Unity Bancorp Announces 11% Increase in Fourth Quarter Cash Dividend, Up 25% from Prior Year
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CLINTON, N.J., Nov. 18, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Unity Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ: UNTY), parent company of Unity Bank, announced that its Board of Directors has declared a cash dividend of $0.10 per common share. Such dividend is payable on December 31, 2021, to shareholders of record as of December 17, 2021.
This represents an 11% increase from the $0.09 dividend per common share paid in the prior quarter, and a 25% increase from the $0.08 dividend per common share paid in March 2021. The estimated dividend payout ratio is approximately 10% based on Unity’s September 30, 2021 quarterly results.
“2021 has been a remarkable year for Unity Bank as we continue to bounce back from the effects of the ongoing pandemic,” said Unity Bank President & CEO James A. Hughes. “We are thrilled to share our record earnings with the bank’s shareholders by announcing the second increase in cash dividends paid in 2021.”
Unity Bancorp, Inc. is a financial service organization headquartered in Clinton, New Jersey, with approximately $2.0 billion in assets and $1.7 billion in deposits. Unity Bank, the company’s wholly owned subsidiary, provides financial services to retail, corporate and small business customers through its 19 retail service centers located in Bergen, Hunterdon, Middlesex, Somerset, Union and Warren Counties in New Jersey and Northampton County, Pennsylvania. For additional information about Unity, visit our website at www.unitybank.com , or call 800-618-BANK.
This news release contains certain forward-looking statements, either expressed or implied, which are provided to assist the reader in understanding anticipated future financial performance. These statements may be identified by use of the words “believe”, “expect”, “intend”, “anticipate”, “estimate”, “project” or similar expressions. These statements involve certain risks, uncertainties, estimates and assumptions made by management, which are subject to factors beyond the company’s control and could impede its ability to achieve these goals. These factors include those items included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K under the heading “Item IA-Risk Factors” as amended or supplemented by our subsequent filings with the SEC, as well as general economic conditions, trends in interest rates, the ability of our borrowers to repay their loans, our ability to manage and reduce the level of our nonperforming assets, and results of regulatory exams, and the impact of COVID-19 on the Bank, its employees and customers, among other factors.
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2-year-old girl leaves hospital after extra limbs removed
PUBLISHED: December 16, 2007 at 12:00 a.m. | UPDATED: August 29, 2017 at 2:04 a.m.
BANGALORE, India – A 2-year-old girl who was born with four arms and four legs left a hospital in southern India on Saturday, little more than a month after surgeons successfully removed her extra limbs.
The surgeon who led more than 30 doctors in the marathon surgery said Lakshmi was making good progress and should be mobile soon.
“Lakshmi is fine and stable,” chief surgeon Dr. Sharan Patil told The Associated Press. “She should face no problem in walking.”
Lakshmi was born joined at the pelvis to a “parasitic twin” that stopped developing in her mother’s womb. The surviving fetus absorbed the limbs, kidneys and other body parts of the undeveloped twin.
A team of more than 30 surgeons performed a 24-hour operation on Nov. 7 at the Sparsh hospital in Bangalore, the capital of southern Karnataka state. They removed the extra limbs, transplanted a kidney from the twin and reconstructed Lakshmi’s pelvic area.
“Lakshmi is a hero,” Patil said Saturday.
“Lakshmi, who never turned (over) earlier, started turning after the surgery. She was even able to stand for 10 minutes on the bed holding the window grill, which is remarkable,” the Press Trust of India news agency quoted Patil as saying.
Lakshmi’s parents said they were taking her back to their rural village in eastern Bihar state where she had been revered by some as an incarnation of the four-armed Hindu goddess she was named after.


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Police To Target Americans For Their Ideological Beliefs And Behaviors
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Much has been written about President Joe Biden’s new Domestic Terror law, but nothing I have seen until now shows just how horrifying it is.
To say that the White House uses the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) like political puppets to push their own agenda would be an understatement. The New Yorker chronicled four DHS secretaries who were forced to resign by October 2019, and a fifth who resigned this January.
So when I heard about DHS counterterrorism chief John Cohen having a hard time containing his enthusiasm over Biden’s new domestic terrorism law in a GW Program on Extremism webinar I knew it couldn’t be good.
Ricardo Vazquez Garcia, from Homeland Security Today describes what happened.
Garcia does a great job of framing the Feds justification for creating a new War On Terror by targeting American citizens.
“A lot of progress was made by the U.S. government in dealing with the threat posed by foreign terrorist organizations and in particular dealing with the way those organizations operated, the way they recruited individuals, the way they communicated, the way they developed plans, the way they saw to introduce operatives into the domestic environment, the way they sought to recruit people here domestically,” Cohen said. “I think it is safe to say that the U.S. created quite a robust counterterrorism capability. The challenge is the threat we face today is significantly different than the one we faced after Sept. 11,” DHS counterterrorism chief John Cohen said.
As America closes in on the 11th anniversary of 9/11, the Feds want the public to believe that unknown terrorist organizations are recruiting your neighbor[s] to become a domestic extremist. But it is not just any neighbor, this time it is far-right “extremists” or White supremacists and Trump supporters who they want to recruit.
For years DHS officials have warned Americans of the dangers that lurk just outside their front doors or worse in the far-flung Middle East where extremists are plotting to bomb us, shoot us, or poison our water systems. The only difference to the terrorists that await Americans is that now they are allegedly targeting a person’s ideological beliefs.
According to Cohen, “the most significant terrorist threat facing the U.S. today comes from individuals or lone offenders, and small groups of individuals who based on an ideological belief system, primarily an ideological belief system they self-connect with online activity, but they’ll go out and commit an act of violence on behalf of that belief or a combination of ideological beliefs, or a combination of ideological beliefs and personal grievances.”
What does this mean for Americans?
It means that the Feds can target individuals for expressing anti-government sentiments.
“In many respects, this is a much more individualized threat, and what I mean by that is if you look at the lethal attacks that have occurred in the U.S. over the last several years, they have been conducted by individuals who spend incredible amounts of time online viewing extremist content, content about past violent attacks, they tend to be individuals who have shared behavioral health or environmental characteristics,” Cohen said.
Targeting people for their ideological beliefs is horrifying in and of itself. Biden’s new domestic terror law will also give law enforcement the right to target people based on their behaviors.
“What we mean by that, yes, the motive and ideological beliefs are important as part of the analytic process, but the threat tends to come from individuals who have a very superficial understanding of the ideological belief system they use as the validation for an act of violence, but they do have shared behavioral characteristics,” Cohen said.
If any of this is beginning to sound like China, one only need look at Hong Kong to see the similarities. Speaking out in print against an authoritative regime is an arrestable offense, demonstrating against police brutality is an arrestable offense and so on.
As a recent Brietbart article pointed out, there is no “official Pentagon definition of extremism.” So how can our government give more powers to law enforcement to surveil and arrest suspected “domestic extremists”?
Mike Berry, the general counsel for First Liberty Institute, said he asked the Counter-Extremism Working Group (CEWG) how it intended to define “extremism” and the answer he got was something to the effect of: “We’re still working on that, we’ll probably take the existing definition and expand it.” Berry said that response was “problematic.”
When an organization that backed President Trump warns people about Biden’s new domestic terror law, it is time for all of us to take notice.
Berry warned, “I just don’t know how you can reconcile the Constitution with trying to criminalize someone’s thoughts and beliefs.” And that is the crux of the problem.
