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Oconee County grad Adam Frazier enters All-Star break on a roll, named NL player of the week
By Matthew Caldwell Oconee Leader
On July 1 Oconee County grad Adam Frazier did something for the Pittsburgh Pirates that hasn’t been done since 1932 — he had four doubles in one game.
The next night, Frazier had a three-run home run and went 4-for-5 for the Pirates against the Chicago Cubs. He had seven straight hits over the two games, something that hasn’t happened for the Pirates since 2009.
He had a .600 batting average, .625 on-base percentage, eight extra-base hits and seven RBI last week. For his efforts, Frazier was named the National League Player of the Week on Monday.
“Frazier, that's as hot as you can get right now,” Chicago manager Joe Maddon told reporters after the game on July 2.
Frazier finished the month of June with a .254 batting average. Prior to the game on July 1, he spent extra time taking batting practice with Pirates hitting coach Rick Eckstein.
“Putting in some work with Rick just trying to get the contact point out front and it has really helped a lot. Just trying to stay on the aggressive side on the things and hopefully it will continue to fall,” Frazier told Pirates the broadcast on AT&T Sportsnet following the game on July 2.
He was moved from eighth in the lineup to the leadoff spot.
“I will come ready to play wherever I am at — first or eighth, it don’t doesn’t really matter. It’s just me and the pitcher whenever I am in the box, put up a fight and have at it,” Frazier said.
This is Frazier’s third full season with the Pirates. He got called up in 2016 and played in 66 games for Pittsburgh. He appeared in 121 games in his first full season in 2017 and 113 games in 2018.
“It is still cool to see a guy that you coached every day and helped progress through the game of baseball go to the Major Leagues and get to watch him play with the best players on earth. It is awe inspiring,” said Oconee County head baseball coach Tom Gooch. “I don’t feel any way responsible for him being where he is. He has a God-given natural talent.
“I fully expected him to do well in the Majors. He has overcome every obstacle that has ever been put in front of him. When he was a junior and senior and looking for colleges to play, some D-1s turned him down because they said he wasn’t big enough, he was never going to be big enough to play Division I college baseball. Then he goes to Mississippi State and becomes and All-American. I am sure the same kinds of people said he would never play pro baseball. If you knew Adam like I know Adam and his family, you would never have a doubt about how well he was going to do given the opportunity.”
Frazier had his uniform number retired by Oconee County prior to a football game in 2018.
“He was dressed in a high dollar suit and looked the part but it was still the same Adam Frazier that I knew,” Gooch said. "He is still humble. He is still considerate. He is still respectful. Nothing has changed. Him playing in the Major Leagues hasn’t changed who Adam Frazier is. I think that is why he is a success. You see a lot of players who get there and it changes them — fame, money, whatever you want to call it. I got the honor of getting to be around Adam for four years in high school and I knew nothing was going to change. That is a testament to his parents and how he was raised. He is the same great young man that he was when he played ball for us.
“We usually talk in the early spring about spring training time. He has come and practiced with the team a couple of times before he goes off to spring training. When he is home from the league, sometimes he will come up and use the facility. It is kind of cool. You get to talk with a Major Leaguer. It is always a fun thing, a fun phone call to get.”
Frazier has a .287 batting average and a .341 on-base percentage. He went 3-for-6 against Milwaukee on July 5, 2-for-4 with two runs scored on July 6 and 3-for-5 with two runs scored on July 7.
Frazier recorded 20 doubles in 2017, 23 doubles in 2018 and has 19 this season as the league entered the All-Star break on Sunday. At Oconee County, he set a state record for 53 career doubles.
“That is what he did when he was here. He was a doubles machine. He set the state record for doubles in a career. That is Adam. He has just changed venues,” Gooch said. “He is young and he will stay healthy and he will work. I expect to see him on the big screen for a long time.”
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Joshua Bell and Yannick
Joshua Bell - Violin
Wieniawski - Violin Concerto No. 2
Shostakovich - Symphony No. 7 ("Leningrad")
Joshua Bell first captivated Philadelphia audiences and then the world with his astonishing prowess, on full display in this series of concerts centered on St. Petersburg, Russia. Bell performs Wieniawski's romantic and Paganini-like Violin Concerto No. 2, premiered while the composer and violinist was living and teaching in St. Petersburg. The Concerto exhibits a glossy nostalgia in stark contrast to Shostakovich's emotionally charged work dedicated to the same great Russian city. The “Leningrad” Symphony is a vivid depiction of invading armies and the devastating impact of war. Yannick leads the Orchestra for three performances of Shostakovich's towering masterpiece. Cristian Macelaru guest conducts for a special fourth performance, pairing Bell and Wieniawski with Dvorák's euphoric Symphony No. 8 and Beethoven's Leonore Overture No. 3.
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2018-02-15 19:30:002018-02-15 21:30:00America/New_YorkJoshua Bell and YannickJoshua Bell first captivated Philadelphia audiences and then the world with his astonishing prowess, on full display in this series of concerts centered on St. Petersburg, Russia. Bell performs Wieniawski's romantic and Paganini-like Violin Concerto No. 2, premiered while the composer and violinist was living and teaching in St. Petersburg. The Concerto exhibits a glossy nostalgia in stark contrast to Shostakovich's emotionally charged work dedicated to the same great Russian city. The “Leningrad” Symphony is a vivid depiction of invading armies and the devastating impact of war. Yannick leads the Orchestra for three performances of Shostakovich's towering masterpiece. Cristian Macelaru guest conducts for a special fourth performance, pairing Bell and Wieniawski with Dvorák's euphoric Symphony No. 8 and Beethoven's Leonore Overture No. 3.These concerts will be LiveNote enabled.Verizon Hall
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Kensho Watanabe Appointed Assistant Conductor of The Philadelphia Orchestra
Aram Demirjian to lead select Family and School Concerts in 2016-17 Season
(Philadelphia, July 19, 2016)—Kensho Watanabe has been named assistant conductor of The Philadelphia Orchestra, beginning in the 2016-17 season, succeeding Lio Kuokman, whose term ends at the end of the 2015-16 season. The two-year appointment includes conducting select concerts, participating in residency, touring, and educational activities, and serving as a cover conductor. The assistant conductor position also provides assistance to Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin on artistic matters in preparation for and during rehearsals, as well as assisting visiting guest conductors. Watanabe joins the distinguished conducting roster of The Philadelphia Orchestra, including Principal Guest Conductor Stéphane Denève and Conductor-in-Residence Cristian Măcelaru.
“The Philadelphia Orchestra is proud to support and develop the best conducting talent, providing a broad array of artistic experiences and community engagement opportunities,” said Orchestra President and CEO Allison Vulgamore. “We have full confidence that Kensho will flourish in this role and contribute meaningfully to the music and culture of Philadelphia.”
“Kensho Watanabe's appointment is the result of a highly involved audition process both on and off the podium with the musicians of The Philadelphia Orchestra, and we are delighted to work with him in his role as assistant conductor,” said Yumi Kendall, Orchestra assistant principal cello and the chair of the Musicians’ Artistic Committee. “His sincere sense of personal and musical growth aligns with how we identify as a group of artists, and we look forward to our collaborations ahead. Congratulations, Kensho!”
“We are thrilled that Kensho will be the new assistant conductor for the Philadelphia Orchestra,” said Roberto Díaz, president of the Curtis Institute of Music. “This is a remarkable opportunity for a young conductor and an incredible vote of confidence from the entire Philadelphia Orchestra. He has the skills and versatility required for a position like this and has already worked closely with Yannick, the mentor conductor for the Curtis conducting program. This is a wonderful boost for Kensho and we are happy he’ll continue to conduct in Philadelphia.”
“The Philadelphia Orchestra has played an enormous part in my development as a musician,” said Watanabe. “I am incredibly honored to join them as assistant conductor, and look forward to continuing my musical growth while supporting Yannick, the musicians, and the organization as a whole.”
As part of the extensive audition selection process, The Philadelphia Orchestra also identified conductor Aram Demirjian to be a collaborator on upcoming concerts in the 2016-17 season, including the Family concerts on October 29, 2016 and February 4, 2017, as well as this year’s run of school concerts. Aram Demirjian is the recently-named music director of the Knoxville Symphony and served as associate conductor of the Kansas City Symphony for four years.
“I am honored and excited to be working with The Philadelphia Orchestra on multiple upcoming Collaborative Learning projects,” said Demirjian. “Music is a gateway to boundless possibility and joy, and it is essential to expose young people to it early and often through programs that encourage self-expression, creativity, and participation, both in the concert hall and in the classroom. I am looking forward to forging meaningful connections with students and families throughout this wonderfully diverse community, and I am grateful to Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the entire Philadelphia Orchestra team for the opportunity to conduct this amazing ensemble.”
ABOUT KENSHO WATANABE
Japanese-American conductor Kensho Watanabe completed his tenure as the inaugural Rita E. Hauser Conducting Fellow at the Curtis Institute of Music in 2015, under the mentorship of Philadelphia Orchestra Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin. In addition to his title of assistant conductor for The Philadelphia Orchestra, he continues to hold the title of conducting fellow of the San Diego Symphony. Equally at home in both symphonic and operatic repertoire, Watanabe has led numerous operas with the Curtis Opera Theatre, most recently La Bohéme in 2015. Additionally, he served as assistant conductor to Nézet-Séguin on a new production of Elektra at Opera de Montréal.
Future performances include a debut with the Orlando Philharmonic, and reengagements with the Orchestre Métropolitain, the San Diego Symphony, and the Alabama Symphony Orchestra. An accomplished violinist, Watanabe received his Master of Music in Violin from the Yale School of Music, and served as a substitute violinist for The Philadelphia Orchestra from 2012-2016. Cognizant of the importance of the training and development of young musicians, Watanabe has served on the staff of the Greenwood Music Camp since 2007, and currently serves as the orchestra conductor.
Kensho Watanabe is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music in conducting, where he studied with distinguished conducting pedagogue Otto-Werner Mueller. Additionally, he holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Yale College, where he studied molecular, cellular, and developmental biology.
ABOUT ARAM DEMIRJIAN
Aram Demirjian is a dynamic emerging leader on the American musical landscape. Known for his “confident and expressive style” (Kansas City Star), Demirjian bridges the musical traditions of the past with the cultural appetites of the present, forging a magnetic rapport with audiences.
Demirjian was recently appointed music director of the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, adding to an already lively 2016-17 season, which includes two return engagements with the Louisiana Philharmonic, debuts with the Corpus Christi Symphony, Fresno Philharmonic, and Illinois Symphony, and his European debut on the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra’s Dominicales series. Recent guest conducting highlights include debuts with the Minnesota Orchestra, and Memphis and Omaha symphonies. Demirjian is a frequent cover conductor with the Boston Symphony, where he assisted Music Director Andris Nelsons, Christoph von Dohnányi, and Manfred Honeck.
In four years as associate conductor of the Kansas City Symphony (KCS), Demirjian conducted over 200 performances, including subscription concerts and critically praised annual performances of Handel's Messiah. He also was instrumental in designing and launching Classics Uncorked, a widely acclaimed series that presents weeknight classical concerts, enhancing the concert hall experience with thematic programming, narration, visual effects, musical demonstrations and audience interaction.
Demirjian is involved in community outreach initiatives with the goal of ensuring that everyone, regardless of age, background, or circumstance, has access to great symphonic music. With the KCS, he programmed, scripted, and conducted education concerts for nearly 45,000 elementary school students annually, and he will carry on his commitment to education in Philadelphia and Knoxville.
Aram Demirjian was one of only two conductors in the inaugural class of the distinguished Orchestral Conducting program at New England Conservatory, where he earned his Master of Music. He also holds a Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, in music and government from Harvard University, where his conducting journey began with a two-year appointment as music director of the Harvard Bach Society Orchestra. His primary teachers and mentors include Hugh Wolff, Robert Spano, Larry Rachleff, and Michael Stern.
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Saint Misbehavin’: The Wavy Gravy Movie
Cynthia Fuchs
Saint Misbehavin': The Wavy Gravy Movie is a celebration and something of a scrapbook too, a collection of memories without much in the way of questions.
Saint Misbehavin’: The Wavy Gravy Movie
Director: Michelle Esrick
Cast: Wavy Gravy, Steve Ben Israel, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Odetta, Dr. Larry Brilliant, Jahanara Romney
Studio: Argot Pictures
US date: 2010-12-08 (Limited release)
War is such a complicated way of getting acquainted.
-- Wavy Gravy
"I'm not a classical clown," explains Wavy Gravy. "I'm an intuitive clown." To illustrate, Saint Misbehavin': The Wavy Gravy Movie offers the clown in action -- smiling, performing, and, again and again, agitating.
Wavy Gravy's intuition has taken him in a range of directions over his 74 years. Born Hugh Romney, he grew up in West Hartford CT and enlisted in the army in 1954. Following an honorable discharge, he used the GI Bill to take classes in Boston University's Theater Department. The film, which opens 8 December at New York's IFC Center, charts that he went on to perform his own poetry at the Gaslight Café in Greenwich Village Get (Wavy points to a room where he and Bob Dylan would "get delightfully altered and create"), establishing the Hog Farm collective, and writing the anthemic "Basic Human Needs." He's also managed more than one Nobody for President campaigns (the 2012 incarnation is already underway) and used his name -- famously bestowed on him by B.B. King at the Texas International Pop Festival in 1969 -- as tactic and trademark. Not to mention Wavy Gravy's ice cream flavor (caramel, cashews, and brazil nuts), invented for Ben & Jerry's and so providing him with a lifetime's supply of free ice cream: when the film begins, he takes the camera along on a shopping trip, during which he picks up hot dogs and ice cream for his commune family's dinner.
The commune members appear briefly in Michelle Esrick's documentary, as Wavy and his wife Jahanara Romney recall their olden days and the younger members extol the benefits of living with "a village all in one house." Wavy tells a story about not having money for a theme park, and so taking a passel of kids to a department store where they could "ride the escalators." Everyone laughs as he remembers the manager's consternation ("Those children there, are they associated with you in any way?"), the scene demonstrating the great warmth and good humor of this paterfamilias.
The film begins and ends with illustrations of Wavy Gravy's commitments, to his faith and his hope. With incense burning, he gives thanks "for all that ever was, thanks for all that is, and thanks for all that ever will be," and the camera pans his prayer room, a shrine to his inspirations, from Lenny Bruce, Mother Theresa, Gandhi, and Martin Luther King. Jr. to figures of Jesus and Buddha dolls to a multi-armed Donald Duck and assorted pigs and hogs (one wears a Superman suit). "Let me be the best Wavy Gravy I can muster," he says as he stands to head out, his bald head shiny in the morning sun.
"Wavy is a consummate idealist," Jahanara explains. Though they were otherwise very different personalities, she says, "That's probably what was in me that made us love each other." When he asked her to marry him, she smiles, he suggested he might not live very long, but "Your life will never be boring." As evidence in support of his prediction, she remembers their decades together, full of adventures -- at anti-war protests, at Woodstock, at political conventions and college campuses. Their mutual commitment to basic human rights and belief in an essential goodness in their fellows helped them build the Hog Farm, part mobile commune, part activist organization, and part circus.
"We were kind of extended pranksters," she observes of the Hog Farm, noting their inspiration by Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters. Steve Ben Israel describes the Hog Farmers as performing "what the Commedia dell'arte did 400 years ago: they had these plays about consciousness, these archetypal characters." The film includes here old home movies of the Hog Farmers dancing and marching, their costumes colorful and clownish. "The joy of the youth, the joy of the clowns, the colors," Ben Israel says, "It's packed into a civil rights movement and a stop the war movement and a vision of how life could be."
While Wavy has worked to make this vision a reality for himself and his extended family, he has also worked to help others around the world. The success of the Hog Farm's efforts at Woodstock made Wavy Gravy famous: the organization was tasked with providing "security" (which he describes in a TV interview at the tome as supplying a "carload of lemon pies and seltzer bottles in case there's trouble") and went on to feed thousands of festival goers, while Wavy Gravy served as a soothing, cajoling, and highly entertaining emcee.
Wavy Gravy went on to establish the Seva Foundation, an international health organization, with Larry Brilliant and Ram Dass (who says here, "Everything Wavy Gravy says is true, although it's all unbelievable: he's infused politics with humor"). The film traces some adventures, including an effort to bring supplies to Bangladesh (Wavy says they never imagined they could help enough people, but did know they might draw media attention, and so, "We could embarrass these governments, who would say, 'My God, there's hippies doing this: we can do it better'), then Bulgaria (where Wavy read to his companions each night from Hesse's Journey to the East, as they had no radio or other entertainment: "I was it, the nighty night show"), and through Afghanistan. In 1971, the group took the Khyber Pass to bring medical supplies to communities in India and Nepal. Tripping on acid and seeking a variety of enlightenments, they shared all they had with the people they met. Brilliant remembers seeing pictures of John Kennedy in homes they visited: "They loved us so much and America meant something. It'll be a long time before there'll be another picture of an American president in those villages."
Looking back, Wavy sees protests as ways to embrace difference, and came to appreciate the effects of his clown appearances. Police have been less inclined to hurt him when he's in costume, he observes. "Clowns are safe, just no threat to them." His Camp Winnarainbow annually invites kids to share in his philosophy: "Laughter is like the valve on the pressure cooker and if you don’t laugh, you're going to end up with beans on the ceiling."
Taking Wavy Gravy and his associates at their words, Saint Misbehavin': The Wavy Gravy Movie is a celebration and something of a scrapbook too, a collection of memories without much in the way of questions. If it alludes to some rough spots (Wavy Gravy's son remembers that he spent his 13th birthday in court, legally changing his irksome given name, Howdy Do Good, to Jordan Romney) and has since come to terms with the contradictions he grew up with ("society" says bad guys go to prison, but his parents taught him otherwise). But for the most part, Saint Misbehavin' skirts such potential problems in order to showcase the clown.
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Die Ehe der Maria Braun (The Marriage of Maria Braun) 1978 M
6.00PM Fri 29 Jun 2018 (2hrs)
GOMA | Cinema A | Free
The Marriage of Maria Braun was the first instalment of Fassbinder's BRD trilogy, with his later films Lola and Veronika Voss completing the loose triptych exploring the lives of three different women in Germany after World War II. Maria Braun (Hanna Schygulla) is a war bride, abandoned just one night after her wedding as her new husband Hermann (Klaus Löwitsch) returns to battle. With defiant persistence, Maria begins her slow climb out of the ruins, mirroring Germany's own post-war recovery. As she awaits the return of her love, Maria uses her wits and wiles to become a self-made businesswoman. That she finds only emptiness despite her success is no doubt a savage indictment of the "economic miracle" Germany experienced in the 1950s. The production of The Marriage of Maria Braun was one of Fassbinder's most unhappy, culminating in a split with his long-time collaborator Michael Fengler, and co-producer of the film. Fassbinder was on a self-destructive bent: he demanded his crew supply him with cocaine during shooting, causing the production to go over-budget. Despite this, The Marriage of Maria Braun went on to become not only Fassbinder's most commercially successful film but also the film that would bring him the critical acclaim he had longed for.
M | Mature themes and coarse language, Sexual references, drug use and nudity
35MM TRANSFERRED TO DCP, 1.85:1, COLOUR (FUJICOLOR), MONO, 120 MINUTES, WEST GERMANY, GERMAN/ENGLISH (ENGLISH SUBTITLES) / DIRECTOR: RAINER WERNER FASSBINDER / SCRIPT: PEA FRÖHLICH, PETER MÄRTHESHEIMER / CINEMATOGRAPHER: MICHAEL BALLHAUS / EDITORS: RAINER WERNER FASSBINDER (AS FRANZ WALSCH), JULIANE LORENZ / PRODUCTION DESIGNER: NORBERT SCHERER / COSTUME DESIGNER: BARBARA BAUM / MUSIC: PEER RABEN / CAST: HANNA SCHYGULLA, KLAUS LÖWITSCH, IVAN DESNY, ELISABETH TRISSENAAR / PRODUCTION CO: ALBATROS PRODUKTION, MUNICH; TRIO-FILM, DUISBURG; WESTDEUTSCHER RUNDFUNK, KÖLN / PRINT SOURCE/RIGHTS: RAINER WERNER FASSBINDER FOUNDATION
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Japan-China Contestation in 2017
21/01/2017 Qalamkar 0 Comment asia pacific, china, construction, japan
2017 is set to be a consequential year for East Asia in general and Japan-China contests in particular. Beijing and Tokyo’s growing assertive postures would continue in 2017 and it is likely that the Japan-China contestation in the region would be more direct and scary. Both countries have been extremely uncompromising under the leaderships of Japan’s Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, and China’s President, Xi Jinping. Both have been incrementally crossing mutual permissible lines and the trend portends further worsening. There are concerns that in 2017, both with further test the policy of ‘offence’.
In the past few months, there have been significant developments, which point in this direction. Chinese coastal guards have significantly increased their patrolling near the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands in the East China Sea. In 2016, China also submitted over 50 applications to the Sub-Committee on Undersea Feature Names, part of the Monaco-based International Hydrographic Organization, to give Chinese names to underwater topographic features that had Japanese or other non-Chinese names. These applications were double in number than those submitted in 2015. Although 34 Chinese names were rejected, the move shows Beijing’s intent. Over the past six years, China has successfully gotten 76 names approved. It also must be underlined that in 2013, China unilaterally declared the Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) in the East China Sea and there are allegations that it has gradually been becoming stricter in its implementation.
Japan also keenly observes China’s behaviour pertaining to the South China Sea, the Indian Ocean, the One-Belt One-Road (OBOR) project, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), and its fierce opposition of the installations of the US Terminal High Altitude Air Defense (THAAD) system in the East Asia. On most platforms of bilateral and multilateral exchanges, the Chinese approach has been overtly non-compromising. China has been flexing its muscles at the East Asian Summit, ASEAN, and the ASEAN+3, ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF), among others, which makes Japan concerned.
Similarly, Japan too has been equally uncompromising in its approach. Tokyo increased its military budget again, which is the fifth consecutive increase in a row and its latest defence paper openly mentions islands’ security and the East China Sea as the main contexts of the increase. Japan’s procurement of naval ships and submarines are the main focus of the defence expenditure; and this was evidently done bearing China in mind. In early December 2016, two Japanese F-15 fighter jets allegedly interfered in the training of Chinese Air Force in the Western Pacific, which irked Beijing.
Additionally, Japan has a plan to establish an organisation of the Japanese Coast Guard, which would help Southeast Asian countries ‘improve maritime safety’; and this organisation is slated to become operational from April 2017. In a more recent move, Japan added the name Taiwan to its de facto embassy in Taipei on 28 December 2016, which will certainly annoy China. Actually, China may read Japanese overtures to Taiwan as part of Tokyo and Washington’s joint plan because the US President-elect, Donald Trump, has also shown a glimpse of his intent to review the status quo of the US’ ‘One China Policy’. Trump received a phone call from the Taiwan’s President, Tsai Ing-wen, and justified his conversation strongly. China would consider it a Tokyo-Washington joint plan to alter Taiwan’s status in their diplomacy.
On 29 December 2016, Japan’s Defense Minister Tomomi Inada visited Yasukuni shrine to again emphasise Japan’s intent of non-compromise. Furthermore, in early January 2017, the defense minister had visited the NATO headquarters to deepen NATO-Japan defence cooperation and along with the Japan’s Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida, participated in the two-plus-two talks with France on security issues in the East China Sea and the region. Japan has also been trying to placate Russia’s President, Vladimir Putin; and during his visit to Japan in mid-December 2016, Tokyo assured many economic concessions to Moscow. Observers connect Japan’s extra efforts to improve relations with Russia with the Japanese efforts to isolate China in regional politics.
Although, there are uncertainties over the Trump’s approach towards Japan, Abe’s special meeting with the US president-elect in December 2016 indicates that the US commitment to Japanese security would continue. It is also because even though Trump has some reservations regarding Japan’s ‘free-ride’, he is overtly challenging China and for that, he needs Japan’s support.
Overall, the contestation between Japan and China is intensifying, and if neither party carries out a course correction in 2017, it may reach a critical point. Incremental quantitative changes are likely to bring qualitative transformation in the Japan-China bilateral this year. The course may be otherwise, if the following three variables intervene in the process: huge economic exchanges between the two countries; a decrease in Washington’s support to an aggressive Japan; and constructive intervention of concerned middle powers of the Asia-Pacific.
Written By: Sandip Kumar Mishra
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Israel says China to send thousands of construction workers
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Tirade War or a Trade War?
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Officer seeking entry may be an impersonator
Eugene police are investigating a report that a man claiming to be a police officer attempted to gain entry into a house in the 700 block of Tyler Street earlier this week.
The subject knocked on a resident�s door about 4:40 p.m. Wednesday, identified himself as a Santa Monica, Calif., police officer and displayed a shield-type badge, police said.
�The impersonator engaged the resident in conversation for more than 30 minutes, repeatedly asking to enter the apartment to either search it or stating that he was in need of a glass of water and had to sit down inside the home,� police said in a press release.
�The resident refused the man entry and asked for details on the case he was working, but he gave no information. Eventually, the suspect left in a grey sedan with white license plates and a large antenna on the vehicle�s passenger side.�
Police said the suspect was described as a white male, about 6-foot-3 and 200 pounds. He had a black handgun hanging in a brown shoulder holster on his right shoulder.
The man was clean-shaven, had light brown-blond hair and was wearing a grey suit with wingtip dress shoes.
Eugene police contacted the Santa Monica Police Department, Eugene police spokeswoman Melinda McLaughlin said, and Santa Monica police said they did not have a police detective with the name the man gave to the local resident.
�Nor did they have any other law enforcement personnel in the area working on an out-of-state case,� McLaughlin said.
Eugene police ask that anyone with information about this case call 541-682-8888.
Police offered the following tips for someone confronted by a person claiming to be a police officer:
Look for identifying clothing and equipment.
If unsure, explain to the �officer� that you are unsure about the situation and ask them to display official department identification and badge.
Ask where they work. You can call 911 to confirm their identity. You also may request a marked patrol unit to respond.
�In the case above, the resident didn�t feel comfortable and made the right decision to not let the suspect into the home, and then called police,� McLaughlin said.
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VR firm Survios gets investment from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
(Reuters) - Virtual reality game developer Survios said it raised $50 million in two financing rounds, including an investment from Hollywood film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Los Angeles-based Survios, which produced popular first-person shooter game “Raw Data,” said it would use the capital to grow its publishing and development platform and add more third-party titles to its slate.
The emerging virtual reality industry has seen a number of tech companies, such as Sony Corp (6758.T), Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) and Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google, invest in developing hardware and headsets but still lacks engaging content for users.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) Chief Executive Gary Barber will join Survios’ board, the company said.
MGM, founded in 1924, is known for its roaring lion logo and has produced, released and controlled many of Hollywood’s best-known films, such as Ben-Hur, The Pink Panther and Rocky film series.
The San Francisco-based firm said that a prior financing round was led by Lux Capital.
Reporting by Narottam Medhora in Bengaluru; Editing by Martina D'Couto
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Clifford E. Fritz
Clifford E. Fritz of Lewiston, NY passed away July 12, 2019. He was born on September 14, 1924 in St. Marys, PA, the son of the late George and Lyda [Rhodes] Fritz.
In 1966 he moved to Niagara Falls and later retired from Pfeiffer's Food.
Mr. Fritz was one of a kind in so many ways and meant so much to so many. He will forever be sadly missed by his daughters and grandchildren. In 1968, after the death of his wife, he lovingly raised his three beautiful daughters on his own, all who then took care of his every need as the aging process became more difficult to handle on his own, up until his last day. His ability to juggle working and being able to be both a mother and father to his young girls was extraordinary and admirable, they always came first. Mr. Fritz then went on to help his daughter raise her two boys who affectionately refer to him as "Bumpa" and they are who they are today because of his unconditional love and devotion. His family was everything. He was there for everyone who needed him, a simple man in so many ways, yet powerfully impacted the lives of so many.
Mr. Fritz extended his warmth and love so much beyond his own family. He will be greatly missed by all of his daughters' girlfriends who loved him like their second dad.
A special thank you for his caretakers who he loved, especially Karil Robbins, who his family will be forever grateful to for her devoted, compassionate care.
Mr. Fritz was the husband of the late Gertrude L. [Handwerger] Fritz, who passed away on May 19, 1968, they were married on June 30, 1956, He is survived by his daughters Barbara J. Barbero, Patricia A. (William) Cummings and Joan M. (Terrence) O'Laughlin, eight grandchildren Robert (Jenni) Sczepczenski, Talia (Joseph) Malkinski, Meghan (Casey) Johnston, Kevin (Becky) Sczepczenski, Rhianna Roemer, Ryan O'Laughlin, Carlie Barbero and Chelsea O'Laughlin, also eight great grandchildren, many nieces and nephews.
Mr. Fritz was the brother of the late George, Herman and James Fritz, Elizabeth Commino, Kathryn Fritz, Monica Ryden and Dorothy Wickett.
His family will be present on Monday from 4-8 PM at the RHONEY FUNERAL HOME, 901 Cayuga Street, LEWISTON, NY, where funeral services will be held on Tuesday at 9:45 AM followed by a Mass of Christian Burial at 10:30 AM at Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph, Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church Site, 27th and Independence Avenues, Niagara Falls, NY, with the Rev. Stewart M. Lindsay, OSFS officiating
Flowers are gratefully declined, Memorials may be made in his name to Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church or St. Jude Children's Hospital
Interment in St. Marys Catholic Cemetery, St. Marys, PA.
Visit www.rhoneyfuneralhome.com for guest register.
There's still time to send flowers to the Funeral Service at the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph Our Lady of Mt. Carmel at 10:30 AM on July 16, 2019.
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Ex-House Speaker Dennis Hastert hospitalized after having a stroke
Former U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Dennis Hastert, who pleaded guilty in October in a hush-money case stemming from allegations of sexual misconduct, has suffered a stroke, his lawyer said on Thursday.
Attorney Tom Green said that during the first week of November, Hastert, 73, was admitted to the hospital. Hastert suffered a stroke, was treated for sepsis, had two back surgeries and remains hospitalized, Green said in an emailed statement.
Hastert, a Republican who led the House of Representatives from 1999 to 2007, pleaded guilty on Oct. 28 to one count of “structuring” – withdrawing funds from bank accounts in amounts below $10,000 to evade bank reporting rules. The rules exist to detect money laundering.
Hastert is to be sentenced on Feb. 29 in federal court in Chicago. It is possible sentencing could be postponed due to his health problems. He faces up to five years in prison. Prosecutors recommended a sentence of up to six months.
Green said in his statement that he hopes that Hastert will be released from the hospital in the early part of next year.
A spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s office said the office does not comment on the medical condition of a defendant.
Hastert admitted to U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Durkin to paying $1.7 million in cash to an individual he had known for decades to buy that person’s silence and compensate for past misconduct toward that individual.
Prosecutors did not spell out the misconduct, but unnamed law enforcement officials have told media that it was sexual and involved someone Hastert knew when he was a high school teacher and coach in his hometown of Yorkville, Illinois, in the 1960s and 1970s.
In a letter filed with the court on Tuesday, C. William Pollard, a friend of Hastert’s and chairman emeritus of The ServiceMaster Company, asked Durkin to consider Hastert’s “recent hospital stay” in offering probation instead of jail. Pollard called Hastert “a man of integrity.”
(Reporting by Mary Wisniewski in Chicago; Editing by Cynthia Osterman and Leslie Adler)
Mike Pence’s spokesperson loses it when ex-Breitbart staffer calls out Republican racism
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Social Science - Ethnic Studies/General
Social Science - Women's Studies
Selections from the Controversial 1927 Text, Edited and with an Introduction by Mrinalini Sinha
Katherine Mayo
Edited by Mrinalini Sinha
A new edition of Mayo's controversial 1927 book, with commentary that sheds new light on Indian nationalism of this period
Mother India, a polemical attack against Indian self-rule written by U.S. historian Katherine Mayo, was met with a storm of controversy when it was published in 1927. The controversy generated still reverberates and thus is still worth revisiting, some fifty years after Indian independence. In responding to Mayo's argument laid out in Mother India, the leaders of the national movement and the independent women's movement in India laid the foundations of an alliance that gave modern Indian nationalism its distinctive character.
Mrinalini's Sinha's edition provides selections of this controversial book and commentary on the Mother India phenomenon. It also reprints a range of responses from Mayo's contemporaries. Sinha's edition works to locate the book and the controversy it incited in the context of U.S. domestic, British Imperial, and Indian nationalist politics. Unlike previous editions, Sinha's examines the history of cultural feminisms and the relations between women's movements in the United States, Britain, and India; the examination of these different movements reveals intriguing insights into the nature of the varied reactions to Mayo's book. The edition includes several formerly obscure contemporary responses to Mother India from representatives of the women's movement and of the anti-caste movement in India.
Intended as a tool for students and teachers alike, this book will be an important text in the field of women's studies, cultural studies, political science, history, and religion, among others.
Mrinalini Sinha is Associate Professor of History, Southern Illinois University. She is the author of Colonial Masculinity: The 'Manly Englishman' and the 'Effeminate Bengali' in the Late Nineteenth Century.
Praise / Awards
"An excellent piece of work. It is truly sophisticated, and has the power to change our view of the course of Indian nationalism in late colonial India."
—Geraldine Forbes, State University of New York at Oswego
"Sinha is the first historian to recognize the role Mother India played in making Indian women's organizations key players in the creation of a national identity. This is a sophisticated piece and it challenges conventional accounts of t he development of Indian nationalism in late colonial India."
—Geraldine Forbes, State University of New York, Oswego, Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 61: No. 1 (November 2001)
Ancient India in Its Wider World
Fertility and Family Life in an Indian Village
Buddhist Thought in India
Penumbral Visions
Hindi Structures
DOI: 10.3998/mpub.10490
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Pentecost 15 ::: Mark 7: 1-8, 14-15, 21-23
Now when the Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around him, 2they noticed that some of his disciples were eating with defiled hands, that is, without washing them. 3(For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat unless they thoroughly wash their hands, thus observing the tradition of the elders; 4and they do not eat anything from the market unless they wash it;and there are also many other traditions that they observe, the washing of cups, pots, and bronze kettles.) 5So the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, ‘Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with defiled hands?’ 6He said to them, ‘Isaiah prophesied rightly about you hypocrites, as it is written,
“This people honours me with their lips,
but their hearts are far from me;
7in vain do they worship me,
teaching human precepts as doctrines.”
8You abandon the commandment of God and hold to human tradition.’
Then he called the crowd again and said to them, ‘Listen to me, all of you, and understand: 15there is nothing outside a person that by going in can defile, but the things that come out are what defile.’
21For it is from within, from the human heart, that evil intentions come: fornication, theft, murder, 22adultery, avarice, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, envy, slander, pride, folly. 23All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.’
Translation: And the pharisees and some of the scribes who came from Jerusalem were gathered together to him, and they were seeing some of his disciples eating the bread with common hands--that is, unwashed--for the pharisees and all the Judeans do not eat unless they wash the hands often, holding to the tradition of the elders. And from the marketplace, unless they wash, they do not eat, and many other things are what they took to hold, washing cups and pots and copper vessels.
And the pharisees and the scribes ask him, "Why do your disciples not walk about according to the tradition of the elders, but (with) common hands they eat the bread?" But he said to them, "Beautifully did Isaiah prophesy concerning you hypocrites, as it has been written, 'This people values me with the lips, but their heart they keep far from me. But idly they worship me, teaching as doctrines commandments of people. They let go the commandment of God to hold the tradition of people."
And he called the crowd again and said to them, "Hear me all, and understand: There is nothing outside the person coming in into that person which is able to defile that one, but the things out of the person, coming out, are the things defiling a person.
For from within, out of the heart of people, come out the evil thoughts, unlawful sex, thefts, murders, adulteries, covetous thoughts, iniquities, deceit, excess, an evil eye, blasphemies, pride, foolishness--all these evil things come out from within, and they defile a person.
Background and situation: The Gospel of Mark has two feeding stories--one among Jews in chapter 6, and one on "the other side" of the Sea of Galilee in chapter 8. We're in chapter 7, just after the feeding of the 5000 on the "Jewish side" of the Sea of Galilee, and before the feeding of 4000 on "the other side".
Following the first feeding story, the disciples encounter a great storm as they go over to "the other side"--the gentile side--of the Sea of Galilee. During the storm, Jesus came to the disciples "walking on the lake" and the storm ceased when he got into the boat. The disciples are "utterly astounded" and then Mark adds this curious statement: "for they did not understand about the loaves, but their hearts were hardened" (6:52). (This is something to keep in mind.)
On his earlier trip to "the other side," Jesus had performed exorcisms. Now he performs a number of healings. This is the same sequence with which Jesus had begun his public ministry among the Jews of Galilee, first an exorcism in the synagogue (1:21-28), then the healing of Peter's mother-in-law (1:29-31).
Jesus' over-all goal through chapters 6-8 of Mark is the integration of both Jews and gentiles into the New Community. Before rapprochement with gentiles can proceed, however, the issue of gentile "uncleanness" needs to be settled. Gentile impurity is probably the greatest single barrier between Jews and gentiles. Somehow, Jesus must deal with it, which is why Mark moves to the issue of purity laws and ritual taboos.
Unclean: The atmosphere heats up whenever pharisees are present. Here, we have not only pharisees, but also scribes--lawyers--who came all the way from Jerusalem.
The pharisees and scribes look askance at Jesus' disciples who were eating with "unclean," or "common" (koine) hands. The pharisees practice "the tradition of the elders" which included the washing of hands, the washing of food bought at the marketplace, and the cleansing of eating utensils.
Excursus on pharisees: One reason the pharisees are the central opponents of Jesus in the four gospels is because they were the central opponents of the church late in the first century when the four gospels were written.
With the destruction of the Temple in AD 70, the principal opponents of the pharisees, the Temple-based Sadducees, were decimated. At the time of Jesus (c. AD 30), two-thirds of the ruling council, the Sanhedrin, were Sadducees, and only one-third were pharisees.
After AD 70, with the Sadducees now extinct, the Sanhedrin was entirely composed of pharisees--(who, incidentally, re-wrote their history to show that they had really been in charge all along).
Pharisees catch more hell in Christian sermons than almost anybody. As has been oft heard from protestant pulpits, the pharisees were oppressing the people with their legalistic demands, or so say those whose hammer is justification by faith and for whom everything else is the nail of legal demands.
Another way to look at the pharisees is to try to see them as they saw themselves. The pharisees were a reformist group. They were mainly lay people, not priests, and they believed that the faith of Israel ought to be something lived in the daily life of every Jew, not merely something observed by the priests in Jerusalem.
Everything belonged to God, and the Torah touched on all matters of life. Keeping Torah was a way of living continually in God's care, and acknowledging God's presence every where and in every thing. You can call that being loaded down with "legal demands" if you want, but most pharisaic Jews would not have understood it that way.
Jesus' deft political move: For the second time (7:5), the phrase "the tradition of the elders" is used, this time by the pharisees themselves: "Why do your disciples not walk about according to the tradition of the elders, but (with) common hands they eat the bread?"
Jesus responds to this question with an attack on the authority of the pharisees and scribes. The pharisees derived their authority from the "oral law." Where the Sadducees recognized the Torah as only the books of Moses, the pharisees also included "oral law" within Torah. "Oral law" was the pharisaic tradition of interpretation which, they claimed, was also given by God to Moses on Mt. Sinai.
Jesus calls them "hypocrites." They "let go" the command of God and "hold fast" to human traditions (ten paradosin ton anthropon.) In other words, they subvert true Torah with their "oral law" which he dismisses as mere "human tradition."
The missing verses: Verses 9-13 are not part of this Sunday's lection. It is there, however, that Jesus makes his argument. In 7:10, Jesus draws an unfavorable comparison between the pharisaic tradition--the "oral law"--and what "Moses said." In doing so, he seriously deflates and devalues the pharisees' unique source of authority. Their vaunted "oral law," supposedly given to them (and them alone) by Moses, is really only "human tradition".
His critique accused the pharisees of disobeying the fourth commandment--"honor your father and mother"--on the issue of korban. Korban was money or assets willed to the Temple. These assets could no longer be used by the family and one could not be released from a vow of korban even if one's parents were indigent.
Thus, the human tradition of korban involved breaking the commandment of God to honor one's parents. Their human tradition, korban, opposes Moses' law. They do not stand for Moses. They are opposed by Moses. (Not only that, korban was yet another example of the Temple's economic exploitation of the poor.)
Raising the issue of korban was also a way of tying the scribes to the pharisees. The scribes were Temple-based but the pharisees were not. The pharisees had their own critique of Temple practices, and they were not natural allies of the scribes.
The scribes, whose salary was paid by the Temple, had an economic interest in korban. By lumping pharisees and scribes together on the issue of korban, Jesus associates the pharisees with the Temple establishment in the public mind and uses that connection to undermine their credibility. This is a nice example of Jesus' political jiu jitsu.
Ritual cleansing: Having deflated the authority of the pharisees and scribes, Jesus returns to the issue of ritual cleansing. He calls the crowd to him and exhorts them to "hear me all and understand." It is not what goes into the body that defiles, he says, but what comes out that defiles.
In a single stroke, Jesus casts aside the "purity law" relating to food. What you eat doesn't matter!
Then, he changes the focus of the discussion from the metaphor of "body" to one of "heart." (For Jews of that time, "heart" was the center of one's personality and being.) "For from within, out of the heart of people, come evil thoughts," he says (7:21). Then follows a list of vices which, generally, follow the vices forbidden by the Ten Commandments.
Purity practices, such as ritual cleansings, were important cultural markers. Every culture has them. They are how we know who belongs and who doesn't, who is in and who is out.
For first century Jews, following the dietary laws and observing the proper ritual cleansings, signalled not only a religious practice, but also one's loyalty and place in the tribe. By attacking these ritual practices, Jesus subverts the justification for the exclusion of gentiles, which opens the door for their inclusion in chapter 8.
There's more about bread: Our lection ends here. The story, however, continues.
In chapter 6, Jesus had fed the 5000 with artos, which is usually rendered as "loaves" in NRSV, but which really means "bread." The word artos appears five times in seven verses (6:37-44). Following the feeding of 5000 Jews, there was enough bread left over to fill twelve baskets. (The number "twelve" is a Jewish symbol associated with the twelve tribes of Israel.)
Following the feeding, the disciples were compelled to get into a boat and go to "the other side." On the way, they are beset by storms. Jesus walks on the water to come to them, then calms the sea. They were "utterly astounded for they did not understand about the loaves, but their hearts were hardened." (Did the reader keep this in mind?)
The disciples, in other words, do not get what Jesus was doing with the bread. Moreover, they are charged with "hardness of heart," a very serious charge indeed. Their ancient enemy, Pharoah, had "hardness of heart," as well as Jesus' opponents in 3:5: "...he was grieved at their hardness of heart..."
The reference to "bread" occurs twice in our lection for Sunday (7:2,5). For some strange reason, the NRSV leaves both out. Verse 2 should read: "...and seeing that some of his disciples with common hands--that is, unwashed--are eating the bread..."
Just prior to the feeding of the 4000 on the gentile side of the Sea (8:1-10), the disciples ask: "How can one feed these people with bread here in the desert?" Jesus replies: "How much bread do you have?" They said, "Seven."
Seven is the number of completeness and totality. Eugene Peterson calls it "God's number." Jesus took the "seven breads," and distributed them to his disciples, which they then gave to the people. There were seven baskets leftover.
After the feeding of the gentiles on "the other side," Jesus and the disciples return to the Jewish side. As they travel, Mark notes that the disciples forgot to bring any bread, even though Mark also notes that they did, in fact, have one loaf. (They were clueless even about their own loaf!)
Jesus then told them to beware of the "yeast of the pharisees and the yeast of Herod." The disciples respond with the cryptic remark, "It is because we have no bread."
Jesus chews them out, again accusing them of "hardness of heart," because they were unable to discern the meaning of the two feeding events. When he "broke the bread" for the 5000, he asks how many baskets were left over. There were twelve, one for each of the twelve tribes of Israel. When he "broke the bread" for the 4000, how many baskets were left? Seven, indicating the universality of God's care for all people. "Do you not yet understand?" asks Jesus (8:21).
Put some exclamation points after that question. One imagines Jesus to be rather worked up at his clueless disciples. Werner Kelber explains:
Theirs (the disciples) is a case of not seeing the forest for the trees. They ask for loaves, but they are in possession of one loaf, and still they cannot perceive the truth. The truth is what they have but cannot see. They have one loaf which embodies the oneness of Jews and Gentiles...The loaf they have is symbolic of the unity of all.
Image: Journey to the Beloved Community, Beth Mount
Posted by John Petty on August 27, 2018 at 09:39 AM in Bible, History, Lectionary, Liturgy, Religion, Theology | Permalink | Comments (1)
Pentecost 14 ::: John 6: 56-69
56Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood abide in me, and I in them. 57Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever eats me will live because of me. 58This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like that which your ancestors ate, and they died. But the one who eats this bread will live for ever.’59He said these things while he was teaching in the synagogue at Capernaum. 60 When many of his disciples heard it, they said, ‘This teaching is difficult; who can accept it?’ 61But Jesus, being aware that his disciples were complaining about it, said to them, ‘Does this offend you?62Then what if you were to see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before? 63It is the spirit that gives life; the flesh is useless. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life. 64But among you there are some who do not believe.’ For Jesus knew from the first who were the ones that did not believe, and who was the one that would betray him. 65And he said, ‘For this reason I have told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted by the Father.’
66 Because of this many of his disciples turned back and no longer went about with him. 67So Jesus asked the twelve, ‘Do you also wish to go away?’ 68Simon Peter answered him, ‘Lord, to whom can we go? You have the words of eternal life. 69We have come to believe and know that you are the Holy One of God.’
Translation: The one chewing my flesh and drinking my blood abides in me and I in that one. Just as the living Father sent me, and I am living through the Father, and the one chewing me, that one will live through me. This is the bread which came down out of heaven, not like the fathers ate and they died. The one chewing this bread will live into the eternal.
He said these things in a synagogue, teaching in Capernaum. Then, many of his disciples, when they heard, said, "This word is hard. Who of him is able to hear?" But Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples were grumbling about this, said to them, "Are you scandalized by this? Then what if you were to see the son of man going up to where he was first? The spirit is the one giving life, the flesh profits nothing. The words which I have spoken to you are spirit and life. But there are some of you not believing"--for Jesus knew from the beginning who were the ones not believing and who is the one who would deliver him over. And he said, "Through this, I answered you that no one is able to come to me unless it has been given to that one out of the Father."
Then, out of this, many of his disciples went back into the things of the past and no longer were going about with him. Then Jesus said to the twelve, "And you, do you not wish to go?" Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have words of eternal life. And we have faithed and we have known that you are the Holy One of God."
Background and situation: Verse 58 overlaps with the reading of last week. To review the opening verses, and verse 58, Jesus promises "life eternal" to those who eat his body and drink his blood.
"Life eternal" is the fourth gospel's way of speaking about what the synoptics call the "kingdom of God." As one may live in the "kingdom of God" right now, so one may also have "life eternal" right now. In 6:54, the verb is in the present tense.
It is also a promise. In 6:58, the verb is future tense. Thus, "life eternal" is both present now and a promise for the future.
Greek has two words for "life"--zoe and bios. Bios refers to physical life--we get our word "biology" from it. Our text uses zoe, however, and zoe is different. Zoe is not about physical life necessarily, although physical life certainly flows from it. Zoe "life" is connected to the very source of all life. It is the Life Principle itself.
In a synagogue: Then comes this surprising twist: "He said these things in a synagogue, teaching in Capernaum." This is the first use of the word synagoge (synagogue) in reference to a place in the fourth gospel. (The word simply means "gather together.")
Jesus is speaking to "the Judeans" (6:52). The "Judeans" represent a particular point of view in the fourth gospel. They are, you might say, "the establishment"--the chief priests, scribes, the Temple apparatchiks, the rich families of Jerusalem.
Earlier in the fourth gospel, synagoge had been used as a verb. See the "gathering together" of the harvest (4:36) and "gathering together" the leftover bread from the feeding of the 5000 (6:12).
One wonders: Is the fourth gospel saying that, within a Judean worldview, synagoge is a noun, the name of a place, indeed an institutional place? Is the author also saying that, for the community of the fourth gospel, synagoge is a verb and that "gathering together" is its appointed task and mission?
Talk of "chomping flesh" and "drinking blood" is provocative to begin with, but would be especially provocative when spoken in a synagogue. The tradition was clear: Eating flesh was forbidden. It was associated with vultures (Ez 39:17) and evildoers (Zech 11:9). Drinking blood was equally offensive. "You shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood," said Genesis (9:4). "You shall not eat...any blood," said Leviticus (3:17). "You shall not eat flesh and drink blood," said Ezekial (39:17).
Who is able to hear?: When this dialog began, Jesus was speaking with "the crowd." Later, he was speaking to "the Judeans." Now, the dialog shifts yet again, this time to "many of his disciples."
These disciples--these people who would be following Jesus--begin to have trouble with the outrageous things Jesus has been saying. He has encouraged the very things the existing tradition had expressly forbidden. In a classic understatement, they say, "This word is hard (skleros). Who of him is able to hear it?"
Who indeed is able to hear? Throughout the Bible, God tends to be known both through hearing and seeing, though, usually, God is apprehended more often through hearing. Think of the voice calling in the night, or the various dreams sprinkled throughout scripture. (One word sometimes translated as "sin" is parakouo which means "failure to listen." Failure to hear--especially failing to hear "this word" (logos)--represents being shut off from God.)
Jesus knew that his disciples were "grumbling." The word is the same the Septuagint used to translate the "murmuring" of the people following Moses in the wilderness. The "murmurers" are thus associated with those who, long ago, gave Moses a hard time and also resisted his leadership.
Jesus asks, in NRSV, "Does this offend you?" The word is scandalizei, which means "cause to stumble" or "trip over." We get our modern word "scandal" from it. We can understand Jesus to be asking, "Are you scandalized by this?" If you are "scandalized," he asks, then what would you do if you saw the son of man "going up" (anabainonta) to where he was first."
Jesus has previously used the expression of the "son of man going up" in his dialog with Nicodemus in 3:13. The context in chapter 3 is similar to that of chapter 6 in that Nicodemus insists on thinking in an "earthly" way and not in a "heavenly" one. The son of man comes from heaven, Jesus says to Nicodemus, and therefore knows what he is talking about.
Rather than speak of ascending to heaven in this instance (6:62), however, Jesus here speaks of ascending to "where he was before" or "where he was first." In light of chapter one where Jesus the Word was "with" God and "was" God, that place "where he was first" would be heaven, of course, but heaven in light of the Word's pre-existence and unity with God.
As he said to Nicodemus, Jesus is now telling his disciples, "Get your minds off 'earthly' ways of thinking and start thinking in spiritual and heavenly ways!" To underline what he has said, he continues, "The spirit is the one giving life, the flesh profits nothing." Compare to his statement to Nicodemus, "What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the spirit is spirit" (3:6).
The odd thing is that Jesus has himself just spoken at a very "fleshy" level. He has spoken of "chewing flesh" and "drinking blood." You could hardly get more earthy or more physical than that! Then, he turns right around and tells the people to think God's thoughts and to raise their hearts and minds into the realm of the spirit. What gives? Wes Howard-Brook analyzes:
"...what is useless is the 'low' way of thinking, the path that gets us caught up in our mental categories and blocks new ideas; what Jesus' flesh offers, though, is the path to him, which is the path to God, via open and committed membership in the Johannine community..." (p. 166-170).
One of the several uses of the word "flesh" in the New Testament is to define it as referring to the world which we experience through our physical nature. That's "flesh." We experience Christ's "flesh" in the eucharist, yes, but the fourth gospel also wants to say that our apprehension is not limited to our physical nature. The spirit expands our consciousness beyond the earthy and the physical toward the true source of all life.
"Faithing" again:
But there are some of you not believing"--for Jesus knew from the beginning who were the ones not believing and who is the one who would deliver him over. And he said, "Through this, I answered you that no one is able to come to me unless it has been given to that one out of the Father."
Jesus asserts that some of his own disciples have not been "faithing." They have not been trusting wholeheartedly. Moreover, Jesus knew all along who would not "faith," and he also knew who would be the one who would deliver him over, or betray him.
We should not be surprised that the subject of betrayal enters the fourth gospel for the first time precisely at that point where his own disciples are "scandalized" by his anti-traditional views. Some of them went back "into the things of the past"--eis ta opiso, a phrase unfortunately not rendered in most translations. They retreat back into the old way in search of psychological and spiritual safety.
Then, the focus of the audience narrows yet again. Now, Jesus speaks specifically to the Twelve and asks them if they also want to retreat from his way and return to "the things of the past" rather than move forward into the true life (zoe) which is eternal.
We are past dealing with "the crowd" or the "Judeans" or even "many of his disciples." We have now moved to the core of the Jesus movement and the question, again, is one of faith. Do you really "faith" or don't you?
Simon Peter--the name itself refers to his former person (Simon) and his "new person" (Peter)--responds with a classic statement which is also spoken in our liturgy: "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life." Again, the word for "life" is zoe, which refers to the basic principle of life itself--not biological life, in other words, but life in touch with the source of all life and, thus, life that never dies.
This may be Simon Peter's best moment in all four of the gospels. "We have faithed," he asserts, "and we know that you are the Holy One of God." The fourth gospel constantly encourages faith and "receiving" (1:12) Jesus, even in spite of the opposition of the forces of the world which influences even "his own" to receive him not (1:11). "We have faithed," says Simon Peter in a bold declaration of the community's commitment.
Not only that, but "we have known" Jesus' true identity. The world "did not know him" (1:10), yet the disciples have known him. The word is ginosko, a word which indicates "knowing" in a deep and interior way.
In this lection, Jesus had also "known." He had "known" that his disciples were "murmuring" (6:61), and he had "known" who would "faith" and who would "betray." Now, Simon Peter claims that his twelve disciples--the core of the Jesus movement--also "know" Jesus in a deep and complete way.
Note as well that Peter identifies Jesus as "the Holy One of God." The word "holy" is hagios, a word which was not used in classical Greek. (It appears nowhere in Homer or the Greek plays.) Hagios comes from a Greek word which means "to separate."
The Holy One is, then, the one "set apart," the one designated, the one with a special task. That this "Holy One" is "of God" indicates that God is the one setting him apart, and therefore, he can be trusted.
Summary: Verse 63 is puzzling because of the tenses of the verbs. I've translated it as: "The words which I have spoken to you are spirit and life." The problem is that the verb is the third person singular form of the verb "to be." The word to which it refers--"words"--is plural. The subject and verb do not agree in number.
Unless--unless one would understand the phrase "the words which I have spoken" to be one body of teaching. The "words spoken by Jesus"--all of them taken together--are One Thing. Taken together, these "words spoken by Jesus" is spirit and is life.
