aircraft carriers at once. China currently operates only one aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, a retrofitted Ukrainian carrier believed to be used primarily for training purposes. In March, after months of rumors, Chinese media quoted naval officers who confirmed that China is constructing a second carrier, which would be its first indigenously produced model. Kanwa expects this new carrier to be principally based at Hainan (the Liaoning is based in Dalian).
At 700 meters long, the new base at Hainan is the longest carrier berth in the world, and the widest at 120 meters. Want China Times, citing the Kanwa report, said that construction on the base began in 2011 and was completed by 2015, although the base will likely continued to be worked on and expanded. The new carrier base is close to the existing Yulin nuclear submarine base; as Want China Times notes, "if the two bases are taken together, they will constitute the PLA Navy's largest multirole base."
Yang Yujun, spokesperson for China's Defense Ministry, was asked about the reports during his monthly press conference on July 30. Instead of confirming or denying the reports about a base in Hainan, he gave a general overview of the necessary features of an aircraft carrier base:
[A]s to the supporting facilities of the aircraft carrier on the land, they mainly include the port facilities for the aircraft carrier, the airport for carrier-borne planes and also the training facilities. These facilities will provide main support for the daily activities of the aircraft carrier.
"The construction of such facilities is determined by the task entrusted to the troops," he added.
However, the state-run People's Daily, an official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party, legitimized the speculation yesterday by running analysis of the new base on its website. The People's Daily piece summarized information from Kanwa with specifics of the base. More importantly, the piece borrowed analysis from thePaper.cn by Ma Yao of Shanghai International Studies University to explain why China would build a carrier base in Hainan.
Ma's reasons were threefold. First, the strategic location of Hainan makes it ideal for a naval base. Ma pointed to Hainan's proximity to "three strategically important straits — Malacca Strait, Lombok Strait and Sunda Strait." In a reference to common PLA rhetoric, Ma argues that should Japan and the United States blockade the "first island chain" (stretching from Okinawa to Taiwan), China's ships could still reach the Indian Ocean and southern Pacific via the South China Sea. Preserving access to the South China Sea thus allows China to protect its "weak" transportation channels for imported oil. A base at Hainan, Ma says, thus lets China concentrate its naval forces at a strategically important location where U.S. military force is relatively weak.
Second, Ma points out that Hainan is already home to a number of defense bases, providing protection for the carrier base. In particular, Ma says Hainan houses J-11B fighter jets, which respond to U.S. P8-A surveillance flights over the South China Sea. "The speed of their response, their high level of preparation, the skill of the pilots, and the excellent technology makes people gasp," Ma writes with pride, saying that in a conflict these J-11B aircraft would provide cover for carriers.
Ma also notes the previously mentioned Yulin submarine base on Hainan. The exact makeup of China's carrier battle group is unknown, but it is believed to contain at least one Type-093 Shang-class nuclear submarine, which are based at Yulin.
Third, Ma says that the Hainan base, "with its deeper waters and wider rims," is an effective location for basing China's nuclear force. Nuclear submarines require protection from anti-submarine warfare; the geography of the Hainan base provides good cover. Because Hainan is a geographically desirable base for nuclear submarines, Ma argues, it also makes sense to place a carrier base nearby to provide additional protection from anti-submarine warfare.
Nowhere in his piece does Ma mention the territorial disputes in the South China Sea, and the possibility of a carrier being sent to defend those claims. Ma is far more concerned with defending the potential choke-points of China's trade and preventing anti-submarine and aerial warfare from being waged effectively against China. The rationale for the Hainan base reveals why the South China Sea is important to China, and it has nothing to do with maintaining control over reefs and rocks. In fact, nationalism aside, control over those disputed features is important mainly for the strategic reasons Ma outlines above.
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Historic botanical gardens of Annaplois Royal, Nova Scotia offer a nice walk and are delight to anyone interested in nature. Annapolis Royal is about 3 hours drive from Halifax. Plan a trip to this area and you can also enjoy other Nova Scotia attractions: Fort Anne, Kejimkujik National park, Upper Clements park. You can also find several hiking trails with waterfall nearby. If you plan a trip to come to Halifax via Yarmouth ferry, then include Annaplois Royal and historic botanical gardens in your road trip ideas.
Historic gardens are open from May until October. There is always something blooming at the gardens and you can take lots of pictures of flowers. Because of hours of operation it is hard to arrive at special times of day like sunrise and sunset when light is best for landscape photography. However, if you plan a trip you can still capture some of the morning or evening lighting. There will be less visitors as well during those hours. If you do arrive during the day you can use polarizing filter which will make your pictures stand out. Annapolis Royal is very close to Bay of Fundy and often skies will be overcast during the day. This will provide even and shadow free lighting for your spring images, take advantage of it.
Botanical gardens are beautiful in the spring, here many flowers and trees are in full bloom. There are lots of varieties of tulips, daffodils, azaleas blooming in the spring. To add more excellent pictures of flowers to your photo gallery, you should try to use macro lens. This type of lens will produce beautiful detailed pictures of flowers with professional detail and background.
1. Plan a trip and try to capture morning or evening light.
2. If the skies are grey compose your spring image without them.
3. Bring a macro lens, set correct aperture/shutter speed for desired depth of field, use tripod.
4. Clearly identify subject of your photo, it does not have to be in the center of your composition, but it has to be in focus.


Back when I visited Ron Young, Sr. he showed me his R. L. Allan & Son (a family owned bindery in Glasgow, Scotland since 1863) Long Primer KJV. Then, when a brother Pastor visited CRBC from Orlando this summer, he also brought along his R. L. Allan Long Primer. These are beautiful books. They have rich, supple covers and are printed on strong India paper. With my eyes weakening, I particularly like the large, readable font size. For more on Allan Bibles look here.
Thanks for this article. Nice old Longprimer you have there.


Good morning my friends! I took the day off work today so I am enjoying my coffee with Snookie on my lap. Braless. Ah it's the finer things in life.
Tomorrow I am doing a craft show so that means it has been raining all week and most likely will rain tomorrow. Effening rain! Always raining on my plans.
I got a new canopy, which is actually the canopy that my mom had bought at the same time I bought one. Originally we were going to go halves on one but now I'll just pay her back for it (or trade sewing :)) since I will be using it all the time. I also bought some weights to put on the legs. Scott is going to pick up some sand or small rocks to fill them with today for me. I'm so paranoid about the tent flying away now.
I don't think I shared the boards I made to keep my mug cozies from flying all over.
I keep praying I am not going to get the flu since I hung out with Jessica for most of the evening on Wednesday and ended up taking her to the ER because she couldn't stop coughing and her chest was hurting. While we were there they did a flu test and it was positive for type B. They gave her some tamiflu and she's been doing ok.
Tomorrow is going to be such a busy day. Craft show, then as soon as I get back we have the St. Patrick's Day dinner at the clubhouse that I might have just skipped but the kids want to go. I also got drafted to help with the cake booth. Tomorrow is also the one year anniversary of the day that my father in law passed away.
So off to read some blogs while the day is young. Good thing I had to take the kid to the bus this morning or I'd probably still be wasting it away in bed!
Julie, I think the boards you made for the cozies is great. You can see everything but it will stay put should it get windy.
Isn't being at home braless the best? Best part of working from home if you ask me.
Well until summer. I walked Izzy today at lunch but I had on a big ole puffy winter coat.
Come summer you have to wear a bra damn it.
Have a fun St. Patty's day!!