When DHS counterterrorism chief Cohen goes on record saying, “There have been several cases where individuals have not met the threshold for domestic terror yet they eventually go out and commit an act of violence”, they are admitting that this is another scam that the mass media is only too happy to perpetuate.
When the Feds and the mass media started asking Americans to “enhance domestic terrorism reporting” by reporting family members and co-workers, you know law enforcement has become a mirror image of other authoritarian regimes.
“Our goal is to enhance domestic terrorism analysis and improve information sharing throughout law enforcement at the federal, state, local, Tribal, and territorial level, and where appropriate with private sector partners.”
“This involves creating contexts in which those who are family members or friends or co-workers know that there are pathways and avenues to raise concerns and seek help for those who they have perceived to be radicalizing and potentially radicalizing towards violence,” the White House official said.
Imagine if I used the same logic that the Feds and law enforcement use. It could go something like this:
One day, I looked outside my window and saw my neighbor talking to a Black man and then I saw them talking to someone who appeared to be a Muslim but I couldn’t see the person’s face because it was covered with a hijab. Then I saw my neighbor putting anti-government and Black Lives Matter signs in their front yard; they even put up a Pride flag. The next day, my neighbor knocked on my front door asking me to sign a police reform petition. Little did I know that my wife and kids had already signed the petition.
The next day when I went to work, I overheard my co-workers saying that they planned to march in a Black Lives Matter protest and asked me to sign a police brutality petition.
So when I got off work I immediately called DHS’s new, “Be On The Lookout For Domestic Terrorists” hotline and filed reports on my neighbors, my family and co-workers, I even called my local police department and filed reports with the local Fusion Center. I did this to protect my Homeland, because you never really know about a person’s ideological beliefs and behaviors. (FYI, there is no domestic terrorism hotline, yet.)
When did freedom of expression become a tool for law enforcement to identify family members, friends, neighbors and co-workers as potential extremists?
Giving law enforcement more powers to target people based on made-up or junk science and unsound definitions of domestic terrorism has all the earmarks of an ever-expanding police state that began 11 years ago.
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LSWCHP July 5, 2021 At 6:45 am
We have had a domestic terrorism hotline here in Australia since just after 9-11. There are also regular advertising campaigns along the lines of “if you see something, say something”.
As far as I’m aware, in 20 years of operation it has produced no actionable intelligence, or at least none that has been publicly attributed to it.
Dyspeptic Gunsmith July 5, 2021 At 12:08 pm
Defund the police. I’ve been saying this for years, based on their incompetence. Now there’s another reason to pull their budgets.
Now do the military. No more toys, no more budgets, no nothing.
Fred July 5, 2021 At 6:14 pm
Cohen, huh? Every. Single. Time.
Lots of Cohens within the halls of power. Blinken, Mayorkas, Levine, Garland, the list goes on, and on, and on…
https://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/tony-blinken-notes-jewish-roots-when-accepting-bidens-secretary-of-state-role/
https://www.hias.org/news/press-releases/hias-congratulates-board-member-alejandro-mayorkas-dhs-nomination#:~:text=HIAS%20congratulates%20Board%20Member%20Alejandro%20Mayorkas%20on%20being%20named%20by,the%20Department%20of%20Homeland%20Security.
https://www.jta.org/2021/01/20/politics/all-the-jews-joe-biden-has-tapped-for-top-roles-in-his-administration
https://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/meet-bidens-kosher-cabinet/
Shawn July 5, 2021 At 6:45 pm
easy with the links to other sites. its a pain in the ass for me when you post more than one
RSR July 7, 2021 At 3:55 am
Coming up on 20th anniversary of 9/11/2001.
Don’t know WTH he’s talking about re: 11th… 11 years ago was Obama’s Admin, not GWB’s.
*Date of the article when clicking through is 7/1/2021
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UNPO: 22nd Annual Conference of Ogaden Diaspora Held in Frankfurt August 7, 2017
Tags: Africa, Ethiopia, Ethiopia’s secret genocide, Genocide against the Ogaden People, Human Rights Violation Against Ogaden people, National Self Determination, Ogaden, Ogadenia, UNPO
22nd Annual Conference of Ogaden Diaspora Held in Frankfurt
From 4 to 6 August 2017, the 22nd annual conference of the Ogaden communities from around the world took place in Frankfurt Germany. The conference, organised by the Ogaden diaspora of Germany invited delegations from Somalia, Oromo, Amhara and Eritrea. Representatives from UNPO Members Ogaden National Liberation Front, Oromo Liberation Front and the People’s Alliance for Freedom and Democracy (PAFD) took part in the three-day conference. The conference saw traditional performances and fruitful discussions on the Ogadeni diaspora’s role in the future of their region and peoples and what concrete steps must be taken to advocate for the most fundamental rights of the people of Ogaden to be respected.
The annual 22nd conference of Ogaden Somali communities Worldwide was held from 4 to 6 August 2017 in Frankfurt, Germany.
The three-day conference was organized by the Ogaden community in Germany was attended by delegates representing Ogaden Communities from all five continents and invited guests from Somalia, Oromo, Amhara, and Eritrean communities. In Addition, dignitaries Ogaden National Liberation Front, Oromo Liberation Front, the Peoples’ Alliance for Freedom and Democracy (PAFD) and Patriotic Ginbot 7 also attended the conference.
Throughout the three day event, the renowned Hilac Band constantly raised the tempo of the meeting by performing Epic Traditional Somali folklore dances moving patriotic songs that moved the participants. Moreover, Nina Simone’s moving song “I AINT GOT NO LIFE” was played to highlight the suffering of the Somali people in Ogaden.
Due to the Ethiopian government’s total disregard for the democratic rights of life, peace, choice, assembly, freedom of speech and other basic human rights in Ogaden and Ethiopia, the Ogaden Diaspora plays a crucial role in highlighting by providing evidence of the alarming humanitarian rights situation in Ogaden and the systematic human rights violations the Ethiopian regime is perpetrating in Ogaden which include extrajudicial killings, sexual violence as a weapon of war, mass arbitrary detentions and the use of torture.
During the conference, the attendees extensively discussed the dire situation in Ogaden, Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa and how to remedy the calamity in Ogaden and Ethiopia. After deliberating on all relevant issues that affect the Ogaden people in Ogaden, the Horn of African and the Diaspora and considering worsening situation in Ethiopia and the hysterical knee jerk reactions the regime to increasing resistance of the masses against its autocratic and genocidal policies and the possibility of sudden implosion of the regime from within, the participants resolved to :
1. Strengthen the education of Ogaden Youth in the diaspora and refugee camps;
2. promote the Somali culture and language to the younger general in the diaspora;
3. streamline the activities of the Ogaden Communities Abroad and enhance advocacy and interaction with Human Rights and humanitarian rights institutions
4. increase the material and moral support to Ogaden Refugees, orphans, and victims of Ethiopian government atrocities
5. strengthen the relationships and interaction with host countries, communities and institutions and combat any acts that can create disharmony between Ogaden Somalis and host communities.
