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Gretchen Wilson Loves Harry Styles
Laura McClellan
Who would have thought when we first heard Gretchen Wilson declare herself a "Redneck Woman" that she’d one day be declaring her admiration for a former boyband frontman?
Well, stranger things have happened. In a new interview with Rolling Stone Country, Wilson admits she is all-in for One Direction's Harry Styles and his solo sound.
"You listen to Harry Styles' new album and it is real. There are no machines. You can tell that the band speeds up, slows down. It's real songwriting, singing and is almost like listening to vinyl in the seventies. I love it," she says.
Wilson has a daughter, who she says turned her on to Styles and his four buds. “I’ve driven all the way across this country to go to One Direction concerts,” Wilson admits. But there’s something about Styles’ new music that she says gives her hope about the future of country music: it’s something real.
"Country music swings so often and every few years it goes back to more traditional stuff. I think kids are going back toward something real, rather than something manufactured. And that is what gives me hope," she shares.
These Singers Prove Traditional Country Is Alive and Well
With the advent of artists like Chris Stapleton, Maren Morris and Sturgill Simpson, she may be onto something. Though it’s been a while since her “Redneck Woman” heyday, the artist has been consistently working on and releasing music, raising her daughter and living content.
"Do you know how many times I heard, 'You're going to step away for three years? This may not be here for you!'" she relates. "But I can go sling drinks at the local tavern and live in a mobile home. I'm just me. And I never let anybody tell me what to do. I do what is right for me and those closest to me."
Wilson's new record, Ready to Get Rowdy, includes 12 tracks, each of which she co-wrote, including a duet with Kid Rock. It’s called “Bad Feeling,” and she actually wrote about him.
"It was written about him and a situation I saw him in with his now fiancée. At the time things weren't looking good, and I saw him at an awards ceremony and he was looking like a lost puppy dog. I said, 'What did you do?' I never got into specifics with either of them about what happened, but I went home that night and just imagined what was going through his head and her head," Wilson says. "But that's not what's happening in his world – his fiancée has a beautiful rock on."
Ready to Get Rowdy dropped June 16. The most recent single, “Summertime Town,” shows a more mellow side of the usually-raucous Wilson and follows the first single, appropriately titled “Rowdy.”
6 Super Forgettable Country Crossovers
Next: How Faith Hill Inspired 'Redneck Woman'
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Tag Archives: Mardi Gras
Internal Memo for Thursday, 3/7/19
March 7, 2019 The Chairman2020 Democratic Primary, Alex Trebek, Anna, Anna from Accounting, antidepressants, Apple, brand value, business, California, Central America, Chairman, Chairman of the Bored, Connecticut, Costa Rica, Donald Trump, Emmanuel Macron, ESPN, Federal Reserve, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, France, French, French President Emmanuel Macron, funny, Gate C, Homeland Security, Homeland Security Department, James Dolan, Jeopardy!, Jerry, Kirstjen Nielsen, Mardi Gras, Melania Trump, Mike Pence, NBA, NBA referees, New York Knicks, news, NFL, NFL Combine, Parking Lot 5, Potent Potables, Santa Anita Racetrack, Smashing Pumpkins, The Chairman, The Chairman of the Bored, Tim Cook, Tim Donaghy, Trump, Trump Administration Leave a comment
Dear Caravan Migrants,
My apologies for the delay in releasing this week’s memo- we have been in the midst of a MAJOR CRISIS. In light of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen’s disturbing testimony yesterday, I am instituting a hiring freeze on potential employees from all Central American countries. I am also ordering the erection of an intentionally disorganized tent city near Gate C at Parking Lot 5 to house all those who came for interviews but will no longer be admitted. For decades, these countries have been sending the company their worst, and we are just now realizing it. I have been asleep at the wheel, but rest assured that from now on, I will be very “woke.”
California’s Santa Anita Racetrack has suspended racing indefinitely after 21 horses had to be put down over the past 2 months. Experts predict the 2020 Democratic primary will soon be canceled for similar reasons.
According to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 7 million Americans are at least 90 days overdue on their car payments, a worrying sign for the economy. The news comes at the start of year three of the controversial Trump administration policy “Too Small Not To Fail.”
Anna from Accounting, 900 beads??
Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek has been diagnosed with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer. When asked how hard the condition will be to treat, Trebek replied, “It’s not too bad- maybe a $600 in Potent Potables.”
An unvaccinated French child has reportedly reintroduced the measles virus to Costa Rica while on vacation there with his family. French President Emmanuel Macron has said he worries the incident will ruin the French reputation for being “an extremely hygienic people.”
Jerry, your “brand value” is not $4 billion.
Last April, police fined a Connecticut man for using a cell phone while driving, but the driver maintains that the phone in question was actually a hash brown. When asked by a judge why he did not eat the hash brown at any point, the man replied, “Cause I was busy on my phone.”
A novel antidepressant is poised to come on the market, the first such drug to debut in decades. Doctors are calling the drug “three years too late.”
In honor of this week’s NFL combine, stop by the second-floor cafeteria for your comprehensive physical evaluation! Remember, your short shuttle time determines your health insurance premium.
A new in-depth report by ESPN has revealed that disgraced former NBA referee Tim Donaghy not only bet on games he officiated, but may have fixed their outcomes. “We have officially launched an internal investigation,” New York Knicks owner James Dolan said of the report, “into whether Tim Donaghy refereed every single Knicks game of the past twenty years.”
At a recent advisory committee meeting, Donald Trump called Apple CEO Tim Cook “Tim Apple.” Trump later said he meant it as a term of endearment, like “Mike VP” or “Melania Stockholm Syndrome.”
Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a chain-link fence enclosed into a chamber on a concrete floor.
Internal Memo for Saturday, 2/13/16
February 13, 2016 The ChairmanAndy Murray, Anna, Bernie Sanders, Beyonce, Budweiser, business, Donald Trump, Einstein, Formation, funny, gravitational waves, Internal Memos, January Jones, Jerry, Kanye West, Kim Kardashian, Mardi Gras, Marie Kondo, Martin O'Malley, news, North Korea, Peyton Manning, Super Bowl, Taylor Swift, Ted Cruz Leave a comment
Happy Lent, sheeple! In celebration of our oldest and Christianest holiday, I’ve decided to give up not writing memos for forty days! No, that doesn’t mean you’ll be getting a memo a day (who has time for that?), but it does mean you’ll be getting them regularly from now until the end of time. Seeing as North Korea just tested a long-range missile, I should be off the hook soon. Business!
It was revealed last week that Bernie Sanders is the only presidential candidate who pays his interns, at a rate of $10.10 an hour. Upon hearing the news, Donald Trump began paying his previously unpaid interns $15 an hour. When asked about his decision, Trump replied, “I will not be thought of as cheaper than a Jew.”
Japanese decluttering guru Marie Kondo, author of the popular book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, is in New York City this month, filming herself helping local residents tidy their homes. When asked how she felt after interviewing several prospective clients, Kondo replied, “I’m a little surprised… I’ve never seen so much live-action porn.”
Everybody throw some beads at Anna from Sales! No, she didn’t flash anyone at our annual Mardi Gras fête, but she did ferry 23 employees with alcohol poisoning to the ER. Safest year yet!
A team of scientists has announced the detection of “gravitational waves,” the final piece needed to fulfill Einstein’s general theory of relativity. These particular waves, created when two black holes slam forcefully into one another, were a result of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West having sex.
Speaking of West, he and Taylor Swift are at odds again after West raps about having sex with the popstar on his forthcoming album. As West has yet to release the track in question, there is no word yet on whether or not he lets Swift finish.
After a 408-2 vote in the House of Representatives, the United States Congress has passed new sanctions against North Korea, as the rogue nation continues to develop its nuclear weapons program. When informed of the bill’s passage, former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley exclaimed, “How’d North Korea get two votes?”
Jerry, you did not send HGH to Peyton Manning’s wife.
In one of his final interviews from aboard the International Space Station, American astronaut Scott Kelly said the Earth’s atmosphere looks “very, very fragile,” citing parts of Asia and Central America as the most polluted. Kelly, who is white, was immediately decried as racist, censured by the United Nations, and jettisoned into the vast nothingness of space, never to return again.
Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz recently pulled a campaign ad titled “Conservatives Anonymous” because it featured a former softcore porn actress. Amy Lindsay, whose onscreen credits include Erotic Confessions,Deviant Whores, and Star Trek: Voyager, lambasted Cruz on Twitter, revealing that Cruz had told her on set that he “had seen all her films” and admired her “perky, elliptical nipples.”
How bout that Super Bowl, am I right? I mean, was that the Super Bowl or The Wiz Live? Right? Formation!
Scottish tennis player Andy Murray became a father this week, when wife Kim Sears gave birth to a healthy baby girl. The child was due several years ago but, like her father, she took much longer than expected to break through.
January Jones sparked pregnancy rumors by showing up at the Super Bowl with what appeared to be a baby bump. The identity of the child’s father is unknown, but it has been confirmed that he is a better actor than its mother.
