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fernrisulfr · 2 years

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Lawrence Von Rhodes

This one went through a lot of iterations. Originally he was going to be a Blood Hunter who was formerly a part of a Lycan worshiping blood cult. The thing is that, while thematically very interesting, I’ve never actually liked being a blood hunter. I decided from their to tone it down as a Shifter Monk, however the party already HAD a shifter, and lycanthrope was very much her thing so I didn’t want to interfere with or insert myself into that. I still wanted the cult though, for him to view himself as a “monster” so I took a look at official races that appeared human enough, but with “monstrous” origins. That was how I settled on Kalashtar. His first name Lawrence was something of an in-joke due to a prominent NPC in a previous campaign. The short version is every Lawrence we met always had something to do with a cult from then on.

Lawrence Van/Von Rhodes "Rhodey" - Kalashtar - Monk (Way of the Drunkard) -

Concept Notes:

Raised in a Lycan-worshipping blood cult.

Blood Hunter + Monk combination may be redundant and unnecessary. Alright for a one-shot but subpar long term.

Full Shifter Monk may be a better idea, albeit less visually dramatic.

Maybe Simic Hybrid instead?

Maybe instead a shifter who found peace in the way of a particular fighting style?

Drunkard with family problems who met a master that taught them a different path?

Dead wife?

Lotta rage about being a shifter? Father still Lawrence and a former Cultist.

Instead of Shifter, could be Simic-Hybrid or a Variant Human (With a trait that makes them seem more "unnatural"). Fallen Aasimar or Dhampir possibly if in a different campaign than Magic is Lost. Maybe Kalashtar?

Maybe don't make their first name Lawrence?

Backstory Concept 1 (Scrapped): Wife was a Fox Shifter, Mute due to damaged vocal cords, taught him martial arts and to be at peace with himself. Rhodey got drunk one night celebrating and accidentally outed them as shifters, which resulted in her murder. Been trying to drink himself to death ever since. Claims to be out to end the life of her killer, but really means himself. Pretends to be jovial. Used to think of himself as a Monster due to being a shifter, but changed because of her, but now thinks of himself as a monster for less visible reasons.

Backstory concept flow: Born into a cult. Deity/Being of worship left deliberately unnamed, and given an ambiguous title so DM can make them whatever. Children weren't allowed to know the name of their deity until a ceremony held on their 18th year. Was a true believer until that time. Children were split into groups. Got over-excited and snuck a peek when they were forbidden, discovering the 2nd group was sacrificing the 1st in a ritual. (He was in the first group.). Ran away from the cult, becoming disillusioned and a drunkard. If a race where abilities would have already manifested, considers himself a monster.

Encountered a mute woman by the name of Mikoto, who taught him martial arts and gave him hope. They eventually married. Got drunk one night, and his memory after that is a sanguine haze. Remembers things like the glint of metal, scent of iron, ambiguous things. Woke up covered in blood and Mikoto dead. Arrange details so it's not clear whether he or someone else killed her. Fell back into his alcoholic tendencies.

Cult Part. Remove Wife. Kalashtar Race, drunk because disillusionment with Cult + Monster memories. Martial Arts come from remembering how "it" moved, different than a human.

Possibly allow DM to pick whatever creature you're connected to, not just Quori.

Backstory Concept 2: TBD, but less over the top and dark.

Appearance: 5′9, average weight. Brown hair, blues eyes. Very handsome. Long flowing hair into a well groomed beard. Thick eyebrows. Lean but muscular build. Very basic clothes. Stained white shirt and pants.

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incorrect-oppenheimer · 21 days

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Compiling a list of books everyone knows about. It's long so under the cut...

Novelty Books: Area 51 by Nick Redfern Los Alamos by Joseph Kanon Unleashing Oppenheimer by Jada Yuan Oppenheimer: The Complete Screenplay by Christopher Nolan Copenhagen by Michael Frayn The Oppenheimer Alternative by Robert J. Sawyer The Manhattan Projects by Jonathan Hickman

Books by others: The Advisors: Oppenheimer, Teller, and the Superbomb by Herbert F. York The Real Dr. Strangelove by Peter Goodchild The Tragedy of Edward Teller by István Hargittai Judging Teller by István Hargittai Martians of Science by István Hargittai Wisdom of the Martians of Science by István Hargittai Edward Teller: A Giant of the Golden Age of Physics by Stanley A. Blumberg and Louis G. Panos Energy and Conflict: The Life and Times of Edward Teller by Stanley A. Blumberg and Gwinn Owens Brotherhood of the Bomb by Gregg Herken The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes Atomic Spy by Nancy Thorndike Greenspan The Spy Who Changed The World by Mike Rossiter Physics and Philosophy by Werner Heisenberg The Meaning of Relativity by Albert Einstein Now It Can Be Told by Leslie Groves (With introduction by Edward Teller, who tried to be nice.) Oppenheimer: The Story of a Friendship by Haakon Chevalier The Man Who Would Be God by Haakon Chevalier (This is weird.) American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin Feynman by Ottaviani and Myrick Fallout by Ottaviani Trinity by Jonathan Fetter-Vorm Easton Press: Day of Trinity by Lansing Lamont The Man From The Future by Ananyo Bhattacharya The MANIAC by Benjamín Labatut Big Science by Michael Hiltzik Forks In The Road: A Life In Physics by Stanley Deser A Sense of the Mysterious: Science And The Human Spirit by Alan Lightman Pandora’s Keepers by Brian VanDeMark J Robert Oppenheimer by Abraham Pais An American Genius by Herbert Childs Lawrence and Oppenheimer by Nuel Pharr Davis The General And The Genius by James Kunetka J. Robert Oppenheimer And The American Century by David C. Cassidy Atoms In The Family by Laura Fermi Genius In The Shadows by William Lanouette Beyond Uncertainty by David C. Cassidy An Atomic Love Story by Patricia Klaus and Shriley Streshinsky 109 East Palace by Jennet Conant The Strangest Man by Graham Farmelo The Night of the Physicists by Richard von Schirach Oppenheimer and the American Century by David C. Cassidy Alvarez: Adventures of a Physicist by Luis W. Alvarez Oppenheimer by Isidor Isaac Rabi and more. Bomb by Steve Sheinkin Fallout by Steve Sheinkin Surely You’re Joking Mister Feynman by Richard Feynman The Feynman Lectures by Richard Feynman When We Cease To Understand The World by Benjamín Labatut Enrico Fermi: His Work And Legacy by Enrico Fermi Suspended In Language by Ottaviani

Oppenheimer: The Open Mind Atom and Void In The Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer (By everyone else.) These are the transcripts of the trials. Robert Oppenheimer Letters and Recollections edited by Alice Kimball Smith and Charles Weiner Science and the Common Understanding City of the End of Things by Northrop Frye, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and Edward Togo Salmon Uncommon Sense Lectures On Electrodynamics

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implexisfatum · 9 months

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alright, people. welcome to implexisfatum, a genshin impact multimuse written by hailey. i follow back from comet-crafts, so don't freak out if you see that blog pop up in your notifs - i understand folks can be wary around personals following them.

below the cut is my roster, containing canon, original, and AU characters!

CANON!

lumine / viatrix.

jean gunnhildr / leo minor.

rosaria / spinea corona.

eula lawrence / aphros delos.

ganyu / sinae unicornis.

shenhe / crista doloris.

guizhong / regina pulveris.

kamisato ayaka / grus nivis.

sangonomiya kokomi / dracaena somnolenta.

raiden shogun / imperatrix umbrosa.

collei / leptailurus cervarius.

nilou / lotos somno.

rukkhadevata / regina silvarum.

lynette / felis alba.

navia caspar / rosa multiflora.

ORIGINAL!

mitsuhide tsurumi / aquilae intonat.

horikawa suzume / vulpes filia.

tachibana michiru / dolor solis.

tatiana orlova / glacies vindictae.

ildiko / vetus flamma.

avonmora / speculum abyssi.

adelaide rhodes / rubicunda.

masuda shiori / silva custos.

olivia suliman / flamma effrenata.

zvedza sokolova, the tsaritsa / improbus auris.

AU MUSES!

ophelia phamrsolone / argentum clavis.

anastasia nikolaevna romanova / castrum aeternum.

byleth eisner / fraxineae daemonium.

dorothea arnault / carmina divina.

edelgard von hresvelg / fulgur vindictam.

marianne von edmund / vaga bestia.

mercedes von martritz / benevolus animus.

eri / vicissim.

louisa may alcott / parum mulieres.

izumi kyouka / daemonium nivis.

yukina / glacialis gratia.

tamamo-no-mae / divinum exitium.

katniss everdeen / incendia defectionis.