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Calls for dedicated transport police following alarming rise in assaults on Irish trains
BY Ruairi Scott Byrne
The National Bus and Rail Union has called on Iarnród Éireann to establish a dedicated transport police in the wake of growing violence and anti-social behaviour on Irish trains.
Recent figures from RTE's This Week show that anti-social behaviour has jumped by 43% in a two-year period, while there have been more than 1,000 separate incidents of anti-social behaviour recorded by Iarnród Éireann since the start of 2017.
There were 492 recorded incidents of anti-social misconduct on rail lines in 2016, a figure which rose even higher in 2017 when more than 700 incidents recorded.
That figure has continued to grow in 2018, which has seen a rise of 25% over the first five months of the year when compared to the same period in 2016.
A number of these assaults on Irish trains have been made against members of staff, with 20 separate assaults recorded against employees since the start of the year, according to Iarnród Éireann's records.
One of the reasons given to explain the surge in numbers is the reduction in staff in certain areas, with one rail employee telling RTE he had been personally assaulted a number of times recently, such as "being kicked in the testicles, having a fire extinguisher thrown at him and being attacked by youths wielding snooker balls in a sock."
NBRU general secretary Dermot O'Leary has called on Transport Minister Shane Ross to open discussions around the establishment of a dedicated Transport Police.
Mr O'Leary also warned the recent surge in attacks against staff and anti-social behaviour by some customers could lead to some employees refusing to work on train lines in which these incidents were persistent.
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Will Norfolk be the next New Orleans?
By Mike Tidwell
PilotOnline.com
"A hurricane is coming, and it's going to wipe us out."
Papoose Ledet, a Cajun shrimper, told me this as we rode on his wooden trawler just south of New Orleans. I was a visiting journalist, and it was the spring of 2001, more than four years before Katrina. How did Ledet – and millions of other Louisianans – know the Big One was coming prior to Katrina's actual arrival in 2005?
Simple. They saw the ocean creeping steadily into their lives, for years, with their own eyes. They saw the tides grow higher and higher. They saw unusual and increasingly intense flooding of streets and homes. And they saw scientists issue study after study showing that the ocean was literally rising, an obvious threat to Louisiana's flat, watery coastal region, where some areas were below sea level.
If you live in coastal Hampton Roads, take a deep breath and re-read that last paragraph. You live, right now, in a world eerily parallel to south Louisiana prior to 2005. Every time you take a different route to work - or miss work completely - due to newly flooded streets, you become more like a citizen of New Orleans.
Of course Virginia's Katrina moment has not yet come, but that's just a matter of luck. Sandy was a near miss, and as the hurricane season of 2013 kicks off this weekend, it's time as a region that we get life-and-death serious about two things.
First, how can we move forward with "adaptation" measures that keep most coastal Virginians dry and safe - and able to evacuate quickly - even as global climate change brings higher seas and bigger storms? Second, how do we help slow down the rate of climate change in the first place, thus avoiding truly catastrophic impacts?
The answer to the second question, according to a rising number of Navy officials and 97 percent of the world's climate scientists, is this: Burn fewer fossil fuels while developing clean, renewable energy. Thankfully, while coastal Virginia has more and more water at its doorstep, it also has vast untapped stores of offshore wind power. We are ground zero for both the threats and solutions.
The effects of climate change are now as obvious as gravity in coastal Virginia. People choose parking spots in many Norfolk neighborhoods based on the phase of the moon cycle. At Norfolk Naval Station, officials have poured millions of dollars into elevating critical piers and protecting areas now below sea level as the water continues to rise around the world's largest naval base.
Across the coast, municipal and regional planners are scrambling to protect citizens, but they need more resources to study where the rising water will go and what to do about it. Adaptation options range from constructing levees to elevating homes to banning new construction to outright retreat in some areas. Meanwhile, federal and state leaders need to provide more guidance and, again, more money for these local adaptation efforts - immediately.
How high will the water go? According to the Virginia Institute for Marine Science, if current climate trends continue, we could see a whopping 5.4 feet of additional sea-level rise by 2100. Think about that number for a moment - and think about the location of your home, your business, your child's school, and all bridges and tunnels and causeways that connect them. You quickly realize it just can't be done. We can't hold back more than 5 feet of water or simply raise the elevation of every structure by 5 feet. One or two feet of water? Yes, most planners believe the coast can, with heavy investments, make the adjustment. But more than five? Fuhgeddaboudit.
So the question quickly becomes: How do we keep the rise to a minimum? It requires that we actually confront the source of climate change. It's not sun spots or volcanic activity. It's us. A recent survey of all academic papers published on global warming over the past 20 years showed that 97.1 percent agreed that climate change is being driven by human activity, primarily the worldwide combustion of fossil fuels.
No wonder the Hampton Roads Planning District Commission, in a 2010 study on climate adaptation, pointed out that "wind energy development represents (an) untapped opportunity for Hampton Roads." Another study says offshore wind in Virginia could create 10,000 jobs.
Memo to Dominion Power: Help rescue coastal Virginia by investing swiftly in wind power instead of dirty, fossil-fuel based generation. Likewise, nationally, Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine should oppose any efforts to build the Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline. If built, that pipeline could mean "game over" for the climate, according to leading American scientists.
"Game over" means nearly 6 feet of sea-level rise for Hampton Roads and mega storms like Katrina and Sandy on a regular basis. Instead, as another storm season begins, let's dedicate ourselves to "game on" for saving the wildlife, people and culture of this great coast. Let's adapt, prepare and prevent. Let's learn from Louisiana.
Mike Tidwell, director of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network, is the author of "Bayou Farewell: The Rich Life and Tragic Death of Louisiana's Cajun Coast."


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Bookmark this Lesson. In this quick little Whip It guitar lesson video, I will show you how to play all of the guitar parts for this quirky hit by Devo note-for-note.
There are actually some great picking exercises to be found in these riffs. A lot of them require you to be a pretty precise alternate picker and have some good rhythm skills.
I will break all of those riffs down in the order they appear in the song.
Even if you aren't very good at alternate picking yet, I think learning the riffs found in this video lesson will be great for your technique.
As I mention in the video, a tight muted sound is required for a lot of the song. I will demonstrate how to palm mute the strings in order to accomplish that sound.
Have fun with this 80's classic!


Grayson Perry has written about "default man", being the middle class white western man, seen as the neutral identity. Like the way white people used to say "coloured" for any colour other than pinky beige ;-). So that agrees with Tannen's point.
I am very aware of my gender, my age and my socio-economic status. Is it wrong for me to admit that? I am also a mum, which I don't hide in my professional life. Also I am short, rounded and blonde!
Those aspects of my identity do effect the way I present myself professionally. I do consider how people perceive me. I notice those things about other people and I suspect most people notice it about me.
By pretending that we don't notice gender or race unless someone points it out, we buy into the myth of default identity.
I don't think it's wrong of you to admit it Amber. I have always been conscious of gender in my own blogging and particularly in observing blogrolls and who receives responses on comment streams. What prompted this post was the thought that while I may be agonising over which bits of me to share and how, others may not even see identity as an issue in blogging. So I am wondering who is blind to identity or starts from the default position.
I think women have to do more "thinking" than men because in many languages the default for more than one person is the male form.
"Ok, guys, get your pencils out", a teacher could say that to a class with boys and girls. The girls have to listen and think whether they are addressed too.
"Ok guys, I want you to pee into the toilet and not make a mess of the facilities". When a teacher would say this, girls would probably think that it's now not meant for them but that the teacher is only addressing the boys who pee standing up instead of while sitting on the pot.
+1 to your comments about language Ronald.
My experience has been different in that for many years I taught young children, an environment in which women were (possibly still are) in the majority. It was very rare in those days, for example, to have a man teaching the youngest children. Of course that can be seen as a gender issue in itself, but the point I'm making here is that there were so few men around that frankly, for the most part, it was really refreshing when we did have men on the staff. I have always enjoyed working with men and if I were asked to list people who have been most influential on my work, I am pretty certain that the list would include more men than women.
I have never really thought about this in terms of gender – more in terms of who I enjoy talking to / working with – and for me this includes at least as many men as women. This doesn't mean that I am not aware of all that has been going on in the ed tech world in relation to the treatment of women, or elsewhere in the world. It just hasn't been my experience. My experience has been that I can get as much grief or pleasure from women as from men – that it's more about who people are as people, rather than their gender. But as I said, my experience which has led me to think like this has been different.
Thanks Jenny – these are really useful insights. I have never done a module on gender issues:) though I have done a lot of reading since working in tech and tech-related education.
Don't get me wrong Jenny. I do enjoy working with men and I agree that women can enact power from privilege as well as experience it (we all can – it's our awareness and working to ameliorate it that counts for me). It's just that my experience of working in male-dominated environments and reading about Internet cultures has led me to reflect (and I did more yesterday) on previous and current experiences. As you know, I have done a lot of reading and writing on the 'women in tech' issue over the last few months, and it has made me think more deeply and broadly about diversity and how it is resisted. I have not had the experience of blackness but I am aware of the importance of intersectionality.
I have followed @deray and @akacharleswade on twitter since August and I know a lot more now about #blacklivesmatter – that's a small thing but it's been important to me.
In 2004, Susan Herring who had done a lot of work on Gender and CMC suggested that as Internet access increased and the gender demographic in CMC equalised or even tipped over then it became 'ordinary' and gender differences were less relevant http://internetlinguisticslehman.commons.gc.cuny.edu/files/2014/01/slouching_toward_the_ordinary-_current_trends_in_computer-mediated_communication.pdf You have made me think that I should go off and check what she is doing now.
In the light of women's and black/brown people's experiences online, I think we need to re-examine the ordinary and look at how tech might amplify human beings' tendencies to resist diversity and equality.
You are thoughtful and ethical enough to engage with ideas that are outside your lived experience. Unfortunately, the spiral of silence can operate to submerge them for people less ethical than you are.
So following from my initial tweet last night which Jenny mentions, on reflection I think it is more that I try not to think about my gender when I blog. However having worked in a pretty male dominated field for a number of years I have been very conscious of being the only woman in a room many, many times. I have been judged by the colour of my hair, the way I dress, my accent, far more than I feel my male counterparts have been. I have been dismissed before I have even spoken because I am female. However I have made my voice heard. It took some time in certain situations and often I was supported by male colleagues. But they were not judged in the same was I was.
In my blogging I'm not trying to be particularly controversial or SHOUT REALLY OBVIOUS THINGS which some of our male counterparts do. I blog more for myself whereas I think some people use their blogs far more strategically and to promote their professional identity/views and availability for speaking engagements.
Thanks for making me think more about this Frances – particularly the day after an Oscar nomination list that celebrated white, middle class males and seemed to ignore all other gender and race.
Maybe it's my age, or maybe it's that I am no longer under the cosh of an institution (even if only in my head) but I am increasingly feeling the need to say some things that others might not wish to hear but do call me out when I SHOUT THEM TOO LOUDLY. I have always blogged for myself. My lost blog was called the Tree that fell in the Forest.
Regarding the Oscars, let's just remember that Mike Leigh has been nominated several times but never won anything. This year Mr Turners nominations are all in design categories. And the wonderful , independent film with a brilliant young cast, The Testament of Youth doesn't even get a mention. Judging and interview panels reinvent themselves – that's why change is slow.


