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Some Christians integrate yoga and other aspects of Eastern spirituality with prayer and meditation. This has been attributed to a desire to experience God in a more complete way.[280] In 2013, Monsignor Raffaello Martinelli, servicing Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, having worked for over 23 years with Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI),[281] said that for his Meditation, a Christian can learn from other religious traditions (zen, yoga, controlled respiration, Mantra), quoting Aspects of Christian meditation: "Just as "the Catholic Church rejects nothing of what is true and holy in these religions," neither should these ways be rejected out of hand simply because they are not Christian. On the contrary, one can take from them what is useful so long as the Christian conception of prayer, its logic and requirements are never obscured. It is within the context of all of this that these bits and pieces should be taken up and expressed anew."[282] Previously, the Roman Catholic Church, and some other Christian organizations have expressed concerns and disapproval with respect to some eastern and New Age practices that include yoga and meditation.[283][284][285]
^ James Mallinson, "Sāktism and Hathayoga," 6 March 2012. PDF file Archived 16 June 2013 at the Wayback Machine [accessed 10 June 2012] pp. 20–21 "The Buddha himself is said to have tried both pressing his tongue to the back of his mouth, in a manner similar to that of the hathayogic khecarīmudrā, and ukkutikappadhāna, a squatting posture which may be related to hathayogic techniques such as mahāmudrā, mahābandha, mahāvedha, mūlabandha, and vajrāsana in which pressure is put on the perineum with the heel, in order to force upwards the breath or Kundalinī."
Genetics, or inherited traits from parents, also play a role in determining the health status of individuals and populations. This can encompass both the predisposition to certain diseases and health conditions, as well as the habits and behaviors individuals develop through the lifestyle of their families. For example, genetics may play a role in the manner in which people cope with stress, either mental, emotional or physical. For example, obesity is a significant problem in the United States that contributes to bad mental health and causes stress in the lives of great numbers of people.[31] (One difficulty is the issue raised by the debate over the relative strengths of genetics and other factors; interactions between genetics and environment may be of particular importance.)
The earliest references to hatha yoga are in Buddhist works dating from the eighth century.[197] The earliest definition of hatha yoga is found in the 11th century Buddhist text Vimalaprabha, which defines it in relation to the center channel, bindu etc.[198] Hatha yoga synthesizes elements of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras with posture and breathing exercises.[199] It marks the development of asanas (plural) into the full body 'postures' now in popular usage[15] and, along with its many modern variations, is the style that many people associate with the word yoga today.[200]
Vajrayana is also known as Tantric Buddhism and Tantrayāna. Its texts were compiled starting with 7th century and Tibetan translations were completed in 8th century CE. These tantra yoga texts were the main source of Buddhist knowledge that was imported into Tibet.[185] They were later translated into Chinese and other Asian languages, helping spread ideas of Tantric Buddhism. The Buddhist text Hevajra Tantra and Caryāgiti introduced hierarchies of chakras.[186] Yoga is a significant practice in Tantric Buddhism.[187][188][189]
Just as there was a shift from viewing disease as a state to thinking of it as a process, the same shift happened in definitions of health. Again, the WHO played a leading role when it fostered the development of the health promotion movement in the 1980s. This brought in a new conception of health, not as a state, but in dynamic terms of resiliency, in other words, as "a resource for living". 1984 WHO revised the definition of health defined it as "the extent to which an individual or group is able to realize aspirations and satisfy needs and to change or cope with the environment. Health is a resource for everyday life, not the objective of living; it is a positive concept, emphasizing social and personal resources, as well as physical capacities".[10] Thus, health referred to the ability to maintain homeostasis and recover from insults. Mental, intellectual, emotional and social health referred to a person's ability to handle stress, to acquire skills, to maintain relationships, all of which form resources for resiliency and independent living.[9] This opens up many possibilities for health to be taught, strengthened and learned.
^ Gavin Flood: "These renouncer traditions offered a new vision of the human condition which became incorporated, to some degree, into the worldview of the Brahman householder. The ideology of asceticism and renunciation seems, at first, discontinuous with the brahmanical ideology of the affirmation of social obligations and the performance of public and domestic rituals. Indeed, there has been some debate as to whether asceticism and its ideas of retributive action, reincarnation and spiritual liberation, might not have originated outside the orthodox vedic sphere, or even outside Aryan culture: that a divergent historical origin might account for the apparent contradiction within 'Hinduism' between the world affirmation of the householder and the world negation of the renouncer. However, this dichotomization is too simplistic, for continuities can undoubtedly be found between renunciation and vedic Brahmanism, while elements from non-Brahmanical, Sramana traditions also played an important part in the formation of the renunciate ideal. Indeed there are continuities between vedic Brahmanism and Buddhism, and it has been argued that the Buddha sought to return to the ideals of a vedic society which he saw as being eroded in his own day."[49]
According to Pāṇini, the term yoga can be derived from either of two roots, yujir yoga (to yoke) or yuj samādhau ("to concentrate").[26] In the context of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, the root yuj samādhau (to concentrate) is considered by traditional commentators as the correct etymology.[27] In accordance with Pāṇini, Vyasa who wrote the first commentary on the Yoga Sutras,[28] states that yoga means samādhi (concentration).[29]
In the first decade of the 21st century, the conceptualization of health as an ability opened the door for self-assessments to become the main indicators to judge the performance of efforts aimed at improving human health.[16] It also created the opportunity for every person to feel healthy, even in the presence of multiple chronic diseases, or a terminal condition, and for the re-examination of determinants of health, away from the traditional approach that focuses on the reduction of the prevalence of diseases.[17]
Another text which teaches yoga with an Advaita point of view is the Yoga-Yājñavalkya.[262] This work contains extensive teachings on ten Yamas (ethical rules) and ten Niyamas (duties), and eight asanas. It also discusses a theory of nadis and prana (vital breath), and follows this with instructions on pranayama (breath control), pratyahara (sense withdrawal), meditation on mantras, meditative visualizations and Kundalini.
These meditations were seen as being supported by the other elements of the eightfold path, such as the practice of ethics, right exertion, sense restraint and right view.[244] Two mental qualities are said to be indispensable for yogic practice in Buddhism, samatha (calm, stability) and vipassanā (insight, clear seeing).[245] Samatha is the quality of a stable, relaxed and calm mind. It is also associated with samadhi (mental unification, focus) and dhyana (a state of meditative absorption). Vipassanā meanwhile, is a kind of insight or penetrative understanding into the true nature of phenomena. It is also defined as "seeing things as they truly are" (yathābhūtaṃ darśanam). The true nature of things is defined and explained in different ways, but an important and unique feature of classical Buddhism is its understanding of all phenomena (dhammas) as being empty of a self (atman) or inherent essence, a doctrine termed Anatta ("not-self") and Śūnyatā (emptiness).[246][247] This is in sharp contrast with most other Indian traditions, whose goals are founded either on the idea of an individual soul (atman, jiva, purusha) or a universal monistic consciousness ( Brahman). Vipassanā also requires an understanding of suffering or dukkha (and thus the four noble truths), impermanence (anicca) and interdependent origination. https://buzzingofferbusinessinvesting.tumblr.com/
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Baystreet Staff - Friday, December 07, 2018
Why Iraq Is Crucial To U.S. Sanctions On Iran
Iraq, OPEC’s second-largest oil producer and one of Iran’s largest trade partners might come to enjoy even longer sanction waivers from Washington than the eight countries that scored a 180-day sanction relief last month. The reason: curbing Iran’s influence over its neighbor is a long-term goal, not something that could be done with sanctions inside a year, writes Natasha Turak for CNBC.
Washington gave Iraq a 45-day sanction waiver, but analysts seem to be unanimous this will be extended because of Iraq’s overwhelming dependence on Iranian natural gas for its power stations. Iran already played the gas card once this year, when Baghdad was late with payments. Tehran turned off the flow, which led to power outages, which, in turn, ignited the protests that shook southern Iraq this summer.
As much as the United States wants an Iraq less dependent on Iran, it does not need disturbances in Iraq, which has yet to get back to its feet after the U.S. invasion and the war with Islamic State. Washington seems to be aware of this and is treading carefully because it is all too easy to push the country further into the arms of Tehran. A more aggressive approach to a country with such close and long-standing ties to its neighbor will likely have the opposite of the desirable effect.
Yet playing the game of distancing Iraq from Iran will take years. Many in Iraq, Turak notes, are unhappy with Iran’s influence in the country and would like to see it reduced. This is a factor Washington has going for it, but it’s likely one of very few alongside Baghdad’s simple need for material and political support from the United States as Iraq struggles along the way to recovery.
Meanwhile, Iraq may be on the way to alienating some of its closest allies besides Iran, namely Saudi Arabia and its Gulf sidekicks. OPEC’s number-two does not want to cut its oil production. What’s more, it might not even be able to cut, CNBC’s Brian Sullivan noted in an overview of the cartel situation earlier this week. There is even speculation Iraq might follow Qatar in quitting the cartel, which would obliterate any positive effect of any cuts on prices. And it would make President Trump happy with Baghdad as well. Ironically enough, it would also likely further strengthen the relationship between Baghdad and Tehran as the latter is also opposed to production cuts.
The Iraq game is a long game and victory for the U.S. is uncertain. Despite the eight-year Iran-Iraq war from the 1980s, no amount of effort would achieve a complete estrangement between the neighbors. But complete estrangement is hardly the goal of Washington: Iraq’s role would more likely be that of a buffer between Iran and the rest of the world. To convince it to play this role, Washington would need to continue being careful in Iraq, careful and patient.
Iran, meanwhile, will hardly watch and do nothing. On the contrary: last month President Hassan Rouhani announced bilateral trade with Iraq could be boosted to US$20 billion annually from the current US$12 billion despite the U.S. sanctions.
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Liechtenstein Travel and Tourism
Principality of Liechtenstein is a double landlocked alpine microstate in Western Europe, bordered by Switzerland to the west and by Austria to the east. Liechtenstein is the smallest German-speaking country in the world. It is a constitutional monarchy divided into 11 municipalities. Its capital is Vaduz. Much of Liechtenstein's terrain is mountainous, making it a winter sports destination. Many cultivated fields and small farms characterize its landscape both in the north and in the south . The country has a strong financial sector and has been identified as a tax haven. It is a member of the European Free Trade Agreement. Liechtenstein is not part of the European Union and has shown no interest in joining.
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Know About Liechtenstein Before Travel - Vaduz
Liechtenstein maintains a complete customs union with Switzerland and hence does not issue its own visas: if you can enter Switzerland, you can enter Liechtenstein, and there are no border formalities needed for crossing between the two countries. In essence there is nothing more than a sign announcing your arrival in Switzerland or Liechtenstein, similar to the situation at smaller border crossing in many EU nations, (Austria/Germany/France/Italy etc.) Stamp hunters can, however, get an authentic Liechtenstein entry stamp in their passport at Vaduz's tourist office for €1.50. The stamp is also available at the Liechtensteines Landesmuseum. This is the same entry stamp received (for free) by non-European visitors wh...
The Principality of Liechtenstein - Vaduz
The Principality of Liechtenstein was established within the Holy Roman Empire in 1719; it became a sovereign state in 1806. Until the end of World War I, it was closely tied to Austria, but the economic devastation caused by that conflict forced Liechtenstein to enter into a customs and monetary union with Switzerland. Since World War II (in which Liechtenstein remained neutral), the country's low taxes have spurred outstanding economic growth. Shortcomings in banking regulatory oversight resulted in concerns about the use of financial institutions for money laundering. However, Liechtenstein implemented anti-money-laundering legislation over the past several years and a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty with the US wen...
Top Five Attraction of Liechtenstein - Vaduz
For many, Liechtenstein is one of those magical places dreamed up by a novelist, but the real beauty of this tiny princedom is that it actually exists. Squeezed between Austria and Switzerland, Liechtenstein may be small, but it's worth a visit - even if it's just to get another stamp on your passport. Here are five of the top attractions: 1. Hofkellerei des Fursten von Liechtenstein - or the Prince of Liechtenstein's wine cellars: Award-winning wines and unbelievable hospitality make this a wine tasting experience you'll never forget. Signs around the vineyard describe how the grapes go from vine to wine. Wines from Liechtenstein make princely perfect gifts. The wine cellars are located in Vaduz, Liechtenstein's c...
Liechtenstein the Switzerland for Visitors - Vaduz
It isn't surprising that most travelers know little about Liechtenstein: The country measures about 4 miles wide by 16 miles long (6.5 x 24 km) and has a mere 31,000 inhabitants. With a population of 4,900, Vaduz--the capital and leading metropolis--is smaller than Montpelier, Vermont. So what does Liechtenstein have to offer the visitor? Mainly, a pleasant break from more crowded tourist destinations--along with an intriguing look at a society that blends enlightened feudalism with modern constitutional democracy. In theory, Prince Hans Adam and the people share power equally, and in practice the democratic monarchy combines economic prosperity with political freedoms that citizens of many other nations might envy...
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Jon Thompson: Career Locations 2000-07
Jon Thompson
Photo: Frank Kaiser
Birth Date April 1, 1977 (42 years old)
Home Town Manhattan Beach, CA
Resides Hermosa Beach, CA
College Golden West College/Indiana-Purdue at Fort Wayne
United States 25th (4 times) $200
AVP 25th (4 times) $200
NORCECA 3rd $375
Overall 3rd $575
Season Assoc Played 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 7th 9th Money Points Rank 13th 17th 25th 29th 33rd 37th 41st 43rd 53rd 57th
2000 AVP 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0.00 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
2002 AVP 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0.00 10.0 202nd 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
2003 AVP 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $50.00 73.0 80th 0 0 1 0 3 1 1 1 0 1
2004 AVP 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $150.00 75.0 76th 0 0 3 1 0 0 1 0 0 1
2005 AVP 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0.00 85.0 86th 0 0 0 2 3 1 2 0 0 1
2006 AVP 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0.00 40.0 138th 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 0 1 1
2007 AVP 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0.00 8.0 342nd 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
(327th) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $200.00
(887th) 291.0 0 0 4 3 7 3 8 1 1 6
2007 NORCECA 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 $375.00 120.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
(Rank) 1
(799th) 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 $575.00 411.0 0 0 4 3 7 3 8 1 1 6
Partner Played 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 7th 9th Money Points 13th 17th 25th 29th 33rd 37th 41st 43rd 53rd 57th
Matt Prosser 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $100 71.0 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 1 0 2
JP Calderon 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 48.0 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 0
Chris Seiffert 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 30.0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 1
Ryan Mariano 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $50 40.0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0
Peter Jordan 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 10.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0
Chris Kosty 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $50 18.0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Steve Delaney 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 9.0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Jeff Carlucci 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 9.0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Derek Zimmerman 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 9.0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
Ben Koski 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 6.0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
Tom Barber 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 6.0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
Jonathan Scott 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 10.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Hans Stolfus 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 7.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Brian Duff 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 6.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Chad Mowrey 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Jeff Ptak 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 4.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Matt Heagy 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 4.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Chris Magill 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0 4.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Total 33 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $200 291.0 0 0 4 3 7 3 8 1 1 6
Brad Torsone 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 $375 120.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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CLUES IN THE CLIFFS: PALEONTOLOGY HALL
Background and Theme—The paleontology gallery displays fossils from the Miocene epoch. That block of earth history lasted from about 23 to 5.3 million years ago. The fossils found along Calvert Cliffs are from the Miocene. For most of that epoch, global temperatures were warmer than they are today. Towards the close of the Miocene, the climate cooled - a trend that culminated in the Pleistocene epoch ice age, the most recent one with which we are all familiar. Because of evolution and extinction, only about 11% of species alive today were alive during the Miocene. To learn more about the Miocene epoch and all of the fossils on display, touch the “Time Spiral” on the touch screens located in front of the timeline mural.
Fossils—The fossil case to the left as you enter the gallery includes examples of the many ways in which the remains of organisms can become fossilized. See also the Maryland state fossil, Ecphora gardenerae, originally found in St. Mary’s County. There are more examples of local and Miocene fossils on the back wall, and more information about each type of fossil on the touch screens. Just click on the “Types of Fossils” button. If you have collected fossils from along Calvert Cliffs, use our guide to help identify your find. Those fossils, including shells, sharks’ teeth, and bones, are located on the wall opposite the recreated mural of the cliffs.
Plate Tectonics—Take a few minutes to watch the short video on the large-screen TV about plate tectonics, the birth of the Atlantic, and the formation of the Chesapeake Bay. Find out how Calvert Cliffs formed and why the Miocene epoch was vital in forming today’s landscape. Also see how erosion allows us a glimpse into the prehistoric world.
The Changing U.S.—Want to know how the shape of the United States has changed through time? You’ll find the answers on the Earth Timeline Mural. Just look for the map of the United States. You can also follow the continents as they move (known as plate tectonics) through much of Earth’s history using the “Animation” feature on the touch screens.
Mass Extinction—It wasn’t just the dinosaurs—five of the largest mass extinctions of all time are included on the “Earth Timeline.” Learn about cycles of global warming and cooling and find out what caused them. Play the “Mass Extinction” game on the touch screens. Use the information on the wall to help you. What do you think—Are we on the verge of another mass extinction?
Complexity of Fossils—Before leaving the “Earth Timeline,” note how organisms become more complex over time by noting the silhouettes of different life forms at the rim of the Timeline. Can you find the horseshoe crab and scorpion?
Sharks—You can’t miss the impressive megalodon skeleton replica, but also be sure to note that fossil remains of smaller dolphins and toothed whales are prominent in the Calvert Cliffs. Also learn about the other kinds of sharks which lived in prehistoric times, as well as their descendants with which we are familiar today.
Teeth and Death—Because sharks’ teeth are often the only evidence of their prehistoric presence on Earth, how was the whole skeleton of this extinct giant shark reconstructed? Look to the “Building the Megatooth” exhibit for answers. Find out just why we find so many sharks’ teeth in “The Science of Death” exhibit, and learn what kind of fossil evidence you might leave behind as a dead ocean dweller at the “Wheel of Fossil Fortune” dial.
The Chesapeake in the Miocene—In the “Life Along the Miocene Coast” exhibit, the animal and plant fossils on display reveal a great deal about what life was like along the Atlantic coast during the Miocene. The presence of crocodile fossils shows us that it would have been wet and warm. The closest living cousin to this extinct croc is the False Gavial of Malaysia and Indonesia!
Diversity of Whales—In the “Diversity of Whales” exhibit, see how, as you go back in time, whales increasingly resemble carnivorous, land-dwelling mammals. Why did these earliest land-dwelling ‘whales’ take to water? Think about this when you see our river otters, Bubbles and Squeak. The earliest whales were similar in body proportions and life style. Land-dwelling whales were extinct long before the Miocene.
Prep Lab—Learn how fossils are collected, prepared, and preserved in the short video. Watch the fossil preparators at work! Retired dental scalers are the tool of choice here. Feel free to ask them questions, they have a wealth of information.
RIVER TO BAY: REFLECTIONS AND CONNECTIONS
The Chesapeake Bay is our nation’s most diverse and productive estuary, a place where freshwater and saltwater mix. It is supplied by a watershed of rivers and streams that spans over 64,000 square miles. Humans began living here at least 12,000 years ago, when glaciers receded and sea levels rose, filling the carved out riverbed of the ancient Susquehanna River to form the modern Chesapeake Bay. Since then, population in the watershed has steadily increased and estimates project as many as 20 million people will live here by 2030. Intense development, pollution, overfishing, and warming temperatures will continue to push the Chesapeake Bay closer to the tipping point, when recovery becomes impossible. The choices we make can help reverse this trend.
For information on how you can help, visit Team Chesapeake.
For a downloadable Gallery Guide of this exhibit, click here. This guide was developed by students from St. Mary's College as part of a class project.
PATUXENT: A RIVER AND ITS PEOPLE
Background and Theme – The maritime heritage of the Southern Maryland region is the story of human habitation along the Patuxent River over time. This is a story driven by geography and patterns of trade and settlement unique in the Chesapeake Bay. It tells of early settlers, individual entrepreneurs, rugged watermen, and skilled craftsmen seeking a better life for themselves and their families, and how that human interaction contributes to the constant changes in the Chesapeake Bay.
Start your stroll through history by taking a few minutes to watch the video that will introduce you to the history of life along the Patuxent River. You may also find the map of the Patuxent River watershed and the facts noted of interest.
People of the Patuxent – 12,000 years ago, the Patuxent was home to an Algonquin-speaking people who fished, hunted, and farmed in order to make a living. In this exhibit you can see some of the tools that they used, such as shark teeth as scraping tools, fish spears, axe heads, and an awl. The first contact the Pawtuxunt had with Europeans was in 1588, and by the 1670s the Algonquins of the Patuxent were either dead or had moved away, and the region’s way of life was altered drastically. Note the mural in the background and look for the artifacts that are exhibited in the case.
Colonial Connections – Captain John Smith explored and mapped the Chesapeake Bay in 1608. Smith’s observations and sketches formed the basis for his remarkable 1612 map of the bay, which served as the definitive rendering of the region for nearly a century. For colonists in the Chesapeake Bay, tobacco formed the foundation of societal and economic growth. Find out how the river was the crucial link connecting tobacco planters with English merchants. See if you can find the pig iron in this area of the exhibit. Look at the picture and see what you can learn about early colonial life along the river. Don’t miss the Highway of Commerce map at the end of this section.
Slavery on the Patuxent – Enslaved Africans were brought to the Americas on one leg of the Atlantic Triangle Trade route. The Chesapeake region became home to more than 125,000 Africans. That’s roughly one-third of all slaves shipped between the 1600s and early 1800s to British colonies and the U.S. Overall, about 12.5 million Africans crossed the Atlantic, most going to South America and the Caribbean. Nearly one in five Africans perished during the notorious Middle Passage. Over the next 200 years, Africans and native born African Americans suffered the unspeakable horrors of bondage. In the fields and elsewhere, they endured physical and emotional hardship. But enslaved people also forged family and community ties, and those networks would sustain African-American life. Even after freedom came in 1864 with Maryland’s abolition of slavery, the bonds within the African-American community remained strong.
War Comes to the Patuxent – During the War of 1812, the British wrecked havoc up and down the Patuxent River trying to disrupt the economy. They burned tobacco barns, private homes, and the Calvert County Courthouse over the summer of 1814. In this exhibit, you will learn about a local hero, Joshua Barney and his famous flotilla. When you study the mural, consider that you are looking at the battle from behind the British lines at the Americans. Take a moment to follow the movements of the Battle of St. Leonard on the large electronic map, and see how this area played a significant role in the conflict in 1814.
Sail to Steam – This section of the exhibit tells the story of a period of growing stability and gradual change along the Patuxent River. Tobacco farming remained the economic mainstay, but after 1865 seafood harvesting and processing rapidly grew in importance. And while locals continued relying on sailing craft to get their goods to market, steamboats increasingly linked the isolated communities along the Patuxent to the outside world.
In the large picture to the left of the case, what can you learn about life during this period? What are these people doing? In the case see if you can tell the difference between a sloop and a pungy and a ram – each was used for a different purpose. Look for the stories of some of the local characters like Captain Susie Brinsfield. And learn how steam engines changed life along the Patuxent. Look for models of the newer, faster steam boats, as well as the tools that were used on them, an authentic steam engine, and other memorabilia, including a telescope, maps, and photographs.
During the age of the steamboat, travelers shared space with many types of cargo, such as crates of fruits and vegetables, barrels of seafood, hogsheads of tobacco, farming implements, furniture, and even live animals. View some of the shipping crates and barrels, as well as photographs of the ships.
Tobacco – Rounding the corner you will see a large barrel called a hogs head that was used to pack transport tobacco. Tobacco was so valuable to this area that it was used for currency. In the display along the left of the aisle, you can learn how it was grown, harvested, and shipped.
Entrepreneurs on the Patuxent – Following the Civil War, there was an explosion of new ideas and new industries in this region. Suddenly outsiders were seeing profits to be made from the rich seafood available in the rivers and bay. Men like Isaac Solomon and James T. Marsh brought their energy, their entrepreneurial spirit, and their financial resources to this area, changing it forever.
Isaac Solomon – Learn more about the man the island is named for, though he didn’t stay long after he built the island’s first oyster cannery in 1865. Find out about the more successful businessmen that followed him, such as Joseph C. Lore and Thomas R. Moore and John H. Farren, who bought the whole island in 1879 for $6,225. On the left side of this case, follow the journey that a can of oysters from Solomon’s cannery might have taken to arrive on a plate in California.
Seasons of Plenty, Seasons of Want – As new industries developed in the Chesapeake, more workers were required to support them, and a new labor force emerged, including watermen, cannery workers, shuckers, stevedores, and shipyard workers. They exploited the wide variety of seafood resources that the bay had to offer, such as crabs, eels, oysters, and soft shell clams.
Century of Shipbuilding – Find out how the M.M. Davis shipyard endured for over a century by changing with the times. See pictures and models of the different types of ships built there, from steamboats to custom yachts.
Marine Carving – This case shows a number of find examples of marine carving, and explains how the process works. Carving was an important skill and added an artistic touch, as well as identifying marks to water craft.
Shipyard Trades: A Community of Skills – Many craftsmen were employed at the Moore, Marsh, and Davis shipyards. Learn how shipwrights, carpenters, caulkers, riggers, carvers, sail makers, and blacksmiths worked together to build vessels for work, war, and pleasure. Check out all of the various tools on display, as well as several interesting figureheads and name boards.
A Business of Recreation – The Cruis-Along was a popular line of recreational boats built at the M.M. Davis & Son shipyard near Solomons. Marketed to a growing middle class, these boats became symbols of success and leisure during the postwar boom. Learn how pleasure boats, like the Cruis-Along Angler model on display, gave new life to the local boatbuilding industry.
A Lasting Military Presence – Discover why the lower Patuxent River provided an ideal location for three naval bases during World War II. In this exhibit, you can see navy ship models and navy plane test models. Also displayed are navy uniforms, a mine and torpedo like the ones tested here, and other local World War II memorabilia. Learn why wartime amphibious training and ordinance testing changed life for many local watermen and their families. Find out how local home front activities supported the war effort.
A Recreational Playground – The growing affluence of Americans after the war allowed more time for recreational activities such as fishing, boating, boat racing, and general tourism. Classic boating equipment is on display, including a Whirlwind runabout and water skis. Learn about fishing techniques and see an assortment of antique fishing rods, reels, and lures. A variety of antique outboards, the small boat motors that made water recreation affordable for people in all economic classes, and the pricier racing motors, are shown and explained. See boat racing memorabilia, including an authentic racing hydroplane, and watch vintage footage of local power boat racing that makes this popular spectator sport come alive. The backdrop of a large wall mural helps bring the recreational playground to life.
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28 June 2013, New York, NY – A dog looks toward the street from within City Hall Park in Tribeca. He waits with a group of humans and dogs that make up the Ryders Alley Trencher-fed Society (R.A.T.S.) to begin their hunt for rats as a form of pest control in Theatre Alley in Lower Manhattan. The photos in this album were made in collaboration with Roads and Kingdoms. (Copyright Bonnie Arbittier)
28 June 2013, New York, NY – A dog is led by a leash to exit City Hall Park in Tribeca. He walks with a group of humans and dogs that make up the Ryders Alley Trencher-fed Society (R.A.T.S.), which hunts rats as a form of pest control in Lower Manhattan. (Copyright Bonnie Arbittier)
28 June 2013, New York, NY – Richard Reynolds, a business consultant by day, is the leader of R.A.T.S. (Copyright Bonnie Arbittier)
28 June 2013, New York, NY – R.A.T.S. often comes to hunt in Theatre Alley, between Beekman and Ann Streets in Lower Manhattan, because pedestrians are few and garbage is left to sit undisturbed for hours at a time. (Copyright Bonnie Arbittier)
28 June 2013, New York, NY – 7-year-old Border Terrier Merlin catches and kills a rat for pest control purposes in Theatre Alley in Lower Manhattan. (Copyright Bonnie Arbittier)
28 June 2013, New York, NY – Six dead rats line a sidewalk in Theatre Alley in Lower Manhattan after being caught and killed by the dogs of R.A.T.S. (Copyright Bonnie Arbittier)
28 June 2013, New York, NY – A pile of dead rats lays on a sidewalk in Theatre Alley in Lower Manhattan after being caught and killed by the dogs of R.A.T.S. (Copyright Bonnie Arbittier)
28 June 2013, New York, NY – R.A.T.S. leaves Theatre Alley in Lower Manhattan after catching six rats and walks toward Eden Alley in Lower Manhattan to find more rats to catch as a form of pest control. (Copyright Bonnie Arbittier)
28 June 2013, New York, NY – A dog takes a break from hunting rats in Eden Alley in Lower Manhattan. (Copyright Bonnie Arbittier)
28 June 2013, New York, NY – 6-month-old Bedlington terrier Catcher stands on a sidewalk in Eden Alley in Lower Manhattan as a cab drives through. (Copyright Bonnie Arbittier)
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Melammu volumes have broadened the horizons of studies of antiquity by encouraging the crossing of geographical and cultural boundaries between ancient civilizations of the Mediterranean and Near East. The present Melammu volume extends from Greece to India, with articles on Phrygia and Armenia, also viewing texts from ancient Israel, Egypt, and Mesopotamia. The globalization described in this volume extends over language barriers and literatures, showing how texts as well as goods can travel between societies and regions. This collection of papers offer new insights and perspectives into connections between the Mediterranean World, Mesopotamia, Anatolia, Persia and India. --- The series Proceedings of the Max Planck Research Library for the History and Development of Knowledge presents the results of scientific meetings on current issues and supports further cooperation on these issues via an electronic platform. 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.edtion-open-access.de, supplemented by additional information and interactive features. The original scholarly work presented in these volumes is published under the responsibility of designated members of the Scientific Board and their appointed reviewers.
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Eveline Luppi is a painter who aims to create work that is “highly emotional and emblematic of the complexities of contemporary life.” She works with a limited palette and blends white with selected colors to reveal a “subtle gradation of color that flows effortlessly from light to dark.” The artist feels that her minimalist approach, coupled with architectural and geometric abstraction, results in paintings that evoke a calm, Zen-like feeling in the viewer. Luppi is largely influenced by Dutch neo-plasticism, Russian constructivism, and Islamic art.
White Sands Revisited, the artist’s most recent monochromatic series, evolved from an earlier series she created for a solo show in the artist colony in Provincetown, MA. The works are a reflection of Luppi’s visits to the Atlantic shoreline of Cape Cod, specifically the dunes and beaches of Provincetown and the National Seashore. Luppi feels the pieces are reminiscent of “peaceful times spent on the beaches” and of “subtle patterns and markings of the white sands” she observed while walking along the seashore.
Eveline Luppi has instructed abstract painting at the Providence Art Club and the Newport Art Museum Coleman Center in Newport, RI. She has exhibited in New York, the Hamptons, and New England, including at the Sideshow Gallery in New York City and the Maxwell Mays Gallery in Rhode Island. She received the Felicia Meyers Scholarship Award from the Art Students League in New York City and the Banigan Sullivan Award from the Providence Art Club in Rhode Island.
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Panzi Hospital's patients include women who have been subjected to violence in the war.
An operation to repair a fistula, a large leakage in the genital area.
The queue for the ultra sound examination.
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Dance and drum therapy
Children play while their mothers receive care.
Doctor Mukwege, the founder and driving force behind Panzi Hospital.
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Doktor Mukwege operates.
Doktor Nene using the ultra-sound equipment.
Ultra-sound is used to diagnose stomach problems.
The staff also take part in the dance therapy.
Panzi Hospital
Dr Denis Mukwege adjusts his glasses and gently stretches the back wall of the vagina as he lifts up the front wall with a spatula. He must be able to see properly. The operating theatre has large windows which let in the daylight.
“Would a male lion destroy a female lion’s genitals? It’s unthinkable.”
Who: Panzi Hospital
What: Treats survivors of sexual violence and women with severe gynaecological problems.
In Bukavu, Congo, you cannot always rely on the electricity to work. The fistula Dr Mukwege is operating on is deep inside, and is difficult to get at. Will he be able to help the woman on the other side of the operating screen who is staring at the ceiling with her eyes wide open? She is in pain and frightened and he does not want to cause her unnecessary suffering.
He knows that her future may depend on whether or not he succeeds. A fistula means that the genital area has been badly torn, usually as a result of a childbirth gone wrong. If the baby gets stuck in the birth canal on the way out, the walls between the vagina, bladder and rectum can tear, and she will begin to leak and to smell. She might have difficulty having a normal sex life and having children.
A Congolese woman who cannot have sex or bear children is no longer a real woman. Some cannot be fully cured. Even when Dr Mukwege has done everything humanly possible, the women sometimes refuse to go home. They no longer have a life, they will be mocked and cast out, and their husbands often refuse to take them back. What alternatives do they have, other than taking their place on the bench outside the famous gynaecologist’s office and hoping?
A woman who has 'been the wife of' a rapist, or even, in the worst case, borne his child, is disowned frighteningly often.
Panzi Hospital was at first known as ‘the fistula hospital’ when it was founded in 1999, but the war victims soon took up more and more of the beds. Mutilated, raped and traumatised women sought out the well-ordered hospital area. Many of them had been driven out from their families. A woman who has “been the wife of” a rapist, or even, in the worst case, borne his child, is disowned frighteningly often. When things were at their worst, they made up 77 per cent of all the patients in the ward for female Survivors of Sexual Violence (SSV). Today that figure has fallen to 50 per cent. There are fewer military attacks and there are more hospitals to treat the victims.
Since the project started in 2004, the hospital has treated over 35,000 survivors of sexual violence. The fistula patients, such as the terrified woman on the operating table, can also be seen as victims of war. Countless health centres around the country have been forced to close for security reasons. It has always been difficult to have medical care for a complicated childbirth in Congo. In many places today it is totally impossible.
As far as Dr Mukwege is concerned, it is all related. The view of women as subordinate beings, whose only purpose is to give birth to and raise children – that, and to do most of the work as well, of course – makes him furious. He talks about women’s right to orgasm – which our interpreter cautiously translates as “sexual satisfaction”. He describes the uniformed rapists as “worse than animals”.
He talks about women’s right to orgasm – which our interpreter cautiously translates as 'sexual satisfaction'.
The patients we are able to talk to, after considerable negotiation, are victims of both military and civil violence. Judith, a tiny, mini-woman was born with a muscle disease and is the size of an eight-year-old. She was raped by two civilian bandits on her way home from church. At first she did not dare to tell anyone because she was ashamed, but in the end she was unable to ignore the fact. How would her tiny body cope with pregnancy and childbirth? At Panzi Hospital it did. One week ago her baby was born by Caesarian section. The boy is completely healthy, and very beautiful, his proud mother tells us.
The hospital has 416 beds. Around half the patients are treated under the SSV project, which is run with funding from the Swedish Pentecostal Mission (PMU) and the European Commission Humanitarian Aid department. The rest of the hospital is an ordinary hospital which treats both women and men and where the patients pay for their care.
Most of the women in the SSV unit remain at the hospital for a long time. The period of care varies from 10 days to many months. A fistula patient normally stays for three months. Some do not want to go home once their treatment has been completed. Some simply cannot go home.
“For those who are not welcome home we offer transit accommodation at Dorcas where they have time to come to terms with their situation and consider their future,” says Dr Nene Rukunghu who co-ordinates the care at the SSV unit. “They receive an education there, they are taught to read, write and count, and given vocational training.”
For those who are not welcome home we offer transit accommodation.
A small room at the hospital houses the legal project. Women can come here for help with making a police report, questions of inheritance, property disputes and other things. For example, under Congolese law if a man has abandoned his wife and children, he still has an obligation to support them. Panzi has “women’s rights houses”, where specially trained advisers seek out and receive victims of violence, in eight villages.
“In the last year alone we have succeeded in taking 141 cases to court and in 55 cases we have secured a conviction,” lawyer Yvette Kabuo says proudly.
The sound of drums can be heard from a copse in the hospital grounds. The travelling music and theatre group visits the hospital every second week. The patients, wearing colourful dresses, gather in a swaying ring. Social assistant Yvette Bunvanja stands in the centre and welcomes them all:
“We all have our problems, including me. But joy, music and song help us to carry our burdens. Are you there?”
“We are here!” reply the women in unison.
“When you hear the drums you will feel happy.”
We all have our problems, including me. But joy, music and song help us to carry our burdens.
And that signals the beginning of one and a half hours of singing and dancing games. “What does the rooster say? Cock-a-doodle-doo! What does the rooster do? Puffs up his feathers!” The other side of the ring answers in song and dance: “What does the cow say? Moo-oo-oo! What does the cow do? Butts with her horns!”
The tension is released, a group who have recently undergone surgery and are too weak to stand, sit on a bench bleating and clucking, and everyone is laughing.
Afterwards Yvette tells us about other forms of therapy:
“When a patient is admitted she is given a medical examination and then she sees the psychologist. We offer various forms of therapy depending on what she has been through: group therapy, individual counselling or narrative therapy.
The narrative, which comes from the women herself, is illustrated along a time line (a rope) and with sources of happiness (flowers) and sorrow (stones).
“When the patient reaches the biggest stones she usually tries to avoid them. My job is to help her to manage to lift those stones too. It is very difficult. In our culture we have no tradition of talking about problems, or of thinking in psychological terms. According to the Bashi tribe’s rules women do not talk in public, in any situation.”
In our culture we have no tradition of talking about problems, or of thinking in psychological terms.
Yvette has taken many courses and learned how to talk about rape and mutilated genitals. Other people’s rapes, that is. When we ask why no-one in Congo talks about the ‘normal’ partner violence, about men beating and raping their wives, she smiles sadly:
“We haven’t got that far yet. Not even those of us who work with the question. If my husband comes home drunk and beats me I would never tell anyone. In our private lives we have only taken a few small steps.”
“The only good thing to come out of all the abuse during the war,” says Dr Mukwege, “is that we are finally beginning to talk about the violence. More civil rapes are being reported, for example when the perpetrator is a neighbour or teacher. But what happens within the family is still ‘private’. Women are still seen as objects to satisfy men’s lust, without their own rights. We still have a lot of work to do.”
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Maternal deaths: Just over 900 deaths per l00,000 births ****
Number of children/woman: 5.2 (2011)
Abortion legislation: Abortion is forbidden, even when the mother’s life is at risk.
Law against rape within marriage: No
Violence against women in close relationships: 1.8 million women will be raped during their lifetime. Congo is the second most dangerous country in the world for a woman to live in.
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SIR DUKE - Stevie Wond...
Marshall Jones III January 03, 2019
That opening horn line. Ya’ll know it. Da, da, da, DAH!
The horn line is nearly as iconic as the man the title of the song celebrates – the king of all – Sir Duke – who is affectionately known to music & jazz aficionados around the world as Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974).
In the late 50’s, Duke’s music made an indelible impression on a budding blind young artist popularly known as Little Stevie. Motown CEO Berry Gordy signed the prodigy to his Tamla Records when Stevie was only 11 years-old.
“Ellington’s music had a big influence on me. I know the title (Sir Duke) from the beginning. I wanted the song to be about the musicians who did something for us,” Stevie said. “So soon they are forgotten. I wanted to show my appreciation. They gave us something that is supposed to be forever.”
Sir Duke was written, arranged, produced and sung by Stevie in his classic 1976 album “Songs in the Key of Life.” The song was released as a single in 1977 and topped the Billboard Hot 100 as well as the Black Single charts. Billboard ranked it as the #18 song of 1977.
After the death of Mr. Ellington in 1974, Stevie wanted to write a song that acknowledges the musicians who he felt were important. Stevie Wonder enthusiasts know that he continued this tradition with Master Blaster (Bob Marley, February 1945 to May 1981) and Happy Birthday (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. – January 15, 1929 to April 4, 1968)
Stevie’s determination to immortalize the musical geniuses of prior generations reveals how important it is for current artists to recognize the shoulders that are stood upon.
The first phrase of the lyrics of Sir Duke brilliantly sums up the power of music:
Music is a world within itself
With a language we all understand
How true! Go to any country in any part of the world. Be it an Irish jug band or Japanese Suzuki or African drums in the Congo – you may not know their spoken words of Gaelic or Japanese or Lingala, but you’ll be able to feel the spirit, energy and soul of their music.
Duke Ellington influenced millions of people both around the world and at home. He gave American music its own sound for the first time. In his fifty year career, he played over 20,000 performances in Europe, Latin America, the Middle East as well as Asia.
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Professor Robin Talbot appointed as Interim Chair
Published: 14th July 2017
Professor Robin Talbot has been appointed as the Interim Chair for Cumbria Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT).
Professor Talbot joins the Trust with much experience of working within health care organisations, including, being a partner governor at CPFT and holding the former roles as Chair for Lancashire and Morecambe Community Health Council and Lancashire Primary Care Group. Professor Talbot has also worked as a Governor at Calderstones NHS Foundation Trust.
Professor Talbot is shortly due to retire from his current position as Executive Dean at the University of Cumbria where he also undertook the role of Dean for the Faculty of Health, Medical Sciences and Social Care.
Professor Talbot said:
“Im delighted to have been given this opportunity to work at Cumbria Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. I have a great interest in health care and have over 25 years of experience to bring to the role.
“I am extremely passionate and focused on improving patient care and I am looking forward to supporting the delivery of quality services that fit the needs of all Cumbrian patients and service users. I have particular interests within community-based health services and health research and feel through my experiences I can contribute to building on the good progress already made at the Trust”.
Jill Stannard, Non-Executive Director adds:
“We are thrilled with the appointment of Professor Talbot as Interim Chair and are looking forward to welcoming him into the Trust. He holds a wealth of experience, an extensive skillset and collaborative approach which will support the Trust in future plans and transformations.”
The process to appoint Professor Talbot as the new Interim Chair was extensive and involved a thorough appointment procedure which was then approved at the Trust’s Governor Council. Professor Talbot will take up the position in September and a key focus for his role will be to drive forward developments within the Trust that will shape the future of services.
Mike Taylor, who has been the Chair of the Trust for the past six years was due to come to the end of his term of office in October, however he is now leaving at the end of this month.
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Image Entertainment presents
Twelfth Night (1996) (1996)
"Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?"�
- Sir Toby Belch (Mel Smith)
Review By: Jon Danziger
Stars: Helena Bonham Carter, Richard E. Grant, Nigel Hawthorne, Ben Kingsley, Mel Smith, Imelda Staunton, Toby Stephens, Imogen Stubbs
Director: Trevor Nunn
MPAA Rating: PG for mild thematic elements
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So much Shakespeare, on stage and on film, has an eat-your-vegetables quality to it: it's not really good, but, we're told, it's good for you. And truly nothing is more painful to watch than an unfunny comedy—when the performers are expecting the audience to laugh and nobody does, it's brutally uncomfortable. (One of my all-time favorite theater-going moments was at the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, at an appalling production of a Shakespearean comedy�nobody laughed at anything, until I noticed, seated just in front of me, Frank Rich, then the theater critic for the New York Times, lean over to his companion and say: "The man who wrote this should be shot.") Happily, this film of perhaps Shakespeare's most grand comedy doesn't bring with it any cobwebs or threats of term papers; director Trevor Nunn assembles a stellar cast, who help to remind us of the fun and delight in so much of Shakespeare.
Nunn is known primarily as a theater director; he was one of the principal forces at the Royal Shakespeare Company for decades, and while his productions were always models of directorial clarity, they could get a little grand. Sometimes you'd watch and see the actors getting caught up in the poetry, at the expense of the story; the plummy tones are lovely, but not for three hours, and when you cannot really puzzle out just what is going on. (Also, Nunn has more to answer for, for his work as the director of Cats.) But there's none of that ponderousness here�these characters and actors don't just exercise the muscles from the neck up. Perhaps unwisely, Nunn has added a prologue to Shakespeare, used as an expository device; it's easy to see what he was thinking here, but it deprives his film from opening with one of the great first lines ("If music be the food of love, play on"), and suggests that Sebastian and Viola, the twins central to the plot, had some sort of nightclub act.
But soon we're in the thick of things, and quite delightfully, too. The aforementioned twins are in a shipwreck and are separated; though both survive, they each assume that the other is dead. Viola knows that traveling as a woman alone is desperately unsafe, so she disguises herself as a man; calling herself Cesario, she soon becomes the favorite of Orsino, duke of the mythical country of Illyria. In her man's clothes, Viola develops a terrible crush on Orsino, who has Cesario/Viola serve as emissary to his beloved, Olivia—alas, Orsino's love for Olivia is unrequited, but she falls quickly and hard for Cesario. There's all sorts of mischief afoot in Olivia's household, as well; her sotted and aptly named uncle, Sir Toby Belch, wants to do little more than get drunk with his companion Sir Andrew Aguecheek. Sir Andrew, poor liquored-up soul, has dreams of winning the hand of the lady of the house, making this Cesario a terrible threat; also interested in Olivia's favor is Malvolio, the priggish head of household who is duped into thinking that Olivia may in fact harbor a secret love for him.
Yes, it's dizzying stuff, tough to keep straight in just a couple of sentences; but it's always very clear in the film, and reminds us of the huge debts that just about all screen comedy owes to Shakespeare. The performers are especially agile in handling the verse while keeping to the sort of naturalism that works best in film acting. Helena Bonham Carter is a regal Olivia; Imogen Stubbs, dressed as a man for most of the film, is a charming, winning Viola. Toby Stephens makes for an Orsino both fatuous and dashing—he's got the charisma of Errol Flynn cut by a strong streak of self-mockery. The late Nigel Hawthorne is a spectacularly good and heartbreaking Malvolio, playing him as something of a variation on the Anthony Hopkins character in The Remains of the Day; the jokes at his expense take a dark and unsettling turn, but even when he's a buffoon, this Malvolio is always human, never a caricature. Mel Smith and Richard E. Grant have a merry old time as drinking buddies Sir Toby and Sir Andrew, joined by a garrulous Imelda Staunton as Maria, the maid; and perhaps best of all is Ben Kingsley, as Feste, the fool. He's in many ways the conscience of the piece, the character who knows more than he says, and the only one whom Nunn allows to speak directly to the camera.
The director deserves particular credit for building to a comic crescendo while keeping all the story points clear, and for making especially good use of his locations. Nunn seems to be a sucker for topiary gardens; they certainly never appeared on the stage at the Globe, but Shakespeare's words and characters seem very much at home here.
Rating for Style: A
Rating for Substance: A
Aspect Ratio 1.85:1 - Widescreen
Anamorphic yes
Image Transfer Review: Looks like a standard-issue Image dump job. A scratchy, blotchy print that isn't difficult to watch, but that hardly shines with the carefully rendered images of the Illyrian countryside.
Image Transfer Grade: C
Audio Transfer Review: Sound levels are uneven, in large measure, it seems, because so much of the dialogue (Helena Bonham Carter's especially) has been looped, and not well.
Audio Transfer Grade: C
Full Motion menu with music
2 TV Spots/Teasers
7 Featurette(s)
Extras Review: A behind-the-scenes featurette (08m:29s) consists of seemingly arbitrary footage of the crew setting up shots, pans through the locations, Nunn talking to his actors, and everyone huddled around the video playback. There are also six very brief interviews—most are a minute or less—with Nunn, Bonham Carter, Stubbs, Hawthorne, Stephens, and producer David Parfitt. The original TV spots and trailer are pegged to the kids, comparing this Shakespeare play to Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, and blasting in a few bars of the Village People and Macho Man. Fair Cesario, dost thou want to feel my body? Good Cesario, 'tis such a thrill, my body.
Extras Grade: C
Start quoting him now—yea, verily, this is a paragon of Shakespearean film adaptation, sure to amuse even those most phobic about the classics, and more fun than reading the Monarch Notes.
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Thor Slaughter
A Love Letter To Weezer's Pinkerton
Dear Pinkerton,
I once briefly dated a girl who asked me what my favorite albums are, and somewhere near the end of the long list that rattled off, Pinkerton had made the cut. Upon hearing the album’s title, her expression went from interested to visibly disgusted, so I asked her why she had the look on her face. “Weezer is like the touch-stone band of every single insecure dude who’s had broken hearts ever since middle school.” she replied. An argument ensued, and somewhere in the fury of me trying to defend the album —not because I was offended she was calling me an insecure dude with heartbreak issues, mind you — but rather a call to arms in the defense of Weezer, the thought there might actually be a large amount of truth to the statement eventually crossed my mind.
For those that don’t know the myth and legend that fuels the lyrical content of Pinkerton here’s the SparkNotes version. Weezer’s debut album made them an overnight sensation. They went from playing tiny clubs to filling out arenas. Suddenly the nerdiest kids were leading rock and roll life styles, having heinous amounts of sex, partying every single night and so on and so forth. Front man and chief songwriter Rivers Cuomo became so disillusioned with all of the above he decided to put the band on hiatus and go back to school at Harvard University. But not before he decided to finally have corrective surgery (he was born with one leg shorter than the other), the recovery from which forced him to walk with a cane and grow a beard. OK. He wasn’t forced to grow a beard, but you get the picture.
If that sounds pathetic, it’s because it is. Rivers went from being run on MTV every hour to being an awkward gimp that was too afraid to go talk to the Japanese girl in his writing class (see El Scorcho and Pink Triangle). But somewhere deep into his ascetic hibernation his heart “exploded” and he realized he just wanted to rock again. Suffering from paranoia that the bands success was due to studio tricks and witty music videos instead of the songs themselves though, Cuomo booted Cars’ songwriter Ric Ocasek from the producer’s seat and instead decided to produce the album that would become Pinkerton himself.
Painful, and painfully great
The album came out, absolutely tanked commercially and critically and no one, but no one, likes it. The reaction devastated Cuomo, pushing him to the edge of a nervous breakdown, and when it came time to record the next record he was so scarred from the failure of Pinkerton that he brought Ocasek back into the fold, vowing to make the most commercial record possible. He even went so far as to get the director of Blue Album videos to return to produce music videos like “Island In The Sun”, bringing with him all of the cutesy top forty charm that everyone remembered. From that point on Weezer was never the same, and most diehard fans don’t consider any of the subsequent records to be “real” Weezer.
But then that didn’t really matter, because in large part due to our obsessions with “deep cuts” and “underrated albums”, history has been kind to Pinkerton and now it’s sort of considered a masterpiece.
Pinkerton is the musical equivalent to crying while eating ice cream and watching the Bachelor, except if we somehow decided that the above activity was a masterpiece of human triumph. The only times I pay attention to each and every song (which all of them are perfectly constructed power-pop masterpiece) is when I’m either sad or need some type of reassurance that I do feel mad at someone for playing love games with me – and almost hilariously I’m in either of those two situations a lot more than I’d like to be. There are very few albums in existence which can nail the pop formula on every single song, yet delve so completely into a theme or concept. Pinkerton, at heart is a concept record. Cuomo took a cue from the hard ‘70s rock bands he admired so much, but instead of talking about distant galaxies he wrote love songs to Japanese girls who sent him fan letters that he read as he limped back to his dorm room.
During a family road trip to Disneyland in high school my parents let me plug my music into the car stereo and I played the whole album from beginning to end. My father, who supported my music obsession from the beginning, always encouraged me to introduce him to new music, so why not Weezer? I remember the embarrassing stale air that permeated the car as my fifty-something parents and older sister had to sit through the painfully self-deprecating lyrics. At the time of my fourteen year old life no words could possibly ring truer than “God damn you half Japanese girls”, considering the current heart break at the time was in fact…half Japanese. While the diary-like lyrics made me feel like someone understood me, I remember feeling like the album had cemented the fact that I was a weirdo in my family’s mind more than I already had.
The first serious girlfriend I ever had post-high school, a music nerd herself, scoffed at my love of Weezer and referred to them as “The band that dudes discover when they drink beer for the first time in their parent’s basement”. If you’re the only one in your circle who is a music nerd, I dare you to try defending Pinkerton to your friends that only like “Island In The Sun”, I pleaded with people “No, you don’t understand! Rivers Cuomo became famous after the Blue album, then got all sad and depressed, then became a hermit and retreated to academia at Harvard and THEN wrote the saddest angst-ridden songs of his entire career.” To which the response more often than not was “Dude. How does that sound even remotely enjoyable?”
Stupid question deserves AWESOME F@#@ING ANSWER!
In fact, the only girl I was ever interested in that liked Weezer was a violinist that wanted to play music with me in a band. Really the only reason I had a crush on her was because she knew all the lyrics to the album’s closing track “Butterfly”, but things sort of fell through when all she did was get so stoned she couldn’t remember where she was —which most of the time it was in her own living room — proving that despite what it meant to me, Pinkerton probably could not bring me love.
Pinkerton is that best friend that gets you, that understands you, and most importantly doesn’t pull any punches. The friend that realizes your new girlfriend isn’t all she’s cracked up to be; the friend that wants you to come over drink beer and play video games while bitching about how everyone else sucks, that all relationships can be terrible and that no one will ever understand women.Pinkerton is therapy, a safety blanket, a night light for the most pathetic young-at heart “nice guys”. Pinkerton says all the feelings of confusion and insecurity you keep deep down inside and screams them out at the top of its lungs in front of gallons of fuzzed out guitars. And you know what? Maybe I shouldn’t have had that friend telling me I was in the right, all those times I was in the wrong. Maybe I should have just faced real problems and insecurities head on. But when you’re young who wants to face their own issues when they can just listen to rock and roll instead?
For all those nights I spent by your side, for all the times you helped me through the over-dramatized end-of-the-world-as-I-know-its, for every time I ever muttered “Why bother? You’re gonna hurt me, it’s gonna kill when you desert me”, for every time I blasted and screamed along to the entire album from start to finish to keep myself awake while driving friends/girlfriends home, for every time I needed a friend, for every time I felt like no one else understood my all too normal youthful heartbreak, I thank you Pinkerton. And I love you.
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On his follow up to 2018’s The Optimist, Ryan Porter and his friends the West Coast Get Down are once again swinging for the fences and bring jazz into the spotlight for a whole new generation. Rehearsed and recorded in five-hour bursts in multiple locations, Force For Good is a fearless step forward into the future of American jazz that celebrates America’s greatest art form even as it challenges what came before it. Join us as we discuss Porter’s seemingly limitless talent, the normalization of jazz in the popular culture, and much more.
Hot off the release of the breathtaking Omoiyari, Kishi Bashi and company delivered an equally breathtaking performance at an intimate 300-capacity church in Portland.
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Empire of the Sun brought all the costumes, set props, and backup dancers you know and love for three-night, completely sold-out stop at The Showbox in Seattle, all in celebration of the 10th anniversary of their debut album Walking on a Dream.
On his latest album as Fruit Bats, Eric Johnson is looking back at dark times almost fondness, taking joy in the even the smallest of steps towards a brighter future that awaits.
Gold Past Life — his first LP on Merge Records — signifies the start of a new era for the lauded singer/songwriter. The end of the road he started out on with 2014’s EDJ, it’s songs are overflowing with harmonies, hooks, and, most importantly, heart. A life-affirming slice of pure pop perfection, it is Johnson’s finest work to date and one of the few albums you NEED to hear in 2019.
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Episode 328: Best Of 2017
It's likely that we'll look back at 2017 as the year almost everything fell apart, downerism ruled the land, and we came very close to being broken as a people.
But we didn't break. We made it. And on this final installment of ChunkyGlasses: The Podcast for 2017, we're discussing the music that lifted us up, dropped us down, and sometimes even showed us the way, but never, ever let us down.
Thanks for tuning in all year. We'll see you soon. Until then be good to your ears, but be better to your people...
Tagged: Aaron Abernathy, Kamasi Washington, Mavis Staples, Langhorne Slim, Laura Marling, Vince Staples, Father John Misty, Julien Baker, Moses Sumney, Sam Outlaw, Dialogue, Harmony Of Difference, If All I Was Was Black, Lost At Last Volume 1, Semper Femina, Big Fish Theory, Pure Comedy, Turn Out The Lights, Aromanticism, Tenderheart, Rock, Country, Soul, R&B, indie, folk, soul, neosoul, civil rights
Episode 321: Turn Out The Lights - Julien Baker
To say Julien Baker wears her heart on her sleeve would be an understatement. On Turn Out The Lights, the Memphis, Tennessee native (now based in Nashville) turns up the feels on an emotional roller coaster of an album that drags the listener down to the bottom and doesn't offer a clear way back from the depths.
Kevin, Eduardo, and Marcus are spending some time with this elegiac powerhouse of an album and considering the truth in "downerism" and if it's OK to feel oh-so-not-OK.
PLUS! Soul Man Gregory Porter is back and hitching a ride with Nat King Cole to make you "Smile" on his latest LP, Nat King Cole & Me.
Tagged: Julien Baker, Turn Out The Lights, Matador Records, Memphis, Tennessee, LGBTQ, singer songwriter
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The Electrical and Computer Engineering Advisory Board Scholarship was initiated in April 2009 by the Electrical and Computer Engineering Advisory Board. The purpose of the fund is to provide funds to support Electrical and Computer Engineering Advisory majors. First preference is for junior or senior cadets, veteran students, or Citadel Graduate College students majoring in Electrical and Computer Engineering. The first award was made in 2015.
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The Judge Falcon Hawkins Scholarship fund was established in memory of Judge Falcon B. Hawkins, '58. The scholarship award preference will be for veteran students or active duty MECEP and STA-21 Navy students with demonstrated financial need and have a minimum GPA of 2.0 with first preference going to students showing interest in pursuing a career in the legal profession or law enforcement. Recipients are determined by the Department of Naval Science.
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Drew Hendry MP
Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch & Strathspey
Government’s PR stunt cost our constituents dearly.
26th February 2019 26th February 2019
Last week’s Parliamentary recess was cancelled by the Prime Minister under the guise of the need to progress important Brexit business. As expected, it was little more than a PR stunt from a Tory Government driven by division and devoid of any effectiveness in or out with parliament.
City AM has since reported that the PR stunt cost taxpayers £400,000 – and there wasn’t even voting on Brexit bills.
Despite views to the contrary, recess is anything but a holiday for most MPs – it is time we use to meet with local groups and businesses. For me, it is also an opportunity to hold more surgeries in an area that covers Fort Augustus, Inverness and Nairn, to Laggan and everything in between.
Despite the Government’s unconvincing stunt, like many other MPs, I had to be in Parliament just in case of urgent votes, meaning travel plans had to be changed, meetings cancelled, advice surgeries rescheduled and visits to community groups delayed. Meanwhile, hundreds of staff including; security guards, caterers, cleaners and parliamentary aides had to change scheduled time off to be in Parliament.
And for what?
Instead of actually dealing with the Brexit crisis we face, the Government scheduled a series of general debates. Thursday’s business included discussions on the future of bell ringing and escalator stairways.
This ineptitude also extends to Ministerial departments. A point I made to the Leader of the House when I highlighted that MPs are regularly expected to wait several months for Ministerial responses to queries raised on behalf of constituents.
Similarly, four weeks ago, I raised the case of Denis Omondi, whose daughter has been refused a visa to come live with him and his wife, with the Prime Minister. At that time, the Home Secretary gave me his personal assurances he would look into the case. An assurance that didn’t matter for much when I had to raise the matter again, with the Scottish Secretary after Home Office staff couldn’t locate the paperwork last week. Thankfully, after my intervention the paperwork mysteriously reappeared – you couldn’t make it up.
Westminster is a shambles and worryingly it is those who most need our help who are bearing the brunt.
We can do better in Scotland with more powers.
In the meantime, even in between ridiculous debates on ringing debates, I will continue to make your voice heard on the issues that matter to you and your family.
Cancelling Commons’ recess cost taxpayers £400,000 – and MPs didn’t even vote on Brexit bills
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duende (duːˈɛndeɪ) n.
To a higher degree than the muse or the angel, the duende seizes not only the performer but also the audience, creating conditions where art can be understood spontaneously with little, if any, conscious effort.
Duende is an ecofriendly leather handbag and accessories company that specializes in hand dying techniques applied to natural vegetable tanned leathers. Ecofriendly leather and hand dyed leather is a rare commodity in the handbag industry at this time. Duende plans to revitalize the quality leather goods of the past with a southern charm, while maintaining true to the ecofriendly values of the future. Duende handbags are locally crafted in the small southern college town of Statesboro, Ga. Through a collaboration with Georgia Southern University's Fashion Design Department, we provide students the opportunity to complete internships with duende. Your purchase of this quality American made good supports the cultural development of small rural communities and colleges in the South. Unlike other local handbag boutiques, Duende can not only claim locally made...we can also claim ecofriendly processes from livestock to handbag.
Inspired by microbiology and the celebration of life, each marbleized pattern mimics many microscopic life forms and cell structures. The beauty of the microbiology influenced patterns can be understood across all cultural boundaries. We believe these patterns of life present in the marbling embody the definition of Duende. To this day, Duende is a Spanish word that does not directly translate to any other language.
The owner and designer, Lynsey Johnson, is a Statesboro native that grew up roaming the Ogeechee River banks as a small child. She still resides locally in a cabin along the Ogeechee River, where the designs first began. With a background in environmental biology and fashion design, she has merged the two philosophies to develop a homegrown, ecofriendly handbag line.
Ink mimicking cell fimbriae
100% Handmade and Eco-friendly
Our products are hand crafted in America from 100% USA sourced vegetable tanned leather, solid brass hardware, and Eco-Flo leather dye. Each handbag is unlined because we are proud of our high quality leather and want every inch to be visible. In the spirit of Native Americans, Duende utilizes all parts of the cow hide and wastes no by-products.
Marbling originated in Persia in the 1400s and was known as Ebru art. The exact formula and inventor is lost. As the process moved from city to city through Turkey, Spain, and the rest of Europe, each individual adapted the method to create a unique appearance and changed the materials and recipes over time. During this time, the recipe was a guarded secret with no written instructions, this general attitude still exists today, which is why it still remains an esoteric craft. Along the way as the methods changed throughout history, hundreds of anonymous artisans sweated away countless hours trying to re-invent the process. This process is still going on and today in the USA there is still a small group of experimenters seeking the perfect marbling method. The basic technique is to float paints on the surface of a medium where they are manipulated and transferred. The unique design is created by the artist's movements as the paint hits the medium, the qualities of the paint, chemical properties of the medium, temperature, emotions, the weather, and who knows...and this is why each and every marbleized product is one of a kind. I have created my own method of marbling which is unique in that it takes on the appearance of cells, micelles, and bacterial growth in petri dishes. I have adapted microbiology techniques to create this variation in marbling that reflects my story and maybe just a little of the story for cell division and life as we know it. Each marbleized panel is unique and cannot be reproducible in the original form leaving the wearer confident that they own a one of a kind handbag.
irrationality, earthiness, a heightened awareness of death, and a dash of the diabolical. The duende is an earth spirit who helps the artist see the limitations of intelligence, reminding them that “ants could eat him or that a great arsenic lobster could fall suddenly on his head”; who brings the artist face-to-face with death, and who helps them create and communicate memorable, spine-chilling art. “it dilates the mind’s eye, so that the intensity becomes almost unendurable... There is a quality of first-timeness, of reality so heightened and exaggerated that it becomes unreal…”black sounds”, as Lorca called them, the dark counterpoise to Apollo’s light, music in which we hear death sing. Duende lives in blue notes, in the break in a singer’s voice, in the scrape of resined horsehair hitting sheep gut; To a higher degree than the muse or the angel, the duende seizes not only the performer but also the audience, creating conditions where art can be understood spontaneously with little, if any, conscious effort.
History of Leather working and Tanneries
There are several methods for tanning leather today, but not all of them are a good choice for your health and for the environment. I will first describe two commonly used methods, and then a third one, used on Duende products, the vegetable-tanned leather.
The chrome-tanning is the most popular and controversial, for its widespread use in the fashion industry. It is effective and fast (within a few days) to produce a soft and uniform leather. Its raw appearance, before it is dyed and painted, is pale-blue in color and with a strong chemical smell that normally remains in the final product. But the use of chromium salts is harmful to the human and environmental health, it is a carcinogenic, persistent and indestructible chemical. Despite being publicly recognized for these major downsides it is still the most popular method in the industry.
The aldehyde-tanning is advertised as the "chromium-free" method and mainly used in the automotive, clothing and footwear industry, and its raw appearance is very pale, almost white. But the formaldehyde, base chemical in this process, is dangerous and the toxicity of the resulting leather should be strictly controlled, which does not always happen when the industry is rushing for big fast results.
The vegetable-tanning is truly "chromium-free" and does not have any other harmful chemicals. It is an old-world and artisanal process that takes advantage from the tannic acids found naturally in some plant species, by using the barks, branches, leaves and even some fruits in some specific techniques. The natural appearance, before painted, has a slightly brownish tinge on a beige color, with a natural, woody and earthy smell.
So why choosing vegetable-tanned leather goods? Because you will be forward thinking and more responsible. You will be a conscious buyer, aware of your impact in the society and the environment. You choose the true origin of your belongings, without the usual multinational corporate cloaks fogging up your judgement. You acquire a natural canvas to record your life experiences, you will remember and will love to tell its stories.
100% vegetable tanned leather
Eco-friendly vegetable tannery methods
vege tan swatches tanned with tree bark tannins
African Springbok fur
The African Springbok is the national animal of South Africa and considered to be one of the few antelope species with an expanding population. Springbok is also one of the only furs that is tanned naturally without the use of chrome, as compared to hair-on-hide cow, which is currently only available with chrome processing. You can feel comfortable knowing you have purchased a fur accessory that is not only derived from a free ranging animal with an expanding population, but it is also tanned with vegetable extracts in the eco-friendly methods duende stands by.
There are some disadvantages in using vegetable-tanned leather including:
production time (about two months);
high consumption of water, although the result is harmless (contrary to the chrome and aldehyde methods), the use must be always moderate;
executed by experienced and hard to find workers (this is basically an advantage that makes this a fair trade);
very high final costs.
But there are also big advantages that can not be achieved in any other tanning methods, and that have been recently salvaged for its high quality:
colors and textures have a more natural and organic look;
it is irregular and handcrafted which can be leveraged for an unique and genuine aesthetic;
great durability and strength, being even more effective than the majority of the synthetic materials;
neutral effect on the user's health;
can last an entire lifetime (or more) and/or it is bio-degradable when it ceases to be used/maintained;
remarkable and sought-after aging qualities, like the "caramelization" of the color, a unique patina acquired with the use;
reusability of the final product and in some cases of the leather;
created by craftsmen of an historic and valuable knowledge;
it can only be obtained from cattle with a good life, to get a good strong leather, and it is always a sub-product of the meat industry;
values a slower life and eco-sustainable industry;
revitalizes the local society and general culture.
Produced by Sean Gallagher http://gallagher-photo.com Funded by The Pulitzer Center http://pulitzercenter.org On the banks of the Ganges River in northern India, lies the city of Kanpur. It has become one of the most important cities in India as its leather industry has grown and it is now the biggest producer of leather products in the whole country. First established in the mid 19th Century, the city’s leather is exported across the world, with 95% of its leather destined for western markets including those in the US, UK and Germany. This success is coming at great environmental and social costs that are destroying the local Ganges River ecology and scarring the local people in the form of life-threatening illnesses. The city is now notorious for having some of the country's worst water pollution which has been created by the leathery tannery industry which discharges waste water laced with toxic chemicals, such as chromium, freely into local waterways. This water is used by local people and is channeled onto local farmland, subsequently poisoning the soil, entering the food chain and accumulating in local ecosystems. At greatest risk are the people who work in the tanneries and farmers who work daily with the toxic, and highly acidic water. An array of health problems now afflict locals who are suffering as a result of the bioaccumulation of dangerous toxins over the past decades. Health problems include cancers, mental health problems, child development issues and skin diseases.
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The Snake The Cross The Crown Wins ‘Best Picture’ at Maverick Movie Awards
Alabama folk group The Snake The Cross The Crown and filmmaker Nicholas Kleczewski have been honored by the Maverick Movie Awards for their documentary film, On A Carousel of Sound, We Go Round.
The film was awarded Best Picture, Best Editing, and Best Performance of 2009. Now in its sixth year, The Maverick Movie Awards was created by an eclectic group of filmmakers to showcase truly independent/underground cinema regardless of style, genre, or budget.
From now until January 1st, the two-disc DVD/CD version On A Carousel of Sound, We Go Round is on sale for only $14.99. Experience what is being called “the best musical movie of the year!”
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Shinto followers prepare to mark Japan disaster anniversary
By ENInews
Shinto priests throughout Japan are preparing to hold commemoration ceremonies on 11 March to mark the one-year anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated the northeastern coast, attendees were told at a programme at Georgetown University - writes Debra Rubin.
An estimated 20,000 people were killed in the disaster.
The Association of Shinto Shrines has issued a suggested prayer to be read during the ceremonies. That prayer, according to the Rev Masafumi Nakanishi, a Shinto priest, describes the calamity, pleads that there be no more disasters and asks that people live peacefully.
