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Flavio Williams, Big Day - 24
The Augusta Pirates missed out on the win in this August 1989 game, but third baseman Flavio Williams still had himself a big day, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Williams went 4 for 4 in the 13-10 loss and scored three of his team's runs, the Post-Gazette wrote.
Williams had that big day in his third season as a pro. He played in just one more. He never made AA.
Williams' career began in 1986, signed as a free agent by the Pirates out of his native Dominican Republic.
Williams started with the Pirates in 1987 in the rookie Gulf Coast League. He it .278 in 42 games. The Pittsburgh Press listed Williams as among the teams' consistent hitters.
Williams moved to short-season Watertown for 1988. He hit .274 there over 59 appearances. He played 1989 between short-season Welland and single-A Augusta, amassing a .323 average between them. He went 2 for 3, with two RBI in another August game.
Williams played his final season in 1990 at high-A Salem. He hit .230 over 47 games to end his career.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Aug. 30, 1989: No-hitter for Pirates' farmhand
Players/Coaches Featured: 2,907
Never Made Majors:1,823-62.7%-X
Labels: minor leaguer, Salem Buccaneers
Giant Feats Aside...
2019 BBM Farewell Set
July 15, 2019: Clayton Kershaw vs. Zach Eflin
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Hybrid numbers start to stack up
Throw a stick up a central London street and you’d probably hit a hybrid (or a U-turning black cab, or a stationary bus, or possibly a cyclist running a red). Fuelled initially by the London Congestion Charge and latterly by their suitability for gliding painlessly between traffic lights, there are now oodles of hybrids threading the narrow lanes of the capital.
According to Toyota, it has sold 94,000 hybrids in the UK to date. About two thirds of the full number were Priuses, and just under a third were Lexus hybrids of one sort or another, mostly the previous generation RX softroader.
By a quirk of legislative whim the RX 400h became an attractive London city car for a while, having been deemed exempt from the Congestion Charge despite being a rather large and heavy SUV.
A small but growing sliver of about 10% of Toyota’s hybrid total is accounted for by the British-built Auris Hybrid, which looks to have been selling smartly at the expense of the larger Prius.
Honda, meanwhile, seems to have sold somewhat in excess of 20,000 hybrids in the UK so far. Of those, about a third are accounted for by the booted Civic Hybrid, about 40% the Insight hatchback, and another 15% the lovely and lithe little CR-Z coupe. The unconvincing Jazz Hybrid brings up the rear with fewer than 10% of Honda hybrid sales.
Accounting for the inevitable proportion of hybrids currently creeping around the giant scrapyard in the sky, more than 100,000 must surely now be on UK roads. Which sounds a lot, but is actually only about 1 in every 300 cars currently registered.
Worldwide, Toyota says it has sold four million hybrids, a figure that includes a fair number of vehicles never imported to the UK (the Kluger Hybrid, for example – and no, I don’t know what a Kluger is either).
Numbers will probably jump up sharply next year, with the introduction of the French-built Toyota Yaris hybrid, which will offer a 79g/km CO2 rating and a starting price of £14,995, making it the cheapest hybrid on the market and so, presumably, a big seller.
I’m zipping over to Holland next week to drive the Yaris Hybrid for the first time, so I’ll let you know if it’s a good car that will soon be adding to the clogged arteries of the capital, or a bit rubbish and destined to sit whistling and unloved on empty forecourts.
[Update: I gave the Yaris Hybrid five out of five stars – it felt like good car at a keen price for a hybrid.]
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Sarnoff Named Chair and CEO of Warner Bros
On Monday, June 24th, WarnerMedia CEO John Stankey announced the appointment of Ann Sarnoff as the new Chair and CEO of Warner Bros. Sarnoff, who is currently President of BBC Studios Americas brings more than thirty years of business and media experience to the role of overseeing worldwide operations at Warner Bros. including the production, marketing and distribution of film, television and interactive entertainment.
"I am delighted Ann is joining the WarnerMedia team and excited to work side by side with such a talented and accomplished individual. She brings a consistent and proven track record of innovation, creativity and business results to lead an incredibly successful studio to its next chapter of growth," said Stankey. "Ann has shown the ability to innovate and grow revenues and has embraced the evolution taking place in our industry. I am confident she will be a great cultural fit for WarnerMedia and that our employees will embrace her leadership, enthusiasm and passion for our business."
Sarnoff comes to Warner Bros. with an established track record spanning an array of prominent media and entertainment businesses from Viacom (Nickelodeon, VH1 and CMT) to the WNBA to Dow Jones to the BBC. Sarnoff will be based in Los Angeles and will officially join the company later this summer. She currently resides in New York City.
"It is a privilege to join a studio with such a storied history. Warner Bros. has been an industry leader for decades and is known for creating many of the most iconic film, television and gaming properties," said Sarnoff. "I accept this position excited by the opportunity to work with the most accomplished executives and teams in media, and confident about carrying this incredible heritage forward with them."
During a leadership transition, Warner Bros. was managed by an interim team of leaders made up of Toby Emmerich (Chairman, Warner Bros. Pictures Group), Peter Roth (President and Chief Content Officer, Warner Bros. Television Group), and Kim Williams (EVP & CFO, Warner Bros.). Warner Bros. is a brand under the umbrella of AT&T along with HBO, TNT, TBS, CNN, DC Entertainment, New Line, Cartoon Network, and truTV. AT&T acquired Time Warner in June 2018.
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Best Books About Small Business To Be Determined Through Public Vote by Owners and Entrepreneurs – Cash Awards Offered to Winners
Dallas, TX (PRWEB) September 05, 2012
entreBOOKS.com announces a new online bookstore for entrepreneurs that saves time, guarantees high quality, and offers cash contributions to the award-winning authors and foundations that support small business.
The nominees for the September 2012 Book of the Month Award are:
The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
Platform by Michael Hyatt
Turning Pro by Steven Pressfield
How Will You Measure Your Life by Clayton Christensen
Great By Choice by Jim Collins
How to Win by Mark Cuban
The Information Diet by Clay Johnson
Visitors may vote for their favorite from among this collection at http://www.entrebooks.com. The winner of the Book of the Month Award will be announced on October 1, 2012, and will receive national promotion, a gold seal for their marketing, a direct e-mail sales campaign to thousands of small business owners, and a cash award.
I started this site just to catalog my personal library of some 350 business books, said entreBOOKS founder, David Shepherd. But visitors indicated they wanted morethey wanted a place where they could quickly find the most valuable books that those who understand their needs have found useful, and have vouched for through their votes.
Entrepreneurs are notoriously short of time. By incorporating objective nominations and votingby categorysmall business owners can count on entreBOOKS to quickly find great books that have been vetted by those who share their challenges.
Shepherd, who has spent the past twenty-five years teaching and practicing entrepreneurship, also added one more important concept, that of giving back.
As a lifetime entrepreneur," Shepherd said, I appreciate the authors who take years out of their lives to write great books that may help me to learn a new skill or experience a moment of inspiration. Most of them dont make a lot of money from writing, so I wanted to find a way that those of us who benefit from their efforts can also help reward them financially.
Accordingly, entreBOOKS has designated the majority of its net revenue on book sales (derived from participation in Amazons Associate program) to be given back to authors and foundations that support small businesses in the form of direct cash contributions. Both award-winning authors and selected foundations will also benefit from national publicity campaigns and exposure on the entreBOOKS Website.
The first foundation chosen by entreBOOKS.com is Create Jobs for USA which was recently launched by Starbucks to help create jobs throughout the small business sector.
Small business owners are kindred spirits, Shepherd said. Were calling on them to bookmark entreBOOKS.com and buy all of their business books through the site. It doesnt cost them any more, yet a part of their purchase will be rebated through us to great authors and great causes like Create Jobs for USA! Why wouldnt they want to give that back?
Authors, publishers, and foundations may seek inclusion on the entreBOOKS.com Website by visiting http://www.entrebooks.com and clicking on the Nominate tab at the top of the page. Then, they only have to complete and submit a simple form. Nominees must agree to aggressively participate in promotional campaigns as it is the collective traffic and ensuing sales that will generate significant awards and grants going forward.
About entreBOOKS and David Shepherd:
entreBOOKS is a division of entreINSPIRE, Inc., a Texas corporation founded and owned by David Shepherd. For over 30 years, David Shepherd has taught and practiced entrepreneurship while refining his new philosophy of business that has brought a unique can do attitude to small business owners nationwide.
Though he holds is MBA and served for over twenty-five years in various faculty positions at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin, Shepherds approach to business success is as much about life as about business. As an instructor, David taught one of the largest courses in the nation in entrepreneurial finance and strategy. He was routinely rated among the most popular by the hundreds of undergraduate students in his classes. As an instructor of high-tech finance for the prestigious ICC Institute of the University of Texas at Austin, he was give the award for "Outstanding Contribution to Entrepreneurial Finance.
As an entrepreneur himself, David has started several successful businesses including technology and service firms, having raised millions of dollars along the way. Thousands of small business owners have attended one of Davids live 8 Steps workshops which have been held in virtually every major U.S. city. The book on which the workshop is based, Your Business or Your Life: 8 Steps For Getting All You Want Out of BOTH, has been a perennial seller for nearly a decade. David is widely regarded as one of the most inspirational speakers to the small business audience and has produced 17 conferences over the past nine years, each designed to share his radical philosophy with entrepreneurs throughout North America.
Reaching the give back phase of life, David has reached out to mentor thousands of aspiring small business owner through:
entreINSPIRES Daily messages of education, information, hope, and inspiration and a unique monthly Webinar for members only.
entreBOOKS A growing online library of the most useful books for small business owners and entrepreneurs as voted on by their peers.
entreWEBINARS Live Web events designed to take a unique look at traditional business practices and help small business owners to overcome barriers.
David lives in the Dallas area where he writes and runs as often as he can.
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Boyfriends and Bicycles, from Hot Vintage Men
To see more Hot Vintage Men, check out our other blog: http://hotvintagemen.blogspot.com/
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Girls with Girls and Boys with Boys, Vintage Gay Couples
These vintage photos represent just a small fragment of our LGBT history; unfortunately so much of it has purposely been destroyed. Since most of the men and women in these photos are unknown, it's pretty much impossible to tell it they were a gay couple or just "good friends." Most photographs of gay couples were eventually destroyed by horrified family members. For every photo that I may have mistakenly identified as gay, thousands more were burned or torn into pieces to keep a family secret.
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Men That Love Men
These photos represent just a small fragment of our gay history; unfortunately so much of it has purposely been destroyed. Since most of the men in these photos are unknown, it's pretty much impossible to tell it they were a gay couple or just "good friends." Most photographs of gay couples were eventually destroyed by horrified family members. For every photo that I may have mistakenly identified as gay, thousands more were burned or torn into pieces to keep a family secret.
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Marsden Hartley (1877–1943)
Marsden Hartley, The Lifeguard, 1940
Marsden Hartley was born Edmund Hartley in a small Maine village in 1877. His mother died when he was young, and his father eventually married a woman named Martha Marsden. When Edmund was in his 20s, off studying art, he changed his first name to Marsden in her honor.
Hartley studied at the Cleveland School of Art, but when he turned 22 he moved to New York to study with William Merritt Chase and then the National Academy of Design. While in New York, he became friends with the painter Albert Pinkham Ryder, whose work influenced Hartley for his entire career.
Marden Hartley, The Dark Mountain, 1909
Albert Pinkham Ryder, Seacoast in the Moonlight, 1890
Alfred Stieglitz, the famous photographer and husband of Georgia O’Keeffe, gave the young artist his first solo show at his 291 Gallery. Through Stieglitz, Hartley quickly gained entry into New York’s art world.
Alfred Steiglitz at his 291 Gallery
Marsden Hartley, Red Tree, 1910
Funded by Stieglitz, Hartley traveled to Europe in 1912, where he was introduced to Gertrude Stein. Through Stein, Hartley met the who’s who of the European art scene during the year that he spent in Paris.
Marsden Hartley, Portrait of Gertrude Stein
Hartley’s friend, the artist Arnold Rönnebeck, introduced him to his handsome cousin, Lieutenant Karl von Freyburg. Hartley and the German lieutenant began a passionate romance; as a result, Hartley left Paris and moved to Berlin to be with von Freyburg.
Hartley and his lover moved on to Munich where in 1913 he encountered Der Blaue Reiter artists including Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc and Gabriele Münter. The same year he showed with these artists in the Sturm gallery’s ‘First German Autumn Salon’ in Berlin. Marsden Hartley's painting were also shown and in the ground breaking Armory Show in New York in 1913. Americans were not quite ready for Modern Art, but show went on to make history by exhibiting the masters of early 20th century art, years before they became well know in the United States.
The Armory Show, New York City, 1913
New York Press clipping ridiculing the Armory Show
Hartley's early German work was influenced by the artists that he met in like Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc, as can be seen in his "Painting Number One" from 1913. The German Expressionism movement had a large impact on the style of his paintings.
Marden Hartley, Painting Number One, 1913
Wassily Kandinsky, Small Pleasure, 1913
In a postcard to Stieglitz in January of 1913, Hartley wrote: “I cannot estimate to you the worth of this German trip - it has given me my place in the art movement in Europe - I find in this my really creative period.” Berlin was also known for it’s large and very open population of homosexuals. The normally reserved Hartley wrote to Stieglitz: “I have lived rather gaily in the Berlin fashion- with all that implies.”
Hartley’s work began incorporating the Germany military emblems and regalia that he saw daily in the streets of Berlin. On October 7th, 1914, during the first few weeks of WWI, his lover Karl von Freyburg was killed in battle. Hartley, grief stricken over his loss, memorialized his first great love in a painting that would become one of his most famous works: "Portrait of a German Officer."
Marsden Hartley, Portrait of a German Officer, 1914
Hartley never got over loss the death of von Freyburg, and painted several other works inspired by their relationship.
Marsden Hartley, Painting No. 47, 1914-1915
In October of 1915, 45 of his painting were shown at Müchener Graphik-Verlag gallery in Berlin where they received critical acclaim. His luck seemed to be changing, but not for long.
Marsden Hartley, Lighthouse, 1915
It soon became apparent that the United States was about to enter the war, so Hartley quickly moved back to New York. Unfortunately, Hartley's German military-inspired works did not go over well in New York- not surprising, since the U.S was now at war with Germany.
Hartley moved to Provincetown, Massachusetts in 1916 where he shared a house with his friend, the painter Charles Demuth. Demuth, who was also gay, knew Hartley from New York's art scene and they had several gay friends in common. Demuth’s erotic painting of sailors and nude men were the first positive depictions of gay sexuality in the modern art world.
Two Sailors Urinating, Charles Demuth, 1930
After the war, Hartley returned to Europe for a few years, where he published a book, Twenty-Five-Poems, in 1921. Hartley was an accomplished poet and his writing has attracted more interest over the years.
Marsden Hartley, Male, 1922
Hartley and his Dog in Aix en Provence, France, 1926
Hartley left Europe for good in 1930, moving back to the States until 1932, when a Guggenheim fellowship funded his time painting in Mexico.
Marsden Hartley, Yliaster (Paracelsus), Mexico, 1932
While in Mexico, he befriended a fellow Guggenheim recipient, the poet Hart Crane. Crane’s alcoholism, fueled by the persecution that he felt being gay, eventually led to his tragic suicide off the coast of Florida. Devastated by the news of Crane’s death, Hartley created one last memorial memorial painting, Eight Bells Folly, in 1932. Watch the video below to hear more about Crane's death and the story of this painting.
Like many artists, Hartley supported himself during the Great Depression by working for the Public Works of Art Project, which employed artists to paint murals in public buildings. The program only lasted from December 1933 to June of 1934. By 1935, no longer able to afford to keep his unsold works in storage, Hartley spent his 58th birthday destroying hundreds of his paintings. He had reached a low point in his life; his reputation had plummeted and he no longer had the support of Steiglitz.
Marsden Hartley, Northern Seascape, Off the Banks, 1936-37
Hartley spent 1935 and 1936 living in a small fishing community in Nova Scotia. There he met the Mason family, who became a surrogate family to the artist and a loving escape from the harsh cynicism of the New York art scene.
He returned to his home state of Maine in 1937, declaring that the wanted to be “The Painter of Maine.” His later coastal landscape paintings were closely aligned with the Regionalism movement, but with an Expressionist edge. Although closeted, he also did a series of homo-erotic male portraits during the same period.
Marsden Hartley, After the Storm, Vinalhaven, 1938-39
Marsden Hartley, Madawaska Acadian Light Heavy, 1939-1940
Marsden Hartley, Christ Held by Half Naked Men, 1940
Hartley became extremely private later in life, even friends knew little about what he was up to. Not much is known about his romantic life during his later years, or if he even had one. Since everyone that Hartley loved died tragically, he may have completely retreated from attachments. This portrait of Hartley by George Platt Lynes has an interesting and very sad story to it. Check out the video below.
Hartley continued to painting landscapes along the coast of Maine until his death in 1943. In these later works, like "Evening Storm, Schoodic Maine" of 1942, the influence of Albert Pinkham Ryder is apparent.
Marsden Hartley, Evening Storm, Schoodic Maine, 1942
In a letter that Marsden Hartley wrote to his sister near the end of his life, he knew that his work would not be forgotten. “ I am not a “book of the month” art, and I do not paint pretty pictures; but when I am no longer here my name will register forever in the history of American art.”
If you live in Southern California, don't miss this show of Marsden Hartley's paintings from his German period, showing at LACMA.
http://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/marsden-hartley-german-paintings-1913%E2%80%931915
Labels: artist, Berlin, demuth, gay, Gertrude Stein, Kandinsky, Maine, Marsden Hartley, painter, poet
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Style Yang Originel >
Histoire:
Histoire du style Yang
Origine du Tai Chi Chuan
Yang Lu Ch'an
Yang Pan Hou and Yang Chien Hou
Yang Cheng Fu
Other "Yang-styles"
Yang Shou Chung
Chu King Hung
D'après la tradition de la famille Yang, le Tai Chi Chuan a été créé par Chang San Feng, qui avait été un maître du Shaolin avant d'aller apprendre la méditation taoiste et d'observer le combat entre un serpent et une grue.
La tradition resta secrète pendant quelques siècles jusqu'à ce qu'un étranger nommé Chiang Fa apparut à Chen Chia Gou (chenjiagou) et enseigna son style mystérieux à un petit nombre de villageois, dont Chen Chang Hsing.
Yang Lu Ch'an (1799-1872) heard about the famous Tai Chi Master Chen Chang Hsing in Chen Chia Kou (chenjiagou). In those times, Tai Chi Chuan was taught only to family-members. Being a stranger, Yang had no chance to become student, so he acted as deaf and mute and managed to become a servant in the house of the master.
He secretly spied on evening teaching lessons and during the night he practised what he had seen. After many months he was exposed but showed himself to be so talented that after several examinations the Master formally accepted him as student.
Later he travelled through China and faught 18 famous Kung Fu Masters never using more than two movements to win. Therefore he was given the name "Yang the invicible" and "Yang who does not fight". He then made a career in Peking, where he first started to teach publicly but soon was appointed as instructor of the imperial bodyguards and personal trainer of important princes of the imperial family, the top job in the city for a martial artist.
His sons Yang Chien Hou (1839-1917) and Yang Pan Hou (1837-1892) continued the style in the way of their father.
Yang Cheng Fu (1883-1936), a son of Yang Chien-Hou, was the most famous Master of the last century. He travelled a lot and spread the Yang style all over China.
From his many students only very few had been initiated in the tradition and the secrets of the Family style. Nonetheless, many of them started to teach what they had leaned. That's the reason why so many variations of the Yang Family style can be found today. In 1956 the people's Republic of China's government published a short form which was called "Peking Form" or "Government Form". Tai Chi was promoted to bring better health to the masses, but obviously the Peking form completely lacks the inner principles of the Yang-style.
Cheng Man Ching (Zheng Manqing), a student of Yang Cheng Fu, was the first to teach Tai Chi in the West. He was a talented Master of poetry, painting and calligraphy, and he was also skilled in chinese medicine. He was a student (but not a disciple) of Yang Cheng Fu, his Yang style differs a lot from the family-style.
Today, in the West, in the USA, Canada and Europe, the Yang style in its many variations is the most widely practiced style.
Yang Shou-chung (1910-1985) started learning the family-style from his father Yang Ch'eng Fu when he was eight and also learned from his famous uncle Yang Shao Hou (1862-1929). After the death of his father he became the successor in the Yang Family lineage.
While three younger sons of Yang Cheng Fu stayed in the People's Republic, Yang Shou Chung fled to Hongkong in 1949. He had only three disciples, the last of them is Master Chu King Hung, who lives and teaches in Europe since 1970.
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Sisters of the Spirit
Three Black Women’s Autobiographies of the Nineteenth Century
Edited by William L Andrews
Series: Religion in North America
Format: Paperback 1 b&w photos
Sisters of the Spirit... should interest a wider audience.... These fascinating accounts can stand on their own.... Mr. Andrews has made them even more accessible by providing a comprehensive introduction and helpful footnotes... but he does not intrude on the text itself." —New York Times Book Review
... informative and inspiring reading." —The Journal of American History
Jarena Lee, Zilpha Elaw, and Julia Foote underwent a revolution in their own sense of self that helped to launch a feminist revolution in American religious life and in American society as a whole.
““Sisters of the Spirit . . . should interest a wider audience. . . . These fascinating accounts can stand on their own. . . . Mr. Andrews has made them even more accessible by providing a comprehensive introduction and helpful footnotes . . . but he does not intrude on the text itself.” —New York Times Book Review “ . . . informative and inspiring reading.” —The Journal of American History Jarena Lee, Zilpha Elaw, and Julia Foote underwent a revolution in their own sense of self that helped to launch a feminist revolution in American religious life and in American society as a whole.”
Preface by Catherine L. Albanese and Stephen J. Stein
Foreword by Marilyn Richardson
Textual Note
I. The Life and Religious Experience of Jarena Lee
II. Memoirs of the Life, Religious Experience, Ministerial Travels and Labors of Mrs. Zilpha Elaw
III. A Brand Plucked from the Fire: An Autobiographical Sketch by Mrs. Julia A.J. Foote
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Truth and Genesis
Philosophy as Differential Ontology
Miguel de Beistegui
Format: Paperback 1 bibliog., 1 index
... an attempt to revive ontology (or metaphysics)—indeed philosophy itself—by means of a two-sided conception of being.... This is a remarkable idea which has produced a powerful book." —Leonard Lawlor
... a major philosophical study: rich, brilliant... a tour de force, a seminal study that will be a starting-point for future research in this area." —Robert Bernasconi
In Truth and Genesis, Miguel de Beistegui considers the role and meaning of philosophy today. Calling for a new departure for philosophy, one that brings together philosophy’s scattered identities, de Beistegui proposes a robust and unified philosophy that would find itself equally at home in artistic and scientific disciplines. To build this renewed philosophy, de Beistegui turns to Aristotle and the earliest foundations of thought. He traces philosophy’s development through the medieval and modern periods before comparing and investigating the work of two of the 20th century’s most influential thinkers, Martin Heidegger and Gilles Deleuze. In particular, de Beistegui focuses on Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition and Heidegger’s Contributions to Philosophy for their handling of the concept of difference. De Beistegui concludes that Deleuze and Heidegger are irreconcilable, but it is in their disagreements that he sees a way to liberate philosophy from its current crisis.
Miguel de Beistegui teaches in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Warwick. He is the author of Heidegger and the Political and co-editor (with Simon Sparks) of Philosophy and Tragedy.
“In a powerful challenge to contemporary philosophy, de Beistegui calls for a new departure, one that brings together philosophy's scattered identities and proposes a robust and unified discipline. This new philosophy would find itself equally at home in artistic and scientific disciplines. ". . . rich, brilliant . . . a tour de force, a seminal study that will be a starting-point for future research in this area." -Robert Bernasconi”
Part 1. Onto-tauto-logy: The Aristotelian Legacy
1. The Origins of Onto-tauto-logy
2. Absolute Identity
Part 2. Onto-hetero-logy: Thinking Difference with Heidegger
3. Eventful Being: On Ereignis
4. Abyssal Being: On Time-Space
5. Intersticial Being: On Dif-ference
Part 3. Onto-hetero-genesis: Thinking Difference with Deleuze
6. Physics beyond Metaphysics?
7. The Renewal of Ontology
8. Virtual Multiplicities
9. Smooth Space and Volcanic Time
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Poll: 73 Percent of Americans Approve of Paid Family Leave
featuring Carrie L. Lukas
The Independent Women’s Forum (IWF) released a poll Tuesday which found Americans across the political spectrum approve of a paid family leave policy.
Seventy-three percent of Americans approve of such a policy, including 60 percent of conservatives or Republicans, 72 percent of Independents, 73 percent of moderates, 83 percent of Democrats, and 87 percent of liberals, support a paid family leave proposal.
The IWF released the poll as the House Ways and Means Committee will host a hearing Wednesday on paid family leave.
“Americans want a paid leave approach that threads the needle — providing support for parents who need it, but without unfairly shifting costs to others, growing government, or discouraging employers from providing benefits on their own,” IWF president Carrie Lukas said Tuesday.
Americans also widely agreed on two central tenets that would entail a federal paid family leave policy:
Seventy-eight percent of Americans, 83 percent of liberals, and 79 percent of moderates believe that workers should have as much control and flexibility as possible over the benefits that would arise from a paid family leave proposal.
Sixty-seven percent of Americans believe that a paid family leave plan should remain budget neutral over the long-term and should not increase the financial burden of those who do not choose to have children and do not need the benefit.
When asked about specific proposals, a majority of Americans, or 50 percent, approve of Earned Leave, a proposal that would let new parents access benefits they have already accrued through Social Security.
Sens. Joni Ernst (R-IA) and Mike Lee (R-UT) sponsored the Cradle Act, which would allow Americans to access their Social Security benefits to pay for a paid family leave program. The Social Security Administration (SSA) examined the financial impact of the legislation and found that the bill would have a “negligible effect” on the long-range health of Social Security.
In comparison, 45 percent of Americans approve of the FAMILY Act, sponsored by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), which would pay for a paid family leave policy through a new payroll tax; however, 54 percent of Americans believed that it was unfair to force every American to pay into a new program that they may not use.
Many Americans also have some concerns over paid family leave as well. Forty-nine percent of Americans remain concerned about potential abuses of the policy, 38 percent believe the policy might be unfair to those who do not have families or children, and 34 percent remain concerned about the policies’ ability to hinder businesses from offering their own benefits to their workers.
Fifty-eight percent of Americans strongly or somewhat agree that it remains important for Republicans and Democrats to compromise and find a solution on paid family leave that could pass through Congress.
To find a bipartisan solution, Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) announced recently that he will work with Sen. Krysten Sinema (D-AZ) on a bill that could pass through Congress.
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About Economy of Congo, Democratic Rep. of the
The economy of the Democratic Republic of the Congo - a nation endowed with vast natural resource wealth - is slowly recovering after decades of decline. Systemic corruption since independence in 1960, combined with country-wide instability and conflict that began in the mid-90s has dramatically reduced national output and government revenue and increased external debt. With the installation of a transitional government in 2003 after peace accords, economic conditions slowly began to improve as the transitional government reopened relations with international financial institutions and international donors, and President KABILA began implementing reforms. Progress has been slow to reach the interior of the country although clear changes are evident in Kinshasa and Lubumbashi. An uncertain legal framework, corruption, and a lack of transparency in government policy are long-term problems for the mining sector and for the economy as a whole. Much economic activity still occurs in the informal sector and is not reflected in GDP data. Renewed activity in the mining sector, the source of most export income, has boosted Kinshasa's fiscal position and GDP growth in recent years. The global recession cut economic growth in 2009 to less than half its 2008 level, but growth returned to around 7% per year in 2010-12. The DRC signed a Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility with the IMF in 2009 and received $12 billion in multilateral and bilateral debt relief in 2010, but the IMF at the end of 2012 suspended the last three payments under the loan facility - worth $240 million - because of concerns about the lack of transparency in mining contracts. In 2012, the DRC updated its business laws by adhering to OHADA, the Organization for the Harmonization of Business Law in Africa. The country marked its tenth consecutive year of positive economic expansion in 2012.
$29.39 billion (2013 est.)
country comparison to the world: 115
GDP- Real Growth Rate
6.2% (2013 est.)
GDP - Per Capita
$400 (2013 est.)
GDP - Composition By Sector
agriculture: 44.3%
Population Below Poverty Line
71% (2006 est.)
Inflation Rate (Consumer Prices)
35.18 million (2013 est.)
Labor Force - By Occupation
agriculture: NA%
services: NA%
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mining (copper, cobalt, gold, diamonds, coltan, zinc, tin, tungsten), mineral processing, consumer products (textiles, plastics, footwear, cigarettes), metal products, processed foods and beverages, timber, cement, commercial ship repair
Industrial Production Growth
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Visa Provides Details of Square Stake
On Friday, Square Inc. saw a surge after Visa Inc. revealed the size of its stake in the mobile payment startup after its initial public offering. Founded and run by Jack Dorsey, the Chief Executive at Twitter, Square had made the announcement of Visa’s investment in April 2011 without making any disclosure about the size as the company was still private back then. On Thursday, in a regulatory filing, Visa revealed that it owns about 4.19 million Class B shares in Square, which are not traded publicly. However, there is an option available to the credit card company that it can use for converting the shares.
This move would make them equal to 3.52 million Class A shares thereby giving it a 9.99% stake in the share class traded publicly. According to a spokeswoman for Visa, the company hadn’t bought or sold its shares in Square since it made its original investment. The disclosure of the stake by Visa came just before the deadline of a regulatory filing and turned out to be a soothing balm for the already-struggling stock. In November, after its IPO, there had been an early surge in the shares of Square Inc., but since then, its stock had remained quite volatile.
The volatility was explained as difficulty for the market in trying to figure out how a business that blends elements of a technology and financial-services firm should be valued. Other fin-tech companies such as LendingClub Corp. have also had their IPO and they have been whipsawed since then. Based in Foster City, California, Visa hasn’t historically made any acquisitions such as Square that can act as agents for bringing merchants onto the platform of Master card, Visa Inc. and other card networks. According to stock analysts, the disclosure by Visa acted as a vote of confidence in Square as it was a reminder of the startup’s appeal as an acquisition target.
A small piece of plastic that can be plugged into smartphones and used for making credit and debit card payments is how Square got its beginning. It was in 2011 that Visa first made an investment in Square as it saw the company as a way of helping converting small businesses that only accepted cash payments at the time to accepting credit card payments via Square devices. Meanwhile, Visa has remained focused on digital efforts lately as more and more consumers have been migrating to electronic payments.
Visa Digital Solutions has been launched by the company, which is an initiative geared at making secure payments via mobile devices. It has also offered its support to Apple Pay, the payment service introduced by Apple Inc. Typically, investors only convert their Class B shares when they wish to sell. If Visa does decide to make the conversion to Class A shares, it will become the second-largest holder of these shares in Square, after the mutual-fund giant Capital Research and Management Co., which has a stake of about 12% in Square. The filing made by Visa was statement of an existing position.
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Development & Aid, Environment, Headlines, Latin America & the Caribbean
No One Wants Mexico City’s Garbage
By Emilio Godoy Reprint | | Print |
MEXICO CITY, Jan 6 2012 (IPS) - The closure of Mexico’s biggest garbage dump has highlighted the absence of a comprehensive policy for urban waste collection, disposal and processing, a failure that has serious consequences for health and the environment.
Mexico City has no alternative to the Bordo Poniente landfill. Credit: D'Arcy Norman/CC BY-NC 2.0
The leftwing government of the Mexican capital decided in December to close Bordo Poniente, the biggest refuse dump, located in the east of the city, without coming up with an alternative solution. Now municipalities adjacent to Mexico City are refusing to accept its waste.
“We have insisted on the ‘metropolitanisation’ of public services, like waste collection, water, transport and energy which are in crisis situation now. A fair amount of Mexico City’s waste comes from people who live in the metropolitan area – people who come in to the city to work, and the informal traders,” Iván Restrepo, head of the Ecology and Development Centre, told IPS.
Restrepo and his team have monitored the garbage situation in this Latin American country since the 1980s.
The Bordo Poniente landfill site has been in use since 1985. It covers an area of 600 hectares and was receiving 12,600 tonnes of waste a day, 7,000 of them from municipalities in the state of Mexico, adjacent to the Federal District (DF) or city proper, according to the capital city’s secretariat of works and services.
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Moreover, 70 million tonnes of waste are buried underground at the dump, causing serious water and air pollution problems.
The closure of Bordo Poniente has sparked a conflict between the national, city and state governments: the national government has been exerting pressure since 2008 to close the site, but the Mexico City government kept it going until 2011, while the state of Mexico government is resisting the location of garbage dumps in its territory.
Only as the new year began did the federal and city authorities reach agreement about the definitive closure programme, which provides for the Mexico City government to put the exploitation of methane, produced by waste decomposition at the site, out to international tender.
The crisis became acute as “more urban areas became densely populated, so that waste was further concentrated,” said Ramón Ojeda, secretary-general of the International Court of Environmental Arbitration and Conciliation (ICEAC). “Consumerism has increased sharply, in tandem with the absence of a culture of non-generation, classification and recycling of waste,” he told IPS.
In 2008 ICEAC, based in the Spanish city of San Sebastián, recommended the closure of Bordo Poniente, restoration to compensate for environmental damage, and the investment of 71 million dollars in cleaning up the site.
ICEAC was created in Mexico in 1994 with the aim of resolving environmental conflicts by negotiation between states, individuals and legally recognised bodies such as companies and NGOs.
Mexico’s ministry of the environment and natural resources estimates 40 million tonnes of garbage are generated annually in the country, of which only 15 percent is recycled.
“We are tossing valuable materials into the trash, and there is the whole problem of the absence of re-use and recycling. The goal is to recycle at least 60 percent of our waste. We must establish sanitary landfills that meet health and safety regulations. You can’t just improvise a landfill site,” said Restrepo.
“We are going to have a problem with garbage for a long time. If we take action now, it need not get any worse, but we need a long-term strategy,” he said.
The Ecology and Development Centre identified at least 30 failed garbage dump projects since the 1980s. The failures were due to a mix of several factors, such as corruption and the lack of political will.
The metropolitan area of Mexico City, home to some 24 million people, has only two garbage dumps in the state of Mexico, and they are in danger of overflowing now that Bordo Poniente is closed.
The landfill has ceased to receive 3,600 tonnes of garbage a day, while 3,000 tonnes are going to make compost, 800 tonnes of plastic bottles, cardboard and metals are being recycled, and 600 tonnes are used to produce alternative fuels, according to the ministry of works and services.
That still leaves 4,600 tonnes a day without a designated purpose.
In 2009, the Mexican federal government suspended plans for building Centros Integrales de Reciclado y Energía (CIRE – Integral Waste-to-Energy Plants) because of heated opposition from local residents in the locations chosen. The CIREs are intended to make use of organic waste to produce compost, recycle inorganic materials and generate electricity.
The 2003 Federal Waste Law regulates waste management and procedures for opening and closing waste dumps, but does not clarify who owns the garbage – the source producer, the collector or the waste dump manager? – until such time as it reaches the hands of the municipal or federal authorities, which complicates the use of garbage for profit.
“We are facing environmental and regulatory chaos. Powers vested in the authorities should be turned over to ordinary citizens, without any privatisation of waste management services, so that we can have an organisation with broad representation, including experts, universities, citizens and private companies,” said Ojeda, whose term as head of ICEAC is due to end in 2013.
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Living Hyphen
justineabigail
Cheoung Ek
politico, travels
A Prison Without Walls
Cambodia has always been one country that I’ve been fascinated in. Rich in history and culture, Cambodia shows the two sides of mankind’s capacity for greatness – our greatness to imagine, to build, and to create …and on the flip side, our greatness to destroy. I took the last few days to explore this country of contrasts—making the pilgrimage to the wonders of Angkor to marvel at the truly magnificent ruins that is a testimony to man’s brilliance, but also visiting the horrors of the Killing Fields to bear witness to man’s cruelty. It was a bit of a rollercoaster as I went through the heights and the depths of the Khmer civilization.
Let me start with the oft overlooked atrocities of the Khmer Rouge…not exactly a huge tourist draw given the weight of the subject, but still an imperative visit for anyone traveling to Cambodia.
A quick background for those of you who are not familiar with Cambodia’s modern history…the Khmer Rouge (led by Pol Pot) ruled over the country from 1975-1979 implementing one of the most radical, and not to mention cruel, restructurings of a society ever attempted. Influenced by the communist ideology, the Khmer Rouge’s goal was to eliminate all remnants of the past – even declaring 1975 as “Year Zero” – and to create a peasant-dominated agrarian society. In reality, Cambodia was turned into a prison without walls as the Khmer people faced an onslaught of forced labor, starvation, and of course, political executions. Some 1.7 million people lost their lives (that’s 21% of the country’s population) during the time of Pol Pot…an outright genocide that continues to permeate the lives of many Cambodians today.
Last week we visited the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, which was known as Security Prison 21 or S-21. It was once a detention center set up by Pol Pot at the beginning of the Khmer Rouge regime. Over 20, 000 people were held there – most of which were political prisoners, monks, nuns, lawyers, doctors, and other members of the Khmer intelligentsia. I can’t even tell you how harrowing of an experience that was…there it stood, right in the middle of an ordinary street just barricaded by concrete walls around which regular Khmers would go about their day. As our tuk tuk driver pulled up to the entrance, we were surprised to know we had already arrived at our destination. From the outside, you could never imagine the atrocities that once took place within those walls.
But the moment you step foot inside, it’s as if you’re transported to the past. The actual building itself still looks very much as I imagine it did before. The rooms worn down, holes in the walls, the makeshift cells still largely in tact…perhaps it was just my imagination, but I could swear there were still blood stains on the ceiling of one room…it was all just too real and never before have I gotten so many shivers, not even when I visited Auschwitz two years ago.
What is most disturbing about S21 is the fact that it was once a high school. Each room was, in fact, a classroom…and the chalkboards still hang next to the many brick cells that once held innocent prisoners. To think that what was once supposed to be an institution of progress was turned into this menacing symbol—no, reality—of evil and barbarism. That, I think, is what stunned me the most.
But the day didn't end there. We then proceeded to go to Cheoung Ek, what is more widely known as the Killings Fields...a mass grave of victims bludgeoned to death with a hammer or some other heavy tool...bullets were too expensive to use and these people were obviously not worth the cost. It's a deceptively peaceful place with a large green field and even a small pond making for a perfect place for quiet reflection. It was once an orchard actually and butterflies continue to roam free as chickens walk within the depressions in the fields…pits where the dead (or the dying) were buried. You wouldn't think anything of it really and it would be easy to forget where you are, but if you look closely enough, you'll see fragments of the brutal past. And when I say fragments, I mean real, physical fragments: teeth, bones, and scraps of clothing lie on the ground untouched. Every time it floods, these remnants continue to resurface. It's as if the victims can not rest.
It was a harrowing experience to say the least, but a necessary walk into man’s heart of darkness…
Tagged: Cambodia, Cheoung Ek, Khmer Rouge, Killing Fields, Pol Pot, Security Prison 21, Tuol Sleng, evil, genocide
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Browse > Home / News / Peres supports Pollard release
Peres supports Pollard release
July 30, 2015 Agencies
Former Israeli President Shimon Peres has expressed his support for the pending release of Jonathan Pollard.
Jonathan Pollard
He said: “I support the important decision to release Jonathan Pollard. Jonathan has been sitting in prison for 30 years and his release is important and necessary from both a moral and humanitarian standpoint. Even after 30 years, a prisoner does not stop being a human being. I discussed the release of Jonathan with President Obama several times, and in June of 2014 I brought to his attention a bi-partisan petition signed by 106 members of the Israeli Knesset, both the opposition and the coalition, representing the opinion of most Israeli citizens who believe in Pollard’s release. During my meetings with President Obama he made it clear to me that he would not make any objections should the courts choose to release Jonathan. As agreed we kept this process discreet, and today I am very happy that the Jonathan’s release has been approved without any objections from the American Congress. “
Peres thanked the people who have worked for Pollards release along with all the volunteers, Israeli citizens and Jewish organizations in the US and around the world who never stopped working for Pollard’s release as both a moral and nationalist mission. Former President Peres said that their
dedication to this important cause was inspiring and paved the road to his release.
Throughout his Presidency, Shimon Peres worked hand in hand with the Pollard Release Committee and the American government and the courts. President Peres supported the efforts which led to Jonathan Pollard’s release through petitions, letters and discussions.
Jonathan Jay Pollard is a former United States government employee who in 1987 pleaded guilty to spying for – and providing above top-secret classified information to Israel. The former intelligence analyst was then sentenced to life in prison. He is expected to be released on parole on November 21 this year.
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The site of Somnath has been a pilgrimage site from ancient times
The Somnath temple located in Prabhas Patan near Veraval in Saurashtra on the western coast of Gujarat, India which has historical importance ..In spite of having many conflits and oppose from prime minister Shri Jawaharlal Nehru and some people ,Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, former Home Minister helped to rebuilt this temple .Some of known unknown things about Somnath Temple are given below
The temple finds its reference in the most ancient texts of Hindus like Shreemad Bhagavat, Skandpuran, Shivpuran and Rig-Veda which signifies the importance of this temple as one of the most popular pilgrimage sites in India.
According to history scholars, the site of Somnath has been a pilgrimage site from ancient times as it was said to be the confluence point known of three rivers, Kapila, Hiran and the mythical Saraswati. The confluence was called as Triveni Sangam and is believed to be the place where Soma, the Moon god bathed and regained his lustre. The result is reckoned to be the waxing and waning of the moon or the waxing and waning of the tides at this sea shore location.
According to Hindu scholar, Swami Gajanand Saraswati, the first temple was built 7, 99, 25,105 years ago as derived from the traditions of Prabhas Khand of Skand Puran.
The temple is said to be situated at such a place that there is no land in straight-line between Somnath seashore till Antarctica. In an inscription in Sanskrit, found on the Arrow-Pillar called Baan-Stambh erected on the sea-protection wall at the Somnath Temple is stated that the temple stands at a point on the Indian piece of land, which happens to be the first point on land in the north to the south-pole on that particular longitude.
The Shivalinga in the temple is believed to have been safely hiding within its hollowness the famous Syamantak Mani, the Philosopher’s stone, which is associated with Lord Krishna. It is said that it was a magical stone, which was capable of producing gold. It is also believed that stone had alchemic and radioactive properties and could create a magnetic field around itself that helped it remain floating above ground
Somnath is one of th Jyotirlingas of Lord Shiva, which is famous for fine architectural structure .It is believed that Lord Krishna was ended his Lila in this place and thereafter went for heavenly journey
According Skanda Purana, there have been about 6 Brahmas. This is the era of 7th Brahma who is called Shatanand. Lord Shiva also reveals that in the 7th Yuga, the name of the temple is Somnath and in the last Yuga the Shivlinga was called Mrityunjay
On the walls of the temple, along with Shiva, the sculptures of Lord Brahma and Vishnu can also be seen. According to the Prabhaskhand of Skanda Purana, answering to the question of Parvati, Lord Shiva reveals that so far Somnath has been named 8 times.
This historical temple is said to have vandalized numerous times in the history but with the help of zealot Hindu Kings the temple was rebuilt each time
Today’s Somnath Temple was built over five years, from 1947 to 1951
Newly Somnath Temple was inaugurated by then President of India Dr Rajendra Prasad.
The legend has it that the initial structure of the temple was first built by Moon God who constructed the temple with gold. The Sun God used silver for its construction, whereas Lord Krishna made it with the help of sandalwood.
According to Skanda Purana, the name of Somnath Temple will change every time the world is reconstructed. It is believed when Lord Brahma will create a new world after ending the recent one, Somnath will acquire the name of Pran Nath Temple.
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Interview with Sam Milletti, director/co-writer of ‘Trust’
August 3, 2011 by Catherine 1 Comment
We recently featured the trailer for an upcoming independent short film called Trust by filmmakers Sam Milletti and Michael Sweeney, both of the U.K. Since we’re starting a new series featuring the behind-the-scenes magic of indies, we thought we’d get some info from Sam to kick things off. He also graciously shared with us the exclusive new poster that will be debuted on his site on Friday. Yay for previews!
Definitely check out his trailer and support these independent and upcoming filmmakers. There are a lot of hidden gems out there and every click and share helps get the word out on talent unfettered by Hollywood mainstream limitations. And go!
Sam Milletti, Randy Nundlall Jr and Duncan Trevithick (C) Francesca Lever
[Movie Gnome:] What inspired you and Michael Sweeney to write a drama like this?
[Sam Milletti:] When we sat down and discussed what to do for our next project we both agreed that it would be interesting to steer away from the supernatural elements which were evident in our last short Daisy. We looked at areas of our own lives that we felt we could draw from in order to make a film that was genuine and heartfelt. This process almost felt like therapy as we were having to confront our own issues and put it down on paper. Once we decided we were going to go with a drama that focuses on domestic issues, we looked at several films that dealt with similar themes as a reference point. Most notably was Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank (2009).
Close to home is quite a risk. Tell us about why you wanted to address issues like depression and alcoholism.
It was clear from the start that we didn’t just want to make a film for film’s sake. We wanted to make a film that spoke to people, that carried a message. We wanted people to see this film and to know there is help out there no matter how made things are. As I mentioned, we drew from personal experiences. That’s not to say that everything you see in the film happened to us, but we are not outsiders trying to make a film about something we have no clue about.
(C) Francesca Lever
Does the film address the struggles of having an “invisible illness”, one that isn’t outwardly apparent?
Good question. The film doesn’t address the struggles of having an ‘invisible illness’ but more so addressing the fact that people in those situations want to believe that they don’t have one at all. Steve (played by Christopher Thorpe) has become so used to looking after his Mum who has depression (played by Caroline Jenks) that it’s as if he’s blocked it out of his mind… for the time being at least. It’s as if the fear of confronting the situation is so real that it is safer for him to procrastinate instead. I think this is true for a lot of people not just when dealing with depression but also day-to-day tasks. As the film progresses we see how Steve and Debz (played by Kirsty Nadine) confront their own issues and come to terms with their situations.
I’ve always been a fan of coming-of-age themes. Do you address any of those typical subthemes that often accompany stories with teenagers?
The characters definitely do a lot of maturing within this film. I think what’s nice about it is that it has an uplifting and inspiring message but it doesn’t come across as a cliche or corny.
Do you plan to enter Trust into any specific festivals? If not, how do you plan to distribute the film?
Definitely. So far we’ve entered Trust into the Exposures Film Festival and the Hull International Film Festival. There several more which we would like to send it to but we will have to wait until the beginning of 2012 for the submissions to open. While the festivals are great and can provide brilliant exposure for indie film makers, our aim from the start was to approach anti-abuse campaigners and organizations and see what they could do with this film. We are in talks with one organization at the moment (our dream one in fact)… but I can’t say who in case it doesn’t work out.
That’s amazing. I wish you luck with that route. Tell us about the cast. Any hidden gems?
All of them! And I’m not just saying that. All four leads did more then I could ever have hoped for with this script. It’s one thing to write a story and write down characters who say words. But it is then another thing to have those words interpreted and said by someone else. I couldn’t have asked for a better cast. They were the A-Team.
Who are your filmmaker inspirations? Any indie heroes?
I have quite a few. My biggest inspiration by far though is Pedro Almodovar. Not that I would ever want to imitate someone’s career, but if I had to choose one then it would be his. I’m inspired by his use of colors and the way he writes roles for woman. He delves under the skin of his characters and portrays them with so many different dimensions. Indie-wise I would say Marc Vincent Price for his Zombie film Colin. To make a film for approximately $70 and have it make waves at Cannes is quiet an achievement.
I loved Talk to Her and Colin. I’m so with you on that. Any advice for aspiring indie directors?
I would say that if making films is something you want to do then go ahead and do it. Don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t. Although people can get caught up in the glamor and the illusion remember that it is an industry. Hard work and persistence pays off. Never give up, say focused, and do not let rejection get you down.
I couldn’t help peeking at the first episode of “Amnesia.” on your blog. Any interest in telling us a little about that project? It looks pretty bad ass.
Why thank you. Amnesia is a bit of a weird one purely because it’s more style over substance… but unashamedly so. Episode 1 was shot while I was in pre-production for Trust. I felt like so much planning was going into Trust that I just wanted to shoot something for a day, go a bit crazy and experiment. The story took a back seat and I wanted to play around a bit. For my next project I would like to work on a film that has a similar style to Amnesia, something quirky and different. Definitely more of an escapism piece. My plan was to make an episode every few weeks, but life took over and I got busy. Becky Torne who was the make-up artist for the episode has been on at me to make a second episode, and I have to say I’m tempted. However, if I were to do that then I would probably start from scratch, re-work the story and build it from the ground up.
Thanks so much for your time, Sam!
Get all the news on Trust at trustshortfilm.com.
Filed Under: Interviews, News Tagged With: drama, Independent, short film
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One Township's Yesterdays Chapter XXIX
ZECHIEL
No history of the representative families of Union Township would be complete without the inclusion of the ZECHIELs. At every turn of the road, they are to be found, and several in between, - - ZECHIELs in name or relationship.
Three ZECHIEL brothers all came from the same county in Ohio and all of them at about the same time. Two sisters came also. This family, [is] headed by
William and Elizabeth the oldest of the three ZECHIEL brothers
Jacob and Fredericka was next,
John and Rosina was the youngest
Elizabeth, wife of GEORGE MORLOCK
was born in Ohio and spent her girlhood on the farm there. She was married in that State to GEORGE MORLOCK and came to Marshall County in 1854.
Angeline, wife of Henry Cromley
came to Union Township from Marion County, Ohio, in the 'fifties when much of the land of this county and township was still wilderness and waste.
HENRY ZECHIEL of Culver is of the opinion that they came together to buy laud here, prior to 1856, returned to their homes in Ohio, and later came on with their wives and children to settle permanently. Probably the three separate families of the brothers did not move here to establish homes all at the same time, but no doubt they came within a year or a little over a year of one another. It was in '54 or '55, Mr. ZECHIEL thinks, or perhaps even earlier, that they migrated. All settled in the same neighborhood, now known as the Zion community.
Our ZECHIELs married into the STAHL family. Jacob Henry married the oldest STAHL girl, William G. the next one, L. C. the third girl, and Daniel the fourth. The STAHLs settled in the same neighborhood, that of the Kaley school and Zion Church. A history of the STAHL family tells of the association of various families in that settlement with, the STAHL pioneers, Jacob F. and Christiana. The historian says, "And especially do we mention 'Uncle' JOHN AND ROSINA ZECHIEL."
In regard to the families of the three brothers, the ZECHIEL pioneers, the following information has been obtained:
William's wife was ELIZABETH KAUFFMAN. They had eleven children:
Jacob H.
First of the children of WILLIAM and ELIZABETH (KAUFFMAN) ZECHIEL was Jacob Henry, who was born in Marion County, Ohio, December 22, 1845.
He was married to REGINA BARBARA STAHL at the Kaley schoolhouse on October 10, 1869, by the Rev. JESSE SCHLOSSER. The wedding took place on a Sunday afternoon at the close of the church service.
Jacob Henry was a carpenter. It has been said, "Perhaps more barns have been put up by him and his helpers in the old ZECHIEL and STAHL neighborhood than by any other man." It was he, in co-partnership with his neighbor, CHARLES H. STAHL, who built the Zion Reformed Church building in 1872.
The children of Jacob Henry and Regina:
Mary Christiana, wife of the Rev. Daniel E. ZECHIEL
Clara Elizabeth
who was born in the old log house on what has been of late years the Arthur WILLIAM ZECHIEL place, and who died in infancy, in 1870;
Minnie Sophia (born December 15, 1872),
wife of WILLIAM R. CROSSLAND
Arthur William (born Julie 28, 1875)
whose wife was LILLIE MAY KRIEGER
Louisa Adaline (born July 19,1877)
wife of AUSTIN MONROE ROMIG
Elsie Elenora (born October 3, 1879)
wife of CHARLES A. ASPER
Edward Emanuel (born March 26, 1882)
whose wife was ETHEL CLAIRE SMITH
Chester Leonard, the lawyer (born April 4, 1884)
who married MYRTLE A. MEDBOURN.
ANGELINE (EASTERDAY)
SARAH (MURRAY)
three others who died in early days
Jacob's wife was FREDERICKA WOLFORD.
JACOB ZECHIEL, second of the pioneering brothers who came to Union Township, migrated with his wife, FREDERICKA (WOLFORD), and family from Marion County, Ohio, to Indiana about the year 1856. Those were truly pioneer days.
Their children were also eleven in number, and more, (they had big families in those days and a baker's dozen was the rule rather than the exception):
Their oldest son William had much to do in helping his father clear up the farm, which became the home of the family for more than half a century, or for around 65 years. There was a great deal of timber and much swamp land in the early times where they had settled.
William's full name was WILLIAM GOTTLIEB ZECHIEL. He was born in Marion County, Ohio, February 28, 1850, and was married, November 1, 1877, at Zion, to SOPHIA MARGERETHA STAHL, daughter of Jacob F. and CHRISTIANA STAHL. They had one son and two daughters:
Sylvester Amandus (born January 3, 1879),
who married MARTHA VIOLA ROMIG;
Augusta Sophia (born February 10, 1884)
who married CLAUDE R. NEWMAN
Elva Ruth (born April 23, 1894)
the wife OF ARTHUR F. HATTEN.
CHRISTINA (KALEY)
Another son of JACOB and FREDERICKA ZECHIEL is the Rev. DANIEL E. ZECHIEL, who was born near Marmont, August 28, 1860.
ELIZABETH (SCATES)
MATILDA (MC CURTIN), the youngest of the family living
the rest who died young.
John, the third brother, married ROSINA BEHNER. Representatives of this branch of the family now reside in Culver. They had six children:
Mary Ann, who remained single
Louis C.
The oldest son of JOHN and ROSINA (BEHNER) ZECHIEL was Louis Christian.
