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Great Mortgage Scandal Cover Up
There are now two layers to the sub-prime mortgage scandal that brought down our economy; those who committed the act and those who are covering it up. Why are the culprits not being required to pay compensation to those whose net worth was drastically reduced as a result of the reckless profiteering by Wall Street and large commercial banks?
It is disturbing there was no significant investigation and criminal or civil action against individuals and organizations that contributed to the housing crisis and thus our economic collapse. The fines assessed against some entities are looked at as "a cost of doing business". Some of the individuals who have been looking the other way held, and presently hold, senior positions in our government. Is there a conspiracy to cover up any wrong doing on the part major banks, wall street firms and their employees? The individuals needing to supply answers include:
Barack Obama: President Obama was not in office as the crisis occurred; however, why has he not aggressively pursued obtaining retribution from the culprits that contributed to this economic crisis? He bailed out Wall Street and big banks while very little was done for main street. Was it because of the significant campaign contributions he received for his 2008 run for president? Below is a chart showing contributions Obama received for his 2008 campaign of almost $3.5 million from Wall Street while only $658 thousand was received in 2012.
In 2008 could it be that Wall Street was hoping to buy his cooperation so he would not aggressively pursue criminal action against them? While during the 2012 election maybe they did not want him to remain in office without worrying about raising funds for his next election.
Certified Public Accountants stress the need to not only avoid a conflict of interest with clients whose books they are auditing; they also try to avoid "the appearance of conflict". At the very least, the appearance of conflict has not been avoided by President Obama.
There was some legitimacy to not pursuing Wall Street and the banks in 2008 and 2009 in that it would have caused the crisis to worsen. We are past any further eminent danger to the economy. What is the President waiting for? Perhaps he fears that the appearance will be that his hands are also stained. The longer he waits, the more permanent the stain.
Henry Paulson: As the housing crisis was coming to a head, Henry Paulson was the United States Secretary of Treasury and was a leading decision maker as to how to minimize the collapse of our economy as result of the crisis that was brought about by the creation of financial securities backed by sub prime mortgage loans created by wall street. These securities were given a AAA investment grade rating by the rating agencies. These rating agencies received fees from the wall street firms issuing the securities and one has to wonder about this conflict also. If they refused to give the requested rating, perhaps they would never have received the business.
Prior to becoming our Treasury Secretary in July 2006 Mr. Paulson was the CEO of Goldman Sachs, one of the largest issuers of these toxic mortgage securities.
Per Wikipedia, "During the 2007 subprime mortgage crisis, Goldman was able to profit from the collapse in subprime mortgage bonds in the summer of 2007 by short-selling subprime mortgage-backed securities.... The pair, members of Goldman's structured products group in New York, made a profit of $4 billion by "betting" on a collapse in the sub-prime market, and shorting mortgage-related securities.... The firm initially avoided large subprime write downs, and achieved a net profit due to significant losses on non-prime securitized loans being offset by gains on short mortgage positions. Its sizable profits made during the initial subprime mortgage crisis led the New York Times to proclaim that Goldman Sachs is without peer in the world of finance."
Our government spent hundreds of billions of dollars bailing out Goldman, other firms on Wall Street and large commercial banks. How could Mr. Paulson be objective when the firm he headed prior to joining the Administration financially benefited from the creation and distribution of these securities? As a result he also benefited financially.
Timothy Geithner: In January 2009 Timothy Geithner became the 75th Treasury Secretary of the United States. Previously he was the president of the New York Fed, which he held since 2003. The question remains whether he became "too close" with the big banks and Wall Street firms during his tenure at the New York Fed. Is he too close to the powers in Wall Street to invoke justice? Most importantly was he too close of an ally to pursue the truth about Henry Paulson's involvement with mortgage back securities while at Goldman?
Congress: Where has congress been during this time when serious investigations should have been occurring. For the Past four years the Republican Congress has been attacking anything that started with the letter D. If someone from the Detroit Tigers showed up in Washington they would have been accused of being socialists by the Republicans. Why have they done very little to investigate this conflict of interest and not seeking retribution from the culprits. Is it that the Super PACS and other large contributors control this body of government?
Mitt Romney: Why was Wall Street and the banks contributing to Romney instead of Obama in 2012? As conjectured above, perhaps one reason was that they wanted a President who would be hungry for their contributions in 2016.
Another reason could be related to Romney's refusal to show the details of his 2009 and 2008 tax returns. . He did a lot of business with Goldman Sachs when he was running Bain Capital. It would have been natural for Goldman to recommend to Romney that he invest in these high yield, highly rated mortgage backed securities issued by Goldman. It would also be natural, although, illegal, for Goldman to inform Romney early that these investments were about to be downgraded and he should get out of them. If this were true, the transactions would have showed on Romney's tax returns and it would have been scandalous.
Therefore, if Romney became President, the chances of Goldman ever being prosecuted would be greatly reduced.
We the people deserve answers and retribution. It is important that their be full disclosure as to why the instigators of the sub prime loan debacle have not been required to make retribution.
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All I keep hearing is how complicated these derivatives have become, so much so that it would be hard to know where to start and whom or what is really involved. Some say that it is harder than understanding Quantam Physics, but if that is the case than they shouldn't be sold unless there is a clear understanding by the investor of the risks involved and precisely what is going on in the deal. They have taken new car dealer tactics and multiplied the confusion to swindle their profits.A duck should walk and quack like one. We need more simplicity in the market, and not this dazzle them with promised profits and blind their losses with BS.
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Irl, S; Jentsch, A; Walther, GR: Papaver croceum LEDEB. - a rare example of an alien species in alpine environments of the Upper Engadine, Switzerland, Alpine Botany, 123(1), 21-30 (2013), doi:10.1007/s00035-013-0111-x
Current research suggests that high-elevation mountain ecosystems are less susceptible to plant invasion than lowland ecosystems. Surprisingly, a number of successful establishments have been documented, although mainly from Mediterranean to tropical mountain systems. Evidence for alpine invaders in temperate mountain environments is scarce, increasing the importance to better understand their invasion process and mechanisms. This study characterizes the habitat of the Central Asian poppy, Papaver croceum, in its introduced range and compares it with a native congener, Papaver aurantiacum, in the subalpine and alpine zone of the Upper Engadine, Switzerland. Vegetation composition and soil characteristics were measured at P. croceum and P. aurantiacum sites in the Upper Engadine region. P. croceum is best characterized as a pioneer species preferring anthropogenic and naturally disturbed habitats on silicate soils ranging between 1700 and 2300 m a.s.l. in the study area. Species composition, Landolt indicator values for light availability, soil nitrogen and temperature as well as certain soil properties differed significantly between the sites colonized by native and exotic poppy species, although an overlapping zone exists in glacier forefield habitats of the study area. P. croceum did not express typical traits and characteristics of a disruptive invader. In the Morteratsch glacier forefield, however, it has invaded the primary successional stages but is outcompeted in later stages. Presently, a clear ecological separation is apparent between the native and alien congener indicating limited threat to the native congener. However, climate change, land use change and possible hybridization might alter P. croceum's current status as a non-disruptive invader.


