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france / belgium / luxemburg | community struggles | opinion / analysis Wednesday June 05, 2019 12:26 by Morgan - AWSM
The following article is a personal impression and analysis of the Yellow Vests movement in France, written by a French Anarchist now living in Aotearoa/New Zealand.
First of all I should state that this is a personal account of the situation, it is my take on a very diverse and complex social movement. The Yellow Vests movement was sparked by a government increase of oil prices in October 2018 though it is far from being the only reason: a generalized speed reduction on the roads was also seen as a way for the government to disguise a new tax by increasing the number of speeding tickets. However these reasons are only the tip of the iceberg. The real origins of this explosion of anger can be found in the policies of president Emmanuel Macron and the French political and social situation. Emmanuel Macron was elected with only few people ever voting for him ; his opponent being the far right candidate Marine Le Pen. A number of voters refused to chose between a racist and a former banker. Unsurprisingly Macron is now conducting a right-wing style of governance; reducing taxes on the rich, continuing his predecessor’s attacks on workers’ rights, repression of social movements, harassment and deportation of migrants etc. In this context the Yellow Vests movement appears as a true popular revolt which has more to do with the fact that people are fed up with the whole situation. However this anger is taking many forms and has not always been directed at the origins of the problem. I will try and explain the movement’s evolution and shed a light on its class composition, then I’ll try to explain the anarchists and revolutionaries’ response to the situation and I will then conclude on the movement’s perspectives and current situation.
In the beginning the movement was launched by a mobilization on social media platforms, especially Facebook. In a few videos seen by millions of people and shared by thousands, individuals were calling on people to oppose the government’s fuel prices increase, new speed limits and taxes. At that time the symbol of the yellow vest appeared ; in France every car owner is bound by law to have one in their vehicle. The videos also called on people to rally in the roundabouts and to wear this vest or display it in their cars. These roundabouts soon became quite central in the mobilization. This gives us a hint on the class composition of the movement in its early stages. The roundabout is typical of France’s industrial and commercial centers, suburbs in-between the countryside and cities, rural areas and small towns. As opposed to the typical movements centered on big urban centers this one took hold in more rural parts of the country. At one point people started occupying these roundabouts, day and night in some places ; tents were erected, shacks constructed and campfires were lit. One has to remember that it was still winter time and the nights could be quite cold. From time to time the roundabouts were blocked and skirmishes with drivers happened here and there. A few people even died because they were hit by cars. However most of the occupations consisted in distributing leaflets to passing cars and debating with other Yellow Vests. The occupations are the place were people who had never participated in any mobilization were starting to learn, make friends and comrades etc. At that time only a few of them were union members or had been militants of any political party.
Politically speaking the movement always has been, and is, very diverse. The focus on taxes, and fuel prices were quite foreign to leftwing activists. On the roundabouts you could also find a number of petit-bourgeois, small business owners, racist and fascist figureheads etc. Depending on the place some racists attacks took place and on one occasion people arrested migrants and gave them up to the police. This is far from being the core of what was happening, but this explains why many leftists and anarchists did not know how to react. However as the movement grew and was met with police repression the situation started to evolve. People started to converge on weekly demonstrations called “Acts” and were faced with police brutality. Occupations on roundabouts were more and more violent because of police repression and not only because of other car owners. At one point the movement decided to regroup for demonstrations in Paris. One cannot stress enough how politically young the Yellow Vests are as a whole. For example, in France one has to declare intended demonstrations to the police. The problem is that although the movement had figureheads, there was no leader and no central decision making process. What happened is that people decided to show up in Paris just by announcing it and they chose a symbolic place that has always been off limit to social movements; the Arc de Triomphe and the upper class neighborhoods surrounding it. This led to heavy clashes with the police and a part of the movement started radicalizing. From people who wanted the police to join them and treat them as fellow workers they started to become more and more angry at what was perceived as unjust and unfair violence and repression. In the meantime, business owners and right-wing elements started to distance themselves from the violence, however the core of the movement did not. Demands started to include more and more things like minimum wage increase, taxes for the rich and democratic reforms. More anarchists and leftists started to join, sympathize and organize within the movement as it appeared for what it was – a working class movement, unaffiliated to political parties and unions. For some anarchists and revolutionaries the fact that these people were capable of rioting in the most upper class neighborhoods of Paris has also been a wake up call. These demonstrations did not always take place in Paris ; some cities emerged as political hubs although they did not have a tradition of participation in social movements and riots sparked by police repression started in a lot of them.
The shift between a mainly non-violent and peaceful movement to a more determined one was also accompanied by the media. In the beginning the bourgeois media found that the movement was quite positive. It seemed like a dream come true for right-wingers; a peaceful popular movement against taxes, government involvement in the market etc. However as the movement became more radical the media started to describe them as irresponsible persons, and called on people to distance themselves from rioters and vandals etc. In the meantime police repression kept on growing and the media did not say anything about it. At this day at least 30 people have lost an eye because of the LB-40 (flashball), 5 lost a hand because of grenades and one person was killed. The number of wounded are in the thousands and a lot of people are being condemned to jail time after each demonstrations. Most of them were not even directly involved in the riots. The role of the media in not reporting police brutality and the distortion of facts explains why a lot of Yellow Vests are now considering them as liars and enemies. A few journalists were even attacked during demonstrations even though most of the violence they face has been coming from the police. We also have something to say about the role of public figures within the movement. Most of them refuse to be considered as leaders and a lot of them do not hesitate to call on people to act outside the law. For now the ones who tried to recuperate the movement for their own political gain or tried to distance themselves from rioters were met with a loss of popularity, death threats and attacks, even during the demonstrations or at their homes. This is also the case for government ministers and political figures opposing the movement.
As always the revolutionary movement (anarchists and autonomists) did not agree on the situation and the response we should have. Especially in the beginning, a lot of people considered the movement to be a right-wing and even far-right movement. It is true that some of the early leaders in the Yellow Vests had a right-wing background. However for me a lot of the rejection from parts of the revolutionary movement came from the disconnect between the revolutionaries and the working class. This is of course a greater problem that should be adressed elsewhere. Because of the problems that I mentioned before, and especially racism and antisemitism, some comrades are convinced that this movement is nothing more than a fascist movement. However there has been a shift in the face of police repression and riots. To their credit most autonomists groups like the “appelistes” (Lundi Matin, the invisible committee, Julien Coupat) were very enthusiastic from the very beginning. But we also have to note that their enthusiasm is also based on the fact that they reject traditional class analysis.
As people were criticizing the movement for its racism, a lot of comrades took it upon themselves to try and expel the fascists from the movement. It mainly came in the form of street brawls during demonstration, doxxing and attacks against fascists’ headquarters. At one point and time the situation was tense for left wing organization and groups. Some attacks were really violent and a number of comrades were wounded. The fascists even attacked mainstream left-wing groups, not only revolutionaries and antifascists. They are still a threat but it seems that the tide has turned for them. They lost a number of brawls and recently they were beaten so badly that they ended up in the hospital. Some of them decided to go to the police which is unusual for those groups who pride themselves on their strength and who are culturally close to the ultras and hooligans. However for me these street groups are not the main threat ; the intellectual figureheads of the movement are sometime far more problematic. A number of them support conspiracy theories and/or low key antisemitic views. For the time being there seems to be no solutions for that other than pointing out the problem.
The riots in the streets are at level not seen in Paris since 1968. The upper class neighborhoods have been attacked and even a ministry was broken into with a forklift during a demonstration. The Yellow Vests are getting more and more radicalized because of the repression; as a result they are starting to view the tactics of what they see as “the black bloc” as more and more justified. Most of the people active in the riots are first timers. This alliance between Yellow Vests and the “black bloc” also called “Kway noir” in french or “Black raincoats” is an issue of great concern for the government. They have not succeeded in creating a rejection of the more radical elements by the movement. Even worse, a lot of people are starting to consider that black bloc tactics are justified in term of self defense and that they have sometimes defended them from police violence. On the other hand the increase in police violence means that a lot of people are now justifiably scared to go to demonstrations and that has provoked a drop in participation if not in popularity.
Concerning the mainstream unions their attitude toward the movement has often been quite hostile but an hostility towards them can also be felt within the Yellow Vests. The reason being that the section of the working class active in the movement is not the same as the one that is unionized. The unions in France are overwhelmingly members of the public sector, have a higher pay and/or work in companies with more than 500 employees. On the other hand a lot of the Yellow Vests come from the private sector, and more precarious situations – self employment, temp jobs etc. However on the ground the rank and file of the unions has been participating in the movement from the very beginning. What is new for France is that this kind of social movement has never been further from the unions and can be seen as an other sign of their loss of power. However unions are not opposing the movement ; for the 1st of may Yellow Vests and unions were demonstrating together.
The government has attempted other means of destroying the movement using methods other than sheer repression. The main attempt was “the great debate” a type of national consultation supposed to inform the president of the request and demands of the people. It took the form of local groups of randomly selected people tasked with debating and coming up with requests. However at the end of this the president declared basically that he understood the demands but was not going to do anything about it, therefore showing what the attempt was all about ; destroying the movement and gaining time hoping people would get tired. It was even more absurd to try and start the “great debate” because the movement already had more or less clear demands ; things like the “RIC” ; Popular Initiative Referendum. This would basically permit people to vote on policies and propose new ones. Raising minimum wage and taxing the rich are the two other big demands on the part of the Yellow Vests.
Recently the demonstration of the 1st of May has seen much violence coming from the police. The government had given orders not to let the more radical groups time to gather. This took the form of a lot of charges and attacks on the demonstration and even on mainstream unions, which is quite new. The representative of the main french union, The CGT, even had to leave the demonstration because of police violence. The government succeeded in limiting this demonstration but failed miserably in the eyes of the public. For example they were caught lying about demonstrators attacking a hospital-it turned out people were just trying to flee police violence. More and more videos show special police groups attacking people randomly, even in their own buildings. Police repression has had the effect of radicalizing and bringing revolutionaries and Yellow Vests closer together. More and more the common denominator of this diverse movement is a hatred for the police and calls for a revolution.
It is difficult to see what the future will bring. However this movement is like no other we have seen in the past years. Personally I think that even though this movement has a lot of problems and things that need to be addressed it is still the most encouraging thing to appear in a long time ; an autonomous, working class, social movement.
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Genaro Carries No-Hitter into 9th as Baseball Blanks Coast Guard, 8-0
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BABSON PARK, Mass.—Sophomore Michael Genaro (Greenwich, Conn.) retired the first 15 batters and came within two outs of a no-hitter as Babson College defeated the visiting Coast Guard Academy, 8-0, in New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) baseball action on Wednesday at Govoni Field.
With the win, Babson is now 8-7 overall and 2-1 in conference play, while Coast Guard slips to 8-12 overall and 0-4 in the NEWMAC.
Genaro (2-0), who was making his first start since March 18, struck out four and faced just two batters over the minimum in a complete-game effort. Senior Jack Halpin (Glastonbury, Conn.) and first-year Sean Harrington (Walpole, Mass.) both drove in a pair of runs for the Beavers.
Senior Colton Cannon (Kennesaw, Ga.) allowed two runs on one hit and four walks in two innings for the Bears.
Senior Jake Weiss (Irvine, Calif.) plated junior Adam Ayala (Franklin Lakes, N.J.) and later scored on a two-out error to give the Green and White a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the first. The Beavers stranded nine baserunners over the first six innings before breaking the game open with a five-run seventh.
Junior Ryan Arena (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.) led off the frame with a double and later scored on a base hit by sophomore Eric Jaun (Loveland, Ohio). Harrington followed with a two-run double and Halpin came through with his second run-scoring single in as many innings to make it 8-0.
Coast Guard got its first baserunner in the sixth when sophomore Jeremy Lhotka (Orange Park, Fla.) reached on an error to lead off the frame. Genaro struck out first-year Josh Nguyen-Domingo (San Ramon, Calif.) to start the ninth before Bears' junior Alex Murcoch (San Ramon, Calif.) spoiled his no-hit bid by legging out an infield single.
Babson returns to action on Thursday when it hosts Curry at 3:30 p.m., while Coast Guard visits Springfield to open a three-game series on Friday at 3:30 p.m.
• The Beavers are now 57-22 all-time against Coast Guard and have won five straight meetings between the teams.
• Genaro recorded the first shutout and complete game of his career with Wednesday's one-hit gem.
• Babson, which recorded a five-inning no-hitter against Keene State in 2015, last held an opponent to just one hit on March 24, 2012 – a 2-0 win over MIT.
• The Beavers drew a season-high 11 walks on Wednesday.
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Bihar's powerful Yadavs looking for new top leader
Patna, May 14: In a busy poll season in politically charged Bihar, the powerful Yadav community appears to have dumped its decades-old trusted but jailed leader Lalu Prasad in a desperate bid to find a new dynamic figure who could guide the community politically.
Yadavs, who make up over 14 per cent of Bihar's population, are - for the first time in over three decades - looking beyond the Rashtriya Janata Dal chief who played out his entire political career on the Yadavs plus Muslims (MY) equation to keep his rivals on the back foot.
Muslims comprise 16.9 percent of the state's population and they largely voted en bloc with Yadavs in favour of Lalu Prasad in past but analysts now say that Yadavs, mainly the youths, have decided to move beyond the veteran politician in the 2019 polls as he languishes in jail after being convicted in fodder scam cases.
The 71-year-old Lalu Prasad is also seriously struggling with poor health.
In the ongoing seven-phase polls for Bihar's 40 Lok Sabha seats, the Yadav votes are widely split as the community faces a leadership guidance crisis at the top level.
Anil Vibhakar, a leading political analyst in Patna, said: "There are three emerging Yadav leaders in the state in race of replacing former Chief Minister Lalu Prasad and on top is Nityanand Rai, the state BJP chief."
The 53-year-old Rai, who represented Hajipur seat in the Assembly four times, is a product of the BJP's student wing politics and has been a flag-bearer of the RSS in Bihar since childhood.
Political analysts are of view that that he is leading the pack of Yadav community leaders in caste-driven Bihar politics because of his "mature political brain, fighting ability and easy access to public".
Rai, who won Ujiarpur Lok Sabha seat in 2014 and is reported to be well-placed to retain it in 2019 too, is fast emerging as a powerful OBC leader who enjoys the strong backing of upper castes as well.
The other two leaders who are vying to claim the Yadav community's leadership are Tejashwi Yadav and Pappu Yadav.
The 29-year-old Tejashwi Yadav is the younger son of Lalu Prasad while Pappu Yadav, 51, notorious for flexing his political muscle, has largely been confined to a limited area, mainly of Madhepura Lok Sabha seat.
Asked to comment on ongoing tussle in the state in the serious political game of replacing Lalu Prasad as Yadavs' undisputed leader, Rai told IANS: "I don't believe in caste-based politics and have never indulged into it but unfortunately, caste equations drive politics in Bihar and the Yadav community is in a serious mood now to look beyond Lalu as he is a spent force."
Pappu Yadav, who is in active politics for about three decades and was first elected to the Lok Sabha in 1991, also claimed that Lalu Prasad has become irrelevant in politics and his main backer, the powerful Yadav youth, are desperately looking for a new face outside his family to lead them.
A known face in Bihar, he had defeated senior leader Sharad Yadav in Madhepura in 2014 to become a Lok Sabha member for the fifth time. He rejected Tejashwi Yadav's leadership quality and said he had been spending much of his time and energy in containing rising "family feud", in a reference to the activities of Lalu Prasad's elder son, Tej Pratap Yadav.
"The Lalu era is over in Bihar, Yadav youths are certainly looking for a new face to lead them and I am obviously the natural choice," Pappu Yadav told IANS.
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In this interview, Enayat Rahimian gives us an interesting view point on the persecution of the Bahais under the iranian regime. He describes the extreme hardship the Baha'i community in Iran have been under, and their epic resistance is a story that must be collected and shared with the world. Please CLICK HERE to watch the full interview.
Ziaollah Missaghi
Coming from a prominent Bahá’í family, Ziaollah Missaghi’s interview is intrinsic to the understanding the oppressive history of Bahá’ís in Iran. Please CLICK HERE to watch the full interview.
Zack Heern
Zack Heern is a professor of Middle East studies at Murray State University in Kentucky. In this interview, he talks about his tireless efforts, through articles, speeches and lectures, trying to shed light on the persecution of Bahá’ís in Iran. Please CLICK HERE to watch the full interview.
Dr. Fereshteh T. Bethel
In 1984, Dr. Fereshteh Bethel carried out a scientific research on the beliefs and the atypical response of the Baha'i martyrs of Iran and wrote her doctoral dissertation on 'A Psychological Theory of Martyrdom: A Content Analysis of Personal Documents of Baha'i Martyrs of Iran Written Between 1979 and 1982'. Please CLICK HERE to watch the full interview.
Rev. Dr. James Christie
We recently interviewed Rev. Dr. James Christie. Please CLICK HERE to watch the full interview.
An Interview with Homa Sarshar
We recently interviewed Mrs. Homa Sarshar, an Iranian-American author, activist, feminist and journalist. Her involvement in Iranian affairs has been outstanding but our focus of this interview was her motives in defending the Bahai community. Please CLICK HERE to watch the full interview.
An Event at Gold Coast Baha'i Center
Due to the enormous efforts of Mr. Sepehr Abedian, on the night September 4th, 2015, an introduction to the “A Quiet Genocide” project was held at the Bahá’i Center in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. Some 50-60 friends attended this most informative and moving evening, which consisted of three videos from the aquietgenocide.com website. The program included: - an interview with a daughter of a martyr, - an introduction to "The Quite Genocide", and - highlights of the interview with Shapour Daneshmand, conducted by Dr. Moin Afnani, member of the U.S. National Assembly, with English subtitles. During the enthusiastic question and answer session, Mr. Abedian answered many questions and explained the purpose of the evening. A few families of martyrs, as well as BIHE students, came forward to register their name to be interviewed at later date by Mr. Daneshmand. HERE is a link to the videos of some feedback from attendees.
Arizona Summit Law School
Shapour Daneshmand, the producer of the AQuietGenocide.com, was recently invited to speak to an audience of lawyers at the Arizona Summit Law School. Please CLICK HERE to watch the presentation.
Archbishop Tutu condemns denial of education to Baha'is of Iran
CAPE TOWN — In a statement published on 30 January, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the South African social rights activist and Nobel Peace Laureate added his voice to the chorus of condemnation of the denial of the right of Baha'is to higher education by the government of Iran.
Please CLICK HERE to read more.
Baha’i View TV interview
Filmmaker Shapour Daneshmand discusses his reasons and motivation for creating the “A Quiet Genocide” website in which he records the horrific and heartbreaking stories from the remaining family members of people killed by the Islamic regime in Iran for the ‘crime’ of being a member of the Bahá’í religion. Please CLICK HERE to watch the video.
Iranian cleric says 'unclean' Baha'is must be banished from city
NCRI - A senior cleric of the Iranian regime has called for all Baha'is to be expelled from the southern Iranian city of Rafsanjan because they are 'unclean' and doing business with them is forbidden.
Please CLICK HERE to read the complete article in English
Please CLICK HERE to read the complete article in Farsi
رنجنامه رزیتا اشراقی
A letter from Iran, written by Rozita Eshraghi. An amazing account of a woman in her 50's whose father, mother and young sister were all executed by the Iranian regime simply for being Bahá’í.
Please CLICK HERE to read the complete version of this compelling, must-read letter.
Destruction of historic Baha'i cemetery under way in Shiraz by Iranian Revolutionary Guards
NEW YORK — The Baha'i International Community was shocked to hear the news that Iran's Revolutionary Guards has begun excavation in a historically important Baha'i cemetery in Shiraz. The site is, among other things, the resting place of ten Baha'i women whose cruel hanging in 1983 came to symbolize the government's deadly persecution of Baha'is.
An interview with Mrs. Farahnaz Baghdadi
We recently had the opportunity to meet Mrs. Farahnaz Baghdai in Los Angeles. Her story is so compelling that even though it did not fit our specific mission, we decided to arrange an interview as her story is about one of the very first emigrants going to Africa and will shed more light for those interested in the history of the Bahai faith.
Suffering and the Future of Iran
By: Dr. Payam Akhavan
Associate Professor, McGill University
..We have suffered as a nation. Many thousands of our fellow innocent Iranians have been executed. Many more have been tortured or languished in prison. Many have been exiled. There is a story behind each tragedy. Behind every victim there is a name, a father and mother, a brother and sister, a childhood friend or schoolmate. Nobody is spared from this denial of humanity, not even the torturer..
Senate Resolution 75 Condemns Baha'i Persecution In Iran: Senators Kirk And Durbin Pass Bill
The U.S. Senate formally condemned the persecution faced by Iran's Baha'i community with the passage of Resolution 75, introduced by Senators Mark Kirk and Dick Durbin of Illinois.
A summary of the bill by the American Baha'i community, states:
“This resolution is particularly timely. With the November 26 release of President Rouhani’s long-awaited draft Charter of Citizens’ Rights, which, by its current terms, fails to protect religious minorities, who are not already recognized under the Iranian constitution, such as the Baha’is, it is important that the plight of the Baha’is is highlighted so as to press Mr. Rouhani and senior Iranian officials to produce a more inclusive charter,” said Mr. Kenneth E. Bowers, Secretary of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of the United States in a press release.
The Gardener is a poetic documentary film by filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf. The Gardener is a poetic documentary film by filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf. The film is about an Iranian filmmaker and his son who travel to Israel to learn about the role of religion in the world. While the son goes out to the Wailing Wall, the Golden Mosque and Christian sites, the father stays at the Baha'i gardens to learn about a faith that came out of his own country - Iran.
CLICK HERE to watch the preview.
A Quiet Genocide website launches
There were some 30 interviews conducted for the purpose of producing a documentary film entitled, A Quiet Genocide. When the producers decided to shelve this project because of an unforeseen course of events, a decision was made to put all the interviews on a website with the same name for all the people in the world to see. For the first time, there will be a website solely dedicated to the visual history of all the crimes committed by the Islamic Republic of Iran against the Baha’i Community. The interviews are particularly significant as first-hand accounts by individuals who were directly affected by these crimes and who are alive to tell their stories. please CLICK HERE to visit our facebook page.
The Genocidal policies of Islamic regime of Iran has not ceased
On August 24, 2013 a well-known Baha’i in the Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas was shot dead by an unknown gunman. Mr. Ataollah Rezvani’s body was found with a gunshot wound in the back of his head. He was left in his car on a deserted road leading out of the city. The murder of Ataollah Rezvani demonstrates the widespread persecution against Baha'is in the Islamic Republic. Any hope in the newly elected Iranian president to solve the crisis has so far been overshadowed by a series of fatwas from Khamenei and other celrgoes.
Iran Tribunal
Iran Tribunal is an International People’s Tribunal created by a large group of individuals composed of families of political prisoners executed in the 1980s, survivors of this human tragedy, political and labour activists, women’s rights activists, lawyers, human rights and children’s rights activists, writers and artists. Iran Tribunal succeeded in holding the Islamic Republic of Iran guilty of crimes against humanity in two court proceedings.
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Reza Allamehzadeh’s Iranian Taboo
Reza Allamehzadeh, an Iranian-Dutch filmmaker banned from entering his homeland, enlisted the aid of friends who clandestinely filmed inside Iran in order to explore this century-old taboo. IRANIAN TABOO tells the story of an Iranian Baha'i woman, Nadereh and her 14-year-old daughter who decide to sell all of their belongings and leave their homeland, to take refuge in the West. IRANIAN TABOO takes us across continents from Turkey to Israel, and from the U.S. to Iran, giving us unique insights into the persecution of Baha'is of Iran, including the independent Baha'i University (BIHE) to the oppressed Baha'i peasants of the village of Eival in the northern province of Mazandaran. The film includes previously unpublicized interviews with some of the most respected Iranian scholars, authors and politicians, speaking about the persecution of Baha’is in Iran.
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The Bear and the Cub
-- Main Menu --StoriesVideosThe Bear and the Cub
By Cartland
I keep it in my wallet now.
Category: Stories
A brief story from 2008:
I was sitting in Union Square, idly eating lunch with a group of about six other people, when a young man suddenly approached me.
“Excuse me,” he said. “Are you Jewish?”
“No,” I replied, truthfully.
“Oh,” he said, disappointed but not disheartened; he had a plan for just such a scenario. “Here’s a picture of a smiling Rabbi.”
“Ah,” I said. “Thank you.”
He smiled. “Have a great day,” he said.
And then he was gone.
It’s Not the Size of Your Needles, It’s How You Use Them
This is a story about the peculiar magnetic properties of a man knitting on the subway in New York City. I wrote this in 2007, shortly after it happened.
After visiting my parents in Virginia over Christmas, I took a Greyhound back to New York. As soon as I got off the bus in the city, before I even went home to drop off my stuff, I met up with my friends Seth and Aubrey who were visiting the city for the holidays and staying at a Comfort Inn in Chelsea. We had dinner and hung out at their hotel for a while, and I didn’t end up leaving until about midnight. I hauled all my stuff several blocks to the subway, and then sat down to wait for the train. I pulled out my knitting to pass the time.
As I was knitting there, I thought, “You know, I bet someone’s going to come talk to me.” For some reason, people often do when I’m knitting on the subway. Sure enough, before too long a guy sits down next to me and starts talking to me about knitting. He watches me struggle for a while, and then offers to show me some tips. I pass him the needles, and then the train arrives, so I gather all of my baggage and get on, the guy following behind with the knitting. We sit, and he continues to demonstrate a few knitting tricks, and I’m thinking, “Man, this guy is so friendly and helpful,” and then suddenly he says, “So, have you ever slept with a man?”
“Uh…no.”
“You are straight, right?”
Knit, knit, knit.
“Have you ever thought about having sex with a man?”
This is about when I started laughing, which he seemed to take as a good sign.
“Do you want to give it a try?”
“Do you have a girlfriend?”
This would have been a perfect opportunity for me to lie.
“Oh. I think you’re very sexy.”
Knit, knit.
“Sometimes, with a man, it’s less spiritual than with a woman. More physical.”
“Do you masturbate?”
“It’s sort of like masturbating with a friend.”
“Oh…Do you know how to purl?”
His attention diverted for the moment, he spends the next few minutes showing me how to purl, and then hands the needles to me to try for myself. I already basically know how to purl, but he finds plenty to correct me on anyway. Eventually we get to his stop, just a few before mine.
“This is my stop. You can come over if you want?”
“No…no, thank you.”
“For coffee?”
He smiles and offers his hand, ostensibly to shake. I’m dubious, but I decide that a firm, masculine handshake might sort of drive the whole “I’m straight” thing home. As soon as he takes my hand, he places his other hand on top of mine, looks deep into my eyes, and says, “You give me a hard on.”
He then turns and walks off the subway.
I’m just glad I wasn’t using my BIG needles.
The Pineapple Story
I worked a late event tonight, and ended up leaving campus at about 9:45. I had eaten an early dinner, so I was already starting to fantasize about my bedtime bowl of cereal as I started the drive home. We were just getting to the good part when I was struck by a terrible realization: I was completely out of milk.
This could not stand.
Fortunately, there is a Weis between work and my house. I pulled into the parking lot shortly before 10pm, and noted that the store closed at 11. I grabbed a single canvas grocery bag out of the trunk, intending to use it both as shopping basket and grocery bag. I had a specific mission, so this seemed like a reasonable plan.
But it is my habit, even on tactical, targeted grocery strikes, to briefly peruse the produce section before moving on to my main purpose. Often I’m smitten by a powerful nectarine lineup, or a bin overflowing with fresh ears of corn, and pause to pick up a few items to diversify my cereal-heavy portfolio. Tonight I was surprised to see, prominently featured at the main entrance, an impressive display of whole pineapples. And affixed to the display, a sign:
Golden Pineapples – $3.99
Save $4 on 2!
Deal good thru 9/13
This was clearly a trap.
I have never in my life bought a whole pineapple. I’m not sure how to carve one. Do you even say “carve” for a pineapple? I have on occasion struggled, and ultimately failed, to finish small containers of cut pineapple before they go bad. The deal was expiring today; this was clearly old pineapple, priced to move. Bad investment. Move along.
I put two pineapples in my bag.
I proceeded to grab a gallon of milk, and, as an afterthought, a large tin of Chock Full o’ Nuts (also on sale).
Milk, coffee, and two pineapples. Best to act like nothing was out of the ordinary. I do this all the time.
Only one register was open, but it was available with no line. The cashier beckoned me forward. No turning back now.
I hurried to empty my canvas bag in time to hand it to the cashier for bagging. She was quick, already moving to place my coffee in a disposable bag. Fortunately, she was slowed by the presence of an unexpected item already in the bag.
“Oh,” she said. “That gentleman forgot his trash bags.”
“I have a bag,” I said.
“He’s gonna miss those,” she said, removing the trash bags and proceeding to place my coffee in the now-empty plastic bag. “He’ll be back.”
“Oh, there he is!” The prior shopper returned to reclaim his trash bags, and the cashier went on to place my milk in another plastic bag.
“I have a bag,” I said. I felt this was not getting the attention it deserved.
“Oh, you have a bag!” she said, finally coming around. “Do you want your milk in there? It’s wet.”
“Are you sure? It’s wet.”
“I think it will be okay.”
“Okaaay,” she said, with an intonation that made it clear she did not see how this could possibly be okay. “I’m just trying to tell you, it’s wet.”
She turned back to the conveyor belt, and noticed the pineapples for the first time. By now, a line had started to form behind them.
The cashier turned back to me. “Are those your pineapples?”
Shit. Be cool.
“Do you want THOSE in the bag?”
At this point it seemed to me that we had spent entirely too much time on bags.
“Um, yes?” Decisive.
“Okaaay,” she said again. “I’ll let you do it how you want it.”
I bagged the pineapples.
She proceeded to ring me up, and I performed the sacred rites of commerce, laying my plastic totem upon the holy altar. The gods smiled upon our transaction, and it was approved. My finger hovered over the green OKAY button. I was almost home free.
But…something was wrong.
I had glanced at the checkout screen, and noticed that the pineapple deal had rung up incorrectly. Weis was only offering me $1 off per pineapple, when I had been promised $4 off on two.
Behind me, the 10 o’clock grocery line crowd was getting restless. The green, spikey fronds of my twin bromeliads were jutting out of the bag for all to see.This was only a difference of two dollars. I have to LIVE in this town. I needed to get out of here before people started to talk. Just bite the bullet and go.
“Um, something’s wrong,” I said, cursing on the inside. “The pineapples are supposed to be buy one get one free.”
The cashier grabbed the microphone on her register. “I need a price check,” she announced to the store, graciously omitting the identity of the objects in question. A manager appeared.
“What’s the problem?” he asked. As the cashier explained the situation, the man grabbed one of my pineapples and headed briskly towards the produce section.
I gave the growing line a “sorry and also these aren’t for me they are for a friend, ha ha” shrug, and then turned to see the manager finishing a complete circuit of the produce section, having failed to find the pineapple display. I walked over to help.
“Right here,” I said, and read the sign aloud. “Golden Pineapples – $3.99. Buy one get one free. Save $4 on 2!”
He came over to see for himself. He stared at the sign for longer than I felt was necessary.
He walked around to the back of the display, looked it up and down. Shook his head.
“Yeah, looks good,” he finally admitted. “Ring it up as a store coupon.”
“Should I tell people it’s good,” said the cashier, “if someone else asks?”
Like there is ANOTHER depraved pineapple bargain shopper roaming the streets at 10 o’clock at night.
“Yeah,” said the manager, clearly ready to move on. “It’s good.”
Buttons were pressed, prices recalculated, and I once again supplicated before the altar, this time mashing OKAY as soon as the opportunity was presented.
“Thanks,” said the cashier, tearing off a receipt far too long for four items. “Have a nice night.”
I fled the Weis, and drove the rest of the way home. Milk safely in the fridge and pineapples on the kitchen table, I took a moment to review the receipt.
PINEAPPLE, read the first line: $3.99. On the next line was a discount: -$1. The cashier had never removed the incorrect discount that had started this whole mess.
On the line below, another discount: -$3.99. But, there was no second pineapple! She had removed one of the pineapples, AND given me a store coupon for the cost of one pineapple. With the $1 discount, I was now one whole dollar (and two pineapples) AHEAD.
Today, the grocery store paid me to buy their pineapples.
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Coastal wetlands play vital role in mitigating the effects of climate change
A new study has found that coastal wetlands play an important role in reducing the effects of climate change.
The study, a collaboration between global universities, including the University of Wollongong in Australia, has found that as sea levels rise, coastal wetlands could play a key role in migrating the effects of greenhouse gas emissions by capturing and storing large volumes of atmospheric carbon dioxide.
In general, because they generate biomass at such a high rate, coastal wetlands capture and store more carbon dioxide per unit area than any other natural system.
Kerrylee Rogers, lead author Associate Professor from UOW’s School of Earth, Atmospheric and Life Sciences, said: “Our paper shows that carbon storage by coastal wetlands is explicitly linked to sea-level rise. Saltmarshes on coastlines subject to sea-level rise had, on average, two-to-four times more carbon in the top 20cm of sediment, and five-to-nine times more carbon in the lower 50-100cm of sediment, compared to saltmarshes on coastlines where sea level was more stable over the same period.”
To test their hypothesis, researchers analysed sediment from a saltmarsh at Lake Macquarie, New South Wales. They found that rapid relative sea level rise led to a fourfold increase in organic material in the sediment, much of it carbon.
The research team tested wetlands around the world but found that Australia could be the “sleeping giants of global carbon sequestration”.
Professor Rogers said: “Collectively, they contain half the global saltmarsh extent. A doubling of carbon sequestration in these wetlands would sequester an additional five million tonnes of atmospheric carbon per year, providing a mitigating feedback between sea-level rise and atmospheric carbon concentrations.”
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Sustainable development is now a growing priority for private equity companies
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Corporate giants join together for renewable energy alliance
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Human activity is putting over 1,000 species under severe threat of extinction
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SVP Rob Barr Awarded 2016 Director's Community Leadership Award by FBI Pittsburgh Division
(Pictured above (L to R): FBI Pittsburgh Community Outreach Specialist Kelly Wesolosky, FBI Pittsburgh Special Agent in Charge Robert Johnson, Robert Barr, Margaret Barr, FBI Pittsburgh Assistant Special Agent in Charge Raymond Duda)
Mr. Robert Barr, Senior Vice President, Challenger, Gray and Christmas, Inc., has been awarded the 2016 Director’s Community Leadership Award by the FBI Pittsburgh Division, presented on April 6, 2017. He receives this distinguished award for his endless dedication and commitment to the FBI Pittsburgh’s Community Outreach Program, and for his decades of endless advocacy for numerous charitable organizations, and to thousands of individuals in the Pittsburgh region.
Mr. Barr was honored locally by the FBI Pittsburgh Division’s employees, and will be honored national by FBI Director James Comey on Friday, April 28, 2017 at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C.
This special award, presented on behalf of the Director of the FBI, was formally created in 1990 as a way to annually honor individuals and organizations for their efforts in combating crime, terrorism, drugs, and violence in America.
Rob's Community Leadership
Mr. Barr completed the FBI Pittsburgh Citizens Academy in April of 2009, and has been extremely active with the Alumni Association, and with the FBI Community Outreach Program for since that time.
Mr. Barr currently serves as President of the Pittsburgh Chapter of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Citizens Academy Alumni Association, and over the past seven years, has worked diligently with the FBI Pittsburgh’s Community Outreach Program, and with the Pittsburgh Chapter of the Alumni Association to promote FBI topical awareness to the public and private sectors of the community, including Human Trafficking, Hate Crimes, Violent Crimes Against Children, Counterintelligence and most recently awareness on the Heroin/Opioid Epidemic. Mr. Barr has also played a key role in coordinating and organizing various private sector executive training functions on these topics throughout the years, to include five annual Human Trafficking Awareness Open House Community Awareness events, with thousands of attendees.
Mr. Barr also is one of the founding members of the FBI Pittsburgh Project H.O.P.E. (Heroin Outreach Prevention and Education Initiative), an FBI Pittsburgh Community Outreach program that has raised awareness with hundreds of Pittsburgh area high school students on the dangers of Heroin and Opioid Use. Mr. Barr has hosted events and teams to advocate for a number of area charities, to include the Special Olympics Law Enforcement Torch Run and Polar Plunge, Pittsburgh Pridefest (LGBT Community), and the VA Homeless Veterans Domiciliary Care Program. Mr. Barr also helped to coordinate a joint venture with the FBI Pittsburgh COP and the Pittsburgh Police to prepare and deliver meals to the poor and the elderly on Thanksgiving Day.
In addition to his association with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Mr. Barr is a member, sponsor, and participant in the Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix benefiting the Autism Society of Pittsburgh and the Allegheny Valley School for Autism.
The Pittsburgh Field Office commends the outstanding community leadership and dedication demonstrated by Mr. Barr, and is honored to be able to present him with this year's Director's Community Leadership Award.
The Challenger family is proud of Rob's achievement and thanks him for his many years of service to his community.
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Max Planck Research Library for the History and Development of Knowledge - Sources 6
Matteo Valleriani (Autor), Lindy Divarci (Übers.), Anna Siebold (Übers.)
Englisch, Italienisch
In 1537, Nicolò Tartaglia (1500 1557), a mathematician from Brescia, published Nova scientia. It was this work that led to the foundation of the modern science of ballistics. Tartaglia s intention was to create a purely mathematical science based on axioms, which was fundamental to the entire subject of mechanics, starting with a limited number of principles and arriving at a series of propositions through a rigid procedure of deduction. Nevertheless, as Tartaglia himself states, his motive was fundamentally practical and connected to the activities of the sixteenth-century bombardier. A new edition of Nicolò Tartaglia s Nova scientia, based on the 1558 print run of the second enlarged edition (1550), shows how the emergence of theoretical ballistics was a consequence of the technological innovations that took place in the frame of the practice of iron casting at the turn from the fifteenth to the sixteenth century. Sources of the Max Planck Research Library for the History and Development of Knowledge is a series presenting historical documents in a new format which combines the advantages of traditional printed books with those of the digital medium. In each volume a source text relevant for the history of knowledge is reproduced, typically in facsimile, together with an introduction and commentaries reflecting original scholarly work. The volumes are available both as print-on-demand books and as open-access publications on the Internet. The material is freely accessible online at www. edition-open-access.de, supplemented by additional information and interactive features. The original works reproduced in this series are typically rare books or manuscripts that are not readily accessible in libraries.
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A SPORTS BOOK AT WRIGLEY FIELD? ROYAL PORTRUSH HOSTS THE 2019 BRITISH OPE
LONDON HOSTS MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL IN STYLE
On July 1, 2019, in Sporting News, Sports Betting 101, by Bobby Goodspeed
LO NDON HOSTS MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL IN STYLE
The long awaited premiere showing of MLB in Europe finally happened last weekend in the city of London during an unseasonal heat wave in England as temperatures soared into the 90’s at London Stadium in the Stratford district of downtown London.
London Stadium was built for the 2012 Olympics and features a circular roof which opens and closes according to the weather. The roof was open for the highly anticipated contest between the American League leading New York Yankees and the defending World Series champions, the Boston Red Sox.
Whether it was the open roof, the high temperatures or simply an excess of adrenalin, the baseball was flying high in London on Saturday as the score after the first inning was 6-6 and a sum total of 37 hits resulting in 30 runs being scored before it was all over. The Over & Under had been set at 11.5!
The Red Sox got the party started by smashing 3 home runs in the first inning by Xander Bogaerts, J.D. Martinez and Christian Vazquez. It was the first time that the Boston club had hit 3 homers in the first inning in 40 years.
The Yankees went on to score 2 more runs in the 3rd inning and put up another 6 in the 4th and 3 in the 5th but were shut out by the Red Sox bullpen for the remainder of the game. Boston came back with a big six run inning in the 7th, but it was too little and too late. The Yankees took the opener 17-13.
Baseball caps, jerseys and T-Shirts representing both clubs were flying off the shelves as well around the ball park. A large percentage of the 60,000 some odd fans in attendance were decked out in MLB finery. One gentleman even sported a two billed baseball cap with Yankees on one side and Red Sox on the other.
The crowd in general was most enthusiastic and really seemed to enjoy the event leading MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred to speculate that more games may be coming to more cities in Europe in the near future. They even looked pretty convincing singing ‘Take Me Out To The Ball Game’ during the 7th inning stretch.
London Stadium was designed as a Soccer venue and is now the home of West Ham United of the Premier League. As such presented a few unusual quirks to the baseball players, like an outfield that covers over an acre of ground and greatly enhanced foul ball areas before running into the stands. Both first basemen were especially taxed by the extra space.
After the slug fest on Saturday, it seemed that Boston and New York were going to start it all over again when the Red Sox put up four runs in the first inning and the Yankees answered with 2 in the 2nd, but then the game settled down to some semblance of normalcy and no more scoring took place until the Yankees rallied with 9 runs in the 7 inning and took the Sunday contest by a final score of 12-8 to sweep the 2 game, first ever, London MLB Series.
It looks like we will be seeing more Major League Baseball games from Europe in the future.
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Portfolio Education APS Desert Willow Family School
APS Desert Willow Family School
APS Desert Willow Family School Phase One:
Working closely with Principal Gael Keyes and the school’s building committee, the Hartman + Majewski Design Group planned and designed Desert Willow Family School based on the school’s philosophy of inspiring a “community of learners,” an established and successful learning program. Students attend a public school program that combines a half-day or 80% of classroom instruction with a half-day or 20% of home-based instruction. This unique arrangement helps parents take an active role in the education of their children.
The 3.5 acre campus is comprised of three buildings that open to a central courtyard. The main building is a multi-purpose facility that incorporates the performing arts with learning. The two other buildings house classrooms and administrative spaces. The landscaping in the courtyard was designed into the five different bio-zones found in the state of New Mexico, with opportunities for demonstration gardens and an aquatic life pond.
Each classroom has its own library, art supplies, and kitchen and is lit by clerestory windows and skylights. Artificial light is not required on most days. The school was able to achieve a LEED Silver Certification through the use of green building materials selections, an energy efficient building envelope, a ground source heat pump system, low-water native plants, and campus recycling programs, which are all acknowledged on campus through the use of information boards. The sustainable design features result in a 30% reduction in energy costs.
The national publication Learning by Design recognized the Desert Willow Family School building as a 2010 Outstanding Project in its fall issue. It honors outstanding pre-K to 12 and college/university building projects from across the country for their innovative design.
Square Feet: 22,000
Construction Cost: $6,048,585
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Who was Marshall McLuhan, and should we care about him in the 21st century?
By devin, on July 26th, 2011
“Through the discovery yesterday of the railway, the motor car and the aeroplane, the physical influence of each man, formerly restricted to a few miles, now extends to hundreds of leagues or more. Better still: thanks to the prodigious biological event represented by the discovery of electro-magnetic waves, each individual finds himself henceforth (actively and passively) simultaneously present, over land and see, in every corner of the earth.” – Marshall McLuhan, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962)
McLuhan foresaw the level of connectedness this discovery of electro-magnetic waves would bring, and he did it when television was still a relatively new media. He made the majority of his fascinating insights in the 1960’s, decades before any of us would use YouTube, Facebook, or Wikipedia; before the words download and upload; and before Google and tweet were verbs. Do his ideas still have relevance in the 21st century?
Gary Wolf of Wired magazine wrote a cover story about the man in 1996, in which he interviewed McLuhan’s ghost using the Internet (certainly an apt medium for an interview with the ghost of the media guru). Wolf only poses the fictional McLuhan two questions,which are well worth the quick read. Another (much longer!) read, and perhaps the best introduction to McLuhan and his ways of thinking, can be found in a Playboy interview from 1969. As further introductions, the Wikipedia entries for his two most well-known books, The Gutenberg Galaxy and Understanding Media, are certainly fine places to start.
Last week (July 21, 2011) marked what would have been Marshall McLuhan’s 100th birthday, and I’ve seen a number of articles in the past few days about the eccentric English professor from Edmonton. People debate his legacy, argue his importance, and write him off as a bumbling eccentric who cashed in on the naive and impressionable public of the 60’s, but the more we progress into the digital age, the more we hear the validity of his poetic words.
“You know nothing of my work!”
Who would be up to the task of writing a biography of McLuhan for the Extraordinary Canadians series? Fittingly, it was Vancouver’s Douglas Coupland. He has written a very engaging biography of the media theorist, entitled You Know Nothing Of My Work! (a line from McLuhan’s only movie appearance, in Woody Allen’s Annie Hall) which is equal parts biography of McLuhan and of the media landscape of the 20th and 21st centuries, filled with observations only Coupland could voice. (Which reminds me, I’m still upset that I wasn’t able to make it to the event a few months ago at the Waldorf, in which Coupland hosted a night of YouTube watching in honor of McLuhan.)
Why is McLuhan more important in the 21st century than he was in the 20th?
So far, in the 11 and a half years of this century, we’ve seen digital technologies such as computers, smartphones, and perhaps most importantly, the internet continue to grow and astonish us on a daily basis. The global village of the internet is more connected than ever before with the rise of social media. Social components are permeating every aspect of the online experience, from videogames and Facebook to Flickr and YouTube. Every site has a Share button, increasingly making the internet more organic, crowdsourced by its network of users. The news has even become social, with every television station, newspaper (that’s an antiquated term if I’ve ever heard one), and sportscaster Tweeting nowadays.
The media of the internet has radically evolved to become much more social, and McLuhan was perhaps one of the first to see it coming. Of course McLuhan did not explicitly predict much, but that’s not to say he didn’t know what he was talking about. As Coupland points out, reading McLuhan “is a poetic or artistic experience – you get a sense of the future rather than a prescription or a prediction.” He was a man ahead of his time, and reading his books is a bit like stepping into a time machine with eyes pointed both forwards and backwards.
Some say McLuhan is the ultimate pessimist, while others contend it’s much more complicated than that. Here Coupland describes McLuhan’s view of humans as social creatures as hopeful or optimistic: “Call it religion or call it optimism, but hope, for Marshall, lay in the fact that humans are social creatures first, and that our ability to express intelligence and build civilizations stems from our inherent needs as individuals.”
The Global Village
In the 21st century, we express intelligence through the content we post online. Sure, there are sites dedicated to lolcats and plenty of pictures on Facebook of frat boys getting wasted, but there are also engaging thoughts being exchanged on Twitter, and beautiful art being displayed on Flickr. Eric Fischer has mapped this expression of digital intelligence, by expressing geotagged Twitter posts with blue dots and Flickr photos with red dots. If the area contains both, the dot is white.
Photo from Eric Fischer's Flickr
I couldn’t help but look at these beautiful photos and realize that McLuhan’s global village is more real than he would have ever been able to imagine, and he probably would have hated it. Or would he have? While on the one hand, McLuhan has expressed countless times in his writings and interviews that he has “nothing but distaste for the process of change” he prefaced that statement with the acknowledgement that he could see “the prospect of a rich and creative retribalized society — free of the fragmentation and alienation of the mechanical age — emerging from this traumatic period of culture clash.” I have to wonder what McLuhan would think – has the internet returned us to our tribal roots? Are social media allowing us to free ourselves of the fragmentation and alienation of the mechanical age? Would McLuhan be an avid Tweeter? Something tells me his aphorisms and paradoxical statements would be perfectly fit for 140 characters, and he would begrudgingly make use of the medium. But who am I to make that guess? I know nothing of his work.
Good Reads 21st century, douglas coupland, marshall mcluhan
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Moonwalking With Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
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Ike wears itself out beating up on Texas
NEW: Wreckage impedes rescue efforts, adding to uncertainty about survivors
Texas woman wonders whether it was worth it to ride out storm in home
Four deaths in Texas attributed to Ike, now a tropical storm with 45 mph winds
2.6 million affected by power outages, U.S. Energy Department says
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GALVESTON, Texas (CNN) -- Rescuers in Galveston, Texas, were going door-to-door Saturday to check on the estimated 20,000 people who failed to flee Hurricane Ike, which has slowed to tropical storm status.
Park benches are strewn about in downtown Houston Saturday during Hurricane Ike.
As of Saturday afternoon, the Galveston Fire Department had taken 27 people to a shelter in a high school on the coastal island, which was without electricity or water pressure.
No casualties had been discovered so far in the search and rescue efforts, which have been hampered by heavy flooding and scattered debris.
Galveston had ordered evacuation of the island, but Galveston City Manager Steve LeBlanc said about 40 percent of the city's 57,523 residents chose to stay.
LeBlanc said the island would be closed while authorities assess damages, including to the causeway, which was in "bad shape" because of debris and road damage.
"The road buckled in a number of places," LeBlanc said. "Even if we opened it up you couldn't get through."
LeBlanc said 17 buildings on the island had been destroyed by fires, potent winds and a strong storm surge.
"We are in a recovery mode," Galveston Mayor Lyda Ann Thomas said in a press conference Saturday afternoon. "This eye came right over us, stayed a while and went on, but it brought a lot of damage to our city."
Latest on Ike
Ike was north of Texarkana on the Texas-Arkansas border at 10 p.m. CT (11 p.m. ET)
Sustained wind speed was about 40 mph, but heavy rain and tornadoes remain a threat
The storm is moving north-northeast near 24 mph
Rainfall of 3 to 5 inches across parts of Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana and Michigan
Source: National Hurricane Center
Ike was downgraded Saturday to a tropical storm 11 hours after it crashed ashore as a Texas-sized hurricane that walloped southeast Texas and southwest Louisiana.
In its wake, Ike -- which smashed into the coast as a Category 2 hurricane -- left four people dead, millions without power and destroyed homes and businesses along the Gulf Coast with powerful winds, rain and floodwaters.
President Bush declared 29 Texas counties and parts of Louisianans major disaster areas, making federal funds available for recovery from the storm. View images of places hit by Ike »
Many people, like D.J. Knight of Pearlman, Texas, decided to ride out the storm at home, despite voluntary and mandatory orders issued across the region.
"The windows looked like they would explode," said Knight, a mother of two. "It just wouldn't stop."
Now, without electricity and surrounded by flooded roads and wreckage, Knight wonders whether it was worth enduring a sleepless night as the storm shook her home, located about halfway between Galveston and Houston.
"I didn't think it would be as bad as it was," she said. "It was horrible."
Knight is one of thousands waiting for assistance as the state rolls out the largest search and rescue operation in Texas history. See pictures of the storm's destruction »
Gov. Rick Perry dispatched a 1,000-strong search and rescue team, including state troopers, pilots and members of the National Guard. Lines of National Guard trucks and ambulances were deployed from San Antonio even as officials are trying to grasp the extent of damage and the number of Texans stranded by the storm.
However, flooding and debris have impeded rescue efforts in some areas, adding to the uncertainty about how many Texans actually survived the storm.
"We're obviously concerned that there may be people we find who didn't get out and who are going to be in the rubble of what we uncover," said Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff. "We hope for the best, but I do want to prepare people for the fact they we may have some fatalities."
Chertoff said 40,000 Texans were in 250 shelters, and that food and water would be distributed in about 20 coastal locations as rescue efforts continue.
In Galveston, which bore the brunt of the storm, floods filled the historic district with 7 feet of water at the storm's peak, said Galveston County official Margaret Bunch. Watch how a spunky little girl braved the storm »
A foot of water flooded the city's main courthouse, where many people rode out the storm, she said.
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Wanda Collins' garage filled with 5 feet of water, ruining everything inside, including a 2002 pickup truck, two Harley-Davidson motorcycles, a freezer and a washer and dryer.
"I have never in my life seen water like this," the 30-year Galveston resident said.
Burle and Jamie Holmes also refused to leave their Galveston home despite a grim warning from the National Weather Service. Ike forced the couple and their dog, Trouble, into the attic, tossing their furniture like toys across the house.
"We lost everything," Jamie Holmes.
Curfews are in place in Galveston until dawn Monday and in Houston's Harris County until 6 a.m. Sunday.
Houston Mayor Bill White said his city appears to have avoided loss of life, but streets blocked by floodwaters, downed trees and power lines hampered efforts to determine the full extent of the damage.
Authorities shut down downtown Houston, where the streets were littered with traffic lights and glass, for cleanup and damage assessment. The city's tallest skyscraper, the 75-story JP Morgan Chase Tower, was missing many of its windows. See iReporter's images of destruction »
White advised residents to drink bottled or boiled tap water as a precaution after a power outage reduced water pressure, but he said nothing indicated that the water supply was contaminated.
Brennan's, a popular restaurant in downtown Houston for almost four decades, burned down Friday night as Ike battered the city.
North of Houston, a 10 -year-old boy died when a falling tree limb hit him in the head, the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office said. The boy's father was cutting down a dead tree in the family's yard in preparation for Ike's heavy winds early Saturday.
Nearly 2.6 million customers in Texas and Louisiana lack power because of Ike, the U.S. Energy Department said on Saturday.
In Brazoria County, emergency management officials said the main power line for the Texas/New Mexico grid was down. CenterPoint Energy said 90 percent of its customers were without electricity and it could take a month or more to get power restored to all of them.
iReporter Jackie Hensler of Houston said her apartment building's power was restored quickly on Saturday morning after a stormy night.
"There are lots of trees down; they've been uprooted or snapped," she said after venturing outside. "There's lots of debris in the streets, like boards and plywood from homes." Watch how the roof peeled off a building »
Hurricane Ike proved to be a huge storm system, 900 miles across at its largest. It remained a hurricane hours after crashing ashore over Galveston at 2:10 a.m.
Its maximum sustained winds were near 80 mph, with higher gusts. It was expected to continue to weaken and move into western Arkansas by Saturday night. Track the storm »
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The storm surge, however, was smaller than forecast. The greatest surge, of 15 feet, happened at Sabine Pass, near the Texas-Louisiana line. Authorities had predicted surges of 20 to 25 feet.
Authorities in Orange County, Texas, on the Louisiana line, were using large dump trucks Saturday to rescue residents trapped on their roofs by massive flooding, a county judge told CNN.
The city of Orange and the town of Bridge City were flooded, Beaumont emergency official Brad Peneffon said. Watch the storm surge in Beaumont »
Rescuers fanned out in boats Saturday in Cameron Parish, Louisiana, after the storm surge flooded 1,800 homes.
Gas prices soared across the country amid fears the storm would disrupt fuel supplies. Ike hit a region that is home to about 25 percent of the United States' oil refining capacity, and the storm's progress across the Gulf of Mexico shut down crude oil collection from Gulf oil fields.
The U.S. Department of Energy said 14 refineries were closed by the storm, along with two Texas strategic petroleum reserve sites.
In Knoxville, Tennessee, Sean Kennedy expressed dismay at the difference a day made to gas prices. iReport.com: Evacuees, San Antonio mayor talk about Ike
"I filled up my tank yesterday morning on the way to work for $3.59 a gallon," he said. "This morning, gas prices at the same station were $5 a gallon for regular and $5.25 for premium."
The Coast Guard said early Saturday that 22 people aboard a freighter that was adrift in the Gulf of Mexico were safe after the storm.
Some good news came out of the region Saturday. About 175 miles west of Houston, a storm evacuee delivered a baby in the ladies' bathroom at a shelter in New Braunfels.
"The credit goes to the mother," said Dr. Mark Burns, who helped deliver the baby. "She did a beautiful job with her delivery."
CNN's Jeanne Meserve, Rusty Dornin, Sean Callebs, Rob Marciano, Gary Tuchman, Arthur Brice, Deb Krajnak and Elise Miller contributed to this report.
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The Windham College campus in the mid-1960s.
An educational landmark remembered
Landmark College celebrates anniversary on the campus of Windham College, a school whose spirit burned bright and briefly
PUTNEY—Landmark College celebrates the 30th anniversary of its founding during the weekend of Sept. 25-27.
That same weekend is the alumni reunion for Windham College, whose campus Landmark now occupies.
Landmark was born as the Landmark School in Beverly, Mass., as a high school for children with learning disabilities.
Windham College, whose enrollment hit its peak in the 1970s, was founded by Walter Hendricks, a name familiar to many locals. Hendricks started two other area schools: Mark Hopkins College in Brattleboro, and Marlboro College.
Hendricks founded his first school in Europe — for GIs — when he himself was in the armed services. After the war, he came to southeastern Vermont and started creating the colleges.
In 1951, five years after founding Marlboro College, Hendricks opened the Vermont Institute for Special Studies in Putney. The school’s mission was to help international students improve their English skills enough to transfer to other U.S. colleges.
Three years later, its curriculum changed to liberal arts studies, and the school was renamed Windham College.
Barb Taylor and Karen Gustafson, members of the Windham College Alumni Association, were roommates 50 years ago at the school, and both graduated in the last few years of the 1960s.
The college “started in the basement of his house,” Taylor said.
That house was completely re-purposed for the school and became Currier Hall. It held some classrooms, offices, the cafeteria, and some music rooms.
The building, located on Old Depot Road, was recently renovated for residential use by the Windham-Windsor Housing Trust, Taylor noted.
“The purple house on Kimball Hill was Grey House, a boys’ dorm. Classes were also held there,” Gustafson said.
As the college outgrew downtown Putney, Hendricks looked north.
In 1961, Windham College added two dorms on the hill where Landmark College sits today: Aiken, for young women, and Frost, for young men.
Although the expansion was necessary, Gustafson and Taylor remembered the challenge of having their living quarters so far from the rest of the college’s campus.
“We had no cars,” Gustafson said.
“And no sidewalks,” Taylor added.
Still, the duo had fond memories of their college years.
“We had some wonderful people teaching at Windham,” Gustafson said. She and Taylor listed some notable instructors: painter David Rohn, art instructor Peter Forakis, author John Irving, state geologist Charles Ratte, writing teacher Don Harrington, author and academic dean Charles Fish, psychology professor Jeremy Birch, music instructor and Yellow Barn founder David Wells, and librarian Bob Rhodes, who was later hired by Landmark College for the same position.
Taylor said she could not recall faculty members who transitioned from Windham to Landmark. She noted the challenge a professor might have with going from a traditional liberal arts learning environment to one requiring the specialized teaching skills to instruct students with learning disabilities.
A few Windham alumni found the transition easier and became faculty at Landmark College.
Susan Frishberg, assistant Spanish professor and leader in the Study Abroad Costa Rica program, studied English literature at Windham College.
John Bagge graduated from Windham College, and, as town manager of Putney, was integral in helping Landmark get its footing in the town. He became a founding faculty member in the English department at Landmark, where he also coached baseball, basketball, and served as resident dean before retiring a year and a half ago.
“[Bagge] was highly esteemed by students and very much loved,” said Landmark College Research Services Librarian Mary Jane MacGuire.
David Rohn, art teacher at Windham College from 1964 to 1976 recalled, in an email to The Commons, the influence of the school’s second president, Eugene C. Winslow, who died in January.
Winslow “was a very significant figure in the turbulent decade 1964-75 when he took over the presidency of the college from Walter Hendricks,” Rohn wrote.
“He was a bold, driven, demanding [U.S. Navy] captain, the first college president in the country to declare publicly against the Vietnam War.”
Other Windham College notables are Nobel Prize-winning author Pearl S. Buck, a trustee, and John Irving, who taught English at the college in the years when he wrote his first novel. In a later novel set in Putney, Irving described Windham College, designed by prominent 20th-century modern architect Edward Durell Stone, as “an architectural eyesore on an otherwise beautiful piece of land.”
Boom to bust
The college thrived in the 1960s and early 1970s, thanks in large part to young men hoping to avoid the draft with educational deferments.
Taylor said that in 1965, the school enrolled approximately 500 students, and in the first two years of the 1970s, it peaked at around 900 students.
In response to growth’s demand, in 1967 the college secured $5.4 million for expansion of the new campus on River Road. Of that, $4.3 million came from federal funding through the Higher Education Act of 1963; the remainder was obtained through fundraising and loans. That year, the college’s construction was three-quarters complete.
But, a few years later, on Dec. 16, 1978, Windham College closed abruptly, due to declining enrollment.
Taylor explained the likely cause was the end of the Vietnam war.
“They stopped drafting,” she said, so there was less pressure on men to avoid military service by matriculating.
The financial consequences of teaching 200 students on a main campus built for 1,000 were devastating.
Windham College was hardly the only victim of this cultural shift. According to an article in the Jan. 15, 1979 issue of Time, “Private Colleges Cry ‘Help!,’” “Ten colleges shut their doors in 1978, bringing the total of closings for the decade to 129, more than double the number of new colleges that have opened.”
When the school closed, the remaining students — many of whom had been recruited from the Middle East, and had never experienced a Vermont winter — were escorted off campus so the sheriff’s department could vacate and lock up the buildings.
“Marlboro College accommodated any of the students who wanted to get their remaining credits to graduate,” Taylor said.
Taylor worked in the administrative offices at Windham College for eight years after she graduated and said she left shortly before it closed.
“It was pretty traumatic,” she said, noting that when she was comptroller, “sometimes I couldn’t find the money to pay the [college’s] bills.”
Taylor said the college was “heavily mortgaged” to the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development and local banks, and the school’s contents were auctioned off shortly after it closed.
With the ownership of most of the campus reverting to the federal government — the Fine Arts Center reverted to a group of local investors — the campus lay vacant, the buildings deteriorating for the better part of a decade. In the interim, it almost became a 500-bed minimum-security prison, but Putney residents voted down that plan by a 3-to-1 margin in early 1983.
Plans to turn the campus into a conference center also fell through.
Gov. Peter Shumlin, then on Putney’s Selectboard, helped convince officials at the Landmark School to create a similarly focused college on the dormant Windham College campus.
Thus, Landmark College was founded in 1985.
Finding Windham alumni
Taylor said she never regretted attending Windham College as a student.
“I couldn’t have gotten a better education,” she said.
Since then, Taylor said, the Windham College Alumni Association holds reunions “every five years or so.”
Locating alumni has posed a bit of a challenge, Taylor and Gustafson said.
“We don’t have records,” Taylor said, noting at one time there were 1,500 people on the alumni list, “but people move or die.”
The state of Vermont has records of all Windham College attendees, Taylor said, but most of the data comes from enrollment forms, so those addresses are usually the parents of former students.
Considering that the college closed in 1978, it is unlikely those parents still live at the same location — if they are still even living. Plus, Taylor said the state charges $3 per name.
Both women invite “anybody who has fond memories of Windham to come” to the alumni events, whether they graduated or even matriculated at the college.
“Landmark invited us [Windham College alumni] to participate in their celebration” to officially open and dedicate the MacFarland Science, Technology and Innovation Center, Taylor said. MacGuire said during the weekend festivities, the college will have an “archives tent,” divided in half between Windham and Landmark College archives.
So the alumni association decided to hold their reunion the same weekend.