Nakanishi performed just such a ceremony on 29 February at Georgetown's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs during a programme entitled, "A Shinto Response to the March 2011 Disasters in Japan."
Dressed in a traditional robe with tall black hat, Nakanishi bowed, clapped and chanted before an altar, performing a four-part brief ceremony that included a purification ritual as well as an offering of sacred foods: fruits and vegetables, salt and water, sake (rice wine) and seaweed.
Of the approximately 80,000-100,000 shrines in Japan, about 4,500 were damaged, 309 were partially or totally destroyed and 243 may not be used because of nuclear fallout from the Daiichi plant damaged by the quake and tsunami, said Nakanishi. He also noted there are 22,000 Shinto priests in Japan.
Nakanishi pointed out that many of the shrines that were spared last year were built just beyond the tsunami's reach, crediting Shinto ancestors with their safe placement.
Many of the surviving shrines were used for disaster relief efforts, with some serving as shelters following the earthquake and tsunami and others serving as collection sites for donations to assist the victims.
Kevin M. Doak, a professor in Georgetown's department of East Asian languages and cultures, was not surprised that the shrines would be used this way, saying that Shintoists believing in helping others in the world without expectations of reward.
"I have always found the Japanese people to be very quick to help others," he said during the Berkley programme. "The Japanese have a kind of innate, intuitive empathy" that he believes "may be due to Shinto as much as to anything else."
Giving a brief history of Shinto, Doak said that most Japanese visit the shrines to mark New Year's Day, as well as for rites of passage that take place at ages 3, 5, 7 and 20, and for marriage.
He also noted that the Japanese version incorporates some elements of Christianity, including figures comparable to Adam and Eve and a version of the holy Trinity (God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit).
Since the 1930s, he said, the Vatican has allowed Japanese Catholics to visit the shrines and Shinto rites of passage are recognised during Catholic masses. "Some Christians have a hard time with this," Doak said. "Some Protestants see it as idolatry."
[With acknowledgements to ENInews. ENInews, formerly Ecumenical News International, is jointly sponsored by the World Council of Churches, the Lutheran World Federation, the World Communion of Reformed Churches and the Conference of European Churches.]
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Angry Chicano community protests LAPD killing of Christian Escobedo
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LA protest demands justice for Christian Escobedo.(FightBack!News/Staff)
Los Angeles, CA - Over 50 angry people protested in front of the Los Angeles Police Department Boyle Heights Hollenbeck police station, Feb. 17. Cardboard signs with slogans like, “Justice for Christian Escobedo,” “Stop police brutality,” “Stop killing our youth,” and “De-escalation not violence” were waved at the people driving by and at the LAPD.
Christian Escobedo was a 22-year-old who was walking home at about 6:30 a.m. on Jan. 14. Escobedo was a loving and caring person who was always willing to help anyone. He graduated from El Sereno Middle School and Lincoln High School.
The LAPD claims Escobedo and another person were resting on the sidewalk behind a car, near his home in El Sereno. Someone reported the two resting to the LAPD, which responded sending officers to confront Escobedo, shooting him without provocation. They claim they saw a gun, the other person ran, and they feared for their lives. Escobedo died when LAPD shot him four times.
“We hear of the recent mass shooting in Florida,” says Dafne Jacobs of Centro CSO. “And we hear that the shooter killed 17, and he walked away without so much as a scratch. But Christian Escobedo didn’t kill anyone, and LAPD took his life.”
Since February 2016, eight young Chicanos - including two teens - have been killed by the LAPD Hollenbeck station. The East L.A. Sheriffs have killed two Chicano men during this same time. Centro CSO in Boyle Heights has been fighting back against almost every one of these killings. This protest was organized by Escobedo’s family, friends, all from the neighborhood of Happy Valley, as well as Centro CSO. The crowd demanded accountability of the officers involved in Escobedo’s killing.
Sarah Figueroa, sister of Christian, stated, “Today’s event went beautifully and I hope it helped in getting our message across to LAPD. We will not stand idly by while our youth like my brother are taken from us. We need answers, and we need then now.”
The protest was moderated by Emily Velazquez of Centro CSO.
The family and Centro CSO will continue to build the fight against the officers and to bring the energy from the protests to the May Day march in Boyle Heights. An organizing meeting will take place Wednesday, Feb. 21, 6 p.m., at the Benjamin Franklin Library, 2200 E 1st Street, Los Angeles, CA 90033. All are welcome
Marquez is a Chicana member of Freedom Road Socialist Organization and Centro CSO.
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First Trailer for the Upcoming Romantic Drama "The Longest Ride"
20th Century Fox recently released the first trailer for the upcoming romantic drama "The Longest Ride". The upcoming film stars Scott Eastwood, Britt Robertson, Alan Alda, Oona Chaplin, and Jack Huston.
"The Longest Ride" is slated to hit theaters on 4/10/2015.
For more information on this film, you can visit the film's official website at: www.TheLongestRideMovie.com
Based on the bestselling novel by master storyteller Nicholas Sparks, THE LONGEST RIDE centers on the star-crossed love affair between Luke, a former champion bull rider looking to make a comeback, and Sophia, a college student who is about to embark upon her dream job in New York City’s art world. As conflicting paths and ideals test their relationship, Sophia and Luke make an unexpected and fateful connection with Ira, whose memories of his own decades-long romance with his beloved wife deeply inspire the young couple. Spanning generations and two intertwining love stories, THE LONGEST RIDE explores the challenges and infinite rewards of enduring love.
"The Longest Ride": Official Trailer
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"Hillary's America: The Secret History Of the Democratic Party" Review by Tim Hellman
'HILLARY'S AMERICA: THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY': Zero Stars (Out of Five)
The new propaganda documentary flick, from writer/director Dinesh D'Souza (the man who also brought us the 2012 hit '2016: OBAMA'S AMERICA'). D'Souza once again co-wrote and co-directed the movie, this time with Bruce Schooley; the two filmmakers also co-wrote and co-directed the 2014 exploitation documentary flick 'AMERICA: IMAGINE THE WORLD WITHOUT HER'. In this film, D'Souza and Schooley analyze what (they think) presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's true motives are; by also examining the history of the Democratic Party. Like 'OBAMA'S AMERICA', the film is yet another attempt to sway the upcoming presidential election. It's gotten almost unanimously negative reviews from critics; and it's scored an average rating of 1.5 out of 10, on the website Rotten Tomatoes! I agree; it's one of the worst movies I've ever seen.
The film begins with D'Souza explaining how (he thinks) the U.S. government unfairly treated him, for his unlawful campaign donations (to a politician friend). D'Souza believes President Obama was seeking revenge, for his 2012 documentary film ('2016: OBAMA'S AMERICA'), by giving him a much harsher sentence than he deserved. D'Souza than goes on to explain that the Democratic Party has always had sinister motives, since it's conception, and Hillary Clinton is yet another villain of that party. Republicans are the true 'champions of justice and equality', according to this movie.
Being a progressive Independent, I definitely don't agree with D'Souza's politics; but I'm also not a fan of Hillary Clinton (at all), or the Democratic Party either. Even putting all politics aside though, this film is just really poorly made. D'Souza is one of the worst filmmakers of recent times (he's also a horrible actor), but this movie actually makes 'OBAMA'S AMERICA' look somewhat aptly made! The film's 'talking points' are completely irrational, and the filmmakers often contradict themselves (throughout the entire movie). The narrative makes no sense either. The majority of the film is told through really poorly done (and extremely corny) reenactments; that are filled with atrocious acting, and unbearable melodrama. These scenes are also extremely cartoonish too (and ridiculously over-the-top); making the movie feel much more like a historical spoof, than a serious documentary film! The movie actually reminds me (a lot) of'DRUNK HISTORY' (because of this); but it's also painfully boring. For a large chunk of the film's running time, I also wondered if D'Souza would ever bring Hillary Clinton into the story (he finally does, in the movie's final 30 minutes). I also wonder what D'Souza would have done, with the film, if Bernie Sanders had won the Democratic nomination. Would he have re-shot those portions of the movie, and re-titled the film 'Bernie's America'? What kind of possible 'sinister motives' could D'Souza have tried to attribute to Sanders, and how would it have fit with the rest of the movie's narrative (being that Bernie Sanders was always an Independent, before this election)? Worst of all, the film just left me feeling really dirty (like really nasty exploitation flicks often do); I felt like I needed to rush to take a shower, when it was finally over! This film definitely won't be swaying anyone's vote, that's for sure.
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Arctic Cat Announces $27 Million Investment in Minnesota Operations
Published on May 13, 2015, 11:37 GMT
Arctic Cat Inc. (Nasdaq:ACAT) today announced that it plans to invest nearly $27 million in its manufacturing facilities in Thief River Falls and St. Cloud, Minnesota, resulting in the creation of approximately 50 jobs.
Commented Arctic Cat’s President and CEO Christopher T. Metz: “We are excited to strengthen our Minnesota manufacturing footprint and position the company for continued long-term success. We will be adding a new state-of-the-art production line in Thief River Falls and expanding our engine manufacturing operations in St. Cloud, in order to meet the demand for our innovative, quality products. We are grateful to the local leadership of Thief River Falls and St. Cloud, and the state of Minnesota, for their support as we invest in our shared future.”
Arctic Cat plans to invest approximately $26 million in its Thief River Falls facility for a new paint line and other facility improvements that are estimated to create an additional 39 jobs. The paint line will enable continued growth in the company’s recreational off-highway vehicle (ROV) business.
In St. Cloud, the company plans to invest roughly $400,000 in expanded assembly capability that is anticipated to add about 10 positions at its engine manufacturing facility located there. The company manufactures and assembles ATV and snowmobile engines at its 56,000-square-foot Engine Manufacturing Division in St. Cloud.
“For over 50 years, Arctic Cat has operated and expanded in Minnesota, creating thousands of jobs for hard-working Minnesotans,” said Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton. “I congratulate Arctic Cat and its many dedicated employees for their successes. I thank them for choosing to expand their operations again, right here in Minnesota. Arctic Cat’s expansion will be an asset to the area and the state.”
Arctic Cat chose to stay in Minnesota, where the company has deep manufacturing roots, and a highly educated and skilled labor force. The planned projects are eligible to receive local and state tax incentives.
About Arctic Cat
The Arctic Cat brand is among the most widely recognized and respected in the recreational vehicle industry. The company designs, engineers, manufactures and markets all-terrain vehicles (ATVs), side-by-sides and snowmobiles, in addition to related parts, garments and accessories under the Arctic Cat(R) and Motorfist(R) brand names. Arctic Cat Inc. is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Its common stock is traded on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the ticker symbol “ACAT.” More information about Arctic Cat and its products is available at www.arcticcat.com.
The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 provides a safe harbor for certain forward-looking statements. The company’s Annual Report, as well as the Report on Form 10-K, its Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the company’s press releases and oral statements made with the approval of an authorized executive officer, contain forward-looking statements that reflect the company’s current views with respect to future events and financial performance. These forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from historical results or those anticipated. The words “aim,” “believe,” “expect,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “estimate” and other expressions that indicate future events and trends identify forward-looking statements including statements related to our fiscal 2016 outlook, business strategy, expected inventory reductions, product introductions and demand. Actual future results and trends may differ materially from historical results or those anticipated depending on a variety of factors, including, but not limited to those set forth in the company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended March 31, 2014, under heading “Item 1A. Risk Factors.” The company does not undertake any obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
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Measuring yields from space
[This post is co-written with Florence Kondylis at the World Bank, and a similar version was also posted over at the World Bank's Development Impact blog.]
One morning last August a number of economists, engineers, Silicon Valley players, donors, and policymakers met on the UC-Berkeley campus to discuss frontier topics in measuring development outcomes. The idea behind the event was not that economists could ask experts to create measurement tools they need, but instead that measurement scientists could tell economists about what was going on at the frontier of measuring development-related outcomes. One topic that generated a lot of excitement -- likely due to David Lobell's charm at the podium -- was the potential for a new crop of satellites to remote-sense (i.e. measure) important development outcomes.
Why satellite-based remote sensing?
The potential ability to use satellites to measure common development outcomes of interest excites researchers and practitioners for a number of reasons, chief among them the amount of time and money we typically have to spend to measure these outcomes the “traditional” way (e.g. conducting surveys of households or firms). Instead of writing large grants, spending days traveling to remote field sites, hiring and training enumerators, and dealing with inevitable survey hiccups, what if instead you could sit at home in your pajamas and, with a few clicks of a mouse, download the data you needed to study the impacts of a particular program or intervention?
The vision of this “remote-sensing” based approach to research is clearly intoxicating, and is being bolstered by the vast amount of high-resolution satellite imagery that is now being acquired and made available. The recent rise of “nano-“ or “micro”-satellite technology – basically, fleets of cheap, small satellites that image the earth in high temporal and spatial resolution, such as those being deployed by our partner Skybox – could hold particular promise for measuring the types of outcomes that development folks often care about. This is perhaps most obviously true in agriculture, where unlike in the manufacturing sector, most production takes place outside.
For most agricultural crops – particularly the staple crops grown by African smallholders, such as maize – pretty much anyone can look at a field and see the basic difference between a healthy highly productive crop and low-yielding crop that is nutrient or moisture stressed. One main clue is color: healthy vegetation reflects and absorbs different wavelengths of light than less-healthy vegetation, which is why leaves on healthy maize plants look deep green and leaves on stressed or dead plants look brown. Sensors on satellites can also discern these differences in the visual wavelengths, but they also measure differences at other wavelengths, and this turns out to be particularly useful for agriculture. Healthy vegetation, in turns out, absorbs light in the visible spectrum and reflects strongly in the near infrared (which the human eye can’t see), and simple ratios of reflectance at these two wavelengths form the basis of most satellite-based measures of vegetative vigor – e.g. the familiar Normalized Difference Vegetation Index, or NDVI. High ratios basically tell you that you’re looking at plants with a lot of big, healthy leaves.
The trick is then to be able to map these satellite-derived vegetation indices into measures of crop yields. There are two basic approaches (see David's nice review article for more detail). The first combines satellite vegetation indicies with on-farm yield observations as collected from the typical household or agricultural surveys. By regressing the “true” survey-based yield measure on the satellite-based vegetation index, you get an estimated relationship between the two that can then be applied to other agricultural plots that you observe in the satellite data but did not survey on the ground. The second approach combines the satellite data with pre-existing estimates of the relationship between final yield and vegetative vigor under various growing conditions (often as derived from a crop simulation model, which you can think of as an agronomist’s version of a structural model). Applying satellite reflectance measures to these relationships can then be used to estimate yield on a given plot. A nice feature of this second approach is that it is often straightforward to account for the role of other time-varying factors (e.g. weather) that also affect the relationship between vegetation and final yield.
These approaches have mainly been applied to larger farm plots in the developed and developing world, at least in part because until very recently the available satellite imagery was generally too coarse to resolve the very small plot sizes (e.g. less than half an acre) common in much of Africa. For instance, the resolution of the MODIS sensor is 250m x 250m, meaning one pixel would cover more than 15 one-acre plots. Nevertheless, these approaches have been shown to work surprisingly well on these larger fields. Below are two plots, both again from David and co-author's work, showing the relationship between predicted and observed yields for wheat in Northern Mexico, and maize (aka “corn”, for Americans) in the US Great Plains. Average plot sizes in both cases are > 20 hectares, equivalent to at least 50 one-acre plots.
Top plot: wheat yields in northern Mexico, from Lobell et al 2005. Bottom plot: corn yields in the US Great Plains, from Sibley et al 2014.
Although success is somewhat in the eyes of the beholder here, the fit between observed and satellite-predicted yields is pretty good in both of these cases, with overall R2s of 0.63 in the US case and 0.78 in the Mexico case. And, at least in both of these cases, the “ground truth” yield data was not actually used to construct the yield prediction – i.e. they are using the second approach described above. This was possible in this setting because these were crops and growing conditions for which scientists have a good mechanistic understanding of how final yield relates to vegetative vigor.
From rich to poor, big to small
Applying these approaches much of the developing world (e.g. smallholder plots in Africa) has been harder. This is not only because of the much smaller plot sizes, and thus the difficulty (impossibility, often) of resolving them in existing satellite imagery, but also because of a lack of either (i) ground truth data to develop the satellite-based predictions, and/or (ii) a satisfactory mechanistic understanding in these environments of how to map yields to reflectance measures.
New data sources from both the ground and sky are starting to make this possible. Sensors on the new micro-satellites mentioned above often have sub-meter resolutions, meaning smallholder plots are now visible from space (a half-acre plot would be covered by over 2000 pixels). Furthermore, this imagery is being acquired often enough to ensure at least a few cloud-free images during the growing season -- not a small problem in the rainy tropics.
Working with David and some collaborators in Kenya, Uganda, and Rwanda, we are linking this new imagery with ground-based yield data we are collecting to understand whether the satellite data can capably predict yields on heterogeneous smallholder plots. Below is a map of some of the smallholder maize fields we have mapped and are tracking in Western Kenya, as part of an ongoing experiment with smallholder farmers in the region.
Locations of some plots we are tracking in Western Kenya
Some of the long run goals of this work are to (i) allow researchers who have already have information on plot boundaries and crop choice to use satellite images to estimate yields, and (ii) to allow researchers who do not have plot boundaries but who are interested in broader-scale agricultural performance (eg. at the village or district level) a way to track yields at that scale. This work is ongoing, but given the experience in developed countries, we are hopeful.
Some challenges.
Nevertheless, there are clear challenges to making this approach work at scale, and clear limitations (at least in the near term) to what this technology can provide. Here are a few of the main challenges:
Which boundaries and which crops. To measure outcomes at the level of the individual farm plot, satellite-based measures will be most easily employable if the researcher already knows the plot boundaries and knows what crop is being grown. As satellite imagery improves and as computer vision algorithms are developed to remotely identify plot boundaries, both of these constraints will likely be relaxed, but the researcher will still need some ground information on which plots belong to whom.
Measurement error. Even with plot boundaries in hand, the fact that satellite imagery will not be able to perfectly predict yields means that using satellite-predicted yields as an outcome will likely reduce statistical power (although it’s not immediately clear how much noisier satellite estimates will be, given that survey based measures of these outcomes – e.g. from farmer self reports – are likely also measured with error.) This almost certainly means that this technology will not be equipped to discern small effects in the smaller-sized ag RCTs that often get run.
Moving beyond yield. Finally, even with plot boundaries in hand and well-powered study, satellites are going to have a hard time measuring many of the other outcomes we care about – things like profits or consumption expenditure. Satellites might in the near term be able to get at related outcomes such as assets (something we’re also working on), but it’s clearly going to be hard to observe most household expenditures directly.
Putting these difficulties together, should we just abandon this whole satellite thing? We think not, for two reasons. The first reason is that as we (hopefully) improve our ability to accurately measure smallholder yields from space, this ability would provide a clear compliment to existing surveys. For instance, if yields are a primary outcome, imagine just being able to do a baseline survey (where field boundaries are mapped) and then measure your outcome at follow-up from the sky. This will make an entire study both faster and cheaper, which should allow for larger sample sizes, which will in turn help deal with the measurement error issue above.
Second, we still have a surprisingly poor understanding of why some farms, and some farmers, appear to be so much more productive than others. Is it the case that relatively time-invariant factors like soil type and farmer ability explain most of the observed variation, or are time-varying factors like weather more important? Satellite data might be particularly useful for this question (David's review paper, and his earlier G-FEED post, gives some really nice examples), because you can assemble huge samples of farm plots that can then be easily followed over time. Satellite data in this setting therefore might afford more power, and you can do it all in your pajamas.
Posted by Marshall Burke at 10:13 AM
Labels: agriculture, corn, empirical research, remote sensing, satellites, yield gap, yields
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Castlevania Legends is a platform video game developed by Konami Computer Entertainment Nagoya and published by Konami for the original Game Boy. It was released in Japan on November 27, 1997, North America on March 11, 1998, and Europe in 1998. This is the third and last Castlevania game released for the Game Boy. Because the game was released late into the portable's lifespan, it gets special enhancements on the Super Game Boy, an attachment to the Super Nintendo Entertainment System that lets you enjoy Game Boy games on the big screen. As for whether the game is good or not, it's somewhere in the middle. Even longtime producer of the Castlevania series, Koji Igarashi, admitted that the game wasn't so great by saying, "Legends remains something of an embarrassment for the series. If only that development team had the guidance of the original team of the series." Castlevania Legends isn't as bad as the first Castlevania for Game Boy, but it's not as good as the second.
Madness swept across Transylvania shortly after a man discovered an evil power. He used this power to amass an army of arcane forces and began terrorizing the people of Europe, engulfing the whole continent in despair. This man became known as the Prince of Darkness, Count Dracula. Around the same time, a girl with special powers was born into a family living in a remote part of the country. She was told while growing up that her powers were meant for a higher purpose and not for her alone. On her seventeenth birthday in the year 1450, she met with an enigmatic man named Alucard, who was searching for the father that abandoned him. It was at this point that the girl decided to use her powers to challenge Dracula. The girl's name was Sonia Belmont and she's the protagonist of Castlevania Legends. Sonia is the first female Belmont to be the protagonist of a Castlevania game. Not only that, but according to this game's plot, Sonia is the first Belmont to ever confront Dracula. That's no longer the case, however, as Koji Igarashi doesn't consider this game to be canon.
Sonia Belmont is armed with a whip and a pretty face. The young heroine is able to walk around, jump over chasms, duck below danger, climb up and slide down ropes, and strike vile things with her whip. Taking a page out of Super Castlevania IV, Sonia is no longer bound to a fixed jump. That means she's able to alter the velocity of her jump in midair and can even change directions during a jump. Also like Castlevania IV, she can move while crouching. In addition to all of that, Sonia can find crystal balls to power up her whip. It can be upgraded twice, and when fully powered up, Sonia will shoot fireballs out of her whip, giving her a ranged attack. If she dies, her whip will go back to normal and she'll have to get more crystal balls to make up for what was lost. It's possible to always start Sonia with a fully upgraded whip if you pick "Light Mode," which is basically easy mode, but Standard Mode has her start with a regular whip. Due to the removal of the fixed jump and the inclusion of the fireball shooting whip, controlling Sonia is a cinch.
Soul Weapons are a new feature in this game. They sort of replace the sub-weapons from previous Castlevania games, but are handled slightly differently. Instead of merely finding these hidden throughout the environment like the sub-weapons of other Castlevania adventures, Soul Weapons are acquired upon defeating a boss. Like the traditional sub-weapons, Soul Weapons use hearts as ammunition, and those are generally found by breaking candlesticks. I don't get it, either, but that's Castlevania for you. Many of the Soul Weapons are based on the different elements and are extremely useful, like how wind is able to stop all enemy movement for a short time, ice fully restores Sonia's life meter in exchange for twenty hearts, and flame hits all onscreen enemies. Ice is by far the most useful Soul Weapon, since being able to heal is a huge asset. The bad thing about Soul Weapons is that Sonia won't have access to any of them for the entirety of the first stage, but the pro is that, once she obtains a Soul Weapon, it becomes a permanent part of her arsenal. That's right; Sonia can switch between any of her Soul Weapons at will. That ruins the delicate balance sub-weapons had going for them in previous Castlevania games, but it's admittedly quite convenient.
Burning Mode is another feature unique to Castlevania Legends. Below Sonia's health meter is another, more mysterious meter; this is the Burning Mode meter. Whenever you press the A and B buttons at the same time, you'll activate Burning Mode. When in this mode, Sonia's attack power is doubled, her speed is increased, her jumping distance is extended, she hurts enemies by touching them, and she is impervious to enemy assaults. The catch is that this drains the Burning Mode meter, meaning it only lasts for a short period of time. This meter is only refilled upon Sonia's death or when a stage is completed, so Burning Mode must be used wisely. As a result of that, the best time to flaunt this devastating ability is during a boss fight. You do have the freedom to use it whenever you want, though, provided the meter is full. It's a cool ability, Burning Mode, but it does make the bosses way too easy.
Stage design is where this game falls short. Coming off the wonderful designs of the previous game, the stages in Castlevania Legends just feel lackluster. A vast majority of the game consists of dull horizontal corridors filled with mundane enemies or vertical shafts with tons of rope climbing. The bosses are rather basic, too. Almost all the bosses can be cheesed to death with Burning mode, and many of them have attack patterns so simple, even a five year old could learn them. Maybe that was the intention. The graphics have also seen a significant downgrade, with the character sprites being less detailed and the backgrounds more plain. While the game does have added color when played on a Super Game Boy, this doesn't make up for the lack of visual detail. Considering this game came out so late in the Game Boy's lifespan and the previous game looked better, these visuals are inexcusable. The music isn't terribly memorable, either. Castlevania Legends has boring stage design, and the music and graphics aren't much better.
In order to get the game's best ending, Sonia must collect five special items. For some reason, these items are modeled after the sub-weapons of classic Castlevania games, but their only function here is to change the ending. They're the axe, stopwatch, dagger, holy water, and cross. Most of the time, you'll simply have to go slightly out of the way to find them, like taking the correct branching path that leads to a dead end with the item in it. Sometimes, however, the items are hidden. In particular, one of the special items is hidden in an optional bonus stage. To access the bonus stage, one must find a secret path near the end of the game. The stupid thing about this secret, though, is that you have to fall into what appears to be a bottomless pit to get it. There is a minor hint alluding to this in the game, but it's not too clear. Falling into pits goes against all conventional logic in a platform game, so hiding a secret in one is a jerk thing to do.
Castlevania Legends is a huge step down from Castlevania II: Belmont's Revenge. Whereas Belmont's Revenge had stages brimming with personality, the ones in Legends are bland and uninteresting. Just about everything else is worse, too; the bosses, graphics, and music are all mediocre. It's also a bit too easy to break the game with Burning Mode and the Soul Weapon that recovers health, though those mechanics aren't necessarily bad. The only thing this game has going for it is decent controls. Even with all that, however, this game still beats Castlevania: The Adventure, which is the first Castlevania for the Game Boy.
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The 2007 edition of Who's Who in Ireland expands the bounds of Ireland to include whatever B-list planet Paris Hilton hails from.
Oscar winner Robert De Niro gets a mention because he is a second generation Irish-American. And other surprise additions in the Irish abroad section are socialite Paris Hilton, actor George Clooney and singer Mariah Carey.
Clooney is described as third generation Irish with ancestors in Sligo, while Carey, whose mother was an Irish opera singer is second-generation Irish. Socialite Hilton is fourth-generation Irish American because her paternal grandmother had Irish relations.
Actors Mia Farrow and Kevin Costner — who is third-generation Irish on his mother Sharon Tedrick’s side — and regular visitor to Ireland Bill Clinton also get a mention. [Link]
Paris, of course, is the girl who changes her hairstyle more often than her facial expression.
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1. He’ll always do what he says.
2. Your interests will always be above his.
3. Anything he recommends, he’d recommend to his own family.
Ben is married to his middle school sweetheart, Jennifer, and they have two amazing sons together (Matty, age 5 and Arty, age 2).
CORINA CHOU, MBA, CO-FOUNDER & PRINCIPAL
Corina was born in Taiwan and earned her bachelor degree from National Chengchi University and her MBA degree from Eastern New Mexico University. She became a believer in life insurance when her husband passed away in an airplane accident, leaving her with two small children and no insurance.
Since joining New York Life in 1985, Corina has been Atlanta’s Agent of the Year over 20 times. She has also achieved Chairman’s Cabinet status over 15 times, which is awarded to the top 50 agents countrywide (out of 12,000+ agents). Corina is a Life Member of the Million Dollar Round Table and an active member of National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors (NAIFA).
Corina enjoys traveling the world, speaking on behalf of the financial services industry. In fact, she has been the keynote speaker at conferences in Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, Korea, and China, among others. Additionally, Corina is a published author. Her book is a top seller in Asia.
As an active member of the local Atlanta Chinese Community, she has served on the Boards of both the Chinese Community Center and the Atlanta Taiwanese Chamber of Commerce.
When’s she’s not spending time with her grandson or playing cards with friends, Corina’s passion is helping people reach their financial independence, while simultaneously reducing life’s risk.
PAT GRANT, CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER
Pat is the Director of Operations for Generational Financial Partners. She has been working side by side with the firm and its clients since 2006. Pat manages the overall daily operations and administrative functions at Generational Financial Partners.
Pat was born in Taipei, Taiwan and has lived in the United States for over 3 decades. She is a native speaker of 3 Chinese dialects and fluent in English as well. Pat studied Music and majored in Piano Performance at DeKalb College and University of Georgia. She taught piano and Music for many years while living in Clearwater, Florida. Pat is a past member of the Music Teachers National Association.
TRISH PAYNE, DIRECTOR OF CLIENT RELATIONS
Email: trish@planforgenerations.com
Trish joined Generational Financial Partners in July 2015 and is the Director of Client Services for Benjamin Yin. She organizes, supervises and facilitates the workflow for Benjamin Yin’s clients.
Trish is from Louisville, Kentucky, but has had the privilege of living in several other states, such as Ohio, Michigan, Alabama, Tennessee and now Georgia. She earned her Bachelor of Science in English from Troy State University in Alabama. Prior to joining Generational Financial Partners, she worked in the medical imaging field for the last 9 years as a Quality Assurance Manager developing processes and creating efficiency.
Trish has been married to Dan for 20 plus years. They have two children Jordan (19) a student at Georgia Southern University and Brooklyn (16) a senior in high school about to head off to college. When she isn’t in the office Trish enjoys playing tennis and running outdoors.
NATHAN YORK, DIRECTOR OF PLANNING
Email: nate@planforgenerations.com
Nathan joined Generational Financial Partners in September of 2015. He obtained his Bachelors of Science in Business from Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. Upon graduation he followed his high school sweetheart to Atlanta, Georgia so she could attend Graduate school at Emory University. Prior to joining Generational Financial Partners, Nathan was the Operations Manager and head Trader at a boutique investment management firm located in Atlanta.
In 2008, he married his high school sweetheart, Amy. They now have two beautiful children, Sydney and Charlie, and two wonderful dogs, Izzy and Bo Boy. Outside of work, Nathan enjoys nothing more than spending time with his family and being active outdoors.
AMANDA COELHO
Email: amanda@planforgenerations.com
Amanda joined Generational Financial Partners in 2012.
Amanda was born and raised in Stone Mountain, GA and moved to Norcross in 2006. Amanda majored in early childhood education at Georgia State University. She also majored in music performance at Converse College in South Carolina.
Prior to joining Generational Financial Partners, Amanda worked as a Licensed Insurance Agent and Licensed Assistant. Being a Licensed Service Assistant, Amanda has obtained her Life/Health Insurance License in the states of GA and FL, as well as her Property and Casualty Insurance License in the state of GA.
Amanda enjoys helping others plan for their futures and protect their families the way she would care for her own family. Amanda enjoys spending her free time with her 7 year old daughter, practicing yoga, and collecting glass art.
TIMOTHY DALRYMPLE, PHD, DIRECTOR OF MARKETING
Timothy Dalrymple, as CEO of Polymath Innovations, is director of marketing for Generational Financial Partners. He was an elite athlete, a writer and an academic for most of his life, until he entered the world of new media in 2009 to help launch Patheos.com. On behalf of Polymath Innovations, he has joined the Generational Financial Partners team to further our marketing development and design. Having engaged Timothy and his firm for marketing services, we are better able to convey our message.
With degrees from Stanford University and Princeton Theological Seminary, sojourns at Oxford and two Chinese universities, and a doctorate from Harvard University, he’s more educated than a decent person should be. The recipient of numerous awards for his writing and teaching, he now writes books and articles that appear in places like Washington Post, Christianity Today and of course Patheos — but when his elder daughter calls him a “fake doctor” it reminds him he’s not that important in the grand scheme of things.
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Writing Competition on Federalism
http://www.mcgill.ca/channels/news/baxter-family-competition-federalism-259882
I am writing to ask for your help in spreading information concerning the Baxter Family Competition on Federalism, launched by McGill University’s Faculty of Law and the Peter MacKell Chair in Federalism, made possible through the generous support of Rachel and Colin Baxter, both McGill alumni.
The overarching goal of this new bi-annual competition is to advance research and foster informed debate on federalism by law students, as well as law PhD candidates, junior legal scholars and junior lawyers with five years of experience or less, from around the world.
Prizes will be awarded by an International Jury, notably composed of two former Justices of the Supreme Court of Canada: the Hon. Ian Binnie and the Hon. Marie Deschamps.
First-, second- and third-place winners will receive prizes of $5,000, $3,000 and $1,000 respectively.The three finalist will also be given an opportunity to present their papers at a Symposium organized by the McGill Faculty of Law, in Montreal in the spring of 2017.
Participants are invited to submit an original essay related to an aspect of federal theory or practice.
As this first edition of the Baxter Family Competition on Federalism coincides with the 150th anniversary of the Canadian Confederation of 1867, submissions that examine the past, present and future of Canadian federalism from comparative angles are particularly encouraged. But topics are by no means limited to Canadian federalism.
The Deadline for submissions is Sept 30th, 2016.
For more information, please visit the following link: http://www.mcgill.ca/channels/news/baxter-family-competition-federalism-259882
I thank you in advance for your help in disseminating this invitation to your students, colleagues and numerous networks !
With warms wishes,
Johanne Poirier
Board Member, Forum of Federations
McGill University, Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, QC, Canada
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Château du Passage
Château du Passage Photo - Paul.thouvenin - Wikipedia - lic. under CC BY 3.0
Location: Passage (Le), in the Isère departement of France (Rhone-Alpes Region).
Built: 15th-19th century.
Ownership / Access: Privately owned.
Notes: Château du Passage is a pleasure palace of the seventeenth century that included a former home of the fifteenth century, which stands on the town of Passage in the Isère department in Auvergne region Rhône-Alpes. Under the historical monument; facades and roofs as well as the billiard room and the former dining room of the ground floor with their decor and the chapel are the subject of a partial registration by order of 17 July 1972; the grand staircase to the cage, the two lounges and the ground floor room in the south wing with their decor are subject to a classification by order of 17 July 1972.Clermont In 1342 the family bought the land where the current building to build a strong house, which you can still see vestiges in the right wing of the castle. Following a trial with King Louis XI, the house was sold to the family of Poizieu which began in the year 1650 built the castle that can be admired today. In 1731, Joseph Gallien of Chabons who was counselor to the parliament of Grenoble bought the family's nephews residence and made many works that can still be seen, the grand staircase in the lobby, French ceilings in the kitchen and the remarkable woodwork of the eighteenth century. During the same century the castle has a chapel which has three marble altars and a balcony gallery for the servants. During the Revolution, the castle farm and its furniture is sold and it was not until 1818 that he found a buyer in the person of General Quiot who modernized it and scored on his seal. Many decorative elements changed and so the walls of the entrance hall and staircase decorated saw in the early nineteenth century trompe l'oeil with military emblems, all inserted in a frame in antique , faux marble wallpaper still in perfect condition and a billiard room of over 100 m2. Marie-Joséphine Piégay became owner of the castle in 1853 and it is now his great-great-grand-son, Thierry St-Romain who still holds the remains. Nowadays all over the castle the entire ground floor is open to visitors.Turripinoise located in the countryside, this house dauphinoise important on two levels, surrounded by moats of water amenities, has a huge roof, steep scaly tiles higher than the walls (9 meters to 11 meters walls roof ), and perfect symmetry. The eastern facade is very classic and always a rigorous geometry. The front door, surmounted by a large polychrome triangle dating from the eighteenth century, and its 21 windows overlooking the gardens and a hilly park of four hectares.
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Château du Passage On Wikipedia
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Sword of the Stars: A Murder of Crows is Available as a Download for the PC
October 2, 2008 5:00 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Lighthouse Interactive has released A Murder of Crows,its expansion for the PC strategy game Sword of the Stars, a week early and solely as a download.
The game requires that players have either the Sword of the Stars collector's edition of the original game and the Born of Blood expansion. It adds a sixth race, new ship sections, new technologies, civilian populations and other features to make this 4x-style strategy game even deeper. The game is currently only available through the GamersGate.com download portal.
4x,
A Murder of Crows,
Lighthouse,
Sword of the Stars,
Sword of the Stars: A Murder of Crows
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Heilig-Meyers Co.
Activities : Retail furniture collection, home furnishings, interior design
Parent Company : Heilig-Meyers Furniture Company
Origin : Atlanta, GA
www.RhodesCorp.com
Heilig-Meyers Furniture and Rhodes Furniture combined to earn almost $5 billion a year in revenue from over 2,000 locations in the United States through their 1996 merger. Grand Metropolitan was introduced to the home furnishings retail and finance behemoth in the late 90s, taking control of the brands and operations after the turn of the century.
Founded in 1875, furniture retailer Rhodes Inc. became one of the largest furniture retailers in the United States. By 1996, with its acquisition of several smaller chains in various parts of the country, it held fourth place among U.S. furniture stores. The company had gone through a lengthy period of uneven financial performance, however, and its primary stockholder had placed it up for sale.
Ultimately, Rhodes would become a subsidiary of the second largest chain of furniture retailers, Virginia-based Heilig-Meyers Company. Added to its $844 million in annual sales, the acquisition of Rhodes, with $430 million, would catapult Heilig-Meyers past the billion-dollar Levitz Furniture and into first place. As for Rhodes, its sale and the subsequent move to Richmond in early 1998 marked the end of more than 120 years of operation in its home base of Atlanta.
Founded in 1875, furniture retailer Rhodes Inc. became one of the largest furniture retailers in the United States. By 1996, with its acquisition of several smaller chains in various parts of the country, it held fourth place among U.S. furniture stores. The company had gone through a lengthy period of uneven financial performance, however, and its primary stockholder had placed it up for sale. Ultimately, Rhodes would become a subsidiary of the second largest chain of furniture retailers, Virginia-based Heilig-Meyers Company. Added to its $844 million in annual sales, the acquisition of Rhodes, with $430 million, would catapult Heilig-Meyers past the billion-dollar Levitz Furniture and into first place. As for Rhodes, its sale and the subsequent move to Richmond in early 1998 marked the end of more than 120 years of operation in its home base of Atlanta.
A New Way of Doing Business Following the Civil War
Just a few years after its destruction by General William T. Sherman in the Civil War, Atlanta was already a resurgent commercial center. During that period of Reconstruction, a young man named Amos Giles Rhodes moved to the city, bringing with him all he owned: a horse and buggy, $75 in cash, and (according to company lore) “a gold watch of uncertain value.”
Like many another dreamer throughout history, Rhodes had come to the big city to make his fortune, and he soon began looking about for the means to do so. He first considered the market in clocks and picture frames, because he had noticed that people seemed to need both. There was only one problem: in spite of the hustle and bustle of Atlanta, the South was still poor and reeling from its recent defeat. People might desire clocks or picture frames, but in difficult economic times, they would not buy what they could not afford.
It was then that A.G. Rhodes, as he came to be known, had a brainstorm and, in the process, discovered a new way of doing business–one of the first installment payment plans in business history. With each of his customers, he set a figure that they could afford to pay on a weekly basis. Having made this agreement, the customer could expect to see Rhodes once a week, at which time he or she would pay what they had agreed upon as the weekly payment. Once the cost was paid, the item was theirs–and thus penurious Atlantans were able to purchase items that might have seemed unattainable luxuries.
Rhodes continued to make his weekly selling and collection rounds, but he was already beginning to consider new business opportunities. In the fall of 1875 he contracted with the owner of a small furniture manufacturing company to produce a line of furnishings, and he opened the first Rhodes Furniture Store in Atlanta. He was 25 years old.
The company continued to grow along with Atlanta, and it soon became a leading business in the brash young city. In 1889, to further strengthen his enterprise, Rhodes formed a partnership with a local businessman, J.J. Haverty. The company became Rhodes-Haverty, and it operated for the next 20 years. In 1909 the partnership dissolved amicably and the companies split. Thereafter they would be among the two leading competitors for Atlanta’s furniture market.
Changing Hands in the 1980s
Over the years, both Rhodes Furniture and its hometown changed almost beyond recognition. Atlanta had been a friendly, relatively sleepy town in the latter part of the 19th century; a century later it had become a bustling city with burgeoning suburbs, its old downtown neighborhoods ripped apart by interstates. Likewise, Rhodes had lost its close connection to the past, and the company–which had gone public some time in the mid-20th century–had passed out of the hands of A.G. Rhodes’s descendants.
In 1982 Atlantic American Corp., an insurance holding company, acquired 38.6 percent of Rhodes’s stock. Within five years, this had increased to 44 percent and Atlantic American held the controlling interest in the company. In 1986 the chairman of Rhodes Inc. died, and in early 1987 its chief financial officer (CFO) resigned. “It’s a company that has experienced management changes,” analyst Claire Cross of J.C. Bradford in Atlanta told Mark Calvey of the Atlanta Journal and Constitution.
Rhodes had continued to grow and had extensive retailing operations in Atlanta and beyond, but its stocks had failed to perform. In late December 1987 analyst Lee Wilder of Robinson-Humphrey observed that Rhodes’s stocks had fallen below broad market averages for the preceding year. At the end of 1987 the company retained the services of the Salomon Brothers brokerage to accept offers to purchase the company. “The appeal of Rhodes” to potential buyers, according to Wilder, “is a tremendous revenue base.” Still, in light of the stock market crash of October 1987, Cross called the timing of the proposed sale “unusual.” As for the furniture industry itself, she said that retailers operated their businesses in a “very unpredictable environment with a very fickle customer.”
Within five months of the announced buyout, in late April of 1988, Atlantic American had found a purchaser for Rhodes. A new Atlanta investment group, Green Capital Investors L.P., had agreed to buy the company for $242 million. It was the sort of business deal that had become something of a cliché in the preceding decade: a leveraged buyout (LBO) purchased in part by “junk bonds.” For each share, stockholders would receive $21.50 in cash, as well as a 17 percent junior subordinated discount debenture (or bond), which had a face value of $8.25. The cash accounted for $175.2 million of the price tag, and the bonds accounted for the other $67.2 million. Analyst Thomas Richter of Robinson-Humphrey appraised the value of the junk bonds–which were not callable for four years, would not pay interest for six, and would come due in 12–at only $25.1 million in present value.
Nonetheless, the deal seemed propitious for Atlantic American, which had suffered losses due to high Medicare and workers compensation insurance claims in recent years. As for the acquiring firm, actually a subsidiary of Green Capital called RHD Holdings, the purchase represented a significant addition. Buying Rhodes, according to founder Holcombe T. Green Jr., was Green Capital’s “first investment in an important Atlanta-based company.”
Reinventing the Furniture Store in the 1990s
Green, the new chairman, spent the latter part of the 1980s and the early 1990s paying down Rhodes’s debt. But the venture continued to be a costly one until July 1993, when Rhodes again traded its stock on the New York Stock Exchange. Even so, stocks continued to fare poorly, particularly in the summer of 1994.
On August 13, the Journal and Constitution reported that the value of shares had plummeted a staggering 30 percent. Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Irwin Lowenstein stated that the furniture market had been “soft” and that renovations at nearly a dozen stores had further impaired the company’s profitability. For stores that had been open for 12 months or longer, sales growth had been less than three percent.
By that time Rhodes had 78 stores, so the number of renovated facilities represented a large portion. But Haverty, which had continued to develop in competition with its former partner, had renovated even more stores. According to the Atlanta paper, Mark Mandel of Salomon Brothers observed that Haverty was “showing some pretty decent sales numbers over the last few months.”
Lowenstein responded to this situation with decisive action. By March of 1995 the Atlanta paper was reporting that the company had set a goal of $500 million in annual sales by the end of the 1997 fiscal year. This came in spite of fears within the furniture industry that rising interest rates and a slowdown in sales of new homes might stall growth. The company was growing, and with 80 stores already, it announced plans to add some 20 locations over the next two years.
During that period the company also expected to enter the Cincinnati, Cleveland, Indianapolis, Kansas City, and Pittsburgh markets, and to add more than 700,000 square feet of retail space. Expansion within several of these markets would be aided, Chris Roush of the Journal and Constitution noted, by Rhodes’s established presence in St. Louis and Louisville. Within its home base, the company would be opening stores at Cumberland and North Point Malls, and it had plans to put in new stores near Perimeter Mall on the north side and in the southern suburb of Fayetteville. It would close stores in Marietta and on Roswell Road, however, transferring workers to the new locations.
But acquisitions, Lowenstein told Roush, would not be the means by which the company would meet its goal of $500 million in annual sales. Success would come through improvements. With its competitor Haverty “going upscale” according to a March 7, 1995 Journal and Constitution article, Rhodes began its counterattack by conducting an extensive marketing research effort, with interviews of 3,100 customers in nine cities. Having learned what its customers wanted, the company had plans for a number of changes.
Rhodes would remodel all of its stores by the end of the following year, adding new features such as a play area and a café offering free soft drinks to customers. A new advertising campaign, created by Atlanta ad firm McCann Erickson, used the slogan, “Every time you look, we look better.” The company was also hiring a new customer service director, who would visit each of Rhodes’s stores and evaluate how employees were treating customers. In addition, Rhodes offered a new 30-day exchange-or-money-back guarantee, the Rhodes Promise. President and Chief Operating Officer (COO) Joel Lanham told Roush, “What we’re trying to do is be the best customer service furniture retailer in the country.”
A further boost came from the selection of Rhodes by clothing designer Alexander Julian to carry a new line of furniture by the designer. The latter would begin appearing in stores by April 1995. Meanwhile, Rhodes extended its product line to include La-Z-Boy, makers of recliners as well as a full line of living room and family room furniture; and Sealy, manufacturers of mattresses and box springs, including Posturepedic, as well as upholstered furniture. “There’s a dramatic difference in what the customer will see now in a Rhodes store,” Lanham told Roush.
Growth by Acquisition in the Mid-1990s
By April 1996 Rhodes had grown far beyond Atlanta. Besides Georgia, its southeastern base included Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, North and South Carolina, Tennessee, and Kentucky. In the midwest, it had stores in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri. Finally, Rhodes had a presence in the west through stores in Texas, Kansas, and Colorado.
Much of this growth had come through recent acquisitions. In October 1995, for instance, Rhodes announced the purchase of Weberg Enterprises Inc., a 21-store chain based in Denver, which gave it a foothold in both the Colorado and Texas markets. Also in 1995, Rhodes opened two stores in Kansas City and one in Cincinnati and it purchased Glick Furniture Co., a seven-store chain based in Columbus, Ohio. All told, Rhodes increased its roster of stores by 21 in 1995.
But then an old story repeated itself: on April 30, 1996, the Atlanta Journal and Constitution reported that Rhodes had hired Salomon Brothers, the same firm that had brokered the 1987 sale to Green, to assist it in increasing the value of its stock. One oft-discussed possibility was the sale of the company. This time the driving force behind the proposed sale was the man who had bought it nearly a decade before, Holcombe T. Green Jr., now holder of a 30 percent stake. In spite of improvements in the company’s service and Rhodes’s growth through acquisition, sales in the furniture market were flat.
Rhodes entertained several possible offers, and on September 18, 1996, the Atlanta paper announced the buyer: Heilig-Meyers of Richmond, Virginia, the number-two furniture chain behind Florida-based Levitz. With 109 stores and annual sales in excess of $430 million, Wall Street analysts had valued Rhodes at anywhere from $110 to $169 million. Yet when it sold, the price tag was far lower than it had been in 1987: Heilig-Meyers agreed to buy Rhodes for $65 million, offering to swap one of its shares for every two of Rhodes’s.
Analysts ascribed the lowered price to recent losses by the company, and Lowenstein told the Journal and Constitution, “It’s a very good deal for Rhodes and its employees. It’s something we need to do.” But in the wake of the announcement of the low purchase price, Rhodes’s stock value plummeted. It had surged after the company indicated it was looking for a buyer, and it suddenly dropped by a staggering $3.12 in one day, to close at $7.50. “It had to drop,” Lowenstein stated, adding that the stock price had gone up “under the false rumor that we were selling at $12 per share.”
With the sale, Rhodes would become a wholly owned subsidiary and would retain Lowenstein’s leadership. The Journal and Constitution observed that the acquisition was “a good strategic fit,” since Rhodes tended to operate in the large cities and Heilig-Meyers operated in the small town markets. Thus very few of either company’s stores would have to close, though Heilig-Meyers’s struggling Chicago outlets might adopt Rhodes’s methods of operations, while some small town Rhodes stores might switch to the Heilig-Meyers format. The new enlarged Heilig-Meyers, with more than 800 stores and $1.5 billion in sales, would be the largest furniture retailer in America.
Rhodes would continue to operate under the Rhodes name. By the late 1990s, in addition to La-Z-Boy and Sealy, its product lines included Alan White, a leader in midrange fashion upholstery; Basset, which offered traditional cherry and casual modern solid wood bedroom suites; Berkline, a leader in motion furniture; Broyhill, makers of wood solids with veneers ranging from traditional to early American styles; Kincaid, which produced solid wood bedroom, occasional, and dining room furniture in Queen Anne, Victorian, contemporary, and country styles; Kroehler, classic style upholstered furniture; Nunziato leather upholstery; Pulaski, occasional furniture with traditional to contemporary styles; Simmons, mattresses and box springs including Beautyrest and Maxipedic; Universal Furniture, bedroom and dining room furniture featuring country, traditional, and contemporary styles.
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Film Feature: HollywoodChicago.com’s 2016 Oscar Predictions
Submitted by PatrickMcD on February 28, 2016 - 10:03am
Film Feature
CHICAGO – Okay kids, time to jump into the 2016 Oscar Pool. There are “predictors,” and then there is HollywoodChicago.com! That’s right, critic contributors Spike Walters and Patrick McDonald have the inside scoop to who will win on Oscar night, because they have a DeLorean time machine – in their dreams!
Film News: ‘The Revenant’ Gets 12 Oscar Nominations for 2016
Submitted by PatrickMcD on January 14, 2016 - 11:34am
Academy Award
CHICAGO – “The Revenant,” director Alejandro Iñárritu’s epic drama, got 12 nominations – including Best Picture – as all the categories for the 88th Academy Awards were announced on January 14th, 2016. Rounding out the Best Picture class is “The Big Short,” “Bridge of Spies,” “Brooklyn,” “Mad Max: Fury Road,” “The Martian,” “Room” and “Spotlight.”
Entertainment News: The 2016 Golden Globe Nominees Announced
Submitted by PatrickMcD on December 10, 2015 - 5:40pm
Spotllight
LOS ANGELES – In a crazy land where films like “The Martian” and “The Big Short” can be nominated as a “comedy or musical” means it’s soon time for the 73rd Annual Golden Globes, on January 10th, 2016. The event kicks off awards season with “Spotlight,” “Room” and “Carol” in the drama film category, and “Game of Thrones,” “Transparent” and “Orange is the New Black” among the TV nominees.
Film Review: Entertaining ‘The Martian’ is a Hollywood Space Opera
Submitted by PatrickMcD on October 5, 2015 - 1:52pm
CHICAGO – It’s all based on science, they told us! “The Martian” is an old fashion feel-good movie about the hard working astronauts and scientists of the good old American space program, trying to rescue a stranded spaceman from Mars, aided by a brave cast of astro-colleagues.
HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: 40 Pairs of Passes to ‘The Martian’ With Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain
CHICAGO – In the latest HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 40 pairs of advance-screening movie passes up for grabs to the highly anticipated sci-fi “The Martian” featuring an all-star cast including Matt Damon and Jessica Chastain!
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Prize Round-Up 2017
December 1, 2017 AwardsZoe PerryComment
This year's Jabuti prize winners were announced last night, wrapping up an active award season in Brazil.
Two general observations about this year: 1) there's a wider diversity of publishers represented, instead of Companhia das Letras and their myriad (and marvelous) imprints sweeping all categories, and 2) unlike in years past, there is very little overlap across lists, with not all the same titles pleasing all juries.
The one exception is Machado by Silviano Santiago, a fictionalized account of Machado de Assis' final years. It nabbed top honors for the Jabuti, 2nd place in the Oceanos, and was a finalist for the Prêmio São Paulo, making it this year's most favored book by the juries. Santiago also won the Oceanos in 2015 for his last novel, Mil rosas roubadas.
Outros Cantos by Maria Valéria Rezende, Brazil's favorite radical, writing nun also fared well, winning the Prêmio São Paulo and coming in 3rd in the Novel category for the Jabuti. It was also among the long-list of 51 semifinalists for the Oceanos. Loosely based on her own life experiences, Rezende's latest book tells the story of a nun who sacrificed her own life in the pursuit of the greater good, traveling all over Brazil and the world teaching. Rezende won the Jabuti in 2015 for her novel Quarenta Dias. She is also a prolific author of children's books, and has been a finalist for the Jabuti in that category three times.
2017 Jabuti Winners:
After nabbing nearly all the awards a few years ago with her novel Opisanie swiata, the multi-talented Veronica Stigger seemingly returns to her short fiction roots with Sul, taking top prize in the Short Stories category. Her latest book, published by the fantastic Editora 34, is in fact a stunning exercise in genre, and contains three distinct texts: a short story, a short play and a narrative poem.
Book of the Year, Fiction: Machado by Silviano Santiago (Companhia das Letras)
Novel: Machado by Silviano Santiago (Companhia das Letras)
Short Stories and Essay/Cronicas: Sul by Veronica Stigger (Editora 34)
Poetry: Quase Todas as Noites by Simone Brantes (7letras)
2017 Oceanos Winners:
This year the Oceanos changed its rules slightly and opened the prize up to books published in Portuguese from anywhere in the world, not just in Brazil. Previously any author writing in Portuguese could win, but the book had to have been published in Brazil. This exposed some curious cracks in the Portuguese-language publishing world: out of the 31 Brazilian semifinalists, 30 hadn't been published in Portugal and not one of the 19 Portuguese semifinalists was available in Brazil, most notably the winner, Karen by Ana Teresa Pereira.
1st: Karen by Ana Teresa Pereira (Relógio D’Água)
2nd: Machado by Silviano Santiago (Companhia das Letras)
3rd: O Golpe de Teatro by Helder Moura Pereira (Assírio e Alvim)
Tying for 4th: Anunciações by Maria Teresa Horta (Dom Quixote), and Simpatia pelo Demônio by Bernardo Carvalho (Companhia das Letras).
2017 Prêmio São Paulo Winners:
As in years past several winners of the SESC Prize, awarded to previously unpublished authors, were also recognized by the larger prizes, but particularly the Prêmio São Paulo. Maurício de Almeida and Franklin Carvalho were both launched onto the market by the SESC prize in 2016.
Novel of the Year: Outros Cantos by Maria Valéria Rezende (Alfaguara)
Novel by Debut Author over 40: Céus e Terras by Franklin Carvalho (Record)
Novel by Debut Author under 40: A Instrução da Noite by Maurício de Almeira (Rocco)
2017 Biblioteca Nacional Winners:
Short Stories: Ferrugem by Marcelo Moutinho (Record).
Novel: Descobri que Estava Morto by João Paulo Cuenca (Tusquets). Cuenca's The Only Happy Ending for a Love Story is an Accident, tr. by Elizabeth Lowe, was published by Tagus in 2013.
Poetry: A Idolatria Poética ou a Febre de Imagens by Sérgio Medeiros (Iluminuras).
It's worth noting that each prize has slightly different rules regarding publication dates, and this year the Biblioteca Nacional looked at books published in 2017, while the Jabuti, Oceanos and Prêmio São Paulo focused on those published in 2016, so we may well see one or all of these titles celebrated again next year.
Prêmio São Paulo – 2016 Finalists Announced
August 9, 2016 AwardsZoe PerryComment
Last week the list of finalists for the 2016 Prêmio São Paulo was announced, and boy is it a good one! Out of 175 total entries – roughly 10% fewer than last year – across three categories, this year's crop of twenty finalists represent ten Brazilian states, and one non-Brazilian writer is in the running: heavy-weight Mia Couto, from Mozambique. All books were published in 2015.
The Prêmio São Paulo, inspired by the Man Booker, is Brazil's biggest award in terms of prize money, with BRL 200,000 going to the winner of the Best Book category, and BRL 100,000 each for the two debut-author categories: Under 40 and Over 40. I love this prize, because I think it does a great job of promoting new authors of all ages, as well as small, indy publishers.
Once again, I'm not aware of any of these books being translated to English, or any English translations in the works.
Winners will be announced in October!
BEST NOVEL OF THE YEAR – 2015
Beatriz Bracher – Anatomia do Paraíso (Editora 34)
João Almino – Enigmas da Primavera (Record)
Julián Fúks – A Resistência (Companhia das Letras)
Marcelo Rubens Paiva – Ainda Estou Aqui (Alfaguara)
Mia Couto – Mulheres de Cinzas – As Areias do Imperador (Companhia das Letras)
Nei Lopes – Rio Negro, 50 (Record)
Noemi Jaffe – Írisz: As Orquídeas (Companhia das Letras)
Paula Fábrio – Um Dia Toparei Comigo (Foz)
Raimundo Carrero – O Senhor Agora Vai Mudar de Corpo (Record)
Santana Filho – A Casa das Marionetes (Reformatório)
BEST NOVEL OF THE YEAR - DEBUT AUTHOR
Eda Nagayama – Desgarrados (Cosac Naify)
Marcelo Maluf – A Imensidão Íntima dos Carneiros (Reformatório)
Robertson Frizero – Longe das Aldeias (Dublinense – Terceiro Selo)
Alex Sens – O Frágil Toque dos Mutilados (Autêntica)
Isabela Noronha – Resta Um (Companhia das Letras)
Julia Dantas – Ruína y Leveza (Não Editora)
Rafael Gallo – Rebentar (Record)
Sheyla Smanioto – Desesterro (Record)
Tércia Montenegro – Turismo Para Cegos (Companhia das Letras)
Tomas Rosenfeld – Para Não Dizer Que Não Falei de Flora (7 Letras)
New Reads for March
March 10, 2016 New BooksZoe Perry3 Comments
New books for Spring from Companhia das Letras! This list includes a lot of newcomers, and I don't just mean to the publishing world — four out of the five are under 35.
(counterclockwise from top left):
Maracanazo by Arthur Dapieve. A collection of short stories by Dapieve, a music and sports journalist and professor who has also written a couple of novels (one of which was translated to French). The title story was commissioned for the 2015 Paris Salon du Livre, and it was a finalist for the Jules Rimet prize for sports literature.
A Resistência (Resistance) by Julián Fuks. I've actually already read this one, but in PDF. It was one of my favorites from last year, so it was great to see how it turned out. This is a very strong, powerful novel.
A Realidade Devia Ser Proibida (Reality Should Be Banned) by Maria Clara Drummond, a journalist. This is her second novel.
Resta Um (Minus One/One Left) by Isabela Noronha. She received the Curtis Brown Prize for this novel while a student in the MA Creative Writing program at Brunel University London.
Gigantes (Giants) by Pedro Henrique Neschling, his first novel.
And, I recently received these two books in the mail, both published by Benvirá, (an imprint of Saraiva), both of which I'm excited about:
Bazar Paraná by Luis S. Krausz. This is the latest novel by the author of Deserto, winner of the Benvirá Prize and one of my favorites from last year.
Onça Preta (Black Jaguar, or is that a panther?) by Lucrécia Zappi, a journalist, translator and writer. This is her first novel and, interestingly, Zappi wrote it in the MFA program at NYU. It was published in Spanish in 2014 at FIL. Born in Buenos Aires, and having spent her teenage years in Mexico City, she translated the book herself!
Favorite Brazilian Reads in 2015
February 29, 2016 ListsZoe PerryComment
Brazilians like to say the new year only really starts after Carnaval, right? So here's my slightly tardy list of favorite Brazilian reads from 2015. Same lack of rules applies as last year: not necessarily published in 2015, just read by me in 2015. And, once again, no round numbers.
O Grifo de Abdera (The Griffin of Abdera, Companhia das Letras) by Lourenço Mutarelli
I've gushed about Lourenço Mutarelli many a time on this blog. As I've said before, I would read anything he publishes. Thankfully he keeps putting out damn good books, and this totally meta marvel just might be my new favorite. You can read a short extract from my previous favorite, O Cheiro do Ralo, in the August 2013 issue of Words Without Borders.
Turismo Para Cegos (Tourism for the Blind, Companhia das Letras) by Tércia Montenegro
A very likeable book about two highly unlikeable characters, told by an unlikely, and unreliable, narrator. It wasn't just me who liked it: it won the 2015 Biblioteca Nacional prize for Best Novel.
Operação Impensável (Operation Unthinkable, Intrínseca) by Vanessa Barbara
This book about the demise of a romantic relationship starts out all laughter and sunshine, but is actually heading south well before you've even realized what's going on. It's only in hindsight that you see what just happened. You know, kind of like an actual relationship. I did a sample from this book, available from The Riff Agency.
Írisz: As Orquídeas (Irisz: Orchids, Companhia das Letras) by Noemi Jaffe
Who knew you could tell a story of war, ideology and heartache through the growth patterns of orchids? Among other hats, Jaffe is a creative writing teacher, and this novel's meticulous prose is a master class in craft and style. Her previous book What Are the Blind Men Dreaming? is forthcoming from Deep Vellum in Julia Sanches' beautiful translation.
A Resistência (Resistance, Companhia das Letras) by Julián Fuks
Exile, identity, family. Redemption, repetition, resistance. Fuks' slim autobiographical novel packs a powerful emotional punch. His writing is measured and precise, and you're left with that wonderful feeling I'm always a sucker for, that every word has its place. I did a sample translation from this book, available from Companhia das Letras.
Nihonjin (Benvirá) by Oscar Nakasato
Nakasato's spare and beautiful book about a Japanese family in Brazil was one of my favorite discoveries last year. You can read all about this Benvirá prize-winning book in my review here.
Deserto (Desert or Deserted, among other options, Benvirá) by Luis Krausz
After reading Nihonjin above, I looked into other titles that had won the (now-defunct?) Benvirá prize and stumbled upon this gem. Krausz's sinuous, polished prose is something to behold. You can read Ana Fletcher's translation of The Clocks from Desterro: memórias em ruínas in the New England Review.
Prêmio São Paulo 2015 Finalists Announced
October 14, 2015 AwardsZoe PerryComment
Finalists for this year's Prêmio São Paulo have just been announced. 21 books, out of a total of 215 submissions (all originally published in 2014), were selected by a 10-member jury in three categories: Novel of the Year, Best Novel by a Debut Author (under 40) and Best Novel by a Debut Author (over 40).
Ten states are represented, with the typical strong showing from the South: Rio de Janeiro (6), Rio Grande do Sul (2), Santa Catarina (1), São Paulo (2), Paraná (1), Pernambuco (2), Espírito Santo (1), Minas Gerais (4), Rio Grande do Norte (1) and Ceará (1).
There are only two women up for Book of the Year (20%), but women are a whopping six out of seven for the over-40 debut author list, and two out of four of the under-40 list.
And, as far as I know, only ONE of these has been published in English so far, Socorro Acioli's The Head of the Saint, translated by Daniel Hahn, and published last year in the UK by Hot Key, and next year in the US by Delacorte.
Of course, no Brazilian literary award is ever without its own drama. Something unusual, but not unheard of, was that even though jurors could select up to 10 finalists for each of the categories, this year there are only seven for Debut Author over 40, and a mere four from the under-40 pool. All jurors asses every book, assigning each a score from one to five. If the total is less than 30, the book doesn't move on. I'm reminded of an interview with Lygia Fagundes Telles in which she said "a pouca idade não justifica um mau livro". In any case, you can be sure of the quality of every book on the list:
Alberto Mussa - "A Primeira História do Mundo"
Antônio Xerxenesky - "F"
Chico Buarque - "O Irmão Alemão"
Cristovão Tezza - "O Professor"
Estevão Azevedo - "Tempo de Espalhar Pedras"
Evandro Affonso Ferreira - "Os Piores Dias da Minha Vida Foram Todos"
Heloisa Seixas - "O Oitavo Selo"
João Anzanello Carrascoza - "Caderno de um Ausente"
Silviano Santiago - "Mil Rosas Roubadas"
Socorro Acioli - "A Cabeça de Santo"
DEBUT AUTHOR OVER 40
Eliana Cardoso - "Bonecas Russas"
Elisa Lucinda - "O Cavaleiro do Nada, Fernando Pessoa"
Heliete Vaitsman - "O Cisne e o Aviador"
Micheliny Verunschk - "Nossa Teresa - Vida e Morte de uma Santa Suicida"
Míriam Leitão - "Tempos Extremos"
Rodrigo Garcia Lopes - "O Trovador"
Vanessa Maranha - "Contagem Regressiva"
DEBUT AUTHOR UNDER 40
André Viana - "O Doente"
Caio Yurgel - "Samba em Mim"
Débora Ferraz - "Enquanto Deus Não Está Olhando"
Mariana Portella - "O Outro da Sombra"
New Spring Reads
May 12, 2015 New BooksZoe PerryComment
It's been awhile since I received a package in the mail from Companhia das Letras, so I was very pleased to collect these three new releases from the postman this morning.
The big red book in the top left corner is Dois Irmãos (Two Brothers),a title that might sound familiar. This is a new graphic novel by Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá (published by the Quadrinhos na Cia. imprint) based on Milton Hatoum's well-loved, Jabuti award-winning novel by the same name about two Lebanese brothers in Manaus. It's gorgeous and just might motivate me to work on a future post about Brazilian graphic novels. And it's not often (ever?) I get to say this on this blog, but an English translation of this one is already in the works!
The turquoise cover on the right is Restinga: dez contos e uma novela (Restinga: Ten Stories and One Novella), a collection by Miguel del Castillo. Miguel was one of Granta's Best Young Brazilian Writers, and if you're a Granta subscriber, you can read some of his work in English here.
And the final book this round is Turismo Para Cegos (Tourism for the Blind) by Tércia Montenegro. I actually bought and downloaded this book to my Kindle just last week, after seeing a lot of buzz about it on social media, but I was extra happy to receive a physical copy. It's an incredible debut novel (Tércia is an award-winning short story writer, but this is her first longer work) and I've been loving every page. I want to work on a sample, but for practical reasons I sometimes find it easier to work from a hardcopy than a Kindle version. Perhaps the reason I was most delighted to see this book "in real life" is the (yet again) beautiful job Companhia has done with the cover – it's covered in raised dots, almost like Braille (if you didn't get the hint from the title, one of the main characters is blind). There's a review already in the works for this one.
And as a bonus read this post, O que não existe mais by Krishna Monteiro, kindly received a couple weeks ago from Oasys Cultural. Krishna is diplomat, currently based here in London, and this book of short stories, mixing prose and poetry, is his first. I'm looking forward to reading this on vacation next week.
Nihonjin by Oscar Nakasato
April 24, 2015 ReviewZoe Perry1 Comment
In the summer of 2013, I spent a week on the University of East Anglia campus for the BCLT literary translation summer school. Most of that week was spent translating a text with my group of fellow Portuguese translators, alongside the story's author, Cristhiano Aguiar. One of the characters in that story is a student from the Brazilian state of Pernambuco, introduced as being the grandson of Japanese immigrants. While most of us in the room grazed over this detail, moving onto more thorny translation issues, it was met with quizzical looks by a couple of editors who sat in with us one afternoon. We realized at that moment how people with little to no firsthand experience with Brazil are often unaware that the country is home to the largest Japanese population outside of Japan.
The first Japanese immigrants arrived in Brazil in 1908, and as of 2000 there were between 1.4 and 1.5 million people of Japanese descent in Brazil. I devoured more gyoza and yakisoba in the four years I lived in São Paulo than all the rest of my years combined. This "a-ha" moment made me question where and how this population is represented in Brazilian literature, and by whom. While I've come across passing mentions of the Japanese community and a handful of minor Japanese-Brazilian characters, I desperately wanted to get my hands on a strong novel with compelling Japanese-Brazilian protagonists, but struggled to find it. So I was delighted to discover Nihonjin by Oscar Nakasato. In an interview with Nakasato in Brazilian lit mag Rascunho, he reveals a similar frustration led him to write the novel. Researching his doctoral dissertation, he was troubled by the way Japanese-Brazilians were represented in literature (or total lack thereof) and decided to write a novel about the Japanese immigrant community in Brazil.
The book follows three generations of one family in Brazil through windows on major life events, accompanying the family's proud patriarch, Hideo Inabata, from Kobe to the port of Santos with the first wave of immigrants from Japan. We are witness to their hardships during the years spent laboring alongside Italian immigrants on the coffee plantations, then follow the family to the bustling neighborhood of Liberdade in São Paulo, where new conflicts arise, rooted both within the family and in the community and world around them.
Despite the epic-sounding nature of this book, it is only 175 pages long. It has no intention of providing grandiose accounts of the history of Japanese immigration (which you can find elsewhere), or detailed explanations for why these people trekked across the globe to a country and landscape so culturally different from their own. Instead, through Hideo's grandson, the book's narrator and the only unnamed character in the book, the reader is presented with a sort of family album of personal memories, feelings and perceptions. Family members die, new generations are born, children are disowned, new relationships are forged, and dreams of returning to Japan wither away.