I’m gonna drink a whole lotta Budweiser tonight, that’s for sure.
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Story: Sex work
19th-century sex work
New Zealand Prostitutes’ Collective
Legislation and decriminalisation
Sex workers and clients
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New Zealand Prostitutes' Collective premises
NZPC publications: safe sex poster (1st of 4)
Catherine Healy
From isolation to visibility
For many years sex workers were a socially marginalised group with little political power or influence. Few people championed their rights. From the 1970s the women's liberation movement saw greater attention given to sex workers. Books were published about their experiences, and sex workers began talking to one another about their work and how conditions could be better.
Power to the prostitutes
In its mission statement, the New Zealand Prostitutes’ Collective describes itself as agitating ‘for the rights, health, and well-being of all sex workers. … [The collective] is committed to working for the empowerment of sex workers, so that sex workers can have control over all aspects of their work and their lives.’1
Organising sex workers
The New Zealand Prostitutes’ Collective (NZPC) was set up in 1987 by a small group of current and former sex workers to improve the situation of those in the industry and work for their rights. They initially faced some opposition and resistance – just getting listed in the telephone directory was a battle.
At this time there was great concern about the spread of HIV/AIDS. The collective’s commitment to promoting safer sex practices within the sex industry helped it to secure government funding and support.
Services for sex workers
By the 21st century NZPC had offices and community centres in many parts of the country. It provided free information to sex workers and those considering sex work, particularly about safe sex and the use of condoms. It also operated free and anonymous sexual health clinics, distributed safer sex products and coordinated information about ‘ugly mugs’ – dangerous and abusive clients. The collective was also involved in several research projects into the different aspects of the sex industry.
The smell of Viagra
NZPC national coordinator Catherine Healy debated that ‘this house would decriminalise prostitution’ at the Oxford Union, England, in 2010. She was only the second New Zealander to take part in the prestigious debate. The first was Prime Minister David Lange, who famously quipped that he could smell uranium on the opposing speaker’s breath as he debated the defensibility of nuclear weapons in 1985. Healy referred to Lange’s joke, commenting sardonically that opponents of decriminalisation thought that the sex industry was burgeoning, and that New Zealanders had all quit their day jobs and had Viagra on their breath. Her team won the debate.
Public relations and lobbying
NZPC national coordinator Catherine Healy – who has held the position since the collective was set up – has earned the respect of many politicians and community members through her efforts to have sex workers' rights recognised and protected. The collective's major success has been the decriminalisation of prostitution. This was achieved with the passing of the Prostitution Reform Act 2003.
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‘About NZPC.’ New Zealand Prostitutes’ Collective, http://www.nzpc.org.nz/page.php?page_name=About Us (last accessed 3 May 2019). Back
Jan Jordan, 'Sex work - New Zealand Prostitutes’ Collective', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/sex-work/page-3 (accessed 16 July 2019)
Story by Jan Jordan, published 5 May 2011, reviewed & revised 31 May 2018
Voluntary welfare organisations
Women’s labour organisations
Women’s movement
Hōkakatanga – Māori sexualities
Te whānau tamariki – pregnancy and birth
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Junk food Tax Is Legally and Administratively Viable
By Sondra Forsyth
An original analysis by researchers at New York University College of Global Public Health and the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University finds that a federal tax on junk food is both legally and administratively feasible.
The article, published online in January 2018 in the American Journal of Public Health, points to using an excise tax paid by junk food manufacturers, rather than a sales tax for consumers.
A release from the university quotes Jennifer L. Pomeranz, JD, MPH, assistant professor of public health policy and management at NYU College of Global Public Health and the article’s lead author, as saying, “Economic and social environments can influence food choice in beneficial and harmful directions. Our finding that a federal manufacturer excise junk food tax – defined through product category or combined category-nutrient approaches – appears to be legally and administratively feasible and has strong implications for nutrition policy.”
Unhealthy eating is a leading risk factor for obesity and other life-threatening diseases, including cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes. One strategy governments use to improve diet is creating policies that change the price of food and beverages, either through taxing unhealthy foods or offering subsidies for healthier foods.
While local taxes on soda and other sugar-sweetened beverages are rapidly growing in popularity and political acceptance, the idea of a national soda or junk food tax – which would have far broader effects than local taxes – has not yet gained political traction.
“Junk food taxes have the potential to substantially reduce the disease burden that results from unhealthy food and beverage consumption in the United States,” said Renata Micha, RD, PhD, associate research professor at the Friedman School at Tufts and one of the study’s senior authors.
Key policy questions include how foods to be taxed would be defined and what the appropriate taxing mechanism would be. In order to address these gaps in knowledge, the NYU and Tufts research team evaluated the scientific literature, recent legislative experiences from the U.S. and other countries on defining targeted foods, U.S. federal taxing and administrative mechanisms, and potential differences by tax purpose and type.
To assess how food could be defined in a federal tax, they examined the scientific literature for recommendations on defining targeted products for junk food taxes, as well as existing U.S. and international legislation. The researchers identified four methods of classifying foods: by product category (such as soda or candy), broad nutrient criteria, specific nutrients or calories, or a combination. Some of the research also recommended a graduated taxation strategy, where the tax increases as the nutritional quality of the food decreases (for instance, as the sugar content increases, the tax increases).
Similarly, local U.S. junk food tax bills and laws, international junk food laws, and U.S. soda taxes supported taxing foods using category-based, nutrient-based, or combination approaches. The most frequently targeted categories were sugar-sweetened beverages, candy, processed meat products, and sweet and salty snacks, and the most frequently targeted nutrients were sugar, calories, and salt. No legislation used a broad nutrition criteria approach alone, targeted single nutrients other than sugar alone, or taxed foods by level of processing.
Looking at the U.S. federal taxing mechanisms and the tax code, they sought to determine which type of tax – sales or excise – would be the most administratively feasible. Excise taxes are generally charged on the manufacture, distribution, or sale of commodities; revenue can be earmarked for a specific purpose, and the taxed entity determines the extent to which it will pass on the tax to consumers. Sales taxes are paid by consumers and collected by sellers to remit to the taxing authority. The U.S. federal government does not have sales taxes, but it does administer dozens of manufacturer excise taxes.
The researchers found that U.S. food tax bills and laws with a nutritional purpose and junk food taxes in Hungary and Mexico overwhelmingly use an excise tax mechanism. In addition, U.S. manufacturer excise taxes on alcohol – which are based on ingredient levels and processing, and in the case of wine, increase along with the amount of alcohol in the product – offer an informative model that could be adopted for junk food taxes.
From legal and administrative perspectives, the researchers conclude that a federal junk food tax appears feasible. The scientific literature and existing bills and laws support defining junk food through product-specific categories, or a combination of product-specific categories and nutrients, with additional support for a graduated taxation strategy where the tax increases as the nutritional quality of the food decreases. Administratively, federal taxes and taxing mechanisms support the viability of a junk food excise tax paid by food manufacturers.
“One advantage of a manufacturer excise tax is that food companies may be incentivized to reformulate their products if nutrition criteria are incorporated into the tax,” Pomeranz said.
In addition to Pomeranz and Micha, study authors include Parke Wilde, Yue Huang, and Dariush Mozaffarian of the Friedman School at Tufts. Funding for this research was provided by the National Institutes of Health, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (R01HL130735).
About the NYU College of Global Public Health:
At the College of Global Public Health (CGPH) at New York University (NYU), we are preparing the next generation of public health pioneers with the critical thinking skills, acumen and entrepreneurial approaches necessary to reinvent the public health paradigm. Devoted to employing a nontraditional, inter-disciplinary model, CGPH aims to improve health worldwide through a unique blend of global public health studies, research and practice. CGPH is located in the heart of New York City and extends to NYU’s global network on six continents. Innovation is at the core of our ambitious approach, thinking and teaching. http://publichealth.nyu.edu/.
About the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University:
The Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University is the only independent school of nutrition in the United States. The school’s eight degree programs – which focus on questions relating to nutrition and chronic diseases, molecular nutrition, agriculture and sustainability, food security, humanitarian assistance, public health nutrition, and food policy and economics – are renowned for the application of scientific research to national and international policy.
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Rock'n Bac'n Brew'n featuring The Johnny Holm Band
Sat. Mar 30, 2019 at 3:00pm CDT
The Johnny Holm Band, one of the most widely known and traveled bands in America, dedicates their show to the fans, and they do most of the entertaining. Mostly impromptu, the show moves with the speed of lightning and changes direction as soon as "the pied piper" notices a lag. "Never a dull moment" was never a more true description. Surrounding himself with the finest musicians in the Midwest, Johnny Holm and his band rocks, picks, and thunders along for 3-4 hours, almost non-stop from the first song to the last laugh.
"The Johnny Holm Band was a huge hit when they headlined here for RAGBRAI in 2017," said Fair & Events Center CEO Jeremy Parsons. "A repeat performance by this high energy band will be a great addition to Rock’n Bac’n Brew’n."