It has been said, "Louis was a farmer's son and at the same time the son of a blacksmith, the two occupations finding expression in the one father." Louis became a school teacher and taught the Washington School, east of Lake Maxinkuckee.
He was the scholar of the family, and to this day spends much of his time in reading, of which he is very fond.
He resides with his daughter, Mrs. GRACE WADE, in Culver.
LOUIS CHRISTIAN ZECHIEL's wife (and the coincidence of the given names, you will notice is striking) was Louisa Christiana, third daughter of JACOB F. and CHRISTIANA STAHL. They were the parents of seven children:
Charles Herbert
BERTHA PAULINE (ROMIG)
Herman Jerome
GRACE AGNES (WADE)
Otto Jacob, the minister
Virgil Homer
Carl James, who died at the age of eight months.
KATHERINE (MAXEY)
A couple of decades after the ZECHIELs settled in the township found members of the family in possession of acreage of wide extent in the southwestern and western sections of the township. In the southwestern area, we find outlined on an old map the following lands:
Those of W. (WILLIAM) ZECHIEL, 160 acres, southwest of Lake Maxinkuckee and on the boundary of the county. The old travelled road crossed this land diagonally. The Cromley Cemetery was at the side of this road, which is no longer in use as a public highway.
In the name of A. (ARTHUR) ZECHIEL 40 acres, east of Zion Church and northeast of the old Kaley school.
In the name of J. (Jacob) ZECHIEL, parcels of 120 and 40 acres, east of the foregoing.
Southeast of this and north of W.'s 160 acres, parcels of 40 and 20, the property of J. H. ZECHIEL.
L. C. ZECHIEL had an 80 and a 40 southeast of the old Albright Church.
J. (JOHN) ZECHIEL had lands (54 and 53 acres) adjoining, to the west, the HAWK farm on Lost Lake. West of Lake Maxinkuckee, around the old "Lost Lake"
and below the present airport, WILLIAM G. ZECHIEL owned plots of nearly 60 acres and 40 acres.
On the east side of old Manatau Lake were small plots:
J. ZECHIEL, 20 and 52.41 acres,
and A. ZECHIEL, 20 acres.
West of Marmont was John ZECHIEL's 140 acre farm.
There have been various changes, of course, in the areas and ownership of these lands since the 'seventies.
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Brunel Underwater Concert & The Mayflower
I'm sure you've all heard of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the top hat-toting, great British civil engineer from the 19th century, famous for his bridges, dockyards and construction of the Great Western Railway. But did you know he launched his career as an assistant engineer to his father, Marc Brunel, to build the world's first underwater tunnel? It was built beneath London's River Thames, between Rotherhithe and Wapping, and considered as one of the greatest engineering feats of its time. It was also the only project which both father and son worked on together.
Despite two severe flooding incidents during its construction (one of which almost killed young Isambard), the tunnel was a success and is still in operation to this day as part of the London Overground (which used to be the East London line). There is a fascinating museum at Rotherhithe, dedicated to both Isambard Kingdom Brunel and his father, Marc Brunel. When the tunnel was finally completed in 1843, it was hailed as the 'Eighth Wonder of the World' and had over a million visitors in its first few months of opening, where it was used as a fairground, a concert hall and a shopping arcade. Westfield, eat your heart out!
After the first flooding incident, it was important for Isambard to regain people's confidence in the project, so he came up with a genius PR idea. He arranged a fundraising banquet which was held inside the tunnel under the Thames. It took place on 18th May 1827 and the tunnel was decked out with a long table dressed in crisp, white damask, elaborate silver candelabras and crystal ware. Fifty special guests, including the Duke of Wellington, were privileged enough to enjoy this most amazing and unusal feast, although they didn't get to talk much as they were being serenaded by the Coldstream Guards playing such hits as 'Rule Britannia' and 'See the Conqu'ring Hero Comes' (Handel), which was pretty deafening in that enclosed space. The world's first underwater concert and banquet went down a storm, and there is a wonderful painting by George Jones which depicts the evening perfectly.
Entrance to the chamber
There is a deep underground chamber next to the museum which is part of the tunnel. When the London Overground line was recently renovated, the museum were fortunate enough to have a new floor laid inside the chamber which has created a huge space which will hopefully be used for various future events. Last week, I ventured down to the Brunel Museum and joined several other curious people for a special choral concert inside this chamber. Access to the chamber is still very awkward and involves going down some tricky steps, crawling through a small hole in the wall and then down some makeshift staircase right down inside the dimly-lit chamber. But that's part of the fun as it's like entering a secret underground bunker.
View of the underground chamber from above
Rotherhithe & Bermondsey Choral Society in full swing, deep inside the underground chamber
A friendly man who runs the museum, gave a fascinating account of the tunnel's history, showed us a projected image of the Thames Tunnel Banquet painting by George Jones, and then the Rotherhithe & Bermondsey Choral Society proudly sang some of the songs which would have been played by the Coldstream Guards at that banquet back in 1827. This was the first underground concert to take place there since then, so I felt very lucky to be there.
Projected image of the Thames Tunnel Banquet painting by George Jones from 1827
I highly recommend you make your way to Rotherhithe (you'll find it on the London Overground line no less) and go and see this fascinating place for yourself, although I'm not sure how often the chamber will be open to the public as it still early days. And do make sure you pop next door to the Mayflower pub which is set right on the Thames and is also steeped in history. It is where the famous Mayflower ship set sail from back in 1620 when it took the Pilgrim Fathers to America. But that's another story...
The historic Mayflower pub, Rotherhithe
View up river from The Mayflower
View downriver including The Shard in progress, from The Mayflower
Posted by Missimmy at Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Labels: Brunel, Mayflower, Rotherhithe
Hey - was that not quiet claustrophobic? I think I would find it a bit scary...especially with it's history..
Carrie x
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Eliza said...
I just discovered your blog and realised we wrote about the same concert!
Your pictures are great.
http://thisstrangecity.blogspot.com/2011/03/bring-sun-and-bring-him-soon-in-bosom.html
Missimmy said...
Ha, that's so funny! Hope you enjoyed it. x
Why hello there Miss Immy! Thanks for visiting our blog :-)
We are now follwong yours as well. I have only ever been to London once & would looove to get back there :-)
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Women in Comics in Cambridge
Published on 28. 10. 2009 in comics and cartooning and commentary and criticism. Closed
This past Sunday saw a conference on Women in Comics at Murray Edwards College here in Cambridge. Organised jointly by the college and the particularly strong contingent of comics scholars at the University of Glasgow, it presented a full day’s programming of papers and artists’ talks to go along with an already planned exhibition by organiser and artist Sarah Lightman.
The main draw, certainly, were the artists’ talks. Melinda Gebbie spoke passionately about her career in comics and her work on Lost Girls in particular. Although it’s been described earlier by several of the female pioneers in the American underground, it was still compelling to hear her thoughts on being a woman in the boy’s club environment that dominated that otherwise quintessentially progressive movement in comics. Another interesting detail, missed by me in earlier interviews, was her emphatic reluctance to use live models for her work — she very funnily provided an anecdote of Paul Mavrides posing for her, commenting “Now I know how the girls in Hustler must feel” — because she found it an unpleasantly objectifying exercise. While a perfectly respectable point of view, I couldn’t suppress the feeling that using models might have helped the somewhat off-putting, amorphous modelling in as supremely physical a work as Lost Girls.
Finally, it was intriguing to hear her thoughts on art as a particularly powerful memorial. Lamenting the fact that her parents had left little of themselves behind except a mystery, she touchingly emphasised this as perhaps her most important motivation for creating art. This impressed the other main artist guest at the conference, Dominique Goblet, who in partial conversation with the excellent Paul Gravett provided an intense, compelling end to the day, talking about her art and the motivations behind it.
Her concerns proved remarkably similar to Gebbie’s, in that her work invariably deals with expressing truths about life — her own and that of her collaborators: her boyfriend Guy-Marc Hinant, who contributed writing to her two-pronged comics masterpiece, Souvenir d’une journée parfaite (2001) and Faire semblant d’est mentir (2007), and her daughter Nikita, with whom she has exchanged weekly portraits for ten years for a project that will see publication next year. It promises to be an astounding work, mapping not only their individual development as artists, but as people (Nikita was seven when they started), as well as their understanding of each other. Goblet also talked about fiction as autobiography, a strategy she employs to great effect in Souvenir, where the imagined life of a person whose name she has seen on a funerary plaque becomes a vehicle for her own feelings and experiences.
The academic papers were more of a mixed bag. Two sessions ran concurrently, so I necessarily can only speak to the half I attended, but I wasn’t particularly impressed. Laurence Grove, University of Glasgow, provided an interesting overview of girl’s comics in France in the 1950s — including a stack of real comics passed around to the audience — offering a rare glimpse of just how much work has disappeared from memory due to loss of interest and the lack of institutional consolidation in comics. But he provided little in the way of analysis. Cartoonist Nicola Streeten talked about a couple of autobiographical comics that had inspired her own work, and offered some good observations, but it was ultimately a rather lightweight affair travelling well-trod ground for people familiar with the graphic novel as a phenomenon.
Catriona McCleod, University of Glasgow, gave a feminist reading of Jean-Claude Forest’s Barbarella (1962) and Bilal’s La Femme piège (1986), using Laura Mulvey’s great but also somewhat overexposed, analysis of the male gaze and narrative pleasure. Perfectly fine, but somewhat sophomoric. The primary virtue was its exposure of the rather embarassing exploitation aspect of Bilal’s much revered work. Rikke Platz Cortsen, University of Copenhagen, presented a number of contemporary female Swedish cartoonists, most notably Nina Hemmingsson and Sara Graner, whose work trades in feminist social satire. She provided a loose theoretical framework that could have benefited from more work, but otherwise an interesting presentation. Lastly, Ann Miller, University of Leicester, gave the most academically solid paper I attended — a reading of Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis that focused on her appropriation of Western high art tropes to serve a Middle-Eastern narrative in a traditionally pop cultural form. It was evidently part of a larger talk and Miller hadn’t bothered compensating for this fact, which gave it a disjunctive, slightly lazy feel. A pity.
In summary, the artists were much better communicators than the academics, and their talks, though partly improvised, were more coherent and compelling. This was slightly depressing, since academics, at least in the humanities, should be expected to be able to communicate clearly their ideas. But I cannot help but feel that the problems evident at the conference are symptomatic of the still fledgling field that is comics scholarship. There seems evidently still to be a reluctance to present a unapologetically academic paper, even at a conference designed for that purpose, for fear of losing the audience, and the general mediocrity of comics scholarship that partly results from this, appears to make people less ambitious in the first place.
While this may seem a very negative assessment, I should emphasise that it was nevertheless a pleasure to attend the conference, and great to hear that Lightman hopes to make it a returning event, and further has plans to found a journal on women in comics. It has long been evident that gender representation in comics is embarrassingly behind the curve, even in these progressive times, and that we are all the poorer for it.
The papers given at the conference will soon be uploaded to the official website and Sarah Lightman’s exhibition at Murray Edwards College runs till November 14. Go see it if you can! Image from Goblet and Nikita’s portraiture project, Dix.
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African Development Bank blacklists Nigerian firm over fraudulent contract bidding
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African Development Bank Group has blacklisted Abuja-based construction firm, Oceanic Construction and Engineering Nigeria for a minimum period of 48 months, for alleged fraudulent contract bidding.
According to a statement by AfDB, recently, “An investigation conducted by the Bank’s Office of Integrity and Anti-Corruption established that the company misrepresented its year of incorporation, the value of its reference contracts, and the experience of its key personnel, while bidding for two works contracts under the Bank-financed Urban Water Supply and Sanitation Improvement Project in Nigeria.”
The Office of Integrity and Anti-Corruption of the African Development Bank Group is responsible for preventing, deterring and investigating allegations of corruption, fraud and other sanctionable practices in Bank Group-financed operations, the statement said.
The Urban Water Supply and Sanitation Improvement Project, it said “aims at enhancing access to safe water supply services in the Nigerian states of Oyo and Taraba through, among other components, extension and rehabilitation works on the water transmission and distribution network.
“The debarment, pronounced by the independent Sanctions Commissioner of the Bank, renders Oceanic Construction and Engineering Nigeria ineligible to participate in Bank-financed projects during the debarment period. The debarment qualifies for cross-debarment by other multilateral development banks under the Agreement for Mutual Enforcement of Debarment Decisions, including the Asian Development Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank Group,” the Bank said in its statement.
It said at “the expiry of the debarment period, Oceanic Construction and Engineering Nigeria shall be eligible again to participate in Bank-financed projects only conditional on the implementation of an integrity compliance programme consistent with its guidelines.”
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Lieutenant George Hura suffered a fatal heart attack while participating in a critical incident training exercise using simunitions.
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Lieutenant Hura was a U.S. Marine Corps veteran during the Vietnam War. He had served with the Escambia County Sheriff's Department for 27 years. He is survived by his wife and five children.
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Your name has been inscribed on the Florida Sheriffs and the National Law Enforcement Memorial and in our hearts. May you forever rest in peace.
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"Blessed are the peacemakers,
for they shall be called the children
of God." Matthew 5:9
Executive Director Steve Casey
Florida Sheriffs Association
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OECD Home Economics DepartmentEconomic surveys and country surveillanceLatest Documents
Economic surveys and country surveillance
Economic outlook, analysis and forecasts
Monetary and financial issues
Public finance and fiscal policy
Regulatory reform and competition policy
Labour markets, human capital and inequality
Productivity and long term growth
Economic policies to foster green growth
Fiscal-consolidation strategies for Canadian governments
Although Canada remains in an advantageous fiscal position relative to many other OECD countries as the global economy recovers from the 2008/09 recession, the deterioration in the country’s public finances has been substantial.
Economic Survey of Canada 2010
Towards a less distortive and more efficient tax system in Portugal
The process of fiscal consolidation and the need to step up the poor long term economic performance provide an opportunity to implement tax measures to improve efficiency and rebalance the economy.
Economic Survey of Portugal 2010
Turkey's improving integration with the global capital market: Impacts on risk premia and capital costs
Turkey has considerably improved its terms of access to the global capital market. Progress in macroeconomic fundamentals has enhanced credibility and reduced risk premia and capital costs.
Economic Survey of Turkey 2010
Enhancing the effectiveness of social policies in Indonesia
Indonesia has made considerable progress over the years in improving the social conditions of its population, especially among disadvantaged groups, not least by raising government spending and strengthening social protection programmes.
Economic Survey of Indonesia 2010
Phasing out energy subsidies in Indonesia
The oil price hike in 2007-08 underlined the vulnerability of Indonesia’s energy subsidy policy to oil price volatility. In addition to entailing significant economic and environmental costs, energy subsidies put pressure on the public budget and benefit mostly rich households.
Tackling the infrastructure challenge in Indonesia
Indonesia’s infrastructure is in poor shape, having suffered from protracted under-investment since the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s, and constraints growth potential.
United States: Restoring fiscal sustainability
The United States faces challenging budgetary prospects, as do most other OECD countries. The federal budget deficit widened considerably during the recession, reaching about 10% of GDP in both 2009 and 2010, reflecting the operation of automatic stabilizers and the policy response to the crisis
Economic Survey of the United States 2010
Implementing cost-effective policies in the United States to mitigate climate change
The consensus view of scientists is that the build-up of greenhouse gases (GHG) in the atmosphere is causing global warming. To reduce the probability of severe climate change impacts and costs occurring, global GHG emissions need to be reduced substantially over coming decades.
Norway: Sustainable development: climate change and fisheries policies
Sustainable development is a key theme in policy making in Norway. Norway can and should follow through more strongly the logic of its pioneering use of economic incentives to further sustainability goals.
Economic Survey of Norway 2010
Netherlands: How the transport system can contribute to better economic and environmental outcomes
Congestion has become a burden for the Dutch economy. Reforms to the transport system, including public transport, together with a more flexible housing market should reduce the economic and environmental burden of transport, thereby improving prospects for sustainable long term growth.
Economic Survey of the Netherlands 2010
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cowboys and indians: on the way to canossa
The shrewd administrator and extremely accidental pope Urban II toured France and Italy, mostly to set aright the balance of the respective domains of Church and State—not to pull the twain asunder nor to eschew the clerics’ civic responsibility, which most would describe as meddling—by putting the secular powers firmly in their place. Urban was heir to the battle royale of the wills between the papacy and the imperial throne. His predecessor Pope Gregory VII had excommunicated Emperor Henry IV for his attempts to circumvent Church authority by giving out (or rather selling, what’s known as simony) religious offices as sort of grace-and-favour rewards to his loyal nobles.
Once excommunicated, the allegiance of his subjects was null and void and effectively ended his reign—except that Henry went one better and installed his own anti-pope in Rome to rechristen him as the Holy and Roman emperor of the Germans. The genuine Holy See elevated an anti-king, and so on. Urban was a powerful public speaker and his arguments and railing against the nobles appealed to a vast audience, but a chance plea for assistance from the Byzantine emperor of the East gave the resourceful Urban the cementing petition he needed to reassert religious supremacy over the landed-gentry. The Seljuk Turks had occupied the Anatolian peninsula and the Norman conquests had established enclaves in the Balkans and Alexius I Comnenus request for help (on behalf of the Eastern Church, ostensibly) to the legitimate Church became a seductive rallying point. Although the incursions in Byzantium which threatened its territorial integrity were recent developments and the mad, cruel reign of Caliph Al-Hakim bi Amr Allāh that over saw the destruction of many Jewish and Christian places of worship (to be restored and rebuilt by his predecessor) in the Holy Land was reportedly violent enough to be topical though it was some seventy years hence, on balance there was little strife among the three Abrahamic religions—and under Muslim rule, which had taken hold in the Middle East over four centuries earlier, practising other faiths was tolerated and even protected. Not everything was peaceable, of course, but given the threats that confronted daily life a thousand years ago, disease, brigandage and the general cheapness of life, it was a pretty manageable arrangement.
Such facets of the complicated geo-politics of the day (and the Muslims surely had their own sectarian and sacred and mundane intrigues to contend with and spin as well) were too bothersome to try to extract, so in the year 1095 with fire-and-brimstone Urban rallied the crowds to commit themselves to retaking the lands lost in the Eastern Empire—and, with spot-on improvisational skills, the Holy Land itself—with tales, harking back to the worse atrocities magnified of the mad caliph. Urban attached a grave urgency to this holy campaign, as churches were being desecrated and pilgrims tortured and executed—a pilgrimage being a popular way to atone for one’s sins, though Canossa was not arduous enough to impress Pope Gregory. The pope hoped to let his convocation germinate and give the feudal lords the chance to assemble men and supplies, but perhaps his speech was a little too persuasive, as instead of under the leadership warrior-bishops or the knights of those newly created recruiting orders (the Hospitallers, the Templars, the Teutons or the Maltese) the peasants marched off at their own accord, infused with righteous indignation. Some forty thousand massed in Köln and headed towards Constantinople. Along the way, I suppose to vent some aggressions and prime themselves for combat, they burned synagogues and harassed the Jewish population. Shamed into quick action and more importantly, deprived of the serf labour force needed to work the land and provide protection, the armies of the nobility marched the other direction, towards Jerusalem on their crusade—the peasants having all been captured or killed in their zeal by the Turks.
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URI chemical engineering professor creates prototype to detect bombs
Elizabeth Rau
Alyssa Kelly, of Millville, Mass., and Otto Gregory,
URI chemical engineering professor and
new sensor detector. Photo: by Michael Salerno
It’s the size of a toolbox, and just as sturdy. It’s lightweight and even has a handle so it can be carried—quickly, if necessary—to different locations.
If all goes as planned, “The Digital Dog Nose” created by Otto Gregory, chemical engineering professor at the University of Rhode Island, could soon be placed at subway stations, train stations, airports and ports to detect bombs.
“We’ve made great progress on the project, and now we’re ready to get the word out,” says Gregory. “We’ve turned a corner with these latest developments.”
Two years ago, Otto and his students created a sensor to detect explosives commonly used by terrorists.
One of the explosives is triacetone triperoxide, or TATP, which was used by terrorists during the Paris and Brussels attacks several years ago.
Terrorists use TATP because it is easy to make with chemicals that can be bought at pharmacies and hardware stores, attracting little attention from authorities. Only small amounts are needed to cause large explosions.
The goal of Gregory’s research is to find a way to detect the explosives’ vapors before the bomb detonates, launching quick evacuations and saving lives. The device is also significant because it works continuously, unlike bomb-sniffing dogs that can get tired.
The sensor Gregory created two years ago works by detecting the decomposition of nearby explosive molecules, triggering an alarm in the device. Back then, the sensor was in its early stages, mostly used for experiments in Gregory’s “Sensors and Surface Technology” laboratory on campus.
Over the last 15 months, Gregory and his students have been working intensely on the project and completed a prototype this summer. The team tested the prototype at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., in July, and at Rapiscan Systems, one of the top detection system manufacturers in the world, in August. The company is based in Andover, Mass.
“The testing exceeded our expectations,” says Andrew Rossi, of Portsmouth, who is pursuing his master’s degree in chemical engineering. “Both groups were impressed with our results. The prototype works—and works well.”
During the field trials, the prototype sucked in air contaminated with explosive molecules. Once the molecules hit the sensor, they broke apart and released heat, which, in turn, set off the sensor’s alarm.
The prototype was able to detect explosives at very low concentrations, as low as one molecule of an explosive in a billion molecules of air. “That’s amazing to us,” says Rossi. “The lower we can go, the less likelihood terrorists are going to get by security.”
Building the prototype was a challenge. “We were essentially taking something that was spread out on a big lab bench and condensing it into a small toolbox,” says Peter Ricci, of West Warwick, a junior studying chemical engineering. “We had to come up with the right box, tubing and piping.”
Alyssa Kelly, of Millville, Mass., says she appreciated the opportunity to work on a project that could save lives.
“I wasn’t expecting to learn so much in a research lab in such a short amount of time,” says Kelly, a junior majoring in chemical engineering. “I’ve learned a lot in the lab that I don’t necessarily learn in my classes, and it’s fulfilling to work on a project that could have a global impact.”
The next step is to make the prototype as small as a cell phone. The team is also reaching out to partners to market the product and to federal agencies involved with national security.
Gregory’s work is funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. “I’m very excited about the future of the product,” he says. “We’re trying to make life safer for people throughout the world.”
Topics: Education, Science, Technology, terrorism
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Review – Tales From Space: About A Blob
Posted by David S. Gallant on February 1st, 2011 | 6 Comments | Tags: Tales From Space: About A Blob
“You play as a sort of gelatinous blob. You can eat anything smaller than you, and when you do, you grow, so you can eat bigger things.” This is how I described Tales From Space: About A Blob to my Mother when she asked me what I was doing with my free time instead of finding a job. She quizzically raised an eyebrow at me, then turned back to our lunch preparations with a roll of her eyes that showed me just how impressed she was to have paid for my four years in university. Thinking back on it, I can’t begrudge her reaction: About A Blob is a hard game to effectively describe. If my Mom had a gamer’s context, she might have easily thought it was some form of jelly-like Katamari Damacy. Screenshots might make one believe just that, except in two dimensions. Truthfully, it is more than it seems: About A Blob is an action/puzzle platformer with equal parts eating and gelatinousisity. It’s peppered with referential humour and charming touches to add spice to an otherwise challenging and enjoyable side-scroller.
By the way, my university degree is in English. That means I get to make up words like “gelatinousisity.”
Visually, About A Blob looks like something of the animated variety I might view on a Saturday morning. Comparisons can be made to Dexter’s Lab or Samurai Jack, but the visual style distinguishes itself enough to create something unique. The levels are usually pretty busy, with plenty of activity going on in the background for those who stop to take notice. One thing I love is the ever-changing sense of scale. You begin the game as a tiny blob, freshly escaped from containment and only slightly larger than a push-pin. By eating everything in sight, you grow in size, allowing you to eat larger objects and access new areas. Sometimes you might experience a part of a level multiple times, but each time as a larger blob, able to go where only larger blobs can go. Tiny blobs can only gobble up items the size of coins, but their appetites turn swiftly to apples, tubs, crates, cars, and eventually people. Tanks and helicopters that pose a serious threat early on are merely devoured near the end of the game.
For a platformer, blobs have a lot of mechanics at their disposal. In addition to standards like a “run” and wall-jumping, blobs can spit out what they’ve eaten as projectile weapons. There are also magnetic and electric powers gained permanently throughout the story mode that make for some incredibly fun (and sometimes incredibly difficult) platforming and puzzle challenges. Sometimes I was engaging all four shoulder buttons almost at once, in a true test of my controller dexterity. The deformable nature of the blobs plays into the platforming, as you can often snag a ledge with a portion of your mass and use it to jump. Sometimes jumping off of uneven surfaces can lead to unexpected results. Co-operative two-player offers some interesting opportunities for jump-boosting, since blobs can leap off each other like any other surface. The puzzles are a little easier with two players, and overall, the game is rarely hard. There are certainly some very challenging platforming sections, but death carries little repercussion. Co-op can be an exercise in frustration, however, since two blobs cannot occupy the same space; without good co-ordination, players can end up hindering each other more than helping.
The lack of online co-op is a glaring omission, though an argument can certainly be made for the value of having a person beside you to praise or berate. The game supports online leaderboards for level speed-runs, as each level has a par time to beat for a checkered flag. There are also several collectibles to find in each of the 17 stages. These two elements (speed runs and collect-a-thons) are the totality of the game’s replay value. Thankfully, the game keeps both time and collection status at the forefront when playing a level, and items already collected are considered when re-entering it for a second attempt. Overall I found the collection aspect very satisfying, while speed runs are beyond me. Chris, on the other hand… well, just check the leaderboards and you’ll see what I mean. Replaying levels is worthwhile just to catch all the various pop culture and internet meme references scattered throughout; Drinkbox Studios seems to understand my sense of humour in this regard. I really wish they had more to offer in the audio department: their music is great for evoking a 1940’s monster movie feel, but there are a limited number of music tracks, a sparse amount of sound effects, and no spoken dialogue whatsoever. I look forward to what Drinkbox can do in the audio department with a bigger budget.
Part of me wishes there were more game here for $15, but after consideration, that’s not because I think it sparse: I definitely think you are getting $15 worth of game with About A Blob, and the Playstation Store icon in the menu tells me that we’ll be seeing additional content in due time. My wife and I have been eating, spitting, zapping, hovering, squishing, and consuming everything in our path for the past week, and aside from the times when I jumped on her head to send her falling to her doom, we’ve enjoyed it all. You owe it to yourself to try the demo in the very least, and see if you can resist feeding this blob.
For more info on our review policy click here. This review is for the PlayStation 3 version of the game.
Developer: Drinkbox Studios
Publisher: Drinkbox Studios
Genre: Action, Platformer, Puzzle
Players: 1-2 (Local)
Ratings: Everyone
What I Like:
Blob-esque platforming
Increasing sense of scale
Clever use of mechanics
Great sense of humour & style
What I Dislike:
A little on the short side
Local co-op only
Co-op players can easily interfere with each other
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Review: What Remains of Edith Finch
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Kevin Morby is a Kansas City based musician, singer and songwriter. Former bassist of the band Woods and frontman of The Babies, Morby released his solo debut Harlem River in 2013. His fourth studio album City Music was released in 2017 via Dead Oceans, and is a collection inspired by and devoted to the metropolitan experience across America and beyond. As he puts it: “It is a mix-tape, a fever dream, a love letter dedicated to those cities that I cannot get rid of, to those cities that are all inside of me.”
Sam Cohen’s second solo LP, The Future’s Still Ringing In My Ears, just might be a magical thing. An album blessed equally with melody, melancholy and depth. A richly psychedelic listening experience, immaculately produced, often the work of one man toiling away alone in his studio but sounding like a cast of many, chasing his dreams late into the night. A collection of songs that take stock of a maddening present and a potentially dark future, but delivered with heart, warmth and wit.
Kevin Morby / Sam Cohen
Sam Cohen: 8.10pm
Kevin Morby: 9.10pm
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Roseland United Methodist Church
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Our Heritage:
The organization of the first church in Roseland began when the Rev. T.F. Roland held services on March 29, 1914 in a one room school house in town. Thirty five people were received that day into membership. Land for a new church building was acquired through a gift from A. A. Berry, President of the Florida Land Co. in 1915. Soon after, members set about collecting funds for the building. It was estimated the cost would be between $900-$1000 and it would be paid for upon completion. The first service was held in the new building on April 30, 1916 under the name "Roseland Methodist Episcopal Church South".
For many years the church was part of what was called the "Sebastian Charge". The charge consisted of the Sebastian, Roseland, Vero and Oslo Churches which all shared the same pastor. Services were held once or twice a month with the pastor, but Sunday School and Vesper Services were held often with the help of members. In 1949 The Rev. Denny Hendry came to Roseland to become it's first full time minister.
Our Growth:
Over the years many changes have occurred. In 1928 the church was wired for electricity. In the Hurricane of '28, the chapel suffered damage to its foundation and timbers were placed as braces in each corner of the building. In 1960 a Thrift Shop was started and in 1979 Roseland began using "United Methodist Church" in its title. In 1993 a contemporary service was added to meet the needs of a generation not attending church. In the year 2000 our latest of many building projects was completed with the addition of the Education Building and in 2001 Roseland Christian Preschool was started with 12 children in attendance.
In 2014 we celebrated our 100th year in existence!! Because of the numbers who came to love our little church as much as those who had known and loved it for years, membership has grown to over 400. Roseland has had 35 ministers with some in the early years returning to the charge a second time. It can be said of this place of worship, truly you have come a long way from a $1000 beginning and membership of 35! Praise the Lord and may He bless us all who have contributed in so many ways to the history of our church.
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April 5, 2018 December 13, 2017 adelescience and technology
If we look life a hundred years ago, and examine that with the in the present day’s life, we will notice that Science has dramatically changed human life. Science might drive technological improvement, by generating demand for brand new devices to address a scientific question, or by illustrating technical potentialities previously unconsidered. The Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD) is a subsidiary body of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). The event of high expertise together with pc technology’s Web and the phone has helped conquer communication barriers and bridge the gap between people everywhere in the world.
The history of science and technology examines how humanity’s understanding of science and know-how have changed over the centuries. Greater than 50,000 North West college students graduate every year, including 25,000 with life science degrees. Now we have laid a lot emphasis on the event of science and know-how as a significant instrument for reaching national objectives of self-reliance and socioeconomic progress.
The healthier the human assets, the more the nationwide revenue. Trendy computing technology is ready to talk wirelessly to the Internet and to other devices – advances that have freed computers from desks and made know-how and knowledge accessible to increasingly people. The Organisation aims to leverage and increase the science and technology capabilities and programmes to contribute to NATO’s skill to affect security and defence associated development.
While Europe and the U.S. have traditionally led in scientific development, China particularly has emerged as a new science and technology (S&T) powerhouse. Inside the Science and Technology Directive like a Phoenix rising to steer the world in different vitality. Science helps humans achieve elevated understanding of how the world works, whereas technology helps scientists make these discoveries.
With help from the federal government, appreciable investment and development has incurred in several sectors resembling agriculture, healthcare, space analysis, and nuclear energy by way of scientific research. Simply have a look; in 2006 the European Union laid the groundwork for additional development of this Internet technology for energy. This month-to-month publishes peer-reviewed research papers and opinions in all branches of science, expertise, packaging and engineering of foods and food products.
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Tri Pink Gold Coast 2019
Kids 10-13
Tri Pink Ultra
Tri Pink Long
Tri Pink Medium
Tri Pink Short
Tri Pink Ultra Teams
Tri Pink Long Teams
Tri Pink Medium Teams
Tri Pink Short Teams
1 Klm Fun Run
All genders Female Male Unknown
All categories 7-9y Unknown
1 376 Hunter Newitt 00:11:19 7-9y 1 Male 1 00:02:07 00:06:23 00:02:49
Split Time Accmulative Positions (from start) Split Positions (from prev. split or leg)
From Start Prev Leg Prev Split Time of Day Overall Category Gender Overall Category Gender
Swim 00:02:07 00:02:07 00:02:07 07:03:09 1 1 1 1 1 1
Cycle 00:08:30 00:06:23 00:06:23 07:09:32 1 1 1 1 1 1
Run 00:11:19 00:02:49 00:00:06 07:12:21 1 1 1 7 3 3
2 387 Mason Randall 00:11:48 Unknown 1 Unknown 1 00:02:10 00:06:51 00:02:46
3 346 Nathan Macgregor 00:12:06 7-9y 2 Male 2 00:02:24 00:06:56 00:02:45
4 383 Macey Clayton 00:12:39 7-9y 1 Female 1 00:02:15 00:07:07 00:03:16
Run 00:12:39 00:03:16 00:00:07 07:14:49 4 1 1 22 13 14
5 374 Kitty Dunmore 00:13:17 7-9y 2 Female 2 00:02:47 00:07:33 00:02:55
Swim 00:02:47 00:02:47 00:02:47 07:04:32 10 7 7 10 7 7
6 367 Lincoln Mitchell 00:13:25 7-9y 3 Male 3 00:02:59 00:06:50 00:03:35
Run 00:13:25 00:03:35 00:00:07 07:15:43 6 3 3 28 8 8
7 351 Kaylah Hutchings 00:13:28 7-9y 3 Female 3 00:02:29 00:07:52 00:03:06
8 343 Brody Cross 00:13:46 7-9y 4 Male 4 00:03:15 00:07:52 00:02:38
Cycle 00:11:07 00:07:52 00:07:52 07:13:34 12 4 4 8 4 4
9 372 Freya Bertsos 00:13:49 7-9y 4 Female 4 00:02:40 00:08:00 00:03:08
Cycle 00:10:41 00:08:00 00:08:00 07:13:16 8 4 4 10 4 4
10 365 Sienna Johnson 00:13:51 7-9y 5 Female 5 00:02:35 00:08:12 00:03:02
Run 00:13:51 00:03:02 00:00:08 07:15:00 10 5 5 12 6 6
11 360 Amelia Watson 00:14:16 7-9y 6 Female 6 00:02:42 00:08:25 00:03:08
Cycle 00:11:07 00:08:25 00:08:25 07:13:29 11 6 6 15 8 8
Run 00:14:16 00:03:08 00:00:05 07:16:37 11 6 6 19 12 13
12 394 Lewis Teal 00:14:27 Unknown 2 Unknown 2 00:03:18 00:07:39 00:03:28
13 373 Mahlee Kovarik 00:14:28 7-9y 7 Female 7 00:03:06 00:08:23 00:02:58
Swim 00:03:06 00:03:06 00:03:06 07:05:19 15 11 11 15 11 11
Run 00:14:28 00:02:58 00:00:06 07:16:41 13 7 7 9 4 4
14 342 Grace Coombs 00:14:52 7-9y 8 Female 8 00:03:12 00:08:13 00:03:26
15 348 Harriet Sutton 00:15:01 7-9y 9 Female 9 00:02:54 00:09:06 00:03:00
Cycle 00:12:00 00:09:06 00:09:06 07:13:33 17 10 10 20 9 10
16 361 Ewan Walker 00:15:06 7-9y 5 Male 5 00:03:35 00:08:22 00:03:08
17 344 Ellie Dennett 00:15:22 7-9y 10 Female 10 00:02:34 00:09:07 00:03:41
Cycle 00:11:41 00:09:07 00:09:07 07:13:35 15 9 9 21 10 11
Run 00:15:22 00:03:41 00:00:07 07:17:16 17 10 10 29 17 18
18 355 Lucy Fitzsimmons 00:15:29 7-9y 11 Female 11 00:03:06 00:09:20 00:03:02
Cycle 00:12:27 00:09:20 00:09:20 07:15:17 19 11 11 23 11 12
Run 00:15:29 00:03:02 00:00:05 07:18:20 18 11 11 13 7 7
19 379 Alicia Eley 00:15:33 Unknown 1 Female 12 00:03:31 00:08:55 00:03:06
Swim 00:03:31 00:03:31 00:03:31 07:05:37 23 1 16 23 1 16
Cycle 00:12:27 00:08:55 00:08:55 07:14:33 20 1 12 18 1 9
Run 00:15:33 00:03:06 00:00:05 07:17:39 19 1 12 16 1 10
20 347 Daisy Favero 00:16:01 7-9y 12 Female 13 00:03:02 00:10:54 00:02:04
Run 00:16:01 00:02:04 00:00:06 07:19:41 20 12 13 1 1 1
21 388 Zoe Foster 00:16:17 Unknown 3 Unknown 3 00:03:33 00:08:53 00:03:50
22 395 Jackson Hore 00:16:20 Unknown 4 Unknown 4 00:04:23 00:09:10 00:02:47
23 375 Elly Moore 00:16:22 7-9y 13 Female 14 00:03:34 00:09:43 00:03:04
24 341 Toby Campradt 00:16:25 7-9y 6 Male 6 00:04:16 00:08:57 00:03:11
25 345 Olivia Fletcher 00:16:26 7-9y 14 Female 15 00:03:51 00:09:29 00:03:05
26 389 Harrison Neibling 00:16:29 Unknown 5 Unknown 5 00:04:00 00:08:43 00:03:45
27 384 Lily Castillo 00:17:12 7-9y 15 Female 16 00:03:10 00:10:03 00:03:59
28 352 Emma Mollard 00:17:51 7-9y 16 Female 17 00:03:48 00:10:08 00:03:53
28 390 Lucy Neibling 00:17:51 Unknown 6 Unknown 6 00:03:49 00:09:41 00:04:20
30 363 Liam Glover 00:17:55 7-9y 7 Male 7 00:05:20 00:09:33 00:03:01
Cycle 00:14:53 00:09:33 00:09:33 07:17:55 37 10 10 25 7 7
31 369 Bronson Brown 00:18:00 7-9y 8 Male 8 00:04:15 00:10:16 00:03:28
32 382 Charlotte Snelling 00:18:00 7-9y 17 Female 18 00:02:49 00:11:45 00:03:25
33 368 Piper Kent 00:18:16 7-9y 9 Male 9 00:04:07 00:10:21 00:03:48
34 353 Chelsea Fitzgerald 00:18:24 7-9y 18 Female 19 00:04:40 00:09:54 00:03:50
35 359 Cooper Sandon 00:18:53 7-9y 10 Male 10 00:03:26 00:10:30 00:04:56
36 356 Charli Benefield 00:18:53 7-9y 19 Female 20 00:03:28 00:10:35 00:04:50
37 362 Maddy Davies 00:19:09 7-9y 20 Female 21 00:05:19 00:10:29 00:03:21
38 350 Grace Winmill 00:19:10 7-9y 21 Female 22 00:04:35 00:10:33 00:04:02
39 380 Lily Jones 00:19:58 7-9y 22 Female 23 00:04:38 00:09:55 00:05:23
40 377 Emma Charles 00:20:04 7-9y 23 Female 24 00:03:49 00:11:21 00:04:54
41 385 Renee Brand 00:21:07 7-9y 24 Female 25 00:06:07 00:10:15 00:04:43
42 349 Allegra Watson 00:22:31 7-9y 25 Female 26 00:05:08 00:14:50 00:02:31
43 378 Jenna Shanks 00:23:52 7-9y 26 Female 27 00:07:36 00:11:06 00:05:10
44 366 Matilda Star 00:24:11 7-9y 27 Female 28 00:05:13 00:14:11 00:04:46
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Silmaril Awards
the fantasy character awards
This Year’s Awards
Tracey Dyck
Tracey Dyck is a marketing student and YA fantasy writer with a love for sprawling worlds and lifelike characters. She placed as a finalist in two of Rooglewood Press’s fairy-tale anthology contests. Currently cooking up a Sleeping Beauty-inspired novel, she lives in Manitoba, Canada, where a dragon may or may not have taken up residence in her basement.
DJ Edwardson
DJ Edwardson is the Grace Award nominated author of four novels and several shorter works. He traveled a lot when he was younger, but now he’s busy crafting exotic destinations of his own. Although he has written both Science Fiction and Fantasy novels, he likes to say he writes in the “genre of imagination”. He lives in Tennessee with his wife and three children and an unusually large collection of board games. His family usually gangs up on him so that he doesn’t win, but he has fun anyway.
Savannah Grace
Savannah Grace is an aspiring Christian author who loves writing—and reading—a good fantasy novel, because there’s no better place to escape than in a story. When she’s not lost in other worlds, Savannah can be found blogging, reading, laughing way too loudly, or eating as much oriental food as she can get her hands on. She has had multiple short fiction pieces published in various magazines and is the creative writing columnist for Pursue magazine’s website.
Deborah O’Carroll
Deborah O’Carroll is a fantasy writer, bookwyrm, fan of Diana Wynne Jones and J.R.R. Tolkien, avid organizer of bookshelves, and secretly an otter. A punctuation addict, she is a freelance copyeditor and blogger.
E.E. Rawls
E.E. Rawls is a writer of many genres currently residing in New England, an adventurer at heart who finds inspiration for story ideas wherever she goes. Waffles and cat videos are a necessity in life.
Madeline J. Rose
Madeline is a girl with a passion for books. She is a writer of epic stuff and listener of good music. She works as an aide at her local library and loves cats, Pinterest, tea, and blogging. Her goal in life is to become a published author so she can share her spirited words with the world.
Jenelle Leanne Schmidt
Jenelle Leanne Schmidt first fell in love with stories through her father’s voice reading aloud to her before bed each night. A dreamer and relentless opener of doors in hopes of someday finding a passage to Narnia, it was only natural that she soon began making up fantastical realms of her own. The award-winning author has published four books in The Minstrel’s Song series as well as a couple of short stories. She resides in the wintry tundra of Wisconsin with her husband and their four adorable children who are all named after characters in The Lord of the Rings.
Kyle Robert Shultz
Kyle Robert Shultz began writing in his early teens after being bitten by a radioactive book. Today, he is the Supreme Overlord of a sprawling fictional realm called the Afterverse—where fairy tales and classic stories are history, and magic and monsters are real. As a Christian, he strives to write fiction that is entertaining and wholesome, but devoid of overt “messages” or agendas. He lives in the wilds of southern Idaho, removed far enough from civilization to keep humanity safe should any of his rough drafts break through the electric fence. Aside from writing, his other passions are worship music, horseback riding, and caring for a motley assortment of animals.
Abbey Stellingwerff
Abbey Stellingwerff doesn’t pretend to be normal anymore. Rather, she wears her dinosaur t-shirt with pride while rocking out to Beatles music. She studies English Literature and Writing and History at college, but in her free time she loves reading (and watching) speculative fiction and classics.
Zachary Totah
Zachary Totah has two superpowers: writing science fiction and fantasy stories and surviving without caffeine. The former allows him to roam through his imagination, where he has illegal amounts of fun creating worlds and characters to torture—er, send on wild adventures. The latter basically makes him a hobbit. When not buried in “real work” or engrossed in his worlds, he enjoys reading and spending time with his Narnia-and-Marvel-loving wife. He loves connecting with other readers and writers.
2018 Silmaril Awards presentations September 17, 2018
2018 awards voting is open September 9, 2018
Silmarilawards.com is live August 22, 2018
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Press Statement: SIS Challenges Fatwa on Liberalism and Pluralism (31 October 2014)
Press Statement: SIS Challenges Fatwa on Liberalism and Pluralism
Sisters in Islam (SIS) has filed a judicial review on a gazetted fatwa in Selangor declaring SIS as subscribing to “religious liberalism and pluralism”, and therefore deviating from the teachings of Islam. The fatwa allows for any publications deemed “liberal and plural” to be banned and seized. In addition, it calls for any form of social media that go against the “ajaran Islam dan hukum Syarak” to be blocked by the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commissions (MCMC).
We view with grave concern the allegations made against us and question the basis for this fatwa. Since 2003, SIS has served close to 10,000 Muslim women who turned to us for legal help to seek redress to their marital problems. We have trained over 4,000 women on their legal rights through our popular legal literacy workshops. More than 90% of them stated that the knowledge provided by SIS has empowered them to know their rights in Islam. We teach women how to access the justice system for themselves and for their children, accompany them to court, and recommend lawyers to represent them. These thousands of women we have helped and trained have gone on to help others in their families and communities.
How could such activities that reflect the compassion and kindness of Islam and raise women’s awareness that there can be justice in Islam be pronounced “sesat and menyeleweng”.
In 2002, the former Director General of JAKIM, the late Tuan Haji Shahir Abdullah, asserted that SIS work was in fact a form of “ dakwah”. The impact of SIS work has strengthened the faith of many Muslim women whose experience with their husbands and the religious authorities had led them to believe that Islam was unjust and discriminatory towards women.
It is disturbing that SIS was not informed nor were we called in to explain our work before the fatwa committee pronounced SIS as deviant. Neither does the fatwa contain any justification for its pronouncement. Nor does it explain what the terms “liberalism”, “pluralism” mean and what constitutes going against the “teachings of Islam and hukum Syarak”.
We came across the fatwa by chance while surfing JAKIM’s e-fatwa website on 20 October 2014.
We are challenging the fatwa on several constitutional grounds.
It clearly violates our fundamental right to freedom of expression, association and religion, as guaranteed by the Federal Constitution.
It trespasses federal powers as only Parliament has the legislative authority to make laws restricting fundamental liberties.
It has no authority to direct federal institutions like the Ministry of Home Affairs to ban and seize books and MCMC to block social media sites.
Malaysia is the only Muslim country that enables a fatwa to have the force of law through a mere gazetting process and then criminalises any violations of the fatwa. According to section 13 of the Syariah Criminal Offences (Selangor) Enactment 1995, any person who gives, propagates or disseminates any opinion concerning any issue, Islamic teachings or Islamic Law contrary to any fatwa for the time being in force can be fined up to RM3,000, or jailed for up to 2 years, or both. Any document or other medium [sic] may be seized and destroyed even without any conviction.
These excessive powers exercised by the religious authorities of Malaysia, with the complicity of the executive and legislative bodies are dragging the country down the road to theocratic dictatorship.The criminalisation of non-compliance to a fatwa deviates from Islamic legal theory and practice. A fatwa is merely an advisory opinion to guide Muslims to lead a life according to the teachings of Islam. It is not legally binding and it is optional for the individual to follow it, or seek another fatwa.
A salient principle of governance according to the Qur'an is shura, which requires those in authority to govern through consultations with the community. In Surah al-lmran, 3:159, Allah commanded Prophet Muhammad (saw) to consult the ummah on “all matters of public concern”. This was to a Prophet, so what more to subsequent generations of Muslims.
In Hadith literature, it has been reported that the Prophet (saw), in the context of both private and public affairs, solicited counsel from the Companions and at times gave them preference over his own views.
In Surah al-Mujadilah (58:1) on disputation, the the right of an individual, a woman in this case, to argue her problem with the Prophet (saw) was recognised. If the ummah has the right to engage in debate with the Prophet, what more our right today to have differences of opinion and to raise our issues of concern.
A hadith quoted the Prophet (saw) as saying that "differences of opinion in my community are a blessing". It is only through such differences and debate that one can strive to find the best opinion and the best solution to meet the public needs.
Sisters in Islam restates its position that if Islam is used as a source of law and public policy, then everyone has a right to engage in a debate on these matters. Public law and policy must be open to public debate. The objective of Islamic law is to ensure that justice is done and the public interest is served, and this can only be achieved through consultations and taking into consideration different points of view.
Sisters in Islam
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Afghanistan......A new startegy
At last, it has dawned on the U.S.A. and N.A.T.O. that the old strategy was not working and that something new has to be tried. Pres. Obama has sent his Special Representative for Pakistan and Afghanistan, Richard Holbrooke to discuss and review strategy, which must include an exit strategy and a greater emphasis on economic development, a need for a regional approach to the Afghan problem, including Pakistan, and stepping up both civilian and military efforts. " I found a very encouraging symmetry of views between our NATO allies and other troop contributing countries and the United States", he told reporters after the meeting in Brussels. He also mentioned that a heavy emphasis on increasing the the size of the Afghan police force was supported.
Pres. Obama has announced that an additional 4,000 troops ( on top of the 17,000) will sent to Afghanistan and be embedded as trainers with soldiers of the Afghan army. He called on " others to join us in doing their part". Canada welcomed this " clarion call", says Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon, noting that there are "many elements", that jibe with Canada's strategy, such as calls for an integrated military-civilian strategy and an emphasis on training Afghan army and police faster and sending more troops "to secure and hold areas, thereby facilitating development and reconstruction efforts". Now is the time for NATO countries such as France , Germany, Italy the Poles, the Czechs and others to ante up.
The Taliban of Pakistan and Afghanistan have decided to combine their forces with al Qaeda, to meet this latest increase of combat forces. The Taliban control large areas of the border and al Qaeda have safe havens in the rugged, lawless tribal areas. The weather is changing and it is exspected to bring about a rash of attacks. The poppy crops are blooming and harvesting is on full swing. Last Sunday (March 22), Iranian authorities seized 4.5 tonnes of opium, hashish and other drugs from smugglers around Teheran and two days later, in eastern Iran near the border with Afghanistan another bust of a quarter ton was seized, and another quarter ton was seized in the border town of Zabol. Iranian authorities are very concerned over this increase in drug dealing and also human trafficking and violence seeping across its border and are very interested stopping it before it becomes unmanageable. This is a good opportunity for America and Iran to come together and deal with this common threat. The Iranians may be somewhat hesitant , given their past experience with the Bush in 2001 and 2002 when they quietly co-operated in the defeat of the Taliban but then were include in "the axis of evil". This time, they may be willing to work with Pres. Obama, not only because of the co-incidence of interests but also because of the approach that Pres. Obama has taken in trying to begin a dialogue with Iran. There is another very important reason why Iran will be willing to see the defeat of the Taliban again. They are Sunni, while the Iranians are Shia ( there has been a war between these two factions of Islam for centuries).
Elections are to be held in Afghanistan in August. It is important that this election take place and is seen as legitimate. The ineffective Karzai must be replaced legally. Elections are also coming soon to Iran. It is possible that a new president will be elected ( we must remember that real power in Iran rest with the religious leaders, especially Ayatollah Kameini).
American and Iranian interests overlap in Afghanistan. Here is a great opportunity to work together. If they can get over their mutual suspicion, then the possibility of working in other areas.......Lebanon, Palestine etc. may mean that some of the more intractable problems that have plagued the world over the past 30 years may be closer to a solution. They can begin mending fences at two conferences that they will be attending on Afghanistan, one in the Netherlands ( the Americans have welcomed Iran's presence), and another one, the Shanghai Co-operation Organization conference in Moscow. The United States will be sending Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Daniel Moon and Iran will be represented by Deputy Foreign Minister Madhi Akhundzadeh. Also, it is interesting to note that even some Iranian hardliners are begining to welcome the idea of co-operation between the two countries, to secure Afghanistan, where they have been steadfast in their opposition to the Sunni Taliban. On a practical note, the drug war has cost Iran $600 million in the last two years. Also some 3,700 Iranian security officials have killed, 11,000 injured and there have thousands of clashes between traffickers and police according to a UN report.
CARPE DIEM..... The time is now. This a great opportunity. It must not be missed. It must not be messed up.
Labor to Join Likud in 42nd Israeli Gov't
Ehud Barak has decided to provide Bibi Netanyahu with a fig leaf of legitimacy. The projected new government with Netanyahu as Prime Minister and Barak as Defence minister and supported by the fascist Lieberman is now possible. Kadima has so far resisted the temptation, and Livni has at least maintained a modicum of decency.
Netanyahu had opposed the Oslo Agreement negotiated by Yitzak Rabin in the mid-nineties and even celebrated the assissination of Rabin by a religious fanatic, that saw the end of that attempt at peace with the Palestinians. Netanyahu is opposed to the two-state policy and he favors the continued building of settlements on Palestinian land on the West Bank.Without Barak and the Labor party, Netanyahu would have difficulty dealing with the Obama administration, which supports the two-state policy and a freeze on new settlement buildings. Barak seems to think that he can control Netanyahu and Lieberman and in this he is sadly mistaken. The support to Likud and Lieberman come from those on the religious right and the settlers. Not only are they against the two-atate policy and any restrictions on continued building of settlements, they want expansion of present settlements, and in the case of Lieberman and some on the religious right, they want to issue special identity cards and even deport Palestinian-Israelis from their ancestral homes. Recently ( March 23) Jewish ultra-nationalist had a provocative march in Northern Israel where the Palesinian-Israelis who make up 1/5 of the population of Israel live. The Israeli police as they are wont to do in such circumstances gave protection to these provacateurs and instead attacked the Palestinians who came out to protest this provocation.
What has been concocted is a broad, illogical coalition. It won't work. The Labor party is already split, with only 57% supporting Barak's move. Netanyahu, Lieberman, Barak, the relgious right, the ultra-nationalsits and the settlers make for a very acerbic, divisive and chaotic 42nd government. It will be fun watching these prima donnas at work/play. Get ready for another hiccup in the governance of Israeli.
Dirty,Costly Little War in Afghanistan
Four more young Canadians have given their life in this never-ending and vicious war. This is not war in the traditional sense, with regular armies facing each each other. This is guerilla warfare fought on the one side...the Afghan/Taliban/ al Qaeda, while NATO is fighting a traditional war or at best a semi-traditional war. One side is fighting a total war, using all means at their disposal, (hit and run, IEDs, hiding amongst the civilian population, using them as shields, (inviting attacks and then blaming NATO for civilian casualties when they occur, as happens frequently),while NATO is fighting a limited war with limited means, which it cannot win militarily and for which Canadian soldiers stationed in the South are paying a heavy price.
It is time to change tactics or leave. Nothing is gained from what is being done. Ground that is taken one day is lost another day. Villages that are cleansed one day are festered soon after withdrawal. This is not action but activity...digging a hole and filling it back over and over again . The mistake that was made initially has been compounded. Afghanistan with its terrain and its tribal division and its history, culture and religion has been the bane of many occupiers over the centuries...from Alexander to Ghengis Khan to the British and the Russians and now U.S.A and NATO. The Afghanis come together against a common enemy and use their terrain to their advantage and they have persisted. Money, as the British discovered too late, is the means to rent allies, if only for a while. The Pasthuns do not like or get along with the Tajiks or the Uzbecks and especially with the Hazarras and each of them do not like or get along with the others. It was the alliance with the Nothern tribes that led to the ouster of the Taliban, who are mostly Pasthuns, now supported by al Qaeda and foreign jihadists/islamists. You have to separate the Pashtuns/ Talibans from the al Qaeda/ihadists/ islamists. If there are moderates, they are amongst the Pashtuns/Talibans. The others are religious extremists/ fanatics....the Islamists/ Jihadists.
