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This expose` is an fascinating look at Joe Biden’s life growing up as a stutterer and the effects this disability had on his life, including in politics. It's long but well worth the read in light of his debate performances being questioned and whether he's up to the challenge of facing off against Trump.

Biden says his father taught him about “shouldering burdens with grace.” Specifically, he told his son, “Never complain. Never explain.”

What Joe Biden Can’t Bring Himself to Say

His verbal stumbles have voters worried about his mental fitness. Maybe they’d be more understanding if they knew he’s still fighting a stutter.

Photography Mark Peckmezian, Story by John Hendrickson

SPECIAL PREVIEW: JAN/FEB 2020 ISSUE

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His eyes fall to the floor when I ask him to describe it. We’ve been tiptoeing toward it for 45 minutes, and so far, every time he seems close, he backs away, or leads us in a new direction. There are competing theories in the press, but Joe Biden has kept mum on the subject. I want to hear him explain it. I ask him to walk me through the night he appeared to lose control of his words onstage.

“I—um—I don’t remember,” Biden says. His voice has that familiar shake, the creak and the croak. “I’d have to see it. I-I-I don’t remember.”

We’re in Biden’s mostly vacant Washington, D.C., campaign office on an overcast Tuesday at the end of the summer. Since entering the Democratic presidential-primary race in April, Biden has largely avoided in-depth interviews. When I first reached out, in late June, his press person was polite but noncommittal: Was an interview really necessary for the story?

Then came the second debate, at the end of July, in Detroit. The first one, a month earlier, had been a disaster for Biden. He was unprepared when Senator Kamala Harris criticized both his past resistance to federally mandated busing and a recent speech in which he’d waxed fondly about collaborating with segregationist senators. Some of his answers that night had been meandering and difficult to parse, feeding into the narrative that he wasn’t just prone to verbal slipups—he’s called himself a “gaffe machine”—but that his age was a problem, that he was confused and out of touch.

Detroit was Biden’s chance to regain control of the narrative. And then something else happened. The candidates were talking about health care. At first, Biden sounded strong, confident, presidential: “My plan makes a limit of co-pay to be One. Thousand. Dollars. Because we—”

He stopped. He pinched his eyes closed. He lifted his hands and thrust them forward, as if trying to pull the missing sound from his mouth. “We f-f-f-f-further support—” He opened his eyes. “The uh-uh-uh-uh—” His chin dipped toward his chest. “The-uh, the ability to buy into the Obamacare plan.” Biden also stumbled when trying to say immune system.

Fox News edited these moments into a mini montage. Stifling laughter, the host Steve Hilton narrated: “As the right words struggled to make that perilous journey from Joe Biden’s brain to Joe Biden’s mouth, half the time he just seemed to give up with this somewhat tragic and limp admission of defeat.”

Several days later, Biden’s team got back in touch with me. One of his aides gingerly asked whether I’d noticed the former vice president stutter during the debate. Of course I had—I stutter, far worse than Biden. The aide said he was ready to talk about it. Last night, after Biden stumbled multiple times during the Atlanta debate, the topic became even more relevant.

“So how are you, man?”

Biden is in his usual white button-down and navy suit, a flag pin on the left lapel. Up close, he looks like he’s lost weight since leaving office in 2017. His height is commanding, but, as he approaches his 77th birthday, he doesn’t fill out his suit jacket like he used to.

I stutter as I begin to ask my first question. “I’ve only … told a few people I’m … d-doing this piece. Every time I … describe it, I get … caught on the w-word-uh stuh-tuh-tuh-tutter.”

“So did I,” Biden replies. “It doesn’t”—he interrupts himself—“can’t define who you are.”

Maybe you’ve heard Biden talk about his boyhood stutter. A non-stutterer might not notice when he appears to get caught on words as an adult, because he usually maneuvers out of those moments quickly and expertly. But on other occasions, like that night in Detroit, Biden’s lingering stutter is hard to miss. He stutters—if slightly—on several sounds as we sit across from each other in his office. Before addressing the debate specifically, I mention what I’ve just heard. “I want to ask you, as, you know, a … stutterer to, uh, to a … stutterer. When you were … talking a couple minutes ago, it, it seemed to … my ear, my eye … did you have … trouble on s? Or on … m?”

Biden looks down. He pivots to the distant past, telling me that the letter s was hard when he was a kid. “But, you know, I haven’t stuttered in so long that it’s hhhhard for me to remember the specific—” He pauses. “What I do remember is the feeling.”

Istarted stuttering at age 4.

I still struggle to say my own name. When I called the gas company recently, the automated voice apologized for not being able to understand me. This happens a lot, so I try to say “representative,” but r’s are tough too. When I reach a human, I’m inevitably asked whether we have a poor connection. Busy bartenders will walk away and serve someone else when I take too long to say the name of a beer. Almost every deli guy chuckles as I fail to enunciate my order, despite the fact that I’ve cut it down to just six words: “Turkey club, white toast, easy mayo.” I used to just point at items on the menu.

My head will shake on a really bad stutter. People have casually asked whether I have Parkinson’s. I curl my toes inside my shoes or tap my foot as a distraction to help me get out of it, a behavior that I’ve repeated so often, it’s become a tic. Sometimes I shuffle a pen between my hands. When I was little, I used to press my palm against my forehead in an effort to force the missing word out of my brain. Back then, my older brother would imitate this motion and the accompanying sound, a dull whine—something between a cow and a sheep. A kid at baseball camp, Michael, referred to me as “Stutter Boy.” He’d snap his fingers and repeat it as if calling a dog. “Stutter Boy! Stutter Boy!” In college, I applied for a job at a coffee shop. I stuttered horribly through the interview, and the owner told me he couldn’t hire me, because he wanted his café to be “a place where customers feel comfortable.”

Stuttering is a neurological disorder that affects roughly 70 million people, about 3 million of whom live in the United States. It has a strong genetic component: Two-thirds of stutterers have a family member who actively stutters or used to. Biden’s uncle on his mother’s side—“Uncle Boo-Boo,” as he was called—stuttered his whole life.

In the most basic sense, a stutter is a repetition, prolongation, or block in producing a sound. It typically presents between the ages of 2 and 4, in up to twice as many boys as girls, who also have a higher recovery rate. During the developmental years, some children’s stutter will disappear completely without intervention or with speech therapy. The longer someone stutters, however, the lower the chances of a full recovery—perhaps due to the decreasing plasticity of the brain. Research suggests that no more than a quarter of people who still stutter at 10 will completely rid themselves of the affliction as adults.

“Mr. Buh-Buh-Buh-Biden, what’s that word?,” a nun asked Joe Biden in front of his seventh-grade classmates.

The cultural perception of stutterers is that they’re fearful, anxious people, or simply dumb, and that stuttering is the result. But it doesn’t work like that. Let’s say you’re in fourth grade and you have to stand up and recite state capitals. You know that Juneau is the capital of Alaska, but you also know that you almost always block on the j sound. You become intensely anxious not because you don’t know the answer, but because you do know the answer, and you know you’re going to stutter on it.

Stuttering can feel like a series of betrayals. Your body betrays you when it refuses to work in concert with your brain to produce smooth speech. Your brain betrays you when it fails to recall the solutions you practiced after school with a speech therapist, allegedly in private, later learning that your mom was on the other side of a mirror, watching in the dark like a detective. If you’re a lucky stutterer, you have friends and family who build you back up, but sometimes your protectors betray you too.

A Catholic nun betrayed Biden when he was in seventh grade. “I think I was No. 5 in alphabetical order,” Biden says. He points over my right shoulder and stares into the middle distance as the movie rolls in his mind. “We’d sit along the radiators by the window.”