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Canadian R&B singer Jully Black is back
Jully Black brings a confident, soulful sound to her new CD with the help of the Black Eyed Peas drummer Keith Harris.
by : Mary Dickie- Nov 13th, 2007
Jully Black is a force to be reckoned with. On CDs, TV, radio and the stage, the Toronto R&B singer's energy, voice and personality all seem larger than life. And yet this is a woman who waited years on the sidelines for her time in the spotlight while label deals — and labels — came and went. But two things have changed in the past few years: the music industry and Black herself. The explosion of online music delivery has opened up opportunities for artists to reach consumers without major label or radio support, and Black has learned how to
get herself out there.
In 2005, her confident, funky, long-awaited debut, This Is Me, earned her the opening spot on the Black Eyed Peas' Canadian tour. This, in turn, led to a creative collaboration with BEP drummer Keith Harris, who produced her even more confident new album, Revival.
Black and Harris went for a retro vibe on Revival's irresistible first single, a vintage 1951-style cover of Etta James' "Seven Day Fool." "We really wanted to channel that sound," she says. "I spent a lot of time in Detroit last summer; I went to the Motown Historical Museum and studied a lot of old music."
That experience set the stage for a new way of recording for Revival. "For This Is Me, I might have sat there while they made the beats, but this has live drums, live horns, live strings, live everything," she says. "And even though we're using technology, we have to be able to perform it live. You only get one chance onstage."
Jully Black bursts out of the gate with infectious enthusiasm on Revival (Universal) by demanding "DJ Play My Song," palpably anxious to show off her powerful voice and tell the stories she kept inside for so many years. Black Eyed Peas drummer Keith Harris stokes the fire with an appropriately high-energy production, but it's Black's urgent, passionate vocals — whether on the smashing Etta James cover "Seven Day Fool" or on a series of funky originals — that ignite it all.
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first post here, but have been reading awhile.
Anyone ever use copper pipe as a spacer? I have piece that will fit perfect and I kinda like the look ofthe copper, just curious if there is any draw backs to the copper over using pvc or even regular spacers (other then asthetics).
Why not? Metal weighs more than plastic but it ain't much and I'll bet that copper on there will look cool... gets that funky patina with time.
Go for it I say and have a unique wheel.
I have heard that copper can have some reactions with other metals, but don't know much about it.
The thickness of most spacers used (including homemade PVC spacers) may help keep the cog vertical on the freehub body, especially the thin steel cogs.
Not sure copper pipe would have enough wall thickness to be effective or durable.
I had the same thought. That said, why not try it? You're not going to do any harm if it dosn't work perfectly. I'd give it a go and see what happens.


When architect David Rockwell started spending time in playgrounds with his young children, he was disturbed by the lack of imagination and variation in the way kids interact with standardized playground equipment. He spent five years developing the Imagination Playground, seeking private-public partnerships to see it realized. Inspired by Froebel blocks and adventure playgrounds, the Imagination Playground features a wide range of elements that allows children to create their own environments and their own course of play. Since the first Imagination Playground opened in Manhattan (with the support of several city agencies), Rockwell has developed a more portable, scalable version – packed into a cart or box – that can quickly transform small, unused spaces into dynamic playgrounds. It has been deployed in hundreds of locations worldwide, including Haiti and Bangladesh.


Kino MacGregor and Omstars are teamed up with best-selling Ayurveda author Sahara Rose for an epic Eat Like A Yogi Challenge that coincided with the release of Sahara's new book, Eat Feel Fresh and her course release. This 14-day challenge was designed to bring the ancient practice of yoga together with its Vedic sister science, Ayurveda. Throughout the Eat Like A Yogi challenge, along with the support of our sponsor Bhakti Chair, we were able to raise $5000 for OnePropser, an organization that supports families lead by strong females in Rajasthan. Just because the challenge is over, doesn't mean you can explore and enjoy these incredible classes! If you're already a member, click the link below to get started on your 14-day journey. Not a member yet? No problem, sign up today and you'll gain instant access to this challenge and so much more!
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Q: Apache Http sevrer + Django Application running independent I have setup, where i have installed three django application and i have configured to Apache Http server with Wsgi.py file.
whenever i want to make changes to one App in django then i want to restart whole Apache http server, result in it will affect the remaining two django application.
is it possible to start or stop django app from apache http server independently.

A: You just need to touch wsgi.py file, mean change file timestamps:
touch path/to/your/wsgi.py
By this way, all django applications is separated.

