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ANNUAL ALFRED DEAKIN LECTURE
AUSTRALIA INDIA LEADERSHIP DIALOGUE 2018
Victoria’s India Strategy launch
Oceania: Yonder & Beyond
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It took universal health care, political will and a health campaign designed to terrify the public, but nearly four decades into the H.I.V. crisis, Australian researchers say the country is on a path toward making transmissions of the virus vanishingly rare - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/10/world/australia/hiv-aids-prep-prevention-drug.html?action=click&module=News&pgtype=Homepage
T-Hub, Beanstalk AgTech invite applications for Graft Australia-India AgTech Program. Global AgTech startups with disruptive technologies and the potential to address the challenges faced by the Indian and Australian agricultural sector are eligible for the Program - https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/small-biz/startups/newsbuzz/t-hub-beanstalk-agtech-invite-applications-for-graft-australia-india-agtech-program/articleshow/70141648.cms
Australia India Institute, Delhi is with Muskan Jain.
Furthering our mandate we are constantly exploring collaborations with fellow bilateral research institutes. Our director Ms. Tanya Spisbah & our research associate, Ms. Muskan Jain met Dr Prachi Kaul, Director & Ms. Pikee Sharma, Program Officer from the Canadian Indian Shastri Institute in Delhi today.
Our director, Ms. Tanya Spisbah met with Dr Sanjay Seth, CEO of The Energy Resources Institute Green Ratings integrated Housing Assessments (GRiHA) Council, and Ms Shubnam Bassi, Secretary of the GRiHA Council, to discuss collaboration in sustainable housing and infrastructure. Ms. Spisbah was very pleased to receive a Gond art painting as a gift from Dr. Seth.
Australia's model of selling public assets such as power grids and airports to fund further infrastructure investment offers promise for India to find a cool $1 Trillion - https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-07-04/india-needs-1-trillion-for-infrastructure-australia
Through its teaching, research, public policy and outreach programs, Aii is building Australia’s understanding of India, and deepening and enriching the relationship between the two countries.
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The Australia India Institute was established by the University of Melbourne in 2008 and was launched in September 2009 by the then Deputy Prime Minister, the Hon. Julia Gillard, MP, at the Australian High Commission in New Delhi. Ms Gillard stated that the Australian Government “is committed to building a greater understanding between our two peoples and Australians’ understanding of India, its culture, its history and place in the world”.
AII@Delhi, the first centre of the Institute’s network to be established in India, opened in February 2015. The Institute’s plans to expand its operations to India with a centre in Delhi were revealed by Australia’s Prime Minister at the time, the Hon. Tony Abbott, MP, during his trip to India in September 2014.
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Reception in honour of The Honorable Simon Birmingham
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INAUGURAL INDIA-AUSTRALIA HEALTH POLICY ROUNDTABLE
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Annual Alfred Deakin Lecture 2017
H.E. Ms. Harinder Sidhu, Australian High Commissioner to India will deliver the Annual Alfred Deakin...
Australia India Institute @ Delhi in association with LaTrobe University, Australia and FICCI hosted a Roundtable on “Women in Leadership: Expanding Influence and Catalysts for Success” to celebrate LaTrobe University’s 50th Anniversary.
The event was well attended by women influencers and leaders; Dr. Kiran Bedi, Lt Governor, Puducherry; Dr. Jyotsna Suri, Past President, FICCI and Chairperson & Managing Director, The Lalit Suri Hospitality Group; Prof. Amalia Di Lorio, Associate PVC & Partnerships, College of Arts, Social Sciences & Commerce, LaTrobe University, Australia
April, 11th, 2017
Australia India Institute @ Delhi hosted a Cocktail Reception in honour of Senator, The Honourable Simon Birmingham, Australian Minister for Education & Training.
The event was well attended by Educational influencers from both India and Australia.
The 1st edition of SAMVAAD was launched at the reception, a platform for dialogue, research and partnership ideas from incoming leader fellows
December, 21st, 2016
Australia India Institute @ Delhi hosted an Annual Alfred Deakin Lecture on “Building an Australia - India Partnership” by Mr. Peter Varghese AO, Chancellor, The University of Queensland, Australia.
The lecture was moderated by H.E. Ms. Harinder Sidhu, Australian High Commissioner to India.
November, 05th, 2016
Australia India Institute @Delhi hosted Inaugural India-Australia Health Policy Roundtable on the scope for Indo-Australian collaboration on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) as related to Non Communicable Diseases (NCDs) and Communicable Diseases (CDs). It also aimed to understand the policy responses to these challenges faced by the health care systems in India and Australia.
H.E. Ms. Harinder Sidhu, Australian High Commissioner to India will deliver the Annual Alfred Deakin Lecture 2017 on ‘Australia & India Natural Partners In An Uncertain World’
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In late 2009, the Australian Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations provided just over AUD8 million to the Australia India Institute over three years. The University of Melbourne also contributed AUD1.75 million in cash and kind.
In April 2011, Professor Amitabh Mattoo joined the Institute as its inaugural Director for a three-year term. He was on leave from his position as Professor of Disarmament Studies at the Centre for International Politics, Organisation and Disarmament at New Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University. Professor Mattoo has also been a member of the National Knowledge Commission, a high-level advisory group to the Prime Minister of India.
In 2011, the Institute moved to new premises in Barry Street, Carlton, Victoria, which for the first time gave it a real home. Here at least once a week, in the Institute’s vibrant seminar room, thought leaders from around the world provoke insightful discussion on subjects relevant to India and its relations with Australia. Here too, visiting fellows from India are given office space for their sojourn in Australia.
“I welcome the Institute’s plans to open its first node in India in 2015, supported by the University of Melbourne,” Mr Abbott said.
In August 2015, the then Minister of Education and Training, the Hon. Christopher Pyne inaugurated the the centre’s Delhi offices during a trip to India with an Australia Education Delegation including Vice Chancellors from some of Australia’s leading universities.
“With nodes also at La Trobe University and the University of New South Wales, it is good to see a deep focus on India at a time when the relationship between our two countries is fast growing in importance.” Mr Pyne said.
“The Institute plays a crucial role in strengthening the relationship in education and research between Australia and India, and the New Delhi node can only strengthen this,” he said.
By promoting public policy dialogue and academic debate, the new centre will facilitate research partnerships and serve as a resource hub for academics, policy makers and businesses.
A dynamic program of lectures, seminars and events will enable thought leaders from India and Australia to engage with each other on current issues in a wide range of disciplines.
The AII@Delhi will work closely with the Government of India, the Australian High Commission, and Indian universities and think tanks to expand the work of the Melbourne-based Australia India Institute. The Institute is committed to deepening and enriching the strategic relationship between Australia and India, a relationship that is emerging as one of the most significant Asian partnerships of the 21st century.
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How is the US-led effort going in Afghanistan? For the most part, that is classified. And needlessly so, according to the top US watchdog for Afghanistan reconstruction.
“Almost every indicia, metric for success or failure, is now classified or non-existent,” John Sopko, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, told reporters in Washington, D.C. “Over time it has been classified, or it’s no longer being collected.”
Specifically, the Afghan government no longer publicly releases figures for casualties of its forces. Also, SIGAR cannot publicly release the districts that are in Taliban control or Afghan government control. These are figures that show how stable, or unstable, the Afghan government is with US and NATO support and broadly show the effectiveness of 17 years of war.
SIGAR historically had released a breakdown of Afghan districts that were under Taliban control, but has recently been blocked from doing so, Sopko said. These figures are now in the classified annex of his quarterly reports for US government leaders, the latest of which is expected next week.
This decision in particular does not make sense, and only serves to hide bad news, Sopko said. “Governments usually don’t classify good news,” he said.
“I don’t think it makes sense. The Afghan people know which districts are controlled by the Taliban,” he said. “The Taliban obviously know which districts they control. Our military knows. Everybody in Afghanistan knows it. The only people who don’t know what’s going on are the people who are paying for all of this, and that’s the American taxpayer.”
Hiding too much information about the ongoing war effort breeds suspicion and cynicism, which is dangerous for a war that is now largely out of the public’s eye.
It is a pivotal time for the US effort, as American negotiators are working on a possible peace agreement with the Taliban. Additional information and understanding of the conflict by the public is important to avoid it becoming another “forgotten war,” he said. Additionally, policymakers need to ensure they are adequately planning for what could come next to ensure that everything that has been spent has not been wasted.
“There’s still Americans dying there; 2,400 Americans died. We’ve spent close to a trillion dollars in Afghanistan,” he said. “All of it is at risk if we screw up on the day after a peace agreement.”
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Final Card: Dave Nicholson
This is the final card for outfielder Dave Nicholson (#298). Topps added pink to their color spectrum in 1969 for the Royals and Expos (and brown for the Padres and Pilots).
Nicholson never played for the Royals, and had played his last major-league game on October 1, 1967. Because he spent all but 10 games of the 1967 season, and all of 1968 in the minors, he was left out of the 1968 Topps set.
Dave was signed by the Orioles in 1958, and played 2 full seasons in the minors. After 18 games with triple-A Miami in 1960, he made his major-league debut with the Orioles on May 24th. After another full season in the minors in 1961, Dave returned to Baltimore in 1962 as a backup outfielder.
In January 1963, Nicholson was traded to the White Sox (with pitcher Hoyt Wilhelm and infielders Pete Ward and Ron Hansen) for shortstop Luis Aparicio. Dave was the Sox' regular left fielder in 1963, and shared the job with others in 1964. With newly-acquired Danny Cater taking over left field, Dave was relegated to the bench for all of 1965.
Nicholson was traded to the Astros in December 1965 for pitcher Jack Lamabe, and a year later he was shipped to the Braves with pitcher Bob Bruce for 3rd baseman Eddie Mathews and infielder Sandy Alomar.
After spending most of the next 2 seasons with the Braves' AAA team in Richmond, Dave was purchased by the expansion Royals in October 1968. He spent his final professional season (1969) pinch-hitting for the expansion Royals' triple-A team in Omaha, Nebraska.
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Final Card: Vic Roznovsky
This is the final card for backup catcher Vic Roznovsky (#368). Vic's major-league career consisted of 200 games over a 5-year period, playing for the Cubs, Orioles, and Phillies.
He was signed by the Pirates in 1958, and played 2 seasons of class-D ball in their organization. Before the 1960 season he was dealt to the Giants, and spent the next 4 seasons in their farm system, as a catcher-outfielder (along with 29 games at 3rd base in 1963).
In December 1963 the Cubs selected him in the minor-league draft, and after spending some time in triple-A, Vic made his major-league debut on June 28, 1964. He played in 35 games (15 starts) as the 3rd-string catcher behind Dick Bertell and Jimmie Schaffer.
It looks like the Cubs used the catcher-by-committee system in 1965. Bertell began the season as the starter, but was traded to the Giants in late May for catcher Ed Bailey and others. Meanwhile, Roznovsky and rookie Chris Krug were getting a lot of starts. The final tally behind the plate: Roznovsky - 44 starts, Krug - 46, Bailey - 45, Bertell - 29 (yes, they played 164 games that year).
Playing in 71 games in 1965 was the high point of Roznovsky's career, as the Cubs acquired Randy Hundley in the off-season and sent Vic packing to the Orioles for outfielder Carl Warwick. There, he backed up rookie Andy Etchebarren for most of the season, while also finding himself back in triple-A for 19 games. 1967 was a repeat of 1966, except that Roznovsky swapped slots in the pecking order with 1966's 3rd-string catcher Larry Haney.
Things got worse for Vic in 1968, as he spent the entire season at triple-A Rochester, rescued only by an April 1969 trade to the Phillies, who sent their '68 third-string backstop John Sullivan to the O's for Roznovsky. (There's some debate as to which was the better team - the 1969 Phillies or the AAA Rochester Red Wings.) :D
Vic wrapped up his career gathering dust on the Phillie bench, as he was on the team for the entire season, but only played 13 games (14 plate appearances) and caught a grand total of 4 innings as the 3rd-stringer behind Mike Ryan and rookie Dave Watkins.
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Director (feature film)
Three Kinds of Heat (1987) as Director
A gang of criminals is followed by three friends from Harlem to London's high scoiety parties.
I Love a Mystery (1973)
Surfacing six years after being made and eagerly awaited by old-time radio buffs, this send-up of the fondly remembered mystery show had insurance detectives Jack Packard, Doc Long and Reggie York searching for a mysterious billionaire. Not to be confused with the 1945 film of the same name, also ba
Search (1972) as Creator
In this chase thriller, the pilot for the TV series "Search" (1972-73), a space-age detective, monitored and directed by mission control center, investigates the disappearance of a fabulous gem collection. O'Brian, Meredith and Angel Tompkins continued in the short-lived series, and were joined by T
Incubus (1965)
An evil spirit plots to snare the soul of a courageous and good man.
Hero's Island (1962) as Director
Indentured servants colonizing a Carolina island fight off rival settlers with the help of a notorious pirate.
Private Property (1960) as Director
Two young criminals set out to seduce an unhappy married woman.
Writer (feature film)
Gordy (1994)
A piglet becomes a national hero and the CEO of a corporation after it rescues a rich little boy from drowning.
Return to the Blue Lagoon (1991)
After the lovers of the first film die at sea, and their young son is rescued by a ship infected with cholera. The son escapes the ship with a young girl and her mother, and the two youths become lovers on an unchartered island.
Three Kinds of Heat (1987) as Screenwriter
Sheena (1984) as From Story
A legendary queen of the jungle finds herself fighting evil in the deepest, darkest parts of Africa.
A 20th Century astronaut is transported through time to the 25th Century, where his "old" habits first amuse then come to the aid of the people of the future.
Stonestreet: Who Killed the Centerfold Model? (1977) as Screenwriter
A movie pilot about a female private eye who goes undercover as a porno actress to unravel the case of a prominent industrialist's missing daughter.
Gemini Man (1976) as Screenwriter
In this recycling of the unsuccessful TV series "The Invisible Man," a brash special agent finds himself capable of invisibility from the after-effects of an underwater explosion during a government salvage operation and uses his new-found "talent" to prove the incident was sabotage. Unfortunately,
Fer-De-Lance (1974) as Screenwriter
A disaster movie that has terror stalking a stricken sub, wedged deep below the sea and crawling with deadly vipers. In Great Britain, this film was released theatrically as "Death Dive," a somewhat more descriptive title.
Search (1972) as Screenwriter
Hero's Island (1962) as Screenwriter
The Marriage-Go-Round (1960) as Writer
A Swedish woman wants her American host to father her baby.
Private Property (1960) as Writer
The Left Handed Gun (1958) as Screenwriter
Billy the Kid sets out for vengeance on the men who killed his mentor.
Producer (feature film)
Stonestreet: Who Killed the Centerfold Model? (1977) as Producer
Search (1972) as Producer
Hero's Island (1962) as Producer
The Marriage-Go-Round (1960) as Producer
Art Department (feature film)
Red Dragon (2002)
Ex-FBI agent Will Graham is an expert investigator who quit the Bureau after almost losing his life in the process of capturing the elusive Dr. Hannibal Lecter. Years later, after a series of particularly grisly murders, Graham reluctantly agrees to come out of retirement and assist in the mysteriou
Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (1999)
Deuce Bigalow is a naive, good-hearted fish tank cleaner, who is very dedicated and happy with his work. His only dream is to take his fish and move out of his bad neighborhood to the beach to be close to his friends in the ocean. After he loses his job at the Los Angeles Aquarium, his life changes dramatically. Deuce crosses paths with the debonair Antoine Laconte, world class gigolo. Antoine has the life any man would want, fancy cars, beautiful women and most importantly for Deuce a state of the art aquarium. When Antoine''s lionfish comes down with a potentially fatal gill disorder and he has to go away on business, Antoine asks if Deuce will stay at his apartment. As Deuce gets comfortable at Antoine'' place, he sets off a chain of events that virtually destroys the apartment. Needing money to pay for the damages, and after accidentally answering Antoine''s business phone, Deuce launches his new career as a gigolo. He quickly enters a world beyond his wildest dreams.
Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (Theatrical) (1999)
Waterboy, The (1998)
Bobby Boucher, a socially inept 31-year-old from the swamps of Louisiana, is home schooled and sheltered by his over-protective Mama. His only contact with society is his waterboy job for a college team where the players relentlessly make fun of him, and his coach doesn''t let him fight back. This all changes when Bobby gets a new coach who lets him stand up for himself. Bobby finally releases years of pent up rage and is transformed into the most devastating tackler on the team. Now Bobby has to learn how to play football and go to college, all behind his Mama''s back. Let''s just hope Mama doesn''t find out.
Psycho IV: The Beginning (1990)
A television movie recounting the childhood and adolescence of Norman Bates, the central character in the several "Psycho" films. Told through a series of flashbacks during a late-night radio talk show on the subject of matricide.
A spaceship full of survivors of a doomed planet are headed to planet Earth. Along the way they encounter villainous robots, threatening to derail their Earth bound journey.
Writer (special)
Virginian, The (1958) as Writer
The original unsold thirty-minute pilot film for the series of the same title (it sold when remade as a ninety-minute pilot). The story of a mysterious stranger, known only as the Virginian, who comes to work as the foreman of a ranch owned by a retired judge. In the pilot episode, the Virginian a
Crescendo (1957) as Writer
A kaleidoscope of American music as seen through the eyes of Mr. Sir, a visiting Englishman whose skepticism about American culture is changed when he is introduced to a wide variety of American music styles.
Film Production - Main (TV Mini-Series)
Tarzan's Return (1996)
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Representatives of the Iraqi Ministry of Defence Have Accepted Another Batch of BTR-4 Armoured Personnel Carriers
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On 7 February, in Kiev, the representatives of the Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Iraq and those of the State Company “Ukrspecexport” signed the document that confirms the acceptance of another batch of Ukrainian-made BTR-4 armoured personnel carriers. The batch consists of 40 vehicles.
“The tests have been conducted successfully. No serious problems have been revealed. We are content with the process of cooperation with the Ukrainian side. In Iraq, the Ukrainian-made BTR-4s, which have been supplied earlier, are operated under difficult field conditions. This is a new and advanced vehicle for the Iraqi Army”, said the official representative of the Iraqi delegation.
The $457.5 million contract for supply of 420 BTR-4 vehicles was signed late in 2009 by representatives of Ukraine and Republic of Iraq. The main contractor is the State Enterprise “Kharkiv Morozov Machine Building Design Bureau”, the sub-contractors are State Enterprise “Malyshev Plant” and other enterprises of the State Concern “Ukroboronprom”. The contract envisages the supply of not only BTR-4 armoured personnel carriers, but also special vehicles based on the BTR-4 chassis, technical maintenance and repair vehicles, and training simulators, with required technical support being also provided.
The Ukrainian side is content with the results of the inspection. “Despite the considerably more strict requirements for acceptance put forward by the Iraqi side (each vehicle was checked in accordance with a special procedure), all the vehicles were accepted without any substantial observations. We will fulfil the contract in compliance with the agreements that have been concluded. Now the main task consists in establishing an efficient maintenance system to service the vehicles that have been delivered to the Iraqi side”, said a representative of the State Concern “Ukroboronprom”.
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What is BTK Dream?
Back to Kama (BTK) is a voluntary migration campaign to encourage well educated, successful and affluent people of all races and religions, particularly those who are descendants of slaves to voluntarily transfer to Kama the knowledge and wealth they have rightfully accumulated in the “Americas”, and relocate their businesses and operations to Kama.
Kama: is the original name for Africa used by its indigenous people.
The BTK dream hopes to reverse the debilitating effect of the African Diaspora, in which millions of indigenous inhabitants left their homelands over the last few centuries to live in other parts of the world – involuntarily or voluntarily.
BTK hopes to first attract celebrities, entrepreneurs, scientists, engineers, and business people for the publicity generated by their initiatives will influence others to follow.
The BTK Organization desires to support entrepreneurial efforts in Africa by informing the western world, and in particular the successful African-American population, and others in the African Diaspora on the superior benefits of doing business in Kama.
The BTK plan would not only solve the economic crisis faced by most Kama nations but can serve as “the most comprehensive proposal ever for addressing and solving the issue of reparations for the African slave trade and exploitative colonization, neither of which has been recognized as a crime against humanity.”
Governments on both sides of the Atlantic can gain much from a stronger Kama and thus are encouraged to put in place incentives for African-Americans and other descendents of slaves to establish businesses in Kama and move their operations to specialized Free Trade Zones…
Within one generation - by 2030 - Kama can become the most developed and prosperous continent if the keys to success are implemented not only by successful descendants of former slaves but also by governments of Kama and by the US government as a rightful compensation for the African slave trade.
While the rest of the world is experiencing a financial crisis, the expanding opportunities in Kama will be a very big draw for anybody. Its economic growth will be astonishing.”
Incentives for success are as follows:
Incentives by Kama (African) Governments
Governments of Kama and the African Union (AU) should recognize and institutionalize the Black American community and the African Diaspora as a 6th region of the continent and insure they play an active role in the AU;
Provide automatic citizenship to any descendants of former slaves who want to return back to Kama, [As in Israel]. DNA testing and location of ancestral land of origin can be performed to fine-tune best location of origin;
Establish legislation to attract foreign direct investments (from Black Celebrities, entrepreneurs and others with wealth) for the creation of Free Trade Zones (FTZ) and other economic development projects;
Provide guaranteed tax exemption on income and assets for at least 14 years to all immigrants of Kamite (African) descent;
Provide Banking Secrecy guaranteed by law as in Switzerland;
Adopt a common currency, the Kamo for all countries in Kama and promote its financial benefits;
Provide free education and free healthcare to the population;
Adopt the latest sciences and technologies such as biotechnology, (GMO, Stem Cells) nanotechnology, telecommunications, internet education, etc…;
Encourage the welcoming of black prisoners freed from the US prison system. The prisoners would be previously trained to acquire business entrepreneurship skills; (As CANADA, which was built on the import of European Prisoners).
Incentives by the US Government
The American authorities should free from jail - if they accept to return back to Kama - all prisoners in the USA who are descendants of Kama. In certain states blacks represent more than 50% of the inmate population;
The US Government should provide financial support to make this operation a success. The timing is perfect! Because with more than 7 million inmates, the USA is the country with the most prisoners and it no longer has the financial ability to finance their detention.
By Chiefs & Kings
They are the traditional authorities in villages and regions. At the time of the slave trade, the countries and borders of today’s Kama did not exist, therefore, the descendants of former slaves should be returning back to the original regions, ethnic groups or villages of their displaced ancestors.
They will be welcomed as sons or daughters of an ethnic group or a village during a traditional ceremony by the chiefs and Kings. This ceremony will be like an African traditional Baptism. It has real meaning and it will facilitate the social integration of the returning sons and daughters giving them a true sense of belonging to a family, a village, a people.
The BTK dream project was launched in Las Vegas in April, 2009 by Rael, the leader of the International Raelian Movement (IRM). Rael said: “To save Humanity, we must first save Kama”. The BTK dream will not only help save Kama but also Humanity as a whole.
Together, let’s make this dream a reality in our lifetime.
For additional information on Rael's actions and speeches for a new Africa.
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Southern Virginia Football Earns NJAC Win Over William Paterson
Southern Virginia (2-7) 7 9 0 0 16
Wm. Paterson (0-9) 0 0 0 6 6
Pa: Cornelius Kinchen - 214
Ru: Kelvin White jr - 7
Rec: Tyler Vivian - 92
Pa: Ty Jones - 20
Ru: Ty Jones - 97
Rec: Baylor Harding - 14
WAYNE, N.J. — The Southern Virginia University football team earned their first New Jersey Athletic Conference win of the year on Saturday with a 16-6 win over William Paterson.
After both teams punted on their opening possessions, the Knights (2-7, 1-7 NJAC) were able to capitalize on their field position with a four-play drive ending on a 13-yard Seth Hanson touchdown. For the next twenty minutes, the ball changed hands six times before Southern Virginia scored twice in two minutes, the first coming from a Jackson Hatch field goal after a nine-minute 84-yard drive.
On the following drive, William Paterson (0-9, 0-8 NJAC) went 22 yards and attempted a 42-yard field goal which the Knights blocked. The loose ball was picked up by Southern Virginia's Trevor Laurey who ran it 63 yards for a touchdown, capping the Knights' scoring at 16.
The Pioneers were continually shut down by the Knights' defense until they mounted a 60-yard drive in their final possession of the game.
Southern Virginia recorded 260 yards of total offense, with 240 coming on the ground. The Pioneers, on the other hand, lost seven yards rushing and had 231 yards passing. Quarterback Ty Jones led the team with 97 yards, including a long of 17. Jewka Patetefa and Akiva Wedge ran for 40 and 31 yards, respectively while three other Knights had 20+ yards.
Defensively, Jackson Thompson recorded a pair of interceptions, Caleb Thomas had 1.5 sacks, and Joel Bergman led the team with seven tackles.
The Knights will play in their final game of the season next week at The College of New Jersey.
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Dave Matthews, Trey Anastasio Honor Coran Capshaw at City of Hope Gala Benefit.
SANTA MONICA, CA – NOVEMBER 02: A view of the atmosphere at MFEI Spirit Of Life Honoring Coran Capshaw on November 2, 2017 in Santa Monica, California. (Photo by Lester Cohen/Getty Images for City of Hope)
by Paty Elias
Music, Hope and Healing where the themes at the City of Hope’s 2017 Spirit of Life Gala with the evenings generous donations raising $4.8k for Cancer Research on Friday November 2nd, 2017. The Gala event and dinner was held at Barker Hangar in Santa Monica,Ca. The evenings gala included Sushi Bars, gourmet food stations as well an open bar and plenty of musical talent with performances by Dave Matthews, (Phish) Lead singer Trey Anastasio, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, and Indie Rockers Joseph livened up the evening and awards presentation.
SANTA MONICA, CA – NOVEMBER 02: Honoree Coran Capshaw (L) accepts the Spirit of Life Award from Dave Matthews at MFEI Spirit Of Life Honoring Coran Capshaw on November 2, 2017 in Santa Monica, California. (Photo by Lester Cohen/Getty Images for City of Hope)
The Spirit of Life® Award is City of Hope’s highest honor, and each year recognizes a leader whose work has fundamentally impacted the music, film or entertainment industries.
This years Spirit of life Award was presented by Singer Dave Matthews to Coran Capshaw, founder of Red Light Management, and one of the music industry’s most influential and innovative executives. The award is presented by the City of Hope to individuals who exemplify the ideals and values that have guided City of Hope for nearly a century and whose professional and humanitarian accomplishments deserve recognition and celebration.
SANTA MONICA, CA – NOVEMBER 02: Dave Matthews at MFEI Spirit Of Life Honoring Coran Capshaw on November 2, 2017 in Santa Monica, California. (Photo by Lester Cohen/Getty Images for City of Hope)
In his presentation speech, Matthews remembered the first time Matthews’ mother met Capshaw before the pair started working together. “Afterwards, my mother pulled me aside and said, ‘I trust him because he has very sad eyes.’ And that was a great review, I think, because I trust my mom. I trust [Capshaw] absolutely and I trust his intentions completely and he’s one of the very few people I can say that with complete confidence… I feel like every penny that I’ve paid him or made for him, which is quite a pile, he’s earned.”
SANTA MONICA, CA – NOVEMBER 02: Honoree Coran Capshaw accepts the Spirit of Life Award at MFEI Spirit Of Life Honoring Coran Capshaw on November 2, 2017 in Santa Monica, California. (Photo by Lester Cohen/Getty Images for City of Hope)
When it was time for his award presentation Coran Capshaw praised the City of Hope for its ongoing work in the cancer research field and saving lives with its on going efforst. “In many ways this year — to me and to many of us — is the year of the tragedy, the fires up north, the hurricanes, Charlottesville… But as I’m thinking about City of Hope and the good work they do, it’s day in and day out. We have all these needs in the world, we’ve got a really tricky country with all the divisiveness, but day in and day out these people are there doing the good work they do and it’s just so important.”
“Working on this has been a great way to remember Chip,” Capshaw said before announcing that the City of Hope was starting the Chip Hooper Memorial Fund with $500,000. The fund is devoted to research toward finding a cure for neuroendocrine cancer, the illness that felled Hooper.
SANTA MONICA, CA – NOVEMBER 02: Trey Anastasio performs at MFEI Spirit Of Life Honoring Coran Capshaw on November 2, 2017 in Santa Monica, California. (Photo by Lester Cohen/Getty Images for City of Hope)
Trey Anastasio debuted a brand new song, “Soul Planet” at the City of Hope Spirit Of Life Gala honoring Coran Capshaw in Los Angeles. Trey Anastasio sister, Kristy, also passed due to neuroendocrine cancer in 2009 and performed “Miss You” a song he wrote for her. He did not hesitate when asked to perform “When I was asked to do this gig tonight, I’m trying to explain how much it means to me to be up here, not just to celebrate Coran, who I love dearly, but to thank the City of Hope for keeping hope alive for other families who are going to have to go through what I’ve been through and what Chip’s family is going through.”
SANTA MONICA, CA – NOVEMBER 02: Dave Matthews performs at MFEI Spirit Of Life Honoring Coran Capshaw on November 2, 2017 in Santa Monica, California. (Photo by Lester Cohen/Getty Images for City of Hope)
Dave Matthews also gave an impassioned performance of “Grey Street” and dedicated it to Chip Hooper, who booked Dave Mathhews to Red Light and succumbed to Cancer last year. “This is a beautiful organization and I’m grateful to be here and I’m going to do a song in memory of my great friend who’s gotten a lot of praise here this evening, Chip Cooper and his family. I’m so grateful to know you and I’m so grateful to have known your Dad.”, “He like this song, that’s why I’m playing not just random.” Matthews performed four songs-‘Don’t Drink the Water,” Samuria Cop” and “Bartender”.
SANTA MONICA, CA – NOVEMBER 02: Preservation Hall Jazz Band performs at MFEI Spirit Of Life Honoring Coran Capshaw on November 2, 2017 in Santa Monica, California. (Photo by Lester Cohen/Getty Images for City of Hope)
The Preservation Hall Jazz Band closed the event in a true New Orleans Jazz Style getting everyone up and dancing with the true spirit of music, healing and charity shining through in their performance.
The City of Hope’s Music, Film and Entertainment Industry Group has raised more than $113 million for the hospital over 44 years.
If you want to support City of Hope, you can do so by going to their website and donating.
Author Paty EliasPosted on November 6, 2017 March 7, 2018 Categories Entertainment, Fund Raiser, Music
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Previously a coconut plantation, Cousin Island was purchased by the International Council for Bird Protection (now BirdLife) in 1968, for the immediate purpose of saving the endemic Seychelles Warbler Acrocephalus sechellensis. 26 warblers had been found in the mangroves of the island clinging perilously to life, with much of its original habitat converted to coconut plantations. A campaign was started to rescue these birds and they became the flagship species for the island.
To save the warbler, a habitat restoration programme was implemented: Cousin's coconuts were cut back and native vegetation encouraged to regenerate, which allowed the warbler to flourish. Its numbers increased. Soon over 300 birds could be heard singing on Cousin. From here the warbler was re-introduced to other islands in the Seychelles to boost its population and the bird now occurs on five other islands in the Seychelles. The Warbler has since been downgraded to critically endangered to near threatened on IUCN's Red list of endangered species. Other seabirds, landbirds, wildlife and marine life are also thriving on the island as well as in the waters around the island, which is protected as a nature reserve under Seychelles law.
Nature Seychelles embarked on a one and a half year wetland rehabilitation project at the Sanctuary with co-funding from the Mangroves For the Future (MFF) initiative and work carried out with the generous support of Sun Excavations of Mahe. The wetlands is not a natural site yet is now home to an ever increasing diversity of nature, both fauna and flora. The site is unique in that it has been designed to maximize habitat potential as well as being a natural attraction for people's enjoyment and education.The Sanctuary can also serve as a demonstration site for improvement and management of wetlands for those who wish to replicate the model.
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Version Control: A Novel
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The acclaimed author of The Dream of Perpetual Motion returns with a compelling novel about the effects of science and technology on our friendships, our love lives, and our sense of self.
Rebecca Wright has reclaimed her life, finding her way out of her grief and depression following a personal tragedy years ago. She spends her days working in customer support for the internet dating site where she first met her husband. But she has a strange, persistent sense that everything around her is somewhat off-kilter: she constantly feels as if she has walked into a room and forgotten what she intended to do there; on TV, the President seems to be the wrong person in the wrong place; her dreams are full of disquiet. Meanwhile, her husband's decade-long dedication to his invention, the causality violation device (which he would greatly prefer you not call a "time machine") has effectively stalled his career and made him a laughingstock in the physics community. But he may be closer to success than either of them knows or can possibly imagine.
Version Control is about a possible near future, but it's also about the way we live now. It's about smart phones and self-driving cars and what we believe about the people we meet on the Internet. It's about a couple, Rebecca and Philip, who have experienced a tragedy, and about how they help - and fail to help - each other through it. Emotionally powerful and stunningly visionary, Version Control will alter the way you see your future and your present.
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Publisher: Pantheon Books
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Publication Year: February 23, 2016
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BELGOROD STATE AGRICULTURAL UNIVERISITY NAMED AFTER V. GORIN
address: ul. Vavilova 1, Office 306, pos. Mayskiy 308503, Belgorod region, Russia
tel/fax: +7 4722 39-11-74
e-mail: kapustina_on@bsaa.edu.ru
The Belgorod State Agricultural University is one of the largest scientific educational centers of Central Chernozem Region. Originally it was founded as a scientific institution in February 1956. In 1971 it was reorganized to Scientific and Research Technological Program Institute of Animal Breeding in Central Chernozem Region. In 1978 on its basis Belgorod Agricultural Institute (a scientific educational centre of agriculture) was established. In 1994 the institute was granted academy status, and in 2014 was renamed as Federal State Educational Institution of Higher Education «Belgorod State Agricultural University named after V. Gorin».
Belgorod SAU is located in a very nice place called Mayskiy which is 16 kilometers far from the city of Belgorod.
Many outstanding people have visited Belgorod SAU since its establishment. Among them: the first President of Russia Boris Yeltzin, prominent statesmen, agrarians and scientists from Russia and from abroad as well. Lots of foreign students from Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America together with students from all regions of Russia receive higher education in Belgorod SAU.
At the present time there are more than 300 teachers who work for 23 departments of the University. There are 49 doctors of sciences, professors and 179 masters of sciences, assistant professors, chiefs of region administration, banks and companies.
There are 7 faculties at Belgorod SAU: the Faculty of Agronomy, the Faculty of Economics, the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, the Faculty of Engineering, the Faculty of Technology, the Extramural Department, Post-secondary Institution.
The total number of students including extramural department is more than 8 thousand. The campus consists of a number of buildings including training blocks, an administration block, a library, a sports center and 5 student's hostels.
The biggest training block is nicknamed the «Titanic». It houses 4 faculties: the Faculty of Agronomy, the Faculty of Economics and the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, the Extramural Department. The University has modern material and technical basis that includes lecture rooms equipped with modern screens and digital scanning projectors for carrying out video-lectures and for delivering presentations in Power Point. Computer classrooms have a free Wifi Internet access and Intranet connection.
In order to hold great exhibitions of modern agricultural machinery, to house international meetings and conferences, to carry out practical applications and hands-on experiments Belgorod SAU has a big educational and exhibition hall called «Agrotechnopark» at its disposal.
Belgorod SAU proposes a long list of possibilities to one's choice: 1 specialty, 14 Bachelor's degree programmes, 13 Master's degree programmes, 5 PhD programmes, and also 11 programs of secondary vocational education.The students are taught by highly skilled professors (the staff consists of 49 Doctors of Science and 179 Candidates of Science). Education gained at the university ensures a considerable and profound background in all fields of knowledge and prepares for practical activity.
There is the Preparatory Russian Language Course opened 10 years ago at our University. The students study Russian with highly qualified teaching staff.
Belgorod SAU trains highly skilled experts in the sphere of agriculture. Students acquire profound knowledge both in science and culture. They take an active part in social life by joining different amateur societies and groups such as «The students' Club», a ball-room dancing group, a vocal studio, an amateur theatre, a brass band, a chorus of Russian folk songs, KVN teams (Russian traditional students' festivals of humor).
Students also spend much time on keeping fit and healthy by going in for sports. There is a special building called «Palace of Culture and Sports».
Students who come from abroad live in a new recently constructed hostel. The hostel is equipped with all modern conveniences: a canteen, an Internet-cafe, gyms, laundries, hotel-type rooms with a kitchen and a bathroom in each section.
There one can find a modern cinema hall, a swimming pool, a winter garden (a greenhouse), different educational clubs etc.
The territory infrastructure is also well organised. One can find there a bank, a cash-dispenser, a post office, a polyclinic, several drug-stores and stores of different kinds. The transport network is well developed.
Welcome to our Univerisity!
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Bloggers from around the globe, discuss mental health issues facing people, friends, families and communities worldwide.
Manic depression effects or Bipolar depression is actually considered as one of the worst type of depression that people usually suffer from.
Characterized by sudden and extreme changes in their mood, Manic depression is said to be called as such because manic = mania refers to the 'ups' while depression refers to the 'downs'.
A lot of people actually experience erratic changes in their moods, some times, these so-called mood swings may not just be caused by PMS (pre-menstrual syndrome) or stress. Doctors actually have diagnosed mood swings as a common symptom of depression.
But when these so-called mood swings have gone to utmost absurdity, from getting irked even by the littlest or simplest of thins like not getting your favorite ice cream flavor, this may not be just a sign of brattiness, but when getting irked means you'll cuss and swear on the ice cream vendor and throw absurd tantrums, this may already be the start of Manic depression.The so-called 'manic' or 'ups' in Manic depression is described as to be the times when a person suffering from Manic depression may experience overly high periods, consisting of heightened energy, a sudden outburst of euphoric mood, extreme irritability, thoughts racing as well as aggressive behavior.
According to therapists, someone suffering from Manic depression may have these so-called manic 'periods' wherein sudden outbursts of euphoric and elevated mood swings may actually go through this for as long as not just a day, in can actually go on for as long as one week, even longer than that.
When it comes to the so-called 'low' or 'down' periods, as its name suggests can actually bring someone who is suffering from Manic depression may experience very similar symptoms to those who are suffering from actual depression. People who are suffering from Manic depression may actually experience episodes showing a depressed state of mind - a feeling of worthlessness and being unloved may start to corrupt the individual's mind. Various symptoms, showing guilt, extreme sadness, anxiety attacks, feeling of not belonging, extreme pessimism and obvious loss for pleasure. According to therapists, an individual who is depressed. consistently for more than a week can officially be diagnosed as someone who is suffering from Manic depression.
In spite of being one of the most common, yet severe type of depressive disorder, Manic depression, according to doctors can actually be treated. There's no reason to worry too much about it, just follow the proper procedures that the therapist will instruct you to do, take the proper prescribed medications as well as the proper dosage in order to help you (or your friend or love one) overcome Manic depression before it becomes too late. Also, individuals who are suffering from Manic depression should always be able to see their therapists on a regular basis so as to be able to release their pent up emotions to some one who can interpret and understand what they're going to a lot better as compared to "normal" people.
Abraham Lincoln's War Of Emancipation Against Depression
It is said that the true measure of a man is not seen in times of victory, but in moments of great challenge. A hero, in the true sense of the word, is not about accomplishing incredible feats due to strength, power, and authority. Heroism is best exemplified by men and women who strive for accomplishment in spite of overwhelming odds and latent weaknesses. Abraham Lincoln was one such hero.
In his book entitled, The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln, the author Michael Burlingame attempted to explain the roots of the former U.S. president's depression. Burlingame claims that the death of Lincoln's mother was the cause and the beginning of Lincoln's lifelong battle with melancholia. The book also reveals that as a young child, the future president had to endure the pain and grief of losing a newborn brother, a sister, an uncle, and an aunt. These deaths became embedded in the young Lincoln's psyche, resulting in a series of deep sadness.
Overcoming depression, it can be argued, was Lincoln's greatest feat as a human being. His long list of failures and defeats would surely overwhelm a lesser man.
In 1832, he lost his job and was defeated in his first attempt to win a legislative seat. The following year, his business collapsed and he spent the next 17 years paying-off his debt.
In 1835, his fiancé died, which then made him suffer from a nervous breakdown.
In 1838, he ran for Speaker of the Illinois State Legislature and lost.
In 1843, he again ran for Congress but failed to get nominated. Four years later, he again tried in vain to run for Congress.
In 1854, Lincoln tried his hand at running for the Senate and, again, he lost. Two years later, he ran for Vice President but failed to convince his party mates to nominate him.
And even when he was elected in 1860 as the 16th U.S. President, he faced a country that was being torn by a civil war that claimed more than 600,000 lives.
With all the stress and anxiety that he has gone through, it is no wonder that Abraham Lincoln often looked forlorn, tired, and weak in many of his official photographs. One can only imagine the sheer burden of making decisions that would impact the lives of hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children during a time when America was divided unto itself.
How many sleepless nights did he have almost endlessly pacing his room in deep thought? What kind of torment did he experience just pondering about the thousands of lives that were lost because of the war? As commander-in-chief of the Federal Army, his decisions spelled the difference between life and death for each and every infantryman. Yet somehow, in spite of all the failures and heartaches in his life, Abraham Lincoln was able to pull through and lead a nation. Even in the middle of crippling psychological and emotional upheavals, he was able to win the war and keep the Union together.
During Lincoln's time, the medical and scientific community still had no name for manic-depressive disorder. The psychological disorder was simply called “melancholia.” In those days, there were no psychiatrists, antidepressant prescriptions, counseling, and group therapy available as we know them today.
Indeed, during the nation's darkest hour, Abraham Lincoln was able to ride above the storms of his life and lead as President. While he was never able to achieve complete emancipation from his psychological problems like the freedom that was won for the Negro slaves, Lincoln heroically faced the obstacles and hardships to become America's most revered president.
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John Kucera - Lead Vocals & Guitar
Tim Cook - Bass & Vocals
Steve Adams - Drums
Bert Zweber - Guitar
Black Belt Theatre is, proudly, a very mid-western band.
Hailing from Milwaukee, WI, they embrace the long, beer fueled winters. And the hot, beer-fueled summers. They live and breathe the DIY rock-and-roll ethos of the mid-west.
But this is no basement band. The pedigree here is strong, with all of the members having come from prior groups with national attention. In the mid-90’s, John’s band Alligator Gun was signed to Relativity Records and became a seminal punk rock powerhouse that included future members of The Promise Ring and Dashboard Confessional. Tim and Steve comprised one half of Bender, a popular Milwaukee rock act that released an album on TVT Records in 2000 and toured the country with several major artists. Bert was also a key part of the late 90’s post-grunge Milwaukee explosion, being a member of The Buzzhorn, who released an album on Atlantic Records.
Having all stepped away from music for 10+ years following the demise of their previous bands, they joined forces in the fall of 2013. They immediately began writing music for what would become "Hibernation Termination", their debut album. The objective was simple. In a music climate where loud, straight-ahead rock and roll was being pushed to the fringes, they wanted to make a record that rocked.
Released in the fall of 2014, "Hibernation Termination" set the foundation for the band.
In the summer of 2016, they set about to make an album that would define the band.
The common thread that ties the four of them together is their love for late 70’s/early 80’s power rock. Think Cheap Trick, Thin Lizzy, UFO, April Wine, etc. Throw in modern influences like Danko Jones, Eagles of Death Metal and the like, and you have a recipe for a fresh, but somehow familiar sound. This direction was taking its early form with "Hibernation Termination". But in the writing of their follow-up, it became the template.
So they wrote. And re-wrote. And revised. They tested their new material live, with shows that were becoming known for their cock-thrusting bravado.
The summer of 2017 brought the release of "Superbitch", the second album. A record that pulls the entire vision together in the form of eight concise power-rock songs. Dripping with sing-along melodies. Heavy on the guitar. It’s the kind of album that the band members themselves would have loved in their teens. It sounds like “now”, but it will remind you of “then”.
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Film Review: Sanctum
Outdoor adventure movies come and go, and unfortunately few of them are really very good. The newly released to DVD film, Sanctum is just such a film.
The film follows a team of cave-divers, climbers and cave explorers on their quest to drop down a deep hole in Papa New Guinea in order to find a cave system that connects to the ocean. While exploring the depths of the cave a cyclone settles on land far above the team. The team's exit is blocked and the water begins to rise. This forces the team to descend deeper into the cave system and to try to find a way out to the ocean.
The plot is fascinating and it could have been an excellent outdoor adventure film. But alas, the writing is quite poor. The characters are weak. And there are some sequences that are just plain bad...
The writing team for this film is made-up of people who haven't done much when it comes to narrative drama. Screenwriter Andrew Wight has a number of underwater documentary films to his credit, but no real narrative film-writing experience. And screenwriter John Garvin has no other screenplays to his name. Director Alister Grierson has a handful of other movie titles under his belt, but they all appear to be second-rate B films.
It is clear that the reason this movie was made was because super-director James Cameron (Titanic, Avatar, The Abyss) was behind the production team. It's well-known that Cameron enjoys working with an underwater environment. He has pioneered a number of underwater and deep-sea filming techniques for both his narrative blockbusters as well as for some of his lesser-known documentary works.
The underwater cave diving sequences in Sanctum are cool. Some of them are really cool. And this element of the film lends credence to the entire -- sometimes painful -- experience of watching the movie. It is clear that the focus of the film was to play with this type of cinemetagrophy instead of telling a story that has some value.
Supposedly the story is based on real life events. It appears that the real-life version of the story wasn't anywhere near dramatic enough for Hollywood. The problem with the real-life story was that, while dramatic, everybody survived and there were no cardboard villains twisting their mustaches.
In 1988 Sanctum screenwriter Andrew Wight was on an expedition that mirrored the one in the film. His team was exploring a deep cave when a cyclone arrived causing a flash-flood which cut-off their exit route. Wight and his companions were forced deeper into the cave system to find their exit.
The core of the story is really interesting, but the characters and the situations some of the characters put themselves in are somewhat ludicrous.
There is a tendency in Hollywood-style outdoor adventure films to paint one character as a gruff, hard, outdoor-type guy. Usually this kind of character has seen it all. And often there's a coldness or a latent level of violence in the character. Think Clint Eastwood in The Eiger Sanction, or Scott Glen in Vertical Limit, or even Brad Pitt in Seven Years in Tibet. The character is so common in these types of movies, that he (and it usually is a he) is almost archetypal.
The problem with the gruff-outdoors-guy-who's-seen-it-all-and-is-an-ass because-of-it character is that he doesn't exist in real life. Yeah, there are a lot of anti-social climbers out there. And yeah, there are a lot of people who are obsessed with their objectives. And indeed, there are a lot of people out there who will push it to the limit and beyond to achieve their goals. But, you know what? Even when they're arrogant, most of these people are still nice. They want to talk about their passion and they want to bring you into it. And most of them don't see death on a daily basis the way these types of characters seem to.
The leader of the caving team, Frank (Richard Roxburgh) is just such a character. At one point in the movie a man is seriously injured and Frank decides that the best way to deal with him is to drown him instead of to try and get him out. This is absolutely crazy. And not only that, but dealing with an injured character that they're trying to keep alive would have been a whole lot more interesting than murdering him.
There is another archetypal outdoor adventure movie character as well. That's the billionaire playboy explorer, who is actually a coward. Ioan Gruffudd plays this character well because there's little to play. It's a boring and simplistic characterization that needs to disappear from adventure films.
This is a women and minorities die first movie. These types of films had their heyday with horror movies in the seventies, eighties and early nineties. I thought that modern filmmakers were done with such a terrible story arc, but I was wrong.
And from a climbing perspective, one woman dies after she gets her hair caught in a belay device and decides that she should try to cut it out...accidentally cutting the rope. She should have taken one of our classes...
Sanctum is not a good movie, but there are some interesting sequences and some moments where you're with the characters as they struggle to survive. But when they start to talk, things fall apart...
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I expected this film to be much worse, but it was argued by my JC - James Cameron as executive producer and has some of the best 3D graphics on the market. Alister Grierson I praise the correct use of 3D cameras, not only that, those who prefer JC and created.
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Study suggests disarmingly simple way to better job ethics: slow down(1)
When the FBI made front-page headlines recently with the arrest of a coterie of financial traders and analysts charged with tens of millions dollars worth of securities fraud, it was only the most recent of dozens of similar cases over the past two years. Yet, such big-time rip-offs, spectacular though they are, represent only a tiny sliver of the nation's total business-related cheating, according to the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, which estimates that U.S. business lost close to a trillion dollars from employee fraud in one recent year.
Is such a massive amount of cheating indicative of a work force that is hopelessly corrupt? Research in the new issue of the Academy of Management Journal suggests not. It finds that, confronted with clear choices between right and wrong, people are more than five times more likely to do the right thing when they have some time to think about the matter than they are when they have to make a snap decision.
"Having time to think things over may not make much difference in big-time financial swindles, but our findings suggest that it would make a considerable difference in innumerable instances of lying and fraud that happen every day in the business world," comments J. Keith Murnighan of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, who carried out the new research with Brian Gunia of Johns Hopkins University, Long Wang of City University of Hong Kong, and Li Huang and Jiunwen Wang of Northwestern.
In explanation, Prof. Murnighan adds: "Immediate, automatic moral intuitions tend to be selfish, given that self-interest is a basic, instinctual response to external stimuli. In contrast, conscious, deliberative thought adds social concerns, setting off a battle within the individual that pits the strength of self-interested intuitive desires against the constraints established by social learning."
The study also finds that even a modest nudge on behalf of morality can carry the day in such battles, with ethical urgings four times more likely to engender good deeds than advice on behalf of self-interest will.
In sum, as the study puts it, "Organizations with a 'fast pulse' or tendency to reward quick decision-making may suffer ethical penalties by discouraging contemplation and conversation... At a minimum, our results suggest that individual, organizational actors facing right-wrong decisions should take the time to think or to consult an ethical colleague."
The findings emerge from experiments involving 146 college undergraduates who were confronted with a moral dilemma that the researchers manipulated in several different ways. Seated at computer terminals, participants were told that $15 would be divided between them and another student (who, unbeknownst to the subjects actually did not exist) according to one of two options. In Option A, the participant would received $10 and the other student $5; in Option B, the participant would receive $5 and the other student $10. The imaginary other student would choose one option or the other, and it was up to the participant to send beforehand one of two messages of advice. A truthful message would be "Option B earns you more than Option A"; a lie would be "Option A earns you more than Option B."
In one variation, the "immediate-choice condition," participants received instructions and proceeded directly to a screen that asked them to send the message within 30 seconds. In the "contemplation condition," subjects first encountered a screen that remained visible for three minutes and that asked the subject to "please think very carefully about which message to send."
The difference between the two groups was dramatic: 26 of 30 subjects in the contemplation condition (87%) told the truth even though it resulted in their receiving less money than their anonymous counterparts. This compared to 19 of 34 (56%) of the subjects who were asked to make an immediate choice.
In a second experiment, subjects were confronted with the same two options, but this time, before making a decision, they received one of three brief emails from a third party (again fictional) who was supposedly facing the same dilemma. One message "guess[ed] that most people would b honest on this kinda situation;" a second couldn't "help thinking that most other people would try to gain the most money"; a third offered no particular advice, "guessing most people would have a hard time deciding what to do in this kinda situation."
Again the results presented a stark contrast: 20 of 25 subjects who received the ethical email (80%) told the truth, in contrast to 14 of 28 (50%) who were urged to attend to their self-interest and 20 of 29 (69%) who were not given any particular advice.
While such results suggest the benefits that derive from an ethical workplace milieu, the professors express concern about the "potent effects" of the superficial advice proffered in the experiments. In the words of the study, "Given the current ubiquity of email and text messaging, these findings are troubling. More generally they suggest that right-wrong decisions can put people on the fence, straddling ethical action and temptation, and that even minimal influence processes can have big effects...Whether [the advice] led them toward or away from ethicality, the fact that people were influenced at all by such minimal conversations is troubling, as it suggests that people routinely depend on others, even unknown others, to direct their moral choices."
In conclusion, the study urges organizations to "consciously design moral decision-making processes, integrating them into training and enforcing them institutionally via policies, rewards, and sanctions. Policies mandating a 'cooling-off period' or multiple levels of approval for consequential decisions, for example, might provide institutional analogs for contemplation, and ethics hotlines might act as institutional conversations. Opportunities for instituting and improving these kinds of procedures abound."
Adds Prof. Murnighan: "Executives know what types of decisions raise moral red flags in their companies. If people make these decisions electronically, their computers might be programmed to require contemplation time before decisions are finalized -- and even to fill this time with reminders of the firm's ethical values. Managers already employ similar technology, though usually for non-moral purposes. Hopefully, they will assign enough priority to ethics to adapt existing tools for the purpose of encouraging what's right."
The new study, entitled "Contemplation and Conversation: Subtle Influences on Moral Decision-Making" is in the February/March issue of the The Academy of Management Journal. This peer-reviewed publication is published every other month by the Academy, which, with about 18,000 members in 103 countries, is the largest organization in the world devoted to management research and teaching. The Academy's other publications are the The Academy of Management Review, The Academy of Management Perspectives and Academy of Management Learning and Education
hbr.com. Extra thinking time leads to ethical decisions. (Tuesday, January 31, 2012).
JewishJournal.com. The transformative power of ritual. (Monday, March 26, 2012).
The Globe & Mail. The pause that refreshes your ethics. (Friday, February 03, 2012).
The Wall Street Journal. Take a deep breath, make ethical choices. (Wednesday, March 07, 2012).
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Movie Review - Argo
Starring: Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, Alan Arkin, John Goodman, Victor Garber, Tate Donovan, Clea DuVall, Scoot McNairy, Rory Cochrane, Christopher Denham, Kerry Bishé, Kyle Chandler, Chris Messina, Zeljiko Ivanek, and more.
Directed by: Ben Affleck Screenplay by: Chris Terrio Based on the Book by: Tony Mendez Also Based on an Article by: Joshuah Bearman Cinematography by: Rodrigo Pietro Original Music by: Alexandre Desplat
Premise: Six members of the American Embassy in Iran escaped the embassy when it was overrun in 1979. Given shelter at the home of the Canadian Ambassador, it's only a matter of time before someone figures out they're not supposed to be there. As the hostage situation in the American Embassy escalates, the US calls in Tony Mendez of the CIA to help the State Department come up with a way to get the six out of the country without getting caught or be used to aggravate an already volatile situation. (Rated R)
1) Acting - Total Thumbs Up: On this type of film the whole cast has to be good to weave a tale which will mesmerize the audience, and the cast was good. Alan Arkan and John Goodman tried very hard to steal the show as the two Hollywood types Ben Affleck goes to for help after getting the idea on how to get the six stranded embassy members out. Once they truly get going to set up what they need, the three of them will come up with a phrase you won't soon forget. When it comes up at the end and you feel the tug on your heart, you'll know for sure they have you.
2) Special Effects - Total Thumbs Up: The following may not seem like special effects, but since I think they served the same purpose, I placed them here. The film used two things to instantly transport the viewers to the 70's. First, they used the Warner Brothers logo being used in 1979 rather than the latest modern version. Second, they used the same kind of film lenses as were the 'norm' in 1979, giving the entire movie a visual feel of that period. Combine both of these with the historical film clips, recreated scenes from photographs, as well as the clothing, and the hairstyles of the period, and you'll truly feel like you're back in 1979.
3) Plot/Story - Thumbs Up: I was a teenager when the events depicted in "Argo" occurred, so there was an odd sense of deja vu as I watched different parts of the film. Clips from different news stories at the time of the events helped solidify the concept that all this actually happened.
The story gets a quick introduction to set the historical context for the audience, but is told in a series of drawings as you'd see on a film studio's story board, connecting it from the very beginning to the idea of film and telling tales. The story then broadens and relates events from different viewpoints rather than just a one sided view of what happened.
Moments of tension were well developed, even when you expect them. It was a nice surprise when one of the people who proved most difficult during the ordeal, in the end was actually responsible for the end success of their escape.
4) Locations/Cinematography - Total Thumbs Up: The film had many excellent shots of locations in Istanbul as well as recreated buildings and facades of what places looked like at the time of the incident. The first panned shot of the American Embassy truly drove home the difficult situation we'd stumbled upon as you're shown the crowded street at the embassy gates as well as up and down the street in both directions. The gorgeous window spanning shots of the mountains and the city proved an amazing contrast as the agent sits in his Sheraton hotel room battling internally as he gambles with the lives of the six people in his care.
One sequence, which was fabulous as well as poignant, was the crisscrossing of visual and audio between the party in Hollywood to try to legitimize the "Argo" project and escalating events in Iran. Another was the first view of Hollywood, showing the sad state at the time of the iconic letters in the hills before they were saved by donations and restored back to life.
5) Costuming/Makeup - Total Thumbs Up: With the old logo and old lenses lending to the creation of a 70's feel for the film, as well as the stock footage of the news of the day, the final touches to take the audience back to the past came from the costuming and the makeup departments. The clothing, the hairstyles, the huge eyeglasses, literally 'screamed' it was the 70's. Add in the vintage vehicles and the recreated locations, and we were easily transplanted back in time. A great job all around.
Conclusion: "Argo" is an entertaining and fascinating look at what went on behind the scenes at the time of the American Embassy crisis. If your friends or significant others are into history or politics, it can make for some entertaining discussion afterwards as well. Make sure to sit through the credits! They show pictures from the real fake passports side by side to the actors playing the parts and even compare side by side pictures of the original scenes in 1979 beside their recreations. Fascinating! SF fans will find all sorts of little things to giggle about as well.
Rating: 4 out of 5 (Hubby's Rating: Worth Full Price of Admission)
Posted by Gloria Oliver at 11:56 PM
Labels: 1979, Alan Arkin, Argo, author, Ben Affleck, Gloria Oliver, historical films, John Goodman, Kyle Chandler, movie reviews, Movies, Unveiling the Fantastic
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Camp Seed - Activities.
The Camp. Stuart Mill. The Region.
Camp Seed.
The facility commenced operating as the Bishop James Camp and Conference Centre in 1961 before becoming Camp Seed in 2013. The Camp has been utilised for:
School camps
Country Women’s Association of Australia meetings
Base for car and trail bike rallies
Mountain bike groups
The Camp was established in 1961 by the Bendigo Diocese of the Anglican Church. The land in Church St was gazetted to the Church of England in 1869, at the same time as the Catholic Church, when the township of Stuart Mill had a population estimated over 10,000.
In October 1959, Bishop Winter spoke at the synod and proposed a memorial to Bishop James, the first Bishop of he St Arnaud Diocese.
"...as Bishop James had been a very practical man, he suggested that 'a Diocesan centre or Youth Centre would be something that would have appealed to him'. It would serve for youth rallies and camps, gatherings of men, women, girls and boys for conference and recreation..."
A History of the Diocese of St Arnaud 1926-1976, Keith Cole
Three workman's cottages were purchased from the State Rivers at the Cairn Cairn reservoir, and a kitchen and dining room were purchased from the Army, with all buildings transported to the site.
"The camp had the only electricity in Stuart Mill provided by generator and stories are told how local residents would gather in the dining room to socialize, because at home they only had lamps and candles. The centre itself was also fairly basic. The patrons washed in a line of enamel basins on a bench outside the kitchen and the toilets were up the hill at the school next door.
There was a major upgrade in 1989 ... and in 2002 the cottages were removed and attractive mud brick accommodation units built along with other improvements."
North Central News, Wed Feb 13th 2013
In early 2013 the Church sold the property, and the Camp was subsequently renamed Camp Seed.
The township of Stuart Mill sits at the base of the 13,900ha St Arnaud Range National Park.
"St Arnaud Range National Park features mainly steep, forested terrain and is an ideal place to experience what the forests of Central Victoria were like before the gold rushes. The rocky ridge tops in the park offer fine views for bushwalkers and four-wheel-drive tourers, and there are ample opportunities for hiking in the steep and rugged terrain. The Upper Teddington Reservoir is a peaceful place for picnics..."
Parks Victoria
"The park contains one of the largest and relatively intact areas of box-ironbark vegetation in Victoria, and its large, hollow-bearing trees provide significant habitat for threatened species such as the Powerful Owl and Brush-tailed Phascogale.
It's also important habitat for nectar-feeding species that prefer to forage from large trees, including Australia's nationally endangered Swift Parrot. In September the forest lights up with the flowering of Australia's floral emblem, the Golden Wattle.
At other times of the year look for patches of Gold-dust Wattle, Gorse Bitter-pea and orchids.
Wildlife to look out for includes Feathertail Gliders, Diamond Firetails, Tree Goannas, Black-chinned Honeyeaters, Speckled Warblers and Marbled Geckos."
Victorian National Parks Association
The Park offers great four-wheel-drive and trail bike trails, such as the Teddington Track. The Teddington Reservoirs provide a good location for fishing, with brown trout and redfin commonly being caught.
The Matarangi Stud offers rides on their quarter horses. Contact John Rahaley for details.
The Region.
Stuart Mill is situated in the Northern Grampians Shire and is located near the Pyrenees wine district.
Aboriginal people are believed to have inhabited the area for approximately 13,000 years.
The region was settled in the 1830's, with large sheep runs across the region.
Gold was found in the Pyrenees Ranges near Avoca in 1849. The Camp Seed grounds contained a working gold mine that produced over 424oz (~12kg) of gold.
In 1868 a vineyard was established just outside of Beaufort, but ceased commercial operation in the 1870's. A vineyard and winery commenced operations in Avoca in 1887 and ran until the 1920's. In 1963 a vineyard was planted just outside Avoca and became the Blue Pyrenees Estate. Since then the wine industry has continued to expand, with over 30 wineries operating in the region.
Townships.
St Arnaud
Just 15 minutes to the North of Stuart Mill, the town of St Arnaud contains many buildings reminiscent of the gold rush era. It is also home to the oldest fire station in Victoria.
St Arnaud contains the closest shops to Stuart Mill, with a supermarket, bottle shops, hardware and cafes with delicious food and great coffee.
Gateway to the Pyrenees. If traveling from Melbourne, it is the last chance to stop to pick up any last-minute supplies before reaching Stuart Mill and Camp Seed.
A thriving town with a lively main street. Nice route for return journey to Melbourne via Clunes and Daylesford.
Wineries.
With over 30 wineries with cellar doors in the Pyrenees, there is never a shortage of a good drop.
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Cores, Peripheries, and Globalization ›
Cores, Peripheries, and Globalization
Peter Hanns Reill
Balázs A. Szelényi
Regional disparities
Deals with the intersection of issues associated with globalization and the dynamics of core-periphery relations. It places these debates in a large and vital context asking what the relations between cores and peripheries have in forming our vision of what constitutes globalization and what were and are its possible effects. In this sense the debate on globalization is framed as part of a larger and more crucial discourse that tries to account for the essential dynamics—economic, social, political and cultural—between metropolitan areas and their peripheries.
The volume, which has been accomplished in honor of Ivan T. Berend, former Director of the Center for European and Eurasian Studies of UCLA, is organized under three themes, each of which is part of the larger discussion concerning the dynamics of core-periphery relations in a globalized world. The first section deals with the theoretical origins and implications of the core-periphery debate. The second, focusing primarily upon Central and Eastern Europe, analyzes the interactions between economy and society. The third section focuses upon the concept of globalization, its history and its nature.
Section 1: ORIGINS AND THEORETICAL DISCUSSIONS OF CORE-PERIPHERY RELATIONS
Chapter 1: The Latin American Contribution to Center-Periphery Perspectives: History and Prospect, JOSEPH L. LOVE
Chapter 2: From Plantation to Plant: Slavery, the Slave Trade, and the Industrial Revolution, JEAN BATOU
Chapter 3: Theories and Realities: What are the Causes of Backwardness? DANIEL CHIROT
Chapter 4: Development Possible? Possible Developments: A Research Agenda, IMMANUEL WALLERSTEIN
Section 2: FROM THE EUROPEAN PERIPHERY TO THE CORE AND BACK Chapter 5: Between Center and Periphery, EUGENE WEBER
Chapter 6: Core, Periphery, and Civil Society, JÜRGEN KOCKA
Chapter 7: Conceptions and Constructions: East Central Europe in Economic History, HELGA SCHULZ
Chapter 8: Liberal Economic Nationalism in Eastern Europe during the First Wave of Globalization (1860–1914), THOMAS DAVID and ELISABETH SPILMAN
Chapter 9: The Rise and the Fall of the Second Bildungsburgertum, IVÁN SZELÉNYI
Section 3: GLOBALIZATION: ITS HISTORY, NATURE AND PROBLEMS
Chapter 10: Globalization, Core, and Periphery in the World Economy of the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Times, HERMAN VAN DER WEE
Chapter 11: The Pre-History of Core-Periphery, ROBERT BRENNER
Chapter 12: Globalization and Its Impact on Core-Periphery Relations: Characteristics of Globalization, IVAN T. BEREND
Chapter 13: From West European to World Science: Seventeenth–Twentieth Centuries, ERIC J. HOBSBAWM
Czech Sociological Review
"Brings together a number of prominent historians to investigate the nature of relations between developed areas or nations and those that are under-developed or emerging. The editors invited scholars with an impressive record of research on various aspects of development to refl ect on the concepts of core and periphery in order to forge new analytical tools to investigate the history of globalisation. The essays include interesting details on the history of dependency theory, provide an overview of some of the disputes on the role of individual factors in spurring or hindering industrialisation and sustained development, and many of the contributions, if not all, also summarise past research achievements and make some very interesting observations or speculations on the implications of a particular argument along the way."
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Home » Focus Areas » Architecture and Public Policy
Architecture and Public Policy
SOPA Protect IP
CIS explores how changes in the architecture of computer networks affect the economic environment for innovation and competition on the Internet, and how the law should react to those changes. This work has lead us to analyze the issue of network neutrality, perhaps the Internet's most debated policy issue, which concerns Internet user's ability to access the content and software of their choice without interference from network providers.
Barbara van Schewick
Professor of Law and Helen L. Crocker Faculty Scholar at Stanford Law School, Director of Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society, and Professor (by courtesy) of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
Barbara van Schewick is a Professor of Law and Helen L. Crocker Faculty Scholar at Stanford Law School, Director of Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society, Professor (by courtesy) of Electrical Engineering in Stanford University’s Department of Electrical Engineering, and a leading expert on net neutrality.
Paddy Leerssen
Paddy Leerssen was the Open Internet Fellow at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society in 2017-2018. AT CIS, he worked on digital media and communications law in general, and net neutrality policy in particular. He is now a PhD Candidate at the University of Amsterdam, where his dissertation focuses on the impacts of algorithmic content recommendations on the governance of media pluralism. Paddy holds an LL.M. from Harvard Law School, where he studied as a Fulbright Scholar, an LL.M. from the University of Amsterdam, and an LL.B. from Maastricht University.
Marvin Ammori
Affiliate Scholar
Marvin Ammori is a leading First Amendment lawyer and Internet policy expert. He was instrumental to the adoption of network neutrality rules in the US and abroad–having been perhaps the nation’s leading legal advocate advancing network neutrality–and also instrumental to the defeat of the SOPA and PIPA copyright/censorship bills.