This would explain the use of the word hramata for "words" instead of logos. Often, the two words are used interchangeably. Either one means "word" or "words." If a distinction was to be made as to their meaning, however, hramata would more likely be associated with literal "words," while logos might refer more to the principle or understanding behind the words.
In the fourth gospel, Christ himself is the logos, the principle behind the words, while his spoken words--his hramata--are the totality of his teaching of the new way of God. This way is "spirit" and "life" because it follows directly out of Christ, the source of true zoe life.
This way of God has specific meaning and takes specific form in the world through the followers of Jesus who are inspired by his new way of living--not tribalism, but crossing of boundaries, not the Temple as a broker to God, but Christ who draws all to himself (12:52), not the oppression of the poor, but a place for all in the Beloved Community.
Image: To whom shall we go, Matti Sirvio
I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats of this bread will live for ever; and the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.
The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, ‘How can this man give us his flesh to eat?’ So Jesus said to them, ‘Very truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood have eternal life, and I will raise them up on the last day; for my flesh is true food and my blood is true drink. Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood abide in me, and I in them. Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever eats me will live because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like that which your ancestors ate, and they died. But the one who eats this bread will live for ever.
Translation: I am the living bread which came down out of heaven. If anyone might eat out of the bread of me, that one will live into the eternal, and the bread that I will give is my flesh on behalf of the life of the cosmos.
Then, the Judeans were disputing among themselves, saying, "How is this man able to give to us the flesh to eat?" Then Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, if you do not eat the flesh of the son of humanity, and drink the blood of him, you do not have life in yourselves. The one chewing my flesh and drinking my blood has life eternal and I will raise that one up at the last day, for my flesh is true food and my blood is true drink. The one chewing my flesh and drinking my blood abides in me and I in that one. Just as the living Father sent me, and I am living through the Father, and the one chewing me, that one will live through me. This is the bread which came down out of heaven, not like the fathers ate and they died. The one chewing this bread will live into the eternal.
Background and situation: As we continue to wade through these (seemingly interminable) texts from John 6, the tension, as we shall see, keeps getting ratcheted up the further we go.
In verse 51, Jesus has again said, "I am the bread of life." As has been mentioned in previous posts on John 6, the Greek phrase "I am" is ego eimi, the Greek equivalent of YHWH, the divine name of God, to which is attached a predicate nominative, "the living bread."
The "living bread came down (katabas) out of heaven." Those familiar with the fourth gospel will recognize this as reflecting the "descending/ascending redeemer" motif which is common throughout the book.
The Word (logos)--the pre-existent divine expression of God, which was with God and was God (1:1)--entered into our reality and became flesh (1:14). The Divine, which exists outside of nature and time, entered into nature and time. The "essential" became "existential."
"My flesh": "If anyone might eat of this bread--literally, "the bread of me"--that one will live into the eternal, and the bread that I will give is my flesh on behalf of the cosmos."
The word for flesh is sarx. In many quarters of the Mediterranean world, the identification of the Divine with flesh would have seemed outlandish and offensive. This physical world is impure and corrupt, and no self-respecting god should have anything to do with it. This was a common view in Greek philosophy, which means it is a relatively common view among all westerners even to this day.
Jesus' remarks cause dissension among "the Judeans." (Again, "Judeans" refers to the Jews opposed to Jesus, not to Jews per se.) Note that they are not disputing with Jesus, but rather among themselves.
What's more, it wasn't a particularly polite discussion. They were quarreling and contending, perhaps even fighting with each other. (The word is emaxonto.) Was this because some of the Judeans were on Jesus' side? Or is it because two or more factions had contending interpretations of what Jesus has said?
Most likely, they were outraged at what they considered to be the offensiveness of Jesus' statement. They were contending "to themselves"--pros allelous. Granted, Greek pronouns can be tricky and have a variety of meanings, but the most common meaning of pros is "to" or "toward." In other words, they were outraged and sputtering to each other, but not necessarily against each other.
What would they have found offensive? Their question gives a clue. Literally rendered, they ask: "How is this person able to give to us the flesh to eat?" This question is similar in form to the question of Nicodemus in chapter 3: "How is a person able to be born being old?" (3:4)
In the fourth gospel, it is quite common for a dialog to have a double layer of meaning. Jesus speaks at one level, but his listeners hear at another. Consequently, the listeners have difficulty understanding. The Judeans, like Nicodemus, appear to be taking Jesus literally. Is he really going to give us his flesh to eat? Are we to be cannibals?
Having thoroughly confused and even angered these "Judeans," Jesus does not trim his sails. In what he says next, he will offend them even more. He begins by saying "very truly"--in Greek (by way of Hebrew), "amen, amen"--which points to the special importance of what follows.
...if you do not eat the flesh of the son of humanity, and drink the blood of him, you do not have life in yourselves. The one chewing my flesh and drinking my blood has life eternal and I will raise that one up at the last day, for my flesh is true food and my blood is true drink.
Eating flesh was forbidden. It was associated with vultures (Ez 39:17) and evildoers (Zech 11:9). Drinking blood was equally offensive. "You shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood," said Genesis (9:4). "You shall not eat...any blood," said Leviticus (3:17). "You shall not eat flesh and drink blood," said Ezekiel (39:17). (See also Leviticus 7: 26-27; 17:15.)
That was no doubt one reason the Judeans were offended. What's more, however, in its use of language, the fourth gospel ups the ante considerably. No longer is Jesus talking about simply "eating" (esthio) flesh, which would have been bad enough. Now, he refers to chewing or chomping (trogo). It's as if Jesus were saying, "Oh, you thought 'eating flesh' was bad. Listen to this."
Jesus takes a different approach with these Judeans than he took with Nicodemus. Nicodemus appears to hear at a literal level, while Jesus seems to be speaking at a "higher" or "more spiritual" level.
Here, Jesus does the opposite. Yes, the Judeans hear at a literal level, but instead of responding at a "higher" level, Jesus responds at a "lower" one--not just "eat", but chomp. (The word "flesh," incidentally, occurs six times in six verses (51-56). Compare with just eight occurrences in all of the synoptics put together.)
The fourth gospel's view of the eucharist: John chapter 6 is speaking of the eucharist. As mentioned last week (John 6:41-51), the Johannine community (c. AD 90) appears to be grappling with its' understanding of holy communion.
Exactly what is happening in the eucharist? The debates over transubstantiation and "real presence" are far in the future, but the Johannine community is wrestling with this question already in the late first century. The fourth gospel leaves no room for some kind of metaphorical or "spiritualized" understanding of the eucharist. They are indeed "munching flesh."
Then Jesus says, "The one chewing my flesh and drinking my blood abides in me and I in that one." The word menein--"abides"--appears dozens of times in the fourth gospel. It points to a major theme, which is the mutual indwelling between Jesus and his disciples, which is like unto the mutual indwelling between Jesus and the Father. No book of the New Testament describes the relationship between the Lord and his followers with greater intimacy.
The fourth gospel has strongly stressed the importance of "faithing into" Jesus. As has been mentioned, seemingly ad infinitum, the translation of pisteuein as "believe" often leads to a wrong impression. The fourth gospel is interested in much more than simple beliefs about Jesus. It calls for radical trust--not merely a "head trip," in other words, but an orientation of one's entire self in and toward Jesus so that the "the one faithing" abides and remains in him. (I count at least eight encouragements to "faith" in the span of 6:29-69.)
"Faithing" leads to participation in the eucharist. As Fr. Ray Brown puts it, "(W)here the original discourse stressed the necessity of belief in Jesus, the new discourse stresses the necessity of eating and drinking the eucharistic flesh and blood..."
Our liturgy is structured according to the pattern of John 6. The scriptures are read and preached (6:35-50), the purpose of which is to encourage faith, which is then followed by the Great Thanksgiving, the taking of Jesus into our bodies (6:51-58).
Just as the living Father sent me, and I am living through the Father, and the one chewing me, that one will live through me. This is the bread which came down out of heaven, not like the fathers ate and they died. The one chewing this bread will live into the eternal.
This is the only use of the phrase "living Father" in the New Testament. Compare 6:26: "Just as the Father possesses life in himself, so he has granted that the Son also possess life in himself." The one who shares in the eucharist shares in God's own life.
Psychology of the eucharist: Psychologically, as is fitting for a gospel which stresses the importance of "abiding" and mutual-indwelling, the eucharist is about integration, the "taking in" of the revered leader into one's own self or ego. If eating appears in a dream, for example, it often represents an advance of the ego, provided that the person "eats" or appropriates whatever the food represents. In mysticism, "taste" represents an instrument of interior perception. Through "spiritual taste," one perceives the true nature and reality of what is taken into the self.
Not all food is good for us, of course. As someone has said, a sick body desires sick food. An alcoholic, for example, desires the very food that makes that person sick in the first place. Part of the treatment of addiction is to get people off sick food and into healthy food.
The same is true for "spiritual food." All kinds of "spiritual food"--all kinds of "bread"--are available to a person, but not all of it is spiritually healthy. This is why Jesus talks about himself as the true bread.
This is also why Clement of Alexandria referred to the whole of John chapter 6 as relating to "the mystery of the bread," and went on to say: "The Word is figuratively described as meat, and flesh, and food, and bread, and blood and milk. The Lord is all these, to give enjoyment to us who have 'faithed' in him."
In John 6, Jesus promises "life eternal" to those who eat his body and drink his blood. "Life eternal" is the fourth gospel's way of speaking about what the synoptics call the "kingdom of God."
In 6:54, "life eternal" is given right now. Not only is the verb in the present tense, but the word for "life" (zoe) refers to the basic principle of life itself--not biological life, in other words, but life in touch with the source of all life and, thus, life that never dies. As the communion prayer puts it:
Almighty God, you provide the true bread from heaven, your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. Grant that we who have received the sacrament of his body and blood may abide in him and he in us, that we may be filled with the power of his endless life, now and forever. Amen.
Image: The Last Supper, Salvador Dali
Pentecost 12 ::: John 6: 35, 41-51
Jesus said to them, ‘I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty... Then the Jews began to complain about him because he said, ‘I am the bread that came down from heaven.’ 42They were saying, ‘Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, “I have come down from heaven”?’ 43Jesus answered them, ‘Do not complain among yourselves. 44No one can come to me unless drawn by the Father who sent me; and I will raise that person up on the last day. 45It is written in the prophets, “And they shall all be taught by God.” Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me. 46Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God; he has seen the Father. 47Very truly, I tell you, whoever believes has eternal life. 48I am the bread of life. 49Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. 50This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die.51I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats of this bread will live for ever; and the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.’
Translation: Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life. The one coming to me might surely not hunger and the one faithing into me will never thirst."
Then the Judeans were murmuring concerning him because he said, "I am the bread that came down out of heaven." They were saying, "Is this not Jesus the son of Joseph whose father and mother we know? How does he now say, 'I have come down out of heaven?'" Jesus answered and said to them, "Do not murmur among yourselves. No one is able to come to me unless the Father who sent me might draw that one and I will raise that one up in the last day. It is written in the prophets, 'And they will all be the taught ones of God.' Anyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me, not that anyone has seen the Father except the one being from God. This one has seen God. Truly, truly, I say to you, the one faithing has life eternal. I am the bread of life. Your fathers ate manna in the wilderness and they died. This is the bread which comes down out of heaven so that one may eat out of him and may not die. I am the living bread which came down out of heaven. If anyone might eat out of the bread of me, that one will live into the eternal, and the bread which I will give for the life of the cosmos is my flesh."
Background and situation: By most counts, there are seven pre-Easter "signs" in the fourth gospel. The first is turning water into wine at the wedding at Cana, the last is the raising of Lazarus. Seven is the number signifying perfection and completion--"God's number," says Eugene Peterson. The seven signs of the fourth gospel, therefore, give us a "complete" picture of Christ.
The fourth item in a sequence of seven is sometimes considered "the central point." In a line of seven, count four from each end and you wind up at the same middle point. The fourth sign in the fourth gospel is the feeding of the 5000. Right after this most important sign, Jesus proclaims himself "the bread of life." For the first time in the fourth gospel, the divine name--ego eimi--is linked with a specific earthly element.
One of the major theological teachings of the fourth gospel is that "the Word became flesh" (1:14). This linking of the divine with specific earthly realities will be proclaimed many times as we move through the fourth gospel. ["I am"--"the light of the world" (8:12), "the gate for the sheep" (10:7), "the good shepherd" (10:11, 14), "the resurrection and the life" (11:25), "the way, the truth, and the life" (14:6), "the true vine" (15:1, 5).]
"I am the bread of life": This week's lection begins with the final verse from last week's lection, verse 35: "I am the bread of life. The one coming to me might surely not hunger and the one faithing into me will never thirst."
The one who comes to Jesus will "surely not hunger." The double negative is a way of underlining the point.
Neither will the one "faithing into" Jesus ever "thirst." There has been no mention of "thirst" since the story of the Samaritan woman in chapter four. Jesus' statement here recalls his words then--"Whoever drinks of the water I will give will never thirst" (4:14). (This is but one of several links between the discourse in chapter six and the story of the Samaritan woman at the well in chapter 4.)
The "Judeans" oppose Jesus: Our lection skips from 6:35 to 6:41. Jesus had been speaking to the crowd, but now his hearers are identified as ioudaioi--"Judeans." Most translations render ioudaioi as "Jews," but ioudaioi is not known to have been translated as "Jews" until after the Bar Kochba revolt of AD 135, well after the writing of the fourth gospel.
From at least the fourth century on, the fourth gospel has often been manipulated to support anti-semitism. This, however, was never the intent of the author. The author of the fourth gospel was a Jew. All of the disciples were Jews. The first Christians were Jews. All these Jews were not anti-Jewish!
Rather, the fourth gospel is an argument within Judaism, an argument between those Jews with a "Judean" worldview who were opposed to Jesus, and those Jews with a "Galilean" worldview which has been formed by Jesus.
Usually, the "Judeans" are associated with opposition to Jesus from Jerusalem and the Temple. A "Judean" worldview is not strictly a matter of geography, however. Here, there are "Judeans" in Galilee, and they do not "faith into" Jesus (6:36).
Then the Judeans were murmuring concerning him because he said, "I am the bread that came down out of heaven."
These "Judeans" were "murmuring" (gogguzo), just as the Israelites did when they were wandering in the wilderness following their liberation from Egypt. (When the Old Testament was translated into Greek, gogguzo was the word chosen to translate the Hebrew word for "murmuring". See Exodus 16: 2, 7, 8)
The "Judeans" were "murmuring" because they said that Jesus had said, "I am the bread that came down out of heaven." Actually, Jesus had not quite said that. He had said that "the bread of God is the one who comes down from heaven" (6:33), and he had said "I am the bread of life" (6:35).
Jesus' Judean opponents have conflated two separate sayings into one. In so doing, they are short-circuiting what Jesus had actually said, which indicates that they weren't listening carefully and hence were not taking him seriously.
They were saying, "Is this not Jesus the son of Joseph whose father and mother we know?
It is curious that the Judeans refer to Jesus as "son of Joseph," a phrase which would tend to subvert a virgin birth theology. (See also Luke 4:22) The fourth gospel, however, does not mention the virgin birth of Jesus. What is the need for a virgin birth if the Word has been in existence since before the beginning of creation?
The Judeans also know his mother as well as his father. This indicates that they are from Galilee, and perhaps even Nazareth. It would be unusual for anyone except close friends of the family to be acquainted with the woman of the house.
Drawn to Jesus: No one can come to Jesus unless the Father "draws" them, Jesus says, indicating that the Father has some kind of "spiritual magnetic power." The same word, elkuo, will be used in 12:32: "And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself." From the cross, Jesus has the same kind of drawing power as the Father.
Moreover, Jesus will "raise that one up on the last day." The fourth gospel emphasizes the point. In chapter 6, Jesus says this four times (6:39, 40, 44, 54). The concept of resurrection from the dead was, of course, not unknown in Israel. The pharisees believed in a general resurrection at the end of time, "the last day." What is significant is that Jesus proclaims that he is the one who will do it.
Jesus then cites "the prophets" for the first time in the fourth gospel: "And they shall all be taught by God." He is quoting Isaiah 54 with a slight paraphrase. The actual verse (54:13) says, "All your children shall be taught by the Lord." Isaiah 54 goes on to speak of eating and drinking--"Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread?"--which has a deep resonance with the themes of eating and drinking in John 4 and 6. (There may also be an echo of Jeremiah 31: "I will put my law within them...and they shall all know me...")
Anyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me, not that anyone has seen the Father except the one being from God. This one has seen God.
The Greek word horao--"see"--is notable for its emphasis on the impression that is made on the observer. The word suggests that one's subjective reaction is heightened by the perception of a new reality. (Far be it from me to quibble with translations done by teams of experts, but KJV and NRSV both have "he has seen the Father," when, really, the Greek word is theon not patera. It should be: "This one has seen God.")
"Faithing," again:
Truly, truly, I say to you, the one faithing has life eternal.
This is a "double amen" saying--"truly, truly"--which is a sign of its importance and one should mentally undermine what follows. The phrase is ho pisteuone. Again, it must be said that the translation of pisteuein as "believe" leads to a false impression. (Pisteuein means "to faith." It is a verb, however, and "faith" used as a verb sounds odd in English.)
Nevertheless the phrase should be translated as "the one faithing." Here, faith is understood to mean a radical trust, an orientation of one's entire self, not merely a head-trip of "believing" the right things.
That one "has life eternal." This phrase appears four times in chapter 6 (40, 47, 54, 68). The verb is echo--"to have"--and it is in the present tense. "Life eternal" is not a "some day in the great bye and bye" kind of thing. "Life eternal"--zoene aionion--means not only living forever, but also living in God's new reality right now. This life eternal comes through "faithing," and through participation in the eucharist (6:54).
I am the bread of life. Your fathers ate manna in the wilderness and they died. This is the bread which comes down out of heaven so that one may eat out of him and may not die. I am the living bread which came down out of heaven. If anyone might eat out of the bread of me, that one will live into the eternal, and the bread which I will give for the life of the cosmos is my flesh.
Jesus again says ego eimi, "I am the bread of life," and returns to the theme discussed in verses 31-34--namely, that the bread their ancestors had received in the wilderness was not enough and their ancestors died.
As is stated often in the fourth gospel, being a descendent of Abraham doesn't mean much (8:39ff). Besides, eating manna in the wilderness was then. Jesus the Lord is right now.
The lection then moves in the direction of eating flesh. Jesus will speak of this in detail, and with rich imagery, in the ensuing verses. According to Father Ray Brown, to take in someone's "body and blood" could, in Hebrew understanding, mean something as simple, and uncontroversial, as accepting the whole person. In chapter 6, however, the emphasis on "eating flesh"--especially, later, "gnawing" flesh (6:54)--would have been offensive in the extreme.
The Johannine community appears to be grappling with its' understanding of the eucharist. Exactly what is happening in the eucharist? The debates over transubstantiation and "real presence" are far in the future, but the Johannine community is wrestling with this question already in the late first century.
Image: Bread of life, Kirsten Malcolm Berry
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Behind the Scenes at PST: Tales of Beatrix Potter
Beatrix Potter at her country home
Harry's Not the Only Potter Around...
Hard to imagine there being another Potter, right? Well, there is. Can you guess who she is? I think you got it: Beatrix Potter - you know, the woman who wrote the beloved Tale of Peter Rabbit. Yes, the moment we hear her name, that cute rabbit, the one that wears a blue coat, pops into our heads, which is why we sometimes forget that Potter wrote other tales about other animals, too - some of which you will see in Applause Unlimited's Tales of Beatrix Potter, at PST Dec 6-9. (BUY TICKETS).
Now, if you're not too familiar with the other tales of Beatrix Potter - don't worry. I'm here to give you a little history lesson - one which you'll enjoy. I promise!
About Beatrix Potter
Beatrix Potter - born Helen Beatrix Potter - was an English author and illustrator best known for her imaginative children's books featuring animals such as those in The Tale of Peter Rabbit, which celebrated British landscape and the countryside.
Born into a privileged family, Potter was exposed to things like art at an early age - as her parents were artists. She was educated by a private governess until she was eighteen. Her study of languages, literature, science, and history was broad and she was an eager student. Her artistic talents were recognized early and although she was provided with private lessons, Potter preferred to develop her own style, particularly favoring watercolor.
Following some success illustrating cards and booklets, Potter wrote and illustrated The Tale of Peter Rabbit, which she published privately in 1901, and a year later as a small, three-color illustrated book with Frederick Warne & Co.
The Many Tales of Beatrix Potter
Beatrix Potter wrote a total of 23 tales - the first being The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902), which was an immediate success. Others that followed include: The Tale of Two Bad Mice (1904), The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher (1906), and The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck (1908) - all of which are featured in Applause Unlimited's show, The Tales of Beatrix Potter.
Potter's Illustrations
The Tale of Two Bad Mice tells the story of two mice who vandalize a dollhouse. After realizing the food on the dining room table is made of plaster, they smash the dishes, throw the doll clothing out the window, tear the bolster, and steal some of the house's decor, taking them back to their mouse-hole. When the little girl who owns the dollhouse discovers the destruction, she puts a policeman doll outside the front door of her house to ward off any future intrusion. The two mice eventually feel guilty and make up for their crime spree by putting a crooked sixpence in the doll's stocking on Christmas Eve and sweeping the house every morning with a dust-pan and broom.
The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher tells the story of a frog who lives in a "slippy-sloppy" house at the edge of a pond. One rainy day he collects worms for fishing and sets off across the pond on his lily-pad boat. He plans to invite his friends for dinner if he catches more than five minnows. He encounters all sorts of setbacks to his goal, and escapes a large trout who tries to swallow him. He swims for shore, decides he will not go fishing again, and hops home.
The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck tells the story of a domestic duck whose eggs are routinely confiscated by the farmer's wife because she believes Jemima is a poor sitter. Jemima searches for a place away from the farm where she can hatch her eggs without human interference, and naively confides her woes to a suave fox who invites her to nest in a shed at his home. Jemima accepts his invitation, unaware of the following danger: the fox plans to kill and roast her. Kep, a collie on the farm, discovers Jemima's whereabouts and rescues her just in time.
Applause Unlimited's Adaptation
Applause Unlimited offers a wide range of performances featuring fresh presentations of classic tales. Their approach includes masks, storytelling, music, and comedy in a unique combination that quietly educates as it entertains. Applause Unlimited has performed at festivals and in theaters worldwide. Their shows have been acclaimed by audiences, educators, producers, and sponsors of children's and family entertainment - receiving two Citations Of Excellence from the Union Internionale de la Marionette.
In their adaptation of Beatrix Potter's beloved tales - Applause Unlimited explores the fantasy world of one of Victorian England's best-known authors and illustrators. Set in an old-fashioned nursery, this performance includes three favorite Beatrix Potter stories as seen through the eyes of a young English girl growing up at the beginning of the twentieth century. As she pursues the everyday activities of playing and learning, the tales of "Two Bad Mice", "Jeremy Fisher", and "Jemima Puddleduck" seem to grow from her imagination.
If you love animals, especially ones that have a habit of getting into all kinds of adventures, then be sure to come on down to PST this week to see Applause Unlimited bring some of Beatrix Potter's beloved tales to life! You will love it. That is a promise.
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Hackers Behind Prilex POS Malware Using Stolen Data To Make Functional Cards
Posted on March 16, 2018 March 15, 2018 8:55 pm
Kaspersky Lab, the security company, announced Thursday (March 15) that researchers have discovered the hacking group behind the Prilex point-of-sale (POS) malware can use stolen credit card data to create functional plastic cards.
In a press release, Kaspersky said the malware, which is operating in Latin America, is notable because it has a supportive, user-friendly model that enables hackers to launch attacks with ease. Prilex has evolved to target smart chip- and PIN-protected payment cards, noted Kaspersky.
“We are dealing here with a completely new malware, one that offers attackers everything from a graphic user interface to well-designed modules that can be used to create different credit card structures,” said Thiago Marques, security analyst for Kaspersky, in the press release. “Chip and PIN technology is still relatively new in some parts of the world, such as the U.S., and people may lack awareness of the risk of credit card cloning and abuse. In Brazil, the evolved Prilex malware takes advantage of a faulty implementation of industry standards – highlighting the importance of developing secure, future-proof standards for payment technologies.”
According to Kaspersky Lab, the Prilex malware has been around since 2014, moving from ATM hacks to hacks of POS systems developed by vendors in Brazil. Now the hackers are using the stolen credit card data to make functional plastic cards that let them perform fraudulent transactions in any store, both online and offline. The clone credit cards work in any POS in Brazil.
According to Kaspersky, the malware is made up of malicious software that modifies the POS system and steals the credit card information, as well as a service that is used to manage all of the information and a user application that hackers can use to view, clone or save information about the cards.
“This is the most notable feature of the malware: its associated business model, where all the users’ needs are taken into account, including the need for a simple and user-friendly interface,” wrote Kaspersky in the release. It noted there is evidence that the malware is being distributed via snail mail, tricking victims into giving the hackers access to their computers for remote support sessions. The hackers then use these sessions to install the malware. It’s also been targeting traditional stores, including gas stations, supermarkets and retailers in Brazil.
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O'CONNOR: CONSISTENCY KEY TO PROMOTION PUSH
The Saddlers face Sheffield United tomorrow...
Centre-back James O’Connor believes consistency will be the key to success this season.
The Saddlers are third in League One, with a game in hand on most clubs, and have lost only twice in 16 league matches, accumulating an impressive 32 points.
And O’Connor, who has been one of our standout players this term, says we must now maintain our impressive form to stay in promotion contention.
“I’ve said before that there’s always been the potential to do well here,” said O’Connor.
“We’ve got a lot of good young players and a few more experienced lads, it’s been about getting the balance and that consistency.
“So far we’ve had a good level of consistency, the key is to keep it up until the end of the season.”
It’s been Walsall’s best start to a third-tier campaign in 15 years – but the central defender says no one is getting carried away.
“We’ve made a good start but we’re all aware that that’s all it is,” he added.
“All people remember is where you finish in May. We’ll keep doing the same things we’ve been doing so far and keep trying to improve.
“But if we can keep the same kind of ratio that we’ve got at the moment (two points per game), then we’ll be right up there at the end of the season.”
The Saddlers host promotion-rivals Sheffield United this weekend, in what will be our first league match in three weeks.
“It seems like an absolute age since our last game,” said O’Connor.
“Hopefully we can use the break to our advantage, and those players who had niggles, they will have settled down, and we can come back refreshed and ready to kick on again this Saturday.”
Nigel Adkins’ Blades are one of League One’s promotion favourites – but O’Connor says Walsall shouldn’t fear anyone.
“To a neutral, they’re probably one of the biggest sides in the division,” he admitted.
“Without trying to sound boring, it’s just another game for us, but one we’re trying to win.
“There’s no one in this division who we really fear.
“In the past, that’s quite an easy thing to say – a bit of cliché to sound good. But that’s how we feel at the minute.”
A large crowd is expected for the Blades’ visit – and O’Connor believes the Saddlers fans could have a significant part to play.
“They definitely help,” he said.
“The lads spoke about it after the Gillingham game because the crowd really got behind us at 2-0 down – it really, really helped us.
“The way we finished the game when it was 2-2, last year it would probably have petered out and ended as a draw.
“But we went for jugular, the crowd got behind us and they probably got us over the finish line.”
O’Connor missed our FA Cup tie with Fleetwood due to a calf injury but is expected to be fit for tomorrow’s match.
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Why a Confrontation Between Photographers and Locals Turned Ugly in Appalachia
July 23, 2015 in Appalachia
On Monday, March 23, in McDowell County, West Virginia, photographer Marisha Camp and her brother Jesse found themselves confronted by an angry and hostile group of folks, who accused them of taking photographs of children without permission. The Camps, who were on the road gathering material for a television show they hope to pitch later this year, were detained and threatened with physical violence by these local citizens. After a 45-minute confrontation, the Camps were escorted out of the county by the West Virginia state police.
The story was picked up by local news stations and by national photography magazines and blogs. As is usual when Appalachia is the subject, the story was told primarily by and about one group—outsiders visiting the area. That’s not to say the Camps’s accounts of what happened aren’t valid, but they’ve been given a platform not afforded many of the others involved. The locals have been portrayed as vigilantes, as mob- or gang-like. One national photography magazine titled their story, “West Virginia Mob Reportedly Detains Photographers for Looking Out-of-Town.” Let’s be clear: the Camps weren’t detained for looking “out-of-town.” They were detained, illegally this West Virginian and photographer believes, because parents thought they'd photographed their children without their permission.
Knowing that I am from West Virginia and that I have a professional and personal interest in work being made in and about Appalachia, a friend posted the news story on my Facebook wall. Several other people contacted me to ask what I thought about the situation. After watching the local news story, I knew there was much more to the story. I knew there would be fallout, and feared that locals would bear the brunt of it.
Searching for a greater understanding of the incident and the actions that caused it, I began reaching out to those directly involved. I contacted Marisha Camp on Thursday, March 26, and over the next few days I exchanged calls and dozens of text messages with her and her brother. On April 2, I spoke with Jennifer Adkins, the woman who accused the Camps of photographing her children and threatened them with a gun.
I also contacted journalists and filmmakers who have worked in Appalachia, and a local photographer, to gain as much perspective as possible about what happened that day. I asked them to comment on the situation in McDowell County because none of the reporting thus far attempts to look at the long history of misrepresentation in Appalachia. Sure, this could’ve happened anywhere. But it didn’t. It happened in McDowell County, West Virginia. And although the Camps may not have been intentionally seeking out “poverty porn,” many local residents view photographers, both insiders and outsiders, with understandable suspicion.
“You don’t look like upstanding citizens.”
The Camps had been on the road for months, working their way across the country filming and making photographs. On Sunday, March 22, they filmed a church service in McDowell County. The following day, they decided to collect B-roll footage. “We noticed these three obese kids playing with sticks in [a] driveway,” Jesse Camp recalls. “When we drove by I asked them if they were having a stick fight. They sort of laughed and that was that. We drove on.” On their way from Jolo to Raysal, the Camps parked their Volvo station wagon with Massachusetts license plates at a gas station and crossed the road to photograph some houses and talk with some folks. Soon thereafter, Marisha Camp heard someone yelling across the road and noticed a van blocking in their vehicle. The van’s owner, Jennifer Adkins, was upset because she thought the Camps were photographing her children without her consent, and she demanded the pair hand their cameras over. The situation escalated quickly.
According to Marisha Camp, Adkins immediately threatened them. She opened the door of her van and pointed to what she said was a gun, stating that the Camps weren’t leaving until they handed over their cameras and the police arrived. Afraid and panicking, Camp tried to call for help, but had no cell service. Camp was able to record audio of the incident on her phone. “Have you all looked at yourselves in the mirror? You don’t look like upstanding citizens,” Adkins can be heard saying on the recording. For nearly 45 minutes, the situation intensified. An angry crowd grew around the Camps, despite Marisha Camp showing Adkins’s husband the images on one of their cameras in an attempt to prove that none of the images were of their children.
Local parents were already on edge due to the disappearance of a young child in the area: The same day the Camps were filming the church service in Jolo, less than a hundred miles away in Pulaski County, Virginia, five year-old Noah Thomas went missing. The sheriff’s department received more than a hundred tips, many of which identified suspicious vehicles in the area. (Sadly, Thomas’s body was found on his parents’ property in a septic tank Thursday, March 26, five days after he was reported missing. His parents have been charged with felony abuse and neglect.)
Finally, West Virginia state police arrived on the scene. After assessing the situation, they escorted the Camps out of the area and lectured them about how they “ought to be careful about not making ugly pictures about the people of West Virginia,” Marisha Camp says. Later that day, she contacted the McDowell County sheriff’s department and was told by a deputy, “You’re lucky you weren’t shot.”
“We love West Virginia.”
“I’m a gypsy, self-admittedly,” Jesse Camp told me on the phone on March 31. “I love traveling every nook and cranny of America. My sister and I have been road tripping forever, man. We’ve been everywhere, all over the South, and 99 percent of the people we meet are cool.”
Jesse Camp says he and his sister had been all over West Virginia. “Logan, Omar, Iaeger, War, Jolo and Bradshaw. You know man, West Virginia is like the most outlaw place. We love West Virginia.”
Marisha Camp echoes her brother, and she’s been actively responding via Facebook to inaccurate claims from McDowell County residents about the incident. “We really love West Virginia, and it was utterly heartbreaking to think about not going back,” she says. “I know not everyone [there] is like that.”
Also upset by the behavior of the police, Marisha Camp wrote a letter to West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, detailing the events. In the letter she writes that she “strongly believes” in combatting “negative stereotypes of the region,” but calls the actions of the police “absurd and about as counterproductive as it gets.”
“It is for everyone's benefit that incidents like this are taken seriously,” she writes. “I would have been encouraged to press charges anywhere else rather than be run of town like a ‘long haired hippie’ and then told by law enforcement that I'm somehow lucky because I wasn't murdered.”
Despite all this, the Camps say they’ve received overwhelming support from residents of McDowell County. Many have contacted the Camps via Facebook apologizing for the actions of a few people and offering them places to stay if they make it back.
“We had no choice but to question their motives.”
Jennifer Adkins was on the phone with a neighbor when her 13-year-old son walked in the front door and told her, “there was a guy out there taking pictures.”
Adkins hung up the phone and immediately called 911 to report the incident. She, her husband and their two sons got in their minivan and drove after the Camps in order to get a license plate number. (As a parent, I understand the fear and concern Adkins must have felt for her children in the moment, especially considering the missing child in the news.) Once they found the Camps's vehicle at a gas station in English, they called 911 again to report the tag information.
“I was floored by their appearance. They looked like bums. I don’t mean that to sound derogatory, but they did,” Adkins told me. “I saw [Marisha Camp] put one of her cameras away and then she started showing my husband pictures from the other one.”
Both Jesse and Marisha Camp deny making photographs of the Adkins’s children. But the family didn’t know what the Camps were up to because they never came to their door to ask if it was OK to talk to their children or photograph them. Therein lies the problem for me, and for Adkins. “I can understand them [the Camps] being scared, but we had no choice but to question their motives,” Adkins says. “I wouldn’t have ever given them permission to take pictures of my kids, let alone talk to them, but they never gave me the chance.”
Adkins admits she threatened the Camps. “I mean, I said I had a gun, but I didn’t. I wanted them to know I meant business and that they weren’t leaving until the police showed up. I told [Marisha Camp] that she could leave by ambulance or by a police car, but she wasn’t going nowhere until I saw that she didn’t have pictures of my boys,” Adkins recalls. Soon thereafter, Adkins says, residents she didn’t even know began to gather around. She says the other residents, who must’ve felt they were looking out for their own, "sort of took over."
I asked Adkins about judging the Camps by how they looked when for so long West Virginia has been the butt of so many jokes about appearance. I had a really hard time with this one. “I know,” Adkins says, “but if I go to New York City, I’m going to stand out and possibly be stereotyped. Anybody who knows me knows that I’m outspoken. We [West Virginians] always get portrayed bad. And we didn’t know what they were up to.”
A few days after the confrontation, Adkins was interviewed by WVVA, the local news station, after they saw her Facebook posts about the incident. Adkins has taken down most of the posts, but I had taken screenshots for my notes. In one post, she wrote, “They are from Mass. and said they were doing a ‘documentary’…. All I can say is they best NOT COME BACK TO RAYSAL!!!!!” Someone commenting on Adkins’s Facebook page posted the Camps’s license plate number, and several commenters also included pictures of the Camps’s vehicle.
“We don’t get to choose who makes work in Appalachia.”
Elaine McMillion Sheldon, a native West Virginian, spent more than three years on and off working on Hollow, an interactive, community-driven documentary project about McDowell County’s past, present and future from the perspectives of local residents. When I reached out to her, she was beside herself about the incident and didn't understand why residents would react as they did. “What is the goal here? I think it's a question of how we want to be seen,” she says. “Do we want to be seen as a threat?”
Sheldon says residents she talked to in the County are divided about the incident. She was surprised that local photographers told her they don’t agree with the kind of work the Camps were making. Sheldon says: "We don’t get to choose who makes work in Appalachia. We can’t police who makes pictures here, but we should try to educate those who want to come in to document, and encourage a more nuanced story. We all need to stand together as artists, regardless of whether we like a specific artist’s work or not. You can't pick and choose whose rights you support based upon whether you like or dislike their work. All artists have the same legal rights, regardless of the art they create."
“The visual equivalent of hate speech.”
Kate Fowler has worked in West Virginia extensively and was recently hired by the Magnum Foundation in New York. Her film, Nitro, chronicles the complicated relationship between a small West Virginia town and the chemical plants that both provide jobs and impact the environment in West Virginia’s “Chemical Valley.” Fowler also spent a great deal of time in McDowell County working on her film With Signs Following, about the late Mack Wolford, a preacher and serpent-handler from southern West Virginia.
Fowler views the actions of the Camps and the reactions of the local citizens as part of a long, complicated history of photography in Appalachia.
Many in West Virginia, Fowler says, recognize that outsiders who’ve photographed their communities without consent have participated in the “dissemination of classist and bigoted rhetoric—the visual equivalent of hate speech.” Fowler also points out that when a small group of citizens decided to speak up for themselves, “the Internet...mobilized to discredit and to once again, deny the subject’s capacity for critical engagement.”
“No person deserves to be threatened with violence” or held against their will, Fowler adds. But, she says, “We [as photographers] must not presume that our intentions are clear, nor deny the trauma we may invoke through our actions, tools or intentions.”
“Am I supposed to go and knock on each and every door?”
Alan Johnston is a native and lifelong resident of McDowell County, West Virginia. He’s a musician and landscape photographer I met several years ago through Sheldon’s Hollow project. I reached out to him to get a local photographer’s perspective on what happened and he was kind enough to talk with me.
Johnston says he was “genuinely concerned” when he heard about the incident, especially when he considers what it might mean for his ability to work locally. “I really don’t understand what I’m supposed to do,” he says. “Do I tell somebody at the mouth of the holler that I’m taking pictures of barns and landscapes? How will the people in the head of the holler know what I’m doing? Am I supposed to go and knock on each and every door and report to people who I am and what I’m doing?” He notes that he rarely photographs people he doesn’t know, but rather photographs landscapes of McDowell County for his own pleasure.
Johnston recalled a time a few years back when he was out making pictures in the county and pulled off on the side of the road to photograph a horse in a barn. “All of a sudden this woman came out on her porch and started yelling at me. ‘You better not take any bad pictures on this mountain,’ she yelled.”
He staunchly defends his right to make pictures on public property, but confided that there are a whole lot of people “skeptical of anyone doing anything around here.” So it’s clearly not just outsiders that are met with suspicion.
Cultural insensitivity and privilege
Jesse Camp says this could’ve happened anywhere. It’s true. It could’ve. But it didn’t. It happened in West Virginia. And if you’re not familiar with the long history of visual misrepresentation of the region, then close your eyes and think about the first thing that pops in your head when you hear the words “West Virginia.” See what I mean?
Understanding the very real history of misrepresentation in Appalachia—particularly McDowell County, West Virginia, which is often portrayed as a hopeless pocket of rural Appalachia (a depiction I take great issue with)—by no means implies that it’s justifiable to hold people against their will and threaten physical violence. It’s also unreasonable to judge anyone by his or her appearance or how they talk, no matter who they are or where they’re from. But it’s important, although not easy for everyone, to understand where the anger comes from. It’s only through self-awareness that both photographers and local residents can hope to prevent incidents like this.
West Virginia is in my DNA. It’s a huge part of who I am. I’m also a photographer, which is an equally huge part of who I am. Often when these two meet it can be a challenge to find a balance, to reconcile history with the present, to challenge what we’ve been shown with what we know. I’m all too aware of how we’re portrayed, joked about and stereotyped. I’m also aware of how important listening is, and how making work in Appalachia isn’t as much about me as it is about honoring, respecting and searching for home. I’m not saying the way I work is the right way, if there is such a thing, but I am saying I don’t want to be another taker in a long line of takers.
Without a true understanding of the long history of takers in Appalachia, it can be hard to understand why locals reacted the way they did. The Camps deny both their privilege and a lack of understanding. They stated to me several times that they’ve been living out of their car, wearing the same clothes over and over again, and doing so with little to no money. But there’s nothing that pisses underprivileged people off more than privileged folks blind to their own privilege. Does that make the Camps bad people? I don’t think so. Does being threatened, blocked in, called names, yelled at and held hostage until state police arrived seem warranted? Again, I don’t think so. The Camps are likable people and I’ve found nothing in the time I’ve spent communicating with them that would lead me to feel otherwise, but I can raise concern over their cultural insensitivity.
Does that mean they can’t make work in Appalachia? Absolutely not.
Privilege can be tricky. I know this all too well. But photographers should be aware of it and sensitive to it. Marisha Camp was quick to counter my mention of this via text. “I’ll bet that lady [Jennifer Adkins] makes more money than me.”
This isn’t a situation in which it’s easy to either support the photographers or support the community. It’s much more complex than that. What would’ve happened if the Camps had knocked on the door of the Adkins house? What would’ve happened if Jennifer Adkins had simply left after seeing no pictures of her children had been taken? If the Camps were more apologetic and disarming in their responses, would the situation have escalated?
This isn’t just a place in a road trip documentary. This place is my home. It’s true that we can’t police who does and doesn’t make work in Appalachia. But when I reflect on this situation, I’m reminded of a saying by my granddad, “Enough is enough and too much is nasty.”
Thanks to Marisha Camp, Jesse Camp, Jennifer Adkins, Elaine McMillion Sheldon, Kate Fowler, Joy Salyers and Alan Johnston for their time in contributing to this article.
(This article first appeared in PDN on 21 April 2015. A condensed version appeared in the July 2015 print issue of PDN.)
©Roger May, 2015. All rights reserved.
Tags: Appalachia, conflict, McDowell County, PDN, West Virginia
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Angels try to improve their performance against…
Angels try to improve their performance against lefties … by moving a sign
After months of research, the Angels’ analytics department determined that a sign on the center field fence at Angel Stadium might have been causing sight-line issues against left-handed pitchers – the Angels have the worst batting average in the majors against lefties since 2015. They moved the sign this week. You can see its location change in these before, top, and after images. (Photos courtesy of Fox Sports West broadcasts)
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ANAHEIM — Never underestimate the power of advertising.
The Angels suspect that an ad, of all things, might have contributed to their mysterious trouble hitting left-handed pitchers over the past several years.
The Angels have the worst batting average in the majors against lefties since 2015, which has been a well-chronicled head-scratcher. Throughout that time, the Angels’ best hitters, including Mike Trout, have been right-handed.
Months of study by the team’s analytics department concluded that a part of the problem might have been an ad on the center field fence, General Manager Billy Eppler said this week.
The ad had been encroaching toward the batters’ line of sight since 2012, moving to its furthest left position, closest to straightaway center, in 2015.
When the Angels returned home for this homestand on Tuesday, the sign – for the Pechanga Casino – had been moved to the right, clearing the fence in center field.
Eppler said he’s not sure moving the sign will make a difference, and he’d never heard a player complain about the placement, but the numbers suggested enough evidence to move it anyway.
“There was no downside in moving the sign,” he said. “We’ll see if there’s any upside or if this was just statistical randomness.”
Right-handed hitters Trout, Justin Upton, Albert Pujols and former Angels Ian Kinsler and C.J. Cron were all asked within the past month about any visual issues that might have affected performance against lefties in Anaheim, and none said they had any problems.
The numbers, though, say something unusual was happening.
Since 2015, the issue with left-handed pitchers has been more pronounced among the Angels’ right-handed hitters, and more so at home. And it’s not just the Angels, but the visitors, too.
Across the majors, right-handed hitters have hit .258 against left-handed pitchers and .250 against righties since 2015. That’s the expected platoon advantage.
However, during that same time at Angel Stadium, it has been the opposite. Right-handed hitters in Anaheim – the Angels and their opponents – have shown an 18-point reverse split, hitting .235 against lefties and .253 against righties.
From 2010-14, right-handed hitters had the normal split at Angel Stadium, hitting .249 against righties and .261 against lefties.
The Angels’ analytics department had been working at this for months. Once they began filtering the results, a pattern emerged, Eppler said.
“We started to notice a signal with the left-handers, more than just randomness, there was some kind of signal that kept showing up on left-handers that had certain release heights,” Eppler said. “We researched those heights and we came down (to the field) and got the optics on it. We thought there might be a contributing factor with one of the signs.”
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Eppler presented the issue to club president John Carpino, who said they could move the sign during the team’s most recent trip. When the Angels returned home on Tuesday, the sign was shifted the farthest to the right it’s been since 2012.
Trout, who debuted as a full-time player in 2012, has a reverse split at home throughout his career, but particularly since 2015. Over 2,254 at-bats since then, Trout has hit 48 points better against righties at Angel Stadium, but 17 points better against lefties on the road.
Over that same span, Pujols has a 52-point reverse split at home, but a six-point positive split on the road, covering 2,485 at-bats.
Cron is an interesting example because he played three years with the Angels and two seasons with other teams in that span. Over that entire period, he has a 79-point reverse split at Angel Stadium, but a 59-point positive split in all other parks. That includes 568 at-bats at Angel Stadium and 1,317 in other parks.
Now with the Minnesota Twins, Cron was asked last month if something in the background could have affected his trouble against lefties in Anaheim: “I don’t think so. If there is, I never heard a complaint about it.”
Jeff Fletcher
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Also published on this date: Wednesday, December 9, 2015: Maximum Shelf: Breaking Wild
Shelf Awareness for Wednesday, December 9, 2015
Matt Baldacci Joining Shelf Awareness
Matt Baldacci, Shelf's new director of business development.
John Mutter and Jenn Risko, the founders of Shelf Awareness, are very pleased to announced that Matt Baldacci is joining the company as director of business development. The appointment is effective tomorrow, December 10.
"We have worked with Matt since the beginning of Shelf Awareness, when he was associate publisher of St. Martin's Press, which has grown to become one of our key advertising partners," Jenn said. "He knows first-hand the influence and effectiveness of our content and products, and he may even know more publishing folks than we do!"
Besides St. Martin's, Matt has worked at S&S Children's, Simon & Schuster, DK and Scholastic. He will be based in Summit, N.J., near New York City. His e-mail address is matt@shelf-awareness.com.
"I am very happy to be joining the Shelf and to have the opportunity to help bring books and readers together," Matt said. "Throughout my career, I have focused on bringing books to readers and have both admired and used all that the Shelf has to offer to accomplish my marketing objectives. Now, I will be at the forefront of many new initiatives the Shelf team is creating, and I am eager to help build on the success the team has already enjoyed."
Books-A-Million Stockholders Vote to Go Private
At a special meeting yesterday, Books-A-Million stockholders voted to take the company private. Under the plan, the Anderson family--led by executive chairman Clyde B. Anderson, some senior management and others--is buying the approximately 41.8% of the company that it doesn't already own for $3.25 a share. The deal, valued at about $21 million, is expected to close "on or about" tomorrow, December 10.
Some 66.3% of the company's outstanding common stock not owned by the Anderson family or company officers was voted in favor of plan; of all company stock, including shares owned by the Andersons and company officers, some 88.3% were effectively for the plan.
The transaction is being financed through a combination of the contributions of the BAM shares owned by the Anderson family and any management rollover participants, and borrowings of approximately $21 million under the company's existing credit facilities.
The Anderson family made an initial offer of $2.75 a share on January 29. A special committee of directors independent of the Anderson family approved the deal, which was approved by the board in July.
In April 2012, the Anderson family made a similar offer to buy the company, bidding $3.05 a share. At the time, it owned 53% of the company. In July 2012, the Anderson family withdrew its offer after meetings with the Books-A-Million board of directors and a special independent committee that had been set up to evaluate the offer.
Under the Books-A-Million, Books & Co., Bookland and 2nd & Charles names, Books-A-Million has 257 stores in 32 states and the District of Columbia and sells online at booksamillion.com. It also owns Yogurt Mountain, a retailer and franchisor of 40 self-serve frozen yogurt stores, and owns and operates several shopping centers through its Preferred Growth Properties subsidiary. The roots of the company, which was founded by the Andersons, go back to 1917; it went public in 1992.
Powell's Chicago Closing University Village Store
Powell's Books Chicago, which specializes in used, rare and discounted books, is closing the store in University Village that it opened in 2012, effective December 23. The store had earlier been occupied by a Barbara's Bookstore, which closed because of a lack of traffic.
On its website, Powell's wrote that when approached by the University of Illinois at Chicago about taking over the former Barbara's site, "Having a strong belief in the brick and mortar bookstore and what it brings to a community, Powell's owner Brad Jonas was excited to have a bookstore that included an event space....
"While the issues faced by the previous tenant were taken into consideration before opening, it became clear that the location of the store would be the biggest challenge. Despite our efforts to stock the store with amazing books, to promote the store through print and online advertising and host some incredible authors and events, we were not able to get enough people to come to the neighborhood. In the end there were simply too few customers walking in the door to make the business profitable."
Powell's closed its Lincoln Avenue location last year. It still has a store in the Hyde Park area. Powell's in Chicago has connections to Powell's Books in Portland, Ore., but is a separate business.
Half Price Books Opening in Decatur, Ga.
Half Price Books is coming to Decatur, Ga., according to decaturish.com. Georgia is the 17th state to get one of HPB's 125 stores, with more planned for East Cobb County and the Atlanta market. "We don't have any debt. Our model is we know how many stores we can open," said Kathy Doyle Thomas, HPB executive v-p and chief strategy officer. "We believe our model is going to work, and we have nice slow growth."
That model has been working since the company "was started by a couple of hippies back in the early '70s," as Thomas described. Half Price Books buys and sells a range of books, CDs and DVDs. It also stocks remainders and new bestsellers. No definite opening date has been announced for the Decatur store, thanks to uncertain construction and permit timetables.
Obituary Note: Timothy Seldes
Literary agent and editor Timothy Seldes died of complications from pneumonia at age 88 this past Saturday, according to the AP (via Newsday).
Seldes came from a creative family: his sister was Tony-winning actress Marian Seldes, his father the drama critic and author Gilbert Seldes, and his uncle the press critic George Seldes.
Timothy Seldes entered the book business working as a clerk in Manhattan at a Doubleday store, with later stints at Macmillan and Harcourt Brace. Most of his editing work occurred at Doubleday where, as managing editor, his authors included Isaac Asimov and Richard Wright. In 1972, Seldes purchased the agency Russell & Volkening and represented clients from Anne Tyler and Eudora Welty to Saul Bellow and Nadine Gordimer. Seldes sold Russell & Volkening to Lippincott Massie McQuilkin in 2012 and had been retired since then.
"The space Tim Seldes will leave behind is enormous," Tyler wrote to the AP. "He was so vibrant and engaged and such a celebrator, and a wonderful friend to writers."
Image of the Day: Mummy Time
Over the weekend, illustrator Lisa Brown appeared at the Morbid Anatomy Museum in Brooklyn, N.Y., to promote her latest book, Mummy Cat by Marcus Ewert (Clarion/HMH). Brown read from the book and talked about the hieroglyphics and the story within the story. She also spoke about the author, her good friend Marcus Ewert (who could not be there), and how they teamed up to create the book. Following her presentation, she invited children in the audience to "mummify" her, which included wrapping her in gauze. Some of her good friends, including illustrators Sergio Ruzzier, Sophie Blackall, Edward Hemingway and Jon Scieszka, came by to celebrate as well. Pictured: Ruzzier, Blackall, Brown and Hemingway.
Pennie Picks Precious Gifts
Pennie Clark Ianniciello, Costco's book buyer, has chosen Precious Gifts: A Novel by Danielle Steel (Delacorte, $28, 9780345531032) as her pick of the month for December. In Costco Connection, which goes to many of the warehouse club's members, she wrote:
"I've been in the book-buying industry for nearly all of my adult life. There have been certain constants--and I include Danielle Steel novels among those constants. She's not only a prolific writer, but she is truly one of the nicest authors I've ever met. For that reason, I'm pleased to say that her new novel, Precious Gifts, is this month's book buyer's pick.
"When Paul Parker passes away, his three daughters are surprised by the inheritance left them by the man who was more interested in being a bon vivant than in being a father. The biggest surprise, however, is left for his ex-wife, the girls' mother. It not only shakes her world, but also sets her free.
"One of the best gifts you can give yourself this season is to take the time to read this book."
Bookstore Holiday Promo Movie of the Day
From Pegasus Bookstores and Pandora's Books in Berkeley and Oakland, Calif., the stories of the behind-the-scenes heroes who transfer books between stores.
Personnel Changes at Sourcebooks
At Sourcebooks:
Molly Fletcher and Christina Rapacchietta have joined the e-commerce division as marketing coordinators. Both attended the Denver Publishing Institute in 2015.
Book Trailer of the Day: Cockatoo, Too!
Cockatoo, Too! by Bethanie Deeney Murguia (Little Bee Books).
Media Heat: Michael Lewis on Colbert's Late Show
Conan: Sarah Vowell, author of Lafayette in the Somewhat United States (Riverhead, $27.95, 9781594631740).
Last Call with Carson Daly: Ron Perlman, author of Easy Street (the Hard Way): A Memoir (Da Capo Press, $16.99, 9780306824180).
The Daily Show: Michael Strahan, co-author of Wake Up Happy: The Dream Big, Win Big Guide to Transforming Your Life (Atria/37 INK, $26.99, 9781476775685).
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert: Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (Norton, $15.95, 9780393353150).
The Tonight Show: Jim Gaffigan, author of Food: A Love Story (Three Rivers Press, $15, 9780804140430).
Awards: Green Carnation; 800-CEO-READ; PEN
Marlon James, who won the Booker Prize in October, has won the Green Carnation Prize, honoring LGBT writers and given in partnership with Foyles bookstores, for A Brief History of Seven Killings (Riverhead), the Bookseller reported..
Chair of judges Niven Govinden said: "We were bowled over by both the ambition of this novel and its sheer visceral power. A story that crosses Jamaica and America, spanning decades and voices; fiction embedded in historical fact; that explores complex webs of crime, politics and power, unspoken truths of desire and sexuality, and the rare messianic hold that singers can have on the collective consciousness; never feeling anything less than urgent, vital, and alive."