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The Baroque Cycle: How I Learned to Stop Loving and Start Worrying About Neal Stephenson
Neal Stephenson is famously bad at endings. His books don't end so much as stop, sometimes so abruptly that one is left to imagine Stephenson's beleaguered publisher sneaking into his house in the dead of night, rifling through whatever manuscript he's currently working on until they reach a plausible stopping point and absconding with it into the night. One of these days, I suppose, when Stephenson becomes even more of a superstar than he is now, we'll start seeing the publication of massive addenda to his previous books, and find out how Randy Waterhouse or Nell made their way out of the messes Stephenson left them in, and what they did after.
Looking at the sheer heft of The Baroque Cycle (2,700 pages, give or take) and taking into account Stephenson's inability to conclude a story, the obvious conclusion is that he's taken this proclivity to extremes. Granted a large enough canvas, he just kept writing and writing and writing until he wore out even the indulgence of a publisher who'd seen him take Cryptonomicon to The New York Times bestseller list. This is, in fact, not the case. Surprisingly enough, The Baroque Cycle (for really, the three volumes are so obviously of a piece that they can only be considered as a single work) ends quite well. In fact, and in one of several obvious homages to The Lord of the Rings, it ends quite languorously, cheerfully wrapping up each of its plotlines and politely letting us know what happens to each of its many protagonists. If there's a problem with the Cycle's construction, it is rather that Stephenson keeps delaying its beginning.
Inasmuch as The Baroque Cycle can be said to have a plot, it starts in The System of the World, the third volume in the series. The previous two volumes--Quicksilver and The Confusion--are essentially scene-setting. The first introduces us to our main characters, their personal histories, their social circles, their friends and enemies, the prevailing religious, political and financial climates of their eras, etc. etc. ad nauseam. The second tells us how each of these characters came to be in the situation that the beginning of System finds them in. Reading the entire series, therefore, is probably not unlike watching the Star Wars prequels before watching A New Hope--some of the details are interesting, a few of them are important to the plot, but you'd like the story to start now, please. With some judicious editing, most of the pertinent information in Quicksilver and The Confusion could have been conveyed in 100-200 pages, which, coupled with the fact that there's plenty of fat to be trimmed in The System of the World, would have given us the entire story in one volume, roughly the same size as Cryptonomicon.
But not necessarily of the same quality. I'd like to be able to say that all of The Baroque Cycle's problems are structural, but this simply isn't the case. Even in The System of the World, it would be inaccurate to say that anything actually happens. Or rather, things happen, but in such tiny increments that one hardly notices an event until it's passed and everyone's started talking about it. Which is, obviously, life-like, but Stephenson isn't a skilled enough writer to make his mimicry of the real world as compelling as fiction. Stephenson's never been the kind of writer you read for his characters or for his nuanced portraits of human nature, but even by his standards, the Cycle is chilly and inhuman. Daniel Waterhouse, the character who is supposedly the heart and moral compass of the story, is fun enough as such things go--his sarcasm and refusal to take seriously matters that are of great importance to the leading figures, political and scientific, of his era are diverting, but they don't add up to an actual person. The less said about Eliza, the teenage harem slave/financial genius/policial savant, or any of the other female characters in the Cycle, the better. Jack Shaftoe is probably the closest the book comes to an actual person (unless one counts Roger Comstock, who steals every one of his scenes in all three volumes). In fact, my favorite segment of the Cycle is "Bonanza"--in which Jack spends years pursuing various treasures--which is practically extraneous to the story. But even in Jack's case the readers are kept at a distance--we see through his eyes but only rarely into his heart. The result isn't so much a story as it is a sequence of events, with very little to compel the reader to care except for Stephenson's ideas and his obvious intelligence.
At this point, Stephenson's fans would be well within their rights to point out that these are indeed the main reasons for reading his fiction, and that the flaws I pointed out in The Baroque Cycle have been present in all of his previous novels. For that matter, Cryptonomicon, one of my favorite books, one that I've reread in its entirety at least once and gone back to read favorite passages from on numerous occasions, has them all in spades: the meandering, plotless story; the flat, unconvincing characters; the emphasis on cleverness rather than emotion. Ever since I finished Quicksilver I've been wondering why the same flaws that were so detrimental to my reading experience in The Baroque Cycle were practically perks when I read Cryptonomicon.
The first answer I came up with was humor. Cryptonomicon is funny. Laugh-out-loud, side-splitting, oh-my-God-I-can't-breathe funny. There are entire chapters in the book (wisdom teeth, Grandma's furniture, the trip through the jungle) that exist for no other reason than that Stephenson had a funny idea and decided to write it down. Do these chapters slow down the story? Sure, but they are well worth the delay. More importantly, humor is sprinkled liberally throughout the book. There's an irreverence to the story that counteracts the chilliness of Stephenson's characters. The Baroque Cycle, in comparison, is painfully earnest. There were almost no funny bits in Quicksilver, and only a few in The Confusion and The System of the World.
When I asked myself why a writer as inherently funny as Stephenson would choose to so disastrously tone down his humorous tendencies, I came up with the second, and more insidious, reason for the difference in my reactions to the two books. The Baroque Cycle is Stephenson's attempt at spelling out a political/social/scientific/economic philosophy. He sees the 17th and 18th centuries as a crucial turning point in human history in all of these disciplines: the beginning of the end of class-based society, replaced by a semi-meritocracy; the death knell of science as a set of esoteric mysteries and the foundation of modern scientific methods and institutions; the earliest glimmer of the notion that there might be better ways to settle political disputes than to make war; most importantly, a new way of looking at money--not as wealth, to be accumulated and hoarded, but as a means to an end, which must constantly be kept in motion in order to do the most good and spur the most change.
When Enoch Root lays out this philosophy in a dozen pages towards the end of Cryptonomicon, galvanizing Randy Waterhouse and preparing him for the book's nominal climax, readers are intrigued. Enoch's argument is lucid and fascinating, a different way of looking at human history, the role of money, and the inherent possibilities of technology. The Baroque Cycle is to this short, compelling interlude as a shovel to the head is to a gentle tap on the shoulder. Within a dozen pages in The System of the World, two different black hats (we can tell they're evil because one of them deals in slaves and the other is a psychotic priest who once burned down an entire galleon) take time out of their busy schedules to lament the very changes that, according to Stephenson, are our only path to a truly just and free society:
"Money, and all that comes with it, disgusts me." said Father Edouard de Gex ... "Within living memory, men and women of noble birth did not even have to think about it. Oh, there were rich nobles and poor, just as there were tall and short, beautiful and ugly. But it would never have entered the mind of even a peasant to phant'sy that a penniless Duke was any less a Duke, or that a rich whore ought to be made a Duchess. ... To nobles, clerics, and peasants--the only people needed or wanted in a decent Christian Realm--coins were as alien, eldritch, inexplicable as communion wafers to a Hindoo. ... But what has happened of late is monstrous. The money-cult has spread faster across what used to be Christendom than the faith of Mahomet did across Araby. I did not grasp the enormity of it until you came to Versailles as an infamous Dutch whore, a plaything of diseased bankers, and shortly were ennobled--made into a Countess, complete with a fabricated pedigree--and why? Because you had noble qualities? No. Only because you were Good with Money--a high sorceress of the coin-cult--and so were adored by the same sort of degraded Versailles court-fops who would gather in abandoned churches at midnight to recite the Black Mass."
De Gex goes on to envision a future free of money, in which all good Catholics labor for the greater glory of God and all bad Protestants, Puritans, Huguenots and Jews are at the bottom of the ocean, a future he intends to usher in by burning Eliza at the stake. Placing your opposing argument in the mouth of a raving lunatic is an effective (if not entirely honorable) rhetorical trick, so long as it's not taken too far. But of course Stephenson has taken it too far, and the result is less a book than a tract. Frequently during The Baroque Cycle, the narrative grinds to halt to accommodate several pages of laborious description or an info-dump on something that Stephenson found absolutely fascinating such as the workings of 18th century London prisons or how to produce phosphorus from urine, but these asides are not nearly as tedious as Stephenson's editorializing. An author with a lighter touch--or a less pressing agenda--would have recognized the inherent fascination of a story about a new scientific, political and economic system coming into being, and not peppered his novel with these ham-handed attempts to draw the readers' attention and guide their conclusions.
When I finished The Confusion, I announced that I was angry at Stephenson for compelling me to read what I knew was a bloated, overlong, plotless story, but more importantly, for compelling me to enjoy every minute of it. The Confusion is still my favorite of the three volumes that make up The Baroque Cycle, probably because of "Bonanza", but looking back I can see that 'enjoy' was probably too strong a word. I don't want to say that I read The Baroque Cycle out of a sense of duty, or that I regret reading it, but neither is it accurate to say that I needed to know what would happen next. I don't honestly know why I read the entire Cycle, except that for all its bloat, I didn't dislike it. At the same time, I don't want to criticize Stephenson too harshly. I did take pleasure out of The Baroque Cycle, and I'll almost certainly be reading whatever he comes up with next (probably another entry in the Cryptonomicon universe). Even when he's strident and criminally under-edited, Stephenson is one hell of a writer. He needs, as Huygens tells Eliza halfway through Quicksilver, to readjust himself, take stock of his goals and how he's been missing them, but whether or not he does, I'll still be there.
Not for much longer, though.
Labels: books, essays, neal stephenson
Rich said...
Thank you for your assessment. I saw the paperback edition of Quicksilver discounted at the local chain bookstore here as a publisher's remainder and was tempted to pick it up, but successfully held off for now. But if I do, I think I might just put the volume and its mates along with my survival supplies, to have something to read in the event that civilization goes on hiatus for a couple of weeks. Life feels too short right now.
I liked Cryptonomicon enough to find out what I could about alternative tunings and temperament systems. Those are the kinds of details I liked.
Riz said...
Thanks for the uself post, I think I'll hold off the Barique series and add Cryptonomicon to my reading list.
Uself? I mean useful. Blasted touchscreens!
Allan VanNostrand said...
Mostly agree. The Daniel Waterhouse character was extremely boring and not very likeable. Jack's character is a disappointment in the finale. Bob Shaftoe was vastly underutilized and Enoch Root moderately so.
Christopher Inman said...
I am reading the third book at the moment and found this opinion because I was checking the copyright of the cycle because I found in Leibniz biography a reference to when a book was published on Leibniz's calculator (2004) which Stephenson had become acquainted with while writing Cryptonomicon and which got him writing Baroque. Since I had successfully ignored Leibniz my whole life but am compelled to read him now because of the Cycle, I cannot agree that reading the Cycle may be put off. Also, dispute his shortcomings, I am finding enough extraordinarily funny stuff to get me through the molasses. The diabolical danger is becoming compelled to research the entire period from Kepler to Kant.
The above is supposed to say despite not dispute, and morasses not molasses.
Pierre von Mondragon AKA said...
I've read it 5 times, as far as I'm concerned it is the greatest work of literature I've ever encountered, and all the things the OP didn't like, I thoroughly enjoyed, yea, even the partisanship. I phant'sy that there isn't a better character than Jack in all of literature, and if the imp of the perverse made me say that, so be it! Favourite digression, wootz steel manufacture, Favourite fight, either Geronimo in the eye of the needle or Dappa's trial by cannon combat... Fun Fact, I narrowly avoided citing the Newton Leibniz showdown as factual history in an academic setting only last week, close escape...
SeanB said...
Yes, the first two books set the scene. It's long slog, but The System of the World is worth it. Like Pierre said, Jack is one of the greatest characters in all of literature.
Much like LOTR, the book is better the second time around. Once you know where it's going, certain things make more sense and become more interesting.
The Baroque Cycle is my favorite of all of Stephenson's work. I think it's brilliant.
Kevin Mann said...
As thorough as this passive-aggressive take on Stephenson is - and I say that with some admiration and plenty of respect - I think it might miss the point a bit. "Juuuuust a bit outside!" So sayeth the venerable Bob Uecker...
For me, and perhaps only me, what NS does better than anyone, ever, is give his own yin and yang some room to breathe. I can't speak for him, but I know how my brain works with ideas that are too complex to divide simply into either "good" or "bad" ones. Instead of giving in to the temptation to just pick a side and do what I call the Cosmic Shrug (defined briefly as that moment when one gives up on trying to make sense of Everything At Once and essentially haul the shoulders up to the ears in a figurative way and say, "Screw it. I believe This Thing because trying to reconcile that Other Thing with my religion/politics/personal morality is just too exhausting to contemplate." Such a thing is belief by attrition, and we all do it, usually subconsciously.
So Mr. Stephenson's genius is that he refuses to be intellectually lazy. He creates characters who have fascinating conversations about large and heady subjects. He doesn't shy away from any tangent, because whether we like it or not, that's where the real work gets done. Put differently, the devil is in the details. Clearly, he looooves him some details.
I too re-read his books consistently. And what I find (again, speaking only for myself) is that his intelligence is a sneaky type, and it requires a kind of submersion to fully integrate what he's sharing. If I am guilty of sort of skimming through some of the thicker sections in the first reading, subsequent journeys into his world always reward closer inspection. Some of the ideas are difficult to grasp without more life-experience or study.
Anyway, if I had the time to fully engage the arguing sides of my mind in the same way, I dare say I'd do a terrible job of expressing anything coherently. It would go back and forth without ever alighting on any kind of Truth. And what NS does is the miraculous opposite: he can see-saw all day long, but eventually, he's gonna smack one upside the head with some real enlightenment, if only we'll allow it. We can critique plot movement all day long, but in the end, it's kind of like a swimming pool in that we don't have to actually breaststroke from side to side; it's enough to be immersed in the coolness.
I really wish I could learn to close parentheses. Carry on!
Lee Morrissey said...
Daniel Waterhouse and Eliza are two thoroughly fascinating characters. If the Baroque Cycle has a weakness it's that it's way too short. Should be at least twice as long.
Dereks said...
I just completed the trilogy on my second attempt. The first one was about 6-7 year ago. I remember coming across this post at the time and the first sentence had stuck quite vividly in my mind. Note that this is the first NS book that I ever read.
Though I have an overall positive impression and plan to read his other works (the next one probably be the Cryptonomicon or Snow Crash), I tend to generally agree with Abigail's comments. ESPECIALLY the very first one about the bad ending.
I really think that the ending was here was botched up big time! It does huge disservice to otherwise very fair and ambitious work. Indeed, some parts of it are a slow read, but I agree that you have to be in the right mood to get through these - books pace is uneven, but that has to be taken at face value and it's neither bad or good.
[NB. I am sort of addressing the following @Kevin Mann. Also, SPOILERS below - stop reading if you have not completed the whole trilogy].
The ending for me does not really reconcile with this idea that "Mr. Stephenson's genius is that he refuses to be intellectually lazy." To me the ending was just that - at one point the author gave up, was lazy and chose to neatly, but very simplistically, almost hollywood-happy-ending style tied up all the loose plot lines.
I am battling with those questions for the past several days:
- Eliza promised that Jack would never see her face until the day he dies. Being stubborn and principled as she is, I can't explain their marry-go-happy reconciliation at the end. Even if she did forgive him, that clearly warrants a more detailed and explicative scene in the book.
- Why Kind Louis XIV was even meeting with Jack in the first place? Jack survived, but he failed the mission assigned by the King of France, didn't he? I can't see where is this addressed. The same essentially goes for Eliza.
- Furthermore, wasn't Eliza always feeling more at home in London, where the "New System" was forged and as a double-agent, waiting for her cover to be blown in Versailles. So why would she even go back there, especially after Hanoverian with whom she had such strong ties established itself in London? I can't even imagine her going into effective exile to some far Land and ignoring everything that would have been happening in London after 1714.
So yeah, I am totally on board that there are sparks of pure genius in NS work, but sometime he really loses it. Intellectually, I found the epilogue very disappointing.
Jeremy Smith said...
I suppose it's pointless to decry a blogger for stating opinions as though they're fact, and coming across as sanctimonious and full of themselves, since such behavior is ubiquitous nowadays. But I hope this and other comments convince you that you might not be correct about several of your "facts," to wit:
1) With maybe one or two exceptions, I liked every one of NS's endings. Usually he leaves things unresolved as a deliberate strategy. I enjoyed the endings of Snow Crash and Reamde probably the least, because I spent no time pondering 'events after the last page,' which is certainly not the case with Nell, Randy, Fraa Jad, Sonar Taxlaw etc.
2) Any complaints you have about the so-called pointlessness of the first two volumes can be addressed with a reminder that this is called The Baroque Cycle for good reasons. Complicated and cyclical. Daniel says goodbye to Leibniz on the same pier they met; Jack disappears from London at Tyburn, just where he entered it; Daniel and Newton return to the same relationship they had at Trinity; Minerva sails around the world yet again; etc etc. And all throughout, Enoch is there, giving a little nudge here, a little advice there. I certainly wouldn't understand Daniel's stance toward alchemy without all the backstory, for example, or why Eliza and Jack still love each other.
3) I don't really get why you think the trilogy doesn't have a plot. If you sat down and looked at the trajectory each of the dozen major characters had, you'd see a pretty remarkable set of events for each. Even more remarkable is that in several cases these events really happened. Look at where we first meet Caroline, for example, and look where she ends up. Newton had a pretty crazy life too, and it's all laid out here too.
4) And in the end, we see why NS has led us through such a complicated set of events and locales: the modern age we live in was the result of a lot of hard work and ingenuity, true, but also a lot of chance events.