Now you can take the war directly to the al Qaeda/ Islamists/ Jihadists and pursue them across the Pakistani border, working with the Pakistani military, if they agree or without them if they do not. The safe havens must be made unsafe. Already the U.S. is using its drones to attack suspected sites. More need to be done. Special Forces, heavily backed must be used. The war, if it is to be won, must be done on the ground. The 17,000 additional troops that the Americans are sending must be bolstered by troops from other NATO countries...France, Germany Italy and the Poles, the Czechs etc. Now that France is back in NATO command, it can utilise its African experience in a positive sense, rather than training Hutu killers and involving in other mischief making among its former colonies.
This is the only way to pay respect to those who have valiantly given their lives to make Afghanistan and by extension the rest of the world safe from the viciousness of the al Qaeda/ Islamists/Jihadists. Make it too hot for them to operate in the rugged tribal/border areas. Use massive force to drive them out and then use the Special Forces to hunt them down and make sure that their passage is blocked. It will take a lot of manpower and you need the Afghanis and the Pakistanis, but it has to be done. Anything else is a betrayal not only to those who have paid the ultimate price but also to those who will pay in the future... the hopes of the ordinary Afghani who want peace and stability and our young men and women who have to bear the brunt of a failed policy that drinks their blood and waste their youth
No more half- measures. Do it right or get out now. Not another life lost, because of the lack of leadership and courage. War is sometimes a necessary evil. It should be the last resort but if it cannot be avoided, then you have to do what is necessary to win. The Bush administration decided that Iraq with its oil was more important to control and thus neglected Afghanistan, when it should have been the focus. Now Obama has to make the hard choice as to how to end it. It is not going to be easy or pretty.
Ethnic Nationalism......Bernard Landry
The appointment of Michael Sabia to head the Caisse de depot et placement has stirred the nastiness that is so endemic of the Parti Quebecois. Shortyly after the announcement was made, Bernard Landry, the keeper of the ethnic purity flame, lashed out, whining that the choice was " more than an error...it is a fault. It is almost a provocation...It has nothing to do with where he was born...It is his national culture, which is Canadian." This would be laughable, if it was not so fascistic, but Landry is noted for his frothing at anything that is not"pur laine". This from a man whio ,still cherishes his Canadian passport, who was a member of the Canadian reserve and who I am certain, will not reject his Canadian Old Age Pension. "I don't care if it is a white cat or a black cat, so long as it catches mice".( Deng Ziao Ping, 1961)
He could have criticised the manner in which the appointment was made. Here was an opportunity to go after Charest, who made the selection, bypassing the board of directors at the Caisse.He could have pointed to the fiasco at BCE when Sabia was president. He could have pointed out Sabia's lack of high-finance and investment expertise. Instead Landry chose to play the ethnic nationalist card, this coming just after one his former cabinet colleague, Louise Harel's pronouncement on "ethnic boroughs"( and let's not forget the many others including Jaques Parizeau's " money and ethnic" quip). Sabia may have been born in Ontario, but he has lived for many years in Quebec, and he speaks French, but according to Landry, "he is not one of us". Can you imagine what would happen if someone in Ontario or Alberta or Newfoundland were to complain about the many high-placed Quebeckers/Quebecoises who hold or have held positions from Governor-General to Prime Minister to leader of the Opposition to so many other high-profiled positions in Ottawa and eleswhere in the country of Canada?
Ethnic nationalism is a cancer in the body politic. It has no place in any society/ country, especially one that is democratic. It excludes and penalises "les autres". It is the slippery slope to fascism and ethnic cleansing... witness the former Yugoslavia, Darfur, Rwanda. It is time that Landry and his cohorts be called to task. They are ethnic haters and they must be exposed as such and held accountable.
Miscellaneous.....Obama Effect, Stimulus, Health etc.
African Americans' performance on verbal test improved to equal that of white Americans after Obama's nomination and then election but in 1996 when Obama said he supported gay marriage, only 27% of Americans did but by 2008 when Obama said he opposed gay marriage, fully 39% supported it. The St.Petersberg Times is tracking the 510 campaign promises that Obama made in its "Obameter". So far he has kept 11 and broken 2. Now the Republicans are looking to Newt Gringrich to save them, after the bug-eyed Jindal imploded and Limbaugh balloned.
Moody's has estimated that the U.S. GDP increased by $1.03 for every dollar of tax cut but by $1.59 for every dollar spent on infrastructure and $1.73 for every dollar of food stamp given out. A Univ. of Maryland study has shown that economic growth begin anew about 2 years after a recession begins and that unemployment reaches its peak in about 5 years and the National Nurses Organising Committee( Oakland), estimates that 2,600,000 jobs would be created under a single-payer health-care system. Dietitians say that the recession is making it harder for their patients to lose weight.
Freedom House, has noted that whereas democracies increased 71% between 1989 and 1996 ( the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of right-wing military dictatorships in Latin America etc.), there has been little change...Kosovo?, since. There has also been a noticeable drop of successful military coups in Africa.... 24 in 1960's and 21 in 1980's but only 5 since 2000. The average number of people who have died in the Congo each month from war-realated causes, since August 1998 is estimated to be about 51,400, according to the International Rescue Committee.
Vicks Vapo Rub may harm children; zinc supplements reduce alcohol-related birth defects; high temperatures and low air pressure can trigger migraines, according to the journal Neurology. Some other well-known triggers are red wine,chocolate,soft cheese and the begining of menstrual cycle. Also according to a study published by the British Medical Journal , migraines in pregnancy could be a clue that a woman is at risk of a stroke,heart disease and blood clots. In a paper published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, by Hyon Choi and colleagues at the University of British Columbia, " vitamin C intake may prpvide a useful option in the prevention of gout". Gout victims are typically men 40 and older ( some women can be affected too). Every 500-milligram increase of daily vitaminC intake produced a 17% decrease in the risk for gout. Gout can lead to permanent joint damage and is linked to alcohol abuse, obesity, high blood pressure and a diet heavy in meat and cheese, the study pointed out.
On the local front, Louise Harel, the former P.Q. minister of municipal affairs has created a firestorm by suggesting that "quasi-municipalities" with an ethnic, religiousand/or linguistic base will spring up,( because of the number of boroughs) " we will end up in the worst of situations because we'll have .. an Italian city, a Haitian city, an anglophone city, an Arab city-Ville St. Laurent, a Jewish city etc". This was in answer to a suggestion that the number of boroughs be reduced from 19 to 10. Quick condemnation came from all quarters....charges of "stereotypes", "caricature", "divisiveness", "racist", "unacceptable,inadmissable", " frightening, especially coming from her", " sowing seeds of xenophobia".
China: From Mao to Deng....Peasant society to Industrial super-power
In 1949 Mao proclaimed that " China has arisen " and in 1990's Deng declared that " To get rich is glorious" and China which became the " manufacturer to the world " under Deng's pragmatic "socialist market economy", is now looked upon as the hope of the world..... the engine of global economic growth.
It was the forward looking Dend Xiaoping, who is responsible for this " great leap forward". As early as 1961, he signaled his pragmatic approach when he was quoted as saying, that " I do not care if it is a white cat or a black cat so long as it catches mice" in response to those who wanted to emphasise the communist approach. Being productive is more important than whether you follow communism or capitalism is what he meant. He and his family would be persecuted and imprisoned during the Cultural Revolution, but when he was brought back to the Party by Zhou Enlai, he continued his progressive thinking. After the death of Mao in 1976, he defeated the Gang of Four and their choice to succeed Mao, Hua Goofeng.
Transition began slowly in 1978 and picked up steam in the 1990's, when China opened up to joint ventures and attracted major western corporations and foreign capital poured into the country. The large population created a huge cheap labor market, which allowed these ventures to flourish and China to become the manufacturer to the world.
Deng's political flexibility... " we must not fear to adopt the advanced management methods applied in capitalist countries. The very essence of socialism is the liberation and development of the productive systems. Socialism and market economy are not incompatible" he declared. His "Socialist market economy"( socialism with Chinese characteristics), combines substantial state ownership of large industries with private enterprise. In this system major state-owned industries compete with each other. It differs from market socialism because the government does not intervene in the setting of prices, nor does it attempt to favour state-owned enterprises over private ones. Also by 2004, 50% of state-owned enterprises were transformed into joint stock companies, which generated one-third of the nation'S GDP.
" A planned economy is not the definition of socialism, because there is planning under capitalism: the market economy, happens under socialism too. Planning and market forces are both ways of controlling economic activity" He dared to undeify Mao by saying that Mao was " 7 parts good, 3 parts bad" and he was influenced by the four East Asian Tigers of Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea and Singapore. He travelled abroad and had amicable meetings with western leaders and was the first Chinese leader to visit U.S.A. and met with President Carter in the White House in 1979. He signed agreements with Britain and Portugal for the return of the colonies of Hong Kong and Macao and promised not to change capitalist system for 50 years ...... One coumtry, two systems. He also improved relations with historic enemy, Japan and used it as an example for China's future growth. These visits and agreements allowed previously skeptical and hesitant investors to become more confident of trusting China.
What Deng started and pushed along until his death,( Gaige Kaifang....Reforms and Openness), made it possible for his successors to carry out even further reform. It has been a phenomenal success.....tremendous growth spurred on by exports, an economy second in size only to the U.S.A.
The world now looks to China. It is still on the right side of recession and it is spending both internally and abroad. Hundred of billions of dollars are earmarked for infrastructure spending and relieving the job losses that have occured because of the drop in exports and the closing of factories. The 11th Congress is very aware of the potential for internal instability and have targeted transportation, manufacturing and the energy sector. Its internal market is huge and is crucial in weathering the 20% loss in orders from abroad. China has also gone on a buying spree abroad in order to secure its energy and resource future. It has $2 trillion in foreign reserve and have already scooped up $70 billion worth of global resourse assets.....$19,5 billion for 18% of Australia's Rio Tinto, $25 billion to Russia's largest oil producer, Rosneft, and $10 billion to Petrobas of Brazil. Billions more are being poured by Chinese investors into Australian and Mongolian iron ore mining companies and gas and pipeline deals in Turkmenistan and lead and copper in Kazhakistan. There has also been a $443 million offer for Calgary based Verenex Energy Inc. to give China National Petroleum Corp. a stake in a Libyan oil concession. It is expected that the buying spree will pick up pace. Australia with " an open attitude" to Chinese investment is expected to be a major target. North America will be next, especially Canada with its huge resources...oil, gas, potash and forestry.
Attack on Sri Lankan Cricket Team
"When you sleep with dogs, you wake up with fleas". The symbiotic/ incestuous relationship between the Pakistani Military/ Intelligence Service and Islamic terrorists, Taliban, al Qaeda and Laskar has over-reached this time. The attack on the Sri Lankans has ignited a firestorm of protests that threaten not only the cricketing future of Pakistan, but also the Pakistani state. More than 2 billion people from Australia to India to Zimbabwe and over 100 other countries follow this game with gusto and passion and while they hold the Pakistani players in high esteem, they hold the Pakistani Government and its Security forces complicit in this attack. It's not cricket!!!.
The terrorists were well trained and the attack was disciplined and highly co-ordinated. They were well armed with grenade launchers, plastic explosives, grenades, car bombs as well as automatic rifles. The place of attack was strategic, a turn-off, where the bus would be slowing down. They knew the time that the bus would arrive and they were waiting. Did they get inside information? Why were more stringent measures to protect the players not taken? Why were there not more armed escorts? Who staged the attack and what was the role of Pakistan's intelligence service? They are known to have a close working relationship with the Tamil Tigers. Were the Tigers involved? Given their recent losses this would not be surprising.
Laskar e Taiba was responsible for the November Mumbai terrorist attack, which was co-ordinated from Pakistan. All the terrorists except one were killed. Compare this to those who killed Benazir Bhutto. No one has been arreested so far. Neither have the bombers of the Karachi hotel in 2002,( where the New Zealand cricket team was staying), been caught. Is this because of incompetence? Or is it complicity? The Pakistan government is again having having problems. It has recently barred former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his brother from running for office in their stronghold of Punjab province. Pakistan is on the brink. As I have written before, there is a real danger of the Pakistani state breaking up.
Illiteracy and unemployment are two force driving the radicalisation and sowing the seeds of disintegration. Islamic fundamentalism feeds on this. There are no shortages of dis-affected, disenchanted and alienated among the the people, young and old. This is a breeeding ground for recruitment for mayhem. The problems are endemic. They are deeply rooted. For too long the people have been neglected and it is easy to foment division and violence. Aristotle warned that " Poverty is the parent of revolution", and poverty combined with religious zealotry is a toxic mix. The explosion is coming and it will rival the blood-letting of Partition. Already bombings and other forms of violence are a daily occurence in Pakistan. It is not only in the Tribal Regions/ North-West, but in Lahore, in Karachi, in Islamabad between Shia and Sunna and Mohajirs, between the followers of Sharif and Bhutto, everywhere and everyone seem to be going at it.
There is no one leader who can lead Pakistan out of this mess. There is only the military. They have stepped in and remove civilian authorities on many occasions.The last time it was Musharraf ousting Nawaz Sharif, so don't be surprised when they step in again. The experiment that began so bloodily 60 years ago has run its course . The unravelling began when civil war led to the creation of Bangladesh in 1971, when Zia seized power and hanged Ali Bhutto. The succeeding years has swung back and forth between the military and civilian rule. The murder of Benazir Bhutto started another round of musical chairs. There was a brief hint of hope when Sharif and Zardari struck an alliance to get rid of Musharraf, but that has ended acrimoniously and now this fiasco.
Protectionism.....Italian Moneylenders
European and Southeast Asians reject protectionism. An apparent unity front has been formed by European leaders to reject protectionism, in order to protect their national interest in the face of the continued economic crisis. The summit held in Brussels was called to deal with the differences over how to deal with the recession and the fears that some countries ( France and Germany) may take steps to undermine the European committment to a single market, and also to prop up the solidarity between members. There were concerns after the French President stated that the $8 billion bailout to the car industry ( Renault and Citroen etc.), must be spent in France, and the German Chancellor rejected tghe Czech/Polish bailout plan.
The Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany warned of " new Iron Curtain" between the rich West and the poor East, " We should not allow a new 'Iron Curtain' to divide Europe into two parts". The split in the Union is between countries such as France that want strong action to buoy industries, especially carmakers and the poorer Eastern countries, Poland etc, that cannot afford such bailouts. A statement was prepared that declared that " the meeting must ensure that maximum possible use is made of the single market as an engine for recovery to support growth and jobs". The prospects of this happeniong is at best questionable as political pressure mount in individual countries to put its interest first. When it comes to the crunch, France, Germany and Britain( where an election is to be held in a few months), will act in their own short term sel-interest, even though the single market and concerted action is the best for the long-term.
Meanwhile in Italy, the Mafia has become the moneylender to businesses that are not able to get loans from the banks. From flower sellers to bar owners to restaurants to grocery stores to art dealers, small and medium-size businesses are turning to loan sharks for money, paying exorbitant interest ( as much as 30% a month). " The loan sharks are growing like mushrooms and becoming bolder and more visible", according to Cardinal Severino Poletto, the archbishop of Turin. The national shopkeepers association, Confesercenti, estimate that 180,000 businesses have turned to the loan sharks in desperation, and Nino Micelli, an adviser to the Confesercenti has stated that the Mafia's goal is to take over the struggling businesses, especially when the loans are not repaid and violence is threatened and/or used and restaurants, grocery stores and bars become property of the criminal gangs. Many experts say that organised crime is already Italy's biggest business and the untaxed underground economy is growing larger and larger. The Mafia seem to be providing the same kind of financial assistance that was so useful for Italy after the end of WW11.
South-east Asian countries at their ASEAN meeting in Thailand, endorsed fiscal stimulus, monetary easing, access to credit and trade financing and other measures to stimulate domestic demand. A statement also called for " bold and urgent reform" of the international financial system. This group, which is consensus- based, has long been dismissed as nothing more than a talking forum, for leaders to make speeches full of promises and nothing else. However the continued world economic problems has focused attention on the need to act concertedly, as no single country ( even the U.S.A.) can go it alone. ASEAN, has also announced that a road map will be implemented, with the objective of creating a single economic community in six years. This will ( if successful), bring together 570 million people with a combined GDP of over $2 trillion.
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Ranking the Best Whitney Houston Albums
November 13, 2017Edward Bowserbest of, Blog Like Crazy, music, Whitney Houston1
We music fans are a highly opinionated bunch. There’s not much we agree on.
But if you’re a fan of this site, I bet we can come to this consensus: Whitney Houston is one of the greatest vocalists of all time.
It’s not up for debate.
From the early ’80s to her untimely death in 2012, Nippy was the measuring stick for vocal ability – and trust me, she set the bar so high that very few could see it, let alone reach it.
Let’s honor her incomparable legacy by revisiting her solo LPs, ranking them from bottom to top. This list will exclude her soundtrack efforts (sorry y’all, no Bodyguard or Preacher’s Wife) and we’ll also skip her holiday albums and compilations.
She was the voice of a generation. Witness her in her glory.
6. I Look to You (2009)
Soul In Stereo rating: 3 stars out of 5 (read our review here)
Edd said: Sigh. I Look to You was Whitney’s final album and the seams were definitely starting to show. While this did SOUND like a Whitney album – she avoided the temptation to betray her core sound for current trends – there’s a distinct weariness in her vocals. Between that, and the lack of memorable songs, this is the one blemish on Whitney’s resume.
Forgotten Favorites: “Million Dollar Bill,” “Like I Never Left,” “Nothin But Love”
5. Just Whitney (2002)
Soul In Stereo rating: 4 stars out of 5
Edd said: To compile these rankings, I went back and relistened to each of Whitney’s albums. It’s only fair. And I’m so glad that I did because it forced me to revisit Just Whitney, an album that I unfairly dismissed back in 2002. And sure, while it’s nowhere near as good as her more well-known releases, it’s a pretty great piece of business. Time had yet to take their toll on Whitney’s vocals and though there’s a lack of bonafide hits to be found, nearly every song is expertly produced and performed. If you missed this one in ’02, give it another shot today.
Forgotten Favorites: “One of Those Days,” “My Love,” “Unashamed”
4. Whitney (1987)
Edd said: Fighting off the dreaded Sophomore Jinx is often the first big test of an artist’s young career. Whitney passed that test. Loaded with pop hits aplenty, Whitney catapulted her to international stardom. While some of the album cuts occasionally miss the mark, there are certainly way more hits here than misses. This is the album that cemented Whitney’s fame.
Forgotten Favorites: “Where You Are,” “You’re Still My Man,” “Just the Lonely Talking Again”
3. I’m Your Baby Tonight (1990)
Edd said: It’s funny to hear arguments in 2017 about which artist are and are not TRUE R&B singers. You young’ns might not believe this but back in the late 80s, even the mighty Whitney Houston was accused of being “too pop.” On her third LP, though, Whitney gained more creative control, balancing out her earlier glossy pop sound with more traditional R&B and funk elements. The result was one of the most diverse albums of her career.
Forgotten Favorites: “Anymore,” “I Belong to You,” “We Didn’t Know”
2. My Love Is Your Love (1998)
Soul In Stereo rating: 4.5 stars out of 5
Edd said: Whitney spent most of the mid-90s collaborating on a trio of memorable soundtracks (The Bodyguard, Waiting to Exhale and The Preacher’s Wife, if you’re keeping score) but her return to the world of solo LPs in 1998 proved to be one of her best outings EVER. As great as her previous albums were, there was often an air of inconsistency about them. Not here. My Love Is Your Love is as air-tight as it gets, blending radio-friendly fare with daring production and hearty ballads. If there was any concern that personal problems would take a toll on her career, this album crushed those doubts.
Forgotten Favorites: “I Learned from the Best,” “If I Told You That,” “I Bow Out”
1. Whitney Houston (1985)
Edd said: With one album, Whitney Houston became the voice of a generation. I dare you to find a flaw in Whitney’s debut – the top-notch songwriting, pitch-perfect production, and of course, a voice that seemed to descend from the heavens combined to make one of the defining albums of the 1980s. It’s not only Whitney’s best album by far, but one of the greatest albums ever recorded.
Forgotten Favorites: “Someone for Me,” “Thinking About You,” “All At Once”
What are your favorite Whitney albums? Talk about ’em below.
Nandini November 22, 2018 at 7:31 am
Can you rank Celine Dion’s albums?
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The Wildlife Preserve was created in 1975 when 31 members of the Taylor family gave a conservation easement on 86 acres of their land to the New Jersey Naturals Lands Trust. The property remains in Taylor ownership to "use and maintain the easement premises for open space and conservation purposes". Since then two small grants have been obtained; an open space management grant for benches and bridges over some ditches and a "watchable wildlife" grant to provide some signs and trail maintenance. There is a 1.5 mile loop trail for walkers to enjoy the Preserve.
The Preserve is about 15 miles up the Delaware River from center city Philadelphia whose skyline can be seen most days from the riverbank. The land was originally settled in 1720 by Joshua and Rebecca Wright who purchased it from the Proprietors of West Jersey - William Penn's managers. William Penn had been granted the land by King George of England but then negotiated a purchase from the Lenni Lenape Indians who lived in the area before Penn's time. The Wrights were Quakers who came to this country from England to escape religious persecution. The farm at Wright's point has been in continuous operation ever since and is the last operating farm on the Delaware River between Camden and Trenton.
About 100 years after settling here, one generation of Wrights had two daughters between whom they divided the original 1000 acre farm. One of the Wright daughters married Charles Haines and lived on the half of the farm to the north of Taylor's Lane. The other daughter married Edward Taylor and lived to the south of Taylor's Lane. In the 1950s about half of the then-remaining Taylor farm was sold to the Hoeganes company reducing the farm to its present size of 120 acres. The 86-acre Wildlife Preserve is in the heart of this farm that continues to operate and, since the 1960s produces organically grown fruit and vegetables.
The wetlands provide flood control by containing rainwaters temporarily and also by permitting the river to spread out far beyond its normal width under flood conditions. The wetlands also serve the filter the runoff from the roads and industrial lands along Taylor's Lane whose stormwater drains through the Wildlife Preserve. The greenspace also becomes increasingly important to the quality of life as more and more of the surrounding area is paved over and built upon.
The preserve is open to the public from sunrise to sunset every day. There is a space to park at the beginning of the trail. Some visitors fish in the Delaware River from the bank a few hundred yards from the beginning of the trail. Many others walk the trail observing the birds, plants, insects, and animals found along the way. Hundreds of people annually visit the Preserve and walk on its trails.
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Bob Oates
The 1933 Aberdeen Central and 1937 Yankton College grad was a sportswriter for 70 years, almost all of it in Los Angeles. Oates was an original member of the panel of sportswriters that since 1962 has annually chosen the inductees for the Pro Football Hall of Fame.He covered the first 39 Super Bowls. In 2006, when he was 90, he missed Super Bowl XL to stay home with his wife, Marnie, who had suffered a fall a few months earlier. He retired from his full-time position at the Los Angeles Times in 1995 but continued to write football columns for the paper and its Web site on a freelance basis until retiring for good at age 91 in January 2007. A nationally recognized authority on pro football, Oates was the only sportswriter to vote for the Heisman Trophy, the Pro Football Hall of Fame and the baseball Hall of Fame, and he did so for more than 35 years. As the 1974 winner of pro football's prestigious McCann award for long and distinguished reporting, he was listened to, as well, in the NFL. In 2001, he wrote a column that the league distributed to all 32 club owners. At their next meeting, the owners voted in the changes Oates advocated: the rules-enforcement measures protecting quarterbacks from late-hit violence. His sportswriting career started in 1936, when he covered the first Chicago all-star football game for the Yankton Press & Dakotan. He also covered the last one in 1976. He covered the Rams throughout their 49 years in California. At the same time, he covered the Rose Bowl and other big college games, and he covered many World Series, starting in 1959. He interviewed the Queen of England as well as such sports greats as Vince Lombardi, Joe Namath, Terry Bradshaw, Bill Walsh, Jerry Rice, Ted Williams, Maury Wills and Magic Johnson. Oates was born May 20, 1915, in Aberdeen. His dad was an administrator at Northern State. Oakes worked for the Aberdeen Morning American and Yankton P&D before moving to Los Angeles in the 1930s. He moved to California chiefly so he could write about big-league events on a national scale. While at the Los Angeles Times, he became the first newspaperman whose sole job was to cover national pro and college football. He was the author of four books, including "Football in America: Game of the Century" and "Sixty Years of Winners." (Main photo courtesy of LA Times)
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Turbocharging the slow boat to China’s FTZ success
Could it be second time lucky for China’s new impetus to push through its flagship free trade zone in Shanghai?
China’s desire to set up free trade ports is not new and has so far met with limited success but there now seems to be added impetus, with more overt official support, that may make it different this time around.
The flagship China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone in Shanghai was first set up in 2013 but did not attract as much of the foreign investment and interest it had hoped for. It has recently received an impetus with news that a plan to set up a free port within the zone has gone into the planning stage.
Local media recently cited Vice-Premier Wang Yang putting his support behind a plan to transform key mainland ports including Shanghai into free-trade hubs similar to Hong Kong and Singapore. There were no specific details released however.
In an increasingly globalised world, the free movement of goods and services has heightened the need to stay competitive. As China rapidly develops and its economy evolves, it has also seen the attraction of free ports.
However, the development of free trade zones as a precursor to the rise of free ports is contingent on the free flow of capital, trade and labour.
While there is an ambition to develop such free trade zones in China, the ability to do so may have been hampered earlier by the typical cautious pace of change and perhaps a lack of clarity about what it wants to gain from the setting up of a free port and as such what needs to be done to achieve this.
Some vague ideas about better integrating manufacturing with trade while also boosting foreign direct investment led to a drive to boost the services sector and regulations were liberalized in some segments such as ship management.
In 2015 the government liberalized investment rules for shipping companies. This saw companies such as Hong Kong’s Wallem Ship Management going in at the outset. Among the highest profile names to also enter the market was V. Ships, which set up an office. Anglo-Eastern Ship Management just last year opened a joint venture new manning office in Shanghai in partnership with Shanghai Sinoship Seafarer Management, one of the five largest crewing companies in China.
It was also seen that another way the shipping and logistics industry could benefit from greater liberalisation is through relaxation of customs rules, allowing the zone to function like a huge bonded warehouse or distribution centre that can meet the needs of the booming e-commerce industry in China.
The latest iteration of the policy is to develop “system innovation”, Li Guanghui, vice-president of the Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation was quoted as saying in China Daily.
While the usual buzzwords of high-standard trade, financial, foreign currency and investment supervision systems were bandied about, cities such as Singapore, Hong Kong and Dubai were also cited and terms like global logistics centres and the trade, finance and service sectors were highlighted,
This may well set the free trade zone system on the right track as the Shanghai FTZ already encompasses Waigaoqiao port, Shanghai Waigaoqiao bonded zone and Yangshan bonded port area, the major port and logistics areas.
Meanwhile there are also plans to develop another free port within the Zhejiang FTZ to “further liberalize trade in bulk commodities” especially crude and refined oil.
Alluding to the direction the Chinese authorities are heading in, Li said: “"Breakthroughs in areas of trade facilitation measures, ship fuel prices, financial support, customs supervision, inspection and quarantine must be available for a free port within the FTZ.”
Industry experts note that despite high cargo volume passing through China’s ports, most bunkering is done in Singapore, where fuel is $20 per ton cheaper than even the domestic bonded price of bunker in China.
Reports from on the ground so far suggest that practice has yet to catch up with theory in many cases. But if Shanghai is really able to replicate the conditions in Hong Kong and Singapore to be a true marketplace for offshore trade and offshore finance and other ports such as in Zhejiang are also able to follow suit, they could threaten Hong Kong’s traditional middleman role into the Chinese market.
While around 40% of China’s foreign trade goes through Hong Kong, the city’s shippers have dealt with the threat of easing of China’s cabotage rule for years.
The real issue is whether China, starting with Shanghai, will take a chunk out of Hong Kong’s services sector dominance as well. Whether the central government has the determination to do so and the local authorities the wherewithal to carry it out remains to be seen.
Vincent Wee
Asia Editor, Seatrade Maritime News
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Regulator set to release new mortgage rules
TARA PERKINS (GLOBE & MAIL) Canada’s financial regulator is close to releasing a new set of standards for Canada’s mortgage insurers, one that the real-estate industry has worried may chill the market.
The Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI) has been working on the guidelines since 2012, after it released a similar set of mortgage lending standards for banks.
The standards for banks, known in the industry as guideline B20, pushed lenders to be more cautious in areas such as credit checks on borrowers, document verification and appraisals. They also capped the amount that any individual can borrow on a home equity line of credit at 65 per cent of the home’s value.
Many industry players say the standards contributed to the decline of Canadian home sales that occurred in late 2012 and early 2013.
The real estate industry has been nervously awaiting the standards for mortgage insurers, which will be known as B21, to see whether they too will have a dampening effect on the housing market. OSFI originally indicated that a draft of the new rules would be released in early 2013, and more recently said they would be published by the end of last month. Sources now indicate they will be released as early as Friday.
Julie Dickson, the head of OSFI, said in 2012 that she does not expect the rules for mortgage insurers to have the same effect on the market that the rules for banks did. Stuart Levings, chief operating officer of insurer Genworth MI Canada, said earlier this week that he does not expect the guidelines to contain anything “dramatic.”
“They accomplished a lot with B20,” he said. “And in terms of their confidence with the way that we as insurers underwrite today, I think there’s a high degree of confidence.”
The draft that OSFI releases will be open to comment before becoming final.
OSFI began working on the latest guidelines shortly after former finance minister Jim Flaherty tasked it with overseeing Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. (CMHC), the Crown corporation that is the country’s largest mortgage insurer. OSFI was already the watchdog for CMHC’s two private-sector rivals, Genworth and Canada Guaranty.
Mortgage insurance, which covers the lender for losses if the homeowner can’t pay, is mandatory in Canada for borrowers who have a down payment of less than 20 per cent.
Both B20 and B21 are the result of a suggestion by the Financial Stability Board, an international body made up of regulators and banking experts around the world, that all countries should review their rules for banks and mortgage insurers in the wake of the U.S. subprime crisis.
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Our Priest
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A parish of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR), St. Innocent was founded in 1982 as a house church in Medford, Oregon. Its small body of believers struggled for years without a priest, though from time to time a priest or priest-monk visited to celebrate the Divine Liturgy. In 1995 Father Seraphim became the priest of St. Innocent Church.
In 1998, St. Innocent received the donation of a small barn a mile east of the town of Rogue River, which was converted to a place for worship. Due to deterioration however, this structure had to be demolished and in 2005, services were moved to St. Catherine’s Russian Orthodox Church in Wimer, Oregon.
While remaining part of the Russian Orthodox Church, St. Innocent is no longer an ethnic parish in people or language. However, even though our members are almost entirely American converts, and all services are in English, St. Innocent strives to maintain the traditional Orthodox ethos, and the ancient way of life and worship.
2016© Russian Orthodox Church in Rogue River Oregon
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WITHIN THE GLASS
Playwrights' Unit
by Anna Chatterton
"One of the best productions in the city this year!"
- Peter Janes, Theatre in London Review
Nominee for the 2017 Governor Generals Award for Drama
A fertility clinic makes a dire mistake, forcing two very different couples to decide the future of an unborn child.
Primal instincts emerge and hilarious chaos ensues.
Within the Glass begins after a critical mistake has been made at a fertility clinic: a fertilized egg has been accidentally implanted into the wrong woman. Two couples from drastically different social circles convene to determine the uncertain future of the IVF child. Primal instincts emerge and passions run high. The play leaves us with the question: What would you do?
Directed by Charlotte Gowdy
Featuring: Jeff Culbert, Niki Landau, Tyler Parr, Francesca Ranalli
Wed, Sept 12 ........... 7:30 pm
Thur, Sept 13 .......... 7:30 pm
Fri, Sept 14 .............. 7:30 pm
Sat, Sept 15 ............. 2:00 pm
Sat Sept 15 .............. 7:30 pm
Sun, Sept 16 ............ 2:00 pm
Tues, Sept 18 .......... 7:30 pm
Sun, Sept 23............. 2:00 pm
VENUE: 211 King Street, London On (the former Novack’s)
TICKETS: $30
STUDENTS: $20
GROUPS: 6 or more $25 per person
Jeff Culbert – Michael
Jeff was in productions of Dear Johnny Deere at the Blyth Festival, Lighthouse Theatre, Theatre Calgary, Thousand Islands Playhouse and Persephone Theatre. He also toured Canada and the US with his solo shows archy and mehitabel and The Donnelly Sideshow. In Port Stanley, he acted in Buying the Farm, The Drawer Boy, Outlaw and Midnight Madness. His own plays that have been produced in London include Choose, But Choose Wisely, Chicken Feather and Running Rude. Jeff is also a director, and for 15 years, he co-ordinated and directed for the Grand Theatre’s PlayWrights Cabaret.
Niki Landau – Darah
Niki has acted in theatres across Canada, in the U.S. and Germany. Selected credits: Mikveh, (Harold Green Jewish Theatre) strangers, babies (Theatre PANIK) Unholy (Nightwood/Buddies in Bad Times), Other People’s Children (Tarragon/PANIK), little tongues (blood projects), Problem Child (BeMe), Apple (Factory), House of Many Tongues (Tarragon), Comedy of Errors(CanStage), Territories (PANIK), After the Orchard (National Arts Centre), Mating Dance of the Werewolf (MTC/Rubicon Theatre), Borderline (SummerWorks), The Dershowitz Protocol (SummerWorks), The Last Night of Ballyhoo (MTC), If We Are Women (Persephone), Reading Hebron (Factory) and Suburban Motel (Factory). Niki is Co-Artistic Director of Theatre PANIK, and a Dora-nominated playwright. Her plays include Territories, Corpse Bride and Gone With The Wind. She teaches acting at York and Seneca.
Tyler Parr – Scott
Tyler is thrilled to be making his Troubadour Theatre Collective's debut performance as Scott in Within The Glass, written by Anna Chatterton. He presently lives and works as an actor in Toronto. Tyler grew up in London, where he spent many years performing theatre and has continued to perform on stage for over 20 years. His most recent theatrical roles have been Poseidon, Trojan Woman and Charles Aiken, August Osage County. He has performed throughout Canada and toured abroad as far as Prague and Turkey. He has performed in television shows such as Murdoch Mysteries and CBBC's kid's show Creeped Out, directed by Bruce McDonald. In 2017 he had the pleasure of being directed by Kiefer Sutherland in one of Kiefer's own music video's. In addition to being a film actor, Tyler is also a filmmaker. His most recent film Ironied was accepted in over 30 festivals worldwide and took home 11 international awards. Tyler feels honoured to be working with Charlotte Gowdy and to be performing alongside such prestigious actors. He would especially like to recognize his friends, family and Kristi Holt for their unwavering support throughout his professional career. Love ya!!
Francesca Ranalli – Linda
Francesca works creatively in theatre, opera and recital. Her work has taken her across Canada and into Europe. Select actor/singer credits include Maggie in Gift of the Magi (FSA Music), Kyra Hollis in Skylight (Troubadour Theatre Collective), Viola in Twelfth Night (Theatre Georgian Bay), Vanda in Venus in Fur and Red in Red (Fountainhead Theatre), Portia in The Merchant of Venice (Salamander Theatre), Alto Soloist in Elijah (FSA Music/London Pro-Musica/London Symphonia),The Mikado (Drayton Entertainment/HCP), Olga in Eugene Onegin and Prince Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus (Ottawa Fringe), and Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro and Kate Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly (Opera Lyra Ottawa/National Arts Centre and National Gallery of Canada). Francesca’s directing credits include Romeo and Juliet (Troubadour Theatre Collective), The Brothers Grimm (Opera Nuova, Edmonton), Assistant Director for Carmen (Opera Nuova, Edmonton) and La Traviata (Highlands Opera Studio). Directing Intern with Opera Nuova, included excerpts from Hamlet, Lakme, Mignon, Louise, and On the Town. Francesca also sings as a classical and jazz soloist in Canada and abroad. A founding member of Troubadour Theatre Collective, she also teaches in the Fanshawe College Acting program. Francesca is grateful to be exploring this exciting play with such wonderful collaborating artists.
Charlotte Gowdy - Director
An award-winning actor / director / educator, Charlotte has been working and playing at theatres across Canada for the past twenty years. She recently completed her third season at the Stratford Festival where she was the Associate Director on Bakkhai, and Assistant Director on The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe and The Taming of the Shrew. Other theatre credits include the Shaw Festival, Canadian Stage, Manitoba Theatre Centre, Neptune Theatre in Halifax, Crow’s, Theatre NorthWest, Thousand Islands Playhouse, Blyth Festival and the Grand Theatre in London. Charlotte is a graduate of both The National Theatre School of Canada and Ecole Philippe Gaulier in Paris, France. She is a passionate educator and has enjoyed being a regular guest teacher in the drama departments of Fanshawe College, Queen’s University, Holland College School for the Performing Arts and the University of PEI. Born and raised in Charlottetown, PEI, Charlotte now makes her home in Stratford, ON.
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Professor Tomoko Matsui, Director of the Communication & Learning Lab, Center for Research in International Education, Tokyo Gakugei University
Prof. Matsui graduated from Waseda University, Tokyo, and earned her PhD in Linguistics from University College London. She subsequently taught at International Christian University, Tokyo, and The Primate Research Institute at Kyoto University, before the current position at Tokyo Gakugei University. She has also conducted research on sabbatical at the Max Plank Institute in Leipzig and Stanford University.
Prof. Matsui’s primary research interest is in the development and disorders of pragmatic ability, i.e. the ability to understand the communicator’s intentions, attitudes and emotions in verbal communication. Her current research investigates young children’s understanding of speaker’s degree of confidence and its relation to development of theory of mind and epistemic vigilance. In addition, her joint project at the Japanese National Institute for Physiological Sciences explores the role of prosody in sarcasm comprehension.
POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOW
Yufuko Takashima, PhD
Kaoru Shinozawa
LAB COORDINATOR
Rie Matsuda
Saeko Higashi
Junko Ido
Mari Ukai
Yume Takano
Shiori Mitomo
LAB ALUMNI Graduate Students
Yukiko Tanaka
Shiwori Kondo
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US probes into French digital services tax
THE United States has launched a Section 301 investigation into France’s planned tax on digital services, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative announced Wednesday.
“The United States is very concerned that the digital services tax which is expected to pass the French Senate tomorrow unfairly targets American companies,” USTR Robert Lighthizer said in a statement.
“The president has directed that we investigate the effects of this legislation and determine whether it is discriminatory or unreasonable and burdens or restricts United States commerce,” Lighthizer said.
France’s lower house of parliament approved last Thursday a tax bill targeting multinational digital giants. The bill foresees a 3-percent tax on the French revenues of digital companies with global revenue of more than 750 million euros (US$845 million), and French revenue over 25 million euros.
“The structure of the proposed new tax as well as statements by officials suggest that France is unfairly targeting the tax at certain U.S.-based technology companies,” the statement claimed.
The United States will continue its efforts with other countries at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) to reach a multilateral agreement to address the challenges to the international tax system posed by an increasingly digitized global economy, the USTR office said.
The Information Technology Industry Council (ITI), a Washington-based trade association representing the information and communications technology industry, Wednesday urged the U.S. Government not to use tariffs as a remedy.
“We support the U.S. Government’s efforts to investigate these complex trade issues but urge it to pursue the 301 investigation in a spirit of international cooperation and without using tariffs as a remedy,” said Jennifer McCloskey, ITI’s vice president of policy, in a statement.
“It is critical that countries around the world cooperate to address these questions, and the ongoing OECD discussions are a promising example of the international collaboration that is necessary to resolve these issues fairly and thoughtfully,” McCloskey said.
The so-called Section 301, under an outdated U.S. trade law adopted in 1974, allows the U.S. president to unilaterally impose tariffs or other trade restrictions on foreign countries. The latest Section 301 investigation could lead the United States to impose new tariffs on French imports, if Washington and Paris cannot reach a negotiated settlement.
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Just a Little More Exercise Can Add Years to Your Life
FRIDAY, April 12, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- No matter your fitness level, adding just a little more exercise may prolong your life, new research suggests.
"People think they have to start going to the gym and exercising hard to get fitter," said researcher Elin Ekblom-Bak, from the Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences in Stockholm.
"But it doesn't have to be that complicated. For most people, just being more active in daily life -- taking the stairs, exiting the metro station early, cycling to work -- is enough to benefit health since levels are so low to start with," she said. "The more you do, the better."
Ekblom-Bak and her colleagues looked at more than 316,000 adults in Sweden, aged 18 to 74, whose heart-lung (cardiorespiratory) fitness was assessed between 1995 and 2015.
Participants rode a stationary cycle to determine the maximum amount of oxygen the heart and lungs can provide the muscles during exercise, a measure called VO2 max.
Overall, the risk of all-cause death and death from cardiovascular events such as heart attack and stroke fell 2.8% to 3.2% for each milliliter increase in VO2 max. The benefits of increased activity were seen in men and women, in all age groups, and at all fitness levels.
The study was to be presented Friday at a European Society of Cardiology meeting, in Lisbon, Portugal. Such research is considered preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed journal.
"It is particularly important to note that an increase in fitness was beneficial, regardless of the starting point," Ekblom-Bak said in a meeting news release. "This suggests that people with lower levels of cardiorespiratory fitness have the most to gain from boosting their fitness."
She said the findings are "more motivational than just telling people they need to do better. People in the lower range of VO2 max will reduce their risk even more [9%] while those at the upper end of VO2 max will reduce their risk by 1%," she said.
Improving fitness should be a public health priority and doctors should assess patients' fitness during health screening, according to Ekblom-Bak.
"Our previous research has shown that fitness levels in the general population have dropped by 10% in the last 25 years," she noted.
"In 2016-2017, almost every second man and woman had a low fitness level, so this is a huge problem," Ekblom-Bak added. "Poor fitness is as detrimental as smoking, obesity and diabetes, even in otherwise healthy adults, yet unlike these other risk factors it is not routinely measured."
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CNN Has Become A Pathetic Joke
Every day it is becoming clearer that CNN, the once proud ratings giant and unquestioned cable network news leader, has abandoned objective journalism to cultivate obsessive hatred for President Donald Trump. CNN has diminished greatly in quality and popularity.
By Jeff Crouere for Townhall
Sadly, CNN has become infected with Trump Derangement Syndrome. The network is filled with liberal hosts and analysts who regularly spew antipathy toward our President. In the aftermath of the infamous White House meeting focused on solving immigration problems including how to deal with DACA recipients, U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) claimed that the President used the word “s…hole” in reference to Haiti and countries in Africa. During the meeting, Trump supposedly asked why the United States should accept more people from those countries instead of countries such as Norway.
Even though the President and two Republican Senators disputed the fact that the crude word was used, CNN decided to air the word “s…hole” 196 times in just one day. This unfortunate decision shows their lack of broadcast standards and common decency. Surely parents with small children, as well as adults who are offended by profanity, were upset to hear such foul language on a formerly respected network.
If the President used the word, at least it was uttered in a private, closed-door and supposedly “off the record” meeting. In contrast, CNN allowed the word to be used during programs aired all throughout their broadcast day.
After focusing almost exclusively on the contentious DACA meeting for days, CNN decided to put their own spin on the issue of the President’s health. On Tuesday, the President’s physician, Rear Admiral Ronny Jackson, publicly addressed the media for almost an hour. He delivered the results of the President’s annual physical and a 30-question cognitive test. Not surprisingly, the President passed both tests with flying colors, actually, scoring a 100% on the cognitive test.
Amazingly, this superlative result upset the hostile news media who questioned the integrity of the President’s physician and the testing methods used. The media was uninterested that Jackson actually served both Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. They wanted a story that the President was somehow “sick.” Thus, CNN interviewed their Chief Medical Correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, who reviewed the test results and diagnosed the President with heart disease. Of course, he never personally examined Trump, but delivered an “expert” medical opinion that the President was dangerously sick. This ludicrous conclusion was derided by even liberal media colleagues and described as “hyperbolic” by U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL), not exactly President Trump’s top supporter. Regrettably, CNN is so invested in their anti-Trump agenda that their on-air personalities cannot even accept a positive medical report delivered by a source with impeccable credentials.
This week, the President also announced his highly anticipated “Fake News Awards.” Among all news outlets, CNN was the overwhelming winner in the unsavory category of “Fake News” by winning four of the ten awards. No other news outlet came close, as clearly CNN stands atop the media world in this area.
Of course, this did not sit well with White House Correspondent Jim Acosta who claimed that the President, not his network, was the “King of Fake News.” Acosta had a tough week after being publicly scolded at news conferences by both White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Director of the Office of Management and Budget Mick Mulvaney. He also was ignominiously thrown out of a news briefing by President Trump, who became agitated after Acosta continued his well-documented pattern of childish behavior and yelled several obnoxious questions. The President simply, but firmly, told Acosta to get “out.”
These disturbing CNN antics are nothing new. The previous week senior presidential advisor for policy, Stephen Miller, was shouted down by unhinged CNN anchor Jake Tapper during the taping of the Sunday show State of the Union. Miller was repeatedly interrupted, and his microphone was turned off. Eventually, Miller was escorted out of the CNN studio because Tapper did not like his answers. Miller had the audacity to criticize CNN for its biased programming. Henceforth, members of the Trump administration should refrain from appearing on any CNN programs.
The White House should already know that CNN is their sworn enemy and working constantly to present the President as negatively as possible. Instead of reporting on the improving stock market, high consumer confidence, historically low unemployment rates, and the success in the battle against ISIS, CNN prefers to give wall-to-wall coverage to any issue that may damage the political standing of President Trump. For example, CNN shows provided extensive coverage of the book of anti-Trump fiction,Fire and Fury, by discredited author Michael Wolff.
CNN will never give President Trump credit for the improving economy and for the two million new jobs created or the bonuses being announced by corporate giants such as Wal-Mart in the wake of the passage of the historic tax cuts. Instead, the network will continue to focus on the questionable Mueller investigation, and tout every conspiracy theory imaginable to damage the credibility and effectiveness of the President.
CNN is a shadow of its former self and functions in a manner that is the complete opposite of how a fair and balanced network should operate. In its infancy, the network cared about reporting the real facts, maintaining objectivity, while being dedicated to true journalism. Today, the network devotes 24 hours a day to one main goal, attacking a man they despise, Donald Trump.
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What is Feminist Neuroethics About?
By Ben Wills
Ben Wills studied Cognitive Science at Vassar College, where his thesis examined cognitive neuroscience research on the self. He is currently a legal assistant at a Portland, Oregon law firm, where he continues to hone his interests at the intersections of brain, law, and society.
As the boundaries of what may be considered “neuroethics” extend with the development of new kinds of technologies and the evolving interests of scholars, its branches encounter substantial structures of adjacent scholarship. “Feminist neuroethics” is a multidimensional construct and a name that can be afforded both to approaches that fall within the bounds of mainstream neuroethics and metatheoretical challenges to the scope and lines of debate within neuroethics. While acknowledging that scholarship at the intersections of academic feminism/gender studies, feminist science studies, ethics, and neuroscience is much more substantial and diverse than I’m considering here, my modest aim in this post is to highlight how the label “feminist neuroethics” has been used to look at what scholars consider important for neuroethics. In so doing we can see what scholars in these fields see as worth highlighting when identifying their work as such.
The phrase “feminist neuroethics” is young, first used (to my knowledge) in peer-reviewed literature by philosopher Peggy DesAutels in her 2010 article on “Sex differences and neuroethics,” published in Philosophical Psychology (though see Chalfin, Murphy, & Karkazis, 2008 for a close antecedent). She writes that, having found herself considering the ethics of neuroscience, the neuroscience of ethics, and sex/gender differences, her “overlapping approach could neatly be summarized as feminist neuroethics” (p. 96, emphasis original).
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DesAutels makes two arguments. First, reviewing the neuroscience literature, she finds it likely that sex/gender differences in certain physical and cognitive domains exist. If so, she argues, such differences ought to inform ethical theory and our understanding of moral behavior. (Left unsaid here, but discussed by DesAutels in other work (e.g., DesAutels, 2015), is the well-established point that ethics as a field has privileged approaches that culturally align with masculinity). On the other hand, if sex/gender differences have been simplified or overstated in neuroscience, this suggests that the research and its representation in the media may themselves contain bias on the basis of sex/gender. In this first piece on feminist neuroethics per se, DesAutels clearly ties feminist neuroethics to issues regarding putative sex/gender differences.
Following DesAutels (2010), “feminist neuroethics” as a label and an identity has been used relatively sparingly. I found two hubs of work explicitly calling themselves “feminist neuroethics.” The first is a special issue of Neuroethics devoted to neuroscience and sex/gender, with contributions from members of the NeuroGenderings network on sex/gender and neuroscience. The guest editors, Isabelle Dussauge and Anelis Kaiser, divide the entries into three sections: (1) proposals of a feminist and gender sensitive neuroscience, (2) alternative accounts of the brain from outside the neurosciences, and (3) reviews of neuroscientific claims concerning gender (Dussauge & Kaiser, 2012). The first section includes articles on difference as it is and can be considered in sex/gender neuroscience (Roy, 2012) and how neuroscience might integrate gender knowledge in a deep way (Nikoleyczik, 2012). The second section includes Cynthia Kraus’s (2012) argument for foregrounding the tensions between gender studies and neuroscience as a path for interdisciplinary headway and Sigrid Schmitz’s (2012) critique of how neuroeconomics reinforces gender norms while relying on a “new neuro-determinism.” It also includes a discussion of the ethics inherent in necessarily reductive fMRI images (Fitsch, 2012) and a demonstration by Cordelia Fine (2012) of how the epistemic and social authority of neuroscience contributes to a feedback loop where neuroscientific data showing sex/gender differences, on the one hand, and gendered behavior and beliefs in society at large, on the other, reinforce each other. In the third section, Catherine Vidal (2012) continues along themes similar to Fine’s and shows how specific research in three behavioral science subdisciplines (skills in language and mathematics, testosterone and financial risk-taking behavior, and moral cognition) overemphasizes sex differences. Rebecca Jordan-Young and Raffaella Rumiati (2012) argue that plasticity and variability ought to replace “hardwired” as prevailing metaphors for neuroscience, and illustrate ethical consequences of the failure to do so.
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The other site of feminist neuroethics, so-named, is from the comprehensive 2015 Springer Handbook of Neuroethics, which dedicates a four-entry section to “feminist neuroethics.” Here, Robyn Bluhm (2015) discusses how feminist philosophy of science and neuroethics intersect, for example by bringing the idea that science is never value-free – a key insight of feminist philosophy of science – to neuroimaging research on sex/gender differences and other topics. DesAutels (2015) traces the rise of feminist ethics in response to the shortcomings of standard philosophical ethics, and suggests that, versus male/female, oppressor/oppressed is a binary that better cuts nurture at its joints. In this section the intersection of critical race theory and cognitive neuroscience through the concept of implicit bias is also addressed (Jacobson & Langley, 2015), and Cordelia Fine and Fiona Fidler (2015) show how null-hypothesis statistical testing (from whence comes the (in)famous p < .05) leads researchers to over-identify sex/gender differences. Fine and Fidler suggest an estimation approach using effect sizes and confidence intervals as a specific remedy.
The above articles contain a great diversity of topics that demonstrate a broad scope of how “feminist neuroethics” as a label has been used describe scholarship. Upon inspection, however, the strongest theme running through this microassortment of literature is clearly sex/gender differences. Some of the questions asked include: what the nature and scope of putative sex/gender differences might (or might not) be, which questions about sex/gender are important and why, how these questions are being answered by scientists and ethicists alike, and the ethical significance of sex/gender research and findings. Clearly, given this emphasis so far, feminist neuroethics finds this topic to be important. We should keep listening.
Bluhm, R. (2015). Feminist philosophy of science and neuroethics. In Handbook of Neuroethics. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4707
Chalfin, M. C., Murphy, E. R., & Karkazis, K. a. (2008). Women’s neuroethics? Why sex matters for neuroethics. The American Journal of Bioethics?: AJOB, 8(1), 1–2. https://doi.org/10.1080/15265160701829038
DesAutels, P. (2010). Sex differences and neuroethics. Philosophical Psychology, 23(1), 95–111. https://doi.org/Doi 10.1080/09515080903532266
DesAutels, P. (2015). Feminist Ethics and Neuroethics. In Handbook of Neuroethics (pp. 1421–1434). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4707-4_155
Dussauge, I., & Kaiser, A. (2012). Neuroscience and Sex/Gender. Neuroethics, 5(3), 211–215. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12152-012-9165-5
Fine, C. (2012). Explaining, or Sustaining, the Status Quo? The Potentially Self-Fulfilling Effects of “Hardwired” Accounts of Sex Differences. Neuroethics, 5(3), 285–294. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12152-011-9118-4
Fine, C., & Fidler, F. (2015). Sex and Power: Why Sex/Gender Neuroscience Should Motivate Statistical Reform. In Handbook of Neuroethics (pp. 1447–1462). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4707-4_156
Fitsch, H. (2012). (A)e(s)th(et)ics of Brain Imaging. Visibilities and Sayabilities in Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Neuroethics, 5(3), 275–283. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12152-011-9139-z
Jacobson, A. J., & Langley, W. (2015). A Curious Coincidence: Critical Race Theory and Cognitive Neuroscience. In Handbook of Neuroethics (pp. 1435–1446). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4707-4_157
Jordan-Young, R., & Rumiati, R. I. (2012). Hardwired for Sexism? Approaches to Sex/Gender in Neuroscience. Neuroethics, 5(3), 305–315. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12152-011-9134-4
Kraus, C. (2012). Critical Studies of the Sexed Brain: A Critique of What and for Whom? Neuroethics, 5(3), 247–259. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12152-011-9107-7
Nikoleyczik, K. (2012). Towards Diffractive Transdisciplinarity: Integrating Gender Knowledge into the Practice of Neuroscientific Research. Neuroethics, 5(3), 231–245. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12152-011-9135-3
Roy, D. (2012). Neuroethics, Gender and the Response to Difference. Neuroethics, 5(3), 217–230. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12152-011-9130-8
Vidal, C. (2012). The Sexed Brain: Between Science and Ideology. Neuroethics, 5(3), 295–303. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12152-011-9121-9
Wills, B. (2017). What is feminist neuroethics about? The Neuroethics Blog. Retrieved on , from http://www.theneuroethicsblog.com/2017/03/what-is-feminist-neuroethics-about.html
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If you're trying to connect to a remote media source with Kodi, a VPN would likely play a different role. It might, for example, prevent your ISP from determining what you're up to. It might also be useful if you're connecting to a third-party service for Kodi that allows streaming of copyright-infringing material. Keep in mind, however, that some VPN services specifically forbid the use of their services for copyright infringement.