The ceremony perhaps surrounded by the most drama is the permanent placing of the old stone Windham College sign in Landmark’s Alumni Hall garden, taking place at 11:30 a.m., on Saturday, Sept. 26.
The sign, “a big piece of granite,” said Taylor, used to sit on the corner of Route 5 and River Road, where Landmark College’s sign is now situated.
After Windham College closed in 1978, shortly before the property and its contents were auctioned off to satisfy the school’s debts, the sign disappeared.
“Every time we would get together for the reunion, we’d all say, ‘Okay, who has the sign?’” Gustafson said.
Nobody has ever confessed. Taylor and Gustafson joked that the sign was somebody’s furniture for almost 15 years.
“It would make a great coffee table, right?” Gustafson noted.
Then, in the early 1990s, “someone at Putney Town Hall came to work, and the sign was on the lawn,” Taylor said, adding, “the maintenance guys chained it to the radiator” inside the building.
There it sat for about a decade.
“For many years, we hemmed and hawed,” Taylor said. “Who does the sign belong to?”
Since there was no more Windham College, did it belong to the town?
She reached out to Peter Eden, then Landmark College’s president, to ask if there was a place for it on campus.
“Peter Eden said he really wanted the sign,” Taylor said.
Eden got the sign. It currently sits in a shaded section of Alumni Garden, and on Saturday, Sept. 26, the sign will be honored by Landmark College officials and Windham College alumni.
The frame supporting the Windham College sign was constructed by Landmark’s facilities crew, MacGuire said. “It shows up in a nice way,” she said, noting the structure is far superior to simply having the sign rest on the ground.
“They have been very good to us,” Taylor said of Landmark, noting the college’s officials “really include us” in their celebrations.
“We want them to feel comfortable here,” MacGuire said of the Windham College alumni.
“There’s a very strong bond between us and Landmark,” Gustafson said.
Originally published in The Commons issue #324 (Wednesday, September 23, 2015). This story appeared on page A1.
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Year : 2011 | Volume : 9 | Issue : 1 | Page : 1-7
Introduction: Human migration to protected area edges in Africa and Latin America: Questioning large-scale statistical analysis
David M Hoffman1, Derick Fay2, Lucas Joppa3
1 Department of Anthropology and Middle Eastern Cultures, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, USA
2 Department of Anthropology, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA
3 Microsoft Research, Cambridge, United Kingdom
David M Hoffman
Department of Anthropology and Middle Eastern Cultures, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS
Date of Web Publication 8-Apr-2011
The introduction to this set of papers highlights four challenges to the large-scale analysis of population growth at protected area edges in Africa and Latin America undertaken by George Wittemyer and colleagues in their 2008 paper published in Science. First, it raises questions about their sampling procedures, given national-level variation in systems of protected area designation and protected area estates. Second, it challenges the largely economic model of migration decisions that underlies their analysis. Third, it highlights the neglected variable of land tenure systems as a factor facilitating or impeding migration. Fourth, it points to the problematic politics of reducing human communities and polities to 'populations' subject to management from afar.
Keywords: protected areas, population, migration, land tenure, political ecology
Hoffman DM, Fay D, Joppa L. Introduction: Human migration to protected area edges in Africa and Latin America: Questioning large-scale statistical analysis. Conservat Soc 2011;9:1-7
Hoffman DM, Fay D, Joppa L. Introduction: Human migration to protected area edges in Africa and Latin America: Questioning large-scale statistical analysis. Conservat Soc [serial online] 2011 [cited 2019 Jul 16];9:1-7. Available from: http://www.conservationandsociety.org/text.asp?2011/9/1/1/79177
For the last several decades, conservationists, policy makers, and social scientists have been examining interactions between protected areas (PAs) and neighboring human communities. Perspectives on the role of 'local' communities in biodiversity conservation have vacillated; people are characterised as a principal threat, essential for conservation success, or somewhere in between. Regardless of one's position in this debate, there is wide recognition of the need to incorporate the human element in conservation policies and practices. Partially in response to this debate, conservation interventions in the developing world since the 1990s have largely taken the form of Integrated Conservation and Development Projects (ICDP) and similar efforts to link conservation with benefits to neighboring communities.
In the summer of 2008, Science published an article authored by George Wittemyer et al. (2008a) that speaks directly about debates surrounding people and PAs. In this article, they conclude that in Africa and Latin America there has been significantly higher population growth within a 10 km buffer area of PAs compared with similar rural areas without parks. The authors propose that this pattern reflects in-migration due to people's perception of the economic, social, and infrastructural benefits of parks, often provided by international aid for ICDPs. Further, they suggest that this pattern shows that conservation does benefit 'local' communities, and argue that this population growth trend could pose a threat to biodiversity in and around PAs.
Wittemyer et al.'s (2008a) arguments speak about many conservationists' concerns about population growth and change around PAs, as well as the threats such growth might present. At the same time, Wittemyer et al.'s (2008a) results contrast with much of our collective experience in Latin America and Africa, where more nuanced observations either contradict or complicate these simplistic explanations for buffer zone population growth. Further, their analysis seemed to contradict many social analyses of conservation, which point out the heavy costs and minimal benefits of PAs for 'local' people (West et al. 2006).
These concerns about the scale, method and representativeness of the Wittemyer et al. (2008a) analysis led to a call for papers for the 2008 Society for Applied Anthropology's annual meetings in Santa Fe. The call sought contributors who could bring a fine-grained, anthropological analysis to contextualise the Wittemyer et al. (2008a) hypotheses. In this panel we attempted to answer questions such as: What patterns of human migration and re-settlement are we observing? Is in-migration really driving community population growth near PAs? Who are these migrants and what motivates people to migrate away from other rural (or urban) areas and towards parks?
In the end, the panel brought together four anthropologists whose papers follow, as well as the contribution of one of the authors (L. Joppa), who critiqued the statistical methodology and the conclusions of the Wittemyer paper (Joppa et al. 2009). This set of papers foregrounds some of the problematic aspects of Wittemyer et al.'s (2008a) analysis and conclusions, but also reaffirms the conservation policy importance of the contextualised data provided by ethnographic fieldwork. Furthermore, these papers directly respond to Wittemyer et al.'s (2008a) call for such accounts to more effectively frame conservation policy and practice. These papers thus illuminate existing critiques and debates of Wittemyer et al.'s (2008a) arguments.
Existing Critiques and Debate
Wittemyer et al. (2008a) had immediate impacts in both scholarly and conservation advocacy / policy circles. The interdisciplinary scholarly community working at the intersection between conservation and people was especially quick to engage with their findings. Almost immediately, Wittemyer et al.'s (2008a) findings were confronted with several important critiques, which fall into two categories: 1) methodological concerns about the suitability of their datasets for their analysis, and 2) skepticism regarding Wittemyer et al.'s (2008a) hypotheses regarding processes that drive accelerated human population growth at PA edges.
Joppa et al. (2009) immediately challenged the conclusions of Wittemyer et al. (2008a) with a critique of their methodology. In one test, Joppa et al. (2009) compared the growth within a 10 km buffer area to the growth in concentric rings of 20 and 40 km zones. They found no evidence for population growth in areas immediately surrounding the majority of PAs to be higher than areas further away, contrary to expectations if one assumes that growth in PA buffer areas is driven by perceived opportunities created by the PA. Joppa et al. (2009) go on to question the compatibility of two data sets used by Wittemyer et al. (see also Nelson et al. 2009), calling into question Wittemyer et al.'s (2008a) conclusion that 80% of global PAs show higher growth rates than comparable rural areas. Instead, their alternative statistical analysis demonstrates that 'there are no more parks with higher growth rates near them than parks with lower growth rates' (Joppa et al. 2009: 4).
Other criticisms arose in online responses to Wittemyer et al.'s (2008a) original paper in Science. Shoo (2008) questioned the proposed causal sequence, arguing that there is a need to understand rates of population growth and deforestation (key variables used by Wittemyer et al. 2008a) prior to PA establishment as a baseline for statistical comparison. In this manner, we can better see the cause and effect relationship between PA establishment and population growth, and at the same time control for the trend of establishing PAs in areas where human population growth motivated the creation of the PA.
The authors of the following papers recognise the importance of these critiques, but the analyses in this collection more closely follow the arguments of Jim Igoe (Igoe et al. 2008; Igoe 2009) in his commentaries on both the Wittemyer et al. (2008a) and the Joppa et al. (2009) pieces. Igoe critiques Wittemyer et al.'s (2008a) claim that population growth indicates that 'local' populations are benefiting from PAs. As Igoe (2009) explains, echoing longstanding critiques of population-based analyses, 'their data can tell us nothing about how the costs and benefits of protected areas are distributed in any context'. Igoe argues that global statistics do not provide enough fine-grained detail to make accurate policy decisions for individual PAs, and calls for 'better understandings of the dynamics of human communities living on the boundaries of protected areas' (Igoe 2009).
Each of the papers in this special issue answer this call, with contextualised accounts of various parks in Africa and Latin America, discussing some of the dynamics of human communities that drive (or in some cases prevent) in-migration into PA buffer zones and peoples' perceptions of conservation and the ways in which this frames migration opportunities.
Contributions of this Collection
Wittemyer et al. (2008a) have shown what seems to be a global trend, yet the papers provide direct evidence that contradicts the growth they observed, call into question the ways in which their methodologies may mask trends that can be observed on the ground, and point to potentially significant factors ignored or occluded in their analysis. Individually and collectively, these papers point to conceptual problems which cast doubt on the causal relationships claimed by Wittemyer et al. (2008a). In their paper's discussion, Wittmyer et al. (2008a) recognised the need and importance of contextual data to prove or disprove their analyses and hypotheses. We offer such data here, collectively raising questions about the sampling, assumptions, and conclusions that were reached. We also draw on additional examples to develop our critiques and to highlight questions for further research on the topic.
National Protected Area Designations
One critical issue raised in this collection of papers, and in our collective experience of other areas, is how the sampling methods used by Wittemyer et al. (2008a) could misrepresent overall trends and fail to capture local complexities. As Hoffman (this issue) points out, the Wittemyer et al. (2008a) analysis is problematic in its selection and treatment of PAs, in part because of their inclusion of World Heritage sites along with International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Category I and II PAs. At least one of their selected PAs for Costa Rica does not conform to the notion of a single, bounded PA. The Guanacaste Conservation Area, a World Heritage site, is made up of both protected and unprotected lands, and within the unprotected lands there are areas of significant population growth. Yet, Wittemyer et al. (2008a) do not account for the local bureaucratic nomenclature-'conservation area'-which does not entail a PA.
While other papers do not take up these issues, our knowledge of other cases makes it clear that Wittemyer et al.'s (2008a) approach is inconsistent: in South Africa, they instead choose to separately analyse five PAs that together comprise the Cape Floral Kingdom World Heritage Site, without a clear justification for this choice. Perhaps the most extreme case of problematic sampling is that of Botswana, where they only sample one of the country's 79 PAs, limited in part by their restriction to IUCN Category I and II areas, of which there are only four in Botswana. They base their sample on a single PA, comprising 1.7% of the total PA area in Botswana and 10.5% of the IUCN Category I and II PA area in Botswana (World Database on Protected Areas 2007). This results in a case that fits their overall argument-and which prominently places a bright red outline in their map of Africa-but which can hardly be said to decisively represent relations between population and PAs across an entire country.
In short, if future research is actually going to claim to draw conclusions about relations between PAs and populations at a national-not to mention a continental-level, we need more attention to local PA policies and configurations, and to the relation between the sampled areas and a nation's overall PA estate.
Migration and Social Action
Igoe & Brockington (2007) have made it clear that social analysis of conservation must attend to the largely neglected connections between conservation and neoliberal policies aimed at expanding free markets and restraining the state. They have highlighted the growing prevalence of linkages between private and for-profit ventures, and conservation agencies and activities (Igoe & Brockington 2007). Indeed, neoliberal conservation has contributed to the growth of ICDPs and other efforts that may create or enable conditions likely to draw economically-motivated migrants to parks.
Neoliberalism has another dimension that we see manifested in the Wittemyer et al. (2008a) article: the reduction of human motivations to narrowly economic concerns. As Farmer (2003: 5) puts it, within neoliberal thinking, 'individual[s] in a society are viewed, if viewed at all, as autonomous, rational producers and consumers whose decisions are motivated primarily by economic or material concerns'. Wittemyer et al. characterise migration in terms of 'potential attractants and deterrents of PAs as settlement sites' (Wittemyer et al. 2008a: 123), all concerned with the material well-being of prospective migrants. Wittemyer et al.'s (2008b) assumptions were more clearly stated in their response to Igoe et al. (2008) when they drew an analogy between migration to PAs and rural-urban migration, motivated by economic opportunity.
The papers here present three points of objection: 1) this notion of migration relies upon an under-socialised and apolitical model of human action (Luciano this issue), 2) it neglects the social dynamics that shape decisions about-and the very possibility of-migration (Hoffman this issue), 3) it portrays a very simplistic model of migration in relation to PAs that emphasises the ways in which PAs draw migrants due to the opportunities and services they provide.
Given neoliberal 'pro-growth' conservation interventions, one might expect to see migrants flocking to areas where they perceive economic opportunities. That we do not, in part reflects the fact that human motivation and social action cannot be totally reduced to narrow economic and resource calculations as is suggested by the hypotheses of Wittemyer et al. (2008a). Migration, while often influenced by individual and collective economic factors, is both enabled and constrained by social and political circumstances, as is demonstrated throughout the ensuing collection of papers.
Of necessity, Wittemyer et al.'s (2008a) focus on the areas surrounding PAs means that they are concerned with only one half of the migration equation, the 'pull' factors that might draw migrants to a particular location (Hoffman this issue). As Hoffman, Davis, and Fay point out, however, movement towards PAs may be shaped by a diverse array of 'push' factors, situated in a local spatial political economy, that are missing from the Wittemyer et al. (2008a) models.
As Cross et al. (1998) observed for South Africa, rural-rural migration, of which movement towards PAs is often a subset, has scarcely been studied in developing countries. Perhaps the best known cases involve the colonisation of tropical forests in Latin America (Hoffman this issue), but even these apparently straight-forward cases of economic migration require attention to macroeconomic and policy factors driving migration and land use change that are not evident in the destination landscape itself (Hecht 1985).
Rural-rural migration is less well-understood in sub-Saharan Africa, but Cross's studies of rural-rural migrants in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (Cross et al. 1998; Cross 2006) found that rural-rural migrant streams differed considerably from rural-urban migrants; they were exceptionally uninterested in the economic attractions of their destination (Fay this issue).
Cross's work also raises attention to another shortcoming of the Wittemyer et al. (2008a) approach: given that migration streams are socially formed, one must examine their demographic composition. The motives of migrants and the factors shaping migration can be expected to vary not only cross-culturally but also along lines of class, age, and gender. Population movement consisting primarily of elderly or retired persons, for example, is likely to have very different implications for pressure on park resources than population movement consisting primarily of economically active persons with expanding families.
The ensuing papers also challenge the simplistic models put forth by Wittemyer et al. (2008a), and others, to explain human migration to park edges. Wittemyer et al. (2008a) explain the phenomena using an 'attraction model', suggesting that people move to buffer zones for employment in the park or in tourist facilities outside the park, or for access to PA environmental services (Scholte & De Groot 2010). Scholte & De Groot (2010) build on the push and pull factor analysis of Ogelthorpe et al. (2007), by suggesting that there are at least two other models that may describe migration toward PAs, the 'frontier engulfment' and 'incidential mechanisms' models. In the former, the buffer zones of PAs established in remote areas are engulfed by an extraction frontier (e.g., logging) and subsequently by an agricultural frontier because they offer resource conditions unavailable in migrants' home communities (Scholte & De Groot 2010). As they point out, this model has little to do with the attraction and direct opportunities produced by the PA. In the latter, the 'incidental mechanism' model, factors outside of direct PA opportunities ('pull') and resource conditions outside of PAs ('push') can drive human migration to park buffer zones. Scholte & De Groot (2010) point out that conflict and natural disaster may have depopulated buffer zones in the past, that the areas may become zones of refuge from other conflicts, and/or that people may have been evicted from parks to their edges. Most importantly, it is likely that these conditions, which are not neatly characterised as 'push' or 'pull', contribute to changes in the populations surrounding PAs (Sholte & De Groot 2010).
Scholte and De Groot (2010) are to be commended for pointing out the weakness in Wittemyer et al.'s (2008a) focus on the 'pull' factors in explaining human population growth on park edges. This set of papers reiterates Scholte and De Groot's point that population growth on PA edges is often the product of incidental factors that do not fit within the neat push-and-pull factors. Collectively, this set of papers indicate that further attention to the demographics and the motivations of particular migrant streams to the boundaries of PAs will allow us to assess the validity of models which presume that migrants are primarily attracted to PA edges due to the economic, education, and infrastructure 'pull' related to PA development.
The Social Embeddedness of Resources
Another critical issue raised by these papers is that migrants who want to move to the borders of a PA may not necessarily be able to do so. Wittemyer et al.'s 'deterrents' (2008a: 123) recognise this point to a degree. We would argue, however, that their formulation omits the factor of social capital: membership in social networks, groups and categories that may enable or constrain action.
The possibility of migration is contingent upon locally-specific forms of social capital that mediate movement, the possibilities for movement, and even awareness of opportunities to potentially move. In particular, land tenure institutions shape the possibility of migration. We draw here from our papers and the broader literature on land tenure to highlight its importance and suggest avenues for further research. At the risk of gross oversimplification, one can identify four different scenarios around rural land tenure with very different implications for the possibility of migration.
The first is a functioning market in rural property. Wittemyer et al. point to an 'increased cost of living associated with tourism' as a possible deterrent of migration (Wittemyer et al. 2008a: 123), and evidence from Latin America (Stonich 1998; Kull et al. 2007; Hoffman this issue) and the Caribbean (Fortwangler 2007) bears this out. Markets may create conditions where the value of land surrounding PAs makes it unaffordable for many prospective migrants, particularly where tourism or residential use is a more profitable land use than extraction or cultivation.
The second scenario is a situation in which access to land is 'embedded' in social relationships. Research on land tenure in sub-Saharan Africa has for decades emphasised the ways in which access to land is contingent upon membership in social groups (Cousins 2007). These have variable consequences, depending on the particular would-be migrants. The accessibility of land to outsiders in a locally-controlled system of land tenure may depend upon particular demographic relationships of kin groups to territory, and the social linkages prospective immigrants may or may not be able to form with existing residents. Davis and Fay (this issue) both show the problems associated with not 'belonging' to an area, according to local social conceptions, which both discourage immigration by outsiders and encourage out-migration by those subjected to forced resettlement. As Davis puts it, Iraqw who tried to migrate into the predominantly Maasai communities of Simanjiro 'would more likely be met with crossed arms (disdain) than open arms'.
The third land tenure scenario is a frontier situation, where local tenure systems are ineffective or defunct, and in which migrants can move in relatively freely, often with the expectation of later securing state-sanctioned titles. Such a situation existed in many European settler colonies in prior centuries (Weaver 2003); it has seldom existed in sub-Saharan Africa but remains relevant in the tropical forest regions of Latin America. Indeed, the effects of prior policies that deliberately encouraged migration and forest clearance have come to stimulate many efforts at PA conservation across Latin America including Costa Rica (Brandon & O'Herron 2004).
The fourth scenario is what we might call a 'neoliberalising' system of tenure, in which efforts are underway to turn land into a commodity and convert customary tenure and frontier situations into land markets. As Igoe & Brockington (2007) have suggested, such systems seem to have negative conservation outcomes (Dorondel 2009), though much more research is necessary to identify the conditions under which privatisation may lead to environmentally-adverse outcomes (Acheson 2000). As studies in Brazil (Hecht 1985) and Zambia (Brown 2005) have shown, such policies may lead to speculative claims, clearance and settlement based upon the possible future market value of land rather than its immediate productive value. Likewise, migration towards PAs may be facilitated when customary land tenure systems, which often function to exclude outsiders, are replaced by state-based free exchange of land titles. We see the relationships highlighted here, between land tenure and population movement, as an important avenue for future research.
We have considered factors affecting both whether migrants would (i.e., motivation factors) move, and whether they could (i.e., land tenure). A further complication of whether migrants could relocate has to do with the costs and benefits of relocation. Much of our skepticism about the Wittemyer et al. (2008a) thesis has to do with this issue. Often, rural-urban migrants are poor, lacking significant resources or wealth of their own. In-migration to urban environments is often possible for these individuals as a result of pre-existing infrastructure and other amenities of urban settings. Rural park boundaries, on the other hand, rarely offer these features. Further, rural parks are often located far from main roads and other transportation options, in sharp contrast to urban areas, making access difficult. Thus, any comparison of in-migration to rural park boundaries with rural-urban migration is a questionable one, and ignores many of the factors that dictate whether or not rural inhabitants can migrate.
Political Implications
In his studies of transformations of forms of power in early modern and modern Europe, Michel Foucault (2007) chronicles the emergence of the concept of population in tandem with a shift away from strategies of rule grounded in threats of punishment and surveillance. The notion of population as '…a multiplicity of individuals who are and fundamentally and essentially only exist biologically bound to the materiality within which they live' (Foucault 2007: 21) emerged together with notions of the individual economic actor in free markets (Foucault 2007), and the strategies of rule he labels as 'governmental', aimed at shaping people's conduct and subjectivity while preserving their sense of freedom and autonomy. Foucault's account holds intriguing parallels with developments in conservation policy: prior 'fines and fences' approaches, based upon enforcement of regulations and surveillance of borders, have been replaced with an attention to populations, who may be managed not by restricting or monitoring their activities, but by reshaping the conditions under which they act in order to meet policy goals.
Foucault's analysis of power leads us to reflect upon the Wittemyer et al. (2008a) paper as a technique of power, aimed at shaping conservation policy to control the population movements they describe. Indeed, the paper seems to exemplify the practices that Li's Foucauldian analysis refers to as 'rendering technical' (Li 2007): it treats PAs and their populations as objects to be managed by experts, occluding political conflicts over resources and autonomy and replacing them with seemingly neutral, technical analyses that can then be employed to justify policy interventions with real human consequences.
Returning to the example of Botswana discussed briefly above, Wittemyer et al.'s (2008a) approach represents Botswana as a country in which populations are rising on the borders of PAs. It is not clear if this is true, but whether it is or not, any analysis of population change in Botswana must take into account the forced resettlement of thousands of San from the country's PAs (Hitchcock 2002). This type of political dynamic-in which powerful outsiders decide on the fate of PA-dependent communities-could be justified by employing the decontextualised and managerial analysis of Wittemyer et al. (2008a).
Luciano's paper (this issue) takes this critique the furthest in the collection. He writes, 'Specific language matters, and the Wittemyer et al. (2008a) terms are not value neutral. Wittemyer et al. (2008a) speak of 'settlements', not communities, 'populations', not jurisdictions or terms that reflect social and political life'. His analysis astutely demonstrates that global analyses reinforce and reify borders of parks and PAs that do not necessarily match local people's traditional understandings of jurisdiction, or polity as he calls it. In fact, he deftly points out the ways in which the global conservation project has slowly replaced local institutions of governance over Machu Picchu. The complexity of overlapping power relations found within the Machu Picchu national park are ignored and undercut by studies like that of Wittemyer et al. (2008a) that assume park boundaries also match a bounded polity. According to Luciano, the danger inherent in global statistical analyses based on externally defined park borders is that they further erode local historical claims to access, governance, and even profit from cultural and natural resources found within parks and PAs, transforming an area's inhabitants into 'populations' to be managed from afar.
We do not propose that Wittemyer et al. (2008a) had political ends or specific policy interventions in mind, and then gathered data to prove that these interventions are necessary. What this set of papers do suggest is that their conclusions have inevitable political implications, and that-as they circulate in condensed form-they may be used to promote top-down, context-independent policies around PAs and human migration. For example, reviews and summaries of Wittemyer et al.'s (2008a) paper-many of which were based on a media relations piece produced by the University of California at Berkeley (Yang 2008) where the researchers were based-immediately circulated through online blogs and newswires devoted to conservation biology, conservation and development, and conservation policy and advocacy. 1 Likewise, scholarly papers, especially in those fields aligned with conservation biology, quickly 'black-boxed' Wittemyer et al.'s claims and hypotheses about the causes of population change-which were presented as "context-specific, and [requiring] data collection at local scales" (2008a: 124)-and treated them as decisively proven facts. 2 Finally, there is evidence that their claims are being incorporated into conservation policy and practice. 3 Our perspective here aligns with Jim Igoe's (2009) concern about the ways in which statements in the abstract of Wittemyer et al. (2008a) are reproduced in academic and political circles, which may then be uncritically incorporated into decisions at the local level.
In fairness, Wittemyer et al. (2008a) do suggest that further research is necessary, and their analysis did open a space for dialogue on this issue. But, it is important to recognise that their claims may take on a life and a power of their own. As Luciano suggests, expert knowledge is privileged, despite many counter-examples, and becomes a discourse that can be utilised to delegitimise claims that stand in the way of or run counter to global-level interpretations of the relationship between PAs and human migrants.
The collection of papers that follows demonstrates that conservation policy makers and practitioners must maintain awareness of the local conditions driving (or preventing) migration to the edges of parks. The case studies utilise locally-based contextual data to illuminate serious shortcomings of relying on global data sets. It is only at this finer scale that we can begin: 1) taking into account local and national PA designations and national PA estates, 2) capturing the complex economic and social relations that may impede or facilitate migration to PA margins, and 3) formulating analyses that do not serve to disempower local populations, communities and polities.
Further, while Wittemyer et al. (2008a) have raised important questions regarding migration to the margins of PAs, we are skeptical of attempts to manage human relationships with parks and PAs based on global level data. To their credit, with their call to recognise the need for more contextualised research on the ways in which PAs interact with flows of human migration, they give credence to this fact as well.
We hope that the critiques of global level data and the insights provided by on-the-ground anthropological studies found in this collection are only the first step. We concur with Sutherland et al.'s (2009: 565) conclusion that analyses of the relationships between migration, PAs, and biodiversity are currently lacking, and that it is a critically important area of inquiry for biodiversity conservation. Systematic local-level analyses paired with more methodologically-sound global analyses (Joppa et al. 2009) are needed on these issues, and suggest that social scientists working in this area work together towards this end.
Only when we have these data in hand can we make more general conclusions about the roles that PAs may play in the population changes that Wittemyer et al. (2008a) hypothesise. We are aware that local-level, ethnographic data collection is likely to take considerable time, that national or regional statistics on population may be grossly inaccurate in some contexts, and that there may be significant opportunity costs involved in delaying conservation decisions (Grantham et al. 2009). We do not propose that the designation of conservation areas be necessarily delayed. We are arguing that conservation policy makers and PA managers should not rely on global data that may or may not apply to the local context; they should instead work more closely with social scientists to understand human population dynamics around PAs.
Many online blogs and conservation biology news sites uncritically replicated the hypotheses proposed by Wittemyer et al. (2008a). The discourse surrounding the Wittemyer et al. (2008a) paper on these sites typically asserts that PAs necessarily attract human migrants, often reflecting a perspective that humans are an inherent threat to biodiversity conservation (see Chagas 2008; Mongabay.com 2008; Wildbiology.com 2008; Wildlifeextra.com 2008).
Academic articles have also included the hypotheses stated in the paper's abstract uncritically. Urbina-Cardona & Loyola write that 'human population growth is much higher around protected area edges than in other rural areas' (2008: 429), offering Wittemyer et al. (2008a) as their sole citation. Balme et al. (2010: 7) employ the Wittemyer et al. (2008a) paper to make the blanket statement that 'human populations continue to increase around protected areas'. Another example is Winsheimer et al.'s (2010) statement about habitat for endangered amphibians in Ethiopia, saying '...these areas contain very few suitable habitats based on our findings. This is especially critical, as most of these remaining habitats lie at the edge of the protected zones where human population growth is higher than in other rural areas'. This is a particularly disingenuous example, as Ethiopia appears in Wittemyer et al.'s (2008a) analysis as one of the few cases in Africa where population was actually decreasing on the borders of PAs.
Impacts of the Wittemyer et al. (2008a) hypotheses can be seen in the realm of policy. Further, Wittemyer et al.'s (2008a) work was the subject of a public event in October 2008 at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars' Environmental Change and Security Program. Finally, Torquebiau & Taylor's (2009) report states, 'It was also found recently that protected areas can attract, rather than repel (as initially thought), human settlement at their edges, a fact which shows that such areas have a value for local people, but also highlights a real biodiversity threat, particularly if such biodiversity is contained within strictly protected areas (Wittemyer et al. 2008a)'. This report is a summary of a community-based natural resource management workshop in Niger, which clearly demonstrates that the ideas presented by Wittemyer et al. (2008a) are circulating back to the field.
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Associate Degree for Transfer
A.A.-T. in History
The Associate in Arts in History for Transfer degree provides a clearly articulated curricular track for students who wish to transfer to a CSU campus, while also serving the diverse needs of students interested in the breadth and depth of the field of history. Additionally, this degree exposes students to the core principles and practices of the study of history in order to build a foundation for their future personal, academic and professional paths. The Associate in Arts in History for Transfer Degree (AA-T) is designed to provide a seamless transfer pathway for students interested in pursuing a History degree in the California State University (CSU) system. The required and elective coursework surveys a broad spectrum of physical geography, human geography, geospatial technologies (e.g. GIS, the Global Positioning System, remote sensing), and related disciplines. The degree is comprised of lower division coursework typically required by CSU institutions. Students must complete a total of 60 transferable semester units with a minimum 2.0 GPA, to include either the California State University General Education Breadth pattern or the Intersegmental General Education Transfer Curriculum; students must also earn a grade of C or better in all the courses for the major as described in the Required Program. Upon successful completion of the degree requirements, students will be guaranteed admission to the CSU system with junior status and will not have to repeat lower division coursework. Students are encouraged to meet with a counselor to develop their educational plans as degree options and general education requirements vary for each university.
HIST 310 History of the United States 3
HIST 301 History of Western Civilization (to 1660) (3) 3
or HIST 307 History of World Civilizations to 1500 (3)
HIST 302 History of Western Civilization (3) 3
or HIST 308 History of World Civilizations, 1500 to Present (3)
A minimum of 3 units from the following: 31
HIST 320 History of the United States: African-American Emphasis (3)
HIST 331 Women in American History (3)
HIST 344 Survey of California History: A Multicultural Perspective (3)
HIST 360 History of African Civilizations (3)
HIST 364 Asian Civilization (3)
HIST 370 History of the Americas through the 19th Century Wars of Independence (3)
HIST 371 History of the Americas from the 19th Century Wars of Independence to the Present (3)
HIST 380 History of the Middle East (3)
HIST 301 History of Western Civilization (to 1660) (3)
HIST 302 History of Western Civilization (3)
HIST 307 History of World Civilizations to 1500 (3)
HIST 308 History of World Civilizations, 1500 to Present (3)
HIST 314 Recent United States History (3)
HIST 373 History of Mexico (3)
POLS 301 Introduction to Government: United States (3)
POLS 302 Comparative Politics (3)
POLS 304 Introduction to Government: California (3)
POLS 310 Introduction to International Relations (3)
POLS 312 Politics of the Middle East (3)
POLS 313 Latin America (3)
POLS 314 Modern Europe and the Unification Process (3)
POLS 315 Pacific Rim (3)
POLS 317 Global Studies: Africa (3)
POLS 318 Global Studies: Central Asia (3)
POLS 319 Global Studies: Southeast Asia (3)
HUM 300 Classical Humanities (3)
HUM 310 Modern Humanities (3)
HUM 320 Asian Humanities (3)
HUM 324 Global Islam: Culture and Civilization (3)
HUM 331 Latin American Humanities (3)
HUM 332 American Humanities (3)
SOC 300 Introductory Sociology (3)
SOC 301 Social Problems (3)
SOC 321 Race, Ethnicity and Inequality in the United States (3)
SOC 341 Sex and Gender in the U.S. (3)
ANTH 310 Cultural Anthropology (3)
ANTH 316 Global Forces in Culture Change (3)
ANTH 324 World Prehistory (3)
ANTH 331 The Anthropology of Religion (3)
ANTH 332 Native Peoples of California (3)
ANTH 334 Native Peoples of North America (3)
1Students completing both HIST 310 and 320, or both HIST 311 and 321, may not receive credit for both courses at all universities. Please see a counselor for more information.
2One course from the following group if not used in World History/Western Civilization or List B above.
PSLO #1:Analyze and describe key developments and events in United States History.
Analyze and describe key developments and events in Western and World Histories to 1500.
Analyze and describe key developments and events in Western and World Histories from 1500 to the present.
PSLO #2: Demonstrate an understanding of the historian's methods in reconstructing the past using primary and secondary sources.
Identify and explain the sequence of cause and effect in history.
Research and compose written work based on extensive research of primary and secondary source materials.
PSLO #3: Evaluate the diversity in American and world societies with particular attention on race, ethnicity, class, gender, religion, and nation.
Appreciate the role of geography in history.
History (HIST) Courses
HIST 301 History of Western Civilization (to 1660)
Advisory: ENGWR 300
Transferable: CSU; UC
CID: C-ID HIST 170
History 301 is a survey course on Western Civilization from c. 3000 BCE to 1600 CE. The course will trace the origins, development, and advancement of European Civilization from antiquity to early modernization. In addition to political analysis, emphasis will be placed upon the socio-economic structures of various peoples discussed during the four thousand six hundred year time period. Finally, the birth, growth, and later fragmentation of Christianity will be covered.
demonstrate an understanding of Western Civilization from c. 3000th BCE to the 17th century CE (SLO #1).
HIST 302 History of Western Civilization
This is a survey of Western Civilization from 1600 to the present. The course will trace the development and advancement of European nation-states from early modernization to the crises of the World Wars. In addition to political analysis, emphasis will be placed upon the ideological and socio-economic structures that developed during the last four hundred years of the 20th century. Finally, the effects of the Cold War and decolonization will also be addressed.
demonstrate an understanding of Western Civilization from the 17th century to the present (SLO #1).
HIST 307 History of World Civilizations to 1500
Advisory: ENGWR 300, or equivalent skills demonstrated through the assessment process.
History 307 is a survey course on world civilization from c. 3000 BCE to 1500 CE. The course will trace the development of various peoples beginning with the first civilizations of Mesopotamia, India, and China to the establishment of great empires and infant nations of the world. In addition to political analysis, emphasis will be placed upon the advancement of various world cultures and social structures. Particular attention will be placed on the lives of the common people of various civilizations discussed during the four thousand, five hundred year time period. Finally, various world religions will be highlighted during the duration of the course.
demonstrate an understanding of World Civilization from c. 3000 BCE to the 16th century CE (SLO #1).
HIST 308 History of World Civilizations, 1500 to Present
History 308 is a survey course on world civilization from 1500 to the present age. The course will cover the political, economic, and intellectual developments of various world social and cultural structures. Particular emphasis will be placed upon the increased integration of peoples and cultures as a result of globalization. Additional focus will center upon the influencing effects of modern warfare, military technology, and international politics in shaping world society. Analysis of these revolutionary changes of the past five hundred years will offer a better understanding of world society today.
demonstrate an understanding of World Civilization from the 16th century to the present by comparing the diverse political and economic structures of each civilization /or nation covered in the course (SLO #1).
HIST 310 History of the United States
Advisory: ENGWR 300 with a grade of "C" or better
Transferable: CSU (Previously HIST 312); UC (History 310 & 320 combined: Maximum transfer credit is one course. )
CID: C-ID HIST 130 (effective Fall 2019)
This is a survey course on the establishment and development of the United States from its colonial beginnings to the end of Reconstruction in 1877. Particular emphasis will be placed upon the political, economic, social, and cultural developments of the United States during the designated time period. The course will cover the ideological influences that were instrumental in shaping the Constitution and other related government structures. Additionally, the course will address the institution of slavery and how the divisive issue dismembered the nation and further complicated the process of Reconstruction.
SLO #1 Demonstrate a basic knowledge of the key events, individuals, and themes that have shaped United States history, to 1877.
Transferable: CSU (Previously HIST 313.); UC (HIST 311 & 321 combined: Max transfer credit is one course.)
This is a survey course on the development and growth of the United States from Reconstruction to the present day. Particular emphasis will be placed upon the political, economic, social and cultural developments during the designated time period. The course will cover the establishment and evolutionary status of the U.S. as a leading world power. Additionally, the course will address the changes to American society resulting from various revolutionary movements on race, gender, orientation, and labor. Includes coverage of California state and local government.
Demonstrate a basic knowledge of the key events, individuals, and themes that have shaped United States History from 1865-Present (SLO #1).
HIST 312 History of the United States (to 1865)
Transferable: CSU; UC (HIST 312 and 320 combined: maximum transfer credit is one course)
HIST 313 History of the United States (1865-1945)
This is a survey course on the development and growth of the United States from the end of Reconstruction in 1877 to the present day. Particular emphasis will be placed upon the political, economic, social and cultural developments during the designated time period. The course will cover the establishment and evolutionary status of the U.S. as a leading world power. Additionally, the course will address the changes to American society resulting from various revolutionary movements on race, gender, orientation, and labor. Includes coverage of California state and local government.
HIST 314 Recent United States History
This is a survey of the development and growth of the United States from the conclusion of World War II in 1945 to the present. Particular emphasis will be placed upon the political, economical, social, and cultural developments of the United States during the designated time period. The course will also address the establishment of the United States as a world power following the Second World War. Finally, particular emphasis will center upon the social and economical conditions of various minority groups, especially African Americans.
demonstrate an understanding of United States History from 1945 to the present (SLO #1).
HIST 320 History of the United States: African-American Emphasis
U.S. History from the founding of Jamestown in 1607, through the Civil War. The course begins with a brief overview of the Black American's African heritage. It continues with the role played by African-American women as well as men in the growth and development of the nation. The U.S. Constitution and the establishment of American government institutions are also covered.
SLO #1 Students will demonstrate a basic knowledge of the key events, individuals, and themes that have shaped United States history, with an African-American to 1865.
U.S. History from 1865 to the present, including coverage of the state and local government, with an increased emphasis on the role of black women as well as men, spelling out their specific contributions in the growth and development of the nation. It includes coverage of California state and local government.
SLO #1 Students will demonstrate a basic knowledge of the key events, individuals, and themes that have shaped United States history,with an African-American Emphasis from 1865 to the present.
HIST 331 Women in American History
Survey history of the United States from 1607 to the present, emphasizing the economic and social conditions that gave women more actual respect and some public power. Course includes the roles of women in Native American tribes, the English heritage of the colonists, the contributions of women in creating new homes and farms, and the role of women in times of war. Emphasis on the role of women in the three major social issues of the 19th century: labor, abolition, and women's rights. Includes present-day issues and the legacy of how women in the past dealt with similar issues.
SLO #1 Demonstrate an understanding of the basic facts, themes and chronology involved in the account of Women in American History.
HIST 344 Survey of California History: A Multicultural Perspective
This is a survey course on the development and growth of California from its origins to the present time. Particular emphasis will be placed upon California's multicultural heritage and the state's significant local history. The course will examine, compare, and evaluate the historical experiences of Native Californians, Spanish, Mexican, Asian, African, and European Americans. Field trips to local sites of historical significance may be included.
Demonstrate understanding of California history from its origin to the present day (SLO #1).
HIST 360 History of African Civilizations
This course is an introductory survey of the history of Africa from earliest times to the present. Major topics will include origins of humanity and society, civilizations of the Nile Valley, the peopling of Sub-Saharan Africa, African societies to 1500 A.D. , precolonial Saharan and Sub-Saharan Africa, colonial Africa and the emergence of modern state in Africa.
SLO #1 Students will demonstrate a basic knowledge of the key events, individuals, and themes that have shaped African Civilizations.
HIST 364 Asian Civilization
This is a survey of Asian History from the birth of civilization to 1600 C.E. With particular emphasis on East Asia, the course will evaluate the political, economical, social, and cultural developments of China, Japan, and Korea. Additional topics will include the effects of foreign interactions with peoples from India, the Middle East, and Europe.
demonstrate an understanding of East Asian civilizations from the birth of such civilizations to the 17th century C.E. (SLO #1).
This is a survey of Asian History from 1600 C.E. to the present. With particular emphasis on China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, the course will evaluate the political, economical, social, and cultural effects of Western involvement in East Asia. Additional topics will include the rise of nationalism in East Asia during the Cold War, as well as China's rising participation in world events.
demonstrate an understanding of East Asian civilizations from the 17th century C.E. to the present (SLO #1).
HIST 370 History of the Americas through the 19th Century Wars of Independence
Advisory: Eligibility for ENGWR 300
This course is a general historical survey of North, Central, and South America from the earliest civilizations through to the 19th century wars of independence. The focus is on the roles played by political, economic, cultural, and religious forces in shaping the western hemisphere.
demonstrate an understanding of the history of the Americas to the 19th century wars of independence by comparing the diverse political and economical structures of each civilization and/or nation covered in the course (SLO #1).
HIST 371 History of the Americas from the 19th Century Wars of Independence to the Present
This course is a general historical survey of North, Central, and South America from the wars of independence to the present day. Special emphasis is placed on a review of the North American colonies, the road to revolution, independence from England, and the constitutional period as well as subsequent Latin American - United States relations. This course satisfies the state requirements in United States history.
demonstrate an understanding of the history of the Americas from the 19th century wars of independence to the present day by comparing the diverse political and economical structures of each civilization and/or nation covered in the course (SLO #1).
HIST 373 History of Mexico
History 373 is a survey course on the origins and development of Mexico from c. 2500 BCE to the present. In addition to discussing the early civilizations of Mesoamerica, the course will evaluate the political, economical, social, and cultural evolution of Mexico from the colonial era to the present day. Finally, Mexico's relationship with the United States and other western powers will be addressed.
demonstrate an understanding of the history of Mexico from the earliest Mesoamerican civilizations to the present day by comparing the key events, individuals, and themes that helped shape Mexican history from Mesoamerican heritage to the present (SLO #1).
HIST 380 History of the Middle East
This course surveys the history of the Middle East and North Africa with emphasis on the period from the 6th century C.E. (A.D.) to the present. The course focuses on the major social, economic, political and cultural transformations of the region, while taking into account both regional and global contexts of interaction and change in a comparative format. This course will provide students with a historical understanding of the impact of European colonialism, the discovery of petroleum and its consequences, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and the role played by the United States in the region.
DESCRIBE AND ANALYZE THE ANCIENT HISTORICAL CONTEXT OF THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA. - SLO 1
HIST 485 Recent United States History - Honors
Same As: HONOR 366
Prerequisite: ENGWR 101 or ESLW 320 with a grade of "C" or better, or equivalent skills demonstrated through the assessment process.
Enrollment is limited to students that are eligible for the Cosumnes River College Honors Program.
This course is an introduction to the study of American history from 1945 to the present day. It is an honors course that uses an intensive instructional methodology designed to challenge motivated students and cultivate advanced critical thinking skills. Particular emphasis will be placed on the role played by complex interrelationships of political, economic, social, and cultural forces in United States history after World War II, and the role played by multiple ethnic groups as well. This course is not open to students who have completed HIST 314. Enrollment is limited to Honors Program students. Details about the Honors Program can be found in the front of the Catalog and on the CRC website. This course is the same as HONOR 366 and only one may be taken for credit.
ANALYZE REASONING PROCESSES TO EVALUATE ISSUES, VALUE JUDGMENTS, OR CONCLUSIONS THAT DETERMINE THE QUALITY, VALIDITY, AND /OR RELIABILITY OF INFORMATION (SLO #1).
HIST 495 Independent Studies in History
Transferable: CSU
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The CRC History program offers a study of history which contributes to cultural literacy and develops critical thinking skills while helping students understand connections between the past and present.
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Competence and competence frameworks
Adapted from CIPD article on Competence and Competency Frameworks
What are competence and competency frameworks?
‘Competency’ and ‘competencies’ may be defined as the behaviours (and, where appropriate, technical attributes) that individuals must have, or must acquire, to perform effectively at work – that is, the terms focus on the personal attributes or inputs of the individual.
‘Competence’ and ‘competences’ are broader concepts that encompass demonstrable performance outputs as well as behaviour inputs, and may relate to a system or set of minimum standards required for effective performance at work.
A ‘competency framework’ is a structure that sets out and defines each individual competency (such as problem-solving or people management) required by individuals working in an organisation or part of an organisation.
In the past, HR professionals have tended to draw a clear distinction between ‘competences’ and ‘competencies’. The term ‘competence’ (competences) was used to describe what people need to do to perform a job and was concerned with effect and output rather than effort and input. ‘Competency’ (competencies) described the behaviour that lies behind competent performance, such as critical thinking or analytical skills, and described what people bring to the job. However, in recent years, there has been growing awareness that job performance requires a mix of behaviour, attitude and action and hence the two terms are now more often used interchangeably.
In line with the approach developed in a number of CIPD publications, the term ‘competency’ is preferred except when specifically referring to the use of occupational standards (that is, an ‘outcome-based’ approach) in which case the term ‘competence’ is used.
Basic principles of competency
Competencies are a signal from the organisation to the individual of the expected areas and levels of performance. They provide the individual with a map or indication of the behaviours and actions that will be valued, recognised and in some organisations rewarded. Competencies can be understood to represent the language of performance in an organisation.
Emergence of competency approaches
The concept of competencies emerged during the early 1980s as a response to organisational changes and drives for higher performance levels. US academic Richard Boyatzis produced a book during this time entitled The competent manager: a model for effective performance, which proved to have considerable influence on the HR profession. During the subsequent decades, competency frameworks have become an increasingly accepted part of modern HR practice.Where competencies are used, it is common for these to extend across the organisation and to be expressed within a single framework.
Changing focus of competencies
A 2008 report asserts that competencies are typically used to define the behaviours that an employer values and believes will help achieve its long-term goals. According to this report, competencies in the modern workplace usually fall into two categories: behavioural and technical.
While competency frameworks originally consisted mainly of behavioural elements, an expression of the softer skills involved in effective performance, increasingly they have become broader and more ambitious in scope and include more technical competencies. This development has been given greater momentum by advances in technology.
One recent variation is the use of ‘strengths-based’ approaches to recruitment and assessment. Such approaches can take the theme of competency to a new level by identifying individuals’ strengths, such as roles they particularly enjoy or at which they excel, and then matching them to appropriate types of work, hence enhancing individual performance.
Developing a competency framework; which behaviours should be included?
In designing a competency framework, care should be taken to include only measurable components. It is important to restrict the number and complexity of competencies, typically aiming for no more than 12 for any particular role (preferably fewer), and arranging them into clusters to make the framework more accessible for users. The framework should contain definitions and/or examples of each competency.
A critical aspect of all frameworks is the degree of detail. If a framework is too broad (containing only general statements about individual competencies), it will fail to provide adequate guidance either for employees as to what is expected of them or to managers who have to assess their staff against these terms. If, on the other hand, it is too detailed, the entire process becomes excessively bureaucratic and time-consuming and may lose credibility.
According to CIPD research, the typical titles found in employer competency frameworks include:
results-orientation
problem-solving.
Similar findings have emerged from other recent research.
When preparing a framework, it is important to take account of the legal background (for example, disability discrimination law) and ensure that none of the competencies discriminate against any particular group of employees or potential employees.
It is also important that when frameworks are used to assess competence, they recognise an individual’s potential to develop certain competencies and do not just collect evidence from use of a certain behaviour in the past.
Internal versus external approaches
Competency frameworks can be developed in a number of ways. Methods range from importing an existing off-the-shelf package through to developing the entire structure from scratch.
It is possible to draw on the external competency or competence lists produced in support of occupational standards and the framework of National and Scottish Vocational Qualifications. Frameworks developed in this way are often linked with progression towards recognised qualifications.
Alternatively, organisations may develop their competency frameworks through an internal research programme – sometimes aided by advisers from an external consultancy. The ideal solution might seem to lie between these two extremes, namely internally generating a framework that builds in business relevance while also drawing on external models that have been widely used and have proved successful.
However, CIPD research suggests that frameworks are usually designed in-house (with or without the help of consultants), while only a small minority use frameworks produced by an external organisation (for example a trade association or government body). Nevertheless, many of the subjects that are included in individual employers’ competency frameworks tend to fall under expected generic headings.
The practical use of competencies: how do Employers use competencies?
Early applications of competencies and competency frameworks focused mainly on performance management and development, particularly of more senior staff. Today, however, it is recognised that an effective competency framework has applications across the whole range of human resource management and development activities. The approach has become more popular in recruitment, for example, because it enables recruiters to assess against a clear range of criteria and behaviours.
Competency frameworks are now often seen as an essential vehicle for achieving high organisational performance through focussing and reviewing each individual’s capability and potential. Moreover a competency framework can be a key element in any change management process by setting out new organisational requirements.
According to CIPD research, employers most commonly use competency frameworks with the aim of achieving the following goals:
underpinning of employee reviews/appraisal
enhanced employee effectiveness
greater organisational effectiveness
better analysis of training needs
enhanced career management.
Implementing competency frameworks effectively
Steve Whiddett and Sarah Hollyforde, co-authors of our Competencies Toolkit, argue that:
‘Many organisations develop a competency/behaviour framework with a view to managing performance and progression more effectively. However, many managers and individuals find it hard to use the frameworks to help achieve their goals and, therefore, the goals of the organisation.’
The most common reasons for this are that people do not see the benefit of the framework and are not trained adequately; there are no clear links to what the business is aiming to achieve; and many frameworks are a mix of different concepts, which makes them unwieldy.
The authors suggest the following simple steps to check whether a competency framework is fit for purpose:
Communicate the purpose – The first step is to find out if employees understand what the purpose is. If they don’t understand how behaviours contribute to personal and organisational success, there is little point in updating or developing the framework.
Identify key themes – Even if staff are clear about the purpose of the framework, it still needs to support the organisation’s aspirations (goals, values, business plans, and so on). If people aren’t all working towards these aspirations then some individual efforts are likely to be diversions from organisational success.
Get conditions right – The organisation’s procedures need to support the framework, and the culture, resourcing and management structures must be supportive too. Be realistic: if conditions inhibit behaviours then change the conditions or change the behaviours.
Tackle the root cause – As well as goals and conditions, behaviour is also influenced by underpinning characteristics (knowledge, skills and attitude). One underdeveloped characteristic, such as communication skills, can affect many different behaviours. If managers don’t understand this distinction they may focus on trying to improve the behaviour without tackling the root cause.
Keep it simple – There are two key elements to ease of use – language and structure. However ‘perfect’ the framework, if it’s too complicated, long or detailed it won’t be used. The language has to be meaningful to the people who use it.
Train, don’t blame – Once the structure has been tidied up, make sure that everyone who uses the framework is trained in how to use it. A framework is a tool and, as with any tool, if users don’t know how to use it, it will fall into disuse or fail to meet its full potential.
Strengths and weaknesses
The main benefits of a competency-based system are argued to include the following:
Employees have a well-defined set of behaviours required in their work and are clear about how they are expected to perform their jobs.
The appraisal and recruitment systems are fairer and more open.
Recruiters are able to assess transferable skills and identify required behaviours regardless of career background.
There is a link between effective individual inputs to work and organisational performance.
Processes are measurable and standardised across organisational and geographical boundaries.
The main criticisms of competency frameworks usually suggest that they:
focus on the past and therefore cannot keep up to date with rapidly-changing environments
fail to deliver on anticipated improvements in performance
are unwieldy and not user-friendly
create clones, as everyone is expected to behave in the same way.
While such criticisms have been levelled with justification at poorly-developed frameworks, they also reflect a lack of understanding of competencies. The criticisms do not so much detract from the need and usefulness of competency frameworks as highlight the need for care and understanding when developing and implementing such frameworks.
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Here Comes the Sun...Can You Afford It?
April 1, 2016• Alternative Energy• by The Conversation
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory this week said that rooftop solar panels have the potential to generate nearly 40 percent of electricity in the U.S. However, what about the cost of going solar?
Many people ask when the cost of producing power from solar photovoltaic (PV) panels will be equal to or less than buying from the grid – a point called “grid parity” that could accelerate solar adoption.
However, in asking the question, they often compare apples to oranges and forget that the answer varies from place to place and from one type of installation to another.
For example, electricity from utility-scale solar systems (typically large arrays where panels slowly change tilt and orientation to face the sun all day) usually costs less than electricity produced from solar panels fixed on someone’s home. Also, residential electric rates, on average about 12 cents per kilowatt-hour in in the U.S., are much higher than wholesale electric rates – the price utilities pay to power generators – which are usually less than 4 cents per kilowatt-hour.
At the same time, different states have more or less sun – solar power in Florida is typically more economic than in Alaska, for instance. All of these factors make the question more complicated than people might anticipate.
How, then, can we compare the cost of rooftop solar to the cost of buying power from the local electricity grid and thereby find when which states will hit the point of grid parity?
Putting a number on solar cost
The levelized, or average, cost of electricity from a solar PV array is derived from all the money spent to buy, install, finance and maintain the system divided by the total amount of electricity that system is expected to produce over its lifetime. We call this value the Levelized Cost of Electricity (LCOE) and it’s expressed in terms of dollars per kilowatt-hour ($/kWh). The same metric can be used to determine the cost for a coal or natural gas plant. Planners like it because it reduces the cost of a power plant over a span of many decades into a single number.
Despite the strengths of LCOE as a metric – it is easy to understand and widely used – it has some shortcomings, too. Namely, it leaves out geographic variability, changes with seasons and usually ignores the cost of environmental impacts such as the cost of carbon emissions. This metric is a bit too simple when comparing variable wind and solar generators to power plants that you can turn on and off at will, such as those fueled by uranium, coal and natural gas.
Today the average cost of energy from solar PV in U.S. is reported to be 12.2 cents per kWh, which is about the same as the average retail rate.
Those who keep close tabs on electricity prices might think that it is about on par with what they are paying for their own electricity at home. This number can be misleading, however, because it represents the average price of utility-scale solar across the U.S., not necessarily the cost borne to produce electricity from solar panels on our homes.
So how do we know how close residential solar is to grid parity where you live? Ultimately, that depends on two things: how much you pay for the electricity you buy from the local grid, and how much can you be paid for the electricity you can produce from PV. Let’s look at both of them.
How much sun do you get?
The Energy Information Agency (EIA) has created a map of average electricity rates by zip code, averaged to the county level and remade by the author in the map below. The deep red (or darker) colors indicate higher average residential electricity rates.
Map of average electricity rates across the U.S. EIA
Electric rates vary a great deal across the country, and these differences could be caused by a number of economic, historical or regulatory reasons. Likewise, the costs of solar and the availability of the solar resource (i.e., how often and how strong the sun shines) also are not homogeneous throughout the U.S. The figure below shows the LCOE of residential solar across all counties nationwide.
LCOE of residential solar across the U.S.
The data on the residential solar costs were pulled together from an ongoing large-scale campus-wide research project at the Energy Institute at The University of Texas at Austin. The main assumptions behind the data are a total cost of US$3.50/Watt for the solar PV installation for a fixed array pointing south with a tilt of 25 degrees. Solar production data are based on a 2013 National Renewable Energy Laboratory study.
That southern orientation and tilt represent a rule of thumb and might not be the optimal solar placement in every locale.
The U.S. Department of Energy SunShot Initiative has a stated goal of lowering residential solar PV system installations to $1.50/Watt. Cheap PV panels from China have driven down the hardware costs to the point where the price of a total PV system is now dominated by “soft costs” – namely, customer acquisition, installation, supply chain, permit, etc. Still, total installed system costs continue to fall.
While those cost cuts are impressive, the major driver in the cost of energy produced is the amount of solar radiation that strikes the solar panels. Obviously, some locations are sunnier than others are so a solar array in Arizona will produce more energy than one in Washington state, making the system more economic for the homeowner.
In addition, the prevailing cost of electricity varies nationwide. Some of the areas with the lowest cost of grid power (e.g., Washington) have some of the highest solar costs because of low levels of sunshine. It will be difficult to make solar reach parity in those locations.
On the other hand, there are other locations where the price of grid electricity is high and the solar LCOE is relatively low, including New Mexico, California and Hawaii; these places are prime locations for solar to be at parity sooner.
To illustrate this point, we take the same information that underlies the solar cost map and reduce the total installed cost of installed solar in $0.50/Watt increments – from $3.50/Watt to $1.50/Watt (the SunShot goal). We can then subtract the electricity rate from the solar LCOE in every county. Where this difference is zero or negative (electricity rates > LCOE), we can estimate when that county will be at grid parity for residential solar PV.
Below is a GIF that shows the estimate of the point of parity as the price of installed solar falls. Note that the total installed costs include the federal investment tax credit and any local rebates and tax incentives.
GIF showing the locations where residential solar LCOE reaches parity with local average electric rates at various solar installed costs.
These calculations and estimates come with several caveats. First, the above calculation assumes that PV owners are paid for their generation at standard electric rates in their area. This arrangement is typically known as net metering.
However, there is a wide range of ways that utilities interact with customers who have installed solar PV. Some utilities may pay homeowners wholesale market rates for the excess electricity they feed into the grid from their panels, which tend to be considerably lower than retail rates. If utilities pay homeowners based on the wholesale rate, rather than the retail rate, solar is less economic.
However, that’s not all. One could add in the cost benefits of reducing CO2 emissions and other pollutants. On the other hand, there are costs associated with “firming up” the solar power when it’s nighttime or cloudy.
Keeping these factors in mind, the answer to the question is “Does it make economic sense for me to install solar?” It depends. As the map demonstrates, the crucial thing to watch, apart from any changes in electricity costs, is how quickly the overall costs of solar go down.
When will rooftop solar be cheaper than the grid? Here’s a map is republished with permission from The Conversation
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The Speechwriter, A Brief Education in Politics by Barton Swaim: Book Review
By Angela Hart
The Speechwriter is a memoir recounting Barton Swaim’s time as a speechwriter for the governor of South Carolina, Mark Sanford. The book is particularly interesting due to the nature of the narrative. The book is told from Swaim’s perspective. Being a new speechwriter, he is not necessarily at the forefront of the decision making going on within the department. In fact, a co-worker says, “Welcome to hell.” It is not long before Swaim realizes, “I wasn’t hired to come up with brilliant phrases. I was hired to write what the governor would have written if he had had the time.”
For a long time the job of speechwriter had sounded romantic to me. The speechwriter, I felt, was a person whose job it was to put words in the mouths of the powerful, who understood the import and varieties of political language and guided his master through its perils. The speechwriter was a clandestine character; until recently, anyway, you didn’t hear much about presidential speechwriters until after the president left office, and even then not so much. An air of mystery hangs about the word itself: “Speechwriter” or “speech writer”? One word or two? A speechwriter has all the gratification of being a writer but has political power, too, or at least a veneer of it, which was good enough for me.
Swaim makes note of an important difference between past and present speechwriters. Back when Nixon was campaigning, he only made a handful of public speeches. Now, politicians are required to make speeches on a regular basis thus their speechwriters need to produce much more work than ever before. A governor with whom Swaim worked would either prepare his speeches far in advance or look down at his note cards a mere five minutes before he went on (Swaim 99).
The one time the governor added a sentence to his speech, he made an egregious error. The governor compared himself to David, from the Bible. After pointing out the fact that a significant number of people in the audience would not have understood the story of David, aside from the fact he once killed a giant, Nat explained the reason for the David reference being a horrible choice. “He didn’t just commit adultery,” Nat said, “he had the woman’s husband murdered.” The governor then instructed his staff to come up with biblical references whom he could compare himself to in the future, asking them to complete the task for him. This incident occurs near the end of the book, but, as a reader, I considered it a pivotal characterization of the governor. He relied on his staff to make him appear intelligent, not being able to function properly without them.
Throughout the piece, Swaim bears witness to the day-to-day operations more so than the governor himself and, eventually, Swaim and other workers realize that they are more knowledgeable than the person they are working for. In the book, Swaim is very honest. He knew he was going into this particular field that he had not considered too much before hand. Swaim had an English background and was not necessarily a speechwriter, yet felt as if he could do a good job in this role.
Eventually, he became invested in the outcome of this politician’s career hoping to contribute to the general political realm by writing speeches that matter and craft a speech that encompasses all the rhetoric that he has studied over the years. The governor, however, does not adhere to the same literary goals. As someone invested in rhetoric, it pains me to see people blatantly ignore grammar or use words with the intention of manipulating. Swaim was hired to write simple speeches and letters to the editor stating how wonderful the Governor was. The position of speechwriter was a glorious role, but one the governor overlooked quite often. The governor “understood the fact that his staff were potentially just bureaucrats” as Swaim phrases it because he would barge into their offices and demand certain assignments or command them to repeat instructions. He did not treat them with a great deal of respect yet understood their value to his political gain.
In general, the governor is unlikeable. He will take shrimp and eggs from buffets and shove them into his pockets, refuse to use dry cleaners, and would rather sweat profusely than turn the air conditioning on. Swaim paints a picture of a stingy miser who lacks depth. However, one of the most interesting attributes that the governor possesses is his ability to appear warm and personable to constituents. Swaim cites the governor’s ability to move gracefully, appear relaxed, and engaged with whomever he is speaking with. In actuality, the governor tends to be more standoffish with his staff and yell at them on various occasions. Yet, the public sees the persona of a man whom they would respect in his political role. The book begins with the governor apologizing for an illicit affair he had while in office. The governor apologizes to his mistress first then to his family second. The campaign workers make note of this fact in their dialogue, further demonstrating the governor’s despicable nature.
At one point in the book, a character asks, “You want to kill him, don’t you?” To which he responds, “I’ve wanted to kill him many times … he’s a terrible person.” At the beginning of the story, the governor is depicted as someone with authority and prestige, yet the people who know him the best and work for him despise everything about him. After the affair was made public, Swaim thought that the local government had “been looking for an excuse to bury him for seven years and this would give them their chance” (Swaim 156). The staff continually work for him hoping that he will do well in office to ensure their own livelihood working for him. They are not necessarily there due to their political allegiances, but motivated to maintain an income.
I really enjoyed The Speechwriter. The scandalous nature of adultery paired with the public’s interest in entertainment makes it difficult for someone to fully repair their persona in politics after they are involved in a story of this magnitude. The Speechwriter shines a light on this reoccurring moment in politics in which the staff witnesses their candidate and their employer not only falter personally but professionally.
The people in the governor’s office have invested copious amounts of time and energy into his success. The staff ensured the governor’s laws were put into action and his speeches were the best they possibly could have been, yet he unravels all of their hard work by doing something outside of his office that directly affects them. When a candidate or political figure gives their apology address, they note their family and the many people whom they have hurt. The Speechwriter notes the perspectives of the aides and people around him, which is vastly different than previous pieces. With the governor’s impeachment, all of his workers were then affected by his personal decision.