The shortlisted titles for the ninth annual 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards, which will be presented at an awards ceremony and business book industry celebration in New York City on Thursday, January 14, are:
General Business: We Are Market Basket: The Story of the Unlikely Grassroots Movement That Saved a Beloved Business by Daniel Korschun and Grant Welker (AMACOM Books)
Leadership & Management: Everybody Matters: The Extraordinary Power of Caring for Your People Like Family by Bob Chapman and Raj Sisodia (Portfolio)
Innovation & Creativity: How to Fly a Horse: The Secret History of Creation, Invention, and Discovery by Kevin Ashton (Doubleday)
Marketing: The Compass and the Nail: How the Patagonia Model of Loyalty Can Save Your Business, and Might Just Save the Planet by Craig Wilson (Rare Bird Books)
Sales: The Revenue Growth Habit: The Simple Art of Growing Your Business by 15% in 15 Minutes Per Day by Alex Goldfayn (Wiley)
Entrepreneurship: Boss Life: Surviving My Own Small Business by Paul Downs (Blue Rider Press)
Personal Development: Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age by Sherry Turkle (Penguin Press)
Finance & Economics: America's Bank: The Epic Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve by Roger Lowenstein (Penguin Press)
PEN America has announced the longlists for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award and the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing. PEN America has already announced the longlists for the debut fiction and essay prizes. Other PEN America prize longlists will be announced today and tomorrow. The announced longlisted titles may be viewed here.
Book Brahmin: Michael Bible
Michael Bible is originally from North Carolina. His work has appeared in Oxford American, the Paris Review Daily, Al Jazeera America, ESPN: The Magazine, and New York Tyrant. His debut novel, Sophia (Melville House, December 1, 2015), tells the story of the unholy Reverend Maloney and his best friend, a chess prodigy named Eli, as the two make their way across the U.S., on the run from the law and from a blind headhunter called Jack Cataract.
On your nightstand now:
A strange little book called Água Viva by Clarice Lispector. It's not a novel exactly, more a juggernaut of language from a great Brazilian genius.
Favorite book when you were a child:
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman. In my freshman composition class, I found a copy of it left by someone from an Honors English class I couldn't get into because my test scores were so bad. I was blown away by Whitman's weirdness. I read it every day instead of listening to the teacher. I eventually stole it and read it till the pages fell out.
Your top five authors:
Samuel Beckett: When I taught Waiting for Godot years ago, it was the one book that caused the frat boys who slept during most classes to wake up and suddenly say, "This isn't art!" One could only hope for such success.
David Markson: On one of my first trips out of the South to New York, I walked into the Strand looking for the strangest book I could find. I saw a display of Markson's books and picked up This Is Not a Novel. I was angry that no one had told me about him before. Like Beckett, he somehow manages to write experimental page-turners.
Frank Stanford: The Dixie Rimbaud. His collected poems were finally published this year, and I hope every college poet runs out to buy a copy. There is no other writer that puts that much blood on the page.
William Faulkner: Not sure what I can say about him except that he failed out of college, was a horrible poet, lied a lot about his military service--a deeply flawed man who wrote hands-down the best books of the 20th century.
Flannery O'Connor: A writer who understood the depths of human evil and altruism. Her work, like all good writing, approaches the reverence of prayer. When I read her stories, it seems as natural as breathing.
Book you've faked reading:
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller. I've tried like five times and can't get through it.
Book you're an evangelist for:
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce. Sometimes it's seen as the most difficult or abstract book out there but really there is so much in it for anyone who takes the time. Such a massive, arrogant idea of a novel. Makes everything else seem puny.
Book you've bought for the cover:
The Policeman's Beard Is Half Constructed by Racter. A book written by a computer.
Book you hid from your parents:
Run with the Hunted by Charles Bukowski. I was given this book by an inspiring teacher at the boarding school I was sent away to. She was my poetry teacher, and I wrote a poem about drinking and thought I was going to get in trouble, but instead she gave me Bukowski and told me not to tell anyone about it. I owe that teacher my life.
Book that changed your life:
Ray by Barry Hannah. I read this book at a low point in my life and it changed what I thought literature to could be. I became convinced I needed to study with the madman that wrote it. There is such a load of crap that is sold you in the classroom about novels. The plot should ride this arc, the characters should grow, etc. Ray stood out to me because it resists all that. It has an insistence of voice, a velocity not fueled by plot. Every sentence is on fire from beginning to end.
Favorite line from a book:
"I am a dragon. America the beautiful, like you will never know." --from Airships by Barry Hannah
Five books you'll never part with:
The King James Bible. It's hard to diminish its impact on me. I heard it from the pew on Sunday mornings before I knew how to read. Its cadences are in my DNA. As a work of truth, it's hard to get behind. As a work of literature, there is nothing greater.
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner. I could get lost in those minds any day. Benjy's chapter, sure, but Quentin had a profound impact on me as a young man.
The Stranger by Albert Camus. Every time I've read this book, it amazes me with how pure it is. It doesn't seem written, ever; it unfolds with such subtly that it creates a sensation beyond reading.
In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan. Not his most well known, but for my money his best. There is a pleasure in Brautigan that destroys the pretensions of those claiming to practice high art.
The Life You Save May Be Your Own by Flannery O'Connor. There's so much to explore in these stories. They get deeper with each read for me, so wild and funny and dark.
Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson. This is one book that I do part with often, really. I keep giving it away. But there's always another copy to replace it. It never gets old.
Book you most want to read again for the first time:
The Dream Songs by John Berryman. I read this book when I was young it never left me. It was at times a terrifying book to be inside of. I love it.
Children's Review: The Night Parade
The Night Parade by Kathryn Tanquary (Sourcebooks Jabberwocky, $16.99 hardcover, 320p., ages 9-12, 9781492623243, January 5, 2016)
In a suspenseful middle-grade fantasy debut evocative of Neil Gaiman's Coraline and classic films like Jim Henson's Labyrinth and Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away, Kathryn Tanquary drops a peer-pressure-prone Japanese teenager into the realm of the fantastic, pitting her against the rules and powers of magical beings.
Thirteen-year-old Saki Yamamoto has zero interest in Japanese traditions, especially if it means spending summer vacation with her family in her grandmother's remote mountain village and missing all the fun her friends will have back home in Tokyo. This visit marks the first time her family will celebrate Obon (a Buddhist festival to honor one's ancestors) without Saki's grandfather, who died three years back. Spending weeks with constant reminders of Grandpa's absence holds no appeal for Saki. Most horrifying of all, Grandma's village has no cell signal.
When a group of "delinquent village kids," led by a manipulative mean girl named Yuko, dares Saki to ring a sacred bell at her family's ancestral graveyard shrine at night, she must follow through or risk losing their approval. "A death curse, her fears whispered," but she rings the bell anyway... and gets busted by her furious father as her new "friends" scatter in the darkness. Later that night, she awakens to the presence of a four-tailed fox spirit, the first of her three spirit guides, who tells Saki she has summoned her with the bell, and that, sure enough, a death curse hangs over her household. To find someone who can combat the curse, Saki must walk in the Night Parade. She is afraid, but "[t]he forest was awake with sounds, alive and eager. It called to her, drawing her closer to the door. One look, just one."
The Night Parade--Hyakki Yagyō in Japanese--consists entirely of spirits, and any human who comes across it may die or be taken by the creatures. In Tanquary's version, the spirits follow a pilgrim's path to a mountaintop shrine. Over the course of three nights, accompanied by her spirit guides (fox, tengu and tanuki), Saki faces ogres, shrine guardians, a deceptively kind witch with a faceless son, and many other typical denizens of Japanese mythology as she completes a series of tasks to lift her family's curse (and possibly save the world). Along the way, she learns that breaking rules and showing disrespect in the spirit world have serious consequences that no amount of excuses can avert.
This dark adventure serves as a terrific introduction to Japanese legends, with the weird and wondrous on full display, from grinning weasels to insect soldiers to giant boars with wind chimes hanging from their tusks. Tanquary uses English words for spirits whenever possible, but creatures without Western equivalent may require a quick web search for readers unfamiliar with Japanese lore. While sometimes spooky, the spirit-world characters are also frequently comical--the flatulent tanuki (a raccoon dog spirit guide who calls Saki "Sweetheart") is a perfect example.
Saki learns the hard way to put down her cell phone and give family and tradition their due. As she courageously faces her surreal quest, she also learns to believe in herself, and readers know she will take that newfound perspective back to Tokyo with her. The magic in these lessons, however, outweighs any didacticism. Expect this solid fantasy for tween readers to inspire interest in myth, magic and--quite likely--manga. --Jaclyn Fulwood, youth services librarian, Latah County Library District (Idaho)
Shelf Talker: A Tokyo middle-schooler named Saki gets caught up in the dangerous Japanese spirit world when her family spends the summer in her grandmother's rural village.
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Indonesia recovers Lion Air jet’s cockpit voice recorder
Originally published January 13, 2019 at 7:41 pm Updated January 14, 2019 at 10:48 am
The cockpit voice recorder of the Boeing 737 MAX 8 that crashed into the Java Sea in October has been recovered, Indonesian officials said Monday
NINIEK KARMINI
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Navy divers have recovered the cockpit voice recorder of a Lion Air jet that crashed into the Java Sea in October, Indonesian officials said Monday, in a possible boost to the investigation into why the 2-month-old plane nosedived at high velocity, killing 189 people.
Ridwan Djamaluddin, a deputy maritime minister, told reporters that remains of some of the people who died in the crash were also discovered at the seabed location.
A spokesman for the Indonesian navy’s western fleet, Lt. Col. Agung Nugroho, said divers using high-tech “ping locator” equipment started a new search effort last week in a previously identified target area and found the voice recorder beneath 8 meters (26 feet) of seabed mud. The plane crashed in waters 30 meters (98 feet) deep.
The bright orange device was transported to a port in Jakarta, where it was handed over to the National Transportation Safety Committee, which is overseeing the accident investigation.
“This is good news, especially for us who lost our loved ones,” said Irianto, the father of Rio Nanda Pratama, a doctor who died in the crash.
“Even though we don’t yet know the contents of the CVR, this is some relief from our despair,” he said.
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The Boeing 737 MAX 8 jet plunged into the Java Sea just minutes after taking off from Jakarta, Indonesia’s capital, on Oct. 29, killing everyone on board.
The cockpit data recorder was recovered three days after the crash and showed that the jet’s airspeed indicator had malfunctioned on its last four flights. Lion Air initially claimed that problems with the aircraft were fixed before its final flight.
If the voice recorder is undamaged, it could provide valuable additional information to investigators.
The transport committee’s chairman, Soerjanto Tjahjono, said the device will be taken to the investigators’ “black box” facility. It will take three to five days to dry and clean the device and to download its data, he said.
“To analyze it, we need more time, depending on the complexity of the problem. Data obtained from CVR is expected to complete our investigation data,” Tjahjono said.
Data from a preliminary investigation report, which didn’t state any conclusions, showed that the plane’s nose pointed down 26 times on its fatal 11-minute flight despite repeated efforts by the pilots to manually aim the nose higher.
Rear Adm. Harjo Susmoro, head of the navy’s Center for Hydrography and Oceanography, said the voice recorder was found just 50 meters (164 feet) from where the data recorder was located.
A “heroic” team of 21 divers removed debris and carried out “desludging” operations to reach the voice recorder, he said.
Susmoro said the voice recorder’s signal, designed to last 90 days following a crash, would have stopped after about 15 days.
The family of one of the pilots, 41-year-old Harvino, has sued Boeing Co. in Chicago, alleging that aircraft sensors provided inaccurate information, causing the plane to nosedive, and that Boeing failed to provide proper training to pilots on the 737 MAX 8’s features.
Indonesian media reported in December that Lion Air’s chief executive, Edward Sirait, said the airline was considering canceling its remaining orders for nearly 200 of the Boeing planes.
The Lion Air crash was the worst airline disaster in Indonesia since 1997, when 234 people died on a Garuda flight near Medan. In December 2014, an AirAsia flight from Surabaya to Singapore plunged into the sea, killing all 162 people on board.
Lion Air is one of Indonesia’s youngest airlines but has grown rapidly, flying to dozens of domestic and international destinations. It has been expanding aggressively in Southeast Asia, a fast-growing region of more than 600 million people.
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Bartman 'overjoyed' by Cubs' World Series win, won't attend parade
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Infamous Cubs fan Steve Bartman says he is overjoyed that the team finally broke its 108-year championship drought, but he won't attend the victory parade.
By SI Wire
A spokesman for infamous Chicago Cubs fan Steve Bartman says that he is overjoyed that the team finally broke its 108-year championship drought, but says he won't attend the victory parade scheduled for Friday.
The Cubs won their first World Series title since 1908 after a thrilling 8–7, 10-inning Game 7 victory over the Cleveland Indians on Wednesday, overcoming a 3–1 series deficit.
“He was just overjoyed that the Cubs won, as all the Cubs fans are," Frank Murtha, a lawyer who is Bartman’s spokesman, told USA Today. “We don’t intend to crash the parade."
Bartman, of course, was mostly blamed for the Cubs' collapse in Game 6 of the 2003 National League Championship Series against the Florida Marlins, when Cubs outfielder Moises Alou was deterred from his attempt to catch to a foul ball when Bartman and other fans reached for it.
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Chicago led the game 3–0 at the time and went on to lose Game 6, 8–3, and eventually lost the series. The Marlins won their second World Series title in a six-game victory over the New York Yankees.
Bartman has not granted any interview since the incident. Murtha says Bartman still lives and works in the Chicago area.
“The one thing that Steve and I did talk about was if the Cubs were to win, he did not want to be a distraction to the accomplishments of the players and the organization," Murtha said.
– Scooby Axson
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Report: Tottenham Linked With Move for Liverpool's Origi
Tottenham could make a potential late move for Liverpool striker Divock Origi before the close of the transfer window, the Telegraph have reported.
The Belgian forward may be allowed to leave Anfield having struggled to establish himself as a regular under Jurgen Klopp.
He has not yet started a game this season, and has so far made just one substitute appearance in the 3-3 opening day draw against Watford. Origi is believed to be determined to play-first team football as he looks to secure a place in the Belgium squad for the upcoming World Cup.
Liverpool have reportedly indicated that they could be willing to sell the 22-year-old if they have concluded all their transfer business.
Spurs are looking for a new striker to provide cover for Harry Kane, while Dutch forward Vincent Janssen is expected to be sold.
Divock Origi may be allowed to leave Liverpool before Thursday’s transfer deadline after slipping down Jürgen Klopp’s Anfield pecking order.
— Anfield HQ (@AnfieldHQ) August 25, 2017
Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino is believed to be a fan of Origi, who he sees as a young player with considerable potential.
Ligue 1 club Marseille have also expressed an interest in the former Lille striker, while Belgian side Anderlecht are reportedly hopeful of completing a loan deal.
Klopp has insisted that Origi remains a part of his plans, despite not being included in the squad for the second leg of their Champions League qualifier against Hoffenheim.
"I cannot guarantee that people are happy every day," he told the Liverpool Echo. "We have until the 31st to make a decision but until now in this position, nothing is happening.
"Divock Origi has given me absolutely no reason not to involve him in the squad but the rules are the rules, but I spoke to him already.
"So the players will all have their opportunities, they will all have their chances. And in the next week, I have no ideas, but if nothing comes in, nothing will go out."
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SLI Systems Named Highly Commended Online Technology Vendor of the Year at Retail Systems Awards 2014
Accolade is the second recognition in the U.K. for SLI Systems in less than a month
LONDON, 6 November 2014 – In recognition for continued contribution to the e-commerce industry, SLI Systems (SLI.NZ) was named the Highly Commended Online Technology Vendor of the Year at the U.K’s Retail Systems Awards 2014.
SLI received the award for the contribution that its Learning Search and Rich Auto Complete site search offerings have made to mid-to-large Internet retailers and B2B sites worldwide as well as for compelling customer-use scenarios.
It is the second time in less than a month that SLI’s industry-leading products have been recognised for their ability to accelerate e-commerce sales by connecting customers with the products they are most likely to buy.
At the start of October Learning Search and Rich Auto Complete won ‘Best Product’ at the eCommerce Awards for Excellence in London. SLI’s solutions have also this year been recognised at the Direct Marketing Association Conference in the U.S., Australia’s Online Retail Industry Awards and the World Retail Awards in Paris.
The U.K.’s Retail Systems Awards recognise technology excellence and innovation within the retail sector and were held on 30 October 2014 at the Lancaster Hotel in London with more than 400 attendees.
“Receiving recognition for being a key player in the UK e-commerce industry by the Retail Systems Awards further demonstrates the value our clients experience when working with SLI,” said Marcus Law, SLI’s head of marketing EMEA.
Since implementing SLI’s solutions, Chemist Direct, the UK’s leading online pure play healthcare and pharmacy provider, has experienced a conversion rate improvement of 175% and a search average order value increase of 196%. Search customers on the Chemist Direct site generate 43% of the total value of the site and have a 175% higher conversion rate than those who do not use search, as noted in a recent announcement.
“We are delighted with this accolade which also underscores our commitment to our customers’ success,” Mr Law said.
About the Retail Systems Awards
The Retail Systems Awards, now it its ninth year, recognise technology excellence and innovation within the retail sector. The awards present an opportunity for organisations to gain the prestige of public acknowledgement as being leaders in their field.
SLI Systems (SLI.NZ) enables the world’s leading e-commerce retailers to accelerate sales by connecting shoppers with the products they’re most likely to buy. With offerings that include site search, navigation, merchandising, mobile, product recommendations and user-generated SEO, SLI is the most chosen cloud-based site search provider to U.S. Internet Retailer Top 1,000 retailers. The company’s patented technology continuously learns from the actions of visitors to deliver the most relevant results possible. Whether via PC, tablet or phone, a site powered by SLI delivers the kind of satisfying search experience that increases conversion rates, secures brand loyalty and results in higher order values. SLI operates on five continents. For more information, visit www.sli-systems.co.uk
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Roast meats business Kay Lee sold for $4 million
(From left) Madam Betty Kong and her husband Ha Wai Kay, with Michael Mun, Aztech Group’s chairman, who bought the roast meat business, and his eldest son, Jeremy Mun. PHOTO: ST FILE
Oct 21, 2014, 5:30 am SGT
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Eunice Quek
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Kay Lee Roast Meat Joint has been sold for $4 million to conglomerate Aztech Group, 2 1/2 years after the 32-year-old roast meats institution in Upper Paya Lebar Road was put up for sale.
Publicly-listed Aztech, with diverse businesses ranging from electronics to LED lighting to marine logistics, paid $500,000 more than the original asking price of $3.5 million.
Madam Betty Kong, 68, who owns Kay Lee with her husband Ha Wai Kay, 64, said the price went up because the value of the freehold, 1,313 sq ft shop space had increased. When they first put the business up for sale, they received some 70 offers but none of them met the asking price.
The shop attracts queues and turns in a four-figure daily profit.
She told The Straits Times last night: “They were very sincere and met our asking price. We wanted the name to continue successfully and I will support them. When I’m 90 years old, Kay Lee will still be here.”
Mr Jeremy Mun, 39, Aztech’s senior vice-president and head of marketing, said his father, Mr Michael Mun, 64, the company’s group chief executive, has been a long-time customer.
The younger Mr Mun said: “It’s not about making money, it’s about preserving a heritage brand because a lot of good food has disappeared. So we want to extend the life of Kay Lee and also expand the business.”
So the company approached the couple in August and the deal was completed on Sept 18. The newly set up Kay Lee Pte Ltd will be a subsidiary of Aztech and it will take over operations on Nov 18. The couple will continue to work at the flagship outlet, but it is not known how long they will stay.
Madam Kong, whose two children do not want to continue the business, said: “I will still be there because I have customers who look for me at the stall. If I’m not there, they think the flavour is not the same.”
The roast meats business that she and her husband built from scratch will expand beyond their dreams. Aztech plans to open at least 10 casual restaurants under the Kay Lee name, mostly in heartland malls, in the next two years. The first is expected to open early next year.
The younger Mr Mun said the company had been looking to expand its food business.
“Even in bad times, people still have to eat,” he said.
Aztech has a subsidiary called Shiro Corporation, which sells wines and distributes canned and frozen food, but this is its first foray into restaurants.
The company has hired chefs to learn how to roast the meats using Guangzhou-style recipes that Mr Ha’s father developed in the 1950s. It will retain Kay Lee’s staff and use its current suppliers. By the end of the year, the company will also open a central kitchen.
Mr Mun does not rule out taking the Kay Lee brand to countries in the region and even China.
“After all, the recipes technically came from Guangzhou,” he said.
Go to ST Food for more trusted reviews and recipes
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Mawdoo3.com
MAWDOO3.COM WEBSITE
UX / UI design, Identity, Art direction, Icons
Mawdoo3 is an Arabic online encyclopedia, that uses the wiki system similar to Wikipedia.
It was initially established in 2010, and officially launched in 2012.
Based in Jordan, They aimed to enrich the Arabic content on the Internet, with high quality articles, also offer analysis services for keywords in Arabic.
The encyclopedia won the first prize for the Queen Rania National Entrepreneurship Award, for the category of universities and academics in 2011. To date the site boast more than 20 million visits per month, of which 12 million are unique, and has published 40,000 articles. it’s the biggest Arabic website now.
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Happy 100th birthday, Herman Hammerbeck
By Don Leighton For the Telegram In the grand scheme of world history, 100 years is a blink of the eye. But in the life of a person known by many and respected by all he has met, 100 years is an incredible amount of time, but only if it is spent ...
Written By: superiortelegram Administrator | Jan 4th 2019 - 5pm.
Herman Hammerbeck
By Don Leighton
For the Telegram
In the grand scheme of world history, 100 years is a blink of the eye. But in the life of a person known by many and respected by all he has met, 100 years is an incredible amount of time, but only if it is spent wisely.
On Saturday, Jan. 5, one such man, Herman Hammerbeck, will be celebrating his 100th birthday with family and friends.
Herman is a lifelong resident of Superior and grew up on 24th Street near Tower Ave. He attended Pattison School and graduated from Superior Central High School in 1936. Upon graduation, he went to work for his father at Silver-Tonsberg Printing.
He married his wife, Kathryn Nelson, on Dec. 13, 1941. Unfortunately, Kay passed away in February 2016 as they were about to celebrate their 75th anniversary.
Their honeymoon was short as Herman joined the Army Air Force in 1942. He was assigned to a unit that built air strips and facilities in northern Africa and Italy.
While in Italy, he traveled to Rome, went to the Vatican and he and his fellow American troops were greeted by the pope. The pope must have heard Herman Hammerbeck was there.
In 1945, he returned to Superior and continued to work at Silver Tonsberg Printing. In 1947, his first son, Bruce, was born. In 1950, his second son, Paul, was born, completing the family.
Obviously, Herman had been pretty busy for the first 32 years of his life. So, what does he do? He began to build a summer home on Whitefish Lake in Gordon, where he spent most summer weekends and vacations.
Countless hours were spent as a carpenter and construction worker during his free time.
After a few years of helping Kay raise the boys, building the cabin, working full time, he decided he needed to do more, and in my opinion, this is where the story gets interesting.
In 1956, he, and others, were instrumental in forming the Superior Youth Organization, which created Little League baseball in Superior.
From 1959 to 1962, he coached the Dodgers, which Paul played on. They were city champs in 1961, so you can add champion to Herman’s resume.
In the late 1950s, he was on the steering committee to form the Superior Amateur Hockey Association.
His dedication, along with other committee members, William Boya, Chester Frost, William Germond, Kenneth LaMone, Paul Krisak, Joseph Leszcynski, Robert Cole, Ray Matushak, Roy Martinson and Jack Lund, created what has become the home of one of the greatest youth organizations of any sport in Wisconsin.
Countless thousands of youth and adults have been the beneficiaries of Herman and his committee members.
SAHA incorporated Jan. 12, 1961. I don’t know if there is a plaque or monument to these men, but there should be.
Time to relax, right? No time like the present to stay busy for Herman. He coached the Pattison Flyers Bantams to two city championships, and in 1966, as president of SAHA, he worked to get the first artificial ice surface in the old Superior Municipal Ice Rink, where Super One and Keyport are located.
After his sons graduated from high school, Herman and Ray Matushak coached the Superior PeeWee All-Stars to two state championships in the early 1970s.
Golf has always been a passion for Herman. He played in the Nemadji Bushwacker and the Senior League from 1960-2010. He finally retired from the golf game at 91 years old.
He has bragging rights over Paul, as well. He has a hole-in-one. Brother Bruce has one, too.
Talk about being involved, Herman was a charter member of the Superior Lions Club from 1949-89 and he was a former president and earned the Melvin Jones Fellowship Award, the highest honor bestowed by the Lions International Organization.
My only concern about Herman is one shared by his sons, relatives and neighbors. He is a staunch Minnesota Viking fan.
Because of his Central High School roots with Bud Grant, I guess I can understand. Grant also has a summer home in the Gordon area.
When the Washington Senators moved to Minnesota in 1961, Herman became an avid Minnesota Twins fan. He and Kay would watch or listen to every game they could. They routinely were a part of all 162 games in many years.
He took his sons to Minneapolis to see his favorite team and Paul remembers one game in which Harmon Killebrew and Bob Allison hit first-inning, grand slam home runs. That’s a memory that will last forever.
The 100 years has probably passed by too quickly, but I wonder what Herman has up his sleeve now? I know he is going to stay active, mentally alert and busy. He is a good man. He is part of the “greatest generation.”
It was my honor to have met you, Herman. Thank you for the opportunity and for all you have done for so many people.
Good health, and happy birthday, my friend.
The “Have Fun or Get Out of the Way” column by Don Leighton runs occasionally in the Superior Telegram. Opinions and/or story ideas can be emailed to dleigh1273@aol.com.
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Anderson and Summers-Newton on BBC Young Sports Personality shortlist
Freya Anderson and Maisie Summers-Newton are among the contenders for the BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year Award.
Ten athletes are on the shortlist for the prestigious prize and the winner will be announced at the BBC Radio 1 Teen Awards 2018.
Both Anderson and Summers-Newton have impressed with their performances this year.
Summers-Newton made her senior international debut at the World Para-Swimming European Championships in Dublin in August and won four medals – three of them gold.
The 16-year-old said: “To be considered means so much to me. Having previously seen so many inspirational and successful athletes win this award it’s quite a surreal feeling to be shortlisted.
“2018 has been such an amazing year for me and it was great to see all my hard work pay off and I can’t wait to see what next season brings!”
Fantastic season
British Para-Swimming National Performance Director Chris Furber added: “We are delighted for Maisie who has had a fantastic season.
“She has a very mature approach to everything and continues to develop, learning race by race. The shortlisting is also testimony to the partnership she has with her coach Jacquie Marshall and the great work they do.”
Anderson, 17, has also enjoyed a remarkable year, first competing for Team England at the Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast and then representing Great Britain at the European Championships in Glasgow in the summer.
Bill Furniss, British Swimming’s Head Coach said: “Freya has been a really successful junior for Great Britain and demonstrated her world-class ability. She then attended her first senior meet in 2017 but the real breakthrough came at this year’s European Championships in Glasgow.
“She made a huge contribution to the team’s overall performance featuring in two gold medal-winning relays, in which she swam considerably faster than her lifetime bests.
“It’s fantastic that Freya’s sporting success this season has been recognised by the BBC in this way.”
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Your chance to write the headlines!
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Johnstone's Paint launch competition for 11 to 18 year olds
Football-mad youngsters have been given the chance to write the headlines ahead of the Johnstone’s Paint Trophy Final.
The countdown is well and truly on ahead of the showpiece occasion, which will see Southend United and Crewe Alexandra going head-to-head at Wembley on Sunday, April 7.
And now Johnstone’s Paint today launches the first of a number of exciting competitions and giveaways in the build-up to the Final.
‘Be a Johnstone’s Journalist’ invites youngsters between the ages of 11 and 18 who support either of the finalists to get a taste of life in the media before the big day.
To enter this competition, budding wordsmiths are asked to write a 250-word article detailing why they love football and support their club.
The article could include details of their own experiences of following their club, and why the Wembley Final will be such a special occasion.
Not only will the overall winner receive four tickets to the Final, they will also be invited along to the pre-match press conference at their club and given the chance to stage an exclusive interview with the manager and one of the star players.
The winner’s work will also be featured on the official Johnstone’s Paint Trophy website.
“This is a great initiative and we are hoping a lot of youngsters will get involved,” said Ben Wilde, Johnstone’s Paint Brand and Sponsorship Manager.
“The media play a very important part ahead of any big game and this will give youngsters who may be considering a job as a journalist in the future a unique chance to gain an insight.
“Whether it be through the Young Painter of the Year or sponsoring the Young Footballer of the Year at the Football League Awards this month, the Johnstone’s Paint brand has always been keen to promote the next generation.
“We are delighted that we have been able to extend that into this exciting competition.”
All entries must be emailed to johnstonesjournalist@connect-group.com no later than March 15.
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NG-10 Cygnus mission named in honor of Apollo 16’s John Young
Northrop Grumman has named the NG-10 Cygnus spacecraft in honor of Gemini and Apollo astronaut John Young. Image Credit: David Collins / SpaceFlight Insider
He flew to orbit six times, two of those flights saw him venture to the Moon. Now, the name of John Young will ride to space once again, gracing Northrop Grumman’s NG-10E Cygnus spacecraft which is currently slated to fly to the International Space Station on November 15.
The NG-10E mission is slated to be the latest voyage for one of the cargo vessels to the space station. When it flies, the S.S. John Young will carry an estimated 7,720–8,270 lbs. (3,500–3,750 kg) worth of cargo, crew supplies and experiments to the orbiting lab.
Northrop Grumman announced the selection of the name for the spacecraft on a October 24 Twitter post.
When it flies, the S.S. John Young will be launched atop Northrop Grumman’s Antares 230 rocket from Pad 0A (LP-0A) located at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
One of the founding fathers of NASA’s Astronaut Corps
John Young was one of only 12 men who have walked the surface of the Moon to date. His first mission after being selected as an astronaut in 1962, however, was only to low-Earth orbit. Gemini 3 was the first flight under NASA’s Gemini Program. Young was partnered with veteran Mercury astronaut Gus Grissom on the mission. In the intervening years, Gemini 3 has become perhaps best known for Young secretly stashing a corn beef sandwich from Wolfie’s Restaurant and Sandwich Shop (per the Smithsonian) and handing it to his commander in-flight – rather than the importance of the test flight itself.
While Young’s minor act of rebellion might have not played very well with Congress, it didn’t impede his progress in America’s emerging space program (as was noted by the A.V. Club’s William Highes). Young again took to the skies atop a Titan II rocket in the summer of 1966 on Gemini 10. The mission demonstrated that radiation at high altitudes shouldn’t be a problem for future flights. However, Gemini 10’s primary objectives focused on the procedures required for NASA’s voyage to the Moon – rendezvous, docking and extra-vehicular activity (EVA).
Less than three years later Young was orbiting the Moon with fellow Apollo 10 crew members Eugene Cernan and Thomas Stafford. The flight saw Cernan and Stafford take the Apollo 10 Lunar Module, Snoopy, within 8.4 nautical miles (15.6 km) above the lunar surface. Young remained aboard the mission’s command module, Charlie Brown. The crew of Apollo 10 made it possible for Neil Amrstrong and Buzz Aldrin to set foot on the Moon two months later in July of 1969.
Young’s space exploration days were just starting, with his most prestigious mission, Apollo 16, taking place in 1972. The roughly 11-day long mission saw Young and Lunar Module Pilot Charles Duke successfully complete the fifth mission to the Moon’s surface. When Young lifted off from the Moon’s Descartes Highlands and journeyed back to Earth – his days on orbit still weren’t over.
Young, along with Robert Crippen successfully carried out STS-1 the first test flight of one of NASA’s Shuttle orbiters on board Columbia in April of 1981. After spending two days on orbit and demonstrating the viability of the new spacecraft, the pair safely landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California. Young would serve as commander of one final mission, STS-9 (again on Columbia) in 1983.
Young held a variety of roles with the U.S. space agency before retiring from NASA on December 31, 2004, at the age of 74. In total Young spent 42 years with the agency and still attended meetings at NASA’s Johnson Space Center for several years after his retirement. This past January (2018), Young passed away at the age of 87.
The first Cygnus flight to the ISS took place in September of 2013. Since the first flight of the duo, Orbital Sciences (now Northrop Grumman) has named each vehicle after either someone pivotal to the company’s operations or in honor of an astronaut.
“John was one of that group of early space pioneers whose bravery and commitment sparked our nation’s first great achievements in space. But, not content with that, his hands-on contributions continued long after the last of his six spaceflights — a world record at the time of his retirement from the cockpit,” the former Acting Administrator of NASA, Robert Lightfoot said in a agency-issued statement released on January 6, 2018.
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In 1927 brothers Casare and Umberto Cassina launched the Cassina brand in the northern Italian region of Lombardy, close to Milan and famous for its design manufacturing. It was here that Cassina became a leader in industrial design during the 1950s. Today, research and innovation remain the foundations of the group, working side-by-side with important architects and designers, encouraging and supporting them to come up with new designs. An ability to connect traditional craftsmanship with the latest technical skills and processes, is the innovative fusion that draws designers to Cassina eager to collaborate, with leading designer Patricia Urquiola joining as creative director in 2016. Back in 1964 when Cassina launched the Cassina I Maestri Collection, that same philosophy appealed to Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret and Charlotte Perriand. Since acquiring the exclusive worldwide rights to produce four models by the designers it has brought together some of the most iconic furniture by the great architects of modern classics, and the opportunity for the Cassina group to work in close partnership with their heirs and official cultural foundations.
View the Cassina collection
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These issues are often complicated and intertwined, compounding their negative effects on quality of life. For example, the lack of affordable housing leads many people to live paycheck to paycheck, jeopardizing their financial stability. The absence of affordable childcare further impedes financial stability for families, especially families headed by single mothers. And finding better employment opportunities to increase financial stability may not be possible because of the cost of owning a reliable car or because of a lack of access to public transportation.
These obstacles are clearly demonstrated in the research. For instance, we found that in Tarrant County, more than 1 in 5 (23 percent) households earn less than $35,000 per year, making housing unaffordable for over 100,000 families. We also found the average monthly cost of childcare for one child in Tarrant County ranges from about $675 to $850, and Tarrant County ranks worst in Texas in a ratio of residents to primary care providers, dentists and mental health providers among counties with 1 million or more people. Lastly, lack of transportation is one of the most significant barriers to accessing reliable and affordable healthcare.
The Community Assessment also showed a need for better communication, collaboration and coordination among social service organizations, government entities and the private sector.
We believe it is our role to convene resources and facilitate cooperation. We take this community directive seriously, and are committed to continuing our role. While the solutions may be complex, United Way of Tarrant County will not back down from igniting real change in our community.
This data emphasizes the importance of addressing these issues through Systems Change, which was introduced in the United Way Strategic Plan in March 2018. Systems Change is how this United Way will manage the allocation of resources not just to manage social issues, but to solve them for entire populations. Central to our beliefs, we know it is time to measure our results not by the number of people we’ve helped, but by the number of people who no longer need help.
TD Smyers is president and CEO of United Way of Tarrant County.
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Average weekly household expenditure on computer software and games in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2018, by gross income decile group (in GBP)*Computer software and games: weekly UK household expenditure 2018, by gross income
Average proportion of tech designer vacancies per quarter in the UK 2009-2014
Number of tech specialist vacancies for .NET skills per quarter in the UK 2009-2014
Number of tech specialist vacancies for SQL server skills in the UK 2009-2014
Number of tech specialist vacancies for C# skills in the UK 2009-2014
Number of tech specialist vacancies for HTML skills in the UK 2009-2014
Number of tech specialist vacancies for Java skills per quarter in the UK 2009-2014
Number of tech specialist vacancies for CSS skills per quarter in the UK 2009-2014
Number of tech specialist vacancies for Linux skills per quarter in the UK 2009-2014
Share of vacancies for junior tech staff in the UK in 2014, by company size
Average share of tech administrator vacancies per quarter in the UK 2009-2014
Nature of recruits filling junior tech specialists positions UK 2015, by category
Average proportion of consultant tech vacancies per quarter in the UK 2009-2014
Average proportion of tech architecture vacancies per quarter in the UK 2009-2014
Average proportion of project manager tech vacancies in the UK 2009-2014
Average proportion of analyst tech vacancies per quarter in the UK 2009-2014
Incidence of skills gaps amongst tech specialists in the UK 2014, by type
Particular training delivery methods for tech specialist development in the UK 2014
Scale of skills gap amongst tech specialist UK 2014, by type
Skills gaps frequency for tech specialists in the UK 2014, by factor
Proportion of tech specialists trained within the last13 weeks in the UK 2014
Tech Companies in the United Kingdom (UK)
Business digitization
Biotechnology industry
Fintech market in Europe
Biotechnology in Europe
Telecommunication services
2018 IT skills and salary report
Tech Companies SMB/SME in the United Kingdom (UK)
Tech industry employer insights in the United Kingdom (UK)
Startups worldwide
Startups in North America
Fintech in Mexico
Startups in Brazil
Fintech in Colombia
Startups in Italy
The Women in IT Scorecard 2016
2016 ICT Industry Outlook of Korea
Digital Talent: Road to 2020 and Beyond
Market value of technology companies trading on London Stock Exchange (UK) from January 2018 to April 2019* (in billion GBP)
Leading technology companies trading on London Stock Exchange (UK) as of April 2019*, ranked by market capitalization (in billion GBP)
IT services and software market value in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2009 to 2017 (in billion euros)
Gross value added of the IT, software and computer services industry in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2010 to 2017 (in billion GBP)
Number of employees in the IT, software and computer services economy of United Kingdom (UK) from 2011 to 2017* (in 1,000s)
Share of companies reporting planned increased investment in digital marketing technologies in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2014 to 2016
Number of enterprises in biotechnology research and experimental development in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2008 to 2017
Annual turnover of enterprises for biotechnology research and development in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2008 to 2017 (in million GBP)
Gross value added (GVA) of biotechnology research and development in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2008 to 2017* (in million GBP)
Number of employees in the medical technology service and supply sector in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2018, by region
Number of companies in the biopharmaceutical sector in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2017, by segment
Number of companies in the biopharmaceutical sector in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2017, by turnover size band
Number of companies in the biopharmaceutical sector in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2017, by employment size band
Compound annual growth rate of employment in the industrial biotechnology sector in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2009 to 2014
Number of companies in the life science industry sector in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2018, by sector
Compound annual growth rate of employees in the life science sectors in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2011 to 2016, by sector (in 1,000)
Compound annual growth rate of turnover in the life science sectors in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2011 to 2016, by sector
Number of companies in the medical technology sector in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2017 by turnover size band
Number of companies in the medical technology sector in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2017 by employment size band
Number of companies in the major segments of the medical technology sector in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2017
Compound annual growth rate of turnover in segments of the medical technology sector in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2011 to 2016
Compound annual growth rate of employment in the medical technology sector in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2011 to 2016
Gross value added of the software publishing sector in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2010 to 2017 (in million GBP)
Packaged software sales in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2008 to 2017 (in million U.S. dollars)
Total cyber security market size of the software & IT services segment in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2010 to 2017 (in million GBP)
Cyber security market size of the software solutions segment in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2010 to 2017 (in million GBP)
Number of software publishing businesses in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2010 to 2018
Number of employees in computer programming activities in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2011 to 2017 (in 1,000s)
Employment in programming and software development professional positions outside the creative industries in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2011 to 2017 (in 1,000s)
Average weekly household expenditure on computer software and games in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2018, by gross income decile group (in GBP)*
Average proportion of tech designer vacancies per quarter for firms in the United Kingdom (UK) 2009-2014
Number of citations for '.NET' skills in job vacancies for tech specialists in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2009 to 2014
Number of citations for SQL server skills in job vacancies for tech specialists in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2009 to 2014
Number of citations for 'C#' skills in job vacancies for tech specialists in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2009 to 2014
Number of citations for HTML skills in job vacancies for tech specialists in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2009 to 2014
Number of citations for 'Java' skills in job vacancies for tech specialists in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2009 to 2014
Number of citations for 'CSS' skills in job vacancies for tech specialists in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2009 to 2014
Number of citations for 'Linux' skills in job vacancies for tech specialists in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2009 to 2014
Share of vacancies for junior tech staff in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2014, by company size
Average proportion of tech administrator vacancies per quarter for firms in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2009 to 2014
Nature of recruits filling junior tech specialists positions in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2015, by category
Average proportion of consultant tech vacancies per quarter for firms in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2009 to 2014
Average proportion of tech architecture vacancies per quarter for firms in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2009 to 2014
Average proportion of project manager tech vacancies per quarter for firms in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2009 to 2014
Average proportion of analyst tech vacancies per quarter for firms in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2009 to 2014
Proportion of companies reporting skills gaps incidences amongst tech specialists in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2014, by type
Frequency of particular training delivery methods for tech specialist development in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2014
Level of skills gap between skills held/needed amongst tech specialist in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2014, by type
Frequency of tech skills gaps for tech specialists in the United Kingdom (UK) 2014, by factor
Proportion of tech specialist employees trained within last 13 weeks in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2014, by job type
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State of Health›
Ways U.S. adults eased gastrointestinal problems as of 2017
Percentage of adults in the U.S. who used select techniques to ease gastrointestinal problems as of February 2017
by John Elflein, last edited Mar 1, 2018
This statistic shows the percentage of adults in the U.S. who used select techniques to ease gastrointestinal problems as of February 2017. In total, just under half of all participants said that they had tried to change their diet to ease their gastrointestinal problems.
February 16 to 27, 2017
565 respondents
respondents who suffered at least once per month from gastrointestinal complaints
Original question: "What do you do to ease gastrointestinal problems?"
Respondents could choose multiple answers.
U.S. infant mortality rate by state 2018
Per capita alcohol consumption of all beverages in the U.S. by state 2017
Drug overdose death rate U.S. 2017, by state
Abortion rate in the U.S. in 2014, by state
Statistics on "Health in U.S. states"
Disease deaths
Well-Being Index score of the United States in 2017, by stateU.S. Well-Being Index score by state 2017
Percentage of women in the U.S. who reported fair or poor health status in 2015-2017, by stateU.S. females who reported their health as fair or poor 2015-2017, by state
Percentage of men in the U.S. who reported fair or poor health status in 2015-2017, by stateU.S. males who reported their health as fair or poor 2015-2017, by state
Leading U.S. states based on percentage of adults who had ever been told they had prediabetes as of 2017*Leading U.S. states based on percentage of adults with prediabetes 2017
Prevalence of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) in the U.S. in 2017, by stateCOPD prevalence in the U.S. 2017, by state
New cases of tuberculosis per 100,000 population in the U.S. in 2018, by stateNew cases of tuberculosis in the U.S. 2018, by state
Percentage of adults in the U.S. with arthritis in 2017, by stateShare of U.S. adults with arthritis in 2017, by state
Incidence rates of Lyme disease in the U.S. in 2017, by state (per 100,000 persons)U.S. Lyme disease incidence rates in 2017, by state
Number of mosquito-borne disease cases reported in the U.S. from 2004 to 2016, by stateMosquito-borne disease cases reported in the U.S. 2004-2016, by state
U.S. states with the highest number of HIV diagnoses in 2017U.S. states with highest number of HIV diagnoses 2017
Rate of new chlamydia cases in the United States as of 2018, by state (per 100,000 population)New chlamydia cases in U.S. by state 2018
Leading U.S. states based on deaths due to heart diseases in 2017 (per 100,000 population)Leading U.S. states based on deaths due to heart diseases 2017
Number of deaths from kidney disease in the U.S. in 2017, by state (per 100,000 population)Kidney disease death rates in the U.S. in 2017, by state
Leading U.S. states by number of deaths due to Alzheimer's in 2017Leading U.S. states by number of deaths due to Alzheimer's 2017
Number of breast cancer deaths in the U.S. in 2016, by state (per 100,000 population)Breast cancer death rate in the U.S. in 2016, by state
Number of prostate cancer deaths in the U.S. in 2016, by state (per 100,000 population)Prostate cancer death rate in the U.S. in 2016, by state
Rate of death from Parkinson's disease in the U.S. in 2017, by state (per 100,000 population)Death rate from Parkinson's disease in the U.S. in 2017, by state
Percentage of adults that are physically inactive in the United States as of 2018, by statePercentage of physically inactive U.S. adults by state 2018
Leading U.S. states based on percentage of adults who were overweight or obese in 2017Overweight and obesity in the U.S. by leading states 2017
Percentage of adults with obesity in the United States as of 2018, by statePercentage of obese U.S. adults by state 2018
Share of obese high school students in the United States in 2017, by stateShare of obese high school students in the U.S. by state 2017
Obesity prevalence among U.S. metropolitan and nonmetropolitan populations as of 2016, by stateU.S. obesity prevalence by metropolitan location as of 2016, by state
Alcohol consumption per capita from all beverages in the U.S. in 2017, by state (in gallons of ethanol)Per capita alcohol consumption of all beverages in the U.S. by state 2017
Binge drinking rate among adults in the United States as of 2018, by state*U.S. binge drinking among adults by state 2018
Leading ten U.S. states with high school students who drove a car or vehicle when they had been drinking alcohol in 2017*Top US states by high school students who drank alcohol and drove 2017
Drug overdose death rate in the United States in 2017, by state (per 100,000 population)Drug overdose death rate U.S. 2017, by state
Number of drug overdose deaths in the U.S. in 2017, by stateNumber of U.S. drug overdose deaths in 2017, by state
Opioid overdose death rate in the United States in 2017, by state (per 100,000 population)Death rate from opioid overdose in the U.S. in 2017, by state
Heroin overdose death rate in the United States in 2017, by state (per 100,000 population)Overdose death rate from heroin U.S. 2017, by state
U.S. states with the highest percentage of adults reporting poor mental health as of 2017*Top U.S. states with the highest percentage of poor mental health among adults 2017
Percentage of U.S. adults that have used cannabis within the past year from 2016 to 2017, by stateMarijuana use among U.S. adults within the past year 2016-2017, by state
U.S. states with the highest share of adults with suicidal thoughts in 2016-2017*U.S. states with highest suicide thoughts percentage in adults 2016-2017
Percentage of adults in the U.S. who currently used a tobacco product as of 2014-2015, by stateCurrent use of any tobacco product among U.S. adults in 2014-2015, by state
Infant mortality rate in the United States as of 2018, by state (deaths per 1,000 live births)U.S. infant mortality rate by state 2018
Number of abortions per 1,000 women aged 15 to 44 years in the U.S. in 2014, by stateAbortion rate in the U.S. in 2014, by state
Percentage of adult population in the U.S. who were designated organ donors as of 2017, by stateShare of adult U.S. population who were designated organ donors 2017, by state
Ways U.S. adults eased gastrointestinal problems as of 2017, by ethnicity
Ways U.S. adults eased gastrointestinal problems as of 2017, by gender
Ways U.S. adults eased gastrointestinal problems as of 2017, by age
Drug preference among U.S. adults with gastrointestinal problems 2017
Frequency U.S. adults sought gastrointestinal treatment from a doctor 2017
Alternative treatment for gastrointestinal problems among U.S. adults 2017, by gender
Perceived causes of gastrointestinal problems U.S. adults as of 2017
Frequency U.S. adults sought gastrointestinal treatment from a doctor 2017, by gender
Perceived causes of gastrointestinal problems U.S. adults as of 2017, by ethnicity
Drug preference among U.S. adults with gastrointestinal problems 2017, by age
Alternative treatment for gastrointestinal problems among U.S. adults 2017
Products U.S. adults had used to relieve gastrointestinal problems 2017, by age
Frequency U.S. adults had gastrointestinal treatment from a doctor 2017, by ethnicity
Products U.S. adults had used to relieve gastrointestinal problems 2017, by gender
Perceived causes of gastrointestinal problems U.S. adults as of 2017, by age
Ways U.S. adults relieved back pain as of 2017, by age
Ways U.S. adults relieved back pain as of 2017, by gender
Pain relief measures U.S. adults with back pain considered effective 2017
Back pain relief measures U.S. adults considered effective 2017, by ethnicity
Italy: prevalence of inflammatory bowel disease 2010-2017
Health in Mexico
Hispanic health in the U.S.
Headache and migraine in the U.S.
Opioid use in the U.S.
Back pain in the U.S.
Common illnesses and symptoms in the U.S. (Statista Survey)
The State of Innovation in Highly Prevalent Chronic Diseases, Volume II
Well-Being Index score of the United States in 2017, by state
Percentage of women in the U.S. who reported fair or poor health status in 2015-2017, by state
Percentage of men in the U.S. who reported fair or poor health status in 2015-2017, by state
Leading U.S. states based on percentage of adults who had ever been told they had prediabetes as of 2017*
Prevalence of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) in the U.S. in 2017, by state
New cases of tuberculosis per 100,000 population in the U.S. in 2018, by state
Percentage of adults in the U.S. with arthritis in 2017, by state
Incidence rates of Lyme disease in the U.S. in 2017, by state (per 100,000 persons)
Number of mosquito-borne disease cases reported in the U.S. from 2004 to 2016, by state
U.S. states with the highest number of HIV diagnoses in 2017
Rate of new chlamydia cases in the United States as of 2018, by state (per 100,000 population)
Number of new prostate cancer cases in the U.S. in 2015, by state (per 100,000 population)
Estimated number of new cancer cases of melanoma of the skin in the U.S. in 2019, by state
Leading U.S. states based on deaths due to heart diseases in 2017 (per 100,000 population)
Number of deaths from kidney disease in the U.S. in 2017, by state (per 100,000 population)
Leading U.S. states by number of deaths due to Alzheimer's in 2017
Number of breast cancer deaths in the U.S. in 2016, by state (per 100,000 population)
Number of prostate cancer deaths in the U.S. in 2016, by state (per 100,000 population)
Rate of death from Parkinson's disease in the U.S. in 2017, by state (per 100,000 population)
Percentage of adults that are physically inactive in the United States as of 2018, by state
Leading U.S. states based on percentage of adults who were overweight or obese in 2017
Percentage of adults with obesity in the United States as of 2018, by state
Share of obese high school students in the United States in 2017, by state
Obesity prevalence among U.S. metropolitan and nonmetropolitan populations as of 2016, by state
Alcohol consumption per capita from all beverages in the U.S. in 2017, by state (in gallons of ethanol)
Binge drinking rate among adults in the United States as of 2018, by state*
Leading ten U.S. states with high school students who drove a car or vehicle when they had been drinking alcohol in 2017*
Drug overdose death rate in the United States in 2017, by state (per 100,000 population)
Number of drug overdose deaths in the U.S. in 2017, by state
Opioid overdose death rate in the United States in 2017, by state (per 100,000 population)
Heroin overdose death rate in the United States in 2017, by state (per 100,000 population)
U.S. states with the highest percentage of adults reporting poor mental health as of 2017*
Percentage of U.S. adults that have used cannabis within the past year from 2016 to 2017, by state
U.S. states with the highest share of adults with suicidal thoughts in 2016-2017*
Percentage of adults in the U.S. who currently used a tobacco product as of 2014-2015, by state
Infant mortality rate in the United States as of 2018, by state (deaths per 1,000 live births)
Number of abortions per 1,000 women aged 15 to 44 years in the U.S. in 2014, by state
Percentage of adult population in the U.S. who were designated organ donors as of 2017, by state
Percentage of adults in the U.S. who used select techniques to ease gastrointestinal problems as of February 2017, by ethnicity
Percentage of adults in the U.S. who used select techniques to ease gastrointestinal problems as of February 2017, by gender
Percentage of adults in the U.S. who used select techniques to ease gastrointestinal problems as of February 2017, by age
Percentage of adults in the U.S. who would choose select drugs to relieve their gastrointestinal problems as of 2017
Number of times adults with gastrointestinal problems in the U.S. went to a doctor for treatment in the past year as of February 2017
Number of times adults with gastrointestinal problems in the U.S. went to an alternative practitioner in the past year as of February 2017, by gender
Percentage of adults in the U.S. who believed select sources were the cause of their gastrointestinal problems as of February 2017
Number of times adults with gastrointestinal problems in the U.S. went to a doctor for treatment in the past year as of February 2017, by gender
Percentage of adults in the U.S. who believed select sources were the cause of their gastrointestinal problems as of February 2017, by ethnicity
Percentage of adults in the U.S. who would choose select drugs to relieve their gastrointestinal problems as of February 2017, by age
Number of times adults with gastrointestinal problems in the U.S. went to an alternative practitioner in the past year as of February 2017
Percentage of adults in the U.S. who had used select products to relieve their gastrointestinal problems as of February 2017, by age
Number of times adults with gastrointestinal problems in the U.S. went to a doctor for treatment in the past year as of February 2017, by ethnicity
Percentage of adults in the U.S. who had used select products to relieve their gastrointestinal problems as of February 2017, by gender
Percentage of adults in the U.S. who believed select sources were the cause of their gastrointestinal problems as of February 2017, by age
Percentage of adults in the U.S. who used select techniques to relieve back pain as of February 2017, by age
Percentage of adults in the U.S. who used select techniques to relieve back pain as of February 2017, by gender
Percentage of adults in the U.S. with back pain who considered select measures effective in relieving back pain as of February 2017
Percentage of adults in the U.S. with back pain who considered select measures effective in relieving back pain as of February 2017, by ethnicity
Prevalence of inflammatory bowel disease in Italy from 2010 to 2017 (per 100,000 population)
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Back-to-school thoughts on "organized religion"
By Laurel Mathewson · August 29, 2017
"I don't believe in organized religion," she said.
"I get it," I said, partly because I wanted to continue the conversation, and partly because I think I know what she was trying to get at. Clearly, I don't think she was saying she doesn't think organized religion exists. It wasn't that kind of use of the word "believe." I think she was simply saying she doesn't trust organize religion to do what it sets out to do (i.e., connect people with God and one another meaningfully, and lovingly).
But I have been thinking of this bold claim a lot this past week, and not just because I am [obviously] a weirdo who has now publicly devoted my life to organized religion. The statement has a haunting quality and vague and over-reaching quality for me: I want to go back to the conversation, press her on what she means. Not in a defensive way, I hope, but because it feels like a comment that is absurd and important at the same time.
It is back-to-school season in the United States, and millions of parents are trusting their children to the system of "organized education." I am one of them, and -- as the child of a public school teacher who passionately reminded that a well-educated population is the foundation of any democracy every time private schools were even mentioned -- I am grateful to be. The public/ private conversation is beside the point here: the point is that ANY school is a system of "organized education." I know there are intelligent and wonderful people who "do not believe in organized education," but they are relatively few. Mostly, we trust in organized education. We believe that it will do something good for our children, and the world. Where it is broken, we try to make it better, especially if our kids are part of it. My conversation partner was a professor, a person with considerable investment in the system of organized education. But organized religion, to her, seems broken beyond repair.
This difference in attitudes toward "organized religion" and "organized education" is worth paying attention to, exploring, whether you trust organized religion or not. What do you notice? Why do you trust one and not the other, or both in different ways?
It's popular in education to remind teachers that the word "education" derives from the greek notion of "leading out, drawing out." In other words, it's not about hammering something IN to a person or child, it's about drawing forth knowledge and skills. In contrast, the word "religion" is so unpopular that even churches shy away from it. We are "people of faith," not "religious people," these days. Maybe part of the reason is that so many people experienced organized religion as an uncomfortable and (more importantly) unhelpful binding, which is often cited as the root latin term.