In its fifth year, Rock’n, Bac’n Brew’n will again offer sampling of craft beer and bacon specialties. Sampling for the event will be from 3:00pm – 6:00pm. In addition to samples, the Iowa Beer Bus will be back serving pints from your favorite brewery, and food trucks will be on site serving up your pork-tastic favorites. The bacon-eating contest returns and the second annual stein-hoisting contest will be held from 6:00pm – 7:00pm.
Tickets, which include 10 sampling choices and admission to the concert, are on sale now. Tickets are $17 in advance, $20 day of show and can be purchased at the Events Center Box Office (M-F, 9a-5p), online at www.midwestix.com, or charge by phone 515-244-2771.
About The Clay County Fair & Events Center
Rooted in Tradition, the Clay County Fair and Events Center is a year-round facility that annually hosts more than 300 events, including its signature event, the Clay County Fair. Known as "The World’s Greatest County Fair" since 1917, the Clay County Fair attracts more than 300,000 guests each September for nine-days of world-class entertainment, competition, food, fun, and the largest farm machinery show at any fair in the United States. Additional information can be found at claycountyfair.com.
Clay County Regional Events Center 800 W 18th St.
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Chris Boardman - Biography and Images
Olympic medallist Christopher Boardman, MBE, is one of Britain’s most successful cyclists. In 1992 he won an individual pursuit gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics and then went on to win the Individual Time Trial bronze medal at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta.
Chris’ cycling achievements also include being crowned World 4000 meter Pursuit Champion in 1994 and 1996 (which he still holds the record for); World Time Trial Champion, wearing the coveted yellow jersey after winning the opening prologue time trial three times in the Tour De France and World One Hour Record holder, which he has held three times.
Over the years Chris has shared his knowledge and passion for cycling with others from writing books, to advising on documentaries about the sport. Chris previously worked as the Director of Coaching for the British Cycling’s Olympic Programs and is currently Head of Research and Development for the British Olympic Cycling Team.
In 1992 his services to British cycling received official recognition when Chris was awarded an MBE by the Queen.
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JJ Chalmers: Biography and Images
John-James “JJ” Chalmers – born 1987 – is a television presenter and Invictus Games medallist. He served in Helmand, Afghanistan as a Royal Marine with 42 Commando. In May 2011 he sustained devastating injuries in an IED blast in Afghanistan… Read more
Leon Taylor: Biography and Images
Leon Taylor – born 2 November 1977 – is a former competitive diver. Taylor represented Great Britain at three Summer Olympic Games and was a member of the Great Britain team for 16 years wining medals at all major international… Read more
Hugh Porter: Biography and Images
Hugh Porter MBE began cycling at the age of 16 and went on to become one of Britain’s greatest professional cyclists. During his career Hugh was four time World Champion for the Individual Pursuit as well as a gold medallist… Read more
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French Police Search For Suspect in Deadly Strasbourg Shooting
A massive manhunt is underway in France for the gunman who killed three people and wounded 13 others in an attack at the Christmas market in the center of Strasbourg.
French officials deployed hundreds of security forces Wednesday in the search after the suspect escaped from the market following the shooting Tuesday night.
France raised its security threat level to “emergency attack,” adding tighter border controls while security is boosted at other Christmas markets.
Interior Minister Christophe Castaner traveled to Strasbourg to open a terror investigation, but the gunman’s motive was unknown.
Authorities have identified the suspect as 29-year-old Cherif Chekatt and said he was on a watch list of suspected extremists.
Police went to his home earlier in the day Tuesday in connection with a murder investigation, but he was not there at the time.
A witness told reporters that one of those killed in the attack was a tourist from Thailand who was shot in the head and did not respond to emergency treatment.
Strasbourg is headquarters of the European Parliament. The building was put on temporary lockdown after the shooting.
The market is set up around the Strasbourg cathedral and attracts hundreds of thousands of tourists every year. Authorities say they have long been on the alert for an attack on the market since a foiled a terror plot in Strasbourg on New Year’s Eve, 1999.
France is no stranger to extremist attacks. Islamic State claimed responsibility for two nights of bombings and shootings in Paris in November 2015, killing 130, months after a deadly shooting at a French satirical magazine and hostage taking in a kosher supermarket.
A terrorist truck attack in Nice in 2016 left 86 dead.
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попереднє попереднє: Sustainable Tree Farming Means Better Lives for Kenyan Farmers
наступне наступне: UN Chief Returns as Climate Talks Teeter Closer to Collapse
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Main PageStories and best practicesBuilding not only knowledge, but a community, too: Training session series for the development of community supported agriculture
Provide practice-oriented training to those who want to establish producers’ and consumers’ communities – that was the idea the excellent implementation of which won the Association of Conscious Consumers an Erasmus+ Quality Award. During the training which they had developed, both beginner and experienced farmers had a lot to learn, from the basics through community building to production know-how. Implemented in cooperation with foreign partners, word of the training series spread as far as Asia. Coordinator Zsófia Perényi told us about the results.
Building not only knowledge, but a community, too: Training session series for the development of community supported agriculture
Institution: Association of Conscious Consumers
Project title: Be part of CSA! – European Participatory Training Programme for Community Supported Agriculture
Coordinator: Zsófia Perényi
Website: tudatosvasarlo.hu/kepzessorozat
Why did you think adult education was necessary in this very field?
More and more consider it important to have access to clean food which comes from reliable and natural sources, preferably from smallholder farmers. At the same time, for many producers it’s vital to have a constant customer base for vegetables, fruit juice or other produces such as meat or eggs. There are many people who have already become aware of this parallel, so in Hungary, too, there is a growing number of producer and customer communities from which both parties can benefit. The – mostly urban – customers conclude a kind of contract with certain smallholder farmers for the whole season and the farmers continuously supply them with fresh produces. Sustainable food consumption, and within that, this activity, have been a long-standing priority for the Association of Conscious Consumers, so we seek to disseminate this approach and the related information. We found that, whereas the latter is more or less available in Hungary, the transfer of practical knowledge and motivation is insufficient.
The preparation and elaboration of such extensive programmes often requires more time than implementation itself. Was it so in this case, too?
Yes, we could say that, since the four-module adult education training series was completed within half a year, but the preparations which had preceded it required at least one year.At the same time, I couldn't say the two parts are entirely separate, either, since it's a test programme, where the curriculum changed quite a lot even after we’d started.On a farm, a lot of things may come up which only become clear to us during conversations. And that, exactly, was our goal:to develop a useful curriculum which the participants themselves can influence, and the final form of which can be shaped relying on the experiences of the first training session.
Which are the programme elements that changed either during the Hungarian test period or the foreign sessions?
It was interesting – and unexpected – to find that certain techniques triggered completely different responses in different countries. Romanian farmers, for example, disliked small group sessions and found it hard to speak in front of others. They needed more formal methods. In contrast, Hungarians liked role plays, where they addressed a certain dilemma putting themselves in each other's situations. Accordingly, we ended up writing alternatives in the final curriculum: users in different countries can choose from different approaches. We needed to word our publications in slightly different forms. In some places, a scientific-referencing form is preferred, whereas in Hungary, more informal books with infographics and images are preferred. Despite the fact that we address the same topic and set the same goal in each country, we need somewhat different routes to get there.
Is it also different who you can reach and motivate with this goal?
Yes, to some extent. In Hungary, both consumers and producers applied, whereas in the Czech Republic it was mostly the consumers, which also affected the curriculum there. There was also a module in each country which included a visit to a functioning farm. That was a success everywhere; in Romania so much so, for example, that, although it started off as a training course, eventually it turned into a network which still works fine. What can be regarded as unique in Hungary was that even experienced farmers attended the training course, so we needed to compile a material which was interesting to them, too, not only to beginners.
If I'm not mistaken, it may have created nice synergies, since it was not only up to the instructors to teach the participants, but they could also exchange best practices among themselves.
That's right; on these occasions, we don’t only build knowledge, but a community, too. The training sessions addressed both farmers and consumers, which provided an excellent opportunity for a dialogue and cooperation between the two parties. And since we offered answers to questions which were relevant to the applicants from the beginning, enthusiasm was guaranteed. But what we hadn't expected, either, was that the participants would travel to the venue already one day before the visit to the Herenycsény eco farm to set up their tents, cook and make a camp fire. That is the kind of proactivity which is a benefit beyond the organisers’ plans.
What do you suggest anybody who is about to launch a similar project should pay attention to?
What worked really well for us was the internal reporting. Every half a year, we ourselves requested a contentual and a financial report and checked how our partners were proceeding, in order to prevent any problematic situations. It’s also important to know that each partner has a different working culture, different experiences and human resources, so you must be flexible. It’s crucial that communication should be regular, and feedback likewise. We asked the participants, and even our partners about each step, and we also sent them the finished publication. And as for the training session, we always closed them with a questionnaire.