The memoir is well written with an interesting perspective and many noteworthy pieces of dialogue between characters. Swaim is able to identify key individuals and their perceptions of the governor as well as their reasoning for working in politics. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in learning more about the behind-the-scenes elements of a politician’s world. As I mentioned before, as a person invested in rhetoric, it was interesting to see how it was utilized in politics and, at times, dismissed. The governor may have been the person whom the staff worked for, but they interacted with each other on a regular basis and their comments about the governor are reflective of a bigger issue at hand in the political realm. The character insights as well as Swaim’s notations offer a unique look into the back room of a politician’s office.
Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/The-Speechwriter-Brief-Education-Politics/dp/1476769923
Hardcover: 224 pages, Publisher: Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition (July 14, 2015), ISBN-10: 1476769923, & ISBN-13: 978-147676992
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Letsebe Sejoe – CEO: Botswana Investment & Trade Center
Aug 4, 2016 | Business
You are the Head of one of the key organisations involved in the promotion of investment in your country. The first question that pops in our minds is: Why Botswana?
Good morning, and thank you for your question. I wish to point out that as a country, we are well positioned to attract the right calibre and level of foreign direct investment that we seek for economic growth of our country. We are con dent that as an investment destination we offer a conducive environment for business to thrive and grow shareholder value, which is important to any investor. investors look at a number of key attributes in any business environment in order to make a good decision about an investment location. As a country, we consider ourselves to be highly competitive relative to our competitors in the region. Looking at some of the key performance indicators, as an investment destination we score highly in a number of areas, for example, according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report (2016) we are the third most competitive economy in SADC, after Mauritius and South Africa and forth in Africa. This particular index is reflective of our labour market efficiency, soundness of our institutions, and soundness of our macroeconomic environment as evidenced by commitment to sound fiscal policy, economic freedom and growth. Again, if you look at the Ease of Doing Business report (2016) by the World Bank Group we are ranked third in Africa, and well ahead of some of the larger economies within our region. The list is exhaustive. Therefore, based on these important indicators we believe as a country is in the right space to be able to attract the right quality of investors we are looking for.
One of the main challenges Botswana faces is its population’s size. What is the Government’s approach to overcoming it and is education and training on its priorities ‘list to accomplish a qualified human resource?
Botswana is uniquely positioned as a land-linked country. As such, for us, a country regional integration is a key driver to attracting investors in Botswana. We, therefore, have the bene t to belonging to a highly integrated regional trade community called SADC, which has over 250 million consumers. Being part of the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) gives an investor an opportunity to access more than 60 million people. With regards human resource development our Government continues to spend a lot of money on training. Education is a basic right for every child in the country. Therefore, in Botswana education is still free from government primary schools up to universities and colleges. Where an employer trains the local staff for accredited courses the employer will get deductible training rebate of 200%.
The first issues which every potential investor looks into about a country to pursue an economic venture are: political stability, taxation policies and labour relations? What does Botswana offer in these areas?
That’s absolutely spot on! As a matter of fact, we have observed a great shift and move by investors from the destinations and regions that are viewed as more volatile politically and economically, to much more stable and predictable economies such as Botswana. Botswana continues to enjoy political stability as underpinned by strong institutions and we pride ourselves with a sound legal system and adherence to the rule of law. We are a much more transparent business environment where things are done with a lot of predictability, something that resonates very well with investors. We offer a highly competitive tax regime, with some of the lowest tax rates in the region for both companies and individuals. Compared to our peers we deem ourselves as highly competitive. For example, corporate tax rate in Botswana is 22% versus per average of about 27%. We offer 15% for manufacturing companies, iFSC companies and companies operating within the Botswana innovation Hub, and the Special Economic Zones, as well as a negotiable tax holiday up to 10 years maximum. We have a progressive personal tax regime which picks at 25% maximum. in terms of labour relations the relationship between employers, employees and labour unions is very cordial and mutual as governed by a number of labour laws such as the Employment Act, and the Trade Disputes Act. Our labour movement, though not passive, is certainly not militant. The labour force is highly stable offering investors with necessary high levels of productivity and efficiency in the workplace, which unfortunately is not the case with some of our neighbouring countries which are often characterised by strike seasons, protracted courts episodes due to perennial industrial actions and trade disputes, and so forth.
Corruption has tainted the possibility of fast growth all over the African continent. What are the steps taken by your authorities to fight this universal moral virus?
Corruption is an unnecessary and undesired evil which as a country have worked very hard to ensure we are able to curb and eradicate. Our government has got zero tolerance for crime as a matter of policy. We have strong, sound and independent institutions of governance enacted by an Act of Parliament such as the Directorate of Corruption and Economic Crime, and the Financial intelligence Authority. Our efforts as a country in this regard continue to yield the desired results. it is pleasing to note that we are ranked number one in Sub-Saharan Africa & 28 in the world in the corruption perceptions index by Transparency international (2016). The challenge for us is being able to diffuse the stereotyped perception that Africa is a single country and therefore a corrupt nation. As the BiTC we would like to ensure that our positioning in the minds of investors is well understood and that investors are able to differentiate us from the rest of the continent.
In our modern world, information and communication technology is vital to surviving. Africa as a whole has failed in internet connectivity, what is Botswana planning to do in this regard?
As a country we have invested heavily in improving and modernising our connecting to the rest of the world, internet-wise. We have now established a high capacity, and high-speed data transmission capabilities by way of an enabling infrastructure, and we continue to build on this capacity. We have invested heavily in the national fibre network, as well as international connectivity. One such investment has been the East African Submarine Cable System (EASSy) which connects Botswana through Durban, South Africa, to Europe, the Americas, the middle East and Asia. This provides Botswana with an alternative connectivity route. The West Africa Cable System will when completed connect Botswana through Namibia to the west and through to the United Kingdom. All these initiatives should increase competition and reduce the cost of telecommunications in the sub-region resulting in operational communication (internet and data transmission) being efficient, fast, reliable and affordable.
As a landlocked country, how is Botswana preparing itself to become a manufacturing country and how does it plan on exporting such goods?
As a country, we intend to fully leverage of unique positioning in terms of location. As a matter of fact, we do not look at ourselves as landlocked, we are a land-linked country. Therefore, for any company looking at expanding and internationalising its operations it makes sense to produce goods in Botswana using the country as a logistical hub to distribute further into the region and beyond, servicing existing and new markets. Companies producing in Botswana can bene t from a number of regional and international trade agreements that Botswana is party to, such as SACU – the oldest existing customs union in the world comprising of Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa and Swaziland and offering free interchange of goods within member states( duty free and quota free market access) in a market of more than 60 million people; AGOA which offers duty free and quota free market access to the USA for over 6,500 product lines; and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Trade Protocol & SADC-EU EPA which was signed recently this year in June and gives asymmetric market access to the partners and even more importantly guarantees access of Botswana goods, and those of other partners, to the EU market without any duties or quotas. For its part, the Government of Botswana continue to invest in key infrastructural projects such as airports expansions, improved road networks, including the ongoing Kazungula bridge which connects Botswana and Zambia will improving linkage to the north by way of facilitating ease of movement of goods further into the northern part of the region. We are well connected by road to South Africa to the south, Zambia and Zimbabwe to the north, and Namibia to the west by a network of tarred roads. The Trans-Kalahari Corridor links South Africa and Walvis Bay in Namibia and transcends through Botswana, while the North-South Corridor of key Sub-Saharan transport routes also passes through Botswana. Botswana Railways together with South Africa’s Spoornet to the south and National Railways of Zimbabwe to the north provides a connection to the north and south of an unbroken rail link to Zambia, the DRC, Angola, Mozambique, Tanzania and Malawi.
What are the immediate and competitive incentives offered by Botswana to all potential foreign and local investors?
In addition to some of the competitive tax bene ts indicated above, as a country, we do not have foreign exchange controls. The investment strategy is very basic and simple meaning that an investor is able to bring in capital in Botswana and will be allowed, by law, to fully remit and repatriate his capital, including all his/ her pro ts and dividends if s/he so wishes. This is indicative of our own confidence in our ability to retain and grow investment within our country. We do not have any law restriction business ownership in the country. We offer duty- free import of machinery and equipment for manufacturing purposes, customs duty exemption on raw materials for goods going outside of SACU, deductible training rebate of 200%, access to a growing network of Double Taxation Avoidance (DTA) Treaties, and other incentives for iFSC accredited companies, just to mention a few.
What fields are Botswana prioritising to be the spearheads of development and what is the strategy within?
In all the productive sectors that we focus on economic diversification has been the key consideration. The key sectors that we are actively promoting as opportunities for investment in Botswana are:
Minerals Sector: Mining and base metals, such as gold, uranium, copper, nickel, coal, manganese and mining services.
Education Sector: Provision of speciality training institutions the will create and build skills and expertise in the various sectors of our economy such as hospitality and tourism, mining and energy. Services Sector: Data Processing, iCT, Financial Services, Tourism, Health.
Energy Sector: Power generation, extraction of coal bed methane and renewable energy projects such as solar PV plants and solar power generators as well as bio-fuel projects.
Agriculture: Primary production and agro-processing.
Diamonds: Cutting and polishing, jewellery manufacturing and diamond related services.
Resource-Based Industries: Glass manufacturing, leather and leather by-products manufacturing, beef and beef by-products, agro- processing, dairy farming, diamond beneficiation.
Infrastructure: Transportation and logistics
In terms of strategy, we leverage on the natural resources that have as a country such as minerals (diamonds, copper, nickel, coal, etc) with a view to domestically beneficiation these resources, just as we have recently done in the diamond sector. We also take advantage of some of the acquired skills that we have developed over time such as our labour market efficiency, with an 82% literacy rate, including technological skills and infrastructure such as our well distributed optical fibre network connectivity.
Any last inspiring words to attract any of our readers as one of Botswana’s future investors?
I think the key message to investors is that come and explore Botswana for business opportunities. Botswana is a place to invest, work and live. We will do our best as BiTC to ensure we roll out the carpet for you by way of providing you with superior service/ quality. We hope to see you soon in Botswana. I thank you.
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From left: Andrea Herrera Moreno, Ana Dison, Tricia Berry, Amy Beebe
Tricia Berry, Director
Named one of the 100 Women Leaders in STEM by STEMconnector, Tricia Berry leads efforts to recruit and graduate women in the Cockrell School of Engineering as director of the Women in Engineering Program at The University of Texas at Austin. She concurrently serves as collaborative lead for the Texas Girls Collaborative Project, leading the dissemination of STEM best practices and informal curriculum across Texas in coordination with the National Girls Collaborative Project. Through both roles, she connects and supports organizations and individuals working to advance gender equality in STEM fields across Texas and beyond.
Berry is also co-founder and executive vice president for 825 Basics and the co-author of "You Can’t Eat Your Degree: Combine Your Passions and Philosophies to Create the Story of Your Future" and "Exceeds Expectations: Take Control of Your Performance Review." Previously, Berry worked as a process engineer and a product development engineer at the Dow Chemical Company in Freeport, Texas. Berry received her B.S. in chemical engineering from The University of Texas at Austin in 1993 and her MBA from the University of Houston-Clear Lake in 1999. Berry is a Society of Women Engineers Life Member and a member and past president of the Women in Engineering ProActive Network.
In addition to the STEMconnector recognition, Berry has been recognized for her efforts in gender equality and STEM with the 2011 SXSW Interactive Dew Winburne Community Service Award, 2014 Girl Scouts of Central Texas Women of Distinction Award, 2014 WEPAN Founders Award and 2014 Skillpoint Alliance Unlocking the Potential Award.
Ana Dison, Assistant Director
Ana Dison is the assistant director of the Women in Engineering Program and coordinates all current student programming, including the First-Year Initiative, Kinsolving Learning Community, WEP Leadership Seminar, Graduates Linked with Undergraduates in Engineering (GLUE) research program, the Peer Assistance Leader program, Consider Every Option dinners and the Women In the Second Year of Engineering program. She typically teaches three to four classes each semester, including the WEP Leadership Seminar and the GLUE undergraduate research seminar. She led efforts to create a partnership with the UT College of Natural Sciences to develop and deliver bias and inclusion workshops and trainings across the university for students, staff and faculty. Dison supervises full- and part-time staff and oversees the business and personnel operations of the office. She joined the WEP office in 2006.
Dison earned her bachelor's degree in kinesiology from The University of Texas at Austin in 1992 and her master's degree in college student services administration from Oregon State University in 1994. After working for two years at the University of Maryland in recreation services, Dison returned to UT Austin in 1996 and served as assistant director in the Division of Recreational Sports, coordinating membership services and satellite facilities as well as overseeing a large part-time student staff.
She joined Texas Engineering in 2000 and served as an academic advising coordinator in the Engineering Student Services office, advising thousands of students and coordinating a wide variety of student programs. Additionally, she served as the degree evaluator for the Cockrell School for four years. Dison has served on numerous committees across campus, has been president of the Academic Counselor's Association and served for three years in the inaugural group of the UT Staff Council. Dison co-chaired the Provost's Council on Student Advocacy for three years and has served two terms as president of the Academic Counselors Association. She continues to be active in the UT Austin community, working with peer and professional mentoring programs. She has presented to numerous groups on a variety of leadership, inclusion and career-focused topics.
A member of the Women in Engineering ProActive Network (WEPAN) since 2006, Dison completed a two-year appointment to the WEPAN Board of Directors as communications director in 2015. She received the Cockrell School of Engineering Staff Excellence Award and the Eyes of Texas Award in 2011 and the university's Outstanding Staff Award in 2012. After serving 20 years as a high school volleyball official in the central Texas area, Dison retired from the Texas Association of Sports Officials in 2011. Since 2003, she has been designing and creating custom jewelry and loves to golf in her spare time.
Amy Beebe, Student Program Coordinator
Amy Beebe is the student program coordinator for the Women in Engineering Program, working on programming for current students. She assists with the recruitment, training and management of WEP’s Peer Assistance Leaders and assists with the management of the WEP Leadership Collaborative student organizations. Beebe earned her B.A. in psychology from The University of Texas at Tyler. She previously worked as an event coordinator for UT's College of Natural Sciences Honors and Student Life office before joining WEP in December 2017.
Beebe has been an active member of the UT Hispanic Faculty and Staff Association since 2015. She is currently an advising program mentor for Con Mi Madre — a nonprofit organization that helps young Latinas graduate high school and prepares them for post-secondary education. Beebe enjoys spending time with her dog Jenny and trying new restaurants in Austin.
Andrea Herrera Moreno, Outreach Program Coordinator
As the outreach program coordinator for the Women in Engineering Program, Andrea Herrera Moreno works with the K-12 education community to inspire more girls and young women to pursue engineering degrees at The University of Texas at Austin. She is passionate about WEP's outreach programs, including Girl Day at UT Austin and the immersive, hands-on programs for high school students in the summer.
Originally from Mexico City, Herrera Moreno has lived on three continents and moved to the United States for college. She earned her B.A. in international political economy from Colorado College and is currently pursuing a MicroMasters in data, economics and development policy from MITx.
Susan Stanford, Administrative Associate
As the administrative associate for the Women in Engineering Program, Susan Stanford processes accounting documents, voucher payments, travel documents and serves in various other business functions for WEP. She also works part-time for the Equal Opportunity in Engineering Program office in the Cockrell School of Engineering. Stanford attended UT Austin and previously worked as an advisor in the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering for several years. Her favorite color is purple and she loves queso.
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EB Rebel is an emcee/songwriter/producer based in Dallas, Texas. Being raised by an artist, EB was introduced in to the creative world at a very early age. Invariably, her music has been heavily inspired by the lot of artists she had looked up to during her childhood. On her mixtape ‘Rebel with a Cause’ which was released in August 2014, the portrait was drawn by her artist mother Sandra Tave-Moore.
Her story-telling is vivid and conveys the dreams that many young audiences can identify with. She has an edgy flow to her songs and there is always a thought provoking message, over futuristic and progressive production. Her eccentric sound stems from the range of musical influences including Lauryn Hill, Bob Marley, Missy Elliot and Kanye West. Just like these artists, EB Rebel too uses her music as a tool to spread her message. The uncanny similarity she holds to a normal, young adult has attracted listeners. Most of them can relate to her music because she performs at such a level.
Since the release of the lead single and video for the TRANCE EP “Don’t Care”, EB Rebel has had mounds of favorable press and opportunities in music and film. From landing on Dallas/Fort Worth’s Central Track’s buzz rankings and mentions, to being featured in the popular national online publication AfroPunk, to having “Don’t Care” featured in “Stay Woke” - a BET documentary, this year has already been a whirlwind of forward progress with no pause in sight.
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You are here : Home » Cyprus » Religions and society » Religious minorities » The Maronite Community
The Maronite Community
The earliest settlements of Maronites in Cyprus date back to the 8th Century A.D, when Islamic conquests and inter-Christian rivalries caused many Maronites from Syria and Palestine to take refuge on the island. The available historical sources give reason to assume the existence of active communities on the island, with their own clergy residing among them, by the early 12th century. Throughout the Latin Period (1192-1572), Maronite immigration continued. Many Maronites followed Guy de Lusignian’s call for Christians of the Near East to settle on the island. Yet, the Maronite Community did not only thrive during the Latin Period, but also experienced Latinizing pressures, especially under the Venetians (1489-1572).
Following the Ottoman Conquest of the island, the Maronite Community had to face up to further suppression and severe restrictions of their rights. Many immigrated to Lebanon or followed the Venetians to Malta. Throughout the 17th century, large numbers of Christians, Maronites as well as Greek Orthodox, adjusted to the new hegemonial system by converting to Islam. In 1671, the Latin clergy was exiled from Cyprus. The confessional proximity of the Maronites and Latin populations, as well as the new aggravated circumstances for Catholics, brought the Maronite and Catholic communities closer together. In 1690, Archbishop Maronios held the service in the Maronite and Roman-catholic rite.
The Maronite Communities also experienced pressures from the Orthodox populations. Following an original Berat of the Sultan, they were subjected to the jurisdiction of the Orthodox Church in the mid 18th century. The Maronite Clergy preferred to reside in Lebanon, and it was not until a French intervention in 1845, that a Maronite bishop returned once again to the island as general vicar. After continuous regression of their numbers on the island, the Maronite Community recovered under British administration (1878-1960). Their political and religious rights were consolidated, while the new government financed the building of schools.
The Demographic Report of the year 2004 estimates the Maronite population of Cyprus at 4.800 people. Following the interethnic conflicts of 1963, most of the Maronites have emigrated to the South, where they live among the Greek Cypriots, making up about 0, 7 % of the Population. There are, however, four Maronite villages left in the North: Kormakiti, Asomatos, Agia Marina, Karpasia, with an overall population of about 200 persons.
As the Maronite Community of Cyprus has largely been agricultural, the experience of displacement of the rural populations has had a devastating effect on the small village communities. Yet, until the opening of the Green Line in 2003, Maronites had the right to acquire three-day passes for the North, while Maronites in the North were entitled to five day passes for the South. Thereby, the contact between the village communities and Maronite refugees in the South could be maintained.
With Government assistance they now have churches in Nicosia and Limassol, and one elementary school in Nicosia. Today, however, Maronites largely attend Greek Cypriot schools. The post-1974 period has been one of strong assimilation and increased intermarriage with Greek Cypriots. In 1998 the St Peter’s Centre or "Maronite Cypriot House" has been established in Lebanon, with the intentions to strengthen ties of Cypriot Maronites with their homeland and to provide a setting for the dissemination of, and education in Maronite religion and culture.
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Short Stories Reviews
The House of Mechanical Pain
by Chaz Brenchley
[rating:5/5]
Let me start by saying that “The House of Mechanical Pain” really resonated strongly with me. I really empathized with the female character in this one, and I will get into why in just a sec, but if that skewed my review of this story so be it. Actually this story hit so close to home I had a very hard time coming to terms with my reactions and then writing about them on this blog. If it wasn’t for this month’s theme of the Social Justice Challenge I might not have posted this at all. It’s a bit of a tender spot, to say the least.
“The House of Mechanical Pain” is a horrific short story from The Years Best Fantasy and Horror 2008 it is also included in the book Phantoms at the Phil: The Third Proceedings. It is about a woman named Tasha who wants her friend Jonny to come home with her to her family’s mansion where her father is about to sell off several items from the family estate that she holds dear. Part money grubbing move, part power play in this damaged and dysfunctional family, Jonny is supposed to take pictures of everything that is going into the sale, but really he is there as moral support for Tasha.
The Return of the Light
In The Return of the Light Carolyn McVickar Edwards assembles twelve legends, folktales and fairy tales told about the “return of light” that occurs at the winter solstice. I should have read this in December but when I came across it earlier this month I couldn’t help checking it out from the library. I wanted to know more about the roots of the older traditions surrounding the Winter Solstice before it was taken over by the Church. I didn’t really find that, but I did find several different takes from around the world on just what happens during the solstice, the shortest day of the year, and their explanations for why the sun goes away, and more importantly why it comes back after.
Splitfoot
by Paul Walther
The short story “Splitfoot” was published in The Years Best Fantasy and Horror 2008. It is a story about a young woman named Violet who is in financial debt with a man named Royce, to help get her out of debt she calls in her friend Trixie to exchange some property up north. Trixie pays off her debt by giving the land to Violet, Violet pays off her debt by then transferring the land to Royce. All right and tight. Until they go up to see the property and see that something there has somehow gone terribly wrong.
I read this story through twice. I still don’t think I understand completely what happened, why it happened, or what the ending was supposed to mean. The evil found haunting the house up north was frightening. What happened was horrifying in a very The Exorcist sorta kind of way. That said I’m not sure what to say to not spoil it because I don’t get what’s pertinent and what’s not. Did they bring the demon? Was the demon already there? Was the demon attached to one of the characters? Why did it target the child? Why did two of the three main characters pretend nothing had happened afterward? It was all very confusing and I’m afraid I didn’t catch the vibe at all with this one.
Hum Drum
by Gary McMahon
The short story “Hum Drum” turned out to be a really intriguing horror/psychic/ghost mystery with a truly chilling nemesis and a very interesting psychic protagonist Thomas Usher. This short story can be found in The Years Best Fantasy and Horror 2008 and The First Humdrumming Book of Horror Stories.
In it Thomas Usher works as a psychic detective, he can see and communicate with the dead and helps people unfortunate enough to be in dangerous circumstances with these ghosts. His job is to try and find out what they want, why they are there, and get them what they need to go back to where they came from. In this story a man purchases a sinister toy drum from an antique shop and feels compelled to drum it. Doing so summons the ghost and results in him having to find Thomas Usher as the ghost is even more sinister than the drum. What does the ghost want? Why is the ghost bothering this man? Why is the drum still sounding on and on and what will it take to make the beat of the drum finally stop?
This short story would have made a terrifying TV Show. I could just picture the drum, innocent at first, but slowly resembling more and more an ancient relic made of human bone and flesh. The ghost was at times truly terrifying and the ending was, well not totally unexpected, but what happened after certainly was. Thomas Usher was fascinating to read about and I loved how the ending showed so much about him and who he was and that there were more stories to tell. In fact the author is writing more about him and is publishing a book with further tales in To Usher, The Dead which is coming out later this year, but isn’t on Amazon yet.
by M. Rickert
This story ended up giving me chills. You can find it in The Years Best Fantasy and Horror 2008. “Holiday” is the name of a girl child ghost that starts appearing to a man in his apartment. He knows who she is. The author hints at, but never straight out says, that she is Jon Benet Ramsey. Thus starts a story that unravels through the sometimes sad, sometimes confusing and very hurt and terror filled world of a survivor of child sexual abuse, and his resulting ghosts.
By the end of the story I felt really sorry for him as it seemed to me in his trying to reach out to these ghosts he was trying to reach out to his own lost childhood and trying to reclaim what both he and the ghosts lost, even going so far as to dress as a clown for a child’s party for the ghosts. Someone else somewhere posted that it was a ghost clowning around with a grown clown. Which casts the ghosts in a far more sinister light. Child sexual abuse is shown to twist and distort reality for the sufferers in this story in a truly profound, and horrifying, way.
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Southern Conference 2009-2010 College Football TV Schedule
Friday, July 10, 2009 , Posted by Christopher Byrne at 3:14 PM, under 2009-2010 College Football Television Schedules, College Football, Southern Conference, SportSouth
The Southern Conference and SportSouth are teaming up for the 2009-2010 college football season, offering a slate of 8 games.
With a branding of SoCon Saturdays, SportsSouth will offer up the following schedule this fall:
Sept. 19 Western Carolina at Georgia Southern 7:00 pm et
Oct. 3 Elon at Furman 3:00 pm et
Oct. 10 Chattanooga at Samford 3:00 pm et
Oct. 17 Appalachian State at Wofford 3:00 pm et
Oct. 24 Georgia Southern at Appalachian State 3:00 pm et
Nov. 7 Wofford at The Citadel 3:00 pm et
Nov. 14 Appalachian State at Elon 3:00 pm et
Nov. 21 Wofford at Furman 3:00 pm et
Here is the official release, issued by the Southern Conference on July 2, 2009.
The Southern Conference and SportSouth today announced the 2009 Southern Conference football telecast schedule. Branded SoCon Saturdays, the Southern Conference football schedule on SportSouth includes eight football games and features all nine conference schools. Former Super Bowl player and coach Sam Wyche and play-by-play announcer Tom Werme return for their third season in the SportSouth booth for the SoCon Saturdays package.
The first broadcast of the season on Saturday, Sept. 19 pits Georgia Southern against Western Carolina in the rematch of an overtime thriller in 2008 when GSU mounted a furious rally to down the Catamounts in Cullowhee. The primetime matchup will kick off at 7 p.m. ET.
The 2008 conference champion Appalachian State and runner-up Wofford each make three SoCon Saturdays appearances this season. The two teams will meet Oct. 17 in Spartanburg as the Terriers look to avenge last season’s defeat in Boone.
Following the opener on Sept. 19, SportSouth will showcase Elon at Furman on Oct. 3 and Chattanooga at Samford on Oct. 10.
Appalachian State and Wofford battle on Oct. 17, and the four-time defending SoCon champion Mountaineers host Georgia Southern on Oct. 24.
The regular season schedule on SportSouth concludes with three key matchups down the stretch as Wofford travels to face instate rivals The Citadel (Nov. 7) and Furman (Nov.21) and Appalachian State visits Elon (Nov. 14).
The Southern Conference includes 12 schools from five states – Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee – all of which fall within the SportSouth distribution area. League members include Appalachian State University, College of Charleston, The Citadel, Davidson College, Elon University, Furman University, Georgia Southern University, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Samford University, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Western Carolina University and Wofford College.
The regional sports networks serving the Southeast – FOX Sports South, FOX Sports Carolinas and FOX Sports Tennessee – collectively reach more than 12.6 million cable and satellite television households in seven states in the Southeast and are the television home of the Atlanta Braves, Atlanta Hawks, Carolina Hurricanes, Charlotte Bobcats, Memphis Grizzlies and the Nashville Predators, as well as the Atlantic Coast Conference and the Southeastern Conference. SportSouth reaches more than 9.4 million homes in six Southeastern states and is the television home of the Atlanta Braves, Atlanta Thrashers and Southern Conference. SportSouth also offers expanded coverage of the University of South Carolina and University of Tennessee. Combined, the four networks produce more than 800 live local events each year, including 180 in high definition.
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Topic: Economic geography of the United Kingdom
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United Kingdom - MSN Encarta
United Kingdom, officially the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, island nation and constitutional monarchy in north-western Europe, member of the European Union and Commonwealth of Nations.
The United Kingdom is bordered to the south by the English Channel, which separates it from continental Europe, to the east by the North Sea, and to the west by the Irish Sea and the Atlantic Ocean; the only land border is between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
The crowns of England and Scotland were united in 1603, but the two countries remained separate political entities until the 1707 Act of Union, which formed the Kingdom of Great Britain with a single legislature.
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Learn more about United Kingdom in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Also under the sovereignty of the United Kingdom, though not part of the United Kingdom itself, are the Crown Dependencies of the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man and a number of Overseas Territories.
The United Kingdom is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations (successor organisation to the former Empire), the European Union and NATO.
Scotland's geography is varied, with lowlands in the south and east and highlands in the north and west, including Ben Nevis, the UK's highest mountain (1343 m).
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Clark University | Economic Geography Journal
Economic Geography is an internationally peer-reviewed journal, committed to publishing the best theoretically-based empirical articles that deepen the understanding of significant economic geography issues around the world.
Gernot Grabher is Professor of Economic Geography and Head of the Research Area Socio-Economics of Space at the University of Bonn, Germany.
Dr. Henry Wai-chung Yeung is Professor of Economic Geography in the Department of Geography, National University of Singapore.
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United Kingdom - Information, Resources, Links and Reference (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The United Kingdom is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean, and its ancillary bodies of water, including the North Sea, the English Channel, the Celtic Sea, St George's Channel, and the Irish Sea.
Economically costly wartime loans, loans taken in 1945 from the United States and from Canada, combined with post-war Marshall Plan aid from the United States started the United Kingdom on the road to recovery.
Scotland's geography is varied, with lowlands in the south and east and highlands in the north and west, including Ben Nevis, the highest mountain in the British Isles at 1,343 metres (4,406 ft).
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United Kingdom information - Search.com
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (usually shortened to the United Kingdom or the UK) is a political union occupying part of the British Isles in northwestern Europe, comprised of the constituent countries of England, Scotland, and Wales on the island of Great Britain, and Northern Ireland on the island of Ireland.
At the April 2001 UK Census, the United Kingdom's population was 58,789,194, the third-largest in the European Union (behind Germany and France) and the twenty-first largest in the world.
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United Kingdom at AllExperts
The United Kingdom is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean and its ancillary bodies of water- the North Sea, the English Channel, the Celtic Sea, and the Irish Sea.
The United Kingdom is one of the countries in the world with a comprehensive nuclear arsenal, utilising the submarine-based Trident II ballistic missile system with nuclear warheads.
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Economic geography of the United Kingdom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The economic geography of the United Kingdom reflects its high position in the current economic league tables, as well as reflecting its long history as a trading nation and as an imperial power.
With its dominant position gone, the UK economic geography is increasingly shaped by the one constant: it is a trading nation.
The combined effects of changing economic fortunes, economic restructuring and the decline of the UK as an imperial power have created the so-called North-South divide, in which decaying industrial areas of the north of England and Scotland contrast with the wealthy, finance-and-technology led southern economy.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Economic_geography_of_the_United_Kingdom (1568 words)
THE UNITED KINGDOMS OF ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, NORTHERN IRELAND AND WALES
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (usually shortened to the United Kingdom, U.K. or the UK) is a country situated in the British Isles off the north-western coast of continental Europe, and surrounded by the North Sea, the English Channel, the Celtic Sea, the Irish Sea, and the Atlantic Ocean.
The United Kingdom, often (inaccurately) referred to simply as 'Britain', is a constitutional monarchy and a unitary state, composed by the political union of four constituent parts: the three constituent countries of England, Scotland, and Wales on the island of Great Britain, and the province of Northern Ireland on the island of Ireland.
The United Kingdom's high literacy rate (99%) is attributable to universal public education introduced for the primary level in 1870 and secondary level in 1900 (except in Scotland where it was introduced in 1696).
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History of the United Kingdom
Among these are a political, administrative, cultural, and economic center in London; a separate but established church; a system of common law; distinctive and distinguished university education; and representative government.
By the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815, the United Kingdom was the foremost European power, and its navy ruled the seas.
As one of five permanent members of the UN Security Council, a founding member of NATO, and of the Commonwealth, the United Kingdom pursues a global approach to foreign policy; it currently is weighing the degree of its integration with continental Europe.
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The UK was formed by a series of Acts of Union which united the formerly self-governing nations of England, Scotland and Wales together with the province of Northern Ireland, a region on the island of Ireland (the rest of Ireland left the United Kingdom in 1922).
In form, the United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy with legislative power invested in an elected government, and executive power invested in a Cabinet led by the Prime Minister whose power, though carried out in the monarch's name, is answerable to Parliament and through it the electorate.
The monarchy of the United Kingdom is symbolically shared with 15 other sovereign countries that are known as Commonwealth Realms, although Britain has no political or executive power over these independent nations, it retains influence, through long-standing close relations.
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RESER Survey 2000: Country Report United Kingdom
This period of reinvention of the discipline of economic geography is the consequence of the development of a ‘cultural turn’ in the social sciences (Bryson et al.
Suffice it to say the new economic geography embraces both theoretical and methodological developments that have altered, and are still altering, the types of economic geographies constructed in the United Kingdom.
One consequence of this movement is the apparent fragmentation of economic geography into a discipline of multiple and sometimes conflicting approaches to understanding the geography of the economy.
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sociology - United Kingdom
The United Kingdom is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations (successor organisation to the former British Empire) and NATO.
Queen Elizabeth II The United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy, with executive power exercised by a government headed by the Prime Minister and the other Ministers of State who form the Cabinet.
Also sometimes associated with the United Kingdom, though not constitutionally part of the United Kingdom itself, are the Crown dependencies (the Bailiwicks of Jersey and Guernsey, and the Isle of Man) as self-governing possessions of the Crown, and a number of overseas territories under the sovereignty of the United Kingdom.
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United Kingdom (02/07)
The United Kingdom's high literacy rate (99%) is attributable to universal public education introduced for the primary level in 1870 and secondary level in 1900.
The United Kingdom is a founding member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and is one of NATO's major European maritime, air, and land powers; it ranks third among NATO countries in total defense expenditure.
The United Kingdom is one of the United States' closest allies, and British foreign policy emphasizes close coordination with the United States.
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On November 15, 1985, the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland signed the Anglo-Irish agreement to diminish the divisions in Northern Ireland and to achieve peace and stability.
U.S.-U.K. The United Kingdom is one of the United States' closest allies, and British foreign policy emphasizes close coordination with the United States.
The United Kingdom is an energy-rich nation with significant reserves of oil and gas in the North Sea and large coal resources.
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Geography of the United Kingdom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The geology of the United Kingdom is varied and complex.
As a result of its industrial history, the United Kingdom has an extensive system of canals, mostly built in the early years of the Industrial Revolution, before the rise of competition from the railways.
The economic geography of the UK reflects not only its current position in the global economy, but its long history both as a trading nation and an imperial power.
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United Kingdom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The UK was formed by a of Acts of Union which united the formerly self-governing nations of England Scotland and Wales together with the province of Northern Ireland a region on the island of Ireland (the rest of Ireland left the Kingdom in 1922).
Also under the sovereignty of the United Kingdom though not of the United Kingdom itself are the Crown Dependencies of the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man and a number of Overseas Territories.
In form the United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy with legislative power invested in an government and executive power invested in a Cabinet led by the Prime Minister whose power though carried out in monarch's name is answerable to Parliament and through it the electorate.
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Forty-nine states in the United States (all except Hawaii) lie on the North American continent; 48 of these (all except Alaska) are contiguous and form the continental United States.
It is from the United States side, that the great Mississippi system discharges southward to the Gulf of Mexico.
New England - One of the regions first settled by the European immigrants, this region lies in the upper north east of the U.S. Geographically, this region is dominated by rocky uplands and sandy outwash plains and with a climate having stark seasonal changes.
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The UK was formed by a series of Acts of Union which united the Kingdom of England (which included Wales as a principality) with those of, first, Scotland and then Ireland under a single government in London.
In the early years of the "United Kingdom of Great Britain", formed by the Act of Union of 1707, it was customary to refer officially to Scotland and to England and Wales as, respectively, "North Britain" and "South Britain", though the usage never really caught on.
The anchor representing the Royal Navy, the crossed swords the Army, and the Eagle the Royal Air Force The armed forces of the United Kingdom are known as the British Armed Forces or Her Majesty's Armed Forces, officially the Armed Forces of the Crown.
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The United Kingdom is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations (successor organization to the former Empire), the European Union and NATO.
The United Kingdom is a very centralized state, with London's Westminster Parliament holding responsibility for most of the political affairs of the Kingdom.
The United Kingdom has two of the most famous universities in its borders, the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford, and has brought forth famous scientists and engineers such as Isaac Newton, James Watt, Charles Darwin, and Alexander Fleming.
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United Kingdom: History, Geography, Government, and Culture — Infoplease.com
The United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy and parliamentary democracy, with a queen and a parliament that has two houses: the House of Lords, with 574 life peers, 92 hereditary peers, and 26 bishops; and the House of Commons, which has 651 popularly elected members.
Although there were continuing economic problems and foreign policy disputes, an upswing in the economy in 1986–1987 led Thatcher to call elections in June, and she won a near-unprecedented third consecutive term.
Devolution in the United Kingdom: statehood and citizenship in transition.
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Amazon.ca: Development, Geography, and Economic Theory: Books: Paul Krugman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Economic geography seems to have fared even worse, as economists shied away from grappling with questions about space -- such as the size, location, or even existence of cities -- because the "terrain was seen as unsuitable for the tools at hand."
Development and economic geography, he argues, failed because they did not submit themselves to the discipline of model-building - what might look or even be at first sight downright silly in the end is preferable to the unconscious metaphors of the narrative economic discourse.
Development and economic geography - together with income distribution - belong to the derelict class of economic problems that addresses the question of historical disparities of wealth in the economic tissue.
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GeographyIQ - World Atlas - Europe - United Kingdom - Historical Highlights
By the time of Queen Victoria's death in 1901, other nations, including the United States and Germany, had developed their own industries; the United Kingdom's comparative economic advantage had lessened, and the ambitions of its rivals had grown.
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LOCATION and GEOGRAPHY: United Kingdom is located off the northwestern coast of Europe between the Atlantic Ocean and the North Sea.
It is separated from the continent by the Strait of Dover and the English Channel, and from the Irish Republic by the Irish Sea and the St. Georges Channel.
The United Kingdom is comprised of four constituents, England, Wales and Scotland which alone form Great Britain and combined with Northern Ireland and several island groups, form the United Kingdom.
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Firm migration patterns in in the Netherlands and in the United Kingdom. An end of twenty calm years of geographical ...
Firm migration patterns in in the Netherlands and in the United Kingdom.
Firm migration in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom Cees-Jan Pen and Ilaria Mariotti In the 1970s firm migration was an important research topic in West European economic geography.
Furthermore, especially in the United Kingdom the liberal policy of the Thatcher government aims at declining the governmental influence on for example firms.
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Music is a powerful vehicle that can change lives, and few wield that power with more passion and skill than Jen Ledger. After a decade as the drummer for multi-platinum rockers Skillet, the talented Brit has toured the world and is now ready to unleash her own musical vision with her debut EP, LEDGER.
“The thing that makes me most passionate about doing music is to be someone who is actually singing about hope,” she says with a toss of her sapphire tresses. “There are things about life that matter so much more than what social media portrays. I want to be a voice of hope and life – to bring people up with my music rather than be a voice that tears them down.”
Show MoreThe youngest of four children, Ledger grew up in Coventry, England and took up the drums at 13 because she wanted to impress her older brothers. Two years later, little sis was a top female finalist in a national competition in the U.K. Soon after she was awarded a scholarship at a music school in the U.S. At 16, she left home for what she thought would just be a 10-month program, but there were bigger things in store than she could have ever imagined.
A friend told Ledger that Skillet was looking for a new drummer and encouraged her to audition. The shy 17-year-old initially brushed off the suggestion, but her friend coaxed her into meeting Skillet frontman, John Cooper and his wife Korey, and she showed them her skills. “The idea of performing felt huge and terrifying, and I just didn’t feel like I was any good at the drums,” she confesses. “I was just so sure that everyone else around me was better.”
Well the Coopers didn’t think so and called her back for what she thought was just a second audition. She was surprised to find it wasn’t another audition. She had gotten the gig. “The main thing I’ve learned from touring with Skillet is just how impactful music is. I have traveled the world from Russia to Japan to Australia and I have seen music impact people,” says Ledger, who joined the band a few days after turning 18, and played her first sold out arena show. “I’ve heard people all over the world say, ‘You’ve saved my life,’ and it’s an honor to be able to be a part of anything that influential. My own life has been transformed by the reality of God and His grace and goodness, and I want my music to reflect the truth and hope of Jesus. I’ve seen music have power and bring light; to save people and to help people get over addiction or empower people that want to give up. I’ve seen music go above and beyond what you could ever imagine.”
Armed with that sense of purpose, Ledger embarks on her solo career as a woman on a mission. Working with producers Seth Mosley and Korey Cooper, Ledger has crafted a stellar debut that showcases her emotion-laden vocals and insightful songwriting. “Korey produced a song called ‘Warrior’ that features John Cooper,” Ledger shares. “This is a song about being a warrior. It’s empowering. It says, ‘I’m not going to let whatever the world screams at me hold me back.’ We will be free and we will be brave.”
Ledger penned the poignant ballad “Ruins” with Korey six years ago. “It was one of the first songs we wrote together, and she really challenged me to get a lot deeper with my lyrics and just be really vulnerable in it,” Ledger says. “To this day it is one of my favorite songs I’ve ever written.”
“Not Dead Yet” is a song Ledger wrote in response to her battle with anxiety. “It was actually affecting me in my life and my choices,” she admits. “I wanted to hold back. I was writing and working towards a solo career, but my anxiety made me feel like I shouldn’t even try. It was quite crippling honestly. I had a night where I was just panicking, and I felt really afraid and I’m like, ‘What if this is something I battle for the rest of my life?’ Korey looked at me and said, ‘You never let fear rob you of your own life. You fight until the day that you die.’ It was one of the most impactful conversations that I’ve had. I won’t give up. Maybe I’m not the best. Maybe I’m not the strongest. Maybe there are a million people who can do this better than me. Maybe everything I’m scared of is true, but it’s not going to stop me from going for it. It’s not going to stop me from living my life. I’ll never give up fighting it. I won’t let it take me out. Anxiety and depression in young people now is taking over the world more than ever and I’m hoping that this song will be as powerful to them as it has been to me.”
As the first female artist for Hear It Loud, the label imprint the Coopers launched with manager Zach Kelm in partnership with Atlantic Records, Ledger feels a responsibility to carry the artistic torch ignited during her years with Skillet, yet to create her own distinctive sound that will shine a light on a hurting world. “I want people to listen to my music and be encouraged to be brave, to step out and not to let the world tell them who they should be,” Ledger says. “Maybe you’re not the best or the strongest. You are who you are, and you’ve got to be brave with the life that you’ve got. Do everything you can with it and don’t be held back by stupid things like fear that just want to rob you. Just get over it. Be brave. Be courageous.”
Those are wise words from the girl who left home in her teens, traveled halfway around the world to pursue a dream, and is seeing it come true more every day.
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China’s cinema giant, Wanda has announced plans for an international film festival and film park which is set to launch in Qingdao, China in 2017. Wanda owns a number of Cinemas’ throughout China and is the biggest shareholder in the North American cinema circuit. The new film festival is set to bridge the gap between Eastern and Western filmmaking cultures.
Back in April, the UK and China signed a film co-production treaty, which will allow British/Chinese co-productions to access the same national benefits such as the sources of finance which are currently available to British films through the British Film Institute (BFI).
The treaty is part of a recent UK Government delegation to push forward new areas of culture collaboration which will support and add to the success of the UK’s creative industries. It was originally negotiated by the BFI and supported by the UK Trade & Investment in Beijing, allowing qualifying co-productions to access national funding benefits such as Tax Relief.
China’s film entertainment sector is a big industry; it was estimated at US$3.26bn in 2012. The new treaty will allow films which are made as co-production to access the second highest box office audience in the world, allowing British film a chance to crack the Chinese film market, navigating the cultural divide.
Although 2017 is a few years away, the Qingdao Film Festival is sure to be a big thing, giving the likes of Cannes and Berlin a run for their money, after all China is usually known for being ahead of the game….watch this space for exciting updates.
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Pine Log Trail in Pine Log Section – 8 miles
The Pine Log Trail was the Panhandle Chapter’s first trail. It was built in the mid 1980s shortly after the chapter’s formation in 1982. Most of this lovely 8-mile length of Florida National Scenic Trail
passes through Pine Log State Forest. This State Forest, the oldest in the State, is managed by the Florida Forestry Service.
The western end of the Pine Log Trail is located where Strickland Rd meets SR 20 on the west side of SR 79. The eastern end is located where the trail meets SR 20 once again, on the east side of SR 79. The trail passes (west to east) by four beautiful cypress ponds within the Sand Pond Recreation Area, crosses under SR 79 and parallels Pine Log Creek for a few hundred yards, follows the site of the 1820’s historic Military Road for a short distance, passes through stately pine flatwoods, and leads hikers through the dark and mysterious Luke’s Trail. The Pine Log Trail passes within about a half mile of the small town of Ebro, where through hikers can find a motel, convenience store, and sandwich shop.
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How the Amin family scions changed Alembic's fortunes
The gen-next of the Amin family has transformed the legacy business of Alembic Pharma into a generic formulations play and, in the process, put the company on an accelerated growth path
By Aveek Datta
Published: Aug 4, 2016
Image: Mexy Xavier
Chirayu Amin (left), Alembic Pharma’s chairman, with son Pranav, who looks after the company’s international business
The skyline of Vadodara, Gujarat’s third largest city and the seat of the erstwhile princely state of Baroda, is transforming, slowly but surely. Spacious independent houses, neatly arranged in rows, have begun co-existing with clusters of residential towers springing up in different parts of the city, which is home to several affluent Gujarati entrepreneurs.
The Alembic Group, a business house promoted by the Amin family, is contributing to this evolution of the city’s landscape in no small measure. After all, the conglomerate —led by patriarch Chirayu Amin (cricket lovers will also know him as the interim chairman of the Indian Premier League in 2010, following the unceremonious exit of Lalit Modi as well as a former BCCI vice president)—owns over 100 acres of land in the city and is gradually developing portions of it into premium residential projects.
Though the group’s real estate venture has nothing to do with its flagship listed pharmaceuticals business, the towering vertical structures are metaphoric of the equally vertical growth exhibited by Alembic Pharmaceuticals Ltd —one of India’s fastest growing generic drug makers.
Amin, 69, and his forefathers laid the foundation of the 109-year-old Alembic’s modern-day pharma business by manufacturing and selling everything from tinctures and alcohol to vitamins, penicillin and then active pharma ingredients (API) over the years. And now the next generation—his sons Pranav, 41, and Shaunak, 38—are helping the company achieve its unrealised potential by transforming a commodity API business that “was going nowhere,” according to Pranav, into a domestic and international generic formulations play.
In doing so, the brothers have had to reimagine the way their family-owned legacy business functioned and think out-of-the-box to catch up with competitors who enjoyed a headstart in the international generics business.
Sitting in Alembic’s group headquarters in Vadodara, Amin senior, a cricket administrator by passion and former president of the Vadodara Cricket Association, tells Forbes India that around 12 years back, the company decided that it needed to “rejuvenate itself” and venture into international regulated markets, including the US and Europe. While the groundwork for this had already begun, it was up to Pranav and Shaunak to carry the agenda forward when they joined the family business.
“Pranav and Shaunak joined the business around 2003 after completing their education,” says Amin, who is Alembic Pharma’s chairman. “Ultimately, in 2008-2009, after they developed enough confidence and competency, I thought we should allow them to run the business as they had energy and new ideas; and we were not very happy with the performance of the professionals who were in charge at that time.”
Consequently, elder brother Pranav, who completed his MBA from Thunderbird, The American Graduate School of International Management, assumed charge of Alembic Pharma’s international business, while Shaunak, an economics grad from the University of Massachusetts, took over the reins of the domestic branded formulations business. Both are managing directors.
The pursuit of transforming Alembic Pharma from an API-driven business to a formulations-led drug maker was aided by the acquisition of Dabur India’s domestic cardiology, gastrointestinal and gynaecology brands in 2007. The transaction, which is the company’s only acquisition to date, took place at a consideration of around Rs 170 crore, which was just two-and-a-half times the acquired entity’s sales at that time. “The acquisition was very timely and at a decent price,” says RK Baheti, Alembic Pharma’s chief financial officer. “It gave us entry into segments where we weren’t present earlier, as well as key relationships with customers and vendors.”
Before that, Alembic Pharma’s domestic pharmaceuticals division was mostly making drugs for acute therapies such as anti-infective medicines; it had some popular brands in India, including antibiotics such as Azithral and Althrocin, and Glycodin cough syrup. But Pranav and Shaunak realised that acute therapies were not likely to be the future of the company, given rising competition and pricing pressure. The acquisition of the portfolio of drugs from Dabur paved the way for Alembic Pharma to enter the lifestyle and specialty drugs segment in the domestic market. The impact of this shift is evident in the numbers: In FY16, Alembic Pharma’s domestic branded formulations business grew by 13 percent year-on-year to Rs 1,104 crore (a third of Alembic Pharma’s overall revenues), and driven by the specialty segment revenues which were up by over 20 percent compared to a mere 4 percent in the acute segment. In FY12, specialty drugs constituted only 46 percent of sales from the domestic business. This has risen to 60 percent in FY16.
Growth also led to organisational restructuring. Till 2010, there was only one company listed on the bourses called Alembic Ltd, which housed all of the group’s assets, including commodity API, Indian and international formulations, as well as real estate. As the formulations-driven pharma business began to expand, the company’s promoters decided that it was time to create a structure that would ensure single-minded focus on growing that business without sacrificing management bandwidth or allowing external factors to intrude. Consequently, Alembic Pharma was carved out as a separate listed entity in 2010. Alembic Ltd continues to be a separate listed company with real estate development as its main business—this is led by Udit, Pranav and Shaunak’s youngest brother.
While entering specialty drugs in India was one leg of Alembic’s growth in the pharma business, getting into regulated markets like the US and graduating to making generic drugs for end-use from intermediate APIs for those regions was another. “To learn the business, we started with some contract manufacturing for other companies and moved on to develop our own ANDAs [abbreviated new drug applications, or proposals for new versions for generic drugs],” says Pranav. “We licensed these ANDAs out to other companies for final development as we didn’t have our own front-end marketing setup.”
Alembic had made its first product for the US market (for another company) in FY2008, but it only set up its front-end marketing entity in the world’s largest market for generic drugs in 2015 and started selling drugs under the Alembic label. In the last one year, Alembic has launched 11 new drugs (in the US) under its own label. As of March 31, 2016, Alembic has filed 76 ANDAs with 47 approvals in place, indicating a robust pipeline of drugs to be launched over the next few years in that market. In FY16, Alembic’s international formulations business grew by 146 percent year-on-year to Rs 1,461.50 crore.
“Alembic Pharma’s export generics business is driven by strong traction in the US… on the back of consistent product launches, including limited competition products,” analysts Siddhanth Khandekar, Mitesh Shah and Nandan Kamat said in an ICICI Securities research report dated April 28, 2016. “Also, Alembic now has its own front-end team in the US, which gives the company better control over its product launches.” Going forward, Alembic plans to sell many of the drugs that it used to make for other companies on contract, under its own label.
Growing Alembic Pharma’s operations in India and abroad was one part of Pranav and Shaunak’s game plan; however, it had to be accompanied with crucial changes in the way Alembic Pharma did business. For instance, the brothers were conscious of the fact that their company was a late entrant in the US generics market, where it began operations around 10-12 years after other large Indian drug makers had entered the region. As a result, merely competing on price wouldn’t cut it for the company if it wanted to corner a sizeable share of the pie. So Alembic Pharma decided to make its supply chain highly competitive, and established confidence with prospective buyers regarding its ability to deliver medicines on time, every time. “We wanted to be a robust and nimble organisation in terms of our supply chain; have multiple product lines at our facilities that can be quickly ramped up as and when there is visibility of demand,” says Pranav. “A lot of companies have faced regulatory action from the US Food and Drug Administration over the last two-three years that has led to a restriction on import from their facilities. We wanted to capture that market left vacant by our competitors and cater to customers as a reliable supplier.”
Also, as Alembic moved from being a contract manufacturer that made to order to an independent supplier of drugs for retail shelves across global markets, the Amins sought to bring in an FMCG approach to their pharma business. They entrusted Vinod Kamat with the job of overseeing Alembic Pharma’s entire manufacturing operations. Kamat, an FMCG industry veteran, had spent 15 years at Marico looking after various elements of supply chain management, operations and other commercial functions. He came on board at Alembic Pharma in 2014 with an initial mandate to manage the supply chain, but was soon elevated to president-operations, which is essentially the head of manufacturing, supply chain, project management and procurement.
In many ways, compliance and risk management are functions as essential for FMCG companies as they are for drug makers, says Kamat. “There are two key things that we have done at Alembic Pharma. The first is to pursue on-time delivery as a full-time metric for evaluating our operating performance. And the second is to de-bottleneck capacity and leverage it to take advantage of new opportunities for supplying drugs that may come into the market,” says Kamat.
After Kamat came on board, the company moved away from monthly and quarterly production targets as an operational metric, and towards monitoring and adhering to lead time promised to buyers. The other FMCG industry practice that Kamat has brought to Alembic is self-regulation. In the FMCG industry, if anything goes wrong in the manufacturing process from a quality standpoint, it can have severe implications on the financials of the company, he says. It is probably a result of these efforts that Alembic Pharma’s manufacturing facilities in India [one each in Sikkim and Baddi (Himachal Pradesh) and four in Vadodara] have stayed away from any major adverse observations from the USFDA and maintained continuity of supply.
There have been other operational changes as well. For instance, in order to make the sales staff more efficient and ensure long-term growth in sales, Alembic Pharma also started incentivising its medical representatives based on their ability to sell products that were perceived to hold potential for the future, rather than purely doling out bonuses based on absolute sales.
With the necessary controls and operational strategies in place, Alembic Pharma is just getting started, the Amins reckon. In its 2015-16 annual report, the company has stated its intention to spend Rs 1,000 crore over the next 24-30 months to build new assets. These include two new facilities to make injectable drugs, including one for oncology; another new unit to make oncological drugs in the form of oral solids; and a facility for dermatological drugs, which is part of a joint venture with Orbicular Pharmaceutical Technologies, a Hyderabad-based research and development (R&D) company.
This is the single largest capex programme announced by the company ever, and is over and above the Rs 450 crore that it intends to spend in FY17 on R&D to build a pipeline of new products. To continue with a spate of new launches in regulated markets like the US, Alembic Pharma has significantly stepped up its R&D spending to an estimated 12-15 percent of its FY17 sales. To put things in perspective, 246 R&D projects were under implementation at Alembic Pharma in 2015-16, a staggering four-fold increase over the number of projects under execution in the preceding fiscal.
“The company is now at a new inflection point as it prepares to do away with one-off finite opportunities in the US,” the ICICI Securities report states. With the building blocks all in place, there is every chance that Vadodara’s skyline and Alembic’s growth chart will continue to evolve in tandem.
(This story appears in the 05 August, 2016 issue of Forbes India. You can buy our tablet version from Magzter.com. To visit our Archives, click here.)
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By sticking to basics, Pidilite continues to dominate the adhesives market
Anil Rai Gupta carries forward QRG's legacy at Havells India
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Todos Nós Adorávamos Caúbois by Carol Bensimon
October 12, 2013 Review, SynopsisZoe PerryComment
Here's one hot off the Brazilian presses: Todos nós adorávamos caúbois (We All Loved Cowboys) by Carol Bensimon, published October 7 by Companhia das Letras. Readers may already be familiar not only with Carol, but also with this book, as the first chapter appeared in last year's Granta's Best Young Brazilian Writers issue, under the title Faíscas (Sparks).
This short novel, just under 200 pages, tells the story of Cora and Julia, two twenty-somethings in the middle of a 'quarter-life crisis' who reunite for a road trip after a few years apart, and their attempt to rekindle a friendship (and possibly more). Set against the backdrop of the small immigrant communities and rural areas of southern Brazil, Cora and Julia try to make sense of where things went wrong and how to put the pieces back together. The story is sprinkled with frequent flashbacks to scenes from both their childhoods and important moments in their intense relationship.
Cora, the story’s narrator, is an only child of divorced parents, raised in an upper middle class home in Porto Alegre. Adding fuel to an already troubled relationship, her father marries and has a baby with a woman just two years older than Cora. Cool and beautiful on the outside, with sarcasm to match, Cora is teeming with emotions on the inside, prone to post-feminist identity crises. She's seemingly always in search of something, but doesn't know what that is. Julia, on the other hand, is a small town girl, with a stronger connection to many of the places the women visit, even if she has never been to them before, and understands the complex elements of life in a small town that often escape urban, sheltered Cora.
After Julia and Cora meet at a student party, they began a tumultuous relationship. One day Julia announces she's moving to Canada to finish her degree. Cora is hurt, and the girls’ already strained relationship ends abruptly. Cora soon leaves herself, enrolling in a fashion course in Paris. A few years later, Julia reconnects with Cora and they plan to take the ‘great unplanned road trip’ they'd always daydreamed about in college. They wander for several days with no particular destination, letting the map, and their emotions, lead them (though we'll realize later that Cora isn't all that open to chance and actually does have quite a specific plan in mind).
Put those images of Thelma and Louise to the side. Every marketer lacking in inspiration (or perhaps time to read this book?) seems to want to compare this book to the classic female buddy/road trip movie. No one robs a convenience store, no one drives off a cliff. What I personally kept returning to was Mexican film Y Tu Mamá También. It's not exactly a traditional coming-of-age story, as in the film, since the two women are well into their twenties, but the book does bring up issues of becoming an adult, maturing (and straining) family relationships and rethinking previously-held notions and desires. It’s ‘coming of age’ again, when you realize you’re not all that grown up after all. Todos nós Adorávamos Caubóisis peppered with anecdotal characters met along the way and small details that give the book real flavor that, in their own ways, draw a contrast with the women and their surroundings.
Bensimon’s writing is personal and relaxed, with occasional light humor (often stemming from Cora’s sarcastic wit). The writing has a very fresh, feminine voice, but it is by no means “girly”.
Something quite nice about this book is that it shows a very real side of Brazil, but one that strays from the usual exotic images of sun-drenched beaches or favela gang-bangers. Bensimon even plays on this lightly when Julia’s American boyfriend assumes (incorrectly) that she’ll be going to the beach on her trip back to Brazil. Even though it's a road novel, the book is just as much about the the characters as the places they go, and much of the book takes place in the tiny, enclosed spaces of hotel rooms, a car and Cora's head.
Lately Companhia das Letras has been producing some really lovely book trailers for new releases. Click on the link to check out the trailer for Todos nós Adorávamos Caubóis.
More about the author: Carol Bensimon was born in Porto Alegre, in southern Brazil, in 1982. She's published several short stories, including the collection Pó de parede (Wall Dust), in 2008. Sinuca embaixo d’água (Underwater Snooker), her first novel published by Companhia das Letras, was shortlisted for the São Paulo Prize for Literature and the Prêmio Jabuti (an excerpt was also published in the August 2013 issue of Words Without Borders). She is also a literary translator, and her list of publications includes last year's beautifully illustrated graphic novel adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray. She blogs regularly for the 'Blog da Companhia'. To find out more about Carol and international rights, you can contact Companhia das Letras or the MTS literary agency.
Zoe PerryReview, SynopsisBrazil, Brazilian, Carol Bensimon, Companhia das Letras, Granta
And Other Stories Portuguese Reading Group, Fall/Winter 2013
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Finalists announced for 2014 Prêmio São Paulo de Literatura
August 20, 2014 Awards, NewsZoe Perry1 Comment
Finalists were just announced for the 2014 Prêmio São Paulo de Literatura, the award's seventh edition. Ten writers are in the running for Best Novel, with a sweet BRL 200,000 prize. The São Paulo prize famously awards debut novelists, and this year seven are competing for a cool BRL 100,000 prize in the over 40 category, and three under 40. All had to be published for the first time in 2013.
Here's the complete list:
Best Novel of 2013
Adriana Lisboa - Hanói
Alberto Martins - Lívia e o cemitério africano
Ana Luisa Escorel - Anel de vidro
Bernardo Carvalho – Reprodução
Carlos de Brito e Mello - A cidade, o inquisidor e os ordinários
Joca Reiners Terron - A tristeza extraordinária do leopardo-das-neves
Marco Lucchesi - O bibliotecário do imperador
Michel Laub - A maçã envenenada
Rodrigo Lacerda - Carlos Lacerda - A República das abelhas
Sérgio Rodrigues - O Drible
Best Novel by a Debut Author (Over 40)
Amilcar Bettega - Barreira
Cadão Volpato - Pessoas que passam pelos sonhos
Marcelino Freire - Nossos ossos
Flavio Cafiero - O frio aqui fora
João Anzanello Carrascoza - Aos 7 e aos 40
Rogerio Pereira - Na Escuridão, amanhã
Verônica Stigger - Opisanie Swiata
Best Novel by a Debut Author (Under 40)
Ieda Magri - Olhos de bicho
Laura Erber - Esquilos de Pavlov
Marcos Peres - O evangelho segundo Hitler
Don't let the name fool you – writers from any state (or country, actually) can enter the competition, as long as the book was written in Portuguese and published first in Brazil. Out of the finalists, seven writers hail from the state of Rio de Janeiro, followed by three from São Paulo, three from Brazil's third point on the literary triangle, Rio Grande do Sul, three from its fellow southern neighbor, Santa Catarina, two from Minas Gerais, one from northeastern Pernambuco and one from Mato Grasso do Sul.
Big-hitting publisher Companhia das Letras published a total of seven of the finalists. Cosac Naify, publisher of Brazil's prettiest books, in my opinion (some of their cover design eye candy inserted above), has five names on the shortlist.
I'm not aware of any of these books being translated to English currently, but some have been translated into other languages, and several authors have had other works translated to English. In other words, pay attention English-language publishers, and snatch those rights up while you can!
August 15, 2014 Events, NewsZoe Perry1 Comment
I spent most of July and part of August in Brazil. The first two weeks of my trip were spent in São Paulo, where I caught the tail end of the World Cup (let's not talk about it) and ate at overpriced restaurants and sat in horrible traffic visited friends and family. Then I traveled up the coast to the impossibly quaint, waterfront colonial town of Paraty, which lies just beyond the Rio de Janeiro/São Paulo state line.
I was delighted to have been chosen as one of six early to mid-career Portuguese to English translators selected to take part in the Paraty Literary Translation Winter School, co-sponsored by the BCLT, British Council, Brazilian National Library Foundation and the Universidade Federal Fluminense. The course took place the week before Paraty's most famous event, FLIP (Paraty International Literary Festival). Six literary translators from the UK joined six of our Brazilian counterparts for a full week of literary translation.