6. Maintain and develop relationships with all oppressed communities from Ethiopia, the Horn of African and the world
1. The just struggle of the Somali people in Ogaden to exercise their right to self-determination and life
2. The peaceful resistance of all peoples in Ethiopia against the current undemocratic regime of Ethiopia led by EPRDF_TPLF
3. All democratic forces and institutions that believe in the rights of all peoples to self-determination, democracy and the rule of law in Ethiopia and the rest of the world
4. The noble effort of the Somali people in Somalia to re-establish their sovereignty, governance and rule of law
Condemns
1. The Ethiopian regime for its deliberate and systemic policies and practices of annihilation of the Somali people in Ogaden, by committing rampant human rights violations, blockading trade, and aid, while hampering the ability of the people to engage in economic activities that could sustain them, specially during draughts and other natural disasters
2. The Ethiopian regime for killing innocent civilians in Ogaden Oromia, Amhara, Gambella, Sidama, Afar, Omo, Konso and other parts of Ethiopia
3. The regime’s use of lethal force against peaceful demonstrators in Oromia and Amhara states and the general abuse of human rights of all peoples in Ethiopia
4. Those who support the Ethiopian regime, politically, diplomatically and economically while being fully aware of it crimes against humanity and war crimes in Ogaden, Oromia, Amhara, Sidama and Gambella and other parts of Ethiopia
5. Multinational corporations and banks that bankroll the mega-projects in Ogaden, OMO, Gambella, Benishangul and other parts of Ethiopia that forcefully displace the rural communities and destroy the livelihood of millions in Ethiopia
6. Condemns the use of local militias by the Ethiopian regime in order to suppress popular resistance and create civil wars among the neighborly communities, specially between the Somali and Oromo peoples.
7. Condemns certain regional administrations in Somalia in collaborating with Ethiopian regime security to forcefully rendition asylum seeker from Ogaden to the Ethiopian regime.
Calls Upon
1. The UN to seek security council resolution forcing the Ethiopian regime to allow independent UN commission to investigate human rights violations in Ethiopia, in particular in Somali, Oromia, and Amhara regional states and take appropriate measures to stop ongoing violations.
2. The USA and the EU as providers of the greatest aid to the regime to stop blindly supporting the current regime and instead support the rights of the peoples in instead of a decadent, undemocratic and callous regime that violates its own constitution and rule of law
3. The AU to stop acting as dump, paper tiger organization that always supports dictators in Africa and instead start acting on its charters and stand for the rights of African peoples. To date, the AU is silent about the atrocities perpetrated by the Ethiopian regimes against the Somali people in Ogaden and other parts of Ethiopia while thousands are massacred just across the AU headquarters!
Finally, the Conference calls upon the Somali people in Ogaden and all peoples in Ethiopia to unite and support each other against the vile and callous regime in Ethiopia.
UpFront Africa Show: Oromo visual artist Yaddi Bojia talks on using his art as a platform to speak on issues related to Oromo Culture,Social issues and Gadaa system August 7, 2017
Tags: Africa, art, Gadaa System, Oromo, Oromo Art: The Next Frontier, Oromo artist (Painter), UpFront Africa Show, VOA, Yadesa Bojia
Oromo visual artist and activist Yaddi Bojia talks to Jackson Muneza M’vunganyi on using his art as a platform to speak on issues related to Oromo Culture,Social issues,Black Lives Movement etc.’Artists often see their place to provoke, to voice, to enlighten.’


Fox News’ Andrew Napolitano Says Mueller Report ‘Might Be Enough to Prosecute’ Trump
The longtime Fox News judicial analyst also called Trump’s behavior ”venal,“ ”amoral,“ and ”deceptive“
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Fox News senior judicial analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano took a sharply critical view of President Trump after the release of the Mueller report on Thursday, saying that the evidence in the report “might be enough to prosecute” him and that even if not, there was abundant evidence that Trump has behaved in a less than presidential manner.
“Depending on how you look at them, there might be enough to prosecute, but the attorney general has decided it’s not enough to prosecute,” Napolitano said during a monologue on his Fox News digital series “Judge Napolitano’s Chambers.” “But it did show a venal, amoral, deceptive Donald Trump, instructing his aides to lie and willing to help them do so. That’s not good in the president of the United States.”
“On obstruction of justice … the president is not exactly cleared,” Napolitano continued, noting how the report detailed “eleven instances” of times Trump had attempted to impede the Special Counsel probe.
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On Thursday, Attorney General William Barr released the full and complete Mueller report. In an earlier summary and press conference before the release, Barr was adamant that Trump’s behavior did not rise to the level of prosecution and that there had been no collusion between his 2016 presidential campaign and the Russian government.
“There was relentless speculation in the news media about the president’s personal culpability, yet as he said from the beginning, there was, in fact, no collusion,” Barr told reporters while also attempting to explain away some of the president’s behavior during the investigation. “There is substantial evidence to show that the president was frustrated and angered by his sincere belief that the investigation was undermining his presidency, propelled by his political opponents and fueled by illegal leaks.”
The report itself is unlikely to change any minds, with partisans on both sides using the more than 400 page document to reinforce their already pre-existing beliefs about the probe and its ultimate conclusions.
Though he works for Fox News — and was even reportedly considered for a spot on the Supreme Court — Judge Napolitano had taken a sharply critical view of Trump in recent months as the final Mueller report drew closer to completion.
Last December, Napolitano raised more than a few liberal eyebrows when he told Fox News anchor Shepard Smith that President Trump might have already been indicted in secret by Robert Mueller and that there was already “ample evidence” to do so.
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“There’s ample evidence … to indict the president,” Napolitano said. “The question is do they want to do it. The DOJ has three opinions on this. Two say you can’t indict a sitting president, one says you can but all three address the problem of what do you do when the statute of limitations is about to expire. All three agree in that circumstance you indict in secret, keep the indictment sealed and release it the day they get out of office.”
“So he may already be an indicted coconspirator?” Smith asked.
“That I don’t know about, but it could be, because we don’t know what’s been sealed,” Napolitano replied.
You can watch Napolitano’s full remarks here.


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General Thomas Maitland meets Toussaint L'Ouverture to discuss the treaty ending the British presence in San Domingo, 1798
At the time of the French Revolution, the English government was in the hands of the landed aristocracy, the fledgling industrial bourgeoisie, and colonial interests. For all the high-mindedness of Wilberforce or Clarkson, for all the indignation and oratory of Burke or Sheridan, the highest men in government were already learning to think in continents. William Pitt and his government treated the first half-decade and more of the French Revolution as little but an opportunity to snatch up colonial prizes: the Great Game was to be played, new event in European history or no. Pitt and Dundas dutifully sent out their forces to scour the West Indies and with a bit of English derring-do, have the richest of France’s colonies shipping sugar home to London before those rebels in Paris could sort themselves.
In September 1793, the British landed unopposed in the southern town of Jeremie, an auspicious start to their effort to snap up this unguarded, wealthy territory. The following summer, a wholly unexpected barricade was thrown in their path: in the last gasp of the revolutionary masses of Paris, the sans-culottes in the street impressed on the National Assembly to abolish slavery in the colonies. This world-shaking salute to the slave laborers across the Atlantic was enacted in June 1794. By this generous, angry act, France secured herself the loyalty of Toussaint L’Ouverture and his army of freed blacks and, unwittingly, denied the English their prize.
In the summer of 1794, the British were already spread across the island, attempting to pacify and consolidate their hold on the colony. At the announcement of abolition, Toussaint L'Ouverture returned from Spanish San Domingo to rally to the French cause, instantly changing the dynamics of the conflict. Rather than sporadic slave revolts and French resistance, the English would have to contend with revolutionary troops being led by brave, gifted ex-slave officers. The English troops and their local allies lacked the revolutionary morale engendered by newfound liberty, and as the years of conflict dragged on this meant that an embittered and weakening army had to fend off an ever-renewed and energized foe. Their colonial adventure was mired in the midst of the greatest slave revolt in history.