What indicates the functionality of your programme in practice? What do you consider a long-term outcome?
I think it’s already a success that there was heavy oversubscription for the training in Hungary. But the greatest pleasure was that already at the venue, partnerships were made which have launched new community-supported farms: altogether four such farms were established only in Hungary, with an increasing membership. There was mutual mentoring among the participants, and beginners and more experienced ones still keep in touch. The training materials, publications, the trainers’ manual and the planning manual are all available on the partner organisations’ website, as well, in Hungarian, Czech, Romanian, English and French, so we hope that other countries can adapt them, too. There’s already an example for that: we heard that the first such training series had been launched in Asia. It gives us a good feeling that through education we could help this global movement.
Zita Kempf, journalist
Project values: The innovative adult education programme developed can greatly contribute to establishing new types of partnerships between farmers and consumers, offering a secure living to farmers and an access to healthy and fresh products to consumers. The important long-term outcome of the project implementation can be the beneficial effect on building communities, driving citizen participation and the operation of participatory democracy, which is in strong harmony with both European and Hungarian priorities.
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
by Dee Brown
The "fascinating" #1 New York Times bestseller that awakened the world to the destruction of American Indians in the nineteenth-century West (The Wall Street Journal). First published in 1970, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee... See More
£8.89 £8.91 Price verified 3 hours ago
The Galvanized Yankees
The little-known true Civil War story of the Confederate soldiers who served in the Union Army by a #1 New York Times-bestselling author. Historian Dee Brown uncovers an exciting episode in American history: During the... See More
£8.10 £8.65 Save 6% Price verified 3 days ago
Action at Beecher Island: A Novel
A gripping recreation of a notoriously bloody clash between US Army scouts and American Indian warriors, by the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. Historian Dee Brown dramatically recounts the nine-day siege between... See More
£6.64 £8.63 Save 23% Price verified 3 days ago
Cavalry Scout: A Novel
A western saga of honor amid the nineteenth-century Indian wars from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. "I wished I was back in Texas and had never left there to end up scouting in... See More
Dee Brown on the Civil War: Grierson's Raid, The Bold Cavaliers, and The Galvanized Yankees
Three true tales of Civil War combat, as recounted by a #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. The acclaimed historian of the American West turns his attention to the country's bloody civil... See More
£17.27 £19.19 Save 10% Price verified 3 days ago
Creek Mary's Blood: A Novel
The New York Times-bestselling saga of Creek Indian Mary Musgrove and her descendants, whose lives parallel the American story through two centuries. In Creek Mary's Blood, Dee Brown fictionalizes the astonishing true... See More
Wondrous Times on the Frontier: America During the 1800s
A lively history of the nineteenth-century American West from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author: "Glorious... Do not miss a page." -- Rocky Mountain News Frontier life, Dee Brown writes, "was hard, unpleasant most... See More
The Fetterman Massacre: Fort Phil Kearny and the Battle of the Hundred Slain
"One of the best studies that has been made of any sector of the Indian wars" from the #1 bestselling author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (Chicago Tribune). This dark, unflinching, and fascinating book is Dee Brown's... See More
The Gentle Tamers: Women of the Old Wild West (Women of the West)
A fascinating history of women on America's western frontier by the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. Popular culture has taught us to picture the Old West as a land of men, whether... See More
£10.79 Price verified 3 days ago
The Bold Cavaliers: Morgan's Second Kentucky Cavalry Raiders
An "exciting" Civil War history of the Confederate cavalrymen, Morgan's Raiders, by the New York Times-bestselling author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (Kirkus Reviews). In this vibrant and thoroughly researched Civil... See More
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The Year of the Century, 1876
Dee Brown's sparkling account of a momentous year in American history In 1876, America was eager to celebrate its centenary, but questioned what might lie ahead. The American Republic had grown to four times its original... See More
Killdeer Mountain: A Novel
An intrepid reporter's investigation into the death of a controversial major reveals a surprising story of betrayal and redemption It is 1866, and Sam Morrison, reporter for the St. Louis Herald, is aboard a steamer bound... See More
The Girl from Fort Wicked: A Novel
A post-Civil War adventure of love, money, and determination from the bestselling author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. Captain Westcott receives the news that a wagon train has been raided. Two officers have been... See More
Conspiracy of Knaves: A Novel of Civil War Espionage
Dee Brown's captivating novel based on the true story of the Chicago Conspiracy Dee Brown, author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, turns to the Civil War for this rollicking tale of romance and intrigue. The story is based... See More
The Native American Experience: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, The Fetterman Massacre, and Creek Mary's Blood
Three powerful tales from the acclaimed chronicler of the American West -- including the #1 New York Times bestseller, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. Two profoundly moving, candid histories and a powerful novel illuminate... See More
Hear That Lonesome Whistle Blow: The Epic Story of the Transcontinental Railroads
"A fascinating story" of the railways that linked America from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (The Washington Post). Hear that Lonesome Whistle Blow unspools the history of the... See More
Grierson's Raid
The improbable Civil War raid that led to the Siege of Vicksburg, recounted by the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. For two weeks in the spring of 1862, Colonel Benjamin Grierson and... See More
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When the Century Was Young: A Writer's Notebook
The insightful and heartwarming memoir of one of twentieth-century America's most celebrated frontier writers Dee Brown's fascinating memoir describes a writer's evolution -- and a time when catching rides on trains or... See More
The Life-Significant Choice
Discover the Life-Significant Choice! The words throughout this book re-emphasizes the life-principal that it is our everyday choices, not our major choices... that shapes the outcomes in our lives. This book will help you... See More
Trials and Tribulations of a Fried Bologna Sandwich
Trials and Tribulations of a Fried Bologna Sandwich: These compilations of poetry mirror the images and outlines urban portraits in voice. Each piece echoes an experience, occurrence, development, story, or triumph that... See More
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Baroness Hale still ’embarrassed’ to be only diversity Supreme Court Justice
16 September 2010 by Adam Wagner
The UK Supreme Court Blog has posted an exclusive interview with Baroness Hale, the Supreme Court’s only female judge. The interview is worth reading in full but I would like to highlight a few of her comments which are relevant to human rights.
By way of background, Baroness Brenda Hale is the first and only woman who sits in the UK’s highest appeal court. She came to the bench after a career in academia and a post at the Law Commission. As she admits in the interview, he areas of interest – such as family law, human rights and equality law – are quite different from those of the other justices who mostly come from a commercial law background.
She begins the interview by picking out the JFS case, in which a Jewish school’s admission policy was found to breach race relations law, as probably the highlight of the new court’s first year.
On the level and quality of public discussions of Supreme Court decisions, she reports that the press and the media have not taken much more interest in their work since the court’s high-profile move across Parliament Square, Despite recordings of hearings being available to the press, “they don’t often ask”. Perhaps barristers are not as engaging as they thought they were. However, “the difference has been in the general public’s interest rather than the media’s”. This will be considered a success, given the legal obligation upon the court to make itself “accessible, fair and efficient”.
In particular, she praises the press summaries which are posted on the Supreme Court website alongside judgments which provide “an accurate summary of what the issue in the case was, what decision was made and the reasons for it”, which, over time “ought to improve people’s understanding of what the Supreme Court is doing”. I made this point in a recent Guardian article, and argued that these invaluable summaries should be provided by the Court of Appeal and the High Court too. In this regard, as well as with the new website which Lady Hale also praises, the Supreme Court has set a great example of access to justice in action.
Still on the theme of access to justice, Baroness Hale is of the view that there is still not enough judicial diversity. She admits she is “quite embarrassed to be the only Justice to tick a lot of the diversity boxes”. On attracting more women, the “barrier is very much still within the legal profession itself”.
The diversity of the Supreme Court is important for reasons of equality, but it also has an effect on the judgments handed down. A sensitive issue which arises regularly in the United States is whether it matters which judge sits on which case. In principle, judges should be impartial and objective enough to prevent their personal opinions infecting their judicial reasoning. But a higher-profile Supreme Court has put its judges, and their political opinions, in the spotlight. On this, Baroness Hale says that the issue “begs all sorts of questions about how predictable an individual Justice’s decision-making is or isn’t. Some of us hope that we are not so predictable, but others may see us differently.” Baroness Hale herself is often seen to be on the political left of the court. The issue has been addressed by using larger judicial panels if a case “comes with a great big banner saying “this is of constitutional importance“”. For example, the upcoming appeal relating to MP expenses and parliamentary privilege will have a panel of 9 rather than the usual 5.
On the separation of powers, there is still a lot to be done to ensure that the Supreme Court is, and is seen to be, independent of the government. This extends from how the court is funded to who decides what food is in the cafe (at the moment, the Ministry of Justice, which is part of the government). At least, however, this absolves the court from responsibility for the lamentable use of the Italian language in its cafe menu.