Mornings were spent apart, following a format similar to the BCLT summer school translation workshops. The into-English group worked with translator and BCLT program manager, Daniel Hahn, on an unpublished text by José Luiz Passos, winner of the 2013 Portugal Telecom Prize. The into-Portuguese group worked with Paulo Henriques Britto and Sam Byers, author of Idiopathy, which was selected as one of Waterstones' eleven best of the year. Our group was also joined by translator Alison Entrekin and And Other Stories' editor-at-large, Sophie Lewis. Afternoons (and evenings – these were long days) were spent workshopping samples of our own translations.
José Luiz (or Zé, or 'Joe Steps'), in addition to being a brilliant author, was an all-around nice guy and a joy to work with. His writing choices are very deliberate and it was wonderful to hear him speak about his process – he had an answer to all our questions. You can read an interview with Zé here and read the fruits of our labor here.
Everyone described the experience as like a dream. Internet connections were spotty and unstable, and after a couple of days cut-off from the outside, staying in the same pousada, eating all our meals together, working and translating up to 11 hours a day, it felt like we were in our own little world.
I won't give a lengthy recap of Flip, as many others will have done a perfectly good job of that, including this dispatch on Words Without Borders. But I will say it was delightful way to round out the Paraty experience. Set to Paraty's colorfully charming backdrop, I caught some great panels (I witnessed writers laugh, cry, beg for more and ask to leave), wined and dined with old and new friends, spotted lots of literary celebrities, amassed a new personal library, saw Gal Costa belt it out on stage, and boogied down at the Companhia das Letras party. So much mental energy was spent on the week preceding it, though, that by the time I hit the second night of Flip on Thursday, it felt very much like the final night, and my enthusiasm for facing the crowds waned considerably by the weekend. It felt like Carnaval, but better. It was my first Flip, and definitely won't be my last.
Nominees announced for 2014 Prêmio Portugal Telecom de Literatura
June 3, 2014 Awards, NewsZoe PerryComment
Nominees were announced yesterday for the 2014 edition of the prestigious Portugal Telecom Prize for Literature. You'll find all 64 nominees on the website, but I wanted to mention a few highlights, including three writers I've had the pleasure of translating.
I was very happy to see Portuguese journalist and author Alexandra Lucas Coelho nominated in the Short Story/Crônica (a type of literary non-fiction) category for her book Viva México, published by Tinta-da-China. This was one of the books we discussed in last fall's And Other Stories Portuguese reading group, and I translated the sample.
Interestingly, out of the 22 finalists in this category, another Portuguese writer, Gonçalo Tavares, was also nominated for his own Mexico-themed work, acollection of short stories entitled Canções mexicanas (Mexican Songs). Brazilian writer Antônio Prata, who will be at Flip in a couple of months, was nominated for his collection of short stories, Nu, de Botas (Naked, in Boots).
In the novel category, several high-profile Brazilian and Portuguese writers were named. Gonçalo Tavares makes a second appearance among the finalists for his novel Matteo perdeu o emprego (Matteo Lost His Job), one of only two Portuguese writers in the list. Sérgio Rodrigues was nominated for O Drible (The Dribble), a book being lauded as Brazil's long-awaited great futebol novel. My translation of another of his novels, Elza: The Girlwill be available in September.
Adriana Lisboa, who appeared last year at Flipside, was nominated for Hanói, and fellow Flipside participant, Bernardo Carvalho, is in the running with Reprodução (Reproduction). One of my personal favorites, Veronica Stigger, author of Os Anões, was nominated for Opisanie swiata. I've been having a hard time getting my hands on a copy of this book, but hope to pick one up soon.
Two finalists I have had in a pile at home but haven't read yet are Divórcio (Divorce) by Ricardo Lísias, one of Granta's top young Brazilian writers, and A tristeza extraordinária do leopardo-das-neves (The Extraordinary Sadness of the Snow Leopard – what a title!) by novelist, poet and playwright, Joca Reiners Terron.
Brazil Inside Out – CBC "Writers & Company" Podcast Special Series
May 31, 2014 NewsZoe PerryComment
Catching up on podcasts this weekend, I discovered I'd nearly missed a special five-part series on Brazil from the CBC's "Writers & Company" podcast with Eleanor Wachtel. Eleanor speaks with renowned children's author Ana Maria Machado (CBC, I love you, but her name is not pronounced 'My shadow'), who will be at Flipside later this year, the legendary Luis Fernando Veríssimo and Michel Laub (both have been translated by Margaret Jull Costa) and Bernardo Carvalho (at Flipside last year). Two of my favorites were the interviews with Sergio Rodrigues, author of Elza, The Girl, which will be published in English (my translation) this September, and with filmmaker José Padilha. They're well worth a listen!
2014 Flip and Flipside Lineups Announced
May 20, 2014 Events, NewsZoe Perry3 Comments
If you haven't heard already, some exciting announcements were made last week that will be of interest to Brazilian literature fans and philes. Flip – Festa Literária Internacional de Paraty, or Paraty International Literary Festival – and Flipside (think of it as Flip's British baby cousin) both revealed their 2014 lineups, for August and October, respectively. Flip is Brazil's largest literary festival (it's a big deal) and 2014 will be its eleventh year. Usually held in early July, they had to bump it back to July 30 - August 3 because of certain little sports event. Each year a different writer is honored, and this year is dedicated to renaissance man Millôr Fernandes, an author, translator, playwright, cartoonist, and screenwriter.
You can find the whole list on the Flip site, but I'll mention a few highlights I'm looking forward to: Antônio Prata, part of Granta's Best Young Brazilian Writers issue – you can also read Daniel Hahn's translation of his Four Short Tales at Words Without Borders; Eliane Brum, whose translation of One, Two by Lucy Greaves is forthcoming early next year; Fernanda Torres, the actress who wrote Fim; Gregorio Duvivier, who some may know from the hilarious webseries 'Porta dos Fundos' and who published a book of poetry this year called Ligue os pontos; and Man Booker winner Eleanor Catton. For the younger crowd, Flipinha and Flipzona will also be running their own programming, and Ferréz will be appearing at the latter.
Though I lived in Brazil for four years and have visited the quaint, coastal town of Paraty twice, I've never made it to Flip. I really hope several things will align this year and I can change that.
And, Flipside will be back this year, once again bringing some big Brazilian (and non-Brazilian) talent to the scenic shores of Snape (yes, that's its real name). It's a beautiful place with a nice vibe, and if you're in the area, it's a delightful way to spend the weekend. The list of Brazilian writers this year includes some big names, all of whom have been translated into English and, with the exception of two, all have new releases this year.
The lineup includes the gaúcho power trio (a title entirely of my own invention): Paulo Scott, author of Nowhere People (translated by Daniel Hahn); Daniel Galera, author of Blood-Drenched Beard (translated by Alison Entrekin); and Michel Laub, author of Diary of the Fall (tr. Margaret Jull Costa). You could even say their translators form the power trio of Portuguese translators.
Tatiana Salem Levy, another of Granta's Best Young Brazilian Writers, will also make an appearance. She was featured in the collection of short stories launched at last year's Flipside, Other Carnavals. I was a bit surprised to not find any of her novels in English translation, but if they're not already in the works, they will be soon. Socorro Acioli, author of The Head of the Saint (her first English translation, translated by Daniel Hahn) is the only writer in the lineup from the northeast of Brazil. And Ana Maria Machado, one of Brazil's most significant children's authors, will be back in Snape again this year, likely livening up the children's tent once more.
And in a non-Brazilian aside, as a Canadian I'm happy to see both Margaret Atwood (who was delightful at the British Library earlier this year) and Michael Ondaatje on the lineup.
See you in Flipside (and possibly Flip)!
May 15, 2014 Events, NewsZoe Perry1 Comment
It's now mid-May and things have been pretty quiet on the blog all this year. So what have I been up to, and what's on the schedule ahead? It's been a busy year so far for translation, which has made me very happy and kept me busy. In the last few months I've packed in translations of two novels by Brazilian authors that will both be out by late summer. The first is Elza: The Girl by Sergio Rodrigues, to be published by AmazonCrossing in September (October in the UK). I also translated Paulo Coelho's latest novel, Adultery, a collaboration with Margaret Jull Costa. It will be published by Knopf in the US in August, and Hitchinson in the UK. Somewhere in there I also translated a brilliant short story by João Ximenes Braga for Comma Press's Book of Rio, called "The Woman Who Slept With a Horse". It's available now.
I found much less success (and spent much less time) reading. I've picked up a few books that I wasn't quite excited enough about to mention here on the blog, most of them put down half-way, never to be picked up again. It's frustrating, but I've got some new releases coming my way, and have been digging into short stories, looking for new authors and new material.
In April I attended the London Book Fair, whose Literary Translation Centre was busier and better than ever. Another interesting, inspiring and exhausting week of all-things literary translation. Brazil was noticeably absent from the fair, and as translators shuttled off to parties and meetings with their respective source countries, I was left shaking my head as I passed stand after stand from everywhere from Estonia to Croatia to Mexico to Japan. Everywhere BUT Brazil. But I was stoked to run across this display in all its 9-foot glory:
At that point I was one of only about five people who knew I was the translator, but hey, it didn't keep me from doing a little skip.
There have also been a few noteworthy publications of Brazilian books in English already this year, and it's shaping up to be a record-breaker for Brazilian literature in translation. I read the brilliant and darkly humorous Family Heirloomsby Zulmira Ribeiro Tavares from Frisch & Co, translated by Daniel Hahn. Also out are Hotel Brasilby Frei Betto from Bitter Lemon, translated by Jethro Soutar, and With My Dog Eyes by the incredible Hilda Hist, translated by Adam Morris and published by Melville House.
There are lots of events on the horizon, too, starting with what promises to be a very cool discussion on Brazilian poetry at the Brighton Festival with poet Angélica Freitas and translators Hilary Kaplan and Daniel Hahn.
At the end of May, Book Expo America will focus on literary translation, with this year's Global Market Forum entitled “Books In Translation: Wanderlust for the Written Word.” It sounds like it will be inspired by the LBF's Literary Translation Centre. Just as a sidenote, as further proof that the US continues to lag far behind the UK when it comes to fostering the community of literary translators, the BEA doesn't appear to offer a one-day ticket, meaning attendees have to fork over a few hundred bucks (compared to the £15 I spent for a three-day pass to LBF) even if they just want to attend the one-day Global Market Forum. I had thought I'd be able to swing a trip to New York to join in, but unfortunately it's not going to happen. All the more reason to plan for the ALTA conference in November!
On June 2 there will be an event called 'From Rio to River: A Short Tour of Latin America' at the Free Word Centre to launch both The Book of Rio and The Football Crónicas, a collection from Ragpicker Press, founded by fellow translator Jethro Soutar.
This summer, of course, is the World Cup in Brazil. Smack in the middle of it will be Translate in the City, a literary translation summer school offering workshops in nine languages (the Portuguese group will be led by Danny Hahn, who led the BCLT summer school last year). There are still spaces available. I did the same summer school in 2012, when it was held at Birkbeck and can honestly say it was life-changing. Do it.
And shortly after the World Cup ends, the BCLT, in partnership with the British Council, the Brazilian National Library Foundation and the Universidade Federal Fluminense are hosting the first-ever translation winter school in beautiful Paraty, on the coast of Rio de Janeiro state. It will be strategically just before Flip festival. Just the idea of it makes my heart beat faster.
"Palavras Invisíveis" – Invisible Words
April 30, 2014 NewsZoe PerryComment
Before I got into translating books, I did a lot of translation work for ad agencies. I still do some advertising translation and my husband is a creative director, and I love to see creative, moving work for good organizations. I just found out about this beautiful project and had to share. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ4x5iXRXvk
"Palavras invisíveis" is a collection of ten brand new stories written by great contemporary Brazilian authors, including the likes of Luis Fernando Veríssimo, Eliane Brum, Carlos de Brito e Mello, Antônio Prata and Estevão Azevedo, and is published only in braille! The initiative is from the Fundação Dorina Nowill, a philanthropic institution in Brazil working for the integration of the blind and visually impaired.
The project's website says: "This book contains previously unpublished texts from Brazil's greatest writers. Too bad you can't read it. Now you know exactly how a blind person feels every time a new book is launched." From the website you can download an audio book.
I looked into the statistics, and the National Federation of the Blind says: "The most optimistic estimates project that today blind people have access to no more than 5 percent of books and other published works, and that is in the industrialized world. For the 90 percent of blind people living in developing nations, access to the written word is less than 1 percent."
I wonder how many of those are in translation?
Literary Awards for Portuguese Language Lovers: Prêmio Portugal Telecom de Literatura
December 6, 2013 Awards, NewsZoe Perry5 Comments
The Prêmio Portugal Telecom de Literatura (Portugal Telecom Prize for Literature) was established in 2003 by Portuguese phone company, Portugal Telecom, and since 2007 it is awarded annu ally to works of literature from any Portuguese-speaking country. Contrary to what the name may suggest, initially only Brazilian literature was eligible, and the original title of the prize was Prêmio Portugal Telecom de Literatura Brasileira (Portugal Telecom Prize for Brazilian Literature). It's a relatively new kid on the block, but has rapidly become one of the most important literary awards in Brazil, right on par with the Jabuti. Some have even referred to it as the Portuguese-language version of the Booker Prize. There are three categories: novel, poetry and crônicas and short stories. Winners are named for each category, as well as an overall winner from any category. Winners also take home impressive prize money, R$50,000, or over US$20,000.
Last night's winner for 2013 was José Luiz Passos, from the northeastern state of Pernambuco, for his second novel, O Sonâmbulo Amador (The Amateur Sleepwalker), published by Alfaguara. He had some healthy competition, running against Prêmio São Paulo winner Daniel Galera for Barba Ensopada de Sangue (Blood-Drenched Beard), soon to be published in English translation, and Portuguese writer Valter Hugo Mãe, who won the Portugal Telecom prize last year. Cíntia Moscovich won in the short story/crônicas category and Eucanaã Ferraz took top honors for poetry.
Remember Dalton Trevisan, winner of the Prêmio Camões in 2012 and four-time Jabuti winner? He tied for first in 2003 (with Bernardo Carvalho), then placed second in both 2007 and 2012, making him quite possibly Brazil's most-awarded contemporary writer to be totally ignored by English-language publishers. Except for a flurry of work in the seventies, he's barely been touched by translators, in any language. Come on now, publishers.
Finally, I happen to think they have one of the coolest award statues around.
Literary Awards for Portuguese Language Lovers: Prêmio Jabuti
November 12, 2013 Awards, NewsZoe Perry5 Comments
The Prêmio Jabuti is arguably Brazil's most important literary award, and definitely the most well-known. This year's winners were announced in mid-October. Since its first edition in 1959 several categories have been added and there are currently 29, which cover a variety of formats and genres (including several non-fiction categories and literary criticism) as well as translation, illustration and cover design. Notably, the top awards for fiction and non-fiction, in addition to a lovely gold statue, also earn R$ 35,000 (a little over US$15,000). Not too shabby.
For some translation trivia, the Jabuti's most-awarded writer is Curitiba's famous recluse, Dalton Trevisan, winning in the short story category in 1960, 1965, 1995 and 2011 (he also won the Camões award in 2012). Even though publishers and agents often look to awards for new talent, and he has published nearly 40 collections of short stories and novels, only ONE of his books has been translated into English, The Vampire of Curitiba, published by Knopf way back in 1972. Good luck getting your hands on a copy, and hopefully someone out there will give him a second look!
Of course no major award is without controversy, and the Jabuti has plenty. In 2010, Record's publication Se Eu Fechar os Olhos Agora (If I Close My Eyes Now, tr. Nick Caistor) by Edney Silvestre, received the Jabuti for Best Novel in 2010, with Leite Derramado (Spilt Milk, tr. Alison Entrekin), by Chico Buarque, from Companhia das Letras, coming in second. The top three of each category were then put in the running for Book of the Year, and Leite Derramado took top honors. In the first phase voting was done by a jury of specialists, but the Book of the Year included a broader panel of judges, with several industry marketing and business executives. Record subsequently announced they would be bowing out of the award, alleging unfair political and media influence, saying it had become "a beauty contest".
This wasn't the first time this happened. In 2004 another book by Chico Buarque, Budapeste (Budapest, tr. Alison Entrekin) also won Book of the Year, but only came in third in the Best Novel category (Bernardo Carvalho's Móngolia won that year). And in 2008, the Book of Year was given to O Menino que Vendia Palavras, by Ignácio de Loyola Brandão, but only came in second in the children's literature category, won by Sei Por Ouvir Dizer, by Bartolomeu Campos de Queirós.
After this very public dispute, changes were announced for the 2011 edition, stipulating that only the winners of each category could run for Book of the Year.
Brazil Issue of Words Without Borders
The August 2013 issue of the great online magazine of literature in translation, Words Without Borders, was guest edited by Stefan Tobler, publisher at And Other Stories, and is all about Brazil!
The issue includes previously untranslated fiction, poetry and non-fiction from a variety of contemporary Brazilian authors and poets. The list of writers includes Cristhiano Aguiar, Carol Bensimon, Horácio Costa, Orides Fontela, Angélica Freitas, Armando Freitas Filho, Rodrigo de Souza Leão, Vinicius Jatobá, Antônio Moura, Laurenço Mutarelli, and Antônio Prata. Translators include Daniel Hahn, Stefan Tobler, Hilary Kaplan, Anthony Doyle, Jethro Soutar, and me!
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Chan Garang Abandons Malong, Rejoins SPLA
Brigadier General Chan Garang Lual has abandoned General Malong’s South Sudan United
By Ojwe Lumara
JUBA, 20 August 2018 [Gurtong]- Front movement and joined the Sudan People Liberation Army (SPLA) with 300 forces.
Out of the 300 soldiers he returned with, 36 are officers including three brigadiers, four colonels, four lieutenant colonels and a number of lieutenants.
He said some of his remaining forces in Awiel and some parts of the country will report to the government soon.
Major General Chan Garang’s forces were aligned to the rebel movement known as South Sudan United Front led by the former Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) Chief of General Staff General Paul Malong Awan who rebelled against the government last year.
Brig. Chan Garang Lual was early this year accused by the government for causing insecurities around Juba since his defection in 2017.
After his arrival in Juba, he called upon those who still carry arms against the government to respond to the recent amnesty granted by President Salva Kiir to all rebel groups that have been fighting the government.
“It is time for peace and development in our country so those who are still in the bush let them come home nothing will happen to them,” Chan said. “No one will arrest someone because the President has granted all of us amnesty.”
On his part, Ajang Ajang Lino who claimed he had taken over the leadership of SSUF from Malong said his party has decided to join the government to bring lasting peace to the people of South Sudan, adding that there was no reason to fight.
“I give thanks to President Salva Kiir Mayardit for granting us amnesty to come back,” he said. “There is no reason for us to continue to fight and kill ourselves, we are able to achieve our grievances by fighting but we thought that home dialogue was better to solve our issues,” Ajang said.
The Spokesperson of the SPLA Maj. Gen. Lul Ruai, said all charges against Brig Chang Garang Laul have been dropped. Maj Lul said and Chan would be integrated together with all his forces into the ranks of the SPLA.
“Chan is now allowed to move freely like any other citizen. We expect their remaining forces in Awiel and Meram to come back and participate in the process of reconciliation,” Maj. Gen. Lul said.
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Doone Run & Dornafield 10k
Several members of Honiton Running Club travelled to the beautiful seaside village of Lynmouth in North Devon to take part in the Doone 10 mile run organised by the charity Care for Kids with the help of North Devon Road Runners. The race took runners up and down trails and tracks along cliff paths with stunning scenery at every twist and turn. Kevin Hawker was the first back for Honiton coming 3rd overall in a time of 1 hour 12 minutes 38 seconds and taking first prize for his age category. He was followed very closely by Ian Stewart who was 5th overall finishing in 1:14:42 having had a great run. Steve Davey was next back finishing 45th in exactly 1 ½ hours. Bruce Strawbridge is back on form and had a great race to come 51st in 1:31:46. He had vied for position with Steve Selley who finished 4 places later in 1:32:01 having taken a wrong turn into someone’s garden! To be fair most of the Honiton runners and a lot of the field had turned into this garden path but Steve managed to go a little further down the path before realising he had gone wrong! Judy Davey was next back delighted to come 3rd lady overall winning her age category and 64th place overall in a time of 1:34:44. Howard Bidmead was next back having been followed by Judy for the entire race until she passed him. Positions changed a couple of times and in the end Howard finished 4 places and 55 seconds behind Judy. New Honiton member Shane Hudd brought the family and had a thoroughly enjoyable race to finish 84th in 1:41:21. Michelle Selley finished the Honiton line-up having enjoyed the views to come 129th in 2:03:52. The race was won by Mark Jenkin in the amazing time of 1:06 and there were 149 finishers.
Julie Payne took part in the Dornafield Women’s 10k organised by Teignbridge Trotters. She finished 13th overall winning her category in a time of 44:29. The scenic course follows undulating rural lanes and passes through the local hamlets of Ogwell and Denbury.
Cotleigh Canters
Honiton Running Club held its very own Cotleigh Canter races last Sunday in perfect weather. The 10k was won with a course record by 16 year old Jake Smith of Axe Valley Runners in the time of 33 minutes 21 seconds. Amy Greenhalgh also of AVR was first lady back in the time of 40 minutes 20 seconds also cracking the ladies’ course record. Quite a few Honiton members were helping organise and marshal the event but the club did put out some fine runners. Ian Stewart was first back for the club in 6th place in 37:43 followed by Hadleigh Davies who came 14th in 41:38. Steve Selley had a great run coming 18th in 44:09 as did Mark Dallyn who came 22nd in 45:58. Tony Peek was next back coming 33rd in 52:24. Pete Lyus finished just 10 seconds after the hour in 44th place and Gerry Evans came 46th in 1:05:57. There were 50 finishers.
The 5k is one lap of the 2 lap 10k course and was won by Michael Lesniak of South West Road Runners setting yet another course record to finish in 17:51. Ellie Sutcliffe was already the holder of the course record set last year and this year she won the ladies’ race in a time of 19:44 coming 2nd overall. Honiton junior member Florence Swan was next back coming 3rd lady overall in 22:21 and 4th place in the event. Thomas Lilley was 2nd male finisher, 6th overall in 24:03. Thomas Kirsch followed 2 places later in 25:21. Hannah Land didn’t enjoy the race but put in a gutsy run to come 14th in 30:29. There were 15 finishers.
The 3k Fun Run had 41 finishers and was won by Samuel Yearling in a time of 11:41. Honiton’s own Katelyn Wells won it for the girls in a time of 13:53. Jasmine Stone won her category coming 8th overall in 14:10. Ashleigh Ford-Cosens also won her category finishing in 15:51 and 16th place. It was great to see Megan Burton back running after injury just beating her brother for 39th place in 22:40. There were 41 finishers.
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Brookfield Appoints Jay Cornforth to Head Industrial Property Business
September 19, 2013 16:00 ET | Source: Brookfield Asset Management Inc.
Brookfield Managing Partner, Jay Cornforth
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Brookfield Asset Management (NYSE:BAM) (TSX:BAM.A) (Euronext:BAMA) announced today that Jay Cornforth has been hired as global head of the company's industrial property business. Mr. Cornforth will join the company's Brookfield Property Group unit as a Managing Partner based in New York.
Mr. Cornforth comes to Brookfield after 10 years with Prologis and AMB, where he was most recently President of the east region responsible for development, acquisitions and property operations of 85 million square feet of operating assets in Toronto, Boston, New Jersey, Eastern Pennsylvania, Baltimore, Washington, Atlanta, Central and South Florida.
"Brookfield has made a major commitment to the industrial sector and we are excited to have Jay, an experienced, proven industry veteran, join us to lead our growing industrial business," said Ric Clark, Chief Executive Officer of the Brookfield Property Group.
Brookfield owns high-quality distribution facilities around the world. Upon the fourth quarter closing of leading industrial property company IDI, Brookfield will be one of the largest global owners of logistics facilities, with 62 million square feet and 79 million square feet of future development potential.
Earlier this year, Brookfield acquired Gazeley, a specialist developer of large scale logistics warehouses and distribution parks in key strategic locations across the UK, Western Europe and China. In December 2012, Brookfield acquired Verde, an owner, operator and developer of industrial distribution facilities in the United States and Mexico.
Brookfield Asset Management Inc. is a global alternative asset manager with over $175 billion in assets under management. The company has over a 100-year history of owning and operating assets with a focus on property, renewable power, infrastructure and private equity. It has a range of public and private investment products and services, which leverage its expertise and experience and provide Brookfield with a competitive advantage in the markets where it operates. Brookfield is co-listed on the New York and Toronto stock exchanges under the symbol BAM and BAM.A, respectively, and on NYSE Euronext under the symbol BAMA.
Brookfield Property Group is a commercial real estate owner, operator and investor operating globally. The company's diversified portfolio includes interests in over 300 office and retail properties encompassing approximately 250 million square feet. In addition, the company has interests in approximately 20,000 multi-family units, 35 million square feet of industrial space and a 19 million square foot office development pipeline. The company's goal is to be the leading global investor in best in class commercial property assets.
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Home > Economy > Barack Obama seeks a Chinese Partner
THE RUNOFF FOR THE RICH. THE RICE GRAIN POLICY Resources: In Vittel, Water no longer Flows from the Spring Laurent Brun says: “the next phase is privatisation of the SNCF” Diplomacy from Atlanticism to Gaullism, Macron Embodies all the Lines Alternatives to uberization of labour in the making Free Trade. The Left unite against CETA Denis Durand: "To change the behavior of banks, we must take control of them" A Toxic Law, Poisonous to Health Unemployment: 84 percent of French people do not believe in the drop Taxation: Bercy softer on the definition of tax havens than Brussels Agreement on fishing in Brussels The 32 hour week, the best defence against unemployment
ORIGINAL FRENCH ARTICLE: Barack Obama cherche partenaire chinois
by Dominique Bari
Barack Obama seeks a Chinese Partner
Nikita Shah
Translated Tuesday 22 December 2009, by Nikita Shah and reviewed by Isabelle Métral
The American President’s first official visit in China began in a tense atmosphere, owing to commercial disputes between the two countries.
With the international financial crisis pressing, Barack Obama said repeatedly, “China is not the United State’s rival, but its partner.” That is the main message of his three-day long Presidential visit to the People’s Republic. "Today, we have a positive, constructive and understanding relationship", he declared at the beginning, to students of the Chinese economic metropolis on Monday. "A relationship which opens the door to a partnership on the main concerns of our time.” And accordingly went on to emphasize the importance of bilateral relations, insisting on the fact that, "China and the United States shouldn’t have to be adversaries," but that bilateral exchanges should be "rebalanced". Which, good intentions aside, brings us back to the heart of Sino-American relations and explains why a strong degree of cooperation with Peking has become such a strategic priority for Washington.
Not only has China ‘bought’ part of America’s debt in buying around €533 billion in Treasury bonds, but it already possesses €2,000 billion in reserve. A strength – but also a weakness should the dollar be devalued – which has led Western powers to attribute the role of the planet’s ‘lifeline’ to China. Statements by the Director of the Chinese Central Bank on the need to create a reserve currency independent of the dollar have dampened these hopes. Peking, while behaving cautiously with regard to the dollar, is trying to free itself from that role. It has already signed with six countries agreements allowing for the formulation of commercial transactions not in dollars, but in Yuan, or in the currency of those countries. The Chinese currency is being criticised as much by the United States as by the European Union, who accuse it of being undervalued, and the cause of the trade imbalance. China alone represents close to two thirds of the United States’ trade deficit, the consequence of a strong Chinese growth accumulated over three decades from exports, of which more than 60% have come from foreign societies established in the country, and whose privileged recipients are the American and European markets.
What is it that Obama is asking for today? That China, and, more broadly, Asia, import more Western products. It was already the tone of his speech at APEC (the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) in Singapore. In concrete terms, the United States announced that is was going to charge a tax on Chinese steel pipes used in the petrol industry, incurring a response from Peking. "The United States and other Western countries used to be the supporters of market freedom...and suddenly we have a protectionist United States!", the spokesperson of the Minister of Trade remarked yesterday to the press, even before the summit meetings.
For the moment, it is in the interest of neither party to permit relations to degenerate. The Chinese government is awaiting the longer term effects of its $600 billion recovery plan, that is, 8% of China’s GDP for 2009-2010, implemented a year ago, and destined to develop its domestic market.
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Home > World > Riots spread throughout England
ORIGINAL FRENCH ARTICLE: http://www.humanite.fr/monde/les-em...
Riots spread throughout England
Translated Wednesday 10 August 2011, by Elaine Scott and reviewed by Bill Scoble
Riots, which sparked up this weekend in several multi-ethnic areas of London, continued on Monday and Tuesday night, forcing British Prime Minister, David Cameron, to cut short his holiday and to return to the capital immediately.
Violence and looting also spread to other English cities such as Birmingham (central England), Liverpool (north-west England) and Bristol in the south-west.
His cabinet announced that David Cameron, who was on holiday in Tuscany, Italy, held an emergency meeting on Tuesday with the emergency services and met with the Interior Minister and the Chief of Police.
Scotland Yard announced the deployment of 1700 extra police officers to confront the worst incidents seen in the English capital for years.
On Tuesday, Scotland Yard also added that 334 people - of which one is 11 years-old – had been arrested since the riots began on Saturday. 69 of them have been charged in relation to the incidents which arose in London and its boroughs. At least 35 police officers have been injured over the weekend.
Buildings were blazing in Croydon, Peckham and Lewisham in the south of London, whilst looters filled the streets of Hackney in the east, Clapham in the south, Camden in the north and Ealing in the west.
At “Ledbury”, a two Michelin star restaurant in Notting Hill, looters and thieves stole mobile phones and made of with cash from the till as well as the restaurant’s crockery.
Hundreds of riot control police intervened to contain rioters in Hackney, several kilometres from Stratford (east London) where the Olympic Games will take place in less than a year.
Elsewhere, West Midlands police confirmed the arrest of 87 youths who, in the centre of Birmingham, smashed shop windows and started looting. It was also indicated that a police station in Birmingham had been set on fire.
In Liverpool, the local police were also confronted by scenes of violence, notably the setting on fire of several cars. “No act of violence will be tolerated on the streets of Liverpool and we have taken fast and firm measures to respond to it”, confirmed a spokesperson for the police, Andy Ward.
In the capital, the Chief of Police, Tim Godwin, made a statement to the press: “There are major incidents in a certain number of London boroughs, many police officers have been deployed, but I am asking parents to contact their children and ask them where they are”.
The first incidents in London were triggered after a protest on Saturday evening calling for “justice” after the death of a 29-year-old man, Mark Duggan, killed in a gunfight with police in Tottenham (north London).
Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, who went to Tottenham on Monday, condemned a “wave of opportunistic violence” which has “absolutely nothing to do with the death of Mark Duggan”, a father of four. An independent complaints commission has opened an inquiry into the circumstances surrounding Mark Duggan’s death. The ballistic results were expected on Tuesday.
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Eve's Herbs
A History of Contraception and Abortion in the West
John M. Riddle
$35.50 • £28.95 • €32.00
6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches
8 tables, 1 line illustration
HISTORY: World
SOCIAL SCIENCE: Women's Studies
MEDICAL: Gynecology & Obstetrics
“John Riddle has established his reputation as a leading expert on ancient Greek pharmacology. In an earlier study, Contraception and Abortion from the Ancient World to the Renaissance, he argued that a much more reliable knowledge of oral contraceptives existed in the ancient and medieval worlds than had previously been thought. In this book, Riddle attempts a broader but partly overlapping study, a history of abortion and contraception in the Western tradition (Europe and the United States, with a glance at the Islamic World). More specifically, he challenges the common view that oral contraception was little practiced and largely ineffective until the 18th century… Riddle argues his case with learning and perspicacity. He draws widely on the specialist literature of a number of disciplines as he discusses, among other things, the theology of ensoulment of the fetus and the demographics of early modern Europe.” —Gary B. Ferngren, The New England Journal of Medicine
“Dr. Riddle demonstrates, as in his earlier Contraception and Abortion from the Ancient World to the Renaissance, that knowledge about fertility control existed and women had access to it lost to them in modern times. Both pro-abortion and anti-abortion advocates will find these books important, instructive, and maybe prescriptive… A scholarly sleuth, Riddle permits historical texts to speak… Riddle integrates modern chemical, pharmacological, and medical confirmations that what the ancients said worked probably did.” —Journal of the American Medical Association
“Eve’s Herbs is a highly informative presentation of the history of the use of plant products, such as ergot, as abortion agents.” —Thomas Szasz, The Washington Post
“Riddle’s work is a useful counterbalance to extreme skepticism about the pre-modern possibility of effective fertility control.” —Rebecca Flemming, Isis
“Riddle is a tireless scholar and an engaging writer, and as his story moves along in chronological order, it begins to read like an official history. But at heart Eve’s Herbs is just the opposite: a gathering of nervous confessions and forbidden secrets, committed to paper as proof of a hidden tradition. Like a covey of quail flushed from tall grass, these anguished facts burst from the page with startling life.” —Burkhard Bilger, The Sciences
“This fine scholarly book expands on Riddle’s previous work, Contraception and Abortion from the Ancient World to the Renaissance, to discover why and how women’s extensive knowledge and use of plants, herbs, seeds, bark, and roots was lost after the 19th century… Highly recommended for students of the history of medicine at all levels.” —A. R. Davis, Choice
“Riddle examines the use of plants as contraceptives, offering a fascinating view of the early knowledge of reproduction and attempts to regulate it.” —Library Journal
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Venice Film Festival to host Netflix movies, unfinished Orson Welles work
ROME - Reuters
From westerns to the space race and the latest offerings from Oscar-winning directors, this year’s Venice Film Festival will present a rich line-up of premieres, including a host of Netflix movies and an unfinished Orson Welles work, the organizers said.
The 75th edition of the world’s oldest film festival kicks off in late August, with some 20 movies competing for the Golden Lion Award.
Unlike May’s Cannes Film Festival, which Netflix Inc pulled out of after organizers banned its films from competition for its refusal to release them in cinemas, the Venice event will show several movies by the streaming platform.
“There are many Netflix films this year, five or six,” festival director Alberto Barbera told a news conference on Wednesday, adding that lots of filmakers were now turning to new platforms to produce and distribute movies.
Among the Netflix distributed films in competition are the Coen brothers’ western “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs” and black and white family drama “Roma” by Oscar winner Alfonso Cuaron.
“Jason Bourne” director Paul Greengrass will present his Netflix-distributed work “22 July” - about the aftermath of the 2011 massacre of 77 people in Norway by far-right militant Anders Breivik.
The organizers of the 11-day festival, which usually offers a first peak at Oscar contenders, have already announced space drama “First Man”, chronicling Neil Armstrong’s mission to become the first man to walk on the moon, as the opening film.
Highly anticipated western dark comedy “The Sisters Brothers” by Jacques Audiard, and Yorgos Lanthimos’ period piece “The Favourite” with Oscar winner Emma Stone and new “The Crown” actress Olivia Colman are also in competition.
Other contenders include “Peterloo” about the 1819 massacre in Manchester by Mike Leigh, “Napszallta” (Sunset) by Laszlo Nemes, who directed the Oscar winning “Son of Saul” and “Werk Ohne Autor” by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck.
A film about Vincent van Gogh, “At Eternity’s Gate”, and “What You Gonna Do When The World’s On fire?” about a black community in the southern United States last summer will also vie for the top prize.
Out of competition, a remake of romantic musical drama “A Star is Born” starring Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga as well as crime film “Dragged Across Concrete”, starring Mel Gibson and Vince Vaughn will screen.
Netflix is also bringing Orson Welles’ unfinished “The Other Side of the Wind” to the festival out of competition. The film about movie director making a comeback was first shot in the 1970s and recently completed.
Organizers have also said veteran British actress Vanessa Redgrave will be presented with the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement honor.
Orhan Veli Kanık becomes 2nd most read poet in world
Istanbul Jazz Festival puts eye on Turkish singers
Glorious rifle of Sultan Mahmud I in US
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City United Behind JSU's Stadium Proposal
By Tyler Cleveland March 21, 2013
In a move that should surprise absolutely no one, the leadership of the city of Jackson is united behind Jackson State University's proposal for a 50,000-seat domed stadium.
The proposed project, expected to cost approximately $250 million, got votes of confidence from the city council Tuesday night and from Mayor Harvey Johnson Jr. Wednesday afternoon.
"I agree with this concept (of a domed stadium)," Johnson said. "I have gone on the record and said that I don't want to lose seats. We're the capital city and we have 62,000 seats in our stadium. We have to compete with Little Rock, Mobile, Baton Rouge and Memphis, as well as other venues in the south. If we ended up with a new outdoor stadium that seated 25,000 people, then I couldn't support that. Then I started meeting with the people at Jackson State, and a domed stadium would be unique to the state and the region. It also offers versatility that an open-air stadium would not offer. "
Jackson State officials have estimated the proposed stadium would infuse $64 million annually into the city's economy and host music and entertainment events and conventions along with sporting events.
The 50,000 seats would make the stadium the third-biggest stadium in the state behind Vaught-Hemingway Stadium in Oxford and Davis-Wade Stadium in Starkville. Both of those venues were built with private donations, are open-air and used almost exclusively for football.
Knowledge06 6 years, 3 months ago
Let's be honest here. JSU has put City officials in a position to say they support the 'IDEA'. That doesn't mean that the City or County will commit any actual money to this 'IDEA'. The money doesn't make sense nor add up. For any City or County official to actually come out and say what they know to be the truth would pit them against JSU during an election year. Reality and politics usually don't mix.
MelishiaDG 6 years, 3 months ago
But if a politician wants to really step their game up, then they would not only come out in support of the idea, but also with a plan to help see it through. And politics are our reality, everyday.
swalker 6 years, 3 months ago
Can someone just fill me in on what the city actually wants. I hear talk of this 50,000 seat JSU stadium, I hear talk of a study for this 14,00 seat Arena to be on Farish St. and I hear talk about the Mississippi Coliseum Upgrades which will increase permanent seating to 7,000.
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Ceramic Units
Ceramic Unit Specifications:
From a 1.25″ x 2.25″ hand rolled slab.
1″ high x 0.65″ diameter fired to cone 6.
Impressed with a single row of bubble wrap which makes three circular indents.
Imprinted with stamp on the seam.
Inside glaze: High gloss, very pale blue (iron, copper, cobalt)
Outside glaze: Matt black (iron, cobalt, manganese)
From March through July 2012 this was the only work I made: formed by hand from template cut slabs, then dried and bisqued, glazed both inside and out, and finally fired to cone 6 oxidation. I worked steadily making between 10 and 60 a day and in the end I had over 1000 of the tiny pots.
Mostly, it was a surprisingly comforting time and I loved knowing what I was going to do each day. Other times, there was a tedium and restlessness to do something else, but I stayed with the project. It gave me a lot of time to think, and to respond to questions that people asked me about what I was doing.
Why are you doing this? I want to make work about change and growth, and to do this it seems best to make a whole lot of small things first. Then I can make large things.
What’s the mark on the side? The mark is my mark: JJ, with the second J flipped around to make it into a decorative rectangle. The stamp was to mark my work in shared studio space, even though everyone knew this work was mine. In the beginning it seemed way too big for the tiny piece, but it let me work over the seam where the slab was joined together, so became part of the construction technique, a little like sealing wax closes an envelope.
How many are you going to make? From the beginning I knew I wanted to make 1000, which sounded ridiculous in March and April. After a while, people just asked me how many more I needed to make. I kept careful count, arranging them in grids of 10 x 10 on 1 foot square floor tiles.
Why only 1000, why not 10,000? I wanted to see how long it would take to make 1000 of something. It was an arbitrary number, but I didn’t want it to be torturous, or for the project to become Kafkaesque. It was about seeing where my limits were in terms of work, of keeping focus and finishing a long project in the way I had defined it.
Why don’t you mold them? I didn’t think about molding them, though it’s maybe a better choice for making 100s of the small object. Not sure if it would be quicker, or make work as well finished. Vaguely I don’t like casting slip as much as rolled clay which gets compacted when rolled. By the end it took around 10 minutes to form each piece.
Why do you call them “units?” Soon after I started making them, I began thinking of them as units, singles or even ceramic pennies. I liked the term “Unit” because it seemed to be both concrete and abstract. Concrete because it could be used to give the size of larger cylinders that were multiples of the units, and could be called 2s, 3s and even 6s and 10s.
But the pieces also took on the abstract meaning which a term like “unit” implies. The idea of having “ceramic units” raises the possibility that they could be substituted for units of something else. What that something else is, is very open. Also, the units could represent larger ceramic work in different contexts, while being very contained and small.
1000 of the units were installed in September 2012 in the 2nd Floor Hallway Display Case at The Clay Studio. Because of their versatile nature, I created a series of four related installations representing the four stages of a wave: Water, Surge, Crest and Foam, each displayed for 1 week.
Following this work, the units were packed away in a 1 cu ft box. There is something sad and unfinished about the work now. So much potential, and yet they’re just sitting there, waiting for something to happen, waiting for life to begin again.
Below are several arrangements of the 1000 units on a dark stone wedging table.
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in search of clinton
bipolar websites
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about dr. gartner
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John Gartner, Ph.D.
is a psychologist living and working in Baltimore and New York. He can be contacted at: jg@johngartner.com
I served as a part time assistant professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University Medical School for 28 years. My areas of specializations are Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), Bipolar Disorder, and Depression. My therapy practice is in Towson, Maryland, a suburb of Baltimore, and Midtown Manhattan, New York.
Borderlines have problems with impulsivity, mood swings, unstable relationships, and self destructive behaviors. Despite the seriousness of the condition, contrary to the stereotype, BPD is treatable, and I've had good outcomes in the vast majority of cases. It's intensive long term work, but with a properly trained therapist and a motivated patient the prognosis is good. In 1987, I completed a two year post-doctoral fellowship at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical in treatment of BPD working under the renowned Otto Kernberg, whose work helped define the disorder. While Kernberg's work emphasizes interpreting underlying psychodynamics and limit setting, in more recent years, I've been strongly influenced by Marsha Linehan's Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), with its emphasis on meditation, the cultivation of mindfulness, and learning of skills to manage emotional volatility. I offer my borderline patients an informed treatment approach which is both tough (when needed) and compassionate in the context of a committed long term relationship. Experience and research shows there is no substitute for this kind of therapeutic relationship.
While medicines are a valuable tool in the treatment of bipolar disorder, I have found that less is often more, and help patients find the balance that allows them to gain control without bearing the unwanted side effects of over-medication. In addition to traditional therapy techniques I also use meditation to help patients gain impulse control and self-awareness. While I treat all forms of bipolar disorder, I have a particular interest in hypomania, a mildly manic temperament often found among highly creative people. My book, The Hypomanic Edge: The Link Between (a Little) Craziness and (a lot of) Success in America, which links hypomania to both success and the American temperament was named by the New York Times Sunday Magazine year in ideas issue as one of the most innovative and important new ideas of 2005. In my second book, In Search of Bill Clinton: A Psychological Biography, named one of the best biographies of 2008 by Booklist, official publication of the American Library Association, I present Bill Clinton as a case study in hypomania. In my work with hypomanics I emphasize how to gain self control while at the same time not losing one's creative spark, working to capitalize on hypomania’s strengths such as energy, drive, creativity, confidence and charisma, while also guarding against it’s liabilities such as arrogance, impatience, irritability and impulsivity. The cultivation of mindfulness helps the hypomanic slow things down enough so that they can make better judgments and choices, and increase their empathy for how others experience them, and protect their relationships from being damaged.
Depression is complex, and must be approached as a cognitive distortion, chemical imbalance, psychodynamic issue, behavioral issue, and relational issue. I've been working with depressed patients for almost thirty years, and employ all these tools in helping patients reclaim their lives from depression.
In Search of Bill Clinton:
A Psychological Biography
What makes Bill Clinton tick? WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON, the forty- second President of the United States, is the greatest American enigma of our age—a dark horse who Captured the White House, fell from grace, and was resurrected as a controversial elder statesman. John D. Gartner’s In Search of Bill Clinton unravels the mystery at the heart of Clinton’s complex nature and tells the story from the fresh viewpoint of a psychologist questioning the well-crafted Clinton life story.
The Hypomanic Edge:
The Link Between (a Little) Craziness
And (a Lot) of Success in America
America has an extraordinarily high number of hypomanics—grandiose types who leap on every wacky idea that occurs to them, utterly convinced it will change the world. Americans may have a lot of crazy ideas, but some of them prove to be brilliant inventions.
VISIT THE HYPOMANIC EDGE SITE
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Nintendo Switch - Is This Enough?
Is it just me or does it seem like the Nintendo Switch is a very late, but still rushed platform? Nintendo was probably banking on the Wii U lasting longer than it did against the PS4 and Xbox One on the market, but it didn't. Forcing Nintendo to resort to a new product launch, introducing the Switch.
Just looking at the current list of titles that will be available at launch of the platform is really telling. There are eight (8) titles ready on day 1 and of course that number will increase throughout the first month of release...but it's surprising that the 3DS and Wii U haven't seen packed calendar releases in at least a year's time, so you would think that more effort was being put into Switch titles. Granted one of them is The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild...but that was announced a long time ago and was originally exclusive to the Wii U. What is with Nintendo in announcing a title for a system, only to delay it so that it actually comes on the successor? Looking at you Animal Crossing for the GameCube, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess for the Wii and now The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
And of the eight (8) titles, three (3) were just confirmed for the launch. So up to this point, there were five (5) titles.
Here are the eight (8) titles for day one (1):
1-2 Switch
Skylanders: Imaginators
World of Goo
Little Inferno
I was actually very excited to see what Nintendo was going to do this time around with a new platform that looked incredibly appealing. This system looks technologically sexy. However, as more information came out about it and the fact the launch window is so sparse, even with me being interested in the platform itself, I don't see a purchase in my near future.
If you're a Nintendo fan, you're going to get this system, no matter what. Which will continue the horrible launch line ups for generations to come. But you really should wait. Breath of the Wild is the only game to go out and pick this system up for. However, it's also on the Wii U and as Nintendo fans...you already have the Wii U. So save the couple hundred dollars up and wait for more titles and let the software come to us...not the other way around.
What do you all think though?
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Higher than the Funk
1968 Frankfurt by Sea. Stefan Hantel is born to the world and the first rhythm he feels is his mother’s heartbeat. Thousands of beats and hours of clubbing later, Stefan Hantel, alias SHANTEL, releases his album "Higher than the funk" on K7 records, which demands more than a brisk introduction for this multi-instrumentalist. A retrospective – After growing up in Frankfurt, Stefan Hantel went to Paris to study graphic design. In 1991 he opened a club called ‘Lissania’ in the Frankfurt red light district, which he soon renamed the ‘Lissania Essay’. In the blaze of the city’s thumping techno clubs, SHANTEL built up a musical adventure playground for his later domain, from downtempo to a flowing blend of pop and New Electronica. Bands like Whirlpool and DJs like Kruder and Dorfmeister first launched their idiosyncratic mixes in the ‘Lissania Essay’, and SHANTEL’s own influences there such as La Funk Mob, Massive Attack and Karl Lagerfeld were aptly described in Jockey Slut with the words "electronic ocean of the next century".
In 1995 SHANTEL’s first album ‘Club Guerilla’ finally appeared on the Frankfurt label Infracomm!, capturing the quintessence of these four clubbing years, and defined by ‘Spex’ as ‘a highly successful definition of private house music’. This was followed by the’Auto-Jumps EP’ in 1996, with remixes featuring the track’ Bass and several cars’, representing SHANTEL’s first collaboration with Studio K7. Viennese DJ duo Kruder & Dorfmeister used this track on their DJ-Kicks! album. Two more EPs on his own Essay Recordings label earned him not only Howie B.’s approval but had also secured him the opening set for Bj√∂rk’s Frankfurt gig the previous year.
Viennese photographer Bettina Komenda and Frankfurt graphic designer Markus Weisbeck were responsible for the extraordinary artwork of these releases, as of that on the current album.
1998 Berlin, New York, Tel Aviv. The album ‘Higher than the funk’ comes out, with appearances by singers Liane Sommers and Andrea Palladio, as well as Richard Dorfmeister co-producing certain tracks, and is released by Studio K7.
The response has already been outstanding – Higher than the Funk has just been chosen as one of the best 15 albums of the year by U.S. ‘Spin’ magazine, and was nominated by U.S. dance industry magazine URB as the ‘Downtempo album of the year’.
Alongside excellent reviews and features in the English music press including Dazed and Confused, NME, Wire and The Face, SHANTEL has done successful DJ gigs in America, Germany and Israel, where he appeared regularly at the decks as well as recording new tracks.
A remarkable album from a remarkable talent.
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Jnanpith award conferred on Kedarnath Singh
NEW DELHI - President Pranab Mukherjee Monday conferred the 49th Jnanpith Award, the country's highest literary award, on eminent Hindi poet Kedarnath Singh.Mukherjee said that he was pleased to award Jnanpith to Kedarnath Singh for his outstanding contribution towards Indian literature. "I am sure that Singh would continue to enrich Hindi literature in the years to come," he said, adding that Singh, through his poetry,
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Reel Rock 10: reel-y disappointing
Oct 1, 2015 Anchorage Press
MailAll great films, regardless of genre, have a story to tell. These stories are deliberate from the get go, whether they are in the form of dialogue, action, symbolism, perceived, or imagined. Documentaries are no exception. Robert McKee, the guru of cinematic storytelling, writes that, "The archetypical story unearths a universally human experience, then wraps itself inside a unique, culture-specific expression. A stereotypical story reverses this pattern: It suffers a poverty of both content and form. It confines itself to a narrow, culture-specific experience and dresses in stale, nonspecific generalities." Unfortunately for the REEL ROCK Film Tour's landmark 10th anniversary, the film falls short, especially compared to last year's REEL ROCK 9, Valley Uprising: Yosemite's Rock Climbing Revolution.
This year's REEL ROCK production is made up of five segments, three of which feature overlapping players, mainly Tommy Caldwell and Alex Honnold. Both are exemplary climbing machines, at the top of their game, and on top of the world, literally and figuratively, but their stories fall flat on the big screen. Perhaps they are a bit too self-confident, which makes their formidable climbs seem boring. In the first segment, Caldwell and Honnold take on Mount Fitz Roy, a jagged range that jettisons straight up from the earth. Mount Fitz Roy's silhouette cuts through the open sky in the Southern Patagonian Ice Field, on the border between Argentina and Chile. The range remains among the most technically challenging mountains on earth, and as Caldwell and Honnold show viewers, the views are spectacular. The conversations between the two climbers are banal and the use of words like "retarded" are cringe-worthy, as is the overused term "traverse." Viewers may want to offset the irritation of the excessive use of the word by making a drinking game out of its overuse. The range holds special meaning for Caldwell, who named his toddler son, "Fitz" after the peak. As Caldwell has become a family man, he often talks about the dilemma that risk-taking poses for him as a climber and father, saying that, "Risk is selfish," but then again, risk is what defines climbers of his ilk. As Caldwell journals platitudes about courage and pearls of wisdom about risk and dreams for his son, it may seem to viewers that Caldwell's real audience is the camera and not Fitz.
If there are two compelling reasons to see REEL ROCK 10, they are the second and third segments. The second segment is an homage to Dean Potter, a visionary and legend in the climbing and freebasing world. He pioneered the creation of "freebase," a hybrid extreme sport that combined rock climbing without ropes and skydiving. Potter, along with another climber, died in May 2015 in a wingsuit accident in Yosemite National Park. The tribute is beautifully presented, it opens with wide shot of Potter standing still, observing a corvid interact with the world. The short segment gives viewers a glimpse of that something that made Potter so special, his love for, and desire to be, free.
The third segment is also compelling because, unlike the first segment, it tells the story of overcoming fears and limitations. The segment introduces a little of the history of "highball" boulder climbing, essentially free climbing giant boulders (round or odd shaped as opposed to straight, vertical walls) without the use of aids. The risk of falling is high, and the higher the climb up a boulder, the harder the fall. Highballers use pads to break their falls, but even then the falls can be deadly. The segment is compelling because it focuses on Daniel Woods, a long and lean climber whose physical strength is limited only by his mind. Woods is unable to hide his vulnerability; he is as honest with himself as he is with viewers. This makes his triumph resonate with his friends and viewers.
The fourth segment is about the Horseshoe Hell climbing competition, the Burning Man of climbing. The 24-hour endurance rock climbing competition brings teams of climbers to the sandstone cliff walls of Horseshoe Canyon Ranch in Jasper, AR. The segment is fun to watch and presents a curious look at Alex Hunnold. Last year the Press interviewed Hunnold for the Valley Uprising: Yosemite's Rock Climbing Revolution review, and he was not only smart and charming, but also gave a sublime reason for why he climbs, he said, "The joy of movement, running in an open space, the pleasure of it, that is the heart of climbing. Combined with the aesthetics of Yosemite, one of the most beautiful places in the world, it is rewarding. It drives you to push yourself." The Hunnold seen in this fourth segment is very different, his over-confidence borders on arrogance. Hunnold seems jaded, but there is no doubt that he is still the best in the world.
The fifth and final segment once again features Caldwell, this time as he and Kevin Jorgeson make history with their 19-day ascent up Yosemite's Dawn Wall in January of this year. Jorgeson's story and experience of the climb is compelling. REEL ROCK 10 positions this segment as a cliffhanger (pun intended) for the upcoming film about the historic climb. Perhaps REEL ROCK 11 will find its footing once again and reach the cinematic summit.
REEL ROCK shows on Thursday, Oct 8 at 5:30 & 8 p.m. at Bear Tooth.
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Prohibitions of exposure to asbestosF1F2F3F4F5F6F7F8N.I.
26.—(1) A person shall not undertake asbestos spraying or working procedures that involve using low-density (less than 1g/cm) insulating or soundproofing materials which contain asbestos.
(2) Every employer shall ensure that no employees are exposed to asbestos during the extraction of asbestos.
(3) Every employer shall ensure that no employees are exposed to asbestos during the manufacture of asbestos products or of products containing intentionally added asbestos.
F1Formerly the Department of Economic Development; see S.I. 1999/283 (N.I. 1), Article 3(5); that Department was formerly the Department of Manpower Services; see S.I. 1982/846 (N.I.11), Article 3.
F2See Article 2(2) of S.I. 1978/1039 (N.I. 9)
F31972 c.68
F4Article 17 shall be read with S.I. 1992/1728 (N.I.17), Articles 3(2) and 4(2)
F5S.I. 1978/1039 (N.I. 9); the general purposes of Part II referred to in Article 17(1) were extended by S.I. 1992/1728 (N.I. 17), Articles 3(1) and 4(1). Article 55(2) was amended by S.I. 1998/2795 (N.I. 18), Article 6(1) and Schedule 1, paragraph 19
F6See S.I. 1976/897 for the designation in relation to the regulation and control of classification, packaging and labelling of dangerous substances and preparations and S.I. 2007/1349 in relation to persistent organic pollutants, dangerous substances, preparations and chemicals
F7Article 13(1A) was substituted by S.I. 1998/2795 (N.I. 18), Article 4
F8Article 46(3) was amended by S.I. 1998/2795 (N.I. 18), Article 6(1) and Schedule 1, paragraphs 8 and 18
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Education Reform Act 1988
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s. 127A inserted by 2017 c. 29 Sch. 8 para. 16
s. 128(1)(b)(iib) omitted by 2011 c. 21 Sch. 16 para. 8
s. 128(1)(b)(iia) omitted by 2015 c. 20 Sch. 14 para. 35
s. 135(1)(c)(d) and word inserted by S.I. 2019/1027 reg. 3(2)(b)
s. 161(1)(e)(f) inserted by 2017 c. 29 Sch. 8 para. 20(b)
s. 161(1)(ba)(bb) inserted by 2017 c. 29 Sch. 8 para. 20(a)
Chapter IIE+W+S Reorganisation of Provision and Funding of Higher Education
C1Pt. II Ch. II (ss. 121-138) modified (temp. until 31. 3. 1993) (6. 5. 1992) by Further and Higher Education Act 1992 (c. 13), s. 64(1); S.I. 1992/831, art. 2, Schs.1 and 3.
The higher education corporationsE+W
121 Initial incorporation of higher education institutions maintained by [F1local authorities].E+W
F2(1). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(4)References in this Part of this Act to courses of advanced further education are references to courses designated by Schedule 2 to the M1Education (Schools and Further Education) Regulations 1981 as courses of advanced further education.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in Act substituted (5.5.2010) by The Local Education Authorities and Children’s Services Authorities (Integration of Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/1158), Sch. 2 para. 4(2)
F2S. 121(1)-(3) repealed (22.7.2004) by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2004 (c. 14), Sch. 1 Pt. 7
Marginal Citations
M1S.I. 1981/1086.
122 Orders incorporating higher education institutions maintained by [F1local authorities].E+W
(1)Subject to subsection (2) below, if at any time it appears to the Secretary of State, in the case of any institution maintained by a [F1local authority], that its full-time equivalent enrolment number for courses of higher education exceeds 55 per cent. of its total full-time equivalent enrolment number he may make an order under this section with respect to that institution.
(6)An order under this section with respect to any institution shall make provision for the establishment of a body corporate for the purpose of conducting that institution as from the transfer date applicable in relation to that body corporate.
F3S. 122(2)-(5) repealed (6.5.1992) by Further and Higher Education Act 1992 (c. 13), s. 93, Sch. 8 Pt. I para. 31, Sch. 9; S.I. 1992/831, art. 2, Sch. 1
C2S. 122 applied by S.I. 1991/1391, art. 2
[F4122A Orders transferring further education corporations to higher education sector.E+W
(1)The Secretary of State may by order provide for the transfer of a further education corporation to the higher education sector if it appears to him that the full-time equivalent enrolment number of the institution conducted by the corporation for courses of higher education exceeds 55 per cent. of its total full-time equivalent enrolment number.
(2)Where an order under this section is made in respect of a further education corporation, sections 124A and 125 of this Act shall have effect as if—
(a)on the date the order has effect, the corporation were established as a higher education corporation, and
(b)the Secretary of State were the appointing authority in relation to the first members of the higher education corporation.
(3)In determining in pursuance of subsection (2)(b) above the number of members to appoint within each variable category of members, the Secretary of State shall secure that at least half of all the members of the higher education corporation as first constituted are independent members; and in this subsection “variable category of members” and “independent members” have the same meaning as in Schedule 7A to this Act.
(4)On such date as may be specified in the order the corporation shall cease to be a further education corporation and become a higher education corporation and any member of the further education corporation who is not re-appointed by the Secretary of State in pursuance of subsection (2)(b) above shall cease to hold office on that date.
F4S. 122A inserted (1.4.1993) by Further and Higher Education Act 1992 (c. 13), s. 74(1); S.I. 1992/831, art. 2, Sch. 3
123 Provisions supplementary to sections 121 and 122.]E+W
(1)References in this Act to a higher education corporation are references to a body corporate established under section 121 or 122 of this Act [F5or which has become a higher education corporation by virtue of section 122A of this Act].
(2)In this Act “transfer date” means, in relation to a higher education corporation, the date appointed under section 126 of this Act in relation to the transfer under that section of property, rights and liabilities to that corporation.
[F6(3)Schedule 7 to this Act has effect with respect to each higher education corporation established before the appointed day (within the meaning of section 124A of this Act) unless an instrument of government for the corporation made under that section has effect.
F6(4)A higher education corporation established under section 122 of this Act on or after that day for the purpose of conducting any institution shall be established initially under the name given in the order under that section establishing the corporation.]
F5Words in s. 123(1) added (1. 4. 1993) by Further and Higher Education Act 1992 (c. 13), s. 93(1), Sch. 8 Pt. I para. 32(a); S.I. 1992/831, art. 2, Sch.3.
F6S. 123(3)(4) substituted for s. 123(3) (6. 5. 1992) by Further and Higher Education Act 1992 (c. 13), s. 93(1), Sch. 8 Pt. I para. 32(b); S.I. 1992/831, art. 2, Sch. 1.
124 Powers of a higher education corporation.E+W
(1)A higher education corporation shall have power—
(a)to provide higher education;
(b)to provide further education; and
[F7(ba)to provide secondary education [F8suitable to the requirements of persons who have attained the age of fourteeen years],
(bb)to provide education which is secondary education by virtue of section 2(2B) of the Education Act 1996 (definition of secondary education),
(bc)to participate in the provision of secondary education at a school,]
(c)to carry out research and to publish the results of the research or any other material arising out of or connected with it in such manner as the corporation think fit.
[F9(1A)A higher education corporation may not provide education of a kind specified in subsection (1)(ba) or (bb) above unless they have consulted such [F1local authorities] as they consider appropriate.]
(2)A higher education corporation shall also have power to do anything which appears to the corporation to be necessary or expedient for the purpose of or in connection with the exercise of any of the powers conferred on the corporation by subsection (1) above, including in particular power—
(a)to conduct an educational institution for the purpose of carrying on activities undertaken in exercise of any of those powers and, in particular, to assume the conduct as from the transfer date applicable in relation to the corporation of the institution in respect of which the corporation is established and for that purpose to receive any property, rights and liabilities transferred to the corporation under section 126 of this Act;
(b)to provide facilities of any description appearing to the corporation to be necessary or expedient for the purposes of or in connection with carrying on any such activities (including boarding accommodation and recreational facilities for students and staff and facilities to meet the needs of [F10students having learning difficulties F11. . .]);
(c)to supply goods and services;
(d)to acquire and dispose of land and other property;
(e)to enter into contracts, including in particular—
(i)contracts for the employment of teachers and other staff for the purposes of or in connection with carrying on any such activities; and
(ii)contracts with respect to the carrying on by the corporation of any such activities;
[F12(f)to form, participate in forming or invest in a company for the purpose of carrying on any such activities;
(fa)to form, participate in forming or otherwise become a member of a charitable incorporated organisation [F13(within the meaning of Part 11 of the Charities Act 2011)] for the purpose of carrying on any such activities;]
(g)to borrow such sums as the corporation think fit for the purposes of carrying on any activities they have power to carry on or meeting any liability transferred to them under section 126 of this Act and, in connection with such borrowing, to grant any mortgage, charge or other security in respect of any land or other property of the corporation;
(h)to invest any sums not immediately required for any of the purposes mentioned in paragraph (g) above;
(i)to accept gifts of money, land or other property and apply it, or hold and administer it on trust for, any of those purposes; and
(j)to do anything incidental to the conduct of an educational institution providing higher or further education.
(3)The power under subsection (2)(j) above includes in particular power—
(a)to found scholarships or exhibitions; and
(b)to make grants and give prizes.