Nihonjin was the recipient of the first-ever Benvirá prize, awarded by the publisher Saraiva to emerging, undiscovered Brazilian authors. After winning the Benvirá, it went on to win the Jabuti for best novel. Of all the awards in Brazil, the Jabuti seems to be the one most plagued by literati drama. Not for the first time, or the last, 2012 was a bit of a weird year for the prize, and Nihonjin got wrapped up in the middle of it. The short version is that one of the jurors went rogue and the ensuing kerfuffle brought attention the book otherwise might not have received. Unfortunately one side-effect was that some folks questioned its right to be there, when the book, and its very real merits, had nothing to do with the controversy.
I found this book to be a breath of fresh air in so many ways. The writing is direct, devoid of flourishes or sentimentality, but it also has a delicate, dreamy depth to it. This understated elegance and serenity in the face of the ever-present conflict between the characters' two "worlds" feels appropriate, a sort of zen-like written representation of the Japanese aesthetic. Standing firmly outside the club of names circulating and recirculating on the Brazilian literary scene, this book brings fresh talent, fresh subject matter, and fresh characters. And its literary strength and impressive awards are proof that it's worth looking around outside the usual lists.
Oscar Nakasato hails from the southern Brazilian state of Paraná, and is the grandson of Japanese immigrants. He has a Masters in Comparative Literature and a PhD in Brazilian Literature and teaches in his home state. Several of his short stories have been awarded prizes. Nihonjin is his first novel.
Top 15 Brazilian Novels of the 21st Century – Part 2
March 18, 2015 ListsZoe Perry3 Comments
Continued from Part 1, here are the remaining seven books highlighted in Brasil Post's list of the 21st Century's best Brazilian books so far, which I've used as a springboard for exploring even more great Brazilian writing.
9. Opisanie Świata by Veronica Stigger
This book has a special place in my heart, and since its publication in 2013 has featured on lists of favorites by critics and bloggers all over Brazil. It has won the Machado de Assis prize for best novel, from the Brazilian National Library Foundation, the São Paulo prize for Debut Author Over 40, the Prêmio Açorianos literature prize, and was a finalist for both the Jabuti and the Portugal Telecom prize. And just look at this beautiful book:
Veronica Stigger first got my attention with Os Anões. Her writing is fresh, smart, exciting, shocking, hilarious and absurd. Opisanie swiata is her first novel (she has published several collections of short stories), and this longer format has allowed her to be just as daring, surreal and funny as in her previous work, but also has given her room to create a fascinating, multi-layered story spanning decades of history and an ocean.
It was included in the latest issue of Machado de Assis magazine, to be launched at the Paris Salon du Livre (click the link to read a short sample). I was also recently selected to participate in a translation residency this June, leading up to the FLIP literary festival in Paraty, Brazil, where I am so excited to continue working on its translation. Interested in a longer sample? Let's talk.
10. Nove Noites by Bernardo Carvalho
Nine Nights, translated by Benjamin Moser, was published by William Heinemann in 2007. You can read an excerpt here. He's been shortlisted for the São Paulo prize three times in the Best Book of the Year category.
11. O Movimento Pendular by Alberto Mussa
A couple of Mussa's books have been published in English, but not this one, which won the Machado de Assis prize in 2006. It has been published in French, Turkish and Romanian. The Mystery of Rio, translated by Alex Ladd, was published by Europa Editions in 2013, and in 2008, The Riddle of Qaf, translated by Lennie Larkin, was published by Aflame.
12. Sinfonia em Branco by Adriana LisboaAdriana Lisboa's writing is lyrical and moving, and it comes as no surprise that she is also a musician and poet. Symphony in White, translated by Sarah Green, was published in 2010 by Texas Tech University Press. In 2011, the same publisher released Hut of Fallen Persimmons, by the same translator. Alison Entrekin's beautiful translation, Crow Blue, was published by Bloomsbury in 2013. Lisboa is also a translator, and has brought several English-language authors into Portuguese, including Cormac McCarthy. Her novel Hanoi, shortlisted for the São Paulo prize, was published in Brazil in 2013. Her short story Success was used for the 2013 Harvill Secker Young Translators' Prize – you can read Lucy Greaves' winning translation here.
13. A Chave de Casa by Tatiana Salem Levy
Tatiana was one of Granta's best young Brazilian novelists back in 2012. Hailed as one of Brazil's most promising young writers, I'd say she has firmly arrived. Making regular appearances at international literary festivals, she is part of the Salon du Livre Brazil delegation this year. This book, her debut novel, was published by Scribe in English as The House in Smyrna just last month, February 2015 and translated by Alison Entrekin. It has also been translated into French, Italian, Romanian, Spanish, and Turkish.
She has since written two more novels, Dois Rios and Paraíso. You can read Lucy Greaves' translations of some of her other work here.
14. Manual da Paixão Solitária de Moacyr Scliar
To be honest, I knew very little about Moacyr Scliar (who unfortunately passed away in 2011) or his writing, except for Max and the Cats, due to the controversy sounding Yann Martel's other, slightly more successful book, curiously also about a shipwrecked boy on a lifeboat with a big cat. So, I was shocked (pleasantly surprised?) to learn that his work has been translated extensively. According to his wikipedia page, twelve books have been translated to English, mostly by Eloah F. Giacomelli, as well as Margaret A. Neves and Thomas O. Beebee. That's a lot, but on that page you'll also see how prolific he was, and a lot of them seem to be out of print. This one, a retelling of the Bible story of Onan, with a modern twist, won the Jabuti prize in 2009.
15. Vozes do Deserto by Nélida Piñon
Nélida Piñon is another writer I know relatively little about. She was once president of the Academia Brasileira de Letras, and had a couple of English translations published in the 1990s, but this one, Voices of the Desert, translated by Clifford Landers, was published by Knopf in 2009. A retelling of the legend of Scheherazade.
Phew, that was a lot of men, huh? Still, I have to say I was impressed by the number of books and authors on this list in English translation. Nine out the fifteen books are already in English – an inspiration, I think, to keep trudging onward.
Top 15 Brazilian Novels of the 21st Century - Part 1
Some days the internet seems to be turning into one big list. I would hesitate to add to the ever-growing fluff, but I don't see a lot of lists of Brazilian books circulating out there… oh wait, maybe that's my job on this often neglected blog. In the last month or so, some decent lists of Brazilian books have appeared online that I think are worth sharing in English. Book Fair season is upon us, and surely someone out there is thinking about new Brazilian finds. I won't claim to agree 100% with the selections, and of course many worthy contenders have been left out, but they're fine places to start! Some of these have already been translated to English, which is all the more reason to check out the authors' other work. I'll include some links below to other related projects as well. Brasil Post, the Brazilian version of Huffington Post, came up with their list of the top Brazilian novels of the 21st century. They begin with some depressing information about how little Brazilians read, particularly their own writers (almost the opposite problem to most English-speaking countries), and explain how they hope this will inspire Brazilian readers to check out writers from their own backyards. Their list claims to be based on awards and the editor's personal preferences, and is in no particular order. This gets a little long, so here are the first eight books.
1. Cinzas do Norte by Milton Hatoum
Well, we're off to a strong start! This Jabuti award winner has already been translated (by John Gledson) and was released by Bloomsbury in 2008, as Ashes of the Amazon. As contemporary Brazilian writers go, Hatoum has done exceptionally well in translation – as far as I know, all of his four novels have been published in English. All worth checking out.
And if you're interested in graphic novels, an adaptation of Hatoum's Two Brothers by Gabriel Bá and Fábio Moon is coming out this month in Brazil and France, and an English translation will be published in October by Dark Horse. Here's an article in English with more information and a beautiful preview.
2. Vista Parcial da Noite by Luiz Ruffato
This strikes me as a somewhat odd choice for this list, only because this is the third in a series of five novels Ruffato wrote over a span of six years about Brazilian industrialization and the working class, entitled "Temporary Hell". A sneaky way of squeezing in more books? Possibly, but who I am to begrudge them? This one is about a community of Italian immigrants in the state of Minas Gerais. Ruffato famously gave the opening address at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2013. His first novel came out in English earlier this year: There Were Many Horses, translated by Anthony Doyle.
3. Eu Receberia as Piores Notícias dos Seus Lindos Lábios by Marçal Aquino
Roughly: "I'd Receive the Worst News from Your Beautiful Lips". How's that for a title? Marçal Aquino is one of my favorite writers – he's a master at suspense, tension, and all things seedy and grimy. I've reviewed another of his books, O Invasor. This was originally published in 2005, and was made into a feature film in 2011. None of Aquino's work has been translated to English that I'm aware of, but this book has been translated to Spanish. Here's an article about Aquino (and this book) that came out before Frankfurt in 2013.
4. O Filho Eterno by Cristovão Tezza
Another book that has already been translated to English, by the amazing Alison Entrekin, published by Scribe in 2010. And for very good reason: this book swept the award season in 2008, taking home the Jabuti, the Portugal Telecom prize and the São Paulo prize. You can read an excerpt of it on Words Without Borders.
5. O Drible by Sérgio Rodrigues
How this book wasn't snapped up for English translation within weeks is a mystery to me, particularly with the buzz surrounding last year's World Cup. Hailed as Brazil's great futebol novel, it was a finalist for both the Jabuti and the São Paulo prize, and won the prestigious Portugal Telecom prize. Luis Fernando Verissimo called it a "great performance", an unprecedented book that's not about soccer, but in which soccer is one of the characters. I translated Sérgio's book Elza: The Girl, which came out earlier this year, and much like that one, this book has a really, really good twist. It has been published in both Spanish (translated by Juan Pablo Villalobos) and French (co-translated by Ana Isabel Sardinha Desvignes and Antoine Volodine).
Bookanista has posted a translation of the book's first chapter. You can read more about all his work at his website. He is represented by the Riff Agency and Mertin Agency.
6. K. by Bernardo Kucinski
Originally published in 2012, this debut novel tells the agonizing story of a father's search for his daughter, who disappeared during Brazil's military dictatorship. It was reissued by Cosac Naify in 2014 to mark the 50 years that have passed since the 1964 military coup in Brazil. While recent events might suggest some people have forgotten about that particular mark on Brazilian history, for many the wounds are still fresh and this book is, in my opinion, more important than ever. Praised by critics and a finalist for the Portugal Telecom and São Paulo prize, it was published in English in 2013 by Latin American Bureau, translated by Sue Branford, and reviewed in the November 2014 issue of World Literature Today.
7. Se Eu Fechar Os Olhos Agora by Edney Silvestre
If I Close My Eyes Now was published in English last year by Black Swan, translated by Nick Caistor. A second book, Happiness is Easy, also translated by Caistor, was published just six or so months later. His third novel, Vidas provisórias, came out in 2013 – it's not in English yet, but I'd say it's just a matter of time.
8. Órfãos do Eldorado by Milton Hatoum
Another from Milton Hatoum. Orphans of Eldoradowas published by Canongate in 2012, translated by John Gledson.
See the other seven books in Part Two.
New Year, New Reads
January 8, 2015 New BooksZoe PerryComment
Feliz Ano Novo! This collection of six color-coordinated books from Companhia das Letras arrived on January 2. This month's haul includes some very big names and a mix of fact and fiction. Clockwise from top left:
Sete Anos by Fernanda Torres (author of the novel Fim). This is a collection of Fernanda's columns from the last seven years on politics, movies, life and death. I enjoy Fernanda's writing, and since I missed most of these when they were originally published in São Paulo's Folha newspaper and Piauí magazine, these will be new to me (one potential negative with these sorts of compilations). I was debating if it might sound unkind to mention these collections often wind up in the bathroom, then found an interview where the author herself referred to it as a 'bathroom book', so we're on the same page. :)
O Irmão Alemão by Chico Buarque. You may know him as a musician, but he's also the author of several works of fiction, nearly all of which have been translated to English by the incredible Alison Entrekin. I'm going to be honest: I found the synopsis so convoluted and confusing I gave up half-way through. Perhaps that's motivation enough to just read the book to find out.
Put Some Farofa by Gregório Duvivier. Gregório is a talented poet and one of Brazil's smartest comics. He also writes a weekly column for São Paulo's Folha paper, which ranges from super funny to touching to thought-provoking. Unfortunately, unlike Fernanda Torres' column, I realized thumbing through the pages I've actually read nearly all of these online. Still, many of them are plenty good to merit a second (or third) reading. The title article is hilarious (though not something I'd ever attempt to translate), and one of the highlights of my time at FLIP was hearing him read it live.
O Concerto de João Gilberto no Rio de Janeiro by Sérgio Sant'Anna. This Jabuti award-winning collection of short stories is a republication, originally published in 1982.
Um lugar perigoso by Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza. This is the only author in the bunch I wasn't familiar with, but it seems this detective novel set in Rio is the 11th in the same series.
December 17, 2014 ListsZoe PerryComment
As I wind things down before taking a break until the New Year, I wanted to post a list of my top six Brazilian books from this year. I'm not always good at following rules, so no, it's not a round number, and no, not all of these were published in 2014. But here goes:
Opisanie swiata by Veronica Stigger. Easily in my top 5 books ever – yes, it's that good.
F by Antônio Xerxenesky. I had my doubts when I saw Orson Welles was one of the characters, but this book hooked me immediately. The finest "pop" novel I've read out of Brazil.
Sérgio Y. vai à América by Alexandre Vidal Porto. A powerful book. Also wins for biggest potential spoiler of the year.
De gados e homens by Ana Paula Maia. The first Brazilian book I read this year. Rich and atmospheric.
Um homem burro morreu by Rafael Sperling. Rebellious and hilarious, this guy is right up my alley.
And because I also read Brazilian books in translation, as a bonus, here's one available in English:
Family Heirlooms by Zulmira Ribeiro Tavares, translated by the great Daniel Hahn and published by Frisch & Co. This book was a treat to read and I can't wait to discover more by her.
I haven't posted reviews for all of these yet, but expect them in the coming year!
New October Reads
October 9, 2014 New BooksZoe PerryComment
Four more new releases arrived in my mailbox from Companhia das Letras. Titles this month include: O Homem-Mulher by Sérgio Sant'Anna
Por Escrito by Elvira Vigna
Amor Em Dois Tempos by Lívia Garcia-Roza
Bellini e o Labirinto by Tony Bellotto
Stories by both Elvira Vigna and Sérgio Sant'Anna appeared in Comma Press' recent collection of short stories, The Book of Rio, translated by Lucy Greaves and Julia Sanches, respectively.
And I've also received a couple of other books from their authors for review. I'm super excited about a collection of short stories by Rafael Sperling, entitled O Homem Burro Morreu, published by Oito e Meio. He's been described as a mixture of Lydia Davis and Veronica Stigger, which sounds pretty perfect to me. And I love the cover design.
The second one is O Trovador, a historical crime novel by Rodrigo Garcia Lopes, published by Record. Here's its book trailer, filled with high praise:
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Apple Announces its First Smartwatch: the Apple Watch
March 10, 2015 James Brehm
By Joyce Deuley
Yesterday, Apple announced its highly anticipated smartwatch, the Apple Watch, which is due to come out April 24th and is accepting pre-orders starting April 10th of this year. Apple has now joined several other big tech companies in the smart wearables market, creating a higher-end, customizable smartwatch that will cooperate with its iOS8, the iPhone 5 and 5s, and the iPhone6 and the 6 Plus.
Wearers of the new smartwatch will be able to read emails; connect to other friend’s watches through Digital Touch in order to “tap”, sketch, or send a heartbeat to someone; use Apple Pay; receive Facebook notifications; check the weather; follow WeChat and Twitter trends; use Apple Maps, and even use the watch as a flashlight. In addition, it also allows for fitness tracking capabilities that can be used with nutrition apps and could possibly monitor blood glucose levels, if the rumor is true. It is expected that all of these applications will be organized and managed using a single iPhone companion app—but I guess we’ll have to wait until April to find out for ourselves.
Even with all of the bells and whistles, the Apple Watch is first and foremost a watch. Apple has made sure that its smartwatch will be accurate within 50 milliseconds of the Global Time Standard, and the battery life is expected to last for roughly 18 hours with normal wear and use. While some beta versions were clocking in at 2.5 hours, the end product’s battery most likely will last the wearer for a day to a day and half, depending on use.
While many are salivating over this new wearable, here’s the bummer: the price. Apple Watch competitors are generally priced at least $150 lower than the cheapest version. To Apple’s credit, it offers three models including the standard Apple Watch, the Sport, and the Edition. What remains to be seen is whether Apple devotees are willing to pay the steep price.
The Sport: $350-$400, depending on size, has an anodized aluminum case in either silver or grey. The watch face is made from ion-X glass, and the bands come in a flexible material with customizable colors.
The Apple Watch: $549-$1,099, depending on size, comes with a standard steel case with a sapphire crystal watch face, and a range of stylish bands.
The Edition: $10,000 and up, depending on size and type of gold selected. Its case is either 18k yellow or rose gold, and it comes with specialty, customizable bands in addition to its sapphire crystal screen.
With Apple joining the ranks, the Apple Watch is a clear signal that integration between phones, laptops, tablets, and smart wearables is definitely happening. But for the company itself, the cost of the watch in tandem with the cost of the iPhone, service charges, and data usage, the price of the watch may deter many interested parties. The big question that remains is: when can we expect the new cell phone offerings from Rolex and Patek Phillippe?
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Turkish youth meet ahead of int’l girls’ conference
October 10 2017 14:38:00
Cansu Şimşek - ISTANBUL
Some 70 young people from different provinces of Turkey have come together ahead of the Oct. 11 International Day of the Girl Child Conference at a workshop where they held discussions on children’s rights, gender equality and the empowerment of girls.
In the closing ceremony of the workshop held in Istanbul, Aydın Doğan Foundation President Hanzade Doğan Boyner held a short speech.
“You worked very hard in the two-day-long workshop, and we will give voice to you. Our only hope is the youth. Very glad we have you,” she said.
Turkey’s Aydın Doğan Foundation is hosting the third International Day of the Girl Child Conference on Oct. 11 in Istanbul in cooperation with the United Nations Population Fund (UNPFA), U.N. Women, and UNICEF and in consultation with the U.N. Results Group on Gender Equality.
Under the theme of “Powerful girls, powerful futures: The social change actors of the 21st century,” the conference organized to address girls’ roles and needs in building robust societies will turn, on its third year, into an international platform with the attendance of world-renowned figures.
Leading names from Turkey and the world will join the International Day of the Girl Child Conference to discuss the empowerment of girls while drawing attention to the importance of gender equality and education. But just days ahead of the conference in Istanbul, between Oct. 6 and 9, the Aydın Doğan Foundation hosted almost 70 girls aged between 14 and 18 in a workshop at Holiday Inn Hotel in Istanbul’s Şişli district to offer them a platform for their voices to be heard.
During the workshop, Doğan Boyner and Iraqi scientist and medical doctor Nisreen El-Hashemite, currently in Istanbul for the conference, came together with the girls.
El-Hashemite advised the youngsters to never give up on their dreams. “Be happy, always laugh. And always target to reach the highest star in the sky. Do not abstain from dreaming, because you can one day be what you desire,” she said.
El-Hashemite also conveyed her thanks to the Aydın Doğan Foundation and UNICEF for their efforts.
Doğan Boyner told the girls she appreciated their works during the two-day workshop, saying the foundation would “give a place for the results of your works” at the conference on Oct. 11.
The workshop was also marked with a concert given by the Aydın Doğan Fine Arts High School choir. Doğan Boyner and El-Hashemite danced together with the girls and danced the traditional halay while the choir was performing.
With the advocacy efforts of Turkey, Canada and Peru, the United Nations General Assembly declared Oct. 11 as the International Day of the Girl Child to end discrimination against girls and to fully and effectively ensure the human rights of girls.
The day has been observed annually since 2012.
Turkey, Girl Child Conference, Aydın Doğan Foundation
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Illinois Free Will Baptists
Camp Board
CE Board
CTS Board
Missions Board
Master's Men
Leo Kivett “Pete” GrideR 1926-2016
Leo Kivett “Pete” Grider, 90, of Marion went home to be with his Lord and Savior at 6:48 a.m. on Tuesday, August 30, 2016, at his family home with his children by his side.
Leo was born February 26, 1926 in West Frankfort, the son of Leo Adolphus and Laura Margaret (Mayberry) Grider. He was united in marriage to Joyce Ardelle Ehnert on January 12, 1946 in Marion. She preceded him in death on September 1, 2000. Together they shared 54 years of marriage.
Leo was retired, having been a journeyman lineman for IBEW Local #702 for 22 years.
He was a veteran of the United States Navy, having served his country honorably during WWII. He was a member of the Freedom Freewill Baptist Church south of Marion. He was an ordained Freewill Baptist Church Minister for over 50 years.
Leo enjoyed spending time outdoors. He liked to tinker on cars and tractors. He had a passion to read the Bible on a daily basis. Leo’s family and serving his Lord was the love of his life.
Leo is survived by his thirteen children, twenty-nine grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren James (Verna) of Perkasie, PA; Daniel (Jessica), Danielle and Davina; Debbie, Denise (Nathan), Andrew, Aaron, Aidan and Davin, Robert Grider of Edina, MN; Cory, Bennett, Melanie (Philip) of Herrin, Chris (Amanda), Michael and Asheton, Shannon (Jeff); Linda (Barry) of Springfield, Barry Jr., Norman; William (Elizabeth) of Leesville, SC, Stephen, Jonathon, Claire; Judith of Marion; Matthew (Dianne) of Marion, Sarah; Thaddeus (Jenny) of Backus, MN, Kelsey, Molly, Abby, Josey, Libby; Rebecca (Tom) of Panama City Beach, FL, Megan (Adam), Jaxon; Jeffery (Stanzy), Tommy; Timothy (Sheila) of West Frankfort, Ethan, Trent, Kendall; Joel (Carol) of Marion, Ben, Julie; Malla (Scott) of Boiling Springs, SC, Taylour and Kyleigh; and Nathanael Grider of Marion;
brother, Charles of Lakeland, FL.
In addition to his wife, he was preceded in death by his parents, two grandchildren, David Grider and Savannah Hock; four brothers, William, Louis, Edward and Dennis Grider; two sisters, Eva Lorena Squier and Clara Dean Reynolds.
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For other uses, see Hoover Dam (disambiguation).
"Boulder Dam" redirects here. For other uses, see Boulder Dam (disambiguation).
Hoover Dam by Ansel Adams, 1942
Clark County, Nevada / Mohave County, Arizona, U.S.
Power, flood control, water storage, regulation, recreation
In use
Construction began
$49 million ($836 million with inflation)
Owner(s)
U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
Dam and spillways
Type of dam
Concrete gravity-arch
Impounds
726.4 ft (221.4 m)
1,244 ft (379 m)
Elevation at crest
Width (crest)
45 ft (14 m)
Width (base)
Dam volume
3,250,000 cu yd (2,480,000 m3)
Spillway type
2 controlled drum-gate
Spillway capacity
400,000 cu ft/s (11,000 m3/s)
28,537,000 acre·ft (35.200 km3)
Active capacity
Inactive capacity
167,800 sq mi (435,000 km2)
247 sq mi (640 km2)[1]
Max. length
112 mi (180 km)
Max. water depth
Normal elevation
Commission date
Hydraulic head
590 ft (180 m) (Max)
13× 130 MW
2× 127 MW
1× 68.5 MW
1× 61.5 MW Francis-type
2× 2.4 MW Pelton-type
Installed capacity
2,080 MW
Annual generation
4.2 billion kWh[2]
Bureau of Reclamation: Lower Colorado Region - Hoover Dam
U.S. National Historic Landmark
Nearest city
Boulder City, Nevada
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Six Companies, Inc. (structural), Gordon Kaufmann (exteriors)
Vehicular Bridges in Arizona MPS (AD)
April 8, 1981[3]
Designated NHL
August 20, 1985[4]
Hoover Dam, once known as Boulder Dam, is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Nevada and Arizona. It was constructed between 1931 and 1936 during the Great Depression and was dedicated on September 30, 1935, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Its construction was the result of a massive effort involving thousands of workers, and cost over one hundred lives. The dam was controversially named after President Herbert Hoover.
Since about 1900, the Black Canyon and nearby Boulder Canyon had been investigated for their potential to support a dam that would control floods, provide irrigation water and produce hydroelectric power. In 1928, Congress authorized the project. The winning bid to build the dam was submitted by a consortium called Six Companies, Inc., which began construction on the dam in early 1931. Such a large concrete structure had never been built before, and some of the techniques were unproven. The torrid summer weather and lack of facilities near the site also presented difficulties. Nevertheless, Six Companies turned over the dam to the federal government on March 1, 1936, more than two years ahead of schedule.
Hoover Dam impounds Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the United States by volume.[5] The dam is located near Boulder City, Nevada, a municipality originally constructed for workers on the construction project, about 30 mi (48 km) southeast of Las Vegas, Nevada. The dam's generators provide power for public and private utilities in Nevada, Arizona, and California. Hoover Dam is a major tourist attraction; nearly a million people tour the dam each year. The heavily travelled U.S. 93 ran along the dam's crest until October 2010, when the Hoover Dam Bypass opened.
1.1 Search for resources
1.2 Planning and agreements
1.3 Design, preparation and contracting
2.1 Labor force
2.2 River diversion
2.3 Groundworks, rock clearance and grout curtain
2.4 Concrete
2.5 Dedication and completion
2.6 Construction deaths
2.7 Architectural style
3 Operation
3.1 Power plant and water demands
3.1.1 Power distribution
3.2 Spillways
3.3 Roadway and tourism
4 Environmental impact
5 Naming controversy
As the United States developed the Southwest, the Colorado River was seen as a potential source of irrigation water. An initial attempt at diverting the river for irrigation purposes occurred in the late 1890s, when land speculator William Beatty built the Alamo Canal just north of the Mexican border; the canal dipped into Mexico before running to a desolate area Beatty named the Imperial Valley.[6] Though water from the Imperial Canal allowed for the widespread settlement of the valley, the canal proved expensive to maintain. After a catastrophic breach that caused the Colorado River to fill the Salton Sea,[7] the Southern Pacific Railroad spent $3 million in 1906–07 to stabilize the waterway, an amount it hoped vainly would be reimbursed by the Federal Government. Even after the waterway was stabilized, it proved unsatisfactory because of constant disputes with landowners on the Mexican side of the border.[8]
File:Hoover-dam-site.jpg
River view of the future site of Hoover Dam, circa 1904
As the technology of electric power transmission improved, the Lower Colorado was considered for its hydroelectric-power potential. In 1902, the Edison Electric Company of Los Angeles surveyed the river in the hope of building a 40-foot (12 m) rock dam which could generate 10,000 horsepower (7,500 kW). However, at the time, the limit of transmission of electric power was 80 miles (130 km), and there were few customers (mostly mines) within that limit. Edison allowed land options it held on the river to lapse—including an option for what became the site of Hoover Dam.[9]
In the following years, the Bureau of Reclamation (BOR), known as the Reclamation Service at the time, also considered the Lower Colorado as the site for a dam. Service chief Arthur Powell Davis proposed using dynamite to collapse the walls of Boulder Canyon,[10] 20 miles (32 km) north of the eventual dam site, into the river.[11] The river would carry off the smaller pieces of debris, and a dam would be built incorporating the remaining rubble. In 1922, after considering it for several years, the Reclamation Service finally rejected the proposal, citing doubts about the unproven technique and questions as to whether it would in fact save money.[10]
Planning and agreements
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Sketch of proposed Boulder Canyon dam site and reservoir, circa 1921
In 1922, the Reclamation Service presented a report calling for the development of a dam on the Colorado for flood control and electric power generation. The report was principally authored by Davis, and was called the Fall-Davis report after Interior Secretary Albert Fall. The Fall-Davis report cited use of the Colorado River as a federal concern, because the river's basin covered several states, and the river eventually entered Mexico.[12] Though the Fall-Davis report called for a dam "at or near Boulder Canyon", the Reclamation Service (which was renamed the Bureau of Reclamation the following year) found that canyon unsuitable.[13] One potential site at Boulder Canyon was bisected by a geologic fault; two others were so narrow there was no space for a construction camp at the bottom of the canyon[13] or for a spillway. The Service investigated Black Canyon and found it ideal; a railway could be laid from the railhead in Las Vegas to the top of the dam site.[14] Despite the site change, the dam project was referred to as the "Boulder Canyon Project".[15]
With little guidance on water allocation from the Supreme Court, proponents of the dam feared endless litigation. A Colorado attorney proposed that the seven states which fell within the river's basin (California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming) form an interstate compact, with the approval of Congress. Such compacts were authorized by Article I of the United States Constitution but had never been concluded among more than two states. In 1922, representatives of seven states met with then-Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover.[16] Initial talks produced no result, but when the Supreme Court handed down the Wyoming v. Colorado decision undermining the claims of the upstream states, they became anxious to reach an agreement. The resulting Colorado River Compact was signed on November 24, 1922.[17]
Legislation to authorize the dam was introduced repeatedly by Representative Phil Swing (R-Calif.) and Senator Hiram Johnson (R-Calif.), but representatives from other parts of the country considered the project as hugely expensive and one that would mostly benefit California. The 1927 Mississippi flood made Midwestern and Southern congressmen and senators more sympathetic toward the dam project. On March 12, 1928, the failure of the St. Francis Dam, constructed by the city of Los Angeles, caused a disastrous flood that killed up to 600 people. As that dam was a curved-gravity type,[18] similar in design to the arch-gravity as was proposed for the Black Canyon dam, opponents claimed that the Black Canyon dam's safety could not be guaranteed. Congress authorized a board of engineers to review plans for the proposed dam. The Colorado River Board found the project feasible, but warned that should the dam fail, every downstream Colorado River community would be destroyed, and that the river might change course and empty into the Salton Sea. The Board cautioned: "To avoid such possibilities, the proposed dam should be constructed on conservative if not ultra-conservative lines."[19]
On December 21, 1928 President Coolidge signed the bill authorizing the dam.[20] The Boulder Canyon Project Act appropriated $165 million for the Hoover Dam along with the downstream Imperial Dam and All-American Canal, a replacement for Beatty's canal entirely on the U.S. side of the border.[21] It also permitted the compact to go into effect when at least six of the seven states approved it. This occurred on March 6, 1929 with Utah's ratification; Arizona did not approve it until 1944.[22]
Design, preparation and contracting
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Hoover Dam architectural plans
Even before Congress approved the Boulder Canyon Project, the Bureau of Reclamation was considering what kind of dam should be used. Officials eventually decided on a massive concrete arch-gravity dam, the design of which was overseen by the Bureau's chief design engineer John L. Savage. The monolithic dam would be thick at the bottom and thin near the top, and would present a convex face towards the water above the dam. The curving arch of the dam would transmit the water's force into the abutments, in this case the rock walls of the canyon. The wedge-shaped dam would be 660 ft (200 m) thick at the bottom, narrowing to 45 ft (14 m) at the top, leaving room for a highway connecting Nevada and Arizona.[23]
On January 10, 1931, the Bureau made the bid documents available to interested parties, at five dollars a copy. The government was to provide the materials; but the contractor was to prepare the site and build the dam. The dam was described in minute detail, covering 100 pages of text and 76 drawings. A $2 million bid bond was to accompany each bid; the winner would have to post a $5 million performance bond. The contractor had seven years to build the dam, or penalties would ensue.[24]
The Wattis Brothers, heads of the Utah Construction Company, were interested in bidding on the project, but lacked the money for the performance bond. They lacked sufficient resources even in combination with their longtime partners, Morrison-Knudsen, which employed the nation's leading dam builder, Frank Crowe. They formed a joint venture to bid for the project with Pacific Bridge Company of Portland, Oregon; Henry J. Kaiser & W. A. Bechtel Company of San Francisco; MacDonald & Kahn Ltd. of Los Angeles; and the J.F. Shea Company of Portland, Oregon.[25] The joint venture was called Six Companies, Inc.—Bechtel and Kaiser were considered one company for purposes of the name. The name was descriptive and was an inside joke among the San Franciscans in the bid—"Six Companies" was a Chinese benevolent association in the city.[26] There were three valid bids, and Six Companies' bid of $48,890,955 was the lowest, within $24,000 of the confidential government estimate of what the dam would cost to build, and five million dollars less than the next lowest bid.[27]
The city of Las Vegas had lobbied hard to be the headquarters for the dam construction, closing its many speakeasies when the decision maker, Secretary of the Interior Ray Wilbur came to town. Instead, Wilbur announced in early 1930 that a model city was to be built in the desert near the dam site. This town became known as Boulder City, Nevada. Construction of a rail line joining Las Vegas and the dam site began in September 1930.[28]
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Workers on a "Jumbo Rig"; used for drilling Hoover Dam's tunnels
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"Apache Indians employed as high-scalers on the construction of Hoover Dam." - NARA
Soon after the dam was authorized, increasing numbers of unemployed converged on southern Nevada. Las Vegas, then a small city of some 5,000, saw between 10,000 and 20,000 unemployed descend on it.[29] A government camp was established for surveyors and other personnel near the dam site; this soon became surrounded by a squatters' camp. Known as McKeeversville, the camp was home to men hoping for work on the project, together with their families.[30] Another camp, on the flats along the Colorado River, was officially called Williamsville, but was known to its inhabitants as Ragtown.[31] Once construction began, Six Companies hired large numbers of workers, with more than 3,000 on the payroll by 1932[32] and with employment peaking at 5,251 in July 1934.[33] "Mongolian" (Chinese) labor was prevented by the construction contract,[33] while the number of blacks employed by Six Companies never exceeded thirty, mostly lowest-pay-scale laborers in a segregated crew, who were issued separate water buckets.[34]
As part of the contract, Six Companies, Inc. was to build Boulder City to house the workers. The original timetable called for Boulder City to be built before the dam project began, but President Hoover ordered work on the dam to begin in March 1931 rather than in October.[35] The company built bunkhouses, attached to the canyon wall, to house 480 single men at what became known as River Camp. Workers with families were left to provide their own accommodations until Boulder City could be completed,[36] and many lived in Ragtown.[37] The site of Hoover Dam endures extremely hot weather, and the summer of 1931 was especially torrid, with the daytime high averaging 119.9 °F (48.8 °C).[38] Sixteen workers and other riverbank residents died of heat prostration between June 25 and July 26.[39]
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General Superintendent Frank Crowe (right) with Bureau of Reclamation engineer Walker Young in 1935
The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or "Wobblies"), though much reduced from their heyday as militant labor organizers in the early years of the century, hoped to unionize the Six Companies workers by capitalizing on their discontent. They sent eleven organizers,[40] several of whom were arrested by Las Vegas police.[41] On August 7, 1931, the company cut wages for all tunnel workers. Although the workers sent away the organizers, not wanting to be associated with the "Wobblies", they formed a committee to represent them with the company. The committee drew up a list of demands that evening and presented them to Crowe the following morning. He was noncommittal. The workers hoped that Crowe, the general superintendent of the job, would be sympathetic; instead he gave a scathing interview to a newspaper, describing the workers as "malcontents".[42]
On the morning of the 9th, Crowe met with the committee and told them that management refused their demands, was stopping all work, and was laying off the entire work force, except for a few office workers and carpenters. The workers were given until 5 p.m. to vacate the premises. Concerned that a violent confrontation was imminent, most workers took their paychecks and left for Las Vegas to await developments.[43] Two days later, the remainder were talked into leaving by law enforcement. On August 13, the company began hiring workers again, and two days later, the strike was called off.[44] While the workers received none of their demands, the company guaranteed there would be no further reductions in wages. Living conditions began to improve as the first residents moved into Boulder City in late 1931.[45]
A second labor action took place in July 1935, as construction on the dam wound down. When a Six Companies manager altered working times to force workers to take lunch on their own time, workers responded with a strike. Emboldened by Crowe's reversal of the lunch decree, workers raised their demands to include a $1 per day raise. The company agreed to ask the Federal government to supplement the pay, but no money was forthcoming from Washington. The strike ended.[46]
River diversion
File:Hoover-summary-map.jpg
Overview of dam mechanisms; diversion tunnels shown
Before the dam could be built, the Colorado River needed to be diverted away from the construction site. To accomplish this, four diversion tunnels were driven through the canyon walls, two on the Nevada side and two on the Arizona side. These tunnels were 56 feet (17 m) in diameter.[47] Their combined length was nearly 16,000 ft, or more than 3 mi (5 km).[48] The contract required these tunnels to be completed by October 1, 1933, with a $3,000 per day fine to be assessed for any delay. To meet the deadline, Six Companies had to complete work by early 1933, since only in late fall and winter was the water level in the river low enough to safely divert.[49]
Tunneling began at the lower portals of the Nevada tunnels in May 1931. Shortly afterward, work began on two similar tunnels in the Arizona canyon wall. In March 1932, work began on lining the tunnels with concrete. First the base, or invert, was poured. Gantry cranes, running on rails through the entire length of each tunnel were used to place the concrete. The sidewalls were poured next. Movable sections of steel forms were used for the sidewalls. Finally, using pneumatic guns, the overheads were filled in. The concrete lining is 3 ft (1 m) thick, reducing the finished tunnel diameter to 50 ft (15 m).[48] The river was diverted into the two Arizona tunnels on November 13, 1932; the Nevada tunnels were kept in reserve for high water. This was done by exploding a temporary cofferdam protecting the Arizona tunnels while at the same time dumping rubble into the river until its natural course was blocked.[50]
Following the completion of the dam, the entrances to the two outer diversion tunnels were sealed at the opening and halfway through the tunnels with large concrete plugs. The downstream halves of the tunnels following the inner plugs are now the main bodies of the spillway tunnels.[48] The inner diversion tunnels were plugged at approximately one-third of their length, beyond which they now carry steel pipes connecting the intake towers to the power plant and outlet works.[47] The inner tunnels' outlets are equipped with gates that can be closed to drain the tunnels for maintenance.[47]
Groundworks, rock clearance and grout curtain
To protect the construction site from the Colorado River and to facilitate the river's diversion, two cofferdams were constructed. Work on the upper cofferdam began in September 1932, even though the river had not yet been diverted.[51] The cofferdams were designed to protect against the possibility of the river flooding a site at which two thousand men might be at work, and their specifications were covered in the bid documents in nearly as much detail as the dam itself. The upper cofferdam was 96 ft (29 m) high, and 750 feet (230 m) thick at its base—thicker than the dam itself. It contained 650,000 cubic yards (500,000 m3) of material.[52]
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Looking down at "high scalers" above the Colorado River
Once the cofferdams were in place and the construction site was drained of water, excavation for the dam foundation began. For the dam to rest on solid rock, it was necessary to remove accumulated erosion soils and other loose materials in the riverbed until sound bedrock was reached. Work on the foundation excavations was completed in June 1933. During this excavation, approximately 1,500,000 cubic yards (1,100,000 m3) of material was removed. Since the dam was an arch-gravity type, the side-walls of the canyon would bear the force of the impounded lake. Therefore, the side-walls were excavated too, to reach virgin rock as weathered rock might provide pathways for water seepage.[51]
The men who removed this rock were called "high scalers". While suspended from the top of the canyon with ropes, high-scalers climbed down the canyon walls and removed the loose rock with jackhammers and dynamite. Falling objects were the most common cause of death on the dam site; the high scalers' work thus helped ensure worker safety.[53] One high scaler was able to save life in a more direct manner: when a government inspector lost his grip on a safety line and began tumbling down a slope towards almost certain death, a high scaler was able to intercept him and pull him into the air. The construction site had, even then, become a magnet for tourists; the high scalers were prime attractions and showed off for the watchers. The high scalers received considerable media attention, with one worker dubbed the "Human Pendulum" for swinging co-workers (and, at other times, cases of dynamite) across the canyon.[54] To protect themselves against falling objects, some high scalers took cloth hats and dipped them in tar, allowing them to harden. When workers wearing such headgear were struck hard enough to inflict broken jaws, they sustained no skull damage, Six Companies ordered thousands of what initially were called "hard boiled hats" (later hard hats) and strongly encouraged their use.[55]
The cleared, underlying rock foundation of the dam site was reinforced with grout, called a grout curtain. Holes were driven into the walls and base of the canyon, as deep as 150 feet (46 m) into the rock, and any cavities encountered were to be filled with grout. This was done to stabilize the rock, to prevent water from seeping past the dam through the canyon rock, and to limit "uplift"—upward pressure from water seeping under the dam. The workers were under severe time constraints due to the beginning of the concrete pour, and when they encountered hot springs or cavities too large to readily fill, they moved on without resolving the problem. A total of 58 of the 393 holes were incompletely filled.[56] After the dam was completed and the lake began to fill, large numbers of significant leaks into the dam caused the Bureau of Reclamation to look into the situation. It found that the work had been incompletely done, and was based on less than a full understanding of the canyon's geology. New holes were drilled from inspection galleries inside the dam into the surrounding bedrock.[57] It took nine years (1938–47) under relative secrecy to complete the supplemental grout curtain.[58]
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Columns of Hoover Dam being filled with concrete, February 1934 (looking upstream from the Nevada rim)
The first concrete was poured into the dam on June 6, 1933, 18 months ahead of schedule.[59] Since concrete heats and contracts as it cures, the potential for uneven cooling and contraction of the concrete posed a serious problem. Bureau of Reclamation engineers calculated that if the dam was built in a single continuous pour, the concrete would take 125 years to cool and the resulting stresses would cause the dam to crack and crumble. Instead, the ground where the dam was to rise was marked with rectangles, and concrete blocks in columns were poured, some as large as 50 feet (15 m) square and 5 feet (1.5 m) high.[60] Each five-foot form contained a series of 1 inch (25 mm) steel pipes through which first cool river water, then ice-cold water from a refrigeration plant was run. Once an individual block had cured and had stopped contracting, the pipes were filled with grout. Grout was also used to fill the hairline spaces between columns, which were grooved to increase the strength of the joins.[61]
The concrete was delivered in huge steel buckets 7 feet (2.1 m) high and almost 7 feet (2.1 m) in diameter—Crowe was awarded two patents for their design. These buckets, which weighed 20 short tons (18 t) when full, were filled at two massive concrete plants on the Nevada side, and were delivered to the site in special railcars. The buckets were then suspended from aerial cableways, which were used to deliver the bucket to a specific column. As the required grade of aggregate in the concrete differed depending on placement in the dam (from pea-sized gravel to 9 inch (230 mm) stones), it was vital that the bucket be maneuvered to the proper column. Once the bottom of the bucket opened up, disgorging 8 cubic yards (6.1 m3) of concrete, a team of men worked it throughout the form. Although there are myths that men were caught in the pour and are entombed in the dam to this day, each bucket only deepened the concrete in a form by an inch, and Six Companies engineers would not have permitted a flaw caused by the presence of a human body.[62]
A total of 3,250,000 cubic yards (2,480,000 m3) of concrete was used in the dam before concrete pouring ceased on May 29, 1935. In addition, 1,110,000 cubic yards (850,000 m3) were used in the power plant and other works. More than 582 miles (937 km) of cooling pipes were placed within the concrete. Overall, there is enough concrete in the dam to pave a two-lane highway from San Francisco to New York.[47] Concrete cores were removed from the dam for testing in 1995; they showed that "Hoover Dam's concrete has continued to slowly gain strength" and the dam is composed of a "durable concrete having a compressive strength exceeding the range typically found in normal mass concrete".[63] Hoover Dam concrete is not subject to alkali–silica reaction (ASR) as the Hoover Dam builders happened to use nonreactive aggregate, unlike that at downstream Parker Dam, where ASR has caused measurable deterioration.[63]
Dedication and completion
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The upstream face of Hoover Dam slowly disappears as Lake Mead fills, May 1935 (looking downstream from the Arizona rim)
With most work finished on the dam itself (the powerhouse remained uncompleted), a formal dedication ceremony was arranged for September 30, 1935, to coincide with a western tour being made by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The morning of the dedication, it was moved forward three hours from 2 p.m. Pacific time to 11 a.m.; this was done because Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes had reserved a radio slot for the President for 2 p.m. but officials did not realize until the day of the ceremony that the slot was for 2 p.m. Eastern Time.[64] Despite the change in the ceremony time, and temperatures of 102 °F (39 °C), 10,000 people were present for the President's speech in which he avoided mentioning the name of former President Hoover,[65] who was not invited to the ceremony.[66] To mark the occasion, a three-cent stamp was issued by the United States Post Office Department—bearing the name "Boulder Dam", the official name of the dam between 1933 and 1947.[67] After the ceremony, Roosevelt made the first visit by any American president to Las Vegas.[65]
Most work had been completed by the dedication, and Six Companies negotiated with the government through late 1935 and early 1936 to settle all claims and arrange for the formal transfer of the dam to the Federal Government. The parties came to an agreement and on March 1, 1936, Secretary Ickes formally accepted the dam on behalf of the government. Six Companies was not required to complete work on one item, a concrete plug for one of the bypass tunnels, as the tunnel had to be used to take in irrigation water until the powerhouse went into operation.[68]
Construction deaths
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Oskar J. W. Hansen's memorial at the dam which reads in part "They died to make the desert bloom."[69]
There were 112 deaths associated with the construction of the dam.[70] The first was J. G. Tierney, a surveyor who drowned on December 20, 1922, while looking for an ideal spot for the dam. His son, Patrick W. Tierney, was the last man to die working on the dam, 13 years to the day later.[70] Ninety-six of the deaths occurred during construction at the site.[70] Of the 112 fatalities, 91 were Six Companies employees, three were BOR employees, and one was a visitor to the site, with the remainder employees of various contractors not part of Six Companies.[71]
Not included in the official fatalities number were deaths that were recorded as pneumonia. Workers alleged that this diagnosis was a cover for death from carbon monoxide poisoning, brought on by the use of gasoline-fueled vehicles in the diversion tunnels, and a classification used by Six Companies to avoid paying compensation claims.[72] The site's diversion tunnels frequently reached 140 °F (60 °C), enveloped in thick plumes of vehicle exhaust gases.[73] A total of 42 workers were recorded as having died from pneumonia; none were listed as having died from carbon monoxide poisoning. No deaths of non-workers from pneumonia were recorded in Boulder City during the construction period.[72]
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Hansen's bas-relief on the Nevada elevator
The initial plans for the facade of the dam, the power plant, the outlet tunnels and ornaments clashed with the modern look of an arch dam. The Bureau of Reclamation, more concerned with the dam's functionality, adorned it with a Gothic-inspired balustrade and eagle statues. This initial design was criticized by many as being too plain and unremarkable for a project of such immense scale, so Los Angeles-based architect Gordon B. Kaufmann, then the supervising architect to the Bureau of Reclamation, was brought in to redesign the exteriors.[74] Kaufmann greatly streamlined the design, and applied an elegant Art Deco style to the entire project. He designed sculptured turrets rising seamlessly from the dam face and clock faces on the intake towers set for the time in Nevada and Arizona — the two states are in different time zones, but as Arizona does not observe Daylight Saving Time, the clocks display the same time for more than half the year.[75]
At Kaufmann's request, Denver artist Allen Tupper True[74] was hired to handle the design and decoration of the walls and floors of the new dam. True's design scheme incorporated motifs of the Navajo and Pueblo tribes of the region.[76] Although some initially were opposed to these designs, True was given the go-ahead and was officially appointed consulting artist.[77] With the assistance of the National Laboratory of Anthropology, True researched authentic decorative motifs from Indian sand paintings, textiles, baskets and ceramics.[78] The images and colors are based on Native American visions of rain, lightning, water, clouds, and local animals — lizards, serpents, birds — and on the Southwestern landscape of stepped mesas.[76] In these works, which are integrated into the walkways and interior halls of the dam, True also reflected on the machinery of the operation, making the symbolic patterns appear both ancient and modern.[79]
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Tile floor designed by Allen Tupper True
With the agreement of Kaufmann and the engineers, True also devised an innovative color-coding for the pipes and machinery, which was implemented throughout all BOR projects.[80] True's consulting artist job lasted through 1942; it was extended so he could complete design work for the Parker, Shasta and Grand Coulee dams and power plants. True's work on the Hoover Dam was humorously referred to in a poem published in The New Yorker, part of which read, "lose the spark, and justify the dream; but also worthy of remark will be the color scheme".[81]
Complementing Kaufmann and True's work, the Norwegian-born, naturalized American sculptor Oskar J.W. Hansen designed many of the sculptures on and around the dam. His works include the monument of dedication plaza, a plaque to memorialize the workers killed and the bas-reliefs on the elevator towers. In his words, Hansen wanted his work to express "the immutable calm of intellectual resolution, and the enormous power of trained physical strength, equally enthroned in placid triumph of scientific accomplishment", because "[t]he building of Hoover Dam belongs to the sagas of the daring."[69] Hansen's dedication plaza, on the Nevada abutment, contains a sculpture of two winged figures flanking a flagpole.
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Hoover Dam memorial star map floor, center area
Surrounding the base of the monument is a terrazzo floor embedded with a "star map". The map depicts the Northern Hemisphere sky at the moment of President Roosevelt's dedication of the dam. This is intended to help future astronomers, if necessary, calculate the exact date of dedication.[69][82] The 30 feet (9.1 m) high bronze figures, dubbed "Winged Figures of the Republic", were each formed in a continuous pour. To put such large bronzes into place without marring the highly polished bronze surface, they were placed on ice and guided into position as the ice melted.[83] Hansen's bas-relief on the Nevada elevator tower depicts the benefits of the dam: flood control, navigation, irrigation, water storage, and power. The bas-relief on the Arizona elevator depicts, in his words, "the visages of those Indian tribes who have inhabited mountains and plains from ages distant."[69]
Power plant and water demands
Hoover Dam releasing water from the jet-flow gates in 1998
Excavation for the powerhouse was carried out simultaneously with the excavation for the dam foundation and abutments. A U-shaped structure located at the downstream toe of the dam, its excavation was completed in late 1933 with the first concrete placed in November 1933. Filling of Lake Mead began February 1, 1935, even before the last of the concrete was poured that May.[84] The powerhouse was one of the projects uncompleted at the time of the formal dedication on September 30, 1935—a crew of 500 men remained to finish it and other structures.[85] To make the powerhouse roof bombproof, it was constructed of layers of concrete, rock, and steel with a total thickness of about 3.5 feet (1.1 m), topped with layers of sand and tar.[86]
In the latter half of 1936, water levels in Lake Mead were high enough to permit power generation, and the first three Allis Chalmers built Francis turbine-generators, all on the Nevada side, began operating. In March 1937, one more Nevada generator went online and the first Arizona generator by August. By September 1939, four more generators were operating, and the dam's power plant became the largest hydroelectricity facility in the world. The final generator was not placed in service until 1961, bringing the maximum generating capacity to 1345 megawatts at the time.[84][87] Original plans called for 16 large generators, eight on each side of the river, but two smaller generators were installed instead of one large one on the Arizona side for a total of 17. The smaller generators were used to serve smaller communities at a time when the output of each generator was dedicated to a single municipality, before the dam's total power output was placed on the grid and made arbitrarily distributable.[2] The present contracts for the sale of electricity expire in 2017.[88]
Before water from Lake Mead reaches the turbines, it enters the intake towers and then four gradually narrowing penstocks which funnel the water down towards the powerhouse. The intakes provide a maximum hydraulic head (water pressure) of 590 ft (180 m) as the water reaches a speed of about 85 mph (140 km/h). The entire flow of the Colorado River passes through the turbines. The spillways and outlet works (jet-flow gates) are rarely used.[2] The jet-flow gates, located in concrete structures 180 feet (55 m) above the river, and also at the outlets of the inner diversion tunnels at river level, may be used to divert water around the dam in emergency or flood conditions, but have never done so, and in practice are only used to drain water from the penstocks for maintenance.[89] Following an uprating project from 1986 to 1993, the total gross power rating for the plant, including two 2.4 megawatt Pelton turbine-generators that power Hoover Dam's own operations is a maximum capacity of 2080 megawatts.[2] The annual generation of Hoover Dam varies. The maximum net generation was 10.348 TWh in 1984, and the minimum since 1940 was 2.648 TWh in 1956.[2] The average has been about 4.2 TWh/year.[2] To lower the minimum power pool elevation from 1,050 feet (320 m) to 950 feet (290 m), five wide-head turbines, designed to work efficiently with less flow, will be online by 2017.[90]
Control of water was the primary concern in the building of the dam. Power generation has allowed the dam project to be self-sustaining: proceeds from the sale of power repaid the 50-year construction loan, and those revenues also finance the multimillion-dollar yearly maintenance budget. Power is generated in step with and only with the release of water in response to downstream water demands.[88]
Lake Mead and downstream releases from the dam also provide water for both municipal and irrigation uses. Water released from the Hoover Dam eventually reaches several canals. The Colorado River Aqueduct and Central Arizona Project branch off Lake Havasu while the All-American Canal is supplied by the Imperial Dam. In total, water from the Lake Mead serves 18 million people in Arizona, Nevada and California and supplies the irrigation of over 1,000,000 acres (400,000 ha) of land.[88][91]
Electricity from the dam's powerhouse was originally sold pursuant to a fifty-year contract, authorized by Congress in 1934, which ran from 1937 to 1987. In 1984, Congress passed a new statute which set power allocations from the dam from 1987 to 2017.[92] The powerhouse was run under the original authorization by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power and Southern California Edison; in 1987, the Bureau of Reclamation assumed control.[93] In 2011, Congress enacted legislation extending the current contracts until 2067, after setting aside 5% of Hoover Dam's power for sale to Native American tribes, electric cooperatives, and other entities. The new arrangement will begin in 2017.[92] The Bureau of Reclamation reports that the energy generated is allocated as follows:[2]
Metropolitan Water District of Southern California 28.53%
State of Nevada 23.37%
State of Arizona 18.95%
Los Angeles, California 15.42%
Southern California Edison 5.54%
Boulder City, Nevada 1.77%
Glendale, California 1.59%
Pasadena, California 1.36%
Anaheim, California 1.15%
Riverside, California 0.86%
Vernon, California 0.62%
Burbank, California 0.59%
Azusa, California 0.11%
Colton, California 0.09%
Banning, California 0.05%
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Tourists gather around one of the generators in the Nevada wing of the powerhouse to hear its operation explained, September 1940
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A worker stands by the 30 ft. diameter Nevada penstock before its junction with another penstock that delivers water to a turbine
Spillways
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Water enters the Arizona spillway (left) during the 1983 floods. Lake Mead water level was 1225.6 ft
The dam is protected against over-topping by two spillways. The spillway entrances are located behind each dam abutment, running roughly parallel to the canyon walls. The spillway entrance arrangement forms a classic side-flow weir with each spillway containing four 100 ft (30 m) long and 16 ft (4.9 m) high steel drum gates. Each gate weighs 5,000,000 pounds (2,300,000 kg) and can be operated manually or automatically. Gates are raised and lowered depending on water levels in the reservoir and flood conditions. The gates are unable to entirely prevent water from entering the spillways but are able to maintain an extra 16 ft (4.9 m) of lake level.[94] Water flowing over the spillways drops dramatically into 600 ft (180 m) long, 50 ft (15 m) wide spillway tunnels before connecting to the outer diversion tunnels, and reentering the main river channel below the dam. This complex spillway entrance arrangement combined with the approximate 700 ft (210 m) elevation drop from the top of the reservoir to the river below was a difficult engineering problem and posed numerous design challenges. Each spillway's capacity of 200,000 cu ft/s (5,700 m3/s) was empirically verified in post construction tests in 1941.[94]
The large spillway tunnels have been used only twice, for testing in 1941 and because of flooding in 1983. During both times, when inspecting the tunnels after the spillways were used, engineers found major damage to the concrete linings and underlying rock.[95] The 1941 damage was attributed to a slight misalignment of the tunnel invert (or base), which caused cavitation, a phenomenon in fast-flowing liquids in which vapor bubbles collapse with explosive force. In response to this finding, the tunnels were patched with special heavy-duty concrete and the surface of the concrete was polished mirror-smooth.[96] The spillways were modified in 1947 by adding flip buckets, which both slow the water and decrease the spillway's effective capacity, in an attempt to eliminate conditions thought to have contributed to the 1941 damage. The 1983 damage, also due to cavitation, led to the installation of aerators in the spillways.[95] Tests at Grand Coulee Dam showed that the technique worked, in principle.[96]
Roadway and tourism
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The bypass in front of the dam
There are two lanes for automobile traffic across the top of the dam, which formerly served as the Colorado River crossing for U.S. Route 93.[97] In the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, authorities expressed security concerns and the Hoover Dam Bypass project was expedited. Pending the completion of the bypass, restricted traffic was permitted over Hoover Dam. Some types of vehicles were inspected prior to crossing the dam while semi-trailer trucks, buses carrying luggage, and enclosed-box trucks over 40 feet (12 m) long were not allowed on the dam at all, and were diverted to U.S. Route 95 or Nevada State Routes 163/68.[98] The four-lane Hoover Dam Bypass opened on October 19, 2010.[99] It includes a composite steel and concrete arch bridge, the Mike O'Callaghan–Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge, 1,500 ft (460 m) downstream from the dam. With the opening of the bypass, through traffic is no longer allowed across Hoover Dam, dam visitors are allowed to use the existing roadway to approach from the Nevada side and cross to parking lots and other facilities on the Arizona side.[100]
Hoover Dam opened for tours in 1937 after its completion, but following Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, it was closed to the public when the United States entered World War II, during which only authorized traffic, in convoys, was permitted. After the war, it reopened September 2, 1945, and by 1953, annual attendance had risen to 448,081. The dam closed on November 25, 1963 and March 31, 1969, days of mourning in remembrance of Presidents Kennedy and Eisenhower. In 1995, a new visitors' center was built, and the following year, visits exceeded one million for the first time. The dam closed again to the public on September 11, 2001; modified tours were resumed in December and a new "Discovery Tour" was added the following year.[93] Today, nearly a million people per year take the tours of the dam offered by the Bureau of Reclamation.[101] Increased security concerns by the government have led to most of the interior structure being inaccessible to tourists. As a result, few of True's decorations can now be seen by visitors.[102]
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View upstream from Hoover Dam, Sept. 2009. Water elevation on this date was 1093.77 ft.
The changes in water flow and use caused by Hoover Dam's construction and operation have had a large impact on the Colorado River Delta.[103] The construction of the dam has been credited as causing the decline of this estuarine ecosystem.[103] For six years after the construction of the dam, while Lake Mead filled, virtually no water reached the mouth of the river.[104] The delta's estuary, which once had a freshwater-saltwater mixing zone stretching 40 miles (64 km) south of the river's mouth, was turned into an inverse estuary where the level of salinity was higher close to the river's mouth.[105]
The Colorado River had experienced natural flooding before the construction of the Hoover Dam. The dam eliminated the natural flooding, which imperiled many species adapted to the flooding, including both plants and animals.[106] The construction of the dam devastated the populations of native fish in the river downstream from the dam.[107] Four species of fish native to the Colorado River, the Bonytail chub, Colorado pikeminnow, Humpback chub, and Razorback sucker, are listed as endangered.[108][109]
Naming controversy
During the years of lobbying leading up to the passage of legislation authorizing the dam in 1928, the press generally referred to the dam as "Boulder Dam" or as "Boulder Canyon Dam", even though the proposed site had shifted to Black Canyon.[15] The Boulder Canyon Project Act of 1928 (BCPA) never mentions a proposed name or title for the dam. The BCPA merely allows the government to "construct, operate, and maintain a dam and incidental works in the main stream of the Colorado River at Black Canyon or Boulder Canyon".[110]
When Secretary Wilbur spoke at the ceremony starting the building of the railway between Las Vegas and the dam site on September 17, 1930, he named the dam "Hoover Dam", citing a tradition of naming dams after Presidents, though none had been so honored during their terms of office. Wilbur justified his choice on the ground that Hoover was "the great engineer whose vision and persistence ... has done so much to make [the dam] possible".[111] One writer complained in response that "the Great Engineer had quickly drained, ditched, and dammed the country".[111]
After Hoover's election defeat in 1932 and the accession of the Roosevelt administration, Secretary Ickes ordered on May 13, 1933 that the dam be referred to as "Boulder Dam". Ickes stated that Wilbur had been imprudent in naming the dam after a sitting president, that Congress had never ratified his choice, and that it had long been referred to as Boulder Dam.[111] When Ickes spoke at the dedication ceremony on September 30, 1935, he was determined, as he recorded in his diary, "to try to nail down for good and all the name Boulder Dam".[67] At one point in the speech, he spoke the words "Boulder Dam" five times within thirty seconds.[112] Further, he suggested that if the dam were to be named after any one person, it should be for California Senator Hiram Johnson, a lead sponsor of the authorizing legislation.[67] Roosevelt also referred to the dam as Boulder Dam,[85] and the Republican-leaning Los Angeles Times, which at the time of Ickes' name change had run an editorial cartoon showing Ickes ineffectively chipping away at an enormous sign "HOOVER DAM", reran it showing Roosevelt reinforcing Ickes, but having no greater success.[113]
In the following years, the name "Boulder Dam" failed to fully take hold, with many Americans using both names interchangeably and mapmakers divided as to which name should be printed. Memories of the Great Depression faded, and Hoover to some extent rehabilitated himself through good works during and after World War II. In 1947, a bill passed both Houses of Congress unanimously restoring the name "Hoover Dam". Ickes, who was by then a private citizen, opposed the change, stating, "I didn't know Hoover was that small a man to take credit for something he had nothing to do with."[114]
Hoover Dam 2011 panoramic view from the Arizona side showing the penstock towers, the Nevada-side spillway entrance and the Mike O'Callaghan – Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge, also known as the Hoover Dam Bypass
Renewable energy portal
Hoover Dam Police
List of largest hydroelectric power stations
Ralph Luther Criswell, lobbyist on behalf of the dam
Water in California
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Maya Angelou & Martin Luther King anniversaries. What can they teach us?
4th April 2018 Katy Leave a comment
Today marks a significant confluence of anniversaries. It is 90 years since Maya Angelou was born and it is also 50 years since Martin Luther King was assassinated. Two dates, two greats. Both worked for human rights, dignity and respect. Indeed, they worked together in the 1960s when Angelou worked as a coordinator for MLK’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
Maya Angelou became a poet and writer after a childhood rape, teenage pregnancy, and sexuality doubts, indeed her range of occupations is rather enigmatic and curious: “Angelou drives cable cars, cooks, pimps, does exotic dancing, turns tricks, and sleeps in abandoned cars, all the while poring over serious literature.” – New Republic
She was a touring cast member of the opera Porgy and Bess and through hooking up with a South African freedom fighter moved to African becoming an editor-journalist in Egypt and Ghana during the early 1960s, the years of decolonisation.
She had a life of adventure and yet seemingly overcame adversity at every turn by luck, love, and self-belief. Nonetheless, she seems to have spent a lot of time in her life and her writing still searching and exploring herself.
“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.”
Her words, worn of experience and yet polished to be poetry, if not a little preachy, remain timeless, and she is one of the most oft-quoted people on motivational memes.
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside of you”.
Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, 1969
She lived with many loves, had many lives, and published no less than seven autobiographies. The most famous, remains, her first autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, was published in 1969.
“The caged bird sings with a fearful trill
Of things unknown but longed for still
And his tune is heard on the distant hill
For the caged bird sings of freedom”
In 1972, she penned the first screenplay written by a black woman.
Receiving dozens of honorary degrees in her lifetime and a full-time professorship, despite no college degree, she was someone who succeeded irrespective of background and didn’t see “can’t” as a word in her extensive vocabulary.
“We must confess that we are the possible.”
From her time in the 1960s with MLK and Malcolm X to 2008 when she witnessed the inauguration of the first Black President in Barack Obama, though she backed Clinton, equality made limping progress. Angelou uttered then, that:
“We are growing up beyond the idiocies of racism and sexism.”
Growing up, but not yet full-grown or mature. We have a way to go.
“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.”
Martin Luther King was ever the optimist, preaching love over hate, peace over war, forgiveness over resentment.
“I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.”
It was a belief that may have cost him his life, and not a little opposition from other members of the civil rights movement. After President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, King said to his wife, Coretta:
“This is what is going to happen to me also. I keep telling you, this is a sick society.”
Five years later, he did indeed suffer the same fate. Fifty years ago today.
“Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals…Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.”
United in their attitude to hate
Martin Luther King and Maya Angelou, alike, defied their haters. Their responses of love, resilience, and determination, remain inspiring after their deaths.
“You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I’ll rise.” – Maya Angelou
Maya spoke about being a blessing, of being a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. MLK’s words I take as inspiration every time I speak about our response to hate, violence or bigotry:
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” – Martin Luther King
There’s still much to fight for
We don’t live in a post-civil rights era, we are still fighting for equality, still needing to celebrate diversity and be welcoming and not merely tolerant of difference.
We still need twenty-first-century visionary leaders, pacifist in intent, passionate in expression, powerful in action, and political in achievement.
To the Martin Luther Kings and Maya Angelous being born today we celebrate you. To those being cut down in their prime (two teens yesterday in London), we commemorate you.
Whether you live to 39 (MLK) or 86 (Maya), make a difference, and be memorable by removing the word “can’t” from your vocabulary and choosing not to be limited by your education, sex, colour, age, or any other social categorisation. You are the difference, you are the change.
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R. v. Dick and Jasper [1829] NSWSupC 31
receiving stolen goods - convict evidence - convicts, attitude of Dowling J. towards
Dowling J., 26 May 1829
Source: Australian, 30 May 1829
Mr. Justice Dowling having taken his seat, Alexander Dick and Thomas Jasper were put to the bar, and indicted as the receivers of a certain quantity of plate, the property of A. McLeay, the same being stolen, of which fact they had acknowledged.[1 ]
The Solicitor General appeared on behalf of the Crown, and Messrs. Wardell and Wentworth on the part of Dick.[2 ]
It appeared in evidence, that an assigned servant of the name of Robertson lived with Dick in the latter part of the year 1826, who directed him to purchase some spoons from the prisoner Jasper, for which purpose he gave him a Spanish twenty dollar note -- the spoons were paid for, and taken home -- they appeared to have been rough filed, for the purpose of taking off some crest or ornamental work. When Dick saw them, he remembered that they were part of the plate stolen from Mr. McLeay. Being questioned, he said a notice had been left at his house, describing the plate. Mr. Hyndes had given an order to the prisoner Dick for some spoons. Part of that order was completed with the spoons bought of Jasper, who expressed a wish on selling them, "that Dick would melt them down." Dick stamped his own dye upon the London Hall mark, and sent the spoons, according to agreement, to Mr. Hyndes's, two or three days afterwards. After the spoons were brought to Dick's house, they were filed, 'neeled, pickled, &c. -- that is, the handles went through the process, although the bowls remained in their former state. They were half polished and half burnished.
Here the robbery was proved by the testimony of Mr. McLeay, who with other witnesses deposed, that the crest on these spoons was a stag's head and ornamental shell. They were of English manufacture. The crest &c. was obliterated, and the remains of the English Hall mark were visible. Other punches had been made over it. The remains of a lion mark can also be traced. R. P. was also quite perceptible, which denoted R. Pearce, a noted spoonmaker in Banner-street, Bunhill-row, London. Those spoons are not in the same state. When first made they were polished. Since which they have gone through the process of kneeling. No English manufacturer would send spoons out in such a state. The bowls were hard and the handles soft. This was the evidence produced on behalf of the Crown.
The prisoner Jasper being called on for his defence, stated, that the period alluded to in the course of the proceedings, was 1826, at which time he was an assigned servant to Mr. Myers (since dead). That he never had any dealings whatever with the witness Robertson, and knew nothing of him.
Dick being asked by the Court, if he intended making a defence, replied, "I leave all to my Counsel." The following evidence was then given in his favor. -- That the witness Robertson had declared he would be revenged of the prisoner Dick. That he would make him lose all he had gained, on account of the punishment he had got him. That Dick had bought some spoons of Myers, which were stolen from Mr. McLeay, and that he would not forget to gratify his animosity against the prisoner, if it were five years hence.
Several witnesses deposed, that they would not believe Robertson's oath. Mr. Malcolm stated, that he believed him capable of swearing that the moon was made of "green cheese," if it was possible to gain any thing by so doing. That he had known Dick for several years, and believed him to be an honest and industrious man. Mr. Robertson and Mr. Roberts deposed to a similar effect.
The following gentlemen were called on, viz -- Messrs. Kinghorne, Terry, Gibbons, and Barker, who deposed that they had known Dick for many years, and always considered him strictly honest, and deserving of support. Mr. Kinghorne particularly gave testimony as to his knowledge of the prisoner, who came to this colony in the same vessel with him. That during the voyage he had frequent opportunities of observing his conduct, which, connected with his behaviour in this country, he had every reason to be satisfied with. He believed him to be an upright, industrious young man.