But another possible origin of the term "religion" is the latin religiens, which means "careful," the opposite of "negligens." What if to live a religious life was understood to mean leading a care-full life, a life in which organized religion taught us how to live this sacred life we've been given with care and gratitude, to not be reckless with our lives or the lives of others. Or, what if we kept the old interpretation, the "binding fast" to something greater than ourselves (ie, God), but understood, as with school rules, that any organizational aspect was simply meant to facilitate that holy bond between humans and the divine?
In the end, I guess I have to admit that I love organized religion. But why? It's weird and unwieldy, just like my organized education was. But I love it because, for me, the church has indeed been a school that has (albeit imperfectly) given me tools, gifts, and practices that have helped me discover, by the grace of God, unfathomable love. It doesn't make me perfect, just like graduating with honors doesn't make an individual perfect, fully grown or educated. But overall, I trust it, like education, to be a good and worthy thing. I know that's not true for everyone, and that we who work in organized religion have a lot of broken systems to account for. But I hope at St. Luke's, and in other churches, we might demonstrate to the world that that is what "organized religion" is about, what we are aiming for: we want every person to achieve their spiritual potential, which is a life lived in loving relationship with God and neighbor. We will fail sometimes, just like the school down the street. But to my mind, this is what we're trying to do.
How can we do that better? How can we make that more clear?
(Please do feel free to post your thoughts. We always have a lot to learn.)
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Nigerians are intellectually aggressive, economically ambitious people – President Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari has always trended anytime he jets out of the country. The President On Monday described Nigerians as a people who are “intellectually aggressive and economically ambitious”.
Meetings with the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Morocco, Saadeddine Othmani, at the Royal Guest Palace in Rabat, Morocco.
He said the country has a youthful and “aggressive population” that are innovative and resilient.
The president was quoted to have made the comments in Rabat, Morocco, during a meeting with Saadeddine Othmani, Prime Minister of Morocco, at the Royal Guest Palace.
Garba Shehu, senior special assistant on media and publicity, quoted the president as saying: “Nigerians are intellectually aggressive and economically ambitious.
“I received some of our students here yesterday and I am really impressed with the zeal and fearlessness they exuded.
“In Nigeria, we have a very young and aggressive population and we are working very hard to create the enabling and inclusive environment for their contributions to be better appreciated.”
Buhari said his administration was interested in partnerships with countries that can explore Nigeria’s huge potential, adding that the country is on the verge of an agricultural revolution.
“We need to do more to improve our statistics on food production and, graciously, the weather has been auspicious in the last couple of years for agricultural growth. We are happy that through partnership with you and hard work, the price of fertiliser is already down by 50 percent,’’ he said.
During his visit to the North African country, President Buhari signed three agreements, namely; Nigeria-Morocco Gas Pipeline project, vocational training in agriculture and building of a chemical plant in Nigeria.
Commenting on the gas pipeline project, he said: “We have a huge gas reserve in Nigeria, and we should be known more for gas exploration than for crude oil. So, we are happy with the new partnership with Morocco.”
President Buhari,intellectually aggressive
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U.S. Women’s Foil Team Earns World No. 1 Ranking For First Time Ever
By Karen Price | Jan. 16, 2019, 10:52 a.m. (ET)
The women's team foil fencing poses for a photo at the world cup on Jan. 13, 2019 in Katowice, Poland.
The U.S. women’s foil fencing team took second place in a world cup competition over the weekend in Katowice, Poland, and it was accompanied by another significant honor — a No. 1 world ranking.
This is the first time ever that the women’s foil team has occupied the top spot of the world ranking, according to USA Fencing.
The new ranking comes on the heels of a successful world cup weekend for the women. Two-time Olympian Lee Kiefer won an individual bronze medal on Saturday and then on Sunday was instrumental in helping her team reach the championship match. The U.S. defeated Great Britain and South Korea and then won in come-from-behind fashion against Russia in the semifinals to advance to the final against France, where the Americans lost 45-26.
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The silver was the team’s first world cup medal of the season but the third medal in the last four international tournaments. The team, which also consists of fellow Olympian Nicole Ross and four-time junior world medalists Jackie Dubrovich and Iman Blow, was ranked No. 3 in the world going into the weekend. Kiefer and Ross were part of the team that won gold at the world championships last season, marking the first time an American foil team of either gender had won a world title.
The U.S. takes the top ranking from Italy. The next women’s foil world cup begins Jan. 25 in St.-Maur, France.
Karen Price is a reporter from Pittsburgh who has covered Olympic sports for various publications. She is a freelance contributor to TeamUSA.org on behalf of Red Line Editorial, Inc.
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Adobe Flash Player <= 21.0.0.197 Multiple Vulnerabilities (APSB16-10)
The remote Windows host has a browser plugin installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.
The version of Adobe Flash Player installed on the remote Windows host is prior or equal to version 21.0.0.197. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities :
- An Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) bypass vulnerability exists that allows an attacker to predict memory offsets in the call stack. (CVE-2016-1006)
- Multiple use-after-free errors exist that allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-1011, CVE-2016-1013, CVE-2016-1016, CVE-2016-1017, CVE-2016-1031)
- Multiple memory corruption issues exist that allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-1012, CVE-2016-1020, CVE-2016-1021, CVE-2016-1022, CVE-2016-1023, CVE-2016-1024, CVE-2016-1025, CVE-2016-1026, CVE-2016-1027, CVE-2016-1028, CVE-2016-1029, CVE-2016-1032, CVE-2016-1033)
- A directory search path vulnerability exists that allows an attacker to disclose sensitive resources.
- Multiple type confusion errors exist that allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-1015, CVE-2016-1019)
- An overflow condition exists that is triggered when handling JPEG-XR compressed image content. An attacker can exploit this to execute arbitrary code.
- An unspecified security bypass vulnerability exists.
Upgrade to Adobe Flash Player version 21.0.0.213 or later.
Alternatively, Adobe has made version 18.0.0.343 available for those installations that cannot be upgraded to the latest version.
https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb16-10.html
http://www.nessus.org/u?0cb17c10
File Name: flash_player_apsb16-10.nasl
Agent: windows
Family: Windows
Temporal Vector: CVSS2#E:H/RL:OF/RC:C
CPE: cpe:/a:adobe:flash_player
Required KB Items: SMB/Flash_Player/installed
CVE: CVE-2016-1006, CVE-2016-1011, CVE-2016-1012, CVE-2016-1013, CVE-2016-1014, CVE-2016-1015, CVE-2016-1016, CVE-2016-1017, CVE-2016-1018, CVE-2016-1019, CVE-2016-1020, CVE-2016-1021, CVE-2016-1022, CVE-2016-1023, CVE-2016-1024, CVE-2016-1025, CVE-2016-1026, CVE-2016-1027, CVE-2016-1028, CVE-2016-1029, CVE-2016-1030, CVE-2016-1031, CVE-2016-1032, CVE-2016-1033
BID: 85856, 85926, 85927, 85928, 85930, 85931, 85932, 85932, 85933
ZDI: ZDI-16-225, ZDI-16-226, ZDI-16-227, ZDI-16-228
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Many of us have grown from a child by playing doctor and patient, from there we get a dream that when we grow up we want to be a doctor.
In Bangladesh, parents either want you to be a doctor or an engineer. There is nothing in between. So even if you did not play doctor and patient you will have to try to become a real-life doctor to full fill your parent’s dream.
As we all know a doctor can save your life. So peoples lives will be in your hand and this is enough to tell how big of a responsibility it is.
With responsibility comes sacrifices and a lot of hard work.
A doctor sacrifices most of his personal life just to make sure everyone is all right. They work day in day out just to keep people healthy and sound.
So pursuing a profession like this you need to be very passionate about it.
Only one examination is taken for all the medical college at once. A written MCQ exam is taken and according to their merit position, they get the chance to that particular medical college.
Today we will be looking Top 10 Public Medical College in Bangladesh who nurture these live saviors.
1. Dhaka Medical College (DMC)
If someone wants to study in a medical college that too in a public than DMC is everyone’s top choice. Dhaka Medical college is the number 1 medical college in Bangladesh. DMC was established in 1946 and it is situated in Bakshibazar, Dhaka. This institution is very historical and prestigious for Bangladesh. DMC produced the best doctors in the medical history of Bangladesh. A. Q. M. Badruddoza Chowdhury former president of the Republic of Bangladesh, Dipu Moni our current education minister, AKM Fazlul Haque pioneer of colorectal surgery in Bangladesh, M R khan pioneer of pediatrics in Bangladesh these are only a few of the names that DMC produced. Even in our liberation war, DMC played a vital role. DMC doctors and student not only supported through medical cause but DMC student also fought valiantly for our country. Not only the liberation war they fought for our mother language. So if you want to study at this historical medical college you will have to go through a very tough exam. DMC has almost 1000 students. Professor Khan Abul Kalam Azad is now the current principal of DMC.
2. Sir Salimullah Medical College (SSMC)
SSMC began its operation as Dhaka Medical School in 1961. Local nawabs made a big contribution to the building of the medical school in 1889. So the medical college was named after Nawab Sir Salimullah. Sir Salimullah Medical College is located at Midford Road, Babubazar, Dhaka. There are 3 male hotels, three female hostels, one male interne hostel, and one female interne hostel total 8 hostels. SSMC ranked 2nd amongst the Public Medical College in Bangladesh. Current principal is Md. Billal Alam.
3. Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College (ShSMC)
Originally it was just a hospital named Ayub Central hospital established in 1963. After a lot of consideration, it was turned into a medical college by the government of Bangladesh in 2005.
However, activity as a medical college began in 2006 as Begum Khaleda Zia Medical College with 100 students. In 2009 the name of the institute again changed into Shahed Suhrawardy Medical College. The original hospital building was designed by the famous American architect Louis I Kahn, who also designed our parliament building. Now ShSMC has more than 900 students in 6 batches. ShSMC has one hostel for male and female students each who wants to stay on the campus and study.
4. Mymensingh Medical College (MMC)
Mymensingh Medical College was established in 1924 as a medical school named Lytton Medical School. In 1962 it was renamed as Mymensingh Medical College. MMC is the 2nd hospital that was established in Bangladesh. MMC has around 1000 students. Current Prime Minister of Bhutan Lotay Tshering is an alumnus of MMC. It is ranked 4th amongst all the Public Medical College of Bangladesh. Its current principal is Brig Gen Md. Nasir Uddin Ahamed. It is located in Mymensingh district, Mymensingh division.
5. Chittagong Medical College (CMC)
Chittagong Medical College is amongst the oldest medical college of the country. It is situated in Chittagong City, Chittagong. It was established in 1957. It has more than 1000 students. CMC is ranked 5th amongst public medical college in Bangladesh. Its current principal is Professor Dr. Selim Mohammed Jahangir. Not only student from Bangladesh but students come from countries like Bhutan, India, Iran, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan come here to study.
7. Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College (SOMC)
Originally known as Sylhet Medical College it was established in 1962. It was renamed as Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College in honor of General Muhammad Ataul Gani Osmani who was commander in chief of Bangladesh army in 1971 liberation war. It is located in Sylhet as the name indicates. Approximately 200 students get the chance to study in this prestigious medical college each year. SOMC has 5 male hostels and 4 female hostels.
8. Sher-e-Bangla Medical College (SBMC)
SBMC named after our former honorable prime minister A. K. Fazlul Huq as his title was Sher-e-Bangla. SBMC was established in 1968. Its current principal is Prof. Dr. Bhaskar Saha. It has 3 male and 3 female hostels for students. This is located in Barisal town, Barisal.
9. Rangpur Medical College (RMC)
RMC is one of the top public university of Bangladesh. It was established is 1970 and situated in Rangpur. In 2018 it was at its 48th batch of students. There is a college building and a residential building.
10. Comilla Medical College (CoMC)
CoMC was established in 1992 and located in Comilla. It has around 900 students. CoMC has two male and two female hostels. It is renowned as one of the top public medical college in Bangladesh. Mohsinuzzaman Chowdhury is the current principal of this institute.
Our medical colleges have come a long way. Just a few years back we needed to travel abroad so that we can have proper treatment of our health. But now very complicated problems get solved in our own country and not only that medical colleges producing very good doctors as well. These were our Top 10 Public Medical College in Bangladesh.
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Mr. Gil Hoffman
Gil Hoffman is the chief political correspondent and analyst for The Jerusalem Post. Well-connected to Israeli and Palestinian political leaders, Hoffman has interviewed Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, former prime ministers Sharon, Peres, Barak and Netanyahu and every major figure across the Israeli political spectrum. He has been interviewed by top media outlets on 6 continents and is a regular analyst on CNN, BBC and other foreign news outlets.
Called "The most optimistic man in Israel" by Israel Television, Hoffman's frequent television appearances and popular column provide a behind the scenes look at the intrigue and humor in the Israeli political arena. Hoffman also frequently covers diplomatic issues, traveling with the prime minister and reporting on efforts to achieve Mid-east peace and other key international developments .
Hoffman, who was raised in Chicago, graduated Magna Cum Laude from Northwestern University's School of Journalism and wrote for the Miami Herald and the Arizona Republic before moving to Israel. A corporal in the IDF's Spokesman's Unit (Dover Tzahal), he has given lectures in 18 American states, Washington DC, Canada, England and Australia on five successful international speaking tours. He lives in Jerusalem with his wife and two children.
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Twin Translations: A passion for languages, squared
By Corinne McKay April 18, 2008 Freelancing 2 Comments
If you’re a freelancer, chances are you’ve worked on “one of those projects” (or maybe more than one!) where you wished you had another one of you to take on some of the work. And if you’re Judy or Dagy (short for Dagmar) Jenner of Las Vegas and Vienna-based Twin Translations, you picked up the phone, called the other one of you, and the problem was solved. Judy and Dagy, identical twins who grew up in Austria and Mexico before attending college in the U.S. (Judy) and Austria and France (Dagy), now work together as a translation company that never sleeps, offering translations from and into German, English and Spanish, with Dagy adding in some French.
I recently asked Judy and Dagy if they would be interested in being profiled for Thoughts on Translation (in the spirit of disclosure, Judy and I are friends, but I don’t have any business associations with Twin Translations). Here’s what they had to say!
Q: Are you two really twins? Or just really good friends?
A: We are definitely twins. Identical twins. Which means we pretty much look the same, talk the same, gesture the same way, like the same literature, music, things in life, etc. There are a few small differences, though. Dagy prefers vanilla ice cream and Judy is much more of a chocolate addict. Also, Judy goes for ketchup, Dagy goes for mustard. Dagy is Judy’s younger sister, by 10 minutes.
Q: So where exactly are you from? Europe, Mexico, the US?
A: We are citizens of the world, in a way. We were born in northern Austria. At age 10, our dad got a job offer to run the Latin American operations for iron and steel division of his employer, which is now part of the German conglomerate Siemens. We moved there in 1987, and finished grade school and middle school at the German School of Mexico City. We moved back to Austria for our junior year in high school, and graduated there. After college, Judy took a full tennis scholarship to the University of Nevada Las Vegas, where she also received her M.B.A. in marketing. Dagy studied French and Communications at the University of Salzburg and in Tours, France, and afterwards studied Translation and Interpretation in Vienna, where she is currently getting her master’s degree. Since college, we have been flying all over the world to see each other and spend time with our family. Dagy has been to Las Vegas, where Judy has lived since 1995, a total of 14 times. And it’s the best day of the year every time we see each other at the airport. Dagy lives in Vienna, Austria, with her boyfriend and Judy’s cat, who moved there from Vegas because Judy’s husband is allergic to cats.
Q: Tell us a little about your language combinations.
A: Our active languages are German, English and Spanish. We both translate into all of these. Dagy also has a passive language, which is French, meaning that she translates from French into any of the other languages. Most clients ask us for translations from German into English and vice versa.
Q: What’s your biggest translation pet peeve?
A: When a client asks for a free sample translation. While nobody would even consider going to an attorney and requesting a sample contract, people have no such qualms when it comes to translations. This is a professional service, and we are happy to provide future customers with references. And it also bothers us when clients tell us that they would’ve done the translation themselves if only they had had time. No wonder the world is full of awful translations (or translation attempts). We actually run a German-language web site for bad translations: www.uebelsetzungen.com
Q: What’s the most challenging project you have translated during the last couple of years?
A: One of the toughest projects was the translation of a technical brochure for Bösendorfer, an Austrian piano maker, from German into Spanish. It took us a while to understand how a piano works. We purchased a dictionary for piano terminology that also included pictures, which helped a lot. At that time, all we knew about pianos was that we had taken classes as kids and that we were awfully untalented. Now we know a lot more than that and that’s the beauty of the job. Another challenging job was the translation of the huge web site of the Austrian Postal Service into English in merely two months. While Dagy translated during the day, Judy did the proofing at night.
Q: Do you have a sample of your favorite incorrect translation?
A: Too many to count, but here is one. A major translation company in the US outsourced a big Vegas-related translation project to dozens of freelancers who were not familiar with Vegas. Hence, the Las Vegas Strip (the main road where all the hotels are on) became „la franja de césped“ (=the strip of grass). It never ceases to amaze us that large corporations, who hire the top attorneys, top CPAs, and the most highly trained software developers, want to save money on translation. The written word is every company’s business card, and the translations also have to be top-notch if the company wants to be taken seriously in the country that it tries to do business in.
Q: So what language do you think in?
A: No idea. Another thing we don’t know is what language we dream in. We’re still trying to find out how to determine that.
Q: What language do you speak in with each other?
A: A wild combination of our common languages, German, Spanish, English. It’s similar to the language that was spoken at the German School in Mexico City that we attended, but with a bunch of English thrown in because Judy is so Americanized now.
Q: Which fields do you specialize in?
A: Legal, business, technology, banking, marketing, etc. Lately, we’ve been doing a lot of music-related translations (they say Vienna is the world capital of music), logistics and a combination of legal and financial translations for the Austrian National Bank.
Q: What kinds of translations do you not do?
A: We are not licensed to do certified translations of birth certificates, etc.
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2 Responses to “Twin Translations: A passion for languages, squared”
sibylle April 23, 2008
Fascinating! As someone who grew up bilingual, I’m often asked which language I think in. It’s where I’m most at the time — an English-speaking country, or a German speaking one. I’ve even dreamt in Spanish when on a month-long climbing trip to Spain!
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pam February 3, 2010
I would like to know more about opportunity for English to Turkish translators.
A dear friend is thinking of making a change from a non profit he is translating part time to free lancing. I just came across your web interview and your blog.
How does one market that they are a free lance translator specializing in English to Turkish or vice-versa.
And can one make a living free lancing especially in Turkish/English.
thanks for any advice you may have.
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Professor G. Scott Hubbard on space tourism – Lonely Planet’s travel blog
In this guest post, Stanford University’s Professor G. Scott Hubbard – former Director of NASA’s Ames Research Center, founding editor-in-chief of the New Space journal, and author of Exploring Mars: Chronicles from a Decade of Discovery – looks at whether the travel industry is heading for the final frontier.
Having been active in the US space program for 45 years, both with NASA and now Stanford, I’ve seen many proposals suggesting that personal space travel is right around the corner. While this topic has been discussed in science fiction for more than 60 years, making such an experience a reality has been hampered by significant obstacles, both technical and financial. However, during the last decade or two, the world has seen the emergence of wealthy space entrepreneurs who have hired top-notch engineers. Those teams may well now be on the verge of creating space travel for the (well-heeled) extreme adventurer.
Will you ever see this view from a spaceship’s window? © Michael Hopkins / NASA
Where is outer space?
The usual definition is that space begins at 100 kilometres/60 miles above the surface of the Earth where air is almost non-existent, and the clutch of gravity can be escaped. As a practical matter, NASA awards astronaut wings for any pilot that exceeds 50 miles even if he/she does not orbit Earth. (This is called a sub-orbital flight). For comparison, the US Space Shuttle flew at about 300 kilometres/188 miles); the International Space Station (ISS) orbits Earth at 250 miles; from the Earth to the Moon averages about 238,000 miles, and Mars is nearly 140 million miles away! All of these distances and destinations represent some form of space travel, but as you might imagine, the degree of difficulty increases radically the further one goes. As of this writing, over 500 people have been to space as defined above; the vast majority (355) on the Shuttle. But only 18 people have flown to the Moon. And of those, only 12 have walked on the lunar surface. No human has ever travelled to Mars.
What is a space tourist?
All of the people cited above had extensive training and were a member of some nation’s space program. Currently, only the US, Russia and China have the independent ability to launch someone into space. The notion of a private citizen with little or no special training going to space went from science fiction to fact with the trip by billionaire Dennis Tito to the ISS in 2001, aboard a Russian vehicle. A total of seven people have made this journey for a reported cost of USD$20m to $40m per trip. Clearly, this expense is out of the reach of all but the ultra-wealthy. So what about some less ambitious (and less expensive) trip to space – the travel to 50 to 60 miles in a so-called sub-orbital trajectory?
Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo takes off for a suborbital test flight © GENE BLEVINS / Getty Images
Who’s in the game?
Space tourism as a trip to the edge of space (50 to 60 miles) with immediate return received a major boost with the Ansari X-Prize, which awarded $10m to any non-government group that could ‘build and launch a spacecraft capable of carrying three people to 100 kilometres above the Earth’s surface, twice within two weeks’. The prize was won in 2004 by a team funded by billionaire Paul Allen (the co-founder of Microsoft) using a design by the iconoclastic engineer Burt Rutan. The team was joined by another billionaire – Richard Branson of Virgin Group fame. Shortly after winning, Branson announced that a new company, Virgin Galactic, using the Rutan design, would soon begin offering sub-orbital flights for six people (and two pilots), providing four minutes of weightlessness. Another company, XCOR Aerospace, formed during the same period, began to develop a smaller vehicle that would carry one pilot and passenger. Finally, the world’s richest person, Jeff Bezos founder of Amazon, quietly created the company Blue Origin with similar goals in 2000. In the sparse public reports from Blue Origin, their first market is sub-orbital tourism, followed by orbital flight and trips to the Moon. Bezos has said he is spending about $1bn a year on Blue Origin.
What’s the price point?
Virgin Galactic has given a price of about $200,000 per person. XCOR Aerospace (which has since suspended operations) planned to provide a similar flight for reportedly $50,000. (Independent surveys have indicated that extreme adventure with a price tag of $50,000 would begin to attract a great deal of interest.) Blue Origin’s price tag is said to be $250,000. It is worth noting that the other high-profile space entrepreneur, Elon Musk and his company SpaceX, has not entered the sub-orbital business. However, in a public speech in 2016 (which you can read in New Space for free), Musk predicted he would be able to send individuals to Mars for about $140,000.
People watch as a SpaceX rocket takes off from Canaveral National Seashore © Paul Hennessy / Getty Images
Travel to space is inherently risky, but then so is climbing Mt Everest. During the 135 flights of the Shuttle program, there were two major accidents with loss of crew and vehicle: Challenger in 1986 and Columbia in 2003. By that measure, the chance of dying in a trip to orbit is around 1 ½%. One would assume that a sub-orbital flight would be safer, but the initial flights of Branson’s Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo have already produced one test pilot fatality. High-speed rocketry with propulsion of controlled chemical explosions is still a challenge. In addition, there are the biomedical risks of subjecting a ‘normal’ population to some of the rigours of space travel: high accelerations up to eight times Earth’s gravity, weightlessness where some experience debilitating space sickness and greater than average radiation exposure. Fortunately, experiments by Dr James Vanderploeg from the University of Texas indicate that individuals of ages 18 to 85 with a variety of common issues (artificial joints, controlled hypertension, pacemaker implants, etc) can easily withstand simulated trips using ground centrifuges and parabolic aeroplane flights. This can also be read in New Space.
When will this happen?
The sub-orbital space tourism community has collectively been surprised that it is now almost 15 years since the X-Prize was won, yet there are no regular flights of SpaceShipTwo or the New Shephard of Blue Origin. The answer mostly lies in the realm of technical issues; in a way, it is ‘rocket science’. Virgin Galactic has struggled to find a propulsion system that will operate smoothly to propel the six passengers to at least 50 miles. However, a very recent successful test in February of 2019 gives an indication that Virgin Galactic may be almost ready. Blue Origin has been very secretive about their progress, but it appears from test flights that the New Shephard is also nearing operational status.
Barring another accident, I think 2019 will see the first tourist flights to the edge of space and back. All it will take is $200,000 and the willingness to sign an ‘informed consent’ document!
To find out more about space entrepreneurship and innovation, check out the New Space journal. Professor Hubbard’s book, Exploring Mars: Chronicles from a Decade of Discovery, is available from the University of Arizona Press, as well as Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
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How Individuals Move the Needle by Buying on Voluntary Carbon Markets
Words by Jim Witkin
CoolEffect Sponsored Series
Not All Carbon Credits are Created Equal
Global carbon dioxide emissions are projected to reach record highs in 2017 and again in 2018, according to estimates by the Global Carbon Project. This comes after a three-year period where emissions remained flat, which many scientists had hoped signaled a peak in climate warming emissions.
This is very bad news for those who want to reverse this trend and limit the long-term impacts of climate change.
We know that government mandated programs - like cap and trade - work to reduce emissions if implemented correctly. In regions with mandatory cap-and-trade programs (so-called compliance markets), the government first sets a “cap” on how much individual companies can emit. Businesses that pollute less than the cap can sell or “trade” their excess allowances (or permits) to those that pollute more. The number of permits declines each year, and companies who fail to meet the cap are penalized.
California, one of the few carbon compliance markets in the U.S., implemented a mandatory cap-and-trade program starting in early 2013 that is working. Industries regulated under California's cap-and-trade program reduced greenhouse gas emissions by nearly 5 percent in 2016, according to recent data released by state officials.
But not every industry is regulated and not every market has compliance rules.
That’s where the voluntary carbon market comes in, by providing corporations and individuals a means to voluntarily fund projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions through the purchase of carbon “offsets.”
A carbon offset represents one tonne of carbon dioxide equivalent (tCO2e) that hasn’t been emitted into the atmosphere through the development of a project like planting trees that absorb CO2, or a methane capture program, or providing clean-burning cookstoves to rural communities in developing countries. Money paid for offsets is used to finance these types of projects.
The research group Ecosystem Marketplace has been tracking the voluntary carbon markets since 2006. And while market activity has had its ups and downs (in fact, 2016 saw a decline in the purchase of offsets from the previous year), the cumulative volume transacted reached an important milestone in 2016, going over the 1 billion tCO2e mark, as calculated in their latest report.
The report also concluded that voluntary markets have a ripple effect into compliance markets as “incubators” for new project types, and in general have an “outsized impact on emissions reductions activities.”
Companies that are concerned about their environmental impact can use offsets as part of an overall carbon management strategy. Some even use offsets to become completely carbon neutral, meaning the company has no net negative impact on the global warming problem. A typical approach for these companies is to first perform a carbon inventory to measure their emissions, then reduce where they can, and where they can’t, buy offsets.
Some of the companies that are very active on the voluntary markets include Disney, Microsoft, General Motors, Salesforce, Expedia, Enterprise, Google, Bank of America and Delta Air Lines.
But you don’t have to be a multi-billion-dollar corporation to have an impact. Individuals can and should play an important part, especially considering the average American is estimated to emit 17 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions every year just through daily activities.
Even though the overall volume of sales to individual buyers is small, they are still critical to the voluntary carbon markets, said Kelley Hamrick, a Senior Associate at Ecosystem Marketplace and lead author of this year’s report, “because they tend to focus on value projects rather than volume.” Value projects have feel-good benefits and stories beyond the global warming impact.
Large companies, because of their large carbon footprints, buy in volume so will typically look for the cheapest offsets. For example, renewable energy projects, like wind, or landfill methane capture projects tend to produce a high volume of offsets at a low cost per tonne.
By contrast, “value” projects, as Hamrick described, can still have an impact but are much smaller in scope. Because they can’t reach a large scale or are more complicated to implement, they are more expensive per tonne then larger projects.
Providing clean cookstoves is one such type of value project. The more complicated the project, the higher the cost of each offset. “But if not for the individual buyers, many of these smaller projects would not get off the ground,” admitted Hamrick.
Another appeal of these smaller projects is that many of them provide co-benefits, that is, wider social and economic benefits to the communities involved in the projects. “What we see with individual buyers is they are more interested in ‘where is my money actually going and who is being impacted with this project’,” she said.
For example, clean cookstove projects not only cut carbon emissions but also eliminate toxic fumes in the household, provide local jobs, and reduce deforestation because the clean stoves typically require much less wood for fuel. Switching to cleaner stoves also has an educational aspect involved, said Hamrick, “because you are asking them to change a behavior that’s been part of their culture for a long time, so this is more complicated to implement.”
Regardless of the type of project, Hamrick advised choosing those that are validated by a third-party standard and audited. This ensures the integrity of the project and that the offset will meet its goals. Some of the big names in third party validation are the Verified Carbon Standard, the Gold Standard, and the Climate Action Reserve.
Not sure where to begin? There’s lots more to learn about the voluntary carbon markets in the Ecosystem Marketplace reports. And numerous online resources, like Cool Effect’s crowdfunding platform, are making it easier than ever for individuals to purchase third-party verified offsets that have a real impact.
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Jim Witkin
Jim Witkin is a writer based in Silicon Valley and London focused on business, technology and the environment. His work has been featured in the New York Times and Guardian newspapers. He holds an MBA in Sustainable Management from the Presidio Graduate School.
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Artist and activist Tim Rollins dies aged 62
The education pioneer founded the K.O.S. collective which challenges “elite notions of fine art”
Gareth Harris
28th December 2017 12:54 BST
Tim Rollins and the K.O.S. collective courtesy Portland Museum of Art
The US artist and activist Tim Rollins, known for launching the Art and Knowledge education workshop in the Bronx in 1982, has died aged 62. Pittsfield-born Rollins began his career as the assistant of the artist Joseph Kosuth, earning a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York in 1980.
His work with students—some of them with emotional and learning difficulties—in the South Bronx workshop prompted him to found the collective K.O.S. (Kids of Survival) which he continued to lead for more than three decades. “I think what we've done is that we have challenged elite notions of fine art that put boundaries on who can appreciate art, who can make art, and who can feel the impact of that art,” Rollins told Artspace in 2012.
The group, working collaboratively, make large-scale paintings on book pages and sheet music; their Animal Farm-G7 piece (1989-92), part of the Tate’s collection, shows former world leaders such as Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan as farmyard animals.
A statement for an exhibition held at Maureen Paley in 2013 outlined K.O.S.’s methods. “Rollins combines lessons in reading and writing with making works. The source material laid out and studied by the students generally relates to literary or musical classics, such as works by William Shakespeare, George Orwell, Ralph Ellison or Franz Schubert, but can also include comics or legal documents,” it says.
A 1988 profile piece on Rollins in the New York Times reported that “a SoHo dealer, Jay Gorney, who handles the work, has sold individual pieces for as much as $30,000 to such buyers as Charles Saatchi, the mega-collector in London, and several major museums.” K.O.S.’s work was also shown in the Whitney Biennials of 1985 and 1991.
''I find their [K.O.S.] work very touching, very emotional and visually interesting. It may at times be too close to the tradition of Surrealism, but it's powerful and quite contemporary,'' said Mark Rosenthal, then curator of 20th-century painting at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, in the same article.
K.O.S. currently has five members: Angel Abreu, Jorge Abreu, Robert Branch, Daniel Castillo and Ricardo Savinon. More than 50 former members of the collective are listed on the website of Maureen Paley. “Tim was a friend, mentor and father to the surviving members of the K.O.S. collective,” the current members said in a statement sent to Hyperallergic, adding that there will be a public memorial announced in due course.
Nancy Spector, the artistic director of the Guggenheim museums, tweeted: "Haven't been able to process this loss". The artist William Powhida also commented on social media: "Tim was an evangelist for art, a true believer."
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This is no way to solve the cruise ship issue in Venice
The Italian government’s latest decision is in hock to the port’s own interests
Anna Somers Cocks
4th December 2017 12:12 BST
The cruise ship MSC Fantasia on the "Bacino San Marco" in Venice Wolfgang Moroder
At a meeting of the Comitatone (big committee) for strategic matters relating to Venice, hosted in Rome on 7 November by the minister for infrastructures, Graziano Delrio, a decision was taken that would keep all but the biggest cruise ships docking in the port of Venice while providing them with a route that would not lead through Venice. “It’s a question of acting swiftly and guaranteeing the key role of the Stazione Marittima [the port in Venice]”, said the president of the Veneto region, Luca Zaia, to La Nuova di Venezia newspaper.
The decision aims to address a matter that has become such a scandal that it is one of the reasons why Unesco is threatening to put Venice on its World Heritage in Danger list. Currently, 500 to 600 ships—a yearly 1,000 to 1,200 entrances and exits—of up to 96,000 gross tonnes enter the lagoon from the Adriatic by the Lido opening to sail through Venice down the Canale della Giudecca and dock in the port of Venice.
But the Comitatone has rejected the solution favoured by environmental scientists and some politicians, which is to build a floating port outside the lagoon, from which passengers would be brought into town in smaller boats.
The main reason for this is that the proposed solution sacrifices the ecology of the lagoon and potentially, therefore, the physical future of Venice itself to the short-term interests of the port in Venice, which is run by a company Venezia Terminal Passeggeri SpA, in which powerful local and international interests, including the Veneto region, cruise ship companies and the world’s biggest cruise port operators, Global Ports Holding, have shares (see box).
The Comitatone’s memorandum of understanding says that the industrial port of Marghera on the land side of the lagoon will be adapted to take up to three of the biggest (tonnage undefined) cruise ships at a time, which will enter the lagoon by the Malamocco entrance to the south of Venice and sail down the channel excavated in the 1960s for the petrol tankers. Their passengers will be brought to Venice by ferries. But smaller cruise ships (tonnage again undefined) will also enter by Malamocco, follow the same route and then turn right down the Vittorio Emanuele III channel to get to the port in Venice. For this to happen, the disused Vittorio Emanuele III will need to be dredged from its existing depth of 6m to 9m, while the Malamocco-Marghera channel will have to be widened to accommodate the hundreds of extra sailings because industrial and cruise traffic will be competing for space.
This will be very damaging. There are numerous peer-reviewed studies (in particular, Fatti e misfatti di idraulica lagunare: la laguna di Venezia dalla diversione dei fiumi alle nuove opere alle bocche di porto, by the Padua university environmental engineer Luigi D’Alpaos, 2010) proving that the deep-dredging carried out since the 1960s has led to loss of lagoon shoreline, mudflats and sandbanks that absorbed the force of the waves, and of sediment from the lagoon bed, leading to its deepening from an average of 40cm to 1.2m. In other words, the lagoon is turning into open sea instead of being the protective buffer around Venice it used to be. At a time when estimates of sea-level rise by 2100, based on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change of 2013, are 140cm, and extreme weather events are multiplying, this demonstrates no concern for the safeguarding of one of the world’s greatest treasures.
The Venetian lobby group, We are Here Venice, has written to the former director-general of Unesco, Irina Bokova, and its assistant-director general, Francesco Bandarin, urging “Unesco to join with us in asking the Italian government and relevant institutional bodies that govern Venice to establish an independent and qualified task force to objectively assess the question of cruise ships and Venice using an interdisciplinary approach.”
Existing and proposed new routes for the cruise ships The Art Newspaper
Who calls the shots in the port of Venice? (not the city of Venice, that’s for sure)
The shareholders in Venezia Terminal Passeggeri SpA, the commercial company founded in 1997 to run the Stazione Marittima port in Venice, are APVS (53%), Finpax (22.18%), SAVE (22.18%) and the chamber of commerce of Venice, Rovigo, Delta Lagunare (2.64%).
APVS was set up by the Venice Port Authority, a public body. Until 2016, it was 65.98% owned by Veneto Sviluppo, set up by the regional government of the Veneto, and Venezia Investimenti, in which Carnival Group, MSC Cruises, Royal Caribbean, Global Ports Holding and Autorità Portuale Venezia Investimenti had shares. Finpax is made up of local companies involved in the port’s activities, while SAVE is the company managing the Venice airport.
In May 2016, Veneto Sviluppo exercised its option and acquired the controlling stake in APVS. In August 2016, the Turkey-based cruise operators Global Ports Holding acquired two large stakes, giving it a total of 44.34% of Venezia Terminal Passeggeri; it bought a 48% shareholding in APVS from Veneto Sviluppo via Venezia investimenti, which is now jointly owned in equal shares by Global Ports Holding and Costa Crociere, MSC Cruises and Royal Caribbean; it also bought an 85.85% stake in Finpax.
Appeared in The Art Newspaper, 296 December 2017
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How Bernie Sanders Would Run Against Hillary Clinton
The progressive independent is more realistic about his prospects for the White House than you might expect.
Lauren FoxNational Journal
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-VT, during a press conference at the U.S. Capitol July 24, 2014 in Washington, DC. National Journal
Sen. Bernie Sanders has a clear view of what he will be up against if he runs for president in 2016: billionaires, Wall Street, Hillary Clinton, and a less-than-stellar name ID. But while the Vermont senator once received single digit-support for statewide elections in Vermont, he has shown himself to be a pragmatic campaigner with keen insight into what it takes to spark a grassroots movement.
Whether he can mobilize enough people in 2016 to make the race worth his while is still a question even he has not answered.
"I don't want to run a futile campaign," Sanders said during an appearance at the Brookings Institution on Monday.
In recent months, Sanders has traveled around the country, hitting early-primary states such as New Hampshire and Iowa. He's confident, in talking with voters, that there is an appetite for a straight-talking candidate in the Democratic primary who can articulate a clear vision to reduce income inequality and isn't afraid to call out Wall Street as a business model built on "fraud and deception."
If he does run, Sanders said, he's not looking to be a "spoiler" in the mode of Ralph Nader. He's instead considering shedding his "independent" label and jumping into the race for the Democratic ticket, where he fully recognizes he'd likely be going head-to-head on the debate stage with the Democratic Party's presumptive candidate, Hillary Clinton.
Sanders sees running against Clinton as an opportunity not to tear her apart politically, but to distinguish himself and force the party to have a serious policy discussion on issues as diverse as income inequality and foreign policy.
"This is a woman I respect, clearly a very intelligent person who I think is impressive on issues, by the way," Sanders said. "I think we have a debate about how you rebuild a crumbling middle class, a debate about how you reverse climate change, a debate about the foreign policy ... a debate about Wall Street, and that would be, I think, good for the American people, to be honest with you."
On Monday, Sanders began by distinguishing himself on foreign policy. He reasserted his opposition to more troops in Iraq, a conflict on which Clinton initially voted in favor of authorizing military action during her time in the Senate. Sanders also said he feared the United States was entangling itself in an "endless war" in the Middle East. Instead of the U.S. spending its resources and developing the lead strategy, he said, countries like Saudi Arabia, for example, needed to step up. Sanders also announced he would not attend Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's planned address to Congress, an issue Clinton has yet to weigh in on.
Sanders emphasized that, despite pointing out contrasts, he won't run negative ads against Clinton. He didn't during his mayoral races, Senate races, or House contests, he said. And he is not going to start now.
"It is not my style to trash people," Sanders said.
While Sanders said he doesn't expect fellow progressive Elizabeth Warren to jump into the presidential fray, he didn't miss an opportunity to highlight her vision and accomplishments before the audience at Brookings.
"We brought Senator, well, Elizabeth Warren to the town meetings, and she blew me away with her ability to deal with complicated economic issues in a language that people could understand," Sanders said. "I'm a fan of Elizabeth Warren."
Clinton may not be the only big obstacle for Sanders, however. Part of running a successful campaign is filling campaign coffers. And, in a cycle where the billionaire Koch brothers have already pledged to spend almost $900 million, Sanders will have to do better than merely relying on his engaged network to make small donations. That remains a stumbling block Sanders is not confident he can overcome.
"If you had 2 million people putting in 100 bucks, that's $200 million, that is 20 percent of what the Koch brothers themselves are prepared to spend," Sanders said. "Can you take that on? I don't know the answer. Maybe the game is over. Maybe they have bought a United States government. Maybe there is no turning back. I don't know. I surely hope not, but we have to look at that reality."
If he is going to run, Sanders says, he has to be sure he is going to make a serious impact on the race.
"I want to do it well, and it's important not just for my ego I do it well. It's important for millions of people who share the same set of beliefs that I hold," Sanders said. "To do it well, we would have to put together the strongest grassroots movement in the modern history of this country, with millions of people saying, 'You know what? Enough is enough. We are going to take on the billionaire class.' "
Lauren Fox is a congressional reporter at U.S. News. Her work has appeared in Salon, MSNBC, and Columbia Journalism Review.
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Greens Turn Against Longtime Ally Earl Blumenauer Over Trade Deal
Bike pin or no bike pin, environmentalists are attacking the progressive Democrat for supporting "fast track."
Clare ForanNational Journal
Environmentalists are going after one of their own.
Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, and Food and Water Watch launched a television spot Tuesday criticizing Democratic Rep. Earl Blumenauer of Oregon for supporting so-called "fast-track" trade legislation swiftly moving through Congress.
That's Earl Blumenauer—the congressman who wears fluorescent bicycle pins.
"You might think congressman Earl Blumenauer always fights to protect our environment, but you would be wrong," a narrator's voice intones during the ad. "Blumenauer just voted to fast-track a trade deal that would devastate our environment and contribute to climate change."
Blumenauer boasts a 95 percent lifetime score from the League of Conservation Voters, and has earned a reputation as an opponent of the Keystone XL pipeline and as a champion of climate action.
But for green groups, Blumenauer's record is the reason they believe it is important to go after him. At a time when many high-profile Republicans disdain the idea of taking action on climate change, environmentalists fear that Democrats will take their support for granted. Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, and Food and Water Watch want to make sure that even their friends understand that support for fast-track won't go unpunished.
"Representative Blumenauer has been an important champion on climate change and the environment, but he is wrong on trade," Friends of the Earth President Erich Pica said in a statement. "We can't have 'environmental champions' supporting a bad trade deal."
Debate over international-trade agreements that President Obama is working on negotiating with Pacific Rim nations and the European Union, as well as the fast-track legislation that would allow lawmakers an up-or-down vote on any deal, has opened a rift between Democrats and the White House.
The White House argues that the deals will bolster the economy and help America compete abroad. But many Democrats, green groups, and labor unions say that the agreements could undercut workers' rights and environmental safeguards, ultimately worsening climate change as a result.
But Blumenauer has so far sided with the administration on fast-track.
The congressman was one of only two Democrats to vote for the legislation in the House Ways and Means Committee and penned a joint op-ed in the Oregonian last month with fellow Oregon Democrat, Sen. Ron Wyden to express support for the bill. Wyden is also under fire from the left for his stance on fast-track.
Nicole L'Esperance, a spokesperson for Blumenauer, pushed back on Tuesday, emphasizing that the congressman has not indicated how he would vote on a final trade deal.
"The ads are making claims about an agreement that isn't even finalized and it's just plain false," she said. "He has said time and time again that he will review a final agreement before deciding how he would vote."
L'Esperance defended Blumenauer's vote in favor of fast-track, saying that the trade bill "for the first time includes in its negotiating objectives enforceable environmental protections."
The ads will run in Washington, D.C., and Portland, Oregon.
This story has been updated.
Clare Foran is a former associate editor at The Atlantic.
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India Inc must invest more in Mauritius
Anil Kumar Kanungo | Updated on July 09, 2012 Published on July 09, 2012
Mauritius is a land of opportunities for Indian industry.
The visit of Dr Arvind Boolell, the Mauritius Minister of Foreign Affairs, Regional Integration and International Trade, to India last week, may have been of some interest to Indian industry. For a country which largely depends on imports of a variety of products and services for its domestic market, Mauritius offers a huge opportunity for Indian companies.
An analysis of Mauritius’ imports suggests that the country practically imports everything and its domestic industry is uncompetitive in most manufacturing sectors. Imports, therefore, are huge and diversified, and include cotton, cotton yarn, textiles, pharmaceutical products, electrical machinery, woven apparel, health products, petroleum products, plastic, fish and processed food products, spices, coffee, tea, salt, sulphur, etc. Similarly, in the services sector, it requires a number of professional services such as technical education, hotel and tourism services, healthcare facilities, IT services, accountancy, banking and engineering services.
MSMEs hold the key
The opportunity for India therefore lies in its MSMEs (micro-, small and medium enterprises). A large number of product requirements can be tapped as India enjoys comparative advantage in some of the sectors. Gradual liberalisation of investment procedures and ease of doing business in the island is further attracting foreign investors to invest in Mauritius.
For instance, taxes have been capped at 15 per cent for corporates as well as for individuals. Access to Mauritius has been liberalised for professionals. Professionals can easily live in Mauritius if they work in the country, and investors can settle down there.
Mauritius has a comparative disadvantage in pharmaceutical products, textile, leather and cork products, besides others. There is a tendency to import these products in general. Since one of its traditional export sectors has been clothing, and given that the textile sector there is not so well developed, it is important for Mauritius to import textile products at a cheaper price to satisfy export demands.
Most of the textile imports are currently from China and, to some extent, from South Africa. But this is where Indian exporters and investors should take advantage, because the Indian textile and apparel industry is globally competitive and Mauritius is a neighbourly and familiar terrain for India.
Development of the chemical industry and prepared food provides a huge opportunity for India. Indian players can participate in some niche businesses offered by the domestic market in Mauritius. Hotel and tourism industry is on the rise and needs outside investors.
Though the Taj and the Oberoi have already made forays into its market, new investors from Singapore, Malaysia and China are also eyeing it. Apollo and Fortis are ready to set up hospitals in Mauritius. Educational institutions such as NIFT and BITS Pilani are exploring the possibility of opening up centres there.
The Indian education industry has lot of scope to operate in the island either through wholly owned subsidiary or joint venture route. This is more so, when Indian professionals have already established their capability as Mauritian teachers of Indian origin.
Besides, Mauritius has been a tried-and-tested route for FDI into India. Indian corporates can have easier access to African markets through Mauritius. It offers access to Indian MSMEs and the market has been relatively untapped till now.
Doing business in the island
To top it all, Mauritius as a destination has earned a lot of credit. According to the Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index, it has high governance standard, with a ranking of 46 last year. It is also the top-ranked African country with regard to business climate, ranked 23rd globally in the 2011 World Bank Doing Business report. The country is ranked high in terms of competitiveness, investment climate and governance.
The World Economic Forum’s global competitiveness index placed Mauritius at 54 out of 133 countries in 2011-2012, behind only South Africa in the Africa Region. It topped the 2011 Mo Ibrahim Index of African Governance, and is ranked 36 in the AT Kearney Global Services Location Index 2011. Another big advantage is that it takes only three days to set up a company on the island and one doesn’t require a Mauritian partner to start a business. This dramatically reduces the cost of running a business.
All this suggests there is a future for Indian industry in Mauritius. Taking advantage of cultural, political and long-standing friendly relations between the two countries, Indian investments can soar.
Current Indian investments in Mauritius were $13.56 million till December, which is substantially low. It’s time for Indian industry to look at Mauritius as a favourable destination.
(The author is Editor, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi.)
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August Issue
UK government confirms its ongoing commitment to Islamic finance
Welcome to the inaugural edition of UK ISLAMIC FINANCE (UKIF), the first and only publication to focus exclusively on the evolution of Islamic financial services in the UK. This month, we are delighted to bring you an in-depth interview with MARK...
New liquidity facility expected in 2018
As part of its strategy to broaden liquidity provision to the market, the Bank of England (the Bank) began work in the second half of 2015 to assess the feasibility of establishing a Shariah compliant facility. What does this mean for the UK’s...
The Middle East continues to dominate UK property investment
Qatar might be the biggest owner of London property, but other investors have shifted their focus to the provinces – and the strategy looks to be paying off. A string of strong regional deals over the last few years demonstrate a growing trend...
UK agencies make inroads into new markets with government support
It has been a busy summer for UK Islamic finance players, with a number of landmark new agreements and initiatives with foreign partners expanding the reach of British firms overseas and emphasising the strength and expertise of the UK export. ...
APPG reconvenes to push forward Islamic finance agenda
The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Islamic Finance (APPGIF) was re-constituted this summer following the general election in June, and has reaffirmed strong cross-party support for the development of Islamic finance within the UK, and the...
UKEF local currency initiative set to bring in new business
In recent months, UK Export Finance (UKEF, the UK’s export credit agency and a ministerial department of the UK government) has introduced two major developments that could have a very real impact on encouraging participation into Islamic finance...
Real Estate Roundtable: A positive outlook for UK property
Gathering market leaders and industry experts together for a frank and open exchange, the UK Islamic Finance roundtable is designed to provide invaluable insights into the most important issues affecting the UK market. For our inaugural issue, what...
90 North: In its own words
Philip Churchill is the co-founder and managing partner of 90 North Real Estate Partners. In this contribution, he offers unique insights into the UK and global property market from an expert perspective: outlining current opportunities and looking...
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Benarasi Masti - Culture and Lifestyle. Known as the cultural capital of India, Varanasi is famous for its religious and spiritual lifestyle. One of the most important pilgrimage spots for Jains, Buddhists and especially Hindus, Varanasi is situated on the banks of Holy Ganges, which plays an important role in day-to-day lives of the people of Varanasi. Being the oldest living city, Varanasi has been a mute witness to many great historic upheavals and events.
Mythology reins the city and there are many religious places and institutions and places of worship throughout the city where people visit everyday, especially in the mornings and the evenings.On closer look, one can still find the primitive worship cults that are still in practice in the city. The religiosity of the region is evident from the fact that Buddha, Jain Tirthankars, several Shaiva and Vaishnava saints, Kabir and Tulsi were either born here or were associated with the place in a significant way and have spent a long time here.
Several social and religious customs co-exist in the city and the caste system is still prevalent here.
People wear 'Gamcha' (a cotton towel), as they go bathing in Ganga and drink Thandai (a coolant with milk as its base), which have become a part of the cultural identity of traditional ways of Varanasi. Music, drama and entertainment have found a place in the lives of the people. Its dance traditions and vocal and instrumental music is highly developed and one can catch the glimpses of folk drama in the 'Ramlila' organized before Dussehra. Traditional games and sports include 'Akharas', where wrestling or 'kushti' competitions are organized.
Foreign tourists love to ride horse-driven 'Ekkas' and cycle rickshaws that are still in use here. Indian medical science of Ayurveda, yoga and meditation are cherished here since ages.
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HD 205072 Facts
HD 205072's star type is giant star that can be located in the constellation of Cepheus. The description is based on the spectral class.
HD 205072 is not part of the constellation outline but is within the borders of the constellation.
Based on the spectral type (G6III:) of the star, the star's colour is white to yellow .
HD 205072's Alternative Names
HIP105727 is the reference name for the star in the Hipparcos Star Catalogue. The Id of the star in the Henry Draper catalogue is HD205072.
BD number is the number that the star was filed under in the Durchmusterung or Bonner Durchmusterung, a star catalogue that was put together by the Bonn Observatory between 1859 to 1903. The star's BD Number is BD+79 707.
Location of HD 205072
The location of the giant star in the night sky is determined by the Right Ascension (R.A.) and Declination (Dec.), these are equivalent to the Longitude and Latitude on the Earth. The Right Ascension is how far expressed in time (hh:mm:ss) the star is along the celestial equator. If the R.A. is positive then its eastwards. The Declination is how far north or south the object is compared to the celestial equator and is expressed in degrees. For HD 205072, the location is 21h 24m 49.40 and +80° 31` 29.5 .
Radial Velocity and Proper Motion of HD 205072
All stars like planets orbit round a central spot, in the case of planets, its the central star such as the Sun. In the case of a star, its the galactic centre. The constellations that we see today will be different than they were 50,000 years ago or 50,000 years from now. Proper Motion details the movements of these stars and are measured in milliarcseconds. The star is moving -12.09 ± 0.26 milliarcseconds/year towards the north and 42.58 ± 0.29 milliarcseconds/year east if we saw them in the horizon.
The Radial Velocity, that is the speed at which the star is moving away/towards the Sun is 3.30 km/s with an error of about 2.90 km/s . When the value is negative then the star and the Sun are getting closer to one another, likewise, a positive number means that two stars are moving away. Its nothing to fear as the stars are so far apart, they won't collide in our life-time, if ever.
HD 205072 Luminosity
Physical Properties (Colour, Temperature) of HD 205072
HD 205072 Colour and Temperature
HD 205072 has a spectral type of G6III:. This means the star is a white to yellow giant star. The star has a B-V Colour Index of 0.95 which means the star's temperature has been calculated using information from Morgans @ Uni.edu at being 4,948 Kelvin.
HD 205072 Radius
Radius has been calculated as being 8.87 times bigger than the Sun. The Sun's radius is 695,800km, therefore the star's radius is an estimated 6,173,348.44.km. If you need the diameter of the star, you just need to multiple the radius by 2. However with the 2007 release of updated Hipparcos files, the radius is now calculated at being round 9.04. The figure is derived at by using the formula from SDSS and has been known to produce widely incorrect figures.
HD 205072 Apparent and Absolute Magnitudes
HD 205072 has an apparent magnitude of 5.97 which is how bright we see the star from Earth. Apparent Magnitude is also known as Visual Magnitude. If you used the 1997 Parallax value, you would get an absolute magnitude of 0.78 If you used the 2007 Parallax value, you would get an absolute magnitude of 0.74. Magnitude, whether it be apparent/visual or absolute magnitude is measured by a number, the smaller the number, the brighter the Star is. Our own Sun is the brightest star and therefore has the lowest of all magnitudes, -26.74. A faint star will have a high number.
Distance to HD 205072
Using the original Hipparcos data that was released in 1997, the parallax to the star was given as 9.18 which gave the calculated distance to HD 205072 as 355.30 light years away from Earth or 108.93 parsecs. It would take a spaceship travelling at the speed of light, 355.30 years to get there. We don't have the technology or spaceship that can carry people over that distance yet.
In 2007, Hipparcos data was revised with a new parallax of 9.00 which put HD 205072 at a distance of 362.40 light years or 111.11 parsecs. It should not be taken as though the star is moving closer or further away from us. It is purely that the distance was recalculated.
Additional HD 205072 Facts and Figures
Primary / Proper / Traditional Name HD 205072
Alternative Names HD 205072, HIP 105727, BD+79 707
Spectral Type G6III:
Colour White to Yellow
Constellation Cepheus
Declination (Dec.) +80° 31` 29.5
Galactic Latitude 21.03 degrees
Proper Motion RA. 42.58 ± 0.29 milliarcseconds/year
Radial Velocity 3.30 ± 2.90 km/s
Alderamin (Alpha Cephei)
Alfirk (Beta Cephei)
Errai (Gamma Cephei)
Alrediph (Delta Cephei)
Epsilon Cephei (Epsilon Cephei)
AH Cephei
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HD 47012 Facts
HD 47012's star type is giant star that can be located in the constellation of Canis Major. The description is based on the spectral class.