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with-a-martyr-complex · 4 years

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With A Martyr Complex: Reading List 2020

Adapted from the annual list from @balioc, a list of books (primarily audiobooks) consumed this year. This list excludes several podcasts, but includes dramatizations and college lecture series from The Great Courses, which I consume like a disgusting fiend. Rereads of things I haven’t read since my youth are marked with an asterisk (*)

1. Strategy: A History by Lawrence Freedman (begun 2019)

2. The Golem and The Jinni by Helene Wecker

3. A World in Disarray by Richard Hass

4. Making the Unipolar Moment: US Foreign Policy and The Rise of the Post-Cold War Order by Hal Brands

5. The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis

6. Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

7. The Wise Men: Six Friends and The World They Made by Evan Thomas and Walter Isaacson

8. Red Dragon by Thomas Harris

9. The Silence of The Lambs by Thomas Harris

10. So You’ve Been Publically Shamed by Jon Ronson

11. Turning Points in Middle Eastern History by Eamonn Gearon (from The Great Courses)

12. The Soldier and The State: The Theory and Politics of Civil-Military Relations by Samuel P. Huntington

13. A History of Eastern Europe by Vejas Gabriel Liulevicus

14. Whore Carn(iv)al by Shannon Bell

15. Redeployment by Phil Clay

16. The Fall of Carthage: The Punic Wars 265-146 BC by Adrian Goldsworthy

17. Great World Religions: Judaism by Isaiah M. Gafni (from The Great Courses)

18. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (Translated by Christine Donougher)

19. Why Honor Matters by Tamler Sommers

20. The Surveillance State: Big Data, Freedom, and You by Paul Rosenzweig (from The Great Courses)

21. The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien* (read first 2 stories in High School)

22. Too Like The Lightning by Ada Palmer

23. The Making of The Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes

24. Seven Surrenders by Ada Palmer

25. The Modern Mercenary: Private Armies and What They Mean for World Order by Sean McFate

26. The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis

27. Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson

28. The Will To Battle by Ada Palmer

29. Genghis Khan and The Making of The Modern World by Jack Weatherford

30. Nixonland: The Rise of a President and The Fracturing of America by Rick Perlstein

31. Reaganland: America’s Right Turn 1976-1980 by Rick Perlstein

32. Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut

33. The Renaissance, The Reformation, and The Rise of Nations by Andrew C. Fix (from The Great Courses)

34. Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

35. The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole

36. What It Is Like To Go To War by Karl Marlantes

37. The Rescuer by Dara Horn

38. Faust: Parts I and II by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Part I translated by Charles T. Brooks, Part II translated by Albert G. Latham)

39. The Machiavellians, defenders of freedom: A doctrine of political truth against wishful thinking by James Burnham

40. Animal Farm by George Orwell

41. The Storm Before The Storm: The Beginning of The End of The Roman Republic by Mike Duncan

42. The Complete Book of Five Rings by Miyomoto Musashi (edited and translated by Kenji Tokitsu)

43. A History of Russia: From Peter The Great to Gorbachev by Mark Steinberg (from The Great Courses)

44. Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism by Anne Applebaum

45. If This Isn’t Nice, What is? Advice for The Young by Kurt Vonnegut (assembled by Dan Wakefield)

46. [Redacted]

47. The Great Divorce by C. S. Lewis

48. Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky

49. The Abolition of Man by C. S. Lewis

Incomplete (not counting those from the 2019 list):

International Relations: Brief Sixth Edition by Joshua S. Goldstein and Jon C. Pevehouse

Several study guides for various government exams.

Great Courses consumed: 5

Non-Great Courses nonfiction consumed: 26

Fiction: 17

Remainder: Don’t ask me to categorize The Things They Carried

Works consumed in 2020 by men: 42

Works consumed in 2020 by women: 7

Works consumed in 2019 by both men and women: 0 (1 work of a woman translating a work by a man)

Works that can plausibly be considered of real relevance to Foreign Policy: 13 (including several histories)

With A Martyr Complex’s Choice Award, fiction division: Too Like The Lightning

>>>> Honorable mention: Redeployment, [Redacted], The Golem and The Jinni

With A Martyr Complex’s Choice Award, nonfiction division: Nixonland: The Rise of a President and The Fracturing of America

>>>> Honorable mention: The Fifth Risk

>>>> Great Courses Division: A History of Russia: From Peter The Great to Gorbachev

The Annual “An Essential Work of Surpassing Beauty that Isn’t Fair to Compare To Everything Else” Award: Les Miserables (but just the good parts)

>>>> Honorable mention: Mother Night

The “Reading This Book Will Give You Great Insight Into The Way I See The World” Award: What It Is Like To Go To War

>>>> Honorable mention: The Fifth Risk

The “I’m Sorry That The Acknowledgements Page of Your Book Was Better Than The Book Itself, Because Your Book Was Quite Good” Award: Seven Surrenders

The “Nice Try At Stabbing Me, But I’ve Grown As A Person and You Are Only Dealing Glancing Blows” Award: Notes from Underground

The “Please Stop Talking About Internecine Drama Between Obscure Feminist Organizations of the 1980s and 90s and Go Back To The Really Insightful Stuff” Award: Whore Carn(iv)al

The “I Need To Go Through This In a Different Format and with a Different Translation Because this Did Not Work for Me” award: Faust: Parts I and II (especially part I)

I originally thought I’d hit 50, but my math was off by one. I think all of us can agree that this was a disruptive year. A lack of work messed with my reading a good deal. I hit quite a few things that have been on my list for a while, used these books to both get a boyfriend and a fandom, and used a lot of these during many bouts of exercise.

My foreign policy focus for the year strayed after the first few months, but a focus on history kept being useful and relevant.

Goals for 2021: Actually hit 52, more books on the nature of war, more philosophy.

#oc #yearly reading list

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machiavellique · 4 years

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· The Atheist's Mass (Honoré de Balzac) · The Beautifull Cassandra (Jane Austen) · The Communist Manifesto (Fredrich Engels and Karl Marx) · Cruel Alexis (Virgil) · The Dhammapada (Anon) · The Dolphins, the Whales and the Gudgeon (Aesop) · The Eve of St Agnes (John Keats) · The Fall of Icarus (Ovid) · The Figure in the Carpet (Henry James) · The Gate of the Hundred Sorrows (Rudyard Kipling) · Gooseberries (Anton Chekhov) · The Great Fire of London (Samuel Pepys) · The Great Winglebury Duel (Charles Dickens) · How a Ghastly Story Was Brought to Light by a Common or Garden Butcher's Dog (Johann Peter Hebel) · How Much Land Does A Man Need? (Leo Tolstoy) · How To Use Your Enemies (Baltasar Gracián) · How We Weep and Laugh at the Same Thing (Michel de Montaigne) · I Hate and I Love (Catullus) · Il Duro (D. H. Lawrence) · It was snowing butterflies (Charles Darwin) · Jason and Medea (Apollonius of Rhodes) · Kasyan from the Beautiful Mountains (Ivan Turgenev) · Leonardo da Vinci (Giorgio Vasari) · The Life of a Stupid Man (Ryunosuke Akutagawa) · Lips Too Chilled (Matsuo Basho) · Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime (Oscar Wilde) · The Madness of Cambyses (Herodotus · The Maldive Shark (Herman Melville) · The Meek One (Fyodor Dostoyevsky · Mrs Rosie and the Priest (Giovanni Boccaccio) · My Dearest Father (Wolfgang Mozart) · The Night is Darkening Round Me (Emily Brontë) · The nightingales are drunk (Hafez) · The Nose (Nikolay Gogol) · Olalla (Robert Louis Stevenson) · The Old Man in the Moon (Shen Fu), Miss Brill (Katherine Mansfield) · The Old Nure's Story (Elizabeth Gaskell) · On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts (Thomas De Quincey) · On the Beach at Night Alone (Walt Whitman) · The Reckoning (Edith Wharton) · Remember, Body... (C. P. Cavafy) · The Robber Bridegroom (Brothers Grimm) · The Saga of Gunnlaug Serpent-tongue (Anon) · Sindbad the Sailor · Sketchy, Doubtful, Incomplete Jottings (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) · Socrates' Defence (Plato) · Speaking of Siva (Anon) · The Steel Flea (Nikolai Leskov) · The Tell-Tale Heart (Edgar Allan Poe) · The Terrors of the Night (Thomas Nashe) · The Tinder Box (Hans Christian Andersen) · Three Tang Dynasty Poets (Wang Wei) · Trimalchio's Feast (Petronius) · To-morrow (Joseph Conrad), Of Street Piemen (Henry Mayhew) · Traffic (John Ruskin) · Travels in the Land of Serpents and Pearls (Marco Polo) · The Voyage of Sir Francis Drake Around the Whole Globe (Richard Hakluyt) · The Wife of Bath (Geoffrey Chaucer) · The Woman Much Missed (Thomas Hardy) · The Yellow Wall-paper (Charlotte Perkins Gilman) · Wailing Ghosts (Pu Songling) · Well, they are gone, and here must I remain (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

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blackkudos · 6 years

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Ahmad Jamal

Ahmad Jamal (born Frederick Russell Jones, July 2, 1930) is an American jazz pianist, composer, bandleader, and educator. For five decades, he has been one of the most successful small-group leaders in jazz.

Biography

Early life

Jamal was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He began playing piano at the age of three, when his uncle Lawrence challenged him to duplicate what he was doing on the piano. Jamal began formal piano training at the age of seven with Mary Cardwell Dawson, whom he describes as greatly influencing him. His Pittsburgh roots have remained an important part of his identity ("Pittsburgh meant everything to me and it still does," he said in 2001) and it was there that he was immersed in the influence of jazz artists such as Earl Hines, Billy Strayhorn, Mary Lou Williams, and Erroll Garner. Jamal also studied with pianist James Miller and began playing piano professionally at the age of fourteen, at which point he was recognized as a "coming great" by the pianist Art Tatum. When asked about his practice habits by a New York Times critic, Jamal commented that, "I used to practice and practice with the door open, hoping someone would come by and discover me. I was never the practitioner in the sense of twelve hours a day, but I always thought about music. I think about music all the time."