Emily Baxter
Emily Baxter is a research associate for Women's Economic Policy at the Center for American Progress, focusing on women's and families' economic security, women's leadership, and work-family balance. She previously worked as the special assistant for the Faith and Progressive Policy Initiative at the Center. In the fall of 2012, Emily was a field organizer for President Obama’s re-election campaign near her hometown of Erie, Pennsylvania.
The FCC rearranges the deck chairs on the Titanic
By Larry Downes on December 22, 2006 at 10:29 am
There they go again. The other day (see http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/21/business/21cable.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&o... ), the FCC ruled in favor of local phone companies and ordered municipalities to respond within 90 days to requests by phone companies to offer cable services. The Times quotes a Verizon spokesman saying, “This means an end to the automatic skyrocketing in cable prices and means greater choice in service and programming."
Search Law & Policy @ Haifa
By Stefan Bechtold on December 21, 2006 at 12:51 pm
Search is becoming an increasingly important topic in cyberlaw.
governmediality.net is live
By Christoph Engemann on December 6, 2006 at 2:54 am
The website for the workshop 'Governmediality of Work, Welfare, and the Life Course'at the Hanse Institute for Advanced Study Delmenhorst, Germany Dec 7th/ 8th 2006 is now live: www.governmediality.net.
Participatory culture report
By Colette Vogele on November 28, 2006 at 8:21 am
The Rise of Participation Culture reports and summarizes a number of trends and explains "why the Internet and a new wave of Web applications have been embraced by a tech-savvy generation and spawned a culture of participation". Steve Borsch does a thoughtful job of reviewing (albeit at a high level) a number of aspects of the new web (or Web 2.0, the LiveWeb, NextGenWeb, or whatever else we want to call it) in three broad categories: Internet as Platform, Participation Applications and People. (Also available from Borsch's blog, Connecting the Dots.) This report hits all the highlights and is worth a read if you're looking for the big picture... you know, that proverbial forest through the trees.
Slowing Down the Presses: The Relationship Between Net Neutrality and Local News
Adam Hersh
White Paper / Report
The FCC is poised to rescind the Open Internet Order—the set of strong, enforceable net neutrality rules that prohibit internet service providers (ISPs) from interfering with web traffic that travels across their networks. One unintentional victim of that action is likely to be small television stations, newspaper publishers, and websites devoted to local news. Local news outlets play a vital civic role, but they face a crisis of declining revenue and audience, largely driven by internet competition.
FCC Wants to Kill Net Neutrality. Congress Will Pay the Price
Ryan Singel
FCC Chair Ajit Pai’s plan to repeal net neutrality provisions and reclassify broadband providers from “common carriers” to “information services” is an unprecedented giveaway to big broadband providers and a danger to the internet. The move would mean the FCC would have almost no oversight authority over broadband providers like Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T.
Read full Wired article.
The FCC is about to repeal net neutrality. Here’s why Congress should stop them.
On Wednesday November 22, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai published his draft order outlining his plan to undo the net neutrality protections that have been in place in the U.S. since the beginning of the Internet. His proposal would leave both the FCC and the states powerless to protect consumers and businesses against net neutrality violations by Internet Service Providers (ISPs) like Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon that connect us to the Internet.
Commentary: The FCC Has Always Defended Net Neutrality. Why Stop Now?
Earlier this week Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai announced a radical plan to undo the net neutrality protections that have been in place in the U.S. since the beginning of the Internet.
Verizon v. Federal Communications Commission
Comcast Corporation v. Federal Communications Commission
Comcast Corp. v. FCC is a 2010 United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia case holding that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) does not have ancillary jurisdiction over Comcast’s Internet service under the language of the Communications Act of 1934. In so holding, the Court vacated a 2008 order issued by the FCC that asserted jurisdiction over Comcast’s network management polices and censured Comcast from interfering with its subscribers' use of peer-to-peer software.
Federal Communications Commission Preserving the Open Internet Proceeding
In 2005, on the same day the FCC re-classified DSL service and effectively reduced the regulatory obligations of DSL providers, the FCC announced its unanimous view that consumers are entitled to certain rights and expectations with respect to their broadband service, including the right to:
Federal Communications Commission Proceeding Regarding Comcast’s Blocking of BitTorrent
Why Net Neutrality Advocates Remain Optimistic
"Eshoo and her copanelists, Federal Communications Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel, Reddit CEO Steven Huffman, and Stanford law professor Barbara van Schewick, remained doggedly optimistic about the future of net neutrality in the United States."
Reddit Co-founder, Congresswoman advocate for net neutrality at Law School event
The Stanford Daily
"Van Schewick argued that the motivation for removing net neutrality rules came largely from ISPs looking to capitalize on their positions as gatekeepers. She said that in 2013, prior to net neutrality regulations being put in place, six large ISPs started using “choke points” to slow down certain games and and videos, only speeding them up if the hosting websites were willing to pay.
“The ISPs have more money, and they definitely have more lobbyists,” Schewick said. “But that does not mean they get to win. They only win if we are silent.”"
How the EU’s Far Right Will Boost Google, Facebook, and Amazon
"Thomas Lohninger, executive director of Epicenter Works, another NGO that ran an ostensibly grassroots campaign against the Copyright Directive, says his group worked with politicians from across the spectrum. “You can find allies in all political parties, and if you are working toward the majority, you also have to talk with all of the people and explore all avenues that you can in order to gain a majority. And that's what we did,” Lohninger says. “There are of course the Euroskeptics, that are fundamentally opposed to every type of European legislation or regulation.
Why internet users in Austria face losing their anonymity
"Thomas Lohninger of civil rights group Epicenter Works told German-language website Der Standard: “It’s remarkable how little thought has gone into this.”"
What the Loss of Net Neutrality Means for Democracy and Innovation (Past Event)
In 2017, the FCC voted to abolish net neutrality protections, which ensure that we, not the companies we pay to get online, get to choose what we do online. This event will explore what we lost, why it matters, and what’s happening with efforts to restore those protections in the courts, the states and Washington, D.C.
The Antitrust Paradigm: Restoring a Competitive Economy - Lunch Time Talk with Jonathan Baker (Past Event)
RSVP is required for this free event.
CIS Career Lunch Series: Innovative Product Counseling at Google (Past Event)
FCBA Northern California Chapter CLE: California Net Neutrality Policy (Past Event)
Davis Wright Tremaine LLP - Suite 800
Join the FCBA's Northern California Chapter for an engaging discussion with key government, academic, and industry speakers to discuss the past, present, and future of net neutrality policy in California.
DOJ Lawsuit Against California Raises Legal Questions Over Net Neutrality
The U.S. Justice Department has sued California over its net neutrality law.
California Gov. Jerry Brown recently signed the measure, which was in response to the Federal Communications Commission’s decision to repeal net neutrality in 2017, which took effect this past June.
To learn more about this lawsuit, The Show spoke with Barbara van Schewick, a law professor and director of the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School.
Expert: Smart Tech Is Making Us Dumb
We know that smart phones and other information technology are changing the way we live and the way we relate to other people, but could they actually be making us dumber?
Brett Frischmann says they are, and that we should question the use of digital technology and surveillance.
Can states regulate the internet?
The days are numbered for federal net neutrality regulations. In response, some states are working on their own versions to prevent internet service providers (ISP) from blocking, slowing or charging more for some web traffic. Oregon, Washington and several other states have made new rules, but a bill working its way through the California legislature would go the furthest. Marketplace Tech host Molly Wood spoke with Ryan Singel, a media and strategy fellow at Stanford Law School, about how a state can regulate a business that crosses state lines.
Stanford Legal with Pam Karlan & Joe Bankman: "Web extra: Net neutrality with guest Barbara van Schewick"
Law School professor Barbara van Schewick discusses net neutrality as the FCC plans to vote on changing those rules.
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You are here: Home Dalmatia Info Rest day in Dalmatia
Rest day in Dalmatia
What to do on your rest day?
Dalmatian region is very rich with spectacular landscapes and amazing locations. Among many options for your rest day, we will try to bring up some of the ideas we thought it would be good for you to know how to spend a non-climbing day in our country.
Walking/hiking in the nature
-Visiting National Park Krka - Krka river near Sibenik town is recommended for spring, summer and autumn time of year for nice and refreshing walks around waterfalls where you can have a picnic day with nice swimming and easy hiking. Check out web page for more information.
-Visiting Velebit Park of the nature and National Park Pakelnica – Velebit mountain range is impressive massive with huge rock climbing and hiking options. There are too many things to say and to do at Velebit area, and the best is to investigate on your own. We bring you two links; for Velebit park of the nature and NP Paklenica.
-Visiting Biokovo park of the nature
-Visiting Imotski lakes, incredible Red lake and Blue lake.
Omis region is main location for white water activities like rafting canyoning, kayak, kanu, but also for rock climbing as we pointed out already.
Our partners are providing one of the most adventurous trips in the region, adventure canyoning with zip line included.
Check out Avantura Adventures offer!
Contact us for more information’s!
One day boat tours
-Visiting National Park Kornati archipelago – If you are eager to do a boat day trip, this is the right thing for you. Kornati archipelago National park is unique location with 404 islands on the very small area. The islands are inhabited
-Visiting Mljet National Park – the north part of the island Mljet is a National park with great walks and hiking. The park covers two natural lakes in the middle of the island, which is very rear and unique in the world.
Visiting historical sites and a bit of history
400 years B.C. Illyrian tribe Delmati lived here until Greeks came and recognized Dalmatian coast as very rich and settled all over the Adriatic.
Romans came later and pushed the Greeks out, and settled in Salona, which was ancient Roman town, Capital of Dalmatia.
In 7th century Croats came from Karpati.
Medieval ages were very difficult for Croatians. On the coast, from 11th century Venetians were trying to rule all over the Adriatic and pretty much they did. Adriatic Sea they named Del Golfo Di Venezia – Gulf of Venice.
From East, today’s Bosnia, Huge Ottoman Empire was spreading fast. Turks were merciless and people were running away in fear, pretty much on Dalmatian islands.
Zagreb area and North part of Croatia was under Austro Hungarian Empire. Austrians managed to get down to the coast and stayed there for hundred years, after they pushed French army with Napoleon at 1815.
In the middle of all of these empires, there was small Dubrovnik Republic existing with only 40.000 people, managing to keep their independence for almost 4 centuries, what was pretty incredible. The only independent Slavic republic was abolished by Napoleon at 1808.
Ancient Salona
There are remains of the ancient town of Salona which it is presumed was built in the 4th century B.C. and which can still be seen in Solin today. Salona was the port of the Illyrian Delmati tribe, where the Greeks and Romans lived. In the 48th year B.C., Julius Caesar proclaimed Salona as the centre of the Roman province of Dalmatia. The town centre had a trapezoidal form, was enclosed by city walls and was fortified by towers. Within it was a complex of town basilicas, and a monumental cathedral with a baptistery and thermal were later constructed. Still today, the peristyle of thermae is recognizable as a place where a bath with furnaces and dressing rooms as well as the Old Christian facilities, connected to the basilicas with activities of St. Dujam was situated. At the southern part are the remains of the forum, the temple and the theatre from the 1st century.
Klis fortress
City of Klis, very important location through the history, got its name after Clissa – the key, the key of Dalmatia. The Klis fortress is situated on the hill of the same name and in the past, thanks to its strategic importance, was a notable defensive position. Situated on the high, natural sheer rocks above the crossing between the continental and coastal parts, a beautiful view extends over the surrounding parts areas and even as far as the island of Vis. The Fortress has three levels and is surrounded by a triple ring of city walls whilst the most important parts of the fortress are the Knezeva kuca (Prince House), the church of St. Vitus, the powder-magazine, the officers' barracks and the Oprah tower.
Diocletian’s palace
Visiting 1700 years old Roman palace in the center of Split is a must do thing here. Very well preserved, palace is the biggest attraction in Split and one of the oldest. Find how Diocletian, Roman Emperor who was born in Salona managed to rule and abdicate later in the age of 70 what was pretty strange for one Roman emperor in that time.
Investigating palace and its narrow streets full of people will affect you strongly, so we recommend it!
While walking around our beautiful town, we have to point out some interesting places beside our museums which are telling amazing story from our history:
- Fish market - you have to see and visit major fish market in Dalmatia for many reasons. It is built just nearby sulfa springs and smell is obvious, but this is the reason why we don't have fly's at the fish market.
- Hajduk stadium - we are big soccer fans and we have great stadium built in 1979 in the shape of sea shell. Hajduk soccer team is like religion in Dalmatia what is visible from every corner of our town.
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So Much Pretty
Cara Hoffman
Hoffman writes with a restraint that makes poetry of pain.
— The New York Times Book Review
Praise for So Much Pretty
Best Suspense Novel of 2011 - New York Times Book review
In her fearless first novel, So Much Pretty, Cara Hoffman demolishes our illusions about country life by addressing the problems of poverty, domestic abuse, teenage violence and environmental damage that are threatening to destroy the small communities of rural America. Gene and Claire Piper, newly married doctors who worked in a free clinic on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, thought they’d escaped the curse of modern civilization when they moved to a depressed upstate town and turned to organic farming. But years later, when their daughter, Alice, is in high school, their neighbors still consider them outsiders. Precociously brilliant Alice is even more of an alien, though she doesn’t realize it until the murder of a local girl makes her aware of the community’s hateful attitudes toward women.
For all the passion in this intense narrative, Hoffman writes with a restraint that makes poetry of pain. She also shows a mastery of her craft by developing the story over 17 years and narrating it from multiple perspectives. While each has a different take on the horrific events that no one saw coming, the people who live in this insular place remain willfully blind to their own contributions to the deeper causes that made this tragedy almost inevitable.
[A] dark but powerful début novel . . . . Hoffman maps the atmosphere of paranoia that descends on the formerly tranquil town as she moves deftly between its inhabitants . . . the book’s eerily potent conclusion will convince readers that, as Hoffman writes, ‘the responsibility of every intelligent person is to pay attention to the obvious.
A haunting suspense novel about a murder mystery based on a real-life missing-persons case
— Entertainment Weekly, #3 on "The Must List"
So Much Pretty is harder to pin down, trickier in its aims and delivers a skillful, psychologically acute tale of how violence affects a small town, its tentacles enmeshed so deeply into the collective fabric that it takes the thoughts and actions of one intelligent adolescent to shake things up and force everyone to examine their duplicitous complacency. To say more about Hoffman’s constantly surprising story is to reveal too much, but the payoff is more than worth the slow-building suspense
— The Los Angeles Times
a devastating look at violence against women and the complicated landscape of vengeance. Disguised as a crime story, it presents the sort of rigorous moral questions that have no easy answers and sear themselves in your memory for a good long time
— The Miami Herald
In this remarkable debut, Hoffman addresses serious injustices in present-day America. In 1992, Claire and Gene Piper, both idealistic New York City physicians, eschew joining Doctors Without Borders and decide instead to move with their gifted two-year-old daughter, Alice, to upstate Haeden, N.Y., to pursue the simple life in the spirit of the ‘60s back-to-nature movement. After nearly two fruitless decades, Gene’s hope of destroying corporate agribusiness in the name of “land and air and autonomy” has left Claire exhausted, in body and soul, and Alice determined to avenge a ghastly crime against all women that she realizes is implicit in Haeden’s smalltown-ghost town mentality. Meanwhile, journalist Stacy Flynn indicts Big Pharm for forcing scientists to manipulate people into doing things the scientists believe are wrong, and factory food production for repurposing the countryside into a toxic-waste site. Hoffman’s doomed characters burn their way off her angry pages. This searing novel will linger long in the reader’s memory
— Publisher's Weekly (starred review)
Perspective is a funny thing. It can make a small farm community in upstate New York seem isolating and suffocating for one person, a liberating paradise for another. In Cara Hoffman’s debut novel, So Much Pretty, this jarring disconnect is one of the story’s most intriguing undercurrents. . . . the novel effectively frames a compelling murder mystery with provocative, troubling issues, exploring adolescent violence, the victimization of women, revenge, and societal pressure to favor the good of the community over the rights of the individual. . . . Hoffman ambitiously mines fertile, controversial ground and asks a lot of tough, unanswerable questions; the most heartrending is simply, ‘Why?’
— The Boston Globe
Hoffmann depicts a country in which violence against women is ubiquitous and largely invisible, and where city and country regard each other with incomprehension and disgust...splendidly ballsy...intelligent and gripping stuff.
— Financial Times of London
A spectacular debut: This beautifully constructed mystery, with its engaging characters and intriguing premise, has everything a reader wants...
A mixture of The Lovely Bones and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Hoffman’s first novel is a small-town murder mystery with a surprising twist. Haeden, New York, leaves much to be desired for Flynn, the young reporter covering the community beat. But when Wendy White, the local bar maid, goes missing, and Flynn begins uncovering some disturbing local secrets, things get very interesting. Meanwhile, high-school student Alice Piper is facing her own challenges. She’s smart, creative, and quickly outgrowing the small-town mentality of Haeden. Her family encourages her feisty spirit, and her best friend, Theo, is her accomplice in more ways than one. Hoffman’s narrative oscillates between various characters, carefully building suspense, depth, and new insight with every chapter. Let’s hope we will be seeing more of this talented new writer
Cara Hoffman has lived an interesting life. A highschool dropout who wandered around Europe and the Middle East, working odd jobs while most kids are in college, she later climbed her way from newspaper-delivery girl to investigative reporter, covering crime and the environment in rural, low-income parts of upstate New York. Her first novel, So Much Pretty, about a smalltown murder, draws from that experience, as well as Hoffman’s fascination with the ways violence manifests itself in society
— San Diego City Beat
The theme of So Much Pretty is innocence lost and idealism gone wrong. . . . In the rundown little town of Haeden, things are never what they seem, as the tone of the novel grows more sinister and a young woman disappears. . . . The pace quickens as Hoffman brings the story to its dark and chilling conclusion. VERDICT: This gripping novel asks readers to judge whether a horrible crime can ever justify a terrible act of revenge. It will engage individuals and book groups interested in debating this tough topic
Hoffman takes on the poverty, drug abuse, environmental disasters and violence against women that are endemic to a small town in upstate New York. And she does it brilliantly, in stark and poetic prose, expressing a variety of viewpoints on the murder around which the story turns. And she does it in a way that lodges in the corner of your mind and just won’t leave. . . . brilliant outsider Alice has a command of logic, a perfect memory and a sense of justice to match. She lives the philosophy that Gene and Claire’s friend Michelle, a Doctors Without Borders physician, likes to quote from George Orwell: ‘The responsibility of every intelligent person is to pay attention to the obvious.’ Alice just may be the blonder, less-punk version of Lisbeth Salander, that girl of the dragon tattoo. . . . Everything counts in Hoffman’s toned work, as even the tiniest plot point becomes important to the unfolding narrative. The book, based on a real case that Hoffman covered when she worked for a small upstate New York newspaper, shines a harsh light on violence against women and the men who live within the ugly banality of this evil. Its climactic scenes are simultaneously shocking and inevitable. Pay attention to So Much Pretty. It’s mesmerizing.
— New Orleans Times Picayune
This is an impassioned, intelligent and important work of art, and with it Hoffman takes her place in that select group of American novelists including Philipp Meyer and Adam Haslett who, eschewing nihilism and hauteur, write with urgency and passion about what is really going on out there
— Chris Cleave, #1 New York Times bestselling author Everyone Brave is Forgiven
So Much Pretty is certain to be talked about—not merely because it is a profound meditation on both public and private violence in small-town America, but for its captivating storytelling which draws you in on a visceral level and leaves you feeling haunted, in the best of ways
— Philipp Meyer, author of The Son
So Much Pretty is a compelling whodunit, an unnerving portrait of just what the back of nowhere looks like, and an arresting meditation on our culture’s ongoing acceptance of violence against women. It’s powered by both a despairing tenderness and an unflinching rage, each of which, as the novel makes heartbreakingly clear, are more than justified
— Jim Shepard, author of Like You'd Understand Anyway
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Barry Pepper Exclusive Interview; The CASINO JACK Star Opens Up About DC, THE KENNEDYS and Terrence Malick’s New Film
by Ron Messer December 21, 2010
America’s political system has been a favorite subject of filmmakers for decades. The reasons are clear. There’s enough grandstanding, scandal, backstabbing and intrigue in a week on Capitol Hill to fill a season of any network soap opera. Take the latest entry into the genre. Casino Jack, in the early stages of a nationwide rollout, follows the real-life story of so-called super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff who served time in prison for defrauding four Native American tribes out of tens of millions of dollars and trading money and gifts for political favors from some of DC’s biggest power brokers. While the scandal landed public officials in prison, the film has landed Kevin Spacey a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor in a Motion Picture (Musical or Comedy) and very positive reviews for Barry Pepper as Abramoff’s protégé Michael Scanlon.
Pepper recently sat down with Collider for a wide-ranging conversation. Hit the jump for the interview’s full audio and transcript, including his view of Washington, whether he’d run for office, his wild experience on a new Terrence Malick film and his very thorough research to play Robert F. Kennedy.
Some actors shy away from playing real-life subjects. Barry Pepper has specialized in it. Having made three-dimensional portrayals of sports legends like Roger Maris in 61* to the title role in 3: The Dale Earnhardt Story and war heroes in Flags Of Our Fathers and We Were Soldiers, Pepper has deftly moved into the political sphere as Michael Scanlon in Casino Jack and the upcoming mini-series The Kennedys as Robert F. Kennedy. Pepper also gives a standout performance in True Grit, and we’ll post our interview with him for that film later this week. However, we started this discussion with a look at his sports background to see if that’s where he got his dedication to detail.
Click here for the audio
Collider: You’re known for getting very deep into characters and that takes such a huge discipline. How important was sports, in terms of the influence of the discipline on you with your acting career?
Barry Pepper: I grew up playing everything from rugby, football, baseball, volleyball, bike races and boxing. I tried martial arts, loved to ride horses and I’m the youngest of three brothers, so it was a fiercely competitive family. So when it came to the opportunity to play Roger Maris in 61* that was just a dream come true and with Roger batting on the opposite side of the plate as me, I had to learn from scratch.
But also within the research of each character and to become a really good athlete, repetition is so important and, if you’re playing basketball, you’ve got to be on the driveway ‘til all hours of the night, until you can’t see the ball anymore.
Pepper: Yeah, right.
Acting is very similar, in the sense of discipline.
Pepper: Yeah, we spent probably, at least on that film, several months, before principal photography, just in baseball boot camp with Reggie Smith, the great switch-hitter for the Dodgers. He put us through our paces, both Thomas (Jane who played Mickey Mantle) and I until we were completely blistered and battered and bruised and that really helps you immerse into that world. I mean, that’s all you do is you eat, sleep and drink baseball. And then the same with the NASCAR film. I went to race school at (what was then) Lowe’s Motor Speedway (re-named Charlotte Motor Speedway earlier this year) and each of them are remarkable experiences, in that you do get so deeply involved in it, that I knew nothing about NASCAR when I first took on the project and yet you come out the other side of it, very deeply steeped in the sport and enjoying it, actually.
It’s interesting because you were talking about 61* and 3 (whose subjects of baseball and NASCAR) are so embedded in American culture and you’ve done so many different films that separate the myth from the reality of the American story whether it’s Saving Private Ryan (displaying the brutality of World War II), 3 (which didn’t shy away from Dale Earnhardt’s personal demons), 61*, where you told just how big of a toll (the race to break Babe Ruth’s single home run record) took on (NY Yankees’ slugger) Roger Maris, Flags Of Our Fathers (which told the stark reality back home that awaited the men who were in the iconic World War II image of the flag-raising at Iwo Jima) and now Casino Jack. Yet, you grew up in Canada before you set sail (At age 5, Pepper’s family sailed around the South Pacific Islands on the family’s 50 foot hand-built boat, for 5 years with stops along the way).
Pepper: Uh huh. Well, I’m a dual citizen.
As of a couple of years ago. Right?
Pepper: That’s right. Yeah.
Pepper: Oh, wow, you’re good. You did your homework. (Laughter). But that’s right. Yeah, I grew up on Vancouver Island.
Were you fascinated by the American story as a kid? I mean, did-
Pepper: Well, you know what’s funny, as a kid, I was always a Yankees fan. So, go figure. I mean, we didn’t have a Major League Baseball team (in Vancouver). My brother was a Yankees fan and I grew up just sort of emulating him, although I think that the Pacific Northwest, primarily Vancouver is so, sort of, influenced by what happens in Hollywood and that’s really, sort of, where I cut my teeth in the business because of that overflow of work that came up from California to Vancouver and all of the series and films that were shooting there. American film and television’s really what’s predominately on television and in the theaters in Canada, so it’s really unavoidable, in terms of pop culture, fashion. It’s sort of intrinsically connected.
What was your exposure to politics (through your film career) before doing Casino Jack?
Pepper: It would’ve been We Were Soldiers. I played Joe Galloway, who was the first civilian to be ever awarded a Bronze Star in combat. He was a photojournalist in Vietnam and subsequently became a speechwriter for Colin Powell (at the State Department in 2001-02) and was very involved in politics in Washington and (as a writer for United Press International, U.S. News & World Report, Knight-Ridder Newspapers and McClatchy Newspapers). Anyway, he was the one that really introduced me to the state of things in Washington because we became very close friends and then (with) a few of my films, I would get invited to Vietnam Vet memorials and Veterans’ anniversaries and bases around the country and West Point and you’d meet with soldiers and veterans and the more time that I spent in Washington, the more involved I got and seeing it through the eyes of someone like Joe, who is so intimately involved and really had such inside connections, you got a very unvarnished view.
Before doing Casino Jack, what was your view, especially in talking to (Joe Galloway) and seeing DC that way?
Pepper: The only reason that I involved myself in Casino Jack was because of what it ultimately said as a film. It was a cautionary tale to the public about what is currently the state of affairs in Washington, that our democracy is drowning under a tsunami of corporate financing and, you know, a mountain of cash that influences our political process and has irrevocably changed it forever, in my opinion. And even (with) all of the beating of drums that took place during this scandal when it broke by John McCain (who famously co-authored the McCain-Feingold law to regulate campaign financing) and others. Nothing changed. There was no lobbying reform act with any teeth. In fact, it’s probably worse than it ever was. Material equality and liberty are intrinsically connected and you can’t have an honest, true democracy without equal representation. You know, you see it in the recent midterm elections, record numbers of millions spent on these campaigns. $50-100 million dollars of personal wealth and probably corporate wealth wagered on these elected positions and you and I can’t be equally represented if we don’t have that kind of cash to get in the race. It’s just ballooned so far out of control that I think until people become aware of it, and hopefully through a film like this, they can be made aware of it and exercise their 1st amendment right. Use their voice. Hold their elected officials’ feet to the fire and understand that that is the truest form of democracy is dissension and that that’s not only their right, it’s a privilege. You know? People are tired at the end of a 10-12 hour workday, raising their kids and living their life, that most people in these high-level elected positions feel like they can really get away with whatever they want because the public just doesn’t have enough time in the day to keep tabs on them.
I wasn’t going to ask you this question, but hearing you talk about it, you’re a concerned citizen, would you ever run for office?
Pepper: (Long pause) I don’t know. Um, I think it would only be out of sheer desperation. (Smiles) You know I, if I felt like I could be of service in some way, absolutely. I, I think it would be every citizen’s responsibility and also privilege to serve, but boy, it would be a very, I think, frustrating town to work in. You know, it’s much like my business. You know, it’s mostly theater. It’s mostly pageantry. I mean, how else can you explain Sarah Palin? It just doesn’t make any sense to me.
Jon Stewart said something along the lines; he said, “The difference between Hollywood and DC is that the people in Hollywood” and I’ll clean up the language, “are jerks who think they have power. The people in DC are jerks who actually do.
(Note: Stewart’s actual full quote is “The only difference between L.A. and Washington is they think they have power in L.A. They don’t. It’s the same insular a******s you find on both areas, but in Washington they actually do have power.”)
Pepper: (Laughing) Yeah. That’s very true. That’s great. Is that an original quote of his?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Pepper: Oh, that’s good.
Speaking of politics, you’re gonna be playing Bobby Kennedy (in The Kennedys, opposite Katie Holmes as Jackie Kennedy and Greg Kinnear as JFK).
Pepper: Yeah. I just finished that.
Did you talk to the Kennedys (for research)?
Pepper: No, I didn’t. There was a little bit of difficulty going into the project because the keepers of the Kennedy flame, if you will, were very concerned that the image of Camelot might be eroded and that, I think early drafts of the script might have given them an illusion that it was more of a, a salacious piece, than it really was, but it couldn’t have been more opposite. It was such an incredible experience for me. But no, I, I stuck to just my own research, I read every book that has been written on the Kennedys and listened to every phone call between Jack and Bobby and every speech that Bobby gave and really just lived with him for five months that I was involved in the project, basically in my earphones. Just listening to his speeches over and over and over and over again. Everything that I could find, uh, I compiled digitally and he just lived with me, in my ears all day long. But the books are incredible. There’s such a vast array of books out there on the Kennedys as you can well imagine, but, you know, specifically Bobby and then I read every book that HE highlighted in his books as being books that were an influence on him. Like, when Jack was assassinated, Jackie gave Bobby a book called The Greek Way by Edith Hamilton and that was a very, very important book to him, to both of them really, and it’s what, was one of the, the keys to his healing some of his suffering and confusion at the time and then I read, you know, other books tbat were somewhat more controversial like (Bobby and Jackie: A Love Story) about their relationship and then, of course, you read other books that are also somewhat controversial, by Seymour Hersh; The Dark Side Of Camelot. Then you read all the other ones that are considered to be the foremost authorities.
Pepper: On, on The Kennedys and the ones that are, kind of, more mainstream and so, I really covered my bases, in terms of research and the, The History Channel also just compiled a, a tremendous amount of documentaries and just real footage and material for us to wade through. So, it was a mountain to research that was just ongoing throughout the entire production. It really just never ended. I thoroughly enjoyed that, but I hope to meet them. You know, even playing Roger Maris, the family was quite hesitant about being involved with HBO.
Private. Such a private family.
Pepper: Very, very private. And then after the film came out, they welcomed me with open arms. We screened the film at the White House together and they just loved it. They were very grateful (for) the care and the sensitivity that HBO took to represent their father and husband. Roger, I should say. And I became dear friends of their family. And with Casino Jack, I wasn’t able to meet Mike because he was- excused himself from Washington.
I’d imagine so.
Pepper: And he was actively cooperating with the investigation so it wasn’t available to me, but I was able to speak to his friends and colleagues and co-workers and was given a tremendous amount of information that I would’ve never been able to get from books and articles.
Have you heard through friends of Scanlon what he thought about the film being made? Have you heard, like, what his reaction was, at all?
Pepper: No. No, we haven’t, but Kevin (Spacey) got to speak at length with Jack (Abramoff) in prison and so, that was, that was quite informative. Like I say, all of my information came through friends and co-workers and colleagues that had worked in Mike’s office. Such an interesting personality. Such a schismatic personality in the sense that he’s holding down this $10/hour lifeguard job through the entire time that he’s making millions as a PR consultant and lobbyist with Jack Abramoff.
And for a smart guy, making the dumbest decisions.
Pepper: Incredible, but he was this truly pure surfer dude. (That) really was the life closest to his true self was this surfer dude living the life as this lifeguard on the beach and yet, all the while he was in Washington, he was a completely different guy. You know-
Well, it makes, it makes actually perfect sense, if he was a surfer that he was riding that wave. (Pepper laughs) And I’m not saying that in a pun kind of way, but literally as this thing is cresting, he’s going let me see where it takes me.
Pepper: Oh, it was like a narcotic, for sure. You know, he was a very hail fellow well met sort of country club type guy running these elaborate schemes and then, here he is off at Rehoboth Beach (in Delaware) working for $10 an hour as a lifeguard! Holding, holding down that job the whole time and I, and so I was just fascinated by that character study. Absolutely fascinated! And I can absolutely understand why he was swept up into it. I mean, you can’t remove culpability from all the others that were involved. Even the casino- or the Indian tribes, I should say, that opportunity to access power and wealth, by exchanging cash or lavish gifts for legislative favors was like a narcotic to them, too.
Pepper: I mean, there was a lot of people that (were) very involved in the scandal that really didn’t suffer the blows that Mike and Jack did and so in that respect, I have a modicum of sympathy, ‘cause they were really thrown under the bus as the fall guys for this, but you know, nothing has changed. Ten more guys have taken their place. They say they’re trying to clean it up, but they never will because it’s such a gravy train for their re-election campaigns that neither –
It’s “Follow the money.”
Pepper: The Democrats, nor the Republicans will ever clean it up.
Pepper: (Smiling) That’s up to you and I. (Laughter)
You were talking about The Kennedys and you just worked with Rachel Weisz (on Terrence Malick’s currently untitled new film) who’s doing (Darren Aronofsky’s film about Jacqueline Kennedy) Jackie.
Pepper: No, I never did work with her.
Oh, you didn’t.
Pepper: But she was on the same film.
Pepper: That’s the nature of a Terrence Malick (Days Of Heaven, The Thin Red Line) film (laughter). Because our two characters never knew each other existed. I don’t know. I don’t even know her storyline in the film.
Oh, really. What’s your storyline in the film?
Pepper: I couldn’t tell you.
But you’re playing “Father Barry.”
Pepper: I can partially tell you but I couldn’t tell you what the script is about because I never received a script.
Wait. Ok, because we hear it’s about a fisherman.
Pepper: (Smiling) Ok. (Laughter) Well, then you know as much as I do or more.
So, wait, what do you know?
Pepper: I only came in and played my part. That’s all I know. That was what was so wonderful about it.
What is your character?
Pepper: I believe it’s not any breach of confidence because that’s, I’ve, I’ve read it many times on the internet that Javier Bardem and I play priests. But that’s really all that I can tell you.
(Note: there is unconfirmed word that the plot focuses on a failed writer played by Ben Affleck in a loveless marriage who does, indeed, go fishing to clear his head. Click on the link for further spoilers)
Pepper: (Laughs) No, but I mean, you know, there are cer-, there are certain obligations that you have, but I’m being absolutely honest with you in saying that I don’t know what the story is about. All I know is my involvement, which is a small chapter within the film, so, which to me was absolute joy to work with him on that level because it was so free and so, unlike anything I’d ever experienced. Never been involved in a project where you’re not handed a concrete screenplay, but to me it was just like floating down a river. You know, you really just had to go with it, or else… You just really had to float because it was such a free process that if you fought it, you’d, you’d just start drowning. (Laughs)
Yeah. Well, thank you so much.
Pepper: Yeah, my pleasure.
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Examining a Movie: Day of the Dead
Hey there my friendly neighborhood warp entities! Old Man Chaos is back in action just as I promised.
Almost a year ago, we learned of the passing of George A. Romero. While he was 77 years old and had lived a full life, I was very saddened when I saw it on my phone. If you have read this blog a bit you'll have noticed that Romero's dead films have a special place in my heart. Heck- my Plague Marines and Plague Zombies draw a lot of inspiration from those films!
I was lucky enough to have met Romero once. It was at NY Big Apple Convention at the Hotel Pennsylvania. This was I think in either fall 2005 or 2006 (I can't quite remember). Now this was before "Comicon" became the huge draw. There were plenty of smaller cons then (and now, but Comicon is obviously just huge). At any rate, George Romero was signing autographs. Naturally, I knew exactly what I wanted him to sign- a mini poster for Dawn of the Dead. When I finally got up to him I couldn't believe how tall he was. He was also very friendly and laid back. As he signed my poster I sheepishly asked him if there was going to be another Dead film after Land of the Dead (a film that I like quite a bit actually). He smiled and said something akin to "we shall see what happens". Now, he must have been asked that question 10 million times by every film and horror geek out there. But at no time did he show that. He was a friendly gentleman. Period.
Later in the Con, my brother and our friend Pete went outside to have a hot dogs and soda. While we were out there, Romero came out all by himself for a smoke. I wanted to go over and say "hey" but Pete was like "Let the man smoke in peace". Pete was right and so I left him alone. But it was awesome nevertheless.
The autographed mini poster is one of my most prized possessions. No, it has no certificate of authenticity. It is not numbered. Nor is it an original poster or something. None of that matters. This is special to me. It is now occupies a central place in my man-cave.
A while back, I did reviews of both NotLD and DotD, both as films and their interesting reflections on the times in which they were made. NotLD stands not just as a zombie film, but as a reflection of the uncertainties of a changing world (the 1960s), while DotD is a satire of our media and consumer obsessed society (the 1970s). It is those things for me that elevate the films beyond simple horror films. They have larger things to say about both history and the human condition. That makes them timeless.
After I watched Dawn of the Dead, I immediately sought out Day of the Dead on VHS. And immediately, I was disappointed. I really didn't like the film all that much. The movie lacked both the originality and action of the first two films. I recall watching it, hearing a lot of yelling and indiscriminate cursing, a fairly blood soaked finale, and then... a stupid ending. At the time, it was bland in comparison to the two that came before.
That was years ago, while I was in college. But of course, as one gets older, things change. A refined movie-viewing palette develops. New experiences and knowledge. Perhaps a growing amount of cynicism. But several years later when I revisited it I discovered that it was actually a powerful ending to the trilogy. Now some fans say Day is the best. I won't go that far. NotLD and DotD are superior films. But Day has a lot to offer, again about the human condition and the time period in which it was filmed. In previous reviews I went all out reviewing every nook and cranny of the movies. I won't do a beat for beat review here. Instead, I'll focus on some of the larger points that are threaded throughout the film and the trilogy as a whole.
Reaganism and the 1980s
Like the other two Dead films, this movie is an attempt at reflecting the times Romero was living in. This one is a bit different though, as it was made in the middle of the decade rather than at the end of a decade (which means he's commenting on things unfinished as it were). What exactly is he commenting on?
Well, in the 1960s America was going through a variety of identity crises- we were a changing nation in the 1960s, and NOTLD reflected the uncertainties of those changes. The 1970s saw America become helpless- ending of Vietnam, Watergate, Oil Crisis, etc. It also saw America become a lot more pessimistic and cynical.
The year 1980 became a bit of a turning point for America. The serious, though flailing, Jimmy Carter ran against Ronald Reagan, a Hollywood actor turned politician, promising to restore America via conservative programs. Reagan promised he would cut government spending, whilst increasing the size and power of the military. Trust Reagan, and he would solve the problems. Obviously, Reagan won that election.
At that point, "Reaganism" swept America. Liberals held Reagan in disdain, but also felt his vision was both flawed and dangerous. As Reagan increased the size of the armed forces, some Americans and Western Europeans alike thought he would unleash World War 3- massive protests were held in both America and Europe when Reagan wanted to deploy new missile systems in Europe. His rhetoric was also incendiary, calling the Soviet Union the Evil Empire. Finally (and importantly for this film), Reagan called upon scientists to create better (defensive?) weapons, such as the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI- popularly known as Star Wars).
But Reagan's pro-military stance did more than that. It permeated American culture. American films became more violent, more "gung-ho", if you will. Rambo was a popular hero, taking us back to Vietnam and "winning" it retroactively. On TV, cartoons such as G.I. Joe promoted both America's military and the idea that shooting is the answer to any problem. Jingoism was omnipresent in American pop culture.
This is the world of Romero that he is commenting upon in Day of the Dead. A small group of soldiers and scientists have been ordered to solve the "zombie problem". The soldiers are certain of their guns alright; however they are callous, crude, etc. Obviously Romero is criticizing Reagan militarism- for Rhodes, Steel, etc., shooting is the answer to the problem. The scientists don't escape Romero's criticism either, as embodied by the rather amoral but brilliant Dr. Logan. It is clear that Romero thinks that Reaganism isn't going to solve anything, but rather, make it all worse. Neither the soldiers nor the scientists can get us out of this jam, despite what Reagan says. Humanity's days are numbered, and not all the bullets in the world are going to change that.
Is It Just Me or Is Everybody Crazy?
Something that escaped me on first viewing but is now something obvious is that every single character but one is crazy. Yep. Batshit insane. All but one. This is what makes the film difficult to watch, as opposed to the previous Dead films. The world is effectively over- Zombies outnumber humanity by the hundreds of thousands to one. There is simply nothing left. All that's left of humanity might well be in that missile base. That the base is filled with trigger happy soldiers and oblivious scientists make it all the sadder and more pathetic.
As I said, the film must be understood from that point of view. Humanity is dead and the few stragglers are simply crazy. How could they not be? After all of this, how could they not be unhinged? Let's look at Rhodes for example. The death of his superior has put him in charge. Rhodes screams, he threatens, he yells, waves his gun, even at the most innocuous of things. If the zombie apoc hadn't happened he'd be a military prick blowhard. But since all went to hell, Rhodes is just about shattered, and it clearly shows.
Naturally, Dr. Logan (AKA Frankenstein) has also seen better days. It is obvious he is a smart man, but has lost touch with reality. He wants to understand the zombie problem- but at this stage what's the point? He is interested in their memories, and hopes to domesticate them, zombies like Bub. It doesn't seem to register that feeding Bub parts of dead soldiers might be a bad idea for many reasons. Nor does it register that there is no chance of actually solving the problem. Logan just seems interested in his macabre experiments, nothing more or less.
What about John, the chopper pilot? He seems sane on the surface, and he understands that there is no solving the zombie plague. His answer is that they should all forget the past (keep it buried in the silo he basically says) and just live their lives on an island some where How can one do that in the midst of hell on earth I'm not sure- hence I think John isn't too tightly wound either. His belief that the zombie plague is God's punishment against man doesn't make him sound any saner.
Surely the heroine and main character, Sarah, is sane. Again, on the surface she appears to be, but again this is not true. Sarah as it turns out truly believes that a solution can be found. That there is a way to reverse the effects of the zombie plague. She puts up with both Rhodes and Logan, hoping that a cure will be found. Despite her skills and demeanor, she is crazy if she really expects to end this. Her hallucinations/dreams show that she is falling apart as well.
No, the only sane character left in the entirety of the base is McDermott. Why? Because his solution is to drink booze. He is always wanting a drink from his flask throughout the film. He stays with John because he's the least insane and is a capable fighter (to protect McDermott). But the booze helps him cope with the situation- I think that's a rational response LOL. And if this lush is all humanity has left then you can appreciate Romero's sick sense of humor.
Is That Really The End?
One of the things that bugged me was that, once again, our main characters escape by helicopter, this time to a sunny island and Sarah, McDermott, and John live happily ever after. Night's ending was nihilistic, with all the main characters dead. Dawn's wasn't much better- they leave on a helicopter without much fuel left- they won't be getting too far. But this ending seems false- we leave it all behind just like John says and they're all OK?
Perhaps the ending IS false. As you will have noted, Sarah has been plagued by nightmares the whole time, earlier in the film. At the end, just before she gets into the helicopter, a zombie jumps out at her and then... she awakens on that beach. Suppose the zombie really did get her, and this last dream of a happily ever after is just that. It's not real. Her irrational mind is trying one last defense against the inescapable. If that is true, perhaps no one makes it out of that base after all. I do not know what Romero intended, but my hypothesis makes it fit better with Romero's other endings. (It still bugs me though).
At any rate, thus ends Romero's original Dead trilogy. Now he's gone on to make a few more Dead films, but they are all weaker efforts- even Land of the Dead, which I do enjoy, is not on the same level as these three. No contest. However, these three are secure, having originated a genre of film whose power today is undeniable. But it wasn't just blood and guts that made Romero's films. It was the subtext, the combination of real world issues in this apocalyptic setting that makes Romero's films worthy of being called "great". Day of the Dead, though not as strong as the previous two, continued that trend, if in a rather bleak and even more hopeless way (despite its "happy" ending). These three films are commentaries on the times in which they were made, and that makes them all the more unique and special.
Posted by Professor Chaos at 9:40 AM
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$660M Renaissance Plaza Project on Delaware River
A massive 2.5 million square foot development project is being planned for a vacant, 5.3-acre site along the Delaware River waterfront. The Philadelphia City Planning Commission approved Waterfront Renaissance Associates’ $660 million plan to build Renaissance Plaza at the corner of Callowhill Street and Columbus Boulevard. Construction of four mixed-use towers is expected to kick off in early 2016 and will be divided into four phases, with one tower completed in each development stage.
Combined, the four glass and metal high-rises will comprise 1,411 market-rate apartments and 70,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space.
The complex will also include two sport centers, several bars and restaurants and an enclosed parking garage with 500 spaces.
Renaissance Plaza is being developed by Waterfront Renaissance Associates, along with its affiliate Carl Marks & Co., the New York investment firm that pieced together four tracts that make up the plot about three decades ago.
The $660 million development will consist of four buildings that range in height from 21 to 31 stories. The tallest tower will reach 240 feet into the sky, a significant change from the original proposed height of 480 feet. The project will also include a green roof, and will seek LEED Gold Status
Building the first phase would take about 16 months, with each phase of development comprising about 360 apartments. Plans also include 16 townhouses, nearly 70,000 square feet of retail space, and 653 parking spaces along with more than an acre of landscaped public plazas.
A swath of landscaped public space would run through the property, which the developer believes will draw people from the neighborhoods through the property, and down to the river. Some roofs would offer additional green space.
Since the complex will be built on the west side of Delaware Avenue, not the river side, the developer will pay for a crossing signal to get people to the river itself, and will make improvements between the project and the Spring Garden transit stop.
Soil conditions at the site require piles to support the buildings - 700 are required. They will be drilled, not driven, because of sewer infrastructure.
The project is within the area covered by the newly adopted Central Delaware Overlay, which sets a height limit of 100 feet, but allows developers to earn height bonuses up by providing public amenities.
A developer who maxed out the public amenities – which include building a section of waterfront trail, building to LEED environmental standards, making transit improvement and providing public green space – can build up to 244 feet.
The site along the Delaware River waterfront had many bold ambitions that never came to fruition.
The site had been known for the last 15 years as the future address of the Greater Philadelphia World Trade Center.
That development would have entailed more than 3 million square feet of space consisting of a residential tower and three office buildings, parking for more than 2,000 vehicles and 118,000 square feet of retail space. That never happened.
Last fall, Waterfront Renaissance Associates, made a leap across the river and decided it would move the Greater Philadelphia World Trade Center project to Camden, New Jersey, where the developer has proposed building a 2.3-million-square-foot campus on 16 acres at the former Riverfront State Prison.
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The Schooner "William Bayles"
Artist/Maker: James Bard (1815-1897)
Origin: America, New York, New York
Unframed:32 3/4" x 52" (83.2 cm. x 132.1 cm.) and Framed: 37 5/8" x 56 3/4" (95.6 cm. x 144.1 cm.)
Oil on canvas with graphite details
Two-masted sailing vessel with bright green-painted body moves from right to left across picture plane. Six sailboats are visible in the distance on the blue-grey water, while trees and rocky landscape are visible beyond at the horizon. Four men can be seen on the schooner that is the subject of the painting; they all wear black hats, two wear black coats, and two are in shirtsleeves. The sky is a peach color at the horizon, moving to dull blue at top.
Label:James Bard and his twin brother, John, rank among America’s most acclaimed painters of steamboats and small sailing vessels. Although the brothers collaborated on about two dozen pictures, most Bard works are signed or attributed to James alone. James is known to have completed three portraits of the schooner William Bayles, two in 1854 and another in 1860. The commissioners of all three paintings remain unknown but both 1854 versions bear the sail maker’s name on the mainsails.
The William Bayles was a 67 ton schooner built in Nyack, New York in 1853 by John B. Voriz. Although the schooner changed owners, masters and home ports several times throughout her life, it is thought that one of her first contracts was hauling stone from a Tarrytown quarry to New York City. The William Bayles operated out of the port of New York until 1862, after which she is listed as serving out of various ports in Connecticut, New Hampshire and finally Massachusetts, from whence she was reported “lost at sea” in March of 1874.
Provenance:Martin B. Grossman, New York, NY; Herbert W. Hemphill, Jr., New York, NY; Mary Allis, Farifield, Conn.
Mark(s):See "Inscriptions."
Inscription(s):"WILLIAM BAYLES," is painted on the schooner's bow and on one of its flags. In the canvas's lower right corner is painted, in script, "Drawn & Painted by James Bard,/ 162 Perry St N Y. July 1854." The block lettering on the bottom of the mainsail is partially illegible, but it appears to read "B" (illeg. material; possibly only the artist's repositioning of the letter B) & B[EN]NET. SAIL MAKER. N.Y." Penciled script on the backs of the upper and lower stretchers is illegible. The sailmaker's surname is deduced from a more legible inscription on an 1860 James Bard painting of the same vessel. (See "Related Works").
The Schooner Yacht "America"
The Steamboat "Enoch Dean"
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Filmography from Jessica Harper
Filmography from : Jessica Harper
Minority Report, Steven Spielberg, 2002
In Washington, D.C., in the year 2054, murder has been eliminated. The future is seen and the guilty punished before the crime has ever been committed. From a nexus deep within the Justice Department's elite Pre-Crime unit, all the evidence to convict--from imagery alluding to the time, place and other details--is seen by "Pre-Cogs," three psychic beings whose visions of murders have never been wrong. It is the nation's most advanced crime...
Tales from the Crypt, Russell Mulcahy (4 episodes, 1991-1996), Elliot Silverstein (4 episodes, 1991-1994), Robert Zemeckis (3 episodes, 1989-1995), Richard Donner (3 episodes, 1989-1992), Tom Holland (3 episodes, 1989-1992), Walter Hill (3 episodes, 1989-1991), Stephen Hopkins (3 episodes, 1991-1994), Howard Deutch (2 episodes, 1989-1990), Kevin Yagher (2 episodes, 1990-1992), John Harrison (2 episodes, 1991-1994), Gilbert Adler (2 episodes, 1992-1993), Gary Fleder (2 episodes, 1992-1993), Rodman Flender (2 episodes, 1993-1995), William Malone (2 episodes, 1994-1996), Mary Lambert (1 episode, 1989), Fred Dekker (1 episode, 1990), Richard Greenberg (1 episode, 1990), Randa Haines (1 episode, 1990), Rowdy Herrington (1 episode, 1990), David Burton Morris (1 episode, 1990), Charlie Picerni (1 episode, 1990), Jeffrey Price (1 episode, 1990), J Michael Riva (1 episode, 1990), Arnold Schwarzenegger (1 episode, 1990), Peter S Seaman (1 episode, 1990), Jack Sholder (1 episode, 1990), Jim Simpson (1 episode, 1990), Chris Walas (1 episode, 1990), Manny Coto (1 episode, 1991), Steven E de Souza (1 episode, 1991), Michael J Fox (1 episode, 1991), Todd Holland (1 episode, 1991), Tobe Hooper (1 episode, 1991), Tom Mankiewicz (1 episode, 1991), Michael Thau (1 episode, 1991), Andy Wolk (1 episode, 1991), John Frankenheimer (1 episode, 1992), William Friedkin (1 episode, 1992), Tom Hanks (1 episode, 1992), Robert Longo (1 episode, 1992), Peter Medak (1 episode, 1992), Steve Perry (1 episode, 1992), Joel Silver (1 episode, 1992), Paul Abascal (1 episode, 1993), Jeffrey Boam (1 episode, 1993), Uli Edel (1 episode, 1993), Bob Gale (1 episode, 1993), Kevin Hooks (1 episode, 1993), W Peter Iliff (1 episode, 1993), Kyle MacLachlan (1 episode, 1993), Gregory Widen (1 episode, 1993), Mick Garris (1 episode, 1994), Jonas McCord (1 episode, 1994), Ramón Menéndez (1 episode, 1994), Roland Mesa (1 episode, 1994), Vincent Spano (1 episode, 1994), Martin von Haselberg (1 episode, 1994), John Herzfeld (1 episode, 1995), Larry Wilson (1 episode, 1995), Mandie Fletcher (1 episode, 1996), Freddie Francis (1 episode, 1996), Christopher Hart (1 episode, 1996), Brian Helgeland (1 episode, 1996), Peter Hewitt (1 episode, 1996), Bob Hoskins (1 episode, 1996), Bill Kopp (1 episode, 1996), Peter MacDonald (1 episode, 1996), Andrew Morahan (1 episode, 1996), Thomas E Sanders (1 episode, 1996), James H Spencer (1 episode, 1996), Patrick A Ventura (1 episode, 1996), Robin Bextor (uncredited) (2 episodes, 1996), 1996
Tales of horror based on the gloriously gruesome EC horror comics of the 1950's....
Suspiria, Dario Argento, 1977
A young American dancer travels to Europe to join a famous ballet school. As she arrives, the camera turns to another young woman, who appears to be fleeing from the school. She returns to her apartment where she is gruesomely murdered by a hideous creature. Meanwhile, the young American is trying to settle in at the ballet school, but hears strange noises and is troubled by bizarre occurrences. She eventually discovers that the school is merely...
Inserts, John Byrum, 1975
A young, once-great Hollywood film director refuses to accept changing times during the early 1930s, and confides himself to his decaying mansion to make silent porn flicks....
Phantom of the Paradise, Brian De Palma, 1974
A disfigured musician sells his soul for the woman he loves so that she will perform his music. ...
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Southeast Asia Haze Caused Over 100,000 Deaths, Study Says
By Sara Schonhardt
A study by two U.S. universities estimated that more than 100,000 people in parts of Southeast Asia died prematurely last year from breathing the noxious haze related to fires set to clear land for agriculture.
Researchers from Harvard and Columbia compared the likely health impact of the smoke that spread across much of the region a year ago to 2006, another exceptionally bad year for fires.
Using a complex modeling system, they put the number of smoke-related “excess deaths” from July 2015 through October at 100,300—mostly in Indonesia, the main source of the fires, but also Singapore and Malaysia. That was more than twice the estimate for the same four-month period in 2006.
The study, published Monday in the journal Environmental Research Letters, attributed much of the worsening haze to more fires set to clear peatland—swampy soil that stores carbon and becomes highly combustible when drained to develop lucrative palm-oil and wood-pulp plantations.
In both years, the study found Indonesia’s South Sumatra region contributed more than half of the regionwide haze. Last year, 72% of the fire activity on the island was on peatlands, up from 44% in 2006, it said.
Indonesia’s official death toll from last year’s haze was 19. An estimated half a million people sought medical care for respiratory illnesses on Sumatra and neighboring Kalimantan island alone, out of more than 40 million there exposed to the toxic haze.
Shannon Koplitz, lead author of the study from Harvard’s department of earth and planetary sciences, said the goal of the research was to influence strategies for managing fires and land use to reduce smoke exposure.
“The study tells Indonesia where to focus their efforts to prevent illegal clearing by fires, in order to save lives,” said Joel Schwartz, a researcher from Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health who was involved in the study.
Indonesia has been under domestic and international pressure to tackle the illegal fires and resulting haze, which last year resulted in billions of dollars in economic losses and made it one of the world’s biggest greenhouse-gas emitters.
President Joko Widodo has formed an agency to restore degraded peat and put a moratorium on new peatland development, said Hadi Daryanto, director general of social forestry at the Ministry of Environment and Forestry.
The government has also launched integrated patrols and deployed thousands of firefighters to put out blazes. It has vowed to prosecute those responsible.
“Efforts to handle the forest fires show a decreasing number of hot spots nationally,” Mr. Daryanto said.
The research doesn’t include official data on mortality or actual deaths. It estimated premature death in adults attributed to breathing high levels of carbon-based particulate matter, but didn’t include other hazardous particles, such as cyanide, nitrogen dioxide or other toxic gases.
It also didn’t include children, who doctors say are more vulnerable to the effects of haze, or the long-term impact of repeated exposure.
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Arzaghi, Mohammed and Henderson, J. Vernon (2005) Why countries are fiscally decentralizing. Journal of Public Economics, 89 (7). pp. 1157-1189. ISSN 0047-2727
Black, Duncan and Henderson, Vernon (2003) Urban evolution in the USA. Journal of Economic Geography, 3 (4). pp. 343-373. ISSN 1468-2702
Cooper, Zack, Gibbons, Stephen, Jones, Simon and McGuire, Alistair (2012) Does competition improve public hospitals’ efficiency?: evidence from a quasi-experiment in the English National Health Service. CEPDP (1125). Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
Cooper, Zack, Gibbons, Stephen, Jones, Simon and McGuire, Alistair (2010) Does hospital competition improve efficiency? An analysis of the recent market-based reforms to the English NHS. CEP discussion papers (988). Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
Cooper, Zack, Gibbons, Stephen, Jones, Simon and McGuire, Alistair (2010) Does hospital competition save lives? Evidence from the English NHS patient choice reforms. LSE Health working papers (16/2010). LSE Health, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK. ISBN 9780853280095
Cooper, Zack, Gibbons, Stephen, Jones, Simon and McGuire, Alistair (2011) Does hospital competition save lives? Evidence from the English NHS patient choice reforms. Economic Journal, 121 (554). F228-F260. ISSN 0013-0133
Davis, James C. and Henderson, J. Vernon (2008) The agglomeration of headquarters. Regional Science and Urban Economics, 38 (5). pp. 445-460. ISSN 0166-0462
Faggio, Giulia, Silva, Olmo and Strange, William C. (2014) Heterogeneous agglomeration. SERC Discussion Papers (SERCDP0152). Spatial Economics Research Centre (SERC), London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
Fainstein, Susan, Gordon, Ian R. and Harlow, Michael (2011) Ups and downs in the global city: London and New York In the 21st century. In: Bridge, Gary and Watson, Sophie, (eds.) New Blackwell Companion to the City. Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester, pp. 38-47. ISBN 9781405189811
Gibbons, Stephen, McNally, Sandra and Viarengo, Martina (2011) Does additional spending help urban schools? An evaluation using boundary discontinuities. SERC discussion paper (SERCDP0090). Spacial Economics Research Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
Gibbons, Stephen, McNally, Sandra and Viarengo, Martina (2011) Does additional spending help urban schools? An evaluation using boundary discontinuities. CEP discussion paper (CEEDP0128). Centre for the Economics of Education, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
Gibbons, Stephen, McNally, Sandra and Viarengo, Martina (2012) Does additional spending help urban schools?: an evaluation using boundary discontinuities. IZA discussion paper (6281). Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn, Germany.
Gibbons, Stephen, Overman, Henry G. and Patacchini, Eleonora (2015) Spatial methods. In: Duranton, Gilles, Henderson, J. Vernon and Strange, William C., (eds.) Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics. North-Holland, Amsterdam, pp. 115-168. ISBN 9780444595171
Gibbons, Stephen and Vignoles, Anna (2009) Access, choice and participation in higher education. CEE Discussion Papers (CEEDP0101). London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
Gibbons, Stephen and Vignoles, Anna (2012) Geography, choice and participation in higher education in England. Regional Science and Urban Economics, 42 (1-2). pp. 98-113. ISSN 0166-0462
Glaeser, Edward and Henderson, J. Vernon (2017) Urban economics for the developing world: an introduction. Journal of Urban Economics, 98. pp. 1-5. ISSN 0094-1190
Gordon, Ian R. (2006) How should we write about London?: the Working Capital view. City: Analysis of Urban Trends, Culture, Theory, Policy, Action, 10 (2). pp. 185-196. ISSN 1360-4813
Gornostaeva, Galina and Brunet, Johanne (2009) Internationalization of the production process in the US film industry: the case of the United Kingdom. International Journal of Arts Management, 12 (1). pp. 21-30. ISSN 1480-8986
Henderson, J. Vernon (2010) Cities and development. Journal of Regional Science, 50 (1). pp. 515-540. ISSN 0022-4146
Henderson, J. Vernon and Ono, Yukako (2008) Where do manufacturing firms locate their headquarters? Journal of Urban Economics, 63 (2). pp. 431-450. ISSN 0094-1190
Henderson, J. Vernon and Wang, Hyoung Gun (2005) Aspects of the rural-urban transformation of countries. Journal of Economic Geography, 5 (1). pp. 23-42. ISSN 1468-2702
Henderson, J. Vernon and Wang, Hyoung Gun (2007) Urbanization and city growth: the role of institutions. Regional Science and Urban Economics, 37 (3). pp. 283-313. ISSN 0166-0462
Kemeny, Thomas (2013) Immigrant diversity and economic development in cities: a critical review. SERC Discussion Papers (SERCDP0149). Spatial Economics Research Centre (SERC), London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
Li, Bingqin, Duda, Mark and An, Xiangsheng (2009) Drivers of housing choice among rural-to-urban migrants: evidence from Taiyuan. Journal of Asian Public Policy, 2 (2). pp. 142-156. ISSN 1751-6242
Monte, Ferninando, Redding, Stephen J. and Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban (2015) Commuting, migration and local employment elasticities. CEP Discussion Paper (1385). Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
Overman, Henry G. and Venables, Anthony J. (2005) Cities in the developing world. CEPDP (695). Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK. ISBN 0753018756
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Nurburgring Race Track to File for Bankruptcy
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The German state of Rhineland-Palatinate has reported that the Nurburgring race track will file for bankruptcy, a development I bet no one in North America saw coming. How could a race track as renowned as the Nurburgring go bankrupt?
The race track is like any other business in Germany — it has to make a profit to stay operational. Apparently, it fell into financial trouble due to a dispute with the track’s operator over leasing fees. Rhineland-Palatinate, which has a 90 percent ownership, did try to restructure the company with the help of a bridge financing package but failed because the European Commission apparently took too long to approve a rescue package.
The Nurburgring has become an icon in the enthusiast world, so we wouldn’t want to see it go.
Reference: Automotive News
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GM Posts Record $9.7 Billion Profit in 2015
Once struggling General Motors has posted a record profit of $9.7 billion in 2015.
That figure is significantly higher than the 2.8 billion income the automaker earned in2014, even though both years included financial setbacks associated with the ignition-switch defect. GM CEO Mary Barra stated:
“It was a strong year on many fronts, capped with record sales and earnings, and a substantial return of capital to our shareholders.”
The company achieved a full-year EBIT-adjusted profit of $11 billion and a margin of 10.3 percent in North America — a record on both counts — but lost money in Europe, although not as much as in 2014. The Chinese market continues to be a boon, bringing in a total of $2.1 billion in equity income.
The company plans to pay its eligible North America unionized hourly employees up to $11,000 in accordance to the profit-sharing agreement established during the 2008-2009 industry crisis. Barra added:
“We believe the opportunities this will create in connectivity, autonomous, car-sharing and electrification will set the stage for driving value for our owners for years to come.”
Interestingly, GM’s cash flow and liquidity dropped. Q4 2015 cash flow was $2.2 billion compared to $3.8 billion in Q4 2014, while total automotive liquidity in 2015 was $20.3 billion compared to $25.2 billion prior.
Regardless, there is no doubt that GM is healthier than it has ever been in decades. With the new Chevrolet Volt and $30,000 Bolt EV now on the market, it will be interesting to see how much better it performs in the coming years.
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles Spins Off Ferrari into Own Corporation
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) has announced plans to spin off its Ferrari division into a separate corporation in an effort to raise more money. The announcement follows shortly after long-time Ferrari chairman Luca di Montezemolo resigned from his post following an apparent dispute with FCA CEO Sergio Marchionne over the long-term plans for the Italian luxury marque.
The move is being described as an investment strategy and calls for 10 percent of Ferrari’s shares to be sold off, with the remaining 90 percent being split among existing FCA shareholders. The shares will be listed on US exchanges and possibly in Europe.
MUST READ: Ferrari Chairman Quits After a Dispute with Marchionne
“As we move forward to secure the 2014-2018 Business Plan and work toward maximizing the value of our businesses to our shareholders, it is proper that we pursue separate paths for FCA and Ferrari,” FCA CEO Sergio Marchionne stated in a press release.
The money obtained from the shares will go into FCA’s ambitious $61 billion growth plan, which calls for the introduction of a slew of products spanning the lineups of Ferrari, Maserati, Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep and Ram.
FCA chairman John Elkann is adamant that “the separation of Ferrari will preserve the cherished Italian heritage and unique position of the Ferrari business and allow FCA shareholders to continue to benefit from the substantial value inherent in this business.”
Ferrari’s spin-off from FCA will be completed in 2015. Do you think it is a smart move?
Tiny Porsche Made More Money in 2013 than Most Automakers
While most automakers are still reeling from the effects of the global financial and Euro crises, Porsche continues to do business as if nothing happened. The tiny German had a banner year in 2013, raking in record deliveries, revenues and profits.
Porsche delivered 162,145 vehicles worldwide during fiscal year 2013, representing a 15 percent improvement over 2012’s results and the best sales performance in the company’s long history. Thanks to those deliveries, revenue increased 3 percent to 14.3 billion euros ($19.9 billion), while profits jumped 6 percent to 2.58 billion euro ($3.59 billion).
Related story: New Porsche Macan Compact SUV, Pictures and Details
Despite being a low volume automaker, the German company made more money in 2013 than almost all automakers with sales of over 1 million units. It made more than Chrysler, loss-making Fiat and PSA, Renault, and almost as much as the world’s second largest carmaker, General Motors.
In fact, Porsche enjoyed an operating margin of 18 percent during 2013, which means it made on average about $23,200 on every car sold. This explains why it made so much money with so few sales, while the aforementioned large automakers — with their much, much lower margins — made so little on their large volumes.
Company CEO Matthias Müller predicts another record year for 2014, stating in a press release “This positive trend will intensify in the course of 2014 and the market launch of the Macan in April will further increase the company’s sales.”
To fuel that strong growth, Porsche now employs 19,456 workers globally, its highest level ever.
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St. Lucia opens embassy in Taiwan; first in Asia
St. Lucia Prime Minister Kenny Anthony (left) and Foreign Minister David Lin.
Taipei, June 4 (CNA) St. Lucia opened an embassy in Taiwan Thursday, the Caribbean country's first in Asia, in an effort to strengthen bilateral ties.
The inauguration ceremony was presided over by St. Lucia Prime Minister Kenny Anthony, who is on a visit to Taiwan this week.
The ceremony was also attended by St. Lucia's Minister for External Affairs, International Trade and Civil Aviation Alva Baptiste, Permanent Representative of Saint Lucia to the United Nations Menissa Rambally, and other St. Lucian officials.
Also present were Taiwan's Foreign Minister David Lin (林永樂), Taiwan's ambassador to St. Lucia James Chang (章計平) and other Taiwanese foreign affairs officials.
"We've decided to strengthen our bilateral relations," Baptiste said at a reception marking the opening of the embassy.
This is the first time St. Lucia has established an embassy in Taiwan.
The Republic of China and St. Lucia have maintained close cooperation in public health, education, infrastructure and culture since the two countries resumed diplomatic relations in 2007 following a 10-year hiatus.
The two sides first established diplomatic ties in 1984, but St. Lucia switched its recognition to the People's Republic of China in 1997.
Of Taiwan's 22 diplomatic allies, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is now the only one not to have set up an embassy here.