HD 47012 is not part of the constellation outline but is within the borders of the constellation.
HD 47012's Alternative Names
HIP31469 is the reference name for the star in the Hipparcos Star Catalogue. The Id of the star in the Henry Draper catalogue is HD47012.
BD number is the number that the star was filed under in the Durchmusterung or Bonner Durchmusterung, a star catalogue that was put together by the Bonn Observatory between 1859 to 1903. The star's BD Number is BD-21 1514.
Location of HD 47012
The location of the giant star in the night sky is determined by the Right Ascension (R.A.) and Declination (Dec.), these are equivalent to the Longitude and Latitude on the Earth. The Right Ascension is how far expressed in time (hh:mm:ss) the star is along the celestial equator. If the R.A. is positive then its eastwards. The Declination is how far north or south the object is compared to the celestial equator and is expressed in degrees. For HD 47012, the location is 06h 35m 30.81 and -22° 06` 32.4 .
Proper Motion of HD 47012
All stars like planets orbit round a central spot, in the case of planets, its the central star such as the Sun. In the case of a star, its the galactic centre. The constellations that we see today will be different than they were 50,000 years ago or 50,000 years from now. Proper Motion details the movements of these stars and are measured in milliarcseconds. The star is moving -20.72 ± 0.29 milliarcseconds/year towards the north and 9.89 ± 0.45 milliarcseconds/year east if we saw them in the horizon. . When the value is negative then the star and the Sun are getting closer to one another, likewise, a positive number means that two stars are moving away. Its nothing to fear as the stars are so far apart, they won't collide in our life-time, if ever.
HD 47012 Luminosity
Physical Properties (Colour, Temperature) of HD 47012
HD 47012 Colour and Temperature
HD 47012 has a spectral type of K0III. This means the star is a orange to red giant star. The star has a B-V Colour Index of 1.03 which means the star's temperature has been calculated using information from Morgans @ Uni.edu at being 4,792 Kelvin.
HD 47012 Radius
Radius has been calculated as being 11.64 times bigger than the Sun. The Sun's radius is 695,800km, therefore the star's radius is an estimated 8,097,500.28.km. If you need the diameter of the star, you just need to multiple the radius by 2. However with the 2007 release of updated Hipparcos files, the radius is now calculated at being round 9.91. The figure is derived at by using the formula from SDSS and has been known to produce widely incorrect figures.
HD 47012 Apparent and Absolute Magnitudes
HD 47012 has an apparent magnitude of 6.32 which is how bright we see the star from Earth. Apparent Magnitude is also known as Visual Magnitude. If you used the 1997 Parallax value, you would get an absolute magnitude of 0.33 If you used the 2007 Parallax value, you would get an absolute magnitude of 0.68. Magnitude, whether it be apparent/visual or absolute magnitude is measured by a number, the smaller the number, the brighter the Star is. Our own Sun is the brightest star and therefore has the lowest of all magnitudes, -26.74. A faint star will have a high number.
Distance to HD 47012
Using the original Hipparcos data that was released in 1997, the parallax to the star was given as 6.35 which gave the calculated distance to HD 47012 as 513.64 light years away from Earth or 157.48 parsecs. It would take a spaceship travelling at the speed of light, 513.64 years to get there. We don't have the technology or spaceship that can carry people over that distance yet.
In 2007, Hipparcos data was revised with a new parallax of 7.44 which put HD 47012 at a distance of 438.39 light years or 134.41 parsecs. It should not be taken as though the star is moving closer or further away from us. It is purely that the distance was recalculated.
Additional HD 47012 Facts and Figures
Primary / Proper / Traditional Name HD 47012
Alternative Names HD 47012, HIP 31469, BD-21 1514
Constellation Canis Major
Galactic Latitude -13.23 degrees
Proper Motion RA. 9.89 ± 0.45 milliarcseconds/year
Sirius (Alpha Canis Majoris)
Mirzam (Beta Canis Majoris)
Muliphein (Gamma Canis Majoris)
Wezen (Delta Canis Majoris)
Adhara (Epsilon Canis Majoris)
BE Canis Majoris
CX Canis Majoris
DZ Canis Majoris
EZ Canis Majoris
FF Canis Majoris
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Tag: Mars Orbiting Laser Altimeter
Study of Martian Sedimentary Layers Reveals More About the Planet’s Past
As of 2016, Mars became the permanent residence of no less than eight robotic missions, a combination of orbiters, rovers and landers. Between extensive studies of the Martian atmosphere and surface, scientists have learned a great deal about the planet’s history and evolution. In particular, they have uncovered voluminous amounts of evidence that Mars once had flowing water on its surface.
The most recent evidence to this effect from the University of Texas at Austin, where researchers have produced a study detailing how water deposited sediment in Mars’ Aeolis Dorsa region. According to their research, this area contains extensive sedimentary deposits that act as a historical record of Mars, cataloguing the influence played by water-based erosion over time.
The study, titled “Fluvial Stratigraphy of Valley Fills at Aeolis Dorsa, Mars: Evidence for Base-Level Fluctuations Controlled by a Downstream Water Body“, recently appeared in the scientific journal GeoScienceWorld. Led by Benjamin D. Cardenas – a geologist with the Jackson School of Geosciences at the University of Texas at Austin – the team examined satellite data of the Aeolis Dorsa region to study the structure of sedimentary deposits.
MOLA Topographic Map of Aeolis Quadrangle (MC-23) on the planet Mars. Credit: USGS
For years, Aeolis Dorsa has been of interest to scientists since it contains some of the most densely-packed sedimentary layers on Mars, which were deposited by flowing water (aka. fluvial deposits). These deposits are visible from orbit because of the way they have undergone a process known as “topographic inversion” – which consists of deposits filling low river channels, then being exhumed to create incised valleys.
By definition, incised valleys are topographic lows produced by “riverine” erosion – i.e. relating to a river or riverbank. On Earth, these valleys are commonly created by rising sea levels, and then filled with sediment as a result of falling sea levels. As sea levels rise, the valleys are cut from the landscape as the waters move inland; and as the sea levels drop, retreating waters deposit sediment within them.
According to the study, this process has created an opportunity for geophysicists and planetary scientist to observe Mars’ geological record in three dimensions and across significant distances. As Cardenas told Universe Today via email:
“Sedimentary rocks in general record information about the environments under which they were deposited. Fluvial (river) deposits specifically record information about the way rivers migrated laterally, the way they aggraded vertically, and how these things changed over time.”
The dotted white arrow points to curved strata recording point bar growth and river migration while the black arrow shows topographically inverted river deposits outcropping as ridges (e.g., black arrow). Credit: hou.usra.edu
Here on Earth, the statigraphy (i.e. the order and position of sedimentary layers) of sedimentary rocks has been used by geologists for generations to place constraints on what conditions were like on our planet billions of years ago. It has only been in recent history that the study of sedimentary layers has been used to place constraints on what environmental conditions were like on other planetary bodies (like Mars) billions of years ago.
However, most of these studies have produced data that has been unable to resolve sedimentary packaging at the sub-meter scale. Instead, satellite images have been used to define large-scale stratigraphic relationships, such as deposition patterns along past water channels. In other words, the studies have focused on cataloging the existence of past water flows on Mars more than what has happened since then.
As Cardenas indicated, he and his team took a different approach, one which considered that Mars has experienced changes over the past 3.5 billion years. As he explained:
“In general, there has been the assumption that a lot of the martian surface is not particularly different than it was 3.5 billion years ago. We make an effort to demonstrate that the modern surface at our study area, Aeolis Dorsa, is the result of burial, exhumation, and un-equal erosion, and it can’t be assumed that the modern surface represents the ancient surface at all. We really try to show that what we see today, the features we can measure today, are sedimentary deposits of rivers, and not actual rivers. This is incredibly important to realize when you start making interpretations of your observations, and it is frequently a missed point.”
Perspective view of Reull Vallis based on images taken by the ESA’s Mars Express. Reull Vallis, a river-like structure, is believed to have formed when running water flowed in the distant martian past. Credit and Copyright: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum)
For the sake of their research, Cardenas and his team used stereo pairs of high-resolution images and topographic data taken by the Context Camera (CTX) and the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). This data was then combined with the Integrated Software for Imagers and Spectrometers (ISIS) – a digital image-processing package used by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) – and NASA’s Ames Stereo Pipeline.
These processed the paired images into high-resolution topographic data and digital elevation models (DEMs) which were then compared to data from the Mars Orbiting Laser Altimeter (MOLA) instrument aboard the Mars Global Surveyor (MSG). The final result was a series of DEMs that were orders of magnitude higher in terms of resolution than anything previously produced.
For all of this, Cardenas and his colleagues were able to identify stacking patterns in the fluvial deposits, noted changes in sedimentation styles, and suggested mechanisms for their creation. In addition, the team introduced a brand new method to measure the flow direction of the rivers that left these deposits, which allowed them to see how the landscape has changed over the past few billion years.
“The study shows there was a large body of water on Mars ~3.5 billion years ago, and that this body of water increased and decreased in volume slowly enough that river sedimentation had time to adjust styles,” said Cardenas. “This is more in line with slower climatic changes, and less in line with catastrophic hydrologic events. Aeolis Dorsa is positioned along hypothesized coastlines of an ancient northern ocean on Mars. It’s interesting to find coastal river deposits at Aeolis Dorsa, but it doesn’t help us constrain the size of the water body (lake, ocean, etc.)”
Nanedi Valles, a roughly 800-kilometre valley believed to be caused by ground-water outflow. Copyright ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum)
In essence, Cardenas and his colleagues concluded that – similar to Earth – falling and rising water levels in a large water body forced the formation of the paleo-valleys in their study area. And in a way that is similar to what is happening on Earth today, rivers that formed in coastal regions were strongly influenced by changes in water levels of a large, downstream water body.
For some time, it has been something of a foregone conclusion that the surface of Mars is dead, its features frozen in time. But as this study demonstrated, the landscape has undergone significant changes since it lost its atmosphere and surface water. These findings will no doubt be the subject of interest as we get closer to mounting a crewed mission to the Martian surface.
Further Reading: GSA, GeoScienceWorld
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Île Saint-Louis Walking Tour
Less touristy and more Bourgeois than the Île de la Cité, the Île Saint-Louis is one of the most pleasant for a stroll in the capital. Remained almost the same for nearly 4 centuries, its architecture and its atmosphere of independent village make the Island an ideal place for a walk in any season.
The Ile Saint-Louis originally included two islands: the island of cows, which was a pasture field, and the island Notre Dame, which was used in the Middle Ages for judicial duels. In the early 17th century, after the creation of the Place de Vosges, it was decided to join the two islands to create a bridge between the right and left banks.
Magistrates, King advisors and financials settled in the island, drawing regular plans and right angles, something rare at that time in Paris. Although few houses have disappeared, the Island has been well preserved from the great Haussmann works, and still provides a pleasant walk along its banks, discovering facades, porches and storefronts that have kept their delightful nature.
Hôtel Lambert, 2 Rue Saint Louis en l’ile
Directed by Louis Le Vau – architect of Louis XIV, to whom we owe the Chateau de Vaux-le-Vicomte – Hotel Lambert is one of the finest in Paris. Part of the hotel was sadly ravaged by fire in 2013, making disappeared decorations of the 17th century.
Voltaire lived here in the 18th century, hosted by his mistress the Marquise du Chatelet.
Hôtel de Bretonvilliers, 7 Rue Saint Louis en l’ile
From a sumptuous palace built in the mid-17th century only remains today this pavillon at the corner of the rue Bretonvilliers and rue Saint Louis en l’Ile.
The hotel was destroyed in 1874 during the construction of the Pont de Sully and Boulevard Henri IV.
Quai de Béthune
While the mansions of Paris favored home behind a courtyard, the apartments at Saint-Louis island were directly looking at the outside, especially to enjoy the Seine landscapes.
At No. 22 you can see a portal reinforced with studded wood pieces, typical of the 17th century. Charles Baudelaire lived there from March 1842 to June 1843.
Take rue Poulletier. The separation of the two islands followed roughly this street, which takes its name from Lugles Poulletier, one of the partners to whom we owe the creation of the Saint-Louis Island.
Église Saint Louis en l’ïle
Its Baroque style (close to the architecture of the church of Saint-Paul-Saint-Louis), was built by the brother of Louis Le Vau, François le Vau. sacked during the Revolution, most of the ornaments and interior decorations date back to the 19th century.
Classical music concerts are given throughout the year in this church.
Hôtel de Lauzun, 17, quai d’Anjou
Typical Hotel of the 17th century, it is known for having hosted from 1845 the meetings of the Hashishins Club, which included Charles Baudelaire and Théophile Gautier. A private club smoking hashish and opium in search of “artificial paradises “.
Meetings described by Théophile Gautier as a “” loneliness oasis in the middle of Paris, surrounding by the arms of the river, protecting us against the encroachments of civilization “(La Revue des Deux Mondes, 1846)
Rue Saint-Louis-en-l’Île
Crossing the island from West to East, rue Louis-en-Ile is a nice shopping street, and the most busy of the island.
At No. 31 is the famous Berthillon Glacier, ranked every year as one of the best in Paris.
At No. 51, the Hotel de Chenizot has one of the most beautiful facades of the island, sumptuously decorated around the porch.
Rue Regrattier
At the corner of Quai Bourbon and rue Regrattier is still engraved the ancient name of the street, “rue de la Femme sans teste” (“Women without Head Street.”) A name that some attribute to the broken statue that sits above the name, in fact representing Saint-Nicolas, broken during the Revolution. Others say the name comes from a shop’s sign of a 17th century representing a headless woman…
Flowers market of the Île de la Cité
A bucolic break at the heart of the Île de la Cité
Tino Rossi public garden
In front of the Jardin des Plantes, a pleasant public garden bordering the Seine (5th arrondissement)
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Everything you need to know about the 5 royal square of Paris : Place des Vosges, Place Dauphine, Place des Victoires, Place Vendôme et Place de la Concorde.
Le Marais walking Tour
In the heart of the Marais, one of the most gorgeous district of Paris, discover our walking itinerary mixing architecture with history, and a full of curiosities…
Arab World Institute
The parisian museum dedicated to the arabic culture
About 1 hour. To do by day or by night
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Walking Tour quartier Mouffetard, 5th arrondissement
Thursday April 16th, 2015
The eastern part of the Latin Quarter, around the rue Mouffetard, is one of the oldest districts in Paris. Occupied from the 1st century by the Romans, intellectual center of Europe at the creation of the University in the 12th century, it is also symbolized by the Sainte-Geneviève Mountain and its history closely linked to that of Paris.
A neighborhood where you can discover some of the most beautiful gardens in the capital, and exceptional monuments such as the Great Mosque of Paris or the Pantheon.
The Walking Tour
Start your walk at the métro Gare d’Auterlitz (lignes 5 & 10, RER C). Enter the jardin des Plantes.
Created in 1626, this garden is since then a scientific and educational place. An extraordinary green space where you can discover for free 400 botanical species,d many museums and a zoo.
Go out at the level of rue Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire and continue as far as rue Georges Desplas.
You are in front of the Great Mosque of Paris, the oldest mosque in France, opened in 1926. Inspired by the el-Qaraouiyyîn mosque in Fez, its construction was decided after World War I to honor the 70,000 Muslims dead for France .
Walk along Square Robert Montagne and go straight ahah as far as rue Monge. Go to the Arènes de Lutèce.
Only remnant of the Gallo-Roman era with the Thermes de Cluny, the Arenes de Lutece have been built in the 1st century. Partially destroyed during the barbarian invasions, rediscovered during Haussmann’s work in 1860, it is today a nice garden, and a sumptuous historical testament.
Go then rue Rollin (in front of rue de Navarre). French philosopher René Descartes lived at the N°14, Blaise Pascal at N°22.
At the end of the street is the pretty Place de la Contrescarpe. You’ll notice above a supermarket a colonial sign dating from the 18th century: “Au Nègre Joyeux” (The Happy Negro). An old sign of a chocolate factory featuring a black servant which is still controversial, but remains one of the last witnesses in Paris of the colonial time.
Walk down the Rue Mouffetard. One of the oldest streets in Paris, became touristy but that has kept a nice atmosphere, with old signs and beautiful shops.
Down the street you are in front of the Saint-Medard parish. Walk back onto rue Mouffetard, turn left onto rue de l’Arbalète then walk up rue Lhomond until Place du Panthéon.
You are on top of the Montagne Sainte-Geneviève.
Built on the site of an old church built in the memory of St. Genevieve, Patron Saint of Paris, the Pantheon was commissioned by Louis XV, who mad the resolution to build a church if he cured a long illness. It became a monument dedicated to the great figures in the history of France after the French Revolution, in 1791.
Head to rue Clovis street. At N°12 is an impressive stretch of the Philip Auguste Wall, built around Paris in the 12th century.
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Médici Foutain
In Luxembourg Gardens, maybe the most romantic place in Paris.
The Collège des Bernardins
The Collège des Bernardins is one of the hugest and oldest Parisian medieval buildings. A place of meetings, exhibits, and history.
Saint-Germain-des-Prés Church
Founded in 543, the oldest church in Paris.
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Nearby Luxembourg gardens, an “artistic” and peaceful public garden.
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A walk in the eastern part of the Latin Quarter, around the rue Mouffetard. From the Jardin des Plantes to the Pantheon, a nice stroll to discover this historical district.
To do by day
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Meet Our Facilitators
LeAndra Hartman
LeAndra Hartman graduated from the University of Northern Iowa in 1979 with a degree in Family and Consumer Sciences and immediately entered the world of education, teaching high school students in the Eastland District (Lanark, IL) for 33 years. In her retirement, LeAndra’s true passion is with her current position facilitating the CEO program (Creating Entrepreneurial Opportunities) through the Whiteside Area Career Center. The challenge of bringing the business and education world together for high school juniors and seniors is extremely eye-opening and rewarding. LeAndra’s daughters, Lauren and Liberty, and granddaughter Kennedy are her greatest joys.
Norman Deets
Norman Deets graduated in 1979 from Millikin University in Decatur, Illinois with a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology. He was a letterman for the basketball team known as the Big Blue. He earned a Masters of Business Administration degree from Saint Ambrose University located in Davenport, Iowa in 1994.
Norman worked for CGH Medical Center in Sterling, Illinois for 31 years, the last 16 of those years as its Chief Operating Officer. The hospital experienced rapid growth and expansion during his tenure.
Mr. Deets has owned and operated Deets Farms since 1985 and is currently engaged in the operation full time. He currently assists LeAndra Hartman facilitating the Creating Entrepreneurial Opportunities class through Whiteside Area Career Center since its inception in 2013. He consults focusing on leadership development on a limited basis.
Norman has served on numerous appointed and elected boards throughout his career. He is the past president of Polo Rotary and the Rock Falls Community Development Corporation. He is currently a trustee for Eagle Point Township.
Marti married Norman in 1981. They are the parents of Lindsey and Tim. They are also grandparents to Ben and twins Abrianna and Cillian. I now know why you have children when you are young!
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Pink is joined by Channing Tatum in her new music video!
Pink has released the music video for her new single 'Beautiful Trauma' and it's got us in stitches!
She's joined by Channing Tatum as they open up a 1950's marriage in the hilarious video that features cross-dressing, dancing and waking up in separate beds!
With a colourful theme throughout, the video is from the title single to Pink's new album which was released in October. The star has since appeared on James Corden's 'Carpool Karaoke' and performed at the American Music Awards!
It's 1950's with a modern twist and all round wacky!
Check out Pink's 'Beautiful Trauma' music video featuring Channing Tatum below!
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Kangana Ranaut’s Mental Hai Kya clashing with Hrithik Roshan’s Super 30
Kangana Ranaut starrer Mental Hai Kya is now going to clash with Hrithik Roshan's Super 30 as both are releasing on the same date.
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By Garima Das Last updated May 9, 2019
The release date of Kangana Ranaut and Rajkummar Rao starrer Mental Hai Kya has been pushed from June 21 to now July 26. On the same day, Hrithik Roshan starrer Super 30 is also slated to release. This is not for the first time Kangana and Hrithik’s films are having the same release date. Earlier too, Super 30 was scheduled to release on January 25 but then Kangana’s Manikarnika’s release date was scheduled on the same date. Later the makers of Super 30 had to push the release date to July 26. So, this has led us to think that is Kangana doing this deliberately to clash with Super 30?
Well, the makers of Mental Hai Kya has issued a statement stating that the release date has been postponed due to business prospects. The statement read as: “A lot is being reported about Mental Hai Kya clashing with another film at the box office on July 26. The shift in the release date is a decision taken after the recommendations from the distributors, trade analysts and top research team, keeping in mind the releases a week before and after this date. We have been advised to shift the release of our movie to July 26, purely for the business prospects.”
It further stated, “On knowing, that there is already a movie scheduled for a release on that date, we did it all in our purview to ensure that there will be no mudslinging and it will be dignified release. We stand by assuring that to all other parties. This is a call taken by Ekta Kapoor’s Balaji Motion Pictures considering better prospects for the movie at the box office and no other parties were involved.”
Now reports are doing the rounds stating that Super 30 will now release on August 29. We will keep you updated till the official announcement is made.
Also Read: Kangana Ranaut Attacks Hrithik Roshan Once Again
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After a prolific collegiate career at Seattle Pacific University, where he was a three-time All-American and led SPU to the 1993 Division II National Championship, Hahnemann joined the Seattle Sounders of the A-League in 1994. The six-foot-three goalkeeper was an All-Star in his rookie year and led the Sounders to the A-League title in 1996.
"I'm excited for the next part of what's to come. There's all sorts of different opportunities ahead of me," said Hahnemann. "The cool part is that I got to start off my career as a Sounder and I got to end it as a Sounder."
"Back then, we had four or five thousand in the stands, then for the playoffs we'd get 10,000 at Memorial Stadium," added Hahnemann. "It's incredible now to have 30,000-40,000 for every game. It's unbelievable how it's taken off and all of the right moves the ownership has made."
Hahnemann came back to Seattle after 13 years and over 300 appearances in England football for Fulham, Reading, Wolverhampton Wanderers and Everton. He also earned nine caps for the U.S. Men's National Team and was a member of the 2006 and 2010 FIFA World Cup teams.
Hahnemann began his MLS career in 1997 with the Colorado Rapids. He played three seasons with Colorado, posting a 39-25 record in 66 appearances, before joining Fulham in 1999. Hahnemann then moved to Reading, where he became a mainstay for the Royals, making over 250 appearances from 2002-09 and helping the club gain promotion to the Premiership in 2005-06.
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Review: ‘Wozzeck’ at Deutsche Oper Berlin Misses The Mark
In Berlin, classical, Europe, opera, production
Photo © Marcus LIeberenz
Which came first, the concept or the opera?
This is the question I kept asking myself through Ole Anders Tandberg’s production of Wozzeck at Deutsche Oper Berlin. Having been frequently presented in Berlin over the past few years, this presentation is, admittedly, up against some stiff competition, but not having seen any of those stagings myself, I was going in fresh, curious if I might finally experience a production I liked. Alas.
Keeping in mind what I’d written about Claus Guth’s Die Frau ohne Schatten, and how Regie can and frequently does divide opinion, Wozzeck is one of those works that is divisive by its very nature. It invites abstract production because of its entirely abstract nature — the work itself, through its score and story and frequent use of Sprechgesang, resists the idea of tradition, purposely poking, prodding, and sometimes happily eviscerating the entire concept. Creative choices can sometimes thrive in and around such works, and yet, I have yet to see a live performance of Wozzeck that completely satisfies; alas, last evening’s experience at Deutsche Oper Berlin did nothing in altering this stymied state of music affairs.
Berg’s opera is based on the play Woyzeck, and though it was left incomplete by author Georg Büchner (who died in 1837), it remains a highly influential work, particularly within the German theatre world. So too Berg’s Wozzeck within a classical music corollary; even now, a century after its composition, the work remains revolutionary for its whole-hearted embrace of atonality. Solidly resisting all the predictable sounds and techniques which had dominated Western classical music (along with standard operatic forms) up to that point, the opera, written between 1914 and 1922 and premiered in Berlin, went on to enjoy immense success across Europe before it was labelled “degenerate art” by the Nazis in 1933. It is, as Britannica tidily puts it, “a dark story of madness and murder,” its titular character a soldier stationed in a town near to a military barracks in the early 19th century; an unfaithful wife, an illegitimate child, medical experiments, and murder are all part of the narrative which unfolds over 15 scenes, spread across three acts. It is, in a word, haunting; within Wozzeck‘s score can be heard the oncoming horror of the First World War, the breaking point of the social divides within late 19th century/early 20th century Europe, the desperation of people in an unforgiving place — physically, mentally, emotionally, financially, spiritually. It is a deeply affecting portrait of alienation, a trait various productions have attempted to underline, amplify, and explore, with varying results, since its first production in 1925.
Tandberg places the action in the early/mid 20th century, in, as the program notes, the interior of a coffee house near the Oslo Royal Castle, on or around National Day in Norway, May 17th. The work opens with Wozzeck (Johan Reuter) and the Captain (Burkhard Ulrich) debating morality, though viewers will clearly note the line of soldiers with their pants down as Wozzeck tends to (ostensibly shaves) them; he later bends over for an examination himself. The carefully sterile set design, by Erlend Birkeland, reveals a precise geometry of repression, with square school-style tables in a canteen-like space framed by more boxes: a long bar, imposing doors and windows, where things are seen but remotely revealed, not even when soldiers can be seen frolicking and stripping naked. The scientific specimens the Doktor (Seth Carico) looks at through his microscope are projected via a tidy white circle upstage, which later drips with color, a display of fragility and cruelty at once. These are striking images, to be sure, but feel oddly distant to the work and its concerns. Those twin concepts — fragility and cruelty — and the way they interact, are vital to knowing and appreciating the life (inner and outer) of the central character, yet they are never explored. Wozzeck and the other characters are so smartly attired, it’s as if the subtext of destitution (so closely connected to that fragile-cruel dance) doesn’t exist at all. Surreal free-flows of ideas are fine, but the ones here have been placed not in service of the drama, but before it, which short-changes both the characters and our sense of them.
This emphasis is most clearly expressed in the use of video. Tandberg, who previously directed Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk and Bizet’s Carmen at the Deutsche Oper, presents each of the fifteen scenes that make up Wozzeck as pseudo-vignettes, tenuously (and tediously) divided by the closing and reopening of a black curtain, onto which is projected an immense, black-and-white close-up video of the face of its title character, blinking and silent. Rather than being an insightful and excitingly confrontational choice, the technique, in its insistent repetition, draws attention to itself and becomes a frustrating distraction that kills the much-needed integration of drama, characters, and music; Berg’s score becomes a backdrop to an aesthetic, or series of aesthetics, that creates a disconnect between score, story, and an integrated experience of each.
It doesn’t help that musically this Wozzeck seemed over-dynamic and yet frustratingly gutless. Musical motifs for the Doktor, Captain, Drum Major (Thomas Blondelle), and Marie (Elena Zhidkova), while prominent, were not clear in delineating characterizations within Deutsche Oper General Music Director Donald Runnicles’s grey reading, which had an unfortunate and consistent tendency toward limpid tempos and lack of coloration. Wozzeck’s motifs were jaggedly unfocused and suffered further by being diffused against Tandberg’s over-enthusiastic use of curtain/video. Any sense of vocal nuance baritone Reuter might have attempted to bring to form a more satisfying and complete characterization was washed out by the sheer volume coming from the pit, though baritone Carico, as a demented Doktor, and Zhidkova, with her plummy mezzo tones, fared better. The surreal tone of the production, while brave, added little if any value to the experience and understanding of the opera. Alas, all was also washed out to sea, drowning in more than the blood that flowed, mercilessly, in the final scene.
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WoPC Home > United Kingdom > Kum-Bak > Kargo
Posted by Simon Wintle October 05, 2017 at 11:02am
Country of Origin: UK Keywords: kum-bak sport pepys
Kargo or “Card Golf”, an amusing game for golfers off the links designed to give you all the thrills of the game without taking any exercise, was designed by Bruce Angrave (1914-1983), first manufactured by Gaymes Ltd and distributed by Kum-Bak Sports Toys & Games, c.1931. Castell Bros (Pepys) subsequently took over the game in about 1935, continuing to re-issue it for several decades [see Pepys edition]. See the Box►
Above: 1st edition of Kargo or Card Golf manufactured by Gaymes Ltd and distributed by Kum-Bak Sports Toys & Games, 56-58 Whitcomb St., Leicester Square, London W.C.2, c.1931. 53 cards + instruction booklet in box. Images courtesy Rex Pitts.
Bruce Angrave (1914-1983) was a Leicester-born English artist for children’s books in the 1930s and was a key part of the Festival of Britain in the early 1950s. He designed posters for the London Transport from 1942 until 1964.
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Islam to overtake Christianity as world’s largest religion by 2070?
March 17, 2017 By World Watch Monitor Asia-Pacific, India, Indonesia, Islamic extremism, Middle East, North Africa, RSS, Vishva Hindu Parishad
Islam is the world’s second-largest religion, after Christianity, but this could change if current demographic trends continue, as Islam would overtake Christianity by 2070, reports the BBC.
New reporting from the US-based Pew Research Center shows that Islam is the fastest growing major religion. The reason, it says, is simply down to demographics – Muslims typically have more children than the followers of the seven other major religious groups analysed in the study. Around the world, Muslim women have an average of 3.1 children compared to 2.3 for all other groups combined.
Although Islam is the main religion in many countries in the Middle East-North Africa region, the report notes that most Muslims live in the Asia-Pacific region, the majority in Indonesia.
However, if the current trend continues, by 2050 India would have more Muslims – 300 million – than any other country, although Hinduism would still remain the majority religion. In September 2015, Pravin Togadia – then working president of the World Hindu Council – claimed Hindus were in danger of “extinction” (in the Hindu nationalist RSS’s publication, “Organiser”) and called for legislation to punish Muslims if they had more than two children. (According to the 2011 Indian census, Muslims registered a 0.8% growth between 2001 and 2011; Hindus declined by 0.7%.)
The Muslim population of the West is also growing. Pew projects that 10% of all Europeans, and one in 50 Americans, will be Muslim by 2050.
The report also highlights how little is known about Muslims, particularly in America, where favourable opinion about Islam has declined since 2005. There has, however, been virtually no change in the past year in the proportion of Americans saying that Islam is more likely than other religions to encourage violence, says Pew.
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NYC's New Tech to Track Every Homeless Person in the City
New York is facing a crisis. The city that never sleeps has become the city with the most people who have no home to sleep in. As rising rents outpace income growth across the five boroughs, some 62,000 people, nearly 40 percent of them children, live in homeless shelters—rates the city hasn't seen since the Great Depression.
As New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio faces reelection in November, his reputation and electoral prospects depend in part on his ability to reverse this troubling trend. In the mayor's estimation, combatting homelessness effectively will require opening 90 new shelters across the city and expanding the number of outreach workers who canvass the streets every day offering aid and housing. The effort will also require having the technology in place to ensure that work happens as efficiently as possible. To that end, the city is rolling out a new tool, StreetSmart, aims to give city agencies and non-profit groups a comprehensive view of all of the data being collected on New York's homeless on a daily basis.
Think of StreetSmart as a customer relationship management system for the homeless. Every day in New York, some 400 outreach workers walk the streets checking in on homeless people and collecting information about their health, income, demographics, and history in the shelter system, among other data points. The workers get to know this vulnerable population and build trust in the hope of one day placing them in some type of housing.
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Traditionally, outreach workers have entered information about every encounter into a database, keeping running case files. But those databases never talked to each other. One outreach worker in the Bronx might never know she was talking to the same person who’d checked into a Brooklyn shelter a week prior. More importantly, the worker might never know why that person left. What's more, systems used by city agencies and non-profits seldom overlapped, complicating efforts to keep track of individuals.
"It would require reinventing the wheel in every case," says Human Resources Administration Commissioner Steve Banks.
A True View
Banks wanted a tool that would not only enable workers to coordinate their efforts, but also give the city government a true overview of the homelessness problem that would enable officials to design interventions based on real data, not rough estimates. The city’s tech team worked with non-profit organizations such as Project Hospitality in Staten Island as well as BronxWorks to find out what the outreach workers on the front lines of this citywide disaster need.
“The work itself is difficult, but then managing the work, and where people are and tracking folks is a big, huge thing we deal with,” says Juan Rivera, who directs homeless outreach for BronxWorks.
Outreach workers need to be armed with as much information as possible if they’re going to build trust with clients, Rivera says. They need to know, for instance, if a homeless individual in their neighborhood recently left a detox program in another neighborhood. That person might need more than just a bed to get back on his feet. StreetSmart gives outreach workers access to that information. At the same time, the team behind StreetSmart took pains to protect clients’ privacy, so, for instance, only authorized officials would have access to people’s medical history.
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The big promise of StreetSmart extends beyond its ability to help outreach workers in the moment. The aggregation of all this information could also help the city proactively design fixes to problems it wouldn’t have otherwise seen. The tool has a map feature that shows where encampments are popping up and where outreach workers are having the most interactions. It can also be used to assess how effective different housing facilities are at keeping people off the streets.
Which, of course, is what all of this is really about. All of the technology in the world won’t matter if the facilities available to homeless people are fundamentally unsafe places where they don’t want to be. “The more we can integrate services the better,” says Deborah Padgett, a professor of social work at New York University. “But my concern is what is waiting for them once they get off the street?”
Padgett is one of many advocates who argue that what the city is offering today is far from enough. The Coalition for the Homeless has argued that expanding the shelter system is simply a Band-aid on the much deeper wound: the lack of permanent affordable housing in the city.
Commissioner Banks, a former attorney-in-chief at the Legal Aid Society, which represents low-income New Yorkers, acknowledges that underlying issue. "This has been a trajectory over multiple decades reflective of the need for affordable housing," he says.
These knotty societal issues, decades in the making, could very likely take decades to unwind—no matter how efficient the technology working in service of ending the problem.
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Power boat racing returns to Bay City with 'Rockin' the River'
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The sound of powerboats racing the Saginaw River will be heard once again as the Bay City River Roar is coming back this year, but with a new name called Rockin’ the River.
It’ll feature the thrills of Formula 1 boat racing along with the music of several live bands.
“So, we took a year off, and a lot of people have started to step up to help sponsor this event, and it’s going to be a fun time this weekend,” said Michael Bacigalupo, the president of the River Roar organization.
Bacigalupo said despite their year off, it helped to rebuild this racing spectacle into what it is now.
If there’s one thing you should keep in mind if you’re coming to Rockin’ the River this year, it’s that the event will be held at Wenonah Park.
“We’re only allowing viewing or the spectators to view from Wenonah Park,” Bacigalupo said. “Because of the flooding that we had at Vets Park during the fireworks festival.”
For fans of this event and more, like George Shaw, it makes staying in Bay City during the summer a fun time.
“Wonderful, I love it,” Shaw said. “Makes being on the river worthwhile.”
The same goes for local businesses such as the Bay City Market where they’re preparing for a huge batch of hungry customers over the weekend.
“Bay City is buzzing,” said Greg Buzzard, owner of That Guy’s BBQ & Grill. “I mean it’s Fourth of July fireworks, Rockin’ the River, Tall Ships, back to back to back, so you just keep your foot on the gas pedal and we keep running with it.”
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World's 1st Cyber Attack
Back in November 1988, Robert Tappan Morris, son of the famous cryptographer Robert Morris Sr., was a 20-something graduate student at Cornell who wanted to know how big the internet was – that is, how many devices were connected to it. So he wrote a program that would travel from computer to computer and ask each machine to send a signal back to a control server, which would keep count.
The program worked well – too well, in fact. Morris had known that if it traveled too fast there might be problems, but the limits he built in weren't enough to keep the program from clogging up large sections of the internet, both copying itself to new machines and sending those pings back. When he realized what was happening, even his messages warning system administrators about the problem couldn't get through.
His program became the first of a particular type of cyber attack called "distributed denial of service," in which large numbers of internet-connected devices, including computers, webcams and other smart gadgets, are told to send lots of traffic to one particular address, overloading it with so much activity that either the system shuts down or its network connections are completely blocked.
As the chair of the integrated Indiana University Cybersecurity Program, I can report that these kinds of attacks are increasingly frequent today. In many ways, Morris's program, known to history as the "Morris worm," set the stage for the crucial, and potentially devastating, vulnerabilities in what I and others have called the coming "Internet of Everything."
Worms and viruses are similar, but different in one key way: A virus needs an external command, from a user or a hacker, to run its program. A worm, by contrast, hits the ground running all on its own. For example, even if you never open your email program, a worm that gets onto your computer might email a copy of itself to everyone in your address book.
In an era when few people were concerned about malicious software and nobody had protective software installed, the Morris worm spread quickly. It took 72 hours for researchers at Purdue and Berkeley to halt the worm. In that time, it infected tens of thousands of systems – about 10 percent of the computers then on the internet. Cleaning up the infection cost hundreds or thousands of dollars for each affected machine.
In the clamor of media attention about this first event of its kind, confusion was rampant. Some reporters even asked whether people could catch the computer infection. Sadly, many journalists as a whole haven't gotten much more knowledgeable on the topic in the intervening decades.
Morris wasn't trying to destroy the internet, but the worm's widespread effects resulted in him being prosecuted under the then-new Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. He was sentenced to three years of probation and a roughly US$10,000 fine. In the late 1990s, though, he became a dot-com millionaire – and is now a professor at MIT.
The internet remains subject to much more frequent – and more crippling – DDoS attacks. With more than 20 billion devices of all types, from refrigerators and cars to fitness trackers, connected to the internet, and millions more being connected weekly, the number of security flaws and vulnerabilities is exploding.
In October 2016, a DDoS attack using thousands of hijacked webcams – often used for security or baby monitors – shut down access to a number of important internet services along the eastern U.S. seaboard. That event was the culmination of a series of increasingly damaging attacks using a botnet, or a network of compromised devices, which was controlled by software called Mirai. Today's internet is much larger, but not much more secure, than the internet of 1988.
Some things have actually gotten worse. Figuring out who is behind particular attacks is not as easy as waiting for that person to get worried and send out apology notes and warnings, as Morris did in 1988. In some cases – the ones big enough to merit full investigations – it's possible to identify the culprits. A trio of college students was ultimately found to have created Mirai to gain advantages when playing the "Minecraft" computer game.
But technological tools are not enough, and neither are laws and regulations about online activity – including the law under which Morris was charged. The dozens of state and federal cybercrime statutes on the books have not yet seemed to reduce the overall number or severity of attacks, in part because of the global nature of the problem.
There are some efforts underway in Congress to allow attack victims in some cases to engage in active defense measures – a notion that comes with a number of downsides, including the risk of escalation – and to require better security for internet-connected devices. But passage is far from assured.
There is cause for hope, though. In the wake of the Morris worm, Carnegie Mellon University established the world's first Cyber Emergency Response Team, which has been replicated in the federal government and around the world. Some policymakers are talking about establishing a national cybersecurity safety board, to investigate digital weaknesses and issue recommendations, much as the National Transportation Safety Board does with airplane disasters.
More organizations are also taking preventative action, adopting best practices in cybersecurity as they build their systems, rather than waiting for a problem to happen and trying to clean up afterward. If more organizations considered cybersecurity as an important element of corporate social responsibility, they – and their staff, customers and business partners – would be safer.
In "3001: The Final Odyssey," science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke envisioned a future where humanity sealed the worst of its weapons in a vault on the moon – which included room for the most malignant computer viruses ever created. Before the next iteration of the Morris worm or Mirai does untold damage to the modern information society, it is up to everyone – governments, companies and individuals alike – to set up rules and programs that support widespread cybersecurity, without waiting another 30 years.
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People love to hate Steve Ballmer, but he's been hugely successful at Microsoft, and deserves a more considered judgement that includes his successes as well as his failures
By Jack Schofield for Jack's Blog | August 27, 2013 -- 13:38 GMT (06:38 PDT) | Topic: Steve Ballmer - The Exit Interview
The larger-than-life but now (literally) retiring Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer has been roundly trashed online over the past few days. Suffice it to say that if Ballmer were a play, it wouldn't have survived for a second night, let alone 33 years.
Yes, he made some painful mistakes. But on any rational judgement, Ballmer has been one of the world's most successful businessmen, and built what is still one of the world's top 10 companies by value. Much of Microsoft's success is down to Bill Gates, but the two friends have worked as a deadly duo since 1980, when Microsoft was a tiny, 29-man company. Ballmer deserves some credit for that, besides his $15 billion-worth of stock.
Since becoming CEO in 2000, Ballmer has more than tripled Microsoft's annual sales (from $23 billion to $78 billion) and more than doubled profits ($9.4 billion to $21.9 billion). In that time he's returned $164 billion to shareholders while adding around $90 billion to Microsoft's net assets. Very few CEOs have done better. Many tech companies — AMD, Dell, HP, Intel, Nokia, Sony, Sun etc — have done worse under multiple CEOs. Indeed, Ballmer has done much better than many people expected a dozen years ago.
As analyst Horace Dediu said at Asymco: "He did exactly what all managers are incentivized to do and avoided all the wasteful cannibalization for which they are punished."
Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer at an Annual Share Holders Meeting. Source: Microsoft
Ballmer also established Microsoft as a powerhouse in server software and applications, transformed Windows, Office and Windows Mobile, acquired Skype and Dynamics, and with Azure, made a very strong move into cloud computing. Microsoft is still closing in on Ray Ozzie's vision of "three screens and a cloud", but the range and quality of its products is markedly better than when Ballmer took over.
Ballmer has managed all that in competition with free software — Linux, OpenOffice, Java etc — all of which were supposed to have killed Microsoft long before now. At least, that was the fanboy hype.
He has also managed it in a decade where Microsoft was under the constant close supervision of the US Justice Department and what looks like a vendetta from the European Commission. Hal Berenson, who left Microsoft in 2010, wrote in a blogpost:
"After the DoJ settlement, he had to spend a good chunk of his tenure finding a way to settle with the E.U. And then run the company under the terrible burden of complying with both settlements. Between the actual restrictions from these settlements and the general caution about antitrust that then pervaded the Microsoft culture, Steve was essentially running Microsoft with one hand tied behind his back.
"The truth is, I don’t think Steve gets enough credit for saving the company. Without him Microsoft probably would now be a footnote in tech history."
Of course, it's not all good news.
Ballmer hasn't been successful in important areas such as mobile phones, tablets and search in particular. However, looking at the Windows Mobile and Windows XP tablets that he inherited from Gates, hindsight suggests he didn't start from the best place.
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Ballmer also failed to get the sort of devotion from Microsoft staff that Gates enjoyed, and that gets people to put in long hours and aim for the greatest possible outcomes. The hated stack ranking system obviously hasn't helped. Either way, Microsoft lost a lot of good staff. Worse, many of them went to rivals such as Google, and it shows.
But in the end, Ballmer's most obvious failure has been his public persona, which is one reason why he is being judged so harshly. In public, Ballmer has usually seemed the pumped-up football coach, and blustering can work pretty well with people who are on your team. However, it goes down really badly with your enemies, and on TV. Ballmer's an extremely smart guy (and, unlike Gates, actually graduated from Harvard), but that's not his image. And in an age of ignorance, most people take the image for the reality.
Gates managed to turn himself from a belligerent, squeaky-voiced kid into a man who could attract huge audiences at Comdex and CES — which Ballmer failed to do — and he's now become something of a saint. In contrast, Ballmer doesn't seem that much different after 33 years at Microsoft. He's still loud and gaffe-prone when he should have developed a more relaxed, avuncular twinkle.
Note that I don't blame Ballmer for Microsoft's flat share price over the past dozen years. Microsoft and many other tech companies were ridiculously overvalued in Bubble 1.0 around the turn of the century, and that kind of stupidity takes a very long time to unwind. The graph below shows how Microsoft's share price compares with other PC industry giants — Dell, HP, and Intel — after January 2001.
In the end, Ballmer's reign has been a bit of mixed bag, but a fair judgement must include both sides of the story. He could have done better, but he could have done one heck of a lot worse.
Microsoft's share price from 2001-13. Source: ZDNet screen grab from Yahoo Finance.
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Gender identity disorder is where a person is deeply unhappy with the gender they were born in, because it is different from the gender they feel they should be. This often leads to a desire to live in their preferred gender and change their appearance.
Relevant terms associated with gender identity disorder
Gender dysphoria; transsexualism; male to female (MtF) transsexual; female to male (FtM) transsexual; trans man; trans woman; transman; transwoman
What is gender identity disorder?
Gender identity disorder is a strong and persistent feeling that a person has the wrong gender identification, which causes discomfort with their sex or a sense of inappropriateness in the gender role of that sex.
In addition, a person with this disorder wants to live and be accepted as a member of the opposite sex and change the gender of his or her body as far as possible through surgery and hormone treatment.
What causes gender identity disorder?
The underlying cause for gender identity disorder is unknown. In animals, it is known that there are critical periods of time during pregnancy where alterations in the amount of oestrogen and testosterone in the developing animal can permanently alter masculine or feminine behaviour. However, more research is needed to find out if a similar mechanism could be operating in gender identity disorder.
What are the signs and symptoms of gender identity disorder?
Gender identity disorder is the feeling that a person does not belong to the sex in which they were born. In gender identity disorder, the person is unhappy in their present gender role. In transsexualism, they also generally want to take steps to change their body through hormones and/or surgery so that it is more in keeping with the way they feel it should be. These feelings often lead to the wearing of clothes of their desired gender and changing their role in society accordingly.
People with gender identity disorder have normal body appearances and hormone levels for their birth gender.
It is important to recognise the difference between gender identity disorder, where the person feels they were born in the wrong gender, and disorders of sex development. This term covers a range of conditions present from birth, where the development of one or more components of anatomical, chromosomal or gonadal sex is unusual, but the person generally does not feel they have been born in the wrong gender.
How common is gender identity disorder?
Gender identity disorder is estimated to occur in 1 in 12,000 men and 1 in 30,000 women.
Is gender identity disorder inherited?
There is no evidence of an inherited cause for gender identity disorder.
How is gender identity disorder diagnosed?
The diagnosis and treatment of gender identity disorder is usually made in accordance with the World Professional Association of Transgender Health guidelines, which recommend that this is done by a mental health practitioner who has experience in working with clients who have problems of gender and sexuality.
A diagnosis of gender identity disorder can only be made if the person has had these feelings about their gender and sexuality for at least 2 years and the person does not have a significant mental health issue such as psychosis that could be causing the gender dysmorphia. People with mental health issues can be treated, but they require careful assessment to ensure the gender identity disorder is not related to the underlying mental health issue.
Within the NHS, the route to treatment is for a person to be assessed by local psychiatric services and, if gender identity disorder is present, refer them on to one of the specialist gender identity clinics.
Blood tests to rule out any endocrine problems are usually taken before hormone treatment is given and will test levels of luteinising hormone (LH), follicle stimulating hormone (FSH), testosterone, oestradiol and prolactin in the bloodstream. Tests may also be taken to check the person’s number and appearance of their chromosomes (karyotype), particularly if the person is young. Tests will also be taken to make sure it is safe to give hormones, and these include liver function tests, a prostate-specific antigen test and a full blood count.
How is gender identity disorder treated?
The whole treatment process is known as triadic therapy, which is a progressive strategy, consisting of three critical elements – ‘real-life experience’, hormonal therapy of the desired gender and finally, sex reassignment surgery. As the person advances through this sequence of therapy with increasingly irreversible effects on their body (and therefore, more significant physical alterations), it becomes increasingly difficult to revert to their birth sex. It is therefore important that hormonal therapy is undertaken in close collaboration with a mental health professional who is experienced in the assessment of people with gender identity disorder, ideally working closely with the endocrinologist to deliver treatment.
The aim of treatment is to suppress the production of the sex hormones of the person’s birth gender and to give the hormones of the desired gender in order to produce the secondary sexual characteristics of that desired gender. Following hormonal treatment, surgery is also often used to modify the genitalia and breasts to alter their appearance to that of the desired gender. This is known as gender reassignment surgery.
After surgery, hormone treatment needs to be continued to prevent the complications of not having sex hormone production such as brittle bones (osteoporosis) or early heart disease.
For transwomen, the standard hormonal treatment used at the major NHS provider clinic is oestradiol valerate. The dose given is usually increased over time after an initial three months of therapy. A gonadotrophin-releasing hormone analogue is added to stop testosterone production. To cover the rise in testosterone levels for the first two weeks, cyproterone acetate is also given once daily.
Other treatments can include the use of either ethinylestradiol or premarin. However, these preparations are difficult to measure and put the person at a greater risk of thrombosis of the veins than with the use of oestradiol valerate.
For transmen, testosterone treatment begins with a dose of testosterone enanthate esters 4-weekly. The dose is increased every three to four months, but initial doses are usually adequate to suppress menstruation. The aim of therapy is to achieve testosterone levels in the high normal male range one week after the injection, and to have a lower level at the bottom of the normal male range on the day the next injection is due. Other regimes include the use of testosterone gel patches or longer-acting preparations such as a long-acting injection or testosterone implants. The aim of therapy is to get the testosterone levels into the normal male range.
Although side-effects are relatively rare, there are a number of issues that a person considering treatment should be aware of.
For transwomen, the side-effects can include:
Thromboembolic disease (deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism) – the rate of deep vein thrombosis in transsexual patients is approximately 2.6%. However, in this young population, this represents a risk that is 20 times greater than that of the general population. The majority of these incidents occur during the first two years of treatment. After this period, the risk of thromboembolic disease remains, but at a much lower rate (0.4%).
Breast cancer – there have only been four case reports of breast tumours occurring in treated transsexual patients, suggesting that the risk of breast cancer following feminising hormone therapy is very low.
Hyperprolactinaemia – there may be a slightly increased risk of developing hyperprolactinaemia.
Abnormal liver function – the risk of abnormal liver function is approximately 3% in male-to-female transsexuals. In half of these, the abnormalities continue for more than three months. However, the increases are mild and only rarely require discontinuation of treatment.
Fertility – oestrogen therapy leads to suppression of sperm production. Men should be counselled that the treatment will reduce their fertility and offered the chance of sperm storage if desired.
For transmen, the side-effects can include:
Polycythaemia – testosterone replacement can be associated with thickening of the blood (polycythaemia) and this can lead to an increased risk of stroke in some people. This can occur even in young people as both stroke and heart attacks have been reported in athletes who abuse testosterone.
Abnormal liver function – one set of research has shown short-term increases in liver function enzymes in 4.4% of female-to-male transsexuals and this was prolonged (more than six months) in only 6.8% of these.
Gynaecological malignancy – testosterone can be converted to an oestrogen (specifically to oestradiol) in the body. This is especially likely to occur when high levels of testosterone replacement are used. The reported risk of overgrowth of the lining of the womb (endometrial hyperplasia) is 15% in transmen. Monitoring of the endometrial thickness by ultrasound scanning every two years is recommended. Hysterectomy is often recommended after two years of testosterone therapy.
What are the longer-term implications of gender identity disorder?
The normal timescale for treatment is that a person has to be living in the opposite gender for a minimum of one year, but more usually two years, before they are eligible for gender reassignment surgery.
With regard to long-term outcomes, the mortality rate between the trans and general population is not different, which shows that lifelong hormone replacement therapy in this group is very safe.
The legal rights of transpeople have been recognised in the Gender Recognition Act and the majority of trans people have the right to change their birth certificate when they are stable and established in their new gender role.
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New Hanover Co. authorities ID man shot and killed during home invasion
By WECT Staff | December 24, 2017 at 4:53 PM EST - Updated August 14 at 9:41 AM
NEW HANOVER COUNTY, NC (WECT) - The New Hanover County Sheriff's Office has identified a man who was shot and killed during a home invasion early Sunday morning.
Hakim Hanifah, 31, of Wilmington, died in the incident, a Tuesday afternoon news release said. Lt. Jerry Brewer said Hanifah was a validated gang member.
According to a press release from the sheriff's office, several men entered a home on Silverlake Road around 2:30 a.m. Sunday.
The homeowner woke up and gunfire ensued between the homeowner and the suspects, according to the NHCSO.
According to Brewer, Hanifah was shot and killed by the homeowner. The other suspects fled the scene.
This is an ongoing investigation.
Court records show that in January 2010, Hanifah was sentenced to eight years in federal prison after pleading guilty in August 2009 to possession of a firearm by a felon. He was released on June 17, 2015, according to online records.
Hanifah appealed the district court's decision to impose an upward departure, which is essentially an extension of a person's time in prison beyond what guidelines for the charge suggests. The court of appeals denied Hanifah's appeal, citing the "violent nature of Hanifah's past criminal conduct" and saying "there was nothing in the record to suggest that Hanifah was going to stop his violent behavior anytime soon."
In December 2009, Hanifah, who became a member of the Blood street gang at age 14, assaulted a jail official while being held at Piedmont Regional Jail in Farmville, Va. Court records show that Hanifah was not satisfied with the amount food on his tray and after refusing a guard's order to step back, punched the guard in the face, resulting in the guard having to visit a hospital for treatment.
According to NC Department of Corrections records, Hanifah was convicted of assault on the guard.
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Religion and Boundary Making (Gnosticism series)
October 24, 2014 /22 Comments/in Apocrypha, Christian Historiography /by Cassandra J. Farrin
“When modern historians adopt the strategies as well as the content of the [ancient] polemicists’ construction of heresy to define Gnosticism, they are not just reproducing the heresy of the polemicists; they are themselves propagating the politics of orthodoxy and heresy.”
—Karen L. King, What Is Gnosticism?, 54
Have you ever looked at a map of the world from a country other than your own? Odds are there was something peculiar about it. Your own country was no longer the center of the world. Japan, or Africa, or Australia, or some other country had taken its place. On a more subtle level, all one-dimensional maps stretch and distort what they describe, because they can’t easily reproduce a perfect sphere. Peter Turchi, in Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer, observes in response to this phenomenon:
If no map is objective, we must reconsider what we mean when we ask if a map is “accurate.” Under the most rigorous examination, no map is accurate. On the other hand, you can probably draw on a scrap of paper what is called a sketch map sufficiently accurate to guide a new colleague from your workplace to your home. “Accuracy,” then, must be judged against the map’s stated purpose.
"School Cadets Map Reading" by Andrew MacPherson. Credit: Imperial War Museum (Wikimedia Commons)
Religion and boundary making can be understood in a similar way, with equally troubling pitfalls. We’ve been reading Karen King’s What Is Gnosticism?, a critique of how scholars today “map” the earliest generations of Christianity. King’s central claim is that the reigning maps are inaccurate for the stated purpose of the scholars.