F14(4). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
[F15(5)For the purposes of subsection (2)(b) a person has a learning difficulty if—
(a)he has a significantly greater difficulty in learning than the majority of persons of his age, or
(b)he has a disability which either prevents or hinders him from making use of facilities of a kind generally provided by institutions within the higher education sector for persons of his age.
(6)But a person is not to be taken to have a learning difficulty solely because the language (or form of language) in which he is or will be taught is different from a language (or form of language) which has at any time been spoken in his home.]
[F16(7)The reference in this section to investing in a company includes a reference to becoming a member of the company and to investing in it by the acquisition of any assets, securities or rights or otherwise.]
F7S. 124(1)(ba)-(bc) inserted (1.4.2001) by 2000 c. 21, s. 142(2)(a); S.I. 2001/654, art. 2(2), Sch. Pt. II; S.I. 2001/1274, art. 2(1), Sch. Pt. I
F8Words in s. 124(1)(ba) substituted (1.10.2002 (E) and 19.12.2002 (W.)) by 2002 c. 32, s.215(1), Sch. 21 para. 8 (with ss. 210(8), 214(4)); S.I. 2002/2439, art. 3; S.I. 2002/3185, art. 4, Sch. Pt. I
F9S. 124(1A) inserted (1.4.2001) by 2000 c. 21, s. 142(2)(b); S.I. 2001/654, art. 2(2), Sch. Pt. II; S.I. 2001/1274, art. 2(1), Sch. Pt. I
F10Words in s. 124(2)(b) substituted (1. 4. 1993) by Further and Higher Education Act 1992 (c. 13), s. 93(1), Sch. 8 Pt. I para. 33(a); S.I. 1992/831, art. 2, Sch. 3.
F11Words in s. 124(2)(b) repealed (28.7.2000 insofar as consequential on ss. 130, 131, Sch. 8 of the amending Act and otherwise 1.4.2001) by 2000 c. 21, ss. 149, 153, 154, Sch. 9 para. 15(a), Sch. 11; S.I. 2001/654, art. 2(2), Sch. Pt. II; S.I. 2001/1274, art. 2(1), Sch. Pt. I
F12S. 124(2)(f)(fa) substituted for s. 124(2)(f) (23.10.2007) by Further Education and Training Act 2007 (c. 25), ss. 26(2), 32(1) (with s. 26(4))
F13Words in s. 124(2)(fa) substituted (14.3.2012) by Charities Act 2011 (c. 25), s. 355, Sch. 7 para. 49 (with s. 20(2), Sch. 8)
F14S. 124(4) repealed (1. 4. 1993) by Further and Higher Education Act 1992 (c. 13), s. 93(1), Sch. 8 Pt. I para. 33(b), Sch. 9; S.I. 1992/831, art. 2, Sch. 3.
F15S. 124(5)(6) inserted (28.7.2000 insofar as consequential on ss. 130, 131, Sch. 8 of the amending Act and otherwise 1.4.2001) by 2000 c. 21, ss. 149, 154, Sch. 9 para. 15(c); S.I. 2001/654, art. 2(2), Sch. Pt. II; S.I. 2001/1274, art. 2(1), Sch. Pt. I
F16S. 124(7) inserted (23.10.2007) by Further Education and Training Act 2007 (c. 25), ss. 26(3), 32(1)
[F17124A Constitution and conduct of corporations.E+W
(1)For each higher education corporation established on or after the appointed day there shall be an instrument (to be known as the instrument of government) providing for the constitution of the corporation and making such other provision as is required under this section.
(2)The initial instrument of government of a higher education corporation established on or after that day shall be such as is prescribed by an order of the Privy Council.
(3)An order of the Privy Council may—
(a)make an instrument of government of any higher education corporation with respect to which Schedule 7 to this Act has effect or make a new instrument of government of any higher education corporation in place of the instrument prescribed under subsection (2) above; or
(b)modify an instrument made in pursuance of this subsection.
(4)An instrument of government of a higher education corporation—
(a)shall comply with the requirements of Schedule 7A to this Act; and
(b)may make any provision authorised to be made by that Schedule and such other provision as may be necessary or desirable.
(5)An order under subsection (2) or (3) above may make such provision as appears to the Privy Council necessary or desirable to secure continuity in the government of the institution or institutions to which it relates.
(6)The validity of any proceedings of a higher education corporation for which an instrument of government has effect, or of any committee of such a corporation, shall not be affected by a vacancy amongst the members or by any defect in the appointment or nomination of a member.
(7)Every document purporting to be an instrument made or issued by or on behalf of a higher education corporation for which an instrument of government has effect and to be duly executed under the seal of the corporation, or to be signed or executed by a person authorised by the corporation to act in that behalf, shall be received in evidence and be treated, without further proof, as being so made or issued unless the contrary is shown.
(8)In relation to a higher education corporation for which an instrument of government has effect the members of the corporation for the time being shall be known as the board of governors of the institution conducted by the corporation.
(9)The Secretary of State may by order amend or repeal any of paragraphs 3 to 5 and 11 of Schedule 7A to this Act.
(10)In this section and section 124C “the appointed day” means the day appointed under section 94 of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992 for the commencement of section 71 of that Act.
F17Ss. 124A-124D inserted (6.5.1992) by Further and Higher Education Act 1992 (c. 13), s. 71(1); S.I. 1992/831, art. 2, Sch. 1
124B Accounts.E+W
(1)It shall be the duty of each corporation—
(a)to keep proper accounts and proper records in relation to the accounts; and
(b)to prepare in respect of each financial year of the corporation a statement of accounts.
(2)The statement shall—
(a)give a true and fair account of the state of the corporation’s affairs at the end of the financial year and of the corporation’s income and expenditure in the financial year; and
(b)comply with any directions given by the higher education funding council as to the information to be contained in the statement, the manner in which the information is to be presented or the methods and principles according to which the statement is to be prepared.
(3)The corporation shall supply a copy of the statement to any person who asks for it and, if the corporation so requires, pays a fee of such amount not exceeding the cost of supply as the corporation thinks fit.
(4)The accounts (including any statement prepared under this section) shall be audited by persons appointed in respect of each financial year by the corporation.
[F19(5A)A corporation in Wales shall consult, and take into account any advice given by, the Auditor General for Wales before appointing any auditor under subsection (4) above in respect of their first financial year.]
(6)No person shall be qualified to be appointed auditor under [F20subsection (4) above] except—
(a)an individual, or firm, eligible for appointment as a [F21statutory auditor under Part 42 of the Companies Act 2006];
(b)a member of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy; or
(c)a firm each of the members of which is a member of that institute.
(7)In this section, in relation to a corporation—
“the first financial year” means the period commencing with the date on which the corporation is established and ending with the second 31st March following that date; and
“financial year” means that period and each successive period of twelve months.
F18S. 124B(5) omitted (1.4.2015) by virtue of Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014 (c. 2), s. 49(1), Sch. 12 para. 21; S.I. 2015/841, art. 3(x)
F19S. 124B(5A) inserted (1.4.2005) by Public Audit (Wales) Act 2004 (c. 23), s. 73, Sch. 2 para. 9(1)(3); S.I. 2005/558, art. 2, Sch. 1
F20Words in s. 124B(6) substituted (1.4.2005) by Public Audit (Wales) Act 2004 (c. 23), s. 73, Sch. 2 para. 9(1)(4); S.I. 2005/558, art. 2, Sch. 1
F21Words in s. 124B(6)(a) substituted (6.4.2008) by The Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments etc) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/948), art. 2(2), Sch. 1 para. 1(kk)(i) (with arts. 6, 11, 12)
C3S. 124B(7): power to exclude conferred (6.5.1992) by Further and Higher Education Act 1992 (c. 13), s. 78(2); S.I. 1992/831, art. 2, Sch. 1
124C Initial and transitional arrangements.E+W
(1)The Secretary of State shall be the appointing authority in relation to the appointment of the first members of a corporation established on or after the appointed day and, in determining the number of members to appoint within each variable category of members, he shall secure that at least half of all the members of the corporation as first constituted are independent members.
(2)In subsection (1) above “variable category of members” and “independent members” have the same meaning as in Schedule 7A to this Act.
(3)The following provisions apply where an instrument of government is made under section 124A of this Act for a higher education corporation with respect to which Schedule 7 to this Act has effect.
(4)The instrument shall apply, subject to subsection (5) below, as if the persons who, immediately before its coming into effect, were the members of the corporation had been appointed in accordance with the instrument for the residue of the term of their then subsisting appointment.
(5)Any local authority nominee, teacher nominee, general staff nominee or student nominee (within the meaning, in each case, of Schedule 7 to this Act) shall cease to hold office.
124D Exercise of Powers by Privy Council.E+W
(1)This section applies in relation to the exercise of powers for the purposes of this Part of this Act.
(2)A power vested in the Privy Council may be exercised by any two or more of the lords and others of the Council.
(3)An act of the Privy Council shall be sufficiently signified by an instrument signed by the clerk of the Council.
(4)An order or act signified by an instrument purporting to be signed by the clerk of the Council shall be deemed to have been duly made or done by the Privy Council.
(5)An instrument so signed shall be received in evidence in all courts and proceedings without proof of the authority or signature of the clerk of the Council or other proof.
C4S. 124D extended (6.5.1992) by Further and Higher Education Act 1992 (c. 13), s. 76(7); S.I. 1992/831, art. 2, Sch. 1
125 Articles of government.]E+W
(1)Any institution conducted by a higher education corporation shall be conducted in accordance with articles of government, to be made by the corporation with the approval of [F22the Privy Council].
(2)The articles of government—
(a)shall determine the functions to be exercised in relation to the institution by the board of governors of the institution, the principal of the institution and the academic board of the institution; and
(b)may regulate the constitution and functions of committees of the corporation and of the academic board of the institution and provide for the delegation of functions of the board of governors and the academic board to such committees, to the chairman of the corporation or to the principal.
(3)The articles of government shall also make provision with respect to the procedure for meetings of the board of governors, of the academic board and of committees of the corporation and the procedure in relation to the appointment of members of the corporation (including in either case quorum and proxies), and may make provision with respect to—
(a)procedures for the appointment, promotion, suspension and dismissal of staff;
(b)procedures for the admission, suspension and expulsion of students; and
(c)the appointment and functions of a clerk to the board of governors.
(4)The articles of government may also make provision authorising the board of governors to make rules or bye-laws for the government and conduct of the institution, including in particular rules or bye-laws with respect to—
(a)the conduct of students and staff or either of them; and
(b)any such procedures as are mentioned in subsection (3)(a) or (b) above.
(5)Articles of government made under this section may be varied or revoked by subsequent articles made by the corporation with the approval of [F22the Privy Council].
(6)[F22The Privy Council] may by a direction under this section require higher education corporations, any class of such corporations specified in the direction or any particular higher education corporation so specified—
(a)to amend their articles of government; or
(b)to secure that any rules or bye-laws made in pursuance of their articles of government are amended by the board of governors;
in any manner so specified.
(7)Before giving a direction under this section, [F22the Privy Council] shall consult the board of governors of the higher education corporation or (as the case may be) of each higher education corporation to which the direction applies.
F22Words in s. 125(1)(5)-(7) substituted (6.5.1992) by Further and Higher Education Act 1992 (c. 13), s. 71(2); S.I. 1992/831, art. 2, Sch. 1
[F23125A Charitable status of a higher education corporation.E+W
A higher education corporation shall be a charity and—
(a) an English higher education corporation is, in accordance with Schedule 3 to the Charities Act 2011, an exempt charity for the purposes of that Act, and
(b)a Welsh higher education corporation is, in accordance with regulations made in compliance with section 31(3) of that Act, excepted from registration under that Act.]
F23S. 125A substituted (14.3.2012) by Charities Act 2011 (c. 25), s. 355, Sch. 7 para. 50 (with s. 20(2), Sch. 8); words in s. 125A substituted (14.3.2012 immediately before the Charities Act 2011 (c. 25) comes into force) by The Charities (Pre-consolidation Amendments) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/1396), art. 1, Sch. para. 43(a); and words in s. 125A omitted (14.3.2012 immediately before the Charities Act 2011 (c. 25) comes into force) by virtue of The Charities (Pre-consolidation Amendments) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/1396), art. 1, Sch. para. 43(a)
126[F24 Transfer of property, etc., to higher education corporations.]E+W
(1)In the case of a higher education corporation established under section 121 of this Act the transfer under this section shall take effect on such date as the Secretary of State may by order appoint in relation to the corporations so established.
(2)In the case of a higher education corporation established under section 122 of this Act the transfer under this section shall take effect on such date as the Secretary of State may by order appoint in relation to that corporation.
(3)Subject to subsection (5) below and section 198 of this Act, on the transfer date applicable in relation to a higher education corporation the property, rights and liabilities mentioned in subsection (4) below shall be transferred to, and by virtue of this Act vest in, that corporation.
(4)The property, rights and liabilities referred to in subsection (3) above are—
(a)all land or other property which, immediately before that date, was property of any [F1local authority] used or held for the purposes of the transferred institution; and
(b)all rights and liabilities of any such authority subsisting immediately before that date which were acquired or incurred for those purposes.
(5)Subsection (3) above shall not apply to—
(a)rights and liabilities under any contract of employment;
(b)any liability of any such authority in respect of the principal of, or any interest on, any loan; or
(c)any liability of any such authority in respect of compensation for premature retirement of any person formerly employed by them.
(6)In this section “the transferred institution” means, in relation to any higher education corporation, the institution the corporation is established to conduct.
F24S. 125A inserted (1.10.1998) by 1998 c. 30, s. 41(1); S.I. 1998/2215, art. 2
127 Transfer of staff to higher education corporations.E+W
(1)This section applies to any person who immediately before the transfer date applicable in relation to a higher education corporation—
(a)is employed by the transferor authority to work solely at the institution the corporation is established to conduct; or
(b)is employed by that authority to work at that institution and is designated for the purposes of this section by an order made by the Secretary of State.
(2)The contract of employment between a person to whom this section applies and the transferor authority shall have effect from the transfer date as if originally made between him and the corporation.
(3)Without prejudice to subsection (2) above—
(a)all the transferor authority’s rights, powers, duties and liabilities under or in connection with a contract to which that subsection applies shall by virtue of this section be transferred to the corporation on the transfer date; and
(b)anything done before that date by or in relation to the transferor authority in respect of that contract or the employee shall be deemed from that date to have been done by or in relation to the corporation.
(4)Subsections (2) and (3) above are without prejudice to any right of an employee to terminate his contract of employment if a substantial change is made to his detriment in his working conditions, but no such right shall arise by reason only of the change in employer effected by this section.
(5)An order under this section may designate a person either individually or as a member of a class or description of employees.
(6)References in this section, in relation to a higher education corporation, to the transferor authority, are references to the [F1local authority] by whom the institution that corporation is established to conduct is maintained immediately before the transfer date.
C5S. 127 applied (with modifications) (1.9.1992) by S.I. 1992/1849, art.4.
C6S. 127 applied (with modifications) (1.10.1992) by S.I. 1992/2151, art.4.
C7S. 127 applied (with modifications) (1.3.1995) by S.I. 1995/183, art.4.
S. 127 applied (with modifications) (1.8.2000) by S.I. 2000/1383, art. 3
S. 127 applied (with modificaitons) (1.8.2000) by S.I. 2000/355, art. 3
C9S. 127 applied (with modifications) (1.8.2006) by Wimbledon School of Art Higher Education Corporation (Dissolution) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/1746), arts. 1(1), 3
C10S. 127 applied (with modifications) (1.8.2007) by The Cumbria Institute of the Arts Higher Education Corporation (Dissolution) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/1848), arts. 1, 3
C11S. 127 applied (with modifications) (11.4.2013) by The University of Wales, Newport Higher Education Corporation (Dissolution) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/664), arts. 1, 4
C12S. 127 applied (with modifications) (1.8.2013) by The Swansea Metropolitan University Higher Education Corporation (Dissolution) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/1729), arts. 1, 4
C13S. 127(2)(3)(4) applied (with modifications) (1.8.2011) by The Leeds College of Music (Dissolution) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/1677), arts. 1, 2(2)
128 Dissolution of higher education corporations.E+W
(1)Subject to the following provisions of this section, the Secretary of State may by order provide for—
(a)the dissolution of any higher education corporation; and
(b)the transfer of property, rights and liabilities of the corporation to—
(i)any person appearing to the Secretary of State to be wholly or mainly engaged in the provision of educational facilities or services of any description;
F25(iia). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
F26(iib). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(ii)any body corporate established for purposes which include the provision of such facilities or services;
[F27(iii)a higher education funding council]
[F28(v)F29...the [F30National Assembly for Wales].]
(2)An order under sub-paragraph (i) or (ii) of subsection (1)(b) above shall not provide for transferring the property, rights or liabilities of a higher education corporation to any person or body without the consent of that person or body; and where the recipient of a transfer under any order under subsection (1)(b) is not an educational charity any property transferred must be transferred on trust to be used for charitable purposes which are exclusively educational purposes.
(3)For the purposes of subsection (2) above, a charity is an educational charity if the charitable purposes for which it is established are exclusively educational purposes.
(4)Before making an order under this section in respect of a higher education corporation the Secretary of State shall consult—
(a)the corporation; and
[F31(b)the higher education funding council]
(5)In this section [F32“charitable purposes” has the meaning given by section 11 of the Charities Act 2011].
[F33(6)An order under this section may apply section 127 of this Act with such modifications as the Secretary of State may consider necessary or desirable.]
F25S. 128(1)(b)(iia) omitted (26.5.2015) by virtue of Deregulation Act 2015 (c. 20), s. 115(3)(g), Sch. 14 para. 35
F26S. 128(1)(b)(iib) omitted (1.4.2012) by virtue of Education Act 2011 (c. 21), s. 82(3), Sch. 16 para. 8; S.I. 2012/924, art. 2
F27S. 128(1)(b)(iii) substituted for s. 128(1)(b)(iii)(iv) (6. 5. 1992) by Further and Higher Education Act 1992 (c. 13), s. 93(1), Sch. 8 Pt. I para. 34(a)(i); S.I. 1992/831, art. 2, Sch. 1.
F28S. 128(1)(b)(v) substituted (28.7.2000 insofar as consequential on ss. 130, 131, Sch. 8 of the amending Act and otherwise 1.4.2001) by 2000 c. 21, ss. 149, Sch. 9 para. 16 (with s. 150); S.I. 2001/654, art. 2(2), Sch. Pt. II; S.I. 2001/1274, art. 2(1), Sch. Pt. I
F29Words in s. 128(1)(b)(v) repealed (1.4.2010) by The Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 (Consequential Amendments) (England and Wales) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/1080), art. 1(2)(a)(b), Sch. 1 para. 16(b), Sch. 2 Pt. 1 (with art. 2(3))
F30Words in s. 128(1)(b)(v) substituted (1.4.2006) by National Council for Education and Training for Wales (Transfer of Functions to the National Assembly for Wales and Abolition) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/3238), art. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 12 (with art. 7)
F31S. 128(4)(b) substituted (6. 5. 1992) by Further and Higher Education Act 1992 (c. 13), s. 93(1), Sch. 8 Pt. I para. 34(b); S.I. 1992/831, art. 2, Sch. 1.
F32Words in s. 128(5) substituted (14.3.2012) by Charities Act 2011 (c. 25), s. 355, Sch. 7 para. 51 (with s. 20(2), Sch. 8); words in s. 128(5) substituted (14.3.2012 immediately before the Charities Act 2011 (c. 25) comes into force) by The Charities (Pre-consolidation Amendments) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/1396), art. 1, Sch. para. 44(a)
F33S. 128(6) added (6. 5. 1992) by Further and Higher Education Act 1992 (c. 13), s. 93(1), Sch. 8 Pt. I para. 34(c); S.I. 1992/831, art. 2, Sch. 1.
Designation of certain institutions for funding by the Polytechnics and Colleges Funding Council, etc.E+W
129 Designation of institutions.E+W
F34[(1)The Secretary of State may by order designate as an institution eligible to receive support from funds administered by a higher education funding council—
(a)any institution which appears to him to fall within subsection (2) below; and
(b)any institution which is, or is to be, conducted by a successor company to a higher education corporation.
F34(2)An institution falls within this subsection if its full-time equivalent enrolment number for courses of higher education exceeds 55 per cent. of its total full-time equivalent enrolment number]
(5)For the purposes of subsection (1)(b) above, a company is a successor company to a higher education corporation if-
(a)it is a company limited by a guarantee formed and registered under [F36the Companies Act 2006];
(b)at the time when it was formed the persons participating in its formation were all members of a higher education corporation and constituted a majority of the members of that corporation;
(c)its objects—
(i)are exclusively charitable according to the law of England and Wales; and
(ii)include the conduct of the institution which was at that time conducted by that corporation;
(d)its [F37articles of association] have been approved by the Secretary of State; and
(e)an order has been made under section 128 of this Act dissolving the corporation and transferring the property, rights and liabilities of the corporation to the company (whether or not that order has taken effect before the order under this section is made).
F34S. 129(1)(2) substituted (6. 5. 1992) by Further and Higher Education Act 1992 (c. 13), s. 72(1)(a); S.I. 1992/831, art. 2, Sch.1.
F35S. 129(3)(4) repealed (6. 5. 1992) by Further and Higher Education Act 1992 (c. 13), ss. 72(1)(b), 93(2), Sch.9; S.I. 1992/831, art. 2, Sch.1.
F36Words in s. 129(5)(a) substituted (1.10.2009) by The Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/1941), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 96(2)(a) (with art. 10)
F37Words in s. 129(5)(d) substituted (1.10.2009) by The Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/1941), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 96(2)(b) (with art. 10)
C14S. 129 extended (1. 4. 1993) by Further and Higher Education Act 1992 (c. 13), s. 74(2); S.I. 1992/831, art. 2, Sch.3.
[F38129A Government and conduct of designated institutions.E+W
(1)This section has effect in relation to any designated institution, other than an institution conducted by a company.
(2)For each such institution there shall be—
(a)an instrument providing for the constitution of a governing body of the institution (to be known as the instrument of government); and
(b)an instrument in accordance with which the institution is to be conducted (to be known as the articles of government),
each of which meets the requirements of subsection (3) below.
(3)Those requirements are that the instrument—
(a)was in force when the designation took effect; or
(b)is made in pursuance of a power under a regulatory instrument, or is made under subsection (5) below,
and is approved for the purposes of this section by the Privy Council.
(4)In this section “regulatory instrument”, in relation to an institution, means any instrument of government or articles of government and any other instrument relating to or regulating the institution.
(5)Where there is no such power as is mentioned in subsection (3)(b) above to make the instrument, it may be made by the body of persons responsible for the management of the institution and an instrument made by them under this subsection may replace wholly or partly any existing regulatory instrument.
(6)If an instrument approved by the Privy Council for the purposes of this section—
(a)falls within subsection (3)(a) above or was made in pursuance of a power under a regulatory instrument and, apart from this section, there is no power to modify it; or
(b)was made by the body of persons responsible for the management of the institution,
the instrument may be modified by those persons.
(7)Either of the instruments referred to in subsection (2) above may be modified by order of the Privy Council and no instrument approved by the Privy Council for the purposes of this section may be modified by any other person without the Privy Council’s consent.
(8)Before exercising any power under subsection (7) above in relation to any instrument the Privy Council shall consult—
(a)the governing body of the institution, and
(b)where there is such a power as is mentioned in subsection (3)(b) above to modify the instrument and the persons having that power are different from the governing body of the institution, the persons having the power,
so far as it appears to them to be practicable to do so.
(9)Nothing in this section requires further approval for any instrument approved by the Secretary of State for the purposes of section 156 of this Act, and references in this section to instruments approved by the Privy Council for the purposes of this section include instruments so approved by the Secretary of State.
(10)In this section and section 129B “designated institution” means an institution in relation to which a designation made, or having effect as if made, under section 129 of this Act has effect but does not include any institution established by Royal Charter.]
F38Ss. 129A, 129B inserted (6. 5. 1992) by Further and Higher Education Act 1992 (c. 13), s. 73(1); S.I. 1992/831, art. 2, Sch.1.
129BF39Designated institutions conducted by companies.E+W
(1)This section has effect in relation to any designated institution conducted by a company.
(2)The articles of association of the company shall incorporate—
(a)provision with respect to the constitution of a governing body of the institution (to be known as the instrument of government of the institution); and
(b)provision with respect to the conduct of the institution (to be known as the articles of government of the institution).
(3)The Privy Council may give to the persons who appear to them to have effective control over the company such directions as they think fit for securing that—
(a)the [F40articles of association] of the company; or
(b)any rules or bye-laws made in pursuance of any power conferred by the articles of association of the company,
are amended in such manner as they may specify in the direction.
(4)No amendment of the [F41articles of association] of the company (other than one required under subsection (3)(a) above) shall take effect until it has been submitted to the Privy Council for their approval and they have notified their approval to the company.
(5)Before giving any directions under subsection (3) above the Privy Council shall consult the persons who appear to them to have effective control over the company.
F40Words in s. 129B(3)(a) substituted (1.10.2009) by The Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/1941), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 96(3) (with art. 10)
F41Words in s. 129B(4) substituted (1.10.2009) by The Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/1941), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 96(3) (with art. 10)
130 Transfer of property, etc., to certain designated institutions.E+W
(1)This section applies to an institution designated under section 129 of this Act in any case where—
(a)the order designating the institution under that section so provides; and
(b)immediately before the date on which the designation takes effect (referred to below in this section, in relation to such an institution, as the designation date) the institution is an institution assisted by a [F1local authority] (referred to below in this section as the former assisting authority).
(2)Subject to subsection (4) below and section 198 of this Act, on the designation date in relation to any institution to which this section applies the property, rights and liabilities mentioned in subsection (3) below shall be transferred to, and by virtue of this Act vest in, the appropriate transferee.
(a)all land or other property which, immediately before that date, was property of the former assisting authority used or held for the purposes of that institution; and
(b)all rights and liabilities of that authority subsisting immediately before that date which were acquired or incurred for those purposes.
(a)any liability of the former assisting authority in respect of the principal of, or any interest on, any loan; or
(b)any liability of that authority in respect of compensation for premature retirement of any person formerly employed by them.
(5)In subsection (2) above, “the appropriate transferee” means—
(a)in relation to an institution conducted by a body corporate, that body; and
(b)in relation to an institution not so conducted, any persons specified in the order designating the institution as persons appearing to the Secretary of State to be trustees holding property for the purposes of that institution.
(6)Subject to subsection (7) below, where any persons so specified are the appropriate transferee for the purposes of subsection (2) above—
(a)any land or other property or rights transferred to them under this section shall be held by them on the trusts applicable under such trust deed relating to or regulating that institution (if any) as may be so specified or, if no such trust deed is so specified, on trust for the purposes of the institution; and
(b)they shall incur no personal liability by virtue of any liability so transferred, but may apply any property held by them on trust for the purposes of the institution in meeting any such liability.
(7)Subsection (6)(a) above shall not apply in relation to any land or other property or rights which immediately before the designation date in relation to the institution concerned were vested in the former assisting authority as trustees for any particular purposes or (as the case may be) for the general purposes of the institution.
(8)In this Act, “transfer date” means, in relation to an institution to which this section applies, the designation date in relation to that institution.
New arrangements for funding higher educationE+W+S
F42131. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .E+W+S
F42S. 131 repealed (1. 4. 1993) by Further and Higher Education Act 1992 (c. 13), s. 93, Sch. 8 Pt. I para. 35, Sch.9; S.I. 1992/831, art. 2, Sch.3.
F43132. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .E+W
133 Payments F44...in respect of persons employed in the provision of higher or further education.E+W
F45[(1)[F46The Office for Students and the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales each] have power to make payments, subject to such terms and conditions as [F47they] think fit, to—
(a)any [F1local authority] in their area;
(b)the London Residuary Body;
(c)the London Pensions Fund Authority; and
(d)the governing body of any institution designated under section 129 of this Act, as originally enacted;
in respect of relevant expenditure incurred or to be incurred by that authority or body of any class or description prescribed for the purposes of this section.]
(2)In subsection (1) above “relevant expenditure” means—
(a)in relation to a [F1local authority] [F48the London Residuary Body or the London Pensions Fund Authority], expenditure in making payments to or in respect of persons employed or formerly employed at an institution which provides or (in the case of an institution which has ceased to exist since the employment in question came to an end) formerly provided higher education or further education (or both); and
(b)in relation to the governing body of any institution so designated, expenditure in making payments to or in respect of persons employed or formerly employed at the institution.
(3)The reference in subsection (2)(a) above to higher education or further education (or both) shall be read, in the case of an institution which ceased to exist before the date on which section 120 of this Act comes into force, as a reference to further education within the meaning of section 41 of the 1944 Act as that section had effect immediately before that date [F49and in any other case the reference to further education shall be read as a reference to further education within the meaning of section 41 of the 1944 Act as that section had effect on that date].
(4)Each of the following, that is to say—
(a)a [F1local authority];
F50[(aa)the London Residuary Body;
F50(ab)the London Pensions Fund Authority; and]
(b)the governing body of any institution so designated;
shall give the Council such information as the Council may require for the purposes of the exercise of their power under subsection (1) above.
F44Words in s. 133 heading omitted (1.4.2018) by virtue of Higher Education and Research Act 2017 (c. 29), s. 124(5), Sch. 11 para. 10(2); S.I. 2018/241, reg. 2(s)
F45S. 133(1) substituted (1. 4. 1993) by Further and Higher Education Act 1992 (c. 13), s. 67(1); S.I. 1992/831, art. 2, Sch.3.
F46Words in s. 133(1) substituted (1.4.2018) by Higher Education and Research Act 2017 (c. 29), s. 124(5), Sch. 11 para. 10(3)(a); S.I. 2018/241, reg. 2(s)
F47Word in s. 133(1) substituted (1.4.2018) by Higher Education and Research Act 2017 (c. 29), s. 124(5), Sch. 11 para. 10(3)(b); S.I. 2018/241, reg. 2(s)
F48Words in s. 133(2)(a) inserted (6. 5. 1992) by Further and Higher Education Act 1992 (c. 13), s. 67(2); S.I. 1992/831, art. 2, Sch. 1.
F49Words in s. 133(3) added (6. 5. 1992) by Further and Higher Education Act 1992 (c. 13), s. 67(3); S.I. 1992/831, art. 2, Sch. 1.
F50S. 133(4)(aa)(ab) inserted (6. 5. 1992) by Further and Higher Education Act 1992 (c. 13), s. 67(4); S.I. 1992/831, art. 2, Sch. 1.
C15S. 133 amended(retrospectively) (6. 5. 1992) by Further and Higher Education Act 1992 (c. 13), s. 67(5); S.I. 1992/831, art. 2, Sch. 1.
S. 133 modified (1.4.1993) by S.I. 1993/563, art. 2(b)(i), Sch.1
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F52135 Inspection of accounts.E+W
(1)The accounts of—
(a)any university;
(b)any higher education corporation; or
[F53(c) any designated institution within the meaning of section 129A of this Act]
shall be open to the inspection of the Comptroller and Auditor General.
(2)In the case of any higher education corporation or of any such institution as is mentioned in subsection (1)(a) or (c) above—
(a)the power conferred by subsection (1) above; and
(b)the powers under sections 6 and 8 of the M2National Audit Act 1983 (examinations into the economy, efficiency and effectiveness of certain bodies and access to documents and information) conferred on the Comptroller and Auditor General by virtue of section 6(3)(c) of that Act;
shall be exercisable only in, or in relation to accounts or other documents which relate to, any financial year in which expenditure is incurred by the corporation, or by the governing body of the institution in question, in respect of which [F54financial support has been given to them under section 65 of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992.]
F52S. 135(2) modified by S.I. 1993/563 art. 2(b)(i), Sch.1 as amended (19.4.1993) by 1993/870, art.2
F53S. 135(1)(c) substituted (6. 5. 1992) by Further and Higher Education Act 1992 (c. 13), s. 93(1), Sch. 8 Pt. I para. 36(a); S.I. 1992/831, art. 2, Sch. 1.
F54Words in s. 135(2) substituted (1. 4. 1993) by Further and Higher Education Act 1992 (c. 13), s. 93(1), Sch. 8 Pt. I para. 36(b); S.I. 1992/831, art. 2, Sch.3.
M21983 c. 44.
F55136 Transfer to Polytechnics and Colleges Funding Council of property and staff of NAB.E+W
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
F55S. 136 repealed (22.7.2004) by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2004 (c. 14), Sch. 1 Pt. 5 Group 4
F56137 Control of disposals of land.E+W
F56S. 137 repealed (22.7.2004) by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2004 (c. 14), Sch. 1 Pt. 7
138 Construction of references to land held for the purposes of an institution.E+W
(1)This section applies for the purpose of the construction of the following provisions of this Act—
(a)section 126(4)(a);
(b)section 130(3)(a); F57...
F57(c). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(2)Where at any time any land is used for the purposes of an institution to which any of those provisions applies, any interest of a [F1local authority] in that land subsisting at that time shall be taken for the purposes of that provision to be land held for the purposes of that institution (whether or not it is by virtue of that interest that the land is so used).
F57S. 138(1)(c) and preceding word repealed (22.7.2004) by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2004 (c. 14), Sch. 1 Pt. 7
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Kolkata: Four Neo-JMB/Islamic State operatives arrested
Kolkata, Jun 25, 2019 : Acting on a tip off, the Kolkata Police’s Special Task Force (STF) arrested four neo-Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) or the Islamic State (IS) operatives in the city on Tuesday, Zee reported.
Two operatives identified as Md. Jiaur Rahman and Mamonur Rashid - both Bangladeshi nationals, were arrested from the vicinity of Sealdah Railway Station’s parking lot. A mobile phone containing photos, videos, jihadi text and literature were found on them.
Two other operatives identified as Md. Sahin Alam and Robiul Islam were arrested from Howrah Station. While Alam is a Bangladeshi national, Islam is an Indian national and lived in West Bengal’s Birbhum district.
The arrested Indian national was also a member of the banned terrorist organisation and was helping it by harbouring as well as recruiting and collecting funds from India.
The three arrested Bangladeshi nationals had taken shelter in India to escape arrest in Bangladesh and were also involved in recruitment under the Islamic State banner and in collecting funds for the organisation.
All four arrested were reportedly active in using social media to spread their agenda and a lot of digital documents, videos and audio files along with jihadi booklets were recovered from their possession. The main motive of their organisation was to overthrow democratic governments in India and Bangladesh and establish Sharia law under a caliphate.
The four operatives are to be produced before court later on Tuesday.
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Dec 15 Matt Sorum talks Guns N' Roses, Dec. 18 gig at The Paramount, The Hamptons & more
Celebrities, Music, Suffolk County
Matt Sorum has credits that would make almost any rock drummer jealous. He was in Guns N’ Roses when the band was arguably in peak form. The same can be said about the time he spent in The Cult, which led to GNR hiring him. His years with Velvet Revolver weren’t too bad, of course. As if that weren’t enough, he did fill in for Mikkey Dee for a month with Motorhead a few years back.
Somehow, Matt has also become one of the go-to drummers for all-star ensembles. He was involved with Camp Freddy — a Los Angeles-based cover band with a revolving lineup — alongside core members of Jane’s Addiction and The Cult from 2002 to 2014. He toured last summer as part of the Hollywood Vampires, as led by Alice Cooper, Johnny Depp and Aerosmith’s Joe Perry. He was also an instructor and coach for an entire season of Rock & Roll Fantasy Camp, which ran on VH1.
Now, Matt is the leader of Kings Of Chaos, all-star group featuring members of ZZ Top, Cheap Trick, Slipknot, Linkin Park, Stone Temple Pilots and Billy Idol’s band. Kings Of Chaos are making three stops in our area, including a Dec. 18 show at The Paramount in Huntington; Franky Perez will be on support for these shows.
No Place Like Long Island caught up with Matt via phone to talk more about the past, present and future of one Matt Sorum. Part 1 of the chat ran on the website of Downtown Magazine.
Do you remember the first gig that you ever played live in New York? From what I understand, you've lived in California your whole life.
Matt Sorum: Yeah, trying to think of the first gig…It's probably with The Cult, big gig, I want to say. When I joined The Cult we were a pretty big band. Nassau Coliseum was the closest and then probably the Meadowlands, which isn’t officially in New York.
It's the same market…
MS: Meadowlands with Metallica in 1989…
Before touring, had you been to New York before?
MS: I want to say no…I was in my 20s, I didn't really have money to get on an airplane, so I've gotta say that I'd never been to New York until I came there with The Cult.
Have you been to Long Island besides touring? Have you ever come here on vacation?
MS: Can’t say I have, no, I've never been there for vacation… I tend to go to Mexico, Hawaii, Palm Springs…on the West Coast. I have been invited upstate New York by John Varvatos, the clothing designer…He invited me like three times. I’d like to get to experience summer out there, upstate. I've never been to the Hamptons.
I'm surprised you've never done a corporate gig or event in the Hamptons…
MS: Never done it…That’s weird. There’s a lot of places I have been in the world. The Hamptons is not one if them. I just don't know why I've never gone there.
Well, The Paramount, where you’re playing is only about a 30-minute drive from there, but unfortunately it's the cold time of the year. Another thing I'm curious about is as somebody that tours the world regularly and plays music — two things that most people would do as hobbies — what do you like to do when you have downtime?
MS: Well, you know I have my things I do during the downtime. Like right now I'm in Palm Springs. I've got a place out here and I just relax and I'm with my wife [Ace] and I got two dogs and we just hang out. We ride bikes and do like healthy stuff now. You know in the olden days, I never even thought that way, “You know I’m just like rock and roll all the time, 24/7”…I had my dad here for a few days and did normal stuff. I gotta say the first 25 years of my career wasn't normal…but I was able to finally figure out that it's okay to relax. I got married three years ago and I'm really enjoying that a lot. We have a lot of fun together, we travel…I do a lot of charity work. I like doing that, it's fun. We do like to travel a little bit…
Your life path sounds similar to that of your bandmate Steve Stevens in terms of cleaning up your act, liking to travel, enjoying downtime…
MS: I was worse off the road than I was on the road. My rock and roll lifestyle kind of got the best of me and I stopped drinking about nine years ago, so that's changed a lot of things. In the old days, it was a little bit more like we were a gang. I used to run the streets of Hollywood with a lot of rock and roll guys. It was fun…
Matt Sorum, Steve Stevens, Kings Of Chaos, Camp Freddy, Guns N' Roses, GNR, Velvet Revolver, Mikkey Dee, Motorhead, The Meadowlands, Nassau Coliseum, Hollywood Vampires, The Cult, ZZ Top, Cheap Trick, The Paramount, Huntington, Los Angeles, Palm Springs, Ace Harper, Metallica, John Varvatos, The Hamptons, Alice Cooper, Johnny Depp, Aerosmith
Darren Paltrowitz is a New York resident with over 15 years of entertainment industry experience. He began working around the music business as a teenager, interning for the manager of his then-favorite band Superdrag. In the years following, he has worked with a wide array of artists including OK Go, They Might Be Giants, Mike Viola, Tracy Bonham, Loudness, Rachael Yamagata, and Amanda Palmer.
Darren's writing has appeared in dozens of outlets including the New York Daily News, Inquisitr, The Daily Meal, The Hype Magazine, All Music Guide, Downtown Magazine, Guitar World, TheStreet.com, Format Magazine, Businessweek, The Improper, the L.A. Times, and the Jewish Journal. He is a member of the SATW and the IFWTWA organizations as a food and travel writer.
Darren is also the host the recently-launched "Paltrocast With Darren Paltrowitz" podcast, as co-produced with PureGrainAudio.
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Cavs rally past Bulls 104-101, snap 6-game skid
Chicago Bulls center Robin Lopez, right, drives against Cleveland Cavaliers center Ante Zizic during the first half of an NBA basketball game Sunday, Jan. 27, 2019, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
By JOHN JACKSON, Associated Press
CHICAGO (AP) — Cleveland Cavaliers coach Larry Drew looked at a rare victory as a learning experience.
Jordan Clarkson and Alec Burks each scored 18 points, Cedi Osman added 17 and the Cavaliers ended a six-game losing streak, rallying to beat the Chicago Bulls 104-101 on Sunday.
“We haven’t been in that situation often,” Drew said. “But when we do get there, I think it is important moving forward that we learn how to play down the stretch, learn how to execute, we learn how to, defensively, get the stops that we need.”
NBA-worst Cleveland improved to 10-41 after dropping 18 of 19. Matthew Dellavedova had 16 points, and Rodney Hood added 14.
Burks had a follow basket with 17 seconds left to put Cleveland up 102-101. After Chicago’s Kris Dunn missed at the rim at the other end, Dellavedova hit a pair of free throws to close out the scoring.
The Bulls’ Zach LaVine missed a 3-point attempt at the buzzer. Cleveland’s defense held Chicago to one field goal in the final 3:50.
Lauri Markkanen led Chicago with 21 points and 15 rebounds, and LaVine had 17 points and 12 rebounds. The Bulls have lost three straight and 13 of 14. They’ve also lost to the 15-win Atlanta Hawks during that span.
“It’s frustrating, but we just have to keep our heads up,” Markkanen said. “That’s the beauty of this league. We have the next one coming up in two days. Nobody’s going to feel sorry for us. We’re going to show up for work and try to get better.”
Cleveland had a 12-2 run early in the fourth quarter to take a 91-83 lead. Clarkson had seven points during the run.
The Bulls answered with a run of their own, with Markkanen tying it at 94 with a three-point play with 5 1/2 minutes to go. Robin Lopez put Chicago back on top at 98-96 with 3:50 remaining. After the Cavaliers took a 100-98 lead, Wayne Selden Jr. hit a 3-pointer to give the Bulls a 101-100 edge with 1:07 left, setting up the finish.
“We’re growing, guys are starting to pick up on things,” Clarkson said. “What are we 50 (games) in? It’s got to start showing now, and I think guys are starting to pick up on things.”
Cavaliers: F Larry Nance Jr. was scoreless in 17 minutes off the bench in his second game back from a sprained right knee. … Cleveland let go G Cameron Payne after declining to sign him for the remainder of the season. Payne’s second 10-day contract expired Saturday. He averaged 8.2 points and 2.6 assists in nine games with Cleveland.
Bulls: Rookie F Chandler Hutchinson will be sidelined for at least a month with a fractured bone in his right foot. Hutchinson will be in a walking boot for two to four weeks and will be reevaluated following next month’s all-star break. The 22nd pick of the 2018 draft has played in 44 games (14 starts), averaging 5.2 points and 4.2 rebounds in 20.3 minutes.
PLAYING HURT
Hutchinson was injured late against the Hawks on Wednesday night, but thought it was just minor soreness. He practiced the following day and had a career-high-tying 12 points and a career-high 12 rebounds in 41 minutes two nights later against the Los Angeles Clippers before the injury was discovered.
“You play a whole game, you think just some ice, some stim and treatment and you’ll be good,” Hutchinson said. “To have to be out for multiple weeks is kind of a bummer.”
STREAK SNAPPED
The Bulls had won the first three meetings between the teams this season, including a 104-88 win in Cleveland six days earlier.
Cavaliers: Host Washington on Tuesday night.
Bulls: At Brooklyn on Tuesday night.
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Oakland Literacy Council
Making Reading Accessible For Everyone
Council President Recognized by County
Oakland County Commissioner Shelley Taub (right) presented the proclamation to Judy Lindstrom (center) during the council’s board meeting on December 12, 2018. Board member Ann Manning (left) congratulated Judy.
The Oakland County Board of Commissioners has recognized Oakland Literacy Council Board President Judy Lindstrom for her many years of “exceptional dedication, leadership, generosity and philanthropy.”
Judy first volunteered as a tutor for Oakland Literacy Council in 1997. Seven years later, she stepped into her first leadership role. Today, in addition to presiding over the council’s Board of Directors, she chairs the council’s annual fundraising dinner, Ex Libris.
“It is no exaggeration to state that without Judy, and her invaluable contributions and leadership, the organization as we know it would not exist,” declared a proclamation adopted by the county commissioners. “Judy truly understands the meaning of giving back and has made a positive and lasting impact on the community.”
Lindstrom said she was overwhelmed to receive the recognition. “I am truly blessed to be part of the Oakland Literacy ‘family,’” she said. “The dedication and hard work of our tutors, students, staff and board never ceases to amaze me.”
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Darwin's Frankenstein by Esh
On his previous release, 2016’s collaboration with The Arcitype, "Death Doesn’t Want You", Esh chronicled a thirty-something’s arc of finally saying ‘yes’ to life after years of debauchery and depression. But while that record was about the journey to a newfound maturity, the new one finds our protagonist coolly confident of who he is and the music he makes from the opening track onward. Also make sure to watch the pixeled madness of "Release The Hounds" with Radclyffe Hall.
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December 2018, Volume 28, Issue 4
Interview with Dr Colin Tukuitonga: from crisis to action in Pacific communities
Healthcare access and equity
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Colin Tukuitonga
Published 6 December 2018. https://doi.org/10.17061/phrp2841827
Citation: Tukuitonga C. Interview with Dr Colin Tukuitonga: from crisis to action in Pacific communities. Public Health Res Pract. 2018;28(4):e2841827.
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Colin Tukuitonga | Director-General, Pacific Community, Noumea, New Caledonia
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The island communities in the Pacific contribute very little to global carbon emissions, yet they are among the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. Dr Colin Tukuitonga, a general practitioner by training, was born and raised on Niue Island in the Pacific. He has held senior public health roles in the New Zealand Government and, since 2014, has served as Pacific Community Director-General. He spoke to us about how climate change is affecting the health of people living in Pacific Island countries and the relevance of Australia’s climate change policy responses to these neighbouring countries.
Climate change exacerbates existing health issues in Pacific communities, including access to clean water and occurrence of communicable diseases such as dengue
Pacific communities are taking action to mitigate and adapt to the adverse effects of climate change on health. However, financial assistance from countries such as Australia and New Zealand is critical to helping them build resilience
Q: Tell us about your organisation, the Pacific Community (SPC), its role in the Pacific and, more specifically, its work in assisting Pacific communities to respond and adapt to climate change.
A: SPC was established in 1947 to provide development assistance to member states, based on science and technical knowledge. The scope of work is broad and extends across 27 different sectors such as agriculture, fisheries, human rights, public health and others. SPC is the largest of the Pacific regional organisations, with 26 members.
In climate change, SPC works mainly to assist member states with mitigation and adaptation activities to ensure food and water security, to conduct surveillance and manage outbreaks of communicable diseases, to reduce risk of disasters and to build resilient communities. Our activities include improving food security by providing climate- and pest-resistant hybrids of staple food crops and supporting greater use of renewable energy. A key part of the support is capacity building to enable member states to plan, manage, implement and evaluate interventions across all sectors affected by climate change.
We work across a range of sectors on activities designed to help our member states mitigate and adapt to climate change. In the health sector, for example, we have worked to secure water supplies in Kiritimati Island, Kiribati, and improve access to clean and sustainable drinking water for an estimated 3000 people, including four schools and the hospital for the Line and Phoenix Island Group.
Q: In your observations, how is climate change affecting health in the Pacific Islands?
A: Climate change affects the entire range of social and economic determinants of health. Disasters such as cyclones, flooding and droughts are often the most visible, but rising sea levels and ocean acidification are equally problematic because of the negative impact on coastal environments. Most people are unaware that Pacific communities rely largely on the sea for their livelihoods, and 80% of the protein for Pacific communities comes from fish and other seafood. Ocean acidification (and marine pollution) threatens the marine environment. Coral bleaching is a serious threat in many parts of the Pacific.
We have already seen several communities relocated as a result of sea-level rise. Displacements and relocations create uncertainty, distress and anxiety in affected communities. Extreme weather events such as cyclones cause death and injury across all affected islands. In addition, extreme temperatures cause adverse heat-related health impacts and increased incidence of respiratory diseases. I’m concerned that the full impact of climate change on health is yet to be fully recognised.
Q: What are the immediate priority actions that are needed here?
A: Our most immediate priority is to ensure that people are protected from the threats of cyclones and other disasters. In assisting member states with relocations, we are advising them to take the opportunity to ensure that communities have improved access to clean water, better sanitation and improved access to land for community gardens (and become less reliant on imported flour, rice, etc.).
Q: What are the most important lessons emerging from your current experiences?
A: The main lesson is that climate change makes existing issues worse. Many member states do not have adequate access to clean water, and climate change makes access worse. Similarly, dengue is now constant in many islands, and climate change will compound the spread of dengue through global warming and expanding mosquito habitats. Controlling mosquito breeding sites is critical. Our advice to member states is to address these concerns ahead of time. Preparedness is critical.
Q: In a recent World Health Organization action plan on climate change and health for the Pacific Islands1, a goal is that, by 2030, all health systems in small island developing states will be resilient to climate variability and change. What do you think are the more immediate priority actions so these health systems can achieve this goal?
A: The immediate issue for many small island health systems is to ‘climate-proof’ existing healthcare facilities. Most healthcare facilities are located along the coast and many are vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change – either destruction by cyclones or rising sea levels. Many facilities do not meet adequate building codes. Many of the smaller island states do not have the resources to climate-proof their facilities, but they need to act now. Island states can also take advantage of the opportunity to install renewable energy sources for their healthcare facilities.
Q: What actions are taking place in the Pacific to respond to the adverse health impacts of climate change, and who is playing an important role?
A: National governments, regional organisations and international agencies are all involved in the fight against climate change. Pacific nations made a huge impact on the Paris Agreement2, which is the main global instrument guiding work on climate change. Pacific nations continue to advocate strongly for action on climate change, especially after the withdrawal of the US from the Paris Agreement. At the local level, communities are taking action to protect their villages and homes from rising sea levels. Academic institutions are providing the evidence needed for advocacy and action. The media also plays an important role in information sharing and advocacy. The negative consequences of climate change are felt most acutely in the small island states of the Pacific. It is a crisis for many communities.
Q: What needs to be done going forward, and what role should wealthier and influential neighbours, like Australia and New Zealand, play?
A: Australia has been criticised for not being decisive enough about climate change. Pacific people have repeatedly called for stronger leadership by Australia and New Zealand in encouraging global players to reduce their emission levels of harmful greenhouse gases. Many in the region expect stronger action given the change of position by the US. Pacific nations have also requested financial assistance from Australia and New Zealand to support adaptation and mitigation strategies at the local level.
Q: How important is financial assistance to support adaptation and mitigation strategies at this stage?
A: Financial assistance is critical. None of the island states are in a position to be more resilient without external assistance. This is why island leaders have pushed hard to streamline access to global financing facilities and to reduce the associated bureaucracy. If governments do not access adequate external financial assistance, most communities will remain vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change. Food and water security will be compromised and communities less able to manage. Vulnerable communities become less able to cope with the spread of waterborne and arthropod-borne diseases. Vulnerable communities become susceptible to mental disorders and post-traumatic stress disorder. Their lives and livelihoods will suffer.
Q: In recent years, the voices of Pacific leaders have been described as becoming “even more ardent with increasing force and urgency”.1 Are you optimistic that these voices will be heard?
A: Yes I am. We did not have much confidence in the lead-up to the Paris Agreement, but island leaders made a big impact there. They have continued to lead in many areas. For example, Fiji was chair of the United Nations climate change conference COP23. Island leaders also played a big part in the United Nations Oceans Conference in 2017, setting increased demands for urgent and better actions by developed nations. They continue to push for more decisive action.
The interview was conducted by the Editor-in-Chief of Public Health Research & Practice, Don Nutbeam.
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1. World Health Organization. Pacific Islands action plan on climate change and health. Manila: World Health Organization Regional Office for the Western Pacific; 2018 [cited 2018 Nov 20]. Available from: iris.wpro.who.int/bitstream/handle/10665.1/14236/9789290618645-eng.pdf
2. United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The Paris Agreement. Bonn, Germany: UNFCCC; 2015 [cited 2018 Nov 20]. Available from: unfccc.int/sites/default/files/english_paris_agreement.pdf
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President of the Republic of Tajikistan
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It is well-known that tourism is recognized as one of the highly profitable area of the world economy and economic phenomena of the 20th century.
Tourism plays an important role in generating GDP, revitalization of foreign trade balance, employment of population and creation of new additional jobs and promotes the development of various sectors such as transport and communications, culture, arts, production of consumers goods and other sectors of economy in majority of countries.
Tajikistan has also rich historical and cultural inheritances and natural resources and has a real potential for encouragement of more tourists to the country. Having taken into account the above-mentioned factors, the Government of Tajikistan has identified the tourism as priority of its economic policy.
Tajikistan established fruitful cooperation with the World Tourism Organization (WTO) from the very beginning of its accession to this Organization. In May 2010, His Excellency T. Rifai, WTO Secretary General, has visited Tajikistan and had successful meetings with Emomali Rahmon, the President of the Republic of Tajikistan and a number of officials in relevant ministries and agencies of the country. As a result, a Memorandum of Understanding on tourism cooperation was signed between relevant authorized agencies and WTO.
With a view to encouraging more tourists to the country and presentation of tourism resources of the country in both internal and international markets of the sector, for the first time in 2008, the Tourism Exhibition of “Tajikistan is country of tourism” was conducted in Dushanbe, which covered 200m2 and involved all tourism companies and regions with potential for tourism.
With a view to integrating Tajikistan into the international tourism process, the representatives in charge of tourism sector have been participating in the biggest tourism exhibitions held in Berlin (Germany), Tokio (Japan) and London (UK) since 2008. As a result, the world tourism community recognized Tajikistan as the country with four Silk Road directions.
In this period, with a view to conducting publicity of the policy of the Government on the rational use of water resources, international expeditions for discovery of the peaks of Ismoili Somoni and Ozodi have been conducted within the Programme of “Water for Life” since 2009.
Alpinists from different countries, including France, Spain, Sweden, Hungary, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Ukraine, Russia and other countries participated in the mountaineering expeditions.
It should be pointed out that in 2010, the flag of the Republic of Tajikistan and the logo of “Water for Life” was installed at the altitude of 7495m in the peak of Ismoili Somoni, which is the highest peak in the CIS region.
Congratulatory message to the newly-elected President of Lithuania Gitanas Nausėda
Meeteing with the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Askar Mamin
Presentation of projects of construction of nine new hotels in Dushanbe
Greetings message to the First President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev
Meeting with the President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) Suma Chakrabarti
Participation in the closing ceremony of the second European Games Minsk 2019
Trilateral meeting of the heads of state of Tajikistan, Russia and Belarus
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CADCA Responds to 2014 Monitoring the Future Survey: Teen Alcohol and Drug Use Declining; E-cigarette Use High, Marijuana Harm Perceptions Low
Youth use of alcohol, cigarettes and illicit drugs are steadily declining, but e-cigarette use is high and the perception that marijuana is harmful is low, according to the 2014 Monitoring the Future Survey, released by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA).
“The reductions in youth drug use...tell us that our prevention strategies aimed at adolescents are working,” said General Arthur Dean, CADCA Chairman and CEO
Washington, DC (PRWEB) December 17, 2014
Alcohol use rates dropped among 8th, 10th and 12th graders by 1.2 percent, 2.2 percent and 1.8 percent respectively. There was a significant drop in binge drinking in 2014 among high school seniors, which is now under 20 percent.
Past year use of narcotics other than heroin (which includes all opioid pain relievers) was reported by 6.1 percent of high school seniors, compared with 7.1 percent a year ago and markedly lower than the 2004 peak of 9.5 percent.
“The reductions in youth drug use, including smoking, underage drinking, use of synthetics and over-the-counter and prescription drug abuse tell us that our prevention strategies aimed at adolescents are working,” said General Arthur T. Dean, CADCA Chairman and CEO. “The MTF study also noted that this year marks the highest number of young people abstaining from the use of any substances. This is positive news for our nation. However, history shows that now is the time to redouble our efforts,” he went on. “Although youth marijuana use did not increase, it still remains at unacceptably high levels. When you combine this with the continued decline in perception of risk and the rise in teen use of cannabis-laced edibles, this is worrisome.”
The study found for the first time that more teens use e-cigarettes than tobacco products of any kind. Lloyd D. Johnston, Ph.D., principal investigator, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan noted, “It would be a tragedy if this product undid some of the great progress made to date in reducing cigarette smoking by teens.”
“The rapid increase in e-cigarettes as the nicotine delivery system of choice for teens is a great concern. Nicotine is detrimental to the developing adolescent brain and e-cigarettes introduce kids to a behavior that is very similar to smoking,” noted General Dean.
Experts from NIDA, University of Michigan and the Office of National Drug Control Policy all echoed their strong support for prevention at a press teleconference. “It is now more important than ever for the public health community to continue to educate teens, parents, teachers, community leaders, the media and health care providers about the specific harms of drug use among teens, whose brains are still developing,“ noted NIDA Director Nora D. Volkow, M.D.” Dr. Johnston warned of generational forgetting, and the need to “keep our eye on the ball, especially in times like this when things seem to be getting better.”
About CADCA
CADCA (Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America), is the national membership organization representing over 5,000 coalitions and affiliates working to make America’s communities safe, healthy and drug-free. CADCA's mission is to strengthen the capacity of community coalitions by providing technical assistance and training, public policy advocacy, media strategies and marketing programs, conferences, and special events. Learn more at: http://www.cadca.org.
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Leading tissue manufacturer Sofidel is named as one of the businesses leading the way in tackling climate change
CDP is a global disclosure system that enables companies, cities, states and regions to measure and manage their environmental impacts. In 2018, Sofidel improved its score in the Climate Change and Forests Timber categories.
Sofidel, one of the global leading manufacturers of tissue paper for hygienic and domestic use, has further improved its performance within the CDP Report 2018, a global disclosure system that enables companies, cities, states and regions to measure and manage their environmental impacts. The Group – particularly well-known for its Regina brand – has been awarded an A- rating in the Climate Change category and an A- rating in the Forests Timber category, in both cases earning a place in the highest (Leadership) scoring echelons of the report.
In its sector, Paper & Forestry, Sofidel ranked among the top businesses in the Climate Change category, above the sector average at global (C) and European (B-) level, and among the top businesses in the Forests Timber category, above the sector average at global (B-) and European (B-) level.
CDP, formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project, is an international not-for-profit organisation present in 50 countries providing a global disclosure system that enables companies, cities, states and regions to measure, disclose, manage and share vital environmental information, guaranteeing to investors data that can be used in decision-making processes. CDP serves more than 650 institutional investors with US$ 87 trillion in assets. In 2018, over 7,000 companies across the world disclosed through CDP. For further information, the report can be consulted at this link.
In 2016, the Sofidel Group had already been awarded Best Voluntary Responder Italy by CDP for having obtained the B rating among the businesses that voluntarily participated in the CDP Italy Climate Change Report 2016 programme, disclosing data and performance regarding action against climate change. In 2017, the Group obtained the B rating in the same Climate Change and Forests Timber categories.
The Sofidel Group places strategic importance on sustainability for development and growth, with the clear aim in sight of reducing to a minimum the impact its business has on the environment and of boosting the benefits it produces for society. The final objective is to manufacture products with an ever more reduced ecological footprint and at the same time an increasingly high level of efficiency, which contain ever lower levels of natural capital.
The first Italian manufacturing company and the first tissue paper manufacturer in the world to join the WWF Climate Savers project, to date Sofidel has reduced its direct emissions of CO2 into the atmosphere by 20.6% (carbon intensity reduction, 2009-2017) thanks to investments in energy efficiency, and to the use of cogeneration plants and renewable energy sources. Another fundamental area of action is the sourcing of certified pulp from independent third parties with forest certification schemes (FSC®, FSC Controlled Wood, SFI®, PEFC™) which has now reached 100%.
The Sofidel Group
The Sofidel Group is one of the leading manufacturer of paper for hygienic and domestic use worldwide. Established in 1966, the Group has subsidiaries in 13 countries – Italy, Spain, the UK, France, Belgium, Germany, Sweden, Poland, Hungary, Greece, Romania, Turkey and the USA - with more than 6,000 employees, net sales of 1,724 million Euros (2017) and a production capacity of over one million tonnes per year (1,098,000 tonnes in 2017). “Regina”, its most well-known brand, is present on almost all the reference markets. Other brands include: Softis, Le Trèfle, Sopalin, Thirst Pockets, KittenSoft, Nalys, Cosynel, Yumy, Volare, Lycke, Forest, Nicky, Papernet. A member of the UN Global Compact and the international WWF Climate Savers program, the Sofidel Group considers sustainability a strategic factor with regards to growth and is committed to promoting socially and environmentally responsible development.
Sofidel
Södra recognized as best pulp producer supplier and for best social sustainable project by Sofidel
Sofidel America partners with Toscotec for the turnkey supply of two tissue lines at its new Oklahoma mill.
Sofidel tissue company opens manufacturing plant in Circleville, Ohio, its largest, most innovative worldwide
Groundbreaking of the new plant in Circleville
Sofidel CEO to speak at Tissue World in Barcelona
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Rebel Mentors
Jacob Moesgaard
Jacob Moesgaard, co-founder and owner of AiAiAi audio design company is on the mentor board too. Moesgaard grew up in an entrepreneurial environment, so it can be said that he was born into the entrepreneurial role. Although having been involved in a range of projects, his first real entrepreneurial venture was AiAiAi, founded in 2006.
Lars Lundebye
Rebel Academy mentor Lars Lundbye is an expert in business development and innovation processes. He is an entrepreneur with a keen eye on future trends and disruptive technologies. Lars Lundbye does innovation consulting for a number of companies – helping them to build innovation capabilities, and to innovate in practice.
Christer Windeløv-Lidzélius
Christer Windeløv-Lidzélius, the CEO and principle of the KaosPilots, is the latest addition to the Rebel Academy mentor board. With an extensive educational background (details here) Christer Windeløv-Lidzélius has devoted his time to consulting with and supporting the students of the ground-breaking Danish education organization, the KaosPilots.
Anders Hoffmann
Anders Hoffmann is so far the sole representative of the public sector on the Rebel Academy mentor board. Anders is the director of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policy at the Danish Enterprise and Construction Authority. To top it off he also has a PhD in economics.
Jesper Elg
Jesper Elg, co-founder of V1 Gallery in Kødbyen in Copenhagen is one of Rebel Academy’s mentors. With his extensive knowledge within the creative field and passion for the arts, Jesper brings a lot to the table.
Jonas Hartz
Jonas Hartz has extensive experience within the cultural and creative spheres of entrepreneurship and is ready to pass down his knowledge as a Rebel Academy mentor. He describes himself as a cultural entrepreneur and has been involved in a range of successful projects since the mid ‘90s.
Kristian Riis
Besides being the guitarist in one of Denmark’s most successful bands, Nephew, Kristian Riis is one of the most active entrepreneurs in the Danish music industry. He is the co-founder of Volcano – a company with impressive roster dealing with artist management, booking and mangement of the Copenhagen venue Bremen.