Wi-Fi attacks, on the other hand, are probably far more common than we'd like to believe. While attending the Black Hat convention, researchers saw thousands of devices connecting to a rogue access point. It had been configured to mimic networks that victim's devices had previously connected to, since many devices will automatically reconnect to a known network without checking with the user. That's why we recommend getting a VPN app for your mobile device to protect all your mobile communications. Even if you don't have it on all the time, using a mobile VPN is a smart way to protect your personal information.
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IVPN was one of the fastest providers when we tested US servers using the Internet Health Test. Our budget pick, TorGuard, was faster, but it defaults to the less secure 128-bit encryption. Our non-VPN connection tested at roughly 300 Mbps down. Some tested services are not listed because connection failures prevented some of our tests from completing.
Think about it this way: If your car pulls out of your driveway, someone can follow you and see where you are going, how long you are at your destination, and when you are coming back. They might even be able to peek inside your car and learn more about you. With a VPN service, you are essentially driving into a closed parking garage, switching to a different car, and driving out, so that no one who was originally following you knows where you went.
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What Is Gas Depletion?
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Written By: Cindy Quarters
Edited By: Shereen Skola
Natural gas is a non-renewable source of energy, which means that when it is used up it is gone forever. The process of using gas, typically pumping it up from the ground, is called gas depletion. As far as the average consumer is concerned, it means that there is less gas available for use in the home or on the job. The term gas depletion can refer either to the status of a single well or gas field, or to the amount of available gas when considered as a whole.
Gas depletion is a very serious problem. Less available gas means reduced resources for cooking, heating, and other uses. Prices go up, making it harder for consumers to afford this necessity. Since gas is seldom shipped overseas, areas that run out of gas are faced with the inescapable fact of gas depletion and the need to discover other methods of affordable energy production. The alternative is to find new gas deposits before the old ones are gone.
The production of natural gas in any given area tends to resemble a bell curve if plotted on a graph. Initial levels are small, gradually increasing until the field is outputting its maximum amount. As the gas is removed, production levels begin to drop off. The output of the well is affected by the gas depletion, and eventually there is no more gas available from that source and operations at that site are stopped.
Areas faced with the possibility of gas depletion, such as the United States, are sometimes able to make use of existing gas fields through the development of new technology. The Barnett shale formations in Texas are an example of this. The formation covers more than 5,000 square miles (about 8047 square km), and contains an estimated 2.5 trillion cubic feet (70.79 billion cubic meters) of natural gas. Until recently it seemed unlikely that this deposit would be able to be used, since it was not economically feasible to extract the gas from this type of rock.
New drilling techniques known as horizontal fracturing and horizontal drilling, however, have made such extraction viable. These methods have allowed drilling companies to tap into this huge resource, making natural gas readily available at an affordable price. Concerns about gas depletion in the United States in the immediate future have been eased as the additional gas deposits provide more time for other energy methods to be more fully developed. Other countries are also able to make use of these techniques and tap into previously unavailable reserves.
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17 Books That Should Be On Your Radar: May 2017
Every month, the Writer’s Bone crew reviews or previews books we've read or want to read. This series may or may not also serve as a confessional for guilty pleasures and hipster novels only the brave would attempt. Feel free to share your own suggestions in the comments section or tweet us @WritersBone.
Salt Houses by Hala Alyan
Daniel Ford: Hala Alyan’s debut novel Salt Houses is an incredibly beautiful, tender read. Her prose feels personal and lived-in, her characters seem like they’re ready to wander into your kitchen and have a cup of tea with you, and her dialogue is as lyrical and poignant as her poetry. There’s a real heartbeat on every page of this novel.
One of the things I love most about the book is how it’s structured. She jumps from character to character while moving forward several years in the timeline. This allowed her to explore themes like the aftermath of war and the development of personal and familial relationships in a way typically reserved for short story collections. Alyan crafted some powerful lines about love, family, and conflict that only someone who had this story in her bones could have pulled off.
As I said during my interview with the author (which you can listen to on May 8), human stories like the ones found in Salt Houses need to be told widely and often during these troubled political times. Pain and suffering weren’t just invented after Nov. 8, 2016. Humanity has been grappling with issues like identity, race, property, nationalism, and warfare since human’s stepped over the threshold of their cave dwellings thousands of years ago. Thankfully, novels like Salt Houses can delve into those seemingly intractable subjects in a moving and haunting way in the hopes of raising the level of our discourse.
The Wrong Side Of Goodbye by Michael Connelly
Sean Tuohy: Detective Harry Bosch is back in Michael Connelly’s latest thriller. The relentless LAPD detective is hired to find the missing heir to a billion-dollar fortune, while also trying to capture a serial rapist. Connelly is able to make each novel feel fresh and full of life. His characters are well developed, the plot is fast-paced, and you never know what will happen next.
Marlena by Julie Buntin
Daniel: From the isolated cold of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula to the impersonal, sun-kissed skyscrapers of New York City, Julie Buntin’s haunting Marlena is a coming-of-age story with real teeth.
Fifteen-year-old Cat’s world is off its axis when we first meet her. Her mother has dragged her and her brother to rural Michigan (where they can barely make ends meet), and Cat makes friends with Marlena, an abused drug addict who sets in motion a litany of “firsts” for our troubled heroine. Marlena ends up drowning in six inches of water, and Cat’s life is never the same.
Buntin explores Cat’s psyche and motivations by bouncing back and forth from past to present. The contrast between the simple, hardscrabble life Cat leads in Michigan and her trendy, avant-garde New York City existence couldn’t be more stark, and, in many ways, more heartbreaking.
Marlena is incredibly well written and structured for a debut novel (especially when you consider Buntin wrote a good chunk of it on Google Docs!). Buntin’s passion and dedication to the craft is evident on every page, and you’ll be ready for more of her work as soon as you finish the book.
Janesville, An American Story by Amy Goldstein
Gary Almeter: I have, in the past few months, read Evicted by Matthew Desmond and Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance, so fancied myself an expert on the effects of post-industrialization on the Midwest and Appalachia. (Evicted has since won the Pulitzer.) So I thought it intriguing to see another middle class-focused book, this one about the closing of a General Motors plant in a Wisconsin town called Janesville.
Janesville, An American Story endeavors to chronicle the stories of people in that town following the plant's shutdown. What Goldstein, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, has done here is astonishing. In an engrossing, chronological format, she follows several families, community leaders, politicians, and corporate representatives. She provides facts and the details that make up a life that newspaper headlines just can’t adequately convey.
Little Victories by Jason Gay
Mike Nelson: For six years I’ve been riding the bus to work. As a veteran, you can tell who’s a pro, who’s new, and who hasn’t been on wheels since their drunk uncle pulled them around in a Radio Flyer at a family reunion screaming, “And down the stretch they come,” while spilling his mint julep all over himself, you, and his soon-to-be-ex-girlfriend’s daughter sitting behind you. There are rules to be followed on the bus, etiquette to be embraced, common courtesy and thoughtfulness, and funny moments to be had.
This is exactly the type of thing you’ll find in Jason Gay’s Little Victories (but this, specifically, is not a thing you’ll find in his book). Gay, a sports writer for The Wall Street Journal, has had my attention for years as a refreshing voice who can make you think, learn, and laugh out loud (a breach of bus etiquette) all in the course of a paragraph. His stories range from interviewing Rihanna to playing touch football with his family at Thanksgiving to what it’s like to lose your job—each one sticking with you and teaching you lessons you might not need just yet but maybe someday will.
I have three complaints about Little Victories (this is how I rope you in to read the third paragraph of a book review for something you haven’t read):
This is not a very long book (~200 pages), and even if you try to stretch it out, it goes too fast. I want more, Jason.
I wish I saved this book for the summer because it is an absolutely perfect beach read.
I can’t remember how to write with my own voice because Gay’s writing style is so infectious.
The River of Kings by Taylor Brown
Daniel: I read Taylor Brown’s stunning debut Fallen Land in two sittings midway through 2015. I then had to wait six months to crow about it. (The novel ended up at #3 on our best books of 2016 list.) Brown’s sophomore effort, The River of Kings, was released this past March and I’m taking a different approach to reading it. Instead of rapidly powering through the novel, I’m savoring every sentence, every character, every line of dialogue, every chapter. There’s something about Brown’s writing that feels like home, regardless of what he’s putting his characters through. He’s a special talent, one that’s just going to get better with age.
American War by Omar El Akkad
Daniel: Omar El Akkad’s American War follows ably in the footsteps of Ben H. Winter’s Underground Airlines. The novel features a dystopian America, a second Civil War, shadowy characters, familial angst, and a culture that (horrifyingly) doesn’t feel too different than our own.
Within the thrilling tale lies a coming-of-age story (don’t they all?) for the main character Sarat. The young American refugee makes decisions that have implications for not only herself, but for the nation ravaged by war. The book’s release could not have been better timed, and offers a fictional cautionary tale to our politically divided country.
A Brutal Bunch Of Heartbroken Saps by Nick Kolakowski
Sean: I recently received this book from the author and I’m loving it. This is a must read for fans of gritty, hardboiled storytelling. Bill, a man on a run, has the misfortune of being taken hostage during his cross-country escape. Written by someone has a passion for the crime genre, this brutal story balances humor and violence brilliantly.
The Dinner Party by Joshua Ferris
Gary: I just got an email notification from my library that my copy of Joshua Ferris' The Dinner Party is ready for me to pick up on the reserve shelf. I reserved it back in January (I was the first one to do so), and periodically checked on it to make sure things were all systems go with the reservation.
This is one of the highlights of my 2017. Ferris is an author who makes books and writing cool. He’s the closest thing literature has to Matt Damon. His three novels have been spectacular. He chronicles the absurdity and the normalcy of life in the 21st century with characters that are likable and simple (and with whom we can all identify). This collection of short stories (many of which have appeared in The New Yorker already) is his first. The title story, about a dinner party, is a doozy.
By Josh Cook, author of An Exaggerated Murder
Tell Me How It Ends by Valeria Luiselli
In perhaps the most important book of 2017, Luiselli tells the story of her time volunteering as an interpreter for undocumented children fleeing violence in Central and South America seeking residency in the United States. Luiselli tries to change the way we talk about immigration, especially from our Southern neighbors, by exploring our complicity in the crises that turned these people into refugees and reminding us that quite often, when we're talking about “illegal aliens” and “undocumented immigrants,” or whatever other term someone might try to scare us with, we're talking about children.
The One-Eyed Man by Ron Currie
An exercise in questioning our assumptions, an examination of the state of our political discourse, and an exploration of the value of being irrational. Obviously, the topical aspects of Currie's great book stand out; reality television, political punditry, what counts for debate on cable, and the madness surrounding the American gun debate, but I think Currie's real target and real brilliance is something both smaller and bigger: how do we make sense of death and how do we figure out how to live.
Recitation by Bae Suah
A drifting lyrical book about place and identity that follows the story—as much as there is a story—of a mysterious Korean recital actress wandering through cities, lives, and apartments.
The Warren by Brian Evenson
If there is such a thing as “sci-fi noir” (and I'd argue there is) Evenson (who also writes more literary short stories) is a master of the genre. This novella is a good introduction to Evenson's dark, gritty, cynical fiction. Definitely for fans of PKD
Unbearable Splendor by Sun Yung Shin
Poetry as essay? Essayistic poems? Poetic essay? There are even some charts. Sometimes the pieces feel more like poems with fluid grammar and freer themes and some feel like they have the focus and coherence of essays. I love books like this that ask questions just by existing.
Hothouse by Karyna McGlynn
McGlynn is a favorite of mine. Her poems have a dark sense of humor and an interesting kind of intimidating sexuality to some of them. Though she is probably closest to Patricia Lockwood in style at the moment, this collection also has the weirdness that I love in James Tate
Make: A Decade of Literary Art
An anthology of short stories, essays, poems, and art from the literary magazine Make. Make isn't a magazine I'm familiar with, but it's a beautiful book and includes work by some great authors like Valeria Luiselli, Maggie Nelson, Dorothea Lasky, Martin Seay, Alejandro Zambara, and Kate Zambreno.
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USA.com / New York / Westchester County / West Harrison, NY / 10604
10604 zip code is located in southeast New York. 10604 zip code is part of Westchester County. 10604 zip code has 6.81 square miles of land area and 1.25 square miles of water area. As of 2010-2014, the total 10604 zip code population is 11,397, which has grown 9.27% since 2000. The population growth rate is much higher than the state average rate of 3.26% and is lower than the national average rate of 11.61%. 10604 zip code median household income is $81,814 in 2010-2014 and has grown by 30.79% since 2000. The income growth rate is lower than the state average rate of 35.25% and is higher than the national average rate of 27.36%. 10604 zip code median house value is $656,800 in 2010-2014 and has grown by 79.95% since 2000. The house value growth rate is lower than the state average rate of 90.79% and is much higher than the national average rate of 46.91%. As a reference, the national Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation rate for the same period is 26.63%. On average, the public school district that covers 10604 zip code is close to the state average in quality. The 10604 zip code area code is 914.
Population 11,397 (2010-2014), rank #483
Population Density: 1,413.09/sq mi, rank #481
Median Household Income: $81,814 at 2010-2014—30.79% increase since 2000, see rank
Median House Price: $656,800 at 2010-2014—79.95% increase since 2000, see rank
Land Area: 6.81 sq mi, rank #1063
Water Area: 1.25 sq mi (15.53%), rank #177
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County: Westchester County
City: West Harrison
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Who Owns a Meteorite?
By Geneva Cobb Iijima, Oregon City
From Odyssey, February 1995 (Vol.4, No.2), Peterborough, NH
Excerpt courtesy of the Hayden Planetarium, all rights reserved
Who owns a meteorite? Annie Campbell, Stephanie Corey, and their third grader classmates in Lake Oswego, Oregon, puzzled over that question in 1990 when they learned that the largest meteorite ever discovered in the United States was found in the hills a few kilometers from their home town. So why was it now thousands of kilometers away, in the American Museum of Natural History in New York City?
While studying Oregon history, the third graders learned that the meteorite, which measures 3.1 meters long, 2.1 meters wide, and 1.3 meters tall, and resembles a Volkswagen bug in shape, was found by Ellis Hughes while walking in the woods in 1902.
Hughes spent many months logging a 1.2-kilometer path through the forest between the meteorite and his farm. He built a cart and moved the 15.5-ton meteorite with the help of only his wife, his 15-year-old son, a horse, a capstan, and a block and tackle, down a hill and across a canyon to his property. But a court battle over the ownership of the meteorite followed. The Oregon Iron and Steel Company, on whose land the meteorite was found, claimed legal ownership. Oregon Iron and Steel won the battle, and company officials then sold the meteorite to Elizabeth E. Dodge II. She in turn donated it to the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
(Actually, the history of the meteorite goes back to a time even before Hughes' discovery, when the Clackamas Indians named it "tomonowos,"" or '"visitor from the moon."' They believed the meteorite was sacred, and before going to war, Indian braves dipped their spears in rain- water that had collected in its craters.)
The students decided to try to return this ancient part of Oregon's history to the people of their area. They organized the Help End Willamette Meteorite Absence committee (HEWMAC). Class members wrote letters to senators, representatives, radio and television stations, and state officials, asking for their help. They contacted the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) and got the museum to promise to make a suitable home for it.
Thirty-eight thousand children in Oregon and Washington signed petitions requesting that the meteorite be returned. Third-grade students Charlie Watts, Kelly Brown, Graham Rasmussen, Stephanie Corey, and Annie Campbell gave testimony in 1991 regarding the Willamette meteorite. Senator Bob Packwood of Oregon introduced a bill supporting the students' efforts. OMSI offered to make some kind of trade with the American Museum of Natural History-- possibly offering Oregon trees to be planted in parks across New York as a-symbol of friendship between the children of New York and Oregon.
On September 17, 1990, however, William A. Gutsch Jr., chairman of the American Museum of Natural History, wrote that walls would have to be removed in order to take the meteorite out of Hayden Planetarium, where it was on display at the museum. There was also a concern as to whether it could be safely transported across the country.
Writing about the importance of not removing the Willamette Meteorite from the collection, Gutsch said, "Major concern rests on the unique scientific importance of this meteorite, and the scientific research that has and will be done on it as part of one of the most important collections of meteorites in the world.... Scientists here believe that shipping it away would cause irreparable harm to the meteorite itself, and the ability of scientists to study it in context of the related collection."
Undaunted, HEWMAC continued its campaign. An engineering firm offered technical assistance in getting the meteorite out of Hayden Planetarium, and two van lines offered to transport it. Annie and Stephanie appeared on "The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson," and Annie was interviewed on National Public Radio.
When the children were in sixth grade, Oregon Representative Les AuCoin considered introducing a bill that would require withholding of federal funding from the American Museum of Natural History until the Willamette Meteorite was returned. By this time, however, officials at OMSI felt that instead of fostering friendship between the children of Oregon and New York, the issue had become too political. So Annie, Stephanie, and all the children of HEWMAC backed down.
"I'm sad that we didn't succeed in bringing back the Willamette Meteorite,'' says Annie Campbell, now in eighth grade. "But it was a positive experience. We learned so much about science, history, writing, talking to the media, and how our government works."
Who owns a meteorite? Many Oregon students still believe it is part of the local history in the area where it is found, and thus should remain in that area. What do you think?
Geneva Cobb lijima is a science lover who writes for many different publications. She lives in Oregon City, Oregon.
Go to The Amazing Heavenly and Earthly Journey of The Willamette Meteorite
Go to Strange Journey: Further Travels of the Willamette Meteorite
Go to Clackamas County's History Page
Go to Clackamas County's Main Page
NEWS ABOUT THE GRAND RONDE TRIBES' CAMPAIGN TO BRING THE METEORITE HOME
Visit the ALHN's Main Page Email: jkohnen@verizon.net
Web site by Patricia Kohnen: Home (Clackamas County Oregon History and Genealogy)
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Florence Duomo
November 10, 2014 By Florian Leave a Comment
The Duomo in Florence Italy is actually called Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore, the complete building is referred to as Duomo, not only the dome on top, which is called the Cupola. This is a confusing fact, because the word Duomo really sounds a lot like it represents the dome, which it does not. When you refer to the dome on top of the Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore you speak of the Cupola, when you speak of the cathedral itself refer to Florence Duomo, or Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore if you want to show off. In Florence, we also use the word Duomo to define the complex of monuments including the Cathedral, the Crypt, the Bell Tower, the Dome, the Baptistery and the Opera del Duomo Museum.
The Cathedral has quite an interesting history. The order for the design of the Duomo was given at the end of the 13th century and the Duomo had to replace the smaller Santa Reparata. The Duomo would be devoted to Maria yet the name that was chosen, Santa Maria del Fiore, also referred to the name of the city we now call Florence which was Fiorenza at that time. Florence was the center of the world and this new cathedral had to represent that dominance in the world and overshadow the cathedrals of Siena and Pisa.
Arnolfo di Cambio made the drawings for the Duomo and the build started in 1296 to end abruptly in 1310 when Arnolfo di Cambio died. In 1334 Giotto di Bondone was appointed construction master and construction continued. Giotto added the campanile to the project, this campanile is now referred to as the Giotto’s Bell tower.
Giotto died in 1337 and Andrea Pisano took over the project, which was halted again on 1348 due to the plague that spread through Europe at that time.
Duomo and Palazzo vecchio from Bardini gardens
Brunelleschi's dome from giardino Bardini
Florence Duomo from Giardino bardini
Wisteria blooming on a nice background
Brunelleschi's dome from the "English" side of the garden
Medici Chapel
In 1349 construction of the Duomo continued again with Architect Francesco Talenti who completed the Bell Tower; then, in 1364, a commission approved a revision of the project, deciding to make the church even larger. All the walls and the roof were completed by 1421, but there was a problem: the Cupola had to be built but the architects had no idea how to support the enormously heavy dome.
Brunelleschi’s dome
The Opera del Duomo, the institution responsible for building the Cathedral, was well aware of this problem and some years earlier, in 1418, started to listen to architects to find a solution. One of the ideas was to fill the cathedral with dirt (to sustain the dome under construction) and put gold coins inside the dirt to encourage the people of Florence to digg out the dirt after construction had finished. This fascinating idea was never carried out and the Opera del Duomo organized a competition in which architects could send in their ideas and have a chance to win and be appointed master builder of the Duomo. Filippo Brunelleschi had an idea but refused to share it and even coded his calculations so that the competition could not run off with his ideas. The commission didn’t accept this at first but had to in the end because no other really great ideas were send in. Filippo Brunelleschi started working on the Cupola on April 14th 1420 with his ambitious double shell idea and finally in 1436 the Duomo was finished after 140 years of construction. Pope Eugenius IV initiated cathedral. Brunelleschi’s dome is considered the greatest achievement of architecture during the Renaissance.
Famous artwork in Florence Duomo
Giotto’s bell tower
Clock – Paolo Uccello
Final Judgement fresco – Giorgio Vasari and Federico Zuccari
Watch this video on Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore:
The Duomo Complex and Its Hidden Terraces
Duomo Tour Secret Terraces Visit and Restoration Workshop
Baptistery Secret Passages and Opera del Duomo Museum Tour
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Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me
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Los Scandalous – Skid Row
See what makes Skid Row tick, a tell all, never before seen, raw documentary about the harsh reality of the street life in Los Scandalous – Skid Row. The homeless…
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You’re Invited: The Making of Night of the Demons
After Porn Ends 3 continues to explore whether a career as an adult performer is inherently damaging to the balance of a perfomers life once retired.
This coming of age documentary chronicles the life of NBA All Star Steve Nash as he tries to navigate his way through the somewhat toils of professional sports while trying…
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King of Beasts
The story of lion trophy hunters in Africa. KING OF BEASTS offers a close-up on the world of the controversial ‘sport” of lion hunting.
Night Will Fall
When Allied forces liberated the Nazi concentration camps in 1944-45, their terrible discoveries were recorded by army and newsreel cameramen, revealing for the first time the full horror of what…
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The Square, a new film by Jehane Noujaim (Control Room; Rafea: Solar Mama), looks at the hard realities faced day-to-day by people working to build Egypt’s new democracy. Catapulting us…
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After Porn Ends 2 picks up where its predecessor left off, and not only turns back the clock to meet the oldest living stars in adult film’s history, but goes…
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Mubiru Reagan’s life depends on a football scholarship. His dream is to emulate his idol, Fernando Torres, and be able to score a goal that will take his country, Uganda,…
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Comedians Negin Farsad and Dean Obeidallah lead an all-star Muslim comedy performing in big cities, small towns, liberal enclaves, conservative hotbeds, rural and everything in between to …
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Gasland Part II
Two years ago, Josh Fox introduced us to hydraulic fracturing with his Oscar®-nominated exposé Gasland. Now this once-touted energy source has become a widely discussed, contentious topic. In his follow-up,…
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Directed by Michael Anderson
Produced by Kevin McClory, William Cameron Menzies & Michael Todd
Written by: Novel: Jules Verne
Screenplay: James Poe, John Farrow & S.J. Perelman
Mario Moreno “Cantinflas”
Music by Victor Young
Cinematography Lionel Lindon
Editing by Howard Epstein, Gene Ruggiero & Paul Weatherwax
Distributed by 1956 – 1976: United Artists
1983 – present: Warner Brothers
Around The World In 80 Days is a film that I loved to watch as a kid, despite its very lengthy running time. Watching the film today it doesn’t really hold up as being so special, but it is a fine film nonetheless.
The film follows Jules Verne’s novel with the exception of the scenes in the balloon and the bullfight in Spain, which I gather were done just to give the fans of the Mexican Cantinflas, who plays Passepartout, something to cheer about. I am not so sure about the choice of Cantinflas to play the ‘worthy fellow’. Verne’s Passepartout is a Parisian, not latino, and unlike the way he is portrayed in the film he is not a skirt chasing comic relief.
I wonder if this could be the reason why I did not enjoy the film this time around. I have recently read and enjoyed the novel and found the film adaptation to be lacking in detail and quite watered down. The film seems to go from one scene to the next without any growth for the characters (Shirley MacLaine’s Aouda is just there and unlike her namesake in the novel adds very little to the plot). There is really colourful and spectacular scenery and lots of cameos but ultimately while the film is fun, it feels a little empty. It feels very rushed compared to the novel and some vital plotpoints are left out or tweaked. Despite the film being 3 hours long it feels much shorter although some scenes are a little pointless and seemed just designed to show off the special guest star who is playing a cameo rather than furthering the plot. Perhaps if the film spent more time on the plot and of developing the major characters and less on trying to tell the world that a certain guest star is appearing in a particular scene I would have enjoyed the film a little more.
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Single ticket claims $530 million Mega Millions jackpot
Somebody in California just got a whole lot richer.
A single ticket, sold in San Diego, claimed Friday night's $530 million Mega Millions jackpot, ABC News reports. That comes with a cash option payout of $345.2 million, according to contest officials.
The numbers were 17-19-27-40-68 with a Mega Ball of 2.
The winning ticket was sold at Sorrento Deli Mart, located a short walk from the famous Torrey Pines Golf Course.
Even if you didn't win the big prize, there were three tickets -- in California, Arizona and Washington -- that matched all five white balls to claim $1 million each.
There was no winner of the $444 million jackpot up for grabs in the last drawing, so the Friday prize rose to an estimated $530 million -- the seventh-largest in the game's history.
It is the 15th-largest jackpot overall in U.S. lottery history.
The $530 million prize is the largest claimed in the game since October 2018, when someone in South Carolina anonymously claimed a record $1.5 billion jackpot.
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Harper batting leadoff can't spark reeling Phillies
The Philadelphia Phillies put outfielder Bryce Harper into the leadoff spot for Thursday night's game against the Washington Nationals in hopes of putting a spark back into the top of their lineup.
Harper went 1-for-5 with three strikeouts in the Phillies' 7-4 loss. Cleanup hitterRhys Hoskinswas moved up to the No. 2 slot in the order and went 0-for-4 with a strikeout.
"The thought process is, we feel like we're a more successful club when we see pitches in the first inning,'' manager Gabe Kapler said before the game.
He insisted it had nothing to do with Harper's 4-for-24 struggle over the previous eight games, noting, "This was designed to spark the Philadelphia Phillies."
Since June 4, when Andrew McCutchen suffered a season-ending knee injury, Phillies leadoff hitters have ranked last in the MLB in batting average (.115), on-base percentage (.220), slugging percentage (.154) and OPS (.374). They also have only one extra-base hit in 13 games.
McCutchen had a .378 on-base percentage and .457 slugging percentage before his injury, and was hitting .256 with 10 home runs and 29 RBIs.
Harper hit leadoff 28 times with the Nationals, 16 times in 2013 and 12 in 2018 when he was struggling. He had a .217 batting average in the leadoff spot last year but homered four times.
This season, his first with the Phillies after signing a 13-year, $330 million contract, Harper is batting .243 with 12 home runs and 49 RBIs.
ShortstopJean Segura, who had struggled in the leadoff spot, was dropped to fifth in the lineup. He went 1-for-4 with a solo home run a day after he failed to hustle to first base in the first inning of Wednesday's second game against the Nationals.
Kapler spoke with Segura about the incident but stopped short of benching him Thursday.
"I don't think taking one of our eight best players, and our shortstop, out of the lineup is what's best for the Philadelphia Phillies," Kapler said.
He addressed the situation by watching video of the misdeed with Segura on Wednesday. "He was accountable and strong in saying, 'That can't happen,'" Kapler said.
The Phillies, who were swept in a doubleheader by the Nationals on Wednesday, have lost four straight and eight of their past 10 games. They trail the Atlanta Braves by 4 games in the National League East standings.
Information from The Associated Press and ESPN Stats & Information was used in this report.
Harper thrown out at the dish
Bryce Harper's former teammate Adam Eaton fires a screamer to get Harper out at the plate.
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USA Today Bestselling author, A.D. Trosper grew up moving around a lot, many times from state to state. Her favorite was western Washington where she truly felt connected to the land around her. It was, and still is, the place her soul calls home. The combination of the ocean and mountains, the forest and people, the culture and food, have always been her version of perfection, though she currently resides on the plains of central Kansas. While it doesn’t have the ocean or the mountains, she finds plenty of beauty in the wild storms and stunning skies.
During the many moves, she often found books, and the characters within them, were her most consistent companions. Nothing was quite like revisiting old friends among well-worn pages and tattered covers and reliving the adventures to be had within the words. Through her older brother, she was introduced to Dungeons and Dragons at an early age and developed a taste for magic and the fantastical. She created many stories in her imagination about the dragons that graced the front of the game books.
She developed a deep love of reading at a young age and while an eclectic reader who enjoys multiple genres, she has a soft spot for both magic and a good love story. Like her reading, her love of music ranges from classical to metal, depending on her mood. When not buried in a book, her favorite pastimes are hanging out with her husband, gaming with her kids, and cooking.
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The Search for Fraggle Rock
Posted on August 7, 2012 by Jonathan Melville
It shouldn’t happen to a TV show. The result of months of work by a team of professionals, who then pass it on to a broadcaster to transmit to a few million viewers who then (hopefully) embrace it to their collective bosoms, a great TV programme should then be allowed to retire to an archive somewhere, occasionally receiving visitors in the shape of satellite channels or a DVD company.
In the case of Fraggle Rock, Jim Henson’s 1980s series which brought weird puppets and conflict resolution to teatime telly, something seems to have gone badly wrong in those archives.
Henson’s dream was to have series that appeared to be small-scale to the casual observer, but which underneath was a complex network of international co-production deals and filming schedules. The theory was that children would react better to a series made in their language and with references they understood.
Each episode would start in the “real” world with some business about an old man called The Captain (Fulton Mackay) living in Fraggle Rock lighthouse with his dog, Sprocket. After a few minutes the scene would then switch to an underground world of Fraggles, led obstensibly by young Gobo (Jerry Nelson). There would then follow an adventure in which one Fraggle would get into trouble and the others would save him/her while learning a valuable lesson about life.
If you watched Fraggle Rock in the UK then the lighthouse “wraparound” bit will sound familiar, though Fulton Mackay was replaced by John Gordon Sinclair and Simon O’Brien in later years. If you lived in America, Australia, Scandinavia, Spain or numerous other countries you would have seen Doc (Gerry Parkes), an inventor, interact with Sprocket. Doc’s mini-adventures took place in his garage.
French and German audiences again got their own wraparounds with local actors playing Doc.
Though Fraggle Rock went on to become a huge success around the world, spawning 96 episodes in total, that simple idea involving co-production deals would be the series downfall when it came to repeats, at least it was here in the UK thanks to TVS, a now defunct TV station, producing the UK wraparounds.
When TVS lost their licence in 1992, their back catalogue, and the documentation detailing it, was a victim of massive upheaval behind the scenes, resulting in only 12 episodes of the UK Fraggle Rock now officially remaining in the vaults. These were released on DVD a few years ago from HIT Entertainment on Region 2.
A bit of research (well, Googling) over the years from yours truly leads me to believe that, despite HIT contacting The Jim Henson Company to enquire about the episodes, the original master tapes are indeed missing. As is usually the way of these things, the fans are also doing a bit of digging around and, according to some recent posts on a missing episodes forum, we can add a further 17 broadcast quality episodes held by the BFI to the 12 that came out on DVD.
According to that post, fan Alex Taylor has a further 28 episode recorded off air (on his own video recorder), bringing the total number of Fraggle Rock UK episodes known to exist up to 57 – he’s kindly listed them all over on his own website.
I was fortunate enough to interview the producer of the UK wraparounds, Victor Pemberton, a few years ago and he mentioned that he at one time had every episode on VHS but that he wasn’t sure if he still had them in the basement.
The reason for my summing all of this up is that this week saw The Jim Henson Company upload six new clips to their excellent YouTube channel featuring Fulton Mackay as The Captain. Of the six clips, three now only exist as fan owned, off air, non broadcast quality episodes – The Trash Heap Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, Sir Hubris and the Gorgs and The Garden Plot – and yet they all look in perfect condition to me:
So what does this mean for the existence of more UK episodes at The Jim Henson Company? Are these merely clips that have been lying around that have now been put online in isolation? Or are these excerpts from full episodes held by Henson that could, theoretically, be released in full? Do they have more clips still to be put online?
I’ve been holding back publishing this post for a few days as I’ve emailed the team at Henson to ask what the situation is, but assuming they’re busy with more pressing issues I may not hear back for a while.
It’s also useful to raise the subject once again in case any reader of this post has an episode on VHS that is missing, presumed gone. If so, feel free to let me know in the comments and we can try to get it into some new archive…
Posted in Television, TV: 1980s, US TV | Tagged Fraggle Rock, Fulton Mackay, Jim Henson, The Muppets, Victor Pemberton, Walt Disney | 5 Replies
An open letter to Jason Segel re: The Muppets
Posted on February 22, 2011 by Jonathan Melville
Dear Jason,
How are things over in Hollywood? Right about now you’re probably knee-deep in felt as your dream project, The Muppets, slowly comes to fruition. I’ve been reading the various casting rumours and potential plotlines that seem to leak from every corner of the internet, and it all seems to be shaping up nicely.
Knowing your love for the characters of Kermit, Piggy, Gonzo and the rest of the gang – is it true you’ve always had Muppet pictures and figurines in your house? You’re a fanboy like the rest of us (except for the fangirls)! – you must be in your element and I’ve got high hopes that this won’t be another Muppets from Space.
There’s just one thing that’s worrying me. Well, me and the rest of the population of the United Kingdom. That’s the fact that while the film is being released in the USA on 23 November 2011 (happy Thanksgiving in advance), we won’t be seeing it on these shores until Friday 17 February 2012.
Now, I know that you know your Muppet history. You know that back in the mid-70s Jim Henson was having trouble getting his Muppets into a regular, weekly, TV slot on a US network. You also know that Henson ended up pitching the idea of The Muppet Show to UK TV impresario, Lew Grade, who agreed to produce the programme at Elstree Studios, just north of London, for worldwide distribution.
For five years, Henson’s gloriously bonkers world of talking frogs, bears, pigs and whatever Gonzo was, took the world by storm, with the second Muppet movie, The Great Muppet Caper, also filmed in the UK.
According to the brief blurb on IMDB, your film sees the Muppets team up to save their old theatre. The same one which was first built on a soundstage at Elstree back in the day. The one which was crafted by workers fuelled by British bacon butties and cups of tea as they stood proud for the national anthem and saluted the Queen every lunchtime. Maybe.
Since then the Muppets have left Blighty behind as their careers have peaked and troughed (that’s not a slight on Miss Piggy, by the way), TV specials, movies and online videos appearing sporadically as fans wait patiently for someone to recapture the magic of the Henson years and return them to their former glory.
With Walt Disney Pictures now the owners of the Muppets, we’re likely to get a big budget, well promoted picture with enough spin-off merchandise to fill each Disney Store a few times over. You’ll know all about that, and I’m sure children everywhere will be demanding Jason Segel action figures this Christmas.
Exciting times then. Well, exciting if you’re going to be in America on 23 November. As I mentioned above, here in the UK we have to wait for three months, as highlighted today by Muppet fansite, The Muppet Mindset. Even Germany, the Netherlands and France will see it before us and we all know where Doc Hopper got his ideas from…
Clearly something has gone wrong somewhere along the line. Does it really take three months to ship a print or digital copy of the film to the UK? Staggered release dates across different territories may be common practice, but sometimes there need to be exceptions.
As an example, the most recent Harry Potter film was released in the UK and the US on the same day, 19 November 2010, meaning it can be done if the property is seen to have value, and those pesky illegal downloaders are considered a problem.
You know that the Muppets aren’t just another brand name to be exploited by multinational organisations. OK, so Rowlf the Dog may have been created to promote dog food in the 1960s, but things have changed since then. Kermit, Piggy, Gonzo and the gang aren’t just bundles of felt. They’re bundles of felt with personalities and a global fan base waiting to welcome them back.
I’m not saying that just because The Muppet Show started here we have the right to watch the film on the same day as you. I’m not even saying that if it wasn’t for Lew Grade and a bundle of British bacon butties, you might not even be making your pet project right now.
However, I’ve read that your take on the Muppets will be “hilarious, fantastic, heart-wrenching, beautiful, nostalgic and remarkable”, and that’s admirable. So why wait so long to let the rest of us see that vision? We all suffered the bad times together (cough…Studio DC…cough) so why not let us share the good stuff as well?
If it makes a difference to your bosses, we’ll each go to our nearest burger chain and buy the relevant meal deal with free Animal glass on the day of release. Twice.
So, to wrap things up and let you get back to the set, can you perhaps have a word with those Disney execs who make the decisions? You managed to get a multi-million dollar movie into production starring a bunch of hand-operated puppets, so you’ve experience in achieving the unexpected. Ask them nicely to release your film around the world on the same date, or as near as possible to it.
Do this and you’ll make a nation proud of you. We’ll even make you a round of bacon rolls and a cup of tea when you come over to do the promotional work. The Queen may even salute you this time around.
Do it for Britain. Do it for yourself. Above all, do it for furry blue weirdos, talking vegetables and the next fan who buys all the merchandise and decides that in 20 years time he or she will bring back the Muppets in a movie, with a cameo from some old actor called Jason Segel.
Jonathan Melville
Posted in DVD, Television, TV: 1970s, US TV | Tagged Disney, Jason Segel, Jim Henson, The Muppets | 1 Reply
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Main » 2016 » November » 3 » SES Partners with IOM for Creation of Digital Emergency Manual
SES Partners with IOM for Creation of Digital Emergency Manual
Project follows success of disaster response e-platform emergency.lu
LUXEMBOURG - Wednesday, November 2nd 2016 [ME NewsWire]
(BUSINESS WIRE)-- SES (Euronext Paris:SESG) (LuxX:SESG) announced today that it has been selected by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) to create a digital emergency manual, in a project funded by the Luxembourg Government.
IOM, which carries out humanitarian operations globally to address the most urgent needs of displaced populations, updated its emergency manual in 2016 to further support its crisis response operations. To ensure this information can be regularly updated and shared effectively with field staff, IOM has also created an electronic platform which can share information with all stakeholders in real-time. The new platform is due to be launched in November.
SES was chosen to create the digital platform for the emergency manual due to its expertise in delivering similar emergency manual digital platforms for crisis response and humanitarian operations via its emergency.lu solution. Emergency.lu provides connectivity and applications for humanitarian interventions via dedicated SES satellite capacity and communication infrastructure. Its recent success with a similar project for the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) helped IOM to select SES.
“Partnering with SES for the creation of our digital emergency manual was an easy choice due to SES’s experience in providing end-to-end solutions for disaster recovery and crisis response,” said Vincent Houver, Head of the Preparedness and Response Division at IOM. “The manual will be accessible through a website or mobile application, in both an online and an offline mode, ensuring our staff has access to the latest information and guidance, wherever they are in the world.”
Gerhard Bethscheider, Managing Director of SES Techcom Services, said: “emergency.lu has a long history of providing support in times of crisis and we are pleased that our experience and expertise will now assist IOM in the creation of its digital emergency manual, increasing preparedness for those in the field.”
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SES.YourSatelliteCompany
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/SESVideoChannel
About SES
SES (Euronext Paris:SESG) (LuxX:SESG) is the world-leading satellite operator with a fleet of more than 50 geostationary satellites. The company provides satellite communications services to broadcasters, content and internet service providers, mobile and fixed network operators and business and governmental organisations worldwide. SES stands for long-lasting business relationships, high-quality service and excellence in the satellite industry. The culturally diverse regional teams of SES are located around the globe and work closely with customers to meet their specific satellite bandwidth and service requirements. SES holds a participation in O3b Networks, a next generation satellite network combining the reach of satellite with the speed of fibre.
Further information available at: www.ses.com
About emergency.lu
emergency.lu is a public-private partnership between the Luxembourg government and three Luxembourg-based companies – SES Techcom Services, HITEC Luxembourg and Luxembourg Air Ambulance. The global, VSAT-based, multi-layer platform provides support to international efforts to cope with devastating events. It also enables a Voice-over-IP (VoIP) service, allowing users to receive calls from any place in the world and roam the emergency.lu deployment sites, as well as connecting users in the field with back-offices and headquarters.
Further information available at: www.emergency.lu
About SES Techcom Services:
SES Techcom Services is a 100% owned affiliate of SES, the world-leading satellite operator with a fleet of over 50 geostationary satellites, providing integrated end-to-end satellite solutions and operational services tailored to customers’ needs worldwide. Services offered by SES Techcom Services, which is ISO 9001 certified, include the design and delivery of ground infrastructure and operational services, VSAT networks, broadband connectivity and turnkey teleport solutions. It also develops innovative solutions for e-government, e-health and e-education, as well as applications for worldwide emergency satellite communications.
Established in 1951, IOM is the leading inter-governmental organization in the field of migration and works closely with governmental, intergovernmental and non-governmental partners.IOM works to help ensure the orderly and humane management of migration, to promote international cooperation on migration issues, to assist in the search for practical solutions to migration problems and to provide humanitarian assistance to migrants in need, including refugees and internally displaced people.
Further information available at: www.iom.int
http://www.gouvernement.lu/5533751/min-cooperation-action-humanitaire
Markus Payer
Markus.Payer@ses.com
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Home › Q&A › Q&A: Madhu Krishnan interviews novelist Okey Ndibe at Africa Writes
Q&A: Madhu Krishnan interviews novelist Okey Ndibe at Africa Writes
By Africa in Words Guest on 12 August , 2014 • ( 4 )
AiW Guest: Madhu Krishnan
Okey Ndibe was born in Eastern Nigeria in 1960. A novelist, political columnist and essayist, he moved to the United States in 1988 at Chinua Achebe’s invitation, helping to found African Commentary. His critically-acclaimed first novel, Arrows of Rain was published by Heinemann in 2000 and his follow-up, Foreign Gods, Inc by Soho Press in 2014. Okey has earned both an MFA and PhD from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and has taught at numerous universities around the world, including the University of Lagos, Trinity College and Bard College. He is currently Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Brown University in the United States. Okey was kind enough to speak with Africa in Words following his book launch during Africa Writes at the British Library in London on 13 July 2014. The following transcript has been lightly edited for coherence.
MK: I wanted to start by asking you about your second novel Foreign Gods, Inc.. There has been quite a long gap between your first book, Arrows of Rain and this one. What was the experience of writing a second novel, as opposed to a first novel, like for you?
ON: The process of writing this novel was very interesting, because I actually started writing Foreign Gods, Inc. soon after my first novel was published. The first novel did so well with Heinemann that they asked me to write the second novel as quickly as possible. I told them that I don’t actually write so quickly, but that I could write a series of short stories and so I began to write what I thought would be a short story called ‘Foreign Gods, Inc’ and other short stories. But sixty pages into this story I knew it was not going to be a short story. Then I thought that it might actually be a short short novel, so I called my publishers and said we’re in luck, we’re going to get a novel. It’s not going to be long at all. The novel turned out to be a thousand two hundred plus pages. It took so many years to write. At this point I knew that I had this monstrosity and I spent four years cutting it down to 506 pages. I then showed it to my agent and she suggested further cuts. And eventually, by the time the publisher accepted it was 346 or 47 pages. And of course the editor did some more cutting. So it was a different experience then, because the first novel came more or less around size. This one went from being what I thought would be very small to extremely massive and I had to spend quite a few years cutting it down. Hence, that hug gap between the novels. And at times I wanted to abandon it and do something else, but I was so taken with the story that I couldn’t put it down to write something else.
MK: Yes, I remember you said in another interview that you just had to keep working on it so you could see how it ends!
ON: Exactly.
MK: Creatively, is there a difference when you’ve already had a novel come out?
ON: I think for me the fact that I had a novel published already just meant a certain kind of confidence to take on what I imagined was a more complex tableau. It helped; it boosted my confidence that I had a book that was already published in the world and read by so many people. But there was also a measure of anxiety, you know. The first book had been universally loved – actually – there was one American woman who reviewed it and hated it – but, you know, near universal applause for the first novel. So even though I had confidence I also wanted to write a novel that would at least be equal to the first one. And the jury has been sort of equal – some people feel the first novel has an edge and some people, in the words of one American review, think the second one has blown the first out of the water.
MK: Foreign Gods Inc, as a novel, is quite critical of just about everybody. You have some moments which are quite critical of America, of the way immigrants are received in America. It’s also quite critical of the ways in which America exports its religions, its popular culture and its aspirational lifestyle, but you’re also very critical of Nigeria. The second Ike gets off the plane he’s just met with corruption after corruption after corruption. Have you received any criticism from either side about this?
ON: Well, I have been scolded, actually. An American woman who reviewed the book for a blog said that this was a brilliant, original novel, that the characters were wonderfully achieved, the dramatic situation was very engaging, but she said that it was not realistic that the character would find himself in this situation in America. But on the whole I think that this is a novel that is admittedly dark, but then there is a lot of humour in it. Even Ike’s interactions with the people around him, with this crooked pastor, have moments of great humour in them. I’m attracted to stories like that, which can be bleak and dark, where therefore the moments of humour become essential to them. On the whole people have loved it, though. The important thing is the authenticity of the story.
A blogger in America talked about encountering Teju Cole in Washington DC when he read there and asking a question about what he felt was a negative view that runs through the story [of Open City] and asked, if you had to do it again, would you change things around. Teju said, ‘look the question is not whether the story is dark or whether it is negative; it’s whether it’s true.’ And of course there are different versions of the truth, but a writer has the ability to explore these issues, these different directions. I tend to agree with that sentiment.
MK: One of the characters I found quite interesting was Queen B and that relationship between Ike and Queen B. In the last ten years or so, there have been a large number of novels written by people from the African continent but set at least in part in America, which deal with the often-troubled relationship between Africans and African-Americans. How did you feel about that when you were writing the novel, especially as an African in America?
ON: I have to say that in my mind, on some level I see Africans and African Americans as one people really, but these people have been cut apart from that by history and other forces. When Africans come to America one of the things that they are told quickly is that you guys work hard, unlike these African-Americans who don’t want to work hard, who don’t want to seize the opportunities. Some Africans believe that narrative, and I tell them that we haven’t had the experience of suffering and subjection, the horrific destruction of infrastructure that African-Americans have faced. When I arrived in America I arrived with a certain kind of comfort which, if I had grown up in America, maybe I wouldn’t have. Having said that, there’s also some African-Americans who find the African presence uncomfortable, which is a shame. I’m troubled by that difficult relationship and I wanted to bring it to the fore of the novel. The thing is, Ike’s problem isn’t that he married an African-American woman. Ike’s problem is that he married somebody who is not from his social and intellectual class. He could have married a different woman, but he left that relationship on account of the flak from her father. Interestingly, a young African-American woman read the book and then called her father upset at what she said was my negative portrayal of African-Americans. But I say to that, no, I wasn’t portraying all African-Americans. I was portraying one character. Just like when Ike goes to steal the god, I’m not portraying all Africans as people who steal gods. Overall, though, it’s a difficult situation and I wanted to portray that in my novel.
Okey Ndibe © Africa Writes
MK: Another theme in the novel is the idea of return, Ike’s return to Nigeria after a long period of absence, which is another trope that we see a lot in African writing from the last few years, such as Adichie’s Americanah or Cole’s Every Day is For the Thief. What do you think it is about the novel of return that is making it such a pressing issue for African literature now?
ON: I think it speaks to our experience. In a lot of ways, literature is a mirror of experience, of life. I think that from the 90s there has been a slow interest by a lot of African immigrants either from the UK, Europe or America to explore the prospect of a return to their roots. But of course they have changed. When they return they find that sometimes their values have become inimical to their dreams and to their imagination of how to carry on their lives. Adaptation is always ongoing and you suddenly feel like you have lived in America for so many years without ever really feeling American, and then you return to the place that you have left, your native place, and you find that in a lot of ways you’ve become a stranger there as well. So that particular experience of… of feeling estranged from different places at once lends itself to great fictive and literary exploration.
MK: And it isn’t just the person that changes, right? In the novel, there’s that great moment where Ike’s driving through town and doesn’t recognize anything.
ON: Precisely. Everything is subjective, because suddenly great changes occur. So Ike goes to his uncle’s shrine and his uncle has a cell phone, in fact two cell phones. And Ike doesn’t like to use a cell phone in America, yet suddenly he sees his uncle in his shrine, in the middle of a prayer, and his phone rings and he shouts hello. That sort of thing. He sees a bridge over the river which was brought by a politician who had a lover from the village and so there is a lot of transformation. And there is the transformation of the spirit of the community; so people can send texts, you have Facebook, you have the internet. It’s a huge quantity of change and yet in a lot of ways there are things that are so contrary to the modernist impulse which we also encounter in the village.
MK: In the novel, one of the big agents of change is America, that American influence, whether it is through evangelical religion or that amazing scene where Ike sees the kids watching basketball. But it’s not new basketball, it’s a twenty year old video. So what do you make of that seemingly intractable forward march of American influence in all of these different spheres of life?
ON: Well it used to be, which is part of what I’m exploring in the book, that when I was young and growing up in Nigeria the land of the white man was England. That was it. And so, I would not have dreamt twenty five years ago of sitting down to watch a basketball game. Then I went back to Nigeria several years after I went to America and people were asking me about Michael Jordan. There was an interest because people were just astonished that these athletes who just threw balls through a hole could make so many millions of dollars, more than most football players. And the thing about America is that it brings so much money in, and then you have its sheer size, its sheer power in the world, all of which create this fascination with America that I have found to be deepening in Nigeria. And as you rightly point out, it is also through the evangelical movement. Everywhere you look there are signs for churches. It’s become comical almost. And the spelling! Like you might see a sign say ‘mighty’ but spell it ‘mity’, you know.
There is that great fascination with America and that has come with an entire accoutrement of American things. When I taught as a Fulbright scholar at the University of Lagos, a student of mine walked up to me and said, ‘Prof, what is cooking man’, sort of just speaking the way that he imagined Americans speak. I told him it was okra stew that was cooking. So my novel is partly about the way that we consume one another’s illusions. Here are people watching this very old American game and just fascinated by the idea that these people get paid millions, bags of money. They are consuming in their minds, they are imagining that they want to start eating like Americans. They want to give up their local cuisine and start eating pizzas and hamburgers and drinking Coke, because this is the way they feel Americans eat and drink and so on. And of course, in New York and in London and elsewhere wealthy people have now developed a taste for African… what we might call exotic deities. In both cases we see the ways in which we consume one another’s illusions. There’s a trafficking in images. In the case of the kids, the men and women in the village, it’s that they are really consuming the crumbs of the politicians who have stolen their resources and who have transferred them abroad. The crumbs are what they are given.
MK: So do you think that the fact that people have been sold these images is why they keep putting up with it?
ON: I think it has a lot to do with it. The images are very strong. I’ll tell you a story, talking about the power of America. I was in Japan in 1993 as a guest of the Japanese Government. I came into my hotel room and turned on the television and the show was in Japanese. But they kept showing images of Michael Jordan soaring through the air, dunking the ball. Then they’d pan to the streets and show all of these images of people crying: men, women, children, just weeping. And the commentator was running these comments. Since I didn’t speak Japanese, I imagined, I conjectured, that Michael Jordan must have died, that was why they were crying. I quickly went to CNN to find that Michael Jordan had just announced his retirement for the first time from basketball, and his fans in Tokyo in Japan were crying. That gave me a new insight into the power of American culture – the depth and reach of America’s cultural power. Michael Jordan and people like OJ Simpson were given passports to cross this line and become basically non-raced, un-raced, as it were. They were no longer black, even though Michael Jordan’s skin is extremely black. They just became someone we could all be like, if we just drank Gatorade or wore Nike shoes, then we could all be like him. So those images are projected into Africa in a context of great poverty and they have a quick, penetrating impact.
MK: Much has been made in the last eight or nine years about this idea of a renaissance of African literature, especially Nigeria, the idea of new Nigerian writing. Now I know that you’ve been working in the area since the 80s or before so I was wondering whether you think it is true? Is there a new Nigerian writing or is it just that we’re taking notice of it, in the West, in a different way now?
ON: I think that it is just that we’re taking notice of it in the West now. I get asked this question a lot in America, of why it is that African writing is suddenly important. And I say that people have always been writing, but publishers in the capitals in New York, London and Paris are only now taking notice. It’s part of the logic of the marketplace. You could give them a gem and they will ignore it until somebody gambles on one and it works. And then suddenly they are all asking if you know any African writers, to bring them their way. And then because there are always gifted African writers, suddenly you find a profusion of African writing.