The interview ends with what Lady Hale considers to be the frontiers of the law for the next 10 to 15 years. She makes interesting points on the “mismatch” between the European Community law and human rights approaches to equality. The human rights approach is “more flexible and less technical on comparability but also has a more flexible justification defence”, which leads to better results, as “if you don’t allow a degree of flexibility, it leads to a tendency to deny that discrimination has taken place at all”.
Interestingly, Baroness Hale also hints that socio-economic and so-called positive rights (see our recent post) may be coming soon – she cites a recent case which appears to institute positive obligation on the state to provide housing to asylum seekers – but that they may fall at the Strasbourg hurdle.
So, another refreshing and heartening insight into the thoughts of our only female Supreme Court Justice. Long may she remain at the sharp end of the UK judicial system, and perhaps before she retires she will even be joined by another female justice.
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Robin Willis says:
Pity Lady Hale was not asked to address the increasingly important issue of the Supreme Court making law by interpreting treaties (Human Rights et al.) which Parliament cannot practicably amend. Power without responsibility?
Gavin Steele says:
The UK Supreme Court, with one lady in twelve, is not doing particularly well on gender-balance, as you rightly point out. The Court might take a leaf from a “higher” court, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg: of its 47 judges, 18 are currently women, a figure approaching nearly 40 per cent!
This has been mainly due to a remarkably progressive policy of mild “positive discrimination” followed for some years now by the body which elects the judges, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. The parliamentarians have insisted that at least one of the three candidates put forward for judge by any participating government must be from “the under-represented sex”. All-male lists have been declined, obliging states to make greater efforts to find qualified women candidates.
Lady Hale is quite right that a more diverse bench is a better bench, and a fairer one: the UK Supreme Court increasingly deals with questions of equality, and its rulings directly affect millions of women. The selection procedures in Parliament Square are rather more opaque than in Strasbourg, but hopefully the next time a vacancy comes up, the President and his two fellow appointers will listen closely to what she is saying – if only to avoid future embarrassment.
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Fresno industrial park developer highlights project’s benefits
This is the 110-acre site in south Fresno where Richard Caglia proposed to develop a new industrial park aimed at businesses that want to support the nearby Amazon distribution center. image via Google Earth
published on January 25, 2018 - 11:58 AM
Written by Gabriel Dillard
The developer of a proposed 110-acre industrial park in Fresno said the project — which could top out to more than 2 million square feet of space — will bring further improvements to the area where Ulta and Amazon are building e-commerce distribution centers.
The area at Central and Cedar avenues will be connected into the City of Fresno’s water and sewer system, undergo street improvements and add traffic control measures, said Richard Caglia of Caglia Environmental.
It could generate thousands of construction and industrial jobs, he added, should a development permit be issued today on a vote by the Fresno City Council.
“I think the area represents a major opportunity for Fresno,” he said. “It’s in the process of a huge transformation. There are going to be thousands of jobs and even more economic development activity.”
The project has garnered opposition. A group called South Central Neighbors United, comprised of residents living near the site — including at a mobile home park across the street — have challenged the project, citing impacts from groundwater depletion and daily vehicle traffic.
The park is expected to operate 24 hours a day, and would include 1,842 parking stalls and generate more than 6,200 daily vehicle trips, according to a report from the city.
As proposed, the park would have up to seven reinforced concrete buildings ranging in size from 124,200 to 1 million square feet, with the total square footage of the entire complex not to exceed 2.06 million square feet, according to reports from the city’s Development and Resource Management Department.
Caglia said there have been initial discussions with potential tenants he declined to name, but noted the final building footprint could include smaller facilities. It will likely target ancillary businesses that want to locate next to and support the Amazon distribution center, expected to open in late summer. That could include light-manufacturing tenants.
The council will consider the item at 4:30 p.m. Thursday.
“For all of the opportunities, the council should approve this unanimously,” Caglia said. “Any holdup could be putting someone out of work.”
For more information, see the Jan. 26 print edition of The Business Journal. Subscribe or find a newsstand.
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Schools turn to apps, other tech to guard against shootings
published on May 16, 2019 - 12:18 PM
Written by STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press
(AP) — Schools trying to protect kids from mass shootings are turning to gunshot detection systems, cellphone apps and artificial intelligence — a high-tech approach designed to reduce the number of victims.
Technology that speeds up law enforcement’s response and quickly alerts teachers and students to danger is a growing tool amid rising concerns over the inability to prevent shootings like the one last week at a suburban Denver high school. An 18-year-old student who rushed one of the gunmen died.
While a focus on gun control often emerges after school shootings, technology can be a less partisan solution that’s quick to implement — though some experts say funding preventive mental health resources should be the priority.
“We’ve kind of reached this state of frustration where we (feel like we) can’t protect our students,” said Dennis Kenney, a professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. “What we’re trying to do is find some technological fix, and there isn’t one.”
Districts nationwide are recognizing that and instituting an approach that combines technology with mental health programs, bullying prevention and security officers.
“If I’m intent on shooting people at a school, there are 20 ways to do it,” said Erik Endress, CEO of Share911, a New Jersey-based company with an app that allows staff to immediately report to colleagues and police everything from medical conditions to active shooters.
“We can improve the outcome of these situations,” Endress said. “We can minimize the casualty count.”
While school attacks are relatively rare, they have been among the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history.
The 1999 massacre of 13 people at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, ushered in a new era of school security but the carnage continued, including 27 people killed in 2012 at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, and 17 deaths last year at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
Joseph Erardi, a retired Newtown superintendent who came to the district a year after the shooting, said lawmakers pressed for “hardening” infrastructure at schools.
That has spurred a billion-dollar industry where companies manufacture products from “ballistic attack-resistant” doors to smoke cannons. The hardening market, as well as lobbying efforts to get taxpayer dollars to fund upgrades, had stalled in recent years but rekindled after the Parkland shooting.
Now many schools, like the Beverly Hills Unified School District, are combining that kind of hardware with more high-tech solutions and therapeutic programs.
“That’s like the Number 1 concept of security for any principal: physical security and emotional security of children,” said Juliet Fine, principal at Horace Mann School, which serves kindergarten through eighth grade.
Beverly Hills is among 200 U.S. school districts using the Share911 app. The board of education added it and other measures, including armed security officers, following the Parkland shooting.
In the fall, the district will add a central command center that will monitor feeds from all the district’s surveillance cameras and use software to monitor keywords in online search traffic for potential threats.
“Safety in schools is evolving. Technology and software, like in all aspects of the modern world, need to be utilized and used,” said Christopher Hertz, district director of school safety. “We want our kids to feel and be safe. … If we do all this, then our teachers can do what they need to do.”
Wealthier areas have not been immune to violence. Horace Mann parents and teachers stressed that they and students feel safe within the walled campus, and not just because it’s in an exclusive area.
“I’m grateful I live in this community that has so much security, and I know they are protected,” Evelyn Lahiji, 42, said as she picked up her sons, Lorenzo Naghdechi, 8, and Leonardo Naghdechi, 9.
Christina Richner, 45, said her 6-year-old son, Julian, and 9-year-old daughter, Olivia, have gone through so many emergency drills that “their reflexes will kick in” during a shooting.
The students are trained to gather in a corner with the classroom’s lights out and blinds drawn in a lockdown, social studies teacher Laura Stark said. Staffers check in via the Share911 app to share information, including if any kids are missing or injured.
Share911 launched three weeks after the Sandy Hook shooting. The app provides real-time data to school employees and law enforcement, such as the type of threat and its location, based on floor plans of the building.
“You can’t decide if you’re going to run, hide or fight in the absence of information,” said Endress, the CEO.
AmberBox, an indoor gunshot detection product that looks like a smoke detector, has a similar philosophy. It alerts school officials and law enforcement the moment a shot is fired and maps the location.
The system uses sensors that track a gun’s muzzle flash and a bullet’s shockwave, CEO James Popper said.
Chicago-based Aegis AI is refining technology to identify a gun as soon as it enters an area that a camera is scanning. The company was incorporated a year ago and still is working to minimize false alarms, such as when the software flags a staple gun or drill, CEO Sonny Tai said. Most of its clients are in a pilot program.
Some experts are concerned that districts are embracing technology to allay public concern while taking money away from mental health programs and violence-prevention efforts.
“It’s something you can show. I can go to a board meeting and hold up this shiny thing,” said Amy Klinger, co-founder of The Educator’s School Safety Network and a former teacher and school administrator in Ohio.
Despite the advances in both safety technology and mental health programs, experts say there’s no foolproof way to predict or stop a shooting. Wealthy, suburban districts like Beverly Hills that can afford the latest innovations face as much risk as inner-city schools where metal detectors have been commonplace for years.
“Nobody ever thinks it’s going to happen there,” Endress said. “Well, it’s happening everywhere.”
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US Withdraws From Global Pact That Upholds Rights of Refugees
by Staff Writer with AFP
in Featured, National
The U.S. administration has pulled out of a global declaration that pledges to uphold rights of refugees and migrants, arguing that it is “inconsistent” with current U.S. policies and infringes upon U.S. sovereignty.