From the time abolition was proclaimed, the British possibilities had narrowed to a dilemma, though the horns swung into place slowly. They faced either defying their own slave-owning classes to uphold freedmen against the French, or fighting a catastrophic war to re-enslave some half-million men and women. With their own rich (slave) colony of Jamaica less than a hundred miles away, and their forces exhausted, neither could have seemed like a favorable choice. In early 1798, General Maitland defied his directives from London and met with Toussaint to establish a treaty. His forces would abandon their last strongholds on the coast, and cease interception of French shipping; Toussaint would let them leave, and refrain from provoking Jamaica. This was all the British had earned by their years of occupation.
Thus, for the fateful first six years of the Revolutionary Wars in France, the British were ensnared by their attempt to take San Domingo. This prolonged and financially crippling enterprise paralyzed them on the Continent. Their gambit was ultimately defeated, not by French military prowess but by ex-slaves’ revolutionary zeal. While the political works of men are fragile, abolition is not a thing easily undone, once the freed are in arms and organizing themselves. The masses of Paris granted the blacks of San Domingo their salvation, and the freedmen responded in kind by consuming France’s most powerful enemy for over half a decade.
Fortescue, a Victorian military historian writing the official history of the British Army, gives us a final epitaph:
“I have come to the conclusion that the West Indian campaigns, the essence of Pitt’s military policy, cost England in Army and Navy little fewer than one hundred thousand men, about one-half of them dead, the remainder permanently unfitted for service… Her soldier sacrificed, her treasure squandered, her influence in Europe weakened, her arm for six fateful years fettered and paralyzed. The secret of England’s impotence in the first six years of the war may be said to lie in two fatal words: San Domingo.”
Bonus: When I was double-checking my dates for this post I had this gem of algorithmic assistance:
The Map and the Territory by Michel Houellebecq
Michel Houellebecq’s 2010 novel The Map and the Territory retells an ‘artistic’ life among the moral wreckage of our early third millennium. The story is told from the first-person perspective of Jed Martin, a commercially successful French artist, with occasional comments on his artwork by an unnamed future Chinese
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After Virtue by Alasdair MacIntyre
”The key question for men is not about their own authorship; I can only answer the question ‘What am I to do?’ if I can answer the prior question ‘Of what stories do I find myself a part?”


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10-year-old mauled by Akita dog in West Lothian
A boy has sustained serious injuries in an attack by a dog.
Wednesday, 11th July 2018, 2:40 pm
Updated Thursday, 12th July 2018, 1:21 am
A 10-year-old was left with serious injuries
The mixed-breed attacked the 10-year-old on Monday evening, biting him on his face and head.
Police have since charged a 48-year-old woman in connection with the incident, which took place in Blackridge, West Lothian.
The dog has been seized by police.
A Police Scotland spokesman said: “Police in West Lothian have arrested and charged a 48-year-old woman in connection with a dog attack in Blackridge.
“The incident took place at around 9pm on Monday in the Park Road area, when a 10-year-old boy sustained serious injuries.
“Police Scotland has taken possession of a mixed-breed dog and are awaiting a decision by the procurator fiscal regarding any further action in relation to the animal.
“The woman has been released on an undertaking to appear in court at a later date, and a report has been submitted to the procurator fiscal.”
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NEET UG-2021 Application Date Extended for B.Sc.(H) Nursing for University of Delhi
The aspiring Candidates of NEET (UG)-2021 has been informed through the Public Notice dated 13 July 2021 to apply online for this exam during the period from 13 July 2021 to 06 August 2021.
On the recommendation of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), Ministry of Health & Family Welfare regarding utilization of NEET (UG)-2021 Result by the admitting Colleges / Institutions regarding B.Sc (Hons.) Nursing Course, a general provision relating to the subject matter was made in the the NEET (UG)-2021 Information Bulletin (Clause 5.1.4), as follows : -“The Result of NEET (UG) -2021 may be utilized by other Entities of Central and State Governments, in accordance with their respective eligibility criteria / other norms /applicable regulations/guidelines/ rules. The result data will also be utilized for B.Sc. (H) Nursing courses in accordance with their respective eligibility criteria / other norms /applicable regulations/guidelines/ rules”.
DU College will use NEET UG- 2021 Score for B.Sc(H) Nursing Admission
Now, specific requests have been received from the Nursing Colleges affiliated to University of Delhi (DU) for including them in the List of Participating Institutions of NEET (UG) 2021 (on the recommendations of DU so as to enable them to utilizing the NEET (UG) Score for the students seeking admission in B.Sc (Hons.) Course.
Eligibility for B.Sc.(H) Nursing-
a)Age-
The minimum age for admission shall be 17 years as on 31 December of the year in which admission is sought.
b)Minimum Education:
(i) A candidate should have passed in the subjects of PCB (Physics, Chemistry, and Biology) and English individually and must have obtained a minimum of 45% marks taken together in PCB at the qualifying examination (class 12);
(ii) Candidates are also eligible from State Open School recognized by State Government and National Institute of Open School (NIOS) by Central Government having science subjects and English only.
(iii). For a candidate belonging to SC/ST or Other Backward Classes (OBC), the marks obtained in PCB taken together in the qualifying examination be 40% instead of 45% as stated above.
(iv). English is a compulsory subject in class 12 for being eligible for admission to B.Sc. (Nursing).
c)Reservation Policy:
For Divyangjan candidates: 3% Disability reservation to be considered with a disability of locomotor to the tune of 40% to 50% of the lower extremity and other eligibility criteria with regard to age and qualification will be same as prescribed for each Nursing programme.
The above eligibility criteria are minimum as prescribed by INC. However, the Candidates seeking admission into B.Sc. (Nursing) course in various Nursing Colleges/Institutes are advised to check the eligibility criteria from the respective Colleges/Institutes/Deemed Universities.
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Therefore, it has been decided to extend the application period for NEET (UG)-2021 upto 10th August 2021 (05:00 PM) and payment of application fee upto 10th August 2021 (11:50 PM), to enable the aspiring candidates [including the students seeking admission to B.Sc (Hons.) Nursing Course], to apply for NEET (UG) 2021.
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The correction window will be opened from 11.08.2021 to 14.08.2021 (02:00 PM), to enable the Candidates to make corrections in the permissible fields in their respective online application form.
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Petition: Impeach judge who issued 60-day incest sentence
HELENA, Mont. (AP) — An online petition calling for the impeachment of a Montana judge over the sentencing of a 40-year-old man to 60 days in jail in an incest case involving a 12-year-old girl has more than 16,000 signatures.
The author of the petition on Change.org says it has been sent to Montana Gov. Steve Bullock and other officials. Bullock's office and at least one other official said Tuesday they have not received it.
The man was sentenced to the jail time, plus a 30-year suspended prison term last week as part of a plea deal with prosecutors.
District Judge John McKeon has defended himself against criticism, saying a plea agreement that recommended a 25-year minimum sentence allowed for a lesser one, depending on the results of a psychosexual evaluation. He said that evaluation found the defendant could be safely treated and supervised in the community. McKeon also notes the victim's mother and grandmother asked that the defendant not be sentenced to prison.
The AP is not naming the defendant to avoid identifying the victim.
To view the online petition, click here.
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Premier League fixture release date for Leicester City ahead of 2021-22 season
Leicester City and their rivals will find out their 2021-22 Premier League fixture list later this month
Amie WilsonMidlands football writer
Leicester City's King Power Stadium (Image: Laurence Griffiths/Getty Images)
The dust may have only just settled on the 2020-21 Premier League season but preparations are already stepping up ahead of the next campaign.