When I finished Arrows of Rain I sent it to an agent. Actually, first I sent it to American publishers and some of them never responded. Others praised the manuscript but said it was not for them. Then I found an agent and she sent it to five publishers. Out of the five, three wrote to say they were not interested. One wrote back and said this novel is amazing but I don’t think there is a readership for an African writer’s novel. And then one editor at a press said that she loved it, but wanted more time to have two other editors read it. At that time Heinemann had offered me a contract and they wanted me to sign quickly. My agent wanted to risk it and wait, but I said ‘Look one or two of the editors could read it and say the same thing: that Americans may not be ready for an African novel. I’ll go with Heinemann, who wants my novel.’ And now my current publishers have bought the rights so an American edition will be released, it will be re-released in January. They are very excited about it. They are really doing a lot of marketing for it because they think it will have a huge market. And all of the professors I have heard of who have used it in the classroom have had a great experience. One professor told me that he asked his students to read half of it for the first class and every single one of them walked in and said that they couldn’t stop so they read the whole thing. Yet, twelve or thirteen years ago when I was selling it American publishers were not ready. Major publishers in the UK were not ready. Suddenly, now they are ready.
MK: As you know, Africa in Words, for whom this interview is taking place, is a blog started by PhD students. You yourself are a professor at Brown University, so it felt appropriate for my last question to ask you what you think is the future of scholarship on African writing? Has it kept up with the inventiveness of the writing?
ON: I want to see scholarship catch up. I think that there is so much important work coming out but I don’t think there has been an adequate level of critical engagement with that work. But I’m hopeful because there are so many great young scholars and students who are engaging with the work, with the important tropes. I’d like to see African scholars and readers engage more with the work, as well. It’s a pity that one has to come to London to find this kind of audience. I’m lucky that when I go to Nigeria that I get huge turnouts, but it is largely because of my political column. People want to see the trouble maker. I’d like to see more of a vibrant reading culture emerge in Nigeria and other African cultures and for structures of publishing, too, so that we are telling the world from Nairobi or Lagos or Dakar what is important, rather than always having the validation come from the West.
Madhu Krishnan is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in 20th and 21st Century Postcolonial Writing at the University of Bristol. Her research considers the construction and dissemination of an idea of Africa in contemporary African writing, interrogating the contours of representation in the creation of ‘global’ and ‘local’ African literatures. She has published numerous articles on African literatures and postcolonial studies in journals including Research in African Literatures, Textual Practice and The Journal of Commonwealth Literature. Her monograph, Contemporary African Literature: Global Locations, Postcolonial Identifications, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2014.
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‘Every time we have an opportunity to view other people or other places, it adds value to our own lives’: Talking inclusion, community and joy with ‘Rafiki’ filmmaker Wanuri Kahiu
Catherine Onyemelukwe
12 August , 2014 • 15:12
Thank you for this fascinating interview. I know Okey and admire his novel, Foreign Gods, Inc. Now I’ll read the earlier novel too. Maye I can recommend it to a couple of book groups I belong to.
Obinna Udenwe
9 September , 2014 • 06:58
I love this interview. I loved reading Foreign Gods and my dad just read it too and has a lot of praises for it because we had same experience in my community. Around the 90s some youths formed a gang of robbers and stole all our deities and masquerades. Most of them were cursed by the community and they are useless today – dead, some mad, some are loafers.
Thanks Okey for bringing this to the fore.
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Judging an album by its cover: who should win the Grammy based solely on their album cover?
by Matthew Price
I know nothing about popular music. I haven’t listened to an album released since 1978, despite having been born in 1981.1 I had to Google the difference between “Album of the Year” and “Record of the Year.”2
So you’ll believe me when I say, few people are more qualified to judge an album only by its cover than I am. This year’s Grammy nominees are Sound & Color by Alabama Shakes, To Pimp a Butterfly by Kendrick Lamar, Traveller by Chris Stapleton, 1989 by Taylor Swift and Beauty Behind the Madness by The Weeknd. I’m sure these are all wonderful, worthy albums. Me? I’m just gonna listen to “Beast of Burden” on a loop while I write this.
Beauty Behind the Madness – The Weeknd
via Republic Records
Let’s start with the premise that most people are going to see this image in a thumbnail on their iPod. In its small form, Mr. Weeknd appears to be trapped in one of those torture contraptions from the Saw movies. Does something horrible happen to this guy if I don’t listen to the album in time?
Blow up the image and you see it’s just a torn photograph. Phew. But no matter how much you zoom and enhance, you’ll never find the title of the album, nor the name of the artist. This is kind of a basic principle of marketing: tell the people what they’re buying.
But let’s give the listener some credit, and assume they saw the track listing before looking at this cover. I’m still not sure what they’re supposed to get out of this image. Is he the Beauty? The Madness? Perhaps he’s behind something?
To Pimp a Butterfly – Kendrick Lamar
via Interscope Records
Again, a no-text cover. Unless these albums are instrumental (unlikely, given the parental advisory), I disapprove of this trend.
But at least this image says something. You’ve got a group of African Americans posing in front of the White House waving money at the camera. It’s playful and disruptive at the same time. There’s no single tone among the figures—some are angry, some laughing, some bored or confused. I expect to experience a range of emotions listening to this.
Close examination yields unexpected surprises, as well. There’s a man with a gavel (not traditionally related to the executive branch of government), with his eyes X’ed out; a child’s raised fist appears to be pixelated (censoring the black power salute?); some dude is eating his money.
I don’t know what any of it means, but color me intrigued. If only I know the title of the damn album.
Sound & Color – Alabama Shakes
via ATO Records
At the other extreme, here’s an album that’s all text and no image. It’s called Sound and Color, but it looks like a silent movie and is black-and-white. I see you what you did there Alabama Shakes! This definitely seemed clever when the band was smoking out in the recording studio.
“Dude! What if it’s called ‘Sound and Color,’ but, like, there’s no color?”
“And the album is completely silent!”
“Too far, dude.”
I may want to reconsider my stance on placing the band name and album title on the cover, when the band name includes a verb. How exactly is Alabama shaking sound and color? Seriously, people: read the cover out loud at least once before you send it off to the printer.
Traveler – Chris Stapleton
via Mercury Nashville
This might be the most generic country album I’ve ever seen. Cowboy hat, open land, plaid shirt. I bet that’s his wife leaving him in the semi-truck in the background. Unless this guy is a rapper or classical violinist, I don’t even know what to say.
via Big Machine
Did somebody kidnap Taylor Swift? All this photo needs is a currently-dated newspaper and a ransom demand.
Setting aside the weird hostage vibe, this cover probably strikes the best balance of the nominees between conceptual image and, y’know, actually telling you what the album is. It pulls off the retro feel3 not just in the choice of a Polaroid picture, but also in the costume and make-up. The sloppily hand-written title provides an air of authenticity: I could honestly believe Taylor Swift(‘s assistant) wrote this herself.
You can’t really judge an album by its cover, but T.S. does her very best to convince me to at least give her a chance.
And the Grammy for best album (cover) goes to…
1989, by Taylor Swift. It’s not quite as bafflingly unique as To Pimp a Butterfly, but nor is it as aggressively vague. And, sure, maybe it looks like a leftover prop from Memento, at least it accomplishes, at the most basic level, what an album cover is supposed to, i.e. sell the album.
1. It was “Some Girls,” if you’re wondering.
2. ”Album” refers to the entire album (naturally), whereas “Record” is a particular track.
3. Oh, God, does 1989 qualify as “retro,” now?
Matthew T. Price has written on art, design, and cinema for websites such as The Daily Trojan, The Horror Honeys, Work in Entertainment, and more. He's also a filmmaker, having shot over two dozen short films, and a feature film, Other Halves. His work can be found at www.LittleToyBoat.com.
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Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster
by Stephen L. Carter
Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
Hurston/Wright Honored Book (2019)
Publication Date: Oct 09, 2018
Classification: Nonfiction
Imprint: Henry Holt & Company
Parent Company: Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck
She was brilliant, ambitious, and unafraid to break barriers. As the only member of a squad of twenty high-powered lawyers who was not a white male, she devised the strategy that in the 1930s sent Mafia chieftain Lucky Luciano to prison. She achieved so much—but what could she have accomplished if not for barriers of race and gender?
Eunice Hunton Carter, Stephen Carter’s grandmother, was the daughter of a distinguished African American couple and the granddaughter of slaves. A graduate of Smith College and Fordham Law School, she became a key member of the legal team charged with breaking up organized crime in New York City. By the 1940s, she was one of the most famous black women in America. But at every turn, Eunice encountered prejudice, and her triumphs were shadowed by tragedy. Greatly complicating her rise was her difficult relationship with her younger brother, Alphaeus, an avowed Communist who—together with his friend Dashiell Hammett—went to prison during the McCarthy era. Yet she remained unbowed: constantly reinventing herself, she somehow found a way forward.
Moving, haunting, and written with dazzling power, Invisible tells the story of a woman who often found her path blocked by the social and political expectations of the age. But Eunice Carter never accepted defeat, and thanks to her grandson’s remarkable book she is once again visible.
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The Nova Centre In Halifax : What You Need To Know
Patrick Bryden November 29, 2017 One Comment
Well, we finally have an official open date. On December 15th, the long-awaited, highly-touted, brand-spankin’ new, shiny building smack-dab in the middle of Downtown Halifax will open its doors. Yes, Halifax, the seemingly endless wait is finally over. The Nova Centre is here.
Along with the controversy and complaining that has accompanied the construction over the last five years, Halifax will also receive a state-of-the-art convention centre, office building, and luxury hotel. This supremely cool, ultra-modern space once reserved for ‘big cities’ (looking at your Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver) will finally grace our city by the sea. We at AboutHalifax.com couldn’t be happier about the opening. Not only does this construction bring business opportunities to the province, but it also signals the continued renaissance of the city core. It’s hard to believe that was once a massive open pit ten years ago is now a state-of-the-art one-million square foot monolith overlooking all us Haligonians.
What Is the Nova Centre?
In the development, you’ll find a modern office and convention space, a boutique hotel, as well as shops and restaurants mixed throughout. The Nova Centre is more than a convention centre, hotel, and office space, however. It’s a centrepiece for Halifax that blends an urban, industrial, and cultural feel into one. The design pays homage to region’s maritime past with the main tower mimicking the mast of a tall ship that may have dotted Halifax Harbour over the past 350 years.
Do we know the tenants yet?
As we get closer to the open date, information on the new tenants is becoming available. Way back in 2015, BMO Financial announced themselves as the anchor tenant of the Nova Centre, which included naming rights of the north tower. This past April, accounting firm Grant Thornton announced their plans to move into the 10th and 11th floors of the new construction. At one point, Bier Markt was slated to be a primary restaurant tenant though this no longer appears to be the case. It is worth noting that there is currently no hotel tenant.
What’s Grafton Space?
Along with the development of the actual building space, there has been a revitalization movement along Argyle Street and Grafton Street. These two streets have converted to pedestrian-friendly space, which means through-traffic is allowed though the actual space focuses more towards people on their feet. Pedestrians will instantly notice the change, which features wider sidewalks, paving stones and the curbless streets. The new modifications allow space to easily convert for events, such as concerts and street festivals.
Is there anything else I should know?
Yup! What was formerly the World Trade And Convention Centre is now known as Halifax Convention Centre. After the opening ceremonies on December 15th, the building will presumably be open to the public. However, January will bring the first national and international events, including the Canadian Junior Weightlifting Nationals, Brides 2018, and the National Franchise Expo. Along with these official events, Halifax Convention Centre will host casual events between January 12th and 14th to kick off the space. These events include a casual drop-in and tour, a family-friendly movie afternoon, and free coffee house.
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Over A Year Later And Obama Administration Still Hasn’t Investigated CIA Torture Reports
Posted by Michael Vardon in America
Human Rights Watch has asked the Obama administration to launch an investigation against 21 former United States officials for their alleged misconduct in their roles regarding the torture of suspected terrorists by the CIA. These officials include former President George W. Bush, former Vice President Dick Cheney, former CIA Director George Tenet, former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft and former National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, among others.
According to Human Rights Watch, the details of the CIA’s interrogation program are enough to warrant an inquiry by the Obama administration. The details of the CIA’s interrogation program were made public by a Senate committee in December of 2014.
Executive director of Human Rights Watch Kenneth Roth said in a statement, “It’s been a year since the Senate torture report, and still the Obama administration has not opened new criminal investigations into CIA torture. Without criminal investigations, which would remove torture as a policy option, Obama’s legacy will forever be poisoned."
Former officials of the Bush administration and many Republicans have defended the actions that were taken by the CIA, saying that the “enhanced interrogation techniques” did not constitute torture. They also claimed that the report released by the Senate was biased in nature.
One of the masterminds behind the interrogation program James Mitchell said, “It's a bunch of hooey. Some of the things are just plain not true."
Meanwhile, the American Bar Association has also called for a new investigation. Last June, the association sent a letter to United States Attorney General Loretta Lynch, saying that the details revealed by the Senate report justified a closer examination.
American Bar Association President Paulette Brown said, “What we’ve asked the Justice Department to do is take a fresh look, a comprehensive look, into what has occurred to basically leave no stone unturned into investigating possible violations. And if any are found to take the appropriate action as they would in any other matter."
In 2008, then-President George W. Bush started a criminal inquiry that was designed to determine whether or not the CIA destroyed videotapes of their interrogations. Once Obama took office in 2009, the investigation was expanded to determine whether or not the CIA program involved criminal misconduct. However, the investigation was closed in 2012, and no charges were filed, based on the grounds that there was not enough evidence to convict.
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Fenella Fielding in October 2017. Photograph: Sarah Lee/The Guardian
Fenella Fielding
Fenella Fielding, Carry On Screaming actor, dies aged 90
Fielding, whose career spanned seven decades, appeared in Carry On Regardless and Carry On Screaming!
Kevin Rawlinson
Wed 12 Sep 2018 02.25 EDT
The former Carry On actor, Fenella Fielding, has died aged 90, her spokeswoman has said. The star, who enjoyed a showbusiness career spanning seven decades, suffered a stroke two weeks ago and died on Tuesday.
She appeared in two Carry On films – Carry On Regardless in 1961 and Carry On Screaming! in 1966 – and was awarded an OBE in the 2018 Queen’s birthday honours list.
Carry on Screaming's Fenella Fielding on fighting with Kenneth Williams and bouncing back after bankruptcy
“We are very sad to announce that Fenella Fielding OBE passed away this afternoon on Tuesday 11 September,” her spokeswoman said.
“This follows a severe stroke two weeks ago. During that time, she has been very comfortable and always looked tranquil and divine. And always wearing her eyelashes.
“Miss Fielding was an incredible talent. That voice! A unique woman, much loved by family, friends and fans. She will be missed tremendously.”
According to Fielding’s website, her career began in 1952 when she starred on stage in The Constant Lover. Her television roles included parts in The Avengers, The Prisoner and The Morecambe and Wise Show. She also boasted stage credits in plays by Shakespeare and Henry James.
But it is her role alongside Kenneth Williams as Valeria in Carry On Screaming! for which she is best known. The popular film parodied Hammer Horror movies and her 2017 memoir Do You Mind If I Smoke? is named after one of its best-known jokes.
Fenella Fielding – a life in pictures
She recounted falling out with Williams while they worked on the comedy revue Pieces of Eight together after a newspaper article praised her. “Kenneth came out of the wings and he had the paper in his hand and he had the most terrible temper about it. I thought, God, I can’t help the fact they’ve said something nice about me.”
While she had success, she felt typecast. Speaking to the Guardian last year about the public perception of her, she said: “There are always people who don’t think you should be able to climb out of your cave.”
She said that she felt she was not offered more serious roles because “you’ve got to show you’re not just a lark”. While her performance as Hedda Gabler was lauded, she felt that not enough people saw it. “Then you’ve got to get people to let you do one after another after another, before it obliterates the comedy you’ve done,” she added.
In her book, she accused the comic actor, Norman Wisdom, of “always making a pass – hand up your skirt first thing in the morning”. Looking back on that period last December, in the light of the #MeToo movement, she said: “There was a time when every man I met … it was really something horrid”
Fielding was born in London to a Lithuanian father and a Romanian mother. She is the younger sister of Basil Feldman, Baron Feldman, a former Conservative member of the House of Lords.
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A protest against female genital mutilation. Photograph: Alamy
Women's rights and gender equality
Warning system in airport toilet cubicles to help victims of FGM
Stickers at Birmingham airport tell potential victims of FGM or trafficking to alert authorities by dialling 101
Rebecca Ratcliffe
Fri 31 Aug 2018 11.34 EDT
Travellers who fear they are at risk of female genital mutilation (FGM) or trafficking can now alert the authorities through a colour-coded warning system in airport toilet cubicles.
Stickers displayed in toilets at Birmingham airport ask passengers at risk of FGM, trafficking or modern-day slavery to call West Midlands police. Each cubicle is assigned a colour, so that specialist staff can identify and reach anyone who needs support.
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It is the latest in a series of measures introduced at airports across the UK, where UK Border Agency staff have identified a number of young people at risk this summer, according to the Freedom Charity. The charity has helped train Border Agency teams as part of a national Red Triangle campaign.
Between January and March this year, there were 1,030 newly recorded cases of FGM in England, according to NHS Digital.
FGM has been illegal in the UK for more than three decades, but there has not been a successful prosecution. It is also illegal to take a British national or permanent resident abroad for FGM, or to help something trying to do this.
One of the colour-coded stickers.Photograph: Courtesy HuffPost UK
On Friday, two people appeared in court in London where they pleaded not guilty to the FGM of a three-year-old girl. The trial involving a woman, 36, and a man, 43, is expected to start on 14 January.
Aneeta Prem, founder of the Freedom Charity, welcomed the West Midlands initiative, which was reported by HuffPost UK. But she added that calls to 101 – the number advertised on the stickers – would need to be answered promptly.
Staff at airports across the country, including Leeds and Manchester, wear red triangle symbols to raise awareness among members of the public, she said.
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“[Border Agency staff] say to random people, ‘Do you know what this [red triangle] means? What does it represent?’
“It’s very matter of fact. They say, ‘If you know anybody who might be at risk of travelling abroad this summer’, and they target specific flights.
“We have had a number of girls who have contacted us, who have been stopped by the Border Agency, who have talked about the red triangle. They haven’t been taken abroad as a result of the badges,” she added.
The Home Office has identified women from a number of east African communities – including Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia – as well as Nigeria, the Middle East and Indonesia, as being most at risk.
A spokesperson for West Midlands police said it had not publicised its toilet cubicle initiative at Birmingham airport because the scheme is designed to be discreet.
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Put On Your Ruby Slippers: 'The Wizard Of Oz' Is RETURNING To Theatres!
Yes, the iconic movie was released 80 years ago and will be returning to the theatres for a limited time to celebrate the same!
By Apeksha Nichrelay
One of the most influential movies ever made, The Wizard of Oz is a gem which will never get old. The 1939 American musical fantasy film is a legendary movie based on The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, a novel by L. Frank Baum, a genius writer who penned down children books and made our lives better. From its memorable characters to beautiful musicals, Wizard of Oz is regarded as one of the greatest movies of all time. Produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the movie used the classic Technicolor and was so brilliantly executed, it earned itself six Oscar nominations and won two of them!
Starring Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale alongside Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, Bert Lahr, Frank Morgan, Billie Burke and Margaret Hamilton with Charley Grapewin, Pat Walshe, Clara Blandick, Terry (billed as Toto) and Singer's Midgets as the Munchkins, the movie was released 80 years ago, let that sink in! 2019 marks the 80th anniversary of the iconic movie and to celebrate the grand movie, it is coming back!
Put on your ruby slippers as Fathom Events is bringing the movie back to the theatres after a span of 80 years. For a limited time, the movie will be played in theatres on the occasion of its anniversary. From January 27 to 30, you can catch your favorite movie in a theatre near you and witness the magic of the iconic movie on the big screen, a surreal never before experience! Book your tickets before they all run out!
"A special 80th-anniversary event is coming to select theaters. In this classic musical fantasy, Judy Garland stars as Dorothy Gale, a young Kansas farm girl who dreams of the land "somewhere over the rainbow." Dorothy's dream comes true when she, her dog, Toto, and her family's house are transported by a tornado to a bright and magical world, unlike anything she has seen before," Fathom described the special event.
"Unfortunately, she makes a mortal enemy of a wicked witch when the house falls on the hag's sister. Now, befriended by a scarecrow without a brain, a tin man with no heart and a cowardly lion, and protected by a pair of enchanted ruby slippers, Dorothy sets off along a yellow brick road for the Emerald City to beseech the all-powerful Wizard of Oz for his help to return home. Fans young and old won't want to miss this special showing!" they elaborated adding that movie screening will include special insight from Turner Classic Movies.
When Wizard of Oz was released, it won the hearts of the critics instantly but failed to be a commercial success due to poor marketing. The movie directed by Victor Fleming was then re-released 10 years later and the movie was received well. “Nothing comparable has come out of Hollywood in the past few years to approximate the lavish scale of this filmusical extravaganza, in the making of which the ingenuity and inventiveness of technical forces were employed without stint of effort or cost… Some of the scenic passages are so beautiful in design and composition as to stir audiences by their sheer unfoldment," reads one of the earliest reviews of the movie.
Tom Lucas, the VP of Fathom Events revealed they wish to give the fans of the movie the experience of watching it on the silver screen. “1939 is often referred to as the true zenith of the Hollywood studio system,” Lucas says, “and ‘The Wizard of Oz’ represents this moment by bringing together the very best talent – both in front of and behind the camera – to create one of the greatest films of all time. At its core, this film touches on some deep human truths about the need for connection and belonging, the importance of bravery and believing in yourself," he added.
And it gets better! TCM is kickstarting its Big Screen Classics event with Oz and there are many more classics in line! My Fair Lady, To Kill A Mockingbird, Ben-Hur, True Gift, Field of Dreams, Glory, Hello, Dolly!, The Shawshank Redemption, Alien, The Godfather, When Harry Met Sally and many more are included in the event which will be screened in the theaters for a limited time throughout the year. Wish to re-watch some classics? Now's your chance!
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Tag: Conservation vs. Environmentalism
Just the Facts: Climate change exists and it is manmade; made by the liberal politicians and their environmentalist backers who deplete our fresh water resources and will not manage our forests as they should
I will submit to the liberals destroying our state that climate change does exist and that it is indeed manmade. However, it is not made through CO2 emissions and fossil fuels but by fools who deny us the right to conserve fresh water. We need water throughout much of our state and the ignorant idiots such as outgoing Governor Jerry Brown have created the crises we now face.
THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CULINARY POLITICS-ELEMENTAL NEWS OF THE DAY COMMENTARY-OPINION-SPORTS-FOOD SERVICE FOR THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2018 BY CHEF MURPH MACDOUGAL
“Just the Facts: Climate change exists and it is manmade; made by the liberal politicians and their environmentalist backers who deplete our fresh water resources and will not manage our forests as they should” by Chef Murph MacDougal
Something to think about as you enjoy your Thanksgiving holiday
San Luis Obispo, CA, 11-22-2018 Thursday: Good morning, welcome to the Thanksgiving Day 2018 Edition of the American Institute of Culinary Politics-Elemental News of the Day. This Thanksgiving, we have seen some horrendous things here in California as wildfires have devastated one community after another. We have seen the town of Paradise, located in northern California virtually destroyed in a massive fire that has obliterated the area, killed many of its inhabitants, and will take years to recover if it ever does.
The chef-bloggers here at the AICP-END Blogs as well as my family and I all pray for no more deaths from the fires, that the people missing will soon either be found or will find some way to let their loved ones know that they still exist in the land of the living.
Moreover, I cannot image the difficulty of not knowing whether your loved one died in the middle of the conflagration or was caught by the flames attempting to break the fire’s reach. Either way would be absolutely terrifying and I cannot image what others must be feeling right now. God bless you, God bless yours, I hope He enables family members to find others so they can reunite.
Prior to President Trump coming to California this past weekend to survey the devastation, he said something that EVERYONE in the Golden State knows to be true but hates to admit and that is the appalling fact that mismanagement by the state’s forestry officials- along with Pacific Gas & Electric, aka PG&E- is responsible for what happened.
The environmentalists rule our state just as they do some others but it here, it ranks on tyranny. They control who can do what in the forests and what people can do is very little as they demand the forests be as pristine as they were PRIOR to the arrival of the Europeans.
We have something like 160 million dead and diseased trees in our state forests, deadwood infested with bark beetles and other debilitating insects, and undergrowth that makes passage through much of it nigh impossible, yet, we must protect it all to protect the wildlife.
At one time, before environmentalists moved into becoming the liberal, mass-money-making funders of all-things liberal, we had sane forestry management policies whereas now, we have very little management and a lot of insane mismanagement in which everything is topsy-turvy from what it should be.
If people who live in and around their forests attempt to clear-cut the areas surrounding their abodes, they can find themselves dragged into court, sued to the brink of extinction, and maybe even sent to live in a state prison for purposes of ‘reeducation.’
The building of roads through many of these areas also is nearly impossible. Let us use the now-vanished town of Paradise as an example. The people that lived in that unique area found themselves involved in a similar situation a decade ago as two major fires approached their homes and they were forced to flee.
As they attempted to vacate, they found themselves trapped in road gridlock as there were very few avenues of escape. Dodging the bullet at the time, the town decided that they had better devise a plan so that the next time a massive fire threatened them, they would be able to get advance notice and begin speeding away as quickly as possible until they could come to safety.
Unfortunately, the system they devised did not function well this time, which has lead to more than 70 deaths and more than 630 people still missing, at least at the time I sat down to write this post.
Survivors said that by the time the warnings came, the fires were so close that they already feared there was little to no chance to get out, much less pack up a few belongings, find the kids, and save their pets.
Now, I will acknowledge that humanity continues advancing into wild country but we have done this since we have come here to the West. We live all throughout the state, up and down its beautiful coasts, in its mountains, around its lakes, and in and among the forests. Most people treat their environment with respect and would do even more to protect it if the state’s environmental regulations were not so damned oppressive.
For one thing, we must stop allowing fresh water to flow out to sea in a misguided effort to protect invasive species such as the Delta smelt or to protect the salmon industry. We spend more money on NOT protecting our fresh water resources so that they are available to not only provide water to distant communities but to enable firefighters to have a reserve of water with which to combat the ever-increasing fires.
I can tell you that back when we agriculture was one of our two main industries that the land was wetter, the winters colder and wetter, and that we had heavy fog and an abundance of wildlife that has since begun to vanish such as toads, newts, and other amphibians that used to inhabit our numerous wetlands.
Sacramento, the time is NOW for you to wake up: YOU bear complete responsibility along with PG&E’s inability to update and protect its services and at some point, the people who live in this state will wake up, throw you out, and return to sensible environmentalism and conservation.
To the people who have lost everything, I pray for you. For all the rest, as you sit around your dining room tables enjoying the holiday, think about what I have said.
Enjoy your holiday.
11-22-2018 Thursday—Political Topics and Essays, Part MDCXXXI: “Climate change exists and it is manmade; made by the liberal politicians and their environmentalist backers who deplete our fresh water resources and will not manage our forests as they should” by Chef Murph MacDougal.
MacDougal, Murph. “Climate change exists and it is manmade; made by the liberal politicians and their environmentalist backers who deplete our fresh water resources and will not manage our forests as they should.” Political Topics and Essays, Part MDCXXXI
This artwork is #0729 a 30” x 40” original oil painting by Beverly Carrick, which, she entitled, “Sea Foam.” It is among her more beautiful works and is available for sale. You can see much more of her work at her Website, found at beverlycarrick.com, or at the blog’s Facebook page. At her Website, you will see not only more original oil paintings but also lithographs, giclees, prints, miniatures, photographs, and even her award-winning instructional video entitled, “Painting the Southwest with Beverly Carrick.” Beverly has been painting for more than 60 years and known around the world for both the beauty and timelessness of her artworks. Hanging in private and public galleries and followed by many fans encircling the globe—her works instill awe because of her artistic brilliance and personal beauty. We urge you to go to her Website NOW and view her work. It is possible that you will find something you like and will want to buy it for yourself, a friend, a loved one, or a neighbor! You will not be disappointed so please: do yourself a favor and go there IMMEDIATELY! Thank you, the American Institute of Culinary Politics-Elemental News of the Day!
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President John F. Kennedy; Vice Presidents Henry Wilson and John N. Garner, “The White Album” by the Beatles, Foghat featuring Rod Price, INXS featuring Michael Hutchence, Talking Heads featuring Tina Weymouth, and Three Dog Night featuring Floyd Sneed:
365: Felix II ends his reign as Catholic Pope.
1497: Portuguese navigator Vasco de Gama rounds the Cape of Good Hope, headed to Asia.
1542: Spain delegates “New Laws” against slavery in the Americas.
1718: English pirate Edward Teach—better known as “Blackbeard”—was killed during a battle off present-day North Carolina.
1842: Mt. St. Helens in Washington erupts.
1862: Giuseppe Verdi’s opera “La Forza del Destino” had its world premiere in St. Petersburg, Russia.
1868: Future 32nd vice-president of the United States, Democrat—John N. Garner, who served 1933-1941—is born in the United States on this date.
1875: The 18th vice-president of the United States, 1873-75—Republican Henry Wilson—passed away in office on this date.
1906: In Berlin, Germany, the International Radio Telegraphic Convention adopted the SOS distress signal.
1910: Arthur F. Knight patented a steel shaft to replace wood shafts in golf clubs.
1916: In Berlin, the International Radio Telegraphic Convention adopted the SOS distress signal.
1910: Arthur F. Knight patents steel shaft golf clubs with which, to replace wooden shaft clubs.
1919: A labor conference committee in the United States urges the adoption of an 8-hour workday and a 48-hour workweek.
1924: Great Britain orders ALL Egyptians to leave the Sudan immediately.
1928: “Bolero” by Maurice Ravel was first performed in Paris.
1930: Listeners of the British Broadcasting Corp. heard for the first time, radio coverage of an American college football game as Harvard defeated Yale. Meanwhile, in Detroit, Michigan, Elijah Muhammad forms the Nation of Islam.
1935: A flying boat, the China Clipper, took off from Alameda carrying more than 100,000 pieces of mail on the first trans-Pacific airmail flight.
1942: Adolf Hitler orders the Afrika Korps to fight to the ‘last man.’ Meanwhile on the Eastern Front, the Battle of Stalingrad began. Elsewhere, future drummer with the rock band, Three Dog Night, 1968-74 / 1981-85, Floyd Sneed, is born in Canada on this date.
1943: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chinese leader Chang Kai-shek met in Cairo to discuss measures for defeating Japan. Lyricist Lorenz Hart died in New York at age 48. The RAF begins night bombing of the German capital of Berlin.
1947: Rod Price, the amazing slide guitarist with the British rock band, Foghat, was born in England on this date.
1950: Future bassist with the New York rock band, Talking Heads—Tina Weymouth—is born on this date. Elsewhere, the lowest scoring game in the history of the National Basketball Association occurred on this date when the Fort Wayne Pistons (later the Detroit Pistons) defeated the Minneapolis Lakers (later the Los Angeles Lakers) 19-18.
1954: The Humane Society of the United States was incorporated as the National Humane Society.
1963: President John F. Kennedy was shot to death during a motorcade in Dallas, Texas. Texas Governor, John B. Connolly, in the same open car as the president, suffered serious wounds. Authorities searched for and arrested a suspect, Lee Harvey Oswald. In 1965, the musical “Man of La Mancha” opened on Broadway.
1965: In the 12th round of their heavyweight championship-boxing match, Muhammad Ali scores a TKO over Floyd Patterson to win the title.
1967: The United Nations Security Council approved Resolution 242, which called for Israel to withdraw from territories it had captured the previous June, and implicitly called on adversaries to recognize Israel’s right to exist.
1968: The Beatles release the White Album, their only double album during the group’s lifetime.
1972: President Richard M. Nixon lifted a ban on American travel to Cuba on this date. The federal government had placed the ban into effect on February 8, 1963.
1975: Dictator Francisco Franco proclaims Juan Carlos the ‘King of Spain.’
1977: Regular passenger service between New York and Europe commenced with the Concorde’s inaugural flight.
1985: In the largest swearing-in ceremony in the United States, 38,648 immigrants took the oath to become citizens.
1986: Elzire Dionne, who gave birth to quintuplets in 1934, died at a hospital in North Bay, Ontario, Canada, at age 77. Meanwhile, to win the WBC heavyweight boxing title of the world, Mike Tyson KOs Trevor Berbick in two rounds.
1989: On this date, a conjunction of the moon, Venus, Mars, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune occurs on this date.
1990: British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, having failed to win re-election of the Conservative Party leadership on the first ballot, announced her resignation.
1996: O. J. Simpson takes the stand as a ‘hostile witness’ in the wrongful death lawsuit filed against him by the Goldman family, saying ‘it is absolutely untrue’ that he murdered their son, Ron, and his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson.
1997: Troubled but extremely talented vocalist for the Australian rock band, INXS, Michael Hutchence, committed suicide on this date resulting from chronic depression.
2005: Germans elected Angela Merkel on this date making her the nation’s first female chancellor. Little did they know that this corrupt politician would open the door of her country to millions of Muslims from across the Middle East. Throw her out of office!
2010: A stampede in Phnom Penh during the Khmer Water Festival kills 339 people and injures hundreds of others. Germany holds its first pirate trial in 400 years by placing 10 Somalis on trial for hijacking a German ship off the coast of Africa.
2012: Russia lifts a ban imposed in 1996 on imports of British beef and lamb. The ban, imposed when Britain suffered from Mad Cow Disease (BSE), had been universally lifted in 2006.
2013: The United States commemorates the half-century mark of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas.
2014: Vladimir Putin announces that he will step down once he reaches the constitutional limits placed on his ability to hold higher office. Since 2000, he has served as either the nation’s president or prime minister and can run for one more term in 2018.
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Wishbone Ash released a ‘best of compilation’ on April 27, 1993, “Time Was: the Wishbone Ash Collection,” that included a variety of cuts on two CDs featuring the crème de la crème of the original lineup towards newer stuff. If you have yet to introduce the music of this outstanding British band to your ears, this is an excellent way in which to do it. We hope you will use the link so you can visit Amazon.com where you can pick it up in the format, the condition, and the price that works best for you- you will be glad you did.
“Climate change exists and it is manmade; made by the liberal politicians and their environmentalist backers who deplete our fresh water resources and will not manage our forests as they should” by Chef Murph MacDougal
Original Beverly Carrick Artworks, Beverly Carrick—World Famous Artist, President John F. Kennedy, Vice President Henry Wilson, Vice President John N. Garner, Rod Price, Foghat, Three Dog Night, Floyd Sneed, Talking Heads, Tina Weymouth, The Beatles, “The White Album”, Michael Hutchence, INXS, El Caudillo Francisco Franco, M. MacDougal, Political Topics and Essays, Wishbone Ash, Climate Change, Global Warming, Wildfires, Forestry Mismanagement, Conservation of Resources, PG&E, Environmentalism Run Amok, California Politics, Environmentalism bears Full Responsibility for the Forest Fires in California, Saving California from the Liberal Environmentalists, Conservation vs. Environmentalism,
11-21-2018 W: “Is it time for Nancy Pelosi to step down from leadership and to give someone else such as Congresswoman Marcia Fudge of Ohio an opportunity to be both a first and to reach across the aisle?” by Chef Murph MacDougal. Political Topics and Essays, Part MDCXXX
11-22-2018 Th: “Climate change exists and it is manmade; made by the liberal politicians and their environmentalist backers who deplete our fresh water resources and will not manage our forests as they should” by Chef Murph MacDougal. Political Topics and Essays, Part MDCXXXI
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We here at the AICP-END Blogs got our chronological order of Doors albums messed up so we are backtracking today to a couple we left out of the correct timeline. In between the release of “Absolutely Live” and “L.A. Woman,” Jim Morrison was undergoing some trouble for having been busted for indecent exposure at a concert so the band’s record company, Elektra Records” put out the band’s first ‘best of’ compilation entitled, “13,” on November 30, 1970. The record contained thirteen of the group’s best tunes. Please, use the link we provide you here so you can visit Amazon.com where you can pick it up in its LP form. You will be glad you did.
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In addition to this fine CD, we are going to suggest yet another excellent compilation—their twenty-first CD— “Playlist Plus,” an import that came out in 2008, too. All the good stuff is here and then some, amazing music to be sure, which is why we urge EVERYONE to use the link we provide you here so you can go to Amazon.com where you can get it in the format, the condition, and the price that works best for you. You will love it so please, check it out now.
Author irishchef3014Posted on November 22, 2018 November 19, 2018 Categories American Institute of Culinary Politics-Elemental News of the Day, Environmentalism run Amok, Just the FactsTags “The White Album”, Beverly Carrick—World Famous Artist, California Politics, Climate Change, Conservation of Resources, Conservation vs. Environmentalism, El Caudillo Francisco Franco, Environmentalism bears Full Responsibility for the Forest Fires in California, Environmentalism run Amok, Floyd Sneed, Foghat, Forestry Mismanagement, Global Warming, INXS, M. MacDougal, Michael Hutchence, Original Beverly Carrick Artworks, PG&E, Political Topics and Essays, President John F. Kennedy, Rod Price, Saving California from the Liberal Environmentalists, Talking Heads, The Beatles, Three Dog Night, Tina Weymouth, Vice President Henry Wilson, Vice President John N. Garner, Wildfires, Wishbone AshLeave a comment on Just the Facts: Climate change exists and it is manmade; made by the liberal politicians and their environmentalist backers who deplete our fresh water resources and will not manage our forests as they should
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Prescott Municipal Airport named 2014 Airport of the Year
Prescott Municipal Airport The City of Prescott has long been recognized as one of Arizona’s premier spots for travel and tourism — a getaway during the heat of summer in the desert and a destination when the snow falls in the winter. The city’s airport is essential to the flourishing tourism industry, and is now being recognized for its outstanding service and accomplishments over the past year.
The Arizona Department of Transportation has named the Prescott Municipal Airport/Ernest A. Love Field as the 2014 Airport of the Year. The award was presented recently to the airport manager and staff at the Arizona Airports Association annual conference in Yuma.
Last year, the Prescott Municipal Airport logged more than 250,000 takeoffs and landings, making it the third busiest airport in the state and the 37th busiest in the country. In 2013, more than 5,000 passengers used the airport to connect to flights through Great Lakes Airlines.
The airport supports an estimated 700 jobs and generates $69 million for the local economy each year. Much of the airport’s activity is generated by flight training conducted by Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Guidance Aviation, North-Aire and Universal Helicopters. Other activities include recreational aviation, scheduled airline service, corporate aviation, business aviation, military operations and firefighting operations.
Some of the airport’s major successes and accomplishments over the past year include:
Completion of an $11.3 million runway safety improvement project.
Development of airport budget cost centers to better manage airport revenues and expenditures.
Development and implementation of an airport tour program and development of a new airport website.
Development of an airport historical exhibit for the public area of the terminal building and the development of an airport history section on the facility’s website.
Guest lecturing on airport-related topics at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.
ADOT presented airport staff with a plaque at the awards ceremony in Yuma. A sign will be erected near the airport announcing Prescott Municipal Airport as the 2014 Airport of the Year.
While there are 114 airports across Arizona, 83 airports — including 11 privately owned airfields and 14 Native American-owned airports — are identified in ADOT’s system of airports. These 83 airports vary in size and serve different functions in meeting Arizona’s aviation and economic needs. Arizona’s total economic impact from this system of airports is $58 billion annually, according to ADOT research. ADOT works with 65 of the 83 airports throughout the federal and state grant process as part of the Airport Development Program.
ADOT’s Aeronautics Group within the Multimodal Planning Division accepts applications and nominations for the Airport of the Year. The Aeronautics Group looks at accomplishments in the areas of community relations, airport management, airport maintenance activities, and innovative activities and programs implemented at airports. Find more information about ADOT’s Aeronautics Group and Airport Development Program on our website.
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University of Georgia Theses and Dissertations
The effect of elevated [CO2] and elevated temperature on tree growth and physiology
Wertin, Timothy Michael
Increasing atmospheric CO2 concentration ([CO2]) is predicted to increase mean air temperature, which in turn is anticipated to affect precipitation. Expected changes in [CO2], temperature, and soil moisture availability may have a substantial effect on tree physiology and species distribution. Changing environmental conditions, especially temperature, may have a variable effect on physiological processes depending on where an individual is located within the species distribution. The hypothesis that an increase in temperature will boost growth in sub-optimal temperature environments, while an increase in temperature in supra-optimal temperature environments will reduce growth was tested. To test this hypothesis two studies were conducted. The first study investigated the effect of elevated temperature, elevated [CO2] and decreased soil moisture availability on loblolly pine physiology and growth at sites located near the northern and southern edge of the species range. Based on the findings from the loblolly pine study, a second study was conducted to investigate the combined effect of elevated temperature and [CO2] on northern red oak seedlings grown near the southern edge of its distribution. Net photosynthesis and biomass accumulation of one-year-old loblolly pine seedlings increased with exposure to elevated [CO2] and temperature at both the northern and southern sites within the species distribution. A decrease in soil moisture availability significantly reduced accumulation, regardless of growing location or growing conditions. These findings are in conflict with assumptions of models that utilize environmental conditions to predict species distribution. These models predict that an increase in temperature will result in a northward shift in species distributions. Our study suggests that changes in climatic conditions may increase growth across the loblolly pine distribution and may result in an expansion of the species distribution. Northern red oak, unlike loblolly pine, was negatively affected by elevated temperature. The response of oak to elevated temperature suggests that an increase in growing temperature has the potential to negate the boost that elevated [CO2] may have on net photosynthesis and growth at ambient temperatures. The different responses of these two species to predicted future climatic conditions suggest that models utilized to predict future distributions require species specific verification.
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Most gangster movies of the 1930s, the years after the Great Depression, were mostly founded on themes that defied capitalism and satirized the business ethics of the time. Directors of these movies cleverly used various artistic features to ridicule the poor state of the economy that was occasioned by the Great Depression. The general aim was to persuade people to reject capitalism and rise against the regime. Gangster movies gained massive popularity during the 1930s, because of the message they possessed and its relevance to the state of affairs at that time. However, gangster movies that followed in later years had a different theme. Gangtes movies that were released later focused more on social issues in the society, such as equality and empowerment of minority groups. This paper juxtaposes two gangster movies, the public enemy of 1931 and menace II society of 1993.
The public enemy was a prominent gangster movie that premiered in 1931. Most analysts concur that The public enemy, a Warner brothers production film, was one of the best gangster movies in the 1930s. The public enemy, released in 1931, the 84-minute movie soon gained popularity and was screened in most cinemas in the United States and Europe. The film is based on the story of two young men with criminal backgrounds who became te worst criminals in the city of Chicago. Menace to Society, on the other hand, is a movie that premiered in May 1993. Menace to Society is the film that dramatized the nature of crime in urban setups. The movie features a poor young man in the impoverished suburbs of Los Angeles trying to abandon the temptations and the poverty that surround his life. It starts with a solemn mood of the protagonist, Cain Clawson, who proceeds with his best friend to the local store to purchase alcohol. The Korean couple, the store managers, is suspicious about these two guys. Overwhelmed by uncertainty, the Korean couple orders the boys to pay and leave the premise. The scene spirals out of control when Cain goes to the counter to settle the bill. His friend O-Dog takes his gun out; he shoots and instantly kills the couple. Cain is surprised; he abandons everything and signals his friend to flee because the law enforcers are fast approaching (Hughes & Hughes 1993).
There is an apparent conflict in the film as presented in episode one. In as much as Cain likes his friends, he does not agree with their behavior. This is exhibited in the movie during a confrontation with the Korean couple. O-Dog appeared quite willing to kill the store's owner and finally rob him. This is clearly shown in the movie when the store manager pressurized them to pay. Cain proceeded to the counter to settle the bill but O-Dog was well prepared with his invisible gun ready to shoot. When Cain realized that his friend had killed the couple, he dropped whatever he had in his hands and signaled his friend to escape. His friend, on the other hand, robbed the store owner and killed his wife. Interracial issues have been clearly brought out in the movie. In as much as the film is based on the life in the poor suburbs of New York where crime is a common phenomenon, issues of racial animosity are also common. There is interracial suspicion that is clearly exhibited when the boys entered the shop. The Korean couple treated them with mistrust because blacks were regarded as criminals in most societies (Mosley 2010).
Cain, the main character, is in a considerable conflict with other people around him. In the flashback, the film features a young Cain with his parents and their life is replete with drinking, parties, drugs and murders. The protagonist secretly dislikes such a life. Through the film, Cain plans to escape, looking for a better life in decent neighborhoods. There is a delightful distinction between what Cain prefers and what his parents do. They seem to enjoy the slum life. The film shows them in constant parties, using drugs and committing violent crimes. They carefully plan and execute their plans without leaving any traces behind (Hughes & Hughes 1993).
As the film progresses, several issues related to classism are revealed. Counterculture has been highlighted boldly in the movie. As presented in the film, counterculture means norms and values of a cultural group or class of people. Its aspects have been featured to describe the basic ideals that a group of people holds dearly. The film gives an in-depth understanding of how poor people live in their indigent neighborhoods. It shows how people in slums have accustomed to life that is full of violence, drugs and parties. It is because of his background that Cain runs into constant trouble in his quest to escape from this kind of life. An in-depth analysis of the movie reveals that human beings have the ability to adjust to any life situations regardless of their status. This fact has been corroborated ably in the manner that the protagonists have been presented. They were born and bred in an environment that is replete with crime and poverty. Despite the fact that they occasionally earn large sums of money, they have never bothered to acquire a house in decent neighborhoods.
Based on the Menace to Society movie, subculture is a cultural subgroup that splits from the main group because of some factors. This subgroup is often regarded as different, not like the mainstream society. This is because subcultures have their unique ways of going about life. They have got individual trends and a different mentality from the rest of the community. Subcultures are recognized by their exclusive style of dressing, music and behavior (Thomas & Henry 2001). Judging from the film, Cain was born and raised in a subculture that was characterized by partying, drugs and violent crimes. He hangs out with people of questionable characters. His friend O-Dog fits into this subculture perfectly, even though he is still a teenager. He carefully plans and successfully carries out a violent robbery in a store (Hughes & Hughes 1993). Primary culture is the knowledge and beliefs that are essential to a person. For instance, in the film, the rest of the society seems aligned to some beliefs. Primary culture in the United States society believes that in order for a person to be successful, he or she must be hard working, skilled and with admirable morals. A subculture manifests itself as a result of external influences, like poor treatment by the rest of community or neglect (Smith 23).
The movie further describes folkways and other generally accepted modes in the society. Folkways are the customs or conventions among the society members. Folkways are regarded as set standards of behavior that are socially accepted, but not morally significant (Clément 2011). For instance, in the movie Menace to Society members of both cultures believe in life that has no violence. The subculture and counterculture hate life, which is full of poverty, and prefer to live in safe neighborhoods. It is clear that even though Cain was born and bred in a subculture, he prefers a different life. He prefers a life that is free from drugs and violence; that is why he struggles considerably to free himself from the manacles of this subculture.
This scenario is common for most human beings. People have a tendency to align themselves with life they are accustomed to, rather than switch to a new status. Mores are values, norms and virtues that are acknowledged by a given society. According to the movie, mores are regarded as norms of morality. They are accepted modes of behavior in the society. Mores are not legally binding; they are a result of behavior patterns that are developed with time. In the film Menace to Society, most people in slums are alcoholics and irresponsible parents. This is not compulsory for every member in the society because every person is free to do as he or she is pleased. Every adult in the United States is eligible to drink alcohol, but excessive drinking is against the United States' mores; therefore, a responsible person is not supposed to engage in excessive alcoholism (Hughes & Hughes 1993). The movie highlighted and demonstrated societal tests and preferences in terms of taboos and morals. Taboos are, basically, strong social exclusions touching any area of human activity or customs. They are forbidden or sacred moral judgments or scientific beliefs founded on religious affiliations. Any act that would result in breaking a taboo is considered abhorrent in the society. Based on the film, leading a life full of violence and drugs is a taboo. Those who engage in such acts are considered abhorrent and are regarded as outcasts.
Menace II society displays ethnocentrism in some ways. Ethnocentrism is a predisposition that one cultural or ethnic group is above others. It is a mentality, whereby a certain culture looks at the world from its own perspective. It is a belief that one's culture is the view point of everything and that it is a yard stick against which all the other cultures are measured (Bozalek 2010). Ethnocentrism has been portrayed in various scenes in the movie. In the first scene, Cain and his friend are treated with suspicion when they entered the shop. The Korean couple was uncomfortable with the presence of black American boys in their premises. The film shows how the Korean shop managers eagerly requested the boys to pay the bill and leave the premises. From the movie, it is obvious that the black Americans are discriminated in the society. The other case of ethnocentrism in the film is portrayed when a few black characters are arrested even if they didn`t commit any crime.
There is prejudice in the law enforcement systems. The system discriminates against members of the black community (Singer 2011). The movie constantly features its members engaging in running battles with police or being arrested illegally. Cultural relativism is a principle that provides that no culture or group of people is superior to others in terms of morals, law and politics among other issues. A philosophy provides that all the cultural beliefs are equal and the truth is equally valid. Under cultural relativism, all the cultures need to coexist and live harmoniously side by side. This principle supports the concept of equal treatment of the state and all other authorities.
The movie brings out several social issues faced by both the affluent and the poor in informal slums. A number of differences and similarities have been highlighted in the movie, concerning cultural issues in their setups. The director cleverly used various characters to enlighten the viewer on various social aspects concerning urban violence in the black American community in the United States. The film connects the prevalent social problems faced by this populace to the continued systematic oppression by relevant authorities led by people in majority by races (Teshke 2011). The impact of the 1965 Los Angeles riots was also highlighted in the movie. The author wanted to justify the use of such scenes to portray the inequality that has forced black Americans into the life of destitution (Hughes & Hughes 1993).
Contrary to The public enemy movie of 1931, other movies that were released later focused on racism and inequality. For instance, in Menace to society, the director focused more on isolation and oppression of the minority. It is because of oppression and isolation that blacks face in the United States that have constantly pushed them to drugs and violence. The director identifies an etiology within the progression of learning violent behaviors and destruction through social interactions. Through exposure to life full of drugs and murder, Cain eventually learns how to procure and sale drugs safely. Cain has never had appropriate parenting; he was a victim of irresponsible parenthood. He has never had a chance to go to college and, therefore, he could not get a decent job. Despite the fact that Cain wanted to lead a righteous life, this was not possible for him. He was sucked into a slum life, and became a drug dealer, just like everyone else in his neighborhood.
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MacLehose Press, 2008 - Computer hackers - 554 pages
Book Summary: The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Financial journalist Mikael Blomkvist has made his living uncovering the corrupt and crooked practices of Stockholmâs leading financiers in his magazine, Millennium. But one expose unexpectedly backfires, and Blomkvists reputation is in tatters. When he is offered an investigative job by powerful businessman Henrik Vanger, he is in no position to refuse. But he is surprised to find it has nothing to do with high finance this time, it is a case of murder.
Many years ago, Henriks niece, Harriet, disappeared during a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the Vangers. No-one saw her leave the island, and no body was ever found. Even so, Henrik is convinced that she was murdered by a member of his own familyâ the tightly knit but dysfunctional Vanger clan.
Blomkvist is soon in over his head. He has linked Harriets disappearance to a number of gruesome murders from forty years ago, but it has become too dangerous to proceed alone.He needs a competent assistant, and he gets one: the gifted and conscience-free computer specialist, Lisbeth Salander. This truculent young woman has problems of her own. She in unwilling to take orders, rides a motorbike like a Hell Angel and handles makeshift weapons with a skill born of rage. This improbably pair unravel a dark and appalling family history.
But the Vangers are a secretive clan, and Blomkvist and Salander are about to find out just how far they are prepared to go to protect themselves.
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A solid thriller, but I was expecting more considering the hype surrounding it. The mystery itself, however, was very interesting and unfolded in a believable manner. Lisbeth Salander was also a fairly interesting character, even though she seemed a little less believable. Read full review
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It took me awhile to get into this book. I must have been half way through before I started really enjoying it. The Salander character was great, and the book was the most interesting when it was ... Read full review
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Prior to his sudden death of a heart attack in November 2004, Stieg Larsson finished three detective novels in his Millenium series. Before his career as a writer, Stieg Larsson was mostly known for his struggle against racism and right-wing extremism. In the middle of the 1980s he helped start the anti-violence project "Stop the Racism". This was followed by the founding of the Expo foundation in 1995. In 1999 he was appointed the chief editor of Expo, a magazine published by the organization.
Reg Keeland is a pseudonym used by freelance literary translator Steven T. Murray, who was born in Berkeley, California on October 7, 1943. He attended Stanford University and studied abroad in Germany and Denmark. In 1972 Murray earned a BA in Creative Writing from California State University, Hayward. He has won many awards for his English translations from mainly German and Scandinavian works of fiction, including Stieg Larsson's bestselling Millennium trilogy.
Title The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Issue 1 of Millennium trilogy, Stieg Larsson
Volume 1 of Millennium, Stieg Larsson
Author Stieg Larsson
Translated by Reg Keeland
Publisher MacLehose Press, 2008
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David Baker’s big Hall of Fame project to be completed in 2020
August 4, 2017 August 5, 2017 / nshook61 / Leave a comment
© Pro Football Hall of Fame
In its early days, journeying through the Pro Football Hall of Fame was more like taking a stroll.
Enter through the front doors of the circular main building, walk up the rotunda ramp around a statue of Jim Thorpe, view a collection of football artifacts, walk through a few more modest rooms filled with busts and exhibits, and that was pretty much it.
These days, a fan needs almost an entire day to get through the meat and potatoes of the Hall’s exhibits. Soon enough, it’ll be a week.
Professional football’s most hallowed ground has long stood as a monument to the game in the city where it started, but it didn’t offer much more. Under the direction of president David Baker, it’s slowly transforming into football’s Disneyland. Continue reading →
David Baker runs the Pro Football Hall of Fame his way
David Baker is a man you cannot miss — and surely cannot forget.
Baker — once called the “New Tower of Power” by Sports Business Journal — lumbers down a hotel hallway in Houston on a Saturday in February with a message and camera crew in tow. The message doesn’t come on a scroll or written memo, but through a knock on a door.