“Today, the US Mission to the United Nations informed the UN Secretary-General that the United States is ending its participation in the Global Compact on Migration,” the U.S. mission to United Nations announced Saturday.
In September 2016, the 193 members of the U.N. General Assembly unanimously adopted a non-binding political declaration, the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants, pledging to uphold the rights of refugees, help them resettle and ensure they have access to education and jobs.
“The New York Declaration contains numerous provisions that are inconsistent with US immigration and refugee policies and the Trump Administration’s immigration principles. As a result, President Trump determined that the United States would end its participation in the Compact process that aims to reach international consensus at the UN in 2018,” the U.S. statement said.
U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley said the country would continue its “generosity” in supporting migrants and refugees around the world, but that “our decisions on immigration policies must always be made by Americans and Americans alone.”
“We will decide how best to control our borders and who will be allowed to enter our country. The global approach in the New York Declaration is simply not compatible with US sovereignty.”
Under President Donald J. Trump and his “America First” policies, the United States has withdrawn from several global commitments made under the administration of President Barack Obama, including the Paris climate deal.
More recently, the U.S. pulled out of the Paris-based culture and education body, UNESCO, accusing it of “anti-Israel bias.”
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DDoS Attacker Who Ruined Gamers' Christmas Gets 27 Months in Prison
A 23-year-old hacker from Utah who launched a series of DDoS attacks against multiple online services, websites, and online gaming companies between December 2013 and January 2014 has been sentenced to 27 months in prison. Austin Thompson, a.k.a. "DerpTroll," pledged guilty back in November 2018 after he admitted to being a part of DerpTrolling , a hacker group that was behind DDoS attacks against several major online gaming platforms including Electronic Arts' Origin service, Sony PlayStation network, and Valve Software's Steam during Christmas. "Thompson typically used the Twitter account @DerpTrolling to announce that an attack was imminent and then posted "scalps" (screenshots or other photos showing that victims' servers had been taken down) after the attack," the DoJ says. According to a U.S. Department of Justice press release published Wednesday, Thompson's actions caused the victim companies at least $95,000 in damages. T
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Fiesta: How To Survive The Bulls Of Pamplona by Fiske-Harrison, Hemingway, Welles… and the Mayor of Pamplona
Out now is the eBook, Fiesta: How To Survive The Bulls Of Pamplona (available on Amazon in all regions – details on website here. ) I edited and contributed to it, as has John Hemingway – Ernest’s grandson, Beatrice Welles – Orson’s daughter, Joe Distler – the greatest ever American bull-runner, Jim Hollander – senior EPA photographer and Pamplona veteran of over 50 years, and four of the greatest Basque and Spanish runners, with over 2,000 bull-runs between them, Julen Madina, Miguel Ángel Eguiluz, Jokin Zuasti and Josechu Lopez (and photos by my old friend Nicolás Haro.)
Of course, you’ll notice the slight Anglo-Spanish imbalance above, so, luckily, Don Enrique Maya, the Mayor of Pamplona since 2011, has just sent me an official ‘Foreword’ to place in the book, making this Fiesta, not just the only guide book of its type, but simply the only guidebook in the English language. I enclose my translation of his Foreword below, for those who have already purchased the eBook (your devices should automatically update with it in the next 24 hours.)
As you can see, the publicity machine has already begun to turn, beginning with the Londoner’s Diary of the Evening Standard below, and SanFermin.com in Pamplona here. Now to finish my articles for The New York Times, Newsweek, hopefully The Toronto Star and, I believe, The Times.
Alexander Fiske-Harrison’s feeling bullish about some bloody memoirs
Someone hide the red flags. The actor, writer and “bullfighter-philosopher” Alexander Fiske-Harrison has teamed up with John Hemingway — grandson of the novelist and blood-sports enthusiast Ernest — to put together a collection of essays and accounts of the infamous Spanish bull-running festival.
Fiesta: How to Survive the Bulls of Pamplona also includes a brief memoir by the daughter of another famous bullfighting enthusiast — the film director Orson Welles.
“We’re dividing the profits between the five major contributors,” Fiske-Harrison tells The Londoner, “but as photographer Jim Hollander pointed out, he gets the best deal — he’s the only one not running with the bulls in two weeks so may well be the only one around to collect! Although since I’m the editor, he’s going to have to get the money out of my bank account.”
Foreword by the Mayor of Pamplona
The Encierro – the ‘bull-run’ – is rooted deep in the history of Pamplona, where the bulls have, since medieval times, been driven for the evening bullfight from outside the city’s walls to its centre. Over the centuries, the Encierro has grown until it has become a legendary race, combining the weight of a tradition amassed over decades and the universal reach of an international event in the 21st century.
1776 gave us the introduction of fencing on the route of the Encierro; in 1856 the bulls ran for the first time on calle Estafeta; in 1922 the layout we have today was finally settled; in 1974 the start of the race was changed to 8 o’clock in the morning; in 1982 they began live television broadcasts, and this year the Encierro Ordinance has been approved, which regulates the conditions under which the run occurs and establishes appropriate mechanisms to punish (in ways which are minor, serious and very serious) behaviors that are not allowed.
During this time, the Encierro has been built on the work of thousands of people and with the scrupulous respect for a thing as attractive as it is dangerous. Because, as is well recognised in the title of this book, “How to Survive the bulls of Pamplona,” the story of the Encierro is also a hard story, alternating joys and victorious moments with black days in our old festival calendar. In fact, since the San Fermín festival last year, one of the fence posts located in the plaza Consistorial serves as a tribute to the 15 people who have lost their lives on the run, with a caption that reads “To the fallen of the Encierro.”
With all its sharp edges, its beauty, its danger and its difficulties, the Encierro is now a spectacular space, with close to 3,500 runners risking their lives every morning, backed up by first-class support along the entire route and with more than 440 journalists accredited to send their updates to countries in all continents.
However, beyond the importance of the Encierro, the appeal of the fiestas of San Fermín are not just in the legendary run. We have eight and a half days full of joy and fun, and with a festive array composed of more than 400 events, most notably the Chupinazo, Procession and dances of the Giants and Big Heads, that underpin the excellent environment that lives on the streets of Pamplona and serves to renew year after year, the greatness of an long-awaited and heartfelt holiday.
As Mayor of Pamplona it is a great joy to participate in a book like this, especially one aimed at the English-speaking community, because of its commitment to approaching the San Fermín liturgy with respect for the traditions of Pamplona as its roadmap, and valuable testimonies from people who have, over decades, learned how participate in the Encierro with aplomb.
In this sense, I want to take the opportunity afforded to me in this foreword to congratulate Alexander Fiske-Harrison for this story, and all those who took part in this project. I am sure that this work will become a great reference for all lovers of the Encierro beyond our borders, and serve as a source of information for people who want to find out the details that have defined, for centuries, the most famous bull-run in the world.
And finally, a tip. If you have the opportunity to visit, do not hesitate. Pamplona awaits you with open arms and with only two conditions: the desire to have a good time and respect for the city and its traditions.
Don Enrique Maya
Mayor of Pamplona – 2011 to present day
With thanks to Doña Yolanda Barcina, President of the Government of Navarre.
And to His Excellency, Federico Trillo-Figueroa Martínez-Conde, Ambassador from the Kingdom of Spain to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and El Señor Fidel López Álvarez, Minister-Counsellor for Cultural Affairs.
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Insects and spiders can be an absolute nuisance, especially in summer. They get in our hair, on our skin, even in our beds. They suck our blood and destroy our veggie gardens. But they also keep nature in balance, if we don’t go crazy with insecticides that is. And without those busy little bees we wouldn’t have all that lovely honey. So, like most of the subjects I pick for this show, our relationship with these creeping, crawling, flying and buzzing creatures is a complex one.
James Brown knows what I mean. He’s got ANTS IN HIS PANTS AND HE NEEDS TO DANCE Ouch! A great follow up to that was English soul singer Alice Russell with A FLY IN THE HAND. Here she is performing live in 2008. Great voice.
The B-52s’ song JUNE BUG is about a little beetle that only comes out at night. Sounds like a friend of mine. Lead singer, Fred Schneider, says the song’s message is to “go organic, don’t use pesticides”. Excellent. Loving the sound effects too.
Jason Mraz followed with a nice piece of pop about a BUTTERFLY and then it was Nina Simone with probably the best title for a song this week: FUNKIER THAN A MOSQUITO’S TWEETER. What is a mosquito’s tweeter? I have no idea and neither did any of our listeners when I asked. Anyone who does, please let me know.
The Eels do a great song about relationships, (the love/hate kind), called ANT FARM. And I’ve always loved Carly Simon’s version of ITSY BITSY SPIDER too. Who knew that there could be so many good songs about insects?
The Blues artists know how to make a song on any subject sound provocative. Slim Harpo does it to perfection with the very suggestive I’M A KING BEE. But if you want a funny song about a creepy crawly then you can’t go past country singer Jim Stafford’s rendition of SPIDERS & SNAKES.