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Slingo Blast is now available to play on Pogo. Check out the game and earn 5,000 free tokens (once per account) for trying it out.
Once you've played, come back and leave a comment with your tips and tricks for ranking up to earn the badges below.
Its fast when I am chillin out LOLI need a nerve pill but it is fun.
I do love the badges and the bright colors … you get 5,000 tokens for playing it if they play going through your link Lura.
ok played it got the 5k. game is ok. little sad that it doesn't pay many tokens. 30 per game not much of an incentive to play often. that's why I don't play the other pop cap games.
One thing I don't like about Slingo Ricochet is that I find the game boring.
This one is better ! Goes faster and is fun.
I like it that you don't have a preset number of spins and even if you have to wait for the Spin button to recharge but guess you can spin as many times as you want plus you can always click the reels while waiting and as far as I see you can click these as many times as you want.
It will never be one of my favorite games and I don't see me playing it much not even for ranks which is sad because the badges are very nice, but I'm sure a lot of Slingo lovers will be delighted with this new addition.
Okay, I find it mildly relaxing and amusing. I just don't know how u activate the power-ups; I now have 3..
Thanks Lura for the heads up!!
I have the same question: how do you active/use power-ups?
anyone think they have high scores?
Love to know what scores people are getting!
I played Slingo Blast and already Rank 10. The game's fast and easy to rank up quickly. Got the 5000 tokens clicking on your link. Thanks for letting us know the game was out. Would not have noticed if hadn't seen it here on Badge Hungry.
Okay, I have stayed up late, getting to the first badge at rank 10. My best score was 154,600. Since this is new, don't know if that was any good or not. Okay, some of the things I learned. The power-ups are shown in the intermission between one game and start of another. There is a picture book display of all P-U's earned and descriptions of each. Above the descriptions is where you activate them.
As for in-game play, I usually did the numbered spaces first (no choice here, just follow the numbers.) Then all the red jokers, as they go in the designated column above their space. The green jokers are the "wild cards" of the game, as they can go in any space, any column. I saved them till last and tried to make them the 5th spot (bingo, or slingo) in this case. If there was no row to complete, I tried to find a spot that helped both a column and/or a row. Such as intersection of a vertical column and a horizontal row, as you have no idea which will fill first. I have even held green jokers and hit spin, waiting for a better place for them. And what helped was listening to music or t.v as this broke the monotony. Good luck.
Yawnnnn, boring. I will only be playing this game when they have a badge for it.
Got rank 2, dont enjoy this game at all & the *Power Up PURCHASES *are right there on the Play Screen so I can see how one little slip will buy them., so I wont be playing much of this game at all.
Definitely a fun game. Slingos needed for early ranks are: 1-6slingos, 2-12s, 3-60, 4 thru 9-120s, and 10 & 11-240s. I could earn only 10-20 slingos per round when not using any power-ups. Using Auto Match and Auto Spin together earned 45 – 60 per round. Adding Blast mode with these two can earn 120 to 162(highest I earned). For unbelievably high points in a game, toss in the "x 10" power-up. Going to rank 10, my highest score (using multiple power-ups was: 13,292,000.
I'm with Nessa (#5) but it's definitely not a game if you want to relax. I do like it though like the other Slingo and will attempt to rank out in both.
not sure how use Pu ..got a bunch.. so far best game score is 220,500..
To those with all the high scores, congratulations! I'm glad my weeklies are done. 🙂 The more I play it, the more I like it!
Ty, you gave me info on using the power-ups. I haven't used even one yet, but I bet I can get my score up today. Lets see, weeklies are done, and a few days till MnM's are out. I may get the hang of this. Ty, BH.
#6 & #8…activate the power ups on the screen that shows them all before the game starts. Just click on the one you want (that is available, it will have a 1 next to it) and when you start the game it will be showing in the slots on the bottom. Little icons will appear above some of the numbers on the grid, just make sure you clear those numbers to take full advantage of the power up, it only lasts for one game.
How do you even check your stats in this game – I opened my profile and there isn't even a Stats tab????? Weird.
Oh, as for the most frequent comment in the chat room, many said they won't play for 30 tokens a round. As I have already seen the buying power of tokens (sigh), I am going for the badges.
I will be playing Slingo Blast starting this afternoon, till I get all the ranks badges!
I believe I got two free power-ups but I can't find them. All the gray ones you need gems. Please help. Thank you.
This one I don't like. I love the other slingo. 5 badges aren't worth it.
wow–rank 11 jumped to 600 slingos needed.
Hmmm lots of 'clicking'. This makes my hand sore. Will have to make this one of my iPad games using Splashtop since it's easier to 'touch' a game rather than 'clicking' one.
Place to choose power-ups before you click the green "Play Now" button. Every new game starts with this page.
Right and Left Yellow Arrows let you scroll through all available power-ups, or you can use the 3 white circle buttons below the two rows of power-ups to switch pages.
Hover mouse over a power-up to see its description.
All power-ups are set at zero (small while circle in each box). There are no free power-ups.
You can earn a power-up while playing the game. If you earn a power-up, when you are back on Main Page, the small white circle has a "1" in it. Click the box to activate the power-up for your next game.
Each power-up has one use. Beginning players can choose 3 power-ups per game.
At top of Main Screen, there is a bar that says how many games you need to play to win a certain power-up. To the right of this bar, there are 3 small blue boxes. Click on "?" for game instructions.
Each power-up box has an option for using gems to buy some. Clicking the "buy" button by mistake takes you to the Slingo Blast Store. It does NOT automatically use your gems.
Agree with Phil #9. Great game for a Lottso-like gameroom. I like the pace much better than Ricochet.
High score 132,700. No clue how it got there.
I never use gems for game extras but took a peek at the Store. Surprised how many different ways there are to use your gems!
How do people usually play the game? Use all the numbers to match before spinning again? Or click the "Spin" as soon as it is available again?
My suggestion to everyone who has trouble with the pace of this game is to slow down. Power-ups are based on how many games you play not how many slingos you get per game. Also rank badges are how many slingos you get once you get around to it. Pretend the timer isn't there sit back and enjoy.
I love the game. I hope this is a game they adds a lot of ranks to.
Free, 5 new badges, and my girlfriend can play while I play another game in my account ( or the SAME game)!
I'm really enjoying this game and find it to be the best release in a very long time. This is more speculation than advice, but I'm reserving my power-ups. Like many here, I'm just interesting in ranking up and gaining those wonderful badges. I would suggest reserving the power-ups as you never know when pogo will have a controversial challenge that requires the use of some of these power-ups. They may also have a challenge that requires a very high score and will save them for that.
The only thing I am having to be careful of is that this game is like pushing the gas pedal harder when a good song comes on. I get in a clickicty-click frenzy and have almost "accidently" hit the purchase buttons. Sort of sneaky how pogo has them so close to the start game button.
ok I was a ;ittle 2 quick to judge this game. I went back today and gave it another go. it kinda grew on me like poppit sprint, scrabble sprint and sushi cat. I do like the badges ranks are pretty easy and it goes pretty quick. and… its a lot better than another HOG!!!! and its free!
Has anyone seen any of the devil's or cherubs in the game? It shows them in the game icons but I am almost to rank 5 and haven't seen any. so strange?
Adacia #42 – clicking the buy gems buttons just take you to the Blast store. You can just "x" out of the store with no purchase made.
sugar #44 – I think I saw a cherub in one of my first games but nothing since then. Can't even remember what it did.
A number or a Joker spun up in a column, stays there until you match it. You can hit the big SPIN button and not lose numbers or Jokers you haven't matched yet.
In Slingo Ricochet, the game forces you to use any Green Joker first. In Slingo Blast, you can use Green Jokers last or hold them.
I try to click the 'spin' as soon as it's available even if I'm in the middle of marking numbers because I have found that lit numbers and jokers won't be re-spun, they stay on the reels until either you mark them/use them or you click the individual reel spin button. I might as well let the game spin for me while I mark numbers.
I have found a pause button in the game! Clicking the ? at the top of the game area will bring up playing info, it also pauses the game.
To sugarswtkisses (#44) … I think I may have just seen the devil lol. I just reached rank 11 and for the first time in the middle of a round, something appeared from the left side of the screen. It took me off guard and happened really fast. I didn't hear any laughter, just a little figure in a red suit. I believe it yanked one of my starred numbers.
shelly #47 #48 Thanks for pause tip! Very happy. I also click the SPIN button as soon as it is full (or when I notice it).
I earned a Devil Block and Cherub Cash power ups. Was going to let them sit since I haven't seen any. Any one see them yet?
Love the Club Pogo Home Page Blast design.
I find that I'm lucky to get 10 Slingos per game, sometimes I do get 12-13, and once I got 15 (wow! :)). What are you all getting? Any hints on how to get MORE per game?
WOWZER…just won the Auto-Spin power-up and got 23 Slingos!! So, guess I need to SPIN faster to get more Slingos. Ummm.
I'm at rank 8 so far and haven't used any power ups yet. My best score so far has been around 351k. I've been averaging 18-21 slingos per game. My best so far has been 23 I believe. Too bad there isn't a way to look at that.
I just click everything as fast as I can. If the spin is up, I click it, if the spin isn't up, I click the manual separate spins repeatedly.
I have yet to see a devil or cherub, but maybe I'm so focused on clicking I am just missing them.
Has anyone found a way to see progress toward unlocking additional slots? It says 250 games played (or whatever number it is), but I don't see how to know how many I've played.
I have been trying to play this game since released and it won't load. I have no issues with other games.
LACER:: do you try to plan for multiple rows at once, or do you just go for the singles? I haven't broken 60K yet! I think I'm getting 15 average slingos..
I just go for the singles. If I get a double, yay, but I don't plan them out. I just take what I get as I get it. I played enough more last night to get to rank 10 and never broke a 110k score, so I have no idea how I got that one big score before. Maybe I got a cherub I didn't know about or something.
On a lark , I tried out the game with 3 power-ups. (auto-match,auto-spin,cool jokers). Funniest thing to watch. The game plays itself. I didn't press a single button and got 63 slingos and a 433k score. Easiest level 10 badge I have ever earned.
I do exactly the same and while I don't get massively high scores I can consistently get 20-25 slingos per game (which is what counts for ranking) When I first started playing I was taking a second or two to think about making slingos but was only getting 10-12 per game. As I said previously, even if I am in the middle of marking numbers or placing jokers I will hit spin as soon as it's available because I won't lose already lit numbers or jokers that are on the reels.
Rank 11 – I clicked on the gems and it sent me to the blast store where it says i can play 2 slots and another box says 3 slots but when i click play and go to game there is no difference. Out of curiosity I click the last unlock for 50 gems that sent me to the blast stor and when i arrowed thru there was a 10x that i could try so i clicked on it and again when i went back to game nothing different????
What happen to Slingo Blast…….I can,t load the game……anyone have this issue?
I am also having issues with Slingo Blast. It won't come up. It puts up what is on the bottom of the home page. Games, Pogo, and EA. No rooms. I wonder if Pogo is working on it? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm?
Yes I am having the same issue with Slingo Blast every time I click on it, it takes me to another area..what is up with this today?
I have a question. I'm familiar with the double slingo's but I can't figure out what I did to get the combos..for instance, you get one bingo and once that one has come off the board, you get another bingo instantly. It takes my score up to 200k-300k only I can't replicate it. Does anyone have any strategy for that? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!