Beginnings and conversion to Islam

Jamal began touring with George Hudson's Orchestra after graduating from George Westinghouse High School in 1948. He joined another touring group known as The Four Strings, which soon disbanded when the violinist, Joe Kennedy. Jr., left. He moved to Chicago in 1950 (where he legally changed his name to Ahmad Jamal), and played on and off with local musicians such as saxophonists Von Freeman and Claude McLin, as well as performing solo at the Palm Tavern, occasionally joined by drummer Ike Day.

Born to Baptist parents in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Jamal did not discover Islam until his early 20s. While touring in Detroit (where there was a sizable Muslim community in the 1940s and 1950s), Jamal became interested in Islam and Islamic culture. He converted to Islam and changed his name to Ahmad Jamal in 1950. In an interview with The New York Times a few years later, Jamal said his decision to change his name stemmed from a desire to "re-establish my original name." Shortly after his conversion to Islam, Jamal explained to The New York Times that he "says Muslim prayers five times a day and arises in time to say his first prayers at 5 am. He says them in Arabic in keeping with the Muslim tradition."

He made his first sides in 1951 for the Okeh label with The Three Strings (which would later also be called the Ahmad Jamal Trio, although Jamal himself prefers not to use the term "trio"): the other members were guitarist Ray Crawford and a bassist, at different times Eddie Calhoun (1950–52), Richard Davis (1953–54), and Israel Crosby (from 1954). The Three Strings arranged an extended engagement at Chicago's Blue Note, but leapt to fame after performing at the Embers in New York City where John Hammond saw the band play and signed them to Okeh Records. Hammond, a record producer who discovered the talents and enhanced the fame of musicians like Benny Goodman, Billie Holiday, and Count Basie, also helped Jamal's trio attract critical acclaim. Jamal subsequently recorded for Parrot (1953–55) and Epic (1955) using the piano-guitar-bass lineup.

At the Pershing: But Not For Me

The trio's sound changed significantly when Crawford was replaced with drummer Vernel Fournier in 1957, and the group worked as the "House Trio" at Chicago's Pershing Hotel. The trio released the live album, Live at the Pershing: But Not For Me, which stayed on the Ten Best-selling charts for 108 weeks. Jamal's well known song "Poinciana" was first released on this album.

Perhaps Jamal's most famous recording and undoubtedly the one that brought him vast popularity in the late 1950s and into the 1960s jazz age, At the Pershing was recorded at the Pershing Hotel in Chicago in 1958. Jamal played the set with bassist Israel Crosby and drummer Vernel Fournier. The set list expressed a diverse collection of tunes, including "The Surrey with the Fringe On Top" from the musical Oklahoma! and Jamal's arrangement of the jazz standard "Poinciana". Jazz musicians and listeners alike found inspiration in the At the Pershing recording, and Jamal's trio was recognized as an integral new building block in the history of jazz. Evident were his unusually minimalist style and his extended vamps, according to reviewer John Morthland. "If you're looking for an argument that pleasurable mainstream art can assume radical status at the same time, Jamal is your guide," said The New York Times contributor Ben Ratliff in a review of the album.

After the recording of the best-selling album But Not For Me, Jamal's music grew in popularity throughout the 1950s, and he attracted media coverage for his investment decisions pertaining to his "rising fortune". In 1959, he took a tour of North Africa to explore investment options in Africa. Jamal, who was twenty-nine at the time, said he had a curiosity about the homeland of his ancestors, highly influenced by his conversion to the Muslim faith. He also said his religion had brought him peace of mind about his race, which accounted for his "growth in the field of music that has proved very lucrative for me." Upon his return to the U.S. after a tour of North Africa, the financial success of Live at the Pershing: But Not For Me allowed Jamal to open a restaurant and club called The Alhambra in Chicago. In 1962, The Three Strings disbanded and Jamal moved to New York City, where, at the age of 32, he took a three-year hiatus from his musical career.

Return to music and The Awakening

In 1964, Jamal resumed touring and recording, this time with the bassist Jamil Nasser and recorded a new album, Extensions, in 1965. Jamal and Nasser continued to play and record together from 1964 to 1972. He also joined forces with Fournier (again, but only for about a year) and drummer Frank Gant (1966–76), among others. Until 1970, he played acoustic piano exclusively. The final album on which he played acoustic piano in the regular sequence was The Awakening. In the 1970s, he played electric piano as well. It was rumored that the Rhodes piano was a gift from someone in Switzerland. He continued to play throughout the 1970s and 1980s, mostly in trios with piano, bass and drums, but he occasionally expanded the group to include guitar. One of his most long-standing gigs was as the band for the New Year's Eve celebrations at Blues Alley in Washington, D.C., from 1979 through the 1990s.

Later career

In 1986, Jamal sued critic Leonard Feather for using his former name in a publication.

Clint Eastwood featured two recordings from Jamal's But Not For Me album — "Music, Music, Music" and "Poinciana" — in the 1995 movie The Bridges of Madison County.

Now in his eighties, Ahmad Jamal has continued to make numerous tours and recordings. His most recently released albums are Saturday Morning (2013), and the CD/DVD release Ahmad Jamal Featuring Yusef Lateef Live at L'Olympia (2014).

Jamal is the main mentor of jazz piano virtuosa Hiromi Uehara, known as Hiromi.

Style and influence

Trained in both traditional jazz ("American classical music", as he prefers to call it) and European classical style, Ahmad Jamal has been praised as one of the greatest jazz innovators over his exceptionally long career. Following bebop greats like Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, Jamal entered the world of jazz at a time when speed and virtuosic improvisation were central to the success of jazz musicians as artists. Jamal, however, took steps in the direction of a new movement, later coined "cool jazz" – an effort to move jazz in the direction of popular music. He emphasized space and time in his musical compositions and interpretations instead of focusing on the blinding speed of bebop.

Because of this style, Jamal was "often dismissed by jazz writers as no more than a cocktail pianist, a player so given to fluff that his work shouldn't be considered seriously in any artistic sense". Stanley Crouch, author of Considering Genius, offers a very different reaction to Jamal's music, claiming that, like the highly influential Thelonious Monk, Jamal was a true innovator of the jazz tradition and is second in importance in the development of jazz after 1945 only to Parker. His unique musical style stemmed from many individual characteristics, including his use of orchestral effects and his ability to control the beat of songs. These stylistic choices resulted in a unique and new sound for the piano trio: "Through the use of space and changes of rhythm and tempo", writes Crouch, "Jamal invented a group sound that had all the surprise and dynamic variation of an imaginatively ordered big band." Jamal explored the texture of riffs, timbres, and phrases rather than the quantity or speed of notes in any given improvisation. Speaking about Jamal, A. B. Spellman of the National Endowment of the Arts said: "Nobody except Thelonious Monk used space better, and nobody ever applied the artistic device of tension and release better." These (at the time) unconventional techniques that Jamal gleaned from both traditional classical and contemporary jazz musicians helped pave the way for later jazz greats like Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, and McCoy Tyner.

Though Jamal is often overlooked by jazz critics and historians, he is frequently credited with having a great influence on Miles Davis. Davis is quoted as saying that he was impressed by Jamal's rhythmic sense and his "concept of space, his lightness of touch, his understatement". Jamal characterizes what he thought Davis admired about his music as: "my discipline as opposed to my space." Jamal and Davis became friends in the 1950s, and Davis continued to support Jamal as a fellow musician, often playing versions of Jamal's own songs ("Ahmad's Blues", "New Rhumba") until he died in 1991.

Jamal, speaking about his own work says, "I like doing ballads. They're hard to play. It takes years of living, really, to read them properly." From an early age, Jamal developed an appreciation for the lyrics of the songs he learned: "I once heard Ben Webster playing his heart out on a ballad. All of a sudden he stopped. I asked him, 'Why did you stop, Ben?' He said, 'I forgot the lyrics.'" Jamal attributes the variety in his musical taste to the fact that he grew up in several eras: the big band era, the bebop years, and the electronic age. He says his style evolved from drawing on the techniques and music produced in these three eras. In 1985, Jamal agreed to do an interview and recording session with his fellow jazz pianist, Marian McPartland on her NPR show Piano Jazz. Jamal, who said he rarely plays "But Not For Me" due to its popularity since his 1958 recording, played an improvised version of the tune – though only after noting that he has moved on to making ninety percent of his repertoire his own compositions. He said that when he grew in popularity from the Live at the Pershing album, he was severely criticized afterwards for not playing any of his own compositions.

In more recent years, Jamal has embraced the electronic influences affecting the genre of jazz. He has also occasionally expanded his usual small ensemble of three to include a tenor saxophone (George Coleman) and a violin. A jazz fan interviewed by Down Beat magazine about Jamal in 2010 described his development as "more aggressive and improvisational these days. The word I used to use is avant garde; that might not be right. Whatever you call it, the way he plays is the essence of what jazz is."

Saxophonist Ted Nash, a longtime member of the Lincoln Center Orchestra, had the opportunity to play with Jamal in 2008 for Jazz at Lincoln Center. Nash described his experience with Jamal's style in an interview with Down Beat magazine: "The way he comped wasn't the generic way that lots of pianists play with chords in the middle of the keyboard, just filling things up. He gave lots of single line responses. He'd come back and throw things out at you, directly from what you played. It was really interesting because it made you stop, and allowed him to respond, and then you felt like playing something else – that's something I don't feel with a lot of piano players. It's really quite engaging. I guess that's another reason people focus in on him. He makes them hone in [sic]."