Leicester City will be hoping to build on a second successive fifth-place finish in the top flight, having narrowly missed out on Champions League qualification once again.
Brendan Rodgers' men did, though, secure a place in the Europa League, and celebrated FA Cup glory as they beat Chelsea 1-0 in a memorable final at Wembley.
Focus now turns to the summer transfer window, while the Foxes will also be represented at the European Championship finals.
In the meantime, here are all the key dates for your diary for the 2021-22 Premier League season.
When are the fixtures released?
The fixtures for the Premier League 2021-22 will be released on Wednesday, June 16, 2021, at 9am.
You can find out when Leicester will face the likes of Manchester City, Manchester United, Liverpool and Chelsea by following our live coverage on the day right here at LeicestershireLive.
When is the Community Shield?
The Community Shield between City and Premier League Champions Manchester City will take place on Saturday, August, 7, with kick-off at 5pm.
The game will take place at Wembley Stadium and will be broadcast live on ITV.
Ticket allocation details have not yet been released for the match.
When will the Premier League season start?
The 2021-22 season will begin on Saturday, August 14, 2021.
It is just a month after the Euro 2020 final, which takes place on July 11.
When will the Premier League season finish?
The 2021-22 campaign will finish on Sunday, May 22, 2022. As usual, all fixtures on that day will kick off at the same time.
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The Edna G, Two Harbor’s oldest “resident,” is in need of repairs. A new group, Friends of the Edna G hopes to raise money to pay for the work. | SHAWN PERICH
What’s next for the Edna G?
by Shawn Perich June 25, 2018 June 25, 2018
TWO HARBORS—When it comes to the future of the historic retired tug the Edna G, Tom Koehler of Two Harbors is pragmatic.
“We can save it, sink it or sell it,” he says.
“We” being the city of Two Harbors, which owns the iconic vessel. Listed on the National Historic Register and docked in the harbor, the Edna G was open for tours until 2015, when needed maintenance led to closure. Built in Cleveland in 1896, the Edna G has been in the water nearly continuously since it arrived in Two Harbors in 1897, which means the all-steel boat is suffering from extensive corrosion. In places, corrosion has reduced the thickness of the steel hull by half.
Koehler, a local volunteer who serves on the city council-appointed Edna G Commission, works to keep the boat afloat, pumping the bilge regularly and doing minor repairs and maintenance to prevent further deterioration. He says that the city devotes a portion of its lodging tax to the Edna G. Unfortunately, far more money is needed to perform the necessary repairs.
Enter the Friends of the Edna G. Formed this year, the new nonprofit hopes to act as a fundraiser for restoring the boat, if that is what the city chooses to do, says founding member Carl Shaffer. The first step is to have an engineering firm assess the boat’s current condition, especially the strength of the hull. With that assessment, discussion can begin on how to best move forward. Currently, there are at least two schools of thought regarding the Edna G’s future. Koehler believes the tug should be hauled out of the water and placed on a cradle, where it can be enjoyed by people without concerns about further deterioration.
“The water is a terrible place to keep a boat,” he says.
Schaffer thinks the restored boat should remain docked in the harbor.
“A boat belongs in the water,” he says.
Both men agree the decisions of the Edna G’s future are up to the Two Harbors community.
When it was built, the Edna G was a marvel of the time. It was the first all steel tug. With a length of 110 feet and a 23-foot beam, it was propelled with a coal-fired, two-cylinder reciprocating steam boat engine that was originally 700 horsepower. When a new boiler replaced the original in 1943, the engine became 1,000 horsepower.
The tug was used to tow ore carriers into and out of the harbor, and to the ore docks. Later, when bow thrusters on carriers made it possible for them to reach the docks without assistance, the Edna G was made redundant. The tug retired from service at the end of 1980. Its last tow was the Cason J Calloway, on December 30, 1980. Built and owned by the railroad, it was also available throughout much of its working life to provide excursions for railroad executives and other dignitaries. To accommodate this use, the captain’s quarters and mess were more elaborate than other working tugs.
Koehler says the Edna G played a little noted, yet significant role in Minnesota history. Two Harbors was a primary port for iron ore leaving Minnesota’s Iron Range. Steel produced from that ore was used in two world wars, as well as much of the nation’s industrial and infrastructure development during the 20th Century.
For more information about the Friends of the Edna G, check out the group’s Facebook Page.
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Is journalism dead?
September 3, 2012 September 3, 2012 / AlexWalters
A while ago on Quora somebody asked the question “Is journalism dead?” with the perhaps more realistic subheading “Is journalism a dying field?” This got me thinking about how journalism has changed in the last few years. Answer below:
As someone who has worked on both the editorial and commercial sides of news organisations, I would say that journalism is far from dead. What we are seeing is a change in the way that journalists operate, a change in how we pay for them and a change in public perception about what they do.
Journalists no longer occupy an elite, authoritative platform from which to broadcast to a captive audience. News, like politics, has always come in different colours and has seen its audience divide along similarly tribal lines. If you’re a US Republican, chances are you like Fox. If you’re a UK liberal, chances are you like the Guardian. But unlike political allegiance, which remains divided into large, partisan groups, news has fractured and segmented. News now comes not only in many different colours but many shades of the same colour, whether it’s a web, mobile, print or broadcast operation.
What this means is that the traditional media monoliths no longer have a monopoly over their readers. People can sample from all over the news spectrum because there is so much content out there to choose from. Thus journalists now have to pay attention to how their readers are reacting to their content and engage with them to justify their attention. Journalists must understand that their content is now part of a conversation, not a broadcast, and must be part of that conversation if they want their shade of news or opinion to be read and engaged with.
The organisations that are better at this see a much higher rate of engagement. People stay on the site for longer, click-through more pages and ally themselves more strongly to that particular media brand. In the long run this makes them more likely to register and/or pay for the product. Registration means more valuable and cleverly targeted advertising, subscription means cash straight into your coffers. They are also more likely to buy into alternative offerings, whether it’s a conference or a learning course. The result, in an ideal world, is that journalists get paid and journalism doesn’t die as a career.
But we’re far from there yet. Major newspapers are still hampered by the awful paradox of print operations that are too expensive to run indefinitely but too lucrative in ad revenue to ditch immediately. These papers will continue to suffer and many people will lose their jobs. Some of these people will go to work for smaller, digital-focused operations in niche areas. Some will go to content factories such as Gawker or the Daily Mail. Others will leave the field entirely and move into PR or copywriting. Eventually the larger newsrooms will become sustainable operations at a much reduced size and level of influence, but not all will die. As alternative revenue sources pick up in strength (conferences, events, education), these sources might subsidise growth once again and we’ll see a continuation of the kind of quality, high-investment journalism that we’ve taken for granted for so long.
Ultimately, it’s as it ever was – journalism has always relied on subsidy, whether it’s from proprietors such as Rupert Murdoch (the Times hasn’t made money since god was a boy) or advertising, or both. The cleverest publications will combine ads, subscriptions and other commercial ventures to support their editorial operations. The most focused, most resilient and valuable news brands – the ones that prove to their readers that they’re worth it, will survive, and their brand of journalism will survive with them. The ones that don’t will die, and their brand of journalism will die with them. After all, this has always been a cut-throat business.
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EarlyJazz > Otis Spann
Otis Spann was an American blues musician, whom many consider to be the leading postwar Chicago blues pianist.