Here the defence closed, and the learned Judge proceeded to sum up the evidence, on which he commented at considerable length. The Jury retired for half an hour, and returned into Court, having found both prisoners guilty.[3 ]
With the sincerest satisfaction we record (Mr Justice Dowling remarks), in reference to the evidence given by two persons on the part of Dick, who, it appeared, had been formerly prisoners. His Honor observed, "that he felt a sincere pleasure in bearing testimony to the respectable and honest evidence given this day by witnesses who had arrived in this Colony under particularly unpleasant circumstances. That the character of men so circumstanced, who had shewn after their arrival in this country a desire to atone to society and the laws for the commission, perhaps in youth, of a slight offence, should never, so long as he had the honor to sit in that Court, be subjected to reproach or vituperation. That where such men had evinced a disposition to become good and upright members of society, he would feel called upon to protect them from insult and domination." These observations were delivered with much energy, and received by a crowded court with manifest tokens of regard.
[1 ] See also Sydney Gazette, 28 May 1829. Dick was a silversmith: Australian, 2 June 1829.
[2 ] Jasper was undefended: Sydney Gazette, 28 May 1829.
[3 ] Dick was sentenced to transportation for seven years, and Jasper to three years on the roads in irons: Sydney Gazette, 9 June 1829; Australian, 9 June 1829.
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Home Books Spiritual Insights into God, Religion and the Islamic Lifestyle The Niche of Lights : Mishkat Al-Anwar : A Parallel English-Arabic Text : Islamic Translation Series : Imam Abu Hamid al-Ghazali
The Niche of Lights : Mishkat Al-Anwar : A Parallel English-Arabic Text : Islamic Translation Series : Imam Abu Hamid al-Ghazali
Author: Imam Abu Hamid al-Ghazali; David Buchman (translator)
Publisher: Brigham Young University Press (February 1999)
Pages: 80 Binding: Hardcover
Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali's philosophical explorations covered nearly the entire spectrum of twelfth-century beliefs. Beginning his career as a skeptic, he ended it as a scholar of mysticism and orthodoxy. The Niche of Lights, written near the end of his illustrious career, advances the philosophically important idea that reason can serve as a connection between the devout and God. Al-Ghazali argues that abstracting God from the world, as he believed theologians did, was not sufficient for understanding. Exploring the boundary between philosophy and theology, The Niche of Lights seeks to understand the role of reality in the perception of the spiritual.
The Niche of Lights, or Mishkat al-anwar, is an accessible and richly rewarding text by one of the most fascinating and important thinkers in the history of Islam. Born in the eastern Iranian city of Tus in 450 A.H. (1058 C.E.), Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali also died there, relatively young, in 505 A.H. (1111 C.E.). Between those two dates, however, he established himself as a pivotal figure throughout the Islamic world. In The Niche of Lights, al-Ghazali maintains that one who truly desires to understand the relationship between God and the world must recognize not only His distance and absolute transcendence, as emphasized in Islamic theology and jurisprudence, but also His proximity to His creation - His inherent presence. The "symbolism" of the Qur'an, suggests al-Ghazali, should not be thought of primarily as literary imagery, as mere similes and metaphors. On the contrary, God employs the language that He does in order to clarify the actual nature of reality. An understanding of the structure of the cosmos and of the human soul depends upon how accurately one perceives that reality.
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Ole Miss Taking More Steps for Racial Diversity
By The Associated Press Saturday, August 2, 2014 6 a.m. CDT
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The University of Mississippi, which has long struggled to distance itself from plantation-era imagery, is renaming a street known as Confederate Drive and adding historical context to Old South symbols that have long stood on the Oxford campus.
"Our unique history regarding race provides not only a larger responsibility for providing leadership on race issues, but also a large opportunity — one we should and will embrace," Chancellor Dan Jones wrote in the report that was developed with the help of a university committee and outside consultants.
The report issued Friday says Confederate Drive, a short street near Fraternity Row, will be renamed Chapel Lane and plaques could be installed to explain the history of symbols such as a Confederate soldier statue near the main administrative building.
The report recommends creating a new job of vice chancellor for diversity and inclusion. It also recommends that the university do more to tell the history of slavery, secession, segregation and their aftermath in Mississippi.
The report says the university will continue to use the nickname Ole Miss but should consider whether to limit its use to the context of athletics and school spirit, favoring the more formal University of Mississippi for academics. The nickname arose from a university yearbook contest in the late 1800s, but the phrase "Ole Miss" originally was a name that slaves used to refer to a plantation owner's wife.
"Our longstanding nickname is beloved by the vast majority of our students and alumni," Jones wrote in the new report. "A few, especially among our faculty, are uncomfortable using the term 'Ole Miss' — some at all, and some within the academic context. Some object simply because it is a nickname and prefer the more formal name, and some express concern about its origin, believing that the term is racist."
Coliseum Drive, near the basketball arena, will be renamed Roy Lee "Chucky" Mullins Drive, after a black Ole Miss football player who was left a quadriplegic by a 1989 game injury and died in 1991. The new name was recommended by athletic and alumni groups, Jones said.
The University of Mississippi had 22,286 students last academic year on its six campuses, including the main one in Oxford. In a state with a 37.4 percent black population, the university's enrollment was 15.4 percent black. The school's overall minority enrollment was 24.8 percent.
In 1962, two people were killed and more than 200 were injured when violence erupted because of the court-ordered enrollment of James Meredith as the first black student at the university. The university erected a statue of Meredith near the main administrative building, the Lyceum, in 2006. The university taught several courses in 2012 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of integration. But this past February, a noose and an old Georgia flag that included the Confederate battle emblem were found draped on the Meredith statue. A national fraternity suspended its University of Mississippi chapter after learning three members were responsible for the incident.
There were confrontations on campus after President Barack Obama was re-elected in November 2012, with about 400 students gathering outside while some shouted racial slurs. A larger group held a candlelight vigil on campus the next night to call for racial unity.
In the 1990s, Jones' predecessor as chancellor, Robert Khayat, banned people from carrying sticks into the football stadium as a way to discourage fans from carrying Confederate flags that had been waved at games for decades. Although its sports teams are still called the Rebels, the university a few years ago retired the Colonel Rebel mascot, a cane-wielding, white bearded old man who looked to many observers like the caricature of a plantation owner.
In 2009, Jones asked the university band to stop playing "From Dixie With Love," which blends the Confederate anthem, "Dixie," with the Union Army's "Battle Hymn of the Republic." The band had played the medley for about 20 years, but in about the mid-2000s, some fans started yelling "The South will rise again" during the song. Jones said in 2009 that the chant was associated with "a segregationist movement discredited so many years ago."
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Stories from Tuesday, March 17, 2015
Reta Ann (Parker) Williams (Obituary ~ 03/17/15)
Reta Ann (Parker) Williams July 14, 1939 - Feb. 22, 2015 BAKERSFIELD, Calif. -- Reta Ann (Parker) Williams died Feb. 22, 2015, in Bakersfield. She was born July 14, 1939, to Leonard F. and Charlotte (Woods) Parker in Palisade, Nebraska. She graduated in 1957 from Benkelman High School in Benkelman, Nebraska. She married James L. Williams on Aug. 30, 1959, in Benkelman. They lived in Denver, Colorado, before moving to Bakersfield...
Housing project clarified (Local News ~ 03/17/15)
McCOOK, Neb. -- McCook Economic Development Corp. Executive Director Rex Nelson has provided additional details about the Clary Village Project in response to a March 13 Gazette article, "Clary Village Next Keystone?" According to Nelson, the Clary Village project will bring much-needed housing to McCook just as Kelly Creek Apartments, Maplewood, Landmark Apartments and East Ward Village did. ...
Bread and water (Local News ~ 03/17/15)
The thermometer said a record 93 degrees; the geese said, "Feed me! Feed me!" Candis Shaw of Cambridge, Nebraska -- getting a tan in her summer wardrobe of shorts and tank-tops, yes, in March -- made friends with the birds on the shore of an unfrozen pond in Barnett Park in McCook Monday afternoon. The shorts will be OK until about Thursday, when forecasters predict a chance of rain and highs in the upper 50s...
Inmate training program wins approval (Local News ~ 03/17/15)
McCOOK, Neb. -- Prairie Gold Homes received approval Monday for the final item necessary to begin coordinating their inmate training program at the former Public Safety Center. Representatives from the Lincoln based non-profit thanked McCook for supporting their program and said they would begin interviewing applicants at the McCook Work Ethic Camp this week...
Garretson birthday (Birthdays ~ 03/17/15)
80th birthday The family of Stan Garretson of McCook is requesting a card shower in honor of his 80th birthday March 22. Cards of congratulations will reach him at 38098 U.S. Highway 6, McCook, NE 69001.
'Annie Get Your Gun' hits the bull's-eye (Local News ~ 03/17/15)
McCOOK, Neb. -- The first two performances of Irving Berlin's "Annie Get Your Gun" hit the bull's eye for audiences that came to the Fox Theatre Saturday and Sunday. In my book, all performers exceeded expectations and they pulled together a great show...
Special meeting Wednesday to set sales tax vote (Local News ~ 03/17/15)
McCOOK, Neb. -- City officials Monday night set Wednesday as the date for a special meeting to approve items for the upcoming sales tax renewal vote. During the meeting, the City Council will consider a resolution authorizing a special election on May 12, 2015, asking voters to approve a 1.5 percent local-option sales tax for a period of 15 years...
Local brewpub wins statewide recognition (Local News ~ 03/17/15)
McCOOK, Neb. -- Owners of a popular brewpub were presented the 2014 Entrepreneur Award by the Center for Rural Affairs Friday at a reception at the Keystone Business Center. The presentation came at a meet-and-greet that was part of an outstate meeting of the board of the Center for Rural Affairs, parent of the Rural Enterprise Assistance Project which was instrumental in establishment of the business...
Cambridge earns leadership certification (Local News ~ 03/17/15)
LINCOLN, Neb. -- Cambridge, Neb. (pop.1,063) has earned designation in the Nebraska Department of Economic Development's Certified Leadership Community Program. It is the fifth community to earn certification, joining Tecumseh, Madison, Central City and Neligh...
Celebrating Irish contributions to our way of life (Editorial ~ 03/17/15)
We've sometimes lamented the stripping of the "German" label from McCook's annual Heritage Days celebration, feeling that it would be better to focus on our community's predominant ancestry, German, would be better than conducting some sort of generic activity...
Former military (Column ~ 03/17/15)
Stop. Wait. If you haven't seen "Annie Get Your Gun" don't let next weekend go by without attending Irving Berlin's wonderful musical at the Fox. Great costuming and the stage scenery is brilliant but Annie played by Tyler Rambali is superbly done. The young lady obviously has great talent and in my opinion, should she choose, will be a national star in theatre. Guaranteed you will enjoy the evening...
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Home HEALTH DOCTOR PROFILES Dr. Fred Kushner
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Dr. Fred Kushner
Dr. Frederick Kushner knew he wanted to be a cardiologist at age 11, when he learned of the world’s first heart transplant (performed by South African surgeon Christiaan Barnard). “That sparked the fire in me,” he says.
Dr. Kushner earned his undergraduate and medical degrees from Columbia University in New York City, and completed his residency in internal medicine at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He went on to complete fellowships at the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard.
Though he originally planned to become an academic cardiologist, Dr. Kushner decided to practice and moved to New Orleans in 1979 to accept a clinical position. Academic cardiologists split their time between research, teaching, administrative work and patient care; “I was more interested in teaching and patient care,” Dr. Kushner says.
Day-to-Day Practice and Common Treated Conditions
Dr. Kushner maintains a busy clinical practice, working with eight other physicians and two nurse practitioners. He spends time each day seeing patients in his office, performing procedures at the hospital and consulting for several organizations, including the American College of Cardiology Foundation, the American Heart Association and the Science Board of the Food & Drug Administration.
“Most patients in an adult cardiology practice have coronary artery disease,” Dr. Kushner explains. He also treats patients suffering from high blood pressure, high cholesterol, arrythmias, chronic stable coronary syndromes and acute coronary syndromes (an umbrella term for situations where the heart’s blood supply is suddenly blocked).
In addition to working with patients, Dr. Kushner is a clinical professor of medicine at both Tulane University and Louisiana State University; in 1999, he won Tulane’s Alpha Omega Alpha Volunteer Clinical Faculty Award.
In 2010, Dr. Kushner chaired a workgroup for the American College of Cardiology Foundation and the American Heart Association, as a member of the Task Force on Practice Guidelines. The Task Force, which includes a number of distinguished physicians from around the U.S., is responsible for deciding which cardiovascular diseases and conditions require clinical practice updates. To make these determinations, Dr. Kushner and fellow Task Force members rely on evidence-based medicine, or “the integration of best researched evidence and clinical expertise with patient values” (Institute of Medicine, 2001).
Most recently, Dr. Kushner was appointed vice chair of the 2013 ACCF/AHA Guidelines for the Management of ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction, or heart attack. In addition, he was an official reviewer of the new and improved Guideline on the Assessment of Cardiovascular Risk, a set of lifestyle guidelines developed by the American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association in association with the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. The guidelines were released in November 2013.
Dr. Kushner also sits on the Science Board to the FDA, working with a subcommittee called Science Looking Forward. “It’s really a privilege to be asked to be on the committee, and it’s a privilege to serve with the best and brightest in the field,” he says.
“Communication is extremely important. You should have excellent communication with your patient, so your patient understands exactly what’s going on and can ask appropriate questions, be informed and help you help them with their disease management.”
DOCTOR INFO
Frederick Kushner, M.D., F.A.C.C., F.A.C.P., F.A.H.A., F.S.C.A.I.
Medical Director, Heart Clinic of Louisiana
1111 Medical Center Blvd.
Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Fellowships:
University of Pennsylvania and Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Board Certifications: Interventional Cardiology, Cardiovascular Diseases, Internal Medicine
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by By Kathryn van der Pol
Imagine you were transported back to the early days of the Republic and you are a member of Congress. George Washington's second term as President is ending, and a new presidential campaign is underway. All the members of the Federalist Party are meeting in one room while you and the members of the Democratic Republicans are meeting in another. What is the purpose of these meetings? Why, it’s to nominate the candidates for the next presidential election.
Who did your party nominate? Why, no other than Thomas Jefferson. Who did the Federalists nominate? John Adams.
Two of our most esteemed presidents were selected by Congress? How did that happen? Find out by reading Carl Jarvis's book, The United States of Dysfunction. In it, he traces the history of how candidates for public office have been nominated and the effects of that nominating system on our governmental institutions, public policies, culture and leadership. With our current two “presumptive nominees” there could not be a better time to read this book.
As moderns of the 21st century, it’s difficult to imagine anything other than our current primary system, but Carl Jarvis's book traces the three main systems from the days of George Washington up to the modern direct primary. Along with that, he points to many ills resulting from our current nominating system.
As far as solutions, he does not recommend that we go back to the time when Congress nominated our presidential candidates, but he does have some very good ideas.
Jarvis argues that the country was much healthier politically when we used the Indirect Primary System.
His book is carefully researched and full of insights. Did you know that our country existed for over a 100 years without money contributions during the primary season? That there was a time that PACs and paid lobbyists did not exist? That we actually had another body of elected citizens who served and acted as a liaison between the candidates, the office holders, and the people? These delegates provided another body of representation of government by the people, for the people, and of the people. These elected "delegates" attended the party convention to debate issues, find qualified candidates, and nominate the best qualified people for all elected positions, not just President.
Picture your primary ballot containing names of your neighbors to go serve and figure out who would best represent the community in a general election. Do you think we would have better qualified candidates than we have today?
One point he argues well is that our current system encourages the wrong types of personalities to run for office, perpetuates incumbency and bureaucratic power, and erodes our respect for law. Conservatives will find his research and conclusions compelling.
The better system, the indirect primary system, Jarvis explains, began with the election of Andrew Jackson. The indirect primary system was in use from 1824 to 1912 with the election of Woodrow Wilson. Is that a surprise?
How did it work? Ordinary citizens' names appeared on a ballot. They were your neighbors who were not pledged to any candidate but were members of a political party. At the party convention, the delegates through discussion and discernment selected a list of candidates. Then, they voted on candidates until there was a plurality.
I am going to bullet point some of Jarvis’s conclusions about the Indirect Primary System. He argues that presidents elected before 1912 were:
• of higher moral character;
• focused on principles, not interests;
• less driven by personal ambition (since some were tapped who had never considered "running" for the presidency;
• nominated by citizens who were more informed on the issues and more knowledgeable about the duties and limits of the office;
• more loyal to the platform of the party.
Jarvis argues that a return to the Indirect Primary System would not require a constitutional amendment. It may require some changes to state laws, but the effect that it would have on the election cycle would be instantaneous. It would reduce the need for money in the primary season. It would place much more focus on the party's major public policy agenda, and it would create an opportunity for local people to have a real voice in the nominating system.
Jarvis firmly correlates how we nominate with the resulting culture, public policies, and big government, regulatory nanny state. Changing how we nominate, improves everything.
I highly recommend every citizen, office holder, and bureaucrat read his book and think about his message. If you agree, then buy extra copies and send them as gifts to your friends and leaders, commentators, professors. We need to have this conversation now.
at 03:20AM
The two party system is like playing a deadly game of Russian roulette with no empty chambers in the gun. It's going to kill us. I'm frighten by these fanatic persons running for president. But I do think more and more people are seeing the light, just not enough yet.
Just ordered my copy. Thanks for bringing this to my attention.
at 01:48PM
Interesting article. When I was younger, just getting involved in politics, New York had a system where local citizen's names were on the ballot as delegates. I have been partial to that idea ever since. Because we will likely never get away from the "populist selection process we should have a uniform date and time for presidential primaries nationwide. Example: 1st Tuesday in June from 12:01AM through midnight. EST. Every state would hold their primaries on that day, and, match the time period according to their time zone. Good post, thanks.
The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
- Thomas Jefferson
Most important from that [David O. McKay] quote: Your question must always be: "Not what does a law give me, but what does it take away from me?"
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H.G. Wells’ Floor Games
By H.G. Wells et al.
eBook (PDF), 100 Pages
Often referred to as a companion volume to H.G. Wells’ wargaming classic Little Wars, Floor Games is a republication of "the Father of Miniature Wargaming’s" first volume devoted to recreational gaming. Highlights include a lighthearted, often humorous discussion on the theory and methodology behind a wide variety of "floor" and tabletop games and tips on the use and creation of improvised models, terrain, and other gaming props. Skirmisher’s edition of Floor Games is divided into a Foreword, an Introduction, and four chapters: I) "The Toys to Have"; II) "The Game of the Wonderful Islands"; III) "Of the Building of Cities"; and IV) "Funiculars, Marble Towers, Castles, and War Games, But Very Little of War Games."
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Blue Jackets winning despite drama surrounding biggest stars
File-This Dec. 13, 2018, file photo shows Columbus Blue Jackets' Artemi Panarin, of Russia, playing against the Los Angeles Kings during an NHL hockey game in Columbus, Ohio. Two-time Vezina Trophy-winning goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky and winger Panarin both will be unrestricted free agents after the season and thus far have refused to sign extensions. At least one of Russian stars could be dealt by the trade deadline Feb. 25, or the Blue Jackets risk getting nothing if they sign with another team after the season.(AP Photo/Jay LaPrete, File)
By MITCH STACY, AP Sports Writer
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Drama stemming from the uncertain future of two of the team’s biggest stars has simmered in the background for half a season, but the Columbus Blue Jackets don’t seem all that bothered.
With a bye week bumping up against the All-Star weekend, most of the Blue Jackets enjoyed a long midseason break, knowing changes could soon be coming that will alter the team’s lineup and identity.
Two-time Vezina Trophy-winning goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky and winger Artemi Panarin will be unrestricted free agents after the season and thus far have refused to sign extensions. At least one of Russian stars could be dealt by the Feb. 25 trade deadline.
Despite the inner tumult and an anemic power play, the Blue Jackets are winning. They entered the break 28-17-3, on track for a 100-point season and elbowing for the top spot in the Metropolitan Division with the New York Islanders, Washington and Pittsburgh. After dropping a back-to-back before the bye week, Columbus won five of its last eight and put together separate winning streaks of four and five games since mid-December.
“They can handle a lot of things,” general manager Jarmo Kekalainen told BlueJackets.com. “They can handle things internally, they can handle things face to face, and they take the message the right way and move along. That speaks well for the leadership inside the locker room and also the character of the players in the room.”
Columbus returns to action at home Tuesday against Buffalo.
The 30-year-old Bobrovsky, a fan favorite in his seventh season in Columbus , wants more money than the team is willing to pay for a multiyear deal. His contract has a no-move clause he would have to waive to be traded and he’s declined to say whether he would be willing to do so.
“Bob,” who will make $7.4 million this year, has been inconsistent (19-14) and not played to the level that earned him honors as the NHL’s top goalie after the 2012-13 and 2016-17 seasons. He received a high-profile rebuke from the team and was suspended for a game for an unspecified incident after coach John Tortorella pulled him in the third period of a 4-0 loss to Tampa Bay on Jan. 8. Although Bobrovsky apologized to the team, it’s not likely the situation helped him want to stay.
Tortorella has acknowledged that he’s given Bobrovsky’s backup, Joonas Korpisalo, more playing time this season because of the uncertainty over Bob’s future. The 24-year-old Finn has responded with a 9-3 record and a goals-against average of 2.95, not much worse than Bobrovsky’s 2.91. “Korpi” already has played in more games than in all of last season.
“I was prepared for that,” Bobrovsky said of the additional starts for his backup. “Every season brings some challenges, it doesn’t matter what kind of situation. There will be tough times, there will be fun times. It’s a long season.”
Panarin, 27, was traded to Columbus before last season and added critical scoring punch, setting career and franchise highs in points (27) and assists (55). “Bread” is playing his best hockey lately and is on track for a 100-point season. Linemates Cam Atkinson and Pierre Luc-Dubois have been terrific, too.
Panarin gives few interviews in English but seems unfazed by all the noise over his contract situation. He is not sure he wants to be in Columbus for the long haul.
“Every guy is different,” Atkinson said. “Every guy goes through different personal experiences. He’s playing really well for us.”
A couple of billboards have gone up in Columbus in hopes of persuading Panarin to stay, including one from a distillery offering him free vodka for life if he re-signs with the Blue Jackets. He has had some fun with the offers on social media but hasn’t tipped his hand on which way he is leaning.
“I don’t think he knows what he’s going to do,” Tortorella said. “But we can’t do anything about that. We’ve just got to keep going about our business.”
Captain Nick Foligno, who missed four games recently when his 5-year-old daughter had heart surgery, said the players’ approach to each game has not been affected by all the other stuff swirling around.
“It hasn’t been that strange for us,” he said. “For us, it really hasn’t been any different. We have a job to do. Whoever is in the lineup doesn’t change that.”
For power play help, Columbus is looking to newly minted Hockey Hall of Famer Martin St. Louis, who has been hired as a special teams consultant. St. Louis will be reunited with Tortorella, who coached him as part of the 2004 Stanley Cup champion Tampa Bay Lightning.
More AP NHL: https://apnews.com/NHL and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports
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Home > Using a Studio > Selecting a Recording Studio
Selecting a Recording Studio
By: Chris Nickson - Updated: 15 Oct 2012 | *Discuss
You, or your band or ensemble, are finally ready to make a CD. Rather than do it yourself at home, you want a professional sound, so you're paying to go into a studio. But what should you look for?
The Physical Aspects
One of the first things to consider is whether the studio is large enough to hold you all. Some larger studios contain massive "live rooms" that can hold an entire orchestra. Others can be small, literally additions to suburban houses where you can't even fit a rock band all at once. If you're going to record "live," as many do, the space not only has to be big enough to accommodate you all, but you also have to be able to see each other.
How close is it to home? Unless you're staying at the studio (many larger ones also offer a place to stay, and sometimes even catering - at a hefty price), it's worth considering. If one of the members has to drive 100 miles before even beginning to play, he's not going to be at his best. As far as possible, try and pick somewhere local. Is it on the ground floor? If not, is there ample lift space? The last thing you want is to haul gear up flights of stairs before recording (and then take it down after).
Visit the studio before making any decision. See how you feel in the space. Sometimes, for no obvious reason, you might not like a particular place. If that's the case, you're certainly not going to produce your best work there.
Find out who else has recorded there. If possible, contact them and ask about their experience.
The studio itself is important, but the engineer you work with can make or break a project. Big name bands can hire the engineers they want. For most people, however, it's whoever comes as part of the deal. With larger studios, the engineer will be an employee; in the case of smaller outfits, it's almost certain to be the person who owns the studio.
Discover what projects they've done and listen to them. Is the engineer used to working with your style of music? Are they genuinely sympathetic to what you're trying to achieve, or is this just another job? How do you get along with them personally?
The Control Board and Recording Gear
These are the twin hearts of the studio. The board controls the sound, and the recording gear captures it. Almost every studio these days is digital, recording onto hard disk. What system do they use (e.g. Pro Tools, Cool Edit), and what onboard gear does it offer? How many tracks does the equipment have? If it's just a small number and you're a large ensemble, a lot of audio juggling could be involved. Don't be afraid to ask questions or for demonstrations - most engineers are eager to show off their boards and gear and their capabilities.
Make sure you listen through the monitor speakers to something that's been recorded. The sound should be clear and sharp, with plenty of treble and bass. These are your reference speakers; you need them to be the best.
Ask about the microphones they have. There should be a large variety, some specifically for voices, and others for instruments. The engineer should know, and be able to describe, their different strengths and properties.
Ultimately, the money you have to spend dictates everything. Think very seriously about the amount you can spend on a recording. Many studios will offer packages during slack times - say a full day for a certain amount of money, including engineer. Remember, though, that physically recording is only half the process. You also have to mix the recording. That can be accomplished later, either at the same studio or somewhere cheaper, if you desire, but most artists want to complete everything in one go. Allow plenty of time for mixing in your budget - you'll need it.
You can explain your situation to the studio owner. Tell them how much you have to spend, and let them offer a deal. If business is slack, they'll probably be happy to work something out, as long as they can make a profit.
Mastering the Album
Mixing Down the Music Tracks
The Mechanics of Recording
Working With The Engineer
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Home ice cream The Most Popular Characters Of Harry Potter Ice Cream Cake
The Most Popular Characters Of Harry Potter Ice Cream Cake
The most popular characters of 'Harry Potter' as flavors of ice cream
Ron Weasley is full of excellent features, just like cookies and cream. The Warner Bros. Chocolate ice cream may not be everyone's favorite taste, but it still appreciates it, like Wizard Harry Potter. Salty caramel is popular for its daring taste, just like its counterpart Neville Longbottom.
When I was growing up, the Harry Potter series was a big part of my life. Like many others, I still wait for my letter to Hogwarts, but I always find some comfort in the characters. Of course, a day when I read books or watch movies is not complete without a spoon (or a pint) of my favorite ice cream.
Here are some of the characters such as ice cream flavors! As a classic chocolate ice cream Harry is a classic hero. Despite all the tragic events that occur in his life, Harry becomes compassionate and courageous.
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Like chocolate ice cream, it is not everyone's favorite compared to others, but he still loves it. It is a known fact that Hermione's incredible intelligence and ability to think clearly during a crisis saves the trio countless times during the series.
If Harry had not been with her, he would not have survived the first book, let alone the defeat of Voldemort. Like the shine of chocolate with mint, it is great, but also courageous and safe. Ron is extremely loyal, witty and supports his friends. He not only has some of the best sentences in a series, but also mentions his love for food several times.
Ginny starts so shy and quiet and becomes strong and sure (the book is at least Ginny). It is sweet and hard on the inside, just like the cookie dough with chocolate chips.
Draco is often depicted as the typical arrogant tyrant. There are, however, some moments that show that you have at least some humanity. Like coffee ice cream, it lacks sweetness, but has the potential to be good.
Luna is one of the most popular characters, mainly because of his optimism and open-mindedness. Being your own unique self illuminates the mood in the series. Like the frozen birthday cake, it is sweet and clear.
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Neville has one of the best character developments. Constantly bullied, Neville turns out to be a real Gryffindor. His courage and heroism make him a favorite character, similar to what caramel loves his bold but delicious taste.
While Harry refrains from hating Snape, his own son named after him, there are many strong opinions about the character of Snape. It is certainly as controversial as garlic ice cream. Although Dumbledore may make mistakes, he is still a great wizard. Its complex character cannot be summed up in a single taste, but in the varied flavors that make up the Neapolitan ice cream.
Bake for 25-30 minutes or until a pike in the middle comes out clean. Let the cakes cool in the cans for 10 minutes, then place them on a grid and remove the parchment. To make the butter cream, put the egg white and the sugar in a large bowl (the bowl of your blender, if you have one) with the vanilla pod and place it on a low heat on a layer of water.
Beat until the sugar is completely dissolved. You can try this by putting two fingers in the bowl and rubbing them. If you cannot feel the sugar granules, the mix is ready. Remove the container from the heat and continue until a thick meringue occurs.
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Continue to beat until the meringue has cooled to room temperature and then slowly add the butter, 1 tablespoon at a time. By the time all butter was processed, the mixture would have to change into a soft, silky butter cream.
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Peru Travels Blog - The most complete guide to Peru
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Inca Trail to Machu Picchu closes again in February for Maintenance
As every year, the well-known Inca Trail to Machu Picchu closes its access during the month of February to guarantee its correct maintenance and revision of its roads, a network of 43 km of roads built during the Tahuantinsuyo Empire that are up to 600 years old.
The closure of the Inca Trail coincides with the rainy season in Cusco and -specifically- with the period that receives more rainfall in the area. The intention of the Dirección Desconcentrada de Cultura de Cusco (the department's highest state tourism agency) is to safeguard the integrity and safety of the 500 people who travel along these roads daily.
It should be remembered that of these 500 people (among whom we find porters, staff of tourism agencies authorized to travel the Inca Trail, specialized guides), only 200 tourists will have access to the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu.
Maintenance of the Inca Trail
These security tasks focus primarily on reinforcing road structures such as cobblestone pavements, bridges, fences, campgrounds, or cutting down excessive vegetation that may impede the passage of visitors.
It is not uncommon for a bridge to give way every year, for there to be a landslide or for there to be a small incident in the tends. Nothing that can't really be solved in these revisions.
Let's remember that the Inca Trail is one of the three ways to access the wonder of Machu Picchu, as well as the Classic Route from Ollantaytambo to Aguas Calientes and the Hydroelectric Route (which is also discouraged during the rainy season).
The Inca Trail will be 100% operational again next March.
Francis, Peru Travels Blog
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Pet friendly establishments in Lima
Those of us who have pets know the difficulty of go walking with them when we have gone to a date in a bar or restaurant or, simply, when we want to having a coffee while we are taking them out for a walk.
Although Lima has had a hard time catching up with other European capitals that were already offering friendly spaces for pets, we can say that today there are plenty of options that will not leave us unsatisfied.
In this post, we want to try to help by showing some of the most recommended places in Lima where your pet can pass and enjoy some cookies, some water to quench their thirst, and of course, your company.
Armónica Café
This beautiful space in which a healthy lifestyle is promoted with a vegan diet and in harmony with your body, allows you to move your pet to his terrace, and even offer water and dog food in case you forgot to bring it. facebook.com/pg/armonicacafe/
Las vecinas
A warm and pleasant place where you can enjoy a good meal with the best organic and sustainable products. In addition, they have a special place for you to have breakfast, lunch or dinner with your dog either in the attic of the restaurant or in the main lounge. facebook.com/LasVecinasBarranco/
Beso francés
Beso francés (French Kiss) is located on the Miraflores Malecon, so you'll be able to enjoy sweet or salty pancakes overlooking the sea. This space has a water bottle exclusively for pets and offers courtesy cookies for dogs and cats, and also sell food for them. facebook.com/BesoFrancesCreperia/
La Casa de los anticuchos
It is one of the most popular anticucherías of Lima. It was born with the vision of offering its flagship dish with the best ingredients. Accepts reservations, is ideal for children and if that were not enough also accept the entry of pets. facebook.com /acasadelosanticuchos/
El pan de la chola
The establisment with the best artisanal "sourdough" breads without yeast also offers coffees, bread tables, teas, orange juice, extracts and sweets not so sweet. It allows you to spend delicious breakfasts, lunches and meals next to your pet every day of the week. facebook.com/El-Pan-de-la-Chola/
The well-known Barranco bio-shop offers products for good living, has a cafeteria that offers daily vegetarian menus and has a small inner courtyard where you can enter with your pet, as long as they remain calm and polite. facebook.com/lacalandriabarranco/
La bodega verde
Another classic Barranco very close to the Plaza Municipal that offers healthy food, coffees, infusions and rich breakfasts, is the Bodega Verde, with a beautiful outdoor garden where dogs and cats are welcome. facebook.com/labodegaverde/
Blu: Il gelato del barrio
In this handmade ice cream parlour in Barranco where delicious ice creams based on seasonal fruits are offered, our pets are also welcome. Although the place is not so large, there is always room for everyone. facebook.com/gelatodelbarrio/
Seitan Urban Bistro
This beautiful Miraflores location features a daily menu of vegan dishes, plus vegan quinoa burgers, beans, lentils and breaded seitan. The menu also features rich vegan makis. Our pets are more than welcome. facebook.com/SeitanUrbanBistro/
So now you know where animals are welcome, you won't have an excuse to sit next to your best friend and share more pleasant moments with them.
Senna Gonzales, Peru Travels Blog
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Etiquetas: Establisments Pet Friendly Lima, Pet Friendly Lima
7 Films You Must See Before Visiting Peru
Peru has an average of 250 films a year, and in the movie listings we find that between 65% and 85% of these come from Hollywood, while a significant percentage of films come from England, France or Spain.
This leaves a tiny 9% space for national Peruvian cinema. Despite this small margin, Peruvian cinema has left real jewels for lovers of the seventh art. Criticisms of a class society, homophobic, still tormented by the recent past of the armed conflict against Sendero Luminoso 'Shining Path', are some of the recurring themes that we will find in these films.
From our blog we would like to offer you some recommendations that have left their mark on the history of the Peruvian film industry. (All trailers are in spanish but you could find the eng. subtitles buying the original Dvd's in some peruvian stores such as Polvos Azules, near to Lima Downtown).
No se lo digas a Nadie (Don't tell anyone) (1998)
Directed by the famous film maker Francisco Lombardi, the film narrates the life of Joaquín Camino, a boy raised in the upper class sphere of Lima, who will have to hide his sexual orientation in order to be accepted into a classist, homophobic and extremely conservative society of the 1970s.
His male chauvism father and his devout mother led him to move away from home and become a rebellious, drug-addicted college student. "Don't tell anyone" was the first Peruvian film to incorporate homosexuality as one of its main themes. The scene between two of the gallants of the 90s, Santiago Magill and Christian Meier, was also well remembered.
Días de Santiago (Days of Santiago) (2004)
Josué Méndez directs this film that tells the story of Santiago Román, a former soldier in the Peruvian Navy who, after years of fighting terrorism and drug trafficking in his country, returns to a normal life in Lima. On his return, Santiago encounters complications when trying to adapt to civilian life; the memories of the war prevent him from finding peace and affect his relations with others.
"Días de Santiago" is one of the most awarded films in Peruvian cinema and perfectly portrays the damage and upheavals that several soldiers must go through once the war is over.
Madeinusa (2006)
This film directed by Claudia Llosa tells the story of Salvador, a young man from Lima who travels during Holy Week (Easter) to the imaginary village of Manayayaycuna ("the village that nobody wants to enter", in Quechua language), where from Good Friday to Resurrection Sunday there is no sin (because God is dead and cannot see his servants).
In this chaos, Salvador will have a relationship with a resident of Manayayaycuna, Madeinusa, who will try to convince him to take her to the capital.
This film is Llosa's debut feature, which only two years later would opt for the Oscar for "La teta asustada", nominated for Best Foreign Film in 2009. The Argentinian candidate for the film "El secreto de tus ojos" (The Secret in Your Eyes) received this award.
Contracorriente (Countercurrent) (2009)
A film by Javier Fuentes-León released in 2010, which was selected by the National Film Council to represent Peru in the Oscars, although it did not finally qualify as a finalist. Miguel, a young and handsome fisherman with a 'traditional' life and a pregnant wife, is immersed in a love triangle with a homosexual painter who arrives in his small coastal town. After an argument, the painter drowned but still shows up at night to visit Miguel like a ghost.
This film, with a great deal of magical realism, shows the double appearances in which the protagonist of the film is debated, who must appear to be heterosexual in a homophobic society and based on the `what will they say'.
Cielo Oscuro (Dark Sky) (2012)
In this film by Joel Calero,Toño, an older man in charge of a fabric business in the Gamarra emporium, meets Natalia, an apprentice actress who ends up being seduced by him. The romance of these two characters will be full of passion, but it will go hand in hand with a mind blowing charge of jealousy that goes beyond reason, ending in psychological and physical violence against women.
"Dark Sky" reflects explicit sex scenes and touches on the theme of feminicide in Peru.
Magallanes (Magellan) (2015)
Directed by Salvador del Solar, it shows the story of Harvey Magallanes, a taxi driver who, in one of his usual journeys, recognizes Celina, a young Ayacucho girl he met many years ago when he was a soldier in the Peruvian Army and fought against the militants of the terrorist group "Sendero Luminoso" (Shining Path).
When he sees her, he remembers that she is the young woman he forced to become his colonel's sex slave. Magallanes will try to redeem his guilt by helping Celina in her economic problems, even if he has to get into a problem that involves the most prestigious politicians and lawyers in the country.
"Magallanes", is the film with which the former Minister of Culture of Peru, Salvador del Solar, made his debut as director. It is a work that deals with the consequences of the armed conflict in Peru during 1980.
La última Tade (Last Afternoon) (2016)
Joel Calero directs this film, in which the couple formed by Laura and Ramón meet again 19 years later to finish the divorce proceedings. While waiting for the judge on duty, they decide to take a long walk through the streets of Barranco. The conversation both will have will be full of existential reflections, memories, and much mutual recrimination. After all, they only have one afternoon to understand what separated them.
"The last afternoon", shows us a socio-political reflection of two former left-wing militants on the present and the past of Peru.
Fortunately, in recent years, Peruvian cinema has received increasing support from institutions and the public, who have realized that only by filling the theatres can they compete against the great titan who represents the foreign industry.
Senna Gonzalez, Peru Travels Blog
Etiquetas: Films Peru, Movies Peru, Peruvian Cinema
The Curtain Rises: getting to know the theaters of Lima
FIRST ACT
(June 25th. 3.00 pm. City of Lima)
Curtain's up.
A crowd gathers next to the Tourist Information Office located in the Nicolás de Ribera Passage in the Historic Center of Lima. We hope the tour organized by the Municipality of Lima, through its Tourism Department, will begin and that it will lead us to know the history of the main theaters of the Peruvian capital. From Peru Travels Blog we didn't want to miss such an interesting tour and we raised our heads to be able to be attentive to everything that happens.
(Noon is sunny despite being one of the first days of winter. The guide with the unmistakable yellow vest of the institution appears from the tourist office. The murmur of the audience decreases with unusual expectation).
GUIDE (raising your voice): Good afternoon, everyone! In this tour that will take us to see the main theaters of the city, we will made five stops and finish at the Municipal Theater of Lima and the Theater Museum. It is our last tour of June and we will do some more next month that will take us to visit the Monterrico Racetrack and the tour of the Fathers of the Nation in the Maestro Presbitero Graveyard. We will have a small break at the end of July for Fiestas Patrias (National Day). This tour that we are now starting will last about two hours.
(The guide is silent as if waiting for the audience to assimilate what he has just said. A few seconds later, he raises his voice again among the whispers of some of those present).
GUIDE: Does anyone know when the theater began in Peru? (a thick silence is formed among the audience). Any ideas?.... No one? (Those present look at each other).
PERSON 1: 16th Century!
PERSON 2: In the colony!
GUIDE (smiles with relief): Exactly! The theaters arrived in Peru in the 16th century and developed during the colonial period. However, some research claims that there were representations during pre-Hispanic times. In some chronicles it is said that the Inca Pachacútec ordered his subordinates to perform comic pieces for him. The fact that the theatre was present can also be seen in the play Ollantay, whose origin is pre-Hispanic and was transmitted orally and performed in different versions until today.
(He continues) In the colony, rather than talking about theatre, we would have to talk about performances in the Plaza de Armas; Lima was a flat city and there were not too many buildings, so the Plaza was an ideal setting. The Cabildo (which could be compared to the current mayor) was the one who ordered that acts be performed to entertain the viceroy (responsible for administering the city in front of the Crown of Charles V). The atrium of the Cathedral was used as the main stage for the performances. That's how the comedy corrals began to be set up.
(After this introduction, a second guide on one side of the scene makes room with a constant fluttering of his arms and asks the crowd to split in two like the waters of the Red Sea. The GUIDE 2 goes ahead with half of the participants and goes to the first stop of our tour).
GUIDE (surpassing his companion and calling the assistants to where he stands): In the corner of Santo Domingo -Polvos Azules in colonial times- the first theatre of Lima and America was founded in 1594, El corral de Santo Domingo, so called because it was behind the church on Dominican land. (Lifts one finger to the sky). It is important to note that the first representations had an evangelizing nature, since it was one of the objectives of the Spanish Crown. Later, the religious genre did not prevail and the comic genre gained ground, in which politicians and other characters of the time were mocked.
It is the moment when the theatres become more and more famous (our guide continues), with a capacity of 300 to 400 spectators. The figure of one of the most beloved characters of the time also emerged: Micaela Villegas, also called the 'Perricholi'. Does anyone know why they called her that?
(Me, who had already been told on countless occasions about your affair with Viceroy Amat and the anecdote of his fight on a night of alcohol, simply said: "for yelling at him, 'you chola bitch' in Catalan" [what sounds as perra choli]. The guide affirmed with a silent nod, and maintained that the Perricholi was admired by the entire colony and associated with other corrals such as San Martin).
After saying these words, the guide raises his voice and tells us to follow him to the next stop, which will take us to the square of San Agustín. Already in the square, some curious people who are sitting on the surrounding benches wonder what they are distributing so that there is such a crowding of visitors in front of the façade of the church on a sunny hot Sunday.
GUIDE (gazing among the attendees as if doing a mental recount): San Agustín is the second most important corral in the colony. The Augustinian Order thought it convenient to donate this small square for theatrical representations, in which it would be known as the street of the old comedy. The San Andrés corral was another of the great centres of representation, built over the hospital of the same name.
(Although the guide is aware of the two centuries of time jump, he takes the opportunity to ask the audience if they remember the Teatro Colón, which was located on the side of the combative Plaza San Martín and which, as if it were a fairy tale in reverse, It went from being one of the most important and beautiful spaces of the Republican era to suffering a progressive degeneration that led him to show adult films to an audience of addicts and paid masturbators. Some of the older attendees nod with lost eyes and squinting at the appeal to this theater).
GUIDE: A few years later, in 1873, when the Politeama Theatre opened its doors, the largest theatre of the Republican era with some 3,000 seats, the poet and thinker Manuel González Prada gave the most important speech after the War of the Pacific with Chile. That day (it leaves a brief second of uncertainty) was July 29, 1888 (he closes his eyes to recite a few sentences that he will have repeated dozens of times before very different groups): "Those who step on the threshold of life gather today to teach a lesson to those who approach the doors of the tomb. The celebration we are witnessing has a lot of patriotism and some irony: the child wants to rescue with gold what man did not know how to defend with iron".
(To make the background of the text clearer, he said that this was a harsh criticism after the boom period prior to the Pacific War, emphasizing the lack of identity and national pride. The Politeama was in the 12th block of the Lampa St. It is the last reference to this space before passing to our third stop in front of the façade of the Teatro Principal Manuel Segura, which burnt down in 1883 during the Chilean occupation under the name of Teatro Principal, was reopened six years later under the name of Teatro Portátil, to be demolished in 1909 and rebuilt as Teatro Municipal, which soon became Manuel Ascencio Segura, the name of the father of the Peruvian national theatre. The eyes of those present move in circles as they mentally try to assimilate all the name changes of this theatre).
The façade of the Teatro Principal Manuel Segura is beautiful despite the dirt and laziness that the years brought. After its reopening, it was only intended to host chamber music concerts. Someone among the attendees asks what some of us are thinking as we see the metal door helpless, tired and weighing down the passing of the years: is the theatre still active?
GUIDE: Unfortunately the theatre it is closed for security reasons (you can see that the guide - like Orpheus - doesn't want to look back at the façade, as if he were saddened by this reality. Take a deep breath and get ready to change the subject). Very close by is the Triple A (Association of Amateur Artists), where workshops are held for children and amateurs, but also education and workshops are given to teachers to create top-level artists. Not to make free publicity but good performances are made and tickets are cheap (smile).
(Finishing our tour and heading towards the Municipal Theater of Lima we passed by the façade of the Triple A in the Ica St. I wait for our group members to come by and take a couple of pictures. The space is developed around a beautiful and fresh patio, in which some plays are announced; not long ago they premiered the dramatic Collacocha, which focuses on the story of the flood that buried the town of Yungay in just 30 seconds in 1970. A few metres further on, the conceited man of the city with his classic grey colour appears imposing and proud. In 2020, the Municipal Theater will celebrate its 100th anniversary, and the celebrations must live up to expectations).
THIRD ACT
The crowd of visitors from the two groups has gathered again around the entrance of the Municipal Theatre and gasps in admiration at the chandeliers, the neoclassical sculptures and the gold leaf from the boxes and ceilings surrounding the stalls. The most rugged element of the theatre seems to be the red cloth curtain on which a light logo of the Municipality is projected. We are seated in our seats when the GUIDE and GUIDE 2 step aside and give way to the person in charge of the Municipal Theater, Beatriz Carrera. His voice is slow and clear.
BEATRIZ (smiling all the time at the auditorium): What a joy to see that so many people are interested in performing art! This Municipal Theater, like the Manuel Segura Theater, also caught fire and it is thanks to the efforts of the current mayor's Municipality that it was recovered for all Limeños.
(His gestures are as slow as his voice. Those who have been in the Gran Teatro Nacional will notice a difference with el Teatro Municipal: the Municipal Theater is more elegant. On the left side is the Presidential Box, which is intended for the president of the nation and senior officials, while on the right side is the Municipal Box, where the Mayor and representatives of the Municipality take their seats. Up there are the high boxes, up there the gallery and the lateral and central casserole dish).
(Attendees move their heads from one side of the room to the other while the theater representative reports that an explanatory video detailing the various elements of a theatrical performance will be shown. Suddenly, a huge screen falls on which the aforementioned video is projected: stage, lighting, sound... Finish the video and you hear some isolated applause. BEATRIZ appears to tell us to accompany her to learn more about the history of the Municipal Theatre through the Theatre Museum, which is located across the outdoor arts square and where, by the way, Beatriz tells us that free performances are held every Tuesday of the week at 7.00 pm).
Once at the Theatre Museum, BEATRIZ points out the various objects and photographs to tell the story of the site. The 4 rooms that make up the museum tell the story of the stages that the Municipal Theater went through until the present day, since the inauguration of the Teatro Olimpo by the Pérez brothers in 1886. This theatre was demolished in 1915 and a year later it was converted into the magnificent Teatro Forero, named after the Tacna architect Manuel Forero Osorio and inaugurated during the Fiestas Patrias of 1920. This theater will be acquired by the Municipality of Lima in 1929 deciding that it will be called Municipal Theater, making that the so called until then, will be called Manuel Segura Theater.
The story will give a new setback to the Municipal Theater, which suffered a colossal fire on August 2, 1998 that destroyed its shell, although its concrete structure remains standing (BEATRIZ relies on small projections that hang from the ceiling to guide his speech). In fact, it is said that it was a wise fire when it did not touch the part of the room in which - even without rebuilding - some representations were made. The restoration began a few years later with the recovery of the original ornamentation, the construction of a new scenic box and the enhancement of areas such as the square of the arts and a large house adjacent to the Huancavelica St. that serves as the new headquarters of the Museum of Theatre. The entire integral recovery project of the Municipal Theater was completed in 2011.
(The few minutes that passed after BEATRIZ's explanation were used by the public to take pictures with their cell phones, to admire the posters and period dresses and to make themselves selfies with past images. It is admirable how one can feel -and hear- the footsteps of the actors on the stage of this colonial, republican, modern Lima, and still hear the applause and ovations that left the air trapped in an infinite loop. People are starting to make a fuss about the forum. The last electronic shots from the cameras are sounding. The room becomes silent and seems to become the protagonist under the spotlights).
Francisco, Peru Travels Blog
Etiquetas: History of Theaters in Peru, Theaters of Lima, Theatre in Peru
Conquering Snow-Capped Mountain Pastoruri
Traveling is not only about getting to know a new place, it is also about accepting new challenges. While Huaraz is my favorite destination for the beautiful scenery (and its food, but that's another subject) it also has something else... its places for trekking or hiking.
Let's start with the first thing, whoever writes this note is not known for having the best physique, but I practise box from time to time and if I am in the mood, run a little bit too. In addition to all of I wrote before, I love to explore and accept challenges, and in this case, it was the Pastoruri.
Before you face something it's good to know a little bit about your opponent - you noticed my reference to boxing, right? The snow-capped mountain is located in Huaraz, which is part of the department of Ancash and is included in the Cordillera Blanca, which, if you didn't know it, is part of the western mountain range of the Peruvian Andes.
Its name in Quechua means "pampas in the background" or "pasture indoors" and is considered easily accessible. Let's just say it's real training for higher snow-capped mountains.
The tour I chose was very interesting, where you go up from a few in the altitude visiting certain tourist places until you reach the foot of this impressive snow-capped mountain. By the way! The local people of the city told me some tips to face the 5.240 masl.
"Miss, take a lot of coca candy," said the landlady at the market where you can buy scarves, sweaters and more clothes to keep you warm, because in case you didn't know it, it's very cold up there.
When I went to the corner kiosk (Kiosko: this is a very traditional shop in Peru, usually located on corners, where they sell you everything), I bought 2 soles of coca candy, equivalent to 10 of them. And because there's no life without chocolate, a couple of extra bars.
My travel companion and I equipped our backpacks with more clothes in case we couldn't stand the cold, candy, chocolates, rehydrating drinks and the inevitable camera. Without photos there is no evidence of your challenge accomplished.
Before starting the trip it is recommended to drink coca tea. The bus will drop you off at approximately 4000 masl, and then you'll have a long, slightly steep walk to the top of 5200 masl.
They are going to offer you a horse, but they won't tell you that it doesn't reach the top, only halfway, don't accept it. Do you know why? Because you need to acclimatize your body, you won't make any effort, the horse will leave you at an even higher altitude and your body won't know what happened, but ask my European colleagues on the bus.
Starting out because they didn't warm up well (there was a handsome Englishman in SHORT!). They took the fast track, and when they started walking in the second half of the stretch, their stomachs suffered; guess who came back without seeing the entire snow-capped mountain. Yeah, them.
Halfway down the road, where the horse would leave you, you're going to want to give up, among my forgotten photos I must have a pseudo-defeat selfie where I told my adventure partner: "Greta, from here I see the snow, let me down".
Because if you turn around, you'll see what you have been climbing and you marvel at how you have been achieving mini goals to get where you were, you can not throw in the towel now, you did a lot.
Our guide was a lovely guy, "walk in a zigzag, it's better", I have no idea how he learned it, but it's true, apart from counselor, motivational. Like those things that are difficult to achieve in life, this is how it is to reach the top of a snow-capped mountain. You have the wind, the pressure, the lack of physique and the hunger against you, but the satisfaction of achieving it is worth every internal struggle to give up.
A coke candy for the road, and the chocolate bar as a reward when you get to the top. IT'S WORTH IT.
Now, I know you're going to find less snow than you saw in the Google photos, 'thanks global warming' and be careful not to throw your trash out there, seriously. The descent is relatively easier, but still do it slowly. The best thing is the mental congratulations that you will give yourself during the whole descent, you achieved it, and now you can go planning your next challenge.
The great thing about traveling - at least for me - is getting to know new cultures, and facing challenges that you might not do at home. The amazing thing about Peru is that every little corner has something to tell you and challenge you about.
RandomAna, Peru Travels Blog
Etiquetas: Huaraz, Pastoruri Glacier, Pastoruri Trekking, travelling chronicles
New lines come to light in the Nazca desert
These days Peru is celebrating one of the most important archaeological discoveries of recent years: the appearance of a new series of up to 50 geoglyphs in the Palpa desert, in the southern province of Ica.
These new lines are located very close to the famous Nazca Lines (elaborated between the beginning of our era and 650 A.D. in an area of 750 km2), which were declared a World Cultural Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1994.
The figures of the Palpa desert have been recorded between December 2017 and February this year by a multidisciplinary group of archaeologists, who used drones to record these geoglyphs from 20 to 30 meters high.
In statements to the local newspaper El Comercio, the leader of the group of specialists, Jhony Isla Cuadrado, reported that some 25 geoglyphs had not been documented to date, while the rest were mostly known by the locals.
A group of people with headdresses called the "royal family" in San Ignacio de Palpa
Photo: Diego Ochoa (El Comercio)
One of the main differences that exist between the Nazca Lines and these new geoglyphs its while the first ones were traced in the earthy soil of the Ica desert, the Palpa Lines are created on the slopes of the hills surrounding their valleys.
Another noteworthy detail is that the figures of Palpa were earlier than those of the Nazca (possibly between 500 BC and the early years of our time), belonging to the Paracas and Topará cultures.
The specialists were funded by the National Geographic Society to carry out this research.
Isla said in statements to the same media that although several groups of these figures had already been previously recorded by the Nasca-Palpa Archaeological Project, directed by Markus Reindel and himself, the work with drones allowed a "more detailed and systematic record of the areas".
Geoglyphs known as "The Monkey and the Dancer", which is located on a hill
Photo: Luis Jaime Castillo (El Comercio)
Meaning of Palpa Lines
The meaning of these geoglyphs - like those of Nazca - is still a question mark. According to the archaeologist and co-discoverer of these new glyphs, Luis Jaime Castillo, "most of these figures are warriors" who "could be seen from a certain distance".
As for the Nazca Lines, the theory most accepted by researchers is that they served as a "guide" for pilgrims traveling to the sacred city of Cahuachi. Of those of Palpa we still speak of hypotheses, perhaps a demonstration of the power of the Paracas culture or a tribute to the gods.
As for Isla, he says: "We know who made them, but one of things we need to find out is what it meant, whether they were in the same cosmological system as the Nazca or had another meaning. This is brand new," he said.
Finally, the also official of the Ministry of Culture, said that the geoglyphs of Palpa must be protected, delimited and made projects to enhance their value. There is no doubt that the State will take action to give greater relevance to this great discovery.
Human Figures. Photo: Karla Patroni (El Comercio)
Tourist potential of the Palpa Lines
Last year, about 92,000 people flew over the Nazca Lines, most of them over the pampas, which are home to the well-known figures of the monkey, hummingbird and spider.
The discovery of these new figures therefore has great tourist potential to further promote the destination of Nazca and Ica province among the favorites of tourists from around the world.
From the Ministry of Culture visitors are asked to respect the rules of entry to the pampas area (which is mostly intangible). The Palpa Lines also have the advantage of being visible from the ground, without having to hire an airplane at an extra cost.
Esteban García, Peru Travels Blog
Etiquetas: Nazca Lines and Palpa Lines, Palpa Lines, Palpa Lines Discovery
Puno and Surroundings
If in our previous post we affirmed that Titicaca lake is -without any doubt- one of the most mystical places in Peru. The city on its shores and encompasses it on the Peruvian side, could not be less.
Puno (3.830 masl) is a vibrant crossroads between Cusco and La Paz, where trade between both sides of the border frantically moves and where the perfect marriage between the colorful culture of the altiplano and Catholic religious beliefs are still preserved.
One of these shows is the famous feast of Virgen de la Candelaria (“Candelaria Virgin”), inscribed as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO), which is celebrated on February 2 and lasts several days around wind bands that rotate all the night until dawn.
Meanwhile, local people and visitors dance to the rhythm of the huaynos (type of Andean music) and the crashing of the beer bottles that are piling up on a side of the streets.
In the parades dance up to 40 thousand dancers to the beat of 200 bands, with costumes of a bright color in which are mixed, sequins, embroidered skirts and large metal masks that remind of Spanish characters, devils or other spirits of the altiplanic worldview are mixed .
Puno is also considered "The Folkloric Capital of America", with more than 300 registered dances and other festivities such as The Jubilee Tourist Week of Puno, which marks the birth of the first Inca, Manco Cápac (November 5); Epifanía (January 6); San Juan Bautista (March 8); Las Alacitas (May 2, a beautiful party in which payments are made to the land and small crafts that represent our goals are blessed); Las Cruces (May 3-4 on the island of Taquile and Huancané); the festival of Santiago (July 25); and Nuestra Señora de la Merced (September 24).
For the rest, the city of Puno does not have much to do. Architecturally is a city that to my impression was frozen between modernity and traditionalism, with hundreds of corrugated roofs (uralita) that reflect the sun's sparkle until sunset. The main street is the Jirón Lima, where you can find exchange houses, banks, coffee shops and small shops.
*Beware: be careful with altitude sickness or soroche; we must remember that we will be almost 4,000 meters above sea level. As we recommend in the post about Titicaca, you can buy some pills called Sorojchi Pills in any pharmacy, or take the coca tea that will serve you in any accommodation in the city.
In the same way, you will find in almost all the lodgings air cylinders in case you need them. It will help a soft diet based on chicken soup and cooked vegetables.
The baroque cathedral of Puno
At one end of the Plaza de Armas (square) in Puno we can find the Cathedral, dating from 1757 and which holds the rank of Minor Basilica after the visit of Pope Paul VI in 1964.
The temple, which was begun to be built in the old Supay Kancha or Cerco del Diablo (Fence of the Devil), has a baroque style typical of the seventeenth century, with a spectacular facade and a staircase of 10 steps that descends to the square. SCHEDULE: 10.00 to 11.00 and 3.30 to 18.00. Free entrance.
The interior of the basilica stands out for its spaciousness and austerity, with a main altar finished in marble and where two images are worshiped and were taken to Puno in the early years of the Spanish colony, El Señor del Quinario and the Virgen de los Remedios (Virgin of the Remedies). The altar is covered with silver and you can see paintings from different schools such as Cusquena and Italian.
Carlos Dreyer Museum
Behind the Basilica we find this peculiar museum that holds a small collection of archaeological pieces from the Puno region, which belonged to the German artist and collector Carlos Dreyer Spohr. In its halls (Inca, Lithic, Regional, Religious), we will find weavings, ceramics and other objects from cultures such as the Moche, Nazca and gold jewelery of the “Tesoro de Sillustani” (Treasure of Sillustani), with a life-size replica of the Chullpa del Lagarto.
In the upper floor we can find mummies related to the region. SCHEDULE: Mon-Sat 9.30 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Entry S/5. munipuno.gob.pe/
Coca Museum
Coca as a thousand-year-old leaf used in the pre-Inca culture of the altiplano continues to this day. Both the inhabitants of southern Peru, and much of the inhabitants of Bolivia, 'chacchan' (or chew) coca leaf to combat altitude sickness, improve blood flow and acquire greater vitality. In this museum we can find a brief history of these properties and a good collection of party costumes from Puno.
We can also find in the interior several products based on coca leaf, such as liqueurs, sweets, cookies ... and even coca wine. museodelacoca.com/
Viewpoints of Puno
If we have some time to get to know the city we can go to discover the Cerrito de Huajsapata and the Mirador del Cóndor (viewpoint of the condor), both 10 minutes from the city center and from where we can have beautiful views of the city and Lake Titicaca.
In the Cerro we will find a white image of the first Inca, Manco Cápac, while in the Mirador -as his own name indicates- we will find an enormous condor several meters high.
The Puma Uta viewpoint (Cougar Viewpoint) is in the northern part of the city and in the Aymara language means the Casa del Puma (The cougar house). Like the condor viewpoint, it has a huge figure of a cougar that presides over the view of Titicaca Lake and the apus (or ancestral gods in the shape of hills) that surround the city: Machallata, Azoquini, Pirhua Pirhuani and Cancharani.
Sillustani
The funerary towers or chullpas of Sillustani are one of the most well-known and visited tourist attractions around Puno, specifically on the Umayo Lake Peninsula (about 40 minutes by bus). In these towers -of various sizes and that we can find elsewhere in the area- the ancient tribe of the colla buried the most notable personalities of the nobility.
The highest chullpa of Sillustani is 12 meters high and in these larger towers families were often buried with the belongings that would accompany them to the beyond. We can still see the small openings through which they entered to leave those belongings and that were later sealed.
The area is surrounded by the beautiful Lake Umayo (3890 masl), where you can see small islands where a great variety of birds nest and graze the vicuñas (camelids similar to llamas).
Buses leave for Sillustani from Puno at 2:30 p.m. for about S / 30, leaving visitors approximately one hour in the ruins of the chullpas. A cheaper option is to take buses that go to Juliaca (S / 5) and ask to get off at the fork to Sillustani.
If we get to Atun Colla, we will find the curiosity of finding edible earth, which is usually used as clay "in sauce" in some foods.
Archaeological Complex of Cutimbo
The chullpas of this Cutimbo site are located 20 km from Puno, on top of an impressive volcanic hill that seems cut with a colossal blade. These chullpas, created by the Colla, Lupaca and Inca cultures, are different from the one we saw in Sillustani because they have a square plant - although we will also find a circular base.
Along with the chullpas we can see the stone ramps that were used for its construction. In the rocks we can see designs of monkeys, cougars and snakes, made by the builders.
Being away from Puno it is recommended to go in groups. First to save money on the journey and second, to avoid possible theft from tourists. A taxi can cost about S/ 70, including a 30-minute-wait for the driver. Another cheaper option is to take a bus to Laraqueri for about S/ 5. These leave from the cemetery next to the Amista Park.
On the way, after about 30 minutes of route, we will see the architectural complex on the left.
After visiting these tourist attractions, we may want to rest in one of the hotels in Puno or have a drink in their places of march. We have to take strength to know what was considered the'navel of the world': the Imperial City of Cusco.
Etiquetas: Carlos Dreyer Museum, Coca Museum, Cutimbo, Puno, Sillustani, Viewpoints of Puno
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Nov 23 Cleon Peterson's 'Daybreak' @ New Image Art Gallery
The graphic depictions of brutal violence in Cleon Peterson's paintings have never been for the timid, and his latest work is no exception. Daybreak debuted November 20th at New Image Art Gallery. The exhibition draws inspiration and its title from Nietzsche’s Daybreak: Reflections on Moral Prejudices. Like Nietzsche, Peterson presents a world in which contrasting schemes of morality result in eruptive hostility between social classes. "The new work tells a story of social justice and people striving to create a new utopia. The beginning of a new era, a psychological and social revolution. I don't see these people as different races but, instead as binary opposition as the individual. A dark side and a light side and the conflict between the two." - Cleon Peterson
If you weren't able to attend opening night, enjoy the pics below, but be sure to check out the works in person. Daybreak runs until January 8th, 2011.
Art, Art Shows, Cleon Peterson, Contemporary Art, New Image Art Gallery
Stephanie Chefas is founder and editor of Platinum Cheese. In addition to her online endeavors, Chefas has been curating art exhibits for nearly a decade in Los Angeles and San Francisco (among others) and recently opened Stephanie Chefas Projects in Portland, Oregon. Retaining an eye for cutting-edge and often challenging work that demands attention, Chefas features monthly exhibitions at the gallery with an emphasis on cultivating new talent and encouraging risk and evolution among established visionaries.
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Ownership History
Research Trip (2019)
Palmyra Today
United States Exploring Expedition, Vol XXIII
For those not familiar, the US Exploring Expedition (USXX) was the first oceanic research expedition, and the most audacious of its time. It sought to explore, map, and catalogue the lands, creatures, and peoples living in the lesser known island areas of the world. Most notably it sought to make landfall in Antarctica and map several river mouths in the Pacific Northwest.
There are a large number of volumes written by the expedition's leader, Charles Wilkes, but volume 23 is the only one to mention Palmyra, which was one of the islands visited. It offers a brief description of the place at the time, but most notably the fact that is was inhabited. Its likely these were only temporary visitors who may have made regular trips from nearby Fanning.
Charles Wilkes
Smithsonian Institue
C. Sherman
Text Item Type Metadata
PALMYRA ISLAND.
Palmyra is a lagoon island, discovered by Captain Sawle, of the American ship Palmyra, in November, 1802. It is 14 miles in length, east and west, and 7 miles in width. The lagoon is 7 miles in length by 2 in width. This island is inhabited, and is situated in latitude 5° 50' north, and longitude 162° 23' west. An opening is reported oil its west side, through which the tide flows. The Palmyra anchored on a bank near its northwest side, in 20 fathoms, on a sandy and coral bottom, three-quarters of a mile from the island. The Porpoise sighted this island, and found the position assigned it correct. It low, and cannot be seen over 10 or 12 miles in fine weather.- Water and fruits may be obtained in small quantities. It is to be regretted that all these detached islands should not be visited by our national vessels, and friendly intercourse kept up with them. The benefit and assistance that any shipwrecked mariners might derive from their rude inhabitants, would repay the time, trouble, and expense such visits would occasion.
1800s, pacific, scientific expedition
Charles Wilkes, “United States Exploring Expedition, Vol XXIII,” Palmyra Archive, accessed July 15, 2019, http://www.palmyraarchive.org/items/show/58.
Please send all questions, comments, and content recommendations to contact@palmyraarchive.org. All material in the archive, unless otherwise noted, is public domain.
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The Patriot Files Forums > Conflict posts > World War I
America Goes to War WW1
By: Ralph Raico - 11-10-18 - 1 hr ago
RE: https://mises.org/library/america-goes-war
With the onset of war in Europe, hostilities began in the North Atlantic which eventually provided the context — or rather, pretext — for America's participation. Immediately, questions of the rights of neutrals and belligerents leapt to the fore.
In 1909, an international conference had produced the Declaration of London, a statement of international law as it applied to war at sea. Since it was not ratified by all the signatories, the declaration never came into effect. However, once war started the United States inquired whether the belligerents were willing to abide by its stipulations. The Central Powers agreed, providing the entente did the same. The British agreed, with certain modifications, which effectively negated the declaration.1 British "modifications" included adding a large number of previously "free" items to the "conditional" contraband list and changing the status of key raw materials — most important of all, food — to "absolute" contraband, allegedly because they could be used by the German army.
The traditional understanding of international law on this point was expounded a decade and a half earlier by the British prime minister, Lord Salisbury:
Foodstuffs, with a hostile destination, can be considered contraband of war only if they are supplies for the enemy's forces. It is not sufficient that they are capable of being so used; it must be shown that this was in fact their destination at the time of the seizure.2
That had also been the historical position of the US government. But in 1914 the British claimed the right to capture food as well as other previously "conditional contraband" destined not only for hostile but even for neutral ports, on the pretense that they would ultimately reach Germany and thus the German army. In reality, the aim was, as Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty candidly admitted, to "starve the whole population — men, women, and children, old and young, wounded and sound — into submission."3
Britain now assumed "practically complete control over all neutral trade," in "flat violation of international laws."4 A strong protest was prepared by State Department lawyers but never sent. Instead, Colonel House and Spring-Rice, the British ambassador, conferred and came up with an alternative. Denying that the new note was even a "formal protest," the United States politely requested that London reconsider its policy. The British expressed their appreciation for the American viewpoint, and quietly resolved to continue with their violations.5
In November 1914, the British Admiralty announced, supposedly in response to the discovery of a German ship unloading mines off the English coast, that henceforth the whole of the North Sea was a "military area," or war zone, which would be mined, and into which neutral ships proceeded "at their own risk." The British action was in blatant contravention of international law — including the Declaration of Paris, of 1856, which Britain had signed — among other reasons, because it conspicuously failed to meet the criteria for a legal blockade.6
The British moves meant that American commerce with Germany was effectively ended, as the United States became the arsenal of the entente. Bound now by financial as well as sentimental ties to England, much of American big business worked in one way or another for the Allied cause. The house of J.P. Morgan, which volunteered itself as coordinator of supplies for Britain, consulted regularly with the Wilson administration in its financial operations for the entente. The Wall Street Journal and other organs of the business elite were noisily pro-British at every turn, until we were finally brought into the European fray.7
The United States refused to join the Scandinavian neutrals in objecting to the closing of the North Sea, nor did it send a protest of its own.8 However, when, in February, 1915, Germany declared the waters around the British Isles a war zone, in which enemy merchant ships were liable to be destroyed, Berlin was put on notice: if any American vessels or American lives should be lost through U-boat action, Germany would be held to a "strict accountability."9
In March, a British steamship, Falaba, carrying munitions and passengers, was torpedoed, resulting in the death of one American, among others. The ensuing note to Berlin entrenched Wilson's preposterous doctrine — that the United States had the right and duty to protect Americans sailing on ships flying a belligerent flag. Later, John Bassett Moore, for over 30 years professor of international law at Columbia, long-time member of the Hague Tribunal, and, after the war, a judge at the International Court of Justice, stated of this and of an equally absurd Wilsonian principle:
what most decisively contributed to the involvement of the United States in the war was the assertion of a right to protect belligerent ships on which Americans saw fit to travel and the treatment of armed belligerent merchantmen as peaceful vessels. Both assumptions were contrary to reason and to settled law, and no other professed neutral advanced them.10
Wilson had placed America on a direct collision course with Germany.