Bands and personnel

Jamal typically plays with a bassist and drummer: his current trio is with bassist Reginald Veal and drummer Herlin Riley. He has also performed with percussionist Manolo Badrena. Jamal has recorded with the voices of the Howard A. Roberts Chorale on The Bright, the Blue and the Beautiful and Cry Young; with vibraphonist Gary Burton on In Concert; with brass, reeds, and strings celebrating his hometown of Pittsburgh; with The Assai Quartet; and with saxophonist George Coleman on the album The Essence.

Awards and honors

1959: Entertainment Award, Pittsburgh Junior Chamber of Commerce

1980: Distinguished Service Award, City of Washington D.C., Anacostia Neighborhood Museum, Smithsonian Institution

1981: Nomination, Best R&B Instrumental Performance ("You're Welcome", "Stop on By"), NARAS

1986: Mellon Jazz Festival Salutes Ahmad Jamal, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

1987: Honorary Membership, Philippines Jazz Foundation

1994: American Jazz Masters award, National Endowment for the Arts

2001: Arts & Culture Recognition Award, National Coalition of 100 Black Women

2001: Kelly-Strayhorn Gallery of Stars, for Achievements as Pianist and Composer, East Liberty Quarter Chamber of Commerce

2003: American Jazz Hall of Fame, New Jersey Jazz Society

2003: Gold Medallion, Steinway & Sons 150 Years Celebration (1853–2003)

2007: Living Jazz Legend, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

2007: Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, French government

2011: Down Beat Hall of Fame, 76th Readers Poll

2015: Honorary Doctorate of Music, The New England Conservatory

Discography

As leader

1951: Ahmad's Blues (Okeh)

1955: Ahmad Jamal Plays (Parrot) – also released as Chamber Music of the New Jazz (Argo)

1955: The Ahmad Jamal Trio (Epic)

1956: Count 'Em 88 (Argo)

1958: At the Pershing: But Not for Me (Argo)

1958: At the Pershing, Vol. 2 (Argo)

1958: Ahmad Jamal Trio Volume IV (Argo)

1958: Portfolio of Ahmad Jamal (Argo)

1959: The Piano Scene of Ahmad Jamal (Epic)

1959: Jamal at the Penthouse (Argo)

1960: Happy Moods (Argo)

1960: Listen to the Ahmad Jamal Quintet (Argo)

1961: All of You (Argo)

1961: Ahmad Jamal's Alhambra (Argo)

1962: Ahmad Jamal at the Blackhawk (Argo)

1962: Macanudo (Argo)

1963: Poinciana (Argo)

1964: Naked City Theme (Argo)

1965: The Roar of the Greasepaint (Argo)

1965: Extensions (Argo)

1966: Rhapsody (Cadet)

1966: Heat Wave (Cadet)

1967: Cry Young (Cadet)

1968: The Bright, the Blue and the Beautiful (Cadet)

1968: Tranquility (ABC)

1968: Ahmad Jamal at the Top: Poinciana Revisited (Impulse!)

1970: The Awakening (Impulse!)

1971: Freeflight (Impulse!)

1972: Outertimeinnerspace (Impulse!)

1973: Ahmad Jamal '73 (20th Century)

1974: Jamalca (20th Century)

1974: Jamal Plays Jamal (20th Century)

1975: Genetic Walk (20th Century)

1976: Steppin' Out with a Dream (20th Century)

1976: Recorded Live at Oil Can Harry's (Catalyst)

1978: One (20th Century)

1980: Intervals (20th Century)

1980: Live at Bubba's (Who's Who in Jazz)

1980: Night Song (Motown)

1981: In Concert (Personal Choice Records)

1982: American Classical Music (Shubra)

1985: Digital Works (Atlantic)

1985: Live at the Montreal Jazz Festival 1985 (Atlantic)

1986: Rossiter Road (Atlantic)

1987: Crystal (Atlantic)

1989: Pittsburgh (Atlantic)

1992: Live in Paris 1992 (Birdology)

1992: Chicago Revisited (Telarc)

1994: I Remember Duke, Hoagy & Strayhorn (Telarc)

1994: Ahmad Jamal with The Assai Quartet (Roesch)

1994: Ahmad Jamal at Home (Roesch)

1995: The Essence Part One (Birdology)

1995: Big Byrd: The Essence Part 2 (Birdology)

1996: Live in Paris 1996 (Birdology)

1997: Nature: The Essence Part Three (Birdology)

2000: Picture Perfect

2001: Ahmad Jamal à l'Olympia

2003: In Search of Momentum

2005: After Fajr

2008: It's Magic

2008: Poinciana – One Night Only

2009: A Quiet Time

2012: Blue Moon (Jazzbook)

2013: Saturday Morning (Jazzbook)

2014: Ahmad Jamal featuring Yusef Lateef, Live at L'Olympia. 2012 — 2 CDs/1 DVD (Jazzbook/Bose/Jazz Village)

2017: Marseille (Jazz Village)

Compilations

1967: Standard Eyes (Cadet)

1972: Inspiration (Cadet)

1974: Re-evaluations: The Impulse! Years (Impulse!)

1980: The Best of Ahmad Jamal (20th Century)

1998: Ahmad Jamal 1956–66 Recordings

1998: Cross Country Tour 1958–1961 (GRP/Chess)

2005: The Legendary Okeh & Epic Recordings (1951–1955) (Columbia Legacy)

2007: Complete Live at the Pershing Lounge 1958 (Gambit)

2007: Complete Live at the Spotlite Club 1958 (Gambit)

As sideman

With Ray Brown

Some of My Best Friends Are...The Piano Players (Telarc, 1994)

With Shirley Horn

May the Music Never End (Verve, 2003)

Wikipedia

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Events 6.26

4 AD – Augustus adopts Tiberius. 221 – Roman emperor Elagabalus adopts his cousin Alexander Severus as his heir and receives the title of Caesar. 363 – Roman emperor Julian is killed during the retreat from the Sasanian Empire. 684 – Pope Benedict II is chosen. 699 – En no Ozuno, a Japanese mystic and apothecary who will later be regarded as the founder of a folk religion Shugendō, is banished to Izu Ōshima. 1243 – Mongols defeat the Seljuk Turks at the Battle of Köse Dağ. 1295 – Przemysł II crowned king of Poland, following Ducal period. The white eagle is added to the Polish coat of arms. 1407 – Ulrich von Jungingen becomes Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights. 1409 – Western Schism: The Roman Catholic Church is led into a double schism as Petros Philargos is crowned Pope Alexander V after the Council of Pisa, joining Pope Gregory XII in Rome and Pope Benedict XII in Avignon. 1460 – Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, and Edward, Earl of March, land in England with a rebel army and march on London. 1483 – Richard III becomes King of England. 1522 – Ottomans begin the second Siege of Rhodes. 1541 – Francisco Pizarro is assassinated in Lima by the son of his former companion and later antagonist, Diego de Almagro the younger. Almagro is later caught and executed. 1579 – Livonian campaign of Stephen Báthory begins. 1718 – Alexei Petrovich, Tsarevich of Russia, Peter the Great's son, mysteriously dies after being sentenced to death by his father for plotting against him. 1723 – After a siege and bombardment by cannon, Baku surrenders to the Russians. 1740 – A combined force of Spanish, free blacks and allied Indians defeat a British garrison at the Siege of Fort Mose near St. Augustine during the War of Jenkins' Ear. 1794 – French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Fleurus marked the first successful military use of aircraft. 1830 – William IV becomes king of Britain and Hanover. 1843 – Treaty of Nanking comes into effect, Hong Kong Island is ceded to the British "in perpetuity". 1848 – End of the June Days Uprising in Paris. 1857 – The first investiture of the Victoria Cross in Hyde Park, London. 1870 – The Christian holiday of Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States. 1886 – Henri Moissan isolated elemental Fluorine for the first time. 1889 – Bangui is founded by Albert Dolisie and Alfred Uzac in what was then the upper reaches of the French Congo. 1906 – The first Grand Prix motor race is held at Le Mans. 1909 – The Science Museum in London comes into existence as an independent entity. 1917 – World War I: The American Expeditionary Forces begin to arrive in France. They will first enter combat four months later. 1918 – World War I: Allied forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord defeat Imperial German forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince in the Battle of Belleau Wood. 1924 – The American occupation of the Dominican Republic ends after eight years. 1927 – The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island. 1934 – United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Federal Credit Union Act, which establishes credit unions. 1936 – Initial flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first practical helicopter. 1940 – World War II: Under the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, the Soviet Union presents an ultimatum to Romania requiring it to cede Bessarabia and the northern part of Bukovina. 1941 – World War II: Soviet planes bomb Kassa, Hungary (now Košice, Slovakia), giving Hungary the impetus to declare war the next day. 1942 – The first flight of the Grumman F6F Hellcat. 1944 – World War II: San Marino, a neutral state, is mistakenly bombed by the RAF based on faulty information, leading to 35 civilian deaths. 1944 – World War II: The Battle of Osuchy in Osuchy, Poland, one of the largest battles between Nazi Germany and Polish resistance forces, ends with the defeat of the latter. 1945 – The United Nations Charter is signed by 50 Allied nations in San Francisco, California. 1948 – Cold War: The first supply flights are made in response to the Berlin Blockade. 1948 – William Shockley files the original patent for the grown-junction transistor, the first bipolar junction transistor. 1948 – Shirley Jackson's short story The Lottery is published in The New Yorker magazine. 1952 – The Pan-Malayan Labour Party is founded in Malaya, as a union of statewide labour parties. 1953 – Lavrentiy Beria, head of MVD, is arrested by Nikita Khrushchev and other members of the Politburo. 1955 – The South African Congress Alliance adopts the Freedom Charter at the Congress of the People in Kliptown. 1959 – Swedish boxer Ingemar Johansson becomes world champion of heavy weight boxing, by defeating American Floyd Patterson on technical knockout after two minutes and three seconds in the third round at Yankee Stadium. 1960 – The former British Protectorate of British Somaliland gains its independence as Somaliland. 1960 – Madagascar gains its independence from France. 1963 – Cold War: U.S. President John F. Kennedy gave his "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech, underlining the support of the United States for democratic West Germany shortly after Soviet-supported East Germany erected the Berlin Wall. 1967 – Karol Wojtyła (later John Paul II) made a cardinal by Pope Paul VI. 1974 – The Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley's chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio. 1975 – Two FBI agents and a member of the American Indian Movement are killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota; Leonard Peltier is later convicted of the murders in a controversial trial. 1977 – Elvis Presley held his final concert in Indianapolis, Indiana at Market Square Arena. 1978 – Air Canada Flight 189, flying to Toronto, overruns the runway and crashes into the Etobicoke Creek ravine. Two of the 107 passengers on board perish. 1981 – Dan-Air Flight 240, flying to East Midlands Airport, crashes in Nailstone, Leicestershire. All three crew members perish. 1991 – Yugoslav Wars: The Yugoslav People's Army begins the Ten-Day War in Slovenia. 1995 – Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani deposes his father Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani, the Emir of Qatar, in a bloodless coup d'état. 1997 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Communications Decency Act violates the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. 2000 – The Human Genome Project announces the completion of a "rough draft" sequence. 2003 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Lawrence v. Texas that gender-based sodomy laws are unconstitutional. 2006 – Mari Alkatiri, the first Prime Minister of East Timor, resigns after weeks of political unrest. 2007 – Pope Benedict XVI reinstates the traditional laws of papal election in which a successful candidate must receive two-thirds of the votes. 2008 – A suicide bomber dressed as an Iraqi policeman detonates an explosive vest, killing 25 people. 2012 – The Waldo Canyon fire descends into the Mountain Shadows neighborhood in Colorado Springs burning 347 homes in a matter of hours and killing two people. 2013 – Riots in China's Xinjiang region kill at least 36 people and injure 21 others. 2013 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled, 5–4, that Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional and in violation of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution. 2015 – Five different terrorist attacks in France, Tunisia, Somalia, Kuwait, and Syria occurred on what was dubbed Bloody Friday by international media. Upwards of 750 people were either killed or injured in these uncoordinated attacks. 2015 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled, 5–4, that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marriage under the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution.