Much has been made of Baker’s knock, delivered with a forcefulness that fits the man creating the sound — Jason Taylor has likened it to getting a knock from the FBI. But it does not herald bad news. Instead, it summons football immortality.
As his knock this afternoon is answered, the room, brimming with nearly 20 of those closest to Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, erupts in cheers. The video shows tears flowing and the people inside embracing as Baker informs Jones of his impending enshrinement into football’s most hallowed club.
Baker is the president of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The 64-year-old’s frame — all 6-foot-9 and nearly 400 pounds of it — looms over almost anyone. His suit size is a 64. When Baker is approached for a handshake, the hand that isn’t his is guaranteed to disappear within his massive paw. Continue reading →
Charley Casserly’s Redskins named best team of last 30 years
June 27, 2017 July 1, 2017 / nshook61 / Leave a comment
In the pantheon of great football teams of the last half-century, some memorable organizations immediately come to mind.
Bill Belichick’s New England Patriots. Jimmy Johnson’s (and later, Barry Switzer’s) Dallas Cowboys. Chuck Noll’s Pittsburgh Steelers. Don Shula’s Miami Dolphins. Bill Walsh’s San Francisco 49ers.
But what about Joe Gibbs’ Washington Redskins? Continue reading →
Oklahoma Drill: Jamal Adams
March 29, 2017 March 30, 2017 / nshook61 / Leave a comment
Safety, LSU
Born: Oct. 17, 1995
Experience: 2017 NFL Draft prospect
Jamal Adams comes from a family with great expectations and greater bloodlines. His father, George, was a first-round pick by the New York Giants in the 1985 NFL Draft, but Jamal has believed since he was 10 that he can surpass his dad. A month before potentially realizing his dream as a top-10 pick, the All-American safety talked about his innate ability to lead, his penchant for getting kicked out of youth football leagues and a draft bet he made with a fellow prospect way back in high school.
Interview by Nick Shook • March 27, 2017
Read full interview on NFL.com
NFL Media’s Oklahoma Drill series presents exclusive, quick-hitting one-on-one interviews with players and coaches from around the league. No nonsense — just football experiences directly from the source.
I get the assumption that my father (former first-round pick and Giants/Patriots running back George Adams) kind of forced me to play football, but it wasn’t like that. I was thrown in the game and I ran with it. I fell in love with the game right around age 6, 7, just saying that this is what I wanted to do. I remember telling my mom that I wanted to be in the NFL, and now it’s here. I was never forced, but I was always supposed to be, I was raised to be on a high level. Never cut yourself short. Always give 110 percent and just do your best. Continue reading →
Oklahoma Drill: David Njoku
David Njoku
Tight end, Miami
David Njoku went from the scout team to the national scene in just three seasons at the University of Miami, and he is slated to be the first Hurricane off the board in the 2017 NFL Draft. The former high school high-jump champion discusses why he doesn’t fear blocking, the most unique question he was asked during the NFL Scouting Combine and that thrilling (and controversial) end to a contest against Duke during his college days.
‘Undrafted’ star Mariel Cooper awaits next NFL call
October 11, 2016 January 9, 2017 / nshook61 / Leave a comment
Throughout his life, Mariel Cooper has frequently had to call an audible.
When his father became ill and his mother had to pick up the slack, Cooper had to grow up quicker than most. When he was cut from his high school football team as a sophomore, he had to instead spend the season as a team manager, because it was as close to the game as he could get. When he was injured and his test scores didn’t qualify to get him into Clemson, the school to which he committed, he had to change his choice to Division I-FCS South Carolina State.
That’s enough major adjustments for anyone’s first 25 to 30 years of life. Cooper faced another after he wasn’t selected by an NFL team in the 2016 draft, a journey chronicled in NFL Network’s Undrafted, airing on Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET. Continue reading →
Oklahoma Drill: Jeremiah Allison
October 4, 2016 / nshook61 / Leave a comment
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The former Washington State linebacker is one of the featured players in Season 3 of NFL Network’s “Undrafted”, which airs every Tuesday through Nov. 1 at 8 p.m. ET on NFL Network. Allison discusses the eight-episode series, his late mother’s influence and his experience at the Minneapolis regional combine.
I’ve been playing chess since I was 3. My goal is always to be three moves ahead, and I have to know when I move this pawn or I move this knight. What are the consequences that can happen when I move this piece? Because my whole thing is, you can apply the game of chess to life. You have to be very strategic in what you do, because that can determine the entire fate of the game.
My first offer came from UCLA. It felt really good when I knew that my mom wouldn’t have to pay for me to go to college. And that I knew I was going to college and [scholarship offers] just start coming in. It feels good, but you’re put in another category, because you can’t do certain things that your friends can do [because of NCAA rules] who aren’t getting recruited because you have a lot riding on what you’re doing.
My biggest fear already happened to me, and that was losing my mom. I was scared to death. But when that happened, it kind of opened things up for me a bit. It relaxed me a little bit. Continue reading →
Estonian politics enters an uncertain era
April 14, 2014 May 18, 2017 / nshook61 / Leave a comment
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It takes a mere 60 seconds inside the Pro Patria and Res Publica Union headquarters to realize that times are changing.
Members of the conservative political party scurry across the main office in downtown Tallinn, Estonia, walking quickly with a clear need to be somewhere. Audio from America’s first-ever political attack advertisement can be heard from a nearby room — a potential preview of the party’s approach in the near future. Continue reading →
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How To Diagnose And Treat Genital Herpes
How To Diagnose And Treat One Of The Most Common STDs: Genital Herpes
Danielle Page
You likely know about the dangers of STIs (Sexually Transmitted Infections) on some level. Maybe you're not sure about just how many of them there are out there, or what the symptoms can look like. But you know that the importance of using protection goes beyond preventing an unwanted pregnancy. You also practice safe sex because you want to make sure that you don't end up contracting any of the diseases you learned about back in your high school health class. But depending on how long ago that was for you, you could probably use a refresher on the best practices for not contracting an STI. Especially the ones that aren't curable, like herpes.
Just how common are herpes cases? According to the CDC, one out of every six men and women ages 14-49 in the U.S. has genital herpes. To break that math down for you even further, if you're sleeping with partners in that demographic, there's a one in six chance they have this disease. Let that sink in for a minute, because that's some seriously scary math to consider.
Now that you're worried, lets talk about everything you need to know about genital herpes. From how it gets spread to what the symptoms look like, how to prevent it and more, here's everything you should absolutely know about herpes.
What Is Herpes?
When you hear the term "herpes," your mind probably envisions the sores that are the big indicators of the disease. But as Dr. James Wantuck, MD of PlushCare points out, understanding how this STI works isn't always straightforward, since there are two different types of herpes that you can contract. "Herpes is confusing and there is a lot of misinformation out there," Dr. Wantuck says. "When people talk about herpes, usually they are referring to genital herpes, as opposed to oral herpes (cold sores). Genital herpes is caused by either the Herpes Simplex Virus type 1 or type 2 virus (HSV-1 or HSV-2). Oral herpes is almost always caused by an infection with HSV-1."
Furthermore, HSV-1 and HSV-2 don't necessarily only show up on the mouth and genitals, respectively. "In the past, it was thought that HSV 1 viruses produced sores on the lip (the kissing kind) and HSV 2 viruses produced sores on the genitals (the STD kind)," explains board certified dermatologist Tsippora Shainhouse, MD. "However, in recent decades, there has been a mingling of strains and studies have shown that either strain can be found in either area. This is likely due to different sex practices, including oral sex. If HSV-1 infected lips touch genitals, then genitals can acquire the HSV-1 strain. If HSV-2 infected genitals touch lips, then lips can acquire the HSV-2 strain. It doesn't matter which strain you have. They both produce the same sores and both are considered to be potential STDs."
Symptoms of Herpes
So, what do symptoms of herpes look like? According to Dr. Sam Malik, GP at DrFelix, they manifest differently in women than in men. "The symptoms for women can have more complications than for men," he explains. "Painful, infectious blisters can occur around the genital area, buttocks and thighs, which last longer among women. Other symptoms for women include swollen lymph nodes in the groin and a burning sensation when urinating. Men will generally only see a few blisters around the tip of the penis, although both men and women may sometimes develop a genital rash." After the first exposure to herpes, symptoms also typically include a low fever.
However, just because you don't see any of these herpes symptoms appear in a timely manner after an unprotected sexual encounter doesn't mean that you're in the clear. "This varies as most people who contract the virus might not see any symptoms in the beginning," Dr. Malik says. "The virus can lay dormant for months or even years. However, normally if they do appear with a primary infection (first time) it is normally between 4 to 7 days. The recurring infections are normally not as severe at the first time but will show up from time to time."
How Is Herpes Spread?
"Any sexually active adult is at risk of contracting genital herpes," Dr. Wantuck explains. "The herpes virus is transmitted during oral, vaginal and anal intercourse. It is not transmitted by toilet seats or other physical objects. While genital herpes is often transmitted from someone else with genital herpes, it is also possible to contract genital herpes from someone who has oral herpes, or cold sores, by engaging in oral sex."
In fact, according to Dr. Wantuck, oral sex accounts for a big reason why the disease has spread. "Recently, more and more cases of genital herpes are being caused by HSV-1 due to the increasing amount of oral sex that people are engaging in," he says. "If someone with a cold sore performs oral sex on you, you can get genital herpes!"
Even if your partner shows no symptoms, the disease can still spread. "You can give someone or catch herpes, if you (or your partner) don't have a current outbreak," Dr. Shainhouse explains. "HSV viruses live in your skin, blood and body fluids. True, it is more likely to transmit the virus via direct contact with a weeping sore, however, it is possible to contract the virus from someone with seemingly clear skin, because people who have had an HSV lesion are potentially always shedding a low level of the virus."
How to Prevent Herpes
According to Dr. Shainhouse, the only surefire way to keep yourself 100% protected from herpes is to not have sex or make out with anyone. But since that's probably not going to happen, she recommends following safe sex practices as well as being on the lookout for open sores indicative of the disease. "Wearing a condom will lower the risk of transmission by covering some of the areas that might have or have had an active lesion," Dr. Shainhouse explains. "However, HSV can be transmitted from skin that is not protected with a condom, since HSV lesions are not only on the penis and vaginal areas. They can be on the labia majora or the buttocks, and in the case of oral sex, they can be on the nose or cheek, as well. This risk can be reduced if the person with a history of HSV lesions takes a daily antiviral pill." If you're with a new partner, it's also worth getting tested together to make sure that you're both in the clear, since this STI can lay dormant for quite some time, and can be passed unknowingly.
How to Diagnose Herpes
Unfortunately, there's no at home test you can take to determine whether or not you have herpes. So if you're showing signs listed above, your best bet is to pay a visit to your doctor. "Diagnosis is usually made clinically," says Dr. Shainhouse. "The location and appearance of the lesion, as well as the timing of how it developed and how it feels are often sufficient. If you want confirmation, your dermatologist can take a swab of the new sore. Viral culture of the fluid and cells at the base of a fresh lesion can be grown to diagnose HSV. PCR of the DNA in viral cells and fluid can differentiate HSV-1 and HSV-2. People who have been exposed to herpes may have a positive IgG antibody titer (old, past exposure), while new infections will have a positive IgM (acute viral phase)." Suffice it to say that in order to determine if you have herpes and what type, you need to speak to a physician or dermatologist.
AskMen Recommends: Concerned you may have picked up an unwanted infection from a recent sexual encounter? We're not here to shame you. But before you let things fester (or sleep with other people), you should find out what your STI status is, and, if you have one, take action immediately. If you don't have the opportunity to see a doctor or to go to a health clinic, consider getting ordering an at-home test kit. Check out our list of the best at-home STI kits so you can find out where you stand ASAP.
How to Treat Herpes
Unfortunately, there is currently no cure for herpes. However, there are several treatment options in order to keep the uncomfortable symptoms under control. If it is the first time the virus appears, Dr. Malik says using antiviral tablets can help. "The tablets prevent the virus from multiplying," he explains. "A doctor will recommend the best way to control the symptoms if the outbreak is recurrent. Cleaning the affected area with salt water and applying an ice pack are known to work well."
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As far as other herpes treatments, there are medications that can also help manage this STI. "The most common medicine contains the active ingredient acyclovir," says Dr. Malik. "How quickly it will work depends on how quickly you start the treatment at the onset of symptoms, so the sooner you start [the medication] when you notice the symptoms the better. This way you can sometimes even prevent the sores developing. If it is too late, then the medicine will stop further sores from being developed and aid your body in fighting the virus — but a single outbreak can last between a few days to a few weeks."
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Although there's no cure for herpes, it is recommended that you seek treatment to manage this STI. If left untreated, you could be looking at a host of unpleasant complications. "If the virus isn't treated, the symptoms could get worse and more painful, and increase the risk of spreading the virus to somebody else," says Dr. Malik. "If the blister caused by herpes is infected with other bacteria, it can lead to issues with other parts of the body. Some rare cases have shown complications with eyes, brain, liver and lungs."
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The Time Twins – sci-fi MG, published April 16, 2019
Dragon West – fantasy YA, coming Fall 2019
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Seven Most Interesting Questions about A Wrinkle in Time
This kind of behavior quickly leads to a society that is conditioned to all do the same things, all act the same way, all think the same way, and run the same way, like a machine.
Q #1: Is the novel A Wrinkle in Time worth reading?
A: Yes. Well, I would say yes depending on what type of books you like. A Wrinkle in Time is science fiction, and it’s a children’s book, though I think it could be enjoyed by teens also. Adults might like it as light reading, it’s a great story, though the story is more in line with what a child or teen might enjoy, in my opinion.
Q #2: What’s your favourite line in A Wrinkle in Time?
A: This is a great question! There are lots of great lines. However, one that sticks with me is Mrs. Whatsit’s last line in the first chapter. She just says casually: “there is such a thing as a tesseract” and it completely draws you in and makes you want to read the rest of the book.
Q #3: In A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle the protagonists encounter a city where everything runs on a schedule and is controlled by a nefarious machine if memory serves. If you read the book what was your impression?
A: This is one of the best parts in my opinion. Most obviously, it’s a warning that uniformity is the enemy of freedom. But also, that is just the surface-level meaning. Given the time this book was published, smack dab in the middle of the cold war, I think it’s likely this was an analogy for the dangers of communism. However, in present day it’s easy to see these dangers popping up in the capitalist world too. Given the connectivity of everyone, and the booming population, people have become more like a number than ever before, and big corporations are plugging them into a pipeline where everything runs on schedule and everyone is expected to act in a uniform machine-like manner. Beyond this, social media and the connectiveness of the world has made it easier than ever to quickly learn what is popular and what is not. People post on Facebook en-masse about TV shows like Game of Thrones, and then more people go to watch Game of Thrones because everyone else is posting about it, and then they post about it, and the cycle continues. It’s great for popular shows like Game of Thrones (and this isn’t a commentary on that show, it’s just a recent example of this I’ve seen) but this kind of behavior quickly leads to a society that is conditioned to all do the same things, all act the same way, all think the same way, and run the same way, like a machine.
Q #4: What is the worst book to movie inaccuracy in A Wrinkle in Time (2018)?
A: In my opinion, the worst inaccuracy has to do with the tone of the movie. Hollywood made it all about adventure and action. There was a point in the movie when I remember Meg and Calvin running away from the It, in a sort of chase that I distinctly remember didn’t happen. They also had another scene where Meg goes riding on the backs of these giant green things that didn’t belong. Adventure and action isn’t bad, necessarily, but it wasn’t the point of the book. The book had a lot of messages about society, about culture, about family, about growing up, and these were sacrificed to make a movie that was essentially a fun romp through a wrinkle in time.
Q #5: Is the book A Wrinkle in Time for teens (15y)?
A: Yes, I think it absolutely can be a great book for teens! It’s usually targeted at middle grade, which is ages 8-12, but I believe it could easily appeal to a teen as well.
Q #6: Is A Wrinkle in Time considered to be a children’s book?
A: Yes. It’s great for kids ages 8 and up!
Q #7: Is it possible to tether (teleport) just like characters from the movie A Wrinkle in Time?
A: I would say not that we know of. Of course, in A Wrinkle in Time, the three women who show Meg how to tesser are all otherwordly beings. Their knowledge surpasses our own. Even fifty or more years after the book was written, I would have to say that we don’t know enough about the universe to know whether or not tessering is possible. With our current technology, we can’t do it. However, with all of the laws of the universe we know, as far as I am aware, we can’t rule it out as possible.
Author realwritercarlPosted on June 14, 2019 June 14, 2019 Tags a wrinkle in time, award winning books, books with a message, charles wallace, great books to read, great books to read for kids, imagination, madeleine l'engle, meg murray, middle grade books, middle school books, mrs whatsit, mrs which, mrs who, newberry books, sci-fi childrens books, science fiction, tesser, tesseract, the it, time travel childrens books, traveling through space, travelling through space, wrinkle in timeLeave a comment on Seven Most Interesting Questions about A Wrinkle in Time
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July General Membership Meeting Thursday, July 11
Due to the Waterfront Blues Festival occurring the first week of July, the Cascade Blues Association General membership Meeting is scheduled for Thursday, July 11 at The East Portland Eagles Lodge at 7:00 pm. Note that we’re meeting on Thursday, not Wednesday, for July’s meeting only. In August we’ll be back to our regular Wednesday evening schedule.
We’re sure that after a couple days off from the blues festival you’re going to be ready for more music, so come out to The Hawthorne Eagles Lodge for a couple fun sets of blues — it’s the right way to kick off your weekend a day early.
Our good friends David Pinsky and Phil Newton will be driving up from Medford to bring you a traditional acoustic guitar and harmonica performance. Longtime friends David and Phil have been a major part of the Southern Oregon Blues scene for over thirty years and have joined forces as an acoustic/electric duo. David’s propulsive guitar, welded with Phil’s harmonica chops, offer a steady groove reminiscent of the 1960s Chicago style duets. The two on occasion will also employ a twin harp attack. Both David and Phil bring decades of vocal experience, with David concentrating on his original compositions and Phil interpreting Blues and roots. David and Phil are also past winners of the Journey to Memphis competition and have represented The Cascade Blues Association in Memphis during the International Blues Challenge. Dave has also represented The CBA as a solo performer. They have released two CDs together and are also committed to Blues education and teaching Blues to local kids to keep the Blues alive in the tradition of the great Delta masters.
Photo by Jim Dorothy
For the second set, we welcome the Pat Stilwell Band. Formed in 2010, the band is a solid group of journeymen musicians that possess a great musical chemistry. The band is led by Pat Stilwell. Pat has lived in many places across the country, picking up musical flavors from each of his stops along the way, and has fronted a number of bands including the popular Seattle-based band The Cyclones. Since moving to Portland in 2009, he has been making his mark on the local music scene with his innovative guitar work, soulful vocals, and skillfully crafted original songs. His playing and songwriting reflect a deep connection with the blues, infused with the many influences that have informed his style. In addition to his skills as a guitarist, Pat is also an accomplished blues violinist.
Band members include keyboardist Michael McGinty. Trained in his youth on trumpet and jazz piano he has performed in rock, soul, and fusion groups from New England to the Virgin Islands. While living in San Diego he worked with renowned vocalist Michelle Lundeen. Now in Portland he has played with various groups including Mr. Misu and Dept. of R&B.
Drummer Doug Adair has paid his dues with just about every genre there is, including rock, blues, funk, and country. Playing professionally from the 70’s on, and aside from the Pat Stilwell Band he currently performs and fills in with a number of local artists including Kenny Lavitz, Ken Brewer, Rae Gordon, and Ben Rice.
The newest addition to the band Kirk Byant, an in-demand top level bassist who has travelled the globe touring in various high-profiled bands, garnering five Grammy nominations along the way with Bay Area jazz group Second Nature. While living in the bay area, Kirk has performed with a musical who’s who of that region for three decades, with experiences ranging from rock to jazz to blues, and everything in between.
Pat Stilwell is also celebrating the release of his new CD, Tales From The Riverside. Expect to hear new music from the recording and other favorites.
The East Portland Eagles Lodge, 4904 SE Hawthorne St., Thursday, July 11. 7:00 pm. Members are Free, non-members $5.00. All ages welcome.
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Blessing of the Fleet
Every year in local communities along the shores of Lake Superior, and other small lakes and rivers in Wisconsin, fishing boats, ships, sailboats and all manner of watercraft are invited to the Blessing of the Fleet ceremony.
In Bayfield, the tradition started in the late 1950s as a way to honor the fishing families who formed the backbone of the area's economy, it is now an event that is open to all boaters. The Blessing is for everyone who uses the water. Commercial fishing boats, tugs, powerboats, sailboats, excursion crafts, kayaks, and rowboats will parade through Bayfield's City Harbor. As they pass by the tip of the pier, clergy from the Apostle Islands community grant each vessel a blessing for safe passage and a prosperous season on Lake Superior.
The Twin Ports Ministry to Seafarers
The ministry is an ecumenical effort with roots in a 1960s grain millers’ strike. When grain stopped flowing out of the harbor, hundreds of mariners were anchored, along with their cargo ships, in an unfamiliar port. With the support of his congregation, a German-born, multilingual Lutheran minister from Duluth began visiting ships, organizing a free shuttle service for seafarers, bringing them books and magazines and more. The strike ended, but the ministry did not; in 1969, the permanent Twin Ports Ministry to Seafarers was established.
The organization is headquartered in a former rectory in Duluth, where sailors can play ping pong, pray in the chapel, have a snack or watch television. Twin Ports Ministry still provides sailors with shuttle rides to churches, shopping centers, medical clinics and other community services, as well as wireless internet access and cell phones while ships are in port, relaxation time at The Seafarers Center, and other amenities.
Many workers on the “salties,” the saltwater ships traveling from the Atlantic via the St. Lawrence Seaway, are from the Far East. Although the captains are wealthy, the crew workers are usually poor, so ministry volunteers offer them donations of clothing, personal care items and, around the holidays, Christmas gifts.
Ministry volunteers visit every saltie that comes in and, when they can, the larger freshwater “lakers” that travel the Great Lakes. The number of ocean-going vessels they see over the course of one season depends on the grain harvest in Europe and Russia.
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Home/Dinosaur and Prehistoric Animal News Stories, Main Page, Palaeontological articles/Feathered Dinosaurs – Two Types of Feather are Better than One
Feathered Dinosaurs – Two Types of Feather are Better than One
Chinese Dinosaur Fossil shows Evidence of Feathers – Two Different Types
Scientists have debated the origins of birds for many years and the most widely accepted theory is that they evolved from meat-eating dinosaurs. The debate over the relationship between Aves (birds) and Theropod dinosaurs (meat-eaters) is actually quite old, the first discussion papers on this subject were published in Victorian times. John Ostrom, the distinguished professor of vertebrate palaeontology at Yale University’s Peabody Museum of Natural History, published a number of papers analysing the evolution of flight. For John Ostrom, the commonly held believe at the time, of a sluggish, overgrown reptile being the typical view of a dinosaur, simply did not reflect the evidence in the fossil record. He was a driving force in the “Dinosaur Renaissance” of the early 1970s, depicting dinosaurs as perfectly adapted animals, active, agile and energetic.
His description of the Dromaeosaur Deinonychus (Deinonychus antirrhopus) is regarded as one of the landmark moments in the history of modern palaeontology. Now thanks to the amazing fossil discoveries of Liaoning in China, palaeontologists have a number of fossil specimens of different feathered dinosaurs that imply an evolutionary link between small Theropods and birds.
An Illustration of Deinonychus
Picture Credit: Everything Dinosaur
However, a new report on a particular feathered dinosaur from China, about the same size as Deinonychus, suggests that some dinosaurs may have had a number of different feather types adorning their bodies. Some feathers may have been to help insulate them and keep them warm (indicating active warm-blooded animals), whilst other feathers may have served as ornamentation to help them attract a mate and signal to others within their herd (or should that be flock)?
In a paper published on the primitive Therizinosaurid (sometimes known as a Segnosaur), Beipiaosaurus, it is stated that two distinct types of feather have been found on the animal’s remains one for insulation, the other type perhaps used to signal for a mate, some of the earliest evidence of this type of feather found in the dinosaur fossil record.
Beipiaosaurus was named after the city of Beipiao, a city in Liaoning province in northern China. The first fossils of this dinosaur were discovered in this area in 1996. It was a very unusual looking dinosaur (we often think Therizinosaurs seem to be made up of a mixture of different animal parts):
Article on Therizinosaurs like Beipiaosaurus: Therizinosaurs – are they the strangest dinosaurs of all?
Beipiaosaurus was approximately 2-3 metres tall, heavily built and a plant-eater. The fossils date from the mid Cretaceous (Aptian faunal stage), approximately 120 million years ago. Beipiaosaurus had a relatively large head for a Therizinosaur (later animals such as Nothronychus had proportionately smaller heads), a long neck and a broad body. The shin bones are longer than the thigh bones and this dinosaur had three-toed feet. Scientists have identified fine, proto-feathers associated with fossils of this dinosaur, but the discovery of the elongated, broad, filamentous feathers has excited palaeontologists, who believed that such coverings existed but had rarely found traces of them.
It is believed that dinosaurs had these broad, showy feathers at some point in the past because more advanced forms have already been discovered on dinosaur remains.
The primitive feathers on Beipiaosaurus are similar to the earliest forms seen on ancient birds. The fossil remains of Beipiaosaurus are approximately 25 million years younger than the fossils of Archaeopteryx, the earliest bird yet discovered. There are similarities between the wider, filamentous feathers on Beipiaosaurus and those of Archaeopteryx. If scientists are correct in assuming that birds evolved from Theropods then the discovery of similar feathers on Beipiaosaurus proves that dinosaurs did have feathers of this type and indeed there may be other fossils of dinosaurs dating from before Archaeopteryx which would also show this feather type. They are waiting to be discovered.
Interestingly, in the report published in the scientific journal “The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences” by the Chinese research team, their study of the Beipiaosaurus specimen reveals information on where on the animal the various feather types grew. Feathers from the animal have been identified on the fossilised remains of half a skeleton, including the head, neck and part of the tail. Those that were used for communication (the wide, filamentous feathers) grew most densely on the back of the neck and at the end of the creature’s tail. Ideal locations for a signalling device. We can imagine a flock of Therizinosaurs bobbing their heads at each other just as flamingos do. Or perhaps they waived their tails to communicate or combined both head and tail movements in a sort of dinosaur semaphore. The presence of such feathers will enable scientists to speculate on elements such as animal social interaction, hierarchy and herd behaviour, unfortunately, the hard evidence for this is rarely preserved in the fossil record.
An Artist’s Impression of the Therizinosaur Beipiaosaurus
Therizinosaur drawing – Beipiaosaurus
Picture Credit: Timesonline
In the illustration above, the artist has clearly depicted Beipiaosaurus with long, quilled feathers on the head, neck and tail. Scientists are fairly confident that dinosaurs had colour vision and the feathers may have been brightly coloured to help them to be seen in the dark, forested environment where this dinosaur lived. Commenting on the research work, professor Xing Xu, of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing), stated:
“Feathers are diverse in morphology and function. In Beipiaosaurus most filamentous feathers that are slender and short are probably for insulation and the specialised elongate, broad, filamentous feathers are probably for display.
The professor and his colleagues from the Shandong Tianyu Museum of Nature and the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences who carried out the research, confirmed that although feathered, Beipiaosaurus could not fly. It is believed that some dinosaurs from the Liaoning region were adapted to an arboreal existence and used feathers to help them glide from tree to tree, or perhaps even to flap a little, an example of powered flight. One such dinosaur is Microraptor, a feathered dinosaur with a type of flight feather on its arms and legs. This small, crow-sized animal could climb trees and probably lived in the forest canopy out of reach from the carnivorous dinosaurs that roamed below.
Microraptor is one of the dinosaurs illustrated in the Feathered Dinosaur Tube available from Everything Dinosaur.
To view the feathered dinosaur tube: Dinosaur Toys for Boys and Girls – Dinosaur Models
The tube also contains models of other feathered dinosaurs from Asia, including Caudipteryx, Dilong and Velociraptor.
The Feathered Dinosaur Tube
Feathered Dinosaur “Toob”
In their report these Chinese scientists have concluded that the discovery of primitive feathers “strongly supports the hypothesis that feathers evolved and initially diversified in non-avian Theropods before the origin of birds and the evolution of flight”.
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BALLARD ANNEXATION TO SEATTLE
We get our name from the historic 1907 event — the City of Ballard’s annexation to the City of Seattle.
The former City of Ballard was the seventh largest city in Washington with a population of 4,568 in 1900. The city found difficulty accommodating its growing number of residents, without a proper clean water supply.
By 1907, the lumber and fishing industries grew and so did the population, now about 17,000 people. This continued problems for their lack of water supply and sewage system. In 1905, the question of Ballard annexing to Seattle was put to vote, with an opposing outcome. After the Supreme Court ruled that Seattle could not share its water with neighboring cities in July of 1906, Ballard was forced to vote again.
With their water source depleted, the desperate City of Ballard voted in agreement to join the City of Seattle. The final decision was close with only 996 in favor, and 874 opposed and met with mixed reaction from the community, who let their flag hang at half-mast.
On May 29th, 1907 the City of Ballard was no more, and officially became part of the City of Seattle.
History of the Building
Ballard Annex Oyster House is located at 5410 Ballard Ave NW in historical downtown Ballard, located next door to the Centennial Bell Tower, the former site of Ballard City Hall. The building was originally built for Fitzgerald and Hynes Department Store for a total of $15,000 in 1908. The top floor was home to the Aerie of Eagles for twenty years. In the 1930’s the building housed Willy’s New Car Sales & Dealership. During the 1950’s it was home to the printing press for The Ballard News Tribune, and later several restaurants.
KEE YU
Born and raised in Korea, Chef Kee Yu’s career began working in Japanese kitchens washing dishes and picking herbs. He then decided to attend Culinary School and move to the United States. During his career, he has traveled around the world and worked in many restaurants, including his latest role at Palisade as Executive Sous Chef. We are thrilled to welcome him to the Annex family.
ZAK MELANG
Zak offers the creative inspiration for Opper Melang Restaurants and is responsible for the design and décor of each concept. Originally from North Carolina, Zak moved to Seattle in the early 90’s for the music scene and spent time managing and tending bar in lower Queen Anne hotspots. A talented artist and craftsman, Zak creates each restaurant’s alluring rustic style and builds its furniture.
NATHAN OPPER
Nathan, drives the culinary development of Opper Melang Restaurants. A Michigan native and restaurant industry veteran, Nathan managed several landmark Seattle establishments in the 90’s before partnering with Zak Melang to open The Matador in Ballard in 2004. His passions include hunting, fishing, cooking, and travelling.
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Banks with branches located in Woodstock, AL
First United Security Bank
West Alabama Bank & Trust
28827 Hwy 5
Woodstock is a town in Bibb and Tuscaloosa counties in the U.S. state of Alabama. Formerly known as North Bibb, by referendum in August 2000, the town adopted the name of a long-established local unincorporated community and as of October 1, 2000 is now known officially as "Woodstock". As of the 2000 census, the population of the town was 986.
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Chairman of Goddards Enterprises Asserts His Innocence
Posted on July 27, 2018 by David 1,315 comments
[Barbados Underground] Yes Jeff, Charles Herbert faces a monumental task, not least because he has already been convicted in the court of public opinion. The social meaning of the case has become about the history of race relations in Barbados, so although the court case is supposed to consider the evidence dispassionately, I am not certain that a jury will lack bias
BU Commenter Peter Lawrence Thompson
tagged with Charles Herbert, GEL, Goddards Enterprises
@ Hal Austin July 2, 2019 2:05 PM
It doesn’t matter what college Tron went to.
In a 29:1 democracy, the constitution only establishes a guideline for government action, but no strict boundary, since the constitution could be changed at any time and at will. So if the Attorney General directs the DPP, she must follow, even if it goes beyond the Attorney General’s constitutional right to direct her.
I even go so far as to say that the election in May 2018 was an act of popular revolution against the post-colonial order as established in 1966. Such a revolution sweeps away the existing legal order. Therefore, only those constitutional provisions are binding which the government has confirmed as valid through practical action. All other constitutional provisions are suspended.
Barbadians rejected the DLP and the third party offering.
WURA-WAR-on-U
Artax…the kind of beautiful day i had, ah wish ah could share it with everyone, even you…cause ya seem so damn UNHAPPY…and my day was …let’s just say…the stuff that PARADISE IS SUPPOSED TO BE MADE OF……for Black people.
Me……. unhappy????
Far from it, my friend.
I’m EXREMELY happy…….. business is going well……
I decided to take this week off. Yesterday, I went liming with some friends……. had a wonderful time……. today I relaxed to watch a few movies and re-runs…… and post a few contributions to BU.
May even visit SVG for “Vincy Mas” this weekend…….
Unlike you, my life DOES NOT REVOLVE around Barbados Underground…….. it goes way beyond this forum.
It’s clear you’re not only UNHAPPY……. you’re one SAD, ANGRY, LONELY, MISERABLE, DELUSIONAL old woman, who does not have anything better to do with her life than to visit the halls of BU to REPEATEDLY spew your racist rants and hate filled diatribe on a DAILY BASIS…….. from as early as 2:00 AM.
You CANNOT engage in a debate WITHOUT resorting to INSULTS. Why? Because you can’t MANAGE your EMOTIONS and since everyone seems to ANNOY you, you’re SHORT-TEMPERED and VERY EASILY STRESSED.
That’s why you MUST respond to every comment….. you MUST “have the last word.” And as you continue to respond, you become “progressively angrier.”
PERHAPS the reason why you are that way is because you can’t identify and control your emotions EFFECTIVELY. ANGER and SADNESS are emotions that should give you a message. What they are telling you is you’re not SATIFIED with your PERSONAL SITUATION.
You adore in spreading rumors, which is a sign of passive-aggressive behaviour.
BU gives you some semblance of importance. It’s a place where you use anonymity to express your illusions of grandeur.
You’re PREDICTABLE…………..when you’re not “copy and pasting” IRRELEVANT articles to BU articles or posting Jackie Stewart videos…… you believe that REPEATING the SAME shiite in EVERY contribution is your way of achieving some delusional, self perceived objective.
…”post a few contributions to BU.”
what contributions???
old articles……are not contributions,,,
deal with what is NEGATIVELY IMPACTING YOUR PEOPLE….and keeping the poor helpless and unable to defend themselves from having their human rights violated..
the RACISM……instead of pretending it don’t exist..
the APARTHEID…instead of pretending it don’t exist..
the human rights abuses against THE MAJORITY BLACK POPULATION by black governments and CRIMINAL MINORITIES……..instead of pretending it don’t exist..
the THEFTS of lands and properties from the elderly and their beneficiaries…instead of pretending it don’t exist…
in all my years on BU you have not ONCE ADDRESSED any of those issues, but only post old articles and PRETEND there are no other problems…except for what bloggers POST….steuppss..
living in a PRETEND WORLD…never solved any problems..certainly won’t solve all those serious problems the majority population experience…
certainly will not make the requisite changes…to help the island move into the 21st CENTURY…..
there are people working hard behind the scenes to make sure these crimes are not only exposed…but the criminals brought to justice…ya should try helping….instead of writing essays of pure SHITE…
“This is the day the Lord has made. Let’s rejoice and be glad in it.”
Rather than giving praise and thanks for life……. you with your OLD, MISRABLE, ANGY, UNHAPPY, DELUSIONAL self, got up early this morning just to “pick a noise.”
I’ll engage you, since you raised an interesting point.
If I asked you to present ONE of your contributions in which you EXPOSED any crimes against Barbadians and IDENTIFY the perpetrators……… you CAN’T.
This is how you “deal with what is NEGATIVELY IMPACTING YOUR PEOPLE.”
On a DAILY BASIS……… IRRESPECTIVE of the TOPIC posted to BU for discussion, you post the SAME OLD PREDICTABLE, MEANINGLESS, GENERALIZED RHETORICAL SHIITE that lacks substance.
………. “Dismantle the existing legislation, institutions AND structures that ALLOWS THE PRACTICE OF RACISM AND APARTHEID against the Black majority…..”
………. “ya have BLACK LEADERS in parliament SELLING OUT their own people TO ANYONE WHO DOES NOT LOOK BLACK…”
………. “the criminal minorities, PARASITES IN THE LIVES OF THE MAJORITY….. the slaves in parliament helping the white criminal minorities, Bizzy, COW, Maloney to steal from the treasury and pension fund.”
……… You post to BU other people’s opinions you “copy and paste” from Facebook, the comments section of online newspapers and other social media sites.
……… Your contributions as it relates to “the THEFTS of lands and properties from the elderly and their beneficiaries” is POSTING Jackie Stewart videos.
If this is your idea of EXPOSING wrongs in Barbados……. REPEATING the SAME, old tired predictable rhetoric…. I believe you should think again.
Ironically, you come to this forum EVERY DAY……. to INCESSANTLY cuss white people…………… yet you MARRIED a WHITE MAN.
You have to satisfy his sexual needs, make his bed, breakfast, cook his food, take care of his children, perform household duties.
Back in the days of slavery, you would be CALLED a “BELLY WARMER,”……… a “HOUSE NEGRO,”……. names you take delight in calling OTHER black people in this forum.
In these times you’re nothing but a DAMN “SELL OUT.”
You should be ASHAMED of yourself.
NorthernObserver
@Blogmaster
so…on the one hand one is to accept the DPP role is enshrined in the constitution, and on the next, they do not pursue a case because a firm is a supplier to the GoB? Barbados has an oversupply of many things…..sunshine, warmth, rum, cabinet ministers, sh!!te talkers and insurance companies. One of the easiest things to replace in Bim is an insurance policy.
Now if you said it may rattle others from paying graft, you maybe nearer to the truth.
Artax…wuh look…this is much more important than ya dumb rant…maybe ya want to call the NAMES OF THOSE I SOLD OUT TO…and exactly WHAT DID I SELL…cause if i had sold your ass, you would know.
look at Mia’s words RETURNING TO BITE HER BACKSIDE…about the same criminals and crooks like Maloney we have been exposing FOR YEARS…, in case you still have not noticed…it’s these DEMONS, racists, wannabe slave masters, criminals and thieves we are trying to rid the island of…so let’s call this one…MIA’S WORDS BITING HER…lol
she told any and ALL LIES to be elected…now look.
the DPP should be goddamn well FIRED…
“Mottley blames Gov’t for boy’s death
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Opposition Leader Mia Mottley is placing blame for the death of an 11-year-old boy in a traffic accident at the entrance to the Villages at Coverley last Friday, squarely at the feet of Government.
Addressing a Barbados Labour Party (BLP) public meeting in Codrington Hill, St Michael last night, immediately opposite the former home of BLP icon and National Hero, the late Sir Grantley Adams, Mottley said the accident occurred because Government had abdicated its responsibility and duty to the public.
Abijah Holder died on the spot when the car in which he was travelling on his way home from school graduation, reportedly struck a sign post on the road that leads into the Christ Church development and overturned. The car was driven by his mother.
Mottley said fault for the accident had to be placed on the driveway to the Villages at Coverley, which, she alleged, illegally extended onto the road reserve, which is state property, but Government had been negligent in enforcing its removal.
BLP Leader Mia Mottley addressing the rally last night.
“What I need to tell you is that the Chief Town Planner advised . . . that they needed to remove that obstruction from the road reserve, because both the Chief Town Planner and the Chief Technical Officer were against it,” the BLP leader told the crowd.
She said more than three years had passed since notification was given . . . and the morning that it was to be removed, a call came to the MTW Department and told them, ‘do not use the MTW equipment to move nothing at Coverley’,” the BLP leader charged.
“A young boy, full of promise, is dead tonight,” Mottley said.
“This Government has abdicated the responsibility to protect the public interest. If this were the life of the son of somebody prominent in this society, Barbados would have catch afire about that thing in the road. But it was a Rasta boy. He was the son of a black woman, a Rasta woman.
“How can two Barbadoses emerge in this country again from people who should know better?” she asked.
The BLP leader further claimed that the developer was being allowed a free hand with building standards.
“The Environmental Protection Department is yet today to approve those houses,” she said, reporting that the EPD had ruled that windows for the buildings were too small, causing the houses to be hot.
Despite this, she said, houses were being sold.
Mottley also raised questions about the deal with Government through which the developer acquired the land. She said Government leased the developer five acres of state land for 99 years at $100 a year for the housing project.
“And you got a bank and a clinic and restaurants and a gas station paying them rent up there, and the taxpayers land get give way,” she claimed.”
And may i remind president Mia that she used a child’s horrible death to be elected, she used him and his mother…and then left the mother to the devises of a vicious DPP…….that type of wicked shite never goes unpunished..
I have never seen such ugly, multicolored boxes as those at the villages of racist coverley, people ask what the hell are those when driving on the highway…….they are told the truth…..taxpayers money stolen by DLP and given to that crooked criminal to build shite boxes and call them houses, while ministers were drawing BRIBES from that scam…
….. those who wasted their money in mortgages are so angry that they are trapped in that evil hole..
yet hypocrite Mia is now promoting it since being elected and once again in lockstep with crooked Maloney..
@Northern Observer
It was a paraphrase of what AG Marshall shared in a press interview a while ago.
See Artax…we don’t need any provosts for Bloggers…..
….we need like minded people to join us in calling for HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS ON THE GROUND IN BARBADOS…to monitor these types of CLEAR HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS…and drag the criminals on the island both in the parliament, bar association and in the minority community …both who instigate and and those who practice such…to some international court to be tried for their crimes against the black population…
that is what makes sense…
Maybe Mia can tell us how that personal injury case against Maloney’s criminal, negligent and illegal actions that caused the death of the boy…are going…was any claim filed for the death of the boy and the serious injuries to his sister….and if no claim was filed why not….since her father Elliot is the lawyer for the case against the mother…claiming he is representing her…
yep…definitely, human rights organizations MUST WATCH THIS….
July 3, 2019 10:42 PM
@ David,
Another one for your Murder Tracker.
“Leon, the father of two, is the 20th person to die by the gun, and the 31st recorded murder for the year”
Once again, YOU’RE LYING.
Anyone who contributes to or reads this forum could attest to the fact that, over the years I, have POSTED several contributions to BU, ADDRESSING matters relating to corruption, racism and other issues that negatively affect Barbados and the Barbadians.
A perusal of BU’s “Lawyers in the News,” or articles on CLICO, NHC, Transport Board, BWA, SSA, the CAHILL scam, etc, one would see my contributions. I wrote on issues such as Lisa Marshall from whose personal file information was leaked to BU by political operatives, to imply she was a thief, “just because” she spoke to the press concerning non-payment of her severance as promised on three different occasions……. and the plight of the former retrenched Beautify Barbados employees that had to wait over 3 years before receiving their severance payments……….and the former retrenched NCC employees, the ERT and Hal Gollop……….. how about the over-charging and double invoicing by Trans-Tech Inc., that has been recently been revealed by the Auditor General’s 2018 Report.
I could go on and on……..but this is not what BU is about, it is NOT about YOU or ME…… or “one up-manship,”….. or about repeating the SAME shiite to DIFFERENT issues, over and over and over……or making believe one has inside information……..
…………it’s about informing the public about pertinent issues and discussing them in a manner the established news media DOES NOT ALLOW.
But, then again, you have mentioned in this forum on several occasions that you SCROLL PASS certain contributions, INCLUDING mine.
So, I’m a bit puzzled……..
What the heck……. I’m done with this…… it isn’t worth it.
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Chaos, information abundance and the Kardashev scale of civilisations: 2009 interview with Daniel Domscheit-Berg
Posted on August 30, 2011 | Comments Off on Chaos, information abundance and the Kardashev scale of civilisations: 2009 interview with Daniel Domscheit-Berg
Just over a month ago, I published the full transcript of my interview with Julian Assange at the 2009 Chaos Computer Congress in Berlin. If you’ve read my new book Barefoot into Cyberspace, you’ll know from Chapter 2 (“Courage is contagious”) that I also interviewed Daniel Domscheit-Berg – then known as Daniel Schmitt – at around the same time. Today I’m publishing the full transcript of that interview.
Daniel’s been in the news last week, after the Chaos Computer Club, the renowned German hacker organisation who put on the Congress each year in the days between Christmas and New Year, expelled him from their number. OpenLeaks – the spin-off whistle-blowing website Daniel has been developing since his split with WikiLeaks and Julian Assange midway through 2010 – was felt by Club members to be exploiting the collective’s reputation when it used the once-every-four-years Chaos Communications Camp as a platform to announce an initial round of security testing to the world’s media. The following week, news began to emerge that Domscheit-Berg destroyed data leaked to WikiLeaks (motivated, he says, by fears about lax security), for example by whistle-blowers associated with the Bank of America. Just yesterday, he was in the news again thanks to new revelations about a possible data breach at WikiLeaks. Enemies of transparency and free expression must be mighty glad of the respite this in-fighting is affording them.
2009 was a simpler time. Julian and Daniel were still working together, and that work was not yet the focus of the world’s attention. In this interview, Daniel talks about his philosophical motivations for being involved in WikiLeaks, and the strong ideological connections between WikiLeaks and the Chaos Computer Club. As with the Assange interview, I am publishing this now for the cheap thrills of hindsight and the benefit of posterity. I make no claim, and nor should anyone else, that the opinions expressed in this interview conducted more than 18 months ago are opinions Daniel holds today.
A few more random notes:
This transcript is basically word for word, except for explanatory notes I have added in italics. It is, moreover, the words of a non-native English speaker. So apologies if it’s hard to read as text. If you want something easier to read, consider reading my book.
I use ellipses (“…”) to denote pauses in conversation, or changes of tack mid-sentence, and not elided speech.
As with the Assange interview, if there’s enough interest, I might find a way to share the audio of this interview as well, so please indicate interest in the comments.
Here goes…
Interview recorded 29 December 2009 at the 26th Chaos Communications Congress, held at the bcc Berliner Conference Centre in Berlin, Germany. “Interviewer” is Becky Hogge, “Respondent” is Daniel Domscheit-Berg (then known as Daniel Schmitt), spokesperson of the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks.
[Start of recorded material]
Interviewer: So this is Daniel Schmitt and first of all your role within WikiLeaks, are there defined roles? What’s your role?
Respondent: I’m sort of a spokesperson.
Interviewer: You’re the spokesperson.
Respondent: No, there are different spokespeople obviously, so I’m one of them.
Interviewer: So my first question is, I was really struck by…ummm.. when you gave in your presentation, you said you’ve provided more scoops around the world in one year than the WSJ have in 30 years. Why do you think that WikiLeaks is so successful at delivering scoops compared to the people whose real job it is?
Respondent: So first of all it was the Washington Post.
Interviewer: Oh, sorry.
Respondent: That’s all right. Then, it’s since we are in existence, so that means like in the last 2½ years or so. And that was not something we said but rather something that The National quoted, so …
Interviewer: But nonetheless it does seem that you are never out of the news these days.
Respondent: Yes, that’s… OK, so there… I think there is various explanations for this. One is that obviously a lot of people are starting to use the internet and they start to see that there are possibilities maybe outside of what they perceived before as, let’s say, the opportunities they have within the social framework that they know, or other possibilities where they can interact. So there are a lot of people that obviously have knowledge about things that are going on, but that don’t have any close reporter to them in their life where they feel they would want to talk to a journalist because they can trust them. So that is something where we help, just because we are… we have a certain reputation by now, that helps. And we offer these services to anyone that feels motivated in this right moment in time, where this person feels motivated. In the sense that you can go online and just do it, when you have this peak of motivation of doing it. You have reasons to believe that this is anonymous. You don’t have to worry about who could you contact, what newspaper could you call? I don’t know, about these sorts of things. And that I think leads to us receiving a lot of, more and more, high quality material.
Interviewer: That’s not simple though, because making people trust an architecture or a system, that it’s secure, must be a big job. I mean, when you first launched a lot of people… one of the big worries was that the system wouldn’t be secure, you know. So how have you built that reputation? I must myself try and submit something to find out.
Respondent: No, that’s all right. The thing is it’s built by success…
Interviewer: So you’ve had one success…
Respondent: …People see – yes – and people see that somebody else entrusted us with confidence and with… entrusted us with something that might have screwed him over if it went wrong; and it worked out. And the more good examples there are where this works out for people I guess the more people will rely on you and they hear about you and then maybe they see that there’s been other information that has been much more confidential or where you think, “Oh wow this has been more risky than what I’m doing here”. I mean, most of the things, it’s not like lives are at stake for people that provide most of the information. So I mean there are certainly lives at stake for some people. For these we need to take special care. But generally that’s what we’re trying to say with “courage is contagious” because one of these things that we try to advocate is that people are… if people perceive that you are doing something courageous and you’re not suffering from it because you’re doing it wrong, then they see that as a good example.
Interviewer: So, in saying that, are you implicitly saying that the mainstream media, who were… before WikiLeaks were the place where leaks would go to, have failed to establish that trust?
Respondent: OK, so as I said initially, there are many, many reasons to this. This trust thing I think is one part. You just don’t have to deal with newspapers, especially single reporters or whatever, because for that single purpose of leaking a document there is a service. Compared to, I don’t know, finding the right newspaper that has the interest in that specific topic that you could provide information of, about. And then finding the right journalist in that paper that you will trust, that [has integrity], that writes good stories, I don’t know. And in the end what do you get? You don’t get anything but a journalist sitting on your document, in most cases.
Interviewer: Right, because you have promised to publish.
Respondent: Yes, and that is the next thing why people come to us and not newspapers is… Newspapers do not provide all the information, from my point of view at least, that is necessary to… in order to provoke the change that is possible with the information. Or that actually the source, in many cases, I guess, wants to see. So the source has an objective. They want that what they expose becomes known to people so that something changes. That is in most cases their motivation. If this is because they are pissed off by people, whoever they work for or if it’s because they feel that something morally is going on, but anyway they want something to change and that is why they are leaking the document. So they want that people know about it in as much detail as possible and that’s why they are giving us stuff so that not just one journalist that they give it to makes a story about it but actually everyone can do a story about it. So that is the next, maybe the next component what motivates people to come to us instead of going to the regular press.
Interviewer: It strikes me… I had the wrong impression of you guys before I met you and Julian here because I’d thought that what you were engaged in was very much more directly related to failures inside the mainstream media but the more I speak to you and the more I think actually that’s only just a small side effect of, you know… Actually what you’re doing is getting truth out there and working towards transparency and it sounds like you’re learning to work with mainstream journalists. Your next steps are to use the… to take your practice and work with journalists to make the leaks more effective, is that right?
Respondent: Yes, absolutely. This is, we’re sort of a more complementary effort, or we’re filling a gap that was opened up for various reasons.
Interviewer: What reasons do you think that gap opened up?
Respondent: Ah, that’s complicated. I think there are a lot of different aspects. So it’s a general funding situation with all of the media. The whole idea that, or the whole topic that no-one has a real idea of where it’s going to with print versus digital media and there’s a lot of liability issues with, let’s say, hot stories that are being covered in investigative journalism that is being conducted. So it’s not very attractive any more to invest in investigative journalism. It’s very expensive, it’s very unlikely that you… or it’s becoming more and more unlikely that you get material just because maybe, I don’t know, journalists are not, they can’t always protect their sources anymore. That leads to sources not being maybe so open to giving out material in the first place, which is where we come in again. That might be another angle. But… so the whole legal aspect. But there are so many reasons why this whole industry is suffering from these developments and we are sort of a complementary effort to try to make this cheap again. I’m sure that Julian has mentioned something about this economic side of ..? [I guess I nod here] OK. And to encourage all, I don’t know, single reporters, every investigative journalist, every journalist actually that feels he wants to investigate, to have access to this…
Interviewer: Who funds the WikiLeaks? Do you disclose that?
Respondent: Well… WikiLeaks was initially funded and is up to now still funded by people that are believing in what this project is doing.
Interviewer: Individuals?
Respondent: Yes. So it’s individual people that are investing money into keeping this thing running. That is how it was kick-started and we’re still sort of in the kick-start phase that is now going over, let’s hope, into some more regular operational model.
Interviewer: And the operational model will be, do you think, based on donations or will you start to look at commercial models? Or are you not there yet?
Respondent: There are ideas for commercial models. I mean, we’re always trying to figure out how to make best use of whatever we’re doing. Ironically, if you provide things for free they are not worth anything. Which is, by creating scarcity you somehow create value that’s objectively there before, but no-one cared about it.
Interviewer: But that’s a problem everybody is facing now, not just …
Respondent: Yeah, this is, yeah that is just interesting to perceive for us. And there are some commercial models that we could think of. On the other hand the general idea that information will be public and it will be free for everyone to use, that will never change. So we are… for the funding part, I guess we have to rely on getting partnerships with organisations that fund these kind of things, like investigative journalism foundations, human rights foundations, all sorts of anti-corruption people maybe, depending on, I mean we’re working for very different groups of people that can benefit from what we are doing. So all these people hopefully will be supporting what we are doing at some point in time and from that there will be a pool of resources that can sustain this, let’s say, on a regular basis. And then there is the second part of people, independent people that are still contributing individual contributions and that, I guess, will always, let’s say, guarantee the independence from single points of interest. So that’s why we also rely on people donating servers for infrastructure. Just because the infrastructure as an operational part as, let’s say, the project existing with its mechanisms is something that should be carried by individuals, rather by any foundation for example.
Interviewer: Sure. Good. I just want to shift the conversation now and talk about transparency and information. Obviously there are lots of traditions around freedom of expression. There’s an American tradition, which is a very radical free speech tradition. There’s a European tradition which is freedom of expression, which is… there are contingencies on free speech based around what either the state or society would see as societal goods, so illegal content, blah blah blah. But I think there’s also this kind of establishment view that people shouldn’t know everything. There’s kind of a very – [reacting to growing noise levels in the CCC press room] we’re going to have to speak a bit louder, sorry – but a kind of paternalistic view that it’s right to cover the eyes of society to promote, I don’t know, integration or harmony.