On May 7, 1915, came the most famous incident in the North Atlantic war. The British liner Lusitania was sunk, with the loss of 1,195 lives, including 124 Americans, by far the largest number of American victims of German submarines before our entry into the war.11 There was outrage in the eastern seaboard press and throughout the American social elite and political class. Wilson was livid. A note was fired off to Berlin, reiterating the principle of "strict accountability," and concluding, ominously, that Germany
will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment.12
At this time, the British released the Bryce Report on Belgian atrocities. A work of raw entente propaganda, though profiting from the name of the distinguished English writer, the report underscored the true nature of the unspeakable Hun.13 Anglophiles everywhere were enraged. The Republican Party establishment raised the ante on Wilson, demanding firmer action. The great majority of Americans, who devoutly wished to avoid war, had no spokesmen within the leadership of either of the major parties. America was beginning to reap the benefits of our divinely appointed "bipartisan foreign policy."
In their reply to the State Department note, the Germans observed that submarine warfare was a reprisal for the illegal hunger blockade; that the Lusitania was carrying munitions of war; that it was registered as an auxiliary cruiser of the British Navy; that British merchant ships had been directed to ram or fire upon surfacing U-boats; and that the Lusitania had been armed.14
Wilson's secretary of state, William Jennings Bryan, tried to reason with the president: "Germany has a right to prevent contraband going to the Allies, and a ship carrying contraband should not rely upon passengers to protect her from attack — it would be like putting women and children in front of an army." He reminded Wilson that a proposed American compromise, whereby Britain would allow food into Germany and the Germans would abandon submarine attacks on merchant ships, had been welcomed by Germany but rejected by England. Finally, Bryan blurted out: "Why be shocked by the drowning of a few people, if there is to be no objection to starving a nation?"15 In June, convinced that the administration was headed for war, Bryan resigned.16
The British blockade was taking a heavy toll, and in February 1916, Germany announced that enemy merchant ships, except passenger liners, would be treated as auxiliary cruisers, liable to be attacked without warning. The State Department countered with a declaration that, in the absence of "conclusive evidence of aggressive purpose" in each individual case, armed belligerent merchant ships enjoyed all the immunities of peaceful vessels.17 Wilson rejected congressional calls at least to issue a warning to Americans traveling on armed merchant ships that they did so at their own risk. During the Mexican civil war, he had cautioned Americans against traveling in Mexico.18 But now Wilson stubbornly refused.
Attention shifted to the sea war once more when a French passenger ship, the Sussex, bearing no flag or markings, was sunk by a U-boat, and several Americans injured. A harsh American protest elicited the so-called Sussex pledge from a German government anxious to avoid a break: Germany would cease attacking without warning enemy merchant ships found in the war zone. This was made explicitly conditioned, however, on the presumption that "the Government of the United States will now demand and insist that the British Government shall forthwith observe the rules of international law." In turn, Washington curtly informed the Germans that their own responsibility was "absolute," in no way contingent on the conduct of any other power.19 As Borchard and Lage commented:
This persistent refusal of President Wilson to see that there was a relation between the British irregularities and the German submarine warfare is probably the crux of the American involvement. The position taken is obviously unsustainable, for it is a neutral's duty to hold the scales even and to favor neither side.20
But in reality, the American leaders were anything but neutral.
Anglophile does not begin to describe our ambassador to London, Walter Hines Page, who, in his abject eagerness to please his hosts, displayed all the qualities of a good English spaniel. Afterwards, Edward Grey wrote of Page, "From the first he considered that the United States could be brought into the war early on the side of the Allies if the issue were rightly presented to it and a great appeal made by the President."
"Page's advice and suggestion were of the greatest value in warning us when to be careful or encouraging us when we could safely be firm." Grey recalled in particular one incident, when Washington contested the right of the Royal Navy to stop American shipments to neutral ports. Page came to him with the message. "'I am instructed,' he said, 'to read this despatch to you.' He read and I listened. He then added: 'I have now read the despatch, but I do not agree with it; let us consider how it should be answered.'" Grey, of course, regarded Page's conduct as "the highest type of patriotism."21
Page's attitude was not out of place among his superiors in Washington. In his memoirs, Bryan's successor as Secretary of State, Robert Lansing, described how, after the Lusitania episode, Britain "continued her policy of tightening the blockade and closing every possible channel by which articles could find their way to Germany," committing ever more flagrant violations of our neutral rights. In response to State Department notes questioning these policies, the British never gave the slightest satisfaction. They knew they didn't have to. For, as Lansing confessed:
in dealing with the British Government there was always in my mind the conviction that we would ultimately become an ally of Great Britain and that it would not do, therefore, to let our controversies reach a point where diplomatic correspondence gave place to action.
Once joining the British, "we would presumably wish to adopt some of the policies and practices, which the British adopted," for then we, too, would be aiming to "destroy the morale of the German people by an economic isolation, which would cause them to lack the very necessaries of life." With astounding candor, Lansing disclosed that the years-long exchange of notes with Britain had been a sham:
everything was submerged in verbiage. It was done with deliberate purpose. It insured the continuance of the controversies and left the questions unsettled, which was necessary in order to leave this country free to act and even act illegally when it entered the war.22
Colonel House, too, was distinctly unneutral. Breaking with all previous American practice, as well as with international law, House maintained that it was the character of the foreign government that must decide which belligerent a "neutral" United States should favor. When in September 1914, the Austrian ambassador complained to House about the British attempt to starve the peoples of Central Europe — "Germany faces famine if the war continues" — House smugly reported the interview to Wilson: "He forgot to add that England is not exercising her power in an objectionable way, for it is controlled by a democracy."23
In their president, Page, Lansing, and House found a man whose heart beat as theirs. Wilson confided to his private secretary his deep belief: "England is fighting our fight and you may well understand that I shall not, in the present state of the world's affairs, place obstacles in her way.… I will not take any action to embarrass England when she is fighting for her life and the life of the world."24
Meanwhile, Colonel House had discovered a means to put the impending American entry into war to good use — by furthering the cause of democracy and "turning the world into the right paths." The author of Philip Dru: Administrator revealed his vision to the president who "knew that God had chosen him to do great things."25 The ordeal by fire would be a hard one, but "no matter what sacrifices we make, the end will justify them." After this final battle against the forces of reaction, the United States would join with other democracies to uphold the peace of the world and freedom on both land and sea, forever. To Wilson, House spoke words of seduction: "This is the part I think you are destined to play in this world tragedy, and it is the noblest part that has ever come to a son of man. This country will follow you along such a path, no matter what the cost may be."26
As the British leaders had planned and hoped, the Germans were starving. On January 31, 1917, Germany announced that the next day it would begin unrestricted submarine warfare. Wilson was stunned, but it is difficult to see why. This is what the Germans had been implicitly threatening for years, if nothing was done to end the illegal British blockade.
The United States severed diplomatic relations with Berlin. The president decided that American merchant ships were to be armed and defended by American sailors, thus placing munitions and other contraband sailing to Britain under the protection of the US Navy. When 11 senators, headed by Robert La Follette, filibustered the authorization bill, a livid Wilson denounced them: "A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great Government of the United States helpless and contemptible." Wilson hesitated to act, however, well aware that the defiant senators represented far more than just themselves.
There were troubling reports — from the standpoint of the war party in Washington — like that from William Durant, head of General Motors. Durant telephoned Colonel House, entreating him to stop the rush to war; he had just returned from the West and met only one man between New York and California who wanted war.27 But opinion began to shift and gave Wilson the opening he needed. A telegram, sent by Alfred Zimmermann of the German Foreign Office to the Mexican government, had been intercepted by British intelligence and forwarded to Washington. Zimmermann proposed a military alliance with Mexico in case war broke out between the United States and Germany. Mexico was promised the American Southwest, including Texas. The telegram was released to the press.
For the first time backed by popular feeling, Wilson authorized the arming of American merchant ships. In mid-March, a number of freighters entering the declared submarine zone were sunk, and the president called Congress into special session for April 2.
Given his war speech, Woodrow Wilson may be seen as the anti-Washington. George Washington, in his Farewell Address, advised that "the great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible" (emphasis in original). Wilson was also the anti-John Quincy Adams. Adams, author of the Monroe Doctrine, declared that the United States of America "does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy." Discarding this whole tradition, Wilson put forward the vision of an America that was entangled in countless political connections with foreign powers and on perpetual patrol for monsters to destroy. Our purpose in going to war was
to fight thus for the ultimate peace of the world and for the liberation of its peoples, the German people included: for the rights of nations great and small and the privilege of men everywhere to choose their way of life and of obedience. The world must be made safe for democracy … [we fight] for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world at last free.28
Wilson was answered in the Senate by Robert La Follette, and in the House by the Democratic leader Claude Kitchin, to no avail.29 In Congress, near-hysteria reigned, as both chambers approved the declaration of war by wide margins. The political class and its associates in the press, the universities, and the pulpits ardently seconded the plunge into world war and the abandonment of the America that was. As for the population at large, it acquiesced, as one historian has remarked, out of general boredom with peace, the habit of obedience to its rulers, and a highly unrealistic notion of the consequences of America's taking up arms.30
Three times in his war message, Wilson referred to the need to fight without passion or vindictiveness — rather a professor's idea of what waging war entailed. The reality for America would be quite different.
This article is excerpted from the chapter "World War I: The Turning Point" in Great Wars and Great Leaders: A Libertarian Rebuttal (2010). The chapter is a much expanded version of an essay that originally appeared in The Costs of War: America's Pyrrhic Victories (2001).
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Paupers and Bankers: Modern Representation of Jews and Money
Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck, University of London in collaboration with the SOAS Centre for Jewish Studies
Speakers:: Bryan Cheyette, University of Reading; Derek J. Penslar, University of Oxford and the University of Toronto; Gideon Rueveni, Centre for German Jewish Studies, University of Sussex; Yonatan Sagiv, Israel Institute, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London; Adam Sutcliffe, Kings College London; Nadia Valman, Queen Mary, University of London
Date: Tue, Jun. 9, 2015
Venue: Birkbeck, University of London, Bloomsbury, WC1E 7HX. Council Room, Torrington Square main entrance
Free event for students and scholars:
The workshop's emphasis is on modern writing about Jews, money and economy. It aims to provide a forum for presenting and analysing the most recent critical and theoretical approaches for understanding self-representations of Jewish economic activity in the modern Diaspora, Mandate Palestine and Israel.
Through the workshop we hope to explore, among other topics: the varied textual constructions of the relationship between Jews and modern economics; Jewish writing on economy as a response to European dominant stereotypes on Jews and money, especially the double image of Jews as "conspiring bankers" or "degenerate paupers"; the participation, appropriation and subversion of antisemitic and philosemitic economic discourses by Jewish and early Israeli writers; and capitalist and socialist debates in the Zionist movement. In this vein, the workshop aims to trace the crucial role money and economy played in shaping modern Jewish and Israeli identities.
The day consists of three two-speaker panels, each panel centered on a particular theme.
Rich Jews
Jewish Money and Jewish Politics, Adam Sutcliffe, Kings College London
Market Economy and Emancipation: From Ellis Rivkin to Moses Mendelssohn, Gideon Rueveni, Centre for German Jewish Studies, University of Sussex
Poor Jews
Paupers and Bankers: Zangwill, Zionism and Semitic discourse, Bryan Cheyette, University of Reading
Beatrice Webb in the East End, Nadia Valman, Queen Mary, University of London
Money and Zionism
Zionism, Judaism and the Threat of Money in Agnon’s A Guest for the Night, Yonatan Sagiv, Israel Institute, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Theodor Herzl, the Jewish Question, and the Social Question, Derek J. Penslar, University of Oxford and the University of Toronto
Workshop co-conveners:
David Feldman, Director, Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck, University of London
Yair Wallach, Director of the Centre for Jewish Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Yonatan Sagiv, Post-doctoral Fellow of the Israel Institute, Centre for Jewish Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
We are grateful for the financial support of the Israel Institute
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Captain Joseph Thomas (1803 – ?)
Captain Joseph Thomas is easily the most forgotten man in Christchurch’s history.
Born in 1803, Joseph was educated at the Royal Military College – so naturally he spent the beginning of his working life in the Army. He served in India and the West Indies, retiring in 1830. He travelled to South America where he developed a love for surveying and engineering. On his journey back to England, he collected together his drawings and sketches – which were eventually published.
In 1840 he was employed by The New Zealand Company to survey Port Nicholson (Wellington) for future settlement. He also explored the Wanganui, Hawke’s Bay, Wairapa and Otago. While in England in 1847, he endorsed these areas for the emmigration of the Irish. The following year he returned to New Zealand, this time to survey the Port Cooper and the Plains (Lyttelton and The Canterbury Plains) for The Canterbury Association.
He surveyed from August 1849 to March 1850. After getting consent from New Zealand’s Governor, Sir George Grey, and Bishop Selwyn – he proposed where Christchurch, Lyttelton and Sumner were to be – choosing the two latter names himself after two members of The Canterbury Association.
What is largely unknown that is Joseph had set his eyes on the head of Lyttelton Harbour for Christchurch. The main focus at this time in history was that a city have a nearby port. Needing 4000 hectares for his city, he soon changed his mind and looked to the plains.
On the 22nd of August 1849, Joseph drew a map of Putaringamotu (Riccarton) – showing the layout of the Deans’ farm buildings, gardens, orchards and paddocks. He issued them with a Squatters Licence with a warning that a settlement was coming and they would have to move. The same message was given to the Hays at Pigeon Bay and the Rhodes Brothers at Purau. The families fought for their land and won.
For the previous seven years, the Deans brothers had been paying rent to the Maori – £8 a year for 33,000 acres – basically 9.6 kms (six miles) from Riccarton Bush out in a full circle. It is amazing to think that the Deans had been renting from the Port Hills to the Waimakariri River as their farm. The Canterbury Association would not honour the agreement with the Maori and told the Deans to move. After months and months of negotiations, the Deans were rewarded with 400 acres (from their unused land ownership in Nelson and Wellington) of Putaringamotu plus 33, 000 acres out at the Malvern Hills – Homebush 😉
With £20,000 in his back pocket, Joseph imported timber, carpenters and used Maori road gangs. Immigration barracks were built, housing for the Canterbury Association Agents and Sumner Road was started but then the money ran out. Work was halted on the 14th March 1850. When John Robert Godley arrived a month later, Joseph learnt that the job that had been promised to him was given to Godley. He packed his bags and returned to England. He fades away into history, no one even knowing the year he died.
He was not well liked by other surveyors – Godley blaming the debts of the new settlement from Joseph’s ‘exceeding instructions’. None the less, we have the central Christchurch layout thanks to Joseph. On his first map, its shows Hagley Park and Ridley (Cathedral), Market (Victoria), Cranmer and Latimer Squares.
*image courtesy of http://www.wikipedia.org *
Filed under The First Cantabrians
Bishop Selwyn Canterbury Plains Captain Joseph Thomas Cathedral Square Chief Surveyor Christchurch Cranmer Square Deans Brothers Hagley Park Homebush John Robert Godley Latimer Square Lyttelton Lyttelton Immigration Barracks Market Square New Zealand Company Pigeon Bay Purau Riccarton Sir George Grey Sumner Road The Canterbury Association Victoria Square Wellington
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Australia to spend millions on Ukraine
During a state visit to Australia on December 11, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko conducted a meeting with Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott.
The politicians discussed the future of cooperation in the energy sector, namely, the possibility to use Australian uranium for Ukrainian nuclear power plants, the press service of the President of Ukraine said.
Abbott said that Australia would provide financial assistance to Ukraine within the framework of the IMF. It goes about the amount of $100 million.
Australia will also allocate more than $2 million to help the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Australian Prime Minister Abbott confirmed the intention of Australian authorities to continue to support Ukraine.
Australia plans to open an embassy in Ukraine in February next year, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said during the bilateral meeting with the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko.
"We have a temporary diplomatic mission in Kiev, and we are planning to open a permanent embassy in February next year," said Abbott.
Poroshenko, in turn, invited the Australian Prime Minister to visit Ukraine next year.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko arrived in Australia on December 10, TASS reports. During his visit to the continent, he will visit Melbourne, Canberra and Sydney.
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To a Certain Degree Sacredness is in the Eye of the Beholder
Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies
To a Certain Degree Sacredness
is in the Eye of the Beholder
Stefania Strouza
sstrouza@princeton.edu
Stanley J. Seeger Visiting Research Fellow, Hellenic Studies
Respondent: Spyros Papapetros, Architecture
Stefania Strouza’s artistic practice focuses on aspects of a migrating modernity, seen as an open-ended process that plays a crucial role in the circulation of objects, humans, and collective imaginaries. More specifically, her project “To a Certain Degree Sacredness is in the Eye of the Beholder” emphasizes on the eastern Mediterranean region as the merging—or colliding—point of ideological and historical forces between the “West” and the “Orient.” Its point of departure consists of two journeys that “meet” on the Greek terrain: the journey to Athens by representatives of modernism for the Congrès Internationaux d’Architecture Moderne (CIAM) in 1933 and the journey of Euripides' Medea in the 1969 film by Pier Paolo Pasolini. These voyages are the “building material” (Baumaterial) for a series of installations that trace back upon these narratives, in an attempt to retrieve their contemporary undertone. This presentation of the project will focus on the relation of arts-based research and fictional accounts as two complementary methodologies of formulating an aesthetic and discursive space. It will ultimately propose the notions of materiality and abstraction as artistic strategies for the engagement with diverse cultural materials and the production of meaning.
Stefania Strouza is an artist and architect based in Vienna and Athens. She is a graduate of Architecture from the National Technical University of Athens (2007) and of the Sculpture Department of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (2015). In her practice she examines the relationship between cultural history and fictive events in contemporary aesthetic discourses. She has presented her work in several institutions in Greece and abroad: Bauhaus Foundation Dessau, Germany; Wiener Art Foundation, Austria (solo); Neue Galerie Innsbruck, Austria (solo); Athens & Epidaurus Festival, Greece (solo); BOZAR Brussels, Belgium; National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece; Kunsthalle Athena, Athens, Greece. In 2016 she was a researcher at the Bauhaus Foundation Dessau and she was recently awarded the Mexico Artist Residency of the Austrian Ministry of Culture.
Scheide Caldwell House, Room 103
Supported by The Christos G. and Rhoda Papaioannou Modern Greek Studies Fund
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Only 13 of 64 medical boards subscribe to data bank discipline updates
Posted on September 11, 2018 in Administration, Discipline, News, Sample Articles
A year-long investigation by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and MedPage Today turned up several egregious cases illustrating a now-familiar national pattern: many physicians sanctioned for misconduct or incompetence in one state are often never discovered to have been disciplined by other states where they hold a license. Summarizing their findings in a series of newspaper articles in February and March, the investigative team wrote: “Like traveling medicine hucksters of old, doctors who run into trouble today can hopscotch from state to state staying ahead of regulators.”
But along with the accounts of doctors who eluded practice limitations despite a history of discipline elsewhere, the newspaper series reported that the federal National Practitioner Data bank (NPDB), which has collected more than 1.3 million records of “adverse actions” against health professionals going back to 1990, is barely used by the nation’s medical boards.
Hospitals and insurers, which have access to the data bank, log millions of searches each year, but state medical boards searches are only a “small share” of the total number, the Journal Sentinel reported—averaging 10 to 20 searches each per year.
The newspaper series covered a five-year period from 2011 to 2016 and uncovered up to 500 physicians who were disciplined for medical errors or oversights, sexual misconduct, and other misbehavior but continued practicing with unblemished credentials in other states.
Physician Jay Riseman was a notable example. In Illinois, the state Department of Financial and Professional Regulation temporarily suspended his license in 2002 for “incapacity or incompetence” in pediatric surgery, following multiple instances of overdosing patients and ignoring critical symptoms, resulting in some patient deaths. Despite restrictions when he was on probation, Riseman performed 14 surgical procedures without supervision in Illinois, according to a 2004 complaint by the department. But his indefinite probation was lifted in 2007 anyway.
Colorado later denied his license application but Missouri granted him a license, while Kansas approved him with a ban on practicing surgery. Pressed to have the limitation lifted, Kansas agreed, with the proviso that he not actually perform any surgeries. Today Riseman is registered in Illinois as a partner in a medical marijuana dispensary with a license noting that he has never been disciplined in that state, the investigative team found.
The reporters quoted a former overseer of the data bank, Robert Oshel, who said, “It was very unusual [for the data bank] to get queries from a state board. There were states that maybe didn’t submit any queries at all, or one or two.” Although the data bank offers automatic updates of any adverse action every 24 hours, only 13 of 64 state medical boards (20%) subscribe to that service, the reporters found.
While other compilations of discipline data are available, including one sponsored by the Federation of State Medical Boards, the NPDB is the only one to which entities imposing discipline are federally required to report their adverse actions against physicians.
However, the information in the NPDB is not open to the public—a feature that has drawn repeated criticism. In fact, the Journal Sentinel and MedPage Today had to turn to the private company TruthMD, which has compiled about 1 million physician dossiers based on information from the courts, medical boards, and federal agencies, to obtain data for the investigation.
Oshel told the Journal Sentinel investigative team that he believed the advantages of making the adverse actions public would “far outweigh the disadvantages.” In the meantime, private information services from companies like TruthMD, LexisNexis, and PreCheck, drawing on the vast resources now available online, are increasingly filling the gap.
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Sac Sheriff's Detectives Seek Help in Identifying Shooting Suspects
Sheriff’s Homicide detectives are seeking information regarding a vehicle and suspects involved in a shooting yesterday evening in south Sac...
http://www.sacmetronews.com/2011/05/sac-sheriffs-detectives-seek-help-in.html
Sheriff’s Homicide detectives are seeking information regarding a vehicle and suspects involved in a shooting yesterday evening in south Sacramento. On May 5, 2011, shortly after 6:15p.m., deputies responded to the area of 47th Avenue and Franklin Boulevard in response to calls of shots being fired in the area. Information revealed that occupants from one vehicle had fired gunshots at people in another vehicle.
Approximately thirty minutes later, Sheriff’s deputies responded to a local hospital after a male victim arrived with a gunshot wound to his head. The victim, a twenty-year old, was not expected to survive his injuries. Witnesses stated that they had been traveling in the area of 47th Avenue and Franklin Boulevard, and were confronted by a group of subjects in another vehicle. After some confrontational looks were exchanged, someone from that vehicle fired gunshots at them. The victim, who was riding in the backseat of the car, was struck once in the head, and driven to the hospital immediately afterwards.
The suspect vehicle was described as a newer-model, silver Dodge Avenger, and occupied by four to five black males. The vehicle was last seen traveling southbound on Franklin Boulevard from the location directly after the shooting. Detectives have not established a motive for this incident, and the investigation is ongoing.
Anyone with information about this case, or who knows the identity of any of the suspects involved is encouraged to call the Sheriff’s Homicide Bureau at (916) 874-5115, Crime Alert at (916) 443-HELP, or send a text message tip to 274637 (CRIMES) then enter SACTIP followed by the tip information. Callers can remain anonymous and may be eligible for a reward of up to $1,000.
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Book Review: 'Serenity Engulfed' by Craig A. Hart
Iowa author Craig A. Hart is both a writer and an editor: he has served as editor-in-chief for The Rusty Nail literary magazine, as manager for Sweatshoppe Media, and director of Northern Illinois Radio Information Service, an outreach that brought daily news and information to the visually impaired. His works have been published in The Orange Room Review, Voices, The Stray Branch, Red Poppy Review, The Mindful Word, Inclement, Right Hand Pointing, 7x20 Magazine, among others. In addition to writing fiction Craig has published self help manuals on writing and critiques of other writers’ works. SERENITY was the initial installment in a series he calls The Shelby Alexander Thriller series. – SERENIITY ENGULFED is a very fine fifth installment in a series that grows in importance.
Craig has a fine grasp on character development, and when he launched a series based on a main character (Shelby Alexander) he realizes it is even more important that we get to know him quickly and watch his development grow so that the series can maintain our interest and secure our addiction Craig supplied that in the first installment and in this book he sets in motion the grisly deed that is the focus of the novel – the crucial fact f missing his own child and how that dynamic alters everything about Shelby’s work and thoughts.
The plot as, as usual, well summarized by Craig: ‘Familiar enemies resurface in this blazing new thriller that finds Shelby racing against time to save the most important person in his life: his own child. When Shelby's daughter, Leslie, fails to show up at his cabin for her long-planned visit to northern Michigan, he's concerned, but makes excuses. When her car is found abandoned by the side of a tree-lined highway, he fears the worst. When her cellphone appears on his front porch, he knows something terrible has happened and that he is to blame. Enlisting the help of the new county sheriff, Shelby launches a search for Leslie, all the while dealing with a prostitute in fear for her life, a sexy writer interested in writing his life story, and the long-banished ghosts of his own past.’
All the ingredients are there, but it is the chef’s hand at mixing them that makes this novel so successful. This is a bite out of Middle America, bursting with flavor and atmosphere. The book is relative short – making for a fine evening’s read. Highly Recommended. Grady Harp, March 18
I voluntarily reviewed a complimentary copy of this book.
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Hospice Savannah To Host Art Show
By | on April 09, 2014
The Hospice Savannah Art Gallery, 1352 Eisenhower Drive (next to US Post Office), will host a reception for artist Stephen Darr on Thursday, April 24 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. The show “Moving off the Grid: Acrylic Abstractions in Color and Line,” is a vibrant feast for the eye!
Stephen Darr is an emerging painter who finally answered the call of his “inner artist” as he approached retirement. He says, “I knew I wanted to paint for years, but never taking what I did seriously or thinking it was of much value. You see, I grew up in an era where being an “artist’ meant you were some kind of beatnik living in a squalid studio freezing and starving.” One night, during a walk in November 2012, all these paintings suddenly popped in his head. “The entire concept, how they would be developed and executed, everything about them was clear to me. I immediately went home and began to work and have not stopped since that night.”
The results are exquisitely executed geometric abstractions that can both startle and soothe the viewer. Influenced by circuit boards and underground subway maps, Darr has been experimenting with size and modular sets of paintings: vivid pairings that match up on all four sides and can be rearranged to create multiple unique compositions.
As always, a percentage of sales will benefit not-for-profit Hospice Savannah, Inc. For more information, please contact Beth Logan, Director of Marketing, 912.355.2289 or www.HospiceSavannah.org/Art- Gallery.
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Rio Vista Press
Phil's Blog
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The Joys of the Journey into the Unknown are the Unknown Joys of the Journey
Religion and Revolution in Mexico's North becomes New Three Volume Set Entitled The Search for the Soul of Mexico!
First Edition of Religion and Revolution
Phil's first book Religion and Revolution in Mexico's North was published back in 2014. It won a Writer's Digest Prize in Non-fiction that year and received nothing but five star reviews on Amazon. It contained 480 pages, over 1400 references from 400 sources. He vividly traced the impact of religion and revolution on each other from the time of the conquest till the outbreak of WWII. Focusing on northern Mexico, Phil took the reader on a journey from the remote villages of Chihuahua to the barrios of Tijuana, and from the humble homes of the village to the Castle of Chapultepec. Along the way the reader meets Mormons, Mennonites, healers, reformers, constitutional clergy, Catholic and Protestant leaders, spiritists, presidents, revolutionaries, and the Cristeros. The first edition is still available on Amazon from third-party used book vendors.
Writer's Digest's review was as follows: "I found this really enthralling because of the way you show the intensity that fueled both the religious and revolutionary impulses, and how human both of them were. You kept the complicated background information readable even to a reader who knows little about the subject . . . Your account shows how religion can motivate, separate, and bring together people of similar and sometimes different backgrounds. Excellent work here! You’ve made the history interesting and visually vivid."
Religion and Revolution in Mexico's North becomes New Three Volume Set on the Religious History of Mexico!
Phil Stover is excited to announce a new edition of his prize-winning book. Phil has made edits, changed the formatting, and most importantly is increasing the the single book to a three volume set on Mexican religious history. The new set will contain 1000 pages of religious history. The first two volumes are already available on Amazon in Kindle and paperback versions. The third volume will be available in the summer of 2019.
The Search for the Soul of Mexico: religion and revolution Vol. 1
Phil Stover has created a new edition of his award-winning book Religion and Revolution in Mexico’s North. The Search for the Soul of Mexico: Religion and Revolution Vol. 1 is the first in a three-volume set of books about the history of religion in Mexico. With a more readable font and new edits, this book is appropriate for a great backyard read or for a college-level supplementary textbook. It will engage the reader with a narrative style that is backed by 860 citations over 430 pages. It is a history of the intersection of religion and revolution in the history of Mexico. Special focus is placed on the north of Mexico and the Mexican revolution time. Read about curanderos, cientificos, Cristeros, revolutionaries, healers, and those who gave their lives as martyrs for their faith. Read about how the Catholic Church was the dominant force in Mexico for centuries and how it combined with the Spanish military in the conquest of Mexico. Learn about the role played by Masons as they wielded influence in Mexico. Often lost among the myths were the millions driven by internal forces they couldn’t comprehend. They were knights, bishops, castles, and yes, pawns in the revolutionary chess matches that nearly resulted in the checkmate of Mexican civilization. Volume 1 is available now.
The Search for the Soul of Mexico: The Anglo Quest for Naboth's Vineyard Vol. 2
The second volume in the set will be entitled The Search for the Soul of Mexico: The Anglo Quest for Naboth's Vineyard Vol. 2. It focuses on external forces acting on the country's religious framework. The United States, the "colossus of the North" dominated this picture. In the late 19th and early 20th century US politician's and diplomat's political views and actions were often based on their religious perspectives, especially as the United States developed a sense of manifest destiny and a sense of Christian (Protestant) identity. Sometimes the US intervened with arms; sometimes with dollars; still other times with missionaries. Anglo-Saxon colonists to Mexico brought with them their religious perspectives and ideas. Missionaries brought their ideas about faith, education, and free will. They found allies among Mexican liberals who supported them as a counterweight to the powerful influence of the Catholic Church. This book is for the student who is interested in learning more about the "soft" interventions of the United States in Mexico. We know much about the military and economic invasions - now we have an opportunity to learn about the influence played in Mexico's religious life by the United States. Mexico had it all - resources to be exploited, souls needing to be saved, and internal disharmony. This made it a perfect vineyard for the Anglo forces to covet. Volume 2 is available in Kindle and paperback now.
The Search for the Soul of Mexico: The Gods ONce Lived, Vol. 3
The third volume in the set will be entitled The Search for the Soul of Mexico: Once the Gods Were Alive Vol. 3. This volume will be an exploration of the indigenous religions of Mexico from pre-conquest to recent times. The concept of syncretism will be a key component of this analysis. The book will review exactly how indigenous faiths have been mixed with those of the Anglo to promote and facilitate conversion. Catholic (The Virgin of Guadalupe, Pentecostal (healing and miracle working), Latter-day Saint (the heavenly mother and Lamanite theology) , and other group's attempts to win over indigenous peoples to their way of believing will all be reviewed. Volume 3 will be available by spring 2020.
Go to this page to order your books now!
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Punk Freedom to Create
Metal in my blood
100 Greatest Rock Albums
Dani's Corner
Rock 'n' Roll in my blood - Quotes
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Jimi Hendrix Has His Own Stamp Now
The U.S. Postal Service is paying tribute to one of rock and roll’s most legendary figures with the latest in the line of the ‘Forever’ stamps. For a mere 49 cents, you can paste Jimi Hendrix on your next piece of mail.
With psychedelic artwork by artist Rudy Gutierrez, Hendrix is pictured with Stratocaster in hand, and donning his iconic military jacket. Beginning today (March 13), the Jimi Hendrix ‘Forever’ stamp is available at post offices, on the U.S. Postal Service website, and eBay.
“The technical challenge was making art that will still read at stamp size, so it was a matter of not being overly complicated,” said Gutierrez. “It was important to make the art accessible, and to be true to the incredible combination of rawness and virtuosity that was Jimi Hendrix.”
Hendrix joins an illustrious batch of musicians already featured on the Forever stamp, including Johnny Cash and Ray Charles. Janis Joplin and James Brown are on the list of forthcoming stamps in this series. The stamp will have its official public viewing today at the South By Southwest music festival in Austin, during an all-star concert curated by the MC5′s Wayne Kramer.
“To have them honor a contemporary and a great artist is like a small step in the right direction,” Kramer told Billboard, “So I want to encourage that. I want put on a show that makes them feel good about embracing popular culture.” The concert features the Doors’ Robby Krieger, Slash, Rusty Anderson of Paul McCartney‘s band, Doug Pinnick of King’s X, and former Blasters Dave and Phil Alvin, among others.
“The honor of the stamp really comes from the lost art of letter-writing,” Hendrix Family rep Janie Hendrix told USA Today, “While Jimi was in the Army, he wrote these wonderful postcards and letters to my dad. There’s something about handwriting a letter that gives a sense of intimacy.”
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Catherine E. Skinner
Exhibits CV/Docs All Catherine E. Skinner Artist Book Book Mixed media Sculpture
Listing 12 Works | Viewing 1 - 12
Mka Dang Sa IV
108 Ravens
Accumulations II
Accumulations IV
Accumulations VIII
Birdman VIII
Dambu IV (reed)
Kacima V (Hindu for Sacred Tree)
Kyugee IV
Mti (Swahili for tree)
Catherine E. Skinner Description
Catherine Eaton Skinner works out of her Northwest and Santa Fe studios as a multidisciplinary artist, incorporating painting and encaustic, sculpture, printmaking and photography. Growing up east of Seattle, she then received her B.A. in Biology from Stanford University in 1968, while studying art under Nathan Oliveira and Frank Lobdell. e gure, human and animal, is an important element in her work and acts as a source of inspiration and exploration of identity, spirit and the paradoxes of human existence. Her work explores the natural world, its intricacies and energies that require a ne balance. Often using the Eastern philosophical number of 108, Skinner uses repetition of sacred forms, reiterating both the artistic and the spiritual dissolution of the self into the whole. e ve elements – earth, re, water, air and ether, foundations of the universe - also interact signi cantly in her work.
She says, “My work has been centered on concepts of this balance of opposites, as well as methods of numerical systems and patterning we use to construct an order to our world. Counting and measuring have been our way to bring order to the disorder around us. I have been pursuing a deep investigation of the symbolic number, 108, a number with powerful meanings, especially in Eastern religions and traditions. e repetition of 108 occurs in many of my paintings as background, a regular pattern or a block of forms, usually related to the circle or spiral. I often use a vertical red line or bar symbolizing the energy of life between heaven to earth, as it weaves through our lives, past, present and future. “
Skinner’s work is in numerous private and public collections including Museum of Northwest Art, e Henry Art Gallery, Tacoma Art Museum, Virginia Mason Medical Center and Swedish Orthopedic Institute. She has been accepted in many juried shows, nationally and internationally, exhibited with a solo show in Tokyo, where work was displayed in that American Embassy residence with the Art in Embassies program.
Catherine E. Skinner Statement
My work has been centered on concepts of this balance of opposites, as well as methods of numerical systems and patterning we use to construct an order to our world. Counting and measuring have been our way to bring order to the disorder around us. I have been pursueing a deep investigation of the symbolic number, 108, a number with powerful meanings, especially in Eastern religions and traditions. The repetition of 108 occurs in many of my paintings as background, a regular pattern or a block of forms, usually related to the circle or spiral. I often use a vertical red line or bar symbolizing the energy of life between heaven to earth, as it weaves through our lives, past, present and future.
Repetition used as a practice allows for focus. The completion of this work over time takes determination and concentration, which leads to an inner center of quiet, the dissolution of the self into the whole. Purity and simplicity come with the commitment in this ritual of patterns and their echo. Energy and a sense of order are concentrated in the work by the continuous reiteration of the same path, the same pattern, the same practice.
Numerous methods have be used to go through the number of cycles in ritual repetition, thus eliminating the distraction of keeping count. The earliest method was stones counted out and then dropped into a bowl of water, as prayers were recited. Knots or beads on a thread are called a rosary or mala, and have been used for centuries to count prayers. The word “bead” traces to the Saxon word, bidden, meaning “to pray”, and the Sanskrit word buddh, meaning self-realization or enlightenment, from which comes the word, Buddha. The Buddhist mala has 108 beads, often bodhi tree seeds, an encasement of life. The Sikh tradition has a mala of 108 knots tied in wool twine.
Gya-gye (Tibetan for 108 and one of my series) has powerful meanings, the numbers themselves adding up to nine, but also divisible by 9, one of the sacred numbers in Buddhism and Hinduism. According to their beliefs humans tell 108 lies, have 108 earthly desires and 108 forms of delusion. There are 108 feelings; with 36 related to the past, 36 related to the present, and 36 related to the future. The 1 in 108 stands for God or higher Truth; the 0 for completeness and emptiness achieved with the abrogation of the ego to the universal spirit. The 8 symbolizes infinity and the idea of samsara, reincarnation and the repeating cycle of birth, life and death of the soul.
As a mark-maker, I am drawn to marking methods that have been used by peoples and even some animals to indicate presence and construct a deeper relationship to place and nature. Our cultural memory lies within the physicality of place, as well as its historical and metaphysical meanings. We live in a world where it may be difficult to feel a part of the whole, but we continue to find ways to connect to place, striving ultimately to create a connection with each other.
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The Sisters of Mercy announce 2019 tour dates in the U.K., Europe and Australia
After staying off the road entirely in 2018, Andrew Eldritch is poised to take The Sisters of Mercy back out on tour in the fall of 2019, with a pair of late-September concerts in London to be followed by 18 dates across Europe and then a trio of shows in Australia.
The tour, announced on the band’s wonderfully primitive website, opens with dates at London’s Roundhouse on Sept. 20 and 21, followed by that European run, which includes shows in Belgium, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Poland, Luxembourg, France and the Netherlands. Then it’s off to Australia for concerts in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.
On the Sisters’ last tour, in 2017, Eldtrich debuted a cover of Mission of Burma’s 1981 post-punk classic “That’s When I Reach for My Revolver,” and dusted off “Walk Away,” the 1984 single co-written by Eldritch and then-bandmate Wayne Hussey, for the first time since 1985.
Check out those 2019 dates below.
The Sisters of Mercy tour dates
Sept. 20: The Roundhouse, London, U.K.
Sept. 23: Ancienne Belgique, Brussels, Belgium
Sept. 26: Amager Bio, Copenhagen, Denmark
Sept. 28: Rockefeller Music Hall, Oslo, Norway
Sept. 29: Munchenbryggeriet, Stockholm, Sweden
Oct. 1: Tradgarn, Gothenburg, Sweden
Oct. 2: Kulturbolaget (KB), Malmo, Sweden
Oct. 4: Columbiahalle, Berlin, Germany
Oct. 6: A2, Wroclaw, Poland
Oct. 7: Klub Studio, Krakow, Poland
Oct. 10: Alter Schlachthof, Dresden, Germany
Oct. 11: Tonhalle, Munich, Germany
Oct. 13: LKA Longhorn, Stuttgart, Germany
Oct. 14: E-Werk, Cologne, Germany
Oct. 16: Den Atelier, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
Oct. 17: Schlachthof, Wiesbaden, Germany
Oct. 19: Bataclan, Paris, France
Oct. 20: TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht, Netherlands
Oct. 30: Forum Theatre, Melbourne, Australia
Oct. 31: Enmore Theatre, Sydney, Australia
Nov. 2: The Tivoli, Brisbane, Australia
Watch: The Sisters of Mercy play ‘Walk Away’ for first time in 32 years, cover Mission of Burma
‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: The Sisters of Mercy’s Andrew Eldritch talks ‘quality control’ — 1993
The Sisters of Mercy’s ‘Some Girls Wander By Mistake’ to receive 4LP box set reissue
Vintage Video: The Sisters of Mercy’s out-of-print Royal Albert Hall concert film ‘Wake’
‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: The Sisters of Mercy go under the ‘120 X-Ray’ in 1988
Tags: Andrew Eldtritch, The Sisters of Mercy
Dyan
Any US dates? Specially Southern California?
Ricardo Rivadeneira
Bogotá, Colombia. :)
Julian Digby Bottin
No U.S. tour is sad….but I understand it; We are mostly idiots with horrible music taste anyways.
Mike.C.
It doesn’t look like they’ve been to the United States since 2008. Maybe 2020?
Yes. They need to come back. I would love to see them again.
James Douglas
What about tours in U.S.? Like Washington State and Arizona State.
Brazil?
Bloodfiend
Ugh. I may need to fly to Europe.
I can’t wait. It’s been great to see (1/2 of) bauhaus and the mission recently in Australia but I’ve been waiting to see Sisters again. Maybe one day I could see fields of the nephilum and complete my goth odyssey!
Got my tickets today… see you there brothers!
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Dragons' Den: episode three, reviewed
The business made £2.4m turnover in 2008/09 with £100,000 net profit, and was on track to make £240,000 net profit next year thanks to a handy contract with the NHS worth between £2m and £20m per year. They also counted various county councils, fire services, Subway and Revolutions Vodka bar chain among clients. They'd recently acquired another business to get into the CCTV side of things. And their ambition was 'to turn the business into a domestic and commercial brand'. Not too shabby, then.
They presented well - calm and confident, but never cocky. They were modest and likeable. And they knew their stuff inside out and backwards. As Deborah put it when they left the den: "That to me was a model pitch. They weren't pitch perfect, they were honest."
The pair asked for £75,000 for 10%, and after only a couple of questions James Caan offered precisely that in possibly the quickest offer we've ever seen. Deborah Meaden followed soon after, saying: "Often I'm looking for reasons to invest in a business during the pitch. Half-way through yours, I'm finding it very difficult to find reasons not to invest."
Duncan Bannatyne was next up, but he made the interesting point that 10% wouldn't be enough to drive him, so offered £100,000 for 20%.
Theo Paphitis and Peter Jones latched onto this, and eventually Wesley and Peter accepted a joint offer from both Dragons for £100,000 for 20%, which would drop to 15% once the £100,000 had been returned. Which worked out quite nicely for them, as Peter Jones happened to own the number one business in the security camera technology industry. (Though the offer was pretty rosy for the Dragons too.)
So what exactly was it that made the Dragons all go gaga for FGH Security? James Caan liked the 'sophistication' of the business, citing its acquisition - a level of maturity rarely seen on our screens in this programme. Others were impressed by the figures and the pitch. Crucially, everyone really warmed to both Peter and Wesley - which, as we saw last week, counts for a huge amount. Modesty, likeability and a very promising-looking business don't often go hand-in-hand in the den, but when they do, the Dragons' can't resist it.
That's not to say a business should always aim to be all things to all people, though. The other business that got investment this week was Golfers' Mate, a tool that repaired damaged golf pitches. The owner had to restart his pitch three times he was so nervous, and got slated and rejected by all the Dragons (and a series of jokey answers to their questions didn't help either). All the Dragons but one - James Caan, whose love of golf enabled him to see the potential in the product and seal the deal for £100,000 for 30%.
Key lesson there? It's not just about your pitch and product and personality - it's about finding the right investor too. You can rejected by loads before finding someone who sees a spark. So don't give up hope first time round just because you can't be that rare example that gains approval from everyone.
Read our feature on how to find a business angel for more advice on finding investors that suit your business.
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The Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10R or ZX 1000 E is a Kawasaki sport bike, the successor to the ZX-9R. It was originally released in 2004 with minor revisions in 2005. It combines an ultra-narrow chassis, low weight, and radial brakes. In 2004 and 2005 the ZX-10R won Best Superbike from Cycle World magazine, and the international Masterbike competition.
Kawasaki engineers used a stacked design for a liquid-cooled, 998 cc (60.9 cu in) inline four-cylinder engine. The crankshaft axis, input shaft and output shaft of the Ninja ZX-10R engine are positioned in a triangular layout to reduce engine length, while the high-speed generator is placed behind the cylinder bank to reduce engine width. With a bore and stroke of 76 mm × 55 mm (3.0 in × 2.2 in), the ZX-10R engine's one-piece cylinder and crankcase assembly reduces weight and increases rigidity. The DOHC are machined from chromoly steel built for strength, four valves per cylinder improve high-rpm breathing, and the forged, lightweight pistons offer high heat resistance to further enhance the bike's power-to-weight ratio.
In addition to liquid cooling, the ZX-10R engine has an oil cooler adjacent to the oil filter to reduce oil temperatures. Slosh analysis was also used to design the internal structure of the oil pan, thereby reducing windage losses and helping to maintain low oil temperatures.
A multi-plate wet slipper clutch transfers power to a six-speed, close-ratio transmission ideal for closed-course competition. The back-torque limiter automatically disengages the clutch (partially) under hard downshifting at high engine speeds to prevent rear wheel hop during corner entry.
A new six spoke wheel design is claimed to be almost as light as special purpose race wheels. Since the 2006 model the sidewall profile of the rear tire has been increased from 190/50/ZR17 to 190/55/ZR17.
The 2004 model was the debut of the Ninja ZX-10R. It was compact with a short wheelbase and a high power-to-weight ratio, which helped the handling. The exhaust system was fully titanium with single muffler.
Among other changes, the 2006 model had twin underseat exhausts which contributed to a 5 kg (11 lb) increase in dry weight. The engine remained largely unchanged.
The 2006 ZX1000D6F model carried over to the 2007 model year, with only color scheme changes. The most noticeable difference between 2006 and 2007 is that the heat-shields on the exhaust pipes are black on the 2007 ZX10R, and 2006 came with silver ones.
The ZX-10R was all new for its launch for the 2008 model year. There was a dramatic change in appearance with the bike with a much more angular front end. Kawasaki moved away from the twin underseat exhausts of the 2006–2007 model to a more conventional single side exhaust. The compression ratio of the engine was raised.
The 2009 model received only slight changes from the 2008 model.
The 2010 model received slight changes from the 2009 model, including, upgraded Öhlins steering damper, upgraded transmission, and revised bodywork.
The 2011 ZX-10R underwent major overhaul both mechanically and visually. Most notably, Kawasaki introduced their Sport Kawasaki Traction Control (S-KTRC) system as standard. It predicts when traction will be lost and adapts accordingly. Also new are an ABS option called Kawasaki Intelligent Braking System (KIBS), a completely new design, adjustable foot-pegs, larger throttle bodies, a horizontal rear suspension, lighter three-spoke wheels, Showa Big Piston Fork (BPF) front suspension, and an LCD panel dashboard. The 2012 model is identical to the 2011 with the only exception being the slightly different paint schemes offered. In 2013 the models went under another small revision where the colors offered changed again and the front dampener was replaced with an Ohlins electronic front steering dampener. In 2014 the only changes were different colors. In 2015 the only color offered was black, alongside a 30th anniversary edition (in EU, a green color is also offered).
Tom Sykes in 2013 became the first Superbike World Champion for Kawasaki since Scott Russell and the first on a ZX-10R. Stuart Easton won the 2014 Macau Grand Prix. Jonathan Rea won the 2015 Superbike World Championship season. Jeremy Toye holds the Heavyweight (Open) lap record at the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb.
The 2016 ZX-10R received a major update. With a claimed 210 hp with ram-air intake at 13,000 rpm. The electronics now use a Bosch five-axis Internal Measurement Unit (IMU). A sixth degree is calculated by proprietary Kawasaki software. The S-KTRC updated with a added launch control mode a quickshifter and engine brake control. Also optional smarter KIBS cornering ABS. Because of its predictive as opposed to reactive nature, Kawasaki touts this system of S-KTRC as the most advanced of all current traction control systems. Some of the changes mechanically that are now lighter are the slipper clutch, balancer,crankshaft as well as pistons. A less restrictive air filter and larger air box as well as a lighter less restrictive exhaust system. A new transmission that is cassette style is vertically stacked. The previous petal rotors that have been in use since 2004 are now replaced with circular rotors. They are now also larger from 310 mm (12.2 in) to now 330 mm (13.0 in). The calipers are now Brembo M50 Monoblock and the master cylinder is a radial Brembo. The brake lines are now braided stainless-steel. A first for production sport bikes a 43 mm Showa Balance Free Fork derived from WSBK. Kawasaki also offers Race Kit parts for chassis and engine.
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The Yamaha TZR125 is a two-stroke 125 cc (7.6 cu in) sports motorcycle made for the European and South East Asian markets which uses the YPVS. The TZR125 was produced from 1987 and spanned two generations until the late 1990s each with a number of variants and sub variants.
Yamaha introduced the TZR125 in 1987 and production ended in 1992. It is identified by the single square headlight at the front of the box fairing, clip-ons located on top of the yoke, single seat and conventional forks.
Later TZR's can be identified by three-spoke magnesium alloy wheels and a rear disc brake.
The first generation has a number of variants: 2RH; 2RJ; 2RK; 2RL; 2RM; 2RN; 2TU; 2UT; 2VR; 3FN; 3PA; 3PB; 3PC; 3PD; 3PE; 3SY; 3TY.
Second generation
In 1993, Yamaha introduced the R series of TZR125s which have very little in common with the previous generation. They can be identified by the separate rider and pillion seats, upside down forks and swept front fairings. Not all of the R series used the Deltabox frame.
4DL Belgarda series
The 4DL version was assembled by Belgarda in Italy from imported Japanese parts and made use of Italian components. Brembo brake system and rims, Marzocchi upside down forks and the crankcase manufactured by Moto Minarelli. The 4DLs can be identified by the code 3MB00 embossed on the cylinder block and 4DL at the start of the serial numbers on the crankcase and frames. The 4DL came in two versions. Series 1 featured a storage flap which would open out horizontally and a sidelight above the headlight.On the Series 2, the storage compartment is accessed by removal of the pillion seat and the sidelight is absent.
Belgarda also produced in limited numbers TZR125RRs and TZR125R SPs which have varying swingarms and increased power ratings. The 4DL shares the same frame as some versions of the TZR250 and was also used for the Yamaha SZR660 Belgarda which uses an XT660 engine.
The TZR125RR, which looks very similar to the 4DL Series 2, is identified by the larger and thicker banana swingarm and longer expansion chamber stinger.
The TZR125R SP is based on the 4DL Series 1 but is recognised by the black Deltabox frame, swingarm, rims, fork ends and a long expansion chamber stinger.
The Swiss market 4DL are known as 4HE.
As with the previous generation, Yamaha has a number of variants: 4BN; 4CL; 4DL; 4FL; 4GM; 4HE; 4HW; 4HX; 4JB.
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St. Louis Park artist paints a path less traveled into figurative art
Artist Malcolm Liepke, a St. Louis Park native, has built an international audience for his paintings and drawings.
By ANNA PRATT Special to the Star Tribune
July 23, 2014 — 1:23am
For Malcolm “Skip” Liepke, a St. Louis Park native, art always came naturally, but he didn’t think of making a career of it.
At least not when he was in high school. Back then, he’d considered art more of a hobby.
“I didn’t know anybody making a living at it,” he said.
His high school art teacher, Bob Anderson, knew better. Anderson encouraged him to pursue art professionally, and gave him a brochure for the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Calif. Liepke tucked it away, but eventually he came back to it, and he decided to give it a shot.
Four decades later, Liepke has done more than make a living with art. His paintings can be seen at the Smithsonian and the Brooklyn Museum, and he’s had sold-out shows with major galleries around the globe. Some of his pieces sell into the six figures. And his illustrations have been featured on the cover of Time Magazine, Sports Illustrated and Newsweek.
On June 10, as a part of the St. Louis Park High School’s graduation ceremony, Liepke, who was part of the class of 1972, was recognized with the St. Louis Park Distinguished Alumni Award for 2014. Every year, the award goes to a former St. Louis Park student who’s made “significant contributions to their community and society through service or a distinguished career,” award materials state.
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Liepke’s “Grey Feather Boa.” The artist, a native of St. Louis Park, focuses on the human figure.
Previously, the award has gone to Grammy Award-winning musician Dan Wilson, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman and nuclear physicist Clayton Swenson. Plaques showcasing each award recipient are displayed on the school’s “Wall of Fame.”
Nancy Lapakko, who chairs the committee that makes the selection, said the group tries to find someone who reflects “this moment, this snapshot in time.”
Committee members also “look for someone who is inspirational for students,” she said. Liepke stood out for his impact on the art community on a global scale.
From illustrator to fine artist
Liepke, whose parents ran a design business doing seasonal décor for shopping malls, says, “Art chose me.”
“It was the thing I did best,” he said. “When everything else fell by the wayside, it was standing there facing me.”
He attended the Art Center for about a year and a half. It was an intense school “where you were required to pursue art with a frenzy,” he said. “It was ‘sink or swim,’ and it was good for me.”
Afterward, Liepke did some TV work, including more than 30 drawings for the “Rich Man, Poor Man” TV series starring Nick Nolte, which became a hit for Universal Studios. The drawings appeared on the TV screen as the credits rolled. “It was the first thing my parents saw,” he said. “They thought, ‘Hey, the kid’s going to be OK.’ ”
That gig opened the door to other opportunities. In 1978, Liepke moved to New York. He put his talents to use doing illustration. It was good career-wise, but eventually he got tired of the compromises involved. “You’re always solving someone else’s problem,” he said. There was always a corporate board weighing in. In his mind, “nothing great could be done that way. I got tired of the re-dos,” he said.
In 1990, he left illustration to pursue fine art. He’d always done his own artwork in his spare time, so it was an easy transition. The following year, he and his wife, Michelle, bought a house in Minneapolis, though they continued to live in New York part of the year. Four years ago, they decided to stay put, to raise their two sons.
The human figure
Liepke has always been drawn to people. In New York, he spent time painting interior and street scenes — the Garment District, restaurants and cafes — just about any place where people congregated. “New York is a great place for just seeing people in front of you. They’re not in cars, but in the world around me,” he said.
Though the landscape has changed, people continue to be compelling subjects for him.
“I like the emotional arc you get with people that you don’t get with a car or a still life or something,” Liepke said. “You get a response. You look at a portrait at a museum and the person stares back at you.”
And, even as clothing or the environment change, people stay the same. “They have a timelessness,” he said.
Early on, Liepke was inspired by the Old Masters. He loves Edgar Degas, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Diego Velázquez and John Singer Sargent. He tries to reinterpret what they did and put it in a modern context.
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“You take from the generation before you, give it a twist, make it yours,” Liepke said. “It’s how art progresses.”
How does one get to his level? “You’re not just born with it,” he said. “Talent is helpful, but it won’t get you over the finish line.” It takes drive, determination and business savvy. Those things are more necessary than talent, he said.
Liepke has a show coming up in October at a big gallery in Toronto. It could mean a major career change. “I’m under the gun to do some pivotal paintings,” he said.
Reminiscent of classics
Gregory Hedberg, a past St. Louis Park Distinguished Alumni Award-winner who is a senior consultant in European art with Hirschl & Adler Galleries in New York, said Liepke’s work “stands out from most contemporary art by being linked to the Old Masters, not only in his technical skills, but by how he treats his figures.”
Liepke’s one-man show at the Albermarle Gallery in London last year was quite striking, as “one could see an entire gallery filled with his work,” he said. “Like Degas, he gives them intriguing poses. Like Sargent, his figures have a certain elegance. Like Vuillard, Liepke poses his figures against interesting patterns and textures.”
In a broader context, recently there’s been a resurgence of figurative work. “Younger artists are looking more and more to carefully crafted figurative art to make new artistic statements,” he said, adding that Liepke is a leader on that front.
Malcolm Liepke's "The White Dress"
Anna Pratt is a Minneapolis freelance writer. She can be reached at annaprattjournalist@gmail.com.
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No I.D. reflects on the legacy of Jay Z’s 4:44 and how “Bam” almost went to Beyoncé
“I saw the smoke coming out Jay’s nostrils and the next morning he had the raps.”
By Sajae Elder
It's been a year since Jay Z released his thirteenth studio album, the critically acclaimed 4:44. In honor of its anniversary, producer No I.D., who picked up a producer of the year Grammy nomination for his work on the album, reflected on how it all came together and which beat on the album almost went to Beyoncé.
The producer broke down each of the album's tracks in an interview with TIDAL, and even explained how Jay wound up with co-producer credits on half of the project. "On the proper 10-song album, Jay is credited as co-producer on five of those songs because he basically made a playlist of songs that he listened to at his house and it was in the spirit of the soundtrack that he wanted to capture," he said. "So I just started sampling songs off of that playlist that he gave me."
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When it came to the song "Bam", the Sister Nancy-sampling standout that features reggae star Damien Marley, the song was almost a Beyoncé song - but her interest in the beat ultimately gave Hov the nudge he needed. "It was probably the most difficult song in my opinion. We could not nail it down for the longest time," he explained. "I credit Bey for helping us keep that because one day she came in — and she said a lot of things that day — but she was like, 'Man, just give me that beat. You messing around.' And I saw the smoke coming out Jay’s nostrils and the next morning he had the raps."
We were so close.
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Posted by James Dukes - March 18, 2019
What to Expect During Sri Chinmoy’s 3,100-mile Race
Do you have what it takes to compete in one of the most exhausting races in the world?
Three thousand and one hundred miles, 52 days, one city block in Jamaica, Queens, New York. The Self-Transcendence 3,100-mile race was founded in 1985 by Sri Chinmoy, an Indian spiritual leader known for teaching meditation in the west after moving to New York in 1964. Initially, the event began as a 6-day race with increasing duration of 700, 1000, and 1300 miles, then 2,700 miles. At the 1997 award ceremony, Sri Chinmoy announced that the distance would be extended an additional 400 miles thereafter. At 3,100 miles, it is the longest foot race in the world.
If the sheer distance alone wasn’t enough to intimidate potential participants, the race track itself wraps around a single inconspicuous city block in Jamaica, Queens, New York. During the late summer days, runners must complete this revered race within a 52-day time span. A single lap spans only .5488 miles. Participants must run around the city block a total of 5,649 times to reach the full 3,100 miles. That means they have to complete about 110 laps per day, resting only a few hours at a time from midnight to 6 am the next day.
It is essential for the runners to remain hydrated and intake enough food to keep their energy up. Because of the absolute amount of energy needed to complete the Self-Transcendence 3,100-mile race, it is not uncommon to observe runners eating entire sticks of butter or drinking straight heavy cream to maintain their stamina.
Many runners go through upwards of 10 pairs of shoes during the entirety of the race, and some choose to cut out the toes of their sneakers for increased comfort, as blisters pose the biggest threat to race contestants. Those who are veteran distance-runners know of the inevitable raw ankles and toes at the end of a marathon. However, this 3,100-mile race’s participants must run three marathons in one day if they plan to finish on time.
Despite its intimidating framework, the Self-Transcendence 3,100-mile race has many return participants. AshprihanalPekka Aalto broke his own record in 2015 and finished the race in 40 days, nine hours, and six minutes. Aalto was a long-time follower of Sri Chinmoy and continues in his devotions to his teachings despite Sri Chinmoy’s passing in 2007.
The race is meant to inspire individuals to push past the conception of their physical limits. It is an act of meditation, and a demonstration of the pure will of the human body, mind, and indeed, spirit.
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CONFESSIONS OF AN ECO-REDNECK (Perseus/HarperCollins) was a wild culling from the sporting pages of the NY Times and Sports Afield. Booklist ranked it one of the Top 10 Sporting Books of the Year.
Kayaking the Full Moon: A Journey Down the Yellowstone River to the Soul of Montana
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A Journey Down the Yellowstone River to the Soul of Montana (HarperCollins) was a New York Times Notable Book, and won a Lowell Thomas Award for best travel book of the year. “A graceful writer with a journalist’s sharp eye and a heart as big as his subject,” wrote Hampton Sides in the Washington Post Book World. “A sensitive and sensible book in search of Montana’s calico soul,” said Thomas McGuane.
Conversations with Mr. Baby: A Celebration of New Life
A Celebration of New Life (Little Brown) -- the story of new parents confronted by a wise-cracking baby who is at first reluctant to be born.
Rock 'N' Roll is Here to Pay
Studs Terkel called ROCK 'N' ROLL IS HERE TO PAY: The History and Politics of the Music Industry, (NelsonHall, co-author Reebee Garofalo,) "the definitive book on rock music as an industry." Back in the day, Chapple put on numerous rock concerts with Bonnie Raitt, Dr. John, and Allen Ginsberg (this last, decidedly spoken word.)
Chapple’s shorter pieces have appeared in National Geographic, the New Yorker, Conde Nast Traveler, the LA and New York Times, Salon, Scuba Diving, and Outside, among many others.
Upcoming books include: Heartland, Gulf, & the Future of America with co-author Dr. Jeremy Jackson (Yale University Press)
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EIB, the world’s biggest lender, has made climate action one of its top priorities and today it is one of the largest multilateral providers of climate finance worldwide. Over the next five years, the bank has committed USD 100 billion towards climate-related projects, and a small portion of this funding has now been allocated to Viking Heat Engines to support the development of its two main products – the CraftEngine and HeatBooster.
“The EU is leaning forward and taking a stance in supporting what may be extremely important technologies for reducing C02 emissions in the future,” says Helge Valeur, COO and CFO at Viking Heat Engines. “The fact that EIB is supporting us is a fantastic proof of how far we have come and that we have a promising future ahead.”
Waste heat - an untapped energy source
More than 50 per cent of all the energy generated in the world today is wasted as heat*, making this an extremely attractive renewable energy source. Viking’s CraftEngine and HeatBooster take this excess heat and turn it into electricity and high-temperature heat, respectively.
More specifically, the CraftEngine, developed with the world’s largest engine design company AVL, is a piston engine that can turn waste heat into electricity. This versatile engine can literally be installed anywhere in the world where’s there’s waste heat, even in off-grid areas. That said, Viking has decided to focus on the sectors where it can make the biggest impact. Among them is the marine sector where shipping companies emit far too much CO2 when they instead could turn much of their waste heat into energy to operate their fleet, drastically reducing their energy costs and emissions.
The HeatBooster, a high-temperature heat pump, has similar qualities to the CraftEngine in that it turns waste heat into valuable energy. It is one of the few industrial heat pumps in the world that can reach temperatures above 160 degrees, removing the need for oil and gas boilers used in industrial processes today.
"Smart and disruptive" technologies
Ambroise Fayolle, Vice-President of the EIB responsible for Germany, commented on the financing stressing the importance of Viking’s technology to Europe and the world at large: “The development and dissemination of Viking Heat Engines’ technology contributes significantly to energy efficiency and the circular economy – two areas, which are of utmost importance for the EU bank.
“Supporting Viking is also a perfect demonstration of the real benefits that the EU bank, with the support of the Juncker Plan, can provide to start-ups. Innovative small companies like Viking are the basis for future growth and jobs in Europe. We, at the EIB, are therefore very keen to accompany these start-ups on their way into industrialization,” he added.
The transaction with Viking Heat Engines was made possible by the support of the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI). EFSI is the central pillar of the Investment Plan for Europe, under which the EIB Group and the European Commission aim to act as strategic partners to boost the competitiveness of the European economy.
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John Scofield - That’s What I Say: The Music of Ray Charles - Verve
Ever since jazz guitarist John Scofield was a kid, the music of Ray Charles had a significant influence on him. So when Verve Records’ President Ron Goldstone approached Scofield with the idea of doing a tribute album to Charles, Scofield was game.
On his website, Scofield talks more in detail about the project: "I've got to admit that I'm rarely a fan of theme projects - some of them work, and some don't," Scofield says. "But as soon as I heard Ray Charles, it resonated with me. This is music I've known since I first started to play the guitar. Ray's music was one of my inspirations: He was a super soul-music man, but he was also a jazz musician, too. I see him as the height of honest expression."
More than a chance to pay homage to a formative musical influence, Scofield viewed That's What I Say as an ideal opportunity to realize one of his own ambitions. "I'd been thinking about doing something with singers, somehow," Scofield relates, "and this gave me an excuse to approach some of my soul-music idols and perform with them." Scofield's longtime colleague Steve Jordan signed on as producer and suddenly, the possibilities seemed endless.
With Jordan signed on as producer and drummer, they signed on the core of the band including bassist Willie Weeks, Larry Goldings on keyboards, and “Sco” on guitar. Choosing guest vocalists for the album was the next step for Scofield and Jordan enlisting John Mayer to sing “I Don’t Need No Doctor,” Dr. John on “Talkin’ Bout You/I Got A Woman,” Mavis Staples on “I Can’t Stop Loving You,” Aaron Neville on “You Don’t Know Me,” and Warren Haynes on “Night Time Is The Right Time.” The show stopper on the album is the version of Charles’ famous “What’d I Say,” which includes all the vocalists handling a different verse and some terrific tenor sax playing from the legendary David “Fathead” Newman.
That’s What I Say is another excellent record from Scofield whose extensive body of work includes everything from contemporary jazz to collaborations with jambands like Medeski, Martin, & Wood. This time around Scofield treats the songs of Ray Charles with great care and soulfulness, expertly casting each tune in his own unique style.
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This article is about the film. For other uses, see Bombay (disambiguation).
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Bombay (1995) is an award-winning Tamil feature film drama directed by Mani Ratnam, starring Arvind Swamy and Manisha Koirala, with music composed by A. R. Rahman. The film met with a strong reception upon release.
The film is centred on events, particularly during the period of December 1992 to January 1993 in India, and the controversy surrounding the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya. Increased religious tensions in the city of Bombay (now Mumbai) led to the Bombay Riots.
Eventually becoming one of the highest grossing films of the Chennai film industry, the film was well-received both critically and commercially, and it was screened at many international film festivals including the Philadelphia Film Festival in 1996 where it was an audience favourite. However, the film caused considerable controversy upon release in India and abroad for its depiction of inter-religious relations and religious riots. The film was banned in Singapore and Malaysia upon release.
In July 2005, a book on the film by Lalitha Gopalan was published by BFI Modern Classics, looking at the film's production, the several issues it covered, and its impact upon release in India and abroad.[1][2] The film was also dubbed in Hindi and Telugu.
3.1 National
4.1 Tamil
4.2 Hindi
4.3 Influence
Vasudevan
Shekhar (Arvind Swamy) is the son of a traditional Hindu father in a seaside village in Tamil Nadu. A journalism student studying in Bombay, Shekhar visits back home to see his family. On one of his return trips, he lays eyes on Shaila Bano (Manisha Koirala), a Muslim schoolgirl in the village. Initially shy, Shaila seeks to distance herself from Shekhar, but after frequent run-ins, and days of pursuit, Shaila begins to like Shekhar. Eventually, they both fall in love.
A marriage proposal is vehemently opposed by the lovers' fathers. Shekar's father refuses to accept Shaila as his daughter-in-law, telling Shekhar to find another partner, whilst Shaila's father announces the need for an immediate marriage between his daughter and a Muslim man. Shekhar's father says if the two ever get married, he will cease talking to his son. Shekhar reacts angrily to his father's refusal to accept Shaila, and so leaves, back to Bombay. Shaila, under increasing pressure from her father, escapes from the village and joins Shekhar. At first, Shaila is overwhelmed by the city, having relocated for the first time from rural surroundings to a city life. However, with time she adapts to her new lifestyle. The two get married. The newlyweds move into a new apartment.
A few months later, Shaila becomes pregnant and gives birth to twins, Kabir Narayan and Kamal Basheer. The twins are raised in both religions. Shekar continues to work as a journalist, whilst Shaila works at home, looking after the children. For six years, the family live in Bombay, settling in well, and begin the process of repairing relations with their respective families. The relatives visit the family in the city for the first time in over half a decade, and are overjoyed to see their two grandchildren.
Meanwhile, in India, religious extremism launches each community against the other, causing a wave of Hindu/Muslim riots that leave hundreds dead in Bombay. Targets of violence from both sides, Shaila and Shekhar worry increasingly over the safety of their children, whom they raised with both Hindu and Islamic traditions. They are constantly under threat. The growing tension threatens to bring tragedy to the family and during this tense situation, they lose their children in the city and the parents of Shekhar and Shaila get burnt in their house.
Shekhar and Shaila eventually get their children back, and also put an end to the riot.