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I'm sad to see the official Boyd Rice page gone. Is it possible that you could repost his reading list? Thanks...

• BOYD RICE'S Recommended Reading List •

"When confronting ideas / beliefs, bring an open-mind and critical thinking. Extract that which is most beneficial to you, and ignore the rest. All these books contain an element of pure gold, and varying degrees of lead. I leave it to you to sort-out which is which."- Boyd Rice

Social Theory / Study:

The Republic, by Plato

Gobineau: Selected Political Writings, by Arthur Gobineau

Essays and Aphorisms, by Arthur Schopenhauer

The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler

Man and Technics, by Oswald Spengler

The Myth of the Twentieth Century, by Alfred Rosenberg

Might Is Right, by Ragnar Redbeard

The Crowd by Gustave Le Bon

The Lucifer Principle, by Howard Bloom

Imperium, by Francis Parker Yockey

The Prince, by Niccolo Machiavelli

The Art of War, by Sun Tzu

Sun & Steel, by Yukio Mishima

Man into Wolf, by Robert, Eisler

The Hunting Hypothesis, by Robert Ardrey

The Territorial Imperative, by Robert Ardrey

With Charity Toward None, by Florence King

Homo, 99 and 44/100% Nonsapiens, by Gerald B. Lorentz

The Lightning & The Sun, by Savitri Devi (out-of-print?)

Essays and Aphorisms, by Oswald Spengler (out-of-print?)

Esotericism, Mysticism, Religion & Mythology:

Studies in Morals & Dogma, by Albert Pike

Hermes & Plato, by Edouard Schure

The Hermetic Tradition: Symbols and Teachings of the Royal Art, by Julius Evola

The Mystery of the Grail: Initiation and Magic in the Quest for the Spirit, by Julius Evola

Eros and the Mysteries of Love: The Metaphysics of Sex, by Julius Evola

Mystery of the Cathedrals, by Fulcanelli

New Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry (Two Volumes in One), by A.E. Waite

Encyclopedia of Religions or Faiths of Man, Part 1, by J.G.R. Forlong

Encyclopedia of Religions or Faiths of Man, Part 2, by J.G.R. Forlong

The Legends of the Jews, by Louis Ginzberg

The Encyclopedia of Gods, by Michael Jordan

The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Mythology, by Arthur Cotterell

The Bible As It Was, by James L. Kugel

The Greek Septuagint Bible (A Modern English Translation), by Paul W. Esposito

The Book of Enoch

The Antiquities of the Jews, by Flavius Josephus

Jesus the Magician, by Morton Smith

Traditions of Glastonbury, by E. Raymond Capt

The Nag Hammadi Library in English : Revised Edition James M. Robinson

The Encyclopedia of Heresies and Heretics, by Leonard George

Encyclopedia of Heresies and Heretics, by Chas S. Clifton

The Gnostic Religion, by Hans Jonas

The Gnostic Gospels, by Elaine Pagels

The Sacred and Profane: The Nature of Religion, by Mircea Eliade

Meister Eckhart: The Essential Sermons, Commentaries, Treatises, and Defense

From the Ashes of Angels: The Forbidden Legacy of a Fallen Race, by Andrew Collins

Atlantis: The Antediluvian World, by Ignatius Donnely

The Destruction of Atlantis: Ragnarok, or the Age of Fire and Gravel, by Ignatius Donnely

The Holy Place: Discovering the Eighth Wonder of the Ancient World, by Henry Lincoln

Key to the Sacred Pattern : The Untold Story of Rennes-le-Chateau, by Henry Lincoln

Holy Blood, Holy Grail, by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln

The Temple and the Lodge, by Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh

Makers of Civilization in Race and History, by L.A. Waddel

British Edda, by L.A. Waddel

(All works by L.A. Waddel are recommended)

Language, Myth & Man, by Joseph Reiss (out-of-print?)

Quinta da Regaliera (out-of-print?)

Biographies:

Tiny Tim, by Harry Stein

King of Comedy: The Life and Art of Jerry Lewis, by Shawn Levy

Secret Life of a Satanist: The Authorized Biography of Anton LaVey, by Blanche Barton

Isis & Beyond: The Biography of Cecil E. Nixon, by Doran Wittelsbach

The Aryan Christ: The Secret Life of Carl G. Jung, by Richard Noll

The Great One: Life and Legend of Jackie Gleason, by William A. Henry

D'Annunzio, by Tom Antongini

Dannunzio: The Poet As Superman, by Anthony Rhodes

The Psychopathic God: Adolf Hitler, by Robert George Leeson Waite

Hanussen: Hitler's Jewish Clairvoyant, by Mel Gordon

Edie: American Girl, by Jean Stein

POPism: The Warhol Sixties, by Andy Warhol

Rhodes: Race for Africa, by Antony Thomas

Out of This Century: Confessions of an Art Addict, by Peggy Guggenheim

Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's, by Ray Kroc

Six Years With God: Life Inside Jim Jones' People's Temple, by Jeannie Mills

Le Petomane, by Jean Nohain & F. Caradec

The Dream King: Ludwig II of Bavaria, by Wilfrid Blunt

Black Sun: The Brief Transit and Violent Eclipse of Harry Crosby, by Geoffrey Wolff

My America, Your America, by Lawrence Welk

Walt Disney: Hollywood's Dark Prince, by Marc Eliot

The Hellfire Club, by Daniel Mannix

Albert Pike: The Man Beyond the Monument, by Jim Tresner

The Modesto Messiah: The famous mail-order minister, by Lewis Ashmore

Sawdust Caesar: The Untold Story of Mussolini and Fascism, by George Seldes

The Four O'Clock Murders: A True Story of a Mormon Family's Vengeance, by Scott Anderson

The New York Dolls: Too Much Too Soon, by Nina Antonia

Too Much, Too Soon: Diana Barrymore, by Diana Barrymore

The Conquering Family, by Thomas B. Costain

Cocteau: A Biography, by Francis Steegmuller

Unity Mitford: An enquiry into her life and the frivolity of evil, by David Pryce-Jones

Killer: A Journal of Murder, by Thomas E. Gaddis & James O. Long

Nightmare of Ecstasy: The Life and Art of Edward D. Wood, Jr., by Rudolph Grey

The Pied Piper Of Tucson, by Moser & Cohen

The Devil's Avenger (Anton LaVey), by Burton Wolff (out-of-print?)

King Rene D'Anjou and his Seven Queens, by Staley Edgecumbe (out-of-print?)

The World Of Walter Keane, by Walter Keane (out-of-print?)

One More Victim (Dan Burros), by ? (out-of-print?)