The office we’re in is awash in framed memories: Biden and his family, Biden and Barack Obama, Biden in a denim shirt posing for InStyle. The shelf behind the desk features, among other books, Jon Meacham’s The Soul of America. It’s a phrase Biden has adopted for his campaign this time around, his third attempt at the presidency. In almost every speech, Biden warns potential voters that 2020 is not merely an election, but a battle “for the soul of America.” Sometimes he swaps in nation.

But now we’re back in middle school. The students are taking turns reading a book, one by one, up and down the rows. “I could count down how many paragraphs, and I’d memorize it, because I found it easier to memorize than look at the page and read the word. I’d pretend to be reading,” Biden says. “You learned early on who the hell the bullies were,” he tells me later. “You could tell by the look, couldn’t you?”

For most stutterers, reading out loud summons peak dread. A chunk of text that may take a fluent person roughly a minute to read could take a stutterer five or 10 times as long. Four kids away, three kids away. Your shoulders tighten. Two away. The back of your neck catches fire. One away. Then it happens, and the room fills with secondhand embarrassment. Someone breathes a heavy sigh. Someone else laughs. At least one kid mimics your stutter while you’re actively stuttering. You never talk about it. At night, you stare at the ceiling above your bed, reliving it.

“The paragraph I had to read was: ‘Sir Walter Raleigh was a gentleman. He laid his cloak upon the muddy road suh-suh-so the lady wouldn’t soil her shoes when she entered the carriage,’ ” Biden tells me, slightly and unintentionally tripping up on the word so. “And I said, ‘Sir Walter Raleigh was a gentle man who—’ and then the nun said, ‘Mr. Biden, what is that word?’ And it was gentleman that she wanted me to say, not gentle man. And she said, ‘Mr. Buh-Buh-Buh-Biden, what’s that word?’ ”

Biden says he rose from his desk and left the classroom in protest, then walked home. The family story is that his mother, Jean, drove him back to school and confronted the nun with the made-for-TV phrase “You do that again, I’ll knock your bonnet off your head!” I ask Biden what went through his mind as the nun mocked him.

“Anger, rage, humiliation,” he says. His speech becomes staccato. “A feeling of, uh—like I’m sure you’ve experienced—it just drops out of your chest, just, like, you feel … a void.” He lifts his hands up to his face like he did on the debate stage in July, to guide the v sound out of his mouth: void.

By all accounts, Biden was both popular and a strong athlete in high school. He was class president at Archmere Academy, in Claymont, Delaware. His nickname was “Dash”—not a reference to his speed on the football field, but rather another way to mock his stutter. “It was like Morse code—dot dot dot, dash dash dash dash,” Biden says. “Even though by that time I started to overcome it.”

I ask him to expand on the relationship between anger and humiliation, or shame.

“Shame is a big piece of it,” he says, then segues into a story about meeting a stutterer while campaigning.

I bring it back up a little later, this time more directly: “When have you felt shame?”

“Not for a long, long, long time. But especially when I was in grade school and high school. Because that’s the time when everything is, you know, it’s rough. They talk about ‘mean girls’? There’s mean boys, too.”

Bill Bowden had the locker next to Biden’s at Archmere. I called Bowden recently. “It was just kind of a funny thing, you know?” he told me. “Hopefully he wasn’t hurt by it.” Bob Markel, another high-school buddy of Biden’s, went a little further when we spoke: “ ‘H-H-H-H-Hey, J-J-J-J-J-Joe B-B-B-B-Biden’—that’s how he’d be addressed.” Markel said the Archmere guys called him “Stutterhead,” or “Hey, Stut !” for short. He fears that he himself may have made fun of Biden once or twice. “I never remember him being offended. He probably was,” Markel said. “I think one of his coping mechanisms was to not show it.” Bowden and Markel have remained friends with Biden to this day.

Before collecting from customers on his paper route, Biden would preplay conversations in his mind, banking lines—a tactic he still sometimes uses on the campaign trail, he says. “I knew the one guy loved the Phillies. And he’d asked me about them all the time. And I knew another person would ask me about my sister, so I would practice an answer.”

After trying and failing at speech therapy in kindergarten, Biden waged a personal war on his stutter in his bedroom as a young teen. He’d hold a flashlight to his face in front of his bedroom mirror and recite Yeats and Emerson with attention to rhythm, searching for that elusive control. He still knows the lines by heart: “Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views, which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries, when they wrote these books.”

Biden performs the passage for me with total fluency, knowing where and when to pause, knowing how many words he can say before needing a breath. This is what stutterers learn to do: reclaim control of their airflow; think in full phrases, not individual words. I ask Biden what his moment of dread used to be in that essay.

“Well, looking back on it, ‘Meek young men grow up in li-li-libraries,’ ” he begins again. “ ‘Li’—the l.”

“That kind of sound, the l sound, is like the … r sound,” I say.

“Yes.”

“Sometimes I’ve noticed, watching old clips, it looks like you do have a little trouble on the r. It’s your middle initial.”

“Yeah.”

“Like ‘ruh-ruh-ruh-remember,’ ” I say, intentionally stuttering on the r.

“Well, I may. I-I-I-I-I haven’t thought I have. But I-I-I-I don’t doubt there’s probably ways people could pick up that there’s something. But I don’t consciously think of it anymore.”

Biden says he hasn’t felt himself caught in a traditional stutter in several decades. “I mean, I can’t remember a time where I’ve ever worried before a crowd of 80,000 people or 800 people or 80 people—I haven’t had that feeling of dread since, I guess, speech class in college,” he says, referring to an undergraduate public-speaking course at the University of Delaware.

This is when I ask him what happened that night in Detroit.

After saying he doesn’t remember, Biden opines: “I’m everybody’s target; they have to take me down. And so, what I found is—not anymore—I’ve found that it’s difficult to deal with some of the criticism, based on the nature of the person directing the criticism. It’s awful hard to be, to respond the same way in a national debate—especially when you’re, you know, the guy who is characterized as the white-guy-of-privilege kind of thing—to turn and say to someone who says, ‘I’m not saying you’re a racist, but …’ and know you’re being set up. So I have to admit to you, I found my mind going, What the hell? How do I respond to that? Because I know she’s being completely unfair.”

I eventually realize that he’s describing the moment from the first debate, when Harris criticized his record on race.

“These aren’t debates,” he continues. “These are one-minute assertions. And I don’t think there’s anybody who hasn’t been taking shots at me, which is okay. I’m a big boy, don’t get me wrong.”

Listening back to that part of the conversation after our interview made me feel dizzy. I can only speculate as to why Biden’s campaign agreed to this interview, but I assume the reasoning went something like this: If Biden disclosed to me, a person who stutters, that he himself still actively stutters, perhaps voters would cut him some slack when it comes to verbal misfires, as well as errors that seem more related to memory and cognition. But whenever I asked Biden about what appeared to be his present-day stuttering, the notably verbose candidate became clipped, or said he didn’t remember, or spun off to somewhere new.

I wondered if I reminded Biden of his old self, a ghost from his youth, the stutterer he used to be. He and I are about the same height. We happened to be wearing the exact same outfit that day: navy suit, white shirt, no tie. We both went to all-male prep schools, the sort of place where displaying any weakness is a liability.

As I listened to the recording of our interview, I remembered how I used to respond when people asked me about my stutter. I’d shut down. I’d try to change the subject. I’d almost always look away.

In early september, I got in touch with my high-school speech pathologist, Joseph Donaher, who practices at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. I hadn’t heard Donaher’s voice for almost 15 years. Immediately, I was transported back to the little windowless room in the hospital where we used to meet. Donaher was the first therapist—really the first person—who ever leveled with me. I can still see his face, the neutrality in his eyes on the day he looked at me square and said the sentence my friends and parents had avoided saying my entire life: You have a severe stutter.

Donaher and his colleagues try to help their patients open up about the shame and low self-worth that accompany stuttering. Instead of focusing solely on mechanics, or on the ability to communicate, they first build up the desire to communicate at all. They then share techniques such as elongating vowels and lightly approaching hard-consonant clusters, meaning just touching on the first sound in a word like stutter—the st—to keep the mouth and throat from tensing up and interfering with speech. The goal isn’t to be totally fluent but, simply put, to stutter better.