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They say people were seen quicker in accident and emergency departments, faced fewer ambulance delays and were able to leave hospital sooner.
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Figures show the average occupancy rate among general and acute beds between 24 December and 30 December this year was 87.5%, compared to 91.7% between 25 December and 31 December 2017.
During Christmas week this year, 9.8% of patients waited longer than 30 minutes to be transferred from the care of the ambulance service to an A&E department, compared to 17.3% last year. The percentage waiting over an hour was 1.8%, down from 4.8%.
There were also 1,587 fewer bed closures due to diarrhoea and vomiting or norovirus symptoms this year compared to last year.
High demand led to ambulances being diverted to a different A&E department on 17 occasions during the 2018 Christmas week, compared to 39 in 2017.
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An NHS England spokeswoman said: "Thanks to the hard work and preparation of NHS staff, the health service is performing better this winter than last."
Miriam Deakin, director of policy and strategy at NHS Providers, added: "The figures for the Christmas period show that preparations put in place by trusts for this winter, and the dedication and hard work of NHS staff, mean the service has coped well with a very busy couple of weeks.
"Trusts have been working well with partners in the community, GPs, and social care to support patients to leave hospital at the right time and get back to their families over the festive period," she said.
However, Ms Deakin warned that the NHS was not out of the woods yet. She added: "The next couple of weeks will be important to get a real sense of how well the service copes with any further spikes in demand.
"A surge of cold weather or flu now could still have a real impact on a health and care system that is running consistently at high capacity," she said.
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Danny Mortimer, deputy chief executive of the NHS Confederation and chief executive of NHS Employers, welcomed the figures but also said the NHS was "not yet in the clear".
"The NHS has delivered significant improvements on last year's performance and that's welcome news for patients and the public," he said.
"But the NHS is not yet in the clear, as the toughest days often come later in the winter when severe cold weather, flu and norovirus can strike," said Mr Mortimer.
"We have yet to experience the same pressure as last year but it's clear the NHS is in better shape this winter to respond," he said.
"This is a tribute to the hard work of staff and the robust planning that has gone into preparing frontline services for this winter." he added.
"It's very worrying that we're seeing so much overcrowding in A&E departments"
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Meanwhile, Stephanie Aiken, deputy director of nursing at the Royal College of Nursing, warned that A&E departments were still "dangerously overcrowded".
She said bed occupancy rates were higher than the 85% limit regarded safe by experts on every other day apart from Christmas Eve and Christmas Day over the last two weeks.
"It's very worrying that we're seeing so much overcrowding in A&E departments and wards before cold weather has hit in earnest, and while flu and norovirus levels are still relatively low," Ms Aiken said.
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"The forthcoming long-term plan for the NHS must ensure sufficient funding to make winter overcrowding a thing of the past," she said.
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By 30 November 2018, 61.0% of frontline healthcare workers were vaccinated, compared to 59.3% at the same time in 2017.
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Currywurst is probably at the top of everyone's list of German foods to try first, and I assure you it will not disappoint! Originating in Berlin, this popular fast food snack is a sliced Wurst (sausage) covered in a mix of ketchup and some curry powder.
It is traditionally accompanied by Pommes Frites (french fries) or a plain white bread roll. It's finger-licking good!
Brezel are delicious soft, white pretzels and sprinkled with salt. It's great to eat as a side dish or snack, especially with a good German beer. You can find them in every bakery and on street stands, sold plain, sliced and buttered (Butterbrezel) or with slices of cold meats or cheese. My favourite are the Käze-Brezel (cheese pretzel).
Yes they are Turkish, but brought to Germany four decades ago – the döner is to Berlin what pizza is to New York: a transplanted food that has taken on a new life in its adopted land. Now, there is nothing more German than a big, fat juicy döner kebab. Perfect for a filling lunch or dinner, or commonly had as a street snack at 3 am after a big night out.
One of the most famous German dishes, Spätzle, is completely vegetarian. These soft egg noodles are Germany's answer to pasta. It is especially popular in the south of Germany and considered a Swabian specialty associated with Baden-Württemberg (the state I lived in).
It is usually topped with a huge amount of cheese (Käse) with roasted onions for a little more flavour – it's truly delicious!
Schweinshaxe is one of my favourite German meals to have – but if you're going to try it be sure to be very hungry first! This Bavarian specialty is a roasted ham hock or 'pork knuckle'. You can find it served in many traditional German pubs and it is a very hearty meal, usually served with Kartoffelkloesse (potato dumplings) and sauerkraut.
You will find a lot of cakes and tarts to tempt you in Germany – the bakeries are just heavenly! Few can resist a huge slice of the most famous of German cakes: the delicious Schwarzwalder Kirschtorte (Black Forest cherry cake).
My ultimate favourite German bakery treat which I highly recommend trying is Käsekuchen (baked cheesecake). I swear it will be the best cheesecake you'll ever have in your life!
There are more than 1500 different types of Wurst (sausage) made in Germany and you'll find street stalls selling them everywhere. The most popular along with Currywurst is Bratwurst (fried sausage) made of ground pork and spices. Commonly served in a bun with sauce and mustard, it's a great option for lunch while you're out and about exploring.
Speaking of beer, I know it's not technically a food – but German beer is so filling it should be considered a food group itself in my opinion. Anyone that knows me, will know that I love my beer (and miss German beer oh so dearly), so shouldn't be too surprised to find it has a whole point to itself!
Germany is well known for its delicious beer, or as I call it, liquid gold. Each year, thousands of tourists flock to Oktoberfest in Munich, just to savour the taste of a true German brew. From Weissbier to Pils, to Starkbier to Helles and Dunkles, Germany offers a rich variety to choose from, and it's certainly one to not miss trying! If you're not a fan of beer, try a refreshing Radler, which is beer mixed with lemonade.
Do you have another favourite German food you love to add to this list? Let me know in the comments below – I'd love to read them.