Imagine you want to draw a map—not of a physical place but of typical religious beliefs, practices, and their associated texts in the Roman Empire of the first two centuries. That’s what most scholars of early Christianity are doing in the books they write. The labels they choose to represent clusters of certain artifacts from that time period are the equivalent of boundary markers. You can probably name a few of these labels yourself, but here’s a quick list from books I have sitting on my shelf:
Gnostic
Jesus movement
Christ followers
Pauline churches
Pharisaic Jews
Second Temple Judaism
Emperor cult/veneration
For the most part, these words are used to describe real people, real groups, and real practices. Like Peter Turchi’s sketched map, the words get the job done. If I want to explain how Christianity became the religion of the Roman Empire, or how Pharisaic Judaism came to more-or-less replace Temple Judaism, I can use these boundary markers to roughly describe the process. As long as we remember that the details are fuzzy, we can head in the right direction.
Here’s the problem: we inherited certain boundary markers from early Christian polemicists and then took them too much at their word. Specifically, we assumed they were right that their version of Christianity was “obviously” the middle course between being “too Roman” and “too Jewish.” It’s like we got a map with proto-Catholic Christianity, or proto-Protestant Christianity, smack dab in the center, and when we found maps with something else in the center, we shook our heads in confusion and looked away, saying, “This can’t be right.”
That mistake was understandable thirty or forty years ago when we didn’t have as much access many texts from opposing points of view, but those days are done. Now we know that other groups were also saying, “Here’s the real map. Yours is wrong!”
I believe King's point is this: scholars today are erring on the side of either (1) assuming static categories of identity with easily assignable characteristics and practices, or (2) assuming static boundaries, that is, drawing more obvious dividing lines between groups than actually existed. The groups were often more similar than different, as she frequently observes. Last but certainly not least, some scholars are taking the extra step of (3) assigning a positive or negative value to certain boundary markers. “This” counts as Christianity—even “true” Christianity!—and “that” does not.
What’s your take on this? Do you find certain of these labels and boundary markers of history confusing or odd? Where do you see this debate going?
Join us in reading Karen King's What Is Gnosticism? (Belknap Press, 2005)
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Gene Stecher says:
Why would “scholars” be assuming anything, let alone static categories and static boundaries, and assigning values. Don’t “scholars” follow the data wherever it leads??? I guess not, so much for scholarship.
Take a look at Patterson’s ‘St. Paul Hated Sex’ (4thR, Sept-Oct, 2013) and Walker’s ‘Maybe Paul Didn’t Hate Sex’ and ‘Stephen Patterson Replies” (4thR, Sept-Oct, 2014). It’s not like they had access to different sets of sources. Both are looking at the same stuff and saying different things, meaning the internal condition of the observer, not the data, determines conclusions. We might be able to see some truth in this multiplicity except for Patterson’s refusal to credit Walker with any legitimate correction of the original article, even suggesting that he was inept enough to be mislead by the hyperbole of the original title.
I think our hope for best outcomes rests on multiple scholars working together on a given null hypothesis: there is no difference in the evidence for or against proposition A, B, or whatever. Although only one author, I think that Goodacre did a pretty good job of exploring the null hypothesis in his “Thomas and the Gospels: The Case for Thomas’s Familiarity with the Synoptics.”
Gene, I was talking with a friend about this problem not too long ago. What you’re pointing out, it seems to me, is the tension between two values: honesty and acknowledgement of human subjectivity (humility?). The ideal humble scholar acknowledges the limits of what he knows and gives credit where credit is due to other equally valid ideas. The ideal honest scholar “pulls no punches” when seeking the most plausible explanation of phenomena.
In my mind, the honesty needs to have slightly more weight than the humility, but both need to be present in good scholarship.
RoseKeister says:
The Jerusalem messianic community of James and Peter has obscured the fact that the center of the oral tradition was Galilee. Draw a circle with a 50 mile radius (2-3 days journey) around Capernaum and look at how many regions, countries, cultures, languages and religions it encompasses. This is the heart of the argument for a multiple points of origin model of early Christianity rather than the tradition that Christianity originated with Peter and James’ belief in Jesus as the Messiah.
I think where the debate is leading is a fuller recognition that not only was the Pauline community just one of several points of origin but that the Jerusalem messianic community itself was just one of several. This in turn emphasizes that what later was considered gnosticism also arose as part of the multiple points of origin. None is the “real” or even main thrust of early Christianity. We won’t have a real history of early Christianity until a model is developed of the multiple points of origin and none are privileged in the telling as orthodox or proto-orthodox. Walter Bauer, Helmut Koester and Burton Mack have done the most so far on these lines.
The debate may also lead to the conclusion that the foundation of the oral tradition was not by “Jesus followers” or disciples. Rather the stories of Jesus arose simply from people remembering what he said in light of his death. Instead of people devoted to him, dedicated to following him, apostles etc the foundation of the oral tradition were just memories of Jesus by those who had heard him or of him then learned of his death. From this foundation of memories of what Jesus said rather than visions came Peter and James with their messianic ideas, Paul and the Christ figure, and the teachings that led to what was later called gnosticism by those who considered themselves orthodox.
Rose, that 50 mile radius circle around Capernaum is an absolutely great idea and useful visual.
Dennis Dean Carpenter says:
That radius was “scorched earth” by the time the earliest gospels were probably composed. If anything, the gospels are a reflection of the war, not traditions. With a life expectancy in portions of the area (Jericho, for instance) at less than 40 even before the war, it seems unlikely that any of the gospels were derived from any meaningful oral tradition. Peter (Rock) was one of the greatest examples of a ironic cue name every created! His character is probably as part of the fiction, not of any historical significance. James seems to come into prominence in the second century literature. I think that Mack’s hypothesis relies far too much on fictive literary characters (which have purpose within the literature) and hypotheses of “early written sources” being historicized.
The radius was referring to the origins of the oral tradition and how many different cultures were interpreting Jesus’ life in the decades leading up to the war, however your point is well taken. I just finished reading “The View From Across the Euphrates” by Stephen Patterson where he raised the point that rather than ask why “The Gospel of Thomas” lacks the passion and resurrection, we should be asking why the canonical gospels include them.
His answer is that the canonical gospels were written in the Roman empire during the Jewish wars when the Jewish people were viewed with suspicion and isolated by society. The gospels reflect this in their emphasis on Jesus’ death and how to interpret this, whereas he locates the Gospel of Thomas in Edessa outside the Roman empire where the emphasis was Jesus’ life and teachings.
By coincidence I just received Patterson’s latest book “The Lost Way” which I hope continues his thoughts on this subject because I can see the debate on labels and boundaries following his lead on why the canonical gospels include increased apocalypticism, anti-semitism, the emphasis on Jesus death rather than his life and the need to make Jesus the son of God and then God. Hopefully “The Two Ways” addresses further the New Testament origin in the Roman empire during the Jewish Wars.
On the other hand, Mark Goodacre (Thomas and the Gospels) makes a great point, based on verbatim agreement of the Greek Thomas and the gospels, as well as other things like the redaction style of the author, that Thomas was derived from the gospels. Per the “missing passion,” he points out that salvation, according to the “collector” of sayings, was emphasized that salvation came from hearing the words. It isn’t “whoever believes Jesus was raised,” but “whoever interprets” the sayings, repeating this “hearing” around nine times. This notion of “agreement” in the Synoptics does not necessarily presume that a lack of agreement necessitates independence. As he wrote on p. 15, “But one cannot legitimately reverse that positive argument and make the absence of substantial agreement in order a sign of the lack of literary relationship.”
Thus, if one does not begin with the presumption that something is missing, one can better judge what is there. He argues that this “Fifth Gospel” elevation “only serves to draw attention to its differences from the Synoptic Gospels… the Gospel of Thomas distinguishes itself from the Synoptics in genre, literary conceit, and antiquity. To grant Thomas ‘Fifth Gospel’ status encourages a kind of ahistorical privileging of one noncanonical gospel gospel over many others.” And, this has been done by many, who have even created, quite literally “out of thin air,” a Thomas community in the first century, though all the Thomas literature seems both later and dependent on the gospels.
Dennis, could you share the “methodology” that led you to conclude that, “…if anything, the gospels are a reflection of the war.”
Literary, Gene. I just hit an errant key that caused what I wrote to “eject” and I’m too irritated to write it over. Back in a bit when I cool off!
Priority of Mark is central to the way I see things. It is literature. I look at Mark as the genesis of Jesus. (I firmly see the Paulines coming later, so I am not a mythicist.) Mark has over 150 allusions to the Hebrew scriptures and symbolical geography that takes one back to the mythical exodus. Mark personifies the 12 tribes as ignorant disciples. Jesus is created in the image of Moses, Elijah and Elisha, but with more “mojo.” His very name, Joshua, points him in that direction, as well as in the direction of eponymy, “God’s salvation,” as does the dunderheaded “Rock,” Peter. Much of the story is in first person present tense, with sentences connected with “and,” which is the way one writes to push the story along at a fast clip. There is a definite chiastic structure, with the middle of the structure hearkening the figures he is paralleling, Moses and Elijah. With that in mind…
One finds the chief priests as the antagonists, an anti-Judean theme, which would have been rampant after the first Roman war. That is juxtapositioned by the Galileans, the “Israelites,” loving him. At the Passion’s “core” is the Josephus story of Jesus ben Ananias. The story is set “one generation,” forty years, before the war. The message is that, even though Judea was destroyed, God is salvation and will be found, not in the Judea that rejected God’s salvation, but in “Israel,” probably hearkening the “new Israel” of mythical lore. That is what the literature “tells” me. Hopefully, that answers the question. (Much of my background lies in literature and language.)
Keep in mind, Gene (and others), I own and have read sixty Jesus Seminar books and am closing in on 500 scholarly titles in my biblical studies collection. Though I once was enamored with the Q, the Thomas and other fads, I come from a background that, above all, treasured independent thinking and good argument.
Peter Kane says:
Rose: I like the way you look behind the boundary stereotypes, and ask why people said what they said, or did what they did. To me it seems much more fruitful to forget about what is true and what is false, and concentrate instead on people’s varying reactions to historical situations. Extracting the essence of Jesus out of Galilean context, or the ‘theology of Paul’ without Rome is like studying MLK without the civil rights movement. Which is just to say history is way more fun than theology. God only knows why organized religion gets so sidetracked on what is true.
I just finished Stephen Patterson’s “The Lost Way” in which he makes a comparison of the canonical gospels, with their themes of martyrdom and emphasis on death and resurrection, with the Gospel of Thomas which he situates in Edessa outside the Roman empire and emphasizes the Jewish wisdom tradition.
He considers the canonical gospels as wartime literature when being Jewish meant being under suspicion, harassed and even persecuted and the gospels reflect this. The Jewish community of Thomas however was outside the Roman empire and martyrdom themes are therefore absent and what is found is the wisdom tradition.
Patterson has written a lot about Thomas much of which is collected in “The Gospel of Thomas and Christian Origins: Essays on the Fifth Gospel (Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies) .” I think he and others connected with Westar are reaching the point that it can fairly be called a new model of the origins of Christianity.
“The debate may also lead to the conclusion that the foundation of the oral tradition was not by “Jesus followers” or disciples. Rather the stories of Jesus arose simply from people remembering what he said in light of his death. Instead of people devoted to him, dedicated to following him, apostles etc the foundation of the oral tradition were just memories of Jesus by those who had heard him or of him then learned of his death.”
Rose, something I like about what you’re saying here is that there’s nothing official about this process. It’s very human, emotive, engaged with memory. It’s not a “tradition” in any formal sense. Even if we look at something like September 11th, and how the narratives around that have developed since it happened, the responses of individuals become traditions by being assigned value by a given community.
It’s too early to give details, but we do have a couple forthcoming books related to this subject. Very much looking forward to conversations around them!
I’m glad to hear that because I’m expressing it very awkwardly. It’s just becoming more clear, primarily from reading Westar publications, that nascent Christianity did not follow Peter and James around but rather Peter and James’ reactions and interpretations were just part of an larger overall reaction in Galilee to Jesus’ death on the cross.
I’m also wondering more if Peter and “disciples” were not with Jesus when he was arrested before fleeing to Galilee. Instead they were just people who had heard Jesus speak and were still fishermen in Galilee at his death. Peter and James then interpreted Jesus life developing a messianic sect which Galileans did not accept and therefore the move to Jerusalem.
Narratives of the woes on Bethsaida and Chorazin and narratives of rejections of Jesus are more likely reflections of the rejection by Galilee of a messianic sect. The Jerusalem to Galilee and back to Jerusalem is just too artificial. Indeed the entire theme of Peter and the disciples in Mark now begins to stand out more as Mark arguing against Peter’s and James’ messianic ideas in favor of Jesus as the Son of God as interpreted by the emerging Gentile communities.
Rose, if Mark is arguing against Messianic identity in favor of Son of God identity, how do you explain Mark’s identification of the Messiah as Son of Man and Jesus’ identity as Son of Man throughout Mark, with this whole notion pivoting on Mark 8:27ff. where Peter’s confession of the Christos/Messiah is found?
Rose, I don’t think you’re expressing it awkwardly at all! I attended a Westar meeting a year or so ago at which someone observed that in the study of history in general and Christianity in particular, we like to pick out “heroes” who lead the way instead of allowing for communal force. I had that on my mind because I was just reading the opening chapters of Karen Armstrong’s new book Fields of Blood. In the context of relating the story of Gilgamesh, she points toward a human obsession with archetypes as part of a larger argument about how religion provides the structures we need for giving meaning to life. I’m talking about that some in my next blog post, though, so I won’t get into it too much. 😉
“…how Pharisaic Judaism came to more-or-less replace Temple Judaism…” Even that statement is not assured. One reads in the introduction of Jacob Neusner’s translation of the Mishnah (p.xxxii), “On the other hand, the Mishnah rarely refers to the Pharisees. When it does, it does not represent them as its definitive authorities. Sages, not Pharisees, are the Mishnah’s authorities.” This section about the Pharisees is enlightening. According to this Jewish source it seems the Sages produced the Judaism that became normative after the temple was squashed.
This is a good reminder, Dennis, that Judaism-Christianity as a whole entangled movement was complicated, and each of the descriptive labels we apply to the period run a risk of being misunderstood. King has stressed over the past couple chapters that we must include our intent with our definitions, or else we run a greater risk of hyperbole (thinking also of Gene’s observations about the recent exchange between Stephen Patterson and Bill Walker).
Cassandra, here are the synonyms of “Pharisee” in one of my dictionaries: “hypocrite, pretender, dissembler, humbug, fraud, white sepulcher, pietist, charlatan, goody, goody-goody.” It is disgusting and sounds like it came straight from NT polemic. On the other hand, Josephus saw Pharisees as good fellows.
One of the more interesting creations of early Christianity and modern scholars is “James, brother of the Lord.” The only mention of a James in the Paulines, as per the Marcionite Galatians (which according to Tertullian, he discovered, so it is probably the earliest) is as one of the three at the “transfiguration,” Peter, James and John. Because of what must have been an interpolation (1:18 – 24), James is transported from being a bare mention of one of the brothers in Mark who probably thought Jesus crazy to the famous guru of a “Jerusalem group.” Silly! (I’m knee deep into Marcion’s incredible Apostolikon right now. If one takes the Catholic interpolations out of the Paulines, it actually forms a fairly coherent view.)
I remember even as a child wondering where James came from. When I read (naively) in NT order, from the gospels to Acts, all of sudden there he was.
After I posted this blog, I came across a really great quote from The Jewish Gospels by Boyarin, which would have been helpful for suggesting an alternative approach to the stark definitions we inherited and adapted from polemicists. He suggests using the metaphor of family resemblance to describe Jewish-Christian relations, and quotes Chana Kronfeld from On the Margins of Modernism saying, “Members of one family share a variety of similar features—eyes, gait, hair color, temperament. But—and this is the crucial point—there need be no one set of features shared by all family members” (20-21).
Since methodology, and which methods to value, are central to King’s book, I looked through the posts to date and found the following suggested approaches: null hypotheses, geographical sensitivity, lifespan sensitivity, awareness of literary strategies, sensitivity to cultural origins, avoidance of presumptive errors, practicing the rules of logical derivation, identification of distinctiveness, accuracy in labeling.
I wonder what role “compromise” could play in the arena of scholarly practices. I woke up this morning thinking of a young couple I married in 1972, a 19yr old Protestant woman and a 21 year old Jewish man. The families were absolutely torn, but eventually they reached a compromise: the couple would marry in the bride’s family’s Methodist church, and the grooms’ parents’ wishes would be recognized by not using the name of Jesus during the service. I don’t remember why the participation of a rabbi was not solicited. I remember visiting this couple after their first child was born and the families were getting along well at the time.
This experience meets King’s criteria of the possibility of truth in recency, multiplicity and impurity. The scholarly multi-author books I’ve read are either separate chapters, or chapters responding to other chapters, or cooperative chapters of the like-minded. Has anyone read a text that evidences a perception of truth as multiple and impure, as a collision but compromise of different mind sets.
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HLAUDI: I’M A MAN WITH A PLAN!
THE person who’s going to change South Africa, whether we like it or not, is Hlaudi Motsoeneng. These were the words of the African Content Movement’s president, in a video posted on YouTube on Tuesday. In the video, Motsoeneng invites people to be part of his party manifesto launch at Curries Fountain Sports Development Centre in Durban, KZN, next Saturday. “For the first time in the history of South Africa after 1995, you will see a huge change in our manifesto. “Our manifesto is an action manifesto, it is an implementation manifesto. “We are talking about words we are talking about action,” said Motsoeneng.“I have a plan to turn around the lives of our people.” He said he would change South Africa within six months. “It will be happiness in South Africa,” he said. But social media had a different view. Many people brought up the condition Motsoeneng left the SABC in. @HelloCalvin8 tweeted: “Imagine voting for someone who thinks being invited to universities and government institutions to give lectures makes him a good leader. Today SABC is in a financial crisis because of his 90% local content.”Motsoeneng said his tenure at SABC proved he had the ability to bring change.“During my time at the SABC in all the positions I took, I helped change people’s lives.” He said he found the public broadcaster in a financial crisis. “I came in and changed things around. The six years I was COO of the SABC were happy times. Three months after I left things fell apart.”
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LGBTQ+ YouTubers Joined Hands For This Musical Tribute To The Orlando Victims
13 July 2016, 17:20 | Updated: 17 July 2017, 12:18
By Liam Dryden
Connor Franta, Gigi Gorgeous and a host of other LGBTQ+ YouTubers take part in an emotional lyric video for charity single "Hands".
It's been a few weeks, and the world has faced a handful of atrocities since; but nobody has forgotten the devastating homophobic attack at Orlando gay club Pulse, that left 49 people dead. As tributes continue to pour in, one of the most prolific is the emotional charity single 'Hands' - produced in part by Mark Ronson and featuring such musical megastars as Britney Spears, Troye Sivan, Jennifer Lopez, Halsey, Selena Gomez and an infinite number of others.
Interscope Records have released the official lyric video for the single - and a lot of familiar faces from the YouTube community have leant a cameo to this heart-wrenching tribute. LGBTQ+ YouTube stars such as Connor Franta, Gigi Gorgeous, Kingsley and Michael Buckley are among the many others who wrote the lyrics to the song on their own hands and featured them in the video for the powerful single, promoting peace and unity amongst all walks of life.
A photo posted by Michael Buckley (@buckhollywood) on Jul 12, 2016 at 9:32am PDT
Proceeds for sales of the single will be going in part to Equality Florida Pulse Victims Fund, the GLBT Community Center Of Central Florida, and GLAAD. For a full list of the artists involved in the single, and the creators involved in the video, check below.
Mary J Blige, Jason Derulo, Britney Spears, Tyler Glenn, Selena Gomez, Halsey, Ty Herndon, Imagine Dragons, Juanes, Adam Lambert, Mary Lambert, Jennifer Lopez, the Trans Chorus of Los Angeles, Kacey Musgraves, MNEK, Alex Newell, P!nk, Prince Royce, Nate Ruess, RuPaul, Troye Sivan, Jussie Smollett, Gwen Stefani, and Meghan Trainor.
Connor Franta, Mitch Grassi and Scott Hoying (Superfruit), Toby Randall, Lucas Cruikshank, Pablo Vlogs, Missesmae, Nina and Randa, Kingsley, Skylar Kergil, Nicola Foti, PatrickStarrr, Sam Tsui, Trevor Moran, Rebecca Black, Gigi Gorgeous, Jack Merridew, Mariale Marrero, Raymond Braun, Lia Marie Johnson, Us The Duo, Luan Palomera, Austin and Aaron Rhodes, Zuri Hall, Michael Buckley, Amymarie Gaertner, Manny MUA, Jake Roper, Bradlee Wannemacher, and Travis Bryant. Members of the Trans Chorus of Los Angeles appear in the video as well.
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Libya: The American Who Died for the Revolution
Moammar Gadhafi. Ernesto Ruscio/Getty ImagesREPORTER’S NOTEBOOK
By NICHOLAS SCHIFRIN, ABC News
(TOBRUK, Libya) -- Muhannad Bensadik didn't have to be here. He could have been at home, in Virginia. He could have been going to school, leading his scout team and living with his mother and his four siblings, all younger and all but one born in the United States.
But Bensadik, 21, decided to stay in Libya -- where he had recently moved -- as the revolution exploded throughout this country and millions of people who've lived under fear and tyranny for 42 years suddenly tasted freedom.
He protested the regime on Feb. 16 and braved walls of bullets during the initial crackdown. He lived to celebrate the expulsion of Col. Moammar Gadhafi's government in eastern Libya. And, then, as Gadhafi's troops advanced, he grabbed a gun and joined the fight.
"Dad, we're not cowards," he told his father, Libya-born Osama Bensadik. "I can go to the States and can have everything. But how about the kids here? They don't have the opportunity to do that.
"Libya is as much my country as the United States is. And we'd like to make sure that this revolution goes through. If everyone leaves, who's going to lead the revolution?"
Muhannad Bensadik died Saturday for that revolution, apparently shot to death by Gadhafi's troops in the tiny town of Bishir.
His body still lies on the frontline of this war, about 7,000 miles from his birthplace of Eden, N.C., and his father is trying to retrieve it. He doesn't know if it will be safe enough to reach Bishir, and he doesn't know how far he'll get. But he says he has to try.
"The sad part about this story is that my son had the opportunity not to come to Benghazi," Bensadik said today in Benghazi, the opposition stronghold, where he flew after the revolution began because he knew his son would want to fight.
He didn't want his son to fight alone.
"The American revolutionary Patrick Henry, he said, 'Give me my freedom or give me my death,'" Bensadik said, crying over the phone. "And that's how my son lived."
Life under Gadhafi, Bensadik said, was "inhuman," and the whole family opposed him. Muhannad Bensadik's younger brother, Yusuf, is still in Benghazi, working with the struggling opposition government.
It's a fight that Osama will continue, even as he tries to send his son's body back to his wife in Virginia.
"I'm going to go back to the battlefield as soon as I can. I will not allow my son's blood to go in vain," he says. "Two people going together; one dies, then the other one picks up. That's how the revolution keeps going. There's no U-turn now."
Like almost everyone here, Bensadik has a direct request for the United States: institute a no-fly zone and give the opposition a fighting chance.
"If there's no no-fly zone," he warns, "then Gadhafi won't distinguish between people, won't spare hospitals or anyone. He said he will go house by house, and we all know he will. It will be a massacre."
And so the father will continue to fight as his son did, bravely, and knowing the risks.
"Gadhafi will never return. His rule will never happen again. I promise you myself. Even," he says, pausing, "if I have to die like my son."
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A Buyer’s Guide: The Best Smart Home Devices of 2018
While still very much in its infantile stages, smart home technology has skyrocketed to popularity over the past several years, with popular brands like Amazon, Google, and Apple getting in on the action.
However, it is important to note that these three brands and their subsidiaries are not the only key players in the development of smart home ecosystems. Instead, a number of smaller companies and startups are beginning to gain traction in this specific niche, increasing competition across the board.
With that in mind, let us explore and review the best smart home devices of 2018.
Best Lighting System: Philips Hue
Released in 2012, this system was originally marketed as the first iOS-controlled lighting device, as Philips was exclusively partnered with Apple at the time. However, as demand increased, Philips revamped the system in 2015 and 2016, allowing it to be used across a number of operating systems and platforms.
Now, in 2018, Philips Hue is widely regarded as the best smart lighting system on the market, as it enables users to control the brightness of each individual bulb and connect up to 50 bulbs to a single hub. Furthermore, this system is compatible with Amazon’s Alexa, Apple HomeKit, Google Home, and Nest.
Best Smoke & Carbon Monoxide Detector: Nest Protect
Although there are countless smart smoke detectors available on the market, few match up to the ingenuity of Nest Protect. Not only does this wireless device detect smoke and carbon monoxide, it has the ability to discern between slow- and fast-burning fires, enabling it to communicate which room the fire is in and how much time one has to get out.
Finally, the device is compatible with the Philips Hue system and can turn the lights on during an emergency situation.
Best Security Camera: Amazon Cloud Cam
Granted, there are many smart security cameras on the market, from the Netgear Arlo Q to the Nest Cam Indoor. However, none strike the right balance between affordability and usability like the Amazon Cloud Cam does. After a simple installation process, users can easily navigate the accompanying app to customize their settings, set motion detection, and even opt in to receive alerts when an individual is near their front door.
One of the greatest perks of this device, however, is the fact that it comes with free unlimited cloud storage — something its competitors simply cannot offer. Given that fact, it should come as no surprise the Amazon Cloud Cam can be considered the best of its kind.
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Xanthe and Phaon (mk23)
b.Jan. 8, 1836, Dronrijp, Netherlands. d.June 25, 1912, Wiesbaden, Germany. Painter and designer of Dutch birth. The son of a notary, Alma-Tadema demonstrated an early artistic ability. In 1852 he entered the Antwerp Academy, where he studied under Gustaf, Baron Wappers, and Nicaise de Keyser. An important influence at this time was Louis De Taye, Professor of Archaeology at the academy and a practising artist. Alma-Tadema lived and worked with De Taye from 1857 to 1859 and was encouraged by him to depict subjects from the early history of France and Belgium. This taste for historical themes increased when Alma-Tadema entered Baron Henri Leys studio in 1859 and began assisting him with his monumental frescoes for the Antwerp Town Hall. While in Leys studio, Alma-Tadema produced several major paintings, for example the Education of the Children of Clovis (1861; ex-Sir John Pender priv. col., see Zimmern, p. 3) and Venantius Fortunatus Reading his Poems to Radagonda (1862; Dordrecht, Dordrechts Mus.), which are characterized by their obscure Merovingian subject-matter, rather sombre colouring and close attention to detail. Related Paintings of Alma-Tadema, Sir Lawrence :. | In the Time of Constantine (mk23) | An Apodyterium (mk23) | After the Audience (mk23) | Fernand Khnopff (mk23) | Self-Portrait (mk23) |
FLORIGERIO, Sebastiano
Italian painter, Friulian school (b. ca. 1500, Conegliano, d. 1543, Udine).
BORGOGNONE, Ambrogio
Italian painter, Milanese school (b. ca. 1453, Fossano, d.1523).
Peter Jakob Horemans
painted Portrait of Clemens August as Falconer in 18th century
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Dan Hornberger started his improv career at Bucks County Community College in 2005. He has been improvising with The Piece since August 2007. He is also a founding member of the long form group Angry People Building Things, formerly known as UNCLE. Dan has also had the lead female role for the production Saddle Up for Murder at Town and Country Theatre in Buckingham Pennsylvania. He currently resides in Bensalem.
Kristin Mellor is a member of the short form/sketch comedy group The Piece and co-founder of the long form improv group Angry People Building Things, which was formerly known as UNCLE. She graduated from Bucks County Community College in 2006 with an Associates Degree in Communications Performance. She first took a liking to improv when she took a class at Bucks with Bill McLaughlin in 2004 and she has been improvising ever since. Kristin has been performing improv throughout the Philadelphia and Bucks County areas. She has performed countless times with The Piece at John & Peter’s in New Hope and McCoole’s in Quakertown. She has also performed with Angry People Building Things in the 2008 Philadelphia Improv Festival and they were also the six time running champions of Philadelphia’s Cage match in 2008. Kristin continues to improve on her improv skills by attending the weekly Incubator on Sunday nights, hosted by Philly improv veteran Rick Horner. Without performing regularly Kristin would surely go crazy and would some day be committed.
Andrew Stanton was born in the world. He is still there. He lives in a place and he has met some other people and some animals in life. He can talk and eat and pick things up all on his own. He can yell loud and he can remember a lot of words in order. He went to school some. He started to learn improvising in 2007. Bill McLaughlin was the teacher. He still improvises. He improvises with The Piece and also with Angry People Building Things. Both are good and he likes them both a lot and he likes the other people in them. He feels powerful and he does not understand why. He is building a machine. This is only the start of his journey.
Chris Schofield is a silly, interesting, somehow funny person. He started his improv career in 2005 under the teachings of Sir Bill McLaughlin. IN 2007, he evolved his improv style and mind entering the Philly improv scene thanks to Rick Horner. Chris learned a lot from Rick and his wacky partner Cubby. Later in 2007 he co-formed the group Angry People Building Things, formerly known as UNCLE. Chris was also a member of the Delaware Comedy Theater in 2007 until their dismemberment in early 2009. He feels like he is a leading contender in the improv scene offering things to the audience that make your mind explode in laughter. Even Chris doesn’t know what comes out when performing improv, and he wouldn’t have it any other way. When Chris isn’t improvising or being immortal, he spends his time watching cartoons and baseball at home while busy being a man child.
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Home > Books > Mystery & Thriller > J.A. Jance > Ali Reynolds Series > Left for Dead - J.A. Jance (Ali Reynolds, Book 7)
Left for Dead - J.A. Jance (Ali Reynolds, Book 7)
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Not even Ali Reynolds is immune to the escalating drug wars just across the border as two ruthless crimes threaten to bring her face-to-face with a cold-blooded killer. When one of Ali's former Arizona Police Academy classmates is gunned down and left to die, he is at first assumed to be an innocent victim of the violent drug cartels. But the crime scene investigation reveals there's much more to the story. Summoned to his hospital bedside, Ali finds it hard to believe he's mixed up in the drug trade, and she also meets another seriously injured victim--an unidentified young woman, presumed to be an illegal border crosser, who was raped and savagely beaten. Ali is determined to seek justice in both cases. But as she zeroes in on the truth, the real killer is lining her up in the crosshairs. . . .
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Архиепископ Брюссельский
и Бельгийский
Archevêque de Bruxelles
et de Belgique
Archbishop Basil of Brussels (1900-85)
Kallistos of Diokleia
Archbishop Basil of Brussels, head of the Russian patriarchal diocese in Belgium, died at the age of eighty-five in the night of 21-22 September 1985, during a visit to Russia. He was familiar figure at summer conferences of the Fellowship in Abingdon and Broadstairs during the 1950s, as many older members will recall. By the wider world he will be remembered above all for his work on the eleventh-century Byzantine mystical writer, St Symeon the New Theologian.
Archbishop Basil (in the world, Vsevolod Aleksandrovich Krivoshein) was born at St Petersburg on 30 June 1900, the son of the distinguished Russian statesman Aleksandr Krivoshein. His father, a close associate of Stolypin, was Minister of Agriculture in prerevolutionay Russia during 1908-15, and in the civil war acted for a brief period in 1920 as head of the civilian government in the Crimea under the White leader General Wrangel. Vsevolod, the future archbishop, was a student in the philological faculty at Petrograd University when the Revolution began in February 1917. He transferred for a time to Moscow University, but soon left for the south and joined the White Army. Evacuated with other anti-Bolshevik troops to Egypt, he made his way in 1920 to Paris, together with the other surviving members of his family. Here he resumed his university studies at the Sorbonne, receiving the degree of licencié ès lettres in 1921.
In 1925 Vsevolod Krivoshein enrolled as a student at the newly-founded Theological Institute of St Sergius in Paris. But in November that same year, drawn to the monastic life, he went to Mount Athos, and entered the Russian Monastery of St Panteleimon, which at that time still numbered more than 500 monks. On 24 March 1926 he was made a novice, and on 5 March 1927 was clothed as a rasophore — the first of the three monastic grades — receiving the new name of Basil (Vasilii). He spent altogether twenty-two years on the Holy Mountain, becoming thoroughly proficient in the Greek language, and for many years acting as the monastery’s secretary for Greek correspondence. In 1937 he was elected a member of the monastic council at St Panteleimon’s, and during 1942-5 he represented his monastery in Karyes at the sessions of the Holy Community, the central administrative body on Mount Athos.
It was during his years on the Holy M ountain that Fr Basil laid the foundations for his exceptional knowledge of the Fathers. The first fruits of his patristic reading are to be found in his essay ‘The Ascetic and Theological Teaching of Gregory Palamas’, which was originally published in Russian in Semimrium Kondakovianum VIII (Prague 1936), subsequently appearing in German translation in Das ôstliche Christentum, and in English translation in The Eastern Churches Quarterly III, 1-4 (1938) (reissued separately, with revisions, in 1955). Concise yet full of detail, the work is based on the relatively limited range of Palam as’ writings at that time available in printed form; but it is highly perceptive in its judgements, and still retains its value today. It anticipates by two years the monograph on Palamas by the Romanian theologian Fr Dumitru Staniloae (Sibiu 1938), and so Fr Basil may justly be honoured as the pioneer of the contemporary Palamite renaissance.1
With his knowledge of foreign languages, Fr Basil was called upon to function as representative of his monastery and of the Athonite community during the second world war, when Northern Greece was occupied by the Germans and the Bulgarians. Some of his actions during this troubled period, in themselves justified and undertaken in good faith, were later misinterpreted as ‘collaboration’. He also came under further attack after the war, when his hopes of church revival in Russia led him to be labelled a ‘friend of Moscow’ and even a ‘Bolshevik’. This reputation — at a time when Greece was being torn apart by civil war between the pro-Western government and the Communist guerillas — led in September 1947 to his expulsion from Athos, although he still continued to be a member of St Panteleimon’s. ‘Against my will,’ as he later put it, ‘I was obliged to leave the Holy Mountain, where I had expected to spend the rest of my life’.2 Condemned by a Greek court, he was sent to the concentration camp on Makronisos.
After his release, he settled in Athens and resumed his patristic research. Then in early 1951, through the efforts of Metropolitan Germanos of Thyateira and Great Britain, he was invited to Oxford to help with the preparation of the Patristic Greek Lexicon (eventually published in 1961-8). After receiving the written blessing of the monastery of St Panteleimon, he arrived in England on 20 February 1951, slightly less than a month after the death of M etropolitan Germanos (23 January). On 21 May 1951 he was ordained deacon at Oxford, and on the following day priest, by the Serbian bishop Irinei of Dalmatia, acting at the request of Metropolitan Nikolai of Krutitsy and Kolomna, head of the department of Foreign Affairs of the Moscow patriarchate. Hieromonk Basil was appointed assistant to Archimandrite Nicholas (Gibbes), rector of the Russian parish of the Annunciation, Oxford, and he took up residence in the church house at 4 Marston Street. While in Oxford he worked on St Symeon the New Theologian, preparing a critical text of the original Greek (hitherto unpublished) of Symeon’s Catecheses. This appeared in three volumes, with text, introduction and notes by Fr Basil and a French translation by Fr Joseph Paramelle SJ in the series Sources chrétiennes (96, 104, 113: Paris 1963-5).
Walking down the High or busy among the shelves of the Bodleian, in his monastic rason and tall hat, with full, bushy beard and long hair, Fr Basil was a striking figure. At meetings of the Oxford branch of the Fellowship, it was his custom to sit in the middle of the front row, vigilant and attentive. As soon as the speaker had ended — sometimes, indeed, before he had done so — Fr Basil was ready with the opening comment. His questions, although courteous, were frequently devastating in their directness. His English, at first idiosyncratic, quickly grew in fluency. With my inner ear I can still hear him saying, with his high-pitched voice and characteristic sing-song intonation, ‘Again and again in peace. . or ‘to the ages of ages’. In the Litany for the departed, when he came to the phrase ‘a place of light, a place of verdure, a place of refreshment’, he used to say firmly ‘a place of refreshments’. When I was undergraduate I found him kindly yet somewhat remote; for in Oxford, as later in Brussels, he continued to be always an Athonite monk.
On 14 June 1959, at the Russian cathedral in Ennismore Gardens, London, Fr Basil was consecrated titular bishop of Volokolamsk and auxiliary in the Russian patriarchal exarchate of Western Europe. Then on 31 May 1960 he was nominated bishop of Brussels and Belgium, being raised to the rank of archbishop on 21 July of the same year. He remained at Brussels for the rest of his life, in charge of the small patriarchal flock in Belgium, and continuing always with his study of Symeon.
Fifty years of patristic inquiry were crowned by the appearance of his major work Dans la lumière du Christ: Saint Syme’on le Nouveau Théologien 949-1022. Vie — Spiritualité— Doctrine (Chevetogne 1980, pp.426). It is a work of deceptive simplicity. Deliberately, through an act of academic kenosis, Archbishop Basil refrained from providing an elaborate bibliography and a mass of learned footnotes, although he could very easily have done this. He had as his purpose something harder to achieve: not to engage in dialogue with other specialists over points of detail, but to provide for a wider readership what he termed ‘a portrait of this great saint that is living, objective, fully documented from the words of Symeon himself, and above all truthful’ (p.7). In this he succeeded to a remarkable degree. It is true that here, as in his other writings, he is a faithful witness to tradition rather than a creative thinker. But his book is one that could have been written only after many years of intense study, spent reading and rereading the sources, until Symeon’s inner world had become also his own. To use a phrase of Fr George Florovsky, he possessed a genuinely ‘patristic m ind’. With full justification Archbishop Basil could claim, ‘My book is written with deep love for Symeon’ (p.7), and here precisely lies the secret of his imaginative sympathy for the New Theologian. The book has appeared in Russian as well as French, and an English translation is awaited from St Vladimir’s Seminary Press.
Archbishop Basil took part in many international congresses. He was present at each of the Oxford conferences on patristic studies from the first in 1951 up to the ninth in 1983, contributing papers at almost every one of them. From 1966 to 1984 he represented the Russian Orthodox Church in the Anglican/Orthodox Joint Doctrinal Discussions, alike at the preparatory meetings and then at the full sessions and the sub-commissions from 1973 onwards. Recalling Fellowship meetings at Oxford in the 1950s, I noted that he had not changed his debating style. Alert, quick to note inconsistency of thought or imprecision in wording, he was forthright and to the point, yet never captious or polemical. His humble sincerity, and also his sense of humour, enabled him to say things that in the mouth of others might have proved wounding, but spoken by him they caused no offence. He was staunchly Orthodox, yet a generous friend to other Christians. At the last session of the commission in Dublin in 1984, deafness at times made it hard for him to follow the discussion, but his mind was as sharp and lucid as ever.
Archbishop Basil was always faithful to the Moscow patriarchate, but this did not prevent him from protesting firmly against interference in church life by the Soviet authorities. At the episcopal assembly preceding the Local Council of the Russian Orthodox Church in May-June 1971, his voice was one of the few raised in favour of a secret ballot at the forthcoming election of the patriarch (the eventual vote was in fact open). On the same occasion he attacked the uncanonical parish statutes of 1961, which impaired the proper authority of the priest within his parish. In 1974 he expressed clear support for Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn at the time of his expulsion from Russia (as was also done by Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh). Following the 1976 Assembly of the World Council of Churches in Nairobi, he sent an open letter to the general secretary of the WCC, Dr Philip Potter, thanking those who had spoken out in defence of Russian Christians under persecution. ‘I wish to affirm my heartfelt gratitude’, he wrote, ‘to all those who at Nairobi raised their voices in defence of religious freedom in the Soviet Union, so putting an end to the scandalous silence that has prevailed until now on this subject. I hope that the struggle for the rights of believers in Russia will continue.’
Archbishop Basil’s long life, embracing the three different worlds of prerevolutionary Russia, Mount Athos, and Western Europe, ended in the place where it had begun. In September 1985 he travelled to Russia, and on the 15th celebrated the divine Liturgy at the cathedral of the Transfiguration in Leningrad, the church
in which he had been baptised eighty-five years previously. He felt unwell after the service and was taken at once to hospital. Here, a week later, he died. In accordance with his own expressed wish he was buried on Russian soil, at the St Seraphim cemetery of his native city.
+ KALLISTOS OF DIOKLEIA
1. Twenty-five years earlier a work on Palamas appeared in Greek by Grigorios Papamikhail
(Alexandria 1911), but this had relatively little impact, even within Greece itself.
2. Address at his episcopal election, in Messager de l ’Exarchat du Patriarche Russe en Europe
Occidentale 32 (1959), p.213.
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Alec Connon, traveller and writer, NW Divest workgroup facilitator
In Alec’s novel, The Activist, a young working-class man from Scotland leaves home and falls in love with the ocean. He volunteers for Sea Shepherd, a marine wildlife conservation organization, and puts his life on the line to protect whales.
In real life, Alec, an educated young man from Scotland, left home to sheared sheep in New Zealand, planted trees in Canada, and otherwise earned his way through Southeast Asia, Nepal, Nicaragua, and other places, discovering on the way how severely and urgently climate change is affecting the oceans and planet.
Shortly after arriving in Seattle, he found out about the Gates Foundation’s $1.4 billion in fossil fuel investments. Finding that there was no divestment campaign targeting the Foundation, he sought out the local 350…and ramped one up. Responding to the heat, the Gates Foundation sold its stake in British Petroleum (BP).
After working on the Break Free campaign, he moved on to the campaign to pressure Wells Fargo to divest from the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), which was being fought by the Standing Rock Sioux. “The banks have to take responsibility. The Paris climate targets were agreed to, but the banks haven’t changed their business practices to align with those commitments.”
Wells Fargo stayed mute, so Alec revved up the activists to approach the Seattle City Council, which was banking with Wells Fargo. He led an overflow crowd into City Council chambers, where the members unanimously voted to end the City’s relationship with Wells Fargo, in part because of its financing of DAPL. Since then, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Missoula, Providence and others have introduced ordinances to sever ties with Wells Fargo.
“I like people,” he says of his natural talent in organizing. “I’m curious about others and activism is nothing more than and nothing less than building community.”
He’s a bit of a wonder; seeming easygoing while hustling furiously. The goal, he said in one meeting, quoting a mentor, is to look like a swan gliding across the lake even though you’re paddling furiously under the water.
Inevitably there are downsides to the activist life. Shutting off is one. There’s the “severe lack of money.” But he shrugs these off. “I just have a lifestyle. It’s a blessing or a curse but I’m doing what I’m passionate about.”
“We live at a time when people need to expand what they’re comfortable with. We have to realize that the system is broken and if we don’t change the system, we’re wrecked. We need to be doing things that we were raised to be uncomfortable with: raising our voices in meetings, speaking in public, being in a space where a security doesn’t want you there…We have to learn to lean into our discomfort.
Check out the Voices of 350 blog!
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Tag Archives: Kenji Goto
Caliphate, Iraq, Media, Syria, Terrorism
Seeking the Caliphate: Advice to Wayward Journalists and Concubines…….
Kenji Goto of Japan was beheaded today, as seemed inevitable if the ISIS Caliphate did not receive the freed Sajida Al Rishawi. It is becoming gradually, and painfully, obvious that two types of travelers, fellow travelers, now head into harm’s way at their own risk. They should know the potential consequences by now. These two are:
Foreign journalists who seek information or a scoop or glory in harm’s way. They should know by now that these Wahhabi cutthroats go by identity and have no respect for non-combatants. A foreign journalist is the same to them as a foreign soldier. Just stop doing it, and if you do go in, be ready to bear the consequences. If I go there I fully expect to get beheaded, why shouldn’t these foreign journalists expect the same? Just don’t do it.
Foreign women who seek their glory in warming the beds of the cutthroats. They should by now know the consequences: if you get in, you are in for the long haul.
If you want to report on human tragedy there are many other places that need world attention more than Iraq and Syria. Go to North Africa, or the Sahel, or Yemen, or Pakistan: seek your resurrection and glory elsewhere. Just stay the hell out of Syria and Iraq. Ditto if you are a European woman who wants to shack up with Jihadists.
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The Grim Jordanian Luck of Kenji Goto………
Kenji Goto, the Japanese being held hostage by ISIS is lucky in one respect. The other hostage whose release is being negotiated now is a Jordanian air force pilot from a prominent (humorless) Jordanian tribe. My unreliable Jordanian source reports that there has been a lot of pressure from his clan for a deal to get him out through a deal with the terrorists. She added something roughly to the effect that: “Nobody in Jordan gives a rat’s ass about Kenji Goto. They want Mu’ath…“, only more colorful.
If Mu’ath is still alive. If not, then Kenji Goto’s luck, and Sajida Al Rishawi’s luck, may run out…….
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Western Delusions about Kenji Goto, Al Rishawi, and Jordan……….
“The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) demanded the release of a woman being held in Jordan for allegedly attempting to carry out a series of terrorist attacks in 2005, Reuters news agency reported. In a broadcast carried by the Al-Bayan radio, which transmits in areas the group controls, ISIS described Sajida al-Rishawi as “our sister” asking for her release in exchange for the freedom of Kenji Goto, a Japanese hostage held by the militants. Rishawi is a would-be Iraqi female suicide bomber on death row in Jordan in connection with triple hotel bomb attacks in Amman that killed 60 people…………….”
Sometimes Western pundits and media experts seem delusional about the Middle East. Take the example of the remaining Japanese hostage held by ISIS, Kenji Goto. There is serious talk among Western ‘experts’ that perhaps the humorless Kingdom of Jordan might release an Iraqi terrorist in exchange for him, as the terrorists have demanded. They mean an Iraqi woman, Sajida Al-Rishwai, who participated in bombings in Amman hotels that killed tens of people during the days of Al-Zarqawi. She claims she was coerced by her husband, which is very likely, although she failed to detonate it in the end.
They actually think that Jordan could release the woman, Rishawi, as ISIS is demanding in exchange for the Japanese man. I have some bad news for them.
Can you imagine the uproar in Jordan if the woman is released in order to free a Japanese hostage in Syria? At a time when ISIS is holding a Jordanian Air Force pilot who was shot down over Syria? If the Jordanian pilot is indeed a hostage and not just a defector from the humorless Jordanian Air Force. Which reminds me: we have not read much about how he happened to end up in the hands of ISIS.
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Page 17, 31 January 1976 — ; Talking of books
31 JANUARY 1976, Page 17
; Talking of books
Going West
Penny Green
Not very long before I took the plane for Los Angeles, one of the Sunday papers published extracts from Anthony West's forthcoming book about H. G. Wells. The appearance Of the first episode reminded me that on my previous visit to the United States, nienteen years before, I had purchased a paperback copy of a novel by West entitled Heritage, whose central figure, Max Towne, is a hardly-disguised Portrait of Wells, and whose "heritage" is clearly that of West himself. As far as I have .ever been able to ascertain, Heritage has never been published in Britain, although whether the non-event of its non-appearance is due to West's tact or the objections of Rebecca West, I have no idea. But whatever the reason for its scarcity as a literary commodity, it is no doubt t° do with the fact that Wells was West's father and Rebecca West his mother, and that the two Were never married.
After I had possessed Heritage for a year or tWo, I made the neophyte's mistake of lending it to some felonious friend who never bothered to return it. My trip to Los Angeles, therefore, however pointless it might promise to be in so Many regards, at least held out the prospect of another copy of Heritage. The flight to California takes eleven hours, and I spent at least two of them recalling my first impressions Of compassion and humanity gleaned from iCiPPs and the dreadful lack of both those qualities in West's serialised account of Wells as a real-life parent. There are many terms to describe the process by which the children of the well-to-do are bundled off to child-farms, and there are no doubt many cases where such a recourse has the effect of protecting the child froni unspeakable parents. But with regard to West, who, being a sensitive, intelligent child, had a wretched time of it, 1 kept remembering a novel of Wells' called Joan and Peter, in which
the great sage of the enlightenment describes how impossible it is to find a suitable school for bright young things. The book explored every
possibility — except the one of keeping the child at home and trying it with a little affection. Turning these thoughts over in my mind as the plane rumbled along, I thought it was time to read Heritage again.
Los Angeles is peppered with branches of a bookshop called Pickwick, which sounded
promising; the parallels between Wells and
Dickens are not quite imaginary. However, although there were copious editions of Bleak House and David Copperfield, not only were there no editions of Heritage but there were no editions of any book by Wells either. The best I could find was a work called The Invisible Man, which turned out on examination to be the fatuous book of an even more fatuous television series. As for Wells, his eclipse as a popular novelist seems complete, and not only in Los Angeles. Of course the eclipse is a temporary affair, but it is thirty years now since Wells died, and the arrival of a generation of readers uncommitted to all the personal squabbles and axe-grinding which inevitably follow of the death of an outstanding writer is surely due any moment now?
My next tactic was to examine the vast second-hand bookshops on Hollywood Boulevard, several of whose labyrinthine design challenges the claim of Foyle's as the biggest bookshop in the world. In these literary cavern measureless to man, I found more books than I had ever dreamed existed; there was even an entire section of one shop dedicated to what it described as "Disasters", ranging from the accounts of the maiden voyage of the Titanic to obscure crop failures in Kansas. I found books on Mormons, novels about chorus girls, analyses of Alaskan mineral deposits, dictionaries of Serbo-Croat and Gaelic, in fact everything except a copy of Heritage. In the fiction sections, all laid out in neat alphabetical order, there were Jessarnyn West and Morris West but no Anthony West. Before the first of my two weeks was up, it was obvious I was going to be unlucky. In the course of my searches I did manage to pick up a few other items, a copy of Wickets in the West, for instance, the account of W. G. Grace's tour of Canada and America just over a hundred years ago, and carrying the imprimatur of W. H. Smith and Son, Strand, London. There was also a copy of Guedella's Palmerston, which I spotted, and made a mental note to come back for before I returned home. In the event I forgot all about it, so Guedella's Palmerston remains where I found it, on a secondhand shelf in Beverly Hills.
One man showed me the fruits of his labours in the vineyards of Hollywood, a copy of Pickwick Papers inscribed, "To my dear friend, Hans Christian Andersen, Sincerely, Charles Dickens". Another man opened his safe to me and proudly displayed a First Folio Shakespeare. That one-time heroine of the old Warners Brothers-Busby Berkeley movies, Joan Blondell, presented me with a signed copy of her novel about vaudeville days. But nobody could help me when it came to Heritage, and long before the end of my second week I had given up. On the flight home I passed part of the time reading that hectoring lecturer Thoreau, and could hardly help laughing when I came to the famous remark about it not being worthwhile to go halfway round the world in order to count the cats in Zanzibar. Or, for that matter, to look for vanished novels.
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Luis Felicia Papers
ca. 1943-1995 [bulk 1943-1969]. 1 box (24 folders), ca. 209 items.MSS. COLL. #104
The Luis Felicia Papers consist of photographs and printed materials relating to Pvt. Luis Felicia’s service during World War II and subsequent career as a dance instructor and owner of Felicia Studios of Dance. The bulk of items are photographs dating from 1946 to 1969.
Of historical note are the Overseas Replacement Depot (ORD) materials, which document recreation or non-combat activities, as well as ceremonies at Greensboro’s Army Air Force base during World War II. Researchers interested in the history of civil rights in Greensboro are directed to the Felicia Studios material and biographical note in this finding aid. Of interest to textile historians is the photographs series, which shows civilian and military dress during World War II and children’s dance theatre costumes from 1946 to 1969.
Arrangement: This collection is organized into two series by document type and within each series materials are separated into sections for Felicia Studios and ORD. The two series are: Photographs, 1943-1969, and Printed Materials, 1944-1995.
Provenance: This collection was donated by Luis Felicia in 1991 and assigned accession number 1991.162.1.
Processing: This collection was organized and the finding aid was prepared by volunteer Alice Bailey in June 2013.
Luis Felicia was born in 1911 in Columbus, Ohio. In the 1920s and 1930s, he worked as a professional dancer in the Detroit area with his wife. During this time he mainly performed vaudeville, often working with entertainer and comedian Amos Jacobs, later known as Danny Thomas (2:3).
Stationed in Greensboro from 1943 to 1946, Felicia was assigned the rank of private and instructed soldiers and German prisoners of war in dance (1:14, 2:1). As head of Service Club #1 at ORD, he also performed in shows for the soldiers, appearing with Tony Martin and Donald O’Connor (1:14).
In 1946, Felicia opened Felicia Studios of Dance at the former site of Cone Export and Commission Company (330 South Greene Street). Felicia was the first Caucasian to offer dance instruction to African Americans, initially teaching classes at the Hayes-Taylor YMCA. He stated in a News & Record article (1995) that he believed teaching African American students caused him to lose business from Caucasian clients, but he expressed pride in his decision, specifically that it pre-dated the Civil Rights Movement (2:1). In 1958 he relocated to Exchange Place, where he taught African American students. During the 1960s he instituted a policy of integrated instruction and held joint recitals before retiring in 1970.
Biographical Sources: The biographical information was compiled from notes taken by Stephen Catlett during a conversation with Luis Felicia on March 28, 1995, and copies of news articles in the collection.
This collection consists of photographs and printed material. The bulk of the photographs were taken between 1946 and 1969 and relate to Felicia Studios of Dance. They depict dance instruction, rehearsal, and recitals, and they include photographs of both African American and Caucasian children in costume. Of greater historical interest are photographs relating to ORD that document everyday activities on the base. The Felicia Studios printed materials are generally more informative, while the ORD printed materials include both photocopies and original military publications.
1. Photographs. 19 folders (ca. 185 items). 1943-1969.
The images relating to the ORD (1:11-19) consist of black and white negatives and photographs of varying sizes. Photographs of recreation and base activities document daily life and leisure on an army base during World War II. Of particular note are images of appearances by celebrities, including Eleanor Roosevelt visiting injured soldiers.
The photographs relating to Felicia Studios (1:1-10) are arranged in folders by race, number of subjects, and type of pose. Notably, the photographs of African Americans include only a single portrait of a female, no male subjects or couples, and roughly a third the number of ensembles represented in Caucasian photographs.
2. Printed Material. 5 folders (ca. 24 items). 1944-1995.
The printed materials relating to the ORD (2:3-6) consist mainly of original issues of newspapers and reproductions of newspaper articles. The latter are related to Felicia’s role as dance instructor at the base, while whole newspaper issues pertain to military operations.
The printed materials relating to Felicia Studios are fewer in number and less varied than the ORD printed materials. They are divided into Ephemera (2:1) and News Articles (2:2), and they document Felicia’s post-war career as an instructor and professional dancer. Included is a newspaper article containing information about Felicia’s life both before and during the war, in particular his personal perspective on operational aspects of Felicia Studios of Dance and his career as an entertainer.