Asger Leth
We hereby announce film-maker Asger Leth as one of the Rebel Academy mentors. Leth is the award-winning director of the documentary Ghost of Cité Soleil. He also co-wrote The Five Obstructions, a film about his father, Jørgen Leth, and Lars Von Trier, the Danish director extraordinaire.
Carla Cammilla Hjort
Our very own ArtRebels CEO, Carla Cammilla Hjort, is also a Rebel Academy mentor. Carla is the key person behind ArtRebels. Founded in 2006, ArtRebels has undergone a rapid development and is now much more than a company.
Christian Stadil
Christian Stadil has been the man behind Danish clothing company Hummel from 1999. Since he took over, the company has reinstated itself as one of the most forward-thinking companies in Denmark.
Anne Skare Nielsen
She is in great demand across Europe as a keynote speaker and provocateur. Skare Nielsen is a member of The Chaos Pilots Pedagogical Council, The Global Future Forum, the Albright Group, former member of the Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation’s ICT-forum and The Ethical Council.
Martin Von haller Groenbaek
Martin von Haller is a Copenhagen-based lawyer whose specialty is open licensing within open source and creative commons. As one of Denmark’s few experts on a subject that’s getting more relevant for creative and cultural entrepreneurship each day, Martin is a great resource to have as mentor on Rebel Academy.
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The IGA aims to build a vibrant intellectual environment for original, rigorous and significant thinking and broader impact in London, but also to form an alliance of centres of excellence in research and policy thinking in emerging economies.
IGA Director
Professor Erik Berglof
Inaugural Director of the Institute of Global Affairs
IGA Programme Director
Piroska Nagy Mohacsi
Programme Director in the Institute of Global Affairs since September 2015
Professional Services Staff
Geri Miric, Executive Assistant to the IGA Director
Geri joined the Institute of Global Affairs (IGA) in September 2015 as Executive Assistant to the Director. Prior to this, she worked for 13 years in the LSE’s Deputy Directors’ and Provost’s Offices. She held similar roles at University College London and King’s College London.
Geri has a BA in Spanish and French from London Metropolitan University and a Diploma in Translation from University of Westminster and an MA in Cultural and Critical Studies from Birkbeck, University of London. Her dissertation focused on the use of visual testimonies and memory politics in the construction of a democratic Chilean society.
Geri is responsible for providing support to the IGA Director as well as taking an active role in the IGA administration.
Keith Tritton, Institute Manager
Keith Tritton is the Institute Manager at the Institute of Global Affairs, LSE. He joined the Institute in 2016 from the LSE Asia Research Centre where he was Centre Manager. Prior to joining LSE he held management positions at Imperial College London, Roehampton University and Birkbeck College. He holds a BSc International Relations from the LSE.
e-mail: k.j.tritton@lse.ac.uk
IGA Centre Directors
Professor Tim Allen
Director, Africa Centre
Africa Centre staff pages
Dr Mukulika Banerjee
Director, South Asia Centre
South Asia Centre staff pages
Dr Marsha Henry
Interim Director, Centre for Women, Peace and Security
Centre for Women, Peace and Security staff pages
Professor Michael Cox
Director, LSE IDEAS
IDEAS staff pages
Professor Toby Dodge
Director, Middle East Centre
Professor Gareth A Jones
Director, Latin America and Caribbean Centre
Latin America and Caribbean Centre staff pages
Professor Hyun Bang Shin
Director, Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre
Southeast Asia Centre staff pages
Professor Peter Trubowitz
Director, US Centre
US Centre staff pages
Professors in Practice
Anne Applebaum
Anne Applebaum is a journalist and prize-winning historian with a particular expertise in the history of communism and the experience of post-communist “democratization” in the Soviet Union and central Europe. She runs ARENA, a program on disinformation and 21st century propaganda, and is building the Transformation Lab, a program focused on the political and economic transformation of individual countries.
Rt Hon Sir Vince Cable
Sir Vince contributes across a range of the IGA’s activities, drawing upon his experience in international economic relations and developing markets in particular.
Visiting Professors in Practice
Marek Belka
Professor Marek Belka is currently Visiting Professor in Practice at the Institute for Global Affairs of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Professor Belka is one of the lead academic and policy makers of Poland’s remarkable economic and political transformation following the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
Gibril Faal
Gibirl Faal is a Visiting Professor in Practice at the Institute of Global Affairs and a multidisciplinary business and development executive. He was one of the global leaders who spoke at the 2016 UN Summit for Refugees and Migrants, which led to negotiations for a Global Compact on Migration.
Mark Muller
Mark Muller Stuart QC is as an international mediator and senior advocate specialising in conflict resolution, public international law and human rights. He currently acts as Senior Mediation Advisor to the UN Department of Political Affairs and the UN Special Envoy to Syria in the Syrian peace process.
Dr Mario Blejer is a Visiting Professor in the Institute of Global Affairs at the London School of Economics. Mario has a PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago and an MA in Economics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Brad K. Blitz is a Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics and the Director of the Modern Slavery Programme at the British Academy. Brad received his Ph.D. from Stanford University and is a Professor of International Politics at Middlesex University London and Senior Fellow of the Global Migration Centre in the Graduate Institute, Geneva.
Eleonore Kofman is a Visiting Professor at the Institute of Global Affairs at the London School of Economics. She received her D.Phil from Oxford University and is Professor of Gender, Migration and Citizenship and Co-Director of the Social Policy Research Centre at Middlesex University London. She is a leading international scholar on gender and migration, and in particular on theoretical and policy aspects of family-related and skilled labour migrations.
Valeria Gontareva
Valeria served as the Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine in 2014-2017. She was the first woman to lead Ukraine’s central bank and oversaw vital reforms to implement a new monetary policy of inflation targeting and flexible exchange rate regime, to clean up Ukraine’s banking sector, strengthen regulatory supervision, and ensure the independence of the National Bank.
Bilal Malaeb
Bilal is a postdoctoral research officer at the Institute of Global Affairs at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He works primarily on the Responsible Deal project, an inter-regional collaboration of seven universities, coordinated by the LSE. His research focus is on the integration of Syrian refugees in frontier countries in the Middle East.
Cevat Giray Aksoy
Cevat Giray is a Principal Economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and a research associate IZA Institute of Labor and economic inclusion committee member at the World Bank and UNDP. His research sits at the intersection of labour economics and economic development and has been covered by local and international media outlets.
Agnès Belaisch
Agnès is a Visiting Senior Fellow in the Institute of Global Affairs at the London School of Economics and Political Science, she was Head of Sovereign Fixed Income at Rothschild Asset Management during 2015-16. Previously, she was Head of Economic and Market Analysis at the European Stability Mechanism in Luxembourg.
Duncan Clark, OBE
Duncan is a former Visiting Scholar at Stanford University and previously served as Chairman of the British Chamber of Commerce in China.
Nishan Degnarain
Nishan is a Visiting Senior Fellow in the Institute of Global Affairs at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is an economist, former member of Mauritius Central Bank’s MPC, and co-leads the IGA’s Blue Finance Initiative.
Dimitri Demekas
Dimitri is a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Institute of Global Affairs at the LSE, an independent consultant for various organizations, and a Special Adviser on financial stability issues at the Bank of England.
Marta Foresti
Marta is Principal Research Fellow at ODI and the Director of its Human Mobility Initiative, focusing on migration and development, leading the institute external engagement at global, regional and local level. She is acting as senior policy advisor for the consultation of the Global Compact For Migration and to the IOM’s Research Syndicate.
Sophia Gaston
Sophia is a social and political researcher, who conducts international, citizen-focused projects on social and cultural crises, political change, the media and democracy - with a focus on threats to governance in Western nations. She is currently a Visiting Fellow at the LSE's Institute for Global Affairs.
Maha Hosain Aziz
Maha Hosain Aziz is a professor in the MA International Relations Program at New York University's Graduate School of Arts & Sciences (NYU GSAS) specialising in global risk, which she also teaches at e-learning education startup, Pioneer Academics.
Jawad Iqbal
Jawad is a Visiting Senior Fellow in the Institute of Global Affairs at the London School of Economics and Political Science, a journalist and a former senior executive in BBC News.
Ousmène Jacques Mandeng
Ousmène is a Senior Advisor with Accenture’s Global Blockchain Technology Practice with a focus on digital currencies. He writes a blog occasionally on international monetary affairs at www.ousmenemandeng.com and specialises on monetary innovation and the international monetary system.
Peter is a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Institute of Global Affairs at the London School of Economics and Political Science, an author and TV producer. He specialises on propaganda and media development.
Christina Segal-Knowles
Christina served until January 2017, as Special Assistant to President Obama for International Economics and Senior Director for Global Economics and Finance at the White House.
Előd Takáts
Elöd is Senior Economist at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), currently work on financial systems and regulation. His work includes serving as a BIS representative on working groups relating to banking and financial regulation, and in this role works together with the Financial Stability Board (FSB).
Torsten is founder of the Global Ocean Trust and Vice-President of the Institut Choiseul, and his research area is ocean and Arctic governance solutions.
Agnieszka Wysokińska
Agnieszka is interested in the role that institutions and culture play in economic development, as well as the economics of education, microeconometrics, and policy evaluation methods.
Shirley Ze Yu
Shirley is Visiting Senior Fellow in the Institute of Global Affairs at the London School of Economics and Political Science, a fellow with the Ash Center of Harvard Kennedy School, and deputy director of the Xin Real Estate Fintech Research Center at the People’s Bank of China School of Finance of China’s Tsinghua University.
Jeromin Zettelmeyer
Jeromin is Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and works on global economic policy topics.
Angelo Martelli
Angelo is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the European Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is currently a Consultant for the Jobs Group of the World Bank and a Policy Fellow for the Open Innovation Team of the UK Cabinet Office and HM Treasury.
Previous Fellows
Oksana Antonenko focuses on political economy of illiberal democracies. She is also working on developing methodology for assessing long term political risks for international investors associated with rising populism, weak institutions and governance failures.
Pamela DeLargy works in the area of migration and refugee research. She is a specialist on the ‘horn of Africa’ and has worked for two decades to ensure that gender is considered seriously in UN humanitarian and development assistance programmes.
Guillermo Felices is an economist and investment strategist with over 15 years of experience in senior positions in the financial industry (Citi and Barclays) and policy making (Bank of England). Guillermo's research interests and contributions are in global financial issues, emerging markets, and monetary policy.
Mark Florman is a leading authority on some of the world’s most entrenched socio-economic challenges, speaking widely on reforms that must be made to drive improved governance and productivity, and always championing the power and social impact of good business.
Ashraf Khateeb is a communication advisor for the Negotiation Affairs Department (NAD) of the Palestine Liberation Organization. He has extensive experience in the field of Palestinian public relations and diplomacy.
Elina Ribakova was Visiting Fellow at LSE IGA in 2016-17, working on research projects on financial stability and migration areas. Elina has had a distinguished career working at the International Monetary Fund and in various positions in the financial industry, and co-originator of the award-winning MigrationMatters web-based educational platform.
Peter Sutherland was Professor in Practice at LSE IGA in 2015-18, spearheading IGA’s research and policy engagement under the Global Migration Initiative. As the UN envoy for Migration between 2005-17, Professor Sutherland was a powerful global leader on the issue of migration and the refugee crisis. Previously he was the Head of GATT, the precursor of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), EU Commissioner for Competition, and served as the Chairman of Goldman Sachs between 1995-2015. Professor Sutherland passed away in January 2018.
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Women Peace Security Toggle navigation
Tackling Violence Against Women
Women Peace Security
Gender, Justice and Security
UKRI GCRF Hub
The UKRI GCRF Gender, Justice and Security Hub is a five year project working at the overlap of Sustainable Development Goal 5 on gender equality, Goal 16 on peace, justice and strong institutions, and the implementation of the Women, Peace and Security agenda.
"This platform will enable me to bring narratives and perspectives from Uganda to be part of this global conversation on gender equality, justice and security."
Dr Josephine Ahikire, Makerere University
“The Hub provides an amazing opportunity to work with our partners overseas to explore, through research and exchanges, the potential of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda to help deliver on the global challenges of the Sustainable Development Goals.”
Professor Christine Chinkin, LSE
Conflict and gender-based violence have devastating, long-term consequences on individuals, families and communities. They also severely hamper the successful delivery of development goals internationally. This Hub seeks to advance sustainable peace by developing an evidence-base around gender, justice and inclusive security in conflict-affected societies. Working with international partners, it will expand research capacity and interdisciplinary research and connect with leading ambassadors for gender justice to translate insights into ongoing actions that improve lives.
The Hub is led by Professor Christine Chinkin in the Centre for Women, Peace and Security at LSE, working with partners around the world and focussing on eight core sites: Afghanistan, Colombia, Iraq, Lebanon, Myanmar, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka and Uganda.
Three blog posts were published from Hub members on the new Security Council Resolution on Women, Peace & Security:
Fionnuala Ni Aolain - 'Gutting the Substance of a Security Council Resolution on Sexual Violence'
Mazeda Hossain - A resolution without resolve - UN Security Council fails to protect women and girls in conflict'
Laura Shepherd - 'In pursuing a new resolution on sexual violence Security Council significantly undermines women’s reproductive rights'
We're recruiting:
Research Officer
Conventions Manager
LSE PhD Studentships in Gender, Justice and Security
We're offering a prestigious LSE PhD Studentship for a doctoral project that addresses gender, justice and security in conflict-affected societies. Deadline 26 April 2019. More information, including how to apply and eligibility.
International Strategy and Partnerships Manager
Central Support Officer
The UKRI GCRF Gender Justice and Security Hub was announced by UKRI on 22 January 2019. LSE announcement
Hub research is organised in four thematic projects and two cross-cutting topics, led by Co-Directors in eight Lead Research Partner Organisations.
Transformation and Empowerment
Land, Livelihood and Rights
Migration and Displacement
Masculinities and Sexualities
Law and Policy Frameworks
Methodological Innovation
The Hub is a coalition of partners including major research institutions in the UK and Northern Ireland and researchers and advocates across the global south.
Lead Institutional Partners include: University of Ulster (Northern Ireland, UK); Universidad de Los Andes (Colombia); Makerere University (Uganda); University of Colombo (Sri Lanka); Middlesex University, (UK); the American University of Iraq Sulaimani (Iraq); London School of Hygeine and Tropical Medicine (UK); University of Sydney (Australia).
Project Partners include: Amani Institute (Uganda); De Justicia (Colombia); the International Centre for Ethnic Studies (Sri Lanka); MOSAIC - Mena (Lebanon); Paiman Trust (Pakistan); Women for Peace and Participation (Afghanistan).
The Hub is supported by management teams at each regional centre and at LSE, and overseen by an Advisory Board made up of internationally-recognised experts and advocates for gender justice. The Hub will also benefit from the engagement of an outstanding group of practitioners, researchers and policy makers who will champion its research. Read more information on the Hub management teams.
Nicky Armstrong
Rupert Burridge
Michelle Callander
Zoe Gillard
Becca Potton
Erik Berglof is Director of the Institute of Global Affairs, LSE. Previously he was the Chief Economist and Special Adviser to the President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).
Hannah Bond is Director of Gender Action for Peace and Security (GAPS). Hannah has worked with CSOs and government in the UK and Global South.
Andrea Cornwall (chair) is Pro-Director (Research and Enterprise) at SOAS, University of London. She is a political anthropologist who specialises in the anthropology of democracy, citizen participation, participatory research, gender and sexuality.
Fiifi Edu-Afful is a Senior Research Fellow and the Deputy Program Head of the Peace Support Operations Programme at the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC).
Erica Rodriguez Gomez is the Gender and Vulnerable Populations Expert in the Human Rights Program of the United States Agency for International Development in Colombia.
Roshmi Goswami is a feminist and human rights activist known for her pioneering work on women in armed conflict situations documenting and analysing the impact of war and conflict on the lives of women in the conflict affected regions of India.
Bela Kapur specialises in including women in making, building and sustaining peace, and works with national and international women’s rights organisations and various UN agencies, most recently on Burundi and South Sudan.
Vasuki Nesiah is a legal scholar with a focus on public international law and currently Associate Professor of Practice at NYU. Her main areas of research include the law and politics of international human rights and humanitarianism and transitional justice.
Rebecca Newell is Head of Art at the Imperial War Museum (IWM) where she works on all aspects related to the care, display and interpretation of the IWM preeminent art collection, identifying new opportunities for collecting and working with artists.
Patricia Viseur Sellers is an international criminal lawyer and Special Advisor for Gender for the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. She is a Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford and Visiting Professor in Practice in the Centre for Women, Peace and Security at LSE.
Tahrat Shahid has over a decade of international development and policy research experience in a variety of contexts. Her research interests include gender, agricultural development and food security, and the politics of religion.
Inger Skjelsbæk is Research Professor in political psychology at the Centre for Gender, Peace and Security, Peace Research Institute and Associate Professor in culture and community psychology at the Department of Psychology and Centre for Research on Extremism.
Rainatou Sow is the founder and executive director of Make Every Woman Count, an African woman-led organisation which serves as an information, advocacy and training platform for women and young people.
Sally Theobald is Principal Investigator of the UKRI GCRF Accountability for Informal Urban Equity Hub and professor in Social Science and International Health at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.
Innocent Balemba Zahinda is currently the Director of the United Nations Team of Experts on Rule of Law/Sexual Violence in Conflict in New York, established by UN Security Council Resolution 1888 and composed of Experts from UNDP, UN DPKO and UN OHCHR.
Salome Zuriel is the Conflict Advisor at the UK’s Department for International Development (DfID) in Kenya. With some 18 years of experience, Salome has worked at the local, national and pan-African levels in research, policy, programme design, delivery and managerial roles.
Josephine Ahikire is a Professor and the former Dean of the School of Women and Gender Studies, Makerere University. She is a Co-Director of the Livelihoods, Land & Rights Stream.
Kirsten Ainley is an Associate Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is a Deputy Principal Investigator and part of the Hub's Management Group.
Kopalapillai Amirthalingam is a Professor in Economics at the Department of Economics, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. He is the Co-Director of the Migration and Displacement Stream.
Christine Chinkin CMG FBA, is Professorial Research Fellow in the Centre for Women, Peace and Security, of which she was Founding Director from 2015-2018. Christine is the Principal Investigator, Co-Director of Law & Policy Frameworks and part of the Hub's Management Group.
Neloufer de Mel is the Chair Professor of English at the Dept. of English, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. She is the Co-Director for the Hub's Capacity Building steam.
Zoe Gillard is the Chief Operating Officer of the UKRI GCRF Gender, Justice and Security Hub, with overall responsibility for the effective delivery of professional services. She manages the Management, Impact, Communications and Administration function in the Hub.
Choman Hardi is the founder of the Center for Gender and Development Studies at American University of Iraq Sulaimani. Choman is the Co-Director of Masculinities & Sexualities Stream.
Mazeda Hossain is a social epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. She conducts community-based and health systems research in conflict-affected and fragile settings. Mazeda is the Co-Director of the Methodological Innovation Stream.
Paul Kirby is a Fellow at the LSE Centre for Women, Peace and Security. He is also Lecturer in International Security at the University of Sussex. Paul is part of the Hub's Management Group and the Co-Director of Masculinities & Sexualities Stream.
Eleonore Kofman is Professor of Gender, Migration and Citizenship and Co-Director of the Social Policy Research Centre at Middlesex University and Visiting Professor at the Institute of Global Affairs, LSE. She is the Co-Director of Migration and Displacement Stream.
Nelson Camilo Sanchez Leon is Director of the Transitional Justice line at Dejusticia and as associate professor of law at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogota. He is Co-Director of Land, Livelihood and Rights Stream.
Fionnuala Ní Aoláin is concurrently Professor of Law at the Queens University, School of Law, Belfast and Regents Professor and Robina Professor of Law, Public Policy and Society at the University of Minnesota Law School. She is the Co-Director of the Transformation and Empowerment Stream.
Angelika Rettberg is a full professor at the Political Science Department at Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá Colombia, where she leads the Research Program on Armed Conflict and Peacebuilding. She is the Co-Director, Transformation and Empowerment Stream.
Laura J. Shepherd is the Professor of International Relations at the University of Sydney. Her primary research focuses on the United Nations Security Council’s ‘Women, Peace and Security’ agenda. She is the Co-Director, Methodological Innovation Stream.
Law and Policy Frameworks Stream
Fionnuala Ni Aolain, Alan Keenan, Paul Kirby, Laura Shepherd, Eric Wiebelhaus-Braum
Livelihood, Land & Rights Stream
Mario Gomez, Camilo Sanchez, Mohamed Sesay
Masculinites and Sexualities Stream
Grace Akello, Marsha Henry, Charbel Maydaa, Henri Myrttinen, Holly Porter
Methodological Innovation Stream
Kirsten Ainley, Loraine Bacchus, Neloufer de Mel, Geoff Dancy, Rebekka Friedman, Ligia Kiss
Migration and Displacement Stream
Brad Blitz, Ezgi Tuncer Gurkas, Muslih Irwani, Janroj Keles
Transformation and Empowerment Stream
Marie Berry, Neloufer de Mel, Rebekka Friedman, Anne-Marie Goetz, Fatima Hussain, Rob Jenkins, Milli Lake, Khin Ma Ma Myo, Rory O'Connell, Neelam Raina, Socorro Reyes, Dinesha Samararatne
This Hub is funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) through the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) - which is a key component in delivering the UK AID strategy and puts UK-led research at the heart of efforts to tackle the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
For more information about UKRI and the GCRF Hubs, visit: www.ukri.org
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How One Alderman Is Working to Demystify Redevelopment
By AJ LaTrace
Photo: AJ LaTrace
While walking through Chicago’s booming neighborhoods and retail corridors, it’s tough to miss the flurry of new construction taking place. But what is often overlooked are the city-mandated notices alerting residents to changes to a property’s zoning—the underlying city code that dictates the types of buildings that are allowed. The red and white signs, roughly the size of a small poster, are typically taped to a window, zip-tied to fencing, or wrapped around a lamp post. The handwritten information on these signs can smear or fade over time, making them indecipherable.
While zoning changes for high-profile towers and transit-oriented developments often draw the most attention, it’s usually the smaller, under-the-radar proposals that can have the biggest impact on a residential block—both in accelerating home values and changing the dynamic of a neighborhood. It’s become such an issue that one alderman, Carlos Ramirez-Rosa (35th Ward), recently changed the way that information about new proposals is displayed in his ward.
After a new boutique hotel was proposed at the intersection of Milwaukee and Kedzie in the heart of Logan Square, Ramirez-Rosa required the project’s team to mail out printed notices to residents within a 750-foot radius of the site (the standard legal requirement is 250 feet), while also displaying a newer type of sign at the vacant property being redeveloped.
For one thing, the new signage is larger than what the city currently mandates, but it also displays a rendering of the proposed structure, as well as the developer’s contact info and the time and place of any upcoming meetings regarding the property—both in English and Spanish. “What generally happens is that people get a letter in the mail and it can be pretty scary,” Ramirez-Rosa says. “It’s difficult for individuals to understand what is being proposed and what is being asked of them.”
According to Ramirez-Rosa, the measure is meant to present zoning changes in a way that’s not only easier for residents to understand, but one that increases transparency. He credits the Logan Square Neighborhood Association, a local social services organization, with the idea, and says he’s drafting an ordinance that would require this type of signage to be used citywide.
MarySue Barrett, President of the Metropolitan Planning Council, agrees that the city can improve the way it signals changes at the pedestrian level.
“If you look up the zoning code, it’s full of letters, numbers, and codes—that’s the way it’s been for a long time,” Barrett says. “Engaging with the community and providing information that is easy to understand is going to help minimize misunderstandings and potentially minimize conflict.”
Barrett believes that improving the way zoning information is distributed is a natural evolution of the development process, and an example of communities stepping in to better fulfill their own needs. However, there’s always going to be a negotiation between developers and residents, she adds.
“There’s often a lot of back and forth, and any smart developer working on a major proposal is going to have a multifaceted community engagement and communication strategy. However, when you get down into smaller scale neighborhood sites, there’s less information, and that’s maybe where some of the fears come into play.”
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Day to Commemorate Victims of Violence Based on Religion
12 de junho de 2019 •et; Religious Persecution
The U.N. General Assembly has adopted a resolution to establish August 22 as the Day to Commemorate Victims of Violence Based on Religion.
Funeral after the Easter Sunday attacks on churches in Sri Lanka
The resolution expressed concern over “continuing acts of intolerance and violence based on religion or belief against individuals, including against persons belonging to religious communities and minorities.”
The proposal was initiated by Poland, which co-drafted the resolution with Brazil, Canada, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Nigeria, Pakistan, Poland, and the United States.
Poland’s foreign minister, Jacek Czaputowicz, told the assembly before the vote that “the world has been experiencing an unprecedented rise of violence against religious communities and people belonging to religious minorities.”
He said the recent attack on mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, and the Easter Sunday attacks on churches in Sri Lanka “have reminded us in a tragic way that the freedom of religion is a fundamental human right and that hatred towards religious groups may lead to mass killing of innocent people.”
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Phish Rumors
Maybe so, Maybe not
Phish NYE 2017 Rumors
2 Nights San Francisco Bill Graham + 2 Nights LA Forum
4 nights MSG 12/28-31
or 4 nights miami
TAB: Vegas Halloween weekend 10/26-27 + LA 10/31
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84 thoughts on “Phish NYE 2017 Rumors”
T on June 18, 2017 at 4:21 pm said:
It’s awfully quiet in here.
Wilson, king of cleepskin on June 18, 2017 at 4:59 pm said:
Why is 4 nights Miami crossed out? Is this a confirmation of MSG?
Ben on August 17, 2017 at 4:00 am said:
Miami Heat is playing a home game on 12-29 which would effect a potential run of shows there
phishymitch on September 11, 2017 at 1:41 am said:
Last run miami was 31-3rd, Miami is still in my future plans hopefully?
Cotter Smart on June 19, 2017 at 2:56 pm said:
I’d love to see a west coast show and bg would be great…
Dane Henshall on August 8, 2017 at 8:29 pm said:
Cotter I can’t believe I saw this post – so funny – I would love West Coast, too. I’m hoping some place beside Miami- anyway, we’ll make it a family event just like Bakers Dozen. Aunt Dane
Julie on June 20, 2017 at 12:04 am said:
Please let this be true, please let this be true.
E. Coastus Happeningus on June 22, 2017 at 8:46 am said:
Poo poo NYE on the Wrong Coast!
Tonee on June 20, 2017 at 2:35 pm said:
One of my cousins who works security for the Chicago Bulls said the United Center is in the discussion.
Josie on July 21, 2017 at 4:57 am said:
Says someone who has never seen a show at UC. Acoustics are god awful. Zero chance.
ETCNJ on June 20, 2017 at 2:37 pm said:
Spoke with an usher over the last NYE run and they said contract was signed for 17 nights which would add up with the Bakers and NYE again
Wilson, King of Meepskin on July 20, 2017 at 4:05 pm said:
Lol why would an usher have any idea of the contract negotiations going on? If people at the level of usher knew about stuff like this, nothing would ever be kept under wraps. Dude was messing with you…get real.
michael on July 24, 2017 at 8:03 pm said:
IIt’s true. an usher knew about the baker’s dozen.
and of course we didn’t believe him and told him to “get real” when he said 13 nights at MSG in the Summer.. but… here they are… and here he stands in the aisle as an usher.
richie on July 27, 2017 at 2:13 pm said:
The unions in Manhattan know EVERYTHING DUDE!!! Listen to the Ushers!!
Phishnj on July 29, 2017 at 5:34 pm said:
Sorry I heard that too last night… sorry if you haven’t been able to make it to the BD shows but that’s where they are doing NYE
ETCNJ on September 24, 2017 at 9:41 pm said:
Mike's Big Toe on August 10, 2017 at 6:45 pm said:
17 nights was the total for Baker’s Dozen. Nobody played on their off-nights. Does not confirm NYE.
Jen on June 21, 2017 at 5:34 pm said:
why is miami crossed off? Is it confirmed that it’s not happening there or something?
4 nights in Hampton would be so much more legit!
krivraq on June 30, 2017 at 6:45 pm said:
Not after 3 nights of ticket trees the last time around.
nutter on July 2, 2017 at 7:38 pm said:
and those who missed out on the tree tickets missed out on 10/20/13
Matthew on August 4, 2017 at 1:46 pm said:
Favorite show ever.
Ticket Tree lover on August 10, 2017 at 11:19 pm said:
The Band gets paid the same……ticket tree or no ticket tree…..10/20 is a top 5 3.0 without a doubt. It’s hard to pin it down to just one….
James on September 16, 2017 at 2:40 am said:
The band makes a hell of a lot more money when it’s a full house, regardless of ticket sales.
dan on June 22, 2017 at 9:32 pm said:
why is miami already ruled out?
McGruff on June 23, 2017 at 5:58 pm said:
Why is MIA off the table
John on June 24, 2017 at 10:14 pm said:
What happened with Miami?
RockoWilly on June 25, 2017 at 2:18 am said:
Would be freakin my awesome if they played outdoors somewhere!!!!
Ghocpoues on June 25, 2017 at 4:04 am said:
Msg owns the forum, whys LA crossed off
Frank Rizzo on June 29, 2017 at 4:23 pm said:
I’m hearing they are considering SPAC.
Mar on July 9, 2017 at 2:19 am said:
No way they’re playing an outdoor concert in upstate NY in Dec/Jan…
Mike on June 29, 2017 at 8:03 pm said:
Looks like Miami is back in the cards! Good!
Trey on June 29, 2017 at 10:37 pm said:
Chicago is on the board as well
Good Lord, NO! Chicago is usually miserable in the winter. Zero chance. As an Illinois resident, I hope Phish never plays Chicago again.
Dr. Funkenstein on August 2, 2017 at 9:19 pm said:
Right on, Josie! As a Chicago resident, I feel your pain. It totally sucks when Phish plays near your home. Especially when that hometown is easily accessible by phans from all parts of the country.
If you’re reading this, Trey, Chicago is off the board! Josie says so. It’s cold in the winter there. She knows because she definitely lives in Illinois.
Physh on August 3, 2017 at 4:59 pm said:
What is wrong with you? Winter I get, but phish in summer time chi is always dreamy and wonderful
Herbert on August 7, 2017 at 11:07 pm said:
I’m assuming that’s because of your hard on for Alpine, and not because you can’t enjoy all the amenities of Chicago out of some misguided fear to leave the cornfields and join the rest of us, is it?
Tweezer847 on September 4, 2017 at 8:01 pm said:
Bulls are playing 1/1 and 12/29. Seems unlikely unless 3 day run sandwiched in between.
TERPHISH on July 10, 2017 at 5:55 am said:
IS PHISH IN MILWAUKEE RIGHT NOW… SECRET SETS?
Harry Powell on July 17, 2017 at 3:55 am said:
Was close to sound board last night during set break. Could hear CK5 talking to a older women mentioning West Coast Dates. Do not think he was talking about Bieber.. take it for what its worth.
Wilson, King of Meepskin on August 7, 2017 at 6:14 pm said:
Probably Dick’s.
Mazemaddness on July 19, 2017 at 11:24 pm said:
TAB in Vegas Halloween Brooklyn Bowl….2 nights 2017….
Joey on July 22, 2017 at 3:15 pm said:
I think the venue in Coney Island would be perfect.
I am going to the donuts shows at MSG in July, and I have written a note to the band, to please come to Coney Island fr NeeYears Eve, I will ask the securiy guard to hand them the note! How is that for being clever!?
Chad on July 27, 2017 at 4:36 am said:
Cheese announces a NYE run at the Capitol Theater in NYC. Doubt Phish would be playing there too
Phish in Vegas, perhaps?
Matt on August 7, 2017 at 10:57 pm said:
…was just at last night of Baker’s Dozen. Multiple ushers said “see you at New Year’s” for what it’s worth. Enjoy!
Rubit on July 29, 2017 at 12:52 am said:
Yes String Cheese playing for less than 2000 people in the area would cause Phish to scrap an MSG run…………….not.
Frank Rizzo on July 27, 2017 at 2:43 pm said:
Wonder if they would consider doing a festival for NYE in the northeast?
GooBalls on August 7, 2017 at 4:33 am said:
An outdoor festival in the winter?
Cuff on August 7, 2017 at 9:53 am said:
It’s winter, so no
Jessica on July 31, 2017 at 2:25 am said:
Praying for Miami
Anonymous on July 31, 2017 at 3:20 pm said:
As of 7/31/17, from a very reliable source close to the booking agent, MSG NYE is essentially a done deal.
Hard to believe after the BD run but apparently this MSG NYE is happening.
John on August 14, 2017 at 10:25 pm said:
Bump this ^
Chris on August 7, 2017 at 6:54 am said:
East coast/least coast. West coast/best coast.
Ryan Benson on August 7, 2017 at 3:31 pm said:
Or nothing
Gail Lightfoot on August 7, 2017 at 7:22 pm said:
NYE @ MSG is a definite…overheard Kuroda confirming it with some friends in MSG hospitality over Baker’s Dozen. See you in the city!
Frank Rizzo on August 8, 2017 at 2:50 pm said:
Yes, heard it from more than one MSG employee
Cole on August 8, 2017 at 4:05 pm said:
Billy Joel is playing 12/30 msg so that’s a no go
Guyutela on August 9, 2017 at 5:42 pm said:
McGruff on August 9, 2017 at 6:01 pm said:
that would be 12/20 not the 30th
Colin on August 8, 2017 at 6:39 pm said:
What about a 4 night run at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City?
Michael Mckiever on August 10, 2017 at 7:53 pm said:
For halloween?
JS on August 9, 2017 at 4:04 pm said:
They’re playing MSG for New Years. Done deal.
This seems to be the rumor among MSG staff and those who claim to have connections to the band. We shall see…
Mike on August 9, 2017 at 6:34 pm said:
Miami is so much more inviting. Al fresco dining, warm water, body surfing.
krivraq on August 12, 2017 at 12:39 pm said:
No 2018 pages yet, but might as well stir the pot. We need something to feed the BD withdrawal, yes??
During BD I heard inklings of Watkins Glen 2018. Came from a source who spoke of BD well over a year ago.
Cities on August 12, 2017 at 4:46 pm said:
I’m hearing same thing that Fest 11 is a go at Watkins Glen in 2018
Phikileaks on August 12, 2017 at 2:33 pm said:
Pepsi center.
Confirmed by Usher, the real usher bra.
Jason Porrello on August 16, 2017 at 1:24 am said:
Well, with the NBA schedule out and no home games by either Knicks or Rangers from 12-28 to 1-1, as well as a Heat home game on 12-29, I’d say it’s safe to say it’s at MSG if there is a NYE run. 17 in ’17.
Jerry on August 16, 2017 at 2:59 pm said:
MSG again I’ve seen every show there I have to admit after doing the bakers dozen run I’m sick of MSG please phish play something different for New Years
Todd on August 16, 2017 at 4:28 pm said:
kinda agree, even though its close to me and ill definitely hit a show or two.
Wilson, king of bleepskin on August 17, 2017 at 7:09 pm said:
Barry on August 16, 2017 at 8:16 pm said:
Jerry’s right. MSG is fun, but there are so many other places to enjoy a New Years run. They should consider a West Coast venue so the fans from there can get a piece of the action without having to leave town
krivraq on August 18, 2017 at 6:49 pm said:
“without having to leave town” ?!?
There are like 4 major West Coast cities the Phish would play for such an event, and there’s at least 1,000 miles between most of them. Just saying.
Seattle, arguably Denver / Vegas (which aren’t on the coast), San Francisco area, LA
Mr420special on August 18, 2017 at 1:14 am said:
BGCC & LA FORUM.
CannaCarney on August 20, 2017 at 2:52 pm said:
You gotta think eventually they will do a West Coast New Years run during their long ass career. They’ve done all sorts of gigs & gags, why not mix it up in 2018 for a change? MSG is great but enough is enough. Also, still waiting on Phish in Hawaii. They teased it in 1997 @ the centrum and here it is 20 years later…
dirtreprise on August 21, 2017 at 9:34 pm said:
Watkins Glen 8.18.18 get the official thread fired up
david on August 22, 2017 at 4:07 am said:
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Jayski on August 23, 2017 at 1:16 am said:
So, when are you gonna put a new thread up about Watkins Glen? 8-17 to 8-19 next summer.
Steve Leto on September 6, 2017 at 3:53 am said:
Phish west coast sometime in 2018?
Dano on September 18, 2017 at 7:50 pm said:
I have two neighbors who both work at the Garden. They are both union guys, and MSG is required through their contract with the union to share all in information on upcoming shows. So these guys know what’s up. One said that he can’t tell me because of a confidentiality clause, so he will not confirm that Phish is booked for the end of December, but I think would tell me if he knew that they were not.The other told me that Phish signed a deal to perform 17 shows there this year. Do the math,
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From Battlefield Souvenir to Family Heirloom
March 31, 2015 by Michael Williams
I have to start by admitting that this post is a little late, about a month late to be exact. Part of that is my fault, but I've also had a lot going on in my life having recently moved across the country for a new job. Excuses made and out of the way, I can continue on with this post.
I began this blog over a year ago to share my journey of returning this flag to its rightful owners. And to be quite honest, I didn't know what to expect. However, I've since learned that my blog has helped several people return flags of their own.
At first the posts were fast and furious, several times a week in some cases. But after identifying the family of Mr. Ueda, the posts came to a grinding halt, the last of which was on September 25, 2014. At that time, the family of Mr. Ueda had been taken surprise by his military service and was unsure of what to do next. In an email I received from OBON 2015 on February 26, they said the family had become "confused and distraught." Imagine the years-dormant emotions it must have awakened.
I'm happy to announce that in that same email, OBON 2015 said that Mr. Ueda's wife told them, "I would like to possess the flag of my husband." And on March 1, the flag was returned to Mr. Ueda's wife, daughter, son-in-law and grandson. You can see them all in the photo below. The grandson has a "keen interest in [this] era of history," according to OBON 2015. Now he has his grandfather's flag in his possession. How cool must that be for the little guy?
(from left to right) OBON 2015 associate in Fukuoka, Sukio’s daughter, Sukio’s wife (Sachiko), Sukio’s grandson and Sukio’s son-in-law
Maybe I was being a little too nosey, but I asked OBON 2015 why the family was so distraught over the flag (a stupid question, I know), but they gave me some historical/cultural context. So I'm glad I asked. Here's what they said:
The Japanese do not reveal much about their emotions, even to other family members. So what went on here will never be known to us. But, piecing together what we do know, and what I have learned from reading history,….when the soldiers returned home alive they were not welcomed. In many cases the Americans were already occupying their cities before they arrived. Night clubs were being set up, dancing, drinking, prostitution and parties. The returning Japanese veterans were outcasts; their leaders were in prison ready for criminal trial. Many men starved to death on the streets. It was very rough.
He survived. Whether through strong will, a good supportive family or friends…somehow he survived and pulled his life together. He married and had a daughter.
He did not tell his wife or daughter about his war experience. They did know he was in the service, but whether he was a sailor or soldier…..mechanic or cook no one knew.
All they did know was that on some occasions he drank a little sake and would sing some song from the war era. It is apparently a well known song that everyone knew. His daughter remembers sitting on his lap and hearing him sing many times.
So, this was apparently a black hole in his history that the family never ventured into.
When the flag became known it caused some conflict within the family. The wife had been sick and was recovering….the grandson was studying history and was intrigued. They behaved as one might expect the Japanese to behave……wait patiently and the answer will present itself.
So after several months they came to the conclusion to receive the flag.
(Oh, by the way, in the year 2040 the Japanese will celebrate their 2700 Imperial birthday. You, as a nation, do not survive for 2700 years by rushing into decisions)
I'm grateful for the context, because I didn't know that Japanese veterans were not well-received by their country and faced such adversity. Either I wasn't paying attention in history class (which is very likely), or this was something I never learned.
So, I guess that's the end of the line for this story then. My plans are to keep the blog running because it has helped so many people over the past year. OBON 2015 sends me a monthly newsletter about other flags they're working to return. I may begin posting those so readers will have fresh content. (I honestly don't know why I didn't start doing that sooner. It was a no-brainer, really.)
Thank you to everyone who has shared this journey with me.
March 31, 2015 /Michael Williams
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Sam Dolgoff : Russian Emigre and American Anarchist Activist
Revolt Library >> People >> Dolgoff, Sam
He rode the rails for the Wobblies, sometimes as a gandy dancer (or maintenance man), or else hopping boxcars, and he always looked for the chance to stand in front of a crowd and, in that broken cello of a voice.
From : IWW.org
"The increasing complexity of society is making anarchism MORE and NOT LESS relevant to modern life. It is precisely this complexity and diversity, above all their overriding concern for freedom and human values that led the anarchist thinkers to base their ideas on the principles of diffusion of power, self-management and federalism."
From : "The Relevance of Anarchy to Modern Society," by Sam Dolgoff
"Society without order (as the word 'society' implies) is inconceivable. But the organization of order is not the exclusive monopoly of the State. For, if the State authority is the sole guarantee of order, who will watch the watchmen?"
"The very fact that autonomy, decentralization and federalism are more practical alternatives to centralism and statism already presupposes that these vast organizational networks now performing the functions of society are prepared to replace the old bankrupt hyper-centralized administrations."
About Sam Dolgoff
Sam Dolgoff 1
Sam Dolgoff - The Left of the Left of the Left
By Paul Berman - Village Voice, November 13, 1990
Sam Dolgoff, my old friend who died last week, spoke from sidewalk soapboxes and in union meeting halls for more than 60 years, and during all that time, what caught everyone's attention was his tough cocky style, half New York, half Joe Hill. Flames of mockery and indignation danced above his head. The man identified with the downtrodden workers, and he shouted "It's a cryin' shame!" And the way those words bellowed from his mouth, the gruff rumble of his laughter, the thrust of his bulldog face and his workman's hands spread in a gesture of sweet reason--every single trait said, in effect: Sam Dolgoff is [not] for the working class. He is the working class. And the rest of you goddamned bastards can say anything you please, but your opinion will not sway him one solitary inch.
He was born in 1902 in Russia, where his uncle later became a well-known novelist (and died in a Stalinist concentration camp). But most of his childhood was spent on the Lower East Side and in the Bronx and a brief childhood it was, because at age 11 or 12 he went into his father's trade house painting, and stayed there until he retired. He dipped his foot into the Young People's Socialist League. But Socialism was tepid. So he went over to the Road to Freedom anarchist group and to the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), the Wobblies, and that was home and school.
He rode the rails for the Wobblies, sometimes as a gandy dancer (or maintenance man), or else hopping boxcars, and he always looked for the chance to stand in front of a crowd and, in that broken cello of a voice. pop off, as he liked to say, on the rights of labor. He and a couple of Wobblies drove from Kansas City to Chicago in a hearse bearing a big sign--JUSTICE IS DEAD IN CALIFORNIA! FREE TOM MOONEY!--to drum up crowds. The message never seems to have varied much. He was for grassroots democratic unions and militant direct action. For absolute equality, tolerance, and liberty--"the equal right to be different,. as he once said. For the abolition of all authoritarian social relations, beginning with the state. For the emancipation of humanity. And when the golden sun of the revolutionary future dawned, he expected the militant rank and file labor organizations to form One Big Union and take over industry and administer society in the light of reason. Anarcho-syndicalism--trade unionism with a libertarian socialist goal in other words--was the name of this doctrine.
At any time, Dolgoff could probably have moved up to a more comfortable life, either as a painting contractor or as a staffer in the unions. His talents were obvious. He devoured works of political theory in half a dozen languages, and he turned himself over the years into an authentic political intellectual, the author of books and pamphlets on American labor, the Spanish Civil War, Third World revolution, and the theories of M. A. Bakunin, the Russian anarchist. But his notion of egalitarianism would never let him use these talents to rise above the ranks. He was happy to move up with the working class, but not from it, to borrow a phrase from Eugene Debs. One of his Wobbly tours took him to Cleveland where he met his life companion, Esther, standing among the crowd, and after that, with a family to bring up, he was in no position to roam the rails. So it was back to house painting, with rabble-rousing on the side--and no question of a different or more remunerative trade. If the unions in New York put up cooperative housing for workers, which they did, he was content to sign up for a good apartment, and in that way live in a better style. But not in any other way.
Everything he did was opposed by powerful people. There were racketeers in the painters. union, and still are. His revolutionary efforts in the town of New Brunswick, New Jersey, led him to describe that benighted place as, in his inflection, "a bunch a bastards." The New York Red Squad infiltrated his meetings at the old Labor Temple on 14th Street. And the Communist Party, USA, was still another bunch a bastards. The Wobblies and anarchists climbed on their soapboxes to do their public service--and Communist toughs shouted them down and beat them, too, if they could get away with it. Even Ralph Chaplin, the Wobbly poet who wrote the anthem of the American labor movement, "Solidarity Forever," got shouted down by the commies. When that Kansas City hearse reached Chicago, it was the Communists, not the police, who tried to steal it away.
News from the old country didn't favor the Communists, either. In the 1920s and '30s, the Wobblies and anarchists had underground ties throughout the Soviet Union, and they knew that their own comrades, not to mention millions of other people, were getting shipped to the prison camps. The very first detailed accounts of the Soviet gulag to reach the United States came from Dolgoff's circle of comrades, notably from his own personal mentor, the venerable Russian revolutionary-in-exile, G. P. Maximoff.
So the battle against communism took its place in Dolgoff's agitational work. As early as 1929, he toured the soft-coke mines of Illinois organizing the Progressive Miners Union for the IWW and warning the miners against Bolshevism. During the '30s he set himself up as the American representative of Spain's largest antifascist organization, the National Confederation of Labor, anarcho-syndicalist in orientation, and again reported on Communist as well as Fascist atrocities. And of these, several campaigns, possibly the noblest, certainly the loneliest, was the one he took up early in the 1960s on behalf of the persecuted libertarian leftists and trade unionists of Cuba.
Who, after all, has given a damn during these last 30 years for the anti-Communist left in Cuba? Fidel Castro came to power in 1959 and sent his own allies among the libertarians and democrats to "the wall" or to jail or into exile, more or less as in the Soviet Union--and in middle-class progressive circles around the world, not many people noticed that Fidelista firing squads were murdering the good guys along with the bad. The tiny, aging networks of the anarcho-syndicalist movement in the United States did notice. They happened to have underground contacts in Cuba. too, and these contacts smuggled out the news. As far back as 1961, Dolgoff and his comrades in New York--the hardy souls at the Libertarian League, the Freie Arbeiter Stimme group of Jewish labor anarchists the Cultura Proletaria group of antifascist Spanish exiles--began putting out the word. They raised money for the prisoners in Cuban jails and for the ragged exiles fleeing to Miami.
The campaign for Cuban labor radicals was not the ticket to left-wing popularity in the 1960s and '70s. But what the hell, the rest of you bastards can say anything you please. Sam Dolgoff wasn't in it for the applause. One of the most beloved leaders of the New Left during the 1960s, Dave Dellinger, who called himself a libertarian, returned from Cuba and reported that socialism was alive and free in Castro's hands. And Dolgoff, furious, organized a few Good Rebels (to use the Wobbly honorific) to stand outside a meeting of Dellinger's and picket and pop off about the rights of Cuban labor. Middle-class radicals looked at the old housepainter and called him--him!--a reactionary. What a joke. Justice Is Dead in Cuba!
Yet--this was his achievement--in his old age, he did pick up a following, at least in the anti authoritarian wing of the radical movement. People knocked on Dolgoff s door and for a moment, maybe, given his crustiness, they had to squint to get him into view. He answered my own knock, back in my student days, wearing boxer shorts and a sleeveless T-shirt and clutching a copy of the Yiddish organ of the Jewish Anarchist Federation of Argentina in his hand. What a first impression! But the image cleared. He was a man of perfect consistency. He was the spirit of freedom in its left-wing form. He was the beating heart of the truest American radicalism, the Wobbly ideal. And the young people and some of the downtown avant-garde flocked to. him--even if, on cultural issues, he wasn't exactly hip. Sam Dolgoff and Julian Beck of the Living Theater--there was an odd couple! (But the avant-garde always did have an affinity for the IWW.)
He was a little rigid, truth be known. The greatest of the anarcho-syndicalist theoreticians in this century were Rudolf Rocker, Augustin Souchy, and Diego Abad de Santillan, who were, as Dolgoff happily acknowledged, his own masters--all of whom came out, after the Second World War, for democratic reform. They concluded that libertarian goals could fit within a liberal social democracy. The Guangara Libertaria Miami Cubans and the Freie Arbeirer Stimme circle in New York reached a similar conclusion. But not Dolgoff. Purple haired punkers overran his own organizations and conferences--and even so he clung to the syndicalism of 1910, unbudgeable, except in lesser ways.
Still, the gist of those old principles, once he'd hammered them into someone's head. had a way of staying put. In my own case. I reported for the Voice this past year on Sandinista Nicaragua and on revolutionary Czechoslovakia, and both times I came back with stories about small groups of workers organizing to defend themselves and control their own product and resist oppression. Nicaraguan shoemakers or Czech musicians--the themes were Dolgoff an either way. He himself recognized my debt to him, once the articles came out in print. For the gist was this: it doesn't matter whether a society calls itself capitalist or communist, liberal or conservative. The measure of progress in all modern societies is the degree to which working people have the right and the opportunity to fight for their own improvement.
Sam met a group of us over on St. Marks Place one time. The discussion turned to questions of success and failure, a delicate issue. you might suppose, with someone who had devoted himself to building an IWW that has mostly disappeared. The wine flowed, he drank his fill, and made a little statement. It summed up his life: "You always need a left. And within the left, you need a left. And within the left of the left, you need a left. And in that left, you need a left. And that left is me!. Salud, Good Rebel. No one ever fulfilled his own destiny more loyally and bravely than you.
From : "Sam Dolgoff - The Left of the Left of the Left," by Paul Berman, Village Vocie, November 13, 1990, reprinted by the IWW, https://iww.org/history/biography/SamDolgoff/1
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Anarchism : Anarchist and Anti-Authoritarianism -- 1974 Acknowledgments It is with the deepest appreciation that I acknowledge the contributions to the present work of the following persons: My friend, Chuck Hamilton, for his tireless technical and editorial labors in turning a poorly typed manuscript into the finished book. To my friend, Dr. Paul Avrich, for reading the manuscript and making valuable suggestions. To my comrade, Murray Bookchin, who first encouraged me to undertake this project. Last, but by no means least, my wife Esther who scrupulously examined the manuscript as it was being written and detected many errors. Sam Dolgoff New York City January, 1974...
Note: This article, from the book "Fragments: a memoir", by Sam Dolgoff (Refract Publications, 1986) recounts a trip to Israel by Sam and his wife Esther, to meet the anarchists there. In the mid-1970s Esther and I embarked on a two-week tour of Israel, not merely to see the sights, but to contact our anarchist comrades publishing their organ Problemen. We also wanted to contact Israeli settlers whom we already knew at home. We felt that the trip was all the more necessary because altogether too many comrades did not even know that there were a few anarchist groups in Israel, much less an anarchist publication there. We immediately contacted the editor of Problemen, Joseph Ludin, a prolific writer, himself an anarchist refugee from Poland. Ludin and the comrades were most hospitable. "You are most welcome to stay with us and save hotel bills." We spent some time at Ludin's home in Tel-Aviv where we were info... (From : Flag.Blackened.net.)
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Anarchists In The Spanish Revolution
CONTROVERSY: ANARCHISTS IN THE SPANISH REVOLUTION by Sam Dolgoff In 1974, or early 1975, I reviewed in the English anarchist paper Freedom a book by Carlos Semprun Maura, Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Catalonia (French edition). In my review I criticized both Semprun Maura and Vernon Richards' book Lessons of the Spanish Revolution for presenting a distorted, over-simplified interpretation of events- a scenario. This provoked a heated rejoinder from Richards (three or four articles in Freedom). Over forty years after the tragic defeat of the Spanish Revolution - 1936 to 1939 - the question of anarchist participation in the Republican government and the role of anarchists in a revolution is a fundamental problem still debated- still relevant. I include my polemic with Richards in these memoirs because of the emotional impact of these stormy years and the great extent to which these ev... (From : Flag.Blackened.net.)
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The Cuban Revolution : A Critical Perspective
Anarchism : Anarchist and Anti-Authoritarianism -- 1974 The Cuban Revolution A Critical Perspective by Sam Dolgoff The Cuban Revolution: an Anarchist Perspective Between reactionary "pro-Batistianos" and "revolutionary Castroites," an adequate assessment of the Cuban Revolution must take into account another, largely ignored dimension, i.e., the history of Cuban Anarchism and its influence on the development of the Cuban labor and socialist movements, the position of the Cuban anarchist movement with respect to the problems of the Cuban Revolution, and libertarian alternatives to Castroism. Today's Cuban "socialism" differs from the humanistic and libertarian values of true socialism as does tyranny from freedom. There is not the remotest affinity between authoritarian socialism or its Castro variety and the libertarian traditions of the Cuban labor and socialist movements. The character of the Latin American labor movement -- like the Spanish revolutionary...
Interview with Sam and Esther Dolgoff
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Ann Allen: Why don't you start and say a little about where you came from and first started working and how you got into the labor movement? Sam Dolgoff: When I was about fourteen or fifteen, I lived in the Bronx in New York. And the Socialist Labor Party, the Socialist Party, used to have street meetings around the neighborhood. And I became very enthusiastic; they appealed to me very strongly. They popularized everything. They explained all about Karl Marx and the economic question, surplus value. I think that was the time when Morris Hillquit was running for mayor or he was running for the assembly. There were five socialists, socialist party members, who went to the assembly. And I remember; when they went to the assembly, they were packed off to Albany, the state assembly, and they called it the Red Special. They had a car, the last car, and the five elected candidates went on the car and they had a great big red banner in the back and they also had a... (From : TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)
Modern Technology and Anarchism
In their polemics with the Marxists the anarchists argued that the state subjects the economy to its own ends. An economic system once viewed as the prerequisite for the realization of socialism now serves to reinforce the domination of the ruling classes. The very technology that could now open new roads to freedom has also armed states with unimaginably frightful weapons for the extinction of all life on this planet. Only the social revolution can overcome the obstacles to the introduction of the free society. Yet the movement for emancipation is threatened by the far more formidable political, economic and social power and brain-washing techniques of the ruling classes. To forge a revolutionary movement, inspired by anarchist ideas is the great task to which we must dedicate ourselves. To make the revolution we must stimulate the revolutionary spirit and the confidence of the people that their revolution will at last reshape the world near... (From : TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)
The Relevance of Anarchy to Modern Society
This pamphlet is the second printing of an expanded version of an article that appeared in a 1970 issue of "Libertarian Analysis". It is the first pamphlet published by "Soil of Liberty". A second pamphlet, "A Critique of Marxism", also by Sam Dolgoff, is also available ($0.55). Bulk rates are available for both. Sam has been active in the anarchist movement since the 1920's and is a re- tired house painter living in New York City. "Soil of Liberty" offers a literature service through the magazine and a partial listing is available. Magazine subscriptions are $3 - $4 per year. Soil of Liberty POB 7056 Powderhorn Station Minneapolis, MN 55407 First Printing - August 1977 Second Printing - September 1979 NOTE: ABOVE LISTED PRICES ARE AT LEAST 9 YEARS OLD, SO ASSUME THAT THEY ARE NOW HIGHER. Bourgeois Neo-Anarchism Meaningful discussion about the relevance of anarchist ideas to modern industrialized societies must f... (From : Spunk.org.)
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Berneri, Marie Louise - In April 1945 she was one of the four editors of War Commentary who were tried for incitement to disaffection, but she was acquited on a legal technicality (a wife cannot conspire with her husband), and when her three comerades were imprisioned she took on the main responsibility for maintaining the paper into the postwar period.
Bookchin, Murray - Growing up in the era of traditional proletarian socialism, with its working-class insurrections and struggles against classical fascism, as an adult he helped start the ecology movement, embraced the feminist movement as antihierarchical, and developed his own democratic, communalist politics.
Bourne, Randolph - Randolph Bourne, who was to die in the flu epidemic shortly after the Armistice, cried out alone against the betrayal of the values of civilization by his fellow writers.
Brecher, Jeremy
Brousse, Paul - Paul Brousse was then a young doctor, full of mental activity, uproarious, sharp, lively, ready to develop any idea with a geometrical logic to its utmost consequences; powerful in his criticisms of the state and state organization...
Cage, John - All of his compositions were difficult to reproduce and perform, which was an embodiment of his anarchist views.... Cage considered himself to be an anarchist, and was inspired by the work of Thoreau.
Chomsky, Noam - Though his stance on these issues is that of an admitted anarchist/libertarian, Noam Chomsky prefers to act as an analyst and critic of the state rather than a social theorist.... Chomsky continues to teach at MIT, where he holds an endowed chair in linguistics.
Cohn-Bendit, Daniel - "I worked in a bookshop, took part in the establishment of a group called "Revolutionärer Kampf" (revolutionary fight) and together with Joschka Fischer I was a member of the Frankfurt Sponti-scene which was exercising the social revolution by means of squatting, street fighting, ad agitation in companies such as Hoechst and Opel."
De Cleyre, Voltairine - Yet the ascetic also had the soul of a poet. In her poetry and even in her prose, Voltairine eloquently expressed a passionate love of music, of nature, and of Beauty.
Diehl, Karl - Even in the stifling atmosphere of the Kaiser's Germany, however, Karl Diehl stood up to look at the ideology behind the movement, to dispell the untruths spread by the government, and to bring the theories of this important portion of man's political philosophy to the world of academia.
Dolgoff, Sam - He rode the rails for the Wobblies, sometimes as a gandy dancer (or maintenance man), or else hopping boxcars, and he always looked for the chance to stand in front of a crowd and, in that broken cello of a voice.
Durruti, Buenaventura - On the 15 Durruti arrived with a force of 1800 men to reinforce the defense of Madrid, where they went inmediately to the toughest section and on the 19 he was struck by a bullet as he walked by a supposedly secure area.
Fanelli, Giuseppe - ...Active in the revolutionary enterprises of 1848-1849 in Lombardy and Rome; Fought with Garibaldi's Thousand in Sicily...
Faure, Sébastien - In 1927 he led a secession from the national Union Anarchiste, and in 1928 he helped to found the Association des Federalistes Anarchistes and to begin its paper, La Voix Libertaire (Libertarian Voice), which lasted from 1928 until 1939. He was reconciled with the national organization and Le Libertaire in 1934.
Ferrer, Francisco - The growth of the Escuela Moderna and the wide distribution of its booklets infuriated the clergy. But for years there was little they could do beyond denouncing the school and pouring vituperation on Ferrer's personal life.
Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley - At the age of 17 she became a full time organizer for the IWW, and was consequently arrested 10 times. Although she was never convicted of any criminal activity, she was forced to leave the IWW in 1916 because of internal conflicts. In 1920 she helped found the American Civil Liberties Union, and began actively supporting Sacco and Vanzetti...
Galleani, Luigi - Famous internationally, he was a proponent of propaganda by the deed. Galleani became versed in legal and political theory at the University of Turin while acquiring a law degree. As a fervent supporter of Anarchism, he was wanted by the Italian police.
Gandhi - A complex man with a controversial legacy, Mohandas Gandhi remains one of the pioneers of civil disobedience as a political weapon and a giant in 20th century anti-colonialism.
Ginestà, Marina - She was a member of Juventudes Socialistas Unificadas (Socialist Youth), the youth organization mainly directed by Partido Comunista de España (PCE, Communist Party of Spain). Despite her initial involvement she quickly grew disillusioned with the path that the Stalinists were taking.
Godwin, William - His most famous work, An Inquiry concerning Political Justice, appeared in 1793, inspired to some extent by the political turbulence and fundamental restructuring of governmental institutions underway in France. Godwin's belief is that governments are fundamentally inimical to the integrity of the human beings living under their strictures...
Goldman, Emma - She is an Anarchist, pure and simple. She represents the idea of Anarchism as framed by Josiah Warren, Proudhon, Bakunin, Kropotkin, Tolstoy. Yet she also understands the psychologic causes which induce a Caserio, a Vaillant, a Bresci, a Berkman, or a Czolgosz to commit deeds of violence.
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On the 13th August 1956, 28-year-old Brenda Fisher became the third person to swim Lake Ontario. Her time of 18 hours 51 minutes broke Marilyn Bell's record time by 2 hours 4 minutes. She started at 10:45 pm from Niagara-on-the-Lake on Sunday 12th August and finished at the eastern tip of Cherry Beach, Toronto, near the Dr Richard L Hearn coal-fired electrical-generating plant (phased out of operation in July 1983).
The Globe & Mail reported this was the 41st attempt on Lake Ontario in the previous two years, and that Brenda swam rain, darkness and intense sun with a freestyle rate of 52 strokes per minute. They also reported that she fed on snacks of tepid tea, well loaded with sugar, and biscuits and sugar cubes. Typical of Lake Ontario in the summer months, Brenda finished a few minutes before a torrential thunderstorm engulfed the Toronto lake-front.
70-year-old Herbert McNally was Brenda's coach and, as she waded ashore, the Globe & Mail reported that he remarked in his north-east England dialect "Ee, it's great. 'Tis 'n all".
Brenda was the daughter of a trawler Skipper from Grimsby, Lincolnshire in England. An attempt in the previous year, 1955, to swim Lake Ontario was unsuccessful.
An accomplished marathon swimmer, Brenda set a women's record for the English Channel in 1951 when she won the Daily Mail race in crossing from France to England in 12 hours 42 minutes - 73 minutes faster than the 13:55 record time set back earlier that year by the Welsh swimmer Jenny James. The win gave her the Festival of Britain cup as the fastest lady and the Eva Peron trophy for being the first British lady to finish. The left photograph shows her at the completion of that swim and is taken from Sam Rockett's book "It's cold in the Channel". She completed a second crossing of the Channel in 1954 in 14 hours 36 minutes. Brenda was married to English soccer player Patick Johnston who played for Grimsby Town. The other photos were provided by Brenda to the Channel Swimming Association in 2010 and reflect the reception she received when she returned home to Grimsby after her Channel success. Subsequently, Brenda was named as Britain's leading sportswoman of 1952.
In 1956, Brenda was also reported as the fastest woman to have completed the 29-mile Nile River swim.