Forty-three percent of child-care workers in the Four Corners are eligible for public subsidies. Which means the people responsible for the care and education of the youngest members of the community need food stamps, TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) or other welfare programs just to get by.
"That's concerning ... and I'm hoping it'll be a bit of an eye-opener," Heather Hawk, executive director for the Early Childhood Council of La Plata County, said.
Child-care providers and early childhood education professionals, who care for infants, toddlers and preschool-aged children, work in one of the lowest-paying industries, yet they provide what many deem a critical service.
"I want everyone to understand what a real crisis it is," Libby Culver, Early Childhood Education Program Supervisor for the 9-R School District, explained.
And, she's not the only one calling it a crisis. Becca Trefry, a mother of two and executive director for the Durango Early Learning Center, said the problem is much worse today than when she started in the industry 14 years ago.
Child-care centers, like DELC, want to pay their workers more. That's not the problem. In fact, DELC recently crossed the threshold and is now recognized as a living wage employer by La Plata County Thrive! Living Wage Coalition – but, just barely, according to Trefry. "It was definitely a numbers game," she said.
Riverhouse Children's Center, another child-care provider in Durango, is an aspiring living wage employer and working with Thrive! to make it happen. The challenge for both of these nonprofit organizations – which must adhere to strict state and federal regulations – is there are few ways to cut costs. The only way to raise wages is to raise tuition.
This simply passes the cost to families who are often already struggling to pay for child care, which is something DELC and Riverhouse are reluctant to do.
"We don't want to roll those costs over (to the families)," Darla Malouff, executive director of Riverhouse, said.
In an effort to try and tackle the issue Thrive! has organized a day-long workshop from 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Fri., Oct. 6, at the Durango Public Library. The event seeks to bring child-care professionals, providers and parents together with business leaders, economists and other community leaders. The idea is for everyone to share stories, statistics and information from different viewpoints, then discuss possible strategies and next steps.
Thrive! Director Maureen Maliszewski said the problem can't be solved just by people who work in early child care. Everyone in the community needs to come together to find solutions.
Many factors contribute to the high cost of child care – state and federal regulations, certifications, training requirements, high employee turnover, background checks and more. Some of these costs are absorbed by the facilities, others by the employees and some by the community.
The median income in La Plata County is about $60,000 a year; the average salary for a child-care provider, however, is just $29,000.
Many child-care workers also sacrifice personal time to further their education or keep up with training requirements. The costs in time and money can be too much. Workers simply can't afford it and move on to another industry.
Then there's the issue of health care and other benefits. Trefry, for example, who's worked at DELC for 14 years and currently serves as assistant director of the facility, does not get health insurance through her employer.
She said DELC looked into providing health insurance to employees but just couldn't afford it. Instead, they created a medical stipend program where workers get a lump sum they can use to supplement health care costs. Riverhouse also has a medical stipend program.
who may even be sacrificing time with their own families.
With the high turnover rates and high operational costs, most providers can only care for so many children, leaving many in the community without. In fact, many providers have years-long wait lists.
There's also been a decline in home-based care providers, according to industry professionals, and no reason to think new ones will pop up.
choices. If one parent stays home to care for children, the family is left with only one income in an area known for its high cost of living. Parents may also feel forced to leave children in undesirable situations. In the end, some families may decide it's just not doable and move away.
The early childhood education and child-care community has been talking about the challenges of qualified care for some time. It's an issue they are aware of but have struggled to solve without support and input from the rest of the community.
That's why it's so important to get the business community and others involved in the discussion, according to providers and workers. Child care affects everyone – even people who don't have children or don't work in the industry.
"There is no such thing as someone who is not impacted by early child care," Hawk said.
More info: The event includes printouts, snacks and drinks, so organizers have asked those interested to RSVP by Sept. 29. If it's past the deadline, however, they still want people to attend. Just contact the organizers at thrivelaplata.org or ecclaplata.org.
Other ways to learn more about the issue or stay involved include signing up for the Early Childhood Council's newsletter at ecclaplata.org, or checking out a recent report put out by the State of Colorado, "Colorado's Early Childhood Workforce 2020 Plan." It's a roadmap for "high-quality, effective and diverse early childhood workforce," according to the website. Check it out at earlymilestones.org/transformingec-workforce.


Taking, looking at and sending pictures have never been smoother!Built-in VGA Camera With a built-in camera as standard equipment, showing your friend a favorite photograph or even the expression on your face is now easier than ever. And for taking photos of yourself, you have such convenient features as a mirror next to the camera lens and a self-timer function. You can also adjust image contrast and brightness, rotate the image 90 degrees, and apply a frame to the image, then transmit it as a long mail attachment. Moreover, using the personal album feature you can store and add comments to photos. A slide show feature is also included. And it's even more fun if you send your photos to friends using NOKIA Pics.
View the status of the phone, even when it's closed! Sub Display Status indicators, such as the battery level and the time are displayed on the sub display when the phone is in standby mode. When there is an incoming call, the display shows the caller's name and telephone number. And when a message is received from J-Sky Station, a ticker-tape display shows the message. The My Call feature changes the backlight color to one of 5 colors, depending on who the caller is.
Mail is easy to read and photos are beautiful. And you can select the type and size of display font used.
Your favorite melody 16-voice Polyphony The 16-voice polyphonic FM sound source has 128 preset sounds. In addition to the ring tone, the power on/off beep, warning beep and open/close sound can be set to play a melody. The sound source is compatible with downloadable karaoke data, as well.


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Bring on the Girls (1945) Director: Sidney Lanfield Writers: Karl Tunberg (screenplay), Darrell Ware (screenplay) Stars: Veronica Lake, Sonny Tufts, Eddie Bracken In this high-spirited musical comedy, J. Newport Bates (Eddie Bracken) is a millionaire who finds women are only interested in him for his money. When he becomes infatuated with Teddy Collins (Veronica Lake), a cigarette girl, he tries to hide his true identity from her, hoping she'll be interested in him for himself rather than his bank account. However, once Teddy figures out who he is, Bates drops her, and he is about to give up on women entirely when he meets Sue Thomas (Marjorie Reynolds), a nice girl who isn't interested in his money (or at least not yet). Musical satirists Spike Jones and his City Slickers also appear, though most prints are missing a bit from one of their musical numbers: a verse from a song that made fun of Eleanor Roosevelt was clipped after the film's initial engagements.


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We Want Justice
1430 Lagoon Avenue, Minneapolis, MN, USA
1. blue and white graffiti that reads "We want Justice for George". The word "justice" is much larger than the rest of the phrase.
2.Blue, white and gray lettering, "If you don't stand for something you'll fall for anything". On the right in the cursive text is "Peace & Justice".
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George Perry Floyd (October 14, 1973 - May 25, 2020) was a 46-year-old Black American man who was murdered by former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin after Chauvin knelt on Floyd's neck for nearly 9 minutes in the Powderhorn neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 25, 2020. Floyd's murder sparked an international movement for Black Lives Matter, the largest civil rights movement of the century. On March 12, 2021, the city of Minneapolis agreed to pay $27 million to settle a wrongful death lawsuit brought by Floyd's family. On June 25, 2021, Chauvin was sentenced to 22.5 years in prison for his crimes.
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"We Want Justice," George Floyd & Anti-Racist Street Art , accessed January 26, 2023, https://georgefloydstreetart.omeka.net/items/show/742.


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Q: Drone Cron Job Not Firing I've created a cron job in Drone CI using the following command
drone cron add --branch master "foo/bar" "every-5-mins" "0 */5 * * * *"
And when I look in the UI, I can see the cron job has been created. However, it doesn't fire, even though I have it defined in my drone yaml file.
- name: cron-job
  pull: if-not-exists
  image: foo-image
  commands:
    - *random
    - echo "I am testing a cron job"
  when: &cron-demo
    event:
      - cron
    cron:
      - every-5-mins

Does something else need to be done to get it to work on schedule?
And also, is there a way to manually trigger a cron job? I can't seem to find anything in the docs.

A: You might find this helpful.
https://docs.drone.io/api/cron/cron_trigger/
Basically, what you need is something like this.
curl -X POST -H "Authorization: Bearer $DRONE_TOKEN" "$DRONE_SERVER/api/repos/foo/bar/cron/every-5-mins"