I'm heartbroken by the devastation left in the wake of Hurricane Harvey and the catastrophic flooding and my thoughts and prayers are with everyone affected. I don't just work as a Houston cosmetic surgeon, I've also set down roots here and call the area home, so I've seen the destruction firsthand. While the storm may be over, a staggering number of people have been displaced and have lost everything. It's going to take months for Texas to recover from the damage and even longer for many people to rebuild their lives. The acts of heroism, Texans banding together to help one another and the response from around the country has been astounding and touching. Yet, there's still so much more that needs to be done. If you're wondering how to help after Harvey, I've compiled some ways you can get involved. This list is by no means exhaustive and a search of local or national organizations will turn up an endless array of opportunities but these might give you some ideas.
Mayor Sylvester Turner and County Judge Ed Emmett created the Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund to accept tax-deductible donations to help victims of the flooding. The fund is overseen by the Greater Houston Community Foundation, a 501(c)(3) public charity.
During the storm, the Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center wasn't able to collect blood donations and now the supply needs to be rebuilt. They're currently keeping a list of where and when neighborhood blood drives are being held in the coming days. The South Texas Blood & Tissue Center also has a list of donor locations.
Both the Houston Food Bank and the Food Bank of Corpus Christi are seeking financial donations as well as food, water, and supplies for displaced families.
The Texas Diaper Bank is distributing diapers and wipes to shelters over the next several weeks. Afterwards, donations will continue to go towards post-recovery efforts for families who will be displaced long term. They accept any size baby diapers, pull-ups or adult diapers, though larger sizes are what they currently need most. They also accept wipes, formula and new or gently used baby items. The full list is available here. You can send donations to: The Texas Diaper Bank, 5415 Bandera Road, Suite 504, San Antonio, Texas 78238. They also take monetary donations online and diapers and supplies purchased through their Amazon wish list.
The American Red Cross has been working nonstop along the Gulf Coast helping people affected by Harvey. Your donations can go a long way in allowing them to procure supplies and offer much needed services.
If you'd like to offer hands-on assistance and you live in the area, the American Red Cross needs volunteers in Texas and Louisiana to help with Hurricane Harvey relief efforts. They have said they'll be training volunteers at their shelters. You can fill out an application online and they will contact you. The Salvation Army is taking volunteer applications as well for a variety of disaster relief services. By signing up with the National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster, you may be connected with a local organization in need of people to roll up their sleeves. Volunteer Houston is another great resource. They have a list of volunteer opportunities and you can apply to become a volunteer. All Hands Volunteers is a national organization that's on the ground getting rid of debris and working on homes that have been damaged. You can donate or fill out a volunteer application.
The City of Houston Emergency Operations Center has a list of items that are needed ranging from medical supplies to bottled water as well as drop-off locations for those who live in the Houston metro area.
Americares is another amazing organization seeking financial donations. They're in Texas mobilizing medical outreach and distributing water, aid and the basics. Contributions are being used for emergency medicine and supplies.
If you have space in your house and are willing to take in disaster victims temporarily, a Facebook page has been started where you can connect with those in need of shelter. You can also register to become an Airbnb host through their Disaster Response service and offer up your home or a room in your home for free.
Humans weren't the only ones affected by Harvey. Animals were also injured and displaced and pets were separated from their owners. The Houston Humane Society, the Houston SPCA and SPCA of Texas, the Animal Defense League of Texas, Austin Pets Alive and a slew of other organizations desperately need donations as well as people willing to foster animals until their owners can be located or new homes can be found for them.