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Svenja Hahn: Europe is rather the solution of the issues we have today
What we want to see is that the Union is becoming better and more efficient, more democratic, more transparent and more accountable
We really want to see the EU acting together as one and having a framework for challenges such as migration and asylum, addressing together security and defence. The topic of climate change is particularly for young people an existence threatening challenge, says Svenja Hahn, President of the European Liberal Youth, in an interview to Europost.
- Ms Hahn, what is the main message of young liberals across Europe for the forthcoming European elections, and what future of Europe do Liberals dream for?
- My organisation just had a congress and adopted our manifesto with the headline “The Future is Europe” in which we specify what our vision is. We believe that Europe is not the problem of the issues we have today but rather the solution, because most of the challenges cannot be solved on national level but only together. Of course we see that the EU is far from perfect. Especially what we want to see is that the Union is becoming better and more efficient, more democratic, more transparent and more accountable. This would be our main focus. When it comes to concrete topics, we really want to see the EU acting together as one and having a framework for challenges such as migration and asylum, addressing together security and defence. The topic of climate change is particularly for young people an existence threatening challenge. We want to see the Union work together for finding new solutions for energy, protecting the environment, and of course the importance of digitalisation and innovation, how the jobs of the future will look like, what new skills will need to be learned.
- When earlier this year you were elected LYMEC President, you said that Europe for sure faces many challenges but you will work to turn them into opportunities. How can this be done?
- That is in general my perspective on things. Being a young politician I've been told many times, “Ah, you are too young for this, you should be more experienced for that.” But I think this is exactly the strength of young people and young politicians, because when we see something is failing we can try something new. We have the courage for trying something new. For me it is about a mindset that when something cannot be done in a certain way, it can be done differently. And I think politics needs a very diverse representation because everyone can add something and especially young people need to draw their version of the EU. Let me give an example. We always hear from the people, “Yes, I want the EU, but…” Instead of this “but” that is always followed by what they don't like and what is not working so well, I really want to hear people saying, “I want the EU, and…” followed by what they want to change and what they want to improve.
- You mentioned your organisation's recent congress. On what directions will LYMEC be most focused in the year ahead?
- At our congress in Vilnius last month, we set the priorities for the next year and we have three direct goals for these twelve months. First to get young people elected and to have more young politicians in the European Parliament. Then, it is to get young people to vote, to have an online and social media campaign, explaining to people what the EU means for them and their daily life, and why they should go out to vote and decide their own future. Third is to get youth topics higher on the EU's agenda. That is what is in our manifesto and we have six very clear priorities which we think are most relevant for the young people based on a survey among our members. They are democracy and structural reform, defence and cybersecurity, digital market and trade, education and labour market reform, especially when we have high youth unemployment. Others are climate change and energy, as well as migration. We want to work closely on these topics with the future ALDE group in the Parliament.
- Do you think a pan-European liberal alliance with Macron for the elections next May is realistic?
- What we heard from Macron's party so far, they don't use the word liberals for themselves as it has a different connotation in French, they rather define themselves as centrist. We see the need for pro-European progressive voices to actively involve citizens and bring change to the EU and the way we think about Europe. In that regard, I believe we are on the same page with Macron. We need a pragmatic approach to work with centrist forces like Macron's, with which we share the same values, and it is good to see that the liberal parties and ALDE have just announced an alliance with Macron's En Marche towards the European elections to work together to fight populists and anti-European forces. Now we need to identify joint projects on which we can work together, this can be a major success for the pro-EU forces.
- How can you comment President Macron's statement saying with quite a negative nuance, “Europe, without a doubt, has become too ultra-liberal”?
- It is a bit unclear what he meant by that, but I would assume it has to do with the fact that in France, unlike in other countries, the word 'liberal' often refers more to 'unrestrained capitalism', though I and most liberals outside of France identify this word with giving people opportunities, giving them tools and environment to create the life they want, supporting them. It needs to be stressed that liberals believe in people, in their capabilities to do what they want in order to create their lives, that they don't need the government and the state as a nanny but as an entity that sets out fair rules for everyone. So, I think we don't need to discuss wordings such as 'liberal' too much, because there are so many different meanings, what matters is the liberal principle. But it is clear there are things we do agree on with Macron, such as that the EU should set frameworks and guidelines for the market to interact and through these guidelines give protection to the citizens, but not go for overregulation. We should not look too much to the wording but into projects and ideas that we can share.
- What according to you is the main reason for the rise of the Eurosceptic parties in the EU?
- For too long it was too easy to bash the EU for your problems at home and claim the good victories for your national politics. For a long time, we failed to show to ordinary citizens the added value the EU brings to their lives, such as why the goods in the supermarket have such good prices, that the energy supply is coming from other countries or that local neighbourhood projects are funded by EU's money. When in the last years we were seeing one crisis after another in the EU, it was very easy for the people to become frightened. And the populists played with this fear and provided oversimplified solutions to the very complex problems. We need to challenge that, and we need to take the time to explain and not to fall into the populist rhetoric, but be able to present our solution in a comprehensive way that is easily understandable. It is about creating a perspective for the Europeans so they can see what the EU really means for them.
- What is your opinion on the Spitzenkandidat process and what do you expect from the next European Parliament?
- I believe the Spitzenkandidat process is a good first step towards more transparency on how the top positions are filled compared to the backroom deals we have seen before 2014. We think this is an improvement, but we believe that it could be even closer to the people and it requires having a transnational election list to work properly. At the ALDE congress on 8 and 9 November in Madrid, we held a discussion and agreed not to have one Spitzenkandidat but rather have a team of liberal leaders. The decision on who will take part in it will be approved at an electoral congress in Berlin in early 2019. I believe in the current situation it is a great opportunity to bring the EU even closer to the Europeans and show how many important positions there are and that the liberals have top people for the top positions in the EU, may it be commission president or the president of the European Parliament.
- The youth unemployment rate in many Member States is still very high. In this respect, what initiatives does the European Liberal Youth have to change this situation?
- We believe that there are some topics that should be improved to more effectively fight youth unemployment. These include education quality, accepting degrees and education certificates. We believe that the status of the Copenhagen process is far from what European youth deserves. We believe we need labour market reforms that are more adequate to the changing reality of work in our century and we need more vocational training. I would like to see the EU spend more money for vocational training of young people rather than spending money on InterRail tickets. I want the EU to support young people to create a good life and not only a good summer. We as LYMEC were very vocal on this topic, but we want to lead by example, so we just joined the Transparency at Work campaign for interns, which will help young people to get a better overview on what they will actually be doing to get extra qualifications and not only making coffee.
- Do you agree with some experts that now this young generation live worse and are less healthy than their parents?
- Both the society and the labour market have changed very rapidly, so our generation is indeed facing more uncertainty than our parents. But I think the solution to this is not to try to turn back time but try to make sure that our generation and the next generations are given the skills and tools they need to prosper in the new reality at work. We have to embrace the reality of changing careers and professions that means lifelong learning.
- How does LYMEC work with the young people from the Western Balkans, and are the liberal ideas close to their hearts?
- We are trying to keep a special focus on strengthening and providing capacity building for our member organisations in the region. There are very strong and stable organisations, but also very young ones. They are organised together, helping each other, and we try to provide further and comprehensive assistance and encourage stronger regional cooperation because we believe it is very important that we have to consolidate the European perspective of the Western Balkan states as well. In this respect, very effective in supporting their colleagues in these six countries is the Youth MRF from Bulgaria, which recently celebrated its 20th anniversary.
- What role can youth organisations play in integrating migrants in the European society?
- In general, youth organisations can play an important role in the integration process because they often bring together views from different parts of society. And I think integration first starts at the local level, in the community where you live. For the young people it is always easier to learn a new language, interact and make friends. It could be on all kinds of platforms, it could be with political youth organisations like ours, but it can be in sports clubs as well, which is an amazing place for integration. They can also take on children's parents to join their kids and can boost integration of the whole family.
- And to wrap up, what liberal message attracts the young people?
I think that the idea of liberalism is the most empowering idea we have, because we believe in people and we believe in the young people. We are not telling them what to do with their life, just want to be there and support them and give them the tools and framework they need. I can't imagine something that young people want more - they want to be trusted and they can be heroes of their own life. Especially to young people, liberalism is a very attractive idea.
Svenja Hahn (29) is the President of the European Liberal Youth (LYMEC). The German national has her political roots in the Free Democratic Party (FDP) and its youth wings, and serves also as FDP board member in the state of Hamburg. In her professional career she works as head of Public Relations in the international headquarters of a German-based brand. Svenja Hahn is the Spitzenkandidat of the German Young Liberals for the 2019 EP elections.
Svenja Hahn
LYMEC
H.E. Paivi Blinnikka: Being united, it will be much easier to meet modern challenges
One of the most important EU goals is cohesion, to enhance the poorer regions of the Union to get closer to the average
During its Council Presidency Finland is trying to follow the same policy that Bulgaria so skilfully followed in 2018 - to be a Presidency that is an ''honest broker'' and tries to find best solutions and compromises for all the Member States. For Finland, as part of the Nordic family, promoting equality and fairness is a key priority, says Paivi Blinnikka, Ambassador of Finland to Bulgaria in an interview to Europost.
Iskra Mihaylova: We will work for the security of the European citizens
We have informed Mr Manfred Weber that we will not be backing him in a potential parliamentary vote
The whole idea of lead candidates put forward by political parties no longer seems suitable to us. We are looking for more clear-cut consensus figures that can ensure the formation of coalitions and facilitate the pursuit of policies promoting a strong and united Europe, says Iskra Mihaylova, MEP, Vice-President of the Renew Europe group in the European Parliament, in an interview to Europost.
Giles Merritt: It would be wonderful if Merkel were to succeed Donald Tusk
We have become very used to focussing on immediate problems and allowing the long-term ones to grow bigger and bigger
My hope is that the solution will be a second referendum. That finally politicians on both sides will understand that the only way out is to ask the British voters again, after three years of heated debate and with much more information available: “Do you still want to leave the European Union?” or “Do you want to think again and perhaps stay?”, says Giles Merritt, Founder and Chairman of Friends of Europe, in an interview to Europost.
Ilhan Kyuchyuk: In May we have to decide what Europe we want to live in
Ben Butters: Brexit will have knock-on effect on the broad economy
Mariya Gabriel: There is serious fake news risk for the EP election
Dobrin Ivanov: We need a new EU strategy, not divisions
Kaloyan Simeonov: It is too early to assess the Brexit deal
Apostolos Malatras: A smarter device doesn't necessarily mean a more secure one
Davor Raus: Internet, ICT come into battle with human trafficking
Karel Lannoo: European politicians are incapable to defend the European project
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18:00 - EVENT - Shaping the Invisible: images reflected in music : Celebrating the 90th Anniversary of Italian Studies at UWA Website | More Information
A public talk by Mr Robert Hollingworth, Reader in Music, University of York and Director, I Fagiolini.
Robert Hollingworth will present a new CD of choral music from his much acclaimed vocal ensemble ‘I Fagiolini’. With Leonardo Da Vinci expert Professor Martin Kemp, Robert has selected music from the 15th to the 20th centuries, inspired by and reflecting images and ideas of Da Vinci. The title track is a new commission bridging a gap between the early 21st century and Leonardo, on the 500th anniversary of his death. In this lecture Robert will discuss the project, show the pictures and play some of the music.
2019 marks the 90th anniversary of the teaching of Italian language and culture at The University of Western Australia.
In 1929, Francesco Vanzetti, an idiosyncratic and popular Venetian, offered the first courses in Italian. This was the first appointment of a lecturer in Italian in any Australian university.
This lecture series, supported by the Institute of Advanced Studies and by Italian Studies in the UWA School of Humanities, celebrates aspects of Italian language and culture, past and present.
16:00 - SEMINAR - Archaeology Seminar Series : Reducing Risks to Heritage in Times of Crisis More Information
To communities heavily impacted by natural and man-made hazard induced events, cultural heritage provides a sense of identity and continuity in the aftermath of a disaster. Often a source of revenue and livelihood for communities, cultural heritage and its associated industries are vulnerable to hazard events, however, is often unaddressed until the latter stages of emergency response, impacting the effectiveness of recovery initiatives amongst affected communities. First Aid to Cultural Heritage in Times of Crisis (FAC), aims to identify areas of joint programming between culture and humanitarian sectors, integrating the protection of cultural heritage into emergency response procedures in cooperation and coordination with other mainstream emergency response actors. Preparing and providing emergency actors and local communities with the ability to assess risks to cultural heritage and reduce the impact of hazard-induced events, FAC works to ensure that affected communities can become active contributors in their own cultural recovery.
19:30 - PERFORMANCE - UWA Music presents: Centre Stage | Nicola Boud and The Irwin Street Collective More Information
Born in Perth, Nicola obtained her Bachelor of Music with first class honours from the University of Western Australia in 1999, and was awarded the Edith Cowan Prize for performance and musicology. During her studies Nicola began to play with the Australian Chamber Orchestra on modern and historical clarinet. Her curiosity in early music took her to the Netherlands, where she completed her Masters in historical performance at the Royal Conservatory in the Hague with Eric Hoeprich in 2004.
Now based in Europe, Nicola tours and records extensively, and is in demand as principal clarinet with various orchestras and ensembles. Nicola is also an active chamber musician, regularly performing with the pianist Kristian Bezuidenhout, and the Cambini and Edding Quartets, and has performed at many prestigious festivals. Nicola returns to UWA for this week-long residency as an Institute of Advanced Studies Misha Strassberg Fellow.
The culmination of a week-long residency, Nicola will perform alongside members of the Irwin Street Collective in a concert that will feature Mozart's beautiful Kegelstatt Trio and a rare performance of Beethoven's horn sonata played in a contemporary arrangement for basset horn.
Free entry, bookings essential | trybooking.com/BASWT
10:00 - STAFF EVENT - Developing Rubrics - Enhancing Learning Design Series Website | More Information
This active, hands-on workshop is designed to build your knowledge, skills and confidence in creating and using marking rubrics.
You are welcome to bring along your own marking schemes for reflection and feedback afterwards, time permitting.
By the end of this workshop you will have learnt: * What a rubric is * Why you should use a rubric * How to create a basic rubric * How to mark using a rubric * How to create a rubric in Turnitin
10:00 - WORKSHOP - Strategies for Moderation - Enhancing Learning Design Series Website | More Information
In this session you will learn the rationale and process for moderation and standard setting at UWA. A three stage cycle of moderation will be discussed, with examples that can be applied in different contexts.
You will develop ideas for strategies for your own teaching area, and come up with a plan for moderation and standard setting for your next teaching cycle.
9:30 - EVENT - New Units and Unit Coordinators Design Workshop Website | More Information
Facilitated by an experienced Learning Designer, this one-day workshop is a great practical opportunity for both NEW Unit Coordinators at UWA to experience the unit design process, OR Unit Coordinators who are developing approved NEW units for their majors to be delivered from 2020.
You (as the Unit Coordinator) and assisting teaching staff can participate in a number of sequential collaborative tasks which will allow you to explore ideas for active learning as well as map out and plan the face-to-face and/or online elements for ONE unit you want to specifically focus on for this workshop.
The workshop begins at 9:30am sharp and finishes at 4:30pm. There is an expectation that participants will be present for the full day. Please answer as many of the questions at the point of registration. This extremely valuable information will be used to coordinate the best team to assist you at this workshop and during follow-up opportunities.
11:00 - EVENT - Linguistics Seminar Series : Debunking urban myths Language and conceptions of time in Aboriginal Australia More Information
The idea that ‘for Aboriginal people in Australia, time is cyclic’ has been floating around for a long time, mostly as a folk commonplace, but also occasionally in scholarly contributions. Reference is regularly made in these contexts to the concept of ‘Dreamtime’, which is supposed to encapsulate a distinctive Aboriginal conception of time (e.g. Goddard & Wierzbicka 2015; Austin 1998). Often, language is called upon as evidence, based on the assumption that linguistic structures reflect speakers’ shared conceptual representations (Whorf 1956). Beyond folk theories, the hypothesis that linguistic structures in Australian Indigenous languages reflect the ‘Dreamtime’ concept of time both lexically and grammatically has also been proposed (Austin 1998:4), albeit not developed. These views deserve further discussion, as it is not clear what it means for a group of people to hold a ‘cyclic conception of time’; equally, the relations between language and thought can be argued to be much more intricate than the above claims suggest. In this talk, we will examine both lexical and grammatical categories in different Australian Indigenous languages in order to assess firstly, whether we can make sense of the notion of cyclic time from an ethnographic point of view; and secondly, whether linguistic structures can tell us anything about a concept of time.
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - The Colonial Fantasy. Why white Australia can’t solve black problems. Website | More Information
This conversation between Sarah Maddison, the author of 'The Colonial Fantasy', and senior Noongar woman and scholar Colleen Hayward, will consider why settler Australia persists in the face of such obvious failure and why Indigenous policy in Australia has resisted the one thing that has made a difference elsewhere—the ability to control and manage their own lives.
Sarah Maddison is Professor of Politics at the University of Melbourne and co-director of the Indigenous-Settler Relations Collaboration.
Professor Colleen Hayward AM is a senior Noongar woman and former Pro Vice Chancellor at Edith Cowan University.
Sarah’s book 'The Colonial Fantasy: why white Australian can’t solve black problems' will be available for sale on the night, courtesy of Boffins Books.
15:00 - SEMINAR - Media and Communication Studies Seminar Series : PhD Proposal and Honours Research Project More Information
In this seminar Juliana La Pegna will be presenting on her PhD Proposal (abstract below) and Nina Savic will also be outlining her Honours research project.
Juliana’s presentation:
Title: Beyond ‘Dullsville’: An Interpretive Policy Analysis of Culture and Arts based Policy surrounding the Perth CBD’s Identity and Growth, 2008–2018.
Abstract: Using the City of Perth as a case study, this research project explores competing discourses about the CBD. According to Susan Galloway and Stewart Dunlop (2007) “the arts and culture have been subsumed in a creative industries agenda” with the effect of bolstering support and justification for culture based agenda in a knowledge based economic climate. This trend, known as “The Cultural Policy Moment” (O’Regan, 2002) describes a situation where culture and arts policies intended to improve liveability and lifestyle within spaces have become part of a creative industries agenda, driven by economic imperatives. Drawing on these understandings of cultural policy, the objective of this research is to understand how discourses surrounding the Perth CBD have changed through the shifting of policy strategies to represent new political agendas around culture. These changes reflect feelings of uncertainty, anxiety and often competing visions for what the city should become are widely represented within the ways in which the city is talked about, which do not align with cultural policy agenda discourses represented within and through policy and its related artefacts. Using Interpretive Policy Analysis (IPA) established by Dvora Yanow (2000) this project will identify discursive trends within policy documents, annual reports, planning documents, newspaper articles and interviews which highlight the various and often contradictory feelings about the changes happening within the CBD space. The context of this research is considered to be a crucial moment in time for the Perth City space, as it is experiencing unprecedented and rapid growth and change.
Nina Savic’s Honours presentation:
Title: Examining the Relationship Between Televisual Rape Depictions and Rape Myth Acceptance in Television Viewers Brief: Through the lens of post-structural feminism, I examine the rape myths enforced through television rape narratives, particularly in the HBO series Game of Thrones. Three major rape scenes will be evaluated for their presence of rape myths. Using Stuart Hall’s (1980) Encoding/Decoding audience reception theory, I investigate viewer responses to rape narratives and the myths they enforce. By assessing comments made on online forums surrounding each major rape scene, I will allocate each participant to the Dominant, Negotiated, or Alternative reading group. This shall make inferences into the viewing attitudes of a wide section of viewers.
17:00 - SEMINAR - UWA Music presents: Callaway Centre Seminar Series | Nicholas Bannan : Did the voices of men and women evolve to sing in harmony? More Information
A free weekly seminar series, with presenters from within UWA and from the wider community.
Since Darwin, evolutionary explanations of the role of vocal communication in the development of human cultural universals have received fluctuating levels of attention. While during the early 20th Century ethnomusicologists such as Sachs and von Hornbostel sustained an interest in the distribution of musicality as an inseparable feature of the human condition, little progress was made for more than a century after Darwin in examining the material evidence for musical origins. A key feature of this from an animal behaviour perspective – especially in terms of the application of Darwin’s sexual selection model to human musicality – is the gendered nature of the anatomy that permits us to engage in music. Comparisons across species indicate considerable sexual dimorphism in terms of such features as: range; role; interaction; and purpose. Humans, like Pied Butcher Birds, have equal and complementary capacities for musical generativity and participation, with a clearly superior role for the female in employing music in child-rearing. Studies in linguistics have remarked on the assumed universal whereby the vocal ranges of human adult males and females lie on average exactly an octave apart: a feature plainly evident in cultural practice. Yet an explanation for this in the voice and music literature is strangely absent. This paper reports on the initiation of a research project aiming to address this lacuna in the research landscape, and to set out some of the definitions and other factors that need require consideration.
Further information at music.uwa.edu.au
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - UniverCities: Investigating the influence of student accommodation on global cities Website | More Information
A public lecture by Dr Mark Holton, Lecturer in Human Geography, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Plymouth and UWA Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
Accommodating university students has become one of the most pervasive forms of contemporary urban change, with increasingly mobile networks of higher education students altering, beyond recognition, the landscape of UniverCities – cities that host universities – across the world. This is particularly pertinent in relation to how students access and engage with institutions and their term-time host communities and initial UK and US-centric studies in the 1990s and 2000s sought to understand how students’ lifestyles might re-shape residential neighbourhoods. More recently, and as a response to increasingly neoliberalised global higher education networks, the appetite for student accommodation provisions has become somewhat ‘vertical’. This is witnessed in UniverCities across the world through the proliferation of large-scale purpose built student accommodation (PBSA) developments that package and marketise ‘student experiences’ through high quality hotel-style living. Drawing on an analysis of PBSA-sector literature that compares various global histories and contexts of student accommodation provision, this lecture recognises Australia specifically as an important emerging contender in the globalised higher education market – a location where domestic students predominantly live at home but that is witnessing increasing internationalisation. This literature has identified some of Australia’s main achievements in this sector to be the initiation of effective branding of PBSA developments and recognising students as a sophisticated consumer group. A key message here for other emergent and established PBSA markets is that increasing investment into the quality and accessibility of higher education institutions through strategic partnerships, developing overseas recruitment strategies and increasing student accommodation provision is fundamental in increasing the appeal of a UniverCity as a global education destination.
17:00 - SEMINAR - Seminar: Behind the Islamist Carnage: Sri Lankan Ethno-Religious Democracy in Disarray More Information
A bunch of highly educated and religiously inspired middle or upper-middle-class Muslims belonging to the extremist National Tawheed Jamaat based in the township of Kattankudy and linked to ISIS has carried out a highly coordinated attack on Christian churches in Sri Lanka killing nearly 300 worshippers, children and bystanders. This, in essence, is the story told by the media. However, there are too many unanswered questions at this stage and this topic goes behind this story and looks at how the country’s ethno-religious democracy had come to a dead end since October 2018 and whether this carnage opens a way out for the caravan to move.
Dr. Ameer Ali, (B. A. Hons, Ceylon, M.Phil, London, Ph.D., W.Aust) is a retired academic in economics but holding an Honorary Research Fellowship at Murdoch University, is a Sri Lankan Muslim, writing regularly on Sri Lankan affairs in academic journals and popular publications. Colombo Telegraph and Daily Financial Times in Colombo carries his pieces almost weekly. He also contributes to Australian newspapers. The Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, Journal of South Asia, Journal of Security and International Affairs are three of several academic journals that carried his research output. He is the author of Economic Development of Brunei Darussalam, 1906-2000, Murdoch University, 2001. Currently, he is engaged in a three-part analysis of recent developments in Sri Lanka focusing on the Easter Carnage a week ago.
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Personal Data Stores: boon or curse? Website | More Information
A public lecture by Dr Nicolo Zingales, Deputy Director, Centre for Information Governance Research, University of Sussex and Institute of Advanced Studies Visiting Fellow.
Personal Data Stores aim to help individuals and communities to be the beneficiaries of insights from their data. Some think it will redress the current power asymmetry with major digital platforms like Google and Facebook. But at the same time, Personal Data Stores lay the foundations for a new type of economy based on very specific personalised marketing, which makes consumers more transparent and prone to behavioural nudging. Will Personal Data Stores set us free, or lock us further into digital dependency?
This lecture will tackle these questions, offering a blueprint for the sort of legal and governance structures that could promote trust and accountability in the development of these services.
16:00 - SEMINAR - Archaeology Seminar Series : Path of Pain – Truth telling, Acknowledgement and The Bernier and Dorre Island Lock Hospitals More Information
Let us tell you about one of the stories that has been swept under the Australian carpet for far too long……. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were removed from their homelands and interned in medical and government facilities. Within these systems of racially-based removal and incarceration, people were often interned for years and deprived of certain liberties and decision-making powers. These places and practices led to the dislocation of generations of people from their families, communities and country, and were part of a pattern of events and policies that served to interrupt people’s ability to care for country and to undertake cultural practices and responsibilities. Although these practices were largely portrayed at the time as benevolent humanitarian interventions, instead they caused physical, social, emotional, cultural and spiritual loss to the individuals directly affected and their decedents. In addition, many places and objects associated with these activities, particular burial areas and Aboriginal stories remain unrecorded and even hidden. Community members and researchers want preservation, protection and acknowledgement of these sites, associated cultural artefacts and stories. This presentation provides an opportunity to hear about one such story the Bernier and Dorre Island Lock Hospitals (operating from 1908 -1919) and its associated centenary memorial project direct from researchers and community members, with a view to inform future policy on best practice heritage protection, acknowledgement of past acts and truth telling.
17:30 - PUBLIC TALK - NTEU Federal Election Forum 2019: The Future of Tertiary Education in Australia : The 2019 Federal Election is almost upon us and the NTEU WA Division is hosting a free public forum to hear first-hand major political party priorities for tertiary education in Australia. Website | More Information
Join us at 5.30pm on Thursday 2nd May in the Murdoch Lecture Theatre (Arts G58) at The University of Western Australia.
The forum will feature NTEU National President Dr Alison Barnes and guests:
Senator Louise Pratt
Senator Pratt is the Shadow Assistant Minister for Universities, Shadow Assistant Minister for Equality and an ALP Senator for Western Australia. Louise has a long history of fighting for justice across the Australian community. Louise is passionate about quality and access to higher education, an interest sparked through university student activism in the 1990s. Before entering Federal Parliament in 2008, Louise served in the Western Australian Parliament as a Member of the Legislative Council. Louise was previously the Shadow Assistant Minister for Families and Communities and Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Environment, Climate Change and Water. Louise believes that investment in education, skills, research and innovation will deliver sustained economic growth and higher standards of living.
Senator Jordon Steele-John
At just 23, Jordon is Australia’s youngest ever senator and first with a lived experience of cerebral palsy. Prior to taking up the post of Senator for Western Australia in November 2017, Jordon dedicated his time to youth and disability advocacy and was also a student of politics at Macquarie University. An active member of the Greens since he was 16, Jordon is passionate about using his time in Parliament to act on climate change, reduce youth unemployment and implement a full NDIS. He is committed to helping break down some of the barriers holding back young people and disabled people from engaging with politics, and ensuring that we make progress towards true representation; he does not want to be the last. Jordon is one of 10 Australian Greens in the Federal Parliament and has portfolio responsibility for Disability Rights, Youth, Communications and Sustainable Cities.
We also invited the Hon. Dan Tehan MP, Minister for Education (Liberal Party of Australia), though unfortunately, Dan is unable to attend.
17:30 - PERFORMANCE - UWA Music presents: WASO International Artist Masterclass Program : Andreas Ottensamer More Information
UWA and WASO have a relationship that brings together the highest-quality music education with some of the State’s most talented and experienced professional musicians.
In 2019, the International Artist Masterclass Program continues to welcome world-class visiting artists as they inspire, challenge and celebrate some of Western Australia’s finest young musicians.
Andreas Ottensamer has held the coveted position of Principal Clarinet of the Berlin Philharmonic since 2011. Through his orchestral work, concerto, recital and chamber music performances, he is now one of the most in-demand clarinettists on the planet.
Free entry - bookings essential
Contact details: taylorf@waso.com.au
Further information waso.com.au/education
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Humanitarianism, ‘Aboriginal Protection’ and the Politics of Reform in the Nineteenth-Century British Empire : The 2019 Tom Stannage Memorial Lecture Website | More Information
The 2019 Tom Stannage Memorial Lecture by Amanda Nettelbeck, Professor in History, University of Adelaide.
The desire for humanitarian reform had multiple targets in the post-abolitionist British Empire, and its impacts on imperial policy have been subject to considerable recent interest amongst historians. A major focus of this reformist agenda in the years immediately after the abolition of slavery was an official commitment to deliver Indigenous peoples with rights that could be protected in law. The 1830s policy framework of ‘Aboriginal protection’ that emerged from this moment, designed to build the civil rights of Indigenous people as British subjects, is often considered to be the most important, if flawed and short-lived, expression of imperial humanitarianism. This is particularly so in Australia, where three formal departments of Aboriginal protection operated throughout the 1840s (and into the 1850s), alongside one in New Zealand. Yet the policy of ‘protection’ was not only driven by humanitarian principles, and nor did it uniquely address Indigenous people. Rather, it sat within a larger set of legally-empowered policies designed to regulate the treatment and status of new or newly-mobile colonial subjects.
This lecture explores how the early policy of Aboriginal protection functioned within a wider field of protection policies which worked to manage colonized peoples in an expanding British Empire, where demands for labour and land jostled with the imperatives of humane governance. Over the course of the nineteenth century, protection policies proved remarkably flexible. On the one hand, they served to imprint a vast Empire with the apparent guarantee of even-handed governance. On the other, they served to build new colonial foundations by reinforcing the Crown’s authority over subject peoples. They drew colonized peoples within the embrace of colonial law and labour markets; they managed the Empire’s post-abolition labour needs; they promoted the superiority of British civilisation over competing systems of law and social governance; and they set conditions on people’s lawful conduct and mobility. Yet while they had wide application, protection policies have also carried unique legacies for Indigenous people. Not only did they endure longest in the context of Indigenous policy, but there they also held the most complex role in seeking to create a new kind of legal subjecthood, one which imperial humanitarians hoped would establish Indigenous people as British subjects and workers with reciprocal responsibilities to the settler world.
11:00 - SEMINAR - Asian Studies Seminar Series : The Religious Entrepreneurship of Humanistic Buddhism Theo Stapleton More Information
The Religious Entrepreneurship of Humanistic Buddhism
This dissertation explores the concept of religious entrepreneurship in the context of the Humanistic Buddhist movement. Religious entrepreneurship as a theoretical framework facilitates a focus on the production of religious capital by Humanistic Buddhists, which has seen it become one of the most important influences in Han Buddhism over the last century. I outline three generations of religious entrepreneurship within this tradition, beginning with the early reformers of Taixu and Yinshun and then highlighting the Taiwanese Humanistic Buddhist organisations, who adopted corporate structures and developed a new style of congregational Buddhism in the second half of the 20th century. Lastly I discuss the third generation of religious entrepreneurship, which centres around the case study for this dissertation: the Stonefrog Foundation. I argue that the Stonefrog Foundation is finding new ways to generate religious capital, which has allowed it to succeed where previous Humanistic Buddhists failed, in the transnational religious marketplace.
Illness in culture: the social construction of mental disorders in Korea and China
This project aims to analyse how mental illness is socially constructed and culturally constituted in Korea and China. Adopting social constructionism as its theoretical framework, this project argues that mental illness is embedded within cultural discourses that give meaning to and shape the way society responds to individuals who experience that illness. The conventional psychiatric knowledge does not come from the nature of the condition but is developed within a particular sociocultural context. Moreover, the concept of mental illness is produced to facilitate the exercise of power. Much of the existing scholarship has tended to focus on Western cultures, whereas little work has been done on the social construction of mental illness in Asian culture. Through an analysis of Korean and Chinese cultural beliefs in relation to mental illness, this project shows how some discourses are produced to govern and regulate people’s knowledge of mental illness in Korea and China.
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People that claim ethnicity but don't speak the language...
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Postby afk2011 » Wed Jun 02, 2010 5:18 am UTC
Just wondering if anyone else out there has had the experience of meeting someone who LOVES to talk about their "roots", how they are completely Italian or something, and how culturally strong they are, but then when you try to speak with them in that language that don't know anything?
It's a big pet-peeve of mine and a total cop out. If you are so proud to be 100% of whatever, then go and learn that language!
I recently made an xkcd-style comic about it that you can find here ( godreallyhates.blogspot.com ) if you have a sec. I feel like it happens more with Italian than anything else, but yeah. Word.
Iulus Cofield
Re: People that claim ethnicity but don't speak the language
Postby Iulus Cofield » Wed Jun 02, 2010 9:41 am UTC
This is a pretty American phenomenon, no?
People have/create group identities and, in most of the world, they can firmly place themselves into an essentially ancient, very well defined, and established group. These groups tend to be ethnic, national, religious, what have you. America is relatively new and people of non-indigenous groups trace their ethnic group to some other region. In order to ground their genetic identities somewhere they have to ground them in foreign soil.
The language question is interesting because it brings up how people view their association to those ethnic identities. It's often cultural (see: "more Irish than someone from Dublin" phenomenon), always genetic, but rarely linguistic. So, this isn't frustrating to me, because, like whoever it is that's bugging you, I don't see the need to speak the "mother tongue" to feel an association with my ancestors. In my case it's the Plantagenets. I wouldn't feel any closer to them by speaking Middle English or Old French. That would actually create a weird cognitive dissonance between my group affiliation with my ancestors and my identity as a 21st C. American.
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Postby Twelfthroot » Wed Jun 02, 2010 10:07 pm UTC
This is an interesting sort of opinion that, while I'm not accusing you of perpetrating, puts an interesting sort of pressure on people of a certain heritage. I understand you're complaining about people who boast of their ethnicity. But even still, for people who don't boast but still want to identify with the ethnicity of their parents or grandparents, it echos a very high standard that if they don't speak the language, they don't count. If an American got into a brain-damaging accident tomorrow and woke up only speaking their second languages, with English gone (which I understand happens), would you say they were no longer American? That it would be undeserved for them to speak proudly of their American heritage?
Obviously that's a bit of a contrived circumstance, but the issue applies very broadly. As far as experiences I've heard personally, there are many Mexicans living in America who were raised monolingual in English. Often their parents were Spanish-speaking and neglected passing on their native language in hopes to give their children wider opportunities. Couple this with the varied prejudices and social factors in border states in terms of immigrant identity, and the vile Americanism "This is America, speak English." You can see how these people would be confused and struggling to find their cultural identity, wanting to find solidarity in their heritage and still be a part of society. Are you going to criticize them for celebrating their heritage because they don't speak Spanish? Some of them were even made to feel shame for their parents' Spanish or for sounding Mexican -- "just go learn Spanish" isn't exactly a couple classes and textbooks and bam, heritage.
What about somebody living in Spain who is only really comfortable speaking Catalan? If I'm Québécois - or even just Canadian - am I only half-authentic if I only speak English or only speak French? Am I Québécois when I speak French and Canadian when I speak English?
Language and heritage are very closely interrelated, and members of ethnic groups often wield language more or less strongly to construct their ethnic identities. This does not make them the same thing. It is not hard for me to imagine people who understand and live by the so-called 'true' 'American' 'freedoms' and beliefs without speaking a word of English, and goodness knows I know a lot of native English Americans who make me ashamed of my American heritage.
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Postby gurfunklebunker » Wed Jun 02, 2010 11:00 pm UTC
I guess I would be one of those people. I do consider myself Croatian (though i also have Czech and Italian roots) but i cannot speak the language (yet, anyways, just a few words).Yes, I was born in Canada, but I do not entirely feel "Canadian". Plus, it doesn't help that my father never wanted to teach me Croatian when I was younger, and my mother didn't teach me Italian when I was younger either. (My uncle has told me that he protested to my parents that learning both of the languages would be extremely beneficial, but my mother claimed that since we were in Canada, English was "good enough".)
I am trying right now to learn the language (I have a book on beginner's Croatian and I know a few words and such). Plus the university I will be going to offers courses in Croatian as well. I have always seemed to identify myself as a Croat (and probably the largest example of this being the Croatian and Canadian flags hanging on my wall with the Croatian national anthem hanging in between them) and really get peeved when someone tries to tell me otherwise. I am trying to put forth an honest effort to learn the language that my father did not teach me, and I do hope that I will be able to speak it fluently. (Hell, I can sing both national anthems of Canada and Croatia, and I think that is a start at the very least.)
Another example is my friend who is Russian, but he does not speak the language, but is also trying to make the effort in learning the language. But I have never considered him "Canadian", I have only referred to him as "Russian" despite being born in Canada. So, after all of this, i really do not know what else to say. I still consider myself Croatian at the end of the day, and I refuse people that tell me otherwise.
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Postby sje46 » Sun Jun 06, 2010 5:44 am UTC
It's kinda a pet peeve of me too. Not that they don't speak the language...languages are basically impossible to learn in America if you don't have an actual reason to learn it/constant exposure/great talent/motivation. This is why 95% of American students in areas without a lot of minorities who sit through Spanish classes don't become even close to conversant later in life. Not because Americans are lazy. But because it's too late, and there are no opportunities to even practice it. It isn't worth it to carry on. You want these people to learn a language, but doing so will entail going to college or living in a foreign country for a few years, assuming they're a regular person.
What I do agree with you on is how people identify with their roots. And people have called me a jerk for saying this, but I do feel like it's harmful to American society because it encourages racialistic thinking. It's one thing, you know, to call yourself French if your parents immigrated to New Orleans from France and spoke french at home and celebrated French holidays and such. It's a different thing to grow up in suburban Massachussetts with the same kind of homelife as everyone else, celebrating the same holidays as everyone else, eating the same foods as everyone else, speaking the same language and accent as everyone else, and being proud for being Italian because that's where your grandfather hails from. You're not Italian, culturally. You're American. If you have any doubts about that, go to Italy, and ask them if you're Italian. I'd imagine it'd be a bit insulting to them. Not because you're American, but because you're calling you one of them without at least ctually adopting their culture.
Maybe it isn't harmful to do this, but I feel like it ultimately is. People still explain things racialistically. "He's a real Italian, a great cook", "You can tell she's got French blood, she's really romantic". It's alright to appropriate parts of a culture into your identity. You don't have to eat only hotdogs and hamburgers and only watch baseball and only listen to 50s rock and roll. But to actually calling yourself a part of a culture that you've never even really experienced is insulting, at the very least.
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Postby gmalivuk » Sun Jun 06, 2010 2:41 pm UTC
sje46 wrote: you're calling you one of them without at least actually adopting their culture.
Wait, did Italy suddenly start having one culture when I wasn't looking?
Postby Iulus Cofield » Sun Jun 06, 2010 10:53 pm UTC
All countries, besides America, Canada, Iraq, Israel (if you include Palestine), and the UK (and formerly Serbia, before Kosovo split) have one culture. Spluh.
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Postby balt11t » Wed Jun 09, 2010 1:00 pm UTC
Iulus Cofield wrote: All countries, besides America, Canada, Iraq, Israel (if you include Palestine), and the UK (and formerly Serbia, before Kosovo split) have one culture. Spluh.
I disagree with this one hundred per cent. In countries such as France, or Italy, the culture varies HUGELY depending on where you are. Just as in America, if you live in New York and move to Idaho or Louisiana, there's a relatively wide cultural gap there.
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turkey iraq and syria all have huge kurdish populations. Australia has aboriginal and TSI cultures, Most of europe has huge gypsy populations, afghansitan and pakistan both have huge pashtun populations. Don't even get me started on russia and china. Japan has the ainu, the island of jeju in S Korea has a culture which unlike the rest of korean lacks many of the honourifics and terms of respect that are so intrinsic to Korean and in fact most east asian cultures. Native populations all throughout S America and ofc africa is rife with diversity. SA alone has two major white ethnic groups with different cultures plus all the native groups, tswana sotho zulu xhosa to name a few. Rwanda was one big culture clash if you think about it.
Unless you were being facetious in which case I'll be quiet
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Postby Bobber » Wed Jun 09, 2010 1:28 pm UTC
balt11t wrote:
dude what
It's not even like you're feeding a troll, you're just completely disregarding the blatant sarcasm in his post.
OR I am right now feeding a troll. Which is it? We may never know!
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Postby Iulus Cofield » Wed Jun 09, 2010 1:36 pm UTC
ZLVT wrote: Unless you were being facetious in which case I'll be quiet
Yes, I was being facetious. I was agreeing with Gmaviluk's point that Americans tend to view foreign cultures monolithically.
Postby gmalivuk » Wed Jun 09, 2010 1:57 pm UTC
I disagree with this one hundred per cent.
Yeah, so does Iulus Cofield. It's what's called sarcasm.
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Postby RabbitWho » Tue Jun 15, 2010 11:27 pm UTC
Some people have no idea how to learn a language, though they would be really good at it if they did.
Some people just can't learn a language no matter what they do.
Some people are busy looking for a cure for cancer or some other important thing.
Most people are just lazy.
But you never know what group your'e talking to so you have to be tolerant of everyone.
I would be so amazingly happy if all the Irish Americans learnt Irish... And I promise you they would be so admired and respected for it. Our language is dying, and there are something like 40 million Irish Americans. If they learned it it would live. Imagine the market? The money that would be put into Irish, the classes, the courses, the books that would be printed, the websites, the support for people learning, the films that would be made, the websites that would be translated... the dances.. the parties.. the clubs.. the people coming together to speak Irish.
If there were that many adults learning it, and because they loved it! Oh that would be a wonderful thing!
None of this mystisism crap. Like this:
This type of design was brought to Ireland FROM TURKEY. It's about as celtic as my phone. (If you believe the word Celtic actually refers to something, and I do).
No magic, no rabbits, no hats.. a real living language!
Here's a Celtic design:
http://www.artfund.org/assets/image/art ... 008156.jpg
No interlacing. Much more natural and simple. Actually really modern and fashionable looking now in 2010.
Postby gmalivuk » Wed Jun 16, 2010 3:03 am UTC
RabbitWho wrote: If you believe the word Celtic actually refers to something
Yes, it refers to the Gauls.
Postby sje46 » Wed Jun 16, 2010 5:01 am UTC
There's no distinct lines about where one culture ends and another one begins. But I don't really see how that's relevant. At all. It's still insulting to say you're part of a culture to someone in that culture when you only have superficial knowledge of that culture.
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It always bugged me when my mother insisted I remain a good Jew, have a bar mitzvah and marry a Jewish woman, when she neither cares about, knows about, or has had said education.
But sure, it's hilarious when people advertise their superficial knowledge of something they swear by.
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Postby djlowballer » Thu Jun 17, 2010 7:00 am UTC
I dislike the whole American trend of trying to cling to some cultural heritage one has never been a part of. The language bit is just the icing on the cake. If you don't speak the language, were never raised in the culture, and have never been to the home country then you are not really from a culture. I never understood the shame in identifying oneself as American. For a 200 year old country we have some pretty sweet history.
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Postby animeHrmIne » Thu Jun 17, 2010 12:42 pm UTC
I really don't think it's a shame thing. From what I've seen, it's more like: family comes over to America from, say, Lithuania, they don't speak English and are identified as Lithuanian; next generation is raised bilingual, and are raised culturally like their parents were, so are still considered Lithuanian; next generation has almost no ties to Lithuania culturally or linguistically, but they still consider themselves Lithuanian because their parents did.
I assume the same happens in other countries, Koreans in Japan having children their who consider themselves Korean, Scottish people moving to England and their kids are still Scottish, etc.
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Postby gmalivuk » Thu Jun 17, 2010 2:30 pm UTC
Even in more ethnically homogeneous populations, I suspect people have personal identities that set them apart from most of those around them and put them into a smaller in-group. If they all speak the same language and their ancestors all came from that same country for several generations, it'll be something else like a tiny difference in how they practice their religion or how light or dark their skin is.
Postby RabbitWho » Thu Jun 17, 2010 2:42 pm UTC
It refers to a lot more than that, that's the problem. All the word actually means is "Foreign"
But the people who we call Celts and came to Ireland were from La Tene and Halstatt (mostly) They didn't all share one culture or one language, which is why some people claim there were no such thing as Celts. They were foreign to the Greeks, that's the only thing they had in common.
djlowballer wrote: I dislike the whole American trend of trying to cling to some cultural heritage one has never been a part of. The language bit is just the icing on the cake. If you don't speak the language, were never raised in the culture, and have never been to the home country then you are not really from a culture. I never understood the shame in identifying oneself as American. For a 200 year old country we have some pretty sweet history.
Stephen Fry said something wonderful about Americans which I think is absolutely true.. The best Europeans left, the fearless, the brave, the ones who were unhappy with their miserable little lives at home in the rain and said.. you know what.. maybe we'll get eaten by wolves but feck it, anything's better than this.
I don't think there's anything to be ashamed of. (Well, taking the land from the Native Americans etc. but that's not your fault, and most of your grandparents weren't born in America anyway, and none of us are on a piece of land right now that someones ancestors didn't steal from someone)
I don't understand the Irish American fascination with Ireland, but if they're going to have it it would make me so happy if it was the real Ireland and not the crappy mystical shamrock leprechaun stuff.
I mean you can come over to Dingle and buy a little furry sheep for 10 euro and take a picture of yourself drinking Guiness and say you love Ireland.
Or you can stay in America, study Irish, and read Irish literature and poems or listen to Irish music.. and say you love Ireland.
I mean people should do whatever makes them feel happy and fulfilled. I'm just pointing out that there's a difference, and while our economy is dying and I'm pleased people are buying stuffed sheep.. Our culture and connection with our history is dying and that's a bigger loss.
RabbitWho wrote: All the word actually means is "Foreign"
[citation needed]
I thought it had always been used to refer to people from Western Europe, never to foreigners in general.
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Postby Pez Dispens3r » Thu Jun 17, 2010 3:25 pm UTC
sje46 wrote: And people have called me a jerk for saying this, but I do feel like it's harmful to American society because it encourages racialistic thinking. It's one thing, you know, to call yourself French if your parents immigrated to New Orleans from France and spoke french at home and celebrated French holidays and such. It's a different thing to grow up in suburban Massachussetts with the same kind of homelife as everyone else, celebrating the same holidays as everyone else, eating the same foods as everyone else, speaking the same language and accent as everyone else, and being proud for being Italian because that's where your grandfather hails from. You're not Italian, culturally. You're American. If you have any doubts about that, go to Italy, and ask them if you're Italian. I'd imagine it'd be a bit insulting to them. Not because you're American, but because you're calling you one of them without at least ctually adopting their culture.
It is not about race, though, so much as nationalism. At the start of the nineteenth century it was fairly nonsensical to talk about being Italian, but as the century progressed Italy developed a movement towards nationalism and unification. Italy is a social unity: an imagined community. But nationalities are also fluid. The Welshmen (and presumably the Welshwoman) can identify as Welsh, where it means they want independence from London and the right to skip out on paying for a meal. But the same person may also identify as British in different circumstances, feeling a close bond with their Scottish, English, (Cornish), and Irish brethren. Such identities are fluid and often contradictory, informed by context and environment rather than any definite qualities of the soul. But this is just the point. Italian Americans do, of course, have a strong identity as Americans, and would identify as American in Italy. But that doesn't preclude them from claiming to be Italian within America, purely because such identities are inherently artificial (of course they're artificial, you might say: I mean non-organic, constructed, or fickle).
It is not a truism that you are American. Were you to move to Greece today, and spend the next three decades there, you would no longer have a clear American identity. If you then returned to America, you would have difficulty reconciling your historic American nationality and the America that would then exist. If you did not have one already, you would suddenly find yourself with a complex and contradictory national identity.
It is not less different than children twice or three times removed from their immigrant ancestors. Because nationality itself is imagined, it is of no consequence to invent your own nationality. Should we be irritated by such people? Well, perhaps. But their parents, and the rest of their family, are probably sharing in the delusion. So while the delusion is invented the effects of it are not.
That is, ideas have significant power over real behaviour. Place a book on your head, and walk around keeping it balanced there. Now, take it off, and pretend there is a book on your head, and walk around trying to keep the pretend book balanced there. Whether by something real or imagined, your posture has been changed. Our Americans are posturing themselves as Italians such that it does not really matter they aren't Italian. Doesn't even matter Italians do not consider themselves Italians. They are Italians to the exact same extent you are American. And because their relatives keep up the pretense, they are raised such that they cannot truly be "only" American. There is always something in them that would refuse to renounce a cultural identity which does not exist.
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I can only cite a conversation with my cousin in our back garden she cited her college lecturer. UCC Anthropology I think..
The cloest agreement I can find online is here:
The most popular theory is that it derived from the Greek word Keltoi, which means "people who hide." From this Greek term it is believed that the classical Latin term Celtus (keltus) was derived. These terms referred to particular tribes of people speaking unique languages such as Cambric, Cornish, Manx, and more, who lived throughout Europe at the time.
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But it's my understanding that Herodotus used Keltoi to refer specifically to the Gauls.
Postby goofy » Thu Jun 17, 2010 5:14 pm UTC
RabbitWho wrote: The cloest agreement I can find online is here:
Κελτοί is not Greek for "people who hide". Κελτοί is the ancient Greek word for the people of Western Europe, who were called Celtæ by the Romans.
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Postby bitsplit » Thu Jun 17, 2010 5:28 pm UTC
I am a person living in Puerto Rico, born and raised here. We have a very homogeneous population with a decent level of genetic diversity.
I find that culture is something to take pride in. However, I find that people all too often try to assume culture is a clear cut and well defined property for each person or group, and that's where it all collapses. Cultures are fuzzy. They are dynamic, changing with time and geography, and encompass many different things.
I find that language is an essential part of culture. However, saying that a person is disallowed from identifying with a cultural or ethnic group because they don't speak the language that is commonly associated with that group is invalid. Also, the language or languages "officially" accepted by the majority of the members of a culture or ethnic group as the "signature" languages of that culture or ethnic group are not necessarily its true languages. There is also more to culture and ethnicity than language.
That said, I believe that there are people who identify with a culture or ethnic group who do not really belong to that group. In part, it's because groups evolve, and because some groups emerge from others. Someone can claim to belong to a group, and to some extent rightly believe themselves to be so. However, a person who has no true interest in, knowledge of, or tie to an ethnic group or culture to at least some degree has a doubtful claim of belonging to it. In that case, they simply use the same word to refer to something else.
I also believe that ethnicity and culture is not necessarily inherited. I have met people who have adopted a culture or ethnic group so completely that they have become honorary members of that culture. That is, at least, my perception.
goofy wrote:
Who am I supposed to believe?
In any case this is just a little detail, the point was that the celts didn't have a universally shared culture or language or art because the word was not used to refer to a specific group of people.
Like if I say Americans I sometimes mean Canadians, people from the USA, Brazil, Mexico, etc. etc.
Postby gmalivuk » Fri Jun 18, 2010 12:31 am UTC
RabbitWho wrote: Who am I supposed to believe?
I don't know, but probably *not* some unsourced article that makes a claim that isn't backed up by the OED, etymonline.com, or the Wikipedia article about names for the Celts.
Postby djlowballer » Fri Jun 18, 2010 4:47 am UTC
RabbitWho wrote: Stephen Fry said something wonderful about Americans which I think is absolutely true.. The best Europeans left, the fearless, the brave, the ones who were unhappy with their miserable little lives at home in the rain and said.. you know what.. maybe we'll get eaten by wolves but feck it, anything's better than this.
I don't think it is as good as you think. I was invited to an Irish party held by one of my friends who considers themselves "in touch with their Irish roots". I came and everybody was drinking Guinness, wearing kilts, Haggis was being served, and flogging molly was blaring in the background. I have been to Ireland and this seemed nothing like the country I saw.
Postby RabbitWho » Fri Jun 18, 2010 11:09 am UTC
djlowballer wrote:
ha ha. deary me! They were just having a themed party. Leave 'em off.
But there really are people fascinated by Irish culture and ridiculous films like the Quiet Man, people with tattoos of those Turkish designs I showed you etc. I just wish they'd invest their energy into real Ireland instead. I feel the same way about a lot of Irish people, especially the people so willing to do damage for their idea of Ireland but not actually willing to stop and do good for it by learning and teaching and dedicating that energy to the culture which is dying all the time while people are busy complaining about boarders and politicians.
Postby gmalivuk » Fri Jun 18, 2010 4:21 pm UTC
RabbitWho wrote: learning and teaching and dedicating that energy to the culture which is dying all the time
I definitely sympathize with the sadness of having a culture disappear, but at the same time, for whom are they preserving this culture, if not themselves? And if they themselves don't want to put energy into preserving something, then why should it be preserved?
Postby RabbitWho » Fri Jun 18, 2010 10:29 pm UTC
Maybe you're right but there are people working so hard to preserve nonsense like pagan rituals (nobody hit me) and misunderstandings and hate and reasons why you're better than other people.. I think all the pride and satisfaction they get from doing bad things and spreading hate could be gotten from doing good things that would help the whole country instead.
I guess what I'm saying is why is nationalism mostly bad when it should be all good! It should be about learning and sharing and history and culture and music and art and poetry. It's about "kiss me I'm Irish" and bombs and an obsession with the mistakes other people made in the past and guns and crap feeling morally superior.
Meanwhile when it comes to Irish Americans they often spend a lot of time trying to research their roots and their heritage but they get misinformed and fed a lot of mysticism and haggis, and that's not fair.
There are plenty of people putting the effort into preserving it. There are 70,000 fluent or native speakers of Irish, there are even more kids learning to play Irish instruments, there's an Irish language TV channel and Radio station and there's a few websites and programs to help people learn or to give people a platform to practice speaking Irish, not to mention it's a compulsory school subject up unto the point when you're 18 and it's an option at college.
It's possible to live your whole life in Ireland without speaking any English, all the banks are supposed to have Irish speakers to speak to you (but they don't always) and they have to have all their forms translated into Irish. The police have to be willing to provide you with an Irish speaking police officer if they want you to cooperate etc. etc.
Of course you'd be terribly lonely because if you wanted to talk to anyone you'd have to get yourself arrested.
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Postby Sean of the Dead » Sat Jun 19, 2010 5:53 am UTC
70,000? more like 300,000. With numbers that small, that makes a big difference. And with 300,000+ people that speak it fluently, there are about 300,000 more speakers than 0 to talk to; you just have to go to the right places (like the Gaeltacht.) It's funny how people bash Irish and the like because they have so few speakers. I have seen no competition in the world where the objective is to have your language have the highest number of speakers. Quite the contrary, language is a vehicle for culture and communication, not a competition.
Postby RabbitWho » Sat Jun 19, 2010 12:05 pm UTC
Sean of the Dead wrote: 70,000? more like 300,000. With numbers that small, that makes a big difference. And with 300,000+ people that speak it fluently, there are about 300,000 more speakers than 0 to talk to; you just have to go to the right places (like the Gaeltacht.) It's funny how people bash Irish and the like because they have so few speakers. I have seen no competition in the world where the objective is to have your language have the highest number of speakers. Quite the contrary, language is a vehicle for culture and communication, not a competition.
I think that more people claim to be fluent than are fluent. You get estimates from 20,000 up depending on where you look and how strictly they define "fluent"
And I have a job and a life, I can't just drop everything and move to a Gaeltacht. Maybe if I was an artist or a stand up comedian, but I'm not. That's true for most people.
If people were actually interested I wouldn't have to move to a gaeltacht.
I don't think that anyone thinks it's a competition and I don't know where you'd get that idea, but if you think that having few speakers doesn't endanger a language then you've a very interesting idea!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_la ... e_speakers
Look at the languages on the bottom of the list and tell me they'll be around in 100 years?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_death - read the consequences on grammar section and tell me you don't see examples of those things in Irish every single day.
Not to mention vocabulary, but that's less important because it's mostly proper nouns and it's not really going to make a difference to your mind or culture whether you say "gluaisteán" or "carr" . You still picture a car... and either way it's a new word to Irish.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news ... tinct.html
I read somewhere that there are languages going extinct almost every day because the last person who speaks them dies.
That's why people are obsessed with numbers, it's not a competition, it's one reflection on how successful we are in preserving it. How successful at teaching, how the people of the country feel about it, how important it is to us.
Not to mention as I said the fewer people that speak a language the harder it is to learn it. The fewer resources there are, the fewer people available to talk to.
Postby Sean of the Dead » Sun Jun 20, 2010 9:23 pm UTC
Well, if you really wanted to learn Irish and be among speakers, you would have to go find them, not wait for them to come to you. That's a great lesson in life, go look for what you want, not waiting for it to show up to your door on a silver platter, it won't happen.
First off, 100 speakers is far less than 300,000, even 70,000. Scottish Gaelic has 70,000 speakers, and while it isn't doing as well as Irish (FYI, you can't compare a language like Irish and English, because of the vastly different situations they are in), laadies and lassies are still learning it, and it is still vibrant within its culture in the Gàidhealtachd. Neither Irish- or Scottish Gaelic are in much danger of dying completely, and definitely won't in 100 years.
As for your list, the only language I can speak for is Pirahã. While it has very few speakers, almost all of its speakers are monolingual (a few speak very broken, rudimentary Portuguese), it is absolutely 100% alive within the tribes of speakers, and the only way it would die is if all its speakers were killed, which I highly doubt would happen. Other languages in that list which will most likely not die are: Norfuk (possibly Pitkern too,) Livonian, Manchu, and Skolt Sámi, and possibly others I don't know much about (the situation or language). It seems that you don't know anything about those languages, so please research what you are talking about so you can back yourself up, and not make yourself out to be a fool.
So, like Irish and Pirahã, a low number of speakers doesn't always mean that it is endangered. What you should be measuring is the daily use of it by its speakers, if the children in the areas where it is spoken are learning it, and so on. Languages like Cornish (which I am learning) and Manx Gaelic, which have only a couple thousand speakers each, are actually gaining more speakers, not the number of speakers declining.
Postby bitsplit » Mon Jun 21, 2010 12:26 pm UTC
RabbitWho wrote: Maybe you're right but there are people working so hard to preserve nonsense like pagan rituals (nobody hit me) and misunderstandings and hate and reasons why you're better than other people.. I think all the pride and satisfaction they get from doing bad things and spreading hate could be gotten from doing good things that would help the whole country instead.
There's a difference between being a proud member of a culture and being a zealot. Believing your culture is better that another is like believing oranges are better than apples. I believe Bigotry and zealotry are two of the biggest taints in human nature. Unfortunately, I don't think they will ever go away.
Postby RabbitWho » Fri Jun 25, 2010 9:52 pm UTC
bitsplit wrote:
Right, except that I believe there is a good chance they will go away. http://www.ted.com/talks/steven_pinker_ ... lence.html Statistics say we're getting slowly better, hope we can speed up.
so please research what you are talking about so you can back yourself up, and not make yourself out to be a fool.
I never did anything to insult you and I am not going to continue this conversation now.
Postby bitsplit » Sat Jun 26, 2010 1:56 am UTC
RabbitWho wrote: Right, except that I believe there is a good chance they will go away. http://www.ted.com/talks/steven_pinker_ ... lence.html Statistics say we're getting slowly better, hope we can speed up.
Just because something is steadily getting better doesn't mean that it will eventually be near perfect. It just means it will reach a point that is better than the current point. But who knows, maybe I'm wrong. I sure as hell wish I was...
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Postby SeverinK » Sat Jul 10, 2010 12:10 pm UTC
Sean of the Dead wrote: As for your list, the only language I can speak for is Pirahã. While it has very few speakers, almost all of its speakers are monolingual (a few speak very broken, rudimentary Portuguese), it is absolutely 100% alive within the tribes of speakers, and the only way it would die is if all its speakers were killed, which I highly doubt would happen. Other languages in that list which will most likely not die are: Norfuk (possibly Pitkern too,) Livonian, Manchu, and Skolt Sámi, and possibly others I don't know much about (the situation or language). It seems that you don't know anything about those languages, so please research what you are talking about so you can back yourself up, and not make yourself out to be a fool.
A low number of speakers doesn't always mean that a language is endangered but that usually seems to be the case. There is of course no strict correlation -- a small, but stable language which has never had many speakers but has high prestige, institutional support etc. might be much less endangered than a language that has more speakers but whose number has still drastically diminished in the last centuries or decades (case in point: many Celtic languages). Languages need stability and a severe drop wouldn't come out of nowhere, it shows us something isn't right. But that doesn't change the general principle -- languages that have less speakers also tend to have less political power, the parents are more likely to stop passing on their mother tongue etc.
However, I don't see how you can say that a language with 100-300 speakers (most probably very old because otherwise there would be more) can be anything but endangered. That just isn't enough people to form a society that could fulfill a person's linguistic needs, unless you imagine a deserted island scenario where they wouldn't really have a choice. Therefore, it is very likely that people might choose to use and to pass on another language. I don't know why you're so confident that the languages you mentioned won't die. According to some accounts, the last native Livonian speaker died in 2009 and the Saami languages all seem to be having a hard time under the pressure from Finnish and Scandinavian languages, even if the governments have been trying to make amends lately. I won't comment on the other languages you mentioned as I'm not from the area but a quick Wikipedia search makes it hard for me to believe your predictions, even if I really would like to, for the sake of linguistic ecology.
GarrettIrish
Postby GarrettIrish » Fri Jul 16, 2010 3:09 am UTC
So it seems to me this has drifted a long way from the original topic...but into an discussion on Irish, which I'm entirely happy to be in.
I guess I'd hope to consider myself one of those Americans who does my heritage some credit. I am from an Irish family, a very old one(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riste%C3%A ... Ti%C3%BAit) and I'm certainly proud of it. I avoid the regular traps of Irish-Americanism simply because I'm a history major and have more experience looking for facts, not mystical art( though I resent the pagan jab, I am a member of Druid organizations, though I lean very heavily towards Celtic Reconstructionism not towards "mystical" types or Wicca).
But as an American with very rudimentary Irish it really is very difficult. If I don't have hundreds of dollars to shell out, I'm very limited in my study materials, and in my speaking abilities. As of right now I have 1 person to speak to who is fluent in Irish. I can watch TG4 and use the internet, but even then I don't get the vibrancy of the spoken language in person. So I sort of sympathize with anyone trying to learn something for their heritage that isn't a common high school language (Spanish, French, German, etc) because its very difficult. On whether its fair to that culture I don't know, but often even people who follow only the bad Americanized stereotypes do feel close to their heritage, and most would probably learn more if they knew where to find the information.
By the way RabbitWho since you seem to be pretty knowledgeable,do you know a good school for an American to study at if they want to study Irish? I've been planning to go abroad spring semester, and I've had both Galway and Limerick recommended to me,but nothing specific. I know you all study in school before college so I'm not even sure if there are beginners courses I could take, since my Irish is currently poor.
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New High School Opens in Fort Erie
by Matthew Vandervoet | Sep 05, 2017
Students walk through the atrium at Greater Fort Erie Secondary School on Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017.
Fort Erie’s new high school feels like a university, staff are saying on the first day of classes at the $30-million facility on Garrison Road.
The first secondary school built by the District School Board of Niagara since 1971, Greater Fort Erie Secondary School (GFESS) officially welcomed its 850 students on Tuesday. Only a couple of hours after the doors opened principal Fred Louws said it’s great to hear the positive feedback he’s received so far.
“It’s like the Harvard of Niagara,” he said on Tuesday morning, thrilled to show off the new digs to Postmedia.
“The day is finally here – there will be lots of new beginnings and new traditions,” he said.
Teacher Patrick Sirianni, one of many who have moved their classroom from Ridgeway-Crystal Beach High School (RCBHS) or Fort Erie Secondary School (FESS), said he hasn’t seen anything like the new building.
“I’ve never been in a facility like this – when it comes to secondary school,” said the English teacher who also compared it to a university or college.
“It’s absolutely incredible – there’s not a room in this building that isn’t exceptional,” he said.
Grade 12B student Riley Wright said she likes “everything” about the new school and that she decided to take advantage of some of the new advanced classes at GFESS, waiting another year before heading to college or university.
“I thought it would be a good opportunity to come back and learn a few more things before I go off into the real world,” she said.
Her friend Lauryn Fitzpatrick agreedand is excited for the school’s cosmetology program, a continuation of the one she took at FESS.
“It’s a much larger room and it has a lot of equipment – I’m really looking forward to it,” she said.
Staff and students aren’t the only people ecstatic about the facility. It’s also receiving praise from parents.
Julie Teal, whose son Drew Beam just entered Grade 9, said the new football field and many other amenities inside the school are great.
“I think it’s amazing,” she said.
“I was surprised how modern it can be but still look how you’d expect a high school to look – there’s a feeling of ease and comfort that I think will create a calm learning atmosphere,” she added.
A grand opening ceremony will be held on Oct. 25 with members of the community and dignitaries invited.
GFESS was built to replace FESS and RCBHS, buildings that are both almost 100 years old.
The new high school, which has 47 classrooms, also includes a $3-million arts theatre, with two thirds of the cost coming from a fundraising campaign. It needs to raise $2 million by next September and to date, has brought in about $750,000.
(KRIS DUBE SPECIAL TO POSTMEDIA NEWS)
http://www.niagarafallsreview.ca/2017/09/05/new-high-school-opens-in-fort-erie
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Magiczne drzewo
Directed by Andrzej Maleszka
The title The Magic Tree, which is in fact an ancient oak, is felled during a storm. Its wood gives life to magical, enchanted, objects which perform miracles – both good and bad. One of such objects becomes the main protagonist in the film – it is a red chair, which fulfils the dreams of all who sit on it… The chair is found by three children – Tosia, Filip, and Kuki.
This is the starting point in a book written by Andrzej Maleszka, which has already been twice adapted for the big screen. The first time, it was made into a 13-episode series, and then as a full-length film, which won a plethora of awards all around the world.
The film by Andrzej Maleszka triumphed worldwide and won a lot of awards at film festivals dedicated to children and young people. It was distributed for young audiences in such countries as Germany, Finland, Norway, the Czech Republic, Great Britain, Greece, the USA, India, Egypt, Taiwan, Cuba, Ukraine, and Belarus.
The leading characters in the film were played by Andrzej Chyra (a three-time winner of the Golden Lions Award in Gdynia, and twice winner of Polish Film Awards: Eagles) and Agnieszka Grochowska (she has won two Golden Lions Awards and one Eagle Award of the Polish Film Industry for her performance in Shameless).
Bydgoszcz – Love At First Sight
The film crew filmed in many locations in Bydgoszcz. They included such places as the Fish Market, the “Venice of Bydgoszcz”, situated on Mill Island, ul. Cieszkowskiego, ul. Stary Port, the Sulima-Kamiński bridge, and fragments of ul. Gdańska. During the première of the film in Bydgoszcz, Andrzej Maleszka was quoted as saying “Your city is very filmable. The boulevards by the Brda River afford a very-picturesque landscape which virtually any film Director would find attractive. (…) Every film Director would be enchanted by this city.
Elwira Pluta, responsible for the production design that brought the film an award at the Gdynia Film Festival, went into similar raptures: I was in love with your city at first sight”.*
There is also a very-tangible souvenir, which the film crew left in Bydgoszcz, when the film was done. It is a big red chair, a copy of the “magical” chair used in the film. The chair was put in a playground within the area of Mill Island, where parts of the film were shot.