This evolution in treatment has been accompanied by a new movement to destigmatize the disorder, similar to the drive to view autism through a lens of “neurodiversity” rather than as a pathology. The idea is to accept, even embrace, one’s stutter. There are practical reasons for this: Research shows, according to Donaher, that the simple disclosure “I stutter” benefits both the stutterer and the listener—the former gets to explain what’s happening and ease the awkward tension so the latter isn’t stuck wondering what’s “wrong” with this person. Saying those two words is harder than it seems. “I’m working with people who spend their whole lives and are never able to disclose it,” Donaher told me.

Biden says his father taught him about “shouldering burdens with grace.” Specifically, he told his son, “Never complain. Never explain.”

Eric S. Jackson, an assistant professor of communicative sciences and disorders at NYU, told me he believes that Biden’s eye movements—the blinks, the downward glances—are part of his ongoing efforts to manage his stutter. “As kids we figure out: Oh, if I move parts of my body not associated with the speech system, sometimes it helps me get through these blocks faster,” Jackson, a stutterer himself, explained. Jackson credits an intensive program at the American Institute for Stuttering, in Manhattan, with bringing him back from a “rock bottom” period in his mid-20s, when he says his stutter kept him from meeting women or speaking up enough to reach his professional goals. Afterward, Jackson went all in on disclosure: Every day for six months, he stood up during the subway ride to and from work and announced that he was a person who stutters. “I had this new relationship with my stuttering—I was like Hercules,” he told me. At 41, Jackson still stutters, but in conversation he confidently maintains eye contact and appears relaxed. He wishes Biden would be more transparent about his intermittent disfluency. “Running for president is essentially the biggest stage in the world. For him to come out and say ‘I still stutter and it’s fine’ would be an amazing, empowering message.”

Occasionally, Biden has used present-tense verbs when discussing his stutter. “I find myself, when I’m tired, cuh-cuh-catching myself, like that,” he said during a 2016 American Institute for Stuttering speech. Biden has used the phrase we stutterers at times, but in most public appearances and interviews, Biden talks about how he overcame his speech problem, and how he believes others can too. You can watch videos posted by his campaign in which Biden meets young stutterers and encourages them to follow his lead. They’re sweet clips, even if the underlying message—beat it or bust—is out of sync with the normalization movement.

Emma Alpern is a 32-year-old copy editor who co-leads the Brooklyn chapter of the National Stuttering Association and co-founded NYC Stutters, which puts on a day-long conference for stuttering destigmatization. Alpern told me that she’s on a group text with other stutterers who regularly discuss Biden, and that it’s been “frustrating” to watch the media portray Biden’s speech impediment as a sign of mental decline or dishonesty. “Biden allows that to happen by not naming it for what it is,” she said, though she’s not sure that his presidential candidacy would benefit if he were more forthcoming. “I think he’s dug himself into a hole of not saying that he still stutters for so long that it would strike people as a little weird.”

Biden has presented the same life story for decades. He’s that familiar face—Uncle Joe. He was born 11 months after Pearl Harbor and grew up in the last era of definitive “good guys” and “bad guys.” He’s the dependable guy, the tenacious guy, the aviators-and-crossed-arms guy. That guy doesn’t stutter; that guy used to stutter.

“My dad taught me the value of constancy, effort, and work, and he taught me about shouldering burdens with grace,” Biden writes in the first chapter of his 2007 memoir, Promises to Keep. “He used to quote Benjamin Disraeli: ‘Never complain. Never explain.’ ”

Stephen colbert launches across the Ed Sullivan Theater stage, as if from a pinball spring. It’s early September, and his Late Show taping is about to begin. To warm up, he takes a few questions from the studio audience. Someone asks what he’d want in a potential new president. “Empathy?” Colbert deadpans. “A soul?”

Colbert tapes in Midtown Manhattan on the same stage where the Beatles made their American television debut 55 years ago, when Joe Biden was a mere 22. Biden struts out to a standing ovation and throws up his hands in amazement: For me? A brief “Joe! Joe! Joe!” chant erupts.

At first, Colbert lobs softballs, and Biden touches on the key parts of his 2020 stump speech: Why voters must stand up to the existential threat of Trumpism and how the Charlottesville, Virginia, white-supremacist rally crystallized his decision to run. Then Colbert goes for it.

“In the last few weeks, you’ve confused New Hampshire for Vermont; said

Bobby Kennedy and MLK were assassinated in the late ’70s; assured us, ‘I am not going nuts.’ Follow-up question: Are you going nuts?”

“Look, the reason I came on the Jimmy Kimmel show was because—”

The audience howls. Biden flashes a flirty smile. Colbert adjusts his glasses, sticks his pen in his mouth, and nods in approval. The joke was probably canned, but Biden landed it.

Colbert continues to press him about accuracy issues in his storytelling. The studio audience is silent; I’m watching from the balcony and can hear the theater’s air-conditioning humming overhead.

“I-I-I-I-I don’t get wrong things like, uh, ya know, there is a, we, we should lock kids up in cages at the border. I mean, I don’t—” People applaud before Biden can finish.

When the interview is over, Biden receives a second standing ovation. He peers up toward the rafters, using his hand as a visor against the bright lights. A white spotlight follows him offstage. Several minutes later, he glides through the stage door and out onto West 53rd Street. People call to him from the sidewalk. “Joe! Joe Biden!” He climbs into the back of an idling black SUV, and the doors

clunk close.

I follow Biden for a couple of days while he campaigns in New Hampshire. His town halls have a distinctly Norman Rockwell vibe. One takes place in the middle of the day on the third floor of a former textile mill, another on a stretch of grass as the wind whips off the Piscataqua River. His crowds are predominantly older, filled with people who stand for the Pledge of Allegiance and wait patiently to ask questions. After he speaks, Biden typically walks offstage to Bruce Springsteen’s “We Take Care of Our Own,” then saunters down the rope line for handshakes and hugs and selfies. One voter after another tells me they’re unaware of Biden’s stutter. “Knowing that he has had something like that to deal with and overcame it, as well as other really sad things that have happened—it just makes me like him more,” says 70-year-old Grace Payne.

Back in New York, I start to wonder if I’m forcing Biden into a box where he doesn’t belong. My box. Could I be jealous that his present stutter is less obvious than mine? That he can go sentences at a time without a single block or repetition? Even the way I’m writing this piece—keeping Biden’s stammers, his ums and pauses, on the page—seems hypocritical. Here I am highlighting the glitches in his speech, when the journalistic courtesy, convention even, is to edit them out.

I spend weeks watching Biden more than listening to him, trying to “catch him in the act” of stuttering on camera. There’s one. There’s one. That was a bad one. Also, I start stuttering more.

In September, before the third Democratic debate, in Houston, I called Michael Sheehan, a Washington, D.C.–area communications coach whose company website boasts clients ranging from Nike to the Treasury Department. Sheehan worked with President Bill Clinton while he was in office and began consulting on and off for Biden in 2002, when he was in the Senate. On the day we spoke, he was in Wilmington, Delaware, doing debate prep with Biden.

Sheehan and I traded stories of daily indignities—he stutters too. “I remember exactly where the deli was; it was on 71st and First Avenue,” he said with an ache in his voice. He lamented the interventionists, the people who volunteer, “ ‘You know, why don’t you speak more slowly?’ I always want to say ‘Holy shit! Why didn’t I think of that? Thank you!’ ”

Sheehan’s own stutter improved, but didn’t fully go away, when he took up speech and debate in high school. This eventually led him to the theater, which is a common, if surprising, place where some stutterers find that they’re able to speak with relative ease. Taking on a character, another voice, the theory goes, relies on a different neural pathway from the one used in conversation. Many successful actors have battled stutters—Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt, James Earl Jones. In 2014, Jones, whose muscular baritone is the bedrock of one of the most quoted lines in film history, told NPR that he doesn’t use the word cured to describe his apparent fluency. “I just work with it,” he said.