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Tag Archives: Nalo Hopkinson
February 8, 2020 by dereknewmanstille
Loa in Dreamland
A review of Nalo Hopkinson and Neil Gaiman's House of Whispers Vol 1: The Power Divided (DC Vertigo, 2019)
For those of you reading Speculating Canada over the past few years, you have probably noticed that I am a huge fan of Nalo Hopkinson's work. I'm also a huge fan of Neil Gaiman and of comics, so I was extremely excited to find out that the two collaborated on the comic series "House of Whispers vol 1: The Power Divided", set in the Sandman Universe and to see their voices mingle in an exploration of the potential of that imagined universe.
Hopkinson and Gaiman have always demonstrated a continuing fascination with border crossing and the implications of the collision of the physical and spiritual world and "House of Whispers" happens at that point of contact when the spiritual realm of the Loa (Afro-Caribbean deities) is partially pulled into the world of dreams and the goddess Erzulie finds herself outside of her space of worship and cut off from the world she knows and her ability to help her worshippers.
At the same time, a spiritual virus is released amongst the human population, making the infected feel as though they are dead, yet alive. Medical practitioners can't see anything wrong with the infected people, but they are left without feeling or joy or connection to the physical world. Their spirits are sent to the world of dreams and they are left empty, wandering meaninglessly across the world. This virus is spread by words, through a phrase, and this instantly reminds me of the Canadian film Pontypool where a zombie virus is coded in language. It makes me wonder if there is a trend occurring where people are both recognizing the power of language and also questioning what language can do. Hopkinson has always demonstrated a fascination with the power of language in her novels and short fiction, linking words to magic, exploring the way that language shapes us, and playing with the sounds and taste of language.
The description of the living death that Hopkinson describes not only evokes the idea of the zombie, but also evokes depression. Most of our society looks at depression as a form of sadness, but for those of us who experience clinical depression, we often feel a sense of emptiness, a disconnect, and a hollowness that strongly differentiates depression from sadness. The feelings of the characters in House of Whispers evoked this sense of depression. This depiction is as powerful as it is painful to read. I could feel myself resonating with the sense of loss and pain that the characters were experiencing. Hopkinson's creative energy wound itself throughout this powerful narrative, giving it life.
As always in her work, Hopkinson highlights diverse bodies and identities. The majority of her characters are BIPOC, which is a fantastic change from the normally excess of white characters in comics. Moreover, her narrative focuses on diverse body sizes and Erzulie, for example, is represented as fat, which is an exciting shift that allows for the recognition that fat is beautiful (especially since Erzulie is the Loa of love, desire, and beauty. Hopkinson also features disabled people and LGBTQ2IA relationships including lesbian couples and nonbinary characters. This is a comic that engages the multiplicity of human experience, and it is so much stronger for that reason. Her characters are highly developed, relatable, and carry so many waiting to be told stories in their every sentence. This is a rich comic that is filled with the potential of narratives yet to come.
Like most comics, House of Whispers: The Power Divided is a collaborative work, both with other writers such as Gaiman and later with Dan Waters, but also with artist Dominike Stanton, whose artistic talent brings Hopkinson's words to visual life and adds to the power of the story she tells, particularly by emphasizing bodily diversity and evoking the beauty of the human (and magical) form. Set partially in a dream world, this comic is a form of dreaming given physical form.
To read more about House of Whispers Vol !: The Power Divided, go to https://www.dccomics.com/comics/house-of-whispers-2018/house-of-whispers-1
To find out more about Nalo Hopkinson, go to https://nalohopkinson.com/index.html
Tagged Comic Books, DC comics, dreams, gods and goddesses, language, Loa, Magic, Nalo Hopkinson, Neil Gaiman, pandemic, reviews, Sandman, Virus
Stigma is Sticky
Stigma is StickyA review of Nalo Hopkinson's The Chaos (Margaret McElderry Books, 2012)
As she frequently does, Nalo Hopkinson uses her novel The Chaos to disrupt hegemonic ideas of normalcy, questioning what is 'normal' and using the supernatural and magical to point out the way that the norms we create are equally strange. The Chaos takes elements of fantasy, magical realism, and Lovecraftian weird fiction and blends them with a surreal sense of a world where anything can happen.
When a volcano suddenly appears out of Lake Ontario, the world becomes populated with creatures of myth and magic that disrupt the categories we use to impose a sense of order on our world – the rolling calf, tar babies, fish who swim upstream through lava, Horseless Head Men, and an archaeopteryx that may also be a phoenix. Story and place intermix in a way that illustrates the way that we already impose stories on our landscape to limit it. Hopkinson illustrates that we are always in a world of stories and that we create our own stories to understand ourselves and others.
The Chaos presents a world where the thoughts and stories we tell ourselves enter into our world, shaping us physically like they do mentally and socially. When people in Hopkinson's world are able to see the mythic, it changes their relationships to each other, and their relationship to themselves. The Chaos is as much about identity as it is about magic. The altered space of the Toronto landscape disrupts a sense of 'home', allowing characters to question their notions of belonging and how they fit into their world and communities.
The name of Hopkinson's protagonist, Sojourner, literally 'a stranger in a strange land' highlights the sense of powerful estrangement that shapes her tale. She is a teen who has experienced stigma all of her life, being bullied and slut-shamed as a younger teen, and being perceived as constantly other than she is – seen as too white to fit in with black peers and too black to fit in with white peers. She has created her group of outsiders that have created their own brand of belonging. Yet, her body is under change as a sticky, black tar like substance begins spreading across her skin, changing her and her relationship to her body. She is becoming different and uncertain to herself, and yet her uncertainty about herself may serve to give her further self knowledge about the stories she uses to narrate her own life.
Hopkinson illustrates the way that change is resisted by those in hegemonic power as mobs of people begin targeting people with disabilities, those who are non-white, and those who identify as queer, seeing them as part of the "chaotic changes" happening in their world. In particular, she examines the role of police causing more damage in their attempts to control the change they see happening around them. Hopkinson points out the way that ableism, homophobia, and racism show themselves more blatantly when "normalcy" is disrupted. When bodies and minds are disrupted.
In The Chaos, the boundaries of categories that seek to separate things are broken down and the world's complexities cease to be able to be ignored as individual perceptions because they have become physical. Hopkinson's surrealist word painting of the world, despite its strangeness, only serves to underscore the strangeness of normalcy. Reading this tale allows us all to become Sojourners as we return to our own strange world, questioning it.
To discover more about The Chaos, visit http://www.simonandschuster.ca/books/The-Chaos/Nalo-Hopkinson/9781442459267
To find out more about the work of Nalo Hopkinson, visit http://nalohopkinson.com/
Tagged Baba Yaga, bullying, change, control, disability, estrangement, LGBTQ, myth, Nalo Hopkinson, police brutality, queer, reviews, school, stigma, Young Adult
Speculating Canada on Trent Radio Episode 62: Afrofuturism
In this episode of Speculating Canada on Trent Radio, I explore Afrofuturism and particularly focus my examination on the work of Canadian author Nalo Hopkinson. Even though I am not a black person myself, I felt that it was important to examine Afrofuturism as an important contribution to imagining black futurity and to science fiction in general. In this episode I examine the important interconnection between imagining a new future for black populations in Afrofuturist texts, but also the importance of acknowledging the history of oppression that has shaped the lives of black Canadians.
Afrofuturism provides a space for imaging new possible futures, for questioning the status quo, and for asking critical questions about the continued oppression of black Canadians and African Americans.
My examination of the work of Nalo Hopkinson focuses on her ability to examine complexities and intricacies involved in imagining utopian future possibilities while examining the way that colonialism, slavery, diasporic experiences, and oppression have shaped the lives of people.
You can listen to this episode of Speculating Canada on Trent Radio at the link below.
http://dereknewmanstille.ca/media/trentradio/151208_episode62_afrofuturism.mp3
This audio file was originally broadcast on Trent Radio, and I would like to thank Trent Radio for their continued support. I would also like to thank Dwayne Collins for his consistent tech support and help with the intricacies of creating audio files.
Make sure to allow a few minutes for the file to buffer since it may take a moment before it begins to play.
Posted in On Air
Tagged Afrofuturism, audio files, colonialism, diaspora, history, Nalo Hopkinson, On Air, Science Fiction, slavery, Trent Radio, utopia
Unsettled in Utopia
A review of Nalo Hopkinson's "Midnight Robber" (Warner, 2000).
Nalo Hopkinson's "Midnight Robber" is a narrative about home, memory, and communication. The planet Toussaint is settled by Caribbean people from earth who honour their history through events like Carnival and who remember the history of slavery in their tales. The travel to Toussaint is celebrated as a different type of crossing – crossing the stars by choice instead of being forced to cross the ocean by slavery and the tales of the people of Toussaint explore the interconnections between these two types of travel that brought them to where they are now. Nalo Hopkinson explores the dangers of travel and the issues that travel creates regarding ideas of home and belonging. She intwines ideas of exile and colonialism, exploring the way that these ideas can intertwine – being removed from one place without choice and displacing people from another. The people of Toussaint send those they view as criminals through a gateway to another world called New Half-Way Tree where their exiled lives interfere with the indigenous population of the planet and displace them. Most of the exiles arrive onto New Half-Way Tree with an assumption that they are better than the indigenous inhabitants, treating them as people who are in the way at best or wanting to eliminate them. When Tan Tan arrives from Toussaint to New Half-Way Tree, she wants to treat the indigenous inhabitants of the planet with respect since Toussaint culture is focused on the idea that there should be no masters and everyone should be treated with respect. Yet, her attempts to interact with the indigenous population mark her as an outsider to both populations.
Although Hopkinson situates Toussaint as a Utopia in many ways, creating a society that is based on notions of equality, that is open to different types of relationships, and is a place where people are not subjected to back-breaking labour, she creatively questions the utopia she writes. In order to make way for the human inhabitants of Toussaint, the nanite system the planet uses eliminated indigenous fauna that it viewed as threats to the new inhabitants, causing mass extinctions. Although the nanite system allows people to communicate more readily and have access to information, it also interferes with ideas of privacy and everything on Toussaint is surveilled. Further, when the society views someone as subversive or dangerous, they are sent to New Half-Way Tree, where the egalitarian notions of Toussaint only apply to human beings, not the indigenous population, the Douen and the Hinte.
Hopkinson illustrates that the notion of home – especially the notion of home for people in exile – is always complicated.
Midnight Robber is a tale about tales, delving into the fuzzy border between reality and myth and the way that memory and who we are always becomes partially mythologized. TanTan becomes partially mythologized as stories about her circulate amongst the populations of New Half-Way Tree and she is integrated with the tale of the Midnight Robber. She hears tales about her that have been turned into myth and story and she both finds herself in these tales and simultaneously discovers that she is uncertain who she is. As people stop believing that she is real, something about her sense of selfhood is also made etherial and unclear. TanTan, like the community of New Half-Way Tree, is unsettled.
To discover more about Nalo Hopkinson, visit her website at http://nalohopkinson.com.
To find out more about Midnight Robber, visit http://nalohopkinson.com/writing/fiction/books/midnight_robber
Tagged Afrofuturism, Caribbean, communication, exile, mythology, Nalo Hopkinson, reviews, space travel, story-telling
September 25, 2015 by dereknewmanstille
Transitional Words
A review of Nalo Hopkinson's Falling in Love With Hominids (Tachyon Publications, 2015)
Falling in Love with Hominids illustrates Nalo Hopkinson's playfulness with language, her characteristic exploration of the way that language shapes social interactions and develops plot. Hopkinson illustrates her fascination with ideas of sound and the power of mis-hearings, exploring stories that came from her own mis-hearings of things and the point of speculation that occurs when one tries to determine what was actually said. In stories like The Easthound which came from a mis-hearing of "The Eastbound", Hopkinson examines what an Easthound would be and how this notion can create a figure of terror. In "The Smile on the Face", she examines the relationship between names and identities, creating a character named Gilla who discovers a resonance to the reptilian (coming from the association with her name) and a connection to mythic stories about other reptiles.
Hopkinson plays with characters who question the way they are written, examining figures (for example) from Shakespearian plays such as Caliban from The Tempest and allowing them a place to resist the texts that have been written about them and providing a space for them to push their own meanings through the text. In Shift, she explores the way that racialised assumptions have been cast onto Caliban and his desire to escape from the narrative that has shaped his life.
Hopkinson enters into shared-world creations and disrupts the idea of a very white, Euro-centric fairy world in the Bordertown series by creating figures who challenge this focus on the European magical world by creating characters who come from non-European mythologies. In "Ours Is The Prettiest", she asserts the multi-ethnic nature of characters, playing with previous reader assumptions about character ethnicity and examining the intersection of ethnicities and cultural identities.
Hopkinson illustrates her ability to represent the under-represented, bringing attention to those areas that are cast in the shadows of most mainstream ideas of science fiction. She brings attention to those characters who are largely left off from mainstream SF, populating her worlds with characters from an array of sexual and gender identities, challenging the white-centric worlds created by most SF authors, and inserting those presences that are Othered in so many SF narratives.
Falling in Love with Hominids is a text of transitions, examining those times when change is at its peak. She examines transitions between adulthood and youth, portraying the idea that adulthood is not always in a protective role over youth and can, in fact, be damaging to youth because of the excesses of power adults wield over the young. She plays with the transition between life and death, exploring notions of life after death and the way that we tend to be haunted by memory and guilt.
Hopkinson casts the light of speculation onto those ideas that are cast into shadow in everyday reality, those areas that can be seen best by the outsider, the oppressed, the erased. Falling in Love with Hominids represents a text of examining the human experience, an act of recovery of those aspects of humanity that are suppressed or repressed and a re-invigoration at the sense of wonder about human experience.
To read reviews of individual stories in the collection, click on the links below:
https://speculatingcanada.ca/2015/09/16/the-oddity-of-children-2/
https://speculatingcanada.ca/2015/07/28/growing-up-monstrous/
To listen to an Episode of Speculating Canada on Trent Radio about Falling in Love with Hominids visit:
https://speculatingcanada.ca/2015/07/26/speculating-canada-on-trent-radio-episode-45-a-discussion-of-the-work-of-nalo-hopkinson/
To read more about Falling in Love with Hominids, visit Tachyon Publications' Website at https://tachyonpublications.com/product/falling-love-hominids/
Tagged aging, change, coming of age, death, ethnicity, gender, identity, language, memory, Nalo Hopkinson, reviews, youth
The Oddity of Children
A review of Nalo Hopkinson's "Message in a Bottle" in Falling in Love with Hominids (Tachyon, 2015)
Nalo Hopkinson's "Message in a Bottle" explores the strange nature of children and the complicated reaction people have to children who don't fit the norm. The narrator, Greg, explores the social pressure to have children and his own perception of children as "like another species". Like many people who decide not to have children, he is told that his life has no value without children and that he is incomplete without passing on his "legacy".
Gradually over time, Greg begins to decide that having children is a good idea, illustrating the pressure to have children and how it overrides personal decisions. He begins to see children as not quite so foreign and strange, but there is one child that continues to seem odd and displaced to him, his friend's adopted child Kamla, a girl who has a recent syndrome called Delayed Growth Syndrome. Children who have this syndrome develop large heads, but their bodies are relatively slow to develop. The oddity about Kamla, however, is not the size of her head (at least for Greg, though others call her Baby Bobber), but rather the odd insights Kamla shows into the future and her oddly adult manner of speech.
Hopkinson's "Message in a Bottle" disrupts traditional ideas about aging and explores the discomfort that adults feel when children act or talk like adults. "Message in a Bottle" challenges embedded ideas about aging, encouraging the reader to question notions of "coming of age" and re-think aging as a simple binary of child/adult.
Hopkinson questions ideas of time and temporality by playing with the time travel narrative while simultaneously disrupting the idea of traveling as an adult and instead investing children with "knowledge beyond their years".
To discover more about Falling in Love with Hominids, visit Tachyon's website at https://tachyonpublications.com/product/falling-love-hominids/
Tagged childhood, coming of age, Nalo Hopkinson, reviews, time-travel
Quote – Every Shell is a Life Journal
"Every shell is a life journal, made out if the very substance of its creator, and left as a record of what it thought, even if we can't understand exactly what it thought. Sometimes interpretation is a trap. Sometimes we need to simply observe."
– Nalo Hopkinson, Message in a Bottle
Tagged art, interpretation, Nalo Hopkinson, observation, quotes
Growing Up Monstrous
A review of Nalo Hopkinson's "The Easthound" in Falling in Love With Hominids (Tachyon Publications, 2015)
Nalo Hopkinson's "The Easthound" takes the reader onto the streets with a group of street children who have been displaced from their homes. There is a long history of street kids creating their own myths and legends about survival as a means to be able to deal with life on the streets, which, in the case of most of these kids, was safer than life in their original homes with abusive parents. But in "The Easthound" the monsters of those street tales is true. There is something lurking in the dark and it is something that often threatens children on the streets – adults and adulthood.
Hopkinson explores the spectre that haunts most kids on the streets – the violence of their parents and other adults in their lives. But, instead of these adults being regular abusers, they become actual monsters, transformed at the age of adulthood into werewolf-like beasts that prey on anyone who remains human. The street kids in "The Easthound" have gathered together in small groups to keep themselves safe from the spread of the monstrous virus that sets in at puberty and they try to resist adulthood, starving themselves to prevent their bodies from maturing. Many of the children were already abused by adults who were turned into beasts by the spreading virus, some losing limbs.
Although Hopkinson deals with the spectre of violence as an actual viral spread of monstrosity, she points to the overall issue of violence against youths and the fact that many young people have to take to the streets to escape the violence of adults in their lives and then live in fear on the streets as well.
Hopkinson's "The Easthound" mirrors the classic Star Trek episode "Miri" (Season 1, Episode 8) where a virus has spread on an Earth-like planet that turns people monstrously violent when they hit puberty. But, she takes thing further. Whereas the writers of "Miri" try to resolve these issues with a cure (followed by sending educators to the planet), "The Easthound" expresses the idea that there generally aren't simple solutions to the violence that street children experience and adults are generally part of the problem rather than part of the solution. Hopkinson explores the complexity of street life and the complex ways that "growing up" has a different set of meanings for kids on the street.
To discover more about the work of Nalo Hopkinson, visit her website at http://nalohopkinson.com
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Speculating Canada on Trent Radio Episode 45: A Discussion of the Work of Nalo Hopkinson
In this episode of Speculating Canada on Trent Radio, I explore the work of Caribbean Canadian author Nalo Hopkinson. I explore themes of dual vision, cultural interactions, aging, connections with family, independence, boundary-crossings, and language. I explore Hopkinson's works Brown Girl in the Ring, Sister Mine, and her short fiction collection Falling in Love with Hominids.
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Speculating Canada on Trent Radio Episode 41: Feminist SF
Speculative Fiction is about viewing the world in different ways and imagining new interactions between people. Perhaps this is why so many authors have been attracted to SF as a place for reexamining gendered ideas and gender interactions. In this episode of Speculating Canada on Trent Radio, I note a few powerful Canadian feminist SF authors such as Nalo Hopkinson and Hiromi Goto. In particular, I examine the Canadian contributions to the collection Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology edited by Jeff and Anne Vandermeer.
This episode explores ideas of reproduction, heterosexism, imbalances in gendered power. This issue explores the power of speculative fiction to disrupt patriarchal assumptions about women's bodies.
I apply some of Joanna Russ' ideas from "What Can a Heroine Do? or Why Women Can't Write" (that explores the possibilities of a feminist Speculative Fiction and examines the feminist potential in speculative fiction) to the analysis of speculative fiction overall, but particularly to the work of Nalo Hopkinson and Hiromi Goto.
http://www.dereknewmanstille.ca/media/trentradio/150522_episode43_feministSF.mp3
Tagged audio files, feminism, heterosexism, Hiromi Goto, Joanna Russ, Nalo Hopkinson, On Air, patriarchy, reproduction, Sisters of the Revolution, Speculative Fiction, Trent Radio