The film crew working on the film comprised 70 people.
Thanks to special effects, the film distance from Bydgoszcz to the sea is a hundred kilometres shorter.
The filmmakers also “took liberties with geography in Bydgoszcz” – the distance from Mill Island to the Fish Market is actually 500m, while in the film it takes half an hour to cover this distance.
The Łuczniczka sports arena became a railway station in the film.
In addition to Bydgoszcz, the film was also shot in the region of Kaszuby (Szwajcaria), in Gdańsk, in Gdynia Orłowo, in Warsaw, and on the Skandynawia ferry travelling on the Baltic Sea.
The Magic Tree series preceding the cinema version was broadcast in several countries, and was extremely successful. It won awards at the most-important film festivals, including the prestigious American Emmy Award.
The Walt Disney Company was also interested in making their own version of the film series by Maleszka.
Magiczne drzewo / The Magic Tree
Poland 2008, 90′
Directed by: Andrzej Maleszka
Screenplay: Andrzej Maleszka
Cinematography: Mikołaj Łebkowski
Music: Krzesimir Dębski
Produced by: Agencja Filmowa Telewizji Polskiej, the Polish Film Institute, Studio Lunapark
Cast: Agnieszka Grochowska, Andrzej Chyra, Hanna Śleszyńska, Maciej Wierzbicki, Dominika Kluźniak, Filip Fabiś, Adam Szczeg, Maja Tomawska, Joanna Ziętarska, and others.
The Zlin Film Festival – Best Film; the Chicago International Children’s Film Festival –the Rights of the Child Award; the Munich Film Festival – the Audience Award; the Shanghai International TV Festival – Special Mention; the Oulu International Children’s and Young Peiple Film Festival in Finland – an award; the New Latin American Movie Festival in Cuba – The Garabato Award; the BAMkids Film Festival in New York – the Grand Prix; the Taiwan International Children’s Film Festival – the Grand Prix and Audience Awards; the Kristiansand Internasjonale Barnefilmfestival – the Grand Prix and Audience Awards; the International Festival of Films for Children in Artek, Ukraine: awards for Best Film, Best Actress, Best Actor, and a Special Award of the Russian Children’s Radio Station for Best Music; Minsk International FF Listapad – Grand Prix of the Children’s Jury Dziecięcego and a Special Award of the Professional Jury; The Ale Kino! International Young Audience Film Festival in Poznań – The Platinum Goats Special Award; and others.
*An interview published in Gazeta Pomorska on 21st September 2009
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FREEDOM AND SAFETY
Theory of Positive Disintegration as a Model of Personality Development for Exceptional Individuals
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Gifted Minds in Search of a Theory
For some time now, experts in the field of giftedness have been searching for and creating theoretical models of development, which could be applied to the gifted population.
Unfortunately, such models often suffer from artificially imposed exclusivity.
As Ellen Winner writes,
“Psychology should have theories that account for the development of the atypical as well as the typical. We should not have entirely separate theories to explain learning and development in ordinary, retarded, autistic, learning-disabled and gifted children. Too often we have researchers devoted to one of these populations, with the result that we have separate explanatory accounts of each population.
"Ultimately, psychological theory must account for all of the various ways in which the mind and brain develop. We need universal theories of development, but these theories must be able to incorporate special populations, whether these are special because of pathology, giftedness, or both.” (Winner, 1996, p. 313)
Kazimierz Dabrowski's Theory of Positive Disintegration (TPD) shows a great promise as such a universal theory of development proposed above (Dabrowski, 1970).
TPD is the first theory in psychology that postulates levels of personality development and methods of measuring them; it also describes and explains mechanisms of emotional development.
The theory, formulated almost a half a century ago, focuses on positive aspects of mental health and the essential role of positive values in guiding human development, and as such it can be considered a precursor of positive psychology.
What is unique about the TPD approach, however, is that, through combining both biological and humanistic perspectives, it articulates a positive view of many forms of so-called psychopathology and human suffering in general – a perspective that is conspicuously missing from the positive psychology's exclusive focus on the good, virtuous and happy (Chang & Sanna, 2003).
While the 1990's were designated as the “Decade of the Brain,” it appears that the first decade of the 21st century has been dominated by the focus on emotions and their influences in shaping our cognition, development and our lives in general (Greenspan & Shanker, 2004).
It is worth noting that Dabrowski's insights on the essential role of emotions in human development have preceded the current discoveries by many decades and are, in fact, still waiting to be fully recognized and embraced by today's researchers and theorists.
Even though gifted and talented are not its exclusive focus, Theory of Positive Disintegration utilizes research findings and clinical insights uniquely applicable to developmental needs of gifted and talented individuals.
Its broad scope allows a theoretical integration of scholarship in the areas of personality development, particularly its emotional, moral and spiritual aspects;and various forms of exceptionality.
Although his Theory of Positive Disintegration describes adult development, Dabrowski's interests, training and professional activities centered on children for a large part of his life.
Seeing development as a process based on positive disintegration grew out of clinical studies of creative and talented children, youth and adults, as well as children and adults who were developmentally delayed and psychopathic (Dabrowski, 1984).
Major Tenets of TPD
Positive Disintegration and Levels of Development
Dabrowski believed that the most important aspect of human development is the emotional one, since only in the area of emotional growth, transformation of behavior and character is possible.
He saw development as a progression from the level of primary integration characterized by rigid, automatic and instinctual egocentrism to conscious altruism based on empathy, compassion and self-awareness, expressed the fullest at the highest level of development, the level of secondary integration.
This growth takes place through the process of positive disintegration, which is the loosening and partial, or sometimes global, dismantling of the initial character structure during the course of one's life and replacing it by consciously created personality – the goal of life-long development.
Positive disintegration results from and is expressive of multilevel inner conflicts – conflicts between one's ideals and values (what ought to be) and the existing reality of one's internal and external life (what is), which falls short of those ideals and values.
Those who most readily experience multilevel conflicts are individuals possessing high developmental potential – high and broad, multisided intelligence, special talents and abilities, various global forms of overexcitability and the need and desire for inner transformation – for transcending one's psychological type and constraints of psychobiological maturation process.
The need and desire for inner transformation is an expression of what Dabrowski called the third factor – the drive behind autonomous, self-conscious, self-chosen and self-determined efforts at guiding one's development.
Most people experience symptoms of disintegration that are related to stages of biological development -- such as adolescence, old age, or menopause -- or difficult life events. These symptoms are temporary and disappear without causing major changes in a person's functioning.
Conflicts, traumas and frustrations, although often cause psychological imbalance in average individuals, do not lead to efforts at self-transformation and further development. However, in individuals with high developmental potential, difficult experiences awaken and/or intensify the need for psychological growth.
As Dabrowski shows – and supports with data obtained from biographies of eminent individuals and case studies of his patients -- difficult life experiences can disintegrate one's psychological unity by introducing inner conflicts, and a subsequent need and ability for reflection, introspection and hierarchization of one's values, feelings, thoughts and actions.
Hierarchization is an expression of multilevelness – the capacity to perceive and experience different developmental levels within us and in our surroundings.
The role of conflict and frustration in the process of development through positive disintegration cannot be overestimated. Dabrowski writes that “positive inner psychic transformation occurs where children and youth do not have all the things necessary to fulfill all their basic needs and where conditions do not lead to the feeling of complete security.
The transformation is more likely to occur where the individuals have only partial satisfaction of their basic needs and where stimuli exist which provoke at least partial dissatisfaction, hierarchization and postulation of an ideal.” (Dabrowski, 1970, p. 35).
In some individuals with high developmental potential, we see a tendency to consciously seek out frustrations in order to facilitate their development. This tendency can be observed early on in development of some children.
Consider Cathy, an exceptionally intellectually gifted 4-year-old, with strong emotional and imaginational overexcitability who, in her parents' description, “likes to scare herself on purpose, imagining that her toys come alive, that bubbles in the paint on the wall will turn into a forest, etc. But she does not like to be comforted then – she wants to work on her fears by herself.”
As both the impetus and vehicle for personality growth, inner conflicts with their attendant negative emotions are expressions of positive mental health and not pathological symptoms.
And because Dabrowski equated development through positive disintegration with mental health, this allowed him to reframe various psychological states commonly considered pathological, such as anxiety, neurosis and depression, as not only largely positive, but, in fact, necessary for personality growth.
The process of positive disintegration, of which psychological difficulties such as emotional suffering of inner conflicts, neuroses and psychoneuroses are most evident signs, is initiated and guided by developmental dynamisms – instinctual-emotional-cognitive forces – present in people endowed with high developmental potential.
Dynamisms, which are intrapsychic factors, are the most potent forces fueling and shaping emotional development. Work of different dynamisms can be observed on each level of development, with the exception of level 1, primary integration, characterized by absence of any developmental dynamisms.
The analysis of dynamisms and their strength allows us to understand whether the process of disintegration has a positive or negative direction.
Personality development through positive disintegration, in Dabrowski's views, is not related to human biological maturation process and does not follow a time schedule, although it progresses along an invariable sequence through a hierarchy of five levels characterized by the predominance of either integration or disintegration on each level.
Level 1: primary integration. On this level we observe work of intelligence subsumed under primitive instincts (sex, aggression, power); rigid, stereotypical, impulsive actions and, in general, behavior controlled by primitive drives and external forces.
Individuals on this level of development experience no inner conflicts, but plenty of external ones.
The great majority of population lives on and rarely grows beyond the level of primary integration. The most primitively integrated character structures are observed in psychopaths and psychopath-like individuals, who suffer from “emotional retardation,” characterized by inability to experience empathy and guilt.
On the level of primary integration, we can observe two forms of adjustment of an individual to society: negative adjustment – non-creative adaptation, characterized by conformity to social conventions, lack of reflection and criticism in approach to reality, adjustment to “what is;” and negative maladjustment, which is disregard for social norms and conventions stemming from extreme egocentrism and ruthless realization of one's lower level goals (psychopaths, criminals).
Level 2: unilevel disintegration. This is the first level where work of disintegrative processes can be observed. Here we see a loosening (disintegration) of the previously well integrated primary character structure as a result of usually external circumstances.
The term “unilevel” denotes lack of hierarchization – ie lack of distinction between “what is” and “what ought to be” in one's internal and external life.
Most characteristic manifestations of unilevel disintegration are ambivalencies and ambitendencies, doubts, hesitations, mood swings, various forms of emotional and psychosomatic disharmony. Dabrowski notes that if inner conflicts on this level are present at all, they are unilevel – that is, they involve two (or more) opposing options of the same value.
Such conflicts may be severe and may lead to mental disturbances that are very serious and have mostly unconscious character. Because individuals experiencing unilevel conflicts, lacking the ability for inner transformation, do not see a possibility of their positive resolution and further personal growth, the crises engendered by these conflicts often lead to re-integration on level 1, or to severe mental illness and/or suicide.
Level 3: spontaneous multilevel disintegration. On this level, we see the emergence of multilevelness -- a growing sense of “what ought to be” and growing maladjustment to “what is” (positive maladjustment).
Acquiring a multilevel perspective on our inner and external world can be compared to a Copernican revolution in our perception and awareness. Once we learn to distinguish both lower and higher levels in our feelings, thoughts and behaviors; once we understand that we are capable of both evil and good, and that the choice between them is uniquely and exclusively ours; we reach “a point of no return” and we are “doomed to develop,” to use Dabrowski's words.
The awareness of the lower and the higher leads to inner conflicts and the resultant anxiety, shame, guilt, feelings of inferiority and unhappiness – in other words, positive disintegration. With the emergence of multilevelness, we gain intimate awareness of existence of universal human values which become a guiding force in our development, embedded in a powerful developmental dynamism called the personality ideal.
Actions of individuals experiencing spontaneous multilevel disintegration begin to reflect an emerging autonomous hierarchy of values and goals. Typical for this level are multilevel inner conflicts, expressive of growing self-awareness, self-evaluation and reflection, moral dilemmas, search for an ideal and, often acute, existential anxiety.
On level 3, we observe an emergence of multilevel dynamisms such as disquietude and dissatisfaction with oneself, inferiority with oneself, astonishment with oneself, feelings of shame and guilt, positive maladjustment, creative instinct, and empathy. Unfortunately, many of these dynamisms are often considered symptoms of pathology by mainstream psychiatry.
The difficult experiences associated with spontaneous multilevel disintegration are largely responsible for awakening and deepening sensitivity to other people and to one's own development, and lay foundations for efforts at education of oneself and self-transformation, which become fully engaged at level 4.
In some cases, where one's developmental potential contains strong positive and negative elements, the intensity of the developmental processes on this level can bring an individual close to a “psychic catastrophe” (Dabrowski, 1970, p.60)
Among examples of such dramatic inner transformation, bordering on psychic dissolution, are, listed by Dabrowski, Clifford Beers, Wladyslaw Dawid, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Jack Ferguson, Franz Kafka, Soren Kierkegaard, Abraham Lincoln, John Stuart Mill, and Isaac Newton.
Other examples include Gautama Buddha, St. Paul, St. Francis, St. Augustine, Leo Tolstoy, Blaise Pascal, St. Ignatius Loyola, Alfred de Musset, Heinrich Heine, and St. John of the Cross (Sorokin, 2002), and Adam Chmielowski (Mika, 2004).
Although the above list consists of eminent individuals, there is much evidence showing that lasting inner transformation consistent with the developmental processes described by TPD is a much more common phenomenon (Miller and C'deBaca, 2001, Brennan and Piechowski, 1991).
Level 4: organized multilevel disintegration. This level is characterized by conscious efforts at shaping and systematization of one's behavior, all directed toward conscious and planned self-transformation. Inner conflicts lessen here, replaced by ever-growing autonomy and clarity of values and goals.
External conflicts are largely eliminated through a distinct growth of empathy and compassion, and work of dynamisms such as third factor (active conscience), subject-object in oneself, self-control, education of oneself, inner psychic transformation and self-perfection, all geared toward realizing one's unique and individual personality ideal.
On this level, we can see growing positive adjustment – adjustment to one's personality ideal embracing the highest human values -- adjustment to “what ought to be.”
Level 5: secondary integration. Dabrowski theorized that on this level we could observe harmonization of personality and personality ideal. One's behavior is guided mainly and consistently by dynamisms of responsibility, authentism and autonomy, empathy, self-perfection and personality ideal.
Psychological development does not end on level 5, but from this point on, it is guided by and consistent with demands of the personality ideal. Empirical data on individuals who obtained level of personality in their development (level 5) are scant.
Nevertheless, Dabrowski and others (Piechowski, 1992; Nixon, 1989; Nixon, 1995; Mika, 2004; Rush & Rush, 1992) have provided biographical analyses of individuals who appear to have reached this level.
The table below illustrates an approximate distribution of different developmental categories along the integration/disintegration continuum.
(Please note that as a rough approximation, the table does not provide exact proportions of the listed categories as they occur on any given level of development; nor it exhausts many different developmental and psychopathological combinations observed in people. Development through positive disintegration, although conceptually divided into discreet levels, in reality occurs largely along the integration/disintegration continuum, with varying degrees of both present in most people who possess any measure of developmental potential. From: Mika, 2002)
Secondary Integration Level 5 Personality exemplars
Level 4 Developing personalities ML disintegration
Level 3 Psychoneurotics
Level 2 Neurotics, mentally ill
Borderline of average person and (psycho) neurotic
Average person [statistical norm]
Borderline of psychopath and average person
Primary Integration Level 1 Psychopaths
Developmental Potential
The level a person can attain in her development is determined by her developmental potential.
Developmental potential (DP) is the “original endowment determining the level to which an individual can develop, if his physical and social conditions are optimal.” (Dabrowski, 1984, p.24).
Developmental potential expresses the relationship between individual development and three main groups of factors influencing this development:
1. First factor – genetic and permanent physical traits (intelligence, overexcitabilities, special talents);
2. Second factor – social influences;
3. Third factor – autonomous forces and processes such as self-awareness, conscious inner conflict, free will and conscious self-transformation, etc. Third factor makes self-determination possible and is necessary for creativity and advanced development.
The third factor is rooted in the first two factors – our genes and our environment – but it is an independent force, which propels those endowed with it toward transcending the limitations of their psychological type, their environmental constraints and the human biological cycle.
Dabrowski called the third factor “an active conscience” since it is a basis of conscious selection in our behavior that leads to rejecting unwanted responses – those that go against our values – and affirming and strengthening others – those that express our personality ideal.
DP as a function of all three factors is encountered in cases of accelerated development. Here an individual consciously tries to transcend the limitations of the first and second factors and, in the process, becomes increasingly autonomous and able to direct her own psychological growth.
DP is particularly strong when it includes all forms of overexcitabilities, especially emotional, imaginational and intellectual; special talents and high intelligence; and the nuclei of the inner psychic milieu that expresses a tendency to transform one's psychological type and transcend the biological cycle.
High DP is frequently encountered in gifted and talented individuals and manifests in their early childhood. In these children, as Dabrowski writes,
“we observe above average abilities in many areas, emotional richness and depth, and multiple and strong manifestations of psychic overexcitability. In individuals so endowed one may observe from childhood difficulties of adjustment, serious developmental crises, psychoneurotic processes, and tendency toward disintegration of lower levels of functioning and reaching toward higher levels of functioning. This, however, does not occur without disturbances and disharmony with their external environment and within their internal environment. Feelings of otherness and strangeness are not uncommon. We find this in gifted children, creative and prominent personalities, men of genius, ie those who contribute new discoveries and new values.” (Dabrowski, 1996, p.22)
DP can be weak when either of the three major components (high intelligence, talents, special interests; overexcitability; desire and will to develop) is weak or absent; or negative when only certain types of overexcitability, namely psychomotor and sensual, are very strong and combined with egocentrism and strong ambition – a developmental constellation encountered in psychopathy.
It is worth noting that giftedness should not be identified with high developmental potential. Indeed, giftedness, if understood only as high intelligence, special interests, talents and abilities, is but one component of DP (first factor).
Making judgments about the strength of one's DP based on the presence of only one of its components may be misleading. Similarly, although the presence of overexcitability is frequently associated with high intelligence and special abilities, acknowledging only the presence and strength of overexcitabilities in itself may indicate neither giftedness nor high DP – and thus it should not be considered “a measure of developmental potential” (Piechowski & Miller, 1994).
Various types and forms of overexcitability are characteristic of many mental disturbances, for example, that do not have anything to do with giftedness or high DP. (However, there are certain exceptions to consider.
We can predict that a child with relatively high level emotional overexcitability, combined with strong intellectual and imaginational types, will also possess high intelligence and a rich inner psychic milieu, with the nuclei of autonomous dynamisms. Indeed, clinical data seem to support this correlation, showing that intellectual overexcitability is always associated with above average intelligence (Mika, 2002).
A high level emotional overexcitability sensitizes such an individual to his inner processes and external world, and creates a foundation for development of inner conflicts facilitating accelerated development. An imaginational overexcitability helps him or her envision his or her personality ideal and the process of personality development.)
To summarize, high developmental potential, in Dabrowski's understanding, includes high (at least average) and broad, theoretical intelligence;overexcitabilities, particularly emotional, imaginational and intellectual; special talents and interests; and autonomous developmental forces. The absence of either of these components will have a limiting influence on a person's development.
Three Types of Development
Dabrowski distinguished three types of development, based on differences in the strength of developmental potential among people. And so, “normal” development applies to the statistical norm, to a so-called average person, whose developmental potential is weak. Normal development is limited to the fulfillment of biological and social imperatives.
Intellectual functions here are typically at least average, while emotional ones remain underdeveloped. There are no or very little attempts at conscious self-transformation. This type of unilevel development is characteristic for the majority of individuals on the levels of primary integration and unilevel disintegration.
The second type, one-sided development, is driven by one particular skill, talent or set of skills; or by especially strong overexcitability in the context of limited overall DP.
As Dabrowski writes, “Only some emotional and intellectual potentials develop very well while the rest remain undeveloped, in fact, (they) appear lacking.” (Dabrowski, 1996, p.21) One-sided development is the instance where the presence of giftedness does not aid personality growth, understood in Dabrowskian sense as self-transformation based on multilevel positive disintegration.
In fact, giftedness itself, occurring here within limited developmental potential, while not necessarily a developmental liability, is not an asset either, since it limits development to unilevelness.
One-sided development is often found in cases of genius whose outstanding but isolated talents “hijack” development, to the detriment of other areas of psychological functioning, most importantly its higher emotional and moral aspects.
Dabrowski frequently observed that when highly, but one-sidedly developed, individuals succeed in attaining positions of power (as they often do, since they are unburdened by scruples and inhibitions), they often “cause grave, sometimes disastrous, effects for social groups and societies.” (Dabrowski, 1970, p.149).
The two above types of development – normal and one-sided -- are relatively narrow and inflexible, and represent the socio-biological maturational pattern of human species, characterized by progressive psychobiological integration, adjustment to external conditions and often unreflective conformity to social mores.
Symptoms of disintegration, if they appear here at all, are temporary and related to transitional stages of human psychobiological development.
The third and rarest type of development -- global (universal) and accelerated -- is fueled by strong DP. Here “all essential cognitive and emotional functions develop with relatively equal intensity and with relatively equal rate,” (Dabrowski, 1996, p.21); all types of overexcitability are present; but more importantly, there is the self-aware and conscious direction of one's own development.
Such development is characterized by conscious opposition to influences of the first and second factor, and proceeds through intense crises and conflicts that this opposition creates. This type of development transcends the general maturational pattern of the species and shows maladjustment to it that arises from a relatively high degree of independence from biological and social constraints.
Accelerated multilevel development is characteristic for many gifted individuals endowed with overexcitabilities – most notably psychoneurotics, representing level III (and IV) in the TPD hierarchy of developmental levels.
The term “accelerated” here does not denote the speed of developmental changes, but rather breadth and depth of the inner transformation associated with positive disintegration.
As we see then, gifted individuals can be found on all levels of development – from a psychopath with high degree of primary integration, through all stages of unilevel and multilevel disintegration, up to the exemplars of personality at the level of secondary integration.
However, individuals with high developmental potential – a subset of the gifted population - will exhibit signs of positive disintegration already in early childhood.As Dabrowski writes, “Any individual developmental pattern may cover part of the scale but none can cover the full extent of it.” (Dabrowski, 1996, p. 23.)
Thus, theoretically at least, it should follow that individuals attaining the highest levels of development do not start from the level of primary integration. And indeed, biographical data show that in these individuals, the nuclei of high DP are already present in early childhood and so are signs of disintegrative processes to come, such as precursors of multilevel dynamisms that can be observed early on in a relatively small group of children.
Among those precursors are the early capacity to experience strong empathy and compassion, guilt and shame, and early efforts at self-transformation.
Consider Anna (not a real name), an artistically and intellectually gifted 10-year-old girl with mixed types of overexcitability, with the dominance of emotional overexcitability and the remaining types, especially imaginational and intellectual, very strong as well.
At 10, Anna decided to learn yoga in order to overcome her nervousness, and become a more peaceful and relaxed person, someone with whom others feel at peace. Coming from a very modest, working class background, she did not feel her plan would be supported by her family, so she worked on it in secret, using books checked out from her school library.
In her actions, we clearly see dynamisms of self-awareness, subject-object, education of oneself and autopsychotherapy, elements of personality ideal and distinct elements of third factor – all dynamisms of organized multilevel disintegration.
Another example of the presence of ML dynamisms (or their precursors) in children is a statement from a 9-year-old boy, who told his mother that he would like to have an opportunity to look at himself through the eyes of others.
"I'm sure there are things I don't realize about myself, but they must be obvious to others. I think it would be interesting to see how they see me – and it would help me understand myself better.”
Clinicians working with gifted population frequently observe signs of advanced moral and emotional development in gifted children. Indeed, examples supporting these observations abound (Silverman, 1993; Lovecky, 1998; Piechowski, 2003.)
However, one should not generalize them on the whole gifted population, since such generalizations are unwarranted and can be misleading (Margolin, 1994.)
Here again, Dabrowski's insights on the three types of development and their relationship to different constellations of developmental potential provide a useful framework for understanding and assessing the complex relationship between giftedness and advanced moral and emotional growth.
It is worth mentioning that Dabrowski associated early manifestations of positive disintegration in gifted children with their asynchronous development (Dabrowski, 1964), which he described over a half a century ago, before the term was introduced to the field of gifted education (Silverman, 2002).
Closely related to the concepts of developmental potential and three types of development are the forces guiding our development, which are higher level instincts, representing a function of an individual's developmental potential.
While developmental instinct is present in the majority of people in at least rudimentary forms, instinct of creativity arises on the basis of special talents and interests, and certain types of overexcitability, imaginational, sensual and emotional in particular.
Creative instinct can be found already on the level of unilevel disintegration, though it gains strength and importance on level III. Creative instinct in itself, however, when not supported by instinct of self-perfection, plays a limited role in the personality growth and often results in one-sided development, or chronic disintegration since it does not awaken the forces of inner transformation.
Instinct of self-perfection is the highest form of developmental instinct, arising at the level of organized multilevel disintegration on the basis of autonomous dynamisms such as third factor, subject-object, self-education, self-awareness, authentism and personality ideal.
Combined with the instinct of creativity, it usually applies to the whole character of a person, and propels one to grow toward a personality ideal embodying the highest human values. Although these instincts, characteristic of higher levels of psychological development, are not universal, Dabrowski stressed that they exhibited “a force equal in strength or even stronger than that of primitive instincts” such as the sexual instinct or instinct of self-preservation (Dabrowski, 1970, p. 132)
The concepts of developmental, creative and self-perfection instincts are particularly useful in describing developmental trajectories of eminent, multiply talented individuals who progressed to the highest levels of personality development through positive disintegration (Adam Chmielowski, Etty Hillesum, Dag Hammarskjold, Albert Schweitzer, to name just a few).
Analyzing their biographies and written statements leaves us with an appreciation of the intensity of their inner struggles ensuing from often conflicting influences of instincts of creativity and self-perfection -- and it further confirms validity of Dabrowski's insights on development of exceptional individuals.
Overexcitability (OE)
This component of developmental potential deserves special consideration as it is frequently observed in gifted individuals, but perhaps equally frequently misunderstood.
According to Dabrowski, overexcitability is a higher than average capacity for experiencing inner and external stimuli and it is based on a higher than average responsiveness of the nervous system.
In overexcitability, “responses to a variety of stimuli may markedly exceed the value of an average response, they may last significantly longer (although this is not a necessary attribute of overexcitability), and they may occur with greater frequency.” (Dabrowski, 1996, p.71).
Another characteristic of overexcitability is the ease with which psychological experiences based on it are “translated” into symptoms of autonomous nervous system, such as blushing, palpitations, sweating, headaches, stomach butterflies and cramps in response to anxiety, diarrhea, easy fatigue, increased skin sensitivity, etc.
The role of OE in development is a complex one. In Dabrowski's view, overexcitability is responsible for activating the developmental processes as it “(first,) provokes conflicts, disappointments, suffering in family life, in school, in professional life – in short, it leads to conflicts with the external environment.
Overexcitability also provokes inner conflicts as well as the means by which these conflicts can be overcome. Second, overexcitability precipitates psychoneurotic processes, and, third, conflicts and psychoneurotic processes become the dominant factor in accelerated development.” (Dabrowski, 1970, p. 38)
Although his interests in nervousness in children date back to the very beginning of his clinical career, Dabrowski first used the term “wzmozona pobudliwosc psychiczna” (increased psychic excitability, or overexcitability) in 1938 to describe certain characteristics and behaviors suggesting nervousness, which he observed in many gifted and talented children.
He distinguished two forms of OE – global and narrow; and five types: psychomotor, sensual, imaginational, intellectual and emotional.
The last three types are crucial for the type of advanced personality development that Dabrowski postulated as characteristic for many gifted individuals, particularly for those whose achievement, while not necessarily rewarding them with fame and eminence, was to attain the highest level of emotional and moral growth.
Psychomotor overexcitability is a manifestation of a heightened energy level, and can be observed in restlessness, rapid and pressured speech, predilection for violent games and sports, pressure for action, or delinquent behavior.
In its 'pure' form, it is a manifestation of the excess of energy; but it may also result from the transfer of emotional tension to psychomotor forms of expression such as those mentioned above. Cases of tics and self-mutilation, for example, suggest psychomotor OE, which originates in emotional tension.
Dabrowski was keenly interested in self-mutilation as a phenomenon suggestive of higher than average sensitivity and DP. His Ph.D. dissertation on “Psychological basis of self-mutilation,” first published in 1934 and printed in English three years later, showed the co-existence of self-mutilatory tendencies, creativity and strong developmental strivings in a select group of creative individuals (Dabrowski, 1937).
As Dabrowski observed, in people with psychomotor OE, the slightest stimulus evokes a strong reaction. Being accidentally touched in a crowd, being opposed in a discussion, cut off in traffic - any and all minimal frustrations can cause irritation or angry outbursts.
These individuals are internally and unconsciously motivated to seek higher than average stimulation, because when their internal tension becomes too low, they experience it as a state of anxiety and inner discomfort.
A person with psychomotor OE experiencing such a state of “nervous deprivation” will seek appropriate – and sometimes not so appropriate – stimulation to increase the inner tension and then to release it.
As Dabrowski writes,
"The real difficulties (for children with psychomotor overexcitability) start with the beginning of formal education. The greatest numbers of children who obtain bad grades for behavior come from this group. These are children who fidget in their chairs, disrupt their peers' work, play with pens and notebooks, have thousands of excuses to leave the classroom, and show severe fluctuations in attention. After school, and even during school, they start and lead fights and other physical escapades.
"Boys, who excel in independence and exhibit tendencies to rebellion at school, are most frequently individuals with psychomotor OE. Their difficulties are particularly strong in adolescence, but they are also abundant in other periods. During adolescence, psychomotor OE takes on the form of truancy and wandering. Among children hanging from the back of a tram, among those who sell newspapers (on the streets), tramps or those who travel without a ticket, we meet primarily these types. In schoolwork and adult employment these individuals are characterized by unevenness or breaks in the work patterns.
"They have periods of great intensity at work; in some, we find shorter or longer weakening of ability to work. These individuals are incapable of sustained effort, and are explosive at their workplace. Their work interests diverge in many different directions, and we often see frequent changes from one job or subject to another. In youth, we see tendencies to change schools, in young adults - jobs." (Dabrowski, 1964, p.76, trans. E. Mika)
It is easy to see that Dabrowski's description of manifestations of psychomotor OE is remarkably similar to symptoms of the condition known today as ADHD. Indeed, Dabrowski's views on possible origins of psychomotor OE as well as management strategies for its manifestations are not at all different from contemporary views on etiology and treatment of ADHD (Dabrowski, 1964).
Unfortunately, this facet of Dabrowski's work is less known in the US and this has resulted in a belief prevalent in the field of gifted education -- a belief unsupported by facts -- that gifted children with psychomotor OE tend to be “misdiagnosed” with ADHD.
Sensual overexcitability is a manifestation of a heightened sensitivity to sensory stimuli, particularly to sensory pleasure. In the narrow form of sensual overexcitability, the unusual intensity of reactions is limited to one sensual sphere (visual, auditory, tactile, or olfactory);the global form, on the other hand, encompasses the whole character structure and all senses equally.
Children with global sensual overexcitability have an increased need to touch and be touched, hugged, and kissed; they frequently exhibit early signs of sexual interests and development;and like to flirt and behave seductively as they get older.
Most either like to eat and/or are picky eaters, are interested in food preparation, and like to smell their food (and often everything else).
As Dabrowski observed, they like to be the center of attention, approach others without hesitation and start conversations easily; and are prone to self-adoration, confabulations, and drama in their everyday life. They usually exhibit strong aesthetic interests and are drawn to artistic professions and pursuits.
On the negative side, people endowed with dominant sensual OE may lack the ability for reflection, planning and systematic effort – they tend to live “here and now,” dislike serious thought and intellectual analysis.
Their interpersonal relationships are often characterized by excessive sociability, an inability to tolerate being alone, a superficial attitude toward loss and death, little interest in lives of others, lack of responsibility, and a tendency to externalize problems and blame others.
“As with the psychomotor form, (sensual OE) also may, but need not be, a manifestation of a transfer of emotional tension to sensual forms of expression of which the most common examples are overeating and excessive sexual stimulation.” (Dabrowski, 1996, p.72)
Imaginational overexcitability is an imbalance in information processing that is skewed toward internal, image-based mode, with a relative exclusion of sensual, affective and psychomotor spheres. For individuals with a dominant imaginational OE, external stimuli matter usually as fodder for their imagination, rather than on their own merit.
Children with high imaginational overexcitability are less able than others to distinguish facts from fiction, are prone to illusions and daydreams, loose associations, lucid dreams, hypnotic trances, sometimes even hallucinations.
A child with a particularly strong and unbalanced imaginational OE may consider his fantasy world to be more real than his external reality. As Dabrowski notes, these children have a difficult time in schools, especially in areas that do not interest them – they may react with sadness, lack of appetite, or depression to school requirements; and are often considered odd, distractible and sickly by others.
Children with imaginational OE mature slowly and even in adulthood show symptoms of immaturity (so-called positive infantilism). The period of fantasy and magical thinking in their development is typically prolonged, and flirtation and sexual experimentation are very weak, or absent.
Their first sexual attachment is often a failure, since they are not very skilled in choosing appropriate partners. However, their love failures, even though intense, do not leave major wounds since they are compensated for in their imagination.
Frequently, persons with strong imaginational OE seek relationships with older and mature partners who can provide for their necessary daily living needs as well as offer protection and security.
Children (and adults) with this type of OE frequently show aesthetic interests in art, poetry and music. They like to spend time alone or in very small groups of select peers and relatives. They do not like games and sports, but love to read and think.
Sometimes they lose the distinction between their dreams and reality. Imaginational OE combined with emotional OE intensifies the tendency to prospection and retrospection, as well as maladjustment to external reality, often leading to positive disintegration.
Intellectual overexcitability is the rarest type of OE and one with the least clinical implications. In this type of OE, a person's receiving and processing information as well as decision-making are localized in the cognitive sphere.
Children with the dominant intellectual OE ponder intellectual problems earlier and longer; show high perceptiveness; tend to develop good skills in logical analysis and are less prone to magical thinking; and early on become critical and independent thinkers.
This type of overexcitability is most frequently associated with exceptional intellectual and academic abilities in children (Dabrowski, 1964; Mika, 2002).
Its presence usually does not create any special developmental/clinical challenges and difficulties, apart from a possible developmental imbalance skewed toward a theoretical (vs. practical) approach to life, and possible disharmony between intellectual and other forms of maturity. Intellectual OE is often associated with certain socio-emotional immaturity (positive infantilism).
Global form of intellectual OE is frequently found in individuals of mixed introversion/extraversion type. When combined with emotional and imaginational OE, global intellectual overexcitability aids the development of a rich mental structure with multiple talents and great self-awareness.
A narrow form of intellectual OE is often encountered in schizoid and strongly introverted types, and it is characterized by one-sided development of specific abilities. As Dabrowski notes, such development usually leads to life difficulties that may end in negative disintegration, or stunted mental growth.
Emotional overexcitability is a function of experiencing emotional relationships. The relationships can manifest themselves as strong attachment to persons, living things, or places.
“From the developmental point of view, intensity of feelings and display of emotions alone are not developmentally significant unless the experiential aspect of relationship is present.” (Dabrowski, 1996, p.72)
This distinction is of crucial importance, because only through learning based of reciprocal relationships, a child can develop the capacity for experiencing higher level emotions and multilevel dynamisms such as guilt and shame, empathy, compassion, subject-object in oneself.
Children with high emotional OE show an early development of a strong affective life. These are the children who cry easily, are easily frightened and anxious, exhibit strong attachments to people, places and objects; as well as strong envy and anger.
Their intense emotional reactions are frequently signs of a higher than average need for security and safety. Other signs of emotional OE include excessive inhibition and excitation, strong affective memory, concern and preoccupations with death; “depressions, feelings of loneliness, need for security, concern for others, exclusive relationships, difficulties of adjustment in new environments (insomnia, irritability and lack of appetite), etc.” (Dabrowski, 1996).
Teenagers with the dominant emotional OE are often perceived as infantile, naïve, lost, shy, non-competitive and immature. On the one hand, they are prone to experiencing shame and guilt; on the other, they tend to be overly open and trusting toward others – a combination, which, unfortunately, predisposes them to being taken advantage of by unscrupulous individuals.
People with dominant emotional OE develop relationships of friendship and love usually with very few or only one person. Because such close and exclusive relationships are the source of meaning in their lives, any losses and betrayals have a lasting, and sometimes devastating, effect on them.
Their sensitivity often increases as a result of difficult life experiences, and may lead to extreme self-analysis, and tendencies to meditation and isolation.
As Dabrowski observed, in some individuals with dominant emotional OE, chronic anxiety related to shyness may become a dominating personality trait that leads to excessive self-criticism, distrust and sensitivity to rejection.
Another danger for high emotional OE person is a tendency toward overidentification with others to the point of losing oneself in the emotional world of another, to the detriment of one's own well-being and growth. (Dabrowski, 1964)
However, when endowed with equally strong imaginational and intellectual OE, individuals with strong emotional OE can, and often do, sublimate and transform the pain and suffering that result from their excessive emotional sensitivity into creative and humanitarian efforts.
Emotional OE is expressed differently in extraverted and introverted individuals. In extraverts, emotional reactions are strong, fast, uninhibited and often explosive, although they quickly subside. Extraverts with emotional OE tire easily, but equally easily recover.
In introverts, on the other hand, emotional reactions are strong, but “delayed” -- they take longer (days, weeks, or months) to develop, and leave a permanent mark on the psyche.
It is important to note that the “delay” does not reflect a slowed-down reaction, but the need to reflect on a given situation and absorb its emotional content.
In an introvert endowed with emotional OE, emotional fatigue also occurs easily, though it builds up slowly and lasts longer. In introverts with strong emotional OE, we see positive maladjustment and a strong desire to transcend here and now.
They experience longings for a better reality and frequently escape into daydreaming, and show tendencies toward reflection and hierarchization of their goals and values, which protect them from depression in face of failure. Introverts with strong emotional OE usually display a strong affective memory and preoccupation with death and immortality.
Like the remaining overexcitabilities, emotional OE also manifests in two forms: global – as subtle and oversensitive consciousness and conscience; and narrow – in phobias, compulsions, excessive self-analysis and self-mutilation, which allow to focus free-floating anxiety in one fixed point and discharge it there.
The three overexcitabilities crucial for personality development are emotional, imaginational and intellectual. Sensual and psychomotor overexcitabilites play important, but supporting roles in development, according to Dabrowski.
Emotional, imaginational and intellectual OE, apart from sensitizing and increasing overall psychological receptivity to internal and external stimuli, help one develop attitudes of prospection and retrospection, bring unconscious contents to one's awareness and allow for their processing and integration, thus freeing great amounts of psychic energy, necessary for creativity.
The presence of multiple forms and types of OE increases richness of one's inner experiences, and by its dynamic, unstable, and, in cases of multiple strong OE, oppositional character, leads to frequent inner and external conflicts which often give rise to dynamisms of positive disintegration.
Such conflicts let us see different levels of our own experiences and intensify our growth through increasing our self-awareness, which becomes the basis of development through positive disintegration.
But overexcitability in itself is not always a positive developmental feature. Certain forms of emotional, sensual and psychomotor OE, for example, are associated with a host of psychological problems, which may have nothing to do with giftedness or high developmental potential.
And it does not take a clinician to notice that many manifestations of OE are recognized as part of symptomatology of various developmental disorders (Asperger's Syndrome, ADHD, sensory integration dysfunction).
In his 1964 “Socio-educational Child Psychiatry” textbook, Dabrowski presented guidelines for diagnostic differentiation between OE and psychological disorders.
While overexcitabilities dynamize inner development by propelling some individuals – those with high developmental potential -- to experience internal conflicts, which in turn give rise to efforts at self-education and self-transformation; in others, they may create tensions that are too difficult to absorb or resolve, and lead to serious psychological problems (Dabrowski, 1970).
Like with everything else in life, when it comes to OE, it is not as much what we have that matters most, but what we do with what we have.
As Dabrowski said,
“Oversensitivity (OE) without inner psychic transformation brings many unnecessary conflicts with others – magnifies the differences, and lessens and obscures the most important things.” (Dabrowski, 1972, pp.32-33)
Unraveling Terman's fallacy
Even though the association between genius, or exceptional abilities and nervousness or mental instability, has been entrenched in the common wisdom and supported by a wealth of data (Taylor, 1983), the prevailing belief in the field of gifted education maintained that gifted children were well-adjusted paragons of mental health.
This tendency to attribute exceptional mental health to intellectually gifted individuals dates back to Lewis Terman and his longitudinal studies of 1,500 high IQ children (Shurkin, 1992).
One of explicit goals of Terman's research was to disprove the notion that gifted children were more sensitive or nervous than average youngsters. He thus assessed a general category of “nervous disturbances” - which included such behaviors like restlessness, nail biting, teeth grinding, excitability, sensitivity, stuttering and sleep difficulties - by asking parents and teachers whether a child was “especially nervous.”
According to his findings, “nervousness” was reported less frequently in the gifted group than in the controls, while “timidity” and a tendency to worry were equally frequent in both groups. In general, gifted boys were only slightly more nervous than the non-gifted ones; while gifted girls were less nervous than their non-gifted counterparts.
Based on these findings, Terman concluded that gifted children were indeed in a very good psychological and physical health, certainly free from excessive nervousness.
But his data revealed a positive correlation between exceptional intellectual giftedness and different forms of mental and social maladjustment – a finding corroborated by others (Hollingworth, Gross, 2003).
Terman's study has been subsequently criticized for its flaws, and a closer look at his research reveals inevitable biases and omissions that crept into it and influenced what the author saw, and - perhaps more importantly - what he did not see.
Although Terman denied higher than average nervousness of gifted children, he observed that one of their difficulties as students had to do with their excessive tendency to daydream and problems with adjusting to demands of structured school settings - both of which are symptoms of overexcitabilities, as defined by Dabrowski.
Dabrowski referenced Terman's study in his work, pointing out that Terman's analysis of gifted children's mental health differed from his own in several respects (Dabrowski, 1970).
Curiously, Terman, who showed signs of intellectual precocity from an early childhood, was a highly nervous individual himself. The twelfth of fourteen children, young Lewis had to cope with the constant threat of tuberculosis, an illness that ran in his family and claimed the life of his older sister.
Her death affected 3-year-old Lewis so deeply that even in adulthood he suffered from insomnia aggravated by fears of a similar fate. As a grown-up, he developed a rigid and compulsive daily health regimen designed to protect him from recurring bouts of the illness.
An obsessive attention to details and control needs characterized both his work and personal life. Lonely, acutely aware of his uniqueness as a child and young man, Lewis exhibited strong ambition and intellectual strivings, augmented by his nervous temperament.
Describing his university seminars with Stanley Hall, Terman wrote this in his biography:
“I always went home dazed and intoxicated, took a hot bath to quiet my nerves, then lay awake for hours, rehearsing the drama and formulating the clever things I should have said and did not.” (Shurkin, 1992, p. 96).
Even this brief confession shows an introverted young man with both emotional and intellectual overexcitabilities. Why Terman would not identify his own behaviors as expressive of nervousness and denied the existence of similar traits in his subjects is a matter of speculation, which goes beyond the subject of this presentation.
Although the questions about the co-existence of nervousness and exceptional abilities in both children and adults occasionally resurface, there is overwhelming evidence, both from clinical and research data, that supports the correlation between the two phenomena.
Many clinicians working with gifted children have independently observed and described these children's unusual sensitivity and intensity, which often set them apart from their less talented peers.
In several books, Dabrowski quoted his own research on gifted children. In one of the studies, conducted in Warsaw in 1962, he analyzed psychological characteristics of 80 gifted and talented children and youth (Dabrowski, 1967).
The study concluded that all gifted children and young people displayed symptoms of increased psychoneurotic excitability, or lighter or more serious psychoneurotic symptoms.
Dabrowski also discussed his research comprising 175 highly gifted and talented children and youth from Poland and Canada. According to the results, 85% of his subjects exhibited different forms of OE as well as neuroses and psychoneuroses.
Among over 200 eminent individuals from different fields whose biographies he studied, Dabrowski and his collaborators found that 97% of them showed different forms of OE, particularly emotional, imaginational and intellectual, neuroses and psychoneuroses, and also disturbances bordering on psychoses (Dabrowski, 1979).
He quoted findings of other clinicians who observed that most children with increased psychic excitability and with neurotic symptoms belonged to the category of gifted and talented.(Dabrowski, 1964).
Studies on overexcitabilities and giftedness have been continued in the US in the field of gifted education. For a brief overview of relevant research, see O'Connor (2002).
Additional support for Dabrowski's conclusions on the relationship between creativity and overexcitability (not called that) has come from research in clinical psychology and psychiatry.Several relevant studies are summed up in Jamison's book, “Touched with fire,” which examines the relationship between manic-depressive illness and artistic temperament.
In her newest book, “Exuberance,” Jamison examines lives of eminent individuals whose psychological make-up is shaped by hyperthymic temperament or manic-depressive predispositions (Jamison, 2005) – both characterized by behaviors typical of overexcitabilities.
This theme has been continued in J. Gartner's recently published book, “The Hypomanic Edge” (2005), where he examines lives of American successful entrepreneurs and historical figures endowed with overexcitabilities (though, obviously, Gartner does not use this term).
Although Gartner's examples do not represent cases of advanced (or advancing) personality development as understood by Dabrowski, they nevertheless illustrate the correlation between certain forms of creativity and increased psychic excitability.
Inadvertently, too, Gartner's examples show negative influences that OE – not tempered and not transformed by empathy and reflection -- can have on personality development.
Some recent studies that confirm Dabrowski's insights into the relationship between traits strongly suggestive of increased psychic excitability and creativity include Strong and Ketter (2002), Carson et al. (2001), and Carson et al. (2003).
Strong and Ketter, for example, found that healthy (non-diagnosed) creative individuals are closer in their personality types to manic-depressives than to normal population as they exhibited higher than normal range of mood changes and personality characteristics related to neuroticism.
The authors attributed these findings to the wider emotional range in the creative individuals.The “wider emotional range” appears to be nothing else but Dabrowski's OE, described for the first time almost 70 years ago.
Apart from the research that continues in the field of gifted education, confirmations of Dabrowski's ideas on development, including his views on positive disintegration as a method of autopsychotherapy and personality development, have come from fields of psychiatry and neuropsychology (Schwartz & Begley, 2002).
Dabrowski considered his theory “work in progress”– “a series of inductive empirical generalizations” (Dabrowski, 1970, p. 130) – and expressed hope that, with time, most, if not all, of these generalizations would be either confirmed, modified or reformulated thanks to new research and theoretical insights.
Luckily, we do not have to wait until all tenets of Dabrowski's theory achieve a solid backing from research data (that is, if such an accomplishment were possible in the first place). The benefits of adopting a TPD-based perspective in looking at human development appear obvious.
The convergence of developmental psychopathology and psychology of exceptionality seen in TPD is a source of a new, and very promising, approach to treating human growth in its exceptional, as well as “normal” and “disordered” aspects.
One of Dabrowski's greatest contributions to our understanding of exceptionality and human development in general is the appreciation of the positive developmental value of various psychological difficulties, including many conditions commonly considered as pathological only.
For one, we can no longer remain satisfied with labeling traits such as overexcitability and developmental experience they engender as “pathological,” since, as Dabrowski showed us, hidden behind the stigmatizing labels are individuals full of “creative restlessness (and the drive) to penetrate higher levels of reality”(Dabrowski, 1979, p.187).
Conversely, heeding Dabrowski's findings, we are able to become more aware of dangers of one-sided development associated with extreme developmental asynchrony, often encountered in gifted individuals.
The problems resulting from using intelligence in the service of most basic, primitive drives – a tendency associated with psychopathy – are especially evident in today's world.
TPD offers not only a useful theoretical framework for understanding individual differences and personality development, but also practical solutions for affecting positive change, particularly (though not only) in education and clinical practice.
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Trump Navigates the New World Order
December 4, 2018, 7:26 am by Cliff Kincaid Leave a Comment
President Trump accuses his enemies of McCarthyism. But anti-communist Senator Joe McCarthy had many of the same enemies Trump has. And McCarthy’s fate may teach Trump a lesson.
Not one to embrace the “New World Order” of the late former President George H.W. Bush, Donald J. Trump has disavowed many of the elements of world government put in place by Republican and Democratic presidents. That has made him an enemy of the globalists. Trump withdrew the U.S. from Barack Hussein Obama’s Paris climate agreement, a wise decision considering that the COP24 climate change conference, which is now underway, is set to consider “a global tax on CO2,” as if a life-giving gas is somehow a pollutant. This is to be expected from a global United Nations bureaucracy that treats life-killing abortion as a basic human right.
“We are committed and active in bringing about a revolution in thinking, policies, and lifestyles, to address these new challenges,” says the Socialist International in its “global call for a sustainable world society – before it’s too late.”
But facing enemies within, the Trump Administration recently released an alarmist climate change report that President Trump said he rejects. The report was written in part by an Obama holdover in the federal bureaucracy and used material funded by one of Trump’s political enemies, billionaire Tom Steyer. Trump’s enemies will use the report against the Administration’s America-first economic policies at the COP24 conference now underway.
Analyst Natalie Grant wrote about this years ago, noting that “…protection of the environment has become the principal tool for attack against the West.” In her 1998 article, “Green Cross: Gorbachev and Enviro-Communism,” Grant explained in detail how a communist campaign, using the climate as an organizing tool, was launched after the so-called collapse of the Soviet state, when Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet president, embarked on an environmental crusade, using the United Nations and other international organizations. Eventually, this effort, part of the so-called New World Order, continued through various United Nations conferences, giving rise to the concept of “sustainable development,” another way to describe socialism. We see this campaign reflected in the current COP24 conference and the socialist blueprint called the Green New Deal, introduced by the new socialist member of Congress, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
As that moves forward, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi is promising to increase funding for the United Nations, provide amnesty for illegal aliens, and offer the radical LGBTQ “Equality Act” in the new House.
As the late President George H.W. Bush is being hailed as a compromiser with the Democrats who abandoned his “No New Taxes” pledge, we can anticipate pressure on Trump to make deals with the liberal-left. Trump’s current retreat on the border wall is not a good sign that he understands his current predicament. Trump is now demanding a paltry sum of $5 billion for some kind of barrier but had previously sought $25 billion.
One of Trump’s original supporters, columnist Ann Coulter, tells Breitbart News that the Republican Party is “just at the point of extinction without a shot” being fired due to massive illegal and legal immigration to the country. She predicted that Trump, if he fails to follow through on the Wall and restrict immigration, will be the last Republican president because of demographic changes. She notes that the Democrats “have already flipped California” from the days when it was Republican and are now in the process of flipping Texas and Florida and various other states.
Like the faulty climate models which supposedly predict global warming, the numbers of illegals are arrived at by what the “experts” call “mathematical modeling.” Trump was honest during the campaign, saying, “Our government has no idea. It could be 3 million. It could be 30 million.” Yale researchers estimated there were 22.1 million illegal aliens in the United States. Another researcher, James H. Walsh, formerly an Associate General Counsel of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, estimated as many as 40 million in an analysis published in 2007. Whatever the number, if they’re legalized, the Republican Party is finished as a force for conservatism.
But more than America’s political future and two-party system is at stake. The lives of our fellow citizens continue to be taken away by these invaders. One of those illegals, identified as 25-year-old Darwin Martinez-Torres, just plead guilty to the June 2017 murder of 17-year-old Nabra Hassanen. The illegal alien, who was reportedly a member of the El-Salvador-based MS-13 international criminal gang, beat her with a baseball bat and “raped her while she lay unconscious and dumped her body in a pond,” one news account said. Having ripped-off the United States by illegally entering the country, he will now get life in prison, at taxpayer expense. This will cost taxpayers $27,462 annually. The cost of the victim’s life cannot be calculated.
President Trump has righty called members of the gang, which has more than 40,000 members internationally and 10,000 in the U.S., “animals.” Andrew Ford of the Asbury Park Press of New Jersey just wrote an eye-opening article about the activities of this gang in New Jersey. In Massachusetts, six members of the violent, transnational organization were recently charged with a racketeering conspiracy that included the murder of a teenage boy in a city park where children play.
The border wall has been justified in the name of keeping bad people out of the country as well as discouraging drug smuggling through the southern border. However, the illegal drug lobby now wants to legalize these drugs north of the border and are doing so on a state-by-state basis. Indeed, former President Barack Hussein Obama, a heavy drug user, and his Department of Justice set this process in motion, with the assistance of pro-drug groups financed by George Soros. It turns out that Obama backer Soros, the main funder of the drug legalization movement, is in business with Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner, and they are working with libertarian billionaire marijuana investor Peter Thiel to pass a bill to protect the dope industry from federal anti-drug laws.
Concerned parents, victims of illegal drugs, and drug policy experts are now pleading with President Trump not to buckle to the Big Marijuana lobby and exacerbate the problems caused by Obama’s soft-on-drugs policies. Incredibly, former Republican House Speaker John Boehner is lobbying on behalf of nationwide legalization and RINO Republican Senator Cory Gardner of Colorado claims to have Trump’s commitment to back new national legislation co-sponsored by Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren to officially allow marijuana legalization without interference by federal authorities. This can only create millions of more stoners voting for Democratic politicians promising more drugs at cheaper prices. Some will end up getting treatment under Obamacare. Others, like Richard Kirk of Colorado, will go crazy and kill. He’s serving 30 years in prison for eating a marijuana edible, having a psychotic reaction, and shooting his wife to death.
Trump’s willingness to sign a piece of liberal jailbreak legislation, known as the First Step Act, is also troubling. The bill is supported by Marxist Van Jones, a former Obama official, and opposed by many law enforcement groups. It will enable liberal judges to cut sentences for violent drug users and traffickers. Haven’t liberal judges – or what Trump calls “Obama judges” – caused enough problems already without giving them more power in the name of “criminal justice reform?”
Jones was actually invited into the Trump White House to meet with Trump adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner. On the other hand, conservative and law enforcement groups trying to support law and order find it difficult to get their voices heard.
The left-ward drift of the Trump Administration on “criminal justice reform” and drugs illustrates the failure of the Trump Administration to hire strong conservatives and purge Deep State operatives operating right under Trump’s nose. Clearly, Trump has been betrayed by his staff, some of whom have jumped ship to write books and go on TV or radio for big fees. His lawyers have given him bad advice.
At the G20 summit, the White House appeared to hold firm, issuing a worthwhile document noting that Trump’s economic policies have resulted in the United States seeing historically low unemployment and strong economic growth. However, Trump signed a new NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) that he calls the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement. The new NAFTA includes some beneficial changes to the original but leaves the basic trilateral structure, a form of transnational regional government, in place. Equally significant, new provisions, inserted by Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, include protections on “sexual orientation” and “gender identity.”
Looking back in history, McCarthyism is not a dirty word but something to be studied and understood. While Trump and Joe McCarthy share many of the same enemies, McCarthy had a better undestanding of who they were. In the end, however, McCarthy took on a powerful Deep State agency — the CIA — and lost. J.C. Hawkins, author of Betrayal at Bethesda, notes that McCarthy faced strong resistance in wanting to investigate the infiltration of the agency by Soviet and Chinese intelligence operatives. Three years after he was censored by the Senate, McCarthy went into the naval hospital at Bethesda, Maryland, with a knee injury on a Sunday afternoon and was pronounced dead five days later from acute hepatitis.
Will Trump meet the same fate as McCarthy? As he navigates the legal demands of Russia-gate prosecutor Robert S. Mueller and threats of impeachment by the House, Trump’s presidency and even his life will be in danger. He will need all the friends he can get so he must not betray or alienate the millions of people depending on him. He will need to be able to spot enemies disguised as friends.
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The history of hydroelectricity in Quebec
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At the Speed of Light
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Credits screen featuring a character in the form of a drop of water with a cartoon speech bubble presenting the introductory text. There is an "OK" button.
There is a "?" button to return to the introductory page any time.
You flick a light switch and light arrives instantaneously. In fact, the light has traveled a path from its source (a lamp, for example) to your eyes. But you cannot see this movement because light travels at a speed of 300 000 km/s (kilometres per second). Yes, per SECOND!
Now, what is even more amazing, nor can be seen, is that electricity is traveling in the power network at a speed almost equal to the speed of light.
To give you a "clear" idea of this speed, click the images on the left. Each animation compares the time needed for electricity to travel a certain distance from the Robert-Bourassa generating station and the time needed for an airplane travelling at 600 km/h to travel the same distance.
Main screen of the game.
The image represents the Province of Quebec seen in perspective with a star-filled sky in the distance. There is a drawing on the image of Quebec symbolically representing the Robert-Bourassa generating station and the Cité de l'Énergie tower in the foreground.
On the left side of the screen is a box containing an illustrated, clickable menu. The menu features the Cité de l'énergie tower, the moon, the sun, Saturn and a star.
When we click the Cité de l'énergie tower, animation appears. A bolt of lightning and a plane travel towards the tower.
Symbolically, we want to represent the speed of light and the speed of a plane.
At the lower right, there is a text box.
The Cité de l'Énergie is located some 1200 km from the Robert-Bourassa generating station in James Bay.
Electricity ± 0,0004 s (four ten-millionths of a second)
Plane ± 2 h
When we click on the moon, animation appears. The sky seems to revolve on itself to make the moon appear. A bolt of lightning and a plane travel towards the moon.
The moon is 385 000 km from the Earth.
Electricity ± 1,25 s
Plane ± 34 days
When we click on the sun, animation appears. The sky seems to revolve on itself to make the sun appear. The sky becomes blue and the stars disappear in the sky. A bolt of lightning and a plane travel towards the sun.
The sun is far from Earth: about 150 000 000 km (one hundred and fifty million).
Electricity ± 8,5 min (minutes)
Plane ± 28 years
When we click on Saturn, animation appears. The sky seems to revolve on itself to make Saturn appear. A bolt of lightning and a plane travel towards Saturn.
Saturn is even further away from our planet than the sun, at some 1 277 000 000 km (one billion two hundred and seventy-seven million).
Electricity ± 71 min
Plane ± 234 years
When we click on the star, animation appears. The sky seems to revolve on itself to make the star appear. A bolt of lightning and a plane travel towards the star.
Proxima Centauri, the star closest to Earth, is some 40 871 520 000 000 km away (forty trillion eight hundred seventy-one billion five hundred and twenty million).
Electricity ± 4,32 years
Plane ± 8 800 000 years
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Chief of Staff commissions 480,000 Euro Oxygen Plant
Akosua Frema Osei-Opare, the Chief of Staff, has commissioned a 480,000-Euro ultra-modern oxygen plant for the 37 Military Hospital at a ceremony in Accra.
The hospital, since 2009, has been operating a 20 normal meter cube Linde oxygen plant, which was bedeviled with frequent break downs.
The new 50 Newton-meter cube production plant, is three times the capacity of the old plant and it has the ability to dock 10 cylinders at a time, compared to the old plant, which docks only one cylinder.
Commissioning it, Madam Osei-Opare noted that oxygen was one of the critical consumables in the healthcare delivery chain the world over, adding that, the occasion marked another stride in government’s quest to achieve quality and efficient universal health care delivery.
“The importance of medical oxygen in all hospitals in Ghana cannot be overemphasized and commended the Military High Command and the 37 Military Hospital in their perseverance to get the best for their patient always,” she added.
The Chief of Staff noted that the old and obsolete plant, having served its purpose, suffered frequent breakdowns causing nerve-cracking moments for staff and patients, could no longer sustain the increase in demand.
According to her, an interim backup plant to supplement the oxygen supply, came at a heavy cost of GH¢80,640 per week, rendering the situation a near national emergency.
Madam Osei-Opare said the new oxygen plant had come as “good news” to the Ambulance Service, Medical Reception Stations and all hospitals who hitherto, wait long hours and sometimes, days to get refills from the facility.
She was confident that the production plant, which met the highest standards of safety, reliability, and efficiency, would be maintained effectively by the hospital.
The Chief of Staff assured the hospital of government’s support to deal with the myriad of problems and challenges militating against the full implementation and delivery of universal health care in the hospital.
“As a sequel to this, a new multipurpose X-ray machine has been procured, installed and currently in use, whilst a new CT Scan and Fluoroscopy machine are expected to arrive soon,” She added.
Madam Osei-Opare entreated corporate Ghana and benevolent persons to support health institutions in order to complement government’s effort in improving the lives of people.
Brigadier General Michael Yeboah Agyapong, Commanding Officer of the 37 Military Hospital, expressed appreciation to the government and Military High Command for supporting the hospital to secure the new oxygen plant.
Brigadier General Agyapong recalled that the old plant, which was secured during phase two of the hospital’s expansion, broke down three times a week from the beginning of 2018.
This, he noted, did not affect the operations of the hospital but the Ambulance Service and all clinics within the hospital’s vicinity that depended on their plant for a refill.
He said the hospital was in dire need of a Magnetic Resonance Imaging Machine, saying, what they have, had broken down for several years.
The Commanding Officer of the 37 Military Hospital appealed to stakeholders to help raise the facility to the desired standard as it strived to get inputs for the commencement of the third phase of the hospital project.
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Migration Advisory Committee releases Tier 2 report
The Migration Advisory Committee (“MAC”) has today indicated that the UK government should be cautious about rushing to raise the minimum salary requirements for Tier 2 migrants before the MAC has had a chance to complete its wider review of the Tier 2 route later in the year.
The MAC’s report, entitled “Review of Tier 2: An analysis of salary thresholds“, confirms its preference for using occupation-specific salary thresholds, but does not at this stage recommend a minimum salary threshold for individual roles. It has, however, stated that there are good grounds for increasing the current £20,800 minimum Tier 2 (General) threshold.
The MAC was commissioned by the government in June 2015 to carry out a review of Tier 2 of the Points-Based System. This review has been split into two parts, the first part being the recommendations published today with wider recommendations expected to be issued at the end of this year.
The initial analysis carried out by the MAC has revealed that there is little evidence to suggest widespread undercutting of UK resident workers by Tier 2 migrants. The MAC will go on to consider whether there is a need for variations in regional pay, but it has indicated that, to date, it sees no major regional variations that require urgent attention.
Chair of the MAC, Professor Sir David Metcalf CBE, said: “The MAC’s focus in this report is on analysis rather than recommendations. We have examined the evidence concerning the possibility that migrants undercut British residents and we set out the possible reduction in skilled migrant inflows if the pay thresholds were raised from current levels. We urge the government to be cautious in making any significant changes to the salary thresholds at this stage because they should not be considered in isolation. Salary thresholds are closely linked with other issues the government has asked the MAC to consider in its wider review, including proposals for an immigration skills charge on migrant workers. Our recommendations on the Tier 2 route will be published after we have examined in full the extensive evidence of the impact of raising pay thresholds on particular companies and organisations“.
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United General Hospital
United General Hospital has been a vital part of the community for more than 40 years. The hospital serves Public Hospital District 304, including Burlington, Sedro-Woolley, Bayview, Samish Island, Concrete, Marblemount, Clear Lake and areas of Mount Vernon -- over 2,000 square miles in Skagit (and parts of Whatcom) County. The hospital is governed by a five-member board of commissioners.
United General prides itself on personalized care in a quiet, healing environment. In addition to an excellent staff, we embrace state-of-the-art technology to ensure quality and safety. From the new linear accelerator in the cancer care center, to the fully computerized sleep disorders center, and the wireless, voice-activated communication systems, United General is bringing big city technology to its friendly, rural setting.
Services at United General include comprehensive cancer care at our North Puget Cancer Center -- we were the first to provide radiation oncology services in Skagit County and continue to offer the most advanced treatment options north of Seattle. We also provide an emergency department staffed with specially trained doctors and nurses; a diagnostic imaging center that offers everything from x-ray to mammograms to MRI; a variety of surgical services; cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation; physical and occupational therapy; the only certified diabetes education program in the area; and more.
We also offer Wellness 360, a community education program that emphasizes all-around health. Classes provide valuable information about nutrition, exercise, stress management and many other health topics; screenings and risk assessments are also provided. United General hosts an annual women's health fair and many other special events for the public.
United General is very fortunate to have a very dedicated auxiliary as well as an active foundation, both of which provide financial support.
The hospital employees and volunteers are actively involved in the community. The hospital's speakers bureau provides free presentations to clubs and organizations; an employee council spearheads a variety of fundraisers for service agencies; and the hospital's "Bedpan Brigade" has delighted many parade-goers in the Skagit Valley.
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Creedance Clearwater Revival - Biography
At a time when rock was evolving further and further away from the forces that had made the music possible in the first place, Creedence Clearwater Revival brought things back to their roots with their concise synthesis of rockabilly, swamp pop, R&B, and country. Though CCR was very much a group in their tight, punchy arrangements, their vision was very much singer, songwriter, guitarist, and leader John Fogerty's. Fogerty's classic compositions for Creedence both evoked enduring images of Americana and reflected burning social issues of the day. The band's genius was their ability to accomplish this with the economic, primal power of a classic rockabilly ensemble.
The key elements of Creedence had been woodshedding in bar bands for about a decade before their breakthrough to national success in the late '60s. John's older brother Tom formed the Blue Velvets in the late '50s in El Cerrito, CA, a tiny suburb across the bay from San Francisco. By the mid-'60s, with a few hopelessly obscure recordings under their belt, they'd signed to Fantasy, releasing several singles as the Golliwogs that went nowhere. In fact, there's little promise to be found on those early efforts, primarily because Tom, not John, was doing most of the singing. The group only found themselves when John took firm reigns over the band's direction, singing and writing virtually all of their material.
On their first album Creedence Clearwater Revival in 1968, the group played it both ways, offering extended, quasi-psychedelic workouts of the '50s classics "I Put a Spell on You" and "Suzie Q." The latter song became their first big hit, but the band didn't really bloom until "Proud Mary," a number-two single in early 1969 that demonstrated John's talent at tapping into Southern roots music and imagery with a natural ease. It was the start of a torrent of classic hits from the gritty, Little Richard-inspired singer over the next two years, including "Bad Moon Rising," "Green River," "Down on the Corner," "Travelin' Band," "Who'll Stop the Rain," "Up Around the Bend," and "Lookin' Out My Back Door."
Creedence also made good albums -- Green River, Willy and the Poor Boys, Cosmo's Factory all rank among the best of the rock era -- but their true forte was as a singles band. When the Beatles broke up in early 1970, CCR was the only other act that provided any competition in the fine art of crafting bold, super-catchy artistic statements that soared to the upper reaches of the charts every three or four months. Although they hailed from the San Francisco area, they rarely succumbed to the psychedelic indulgences of the era. John Fogerty also proved adept at voicing the concerns of the working class in songs like "Fortunate Son," as well as partying with as much funk as any white rock band would muster on "Travelin' Band" and "Down on the Corner."