Respondent: Yes, no absolutely, absolutely.
Interviewer: It strikes me that WikiLeaks sits right at the end of the spectrum of ideas about free speech. Are you for radical transparency? What’s your philosophy as an organisation?
Respondent: OK, so if that is a matter, OK so you want, just to be clear: as an organisation, that is a different question from …
Interviewer: All right, as a personal view I’ll ask you.
Respondent: OK. I mean, I’m absolutely for any kind of radical transparency that you would want to think about, I guess. I mean, in the end, so what I believe is that, and I think, I mean in parts this fits with what the whole project is about and that’s basically, I think, why I’m involved with this as well because I believe in these things personally and they fit into what this project accomplishes. So in order to get to, let’s say, the next step of civilisational model that we need for this world to live in, I mean in the next few hundred years or whatever. I’m not sure if you heard about the Kardashev Scheme for example, if that is something you …
Interviewer: The Carter ..?
Respondent: Kardashev Scheme.
Interviewer: No.
Respondent: It’s done by some Russian astronomer from the 1960s and it’s a civilisational model to measure …
Interviewer: Like that? [I’m spelling it out on a bit of paper, Daniel reaches over and corrects the spelling]
Respondent: Like that, Kardashev. I mean, it depends a bit on how it gets translated from Russian to… but you should find something like this.
Interviewer: And he talks about the next step for civilisation?
Respondent: No, he talks about how can you measure the progress of civilisational advancement. So how can you measure at what stage in its development, in its evolution is this civilisation. And he proposed this model that said that he’s going to measure it just by the energy production of a civilisation. So it’s purely related to, let’s say, your technological advancement of society that will happen basically in whatever society you are. You have pure technological evolution, that represents how advanced you are as a society and it’s independent from your political views, social, religious views, whatever. So it’s a pretty factual view. So right now we are some way in between Type 0 which is like the start of this whole scheme and Type 1, which is the first step. So we’re at point 0.8 I think. [I’m probably looking a bit baffled at this point] It’ll make sense in a second, OK? So a Type 1 civilisation, from an energy production perspective, means that we are harvesting all the energy that we can produce with what is on this planet. So this encompasses like all natural resources like wind, solar, all of that. And if we are, if we have the means to harvest this all as efficiently as possible we are, from an energy production perspective, in a Type 1 civilisation. So if you now abstract the requirements you have for this next kind of world to live in, or civilisational model, then you realise that the whole idea behind Type 1 is that we are living in a global world and that we today realise that whatever we do is happening on a global level, that I need to know if I’m buying certain things in a shop today, from a certain brand, that this has an implication on whatever’s happening on the remote end of the world. So that… this information that is underlying my decisions that I’m taking and basically anyhow that I’m behaving in this whole world is very crucial to make sure that the, let’s say, the holistic development of our global society in some way is, let’s say, at least tending to go into a good direction. So the more people that have access and easy access and full access and detailed access and unfiltered access to all of this information that we have, that is out there, and that in many cases unfortunately people are trying to hide because they know it would change things, so this information becomes really important. Just because we need to be able to take these decisions. So for me it’s basically a matter of being able to sustain society to a point where we, as a species, can actually, I don’t know, survive in the long run just because we had the right information to take decisions. I’m not sure if we got away too far from the question.
Interviewer: No, actually I think that’s a really interesting way of putting it. I suppose the fear that the paternalistic approach has when they shield people from information is that people can’t cope with all the information that they will use maybe primitive instinctual tools to interpret the information, like ideology or this… and you’ll get the wrong… so an example would be with the corpus of emails that you published from UEA. Unfortunately because there was a very strong ideological barrier, then it didn’t have this effect that maybe it could have done if people were open and ready for information.
Respondent: Yes, but the main thing is I believe that it’s like Alexander Solzhenitsyn said in his Nobel Prize speech that the only solution to, what is the exact translation?
Interviewer: The only solution to speech is more speech? No.
Respondent: No, it’s similar to it. The only solution to the problems we have in society is that everything is everyone’s business. And that, I think, is the key to the information society, is that we have to actually care about what is, what information is, and about the information we have. So that we go from a world that we live in right now where we rely on others taking responsibility for knowing about things but we don’t actually want to know about things, that we are in a society where we expect politicians and the media to filter things for us because we don’t want to know all about it. That we go from this society to a society where we actually want to know. So on a philosophical perspective you could now argue maybe that, let’s say, one of the proofs of being global enough to survive in the long run is that you actually care. And that you’re not just deciding to offshore the responsibility – to offshore? Not offshore but – outsource the responsibility, the knowledge and everything to someone who is taking the decision for you and you’re just like some sheep in a herd running after it. But that actually you participate again. It’s going from spectator sports again to participating in the game, somehow. And if you don’t, you’ll just be sitting there watching it until it’s over and that’s it, basically.
Interviewer: Yeah. This is a big question. I feel bad about throwing it in, but what happens to privacy in this world?
Respondent: That’s a good question. In a world where you think that …
Interviewer: …If everything is everybody’s business …
Respondent: …Where does the privacy belong?
Interviewer: Yeah. Because the traditional understanding is that privacy underpins human dignity, which is the foundation of every human right going. But again, I heard Julian say privacy is like terrorism, you know. People invoke it as a fear mechanism when actually… so what happens to privacy?
Respondent: Yes, the question is where do you draw that barrier? It’s like, I don’t know, hearing of, I don’t know, child abuse cases where people had, I don’t know, their children locked into cellars for years…
Interviewer: …And nobody knew…
Respondent: …And nobody knew. Or people… or you find out even worse that people could easily have known if they just had cared about it. Or had just not been this ignorant around… of everyone else, which is sort of a misunderstood privacy again. It’s, I think the question …
Interviewer: That’s great. “I’ll see your privacy and I’ll raise you paedophilia”. That’s a really good answer.
Respondent: No [laughs]… you know… it’s… the question is not, I think, about privacy. It’s more a redefinition of something like, not sentiment, but maybe emotional capacity towards others as well. It’s… the question is: Where does privacy begin, and where does your emotional attachment or your emotional binding to another human being begin as well? It’s not so much about… I mean sure there are facts, I mean we’re publishing documents and in many cases this pertains to private information but then where’s the trade-off between the public benefit out of spoiling someone’s privacy because he was doing something bad, and the benefit that the public has? Where’s this trade-off protecting that privacy again? Where’s the trade-off between not being too interested in what your neighbour is doing and maybe understanding that something terrible is happening? So, this is all part of what I think can only be solved by having people that are of a good nature and that have a good horizon, good perspectives in life and emotional… good emotional character somehow. So it all, again, boils down to all of us having access to more information, to understand how complex this world is, how complex human beings are, how complex human emotion is and how all of this affects how people are behaving. It’s similar to this BNP membership list, for example. The question is what do you do? What do you make out of it? So do you torch your neighbour’s car because you understand that he’s a BNP member and you don’t agree with his radical political view? Or do you maybe start, I don’t know, talking to him when you meet him on the street and you start questioning why he has these motives and you understand that he wasn’t born like this or it’s not a genetic issue that he has, but it’s rather that he as a person has been treated in a certain way all over his life, that he has developed these political views. So I totally agree, from my perspective everyone is entitled to his political views, whether left or right, it doesn’t matter, he’s a person and that is his private business. But if that means that for me as a person in this society this has implications because these people are interacting with me then I need to understand their motives and I need to understand why… what maybe we have to change in this world in order to not grow people that are hateful towards others, that have these radical views. But rather to grow people that are happy and that live in a world that they are comfortable with.
Interviewer: I have one last question, which is going to a different… shifting again. And that is: What is the link between WikiLeaks and CCC [the Chaos Computer Club]? You did a great talk here. Why is this a good audience for you?
Respondent: So I think one of the main reasons is that, let’s say, we are on the internet, this is how, I mean we’re publishing on the internet and all of these things and we are defending a lot of the freedoms on the internet just because we are engaged in keeping the internet a place for free speech and for publication of information. So this is where there’s a mutual interest in what we do and what the CCC does and what a lot of other technology, computer-oriented cultures do. So this is, let’s say, one part. Then Germany generally, the German computer scene is pretty political as well, which is a good thing – at least compared to, let’s say, from my perspective at least, to the United States for example. They are very more technology-focused here, it’s, I think, traditionally more political, in some way. So this is how I think that fits on a very basic level. And these people know what we are doing, they know… they are… maybe there are a few people in our society that understand the real value of the technology we’re using. So they understand what is at stake that we are trying to defend and what the implications would be if no-one was defending it. And that is, I think, why they know they can value what we are doing maybe much better than my grandfather, for example, who understands why suppression of free speech is an issue, why it’s important that no-one can censor the press, but he does not maybe understand why defending this medium that is just transporting information from A to B and not doing anything else, why defending this medium is so important for future generations to come. Because no-one wants to revert what we’ve done wrong, it’s better to just prevent before something has gone wrong.
Interviewer: Did you come to conferences like this before you were involved in WikiLeaks?
Respondent: Yes, sure.
Interviewer: What’s your background? Journalist, hacker?
Respondent: No, I’ve had some… I’ve worked in the computer network security industry for quite a while so that’s basically my background and I have a large interest in… I mean as everyone here, as I said… I have some political interests and a big interest in the freedom of speech and freedom of the press and the media and just to preserve the ways of communication for the future. I mean, I understand why that is important, so…
Interviewer: Excellent. That’s it. Thank you very much. Do you want to say anything more?
Respondent: That’s all right. I guess we had some good questions. I just hope I was not still too tired.
[End of recorded material]
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News of the World, media cartels and the fiscalisation of power: 2009 interview with Julian Assange
Posted on July 27, 2011 | 15 comments
I first met Julian Assange at the 2009 Chaos Communications Congress in Berlin. I was there on my very first research trip for my book, Barefoot Into Cyberspace. Back then, I thought that the book would be one part cultural anthropology, two parts eulogy. I was less than a year out of working for the Open Rights Group, and still nursing the bruises from where my ideological zeal had banged up against the cold, hard surfaces that cocoon the institutions of the old world. I feared that the hackers at Chaos were a dying tribe, that the beautiful virtual landscapes they had lovingly sown and tended since the CCC’s founding in 1984 would soon be bulldozed entirely, replaced overnight by the concrete uniformity of sanitized corporate pseudo-public spaces owned by Google, Facebook and Apple.
In short, I had no idea what was about to happen.
Even though I’d come to the conference to meet hackers, not journalists, by the time I’d finished listening to Julian Assange and Daniel “Schmitt” Domscheit-Berg’s talk about the year ahead for WikiLeaks (that’s me 2:24 minutes in to this video of their talk, trying to be clever), I knew I wanted to know more. At first Julian wasn’t sure he wanted to speak to me. But I managed to present him with glowing references from enough mutual friends for him to relax a little.
The result is this interview. It certainly isn’t the best interview I’ve ever done and with hindsight, there are a lot of things I would have liked to have picked him up on, or to have understood more. It’s also a very strange thing to read back now the next 18 months of his and WikiLeaks’ story are behind us. Intentionally or otherwise, some of it is very prescient indeed.
Why am I publishing it now? To draw attention to my book, of course, which is published tomorrow. If you think that makes me unscrupulous, that’s fine, and I’d agree with you up to a point. But I’d also note that I didn’t publish it or try and sell it to anyone the day Julian was arrested and thrown in gaol in December last year, when every news organisation on the planet wanted something – anything – that was fresh on him. That’s not just because I’m incompetent at being unscrupulous. I also didn’t want to contribute to that kind of rabid, voyeuristic public “discourse”, because I don’t think it’s helpful in the long term (a pussy liberal view I’ve no doubt Julian would scorn). As it happens, I was interviewing another one of the folk who helped release the Collateral Murder video that day about everything that was going on, someone who had basically switched off their phone because of the harassment they were undergoing from the international news media. And I didn’t sell that interview to anyone that day either.
In this and subsequent interviews, Julian has talked a lot about the historic record, and it’s to that thing – posterity – I’m offering this now. To reiterate, this interview was conducted 18 months ago: I make no claim, and nor should anyone else, that the opinions expressed in it (for example, around the News of the World phone hacking scandal) are opinions he holds today. The facts have changed and, who knows, the man might have changed too. This is about understanding who he was and what was motivating him before he set out on what was probably the most eventful and scary year of his life.
This transcript is basically word for word – apologies if it’s hard to read as text
Julian had a horrible cough during the whole interview, so if I sound maternal in places, that’s probably why.
Given the significance of Julian’s opinion on the Iraq War Inquiry at the time he was giving the interview, I can’t believe I turned off the recorder when I did, but that honestly is when I switched it off and I honestly can’t remember what he went on to say.
If there’s enough interest, I might find a way to share the audio of this interview as well.
A couple of times, we refer back to a question I asked and he answered the previous day after his talk, about the Climactic Research Centre’s email dump WikiLeaks had released the previous month.
Interview recorded 28 December 2009 at the 26th Chaos Communications Congress, held at the bcc Berliner Conference Centre in Berlin, Germany. “Interviewer” is Becky Hogge, “Respondent” is Julian Assange, founder of the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks.
Interviewer: Julian, I’ve got a few questions to ask you. First off, on the face of it WikiLeaks looks like it espouses radical transparency, as in “publish everything”. But, since I asked you the question yesterday I’ve been thinking about it and, actually, there are still thresholds that people have to meet before information gets published. So, is it about “publish everything”? Or is it more subtle than that, more complex than that?
Respondent: There’s two answers to this question. So actually I believe as a general stance that publishing should not be interfered with. Not because in some cases it wouldn’t be beneficial for publishing to be interfered with – there’s some cases where it’s clear that freedom of the press is abused. But rather because to have an organisation that censors requires an apparatus of censorship. And that apparatus of censorship is some kind of probably human organisation and it is then vulnerable to corruption. So this is similar to the traditional problem with Communism which is, if you say “From each according to his ability and to each according to her needs”, someone actually has to do that calculation. We can all see that on the surface this is a right and just thing. But behind it lies an organisation which does that transfer and that organisation, through its power, becomes corrupt or vulnerable to influence. So, as a general stance, I believe that publishing should not be interfered with because the organisation, that would do that monitoring, itself would be corrupted by that process. And all the other cases where publishing is… most of the other cases where publishing is free you can see in practice lead to sustainable, democratic government.
Interviewer: And the second answer…
Respondent: The second answer is that we are a limited number of people with a limited number of resources. And our interest in this project is achieving a just reform and improving the quality of civilisation: making civilisation more civil. And therefore we have to spend our limited resources wisely. So we choose to spend those limited resources on the cases that are most likely to achieve just reform. And not on every case, because that would take time away from those most beneficial cases. That said, our criteria is very narrow, as to what we exclude, and clearly defined. That is, provided it has been withheld from the public and is of diplomatic, ethical or historical significance, we will release it, we promise to release it. We may engage in some harm minimisation before we release it – there’s been a few incidences where we contact people before we release something to minimise harm. Otherwise, like a lawyer who promises to represent a client to the court, we promise to represent forces to the court of public opinion.
Interviewer: Am I being lazy or are those narrow criteria clearly stated publicly on your website?
Respondent: They’re clearly stated if you go to make a submission. If you look in the About section, you won’t see it. But if you actually go to make a submission you’ll see it.
Interviewer: OK. What about material that was never meant for publication? Would it always have to have been withheld. So, for example …
Respondent: It has to be material that never was meant for publication.
Interviewer: Of course.
Respondent: Because material that was meant for publication we’re not interested in.
Interviewer: Right. OK. Sure. So I suppose I was confused by your first answer because you spoke about authorities that exist to censor material that was intended for publication and I started thinking about Chinese State censorship where someone would want to …
Respondent: Oh I see what you mean. Right. There are cases that we deal with where something was going through a publishing process and then was censored.
Interviewer: But all sorts of private data is withheld from the public, so I guess that’s where your two qualifiers come in. It has to have been withheld from the public and been of diplomatic or other …
Respondent: Historical, political …
Interviewer: Historical, political significance. And so when you answered my question about the climate change emails the judge of whether that was historically, politically or diplomatically significant …
Respondent: I think it was probably all of those, in this case.
Interviewer: Yeah, OK, OK.
Respondent: So, in other words, we’re not interested in the private emails of private people. Simply because they have no chance for reform effect.
Interviewer: Sure.
Respondent: So it’s not that we are philosophically opposed to necessarily… We are not philosophically opposed to other people publishing those materials, on a case by case basis. Of course, we may think that’s not a wise idea. But it would simply be a waste of our resources to deal with those cases.
Interviewer: Sure. Sure. Why do you think that WikiLeaks has scored so many scoops in its short history compared to the mainstream press? You quoted a really great line yesterday about having scored more scoops than the [Washington Post] in 30 years. Why has that happened?
Respondent: Good question, isn’t it?
Interviewer: Yeah.
Respondent: So one part of me says it’s because no-one else is doing their job, I guess.
Interviewer: And why is no-one doing their job?
Respondent: Another symptom seems to be, for the West, that… I know many, many courageous developing world journalists. I know a guy in Malaysia, Raja Petra, who has four arrest warrants out for him for publishing Malaysia Today from in hiding. Do you see any journalists doing that in the UK? No, of course not. Why aren’t there more journalists in the West being killed?
Interviewer: Because there aren’t so many journalists in the West breaking rules.
Respondent: Well, I mean, journalism is a serious job. It has a serious policing function. Why aren’t there journalists being killed? There’s policemen being killed. It’s a serious job, it has a serious policing function, and police are expected to engage in dangerous situations as part of doing their job. Why aren’t journalists doing their job?
Interviewer: Why aren’t journalists doing their job?
Respondent: I think they have been fiscalised, and the nature of their relationships and the nature of relationships in the West in general is one underpinned by fiscalisation as opposed to politics. In the developing world it’s still mainly politics, not fiscalisation. And I guess they start to become comfortable once they have some influence. They start to become comfortable and they don’t want to lose it… by taking risks. They can still have access to high levels of political power without taking risks and they can still go to all the right cocktail parties without taking risks. There are some exceptions to this but there’s not many.
Interviewer: When you talk about this fiscalisation, I understand that to mean politicians turn into managers, there’s no more ideology any more. Politics is no longer interesting. Is that what you mean? Or are you talking more about …
Respondent: It’s much, much, much broader. The power relationships are done through contracts and bank transfers, and options and shares. And so if there’s a change in political mood it doesn’t matter because it doesn’t change the values on contracts, it doesn’t change the numbers in banks. I also see this: that in the West perhaps speech is free because it actually has very little ability to change underlying power dynamics, because of the fiscalisation. That is, power interests have put their wealth into a structure which is immune, not totally but mostly immune from political sanctions. Whereas in developing world countries, the basic structure of society is political. And so when the political mood changes, who has power and who has assets can completely change.
Interviewer: But do you see yourself, not yourself but the WikiLeaks project, as something that can mitigate against that or something that can turn that around or both? Or neither?
Respondent: Well, it does a bit but we also face the same problems in dealing with the fiscalisation of power in the West that other mainstream press journalists do. That is, if we release a report on a bank and people who are using that bank, that it may be very complex, extremely complex and as a result may have no political impact. And even if it does have political impact that may not take the money away. Maybe it will introduce some laws down the track, but it’s not actually going to empty those accounts. So that’s not something that we can easily deal with either. We have had a lot of success, I don’t want to suggest we haven’t had a lot of successes in Western countries because we have. But it is really very hard to deal with this evasion of political sanction by placing assets and power relationships into complex fiscal arrangements. We have… I’m not sure that we have a way past that. That’s still a big problem. There are some times we do see a way around that. That is that when we release a leaked document it can be picked up by one of three different groups. It can be picked up by the general public, then it becomes a matter of political will. But if the power relationships have been fiscalised then the political will can’t do much.
Interviewer: It dissipates.
Respondent: And the money can move faster than politics can move as well. Or, it can be picked up by organisations that specialise in understanding the complexity. That can be the police, or it can be opposing intelligence agencies, or it can be opposing banks or sometimes… some type of opposing competition. And they are positioned in such a way that they can understand these complex fiscal relationships, or not even necessarily fiscal but, say, complex military terminology, which also is good at hiding moral travesties… They are specialists and they can deal with it but it’s all done out of the public eye. But nonetheless that reaction provides a disincentive for engaging in the behaviour that led to us receiving that document in the first place.
Interviewer: Sure. And the third …
Respondent: And the third is that the audience also includes the organisation the document came from. So when we receive documents from inside an organisation, it creates disharmony and suspicion and distrust inside the organisation. And that makes it much harder for that organisation to operate in its secret way because, to engage in broadly conspiratorial behaviours, i.e. behaviours they don’t want to let the public know about, you have to have trust inside your own organisation. And by making those organisations distrust each other they are not able to internally communicate quickly and efficiently.
Interviewer: So I’m surprised by how absent the mainstream media has been from any of our discussions so far. When I wrote these questions down I thought, ‘Oh, this will be a discussion about the failure of the mainstream media’ and, you know, either some kind of ameliorative action that you feel you’re taking or some kind of revolutionary action to take beyond what the media can achieve…
Respondent: Well no, the mainstream media is number one, that is, when it becomes of political, of general public interest.
Interviewer: So they come in under public.
Respondent: But the other two cases there’s no press at all. But in the first case, you know, insofar as the politics is important, those cases are really important.
Interviewer: But from some of the ideas you were putting forward yesterday you’ve recognised the mainstream media can still perform a positive function and now you’ve gone into that, but I’m surprised again that you’ve lumped them with the public I suppose because actually there’s a lot of skills specific to journalists which WikiLeaks not needs, needs is the wrong word, but can benefit them, like editorialisation, like the mass audience which is still …
Respondent: Contextualisation and adapting something to a local community and a political mood at that particular moment and making it emotional and hyping it up. You know, very important. And also what a lot of journalists do is, because conflict sells, if you have a relatively abstract document how the hell can you get somebody interested in it? Well, you have to start a fight. So, you ring up one power group and you say, ‘Hey, what do you think about this document? Doesn’t this imply that you’re a pack of bastards?’ And they say, ‘No, no, no. actually it’s not like that.’ And then you call up another power group and you say, ‘Hey, doesn’t this document imply that these other guys are a pack of bastards?’ And they say, ‘Yes, absolutely. They are a pack of bastards.’ Then you go back to the first group and you say, ‘Hey, the second group says you’re a pack of bastards.’ And so now you’ve got a fight that has just happened that day and that’s a conflict between major power groups. And human beings are naturally and rightfully interested in fights between power.
Interviewer: When does WikiLeaks… WikiLeaks must become one of the opponents in some of those stories, like the UEA climate email for example. Is that something you’re prepared for?
Respondent: Well, we weren’t really in that case. But in other cases, sure, we become part of the fight and we have actually, of course, used our entry into one of those fights in order to draw attention to the material itself. In some cases, many cases, no-one’s interested in the material until people try and sue us about it.
Interviewer: How many people involved in WikiLeaks come from the media world, the world of journalism?
Respondent: It’s hard to know because our borders between inside and outside are not clear. So, I mean I deal with former colleagues and new people I know in the press all the time. Are they part of WikiLeaks or not? It’s kind of hard to know. Some… What about a journalist that I have never, or none of us who do this 24 hours a day, have ever met or spoken to but actually they’ve written five or six Wikileaks related stories? They are sort of economically bound up with our destiny. So are they part of Wikileaks or not?
Interviewer: I suppose, yeah that’s a very good point and worth making. But someone started WikiLeaks, some bunch of people had the idea, I guess… saw the opportunity? Because WikiLeaks couldn’t work in any age but this. Or am I wrong there? I mean, WikiLeaks is in a sense a child of the internet, right? I mean, you said, ‘We’re not hackers.’ You look like hackers to me.
Respondent: Yeah. I registered leaks.org in 1999. So actually the ideas for things like that have been floating around a while. But there’s been a particular intersection of economic forces and understanding that has made this moment… economical.
Interviewer: So you’re part, OK now I need to work out what you mean by economics and how that is different from the fiscal power structures you spoke about before.
Respondent: I just mean that if you want to blow up a balloon, more air has to go into the balloon than comes out. So any organisation that grows in its influence has to have more energy going in than out. And you can talk about that in economic terms. That is, that it’s cheap for it to do its work and people appreciate its work so that means more going into the balloon than coming out, so the balloon gets bigger. So that’s been true for us these past couple of years. But back in 1999 when I and some other people were thinking about the very embryonic forms of these ideas, that wasn’t true.
Interviewer: You, yourself – do you have a technical background, a background in media?
Respondent: Both. Background in activism, media, technical, human rights.
Interviewer: Were you running Tor nodes before… I mean, I don’t know, how technical are you? If you had to give yourself one label …
Respondent: I started one of the first three ISPs in Australia in 1993.
Interviewer: By which you mean: I have a Wikipedia entry, go and look it up and stop asking me these basic questions.
Respondent: No, I don’t have a Wikipedia entry.
Interviewer: Why don’t you have a Wikipedia entry?
Respondent: I’m not into that kind of stuff.
Interviewer: Well, you wouldn’t have written it yourself.
Respondent: Most people encourage their Wikipedia entries. But I also don’t have a website. I don’t have a blog.
Interviewer: So this is my one and only opportunity in the nine minutes I have left to find out about you, or are you going to not disclose very much about your personal background…
Respondent: I can understand why people like to build personal profiles. It can be actually very helpful in pushing your ideas. But it’s not my character to do that.
Interviewer: So let’s talk about ideology versus information instead, for the next eight minutes. Which is… information is not a neutral force. I mean, you can put a bunch of information out in the public domain and it won’t necessarily have the effects that you think it’s going to have or that you think it should have because you can look at it, your biases will always come through. Is that something you knew, is that something you’re learning, is that something that there is any answer to? Is that something that interests you at all?
Respondent: I have an answer to this, or maybe not an answer but a perspective. There is a universe of bits, all the possible… all the information that human beings individually have access to, that have not necessarily turned public yet. Some of those bits are… have a civilising effect on our life on earth. That is, they have a reform effect. And the one that we’re particularly interested in is, that they contribute to a more just civilisation. So the question becomes: How do you find those bits? So we can imagine, say it’s like highlighting them with a colour highlighter. We want to see some highlight on some of these bits because then we can preferentially spend our labours on those bits and not on other bits. And if you’re interested in producing justice then that’s what you want to do. So how do you see this colour highlight? So I say a very good economic signal for this highlight is that certain organisations spend economic effort in suppressing those bits and making sure those bits are not public. And the degree of reform effect that those bits may have is broadly in proportion to the degree of economic effort that is spent on suppressing that material. Because, why do you want to suppress it? Do you want to suppress it because you’re… an organisation wants to suppress something because it’s concerned about the reform effect that the release of that information will have. It’s concerned that that information will have an effect on the world if it is released. Now that organisation or… the authors of the material, ie this suppressive organisation we’re talking about, they know the material best because they wrote it. So without having to understand the material, me as a journalist, can go, ‘I believe that’s interesting material’ because the authors believe it’s interesting material, and they are exposing their interest to the degree that they are suppressing the material.
Interviewer: That’s a very… that’s a sort of public interest argument that’s also used to do long-shot paparazzi shots of celebrities’ children, or stand outside, you know, the houses of starlets to see which man leaves the door. Does that make you uncomfortable at all? Because that’s not about justice.
Respondent: I’ve never heard that argument used in relation to paparazzi but I can see that maybe that’s true. However, I’m a great supporter of the paparazzi, usually. In fact I believe they have a very important role in society and I would actually like to see a public policy paparazzi. I would like to see people taking long-shots of public policy documents and I would like to see a great competition to get hold of documents that might affect public policy, not just celebrities. I think it’s… the concern with paparazzi is a fairly disgusting, liberal, middle class preoccupation with saying that all the interests of the proletariat are debased.
Interviewer: But doesn’t the fact that …
Respondent: But I disagree that they’re debased. I say, in fact, if Berlusconi is fucking eighteen year olds …
Interviewer: Oh, Berlusconi fucking eighteen year olds is news. But what about, you know, someone who isn’t in political life but say in cultural life …
Respondent: Let’s say an opera singer. Let’s take one more remove. Some opera singer in Italy is fucking eighteen year olds. Does that opera singer publicly support Berlusconi?
Interviewer: I see.
Respondent: Yes or no. Because they will have some position. In fact celebrities use their position all the time and are paid even to use their celebrity power to influence companies and politics and the general political mood. So actually they are political animals, and they try and build themselves up and build a profile and then spend that profile by doing favours for people in politics or in business. And sometimes they’re well paid for doing those favours. So, that other people spend effort trying to tear them down and exposing them for who they actually are in their lives, is great. It’s fantastic. And if they, if they’re unhappy with that, well they can stop trying to live different private lives to public lives. Or get out of the game. But that’s the game that they’re in and it’s… the market has, I think correctly, determined that they are of interest… that their true nature is of interest to the people. And it is of interest to the people because they have influence with the people.
Interviewer: So I might throw some more pussy liberal views your way and see how you bat them aside.
Respondent: It’s like this: you see this News… Perhaps I shouldn’t… This is for the book, right? So this News of the World thing, with this using a default password on a couple of, or maybe it was many, but anyway there’s only proof of a couple, of celebrities’ voicemail boxes to listen to some of the voicemails that they were receiving. So was this a terrible, terrible thing? Of course it wasn’t a terrible, terrible thing. This is possibly a wrong thing for those particular people to do. There’s a law of the land and if the land says you shouldn’t listen to people’s voicemails, then of course the people who did listen to this directly should be treated equally under the law like everyone else. But is it a terrible, terrible thing that a newspaper took that end product and maybe turned a little bit of a blind… didn’t look too hard into how private investigators were acquiring this material? Not at all. These celebrities were wielding their influence on the public and that’s why the public were interested in them. In Peru we released 68… maybe 78… over 60 telephone intercepts of politicians speaking to businessmen. And that was the biggest political event in Peru this year according to one of the Peruvian newspapers, and it was on all five major daily front… in all five major dailies’ front pages. These were actual telephone intercepts. These weren’t voicemail boxes, in fact. So I feel that it was just disgraceful that the Guardian wasted its time on that issue, just disgraceful and all they ended up doing was producing a climate that increased the amount of regulation of actually even more important investigative journalism. I mean, the jumping up and down about the fact that News of the World had not actually just reprinted an AP newswire or stolen something from somewhere else or reprinted a press release, but they’d actually done original investigative work about people in this society that its readers were genuinely interested in.
Respondent: To my mind it was actually an excuse by the Guardian to mention all these celebrities, to actually talk about… to get tabloid stories into the Guardian. That’s what was really going on. And then this middle class, holier than thou, ‘Oh my god, look at the proletariat and what they’re interested in, aren’t they so debased? Well, it’s a good thing we’re not like that.’ But at the same time sucking in all these tabloid stories into the Guardian. ‘Well we had to do that just to talk about it.’
Interviewer: Well, it’s the oldest trick in the book for them.
Respondent: Yeah, ‘Look what the tabloids are reporting on today. Isn’t it a disgrace?’
Interviewer: ‘Aren’t they sordid? And here’s a lovely front page image of a buxom young starlet.’ Indeed.
Would you, would WikiLeaks ever pay for leaked information?
Respondent: We haven’t, but I have no general philosophical position on that and I think it’s one of the strengths of the UK press versus the US press that it does actually pay for leaks occasionally. The US quality press has generated a cartel to not pay sources. It’s a disgrace. What if the real… What are they saying? If they get a leaked document and it is the real… it should be on the front page. If that’s the real story of the day that the public should know about. But because they have decided to have the cartel, they’re not going to pay for the news that is actually the real news of civilisation on that day. So they have instead swapped that out for something that is not the top story of the day…
Interviewer: Would you have taken the MPs expenses?
Respondent: ..based upon their desire to engage in a cartel, to keep their input costs down. And then the sort of… there’s the moral stance, that journalists get a job out of reporting stories. They have their living expenses paid and they get free lawyers if they’re prosecuted, from the newspaper. The newspaper proprietors get stuff out of it, the delivery men get stuff out of it, the newsagents earn their living etc. And the reader becomes informed. And… But what about the source? Isn’t it actually right that if this is a big story, that the source who is the one who is undergoing the really difficult stuff – this is the person who is actually taking a risk – isn’t it morally right that this person should be compensated for their work to the public?
Interviewer: It’s like… well it could be two ways: You know, they don’t pay women to give their eggs for in vitro fertilisation because you don’t want to incentivise people to become sources, or you know, egg donors…
Respondent: Of course you want to… you do want to… you absolutely… I mean, if you believe in the press, you believe that the public has – sometimes its desires are incorrect – but, that the public is interested in particular things, mostly interested in people who are perceived to have power, and what they’re doing. So if the public is interested in that, and you believe in the fourth estate, then why wouldn’t you want to get as much politically, or… information about power as possible into the hands of the public where they can use it? Why wouldn’t you want to incentivise that path?
Interviewer: I suppose because you would be increasing the risk of them giving you false information for personal gain. Or is that risk already there?
Respondent: That is absolute bullshit.
Interviewer: OK. Tell me why.
Respondent: Absolute, that is the worst, most disgusting abuse of a moral line for cartel behaviour. OK.
Interviewer: Oh, I’m not suggesting that I approve of it.
Respondent: No, I’m just saying I disapprove of it, OK. All right. If you’re a good journalist you can tell the difference between bullshit and non-bullshit. It doesn’t matter whether you paid for it or not. In fact, if you paid for it you might have an idea what motivated the source. It was the money. If you haven’t paid for it, something else has motivated them. And that may be a bit dodgy, OK. If it’s the money at least it’s relatively pure. And then if you’re a good journalist actually you check your facts before you publish. It doesn’t matter whether you paid the source or not. If it’s a leaked document it’s actually really easy to check because you don’t have to check every fucking fact in the document, you just need to make sure that the document itself is a bona fide document…
Interviewer: How can you do that?
Respondent: …Then, you can structure these arrangements in a really easy way. You say, I’m not going to pay the source… We’ll pay the source $500 now and $50,000 in three months’ time if it all turns out to be true. I mean what’s, it’s just so easy. All, everything you hear about ….
Interviewer: Sure, yeah that sounds easy.
Respondent: …Everything you hear about this is just a goddamn lie to justify cartel behaviour of not paying for your input costs. I mean, what are the newspaper… if newspapers said, ‘If we pay for ink, that will buy us the ink producers. And it’s not right that we pay for ink, so we’re going to engage in a cartel and we’re going to either pay nothing or as little as possible for the ink.’ Well, you know what would happen. You would end up with no ink, OK? In the case of ink. But because sources have other motivations than earning a living, they will sometimes give stuff to the newspaper, just like if you had some religious cult that was really into ink, maybe newspapers would still get ink. But it’s clearly going to reduce the quality of your ink. And I say this cartel behaviour in the United States has reduced the quality of the political information that is flowing through it.
Interviewer: And similarly in the UK you’ve seen a lot of cartelisation as well, you’ve seen a lot of concentrated media ownership. I suppose what I worry about, and this will be my last question – I’m sorry, we’ve already gone over half an hour but if you’d answer another one – which is misinformation and disinformation. And I’m interested to know… well, I’m interested to know how you protect yourself against being used as a tool for both. So either getting a whack… I mean the UEA case may be kind of disinformation, the true information is out there but it acts as – or maybe I mean misinformation, or maybe either – but you know… How do you prevent yourself from giving… from publishing false information? And how do you prevent yourself from publishing information that is then taken in the wrong way? Or do you?
Respondent: We make sure that the documents we’re publishing, or videos or other materials, are bona fide documents. Their contents is another matter. What the contents say is up to the public, and to history and to other journalists. Sometimes we will spend attention on the content as well, if we think that no-one else will.
Interviewer: Right. Could you give me an example? [LOTS OF COUGHING FROM JULIAN] I’m so sorry. Are you OK?
Respondent: I just had the flu. Otherwise fine. So, last example. There are so many.
Interviewer: Would the 9/11 one be an example of that? Was that the strategy to avoid 9/11 conspiracy theorists…?
Respondent: No, the 9/11 material I didn’t write any analysis about at all, because I knew that people would pick it up anyway, because the story had already been made by events in the past. And so I knew just by making it available in a sort of exciting way, that was enough for people to analyse it. But there’s frequently material we get, an example is the 2002 US Special Forces Manual on… not this one that I mentioned in the talk, but… on foreign internal defence. So that’s the suppressing insurgencies, sometimes secretly. I knew from past experience that most journalists are diplomatically and militarily ignorant and that, without exclusivity mechanisms as well, have very little motivation to write about that material. So because I know more about this field and I guess I have self-exclusivity. WikiLeaks has …
Interviewer: Yeah, you can be the exclusive if you want.
Respondent: Right, so we have self-exclusivity. So I wrote about that material. And so yeah, we’ve done this quite a few times when we feel material won’t get picked up. But we have so much material we can’t do that enough. So there’s lots of material we release just has no public political effect. It still fits into these two private categories that I spoke about and the third one… a fourth one, which is when people Google for some name, they’ll hit the material directly and they don’t write about it in public but maybe their cousin’s just about to marry someone and they’re searching for them or they’re about to invest in some company and they’re searching for some detail or someone’s about to engage in some military mission to a particular place and they’re searching for information about that. Yes.
Interviewer: But there’s nothing that you’ve taken from the UEA…
Respondent: The UEA? You mean the CRU…
Interviewer: Yeah, sorry. I live next door to it so I think of it differently… But would you have done that differently now, looking back?
Respondent: I have wanted to write an article about that but I haven’t had time. Other people are writing broadly around the issue so I don’t need to. Would I have? Yes, if I knew how big that was going to be I guess we would have. We were very busy then, but we would have spent a little bit of time to maybe write a broad overview. But our source was also very… our source didn’t give us much time either, for that material. So we didn’t… we actually didn’t have that option to slowly write and understand it. There’s a lot of material. I mean, there’s over 1,000 emails and 3,000 other files.
Interviewer: I have it all on my computer now. But I’m waiting for the independent review to find out what all of it says. Maybe that’s something …
Respondent: The independent review may not be as independent as you think it is either.
Interviewer: No, well it’s a former of civil servant …
Respondent: You know, no-one, I’m not sure I know of any case where I’ve ever seen independent commission of anything.
Interviewer: Yeah, no of course. You’re right, that’s naïve. I was just saying I haven’t got the motivation to read everything.
Respondent: Why, who the hell would want to appoint an independent commission? You don’t know the result. It’s extremely dangerous, politically. People only appoint commissions when they believe the result will be in a particular direction, or spun in a particular direction.
Interviewer: Do you think that’s even the case for the Iraq war enquiry now? I’ll switch this off…
Why I signed the Wikileaks NDA
Posted on May 16, 2011 | Comments Off on Why I signed the Wikileaks NDA
Posted today on New Statesman:
I confess I didn’t think too hard before I signed a non-disclosure agreement with WikiLeaks in October 2010. It helped that I wasn’t planning on doing anything to undermine the organisation’s operations, that the penalty mentioned for doing so was a mere £100,000 – and not the £12m detailed in the document released by the New Statesman last week – and that, unlike last week’s document, there was no clause gagging me from speaking about Wikileaks’s own operations. I skim-read the document, noted how badly drafted it was, saw it was to expire a fortnight or so later, and took my chances.
As a result, I got something I have taken to regarding as a quaint souvenir from the heady days of information anarchism, embellished with the signature of the world’s most wanted man. I’m not particularly proud of this attitude, especially as I ended up doing almost no work for the organisation in exchange for my trinket.
What a cynical and misleading headline for a blog post, you might be thinking, and you’d be right. But then, isn’t that sort of eye-catching sensationalism the stock-in-trade of the mainstream press? Yes, it is, and that’s the point.
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Villains, Allies, Blackgate Prisoners,
The Society Members
Suicide Squad Members
Secret Six Members
Arkham Asylum patients
Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader
Eduardo Dorrance
First Appearance:
Batman: Vengeance of Bane #1 (January 1993)
Doug Moench (writers)
Graham Nolan (artist)
Denny O'Neil (concept)
Secret Society of Super Villains
Peak human physical condition
High intelligence
Escapologist
Hand to hand combat
Expert strategist
When using Venom:
Henry Silva (voice)
Michael Dorn (Voice)
Hector Elizondo (Voice)
Joaquim de Almeida (voice)
Ron Perlman (Voice)
Danny Trejo (Voice)
Fred Tatasciore (voice)
E. Jason Liebrecht (Voice)
Michael Reid MacKay (as Antonio Diego)
Doug Benson (Voice)
Shane West
"I am Bane and I could kill you... but death would only end your agony and silence your shame. Instead, I will simply...BREAK YOU!"
―Bane[src]
Bane is an escaped convict from an island prison in South America and a super-villain/assassin. Bane has abnormal physical strength as a result of having undergone experiments involving a derivative of the drug Venom. He became known as "The Man Who Broke the Bat" when he broke Batman's back, forcing Bruce Wayne to give up the Batman persona while he recuperated. Bane was originally created by writers Chuck Dixon and Doug Moench and artist, Graham Nolan, from a concept by Denny O'Neil. He first appeared in Batman: Vengeance of Bane #1 (January 1993).
Bane: The Man Who Broke The Bat!
Bane as a child with Osito.
Originally intended as a "dark mirror" of the highly disciplined and multi-skilled pulp hero Doc Savage, Bane spends his childhood in the hellish prison of Pena Duro on the corrupt South American island nation of Santa Prisca. He develops super strength through a forced experiment involving the drug Venom. Although his dependency on Venom is an immense weakness, Bane has been one of Batman's most intelligent and physically powerful foes. He is best known for breaking Batman's back in the "Knightfall" story arc.
Although primarily a villain, Bane is a complex character and has worked to take down drug lords. Despite their history, he has sometimes had Batman's financial backing and direct assistance.
Bane has appeared in some other media adaptations of Batman, including Batman: The Animated Series, its sequels and spin-offs and its successor, The Batman. Pro-wrestler Jeep Swenson played him in the 1997 film Batman & Robin. He returned to the silver screen in 2012's The Dark Knight Rises, portrayed by Tom Hardy, which has several influences from the Knightfall Story Arc. In many adaptations; he is more simplistic and thug-like than his comic book counterpart.
Chuck Dixon, Doug Moench, and Graham Nolan created the character for the Knightfall storyline, although it is unclear what elements were introduced by each of the two writers (Dixon and Moench). Dixon wrote the character's first appearance (Vengeance of Bane), with art by Graham Nolan. It is also unclear how much input was provided by Denny O'Neil (veteran writer of the Batman books, then Group Editor for the Batman family of books, and author of the novel adaptation of Knightfall). O'Neil had previously created Bane's hellish birthplace of Santa Prisca in The Question and the drug Venom in the storyline of the same name (published in the pages of Legends of the Dark Knight #16-20, and later reprinted as a graphic novel). In the pages of Azrael, O'Neil introduced Bane's perception of Venom as both an addiction and the weakness responsible for his earlier defeats. The link between Bane and King Snake was introduced by writer Scott Beatty.
The origin of Bane has similarities with another fictional character, Alexandre Dumas' Edmond Dantes. Born to serve the life sentence of his father, Bane's childhood and early adult life are spent behind the walls of Peña Duro, an infamous prison located in Santa Prisca. Though imprisoned, his natural abilities allow him to develop extraordinary skills within the prison's walls. He reads as many books as he can get his hands on, builds up his body in the prison's gymnasium, and learns to fight in the merciless school of prison life. Despite his circumstances, he appears to have found teachers of various sorts during his incarceration, ranging from hardened convicts to an elderly Jesuit priest, under whose tutelage he apparently receives a classical education. Bane murders this priest upon his return to Santa Prisca years later. However, he commits his first murder at the age of eight, stabbing a criminal who wanted to use him to gain information about the prison.
During his years in prison, Bane carries a teddy bear he calls Osito (Spanish for "little bear"), whom he considers his only friend. It is revealed that Osito has a hole in his back to hold a knife that Bane uses against anyone who bullies him (this is spoofed in Italian superhero parody Rat-Man by Leo Ortolani where the titular bumbling and goofy superhero has constant and heated discussions with a stuffed teddy called Piccettino, whose voice only he can hear).
Bane ultimately establishes himself as the "king" of Peña Duro prison. The prison's controllers take note and, eventually, force him to become a test subject for a mysterious drug known as Venom, which had killed all other subjects. It nearly kills him at first, but he survives and finds its effects enhance his physical strength, although he needs to take it every 12 hours (via a system of cables pumped directly into his brain) or he would suffer debilitating side-effects.
The Man Who Broke The Bat
Bane after he broke Batman's back.
Years later, Bane escapes Peña Duro, along with several accomplices (his friends Trogg, Zombie and Bird, all of whom are named after 1960s rock bands: The Troggs, The Zombies, and The Byrds, and were designed to mimic three of Doc Savage's assistants Monk, Ham, and Renny). His ambition turns to destroying Batman, whom he had heard tales of while serving his sentence. He is fascinated with Gotham City, as, like the prison, it is a place where fear rules: in this case, fear of Batman. Bane is convinced that the demonic bat that haunted his dreams since childhood is a representation of the Batman.
Aware that a direct assault on Batman would be foolish, Bane destroys the walls of Arkham Asylum, allowing its deranged inmates (including The Joker, Two-Face, Scarecrow, Riddler, Poison Ivy, Mad Hatter, The Ventriloquist, Firefly, The Cavalier, and Victor Zsasz, as well as minor villain, Film Freak, who Bane almost killed for spying on him afterward) to escape into Gotham City, where Batman spends three months rounding them up. Running himself to exhaustion, Batman returns to Wayne Manor, where Bane awaits him. He fights Batman in the Batcave, defeats him, and delivers the coup de grâce: he breaks Batman's back and leaves him paraplegic, thereby having been the only man to have "Broken the Bat".
While Bane establishes himself as ruler of Gotham's criminal underworld, Bruce Wayne passes the mantle of Batman to Jean-Paul Valley, also known as Azrael. As Batman, Jean-Paul grows increasingly violent, allowing the villain Abattoir to fall to his death. Jean-Paul also refuses to recognize Robin as his partner. Utilizing a sophisticated combat suit in place of the traditional Batman uniform, he fights and defeats Bane at the end of the "Knightfall" arc, severing the tubes that pump the Venom into Bane's bloodstream, causing severe withdrawal. Valley then gives the weakened Bane a vicious beating, leaving him alive but broken.
Following the events of "Knightfall", Bane recovers from his Venom addiction while serving time in prison, as seen in Vengeance of Bane II: The Redemption (1995). He eventually escapes from prison and returns to Gotham, where he fights alongside Batman to take out a criminal ring that is distributing a Venom derivative to street-level thugs. Following a victory over the criminals, Bane proclaims that he is "innocent" of his past crimes and urges Batman to stop hunting him. He then leaves Gotham (without fighting Batman) to begin a search for his father.
Bane's search brings him back to Santa Prisca (shown in the Bane of the Demon miniseries published in 1998). In search of leads, Bane questions the Jesuit priest who had taught him while he was in Peña Duro. The priest explains that there were four men who could possibly have been his father: a Santa Priscan revolutionary, an American doctor, an English mercenary, and a Swiss banker. While searching for the Swiss in Rome, Bane encounters Ra's al Ghul's daughter Talia al Ghul. Talia introduces Bane to her father, and eventually Bane impresses Ra's so much that he chooses Bane as his heir (an "honor" he had previously imparted on Batman).
Ra's al Ghul and Bane then launch a plague attack on Gotham in the "Legacy" storyline. Bruce Wayne, again costumed as Batman, gets his rematch with Bane in Detective Comics #701 (September 1996) and finally defeats him in single combat. Since then, whenever Batman and Bane square off in battle, their fights usually end in a draw.
Following the "Legacy" storyline, Bane appears in a one-shot publication called Batman: Bane (1997) and fights Azrael in the "Angel and the Bane" storyline in "Azrael" #36-40 (December 1997 - April 1998). After having (presumably) broken out of the prison where he is put, he runs off to Colombia. He then surfaces in the story arc "No Man's Land", serving as an enforcer for Lex Luthor. Following a fallout with Ra's al Ghul, Bane later embarks on a campaign to destroy Lazarus Pits around the world, and in the process, encounters Black Canary in Birds of Prey #26 (February 2001).
Veritas Liberat
Bane is one of the most menacing and brilliant foes Batman has ever encountered.
According to the Jesuit priest that Bane speaks with in "Bane of the Demon" #1, there is a possibility that Bane's biological father is an American doctor. In researching this issue, Bane comes to the conclusion that he and Batman share Dr. Thomas Wayne as their biological father, with Dr. Wayne having apparently become close to Bane's mother during his time in Santa Prisca. Bane alerts Batman to this possibility, and during the time that the DNA tests are being performed, stays at Wayne Manor and fights alongside Batman on the streets of Gotham in the "Tabula Rasa" storyline (Gotham Knights #33-36, November 2002 - February 2003). Ultimately, it is revealed that Dr. Wayne is not Bane's father, and Bane leaves Gotham peacefully (and with Batman's blessing and financial backing) to pursue leads in the snowy mountains of Kanchenjunga.
Bane eventually finds his father, the unscrupulous King Snake, in the "Veritas Liberat" storyline (Gotham Knights #47-49, January - March 2004). Bane, with Batman looking on, helps foil King Snake's plans to unleash a powerful weapon upon the world. Bane saves Batman from being shot by King Snake, but is mortally wounded in the process. Batman then saves Bane by bathing him in a Lazarus Pit, and leaves him with a clean slate and a new opportunity at life.
Infinite Crisis & One Year Later
In Infinite Crisis #7, Bane is shown fighting alongside the villains during the Battle of Metropolis. During the battle, he breaks the back of the hero, Judomaster, killing him. No reason was given for his actions in #7, though in Infinite Crisiss collected edition, one of the many changes made to the original series was Bane saying "I finally know who I am. I am Bane, I break people" while breaking Judomaster's back. Bane resurfaces in the One Year Later continuity in JSA Classified #17-18 searching for the Hourmen (Rex and Rick Tyler), asking them for help. To win their trust, he tells them how, prior to the Battle of Metropolis, he returned to his homeland to put an end to the drug lords' government, in the process discovering that a new, more addictive strain of Venom had been created. In his furious carelessness to wipe out the drug trade, he was captured, and re-implanted with the cranial tubes, hooked to the new Venom, but now unable to shake off his addiction without dying from the withdrawal. Bane was forced to work as an enforcer for the drug cartel, unable to escape. Believing that Bane sought Rex Tyler's expertise in chemistry, Rick lets him approach his father, only to discover that the story is a ruse. Bane, who had never truly been addicted to Venom, had in fact wiped out the drug lords, and destroyed every research note on Venom. He discovered in the process both strains of Venom derived from Rex Tyler's early research on Miraclo. He discovers from the Tylers that no written notes exist of Rex's work, captures Rex, and steals Rick's equipment, planning to kill Rex and force Rick to take the last of the new Venom, living forever as an addict. Rick manipulates Bane into using Miraclo and demolishing the building as he and his father escape, burying the mercenary in the rubble of the very same Santa Priscan penitentiary where his story began.
Eventually Bane resurfaces in Santa Prisca, leading the country to democratic elections. Upon discovering that the elections were rigged by Computron, he uses his influence to enforce martial law, plunging the country into a civil war. Computron offers information to Checkmate on who ordered him to rig the elections in exchange for their help in escaping the country. Fire and Judomaster's son, Thomas Jagger, are sent on the mission, with Jagger debating whether or not to seek revenge for his father's murder. He fights Bane in order to allow Fire to escape, defeating him easily, but chooses not to kill him. At the end of the mini series Suicide Squad: Raise the Flag, Amanda Waller recruits Bane into the Squad. In Outsiders #50, Bane appears once more to be wearing the tubing system to apply Venom. In Salvation Run #2, Bane was tricked by his fellow squad members, and sent to the prison planet. In Salvation Run #3 Bane remains with Lex Luthor's faction after Joker's faction rebels against Luthor's leadership. He attacked Thunder and Lightning when they were attempting to feed Martian Manhunter. In Superman/Batman #53-#56, Bane is trading his Venom supplies with drug lords across the globe. One of his shipments include to Gotham. Batman, who was temporarily endowed with Superman's powers, respond by attacking Bane at his home. Not only was The Dark Knight able to easily defeat the villain, the hero nearly killed him with his far superior strength. Bane survived his injuries due to the enhanced stamina from his Venom supplies.
Currently, Bane has joined the Secret Six in their new ongoing series started in September 2008. In the first issue Bane is depicted as a stoic devil's advocate for the group, offering alternative points of view for both Deadshot and Catman on the subject of love. He is later shown to have an almost father-like concern for Scandal Savage's well-being. Although this is largely played for laughs in the early issues, the first arc's final issue displays the depth of Bane's affection. When the Six are attacked by an army of supervillains, a wounded (and seemingly dying) Bane's concern for Scandal results in him taking Venom to save her. Bane is later shown to have recovered from his ordeal, appearing in Gotham City with Catman and Ragdoll in an attempt to stem some of the chaos caused by the apparent death of Batman. During the team's several escapades, Bane reveals both a deep respect for his onetime adversary and a painful yearning to assume the mantle of Batman, telling a trio of rescued citizens to tell people that it was the Batman who saved them. Bane ultimately gives his blessing to Dick Grayson, praying that "God help him." Following a near-disastrous mission, Bane assumes leadership over the Secret Six. His first act as leader is to remove Scandal from active duty, not wishing for her to be endangered. Later, when Ragdoll, Black Alice and Deadshot want to forgo a paying job to seek the missing Catman, Bane considers them off the team and replaces the four with new members King Shark, Dwarfstar, Lady Vic and Giganta.
Venom Usage: He utilizes the super-steroid known as Venom to enhance his own physical attributes to superhuman levels, namely his strength, durability, speed, and endurance.
Superhuman Strength: The primary effect of the Venom drug is that it enhances his strength to low superhuman levels depending on how much is injected into him. At the maximum healthy amount he can inject into himself, he is able to lift around 3-4 tons. He is ultimately capable of exceeding this limit and be able to lift over 4 tons, though not without momentarily losing his sanity.