Previously, at age 20, she was 1948 champion of the Morecambe Bay swim (a 10 mile cross-bay sea swim in north-west England), a title which her sister, Jessie, had won in the previous year. Her brother, Buster, was also a swimmer who had swum the Humber River; he was killed in the Second World War. Brenda was reported to have said that her change from sprint swimming to open-water races was as a tribute to her brother after his death
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It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
The only one of Sinclair Lewis's later novels to match the power of Main Street, Babbitt, and Arrowsmith, It Can't Happen Here is a cautionary tale about the fragility of democracy, an alarming, eerily timeless look at how fascism could take hold in America. Written during the Great Depression... more
The only one of Sinclair Lewis's later novels to match the power of Main Street, Babbitt, and Arrowsmith, It Can't Happen Here is a cautionary tale about the fragility of democracy, an alarming, eerily timeless look at how fascism could take hold in America. Written during the Great Depression when America was largely oblivious to Hitler's aggression, it juxtaposes sharp political satire with the chillingly realistic rise of a President who becomes a dictator to save the nation from welfare cheats, rampant promiscuity, crime, and a liberal press. Now finally back in print, It Can't Happen Here remains uniquely important, a shockingly prescient novel that's as fresh and contemporary as today's news.
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Blockade Billy by Stephen King
2 short stories, "Blockade Billy" and "Morality". From New York Times bestselling author Stephen King comes the haunting story of Blockade Billy, the greatest Major League baseball player to be erased from the game. Even the most die-hard baseball fans don't know... more
2 short stories, "Blockade Billy" and "Morality". From New York Times bestselling author Stephen King comes the haunting story of Blockade Billy, the greatest Major League baseball player to be erased from the game. Even the most die-hard baseball fans don't know the true story of William "Blockade Billy" Blakely. He may have been the greatest player the game has ever seen, but today no one remembers his name. He was the first--and only--player to have his existence completely removed from the record books. Even his team is long forgotten, barely a footnote in the game's history. Every effort was made to erase any evidence that William Blakely played professional baseball, and with good reason. Blockade Billy had a secret darker than any pill or injection that might cause a scandal in sports today. His secret was much, much worse ... Additionally, includes the chilling bonus story "Morality".
The Signal and the Noise: Why Most Predictions Fail-But Some Don't by Nate Silver
Nate Silver built an innovative system for predicting baseball performance, predicted the 2008 election within a hair?s breadth, and became a national sensation as a blogger?all by the time he was thirty. The New York Times now publishes FiveThirtyEight.com, where Silver is one of the nation?s... more
Nate Silver built an innovative system for predicting baseball performance, predicted the 2008 election within a hair?s breadth, and became a national sensation as a blogger?all by the time he was thirty. The New York Times now publishes FiveThirtyEight.com, where Silver is one of the nation?s most influential political forecasters. Drawing on his own groundbreaking work, Silver examines the world of prediction, investigating how we can distinguish a true signal from a universe of noisy data. Most predictions fail, often at great cost to society, because most of us have a poor understanding of probability and uncertainty. Both experts and laypeople mistake more confident predictions for more accurate ones. But overconfidence is often the reason for failure. If our appreciation of uncertainty improves, our predictions can get better too. This is the ?prediction paradox?: The more humility we have about our ability to make predictions, the more successful we can be in planning for the future. In keeping with his own aim to seek truth from data, Silver visits the most successful forecasters in a range of areas, from hurricanes to baseball, from the poker table to the stock market, from Capitol Hill to the NBA. He explains and evaluates how these forecasters think and what bonds they share. What lies behind their success? Are they good?or just lucky? What patterns have they unraveled? And are their forecasts really right? He explores unanticipated commonalities and exposes unexpected juxtapositions. And sometimes, it is not so much how good a prediction is in an absolute sense that matters but how good it is relative to the competition. In other cases, prediction is still a very rudimentary?and dangerous?science. Silver observes that the most accurate forecasters tend to have a superior command of probability, and they tend to be both humble and hardworking. They distinguish the predictable from the unpredictable, and they notice a thousand little details that lead them closer to the truth. Because of their appreciation of probability, they can distinguish the signal from the noise. With everything from the health of the global economy to our ability to fight terrorism dependent on the quality of our predictions, Nate Silver?s insights are an essential read.
The Seventh: A Parker Novel (Parker Novels) by Richard Stark
Parker, the ruthless antihero of Richard Stark?s eponymous mystery novels, is one of the most unforgettable characters in hardboiled noir. Lauded by critics for his taut realism, unapologetic amorality, and razor-sharp prose style?and adored by fans who turn each intoxicating page with... more
Parker, the ruthless antihero of Richard Stark?s eponymous mystery novels, is one of the most unforgettable characters in hardboiled noir. Lauded by critics for his taut realism, unapologetic amorality, and razor-sharp prose style?and adored by fans who turn each intoxicating page with increasing urgency?Stark is a master of crime writing, his books as influential as any in the genre. The University of Chicago Press has embarked on a project to return the early volumes of this series to print for a new generation of readers to discover?and become addicted to. This season?s offerings include volumes 7?9 in the series: The Seventh, The Handle, and The Rare Coin Score. In The Seventh, the heist of a college football game goes bad, and the take is stolen by a crazed, violent amateur. Parker must outrun the cops?and the killer?to retrieve his cash. In The Handle, Parker is enlisted by the mob to knock off an island casino guarded by speedboats and heavies, forty miles from the Texas coast. The Rare Coin Score features the first appearance of Claire, who will steal Parker?s heister?s heart?while together they steal two million dollars of rare coins. ?Parker . . . lumbers through the pages of Richard Stark?s noir novels scattering dead bodies like peanut shells. . . . In a complex world [he] makes things simple.??William Grimes, New York Times ?Whatever Stark writes, I read. He?s a stylist, a pro, and I thoroughly enjoy his attitude.??Elmore Leonard ?Westlake knows precisely how to grab a reader, draw him or her into the story, and then slowly tighten his grip until escape is impossible.??Washington Post Book World ?Donald Westlake?s Parker novels are among the small number of books I read over and over. Forget all that crap you?ve been telling yourself about War and Peace and Proust?these are the books you?ll want on that desert island.??Lawrence Block Also available from the University of Chicago Press:The HunterThe Man with the Getaway FaceThe OutfitThe MournerThe JuggerThe Score
A Most Wanted Man by John le Carre
A half-starved young Russian man in a long black overcoat is smuggled into Hamburg at dead of night. He has an improbable amount of cash secreted in a purse around his neck. He is a devout Muslim. Or is he? He says his name is Issa. Annabel, an idealistic young German civil rights lawyer,... more
A half-starved young Russian man in a long black overcoat is smuggled into Hamburg at dead of night. He has an improbable amount of cash secreted in a purse around his neck. He is a devout Muslim. Or is he? He says his name is Issa. Annabel, an idealistic young German civil rights lawyer, determines to save Issa from deportation. Soon her client's survival becomes more important to her than her own career -- or safety. In pursuit of Issa's mysterious past, she confronts the incongruous Tommy Brue, the sixty-year-old scion of Brue Freres, a failing British bank based in Hamburg. Annabel, Issa and Brue form an unlikely alliance -- and a triangle of impossible loves is born. Meanwhile, scenting a sure kill in the "War on Terror," the rival spies of Germany, England and America converge upon the innocents. Thrilling, compassionate, peopled with characters the reader never wants to let go, A Most Wanted Man is a work of deep humanity and uncommon relevance to our times.
House Dick by E. Howard Hunt
House Dick is one of Hunt’s very best, a classic hardboiled story of a detective in a Washington D.C. hotel (no, not that hotel) investigating a twisty tale of burglary and murder, of skullduggery under cover of darkness, of deception and shifting loyalties -- and of the price you pay when... more
House Dick is one of Hunt’s very best, a classic hardboiled story of a detective in a Washington D.C. hotel (no, not that hotel) investigating a twisty tale of burglary and murder, of skullduggery under cover of darkness, of deception and shifting loyalties -- and of the price you pay when you trust the wrong people…
The Miernik Dossier by Charles McCarry
"Charles McCarry is the best modern writer on the subject of intrigue," wrote P.J. O'Rourke and Time Magazine has declared that "there is no better American spy novelist." McCarry's first book, The Miernik Dossier, originally published in 1973, is a riveting and imaginative tale in which a... more
"Charles McCarry is the best modern writer on the subject of intrigue," wrote P.J. O'Rourke and Time Magazine has declared that "there is no better American spy novelist." McCarry's first book, The Miernik Dossier, originally published in 1973, is a riveting and imaginative tale in which a small group of international agents embark on a car trip in a Cadillac, from Switzerland to the Sudan. Related as a collection of dossier notes written by the five characters, the novel reveals a complicated web in which each spins his or her own deception: each is a spider, and each is a spy...and the Miernik Dossier is a thorough-going masterpiece.
The Bullpen Gospels: A Non-Prospect's Pursuit of the Major Leagues and the Meaning of...
Motor City Blue (Amos Walker) by Loren D. Estleman
"If I see my name in tomorrow's paper yours will be in the next edition. Bordered in black." Marla Bernstein is a pretty, dark-haired teenager? who also happens to be the ward of Ben Morningstar-a semi-retired mobster who prefers to keep family business out of the newspapers. When... more
"If I see my name in tomorrow's paper yours will be in the next edition. Bordered in black." Marla Bernstein is a pretty, dark-haired teenager? who also happens to be the ward of Ben Morningstar-a semi-retired mobster who prefers to keep family business out of the newspapers. When Marla suddenly disappears, the gang boss is forced to call in private eve Amos Walker, who quickly learns his new employer doesn't take "no" for an answer when he offers a job opportunity. Unfortunately, the only clue to Marla's whereabouts is a pornographic photograph that clearly proves that she's become part of a world that disgusts even her criminal guardian. . The photo, in turn leads Walker into the seedy world of Detroit's porn shops and blue movies, where Marla's trail becomes even murkier?.and increasingly more dangerous to follow. . As first cases go, Walker could have certainly asked for one less challenging?... You can share your thoughts about Loren D. Estleman's Motor City Blue in the new ibooks virtual readers' group at www.ibooksinc.com.
Celebrate the 40th anniversary of this timeless classic with a special edition featuring a new foreword by the author and a message that is as relevant today as when it was first published. Since the late 1940s, Ray Bradbury has been revered for his works of science fiction and fantasy. With... more
Celebrate the 40th anniversary of this timeless classic with a special edition featuring a new foreword by the author and a message that is as relevant today as when it was first published. Since the late 1940s, Ray Bradbury has been revered for his works of science fiction and fantasy. With more than 4 million copies in print, Fahrenheit 451 -- originally published in 1953 -- remains his most acclaimed work: "One of the most brilliant overall jobs of social satire." The Nation "Frightening in its implications...Mr. Bradbury's account of this insane world, which bears many alarming resemblances to our own, is fascinating." The New York Times Fahrenheit 451 is the temperature at which book paper burns. Fahrenheit 451 is a short novel set in the (perhaps near) future when "firemen" burn books forbidden by the totalitarian "brave new world" regime. The hero, according to Mr. Bradbury, is "a book burner who suddenly discovers that books are flesh and blood ideas and cry out silently when put to the torch." Today, when libraries and schools are still "burning" certain books, Fahrenheit 451 is a work of even greater impact and timeliness.
Game Over: How Politics Has Turned the Sports World Upside Down by Dave Zirin
Sportscaster Howard Cosell dubbed it �rule number one of the jockocracy?: sports and politics just don?t mix. But in Game Over, celebrated alt-sportswriter Dave Zirin proves once and for all that politics has breached the modern sports arena with a vengeance. From the NFL lockout and the role of... more
Sportscaster Howard Cosell dubbed it �rule number one of the jockocracy?: sports and politics just don?t mix. But in Game Over, celebrated alt-sportswriter Dave Zirin proves once and for all that politics has breached the modern sports arena with a vengeance. From the NFL lockout and the role of soccer in the Arab Spring to the Penn State sexual abuse scandals and Tim Tebow?s on-field genuflections, this timely and hard-hitting new book from the �conscience of American sportswriting? (The Washington Post) reveals how our most important debates about class, race, religion, sex, and the raw quest for political power are played out both on and off the field. Game Over offers new insights and analysis of headline-grabbing sports controversies, exploring the shady side of the NCAA, the explosive 2011 MLB All-Star Game, and why the Dodgers crashed and burned. It covers the fascinating struggles of gay and lesbian athletes to gain acceptance, female athletes to be more than sex symbols, and athletes everywhere to assert their collective bargaining rights as union members. Zirin also illustrates the ways in which athletes are once again using their exalted platforms to speak out and reclaim sports from the corporate interests that have taken it hostage. In Game Over, he cheers the victories but also reflects on how far we have yet to go. Combining brilliant set pieces with a sobering overview of today?s sports scene in Zirin?s take-no-prisoners style, Game Over is a must read for anyone, sports fan or not, interested in understanding how sports reflect and shape society?and why the stakes have never been higher.
Shakespeare Wrote for Money by Nick Hornby
With an affectionate introduction by Sarah Vowell, this is the third and final collection of columns by celebrated novelist Nick Hornby from The Believer magazine. Hornby's monthly reading diary is unlike any arts column in any other publication; it discusses cultural artifacts the way they... more
With an affectionate introduction by Sarah Vowell, this is the third and final collection of columns by celebrated novelist Nick Hornby from The Believer magazine. Hornby's monthly reading diary is unlike any arts column in any other publication; it discusses cultural artifacts the way they actually exist in people's lives. Hornby is a voracious and unapologetic reader, and his notes on books ? highbrow and otherwise ? are always accessible and hilarious.
A Morning for Flamingos (Dave Robicheaux, Bk 4) by James Lee Burke
Clutching the shards, of his shattered life, Cajun detective Dave Robicheaux has rejoined the New lberia police force. His partner is dead -- slain during a condemned prisoner's bloody flight to freedom that left Robicheaux critically wounded... and reawakened the ghost of his haunted,... more
Clutching the shards, of his shattered life, Cajun detective Dave Robicheaux has rejoined the New lberia police force. His partner is dead -- slain during a condemned prisoner's bloody flight to freedom that left Robicheaux critically wounded... and reawakened the ghost of his haunted, violent past. Now he's trailing a killer into the sordid head of die Big Easy -- caught up in the lethal undercurrents of a mob double-cross... confronting his most dangerous enemy: himself.
Nobody's Perfect (Dortmunder, Bk 4) by Donald E. Westlake
Ingram Comic crime hero Dortmunder and his gang of bungling thieves are back in a hilarious caper--out of print since 1979. Mishaps and misunderstandings force the gang to steal a painting not once but twice in this hilarious misadventure starring the inimitable Dortmunder.
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto by Chuck Klosterman
Countless writers and artists have spoken for a generation, but no one has done it quite like Chuck Klosterman. With an exhaustive knowledge of popular culture and an almost effortless ability to spin brilliant prose out of unlikely subject matter, Klosterman attacks the entire spectrum of... more
Countless writers and artists have spoken for a generation, but no one has done it quite like Chuck Klosterman. With an exhaustive knowledge of popular culture and an almost effortless ability to spin brilliant prose out of unlikely subject matter, Klosterman attacks the entire spectrum of postmodern America: reality TV, Internet porn, Pamela Anderson, literary Jesus freaks, and the real difference between apples and oranges (of which there is none). And don't even get him started on his love life and the whole Harry-Met-Sally situation. Whether deconstructing Saved by the Bell episodes or the artistic legacy of Billy Joel, the symbolic importance of The Empire Strikes Back or the Celtics/Lakers rivalry, Chuck will make you think, he'll make you laugh, and he'll drive you insane -- usually all at once. Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs is ostensibly about art, entertainment, infotainment, sports, politics, and kittens, but -- really -- it's about us. All of us. As Klosterman realizes late at night, in the moment before he falls asleep, "In and of itself, nothing really matters. What matters is that nothing is ever 'in and of itself.'" Read to believe.
Agent in Place by Helen Macinnes
This sophisticated narrative of spy/counterspy is set in Washington, where the Russians have planted an "agent in place." For nine years he has worked himself quietly into the fabric of government and society. Dedicated and patient, he has everyone's respect. It is a plot where amateurs are the... more
This sophisticated narrative of spy/counterspy is set in Washington, where the Russians have planted an "agent in place." For nine years he has worked himself quietly into the fabric of government and society. Dedicated and patient, he has everyone's respect. It is a plot where amateurs are the villains and professionals are the heroes -- particularly a team of British and French agents whose job is to foil further Russian intervention. The story moves from Washington to New York to Menton on the French Riviera, where it concludes in a series of stunning revelations, dismaying setbacks and breathless discoveries.
Inferno (Movie Tie-In Edition) by Dan Brown
ISBN 978-1-101-97297-7 Harvard professor of symbology Robert Langdon awakens in an Italian hospital, disoriented and with no recollection of the past thirty-six hours, including the origin of the macabre object hidden in his belongings. With a relentless female assassin trailing them through... more
ISBN 978-1-101-97297-7 Harvard professor of symbology Robert Langdon awakens in an Italian hospital, disoriented and with no recollection of the past thirty-six hours, including the origin of the macabre object hidden in his belongings. With a relentless female assassin trailing them through Florence, he and his resourceful doctor, Sienna Brooks, are forced to flee. Embarking on a harrowing journey, they must unravel a series of codes, which are the work of a brilliant scientist whose obsession with the end of the world is matched only by his passion for one of the most influential masterpieces ever written, Dante Alighieri's The Inferno. Dan Brown has raised the bar yet again, combining classical Italian art, history, and literature with cutting-edge science in this captivating thriller.
Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers" -- the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much... more
In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers" -- the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing. Along the way he explains the secrets of software billionaires, what it takes to be a great soccer player, why Asians are good at math, and what made the Beatles the greatest rock band. Brilliant and entertaining, OUTLIERS is a landmark work that will simultaneously delight and illuminate.
A Savage Place (Spenser, Bk 8) by Robert B. Parker
Private-eye Spenser is in Hollywood to protect a beautiful reporter investigating corruption and racketeering in the movie industry, and together they search for a murderer in Tinsel Town.
A Stab in the Dark (Matthew Scudder, Bk 4) by Lawrence Block
Louis Pinell, the recently apprehended "Icepick Prowler," freely admits to having slain seven young women nine years ago -- but be swears it was a copycat who killed Barbara Ettinger. Matthew Scudder believes him. But the trail to Ettinger's true murderer is twisted, dark and... more
Louis Pinell, the recently apprehended "Icepick Prowler," freely admits to having slain seven young women nine years ago -- but be swears it was a copycat who killed Barbara Ettinger. Matthew Scudder believes him. But the trail to Ettinger's true murderer is twisted, dark and dangerous...and even colder than the almost decade-old corpse the P.I. is determined to avenge.
Smart Baseball: Why Pitching Wins Are for Losers, Batting Average is for Suckers, and...
Journey Into Fear (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) by Eric Ambler
Returning to his hotel room after a late-night flirtation with a cabaret dancer at an Istanbul b™ite, Graham is surprised by an intruder with a gun. What follows is a nightmare of intrigue for the English armaments engineer as he makes his way home aboard an Italian freighter. Among the... more
Returning to his hotel room after a late-night flirtation with a cabaret dancer at an Istanbul b™ite, Graham is surprised by an intruder with a gun. What follows is a nightmare of intrigue for the English armaments engineer as he makes his way home aboard an Italian freighter. Among the passengers are a couple of Nazi assassins intent on preventing his returning to England with plans for a Turkish defense system, the seductive cabaret dancer and her manager husband, and a number of surprising allies. Thrilling, intense, and masterfully plotted, Journey Into Fear is a classic suspense tale from one of the founders of the genre.
Case Histories (Jackson Brodie, Bk 1) by Kate Atkinson
A triumphant new novel from award-winner Kate Atkinson: a breathtaking story of families divided, love lost and found, and the mysteries of fate. Includes reading group guide with author interview and discussion questions. Case One: Olivia Land, youngest and most beloved of the Land girls,... more
A triumphant new novel from award-winner Kate Atkinson: a breathtaking story of families divided, love lost and found, and the mysteries of fate. Includes reading group guide with author interview and discussion questions. Case One: Olivia Land, youngest and most beloved of the Land girls, goes missing in the night and is never seen again. Thirty years later, two of her surviving sisters unearth a shocking clue to Olivia's disappearance among the clutter of their childhood home... Case Two: Theo delights in his daughter Laura's wit, effortless beauty, and selfless love. But her first day as an associate in his law firm is also the day when Theo's world turns upside down... Case Three: Michelle looks around one day and finds herself trapped in a hell of her own making. A very needy baby and a very demanding husband make her every waking moment a reminder that somewhere, somehow, she'd made a grave mistake and would spend the rest of her life paying for it -- until a fit of rage creates a grisly, bloody escape. As Private Detective Jackson Brodie investigates all three cases, startling connections and discoveries emerge. Inextricably caught up in his clients' grief, joy, and desire, Jackson finds their unshakable need for resolution very much like his own. Kate Atkinson's celebrated talent makes for a novel that positively sparkles with surprise, comedy, tragedy, and constant, page-turning delight.
The Chill (Lew Archer, Bk 11) by Ross Macdonald
In The Chill a distraught young man hires Archer to track down his runaway bride. But no sooner has he found Dolly Kincaid than Archer finds himself entangled in two murders, one twenty years old, the other so recent that the blood is still wet. What ensues is a detective novel of nerve-racking... more
In The Chill a distraught young man hires Archer to track down his runaway bride. But no sooner has he found Dolly Kincaid than Archer finds himself entangled in two murders, one twenty years old, the other so recent that the blood is still wet. What ensues is a detective novel of nerve-racking suspense, desperately believable characters, and one of the most intricate plots ever spun by an American crime writer.
No Impact Man by Colin Beavan
The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to Save the Planet, and the Discoveries He Makes About Himself and Our Way of Life in the Process What does it really take to live eco-effectively? For one year, Colin Beavan swore off plastic and toxins, turned off his electricity,... more
The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to Save the Planet, and the Discoveries He Makes About Himself and Our Way of Life in the Process What does it really take to live eco-effectively? For one year, Colin Beavan swore off plastic and toxins, turned off his electricity, went organic, became a bicycle nut, and tried to save the planet from environmental catastrophe while dragging his young daughter and his Prada-wearing wife along for the ride. Together they attempted to make zero impact on the environment while living right in the heart of Manhattan, and this is the sensational, funny, and consciousness-raising story of how they did it.
Rhino Ranch: A Novel (Thalia Trilogy) by Larry McMurtry
In this poignant and striking final chapter in the Duane Moore story, which began in 1966 with The Last Picture Show, Pulitzer Prize- and Oscar-winning author Larry McMurtry takes readers on one last unforgettable journey to Thalia, Texas, a town that continues to change at a breakneck pace even... more
In this poignant and striking final chapter in the Duane Moore story, which began in 1966 with The Last Picture Show, Pulitzer Prize- and Oscar-winning author Larry McMurtry takes readers on one last unforgettable journey to Thalia, Texas, a town that continues to change at a breakneck pace even as Duane feels himself slowing down. Returning home to recover from a near-fatal heart attack, Duane discovers that he has a new neighbor: the statuesque K. K. Slater, a quirky billionairess who's come to Thalia to open the Rhino Ranch, dedicated to the preservation of the endangered black rhinoceros. Despite their obvious differences, Duane can't help but find himself charmed by K.K.'s stubborn toughness and lively spirit, and the two embark on a flirtation that rapidly veers toward the sexual -- but the return of Honor Carmichael complicates Duane's romantic intentions considerably. As Duane reflects on all that he and Thalia have been through, he feels adrift in a world where love and betrayal walk hand in hand and a stalwart Texas oil town can become home to a nature preserve. Rhino Ranch is a fitting end to this iconic saga, an emotional, whimsical and bittersweet tribute to the lives of a man and a town that have inspired readers across decades.
G is for Gumshoe (Kinsey Millhone, Bk 7) by Sue Grafton
"G" is for Gumshoe. "G" is also for guilt and guile, greed and grief, and the grim reaper. Three things happened to Kinsey Millhone on May 5th -- the day she turned 33: the reconstruction of her apartment was completed; she was hired by a Mrs. Clyde Gersh to bring her... more
"G" is for Gumshoe. "G" is also for guilt and guile, greed and grief, and the grim reaper. Three things happened to Kinsey Millhone on May 5th -- the day she turned 33: the reconstruction of her apartment was completed; she was hired by a Mrs. Clyde Gersh to bring her mother back from the Mojave desert; and she made one of the top slots on Tyrone Patty's hit list. Obviously, it would turn out to be a birthday to remember. Santa Teresa's favorite P.I. is, once again, on a case at the heart of which is a long-buried betrayal -- and someone would like nothing better than to bury Kinsey along with it.
Look Who's Watching: Why the World Is Losing Faith in the Internet by Fen Osler Hamps...
The Internet ecosystem is held together by a surprisingly intangible glue--trust. To meet its full potential, users need to trust that the Internet works reliably and efficiently when providing them with the information they seek, while also being secure, private and safe. When trust in the... more
The Internet ecosystem is held together by a surprisingly intangible glue--trust. To meet its full potential, users need to trust that the Internet works reliably and efficiently when providing them with the information they seek, while also being secure, private and safe. When trust in the Internet wanes, the network's stock of "digital social capital" falls, and users begin to alter their online behaviour. These often subtle changes in behaviour tend to collectively be highly maladaptive, hindering the economic, developmental and innovative potential of the globe-spanning network of networks. Look Who's Watching: Why the World Is Losing Faith in the Internet confirms in vivid detail that the trust placed by users in the Internet is increasingly misplaced. Edward Snowden's revelations that the US National Security Agency and other government agencies are spying on Internet users, the proliferation of cybercrime, the growing commodification of user data and regulatory changes--which threaten to fragment the system--are all rapidly eroding the confidence users have in the Internet ecosystem. Based on a combination of illustrative anecdotal evidence and analysis of new data, Look Who's Watching clearly demonstrates why trust matters, how it is being eroded and how, with care and deliberate policy action, the essential glue of the Internet can be restored.
The Ax by Donald E. Westlake
The suspense is tight as a steel coil. Burke Devore has been in the paper business for twenty-five years, provides well for his family, and plays by the rules. Now the victim of corporate downsizing, Devores life begins to disintegrate. From his attempt to find a job to the growing rift between... more
The suspense is tight as a steel coil. Burke Devore has been in the paper business for twenty-five years, provides well for his family, and plays by the rules. Now the victim of corporate downsizing, Devores life begins to disintegrate. From his attempt to find a job to the growing rift between him and his loved ones, he knows that time is running out. With the pressure on, Devore sets off on a path of obsession and outrage brought on by desperation. He must have a job, even if the only way to get it is to eliminate the competition . . .
The Empty Copper Sea (Travis McGee, Bk 17) by John D. MacDonald
Asking for help is something a proud man like Van Harder would never do. So when he shows up at the Busted Flush, Travis McGee knows that he must be the man’s last resort. What Harder wants salvaged is his reputation. After a long career as a seaman, he was piloting a boat the... more
Asking for help is something a proud man like Van Harder would never do. So when he shows up at the Busted Flush, Travis McGee knows that he must be the man’s last resort. What Harder wants salvaged is his reputation. After a long career as a seaman, he was piloting a boat the night his employer fell overboard. Harder is certain he’s been set up, but to help him, McGee must prove that a dead man is actually alive. The fateful ride started with Harder at the helm of Hubbard Lawless’s luxury cruiser. It ends with him coming to, fuzzy and disoriented, and Hub lost to the water. Now everyone is saying that Harder got drunk, passed out, and is negligent in his boss’s death. The thing is, Van’s not a drinker . . . at least, not anymore. Who would want to frame the good captain, and to what end? Dead or alive, Lawless is worth a lot of money. People are always eager to get a piece of that action—including some, as McGee soon finds, who are willing to take a piece out of anyone who gets in their way.
Echo House by Ward Just
Here is Just's masterpiece - an epic chronicle of three generations of Washington power brokers and the womenfolk who loved them (except when they didn't). The Washington Post described this book as "a fascinating if ultimately painful fairy tale, complete with a family curse. The decline of the... more
Here is Just's masterpiece - an epic chronicle of three generations of Washington power brokers and the womenfolk who loved them (except when they didn't). The Washington Post described this book as "a fascinating if ultimately painful fairy tale, complete with a family curse. The decline of the Behls represents the decline of Washington from the bright dawn of the American century into the gathering shadows of an alien new millennium."
11/22/63 by Stephen King
On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? Stephen King’s heart-stoppingly dramatic new novel is about a man who travels back in time to prevent the JFK assassination -- a thousand page tour de... more
On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? Stephen King’s heart-stoppingly dramatic new novel is about a man who travels back in time to prevent the JFK assassination -- a thousand page tour de force. — Following his massively successful novel Under the Dome, King sweeps readers back in time to another moment -- a real life moment -- when everything went wrong: the JFK assassination. And he introduces readers to a character who has the power to change the course of history. Jake Epping is a thirty-five-year-old high school English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra money teaching adults in the GED program. He receives an essay from one of the students -- a gruesome, harrowing first person story about the night 50 years ago when Harry Dunning’s father came home and killed his mother, his sister, and his brother with a hammer. Harry escaped with a smashed leg, as evidenced by his crooked walk. Not much later, Jake’s friend Al, who runs the local diner, divulges a secret: his storeroom is a portal to 1958. He enlists Jake on an insane -- and insanely possible -- mission to try to prevent the Kennedy assassination. So begins Jake’s new life as George Amberson and his new world of Elvis and JFK, of big American cars and sock hops, of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and a beautiful high school librarian named Sadie Dunhill, who becomes the love of Jake’s life -- a life that transgresses all the normal rules of time. A tribute to a simpler era and a devastating exercise in escalating suspense, 11/22/63 is Stephen King at his epic best.
The Rule of Law in the Real World by Paul Gowder
In The Rule of Law in the Real World, Paul Gowder defends a new conception of the rule of law as the coordinated control of power and demonstrates that the rule of law, thus understood, creates and preserves social equality in a state. In a highly engaging, interdisciplinary text that moves... more
In The Rule of Law in the Real World, Paul Gowder defends a new conception of the rule of law as the coordinated control of power and demonstrates that the rule of law, thus understood, creates and preserves social equality in a state. In a highly engaging, interdisciplinary text that moves seamlessly from theory to reality, using examples ranging from Ancient Greece through the present, Gowder sheds light on how societies have achieved the rule of law, how they have sustained it in the face of political upheaval, and how it may be measured and developed in the future. The Rule of Law in the Real World is an essential work for scholars, students, policymakers, and anyone else who believes the rule of law is critical to the proper functioning of society.
From Doon with Death (Inspector Wexford, Bk 1) by Ruth Rendell
When Margaret Parsons disappears, Inspector Burden tries to reassure her frantic husband that she will be back by morning. Privately, though, he is certain Margaret has run off with another man. But then the missing woman's body is found, strangled and abandoned in a nearby wood. And when... more
When Margaret Parsons disappears, Inspector Burden tries to reassure her frantic husband that she will be back by morning. Privately, though, he is certain Margaret has run off with another man. But then the missing woman's body is found, strangled and abandoned in a nearby wood. And when Mr. Parsons lets the police into his home, a startling discovery leads everyone to question just who Margaret Parsons really was . . .
Goldfinger: 007, A James Bond Novel by Ian Fleming
Auric Goldfinger, the most phenomenal criminal Bond has ever faced, is an evil genius who likes his cash in gold bars. This powerful villain is planning the biggest and most daring heist in history-robbing all the gold in Fort Knox.
Nobody Move by Denis Johnson
Jimmy Luntz owes money to a man called Juarez. Trouble is, Juarez isn't the most patient of men. And when he gets bored of waiting, he sends someone round to collect. Luntz doesn't actually plan to shoot the guy, but the way he sees it, it's shoot or be shot. Either way, though, Luntz is out of... more
Jimmy Luntz owes money to a man called Juarez. Trouble is, Juarez isn't the most patient of men. And when he gets bored of waiting, he sends someone round to collect. Luntz doesn't actually plan to shoot the guy, but the way he sees it, it's shoot or be shot. Either way, though, Luntz is out of his league, and he knows it: nobody messes with Juarez - or, at least, nobody messes with Juarez and lives to tell the tale. Against all the odds, however, it seems that somebody up there is looking out for Luntz, if only he can keep his cool. A story of mistaken identity, blackmail and murder, of bent judges, wronged alcoholics and colostomy bags, "Nobody Move" is "No Country for Old Men" as written by Denis Johnson. Praise for Denis Johnson's previous novel, "Tree of Smoke", which won the US National Book Award 2007: 'A Catch-22 for our times' - Alan Warner, "Observer". 'A heart-stopping reminder of what fiction can do' - "Sunday Telegraph".
The 37th Parallel: The Secret Truth Behind America's UFO Highway by Ben Mezrich
This real-life The X-Files and Close Encounters of the Third Kind tells the true story of a computer programmer who tracks paranormal events along a 3,000-mile stretch through the heart of America and is drawn deeper and deeper into a vast conspiracy. Like “Agent Mulder” of The... more
This real-life The X-Files and Close Encounters of the Third Kind tells the true story of a computer programmer who tracks paranormal events along a 3,000-mile stretch through the heart of America and is drawn deeper and deeper into a vast conspiracy. Like “Agent Mulder” of The X-Files, computer programmer and sheriff’s deputy Zukowski is obsessed with tracking down UFO reports in Colorado. He would take the family with him on weekend trips to look for evidence of aliens. But this innocent hobby takes on a sinister urgency when Zukowski learns of mutilated livestock, and sees the bodies of dead horses and cattle—whose exsanguination is inexplicable by any known human or animal means. Along an expanse of land stretching across the southern borders of Utah, Colorado, and Kansas, Zukowski discovers multiple bizarre incidences of mutilations, and suddenly realizes that they cluster around the 37th Parallel or “UFO Highway.” So begins an extraordinary and fascinating journey from El Paso and Rush, Colorado, to a mysterious space studies company and MUFON, from Roswell and Area 51 to the Pentagon and beyond; to underground secret military caverns and Indian sacred sites; beneath strange, unexplained lights in the sky and into corporations that obstruct and try to take over investigations. Inspiring and terrifying, this true story will keep you up at night, staring at the sky, and wondering if we really are alone...and what could happen next.
Nightmare Town : Stories by Dashiell Hammett
Twenty long-unavailable stories by Dashiell Hammett, the author of The Maltese Falcon and the incomparable master of detective fiction.In the title story, a man on a bender enters a small town and ends up unraveling the dark mystery at its heart. A woman confronts the brutal truth about her... more
Twenty long-unavailable stories by Dashiell Hammett, the author of The Maltese Falcon and the incomparable master of detective fiction.In the title story, a man on a bender enters a small town and ends up unraveling the dark mystery at its heart. A woman confronts the brutal truth about her husband in the chilling story "Ruffian's Wife." "His Brother's Keeper" is a half-wit boxer's eulogy to the brother who betrayed him. "The Second-Story Angel" recounts one of the most novel cons ever devised. In seven stories, the tough and taciturn Continental Op takes on a motley collection of the deceitful, the duped, and the dead, and once again shows his uncanny ability to get at the truth. In three stories, Sam Spade confronts the darkness in the human soul while rolling his own cigarettes. And the first study for The Thin Man sends John Guild on a murder investigation in which almost every witness may be lying. In Nightmare Town, Dashiell Hammett, America's poet laureate of the dispossessed, shows us a world where people confront a multitude of evils. Whether they are trying to right wrongs or just trying to survive, all of them are rendered with Hammett's signature gifts for sharp-edged characters and blunt dialogue.Hammett said that his ambition was to elevate mystery fiction to the level of art. This collection of masterful stories clearly illustrates Hammett's success, and shows the remarkable range and variety of the fiction he produced.
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Dr. Matt Spradlin
About Matthew Spradlin: B.A. in Biblical Studies – The Masters’ College. Masters of Divinity and Ph.D – The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Before coming to Shoreline Baptist Church, Matt served as an associate pastor at Valley Baptist Church in Bakersfield, CA and Senior Pastor at Copper Springs Church in Clovis, CA. Matt and his wife Leanne have four children: Charity, Malachi, Evangeline, and Mercy. Pastor Matt’s greatest passions in ministry are personal evangelism and teaching the Bible verse-by-verse.
Dan Willard
Associate Pastor of Life Groups & Recreation
Dan and his wife Jacki were married in 1982 and they have two adult daughters, Danielle and Breanna. He began working at Shoreline Christian School in 1994 and has been serving on church staff since 2006. He is the director of Shoreline Sports Ministry and the founder of Shoreline Sports camps. Dan also oversees the Children’s Ministry and seeks to guide families as they raise their children to grow in the knowledge of the Lord. His interests include bicycling, walking, watching the Raiders struggle but watching the Lakers dominate, shopping at Target, and spending time with his family.
Brad Schultz
Youth Pastor
Brad currently serves as our Youth Director and oversees the spiritual growth and maturity of students in grades 6-12. He grew up at Shoreline and got saved when he was thirteen at youth camp in Northern California. He earned his Bachelor’s Degree in History from California State University, Fullerton. He plans to earn a Master of Divinity through The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary’s online program. He was married to his wife, Heidi, in July 2014. Aside from studying God’s word and dating his wife, his interests include Star Wars, hiking, ultimate frisbee, and spending time with friends.
Kandyce Register
Director of Preschool & Children’s Ministry
Kandyce has been a member at Shoreline Baptist Church since 2007. She loves kids and wants to teach and show the next generation what it means to love God joyfully out of delight and desire and not just out of duty. Kandyce was a teacher at Shoreline Christian school for 5 years and taught PE, some Jr. High classes, led worship for chapels and directed the school musicals. She has also coached for the school and the Shoreline Sports Program, refereed, directed summer sports and music camps and has helped in the Youth, Pre-school and the worship ministry as well. She has her Bachelor of Arts in Music Education from CBU and has a wonderful husband, Taylor, and two young kids, Kaylee and Blake. Her hobbies include running marathons, playing basketball, singing, teaching and playing with her kids, and going on dates with her husband.
Justin Davis
Justin began serving in the music ministry when he was attending Youth Group at Shoreline in 1997. He has been involved with both youth and music ever since. In pursuit of those 2 passions he graduated from California Baptist University with a BA in Christian Ministry and is currently working on his Music Teaching Credential with a goal to teach High School music. Justin married his wife in 2006 and they have 3 children: Taylor, Jordan, and Elijah. He also serves in our Youth ministry. In what little free time he has, he enjoys hanging out with friends and playing games.
John Mercer
Sports Outreach Director
Born and raised in Grand Rapids, Michigan, John decided to head west and explore the world at age 21. His love of serving has always taken him to careers in the service industry beginning with restaurant & hospitality and moving into a career of Event Marketing, traveling to cities all over the country, for over close to 20 years. In 1989 he met and married his wife, Susan. Currently, John and Susan love serving the community as Realtors. With two grown, athletic sons, John understands the importance of family involvement for the richest memories. John’s love of event marketing and the desire to encourage families to grow spiritually fits with Shoreline’s Sports Ministry Outreach to families. John’s a fun-filled guy and loves to joke and coordinate memorable events for all. Just watch out for his corny “grandpa jokes”.
Ken Fox
Church Administrator & Facilities Manager
Ken was a small business owner for 22 years. As a member of Shoreline since 2008 he has held positions on the Stewardship Committee, Men’s Ministry, Deacon Ministry, and Shoreline Sports. Ken and his wife Sabrina were married in 1983 and have 2 children together (who have given him 7 grandchildren in the last 6 years), 1 foster son, and multiple pseudo adopted children. In addition, Ken grew up attending a local Christian elementary school in Orange County as did his children, Kenny and Kandyce. When not working, you may find Ken working and playing in Shoreline Sports leagues and spending time with his ever growing family.
Rachael Davis
Rachael became the Church Secretary in 2016. Her role at Shoreline partners well with her job at Evangelical Christian Credit Union since they both let her put her self proclaimed nerdyness to good use. She graduated from from California Baptist University where she met her husband, Justin, and they were married in 2006. They have 3 children: Taylor, Jordan, and Elijah. She also ministers in our Youth and Music programs. In her free time she enjoys hanging out with her family, spending time with friends playing games, or watching movies/tv.
Ed Hwang
Men's Ministry Leader
Jacki Willard
Women's Ministry Leader
Bob Garcia
Senior's Ministry Leader
Thai Hoang
Men's Ministry Leader
Ryan & Kato Mearig
Young Adult's Ministry Leaders
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Judge Orders State of Florida to Provide Community Services to Jacksonville Woman at Risk of Institutionalization
WASHINGTON, June 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The state of Florida must provide Michele Haddad with services that will enable her to remain in her home, a U.S. District Court in Jacksonville, Fla., ruled Wednesday. Haddad, who has quadriplegia as a result of a motorcycle accident with a drunk driver in 2007, has successfully resided in the community since the accident, but is at risk of entry into a nursing home due to changes in her caregiver situation. Haddad, who has been on the waiting list for Medicaid community-based waiver services for two years, notified the state of her increased need for services, but was told that community services would only be available if she was willing to enter a nursing home for 60 days.
The court ordered the state to provide community-based services as required by the Americans with Disabilities Act's (ADA) integration mandate as set forth in Olmstead v. L.C. The United States argued in a brief filed on May 25, 2010, that Haddad would suffer irreparable harm if forced to enter a nursing home to receive necessary services.
The court issued this order in the week that marks the 11th anniversary of the landmark Olmstead decision.
"In the Olmstead case, the court recognized that the unnecessary segregation of individuals with disabilities stigmatizes those individuals as unworthy of participation in community life," said Thomas E. Perez, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division. "By supporting Ms. Haddad in this case, we seek to ensure that individuals with disabilities can receive services in the most integrated setting appropriate, where they can participate in their communities, interact with individuals who do not have disabilities, and make their own day to day choices."
The U.S. government's participation in this case is part of the administration's efforts across the nation to affirm the fundamental right for Americans with disabilities to live independently, in what the president has deemed "The Year of Community Living."
The full and fair enforcement of the ADA and its mandate to integrate individuals with disabilities is a major priority of the Civil Rights Division. The ADA protects individuals with disabilities from discrimination by public entities. People interested in finding out more about the ADA can call the Justice Department's toll-free ADA Information Line at 1-800-514-0301 or 1-800-514-0383 (TTY), or access its ADA website at www.ada.gov/.
SOURCE U.S. Department of Justice
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To the People of Massachusetts:
Fellow Citizens:
The recent aggression of the Slave Power, in repealing that section of the Missouri Compromise Act which prohibited Slavery in Kansas and Nebraska, calls for instant and effective action on the part of all sincere friends of Freedom. It is evident that the Slave Power keeps no faith, and abides by no compact; that it respects no compromises, but is ready to trample alike on law, justice, and right, to accomplish its designs.
The violation of the Missouri Compromise, has put an end to the whole system of Congressional compacts between Freedom and Slavery, and in all questions now pending, or that may arise hereafter, between them, the people of the Free States stand only on the solid ground of the Constitution, and are bound only by its provisions, and by their own sense of what justice and the national welfare demand.
Emboldened by success, and relying upon the apathy or corruption of the North, the leading Southern presses and politicians openly avow their intention of procuring, by purchase or by war, Cuba, Hayti, the northern provinces of Mexico and the valley of the Amazon, for the purpose of forming a great slaveholding empire, and thus forever counterbalancing or overwhelming the influence of Freedom in the national councils.
To resist and defeat these schemes, THE NORTH MUST BE UNITED. The question of Freedom must be made paramount to all other political questions. The prohibition of Slavery in Kansas and Nebraska, must be restored. The extension of Slavery must be checked at all hazards; the system itself denationalized, and the Federal Government brought back to its original and proper policy of Freedom.
To this end, Conventions of the people have been already called in Vermont, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin, while others of the Free States are preparing for similar action. Believing that Massachusetts is equally ready to go forward in the movement, we invite our fellow citizens, without distinction of party, to assemble in Mass Convention at Worcester, on Thursday, July 20th, 1854, to consult together, and take such action as the crisis requires.
Exact Title: "To the people of Massachusetts: Fellow citizens: The recent aggression of the slave power, in repealing that section of the Missouri Compromise Act which prohibited slavery in Kansas and Nebraska..."
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5 Technologies That Transformed Warfare
by Zubair Khan/ December 2, 2015/
War is a bitter reality, one that doesn’t seem to be going anywhere anytime soon. As the seemingly never-ending pursuit of strategic gains, increased global influence, and immaculate defense continues, technology is surfacing as an integral and pivotal factor in the dynamic and intense setting. The amount of focus on research and development therefore hardly comes as a surprise. Due to involvement of technology in war, warfare itself is undergoing evolution, for better or for worse. While there are many offspring of science that contributed to this evolution, there are 5 technologies that deserve to be discussed and admired. So without further ado, let’s get down to it.
You must have surely heard about drones. It’s an incredible machine that can operate without needing a pilot. Due to this reason, drones are used worldwide to carry out strikes which would have been pretty difficult to do if there was a pilot at helm. Saving lives is a priority in every war and these drones allow nations to do just that. This is why drones are a growing technology and nations are coming up with different ways of utilizing their advantages.
Fly-by-Wire
Even in the modern day, airplane crashes can occur due to a little bit of carelessness of a pilot. This is where Fly-by-Wire technology comes in handy as it can automatically take control of some functions of an airplane. Its computer guidance system has been working wonders as it keeps the plane stable without needing any manual input.
Nothing revolutionized naval warfare as much as the submarines. They literally changed everything. These underwater vessels that are capable of doing a ton of damage to enemy ships and harbors were put to test for the first time during the American Civil War. The war lasted for four years (1861 to 1865) and in 1864, Confederate submarine CSS H.L. Hunley sank the USS Housatonic in the South Carolina. Since then, submarines have taken a lot of different shapes and have been used in different wars. It’s a great tech to have for a country as it gives them an edge over those who don’t.
Tomahawk Missiles
Tomahawk missiles are another example of how warfare urged nations to come up with new technologies. It’s a long range cruise missile that has the ability to fly at low altitude at an amazing speed. It can be used by ships to strike any surface-based area. The chances of a miss are close to non-existent because these missiles come with a GPS receiver which is used to pinpoint the target’s location more accurately.
Stealth Aircraft
The most recent example of the advancement in tech has to be the stealth aircrafts. Radars are now active in almost every country, which means that nothing goes unnoticed. However, it’s a completely different situation with stealth aircrafts as they hide themselves from radars to some extent. It’s an amazing tech for a country that is looking to perform a quick operation. Stealth technology makes it really hard for enemies to detect the aircraft, which means that they’ll be needing time to find it, track it, and then defend against it. This gives a lot of time to the attacking party as they can get done with their operation in the meantime. As of now US has three types of stealth aircrafts – F-35 Lightning, F-22 Raptor, and B-2 Spirit.
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Adventures Along the Turia
Plaza Ayuntamiento in the middle of Valencia.
Valencia is the first city I’d consider my “home away from home." What was initially planned to be a short, four-day trip quickly became an extended two-week visit within a few days of my arrival. While it gave me plenty of time to see all the usual sights, what I enjoyed the most about the extra days was the chance to actually live in Valencia. So far on my travels, I typically spend three or four days in a given city and, while the breakneck pace was fine when I first started, I am beginning to feel its effects. Moving every few days means I am perpetually figuring out logistics for the next city, determining accommodations, and attempting to squeeze my visit into just a few days - which is next to impossible.
But worst of all, it makes my trip feel like work.
*shutters*
Thanks to the difficult overnight bus from Gijon, I knew I would be staying in Valencia for some time. “Frustratingly uncomfortable” would be the optimal term to describe my ride into the city, but thankfully I made it to Valencia in one piece. Unlike the overcast, rainy, and cold days I encountered in Gijon, Valencia was lively, warm, sunny, and altogether upbeat. The city is full of hospitable people, colorful flowers, and thousands of delightful smells that made me feel a world away from Gijon.
The streets of old town Valencia.
Of course the arduous ten-hour bus ride from hell helped reinforce that feeling.
As I wandered around Valencia, the subtle Arab influences throughout the city fascinated me. From the architectural styles all the way down to the numerous palm trees lining the city streets, you can still see the remnants of the Moorish occupation. Many of the older buildings boast intricately designed facades with elaborate wrought iron guardrails, while others were adorned with beautiful hand-painted, colorful tiles. The architectural designs are remarkably eclectic and varied drastically throughout the city. Even buildings constructed adjacent to one another showed substantial architectural differences, and I frequently found individual buildings with multiple styles. In the case of Saint Mary's Cathedral, there are elements from five different architectural periods (Gothic, Romanesque, Renaissance, Baroque and Neoclassical) all crammed into on single building. The icing on the cake is the giant Star of David in the stained glass window facing the Plaza de la Virgen.
Apparently the church was hard up for cash at the time and willing to do anything - even if that meant plastering a giant Jewish symbol on the side of a Catholic church in exchange for money.
Even with all of the wondrous architecture spread throughout the city, my favorite part of Valencia was the old Turia “river” that borders the city to the north and east. When I first looked at a map of Valencia, I was perplexed by what I saw on Google Maps. As someone who never visited Valencia before, I found it odd the city would construct a giant park that winds right through the middle of town. At first glance, the park looks strangely like a river, but I wrote it off as unusual little quirk figuring there must be another explanation.
Nope, the squiggly park use to be a river...
Torres de Serrans - one of the last remaining city gates.
The Jardín del Turia is a giant, six-mile long sunken park that follows the path of the old Turia River. Back in 1857 there was a massive flood that devastated Valencia and killed over 80 people. After the catastrophe, the city reroute the river South to avoid any future floods, but once the work was complete, Valencia couldn’t decide what to do with newly reclaimed land. Politicians proposed building a giant freeway, but the residents detested the idea and the riverbed remained abandoned for several years. The locals eventually got tired waiting and began planting their own trees/flowers in the riverbed - thus Jardín del Turia was born. A few years later the entire riverbed was converted into a giant park, but you can still clearly see where the locals left their mark. Half of the park is designed with symmetrical fountains, detailed monuments, and decorations showing a distinct blend of Spanish, Roman, and Arabic influence. The other half however, shows no predetermined layout whatsoever and is just a seemingly random assortment of plants and trees.
One of the many fountains along the landscaped part of the garden.
Guess which half the locals planted?
This park is an absolutely wonderful place to spend the afternoon. Sunken below the city streets, it is remarkably quiet and serene considering it goes right through the middle of town. All around I saw couples lounging under the shade of nearby trees, dogs roaming around freely untethered from their owners, and joggers struggling to run down the six mile park under the intense summer sun. My favorite aspect of this park are the old bridges that span the width of the river. Many were constructed hundreds of years ago, but what I find comical is that even after the river was drained, the city continues to build bridges across the park such as the Puente de la Exposición. For anybody visiting Valencia, the Jardín del Turia is a great way to spend the afternoon and should definitely not be missed.
Conveniently, the park is so large it's impossible to miss.
My attempt at an artsy photo of one of the older bridges.
By now it should not surprise anyone when I say that one afternoon I spent two hours walking the entire length of the park simply for the sake of walking. The Jardín del Turia is full of entertaining features large and small, but I especially liked “The Gulliver” on the Southern half of the garden. In the middle of the giant circular park is an enormous jungle gym in the shape of Lemuel Gulliver from the popular children’s book that “document” his travels. If viewed from high above during the day, it appears like Gulliver is tied to the ground and covered with little kids climbing on him like the Lilliputians from the book. It is an incredibly unique/creative use of public space that not only doubles as a playground for children, but also as a work of art.
And it’s so large you can see it clearly on Google Maps!
Reflecting ponds in the main area of the Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias.
At the end of the end of the Jardín del Turia is the famous Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias. This great “city,” designed by Santiago Calatrava and Félix Candela, is a large cultural and entertainment center for the city of Valencia. The complex consists of eight different buildings housing everything from an opera hall to a science museum, planetarium, and oceanographic park just to name a few. While I’m not the foremost expert on architectural styles, even I could clearly see the not-so-subtle influence Gaudi plastered everywhere thanks to the gentle curves of the reflecting ponds and the enormous amount of ivory white mosaic tile work on many of the buildings. As I explored the this futuristic city, I could easily imagine living in the time of the Jetsons and half expected someone wearing a silver one piece jumpsuit to fly by on a jet pack.
…instead all I saw was a Segway.
I thought society would be further along by now.
View of the El Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía from the adjacent garden.
While all of the buildings on the site are easily recognizable, the most iconic among them is the opera house situated at the northern part of the complex called El Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía. This structure is a wonderful cross between a futuristic space ship and a regular sea-bound vessel that we are all familiar with. The large sweeping edges, subtle contours, and modern design are a wonder to behold, but the most interesting aspect of the opera house is the giant “feather” situated directly above the building. Looking at the structure from a distance, you'd assume it was supported by the building somehow, but in fact, the piece spans the entire length of the opera house without ever once touching the underlying structure! The feather is anchored into the ground at just one point on the Northern side of the building - that’s it!
The small park L'Umbracle is a wonderful little park that conveniently hides complex's parking garage.
While La Ciudad de Las Artes y Las Ciencias is the largest tourist attraction in Valencia, it is sad to see the state of disrepair of the complex. As a result of the city's extensive bureaucracy and corruption, there are buildings such as the L'Àgora that are technically still not complete even though the budget and timeline have been repeatedly increased. Additionally, the mosaic tiles on El Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía were removed from the facade because they were falling off, damaging the reflecting ponds and unsuspecting pedestrians below. While there are a great many positives I have to say about La Ciudad de Las Artes y Las Ciencias, it is ironic to see the "city of the future" still under construction, while at the same time falling apart. It felt like physical manifestation of today’s society: constantly striving for that perfect, idealistic future that does not exist.
My first few tourist days in Valencia were remarkably enjoyable and while I got a great feel of the city, I must now begin physically (and mentally) preparing myself for my trip to Ibiza (posts to follow). I will eventually return to Valencia for a few days of R&R since the party atmosphere in Ibiza will likely exhaust me especially after a month of constant travel. I’m definitely looking forward to returning and continuing my exploration of Valencia. This vibrant city still has much to offer, but it will all just have to wait until I return.
Onward to Ibiza!
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Home » filmnews » Sharwanand’s Radha on May 12
Sharwanand’s Radha on May 12
After the back to back successes of films like Run Raja Run, Malli Malli Idi Rani Roju, Express Raja and Shatamanam Bhavati, actor Sharwanand has another interesting project coming up, Radha. Presented by B.V.S.N. Prasad under the Sri Venkateswara Cine Chitra banner and directed by debutant Chandra Mohan, the film is going to be a complete entertainer and is produced by Bogapalli Bapineedu. And as a summer treat, the makers have decided to release the film on May 12, 2017.
Speaking about the same, B.V.S.N. Prasad shares, “The great response to the first look and teaser of Radha was quite a boost for us. In fact, even the two songs that we have released so far have got good reviews. Presently, the team is in Milan, shooting for the final song after which the film’s production part will be completed. We will soon be announcing the date of the film’s audio release too. We are soon going for censor also, so that we can have our film ready in time for May 12. With this film, Sharwanand’s success streak will go on as the director Chandra Mohan has managed to make a lovable entertainer which has the perfect dose of romance, action, comedy and of course entertainment. This film will surely be an equal treat to both the class and mass audiences.”
Starring Sharwanand and Lavanya Tripathi as the leads , the film has music by Radhan. Cinematography: Ghattamaneni Karthik. Editing: Kotagiri Venkateswara Rao, Producer: Bogavalli Bapineedu. Director: Chandra Mohan.
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Göttingen is situated in the southern part of Lower Saxony in the geographical center of Germany. The city dates back to the Middle Ages and still boasts a historical quarter with excellently preserved half-timbered houses. The University of Göttingen with its over 31,000 students forms an integral part of the city and contributes considerably to the lively atmosphere of the town.
In addition to the University, the area also hosts five Max Planck Institutes and a number of other important scientific institutions, such as the German Primate Center. The university departments and buildings are dispersed at various campuses around the city and are within easy walking or cycling distance of each other.
Due to its central position in Germany, Göttingen has excellent traffic connections. It is close to the A7 motorway, the major North-South motorway, and there are ICE (high-speed train) connections from the main train station. Within 30 minutes, you can be in Kassel or Hanover, within two hours in Berlin, Hamburg or Frankfurt.
Göttingen offers a myriad of possibilities for recreational activities. The town avails of three theaters, a symphony orchestra and many cinemas, cafes and pubs, which provide numerous opportunities to meet people. Popular annual events include the International Händel Festival, the Jazz Festival, and the International Literature Festival. The university and its student union sponsor many cultural and recreational events.
The local economy includes many innovative technology-oriented enterprises in the sectors of measurement and control engineering, biotechnology, optics, medical technology and information technology. Several companies are spin-offs from university research projects.
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Grammichele (Catania) rises again at the desire of the prince of Butera, Carlo Maria Carafa, a great scholar, patron and lover of the arts and sciences. He laid the foundation stone of the new town a few weeks after the horrible 1693 earthquake that had completely destroyed Occhiolà, the village not far from there, whose ruins can still be visited.
Its beautiful hexagonal square, the heart of the city, is well-known and studied in the most important Faculties of Architecture and by the most eminent urban planners, as well as the entire urban grid that radiates around it. A huge monumental bronze statue, a work by the Turkish artist Murat Cura, stands in the middle of the square. The sculpture, an integral part of a big sundial realized under the advice of Professor Giovanni Brinch, symbolizes Time and depicts a kneeling man enclosed within a series of circles as in an Armillary Sphere that traps him ineluctably in his time.
The plan of the city, called “ad exagonum”, was designed by the Prince himself, and carved by the architect Friar Michele da Ferla on a slab of slate which is still preserved in the Town Hall. Carlo Maria Carafa, after helping the population exhausted by the earthquake, laid the foundation stone of the new town during a great ceremony, attended by nobles and religious. It was April 18, 1693.
Grammichele – The Prince of Butera. Ph Marco Costantini
A bronze statue of the Prince of Butera welcomes the visitors in the beautiful hexagonal square of Grammichele. The sculpture is placed on a base made up of a series of steps symbolizing the virtues of knowledge: philosophy, religion, science, politics, literature and art. The monument is a tribute to Carafa’s love for knowledge. Its author, Paul Guarrera, has represented the city founder while going down a stairs leading to the heart of the city. Looking closely, you can see that the left leg seems to rest still on Occhiolà, followed by a void symbolizing the earthquake and representing the past that can not return anymore, while the right leg is already stretched to the stairs leading to the new city, representing the future. At the foot of the stairs, a bronze plaque commemorates the edict pronounced by the Prince on the occasion of the laying of the first stone.
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DA VIEW
Mario Cantone Mocks The Mooch to His Face on ‘The View’
In his role as co-host of ‘The View,’ Anthony Scaramucci also took shots as Priebus, Bannon and Spicer.
Updated 09.22.17 1:27PM ET / Published 09.22.17 12:42PM ET
Anthony Scaramucci began the week by co-anchoring TMZ Live, where he weighed in on everything from Tom Brady skipping a trip to President Trump’s White House—he suggested Gisele was jealous of Ivanka—to Kevin Hart’s extortion scandal and more.
He ended it by co-hosting The View.
Seated around the table with Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin and the rest—fortunately for him, Whoopi Goldberg was off today—The Mooch gabbed about the two people he liked the least in the West Wing, Reince Priebus and Steve Bannon, who he admitted has white nationalist “tendencies.”
In response to Sean Spicer saying he was not “qualified” to be communications director in a recent interview with ABC News’ Paula Faris, Scaramucci practically agreed, saying he was asked by the president to do the job, so he took it.
Behar acknowledged that The View could be subject to the same criticism that Stephen Colbert faced for bringing out Sean Spicer during his Emmy Awards monologue. “We might be normalizing you, right now,” she told Scaramucci.
“I don’t think you’re ever going to be able to normalize me, Joy, I’m a lot like you,” The Mooch replied.
“Well, we’re not using you as a comic prop,” Behar added. “Until later.”
Scaramucci may not have known what she was talking about, but he found out soon enough when the hosts appeared to “surprise” him by bringing out Mario Cantone, who perfected his impression for the short-lived White House staffer on The President Show. Scaramucci seemed both genuinely annoyed and oddly flattered by his appearance.
“Thank you for having for the whole hour, Joy, I really appreciate it,” Cantone told Behar. “I’m not used to sticking around that long in any one place. Unless there’s free hors d'oeuvres and a two drink minimum.” WHen the real Mooch tried to interrupt, Cantone shot back, “Don’t make me smack you in front of company!”
“How bummed were you when I got fired?” Scaramucci asked Cantone, who saw was experiencing his biggest career break since Sex and the City thanks primarily to their physical resemblance.
"This is horrifying that I have to do this in front of your mother," Cantone said after finally breaking character. As good as The Mooch has been for him, he seemed more than ready to finally move on.
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Flying in the Fragmentary
23 Jun 2018 to 22 Jul 2018
Tue-Sat, 11am-7pm; Sun, 1pm-5pm (Mon and public holidays with appointment)
Yavuz Gallery
Gillman Barracks, 9 Lock Road #02-23, Singapore, 108937
http://yavuzgallery.com/
+65 6734 3262 or [email protected]
Myanmar artist Nge Lay’s latest exhibition in Singapore is entitled, Flying in the Fragmentary.
The exhibition features a large-scale installation that is said to “transform the gallery into an immersive, life-sized replica of a classroom in the remote village of Thuye’dan in Myanmar.”
The gallery’s press release states that the exhibition “is a culmination of the artist’s ongoing investigation on Myanmar’s state of education; spurred by the birth of her first child four years ago.”
The exhibition opens on June 23 at 4pm.
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BIMSTEC focuses on blue economy
Leaders call for early conclusion of BIMSTEC FTA negotiations
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and BIMSTEC leaders wave after the end of the 4th conference of the regional body at Hotel Soaltee Crowne Plaza in Kathmandu, Nepal yesterday. PID Photo
BIMSTEC leaders yesterday emphasised the importance of blue economy and agreed to cooperate in this sector for sustainable development of the region, reports UNB. They decided to establish an Inter-governmental Expert Group to develop an action plan on blue economy, keeping in mind the special needs and circumstances of the landlocked Member States. The BIMSTEC leaders noted with satisfaction the hosting of International Blue Economy Conference in Bangladesh in 2017 with the participation of government representatives from Bimstec Member States, according to an annex to the Fourth BIMSTEC Summit Declaration. It came following the two-day 4th Summit of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) in Kathmandu, Nepal that ended yesterday.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, the Chief Advisor of Bhutan, the Prime Minister of India, the President of Myanmar, the Prime Minister of Nepal, the President of Sri Lanka, and the Prime Minister of Thailand attended the Summit.
The BIMSTEC leaders reiterated their commitment to the eradication poverty in the Bay of Bengal Region by 2030 in line with the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development.