1 1 Photographs -- Felicia Studios -- African American ensembles, posed (1950-1969)
2 -- Felicia Studios -- African American individuals, posed (1950-1969)
3 -- Felicia Studios -- Caucasian couples, posed (1946-1969)
4 -- Felicia Studios -- Caucasian couples, recreational dancing (1946-1969)
5 Photographs -- Felicia Studios -- Caucasian ensembles, candid (1946-1969)
6 -- Felicia Studios -- Caucasian ensembles, posed (1946-1969)
9 Photographs -- Felicia Studios -- Caucasian group, portrait (1946-1969)
10 -- Felicia Studios -- Caucasian individuals, posed (1946-1969)
12 -- ORD -- Base Activities (1943-1946)
13 Photographs -- ORD -- Ceremonies (1943-1946)
14 -- ORD -- Dancing (1943-1946)
15 -- ORD -- Eleanor Roosevelt (1943-1946)
16 -- ORD -- Miscellaneous (1943-1946)
17 Photographs -- ORD -- Negatives (1943-1946)
18 -- ORD -- Recreation (1943-1946)
19 -- ORD -- Sports (1943-1946)
2 1 Printed Materials -- Felicia Studios -- Ephemera, reproductions (1940s-1960s)
2 -- Felicia Studios -- News & Record, etc.; Newspaper articles, mainly reproductions (1960s-1995)
3 -- ORD -- Ephemera, reproductions. (1945-1946)
4 Printed Materials -- ORD -- BTC 10-Shun and Greensboro Record; Newspaper articles, reproductions (1944-1946)
5 -- ORD -- The ORD News; The Rotator; Newspaper issues (1945-1946)
6 -- ORD -- Telephone directory (1945)
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A Sensory Experience of Place
Tell us the story of your project – What was it about? Who was involved? How did you begin?
Leanne Kyle, Teacher
We were working with Kids’ Own Publishing Partnership on a project called Virtually There. In this project the artist doesn’t actually come into the classroom. We correspond mostly via the interactive whiteboard. I was ICT coordinator and this project really appealed to me. It was different and offered a new experience for me and the children.
Initially the artist (Lisa) came to meet us at the school. It was great day because we were able to chat and have a planning session. We went on a walk around the school. We decided to use nature and the actual school environment as a beginning point. I wanted to use the school garden and create links to the eco-school ethos. We tied this all together into a project which focused on the topic of ‘senses’. This topic is very popular and suitable for P2 and 3. Later we narrowed this down further to the sense of touch with many trips outside working with the trees. It was Autumn time so we began to focus on the leaves. Lisa taught a ‘leaf dance’. From here, it just took off with a focus on nature and touch.
Lisa Cahill, Artist
My ‘Virtually There’ journey with Kids’ Own Publishing Partnership, Leanne Kyle and the P2 & 3 Class of Aughnacloy began in September 2016. At this time I was also Dance Artist in Residence at the Froebel Department of Primary and Early Childhood Education at Maynooth University. The Autumn of 2016 marked the final phase of the three year residency. I had received an Arts Council, Young People Children and Education (YPCE) Bursary Award. The focus of my investigations included the development of frames and activities that engaged the sensory body in the outdoor environment of a school site. Over those Autumnal and Winter months the creative journey with many partners unfolded.
Developing the body’s sensory attunement through engagement with the site is an important element of my practice. I was spending a lot of time outside. I was out in the garden , fields, orchards, forested areas of the University campus. My explorations involved movement, writing, art making, gathering sounds and natural materials, reading and learning more and more about the natural environment that I was in.
I wanted to bring these explorations into the Virtually There project. I really looked forward to sharing these with Leanne and the children. I wanted to notice and hear their responses through multiple and different forms of documentation. I wanted to see what emerged through our collective journey.
Leanne shared my curiousity in this discovery process as we set about investigating:
Sensory bodies;
Going out and spending time outside;
Trying out different means and ways of communicating, listening and sharing as a triad of partners (teacher, artist and children).
We committed to holding an intention of listening to the needs and responses of each partner. We committed to capturing each of our responses to the tasks and activities. These responses might emerge in different forms, such as verbal, written, a gesture or movement, a photograph, a word, a drawing.
I felt my role was to invite and remind us to return to our body and the sensations and feelings we were experiencing right now in each moment.
And so our journey unfolded.
How were the ideas developed and how did the young people, artist and teacher work together?
At the first online session, the children introduced themselves to Lisa. They wrote a little about themselves and they read this to Lisa through the interactive whiteboard. We began to work on the leaf dance and talked about the different seasons. We were in the season of Autumn. We went outside and discussed how the leaves were falling and blowing in the trees. Lisa shown us her leaf dance. That really got the children thinking about what they would like to do. They had a lot of input. We created some sensory warm up audio clips with Lisa.
https://soundcloud.com/lisadance/virtually-there-warm-up
She was great to ask the children for their ideas. The children decided that they would like to bring things in from the outside. We played with different ways of using these materials in our warm up clips. This resulted in the children bringing in leaves and things like that. This then resulted in their favourite activity; leaf tattoos. The children loved this. It was so simple, yet so effective. This all tied in well with our topics in school because we look at the different seasons. It tied in with our literacy, particularly poetry. When we arrived at the season of Spring, we wrote poems. We’d explored so much by this stage. We looked at our hands, created drawings of our hands, gone outside to find natural objects to mark make on paper. Actually, this mark making was something they really loved.
The children, in small groups, began to form their own dances. They led the learning at this point. Some of them started to think and dance about trees being chopped down. This led us to a new topic, which I had never done before in school; the topic of deforestation, looking at the Amazon rainforest and the effect of deforestation. The children really led this bit. There were lots of woodcutters chopping down trees. But also planting new trees. This was really the chidren’s own ideas, which came from Lisa’s input. At a later stage in the project, the children made campaign posters to send to the Prince’s Rainforest Trust. We are a UNICEF school and it all tied into the modules of Your Rights and You Have a Right to Have an Opinion. The children had a right to voice their opinion that deforestation is wrong. They led the learning completely.
I would say it was very collaborative project, a journey in working together.
The intention Leanne and I brought to the development of our work together was to listen to each other and the children. In listening, we focused on attuning to the energy and responses of the children. How were they responding? At what moments did energy heighten and flow?
Indeed it was often a great challenge for me to notice and ‘feel into’ the energy of the children, the temperature of the room in response to an activity. My own sensory experience of been in the class room through the interactive whiteboard at times felt frustrating and even at times lonely. Looking at the classroom through the narrow screen of my laptop made me consider other ways of discovering and identifying the information I needed to ‘feel into’ and sense in order to learn about this room full of people. I had to ask specific questions to the children and Leanne to receive their feedback.
I will always remember Leanne’s description of the children’s response to the task of creating leaf tattoos. She described the children’s joy and laughter coupled with their attention in colouring and pressing leaves on their bodies.
Throughout the duration of the project, I continued to share elements and small samples of work from my own practice. From these sharings, Leanne and the children began to develop their own questions, tasks and creative forms of response and reflection.
I found it so exciting to see, hear and feel individual’s process, their ideas, questions and responses.
What aspects of the project made you smile? What aspects of the project made you feel challenged?
I’ll start with a challenge. It was session 9. Everything had been going so well on our computer programme, Blackboard Collaborate. But on lesson 9, the technology would not work for us. Lisa couldn’t connect with us. I felt lost. The C2K school network in Northern Ireland is very strict. I couldn’t use facetime or skype to connect with Lisa. So we ended up communiciating via whatsapp. It was a whole new way of connecting with Lisa. We were able to communicate with Lisa using whats app voice messages. We sent photographs of what we did that day (which was a continuation of what we were doing). So when technology fails – that is a challenge.
The highlight was when Lisa came up to the school for two days in April. I will never forget that the time that she spent with them before we went out filming their dances. I will never forget that. The children will never forget that. It was amazing. We spent all this time working collaboratively online. Then she was there in person. That was a highlight for me and the kids.
Indeed, like Leanne, memories of session 9 haven’t softened for me. Our means of communiciation didn’t work. I lost a little confidence with the technology after this point. I felt anxious in the lead up to the next sessions. When technology fails, it definitely poses a big challenge.
But, because of the realisation that we could not rely on our online connection, we began to develop less focus on me as the leader of sessions. I look back now and realise that this was a really important moment of our journey together. After session 9, I think Leanne and the children really took off and entered their full flow. Up to session 9, we spent much time getting to know each other, exploring ideas, trying things out, engaging with our senses indoors and outdoors, experiencing each others small creative forms and experiments. I know that the children had developed skills and knowledge and were full of passion for creative movement and the natural environment around them. In stepping back a little, I created more space for this dynamic partnership (teacher and children) and individuals to embrace their own creativity. When I reflect on this, I smile.
What insights from the project are worth sharing? (These may seem small, but are significant to you)
At the start I wasn’t really sure where it was going to go. I needed to take a step back and breath. Lisa encouraged us all to concentrate on the simple things. But the simple things turned out to be very effective.
In main stream schools at the minute, it’s all about getting children in touch with their senses again. There are so many children coming into school at the moment with sensory issues. With the warm ups, we focused on the sense of touch. Before each lesson the children were so excited about working with Lisa. The warm ups helped calm the children.
The sensory issue is a big thing at the minute in main stream schools. We recognise the need to support children to return to the basics, being calm in themselves and able to regulate themselves. The warm ups for me were great. They focused on touch and feeling, touching your arm, leg and head. From a sensory perspective, this was significant for me and I thought it prepared them well for their dances.
Something I would like to share is how we endeavoured to document the process through gathering multiple means of documentation. Leanne is an avid photographer. She created, gathered and drew our focus to this form of visual documentation.
It feels now, following completion of the project that the engagement with multiple forms of documentation was a really important layer and container for the processes and choices that emerged throughout the project. Methods included: photography, film, writing, art, movement and the gathering of materials. These forms illustrated and offered many entry points for others into the work and processes of the project.
Has anything changed as a result of the project?
Yes. The impact of the audio warm ups and our attention to the senses made me take a step back and realise everything in mainstream teaching is done at a pace. You are going at a rate of knots to try and get everything covered because there is so much curriculum to cover. At the end of the day as society goes on, moves more into technology (and yes our project was based around technology), this project brought out the importance of just been still. Breathing and regulating yourself, mindfulness. Being aware of your space, being aware of your own body and senses, which alot of children at this age are missing. I’d say that has really made me think as a teacher.
Dance does not have to be very structured. It can made so creative and the children proved that. I was thinking where is this going to go with the boys? How are the boys going to get into this? And I not being a dancer, I was thinking, ‘gosh, where is this going to go? I think at times I worried about the end product. But I realise now it’s really about the process. The amount of work the children put into the process of it all was unbelievable. Those dances didn’t happen overnight. The children took ownership of their own process. I loved the days when Lisa worked with small groups, chatting to them about their dances, giving them feedback, hints and tips. The children loved this. It was really about the process but it’s also nice to have an amazing end product. But it really is about the process.
For me the parents really getting on board was important. It was a risk you take. Our sessions took a whole day. It was a whole day out of the normal curriculum; numeracy and literacy. For this day, you are dancing!
It was really important that the parents were on board with this. And they were. They kept involved all the time. Right from the class assembly, when we shared an interview between the children, teacher and artist. They absolutely loved it. They got to see Lisa. They had heard so much about Lisa from the chidlren. But they got to see Lisa and they were so keen to learn more about her. I think that was important, getting the parents on board and getting them involved. We created a DVD as part of our project. The DVD idea wasn’t my suggestion. It wasn’t the childrens or Lisas. It was the parents’ suggestion. Parents came to me after the class assembly and asked me for the footage. We had shown a film of an interview between Lisa and the children. We had two interviewers who asked Lisa questions. They did a super job and their parents were so proud watching the footage of them confidenctly posing questinos. This project was inclusive of all chidlren in the class and particulary appealed to those chidlren who learn best through kinaesthetic learning.
Our final DVD came from the parents request to see footage of this interview. The parents wanted to see the children’s dances and share it with others. I think this is important. It is not just a partnership between the teacher, children and the artist. It is also a partnership with the parents.
When Lisa came to the school in April, it was amazing to see the parent’s excitement. She got out of her car and they were all saying hello. She had never met them before. But they all felt that they knew her. It’s amazing how you can work with someone all year and ye’re at opposite ends of the country. When something like this comes together, it’s pretty special.
I think what I am left with at this stage and what I would like to remember as I go forward with Leanne, the children, families and community of Aughnacloy PS, is my curiousity around makings connections and asking questions.
I have neither an answer or a method as to how to achieve these successfully. But I think we can rely on our intention to listen, trust and be curious.
Here is a note from my journal (which was written throughout the project).
What question(s) can be shared to offer permission for an experience to ‘unfold’.
I think there are different ways of thinking about this.
The possibility of making connections – learning about something and learning about myself simultaneously.
Again, what question(s) encourage openness and curiosity – giving ownership back to the individuals.
Recognise
Acceptance – acceptance of where someone is right now.
A non-linear approach to learning and achievement.
What is between the teacher and the artist?
The known and the unknown. Staying at this edge. It might feel like a void or a delayed in-between stage.
Developing structures together which are composed from all the sensations of the work and materials.
A sense of intimacy and dialogue with the work – listening to it.
There is a need to explore and create frames and structures, which are away from the demands of an end product or production.
A project where we can all ask questions of each other.
“What do you know now?”
“How are you now?”
Lisa Cahill
Lisa is a contemporary dance artist, facilitator and movement educator. From 2014 to 2016, she was Dance Artist in Residence at the Froebel Department of Primary and Early Childhood Education at Maynooth University. This residency was funded by the Arts Council. In 2016, Lisa received a bursary from the Arts Council to support her research in somatic practices in education contexts. Lisa is participating on the research project ‘Virtually There’, managed by Kids’ Own Publishing Partnership. This project is a long-term artist-in-residence programme, which connects and supports engagement between practicing artists, children and teachers in Northern Ireland through virtual communication. For more information about Lisa’s involvement in the Virtually There project, visit: www.projects.kidsown.ie
A former primary school teacher, Lisa holds an MA in Contemporary Dance Performance from the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance and a Post Graduate Diploma in Dance, both from the University of Limerick.
Lisa’s own work has been shown nationally, most recently as part of the Limerick Dance Collective, ‘Making Space: Changing Ground’.
In 2016/2017 she collaborated with Joan Davis as part of the ‘Live Archive’ performance project, which toured nationally.
Lisa has developed a large portfolio of collaborative work in a broad range of professional, educational and community contexts.
Lisa co-founded Spoken Dance, an integrated contemporary dance company. She directed a number of short dance films with this company, including 'two' which was selected for the 2015 Light Moves Festival of Screendance.
In 2015, Lisa received a certificate of attendance from ‘Origins’, a somatic movement and therapy training delivered by Joan Davis.
Teacher(s):
Leanne Kyle
Leanne teaches P2/3 at Aughnacloy Primary School. Aughnacloy is a small town on the border in Co. Tyrone. She loves to kayak, hike, travel and take photographs.
School/
Participant Group
Aughnacloy Primary School, Co. Tyrone
No. Participants
Age/Class
P2 & 3
September 2016 to May 2017
http://projects.kidsown.ie/aughnacloy-ps/
www.maynoothuniversity.ie/froebel-department-primary-and-early-childhood-education/dancer-residence
Leading Agency
Kids’ Own Publishing Partnership
Key themes/ lines of enquiry
The sensory body – senses
Sensory experience of our place
Listening.
The intention Leanne [the teacher] and I brought to the development of our work together was to listen to each other and the children.
Virtually There with St Patrick’s P.S. Co Armagh
Artist Sharon Kelly and teacher Fionnuala Hughes from at St Patrick’s PS, Co. Armagh, talk about their explorations for this phase of the Virtually There Project around the idea of Balance
Virtually There
Artist Vanya Lambrecht Ward collaborates with children from Ardfert National School, Tralee, via video conferencing technology.
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Formation of the Islands
From the First Settlement Until Today
In antiquity the archipelago was called Demonisia, the People’s Isles. During Byzantine times the archipelago came to be known as Papadonisia, the Islands of the Monks, from the many monasteries that had been established on the various isles. These monasteries became famous for the emperors, empresses, and patriarchs who were exiled there, some of them never to return to Constantinople. According to the Byzantine chronicler Kedrenos, the emperor Justin II (r. 565-78) built himself a palace and monastery on the largest of the islands in 569. This isle had been known as Megale, or the Great, but after the emperor established residence there it came to be called Prinkipo, the Isle of the Prince. Later the entire archipelago came to be called the Prinkiponisos, or the Princes’ Isles.
During the Byzantine era, when Constantinople was protected by its great walls, the Princes’ Isles were left exposed and were ravaged during enemy sieges. This was particularly so in the Arab invasions of the seventh and eighth centuries, in the sack of Constantinople by the Venetians and the knights of the Fourth Crusade in 1204, and in the attacks that led up to the capture of the Byzantine capital in 1453 by the Ottomans under Mehmet II. The islands were secure under Ottoman rule, though in 1807 a squadron of the British Navy under Admiral Sir John Duckworth forced its way through the Dardanelles and the Marmara and anchored off Kınalıada for eleven days, during which time they bombarded the island before sailing back to the Aegean.
During the Byzantine era, Antigoni, Halki and Prinkipo were inhabited almost entirely by the families of Greek fishermen and mariners, while Armenians predominated on Proti. During the late Ottoman era, prosperous Turkish and Jewish families took up residence on the islands as well, particularly on Büyükada, along with a few foreign diplomats and businessmen. There are still significant Armenian and Jewish communities on some of the islands, and also a number of Greeks, but today the vast majority of the islanders are Turkish.
Chronological History of the Princes' Islands
The First Ferries to the Islands
The first ferries to the islands, beginning in the eighteenth century, were the large rowing craft known as "pazar kayık". Small steam-powered ferries made their appearance in 1846, to be followed by larger steamboats when the Şirket-i Hayriye began regularly scheduled ferry service to the islands at the beginning of the second half of the nineteenth century. This led to a great increase in the population of the islands, both in the number of year-round residents and those with summer homes. There was also a huge influx of day-trippers and overnight visitors on weekends and holidays, which led to the erection of hotels on the larger islands, although there are fewer hostels now than there were in times past. The ferry service has been expanded in recent years, with high-speed sea buses going out to the islands from Kabataş on the Bosphorus in addition to the regular ferryboats from the Adalar station on the Golden Horn. Despite these developments, the archipelago is still largely unspoiled, particularly because automotive transport is banned, except for a few municipal vehicles. Otherwise the only means of transport on Burgazada, Heybeliada and Büyükada is by fayton, or horse-drawn carriage, while on Kınalıada one must either walk or ride a bicycle.
The Names of the Islands in History
In antiquity the archipelago was called Demonisia, the People’s Isles. During Byzantine times the archipelago came to be known as Papadonisia, the Islands of the Monks, from the many monasteries that had been established on the various isles. The emperor Justin II (r. 565-78) built himself a palace and monastery on the largest of the islands in 569. This isle had been known as Megale, or the Great, but after the emperor established residence there it came to be called Prinkipo, the Isle of the Prince. Later the entire archipelago came to be called the Prinkiponisos, or the Princes’ Isles..
Büyükada - Prinkipo
The island is rich in historical associations. The earliest of these concern the palace built in 569 by Justin II (r. 565-78), nephew and successor of Justinian (r. 527-65). According to the chronicler Kedrenos, Justin had a "farm estate" on the island, on which he built his palace and probably also a monastery. The name of the monastery is unknown, although it is believed to be the convent where several empresses of Byzantium and at least one emperor were confined during their periods of exile.
The palace and convent are believed to have been on the northeastern shore of the island in the district now known as Maden, or the "Mine," so called because of the iron mine that was worked there in the mid-nineteenth century. The archaeological evidence to support this includes a capital bearing a monogram with the name of the empress Sophia, wife of Justin II. Another capital with a monogram giving the name of the emperor himself was found in the present church of St. Dimitrios in the village of Büyükada.
Ernest Mamboury, in a paper published in 1943, reported on archaeological finds he made in the Maden district, in an area known as Kamares, or the "Arches," doubtless from the ruins that were then still visible there. Mamboury estimated that the convent occupied an area of about 300 square meters, its north and south wings each about 250 meters long, with the ruins of the conventual church still evident within the enclosure. However, these remains have now utterly disappeared.
The convent was rebuilt and enlarged by the empress Eirene (r. 797-802), one of the few women to rule Byzantium in her own right. Eirene was the wife of Leo IV (r. 775-80) and mother of his son and successor, Constantine VI (r. 780-97). Constantine was only ten when he succeeded to the throne, and so his mother Eirene was made regent and immediately began restoring icons to the churches of Byzantium, from which they had been banned by the iconoclastic policy of her late husband. Constantine took power in 790 and confined his mother to the palace, but he proved incapable of rule and two years later he released Eirene and crowned her as co-emperor. Then in 797 Eirene and her supporters overthrew Constantine, who was blinded by his mother and sent into exile in the convent that the empress had founded on Prinkipo. Constantine died a few days later and was buried in the graveyard of the convent.
Eirene thus became the first woman ever to rule the Byzantine Empire on her own, though her unnatural crime profoundly shocked Constantinople. As the chronicler Theophanes wrote: "And the sun was darkened during seventeen days, and gave not his light, so that ships ran off course, and all men said and confess that because the emperor was blinded, the sun had put away his rays. And in this way power came into the hands of Eirene, his mother."
Eirene ruled on her own for more than five years, but then on 31 October 802 she was deposed in a palace coup, to be succeeded by Nicephorus I (r. 802-11). Eirene was then exiled, first to her convent on Prinkipo and then to the island of Lesbos in the Aegean, where she died the following year. Her remains were brought back and buried in the graveyard of her convent on Prinkipo, laid to rest beside her son Constantine. Their graves were tended by the Princess Euphrosyne, who had been exiled to the convent with her father. Euphrosyne remained in the convent for twenty-seven years; she was finally released in 824 to become the bride of the recently widowed Michael II (r. 820-9), a usuper of plebian origins who married the princess to lend legitimacy to his reign.
The next imperial exile in the convent was the empress Zoe, daughter of Constantine VIII (r. 1025-8) and wife in turn of Romanus III Argyrus (r. 1028-34), Michael IV (r. 1034-41), and Constantine IX Monomachus (r. 1042-55). After the death of Michael IV the succession passed to Michael V (r. 1041-2), the adopted son of Zoe, who turned on his foster mother and exiled her to the convent on Prinkipo. This infuriated the people of Constantinople, who overthrew and exiled Michael, after which they raised Zoe and her younger sister Theodora to the throne. The sisters ruled as co-emperors for three months until they were succeeded by Constantine IX Monomachus (r. 1042-55), who married Zoe on 12 June 1042 and was crowned as emperor the following day.
When Isaac I Comnenus (r. 1057-9) was suffering through his last illness he tried to arrange for his younger brother John to be his successor. But when Isaac abdicated, the landowning military aristocracy passed over John in favor of one of their own, who was crowned as Constantine X Ducas (r. 1059-67). John Comnenus was then sent into exile on Prinkipo, where he was confined to a monastery, while his wife Anna Dalassena and their children took up residence in the convent that had been founded by the empress Eirene. After a few months John was allowed to leave Constantinople with his family and go into obscure retirement in a remote part of the empire, where he died in 1067. Anna bided her time until her eldest son succeeded to the throne as Alexius I Comnenus (r. 1081-1118). Alexius then crowned his mother as empress, and she was the power behind the throne until her death in 1102. When Alexius himself died in 1118 his wife, the empress Eirene Ducaena, retired to the convent on Prinkipo, where she died five years later, the last of the imperial exiles to be be consigned to the island.
Heybeliada - Halki
Halki, the Greek name of the island, which means "copper," comes from the copper mines that were worked here in antiquity, mentioned by Aristotle. The island took its Turkish name, Heybeli, from the word for saddlebag, heybe, which it is said to resemble because of the shape of its hills and their intervening valleys.
In Byzantine times, there were at least three monasteries on Heybeliada, then known as Halki. The most renowned of these was Hagia Triada, the Holy Trinity, whose site on Ümit Tepesi is occupied by the Greek Orthodox theological school of the same name, a direct descendant of the original Byzantine monastery. The present monastery is the most prominent monument on Heybeliada, dominating the view from an approaching ferry and from within the village itself.
The earliest reference to a monastery on Halki is in the writings of St. Theodore of Studius early in the ninth century. Theodore, abbot of Constantinople’s famous monastery of St. John of Studius, was exiled to a monastery on Halki by Leo V (r. 813-20) because of his criticism of the emperor’s iconoclastic policy. While on Halki, Theodore wrote a number of letters, theological treatises, and poems, one of which was addressed fondly to the monastic cell in which he was confined. Theodore does not name the monastery, but other evidence would seem to indicate that it was the Holy Trinity. Theodore’s letters say that after Leo V was assassinated in 820, his widow, the empress Theodora, and her daughters were exiled to the monastery on Halki by the new emperor, Michael II. Theodore and the other residents of the Holy Trinity were then evicted to make way for the empress and her daughters. Thus there would seem to have been another monastic establishment on Halki where the displaced monks could find shelter, and it has been suggested that this was the monastery of St. John the Baptist.
Burgazada - Antigoni
In antiquity the island was known as Panormos, but in Byzantine times it was called Antigoni, the name still used by the Greeks. The Turkish name of Burgaz is a corruption of the Greek pyrgos, or tower, from an ancient watchtower on its summit that is mentioned by Evliya Çelebi and other travelers up until the early nineteenth century. The watchtower can be seen on the summit of the island in an engraving done in 1794 by Cosimo Comidas. The engraving shows the island bare except for what appear to be an orchard and two or three cultivated patches on the side of the hill.
In more recent times, the island was densely wooded, principally with pines. Unfortunately, a fire in 2003 destroyed most of the trees above the village, but the area has been replanted with pine saplings.
The single hill, Hristos Tepesi (Christ Hill), also known as Bayraktepe (Flag Hill), rises to a height of 170 meters in the middle of the island. The center of the village is on the northeast coast of the island, its houses stretching from there along the heights above the northern shore. The shore roads extend around all of the island except its inhospitable south coast, where precipitous cliffs hang over the sea.
During Byzantine times there were at least two monasteries on the island, one of them dedicated to St. John the Baptist (Hagios Ioannis Prodromos), and the other to the Transfiguration of Christ, but neither seems to have housed any royal exiles.
The earliest reference to the monastery of St. John is in the diary of the Reverend John Covel, who in his entry for 2 May 1675 writes: "There hath been a monastery upon Antigono, but now it is decaid, and shrunk to a little church dedicated to St. John." Covel visited the island again on 2 April 1677, when he made the following entry in his diary: "That evening about 5 a clock, we set sail from Pera, and came to Antigono, where we lay in a poor tavern. The town is not worth any notice. The wine is ordinary...the water very bad; bread dear and not very good."
The only famous personage exiled on Antigoni during the Byzantine period was St. Methodios the Confessor, Patriarch of Constantinople (r. 842-6), who was imprisoned in the monastery of St. John by Michael II, the Stammerer, during the years 822-9 because of his opposition to the emperor’s policy of iconoclasm. After Michael’s death in 829 his son and successor, the emperor Theophilos (r. 829-42), released Methodios and allowed him to return to Constantinople. Methodios was elected patriarch in 842 and the following year he convened a Church Council that restored the veneration of icons, ending the Iconoclastic Period. After Methodios died in 846 he was canonized, his body having been laid to rest in the church of the Holy Apostles among the tombs of the Byzantine emperors.
Kınalıada - Proti
The Greeks have always called the island Proti, or First, since it is the nearest of the islands to the city. It is the smallest of the four major islands, with an area of 1.356 square kilometers.
The Reverend John Covel, chaplain of the Levant Company in Galata, made two voyages out to the islands in 1676-7, and on the second of these he observed that the village on Proti had been destroyed and abandoned, though there is no record of what catastrophe might have been responsible for this. As Covel writes in his entry for 26 February 1677:
We left Chalcis [Halki]. We past by Antigono [Antigoni], and came to Prote [Proti]. There is no village there, but onely a monastery on the top dedicated to our Saviour, Haghios Sotir. They have all the island to themselves. There is no vineyards, it being most rocky barren ground. It is decimated, and hath a stavromenos [a monastery belonging to one on Mount Athos]. There are about ten or fifteen kaloyeri [monks]. They had a fine herd of goats, and then above thirty young kids in their mandra [enclosure for cattle]. There are good olives, flax, and some corn ground. There is on the east side going up a pond, but the water is not good or lasting all the year, proceeding onely from the rain or snow, and not regarded or preserved as a cistern. On that side there hath been a town, but all is now level’d with the ground. On these islands there are wells or cisternes, and as good water as can be drunk.
The monastery described by Covel is one of several known to have been founded on Proti in Byzantine times. The one that he describes was dedicated to the Transfiguration of the Saviour (Metamorphoseos tou Sotiros) and housed several distinguished exiles, including a number of emperors and empresses of Byzantium.
The first of these exiles was the Armenian general Bardanes, who in 803 revolted against the emperor Nicephorus I (r. 802-11). The army proclaimed Bardanes emperor and he advanced upon Constantinople, but as his troops approached the capital they began deserting to Nicephorus. Bardanes was persuaded to surrender to Nicephorus, who had him blinded and exiled to Proti, where he spent the rest of his days as a monk, perhaps in a monastery that he founded himself.
The emperor Michael I Rhangabe (r. 811-13) was deposed by his Armenian general Leo, who succeeded to the throne as Leo V (r. 813-20). Leo sent Michael off into exile to the monastery of the Transfiguration on Proti. Michael was accompanied in his exile by his wife, the empress Procopia, and their four children, two daughters and two sons. Procopia and her daughters took the habit as nuns, while Michael and his two sons, Theophylact and Nicetas, became monks, the two boys being castrated so that they could never succeed their father as emperor. Michael died on Proti in 840 and was buried in the monastery graveyard. Nicetas, who took the name Ignatius when he became a monk, eventually was allowed to leave Proti and served two terms as patriarch of Constantinople (847-58, 867-77); after his death he was canonized as a saint in the Orthodox Church.
Leo was assassinated in 820 by Michael the Amorian, who succeeded to the throne as Michael II. Michael then exiled Leo’s widow, Theodosia, and her four children to the monastery of the Panagia, or Holy Virgin, on Proti, where the remains of the deposed emperor were buried.
Romanus I Lecapenus (r. 919-44), an Armenian, was overthrown on 17 December 944 by his sons Stephen and Constantine, who then had themselves crowned as co-emperors and sent their father into exile in the monastery of the Transfiguration on Proti. But then on 27 December Stephen and Constantine were themselves deposed and sent off into exile at the same monastery. Romanus died there on 15 June 948, while Stephen and Constantine were subsequently sent off into more distant exile on an island in the Aegean, where they were confined in a monastery for the rest of their days.
Romanus II (r. 959-63) scandalized Byzantium by marrying a beautiful courtesan named Theophano. When Romanus died in an accident in 963 Theophano married his successor, Nicephorus II Phocas (r. 963-9), an Armenian general. Six years later Theophano and her lover John Tzimisces, another Armenian general, conspired to assassinate Nicephorus, whom they killed on 10 December 969. The following day Tzimisces was crowned as the emperor John I (r. 969-76). Theophano thought that he would marry her and that she would become an empress for the third time, but Tzimisces exiled her to a monastery on Proti, where she remained for the rest of her life.
Romanus IV Diogenes (r. 1067-71) was deposed in 1071 after his catastrophic defeat by the Seljuk Turks at the battle of Manzikert. His successor, Michael VII Doucas (r. 1071-8), blinded Romanus and exiled him to the monastery of the Transfiguration on Proti, where he died on 4 August 1072.
Kınalıada has three peaks, with Çınar Tepesi (Plane Tree Hill) rising in the northeast of the island to an elevation of 115 meters, Teşrifiye Tepesi (110 m.) in the center, and Manastır Tepesi (93 m.) in the south. All three hills are almost treeless but are covered with brush, just as they appear in an engraving of the island done in 1794 by Cosimo Comidas. The engraving shows two of the hills crowned with large structures which are undoubtedly monasteries, one of them overshadowed by an enormous cypress. Teşrifiye Tepesi is now studded with a dozen television and communications antennae, an unsightly reminder that the modern world has penetrated these once idyllic isles.
Kınalıada is the most barren of the four major islands, as Grosvenor notes in his description of its appearance, where he interprets its topography in terms of two hills rather than three and gives it three monasteries:
Proti, the First or Nearest, consists of two prolonged and lofty mounds. A belt of trees spans the hollow. No water-springs refresh its bare and arid surface. Stunted shrubbery and a few straggling houses cling like moss along the slopes. Its very appearance is suggestive of the sorrows and tragedies it has seen, all accomplished within the walls of three monasteries between which the island was shared.
Sedefadası - Antirovithos
The name of the island is said to derive either from sedef (mother-of-pearl) or from sedefotu, the rue plant commonly found here.
St. Ignatius founded a monastery for men on Antirovithos in the mid-ninth century, one of three monastic establishments he built on the Princes’ Isles, all of which are mentioned in the list made by Manuel I Comnenus in 1158. The monastery on Antirovithos was restored in 1180 by the patriarch Theodosius Boradiotis. All that remains of the monastery today is a fragmentary ruin on the northwestern promontory of the island.
During the reign of Mahmut II (r.1808-39) the island was given over to the sultan’s son-in-law, Rodosizade Damat Fethi Ahmet Paşa, who planted two thousand olive trees and five thousand artichoke plants.
The Smaller Islands
Sivriada - Oxia
Despite its small size, Oxia (Sivriada) had its monastery, of which some remnants have survived. This establishment is mentioned in the list of monasteries compiled in 1158 by the emperor Manuel I Comnenus. The monastery had two churches: a katholikon of the Archangel Michael and a chapel dedicated to a number of martyred saints. Several abbots of the monastery subsequently became patriarch of Constantinople. Substantial ruins of the monastery can still be seen on the hillside beside the quay on the inner side of the port.
The earliest mention of the island in Ottoman times is by Petrus Gyllius, who stopped there in 1545. The island’s chief fame in modern times is that on several occasions all the wild dogs of Istanbul were rounded up and exiled there, where they soon ate each other up.
Yassıada - Plati
Yassıada measures 300 by 190 meters, with a maximum elevation of forty meters. It too had its monastery, founded in the mid-ninth century by St. Ignatius, who was twice patriarch of Constantinople (847-58, 867-77). The monastery, mentioned by Manuel I Comnenus in his listing of 1158, had a katholikon dedicated to the Forty Martyrs and also a chapel of the Virgin. Ernest Mamboury, writing in his 1943 guide to the Princes’ Isles, reports that he found remnants of one of these churches, whose ruins now seem to have vanished.
Sir Henry Bulwer, British ambassador to the Sublime Porte, purchased Yassıada in 1857 with the intention of developing it as a market garden. At the time his mistress was Eurydice Aristarchi, Princess of Samos, for whom he erected what Mamboury calls a chateau moyennageux (medieval chateau), where Bulwer and his entourage were popularly believed to have indulged in "nameless orgies.
Kaşıkadası - Pita
Kaşıkadası is the smallest of the nine islands of the archipelago and its highest point a mere eighteen meters above sea level. It has no known history, and it was the only isle in the archipelago that did not have a monastery in Byzantine times.
Tavşanadası - Neandros
Small though it is, Neandros was the site of a monastery, founded in the mid-eighth century by St. Ignatius, son of the emperor Michael I and twice patriarch of Constantinople, who spent his last years in his monastery on Neandros, where he died and was buried in 877. The monastery is mentioned in the list made in 1158 by Manuel I Comnenus. The empress Theodora, wife of the emperor Theophilus (r. 829-42), was confined to the monastery on Neandros in 856 by her son Michael III (r. 842-67), the Sot, for whom she had served as regent until he came of age. Michael VII Doucas (r. 1071-8) was confined to the monastery after he was deposed and blinded in 1078, and he remained there until his death in 1090. The fragmentary ruins of the monastery can still be seen on the island, which is totally uninhabited.
Vordonosadası - Vordonosi
Tiny though it is, it too was the site of a Byzantine monastery, founded in the second half of the ninth century by the patriarch Photius.
Büyükada - The Church of the Panagia
Heybeliada - Heybeliada Çeşmesi
Heybeliada - Abbas Hilmi’s Palace
Burgazada - Hristos (Christ) Tepesi and the Byzantine Monastery of the Theokoryphotos
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Eirene; Byzantium's First and Only Empress Was Exiled to Büyükada
The empress Irene was the first and only female sovereign of Byzantium but she had been dethroned and arrested following a palace coup. Then, 1209 years ago, escorted by armed guards, she was taken to the convent on Büyükada.?Irene was locked away in a cell. As she?gazed from the window facing Sedefadası (Terebinthos), she felt the irony ofher situation. She was the one who had commissioned theconstruction of this convent, but now she was imprisoned in it. Sometime later, she was secretly exiled to Midilli Island (Lesbos).Irene did not survive for long.
Her last wish was, “Lay my body to rest in the Saint Nicholas Chapel to the left of the Virgin Mary Church at the monastery I built with my sorrowful and suffering heart on Prinkipo Island (Büyükada) in the sight of God.” And that is what they did.
M. Kemal Atatürk
Atatürk visited Büyükada’yı ve Anadolu Club frequently. He met important state persons. Notable guests have included Atatürk and Ismet Inönü as well as foreign heads of state: Elefterios Venizelos, Prime Minister of Greece (1924); King Amanullah Han of Afghanistan (1930); King Carol of Romania and Madame Lupescu (1933); General Metaxas, the Greek dictator (1936); Shah Riza Pahlavi of Iran (1964); and Nikolau Ceausescu, the Romanian dictator (1976). When Atatürk visited the club he stayed in Room 25, which is preserved as it was in his time. In the garden of the club there is a monument to Atatürk, dedicated in 1981 to mark the centenary of his birth. The club cannot be visited, but one can observe the beautiful buildings and grounds from the gateway.
Fethi Okyar
Ali Fethi Okyar had been a close friend of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk since their childhood. Fethi Okyar- soldier, diplomat, MP and minister- became the leader of the opposition the Free Republic Party, established in 1930 with Atatürk’s approval and support. But in the same year, finding it impossible to continue the party, he retreated to his house on Büyükada.
İsmet İnönü
Ismet Inonu, first Turkish Prime Minister and later President of the Turkish Republic. Ismet Inönu, first rented the house originally known as the Mavromatakis Köşku on Heybeliada, as a summer home in 1924, when he recuperated there after an illness. The Inönus bought the house in 1934 for 9,500 liras, with new furniture presented to them as a gift by Atatürk. Eventually the family decided to have the house preserved as a museum under the Inönu Foundation, restored just as it was when Ismet Paşa moved there in 1937.
Yesari Asım Arsoy
"Biz Heybeli’de her gece mehtaba çıkardık" In a little park next to the Naval High School there is a statue of Yesari Asim Arsoy (1896-1992), famous as the composer of a song celebrating Heybeli
Lev Trotsky
Lev Davidovich Trotsky, one of the leaders of the Soviet Revolution, came to Istanbul when forced into exile by Stalin in 1929 and spent most of his four-year stay in Istanbul on Büyükada.
Trotsky left Büyükada on 17 July 1933, never to return. Despite his isolation on the island he seems to have enjoyed his exile there, as evidenced by the last entry he made in his notebook on the day he departed: "It has been four and one-half years. I have the strange feeling of having my feet firmly planted on Büyükada."
Label on the Famous Kulüp Rakısı
Ihap Hulusi Görey, a graphic designer and painter, and Fazıl Ahmet Aykaç, a poet, author, teacher and MP, both from Kınalıada, were close friends. They got together from time to time on their island and sometimes at the Büyükada Anatolian Club.
His label for the famous Kulüp Rakısı--the label still used today--shows two very stylish, handsome gentlemen drinking raki. They are said to be Fazıl Ahmet Aykaç and Ihap Hulusi himself, pictured drinking at the Anatolian Club. With this label, designed in 1932, the famous artist immortalised their friendship.
Lefter Küçükandonyadis
Lefter Küçükandonyadis played first for Taksimspor. After his military service, at age 21, he signed with Fenerbahçe, where he scored 407 goals in 605 games. He was the first footballer to wear the national jersey 50 times, scoring 22 goals in international games. Lefter, still a football legend, is now 86 years old and lives on Büyükada.
Mina Urgan
“Trotsky used to live in a residence on Nizam Street at Büyükada, with a garden?that stretched all the way to the shore. He never walked about in the streets, but went fishing on his boat almost every day. One day, when I was swimming offshore I recognized Trotsky’s boat. We were be able to identify this boat from afar, because there were two Russian bodyguards on the bow and stern.?In the middle sat the Greek fisherman?that pulled the oars and Trotsky holding?his fishhook. I quickly swam towards the?boat and held onto the side and practically came face to face with Trotsky. One of the bodyguards said ‘Go, go.’ (Actually he said ‘Go, go’ with a Russian accent.) I wanted to use my fatigue as an excuse to hold on so I could watch Trotsky a bit longer.”
Mina Urgan,
The Memories of a Dinosaur
Yahya Kemal persuaded his friend, Ziya Gökalp (1876-1924), to move to Büyükada. After Gökalp came, Turkish nationalist intellectuals such as Ahmet Ağaoğlu, Hamdullah Suphi, Celal Sahir, Necmettin Sadık and Fuat Köprülü began to gather on Büyükada.?Gökalp’s illness worsened in 1924 he was taken to Büyükada from Nişantaşı. While he was ill on the island, he edited his book, Türk Medeniyet Tarihi.
He resided at: Fatma Hurrem House, Albayrak Sokağı (Maden) No:17?. Rotenberg Mansion, Çankaya Caddesi Albayrak Sokak (Maden) No: 6
Melih Cevdet Anday
Melih Cevdet Anday, one of the most important poets in Turkish literature, penned the often-quoted line about the island, “Ada vapuru yandan çarklı...”. Anday was one of the founders of the Garip movement of poetry and the philosophical poetic movement. UNESCO considered him to be a writer as important as Cervantes, Dante and Tolstoy. He wrote articles and essays in newspapers under both his real name and penname and also did translations. His poems, essays, criticisms, plays and novels received many awards. He spent the last years of his life on Büyükada and he is buried on the island.
The Fisherman of Halicarnassus
Halikarnas Balıkçısı (1890-1973), whose real name was Cevat Şaki Kabaağaçlı, completed his primary education on Büyükada. While he attended Robert College, he spent his summers at Rosola Mansion on Büyükada, together with his large family.
Yahya Kemal Beyatlı
Yahya Kemal Beyatlı (1884-1958) came to Büyükada in 1913 upon the recommendation of Tahsin Nahid and stayed in a fine, pleasant room on the top floor of the Savoy Hotel, with a window facing the street . He also stayed at the Splendid Hotel for a short period. The following year, when he returned to Büyükada, he rented a mansion with Yakup Kadri on Azaryan Yokuşu, with a sea view, two bedrooms, a kitchen at the back and a maid’s room.
In addition to his duties at Darülfünun (University), Kemal served as a history teacher at the Heybeliada Naval Academy. Nâzım Hikmet and Necip Fazıl Kısakürek were students of Kemal’s during this period.
Nurullah Ataç
Nurullah Ataç (1898-1957), one of the limited number of authors who only wrote criticisms and essays during the Republic period, was an admirer of the Islands. To him, Büyükada was Istanbul. He rarely went to the city. He complained about not being able to write in Istanbul. Shortly after his daughter Meral was born, Nurullah Ataç settled on Büyükada with his family. Meral Ataç Tolluoğlu sincerely describes her memories of her father and Büyükada in her book, Babam Nurullah Ataç:
“In terms of nature, the island is far more beautiful in winter than summer. The inhabitants of the island are like kith and kin. Everybody knows each other, greet each other and ask after each other. To live in such a place gives people both happiness and trust. Also, my uncle and his family live here both in summer and winter. After my father and mother thought about it, they decided to settle on the Island again after they moved.”
From Babam Nurullah Ataç
He resided at: Ataç House Lonca Sokağı No:24
Reşat Nuri Güntekin (1889-1956), the author of Çalıkuşu, one of the most widely read novels in Turkish literature, settled on Büyükada in the 1930’s with his family because he liked living in quiet places. He hosted his relatives more often than his writer friends; he hosted dinner for them, as they played on the swings in the garden. His daughter, Ela Güntekin, who came to Büyükada when she was only a few months old, spent time with her father as they walked and chatted. For many years, the family spent their summers on the island.
His novel, Akşam Güneşi, expresses his feelings about Büyükada.
Büyükada, House of Reşat Nuri Güntekin, Museum of the Princes’ Islands Archive
Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar (1864-1944) lived in a rental house for 10 years in the 1900’s. He bought land from Hıdiv Abbas Paşa and built the Gürpınar Mansion, where he lived until his death. The three-storied mansion on Heybeliada looks towards Burgazada, and from the sea, three sides of the house can be seen, far from town, high up a steep slope in a forested area. He is buried here.
Hüseyin Rahmi describes his life on Heybeliada in Kokotlar Mektebi and mentions the island in Sevda Peşinde and Tebessüm-i Elem
He resided at: Gürpınar Mansion, Demirtaş Sokağı No: 19
Aziz Nesin
Aziz Nesin (1915-1995) is one of the writers born on the Islands. Nesin lived on Heybeli until he was 10 years old and wrote about the Heybeli of his childhood and the residents in a lively and detailed manner in Böyle Gelmiş Böyle Gitmez.
“There was only one mosque in Heybeliada: (...) The muezzin of the islands mosque Feyyaz had a serious speech defect, he stammered. He used to talk with great difficulty. But the voice of this stutterer was really beautiful. And he never stammered when he was reciting the call for prayers or chanting the Prophet Mohammed’s nativity hymn. (...) Briefly, we had to discover means to live cheap and find ways to live on a very small amount of money. There were cisterns in most of the houses, because there were no water resources on the island. We did not have a reservoir in our small house. And we could not get water from the peddling watermen who stacked water on to back of their donkeys. Because we did not want to spend money. Me and my sister – but mostly my sister – used to carry water from the fountain at the port side area in a copper churn.”
From Istanbul Boy: The Autobiography of Aziz Nesin.
Zeyyat Selimoğlu
When mentioning Heybeliada, Zeyyat Selimoğlu (1922-2000) is one of the names that immediately come to mind. Selimoğlu translated many books into Turkish, mostly dealing with ships and the different lives of people who live/work on ships. The book Direğin Tepesinde Bir Adam attracted much attention when it was first published. All of his stories about the sea are collected in the book Gemi Adamları.
Ahmet Rasim
Ahmet Rasim (1865-1932) settled on Heybeliada after living in Kadıköy and he spent the last days of his life here. He wrote about the islands in his quick and extremely entertaining style.
Kitabe-i Gam is Rasim’s letter novel written for a beautiful woman whom he knew and loved on the Island.
He resided at: Ahmet Rasim House, Heybeliada, Hüseyin Rahmi Sokağı No: 25/1
Sait Faik Abasıyanık (1906-1954) wrote about the Islands, the fishermen and the fish and is identified with Burgazada. He spent most of the last ten years of his life in the mansion at 15 Çayır Sokak.?The mansion was converted into a museum upon the will of his mother, Makbule Abasıyanık, and the Sait Faik Abasıyanık Museum was opened by the “Burgazadası’nı Güzelleştirme Derneği (The Beautification of Burgazadası Association)” on 22 August 1959. The maintenance and restoration responsibilities of the museum are met by the Darüşşafaka Cemiyeti (Darüşşafaka Association).
Sait Faik and Burgazada are inseparable. One will always be associated with the other and one is incomplete without the other.
He resided at: Sait Faik House, Çayır Sokağı No: 15
Halide Edip Adıvar
Halide Edip Adıvar (1884-1964), one of the most important writers in Turkish literature, is among those who settled on Burgazada to escape the noise of Istanbul. Her home, Zafiriadis House, with a rose garden and covered by wisteria, held a special place in her heart.
Some parts her novel, Raik’in Annesi, are set on Burgaz. She resided at: Zafiriadis House, Mehtap Sokağı No: 43
Fazıl Ahmet Aykaç
Fazıl Ahmet Aykaç (1884-1967), whose humor and witty conversations are often quoted, is a symbol of Kınalıada. He brought important innovations to the fields of humour and poetry. He imitated many of the famous poets and poems of the period, which made him a much talked about figure.
He hosted many of his friends at his house on Kınalıada. İhap Hulusi memorialized their friendship and their conversations in the raki label he drew for Kulüp Rakısı. Naşide Görey, İhap Hulusi’s wife, tells the story of the creation of the label:
“For that Tekel raki, he developed compositions in his mind, drew sketches, tried a few models, but he was not satisfied. Meanwhile, his close friend Fazıl Ahmet Aykaç was watching him. İlhap Bey turned and said; “Fazıl, come and sit here!’ and he came and sat before him. Thus, that famous label of Kulüp Rakısı was created and has been used since that day for over half a century.”
He resided at:?. Civanyan House, Çandarlı Sokağı No: 9?. Ağasi House, Fazıl Ahmet Aykaç Caddesi No: 23
Zabel Asadur
Lawyer and writer Hrand Asadur (1862-1928) and his well-known writer and poet wife, Zabel Asadur (1863-1924, nee Hancıyan), lived in a four-storied wooden house on Kınalıada known as the Derunyan house.
Zabel Asadur, whose goal when she was sixteen was to open schools and orphanages for the education and training of Armenian girls in Anatolia, established “Azkanıver Hayuhyats Ingerutyun” (Nationalist Armenian Women’s Association) and wrote about the problems of women in her articles published?in Masis magazine under the penname “Sibil”. She devoted herself to the liberalization of women. Asadur, who wrote for periodicals in Armenian and translated from French, also served at the Esayan and Getronogan schools as an Armenian teacher.
Zahrad
Zahrad, whose real name was Zareh Yaldızcıyan (1924-February 21, 2007), lived on Kınalıada for many years. His first book of poetry, Büyük Şehir, was published in 1960 and translated into twenty-five languages. The poetry of this globally known poet were translated into Turkish by caricaturist, Ohannes Şaşkal and published in three anthologies: Yağ Damlası, Yapracığı Gören Balık, Işığını Söndürme.
For Zahrad, who put forward the feeling of space in his poems, Istanbul was always the island.
Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu
“We were endowed with the opportunity to spend the most beautiful, most enthusiastic and the merriest of those days in Büyükada owing to the hospitality of our friends Tahsin Nahit and his wife. I said ‘Tahsin Nahit and his wife’s hospitality’. Because their house at Maden became a meeting place for us and a center of attraction. Tahsin Nahit was above all known as the poet of the Islands, island pines and island fullmoons. His wife, on the other hand was born and raised in Büyükada and I can freely say that it was this couple who taught us the beauty of the island, and also who made us love it.”
Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu,
Memoirs of Youth and Literature
Burgazada - The Greek Orthodox Church of Hagios Ioannis Prodromos
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The Heritage of
The Reformed Church
in the U. S.
Our church originated out of that stream of protestant Christianity which emerged during the 16th Century Protestant Reformation when God raised up mighty Christian leaders to bring about reform in European churches by the Word of God.
The large denominations which emerged during the Protestant Reformation were termed “Reformed”. These denominations sprang up in various European countries, including France, Germany and Holland.
When German immigrants arrived in America many of these early settlers brought with them the Reformed faith. They established churches under the name of the German Reformed Church, which was later changed to the Reformed Church in the United States.
The ranks of the RCUS were greatly reduced in the battle against theological liberalism in the early 1900’s. However, the Reformed Church in the United States today still stands as one of the few denominations propagating the faith of the Reformation.
Calvary Reformed church is affiliated with the Reformed Church in the United States and adopts the Heidelberg Catechism, the Belgic Confession and the Canons of Dort as its doctrinal standards. These ‘Three Forms of Unity’ written at the time of the great Protestant Reformation are a superb exposition of the true Christian faith as revealed in the Bible.
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E-Rate News: Smallest School District in Idaho Receives Funds to Complete Fiber Project in the St. Joe Valley
NCCE Community Team
. Published on July 8, 2019.
Recently, the Universal Services Administrative Company (USAC) announced the approval of partial funding to provide 100 Mbps fiber internet access to Avery School District in Calder, Idaho through the Universal Services Fund, commonly called ‘E-Rate.” The Universal Service Fund is administered by a nonprofit organization, The Universal Services Administrative Company (USAC), which works on behalf of the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) to partially reimburse schools and libraries for eligible Internet connectivity expenses.
The total cost of the project is just under $2.8 million dollars. USAC will pay 90% of the total cost, leaving 10% as the Avery District portion, which will be covered by the Broadband Infrastructure Improvement Grant (BIIG) funds through the Idaho State Department of Education as part of this matching program and an additional match from the FCC.
Northwest Council for Computer Education, a not-for-profit E-Rate and professional development services organization, has been working with Avery School District to get fiber from Plummer to Calder for more than three years. “In a joint effort with NCCE, the Idaho State Department of Education, and Avery School District, we applied for E-Rate funding for a special construction project to deploy high-speed broadband,” stated Superintendent Vian. “Currently, our students and the surrounding rural communities do not have reliable access to the internet and often do not have cell service.” he added. “Approval for our special construction project…will be like bringing electricity or telephone service to our area.”
Currently, the District has a satellite connection which allows teachers access to the Internet but the 3Mbps total connection falls well short of the 1 Mbps/per student recommendation from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
“Avery is one of the few communities in the state left that is not connected by fiber. It’s hard to believe that it is 2019 and our staff and students do not have access to broadband services needed to work, learn, and communicate but it is true,” stated Vian. Fortunately, there are programs like USAC that serve people in rural, under-served, and difficult-to-reach areas.
“This is going to be a game changer for Avery School District and the 9,000 or so living along the roughly 35-mile route that will receive connectivity,” stated Heidi Rogers, NCCE CEO. “Not only will Avery students have access to the same quality of education as other students in the state, this may also allow the school district to grow and prosper,” Rogers added.
As part of the application process, NCCE facilitated a competitive bid process on behalf of the District last fall. Fatbeam, an Internet service provider from Coeur d’Alene, won the bid and expects to start construction this summer. “While the District only needs one strand of fiber to meet its broadband needs,” says Eric Chambers, NCCE E-Rate Director, “it is actually more cost effective to run multiple strands of fiber along the route.” “This means,” Chambers continues, “the provider will be able to make additional strands available to businesses which in turn might offer residential services along the entire route.”
Chambers, who has 15 years of experience with the E-Rate program, understands collaboration is essential for successful applications. “We are especially grateful for Idaho State Department of Education Chief Technology Officer Chris Campbell’s dedication and support for our application at the state level. Their team went out of their way to provide as much assistance as possible to help make this happen,” stated Chambers.