Superhuman Speed/Reflexes: His speed and reflexes are also
superhuman with Venom, making him able to run, move, and react beyond the limits of the finest human athlete.
Superhuman Endurance/Stamina/Durability: With the use of Venom, his stamina and endurance is greatly enhanced. His durability is heightened sufficiently to shrug off most blunt force trauma, yet he is not completely bulletproof. He can withstand blows from most superhumans, withstand falls from great heights, and possibly more.
Superhuman Healing: He can also use Venom as a type of medicine that can heal him from most injury, poison, wound, infection, and disease.
Genius-Level Intellect: He possesses a genius-level intellect and is one of Batman's most intelligent foes.
Eidetic Memory: He has an eidetic memory, which borders on almost total recall. This enables him to memorize virtually anything.
Polymath: He is exceptionally knowledgeable in various subjects including various Sciences, History, Geology, Medicine, and several others.
Polylingual: He is able to speak fluent Spanish, German, French, Russian, Mandarin, English, Urdu, Farsi, and Latin.
Escapologist: He is surpassed only by Batman, Nightwing, and Mister Miracle in the art of escape and infiltration.
Hand to Hand Combatant: He is a formidable hand to hand combatant, able to hold his own against Batman and Ra's Al Ghul. He is not only a master, but has created several fighting styles. Bane's fighting ability combined with his peak strength and endurance make him a highly formidable and dangerous opponent for any non-meta and many metahuman foes.
Expert Strategist: He is highly devious and a highly gifted strategist and tactician.
Peak of Human Physical Condition: Even without Venom, his strength and physique is at its peak and is slightly superior to the likes of Batman or other athletes.
Physical Strength: Even without Venom, Bane is shown to still be stronger than Batman, able to lift/press approximately 1,500 lbs. Without Venom, Bane has proven capable of breaking Killer Croc's bones and standing toe-to-toe with other superhumans. He has also performed feats such as snapping steel cables that were used to shackle him, and denting and deforming an iron gate after punching it off of its hinges.
Speed: Despite his heavily muscled appearance, Bane is shown to be a surprisingly fast runner, as he's been shown to be able to keep up with the more slender member of the Secret Six with ease.
Durability: Even without the Venom drug, Bane has proven to be phenomenally durable. Examples include shrugging off bullets to the shoulder and other areas, and withstanding the torture of having numerous bricks thrown at all areas of his body.
Weaknesses: Venom addiction and relapse (he has currently kicked this), Thomas Jagger, psychological fear of "the bat-demon" of his nightmares.
In Other Media
See: Bane (Jeep Swenson)
Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman
See: Bane (DC Animated Universe)
Bane appeared in the direct-to-video animated film adaptation, Superman/Batman: Public Enemies. Despite being one of Batman's most physically challenging foes, Bane was defeated in seconds after Batman cut his Venom tube before he was knocked out with a single kick.
Justice League: Doom
Bane appeared in the animated direct-to-video film, Justice League: Doom and was voiced by Carlos Alazraqui.
See: Bane (Tom Hardy)
Bane made a few cameos in the film alongside other Batman villains and was was voiced by Doug Benson , who impersonated Tom Hardy. Bane's design was a pastiche of the comic book version and the Tom Hardy version of the character. Bane's most prominent cameo was when Batman randomly hit him at the Gotham Winter Galla, to which he replied: "That was unnecessary!"
See: Bane (The Batman)
Bane in Batman: The Brave and the Bold.
Bane appeared in the Batman: The Brave and the Bold episode, "Menace of the Conqueror Caveman," and was voiced by Michael Dorn. Batman teamed up with Wildcat to recapture him. Batman attempted to remove Bane's Venom tube, but was temporarily incapacitated when Bane struck him on the head. Wildcat used one of Batman's Batarangs to finish the job, which shocked Bane when his Venom tube hit the train tracks and knocked him out. Bane also made a cameo appearance in "Sidekicks Assemble" where he was computer generated and was taken out by Robin, Speedy, and Aqualad.
In Night of the Batmen, Bane allied with Solomon Grundy, Killer Croc and Blockbuster to steal a gold statue, but he was stopped by Captain Marvel.
See: Bane (Young Justice)
Bane appears as one of the main antagonists in the fifth and final season of the FOX television series, Gotham. In this adaption, his real name is Eduardo Dorrance and he is a former army buddy of Jim Gordon who initially arrives in Gotham City to liberate it from its "No Man's Land" state. However, in reality, he arrives to actually enforce rogue government agent, Theresa Walker's plan for the city.
He is portrayed by Shane West.
Bane's first video game appearance was in the video game adaptation of Batman & Robin. Bane also appeared in Batman: Chaos In Gotham and Batman: Rise of Sin Tzu, as well as Arkham Asylum. In Sin Tzu sneaks Bane into the Batcave to battle him, tricking Batman into taking Bane there, thinking he is about to defuse a weapon of mass destruction housed inside a huge crate. Rise of Sin Tzu also features Hector Elizondo's first time voicing Bane, as it was released a month before Mystery of the Batwoman. Also in Batman: Rise of Sin Tzu, Bane may do a similar move to the hero that he did when he broke Batman's back.
Later, Bane appeared in Lego Batman: The Videogame. His combat moves in the game were punching or punching based. He could pull objects. He could walk in toxic sludge. He could grab someone and throw them or break their spine with his knee and he could jump up and hit the ground with his fist.
In Batman: Arkham Asylum, Bane was the first real boss of the game, and Batman had to remove the tubes of Titan from his neck in order to defeat him. If Batman was defeated, Bane broke Batman's back or delivered a powerful punch in the Game Over Screen. Bane returned in Batman: Arkham City, made his first official Arkhamverse appearance in Batman: Arkham Origins, and also appeared in the sequel, Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate.
See Also: Bane (Arkhamverse)
Bane in DC Universe Online.
Bane was one of the bosses of the Gentleman Ghost Level in the Nintendo D.S. version of Batman: The Brave and the Bold – The Videogame. He was fought twice. The first time, Batman ended up being held up by Bane, but was saved by Green Arrow. Bane attacked again when the two heroes took the Batwing to follow Gentleman Ghost to London. After he was defeated, Bane was knocked off of the Batwing, and seemingly fell to his death.
Bane appeared in DC Universe Online and was voiced by E. Jason Liebrecht.
Bane also appeared as a playable character in Injustice: Gods Among Us and Injustice 2.
Kenner released different versions of Bane for each of its Batman: The Animated Series, Batman & Robin, and Legends Of The Dark Knight action figure lines.
D.C. Direct has released two Bane figures. One as the character appeared in the Batman "Knightfall" comic series as well as in the "Secret Files & Origins" series. Each came packaged with a figure stand specific to that particular series, with no other accessories.
Mattel has included two versions of Bane in their D.C. Superheroes line of action figures. Both versions share the same mold and only vary in paint applications. The first version is set apart by black pants while the second (2007) version has pants decorated with a camouflage pattern. Both versions of this figure came with a small "Osito" accessory, although many of the first version seem to have been shipped to stores without.
In 2007, LEGO released a Bane mini-figure in a Bat-Tank building set, alongside a Riddler mini-figure. In 2012, they made a re-designed Bane in the 6860 Batcave set, along with a blue Batman, a red Robin, a re-designed Poison Ivy, and a re-designed Bruce Wayne. Also in 2013, LEGO will release a Bane minfigure based off his appearance in "The Dark Knight Rises" in a set named 76001 The Bat vs. Bane: Tumbler Chase.
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Provides two leading online services that help Australian NGOs and service provider organisations in their management of quality standards and compliance and day-to-day operations: Management Support Online (MSO) and Standards & Performance Pathways (SPP). We also consult on issues affecting service providers in the community and health services sectors. Breaking New Ground operates BNG NGO Services Online, and provides services to organisations in Australia and New Zealand.
The area of multiple quality standards assessments and compliance reporting applies mainly to government-funded human services NGOs (approx. 12,000), placing a significant and unnecessary administrative burden on funded services. This area is in need of substantial reform.
There are up to 60 different sets of quality standards in the community services and health sectors that affect funded services. A key impact is a high proportion of funded hours being redirected away from service delivery and a resultant productivity loss.
For example, a typical local community centre may have 5-6 sets of standards to complete for programs they run (such as youth drop-in services, children's services, disability programs, support programs for migrants, parenting groups, aged services etc). For larger organisations, the problem is magnified where some large NGOs or service provider organisations have 19-20 sets of standards to complete.
This inefficiency and duplication of effort in completing standards means a small NGO loses about two months in staff hours. For a large NGO, this can be more than five months in staff time that could be redirected towards service delivery.
There is no comprehensive research data that quantifies the productivity loss to the community services and health sectors caused by multiple standards. However, with the support of the Councils of Social Service and some other key peaks, BNG undertook a national snapshot survey in mid-2011 in an attempt to estimate the size of this problem.
Data from this survey shows that this problem is estimated to be using up to $3.5 million staff hours (nationally) that could be redirected into service delivery, and is estimated to cost government $227 million annually.
Over the past couple of years we have made a number of representations to relevant Commonwealth Government Ministers and funding departments about the size of this problem. Despite the cost to government, and the impact and burden on funded NGOs, to-date there has been no indication from the Commonwealth Government that it will include standards reform as part of its Not-For-Profit Reform Agenda.
Understanding the real impact this issue was having on the sector, BNG decided not to wait for government. Rather, we worked for two years identifying all the quality standards, developing a mapping methodology and then building a patented online solution to multiple standards assessments and reports using a single evidence-based system, tracking progress, collecting evidence online and saving up to 80% of service providers' time.
While the Standards & Performance Pathways (SPP) is currently the only solution to the problem of multiple standards for NGOs, as such it doesn't solve the underlying problem of reducing the number of community services and health standards and creating structural efficiencies in the quality standards and compliance reporting environment (Commonwealth, State and Territory). Importantly, in developing the SPP, BNG did not want to entrench the problem of multiple standards, but rather designed a cost-effective and immediate solution to this problem for the sector and funding departments, hoping that over time the governments will address the underlying problem of multiple standards and compliance reporting.
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How Successful Was Gustav Streseman In Aiding A German Recovery 1923 29
Stresemann came into the main political scene in 1923. It was in this year when he became Chancellor of Germany for a few months. It was during this short spell as Chancellor that he made some big changes that helped Germany in the long run.The first thing Stresemann did when he came to be Chancellor was to introduce the Rentenmark. This replaced the old Deutschmark, which had become worthless due to hyperinflation due to the money the government had poured into the country after trying to stabilise the German economy. This meant that people had money that was valuable again and people wouldn't have to rush out to buy things when they got their wages in wheelbarrows. There wasn't anything that was bad about the introduction of the currency; it had a huge positive impact on the economy.The next thing he did when he became Chancellor was to end passive resistance. This helped Germany because it brought the industrial output of Germany back up. This made sure that Germany started to have money going through the economy again. Also it started to get the French troops out of the Ruhr, which they had invaded in an attempt to force German people to work and take the goods they made as payment. So by getting them out of the Ruhr Germany could sell the goods they made and make more money so they could pay reparations. On the other hand, doing this made Stresemann rather unpopular with the German people, as they were wanting to stay on passive resistance and ignore the French, being told to work whilst they were there was a decision which had a good political effect but not a good effect on Stresemann's popularity.After ending passive resistance Stresemann then decided with the money the country was making from ending passive resistance to start paying reparations again. This was a good thing because it built up France's trust with Germany and it also helped in getting French troops out for the Ruhr for good. The troops didn't leave straight away though; it was only in 1925, when Stresemann was no longer Chancellor, when the last of the troops left. But paying the reparations made Stresemann extremely unpopular with the German people. The reparations were only being paid back because of the Treaty of Versailles, which Germany had been forced to agree to in 1918. The German people absolutely hated the Treaty, and anything to do with it. This led to Stresemann losing his job as Chancellor. He then became the Foreign Minister, and that is when he started to make some big plans and pacts to help Germany recover.When he became Foreign Minister the first main thing he did was in 1924 and he agreed the Dawes plan with America, Britain and France. This plan arranged for the USA to lend Germany 800 gold million marks. With this money Germany could build new factories to create jobs and money for the German people and thereby increase the standard of living for the German people. Also the plan spread out the reparations in a way that made them pay more as Germany...
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THE CHICKENS COME HOME TO ROOST
The Gulf Coast oil blowout is a tragedy of epic proportions. Greed, ignorance, and foolish pride all came together, mounted on the backs of BP executives, government officials, and all us just plain folks who are socked in to our various petroleum habits, and now the ugly reality of our oil addiction is smeared across the clean white beaches,fertile green marshes, and shining blue sea of our country’s southern coast, like AIDS-related boils on the face of a once-attractive junkie. It’s sad. It’s sickening. It is a horribly cruel fate for billions of innocent birds, fish, mammals and plants. “Tarred and feathered” has a whole new, even uglier, meaning. It is a wretched legacy for future generations, trampling on the rights of the unborn of all species.
But it is also only fair, and about time we Americans had our noses rubbed in the kind of devastation we have long been willing to visit on other, mostly dark-skinned people so that we can keep mainlining our petroleum fix. The chickens have come home to roost.
The native people of northern Canada, the Amazon, and Nigeria know exactly what I am talking about. In all of these areas, the multinational oil companies have squatted on pristine land and taken a massive, oil-soaked dump, fouling ecosystems integral to the way of life of tribes who have been living in harmony with nature far longer than the brief trajectory of our petroleum-fired, so-called “civilization.”
In northern Canada, BP and many other oil companies are busily strip mining 54,000 square miles of “tar sand,” permanently polluting three or four gallons of water for every gallon of oil produced. It will take decades or possibly centuries for the slow-growing sub-Arctic forest to re-establish itself on the old strip mine sites (if it does so at all), leaving gaping holes in one of the planet’s major carbon sinks at a time when we need to sequester all the carbon we can stash. And speaking of carbon, the process of destroying the forest, then heating the oil sands to separate out the oil, releases massive amounts of carbon dioxide….well, gosh, if there’s global warming, those boreal forests will grow back faster, won’t they?
Yes, the future is a very serious concern for tar sand oil extraction. The water that is used in the process, polluted with solvent chemicals and heavy metals, becomes toxic waste and is then “stored” in “settling ponds“–where it takes centuries to settle. Even now, with all our technical capabilities, seepage from these ponds is fouling the Athabaska River, the region’s main source of water. So far, the area directly polluted by this oil extraction effort is somewhat smaller than the Gulf blowout, which has closed 64,000 square miles of the Gulf to fishing due to likely contamination. But we have no assurance that our technical civilization will maintain itself long enough to guard these poisonous ponds, which are highly attractive to migrating birds, until they are thoroughly neutralized. Toxins like mercury and benzene are already seeping into the water table and spreading down the Athabaska and will in the long run poison vast tracts of the Canadian Arctic as they work their way into the MacKenzie River and, ultimately, the Arctic Ocean. Since the ponds are not actually in the ground but above ground, surrounded by man-made dikes, a breach is almost inevitable. That’s one hundred and eighty-seven billion gallons of toxic sludge hanging over our heads, four thousand seven hundred times more poisonous goo than has vomited out of the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico so far.
Sure, polluted water is not as horrific a problem as raw crude oil or nuclear waste, but we are still placing a poisonous burden on generations yet unborn so we can live in comfort and have amenities that will be unavailable to them, because we snorted up all the resources and left them a mess that they will likely lack the technology to clean up.
OK, let’s leave the deadly ponds of northern Alberta and travel to a warmer clime–the western Amazon basin, “the lungs of the planet,” one of the last places on earth where the ecosystem has not been completely perverted by our extractive civilization.
Hey, we’re working on it. Everybody knows about the speed with which Brazilians are raping the eastern, northern, and central Amazon, but less attention has been paid to the far western end, which was long protected by the steep slopes and inhospitable climate of the Andes Mountains. But there’s oil there, so the junkies are after it.
Peru’s government initially offered 70% of its Amazon territory to oil and gas companies, without consulting the people who live there. This provoked a massive protest, and Peru’s Congress repealed many of President Alan Garcia’s expropriations, which included areas already promised as wildlife and tribal reserves, but the pressure continues. Like junkies, like zombies intent on eating the living, oil addicts are nothing but an appetite on legs, with a brain dedicated to finding ways to satisfy that appetite–which, in a cruel but righteous cosmic joke, can never be satisfied.
Something similar happened in Ecuador, where Chevron struck a deal with the country’s neo-liberal government back in the 90’s and then took advantage of lax regulation and oversight to make a total mess. Many rivers, water tables, and vast tracts of land were polluted by oil spills, drilling pollution, and a demand for “civilized amenities” such as alcohol, cocaine, prostitutes, and consumer goods. This and other transgressions sparked enough outrage that the Ecuadorians voted out the plutocrats who had been running the country for their personal benefit and installed Rafael Correa, a small-s socialist in the Hugo Chavez mode, who has thrown out Chevron, nationalized the oil infrastructure they left behind, and is working to guard the environment and make sure that whatever wealth the country has is much more equitably distributed than it traditionally has been. Unfortunately, this does nothing to pull the fangs of the oil demon out of the Amazon, and the pollution continues. Like, eighteen billion gallons of toxic waste loose in “the lungs of the planet,” compared to a mere thirty-eight million gallons of oil (so far) leaked into the gulf of Mexico. Hey, some junkies sell their blood for a fix. We’re selling our lungs.
These struggles barely penetrate America’s consciousness. We hear of actress Q’orianka Kilcher’s arrest at the White House, protesting while Barak Obama hails Alan Garcia’s program of exploitation, red-baiting, and racism in Peru as “an extraordinary economic success story.” (That says more about Obama than most people want to hear.) When activists who own stock in Chevron (so they can have access to stockholders’ meetings to protest Chevron’s policies) are denied access to the stockholders’ meeting and arrested, it briefly makes the news. Mostly, though, we Americans keep nodding on, zoned out on our petroleum buzz. Out of sight, out of mind, y’know?
This brings us to Nigeria, which provides the US with 40% of our crude oil. A study group that included a number of fairly conservative members–from the World Wildlife Federation to the Nigerian government–concluded that at least forty-six million gallons of oil, far more than what the Gulf blowout has leaked so far, have been spilled in the Niger delta in the last fifty years, not out at sea, but in and around villages and landscape where people are trying to live by fishing, farming, and hunting. Imagine our deep water blowout occurring onshore. Wouldn’t that raise an even worse fuss than what we’ve seen already?
But Nigerians are poor, dark-skinned people far away. It is easy to ignore their complaints about Chevron’s lax environmental standards; anyway, Chevron for its part claims that much of the leakage in Nigeria comes from sabotage and people tapping into the oil pipelines to steal oil. I have two thoughts about that. The first is that if the wealth generated from Nigeria’s oil were being shared more equitably, there would be a lot less robbery and resentment. The other thought is that, just as nobody cared what the Palestinians thought about pushing them aside and relocating many of the world’s Jews to Palestine, nobody asked the Niger delta natives if they wanted to have their way of life totally disrupted by big oil, and that, in both cases, resentment is a completely understandable reaction to our high-handed treatment of indigenous people–in Palestine, Nigeria, or, gosh, the good ol’ USA. We have oppressed and impoverished all of these people in pretty much the same way, but who cares if they live in misery, as long as we get our fix?
These examples are just the “big three” of oil-related nastiness. I haven’t mentioned how Chevron props up the autocratic regime in Burma and looks the other way while native people are not only dispossessed to make room for oil and other infrastructure projects but enslaved to build those projects. Chevron piously claims it “….continues to support the calls for a peaceful resolution to the issues facing Myanmar in a manner that respects human rights,” but reports from inside the country tell a different story.
Closer to home, but still far away and affecting mostly dark-skinned people and dumb animals, we have oil exploitation in Alaska, where broken pipelines have contaminated the tundra, while plans to begin deep water drilling in the Arctic Ocean are still proceeding. Wouldn’t an Arctic Ocean oil blowout in midwinter be fun to contain?
Meth labs are notorious for producing toxic waste, but all the meth labs in the world put together would not pollute the area we have fouled in the course of cooking up our oil fix. It’s not a mess somewhere else any more, it’s a mess on our south coast, polluting American waters and shores and destroying American livelihoods. Our oil-soaked chickens have come home to roost.
The meaning of this would be obvious if we were not so oil-addled. This does not mean that we need to make sure we are using clean needles–excuse me, that we need better safety standards and more reliable technology to get the oil we think we need. This means that we need to kick our habit before it kills us, and admit that it was never OK for those dark-skinned people over the horizon to die for our sins. Now the Gulf of Mexico is dying for our sins, and we had better wake up from our nod and repent–not before it’s too late, because it is already too late. The age of oil is over.
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Tags: Alan Garcia, Alaska, Amazon basin, Arctic Ocean, Athabaska River, Barack Obama, BP, Burma, Canada, Chevron, Ecuador, Gulf Coat, Myanmar, native people, Niger delta, Nigeria, Peru, pollution, Q’orianka Kilche, Rafael Correa, tar sands
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THE WHOLE WORLD IS BURNING
I’ve spent a lot of time on this show talking about the weather in the arctic—and by the way, in late October the sea ice at Barrow, the northernmost point in Alaska, was still a hundred miles offshore. Just a few decades ago, the Arctic Ocean was frozen clear up to the shore by this time of year. Freed of its damper of ice, the ocean is chewing relentlessly at the shoreline, forcing relocation of villages that have been in the same place for centuries, if not millennia. Meanwhile, down south….
In Africa, forests are disappearing, cut for local use as firewood for the most part, and this is drying the climate and drying up the rivers and silting up the hydroelectric dams and of course making subsistence agriculture even chancier, and making commercial, irrigated agriculture even more expensive. The two prongs of this dilemma are the need for firewood as cooking fuel and the need for a source of income for the firewood cutters.
A concerted program could replace firewood with solar cookers and water heaters and methane production—which would also help clean up Africa’s massive, shall we name it delicately, sanitation problem. There’s nothing like putting value into something to keep people from leaving it laying around in the street, and that doesn’t just mean cans and bottles, folks.
This still leaves a bunch of unhappy, out-of-work firewood vendors and their families. Sure, a certain number of people will be employed building solar and methane facilities, but there are people out selling wood on every street corner in Africa and unless the rules of the economic game are changed, they’re going to need some way to come up with the scratch to feed their families. And this is where it gets tricky. Thanks to the intervention of western medicine, law, and technology, there are just too many people in Africa for them to all go back to their traditional, sustainable ways of life, just as we here in Tennessee couldn’t all go back to burning firewood , shooting deer, and riding horses. There ain’t enough wood and there ain’t enough deer or horses and there ain’t enough pasture, and if there was enough wood the people in downtown Nashville would smother from the smoke. But, I digress.
What we might do is appoint a commission to study the matter—say, Nelson Mandela, the Dalai Lama, Vandana Shiva, Helena Norbert-Hodge and a few other champions of compassion could take this one on and come up with a solution. It would be cheaper than doing nothing or sending in the army, I can assure you of that.
In South America, the situation is a little more, shall we say, clearcut? The Amazon is being deforested not for the cooking fires of the hungry multitudes but for plywood for the Chinese and cattle ranches for land barons, who maintain their wealth habit by selling beef to Europe and America. Even Brazil’s popular, populist President Lula hasn’t been able to dent this one.
It’s a real global security threat and it needs the kind of attention we’ve mistakenly given Iraq—but oops, we done whupped the tarbaby a good one and now we are stuck and B’rer Fox is done nabbed us and this time he ain’t gonna throw us in that briar patch, people, this is not a drill, this is catastrophic global warming, the Amazon River is running dry, a thousand towns that depend on river transport are cut off due to low water.
The rainforest has apparently been cut back far enough that the hydrological cycle–the forests’ ability to generate the rain that sustains them–has been disrupted, and the Amazon climate may have flipped over into savannah mode, but all that water is still banging around loose in the atmosphere and it’s just going to make the weather more unstable—did you know that the first South Atlantic hurricane ever was recorded this year?
Let me elaborate a little on the rainforest hydrological cycle. First, an acre of hardwood trees pours hundreds of thousands of gallons of water into the atmosphere every day. That’s why it’s cooler and more humid under a forest canopy than it is out on the plains. When there are millions of acres of hardwoods, all that water rises up into the sky and joins together and creates regular afternoon rainstorms.
When I first moved to Tennessee thirty-five years ago, there was enough forest cover where I lived to create the same effect. Mornings were foggy, and then as the moisture rose and cooled, it tended to fall back down as an afternoon thundershower. In the eighties, much of the hardwood forest around me was cut, and those morning fogs and afternoon showers are no longer part of the weather cycle here—nor, apparently, in the Amazon.
Furthermore, the high temperatures characteristic of the tropics speed up soil processes in a way that tends to burn up organic matter and wash out nutrients pretty quickly unless they are being cycled through the elaborate carbon net called a rainforest. The lively energy that grows the rainforest is contained in its living fabric, and disappears when that fabric is rent. We do not know how to recreate rainforest once it has been turned into pasture.
Anyway, curbing the Brazilian beef trade and the Chinese hunger for plywood are two fairly concrete goals that wouldn’t even require revolutionary changes in the world economic system. Fundamental changes, yes, but not necessarily revolutionary ones. Again, perhaps a panel of deep ecologists and biologists can come up with a way to reclaim the Amazon. I can guarantee you it will be a lot more gratifying and doable than “bringing democracy to Iraq” in order to maintain a stranglehold on their oil supply.
So, from a Green perspective, global warming is a far greater threat to our national security than so-called terrorists. In our psychotic pursuit of these Muslim scapegoats, we ignore our real enemy at our very great peril.
Tags: Africa, Alaska, Amazon drought, hydrological cycle, South America, Tennessee
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A.J. Turner Ryan Taylor Anthony Gaines Vic Law Isaiah Moss Dererk Pardon Tyler Cook Luka Garza Sports College basketball basketball College sports Men's basketball Men's sports Men's college basketball
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Weiskamp leads Iowa over Northwestern 73-63
By JOHN JACKSON - Jan. 10, 2019 05:04 AM EST
Northwestern guard Ryan Taylor, top, blocks a shot by Iowa forward Luka Garza (55) during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2019, in Evanston, Ill. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
EVANSTON, Ill. (AP) — With leading scorer Tyler Cook out of the lineup, someone had to step up for Iowa to fill the void.
Freshman Joe Weiskamp was up to the task.
Weiskamp had 19 points, Luka Garza added 16 and Iowa beat Northwestern 73-63 on Wednesday night for its first true road win of the season.
Isaiah Moss had 12 points for the Hawkeyes (13-3, 2-3 in the Big Ten), who have won seven of eight. Cook, a 6-9 junior forward, sat out with a sore knee.
"We knew there were points that needed to be picked up elsewhere; I tried to help out," Weiskamp said.
"This is a huge road win for us. Obviously the first two road games this season didn't go as planned. Those weren't a lot of fun. We needed to change that. We knew that if we wanted to be playing in March, this is the type of game we needed to win."
Vic Law had 13 points and 10 rebounds, Anthony Gaines also scored a career-high 13, Ryan Taylor had 11 and A.J. Turner 10 for Northwestern (10-6, 1-4), which has dropped two of three.
Dererk Pardon, the Wildcats' second-leading scorer, was held to six points and five rebounds before fouling out with four minutes remaining.
"Give Iowa credit; they're a really good team, just like everyone in our league," Northwestern coach Chris Collins said. "But we're disappointed. This is a game at home, you've gotta find a way, and we just weren't able to do that."
Despite missing Cook's 17.3 points in the starting lineup, Iowa jumped out to a 9-2 lead.
Northwestern missed its first five field-goal attempts and its first seven 3-point attempts, but battled back from the slow start to tie the score at 13.
The Hawkeyes were leading 28-19 — their biggest of the first half — with 5½ minutes to go before the Wildcats closed with a 15-6 run for a tie at 34 at halftime.
Taylor opened the second half with a 3-pointer to give Northwestern its first lead. The Wildcats stretched their edge to 44-37 a few minutes later and seemingly had gained control of the game.
Iowa, though, responded with a 15-2 run for a 52-46 lead with 12½ minutes to play. Weiskamp hit a 3-pointer to put the Hawkeyes back on top, 47-46. The 6-6 guard then capped the run with a slick crossover for a layup and a 3-point play — picking up the fourth foul on Law in the process.
"I thought he was great the whole game, but coming down the stretch he was spectacular — as a scorer and a rebounder and as a defender," Iowa coach Fran McCaffery said of Weiskamp. "He was really special tonight."
Northwestern had opportunities to mount a rally in the final 10 minutes, but couldn't develop any consistency offensively. The Wildcats were 22 of 57 (38.6 percent) from the field, including 7 of 27 on 3-pointers.
Iowa: Things looked bleak for the Hawkeyes when it became apparent Cook wasn't going to play, but they rallied for their first true road win of the season.
Northwestern: The Wildcats have been a strong shooting team throughout Collins' first five seasons, but this group has struggled to put the ball in the basket against good teams, especially from behind the 3-point arc.
BIG PERFORMANCE
Garza was playing just his second game since spraining an ankle on Dec. 21. He was limited to 10 minutes in Sunday's win over Nebraska, but played 26 on Wednesday, going 10 for 11 from the foul line.
"He looked like himself today," McCaffery said.
COOK DAY-TO-DAY
McCaffery said it wasn't clear Cook wouldn't play until the morning shootaround. "(On Tuesday), he expected to play, but he was just too sore today," the coach said.
Iowa: Hosts No. 16 Ohio State on Saturday.
Northwestern: At No. 2 Michigan on Sunday.
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Andrew Mille began his cello studies in the USC Strings Project in Columbia S.C. at the age of eight. He played for both the South Carolina Youth Philharmonic Orchestra and All State Orchestra during his high school years, and in 2000 was awarded the Harry Lightsey Cello Scholarship to study at the College of Charleston, under the instruction of Damian Kremer of the Charleston Symphony. In the summers spanning from 2001 to 2004, Mille attended the Meadowmount School of Music in upstate New York, a school that claims such distinguished alumni such as Itzhak Perlman and Yo-Yo Ma.
Upon completion of his bachelor’s degree in 2005, Mille studied with internationally renowned cellist Natalia Khoma as part of the College of Charleston’s graduate-level Artist Certificate program. Mille currently performs cello and taps South Carolina’s top local talent for private concerts, festivals, weddings and private events, through his Charleston-based company Entertainment Charleston, a network of professional musicians and performers.
Entertainment Charleston has been affiliated with the Charleston Visitors Bureau and the Charleston Area Travel Council, a network of leading businesses committed to ensuring Charleston’s continued success as one of the worlds top destination cities. Mille’s original company, Classical Charleston, now a branch of Entertainment Charleston, was the first organization of its kind, offering an extensive repertoire of classical music as well as pop and jazz, plus many possible ensemble variations. Only an idea a decade ago, Classical Charleston is now known for pushing the boundaries of what classical ensembles usually perform.
In 2011, Mille and Classical Charleston’s lead violinist Tomas Jakubek invested in the creation of South Carolina’s first professional electric string quartet, the Acoustic Electric Quartet, also known as AEQ. The electric ensemble showcases music and unique arrangements of today’s most recognized pop tunes, classic jazz, popular classical works, all on flashy, modern Yamaha electric instruments.
The Acoustic Electric Quartet has opened for private concerts by Michael Bolton, PGA Masters events in Augusta, Georgia, for The Charleston International Film Festival and Charleston Bridal Show, as well as many other events across the Southeast.
Mille also oversees The Charleston Music School, an online site devoted to directing students and parents to a network of qualified music instructors in the Charleston area. For more information on music lessons visit CharlestonMusicSchool.com
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Drowning the Oceans in Plastic Waste
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The planet's oceans are drowning in plastic waste. Photo Credit: GLOBE-Net
Just five countries account for a whopping 60% of the plastic trash that ends up in the oceans. No, Malaysia isn’t one of them … but the country is still in the Top 10 sources of plastic waste globally. For shame.
The five leading plastic polluters – China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam (in that order) – dump more plastic waste into the seas than the rest of the world combined. The trouble is that all five of them are in the region and some of them in Malaysia’s immediate vicinity. Since plastic waste knows no borders, that is bound to add to Malaysia’s own persistent problems with plastic trash in the seas.
Each year some 8 million metric tons of plastic is dumped into the world’s oceans globally – which is enough discarded plastic to cover every coastline around the world. Much of the floating debris (which contains everything from bottles to shopping bags to wrappings to larger containers) is swept by ocean currents into the five giant gyres that have been forming for decades: In the North Atlantic, in the South Atlantic, in the North Pacific, in the South Pacific, and in the Indian Ocean.
The Top 10 producers of plastic waste in the world. Photo Credit: National Geographic
And those massive gyres of floating filth may account for a mere 5% of plastic trash in the seas: the rest might lie in wait submerged underwater where it continues to wreck marine ecosystems and strangle underwater creatures. Meanwhile, a lot of plastic is broken down into tiny microbeads that end up, hazardously, up and down food chains – so that the plastic we dump into the seas may well end up on our plates.
All this we know, but scientists have yet to understand the full extent of how all that plastic waste in the planet’s oceans is affecting aquatic environments. A lot of the discarded plastic has gone missing, leading scientists to conclude that fish and other marine animals have unwittingly been feeding on it. “I don’t think we can conceive of the worst-case scenario, quite frankly,” warns Kara Lavender Law, an oceanographer at the Sea Education Association “We really don’t know what (all) this plastic is doing.”
And things are set to get worse before they get any better. As the region’s developing economies continue to boom with the trappings of an up-and-coming consumerist culture, Asia’s plastic consumption will likely balloon by a staggering 80%, reaching 155 million metric tons annually by 2025. That is to say, within a decade the world’s oceans might contain one ton of plastic for every three tons of fish.
To make matters worse, waste management systems across the world’s Top 5 leading polluters remain rudimentary, inefficient or nonexistent entirely. In these countries, only around 40% of garbage is properly collected; the rest is left uncollected or piled up into communal dumps from where stray bits keep being blown away by the wind or washed away by heavy rains into nearby rivers, lakes and seas.
Floating plastic waste foals up azure sea water. Photo Credit: Cesar Harada via Flickr
Improving waste management systems across the five nations could reduce the amount of plastic trash by 45% within a decade, according to a study published in Science magazine. Some experts have warned that the deleterious environmental effects of plastic waste may in the long run rival those of climate change.
That’s bad news for Malaysia as the country will be spared the effects of neither, being located as it is both in the tropics and in the vicinity of the world’s leading environmental polluters. Nor has Malaysia itself been an exemplar of waste management, for that matter, so we are hardly in a position to start pointing fingers at other leading plastic polluters in the region.
Malaysia’s waste management systems continue to perform poorly by developed nations standards while recycling rates across the country remain dismally low: last year less than 15% of solid waste was recycled in Malaysia. Sabah, one of the country’s most biodiverse states, has been notorious for the vast amounts of trash, most of it plastic and non-biodegradable, that litters its beaches, befouling marine environments and serving as permanent eyesores. Most other states have not been doing all that much better, either.
Cleaning up the world’s oceans will be a Herculean task requiring intensive international collaboration, not least among the planet’s worst polluters. Before that happens, however, we ought to start cleaning up our own trash.
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Financing Divorce: Loans Available
In a front page article, Binyamin Appelbaum in the New York Times explored the newest trend in divorce-third parties are investing in and funding divorces. A funding company “invests” in a divorce and advances the litigant money to pay the costs of the divorce. The litigant repays the loan at the conclusion of the case- generally as a percentage of their “winnings.”
According to Stacey Napp, the founder of one funding company, Balance Point, “Everybody knows somebody where at the end of the day, the divorce was not equitable,” she said. “We want to help those people, the underdog, to make sure they get their fair share.”
So, is there a need to have a third party to invest in a divorce action? Perhaps!
Recently, New York amended its law regarding awards of attorney’s fees in divorce and other matrimonial actions. The law was intended to even the playing field in divorce actions between the money and non-moneyed spouses. According the law, judges are to presumptively award attorneys’ fees and expert expenses to the non-moneyed or economically dependent spouse.
In most cases, an award of attorneys’ fees is sufficient to even the playing field between moneyed and non-moneyed spouses in a divorce. However, in the extreme cases, where money and assets have been secreted or the moneyed spouse is employing a strategy of delay and obfuscation intended to economically wear the other party out, third party financing may be useful.
Indeed, Napp conceded that third party funding is not for everyone.
The company wants to focus on people with marital assets between $2 million and $15 million, a bracket Ms. Napp described as “the lower end of the high end.” She said that investing in smaller disputes was not worthwhile. Wealthier people, she said, seemed to resolve divorces more easily — perhaps because they still felt wealthy in the aftermath.
Another concern is control of the case.
Most lawsuit lenders avoid any role in the management of cases, seeking to disarm critics who worry that lenders seeking profits will corrupt the pursuit of justice. Ms. Napp, by contrast, sells the benefit of her own experience.
Ms. Napp said that as she decided to create Balance Point, she realized that she could not settle her own case. “I had to win,” she said. “Because I don’t know that, if you don’t have a happy ending, that people are going to think it’s such a fantastic idea.”
It is no secret that mounting legal fees and the costs of litigation often facilitate the settlement of a divorce. No one wants to pay legal fees. If the case is resolved, the hemorrhage of seemingly endless legal fees stops. On the other hand, if the costs of going forward are removed, there would no incentive to settle.
The “divorce loans” are not free. The litigant has to pay an undisclosed percentage of the “winnings” to the lender.
Divorce funding would be appropriate in limited circumstances. It would only be appropriate it cases where the marital estate is sizable and one spouse is economically dependant on the other. Obviously, this type of financing would not be appropriate where the issues are non-economic, like custody or access to children.
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Pope Francis greets the crowd before celebrating Mass at Enrique Olaya Herrera Airport in Medellin, Colombia, Sept. 9. (CNS/Paul Haring)
By Cindy Wooden
MEDELLIN, Colombia (CNS) — In a city many think of as being synonymous with new directions for the Catholic Church, Pope Francis told Colombian Catholics faith is not measured by how well they follow rules, but by the depth of their prayer life and the degree to which it pushes them to share the Gospel.
The pope’s visit to Medellin Sept. 9 began so wet and so foggy that he was forced to travel the 30 miles from Rionegro airport by car rather than helicopter. The change in plans meant the Mass began 45 minutes later than scheduled.
But by the time the service did begin, the rain had stopped and the fog had begun to lift, providing a clear view of the city’s skyscrapers and the lush green mountains beyond. Before the opening prayer, Pope Francis apologized for the wait and thanked the estimated 1.3 million people for their patience.
The bishops of Latin America met in Medellin in 1968 and formally committed themselves to a “preferential option for the poor,” to the support of small Christian communities and to a Gospel-based reading of their social and economic realities. While their commitments were rooted in the teaching of the Second Vatican Council, their focus on Latin America’s concrete situation marked a sharp change in direction.
In his homily in Medellin, Pope Francis said that when Jesus’ disciples first began following him, they had to go through a process of conversion and purification, changing the way they saw the relationship between Jewish law and faith in God.
“Some of the precepts, prohibitions and mandates made them feel secure,” the pope said. “Fulfilling certain practices and rites dispensed them from the uncomfortable question: ‘What would God like us to do?'”
Following Jesus and sharing the good news of salvation in him, he said, means leaving one’s comfort zone and going out, encountering others and concretely showing them God’s love.
“It is of the greatest importance that we who call ourselves disciples not cling to a certain style or to particular practices that cause us to be more like some Pharisees than like Jesus,” he said.
The law is meant to guide people in doing good and it is not to be ignored, the pope said. But true faith means going deeper, experiencing God’s love, changing one’s life and getting involved in what can improve the lives of others, especially the poor and vulnerable.
“As Jesus ‘shook’ the doctors of the law to break them free of their rigidity,” the pope said, the Holy Spirit “shakes” the church so that its members not settle into a lazy comfort, but are constantly challenged by Christ and constantly reaching out.
“We are called upon to be brave, to have that evangelical courage which springs from knowing that there are many who are hungry, who hunger for God, who hunger for dignity, because they have been deprived,” the pope said.
“We cannot be Christians who continually put up ‘do not enter’ signs,” Pope Francis said, because “the church is not ours, she is God’s. He is the owner of the temple and the field; everyone has a place, everyone is invited to find here, and among us, his or her nourishment. ”
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About Mates of State
The Mates of State are a couple of married folks, but even if they hadn't met and tied the knot they would probably still be performing some sort of upbeat indie pop, albeit separately. Lucky thing for us (and them), Kori Gardner and Jason Hammel formed a band (and fell in love) in the midst of the 1990's Lawrence, Kansas music scene. It wasn't long before they packed up their keyboard-and-drums combo and moved to San Francisco. After a few singles and EPs, they released their first studio disc My Solo Project, a joyous back-and-forth high energy shouting/singing affair that established them as not only as an indie rock twosome, but one that obviously has a lot of fun trading harmonies and lyrical wordplay. Two years later, Our Constant Concern, continued that pattern, whilst tossing in a few electronically looped surprises that sweetened the mix. Team Boo was released in 2003, and Mates of State were able to quit their day jobs as teacher (Kori) and cancer researcher (Jason), and began trying to reach a wider audience by near year-round touring -- both headlining on their own and with next-big-thing bands like the Strokes. They signed to a new label, Barsuk Records, and in 2006 released their fourth effort, Bring It Back. Even more life-changing, they also had a baby and relocated to Connecticut to be closer to Kori's East Coast family. However, they vow to not to settle down in the suburbs, taking their daughter on tour with them and (in between naps) carrying on with their sharp, ironic duets like the brainy "Fraud in the '80s." Michele K-Tel
Matt and Kim, Papas Fritas, Quasi, Saturday Looks Good To Me, The Botticellis, The Mae Shi
The Mates of State are a couple of married folks, but even if they hadn't met and tied the knot they would probably still be performing some sort of upbeat indie pop, albeit separately. Lucky thing for us (and them), Kori Gardner and Jason Hammel formed a band (and fell in love) in the midst of the 1990's Lawrence, Kansas music scene. It wasn't long before they packed up their keyboard-and-drums combo and moved to San Francisco. After a few singles and EPs, they released their first studio disc My Solo Project, a joyous back-and-forth high energy shouting/singing affair that established them as not only as an indie rock twosome, but one that obviously has a lot of fun trading harmonies and lyrical wordplay. Two years later, Our Constant Concern, continued that pattern, whilst tossing in a few electronically looped surprises that sweetened the mix. Team Boo was released in 2003, and Mates of State were able to quit their day jobs as teacher (Kori) and cancer researcher (Jason), and began trying to reach a wider audience by near year-round touring -- both headlining on their own and with next-big-thing bands like the Strokes. They signed to a new label, Barsuk Records, and in 2006 released their fourth effort, Bring It Back. Even more life-changing, they also had a baby and relocated to Connecticut to be closer to Kori's East Coast family. However, they vow to not to settle down in the suburbs, taking their daughter on tour with them and (in between naps) carrying on with their sharp, ironic duets like the brainy "Fraud in the '80s."
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Home China Cambodia Dismisses Chinese Naval Base Editorial as Part of ‘Misinformation’ Campaign
Sailors stand on the deck of the new type 055 guided-missile destroyer Nanchang of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy as it participates in a naval parade to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the founding of China's PLA Navy in the sea near Qingdao in eastern China's Shandong province, Tuesday, April 23, 2019. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, Pool)
Cambodia Dismisses Chinese Naval Base Editorial as Part of ‘Misinformation’ Campaign
Cambodia’s government has again denied that it will allow China to build a naval base on its coast, dismissing a recent editorial about the likelihood of such a project as “misinformation” aimed at damaging the country’s international image.
Last week, United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney senior fellow Charles Edel wrote an editorial acknowledging the possibility that China could construct a base in Cambodia’s Koh Kong province based on satellite images showing a Chinese firm rushing to complete a runway capable of supporting military aircraft.
Published by Washington-based defense website War on the Rocks, Edel’s editorial noted that while Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen has dismissed reports of a possible Chinese base in the country, “his independence seems increasingly doubtful,” given the substantial political and economic support he has received from Beijing since winning an election last year widely viewed as unfree and unfair.
In full: https://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/editorial-05132019165501.html
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Wholly owned by Capstone Mining Corp., the Pinto Valley Mine was acquired from BHP Billiton in October 2013.
The Pinto Valley Mine is located in the Globe-Miami mining district in Arizona, one of the oldest and largest copper districts in the Americas and among the world's most favorable mining jurisdictions with respect to tax, regulation and labour. BHP Billiton invested $194 million in 2012/13 to upgrade and re-commission the operation, which was successfully restarted in December 2012 with a five year mine life in publicly reported reserves.
Copper concentrate production facilities include a primary crusher, secondary and tertiary crushers, six ball mills and copper concentrate and molybdenum flotation circuits. The Pinto Valley Mine is accessible by public road. Cathode production is trucked to domestic customers in the US and copper concentrate production is trucked domestically and to the Port of Guaymas in Mexico for export.
In early 2014, Capstone extended the mine life by 8 years to 2026 (PV2), and in early 2016, more than doubled the remaining mine life to 2039 through the PV3 Pre-Feasibility Study (“PV3 PFS”). The PV3 PFS also calls for an increase in throughput by 8%, without any major capital investment.
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August 7, 2013 by Jaime
Bret Michaels may have swapped big hair for cowboy hats when it comes to his style but he’s still making the ladies swoon. You may never reach rock star status or even reality TV star status but no one is saying you can’t look like one. By combining elements of rock n’ roll with country, Bret’s look is easy to achieve. Feeling gutsy? Throw on some black eyeliner and take the karaoke stage with “Every Rose Has Its Thorn.”
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Marine recruit needed skin grafts for chemical burns from boot camp hazing
May 4, 2017 | 2 comments
In the Washington Post this week (May 3, 2017 edition), journalist Dan Lamothe exposes the horrifying hazing of young recruits. Most Marines are unlikely to experience torture of the magnitude detailed in the article, yet it is a glimpse into the dehumanizing indoctrination of boot camp.
A Marine Corps recruit who was hazed by his drill instructor suffered second- and third-degree chemical burns on his buttocks so severe that he needed skin grafts, according to documents newly released by the service.
The recruit’s skin was “liquefied” at the service’s storied boot camp at Parris Island, S.C., the documents said. The injuries occurred after he was ordered to perform unauthorized exercises under an upside-down laundry bin on a floor covered in bleach and required to stay in his wet pants for hours. The recruit reluctantly told another drill instructor about his burns that night, but stayed in training for a few more days. His condition deteriorated after he was told that he would not be able to graduate with his peers if he sought medical attention.
‘They put us through hell’: A Marine abused at boot camp explains why he spoke out
In a separate incident uncovered by this journalist’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request…
The case was detailed among thousands of pages of documents released to The Washington Post through the Freedom of Information Act by the Marine Corps and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS). Combined, they show that a hazing scandal that erupted last year at Parris Island following the death of a recruit, Pvt. Raheel Siddiqui (photo right), is part of a history that includes dozens of cases of hazing and abuse against recruits in the past five years….
Siddiqui, 20, died at Parris Island on March 18, 2016. He fell 40 feet over a railing after facing physical abuse from his drill instructor, Gunnery Sgt. Joseph Felix, according to military documents. Separately, Felix also is accused of putting another Muslim recruit in an industrial-sized clothes dryer and turning it on repeatedly in July 2015. He and another former drill instructor, Sgt. Michael K. Eldridge, face charges that include cruelty and maltreatment, being drunk and disorderly, failing to obey a lawful order and making false official statements in that case.
Pvt. Raheel Siddiqui died at Parris Island on March 18, 2016.
The article notes that, “At least 20 other hazing investigations involving drill instructors have been detailed by the Marine Corps and released through the Freedom of Information Act in the last few weeks in a rolling fashion.”
Young women and men who are considering the military as a viable alternative should be are of these facts. The friendly military recruiters who are inviting them to after-school BBQs–complete with free hotdogs and soda–are unlikely to bring these stories up. Inconvenient fact about the military: You may be tortured by fellow soldiers, who are in charge of your “well-being”, in order to “tearing you down” and “build you back up”, so that you can effectively fight endless wars abroad.
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JoAnn Witt on May 10, 2017 at 2:14 pm
No one should join our military until our foreign policy is changed, and until drill instructors are punished and given a dishonorable discharge.
Fernando torres on January 11, 2018 at 6:38 pm
I wana be a marine
“Thank you to Courage to Resist for working long-term on supporting some of the bravest and most effective resistance to war we have seen.”
-David Swanson, author, activist & journalist
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The Athens Voice offices are seen after being ransacked on July 4, 2019. Greek anarchist group Rouvikonas has claimed credit for the attack. (Image via Athens Voice)
Anarchist group ransacks office of Greek newspaper
Berlin, July 9, 2019 -- Greek authorities must quickly and thoroughly investigate the ransacking of the offices of Greek weekly newspaper Athens Voice and hold those responsible to account, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.
On July 4, a group of about 10 masked individuals entered the Athens Voice offices and vandalized the newsroom, damaging office equipment and furniture and splashing black paint on the walls, according to a report by the newspaper. No one was injured during the raid, according to that report.
In a post published on video-sharing website LiveLeak, Greek anarchist group Rouvikonas claimed credit for the attack, which it described as a protest against an article on the newspaper's website concerning a story about an Armenian woman who died after jumping out of a window to evade authorities' inspection of her residence and work permit.
"Political groups should not be in the business of attacking the free press, and Greek authorities should be sure to hold to account those responsible for ransacking the offices of Athens Voice," Gulnoza Said, CPJ's Europe and Central Asia program coordinator, said from New York. "If groups do not face consequences for such egregious actions, these attacks against the press will continue."
In an email to CPJ, an Athens Voice representative estimated that the attack caused more than 50,000 euros ($56,216) in damages. Police have opened an investigation into the attack and have placed the newspaper's offices under police protection, according to the representative.
The Hellenic Police press department did not reply to CPJ's emailed request for comment.
In May, Greek CNN reporter Mina Karamitrou's car was destroyed by a bomb after she reported on a different anarchist group, as CPJ reported at the time.
[Editor's Note: This article has been updated to include Athens Voice's responses to CPJ's request for comment and, in the third paragraph, to correct that the attack was in response to an article published on the newspaper's website.]
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Greek CNN reporter Mina Karamitrou's car destroyed by bomb
May 14, 2019 11:52 AM ET
Berlin, May 14, 2019 -- Greek authorities must ensure the safety of police reporter Mina Karamitrou, thoroughly investigate the bombing of her car overnight, and hold those responsible to account, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today....
Journalists assaulted by far-right demonstrators in Greece
January 24, 2019 2:13 PM ET
Berlin, January 24, 2019--Greek authorities should quickly and thoroughly investigate the assault and harassment of reporters and photojournalists at a protest in Athens on January 20 and hold those responsible to account, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today....
Investigative reporter gunned down in Athens
New York, July 19, 2010—The Committee to Protect Journalists is outraged by today’s murder in Athens of Sokratis Giolias, 37, director of the private radio station Thema 98.9 and contributor to the popular online news blog Troktiko. CPJ urges Greek police to thoroughly investigate the killing.At least two men reportedly...
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STEP into the Smithsonian
An immersive training experience in museums and research based in Washington DC - at the largest museum in the world
London Legacy Development Corporation, the London Boroughs of Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest, along with the Foundation for Future London and Create Jobs have teamed up with the Smithsonian Institution to fund an exciting international experience for local residents aged 18-30 years old.
Through a programme of talks, visits and workshops, and a live content brief, it is for individuals who want to build their skills and connections to kick-start a career in museums.
Participants will take part in a week-long London bootcamp (Tuesday 23 April - Thursday 24 April 2019) before flying out to Washington DC (Monday 13th May to Thursday 30th May 2019), where they will embark on an immersive three-week experience at the world's largest museum, the Smithsonian Institution.
Four young East Londoners will STEP into the Smithsonian.
Passionate about pursuing a career in the cultural sector (museums, galleries, theatre, dance, performance and music)
Committed to shaping culture in their borough and their city.
A resident of Hackney, Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest or Newham
Aged 18 to 30
Underrepresented in the sector*
Unemployed or underemployed, and not in full-time education*
Whilst in the USA, our trainees will visit many of the Smithsonian’s museums and research centres, exploring a diversity of topics including; photography and print, graphic design, African American history, popular culture, natural history, global art forms and much more.
Participants have access to:
Daily seminars led by professors and researchers, exploring various areas of the museum.
Live project briefs set by Smithsonian museum staff
Access to curators, conservators, archivists and administration professionals who will share stories about working in the world’s largest museum
1-2-1 careers advice and guidance from industry professionals
A network of students from across the US, (aged 18-25) who will also take part in the programme, providing an opportunity to network with peers and exchange knowledge, learnings and ideas
Time and support to develop their response to a live content brief with Create Jobs
What’s covered:
Flights to the USA
Accommodation in USA (13th to 30th May)
Per diems (13th to 30th May)
Passport application fees (if needed)
Travel and subsistence during London bootcamp
Access to a MacBook, camera and audio equipment
In partnership with the V&A, the Smithsonian Institution will join world-class cultural and educational institutions at East Bank on Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in 2023. East Bank, a brand new destination for London with world-class culture and education at its heart will also be home to new sites for Sadler’s Wells, BBC Music, UAL’s London College of Fashion and University College London. East Bank will create more than 2,500 jobs and generate an estimated £1.5 billion for the local economy.
With the V&A, the Smithsonian will co-curate exhibitions on global issues, which will draw from each museum’s collections. The Smithsonian will also use the museum for temporary exhibitions, and work with all of the partners on public programs and novel research.
Since its founding in 1846, the Smithsonian Institution has been committed to inspiring generations through knowledge and discovery. The Smithsonian is the world’s largest museum, education, and research complex, consisting of 19 museums, the National Zoo, and nine research facilities, ranging from astrophysics to endangered species. This unique experience will support the Smithsonian in their mission to develop the next generation of talent for the sector.
**We recognise 'underemployed' as currently working in a role that is either outside of the cultural sector, and/or part-time, zero hours or casual work.
Smithsonian Institution photography by Jeff Tinsley and Eric Long.
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