At an August town hall, Biden briefly blocked on Obama, before subbing in my boss. The headlines afterward? “Biden Forgets Obama’s Name.”

Sheehan was extremely careful with the language he used to describe Biden’s speech patterns—“I can’t say it’s a stutter”—though he noted his friend’s habit of abruptly changing directions mid-sentence. “I do hear those little pauses, but I really don’t hear the stuff that you would hear from me or I would hear from you,” he said. A few minutes into our conversation, he choked up while discussing Biden’s tenderness toward young stutterers. “Sometimes I feel when he goes a little long on a speech, he’s just making up for lost time, you know?”

Sheehan told me about a night when he came home with his wife and saw the answering-machine light blinking: “Hey, Michael, it’s Joe Biden. I just was watching The King’s Speech with my granddaughter, and I just thought I’d give you a call, because it made me think of you. Goodbye!” He says the message felt like a secret fraternity handshake: “You and I have both been there, and only people in that society know what that is about.”

In Biden’s office, the first time I bring up his current stuttering, he asks me whether I’ve seen The King’s Speech. He speaks almost mystically about the award-winning 2010 film. “When King George VI, when he stood up in 1939, everyone knew he stuttered, and they knew what courage it took for him to stand up at that stadium and try to speak—and it gave them courage … I could feel that. It was that sinking feeling, like—oh my God, I remember how you felt. You feel like, I don’t know … almost like you’re being sucked into a black hole.”

Presidential candidates usually don’t speak about their bleakest moments, certainly not this viscerally. It resembles the way Biden writes in his memoir about the aftermath of the 1972 car accident that killed his first wife and young daughter and critically injured his two sons, Beau and Hunter: “I could not speak, only felt this hollow core grow in my chest, like I was going to be sucked inside a black hole.”

A few weeks later, I ask Jill Biden what she remembers about sitting next to her husband during the movie. “It was one of those moments in a marriage where you just sort of understand without words being spoken,” she says.

As he watched The King’s Speech, Biden accurately guessed that the screenwriter, David Seidler, was a stutterer. “He showed me a copy of a speech they found in an attic that the king had actually used, where he marks his—it’s exactly what I do!” Biden tells me, his voice lifting. “My staff, when I have them put something on a prompter—I wish I had something to show you.”

He pulls out a legal pad and begins drawing diagonal lines a few inches apart, as if diagramming invisible sentences: x words, breath, y words, breath. “Because it’s just the way I have—the, the best way for me to read a, um, a speech. I mean, when I saw The King’s Speech, and the speech—I didn’t know anybody who did that!”

Biden is running for president on a simple message: America is not Trump. I’m not Trump. I’ll lead us out of this. With every new debate, with every new “gaffe,” the media continue to ask whether Biden has the stamina for the job. And with every passing month, his competitors—namely Senator Elizabeth Warren and South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg—have gained on him in the polls.

A stutter does not get worse as a person ages, but trying to keep it at bay can take immense physical and mental energy. Biden talks all day to audiences both small and large. In addition to periodically stuttering or blocking on certain sounds, he appears to intentionally not stutter by switching to an alternative word—a technique called “circumlocution”—which can yield mangled syntax. I’ve been following practically everything he’s said for months now, and sometimes what is quickly characterized as a memory lapse is indeed a stutter. As Eric Jackson, the speech pathologist, pointed out to me, during a town hall in August Biden briefly blocked on Obama, before quickly subbing in my boss. The headlines after the event? “Biden Forgets Obama’s Name.” Other times when Biden fudges a detail or loses his train of thought, it seems unrelated to stuttering, like he’s just making a mistake. The kind of mistake other candidates make too, though less frequently than he does.

During his 2016 address at the American Institute for Stuttering, Biden told the room that he’d turned down an invitation to speak at a dinner organized by the group years earlier. “I was afraid if people knew I stuttered,” he said, “they would have thought something was wrong with me.”

Yet even when sharing these old, hard stories, Biden regularly characterizes stuttering as “the best thing that ever happened” to him. “Stuttering gave me an insight I don’t think I ever would have had into other people’s pain,” he says. I admire his empathy, even if I disagree with his strict adherence to a tidy redemption narrative.

In Biden’s office, as my time is about to run out, I bring up the fact that Trump crudely mocked a disabled New York Times reporter during the 2016 campaign. “So far, he’s called you ‘Sleepy Joe.’ Is ‘St-St-St-Stuttering Joe’ next?”

“I don’t think so,” Biden says, “because if you ask the polls ‘Does Biden stutter? Has he ever stuttered?,’ you’d have 80 to 95 percent of people say no.” If Trump goes there, Biden adds, “it’ll just expose him for what he is.”

I ask Biden something else we’ve been circling: whether he worries that people would pity him if they thought he still stuttered.

He scratches his chin, his fingers trembling slightly. “Well, I guess, um, it’s kind of hard to pity a vice president. It’s kind of hard to pity a senator who’s gotten six zillion awards. It’s kind of hard to pity someone who has had, you know, a decent family. I-I-I-I don’t think if, now, if someone sits and says, ‘Well, you know, the kid, when he was a stutterer, he must have been really basically stupid,’ I-I-I don’t think it’s hard to—I’ve never thought of that. I mean, there’s nobody in the last, I don’t know, 55 years, has ever said anything like that to me.”

He slips back into politician mode, safe mode, Uncle Joe mode: “I hope what they see is: Be mindful of people who are in situations where their difficulties do not define their character, their intellect. Because that’s what I tell stutterers. You can’t let it define you.” He leans across the desk. “And you haven’t.” He’s in my face now. “You can’t let it define you. You’re a really bright guy.”

He’s telling me, in essence, that my stutter doesn’t matter, which is what I want to tell him right back. But here’s the thing: Most of the time, Biden speaks smoothly, and perhaps he sincerely does not believe that he still stutters at all. Or maybe Biden is simply telling me the story he’s told himself for several decades, the one he’s memorized, the one he can comfortably express. I don’t want to hear Biden say “I still stutter” to prove some grand point; I want to hear him say it because doing so as a presidential candidate would mean that stuttering truly doesn’t matter—for him, for me, or for our 10-year-old selves.

Now his aide is knocking, trying to get him out of the room. I push out one more question, asking what he saw reflected in that bedroom mirror as a kid.

He goes off into a different boyhood story about standing against a stone wall and talking with pebbles in his mouth, some oddball way to MacGyver fluency. I do the thing stutterers hate most: I cut him off. “What did that person look like?”

Biden stops. “He looked happy,” he says. “You know, I just think it looked like he’s

in control.”

This article will appear in the January/February 2020 print edition with the headline “Why Won’t He Just Say It?”

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#PHnews: 19.7K applicants take PNPA qualifying exam

MANILA – Close to 20,000 applicants took the qualifying examination of the Philippine National Police Academy (PNPA).

Citing PNPA data released on Tuesday, PNP chief Gen. Debold Sinas said that out of 25,811 registered applicants for the PNPA Cadet Admission Test, a total of 11,903 applicants took the exam on its first day on March 7 while there were 7,857 examinees on the second day on Monday.

This resulted in a total of 19,760 applicants who actually took the exam or 76.55 percent of the total number of applicants.

Sinas said the PNPA does not prescribe a passing grade but a cut-off of the top 1,000 applicants with the highest scores will be required to undergo physical and mental screening before they can be admitted for training.

"As they say, many are called but few are chosen. To those who will pass the exam, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to avail themselves of free education and become a law enforcer. I hope that the lucky applicants will do their best towards taking their oath and be among government scholars receiving pay at the same time," Sinas said.