With John Fogerty holding such a strong upper hand, Creedence couldn't be said to have been a democratic unit, and Fogerty's dominance was to sow the seeds of the group's quick dissolution. Tom Fogerty left in 1971 (recording a few unremarkable solo albums of his own), reducing the band to a trio. John allowed drummer Doug Clifford and bassist Stu Cook equal shares of songwriting and vocal time on the group's final album, Mardi Gras (1972), which proved conclusively that Fogerty's songs and singing were necessary to raise CCR above journeyman status.
It was John Fogerty, of course, who produced the only notable work after the quartet broke up. Even his solo outings, though, were erratic and, for nearly ten years, nonexistent as he became embroiled in a web of business disputes with Fantasy Records. His 1984 album Centerfield proved he could still rock in the vintage Creedence mode when the spirit moved him, but Tom Fogerty's death in 1990 ended any hopes of a CCR reunion with the original members intact.
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Home News Cameroon military and separatists fuel ‘cycle of violence’, says Amnesty
Cameroon military and separatists fuel ‘cycle of violence’, says Amnesty
Escalating violence in Cameroon has led to armed separatists and security forces attacking and torturing people in the country’s Anglophone regions, according to a new report by Amnesty International.
“They tied our hands behind our backs, gagged us and tied our faces with our towels and shorts, which they tore. They, then made us lie in the water, face down for about 45 minutes,” a man, one of 23 people detained in the South-West region’s town of Dadi, told Amnesty of the alleged torture he experienced at the hands of military.
“During three days, they beat us with shovels, hammers, planks, and cables, kicked us with their boots and poured hot water on us… when I tried to move and shouted, one of them used the cigarette he was smoking to burn me.”
A teacher from a government school in the North-West region – one of the two mainly English-speaking areas where activists are demanding independence – told Amnesty how armed separatists raided the school and shot him in the leg.
“The assailant […] told me that I was still coming to school in defiance of calls for a schools boycott. He then asked me to raise my hands, but before I could do so, he shot me. I fell to the ground,” the teacher said.
These are some of the 150 accounts, from victims and eye-witnesses, documented by Amnesty about conflict in the Central African nation.
‘Cycle of violence’
The mainly English-speaking the North-West and South West have been gripped by unrest since activists stepped up their campaign for independence in 2016.
They claim the country’s French-speaking majority is marginalising the English-speaking minority.
Amnesty alleges the ensuing government crackdown and unrest has gradually turned into an armed conflict, leaving the general population at the whim of two opposing forces.
“People in Cameroon’s Anglophone regions are in the grip of a deadly cycle of violence,” Samira Daoud, Amnesty’s deputy director for the region, said in a statement.
“Their [government] heavy-handed response will do nothing to calm the violence – in fact it is likely to further alienate Anglophone communities and fuel further unrest,” she said.
“Security forces have indiscriminately killed, arrested and tortured people during military operations which have also displaced thousands of civilians,” Ms Daoud added.
‘Burning schools’
The report alleges the military destroyed villages. It also claims detainees were blindfolded and severely beaten with wires, sticks, guns and wires, “as well as being electrocuted and burnt with hot water”, the report says.
Didier Badjeck, an army spokesman, dismissed Amnesty’s claims of torture and violence as “rumours”.
Armed separatists are also accused by Amnesty of killing 44 security force members and attacking dozens of schools between February 2017 and May 2018 in a bid to “strike fear amongst the population”.
Teachers and students are being targeted for not participating in the boycott of schools seen by many as a symbol of how the English language has been marginalised by the authorities, Amnesty says.
Separatists have gone “as far as burning down schools and targeting teachers who did not enforce the boycott,” Ms Daoud said.
‘Excessive force’
Amnesty also documented five attacks on traditional chiefs, accused of sympathising with the government.
The rights’ group says authorities have to protect the general population by ensuring “accountability for crimes committed by the security forces as well as by the armed separatists”.
“They must immediately end the use of unlawful, unnecessary and excessive force and ensure that people are protected,” the report said.
Cameroon’s President Paul Biya has condemned “all acts of violence, regardless of their sources and their perpetrators,” in a 2017 Facebook post.
Cameroon was colonised by Germany and then split into British and French areas after World War One.
Following a referendum, British-run Southern Cameroons joined the French-speaking Republic of Cameroon in 1961, while Northern Cameroons voted to join English-speaking Nigeria.
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2015 Golden Globes: Big WINs for Diversity and Standing Out
By JnguyenWin7January 12, 2015The WIN Column
Go 2015 Golden Globe Awards! The show gave us the comedy magic of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. But more importantly, it was a night of big WINs for characters and stories that personify the power of standing out exactly as who you are.
The journey for women’s independence got a moment in the sun when Amy Adams won best actress in a motion picture – comedy or musical for her role in Big Eyes. It is the story of Margaret Keane, whose husband fraudulently claimed her paintings as his work, and her journey to stand up and claim her own work.
In a win for Latino representation in media, newcomer Gina Rodriguez nabbed the Golden Globe as best actress in a TV comedy for her title role in the CW’s Jane the Virgin. Backstage, she further talked about how the show “allowed [Latinos] to see themselves invited to the same party” – where they can be “the investment bankers and the lawyers that exist in my own home.”
The African American civil rights movement was highlighted by Common and John Legend, when they won Best Original Song for their writing of Glory from the motion picture Selma. With eloquent words, Common linked the civil rights struggles of the past to recent events in Ferguson, Missouri and New York: “The first day I stepped on the set of ‘Selma,’ I began to feel like this was bigger than a movie. As I got to know the people of the Civil Rights movement, I realized I am the hopeful black woman who was denied her right to vote. I am the caring white supporter, killed on the front lines of freedom. I am the unarmed kid who maybe needed a hand, but instead was given a bullet. I am the two fallen police officers murdered in the line of duty. ‘Selma’ has awakened my humanity.”
But the night’s biggest wins were LGBT stories. Matt Bomer was honored as supporting actor in a TV miniseries or movie for the The Normal Heart – set during the early HIV/AIDS crisis in the 1980s. In his acceptance speech, Bomer gave homage to victims of AIDS. And a big winner was Amazon’s Transparent – the series about a father of three who identifies as a woman, and comes out to his family as a transgender woman. The landmark series won winning best TV comedy series and its lead Jeffrey Tambor was voted best actor in a TV comedy series. Tambor used the opportunity to dedicate his performance and the award to the transgender community.
Sadly, Asians remain the one major group not represented with an awards win. In fact, the Asian presence at the Golden Globes was limited to Margaret Cho, in funny bits about North Korea. I love Margaret Cho and was glad to see her – but I’m still hoping for the day when Hollywood produces more prominent – and award-worthy – roles for performers and artists of Asian descent.
Meanwhile, I was still thrilled to works honored that portray a diversity of life stories. In doing so, I hope this year’s Golden Globes provided inspiration for everyone to believe that – no matter who you are – you too can WIN in life.
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Photo: In Ghazni, Afghanistan, bloodied children peer through a hole in concrete blown by a bomb in the current fighting. "‘Ghazni City remains under Afghan government control,’ Lt. Col. Martin O'Donnell, a spokesman for Operation Resolute Support and U.S. Forces Afghanistan, told Military.com on Tuesday.” This is not accurate.
Three Administrations have failed the American people and the Afghan people. Afghanistan is now largely in the hands of Taliban, al Qaeda and ISIS. Afghans are left to the mercies of Pakistanis, Russians, Chinese, and Indians, among others. Citizens of Ghazni face mortars, bombs, no water, and starvation.
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Co-host: Malcolm Hoenlein, Conference of Presidents; David Livingston, The Space Show
Hour One
Thursday 16 August 2018 / Hour 1, Block A: Sebastian Gorka, Natl Security Strategist, Fox News; author, Why We Fight; in re: The problem we have now is John Brennan, a paid speaker for a television channel. Never, since the CIA’s founding after WWII, has a CIA director called a sitting president’s actions “treasonous,” is in the thrall of the Russian president. Daniel Hoffman, who was station chief in Moscow: “The mere fact that [Brennan] makes such fantastic statements means that . . .”
James Clapper has been making comparably over-the-top remarks. Both these men are hirelings for media. Suggestion that they’re performing bears. Individuals profiting from prior positions to attack a sitting president while having access to the highest-level security information . . . In interviews, they’re looking esp for vulnerabilities —are you unstable? etc. These two men – Brennan voted for the Communist Party — should never have received security clearances in the first place. Omarosa Manigault-Newman.
Thursday 16 August 2018 / Hour 1, Block B: Sebastian Gorka, Natl Security Strategist, Fox News; author, Why We Fight; in re: Somali attacks in London at Parliament. Quick response, because the area is saturated with police, but this is the fourth vehicular attack in eighteen months, second at Commons. As often happens, he was on the authorities’s screen but the threat wasn’t dealt with. Singapore summit. Cyber. Flabbergasting: Obama defanged our cyber protections. We were supine. China has 25,000 uniformed men who are cyber warriors; now, finally, the Trump Adm goes to cyberwar.
Thursday 16 August 2018 / Hour 1, Block C: Zero Hour for Gen X: How the Last Adult Generation Can Save America from Millennials, by Matthew Hennessey. Gen X (b 1964 – 1980), ‘twixt two giant cohorts.
In Zero Hour for Gen X , Matthew Hennessey calls on his generation, Generation X, to take a stand against tech-obsessed millennials, apathetic baby boomers, utopian Silicon Valley “visionaries,” and the menace to top them all: the soft totalitarian conspiracy known as the Internet of Things. Soon Gen Xers will be the only cohort of Americans who remember life as it was lived before the arrival of the Internet. They are, as Hennessey dubs them, “the last adult generation,” the sole remaining link to a time when childhood was still a bit dangerous but produced adults who were naturally resilient.
More than a decade into the social media revolution, the American public is waking up to the idea that the tech sector’s intentions might not be as pure as advertised. The mountains of money being made off our browsing habits and purchase histories are used to fund ever-more extravagant and utopian projects that, by their very natures, will corrode the foundations of free society, leaving us all helpless and digitally enslaved to an elite crew of ultra-sophisticated tech geniuses. But it’s not too late to turn the tide. There’s still time for Gen X to write its own future.
A spirited defense of free speech, eye contact, and the virtues of patience, Zero Hour for Gen X is a cultural history of the last 35 years, an analysis of the current social and historical moment, and a generational call to arms.
Thursday 16 August 2018 / Hour 1, Block D: Zero Hour for Gen X: How the Last Adult Generation Can Save America from Millennials, by Matthew Hennessey. Gen X (b 1964 – 1980), ‘twixt two giant cohorts.
Hour Two
Thursday 16 August 2018 / Hour 2, Block A: Thomas Rose, Sr. Advisor and Chief Strategist to Vice President Mike Pence; in re: VP Pence and Israel. Prognostication that if the US moved its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, the whole region would be torn asunder by rioting, How’s the rioting going? Beautifully; all tranquil.
President demonstrates “disruptive boldness” (quotation from Mike Pompeo) – that moral conviction and clarity are essential; that peace cannot be built on a [fabrication], can be built only on clear truth. We have an extraordinary negotiating team at the WH; Mike Pompeo and John Bolton are superb. Eighteen months on, the behind-the-scenes progress: Sunni states’s alliance with Israel; Iran’s hegemonic march has been stopped dead in its tracks. . . . Twelve area in which we must see progress — esp human rights in Iran. Kleptocracy has stolen billions and billi0ns of dollars. Iranian people want Iran back from the Islamic Republic, stop being a destabilizing force in the Middle East.
Thursday 16 August 2018 / Hour 2, Block B: Steve Cook, Council on Foreign Relations; in re: Turkey, and Erdogan’s abuse of Pastor Andrew Brunson. Mediation? No one visible to do that. Meanwhile, two presidents having “rather sizable egos.” Whole range of issues divide the US and Turkey – helping Iran evade sanctions, Russian mil sales to Turkey, and a handful of other serious matters. . . . Decision not to sell F35s to Turkey – a blow to their self-esteem. US cannot sell F35s to a country that has the S400 with the software being maintained by Russia. Incirlik: US mustn’t be dependent on it; move some activities to Romania, Cyprus, Iraq.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/10/opinion/turkey-erdogan-trump-crisis-sanctions.htm
https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/08/13/trump-is-the-first-president-to-get-turkey-right/
https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2018/08/09/turkish-lawyers-want-to-raid-incirlik-air-base-and-arrest-us-air-force-officers/
https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/08/13/trump-blocks-fighter-jet-transfer-amid-deepening-us-turkey-rift-f35/
Steven A. Cook is Eni Enrico Mattei senior Fellow for Middle East and Africa studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). He is an expert on Arab and Turkish politics as well as U.S.-Middle East policy. Cook is the author of False Dawn: Protest, Democracy, and Violence in the New Middle East; The Struggle for Egypt: From Nasser to Tahrir Square, which won the Washington Institute for Near East Policy's gold medal in 2012; and Ruling but Not Governing: The Military and Political Development in Egypt, Algeria, and Turkey.
Thursday 16 August 2018 / Hour 2, Block C: Ilan Berman, American Foreign Policy Council; in re: Iran & Turkey. . . Is the Caspian a lake or a sea? Very energy-rich; haggling for twenty years. The very recent Caspian summit: Russians did very well, Iran least-well. . . . Many agree they don’t want NATO in Turkey. The fatal flaw in the alliance: mechanisms for accession, but none for deaccession. Ergo, no mechanism to oblige [malfeasants] like Turkey to behave better. Iran’s economy is very rough; current demos yell, “Death to the dictator!” This is the most significant sustained rebellion since the revolution in 1979. Also, environmental conditions are disastrous – 300 cities approaching drought crisis; many have no drinking water. . . . Pastor Brunson: Any climb-down for Turkey? No, not even looking.
● http://www.ilanberman.com/21479/iran-new-revolutionary-moment
● http://www.afpc.org/publication_listings/viewArticle/3953
● https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/khamenei-attacks-moderates-as-source-of-irans-problems
● https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/08/rand-paul-trump-russia-putin-768472
● https://www.ft.com/content/93c52100-9e16-11e8-85da-eeb7a9ce36e4
● https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/12/landmark-caspian-sea-deal-signed-amng-five-coastal-nations
● https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/europe/russia-says-dollar-s-days-numbered-as-global-trade-currency-1.6382199
● http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/imagining-the-islamic-republic/
● http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/behnam-ben-taleblu-irans-increased-missile-testing-an-apparent-rebuke-to-us-pressure/
Ilan Berman is Senior Vice President of the American Foreign Policy Council in Washington, DC. An expert on regional security in the Middle East, Central Asia, and the Russian Federation, he has consulted for both the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and the U.S. Department of Defense, and provided assistance on foreign policy and national security issues to a range of governmental agencies and Congressional offices. He has been called one of America's "leading experts on the Middle East and Iran" by CNN.
Thursday 16 August 2018 / Hour 2, Block D: Joseph M. Humire, Executive Director, Center for a Secure Free Society; in re: Argentina, Latin America. Mysterious drone attack. . . . Raided three casinos in Argentina at Triborder Area, where Barakat clan was moving tremendous volumes of cash. Paraguay is cooperating (new president today); Brazil cooperates a bit. Nisman in Argentina: the murdered prosecutor who was investigating Argentine and Iranian bombing of AMIA. Treason. . . . Velayati was named n one of the Interpol warrants; MOU implicates highest Iranian figures.
https://www.terrorism-info.org.il/en/hezbollahs-tri-border-area-terror-finance-comes-fire-last-emanuele-ottolenghi/
https://www.argentina.gob.ar/noticias/terrorist-financing
Joseph M. Humire is the SFS Executive Director. A global security expert specializing on transnational threats in the Western Hemisphere, he provides regular briefings on international terrorism, transnational organized crime, Islamism and Iran’s influence Latin America to various entities within the U.S. Department of Defense and intelligence community, as well as prominent think tanks and universities around the world. He testifies frequently before the U.S. Congress on national security issues and has also testified before the European, Canadian, and Andean Parliament, as well as the Argentine and Peruvian Congress. In 2016, Mr. Humire served as an expert witness in an important terrorism trial in Lima, Peru.
Hour Three
Thursday 16 August 2018 / Hour 3, Block A: Malcolm Hoenlein, in re: Mad Minute: too many topics in one segment. Ceasefire, Gaza’s economy is in collapse, Abbas convening PA Central Committee (he’s in the thirteenth year of a four-year term) . . . PA goes to the Intl Criminal Court; judges at pre-trial said there shd be ___ about Palestinian victims – despite the fact that they have no standing whatsoever. Group of 77: developmental portion of unaligned; Palestinian Authority elected as chair despite not being a state. Another propaganda vehicle. AN enormous and elaborate apparatus to suggest that the Palestinians have a future – which they do not; the Arab world is entirely uninterested. Golan Heights: dangerous, as Iran ties to encroach on the Israeli border. Syrian army has taken control, Russian police are manning observation posts. . . . Iran: Khamenei said he’d made a mistake in letting Zarif negotiate the deal — it's deeply unpopular in the country, and disintegrating. Europeans withdrawing major projects from Iran — $500 million at a time.
Thursday 16 August 2018 / Hour 3, Block B: Neri Zilber, Washington Institute, in re: Gaza, Israel. Head of Egyptian intell visiting Israel. Also UN involved, and Qatar. The small deal: opening crossings to Gaza, more humanitarian & dvpt aid in return for quiet; shd be do-able. The big deal: return of Israeli IDF bodies, civilians back to Israel; Hamas demands a prisoner swap and infrastructure assistance, which Netanyahu does not favor. . . . Possible naval route from Gaza to Cyprus? Israel wd need to monitor traffic. “If you give them cement, they’ll bld a tunnel.” IDF focussed on Gaza schools being open: education helps maintain stability.
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-israel-hamas-deal-cease-fire-prisoner-swap-and-rebuilding-gaza-1.6386316
https://www.timesofisrael.com/head-of-egyptian-intelligence-reportedly-visited-tel-aviv-to-discuss-gaza-truce/
https://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/PA-official-Hamas-leader-Sinwar-wouldnt-release-soldiers-for-ceasefire-564940
https://www.timesofisrael.com/shin-bet-head-said-to-warn-cabinet-ceasefire-without-pa-will-strengthen-hamas/
http://www.inss.org.il/publication/fine-line-arrangement-escalation-gaza-strip/
Neri Zilber, a journalist and analyst of Middle East politics and culture, is an adjunct Fellow of The Washington Institute. He was previously a visiting scholar at the Institute in 2014-2015, where his research focused on the Middle East peace process, with particular emphasis on Palestinian economics and state-building. In addition to reportage and commentary on Middle Eastern affairs, Zilber consults for the private sector on regional political and economic risk. Previously, he worked as a researcher and analyst at the U.S. Library of Congress and the World Jewish Congress.
Thursday 16 August 2018 / Hour 3, Block C: The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World, by Greg Grandin
Thursday 16 August 2018 / Hour 3, Block D: The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World, by Greg Grandin
Hour Four
Thursday 16 August 2018 / Hour 4, Block A: Andrew C. McCarthy III, American columnist for National Review; served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York; in re: Paul Manafort
Thursday 16 August 2018 / Hour 4, Block B: Andrew C. McCarthy III, American columnist for National Review; served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York; in re: Paul Manafort
Thursday 16 August 2018 / Hour 4, Block C: Hotel Mars, episode n; Mackenzie Day, UCLA geologist; in re: Ghost dunes of Mars
Thursday 16 August 2018 / Hour 4, Block D: Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, in re: Launch complex 39A, Cape Canaveral. https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/rockets/a22749397/cape-canaverals...
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Published:Friday | January 11, 2019 | 12:00 AMKimberley Small/Gleaner Writer [1]
British film documentarian Fritzroy Smith is back at it - and is currently in the midst of producing the second in a string of series inspired by Jamaica's motto, 'Out of Many, One People'. Now, he is extrapolating the history of Jews in Jamaica.
In January 2017, the film-maker successfully premiered a documentary focused on Chinese history in Jamaica called Bonds of Promised Land at Carib Cinema.
Interviews for the documentary have been completed. "Now, we're chopping it up and putting it together. We're hoping to premiere towards the end of March," Smith told The Gleaner.
Currently untitled, Smith guarantees that the film will be educational, exploring how the Jewish community helped shape the current Jamaican landscape - a topographic from 1492, and their arrival with Christopher Columbus.
"Jews have a rich history in Jamaica dating back to migrants from Portugal and Spain, known then as the Iberian Peninsula. The Jews have contributed economically and socially to our culture, and they were the first to come here," Smith said. To complete this Jewish-history film, Smith worked alongside writers Michael Edwards and Shauna Brandon.
Following the film's premiere, Smith will dive right back into production as he intends to cover all groups honoured by our motto. "We have so many races that make Jamaica what it is today. I'm going to do the Indians, the Syrians, and the Lebanese. Out of many, we are one people." But he didn't mention documenting the Africans.
"There is talk about it, but so many people have done things about slavery. Maybe I'll try to really find out where the majority of them came from, or the Tainos, and where they came from," he mused.
Though he was born in the UK, Smith maintains a strong connection to his Jamaican roots. As a youngster, he frequently visited his grandparents on the island and now travels back and forth - staying in the tropics for filming.
Smith started producing documentaries in early 2011, and he said that one of his first documentaries uncovered a little-known truth - that many of the homeless in Jamaica were deportees, primarily from the UK, the United States, the Cayman Islands, and Barbados.
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is a Professor of Environmental Science and Technology and Coordinator, TIFAC, DST. He has been the principal guide for more than 130 academic projects at PG level, 15 PhD projects and at present guiding more than 17 PhD students in the area of Environmental Science and Technology, Geoinformatics, Remote sensing, GIS, GPS and Environmental applications. He published and presented more than 107 research papers on various themes of remote sensing and GIS applications to environment, land use/ land cover, spatial data analysis, water resources, transportation planning, watershed management and environmental modeling. He delivered expert lectures at University of Illinois- Chicago, University of IOWA, University of Chicago, Urbana and East West Centre, Honolulu in USA, Stockholm Water Company in Sweden, International Centre for Environmental Management for Enclosed Coastal Seas, Osaka, Kobe City in Japan, University of Florida- USA, Colorado University, Denver- USA and Universities of Philadelphia, USA and Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand. (ewe)
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is Dean, School of Biotechnology, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kerala, India and Co-ordinator Dept. of Science and Technology-TIFAC CORE in Biomedical Technology. He has earlier worked at: MS University, Baroda; School of Medicine, University of Tennennee, Memphis; Panlabs Inc, Bothell; and, MDS Pharma Services, Bothell. He is recipient of several awards and has published/ presented around 50 papers.
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is a faculty member at the Center for Molecular Processing, University of Kent, UK. His research interest includes: In silico molecular modelling of pharmaceutically important signal transduction pathways that regulate intracellular processes involved in human diseases; and, Development of systems biology assisted disease treatments especially for the cases of complex diseases involving simultaneous interplay of a variety of factors. He has been awarded various grants, distinctions and fellowships. (ebe, enb)
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is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Arab Academy of Science & Technology, and Alexandria University, Egypt. He has earlier worked at Kuwait University and University of Manitoba (Canada). His area of interest includes: Experimental Fluid Mechanics; Lubrication; and, Energy, Environment and Pollution. He has supervised 5 Ph D and 13 graduate students and published nearly 100 papers. (ewe)
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is Institute Chair Professor of Civil Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai. He served as Chairman of the prestigious Joint Entrance Examination (JEE 1998). He was elected a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) in 1999, a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences (IASc) in 2004 and a Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy (INSA) in 2007, the latest being the highest honor awarded to an Indian Engineer-Scientist by his peers. He is a recipient of the Burmah-Shell Best Paper Prize and was awarded the 1979 Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Trust (UK) Scholarship, the 1992-’93 European Commission (EC) Senior Faculty Exchange Fellowship and, IIT-Bombay, on 13 March 2007, conferred the 2006 Professor HH Mathur Award for Excellence in Research in Applied Sciences in recognition of his outstanding work in the area of Mechanics of Composite Materials and Structures. He also received the Khosla National Award 2009 for his life time achievement in the field of engineering. Prof Kant has published more than 120 research papers in refereed journals and about 140 in conference proceedings in diverse areas of computational structural mechanics. He has supervised 24 PhD theses and over 68 MTech dissertations. He has Research & Citation Standing in terms of H-factor of 18 on Web of Science. (esd)
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is Director of Research at School of Engineering and Digital Arts, University of Kent, UK. His research interest includes: On-line measurement of flow rate and size distribution of pulverized fuel; Advanced monitoring and characterization of combustion flames using digital image and signal processing techniques; Particle characterization of food grains using digital imaging & image processing techniques; and, Characterization and evaluation of fuel spray processes in internal combustion engines. He has been awarded more than 25 research grants with a total cash value of around £3.5million as a principle investigator since 1995. Dr Yang has in excess of 250 research papers including more than 20 papers in IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement. (esa)
Dr. Ali Keshavarzi
is associated with Laboratory of Remote Sensing & GIS, Department of Soil Science Engineering, University of Tehran, Iran. His area of interest includes Application of fuzzy set, fuzzy logic and fuzzy expert systems in soil science, Application of Artificial Neural Networks in soil science, Data Mining, Continuous classification in soil survey, Evaluation of land resources, Geostatistics and spatial variability, Landscape Modeling, Pedometrics and Geo?mathematical, GIS and Remote Sensing.
Dr. Chaoqun Liu
has obtained Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado and has done M.S. in Computational Fluid Dynamics, Tsinghua University, B.S. in Fluid Mechanics, Tsinghua University. At present he is Professor, Department of Mathematics in University of Texas and Director of Center for Numerical Simulation and Modeling, College of Science, University of Texas. His areas of interest are Numerical Analysis, Multigrid, Multilevel Adaptive Methods, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Direct Numerical Simulation, Large Eddy Simulation, Flow Transition and Turbulence, Shock and Boundary Layer Interaction Control, High-order Numerical Scheme, Numerical Combustion, Software Development.
Dr. Chutisant Kerdvibulvech
is Head, Department of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Rangsit University, International College, Thailand. His research interest includes the fundamentals of computer vision and its application, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Human–Computer Interaction, Image Processing, Pattern Recognition. Recently, he is focusing on applying computer vision technology to virtual reality and augmented reality. He has published several refereed international journal papers, and delivered his talks at various international conferences (IEEE, LNCS and ACM) in many places in North America, South America, Europe and Asia. He has been interviewed to appear on Discovery Channel TV Program worldwide in the topic of augmented reality research.
Dr. Gheorghe Grigoras
is Senior Lecturer Power System Department, Electrical Engineering Faculty, "Gheorghe Asachi" Technical University of Iasi, Romania. He has published over 10 books and 150 papers in various aspects of power systems. His research interests include especially Artificial Intelligence’s applications to monitoring and optimal control of power systems.
Dr. Heikki Martikka
Professor Emeritus D.Sc.(Tech.) is CEO Himtech Oy, Ollintie 4,Joutseno, Finland. He is Master of Science in Physical Metallurgy from Helsinki University of Technology and Doctor of Technology from Tampere University of Technology with thesis “Application of Statistical Models to Cyclic Work Hardening”. He is Professor Emeritus (Design of Machine Elements) from Lappeenranta University of Technology. His present activities are consulting engineering and research work for industry, organisation of industrial projects and cooperative participation in ecodesign –ecoenergy engineering projects and inventing. He is also second lieutenant from the Finnish Defence Forces, Artillery.
Dr. Ke Xiong
has received Ph D from Institute of Information Science, Beijing Jiaotong University. Presently pursueing post doctorate from Wireless Information System Theory Laboratory , Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University Beijing, P.R.China. His research Interest include Network Information Theory, network coding, wireless relay networks, beyond 3G & 4G networks; next generation networks, multimedia communications etc
Dr. Ke-Lin Du
is research scientist at Centre for Signal Processing and Communications, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Concordia University, Canada. His research interests include Signal processing for wireless communications (e.g. beamforming, direction-finding, multiuser detection, equalization, CDMA, OFDM, MIMO, UWB, cognitive radios, wireless sensor networks ) Wireless communication systems (e.g. 3G, 4G) RF and microwave systems, antennas Softcomputing including neural networks, evolutionary algorithms, fuzzy logics Pattern Recognition (e.g. biometric recognition such as face or fingerprint recognition) General signal processing (e.g. digital filtering, speech, image, and vedio coding) intelligent transportation systems, smart grids, intelligent healthcare, Wireless sensor networks. Currently, he is an affiliate associate professor at Concordia University, and the chief scientist at Enjoyor Labs in China. He is also a Senior Member of the IEEE.
Dr. Leonid Perlovsky
is a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University Athinoula Martinos Brain Imaging Center, Principal Research Physicist and Technical Advisor at the Air Force Research Laboratory, WPAFB. He leads research projects on artificial intelligence, mathematical models of the mind, cognition and language, emotions and language, cognitive functions of the beautiful, sublime, and music, cognitive algorithms, dynamic logic, evolution of languages and cultures, neural networks. As Chief Scientist at Nichols Research, a $500mm high-tech organization, he led the corporate research in intelligent systems. He served as professor at Novosibirsk University and New York University; as a principal in commercial startups developing tools for biotechnology, text understanding, and financial predictions. He is invited as a keynote plenary speaker and tutorial lecturer worldwide at most prestigious venues including Nobel Forum Stockholm, published more than 430 papers, 12 book chapters, and 4 books, including “Neural Networks and Intellect,” Oxford University Press, 2001 (currently in the 3rd printing), awarded 2 patents. Dr. Perlovsky participates in organizing conferences on Computational Intelligence, Chairs the IEEE Boston Computational Intelligence Chapter; Co-Chairs the IEEE Technical Committee on Neural Networks, Chairs the IEEE Task Force on The Mind and Brain, serves on the International Neural Network Society (INNS) Board of Governors, where he Chairs The Award Committee. He serves on the Editorial Board of eleven professional journals, including Editor-in-Chief for “Physics of Life Reviews,” founded by Nobel Laureate I. Prigogine. He received National and International awards including the Best Paper Award 2001 from Zvezda, a leading Russian essayistic magazine; the Gabor Award 2007, the top engineering award from the INNS; and the John McLucas Award 2007, the highest US Air Force Award for basic research. His research interest include artificial intelligence, human-computer interface, mathematical models of the mind, cognition and language, emotions and language, cognitive functions of the beautiful, sublime, and music, cognitive algorithms, dynamic logic, evolution of languages and cultures, and neural networks.
Dr. Mohammed Issam Younis Al-Khiro
is a senior lecturer at the Computer Engineering Department , College of Engineering, University of Baghdad. He was also associated with various Academic institutes and companies in past years. He obtained his Doctorate in Computer Engineering from Universiti Sains Malaysia. He had done the M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Computer Engineering from University of Baghdad. His research interests are: Distributed System and Parallel Processing, Information Security and Cryptography, Digital Signature and non-repudiation Protocols, Algorithm Design and Combinatorial Explosion Solving, Computer Networking, Software Engineering, Software Testing and Automation, Object Oriented Analysis and Design, Wireless and RFID Protocols, Computer Architecture, Web and Mobile Applications. He has various publications as books, thesis, journals, Invited IEEE Tutorials.He is associated with various committee like: Iraqi Union of Engineers, Cisco Networking Academy, Software Engineering Research Groups, AIDL Research Groups. And also honored by different Awards, Medals, Patents, and Grants.
Dr. Mohsen Taherbaneh
is PhD in Electronic Engineering, working at Iranian Research Organization for Science and Technology (IROST), Electrical and Information Technology Department, Tehran. He has got professional experience in various research and academic organizations. His research interest includes Power Electronic & Switch Mode Power Supply (SMPS), Renewable Energy Research, Photovoltaic System, Space Research, Simulation and Modelling of Dynamic Behaviours of Power Sources. He is recipient of several awards and has published/ presented various papers.
Dr. Raja Rizwan Hussain
is working as Assistant Professor at CoE-CRT, Department of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia. He received his Ph.D and M.Sc in Civil Engineering from the University of Tokyo, Japan for which he was ranked outstanding and was awarded best research thesis medal and prize from the University of Tokyo. He also completed his Ph.D in a record short period of just 2 years. He has authored around 100 publications in the last 5 years of his research tenure and has received several awards, prizes and distinctions throughout his research and academic career. His research interest is in the corrosion of steel reinforced concrete.
Dr. Ramin Kazemi
is an Assistant Professor of Statistics, Department of Statistics, Imam Khomeini International University, Qazvin, Iran. His research interest include: Stochastic processes, Analysis of algorithms and random trees (with combinatorial approach)
Dr. Sandeep Kumar Bahuguna
is head Department of Mathematics, Government P.G. Degree College, New Tehri, Uttarakhand, India. His Fields of specialization involve Multi-Scale Differential Geometry & Tensor Analysis, Non- negative matrix and tensor factorization, Computer Algebraic system (e.g., MATLAB and MAPLE) programming for tensor factorization.
Dr. Sikha Saha Bagui
is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of West Florida, Pensacola, Florida, USA. Dr. Bagui’s primary research areas are database design, web databases, data mining and statistical computing. Dr. Bagui has published many journal articles and co-authored several books.
Dr. STOICUTA OLIMPIU COSTINEL
is Assistant Professor; Department of Automation, Applied Informatics and Computer of the University of Petrosani, Romania. His research interest include Sensorless vector control of electrical drives, Systems identification, Design methods for control systems, Nonlinear system theory and Signal processing.
Dr. T.S.N. SANKARA NARAYANAN
is a Research Professor in the School of Dentistry, Chonbuk National University, Jeonju, South Korea. He was a senior Scientist, CSIR ? National Metallurgical Laboratory, Chennai, India from 1998-2012. He has also served Baylor University, Waco, Texas, USA, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea and Institute of Ocean Management, Anna University, Chennai, India. His research interest includes Surface Engineering, Biomaterials, Corrosion, Tribology Tribocorrosion, Nanomaterials, etc.
Dr. Yoo-Jae Kim
is Assistant Professor of Engineering Technology at Texas State University-San Marcos, obtained his M.S. in Construction Management from Washington University in 1998 and his Ph.D. in Structural Engineering from Washington University in 2004. Dr. Kim has extensive experience in structural design and consulting. His research interests include FRP materials, constitutive modeling of concrete materials with emphasis on failure and post failure behavior, high strength and fiber reinforced concretes, seismic retrofit of steel, concrete structures, and earthquake resistance of new structures.
Dr. Živko Bojovic
PhD in Telecommunications. Graduated at the Faculty of Technical Sciences in Novi Sad, Republic of Serbia. He has wide working experience in computer networking & communications and issued collaborated on a number of research publications. Currently he is working with Telecommunications Company Telekom Srbija a.d.
Dr.Mohd. Hudzari Bin Haji Razali
is associated with Faculty of Agrotechnology and Plantation, Universiti Teknologi MARA (Melaka) Kampus Jasin, 77300 Merlimau, Melaka Bandaraya Bersejarah, Malaysia. He is specialized in Agriculture Automation and Farm Mechanization. He has got various scientific publications in his credit. He received various national grants from Malaysian government for pursuing agriculture technology research and actively involved as editorial board membership in international journal of scientific research publications. .
Giovanni Leonardi
holds a Degree in Civil Engineering (magna cum laude), and PhD in Transports Engineering, is Associated Professor with The Department of Transport (DIMET) of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Reggio Calabria. He is SIIV (Italian Society of Transport Infrastructures) and AIPCR (World Road Association) Member. He is author and co-author of many scientific papers relative to Environment impact assessment, road, railways and airport materials, quality of road materials issues, transport safety, studies of Environmental impact and processes of project optimization, railways knots, minor concrete constructions for road infrastructures, road maintenance and rehabilitation.
Ms Farzaneh Pakzad
is Faculty Member, Department of computer, Institute of Higher Education, Naghsh-e-Jahan,Isfahan, Iran. Her area of interest include Intrusion Detection in wireless Network, Wireless Communication, Cellular wireless networks, Congestion control in wireless networks, Routing in wireless networks, Network Security, Network Architectures etc.
Prof Shubhamoy Dey
has been a faculty in the Information Systems area of IIM Indore since 2002. He has obtained his PhD in Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in Databases from the School of Computing, University of Leeds, UK. He holds Master of Technology and Bachelor of Engineering degrees from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and Jadavpur University, Calcutta respectively. Prof Dey's research interests are Data mining and knowledge discovery in databases, Spatial databases, Data warehousing g, Decision Support Systems, Credit Scoring, Credit Risk Modeling and other aspects of Computational Finance. He has published research papers in various national and international forums on Data mining, Spatial data mining and Computational finance. Prof Dey carries with him rich industry experience from Hindustan Cables, Wipro Information Technology, CMC Ltd, BRI (Europe), British American Consulting Group and Halifax Bank of Scotland (UK). He has worked over 4 years in the Information Technology industry in India, and 10 years in UK and USA. He was in the faculty of the School of Computing, University of Leeds during 1999-2000. Since 1997, he has been running his own software company (registered in England & Wales) in UK and have been providing his services as an Independent Information Technology consultant to major commercial organizations in UK. His consultancy clients include: Paradeep Port Trust, Berger Paints, Indian Oil Corporation, Government of Bihar, Government of Madhya Pradesh, State Bank of India, Eastern Coalfields and Department of Electronics (Govt. of India) in India; London Underground, The British Library, Fujitsu-ICL (UK), Manufacturing Science & Finance, Barretts Group Plc., Kingston Communications Group Plc., Cerillion Technologies and Barclays Bank Plc. in UK; Savon Drugs Inc., American Stores Corporation and ALH Group Inc. in USA. He represented India in an international E-Governance Study Mission to South Korea and Japan organized by the Asian Productivity O rganization, Tokyo in 2005. (ealg)
Prof. (Dr.) Usha Sandeep Mehta
is Sr. Associate Professor at PG VLSI design, EC Dept. Nirma University. She did her Ph. D. in “Testing of VLSI Design” and M. Tech. in “VLSI Design” area. She has written one book with title “Code based Test Data Compression for SoC Testing” and published more than 60 research papers in various highly sited international/national journals and conferences. She is the conference chair of 3rd Nirma University International Conference on Engineering (NUiCONE-2012) which is being organized in collaboration with IEEE and Science Direct. She has also worked as Conference Co-chair for the 2nd International Conference on Current Trends in Technology NUiCONE-2011 supported by IEEE. She was nominated for the Shayesta Akhatar Memorial National Award for Best Woman Engineering College Teacher for year 2010. She was the Session Chair at IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Circuit and Systems (APCCAS- 2010) at Kuala-Lumpur- Malaysia, Program Committee Member at The International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Communication Networks(CICN-2011), Gwalior-India, Program Committee Member of World Congress of Information and Communication Technologies (WICT-2012 & WICT-2011). She is also reviewer for many national and international conferences and books and organized ISTE approved, self financed Short Term training Programs and Workshops. She is having Membership of various organization like IEEE, ISTE, VSI, CSI, IETE and IEI (Applied for Membership) and her variety of Articles printed in various technical and non-technical magazines.
Stefanos Vrochidis
received the Diploma degree in Electronic Engineering from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece and the MSc in Radio Frequency Communication Systems from the Department of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK. Currently he is a Ph.D. Candidate at the Electronic Engineering Department of Queen Mary University of London and a Researcher at the Informatics and Telematics Institute / Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (ITI/CERTH). His scientific interests include image and video semantic analysis, content-based multimedia retrieval, search engines, human-computer interaction, patent search and environmental applications. Website link: http://mklab.iti.gr/mklab_people/stefanos/
Ernest Ekow Abano
is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Agricultural Engineering, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana. He has obtained Ph.D in Food Science and Engineering from Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, China. Dr Abano is a Cambridge commonwealth scholar and has obtained MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development from University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, UK. He holds a BSc in Agricultural Engineering from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology, Kumasi, Ghana. His research interest areas are Microwave-vacuum and infrared drying of agricultural products, ultrasonic-assisted drying of roots and tubers, fruits and vegetables, drying of medicinal plants, assessing the sustainability of agricultural engineering designs and systems, designing appropriate technology for the roots tubers, fruits, and vegetables. Dr Abano has published more than twenty peer-reviewed research articles with 5 of them indexed by Science Citation Index and most of them listed in SCOPUS.
Jerekias Gandure
is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Botswana. He holds a B. Eng. and M. Eng. in Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, and is a PhD candidate under examination. He has more than 10 years of industrial experience and 6 years in academia. His research interests are in biofuels, bioenergy and manufacturing systems. He has more than 30 publications in international journals and conferences, and he is a reviewer and editorial board member of several international journals and conferences.
Sylejman Hyseni
obtained his PhD and is a Mining geologist at Trepça mines – Mine with flotation Kizhnica and Artana. He was also Professor of Geology at University of Prishtina and later on at University of Mitrovica. He has got experience of more than 30 years in University of Prishtina and with abroad companies like ITT Kosova Consortium LTD, CSA-Ireland, TEC-Ingenierie-Franceand, Geological Consultant England & Canada, Mutafcic Dragon Tureky etc. He is member of Society of Economic Geologists - SEG (from 2003 onwards). He has written over 70 scientific publications in local and international magazines in the field of ore deposits geology (metallic and nonmetallic mineral deposit) and is author of two books.
Freddy Humberto Escobar Macualo
completed his B.S. studies in Universidad de América (Bogotá-Colombia, 1989). He also received a master degree diploma focused on reservoir simulation from the University of Oklahoma in 1995 and a doctoral degree with emphasis in transient pressure analysis, from the same school in year 2002. All his degrees are in Petroleum Engineering. Dr. Escobar is a full-time professor (highest level – Titular) in the Department of Petroleum Engineering in Universidad Surcolombiana (Neiva-Colombia). He is also the director of a research group in transient pressure analysis, GIPP, with category A in Colciencias category. GIPP has received research funding for near US$2.4 million dollars. Dr. Escobar was in charge of the Vice Presidency for Research and Social Development of Universidad Surcolombiana, USCO. In that position he acted as Interim President during 23 times. He also held the position of Advisor for Engineering and Special Projects for the firm Hydrocarbon Services Ltd. and in charge of Well test, PLT and ILT Interpretation and Training Programs in Colregistros S.A. Since August 2011, Dr. Escobar works for Petrogroup – Training and Consulting Company as specialized consultant where he has mainly worked for CEDEX (Decision Exploration Center) of Ecopetrol. Dr. Escobar is Peer Reviewer for various journals of repute. He has supervised 56 B.S. theses degree and four M.S. Theses degree. He has authored and coauthored 60 papers which are indexed in the Colciencias ranking, 25 SPE papers, 27 articles in several Colombian journals, 3 articles in the Colombian Petroleum Conferences, two chapters in books and three research books and three textbooks. He also possesses an H-5 index in the Scopus database. He is also the Faculty Sponsor SPE student Chapter Universidad Surcolombiana since March 2003 and also he serves as member of the SPE Formation Evaluation Award Committee from Sep. 2013-Sep. 2016. He has recently developed a new technologic product which looks for reducing economic losses caused by closing the well for the determination of the average reservoir pressure. Dr. Escobar is a national peer review of Colciencias and CNA (Nacional Council for Accreditation. He was classified as Associate Senior according to Colciencias’ classification. Dr. Escobar has made several important contributions to the field of reservoir engineering. Since the beginning of 2007, Dr. Escobar is an internationally certified instructor of Schlumberger-NExT.
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is Principal, L. N. College of Technology and Science, Bhopal, India. He has obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering and law, Master’s degree in Environment Engineering and Ph D in Civil Engineering. Dr. Nigam has experience of more than 20 years in Academics, Research and Consultancy & Engineering Design. He has also worked as Environmental Expert in World Bank and Asian Development Bank Funded projects. His research concern includes modeling and simulation studies, system design and evaluation studies using Artificial Neural Network and Time Series Modeling. His academic interest includes subjects of Environmental and Water Resource Engineering, Meteorology, and Highway Design environmental studies developments in environment engineering which includes Carbon Monoxide Modeling Studies, Rainfall Runoff Process Modeling etc. He has published many research papers in various international journal of repute.
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Ashish Runthala is Lecturer, Department of Biological Sciences, Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS) Pilani, Rajasthan, India. His research interest includes Protein Structure and Conformational Details, Protein Structure Prediction, Biomolecular Structural Assessment, Bioinformatics, and Structural Proteomics. Primarily, he is interested in the knowledge based refinement of existing protein structure algorithms, to model protein sequences through promising scaffolds of reliable known conformations.
Dr. Fereshte Haghighi Fashi
has obtained Ph. D. in Soil Physics and Conservation, Faculty of Agricultural Engineering & Technology, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran. Presently she is Research Scholar in University of Tehran. Her areas of research interest are Soil physics, Soil Hydraulic, Soil and water conservation, Soil management, Hydrology, Water management etc. She has contributed book chapters and published various research papers in journal of repute.
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Union Report
Antonucci: One year later, it’s clear — the Janus effect is not yet what either side had hoped for, or feared
Mike Antonucci | June 25, 2019
Mike Antonucci’s Union Report appears weekly at LA School Report.
In June 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that public-sector unions could no longer charge representation fees to nonmembers. The decision in Janus v. AFSCME was expected to have an immediate explosive effect. Unions had argued before the court that the loss of fees would be devastating, and in her dissent, Justice Elena Kagan warned that the majority’s ruling “wreaks havoc on entrenched legislative and contractual arrangements.”
Much of the press followed suit, with headlines such as “Why ‘Janus’ Figures to Juice Income Inequality in America” and “SCOTUS Ruling For Janus v. AFSCME Crumbles Labor Unions.”
It’s now a year later, and the apocalyptic predictions have not come to pass, leading the press to swing uncontrollably in the opposite direction, with headlines such as “1 year after Janus, unions are flush” and “So much for the labor movement’s funeral.”
The immediate effect of the Janus decision was to free fee-payers. Those who were previously compelled to pay upward of 70 percent of full dues now paid nothing. Nor did they have to do anything at all to achieve this new status. To comply with the ruling, school districts stopped extracting the fees from teachers’ paychecks.
Members, on the other hand, first had to become nonmembers, which meant resigning from the union. Unions established windows and spelled out procedures for doing so. Some are onerous, others not so much, but all of them are more difficult than the procedure for joining.
The membership figures from the California Teachers Association support what a level-headed pre-Janus forecast would have told us.
According to internal documents, on Dec. 31, 2017, the union had 325,812 members and 28,459 fee-payers working in California’s public schools and universities.
On Dec. 31, 2018, there were 328,913 members — an increase of 3,101, or just under 1 percent. But the fee-payers were gone.
The union has had comparable membership increases every year since 2011-12. The lack of effect on membership coupled with the sizable loss of fee-payers suggest nothing about the relative merits of the Janus case or the ideological composition of California’s teaching corps. Instead, they confirm human nature for us.
Most teachers did nothing.
For a member, doing nothing resulted in remaining in the union. For a fee-payer, doing nothing resulted in becoming a non-paying nonmember.
Will such inaction continue? Yes, to an extent. Current members are unlikely to resign in any great numbers. Over time, however, they will retire. The burden will be on the unions to recruit new members in the same percentages as they enjoyed pre-Janus. The lesson of the Michigan Education Association is instructive.
Representation fees were eliminated in Michigan in March 2013. That October, the union’s president, Steven Cook, went on television to boast of successful retention efforts. “We lost 1 percent,” he said.
In subsequent years, he continued to downplay the effects of the state law. But eventually, he stopped. With representation fees in place in 2012, his union had 117,265 members working in the state’s public schools. By the end of August 2018, it had 84,872 — a loss of almost 28 percent.
We can expect that some state unions will see similar declines, others not as much. The key takeaway is that the loss of representation fees is indisputably a net negative for teachers unions, but not cataclysmic. A union operating at three-quarters of its former capacity can still be formidable, both at the statehouse and the bargaining table.
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Francisco Bravo Medical Magnet
Keith Abrahams
King Drew
Magnet schools: The answer to LAUSD’s enrollment problem?
Craig Clough | March 15, 2016
LA Unified has so many different kinds of schools, it’s hard to keep them all straight. With such varied terms as affiliated charter, independent charter, magnet school, pilot school, continuation school, option school and others, it can be a challenge to understand what they are, what they offer and how they differ.
This is the first part of an LA School Report series taking an in-depth look at the different categories of schools that exist within the massive LA Unified school district.
Today we examine magnets schools.
(Read more about magnets and their expansion in our series, including profiles of Bravo and King/Drew medical magnets.)
(Read our series on affiliated charter schools.)
LA Unified’s former and current superintendents and several school board members have all recently made laudatory statements about the district’s magnet schools, touting their performance and highlighting their importance to the future of the district.
“If the word is not out, it needs to get out: Our magnet schools are tremendous,” Superintendent Michelle King said at a January school board committee meeting.
Why the urgency with the pro-magnet talk? What exactly are magnets anyway, and what makes them so great in the eyes of LA Unified’s leaders?
To help answer these questions, LA School Report visited two of the district’s top magnet schools and interviewed students, staff and Keith Abrahams, executive director of LA Unified’s Student Integration Services. (Look for coming profiles of Francisco Bravo Medical Magnet and King Drew Medical Magnet High of Medicine and Science.)
Perhaps the biggest reason for the increase in magnet chatter is the decade-long enrollment decline. District leaders see magnets as the best way to reverse it.
Numerous LA Unified officials started publicly touting magnets following the revelation in August of a plan by the Broad Foundation to expand charter schools in the district to include half of all its students within eight years. The news sent shockwaves through the district because of the significant financial threat to the district. Every time a student leaves a traditional district school for an independent charter, state and federal dollars leave too. LA Unified is facing giant budget deficits in the coming years because of the enrollment drain and other factors, including pension liabilities and recent increases in the size of the district staff.
The school board and the LA teachers union, UTLA, denounced the Broad plan as an attempt to bankrupt the district and wipe out the union. Then-Superintendent Ramon Cortines called it an “ill-advised” plan that could hurt not only education but the entire city.
Weeks after the Broad plan was revealed, Cortines released a report touting the performance of the district’s magnet schools compared to its independent charter schools on the statewide Smarter Balanced standardized tests. The magnet schools did better than the charters and the state average, Cortines pointed out.
“The performance of our magnets demonstrates how academic innovation can serve minority students and those from underserved communities who are seeking a nontraditional education,” Cortines wrote in a letter to the LA Unified school board.
Cortines’ pro-magnet statement was a direct response to the California Charter Schools Association, which had been calling attention to the fact that LA Unified’s charter schools had outperformed the traditional schools on the tests.
Cortines retired and was replaced in January by King, who continued calling attention to LA Unified’s magnets.
“The highest performing of the schools are our magnet schools, and they are outperforming charters. If we want to incubate what is working, we need to look at magnet schools,” she said at the January meeting of the board’s Committee of the Whole. The discussion had centered around the fact that magnets are not attracting as many federal dollars as charters.
At the same meeting, board member Monica Ratliff said, “We have some amazing magnet schools, maybe we need to do a better job at publicizing what a great job they are doing and replicate more of them.”
MAGNETS BY THE NUMBERS
About 67,000 of LA Unified’s roughly 650,000 students currently attend the district’s 210 magnet schools or centers, which are specialized schools with a particular academic focus, ranging from the arts to math to science.
In comparison, more than 101,000 students are enrolled at 221 independent charters, which are privately operated but publicly funded schools.
Fifty-five percent of LA Unified’s magnet students met or exceeded the standards in the 2015 Smarter Balanced English Language Arts test, compared to only 33 percent for the district, 39 percent for charters and 44 percent for the state. Forty-four percent of magnet students met or exceeded the math standards, compared to 25 percent for the district, 28 percent for charters and 33 percent for the state.
There are some demographic differences that don’t make for an apples-to-apples comparison with charters. Fifty-one percent of the students at magnets qualify for free and reduced-price meals, compared with 83 percent at independent charters and 77 percent for the district overall. Magnets also have a higher percentage of white and Asian students than independent charters and the district overall. Statewide, as well as within the district, Asian and white students and students that are not from economically disadvantaged households scored significantly higher on the tests.
But there are plenty of magnets with higher levels of poverty than the district and state average that also have high-performing students. Two that LA School Report will be profiling, Francisco Bravo Medical Magnet and King Drew Medical Magnet High of Medicine and Science, have high levels of poverty — 82 percent and 89 percent, respectively — yet have distinguished themselves among the very top schools the district has to offer.
A recent district report showed that of the top five schools in projected “A though G” completion this year — a key series of courses required for graduation — all were magnets, including Bravo and King Drew.
Of course, “Not all magnet schools are successful,” Abrahams said, and converting a school into a magnet is far from a silver bullet solution. At Crenshaw High School, the district converted the perennially low-performing school into a STEM magnet in 2013 while reconstituting it and firing its entire staff. The school still struggles three years later, with test scores and projected graduation rates below the district averages.
WHAT IS AN LAUSD MAGNET SCHOOL?
Some magnets are full schools with their own campus, and some are a school-within-a-school. The magnets are open to all students living within the district, and it is typical that at least 50 percent of the student body of a magnet comes from outside the neighborhood — hence “magnet,” as it pulls students in from further away.
Acceptance at a magnet is based on a point system that includes consideration of race, as the magnets were originally created in the late 1970s and early ’80s to help integration efforts. There are other factors also, such as if the student’s home school is overcrowded.
In 1970, Judge Alfred Gitelson of Los Angeles Superior Court ruled that LA Unified operated segregated schools and ordered the district to integrate them. The ruling was upheld by the California Supreme Court in 1976, and in 1981 the district implemented a master plan to desegregate its schools, with magnets being a key component of the plan. LA Unified had already begun opening a few magnets as early as 1978. The concept of magnets first sprang up around the country in the 1960s as a way to promote desegregation, according to the Magnet Schools of America.
Cadets at Reseda High’s Police Academy Magnet. (Credit: LAUSD)
The person most credited with creating LA Unified’s magnets is the late Theodore Alexander, Abrahams said. Alexander, who died in 2004, worked for decades as a district administrator, co-authored the integration master plan and was the first head of the magnet program. The district even has a school named after him, the Dr. Theodore T. Alexander Science Center School.
“Ted Alexander was one of the unsung giants of this community,” Mark Rosenbaum, director of Public Counsel Opportunity Under Law, told the Los Angeles Times in 2004 after Alexander’s death. “He had an abiding faith in the ability of every child to succeed and a fierce determination to provide equal opportunity education for children of all races.”
Magnet schools are open to any student that lives within the district, and the district generally offers free busing to elementary students who live more than two miles from their magnet school and to high school students who live more than five miles from their school. Busing is not always guaranteed, but the district works to accommodate as many students as possible within its budget, Abrahams said.
In 1981, the district had a much different racial profile than it does today. Only 45.3 percent of the students were Latino, while today Latinos make up 74 percent. There have been significant shifts in other races as well, with the African American population falling from 23.3 percent in 1981 to 8.4 percent today, whites from 23.7 percent to 9.8 percent, and Asians from 7.3 percent to 6 percent.
Racial quotas are written into the guidelines for the enrollment policies of magnets, and most magnets are required to give 30 percent of their seats to white students (40 percent for some) and the rest to students of other races. However, with the number of white students having plummeted over the decades, many magnets often do not come anywhere close to achieving this balance due to not enough white students applying for the schools. For example, at King Drew, there were only nine white students out of 1,564 during the 2014-15 school year.
Despite the radical demographic shifts since 1981, the California Supreme Court ruling that helped create magnets has been upheld in court several times, and the district still operates under the ruling.
MAGNET GROWTH
Magnets have grown steadily over the years. In 1981, the district had about 70 of them, while today there are 210 programs. Some magnet programs have four-digit waiting lists, Abrahams said, and over the past two years enrollment at magnet schools has grown by 7,000.
In 2014-15, the district had 34 full magnet schools and 41 magnet centers for gifted and talented students (GATE), which require certain academic criteria for entry. The district will be adding 14 new magnet programs for the 2016-17 school year, and there are plans for more new magnet programs beyond 2016-17, but they have yet to be voted on by the school board, Abrahams said.
There is now a magnet school for about every category of academic interest. Besides the medical magnets, there are ones dedicated to the arts, STEM, journalism, public service and business. There are also specialized magnets, like North Hollywood High’s Zoo Magnet, where students take classes at the Los Angeles Zoo, or the Reseda High Police Academy Magnet for students interested in a career in law enforcement. The district is even considering building a new magnet school in the San Fernando Valley for students with autism.
WHY MAGNETS SUCCEED
Why do magnet students do so well compared to their district peers? The reasons vary, Abrahams said.
“There are a lot of different levels to lead you to answering that question,” Abrahams said. “One can be the teachers, when they are hired, then they are committed to this kind of education. The students are interested in the particular theme, and when they are interested in that particular theme, then there is a good chance they are going to retain the information and grow academically. And then, the magnet office, we have high academic and emotional standards.”
Other districts and organizations around the country are taking notice of the success LA Unified’s magnets have achieved. For one, Daniel Jocz, a teacher at Downtown Magnets High School, is a finalist for the 2016 National Teacher of the Year award. Magnet Schools of America, an organization that advocates for over 4,000 magnets nationwide, has tapped LA Unified to host its 2017 national convention because it was impressed with the district’s magnets, Abrahams said. The organization also recently honored eight LAUSD magnets for their exceptional merit and innovation.
“Merit awards are given to our highest quality theme-based schools and programs. They are models of success and represent the best in public education,” Todd Mann, executive director of Magnet Schools of America, said in a statement. “It is a great way for our association to acknowledge the creativity, passion and dedication of so many people.”
Abrahams, who has been in his role for about a year and a half, said new efforts are underway to try and take what is working at the magnets and spread it around to the more traditional schools.
“On a macro level, we are just now starting that conversation,” Abrahams said. “We had a few years where there was no [standardized test] data, and now that we have proof, for lack of a better word, that magnets are successful, we can now assist other non-magnet schools. That’s kind of where we are right now, and that’s something I’ve wanted to do since I got into this position, because I saw great things happening at these schools. And now we are looking at how can we assist other non-magnet schools.”
As far as the suggestion by school board members, King and Cortines that magnets could help increase enrollment and draw students back into the district, Abrahams said that isn’t his concern.
“Whether LAUSD wants to use this as a strategy to increase enrollment, that’s them. What I am focused on is providing as many quality seats as possible for our students in Los Angeles,” Abrahams said.
*This story has been updated to reflect that the Dr. Theodore T. Alexander Science Center School is not a magnet school.
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New poll finds teachers are unlikely to recommend their profession and are disillusioned with parents and school boards
Kevin Mahnken | December 4, 2018
Mark Linney, a teacher from Ardmore, Oklahoma, protests at the state capitol in April. (Photo: J Pat Carter/AFP/Getty Images)
American teachers are less enthused about their jobs than are local politicians or active-duty military personnel, according to the 2018 EdChoice Schooling in America Survey. After a year that saw educators revolt over low pay, and teachers unions seriously weakened by a landmark Supreme Court decision, the survey also found the profession disillusioned with parents and school boards.
This is the sixth edition of the annual poll, which measures public attitudes on schooling options, school quality, and state and federal education policy. EdChoice, an Indianapolis-based research and advocacy group, tends to favor school choice options such as private school vouchers or education savings accounts.
The poll’s 2018 iteration is the first to include the voices of teachers. Survey administrators conducted online interviews with 777 traditional public school teachers (i.e., active instructors working exclusively in district schools, not charters) about their feelings toward the job, this year’s wave of mass walkouts, and their level of trust in key figures in public schooling.
The results were bracing. Overall, teachers were unlikely to recommend teaching as a profession.
To rate job satisfaction, EdChoice relied on a metric called Net Promoter Score, a calculation designed to measure how likely a customer would be to continue to buy a given product and urge others to do so. On a 10-point scale, respondents who rate themselves a nine or a 10 are considered “promoters,” who will loyally stump for a product or service; those who rate a seven or eight are so-called “passives,” who could be lured away by a competitor; and anyone rated six or below are “detractors,” unhappy consumers who pose an active threat to the brand through bad word-of-mouth.
When asked by EdChoice whether they would recommend teaching in a public school to a friend, a full 74 percent of respondents were measured as either passives or detractors. The median score for teachers was just a 6.49 — much lower than comparable ratings for state legislators (8.19) or military service members (8.41). The survey authors wrote that they were “shocked” by the level of dissatisfaction.
Additionally, few teachers said they placed much trust in education stakeholders outside their building. While a majority of teachers said they had “complete” or “a lot of” trust in their principal (57 percent) or their students (52 percent), less than half said the same of their union leadership (46 percent) or their district superintendent (41 percent). Parents only won a great deal of trust from 36 percent of teachers, while state and federal education authorities were both mired beneath the 30 percent mark.
Other noteworthy findings from the survey:
• Fifty-five percent of the general public — a selection of 1,002 respondents independent from the teacher sample — said that public education in the United States was headed on the “wrong track,” the same percentage as in last year’s survey. Thirty-five percent said the opposite, an eight-point increase since 2007.
• Many parents report making considerable sacrifices for the sake of their children’s education. Some 40 percent reported taking on an additional job to support their kids’ schooling needs, nearly twice as many as when EdChoice asked the same question in 2016. Thirty percent said they had changed their jobs, while 29 percent said they had moved closer to their kids’ school.
• Even as many expressed pessimism with America’s education system overall, most parents said they were satisfied with their own children’s schools. Eighty-six percent of homeschool parents, 79 percent of private school parents, 78 percent of charter parents, and 66 percent of district school parents said they were satisfied with their schools.
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CLINICAL CONTRIBUTIONS.
BY D. F. WELLS, M. D., BROOKLYN, N. Y.
Case I. A girl, 19 years old, had had constant pain in the loins, since she first menstruated, i. e., for about four years, as if the back were broken. The menstruation had always been retarded, often as much as seven days, but was not abnormal either in quantity or quality. The mother of this patient was similarly affected previous to her marriage, and not after. This case reminded the attendant of symptoms developed in a patient by massive doses of Camphor, which he had opportunity to observe while in attendance on the clinics of one of his professors. She had similar pains and similar delay of menstruation, after taking a series of such doses of the drug as the professor was accustomed to administer to his patients. A note was made of the fact at the time, and now no remedy seeming more like the symptoms of his case than this remembrance of the effects of Camphor, he gave six pellets of Camphor20 in half a tumbler of water, a teaspoonful to be taken every six hours. The pains ceased in twenty-four hours. They returned after wetting the feet, and were again removed and permanently by a similar medication.
The pathogenesis of Camphor in our Materia Medica gives no such symptoms either of the back or of the menstruation. It is wanting entirely in symptoms of the female sexual functions, and also of symptoms affecting the back below the shoulder blades. The above noted observation, and its repeated clinical confirmation, is confidently given as a contribution to the confessedly imperfect proving of this drug.
Case II. A soldier of the 69th New York Volunteers, at the battle of Antietam, was struck by a musket ball just below and close to the os pubis, and close to and outside of the spot over the exit of the femoral artery from the abdomen. The exit of the ball was posteriorly on the same side, one and a half inches, from the mesial line, and two inches above the lower end of the coccyx. The external openings were healed at the expiration of six weeks. The wound was attended, in the first instance, by copious hemorrhage from the anterior orifice, and later by gatherings of blood as if in a pouch near this orifice, which were discharged when making efforts to remove a wounded comrade from the field. He was much exposed, after his wound, on the field, for two days and nights before he was removed, and from want of clothing, during his convalescence, and got, after the healing of the external openings, pains extending from cicatrix to cicatrix, through the thigh and pelvis, which were burning as if made by a hot iron; and sharp shootings from the anterior cicatrix to the knee. The pains were worse on change of weather and especially on the approach of a storm. He had nightly dreams of his companions lost in battle, and of being in battles, cheering those who were wounded; he stormed batteries with loud calling to those engaged. After he had so far recovered as to be able to walk, he would at times find the knee-joint of the affected side suddenly give way and let him down. This was of frequent occurrence, the loss of power being only for a few minutes each time. It was with the greatest difficulty that he could raise the limb of the wounded side so high as to step up an elevation of six inches.
After giving several remedies for the relief of these sufferings, and continuing their use for four weeks without success, the peculiarity of the pain, like the burning of an hot iron, suggested Urtica urens, of which he got six globules in half a tumbler of water, a teaspoonful every four hours. The relief of the pain was immediate, and he improved in his general condition for a week, when the approach of a storm renewed the pains. The Urtica was again repeated with similar relief. Two weeks after this, after long walking and getting wet, he had a second relapse, which the Urtica failed to relieve, and he got four globules of Sulph.“ The pains continued without abatement, for a week, when he got a third dose of Urtica, which was followed by complete and permanent relief of all his pains, and there only remained the sudden giving way of the knee-joint, and temporary loss of power in the limb. This was cured by two doses of Urtica given at intervals of four weeks. The cure is now complete, and he says he is ready to take the field again.
Case III. A woman, 54 years of age, tall, dark hair and. eyes, thin face, hollow eyes, anxious expression, movements sluggish, had been accustomed to take six and eight cups of strong coffee daily. She complains of pain as if a band were drawn around from above the eyes to the lower and back part of the head, worse in the middle of the day, with nausea and vomiting of her food immediately after eating; the nausea and vomiting were preceded by pressure in the stomach like a stone. Pain in the region of the spleen, which was dull, heavy and constant. Palpitation of the heart after exertion; cold perspiration, especially on the hands. Hunger accompanied by a sense of nausea before sitting down at the table, which hunger disappeared with the first mouthful of food taken. She got Nux vom.20 with partial and temporary relief of the nausea, and aggravation of the pain in the spleen. The whole picture of the case, on more careful consideration, appeared so like known effects of Tobacco, that there was no hesitation in giving this drug. She got six globules of Tobacco200 in half a tumbler of water, a teaspoonful night and morning. She returned in one week free from all her symptoms. The case was of five years standing. The above symptoms were obtained from habitual consumers of Tobacco, and not from our Materia Medica, into which it is believed they may safely be incorporated.
DOCUMENT DESCRIPTOR
The American Homoeopathic Review Vol. 03 No. 10, 1863, pages 462-464
Wells, D.F.
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MARK BOLTON is the Louisville Metro Corrections Director and has been employed in the Corrections field for 39 years. Mark is a graduate of Arizona State University with a B.S. Degree in Criminal Science and the U.S. Department of Justice Executive Management Program. He started his career as a corrections officer in 1979 with the Arizona Department of Corrections where he worked the next 15 years as a probation/parole officer, warden/ institution superintendent, central office administrator and Operations Director of Community Corrections. In 1992 Mark relocated to the Pacific Northwest where he spent 14 years as the Deputy Director of the jail systems in both Olympia and Seattle, Washington. It was also during this time Mark worked for a six-month period in Bagdad Iraq under a Department of Justice contract with the Iraqi National Prison System. Mark is on faculty at the University of Louisville, College of Justice Administration and was featured on PBS Front Line in 2014 and numerous other reform related documentaries where his position on criminal justice reform has been prominently displayed. Mark has been Director of the Louisville Metro Department of Corrections since 2008 where he also serves on numerous boards and policy level justice committees. Mark is also the father of two boys, Carson and Tyler, and he loves to fish and travel in his free time.