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As we embark on the 2019 chapter of the Texas Rangers rebuild we shift our focus to an improving farm system. It is well-documented that I believe the Rangers farm is much better than the industry gives it credit for and I still stand by that opinion. The fact of the matter is people love proximity and while you can find talent throughout this organization, most of it is a few years away from contributing in Arlington. Despite the fact that the system is incredibly young, there are some players that may make their major league debuts during the Rangers final campaign in Globe Life Park.
LHP Kyle Bird (Unranked in Rangers Top 50)
Bird was one of three pitchers that Tampa Bay sent to Texas in the three team trade that shipped Jurickson Profar to division rival Oakland. The 6'2 Flagler College product is actually involved in perhaps the most intriguing Spring Training storyline for the Rangers as the roster is pretty much set outside of the final couple of bullpen spots. There will be some tough competition for bullpen roles coming out of Surprise, but Bird is hoping that his low 90's fastball and tight, hard breaking slider can earn him a spot when camp breaks. Even if he isn't on the Opening Day roster, chances are we will see Bird at some point in the bigs in 2019. The 25-year-old has seen Triple-A in parts of three different seasons and the Rangers will need an arm to eat some innings at some point this year. Bird brings some experience and success at the highest level of the minors.
LHP Brock Burke (#17 in Rangers Top 50)
The other lefty that joined the Rangers through the Profar deal, Burke won't break camp with the big club, but may very well earn a September call up. Burke is a former third round pick out of his Colorado high school and the 22-year-old split time in 2018 between High-A and Double-A where he performed well at both levels. The southpaw throws a mid to high 90's fastball and his 6'4 frame allows for great extension playing his stuff up even more. There is potential for a back of the rotation starter here down the road, but we may see the highlight of the Profar return make a bullpen appearance or two come September.
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LHP Taylor Hearn (#6 in Rangers Top 50)
The most intriguing name with the highest upside on this list, Hearn was also acquired via trade. The Texas native was a part of the Keone Kela deal as he came back home from Pittsburgh. Possessing absolutely filthy stuff, Hearn's repertoire is highlighted by a running high 90's fastball and complimented by an extremely developed changeup. The swing and miss stuff is there, but Hearn needs to be challenged on a higher level. He has topped out at Double-A so far over his career, so I think breaking camp and heading to Nashville will prove beneficial for him. If he impresses in Triple-A, he may add to a potentially young and lefty-heavy pen in September. Despite when he actually makes it to The Show, Hearn will be a fan favorite thanks to his Texas ties and competitive nature.
RHP Jordan Romano (#35 in Rangers Top 50)
Romano will break camp on the 25-man roster as he was acquired from Toronto through some maneuvers during the Rule 5 draft. The former 10th round draft pick was a starter in the minors, and a pretty good one for the most part, but he will serve in a bullpen role as he makes his MLB debut with the Rangers. The club's front office is excited to watch the 6'4 righty in condensed outings to see how it affects his game. Traditionally he has lived in the mid 90's with the fastball, but may ramp things up a bit in the shorter appearances. The Oral Roberts product has only logged five Triple-A innings, so there will be a bit of an adjustment period for him.
OF Scott Heineman (#29 in Rangers Top 50)
Perhaps one of my favorite players in the Rangers system, Heineman is the definition of a gamer. As I state in my Rangers Top 50, he is a tough guy to rank. You have to enjoy the way he prepares and his professionalism as he shows up to the park everyday ready to play hard. There just isn't a clear path for him in the majors at this point. The roster is full of young outfielders, and some not so young after these last few weeks, and it will be hard for Heineman to find playing time. With that being said, I do believe this is the year he makes his debut, although we may have to wait until rosters expand. While the 26-year-old may not be a part of the Rangers long term plans, he will add some depth during the rebuild and may hang around for a handful of years as a fourth outfielder. Over 1,639 MiLB plate apperances, Heineman owns a career slash of .298/.374/.461, with 38 homers and 60 stolen bases.
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Eikosphere and Spatial View signed a non-exclusive deal for worldwide distribution of the Spanish version for our 3D short feature, In Lak'ech Ala K'in, on new mobile and internet platforms.
In Lak'ech Ala K'in: Code of the Heart (English Sub-title) . This is also the link to the Spanish version that's available across all platforms: In Lak'ech Ala K'in: Code of the Heart (Spanish) Stay tuned for future distribution news on our 3D film.