Qualified cadets will become full scholars of the government for four years and will get to enjoy several privileges that will include free lodging and food and at least PHP38,000 in monthly pay and allowances.

Graduates of PNPA are appointed to the initial rank of Police Lieutenant in the PNP or Inspector in the Bureau of Fire Protection and the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology. (PNA)

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References:

* Philippine News Agency. "19.7K applicants take PNPA qualifying exam." Philippine News Agency. https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1133020 (accessed March 10, 2021 at 12:20AM UTC+14).

* Philippine News Agency. "19.7K applicants take PNPA qualifying exam." Archive Today. https://archive.ph/?run=1&url=https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1133020 (archived).

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MyBeliefWorks™ for Inspiring and Igniting Your Creative Spark Great for artists, healers/empaths, musicians, writers, performers, actors etc…

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LIVE Appearances - Free Healing

TODAY August 5th - 4pm ET - Spiritual Insights with host Charlotte Spicer Listen Here Online - Taking LIVE callers for readings and messages ☎️ (347) 934-0751

The Jimmy Mack Healing Show

Yesterday's Show - Special Guest Psychic Joanne Leo | https://psychicjoanneleo.com/ Watch the replay here!

UPCOMING GUESTS FOR AUGUST

August 11th – Kevin Lee | Certified Spiritual Medium http://revkevinlee.com/about-kevin/

August 18th– Jeremy Riden | Divine Spark Ministries https://www.facebook.com/JeremyRiden/

August 25th Rev Debbie | Our resident trans medium communications with your loved ones in spirit. Visit her Facebook page

Receive 24/7 Prayers from Jimmy

The 30-day service is now being offered exclusively and you also have the option of selecting an ongoing subscription ($95/month) which is managed through PayPal only.

Tampa Office Sessions

FRIDAY AUGUST 14th at

SWANN HOLISTIC HEALTH SOLUTIONS

Jimmy Mack will be offering sessions at Dr. Charla Tempone’s NEW office at Swann Holistic Health Solutions from 10-4 on Friday August 14th.

NEW OFFICE LOCATION! 403 S. Habana Ave. Tampa, FL 33609 Just south of Azeele next to Skin Savvy http://www.ctholisticsolutions.com

Please call their office directly at ☎️ (813) 873-7773 in order to get on the schedule for 15-minutes $38 or 30-minutes $68. If you’re new to working with me, I suggest you schedule 30 minutes.

FRIDAY KODAWARI YOGA STUDIOS

Go deep sea "fishing" with Jimmy!

Level 1 is open to ANYONE at anytime! Click here to watch the Mastery video playlist

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TODAY August 5th - 4pm ET - Spiritual Insights with host Charlotte Spicer Listen Here Online - Taking LIVE callers for readings and messages ☎️ (347) 934-0751

The Jimmy Mack Healing Show

Yesterday's Show - Special Guest Psychic Joanne Leo | https://psychicjoanneleo.com/ Watch the replay here!

UPCOMING GUESTS FOR AUGUST

August 11th – Kevin Lee | Certified Spiritual Medium http://revkevinlee.com/about-kevin/

August 18th– Jeremy Riden | Divine Spark Ministries https://www.facebook.com/JeremyRiden/

August 25th Rev Debbie | Our resident trans medium communications with your loved ones in spirit. Visit her Facebook page

Receive 24/7 Prayers from Jimmy

The 30-day service is now being offered exclusively and you also have the option of selecting an ongoing subscription ($95/month) which is managed through PayPal only.

Tampa Office Sessions

FRIDAY AUGUST 14th at

SWANN HOLISTIC HEALTH SOLUTIONS

Jimmy Mack will be offering sessions at Dr. Charla Tempone’s NEW office at Swann Holistic Health Solutions from 10-4 on Friday August 14th.

NEW OFFICE LOCATION! 403 S. Habana Ave. Tampa, FL 33609 Just south of Azeele next to Skin Savvy http://www.ctholisticsolutions.com

Please call their office directly at ☎️ (813) 873-7773 in order to get on the schedule for 15-minutes $38 or 30-minutes $68. If you’re new to working with me, I suggest you schedule 30 minutes.

FRIDAY KODAWARI YOGA STUDIOS

Go deep sea "fishing" with Jimmy!

Level 1 is open to ANYONE at anytime! Click here to watch the Mastery video playlist

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TGIWednesday ... and igniting and inspiring your creative energy!

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Get It Here

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Fish Food

The Daily Bread To Feed The Fish

Tell The Fish: 365 Daily Inspirations & Affirmations

LIVE Appearances - Free Healing

TODAY August 5th - 4pm ET - Spiritual Insights with host Charlotte Spicer Listen Here Online - Taking LIVE callers for readings and messages ☎️ (347) 934-0751

The Jimmy Mack Healing Show

Yesterday's Show - Special Guest Psychic Joanne Leo | https://psychicjoanneleo.com/ Watch the replay here!

UPCOMING GUESTS FOR AUGUST

August 11th – Kevin Lee | Certified Spiritual Medium http://revkevinlee.com/about-kevin/

August 18th– Jeremy Riden | Divine Spark Ministries https://www.facebook.com/JeremyRiden/

August 25th Rev Debbie | Our resident trans medium communications with your loved ones in spirit. Visit her Facebook page

Receive 24/7 Prayers from Jimmy

The 30-day service is now being offered exclusively and you also have the option of selecting an ongoing subscription ($95/month) which is managed through PayPal only.

Tampa Office Sessions

FRIDAY AUGUST 14th at

SWANN HOLISTIC HEALTH SOLUTIONS

Jimmy Mack will be offering sessions at Dr. Charla Tempone’s NEW office at Swann Holistic Health Solutions from 10-4 on Friday August 14th.

NEW OFFICE LOCATION! 403 S. Habana Ave. Tampa, FL 33609 Just south of Azeele next to Skin Savvy http://www.ctholisticsolutions.com

Please call their office directly at ☎️ (813) 873-7773 in order to get on the schedule for 15-minutes $38 or 30-minutes $68. If you’re new to working with me, I suggest you schedule 30 minutes.

FRIDAY KODAWARI YOGA STUDIOS

Go deep sea "fishing" with Jimmy!

Level 1 is open to ANYONE at anytime! Click here to watch the Mastery video playlist

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The Full Strawberry Moon, Summer Starts, Mercury and Mars Smooch, and a Look at Ophiuchus!

(Above: The proper motion of Barnard’s Star through the stars of Ophiuchus was captured over 9 years, from 2007 to 2015, in this composite image by Rick Johnson.)

Happy Father’s Day, Stargazers!

Here are your Astronomy Skylights for the week of June 16th, 2019 by Chris Vaughan. Feel free to pass this along to your friends and send me your comments, questions, and suggested topics. I repost these emails with photos at http://astrogeoguy.tumblr.com/ where all the old editions are archived. You can also follow me on Twitter as @astrogeoguy! Unless otherwise noted, all times are Eastern Time. Please click this MailChimp link to subscribe to these emails. If you are a teacher or group leader interested joining me on a guided field trip to York University’s Allan I. Carswell Observatory or the David Dunlap Observatory, visit www.astrogeo.ca.

I can bring my Digital Starlab inflatable planetarium to your school or other daytime or evening event. Contact me, and we’ll tour the Universe together!

Public Astro-Events

At 7:30 pm on Wednesday, June 19, the RASC Toronto Centre will hold their free monthly Recreational Astronomy Night Meeting at the Ontario Science Centre, and the public are welcome. Talks include The Sky This Month, a do-it-yourself telescope project, and a talk about Apollo 11. These meetings are also streamed live on RASC-TC’s YouTube channel. Check here for details. Parking is free.

Every Monday evening, York University’s Allan I. Carswell Observatory runs an online star party - broadcasting views from four telescopes/cameras, answering viewer questions, and taking requests! Details are here. On Wednesday nights they offer free public viewing through their rooftop telescopes. If it’s cloudy, the astronomers give tours and presentations. Details are here.