Our hard-working BayFM President, Ros, suggested Ziggy Marley’s DRAGONFLY. Did you know that dragonflies can fly both forward and backward? And they can fly up to 30 miles an hour. Perfect choice for someone who doesn’t ever seem to stay still.
The Who’s BORIS THE SPIDER was written by the band’s bassist John Entwistle. It was supposedly Jimi Hendrix’s favourite Who song. Go figure.
I love the quirkiness of the Presidents of the United States and BOLL WEEVIL is a great example of their crazy novelty punk style. It’s from their self-titled album, released in 1995.
Butterflies have to be one of the most beautiful creatures on earth and they are just so important ecologically, as agents of pollination. So I made sure that there were a few songs about these wonderful flying insects in the show. One of my favourites is by Corrine Bailey Rae. She says that the song BUTTERFLY was written with her Mum in mind.
Another terrific butterfly song is by Chakra Khan. It’s called PAPILLON, which if my schoolgirl French serves me correctly, also means butterfly.
Some butterflies have evolved symbiotic and parasitic relationships with social insects such as ants. So it seemed the right time to introduce Adam Ant with his signature tune, ANTMUSIC.
Louie the Fly introduced a couple of songs about a much maligned little insect:
SHOO FLY PIE AND APPLE PAN DOWDY, by Doris Day, isn’t so much about a fly than about a pie made with molasses. This sticky, sweet substance attracts flies that have to be “shood” away. Tim Buckley’s song BUZZIN’ FLY is also about being attracted to something sweet, but in this case it’s a girl’s affections.
Did you know that the humble cockroach has been around for over 350 million years?
They Might Be Giants, do a very cheeky version of the SPIDER MAN theme song that had to be included. And then it was another suggestion from Andrew, one of the few Theme Park listeners who could come up with a suggestion for this week’s topic. It was a terrific song that I had totally forgotten: A SONG FROM UNDER THE FLOORBOARDS by Magazine. Here they are performing on the Jools Holland show in 2009:
We definitely needed a bit more Blues in the show, especially as I was giving away a great DVD, RED, WHITE AND BLUES, part of the 7 part series on the Blues by Martin Scorsese. This part, on the Blues in Britain, was directed by Mike Figgis, director of the film Leaving Las Vegas. Congratulations Mike who won that. Enjoy.
So, looking for more Blues, I couldn’t go past John Lee Hooker’s song about spiders, CRAWLIN’ BLACK SPIDER.
Robyn Hitchcock has a bit of a thing about spiders with both an album and an EP with tarantula in the name, but INSECT MOTHER is actually from his first album with The Egyptians, Fegmania.
Andrew had another great suggestion: Iggy Pop’s LOCO MOSQUITO. Heres a bit of insect trivia for you: Did you know that a mosquito beats its wings an amazing 500 times per second? No wonder I can never catch the little buggers.
The Dire Straits song THE BUG is about how random life is. One minute you’re the windshield, the next you’re the bug. So yeah, live life to the fullest is what I suppose they are suggesting, because you never know when it might all end.
On that note, its only fair that we finished the show on an up note. What better than something from disco diva Tina Charles. She’s been bitten by the best bug of all: THE LOVE BUG.
I’d love to have your suggestions for next week’s show which, as a lead up to my election show the following week, will be on TRUTH AND LIES. I think this has the potential to be a really interesting show, so get your thinking caps on.
For now, here’s this week’s full playlist:
I Got Ants In My Pants -The Big Payback, James Brown
A Fy in the Hand (Remix) – Alice Russell
Junebug – Cosmic Thing, B52s
Butterfly – We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things, Jason Mraz
Funkier Than A Mosquito’s Tweeter – Nina Simone
Ant Farm – Electro-Shock Blues, Eels
Coming Around Again/Itsy Bitsy Spider – Greatest Hits Live, Carly Simon
Glow Worm Cha-Cha-Cha – Ultra Lounge, Jackie Davis
I’m A King Bee – Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues, Slim Harpo
Spiders & Snakes – Jim Stafford
Dragonfly (Live) – Love Is My Religion Re-release, Ziggy Marley
There’s A Change In The Weather (extract to intro Weather update) Preservation Act 1, The Kinks
Boris the Spider – My Generation: The Very Best of the Who, The Who
Boll Weevil – The Presidents of the United States, The Presidents of the United States
Butterfly – Corinne Bailey Rae, Corrine Bailey Rae
Papillon – The Platinum Collection, Chaka Khan
Antmusic – Antbox 2, Adam Ant
Louie the Fly (Mortein ad)
Shoo Fly Pie and Apple Pan Dowdy – The Story of Jazz, Doris Day
Buzzin’ Fly – The Dream Belongs To Me, Tim Buckley
La Cucharacha – Born Free, The George Mann Orchestra
Spider Man – They Might Be Giants
A Song from Under the Floorboards – Real Life and Thereafter / Forum, Magazine
Crawlin Black Spider – Boom Boom CD2, John Lee Hooker
Loco Mosquito – The Best of Iggy Pop, Iggy Pop
Insect Mother – Luminous Groove, Robyn Hitchcock And The Egyptians
The Bug – On Every Street, Dire Straits
Love Bug – Greatest Hits, Tina Charles
Next week: TRUTH & LIES
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NOUGHT TO WHATEVER… PART 2
I’ve been on a mission to play as many songs as I can with numbers in the title. But the real challenge has been to play them in numerical sequence. Last week we successfully navigated our way from Elvis Costello’s Less Than Zero all the way to Edwin Starr’s Twenty Five Miles . So, this week we were off again, starting with our opening number, OCTOBER 26 (REVOLUTION) from The Pretty Things. This is a great track from what I consider a grossly under recognised band of the 60’s. It’s from their 1970 album Parachute.
TWENTY SEVEN STRANGERS is from The Villagers, who put out one of the best albums of last year – Becoming A Jackal. Here’s the band’s singer and songwriter, Conor J O’Brien, performing solo. Beautiful song. Perfect in its simplicity.
A band called Why? gave us our #28 song, (called exactly that, 28). Ryan Adams’ contribution was the track TWENTYNINE from the album 29 and the #30 spot was filled by Aussie band The Lucksmiths. The song, $30 is a very cute proposition: They know that they owe you $30 but how about they write you a song instead? Cheeky!
Aimee Mann thought her life would be different somehow, when she turned 31. Check out this live performance of 31 TODAY in Studio Q.
Another brilliant singer/songwirter is Ani DiFranco . Here she is performing live in 1997. The song: 32 FLAVOURS.
We don’t often play instrumental tracks but funky jazz outfit The New Mastersounds certainly livened things up with THIRTY THREE. We followed with little known, (well to me anyway), American band Promenade with 34 from their Save the Radio album. Then it was Joe Pug with a decent Bob Dylan impression on HYMN #35 and Bobby “Blue” Bland with his favourite numbers 35:22:36.
Then another excellent double : STRAIGHT IN AT 37 from The Beautiful South, now called simply South, and 38 YEARS OLD from Canadian band The Tragically Hip.
Hip Hop producer Re-animator has a great track called SYMPHONY NUMBER THIRTY-NINE on his album, evocatively titled Music to Slit Wrists. Dido has got to have one of the most beautiful voices of recent times, and she uses it to perfection on SEE YOU WHEN YOU’RE 40:
Gregory Hoskins gave us his track 41 and then it was Aussie and, Hunters & Collectors with 42 WHEELS. On 43 Mary Lou Lord justifies seeing a younger man by the fact that he’s 17, going on 43. And talking of excuses, I love any reason to go back to the 60’s so the Zombies were in with CARE OF CELL 44. Terrific band, still performing too.
An artist I’ve only just discovered, but like very much is Todd Snider . Here he is performing FORTY FIVE MILES in December 2010 in Tampa, to a very appreciative audience I might add. It’s an amateur video, but worth watching. He’s supported by Will Kimbrough.
If you’re after some good old fashioned Blues then check out Memphis Slim, Jump Jackson and Arbee Stidham. They gave us a fast version of 46TH STREET BOOGIE to fill our #46 spot. Number 47 was looking tough until I found a real cutie: Andy Kirk & His Orchestra, featuring June Richmond on vocals. She was one of the first black women to front an all white band. The song is 47th STREET JIVE.
Enough with songs named after New York streets (surely that’s another show!). A complete change of tone followed with the amazing, enduring, Suzi Quatro with 48 CRASH. I had to play this original clip from 1973, as she looks so great (still does actually). The ultimate rock chick.