The film has won the following awards since its release:
1996 National Film Awards
Won - Nargis Dutt Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration - Mani Ratnam
Won - Best Editing - Suresh Urs
1996 Filmfare Awards
Won - Best Film (Critics) - Mani Ratnam
Won - Best Performer (Critics) - Manisha Koirala
1996 Filmfare Awards South
Won - Filmfare Best Music Director Award (Tamil) - A. R. Rahman
Won - Filmfare Best Actress Award (tamil) - Manisha Koirala
1995 Tamil Nadu State Film Awards
Won - Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Music Director - A. R. Rahman
Won - Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Lyricist - Vairamuthu
1995 Edinburgh International Film Festival (Scotland)
Won - Gala Award- Bombay - Mani Ratnam
2003 Jerusalem Film Festival (Jerusalem)
Won - Wim Van Leer In Spirit for Freedom Award - Best Feature - Bombay - Mani Ratnam
1996 Political Film Society Awards (United States)
Won - Special Award - Bombay - Mani Ratnam
Soundtrack by A. R. Rahman
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A. R. Rahman chronology
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(1994) Bombay
(1995) Indira
Bombay: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
The original soundtrack features a score and six songs composed by A. R. Rahman, with lyrics in the Tamil language by Vairamuthu. The soundtrack was also dubbed into Hindi and Telegu.
Track # Song Singer(s) Length
1 Antha Arabic A. R. Rahman, Suresh Peters 5:10
2 Kannalanae K. S. Chithra, A.R.Rahman 5:52
3 Uyire Uyire Hariharan, K. S. Chithra 7:14
4 Kuchi Kuchi Hariharan, Swarnalatha
5 Halla Gulla Noel, Anupama Deshpande, Malgudi Subha, G.V. Prakash, 5:53
6 Bombay Theme Instrumental 5:18
7 Malarodu Malaringu Anuradha Sriram 2:43
8 Idhu Annai Bhoomi Sujatha, Noel, Srinivas, Sivanesan, Ganga, Renuka, Anuradha 3:28
1 Kehna Hi Kya K. S. Chithra 5:52
2 Ek Hogaye Ham Aur Tum Remo Fernandes 5:10
3 Tu Hi Re Hariharan, Kavita Krishnamurthy 7:14
4 Kuchi Kuchi Udit Narayan, Kavita Krishnamurthy, G. V. Prakash, Sharadha 5:07
5 Kuch Bhi Na Socho Pallavi, Shubha, Anupama, Noel, Srinivas 5:53
7 Aankhon Mein Ummeedon Sujatha, Chorus 2:43
8 Apna Zameen Yeh Sujatha, Noel, Srinivas, Sivanesan, Ganga, Renuka, Anuradha 3:28
Since its release, the soundtrack for Bombay has been influential, both nationally and internationally. In 2007, the soundtrack was included in The Guardian's "1000 Albums to Hear Before You Die" list.[3] The soundtrack also found success across India in its dubbed Hindi and Telegu versions.
The track "Bombay Theme" from the soundtrack is an instrumental orchestral piece composed and arranged by A. R. Rahman. It was featured in the Palestinian film Divine Intervention in 2002, and more recently on the soundtrack and score of the Nicolas Cage film Lord of War, released in 2005. It has appeared on several compilation CDs since the film's release including on Volume 5 of the chill-out compilation Café del Mar, released in 1998. It also appeared on a French TV commercial for Volvic starring Zinedine Zidane in 2000. The theme was also sampled by the German band Löwenherz for their song "Bis in die Ewigkeit".[4]
The Hindi version of the song "Kannalanae", titled "Kehna Hi Kya", was included by The Guardian in its list of "1000 Songs Everyone Must Hear" in 2009.[3] The Hindi version of the song was also sampled by Ciara for her 2009 song "Turntables", featuring Chris Brown.
Gopalan, Lalitha (2005). Bombay: BFI Film Classics. London: BFI Publishing. ISBN 978-0-85170-956-7.
^ "BFI Books: Bombay: The film". BFI.org.uk. July 2005. http://filmstore.bfi.org.uk/acatalog/info_206.html. Retrieved 1 February 2007.
^ "Bombay (film): BFI Modern Classics". University of California Press. July 2005. http://www.ucpress.edu/books/bfi/pages/PROD0397.html. Retrieved 1 February 2007.
^ a b "100 Best Albums Ever". The Guardian. http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/guardian100.htm. Retrieved 2010-02-03.
^ Löwenherz - Bis in die Ewigkeit at YouTube
Bombay at the Internet Movie Database
Bombay film review by James Berardinelli (1996)
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I Have Just Seen the Future & There IS Going to Be a Starship Enterprise!
November 23, 2012 November 18, 2012 SJ Reidhead 2012, Advanced Systems, Barack Obama, Idiot Conservatives, MAIN PAGE, NASA, NASA History, Private Space Systems, Romney, Science Fiction, SPACE, Star Trek
Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five -year mission: to explore strange new worlds; to seek out new life and new civilizations. To boldly go where no one has gone before!
Yep, it’s gonna’ happen. I think there’s something we need to face here. While Democrats in the House and Senate have never been ones to support a strong space program, JFK set the precedent for Democrat presidents to do just the opposite. There’s a reason why things are known as Kennedy Space Center and Johnson Space Center.
No wonder Barack Obama laughed at Mitt Romney during the debates when Romney came up with this stupidity:
“...They are still operating in another age. “Our Navy is smaller now than at any time since 1917,” complained Republican candidate Mitt Romney during the last presidential debate.
With words of withering mockery, President Obama shot back: “Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets, because the nature of our military’s changed… the question is not a game of Battleship, where we’re counting ships. It’s what are our capabilities.”…”
If I had not been planning to vote for Barack Obama, and I saw this, I would have changed my vote so fast it would have been at Warp 8. This is what I’ve been waiting my entire life to see.
“...It’s 2025 and an American “triple canopy” of advanced surveillance and armed drones fills the heavens from the lower- to the exo-atmosphere. A wonder of the modern age, it can deliver its weaponry anywhere on the planet with staggering speed, knock out an enemy’s satellite communications system, or follow individuals biometrically for great distances. Along with the country’s advanced cyberwar capacity, it’s also the most sophisticated militarized information system ever created and an insurance policy for US global dominion deep into the twenty-first century. It’s the future as the Pentagon imagines it; it’s under development; and Americans know nothing about it….”
Barack Obama is playing Star Trek! It’s that plain and simple.
“...Obama later offered just a hint of what those capabilities might be: “What I did was work with our joint chiefs of staff to think about, what are we going to need in the future to make sure that we are safe?… We need to be thinking about cyber security. We need to be talking about space.”
Amid all the post-debate media chatter, however, not a single commentator seemed to have a clue when it came to the profound strategic changes encoded in the president’s sparse words. Yet for the past four years, working in silence and secrecy, the Obama administration has presided over a technological revolution in defense planning, moving the nation far beyond bayonets and battleships to cyberwarfare and the full-scale weaponization of space. In the face of waning economic influence, this bold new breakthrough in what’s called “information warfare” may prove significantly responsible should US global dominion somehow continue far into the twenty-first century.
While the technological changes involved are nothing less than revolutionary, they have deep historical roots in a distinctive style of American global power. It’s been evident from the moment this nation first stepped onto the world stage with its conquest of the Philippines in 1898. Over the span of a century, plunged into three Asian crucibles of counterinsurgency—in the Philippines, Vietnam, and Afghanistan—the US military has repeatedly been pushed to the breaking point. It has repeatedly responded by fusing the nation’s most advanced technologies into new information infrastructures of unprecedented power…”
“…Peering into the future, a still uncertain balance of forces offers two competing scenarios for the continuation of US global power. If all or much goes according to plan, sometime in the third decade of this century the Pentagon will complete a comprehensive global surveillance system for Earth, sky, and space using robotics to coordinate a veritable flood of data from biometric street-level monitoring, cyber-data mining, a worldwide network of Space Surveillance Telescopes, and triple canopy aeronautic patrols. Through agile data management of exceptional power, this system might allow the United States a veto of global lethality, an equalizer for any further loss of economic strength….”
Yep, The Pink Flamingo is one very happy Trekkie!
I think now we know why there had to be a major house cleaning at NASA. In order to reach for the future, we need to stop re-living the past and get on with the 21st Century. I get it!
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Travelogues —
Potosi, a Hell That Exists
Vasko Lukinic
[Bolivia] 21. 2. 2011
A travelogue about the infamous mining town of Potosi, in Bolivia, where millions of people have allegedly died extracting silver ore. A once thriving community has been reduced to a dusty, dilapidated town with a lasting hell underneath.
I don't know where I am anymore. I don't know where I'm heading to, either. It seems that the world has seized to be long ago, that the life dried up and left some empty, barren space battered by the wind that blows through window panes and freezes my thoughts. The bus meanders uphill. And all the time I'm followed by the same lifeless emptiness, greyness, dust... As though I feel on my body the pointlessness of moving through nothingness. This is what the world will look like when there's nothing left.
Potosi has filled me with terror from the very beginning. However, it has attracted me at the same time. A meaningless town existing for centuries in the most inaccessible place imaginable, accumulating a history of horror, death and human suffering, but at the same time seducing with its bizarre beauty... We have long ago reached the altitude of 4.000 meters above sea level. I'm thinking that this is the end, that there is nowhere to go from here, that maybe Potosi doesn't exist at all, that it was made up... And as I'm getting more and more convinced that I am really on the road to nowhere, that Potosi is just a horrible legend and a delusion, I start to see the first outlines of the town, as grey and lifeless as everything around it.
In the distance I can make out the reddish hill, Cerro Rico. They say it's a hill that devours people. Cerro Rico is a cradle of this city - it has created it, raised it, only to mercilessly swallow it for centuries, killing it slowly and relishing the endless suffering of those condemned to be its prey. Cerro Rico is not just a hill; Cerro Rico is hell. Cerro Rico is human greed trapped in soil.
Long ago, in 1545, a shepherd named Diego Huallpa grazed his flock of lamas on the slopes of the hill. Diego started a fire to warm himself up; however, the soil around him had a strange glow. Diego inadvertently discovered the biggest silver ore deposit in the history of mankind. The news of the silver quickly reached Madrid. Overnight Potosi sprung up, the highest city in the world, that become one of the largest cities as well, bigger than Madrid itself, with unparallelled wealth. Potosi had pavements made of silver, opulent churches, palaces, theatres, the royal mint, and the constant influx of new settlers looking for riches. Potosi became the symbol of wealth, which is why the Spanish language of the time had a phrase "vale un Potosi" (it is worth a Potosi) for describing immense richness. However, after reaching the summit of its power, Potosi's wealth started plummeting, people started leaving it, and this process of demise has gone on ever since. At one point Potosi was left with only a couple thousand people, and today's Potosi is just a shadow of its former self.
There is a saying that with the silver dug out from Potosi one could build a bridge from Bolivia all the way to Madrid. However, another story says that the bones of those who died in the mine one could build two such bridges. It is believed that eight million people have died in the mines of Potosi, most of them either natives or African slaves. They used to be trapped underground for six months at a time, where they worked 20 hours a day. Some died from exhaustion, some from disease, some were killed in numerous accidents, and a huge number of suicides has been recorded as well. This makes Potosi a site of a forgotten, unknown, hushed up genocide, maybe the largest in the history of mankind.
I don't even know what made me come to Potosi. The notion of this town's history, as well the encounter with its present, fill me with a strange feeling of guilt. Did I come to Potosi only to see something horrible and out of the ordinary, so that I can afterwards tell that I've been in such a place? I know I will leave this town as soon as possible, feeling powerless to do anything, knowing that it was just another place I've seen on my journey... With these thoughts I walked past the city center filled with enormous palaces, churches, monuments. Everything seems monumental, magnificent, but at the same time fills me with loathing. What would somewhere else be just beautiful architecture, in Potosi has a different, sinister dimension.
One of the reasons why many come to Potosi is the possibility to visit the infamous mines. In this world everything eventually ends up as a tourist attraction. I gave up the idea right away. Going to the mine seemed like going to the zoo, with people instead of animals, locked not in cages but in a mine.
I met Helen by accident. It turns out that Helen works as a tour guide, and goes to the mine almost every day. I told her I had been toying with the idea of going to the mine before I came here, but since I've arrived to the city my opinion has changed completely. I am surprised that everyone knows about the inhuman conditions in the mines, yet nothing changes. Here is what Helen told me:
"You know, it is shameful that such a place should exist. I am angry every time I think about it. There are children working there, 15-16 years old. People die at the age of 35... They are simply compelled to work down there. There is nothing else here. The mines are the source of life, but of death as well. At the same time, someone is getting rich from these people's suffering. That is a shame for all of us, for all Bolivia. I would like to write a book about people who live in affluence using these poor souls. I want to write everything I know, and then I will have to leave this country, to leave Bolivia. I already have the title. It will be called "El paraiso del inferno", The Paradise of Hell. Because Potosi brings heavenly life to someone, turning others' lives into hell."
I asked her how she coped with going down into the mine. She told me it was hard, but it was also a chance to convey the truth to others:
"Many people can't even imagine the working conditions there. In a way, apart from what I think about such visits, I also see them as an opportunity to spread the truth about Potosi, to make people aware." She explained to me that the visits mean a lot to the miners; they find them encouraging, and she tries to make them less touristy and as informative as possible. In the end we agreed that I would visit the mine with her the next day, promising that I would write something about it.
July 11 2010. I woke up before seven, tired. I hadn't slept much, the night was cold, so cold that neither my sleeping bag nor the blankets could help me. The altitude also kept breaking my sleep into a series of short half-awake naps. The bed is hard, I have a feeling I'm lying on a wooden plank. The room has no windows. I feel suffocated by the stifling air and I want to leave as soon as possible. At the same time, I don't feel like going out, knowing that the cold wind awaits me. At one point I got out of my cocoon and, as quickly as possible, with my teeth chattering, put on all the clothes I could find near me, and ran out to get some air and see some light again. How is it in the mine?
Documentary "La mina del diablo" (3 parts, 45 min, in Spanish)
I met Helen at eight. We entered a small bus that made its way through narrow, steep streets and stopped in a neighbourhood where poverty was immediately obvious. The miners' market is a place where you can buy all sorts of mining gear, dynamite, pure alcohol, coca leaves, cigarettes - everything a miner needs in his quotidian life. Helen advised me not to buy any of those as gifts for the miners, but to take milk and fruit instead. Milk is the best gift - it is good for the lungs, and almost all the eminers have serious problems with respiratory organs, due to the constant exposure to toxic gases. Most of them die of silicosis, after about 15 years of working in the mine.
We went over to the shacks, where an Italian guy was waiting for us; Helen will take him to see the mine. We put on uniforms, boots, helmets with flashlights. Then again uphill by bus, to the altitude of about 4.500 meters, past the miners settlement, all the way to the entrance of the mine. Heaps of debris, rusty iron, hills of chat and dilapidated shacks, all that covered in whirls of dust. Some children came to us right away, offering minerals. Sad looks... We walked past women who, their heads completely covered, scoured the debris, looking for the pieces of ore. It was incredibly cold.
In front of a makeshift shop, a group of miners is waiting for their shift. They have torn uniforms, cracked boots and no other equipment. Among them there are kids, boys less than 15 years old. They all know Helen and greet her cheerfully in Ketchua language. They are getting ready to go down in the mine. They will work double shift - 16 hours. I feel bitter. I can't go on. Still, they are laughing. They are coming to us, telling us their names, shaking hands... Helen gives us a bunch of coca leaves. We have to chew them before entering the mine, to help us cope with the lack of air and the changes in temperature.
In disbelief I'm looking at the entrance that seems like a little hole in the hill. On the surface there are narrow, rusty rails on which the miners push metal wagons. At first sight, everything seems like in the Middle Ages.
We are entering the mine. There is water under my feet, darkness all around us, and with every step there is less and less air and the shaft narrows down. I can't go any further... I am looking at the people around me, the miners. Some of them are still children. How meaningless this world is... I feel the chill, I loathe myself, every day of my own laments, the lasting injustice upon which, it seems, this world has been built. We are going deeper, and I mechanically follow the steps of those in front of me, in the pitch darkness. From time to time I hit the ceiling with my helmet... We are walking past the shafts that look like mouse holes; it is incredible that, deep inside, there are miners. We stopped for a moment, to listen. The miners from upstairs and those from downstairs communicate by shouting. However, soon we only hear the voices of those closer to us. Helen is upset. She calls the miners, but only those who are upstairs respond. She tells us she is afraid, because there are poisonous gasses downstairs. Once she was there in a similar circumstances and, unfortunately, the worst scenario happened... We will wait.
Long minutes elapse, the time wears on... Now there are no more voices. "Let's hope everything will be fine. They are so young..." Shortly, one of them emerges, telling us with a smile that everything is ok. His colleagues just wandered too far down the underground shaft. We all feel relieved.
When you enter the mine, the familiar world ends. It is the beginning of a world ruled by some other forces, the forces of darkness and El Tio, the Uncle. El Tio is the master of the mine, maybe the devil himself, and entering his kingdom means that one has to please him, to play by his rules and believe in his powers. In the world of the mine, he is the ruler of life and death. Above every shaft there is a figure of his, soaked with the blood of lamas, that are regularly sacrificed to him. There are coca leaves thrown around. The miners deeply believe in his power. They must be in his mercy if they want his protection.
The time wears on. Down the winding corridors, it seems, I arrive to the proper hell. There is little air, the temperature keeps changing, at one moment it is too hot, and a couple of steps later it's cold again... Finally we move towards the exit. I see the Sun again, the light, take in a breath of air. I am happy. I look around myself. I see a barren mountain, tormented people, small shacks. The view is hurting me.
I went back to town. I slipped into my dark, cold room. And I started crying.
Bolivia's Witch Market
Located on Calle Jiminez and Linares between Sagarnaga and Santa Cruz in, it's impossible to miss the Witches' Market of La Paz, Bolivia, which is...
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Series finale: June 11 2008
By TV 3
Make Your Child Brilliant
Education expert Bernadette Tynan continues to put her unique brand of brain training to good use in helping children whose talents are going unnoticed in Make Your Child Brilliant, screening Wednesday, June 11th at 7:30pm on 3.
In tonight’s final instalment of the series, she visits a school in Manchester where she encounters Jamie, a curious, open-minded boy, and Aisha, a nine-year-old with a passion for culture and travel.
Bernadette Tynan has spent more than 15 years researching the secrets of the mind and developing brain-training techniques to unlock children’s talents. She is convinced that the current “exam-crazed” education system in the UK is failing to spot the ability of many of the country’s brightest kids. In this series she has set out on a journey across the country to put her methods to use.
Tynan, who has toured schools across the UK helping to identify talented pupils, believes a “death by testing” culture is destroying creativity and innovation in the classroom.
She argues that not only do tests fail to reveal many talents but that some bright children perform badly in them because they overcomplicate answers, looking for a deeper meaning where it is not expected.
She wants parents to help “train” their children’s brains to maximise their chances of success at school, using exercises that improve problem-solving and reasoning skills.
“What I’m looking for is children with abilities that could easily slip through the net,” she says. These could be students from any ability level. “In my book there is no ‘average Joe’ – only hidden talent.”
“They just need one chance and they really can excel,” she added.
Make sure not to miss Bernadette discovering these hidden talents in the Make Your Child Brilliant series final, screening Wednesday, June 11th at 7:30pm on 3.
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Series Premiere! June 11 2008
Series finale: June 8 2008
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HISTORY OF TOSZEK CASTLE
It is not known exactly when, on the highest hill in the area, the first wooden gord of defensive nature was built. It is likely to happen in the early-Piast period, between the X and XI century. Some written sources confirm the existence of the gord in Toszek as the seat of a castellany in 1222 when the castellany and the castellan Jacob is mentioned. Some historians claim that the castellany gord in Toszek was raised in the XII century. Saint Peter's church was mentioned in a papal bull in 1201, so it is highly likely that the gord had existed earlier. We can not exclude the fact that the castellany could have existed even earlier in the reign of Bolesław III Wrymouth.
During the period of „fragmentation” the castellany gord in Toszek belonged to the successive Silesian dukes from the Opolska line, then the Bytomsko-Kozielska line, and Cieszyńska and Oświęcimska lines. One of the most significant residents was princess Judyta, wife of the duke of Opole Mieszko II the Fat, who, after her husband's death in 1246, lived in Toszek for some time. Bolesław the duke of Toszek from the Kozielsko – Bytomska line became very successful in Europe. In about 1315, he became an archbishop of Ostrzychom and the Primate of Hungary, with help of his sister Maria , who was married to Hungarian king Karol Robert.
The castle reached the highest importance in the long reign of Przemysław the duke of Toszek (from the Oświęcimska line) in the XV century. Duke Przemysław not only rebuilt the castle out of stone after the Hussite raids, but also made it his permanent residence built in stone.
After the death of duke Przemysław in 1484, the castle belonged again to the Opolska line of Piast, but only for a short time. After the heirless death of Jan II Dobry in 1532 the castle, with both Duchy of Opole and Racibórz, was owned by the Habsburg family (as a feudal tenure of the Czech kings).
The Habsburg Family left the castle in pledge to Fryderyk von Rendern in 1557 and next to his son Jerzy Fryderyk Redern who bought it along with Toszek and Pyskowice. Atfer the fire in 1570, the Rendern Family rebuilt the castle in Renaissance Style and added to the rebuilt gate by building housing premises. The Rendern family reigned in Toszek castle till the death of Jerzy II Rendern in 1637. His sister Margaret von Kolovrat, who became the owner, married her daughter to the influential Earl Casper Colonna whose family came from Tyrol.
In this way, the castle fell into the hands of Colonna Family which ruled it between 1638 and 1707. Thanks to Casper Colonna, the castle owes the next period of splendour to the major rebuilt made by an architect Giovanni Seregna from Milan between 1650 and 1666. This rebuilt commemorates the foundation inscription over the gate building: CASPAR COMES COLONNA 1666. As a consequence of the reconstruction, the castle which was formerly meant for defence was converted into a magnate's mansion, which others could not compare with in this part of Upper Silesia.
However, in 1707, the Colonna Family sold the castle to baron Johann Dietrich von Peterswald and then, he sold it to count Francis Charles Kottuliński. After the Kottuliński Family /1718 – 1759/ the castle was in the Posadowski’s Family hands /1759 – 1791/ next in 1791, baron Adolf von Eichendorff of Łubowice and the father of romantic writer Joseph von Eichendorf, bought it.
The castle belonged to the Eichendorff Family for only six years, but for the future poet the earliest years of his life were spent there, when experiences are culminated to later bear fruit. He mentions “the castle on the hill of silence” which is assumed to be the castle in Toszek because the poet stayed there many times in his childhood.
After several years baron von Eichendorff sold the castle in 1797 to count Francis Adam Gaschin. The Gaschin Family, which ruled the castle between 1797 and 1840, is connected with the most important legend about the golden duck. In 1811 a fire broke out, which destroyed the building completely. During the escape from the flames, Gizela Gaschin, the owner's wife, was able to take the golden duck with 11 golden eggs and buried them in the underground passage. Soon countess Gizela died and the golden duck has not been found.
After the great fire, the castle remained in ruin and the Gaschin Family built a new palace on Strzelecka Street. In 1840, they sold Toszek property to Abraham Guradze. The castle was in the Guradze’s Family hands till World War II, but count Kurt Guradze bequeathed it to the youth of Poland in the twenties.
After Word War II, the castle was a picturesque ruin. Between 1957 and 1963 the castle was partially rebuilt and committed to a cultural purpose. Nowadays it is a seat of Culture Centre “Toszek Castle.”
Jan Lewandowski, PhD
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Zarconian Macross the F-4 Phantom will be carried on to our empire and a variant made that has alien technology from Zarconian technology.We will have a brand new F-4 that will combiner to pilot and be complicated with electronics throughout the design.It will be like a complicated module space fighter with space weapons missiles,payload and rockets.It will have its mm cannon to a laser mm cannon.It will have 3d tracking systems and many more alien upgraded instruments that make F-4.It will be more advanced than Ghost fighter.Play a role of having its weapons packs and commands to completed its missions and have delivery of its weapons and effectiveness in action.It will be on SDF-1.Bases and space carriers as a spacefighter design.
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F-4 Phantom II/F-4G Advanced Wild Weasel
F-4G Advanced Wild Weasel
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The F-4 Phantom II was a twin-engine, all-weather, fighter-bomber. The aircraft could perform three tactical air roles — air superiority, interdiction and close air support — as it did in southeast Asia. First flown in May 1958, the Phantom II originally was developed for U.S. Navy fleet defense and entered service in 1961. The USAF evaluated it for close air support, interdiction, and counter-air operations and, in 1962, approved a USAF version. The USAF's Phantom II, designated F-4C, made its first flight on May 27, 1963. Production deliveries began in November 1963. In its air-to-ground role the F-4 could carry twice the normal bomb load of a WW II B-17. USAF F-4s also flew reconnaissance and "Wild Weasel" anti-aircraft missile suppression missions. Phantom II production ended in 1979 after over 5,000 had been built—more than 2,600 for the USAF, about 1,200 for the Navy and Marine Corps, and the rest for friendly foreign nations, including to Israel, Iran, Greece, Spain, Turkey, South Korea, West Germany, Australia, Japan, and Great Britain. Used extensively in the Vietnam War, later versions of the aircraft were still active in the U. S. Air Force inventory well into the 1990s. F-4s are no longer in the USAF inventory but are still flown by foreign nations.
The F-4C first flew for the Air Force in May 1963 and the Air National Guard began flying the F-4C in January 1972. The Air Force Reserve received its first Phantom II in June 1978. The F-4D model, with major changes that increase accuracy in weapons delivery, was delivered to the Air Force in March 1966, to the Air National Guard in 1977, and to the Air Force Reserve in 1980.
The first F-4E was delivered to the Air Force in October 1967. The Air National Guard received its first F-4E in 1985, the Air Force Reserve in 1987. This model, with an additional fuselage fuel tank, leading-edge slats for increased maneuverability, and an improved engine, also has an internally mounted 20mm multibarrel gun with improved fire-control system.
Starting in 1973, F-4E's were fitted with target-identification systems for long-range visual identification of airborne or ground targets. Each system is basically a television camera with a zoom lens to aid in positive identification, and a system called Pave Tack, which provided day and night all-weather capability to acquire, track and designate ground targets for laser, infrared and electro-optically guided weapons. Another change was a digital intercept computer that includes launch computations for all AIM-9 Sidewinder and AIM-7 Sparrow air-to-air missiles. Additionally, on F-4E/G models, the digital ARN-101 navigation system replaced the LN-12 inertial navigation system.
With the introduction of newer, more capable weapons systems, the F-4 mission narrowed to specializing in the suppression of enemy air defense. Following their 90-day deployment supporting Operation Provide Comfort 15 December 1995, the F-4G Phantoms assigned to the Idaho Air National Guard's 190th Fighter Squadron retired to the Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center, otherwise known as the "boneyard," at Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz.
F-4G Advanced Wild Weasel Return to Top
The F-4G "Advanced Wild Weasel," was the last model still in the active Air Force inventory, until it was replaced by the F-16CJ/DJ in the role of increasing the survivability of tactical strike forces by seeking out and suppressing or destroying enemy radar-directed anti-aircraft artillery batteries and surface-to-air missile sites. F-4G's were E models modified with sophisticated electronic warfare equipment in place of the internally mounted 20mm gun. The F-4G could carry more weapons than previous Wild Weasel aircraft and a greater variety of missiles as well as conventional bombs. The primary weapon of the F-4G, however, was the AGM-88 HARM (high speed anti-radiation missile). Other munitions included cluster bombs, and AIM-65 Maverick and air-to-air missiles.
The F-4G "Advanced Wild Weasel," which inherited most of the features of the F-4E, was capable of passing real-time target information to the aircraft's missiles prior to launch. Working in “hunter-killer” teams of two aircraft, such as F-4G and F-16C, the F-4G “hunter” could detect, identify, and locate enemy radars then direct weapons that will ensure destruction or suppression of the radars. The technique was effectively used during Operation Desert Storm against enemy surface-to-air missile batteries. Primary armament included HARM (AGM-88) and Maverick (AGM-65). F-4G's deployed to Saudi Arabia also were equipped with ALQ-131 and ALQ-184 electronic countermeasures pods.
Specifications Return to Top
All-weather fighter-bomber.
McDonnell Aircraft Co., McDonnell Corporation.
Two General Electric turbojet engines with afterburners.
17,900 pounds (8,055 kilograms).
62 feet, 11 inches (19.1 meters).
16 feet, 5 inches (5 meters).
More than 1,600 mph (Mach 2).
60,000 feet (18,182 meters).
Maximum Takeoff Weight
62,000 pounds (27,900 kilograms).
1,300 miles (1,130 nautical miles).
Four AIM-7 Sparrow and four AIM-9M Sidewinder missiles, AGM-65 Maverick missiles, AGM-88 HARM missile capability, and one fuselage centerline bomb rack and four pylon bomb racks capable of carrying 12,500 pounds (5,625 kilograms) of general purpose bombs. 15 CBU-52
15 CBU-58
12 MK-20
6 BL-755
•APQ-120 fire-control radar [Hughes]
•AJB-7 bombing system
•ASQ-91 weapon release system,
•ASX-1 TISEO (Target Identification System Electro-Optical) Northrup
•ASN-63 INS
•APR-36 RWR
•ALQ-87 FM barrage jammer
•ALQ-101 ECM pod Westinghouse noise/deception jammer
•ALQ-119 ECM pod Westinghouse noise/deception jammer (covering three bands)
•ALQ-130 ECM pod
•ALQ-140 IR countermeasures system [Sanders]
$18.4 million.
F-4G — Two (pilot and electronic warfare officer).
Date Deployed
None - retired December 1995
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February 13 @ 9:00 pm - 11:00 pm
WARNING: Show is intended for a mature audience. Parental Discretion is advised.
A night of stand up comedy at 20 Front Street hosted by Gimmy Cipriano featuring:
Sal Demilio
A true “stand up” that has performed at some of the best comedy clubs in the country, such as Carolines in New York City, The Comedy Store and Laugh Factory in LA, Zanies Comedy Club in Chicago, Mark Ridley’s Comedy Castle, and The Ann Arbor Comedy Showcase in his home town of Detroit.
Sal has also been featured on XM/ Sirius Radio where his first CD “Fettucini Salfredo” is a well-played on-air favorite. He will be releasing his 2nd CD in 2018 and has also signed with “On Tour Records” where you’re hear him on all social media and radio for both of his CDs. You’ll hear him on radio programs across the country promoting his tour, including the Bob & Tom radio show and podcasts in the country.
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Markus Olind
Billy Reno
Date: February 13
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Reputation & Crisis
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When a company faces a serious scandal, brands, in addition to hiring a good public relations firm, often launch an apology ad campaign. Depending on how this goes, it could really make or break a brand’s reputation. Some campaigns are successful; they tend to get right to the point and show the company taking responsibility for its mistakes. Other brands don’t do such a good job, and their ads are met with even more criticism, simply adding more fuel to the fire. Here are some of the most recent examples of apology ads for large companies, both good and bad.
1.) Facebook’s “Here Together”: When Facebook’s most recent scandal broke (the one where they allowed the private data of millions of users to be harvested by data analytics company Cambridge-Analytica), major steps needed to be taken to repair the broken trust of Facebook’s users. Facebook released their apology ad, which encouraged users to get back to what Facebook was made for: connecting with friends and family in a new way. The ad sort of apologizes, stating that “something happened” and that “we had to deal with spam, clickbait, fake news, and data misuse”. The ad ultimately performed badly and viewers criticized Facebook for circumventing the real problem instead of taking responsibility for their own mistakes. In July of 2018, three months after the ad aired and soon after CFO David Wehner announced that the slowing revenue-growth was going to continue, Facebook experienced the largest one-day drop in the history of the U.S. stock market: 19 percent, or a $120 billion loss in market value, according to The Verge.
2.) Uber’s “Moving Forward”: Following a series of scandals that eventually lead to CEO Travis Kalanick stepping down, Uber released an apology ad featuring replacement CEO Dara Khosrowshahi as he addressed viewers directly. Khosrowshahi says in the 60-second commercial that he is excited for Uber’s future and that if things ever go badly, Uber commits to being open, taking responsibility for problems, and fixing them. In the shorter commercial, Khosrowshahi shares some of his father’s wisdom and insists that under his leadership, Uber will be a much better company. These ads were more effective than some other apology ads, as the company owned up to what went wrong and vowed to fix the issues at hand. People, especially younger Uber users, responded to the transparency well.
3.) Wells Fargo’s “Re-Established”: This ad campaign, launched in May of 2018, was intended to reassure customers of the company’s trustworthiness after a scandal involving the creation of fake accounts in users’ names to meet sales goals. The first ad of the campaign, titled “Trust”, claims that Wells Fargo “always found the way—until we lost it”, and promises to fix what went wrong, make things right, and do away with sales goals completely to focus on the customer. Consumers complained that the ad seemed insincere and empty, saying they’d have liked to see Tim Sloan, CEO at the time, make an appearance (a lá Uber). The ads weren’t terribly effective, and Sloan ended up stepping down on March 28th to allow a CEO who wasn’t tainted by the scandal help the company grow. Sometimes, apology ads just aren’t enough, and in this case, they may have have been a huge waste of money. (From an anonymous, confidential source, we discovered that Wells Fargo has spent upwards of a few hundred million dollars on this three-part campaign and brand update, which was largely a failure.)
4.) Domino’s’ “Turnaround”: People have thought the worst of Domino’s pizza, and in 2009, Domino’s let us know that they were in on it too. They began rebranding with their “Turnaround” ad campaign and openly admitted to knowing that their products were pretty much terrible. (In the early 2000s, they had earned the reputation of being the worst pizza chain.) They revealed the photography tricks used in normal commercials, read some reviews of their pizza, and vowed to create a better product. This extreme transparency and actual dedication to improving their product allowed them to actually grow in popularity and create better customer loyalty.
Creating ads on the wake of crisis is a delicate business and must be coupled with careful, strategic public relations counsel. Some brands do an excellent job – others just waste hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Early Activities of the Khazars (EXCLUSIVE)
By Douglas Reed
The Talmudic government set out to prepare its second encounter with the West from a new headquarters, planted among an Asiatic people, the Khazars, converted to Jehovah worship many centuries before. The ruling sect was thenceforward to operate through this different body of people; they were wild folk who had not known the cautionary experience in Spain.
In 1951 a New York publisher who contemplated issuing one of the present writer's books was strongly advised not to do this by the head of a Jewish political bureau, and was told, "Mr. Reed invented the Khazars".
However, the Judaist authorities agree about their existence and conversion, and the historical atlases show the development of the Khazar kingdom, which at its greatest extent reached from the Black Sea to the Caspian (around 600 AD). They are described as a Tartar or Turco-Mongolian people and the Jewish Encyclopaedia says that their chagan, or chieftain, "with his grandees and a large number of his heathen people embraced Judaism, probably about 679 AD".
The fact is attested by correspondence between Hasdai ibn Shapnet, Foreign Minister to Abdel Rahman, Sultan of Cordova, and King Joseph of the Khazars, exchanged about 960 AD. The Jewish Encyclopaedia says that the Judaist scholars had no doubts as to the genuineness of this correspondence, in which the word Ashkenazi first occurs as denoting this sharply-outlined, hitherto unknown group of "Eastern Jews" and as indicating Slav associations.
This community of Turco-Mongolian Ashkenazim, then, was distinct in every element save that of the creed from the Jews previously known to the Western world, the Sephardim.
The hold of the Talmudic government, in the centuries that followed, became looser over the scattered communities of the West; but it ruled this new compact community in the East with a rod of iron.
The Jew of Semitic physiognomy became ever rarer (today the typical countenance of the Jew has Mongolian traits, as is natural).
No Gentile will ever know why this one mass-conversion of a numerous "heathen" people to Talmudic Judaism was permitted, thirteen hundred years ago. Was it chance, or were these elders able to foresee every mortal possibility? At all events, when the Sephardim were scattered and the destructive idea received, in Spain, its sharpest setback, this reserve force lay ready to hand and for the purpose of the destructive mission it was the best possible material.
Long before their conversion to Judaism the Khazars were hostile to the immigrant Russ from the north who eventually conquered them, established the Russian monarchy and accepted Christianity.
When the Khazars became converted the Talmud was complete, and after the collapse of their kingdom (in about 1000 AD) they remained the political subjects of the Talmudic government, all their resistance to Russia being governed by the Talmudic, anti-Christian Law. Thereafter they moved about in Russia, particularly to Kieff (the traditional "holy city" of Russian Christianity), elsewhere in the Ukraine, and to Poland and Lithuania.
Though they had no Judahite blood, they became under this Talmudic direction the typical nation-within-the-nation in Russia. The areas where they congregated, under Talmudic direction, became the centres of that anti-Russian revolution which was to become "the world revolution"; in these parts, and through these people, new instruments of destruction were forged, specifically for the destruction of Christianity and the West.
These savage people from the inmost recesses of Asia lived within the Talmud like any Babylonian or Cordovan Jew and for centuries "observed the Law" in order that they might "return" to a "promised land" of which their ancestors probably never heard, there to rule the world. In the Twentieth Century, when the politicians of the West were all agog with this project of the return, none of them had ever heard of the Khazars. Only the Arabs, whose lives and lands were directly at stake, knew of them, and vainly tried to inform the Peace Conference of 1919 and the United Nations in 1947.
After 1500, therefore, the Jews fell into two distinct groups: the scattered communities of the West, who were Sephardic in origin, and this closely corralled mass of Talmudic, Slav "Jews" in the East. Time had to show if the Talmudic centre would be able to make out of the Ashkenazim a destructive force as potent in the future as the earlier one in the past, and whether it could keep its hold over the communities in the West, with their different tradition and their memory of the Iberian expulsion.
About the year 1500, then, the Talmudic government moved from Spain to Poland, establishing itself among a body of "Jews" hitherto unknown to the West and relaxing its hold on the Sephardic Jews, who began to dwindle in numbers and to disintegrate as a cohesive force (in the judgment of the Judaic elders). Only about 450 years separate that event and that point in time from our present day, when the effects of the removal of the Talmudists to Poland have shown themselves, and have answered the two questions raised in the last paragraph.
These 450 years saw the visible Talmudic "centre" cease to exist (in Dr. Kastein's words) and the destructive idea simultaneously enter Europe in a new form, which bore the name "revolution".
The 450 years have seen three of these "revolutions" (counting only the chief ones). Each was more destructive than the last. Each was recognizable as the heir of the former one by its chief characteristics, and these, again, were the chief characteristics of the Judaic Law as laid down in the Torah-Talmud. The main assault in each case was on legitimate government, nationhood and Christianity. Under the Judaic Law the only legitimate government is that of Jehovah and the only legitimate nation is that of Jehovah's chosen people; under the Talmudic supplement of that Law Christianity is specifically the chief of those "other gods", after whom the chosen are for bidden to "go a-whoring"; and "destruction", as has been shown, is a supreme tenet of that Law.
When these revolutions began they were supposed to be aimed at "kings and priests", as the symbolic figures of oppression. Now that the power of kings and priests is gone, but the revolution is established in permanence, it may be seen that these were false words, chosen to delude "the multitude". The attack was on nationhood (the murdered king being in each case the symbol) and on religion (the destruction of churches being the symbolic act).
These were recognizable marks of authorship. The Torah-Talmud is the only original fount of such ideas that research can discover. "He shall deliver their kings into thine hand and thou shalt destroy their name from them . . . ye shall utterly destroy all the places wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods". At the very moment when the Talmudic government vanished from sight, after setting itself among a barbaric Asiatic people, this creed of destruction entered Western Europe and began its ruinous march.
These three revolutions, then, like the historic events of the pre-Christian era depicted in the Old Testament, and of the Christian era up to the expulsion from Spain, also conformed with and fulfilled the Judaic Law. All three of them bear the common hallmark of a Judaic triumph, as their outcome. Were they originally instigated, organized and directed by the Talmudists?
In that respect there is a great difference between the first two and the last one.
From the book The Controversy of Zion, pp. 117-119
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Feeling the Hate in New York (BREAKING NEWS)
...The Madness Continues
Max Blumenthal presents part three in a running series: 1500 Jewish extremists rally on 4/25/10 in Midtown Manhattan against President Barack Obama's call for an Israeli construction freeze in East Jerusalem and demand unlimited rights to colonize the occupied Palestinian territories.
Editor's WARNING: Profanity and racial epithets abound in both of these films. But I am not at all surprised. Talmudic Judaism is founded on racism, violence, and bloodshed. The videos are a continued eye-opener, nonetheless.
Max Blumenthal and Jesse Rosenfeld interview young Tel Aviv residents about Iran, Obama and right-wing laws limiting the speech rights of their Palestinian-Israeli neighbors. The shocking responses reflect the deepening of racist and authoritarian trends in Israeli society. This is the sequel to "Feeling the Hate in Jerusalem," the video banned by YouTube, Vimeo and the Huffington Post after topping 400,000 hits.
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The Origins of the Ghetto (EXCLUSIVE)
In the Twentieth Century the masses have been misled to think of "the ghetto" as a kind of concentration camp for Jews set up by Gentile persecutors. The same operation on fact has been performed on the entire history of oppression in the West; in the Twentieth Century all else has been drained away until what remains is presented solely as "the Jewish persecution".
The many persecutions of men during the last 1900 years have involved the Jews in proportion to their numbers, so that their share of the total mass of suffering was small (in the most notorious case of the present century, that of Russia, they were the oppressors, not the oppressed). I do not know if I should ever have elicited this fact, had not my own experience confronted me so sharply with it.
The ghetto was not something inflicted on the Jews by the Gentiles. It was the logical product of the Talmudic Law, and derived directly from the experiment in Babylon. Dr. Kastein describes the Talmud as "the home" which the Jews took everywhere with them. However, for physical life they also needed four walls and a roof. The Talmud itself decreed that the Gentiles were not "neighbours" and that a Jew might not sell landed property adjoining that of a Jew to a Gentile. The express object of such provisions as these was the segregation of Jews from others and their isolation in ghettoes.
The first ghetto was that which the Babylonian rulers allowed the Levites to set up in Babylon. The next was the Jerusalem around which Nehemiah, backed by the Persian king's soldiers, built new walls, wherefrom he drove out all non-Judahites. From those models the European ghetto took its shape. This institution is probably the most onerous part of the modern Jew's spiritual inheritance:
"The ghetto, friend, the ghetto, where all hopes at birth decay".
Jews who never saw a ghetto carry a half-conscious memory of it within them like a haunting fear, yet it was essentially a Talmudist conception, to which their ancestors surrendered. It was the perfect means of corralling a scattered congregation, imprisoning people's minds, and wielding power over them.
The demand for a ghetto often came from the Talmudists (that is to say, outside Poland, where all Jewish life, of course, was ghetto-life). The modern suggestion that the ghetto signified inferiority is part of the legend of "persecution", which is chiefly meant to intimidate Jews, so that they shall always fear to venture outside the fold; today's myth of "antisemitism" is intended to produce the same effect on them.
In ancient Alexandria (the New York of its day) and in medieval Cairo and Cordova the Jewish quarters were established at the insistence of the rabbis, intent on keeping their flock isolated from others. In 1084 the Jews of Speyer petitioned the ruling German prince to set up a ghetto; in 1412, at Jewish request, a ghetto law was enacted throughout Portugal. The erection of the ghetto walls in Verona and Mantua was for centuries celebrated annually by the Jews there in a festival of victory (Purim). The ghettoes of Russia and Poland were an essential and integral part of theTalmudic organization and any attempt to abolish them would have been denounced as persecution.
When the Roman ghetto was destroyed at Mussolini's order in the early 1930's the Jewish press (as Mr. Bernard J. Brown records) lamented the event in such words as these:
"One of the most unique phenomena of Jewish life in Goluth is gone. Where but a few months ago a vibrant Jewish life was pulsating, there now remains a few half-destroyed buildings as the last vestige of the quondam ghetto. It has fallen victim to the Fascist passion for beauty and under Mussolini's order the ghetto has been razed. . ." .
The implication of this is that the razing of the ghetto was "Fascism", just as the original creation of ghettoes (at Jewish demand) is presented as persecution by the Zionist historians of today.
With emancipation the ghetto disappeared; its maintenance would too blatantly have shown that the rulers of Jewry had no true intention of sharing in emancipation on an equal basis.
The Jewish Encyclopaedia recorded in its 1903 edition that "in the whole civilized world there is now not a single ghetto, in the original meaning of the word: The qualification is important, because in many places and ways the Jews continue the closed-community life, though without the identifying walls, and the law forbidding the sale of neighbour-land to Gentiles, without permission, has not lapsed (to give one instance, illustrative to those who know the city: in Montreal an entire district east of the Mountain has by such methods been made almost as solidly Jewish as if it were a ghetto).
The decline of the ghetto, during the century of emancipation, was a blow to the main prop of Talmudic power. A substitute had to be found unless the ghetto-spirit (as distinct from the physical ghetto) was to disintegrate altogether, and one was found in Zionism, which is the new method devised to re-corral the communities:
"There are many who desire greater control over Jews by Jews, and who resent the dissolution of this control in Russia, where once a ghetto made such control easy and absolute" (Rabbi Elmer Berger). "Only the intellectually blind can fail to note that the promotion of group life, centered around ancient religious traditions and cultures, is a return to the ghetto. . . There can be no glory in a group of people striving to perpetuate ghetto life . . . Even a cursory reading of history shows that the Jew built his own ghettoes" (Mr. Bernard J. Brown).
Zionism is the true revival of Talmudic ghettoism, as these two Jewish authorities state. It is designed to undo the work of emancipation, to re-segregate the Jews, and to reimpose the creed of "severance" on them in full force. The chauvinist appeal of conquest and empire in the Middle East is being used to disguise this true meaning of the process.
The direction in which Jews were moving before Zionism set out to recapture them may be seen in this quotation from the article on The Attitude of Modern Judaism in the Jewish Encyclopaedia, 1916:
"Modern Judaism as inculcated in the catechism and explained in the declarations of the various rabbinical conferences, and as interpreted in the sermons of modern rabbis, is founded on the recognition of the unity of the human races; the law of righteousness and truth being supreme over all men, without distinction of race, or creed, and its fulfilment being possible for all. Righteousness is not conditioned by birth. The Gentiles may attain unto as perfect a righteousness as the Jews . . . In the modern synagogues, 'Thou shalt love thy neighbour like thyself' (Leviticus 29) signified every human being".
Much has changed since 1916, and in 1955 these words are but the picture of what might have been. No doubt individual rabbis continue to "interpret their sermons" in this sense, but unless they are of the stuff of which heroes and martyrs are made they cannot long defy their congregations, and these have been taken back centuries by the appeal of Zionism.
The Zionists have gained political control over Gentile governments and the Jewish masses alike, so that what the individual remonstrant says is of little weight. The Zionists have restored the Levitical Law, in its Pharisaic and Talmudic interpretations, in full force. Their actions towards others in the past have been and in the future will be guided by that, and not by what "the attitude of modern Judaism" was in 1916.
The great change came in the year, 1917, which followed the publication of the words quoted above. The tradition of the Talmud and the ghettoes was still too strong, among the masses of Jewry, for "the attitude of modern Judaism" to prevail over the fanatical elders who then appeared.
From the book The Controversy of Zion, pp. 94-97
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THE MAN FROM GALILEE (Exclusive)
When Jesus was born the vibrant expectation that a marvellous being was about to appear was general among the Judeans. They longed for such proof that Jehovah intended to keep the Covenant with his chosen people, and the scribes, reacting to the pressure of this popular longing, gradually had introduced into the scriptures the idea of the anointed one, the Messiah, who would come to fulfil his bargain.
The Targams, the rabbinical commentaries on the Law, said: "How beautiful he is, the Messiah king who shall arise from the house of Judah. He will gird up his loins and advance to do battle with his enemies and many kings shall be slain".
This passage shows what the Judeans had been led to expect. They awaited a militant, avenging Messiah (in the tradition of "all the firstborn of Egypt" and the destruction of Babylon) who would break Judah's enemies "with a rod of iron" and "dash them in pieces like a potter's vase"; who would bring them empire of this world and the literal fulfilment of the tribal Law; for this was what generations of Pharisees and Levites had foretold.
The idea of a lowly Messiah who would say "love your enemies" and be "despised and rejected of men, a man of sorrows" was not present in the public mind at all and would have been "despised and rejected", had any called attention to these words of Isaiah (which only gained significance after Jesus had lived and died).
Yet the being who appeared, though he was lowly and taught love, apparently claimed to be this Messiah and was by many so acclaimed!
In few words he swept aside the entire mass of racial politics, which the ruling sect had heaped on the earlier, moral law, and like an excavator revealed again what had been buried. The Pharisees at once recognized a most dangerous "prophet and dreamer of dreams".
The fact that he found so large a following among the Judeans shows that, even if the mass of the people wanted a militant, nationalist Messiah who would liberate them from the Romans, many among them must subconsciously have realised that their true captivity was of the spirit and of the Pharisees, more than of the Romans. Nevertheless, the mass responded mechanically to the Pharisaic politicians' charge that the man was a blasphemer and bogus Messiah.
By this response they bequeathed to all future generations of Jews a tormenting doubt, no less insistent because it must not be uttered (for the name Jesus may not even be mentioned in a pious Jewish home): Did the Messiah appear, only to be rejected by the Jews, and if so, what is their future, under The Law?
What manner of man was this? Another paradox in the story of Zion is that in our generation Christian divines and theologians often insist that "Jesus was a Jew", whereas the Judaist elders refuse to allow this (those Zionist rabbis who occasionally tell political or "interfaith" audiences that Jesus was a Jew are not
true exceptions to this rule; they would not make the statement among Jews and seek to produce an effect among their non-Jewish listeners, for political reasons). *
This public assertion, "Jesus was a Jew", is always used in our century for political purposes. It is often employed to quell objections to the Zionist influence in international politics or to the Zionist invasion of Palestine, the suggestion being that, as Jesus was a Jew, none ought to object to anything purporting to be done in the name of Jews. The irrelevance is obvious, but mobs are moved by such phrases, and the paradoxical result, once again, is that a statement, most offensive to literal Jews, is most frequently made by non-Jewish politicians and ecclesiastics who seek Jewish favour.
The English abbreviation, "Jew", is recent and does not correspond to anything denoted by the Aramaic, Greek or Roman terms for "Judahite" or "Judean", which were in use during the lifetime of Jesus. In fact, the English noun "Jew" cannot be defined (so that dictionaries, which are scrupulously careful about all other words, are reduced to such obvious absurdities as "A person of Hebrew race"); and the Zionist state has no legal definition of the term (which is natural, because the Torah, which is the Law, exacts pure Judahite descent, and a person of this lineage is hardly to be found in the entire world).
If the statement, "Jesus was a Jew", has meaning therefore, it must apply to the conditions prevailing in his time. In that case it would mean one of three things, or all of them: that Jesus was of the tribe of Judah (therefore Judahite); that he was of Judean domicile (and therefore Judean); that he was religiously "a Jew", if any religion denoted by that term existed in his time.
Race, residence, religion, then.
This book is not the place to argue the question of Jesus's racial descent, and the surprising thing is that Christian divines allow themselves some of the statements which they make. The reader should form his own opinion, if he desires to have one in this question.
The genealogy of Mary is not given in the New Testament, but three passages might imply that she was of Davidic descent; St. Matthew and St. Luke trace the descent of Joseph from David and Judah, but Joseph was not the blood father of Jesus. The Judaist authorities discredit all these references to descent, holding that they were inserted to bring the narrative into line with prophecy.
As to residence, St. John states that Jesus was born at Bethlehem in Judea through the chance that his mother had to go there from Galilee to register; *the Rabbi Stephen Wise, the leading Zionist organizer in the United States during the 1910-1950period, used this phrase for the obvious political motive, of confusing non-Jewish hearers. Speaking to such an "inter-faith" meeting at the Carnegie Hall at Christmastide 1925, he stated "Jesus was a Jew, not a Christian" (Christianity was born with the death of Jesus).
For this he was excommunicated by the Orthodox Rabbis Society of the United States, but a Christian Ministers Association "hailed me as a brother". Rabbi Wise adds the characteristic comment: "I know not which was more hurtful, the acceptance of me as a brother and welcoming me into the Christian fold, or the violent diatribe of the rabbis".
Judaist authorities, again, hold that this was inserted to make the account agree with Micah's prophecy that "a ruler" would "come out of Bethlehem".
The Jewish Encyclopaedia insists that Nazareth was Jesus's native town, and indeed, general agreement exists that he was a Galilean, whatever the chance of his actual birthplace. Galilee, where nearly all his life was spent, was politically entirely separate from Judea, under its own Roman tetrarch, and stood to Judea in the relationship of "a foreign country" (Graetz). Marriage between a Judean and a Galilean was fobidden and even before Jesus's birth all Judeans living in Galilee had been forced by Simon Tharsi, one of the Maccabean princes, to migrate to Judah.
Thus, the Galileans were racially and politically distinct from the Judeans.
Was this Galilean, religiously, what might today be called "a Jew"? The Judaist authorities, of course, deny that most strenuously of all; the statement, often heard from the platform and pulpit, might cause a riot in the synagogue.
It is difficult to see what responsible public men can mean when they use the phrase. There was in the time of Jesus no "Jewish" (or even Judahite or Judaist or Judean) religion. There was Jehovahism, and there were the various sects, Pharisees, Sadducees and Essenes, which disputed violently between themselves and contended, around the temple, for power over the people. They were not only sects, but also political parties, and the most powerful of them were the Pharisees with their "oral traditions" of what God had said to Moses.
If today the Zionists are "the Jews" (and this is the claim accepted by all great Western nations), then the party which in Judea in the time of Jesus corresponded to the Zionists was that of the Pharisees. Jesus brought the whole weight of his attack to bear on these Pharisees. He also rebuked the Sadducees and the scribes, but the Gospels show that he held the Pharisees to be the foe of God and man and that he used an especial scarifying scorn towards them. The things which he singled out for attack, in them and in their creed, are the very things which today's Zionists claim to be the identifying features of Jews, Jewishness and Judaism.
Religiously, Jesus seems beyond doubt to have been the opposite and adversary of all that which would make a literal Jew today or would have made a literal Pharisee then.
None can say with certainty who or what he was, and these suggestive statements by non-Jewish politicians ring as false as the derisive and mocking lampoons about "the bastard" which circulated in the Jewish ghettoes.
What he did and said is of such transcendental importance that nothing else counts. On a much lesser scale Shakespeare's case is somewhat comparable. The quality of inspiration in his works is clear, so that it is of little account whether he wrote them, or who wrote them if he did not, yet the vain argument goes on.
The carpenter's son from Galilee evidently had no formal schooling: "The Jews marvelled, saying, How knoweth this man letters, having never learned?" What is much more significant, he had known no rabbinical schools or priestly training. His enemies, the Pharisees, testify to that; had he been of their clan or kind they would not have asked, "Whence hath this man this wisdom, and these mighty works".
What gives the teaching of this unlettered young man its effect of blinding revelation, the quality of light first discovered, is the black background, of the Levitical Law and the Pharisaic tradition, against which he moved when he went to Judea. Even today the sudden fullness of enlightenment, in the Sermon on the Mount, dazzles the student who has emerged from a critical perusal of the Old Testament; it is as if high noon came at midnight.
The Law, when Jesus came to "fulfil" it, had grown into a huge mass of legislation, stifling and lethal in its immense complexity. The Torah was but the start; heaped on it were all the interpretations and commentaries and rabbinical rulings; the elders, like pious silkworms, span the thread ever further in the effort to catch up in it every conceivable act of man; generations of lawyers had laboured to reach the conclusion that an egg must not be eaten on the Sabbath day if the greater part of it had been laid before a second star was visible in the sky.
Already the Law and all the commentaries needed a library to themselves, and a committee of international jurists, called to give an opinion on it, would have required years to sift the accumulated layers.
The unschooled youth from Galilee reached out a finger and thrust aside the entire mass, revealing at once the truth and the heresy. He reduced "all the Law and the Prophets" to the two commandments, Love God with all thy heart and thy neighbour as thyself.
This was the exposure and condemnation of the basic heresy which the Levites and Pharisees, in the course of centuries, had woven into the Law.
Leviticus contained the injunction, "Love thy neighbour as thyself", but it was governed by the limitation of "neighbour" to fellow-Judeans. Jesus now reinstated the forgotten, earlier tradition, of neighbourly love irrespective of race or creed; this was clearly what he meant by the words, "I am not come to destroy the law, but to fulfil". He made his meaning plain when he added, "Ye have heard that it hath been said . . . hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemy". (The artful objection is sometimes made that the specific commandment, "Hate thine enemy", nowhere appears in the Old Testament. Jesus's meaning was clear; the innumerable injunctions to the murder and massacre of neighbours who were not "neighbours", in which the Old Testament abounds, certainly required hatred and enmity).
This was a direct challenge to The Law as the Pharisees represented it, and Jesus carried the challenge further by deliberately refusing to play the part of the nationalist liberator and conqueror of territory for which the prophecies had cast the Messiah. Probably he could have had a much larger following, and possibly the support of the Pharisees, if he had accepted that role.
His rebuke, again, was terse and clear: "My kingdom is not of this world . . . The kingdom of Heaven is within you . . . Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth. . . but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal".
Everything he said, in such simple words as these, was a quiet, but direct challenge to the most powerful men of his time and place, and a blow at the foundations of the creed which the sect had built up in the course of centuries.
What the entire Old Testament taught in hundreds of pages, the Sermon on the Mount confuted in a few words. It opposed love to hatred, mercy to vengeance, charity to malice, neighbourliness to segregation, justice to discrimination, affirmation (or reaffirmation) to denial, and life to death. It began (like the "blessings-or-cursings" chapters of Deuteronomy) with blessings, but there the resemblance ended.
Deuteronomy offered material blessings, in the form of territory, loot and slaughter, in return for strict performance of thousands of "statutes and judgments", some of them enjoining murder. The Sermon on the Mount offered no material rewards, but simply taught that moral behaviour, humility, the effort to do right, mercy, purity, peaceableness and fortitude would be blessed for their own sake and receive spiritual reward.
Deuteronomy followed its "blessings" with "cursings". The Sermon on the Mount made no threats; it did not require that the transgressor be "stoned to death" or "hanged on a tree", or offer absolution for non-observance at the price of washing the hands in the blood of a heifer. The worst that was to befall the sinner was that he was to be "the least in the kingdom of heaven"; and most that the obedient might expect was to be "called great in the kingdom of heaven".
The young Galilean never taught subservience, only an inner humility, and in one direction he was consistently and constantly scornful: in his attack on the Pharisees.
The name, Pharisees, denoted that they "kept away from persons or things impure". The Jewish Encyclopaedia says, "Only in regard to intercourse with the unclean and the unwashed multitude did Jesus differ widely from the Pharisees". Echo may answer, "Only!" This was of course the great cleavage, between the idea of the tribal deity and the idea of the universal god; between the creed of hatred and the teaching of love. The challenge was clear and the Pharisees accepted it at once. They began to bait their traps, in the very manner described by Jeremiah long before: "All my familiars watched for my halting, saying, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him".
The Pharisees watched him and asked, "Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners" (a penal offence under their Law). He was equally their master in debate and in eluding their baited traps, and answered, swiftly but quietly, "They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick . . , I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance".
They followed him further and saw his disciples plucking ears of corn to eat on the Sabbath (another offence under the Law), "Behold, thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the Sabbath day". They pursued him with such interrogations, always related to the rite, and never to faith or behaviour; "why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders, for they wash not their hands when they eat bread?". "Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophecy of you, saying, this people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. But in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men" ,
This was the lie direct: The Law, he charged, was not God's law, but the law of the Levites and Pharisees: "the commandments of men"!
From this moment there could be no compromise, for Jesus turned away from the Pharisees and "called the multitude, and said unto them, Hear, and understand: Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man, but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man".
With these words Jesus cast public scorn on one of the most jealously-guarded of the priestly prerogatives, involving the great mass of dietary laws with the whole ritual of slaughter, draining of blood, rejection of "that which dieth of itself", and so on. All this was undoubtedly a "commandment of man", although attributed to Moses, and strict observance of this dietary ritual was held to be of the highest importance by the Pharisees, Ezekiel (the reader will recall) on being commanded by the Lord to eat excrement "to atone for the iniquities of the people", had pleaded his unfailing observance of the dietary laws and had had his ordeal somewhat mitigated on that account. Even the disciples were apparently so much under the influence of this dietary tradition that they could not understand how "that which cometh out of the mouth" could defile a man, rather than that which went in, and asked for an explanation, remarking that the Pharisees "were offended, after they heard this saying".
The simple truth which Jesus then gave them was abominable heresy to the Pharisees: "Do not ye understand, that what whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught? But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: these are the things which defile a man; but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man".
This last remark was another penal offence under the Law and the Pharisees began to gather for the kill. They prepared the famous trick questions: "Then went the Pharisees and took counsel how they might entangle him in his talk". The two chief questions were, "To whom shall we render tribute?" and "Who then is my neighbour?" A wrong answer to the first would deliver him to punishment by the foreign ruler, Rome. A wrong answer to the second would enable the Pharisees to denounce him to the foreign ruler as an offender against their own Law, and to demand his punishment.
This is the method earlier pictured by Jeremiah and still in use today, in the Twentieth Century. All who have had to do with public debate in our time, know the trick question, carefully prepared beforehand, and the difficulty of answering it on the spur of the moment. Various methods of eluding the trap are known to professional debaters (for instance, to say "No comment", or to reply with another question). To give a complete answer, instead of resorting to such evasions, and in so doing to avoid the trap of incrimination and yet maintain the principle at stake is one of the most difficult things known to man. It demands the highest qualities of quickwittedness, presence of mind and clarity of thought. The answers given by Jesus to these two questions remain for all time the models, which mortal man can only hope to emulate.
"Tell us therefore, What thinkest thou? Is it lawful to give tribute unto Caesar, or not?" (the affable tone of honest enquiry can be heard). "But Jesus perceived their wickedness and said, Why tempt ye me, ye hypocrites? . . . Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's. When they heard these words, they marvelled, and left him and went their way".
On the second occasion, "a certain lawyer stood up and tempted him, saying, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?" In his answer Jesus again swept aside the great mass of Levitical Law and restated the two essentials: "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart . . . and thy neighbour as thyself". Then came the baited trap: "And who is my neighbour?"
What mortal man would have given the answer that Jesus gave? No doubt some mortal men, knowing like Jesus that their lives were at stake, would have said what they believed, for martyrs are by no means rare. But Jesus did much more than that; he disarmed his questioner like an expert swordsman who effortlessly sends his opponent's rapier spinning into the air. He was being enticed to declare himself openly; to say that "the heathen" were also "neighbours", and thus to convict himself of transgressing The Law. In fact he replied in this sense, but in such a way that the interrogator was undone; seldom was a lawyer so confounded.
The Levitical-Pharisaic teaching was that only Judeans were "neighbours", and of all the outcast heathen they especially abominated the Samaritans (for reasons earlier indicated). The mere touch of a Samaritan was defilement and a major "transgression" (this continues true to the present day). The purpose of the question put to him was to lure Jesus into some statement that would qualify him for the major ban; by choosing the Samaritans, of all peoples, for the purpose of his reply, he displayed an audacity, or genius, that was more than human:
He said that a certain man fell among thieves and was left for dead. Then came "a priest" and "likewise a Levite" (the usual stinging rebuke to those who sought the chance to put him to death), who "passed by on the other side". Last came "a certain Samaritan", who bound the man's injuries, took him to an inn, and paid for his care: "which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbour unto him that fell among the thieves?"
The lawyer, cornered, could not bring himself to pronounce the defiling name "Samaritan"; he said, "He that showed mercy on him" and thereby joined himself (as he probably realized too late) with the condemnation of those for whom he spoke, such as "the priest" and "the Levite". "Then said Jesus unto him, Go, and do thou likewise". In these few words, and without any direct allusion, he made his interrogator destroy, out of his own mouth, the entire racial heresy on which the Law had been raised.
One moderate Judaist critic, Mr. Montefiore, has made the complaint that Jesus made one exception to his rule of "love thine enemies"; he never said a good word for the Pharisees.
Scholars may debate the point. Jesus knew that they would kill him or any man who exposed them. It is true that he especially arraigned the Pharisees, together with the scribes, and plainly saw in them the sect responsible for the perversion of the Law, so that the entire literature of denunciation contains nothing to equal this:
"Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men; for ye neither go in yourselves neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in . . . ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves ….. ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy and faith. . . ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess . . . ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness. . . ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous, and say, if we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have partaken with them in the blood of the prophets. Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets. Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers. . ."
Some critics profess to find the last six words surprisingly harsh. However, if they are read in the context of the three sentences which precede them they are seen to be an explicit allusion to his approaching end, made by a man about to die to those who were about to put him to death, and at such a moment hardly any words could be hard enough. (However, even the deadly reproach, "Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers", had a later sequel: "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do".)
The end approached. The "chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders" (the Sanhedrin) met under the high priest Caiaphas to concert measures against the man who disputed their authority and their Law. The only Judean among the Galilean disciples, Judas Iscariot, led the "great multitude with swords and staves", sent by the "chief priests and elders of the people", to the garden of Gethsemane and identified the man they sought by the kiss of death.
This Judas deserves a passing glance. He was twice canonized in the Twentieth Century, once in Russia after the Bolshevist Revolution, and again in Germany after the defeat of Hitler, and these two episodes indicated that the sect which was more powerful than Rome, in Jerusalem at the start of our era, was once more supremely powerful in the West in the Twentieth Century.
According to St. Matthew, Judas later hanged himself and if he thus chose the form of death "accursed of God", his deed presumably brought him no happiness. To Zionist historians of Dr. Kastein's school Judas is a sympathetic figure; Dr. Kastein explains that he was a good man who became disappointed with Jesus and therefore "secretly broke" with him (the words "secretly broke" could only occur in Zionist literature).
The Pharisees, who controlled the Sanhedrin, tried Jesus first, before what would today be called "a Jewish court". Possibly "a people's court" would be a more accurate description in today's idiom, for he was "fingered" by an informer, seized by a mob, hailed before a tribunal without legitimate authority, and condemned to death after false witnesses had spoken to trumped-up charges.
However, the "elders", who from this point on took charge of events in exactly the same way as the "advisers" of our century control events, devised the charge which deserved death equally under their "Law" and under the law of the Roman ruler. Under "the Mosaic Law", Jesus had committed blasphemy by claiming to be the Messiah; under the Roman law, he had committed treason by claiming to be the king of the Jews.
The Roman governor, Pilate, tried one device after another, to avoid complying with the demand of these imperious "elders", that the man be put to death.
This Pilate was the prototype of the Twentieth Century British and American politician. He feared the power of the sect in the last resort, more than anything else. His wife urged him to have no truck with the business. He tried, in the politician's way, to pass the responsibility to another, Herod Antipas, whose tetrarchy included Galilee; Herod sent it back to him. Pilate next tried to let Jesus off with a scourging, but the Pharisees insisted on death and threatened to denounce Pilate in Rome: "Thou art not Caesar's friend".
This was the threat to which Pilate yielded, just as one British Governor after another, one United Nations representative after another, yielded in the Twentieth Century to the threat that they would be defamed in London or New York. Evidently Pilate, like these men nineteen centuries later, knew that his home government would disavow or displace him if he refused to do as he was bid.
The resemblance between Pilate and some British governors of the period between the First and Second World Wars is strong, (and at least one of these men knew it, for when he telephoned to a powerful Zionist rabbi in New York he jocularly asked, as he relates, that the High Priest Caiaphas be informed that Pontius Pilate was on the line).
Pilate made one other attempt to have the actual deed done by other hands: "Take ye him, and judge him according to your law". With the ease of long experience it was foiled: "it is not lawful for us to put any man to death".
After that he even tried to save Jesus by giving "the people" the choice between pardoning Jesus or Barabbas, the robber and murderer. Presumably Pilate had small hope from this quarter, for "the people" and "the mob" are synonyms and justice and mercy never yet came from a mob, as Pilate would have known; the function of the mob is always to do the will of powerful sects. Thus, "the chief priests and elders persuaded the multitude that they should ask Barabbas, and destroy Jesus".
In this persuasion of the multitude the sect is equally powerful today.
The longer the time that passes, the more brightly glow the colours of that unique final scene. The scarlet robe, mock sceptre, crown of thorns and derisive pantomime of homage; only Pharisaic minds could have devised that ritual of mockery which today so greatly strengthens the effect of the victim's victory. The road to Calvary, the crucifixion between two thieves: Rome, on that day, did the bidding of the Pharisees, as Persia, five hundred years before, had done that of the Levites.
These Pharisees had taught the people of Judea to expect a Messiah, and now had crucified the first claimant. That meant that the Messiah was still to come. According to the Pharisees the Davidic king had yet to appear and claim his empire of the world, and that is still the situation today.