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Bob Keyes
Bob Keyes has written about the arts in Maine since 2002. He’s never been much an artist himself, other than singing in junior high school chorus and acting in a few musicals. But he’s attended museums, theaters, clubs and concert halls all his life, and cites Bob Dylan as most influential artist of any kind since Picasso. He lives in Berwick.
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Of Women by Women: 2 artists’ perspectives on women & self image at Elizabeth Moss Galleries
Written by: Bob Keyes
“Arena II,” by Veronica Cross.
Veronica Cross began her latest series of paintings by thinking about the political implications of the veil.
“The idea of covering with the veil is fascinating to me,” said Cross. “I have no perspective with it at all. I don’t have any family members who took the veil, and it’s not part of my culture. But I found it interesting as a formal idea. As someone is covered, they are also having attention drawn to them.”
Cross pursues her ideas in a two-person show at Elizabeth Moss Galleries in Falmouth, “Of Women by Women.” She is showing work with Lesia Sochor, who exhibits a series of what she calls “bodice” paintings that consist of thin layers of oils applied on pattern paper used in sewing and fashion design.
Together, both women tackle themes that relate to self image and how women are perceived and portrayed in culture.
Their joint exhibition is on view at the Falmouth gallery through Sept. 20.
Also on view at Elizabeth Moss is a group of realistic landscapes and seascapes by part-time Maine resident Nadia Klionsky. Her show is titled “Maine Realism” and depicts the majesty and mystery of Maine.
She is the daughter of Marc Klionsky, a Russian immigrant who painted in both the U.S. and Russia. In her statement, Nadia Klionsky said she was struck by “the remarkable similarity” between the Cathedral Woods of Maine’s Monhegan Island and the Russian countryside of her youth.
“Harpswell Sound,” by Nadia Klionsky.
Klionsky’s lush oil paintings are in the front gallery at Elizabeth Moss. “Of Women by Women” is in the gallery’s back room.
In an interview, Cross said she investigates how women present themselves and how they are framed in the media and often objectified in society at large.
Sochor’s paintings offer commentary on society’s obsession with style and trends and what Moss calls “the enormity of today’s garment industry.… It goes beyond a nod to the world of fashion and into self image and the symbols of women in society.”
Moss wasn’t planning to show the work of Cross and Sochor together, but it made sense after she looked at the work.
“Both are interested in the role of women in society, how that relates to clothing and how we present ourselves,” she said.
After the exhibition in Falmouth, Cross will show this work in New Orleans. She is part of post-Katrina biennial.
Cross lived in New Orleans while she was growing up and said she has always identified with the city and its culture. “New Orleans gave me a special world view, which is a desire for lushness,” she said. “I’m always looking for the flavor at the bottom of the pot.”
“MAINE REALISM” BY NADIA KLIONSKY,
“OF WOMEN BY WOMEN” BY LESIA SOCHOR AND VERONICA CROSS
WHEN: On view through Sept. 20; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday to Saturday
WHERE: Elizabeth Moss Galleries, 251 U.S. Route 1, Falmouth
HOW MUCH: Free
INFO: 781-2620 or elizabethmossgalleries.com
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Manhasset To Mattituck With Wine Making
Phil Corso
He proposed. She said yes. They made wine.
That was how start-up wine producer Maiden and Liberty introduced itself to the greater Long Island community since Manhasset couple James and Alexandra Medwick set up shop in a modest office on Main Street in Port Washington in February. Medwick, 32, who studied for years to become a lawyer, chose to give up his corporate attorney lifestyle for a less stable, but more tasteful, kind of future: making wine.
“I worked very long hours and did some very interesting work as an attorney,” he said. “But whenever I had downtime, I was passionate about wine.”
Medwick graduated with a master’s degree in philosophy from Columbia University before attending law school at New York University. He quickly found employment in corporate law, working on mergers and acquisitions at the Paul, Weiss law firm.
But it was a family trip to Italy when he was 18 years old that helped pique his interest while visiting some of the country’s finest wineries.
“That was when I got my first taste for it,” he said. “Seeing those beautiful vineyards—I thought this was how I’d love to retire. In the back of my head, the seed was planted.”
Throughout law school and his early professional life, Medwick said he would always play around with the idea of creating a small winery on Long Island. But it was joining forces with wife Alexandra that ultimately helped push him over the edge, thanks to her French roots.
While Medwick was born and raised in Manhasset, attending the community’s schools and playing lacrosse for his local high school, his wife, Alexandra Medwick, instead drew her roots from the south of France. With multiple members of her family already working in agriculture and wine, Medwick said it was his wife’s proximity to the industry that made the dream of changing careers into a reality.
“This is about pursuing a passion and not waiting until I’m retired,” he said. “It has taken, and will take, a lot more to get it to a point where I feel comfortable calling it a huge success, but we’ve done so much. It gives us, as a family-run business, an interesting position to be in.”
Medwick said Maiden and Liberty was the fusion of the best parts of both his and his wife’s tastes, blending wines from New York and France and “marrying the strength and dynamism of the American experience with the finesse of French tradition,” the group said on its website.
“We seek to delight all who drink wine with original and unexpected blends, to spread French wine culture in America, to relentlessly pursue beauty in all we do and to share an unrivaled passion for the finest things in life,” Medwick said, as part of his company’s mission statement. “We believe that wine inspires socializing, friendship and stimulating conversation, and that responsible consumption of wine is part of a fulfilling lifestyle.”
When it comes to the Manhasset community, Medwick said he is always impressed by the support he and his wife get from their neighbors. Since the business’ inception earlier this year, he said he has been flattered to receive rave reviews from some of the community’s most sophisticated palates when it comes to wine.
“People are getting excited about our French-American blends,” he said. “It’s unique and different, and the response that people give when they taste it is incredible.”
The couple has been on the hunt for spots in some of Nassau County’s most frequented hometown storefronts, which Medwick said has been easy because of his long history growing up in the community.
Medwick and Alexandra live in Manhasset with their 2-year-old son, Raphael. Looking ahead, Medwick said he has plans to expand the reach of his business and continue his rigorous search for shelf space to win over the hearts and mouths of North Shore natives.
For more information, reach Maiden and Liberty online at www.maidenandliberty.com or by phone at 516-204-7627.
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Cosmists' first gig next Friday 11/2! Details below!
Studio One First Fridays presents Andrew Joron, Dora Malech, and Michael Leong, plus a special performance by Cosmists—
Friday, November 2nd at 7:00 PM
Join us on Friday, November 2nd for an All Souls Show of poetry and music with poets Andrew Joron, Dora Malech and Michael Leong! The night will also feature theremin and drums duo Andrew Joron and Mark Pino--AKA Cosmists.
The event begins at 7:00 PM.
Beverages and snacks will be served.
Special thanks also to our emcee for the evening, Robert Andrew Perez!
**please note that this reading will start @ 7:00 PM, rather than our regularly scheduled time of 7:30
Studio One Arts Center
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Andrew Joron is the author of Trance Archive: New and Selected Poems (City Lights, 2010). Joron’s previous poetry collections include The Removes (Hard Press, 1999), Fathom (Black Square Editions, 2003), and The Sound Mirror (Flood Editions, 2008). The Cry at Zero, a selection of his prose poems and critical essays, was published by Counterpath Press in 2007. From the German, he has translated the Literary Essays of Marxist-Utopian philosopher Ernst Bloch (Stanford University Press, 1998) and The Perpetual Motion Machine by the proto-Dada fantasist Paul Scheerbart (Wakefield Press, 2011). Joron plays theremin in the dark ambient group Cloud Shepherd as well as in the instrumental rock trio Crow Crash Radio.
Dora Malech was born in New Haven, Connecticut in 1981 and grew up in Bethesda, Maryland. She earned a BA in Fine Arts from Yale College in 2003 and an MFA in Poetry from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 2005. She has been the recipient of a Frederick M. Clapp Poetry Writing Fellowship from Yale, a Truman Capote Fellowship and a Teaching-Writing Fellowship from the Writers’ Workshop, a Glenn Schaeffer Poetry Award, a Writer’s Fellowship at the Civitella Ranieri Center in Italy, and a 2010 Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship. The Waywiser Press published her first full-length collection of poems, Shore Ordered Ocean, in 2009 and the Cleveland State University Poetry Center published her second collection, Say So, in 2011. Her poems have appeared in numerous publications, including The New Yorker, Poetry, Best New Poets, American Letters & Commentary, Poetry London, and The Yale Review. She has taught writing at the University of Iowa; Victoria University’s International Institute of Modern Letters in Wellington, New Zealand; Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois; and Saint Mary’s College of California in Moraga, California. Her paintings and drawings are available at the Chait Galleries in Iowa City, Iowa. She lives in Iowa City, where she writes, draws, teaches, and coordinates the Iowa Youth Writing Project, an arts outreach program for children and teens.
Michael Leong is the author of two books of poetry: e.s.p. (Silenced Press, 2009) and Cutting Time with a Knife (Black Square Editions, 2012), which won a "Face Out" grant from the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses. He has also published a translation of the Chilean poet Estela Lamat, I, the Worst of All (BlazeVOX [books], 2009). He is the recipient of a 2012 &NOW Award for his chapbook The Philosophy of Decomposition/Re-Composition as Explanation (Delete Press, 2011), and his newest chapbook, Words on Edge, was chosen by Rob Fitterman as the winner of Plan B Press' 2012 Poetry Contest. He is a lecturer at Rutgers University where he completed a dissertation on the contemporary long poem and the archive.
Mark Pino began playing the drums at age eleven. Previous to that he had loved listening to music, and his parents’ catholic tastes in music opened up his ears to many different styles. Pino began playing publicly in the SF Bay Area in the early 1990’s, and since then has played regionally and nationally in many different bands. Mark considers himself a band player; the interaction with other musicians remains important to him, as does the act of manipulating physical instruments for sound and music making. Over the course of his career, Pino has played with all sorts of people in all sorts of settings, and is grateful to all of them, as well as to his teachers who shared their knowledge with him.
Robert Andrew Perez lives in Berkeley, California with two biologists. Unlike most poets, he is literally rolling in the dough, working for a deep dish pizza company not in Chicago. He holds various other odd jobs, including but not limited to mobile DJing for weddings and Bar Mitzvahs and miscellaneous aca-drone for the English departments of UC Berkeley and Saint Mary’s College (where he earned his BA and MFA, respectively). He is also the blog manager for the Underpass Reading Series and an associate editor for speCt!, a book arts letterpress poetry imprint, both based on Oakland. He is the recipient of the Lannan Prize for Saint Mary’s College and a Lambda Literary fellow. His recent work can be found in publications such as The Cortland Review, Writing Without Walls, and The Offending Adam.
Mountain vs. Building
Since about August I have been involved in this project. Bass player Brian Lucas has put together a Bandcamp page! Thanks, Brian!
October Ogham by Mountain v.s. Building
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Infinite Plastic Internal-In Walked Hermes
More improvised sound from Infinite Plastic Internal.
Infinite Plastic Internal-Space Jump
New IPI recording, utilizing a contact mic that I bought from one of the Liver Cancer guys at the Norcal Noise Fest 2012, up in Sacramento.
Infinite Plastic Internal-Space Jump by Mark Pino on drums
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Cloud Shepherd; NorCal Noise Fest, 2012, Sol Collective, 10/6/12
Last night Cloud Shepherd was happy to play the annual NorCal Noise Fest at Sol Collective in a lovely neighborhood in Sacramento. While CS's noisiest bits are WAY less noisy than the most quiet bits by groups on the bill such as Liver Cancer or Bastard Noise, the NorCal Noise Fest organizers asked us to play and we are grateful to them for that.
I feel like I played a bit frantically, dare I say noisily, as I felt the need to compensate for Andrew, who was not able to play the gig due to illness. And, after all, it is the NOISE FEST! All in all, a fun time, an interesting gig, and a chance to hear and see some interesting, noisy acts.
Above: Brian's got moves
Below: Joe Noble, happily making noise
Below: Cloud Kit, post freak
Below: Cloud Shepherd, Power Trio Version 3.0
Above: Cloud Shepherd in amber. Thanks to Marc Schneider for this pic!
Crow Crash Radio; Uptown Garage, Oakland, CA 10/5/12
Last night the men of Crow Crash Radio convened for our second Art Murmur gig this year, at the Uptown Garage on 26th St.
While it took a bit of time for people to filter in, once they did, our trance-out tunes seemed to grab their attention. Little pockets of people would stop and listen for a bit, before wandering off.
We played for a nice long while, and had fun doing it. By the end of the night, I was wiped out.
Above: Andrew and Brian dig in
Below: Mark brushes the snare
Tonight, it's off to Sacramento for NorCal Noisefest. Stay tuned!
The coming weekend will be a busy one for me! Two shows, Friday 10/5 with Crow Crash Radio at Uptown Garage in Oakland, as part of Art Murmur, and Saturday 10/6 with Cloud Shepherd as part of the 2012 NorCal Noisefest.
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Nebraska Business College and Boyd Theatre, Omaha, Nebraska
Title Nebraska Business College and Boyd Theatre, Omaha, Nebraska
Description Color postcard (14 x 9 cm.) with an exterior view of the Nebraska Business College and Boyd's Theatre in Omaha, Nebraska. Both the Nebraska Business College and Boyd's Theatre were located in the same building on the corner of 17th and Harney Streets.
Publisher Omaha Public Library
Subject Nebraska Business College (Omaha, Neb.)
Boyd Theatre (Omaha, Neb.)
Omaha (Neb.)
Theaters -- Nebraska -- Omaha
Business education -- Nebraska -- Omaha
Owning Institution Omaha Public Library
Local Accession/Call Number post245_034
Historical Notes James E. Boyd was a mayor of Omaha (1881-1883) and a governor of Nebraska (1891 and 1892-1893). Boyd's Theater opened in its original location at the northeast corner of 15th and Farnam in 1881, the same year in which Boyd started serving as mayor of the city. After it burned a scant ten years later the theater moved to a new location, seen in this image, at the southeast corner of 17th and Harney, just as Boyd was starting to serve as governor of the state. In 1914 the theater was sold to the Burgess-Nash Co., who, in 1920, closed the theater and razed the building that housed it in order to make way for a new annex for their department store. The most famous performer to appear at Boyd's was Sarah Bernhardt, who appeared in 1887 (in "Fedora", "Camille", and "Frou-Frou") and 1905 (in "La Tosca"). Sources: Barbe, Lucille. A History of the Boyd Opera House in Omaha, Nebraska (1881-1889). Omaha: University of Omaha, 1963, p. 166; Millburg, Steve. "Culture and the Fine Arts Got Early Start in Omaha." Omaha World-Herald, August 18, 1985; Spencer, Jeffrey S. "Building for the Ages: Omaha's Architectural Landmarks." Omaha: Landmarks, Inc., 2003, p. 20.
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Married Women In Ancient Egypt Were Protected By Prenups
BY Hannah Keyser
Compared to other classical societies, women in ancient Egypt had a good amount of legal status and protections. Sure, they generally didn't work and their status was generally determined by their father or husband, but even single women could own property in their own name, enter into contracts, sue and be sued, and serve on juries and as witnesses. Compare that to ancient Greece, where women had no legal identity and could not own property, according to Janet H. Johnson, an Egyptologist with the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute.
While Egyptian women has legal protections, social realities meant that these things weren't actually always equal in practice; one papyrus from 1147 BCE in the Brooklyn Museum's collection lists about 10 percent female land owners among thousands. But the option for legal recourse was always there. And one way women used their legal standing was to demand prenuptial agreements to protect their economic standing in the event of a divorce.
There was no legal or even religious ceremony that accompanied marriage in ancient Egypt. A couple lived together and established a family and this way they were "married," but they did not sign anything vowing personal affection or fidelity. Instead some had marriage contracts that dealt strictly with the finances of the wife and husband. They were, for all intents and purposes, prenups that bound a man to certain annual provisions for his wife and children, both during marriage and, in the event of divorce, after, if the man initiated the separation. In ancient Egypt, either party could be at fault for the divorce if they were unfaithful, and in those circumstances, the cheating party would forfeit their half of the couple's joint property.
Atlas Obscura highlights papyri from different eras that provide evidence of these prenups. One 2480-year-old, 8-foot-long scroll in the Oriental Institute collection, written in demotic—a later form of hieroglyphic shorthand—includes detailed post-divorce provisions for the wife, including "1.2 pieces of silver and 36 bags of grain every year for the rest of her life," says Emily Teeter, an Egyptologist at the Institute. Another lists all the property the wife brought into the marriage and includes a promise from the husband that it would be returned to her if they divorced.
These legal protections for women in ancient Egypt certainly didn't make the Nile basin a feminist haven, but the relative legal status they enjoyed stands in stark contrast to how women were treated in many cultures in antiquity.
[h/t Atlas Obscura]
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13 Foreboding Facts About The Omen
BY Stacy Conradt
Released 40 years ago today, The Omen still holds up as one of the scariest movies of all time—and the reason why the name "Damien" was ruined for children everywhere for decades. The now-demonic moniker was actually the screenwriter's second choice. Read on to find out what the first choice was—and 12 other freaky film facts.
1. THE FILM'S TITLE WAS CHANGED TWICE.
It was first called The Antichrist, then later changed to The Birthmark.
2. THE YOUNG ACTOR WHO PLAYED DAMIEN WAS CAST BECAUSE HE ATTACKED THE DIRECTOR.
When four-year-old Harvey Stephens auditioned for the part of Damien, director Richard Donner had him act out one of the role’s more demanding moments. Donner invited Stephens to attack him, and attack he did—right in Donner’s privates. The ballsy move is the reason Stephens got the role.
3. DAMIEN ORIGINALLY HAD A DIFFERENT NAME.
Screenwriter David Seltzer planned to name his antichrist Domlin after the “total obnoxious brat” child of a friend, until his wife convinced him that it would be a horrible thing to do to the kid. (Not to mention friendship-ending.) He landed on Damien after Father Damien, who started the first leper colony in the Hawaiian islands.
4. DAMIEN WAS NATURALLY BLONDE.
Harvey Stephens actually had unruly blonde hair at the time. To make him seem more like the devil’s spawn, his hair was straightened and dyed black.
5. CHARLTON HESTON WAS CONSIDERED FOR ROBERT THORN.
William Holden and Roy Scheider also allegedly turned down the role of the American ambassador. Holden later accepted the role of Robert’s brother, Richard, in the 1978 sequel Damien: Omen II.
6. GREGORY PECK'S SON COMMITTED SUICIDE SHORTLY BEFORE FILMING BEGAN.
The tragedy was part of the reason the semi-retired Peck took the part of Robert Thorn. Peck’s agent encouraged him to take the role because it would be good for him to get out of the house and throw himself into his work.
7. DAMIEN'S FIRST NANNY IS JACK PALANCE'S DAUGHTER.
Early in the movie, there’s a horrifying scene in which Damien’s first nanny commits suicide by jumping out of a window and hanging herself during Damien’s birthday party. That nanny was played by Holly Palance, daughter of Oscar-winning actor Jack Palance. Her father later narrated The Omen Legacy, a 2001 documentary about the making of the movie.
8. LEE REMICK'S REACTION TO THE BABOONS WAS REAL.
There’s a scene in the movie where Damien’s mother takes him on an outing to a safari park. Apparently sensing Damien's evil, the baboons violently attack the car. To get the baboons to run at the vehicle, handlers refrained from feeding them the night before. When the scene was filmed in the morning, food was placed on and around the car, bringing the hungry primates right over. To make them angry, handlers placed two baby baboons in the car with the actors and the trainer, thinking the adult baboons would be upset about being separated from the youngsters. It did the trick ... maybe a little too well. “Lee screaming in there is Lee really screaming,” Donner said.
9. GREGORY PECK AND RICHARD DONNER HAD ONE ARGUMENT DURING FILMING.
Peck wanted to angrily smash a bunch of stuff during the scene where Robert finds out his wife has died. Donner disagreed; he wanted to cut in on Thorn well after the discovery, not in the moment. According to Donner, he and Peck argued about the scene for an entire day before Peck told him, “You’re wrong. I’m right. But you’re the director, and therefore I have to do it your way.” After the scene was shot, Peck reviewed the dailies and conceded that Donner had been right about how to film Thorn’s reaction.
10. THE SCORE WON AN OSCAR.
Composer Jerry Goldsmith almost didn’t attend the ceremony, as he had already been nominated for a number of Oscars and Grammys and didn’t think he could handle losing again. Luckily, he didn’t have to. “Ave Satani” was also nominated for Best Original Song. Of the 18 Oscar nominations Goldsmith has received in his career, Best Original Score for The Omen is (so far) his only win.
11. THE MOVIE CAME WITH A TERRIFYING AD CAMPAIGN.
To promote the movie, gloom-and-doom posters and promotional materials went up all over the U.S. They contained uplifting messages such as:
“Good morning. You are one day closer to the end of the world.”
“Remember ... you have been warned.”
“It is a warning foretold for thousands of years. It is our final warning. It is The Omen.”
12. THE PRODUCTION MAY HAVE BEEN CURSED.
Like many other horror movies, some spooky things happened to the cast and crew that made them wonder if they had angered some higher power. Here are just a few of the incidents:
Peck, writer David Seltzer, and executive producer Mace Neufeld were on planes that were struck by lightning or had a near-miss.
The crew had planned to charter a plane to get some aerial shots, but had to switch at the last minute due to a scheduling conflict. The original plane ended up crashing, killing everyone on it.
Director Richard Donner’s hotel was bombed by the IRA the day after they shot the safari park scene.
A zookeeper at the safari park was killed in the lion area, which also happened the day after filming.
The stuntman standing in for Peck was attacked by Rottweilers during the graveyard scene; they managed to bite through the protective gear he was wearing.
After the film wrapped, special effects director John Richardson and his assistant, Liz Moore, moved on to the film A Bridge Too Far. While filming in the Netherlands, the duo was in a serious car accident. Richardson survived, but Moore was decapitated. This was especially eerie since Richardson was responsible for the infamous decapitation scene in The Omen.
13. HARVEY STEPHENS HASN'T DONE MUCH ACTING SINCE—EXCEPT FOR ONE NOTABLE ROLE.
Though Stephens pretty much exited the acting game after The Omen wrapped, he did take on one appropriate role in 2006: He had a cameo as a journalist in The Omen remake starring Liev Schreiber and Julia Stiles. The remake was released on 06.06.06, by the way.
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Last Updated: Friday, 21 April 2006, 15:13 GMT 16:13 UK
Full text: Nepal king's speech
The text of Nepal's King Gyanendra address to the nation, broadcast by Radio Nepal, in which announced handing over political power to the people and asked a seven-party alliance to choose a new prime minister.
Beloved Countrymen,
You are all aware that given the situation prevailing in the country then, we were compelled to take the decision of 1 February 2005 to set in motion a meaningful exercise in multiparty democracy by activating all elected bodies, ensuring peace and security and a corruption-free good government through the collective wisdom, understanding and the united efforts of all the Nepalese.
By supporting our decision, the Nepalese people made amply clear their desire for peace and democracy and the civil servants demonstrated sincerity towards their duty. We are appreciative of this. We also have high regard for the dutifulness, valour and discipline displayed by the security personnel by upholding their glorious tradition.
We through this proclamation affirm that the executive power of the Kingdom of Nepal, which was in our safekeeping, shall from this day be returned to the people
By visiting different parts of the country we made honest endeavours to acquaint ourselves with the hopes and aspirations of our people, mitigate their hardships and boost their morale. We also called on the political parties to enter into a dialogue in the interest of the nation and the people afflicted by violence and terror. However, this did not materialise.
The ideals of democracy can only be realised through the active participation of political parties.
In keeping with the tradition of the Shah dynasty to reign in accordance with the popular will, in the greater interest of the nation and people and our unflinching commitment towards constitutional monarchy and multiparty democracy, we through this proclamation affirm that the executive power of the Kingdom of Nepal, which was in our safekeeping, shall from this day be returned to the people and the exercise according to Article 35 of the Constitution of the Kingdom of Nepal-1990.
We therefore call on the seven party alliance to recommend a name for the post of the prime minister at the earliest for the constitution of a council of ministers
As the source of sovereign authority is inherent in the people, harmony and understanding must be preserved in the interest of the nation and people in an environment of peace and security.
While safeguarding multiparty democracy, the nation must be taken ahead along the road to peace and prosperity by bringing into the democratic mainstream those who have deviated from the constitutional path. Similarly, a meaningful exercise in democracy must be ensured with the activation of representative bodies through elections as soon as possible.
We therefore call on the seven-party alliance to recommend a name for the post of the prime minister at the earliest for the constitution of a council of ministers which will bear the responsibility of governing the country in accordance with the Constitution of the Kingdom of Nepal-1990. The present Council of Ministers will continue to function until the appointment of the prime minister.
May Lord Pashupatinath bless us all.
Jai Nepal
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A fatwa they can work with?
10 March 10 13:03 GMT
By Dominic Casciani
An Islamic scholar turned up in London last week to deliver a religious ruling denouncing terrorism in all its forms - but what was it about him that made everyone sit up and listen?
He's a man on a mission - a mission to state the obvious.
But for Dr Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri it is the obvious facts that need stating loudest. Last week the Pakistani-born cleric took to a stage in London to declare his Islamic religious ruling, or fatwa, against terrorism.
There was a man from the other side of the world telling an audience that included Parliamentarians and other government officials what they had been wanting to hear. A clear, concise and quotable denouncement of al-Qaeda's worldview.
Canada-based Dr Qadri spoke for more than an hour on his reasons why the Koran forbids the murder and mayhem of suicide bombings.
"This fatwa is an absolute condemnation of terrorism. Without any excuse, without any pretext, without any exceptions, without creating any ways of justification," he said.
"This condemnation is in its totality, in its comprehensiveness, its absoluteness, a total condemnation of every act of terrorism in every form which is being committed or has been committed wrongly in the name of Islam."
Classically trained
Dr Qadri is a classically-trained Islamic scholar and his organisation, Minhaj ul-Quran International, has spent 30 years building a strong following in Pakistan.
He is also a former Parliamentarian who was very close to Benazir Bhutto, the former Pakistani prime minister assassinated by a suicide bomber in 2007.
Some two years on, Dr Qadri's vast review of what Islam says about terrorism comes down to the very simple idea that there is no theological or moral case for a wronged party being allowed to seek vengeance against the innocent.
His fatwa makes detailed observations of the principles of a just war and rules of engagement. And he goes further than some scholars in stating that bombers who use an ideology to justify their actions have turned away from their faith.
His arrival in the UK was a quite deliberate attempt to shake things up. The youth, he says, need more help to counter the brainwashers. But in saying so, the fatwa became political.
Its launch was notable not just for who was there from the corridors of power, but who wasn't from the Muslim communities.
Supporters from communities close to his own background turned out. But the head of the Muslim Council of Britain, the umbrella body representing 500 groups, sent apologies. Some of the scholars who had signed a fatwa led by the MCB against terrorism after the 7 July attacks, were not there either.
Community fault lines
Dr Qadri's intervention in the UK has exposed complicated fault lines in the Muslim communities that often go unseen. Some people in the MCB are suspicious of his motives. One Muslim campaign group close to the MCB, iEngage, accused Dr Qadri of sectarianism. He denies trying to stir things up.
"I have never been sectarian in my life. Never, ever," he says.
"I have helped Christians to celebrate Christmas. But that liberal point of view is not acceptable to [some Muslim groups in the UK].
"They talk about openness and integration but what do they really believe in? The language of the heart and the language of the mouth are different. "
Dr Qadri goes on to criticise scholars whom he believes are equivocal over violence in Israel or any other situation where they claim there are exceptions that make suicide bombing permissible.
He reserves special ire for scholars who argue that there the West is part of a "sphere of war," calling them "quacks" who have understood neither Islamic history, nor how to interpret the present.
But the real question is whether anyone is listening? Can a son on the edge of turning to al-Qaeda be brought back by his family?
"If he has reached the stage where he is a terrorist, the parents are duty bound according to Islamic law to inform the anti-terrorist squad," he says banging his point home on the table.
"If he is at the stage where he can be reformed, then they should take every possible act to reform him."
Countering extremism
But almost five years on from London's 7/7 attacks, in which 52 people died, there is no settled view on how to do it.
Government has put a lot of effort into backing groups like the Quilliam Foundation, a counter-extremism think tank led by two former members of a legal Islamist movement.
There are separate programmes involving the police and Security Service which deal with people right on the cusp. It uses a variety of methods - but some experts believe the best results come from deploying hardline Saudi-influenced clerics who have the street credibility to mentor a youngster while demolishing al-Qaeda's arguments.
There is tension between the two camps - because there are a great deal of people who see hardline clerics as part of the conveyor belt that ultimately leads to terrorism.
But both sides at least agree that they need a proper "toolkit" of theological arguments.
"If someone is going to be a suicide bomber, they have to be 100% convinced that they are going to heaven," says Maajid Nawaz, co-director of the Quilliam Foundation. "If you can put just 1% of doubt in their minds, then you could stop them. And you do that that by presenting them with detailed evidences from Islam itself. This fatwa helps."
That's not an argument that washes with everyone.
Azzam Tamimi, a Palestinian academic based in London, infamously became a tabloid hate figure by supporting suicide bombing in Israel because it was the only means of self-defence available. He is less well known for the critical role he played in helping the police bring down the now-jailed preacher Abu Hamza.
"People who resort to these bombings do it because they believe it is justified, that it is commendable and rewardable," he says. "Otherwise they would not do it. For every fatwa there is a counter fatwa."
Amid all this fatwa flashing, many Muslims fear divide and rule - and suspect that someone, somewhere will use Dr Tahir ul-Qadri to further that agenda.
The scholar sees this as the signs of paranoia brought on by a weakness - and his answer is to expand his organisation's mission in the UK beyond its 10 mosques and 5,000 members.
So will Dr Qadri's fatwa do some good or end up on the great big pile of similar denouncements?
An hour after he delivered his address, the former leader of al-Muhajiroun, a group recently banned for extremism, turned up at the doorstep of a news channel and asked to go on air to counter Dr Qadri.
Would he have bothered if the scholar was such an irrelevance in the battle for hearts and minds?
Below is a selection of your comments.
It is refreshing to finally see a positive story which reflects the majority opinion in the Muslim community around the world, which denounces terrorism in all its forms. The only surprising thing is how these stories are never covered, despite being a widespread view by the overwhelming number of Muslim scholars. Generally, the only Muslims that seem to get any coverage are extremists like Anjem Choudary who represent no one. As a British Muslim, it really is such a depressing sight to see this man constantly being given a platform in the media to voice his abhorrent views.
Ali Khoei, London
I am a Muslim and an Indonesian, the country with the most Muslims on the planet, also a country witnessing an increasing "birth rate" of fatwas. Do I bother to follow those fatwas? Do my fellow Indonesians? No.
Pecundang, Berlin, Germany
Great effort Dr Tahir ul Qadri. We couldn't build the courage to express similar views as loudly but we certainly have the courage to support you all the way. It is time to recover our hijacked image of Islam and ask these hijackers to leave our Islam alone. We need peace, we need rehabilitation from this trauma, we need to recover and we will but after this new war against hijackers. We are after all the moderate majority of Muslims against the extremist minority. Now with this Fatwa, our majority is not the only strength... we are also backed with stronger arguments.
Faisal Hussain, Cardiff
About time too. Dr Qadri is saying what all my Muslim friends say but he's said it loudly and in public. Perhaps if the media reported his words more and the words of people like Abu Hamza a lot less, Britain would be a nicer place for all of us to live.
Peter, Notts
Other than insinuation, what evidence do you have that "some people in the MCB are suspicious of his motives". News sources (such as Reuters) have quoted the MCB as saying that it welcomed Qadri's comments. I'm looking at the list of affiliates for the Muslim Council of Britain, and 'iengage' is not a member. How is it affiliated?
I suspect you are referring to the MCB's former media spokesman, Inayat Bunglawala. But even he is quoted in the Independent newspaper for saying: "This adds to the view of many Islamic scholars internationally that terrorism and suicide bombings are unacceptable in Islam," he said. "It is a positive initiative. Anything that helps move young people away from violence and from those who promote violence must be welcomed."
Jafar Sadiq, London
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2019 Sir Douglas Nicholls Round
Published on Saturday, July 13, 2019
The NFNL’s annual Sir Douglas Nicholls Round will be held this weekend, recognising and celebrating Indigenous players and culture.
The round coincides with NAIDOC Week, which celebrates Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
NAIDOC is celebrated not only in Indigenous communities, but by Australians from all walks of life. The week is a great opportunity to participate in a range of activities and to support your local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community.
NAIDOC originally stood for ‘National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee’. This committee was once responsible for organising national activities during NAIDOC Week and its acronym has since become the name of the week itself.
NFNL clubs have been encouraged to support the round in a small but significant way, with a specially designed Indigenous football to be used in all senior men’s and women’s football matches this weekend.
Sir Douglas Nicholls Round is named in honour of one of Australia’s most revered figures.
Sir Douglas Nicholls epitomised the spirit of reconciliation and was a brilliant athlete.
He was the first Aboriginal person to be knighted, served as Governor of South Australia and was devoted to the well-being of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Sir Douglas Nicholls was a talented footballer and was the first Aboriginal to represent Victoria at state level.
After playing in the Goulburn Valley for Tongala, then 20-year-old Nicholls tried out for VFL clubs North Melbourne and Carlton before the 1927 season. Nicholls played some reserves matches for Carlton but did not play a senior game.
He joined Northcote in the VFA and made his name as a speedster, capable of spectacular feats, and came to be regarded as the best wingman in the VFA at the time.
He was a member of Northcote’s 1929 premiership team and finished third in the Recorder Cup voting in 1931, his final season with Northcote.
In 1932, Nicholls joined Fitzroy in the VFL and in 1935 he was the first Aboriginal player to be selected to play for the Victorian interstate team.
He played a total of six seasons for Fitzroy, before returning to Northcote in 1938. Knee injuries forced him to retire in 1939. He returned to Northcote as non-playing coach in 1947.
Off the field, Nicholls worked for the Church of Christ, ran hostels for young Indigenous people and was a field officer for the Aborigines Advancement League.
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Sir Douglas Nicholls’ name remains prominent within the Northern Football Netball League community, with the Fitzroy Stars’ home ground named in his honour.
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Continue below to watch a short film on Sir Douglas Nicholls, produced by award-winning filmmaker Peter Dickson.
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Cancun reinforces the need for strong domestic climate policies
By Matthew Wright - posted Friday, 10 December 2010 Sign Up for free e-mail updates!
Today, international climate treaty negotiations in Cancun will reach their peak. Ministers, negotiators, lobbyists and activists will work at a frenetic pace to advance (or thwart) an international treaty on climate change. Regardless of whether or not there is breakthrough in Cancun, we must remember that progress on reducing carbon emissions will be achieved with strong domestic policies. Australia doesn’t need to wait for international agreement to start rolling out climate change solutions.
It’s true that a global agreement has the potential to speed up efforts to restore a safe climate. Dialogue between nations is important to this end, but the UNFCCC process also shows that years of talk does not necessarily correspond with action. Some might say that the process has been a waste of time, given the imperative for immediate action. It’s time for Australia stop using these seemingly endless negotiations as an excuse and start taking action.
Australians are fatigued by talk. They want their government to take ambitious steps to tackle climate change. This sentiment is perhaps best represented by the rapid decline of former-prime minister Kevin Rudd’s popularity due to his decision to delay the ETS—delaying action in the eyes of the public. Similarly, the poor public reception to PM Gillard’s proposed climate change assembly demonstrated the public’s distaste for talkfests. What Australians want now is concrete action to decarbonise our economy.
The Gillard Government can learn a thing or two about this from China. Lack of an international climate agreement has not stopped China from building a massive clean-technology industrial base. A country that has enjoyed rapid growth of its domestic manufacturing capacity over the past few years, it is China that will make 43% of the world’s solar panels—and 39% of its wind turbines—in 2010. China has additionally pledged to invest a massive AU$743 billion over the next decade to meet its ambitious renewable energy deployment targets. As a result of such concerted efforts, Ernst & Young now rank the world’s next super-power as the most attractive destination for private investment in renewable energy.
Australia can follow this model. Decarbonising Australia’s economy is a huge task, but it’s a challenge that we can deliver on. Our Banksia award winning research, the Zero Carbon Australia Stationary Energy report, shows that the nation has the skill base, industrial capacity, and economic might to build a 100% renewable energy economy in just 10 years.
The swift deployment of large-scale renewable energy projects can deliver the steep carbon reductions needed to avoid dangerous climate change. Concentrating solar thermal power towers can tap into Australia’s unequalled solar resources. Our vast land can support geographically dispersed wind turbines to extract power from the wind. With a small proportion of biofuel backup generation, we can power the nation’s homes, hospitals, schools, and businesses without contributing to climate change.
Beyond the energy sector, our Government must take a comprehensive approach to reducing all sources of greenhouse gas emissions. This would involve policies to encourage the construction of sustainable buildings and transport infrastructure; the uptake of super-efficient industrial processes; and continuous improvement of land-use and agricultural practices. These are among the types of concrete actions Australians expect from their Government.
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Bottom-up policies will lay the foundation for an international agreement on climate change. Strong action at home is the best way to leverage other nations to take the steps required to successfully decarbonise the globe. Australia can be a model for what is possible, but this hinges on the ability of the Gillard Government to deliver tangible outcomes in 2011.
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NYC Trans Oral History Project Chelsea Goodwin, with Dr. Rusty Mae Moore
Chelsea Goodwin, with Dr. Rusty Mae Moore
Interviewed By Nadia Awad
After purchasing a house in Park Slope in the 1980's to be closer to her kids, Dr. Rusty Mae Moore and Chelsea Goodwin opened their home to homeless trans folk. Transy House, as it was called, aimed to be a place where trans people could feel safe from the objectification and harassment. To this day, the continue to live with other trans folks on Long Island, where they've discovered and forged new community affinities. In this interview Chelsea Goodwin speaks passionately of Goth and Pagan culture's relationship to Trans Community as being like "peanut butter and jelly". A seasoned activist, having worked with Act Up, Queer Nation and Dyke Action Machine, her piss-and-vinegar vibrancy emphasizes social change from the ground up, rather than legislative reform. Dr. Rusty Mae Moore came out in her 50's and through parenting, her career and travel to Brazil navigated the particularities of her own transition. Together they share their intimate understanding of Trans Liberation a... Read more
After purchasing a house in Park Slope in the 1980's to be closer to her kids, Dr. Rusty Mae Moore and Chelsea Goodwin opened their home to homeless trans folk. Transy House, as it was called, aimed to be a place where trans people could feel safe from the objectification and harassment. To this day, the continue to live with other trans folks on Long Island, where they've discovered and forged new community affinities. In this interview Chelsea Goodwin speaks passionately of Goth and Pagan culture's relationship to Trans Community as being like "peanut butter and jelly". A seasoned activist, having worked with Act Up, Queer Nation and Dyke Action Machine, her piss-and-vinegar vibrancy emphasizes social change from the ground up, rather than legislative reform. Dr. Rusty Mae Moore came out in her 50's and through parenting, her career and travel to Brazil navigated the particularities of her own transition. Together they share their intimate understanding of Trans Liberation and Struggle as shaped by their lives in New York particularly. (Summary by Kirsten Adorian.)
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A Pixie's Promise by Dianna Sanchez (Children's, 9 years +, 10E/10E)
Petunia is so cute!
October 2018, Dreaming Robot Press, 230 pages, Paperback and Ebook, Review copy
Summary from Dreaming Robot Press
She gets lost at home among her bazillion brothers, sisters, and cousins. Even her own parents don’t remember her name! And no one ever takes a pixie seriously.
When Petunia’s best friend, Millie, offers a vacation at her house, Petunia jumps at the chance. Cooking for Millie’s witch of a mother and babysitting a tree should be easy, right? But when an epidemic of spickle pox hits the Enchanted Forest, and Millie’s mother comes down with a mysterious illness, Petunia must pitch in to brew cures as quickly as she can, even if that means using up all her pixie dust.
And when the cure doesn’t work as well as it should, it’s up to Petunia to figure out how to change the formula to save the Enchanted Forest, while living up to all the promises she’s made.
This is what I call a traditional story: it is a happy world that the pixies and other creatures live in, it isn't super dark, something I've seen in a fair few similar tales, is full of humour, mild peril, and loads of imagination. It's the kind of world I want to live in! The pixies and other creatures use predominantly natural objects as furniture and tools in their lives, with a bit of magic too.
Right from the start I felt sorry for Petunia because of how overlooked she is by her own family. I can't quite wrap my head around why her parents have so many children if they don't bother to recognise them as individuals. Petunia's frustrations made Millie's offer seem absolutely amazing. She doesn't have a clue how hard a task master Millie's mother is, how she is never satisfied and forces Millie to make a Pixie Promise, a most sacred vow that has dire consequences if it is broken. Millie does know what she's agreeing to, mostly, although not so much how busy she is keeping up with Millie's mother's demands.
What I like about this book is that although it is 2nd in a series, I didn't feel that I'd missed out by not reading book 1. All the characters are explained clearly, I didn't feel like I was missing insider jokes, and I didn't want the book to end. It felt like every single sentence was magical in it's own way, having me be in awe of Petunia's world. I wanted to be her so badly! She has so much fun creating magic when she is allowed to do so, her joy bounced off the page. I did guess a major plot twist fairly early on, but what happens at the end was quite a surprise, so too was how intricate the truth surrounding the illness's origins was. It wove in themes of prejudice and bullying into magic and friendship. I sincerely hope there are more adventures in store for Petunia!
Find out more on Dianna's website.
Another tale where magic and the like fits seamlessly in the world is Giselda the Witch by J S Rumble (Children's, 9 years +, 10E/10E)
Labels: 10E/10E, 9 years, Children's
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Possessing a fleet, light voice and a sly touch, jazz vocalist Kat Edmonson brings both the songs and the sensibility of the Great American Songbook into the 21st century
Performing at the Iron Horse Music Hall Northampton, MA Thursday, March 14 at 7 pm
Online sales for this show closed at 3PM. You can get tickets until 4PM in person at NBO or by phone at 586-8686, or at the door tonight.
Rich in affection for the past but bracingly alive in the present, the 11 original songs on Old Fashioned Gal tell a story––actually, a classic Hollywood “movie” that took shape in Edmonson’s imagination as she began to write them. These songs have all the feeling and the craft, even the entertaining bounce, of the Great American Songbook, from Irving Berlin to Joni Mitchell but they are unmistakably Kat Edmonson’s songs, taking the full measure of her own voice, literally and figuratively. The inimitable voice in which she sings is a musical prism, crystalline and precise, refracting and transforming what shines through it. The voice in which she writes is clear, intensely aware and to the point––an “old fashioned gal” in the here and now.
Edmonson describes her process, “The main ingredients I used to make this record were piano, bass, guitar, and drums; however, there is a 13-piece string orchestra on the album as well as background vocals, horns, woodwind instruments, vibes and other percussion, organ, celesta, harp, ukulele…even a saw! I was trying to achieve the lushness of an MGM musical. In “Canoe,” my lyrics talk about mosquitos and katydids around a lake so, for that song, I went outside one evening and recorded the ambient sounds of insects and frogs. THAT was really fun!”
In little more than a decade, Kat Edmonson has emerged as one of the most distinctive performers in contemporary American music. The Texas native forged her sound performing in small rooms and clubs, then touring worldwide and performing with the likes of Lyle Lovett, Chris Isaak, Jamie Cullum and Gary Clark Jr. Her three previous albums revealed a singer discovering, in her own songs, a repertoire only she could imagine. A critic for the Boston Globe called Way Down Low, her second album, “one of the greatest vocal albums I’ve ever heard.” Her third, The Big Picture, took greater advantage of her songwriting abilities. The Austin Chronicle’s critic noted she “employs lessons gleaned from the Great American Songbook while creating an aura unmistakably her own,” adding that the songs emerge “fresh and dewy … Edmonson’s voice swells and dips and weaves with effortless precision, arresting without belting.”
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Vanessa Collier
An Evening with Ottmar Liebert
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[Back to Discography]
Composition Notes
Measure of an Unmade Grave
Frames of Mind
Inertial Dampers Off-line
Portal to Arcanium
Kulju
The B section to this song was written first while I was snowed in during a March nor'easter. The song was intended to be a collage of winter images. Later the A section was added but the finished song, although good musically, didn't seem to conform to the winter theme. While in the car a few weeks later I heard a story on NPR about a tragic climb to the summit of Mt. Everest where the participants were caught in a deadly blizzard. Although not about that specific event , Ascension refers to the visual images of climbing. The A section is keyboard dominated, very majestic and is intended to symbolize images viewed from higher elevations. The B section involves more tension and is intended to symbolize the dangers and triumphs of the climb.
This piece is along the lines of Frames of Mind musically but a bit more subdued and melodic. The title comes from the daydream quality that much of the song has. There are plenty of time signature changes in this one and some surprises in the middle section. This is one of our favorites.
I'm not sure this piece has anything to do with Romeo and Juliet or even Shakespeare but it is intended to be a bit sorrowful. This piece didn't really come to life until Gino gave me some critical feedback about the development section. I then reworked the development which became a lot less stable, far more aggressive, and I hope a lot stronger piece of work.
This piece is in two movements
Frames of Mind Pt.1: "Cognitive Synergy"
Frames of Mind Pt. 2: "Dialectic"
This is the title track to our first CD. This 11+ minute piece started as two separate pieces. I wrote the two movements with the idea of writing a couple of 4-6 minute pieces with emphasis on dynamics and rhythmic "grooves", while maintaining a certain progressive edge. There is a lot of variety in this piece but still an undercurrent of continuity that binds it together. Although Gino's title was an afterthought, it nicely verbalizes the different creative snapshots of this piece.
Foti
This brief solo synth piece was inspired by the first half of Part V of Rush's epic composition Hemispheres - maybe that's why it has "no shape or form". When I introduced this piece to my bandmates, Dave "was astonished"; Joe "thought me mad".
This piece is divided into three sections
I: Conversation
II: Disagreement
III: Oratory
This was my first composition for Electrum. The song is a suite with each section having a prominent instrument (Bass, Guitar or Drums) and attempting to musically reflect the moods of different types of verbal communication. The first section has a relatively calm feel and represents the type of conversation we have with loved ones, friends, and new acquaintances. The second section is quite aggressive, as are the heated arguments that humans so love to engage in. The third section is intended to sound uplifting, like the words that the best among us can use to move others to do great things and make great sacrifices.
Inspired by Star Trek and the special language of techno babble. According to the Star Trek Technical Manual the inertial dampening system "generates a controlled series of variable-symmetry forcefields that serve to absorb the inertial forces of spaceflight which would otherwise cause fatal injury to the crew". If during the course of an episode the helmsman cries out "Captain, inertial dampers are off-line!" then things get more than a little chaotic. The song is intended to reflect that. It is also worth noting that I, with a bad cold, was on a lot of Sudafed at the time I wrote this piece.
Portal to Arcanum
This 11 minute piece has been really difficult to complete. There have been many variations in arrangement and entire rewrites of themes over 4 months. The piece begins with a keyboard introduction in a theme and variations form with accompaniment that is poly-metric at times (keyboards in 4/4, bass and drums in 6/8). The body of the piece involves two themes, the first dominated by bass, and the second by guitar. A long bridge acts to join the two themes. There are many time signatures in this one including 4/4, 5/4, 6/8, 7/8, 11/4, and 13/8 (you may have guessed by now that I like to play with the time signatures). The mood of this one is pretty somber but not depressing. This is the closing track for "Frames of Mind". Gino, master of words, again came up with the title saying the keyboard intro sounded like it was taking us to someplace mysterious.
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FILMS > FINISHED >
SILENCE II
POLISH TITLE: CISZA II
REPRESENTED BY KFF
Film presents different interpretations of „silence” created by students of II Documentary Course conducted by Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing.
FILM REPRESENTED BY THE KRAKOW FILM FOUNDATION
Marcin Sauter, Thierry Paladino, Magdalena Kowalczyk, Marcin Janos Krawczyk, Jaen Baptiste Dalannoy, Anna Skorupa
DOP:
Piotr Stasik, Tomasz Szczepański, Jakub Kowalczyk, Jakub Kijowski
Anna Dymek, Agnieszka Glińska, Sławomir Karasek
Mistrzowska Szkoła Reżyserii Filmowej Andrzeja Wajdy (obecnie: Wajda Studio)
Marcin Sauter »
Photographer, cinematographer and film director. Born in 1971 in Bydgoszcz. A member of the Association of Polish Art Photographers, he has had several dozen individual exhibitions of photography. He teaches at the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing. He established the foundation The Bydgoszcz Newsreel. His adventure with the cinema started in 1997 when he cooperated with Maciej Cuske on the feature film "What Do You Think About It, Gałuszko?". Then, he continued with such documentaries as "The Travelling Cinema" (2005), "North From Calabria" (2009) and "Hakawati" (2011).
Thierry Paladino »
Was born 24 July 1981 in Nice, France. He graduated from the School of Fine Arts, Marseille and Aix-en-Provence and also the Documentary Course at the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing. With others graduates from the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing – Maciej Cuske, Marcin Sauter and Piotr Stasik - he created a film group called “PALADINO”.
Magdalena Kowalczyk »
Was born in 1983 r. in Warsaw. She graduated from documentary course in the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing. Her film “Reflection” was made during the „Film Kindergarden” Course in Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing. The film was awarded on the XII IFF "ETIUDA&ANIMA" 2005. She’s a one of director’s in “Silence II” – a set of etudes made by students of the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing and a co-director in the Polish-German project “Reflection” – a set of shorts made as a result of cooperation of the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing and the International Filmschul Koln in 2006. Her last short documentary is called “By the river” (2006)
Marcin Janos Krawczyk »
Marcin Janos Krawczyk. Born on 26 October 1978. Director, Writer, Producer. Member of the Polish Filmmakers Association. Graduate of the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing and the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Wroclaw. As a director, he made his debut with the film "Rendez-vous", nominated for and winning numerous awards at dozens of festivals around the world, including Hot Docs 2007 Silverdocs 2007, Cinema du Reel 2007, and the Short Film Competition at the 57th Berlinale International Film Festival 2007. Another of his films, "Six Weeks", premièred at the IDFA festival in Amsterdam in 2009, where it won the main prize. In the same year, it also won the Silver Eye and was selected for over forty festivals. As a producer he debuted with the film "Mother 24/7" made for Polish Television. Currently at the festiwal "The Land of the Homeless".
Jaen Baptiste Dalannoy »
Graduated from the II Documentary Course at the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing
Anna Skorupa »
Born in 1973 in Warsaw. She gradated from Warsaw Uniwersity. She used to work as an actress. graduated from the Documentary Course at the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing. She took part in the polish – german project REFLECTION.
AT FESTIVALS:
GZDOC, Guaghzou, China, 2006 (screening)
Weinerei, projekt Towarzystwa Wspierającego Sztukę i Kulturę w Europie, Norymberga, 2007 (screening)
Hong Kong International Film Festival, China, 2007 (screening)
Encounters Short Film Festival in Bristol, UK, 2008 (screening)
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Interview with Kingsley Amiss!
February 22, 2013Micah No Comment
Band: Kingsley Amiss
Facebook / Shows
Genre: Metalcore
Q: What does your band name “Kingsley Amiss” mean?
We actually get asked that question a lot, and we’re very quick to tell anyone who asks that we’re in no way related to the dude from the YouTube videos. Kingsley Amis was a prominent writer/philosopher from Britain, and was regarded by other writers as annoying. When asked about how he felt about being thought of that way, he said, “If you can’t annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.” When we were thinking of what we’d call our band, Jake, our rhythm guitarist, came across this quote. Since a lot of people find our genre to be “annoying” (as put so well by our friends and relatives) he wanted to have our name connect to Amis in some way. The extra “S” makes it so that we can pay tribute to him, and still have our own unique name.
Q: What is the metal scene like in Leominster, Ma?
Sadly, there wasn’t a lot going on in Leominster for a while until recently. There was thriving scene in Leominster up until around 2009-2010, but due to some trouble at shows then, it became harder and harder to find venues; some even banned shows entirely. However, just this past Saturday, there was a return of shows to Leominster. On 2/16 we played a HUGE show at the Franco American in Leominster with over 150 people in attendance and some amazing bands on the bill including Pathogenic, Aurora, Grandview, and Atlas.
The owner called the police on us after seeing a lot of kids moshing, but since no one at the venue was doing anything illegal, and everyone who ran the show’s professionalism they told us to be done by a certain time and left. Besides that and the manager’s numerous attempts to shut us down, an awesome, fun, and above all respectful show was had and we all agree it was one of the best shows we’ve been a part of yet. We can’t wait to play even more shows in our hometown.
Q: You’ve only been around since March 2012, why start so late?
Well honestly, the biggest reason we formed so late is that we didn’t all know each other until just prior to us forming. We were all passionate musicians, but came from very different backgrounds. Jake our rhythm guitarist and Jeremy our screamer were apart of our high school’s Jazz band and did Robotics when they weren’t doing that. Nick, our clean singer, was singing for another band and looking for another group to jam with. Peter, our bass player, started as a thrash guitar player and playing as a sideman for an oldies band after playing saxophone in his school band for years. He didn’t even pick up a bass until shortly before we invited him to join the group, but he’s become sort of our living mascot under his moniker “Jerome Mon Senor.” Rob, our drummer, was heavily involved in his school’s theater company and played drums in his garage in his spare time. Anthony (aka “Keith Bradford”) switched to mainly guitar after playing percussion in school band, and composed massive amounts of music by himself while dreaming of being in a band.
While our backgrounds were all different, we basically came together through our connections to High School Band. Rob and Anthony were unceremoniously kicked out of Jazz Band in early 2012, and spent their time playing in their school’s auditorium during that class time. Anthony quickly caught everyone’s attention showing his guitar prowess at the young age of 15. Rob invited Anthony and Jeremy over his house to jam, and shortly before that day asked Jake (who had some song ideas written that he wanted to hear played with a band) to join in. That first jam we learned to play “Six Ways to Sunday,” our first, and a lot of our fan’s favorite song with our original clean singer. When things didn’t work out with him, We had Jake switch over to rhythm guitar from bass, and invited Peter to join in as our bassist. Peter learned our whole set in one week leading up to our debut show when we asked him to fill in for Jake, who wasn’t able to perform that night. We eventually found Nick Syns to fill the spot as clean singer.
Q: You’re not signed to any label right now, what label would you like to be signed to?
Ideally, the 3 label’s we’re really interested are Housecore Records, (founded by Phil Enselmo of Pantera) Rise Records, who have really opened the door for a lot of Post-Hardcore bands, and Victory Records, who’ve worked with a lot of bands we admire including A Day to Remember and Atreyu.
Q: When is your debut EP to be released? This year?
We’re currently working on our debut EP with Cognitive Dissonance and we’re completely in love with how it’s sounding so far. We don’t have a release date set yet, but we’re aiming for spring/summer of this year.
Q: What are your immediate plans for 2013?
Our plans are to play as many shows as possible and show more and more people who we are. We want to play all over and make as many friends and fans as we can. One of the steps we took towards this was getting on Breakthru Music’s battle of the bands. Whoever wins this competition on March 29th moves one step closer to earning a spot on 2013 New England Metal and Hardcore Festival, featuring bands such as Anthrax, Opeth, and Suicidal Tendencies. We plan on giving this competition our all, just like we do every show. If anyone wants to buy a ticket from us hit up our Facebook page and we’ll make sure you get one.
Q: Do you have any shout outs to give to the readers?
First off, a huge shout out and thank you to Rob’s mom for letting us jam in her basement until we found a legit practice space. We also want to give a shout out to everyone who’s helped us with recordings including Clint Mitchel of Deadside Manor, and Cognitive Dissonance. We also want to acknowledge all of our good friends and loyal fans who go to all the shows and help us out in any way they can, including Crystal Johnson, Brian Looby, Drew Fletcher, and David Benites, the lead vocalist Buried Electric who hooked us up with Cognitive Dissonance. Finally, we want to thank all of the established bands in the area who’ve shown interest in us and in a sense taken us under their wing: our buds in In Armistice, Run For Your Guns, and a group of the hardest working guys in local music, Lydia Ayer.
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OVERLOOKING ALL THE ISLAMIC POISON IN PAKISTAN, THEY CALLED BJP "FASCIST"!
...........“Hindu fascism” and the BJP Government
.....................Koenraad Elst
Numerous Western India-watchers, Delhi correspondents and other “experts” have been warning for many years that a BJP government would be a terrible thing, as this was a “fascist” party. Today, it is possible to separate the sincere and conscientious experts from the others, by a very simple criterion: has he or she compared the actual performance of the BJP government with these dire predictions? Or in practical terms: has he or she apologized to the readers or viewers for misinforming them all this while?
For indeed, the prediction of BJP “fascism” has fallen flat on its face, as will be clear from a brief survey of the defining elements of “fascism” and how they relate to Indian reality. For starters, fascists are reputed to be violent. It was predicted that communal violence would increase a hundredfold if the BJP were allowed to come to power. In reality, the BJP term in power has been the most peaceful year since decades. Even in Jammu and Kashmir, Islamic killings of Hindus have markedly decreased. That terrorists killed twenty Hindus in Jammu (an incident that went strictly unreported in the Western media) on the eve of Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee’s peace mission to Pakistan is first of all the responsibility of the killers themselves, even if not preventing this massacre was secondarily also a failure of the security forces. Note that most of the victims of the remaining communal violence were Hindus -- hardly the doing of the Hindu nationalist government.
The Christian missionary lobby had aptly sensed the frustration of the India-watchers at seeing the “unexpected” success of the BJP in maintaining communal peace, hence its initiative to launch an international slander campaign alleging BJP atrocities against the Christians. More than ever, they could count on the foreign experts to amplify their propaganda. The world media consumer was told about the rape of four nuns and about the killing of a Christian girl and her little brother “by Hindu fundamentalists”; but not about the subsequent finding that the culprits had been Christians. Even the murder of Rev. Staines and his two sons could not definitively be attributed to Hindu activists, but even if could have been, this would make the death toll of the “persecution” of Christians in India peanuts compared to the suffering of Pakistani or Indonesian Christians, not to mention Kashmiri Hindus.
So, undeniably, the Vajpayee government has been a very responsible one in controlling communal passions. One of the reasons is that the BJP knew that in case of communal rioting, it would at any rate be held accountable. Secularist governments, by contrast, can let communal sores fester and riots escalate, for they know that the blame will always be put on the BJP (or how false allotment of guilt can aggravate the crime).
But at least the BJP’s “militaristic” policy of nuclear and missile testing proved its “fascism”? This proposition could only be discussed with those who have always called the USA, France, England, Russia and China “fascist” states because of their tested nuclear capability. But the BJP never started these military projects: India’s first nuclear bomb was tested in 1974 under Indira Gandhi, and the Agni missile was also inherited from previous governments. What the BJP has done is to be open and frank about India’s status as a nuclear power ¾ which is intrinsically better for world security than secretive armament policies. The demonstration of top-notch technological know-how in the tests was less a military than a geopolitical statement: a clear rejection of the unipolar New World Order. Nothing fascist about that, but a democratic expression of India’s national will, for military self-reliance is a policy supported by the vast majority of the Indian people.
Speaking of democracy: a fascist is first and foremost an opponent of democracy, right? Within his first year of government, Hitler had passed the first anti-Jewish laws, eliminated some fellow-Nazi rivals in an orgy of violence (Night of the Long Knives), dissolved all other political parties, and abolished Parliament. Anyone upholding the equation “BJP = Nazi” must either show the parallels in Vajpayee’s regime, or withdraw his allegations and apologize. In particular, he will have to concede that the BJP has by no means threatened or undermined democracy, on the contrary. The BJP has for twenty years been the only major political party with a functioning intra-party democracy, quite in contrast with the autocracy of the Gandhi dynasty in the Congress Party or the mafia mores of the socialist and regional parties. Under the Emergency (1975-77), the Hindu nationalists were in the forefront of the struggle for democracy and against Congress dictatorship. When the Janata coalition government in which they were the senior partner (like Hitler and Mussolini in their first governments) lost its majority, they abided by the rules and stepped down to contest new elections. This time again, they upheld the democratic traditions.
The BJP also refrained from using the loopholes in the Constitution to undermine federalism by dismissing state governments at will, quite unlike Congress practice. Indeed, the BJP even sacrificed its own government to uphold federalism: it could easily have appeased Mrs. Jayalalitha by dismissing the Tamil Nadu state government (or by intervening in the judicial proceedings against her), yet it stuck to its principles. All in all, the BJP government’s fall was unusually honourable: it was narrowly defeated by a coalition of Communists, separatists (Soz), criminals (Laloo, Mulayam), dynastic plotters (Sonia and her cronies) and corrupt politicians fleeing justice (Jayalalitha, possibly Rajiv Bofors’s widow). I used to be skeptical of the BJP’s capacity for governance and of Vajpayee personally, but I must say now that even if the BJP with its numerous coalition partners has not achieved anything great (unless you count Pokharan 2 as great), it has refrained from making a number of predictable mistakes, and it has entirely had nothing to do with the predicted crimes of a “fascist” nature.
A final question: how come no one among India’s investigative journalists has cared to find out about Sonia Gandhi’s background? Rumour has it that her father was a militant fascist and, in 1943-45, a volunteer in the German army on the eastern front. We should not judge her own worth by that of her father, nor should we judge his youthful choices too harshly: fascism was not nearly as murderous or totalitarian as Nazism, the motivation of East Front soldiers was often the same as that of the much-decorated Korea volunteers a few years later (viz. to stop Communism), and it took bravery to volunteer for front duty in a losing war. But still, if such a biographical detail pertained to a BJP prime-ministerial candidate, would he and we not be reminded of the fact every time his name was mentioned? More generally, why are the Indian and Western media so full of imaginary BJP threats to democracy when their darling secularist parties have so many anti-democratic skeletons in their closets?
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Aquae Balissae
The population of Aquae Balissae (Pannonia Superior)
Published on Nov 8, 2017 in 23/1, Articles Tags: Aquae Balissae, Daruvar, epigraphic evidence, Pannonia Superior, population
Aquae Balissae, known from the written and epigraphic sources also as ‘res publica Iasorum’ and ‘municipium Iasorum’, was a Roman town that developed in the territory of the Pannonian-Celtic tribe Iasi, situated between the rivers Drava and Sava in northern Croatia (Roman Pannonia Superior). The written sources mentioning this town are scanty, and so is the archaeological evidence, leaving the urbanism and architecture of Aquae Balissae practically at the level of a broad sketch. The evidence of stone monuments is not substantial either, but is quite variegated in terms of both the categories of monuments and artistic renderings. It therefore represents the main source for the research of the town’s population. In this paper a cross section of the population of Aquae Balissae has been attempted through a selection of stone monuments stemming from the town’s presumed ager and containing either an inscription alone or a combination of a relief and inscription. Of a total of 20 monuments nine are funerary, seven votive, and four honorary. They are here discussed in terms of the three most important aspects of the population of Aquae Balissae: (1) social status (the relationship between the civilians and military); (2) religious worship; (3) ethnic and geographical origin (the relationship between the local inhabitants and immigrants). Due to the limited evidence, the analyses produced here remain in the realm of indications rather than final conclusions.
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Warner Bros. Consumer Products and Sakar Empower Young Girls with Launch of DC Super Hero Girls Line
Published on Wednesday, 28th September 2016
Sakar International and Warner Bros. Consumer Products, on behalf of DC Entertainment, today launched their DC Super Hero Girls line of karaoke machines, adventure kits, walkie talkie, headphones and more.
DALLAS (September 27, 2016 – Dallas Toy Fair Booth # [12-1626]) Sakar International and Warner Bros. Consumer Products, on behalf of DC Entertainment, today launched their DC Super Hero Girls line of karaoke machines, adventure kits, walkie talkie, headphones and more. The DC Super Hero Girls stand up for courage, friendship and empowerment. The line of youth electronics will be available domestically this holiday at Walmart, Toys R Us and many other retailers. Within the EMEA region products will begin to roll out in 2017.
Highlights of the collection include an illuminated globe light karaoke machine that lights up when music is played, molded kids safe headphones for the ultimate music listening experience, a three-piece adventure kit complete with a set of binoculars and a flashlight for the ‘backyard’ explorer and walkie-talkie kits for optimized communication. Product MSRPs range from $9.99-79.99.
“The DC Super Hero Girls brand is unique, powerful and timely. These heroines encompass the ideal of strength and bravery and we hope to replicate that in the range of product we are launching under this brand,” said Liza Abrams, Sakar Senior Vice President of Global Licensing. “While the first wave of products is hitting the shelves we see DC Super Hero Girls as an evergreen brand and look forward to evolving product alongside the franchise.”
DC Super Hero Girls harnesses the power of the world’s most iconic female characters from DC, including Wonder Woman, Supergirl, and Batgirl, as they learn to hone their super powers in a high school setting. This all new universe offers young fans the chance to play, watch, read and be inspired to discover their full super power potential.
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Scripture and Tradition in Catholicism and Lutheranism: A reply to Weedon
Posted on June 26, 2007 by Schutz
This blog could get very complicated. I will try to keep it simple. It is in response to Pastor Weedon’s blog on the subject of “The Catholic Principle and Lutheranism”. I will address the essay by Heath Curtis in a separate blog.
1) Thanks for the reference to Pius XII Mediator Dei and lex orandi, lex credendi (cf. paras 46-52). It is common knowlege that the princple can be reversed, but I did not know that the reversal had this level of magisterial approval. Certainly the original was that the rule of prayer established the rule of belief. Orthodox Christians have been very faithful to this. However, the Orthodox are missing the essential element of a living magisterium to establish, uphold and clarify the tenants of their faith and so are unable in practice to reverse the principle even if they would agree with it in theory. Lutherans, of course, subject the rule of prayer to the interogation of Scripture (and the Confessions). It is significant that in his encyclical Pius XII does not envisage Scripture as vetoing elements of liturgical or devotional practice, but “the ecclesiastical hierarchy”. It is this “hierarchy” which has
organised and regulated divine worship, enriching it constantly with new splendour and beauty, to the glory of God and the spiritual benefit of Christians. What is more, it has not been slow – keeping the substance of the Mass and sacraments carefully intact – to modify what it deemed not altogether fitting, and to add what appeared more likely to increase the honour paid to Jesus Christ and the august Trinity, and to instruct and stimulate the Christian people to greater advantage. (MD p.49)
Furthermore, he acknowledges that there has been a “progress and development of the sacred liturgy during the long and glorious life of the Church” which parallels the development of doctrine, including doctrines of the Word of God, the Eucharistic Sacrifice, and Mary as the Virgin Mother of God (cf. pp. 51ff). In any case, one thing that Pius XII certainly does is maintain the connection between church practice and church dogma in mutual relationship, which Pastor Weedon’s scheme tends to separate.