Fiction:

Devil Born Without Horns, by Michael A. Lucas

Ozma of Oz, by L. Frank Baum

Impressions of Africa, by Raymond Roussel,

The Magic Christian, by Terry Southern

Portrait of Jennie, by Robert Nathan

The Portrait of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde

Fantomas, by Marcel Allain & Pierre Souvestre

The Cornell Woolrich Omnibus, by Cornell Wollrich

Paradise Lost, by John Milton

Vril: The Power of the Coming Race, by Edward Bulwer Lytton

Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare

Nightmare Alley (Crime Novels: 30s & 40s American Noir), by William L. Gresham

Art:

Casper David Friedrich, by Jaqueline & Maurice Guillaud

Kingdom of the Soul: Symbolist Art in Germany, 1870-1920, by Ingrid Ehrhardt

The return of la belle jardini�re; Max Ernst 1950-1970, by Werner Spies

The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp., by Arturo Shwarz

The Visual Art of Jean Cocteau, by William A. Emboden

The Nazis, by Piotr Uklanski

It's a Man's World: Men's Adventure Magazines, the Postwar Pulps, by Adam Parfrey

Tamara De Lempicka: 1898-1980, by Gilles Neret

Von Stuck, Taschen

Warhol, by David Bourdon

Andy Warhol's Index Book, by Andy Warhol (out-of-print?)

Der Villa Stuck In Munchen,by Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker (out-of-print?)

The Carel Willink "Bible", (out-of-print?)

Arno Breker: A Life Of Beauty, by Dominique Egret (out-of-print?)

Hermann Hendrich, by Elke Rohling (out-of-print?)

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Sensor Sweep: Yetis, Mercenaries, Crusaders, Masters of Kung Fu

Weird Western (David J. West): It was fun to reread some old Louis L’amour books and even a couple Lovecraft stories I had missed like The Strange High House in the Mist – because I have a hardly touched Lovecraftian god = Nodens making an appearance.

Fiction (Wasteland & Sky): For those that don’t know, mundane science fiction was a movement spearheaded by the Clarion Writer’s Workshop to tell writers what their imagination needs to be focused on in order to shape the future properly. You pay money for this sort of advice. The result has led to an already low selling genre bottoming out and losing to independent Space Opera series in sales. Despite being a 15 year old movement, it has yet to produce a single hit, despite having the entire Oldpub machine behind it. That’s the legacy this movement has.

Lovecraft & Cinema (Tentaclii): Hollywood-watchers report that work is underway on adapting the Hans Rodionoff / Giffen / Breccia graphic novel Lovecraft (2003). The adaptation is mooted as a possible costume horror-drama which “will take place in the 1920s”. Sounds good, though the first sixth of the 130-page book is actually set in the 1890s with Lovecraft as a boy, which would entail two sets of period costumes.

History (Men of the West): The German Emperor came to Jerusalem under the escort of the Turks, as the ally of the Turks, and solely because of the victory and supremacy of the Turks. In other words, he came to Jerusalem solely because the Crusaders had lost Jerusalem; he came there solely because the Crusaders had been routed, ruined, butchered before and after the disaster of Hattin: because the Cross had gone down in blood before the Crescent, under which alone he could ride in with safety. Under those circumstances to dress up as a Crusader, as if for a fancy dress ball, was a mixture of madness and vulgarity which literally stops the breath.

Author Interview (DMR Books): Byron A. Roberts, mastermind behind the bombastic British metal band Bal-Sagoth, is one of the most talented individuals active in the sword and sorcery field today. Although it wasn’t until the past few years that his stories saw print, he’s been developing characters and concepts for quite some time. Just take a look at a booklet of a Bal-Sagoth CD and you’ll see that the lyrics are basically short stories themselves! His latest work is a collaboration with Matthew Knight and Howie K. Bentley, written round-robin style. Let’s learn more about one of the men behind Karnov: Phantom-Clad Rider of the Cosmic Ice.

Sasquatch (Dark Worlds Quarterly): To begin with this piece is going to look at Yeti, Bigfoot and Sasquatch stories in as many mediums as we can squeeze into such a short space. Expressions like “wild men” or the more scientific “cryptid” are repellent to me so I am going to coin my own expression. Let us take the first letter of each Y for Yeti, B for Bigfoot and S for Sasquatch and come up with YBS or “YuBS”, meaning any unexplained natural humanoid between human and ape, usually living in hiding amongst us.

Comic Books (Black Gate): Master of Kung Fu Annual #1 was a reworking of what would have been Giant-Size Master of Kung Fu #5 had Marvel’s short-lived line of quarterly publications not been prematurely discontinued. As it stands it was the only King-Size Annual Marvel published for the series. Marvel Annuals were generally a mixed bag and this is no exception. A few select ones offered truly special longer stories which were a delight for loyal readers, but most were either hurriedly produced or generally disappointing tryouts for aspiring Marvel writers and artists to demonstrate their handling of established properties.

Fantasy Fiction (Matthew J. Constantine): The fifth and final chapter in Taran’s adventures in Prydain, this book brings the various characters and conflicts together for one final big push. Not since The Book of Three has the story felt more like Tolkien, for better or worse. It’s not quite the Battle of Five Armies, but it’s in the ballpark. And the ending…I mean, yeah. It seems pretty familiar. That said, the book is a fitting ending to the story. By this point, Taran is for all intents and purposes a young adult. He’s commanding troops, making decisions, and generally taking charge of situations.

Art (DMR Books): Who was Nicholas Roerich? Many, many things. An explorer, a philosopher, an archaeologist and an artist. His art is what concerns us today. An exhibition of his paintings caught the eye of H.P. Lovecraft. His works are displayed in nearly seventy countries as we speak. The subjects of his paintings ranged far and wide. He painted both the Himalayas and Mohegan, Maine. However, it is his art depicting Russian subjects—plus a few that fit in, regardless—that concern us today.

History (Karavansara): We have seen how the Japanese created a Golen Bat Export brand of cigarettes with extra heroin, specifically for the Chinese market. This plan to get the Chinese smokers hooked on heroin was the brainchild of a man called Kenji Doihara, aka “Lawrence of Manchuria”. And boy was he a Grade A scumbag. Born in 1883, Doihara got out of military academy and covered a number of small-fry positions in the Japanese Army.

Cinema (Karavansara): For the uninitiated, Royal Flash sees our “hero” Harry Flashman (here portrayed by Malcolm McDowell) caught up the plan by Otto Bismark (Oliver Reed) to manipulate the local politics of a minor German state. The plot is basically The Prisoner of Zenda, with Flash Harry forced to take the place of a Danish prince to marry the German Duchess Irma (Britt Ekland). Lola Montez (Florinda Bolkan) has a part in the plot, and Flashy needs to match wits with Bismark’s accomplice, Rudi Von Sternberg (Alan Bates).

Science Fiction (PulpFest): ASTOUNDING STORIES OF SUPER-SCIENCE launched as a Clayton magazine with Harry Bates as editor. Its first issue was dated January 1930. Clayton paid much better rates than AMAZING and WONDER STORIES — two cents a word upon acceptance as opposed to half a cent a word — and drew better-known writers such as Ray Cummings, Murray Leinster, Jack Williamson, and Victor Rousseau. Although the editors’ original intent was to include stories which “forecasted scientific achievements of To-morrow,” in practice the Clayton ASTOUNDING was primarily an action/adventure pulp magazine.

Art (Pulp Flakes): A new exhibition at the Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Leyendecker and the Golden Age of American Illustration, includes 42 original paintings and 101 Saturday Evening Post covers from the National Museum of American Illustration in Newport, Rhode Island, and the American Illustrators Gallery in New York, NY., as well as other materials related to Leyendecker’s work in advertising throughout his five-decade career.

History (Mythic Scribes): From the rogue sellsword to companies of trained soldiers fighting to fill their pockets, the term mercenary can bring a lot of images to mind both from our own history and the fictional worlds we enjoy spending time in. What is the line in the sand that separates the greedy scoundrel from the professional soldier? According to the Encyclopædia Britannica, a mercenary is a “hired professional soldier who fights for any state or nation without regard to political interests or issues.”

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AFC and NFC Pro Bowl roster selections announced

The NFL announced both the AFC and NFC rosters on their official website Tuesday night for the 2018 Pro Bowl, which will be played on Jan. 28 at Camping World Stadium in Orlando, Fla. The players who have an asterisk next to their name got the most votes and were named a starter at their respective positions.