Dr. Kastein, in his survey of Judaism from its start, devotes a chapter to the life of Jesus. After explaining that Jesus was a failure, he dismissed the episode with the characteristic words, "His life and death are our affair".(Emphasis added)
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Chadea was Black (EXCLUSIVE)
By Drusilla Dunjee Houston
The life of the Semitic and Hamitic races must have been closely associated after the deluge. So close is the apparent relationship that some authorities have looked upon Abraham as Hamitic. Abraham came from Ur of the Chaldees. But he descended by direct line from a Semitic father. His mother may have been Hamitic for Abraham was spoken of as a Chaldean. All down the line of the after years we find Hebrews taking wives out of the Ethiopian race. The Babylonian account of the deluge is older than the Biblical story. It does not take away from it but rather corroborates its truth.
There is the same close relationship between the code of Hammurabi and the Mosaic law. Both were inspired by a common Creator. The Chaldean law was perhaps the Ethiopian remembrance of the best jurisprudence of the antediluvian world. Read the statutes of Hammurabi and you will be astounded at the likeness of these and the lesser laws of Israel. It was written long before the giving of the Mosaic law. The “Wiseman of the East,” seeking the young child prove that they held the wires of revelation. The hope of the coming of the Messiah was written upon Babylonian tablets more than 2000 BC.
Excerpted from the book Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient Cushite Empire, PP. 196-197
Here's more proof from another scholarly source:
G. Higgins, Anacalypis (1927), 2:364. "Chaldeans, who were closely related to Babylonians, were Negroes."
Here's a supplemental article:
BLACK TURANIANS OF MESSOPOTAMIA, or a Brief History of the Subject
Clyde Winters Ph.D
Black Kushites of Sumer and Akkad
http://www.africaresource.com/rasta/sesostris-the-great-the-egyptian-hercules/kushites-of-sumer-and-akkad-by-clyde-winters-phd/
Controversy surrounding the Kushite/African/Black origins of the Elamites, Sumerians, Akkadians and “Assyrians” is simple and yet complicated. It involves both the racism exhibited toward the African slaves in the Western Hemisphere and Africans generally which led to the idea that Africans had no history; and the need of Julius Oppert to make Semites white, to accommodate the “white” ancestry of European Jews.
To understand this dichotomy we have to look at the history of scholarship surrounding the rise of Sumero-Akkadian studies. The study of the Sumerians, Akkadians, Assyrians and Elamites began with the decipherment of the cuneiform script by Henry Rawlinson (1851). Henry Rawlinson (1810-1895) had spent most of his career in the Orient. This appears to have given him an open mind in regards to history. He recognized the Ancient Model of History, the idea that civilization was founded by the Kushite or Hamitic people of the Bible.
As result, Rawlinson was surprised during his research to discover that the founders of the Mesopotamian civilization were of Kushite (Cushite) origin. He made it clear that the Semitic speakers of Akkad and the non-Semitic speakers of Sumer were both Black or Negro people who called themselves sag-gig-ga “Black Heads”. In Rawlinson’s day the (agglutinative Turanian speaking) Sumerian people were recognized as Akkadian or Chaldean, while the Semitic speaking blacks were called Assyrians.
Rawlinson identified these Akkadians as Turanian or Scythic people. But he made it clear that these ancient Scythic or Turanian speaking people were Kushites or Blacks.
A major supporter of Rawlinson was Edward Hincks (1792-1866). Hincks continued Rawlinson’s work and identified the ancient group as Chaldeans, and also called them Turanian speakers. Hincks, though, never discussed their ethnic origin.
A late comer to the study of the Sumerians and the Akkadians was Julius Oppert (1825-1905). Oppert was a German born of Jewish parents. He made it clear that the Chaldean and Akkadian people spoke different languages. He noted that the original founders of Mesopotamia civilization called themselves Ki-en-gi “land of the true lords” (Kang, Tr. "predecessors, pra-fathers", later also Kangars). It was the Semitic speakers who called themselves Akkadians.
Assyrians called the Ki-en-gi people Sumiritu “the sacred language”. Oppert popularized the Assyrian name Sumer, for the original founders of the civilization. Thus we have today the Akkadians and Sumerians of ancient Mesopotamia.
Oppert began to popularize the idea that the Sumerians were related to the contemporary Altaic and Turanian speaking people, e.g., Turks and Magyar (Hungarian) speaking people. He made it clear that the Akkadians were Semites like himself (however, these Semitic people were using an agglutinative language, instead of a flexive Semitic language). To support this idea Oppert pointed out that typological features between Sumerian and Altaic languages existed. This feature was agglutination.
The problem with identifying the Sumerians as descendants (i.e. ancestors) from contemporary Turanian speakers resulted from the fact that Sumerian and the Turkish languages are not genetically related (however, the quantity of genetically related words constitutes a significant portion of Sumerian vocabulary). As a result Oppert began to criticize the work of Hincks (who was dead at the time) in relation to the identification of the Sumerian people as Turanian following the research of Rawlinson.
Oppert knew Rawlinson had used African languages to decipher cuneiform writing. But he did not compare the Sumerian to African languages, probably, due to the fact that he knew they were related given Rawlinson’s earlier research.
It is strange to some observers that Oppert never criticized Rawlinson who had proposed the Turanian origin of the Ki-en-gi (Sumerians, Kangars). But this was not strange at all. Oppert did not attack Rawlinson who was still alive at the time because he knew that Rawlinson said the Sumerians were the original Scythic and Turanian people he called Kushites. Moreover, Rawlinson made it clear that both the Akkadians and Sumerians were Blacks. For Oppert to have debated this issue with Rawlinson, who deciphered the cuneiform script, would have meant that he would have had to accept the fact that Semites were Black. There was no way Oppert would have wanted to acknowledge his African heritage, given the Anti-Semitism experienced by Jews living in Europe.
Although Oppert successfully hid the recognition that the Akkadians and the Sumerians both referred to themselves as sag-gig-ga “black heads”, some researchers were unable to follow the status quo and ignore this reality. For example, Francois Lenormant (1837-1883) made it clear, following the research of Rawlinson, that the Elamite and Sumerians spoke genetically related languages. This idea was hard to reconcile with the depiction of people on the Persian monuments, especially the Behistun monument, which depicted Negroes (with curly hair and beards) representing the Assyrians, Jews and Elamites who ruled the area. As a result, Oppert began the myth that the Sumerian languages was isolated from other languages spoken in the world even though it shared typological features with the Altaic languages. Oppert taught Akkadian-Sumerian in many of the leading Universities in France and Germany. Many of his students soon began to dominate the Academe, or held chairs in Sumerian and Akkadian studies, these researchers continued to perpetuate the (generally, contained only inside the Euro-centric academic school) myth that the Elamite and Sumerian languages were not related.
There was no way to keep from researchers who read the original Sumerian, Akkadian and Assyrian text that these people recognized that they were ethnically Blacks. This fact was made clear by Albert Terrien de LaCouperie (1845-1894). Born in France, de LaCouperie was a well known linguist and China expert. Although native of France, most of his writings are in English. In the journal he published called the Babylonian and Oriental Record, he outlined many aspects of ancient history. In these pages he made it clear that the Sumerians, Akkadians and even the Assyrians who called themselves salmat kakkadi "black headed people”, were all Blacks of Kushite origin. Even though de LaCouperie taught at the University of London, the prestige of Oppert, and the fact that the main centers for Sumero-Akkadian studies in France and Germany were founded by Oppert and or his students, led to researchers ignoring the evidence that the Sumerians, Akkadians, and Assyrians were Black.
In summary, the cuneiform evidence makes it clear that the Sumerians, Akkadians, and Assyrians recognized themselves as Negroes: “black heads”. This fact was supported by the statues of Gudea, the Akkadians and Assyrians. Plus the Behistun monument made it clear that the Elamites were also Blacks.
The textual evidence also makes it clear that Oppert began the discussion of a typological relationship between Sumerian and Turkic languages (after Rawlinson identified the Sumerians-Akkadians as Turanian or Scythic people). He also manufactured the idea that the Semites of Mesopotamia and Iran, the Assyrians and Akkadians were “whites”, like himself (you can find a long and winding blurb on the Caucasoidness/Europeoidness of the N.Africans in most of the English-language popular materials. But anybody who saw an Egyptian mummy, and a mummy of a tanned white-skinned corps, can tell that the Hamitic Egyptiand were not lily-white at all, and had a curly hair). Due to this brain washing, and whitening out of Blacks in history, many people today can look at depictions of Assyrians, Achamenians, and Akkadians and fail to see the Negro origin of these people.
To make the Sumerians “white”, the textbooks print pictures of artifacts dating to the Gutian rule of Lagash, to pass them off as the true originators of Sumerian civilization. No Gutian rulers of Lagash are recognized in the Sumerian King List.
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By Don Jaide
Labels: chaldea, hebrew ancestry, hebrews
The Migration of Black Jews into Europe (EXCLUSIVE)
By Rudolph Windsor
The land of Israel always stood in the way of new conquering powers: It was Greece in 332 B.C. and then Rome in 68 B.C. The Romans put a complete end to the Judean state in A.D. 70 with a great slaughter and taking them to captivity. The aforementioned powers conquered the land of Israel from the north. As always, marching armies create a refugee problem; consequently over a period of seven hundred years, hundreds of thousands of Israelites fled to the bordering African state of Egypt, and by the year 1 A.D., there were more than 1 million Hebrew Israelites in the three African countries of Libya, Egypt, and Ethiopia combined, with minor penetrations in the Sahara and West Africa.
At this juncture of history, the highest concentration of Israelites was in Asia and Africa, but with the Roman era, there began a slow movement to Europe . The Romans transported Israelite slaves to the city of Rome and other cities in Europe . These black Jews built communities and synagogues, owned white servants, converted many of these servants to the Israelite religion, and intermarried with them. After hundreds of years in Europe , the Israelites became lighter and lighter in color; they began to call themselves Jews or Jewish people.
They had practically no contact with the Jews of Africa and Asia . They spoke a new language called Yiddish; it is a German dialect written in the letters of the Hebrew alphabet and containing elements of Hebrew, Russian, Polish, and other languages. There developed a new culture known as Yiddish culture, modeled after European ways of life. When white supremacy developed in Europe during the sixteenth century, Jewish thought and life began to be flavored with it; this is evident in the white biblical pictures they made and their straightening their hair.
They used a different pronunciation in Hebrew, and their religious services changed considerably, compared to those of the Afro-Asian Israelites. They adopted European names such as Sakaloff, Pearlstein, Weinstein, Kleinbaum, Weizmann, and Jabotinsky instead of Hebrew names such as Yaakov, Yirmiyahu, Eshmelek, Shmuel, Ahaz, ans so forth. These Jews removed themselves so far from their once African homeland, that as a result, they began to think like Europeans in their new white skin.
From then on they became known as Ashkenazi or German Jews. Most of these Ashkenazi Jews are found in Europe, Australia , South Africa (a racist country), Canada , and the United States . As the twentieth century arrived, the Jewish institutions in the European world perpetuated the concept that the biblical Israelites were white, to the point of forgetting that the Israelites were black.
From the book The Valley of Dry Bones, p. 110
How The Sephardic Jews Turned White
The Moors from Africa ruled Spain and Portugal for about 700 years, and the Jews in these countries were there even longer. When the Duchess L'Abrantes, the wife of Napolean's ambassador to Portugal was in that country, she commented that the Judeans and Moors looked alike. At this time, the Judeans were so dark that many whites thought that all Judeans were black.
King John II of Portugal deported many of his Judeans to West Africa (Angola), and many settled in the West Indies. John Bigelow, who went to Jamaica in 1850, saw the offspring of these Judeans and said that they were black. The evidence shows that the Judeans in Europe up to 1850 were virtually black but died out. As a result, the white servants of these blacks converted to Judaism and became the new Jews.
From The Valley of Dry Bones by Rudolph Windsor, p. 62
Labels: Black Jews, hebrews, israel, jews, middle east, sephardim
Whoever You Thought You Were...You're a Jew!
Dr. Ken Biegeleisen correctly constructs a historical account that traces the Black Moor's civilization in Spain and the Black Jews. Biegeleisen was associated with Rudolph Windsor who authored the seminal work From Babylon to Timbuktu.
Labels: hebrew ancestry, hebrews, videos
Author/Professor tells the truth about Israelites
This man tells the truth about who the true Hebrew Israelites are. The black Hebrew Israelite prophet Jeremiah assesses the condition of our people very accurately in his Lamentations, "Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows. We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest. We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities. Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand. (5:1-8) We eagerly await the salvation of the Most High from our enemies.
Labels: hebrews, videos
Are today's Ashkenazi Jews the Hyksos?
Labels: hyksos, videos
The Hebrew Kingdoms of Africa, Parts I&II
The nation of Yisra'el has always had close ties with the continent of Africa. The land promised to us stretches from the Nile to the Euphrates. Our ancestors were enslaved within the borders of our land while dwelling among the Egyptians. They had been in the land 430 years by the time of the great Exodus. However, during times of trouble our ancestors would go into Africa to seek refuge from famine and war. Yahusha, our Messiah, was taken into Egypt as a child to hide him from Herod who sought to kill him. There were many well established Hebrew colonies along the Mediterranean coast of African well before the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D.. It seems logical that our ancestors would take the pathway of least resistance and regroup in Africa, a land they were already familiar with. This has been their mode of operation in times of trouble. Later as foretold to Abram we would be afflicted in a land that was not our own for 400 years.
In Scripture it was foretold that our ancestors would be held in captivity for 400 years in a land that was not their own. They would be taken as slaves in ships by a fierce nation who's language they would not understand. There they would be sold as male and female slaves with no one to save them out of their condition. This nation would eat up the fruit of their labors and leave them none. Their families would be broken up and sold to different people. Their wives would become the pleasure of other men (slave masters). We would lose our national identity while being called by scornful names and mocked. This is the story of our people here in America.
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Synagogue of Satan Parts 1&2
A very exhaustive but intriguing piece of history presented in this series.
Jews and the Opium Wars
A part of history you weren't taught in school. Wonder why?
Labels: opium wars, videos
Cesare Borgia/The Deceiver
This video presents the truth behind the infamous Jesus photo that is prevalent in many homes, churches, etc. The portrait is actually a depiction of Cesare Borgia. This man nor his family were Christians. They were the antithesis of what is laid out in the Gospel of Yeshua.
Labels: cesare borgia, videos
Ancient Egypt and the Hebrew Israelites
Slave descendants are HEBREW ISRAELITES NOT Egyptians and claiming Egyptian heritage will not save us.
Labels: hebrews
We Are One (Hebrew Israelite Song)
This song is to remind Israelites that we must come together, both men and women and be the Nation that The Most High called us to be.
Labels: hebrews, music
WW1 Zionism Canaan Hitler Rothschild In 10 Mins
This video presents how "Israel" was created in 1948.
Labels: hebrews, israel, jews, videos, zionism
Williamson on Paul Craig Roberts and 9/11
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Catholic Bishop Richard Williamson of the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX),
who is scheduled to be tried in absentia later this month in Germany for
doubting the Holy People's gas chamber relics, comments on the despair
and retirement of journalist Paul Craig Roberts.
Bishop Williamson also makes the point that people indifferent to
investigating who really was behind the 9/11 terror attacks will be
indifferent to finding divine reality: "...how can souls that are
unconcerned to get to the truth, get anywhere near to the true God?"
TRUTH, FAREWELL
Eleison Comments CXLII April 3, 2010
+Richard N. Williamson
Another voice of truth risks falling silent in the United States. It is
not, at least overtly, a voice of Catholic truth, but are not the great
problems for truth today not problems specific to Catholics, but
problems so basic that they are common to all men ? Therefore when a
columnist and writer of the stature of Paul Craig Roberts, who has
outstanding Establishment credentials and who was an Assistant Secretary
of the Treasury in the Reagan administration, announces that, apparently
out of discouragement, he is laying aside his pen, it is a sad day for
all of us.
His farewell article of about ten days ago deals precisely with the
universal loss of truth. Its opening section deserves to be quoted at
"There was a time when the pen was mightier than the sword...when
people believed in truth and regarded truth as an independent power and
not as an auxiliary for government, class, race, ideological, personal
or financial interest. Today Americans are ruled by propaganda. They
have little regard for truth, little access to it, and little ability to
recognize it. Truth is an unwelcome entity. It is disturbing. It is
off-limits. Those who speak it run the risk of being branded
"anti-American", "anti-semite" or "conspiracy theorist". Truth is an
inconvenience for government... and for ideologues."
He goes on, "Today many whose goal once was the discovery of truth are
now paid handsomely to hide it." Examples from many domains prove that
"wherever one looks, truth has fallen to money. Wherever money is
insufficient to bury the truth, ignorance, propaganda and short memories
finish the job."
Further examples confirm that "Intelligence and integrity have been
purchased by money... Americans, or most of them, have proved to be
putty in the hands of the police state." They have been brainwashed by
the mainstream media which "do not serve the truth. They serve the
government and the interest groups that empower the government".
Fascinatingly, Roberts argues that "America's fate was sealed when the
public and the anti-war movement bought the government's 9/11 conspiracy
theory. The government's account of 9/11 is contradicted by much
evidence. Nevertheless, that defining event of our time, which has
launched the USA on interminable wars of aggression and a domestic
police state, is a taboo topic for investigation in the media. It is
pointless to complain of war and a police state when one accepts the
premise on which they are based."
I would only add the religious dimension: how can souls grasp the one
true religion of God when they accept the premises on which their whole
godless environment is based? In the early 2000's many Catholics in the
USA did not want to hear sermons emphasizing the fraud of 9/11, but how
can souls that are unconcerned to get to the truth, get anywhere near to
the true God? How can souls losing their taste for reality keep any
taste for the supreme realities of the soul and the after-life?
Roberts concludes sadly, "As the pen is censored and its might
extinguished, I am signing off."
No, dear Dr. Roberts. The pen is still, despite all appearances,
mightier than the sword, only not if it is dropped. Keep writing,
however few be the souls that will still read you for the sake of the
truth, because such souls, like the Truth, "are mighty and will
prevail".
Kyrie eleison.
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Jewish Truths
Some interesting insights presented here in this video. Though Christ has already spoiled the Zionist power at the Cross (Colossians 2:15), there are still pending prophecies being fulfilled daily. This one was brought to my attention from Jeremiah 16:19, "O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit." This is coming to pass now even through these videos presented by this woman. And lastly, any indiviual or group promoting hatred and contention is not a Hebrew-Israelite. Those persons have zeal without knowledge and are woefully in direct fulfillment of Romans 9:6-14. The flesh profits nothing in this revelation, it is the children of promise that are counted for the seed.
Labels: hebrews, jews, videos
Pascha Nostrum
Pascha Nostrum is a hymn sometimes used by Christians during Easter season. The title is Latin for "Our Passover," and the text consists of the words of several verses of Scripture - 1 Corinthians 5:7-8; Romans 6:9-11; and 1 Corinthians 15:20-22. It is often used in place of the Gloria in Excelsis during the Easter season, especially at the Easter Vigil. It has been put to many different musical settings.
In some Anglican churches, a portion of it is used as a Fraction Anthem.
The words in English are as follows:
Alleluia. Christ our Passover has been sacrificed for us; therefore let us keep the feast, Not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. Alleluia. Christ being raised from the dead will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him. The death that he died, he died to sin, once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God. So also consider yourselves dead to sin, and alive to God in Jesus Christ our Lord. Alleluia. Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep. For since by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. Alleluia.
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Editor's Note: An intense and extensive study of the Scriptures and comparative World History has convinced me that I am a Hebrew-Israelite by ancestry and by faith I am a Christian as it relates to Jesus Christ. I have no affiliation with any organized religious group. My allegiance lies in Jesus Christ, the Messiah of Israel whose Second Advent I await.
Labels: Christ Our Passover
White woman tells the truth about the Black Hebrew Israelites
I am aware that it is ultimately about the spiritual seed, but this is an area that deserves research and exploration. There is too much suppression out there regarding the historical, geographical, and ethnographic context in which the Holy Bible was conceived and took shape. If the handlers of historical information got it right the first time we would not be having this discussion, and I say this rather facetiously. This is a purpose by design.
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David Draiman Slams Roger Waters Again, Calls Him ‘Delusional’ + ‘Sick’
Lauryn Schaffner
Disturbed's David Draiman is not having it with Pink Floyd's Roger Waters lately. In a new interview with Israel's Met Al Metal, the frontman refers to Waters as "delusional" and "a very sick man."
At the beginning of June, Draiman spoke out about the BDS campaign against Israel. He cited Waters as an example of a music icon who supports the BDS by refusing to perform live in Israel. Disturbed are playing in the country for the first time tomorrow night (July 2), so the topic has come up in conversation again.
"Don't get me wrong — I think that everybody can have an opinion, an educated opinion, criticizing any government on the face of the planet," the vocalist begins. "At the end of the day, whether you agree with all of the policies of the current Israeli government or not, you can't hold an entire nation and an entire people and an entire society liable."
As for Waters, Draiman says, "The man is so delusional, the man is so wrapped up in his own psychosis and his own hatred disguised as this quote-unquote BDS campaign...The man is a very sick man."
"He performed [in Israel] and he made up stories about it — incorrect stories," he continues. "He tried to address the Israeli crowd and ask for peace and supposedly was met with negativity and boos, and whatever, and then they go ahead and show the video from the actual performance so many years ago, and the Israeli fans were cheering for peace."
According to the Disturbed singer, Waters defends dictators with socialist and communist regimes. "This is a guy who just celebrated getting a gift of a guitar from Nicolás Maduro from Venezuela, for god's sake — one of the most brutal dictators in the world, who has been massacring his own people, starving his own people."
"I don't know what he did, drug-wise, during his life, but whatever he did fried a bunch of brain cells. The guy is not operating on all cylinders anymore," he concludes.
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50 Years Ago: Pink Floyd Soundtrack the Moon Landing
The rock group delivered a live instrumental jam session during the BBC's Moon-landing coverage.
Corey Irwin
Why Bob Ezrin Hid ‘The Wall’ Tapes From Pink Floyd's Record Label
Studio icon managed to help band create “really great stuff” even though it was on the verge of breaking up.
David Gilmour Is Auctioning Off His Guitar Collection
Former Pink Floyd guitarist is selling more than 120 of his most prized instruments to raise money for foundation.
Beatles, Pink Floyd and David Bowie Help Vinyl Sales Grow
Classic-rock acts behind record-setting stats for traditional format in 2018.
Roger Waters Wants to Perform 'The Wall' on US-Mexico Border
A Trump protest from the Pink Floyd legend?
Graham Hartmann
Nick Mason Aims to Bring Pink Floyd-Themed Supergroup to U.S.
He formed Saucerful of Secrets with the intention of highlighting Pink Floyd’s early work.
The Story of the Pink Floyd-'Wizard of Oz' Mashup
One of the strangest convergences of two pieces of classic art in pop culture history is the notion that the movie 'The Wizard of Oz' serves as sort of a video companion to 'The Dark Side of the Moon.'
Pink Floyd Nearly Put the Silver Surfer on 'Dark Side' Cover
The cover of Pink Floyd's 'The Dark Side of the Moon' is so perfect that it's difficult to conceive of the band ever going in a different direction.
Pink Floyd’s ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’: A Track-by-Track Guide
Over the course of decades, Pink Floyd’s 1973 album 'The Dark Side of the Moon' has become legendary for a lot of reasons.
Bryan Wawzenek
Listen to Avenged Sevenfold's Cover of Pink Floyd's 'Wish You Were Here'
Avenged Sevenfold have released the latest "evolution" of their 'The Stage' LP, a cover of Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here."
Avenged Sevenfold's Johnny Christ Chats with Kat Mykals
Johnny Christ of Avenged Sevenfold talks about being a dad, cover songs, Pink Floyd, & A7X's latest album The Stage.
David Gilmour's Subtle and Brilliant Prince Tribute [Video]
If you ever doubted the respect and admiration felt for Prince and his influence on the entire musical world...just notice all the wonderful tributes from all these different artists. I mean, David Gilmour from Pink Floyd is even paying homage to the man in Purple.
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Cardi B Says She 'Ain't Going To Jail' After Being Indicted By Grand Jury
posted by Peyton Blakemore - Jun 25, 2019
Cardi B may be facing some time behind bars (if found guilty), but, according to her, she's not going to jail.
The "Press" rapper reportedly assured fans of this while at a Los Angeles concert on Saturday (June 22), ahead of the 2019 BET Awards. "I ain't going to jail," she told fans, per Page Six. "F**k you mean? I ain't going to jail, I got a daughter!"
As previously reported, Cardi was indicted on multiple charges, including two felonies, last week, in connection to a fight at a Queens strip club in August. The 26-year-old rapper, whose real name is Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar, was initially charged with two misdemeanors— reckless endangerment, and assault — for allegedly ordering an attack on the two bartenders — sisters Jade and Baddie G — at Angels Strip Club. The fight reportedly went down because Cardi believed one of the bartenders slept with her husband, Offset.
Despite being initially charged with only two misdemeanors, after "further investigation," the grand jury indicted Cardi on 12 charges, including 2 counts of felony attempted assault with intent to cause serious physical injury, TMZ reports. The other charges include misdemeanor reckless endangerment, assault, criminal solicitation, conspiracy, and harassment.
Since news of the indictment, it's been business as usual for Cardi. She attended all of the BET Awards' weekend festivities, spoke at the ASCAP Rhythm and Soul Music Awards in Beverly Hills on Thursday night (June 20), and performed at the BET Awards on Sunday (June 23).
As fans know, back in April, Cardi denied a deal that would have required her to plead guilty to a misdemeanor and get a conditional discharge. While the deal meant no jail time, Cardi would have had to stay out of trouble for a set period of time. Clearly, not down with that last guideline or the deal itself, Cardi rejected it before they even discussed how long she'd have to stay out of trouble, TMZ reported.
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Kavita Ramdas
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Ramdas
Director, Women\'s Rights Program, Open Society Foundation
Kavita Ramdas is a leading advocate for gender justice and respected thought commentator on critical global and domestic challenges. She is passionate about advancing equitable development, entrepreneurship, gender and racial equity and social change philanthropy. Kavita serves as Director of the Women's Rights Program of the Open Society Foundations based in New York. She is also founder of KNR Sisters, an independent consulting practice in Gender Justice Philanthropy. In 2016, Kavita completed her tenure at the Ford Foundation as the Senior Advisor on Global Strategy where she worked to integrate an equity lens across all programs and develop a global philanthropy framework. Prior to this Kavita was based in New Delhi as the Ford Foundation’s Representative for India, Nepal and Sri Lanka. Under her leadership the Foundation decisively addressed the crisis of sexual violence in South Asia, built partnerships with local philanthropic leaders and successfully weathered challenges facing civil society. Before joining the Ford Foundation, Kavita spent two years at Stanford University, as a Visiting Scholar with the Center on Philanthropy & Civil Society and the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law. As founding Executive Director of the Program on Social Entrepreneurship, she connected grassroots activists, philanthropy, academia and the private sector through a platform for social entrepreneurs to share ideas on democracy and civil society that continues to thrive at the university. From 1996 to 2010 Kavita served as President and CEO of the Global Fund for Women. Under her leadership the Fund exponentially grew in assets becoming the world’s largest public foundation for women’s rights. The Fund supported women in more than 170 countries providing access to financial capital that fueled innovation and Kavita played key roles in philanthropic and policy circles. Her vision, drive and management skills inspired individual and institutional donors to invest in education, defend reproductive rights, end violence and ensure women’s economic independence. Kavita complements her global experience with many years spent combatting poverty in the United States during her tenure as a Program Officer at the Chicago-based John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Her work in community development and economic justice culminated in leading a delegation of community organizers to the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China. She also supported population and reproductive health and rights work in India, Brazil, Mexico and Nigeria. Currently Kavita serves on the boards of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Ploughshares Fund, GRIST and the Investment Committee of the C&A Foundation. She is a member of the TripleCrown class of Henry Crown Fellows of the Aspen Institute. Prior board tenure includes the Global Development Program of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the General Service Foundation, the Women’s Funding Network, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Women's Link Worldwide and the Guttmacher Institute. A gifted communicator, Kavita has spoken at the Association of American Colleges and Universities, the World Economic Forum, TED and the United Nations. Media appearances include NOW with the Bill Moyers Show, the PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Democracy Now! and CNN. An accomplished writer, she has written for the Huffington Post, Nation, Foreign Policy, and Conscience. Her numerous leadership awards include recognition by Mills College and Mount Holyoke College with the Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters; the Women Deliver 100: The Most Inspiring People Delivering for Girls and Women 2010; The 2010 Legal Momentum Women of Achievement Award; and The 2010 Council on Foundations Robert Scrivner Award for Most Creative Grantmaker of the Year. Kavita was born in India and educated at Delhi University, Mount Holyoke College, and Princeton University. She is married to Zulfiqar Ahmad, a writer and researcher. Their daughter, Mira Ahmad is a strategy analyst at Abt Associates. Kavita is an avid reader, a yoga devotee and enjoys music, hiking, cooking and poetry.
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Eli Kennedy
Chief Executive Officer, The Level Playing Field Institute
Eli Kennedy has served as the chief executive officer of the Level Playing Field Institute (LPFI) since joining the organization in 2016. LPFI empowers students of color to succeed in science, technology, engineering, and math through programs such as its Summer Math and Science Academy (SMASH). Eli has focused on growing the LPFI’s impact and has more than doubled the number of SMASH programs since joining LPFI. He has also piloted new innovations that will increase the organization’s impact. Prior to LPFI, Eli served as the senior vice president of Redbird Advanced Learning, a research-based EdTech company. Eli has also served as the president and chief executive officer of the Pacific Charter School Development, where he developed over 50 public charter school facilities, raised more than $30M in new philanthropic funding, and scaled the organization as it expanded into three new states. Eli also served as a director at the Broad Foundation and led a region for Platform Learning, a tutoring company focused on low income students. Prior to focusing on education, Eli has worked in a strategic management capacity for a technology startup and as a strategy consultant for Andersen Consulting and USWEB/CKS. Eli serves on the board of directors for Capital Impact Partners and Pacific Charter School Development as well as the diversity council for Code.org. Eli earned his MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a BBA from Howard University.
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Unemployment benefits extended
July 26, 2010 The measure now moves to the House, where it is expected to gain quick approval and be sent to the President, who has vowed to sign it. The bill impacts about 2.5 million Americans whose benefits ran out in June. It will not provide further extensions for the more than 1.5 million Americans who are approaching their 99th and final week of emergency assistance. Do the severity of the recession and slow job creation in the early stages of the recovery warrant an extension of benefits beyond the maximum 99 weeks? Or, do additional extensions provide a disincentive for aggressive job searching, as some have suggested? What can 99ers do to turn their job-search fortunes around and overcome the obstacle of long-term joblessness?
(AP) Jobless benefits on the way again Lump-sum back payments could start arriving next week
Checks could begin flowing again next week to millions of unemployed Americans who lost up to seven weeks of jobless benefits in a congressional standoff.
On Thursday, President Obama signed into law a restoration of benefits for people who've been out of work for six months or more.
"Americans who are fighting to find a good job and support their families will finally get the support they need to get back on their feet during these tough economic times," Obama said in a statement issued after he signed the measure.
Congress approved the measure earlier in the day. The move ended an interruption that cut off payments averaging about $300 a week to 2.5 million people who have been unable to find work in the aftermath of the nation's long and deep recession.
At stake are up to 73 weeks of federally financed benefits for people who have exhausted their 26 weeks of state jobless benefits. Benefits have been cut off for about half of the 5 million people in the program since its authorization expired June 2.
They are eligible for lump-sum retroactive payments that are typically delivered directly to their bank accounts or credited to state-issued debit cards.
Many states have encouraged beneficiaries to keep updating their paperwork in hopes of speeding up payments once the program was restored.
A 272-152 House vote Thursday sent the measure to the White House.
The House vote came less than 24 hours after a mostly party-line Senate vote Wednesday on the measure
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Untold Tales: The Rise of Red America and Judeo Christianity
middleeastsmasher Opinion Documents 3. March 2019 3. March 2019 23 Minutes
February 25, 2019 renegade 19 Comments
Sencha MacRae discusses the tag team of terror – Evangelical Christianity and Israel, a match made in “heaven”.
Judaism-Christianity and Fate of the Pharaoh
In Islamic eschatology we are aware of the signs and teachings of the end time. Islamic scholar Sheikh Imran Hossein, opens our eyes again. In this lecture he speaks on Judaism, Christianity, and fate of the Pharaoh. What we will see in the end times regarding these is clearly described as teachings found in Islam.
Former Jew Benjamin H Freedman Christian or Communist
The Clash of Civilizations for Dummies: Judea’s War Between Christianity and Islam.
By Sabba, 16NOV17
INTRODUCTION – In this day and age where the Jews DO control the media and thus maintain 110% control of the discourse, most people have heard the phrase of “clash of civilizations”, a paradigm whereby the world of Islam has always been on the offensive against the Christian world, and many have endorsed it as the only key to understanding history.
It is widely accepted that this concept was born in the mind of the Israeli ‘historian’ Bernard Lewis and then popularized by Samuel Huntington. Given that all discourse these days where ‘Islamic’ issues are discussed, only do so accompanied by extended and completely erroneous statements about Islam, we are forced by those same rules therefore to highlight the jewishness of Bernard Lewis from the start because as a Jew, he sees everything with/through his own Torah lenses which teach one thing and one thing only: how to “utterly destroy everything that breathes” as a fulfillment of the messianic dream described many times within Jewish ‘sacred’ texts.
But contrary to the widely accepted view, this concept did not originate with Bernard Lewis and Samuel Hutington.
The idea featuring a Christian West fighting the Islamic East is all over rabbinical eschatological texts. It is not called ‘clash of civilizations’ per se but is described as the inevitable and apocalyptic fight that will take place in the end times between Edom (Christendom) and Ishmael (Islamic world) whereby each will annihilate the other, leaving Jacob-Israel as the sole survivor. As such, Lewis and Huntington have merely ‘secularized’ a very old Jewish and Torah-based view of the world and gave the Western Gentiles tailor-made Judaic lenses through which to understand our history and actively and willingly take part in what Judaism hopes will be the annihilation of both religions and cultures.
There are many main angles to approach this topic but in this part, we shall argue that in order to understand the Jewish engineered clash of civilizations, one needs to understand Judaism, what it really is, how it works and how it relates to Christianity and Islam from a geopolitical point of view.
PART I – UNDERSTANDING THE TRUE NATURE OF JUDAISM AND HOW IT WORKS
Civilization is defined as the process by which a society reaches an advanced stage of social development, cooperation, and organization. In this manner, one cannot understand civilization without first factoring into it the issue of religion. All civilizations that have emerged on Earth from the beginning of human history have had a spiritual foundation, regardless of what that religion is or was. And all the world’s greatest religions, whether pagan or monotheistic, have led to a civilizing process and to progress.
All of them except for Judaism.
Unlike any other religion, Judaism has been at war against Mankind since it first emerged on the historical scene because, unlike any other religion, Judaism defines itself only in opposition to ‘the other’, whether other people and/or other systems of belief. It can not exist in a vacuum without a nemesis ‘to utterly destroy’.
Unlike any other religion, Judaism does NOT require belief in God and does not believe in Life after Death. It only requires obeisance to ‘the Law’ as laid out within the pages of both the Torah, and its exegesis, the Talmud, as well as allegiance to the Tribe. And although there is no immortality after death for the individual Jew however, the manner by which this is reconciled is by making the Jewish people itself immortal through tradition, the law, and allegiance to Jews as a group.
For the individual Jews, this life is all there is. There is no Judgement Day, no retribution for one’s evil deeds. This is perhaps the Jews’ greatest strength because they are free from the same moral constraints and guilt found within Christianity and Islam which allows them to empty an automatic rifle into the body of a Palestinian infant and go to bed afterwards and sleep like a baby.
But it is also their greatest weakness because their love of this world has carved into their individual and collective psyche an irrational and hyper-intensified fear of death, and it is this fear of death that has made them the world’s greatest cowards and deceivers.
Their disbelief in life after death is quite unique among the ancient religions in the midst of which Judaism emerged.
Ancient pagan religions all believed in an after life, though this was not granted to everyone but only to the most worthy, those who strove for it and deserved it. Rejoining the Gods, to be reunited with them was considered as the greatest reward of all. For the ancient pagan religions, life after death meant achieving immortality, earning Eternity and this is what is meant when we read that some historical characters became ‘gods’. For example, when Julius Caesar was deified, it never meant to the Romans that he became the equal to Jupiter. It only meant he had now become immortal, he was now floating in Eternity, in close vicinity of the ‘real Gods’.
But the Jews never reached any intellectual, spiritual and transcendental sophistication to understand what all other pagan religions understood instinctively and so the Jews rejected the idea of life after death and made the belief in God optional. Their goal is not to be reunited with their ‘God’ after death, their goal is to ‘utterly destroy everything that breathes’ in order to become the masters of this world and its riches.
It is also unique among monotheistic religions to have a ‘religion’ which does not require belief in God. While it is an oxymoron to be an atheist Christian or an atheist Muslim, it is 666% kosher in Judaism. This explains why it is so common to hear about ‘atheist’ or ‘secular’ Jews. For them, these are not contradictory terms at all. This explains why most of the materialist theoreticians were Jews, this is how a Moses Hesse could be a rabbi and a communist, this explains a Karl Marx-Mordechai Levy etc. An atheist Jew is still a Jew whose allegiance is to the Tribe, whether he follows the Law or not and the tribe will always consider him as part of them. And this explains why so many of us are fooled by Judaism because we apply to it our Christian/Islamic understanding of Religion.
Lastly, unlike any other religion, Judaism is always a religion in the making. The verses of the Torah are constantly re-examined, re-interpreted in the light of current events, for one purpose and one purpose only: identify who they must “utterly destroy” to achieve their messianic dreams of world domination.
PART II – THE MAN OF GALILEE
One event or rather one man forced Judaism to come out of its closet: Jesus, the Son of Man, the Son of the Blessed Virgin Mary (PBUT both). Jesus forced Judaism to reveal itself for what it is: not a religion but a materialistic and satanic ‘philosophy’ which made God completely irrelevant and which was built only on the concepts of choseness and blind obeisance to the Law, in exchange of which they would be rewarded with all the world and its riches.
With the advent of Christianity, Judaism has taken a new shape and has since developed itself exclusively against the Son of Man (Adam?), his name, his legacy and anyone who accepts him as the Christ. With the advent of Christianity, the Torah had to be re-interpreted and a new strategy to achieve their messianic goals was formulated.
Esau is Edom is Christianity is Rome is Europe is the ‘West’ and Christendom has been upgraded to number one enemy to ‘utterly destroy’..
The gloomy fate of Edom which is described in the Book of Obadiah must now be applied to the Christian world in general and the ROMAN Catholic world in particular: “And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall kindle in them, and devour them; and there shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau; for the Lord hath spoken it.”
The Book of Daniel has also been re-examined under the Christian Light and the Fourth Beast of Daniel has now become Rome and her daughter, ROMAN Catholic Europe.
PART III – THE EMERGENCE OF ISLAM AND THE BIRTH OF THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS
But in the VIIth century AD, the rabbis had to revise their plans once again because a new comer emerged in Arabia – Islam. This new comer violently rejects the concept of Choseness, confirms Jesus as the Messiah and has elevated the Blessed Virgin Mary into the most exalted place and hailed her as the greatest of all women for all Eternity.
For this reason, Islam has been labelled as yet another enemy ‘to utterly destroy’. The Torah has been re-interpreted to include and adjust to the new geopolitical context and this is how Islam has now become Ishmael.
But Islam, like her older sister Christianity, has given rise to a strong and extremely rich civilization which can not be easily destroyed. The rabbis understood very early on that they would never be able to take on these 2 powerful civilizing religions and, Judaism being a work in constant ‘progress’, the rabbis concocted a new strategy that would ensure the simultaneous destruction of both – welcome to the clash of Civilizations as detailed in the Zohar:
“And in the future, the children of Ishmael are destined to rule over the Holy Land for a long time when it is empty from anything, like their circumcision which is empty and imperfect (…) The children of Ishmael [i.e. the Muslims] will cause great wars in the world and the children of Edom will gather against them and wage war against them, one on the sea, one on the dry land, and one near Jerusalem. And they [the children of Edom] will rule over them[the children of Ishmael], but the Holy Land will not be given over to the children of Edom.[The children of Edom is the Christian West, for Edom is Rome (see Num. 24:19, Rashi) and Rome signifies Greece-Rome and the Roman Catholic Church, the foundations of Western Civilization]. At that time, a nation from the end of the earth will be aroused against evil Rome and wage war against it for three months. Nations will gather there, and [Rome] will fall into their hands (…) There will not remain any power of any people on earth, except the power of Israel alone. This is the meaning of “G-d is your shade upon your right hand”. (Psalms 121:5)”
PART IV – THE REFORMATION AND THE JUDAIFICATION OF EUROPE
Until the XIIIth century, the accepted judaic belief was that one day their Moshiach (our anti-Christ) would emerge in Rome, go to the Vatican, subdue the Pope, abolish Christianity, bring back all the Jews to Palestine and establish the Fifth Kingdom.
The XIIIth century saw a drastic change of plan on the part of the Jewish rabbinate. The very influential kabbalistic rabbi Nahmanides understood that they will never be able to achieve that goal alone, Moshiach or not; he understood that the Jews had to change their strategy and decided to involve Christian Europe:
Edom/Rome/Christian Europe expelled them from the Holy Land.
Edom/Rome/Christian Europe had to bring them back.
But medieval Europe was ROMAN Catholic, it was 666% anti-Jewish. How to change the European elites’ mindset and get them to become jew-friendly, and willing beast of burden for the Jews? Unable to do so ‘in the open’, they did by way of deception. As always.
The target back then as it is still now, according to Martin van Creveld, was Italy-Rome because this is where their Moshiach will appear. It started with the Jewish Kabbalah: they spread its teachings to Italy under the pretext that it proved the Trinity and the Divinity of Jesus. The first Gentile to incorporate Jewish Kabbalah into his writings was Pico Della Mirandola. But the Kabbalah failed to take root in Italy or in any Latin country for that matter.
It then moved to the Germanic states and took them by storm. The Reformation came afterwards as the natural consequence of Kabbalah poisoning, with tragic and devastating effects for Christian Europe, the consequences which are only now in full view.
Half of Christian Europe having now succumbed to the siren’s songs of Judaism through the deception of the Reformation, the ‘clash of civilizations’ could now be officially launched and the idea popularized.
It is in the XVIth century that it was ‘secularized’ for the first time and made available to the wider Jewish audience by Joseph Ben Joshua Cohen.
According to Heinrich Grätz, Joseph Cohen “began to search for chronicles in order to write a sort of universal history in the form of annals. He began with the period of the decline of the Roman empire and the formation of the modern states, and represented the course of the world’s history as a struggle between Asia and Europe, between the Crescent and the Cross; the former represented by the then powerful dominion of Turkey; the latter, by France, which had set up Charlemagne, the first emperor of a Christian realm. He connected the whole of European history with these two groups of nations. He included all the events and wars of Christendom, and of the Mahometan countries in ” The Annals of the Kings of France and of the House of Othman,” the title of his historical work.”
Cohen has popularized what was until then known only to the Jewish rabbinical circles and the Jewish elites. Lewis and Hutington have done nothing more than update what Joseph Cohen had written in the XVIth century and adapt it to our modern world
[NOTE – We must pause here and reflect and ask: why, out of all European nations, has Jewish Kabbalah taken the Germanic states by storm? What have they seen in it which all Latin countries failed to see? Or what is it that prevented them to see it and the Reformation for what it was-Jewish onslaught on Christianity – and made them fall into this Jewish trap? Why have the Germanic nations been seduced by the Jewish concept of ‘Choseness – Election’? What have they found in the Torah which ensnared them to the point that they have made it their most important holy book and made them turn their backs on the teachings of Christ? I will leave the reader to answer these questions.]
PART V – CHRISTIAN WEST vs. ISLAMIC EAST: A HISTORICAL REALITY OR A JEWISH LIE?
The fallacy of the theory of the clash of civilizations is that it reads the history of the Muslim world under the light of the Quran, thus inferring that all that comes from there is religion based. It tells us that the world of Islam, by its very religion, is in a state of permanent war against Christendom.
Not only is it fallacious but it is an extremely dishonest historical approach because it would be like analyzing the bloody wars of Charlemagne or the countless wars of the Byzantine Empire before Islam under the light of the New Testament.
But the New Testament is never used to explain the wars of the Christian world, the Torah is never used to explain the 5000 years old Wars of the Jews against Mankind and yet, we are supposed to only understand the wars of the Islamic world through the Quran.
It is all the more baffling that the Old Testament is filled with orders to genocide while there is not one single Quranic verse which calls for an offensive war, let alone a pre-emptive war. Not a single one.
Dying for God is a common trait to all 3 monotheistic religions. However killing for God is entirely Jewish and was passed on to the Christian world through the Old Testament.
It might come as a surprise to many but the idea of a holy war of aggression for God is Christian, borrowed from Judaism and was developed as early as the IVth century by St Augustine. Until the Crusades, we do not find any Islamic literature advocating a religious war of aggression. The concept of Jihad is something else entirely. With the Crusades and as reaction to them, the very Christian theory of Holy War of aggression for God had been conceptualized and the Muslims incorporated it and mixed it up with the pre-existent concept of Jihad.
It might also come as a surprise to most if not all Western readers, but the term ‘Infidels’ is a Christian terminology found all over European Medieval literature for the Muslims. The Muslims have never ever called the Christians ‘Infidels’, never. It was always the other way round.
The Arabic word Kafir which is always translated as ‘Infidels’ has quite a different meaning. Its primary signification is ‘ungrateful’, ungratefulness to God and not disbelief in God. Satan for example is called a ‘Kafir’, not because he disbelieved in God, but because he disobeyed his Creator. The Children of Adam (mankind) are sometimes called ‘Kafir’ whenever they show their ungratefulness to their Creator. The one thing it does not mean is Christians or Jews. On the other hand, when the Christians used and abused it, it was always in reference to the Muslims, never to those whom Christ himself identified as the Synagogue of Satan.
Lastly, it might also come as a surprise to many but until the world of academia had been taken over by the Jews, no Western Christian Historian ever explained the Islamic expansion or the wars the Muslims waged in the light of the Quran. More often than not, it was Genesis 17:20 which was used to explain the Islamic expansion, never the Quran.
The methodology to analyse the world of Islam by using and misquoting the Quran is entirely new, it is 666% kosher certified and has a 666% Jewish messianic agenda behind it and the West is falling for it, again despite Medieval History being littered with examples proving the exact opposite.
PART VI – CHRISTLAMIC ALLIANCES
THE IVth CRUSADE
We shall give here only a few examples to argue our point:
1) The Ashtiname of Muhammad, whereby Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) promises excommunication and eternal damnation to any Muslim who who attacks any Christian and their property.
2) The alliance between Charlemagne and Harun al Rashid. Charlemagne needed an ally in the Levant against the Roman Empire – Byzantium. Harun al Rashid needed an ally in Europe against the newly formed state of Al Andalus in Spain.
3) Pope Gregory VII, one of the most influential pope we ever had, sent a letter to Al Nasir ibn Alennas where he states: “We and you in a special way, more than all pagans among them, we owe this reciprocal charity to one another because we believe and recognize, although in different modes, the only God and praise and venerate Him every day, as Creator of the centuries and Governor of this world”
4) There are countless examples in the history of the Crusader States (not to be confused with the Crusades themselves) where we have one crusader state in alliance with a Muslim principality against another crusader state which had allied itself with another Muslim principality.
The history of the Crusader States provides many examples of the Christlamic mutual and virile respect for one another when they are in close vicinity of each other. All witness accounts of the Second and Third Crusades describe the horror felt by the new Crusaders freshly coming from Europe at the friendly relations the Crusader States had with their Muslim neighbours. And William of Tyre explains to us that it was the new comers who always spoilt it for the Latins of the Levant and who destroyed the equilibrium that had been built.
5) Before, during and after the Crusades, the Byzantine emperors saw the European Christians as their greatest enemies, not the Muslims. And indeed, what the Crusaders did to Constantinople during the IVth Crusade (1204), their level of barbarity against their Christian Brethren had never been seen before and remained unmatched, not even the Ottomans could to surpass it when they took Constantinople in 1453.
It is the European Christian Crusaders who are the real destroyers of Byzantium, not the Ottomans. They weakened it to the point that it could never recover and regain its past glory. In the XIIth century, Constantinople was the greatest city of Christendom with at least 1 million inhabitant. By the end of of the IVth Crusade, its population fell to 400 000 people and by 1453, it did not have more than 50000 inhabitants.
All historians agree that it was the IVth Crusaders who paved the way for the Ottomans: 1453 could have never happened had 1204 not taken place and one might even argue that by 1453, when the Byzantines were triangulated, they deliberately chose to surrender to the Muslims rather than the Europeans whom they saw, and rightly so, as betrayers.
NOTE – Until the XIITh century, the Byzantines consistently refused to lower themselves into marrying European princes and princesses, deemed to low and beneath their Roman dignity. On the other hands, there has been many examples of a Byzantine Princess marrying a Muslim Prince.
PART VII – THE CASE OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE
JOSEPH NASI
Following the Alhambra Decree of 1492, the Jews started wandering again. Their main destinations were the United Provinces (modern day Netherlands), Morocco, Venice, Rome and the Ottoman Empire. Most of the Jews who had fled to Venice and Rome were soon expelled, yet again, and these then found a safe heaven in Ottoman Empire.
During the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent, the Jews reached an unprecedented level of power, power which they never relinquished and which lead to a man named Atatürk.
According to Heinrich Grätz and Cecil Roth, it was under his rule that the Jews took over and dictated ALL of the Ottoman foreign policy to the point that a man like Joseph Nasi was considered the real ruler of the Ottoman empire.
The Jews ‘foreign policy’ can be summed up with one word: REVENGE against Christian Europe. The conquest of Cyprus, Rhodes, the siege of Vienna, the battle of Lepanto, all the wars against Venice, all the wars against the Habsburgs, were ALL decided by the Jewish advisers to the Ottoman sultans, who used the Ottomans as their attack dog the same the Jews are now using the USA as their attack dog.
Joseph Nasi is credited by Jewish historians as the man responsible for the ‘independence’ of the United Provinces from Catholic Habsburg Spain and for making Amsterdam, the ‘Jerusalem of the North’.
In fact, the power and influence Joseph Nasi had over Suleiman and his son Selim II were so great that Suleiman agreed to allow the very first Jewish immigration back to Palestine (Safed). For the first time since 135AD, the Jews were allowed to return to the Holy Land and settle there. But they did not. Why haven’t they seized the opportunity and repopulated Palestine en masse and even created the embryo of a Jewish State?
The reason is that it did not fit the agenda which must see Christendom ‘utterly destroyed’. Indeed, the only thing that kept the Jews alive as a group for the past 2000 years was not merely a vague dream of returning to the Holy Land some day but rather an insatiable hatred and an unquenchable desire of vengeance against Christ and his followers.
It was not Ishmael/the Muslims who kicked them and destroyed their temple: it was Edom-Rome-the Christians and only they had to undo what Titus and Hadrian had done. They expelled them and banned them form ever returning, only they had to bring them back and establish Eretz Israel for them, paying with their money and the blood of their children.
NOTE – It is interesting to note here that Suleiman is called the Magnificent in the West whereas he is known in the East as ‘Kanuni’, ‘the Law Giver’. We might wonder why the West who has suffered so much under his reign calls him ‘Magnificent’ when his own people do not see anything magnificent about him…
PART VIII – CHRIST: THE REAL TARGET OF THE JEWISH ENGINEERED CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS
The Middle East, where Islam and Christianity have been living side by side for over 1400 years, never witnessed such clash of civilizations, as defined by the Rabbis and popularized by Lewis and Hutington. Indeed, the Middle East is Christlamic at its core: its branches might be Islamic but its roots are entirely Christian.
We saw earlier that during the short time where the Latins had established Crusader States in the Levant, a cordial and respectful entente was soon established between Christians and Muslims. The colonial period never saw the rise of ‘radical’ Islam against the colonial powers and the subsequent independence movements of the XXth were all nationalists in nature, not Religion-based. Why then would the world of Islam all of a sudden decide to destroy Christendom?
Islam, as a religion, has never been on the offensive against Christ, his Blessed Mother, his followers, his legacy. Judaism has. In terms of values, ethos and way of life, Islam has never clashed with Christianity. Judaism does. However Islam does clash with Western values. And so does Christianity.
The ‘West’ is a geopolitical construct while Christian Europe is a historical reality and, in terms of values, ethos and way of life, the West and Christianity are antithetical.
The ‘West’, as a civilization, emerged on the ashes of ROMAN Catholic Europe and it was not Islam which destroyed it: it was the Reformation. Western civilization was born when the Judeo-Protestant nations became the leading nations in Europe and, with Britain at the fore-front, the leading nations in the world.
Western/Judeo-Protestant civilization is built on Torah ‘values’, the most important ones being Choseness/Election and usury and as such, Western civilization has in fact declared war against Christ, his message, his legacy. Protestantism is the new declaration of war against Christ and here lies the real goal of the clash of civilization: Jesus himself.
PART IX – THE JEWS, DESTROYERS OF CIVILIZATIONS
Judaism is a declaration of war against Mankind in general and the followers of Christ in particular. Judaism is the most corrosive and destructive force in the world, something all Jews know and boast about:
“The thing that makes Judaism dangerous to everybody, to every race, to every nation, to every idea is that we smash things that aren’t true. We don’t believe in the boundaries of nation-state.
We don’t believe in the ideas of these individual gods that protect individual groups of people. These are all artificial constructions and Judaism really teaches us how to see that.
In a sense our detractors have us right, in that we are a corrosive force. We’re breaking down the false gods of all nations and all people because they’re not real. And that’s very upsetting to people.” Dr. Douglas Rushkoff
Just as Judaism exist only in opposition to other systems of beliefs, likewise the Jews exist only in opposition to the Civilized Man.
The Jews have never built anything, have never contributed anything into the civilizing process of Humanity. They count for nothing and would have never made it into any History book had it not been for their systematic efforts of destruction of everything that is holy, wholesome and pure. They only exist in opposition to Civilization, their raison d’être is to destroy and corrupt everything God has created and destroy every Civilizations the Children of Adam have built.
“We Jews, we the destroyers, will remain the destroyers forever. NOTHING that you will do will meet our needs and demands. We will forever destroy, because we need a world of our own, a God-world, which it is not in your nature to build.” –“You Gentiles” Maurice Samuel
Civilizations do not clash, they cooperate, they engage in trade, they borrow from each other, the develop and flourish alongside each other, they live in mutual and virile respect of one another, as we witnessed within the Crusader States (again, not to be confused with the Crusades).
It is only the nomadic, parasitic elements who, unable to reach the same level of sophistication as the Civilized Man and who thus suffer from an incurable complex of inferiority, aim at the destruction of Civilizations to bring everyone else to their level. Wandering roots always create weeds within civilized lands.
Judaism and Judaism alone – not Islam – has made it very clear that it is at war against Christ and, by extension, anyone who believes in him and, while it should be clear to all true Christians and Muslims that their only salvation is to unite under the banner of Christ against their common enemy, it baffles the mind to see the Christian West almost looking forward to go to battle against the only other group of people who believes in the Messiahship of Jesus.
Judaism and anyone who accepts it, regardless of their DNA, has declared the Christians and the Muslims enemy because of Christ. It is time we reciprocate and declare Judaism, the Old Testament and anyone who follows it, as our enemy, in the name of Christ.
With the advent of Christianity, Judaism had redefined itself and its goals in opposition to Christ. Not only must they now achieve world domination, but that world domination can not be attained unless and until Christianity/Europe/Rome is destroyed, erased from the face of the earth which they hope will happen by pitting the only civilizing religions which recognize Jesus as the Messiah against one another.
Can it be averted? And if so, how?
The Christians must finally realize that the Jews are not their ‘friends’, never were and never will be. The Christians must finally realize that their only friends and allies are the Muslims. The Christians must finally realize that, while the Jews believe that Christ is a bastard, the Muslims not only believe that he is a Prophet of God but a unique type of Prophet: he is the Messiah, the only Messiah, who came and who will come back at the end of History to rule the world. The Christians must finally realize that what is discussed is a geopolitical alliance and not any kind of syncretism.
Russia and China are strong allies and that does not mean that the Chinese must now adopt Orthodox Christianity. Russia and Iran are allies and that does not mean that the Iranians must now all convert to Orthodox Christianity. Likewise, when a Crescent and Cross or a Christlamic geopolitical alliance is suggested, that does not mean anyone giving up his/her religion. The Muslims understand it; the Orthodox Christians understand it but for some strange reason, the Christian West can not.
The first step to avoid this diabolical Jewish trap is to get the Muslims and the Christians to unite under the Banner of Christ and to finally reject the Jewish Old Testament.
The Christians and the Muslims must give up their arrogance and pedantic claims that they understand the Torah better than the Jews themselves. How we understand it is irrelevant. The only thing that matters is how they understand it and live by it. And for anyone who still fails to understand what it means to live by the Torah, let them look at the Bolshevik Revolution and Palestine. This is the Torah put into practice. This is what Judaism is about.
The Jews commit all the evil which their Torah, not Herzl’s Judenstaat, orders them to do and it is the useful idiots from the Chritlamic world who always come to the rescue and defend their satanic scriptures.
While we can somehow understand the Christian stance on this (because they made the monstrous mistake to include the Old Testament into their own Holy Scriptures), it is a mystery for me to see the Muslims do the same, despite what the Quran says about them.
All Muslims know that the Jews have re-written their Torah and have thus stop being the Children of Israel and became the Synagogue of Satan. And yet, they still fail to recognize that the Judaism followed by the Jews is NOT the Judaism talked about in the Quran.
Christians and Muslims must understand and accept that the Jews do not want ‘your’ Judaism: they only want the Judaism that was written by the lying pens of scribes in the tongue of their father the devil; they want the Judaism that teaches that it is perfectly kosher to defile, insult, blaspheme and kill the Prophets of God (PBUT all), they want the Judaism that says it is perfectly halal to rape children and kill all non-Jews.
The Muslims claim they love all the Prophets of God, that they believe in all of them and make no difference between any of them. We have seen their outburst of indignation and anger when Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) is being blasphemed against. Where is their indignation and anger against Judaism itself which has made all the Prophets whom they claim they love, into the vilest and most disgusting creatures that have walked the earth?
Judaism is THE problem and it has to go and it will go. The Holy Quran tells us so in the most unequivocal manner: when Jesus come back, all the Jews will have to believe in him as the Messiah. In other words, when Jesus comes back, Judaism will be vanquished, Judaism will no longer be, Judaism will disappear from the face of the earth.
The Messiahship of Christ and the sinfulness of the Prophets should be more than enough reason for the Muslims and Christians to unite and jointly de-legitimize the Jewish Torah and thus prevent this Jewish engineered clash of mutual assured destruction between Edom and Ishmael. When John and Jesus departed this world, they had left the ax at the root of the tree. It is now for us to cut off the tree at its roots and it starts with cutting off all ties with the Old Testament.
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Ban Ki-moon Appoints 17 Eminent Advocates to Achieve 17 SDGs
NEW YORK – UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed a group of eminent persons to assist in the campaign to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) the world leaders unanimously adopted in September 2015.
They include a queen, a crown princess, a president, a prime minister, a Chinese e-commerce pioneer, and a player often ranked as the world’s best footballer.
With a mandate to support the Secretary-General in his efforts to generate momentum and commitment to achieve the SDGs by 2030, the newly named SDG Advocates will add powerful voices to spur action on the visionary and transformational sustainable development agenda. The 17 SDGs aim to end poverty, fight inequalities and tackle climate change, while leaving no one behind.
“The 17 Sustainable Development Goals are our shared vision of humanity and a social contract between the world's leaders and the people,” said Ban while making the announcement on January 19. “They are a to-do list for people and planet, and a blueprint for success,” he said.
The SDG Advocates will have the task of promoting the universal sustainable development agenda, raising awareness of the integrated nature of the SDGs, and fostering the engagement of new stakeholders in the implementation of the SDGs.
The diverse group of Advocates will engage with partners from civil society, academia, parliaments, and the private sector to develop new and ground-breaking ideas and ways to promote SDG implementation. The group includes Heads of State and Government, business and political leaders and prominent academia, as well as artists who have shown outstanding leadership in their field.
Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama and Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg will co-chair the group of SDG Advocates. The other Advocates include: Queen Mathilde of Belgium; Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden; Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, Co-Founder Qatar Foundation; Richard Curtis, Screenwriter, Producer and Film Director; Ambassador Dho Young-Shim, Chairperson, United Nations World Tourism Organization’s Sustainable Tourism for Eliminating Poverty Foundation; and Leymah Gbowee, Director, Gbowee Peace Foundation.
Other Advocates are: Jack Ma, Founder and Executive Chairman, Alibaba Group; Graça Machel, President, Foundation for Community Development; Leo Messi, World Renowned Footballer, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador; Alaa Murabit, Founder, The Voice of Libyan Women; Paul Polman, Chief Executive Officer, Unilever; and Professor Jeffrey Sachs, Director, Earth Institute at Colombia University.
Other Advocates are: Shakira Mebarak, Artist, Advocate and Founder, Pies Descalzos Foundation, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador; and Forest Whitaker, Founder and CEO, Whitaker Peace & Development Initiative, UNESCO Special Envoy for Peace and Reconciliation; and Professor Muhammad Yunus, Founder, Grameen Bank. [International Press Syndicate – 19 January 2016]
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Rare Earth Elements: A Critical Component of a Clean Energy Future
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As our nation moves towards an increased use of renewable energy technologies, we should plan for the increased demand this will place on rare earth elements. In an effort to prevent the substitution of a dependence on foreign oil for a dependence on foreign REEs, the United States should implement a proactive strategy to diversify our supply of these elements.
REEs include elements such as neodymium, lanthanum, lutetium, scandium and yttrium. These elements are critical components of many of the technologies we use today, including superconductors, hybrid and electric vehicles, catalytic converters, compact fluorescent light bulbs, lasers, cell phones and even advanced weapons systems. The elements are not actually rare but are difficult to find in concentrations that are economically extractable.
Currently, 97 percent of the rare earth elements produced each year come from China. There are deposits in various parts of the world, but China’s production techniques and costs are among the cheapest, making it economically challenging for other countries to aggressively participate in the market. Furthermore, mining of REEs is a chemical-intensive process and precautions must be taken to prevent environmental contamination. Relative to the United States, regulation in China is more lax, further lowering production costs. China is also home to much of the world’s alternative energy technology production and consumes two-thirds of the REEs it produces for manufacturing.
The United States produced REEs domestically until the 1990s, when the largest domestic mine, Mountain Pass in California, closed due to fierce Chinese competition. Today, the United States is dependent on foreign countries for our supply of REEs, mainly China. According to the U.S. Geological Survey there are other deposits of REEs in Australia, Canada and Greenland. Production, however, has been slow because of the Chinese market presence.
Further complicating our foreign dependence on REEs, are recent actions by the Chinese government to restrict trade of REEs. China recently resumed exports of REEs to Japan after a two month hiatus, and even temporarily froze shipments to the U.S. and Europe. China has been slowly tightening its restrictions on the REE trade and recently lowered its export quotas by 40 percent, causing concern among trading partners who depend on the minerals for high-tech manufacturing.
Recent developments in REE trade highlight the United States’ dependence and vulnerability. It is in the United States’ best interest to develop domestic REE resources, and to conduct R&D into new mining techniques and more efficient utilization of the elements to ensure our energy security. The scientific community is currently researching new technologies for mining REEs, recycling consumer goods that contain REEs, and more efficient uses for the minerals. In 2007, Congress created the Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy program at the Department of Energy (DOE) to look into major energy challenges. Like DARPA does for military technology, ARPA-E is intended to fund high-risk, high-reward research that might not otherwise be pursued by the business community. The initial budget of $400 million was a part of the economic stimulus bill of February 2009.
Two awards already announced through ARPA-E include research to develop bulk quantities of nanocomposite magnets in a bid to cut by 80 percent the REEs used in magnets for power turbines. There is also research into the creation of a nanostructured version of the neodymium iron boron magnet that eliminates the need for as much neodymium. Researchers are also looking for REE substitutes.
In order to better position the United States, a multi-pronged REE strategy should be implemented that includes:
promotion of expanded domestic exploration and production through a government incentive program,
encouragement of expanded exploration in countries where we have strong bilateral relationships such as Canada and Australia through the establishment of tech-transfer MOUs,
continued and expanded funding for REE R&D through ARPA-E and
establishment of a national recycling program.
Rare earth elements are an important component in new energy technologies. Current dependence on China for the production of REEs, however, puts the United States at a disadvantage. In order to protect future energy needs of the United States, it is critical that we have a strategic plan in place to address the acquisition and efficient use of REEs. By implementing a plan that includes the promotion of increased domestic and international production, research into new production techniques and a national recycling program could help diversify our supply and better prepare us for a clean energy future.
http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/rare_earths/
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=rare-earths-elemental-needs-of-the-clean-energy-economy&page=4
http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/chinas-rare-earth-minerals
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Leasehold ban
The government has proposed that all new-build houses must now be sold as freehold and ground rents in leasehold contracts must be set as zero. However the ban will not be applied retrospectively. Flats will still be able to be sold leasehold. Legislation will be required.
The government has also launched a two-month consultation regarding the creation of a New Homes Ombudsman to hold developers to account for selling poor quality residences.
Betting firms pledge £160 m to help gambling addicts
Five of the UKs biggest bookmakers have pledged £160m to tackle problem gambling, giving the money to the NHS over four years to fund addiction treatment. They will also increase the voluntary responsible gambling levy on profits from £10m a year to £60m by 2023. The firms will also review the “tone and content” of advertising and sponsorship deals.
British Airways fined £183m for breach of its security systems
The Information Commissioner’s Office has fined BA following last year’s incident when users of British Airways’ website were diverted to a fraudulent site which enabled the details of about 500,000 customers to be collected by the fraudsters. The size of the fine reflects the greater powers the watchdog now has following the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) coming into force last year.
Fewer people should have to pay tax on gifts given just before death, under proposals for a major overhaul of the inheritance tax system.
In January last year, Chancellor Philip Hammond asked the Office of Tax Simplification (OTS) to carry out a review of inheritance tax after complaints that vague rules were being exploited by financial planners. The OTS has now presented its report with suggestions for simplication. For example:
When someone dies within seven years of passing on money, property or possessions to loved ones, tax of up to 40% must be paid. The OTS has suggested the deadline should be changed to five years.
Anyone can gift £3,000 each tax year without them being added to the value of the estate. They can also give up to £250 to anyone else. There is a further allowance for gifting money towards wedding costs. The OTS has proposed that the range of allowances be scrapped and replaced with a single, higher, annual gift allowance.
The Treasury will consider the recommendations and respond in due course.
Bookmaker William Hill to close about 700 betting shops
William Hill has blamed the proposed closure of shops on the government’s decision in April to reduce the maximum stake on fixed-odds betting terminals to £2, claiming a “significant fall” in gaming machine revenues. Closures could begin before the end of the year.
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The government has been criticised by various organisations for the effects of delaying the publication of its Green Paper on social care for two years. The longer the government takes, the worse the situation is becoming and the most vulnerable people in society are being failed by a system that does not work.
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Competition commission pledges enforcement in 2018 with help of central bank, government agencies
CLIFF VENZON, Nikkei staff writer December 30, 2017 14:57 JST
China Telecom needs frequencies to break the Philippine telecom duopoly if it is to compete as a third force. © Reuters
MANILA -- When President Rodrigo Duterte invited China's Premier Li Keqiang in November to invest in the Philippine telecom sector, many onlookers -- including presidential spokesperson Harry Roque -- saw it as part of Duterte's efforts to deepen bilateral ties.
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But for the Philippine Competition Commission, it was more than economic diplomacy. Duterte's move to disrupt the duopoly of PLDT and Globe Telecom has energized the antitrust watchdog, whose oversight efforts in the telecom sector have been dogged by legal setbacks.
"The President's invitation for FDI in all different sectors are welcome," PCC Commissioner Johannes Bernabe said on Dec. 12. "This is particularly welcome in the case of telecommunications. We have two major service providers, and a third or fourth player will offer not only competition but also better quality of services."
PCC Chairman Arsenio Balisacan (Photo by Kimberly Dela Cruz)
As the Philippine constitution limits foreign ownership in the sector to 40%, China Telecom -- the investor chosen by China -- will need to seek a local partner, and will require PCC approval for a joint venture.
PCC is more than willing to work with the National Telecommunications Commission to facilitate the entry of a new player, Chairman Arsenio Balisacan said on Dec. 22. "We are also open to helping the government in designing the [entry] terms at least from the competition lens."