By the age of 14, he was playing in bands in the Jackson area. He moved to Chicago in 1946, where he was mentored by Big Maceo Merriweather. Spann performed as a solo act and with the guitarist Morris Pejoe, working a regular spot at the Tic Toc Lounge. Spann became known for his distinctive piano style. He replaced Merriweather as Muddy Waters's piano player in late 1952 and participated in his first recording session with the band on September 24, 1953. He continued to record as a solo artist and session player with other musicians, including Bo Diddley and Howlin' Wolf, during his tenure with the group. He stayed with Waters until 1968.
Spann's work for Chess Records includes the 1954 single "It Must Have Been the Devil" backed with "Five Spot", with B.B. King and Jody Williams on guitars. During his time at Chess he played on a few of Chuck Berry's early records, including the studio version of "You Can't Catch Me". In 1956, he recorded two unreleased tracks with Big Walter Horton and Robert Lockwood. He recorded a session with the guitarist Robert Lockwood, Jr. and vocalist St. Louis Jimmy in New York on August 23, 1960, which was issued on the albums Otis Spann Is the Blues and Walking the Blues. A 1963 session for Storyville Records was recorded in Copenhagen. He worked with Waters and Eric Clapton on recordings for Decca and with James Cotton for Prestige in 1964.
The Blues Is Where It's At, Spann's 1966 album for ABC-Bluesway, includes contributions from George "Harmonica" Smith, Waters, and Sammy Lawhorn. The Bottom of the Blues (1967), featuring Spann's wife, Lucille Spann (June 23, 1938 – August 2, 1994), was released by Bluesway. He worked on albums with Buddy Guy, Big Mama Thornton, Peter Green, and Fleetwood Mac in the late 1960s. In 2012, Silk City Records released Someday which featured live and studio performances from 1967 produced by the noted blues guitarist Son Lewis.
Otis Spann transcriptions :
Otis Blues
Otis in the dark
This Is The Blues


Everything you need to know about The RailYard in South End
By Jessica Swannie | Writer Charlotte Five
Photo by Jessica Swannie
Spaces like the Design Center and Atherton Mill blend South End’s industrial past with a vision of the future, creating an epicenter for restaurants, retail and popular breweries serving Charlotte’s young professionals.
The RailYard, one of the most recent additions to the South End skyline at 1414 S. Tryon St., brings yet another distinct vision of architecture to the space, complemented by modern-day amenities and tastes.
Beacon Partners, the commercial real estate development company behind the concept, worked with architecture firm The RBA Group to execute a modern design, while still paying homage to the district’s history. We captured a first look at the space and caught up with Christopher Allred, principal at The RBA Group, to learn about the idea behind the concept.
[Related: Your guide to what’s coming to South End—from The Railyard to The Design Center]
Fusing history with innovation
South End’s rich industrial history served as the blueprint for The RailYard project.
“From the Rudisill Gold Mine to the 19th century mills that dotted the district, South End’s history and its importance to Charlotte’s development is well known,” Allred said. “Introducing a project of this scale to the district, we believed should speak to its history as well as its future.”
The RBA Group accomplished its vision by drawing on the brick vernacular of the mill buildings that once shaped South End and juxtaposing it with forward-thinking architecture to blend the new space with the current neighborhood fabric.
Once Beacon Partners decided to name the mixed-use space The RailYard, The RBA Group sought inspiration from the architecture of the turn-of-the-century rail yard houses, which were designed to create a pseudo-central plaza of rail beds. The RBA Group used this aesthetic to blend the retail facades and pedestrian patterns into the space. Look for a literal interpretation of the rail yard aesthetic in the trestle that creates the upper portion of the central connector between the two towers.
“Our hope is that its sensitivity to the neighborhood, as well as how it addresses both the skyline and the pedestrian scale equally, influences future work in the district and helps preserve and strengthen the unique character of South End,” Allred said. “Understanding that valuable spaces are not only those that are leasable but also those that are good for the public realm ultimately pay long term dividends.”
For locals tired of the iconic beige that’s come to dominate Charlotte’s recent architectural changes, The RailYard will come as a welcome change.
“One doesn’t have to look far to see the value in stepping away from the norm and the beige, and Charlotte is dotted with wonderful examples,” Allred said.
Reimagined offices
The RBA Group and Beacon Partners shared a vision for the office space, which would provide a unique environment for forward-thinking companies.
“Our expertise in (what we call) ‘lifestyle design’ allows us to step away from the traditional corporate lobby and focus the layout and feel more toward that of a hub for the overall project,” Allred said. He continued by sharing that the space was deigned to feel “more familiar to current apartment trends and hotel lobbies that one might expect in a corporate environment.”
The office space is currently 100% leased to tenants including Allstate, Ernst & Young, Slalom and WeWork. Look for retail leases from North Italia (from the same restaurant group that just brought us Flower Child), Rhino Market & Deli, Orangetheory Fitness and more.
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The RBA Group sought to move the traditional open floor plan of an office in a new direction, eliminating “core areas” of the conventional creative workspace and designing a concept with unobstructed views of from one end of the office to another. It took into consideration today’s office trends, specifically those that offer workspace options outside of the traditional desk and chair (think: common areas with sofas, standing desks, communal tables, flex areas).
“Understanding that these typical spaces would be part of the traditional office interior, we considered how the architecture might respond to provide these opportunities,” Allred said. “Sculpting the exterior building mass to create terraces, balconies and quiet corners, not commonly found in traditional office design, greatly expands the options for alternative workspace to include indoor/outdoor spaces that enjoy incredible views of the project plaza and the Charlotte skyline.”
Allred cited the forward-thinking qualities of Beacon Partners’ Mike Harrell and Matt Lucarelli as the driving forces behind the innovative space.
“Their willingness to step away from the typical full block office tower, and allowing the plaza to encroach into the build able area, as well as including a 30-foot door that opens the side of the lobby to the plaza, highlights their dedication to creating a special project,” Allred shared.
Tenants will enjoy a multitude of amenities designed to cater to young professionals. The Yard, a 15,000-square-foot urban courtyard that separates the north and south towers, provides space to relax, eat lunch or listen to music after work hours.
Restaurants and retail will serve The Yard, which will act as a pre-function forecourt and connect to the parking deck.
Grand Central, a large indoor lobby area connected to The Yard, creates almost a half-acre of furnished, open-air gathering space. An eye catching mural created by Osiris Rain serves as the focal point of the space.
Once completed, Grand Central will offer a gathering space for tenants.
Rustic wooden doors will open into a space that’s yet to be completed.
Tenants will also enjoy rooftop sky terraces with remarkable views of South End, Uptown and Dilworth, as well as a 2,500-square-foot state-of-the-art fitness center, indoor and outdoor bike storage, and floor-to-ceiling glass throughout the space.
The RailYard’s location played a key role in attracting tenants, given its proximity to the light rail and nearby restaurants, breweries and retail.
Centro RailYard Apartments, a 91-unit, five-level micro-unit project, will wrap around the parking deck, providing modern amenities to renters in South End. Look for 400-square-foot studio apartments and 800-square-foot two-bedroom corner units with balconies. Centro Cityworks is behind the project, which is currently under construction and will be managed by Ascent Real Estate Partners. It’s slated to open in February 2020.


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What Moebius taught me.
April 20, 2013 by krushervision
(Original blog post March 10, 2012 – 227 views)
So it’s 1990, I’m 15 or 16. I’ve decided that I wanna be a comic book artist someday. I’m pretty good at drawing superheroes, I’ve learned a lot from the classic tome How To Draw Comics the Marvel Way. I’m getting the hang of anatomy, pencilling and inking, line weight, composition, stuff like that. By this age, I’ve gotten a taste of some of some of the more bold and stylish artists like Frank Miller and Bill Sienkiewicz, and my mind is open to new things. I just got the latest issue of a magazine about comics, I think it was called Comics Scene or something like that. Then I open it up, and the first thing I see, printed full-page, is this:
And then my head exploded.