2) Weedon says that
The scriptures provide a negative critique on Tradition: Whatever in Tradition is contrary to the witness of the Sacred Scriptures must be rejected, whatever is not is accepted.
This in fact gets it exactly the wrong way round from Catholic thinking. Catholics regard Sacred Tradition as the safeguard of the Apostolic Faith which was committed to writing in the Sacred Scriptures, rather than the Scriptures as the safeguard of Apostolic Faith which was passed on in Sacred Tradition.
3) Catholics, like Lutherans, are also adamant that
only God’s Word shall establish articles of faith, and no one else, not even an angel can do so.
Where we differ is in our understanding and definition of the Word of God. Lutherans equate the Word of God with Sacred Scripture in such a way that the only source of God’s Revelation is Sacred Scripture. Catholics understand Word of God to mean the fullness of God’s Revelation. What this includes is nicely set out in the Lineamenta for the 2008 Synod of Bishops on the Word of God. In brief, the full revelation of the Word of God includes (cf. para. 9):
a – the Eternal Word of God, the Second Person of the Most Blessed Trinity, the Son of the Father
b – the created world [which] “tells of the glory of God” (Ps 19:1
c – “The Word became flesh” (Jn 1:14): The Word of God par excellence, the ultimate and definitive Word, is Jesus Christ.
d – the words of man [which] are taken as the words of God, resounding in the proclamation of the prophets and the apostles
e – Sacred Scripture, under divine inspiration, [which] unites Jesus-the-Word to the words of the prophets and apostles…
f – But the Word of God is not locked away in writing. Even though Revelation ended with the death of the last apostle, the Word-Revealed continues to be proclaimed and heard throughout Church history…through spirited preaching and many other forms in service to the Gospel.
The latter can be taken to include the authoritative teaching role of the Magisterium and by inference the Sacred Tradition of the Church.
4) Pastor Weedon sets up a false dichotomy between “divine mandates” as “the way of the law” and “gifts from the Holy Spirit through the Church for her use…in whatever way best serves the gospel.” If something has been given to the Church as a “gift of the Holy Spirit” for the sake of the Gospel, do we in fact have a choice as to whether or not we should use it?
5) Pastor Weedon states that “the present church has authority to regulate” the “ceremonies that have come down to her from antiquity”. Did this apply to the Church of the 16th Century? Because if it did, the Lutherans at the time directly opposed the Church’s authority to do so. Which raises the question: by Whose authority doest the church regulate matters of ceremony? Is there any other authority than the authority of Christ? and if not, then did the Lutherans of the 16th Century flout the authority of Christ by flouting the authority of the “present church”?
5 Responses to Scripture and Tradition in Catholicism and Lutheranism: A reply to Weedon
the Orthodox are missing the essential element of a living magisterium to establish, uphold and clarify the tenants of their faith
This is not true. What the Orthodox do not have is a single living person – apart from Jesus Christ – whose own view on a subject is given to be the final authority. The ‘living Magesterium’ of the Orthodox Church is in fact the conciliarity of the bishops of the local churches, which comprise the Church. You would be right to point out how difficult it is to get this lot to agree (much like herding cats) and this is exactly the point. Conciliarity is a block against innovationism. Changes cannot be made nor dogmas defined anew – apart from those already encapsulated in Holy Tradition – without a clear consensus of the Church as a whole: current and former bishops and Fathers, current and former laity by the ‘acceptance’ of a new doctrine or teaching.
Tradition and the working of the Spirit in her people is the proper place for the traditioning on of Holy Tradition, not dogmatic parsing. Tradition itself is the living, grace guided ‘Magesterium’ of the Church with its own authority distinct from but not radically lower than that of the defined dogmas of Ecumenical Councils.
Mystery, prayer and worship, contemplation and a ‘this too shall pass’ are most often the answers that this form of Magesterium gives. A tendency to clearly and infallibly address every passing fad and philosophy, of parsing each potentiality and possibility derived from a stray phrase of a Father can set one up for greater and greater difficulties as the structure takes on more and more weight as it seeks to rise to the heavens a la Babel.
William Weedon says:
On points #4 and #5, just a couple clarifications:
#4 recognizes that what the Holy Spirit gives to Church in one time and place need not be the same as how He leads in another situation. There was a time when ALL Christians took home the consecrated species to receive during the week – and even to share with those who might desire the Sacrament. Does that mean that such practice should have been preserved at all times and places? Or take the fact that according to liturgiologists the Roman Mass likely did not originally include the Our Father. St. Gregory the Great added it (remember his letter to the bishop of Syracuse in reponse to him “bringing Greek additions” to the Roman rite!). These are the sorts of things to which I refer, which the Church in her freedom receives and rejoices in, but never says: “This is the way it has to be everywhere and for all time.”
On point #5, the present Church *in every place* – I left that out by accident. The Lutheran contention in the 16th century was that Roman dietary laws are fine in Rome, but they cannot be imposed as divinely mandated upon German Christians. The phrase I was alluding to was in the FC Ep X:4 “We believe, teach, and confess that the community of God [Latin: churches of God] (in every place [Latin: every land] and at every time according to its circumstance) has the power to change such worship ceremonies in a way that may be most useful and edifying to the community of God [Latin: churches of God].”
Schütz says:
Christopher,
I have a great deal of sympathy for the Orthodox situation, regarding the difficulty of getting the bishops to act together with magisterial unity. The Catholic situation would be exactly the same if it were not for the service of the Petrine Ministry. Centuries ago, Luther conceded that although the best thing for the Church would be that all bishops lived in equality and love, such a thing is hardly possible without the papacy! So yes, I know that Orthodox bishops have magisterium, and I agree with the principle of conciliarity (we also hold to that in the modified form of collegiality), but one may ask its value if it cannot be exercised in a clear voice.
You say that “conciliarity is a block against innovationism”. That is true, but the historical fact is that the Orthodox Churches have managed nothing other than local or national synods for the last 1000 years or more. For this reason, the conciliar instrument has been unable to address issues of global importance with the required authority at the required moment.
“Dogmatic Parsing”? I haven’t heard that term before, but truly, if the language of faith may be spoken, surely it has a grammar, and surely it can be “parsed”? If a dogma has been revealed, surely that thing can be reflected upon with the authority that Christ gives his Church?
With regard to a magisterial attitude of “mystery, prayer and worship, contemplation and a ‘this too shall pass'” compared to a “tendency to clearly and infallibly address every passing fad and philosophy”: Yes, at times the Roman method may seem to go too far in addressing the “joy and hope, the grief and anguish of the men of our time” (GS 1), but by contrast, the Orthodox appear sometimes to be far to “other worldly” to be of any earthly use.
Pastor Weedon,
Thank you for these clarifications.
On: #4 Yes, indeed, changes have been made to liturgical practice and the Church has the authority to make these changes–as Pope Pius XII pointed out in Mediator Dei. The Church does so according to “fittingness”. It may be fitting that some things are done away with; other things may be so fitting as to be required by law. In general, the Catholic Church, like the Lutheran Church makes a distinction between those things required by divine mandate and those which are simply ecclesiastical law for the bene esse of the Church. But even on ecclesiastical matters, it is the Church’s “hierarchy” (as Pius XII puts it) who determine what is and what is not lawful in liturgical matters.
On #5, the clarification is essential, because it identifies a strong shift in ecclesiology that took place among the Reformation churches–namely the shift to the notion of territorial churches (these lasted until the Prussian Empire, I understand) in which the local prince was often the chief authority.
In contrast to the FC, we Catholics DO NOT “believe, teach, or confess that the churches of God in every land and at every time according to its circumstance has the power to change such worship ceremonies in a way that may be most useful and edifying to the churches of God” — at least not in such a way as to threaten the unity of eucharistic communion between the Churches.
Local variations of the liturgy are governed in the Catholic Church by the following canons:
Canon 846 of the Code of Canon Law states: “The liturgical books approved by the competent authority are to be faithfully observed in the celebration of the sacraments; therefore no one on personal authority may add, remove or change anything in them.”
Number 22 of the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy (Vatican II) states: “Regulation of the sacred liturgy depends solely on the authority of the Church, that is, on the Apostolic See and, as laws may determine, on the [local] bishop. In virtue of power conceded by the law, the regulation of the liturgy within certain defined limits belongs also to various kinds of competent territorial bodies of bishops legitimately established. Therefore, absolutely no other person, not even a priest, may add, remove, or change anything in the liturgy on his own authority.”
Thus the local bishop or local territorial church (eg. an Eastern Rite) has the authority to regulate the liturgy within the limits of certain canons, but these changes are always to be made in communion with the whole Church–which in practice means with the approval of the Holy See. Aside from this, no-one at all, acting on their own authority, has the authority to make changes to the liturgy.
far to “other worldly” to be of any earthly use.
I think this is exactly true: the Orthodox see the Roman model as being very an “earthly” use of power to settle issues in a very “earthly” way. I would suggest that many “issues of global importance” at the time simply have not been issues of more than local or temporary import – not requiring dogmatic formulation, which is what an ecumenical council is for. Orthodox, out of kindness and forebearance, have refused to call many of their Councils “Ecumenical” so as not to impede Rome’s repentance for her arrogance. This is changing though, and one will sometimes see the original 8th Ecumenical Council that ended the Photian Schism as such, and one will sometimes also see one or all of the Palamite Councils referred to as the 9th.
Otherwise, issues are dealt with on a local level by the local Church, or by the conciliarity of one, more, or all of the local Churches, e.g., the recent deposition and election of the Patriarch of Jerusalem, the various Councils in Moscow attended by Patriarchs, etc. The high degree of unanimity in the Orthodox Church – though far, far from perfect unity of mind – is proof that a centralized court of last appeal is not necessary, but simply desired.
So, one must be careful in assuming that Orthodoxy says nothing about “issues of global [or earthly] importance” simply because they don’t speak from a central organ on behalf of all. Each bishop and local Church makes such statement on a regular basis, e.g., Moscow’s “Bases of the Social Concept of the Russian Orthodox Church”, Constantinople’s various environmental conferences, and other more local issues facing different Orthodox Churches regarding abortion, business practices, etc.
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1) We replace the absentee monarch of Australia (who is also the Monarch of Great Britain) with an elected Australian monarchy.
2) The elected monarch exactly replaces the current monarch in the current constition.
3) The elected monarch has exactly the same powers, duties and responsibilities as those of the current absentee monarch. All the monarch's functions are carried out by his/her personal representatives (as is currently the case): federally by the Governor General, and in the states by the State Governors.
4) The Governor General and the Governors continue to be selected and appointed as they currently are, that is, by the premier with the approval of the monarch.
5) The monarch is elected to sovereignty over Australia for life, but his/her sovereignty is strictly non-hereditary.
6) The elective body is the "college of electors" comprised of the state governors and federal governor general.
7) The election of the monarch must be a unanimous decision on the part of the college of electors.
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Independence Must Lead to Better Future, Otherwise Futile
The release of Scotland’s Future has begun to put some flesh on the bones of what an independent Scotland will look like. However, further details on how a fairer, more egalitarian, and prosperous society must be developed not only to secure a yes vote, but to assure that a new Scottish democracy is not smothered by aristocratic and corporate plutocracy as Westminster has.
While many Scots have only begun to countenance what independence could mean, the furious cringe has not been definitively extinguished. Scots have been conditioned for centuries to believe that they are dependent on Westminster and the Monarchy for any measure of well-being, and the Scots people ‘too poor, too weak, and too stupid’ to govern themselves effectively.
Given the traditionally high rates of unemployment in Scotland, Westminster’s myopic London-centric focus, and the perception that the only way to make it in life is to move to the south-east of England, this cringe can seem borne out by reality. When a culture evolves with a lack of opportunities, and there is prosperity in other parts of the country, attributing it to some ethnic character defect can have a perverse credence.
While independence will provide Scots the necessary powers and sources of revenue to secure a better future, the adoption of specific constitutional structures must be binding on a ‘yes’ vote. As the furious cringe becomes extinct, Scots will increase their self-confidence see that they can actively construct a better future.
If independence simply means getting out from under one corrupt government only to be ruled by another, it will be a total waste.
Scotland’s Future is a good start, but this is not the time for the Scottish government to be timid. There is everything to play for, and showing how Scotland will be demonstrably better as an independent country is all many undecided voters need to vote ‘yes’.
Chapter 10 of Scotland’s Future sets out a framework for the adoption of a constitutional platform after a ‘yes’ vote, followed by a convention after independence to draft and ratify a permanent written constitution. While this commitment is very encouraging, setting out constitutional provisions before the referendum would go a long way towards convincing Scots to vote ‘yes’ and alleviate apprehension over self-determination.
A provision abolishing aristocratic privilege and committing to equality before the law regardless of social status would go far towards reassuring Scots that voting for independence will lead to a more egalitarian society.
While the Scotland’s Future envisages the UK Monarch as head of state, a constitutional convention may well decide that long-term retention of the monarchy is incompatible with popular sovereignty, and opt for an elected head of state.
A right for trade unions to organize and collectively bargain should be trumpeted as a core element of a written constitution. How better to show that the Scottish government will be bound to represent the interests of working Scots, protecting them from rapacious multinationals and unscrupulous employers?
A firm constitutional commitment to an effective and fair welfare state, assuring that all will be provided a minimum floor of material well-being, will also help to reassure Scots that independence will lead to a fairer society. Scots will be assured that they will have the basic means to pursue their lives and ambitions, rather than fearing the repugnant Westminster. ‘strivers v. skivers’ policies like the bedroom tax.
A constitutional requirement that all privatisation be approved by referendum, after a public debate over the benefits and drawbacks, would assure Scots that they will have a say over the sale of their patrimony, rather than having national treasures sold off to investors who have no interest in public service.
Constitutional provisions on land ownership would help rectify the imbalance and concentration of wealth in Scotland. A majority of private land in Scotland is owned by a handful of families, including aristocrats and foreign oil sheiks. The land is often registered in offshore havens for tax-avoidance purposes, and they frequently receive government subsidies. A constitutional requirement that all land be clearly titled uniquely in Scottish public records, and that all property taxes be set by and paid to the Scottish government, would go far in moving away from feudalism.
These are but a few suggestions, and I have touched on many others in previous columns. However, it is important that Scotland’s Future be the starting point, with details filled in over the coming months.
Scots continue to have many legitimate questions which could be addressed by laying out the contours of a written constitution. The mechanisms to enact a fairer society need to be specified, so that Scots will have confidence the promise of independence will be fulfilled.
First published on Newsnet.scot on 22 December 2013 as part of a series of articles on constitutional issues published between July 2012 and Sept 2014.
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About Self-injury
What is self-injury?
Who self-injures?
How common is self-injury among adolescents and young adults?
When does self-injury start and how long does it last?
Why do people self-injure?
Is self-injury a suicidal act?
What factors contribute to self-injurious behavior?
Is self-injury addictive?
Is self-injury contagious?
What are the dangers of self-injury?
Are rates of self-injurious behavior increasing in the adolescent and young adult population?
Detection, intervention, & treatment
Nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) is the deliberate, self-inflicted destruction of body tissue resulting in immediate damage, without suicidal intent and for purposes not culturally sanctioned.
Self-injury can include a variety of behaviors but is most commonly associated with:
◦ intentional carving or cutting of the skin
◦ subdermal tissue scratching
◦ burning oneself
◦ banging or punching objects or oneself with the intention of hurting oneself
◦ embedding objects under the skin
Tattoos and body piercing are not typically considered self-injurious unless undertaken with the intention to harm the body.
Although cutting is one of the most common and well documented forms, there are many things people do to hurt themselves. In fact, our studies have documented over 16 forms of self-injury and there may well be more. Moreover, it is clear that number of forms used by an individual varies significantly; from 1 to over 10. Self-injury can be and is performed on any part of the body, but most often occurs on the hands, wrists, stomach and thighs. The severity of the act can vary from superficial wounds to those resulting in lasting disfigurement. Indeed, about 33% of people who reported self-injury in two college studies said that they had hurt themselves so badly that they should have been seen by a medical professional; only 6.5% had ever been treated for any of their wounds.
What defines self-injury has less to do with what it looks like (e.g. in what particular way someone hurts his/her body) than with the intention one has when doing it. Because NSSI can look so much like a suicidal gesture, it can be confusing, and often frightening, to those who see it but who do not know what it means. This is one of the reasons that it is important to assess the why of the injuries as well as the what.
Click here to read about our online training course NSSI 101.
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Select Sources:
International Society for the Study of Self-injury. Definitional issues surrounding our understanding of self-injury. 2007. (http://itriples.org/index.html)
Laye-Gindhu, A. & Schonert-Reichl, K. A. (2005). Nonsuicidal self-harm among community adolescents: Understanding the “whats” and “whys” of self-harm. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 34, 447-457.
Whitlock, J, Muehlenkamp, J., Purington, A., Eckenrode, J., Barreira, J., Abrams, G.B., Marchell, T., Kress, K., Girard, K., Chin, C., Knox, K. (2011). Non-Suicidal Self-Injury in a College Population: General Trends and Sex Differences. Journal of American College Health, 59(8): 691-698.
When it comes to self-injury, there is no one “profile.” Although media tends to represent self-injury as a largely female, middle to upper middle-class, white phenomenon, studies simply do not support this. In fact, there is no evidence for differences in self-injury by socioeconomic status and very little research supports differences by race or ethnicity.
It is commonly assumed that girls/women are significantly more likely to self-injure than guys/men. In truth, however, this gender divide is not always supported. Studies either tend to find that females and males self-injure at the same rates or that females are a little more likely to injure than males, but not a lot. What does seem to vary by gender is age of onset, length of time self-injuring and methods of injuring. In general, studies find that females are more likely to start younger and to injure longer, using forms, like cutting, that can be more serious than some of the forms males use, like punching. Males are more likely than females to report a social component (e.g., injuring in the presence of others or letting others injure them), and to report injuring while drunk or high. Studies of NSSI in transgender or agendered individuals are rare since it can be so difficult to gather enough data to make inferences in these populations.
Of all of the demographic characteristics studied, the only thing that consistently shows up as a potent predictor of self-injury is sexual orientation. Studies consistently find that reporting oneself as bisexual (or being sexually attracted to males and females equally) is a really strong risk factor for self-injury, especially among females. Being lesbian or gay does not seem to carry much elevated risk above and beyond being straight. Why we see such a strong association for bisexual females and self-injury is unclear, but has begun to be investigated by researchers in the self-injury field with hopes that we might understand and intervene in supportive ways.
Andover, M. S., Primack, J. M., Gibb, B. E., & Pepper, C. M. (2010). An examination of non-suicidal self-injury in men: Do men differ from women in basic NSSI characteristics? Archives of Suicide Research: Official Journal of the International Academy for Suicide Research, 14, 79–88.
Baetens, I., Claes, L., Onghena, P., Muehlenkamp, J., & Grietens, H. (2011). Non-suicidal and suicidal self-injurious behavior among Flemish adolescents: A web-survey. Archives of Suicide Research, 15(1), 56-67
Andrews, T., Martin, G., Hasking, P., & Page, A. (July 01, 2013). Predictors of Continuation and Cessation of Nonsuicidal Self-Injury. Journal of Adolescent Health, 53, 1, 40-46.
For downloadable CRPSIR resources click here
Because it so often occurs in private, it is very difficult to identify one or more discrete self-injurer “profiles.” Unless being treated for related conditions, such as depression or anxiety, detecting self-injurious individuals can be very difficult. This made initial studies of self-injury prevalence difficult. However, over the past half decade or so, an increasingly large and diverse set of studies have given us a reasonably good picture of self-injury prevalence. In a recent meta analysis (a study of other studies) of all prevalence studies conducted to date worldwide, the pooled estimate for adolescents was 17.2% among adolescents, 13.4% among young adults, and 5.5% among adults. Rates vary, however, depending on time, place and location. In general, US studies tend to find that lifetime prevalence of common self-injury ranges from 12% to 37.2% in secondary school populations and 12% to 20% in young adult populations.
Swannell, S.V., Martin, G.E., Page, A., Hasking, P., & St. John, N.J. (2014). Prevalence of nonsuicidal self-injury in nonclinical samples: Systematic review, meta-analysis and meta-regression. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 2, 1-31.
Self-injury scholarship consistently shows an average age of onset between 11-15 years with a normally distributed age of onset ranging from about 10–24. Of all youth reporting any self-injury, over three quarters report repeat more than 1 episode and an estimated 6%-7% of adolescents report self-injury in the past year. Overall, about a quarter of all adolescents and young adults with self-injury history report practicing it only once in their lives, but since even a single self-injury episode is significantly correlated with a history of abuse and conditions such as suicidality and psychiatric distress there may be a group of adolescents in which a single incident of self-injury serves as a risk indicator for other risk behaviors or mental health challenges. Duration of self-injury is understudied but available evidence suggests that among individuals with a history of repeat self-injury but who are otherwise doing alright in life, the majority stop within 5 years of starting. For many self-injury is cyclical rather than linear meaning that it is used for periods of time, stopped, and then resumed.
Whitlock, J.L. & Selekman, M. (2014). Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) across the lifespan. In Oxford Handbook of Suicide and Self-Injury, edited by M. Nock. Oxford Library of Psychology, Oxford University Press.
Reasons given for self-injuring are diverse. Many individuals who practice it report overwhelming sadness, anxiety, or emotional numbness as common emotional triggers. Self-injury, they report, provides a way to manage intolerable feelings or a way to experience some sense of feeling. It is also used as means of coping with anxiety or other negative feelings and to relieve stress or pressure. Those who self-injure also report doing so to feel in control of their bodies and minds, to express feelings, to distract themselves from other problems, to communicate needs, to create visible and noticeable wounds, to purify themselves, to reenact a trauma in an attempt to resolve it or to protect others from their emotional pain. Some report doing it simply because it feels good or provides an energy rush (although few report doing only for these reasons). Regardless of the specific reason provided, self-injury may best be understood as a maladaptive coping mechanism, but one that works – at least for a while.
Klonsky, E.D. & Glenn, C.R. (2009). Assessing the functions of non-suicidal self-injury: Psychometric properties of the Inventory of Statements About Self-injury (ISAS). Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 31, 215-219.
Nock, M. K., & Prinstein, M. J. (2004). A functional approach to the assessment of self-mutilative behavior. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 72, 885-890.
Watch a short video about why individuals may engage in self-injury:
Why Self-Injure? from Cornell Self Injury & Recovery on Vimeo.
There are important distinctions between those attempting suicide and those who practice self-injury behaviors in order to cope with overwhelming negative feelings or no feeling at all (dissociation). Perhaps one of the most paradoxical features of self-injury is that most of those who practice self-injury report doing so as a means of relieving pain or of feeling something in the presence of nothing. Indeed, studies find that most people with non-suicidal self-injury history report not considering suicide at all. Nevertheless, the particular relationship between self-injury undertaken without suicidal intent and self-injury undertaken with suicidal intent are not clear since individuals who report the former are also more likely to report having considered or attempted suicide.
Studies of what predicts likelihood of moving from non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) to suicide thoughts and behaviors (including attempt) find that risk increases as lifetime incidence of NSSI increases (interestingly, this risk plateaus and decreases after about 50 lifetime incidents) and as sense of hopelessness increases. Among adolescents and young adults, risk of suicide thoughts and behaviors increases as positive connection to parents decreases (presence of positive connection to parents is also a strong protective factor). It is really important to note that while non-suicidal self injury does not cause or lead to suicide thoughts and / or behaviors, it does lower inhibition to suicide behaviors if one begins to feel suicidal since people who have practice hurting their bodies may find it easier to hurt themselves lethally.
Hamza, C.A., Stewart, S.L. & Willoughby, T. (2012). Examining the link between nonsuicidal self-injury and suicidal behavior: A review of the literature and an integrated model. Clinical Psychology Review, 32, 482-495.
Whitlock, J., Muehlenkamp, J., Eckenrode, J., Purington, A., Barrera, P., Baral-Abrams, G., Kress, V., Grace Martin, K, Smith, E., (2013). Non-suicidal self-injury as a gateway to suicide in adolescents and young adults. Journal of Adolescent Health, 52(4): 486-492.
In clinical populations, self-injury is strongly linked to childhood abuse, especially childhood sexual abuse. In addition, there is evidence that earlier, more severe abuse and abuse by a family member may lead to greater dissociation and thus greater self-injury. Self-injury is also linked to eating disorders, substance abuse, post-traumatic stress disorder, borderline personality disorder, depression, and anxiety disorders. The lack of empirical research in non-clinical populations reinforces the assumption that most or all of SIB is a product of pre-existing disorders, although more recent research in general populations of adolescent and young adults challenges this assumption..
Brodsky, B. S., Cloitre, M., & Dulit, R. A. (1995). Relationship of dissociation to self-mutilation and childhood abuse in borderline personality disorder. The American journal of psychiatry, 152(12), 1788.
Van der Kolk, B. A., Perry, J. C., & Herman, J. L. (1991). Childhood origins of self-destructive behavior. American journal of Psychiatry, 148(12), 1665-1671.
Yates , T. M. (2004). The developmental psychopathology of self-injurious behavior: Compensatory regulation in posttraumatic adaptation. Clinical Psychology Review, 24(1), 35-78.
Kokaliari, E. D. (2005). Deliberate self-injury: An investigation of the prevalence and psychosocial meanings in a non-clinical female college population (Doctoral dissertation, ProQuest Information & Learning).
Whitlock, J. L., Powers, J. L., & Eckenrode, J. (2006). The virtual cutting edge: the internet and adolescent self-injury. Developmental psychology, 42(3), 407.
Most self-injury researchers agree that self-injury does show some addictive qualities and may serve as a form of self-medication for some individuals. In our studies with college students, about a third of those who report using self-injury regularly report having a difficult time controlling their urge to self-injure. Moreover, interviews conducted for several of the studies associated with this project shows that many people who self-injure describe both the immediate effect and overall practice as something with addictive properties. The immediate effects of pain release mood-boosting endorphins, while the delayed effects are damaging, reinforcing addictive maladaptive coping strategies that induces shame. For example, many interviewees talk about moments of feeling the strong need to injure even when there is no obvious trigger and about having “self-injury free” hours or days. They also liken it to other drugs and talk about needing increasingly more or deeper injuries to feel the same effect. Recognition of the addictive properties of self-injury for some individuals is the basis for the “addiction hypothesis.” The addiction theory suggest that self-injurious acts may solicit involvement of the endogenous opioid system (EOS) which regulates both pain perception and levels of endogenous endorphins which occur as a result of injury. The activation of this system can lead to an increased sense of comfort or integration, at least for a short period of time. Repeated activation of the EOS can cause a tolerance effect: Over time those who self-injure may feel less pain while injuring. Overestimation of the EOS can then lead to actual withdrawal symptoms which in turn lead to more self-injurious behavior. Some support for the addiction hypothesis has been found in recent studies of whether addiction models apply to self-injury.
Grossman, R., & Siever, L. (2001). Impulsive self-injurious behaviors. Self-injurious behaviors: Assessment and treatment, 117.
Walsh, B. W. (2005). Treating self injury: A practical guide. New York: Guilford Press.
Favazza, A.R. and Rosenthal,R.J. (1993) Diagnostic Issues in Self-Mutilation. Psychiatric Services, 44(2):134-140. http://ps.psychiatryonline.org/doi/abs/10.1176/ps.44.2.134
Nixon, M.K., Cloutier, P.F., and Aggarwal, S. (2002). Affect regulation and addictive aspects of repetitive self-injury in hospitalized adolescents. J Am Acad Child Psychiatry, 41(11):1333-41. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12410076
Blasco-Fontecilla, H., Fernández-Fernández, R., Colino, L., Fajardo, L., Perteguer-Barrio, R., & de Leon, J. (2016). The Addictive Model of Self-Harming (Non-suicidal and Suicidal) Behavior. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 7:8. http://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2016.00008
Hicks, K.M., and Hink, S.M. (2008) Concept analysis of self mutilation. J Adv Nurs, 64(4):408-13. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?Db=pubmed&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=19006819
The seemingly rapid spread of self-injury behavior among community populations of youth suggests that there may be a contagion factor at work. Key early studies show patterns of social contagion even before the internet and social media (Walsh & Rosen, 1985). Indeed, self-injurious behavior has been shown repeatedly to follow epidemic-like patterns in institutional settings such as hospitals and detention facilities. Lynch and Cozza (2009) suggest that discussion of specific acts of NSSI among individuals who self-injure has been shown to attenuate social contagion in group treatment settings. For many, however self-injury is a very private, hidden act. Multiple studies show that for many who self-injure, no one knows or suspects that they injure. However, anecdotal reports from adults working with youth in school settings report a fad quality to the behavior, similar to that which occurs with eating disorders. Consistent with this, survey results of secondary school nurses, counselors and social workers suggest that there may be multiple forms of self-injury in middle and high school settings – some of which include groups of youth injuring together or separately as part of a group membership. Exposure to peer NSSI may put adolescents with comorbid psychiatric conditions at a particularly high risk of perceiving NSSI as a favorable coping strategy.Causes for the spread of the behavior in nonclinical populations have left many wondering what larger contextual factors might be at work. Recent research suggests that the Internet and the increasing prevalence of self-injury in popular media, such as movies, books, and news reports may play a role in the spread of self-injury.
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Why worry about self-injury? This is a common question, particularly among people who see it as an attention seeking behavior or as something that will pass in time. It is important to know that self-injury is often a sign of other more serious conditions. This is particularly true when it is regularly used or when the types of self-injury used could cause severe or lethal damage, as is the case with cutting, one of the most common forms of self-injury. Non-suicidal self-injury is, by definition, a behavior that does not include suicidal intent. Instead, it most often is used to preserve and enhance life, to return to a state of equilibrium and balance or emotional integration when one feels extremely out of sorts. That said, self-injury is a potent risk factor for current or later suicidal thoughts and behaviors. And, while self-injury does not cause it or lead to suicidal thoughts and/or behaviors, the fact that one has practiced hurting one’s body may make it easier to make a suicide attempt if the distress becomes acute enough. The fact that someone uses it at all suggests that they are experiencing high levels of psychological distress, even if not all the time. Studies also show that relatively few individuals who self-injure seek medical assistance when they severely injure themselves. Because of the potential link between self-injury and suicide, self-injury should always be taken seriously, particularly if a person is injuring regularly or using methods that can cause a lot of damage to the body (like cutting).
In addition to being linked to suicide, self-injury is often a sign that other worrisome psychological conditions may be present, such as depression, anxiety, or disordered eating. Moreover, the scars that self-injury leaves on the body can serve as a reminder that cause discomfort and distress of their own, long after the emotional challenges that lead to self-injury are resolved. Having to explain to family members, friends, bosses, peers, and other people why there are marks all over the body has been reported as an ongoing source of stress for many people who no longer self-injure but bear a high degree of scarring. Lastly, self-injury is extremely stressful for those who love and or live with someone who uses it to regulate emotion.
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This is impossible to know because we have no idea precisely how common self-injury used to be in community populations of adolescents and young adults. In assessing changes in NSSI rates it is important to consider that sample selection and NSSI categorization and measurement could impact prevalence and incidence rates. There is broad consensus, however, among researchers and those who work directly with young people that the phenomenon has increased over time, particularly since about 2000. Studies of changes in the number of adolescents who present for self-injurious treatment in hospitals has shown an increase and the presence of self-injury in new and popular forms of media, such as in newspapers, increased dramatically from the 1990s to today. Whether the increasing attention to self-injury is due to the fact that more youth are actually engaging in the behavior, to increased likelihood to seek help, or to an increasing ability among service providers to correctly identify and report the behavior is unclear. It may very well be a combination of all three.
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Detecting and intervening in self-injurious behavior can be difficult since the practice is often secretive and involves body parts which are relatively easy to hide. Although experienced therapists in this area can offer advice based on experience, few studies which actually test detection, intervention and treatment strategies have been conducted. The suggestions which follow are those which evolve naturally from existing literature and from interviews with practitioners with significant experience in self-injurious behavior.
Unexplained burns, cuts, scars, or other clusters of similar markings on the skin can be signs of self-injurious behavior.
Arms, fists, and forearms opposite the dominant hand are common areas for injury. However, evidence of self-injurious acts can and do appear on pretty much every body part possible. Other signs include: inappropriate dress for season (consistently wearing long sleeves or pants in summer), constant use of wrist bands / coverings, unwillingness to participate in events / activities which require less body coverage (such as swimming or gym class), frequent bandages, odd / unexplainable paraphernalia (e.g. razor blades or other implements which could be used to cut or pound), and heightened signs of depression or anxiety. When asked, individuals who self-injure may offer stories which seem implausible or which may explain one, but not all, physical indicators such as “It happened while I was playing with my kitten.” It is important that questions about the marks be non-threatening and emotionally neutral. Evasive responses are common. Not knowing how to broach the subject is often what restrains concerned individuals form probing. However, concern for their well-being is often what many who self-injure most need and persistent but neutral probing may eventually elicit honest responses.
Schools, parents, medical practitioners, and other youth serving professionals all have an important role to play in identifying self-injury and in assisting youth in getting help.
Unfortunately, lack of information on self-injury has hampered the creation of informational materials and/or treatment options. The S.A.F.E. Alternatives program in the Linden Oaks Hospital in Edward, Illinois is the one of the only existing inpatient treatment program specific to self-injury in the nation (see www.selfinjury.com). Moreover, while a small but growing body of evidence exists to assist those helping individual self-injurers, little literature exists to explain and address the environmental factors that contribute to adoption of the practice. For those who encounter self-injurious adolescents, creating a safe environment is critical. This can be difficult with youth who have suffered trauma or abuse. Drawing from a number of studies in this area, researchers maintain that structure, consistency, and predictability are important elements in forming relationships with self-injurious youth. Developing plans which emphasize a) taking responsibility for the behavior, b) reducing the harm inflicted by the behavior, c) identifying and more positively reacting to self-injury triggers and physical cues, d) identifying safe people and places for assistance when needing to reduce the urge to self-injure, and e) avoiding objects which could be used to self-injure (e.g., paper clips, staples, erasers, sharp objects) can help to reduce the harm associated with self-injurious practices and establish trust. This plan should serve to help stabilize the student and to provide structure and support until community-based counseling can begin. Parental detection of youth self-harm is associated with increased likelihood of professional help-seeking (Mojtabai and Olfson, 2008)
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Avoid displaying shock, engaging in shaming responses, or showing great pity.
The intensely private and shameful feelings associated with self-injury prevent many from seeking treatment. Self-injures often appear in emergency rooms only when self-inflicted wounds are so severe that they require medical treatment such as stitches or bone-setting. Because so little is known about self-injury, it is often misunderstood by medical staff members who provide the initial treatment. This misunderstanding may lead to extremely inappropriate treatment, such as stitching without anesthetic or intense feelings of frustration for the provider who asks, “Why is this person hurting him or herself?” Such reactions, if expressed in shocked or punitive ways, may reinforce the self-injurious behavior and its underlying causes and encourage the self-injurer not to seek care in the future. Self-injury is most often a silent, hidden practice aimed at either squelching negative feelings or overcoming emotional numbness. Being willing to listen to the self-injurer while reserving shock or judgment encourages them to use their voice, rather than their body, as a means of self-expression.
Self-injury is, most often, not a suicidal gesture.
It is important to differentiate between a self-injurious act and a suicide attempt at the outset since the two require different treatments. Mental health and counseling resources should be provided since self-injury is often a signal of underlying, unresolved distress. More long-term treatments may involve psychiatric and/or medical therapy.
Self-injury serves a function -- explicitly teaching more appropriate coping strategies may be one way to provide self-injurers with adaptive alternatives.
Self-injury is most common in youth having trouble coping with anxiety, depression, or other conditions that overwhelm their capacity to regulate their emotion. It is thus important to focus on enhancing awareness of the environmental stressors that trigger self-injury and on helping individuals identify, practice, and use more productive and positive means of coping with their emotional states. Focusing on elimination of the self-injury behavior without enhacing positive means of regulating emotion may simply lead to adoption of other self-destructive behavior, such as drug abuse. Drug therapy may help in some cases as well. Some patients using prescribed drugs for depression have found a reduction in the urge to self-injure while taking these medications. Therapy may be useful in exploring the underlying causes of self-injury. A combination of the above treatments may significantly reduce or completely eliminate self-injurious behavior.
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Assess the safety of self-injurious practices.
DiClemente et al. (1991) found that over one quarter of hospitalized adolescents who self-injured reported that they had shared cutting implements with others. Not only are the hazards of disease transmission or infection paramount, but bringing dangerous objects to school can lead to detention or suspension. Those who self-injure as well as those charged with detecting and intervening in self-injurious behavior need to adopt strategies for reducing the harm that can result as a consequence of sharing implements or using objects which might introduce infections.
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Assess level of group involvement.
Anecdotal evidence of self-injurious practices among groups of youth is increasingly common. Group self-injury is often a means of group bonding and membership and, as such, is undertaken with aims other than reducing anxiety or coping with overwhelming negative feeling – motivations strongly associated with “lone” self-injurious practices. These differences in motivation are likely to necessitate differences in approaches to intervention and prevention. However, because there is also is evidence that self-injurious behavior can be contagious in institutional settings and anecdotal evidence that it is also showing contagious tendencies in school settings, identifying and intervening in group self-injurious activities is important. The possibility for serious unintentional injury or infection to occur and / or for individuals who begin to self-injure as a means of group membership to develop a dependency on the practice over time augments the importance of early intervention and prevention. Identifying who is involved, the nature and lethality of the self-injurious activities used, and the purpose served for individuals and the groups constitute important first steps in effective detection and intervention.
Develop guidelines for detection, intervention and referral.
Institutions, such as secondary schools and Universities should consider adopting formal guidelines for detecting and managing self-injurious behaviors. In a recent national study of University mental health staff, fewer than 1/3 of the respondents indicated that the institution for which they work possesses a set of guidelines for managing self-injurious or other depression-related behaviors but virtually all agree that it is something about which they would like additional information and guidance. In light of the fact that self-injurious behaviors appear to be increasing and somewhat “contagious”, early detection and intervention is important. Specific resources which might aid with intervention and specific treatment strategies can be located on the resources page of this website.
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There are a number of modalities that therapists may use to intervene in the practice of self-injury. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and interventions that focus on understanding, tolerating, and accepting emotions (emotional regulation) while learning healthy use of coping skills (such as interpersonal effectiveness) are typically most helpful to those who self-injure. While there are few psychotherapeutic treatments that have been designed specifically for NSSI in adolescents, a review by Washburn et al. (2012) suggests that CBT in combination with medication adjustments can be more effective than just changing a medication. Several other studies (Miller et al., 2007; Lynch et al., 2009; Gratz & Chapman, 2009) also suggested that DBT was the most effective form of CBT because it actively targets the depressive symptoms, suicidal cognitions, and problem-solving deficits that maintain deliberate self harm. Despite DBT’s effectiveness, there is still a need to tailor treatment approaches to NSSI specifically. DBT was initially developed to treat individuals with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), considering self-injury only as a symptom of BPD. Mentalization-based treatments, those which help individuals who self-injure to learn how to separate their own thoughts and feelings from those of others, also show promise. A recent meta-analysis by Calati and Philippe (2016) examining multiple psychotherapies suggests that mentalization-based treatment was the only intervention effective in reducing NSSI. Most treatment providers who are familiar with self-injury will use these approaches in ways that they find are most likely to help their client. Collaborative, strength-based approaches are also popular among some self-injury treatment specialist. These modalities integrate aspects of DBT and CBT but also focus strongly on shared goal-setting with the client, engaging family and/or other members of the client’s social ecology as a means of support, and on emphasizing existing or easy to develop strengths in the recovery process. Further research is still needed to improve efficacy of treatment specifically in adolescents who engage in NSSI without Borderline Personality Disorder
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Self-injury prevention is a slow growing area of research. Only one prevention program, the Signs of Self-injury Program developed by Screening for Mental Health with Dr. Barry Walsh, has been evaluated. There will undoubtedly be more evidence-based practices and programs on the horizon, but for now we can begin to craft possible strategies by acknowledging dominant reasons for initiating and maintaining self-injurious practices and from lessons in related fields, such as disordered eating.
Enhance capacity to cope and regulate emotional perceptions and impulses. Inability to find alternate satisfying ways of coping with strong negative feelings is a highly consistent motivation for engaging in self-injury. Indeed, one of the most common reasons for ceasing the behavior given in our recent student survey is the adoption of other coping mechanisms. It thus seems logical that effective prevention (and treatment) approaches will include a focus on enhancing individuals’ capacity to cope with adversity. Indeed, this focus is one of the elements of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) – one of the more common and effective treatment approaches used with self-injurious behavior. Broad agreement among mental health professionals that capacity to cope is declining in the general population of adolescent and young adults suggests that enhancing capacity to cope may also be a useful part of universal and targeted prevention approaches. Building on existing strengths and exploiting opportunities within institutional curriculum to help youth explore diverse methods of coping with negative feelings may help accomplish this objective.
Enhance social connectedness. Those who practice self-injurious behavior also report high levels of perceived loneliness, less dense social networks, less affectionate relationships with their parents, and a history of emotional and/or sexual abuse. They are also more likely to suffer from diminished self-esteem, feelings of invisibility, and shame. Indeed, feeling invisible and inauthentic are common themes among self-injurious students we have interviewed for our studies. Approaches in which adolescents and adults are aided in recognizing and building on existing strengths, in reaching out to and connecting way with others in an authentic and meaningful way, and in participating in activities which allow them to feel meaningfully linked to something larger than themselves may help to shape a more positive view of the self. This may ultimately lessen reliance on potentially damaging coping mechanisms.
Avoid strategies aimed primarily at raising knowledge of forms and practices. Strategies aimed primarily at raising knowledge generally use single-shot or knowledge enhancement approaches to educate universal or targeted groups of youth about specific risk behaviors, practices, forms and consequences. In their review of eating disorder prevention strategies and research Levine and Smolak (2005) and Heath (2014) summarize research which suggests that single-shot awareness raising strategies (e.g., educational assemblies or workshops) are, at best, either not effective or only effective in raising short term knowledge and are, at worst, linked to increases in the behavior they intend to stop. Adverse effects were particularly evidenced in high school and college populations. Repeated and rigorous evaluation of the popular DARE program aimed at reducing drug use among youth has also been shown to be ineffective and, at worst, harmful. In many ways, these findings are consistent with common sense when regarded in the context of developmental processes – adult attention to specific risk behaviors, particularly if highly informative but of short duration or thoughtful follow-up, can be scintillating to adolescents interested in seeking adult attention or taking risks. Strategies which raise awareness about underlying factors (e.g. role of media or the cultural thinness ideal in promoting eating disorders) are not the same as those which simply educate about the prevalence, forms and practices associated with a specific issue and are likely to be more effective in positively raising awareness.
Equip staff and faculty to recognize and respond to signs of self-injurious behavior. Although it may be unwise to share detailed information about self-injurious behavior with large groups of youth, adults likely to encounter adolescents or young adults who engage in self-injurious behavior do need to know signs and symptoms. They also need to know what to do if they suspect or know someone is using self-injurious practices. Toward this end, raising awareness among adults as well as establishing protocols for referral is helpful for those who work directly with youth.
Prevention programs should be multilevel and interdisciplinary whenever possible. Prevention programs have been found to be more effective when they combine different components of the individual’s social network that cross domains (personal, psychological, academic, physical).
Focus on increasing staff and student capacity to recognize distress. As with many risk behaviors, our research shows that peers are most often the first to know or suspect that a friend is using self-injurious practices. As such, peers constitute the “front line” in detection and intervention. In light of the above recommendation to avoid awareness raising strategies about self-injurious behaviors with youth, we advocate concentrating effort on assisting young people recognize general symptoms of distress in their peers. Self-injurious behavior could be one of several categories of behaviors and perceptions assessed (mixing both positive and negative indicators avoids a solely deficit-based slant to findings) such as perceived wellbeing, eating disorders,life satisfaction, depression, relationships with adults, suicidality, etc. Additionally, while a few examples might be useful in explaining what is meant by self-injury, detailed description of forms could be avoided. In addition to educating about how to recognize distress, students could be encouraged to seek assistance and coached on specific strategies for getting help.
Promote and advertise positive norms related to help-seeking and communication about mental and emotional status and needs. It often requires more than a program or two to change embedded patterns. The tendency for peers to show loyalty to friends rather than to adults is strong (and, in many ways, fundamentally socially adaptive). Peers with knowledge of a friend’s dangerous behavior are may be unlikely to share that knowledge with an adult without concentrated effort by adults to alter adolescent and adult norms about help-seeking and communication — particularly communication between adolescents and adults. Strategies focused on altering community norms in social support and help seeking have been shown to be exceptionally effective in suicide prevention in a general population of adults in the US Air Force. Address sources of stress in external environment. The relationship between the sheer volume of stress or risk factors individuals confront and negative outcomes is well documented. Researchers have overwhelmingly shown that the more risk factors an individual confronts, the less like they are to thrive and the more likely they are to exhibit negative behaviors and attitudes. The capacity to manage multiple stressors simultaneously is particularly difficult for children and adolescents who attempting to successfully meet core developmental needs as well. Although empirically impossible to verify, the argument that contemporary children and youth confront an increasingly complex and varied set of stress and risk factors when compared to previous generations is persuasive and may be one reason for increases in rates of mental illness, including self-injurious behavior. If so, as Levine and Smolak (2005) argue for eating disorders, targeting environmental sources of stress may be a fundamentally more effective prevention strategy than targeting individual youth deemed to be at risk for self-injurious or other concerning behaviors.
Educate youth to understand the role media plays in influencing behavior. Media has consistently been shown to affect child and adolescent behavior in profound ways. Examination of the possible role media plays in spreading the idea of self-injurious behavior is one of the projects undertaken as part of this study program. Our preliminary findings support the assumption that images, songs, and news articles in which self-injurious behavior is featured has increased significantly over the past decade. As Brumberg (1992) has argued for eating disorders, highly visible public displays of self-injurious behavior may add potentially lethal behaviors to the repertoire of young people exploring identity options. Similarly Heath et al. (2014) suggest that explicit NSSI materials including personal stories, video projects, visual images may serve as triggers. Helping adolescents and young adults become critical consumers of media may lessen their vulnerability to adoption of glamorized but fundamentally poor coping strategies
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Any Catholic Who Would Vote for This Person Must Be Excommunicated
http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/hillary-clinton-tells-un-no-human-progress-without-abortion-on-demand
NEW YORK CITY, March 13, 2014 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who is expected to be the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016, believes it is a “bedrock truth” that abortion restrictions hamper human progress, and any efforts to improve women’s rights must begin with increased access to contraception and abortion.
Addressing the United Nations for International Women’s Day, Clinton told her audience, “There is one lesson from the past, in particular, that we cannot afford to ignore: You cannot make progress on gender equality or broader human development, without safeguarding women’s reproductive health and rights. That is a bedrock truth.”
Expanding access to so-called ‘family planning services’ like contraception and abortion, Clinton said, “must be the starting point for work today” when it comes to women’s rights.
Clinton said that even the United States, which has some of the most lenient abortion laws of any developed Western nation, falls short when it comes to giving women free access to abortion-on-demand.
“This remains the great unfinished business of the 21st century,” Clinton said. “No country in the world, including my own, has achieved full participation.”
More on the website found above.
More signs of the times
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/ffea2660-ab9e-11e3-aad9-00144feab7de.html
OK-Need more prayers, please
Please, please, please pray I can meet the people to help me get back to Europe. I am flummoxed as to how to get back. The only way is to have property in England and a permanent address, I was told by an immigration guru.
And, I still want to start up the House of Adoration and the house is still for sale.
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-23465169.html;jsessionid=0D3E5470868C89F06004D01FB9CAB775?premiumA=true
Anyone interested in helping?
Covering two birds with one stone....
"Yes we can" is now ICANN
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/us-to-relinquish-remaining-control-over-the-internet/2014/03/14/0c7472d0-abb5-11e3-adbc-888c8010c799_print.html
sinister, folks, very....
Get Ready, Folks
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-14/fed-custody-holdings-record-decline-fuels-russia-speculation.html
This is not my Church
http://new.livestream.com/randomhouzeproductions/recongress2014
Obviously, no one has opened a GIRM manuel here and all have ignored the Pope Emeritus' comments on what are liturgical instruments and what are not....
Sad days, sad...and the music is awful----if it is music.
Will the Catholic Herald delete this comment of mine today?
The Catholic Herald is praising Tony Benn. Man...this paper use to be the best Catholic paper in GB. No longer, imo.
Let us see if my comment is deleted again...
Has anyone on the Catholic Herald read all of the statements made by every pope since 1848 against socialism, as a movement directly in opposition to the teaching of the Catholic Church? Why are you lionizing someone who added to the destruction of charity, the promotion of the anti-life movement, the undermining of the dignity of individual human beings, and the infiltration of anti-religious curriculum in all the schools?
The government of Great Britain is now in open war against real Christian morals-those held dear by the one, true Church, the Catholic Church.
What blindness.
I agree with Aelfric the Saxon's comment. The writers do not seem to be thinking like Catholics.
From LifeSiteNews-Link on URL-Interview with Bishop Egan
PORTSMOUTH, England, March 13, 2014 (LifeSiteNews.com) – “When people are not in communion with the Catholic Church on such a central thing as the value of life of the unborn child and also in terms of the teachings of the church on marriage and family life – they are voting in favor of same-sex marriage – then they shouldn’t be receiving Holy Communion,” said Portsmouth Bishop Philip Egan in a wide-ranging on-camera interview with LifeSiteNews last week.
Bishop Egan explained that rather than a punitive measure, the denial of Holy Communion is “always an act of mercy.” It is done, he said, “with the hope and prayer that that person can be wooed back into full communion with the Church.”
“Nobody is forced to be Catholic. We’re called by Christ and He’s chosen us, it’s a free choice. We live under the word of God. It’s not my truth, its God’s truth,” he said.
“One would hope that in that case it would encourage someone to come back to seek communion with the Lord with the truth and say I’m sorry I got lost.”
The difficulties faced by Catholics and other Christians in an increasingly secular and intolerant Britain are keenly felt. Bishop Egan has been outspoken in his defence of life and family, writing to the Prime Minister and speaking eloquently on the issues. He has himself experienced backlash both in terms of “unpleasant correspondence” and even a confrontation at the Cathedral.
We must not go looking for a fight, “but we will, being Christian, have to suffer, and have to go to the cross,” he said. “This is one of the ways, particularly as a priest or a bishop, in which that cross is going to come out, because you have to witness to the truth.”For him, however, the duty to witness to the truth in love is not an option despite the persecutions that may come. Christians, he says, “are bound to come into conflict” with the secularized culture.
From the martyrs at the time of the Reformation, he said, “we can take consolation and solace.” In addition he said, “A relationship with Christ is essential where we are truly united in the heart of Christ. … With prudence, wisdom, praying for the guidance of the Holy Spirit, we support each other in that and in our suffering.”
Bishop Egan stressed that the witness to truth in the Church is made in love for “all persons especially those of same-sex attraction.” He noted that God has designed us for happiness and that “happiness is found only in God -- it is found ultimately in our relationship with God.”
He suggested attempting to draw society back to the Christian roots of the concepts they now use to discriminate against people of faith. Concepts such as equality and tolerance, diversity and respect, are taken from Christianity, he said.
“So often the words they use, used with a totalitarian edge, they are awash on a sea of relativism,” he said. “Somehow,” he said, we must “draw them back to Christian underpinnings. … Otherwise we’re going to be heading into a police state if we carry on in these directions.”
Looking to the future for Catholics in England, Bishop Egan’s views are mixed. He is at times “not very hopeful” because of the fact that “in the Catholic community we’ve not effectively communicated the beautiful vision of marriage and family life that Christ gives us through the teachings of the Church.” Bishop Egan said that in order to evangelize and woo people toward Christ and the truth, Catholics themselves must first be convicted.
However, he adds “the prospects are still good if we can hold the line and not lose our nerve.”
For example, while the UK government is mandating sex education in Catholic high schools, Catholic schools are able to provide programs that fit the government targets “but clearly within the marriage and family life context and values of the Catholic community.”
“We must say look, these are our values, we have to have the freedom to teach and educate and form our children in the Catholic way of life.”
As to the future regarding withholding Holy Communion from Catholic politicians who support abortion and same-sex ‘marriage’, Bishop Egan says, “I personally would be in favor of saying that somebody should not be receiving Communion myself here within the diocese.”
He added however that he’d “have to act really with the other members of the bishops’ conference.”
“We need to discuss this as a bishops’ conference,” he said. “I’ve already indicated to you my sympathies – if somebody is not in communion with the Catholic Church they should not be receiving communion.”
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/03/14/suppressing-religion-is-wrong-bible-verse-flap-mobilizes-legal-groups-to-prepare-for-battle-with-air-force-academy/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=story&utm_campaign=ShareButtons
The Life of No Sacraments Looms
I am almost at the end of my efforts to help others see the need for communities in America, Great Britain and Ireland. I have written much on this subject and am personally grieved that people simply do not see the need for contacts based on love and knowledge.
No one talked about "community" until it no longer existed. Real Catholic communities have been destroyed in Europe by war, socialism, communism and the death of Christendom. In other words, there exists a vacuum where overlapping ideal formerly brought people together in the past.
In the States, because of distances and a huge, false ideal of "rugged individualism", communities hardly can be discussed among even traditional Catholics.
Too many priests and too many lay people believe that the older forms for creating community still work.
These do not. Altar and Rosary societies, Knight of Columbus, Cursio, and so on never discuss the coming upheaval of the Church. Why people in these groups cannot see the impending loss of the sacramental life of the Church, and the serious curtailing of religious freedoms continues to baffle me.
In one diocese, eight sems for one half of a State; in another two sems, for 100,000 people; in another, 42 priests for 100,000 people; in another,one sem.
Do people want a life without the Mass? Communities would encourage vocations and the parents who have children would be encouraged by an intense, shared faith.
To pretend families will be able to "go it alone" reveals a naivete and a lack of historical perspective.
Can I keep writing and talking about this when few, very few respond?
Men must take the lead and pray about communities in their areas.
Do they want to stand back and watch the imprisonment and death of their priests?
Having safe havens for priests will be a necessity. Read my novellas.
Get passed the stage of denial and comfort.
The old groupings miss the point and are not forward looking, but backward looking.
Do not look back, plan for the future. You children's faith life is at stake, as well as the continuance of the Catholic Church in your area.
http://supertradmum-etheldredasplace.blogspot.com/2014/02/why-catholic-cannot-discern.html
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New Mass Setting for the Ordinariate in England
http://www.ordinariate.org.uk/news/OrdinariateNews.php?Ordinariate-Priest-s-Mass-to-be-Published-192
Fr Elliott Smith , whose own background is steeped in the Anglican choral tradition, now intends to start work on a version of the setting to the words of the Ordinariate Use liturgy, which integrates centuries' old Anglican prayers into the Roman Rite. He also has plans to compose something which could be suitably sung at Evensong.
And an older article...
http://www.ordinariate.org.uk/news/OrdinariateNews.php?Ordinariate-Meetings-in-Rome-184
From Ireland-update and keep those Memorares coming
Death of former MEP’s son inspires establishment of Catholic university in Ireland
Sinnott said those involved in the project have already started scouting locations and a group has been established in the US to raise funds.
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FORMER MEP KATHY Sinnott has said the idea to set up Ireland’s only Catholic liberal arts college was inspired by her son who died in a tragic accident in 2009.
A group in the United States has been formed to raise funds for the Newman College Ireland and to pay for scholarships to allow students to attend without paying huge fees. Sinnott said those involved in the project have already started scouting locations for the college but “we haven’t discovered it yet”.
Speaking to TheJournal.ie she said the idea for the four year college, which will offer courses in theology, philosophy, history, literature, maths and natural science, was inspired by her son Kevin, who passed away five years ago. The 22-year-old drowned while trying to swim across a lake near his college.
She said he had been through the Irish education system and “didn’t do so well”.
He went to a liberal arts college in America, he got a good scholarship and I wanted him to absolutely blossom. He discovered talents there he didn’t know he had.
“At his funeral I was thinking how happy he was over the last couple of years and how some of his friends in Ireland didn’t have the same opportunity,” she continued. “Some were doing subjects they wanted to do when they were 16 but changed their minds and I just thought people in Ireland should have this.”
Sinnott explained that the college will offer students a chance to major in a particular topic of their interest but they will also be given an education in the base subjects, like theology and history.
On a website set up for the college, it says it expects to be able to award students substantial scholarship aid. It also said students will be encouraged “to learn the unity of truth, and to see the goodness, truth and beauty of creation, as well as the inviolable dignity of human life, which is threatened in our time by an eclipse of the sense of God”.
The project’s Facebook page promises the college will “form the next generation ot Catholic leaders; ethical businessmen, mothers and fathers, priests and religious eager to serve God.”
Sinnott said the project is still in the early stages now and fundraising is expected to pick up once a site for the college has been selected and plans are more concrete. However she said the group is also hoping to collect 3.5 million memorares, as the college “is going to be built on prayer”.
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Well, are some of the libs turning against the president?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2014/03/13/zuckerberg-says-he-called-obama-to-express-frustration-over-nsa-surveillance/
One reason for the lack of vocatons
In America and in Great Britain, at this time in history, one-half, or 50% of all children born are born either to a single mum or to parents who are not married.
Most of these people do not intend to get married. Some of these parents are fallen-away Catholics.
Vocations come from parents who are practicing Catholics, although many are now coming from converted men, whose families are completely secular. However, the garden of vocations has traditionally been the good, Catholic family under the leadership of a dad who understands the meaning of "domestic church."
Where there are strong dads and strong priests, vocations follow.
But, there are other "fathers" who inspire men to become priests. I know for sure that in my son's life, several priests helped him on his way to the seminary-by example.
The first was our pastor who is still working, although in retirement age, who is a trad priest, and one who says the Latin Mass beautifully. He is not only a model priest liturgically, but a father to all he meets.
The second is also a traditional Latin Mass priest of the FSSPs. He was very young and a new priest when my son met him, and this priest was a great role model.
The third priest is a Byzantine married priest, one of the holiest men I know. He is not only a holy man, who has a servant's heart, but also completely orthodox, and liturgically sound.
The fourth priest is a monk with a brain the size of a planet. He was a philosopher teacher, now retired, who was also one of the most honest priests I have ever known. My son greatly benefited from his intellectual soundness, (he taught Aquinas, among others), but also from his fearlessness is standing up to evil.
So, one reason why there is a lack of vocations is that many young men never meet holy, orthodox, inspiring, honest priests, who are truly fathers to their congregations.
Sadly, such good men are hard to find....
My son has been blessed in his life to be influenced by such good men.
No discussion on this horrible bill in Great Britain....
http://www.lifesitenews.com/blog/david-cameron-presides-over-largest-liberalisation-of-abortion-practice-sin?utm_source=LifeSiteNews.com+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a43453a3cd-LifeSiteNews_com_Intl_Full_Text_06_19_2013&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0caba610ac-a43453a3cd-397449058
Images of aborted babies need to be shown in Great Britain by the pro-life groups....to show the barbarism and evil of this practice.
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Gauging public opinion on small wind turbines
Home/News/Gauging public opinion on small wind turbines
There are currently more than 900’000 small wind turbines in use worldwide and estimates suggest that could increase by 20 percent by 2020. But, there has been a lack of research on public opinion on these independent energy systems.
Recent studies suggest that around 70 to 80 percent of people in Europe support wind farms, although there are still concerns around noise and aesthetics. Little is known, however, about public attitudes towards small wind turbines, which are generally defined as those with capacities below 100kW.
Cerian Tatchley, a researcher at the University of Stirling in Scotland, recently published the results of a survey that she believes is the first peer-reviewed research in the world investigating attitudes towards SWTs.
Just over half of the respondents – predominantly older, white males – felt that SWTs were acceptable across a range of settings. However, 40 percent said they would not be willing to install a SWT, mainly due to concerns about economics, visual impact and doubts around efficiency.
“Environmental attitudes influenced opinions,” says Tatchley. Those most concerned about climate change were more accepting of SWTs. Age also affected attitudes, “with older respondents generally being less accepting of SWTs”, she adds.
Another key finding was that attitudes towards SWTs were dependent on their setting. Turbines associated with road signs were the most acceptable, while those in hedgerows and gardens were least acceptable.
“Concerns about wildlife impacts were most frequently raised in relation to SWTs installed in hedgerows – which are used by some bat species as commuting routes between roosts and foraging areas – and concerns about noise for SWTs installed on buildings or in gardens”, explains Tatchley.
The European SWIP project is also exploring attitudes towards SWTs, and recently presented the preliminary results from an EU-wide questionnaire.
Although a significant number of respondents suggested they would be interested in a SWT for their own home, other decentralised energy solutions – solar photovoltaics (PV), solar thermal collectors, and combined heat and power – were looked upon more favourably, explains Simon Hunkin, EU Policies & Communication Manager at Greenovate! Europe, who are running the survey.
When asked what would increase their interest in SWTs the most popular options were “improved performance” and “reduced costs”, with more than 90 percent of respondents selecting each of these developments.
To help improve the performance of small wind turbines SWIP is developing new technologies, such as blades and gear boxes, and is focusing on urban wind modelling to optimise placement of turbines.
In fact, Hunkin says, a large problem in cities is wind resource assessment. In urban areas, below 30m the effect of surrounding obstacles produces inconsistent wind patterns that are difficult to predict. “Wind conditions in cities are difficult to measure, so when SWTs are installed they do not always work, and this can be seen very clearly by passers-by,” he explains.
Europe is aiming for a wind energy penetration level of 20 per cent by 2020. Decentralisation, with a move from large wind farms to smaller systems, is expected to play an important role in this, as recently underlined by Stefan Gsänger, Secretary General of World Wind Energy Association: “Small wind has already found its niche in the global electricity market and provides power to millions of people living in around one million households, many of which would not have access to power without their small wind turbines”. But research on these independent energy systems needs to make great strides in the coming years.
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One hundred years ago when America entered the War to End All Wars. And Rochester.
dkramer3@naz.edu
April 6, 2017, 2 years ago
Edmond Lyons Park., East Rochester. A German WW1 minenwerfer (literally, “mine thrower”) in 7.58cm caliber. 4/5/17
Democrat and Chronicle, 06 Apr 1917, Fri, Page 1
100 years ago today, the United States declared war on Germany in what now has become one of America’s forgotten wars.
Civil War cannon. Pittsford Cemetery. 4/5/17
The unfortunately misnomered, “War to End All Wars,” was a world catastrophe whose continuation 20 years later led to even greater catastrophe.
About 117,000 American soldiers perished in the sixth months of intense combat: 53,402 battle deaths and 63,114 other deaths in service, many from Spanish flu — a significant number but one that pales compared to the millions who fell in the killing fields of France, Turkey and Russia.
Edmond Lyons Park., East Rochester. World War II monument. 4/5/17
Nonetheless, Rochester suffered. About 23,000 Rochestarians served. And, as reported in recent article by Jim Memmott, A century later, remembering the dead of World War I , at least 609 Monroe County soldiers never returned. But the war itself remains on the margins of American collective memory.
World War One Austrian cannon in Washington Square Park. see The WWI Austrian Cannon is back–or not–in Washington Square Park! and More on the Austrian Cannon Monument including from Rachel Barnhart
Plaque on the Vietnam Veteran’s Walk of Honor, Highland Park
By comparison, other American wars are etched into the Rochester landscape. The Civil War commemoration, the Soldier’s and Sailor’s Monument, is the centerpiece of Washington Square Park. The Civil War cannon in the Pittsford Cemetery is one of many in the area. Memorials to WWII can be found from Ontario Beach to East Rochester’s Edmund Lyons Park. The Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial in Highland Park is a vivid reminder of that awful conflict.
WWI German howitzer in Pittsford next to the Canal Path. from Over the Top! Courtesy of the Military History Society of Rochester
Mt. Hope Cemetery. World War I and World War II veterans. 4/2/17
Spanish-American War monument. Edmond Lyon’s Park., East Rochester. 4/5/17
By contrast, in the early years after the Armistice of 1918 only one major monument was erected, in Washington Square Park (now under repairs), — an Austrian cannon captured by the Italian army at the battle of Battle of Vittorio Veneto in which only a handful of US troops fought.
That monument itself was not solicited by the people of Rochester but offered by the government of Italy as a good will gesture in 1921. In a battle pitting Austrians and Italians the cannon remains an odd American memorial to the War to End All Wars that wasn’t.¹ In 1932 — 14 years after the Armistace — the town of Pittsford displayed a German howitzer captured on the Western Front (now unceremoniously kept outside the Public Works shed.)
By comparison, the Spanish-American War twenty years earlier in 1898 — the battles lasted about three weeks in which 364 American soldiers were killed — is prominently featured from downtown to Highland Park. Rochestarians gladly accepted trophy cannons from Manila Bay, a tablet displayed in City Hall and the “War Eagle” by the river. Several rows on graves in Mount Hope are dedicated to Spanish War veterans — almost all of whom never even came close to Cuba — and their wives. By contrast, in Mount Hope there is a row or two of World War I veterans, but lacking demarcation and intermixed with World War II veterans.
(left to right, top to bottom) Spanish-American War trophy cannon Highland Park, Spanish-American War trophy cannon Mt. Hope Cemetery, graves of Spanish-American War veterans and wives, War Eagle next to War Memorial downtown, City Hall, grave of last Spanish-American widow. [Image created by UR’s Rettner computer lab staff] see On Spanish-American War monuments in Rochester. And remembering the Buffalo Soldiers on Veteran’s Day
Mt. Hope Cemetery. 4/1/17
To learn more about the forgotten war, I turned to Rundel’s Local History & Genealogy Division librarian Brandon Fess. Brandon was not surprised that I discovered relatively few markers of the Great War in Rochester. Rochester itself mirrors the national experience. While memorials dot the European landscape — with the notable exception of Italy — Americans mostly chose to forget. As Brandon says:
In direct contrast to the European experience of the war, Americans suffered very little from World War I. The war was short, caused few casualties, and had limited long-term impact. Beyond the limited physical impact of the war, enduring American isolationism and limited national interest in even taking part in the war meant that many people had no interest in memorializing the conflict, seeing our involvement as a bloody mistake. Thus, for Americans, there was little impetus to memorialize the war. The result has been a vacuum of not just memorials, but even of general knowledge about this defining conflict in the minds of most Americans.