On Friday, June 21, starting at 7 pm, U of T’s AstroTour will present their planetarium show Grand Tour of the Cosmos. Find tickets and details here.

On Friday, June 21 at 8 pm at University of Toronto Mississauga in the William Davis Building, RASC Mississauga will present a free lecture by filmmaker and Apollo historian Ben Feist entitled Apollo 11 - bringing the Apollo program to a new generation. Details are here.

The next RASC Family Night at the David Dunlap Observatory will be on Saturday, June 22. There will be sky tours in the Skylab planetarium room, space crafts, a tour of the giant 74” telescope, and viewing through lawn telescopes (weather permitting). The doors will open at 8:30 pm for a 9 pm start. Attendance is by tickets only, available here. If you are a RASC Toronto Centre member and wish to help us at DDO in the future, please fill out the volunteer form here. And to join RASC Toronto Centre, visit this page.

On Sunday, June 23, from 12:30 to 3 pm, the Ontario Science Centre will host free a Spotlight on Women in Science. Gather the budding science enthusiasts in your family and head over to meet some dynamic and interesting female scientists, educators, and astronaut candidates. I know some of them, and they are terrific! Details are here.

The Solstice starts the Northern Summer

The beginning of summer for the Northern Hemisphere, known as the Summer Solstice, occurs on Friday, June 21 at 11:54 am Eastern Daylight Time. At that moment, the northern end of Earth’s axis of rotation will be tilted 23.5° towards the sun. As a result, the Sun will reach its highest noonday position in our sky for the year. Sunlight will shine more intensely on the Northern Hemisphere, and deliver our longest amount of daylight. More hours of concentrated, direct sunlight translates to more solar energy and warmer days! It is NOT the case, as some people think, that we are warmer because we are closer to the Sun – that event, called perihelion, actually happens in early January every year! As a matter of fact, the Earth is only two weeks away from reaching its widest separation from the sun, or aphelion for this year. That occurs on July 4.

For our friends in the southern hemisphere, this solstice signals the sun’s lowest noon-time height for the year, and marks the start of their winter. The summer solstice is good news for astronomers - after Friday, the days will slowly start to get shorter while the nights lengthen.

The Moon and Planets

The June full moon will light up our skies worldwide to open the week - then it will pass the baton back to Jupiter, the father of the planets. (See what I did there?) Here are the Skylights!

Tonight (Sunday), the moon will land to Jupiter’s lower left. Notice the relative positions of those two objects while they are over the eastern horizon, and compare that to the way they look hours later. The moon will move steadily farther from Jupiter through the night. And, because Earth’s rotation causes constellations and planets to flip by 180 degrees as they cross the sky from east to west, the moon will end the night higher than Jupiter.

The June full moon, colloquially known as the Strawberry Moon, Mead Moon, Rose Moon, or Hot Moon, always shines in or near the stars of southern Ophiuchus (the Serpent-Bearer). The indigenous Ojibwe of the Great Lakes region call this moon Ode’miin Giizis, the Strawberry Moon. (Next month’s will be the Raspberry Moon.) The Cree Nation of central Canada calls the June full moon Opiniyawiwipisim, the Egg Laying Moon (referring to wild water-fowl habits). The Mohawks call it Ohiarí:Ha, the Fruits are Small Moon.

Because the moon reaches its full phase when it is opposite the sun in the sky, full moons always rise in the east as the sun is setting, and set in the west at sunrise. Since sunlight is hitting the moon vertically at that time, no shadows are cast by terrain on the full moon; all of the variations in brightness we see from Earth are generated by differences in the reflectivity, or albedo, of the lunar surface rocks.

The moon will be completely full in the wee hours of Monday morning, so the moon will look full at a glance on both Sunday and Monday evening. Binoculars and telescopes will show you a thin strip of darkened terrain along the moon’s left (its western) limb on Sunday evening, and along its right (eastern) limb on Monday evening. Try it!

When the bright, now waning gibbous moon rises over the southeastern horizon at 10:30 pm local time on Tuesday evening, the bright, yellowish planet Saturn will be positioned only one finger’s width above it. If you note where Saturn is, you can find it again later in the week, once the moon has departed. Since the two objects will be so close together in the sky, the continuous eastward slide of the moon during the night will be more pronounced.

(Above: The very bright, waning gibbous moon and distant, yellowish Saturn will fit together into the field of view of a backyard telescope at low magnification (red circle) late on Tuesday evening,)

The moon and Saturn will cross the sky together during the night and will easily fit within the field of binoculars or a backyard telescope at medium magnification. Lucky observers in Easter Island, southern South America, the Antarctic Peninsula, and southern Africa will see the moon pass in front of, or occult, Saturn.

For the rest of the week, the moon will continue to wane in phase and rise later, passing through the dim constellation of Capricornus (the Sea-Goat) and then Aquarius (the Water-Bearer) to end the week. Watch for the late-rising moon to linger into the morning daytime sky this weekend.

After last week’s opposition Jupiter will still be rising around sunset this week, and will remain a fantastic sight all night long – blazing brightly in the southern half of the sky. From time to time, the small, round black shadows cast by Jupiter’s four Galilean moons become visible in amateur telescopes as they cross (or transit) Jupiter’s disk. Starting just after midnight on Tuesday evening, Io and its shadow will cross Jupiter for more than two hours. Io itself will be tough to see, but it will sit very close to its shadow. On Friday, Europa and its shadow will cross Jupiter for two hours, with the Great Red Spot, starting after midnight (i.e., Saturday morning).

(Above: As shown here at 12:30 am EDT, on Friday after midnight, Europa and its shadow will cross Jupiter for two hours, with the Great Red Spot. The event will end at about 2:20 am EDT on Saturday morning.)

Due to Jupiter’s rapid 10-hour rotation period, the Great Red Spot (or GRS) is only observable from Earth every 2nd or 3rd night, and only during a predictable three-hour window. The GRS will be easiest to see using a medium-sized, or larger, aperture telescope on an evening of good seeing (steady air). If you’d like to see the Great Red Spot in your telescope, it will be crossing the planet on Monday evening until 12:20 am EDT. More GRS viewing opportunities will occur on Wednesday after 10:30 pm EDT and from 8 to 11 pm EDT on Saturday.

Yellowish Saturn will be rising in the east-southeast after 10 pm local time this week. Its position in the sky is just to the left (east) of the stars that form the teapot-shaped constellation of Sagittarius (the Archer). Saturn is quite a bit dimmer than Jupiter. To find it, look about 2.5 fist diameters to the lower left (east) of Jupiter. Dust off your telescope - because even a small one will show its rings and several of its brighter moons! Once it’s dark, a small telescope should be able to reveal some of the ringed planet’s larger moons, especially Titan. Because Saturn’s axis of rotation is tipped about 27° from vertical (a bit more than Earth’s is), we can see the top surface of its rings, and its moons can appear above, below, or to either side of the planet. During this week, Titan will migrate counter-clockwise around Saturn, moving from the lower left tonight to the upper right next Sunday. (Remember that your telescope will flip the view around.)

(Above: After dark, even a backyard telescope can reveal the larger moons of Saturn. On Thursday evening, June 20, the large moon Titan will be positioned to Saturn’s lower right)

Mars and Mercury are hanging out just above the northwestern horizon after sunset this week. Mercury will become easier to spot every night while it climbs away from the sun and brightens. The best time to look for Mercury falls between 9:45 and 10:30 pm local time. Next Sunday, June 23, Mercury will peak in visibility when it reaches its widest separation, 25 degrees east of the Sun, for the current apparition.

Mercury’s recent orbital motion is carrying it directly towards, and then above, dimmer Mars. Tonight, Mars will be positioned about a finger’s width to the left of Mercury. From Monday to Wednesday, the two planets will “kiss”! Closest approach will occur on Tuesday. (Take care that the sun has set before attempting to view them using binoculars or a telescope.)