In 2015, the Philippines under former President Benigno Aquino joined its Southeast Asian peers Brunei, Laos, and Myanmar in passing an antitrust law, beating a loose deadline which coincided with the launch of the ASEAN Economic Community. For Manila, passage of the law ended 25 years of lobbying by business groups and conglomerates after a competition bill was first filed in the early 1990s.
The PCC was established in early 2016 as a quasi-judicial body with a mandate to ensure a level playing field. It has the power to investigate and penalize anti-competitive agreements, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and suspected abuse of market dominance. But the new watchdog has been barred by a court from touching the duopoly in the telecom sector. That has been in effect since 2011, and was consolidated in May 2016 when San Miguel, the Philippine's largest company by consolidated revenues -- and the only viable challenger at the time -- sold its telecom assets to PLDT and Globe for nearly $1.5 billion.
Battle to assert authority
In early December, the PCC asked the Supreme Court to reverse an appellate court ruling that the deal had been "deemed approved" thereby barring the watchdog from conducting a review.
The court proceedings are the latest development in a year-long clash between the PCC and the powerful groups involved in the sale. Ayala Corp. is the oldest conglomerate in the Philippines and the parent of Globe, Hong Kong's First Pacific, the principal shareholder of PLDT, and San Miguel.
Winning this legal battle is considered crucial for PCC to assert its authority over mergers and acquisitions.
It is also important for China Telecom, which needs enough frequencies to compete. Had PCC been allowed to review the asset sale, it would have made PLDT and Globe Telecom relinquish some frequencies to a third player, said PCC Commissioner Stella Quimbo. She said a Supreme Court ruling was necessary to review the deal: "That is something that we have to fight for today."
Before the PCC, Philippine companies were free to expand without antitrust regulation. This allowed them to grow quickly through M&A, and helped the recent economic boom in the Philippines.
For instance, San Miguel has diversified from brewing to become the biggest company by sales mainly through M&A activity. From 2008 to 2014, the company spent around $12 billion on acquisitions, according to Reuters. That figure does not include recent purchases like the $1.9 billion Masinloc coal power plant currently under PCC review. The conglomerate's 2016 revenues of 685 billion pesos ($13.7 billion) represent 4.5% of the Philippine economy.
However, Balisacan, who was socioeconomic planning minister under Aquino, told the Nikkei Asian Review in September that the recent economic resurgence was "highly concentrated among a few sectors" and its limited impact on poverty reduction was due to "the lack of competition."
This view has encouraged PCC to broaden its purview beyond heavyweight sectors like telecoms. A wide range of deals that affect consumers have come under scrutiny.
SM Investments ownership of of the Goldilocks bakery chain has kicked off concerns about fair trading in its mall network.
SM Investments, the country's largest conglomerate by market value, has been probed. Its proposed acquisition of the Goldilocks bakery chain, a tenant at SM malls, has been stalled for four months since possible antitrust issues were raised. For example, SM has the country's largest mall network and could place rivals to Goldilocks in inferior locations. Access to information about competitors could also give Goldilocks an undue advantage, PCC officials said.
PCC has asked SM to file a written commitment that it would treat competitors of Goldilocks fairly and put up a "firewall" to keep sensitive information from SM, which operates a centralized point of sales system in its malls.
The SM case offers a glimpse of how conglomerates with diversified interests might need to come under tighter scrutiny during M&A. "It may happen in the future if another mall enters into a similar kind of transaction," Quimbo said.
M&A that involve assets of more than 1 billion pesos require the approval of the PCC, which has approved 118 out of 141 filings so far. Some executives have complained that the threshold is too low, and that the PCC review process is too demanding. "They are asking for a lot of information, and it looks like they're just trying to build a database," one executive at a major conglomerate said, but declined to be named.
Apart from scrutinizing mergers, the PCC has also launched probes into alleged collusion by cement manufacturers, and the so-called "garlic cartel" that was accused of manipulating clove prices in 2014.
Grace period is over
Balisacan said PCC will focus on enforcement next year after two-year period for companies to stop anti-competitive practices ended in August. The commission will be forming alliances with other government agencies to enforce its regulations.
On Dec. 22, PCC and the central bank agreed to harmonize their rules on M&A and other activities amid growing interest from foreign banks in expanding in the Philippines after the banking sector was liberalized in 2014. The two bodies also agreed to monitor financial institutions for payment systems and other activities.
Next year, PCC wants to partner with the Insurance Commission, the Intellectual Property Office, and the trade department. The latter is responsible for issuing business permits and price monitoring. With PCC stepping up enforcement, large Philippine businesses can expect greater antitrust regulation and enforcement.
"We will be quite busy firming up our working relationship with other agencies," said Balisacan. "We expect considerable interest from the public in filing cases with PCC -- in fact, we are seeing that now."
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Playlist: Dealing with Debt
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Curated Playlist
With both individuals and nations running record fiscal deficits, a look at the history and concept of debt. Novelist Margaret Atwood, former Comptroller General David M. Walker, a cowboy poet, and average citizens from three generations all weigh in...
Debt: Payback and the Shadow Side of Wealth- Margaret Atwood- Hour One
From Canadian Broadcasting Corporation | Part of the 2008 CBC Massey Lectures series | 54:00
A five-part series in which legendary novelist Margaret Atwood addresses the idea of debt as an ancient and central motif in religion, literature, and the structure of human societies. Part of the 2008 CBC Massey Lectures, where you can find Parts Two through Five.
Debt: Payback and the Shadow Side of Wealth- ...
Legendary novelist, poet, and essayist Margaret Atwood delivers a surprising look at the topic of debt. In her wide-ranging, entertaining, and imaginative approach to the subject, Atwood proposes that debt is like air - something we take for granted until things go wrong. And then, while gasping for breath, we become very interested in it. Payback is not about practical debt management or high finance. Rather, it is an investigation into the idea of debt as an ancient and central motif in religion, literature, and the structure of human societies. Margaret Atwood writes "These are not lectures about how to get out of debt; rather, they're about the debtor/creditor twinship in the broadest sense ? from human sacrifice to pawnshops to revenge. In this light, what we owe and how we pay is a feature of all human societies, and profoundly shapes our shared values and our cultures." Margaret Atwood is one of the world's pre-eminent writers - winner of the Booker Prize, the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and the Governor General's Literary Award, among many other honours. She is the bestselling author of more than thirty-five books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, including The Handmaid's Tale, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin, and Oryx and Crake. She is an International Vice President of PEN, which assists writers around the world in the peaceful expression of their ideas. Most recently, she is the 2008 recipient of the prestigious Prince of Asturias Award for Letters.
Debt: Payback and the Shadow Side of Wealth- ... | 54:00
Former Comptroller General Sounds the Alarm on Debt
From AARP Radio | Part of the Prime Time Radio series | 59:53
Former U.S. Comptroller General and head of the Government Accountability Office David M. Walker argues that American addiction to debt is a non-ideological issue that has diminished the country's greatness. From Prime Time Radio, produced by AARP.
AARP Radio
"America's fiscal problems are strangling the U.S. economy," says David Walker, President and CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation and former Comptroller General of the U.S. He joins host Mike Cuthbert to talk about the critical importance of this issue and why he thinks politicians aren't paying enough attention to it. Then...Judith Neis is a woman who was transformed by the feminist movement of the 1960's and, in turn, contributed to the transformation of some of America's institutions - including the House of Representatives where she led the fight to do away with the separate "Ladies Gallery". Her memoir explores the personal and political repercussions of feminism and other movements of the '60's.
Former Comptroller General Sounds the Alarm on Debt | 59:53
DRIVEN TOWARD DEBT
From Voices of Our World | 27:58
From the federal government to the individual citizen, going into debt has become a national way of life. A timely look at the ways of the debt industry and how huge profits are being made at consumers' expense.
Voices of Our World
Voices of Our World Program 0601 Air date: Week of January 1, 2006 Part One: DEEPER IN DEBT: The $400.00 child credits doled out to lower income families do not even begin to offset state fee hikes and serious cuts. A minimum wage earning mom, worried about how she'll afford a doctor's visit for her child, has greater concerns than stimulating the economy. Our nation is in debt to the tune of $6,793,571,980,569.91 and most US citizens are carrying considerable personal debt. Some banks are getting rich by taking advantage of our addiction to credit. Elinoar Astrinsky talks with Michael Hudson, the author of Merchants of Misery. OPTIONAL CUTAWAY CUE: "That's 1-8-8-8 M-A-R-Y-K-N-O-L-L" at 14:00. Part Two: THERE OUGHT TO BE A LAW!: More than 9 million Americans recently lost their jobs. Since the year 2000, 3.2 million private sector jobs and 2.5 million manufacturing jobs have been lost to other countries. Our trade policies have made it more profitable for US firms to move plants and jobs outside our borders. Minimum wage earners who haven't lost their jobs, have not seen a pay increase since 1997. Is it time to make the right to a job, at a "living wage" an amendment to the Constitution? Kathy Golden speaks with Loyola University Law Professor, William Quigley.
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Debt - a rebroadcast from 2003
From Phil Mariage | Part of the Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow series | 29:00
Even more relevant than when first broadcast. People from three generations discuss their attitudes toward using credit and going into debt.
Phil Mariage
This is a program we recorded in December 2003. Even then, before all the current distress in personal finances, this was a very revealing discussion. We hear all the time that increasing debt is being passed on to the next generation...well this younger guest already felt the burden even in 2003.
Debt - a rebroadcast from 2003 | 29:00
From Western Folklife Center Media | 03:00
Cowboy singer Brenn Hill sings and discusses his song about a topic many Americans are all too familiar with, "Debt": 'I got a brand new diesel pick-up truck that I can't afford to drive/We're puttin' groceries on the credit card so we can stay alive.' The man sings truth...
Western Folklife Center Media
It's rare these days to tune in to the news on the radio and not hear reports on the sputtering economy, rising fuel prices and people struggling to make ends meet; and if you decide you need a break from bad news, don't tune in to your country music station, because you may hear the same story all over again.
This week's What's in a Song is no different. In it, we hear from Utah cowboy singer Brenn Hill with his song, "Debt," written after seeing friends dragged down by debt. Brenn has been performing at the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering since he was too young to even qualify for a credit card, and now he is one of the most innovative voices in contemporary cowboy music.
The song is featured on Brenn's new album, What a Man's Got To Do. Purchase the CD in our online store.
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NFL Week 5 Sunday and Monday picks (or Dinozzo gets head-slapped by Gibbs’ first wife!)
Four weeks down… 13 to go.
Welcome to the quarter pole in the 2016 NFL season.
The first quarter of the NFL season is over and more than half of the league’s teams (18) have a .500 or better record. But there’s a lot of season left to be played.
“We had a pretty good first quarter,” Atlanta wide receiver Julio Jones told WSB-TV and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution about the team’s 3-1 start to the season. “There’s still a lot of improvement we have to do, but it comes with practice. Repetition is the key. We’ve got to keep practicing, getting better and playing for each other.”
There are three unbeaten teams remaining – Denver (4-0), Minnesota (4-0) and Philadelphia (3-0). Since 1990, when the current 12-team playoff format was adopted, 64 of the previous 77 teams (83.1 percent) to start 4-0 have made the playoffs.
But all 32 teams know there’s room for improvement. And while not every club has gotten off to a great start, nothing is a given in the NFL.
Since 1990, 117 teams (37.5 percent of the 312 playoff clubs) have advanced to the postseason after starting the season 2-2 or worse. There were six such teams – Houston (1-3), Kansas City (1-3), Minnesota (2-2), Pittsburgh (2-2), Seattle (2-2) and Washington (2-2) – last season, including three division winners (Houston, Minnesota and Washington).
“I feel a lot better,” says Buffalo head coach Rex Ryan about the Bills evening their record at 2-2 after an 0-2 start. “We know we have a good football team and we’ve just got to stick together. That’s exactly what we’ve done and how we’ve dug ourselves out of this 0-2 hole.”
That’s all part of the unpredictability of the NFL. So entering Week 5, while it certainly helps to be near the top of the standings, don’t count anyone out. As the saying goes, “on any given day…”
Following are highlights from the first quarter of the 2016 NFL season:
NFL MILESTONES
•CLOSE GAMES: Through Week 4, 47 games have been decided by eight points or fewer, tied for the most in a season’s first four weeks in NFL history (2004).
Most games decided by eight points or fewer through Week 4:
SEASON- GAMES DECIDED BY EIGHT POINTS OR FEWER THROUGH WEEK 4
COMEBACKS: Through Week 4, five games have been won by teams which trailed by 10 or more points in the fourth quarter, the fourth-most in NFL history.
Most games won after trailing by 10 or more points in the fourth quarter through Week 4:
SEASON – GAMES WON AFTER TRAILING BY 10+ POINTS IN 4TH QUARTER THROUGH WEEK 4
1999 – 7
•UNDEFEATED: Three NFL teams are left standing unbeaten – Denver (4-0), Minnesota (4-0) and Philadelphia (3-0) – are undefeated through Week 4. Philadelphia had a bye last week and squares off against the Lions in Detroit, while the defending Super Bowl champs host Atlanta in the Mile High City and Minneosta has a date with the Houston Texans in the Land of 10,000 Lakes.
Since 1990, 64 of 77 teams (83.1 percent) that started the season 4-0 have qualified for the playoffs.
•FLYING FALCONS: In Week 4, the Atlanta Falcons defeated Carolina 48-33 to improve to 3-1 and take first place in the NFC South. Atlanta quarterback Matt Ryan (503 passing yards) and wide receiver Julio Jones (300 receiving yards) each set single-game franchise records against NFC South foe Carolina last week at home. The Falcons became the first team in NFL history to have a 500-yard passer and 300-yard receiver in the same game.
•MONSTROUS MINNESOTA: The Minnesota Vikings had eight sacks in the team’s 22-10 victory at Carolina in Week 3. The eight sacks are tied for the third-most in a road game in team history and the most in a road game by the Vikings since December 28, 2003 at Arizona.
•In Week 1, the Kansas City Chiefs extended their regular-season winning streak to 11 games with a 33-27 overtime victory over San Diego at Arrowhead. The Chiefs overcame a 21-point deficit and are the first team in NFL history to extend a winning streak of at least 10 games with a 21+ point comeback victory.
•CLIMBING THE CHARTS:
New Orleans quarterback Drew Brees has 62,172 career passing yards and surpassed Pro Football Hall of Famer Dan Marino (61,361) for the third-most all-time.
New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning has 45,373 career passing yards and surpassed Drew Bledsoe (44,611) to move into 10th place in NFL history.
Indianapolis running back Frank Gore has 12,293 career rushing yards and passed Marcus Allen (12,243), Edgerrin James (12,246) and Marshall Faulk (12,279) to move into 10th place in NFL history.
Arizona wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald has three touchdown catches this season, bringing his career total to 101. He surpassed Don Huston (99), Steve Largent (100) and Tim Brown (100) for eighth place all-time.
Baltimore wide receiver Steve Smith, Sr. has 14,213 career receiving yards and moved into ninth place in NFL history.
Oakland kicker Sebastian Janikowski has 53 career 50+ yard field goals and passed Jason Hanson (52) for the most in NFL history.
•Seattle quarterback Russell Wilson passed for 309 yards and three touchdowns with no interceptions in the Seahawks’ 27-17 win at the New York Jets in Week 4. Wilson has 25 career games with multiple touchdown passes and no interceptions, the most by a player in NFL history in his first five seasons to begin a career.
•Washington tight end Jordan Reed had nine catches for 73 yards and two touchdowns in the Redskins’ 31-20 win over Cleveland in Week 4 in Landover. Reed has 207 career catches and reached 200 receptions in his 38th game. He is the fastest tight end in NFL history to reach 200 career catches, passing Pro Football Hall of Famer Kellen Winslow (39 games).
•RISING ROOKIES:
Dallas rookie quarterback Dak Prescott completed 23 of 32 passes (71.9 percent) for 245 yards with two touchdowns and no interceptions in the Cowboys’ 24-17 win at San Francisco in Week 4. Prescott has no interceptions in his first 131 attempts, the most pass attempts by a rookie without an interception to begin a career. Prescott’s 131 pass attempts are also the most by a player who did not throw an interception in his first four career games.
Philadelphia rookie quarterback Carson Wentz, who had a bye in Week 4, has not thrown an interception in his first 102 pass attempts during the first three games of his career. Wentz, who has passed for 769 yards with five touchdowns and no interceptions this season, is the only rookie in NFL history with a touchdown pass and no interceptions in each of his first three games in a season.
Houston rookie wide receiver Will Fuller had a five-yard touchdown reception and a 67-yard punt-return TD in the Texans’ 27-20 win over Tennessee in Week 4. Fuller is the fourth rookie in the past 15 years to record both a touchdown catch and a punt-return TD in the same game, the only rookie in NFL history to have 300 or more receiving yards (323) and a punt-return touchdown in his team’s first four games of a season and the only rookie in NFL history to have 300 or more receiving yards (323) and a punt-return touchdown in his team’s first four games of a season.
STILL IN THE MIX: Since the current playoff format (12 teams) was instituted in 1990, 27 teams have rebounded from a losing record after four weeks to qualify for the postseason. Four of those clubs advanced to their Conference Championship Games, including the 2001 New England Patriots (1-3) en route to a Super Bowl XXXVI victory.
Since 1990, the teams that started 1-3 or worse and made the playoffs:
YEAR – TEAM (RECORD, ADVANCED TO:)
1990 – New Orleans (1-3, NFC Wild Card Playoffs)
1990 – Philadelphia (1-3, NFC Wild Card Playoffs)
1991 – New York Jets (1-3, AFC Wild Card Playoffs)
1992 – San Diego (0-4, AFC Divisional Playoffs)
1993 – Green Bay (1-3, NFC Divisional Playoffs)
1993 – Houston Oilers (1-3, AFC Divisional Playoffs)
1995 – Detroit (1-3, NFC Wild Card Playoffs)
1995 – Philadelphia (1-3, NFC Divisional Playoffs)
1996 – Dallas (1-3, NFC Divisional Playoffs)
1996 – Jacksonville (1-3, AFC Championship Game)
1997 – New York Giants (1-3, NFC Wild Card Playoffs)
1998 – Buffalo (1-3, AFC Wild Card Playoffs)
2000 – New Orleans (1-3, NFC Divisional Playoffs)
2001 – New England (1-3, Won Super Bowl XXXVI)
2002 – Atlanta (1-3, NFC Divisional Playoffs)
2002 – Tennessee (1-3, AFC Championship Game)
2002 – New York Jets (1-3, AFC Divisional Playoffs)
2002 – Pittsburgh (1-3, AFC Divisional Playoffs)
2004 – Green Bay (1-3, NFC Wild Card Playoffs)
2005 – Chicago (1-3, NFC Divisional Playoffs)
2007 – San Diego (1-3, AFC Championship Game)
2008 – Minnesota (1-3, NFC Wild Card Playoffs)
2011 – Denver (1-3, AFC Divisional Playoffs)
2013 – Carolina (1-3, NFC Divisional Playoffs)
2015 – Houston (1-3, Wild Card Playoffs)
2015 – Kansas City (1-3, AFC Divisional Playoffs)
MARVELOUS MANNING: New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning, who looks to earn his 100th regular-season win on Sunday, has 298 touchdown passes in his 13-year career.
With two touchdown passes on Sunday night at Green Bay, Manning will become the eighth quarterback in NFL history with 300 touchdown passes.
The quarterbacks with 300 career touchdown passes:
PLAYER – CAREER TOUCHDOWN PASSES
Peyton Manning – 539
Brett Favre – 508
Drew Brees – 438
Tom Brady – 428
Dan Marino – 420
Fran Tarkenton – 342
John Elway – 300
Eli Manning – 298
FANTASTIC FRANK: Indianapolis running back Frank Gore has 12,293 rushing yards in his 12-year career.
With 20 rushing yards on Sunday against Chicago, Gore will surpass Pro Football Hall of Famer Jim Brown (12,312) for the ninth-most rushing yards in NFL history.
The players with the most career rushing yards in NFL history:
PLAYER – CAREER RUSHING YARDS
Emmitt Smith – 18,355
Walter Payton – 16,726
Barry Sanders – 15,269
Curtis Martin – 14,101
LaDainian Tomlinson – 13,684
Jerome Bettis – 13,662
Eric Dickerson – 13,259
Tony Dorsett – 12,739
Jim Brown – 12,312
Frank Gore – 12,293*
*Active
DAZZLING DAK: Dallas rookie quarterback Dak Prescott has completed 89 of 131 pass attempts (67.9 percent) for 1,012 yards and three touchdowns with no interceptions in four starts this season. Prescott’s 131 pass attempts without an interception are the most pass attempts by a rookie without an interception to begin a career.
Philadelphia rookie quarterback Carson Wentz has completed 102 passes without an interception in three career games, second only to Prescott (131) for the most pass attempts by a rookie without an interception to begin a career.
Prescott, with 32 pass attempts and no interceptions on Sunday against Cincinnati, will surpass Tom Brady (162) for the most pass attempts without an interception to start a career. He is currently tied with Pro Football Hall of Famer Warren Moon (131).
The players with the most pass attempts without an interception to start a career:
PLAYER – PASS ATTEMPTS WITHOUT INTERCEPTION TO START CAREER
Warren Moon – 131
Dak Prescott – 131*
FAST STARTER: Denver quarterback Trevor Siemian has led the Broncos to a 4-0 start. Siemian, who made his first career start in Week 1, has passed for 824 yards with six touchdowns for a 99.6 passer rating this season.
With a win on Sunday against Atlanta, the Broncos would become the fourth team in the Super Bowl era to start 5-0 with a quarterback who had never previously started a game entering the season.
The teams to start a season 5-0 with a quarterback who never previously started a game (since 1966):
TEAM – YEAR (STARTING QUARTERBACK, RECORD THROUGH 5 GAMES)
Los Angeles Rams – 1985 (Dieter Brock, 5-0)
St. Louis Rams – 1999 (Kurt Warner, 5-0)
Minnesota Vikings – 2000 (Daunte Culpepper, 5-0)
Denver Broncos – 2016 (Trevor Siemian, 4-0)*
*Through 4 games
Week 5 began on Thursday night with a divisional contest as the Arizona Cardinals visited and took down the San Francisco 49ers 33-21 and concludes with a pair of primetime matches as the Green Bay Packers host the New York Giants on Sunday night at 8:30 p.m. on NBC and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers visit the Carolina Panthers on Monday night at 8:30 p.m. on ESPN.
Byes this week: Jacksonville (recovering from jet lag), Kansas City, New Orleans and Seattle. As for last week? 11-5, which means for the season, we’re 42-22, which is not bad. It could be better but it’s not bad. With that, here are the picks for Sunday and Monday’s NFL Week 5 contests.
ATLANTA (3-1) at Denver (4-0), 4:05 p.m. on FOX and DirecTV 712. A pair of first-place teams meet in the Mile High City as Matt Ryan and the Atlanta Falcons travel westward to face off against the defending Super Bowl champs.
Both teams come into the week five contest at Sports Authority Field at Mile High with victories under their respective belts.
Atlanta once again beat Cam Newton and Carolina in the Georgia Dome, this time manhandling the defending NFC Champs 48-33. Atlanta led 17-10 at the break and then the two teams slugged it out in the final 30 minutes of action. Ryan threw for 503 yards and four TDs, including one to All-Pro wR Julio Jones (300 yards on 12 catches), while Newton threw for 165 yards and a TD before being taken out of the contest with a concussion. Atlanta outrushed their NFC South rivals 90-49 and forced two Carolina turnovers, turning one of them into a TD to ice the contest away. Atlanta was 8 of 13 on third down tries and held the ball for 33:49, while Carolina was 7 of 16 on third down (1 of 1 on fourth), keeping the ball for 26:11.
Denver broke a 7-7 first quarter tie at Tampa Bay last Sunday and came away 27-7 winners in the Sunshine State. Denver led 17-7 at the break and then went on to shutout the Buccaneers 10-0 in the final 30 minutes of play, which included for the second Sunday in a row a weather delay in Tampa. Denver outrushed Tampa Bay 89-72 and sacked Jameis Winston five times, picking him off twice. The defending Super Bowl champs were 3 of 13 on third down tries, while keeping the ball for 31:24. As for Tampa Bay, they were 5 of 16 and 0 of 1, holding on to the ball for 28:36.
Denver leads the series 8-5 and have outscored Atlanta 362-312. Atlanta won the last meeting in 2012 by a final of 27-21 in the Big Peach, while Denver last beat Atlanta 24-20 in 2008, also in the Big Peach. The Broncos are favored by 3 1/2 and the over/under’s 47 1/2. Both teams are in first place in their respective divisons, both teams took big wins last week and this one could be one of the best games to watch this week. In fact, we’re going to go ahead and make this one “DRILL WORTHY!” (For those of you that know what The Drill is, you are excused. Everyone else, pay attention. We don’t want any rookie mistakes here, k?) After you go to the 9:30 mass on Sunday (the 4:30 vigil mass on Saturday counts as a mass attended, people! Don’t make us send the nuns after you! If we do, it is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OVER!), head to your favorite store (a trip to Wal Mart, Target, K-Mart or Costco counts) and get the vittles and the beverages (soda, beer, wine, coffee, et al… if you live in a state that allows the purchase of the items in question) and invite the co-workers, the neighbors (including that really cute kindergarden teacher that knows what to do with a cover-2 defense) and your cousin Connie (remember her? She’s the one that’s been married twice that’s just turned 57 last June and dates a 42-year old ex-Marine, who’s now a football coach at the high school in your town. She’s also the one that ate an entire Oreo cheesecake, two bags of Cool Ranch Doritos, two bacon cheeseburgers with blue cheese and chugged two 2-liter Cokes at your Super Bowl party last year and didn’t gain a pound. You look at her and say to yourself, “what the hell?”
When play started, there were three teams that were unbeaten. At the end of the day, there’ll be two. Atlanta pulls the upset out west and cover the 3 1/2.
New England (3-1) at Cleveland (0-4), 1 p.m. on CBS and DirecTV 705. Tom Brady makes his return to the NFL as the New England Patriots travel to the shores of Lake Erie for a meeting with the struggling Browns. This was to be known as the “Suspension Bowl” as Brady would come back from his suspension for “Deflategate,” while Gordon was coming off his 4-game suspension for substance abuse. Brady is back. Gordon decided that rehab would be the best course for him, so he’s done for the year.
New England fell from the ranks of the unbeaten last Sunday in Foxboro, losing to Buffalo 16-0 at Gillette Stadium. Le Sean McCoy scored the game’s only TD in the contest early and the Pats could never really recover, trailing 13-0 at the intermisson. Buffalo outrushed New England 134-90 and backup QB Jacoby Brissett (205 yards) was sacked three times, while Bills signal caller Tyrod Taylor (246 yards, TD) was sacked twice. The Brady-less Pats were a dismal 1 of 12 on third down (2 of 3 on fourth down) and kept the ball for 23:49, while the Bills held on to the ball for 36:11, going 7 of 15 on third down.
Cleveland let a 20-17 lead against Washington leave their grasp as the Redskins bounced back in the fourth quarter to fall 31-20 in Landover. The Browns led with 9:25 left in the third on a 45-yard field goal by Chris Parkey before Washington stormed back to retake the lead for keeps. Chris Thompson and Matt Jones gave Washington the lead for good with their TDs in the fourth quarter as the Browns fell to their fourth loss in as many tries. Cleveland outrushed Washington 163-145 in the contest at Landover (Jones led all rushers with 117, while Cleveland’s Isaiah Crowell ran for 112), while Cody Keesler threw for 223 yards and a TD, while Kirk Cousins had 183 yards with three TDs and three sacks. Washington on third down? 4 of 8 and the Redskins kept the ball for 31:03, while the Browns kept the pigskin for 28:57, going 8 of 12 and 0 of 1 on third and fourth downs.
Suprisingly, the Browns hold a 12-10 lead in the series and have outscored the Pats 415-379. They last met in 2013 in Foxboro and the Pats came away with a 27-26 win, while Cleveland’s last win came in 2010 along the shores of Lake Erie, taking a 34-14 win in the process.
New England’s favored by 10 1/2 and the over/under’s 46 1/2. While the Browns are bad, they’re not 10 1/2 bad. Cleveland will make things close but Brady makes his return to the gridiron a good one. New England’s taking this one but they won’t cover the 10 1/2.
Tennessee (1-3) at Miami (1-3), 1 p.m. on CBS and DirecTV 706. A pair of struggling clubs meet in the Sunshine State as Tennessee travels to South Beach for a meeting with the Miami Dolphins at Hard Rock Stadium.
Tennessee made things a little close for their fan base in Nashville last Sunday as they rallied to tie Houston 20-20 with 56 seconds left in the third before the Texans’ Will Fuller broke Titans hearts with a 67-yard punt return to beat Tennessee 27-20 in the Lone Star State. Tennessee did manage to outrush Houston 124-115 and Marcus Mariota threw for 202 yards with a sack and an interception (DeMarco Murray led all rushers with 95 yards and a pair of TDs), while Brock Osweiler threw for 254 yards with a pair of TDs. Both clubs were 0 for 1 on fourth down tries and on third down, the Titans were 7 of 15, while Houston was 5 of 12 and the clock favored Tennessee at 31:42 to Houston’28:18.
Miami led briefly at Cincinnati last Thursday night on a 74-yard TD pass from Ryan Tannehill to WR Kenny Stills with 9:04 left in the first quarter before the Bengals’ Andy Dalton and WR A.J. Green connected on a 7-yard TD pass of their own to drop Miami 22-7. Miami trailed led 16-7 at the intermission and the Dolphins offense never got on track as Mike Nugent would close out the scoring in the contest with four field goals to seal Miami’s fate. Cincy outrushed Miami 77-62 and Dalton outpaced Tannehill in passing 296-189, while the Bengal defense sacked Tannehill five times and forced a pair of turnovers. Cincinnati was somewhat dismal on third down tries, going 3 of 15 (they did find perfection in their only fourth down conversion) and ruled the clock, as they held the ball for 38:02, while the Dolphins held on to the pigskin for 21:58, while going 2 of 11 on third down and 0 of 1 on fourth down.
Miami leads the series 19-15 and have outscored Tennessee 650-635 (which includes contests that took place in the old Orange Bowl and games that took place in Houston when the team was known as the Oilers). Miami won the last meeting between the two clubs in the Music City last year, taking a 38-10 win at Nissan Stadium. Tennessee’s last win in the series? 2012, when the Titans won in the Sunshine State by a 37-3 final.
In the week six contest, Miami led 17-3 at the half and held Tennessee and Mariota (219 yards) in check in the final 30 minutes of play. Tennessee was held to 63 yards on the ground, while Miami ran for 180 (RB Lance Miller ran for 113 of those yards). Tannehill threw for 266 yards and a pair of TDs in the road win, while Mariota was sacked five times and picked off twice. Miami, in taking advantage of four Tennessee turnovers, was 5 of 9 on third down tries and held the ball for 31:53, while the Titans kept it for 28:07, going 2 of 10 and 1 of 2 on third and fourth downs.
Miami’s favored by 3 1/2 and the over/under’s 43 1/2. This one could be affected by the weather and could be closer than the 3 1/2. Tennesee will make this interesting but Miami comes away with the win.
Houston (3-1) at Minnesota (4-0), 1 p.m. on CBS and DirecTV 707. Houston travels to the Land of 10,000 Lakes for a meeting with the unbeaten Minnesota Vikings in a battle of contending teams.
Houston broke a 20-20 tie in with 56 seconds left in the third thanks to a Will Fuller 65-yard punt return to beat Tennessee 27-20 in the Lone Star State. The Texans led 20-17 at the break before Ron Succop kicked a 26-yard field Goal with 7:04 left in the third. Although Tennessee did manage to outrush Houston 124-115, Brock Osweiler threw for 254 yards and a pair of TDs, while Marcus Mariota threw for 202 yards with a sack and an interception (DeMarco Murray led all rushers with 95 yards and a pair of TDs). Both clubs failed in their only fourth down conversion try at NRG Stadium and Houston was 5 of 12 on third down, while the former Houston team went 7 of 15. Time was on the side of the Titans’ who held the ball for 31:42 to Houston’s 28:18.
Minnesota took Eli Manning and the Giants to the woodshed Monday night at US Bank Stadium, coming away 24-10 winners in the Land of 10,000 Lakes. The Vikings led 14-3 at the break in the great indoors and never looked back, holding the Giants to 78 yards on the ground (Minnesota tallied 104 yards of rushing). The Purple Gang forced a pair of turnovers in the primetime contest, while Sam Bradford barely outpaced Manning 262-261 but Bradford threw a TD pass to TE Kyle Rudolph in the contest. Minnesota went 8 of 16 on third down tries and held the ball for 35:32, while the Giants were 2 of 12 (0 of 2 on fourth), holding the ball for 24:28.
They’ve only met three times and the Vikings are 3-0 in the meetings, with Minnesota’s last win coming in 2012 in Houston by a final of 23-6. Minnesota has also outscored the Texans 85-55 in the series. Minnesota’s favored by 6 and the over/under’s 39 1/2. Both numbers make a lot of sense. Houston’s good but the Vikings are a little better and they’ll stay unbeaten, even though they may not cover the 6.
New York Jets (1-3) at Pittsburgh (3-1), 1 p.m. on CBS and DirecTv 708. A pair of AFC teams going in opposite directions meet in the Steel City as Pittsburgh hosts the New York Jets.
Seattle QB Russell Wilson (309 yards) threw three TDs as the Seahawks took GangGreen 27-17 at Met Life Stadium. Seattle led 14-10 at the break and never looked back, holding the J-E-T-S! JETS! JETS! JETS! to 58 yards rushing (Seattle ran for 66) and sacked Ryan Fitzpatrick (261 yards, 3 interceptions) four times. GangGreen was 7 of 15 on third down tries, 1 of 1 on fourth down and kept the ball for 29:15, while Seattle held the pigskin for 30:45 and went 3 of 10 on third down conversions.
The Steelers bounced back from their loss to cross-state rival Philadelphia and took Kansas City 43-13. Pittsburgh scored the first 36 points of the Sunday night contest at Heinz Field unchallenged and were never challenged by Alex Smith (287 yards, 2 TDs, 4 sacks, interception) and the Chiefs. Steelers RB Le’Veon Bell did his best Jerome Bettis impression, rushing for 144 of Pittsburgh’s 149 yards, while the Steel Curtain held Kansas City to 87. Meanwhile, Ben Roethlisberger bounced back from his bad performance in Philly and threw for 300 yards and five TDs with no interceptions, although the Chiefs’ defense made things somewhat hard for him, sacking him twice. Pittsburgh went 6 of 11 on third down tries last Sunday night and held on to the ball for 29:24, while Kansas City ruled the clock, keeping the pigskin for 30:36 and went 8 of 17 and 2 of 3 on third and fourth downs.
Pittsburgh leads the series 17-5 with GangGreen and the Steelers have outscored the J-E-T-S! JETS! JETS! JETS! 489-273 (which includes contests that were played in New York City when GangGreen played their home games at Shea Stadium). Both clubs took their last wins in the series along the Jersey shore; New York came away 20-13 winners in 2014, while the Steelers’ last win came in 2013 by a final of 19-6. Pittsburgh’s favored by 7 and the over/under’s 43 1/2. The J-E-T-S! JETS! JETS! JETS! are bad right now but they’re not 7 points bad. Still, they’re on the road and they’re in Pittsburgh. Steelers may not cover the 7 but they do win at Heinz.
Washington (2-2) at Baltimore (3-1), 1 p.m. on FOX and DirecTV 709. They sit 38 miles apart from each other and for only the sixth time, Washington and Baltimore meet as the Redskins travel to Charm City for a meeting with the Baltimore Ravens.
The defending NFC East champs trailed Cleveland 20-17 in Landover and rallied with a pair of fourth quarter TDs by Chris Thomspson and Matt Jones scored a pair of TDs to take the 31-20 win over the winless Browns. Cleveland led by three with 9:25 left in the third on a 45-yard field goal by Chris Parkey before Washington stormed back to retake the lead for keeps. The Browns outrushed Washington 163-145 in the contest at Landover (Jones led all rushers with 117, while Cleveland’s Isaiah Crowell ran for 112), while Cody Keesler threw for 223 yards and a TD, while Kirk Cousins had 183 yards with three TDs and three sacks. The Redskins on third down were 4 of 8 and the Redskins kept the ball for 31:03, while the Browns kept the pigskin for 28:57, going 8 of 12 and 0 of 1 on third and fourth downs.
The Ravens allowed a 27-21 lead against Oakland get away from them and came away on the short end of a 28-27 loss to the Silver and Black last Sunday at M&T Bank Stadium in Charm City. Baltimore, who trailed 14-6 at the break, outscored Oakland in the second half 21-14 and led late in the game when David Carr (199 yards, 4 TDs) and Michael Crabtree connected on their third TD of the afternoon, a 23-yard strike that gave the Raiders the lead for keeps. Baltimore then saw a late rally fizzle when Joe Flacco (298 yards, TD) threw four consecutive incomplete passes to end any chance of a comeback.
Ravens RB Terrance West led all rushers with 113 yards and a TD, while his team tallied 130, outpacing Oakland, who had 62. Baltimore was 5 of 17 and 1 of 2 on third and fourth down conversions in Charm City, while they kept the ball for 34:44. The Raiders, who held the pigskin for 25:16, went 3 of 12 on third down conversions.
Baltimore leads the series 3-2 and have outscored Washington 92-78. Washington came away 31-28 overtime winners in Landover in 2012 in the last meeting, while the Ravens’ last win came in 2008 in Charm City by a final of 24-10.
Baltimore’s favored by 4 and the over/under’s 44 1/2. Baltimore makes this one close but they’ll fall short. Redskins fans will once again sing “Hail To The Redskins” instead of “Hell! It’s the Redskins” this week. Washington covers the 4 and wins in Charm City.
Philadelphia (3-0) at Detroit (1-3), 1 p.m. on FOX and DirecTV 710. The unbeaten Eagles come back to action from their vacation to travel to the Motor City for a meeting with the Lions at Ford Field.
Philly comes back from their bye week after taking Ben Roethlisberger (257 yards, interception) and the Steelers to the woodshed two Sundays ago 34-3. The Eagles led 13-3 at the half and shut out the Steelers in the second half, scoring their final 21 points unchallenged. Philadelphia held the Steeler ground game in check in the City of Brotherly Love, holding them to a season-low 29 yards (they ran for 125) and Wentz threw for 301 yards and a pair of TDs without an interception (connecting with WR Darrell Sproles on one toss), while sacking Roethlisberger four times at Lincoln Financial Field. The Eagles went 4 of 10 on third down and kept the ball for 34:56, while the Steelers were 4 of 11 and 0 of 2 on third and fourth downs, holding on to the pigskin for 25:04.
Detroit came away on the short end of a 17-14 loss to Chicago last Sunday at Solider Field. Chicago led 7-3 at the break but Detroit managed to outscore Da Bears in the second half 11-10 to make things closer than Bears fans wanted. Chicago Rookie RB Jordan Howard ran for 111 of Chicago’s 114 yards, while the Lions tallied 66 and Brian Hoyer threw for 302 yards and a pair of TDs, while Matthew Stafford threw for 213 and was picked off twice. Chicago on third down was 5 of 13 (0 of 1 on fourth down) and held the ball for 33:14, while the Lions were 4 of 12 on third down, keeping the ball for 26:46.
Including contests that took place in Portsmouth when the Lions were known as the Spartans, the Eagles lead the series 15-14-2 and have outscored the Lions 631-622. The Lions were 45-14 winners on Thanksgiving Day last year in the Motor City, while Philly’s last win over Detroit came in 2013 in the City of Brotherly Love by a final of 34-20.
In the week 12 Turkey Day contest, Detroit led 24-7 at the break and it would not be a good day for the Eagles, as they held to 68 yards rushing, Mark Sanchez was sacked six times and Stafford and Megatron (aka Calvin Johnson) connected for three TDs in front of the home crowd at Ford Field. Stafford threw for 337 yards, while Johnson caught eight passes for 93 yards. Detroit was 5 of 10 on third down tries and kept the ball for 37:11, while the Eagles were on third down 6 of 14, keeping the ball for 22:49.
Philly’s favored by 3 and the over/under’s 46. It’s possible that the over/under could be reached by halftime, given that both QBs are pretty good. That’s where things come to an end. Eagles fly off with the win in the Motor City and covers the 3.
Chicago (1-3) at Indianapolis (1-3), 1 p.m. on FOX and DirecTV 711. A pair of 1-3 teams meet in the Hoosier State as the Colts and Andrew Luck host Da Bears.
Chicago took Detroit to task in the Windy City last Sunday, coming away 17-14 winners at Solider Field. Although they led 7-3 at the break, Detroit managed to outscore Da Bears in the second half 11-10 to make things closer than Bears fans wanted. Rookie RB Jordan Howard ran for 111 of Chicago’s 114 yards, while the Lions tallied 66 and Brian Hoyer threw for 302 yards and a pair of TDs, while Matthew Stafford threw for 213 and was picked off twice. Chicago on third down was 5 of 13 (0 of 1 on fourth down) and held the ball for 33:14, while the Lions were 4 of 12 on third down, keeping the ball for 26:46.
Indianapolis returns to the United States after their trip across the Big Pond, coming out on the short end of a 30-27 loss to Jacksonville in London at Wembley Stadium Sunday morning. The Colts trailed 17-6 at the half but did manage to rule the second half, outscoring the Jaguars 21-13 in the final 30 minutes of action. Jacksonville did outrush Indy 136-94 but Luck outpassed Blake Bortles 234-207, with each man throwing a pair of TDs (Luck was sacked six times in the loss). Indy on third down was 9 of 17 and ruled the clock, keeping the ball for 32:39, while the Jaguars were 3 of 11 and 1 of 1 on third and fourth down conversions, keeping the ball for 27:21.
Including contests that took place in Baltimore and at Wrigley Field, the Colts lead the series 22-19 and have outscored Da Bears 869-849. Chicago won the last two meetings in the series, including a 41-21 win in the Windy City in 2012, while the Colts’ last win came in 2004 (also in the Windy City) by a 41-10 tally.
Indy’s favored by 4 1/2 and the over/under’s 47 1/2 and those numbers sound right. We’d understand if you took a pass on this one and watched that “Mythbusters” marathon on Science Channel but if you’re a fan of either of these teams, by all means watch. Indy gets to reject your reality and substitute its own and takes the win back home again in Indiana, covering the 4 1/2.
Cincinnati (2-2) at Dallas (3-1), 4:25 p.m. on CBS and DirecTV 713. Cincinnati, trying to right itself, travels to the Lone Star State for a late afternoon contest in Arlington as the Cowboys host the Bengals in JerryWorld (aka AT&T Stadium).
Cincinnati trailed briefly against Miami on a 74-yard TD pass from Ryan Tannehill to WR Kenny Stills with 9:04 left in the first quarter before Dalton and WR A.J. Green connected on a 7-yard TD pass of their own to come away 22-7 winners last Thursday night. The Bengals led 16-7 at the intermission and never looked back as Mike Nugent would close out the scoring in the contest with four field goals to seal Miami’s fate. Cincy outrushed Miami 77-62 and Dalton outpaced Tannehill in passing 296-189, while the Bengal defense sacked Tannehill five times and forced a pair of turnovers. Cincinnati was somewhat dismal on third down tries, going 3 of 15 (they did find perfection in their only fourth down conversion) and ruled the clock, as they held the ball for 38:02, while the Dolphins held on to the pigskin for 21:58, while going 2 of 11 on third down and 0 of 1 on fourth down.
Dallas erased a 14-14 tie at the intermission and came away 24-17 winners at Levi’s Stadium. Cowboys rookie RB Ezekiel Elliot (TD) ran for 138 of his team’s 194 yards, while San Francisco tallied 106, while 49ers QB Blaine Gabbard threw for 196 yards with a TD, sack and an interception. For Dallas, rookie QB Dak Prescott threw for 245 yards and a pair of TDs on the West Coast. San Francisco was 8 of 14 and 0 of 1 on third and fourth down conversions and kept the ball for 23:33, while Dallas ruled the clock, holding the ball for 36:27 and going 6 of 14 on third down tries.
Dallas holds a 7-4 lead in the series, has outscored the Bengals 283-258 and won the last two meetings, including a 20-19 win in Cincy in 2012. The Bengals’ last win? 2004 in Cincy, coming away 26-3 winners. Dallas is favored by 1 and the over/under is 45 1/2. Both teams can be either really good or really bad. Which team will show up is the bigger question. The Dallas team that took San Francisco to task will be the one that shows up this week. Cowboys cover the 1 and win at home.
Buffalo (2-2) at Los Angeles (3-1), 4:25 p.m. on CBS and DirecTV 714. It’s Buffalo wings vs. California spring rolls as the Bills take their wagons to Hollywood for a late afternoon date with the rams.
Buffalo knocked New England from the ranks of the unbeaten last Sunday in Foxboro, shutting out the Pats 16-0 at Gillette Stadium. Le Sean McCoy scored the game’s only TD in the contest early and the Pats could never really recover, trailing 13-0 at the intermisson. Buffalo outrushed New England 134-90 and backup QB Jacoby Brissett (205 yards) was sacked three times, while Bills signal caller Tyrod Taylor (246 yards, TD) was sacked twice. Buffalo played keep-away with the ball, holding it for 38:11 and going 7 of 15 on third down tries, while the Brady-less Pats were a dismal 1 of 12 on third down (2 of 3 on fourth down) and kept the ball for 23:49.
Arizona led Los Angeles 13-10 at the end of 45 minutes of play before the Rams rallied to take the lead with a 4 yard TD pass from Case Keenum to WR Brian Quick with 2:36 left in regulation, giving the Rams a 17-13 win in Glendale. Arizona and Los Angeles were tied 10-10 at the half before the Desert Angry Birds took the lead on a 21 yard fieid goal by Chandler Catanzaro as the third quarter came to an end. Arizona held Los Angeles to 41 yards on the ground, while rushing for 119 and Keenum threw for 266 yards an a pair of TDs in the desert. Los Angeles forced five turnovers, held the ball for 27:51, going 6 of 14 and 0 of 1 on third and fourth downs, while Arizona was 6 of 13 third down-wise, keeping the ball for 32:09.
Buffalo leads the series 6-5, which includes contests that were played in Los Angeles and St. Louis and the Bills have outscored the Rams 262-220. Each team’s last wins in the series came in the other team’s ballparks; The Rams took a 15-12 win along the shores of Lake Erie in 2012, while Buffalo’s last win came in 2008 by final of 31-14 in St. Louis.
The Rams are favored by 2 1/2 and the over/under’s 39 1/2. While both teams are pretty decent, it’s still early and there’s a lot of football left on the docket. Los Angeles has three of their wins coming by 6 points or less and that could be the case this week. Bills make it interesting but Rams fans will love LA. Los Angeles covers the 2 1/2 and wins in Tinseltown.
San Diego (1-3) at Oakland (3-1), 4:25 p.m. on CBS and DirecTV 715. They’re separated by 491 miles up I-5 and are six hours away from each other. They once shared the same city in Southern California and they get to square off against each other Sunday afternoon as the Chargers and Raiders meet in a huge AFC West showdown.
Once again, San Diego blew another lead and this time, it was at the hands of one of their former players. Leading New Orleans 24-14 at the half, the Chargers allowed the Saints to first chip away at the lead and then see that lead eventually leave as they would lose to Drew Brees and the Saints 35-34 last Sunday at Qualcomm.
Neither club did much to write about rushing-wise and neither club broke the 100-yard barrier but New Orleans did outrush San Diego 83-38 and Brees threw for 207 yards and a interception, while Rivers threw for 321 yards in a losing cause (both men threw a pair of TDs passes). San Diego on third down tries went 6 of 13 (0 of 1 on fourth down) and kept the ball for 27:21, while the Saints hung on to the pigskin for 32:39 and was 11 of 18 on third down, 1 of 1 on fourth down.
Oakland trailed 27-21 lead at Baltimore and came away 28-27 winners against the Ravens last Sunday at M&T Bank Stadium in Charm City. Oakland led 14-6 at the break, found themselves being outscored by the Ravens the second half 21-14 and led late in the game when David Carr (199 yards, 4 TDs) and Michael Crabtree connected on their third TD of the afternoon, a 23-yard strike that gave the Raiders the lead for keeps. Baltimore then saw a late rally fizzle when Joe Flacco (298 yards, TD) threw four consecutive incomplete passes to end any chance of a comeback.
Baltimore outrushed Oakland 130-62, with Ravens RB Terrance West leading all rushers with 113 yards and a TD. Baltimore was 5 of 17 and 1 of 2 on third and fourth down conversions in Charm City, while they kept the ball for 34:44. Oakland, who held the pigskin for 25:16, went 3 of 12 on third down conversions.
Including contests that took place when BOTH teams were in Los Angeles, the Silver and Black lead the series 60-50-2, have outscored the Bolts 2,468-2,415 and swept last year’s meetings (San Diego swept the year before).
First round… week seven down the coast at Qualcomm. Oakland led 30-6 at the half and then held off the Chargers in the second half, coming away 37-29 winners. Oakland outrushed San Diego in the first meeting 130-90 and while both Carr (289 yards) and Rivers (336 yards) each threw three TD passes, both men were sacked once and Rivers threw a pair of interceptions downstate. The Chargers, despite losing by 8, was 8 of 16 on third down conversions and held on to the ball for 29:11, while the Raiders ruled the clock, keeping the pigskin for 30:49, going 5 of 12 third down-wise.
That was round one.
Second round… week 16 in Oakland on Christmas Eve. Oakland trailed 17-10 at the half and rallied to tie things up, outscoring San Diego 10-3 in the final 30 minutes of regulation and then taking the win in overtime 23-20 as K Sebastian Janikowski nailed a 31-yard field goal in the extra period. Oakland again outrushed San Diego 106-72 and as was the case in the first meeting, both Carr (204 yards, 3 sacks) and Rivers (277 yards) each had at least one TD pass in the contest and each team turned the ball over once. Neither club did much in the third down catagory (San Diego was 5 of 16, 0 of 1 on fourth down; Oakland was 4 of 15) and San Diego ruled the clock in the second contest, keeping the ball for 35:04 to Oakland’s 33:21.
Oakland’s favored by 3 1/2 and the over/under’s 50. Those numbers make a lot of sense. Both teams have been playing decent football but not great football and both teams are trying to keep pace with the defending Super Bowl champs in the AFC West. This one could go to overtime, given the histories of the two teams. Oakland will make this one interesting but San Diego stays classy and takes the win on the road, even though they may not cover the 3 1/2.
New York Giants (2-2) at Green Bay (2-1), 8:30 p.m. on NBC. Eli Manning. Aaron Rodgers. A pair of future Hall of Fame QBs meet at Lambeau on Sunday night as the Packers host the New York Giants.
Manning and the Giants were taken to the woodshed Monday night at US Bank Stadium, coming away 24-10 losers to the Vikings in the Land of 10,000 Lakes. New York trailed 14-3 at the break in the great indoors and could never get on track and were held to 78 yards on the ground (Minnesota tallied 104 yards of rushing). The Purple Gang forced a pair of turnovers in the primetime contest, while Sam Bradford barely outpaced Manning 262-261 but Bradford threw a TD pass to TE Kyle Rudolph in the contest. Minnesota went 8 of 16 on third down tries and held the ball for 35:32, while the Giants were 2 of 12 (0 of 2 on fourth), holding the ball for 24:28.
Green Bay comes back from their bye week after getting some revenge on Detroit two Sundays ago, taking a 34-27 win over the Lions and Matthew Stafford at Lambeau. Green Bay led 31-10 at the half and then held off a late Lions’ second half rally to take the win in the land of Bratwrust, beer and cheese. Eddie Lacy ran for 103 of the Packers’ 123 yards on the ground, while the Lions tallied 50 and Rodgers threw for 205 yards and four TDs, with Stafford tossing three TDs and 385 yards in the air.
Including contests played at Yankee Stadium, Milwaukee County Stadium and the Yale Bowl, while Green Bay leads the series 27-23-2. the Giants have outscored Green Bay by a slim 924-923 and won the last two meetings, including a 27-13 win in the Meadowlands in 2012, while the Pack came away 38-35 winners in 2011, also in the Meadowlands. Green Bay’s favored by 7 1/2 and the over/under is 48. Both numbers sound reasonable. The Pack came into the week with a win before their bye week and they’ll start their second half of the schedule with the win. Green Bay may not cover the 7 1/2 but they do win at home.
Tampa Bay (1-3) at Carolina (1-3), 8:30 p.m. Monday on ESPN. The final game of week five features a pair of NFC South rivals squaring off in the Tar Heel State. It would have featured a pair of Heisman Trophy winners but now it’ll be Jameis Winston having the stage to himself as the defending NFC champs without Cam Newton host the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Bank of America Stadium.
Newton and Carolina were manhandled by Atlanta in the Georgia Dome last Sunday, this time falling to the Falcons 48-33. Atlanta, who led througout the entire contest, led 17-10 at the break and then the two teams slugged it out in the final 30 minutes of action. Matt Ryan burned Carolina for 503 yards and four TDs, including one to All-Pro wR Julio Jones (300 yards on 12 catches), while Newton (concussion) threw for 165 yards and a TD before being taken out of the contest. Atlanta outrushed Carolina 90-49 and the Panthers turned the ball over twice, allowing Atlanta to turn one of them into a TD to ice the contest away. Atlanta was 8 of 13 on third down tries and held the ball for 33:49, while Carolina was 7 of 16 on third down (1 of 1 on fourth), keeping the ball for 26:11.
Tampa Bay let a 7-7 tie against Denver get away from them, falling to the defending Super Bowl champs 27-7 in the Sunshine State. For the second week in a row, the Bucs trailed at the half, as Denver led 17-7 at the break and then went on to shutout the Buccaneers 10-0 in the final 30 minutes of play and for the second week in a row, Mother Nature got into the act, stopping play because of lightning in the area. Denver outrushed Tampa Bay 89-72 and sacked Winston five times, picking him off twice. The defending Super Bowl champs were 3 of 13 on third down tries, while keeping the ball for 31:24. As for Tampa Bay, they were 5 of 16 and 0 of 1, holding on to the ball for 28:36.
Carolina leads Tampa Bay 20-11 in the series, have outscored the Bucs 695-538 and won the last six contests in the series, including a sweep in the series last year (Tampa Bay’s last win in the series came in 2012, when they swept the series, taking wins in the Sunshine and Tar Heel States).
The first meeting took place in Tampa in week four and it was the first time that the two Heisman winners met. Both Newton (124 yards) and Winston (287 yards) threw a pair of TDs and each was sacked twice but Winston was picked off four times as Carolina took a 37-23 win at Raymond James Stadium. Carolina led 17-10 at the intermission and then proceeded to pull away from Tampa Bay, outscoring the Bucs 20-14 in the final 30 minutes of action. Tampa Bay’s Doug Martin ran for 106 (TD) of his team’s 141 yards, outpacing Carolina, who had 133. Although Tampa Bay turned the ball over five times, they kept it for 32:08, going 8 of 16 and 2 of 2 on third and fourth downs, while Carolina was 3 of 11 on third down, keeping the ball for 27:52.
Second meeting? Charlotte… Bank of America Stadium… week 17. While the Bucs were out of the playoff picture, Carolina was preparing to take home-field advantage for the post-season and made that fact known, taking a 24-3 lead at the half and coming away 38-10 winners. Carolina outrushed Tampa Bay in the second contest 111-77 and while Winston threw for 325 yards, he was sacked twice and picked off twice, while Newton was sacked four times but still managed to throw for 293 yards and threw for a pair of TDs and ran for two more. In the second meeting, both teams did quite well on third down tries in the Tar Heel State (Carolina was 7 of 10, Tampa Bay 8 of 16, 1 of 2 on fourth down) and the Panthers ruled the clock in the second contest, keeping the ball for 31:50 to Tampa Bay’s 28:10.
On Monday night… Carolina is 8-5 and won their only MNF contest last year, while the Bucs are 10-9 under the lights and will play their first Monday game since 2013, where they were 1-0 in their only contest. Carolina’s favored by 4 1/2 and the over/under’s 44 1/2. It’s a pair of 1-3 teams in the NFC South basement and we wouldn’t blame you at all if you watched Scorpion this week instead of this game. Even without Cam, Carolina’s finer on Monday night and takes this one and could even cover the 4 1/2.
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Harris hot car death trial moving to Glynn County
There is white smoke coming from Cobb County.
No, they haven’t named another pope.
After weeks of jury selection in the Ross Harris “hot car death trial,” which got a lot more attention than some would have liked, causing the defense to ask for a change of venue, which they got.
Pack your bags. The Ross Harris circus is moving south to Glynn County (Brunswick). A trial that is already filled with more intrigue than a J.B. Fletcher mystery is moving 327 miles away from where the alledged crime took place.
During jury selection (voir dire), some jurors that were asked to fill out questionares to assist both the state and defense. Some of the commnents that were penned were less than favorable toward the defendant. Included were comments such as “I hate to use vulgarity but one juror used the words ‘rot in hell.’ Another used the word ‘pervert.’” So much for a fair trial in Marietta. With that, the process was started by Cobb County court officials to move the high-profile trial to another location. Judge Mary Staley granted a change-of-venue motion because so many potential jurors had already formed an opinion on whether Ross Harris had murdered his son, Cooper.
Harris is accused of intentionally leaving his 2-year-old son in a hot car to die for more than seven hours in June 2014 while he was at work for Home Depot. Harris’ legal team asked for the change of venue after lawyers had grilled some 90 jurors. Around half had opinions so strong about Harris’ guilt they were not suitable for the jury and the intensity of those opinions seemed to surprise even the judge.
Cobb County Court Adminstrator Tom Charron told WSB-TV and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, “I know the judge wants this case to be scheduled and tried before the end of the year.”
“Experience has shown us when you have a remote location that jurors interest in the case is not that compelling as it is when it is in their own backyard,” defense attorney Esther Panitch said.
Jury selection may only take a few weeks in Brunswick because the residents in Glynn County, south of Savannah, aren’t as vested in the case as those in Cobb County. “You have jurors who are a lot more aware than you do when it comes from somewhere else and experience has shown us that when you have a remote location that jurors interest in the case is not that compelling as it is when it is in their own backyard,” Charron said.
In case you’re wondering, the Harris case is not the first in recent history to be moved from Cobb County.
Stacey Humphreys, now on death row for killing two real estate agents, was tried in Brunswick. Lynn Turner, who poisoned her police officer husband, was found guilty in Perry, Georgia. Turner later committed suicide in her prison cell taking pills that she had stashed away.
While moving a trial of this nature from where the crime took place to another jurisdiction is not easy and can be somewhat miserable, former Cobb County District Attorney Pat Head says that the state has an advantage.
Head told WSB, “In those cases where we went to Brunswick, the DA there provided us with some space. We had copy machines available to us if we needed something like an investigator to look at something he’d provide us with that.”
The tentative date for jury selection would be around September 12th and the trial could take place soon after that. Harris is looking at life in prison for the death of his 2-year old son. He faces one charge of malice murder, two counts of felony murder, first-degree cruelty to children, second-degree cruelty to children, criminla attempt to commit a Felony (sexual explotation) and two counts of dissemination of harmful material to minors (he alledgedly posted pornographic photos of himself to a minor).
So the Ross Harris trial (or circus) moves to south Georgia and will take place about a week after Labor Day and the start of the high school football season. Let’s hope that this jury plays a little nicer.
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Falcons host winless Tampa Bay in Thursday night contest in the Big Peach
Tampa Bay (0-2) at Atlanta (1-1), 8:25 p.m. (CBS, Georgia Dome) A pair of NFC South rivals square off in a short week in Atlanta as the Falcons host Tampa Bay, who seeks their first win after an 0-2 start in the 2014 campaign.
Once again, the Buccaneers suffered another loss at home at Raymond James Stadium, this time falling to St. Louis 19-17. In that contest against the Rams, Tampa Bay led 17-16 with under five minutes to play before the Rams marched down the field, taking the lead for keeps on a 38-yard field goal by K Greg Zuerlein with 38 seconds left in the contest. Both the Rams and Bucs managed to rush for over 100 yards Sunday afternoon (St. Louis ran for 119, while Tampa Bay had 157; Buccaneers RB Bobby Rainey ran for 144 of those in a losing cause). Tampa Bay was 4 of 8 on third down tries, while the Rams were 5 of 11. St. Louis won the time of possesion battle in the Sunshine State, keeping the ball for 32:05 to Tampa Bay’s 27:55.
“It was a tough loss but in this league it’s about bouncing back,” Ryan told WSB-TV, WXIA-TV, WAGA-TV, WGCL-TV and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “It comes quickly for us this week. We’ll take a quick look at the Cincy game and try to make some corrections and move on. It is a good thing we’re going on Thursday.”
Atlanta returns to the Big Peach after their 24-10 loss to Cincinnati last Sunday. The Falcons trailed the Bengals 10-3 at the break, thanks in part to Cincy K Mike Nugent missing a pair of field goals in the first half. Cincinnati would then run away from the Falcons in the second half, outscoring Atlanta 14-7 in the final 30 minutes of action. Falcons Ryan was sacked twice and threw three interceptions and the Falcons’ running game was held to 97 yards on the afternoon. Neither team did anything to write home about on third down tries in the early afternoon game (Atlanta was 3 of 12 and 1 of 2 on fourth down; Cincinnati was 6 of 14) and the clock favored the home team, who kept the ball for 32:59, while the Falcons kept it for 27:01.
Tampa Bay holds a slim 21-20 lead in the series and have outscored the Falcons 875-780. Both teams have split the last 6 contests, including last year’s meetings in the Big Peach and the Sunshine State and both teams have won those meetings in their home parks.
With regard to Thursday night play, the Falcons are 5-4, while Tampa Bay is 2-3.
Atlanta won the first contest in the 2013 campaign in the Georgia Dome in week seven, taking a 31-23 win. In that contest, although Atlanta was held to 18 yards rushing, Ryan did manage to lead his ball club, throwing for 273 yards and three TDs in the contest, while the Falcons defense sacked Bucs QB Mike Glennon twice in the win. Atlanta led 27-10 at the half before Tampa Bay pulled closer, thanks to a pair of Ryan Lindel field goals. Tampa Bay would eventually pull to a 31-23 deficit but could come no closer.
Neither team did well on third down tries in the Peach State. Tampa Bay was 5 of 17 (3 of 3 on fourth down), while keeping the ball for 37:49. Atlanta didn’t do much better themselves on third down conversions, going 3 of 9 and kept the ball for 22:11.
The Bucs got revenge on their NFC South rivals in the Sunshine State in week 11, taking the Falcons down 41-28. Tampa Bay led 24-6 at the intermission and then held off Atlanta, who outscored them in the second half 22-17. Both teams did manage to break the 100-yard rushing barrier (Atlanta with 152, Tampa Bay with 186, of which Rainey had 163 and a pair of TDs) and the Bucs defense once again made life miserable for Ryan, sacking him three times and picking him off twice. Neither team did well on third down conversions in the second meeting (Atlanta was 1 of 7 and 1 of 2 on fourth down, Tampa Bay was 3 of 11 and 1 of 2 on fourth down) and the clock was in favor of the Bucs, holding the ball for 33:14, while Atlanta kept it for 26:46.
In the week seven meeting in the Dome, the Falcons were favored by 7 and the over/under was 43. Atlanta covered the spread with the eight-point win and both teams covered the over/under by scoring 54 win. The second contest in the Sunshine State in week 11 saw the Falcons favored by 1 1/2 with the over/under at 43 1/2. Tampa Bay covered the 1 1/2, winning by 13 and the over/under wound up being 69.
The Falcons on Thursday night are favored by 6 1/2 and the over/under for the Thursday night contest in the Big Peach is 44 1/2. Two NFC South rivals, separated by 457 miles and a 7 hour and 39 minute drive up I-75. Atlanta takes this one and covers the 6 1/2.
Broadcast Information: CBS/NFLN (8:25 PM ET): Jim Nantz, Phil Simms, Tracy Wolfson (Field reporter). Westwood One: Ian Eagle, Mike Mayock, Derek Rackley (Field reporter). SIRIUS: 88 (WestWood1), 93 (Tampa Bay), 92 (Atlanta). XM: 88 (WestWood1), 225 (Tampa Bay), 226 (Atlanta).
Weather Information: Game indoors.
OUT: LB Mason Foster (shoulder), TE Austin Seferian-Jenkins (ankle)
QUESTIONABLE:DE Michael Johnson (ankle), RB Doug Martin (knee), DT Gerald McCoy (hand)
PROBABLE: DT Da’Quan Bowers (abdomen), C Evan Dietrich-Smith (back), T Demar Dotson (hamstring), DE William Gholston (shoulder), G Logan Mankins (knee), S Bradley McDougald (knee)
QUESTIONABLE: WR Roddy White (hamstring)
PROBABLE: WR Julio Jones (ankle), T Jake Matthews (ankle), LB Prince Shembo (knee)
Odds courtesy USA Today and Don’s Bets, Weather courtesy The Weather Channel, Broadcast and injury information courtesy the National Football League.
Tags Atlanta Falcons, CBS, NFL Network, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Thursday Night Football
Categories Atlanta, CBS, NFL, NFL Network, Sports
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Archives for posts with tag: Rob Riggle
Riggle to host NFL Honors Saturday night
Emmy-nominated actor and comedian Rob Riggle will take the stage as host of NFL HONORS on Saturday, February 3 at Northrop at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. The two-hour primetime awards special recognizing the NFL’s best players, performances and plays from the 2017 season will air nationally at 9 p.m. Eastern and Pacific on NBC.
Riggle announced the news on his social media with the following video: https://tinyurl.com/ybl2pv94.
Riggle, who recently retired from the Marine Corps Reserve after 23 years of service, has been a staple in comedic film for more than 15 years. Widely known for his memorable roles in films such as The Hangover, Step Brothers and The Other Guys, Riggle can currently be seen in Warner Bros.’ 12 Strong, his first dramatic turn opposite Chris Hemsworth, Michael Shannon and Michael Peña. Following up with another dramatic role, Riggle will co-star Bella Thorne and Patrick Schwarzenegger in Open Road Films’, Midnight Sun, opening March 23 and he is currently in production on Universal’s upcoming comedy, Night School, opposite Kevin Hart and Tiffany Haddish, which is set to release September 28.
Riggle is also a mainstay in television. Known for his four-year stint as a correspondent on the Emmy Award-winning The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, he went on to be a cast member on Saturday Night Live and currently appears in a recurring role as “The President of the Navy” in the Adult Swim comedy-action series NTSF:SD:SUV:. Other television credits include 30 Rock, The Office, Arrested Development, Modern Family, The League and New Girl.
In addition to his various film and television appearances, Riggle is a stand-up comedian and improv actor who spent seven years studying, teaching and performing at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater. Riggle began his comedy career in 1997 while still on active duty in the Marine Corps, serving in Marine Corps Aviation and later in Public Affairs on active duty and in the Marine Corps Reserve. During his 23-year military career, Riggle was deployed to Afghanistan, Albania, Kosovo and Liberia and earned more than 22 medals and ribbons.
NFL Honors, which debuted in Indianapolis in 2012, is an annual event hosted from the Super Bowl city the evening before the AFC and NFC champions meet. Riggle joins Alec Baldwin Keegan-Michael Key, Seth Meyers and Conan O’Brien on the list of award-winning celebrities to host the NFL’s awards show.
Music for the show will be performed by vocalist-instrumentalist Spencer Ludwig. The trumpeter, singer and songwriter wowed audiences at a string of festivals, including Lollapalooza and Austin City Limits, in 2017 and opened for Bebe Rexha on her North American and European tours. Ludwig signed a worldwide record deal as a solo artist with Warner Bros. Records in 2015 and was previously the featured trumpeter for the multi-Platinum band Capital Cities.
The show includes the announcement of THE ASSOCIATED PRESS’ annual accolades and the newest PRO FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME class. Preceding NBC’s telecast, NFL Network will air “Super Bowl Saturday Night” at 8 p.m. Eastern covering all the sights and sounds from the Red Carpet at NFL Honors.
The full list of awards that will be presented is:
AP Most Valuable Player Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year presented by Nationwide
AP Coach of the Year AP Comeback Player of the Year
AP Offensive Player of the Year presented by Microsoft AP Defensive Player of the Year
AP Offensive Rookie of the Year AP Defensive Rookie of the Year
Bridgestone Elite Performance Play of the Year
FedEx Air & Ground Players of the Year
Salute To Service Award presented by USAACourtyard’s Greatness on the Road Award
Deacon Jones Award Art Rooney Sportsmanship Award
Built Ford Tough Offensive Line of the YearCastrol EDGE Clutch Performer of the Year
Touchdown Celebration of the YearGame Changer Award presented by Secret
Tags NBC, NFL, NFL Honors, Rob Riggle, Sports, Super Bowl LII
Categories Super Bowl LII, Uncategorized
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