What the hell IS this, I thought? Who drew it? Why is Iron Man so…organic? Asymmetrical? Why is his costume not quite right, kind of ugly, and yet I can’t stop looking at it?
The magazine quickly told me that the French artist Moebius was about to release a new series of posters of Marvel superheroes. Up until then, I was only vaguely aware of the name. I knew he had a series of large-format graphic novel collections put out by Epic/Marvel. But, considering that I couldn’t stop studying and staring at that image of Iron Man, Moebius was immediately and permanently stamped on my radar.
At the next opportunity, I picked up the first collection, Upon A Star. It was amazing.
The first thing that struck me was that his comic art, though stylistically similar to his paintings of the Marvel heroes, was much simpler. His linework was simple, but he could tell you so much with a minimum number of lines. There was detail, but not too much; you could fill in the blanks effortlessly yourself just based on what little information he gave you. If he drew a scene of a vast planetscape or an alien metropolis packed with organically-shaped skyscrapers, his line weight was almost uniform throughout, yet there was no question how near or far each object was to your eye.
The revelation: I finally understood what “less is more” meant, and realized that you don’t need to draw a lot of lines as long as you make each line mean something.
Of course, over time I learned more about his past work with Metal Hurlant/Heavy Metal magazine, his work on films such as Tron, and when the two-issue Silver Surfer miniseries (drawn by Moebius and written by Stan Lee) came out, I was on top of it. Regrettably, I never got the rest of those now-long-out-of-print collections in the Epic series (jeebus, look at those used prices on Amazon), so I have not absorbed anywhere near as much of his work as I should have.
This morning, Moebius passed away in Paris. This is the second posthumous tribute to beloved artists I’ve made in a week. I should really make it a point to talk about my favorites more often, while they’re still with us.
Tagged art, comics, inspiration and influence, Moebius
Perpetuating the suck
(Original blog post July 21, 2011 – 512 views)
It’s been a while since my last blog post, and I got a rant! This is something that, as an artist, I get really irritated over on a number of different levels, and I’ve been wanting to bring it up. The time is now!
Here we have some bad art instruction.
For years now, ever since anime hit it big in the U.S. — like the late ’90s-early 2000s, when it really started to air regularly on American television — I’ve been seeing English-language “how to draw manga” books all over. There are good ones, there are decent ones.
And then there are these:
It…I…it…really?
This is a sad imitation of manga/anime art. To the casual observer, sure, it’s got a similar style, but it’s not right. It’s not even appealing to look at! Who would look at this and say, “YEAH, I gotta learn to draw THIS!”??
Lemme back up. I’m actually a big fan of anime and manga. Have been since the early ’90s. When the American anime licensing industry was in its infancy, I was there. Companies like AnimEigo, U.S. Renditions, and U.S. Manga Corps were releasing 30-minute subtitled VHS tapes of anime OAVs for about 30-40 bucks a pop, and my friends and I were buying them. And if a U.S. video company hadn’t yet licensed a show we wanted to see, we ordered Japanese laserdiscs from dodgy mail-order shops on the west coast, bought cheap bootlegged fan-subtitled tapes from dealers at comic and sci-fi conventions, or found tape traders who had blurry 10th-generation copies of a few episodes taped off Japanese TV, and we watched them in straight, untranslated Japanese over and over and over, late into the night. I’ve built my share of plastic Gundam model kits, too.
So naturally, anime and manga have had an influence on my art, just like classic cartoons, comics, and other artists have. Although you may not see it immediately, I actually borrow quite liberally from anime and manga (yes, even hentai and doujinshi) when I’m coming up with ideas for poses and situations in my pinup girl art. Of course, in my more zealous anime fanboy days, I attempted to draw a few anime and manga characters, and I thought I did fairly well at it; however, you could always tell that it wasn’t drawn by a Japanese artist who was immersed in manga techniques. I tried to view my art objectively and it always had some sort of details or nuances that gave it away. I just couldn’t nail the style perfectly. It’s not easy.
My concern is that these books are teaching something the wrong way. I don’t see a lot of other types of instructional art books authored by artists who aren’t good at what they’re trying to teach. There aren’t books on anatomy that have the muscles placed in the wrong positions. There aren’t books telling you to thin your watercolors with turpentine. But there are lots of books showing how to draw hideous versions of comics, cartoons, and manga.
I guess it gets under my skin for two reasons: One, because a type of art that I appreciate is being misrepresented. And two, if you suck at it, you have no business teaching others how to do it, thereby perpetuating the suck. Now we’re gonna have kids drawing ugly skinny characters with big eyes and pointy chins and calling it “manga.”
For the love of Shenlong, if you’re gonna try to learn to draw manga, at least refer to the How to Draw Manga series from Graphic-Sha. It’s available in English, but it’s authored by Japanese manga artists and they’re the real deal. Just compare the above image to this one:
Furthermore, study the work of an accomplished manga artist and designer. Since the examples I’ve been using have featured girls in battle armor, I’ll illustrate this point with the work of Masamune Shirow:
Even a non-fan can see the difference. There’s an authenticity missing from the top image that makes me wonder who would want to take any advice that book has to offer.
The same goes for any comic or cartooning instruction. Go straight to the sources, like the classic How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way by John Buscema and Stan Lee, and Preston Blair’s Animation. Learn from those who originated it, not those who imitate it.
Tagged art, art education, bad art, comics, manga


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Power to make consequential amendments
16 (1) The Minister for the Civil Service may by order make such modifications of any enactment or subordinate legislation (whenever passed or made) as the Minister considers appropriate in consequence of any provision of a scheme made by the IPSA or the Minister for the Civil Service under this Part of this Schedule.
(2) In sub-paragraph (1) the reference to subordinate legislation does not include a scheme made by the IPSA or the Minister for the Civil Service under this Part of this Schedule.
(3) An order under this paragraph is to be made by statutory instrument.
(4) A statutory instrument containing an order under this paragraph is subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.
Interpretation etc
17 (1) A scheme made by the IPSA under paragraph 3 or 7 may amend or revoke any previous scheme made by the IPSA under that paragraph.
(2) A scheme made by the Minister for the Civil Service under paragraph 11 may amend or revoke any previous scheme made by the Minister under that paragraph.
(3) In this Part of this Schedule-
"the Fund" means the Parliamentary Contributory Pension Fund;
"the IPSA" means the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority;
"modifications" includes additions, alterations and omissions (and related expressions are to be read accordingly);
"pension" includes gratuity;
"subordinate legislation" has the same meaning as in the Interpretation Act 1978.
Provision which may be included in schemes
18 (1) In this Part of this Schedule "relevant service"-
(a) for the purposes of paragraph 9(1)(a), means service as a member of
the House of Commons, and
(b) for the purposes of paragraph 12(1)(a), means service to which
paragraph 11 applies.
(2) Expressions defined in relation to Part 1 of this Schedule have the same meaning in this Part of this Schedule as in that Part.
19 Provision authorising or requiring contributions and other sums to be paid into the Fund by or on behalf of persons in relevant service, including provision for those contributions and sums to be paid-
(a) by deductions from salary;
(b) in the case of a person who does not draw a salary, out of money provided by Parliament.