Even if you make them up yourself, acronyms should be treated as words like any other words used in Java names. There is no need to keep them in upper case. Consider how ugly the acronym "TCP/IP" looks in the following example if the English language acronymn rule is followed to the letter.
Name the TCP/IP related variables and methods like the rest of the code, treating it as one word.
This works fine for most acronyms, even two letter ones. For single letter acronyms or words, try not to use them at all – find a longer alternative.
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The Last Testament Of Kurt
As In Utero turns 20, Nirvana's Krist Novoselic helps Eddy Lawrence paint an intimate portrait of Kurt Cobain's final studio album. And his tragic last months
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In 1993, anti-establishment vogue made Kurt Cobain rich and famous – more so than he had intended. Nirvana began as an underground punk band hoping to sell as many records as Sonic Youth, and ended up defining a generation.
Their response? They hired a famed anti-commercial producer and recorded their follow-up album to the gargantuan Nevermind in a fortnight. Featuring tracks Cobain had written before Nirvana existed, new material such as Dumb and overbearing noise experiments including Scentless Apprentice, it wrongfooted pretty much everyone. In Utero was a f*ck you to the music industry, press and even some fans.
A f*ck you that has sold more than 3.5 million copies in the US alone. The disturbing lyrics addressed Cobain's thoughts on fatherhood, marriage, conflict with fame and his record company. Within a year of the album's release, he was dead. But, as Nirvana's bassist, Krist Novoselic, explains, for all the significance that has been attached to In Utero, it's often forgotten that the band went into the studio to record a beautiful, significant, lasting pop record. As a new reissue package demonstrates, it was mission accomplished.
In Utero was recorded in February 1993 and its genesis was as contradictory as the band's bubblegum-buzzsaw sound.
"We were just trying to go back to the roots," says Novoselic. "There are a lot of big choruses on Nevermind and the production was really slick. Kurt said he didn't like it, but I think he was blaming things on it, like, 'Oh, if that record wasn't as big I wouldn't have as many problems'."
To avoid giving the new record the same glossy treatment, the band defied the wishes of their label, Geffen, to record with nonsense-averse indie producer Steve Albini (who had produced Cobain's favourite record, Surfer Rosa by Pixies). One of Albini's conditions for taking on the job was that the label had no influence over the recording or mixing of the album. The band complied by, at his suggestion, paying the $25,000 bill for the sessions out of their own pockets.
The album was recorded and mixed in 12 days; the short deadline kept production within the band's budget and fit Albini's concept – to create a raw document of the band at their primal best. It likely also reflected Cobain's fear that the band may fall apart in the studio.
It was the first time Nirvana had worked together after a fractious year that strained their relationship. Cobain's increasing heroin use led to him being hospitalised after an overdose, in addition to a dispute over songwriting royalties.
But the mood during rehearsal and recording was optimistic – Cobain was clean after his OD; Grohl and Novoselic were inspired by the new material.
Although a visit from Courtney Love, who reportedly turned up berating Cobain for what she felt were weak songs and performances, did little to lift the mood, both Nirvana and Albini were pleased with the results.
"That's why In Utero is my favourite Nirvana record," says Novoselic, "because the band, with everything that was going on, still made a good record. It's a testimony to Kurt Cobain's artistic vision and his songcraft."
THE REMIX
While interviews and TV appearances suggested Nirvana were wearing their mammoth success lightly, they were well aware that it was a serious business to those around them. This was made clear in a call from their A&R, saying the label hated the recordings, thought they lacked potential singles and insisted the band remix the record.
Initially, the band had reservations about the request. But Cobain wasn't without commercial sensibility. He wanted the band to be a success and knew how to play the game.
"Even with Nevermind, we recorded with Butch Vig and the label just wasn't happy," recalls Novoselic. "They were like, 'You need to work with Andy Wallace', who mixes big pop hit records. And oh, the curse! We had a No1 record! Would it have been this big with Butch mixing it? I don't know."
After some deliberation, the band agreed to remix two singles, Heart-Shaped Box and All Apologies, to make the tracks palatable for radio. Novoselic visited producer Scott Litt in Seattle, where he was recording Automatic For The People with REM, who agreed to help.
"When you're a No1 band, there's an expectation to rise up to that," says Novoselic. "And Kurt realised that, too – in his better moments. You're given huge paycheques and have critical success, so you have these obligations. After working with Steve, we weren't really meeting some of those, so we decided the fix was to work with Litt."
Novoselic was charged with persuading Albini to hand over the masters. The producer was incensed, but ultimately acquiesced. It wasn't the only compromise Nirvana would make to get the record heard.
LIVE! TONIGHT! SOLD OUT!
Although Nirvana struggled with the notion that some of their fans would have happily beaten them up a few years before, they were pleased so many people had, as Novoselic says, "come to us" to discover underground music. When retailers WalMart and Kmart refused to stock In Utero, claiming it violated their policies on 'offensive material', Novoselic persuaded the band to tone down the graphic cover and retitle Rape Me as Waif Me. Nirvana faced criticism from fringes of their fanbase for this perceived act of self-censorship at corporate insistence, but Novoselic saw it as democracy. "As for playing ball with WalMart," he says, "if that's the only place you can buy a Nirvana record – some WalMart in Alabama – yeah, we'll change an album cover. Then the kids'll get the record, and they'll listen to it, and then we got 'em! Because I was once that kid, that's how I saw things."
Similarly, the band went to great lengths to ensure ticket prices for the forthcoming tour were affordable.
"You know how much the tickets were for the In Utero tour? Twenty bucks. We wanted to make sure you could afford to go to a Nirvana concert."
THE BIG PAYBACK
Nirvana's efforts paid off. In Utero may not have been the same phenomenon as Nevermind, but it "still consolidated Nirvana's position as the poster boys of alternative music". But the pressure was mounting again. When warm-up dates for the In Utero tour began in July, Cobain was back on heroin.
"I had my issues," says Novoselic. "I wasn't that together. But the thing with Kurt was, he was very intelligent and capable, but he carried the biggest load, because he was the frontman. Out of all that craziness he got the most attention, it was a lot of pressure. At that time, he couldn't take it."
The European leg of the tour began in February 1994 and, to the outside world, there was little indication that anything was wrong within Nirvana. Then, in Rome on 1 March, Love found her husband unconscious and Cobain was again rushed to hospital.
The incident was reported as an accidental overdose of Rohypnol (Cobain had been prescribed it for a stomach condition) and champagne. Love has since claimed it was Cobain's first attempted suicide. Cobain never seemed to fully recover, withdrawing to spend more time with heroin.
"That thing in Rome," Novoselic sighs, "I remember talking to him after that, and he was just different. I don't know if the coma he was in affected him, but that was a game-changer. The rest of the tour was cancelled, and he was home for a couple of weeks. I went to see him and there were these other people there – junkies – it was terrible. What do you do? It was a disaster."
PEACE, LOVE AND EMPATHY
Novoselic felt Cobain was drifting out of orbit and got together a group of friends for an intervention. Grohl refused to take part, feeling it wasn't anyone's business to tell Cobain what to do. It didn't go well – Cobain locked himself in a bathroom. "Kurt was so stubborn," says Novoselic. "And he was really high. It was hard to get through."
Cobain eventually agreed to get help, but after one week in rehab he absconded. Just over a year after recording In Utero, on 8 April, 1994, Cobain was found dead in his home.
"What do you do, dealing with drug addiction?" asks Novoselic. "When people don't want to change, what are you gonna do? Just be there for them. 'When you're ready, I'm here,' you know? [Sad laugh] And then he got hold of the shotgun. And that was it."
The 20th Anniversary Special Edition of In Utero is released on 23 September