AFC Pro Bowl Roster

Offense:

Quarterback: Tom Brady*, Patriots; Philip Rivers, Chargers; Ben Roethlisberger, Steelers

Running Back: Le’Veon Bell*, Steelers; Kareem Hunt, Chiefs; LeSean McCoy, Bills

Wide Receiver: Antonio Brown*, Steelers; DeAndre Hopkins*, Texans; A.J. Green, Bengals; Keenan Allen, Chargers

Tight End: Travis Kelce*, Chiefs; Rob Gronkowski, Patriots

Fullback: James Develin*, Patriots

Tackle: Alejandro Villanueva*, Steelers; Taylor Lewan*, Titans; Donald Penn, Raiders;

Guard: Kelechi Osemele*, Raiders; David DeCastro*, Steelers; Richie Incognito, Bills

Center: Maurkice Pouncey*, Steelers; Rodney Hudson, Raiders

Defense:

Defense End: Joey Bosa*, Chargers; Calais Campbell*, Jaguars; Khalil Mack, Raiders

Interior Linemen: Geno Atkins*, Bengals; Jurrell Casey*, Titans; Malik Jackson, Jaguars

Outside Linebacker: Von Miller*, Broncos; Jadeveon Clowney*, Texans; Terrell Suggs, Ravens

Inside/Middle Linebacker: C.J. Mosley*, Ravens; Ryan Shazier, Steelers

Cornerback: A.J. Bouye*, Jaguars; Jalen Ramsey*, Jaguars; Aqib Talib, Broncos; Casey Hayward, Chargers

Free Safety: Eric Weddle*, Ravens

Strong Safety: Reshad Jones*, Dolphins; Micah Hyde, Bills

Special Teams:

Punter: Brett Kern*, Titans

Kicker: Chris Boswell*, Steelers

Return Specialist: Tyreek Hill*, Chiefs

Special Teamer: Matthew Slater*, Patriots

NFC Pro Bowl Roster

Offense:

Quarterback: Carson Wentz*, Eagles; Russell Wilson, Seahawks; Drew Brees, Saints

Running Back: Todd Gurley*, Rams; Alvin Kamara, Saints; Mark Ingram, Saints

Wide Receiver: Julio Jones*, Falcons; Adam Thielen*, Vikings; Michael Thomas, Saints; Larry Fitzgerald, Cardinals

Tight End: Zach Ertz*, Eagles; Jimmy Graham, Seahawks

Fullback: Kyle Juszczyk*, 49ers

Tackle: Tyron Smith*, Cowboys; Trent Williams*, Redskins; Lane Johnson, Eagles

Guard: Zack Martin*, Cowboys; Brandon Brooks*, Eagles; Brandon Scherff, Redskins

Center: Alex Mack*, Falcons; Travis Frederick, Cowboys

Defense:

Defensive End: Everson Griffen*, Vikings; Demarcus Lawrence*, Cowboys; Cameron Jordan, Saints

Interior Linemen: Fletcher Cox*, Eagles; Aaron Donald*, Rams; Gerald McCoy, Buccaneers;

Outside Linebacker: Chandler Jones*, Cardinals; Ryan Kerrigan*, Redskins; Anthony Barr, Vikings

Inside/Middle Linebacker: Luke Kuechly*, Panthers; Bobby Wagner, Seahawks

Cornerback: Xavier Rhodes*, Vikings; Patrick Peterson*, Cardinals; Marshon Lattimore, Saints; Darius Slay, Lions

Free Safety: Earl Thomas*, Seahawks

Strong Safety: Landon Collins*, Giants; Malcolm Jenkins, Eagles

Special Teams:

Punter: Johnny Hekker*, Rams

Kicker: Greg Zuerlein*, Rams

Return Specialist: Pharoh Cooper*, Rams

Special Teamer: Budda Baker*, Cardinals

Of course, a handful of these players may not actually play in this season’s Pro Bowl for one of the following reasons: either they are injured, decide not to play for personal reasons or won’t be able to participate because their team will play in Super Bowl LII.

Who do you feel got snubbed this year? Will they be able to make the AFC or NFC roster as an alternate? We’ll have to wait to find out.

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Events 6.26

4 AD – Augustus adopts Tiberius. 221 – Roman emperor Elagabalus adopts his cousin Alexander Severus as his heir and receives the title of Caesar. 363 – Roman emperor Julian is killed during the retreat from the Sasanian Empire. 684 – Pope Benedict II is chosen. 699 – En no Ozuno, a Japanese mystic and apothecary who will later be regarded as the founder of a folk religion Shugendō, is banished to Izu Ōshima. 1243 – Mongols defeat the Seljuk Turks at the Battle of Köse Dağ. 1295 – Przemysł II crowned king of Poland, following Ducal period. The white eagle is added to the Polish coat of arms. 1407 – Ulrich von Jungingen becomes Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights. 1409 – Western Schism: The Roman Catholic Church is led into a double schism as Petros Philargos is crowned Pope Alexander V after the Council of Pisa, joining Pope Gregory XII in Rome and Pope Benedict XII in Avignon. 1460 – Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, and Edward, Earl of March, land in England with a rebel army and march on London. 1483 – Richard III becomes King of England. 1522 – Ottomans begin the second Siege of Rhodes. 1541 – Francisco Pizarro is assassinated in Lima by the son of his former companion and later antagonist, Diego de Almagro the younger. Almagro is later caught and executed. 1579 – Livonian campaign of Stephen Báthory begins. 1718 – Alexei Petrovich, Tsarevich of Russia, Peter the Great's son, mysteriously dies after being sentenced to death by his father for plotting against him. 1723 – After a siege and bombardment by cannon, Baku surrenders to the Russians. 1740 – A combined force of Spanish, free blacks and allied Indians defeat a British garrison at the Siege of Fort Mose near St. Augustine during the War of Jenkins' Ear. 1794 – French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Fleurus marked the first successful military use of aircraft. 1830 – William IV becomes king of Britain and Hanover. 1843 – Treaty of Nanking comes into effect, Hong Kong Island is ceded to the British "in perpetuity". 1848 – End of the June Days Uprising in Paris. 1857 – The first investiture of the Victoria Cross in Hyde Park, London. 1870 – The Christian holiday of Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States. 1886 – Henri Moissan isolated elemental Fluorine for the first time. 1889 – Bangui is founded by Albert Dolisie and Alfred Uzac in what was then the upper reaches of the French Congo. 1906 – The first Grand Prix motor race is held at Le Mans. 1909 – The Science Museum in London comes into existence as an independent entity. 1917 – World War I: The American Expeditionary Forces begin to arrive in France. They will first enter combat four months later. 1918 – World War I: Allied forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord defeat Imperial German forces under Wilhelm, German Crown Prince in the Battle of Belleau Wood. 1924 – The American occupation of the Dominican Republic ends after eight years. 1927 – The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island. 1934 – United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Federal Credit Union Act, which establishes credit unions. 1936 – Initial flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first practical helicopter. 1940 – World War II: Under the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, the Soviet Union presents an ultimatum to Romania requiring it to cede Bessarabia and the northern part of Bukovina. 1941 – World War II: Soviet planes bomb Kassa, Hungary (now Košice, Slovakia), giving Hungary the impetus to declare war the next day. 1942 – The first flight of the Grumman F6F Hellcat. 1944 – World War II: San Marino, a neutral state, is mistakenly bombed by the RAF based on faulty information, leading to 35 civilian deaths. 1944 – World War II: The Battle of Osuchy in Osuchy, Poland, one of the largest battles between Nazi Germany and Polish resistance forces, ends with the defeat of the latter. 1945 – The United Nations Charter is signed by 50 Allied nations in San Francisco, California. 1948 – Cold War: The first supply flights are made in response to the Berlin Blockade. 1948 – William Shockley files the original patent for the grown-junction transistor, the first bipolar junction transistor. 1948 – Shirley Jackson's short story The Lottery is published in The New Yorker magazine. 1952 – The Pan-Malayan Labour Party is founded in Malaya, as a union of statewide labour parties. 1953 – Lavrentiy Beria, head of MVD, is arrested by Nikita Khrushchev and other members of the Politburo. 1955 – The South African Congress Alliance adopts the Freedom Charter at the Congress of the People in Kliptown. 1959 – Swedish boxer Ingemar Johansson becomes world champion of heavy weight boxing, by defeating American Floyd Patterson on technical knockout after two minutes and three seconds in the third round at Yankee Stadium. 1960 – The former British Protectorate of British Somaliland gains its independence as Somaliland. 1960 – Madagascar gains its independence from France. 1963 – Cold War: U.S. President John F. Kennedy gave his "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech, underlining the support of the United States for democratic West Germany shortly after Soviet-supported East Germany erected the Berlin Wall. 1967 – Karol Wojtyła (later John Paul II) made a cardinal by Pope Paul VI. 1974 – The Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley's chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio. 1975 – Two FBI agents and a member of the American Indian Movement are killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota; Leonard Peltier is later convicted of the murders in a controversial trial. 1977 – Elvis Presley held his final concert in Indianapolis, Indiana at Market Square Arena. 1978 – Air Canada Flight 189, flying to Toronto, overruns the runway and crashes into the Etobicoke Creek ravine. Two of the 107 passengers on board perish. 1991 – Yugoslav Wars: The Yugoslav People's Army begins the Ten-Day War in Slovenia. 1995 – Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani deposes his father Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani, the Emir of Qatar, in a bloodless coup d'état. 1997 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Communications Decency Act violates the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. 2000 – The Human Genome Project announces the completion of a "rough draft" sequence. 2003 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Lawrence v. Texas that gender-based sodomy laws are unconstitutional. 2006 – Mari Alkatiri, the first Prime Minister of East Timor, resigns after weeks of political unrest. 2007 – Pope Benedict XVI reinstates the traditional laws of papal election in which a successful candidate must receive two-thirds of the votes. 2008 – A suicide bomber dressed as an Iraqi policeman detonates an explosive vest, killing 25 people. 2012 – The Waldo Canyon fire descends into the Mountain Shadows neighborhood in Colorado Springs burning 347 homes in a matter of hours and killing two people. 2013 – Riots in China's Xinjiang region kill at least 36 people and injure 21 others. 2013 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled, 5–4, that Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional and in violation of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution. 2015 – Five different terrorist attacks in France, Tunisia, Somalia, Kuwait, and Syria occurred on what was dubbed Bloody Friday by international media. Upwards of 750 people were either killed or injured in these uncoordinated attacks. 2015 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled, 5–4, that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marriage under the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution.