(Above: On Tuesday after sunset, brighter Mercury will land close above dimmer Mars. The two planets will “kiss” from Monday through Wednesday, as shown here at 10 pm local time. Mercury will move away from Mars and reach peak visibility on Sunday, June 23)

Distant and dim, blue Neptune is in the southeastern pre-dawn sky, among the stars of Aquarius (the Water-Bearer). The planet will be rising after 1 am local time this week. On Friday, Earth’s faster orbit will cause Neptune to cease its regular eastward orbital motion in front of the background stars and begin a retrograde loop that will last until late November. For now, you’ll find the magnitude 7.9 planet sitting a thumb’s widths to the left (east) of a medium-brightness star named Phi (φ) Aquarii.

To round out the planet inventory for the week, blue-green Uranus will be rising just before 3 am local time, and is sitting among the stars of Aries (the Ram). Venus is sitting low in the east-northeastern pre-dawn sky, sinking ever-closer to the rising sun. Venus will be rising at about 4:40 am local time.

Oh, Look – it’s Ophiuchus!

By the end of this week, the moon will be vacating the evening sky worldwide, leaving it nice and dark for our sky-watching.

The twelve constellations of the Zodiac are only special because the great circle of the Ecliptic carries the sun through each of them in turn. The Sun spends varying amounts of time in each constellation, and those dates repeat every year. For example, in the present era, the sun traverses the constellation of Gemini (the Twins) from June 21 to July 19 every year. Remember, the sun isn’t moving – it’s Earth’s motion around the sun that makes it appear to change location compared to the fixed distant background stars.

If you’re an astrology enthusiast, you’ll be wondering by now why is the sun traversing Gemini in June and July when the Gemini “star sign” is for birthdays from May 22 to June 21? There’s a simple reason for it. Thousands of years ago, when astrology was formulated by the Greeks and Babylonians, the sun traversed Gemini during that part of the year. It’s one of many reasons why most astronomers place no value in astrology, whatsoever. By the way - if you have an astronomy app or program that allows the year to be changed, you can prove this for yourself by setting the app to noon, centring on the sun, and then changing the date to June 25th, 16 AD. The sun will hop into Cancer (the Crab), which sits east of Gemini!

(Above: The large, box-shaped constellation of Ophiuchus occupies the southern sky in late evening during the latter part of June annually. The figure is carrying a snake, which is divided into Serpens Cauda, the tail and Serpens Caput, the head. Jupiter will spend this summer in the lower part of the constellation. The sky is shown for 11 pm local time.)

Most of the Zodiac constellations are inconspicuous - if not nearly invisible in urban skies. Aries (the Ram) has two decently bright stars that form a little stick, while Cancer, Pisces (the Fishes), Aquarius (the Water Bearer), and Capricornus (the Goat) are seriously tough to make out - unless you travel to dark skies. A few of them, Gemini (the Twins), Taurus (the Bull), Scorpius (the Scorpion), and Leo (the Lion), have very bright stars that form easily recognizable shapes. The rest of them fall in the medium-bright range.

All of the major objects in our Solar System remain near the Ecliptic/Zodiac. This year, Jupiter is sitting in the “thirteenth zodiac constellation”, and June is a prime month to observe it. Ophiuchus (“Oh-phee-YOU-cuss”), the Serpent Bearer is a huge constellation (11th largest by area) that sits above and between the Teapot asterism of Sagittarius (the Archer) and Scorpius, and below Lyra (the Lyre) and Hercules. The Ecliptic crosses the southernmost (lower) stars of Ophiuchus, but it has never been considered part of the zodiac because that would exceed the special system of 12 sky divisions important to ancient astrologers.

In China, Ophiuchus is considered part of 天市左垣(Tiān Shì Zuǒ Yuán), Left Wall of the Heavenly Market Enclosure. Ophiuchus’ stars are only moderate in brightness, so it’s another constellation that is better to look for when the sky is darker. The constellation’s shape resembles a large, upright box (26° tall and 16° wide) with a pointed triangle on the upper edge. (Think of a Dalek from Doctor Who, but without the plunger.) The constellation’s brightest star, Rasalhague “the head of the serpent charmer”, marks the peak of the triangle. The star sits below, and about midway between, very bright star Vega and Antares. The latter is the reddish star that is sitting a fist’s diameter to the right of Jupiter this summer.

Immediately east and west of the main body of the Serpent-Bearer are two long sections of a separate, split-in-two constellation, Serpens - the Serpent that Ophiuchus is carrying. The western (right) half is called Serpens Caput (the Snake’s Head), and the eastern (left) portion is Serpens Cauda (the Snake’s Tail).

From east to west (left to right in the Northern Hemisphere), the stars forming the bottom of the box are: medium bright Sabik “the preceding one”, dimmer Zeta Ophiuchi, and two dimmer stars a finger width apart named Yed Prior “leading hand” and Yed Posterior “trailing hand” which mark the western hand. About a palm’s diameter to the upper left of the two Yeds is Marfik “the elbow”. Sabik is the star that Uranus’ northern axis of rotation points towards (like our own pole star, Polaris)!

You’ll need an astronomy app and a small telescope to see it, but Ophiuchus is home to Barnard’s Star – a red dwarf six light-years away. It is the fourth closest known star, and the closest observable from the northern hemisphere. Barnard’s Star sits 3.5 finger widths to the east (left) of Celebrai, Ophiuchus’ eastern shoulder star. Being so close, we can actually watch Barnard’s Star travel through the galaxy in a process known as proper motion. It moves about half the Moon’s diameter in a human lifetime.

(Above: Located near the Milky Way, Opiuchus hosts a large number of deep sky objects. Globular star clusters appear like fuzzy patches of stars in amateur telescopes. They are indicated in this chart as yellow circles with crosses. Messier 10 (or M10) is one of the constellation’s best sights)

Because Ophiuchus sits just above the plane of the Milky Way, it is chock full of Globular Clusters – spherical, tightly packed groups of stars that orbit our galaxy tens of thousands of light-years away from us. A large, reasonably bright one designated Messier 10 sits just about where the Serpent-Bearer’s belt buckle would be. I’ll post a star chart that shows where the better ones are here. You can see these clusters in binoculars or a small telescope, especially from a dark sky site.

The south-eastern (or bottom) part of the constellation dips into the Milky Way. By midnight, the centre of Ophiuchus is due south – right above Jupiter and about halfway up the sky. Let me know if you check it out!

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knup-a-blog · 8 years ago

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LANDMARK by HIPPO CAMPUS [review]

LANDMARK is exactly what it claims to be. It is a turning point in the four-piece Hippo Campus’ career, a milestone in the lives of their most dedicated fans, but most importantly a “Landmark” in indie rock as a whole. Landmark embodies an impressively mature adolescent mindset, contrasting but not abandoning the juvenile spirit that carried their 2015 album Bashful Creatures. The change they have gone through within these two years is audible in each of the thirteen songs they offer (yes, including the two instrumental tracks).

We begin the album with an instrumental intro with heavy lo-fi tones, gritty vocals, casual muted dialogue and ambient noises. Sun Veins soon makes an unexpected transition into the following track, Way It Goes. Within this first eerie minute, we already know this album is going to be a huge shift from their last. Way It Goes, their most popular single release from this album, is the best example of their renovated musical style. Rolling guitar riffs, reminiscent of Mac DeMarco (This Old Dog out May 5th), guide the chorus to achieve an incredibly dreamy result. Frontman Jake Luppen’s raw and passionate vocals bring us back to his powerful performances in their earliest endeavors, before dropping off into wavering falsettos in the verses. The grooving bassline and vivacious, full drumming we know so well take a seat on this track, drawing the spotlight on Luppen’s fresh voice and matter-of-fact lyrics, as well as the hot and sweet guitar licks. The song takes a break for a muted slide-guitar solo, epitomizing the mood of the track as a whole. It begins its crescendo with light cymbal and staticky vocalization before coming together. At this point, you know the words, and you’re definitely singing along.