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New Jersey Tax Amnesty – 2009
New Jersey recently enacted its fourth State tax amnesty. New Jersey tax amnesty began May 4, 2009 and will end on June 15, 2009. It is an effort to collect at least $100 million. The amnesty collection goal was recently recreased to $200 million. The last amnesty program, which was in 2002, was initially estimated to bring in $150.0 million, but ended up generating a gross increase in State revenues of $277.0 million.
Penalty and Interest Savings
Generally, for taxpayers that qualify and are approved for amnesty, the New Jersey Division of Taxation will waive one-half (½) of the related interest and all of the penalties and collection costs. In exchange, the taxpayer must pay the outstanding tax and the remaining one-half (½) of the related interest by the end of the amnesty period. The amnesty is only eligible for taxes related to periods of 2002 or later.
For those taxpayers that are eligible but do not take advantage of the amnesty period, there will be an additional five percent (5%) penalty added to their tax liability.
Most taxpayers with an outstanding New Jersey State tax liability reportable on any tax return due on or after January 1, 2002 and prior to February 1, 2009, are eligible for tax amnesty during the tax amnesty period. A taxpayer who has filed a complaint with the New Jersey Tax Court or who is pursuing an appeal before any other judicial tribunal may be considered for tax amnesty only if approved by the Director. Taxpayers who are under criminal investigation or charge for a State tax matter are not eligible for amnesty.
A taxpayer may elect to participate and be granted tax amnesty for any eligible tax that is payable to the Division of Taxation. Taxes and fees that are not payable to the Division of Taxation (i.e., unemployment and disability taxes payable to the Department of Labor and Workforce Development, licensing fees payable to other State departments and agencies, and local property tax payable to municipal tax collectors) are not eligible for tax amnesty.
Tax amnesty will not be granted with respect to taxes, recovery fees, penalties and/or interest otherwise eligible for tax amnesty that were paid prior to the commencement of the tax amnesty period.
If a taxpayer has paid an eligible tax in full but still owes penalty and interest on that tax, the outstanding liability for penalty and one-half of the balance of the interest due as of May 1, 2009, is eligible for tax amnesty upon payment of the remaining one-half of the balance of interest that is due as of May 1, 2009, that is not eligible for tax amnesty and the waiver statement form.
Application for obtaining tax amnesty
To obtain tax amnesty, before the end of the amnesty period, the Division of Taxation must receive (i) all required tax returns/or forms, (ii) a properly completed and signed payment/waiver statement and (iii) full payment for amnesty eligible taxes plus one-half of the balance of interest due.
An amnesty application can be submitted electronically under the procedures and requirements that are available at the Division's website at http://www.state.nj.us/treasury/taxation. The Division has not issued paper forms that need to be used to apply. The filing must be postmarked by midnight on June 15, 2009 or delivered to the Division of Taxation by the close of business on June 15, 2009.
A taxpayer will be denied tax amnesty if the amnesty application is not sufficiently complete for the Division to understand the period and tax for which amnesty is applied. A taxpayer that is denied amnesty by the Division can appeal the decision A taxpayer denied tax amnesty for any reason will have his or her payments applied to open tax periods.