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18 states sue to block Trump's cut to Obamacare subsidies

WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Eighteen U.S. states sued President Donald Trump's administration on Friday to stop him from scrapping a key component of Obamacare, subsidies to insurers that help millions of low-income people pay medical expenses, even as Trump invited Democratic leaders to negotiate a deal.

One day after his administration announced plans to end the payments next week, Trump said he would dismantle Obamacare "step by step."

His latest action raised concerns about chaos in insurance markets. The subsidies cost $7 billion this year and were estimated at $10 billion for 2018, according to congressional analysts.

"As far as the subsidies are concerned, I don't want to make the insurance companies rich," Trump told reporters at the White House. "They're making a fortune by getting that kind of money."

Trump's action took aim at a critical element of the 2010 law, his Democratic predecessor Barack Obama's signature domestic policy achievement. Frustrated by the failure of his fellow Republicans who control both houses of Congress to repeal and replace Obamacare, Trump has taken several steps to chip away at it.

Democrats accused Trump of sabotaging the law.

Democratic attorneys general from the 18 states as well as Washington, D.C., filed a lawsuit in federal court in California later on Friday. The states include: California, Connecticut, Delaware, Kentucky, Illinois, Iowa, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia and Washington state.

Reuters

The states will ask the court to force Trump to make the next payment. Legal experts said the states were likely to face an uphill battle in court.

"His effort to gut these subsidies with no warning or even a plan to contain the fallout is breathtakingly reckless," New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said. "This is an effort simply to blow up the system."

The new lawsuit would be separate from a case pending before an appeals court in the District of Columbia in which 16 Democratic state attorneys general are defending the legality of the payments.

If the subsidies vanish, low-income Americans who obtain insurance through Obamacare online marketplaces where insurers can sell policies would face higher insurance premiums and out-of-pocket medical costs. It would particularly hurt lower-middle-class families whose incomes are still too high to qualify for certain government assistance.

About 10 million people are enrolled in Obamacare through its online marketplaces, and most receive subsidies. Trump's action came just weeks before the period starting on Nov. 1 when individuals have to begin enrolling for 2018 insurance coverage through the law's marketplaces.

The administration will not make the next payment to insurers, scheduled for Wednesday, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said.

Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer expressed optimism about chances for a deal with Republicans to continue the subsidy payments.

"We're going to have a very good opportunity to get this done in a bipartisan way" during negotiations in December on broad federal spending legislation, "if we can't get it done sooner," Schumer told reporters.

Trump offered an invitation for Democratic leaders to come to the White House, while also lashing out at them. "We'll negotiate some deal that's good for everybody. But they're always a bloc vote against everything. They're like obstructionists," Trump told reporters.

The Senate failed in both July and September to pass legislation backed by Trump to repeal Obamacare due to opposition by a handful of Republican senators. One of them, Susan Collins, a moderate Republican from Maine who had been contemplating running for governor next year, on Friday said she planned to remain in the Senate and would use her voice in reforming the healthcare system.

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Shares of insurers, hospitals fall

Hospitals, doctors, health insurers, state insurance commissioners and patient advocates decried Trump's move, saying consumers will ultimately pay the price. They called on Congress to appropriate the funds needed to keep up the subsidy payments.

Shares of U.S. hospital companies and health insurers closed down on Friday after the subsidies announcement. Centene Corp closed down 3.3 percent and Molina Healthcare closed down 3.4 percent. Among hospital shares, Tenet Healthcare finished 5.1 percent lower and Community Health Systems declined 4.0 percent.

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has estimated that erasing the subsidies would increase the federal deficit by $194 billion over the next decade because the government still would be obligated under other parts of Obamacare to help lower-income people pay for insurance premiums.

Trump, who as a candidate last year promised to roll back the law formally called the Affordable Care Act, received applause for his latest action during an appearance on Friday before a group of conservative voters.

"It's step by step by step, and that was a very big step yesterday," Trump said. "And one by one, it's going to come down, and we're going to have great healthcare in our country."

Earlier on Twitter he called Obamacare "a broken mess" that is "imploding," and referred to the "pet insurance companies" of Democrats.

Thomson Reuters

Republicans for seven years had vowed to get rid of Obamacare, but deep intra-party divisions have scuttled their efforts to get legislation through the Senate, where they hold a slim majority.

Since taking office in January, Trump threatened many times to cut the subsidies. Health insurers that planned to stay in the Obamacare market prepared for the move in many states by submitting two sets of premium rates to regulators: with and without the subsidies.

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners said the change would drive up premium costs for consumers by at least 12 to 15 percent in 2018 and cut more than $1 billion in payments to insurers for 2017.

The White House announced the cut-off just hours after Trump signed an order intended to allow insurers to sell lower-cost, bare-bones policies with limited benefits and consumer protections.

Republicans have called Obamacare an unnecessary government intrusion into the American healthcare system. Democrats have said the law needs some fixes but noted that it had brought insurance to 20 million people.

(Additional reporting by Lawrence Hurley, Justin Mitchell, Steve Holland, Makini Brice, Jeff Mason and Susan Heavey in Washington, Megan Davies in New York, Brendan O'Brien in Milwaukee, and Divya Grover in Bengaluru; Writing by Will Dunham; Editing by Lisa Von Ahn and Leslie Adler)

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U.S. states sue to block Trump Obamacare subsidies cut

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U.S. states sue to block Trump Obamacare subsidies cut

WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Eighteen U.S. states sued President Donald Trump’s administration on Friday to stop him from scrapping a key component of Obamacare, subsidies to insurers that help millions of low-income people pay medical expenses, even as Trump invited Democratic leaders to negotiate a deal.

One day after his administration announced plans to end the payments next week, Trump said he would dismantle Obamacare “step by step.”

His latest action raised concerns about chaos in insurance markets. The subsidies cost $7 billion this year and were estimated at $10 billion for 2018, according to congressional analysts.

“As far as the subsidies are concerned, I don’t want to make the insurance companies rich,” Trump told reporters at the White House. “They’re making a fortune by getting that kind of money.”

Trump’s action took aim at a critical element of the 2010 law, his Democratic predecessor Barack Obama’s signature domestic policy achievement. Frustrated by the failure of his fellow Republicans who control both houses of Congress to repeal and replace Obamacare, Trump has taken several steps to chip away at it.

Democrats accused Trump of sabotaging the law.

The states will ask the court to force Trump to make the next payment. Legal experts said the states were likely to face an uphill battle in court.

“His effort to gut these subsidies with no warning or even a plan to contain the fallout is breathtakingly reckless,” New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said. “This is an effort simply to blow up the system.”

The new lawsuit would be separate from a case pending before an appeals court in the District of Columbia in which 16 Democratic state attorneys general are defending the legality of the payments.

About 10 million people are enrolled in Obamacare through its online marketplaces, and most receive subsidies. Trump’s action came just weeks before the period starting on Nov. 1 when individuals have to begin enrolling for 2018 insurance coverage through the law’s marketplaces.

The administration will not make the next payment to insurers, scheduled for Wednesday, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said.

Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer expressed optimism about chances for a deal with Republicans to continue the subsidy payments.

U.S. President Donald Trump smiles after signing an Executive Order to make it easier for Americans to buy bare-bone health insurance plans and circumvent Obamacare rules at the White House in Washington, U.S., October 12, 2017. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

“We’re going to have a very good opportunity to get this done in a bipartisan way” during negotiations in December on broad federal spending legislation, “if we can’t get it done sooner,” Schumer told reporters.

Trump offered an invitation for Democratic leaders to come to the White House, while also lashing out at them. “We’ll negotiate some deal that’s good for everybody. But they’re always a bloc vote against everything. They’re like obstructionists,” Trump told reporters.

SHARES OF INSURERS, HOSPITALS FALL

Hospitals, doctors, health insurers, state insurance commissioners and patient advocates decried Trump’s move, saying consumers will ultimately pay the price. They called on Congress to appropriate the funds needed to keep up the subsidy payments.

Shares of U.S. hospital companies and health insurers closed down on Friday after the subsidies announcement. Centene Corp (CNC.N) closed down 3.3 percent and Molina Healthcare (MOH.N) closed down 3.4 percent. Among hospital shares, Tenet Healthcare (THC.N) finished 5.1 percent lower and Community Health Systems (CYH.N) declined 4.0 percent.

“It’s step by step by step, and that was a very big step yesterday,” Trump said. “And one by one, it’s going to come down, and we’re going to have great healthcare in our country.”

Earlier on Twitter he called Obamacare “a broken mess” that is “imploding,” and referred to the “pet insurance companies” of Democrats.

Republicans for seven years had vowed to get rid of Obamacare, but deep intra-party divisions have scuttled their efforts to get legislation through the Senate, where they hold a slim majority.

The White House announced the cut-off just hours after Trump signed an order intended to allow insurers to sell lower-cost, bare-bones policies with limited benefits and consumer protections.

Additional reporting by Lawrence Hurley, Justin Mitchell, Steve Holland, Makini Brice, Jeff Mason and Susan Heavey in Washington, Megan Davies in New York, Brendan O’Brien in Milwaukee, and Divya Grover in Bengaluru; Writing by Will Dunham; Editing by Lisa Von Ahn and Leslie Adler

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