Boyish, the third-to-last song, mirrors the youthful maturity that Way It Goes introduces, but with a more inclusive production. Bass and drums join (possibly over-power) the rhythm and lead guitar, and are accompanied by a brass section. Upon its release in 2016, I listened immediately and was astonished by the shift in direction from their older work. Little did we know that it would be the perfect introduction to their new sound. Boyish was a statement for Hippo Campus’ listeners that “yeah, we did that.” It was a promise that production would be taken to a whole new level, that less trivial subjects would be tackled (from “peace, weed, cocaine, and mushrooms and shit” to “dropping hallucinogens”) and that Luppen was indeed capable of prolonged falsetto. Vacation joins Boyish and Way It Goes, as it exudes juvenescence while demonstrating the growth Hippo Campus underwent in their recently-abandoned teen years.

We exit lo-fi dream Way It Goes with a soft fade before entering Vines, a song that could very well fit on their 2015 South EP. Just as spry and bright as the closing track Buttercup, Vines is full of that teenager spirit. Vines’ “I get the feeling that I’ll never leave this house again” and chorus opening line “Nighttime in the basement, screaming about our feelings” alongside Buttercups’ infectious “I’ll be fine on my own, she said, I don’t need you inside my head” line are proof enough that the angst we know and love plagues (in a good way) these two songs.

There is no denying that Landmark is full of a boyish (...sorry) wonder, and Hippo Campus certainly don’t want you to forget it. There is a constant mention of youth in their lyrics. Take these examples from the album’s middle tracks:

“Sweet love, kiss on the eyelid, bruised up, chasing the sky. Did you say something about her? My legs brushed up beside her. Too young, looking for trouble. New god, lost in the struggle. One more night in the backyard. This simple season...” (Simple Season)

“Alcoholic tendencies underneath our fingertips. I think I love you, I think I know you. Or is it only the liquor speak? I want to love you, I wanna know you.” (Tuesday)

“I just love this, I swear I’ll go viral, from the ‘burbs to the streets now. It’s a revival, the spirit is found in the idealistically idle age of excess.” (Western Kids)

These giddy tracks ooze summer vibes and pure fun. From the childlike backup vocals in Simple Season to Tuesday’s happy-go-lucky atmosphere and Western Kids’ teenage arrogance, Hippo Campus show us that they are still youthful, they still have ambition, and they still have a ways to go.

But that’s exactly what they proved with Bashful Creatures. What separates these two albums the most are the surplus of glum tracks they offer. Epitaph (which, by definition, is a song played at a funeral), Poems and single-release Monsoon are mellower, watery, and downplayed. Each song is honest, although casually cryptic. Phrases we can understand by themselves are joined together like puzzle pieces to form the lyrics of these songs. Hippo Campus are completely rejecting the popularity formula that has worked for so many pop and indie pop groups. They neglect the purposefully vague lyrics (that can apply to any tween girl that’s willing to spend all of her college savings on MP3s, merchandise and tickets). They don’t rely on C-major and a I-V-vi-IV progression. They don’t hide behind a painfully optimistic outlook on life. Hippo Campus bare all sides to adolescence. The carefree summers, newer, more raw emotions, the hopeful future, and loss.

Frontman guitarist/vocalist Jake Luppen, guitarist Nathan Stocker, bassist Zach Sutton and drummer Whistler Allen took a risk with this new album. They challenged their own standards as well as those of the indie community. Hippo Campus maintain the lively and energizing reputation that Bashful Creatures and their other EPs set forth. This fresh LP is woozy, yet passionate. Young, yet mature. Blunt, yet enigmatic. Landmark is a picturesque archive of human progress, with innovative production quality to match its innovative perspective. I’m sure that other indie bands will notice this lo-fi sound that Hippo Campus have expanded on, and so will major indie music curators (AltNation already has). The four-piece were not the first to leap into a new territory--or to switch to this territory in the first place--but they are among those who have succeeded greatly.

NINE HIPPOS / OUT OF TEN

***note: the transition between Sun Veins and Way It Goes is the best thing that has ever happened to me

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Once Again

I am such a creature of habit, when something interrupts my routine I wind up completely out of sync. Thus today entry, which is late enough that it won’t show up as the day it still actually is in the archives here at this goofy platform. It is Tuesday, June 1, but the archives will reflect two entries for June 2. Provided, of course, I manage to get things done properly tomorrow. And that remains doubtful, because the things that threw me off my pace today will be more or less repeated tomorrow. With a few extra things to make it even more complex. I’m lucky, as I believe I have suggested before under similar circumstances, that this is only a blog, and not something of critical importance to world history that would result in a calamity were a date to be off by a single number. But there are obviously many calamities in these times which appear to not make a blip on the radar of history. We can only hope that happens at some point. Meanwhile, I’ll keep slogging on through the days, attempting to record each of them as they happen. Whether this platform’s archival function agrees or not.

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Workers, drivers in Manila grateful for free swab test

#PHnews: Workers, drivers in Manila grateful for free swab test

MANILA – Market vendors, pedicab, and tricycle drivers in the city of Manila expressed gratitude after they were prioritized for the free mass swab testing being given by the city government.

On Tuesday, the local government started its free mass swab testing in various areas in the city, as ordered by Manila Mayor Francisco ‘Isko Moreno’ Domagoso under Executive Order No. 39.

Minyang Ramos, a vendor at the Pritil Market said this will assure everyone that the markets are Covid-free.

"At least mapapanatag ang mga namimili na walang Covid-19 ang mga nagtitinda dito (Market-goers will at least be assured that vendors here are Covid-free)," she said in an interview.

Arthur, a tricycle driver in Tondo, meanwhile thanked Domagoso for the initiative.

“Medyo nakakatakot lang kasi baka mag-positive pero kung sakali man, matutulungan naman na ma-quarantine agad, salamat Yorme (it’s a bit frightening especially if the result turns out positive but at least we are assisted and provided a quarantine facility)," he said.

Even market-goers are happy that vendors and drivers are being tested because they said it gives a sense of assurance to the public.

Among the venues where the free mass swab testing is being done was at the second floor of the Pritil Market targeting the market vendors of the said area.

The Baseco covered court has been set up for public utility vehicle (PUV) drivers.

Meanwhile, Robinsons Place Manila Basement Lobby, Lucky Chinatown Mall, SM City Manila, Breakroom near Admin Office on the fourth floor, and the old food court of SM City San Lazaro cater to mall workers.

To recall, Domagoso ordered the city’s health department to provide free swab tests to members of the working class to boost consumer confidence in the nation’s capital.

“We are targeting to test at least 900 individuals today with the help of the Manila Health Department and of our District Hospitals. This is to assure the health (and) safety of our working class and drivers while they are trying to earn a living, and at the same time, this is for the peace of mind of the consuming public and passengers,” Domagoso said in a mix of English and Filipino over Facebook.

Vendors and drivers, meanwhile, said this is the first time they are getting swabbed with the gold standard RT-PCR for Covid-19 since this process is expensive.

Domagoso added that the specimens collected will be processed at the molecular laboratories in Sta. Ana Hospital and that results will be released within 24 to 48 hours.

Aside from the swab test, the MHD also offers free chest X-ray through the help of the United States Agency for International Development. (PNA)

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References:

* Philippine News Agency. "Workers, drivers in Manila grateful for free swab test." Philippine News Agency. https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1117696 (accessed October 07, 2020 at 01:22AM UTC+14).

* Philippine News Agency. "Workers, drivers in Manila grateful for free swab test." Archive Today. https://archive.ph/?run=1&url=https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1117696 (archived).

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