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Electritska to Viking Heritage Town
Novgorod, Russian Federation
On train now heading to Novgorod, which is 3 hours south of St Petersburg (SPb), sort of on the way to Moscow. It's the ancient site of the first Viking settlement in Russia, around which the beginnings of the first Russian state formed. It was hard to leave SPb. I made good friends quickly here amongst the crowd of Anton The Good & Katya The Saint. They are all such kind and caring people. Katya has kindly given me her sister's contact in Moscow who works as concertmaster with the New Opera Theatre and has offered to take me around. The Electritska to Novgorod is very efficient and clean, and after emerging from the industrialised outskirts of SPb, we passed through deep green explosions of rural countryside. The girls next to me were watching a movie together on their tiny smartphone and the large women across the aisle was sending clippings flying as she vigorously manicured her fingernails. This now feels more alone to me after saying goodbye to my SPb friends. Katya and Sasha (a friend of Katya's whom I was delighted to meet the night before when we went drinking in the park as a party of several – it was after the afternoon downpour in SPb and by late evening with the sun still up it was warm and muggy and it was better to be outside of the apartment) kindly walked me to SPb's Moscow train station, helping me to navigate the complex ticket purchasing system. I know I'll manage but I quipped to them both that I need to take them with me for assistance. In Novgorod the dark clouds opened and so I waited after arrival at the station under shelter until it passed. It was after 21:00 hours when I found Hotel Akron. I had some food from my survival provisions in my room and headed out for a lap of the Kremlin until midnight. A grand wall and a sodden moat. Couples wondered through it and out over the splendid river on the pedestrian bridge in the midnight light. Back outside the Kremlin a roller blade skater was practicing exquisite moves on the grand asphalted area before Lenin'a statue. National sports are considered to be ice hockey and skating. In fact Russia is world champion in ice hockey. I supposed this fellow was a ice skater or ice hockey player keeping in shape during the summer on his rollerblades. I'll explore this old city's Kremlin (castle) further tomorrow, including the monument to a Thousand Years of Russian History, in the daylight and when things are open and then catch the overnight sleeper train to Moscow.