Weekly Holiday Act 1942 is enacted to provide for the grant of weekly holidays to persons employed in shops, restaurants and theatres.
The Central Government in respect of establishments under its control, and the State Government in respect of all other establishments within the State may, subject to such conditions, if any, as it thinks fit to impose, exempt any establishment to which this Act applies from all or any specified provisions of this Act, and may, on any special occasion in connection with a fair or festival or a succession of public holidays, suspend for a specified period the operation of this Act.
(1) The State Government may, subject to the condition of previous publication by notification in the Official Gazette, make rules for carrying out the purposes of this Act.
(c) require registers and records to be maintained and notice to be displayed in establishment to which this Act applies and prescribe the form and contents thereof.
(3) Every rule made by the State Government under this Act shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is made, before the State Legislature.
In the event of any contravention of the provisions of section 3 or section 4, of a requirement imposed by notification under sub-section (1) of section 5, or section 6, or of the rules made under clause (c) for sub-section (2) of section 10, the proprietor or other person responsible for the management of the establishment in which such contravention takes place shall be punishable with fine which may extend, in the case of the first offence, to twenty-five rupees, and, in case of second or subsequent offence, to two hundred and fifty rupees.
(c) exercise such other power as may be necessary for carrying out the purposes of this Act.
(1) The State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint persons to be inspectors for the purposes of this Act within such local limits as it may assign to each such persons.
(2) Every inspector appointed under this section shall be deemed to be a public servant within the meaning of section 21 of the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860).
No deduction or abatement of the wages of any person employed in an establishment to which this Act applies shall be made on account of any day or part of a day on which the establishment has remained closed or a holiday has been allowed in accordance with sections 3,4 and 5, and if such person is employed on the basis that he would not ordinarily receive wages for such day or a part of a day he shall nonetheless be paid for such day or part of a day the wages he would have drawn had the establishment not remained closed or the holiday not been allowed on that day or part of a day.
(1) The State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, require in respect of shops or any specified class of shop that they shall be closed at such hour in the afternoon of one week-day in every week in addition to the day provided for by section 3 as may be fixed by the State Government, and, in respect of theatres and restaurants or any specified class of either or both, that every person employed therein otherwise than in a confidential capacity or in a position of management shall be allowed in each week an additional holiday of one half-day commencing at such hour in the after noon as may be fixed by the State Government.
(2) The State Government may, for the purposes of this section, fix different hours for different shop or different classes of shop or for different areas or for different times of the year.
(3) The weekly day on which a shop is closed in pursuance of a requirement under sub-section (1) shall be specified by the shop-keeper in a notice permanently exhibited in a conspicuous place in the shop and shall not be altered by the shop-keeper more often than once in three months.
PROVIDED that nothing in this section shall apply to any person whose total period of employment in the week including any days spent on authorized leave is less than six days or entitle to an additional holiday a person employed in a shop who has been allowed a whole holiday on the day on which the shop has remained closed in pursuance of section 3.
(1) Every shop shall remain entirely closed on one day of the week, which day shall be specified by the shop-keeper in a notice permanently exhibited in a conspicuous place in the shop.
(2) The day so specified shall not be altered by the shop-keeper more often than once in three months.
(f) "week" means a period of seven days beginning at midnight on Saturday.
(1) This Act may be called the Weekly Holidays Act, 1942.
(3) It shall come into force in a State or in a specified area within a State only if the State Government by notification in the Official Gazette so directs.
Trade Union Act 1926 is enacted to provide for the registration of Trade Unions and in certain respects to define the law relating to registered Trade Unions.
The account books of a registered trade union and the list of members thereof shall be open to inspection by an 8[office-bearer] or member of the trade union at such times as may be provided for in the rules of the trade union.
PROVIDED that nothing in this section shall enable any civil court to entertain any legal proceeding instituted for the express purpose of enforcing or recovering damages for the breach of any agreement concerning the conditions on which any members of a trade union shall or shall not sell their goods transact business, work, employ or be employed.
(1) No suit or other legal proceeding shall be maintainable in any civil court against any registered trade union or any 8[office-bearer] or member thereof in respect of any act done in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute to which a member of the trade union is a party on the ground only that such act induces some other person to break a contract of employment, or that it is in interference with the trade, business or employment of some other person or with the right of some other person to dispose of his capital or of his labor as he wills.
(2) A registered trade union shall not be liable in any suit or other legal proceeding in any civil court in respect of any tortious act done in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute by an agent of the trade union if it is proved that such person acted without the knowledge of, or contrary to express instructions given by, the executive of the trade union.
No 8[office-bearer] or member of a registered trade union shall be liable to punishment under sub-section (2) of section 120B of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (45 of 1860) in respect of any agreement made between the members for the purpose of furthering any such object of the trade union as is specified in section 15, unless the agreement is an agreement to commit an offence.
(1) A registered trade union may constitute a separate fund, from contributions separately levied for or made to that fund, from which payments may be made, for the promotion of the civic and political interests of its members, in furtherance of any of the objects specified in sub-section (2).
(e) the holding of political meetings of any kind, or the distribution of political literature or political documents of any kind.
21[(2A) In its application to the State of Jammu and Kashmir, references in sub-section (2) to any legislative body constituted shall be construed as including references to the Legislature of that State].
(3) No member shall be compelled to contribute to the fund constituted under sub-section (1); and a member who does not contribute to the said fund shall not be excluded from any benefits of the trade union, or placed in any respect either directly or indirectly under any disability or at any disadvantage as compared with other members of the trade union (except in relation to the control or management of the said fund) by reason of his not contributing to the said fund; and contribution to the said fund shall not be made a condition for admission to the trade union.
(k) subject to any conditions contained in the notification, any other object notified by the 18[appropriate government] in the Official Gazette.
shall not apply to any registered trade union, and the registration of any such trade union under any such Act shall be void.
Every registered trade union shall be a body corporate by the name under which it is registered, and shall have perpetual succession and a common seal with power to acquire and hold both movable and immovable property and to contract, and shall by the said name sue and be sued.
(ii) he has been convicted by court in India of any offence involving moral turpitude and sentenced to imprisonment, unless a period of five years has elapsed since his release.
(2) Any member of the executive or other office-bearer of a registered trade union who, before the commencement of the Indian Trade Union (Amendment) Act, 1964, has been convicted of any offence involving moral turpitude and sentenced to imprisonment, shall on the date of such commencement cease to be such member or office-bearer unless a period of five years has elapsed since his release before that date].
21[(3) In its application to the State of Jammu and Kashmir, reference in sub-section (2) to the commencement of the Indian Trade Union (Amendment) Act, 1964, shall be construed as reference to the commencement of this Act in the said State].
All communications and notices to a registered trade union may be addressed to its registered office. Notice of any change in the address of the head office shall be given within fourteen days of such change to the Registrar in writing, and the changed address shall be recorded in the register referred to in section 8.
PROVIDED that the 24[appropriate government] may, by special or general order, declare that the provisions of this section shall not apply to any trade union or class of trade unions specified in the order.


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The Quest (1996)
Wednesday 25th September 2019
NewsActionAdventureJean-Claude Van DammeRoger Moore
Released on Blu-ray 7th October 2019 from 101 Films, acclaimed action superstar Jean-Claude Van Damme directs and stars in The Quest, an exotic odyssey that takes him from the slums of 1920s New York to the mysterious Lost City of Tibet.
Jean-Claude Van Damme, Roger Moore, James Remar, Janet Gunn, Jack McGee, Aki Aleong
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Acclaimed action superstar Jean-Claude Van Damme directs and stars in The Quest, an exotic odyssey that takes him from the slums of 1920s New York to the mysterious Lost City of Tibet.
Christopher Dubois (Van Damme) is a street criminal on the run from the police, thrust into a forbidding realm of gun smugglers, pirates and an ancient, underworld martial arts competition. The legendary contest, known as the Ghan-gheng, pits the world's deadliest fighters against each other in a furious winner-takes-all battle.
Forced to compete, Dubois faces the ultimate test of manhood where one wrong move could cost him not only the competition, but his life.
The Quest is released on Blu-ray 7th October 2019 from 101 Films.
NEW Roger and Me: Actor Jack McGee on filming the Quest and working with Roger Moore
NEW: The Scottish Fighter: An interview with actor Mike Lambert
NEW: Audio commentary with martial arts cinema experts Mike Leeder and Arne Venema
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The crowd is like "ho!", operator's like "hold"
Man, now ain't that cold?
For the sake of rhyming let's just say "butterflyee"
"Doctor doctor please! The fame ain't painless enough"
He said "take two of these and put change in my cup"
"Tell me about your mother? What she's all about?"
You're already here, just be yourself from here up"
General CommentI haven't had alot of time to listen to LASERS yet, but this song stuck out to me as one of the best on the album. And as i've not had alot of time to listen i've also not had alot of time to contemplate all the lyrics but here's my take.
I think the most important part of this track is the chorus. I think Lupe's talking about how music industry not being sympathetic or understanding of the lives of the artists. Also, that it's a compromise he has to make in order to get 'there'- 'there' being the life he can lead when he's done with making music.
Meaning the process of selling music to make money and the lifestyle that comes with being an artist that's subjected to the media constantly will be what it it is and he can't change that so he can't change until he gets to where he wants to be.
'The world' being the world he lives in and everything in it.
The whole second verse are representative of this lack of care and the greed of others. Others will exploit you in order to make money, people in his world think with a business mind, not a human one. They will pretend they care just to get you follow their rules: 'tell me bout your mother, what's she about? Prescribed me an interview and then told me to bounce' So people, instead of helping him or being genuinely interested, will just use this as a means of making money (an opportunity) so they tell him to do an interview. Instead of taking him to a hospital when he's unconscious they'd take him to a concert, instead of hospital food they'll give him magazine covers and video shoots. So nobody will ever genuinely care for him but can use anything that happens in his life as a way of making money. 'Prescribed' might show that they'll disguise their exploitation as help for him.
Final verse is his solution and resolution to what he's faced with.
When he gets to where he wanted to get and achieves all he needed to achieve he'll 'jump' into the 'atmosphere' symbolizing his escape from the brutal world he's forced to live in.
You have to remember your roots and initial aspirations sometimes when you get so caught up and depresses with the conditions you're living in.
Maybe i'm all wrong, but even if i am it's still a dope track and seems one of the best lyrically on this album. Just my take on it. FNF up.
General CommentI think it's "flaws" not "floss"
The crowd is like oh!
General CommentLupe has some of the sickest lyrics.
I feel like this song is pretty clear. Its the whole hollywood-all-that-glitters-may-not-be-gold. He just wants to live and enjoy life but there is too much outside pressure. People care more about someones career and the money than their well being. Its a hard life to get out of so until he gets "there" he doesnt want to change as a person.
And I think "there" is fame and being "number one". Everyones pushing him until he gets "there".
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