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Daarel Burnette II
Daarel Burnette II covers state education policy for Education Week, tracking governors, legislatures, state schools chiefs, and political developments. He has covered K-12 education for news operations in Atlanta, Minneapolis, and Memphis, Tenn.
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Raise Taxes On Wealthy for K-12, Pa. Gubernatorial Candidate Says
By Andrew Ujifusa on July 29, 2014 11:57 AM
The idea of raising taxes on wealthy individuals to help shoulder a big state's education-funding burden may be gaining traction in a big East Coast state.
Tom Wolf, the Democratic candidate for governor in Pennsylvania who will face GOP incumbent Tom Corbett in November, believes that the state needs to pay a bigger share of K-12 costs and take the burden off local property taxes. To that end, the Associated Press reports, he wants to raise taxes on high earners while reducing taxes for middle-class households and exempting those with relatively low earnings from his new taxes entirely.
If that idea sounds familiar, it's because California Gov. Jerry Brown, a fellow Democrat, successfully pushed through his own tax increase for public schools back in 2012 through Proposition 30, even though statewide tax increases are no easy matter in California. That tax increase also focused on raising taxes specifically on high earners, rather than taking an across-the-board approach.
It's important to point out that Wolf doesn't mention California's tax increase in either the AP story or on his website. But Wolf's pitch could be well-timed, as the general economic picture in the U.S. slowly improves at the same time that education spending in Pennsylvania remains a major political battle in the state.
Wolf also might be confident in pushing the idea of a tax increase because he has a great deal of political wiggle room: A running average of recent polls at Real Clear Politics shows that Wolf enjoys an advantage of 20 percentage points over Corbett.
Remember, however, that Democrats in Colorado who pushed for a statewide income tax increase last year through Amendment 66 saw their hopes crushed when voters decisively defeated it. That tax increase plan also focused specifically on high earners, although for the purposes of Amendment 66 that meant anyone earning over $75,000 annually. So the idea depends to a great extent on internal state politics.
On that front, the Pennsylvania legislature is controlled by Republicans, and while the GOP has a relatively thin majority in the Senate, it's larger in the House. That's another potential barrier, perhaps the biggest one, to Wolf's plan.
It's not exactly clear what Wolf's plan would look like, although the AP does say that Wolf pledges a dollar-for-dollar reduction in local property taxes in conjunction with the state tax increase. Potentially, households with up to $90,000 in annual income would be spared a tax increase, and the tax increase would amount to about a 3 percent increase for those at the high end of the income scale. On his website, Wolf says that schools in Pennsylvania need both a fair, predictable funding formula and an infusion of funds, "which will help alleviate the tax burden on property owners." Ultimately, he wants the state to be responsible for about half the K-12 spending in the state.
The state has a K-12 funding formula on the books, but the extent to which it's actually of any use for districts has been hotly debated in Pennsylvania. Corbett recently signed a bill that requires a legislative task force to come up with a new formula.
Citing a study by the Education Law Center, a school-funding advocacy group, Wolf also says that for a typical class of 25 students, the average funding gap between property-rich and property-poor districts adds up to $75,000 for the entire class, or $3,000 on a per-student basis.
Photo: Pennsylvania Democratic gubernatorial candidate Tom Wolf speaks during an interview with The Associated Press Friday, July 25, 2014, in Philadelphia. Wolf would make a centerpiece of his first budget proposal an increase in income taxes on Pennsylvania's higher-earners to help expand the state's share of public education funding in exchange for a dollar-for-dollar reduction in local property taxes levied by school boards.—Associated Press
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Jessie James Decker: Lights Down Low
By Sal Bolaños
• July 17, 2016
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Country Music singer/songwriter and style entrepreneur JESSIE JAMES DECKER has partnered with CMT Music for the world premiere of her music video for new single, “Lights Down Low. Written by Decker and Alyssa Bonagura, “Lights Down Low” is inspired by the quiet moments Decker and husband Eric still manage to find as the couple raise two children and juggle busy careers.
“My husband inspired me to write this. Eric and I are such homebodies. We love laying low and having dates at home when the kids go to sleep. We will have bubble baths and pancakes are definitely our go to for those nights we don’t feel like cookin’. Hopefully other couples can relate to this song.” said the singer.
Jessie James Decker is signed to Epic Records (Sony) and the new single, “Lights Down Low” is impacting country radio in August, helmed by Thirty Tigers’ radio promotion team.
The newly released music video is directed by PR Brown and filmed in southern California. It shows Decker and her husband Eric enjoying a romantic date night at home. Watch the music video at http://www.cmt.com/artists/jessie-james/. “Lights Down Low” is the second music video featuring the couple who have been married since 2013.
Catch Jessie James Decker in concert this weekend on July 15 in Chicago, IL at Windy City Smokeout and July 16 in Lafayette, IN at Dancing In The Streets Festival.
About Jessie James Decker: Country Music singer/songwriter and style entrepreneur Jessie James Decker began singing at nine years old and was already attracting attention in Music City for her gritty, genuine vocals by the age of fifteen. Her 2009 self-titled debut album features the GOLD certified single “Wanted.” In 2014, she released her Comin’ Home EP, which reached #1 on the iTunes chart & #5 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums Chart. Decker’s new single, “Lights Down Low,” written with Alyssa Bonagura, released on Epic Records and is impacting country radio in August in partnership with Thirty Tigers.
Get tickets to catch Jessie James Decker in concert at jessiejamesdecker.com and connect on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
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Eichel, Sabres rally to beat Bruins
Kevin Freiheit
After six days off the Sabres went up against the Bruins for the first time this season and Jack Eichel returned to his hometown to take on the Boston Bruins for the first time in his career, and he didn’t disappoint.
Eichel’s career-best four-point night led the Sabres to a 6-3 victory at the TD Garden on Saturday night. Two of Eichel’s points came with an empty net.
“You know him, his emotions are always controlled, tonight he made some huge plays to get us the win.” – Ryan O’Reilly on Jack Eichel
A slow-paced game turned around in the third period, after the Bruins had built a 3-1 lead. Three goals in 4:03 gave the Sabres the lead.
The Sabres “future” players came to life in the final 20 minutes. Ryan O’Reilly, Eichel and Jamie McGinn scored just minutes apart to turn the tables.
“I was a little nervous jumping on the ice for warmups, but it’s exciting to get a win in front of so many friends and family.” – Jack Eichel
Evander Kane got the scoring started with his eighth goal of the season, but the Bruins bounced back. Matt Beleskey and Patrice Bergeron scored 1:16 apart to give Boston a 2-1 lead in the second period.
After building a comfortable two goal lead, it looked as if things were going Boston’s way. David Krejci’s goal gave the Bruins a 3-1 lead seven minutes into the third.
The Bruins went with backup goaltender Jonas Gustavsson, and perhaps that decision hurt them as he had a rough time in the third period.
Gustavsson stopped 23 of 27 shots on the night. At the other end, Chad Johnson stopped 30 of 33.
A five goal third period allowed the Sabres to open the season series against Boston with a win.
The Sabres are scheduled for a home and home series with the Washington Capitals. The first game is set for Monday at 7 p.m. at the First Niagara Center.
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CD40 Combination Therapy Can Shrink Pancreatic Tumors
A new combination of immunotherapy and chemotherapy for pancreatic cancer caused tumors to shrink in the majority of evaluable patients – 20 out of 24 as of an interim analysis of the phase 1b trial data. The early findings provide hope that this strategy involving a CD40 antibody, a checkpoint inhibitor, and standard-of-care chemotherapy could be effective for treating the nation’s third deadliest type of cancer. Researchers from the Abramson Cancer Center at the University of Pennsylvania will present the findings today in a clinical trials plenary session at the American Association for Cancer Research 2019 Annual Meeting in Atlanta (Abstract #8060). The ongoing study is being conducted in collaboration with the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy and its other member institutions and partners. These are the first clinical trial data ever presented as a result of this collaboration.
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is the most common type of pancreatic cancer, and it kills more Americans each year than any cancer type other than lung and colorectal. Despite the fact that it only accounts for about three percent of new cancer cases, it is responsible for more than seven percent of all cancer deaths, and just 8.5 percent of patients survive five years with the disease. Previous research has shown PD-1 inhibitors are ineffective on their own against PDAC, but preclinical data showed combining PD-1 inhibitors with antibodies that target a different antigen known as CD40 can trigger an immune response.
For this study, patients with metastatic PDAC who were previously untreated received combinations of four different therapies. Each patient received gemcitabine and nab-paclitaxel, which are standard-of-care chemotherapies, as well as an experimental antibody targeting CD40 called APX005M. Half the patients also received the PD-1 inhibitor nivolumab. As of the data cutoff for the interim analysis, 20 of 24 patients (83 percent) saw their tumors shrink. Overall, although the majority of the patients experienced side effects from the treatment, they were expected and manageable, with several patients continuing on treatment for more than a year, which also suggests the combination treatment can produce a durable response.
“Seeing patients continue treatment for this length of time does give us hope that this combination approach holds promise, especially when you consider that for stage 4 pancreatic cancer, the median survival is just two to six months,” said senior author Robert H. Vonderheide, MD, DPhil, director of the Abramson Cancer Center and a Parker Institute member researcher. Vonderheide previously led the first-in-human clinical trial of APX005M reported in 2017 that enabled the current study.
The Parker Institute holds the Investigational New Drug application from the U.S. Federal Drug Administration. Patients on this trial were treated at seven Parker member institutions, leveraging a unique ability to develop faster and more efficient clinical studies.
“This study represents the first illustration that our unique collaborative model, which we used to bring together partners from across academia, pharma, and biotech, can help speed the process of translating laboratory findings into efficient, impactful clinical trials in areas with high unmet medical need,” said Ramy Ibrahim, MD, the chief medical officer at the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy. “Based on these early but promising findings, we are excited to see results from the next phase of the study.”
In addition to Penn, Parker member institutions who treated patients on this study were Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center; University of California, Los Angeles; University of California, San Francisco; Stanford University; and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
The randomized phase two portion of the trial evaluating chemotherapy, APX005M, and/or nivolumab is currently underway.
Apexigen, which manufactures APX005M, and Bristol-Myers Squibb, which manufactures nivolumab, each supplied the drugs for this study. Additional support was provided by the Cancer Research Institute.
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A New Story for You + 2 Giveaways
It’s Launch Day for Moonlight Over Manhattan, and I’m excited to bring you this heartwarming holiday novella set in New York City! Did you know I live only one hour from NYC? I loved including some special Thanksgiving and Christmas events in this story.
Here’s a description: When Sarah Montgomery, an efficient professional organizer meets Justin Latimer, a carefree children’s poet, romantic sparks fly, but misunderstandings make their relationship challenging. Do opposites truly attract, or will their differences pull them apart? Can their faith help them see things more clearly and lead them toward lasting love?
This touching story will inspire you and lift your spirit this holiday season. To purchase a copy, visit my website for links to your favorite eBook retailer, and keep reading for information about two special giveaways!
Giveaway Number One: You could win a Welcome to New York Gift bag, and eBook copy of Moonlight Over Manhattan, a bottle of Moonlight Path Fragrance, and a cute makeup travel organizer bag, which sounds like something my heroine would love! Sign up for my email newsletter (box at the top of the page on the right) and leave a comment below to enter this giveaway. If you’re already a newsletter subscriber you can mention that in your comment. If you are reading this post on GoodReads or in an email, please visit my website to enter the giveaway. I’ll choose a winner Sunday, October 16th at 9:00 PM Eastern, then email the winner. Keep reading for another giveaway!
Giveaway Number Two: I’ve teamed up with more than 40 fantastic inspirational contemporary romance authors to give away a great collection of eBooks pictured below, plus a Kindle Fire to one lucky winner! You can win a copy of Moonlight Over Manhattan plus books from Susan May Warren, DiAnn Mills, Ruth Logan Herne, Julie Lessman and many others. This giveaway runs through Monday, October 17th. Enter by clicking this link: http://bit.ly/contemp-inspy
Until Next Time ~ Happy Reading!
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I can’t wait to read this book, my hubby and I were in Manhattan just a couple weeks ago. What an amazing place! Oh, and I think I am already a subscriber but re-signed up just incase.
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I’m a subscriber and I would love this New York package. We were scheduled this week to leave on a first time trip to New York with friends. We had to cancel at the last minute because my husbands dad got deathly sick and is still recooperating in the hospital. I probably will never get a chance again for a trip like this but I’d be estatic if I happened to win.
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Board changes at Insimbi
The board of directors of Insimbi Refractory & Alloy Supplies Limited have announced the appointment of Christiaan Coombs as an Executive Director and Robert Dickerson as a Non-Executive Director of the board with effect from 16 January 2017 as part of the restructure of the board following the AMR Group acquisition.
The board has also announced the appointment of Brian Craig as an interim Chairperson with effect from 1 February 2017 following the resignation of the former Chairperson, Lerato Okeyo. Craig’s term of office as interim chairperson will be determined after a thorough review of the operating structure of the business post the AMR Group acquisition, where after a permanent appointment will be made.
The board is also pleased to inform shareholders that the finalisation announcement about the acquisition by the company of 100% of the issued share capital of the AMR Group has also been completed as the transaction was approved by the requisite majority of shareholders, and that the conditions precedent for the transaction were finalised and the transaction is now unconditional.
Shareholders have also been notified that Sandra Saunders has been appointed as the Company Secretary following the resignation of Kristell Holtzhausen.
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Daniel Ferszt
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About Daniel
Daniel Ferszt is a writer and editor, as well as a PR consultant and marketing specialist with a background in music. He is a scriptwriter for audio and visual content, and a Google Adwords and Analytics consultant.
In 2002, Daniel composed music for the film The Wedding Dress; written and directed by Hanelle Culpepper (Criminal Minds, Hawaii Five-O), and 125; produced by Tami Powers (Chooch) and directed by Rajeev Nirmalakhandan (The Odd Way Home).
Daniel eventually developed an interest in writing scripts and teleplays. With a large pot of stories brewing in his head, and a passion for action comedies with vibrant characters, he decided to finally take a crack at screenwriting.
Pulling from his time as a singer for a band in Nashville, TN, Daniel teamed up with Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Rebecca Lynn Howard (Loving Mary, Steven Tyler) to write Ballz Deep, an action packed, rock n’ roll comedy feature. The script was soon optioned.
Daniel penned a spec pilot for a planned TV series entitled The Emissary—a raw, supernatural thriller. And, his most recent creation, Cream, is a southern-fried feature that tackles the seedy underworld of bull semen trafficking (pun intended).
Daniel has worked with CMT and ABC Television, was a public relations strategist for The Woo Agency, supporting ad campaigns for CBS Sports and Lenovo; produced, co-hosted, and wrote commercial scripts for Outreach! With Dennis Brown (CBS Radio); established the Hard Rock Cafe’ Kosher Thanksgiving providing meals for L.A.’s homeless; and co-supervised media relations for Hanukkah Live at the California State Capitol with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Daniel is managed by Gandolfo Helin & Fountain Literary Management. He currently resides in Los Angeles, CA.
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Mind, Technology, and Society
October 27, 2014, 3PM, KL232
Leysia Palen, University of Colorado, Boulder, Computer Science Department
Frontiers in Crisis Informatics
Crisis informatics addresses socio- technical concerns in large-scale emergency response. Additionally it expands consideration to include not only official responders (who tend to be the focus in policy and technology-focused matters), but also members of the public. It therefore views emergency response as a much broader socio-technical system where information is disseminated within and between official and public channels and entities. Crisis informatics wrestles with methodological concerns as it strives to develop new theory and support informed development of ICT and policy. I will describe the range of work we have engaged in at Colorado since 2006, and highlight the different branches of crisis informatics research through discussion of the multidisciplinary research we have conducted here.
Leysia Palen is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Colorado Boulder, USA. She is a faculty fellow with the ATLAS Institute and the Institute of Cognitive Science, and a Full Adjunct Professor at the University of Agder in Norway. Leysia Palen is a graduate of the University of California, San Diego with a BS in Cognitive Science, and of the University of California, Irvine with an MS and PhD in Information and Computer Science. Prof. Palen is a leader in the area of crisis informatics, an area she forged with her graduate students and colleagues at Colorado. She brings her training in human-computer interaction (HCI), computer-supported cooperative work and social computing to bear on understanding and advancing socio-technical issues of societal import. She conducts empirical research in the interpretivist tradition. However, in the advancing arena of large-scale on-line interaction (the “big data” of crisis response), she adapts quantitative techniques that then allow the application of qualitative methods and the “ethnographic eye” to closely observe and describe social structures in such technology-mediated situations. Prof. Palen is the author of over 70 articles and a co-edited book in the areas of human computer interaction, computer supported cooperative work, mobility, and crisis informatics. She was awarded an NSF CAREER in 2006. She is an Associate Editor for the Human Computer Interaction Journal and for the Computer-Supported Cooperative Work Journal.
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First ‘Rules Don’t Apply’ Images Reveal Warren Beatty’s First Film in 18 Years
Well this is big. We knew that Warren Beaty had quietly returned to the director’s chair on a Howard Hughes-centric drama last year, but word has been almost silent on the film since then. Today, however, our first look at Rules Don’t Apply has arrived as the movie is finally slated for release this November. This marks Beatty’s first directorial feature since 1997’s Bulworth so it’s kind of a big deal, not to mention the fact that the film’s star is none other than Alden Ehrenreich, our new Han Solo.
The “unconventional love story” takes place in 1958 and revolves around the relationship between Lily Collins’ religiously devout actress and Ehrenreich’s equally conservative driver, both of whom are in the employ of eccentric visionary Howard Hughes. Beatty wrote, produced, directed, and stars in the film himself as Hughes, and conflict arises when Hughes forbids entanglements between the employees.
We spoke with Collins last January about the project, and she told us that the film is “about the perils and trials and tribulations” of 1950s Hollywood, adding that very few people were even allowed to read the script. With Beatty behind the camera and a supporting cast that includes Annette Bening, Alec Baldwin, Matthew Broderick, Candice Bergen, and Steve Coogan, there’s a lot to be excited about.
Hopefully this means a trailer is coming soon, but for now take a look at the very first images from the 20th Century Fox drama below, courtesy of 20th Century Fox. Rules Don’t Apply opens in theaters on November 11th.
Image via 20th Century Fox
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• Alden Ehrenreich • Lily Collins • Movie Images • Rules Don't Apply • Warren Beatty
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MS Delta
Arts & Culture, Heritage, Learn, Collaborate, Partners, Programming
Mississippi Delta National Heritage Area promotes region’s cultural heritage
Members of the 2016 MDNHA Board of Directors and staff
The Board of Directors for the Mississippi Delta National Heritage Area recently held its May meeting at Delta Council headquarters in Stoneville, Mississippi. The board, chaired by Dr. Myrtis Tabb, welcomed new board members and discussed various partnership opportunities that will continue to promote the Mississippi Delta’s rich cultural heritage.
“I am pleased to work with the Board of Directors of MDNHA,” said Dr. Tabb. “We are excited to welcome our new members and continue moving into the implementation phase of a comprehensive management plan developed by a thorough process of meetings with groups and stakeholders throughout the region. Our goal is to empower as many voices as possible so that the story of the Delta is told by a chorus, rather than a few.”
The 15-member board includes representatives from Mississippi Valley State, Alcorn State and Delta State University, as well as the Delta Foundation, Smith Robertson Museum, Delta Council, Mississippi Arts Commission, Mississippi Department of Archives and History, and Mississippi Humanities Council. In addition, the governor and counties falling within five Delta districts appoint representatives to the board.
“Our board and our staff continue to work together, building the Mississippi Delta’s capacity to fulfill the MDNHA’s management plan through diverse partnerships,” said Dr. Rolando Herts, director of of The Delta Center for Culture and Learning, which serves as the management entity for the MDNHA. “Regional initiatives like the Delta Jewels Oral History Partnership, the Passport to Your National Parks Program, GRAMMY Museum Mississippi’s ‘Top 40 Places to Visit in the Mississippi Delta’ website, and the MDNHA Grants Program represent creative and inclusive ways that we are fulfilling the plan.”
In November 2015, Herts was invited to represent the MDNHA and The Delta Center in a panel discussion at the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s 2015 PastForward Conference in Washington, D.C. The conference launched a year-long celebration of the National Historic Preservation Act’s 50th anniversary, attracting hundreds of historic preservation scholars, policymakers, experts and activists from around the nation. The panel discussion was part of the preservationVOICES Learning Lab presentation track organized by the National Trust in partnership with the National Park Service and the Kellogg Foundation. The session, “Recognizing Our Shared History,” focused on how the National Park Service works to tell inclusive stories of all Americans.
In keeping with the PastForward Conference presentation, the MDNHA manages the Delta Jewels Oral History Partnership. The partnership has engaged over 800 Mississippi Delta residents and visitors through programs that raise awareness about the educational and cultural value of capturing community stories. The programs are offered to Mississippi organizations and communities in collaboration with Alysia Burton Steele, University of Mississippi journalism professor and author of “Delta Jewels: In Search of My Grandmother’s Wisdom.” Oral history presentations about the book have been held in several MDNHA communities including Clarksdale, Charleston, Indianola, Yazoo City, Ruleville, Mound Bayou, Cleveland, Vicksburg and Itta Bena. Programs also have been held outside the MDNHA at Jackson State University, Alcorn State University and the University of Southern Mississippi.
In March 2016, to commemorate Women’s History Month and the National Park Service Centennial, the Delta Jewels Oral History Partnership presented at the Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum in Washington, D.C. The program featured 92-year-old Annyce Campbell of Mound Bayou, who graces the cover of “Delta Jewels,” and Reena Evers, daughter of civil rights icons Medgar Evers and Myrlie Evers-Williams. Campbell also visited the White House.
The MDNHA manages the Passport to Your National Parks program which features passport stations in each of the region’s 18 counties. The Delta Center serves as the program headquarters, welcoming passport collectors traveling the region and directing them to passport locations throughout the MDNHA, including the B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center in Sunflower County, tourism visitor centers in Coahoma, Tunica, Yazoo and Warren counties, and courthouses in Carroll, Holmes, Quitman, Sharkey, Tallahatchie and Tate counties.
Members of the National Park Travelers Club have toured the MDNHA collecting National Park Service passport stamps as a way to celebrate the 2016 National Park Service Centennial.
“We would not have known about all of the interesting places to visit in the Delta had it not been for this program,” said Leland Warzala, a club member from Illinois. “We knew that we had to visit all of the counties here, because we wanted to get all of the stamps. We had no idea that there are so many great things to see and do along the way, like the Crossroads sign [in Clarksdale], Dockery Farms and all of the Blues Trail markers.”
GRAMMY Museum® Mississippi opened its doors to the region, the nation, and the world this year. As part of the grand opening celebration, the museum partnered with the MDNHA to launch the “Top 40 Places to Visit in the Mississippi Delta” website.
The website features cultural heritage attractions throughout the Mississippi Delta that tell the region’s diverse stories. The site underscores the museum and MDNHA’s shared interest in promoting the entire 18-county Mississippi Delta region as an educational cultural heritage destination of which its residents should be proud.
“As GRAMMY Museum Mississippi, we explore and celebrate the enduring legacies of all forms of music, and we’re also telling the story of the cradle of America’s music right here in Cleveland, the heart of the Mississippi Delta,” said Emily Havens, executive director of the museum. “Our area’s rich musical legacy is a source of pride for Delta residents. We want to encourage everyone to explore and learn about our entire region, from local school groups to travelers from around the globe.”
In April 2016, The Delta Center hosted a group of Swedish music tourists. In addition to experiencing the GRAMMY Museum, the group visited several attractions included on the Top 40 list including Dockery Farms and Mississippi Blues Trail markers throughout the MDNHA. The group also experienced an African American church service in Clarksdale, a tribute to the MDNHA’s cultural heritage theme celebrating the region as a “Wellspring of Creativity.”
For these and various other programmatic successes, The Delta Center was presented the 2016 Georgene Clark Diversity Champion Award at Delta State University’s Winning the Race Conference.
“Through the Heritage Area partnership, the Mississippi Delta region can come together to take pride in our diverse culture and history,” said Herts. “Our stories surrounding issues of race, social injustice, civil rights, identity and expressions of faith have shaped and reflect the American experience.”
At the May meeting, the MDNHA selected inaugural recipients of the organization’s grant program. Grant programs are created and managed by many National Heritage Areas across the U.S. to support local organizations’ cultural heritage education, interpretation, and promotion efforts.
“We have recently completed the first round of a formal grants program,” explained Tabb. “The management plan calls for us to create a program to fund seed projects that meet the heritage area’s goals. Many worthwhile proposals were submitted for this round from agencies and organizations throughout the Delta. Even though we were unable to fund them all, we were excited to see the work already taking place in the region. We look forward to continuing the grants program and partnering with others celebrating our diverse Delta heritage.”
The next deadline for grant proposals is July 5. Those awarded grants will be notified at the end of August. To find out more about the grants, or the MDNHA, visit www.msdeltaheritage.com.
Tagged: heritage, MS Delta
Heather Miller
Arts & Culture, Experience
Alysia Burton Steele's Delta Jewels in the New York Times
Here is a great New York Times article about Alysia Burton Steele and her Delta Jewels book. The Delta Center and the Mississippi Delta National Heritage Area are proud to be working with this talented author and photographer. Delta Jewels is a compelling book about Mississippi Delta church mothers.
Tagged: Delta Jewels, Alysia Steele, Delta Center, church mothers, civil rights, MS Delta, delta
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Lesson 3 homeplay – Design a World War One Game
July 7, 2009 Doctor Mike Reddy Leave a comment
The Lesson 3 homeplay is a slightly modified form of Challenge 2-5 in the Challenges text, with an optional difficulty level based on previous experience with game design:
“Most war-themed games have an objective of either territorial control or capture/destroy (as described earlier). For this challenge, you’ll be pushing beyond these traditional boundaries. You should design a non-digital game that includes the following:
EASY – The theme must relate to World War I. The primary objective of players cannot be territorial control, or capture/destroy.
MEDIUM – You cannot use territorial control or capture/destroy as game dynamics. That is, your game is not allowed to contain the concepts of territory or death in any form.
HARD – As above, and the players may not engage in direct conflict, only indirect.”
My game is not intended to be “fun”. It’s not necessarily a “serious game” either. It came from my own experiences as “a pacifist with a temper” and the criteria above. What has always upset me is the complete lack of understanding of what it means to be Conscientious Objectors (COs or “Conchies”) and the price/consequences of such a choice; here’s an example of this lack of understanding. This isn’t surprising, but if you knew the suffering, violence and death that COs experienced, as well as the mindless deaths of those that took the “easier path” it is hard to think of making it into a game, without the fear that others will think you demean the lives of our forebears, as well as those suffering today. However, here goes…
Title: “A Matter of Conscience” aka AMOC
All that is needed is a table and 2 or more chairs and a deck of standard playing cards. One of the chairs must be as uncomfortable as possible.
“I might as well die for a principle as for lack of one” – WW1 Conscientious Objector REF
NOTE: Given the historical perspective, where only men were conscripted, the following rules use the masculine form.
The game consists of using a deck of standard playing cards to simulate the tribunal hearing and the consequences of applying for Conscientious Objector (CO) status in World War One (WW1). It is a game for 2+ players, with all but one (1) taking the role of the CO tribunal. One of these, or the only one in a game for 2 players only, will take the role of the ‘Military Representative’ (MR).
The CO (aka Coward, Traitor) sits in the most uncomfortable chair, or failing this MUST stand up for the whole game. No food or drink is to be consumed during the game. He is dealt FIVE (5) cards face down from the shuffled deck. These will be his Resolution Cards and must be kept separate and untouched.
The MR will sit where the hell he wants to and eat/drink freely. He is also dealt FIVE (5) cards face down from the shuffled deck. These will be his Resolution Cards and must be kept separate and untouched.
Other players will sit where the MR tells them to, and can eat and drink when given permission by him. They are not dealt Resolution Cards.
The rest of the 42 cards will be dealt out face down to all players starting with the Military Representative first, and the Conchie last. In the case of the 2 player only game, then three piles of cards are dealt, with two being combined together for control by the MR. It is possible that this will mean that some of the players will have one fewer card than others, which is OK.
The basic mechanic of the game is for the deck of cards to be exhausted while the Conchie still has resolve cards left. If the CO runs out of cards (aside from Resolution Cards), then he will enter the Resolution Phase involuntarily. If any player other than the CO runs out of cards, then they have been exhausted and retired from proceedings. If the Military Representative runs out of cards, then he can choose a pile from another player, who will then be relieved of duty and play will continue. If there are no cards left for the MR to requisition, then the CO enters the Resolution Phase voluntarily. Retiring players will have their discard piles removed from play at the end of the current stage.
Tribunal stages will consist of each player turning over one card in front of them. In the two player version, the Military Representative will initially lay two cards down from his larger pile. At any time, apart from the Resolution Phase, the CO can elect to end the tribunal by agreeing to take military service. There are three acceptable outcomes at this stage:
a) He can agree to bear arms as a soldier – Counts as involuntary at Resolution Phase
b) He can become a stretcher bearer – Counts as involuntary at Resolution Phase
c) He can agree to do civilian support work – Counts as voluntary at Resolution Phase
The consequences of this choice will be resolved in the Resolution Phase stage below.
1) If all cards turned over are the same colour, then the panel are in sympathy with the applicant. A new stage of turning over cards then commences. In the two player version, this will require the Military Representative to lay an extra card each time for future turns; e.g. MR lays two cards that are the same as the CO so in future turns he will lay three cards, etc.
2) If there is a hung result – namely that not all the tribunal panel cards are the same colour – then if the Conchie chooses to continue his defiance of the tribunal, the panel members must turn over new cards until consensus is reached (i.e. all their cards are the same colour). NOTE: Panel members can place unused cards on other tribunal member discards.
The CO can choose, prior to the panel attempting to achieve consensus and at any time during this phase before the panel have the same colour cards showing, to turn over a card to try to maximise the need for panel members by turning over one or more cards; e.g. in a 4 player game, the CO is showing a black card, and the three panel members are showing black, red, red. Clearly, the panel only need one red card in order to successfully attack his resolve. So, the CO can use a card in the hope that he will change his own discard to red, requiring the panel to use two (or more) cards to mount an attack. Alternatively, the panel might elect to use fewer cards to achieve a sympathy stage (see 1 where all cards are the same colour) in order to progress to the next round; in this case, the special changes of (1) apply, namely the number of discard piles increases for the two player game.
This process continues until the stacks reflect the first or third condition, where the panel all have the same colour. In order to lay cards, players raise their hands. Permission is given to lay by the MR, but he must allow the CO to lay first if he at any stage raises his hand in advance of others who may already have their hands raised. Players, including the CO may raise their hand immediately after laying a card should they wish to do so. The MR can lay his own cards when and where he chooses, saving the case where the CO has his hand raised to lay a card.
3) If all cards are the same, except for the Conchie, then the panel are united in attacking his beliefs. For the two player version, the MR can reduce by one (to a minimum of two piles) the cards needed to be laid in future turns; e.g. MR successfully attacks the CO’s belief with 4 cards of the same colour, meaning that he will only need to lay 3 cards in the following turn. The MR can never lay less than 2 cards per turn. Any unnecessary discard pile will be removed from play. The Conchie and the MR must then use one of their remaining Resolution Cards. Unless there is only one remaining Resolution Card, then without looking at their cards, the MR must declare whether the CO must turn over a higher or lower card than his own. At this stage, both turn over the top card on their respective Resolution Card piles. If the CO successfully beats the MR, then a new tribunal stage commences. If the CO draws the same card value, or does not beat the MR, the process is repeated. If each has only one remaining Resolution Card, then the CO must enter the Resolution Phase involuntarily.
Resolution Phase
If entered voluntarily, the CO has successfully proven that he has conscientious objections to war. He must pick one of his Resolution Cards without looking and attempt to guess the Value and Suit (e.g Clubs, Diamonds, Hearts or Spades). If he is successful then he survives “the Great War” unscathed. If he gets the colour correct then he is “scarred forever by his experiences”. If the colour and suit are not guessed correctly, then he is “disabled mentally or physically from injuries sustained in prison/war work”. If the CO correctly guesses the value and suit of the card, then unfortunately, he dies from “wounds sustained in prison”.
If entered involuntarily, then the CO and MR must choose one Resolution Card without looking, or use their remaining one, Both turn over at the same time and apply the following results:
Cards are the same or one different in face value – The CO is killed outright (8 million of 60 million European troops were killed in WW1)
If the cards are two different (e.g. Ace and a three) – The CO dies from disease or non-military related cause (Spanish Flu killed 50 million after the war)
If the cards are 3 different (e.g. King and Ten) – the CO receives a permanent disability from wounds sustained either in action or internment. (7 million of 60 million were seriously injured. Many committed suicide, or had trauma (aka Shell Shock) that was never recognised.)
If the cards are 4 different (e.g. Four and Eight) – the CO receives a serious physical injury. (15 million soldiers received serious wounds in the War)
If the cards are 5 or more different (e.g. Two and Seven) – the CO merely has mental scars that will last the rest of his life.
[Stats from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I#End_of_war]
“There have always been people who are committed to an idea, an ideal, a value, a religion, a cause. Among them, there have always been people convinced that, at whatever risk to themselves, their commitment must not involve the use of violence or war. They have hung on to that conviction despite being despised, condemned and punished for it. It takes a lot of courage to hold out against violence and killing when your family and friends are threatened and may themselves turn against you, when you face public hostility and hatred, when the leaders of your society are determined that war, not peace, is the right and heroic way forward, and when you are accused of being a coward and a traitor. The conscientious objectors who refused to fight in the First World War were courageous in this way.” REF
In honour of the three levels of difficulty presented above for the game designs, I have decided to include three levels of difficulty in the game itself. This reflects the three stances that COs took in WW1:
EASY – ‘Non-combatants’, who accepted call-up into the army, but not to handle weapons. You can enter the Resolution Phase at any time.
MEDIUM – ‘Alternativists’, who took civilian work that indirectly supported the military effort. You can only enter the Resolution Phase after one successful stage (i.e. all cards of all players are the same colour)
HARD – ‘Absolutists’, who believed that any support of the war effort was immoral. You must embrace “Don’t AND Die!” (the opposite of “Do or Die”) and ‘fight’ to the bitter end.
“I fear God, not Man!” – Charles John Cobb, WW1 Conscientious Objector, “who died from injuries sustained in prison”
“I had eight months solitary confinement at Lincoln Prison. Three months bread and water treatment until the doctor wouldn’t allow more. And yet one had a sense of freedom which I can’t describe….. one had an extraordinary sense of personal liberty, personal freedom.” – Fenner Brockway. WW1 conscientious objector REF
As you can probably guess, there aren’t really any winners in this game…
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Ed Mullen | Strategy & Design
Attack Big Problems
When you have a worldview that looks to solve the big, underlying issues, you start with the problem and seek the solution that will fix it. Too often I feel like those of us developing Internet-related products or businesses are not thinking big enough; aren’t moving us ahead in really consequential ways.
Note: This originally was a cross-post to the MixTrail blog. MixTrail is a new startup that Robb Smylie and I are developing.
If you’re developing a business, it is of course important to find “product/market fit”. If someone’s investing money in your company, they don’t want to think you’re on some meandering expedition to just make some stuff. But simply finding a market and figuring out something to put in front of them is, well, kind of boring.
For the last ten years, my MixTrail partner Robb Smylie has been helping Teach for America solve their big challenge: to educate children in low-income, underserved communities. That’s a big problem. He’s done this by leveraging technology in a way that makes the impact of the organization scale up efficiently. The more work that can be automated through algorithms, or eliminated by making data more usable, the more that can be done with fewer resources. Technology can have a huge impact on how people do their jobs when applied thoughtfully.
In my own design practice, I have tried to work with and accelerate the efforts of clients that were doing good work in the world. Whether it was designing the site that allows all Americans to find the private and public health insurance options available to them, my work with colleges helping current and prospective students know what educational options their schools offer, or helping a youth-run organization articulate it’s mission of developing young people’s global citizenship skills to investors and partners, I always try to work with people who were working towards big things.
Look, I spent many years working on projects that were interesting and challenging, but that didn’t quite get at the big issues. They pushed product or told a good story, but they largely left the world alone. I know that experience well. But I work towards more.
MixTrail is working to solve a big problem. Despite, or perhaps because of, the Internet’s low barrier for publishing information, we are not necessarily more knowledgable, deeper thinkers. As a whole, we don’t have a better handle on complex issues. In many cases, the reality is obscured by a lot of fluff and news. We’re likely to hear the latest news, but not be able to contextualize that information.
MixTrail’s not going to entirely solve this problem, but it’s the space we’re working in. Bit by bit, we’re trying to create a system that will allow you to connect ideas and content in ways that makes it easy for you to gain background, context and peripheral ideas.
We’ve got a lot of work to do, but we’re excited and working hard to make it great. More in time.
Ed Mullen
Jersey City, NJ (NYC area)
Email: ed@edmullen.com
Twitter: @edmullen
© 2015 Edward Mullen Studio LLC
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“The Map of Time” by Félix J. Palma (Reviewed by Robert Thompson)
Official Félix J. Palma Website
Order “The Map of Time” HERE (US) + HERE (UK)
AUTHOR INFORMATION: Félix J. Palma has been unanimously acclaimed by critics as one of the most brilliant and original storytellers of our time. His devotion to the short story genre has earned him more than a hundred awards. The Map of Time is his first novel to be published in English. It received the 2008 Ateneo de Sevila XL Prize and will be published in more than 30 countries.
PLOT SUMMARY: Privileged Andrew Harrington is a despondent young man who plans on killing himself. Eight years earlier, he had found the love of his life. It didn’t matter that their lives were vastly different—he born to a rich and entrepreneurial family and she a woman struggling to survive as a prostitute in London’s seedy Whitechapel section. He’s determined to declare his love for her and live happily ever after, even if it means leaving his privileged life behind. Everything changes however, when his beloved Marie Kelly becomes the last victim of the villainous Jack the Ripper.
That’s where H.G. Wells comes in. The publication of his novel, The Time Machine, has set off a furor of interest and curiosity about the possibility of time travel. There is even a company called Murray’s Time Travel that offers trips through time to witness a battle between humans and robots in the year 2000. Andrew’s cousin Charles is certain that Wells can rescue Andrew from despondency by helping him travel back in time to stop Jack the Ripper from killing Marie Kelly...
Claire Haggerty is young, wealthy, and very dissatisfied with her life. She’s sure she’s been born into the wrong time in history. She has no interest in the men who court her and she certainly has no interest in marrying any of them. She fears she will never find a man who will utterly sweep her off her feet and make her fall helplessly in love.
That is, until her cousin Lucy talks her into buying a ticket to one of the expeditions to the year 2000 through Murray’s Time Travel. All the advertisements boast of an incredible battle over the fate of the world between humans, led by the heroic Captain Derek Shackleton, and automatons. Entranced by Captain Shackleton’s courage—not to mention his manly physique—Claire is positive that she’s finally found the man she’s been looking for. She’s determined to go on the expedition and steal away from the group, profess her love for Shackleton, and stay with him in the future.
But Captain Shackleton isn’t quite who he seems, and he and Claire are caught up in a dangerous situation that threatens to rip them apart. And it’s once again up to H.G. Wells to use his imagination to protect a romance that spans time and class...
In the third act of The Map of Time, H.G. Wells must ‘save’ his own life. A brilliant writer who doubts his own skill, Wells has just finished the manuscript for The Invisible Man. No one, not even his beloved wife Jane, has read it. So naturally he’s horrified when he learns that the opening lines to The Invisible Man have been scrawled on the wall above the body of a homeless man who has apparently been murdered by a weapon not of this world. His horror mounts when two additional murders take place, each accompanied by mysterious opening lines, followed by a map requesting his presence at 50 Berkeley Square—the most haunted house in London.
Thus, Wells is compelled to embark on a desperate journey to save himself and his future. And in turn, he must make a momentous decision that will change the course of his—and his wife Jane’s—life forever...
CLASSIFICATION: Historical fiction, alternate history, time travel, mystery, steampunk, pulp adventure, romance and Victorian London collide in The Map of Time, recalling elements of H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine, Jules Verne, The Prestige by Christopher Priest, Gordon Dahlquist's The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters, From Hell, and The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger.
FORMAT/INFO: The Map of Time is 624 pages long, divided over three Parts and forty-three Roman-numbered chapters. Narration is in the third-person omniscient via an unknown narrator who will occasionally break the fourth wall and address the audience directly. The Map of Time is self-contained, but I believe the book is part of a trilogy. June 28, 2011 marks the North American Hardcover publication of The Map of Time via Atria Books. The UK version (see below) was published on June 9, 2011 via HarperCollins. The Map of Time was translated from Spanish to English by Nick Caistor.
ANALYSIS: Welcome, dear reader, as you plunge into the thrilling pages of our melodrama where you will find adventures of which you never dreamt!
If like any reasonable person you believe that time is a river sweeping away all that is born towards the darkest shore, in these pages you will discover that the past can be revisited, that mankind can retrace his footsteps thanks to a machine that can travel through time.
Your emotion and astonishment are guaranteed.
So begins Félix J. Palma’s astonishing novel, The Map of Time. A novel about time travel—set during Victorian London—that was inspired by The Time Machine and pays homage to its famous author, H.G. Wells, who is not only a character in the book, but the main protagonist. As a fan of time travel—who doesn’t like Back to the Future or Terminator?—Victorian settings and H.G. Wells, The Map of Time immediately captured my interest and filled me with excitement. However, much to my delight, reading The Map of Time was even better than anticipated.
For starters, Félix J. Palma’s writing is simply exquisite: “It felt so good to let himself be enveloped by the protective mantle of that immense unconditional love, that magic cape shielding him from life’s coldness, the icy indifference of every day that made his soul tremble, the incessant wind filtering through the shutters and seeping into his innermost depths.” Fortunately, there is much more to the author besides gorgeous prose. Félix J. Palma is the complete package, excelling in all phases as a writer including characterization, world-building, creativity and storytelling. (NOTE: As lovely as Félix J. Palma’s writing is, it would not be possible in this edition if not for Nick Caistor’s wonderful translation.)
Characters for instance, are incredibly lifelike with their innermost thoughts and feelings intimately portrayed. Fittingly, Félix J. Palma spends the most time with Herbert George Wells, fleshing out the events that fired his passion for literature and writing; his roundabout path to becoming a published author instead of a baker’s assistant; the meeting with Joseph Merrick—the Elephant Man—that inspired The Time Machine and The Island of Dr. Moreau; and his opinions on such varied topics as book reviews, the social commentary found within his novels, love, parallel universes, fate vs. free will, and so on. Since The Map of Time is a work of fiction, Félix J. Palma does take liberties with certain aspects of H.G. Wells’ life, but because the author writes with such authenticity and attention to detail, it’s impossible to separate fact from fiction. Andrew Harrington, Claire Haggerty, Captain Derek Shackleton and Inspector Colin Garrett of Scotland Yard are written with the same skill and intimacy, but none of these characters are as compelling as Wells, although Gilliam Murray—a supporting character—succeeds as an interesting rival to the author.
Félix J. Palma also does a masterful job with the setting, recreating a Victorian London that makes the reader feel like he traveled back in time. Personally though, I was more impressed with the author’s ability to integrate actual historical figures and places into the novel in a manner that felt natural and convincing, including Jack the Ripper, Marie Kelly, Whitechapel, Joseph Merrick, Dr. Treves, Henry James, Bram Stoker, and 50 Berkeley Square. I also appreciated the numerous references to the era—Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, Darwin, Jules Verne, Robert Louis Stevenson, Nikola Tesla, Allan Kardec, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, King Solomon’s Mines, Inspector Frederick Abberline—that reminded me why the Victorian period is one of my favorite settings in literature.
Time travel meanwhile, is represented in The Map of Time by four different methods: the very same time machine that is depicted in H.G. Wells’ classic novel; a fourth dimension—described as a pink plain—where time is stopped and its inhabitants can create holes to different moments of the time continuum, including May 20, 2000; a machine that digs tunnels through the fabric of time; and Homo temporis, humans who developed the ability to travel through time using their minds. Only one of these methods is actually viable in the book, but all four concepts provide the reader with countless pages of entertainment, thought-provoking moral complexity, and mind-bending paradoxes.
Plot-wise, The Map of Time consists of three Parts, each Part relating a separate tale, with all three stories connected by certain characters and themes including H.G. Wells, Gilliam Murray, love, and time travel. The story’s strength lies in its unpredictability, which in turn, is orchestrated by a mysterious omniscient narrator who uses clever misdirection, well-timed surprises and shocking plot twists to constantly keep readers on their toes. At the same time, Félix J. Palma manages to keep things accessible, despite the complexity and ambitiousness of the story.
Unfortunately, as much as I loved The Map of Time, Félix J. Palma’s novel is not perfect. For one, because of an extraordinary amount of backstory, over two hundred pages go by before any real adventure even transpires in the book. An issue that recurs throughout the novel, though not at the same extreme as the beginning of the book. Not only that, but the author’s writing can be long-winded at times which, combined with all of the backstory, results in a page count that is much longer than necessary. Admittedly, the omniscient narrator’s presence helps alleviate these issues by directly addressing concerns that a reader may have—why the backstory is important for instance, or the reason for switching to another POV in the middle of a paragraph—but nevertheless, the novel could have benefited from additional editing, like the unnecessary details surrounding William Harrington’s ascent to fortune and social status. Furthermore, Félix J. Palma has a tendency to explain certain concepts, plot twists and revelations in explicit detail, as if afraid readers would be unable to figure out things on their own. Finally, as a fan of science fiction and fantasy, I felt cheated a couple of times because of the unexpected direction The Map of Time took, but the novel easily redeems itself in the excellent third act. That said, the novel’s conclusion does feels a bit anticlimactic, especially considering everything that came before...
CONCLUSION: Even with imperfections, Félix J. Palma’s The Map of Time is quite possibly a masterpiece, if not a future classic. At the very least, the novel deserves all of the praise it has received thus far, and will receive in the future. Granted, The Map of Time will not be for everyone, despite the genre-defying scope of the novel, but anyone who can appreciate what Félix J. Palma’s book has to offer will be in for a treat. As for myself, The Map of Time is certainly one of the best novels I’ve read all year, in any genre, and is a book that I will be recommending to readers for years to come...
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Mihai (Dark Wolf) said...
Excellent review, as always :)
I ordered this novel last week, but its Romanian edition since the languages are close and hopefully the translation will be good. We suffer a bit at this chapter. I am also trying to improve my Spanish, so hopefully some day I will be able to read them in their original language as well ;D
Anyway, this sounds like a very interesting novel and I am looking forward to see if it is.
Doug M. said...
I knew nothing of this book. But it's description and your review have sold me! :)
Wow, great review, for something that sounds like a ton of fun! Rarely do I read a review and immediately start a search for the book. This is turning into one of those times!
drew said...
Absolutely my favorite book I've read so far this year
Bets Davies said...
I love your review--no. Not the book. I mean your review. You are comprehensive, specifically positive and negative, all without giving anything away. Kudos.
It even made me thing about reading the book. Which I might. Might not. I've gotten jaded about H.G. Wells popping up in varied forms. Sick of any books set in Victorian times, prettified or realistic, and profoundly sick of Jack the Ripper, but that is because of a traumatic workshop experience I cannot now relate (insert small gasp, hand to mouth. Then a long sigh). Who knows though? Maybe I've finally found something to heal my trauma.
Thanks Mihai! I really think you'll like the book :) Definitely let me know what you think of the novel when you get a chance to read it...
Doug, Little Red Reviewer, I'm glad I could be of assistance :D Hopefully you'll enjoy the book as much as I did!
Drew, I wouldn't be surprised if The Map of Time ended up being many other readers' favorite novel of 2011...
Thank you for your comments about the review Bets. I really appreciate it :)
Regarding the book itself, I can understand if you're not in the mood for such a novel. I go through certain moods myself. For instance, I'm quite sick of urban fantasy, even though I used to be a huge fan of the subgenre. Perhaps in time, you'll be willing to give the book a try. If you do, I'll be interested to hear what you think of it...
Jaedia said...
This book looks fantastic, thanks for the thorough review, definitely won me over.
I go through moods as well, people think I'm odd for it. I haven't actually read a time travel novel before as far as I can remember but I'm definitely not quite in the mood for a heavy read at the moment. However, it's going straight to the wishlist :)
Michelle (Vilutheril) said...
I also really loved this book and your review is great! I really enjoyed the unique narrative voice in this novel and the amusing tangents the story would occasionally go on when the protagonists were doing something boring. I love speculative and literary fiction and I found this combined both to great effect. :)
Definitely one of my favorites this year!
Thanks Jaedia and Michelle! Jaedia, I hope you enjoy the book when you get in a mood to read it :D
Michelle, I have a feeling The Map of Time will end up being a favorite of 2011 for a lot of people when all is said and done...
I've just ordered this book (mainly due to your review). Really looking forward to reading it, but I've got to clear my TBR pile first. I want to read A Dance With Dragons first though.
Brian - Australia said...
I'm only up to page 60 and loving it. Found it by chance when walking through the book section of local department store. The cover pix and the word 'time' caught my imagination. Can't wait for the story to unfold...
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Jutro będzie lepiej
Directed by Dorota Kędzierzawska
The film by Dorota Kędzierzawska, which won many film awards at international film festivals, is a story about three homeless young boys living at a railway station, in one of the Russian cities.
They decide to cross the border illegally and get to Poland. They believe the Poland is a promise of a better life – home, school, and friendly people.
Liapa, 11, a homeless boy living at a railway station somewhere in Russia, talks his friend Pietia, 10, into going on this journey together. Waska, Pietia’s younger brother, learns about the plan and decides to join them. His brother, the only living relative has left, would not leave him behind, anyway. First, the boys take a freight train to get near Kaliningrad, and illegally cross the border into Poland. Liapa sees Wasia as superfluous cargo, but when he tries to persuade Pietia to abandon his brother, a fight ensues. Finally, being filthy, ragged, and exhausted beyond measure, all three of them cross entanglements on the border. They turn themselves in to the police in the first village they encounter.
They are in for a painful disappointment instead of a school, the warmth of a family, and human kindliness, they are forced to return to Russia.
Aleksandrów Kujawski in the film
The film was shot in the historic rooms of the railway station in Aleksandrów Kujawski, i.e. in the former inspection room, the Tsar’s rooms, in the former restaurant, and in the main lounge area. In some of the shots, you can also see the railway station from the outside.
The railway station in Aleksandrów Kujawski is a historic building from the 19th Century, and the most-precious example of railway architecture preserved in Poland. It is also the longest railway station in Europe. The original building of the railway station was erected in the years 1860-1862. In the 1880s, it was extended in the Neo-Renaissance style. Many crowned heads stayed within the walls of the railway station. On 3rd and 4th of September 1879, the railway station became the meeting place between the German Emperor William I and the Russian Emperor Alexander II. Both monarchs of the two superpowers at the time talked in a number of rooms of the railway station, while the German Emperor spent the night in guest rooms prepared particularly for that purpose.
In addition to in the Province of Kujawsko-Pomorskie, the film was also made in Eastern Poland. Several locations in the Suwałki Region were used, including Suwałki, Wiżajny, Sudawskie, Żytkiejmy, Stankuny, Dubeninki, Hańcza, Kiepojć, Błąkały, Jurkiszki, Marlinów, Ejszeryszki, Poszeszup, Puńsk, Folusz, and Jaczno, as well as a number of locations in the Białystok Region, including Zubki, Gródek, Waliły, Gobiaty, and Straszewo.
Pioniwa Film, a Japanese film distributor, was a partner in the Polish film-production company Kid Film from Warsaw.
Jutro będzie lepiej / Tomorrow will be better
Poland/Japan 2010, 118′
Directed by: Dorota Kędzierzawska
Screenplay: Dorota Kędzierzawska
Cinematography: Artur Reinhart
Producer: Artur Reinhart
Produced by: Kid Film
Cast: Oleg Ryba, Jewgienij Ryba, Akhmed Sardalov, Stanisław Sojka, Aleksandra Billewicz, Zygmunt Gorodowienko, and others.
Berlinale – Deutsches Kinderhilswerk – Grand Prix for the Best Film, the Peace Film Award for Dorota Kędzierzawska, nomination for Golden Lions; the Camerimage Festival – nomination for participation in the competition; The New Horizons IFF – nomination for the New Polish Films competition; the Ale Kino! Festival – an award of the Children’s Jury for Best Film for children with live actors, and nomination for the Golden Goats Award; the Hollywood Eagle Awards – nomination; the “Vistula” Polish Film Festival in Moscow – Best Polish Film and Audience Award; the Unicef Award for the best film about children’s immigration; and others.
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Weekend Box Office: Wakanda Forever!
February 18, 2018 Box Office
Marvel Studios‘ Black Panther delivered a top five all-time opening this President’s Day holiday weekend with estimated three-day gross of $192 million and a projected $218 million-plus by time Monday night rolls around.
That makes Marvel’s 18th film in its universe of superhero films the highest-grossing February release, beating out 2016’s Deadpool. Black Panther received an A-plus CinemaScore from audiences; the only other Marvel title to earn an A+ was The Avengers.
The Ryan Coogler-directed film stars Chadwick Boseman as T’Challa/Black Panther alongside Lupita Nyong’o, Michael B. Jordan, Daniel Kaluuya, Letitia Wright, Winston Duke, Angela Bassett, Forest Whitaker and Andy Serkis.
Sony Pictures Animation‘s Peter Rabbit brought in $17.2 million, putting it just a hair above Fifty Shades Freed (Universal Pictures) in third place with $16.9 million.
Aardman Animation’s stop-motion adventure-comedy film Early Man (Lionsgate) debuted in seventh place with a meagre $3.1 million over three-days. Directed by Nick Park, it features the voices of Eddie Redmayne, Tom Hiddleston, Maisie Williams, and Timothy Spall.
PureFlix’s Bible movie Samson, which looks to take in only $1,9 million, came in No. 10 and it will probably be the first and last time we right about the pic.
Here’s your top ten at the box office for the three-day total:
1. “Black Panther” — $192 million
2. “Peter Rabbit” — $17.2 million ($48.2 mil.)
3. “Fifty Shades Freed” — $16.9 million ($76.1 mil.)
4. “Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle” — $7.9 million ($377.6 mil.)
5. “The 15:17 to Paris” — $7.6 million ($25.4 mil.)
6. “The Greatest Showman” — $5.1 million ($154.4 mil.)
7. “Early Man” — $3.1 million
8. “Maze Runner: The Death Cure” — $2.5 million ($54 mil.)
9. “Winchester” — $2.2 million ($21.8 mil.)
10. “Samson” — $1.9 million
Black Panther, Early Man
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