Conditions etc
20 Provision as to-
(a) the circumstances in which there is to be entitlement to a pension payable out of the Fund;
(b) the conditions of any such entitlement;
(c) the persons to or for the benefit of whom such a pension is payable;
(d) the calculation of the amount of any such pension;
(e) the payment or commutation of any such pension.
Pensions not paid out of Fund
21 (1) Provision for the application of assets of the Fund in or towards the provision of pensions to be paid otherwise than out of the Fund.
(2) In connection with such provision, provision for the payment into the Fund out of money provided by Parliament of sums in addition to those paid into the Fund under paragraph 5.
Transfer values
22 (1) Provision for the payment and receipt of transfer values by the trustees of the Fund (including provision for the payment of such values into the Consolidated Fund).
(2) Provision for the transfer and receipt by the trustees of the Fund of funds or policies of insurance in lieu of transfer values.
23 Provision authorising service other than relevant service to be taken into account, in addition to relevant service, for the purposes of any provision of the scheme.
24 (1) Provision as to the circumstances and manner in which amounts equal to some or all of the contributions and other sums paid by or on behalf of a person into the Fund may be repaid or paid to that person.
(2) Provision as to the circumstances and manner in which any such amounts are to be paid out of the Consolidated Fund in respect of transfer values paid into that Fund.
(3) Provision under sub-paragraph (1) or (2) may include provision as to whether any repayment or payment made under that provision is to be made with or without interest.
Assignment etc.
25 Provision rendering void-
(a) any assignment (or, in Scotland, assignation) of a pension which is payable or may become payable out of the Fund;
(b) any charge on such a pension;
(c) any agreement to assign or charge such a pension.
26 Provision conferring functions under the scheme on persons specified in or determined under the scheme.
27 Provision making the approval, satisfaction or opinion of persons on whom functions are conferred by or under the scheme material for the purposes of any provision of the scheme.
Payments without probate
28 Provision authorising (in relation to such cases, circumstances or persons as may be specified in or determined under the scheme) any sum due to be paid out of the Fund in respect of a person who has died to be paid without probate or other proof of title.
Application of other provisions
29 Provision which (with or without modifications) applies in relation to a pension payable out of the Fund so much of any enactment or subordinate legislation (whenever passed or made) as relates to another pension, being a pension payable out of money provided by Parliament.
Amendments, transitional provision etc
Pensions (Increase) Act 1971 (c. 56)
30 (1) Part 1 of Schedule 2 is amended as follows.
(2) For paragraph 3A substitute-
"3A A pension which, under a scheme under paragraph 7 or 11 of Schedule [Parliamentary and other pensions] to the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010, is payable out of the Parliamentary Contributory Pension Fund."
(3) In paragraph 3B for "an order" substitute "a scheme".
Parliamentary and other Pensions Act 1972 (c. 48)
31 (1) Section 27 (pensions for dependants of Prime Minister or Speaker) is amended as follows.
(2) In subsection (1)-
(a) in paragraph (a) for the words from "in respect" to the end substitute "under a scheme made by the Minister for the Civil Service under paragraph 11 of Schedule [ Parliamentary and other pensions] to the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010 to receive a pension payable out of the Parliamentary Contributory Pension Fund in respect of service to which that paragraph applies", and
(b) in paragraph (c) for "Treasury" substitute "Minister for the Civil Service".
(a) for "the Parliamentary pension scheme" substitute "a scheme made by the Minister for the Civil Service under paragraph 11 of Schedule [ Parliamentary and other pensions] to the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010",
(b) in paragraph (a) for "as a Member of the House of Commons"
substitute "to which that paragraph applies", and
(c) in paragraph (b), for "Leader of the House of Commons" substitute "Minister for the Civil Service".
(4) In subsection (5), omit from ""the Leader" to the end.
32 (1) The amendments made by paragraph 31 do not apply in relation to a person who, having held office as Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury or Speaker of the House of Commons, died before that paragraph comes into force.
(2) In relation to such a person section 27 of the Parliamentary and other Pensions Act 1972, and the provisions designated under that section, have effect as if this Act had not been passed.
European Parliament (Pay and Pensions) Act 1979 (c. 50)
33 (1) Section 4 (pensions) is amended as follows.
(a) for "Leader of the House of Commons may by order make" substitute "IPSA may make a scheme containing", and
(b) for "by the order" substitute "in the scheme".
(a) for "orders" substitute "a scheme", and
(b) for "order" substitute "scheme".
(a) for "an order" substitute "a scheme", and
(b) in paragraphs (d) and (g) for "order" substitute "scheme".
(5) In subsection (3A), for "An order" substitute "A scheme".
(6) For subsection (4) substitute-
"(4) Before making a scheme under this section the IPSA must consult-
(a) the Treasury,
(b) the Minister for the Civil Service,
(c) persons it considers to represent those likely to be affected by the scheme,
(d) the Government Actuary, and
(e) any other person it considers appropriate.
(4A) The IPSA must send to the Speaker of the House of Commons for laying before both Houses of Parliament-
(a) any scheme made by it under this section, and
(b) a statement of the reasons for making the scheme.
(4B) When the scheme and the statement of reasons have been laid, the IPSA must publish them in a way it considers appropriate."
"(5) The IPSA must from time to time prepare a report on the operation of any provisions in force under this section, and send it to the Speaker of the House of Commons for laying before both Houses of Parliament."
(8) After subsection (7) insert-
"(8) A scheme made by the IPSA under this section may amend or revoke any previous scheme made by the IPSA under this section."
34 (1) Section 6 (block transfer into another pension scheme) is amended as follows.
(a) for "Leader of the House of Commons may by order" substitute "IPSA may, with the consent of the Treasury and the Minister for the Civil Service", and
(b) for "the order" substitute "the direction".
(a) for "making an order" substitute "giving a direction",
(b) for "Leader of the House of Commons" substitute "IPSA",
(c) for "he" (in both places) substitute "it",
(d) for "make such an order" substitute "give such a direction", and
(e) for "the order" substitute "the direction".
(4) In subsection (4), in the definition of "the relevant pension provisions"-
(a) for "an order" substitute "a direction",
(b) for "orders" substitute "a scheme", and
(c) for "order is made" substitute "direction is given".
35 (1) Section 7 (expenses and receipts) is amended as follows.
(2) In subsection (1)(c) (expenses and receipts)-
(a) for "any order" substitute "a scheme", and
(b) omit the words from "or of any" to the end.
(3) In subsection (1)(d) for "an order" substitute "a direction".
36 (1) Section 8 is amended as follows.
(2) In subsection (1) (interpretation)-
(a) after the definition of "electoral region" insert-
"the IPSA" means the Independent Parliamentary Standards
Authority;", and
(b) omit the definition of "the Leader of the House of Commons".
(3) Omit subsection (2).
House of Commons Members' Fund and Parliamentary Pensions Act 1981 (c. 7)
37 In section 1 (entitlement to payments out of House of Commons Members' Fund)-
(a) in subsection (5)(b) for "paragraph (b), (c) or (d) of section 2(2) of the Parliamentary and other Pensions Act 1987" substitute "subsection (5A)", and
(b) after subsection (5) insert-
"(5A)
The offices are-
(a) the offices mentioned in paragraph 11(2)(a), (b), (d) or (e) of Schedule [ Parliamentary and other pensions] to the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010;
(b) the offices of Chairman of Ways and Means and Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means."
38 Omit-
(a) section 1,
(b) section 2(1) to (8) and (10),
(c) section 3, and
(d) Schedule 1.