They called for effective implementation of the BIMSTEC Poverty Plan of Action and for gearing up efforts of all sectors to contribute to the over-arching goal of poverty alleviation.
The BIMSTEC leaders expressed commitment to nurturing their workforce by taking concrete measures to provide decent job opportunities for them through increased investment in service and productive sectors of national economy.
They renewed their commitment to an early conclusion of BIMSTEC Free Trade Area (FTA) negotiations and direct the BIMSTEC Trade and Economic Ministerial Meeting (TEMM) and its subsidiary bodies, including the Trade Negotiating Committee (TNC) to expedite finalisation of all related agreements of the BIMSTEC FTA as early as possible.
They expressed their satisfaction on the progress of negotiation on the agreement on Trade in Goods and the Agreement on Customs Cooperation and direct respective ministries/agencies to participate regularly
in TNC meetings. They agreed to revitalise the activities of BIMSTEC Business Forum and BIMSTEC Economic Forum to further strengthen government-private sector cooperation for the promotion of trade and investment and task the expert group on BIMSTEC visa matters to continue negotiations for finalising modalities for the BIMSTEC Visa Facilitation.
They welcomed the offer of India to host a BIMSTEC Startup Conclave in December 2018 and encourage all Member States to participate in it.
They reiterated their resolve to establish seamless multimodal transportation linkages and smooth, synchronised and simplified transit facilities through the development, expansion and modernization of highways, railways, waterways, sea routes, airways in the region.
They decided to direct their respective authorities to speed up their efforts to conclude the BIMSTEC Coastal Shipping Agreement and the BIMSTEC Motor Vehicle Agreement as early as possible taking into account the special circumstances and needs of the Member States.
The BIMSTEC leaders noted with satisfaction the preparation of the draft BIMSTEC Master Plan on Transport Connectivity and called for its early adoption and thank the Asian Development Bank for providing support to prepare the Master Plan and task the BIMSTEC Transport Connectivity Working Group (BTCWG) to work out the modalities for its implementation, giving due attention to the special circumstances and needs of the Member States.
They agreed that the Master Plan would serve as a strategic document that guides actions and promotes synergy among various connectivity frameworks, such as the Asean Master Plan on Connectivity 2025 (MPAC 2025), the Ayeyawady - Chao Phraya- Mekong Economic Cooperation Strategy (ACMECS), to achieve enhanced connectivity and sustainable development in the region.
They decided to establish a Working Group to deal with information technology and communications related matters with a view to providing a greater access, more affordable and high-speed internet and mobile communications to the peoples of the region.
In this regard, they welcomed the offer of the Government of India to host a BIMSTEC Ministerial Conclave at the India Mobile Congress 2018 being held in New Delhi from 25-27 October 2018 on the theme “New Digital Horizons: Connect, Create, Innovate”, and encourage all Member States to participate in it.
The leaders reiterated their position that terrorism continues to pose a serious threat to peace and stability in the region.
They reaffirmed their strong commitment to combat terrorism in all its forms and manifestations and agreed taking appropriate measures in this regard.
Look forward to the signing of the BIMSTEC Convention on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters, they called upon the Member States for its early ratification and expressed satisfaction that many members have ratified the BIMSTEC Convention on Cooperation in Combating International Terrorism, Transnational Organized Crime and Illicit Drug Trafficking, and called upon the remaining members to do so.
They voiced their determination to strengthen cooperation and coordination among the law enforcement, intelligence and security agencies; and decide to hold meetings at the level of BIMSTEC Home Ministers and continue with the BIMSTEC National Security Chiefs meetings as part of promoting cooperation and coordination on counter-terrorism and transnational crimes.
They encouraged closer cooperation in disaster management through sharing of information, including early warning system, adoption of preventive measures, rehabilitation and capacity building and agree to build on the existing capacities in the region and decide to establish
an Inter-governmental Expert Group to develop a plan of action to improve preparedness and coordination for responding to natural disasters in the Bay of Bengal Region.
They expressed their serious concerns over environmental degradation, adverse impact of climate change and global warming on the fragile Himalayan and mountain ecosystems and their inter-linkages with the Bay of Bengal and Indian Ocean.
They resolved to strengthen cooperation to protect and preserve the environment to address, inter alia, the adverse impact of climate change on the lives and livelihoods of our peoples; explore the possibility to establish an Inter-governmental Expert Group to develop a plan of action for collective response to climate change for the region.
They reaffirmed their commitments to operationalise the Paris Agreement, in accordance with principle of common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities (CBDR & RC), taking into account different national circumstances and equity.
BIMSTEC leaders yesterday emphasised the importance of blue economy and agreed to cooperate in this sector for sustainable development of the region, reports UNB. They decided to establish an Inter-governmental Expert Group to develop an action plan on blue economy, keeping in mind the special needs and circumstances of the landlocked Member States. The BIMSTEC leaders noted with satisfaction the hosting of International Blue Economy Conference in Bangladesh in 2017 with the participation of government representatives from Bimstec Member States, according to an annex to the Fourth BIMSTEC Summit Declaration. It came following the two-day 4th Summit of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) in Kathmandu, Nepal that ended yesterday. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, the Chief Advisor of Bhutan, the Prime Minister of India, the President of Myanmar, the Prime Minister of Nepal, the President of Sri Lanka, and the Prime Minister of Thailand attended the Summit. The BIMSTEC leaders reiterated their commitment to the eradication poverty in the Bay of Bengal Region by 2030 in line with the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development. They called for effective implementation of the BIMSTEC Poverty Plan of Action and for gearing up efforts of all sectors to contribute to the over-arching goal of poverty alleviation. The BIMSTEC leaders expressed commitment to nurturing their workforce by taking concrete measures to provide decent job opportunities for them through increased investment in service and productive sectors of national economy. They renewed their commitment to an early conclusion of BIMSTEC Free Trade Area (FTA) negotiations and direct the BIMSTEC Trade and Economic Ministerial Meeting (TEMM) and its subsidiary bodies, including the Trade Negotiating Committee (TNC) to expedite finalisation of all related agreements of the BIMSTEC FTA as early as possible. They expressed their satisfaction on the progress of negotiation on the agreement on Trade in Goods and the Agreement on Customs Cooperation and direct respective ministries/agencies to participate regularly in TNC meetings. They agreed to revitalise the activities of BIMSTEC Business Forum and BIMSTEC Economic Forum to further strengthen government-private sector cooperation for the promotion of trade and investment and task the expert group on BIMSTEC visa matters to continue negotiations for finalising modalities for the BIMSTEC Visa Facilitation. They welcomed the offer of India to host a BIMSTEC Startup Conclave in December 2018 and encourage all Member States to participate in it. They reiterated their resolve to establish seamless multimodal transportation linkages and smooth, synchronised and simplified transit facilities through the development, expansion and modernization of highways, railways, waterways, sea routes, airways in the region. They decided to direct their respective authorities to speed up their efforts to conclude the BIMSTEC Coastal Shipping Agreement and the BIMSTEC Motor Vehicle Agreement as early as possible taking into account the special circumstances and needs of the Member States. The BIMSTEC leaders noted with satisfaction the preparation of the draft BIMSTEC Master Plan on Transport Connectivity and called for its early adoption and thank the Asian Development Bank for providing support to prepare the Master Plan and task the BIMSTEC Transport Connectivity Working Group (BTCWG) to work out the modalities for its implementation, giving due attention to the special circumstances and needs of the Member States. They agreed that the Master Plan would serve as a strategic document that guides actions and promotes synergy among various connectivity frameworks, such as the Asean Master Plan on Connectivity 2025 (MPAC 2025), the Ayeyawady - Chao Phraya- Mekong Economic Cooperation Strategy (ACMECS), to achieve enhanced connectivity and sustainable development in the region. They decided to establish a Working Group to deal with information technology and communications related matters with a view to providing a greater access, more affordable and high-speed internet and mobile communications to the peoples of the region. In this regard, they welcomed the offer of the Government of India to host a BIMSTEC Ministerial Conclave at the India Mobile Congress 2018 being held in New Delhi from 25-27 October 2018 on the theme New Digital Horizons: Connect, Create, Innovate, and encourage all Member States to participate in it. The leaders reiterated their position that terrorism continues to pose a serious threat to peace and stability in the region. They reaffirmed their strong commitment to combat terrorism in all its forms and manifestations and agreed taking appropriate measures in this regard. Look forward to the signing of the BIMSTEC Convention on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters, they called upon the Member States for its early ratification and expressed satisfaction that many members have ratified the BIMSTEC Convention on Cooperation in Combating International Terrorism, Transnational Organized Crime and Illicit Drug Trafficking, and called upon the remaining members to do so. They voiced their determination to strengthen cooperation and coordination among the law enforcement, intelligence and security agencies; and decide to hold meetings at the level of BIMSTEC Home Ministers and continue with the BIMSTEC National Security Chiefs meetings as part of promoting cooperation and coordination on counter-terrorism and transnational crimes. They encouraged closer cooperation in disaster management through sharing of information, including early warning system, adoption of preventive measures, rehabilitation and capacity building and agree to build on the existing capacities in the region and decide to establish an Inter-governmental Expert Group to develop a plan of action to improve preparedness and coordination for responding to natural disasters in the Bay of Bengal Region. They expressed their serious concerns over environmental degradation, adverse impact of climate change and global warming on the fragile Himalayan and mountain ecosystems and their inter-linkages with the Bay of Bengal and Indian Ocean. They resolved to strengthen cooperation to protect and preserve the environment to address, inter alia, the adverse impact of climate change on the lives and livelihoods of our peoples; explore the possibility to establish an Inter-governmental Expert Group to develop a plan of action for collective response to climate change for the region. They reaffirmed their commitments to operationalise the Paris Agreement, in accordance with principle of common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities (CBDR RC), taking into account different national circumstances and equity.
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Widely regarded as one of the world's most haunted locations, Old Changi Hospital has seen a lot of death and cruelty within its walls.
Built in 1935 as the Royal Air Force Hospital, it was later used as a prisoner camp and torture chamber during the Japanese occupation of Singapore.
War and Respite
Changi Hospital
In 2006 the Singapore Land Authority put up the site of the (old) Changi Hospital, Changi District, Singapore, for lease, a lease that was quickly snapped up by a developer that proposed to build a luxury resort on the property. The plans fell through and the land was returned. A development as large as what was proposed would have been quite costly and although financial burdens was likely to be the cause for the development halting, many believe it might have more to do with the ghostly residents of the hospital.
Changi Hospital (usually referred to as Old Changi Hospital due to the fact there is a newer Changi General Hospital) was built in 1935 as the Royal Air Force Hospital. It stayed as such until the Japanese occupied Singapore between 1942 and 1945, the later years of World War 2.
It was during this occupation that many believe the ghosts took up residence within the hospital as it became a prison camp and base for the Japanese Secret Police. Anyone who was deemed to be anti Japanese were systematically removed from the population, taken to deserted parts of Singapore and killed.
Hospital in the 1950s
However, it is believed a large many were taken to the hospital/prison camp to be horrifically tortured for further information. Many of these tortured soldiers and civilians will have succumbed to their treatment.
After the end of the war, after the Japanese surrender, the hospital reverted back to being a hospital. In 1965 Singapore claimed independence and ten years later the British withdrew the last of their troops and the hospital became the Singapore Armed Forces Hospital. It was not long before the public could start receiving treatment there and soon it was merged with the Changi Chalet Hospital and renamed Changi Hospital.
In 1997 the old hospital was closed and asides from a few prospects of being developed it has been abandoned ever since.
Death and Hauntings
The hospital having fallen to disrepair
With such a large main structure and several other accompanying buildings (including a detached morgue, complete with body fridges, located up a short roadway that separates it from the main hospital) it has become quite an icon for urban explorers, young people looking for a scare and paranormal investigators.
Even during it's later years serving as a hospital it was speculated to being haunted (and what hospital isn't?) and with it's rather unique position as being used essentially as a torture chamber by the Japanese during the atrocity that was the occupation, it is little wonder that reputation has stuck.
Today it is considered one of the, if not THE most haunted locations in Singapore and it has the stories and experiences to back that claim up.
It takes on a creepy feeling as night falls
More generic stories concern people seeing shadow forms in the empty hallways and around the grounds during both day and night. In several wards, tortured, disembodied screams have been heard as if coming from several different persons.
But it is the more strange stories that make the hairs stand on end. Several times people have been led to parts of the hospital by what they thought were their friends only to find out they had just had a very personal and strange encounter.
A Common Occurance?
What lurks in the dark corners?
At times groups of people will descend on the hospital for a bit of thrill seeking or to have an experience amongst the dead. At one point it will be noted that one of the group is missing and a search is quickly carried out – well if they are good friends at least and don't just abandon them to their fate.
More often then not the friend will be located in a lonely part of the hospital. They will be disorientated and tell an all too familiar tale.
They start off the night as part of the main group but soon one of their friends convinces them to wander off with them in hopes that a smaller group of just two people will allow them to experience more. Conversation seem normal, everything about it seems normal until their friend disappears on them, far from their other friends.
It is here that the terror kicks in, they are now alone, abandoned, in the dark, in one of Singapore's most haunted locations. It might only be minutes or it might be much longer before they are found by their friends either sitting in the middle of a hall or on their way off the property. There is still confusion as to why their friend had just left them and that is when they find out that they had never left the main group with another... that they had wondered off on their own into the dark.
Changi Hospital by night
Who or what it was that leads people into the dark 'on their own' is a mystery but is thought to be related to the hospitals 'inahbitants'.
Even more strange are those who are escorted out of Changi by a 'friend' to be told they “don't belong at the hospital, that it is dangerous and not to return”, only to have that 'friend' disappear when they are back to safety.
Finally there are tales of those who have ventured into the abandoned hospital never to be seen again.
You can find many, many more stories about the strange happenings at Changi Hospital as well as many curious recountings of secret rooms, passages and bunkers... uncovered torture chambers and more.
If you have been to Changi Hospital I would love to hear of your experiences!
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Final Destination 5 (2011)
I've never been a Final Destination fangirl, but you have to admit, they've got quite the formula down. Much like Saw, it's the franchise that won't die, but yet you don't have to put a ton of thought into the screenplay. Some teenager/20-something has a premonition of a horrific accident and thoughtfully yanks others out of it. Death ain't havin' that shit, and everyone who survived is on the list to die.
The best part of the Final Destination movies are, of course, the wild deaths. Ever since Devon Sawa ran screaming from that flight to Paris, we've been treated to a hell of a lot of fun and gory deaths. If you stay tuned through the credits of Final Destination 5, you'll be treated to a highlight reel of sorts.
So what's the plot of FD5? A group of attractive 20-somethings take off on a corporate retreat on one of those coach busses. As usual, the actors contain a bunch of veritable nobodies, and two somewhat stars to get those crowds in the theaters. The lucky two this time are Emma Bell (The Walking Dead and Frozen) and Nicholas D'Agosto (Heroes and Inside). Sam (D'Agosto) has a vision of a massive bridge collapse where nearly 100 people die. In an effort to save everyone, he pulls a handful of people off the bus, who of course, survive. And as Tony Todd reminds them, death does not like to be cheated, and that bastard is coming for them.
The formula goes pretty much as Final Destination movies go. People try to avoid certain death, but get killed in bizarre situations and freak accidents. The deaths in this movie were a blast, and my husband and I found ourselves exclaiming in amusement more than once. The setups are always part of the entertainment as well, with all these little things being amplified while you wonder what's going to happen next.
The real highlight of this movie? The ending. I thought they were gearing up for a FD6, but instead, they flipped the script. It was a fun way to likely wrap up the series, and the special effects throughout were on point. I usually bitch about sequels, especially those made in the last 10 years, but I can't say too much bad about this flick. Much like the rollercoaster scenes in another one of the FD movies, this one was a fun ride.
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Obama and the Middle East: a BBC debate
In Israel-Palestine: What’s Next?, Leading with Questions, The Arab Spring
In 2010, the BBC Doha Debates invited me to debate the question: is Obama too weak to make peace in the Middle East?
You can enjoy here the video of this pre-Arab Spring debate: so many fundamentals are still here today, so many things radically transformed…
I then contended that Obama was NOT too weak to make peace. With hindsight, I acknowledge that he was too weak to make it in his first mandate. I believe, that in the case of reelection, with an economy that is finally getting Americans back to job, he might put his weight back in the region. The years 2013-2016 are years of incredible transformation to come in the Middle East. The hypothetical Obama II administration would have new cards to play to bring more actors to the table and put increased pressure on its Israeli ally.
Tags : Israel, Obama, Palestine, Settlements, Video
4 comments on “Obama and the Middle East: a BBC debate”
In my opinion president Obama has to think about a long term strategy in the Middle East. I think this is the only way how to avoid lasting damage to U.S. relations with the Arab World, which is newly empowered. There are already the anti-American sentiments. I am certain about the right approach in the Middle East policy, which has Obama adopted yet. On the other hand I think that president Obama can not offer grand solutions to the Middle East’s problems. Although he is showing a strength as a leader in global and diversity mindset, communication and interpersonal skills. Arabs maybe are not expecting him to. And maybe Arab problems should have own Arab solutions.
Nadya says:
Ever since his first election Barack Obama widely spread the social liberalistic and progressive ideas upon which the Democrat party is build on. He is also associated with the image of the man who united the nation and fights for human rights. I think many people believed or wanted to believe that he can be the one to bring changes. It is sad to say but if I must be painfully honest I doubt the power of a single man to deal with the critical situation in Middle East. There are numerous factors in support of this statement. On one hand you have the potential unwillingness of the US government to end the war due to its own imperialistic motives. Another aspect it could be the little political space the president has as Mr. Weiss said.
Finally the question for me is whether third party can promote mutual understanding between Israelites and Palestinian?
I do not think that it is the matter of weakness whether Obama will make peace in the Middle East or not. I think that it is the matter of strategy and power relations that have to be considered in this situation. Is it Obama’s job to make peace in the Middle East? I think that no third party can make permanent peace between parties in another continent. The conflicts in the Middle East are so deep rooted that the solutions have to rise from the parties themselves in order to obtain peace. The solution is certainly not all black and white or simple; otherwise someone would have already come up with the solution and made peace in the Middle East.
I agree with many of the above comments. Why do we think that Obama could bring peace in Middle East? Sure the United States have played part in creating some of the conflicts, but when the issue lies in the mindset of people in these areas there is nothing a third person can really do? If the mind set of the people in these areas is built on mistrust to their neighbours, you can only try to be an intermediator. There certainly has been many intermediators before him. This is not to say he should not try, but to be honest I can understand that the mustrust some of these conflict countries have towards USA. After all they seem to go and meddle everywhere and the just leave. You cannot force democracy or peace. It needs to come from within.
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Creationism vs. Evolution: Bill Nye Gets Folks Talking
August 30, 2012 / Wendy Russell
Several months ago, my husband and I took our daughter to the Museum of Natural History in Los Angeles to see its new Dinosaur Hall. The trip didn't disappoint. Not only was the dinosaur exhibit mind-bogglingly cool, right next door was an exhibit called the Age of Mammals, which led us through 65 million years of continental movement, climate change and mammal evolution. One of the neatest things, to me, was the row of skulls documenting the changes in human face and brain size over the last 2.5 million years. Taken as a whole, the museum was one big, stunning homage to evolution. And, later, when talking about the experience, my husband said: "I felt like I'd found a church."
Last week, Bill Nye (of Science Guy fame) made headlines when his youtube video, titled "Creationism is Not Appropriate for Children," went viral. Recorded for bigthink.com, Nye urged parents to teach their children evolution — even if they, themselves, believed in the literal translation of the Bible's Gensis. Here's the video:
Since then, many have thanked Nye for using his unique position to educate parents on the need for science-oriented young people. Others have erupted in anger and called his video an attack on religion. Still others have found both good and bad things to say.
Valerie Strauss, who writes The Answer Sheet for the Washington Post, for example, applauded Nye's message, but added:
"Unfortunately, Nye muddies his video by saying that one reason people shouldn’t force their kids to believe in creationism is that 'we need engineers that can build stuff, solve problems.' Why couldn’t a creationist be an engineer?"
She's certainly right about that.
Responding to his critics, Nye appeared on CBS a couple of days ago.
"I'm not attacking anyone's religion," Nye said. "But if you go to a museum, and you see fossil dinosaur bones, they came from somewhere. And we, by diligent investigation, have determined that the earth is 4.54 billion years old, and the sun is a star like all the other stars you see in the sky, and we are made of the same stuff. This is wonderful. [These are] fantastic discoveries that fill me with reverence."
Here's the full interview:
Promoting evolution — or even attacking creationism — is not the same thing as attacking religion. Creationism does not equal religion, and religion does not equal creationism. Plenty of people — more and more every day — reject the literal truth of Genesis, and even those who don't may still be open to discussing all possibililties. There are even some Americans who believe, somehow, both theories are true. "The Lord works in mysterious ways" and all that.
I don't think it's realistic to think that parents who believe in creationism will teach their kids anything but creationism. But maybe they will at least leave the door cracked open to other possibilities. And even if they don't, I'm glad Nye said his piece.
At least it has gotten people talking.
August 30, 2012 / Wendy Russell/ 2 Comments
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Bill Nye, Creation Story, Creationism
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Pushing Back the Clock
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Falcon Facts
Falcon Photos
Observation Locations
Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group
Home > Government > City Hall > City Hall Falcons > Observation Locations
Recognizing Peregrines
Adult peregrines, 15 – 20 inches in length, are slaty-backed and pale underneath with faint, dark barring. Their face has distinctive dark “sideburns” called a helmet that is visible from some distance. Once you get used to looking for them, you will also be able to observe them perched on traffic signals or swooping after their prey, which include pigeons and smaller birds. Watch carefully, because their rapid wingbeats are not unlike the flight of the pigeons they chase.
In addition to street level, there are several locations from which to observe the birds when they are perched at City Hall. These include the top floor of the 4th Street Parking Garage (at San Fernando) and the 8th Floor of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, also located at 4th and San Fernando. In either case, a pair of binoculars or a spotting scope is helpful in seeing them better.
Falcon fans can watch Clara and Carlos live via the FalconCam. This webcam is maintained by the City of San José in partnership with the Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group at the University of California – Santa Cruz.
Falcon-Scope Now Available at the King Library
The Martin Luther King Library now has a high-powered telescope trained on the City Hall Falcon nest box available to the public.
The King Library has a specially mounted telescope to watch the falcons as they come and go from the nest box ledge at City Hall. The spotting scope is set up on the eighth floor of the King Library and was a donation of Orion Telescope and Binoculars, with the support and assistance of the San José Public Library Foundation. The public is welcome to view the birds during library hours, however, the eighth floor is designated as a ‘quiet area’ so those using the scope will be asked to turn off cell phones and keep noise at a minimum. For public information, call (408) 808-2000.
When the birds are not at City Hall, they may be perched at several other locations downtown, including the Adobe buildings, the Business Building at San José State University, and the AT&T Building.
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‘Stranger Things’ Season 3 Gets a Soundtrack
‘80s nostalgia abounds in the hit Netflix series Stranger Things, and with the third season now arriving for fans to watch, there’s also a new soundtrack.
While this new season of the series is loosely set around 1985, the soundtrack does include a number of non-‘80s selections, including The Who’s ‘60s classic “Baba O’Riley,” Foreigner’s ‘70’s rocker “Cold as Ice” and pre-rock era tracks from Patsy Cline (“She’s Got You”) and Vera Lynn (“We’ll Meet Again”).
But alas, the key here is building the feeling of the era, and the soundtrack definitely sets you right back in the day with cuts from Howard Jones, Madonna, John Cougar Mellencamp, The Pointer Sisters, REO Speedwagon, Wham!, Weird Al Yankovic, The Cars, Corey Hart, Teena Marie and Huey Lewis and the News filling out the playlist.
The Stranger Things kids even get in on the fun, with Gaten Matarazzo (Dustin) and Gabriella Pizzolo (Suzie) leading a performance of Limahl’s “Never Ending Story.”
The soundtrack will be available in digital and physical formats, with a vinyl option as well. Vinyl copies come with a poster and 7” single featuring the cast recording of “Never Ending Story.” The vinyl orders will ship on July 26. Get your pre-orders in here and check out the new season via Netflix.
Stranger Things Season 3 Soundtrack
1. “Baba O’Riley” – The Who
2. “Things Can Only Get Better” – Howard Jones
3. “Material Girl” – Madonna
4. “Cold as Ice” – Foreigner
5. “She’s Got You” – Patsy Cline
6. “R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A.” – John Mellencamp
7. “Neutron Dance” – The Pointer Sisters
8. “Can’t Fight This Feeling” – REO Speedwagon
9. “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go” – Wham!
10. “My Bologna” – “Weird Al” Yankovic
11. “Moving in Stereo” – The Cars
12. “Never Surrender” – Corey Hart
13. “Lovergirl” – Teena Marie
14. “Workin’ for a Livin’” – Huey Lewis & the News
15. “We’ll Meet Again” – Vera Lynn
16. “Never Ending Story” – Gaten Matarazzo and Gabriella Pizzolo
Stranger Things Questions for Season 3
Source: ‘Stranger Things’ Season 3 Gets a Soundtrack
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New Year starts with dead birds and fish
Posted on January 4, 2011 | Leave a comment
The fish – all of the same ‘drum’ species – littered the banks of a 20-mile stretch of the Arkansas River near Ozark, the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission (AGFC) said. State wildlife officials are conducting tests to find out what killed them. Keith Stephens, of the AGFC, said fish kills occurred every year, but the magnitude of this one was unusual. “The fish kill only affected one species of fish,” he told CNN. “If it was from a pollutant, it would have affected all of the fish, not just drum fish.” Meanwhile, officials are also investigating the mystery of up to 5,000 dead blackbirds in the town of Beebe, around 125 miles from where the fish were found. The creatures began falling from the sky late on December 31 and continued into the next day, witnesses said. “I came out here and saw a bird drop,” said resident Stephen Bryant.
“It was horrible, you could not even get down the road without running over hundreds,” said fellow resident Melissa Weatherly. Beebe is a town of about 4,500 people located 30 miles northeast of the state capital, Little Rock. Residents were not evacuated as a test of air quality found no toxins. Officials are looking at various possibilities as to why the birds dropped dead – including being startled by fireworks, stress or hit by hail or lightning. Mr Stephens said: “It could be weather-related or possibly stress-related. “There were some fireworks shot off at midnight and it is possible that the birds were on their roost and stressed so bad that it could have killed them.” High winds and tornadoes struck Arkansas on New Year’s Eve, with the hardest-hit area more than 150 miles to the west of Beebe. The birds have been collected from rooftops, trees and yards and are being tested at facilities in Little Rock and Madison, Wisconsin.
Thousands of dead birds have fallen from the sky and more than 100,000 dead fish have been washed up on the shore in one U.S. state. In scenes reminiscent of a horror film, up to 2,000 blackbirds dropped to the ground in the city of Beebe, Arkansas, just before midnight on New Year’s Eve. At the same time, thousands of fish were swept up on the shore of the Arkansas River in the north-west part of the state. Environmental experts dressed in protective suits and breathing masks spent New Year’s Day picking up birds’ bodies from the streets, but have been unable to find explanations for the deaths. Resident Melissa Weatherly said: ‘It was horrible. You could not even get down the road without running over hundreds. It was that bad.’
Neighbour Charles Boldrey added: ‘I asked the guys who are out here picking them up and they don’t seem to know anything. Nobody seems to know anything. It just kind of freaked everybody out.’ Most of the dead birds were red-winged blackbirds, but other types, including a duck, also died. No toxins were found in the air, and experts are investigating whether bad weather at high altitude or stress from a firework display could be to blame. Just one type of fish – the drum species – was killed, meaning pollution along the 20-mile stretch of river was unlikely to be the cause. Scientists are now testing the fish to see if they were suffering from disease. But investigators have admitted they are baffled by the bizarre events and could find nothing to suggest the two were connected. Ornithologist Karen Rowe said: ‘Test results usually were inconclusive, but the birds showed physical trauma and that the flock could have been hit by lightning or high-altitude hail.’
Times Square had the ball drop, and Brasstown, N.C., had its descending possum. But no place had a New Year’s Eve as unusual, or freakishly disturbing, as Beebe, Ark. Around 11 that night, thousands of red-winged blackbirds began falling out of the sky over this small city about 35 miles northeast of Little Rock. They landed on roofs, roads, front lawns and backyards, turning the ground nearly black and terrifying anyone who happened to be outside. “One of them almost hit my best friend in the head,” said Christy Stephens, who was standing outside among the smoking crowd at a party. “We went inside after that.” The cause is still being determined, but preliminary lab results from the Arkansas Livestock and Poultry Commission revealed “acute physical trauma” in samples of the dead birds.
There were no indications of disease, though tests were still being done for the presence of toxic chemicals. Karen Rowe, the bird conservation program coordinator for the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, said the prevailing theory was that the birds had been startled by New Year’s Eve fireworks and suddenly dispersed, flying low enough to run into chimneys, houses and trees. Pyrotechnics are used to scatter blackbirds for bird control, though only during the day, given the birds’ poor vision. Beebe (pronounced BE-be) is a congregating spot for blackbirds, and one witness told Ms. Rowe that he saw the birds roosting earlier in the day and heard them again at night just after the fireworks started. “It was the right mix of things happening in a perfect time sequence,” Ms. Rowe said.
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Main » 2018 » October » 3 » Velodyne LiDAR and MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) Launch Educational Campaign Addressing Autonomous Vehicles’ Potential to Reduce Road
Velodyne LiDAR and MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) Launch Educational Campaign Addressing Autonomous Vehicles’ Potential to Reduce Road
SAN JOSE, Calif.-Tuesday 2 October 2018 [ AETOS Wire ]
(BUSINESS WIRE)-- What if the designated driver of the future was a self-driving car? How would such technology solve the drunk driving epidemic? Velodyne LiDAR is proud to partner with Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) to create an online educational destination with information on how autonomous vehicles can help prevent roadway collisions. The site explains the basics of autonomous driving in easy-to-understand language for all audiences. The September 30, 2018 site launch is the result of Velodyne LiDAR and MADD’s inaugural year of partnership.
Coinciding with the Walk Like MADD event in San Francisco, Velodyne will publish a webpage spotlighting a series of informational videos. “Both Velodyne and MADD see this as a crucial move in their crusade against further casualties of impaired driving. Velodyne is eager to share its confidence that fully autonomous vehicles will spark global health benefits,” stated Sally Frykman, Velodyne LiDAR’s Director of Education and Business Development.
The webpage will feature content including the video “Jane: A Velodyne Story” - a narrative told through the animation of Demente Studio. The video depicts a near-future reality in which self-driving cars could make the difference between an ideal evening and catastrophe. In the story, Jane celebrates her 21st birthday by attending a concert with friends—only to fall asleep behind the wheel. Thankfully, LiDAR technology isn’t reliant on Jane to navigate safely, ensuring her safe return home to her parents.
Additional content modules include “LiDAR 101”, explaining how lidar sensor technology is an essential component of self-driving vehicles. Also included will be footage of the San Francisco Bay Area MADD Law Enforcement Recognition Event, a celebration of heroic first responders, as well as testimonials of first-hand experience of the benefits of autonomous vehicles.
“The promise of safe, self-driving cars is very exciting, particularly for those of us who have seen the devastation that impaired driving and human error can bring,” said MADD National President Colleen Sheehey-Church. Church’s 18-year-old son Dustin was killed in a car driven by a drunk and drugged driver. “MADD will continue to strongly support the safe development of this technology and will work with partners like Velodyne LiDAR to educate and build public acceptance of autonomous vehicle technology.”
“Velodyne LiDAR and MADD have joined forces because a drunk driving fatality every 49 minutes isn’t acceptable. It’s time fully autonomous vehicles became the answer to reducing, preventing, and potentially entirely eliminating human error on the roadway. And it’s essential that the public is aware and educated about technology as a solution to the problem,” stated Sally Frykman.
“MADD is highly respected in the country and in the world for the work that they do,” Velodyne President Marta Hall says. “The organization wants to save lives on the roadways. We share the same goal, which is better safety. We are proud to partner with MADD because our lidar technology provides real solutions to driving challenges. Together we are a wonderful team.”
About Velodyne
Founded in 1983 and headquartered in Silicon Valley, Velodyne is a technology company known worldwide for its real-time 3D LiDAR computing and software platforms. The company evolved after founder/inventor David Hall developed the HDL-64 Solid-State Hybrid LiDAR sensor in 2005. Since then, Velodyne LiDAR Inc. has emerged as the unmatched market leader of real-time 3D vision systems used in a variety of commercial applications including autonomous vehicles, vehicle safety systems, mobile mapping, aerial mapping, and security. Its products range from the high-performance, surround view Ultra-Puck™ VLP-32, classic HDL-32/64 and cost-effective VLP-16 to the upcoming, hidden Velarray™ and now the 300-meter range VLS-128. Velodyne’s rich suite of perception software and algorithms are the key enablers of its perception systems. Velodyne supports customers from offices in San Jose, Detroit, Frankfurt, and Beijing. For more information, visit http://www.velodynelidar.com.
About MADD
Founded in 1980 by a mother whose daughter was killed by a drunk driver, Mothers Against Drunk Driving® (MADD) is the nation’s largest nonprofit working to end drunk driving, help fight drugged driving, support the victims of these violent crimes and prevent underage drinking. MADD has helped to save more than 350,000 lives, reduce drunk driving deaths by more than 50 percent and promote designating a non-drinking driver. MADD’s Campaign to Eliminate Drunk Driving® calls for law enforcement support, ignition interlocks for all offenders and advanced vehicle technology. MADD has provided supportive services to nearly one million drunk and drugged driving victims and survivors at no charge through local victim advocates and the 24-Hour Victim Help Line 1-877-MADD-HELP. Visit www.madd.org or call 1-877-ASK-MADD.
This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20181001005271/en/
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2018 NMSU Women's Tennis
LAS VEGAS, NV - JANUARY 20: Quinty Janssen and Rebecca Keijzerwaard of the New Mexico State Aggies celebrate after winning a point during their doubles match against McKenna Lloyd and Sara Parker of the Weber State Wildcats at the Frank and Vicki Fertitta Tennis Complex in Las Vegas, Nevada. New Mexico State won the doubles match 6-3.
LAS VEGAS, NV - JANUARY 20: Lindsay Harlas of the New Mexico State Aggies plays a forehand during her team's doubles match against Caitlin Herb and Pei-Hsuan (Patty) Kuo of the Weber State Wildcats at the Frank and Vicki Fertitta Tennis Complex in Las Vegas, Nevada. New Mexico State won the doubles match 6-3.
LAS VEGAS, NV - JANUARY 20: Quinty Janssen of the New Mexico State Aggies plays a forehand during her team's doubles match against McKenna Lloyd and Sara Parker of the Weber State Wildcats at the Frank and Vicki Fertitta Tennis Complex in Las Vegas, Nevada. New Mexico State won the doubles match 6-3.
LAS VEGAS, NV - JANUARY 20: Rebecca Keijzerwaard of the New Mexico State Aggies plays a forehand during her team's doubles match against McKenna Lloyd and Sara Parker of the Weber State Wildcats at the Frank and Vicki Fertitta Tennis Complex in Las Vegas, Nevada. New Mexico State won the doubles match 6-3.
LAS VEGAS, NV - JANUARY 20: Quinty Janssen of the New Mexico State Aggies stands on the court during her match against Morgan Dickason of the Weber State Wildcats at the Frank and Vicki Fertitta Tennis Complex in Las Vegas, Nevada. Janssen won the match 4-6, 6-0, 6-3.
LAS VEGAS, NV - JANUARY 20: Eli Arnaudova of the New Mexico State Aggies plays a forehand during her team's match against McKenna Lloyd of the Weber State Wildcats at the Frank and Vicki Fertitta Tennis Complex in Las Vegas, Nevada. Amaudova won the match 7-5, 6-2.
LAS VEGAS, NV - JANUARY 20: Eli Arnaudova of the New Mexico State Aggies plays a backhand during her team's match against McKenna Lloyd of the Weber State Wildcats at the Frank and Vicki Fertitta Tennis Complex in Las Vegas, Nevada. Amaudova won the match 7-5, 6-2.
LAS VEGAS, NV - JANUARY 20: Eli Arnaudova of the New Mexico State Aggies prepares to receive serve during her team's match against McKenna Lloyd of the Weber State Wildcats at the Frank and Vicki Fertitta Tennis Complex in Las Vegas, Nevada. Amaudova won the match 7-5, 6-2.
LAS VEGAS, NV - JANUARY 20: Quinty Janssen of the New Mexico State Aggies plays a forehand during her match against Morgan Dickason of the Weber State Wildcats at the Frank and Vicki Fertitta Tennis Complex in Las Vegas, Nevada. Janssen won the match 4-6, 6-0, 6-3.
LAS VEGAS, NV - JANUARY 20: Quinty Janssen of the New Mexico State Aggies serves during her match against Morgan Dickason of the Weber State Wildcats at the Frank and Vicki Fertitta Tennis Complex in Las Vegas, Nevada. Janssen won the match 4-6, 6-0, 6-3.
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Occupy protesters plan to shut down port
"Just the mere mention of something like this causes disruption in the supply chain because people begin to wonder 'is Oakland a place I can come to do business?'" said Isaac Kos-Read, a Port of Oakland spokesman.
Oakland's port spokesman can't help but notice the trucks lined up trying to squeeze in a last shipment before protesters try to bring business to a halt.
"The only time that working people in this country receive any kind of concession is when we do something that costs the bosses money," said one speaker at the press conference.
And that's why Occupy Oakland says they intend to shut down the Port of Oakland Monday as part of a coordinated port blockade in multiple cities.
"We're shutting down the whole West Coast and the Port of Houston because we want to let them know that the millions of dollars that they spent brutally repressing the Occupy Wall Street movement will not gain a profit for them," said Boots Riley, an Occupy Oakland member.
The occupiers claim they have broad support, even though many independent truck drivers stand to lose money during a shutdown.
When asked if he thought the port truckers are in support of the blockade action, Riley said, "I know that some of them that we talked to are."
"They don't speak for us," said Miguel Silva, a small trucking company owner. "We want to be able to work as usual."
Silva is one of the small trucking company owners still reeling from the last Port of Oakland shutdown in November.
"That took us two weeks to recover from it and the people that got hurt are the truckers because now we're sitting in big long lines and it didn't really hurt the big guys because they charge us penalties for not returning these containers to the port," said Bill Aboudi, a small trucking company owner.
Quan says a protest would hurt the wrong people. She said, "Why would we do this? The port is one of our major economic engines. It gives us the best possibility for creating new jobs."
And though her own family marched on the port last time, they'll lead by example. When Quan was asked if her husband and daughter going to be marching on Monday, she said, "Absolutely not."
Friday night, the longshoremen's union, which represents the workers who load and unload container ships, issued a statement saying it does not support a shutdown on Monday, even though some of its members individually have said they do.
Those workers have told us Monday's march is intended to stop work on both the morning and evening shifts at the port and that if police attempt to interfere with their free expression, they warn that they'll try to shut down work on the overnight shift as well.
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14-year-old boy charged after allegedly bringing loaded gun to New Jersey school
JERSEY CITY, New Jersey (WABC) -- A 14-year-old boy is facing charges after allegedly bringing a loaded gun to school in New Jersey Wednesday.
The incident happened at the James F. Murray School, PS 38, on Stegman Avenue in Jersey City. The school serves pre-K through eighth-grade students.
Authorities say it was career day at the school, so there were already police officers, SWAT team members, firefighters and members of the bomb squad inside the building.
The suspect was reportedly caught by the school resource officer with the firearm in his bag, which he claimed he brought for personal protection.
School officials say a parent informed them of the concern, and the school notified police and located the weapon inside the bag in the boy's locker.
The eighth-grade student was immediately taken into custody and arrested.
The teen is charged with possession of a handgun by a minor, possession of a weapon inside an educational institution, possession of a weapon for unlawful purpose, and unlawful possession of a weapon.
Officials say they do not believe any students were ever in danger, but for parents -- who say they were never notified until they arrived to pick up their children -- it is a terrifying development at a school that teaches students as young as 5.
The investigation is ongoing, but officials say things happened so quietly that most in the school were unaware of the incident.
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Lessons from a Whistleblower: Putting Integrity into Practice
By Rebecca Fender, CFA
As Michael Woodford boarded a plane from London to Tokyo in March 2011, just days after the devastating earthquake in Japan, he found himself sitting alone in the first-class cabin that was typically full of busy executives. Why was he going to Japan, despite travel warnings, panic, and fears of environmental contamination? As CEO designate of Tokyo-based Olympus Corporation, he felt it was the right thing to do. Woodford went on to tell the audience at the 66th CFA Institute Annual Conference in Singapore the story about his brief time as the CEO of Olympus and his discovery of a $1.7 billion accounting fraud. Just as on that empty plane, Woodford had to stand alone in a culture in which speaking out was not rewarded.
He had attained the role of CEO as the culmination of a 30-year career at Olympus, where he had built business lines and developed relationships with people, such as company chairman Tsuyoshi Kikukawa, who, Woodford said, “was like my favorite uncle.” Initially, everything seemed idyllic. The stock price went up when he was announced as the CEO, and it continued to climb. “I realized how easy it was because in Japan, everyone does what you tell them to do, which is a problem, but it can be a power to get a lot done quickly.”
It didn’t last long, though. As Woodford began to ask questions and inquire about a FACTA magazine exposé, he was stonewalled by Kikukawa and the board and then fired. Meanwhile, he learned that the fraud was linked to organized crime in Japan, and he realized that not only his career was at stake but also that his personal safety was in peril. When he made his first visit back to Tokyo after these events, he was accompanied by no fewer than 30 bodyguards — more than Michael Jackson had on his Japan tour.
This was not the kind of fame Woodford had sought: to be fired in a country where no one gets fired, to expose fraud at a company he had loved, and to see the stock price fall more than 80% as a result.
So what are the lessons that we can learn from Woodford’s story, particularly as investment professionals?
Question your assumptions. Even your “favorite uncle” and the firm you have known for years could be hiding something. Woodford noted that asset managers that were large shareholders were lied to by management repeatedly. Fraud is not easily detected, but the best analysts ask tough questions and demand satisfactory answers.
Never underestimate the importance of culture. Woodford was shocked to realize that the Japanese media were self-censoring to protect Nikkei-listed stocks. Although his story points to weaknesses in Japanese corporate governance specifically, this concept extends more globally as well.
Leadership often demands personal courage. In the aftermath of the Olympus scandal, Woodford has been inundated with people who come to him with their own stories of ethical dilemmas in the workplace. They ask how he had the courage to speak up when others didn’t and what it takes personally to be a whistleblower. These people are not the people in the news, and many of them still choose silence. They are not necessarily high-profile executives, but they are the ones who see the ethical problems in companies every day and must weigh the costs of telling the truth.
CFA Institute president and CEO John Rogers, CFA, noted in his opening remarks at the conference that “capital markets thrive in sunlight.” If Woodford’s story tells us anything, it is that one person who stands alone — and stands for what’s right — can bring the truth to light and make a difference.
Additional reading on this subject: “Blurry Images: Investors, Regulators, Auditors Missed Olympus Warning Signs” by Padma Venkat, CFA
Please note that the content of this site should not be construed as investment advice, nor do the opinions expressed necessarily reflect the views of CFA Institute.
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Source: Reuters – A Nigerian man died in a Japanese immigration detention center this week, an official says, bringing to an end a hunger strike an activist group said was intended to protest against his being held for more than three years.
It was the 15th death since 2006 in a system widely criticized over medical standards, the monitoring of detainees and how guards respond to a medical emergency.
The man, in his 40s, died on Monday in the southern city of Nagasaki after he lost consciousness and was taken to hospital, said a detention center official who declined to be identified.
He did not give a cause of death.
RINK, a group supporting detainees at the center, told Reuters the Nigerian had been on hunger strike to protest his lengthy detention.
Another 27 foreigners are on hunger strike at a detention center in Ushiku, northeast of Tokyo, said a separate group supporting detainees at that facility.
Some of them have gone without food for 47 days, said Kimiko Tanaka, a spokeswoman for the group.
She said a 23-year-old Iranian man who sought asylum more than two years ago has lost weight and is using a wheelchair.
Two other men at Ushiku have been detained for five years, she said.
“The reality of a lengthy detention is nothing but a human rights violation,” Tanaka said.
An official at the national immigration agency confirmed there are hunger strikers at the Ushiku center, but he did not say how many. Authorities are providing medical care and trying to persuade them to eat, he added.
Immigration is a contentious issue in Japan, where ethnic and cultural homogeneity are deeply rooted.
Japan held about 1,500 detainees as of June 2018, according to the latest public data, nearly half of them for more than six months.
Some 604 were asylum seekers whose applications were rejected, while the rest were held for various immigration infractions such as overstaying visas.
Related Topics:Nigerian Citizen Dies in Custody Due to Hunger
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U.S-China trade war nears productive.
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School’s History
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Inicio / School’s History / Design as a social phenomenon
Teaching in the Restoration period
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The School at Pacífico Street
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Design as a social phenomenon
The emergence of design as a social phenomenon
In 1984, the Ministry of Education understood that the autonomy of schools in Madrid was a necessary condition in the process of modernization taking place in arts education. An order of February 27th, 1984, unfolded the Royal Decree 283.1984 of February 8th, which restructured the Centres of Applied Arts and Crafts in Madrid. The restructuring of schools occurred, according to the legal standard, “at the time that the Ministry of Education and Science considers the overall reorganization of the teachings under updating criteria and with views to adequate specialization of the schools”. So each of the sections became an independent autonomous school with its management bodies and a more differentiated educational offer. Each one of them specialized in an area that would allow maximum performance of facilities and infrastructure, promoting at “School No. 10, the Book Arts”.
At the same time, in the legislative field, implementation of an educational system born out of the Constitution and leading to the enactment of a series of laws was initiated: the Organic Law on the Right to Education in 1985, that materialized constitutional principles, and the General Organic Law of the Educational System in 1990, that restructured the whole Spanish teaching system. In terms of arts education, the first steps to reform the education system led to a series of experiences.
Under the regulation established by Royal Decree 799.1984 of May 28th, and then the Royal Decree 942.1986, the teachings of Applied Arts were extended with new common courses and new specialties of “experimental” nature. The new experimental specialties included “Industrial Design” published in the decree of June 5th, 1984, and “Design of Textiles and Fashion”, “Graphic Design”, “Interior Design” and ” Goldsmith Design and Jewellery “, published in the decree of October 20th, 1987.
It would be then that the School of Applied Arts and Crafts Number 10 focused its educational offerings in a number of fields related to the book: engraving, photography, graphic design and graphic document restoration. The latter discipline would leave the school in the late eighties, when the later to be School of Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage was constituted.
The first director in this new period was Vicente Viñas, followed by Juan Barreto (1986), Manuel Santiago Ludeña (1987-1990), Julia Oliet (1990-1991), Damian Gravel (1991), Isabel Ivory (1991-1996) Juan Pablo Villalpando (1996-2004) and Eugenio Vega (2004-2013).
The changes in teaching offerings had led to a final transformation of the schools towards a more modern and integrated training method within the education system, away from the old idea that specialized courses had left in the public. This trend towards normalization of its teachings became obvious with the implementation, on an experimental basis, of the High School Diploma in Arts at Schools of Applied Arts and Crafts by Royal Decree of 1986. During the period after the establishment of the Spanish Constitution of 1978 and prior to the enactment of the General Law on the Education System of 1990, no general amendments were introduced, but, however, major changes occurred as a result of both the new legal framework stemming from the Constitution, and the start of a series of experiences in the context of the preparatory work for the reform of the education system.
Transformations in the constitutional legal framework included the transfer of responsibility for education to the Autonomous Communities, which affected these teachings by diversifying the administrations involved in the creation of their titles and in the organization and management thereof.
Unlike educational systems in other countries, in Spain the teaching of design was subjected to the peculiarities of the process of modernization that the Spanish society began in the late fifties. The arrival of European companies opening assembly plants and manufacturing was driven to some extent by the better conditions for companies accounted for the labour costs in Spain. Only belatedly education authorities realized the importance that should entail adequate training of professionals in these disciplines. This awareness was related to the difficulties that the Spanish industrial production started having to compete in Europe once labour costs ceased to be advantageous.
But it was not until the late eighties when necessary modernization of arts and design teachings came to be seen as a priority in the new educational system. Organic Law 1.1990 of October 3rd on the General Organisation of the Education System, LOGSE [by its Spanish acronym] established for arts education the titles of Medium Grade Cycle [similar to the BritishVocational Education and Training], Higher Grade Cycle [similar to the British Certificate of Higher Education], Advanced Studies [equivalent to a Bachelor’s Degree] in Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage and Advanced Studies in Design, and it enabled the creation, under its Article 49, of the Advanced Studies in Ceramics and Glass. However, despite the obvious urgency that design education needed, it was not until nine years later when the legal provision that allowed the incorporation of a degree in Design is finally drafted. By Royal Decree 1496.1999 of September 24th, the foundation curriculum was established and an entrance exam to higher education in design was regulated. This order ended a prolonged effort of public and private sectors in these fields to obtain official recognition of the higher education on Visual Arts and Design.
The desire to anticipate the possible reform of the education system led to a new experimentation in 1991 in the training courses, which were subsequently regulated by the LOGSE [Organic Law of General Arrangement of the Educational System by its Spanish acronym]. Academic structural characteristics can be summarized in that the duration is generally two years, although some intermediate level is only one-year long. The curriculum of the Higher Grade Cycles includes a phase of practical training in companies, studios or workshops and a Final Project. After overcoming the studies, the student would get a diploma of Technician or Technical Specialist in Visual Arts and Design in the corresponding specialty, for intermediate vocational and higher vocational education respectively. The diploma is official.
By Royal Decree 389.1992 of April 15th, it is given the name of School of Arts, to the institutions providing the training courses of Art and Design, and of College [Escuela Superior] to those providing the Advanced Courses of Visual Arts and Design. It is from that time that the official name of the centre becomes the School of Art Number 10.
In the Spanish education system, the State is responsible for issuing certificates and the general determination of the curriculum, to be completed by the respective autonomous communities, which are responsible for the management of the centres. Competences, in education matters, are divided between the central government and the autonomous regions, while the State has legal authority for regulating the conditions for obtaining, issuing and recognizing academic and professional qualifications and the establishment of basic standards for development of Article 27 of the Spanish Constitution, thus ensuring compliance with the obligations of public authorities in this matter.
The culmination of the process for transferring competences from central government to the various autonomous communities, led in January 2000 the School of Art 10 to be transferred to the Autonomous Community of Madrid, becoming dependent on its County Council Department of Education. This new situation has allowed schools to adapt more effectively to the needs of each of the regions, although it has hindered the development of curricula that facilitate the transfer of students.
In 2001 the Madrid regional government drafted the curriculum of Vocational Training in Art and Design that would be taught in art schools under its jurisdiction. In July 2002, it wrote the curriculum for the Advanced Studies in Design and decided the provisional implementation of the specialty in Interior Design at the School of Art 4. A year later it was the School of Art 10’ turn to initiate the delivery of Graphic design specialty. Finally, design education had a legal framework more intune with the country’s needs and it allowed students to have training with greater possibilities of integration in the future Europe.
In 1999 in the Italian city of Bologna, the education ministers of the European Union signed a joint declaration that would start the so-called “convergence process”, which aimed to facilitate effective exchange of graduates and to adapt the content of university studies to social demands. All this led to the creation of the European Higher Education Area, an area which countries joined even from outside the European Union and serves as a framework for educational reforms that many countries should start in the early years of this new century.
The convergence process, or Bologna process, finally affected the artistic education to the extent that, as higher teachings that had been defined in the Spanish system should be integrated into a transnational level that would allow an education more in compliance to social transformations.
The new European space aims to facilitate the exchange of students and teachers and create a new community for higher education that meets the needs of the entire European Union.
Meanwhile, the latest reform of the Spanish education system embodied in the Education Act of 2006 was an integration of art education in the European Higher Education Area [EHEA]. Current diplomas or qualifications would be equivalent to the corresponding degree titles.
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Source: International Monetary Fund Annual Report 1999
Keywords: interest, debt, payments, loans, external debt
Contents Appendix I. International Reserves...
Appendix I. International Reserves »
Total international reserves remained essentially unchanged in 1998 relative to the previous year—at SDR 1.4 trillion (Table I.I). Nongold reserves, which consist of foreign exchange reserves and IMF-related...
Appendix II. Financial Operations and Transactions »
The tables in this appendix supplement the information given in Chapter 10 on the IMF’s financial operations and policies. Table II.1 Arrangemen...
Appendix III. Principal Policy Decisions of the Executive Board »
A. Access Policy—Guidelines on Access Limits (a) Extension of Annual Access Limit and Period for Review The Fund decides that the annual review of the...
Appendix IV. IMF Relations with Other International Organizations »
The lessons and experiences of the Asian financial crisis, and the need to strengthen the architecture of the international financial system, led to continuing extensive collaboration between the IMF and oth...
Appendix IX. Financial Statements »
Report of the External Audit Committee Washington, DC June 24, 1999 Authority and Scope of the Audit...
Appendix V. External Relations »
In 1998/99, the IMF continued to respond to rising demands for transparency in its activities and policies by stepping up considerably its publication of information—both in print and on its website—and libe...
Appendix VI. Press Communiqués of the Interim Committee and the Development Committee »
Interim Committee of the Board of Governors of the International Monetary System PRESS COMMUNIQUÉS Fifty-First Meeting, Washington, D.C., October 4, 1998...
Appendix VII. Executive Directors and Voting Power on April 30, 1999 »
DirectorAlternate CastingVotes of Votes byCountry TotalVotes...
Appendix VIII. Changes in Membership of the Executive Board »
Changes in membership of the Executive Board between May 1, 1998 and April 30, 1999 were as follows: Han Mingzhi (China) relinquished his duties as Alternate Executive Director to Zhang Zhixiang (Ch...
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Home Business ‘Private’ Treatment For Ailing Air India
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‘Private’ Treatment For Ailing Air India
Air India 787-800 Dreamliner plane being given a ceremonial shower at the Newark airport (Photo: Mohammed Jaffer/IANS)
The central government has mooted its plans to privatise the nation’s ailing carrier Air India to as it gave its in-principle approval for divestment to tackle the Rs 50,000 crore debt mounted so far….reports Asian Lite News
“In-principle approval for Air India divestment has been given,” Finance Minister Arun Jaitley told a press briefing after the cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
“The Civil Aviation Ministry’s proposal for formation of a group under the chairmanship of the Finance Minister to decide the modalities of divestment process has also been accepted,” he said.
Apart from Jaitley, the group will include Civil Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju and some other ministers to be decided by the Prime Minister.
The group will guide the process on strategic divestment and decide that the treatment of unsustainable debt of Air India and hiving-off of certain assets to a shell company, officials said.
The demerger and strategic divestment of three profit making subsidiaries, the quantum of disinvestment and the universe of bidders will also be taken up by the ministerial group to be headed by Jaitley.
Jaitley has in the recent past expressed strong views on the need to divest Air India considering that it had acquired heavy losses over a long period.
“There are many private airlines like Jet Airways, IndiGo, GoAir. If 86 per cent of the aviation market can be handled by private sector, then 100 per cent can also be handled by the private sector,”
Jaitley had said.
Air India Airbus A-320 Neo gets Water Canon Salute as it lands in New Delhi (Photo: IANS)
National passenger carrier Air India currently has a market share of 14 per cent and a debt of Rs 50,000 crore. The private airlines enjoy 86 per cent of the market share.
“Air India has a debt of Rs 50,000 crore. Its valuation of aircrafts will be at Rs 20,000-25,000 crore. The civil aviation ministry is exploring all possibilities,” Jaitley had said.
In a recent report to the Civil Aviation Ministry, the NITI Aayog recommended strategic disinvestment in the loss-making Air India, by which government control would be transferred to a private owner.
The airline in 2015-16 had posted an operating profit of Rs 105 crore. For the last fiscal 2016-17 the company is expected to report an improved operating profit margin.
The flag carrier had got a new lease of life on April 12, 2012, when the previous central government under the UPA regime had approved a Rs 30,000 crore turnaround (TAP) and financial restructuring plans (FRP) package spanning up to the year 2021.
The mega financial package came with stringent riders like maintaining high on-time performance and healthy load factors.
The central government under the TRP had allocated to infuse an additional equity of Rs 1,800 crore in the cash-strapped airline for 2017-18 fiscal.
Currently, Air India’s portfolio of subsidiaries include Air India Engineering Services, Air India Transport Services, Alliance Air, Air India Express and the Hotel Corporation of India. It also has a ground handling joint venture AISATS.
Apart from its subsidiaries, the national passenger carrier owns several properties in India and abroad, operational slots at international airport and priceless art work, besides a well trained manpower.
According to the company’s website, Air India operates 118 different kinds of aircraft. Its international network consists of 41 destinations across the US, Europe, Australia, Far East and South East Asia and the Gulf.
The airline’s domestic network covers 72 destinations, including far-flung areas of the North-East, Ladakh, Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
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Cardinals Compete at Tufts Invitational and ECAC Championships
MIDDLETOWN, Conn. - The Wesleyan University men's and women's track and field teams sent selected athletes to the Tufts Invitational in Medford Mass., which was held on March 4, and the ECAC DIII Indoor Track and Field Championships in Staten Island, N.Y., which was held on March 5th.
TUFTS HIGHLIGHTS
Molly Schassberger '17 finished in seventh place in the 5000 meter run with a time of 17:33.90.
Will Dudek '17 finished the 3000 meter run in 13th place with a mark of 8:40.24.
ECAC HIGHLIGHTS
The men finished 49 of 50 teams.
Tate Knight won his section in the 3000m run with a time of 8:41.93. That time was good enough for 8th place overall.
Agbon Edomwonyi '16 finished in 19th place in the weight throw with a toss of 14.57m.
The women finished 20 of 50 teams.
Jenny Aguiar '19 won her section of the 400m with a time of 58.05. That time was good enough to give her sixth place overall.
In the mile, freshman Julia Mitchell finished seventh in her section with a time of 5:16.06 which gave her 15th overall at the meet.
Christina Hebner '17 completed the 3000m with a time of 10:22.26 which was good enough for seventh place.
In the long jump event, senior Alexis Walker finished in third place with a jump of 5.53m.
Freshman Allegra Fils-Aime earned a fourth place finish in the triple jump with a mark of 11.18m.
August 1, 2016 Wesleyan Track & Field Teams Earn All-Academic Team Honors; Two Cardinals Garner Individual Praise
May 19, 2016 Three Track and Field Athletes Compete at ECAC Championships
May 14, 2016 Five Cardinals Compete in Open New England Championships
May 7, 2016 Women's Track Competes at New England Division III Championships
May 3, 2016 Cardinals Place Six Athletes on Women's Track and Field All-NESCAC Team
April 30, 2016 Women's Track and Field Captures Seventh Place at NESCAC Championships
April 28, 2016 Women's Track and Field Ready for NESCAC Championhsips
April 23, 2016 Women's Track and Field Wins Six Events at J. Elmer Swanson Invitational
April 16, 2016 Cardinals Place Sixth Overall at Two-Day Silfen Invitational
April 9, 2016 Women's Track Finish Fourth at Amherst Spring Fling
April 2, 2016 Wesleyan Finishes Ninth at the US Coast Guard Invitational
March 26, 2016 Women's Track and Field win Five Events at Wesleyan Spring Classic
March 5, 2016 Cardinals Compete at Tufts Invitational and ECAC Championships
February 27, 2016 Track and Field Competes at the New England Indoor Chamiopnships
February 20, 2016 Cardinals Track and Field Compete at DIII New England Finals
February 13, 2016 Cardinals Place 1-3 in the 400M Dash at the MIT Invitational
February 6, 2016 Cardinals Capture Wins in the 4x400 Relay, 800m Run and 400m Dash at the Wesleyan Invitational
January 30, 2016 Women's Track & Field Places Third at Tufts Stampede
January 23, 2016 Cardinals Capture Seven Event Wins at Wesleyan Invitational
January 16, 2016 Wesleyan Finishes Second in the Little Three Track and Field Meet
January 9, 2016 Cardinals Compete at Yale Invitational
Fri, 05/24 | Women's Track & Field NCAA Championship Individual Results (Final) RC | R | PH
Wed, 05/15 | Women's Track & Field Last Chance Meet Individual Results (Final) R
Sat, 05/11 | Women's Track & Field Open New England Championship 34/40 (Final) RC
Sat, 05/04 | Women's Track & Field New England Division III Championship 17/34 (Final) RC | R
Fri, 05/03 | Women's Track & Field New England Division III Championship Day 1 (Final) RC
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A Contrarian View On Nixon’s Pardon for Watergate
June 10, 2012 in Congress, government | Tags: Meet The Press, Nixon, Richard Nixon, United States, Vietnam War, Washington Post, Watergate, Watergate scandal
Today’s Washington Post contains a reflective article by Woodward and Bernstein on issues around the Watergate breakin. On Meet The Press this morning, discussing that story, the authors commented that President Ford‘s decision to pardon Nixon was made in the best interests of the country, so we could “move on.”
I totally disagree.
I’ve always believed that the country would have been well-served, even if it would have been somewhat disruptive, to prosecute Nixon, like the 40 others were were convicted and served time over Watergate. Why? Because if everyday American‘s views of our Presidency had been further compromised by such a trial, we might have instilled a greater sense of humility in those subsequently elected or appointed to high office, hopefully including Congress. Substituting accountability for a “too big to fail” mentality when it comes to our nation’s political leadership would have provided a good object lesson on the value of honesty and the price of deceit for all those who came after.
President Johnson made a similar error when he failed to expose Nixon and Kissinger’s cynical overtures to the Thieu regime in South Vietnam before the election of ’68. Johnson learned that Nixon’s people had encouraged Thieu to back out of the Paris peace talks, which he did, promising that his government would get a better deal under a Nixon Presidency than a Johnson one. The result was that the war in Vietnam went on for another 5 years, with 22,000 more American fatalities. Johnson’s tapes revealed that he learned of the Nixon moves, but didn’t go public with what he called “traitorous acts” because Johnson was too concerned the revelation of these political machinations would have been disruptive to the American people. It might have been, and we might have saved many of the 22,000 American deaths that occurred because of Nixon’s election maneuverings.
Look at the economic disaster that the perverted governmental “too big to fail” economic strategies regarding Wall Street have created. I believe that people can stand to benefit from more truth, transparency and accountability in government, and that the sense of humility those attributes would inculcate in our leadership is worth whatever temporary disruptions our society might incur.
It is high time to bring the era of Big Lies to an end.
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