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Cocu est une commune du județ d'Argeș en Roumanie.

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Q: How do I pull row values based on category into separate columns in teradata sql?

I tried doing aggregation but it still results in multiple rows for each id. I would like to write a query to get data as in result table (2nd) from the source table (1). AmtCategory 1->AmtPaid, 2-AmtReturned, 3->Fees

A: You can use conditional aggregation to pivot the dataset like so:
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Abraham Rotstein (10 April 1929 – 27 April 2015) was a Canadian economist who was a professor of economics at the University of Toronto. He was a fellow of Massey College. He is best known as a co-founder of the Committee for an Independent Canada. He received his doctorate from the  University of Toronto in 1967 for the thesis Fur Trade and Empire: An Institutional Analysis. He was a student of Karl Polanyi.

Rotstein was married for much of his life to Diane, with whom he had two children. After his retirement from the University of Toronto, he came out as gay.

Publications

Articles and addresses
Rotstein, Abraham. "Foreign Ownership of Industry: A New Canadian Approach." The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs , Vol. 58, No. 231 (July 1968): 260–268.
Rotstein, Abraham. "Karl Polanyi's Concept of NonMarket Trade," The Journal of Economic History, Vol. XXX, March 1970, pp. 117–26
Rotstein, Abraham. "Canada: The New Nationalism." Foreign Affairs, No. 55 (October 1976): 97–118.
Rotstein, Abraham. "Is There a Canadian Nationalism?" In Goals for Canada: Walter L. Gordon Lecture Series, 1977–78. Toronto: Canada Studies Foundation, 1978.
Rotstein, Abraham. "Is There an English-Canadian Nationalism?" Journal of Canadian Studies, Vol. 13, No. 2 (May 1978): 109–118.
Rotstein, Abraham. "Innis: The Alchemy of Fur and Wheat "Journal of Canadian Studies/Revue d'études canadiennes, Volume 12, Number 5, Winter 1977, pp. 6–31

Books
Rotstein, Abraham. Beyond Industrial Growth. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1976
Review, Canadian Public Policy, Spring, 1978, vol. 4, no. 2, p. 271–272
Review, Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews, Jul., 1977, vol. 6, no. 4, p. 487–488
Rotstein, Abraham, and Gary Lax. Getting It Back: A Program for Canadian Independence. Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, 1974.
Rotstein, Abraham. The Precarious Homestead; Essays on Economics, Technology and Nationalism. Toronto: New Press, 1973.
Rotstein, Abraham, and Gary Lax. Independence: the Canadian Challenge. Toronto: Committee for an Independent Canada, 1972.
Abraham Rotstein. The Prospect of Change: Proposals for Canada's Future. McGraw-Hill, 1965.
Reviewed by J R Mallory; International Journal, Autumn, 1965, vol. 20, no. 4, p. 548–549

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Canadian economists
Academic staff of the University of Toronto
1929 births
2015 deaths
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Canadian gay writers
21st-century Canadian LGBT people


Just got my first XF lens a few days ago. Been using the X-Pro with an M adapter. This was the first chance to get out and about with the XF f1.4 lens. I have a couple of photographic stomping grounds, one of which is the City of Prairie Grove. I haven't been taking RAW format shots either, just jpg, so it seemed like a good time to kick off testing the RAW files too. I had RAW File Converter EX on my Mac already and after taking the shots, processed the RAW files with the SilkyPix program. The installed version was 3.2.8.0. The batch result was green overtones in all the blown out areas. Really weird result. I got the CD that came with the latest Fuji, the XE and installed it. That version was 3.2.12.0 which resolved the blown out green highlights from the earlier version. The following files were shot RAW, batch processed in 3.2.12.0 to simply convert them over from RAW to jpg without any curves or dodging to show standard Fuji RAW output without any of my pre-concieved notions of what looks best. Did I get a Summilux vibe on a couple of the shots. BTW I set it up to auto up to ISO 800 and I believe that's all I got, even outdoors in daylight. I'll have to see if I misunderstood what I set or it just likes to go high. The roses are my wife's. Tomorrow is Valentine's Day, after all. I wanted to share.
I can still smell the fragrance(s).
I couldn't seem to shake this idiot. I saw him in these strange windows. He always had a camera.
Do they still have Rexall drug stores? They still have the sign, anyway.
Perhaps some comic relief on General's appearance. I say, governor, your tailor can't measure...can he?
The crooked shots were from the hip (mostly). I think the Fuji color palette is outstanding. Happy Valentine's Day.