Mt. Hope Cemetery.1SGT William Paul Higginson, Distinguished Service Cross recipient. He was a First Sergeant of the 5th Regiment, 45th Company of the US Marine Corps. He died in service at Chateau Thierry during World War One. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross and also the Navy Cross. His citation reads in part: He gave the supreme proof of that extraordinary heroism which will serve as an example to hitherto untried troops. [from Find a Grave]
Mt. Hope Cemetery. William Wallace Gilbert, Three Wars Veteran. He began his military career in the 19th U.S. Infantry during the Civil War, was promoted to Captain Major for his distinguished service during the Phillipine Insurrection and rose to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in World War One. The frequent and detailed letters he wrote home during the Civil War have been preserved at the University of Rochester as a valuable historical collection. He was closely related to the University of Rochester, being the nephew of its first President Martin Anderson, and a professor of Latin and Greek there between the Civil and Spanish American Wars. [from Find a Grave]
Nor was Brandon surprised by the overflow of paens to the Spanish-American War only twenty years earlier. That war was even shorter, even more popular, and hardly a bloody mistake — all the ingredients well suited for a nationalistic frenzy — while 1918 left Americans wondering why they sent their sons to die.
Rochester may have little impetus to memorialize the war for several reasons.
First, Rochester was home to a thriving German-American community, many of whom had relatives in Germany and traveled back and forth when they could. Like most German-Americans, they favored American neutrality, fearing a backlash if the United States joined the Allies. For example, a recent USA Today article, “Anti-German hysteria in city during WWI,” describes how in Cincinnati German-Americans were often suspected to be hidden saboteurs or agents of the Kaiser and that German-sounding buildings and streets were Anglicized and renamed.
Fortunately, this does not seem to have been the case in Rochester. In a 1943 Rochester History essay, Rochester and World War I , Sylvia P. Black and Harriet Julia Naylor write:
As the war advanced, Rochesterians were warned “Don’t talk about the war in public places where a German spy may gather bits of information of value to the enemy.” This warning was not so terse as our “A slip of the lip may sink a ship,” but it was designed for the same purpose. In February of 1918 the Chamber of Commerce went on record as advocating the death penalty for saboteurs. Resentment over the known cases of enemy sabotage and espionage contributed toward an attitude of suspicion and distrust that tended to make life extremely uncomfortable for German-American citizens, the great majority of whom were absolutely loyal to the United States. In Rochester, however, the situation was not so bad as in some other localities . . . While there were undoubtedly evidences of hysteria, bigotry, and intolerance, it seems evident that the authorities here, and a large part of the population, attempted to be not only fair but generous to the alien.
The relative benign treatment of German-speaking Rochestarians described by Black and Naylor is corroborated in Maurice Isserman’s 1977 Rochester History essay “Inheritance Lost: Socialism in Rochester, 1917 – 1919”. Isserman says that not a single Rochestarian was prosecuted under the onerous Espionage Act meant to enforce patriotism and suppress dissent.
(left to right, top to bottom), East High School, including David Hochstein, Edmund Lyons Park East Rochester, Penfield Baptist Church (from Jim Memmott’s article that includes discussion of David Hochstein), University of Rochester Wilson Commons. [Image created by UR’s Rettner computer lab staff] see Remembering the fallen of the RCSD from America’s past wars
Furthermore, Isserman shows that Rochesterians were actively involved in the anti-war movement both before and even during the war. Most notably, the famed Social Gospel theologian Walter Rauschenbusch led peace vigils right up to the Declaration of War on April 6th.
First Presbyterian Church of Pittsford, 21 Church Street see Remembering the fallen of the RCSD from America’s past wars
More dramatically, even after April 6th, anti-war sentiment remained strong during the November 1917 elections for mayor and other local offices. In those elections, the Socialist Party — under a peace banner — elected three constables, two alderman and two supervisors, while receiving 20% of the mayoral vote. In Buffalo the Socialist votes for mayor tallied 30%. In historian Michael Kazin’s recent book, War Against War (2017), a study of the American anti-war movement from 1914-1918, Kazin cites the Rochester and Buffalo elections as a significant indication of war opposition.
Taken together — a large German-American population combined with an active anti-war socialism — it seems arguable that Rochestarians did not have a overweening appetite to celebrate a war that cost so much and gained so little. Maybe we learned something in the twenty years from 1898 to 1918.
¹Rundel’s Local History & Genealogy Division librarian Brandon Fess says about the Austrian cannon:
The Austrian cannon, however, is something…different. It was a friendly gesture to Rochester from Italy, certainly. However, it was still a trophy taken by the Italians, though most likely as post-war reparations (over a thousand guns of that model were handed over to Italy by Austria, along with thousands of other artillery pieces). Italy had a particularly tortured experience of the war, and propaganda aimed at Italian emigrants in the US and elsewhere was widely used to build international support for Italy — and to try to lure emigrants home to join the army. As home to a large Italian emigrant population, I am quite sure that the Austrian cannon was more than just a gesture of friendship — it was also a signal to Italian-Americans of Italy’s might and military success in the war. The monument with a sole meaning is rare; layers of meaning and symbolism can be present even in such a concrete and seemingly simple monument as a lone cannon.
Irondequoit, NY. The cannon was acquired by Irondequoit American Legion Post 134. [Photos: Dean Tucker, 12/16/18]
Intersection of Lake Avenue and River Street, Rochester, NY. Erected 1931 by Ira J. Jacobson Post No. 474, American Legion. To Commemorate the Memory of
Ira J. Jacobson
who took part in the following engagements of
The World War 1917 – 1918
Dickebush Sector,Belgium East Poperinge
Line, Hindenburg Line, LaSalle River,
Jonc Demer Ridge, Vurstraat Ride,
St. Maurice River
and was killed in action at
Bandiville Farm, October 17, 1918
and the following veterans of World War
Ira J. Jacobson Post
who have departed to the great beyond
Ira Jacobson Light
John Egan
1969 [Photo: David Kramer, 12/16/18]
UPDATES: SEE The Austrian cannon is back in Washington Square Park. And some Italian Rochester history.
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UK notes unique bilateral relationship with Sri Lanka
Britain has noted that its bilateral relationship with Sri Lanka is unique.
The British High Commission in Colombo and the British Council celebrated Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II’s 93rd Birthday at Westminster House, the British High Commission in Colombo said today.
Parliamentarians, representatives of the international community and civil society, and religious and business leaders attended the event.
Guests joined the British High Commissioner, James Dauris, and the British Council Country Director for Sri Lanka, Gill Caldicott, to celebrate the long friendship and many links that Sri Lanka and the UK enjoy.
The special theme of the reception was 70 years of the British Council’s presence in Sri Lanka. Since first opening a centre in Sri Lanka in 1949, the British Council has worked across the island to build connections between the people of the UK and Sri Lanka, representing the UK in all aspects of cultural relations, building relationships and opportunities.
The High Commissioner, speaking of the 70 year milestone and the unique bilateral relationship that the UK and Sri Lanka share, told guests:
“This evening gives us the opportunity to celebrate the many things that link us, link our countries and link our peoples, as friends. We have chosen today in particular to celebrate 70 years of having the British Council in Sri Lanka.
“Through its work in English, its libraries and the exams it organises, it supports personal growth and helps equip young Sri Lankans for the worlds of higher education and work.
“We celebrate the Council’s first 70 years in Sri Lanka tonight because it has done so much of which we can be proud. We look forward to its next 70 years confident that it will do so much more that we will have good reason to be proud of in the future.”
The High Commissioner also thanked the sponsors of the evening; London Stock Exchange Group, De La Rue, HSBC, Jaguar Land Rover, Pearson and Finlays. He commented that these companies’ stories of successful investment demonstrate the vibrancy of the commercial and business relationship that Sri Lanka and the United Kingdom enjoy today.
The High Commissioner ended his speech to guests looking to the future.
“I would like to end with a quotation I have used before from the speech The Queen gave during her second visit to Sri Lanka in October 1981:
“Britain and Sri Lanka have had a long association and stand together as equal, independent members of the Commonwealth. We may be geographically far apart, but we are friends and shall remain so.”
“As I come towards the end of my time as High Commissioner I look forward confident that, whatever the turns that Fortune may give her wheel, we will remain good friends.”
Commenting on the 70th anniversary, Ms Caldicott, said:
“We are proud of our contribution to UK-Sri Lanka relations over the past 70 years, and the opportunities for personal growth provided by our programmes in education and arts, our libraries, and our work in English and examinations across the country.
“Looking forward we are expanding our contribution to the Sri Lankan government priorities of education reform, social cohesion and reconciliation, and on developing skills for employability. We believe passionately in the rights of women and girls to take up their rightful place contributing fully to society. In all our work we use UK models and expertise, encouraging bilateral exchange to create conditions for a mutually beneficial relationship between our two countries.”
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Applied to land features, mouth is a term for all manner of surface openings, including the crater of a volcano as well as the entrances and exits to canyons, valleys, and caves. A mouth is also the place where one waterway empties into a larger body of water, for example where a river flows into the sea. (The mouth is considered the last identifiable portion of the smaller tributary before it merges with the larger entity.) Place- names derived from mouth include the Mouth of River Styx Landing, in Mississippi County, Arkansas; and Mouth of the Maravillas, at Bourland Canyon, Texas. Other American place-names arise from two Algonquian words for mouth: sawacotuck, which means “mouth of the tidal stream,” is the basis for the name of Saugatuck, Michigan, a town located at the mouth of Kalamazoo River. Saco, the Algonquian word for “flowing out” or “river-mouth,” is the source for several town names, including Saco, Missouri; Sac City, Iowa; and Saco, Maine. Still other kindred American place-names arise from boca, the Spanish word for mouth, including the historic town of Boca, California, located at the mouth of the Little Truckee River. Based on these typical examples, it would seem likely that Boca Raton, Florida, would also be located near the mouth of a river. Yet the history of that city’s name illustrates instead the mutability of landscape language. Boca Raton and nearby Lake Boca Raton take their name from Boca Ratones, which is shown on an eighteenth-century Spanish map. This Boca Ratones, as it turns out, was merely a bay inlet, and not a mouth. Moreover, its location was nowhere near the present-day city of Boca Raton, but far to the south in Biscayne Bay near Miami. For reasons now unknown, the name migrated north up the Florida coast and was applied first to the lake (although the lake did not then have a connection to the sea) and some years later to the emerging coastal settlement of Boca Raton. During this process, citizens of the new Florida city shortened the original adjective ratones—colloquially, “thieves”—to the apparently more suitable ratón, Spanish for rat.
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Thanksgiving is a time-honored tradition in America, where every year we give thanks for a bountiful harvest (food), for family, friends, health, our country.
We have all been taught that the first Thanksgiving was celebrated in 1621 when the first (still) British settlers known as Pilgrims celebrated a good harvest and invited the Indian tribe, the Wampanoag’s, to sit and join them in “Thanksgiving.”
According to Ramona Peters, the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe’s Tribal Historic Preservation Officer, Abraham Lincoln used the theme of Pilgrims and Indians eating happily together to try to calm things down during the Civil War when people were divided. In a 2012 article in Indian Country Today Media Network, the real version was that a treaty was drawn up in 1620 between the leader of the nation at the time—Yellow Feather Oasmeequin (Massasoit) and John Carver–the first governor of the colony. The colonists were still under the jurisdiction of the king [of England], so they couldn’t make a treaty for a boatload of people so they made a treaty between two nations—England and the Wampanoag Nation.
The tribal nation was on the land for days before the Pilgrims first feast, but they were not invited to come join the meal, however, they could partake in the food that was gathered.
The truth is, the first Thanksgiving was not about gathering around a meal in the iconic way we know it from our history books, it was about creating peace and harmony between two cultures that didn’t understand each other. The first colonists attempted to recognize that the Indian nations had been on this land, in “America”, long before they had ever set foot on its shores. The Indians had settled the land, cultivated and harvest from the land, and had their own traditions and rituals. The treaty provided a means for at least one nation and a small group of colonists to get along, protect each other, teach each other, and share the land.
We know today that didn’t last long. And as more colonists came over, more Indians were pushed aside and disregarded, given only small sections of land as colonists laid claim to more and more of the country. As the Civil War broke out due to disagreements on slavery, it was one man–Abraham Lincoln that tried to quell anger, bigotry, and animosity toward cultural divide.
In today’s society, we talk about the unusual nature of the election, however, the election of 1860 was one of the most unusual in American history. In a four-way race brought on by a split in the Democratic Party, Abraham Lincoln’s name did not even appear on the ballot in most Southern states. Lincoln solidly carried the free states of the Northeast and Northwest, but Breckenridge won the slave-holding states, with the exception of Tennessee, Virginia and Kentucky, which went to Bell. Douglas, though he made a solid showing in the popular vote, only took electoral votes from Missouri and New Jersey. In the end, Lincoln won the election and became our 16th President. It is believed that the Civil War started because of uncompromising differences between the free and slave states over the power of the national government to prohibit slavery in the territories that had not yet become states. When Abraham Lincoln won election in 1860, he pledged to keep slavery out of the territories, causing seven slave states in the deep South to secede and form a new nation, the Confederate States of America. This led to the Civil War, and an enormous number of deaths.
History shows us time and time again, that there will always be differences between us. We are human beings, we were not created to simply all fall into line. However, if history can teach us anything, it’s that building a platform that feeds off people’s fears, anger, and hatred for another race or culture or belief, will not lead to peace and harmony. It will feed anger, hatred, and animosity. When we try to insert our beliefs, feelings, religion onto other cultures or countries, we end up in war and we always will.
If the American-Indian Wars, and the Civil War has taught us anything, it’s that we need to own up to our own fears, accept that everyone has fear–because the world can be a scary unknown place, and then create a treaty like the Wamanoag nation and first Pilgrims did, to try and work together.
We must remember that none of us truly are from America. We all settled here thanks to our ancestors looking for a better life and better opportunity. The first colonists came to America because they wanted to be free from British rule. They wanted to live on their terms. That’s what America is about. ALL of us come from other countries, be it Asia, Africa or Europe. BUT NONE of our families truly come from America, some of our families have just been here longer than others.
The one thing, no matter the culture or race, that we all have in common, is that we came to America looking to find peace, to be able to practice our own beliefs, and to grow. Since the time of 1621, we have grown into one nation, one country. And while we’ve been divided at times, we’ve always found a way to stand together in the end. America has always been known as the helping country, the country that would go to bat for another country if it needed help; a tolerable country; a forgiving country; a country of hopes and dreams.
That is the country I am proud of. So as we get ready to celebrate Thanksgiving with our own traditions, let us all remember how we truly came to be here in this place. None of us can lay claim to anything but our own behaviors. We can lay claim to how we treat others, and we do have the power to rise above the worst parts of ourselves, to conquer our fears, and try to understand differing point’s of view.
Don’t let history repeat itself. Let’s create a new treaty. Let us all come together, no matter how far apart we are, and gives Thanks.
Posted bysmtraphagen November 23, 2016 March 22, 2019 Posted inNewsTags: American history of Thanksgiving, Civil War, Food for Thought, Pilgrims and Indians, Shannon Traphagen, SM Traphagen, The first thanksgiving
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Once Upon a Time Casts Hercules, Meg — Plus: Scoop on a Returning Heroine!
Once Upon a Time is officially going Greek. An ABC spokesperson confirms for TVLine that relative newcomer Jonathan Whitesell and Hannibal‘s Kacey Rohl have been cast as Hercules and Meg.
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Hercules and Meg are heading to Once Upon a Time
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Pugsley Addams
Yesterday, I took Lucinda on the Dearly Departed Black Dahlia tour. When we were at their office before the tour, I saw a little display case with a small box in it. A sign said it was a portion of the remains of Ken Weatherwax, who played Pugsley Addams. It also said that the rest of his remains are at Pierce Brothers Valhalla in North Hollywood. And so that’s how I decided where we were going today.
It was kind of chilly this morning, but it was supposed to warm up, so I went with shorts, and just added one layer of bubble wrap as a blanket to stay warm. We rode out by the usual route to get to Burbank, where we stopped to see the F-104-on-a-stick in the park there. Then we continued on to NoHo and Valhalla. I’d used the Google Maps aerial photos to know where the small mausoleum was, so we were able to locate his space pretty quickly. Then we went and took a few minutes to see the Portal of the Folded Wings.
We stopped for snacks at Priscilla’s, and then headed home by way of Griffith Park and the L.A. River bike path. Along the way back, we lost track of one rider, so I rode back a couple miles to look for him. But he seemed to have disappeared. Maybe he took a different route home.
49 miles.
It finally didn’t rain today
It finally didn’t rain today, so we went for a bike ride. The route was to Glendora and back. The plan was to bail out and take the train back if it did decide to rain. But as it turned out, it didn’t rain, and we were able to ride the whole route. And on the way back, we got to see the charred remains of a half-built house that we’ve been passing for several years, and that just burned a few days ago.
Route map and elevation profile
Today’s bike club ride was Laurel and Hardy theme. The plan was to ride to North Hollywood to visit Ollie’s grave, and then to Forest Lawn to see Stan.
Right at the start, we had a small problem. Turns out today was the Pasadena Half-Marathon, and the course was using the Colorado bridge that we were planning on crossing. So we had to take a detour around. Then we got back on track and rode to NoHo.
After visiting Ollie, we headed south to Priscilla’s for snacks and drinks. Then we continued on to Forest Lawn. Stan’s grave is in the Court of Liberty, which is all the way in the back, high up on the hill.
The route home went through Griffith Park, down the L.A. River a bit, and then home by way of Highland Park and South Pasadena.
Brown Mountain
Today was yet another furlough-cation hike for our little USGS and Forest Service group. This time, we did the Brown Mountain loop trail above JPL. It was cool, but still a nice day. The trail is very popular with mountain bike people, and we saw a lot of them along the way.
On the way up, Nicholas saw some old mylar balloons in the brush a bit off the trail. That got us started, and we were looking for more, and in the end he was able to find something like seven old balloons. When we got to the top, we sat down and had lunch. Then we continued on down the rest of the loop. We saw several deer crossing the trail ahead of us along the way. They ran away before I could get the camera out, but I did see some little hoof prints on the trail.
All told, this was a good way to spend yet another furlough day.
Josephine Peak
It’s now the third week of the government shutdown, and Karina is back in L.A., so we’re going on the traditional furlough-cation hikes. We did this during the 2013 shutdown, and it was a good way to fill the time.
Today’s hike was Josephine Peak. I’ve doing this one once before, but that was back in 1995, so it’s been a while. The trail is a fire road, so it’s not terribly difficult. The road wraps around the mountain, so we got lots of good views in all directions. At the top, we sat down for some lunch. There used to be a fire lookout at the summit, so the foundations of it made a good place to sit.
8 miles.
I forgot my GPS, so I don’t have a map this time.
The Bridge to Nowhere
Since Lucinda and Melissa are both home from school right now, I suggested that we take a hike out to the famous “Bridge to Nowhere” at the Narrows on the east fork of the San Gabriel River. So today was the day. This was my third time doing this particular hike.
I had it lodged in my memory that we were supposed to have to cross the river four times, but in the end, it turned out to be six times. The river is higher than it was the other times I’ve been out there, which made the crossings a bit more difficult. In the end, I had to stop and take my shoes off to wade across about three of the crossings. Between that and losing the trail a few times along the way, the trip out there took longer than the other times. And when we got there, it was pretty cold and windy, so we didn’t spend much time at the Bridge. Coming back was a lot easier, though. We’d made all the mistakes on the way out, and so we were able to avoid them coming back.
Rose Parade Preview
The L.A. Times had a photo a few days ago of a float for the Rose Parade being built at Fiesta Parade Floats in Irwindale. I looked up where it was, and it turned out to be right near the Irwindale Metro Rail station. I also knew of another shop where they build floats in Irwindale, and I also looked up the location where the city of Sierra Madre builds their float. And then we had a theme for the ride. The plan was to ride out through Sierra Madre, and go to Classic Coffee in Glendora, and the come home by was of Irwindale.
At the Rose Float Barn in Sierra Madre, we got a chance to peek inside and see the float being decorated. The one float shop that I already knew about in Irwindale wasn’t much to see. There was an awning with nothing under it, and just a sign that the float they’d built was parked over in Pasadena to be decorated. But the scene at Fiesta Parade Floats was pretty good. They had 8 or 10 floats under construction inside, and the door was open so we could see them. There was a big crowd of people there to help, and there were pallets of flowers outside, ready to be put on the floats. There were even about five local news trucks there, which I thought was funny, since the only time I ever see that many news trucks in one place is at Caltech after an earthquake.
It’s a Wonderful Ride
Today’s bike club ride was our annual “It’s a Wonderful Life”-themed ride. It’s a combination of celebrity grave and movie location tours. The first stop was at Forest Lawn in Glendale to see James Stewart, since he was the actor who brought George Bailey to life. Then we went for snacks at Paradise Bakery in Glendale. The final stop was to see the house that was used for the Martini family home in Bailey Park. The brief scene of them moving into their new house was the only scene in the movie that was filmed on location. Finally, on the way back, we rode over Devil’s Gate Dam to have a look at how L.A. County is trying to dig out the sediment that has collected behind the dam.
Route map and elevation profilue
The Cocoanut Grove Mural
This past week, I saw an article in the L.A. Times about how a neighborhood group in Koreatown wanted the L.A. Unified school district to paint over a mural on the wall of the RFK Community School. The mural depicted Ava Gardner and some palm trees, with a red and blue sunburst background. Apparently, they thought the sunburst pattern looked too much like the Japanese battle flag. Granted, Japan has a history of using Korea as their punching bag, and they have been behind a lot of bad things happening to Korea, but this seems like a bit of a stretch. But in any event, I thought we should go see it.
The route went through downtown and past USC. On the way into downtown, we stopped to see an AIDS memorial in the park just outside downtown. After passing USC, we headed north to Koreatown. We stopped to see the mural, and the for bagels at Noah’s in Larchmont. Then home by way of Chinatown and the Arroyo Seco bike trail. And just to top it all off, we saw the two-legged dogs again. It’s been several years since we first saw them, and if I didn’t have pictures from the first time, I’d think that they were just part of a weird fever dream. But we saw them again today.
Route map and elevation profile.
Today’s bike ride was a trip to Downey to visit the oldest operating McDonald’s, and the to the Columbia Space Center museum to see the boilerplate model of the Apollo Command Module on display outside. We stopped for snacks at 3rd Street Coffee, and then came home by way of the Rio Hondo bike trail.
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District 63 — Illinois State House of Representatives
Representatives are elected to two-year terms to represent the people of a specific district in the Illinois House of Representatives. They introduce and vote on new laws, hold hearings, and draft the state budget.
John M. Bartman
Fight for fair funding for education.
Secure a real budget for the State of Illinois.
Advocate for working families and small business.
Steven Reick
Tax and Real Estate Attorney & Accountant
Changing manner of funding education which will reduce...
Bringing jobs back to Illinois by adopting common...
Addressing the looming disaster of Medicaid expansion
Illinois Chamber of CommerceIllinois Manufacturers' AssociationIllinois State Medical SocietyNational Federation of Independent Business (NFIB)Underground Contractors' AssociationMcHenry County Right to LifeMid-West Truckers AssociationRep. Barb WheelerRep. Mike TryonSen. Pam Althoff
John Bartman has provided Illinois with one of the most essential natural resources in America, agriculture. Raised on a grain and vegetable farm in Marengo. John is a fifth-generation farmer and small business owner of the largest industry in McHenry County and the State of Illinois.
Growing up during the Farm Crisis of the 1980’s, John experienced his community and family endure and overcome very difficult financial times. During these financial crises he quickly learned that farming was more than planting seeds, harvesting crops and feeding families across Illinois and other states. He realized that agriculture is a business that is riddled with governmental rules and regulations.
John was directly impacted by the problems of his community, state and the country. He was able to relate to the difficulties that thousands of people were having trying to raise their families, preserve their homes, and protect their way of life.
Growing up on his family’s farm, John learned at a very young age that a strong work ethic, determination and respect for others are important skill sets that transcend to every aspect of life. As a child, his parents encouraged him to learn another profession, in addition to farming. John attended the University of Dayton where he earned a degree in Communications Management. He joined the Student Government Association and worked with the university to start their first Neighborhood Watch, which was extremely successful in reducing crime on campus.
John later obtained full-time employment with the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT). While working, he routinely assisted his parents with their family farm business. His parents’ livelihood was dependent on successfully maintaining their crops. One of John’s most challenging experiences was caring for his dad and the farm, when his father was stricken with a massive heart attack and subsequent stroke.
John knew that his family depended on the farm for income and he was the only one able to maintain the farm while his dad was recovering. As the farm suffered a setback, John strategically managed to continue his full-time work at IDOT and simultaneously secured government funding to continue the farm…all while caring for his parents during the family’s medical and financial crisis. John was ecstatic to learn that a branch of state government had a “Beginning Farmers Program” that actually worked to save his family’s business. He was very proud to pay the loan, received from the program, back in just 4 months with interest. It was at this time that he acquired his desire to serve the people of Illinois to ensure that Government always worked for the people, especially in their time of need.
John is now running for Illinois State Representative in the 63rd Legislative District. He thrives on challenges. He takes to Springfield the knowledge of his experiences that remind him to always fight for the people. His community challenges and family’s financial struggles have instilled in him the importance of perseverance and fiscal responsibility. The crises he experienced, at a young age, have given him the advantage to stand confident in times of opposition and firm against his opponents. He understands that the number one resource for the future are our children, and creating job opportunities in the communities in which they live will encourage them to live where they thrive.
As a farmer, John understands the importance of family, community, budgeting and adhering to all government regulations. Most importantly, John knows first-hand how imperative small businesses are to the local economy. John is fully prepared to bring the good-farmer common sense to Springfield. John is also a parishioner at Sacred Heart Church and enjoys his role as a McHenry County Farm Bureau Board Director. John Bartman is ready to work closely with residents of the 63rd District in order to bring true reform to the State of Illinois.
John Bartman, 63rd district Illinois House candidate
— October 5, 2016 Chicago Sun-Times
John Bartman tells why he should be the state representative from the 63rd district.
Email - bartmanjm@yahoo.com
19319 Route 176
Marengo, IL 60152
Changing manner of funding education which will reduce property taxes while achieving better educational outcomes
Bringing jobs back to Illinois by adopting common sense reforms such as workers' comp, prevailing wage and tort reform
Profession:Tax and Real Estate Attorney & Accountant
Attorney, Self-employed (1980–current)
University of Georgia — J.D., Law (1980)
University of Georgia — Master of Science, Accounting (Tax) (1980)
University of Illinois — Bachelor of Science, Accountancy (Finance minor) (1975)
Volunteer, Christmas Clearing House, Woodstock Rotary Club (1991–current)
Chairman, Polio Plus campaign, Woodstock Rotary Club (1992–1992)
Founding Member and Youth Soccer Coach, Woodstock AYSO (1983–1986)
My story is simple. I was born and raised in Illinois. I remember when Illinois didn’t have a state income tax, yet was able to pay its bills. I grew up in a time when getting an education meant that a kid learned how to read and solve math problems from teachers who weren’t being told how to teach by lobbying groups in Washington, and when a person went to the doctor, he got a bill and paid with cash. I remember when a college student could come home in the summer and get a factory job that paid enough to cover most of the next year’s tuition.
Neither of my parents graduated from high school. Yet together they instilled in me the expectation that I’d go further, and as a result I was the first person from my entire family to attend college.
The fact that I have the benefit of the memory of when times were simpler gives me perspective, and offers me the hope that what was the greatness of this state can be restored. We may surround ourselves with complexities, but human nature doesn’t change. We still want what we’ve always wanted, a better life for ourselves and a brighter future for our children.
I set up my tax practice in 1982 and got on with living my life. My greatest satisfaction comes from helping those who find themselves wrestling with Federal and state bureaucracies, afraid that they’ll lose all they have to a power that they cannot resist.
I’ve also had disappointments, as we all do. There have been bumps in my road, including financial setbacks. At one point, I lost a business, I lost my house, and I had a stroke, all in the course of one month. But I think they’ve made me better able to understand and advocate for those who don’t have all the advantages, who worry if their next paycheck may be their last. Americans, more than any other nationality, are known less for who they are than for what they do. The loss of one’s job or business cuts at one’s identity; the fears that ordinary families face in our current economic times strike to their very souls.
Standing by me through this journey has been my wife, Deb. For 35 years we’ve seen the ups and downs, raised 3 kids and seen the arrival of 4 grandchildren. Upon moving to Woodstock in 1983, I practiced law and Deb opened a travel agency which served Woodstock and McHenry County for over 12 years. In the meantime, we became involved in our community, joining Rotary, where I chaired the club’s Polio Plus campaign and have “shaken the can” for its Christmas Clearing House project for over 30 years. When my kids were young, I coach youth soccer. We’re moving on to this phase of our lives as we’ve done with all the others, together and with a sense of adventure.
I’ve been given many blessings. Now it’s time to give back. I’m running for office with the hope that what I do there can in some small way make it easier for some kid now watching his parents struggle to give him something they never had have a fighting chance of realizing his dream.
J.K. Rowling once said that after a series of setbacks, she hit rock bottom, and she used rock bottom as the foundation upon which she rebuilt her life. I’ve done the same, and I’m convinced that Illinois can do so as well.
Illinois Chamber of Commerce
Illinois Manufacturers' Association
National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB)
Underground Contractors' Association
McHenry County Right to Life
Mid-West Truckers Association
Rep. Barb Wheeler
Rep. Mike Tryon
Sen. Pam Althoff
Questions from Chicago Sun-Times (15)
Do you support term limits for legislators? Do you support term limits for legislative leaders? Please explain.
Answer from Steven Reick:
I do not support term limits, as I think a better way of limiting the amount of time people serve in elected office should be determined by drawing district boundaries using a non-partisan commission and denying pension coverage to elected officials. Unfortunately, the recent IL Supreme Court decision denying ballot access to a redistricting amendment takes that option off the table, but it doesn't change my opinion on term limits.
Furthermore, term limits serve as a disincentive for public participation in political affairs, as people will come to assume that if an official is term limited, how much damage can he or she do in such a short period of time?
Finally, without the institutional knowledge that comes from experience, too many legislators would begin to rely to an ever greater degree on non-elected staff, thereby cutting the cord of electoral accountability.
In a perfect world, legislative leaders should be chosen by their respective caucuses without the prospect of financial support or denial of same hanging over their heads.
Who do you think bears responsibility for the budget stalemate? Do you have your own ideas on how to resolve it?
The budget stalemate falls squarely upon the legislature. My district gave Governor Rauner a 36% electoral margin mandate to go to Springfield and do what he said he was going to do to bring business back to Illinois and create jobs. Had a single seat flipped from Democrat to Republican in 2014, we would, in all likelihood, have a budget by now. I support the Governor's common sense economic reforms, and will do so when I am elected.
A June 3 New York Times op-ed was headlined “Higher Education in Illinois is Dying” because of significant funding cuts. Do you agree or not with Gov. Bruce Rauner that additional large cuts could be necessary?
We have to disabuse ourselves of the notion that higher education can only be gotten by attending a brick and mortar institution. As more avenues for gaining a college degree are opened, such as online degree programs, we have a responsibility to taxpayers to examine the cost-effectiveness of maintaining those institutions. When we hold in our cell phones all of the world's knowledge and the means to exploit it, higher education must be adapted to accommodate that change.
How should the state’s school funding formula be changed to give all children a better chance at a quality education?
I've discussed education funding on my blog (www.steve463.com). Education funding is the responsibility of the State, not local property taxpayers. Too much of the money that people in my district send to Springfield ends up in Chicago. There needs to be a complete revision of the way we fund education, and it begins with treating a kid in Harvard, Illinois the same way a kid in the CPS system is treated. I'm interested in exploring the educational funding program that has been adopted in Nevada, called the "Educational Choice Scholarship Program" (https://www.edchoice.org/school-choice/programs/nevada-educational-choice-scholarship-program/), which puts parents fully in charge of the money being allocated by the state for their children's education. Any way you slice it, we need to change the way we pay for education so as to give the property owners in my district relief from the crushing burden of real estate taxes.
Without a budget, Illinois is spending much more than it takes in, leading to an ever-growing stack of bills, underfunded services and a growing deficit. What new revenue sources do you support to help fix this problem?
I'm willing to look at our entire revenue structure, but any changes must be revenue-neutral. Those who got their tax increase in 2010 did nothing with it, in fact, the underfunding our our pension systems increased by 4%. We need to get our spending under control.
In addition, Illinois has been down for so long that we've acquired a form of "Stockholm Syndrome" about the notion of economic growth. I firmly believe that if Springfield can get its act together, economic growth will begin to happen. This state has too many natural advantages for businesses to ignore, but those advantages are being negated by the clown car in Springfield. Businesses want stability above everything else, and if we build it, they will come. With that will come increasing employment and sustainable revenue growth.
A constitutional amendment is on the ballot that would require money raised for transportation not be spent elsewhere. Do you support this concept? Also, transportation planners say more money is needed for roads and bridges, Metra, CTA rail services and the like. Do you agree and, if so, where would you get the funding?
I do support the transportation lock box, and we must take the additional step of changing the way we tax motor fuels. I support moving to a straight motor fuel tax with no additional sales tax, such as is the case in Wisconsin, with all revenue raised being applied 100% to improvements to our transportation system. The sales tax we collect is a tax on a tax, and must be eliminated on motor fuel sales.
In the last session, the governor and Legislature turned their attention away from pension reform. What initiatives do you support to reduce the costs of pensions?
I support moving all new employees to a defined contribution model of retirement savings. While the Illinois Constitution guarantees the benefits under the state's retirement and health care systems, the drafters placed the responsibility for funding directly upon the legislature, which has utterly failed in that task. We've seen just this week that the TRS is looking to reduce the assumed rate of return on its portfolio, which will only increase the amount needed from taxpayers to fund the annual contribution. While such a move would reflect economic reality, that horse left the barn years ago. Most of my clients are pilots for United Airlines, and I know first-hand what it looks like when a pension plan explodes, and it’s not pretty. The same thing’s happening here, only the numbers are bigger and the taxpayers are going to be left holding the bag.
Furthermore, next year fully 25% of our general revenue will go to pay for pensions, most of it being the past underfunding. We need to agree on what is the actual amount of the underfunded portion of the pension and carve it out of the budget, treat it as a capital project much like a road or an airport, and find a dedicated revenue stream to pay it down. That would allow us to get back to budgeting under normal budget rules. Doing so would show businesses that we're serious about getting our house in order. It would also encourage the ratings agencies to upgrade Illinois' credit rating, saving us millions. In addition, the reinsurance premiums that the state pays on its debt would go down. All of this would provide additional revenue that could be put toward paying down the underfunded pensions. I would also support taking $2 out of every $3 of revenue derived from economic growth and applying it to the underfunding.
Do you support measures to reduce Illinois’ prison population and divert more money into community-based services?
If public safety is not compromised, I'm willing to consider such measures.
There are calls to reform the state’s civil asset forfeiture system, which allows police and prosecutors to seize and take – permanently – property from someone who has not been convicted of a crime? What is your view?
I oppose civil forfeiture.
Do you support allowing transgender persons born in Illinois to change the gender marker on their birth certificate without undergoing surgery first?
What is your view on so-called “death with dignity” — physician-assisted suicide — which has become a contentious issue in other states? California’s End of Life Option Act took effect on June 9.
I'm firmly pro-life and cannot support assisted suicide.
What measures do you support to reduce levels of gun violence?
The best answer to a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. We need to allow greater freedom to those who would carry for their own protection and the protection of their families and property.
A number of states and local jurisdictions (including Chicago) have recently increased the minimum wage. Do you support or oppose a statewide increase in the minimum wage? If so, what should the new minimum be, and by when? Should local jurisdictions be prohibited from passing their own minimum wage laws?
I don't support minimum wage legislation, because it serves as a barrier to entry at the bottom of the employment ladder. The actual minimum wage in Illinois is $0.00, and far too many people are earning that amount.
In the past couple of legislative sessions, there has been a proposal to add a 1 cent tax on all sugar-sweetened beverages sold in Illinois. Do you support or oppose such a measure, and why?
I oppose tax increases, whether they're sugar coated or not. Such a bill is nothing more than a tax increase disguised as social engineering.
In recent years, there has been a growing push to increase the development and use of renewable energy sources. Do you support or oppose these preferences?
If such energy sources can sustain themselves without government subsidy, fine. Government has no business propping up enterprises that can't support themselves.
I fully subscribe to the concept of subsidiarity, described by David Bosnich of the Acton Institute as follows:
"This tenet holds that nothing should be done by a larger and more complex organization which can be done as well by a smaller and simpler organization. In other words, any activity which can be performed by a more decentralized entity should be. This principle is a bulwark of limited government and personal freedom. It conflicts with the passion for centralization and bureaucracy characteristic of the Welfare State."
Issues Facing the 63rd District and the State of Illinois
My positions on a wide range of topics are plainly and fully described on my website (www.steve463.com)
Website: steve463.com
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Home EPL Manchester City Face Real Madrid, Atletico Face Bayern Munich
Manchester City Face Real Madrid, Atletico Face Bayern Munich
Real Madrid have been paired with Manchester City during Friday’s Champions League semi-final draw in Nyon, while Bayern Munich will have to deal with Atletico Madrid if they are to make it to the final.
Friday’s draw means City manager Manuel Pellegrini will take on his former team, having coached Madrid in 2009-10.
Madrid – who saw off Wolfsburg in the quarter-finals – made it to the semi-finals in 2014-15, with Juventus eventually proving to be too strong. They last won the competition in 2013-14, beating Atletico 4-1 after extra time for their 10th-ever European Cup win.
Manchester City, meanwhile, are the rookies in the semi-finals, having never made it to this stage before. They failed to make it past the round of 16 in 2013-14 and 2014-15, but proved to be too strong for Dynamo Kyiv and Paris Saint-Germain on the way to the semi-finals this campaign.
Madrid and City have met twice before, with the Spanish side winning once and drawing the remaining game.
The tie between Bayern and Atletico will see Pep Guardiola return to his native country, having enjoyed so much success at Barcelona before his move to the Bundesliga champions.
Pep Guardiola’s side eliminated Benfica on their way to the semi-finals, holding out for a 2-2 draw in the second leg after a 1-0 win at home in the first leg. They won it in 2012-13 when they beat Borussia Dortmund 2-1, but failed to get past the final four since.
Atletico, meanwhile, beat last year’s winners Barcelona 3-2 on aggregate to make it to the final four. They crashed out in the quarter-finals last term, losing to Madrid, and have yet to win the Champions League.
Bayern and Atletico’s only previous meeting came in the 1974 final, the Bundesliga side running out 4-0 winners in the replay following an initial 1-1 draw.
The first legs of the semi-finals will take place on April 26 and 27, with the returns scheduled for May 3 and 4. City and Atletico will play the first legs at home.
The final at San Siro is on May 28, kicking off at 20:45CET. The winners of the tie between City and Madrid will be the home team in the final.
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HFPA 2014 GRANTS DINNER
Posted by Wiles Magazine on Thursday, August 21, 2014 · Leave a Comment
HOLLYWOOD FOREIGN PRESS ASSOCIATION
DONATES $1.9 MILLION AT 2014 GRANTS DINNER
Financial Grants Given to Entertainment-Related Charities, Foundations and Scholarship Programs
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) celebrated its Grants Banquet on August 14 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, CA. The star-studded dinner presented $1.9 million in financial grants to film schools and non-profit organizations.
Founded in the 1940s during World War II, the HFPA was originally comprised of a handful of LA based overseas journalists who sought to bridge the international community with Hollywood, and to provide distraction from the hardships of war through film. Seventy years later, members of the HFPA represent 55 countries with a combined readership of 250 million in some of the world’s most respected publications. Each year, the organization holds the third most watched awards show on television, the Golden Globe Awards, which have enabled the organization to donate more than $20 million to entertainment related charities and scholarship programs.
Sofia Vergara arrives at a banquet hosted by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, CA on Thursday, August 11, 2014.
HFPA president, Theo Kingma, started the night welcoming friends and guests to its dinner, followed by a heartfelt tribute to two industry trailblazers, Lauren Bacall and Robin Williams. Rather than taking a moment of silence, the room embraced their spirit with a round of applause, celebrating their life and achievements.
“Ms. Lauren Bacall – a true legend representing the Golden Age of Hollywood – an icon of the silver screen for more than seventy years. Her work shall forever live on, in many cases due to those organizations we will be honoring this evening and specialize in film preservation.” Kingma continues, “And of course, Robin Williams, a man, whose extraordinary comedic talents brought so much joy and laughter. He once explained why he liked meeting with our membership, saying, when the HFPA enjoys your film they’ll tell you they like your movie. If they don’t like your film, well, they just ask, “So how are the kids?” In light of tonight’s theme of philanthropy, we especially thank him for using his joyful talent, not just as an actor but also as a tool to help those in need through such charities as comic relief.”
Channing Tatum and Kristen Bell at a banquet hosted by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, CA on Thursday, August 11, 2014.
Kingma went on by announcing the 2014 grant recipients. Actress Sophia Vergara kicked off the presentation accepting (Lollipop Theatre & The Pablove Foundation), Channing Tatum (Film Aid), Andy Samberg (Sundance), Chris Evans (American Cinematheque), Franka Potente and Patricia Arquette (Inner-City Arts and Ghetto Film School), Kerry Washington (GlobalGirl Media), Morgan Freeman (The Film Foundation), and Jason Segel and Anne Heche (Outfest), Hailee Steinfeld and Abigail Spencer (CalArts, NYU and Columbia), Gina Rodriguez and Michael Pena (Latin American Cinemateca), Eddie Redmayne and Robert Pattinson (American Film Institute), Elle Fanning and Logan Lerman (University Grants), Nick Jonas and Jenny Slate (Young Musicians and Special Projects), Rose McGowan (Film Noir), James Marsden and Jessica Parker Kennedy(Toronto International Film Festival) and Minnie Driver (Screen Actors Guild and Independent Filmmaker Project).
Kristen Bell and Kerry Washington attend a banquet hosted by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, CA on Thursday, August 11, 2014.
During the dinner, Kristen Bell surprised guests with a performance of “Do You Want to Build a Snowman?” from the revered animated feature film Frozen. Kingma then informed the audience that starting with next year’s grants and scholarship cycle, dick clark productions has generously agreed to provide $7.5 million in matching funds towards the charities supported by the HFPA trust. He went on by acknowledging the tremendous work the HFPA has done through the generous donations of more than 20 million dollars over the past 20 years.
For more information, please visit www.hfpa.org andwww.goldenglobes.com, on Twitter (@goldenglobes) and Facebook (www.facebook.com/goldenglobes).
HFPA 2014 GRANTS:
HIGHER EDUCATION FELLOWSHIPS & INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT
California Institute for the Arts (CalArts) – $60,000
Cal State Fullerton Philanthropic Foundation – $10,000
Cal State Long Beach – $50,000
Cal State Los Angeles – $50,000
Cal State Northridge – $50,000
Columbia University – $50,000
Los Angeles City College – $25,000
Mt. San Antonio College Foundation – $5,000
New York University – $40,000
University of California, Los Angeles – $110,000
HFPA SCHOLARSHIP/FELLOWSHIP ENDOWMENTS
American Film Institute – $20,000
CalArts – $12,500
Cal State Fullerton – $5,000
Cal State Long Beach – $5,000
Cal State Los Angeles – $2,650
Cal State Northridge – $5,000
Los Angeles City College – $6,000
Loyola Marymount – $20,000
UCLA – $20,000
University of North Carolina – $5,000
University of Southern California – $20,000
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING & MENTORING
Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment – $11,000
Film Independent, Project: Involve – $35,000
Independent Filmmaker Project (Brooklyn, NY) – $15,000
International Documentary Association – $10,000
New Filmmakers Los Angeles – $5,000
Screen Actors Guild Foundation – $10,000
Streetlights – $10,000
Sundance Institute – $100,000
Toronto International Film Festival – $15,000
PRE-PROFESSIONAL TRAINING & EDUCATION
California State Summer School Arts Foundation – $20,000
Echo Park Film Center – $5,000
Ghetto Film School – $25,000
GlobalGirl Media – $5,000
Inner-City Arts (Downtown LA) – $25,000
Inner City Filmmakers (Santa Monica) – $30,000
Los Angeles County High School for the Arts – $20,000
Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles (Music Center) – $5,000
PRESERVE THE CULTURE & HISTORY OF FILM
The Film Foundation, Inc./UCLA Film & Television Archive – $350,000
Film Noir – $25,000
Los Angeles Conservancy – $35,000
Outfest (UCLA LGBT project) – $30,000
PROMOTE CULTURAL EXCHANGE THROUGH FILM
American Cinematheque – $40,000
FilmAid International – $50,000
Latin American Cinemateca of Los Angeles – $10,000
Los Angeles County Museum of Art – $75,000
University of California, Berkeley Film Archive – $15,000
Ensemble Studio Theatre – $15,000
Gingold Theatre Group/Shaw Festival – $5,000
Lollipop Theater Network – $20,000
Pablove Foundation – $7,500
Young Musicians Foundation – $10,000
Young Storytellers Foundation – $7,500
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440 West 42nd Street at 10th Avenue - 60 Story Tower - by Arquitectonica
Thread: 440 West 42nd Street at 10th Avenue - 60 Story Tower - by Arquitectonica
December 20th, 2004, 10:56 AM #1
krulltime
Manhattan - UWS
Earlier Rendering:
Latest Rendering:
http://www.twiningproperties.com/pro..._city/overview
According to Crains in the "Developers home in on far W. Side" article date December 13-19:
Prices moving up
Developers already are paying top dollar for some prime sites. In a sale recently closed by Massey Knakal, Mendel Mendlowitz bought the entire eastern block on Ninth Avenue between W. 35th and West 36th streets for $22 million. The price had jumped 57% over the $14 million paid one year ago by the seller, AAG Management.
Some developers are so confident in the area and the city's need for more housing that they're not waiting for any more government approvals. Twining Properties-in partnership with The Related Cos. and MacFarlane Partners-recently closed on a site at 440 W. 42nd St., at 10th Avenue, without the promise of any zoning changes. The developers plan to construct a tower with retail stores, rental apartments and condominiums.
"The far West Side has got to happen," says President Alex Twining. "There's only so much land left in Manhattan."
Also on Twining Properties Website:
Twining Properties is pleased to announce 440 west 42nd Street, a 60-story high rise residential tower with over 600 luxury apartments in Midtown Manhattan. 440 west 42nd Street will be developed by a joint venture between Twining Properties, The Related Companies and Macfarlane Partners. The project will occupy an entire city block and will include two retail levels above underground parking and rental apartments and condominiums with dramatic views of the Hudson River and Times Square. Construction will commence in the Fall of 2005.
Last edited by krulltime; October 27th, 2005 at 09:58 AM.
December 20th, 2004, 01:57 PM #2
TLOZ Link5
Can I get a w00t?
Nice proportions, tall and glassy. Now lets see if it stays this way. :roll:
December 21st, 2004, 01:01 AM #4
Yeah it looks quite nice. I wonder what that oval glassy thing will be. It looks kind of weird for a residential building. It might be the retail stuff. maybe a mini-mall.
Oh I have no idea how tall in feets it is, but it looks tall to me.
Secret city land deal a whopper
Property at 42nd St. and Dyer Ave., on far West Side,
that Bloomberg administration indicated it planned to condemn -
but then quietly sold to developer Steve Ross.
When the City Council approved the massive Hudson Yards development project last week, it gave the Bloomberg administration permission to condemn and acquire several parcels of land on Manhattan's far West Side.
One of those parcels is a city-owned block along 42nd St.'s Theater Row, between Dyer and 10th Aves. The buildings there would be torn down to facilitate construction of the No. 7 line subway extension and eventually a new station on the site.
But the Council was never told the city had no intention of condemning the site.
The city had quietly decided last fall to sell it to one of this town's biggest real estate developers, Stephen Ross, for the price of a song: $100,000.
If it sounds like a sweet deal, Ross must have thought so: He and his partners, TRM Associates, paid $107 million for the lease rights to the property, and sources say they plan to build a 60-story building there.
Ross, chief executive of the The Related Companies, is a close friend and former business partner of Deputy Mayor Daniel Doctoroff.
He bought the site's lease in early November in a federal bankruptcy court settlement from the partnership that controlled the block for 25 years.
Among the small buildings on the block are the former West Side Airlines terminal and two off-Broadway theaters, neither of which produces much rental income.
But the block's real value is its development potential, thanks to the city's decision to build a new subway station that will have four escalators and two elevators emptying into it.
On the surface, it smacks of a back-room agreement.
The city issued no press releases on its deal with Ross, and the settlement papers weren't filed with the city Finance Department until Jan. 18 - the night before the Council's vote.
Bloomberg aides said last week that the lease sale was a private transaction, and that City Hall had no favorites.
But according to documents in the bankruptcy case, the Ross group won City Hall's support as far back as July.
At the time, several developers were feverishly bidding to win control of the site.
Theater Row Phase II Associates held the site's lease but was in bankruptcy and owed the city nearly $14.5 million - making City Hall's approval a necessity.
The Theater Row group, headed by William Condren, had bought the site's lease in 1980 for just $450,000.
After the sale, the Condren group paid the city $9.5 million to settle its debt, and walked away with a profit of nearly $100 million.
One of the developers who competed with Ross for the lease was Robert Gladstone of Madison Equities LLC. His lawyers have charged in court papers that the negotiating process was unfairly skewed in favor of the Ross group.
Madison Equities points to an unpublicized July 22 agreement among the city, Condren and one of the partners in the Ross group, in which the city agreed to back the Ross partnership.
"There was never really a conversation between our side and the city," a Madison Equities source said last week.
David Burger, Condren's attorney, scoffed at the claim and said Gladstone is a sore loser.
As for Bloomberg officials, they insist their only concern from the start was for Condren to pay his debts. They added that the Ross group was the only suitor to agree to provide the city all the easements it needed to build the subway and the new station underneath the site.
"It not only cleared up a longstanding dispute, but it provided the city with money it was owed," said Michael Sherman, spokesman for the city's Economic Development Corp., and "will allow the No. 7 subway extension to be completed."
But at the Council, all were shocked to learn about the secret sale of a property it had just approved for condemnation.
"It's very surprising," said Councilwoman Christine Quinn, who took part in marathon talks with City Hall over the Hudson Yards plan. "When you don't make complete disclosures, for any reason, it raises questions."
Ross recently built the giant Time Warner headquarters at Columbus Circle. His side wouldn't confirm plans to build a 60-story skyscraper.
Jeff Blau, Ross' second in command, would say only that it will be a "mixed use" commercial and residential structure.
Given the close relationship between Doctoroff, the city's economic development czar, and Ross, it's natural to ask if the deputy mayor had anything to do with the transaction.
Doctoroff, once a co-owner of the New York Islanders with Ross, did not return calls for comment.
"Neither Doctoroff nor the mayor had anything to do with this," said one city official involved in the deal. "[Doctoroff] is recused from any decisions involving Ross.
"It was a team decision," the official said.
Originally published on January 25, 2005
All contents © 2005 Daily News, L.P.
James Kovata
Any information as to height?
Kolbster
Any renderings?
Office or residential?
Read.
Hmmmm, can't wait for some more renderings; that one is too vague
May 29th, 2005, 07:56 PM #12
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sfenn1117
Steel is rising already????
Rebar, yes.
But it does seem odd... given that they gave 2006 as starting date, and there aren't any permits filed... is there anything else u/c on that block?
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Need help saving your home?
HomeStrong USA, a nonprofit partner with San Bernardino County, is helping people save their homes.
HomeStrong USA may be able to help if you are earning less than before due to increased costs for employee benefits; possibly losing a home through a short sale or deed-in-lieu of foreclosure; having trouble refinancing; need a loan modification and do not know where to get free help; and if your or your spouse is laid off, recently unemployed or affected by mandatory furlough days.
Find out if you qualify for the free “Keep Your Home California” program and meet with a HUD-approved housing counselor to identify solutions that best suit your situation.
Call HomeStrong USA at 877-746-2182 or visit HomeStrongUSA.org/KYHCAP to schedule an appointment.
Published October 30, 2015 | By County of San Bernardino | Leave a comment
Election Day is Tuesday
The San Bernardino County Elections Office reminds voters that the 2015 Consolidated Election is being held on Tuesday, Nov. 3. Approximately 435,000 voters in San Bernardino County are eligible to vote in this election, which includes contests in the following areas: Arrowbear, Baker, Chino, Chino Hills, Fontana, Helendale, Highland, Landers, Loma Linda, Montclair, Morongo Valley, Newberry Springs, Ontario, Phelan, Pinon Hills, Rancho Cucamonga, Running Springs, San Bernardino, and Upland.
Voters can find their assigned polling place:
On the back cover of their Voter Information Guide,
By using the Elections Office Polling Place Look-up Tool on the Elections Office website, www.sbcountyelections.com, or
By calling the Elections Office at (800) 881-VOTE (8683) or (909) 387-8300.
The polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Mail ballot voters have already received their ballots. Those voters who have not yet returned their voted mail ballots can drop them off:
At any mail ballot drop-off location during normal business hours from now through Election Day.
At the Elections Office, 777 E. Rialto Ave, San Bernardino, CA 92415, on Friday, October 30; Saturday, October 31; and Monday, November 2 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and on Election Day from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.
At any one of the 72 polling places throughout the county from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Election Day.
To find a mail ballot drop-off location, voters can use the Mail Ballot Drop-Off Map or the Polling Place Look-up Tool found on the Elections Office website.
Voted mail ballots must be postmarked on or before Election Day, November 3, 2015, and received no later than three business days after the election.
For more information about this election, visit the Elections Office website, www.sbcountyelections.com, or call (909) 387-8300.
Summit to share best practices to end homelessness
The San Bernardino County Homeless Partnership (SBCHP), in collaboration with the Department of Behavioral Health Office of Homeless Services, is hosting their 9th Annual Homeless Summit to inform stakeholders and community members of the current and future efforts that have been and will be made to address the issue of homelessness in San Bernardino County.
The Homeless Summit will be held on Wednesday, Nov. 4 from 10 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. at the Ontario Convention Center, 2000 East Convention Center Way, in Ontario. The summit is free of charge to attendees.
“The County of San Bernardino is on track to completely eliminate veteran homelessness by the end of this year. In addition, we are committed to ending chronic homelessness for children and families once and for all. The Homeless Summit will showcase our countywide approach to ending homelessness, and ultimately improving quality of life in every one of our communities,” said Fifth District Supervisor Josie Gonzales, who is also chair of the Interagency Council on Homelessness.
Guest speakers will include: Tom Hernandez, Office of Homeless Services; Sharon Green, Victor Valley Family Resource Center; Theodore “Ted” Alejandre, San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools; Amy Sawyer, United States Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH); and Philip Mangano, American Round Table to Abolish Homelessness. Gonzales will make closing remarks.
Interested individuals can learn more about the Homeless Summit or register to attend by visiting www.sbcounty.gov/dbh/sbchp or by calling Deanna Luttrell at (909) 386-8225 (7-1-1 for TTY users.)
The SBCHP works to develop countywide public and private partnerships and to coordinate services and resources to end homelessness in San Bernardino County. Through this, SBCHP is helping to achieve the Countywide Vision by working to create a sustainable system of community health, public safety, and housing. Information on the Countywide Vision, the San Bernardino County Homeless Partnership and the Department of Behavioral Health can be found at www.sbcounty.gov.
Published October 29, 2015 | By County of San Bernardino | 6 Comments
El Niño is coming, are you ready?
The San Bernardino County Fire Department Office of Emergency Services will host a series of public awareness meetings beginning tonight regarding this winter’s expected El Niño storm system.
The first meeting will be held Oct. 28 at 5:30 p.m. at Victorville City Hall, 14343 Civic Drive.
Meetings will also be held on:
– Monday, Nov. 9 at 5:30 p.m. at the Yucca Valley Community Center, 57090 Twentynine Palms Highway in Yucca Valley
– Thursday, Nov. 12 at 5:30 p.m. at the Victoria Gardens Cultural Center, 12505 Cultural Center Drive in Rancho Cucamonga
The public is strongly encouraged to attend. The best way to get prepared is to get informed. The first 50 attendees will receive a personal disaster preparedness kit from California Volunteers.
In its most recent El Niño Diagnostic Discussion, the National Weather Service along with the federal Climate
Prediction Center stated “there is an approximately 95 percent chance” that El Niño will continue through the winter
and begin to weaken in the spring.
After four years of drought, our ground is so dry and hard that it cannot absorb enough water when we do get
rain, which leads to dangerous flooding situations. Risks are higher for areas that have experienced wildfires
recently, specifically the risk of mudslides. According to the US Geological Survey, “post-fire landslide hazards
include fast-moving, highly destructive debris flows that can occur in the years immediately after wildfires in
response to high intensity rainfall events.”
Already this year we have seen multiple major flooding and mudslide events. In mid-October, flooding and mud
flows trapped hundreds of motorists in adjacent counties and forced the temporary closure of Interstate 5
through the Tehachapi Mountains. In early September, a couple on a first date got caught in a flash flood at Mill
Creek crossing in Forest Falls. While she was able to make it to shore, he did not make it out of the water alive.
In August, flash flooding in Riverside County washed out a bridge on Interstate 10.
San Bernardino County Fire Office of Emergency Services, the National Weather Service, San Bernardino County Public Works, and the state Department of Water Resources will update you on the latest El Niño forecast and how local
government is preparing. They will also provide flood preparation materials for residents.
For additional information, please contact the Office of Emergency Services at (909) 356-3998. To learn more
about flood preparation, visit www.sbcfire.org or visit the County’s El Niño page.
Affordable Bloomington project opens waiting list
Applications are now being accepted for the first phase of the Bloomington affordable housing development for low-income seniors and family households.
Information about income requirements and applications can be found at www.bloomingtonapartmenthomes.com, at any County Library, or at the County Community Development and Housing Department in the County Government Center, 385 North Arrowhead Ave. in San Bernardino.
All applications received by Dec. 1 will be entered into a random drawing, the first 106 selected will proceed in the application process. Applications received after this date will be placed after the lottery in the order they are received. Occupancy is expected to begin March 2016.
The project has Spanish/Monterey-style architecture and will include carports and beautiful landscaping. The development has easy access to freeways and shopping and will be a catalyst to the revitalization of the Bloomington community. The development has two housing components: “Lilian Court” for seniors 55 years and older, and “Bloomington Grove” for families. The first phase consists of 70 units for seniors, 36 units for families, and a new 6,500 square foot County Library to serve residents and the community.
Lillian Court will have a separate access and will be an active 55+ adult community which features one and two bedroom homes that include central heating and air, balcony or patio and an all-electric kitchen. Community amenities include community room, spa, and laundry facilities. Some of the units are designed for mobility and hearing/sight impaired households.
Bloomington Grove will be a community which features two and three bedroom apartment homes that include an all-electric kitchen with refrigerator included, breakfast bar, plush carpeting, and high ceilings. Some of the units are available for mobility and hearing/sight impaired households. Bloomington Grove will include a community room, swimming pool, laundry facilities, and a tot lot playground.
For additional information or if you would like to have an application mailed to you, please contact Kathy Brann at kbrann@eda.sbcounty.gov or call (909) 387-4552.
Skillsoft now available for Library cardholders
The San Bernardino County Library is excited to announce Skillsoft is now available among its collection of free online databases. Skillsoft provides online business and computer skill classes for free to all San Bernardino County cardholders.
Users may brush up on their Microsoft Office skills and take a PowerPoint or Word class or add to their resume with a business accounting or marketing course. Skillsoft provides a rich catalog of Microsoft and business courses for all levels, including those just beginning and those who are looking for more advanced skills. Each course is available on demand and can be repeated as often as desired. Courses are available wherever cardholders have Internet access and are frequently updated. Additionally, in course coaching is available through an online chat feature and online tech support is provided as well. For a complete listing of courses or to begin your Skillsoft course visit your local San Bernardino County Library or visit our website at www.sbclib.org.
The San Bernardino County Library System is a dynamic network of 32 branch libraries that serves a diverse population over a vast geographic area. The County library system strives to provide equal access to information, technology, programs, and services for all the people who call San Bernardino County home.
The library plays a key role in the achievement of the Countywide Vision by contributing to educational, cultural, and historical development of our County community.
For more information on the San Bernardino County Library system, please visit www.sbclib.org or call (909) 387-2220.
First 5 San Bernardino seeks pediatricians for Reach Out and Read
First 5 San Bernardino and American Academy of Pediatrics, California Chapter 2 have partnered to bring an early literacy initiative to pediatric care waiting rooms.
Reach Out & Read® is a national program that distributes books through pediatricians to connect reading as a vital practice for quality early childhood development. While in the waiting room, volunteer readers or parents themselves are provided books to read to their children, increasing the child’s interaction and exposure to words. Parents of children ages 5 and under will able to take prescribed books home to build their child’s library and early literacy capacity.
“This partnership leverages the timing of well-child check-ups to reinforce reading as a critical activity for brain development in the first five years of life,” says Karen E. Scott, Executive Director of First 5 San Bernardino. “A partnership with our local pediatricians through this program is timely as our county acknowledges the needs of literacy programs through the Vision2Read campaign. We hope to find pediatricians that are interested offering this added benefit of developmental support to their patients.”
Edward Curry, MD, FAAP, Vice President of American Academy of Pediatrics, California Chapter 2 says, “Reach Out and Read is an opportunity to address the holistic well-being of our developing patients and cultivate bonding activities with their parents. The results from this program implementation across the nation are impressive and we’re looking to have that same impact on children in San Bernardino County.”
First 5 San Bernardino in partnership with American Academy of Pediatrics, California Chapter 2 is hosting an informational dinner for pediatricians, pediatric subspecialists and pediatric medical representatives to introduce the program and gain interest from the local medical community. The first event, ROAR & Explore the Possibilities!, is set for Thursday, Nov. 5, at the office of First 5 San Bernardino located at 735 E. Carnegie Drive, Suite 150 in San Bernardino from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Details on an additional dinner targeting the High Desert region are forthcoming.
For more information on this initiative in San Bernardino County or to register and RSVP for the informational dinner, visit http://bit.ly/roarsanbernardino or call (909) 386-7706. For information on the national program, visit www.reachoutandread.org.
Invasive mosquitoes found in San Bernardino County
On Oct. 15, the Department of Public Health, Division of Environmental Health Services, Mosquito and Vector Control Program discovered Aedes albopictus (the Asian tiger mosquito) in the city of Upland, and Aedes aegypti (the yellow fever mosquito) in the city of Colton. Specimens were confirmed by the state Department of Public Health, Division of Communicable Disease Control Vector-Borne Disease Section.
The Asian tiger and the yellow fever mosquito bite primarily during the day, both indoors and outdoors. The adults are small (about a quarter-inch in size), are dark brown or black, and have distinctive white markings around the body and legs.Both species of mosquito are not native to California, but are found elsewhere in the U.S. and in many other regions of the world (the yellow fever mosquito prefers tropical and subtropical areas).The Asian tiger mosquito was discovered in Los Angeles County in 2011 and has recently been detected in Kern and San Diego counties. The yellow fever mosquito was discovered in urban areas of Fresno, Madera and San Mateo counties in 2013 and is now found in 12 California counties. Most recently, the yellow fever mosquito was detected in Riverside County and the city of Montclair.
Both species of mosquito have the potential to transmit several viral diseases including dengue, chikungunya, and yellow fever, although the risk of transmission in California is still low.
At the beginning of the 2015 season, the Mosquito and Vector Control Program established a Mosquito Day-Biting Surveillance Program in anticipation of the arrival of invasive Aedes mosquitoes to the county. Specialized traps were placed in target areas to monitor changes in mosquito populations and to collect mosquitoes for disease testing.
Artificial or natural water-filled containers that are within or around the home are ideal habitats for these mosquitoes. Female mosquitoes can lay eggs in any container holding as little as a teaspoon of water– plant saucers, cups, bird baths, old tires. Eggs have the ability to dry out and survive for several months.
“I strongly encourage the public to be aware of mosquito activity around their homes as well as other outdoor areas and take action to protect themselves and their family by taking appropriate precautionary measures,” said Dr. Maxwell Ohikhuare, Health Officer. Residents can help control these aggressive and highly invasive mosquitoes by taking the following precautions:
Drain or Dump – Remove all standing water around your property where mosquitos lay eggs such as birdbaths, old tires, pet watering dishes, buckets, or even clogged gutters.
Clean and scrub any container with stored water to remove possible eggs.
Dress – Wear shoes, socks, long pants and long-sleeved shirts whenever you are outdoors to avoid mosquito bites.
DEET – Apply insect repellent containing DEET, PICARDIN, IR3535, or oil of lemon eucalyptus according to manufacturer’s directions.
Doors – Make sure doors and windows have tight-fitting screens. Repair or replace screens that have tears or holes to prevent mosquitos from entering your home.
If you notice these small black and white mosquitoes in or around your home, please contact the Mosquito and Vector Control Program at (800) 442-2283. For more information, you can call us or visit our website at www.sbcounty.gov/dph/dehs, or the state Department of Public Health website at http://bit.ly/1u35fQx .
The book that changed your life
Vision2Read, a year-long campaign designed to help improve literacy throughout San Bernardino County by connecting people to literacy programs, is well underway.
On Sept. 19, Vision2Read launched at the Family Reading Rally held at Cal State San Bernardino where 5,000 books donated by the Molina Foundation were given to children who attended.
Vision2Read is a project of the Countywide Vision, which seeks to support the success of every child from cradle to career. Experts say a key milestone in achieving that success is reading at grade level by the end of third grade.
About 69 percent of San Bernardino County third graders do not meet new California English language arts/literacy standards on the 2015 California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress tests, which is lower than their peers in neighboring counties.
I invite you to join the Vision2Read campaign – whether you can help someone learn to read or if you or someone you know needs help reading. Visit Vision2Read.com for resources and information.
Literacy changes lives and inspires people to do great things. Watch this video and tell us what book changed your life using #Vision2Read on Twitter or Instagram @SBCVision or Facebook at San Bernardino Countywide Vision.
Robert A. Lovingood, Vice Chairman of the Board of Supervisors
Public invited to provide feedback on veteran housing project
The San Bernardino County Department of Behavioral Health (DBH) invites members of the community, especially veterans, to review and provide feedback on the Liberty Lane Veteran Housing project, a Mental Health Services Act (MHSA) Housing Program developed to provide permanent supportive housing for veterans with serious mental illness who are homeless or at risk of homelessness.
The plan will be posted for review and public comment for 30 days from Oct. 15 to Nov. 14 at www.sbcounty.gov/dbh under the announcements heading.
The California Housing Finance Agency and the California Department of Health Care Services have jointly allocated approximately $20 million in funds to DBH for this MHSA Housing Program. These funds will be used in the development of permanent supportive housing for veterans with serious mental illness who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. The project is proposed for development by A Community of Friends.
The Mental Health Services Act, Proposition 63, was passed by California voters in November 2004 and went into effect January 2005. The Act is funded by a 1 percent surcharge on personal income of more than $1 million per year.
For additional information, please contact Douglas Fazekas, Housing and Employment Program Administrative Manager, at (909) 421-9451.
DBH, through MHSA, is supporting the Countywide Vision by providing resources to promote wellness, recovery and resiliency in the community. Information on the Countywide Vision and the Department of Behavioral Health can be found at www.sbcounty.gov.
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