Our number 49 song was for Des who presents BayFM’s Colours of Byron every Sunday morning. He’s a big Dylan fan, so DAYS OF 49 was especially for him and all the other Dylan fans. Number 50 couldn’t be anything but Simon & Garfunkle’s FIFTY WAYS TO LEAVE YOUR LOVER, which wasn’t dedicated to anyone in particular, because I don’t want to get myself in any trouble in that department! Here’s a live performance by Paul Simon with legendary drummer Steve Gadd:
Well we got all the way to #50 with time to spare. We closed the show with a #51 song that also previews next week’s show: Pink Floyd’s COME IN NUMBER 51, YOU’RE TIME IS UP from the soundtrack to the film Zabriskie Point. As one of the comments on YouTube states: it’s the film that inspired countless people to lose their virginity to Pink Floyd. (The music that is, not the actual band members). Here’s the trailer, featuring that music, with some of the worst promotional jargon I’ve ever heard!
So, next week I’ll be hosting an Oscars special. I’ll be playing lots of songs that were recorded especially for films. Some will have won Oscars, some should have but didn’t. I’d love to have your suggestions and requests. And, of course, your company 4-6pm Tuesdays on www.bayfm.org.
Here’s this week’s full playlist:
October 26 (Revolution) – The Pretty Things, Unrepentant [Disc 1]
Twenty Seven Strangers – Villagers, Becoming A Jackal
Twenty Eight – Why? Alopecia
Twentynine – Ryan Adams, 29
$30 – The Lucksmiths, Spring a Leak
31 Today – Aimee Mann, Smilers
32 Flavors – Ani DiFranco
Thirty Three – The New Mastersounds, 102% Funk
34 – Promenade, Save the Radio
Hymn 35 – Joe Pug, Nation of Heat EP
36-22-36 – Bobby “Blue” Bland, Bobby “Blue” Bland: The Anthology
Straight In At 37 – The Beautiful South, Welcome to the Beautiful South
38 Years Old – The Tragically Hip, Up to Here
Symphony Number Thirty-nine – Reanimator, Music To Slit Wrists By
See You When You’re 40 – Dido, Life For Rent
41 – Gregory Hoskins, The Beggar Heart
42 Wheels – Hunters & Collectors, Under One Roof
43 – Mary Lou Lord, Baby Blue
Care of Cell 44 – The Zombies, Odessey and Oracle
Forty Five Miles – Todd Snider, Happy to Be Here
46th Street Boogie (Fast Boogie) – Memphis Slim, Jump Jackson and Arbee Stidham
47th St Jive – Andy Kirk & His Clouds of Joy, Jukebox Hits 1936-1949
48 Crash – Suzi Quatro, Suzi Quatro: Greatest Hits
Days of 49 – Bob Dylan, Self Portrait
Fifty Ways To Leave Your Lover – Simon & Garfunkel , The Concert in Central Park
Number 51, Your Time Is Up – Pink Floyd, Zabriskie Point (Soundtrack from the Motion Picture)
Next week: SONGS RECORDED FOR FILM
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Daily Obstruction: Koan
A koan is an artificial problem designed to shed light on the artifice of all problems, not least of all, birth and death.
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Daily Obstruction: Essential Ingredient
Essential Ingredient
There are certain lines of texts that are a key to unlocking the whole: “And the student brought fuel for the fire to the master” – Upanishads; “The master gave a shout” – Zen koan collection; “Socrates had a way of playing with my hair” – Phaedo; “Mahakashyapa smiled and began to laugh” – The Flower Sutra. Or rather than a key, they are more like a particular spice that gives the flavor and aroma to the whole meal.
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Mindfulness, Meditation,and the Me Me Me Generation
In-Tension
The tradition of Ch’an/Zen Buddhism is steeped in iconoclasm. From Bodhidharma’s “special transmission outside the scriptures” to Lin Chi’s comparing the Buddha to “the hole in a privy,” Zen Buddhism has always been a maverick amongst its more conformist siblings. Yet, what are we doing here?! Are we not referencing a revered tradition in our very observation of that tradition’s upending of traditions?! In that moment of realizing the paradox, it’s as if we can hear every trickster guru from Shakyamuni down to Alan Watts chuckling at our confrontation with upaya (cunning means of education).
We are not here to be the butt of their joke, however. We are here to grapple with a dynamic at play between accreditation and appropriation, legitimacy and interloping, trappings of Zen and true Zen.
Though not a new quandary, as of late a number of articles have explored these largely American questions. The Magazine Buddhadharma dedicated its Summer 2015 issue to these matters. In 2014 Joshua Eaton wrote an article for Solon magazine on the appropriation of Buddhist dharma by “mindfulness” movements, particularly in and among the corporate culture elites. And NPR’s “All Things Considered” ran a story in September 2015 on San Diego State University’s fledgling Buddhist fraternity and sorority. That’s a short list of more than dozens of articles that were recently published on this topic.
The fundamental question that these various articles are asking is: What is Buddhism and whose Buddhism is it? I say that this is largely an American question because, though Buddhism’s history is one of transplantation – from India to China, China to east Asian countries, including Japan, and from there to the West – today, we Americans are putting a uniquely American spin on the age-old question of authenticity.
Twenty-first Century America repeats like a mantra, “Have it your way.” We choose our news and entertainment on-demand. We order customized sneakers made across the globe to our exact specifications and have them delivered in a matter of days. It makes sense that we’d want our Buddhism to be à la carte.
But, as my professor, Jon D. Levinson of the Harvard Divinity School, used to say so frequently in teaching about Judaism and its rules, commandments, traditions, and interpretations, “A canon is not a smorgasbord.”
The appropriation of Buddhism in America today is more insidious than simply picking and choosing aspects of the religion that we like, find appealing, or helpful. With the rise of “mindfulness” and “self-help” movements distilling the “beneficial” aspects of Buddhism and (other traditions) down to the “essence” without the “accoutrements” of the religion, rituals, traditions, and cultural specificities, there is a threefold danger: 1) the danger of displacing the central message of Buddhism (anatman, “no-self”) and replacing it with me me me; 2) the danger of an externally originated reductionist evaluation of Buddhism; 3) the danger of distorting Buddhism and/or diluting its unique identity until it lacks any and all identifying features.
Each and every day we hear more and more about the health, wealth, and wisdom to be gained from “mindfulness.” From the Dalai Lama’s collaboration with M.I.T. and Harvard on the “scientifically proven” benefits of meditation, to Jon Kabat-Zinn’s Mindfulness-based stress reduction, to Marsha Linehan and others who have incorporated meditation and mindfulness into Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), aspects of Buddhism have been incorporated, appropriated, and lauded as therapeutic in the West in a rising tide of health-conscious seekers for the solution to the stresses of modern living.
Westerners are practicing meditation and mindfulness, surgically selecting aspects of age-old traditions that suit their current needs, just as yoga has frequently been transformed into a workout designed to be a stress-reducer, without reference to or concern for the rich and deep spiritual and religious tradition of which it is a part.
Just as so many Westerners are searching for “spirituality” without religion, so too have Western Buddhists sought satori without rituals.
We could, provisionally, divide “Buddhist practitioners” into two camps: secularists and traditionalists. The former could say, “What’s wrong with taking what works for me and leaving the rest behind? The Buddha himself preached, ‘Do not accept any of my words on faith, believing them just because I said them. Be like an analyst buying gold, who cuts, burns, and critically examines his product for authenticity. Only accept what passes the test by proving useful and beneficial in your life.’” (Jnanasara-samuccaya)
The traditionalist could respond, quoting Shakespeare, “The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose,” just as Satan did in Matthew 4:1-11. Or, paraphrasing Robert Frost, the traditionalist could retort, “‘Mindfulnesss’ without Buddhism is like playing tennis without a net: It’s fun, but it’s not tennis. It’s helpful, but it’s not Buddhism.”
But beyond these objections, there is a greater danger. Just as the secularist invoked an authority (the Buddha himself) in order to legitimize the secular view, the rejection of tradition opens the bulwarks of the religion to being coopted, appropriated, even perverted by “false prophets,” false preachers, false teachers of the Dharma. The authenticity of the religion is put into jeopardy by the potential for illegitimate, unaccredited interlopers to propound “the Dharma” as they see it.
Whether we are talking about a religious practice or a judicial practice, what a canon offers is certain long-standing, time-tested, limits on interpretation and advancement of the tradition in question. As such, just as in Plato’s ideal city, the fundamental principles of any tradition rest on the guardians of the canon.
On the other hand, institutions and centers of authority run the risk of becoming entrenched in their own bureaucratic bulwarks. Time and time again we see in well-established religions ossification and corruption amongst the accredited elites followed by a reaction and rejuvenation among marginal figures. For instance, the Cluniac reforms and St. Francis of Assisi challenged the decadence and corruption of the powerful within the Catholic Church. Martin Luther attempted reform and found that the tradition was so rigid it needed to break.
This tension between tradition and reform, between authority and the maverick is concisely sketched by Robert M. Pirsig, quoting A.E. Hoebel when he says:
[T]he priesthood fights an unrelenting war against shamans….Priests work in a rigorously structured hierarchy fixed in a firm set of traditions. Their power comes from and is vested in the organization itself. They constitute a religious bureaucracy. Shamans, on the other hand, are arrant individualists. Each is on his own, undisciplined by bureaucratic control; hence a shaman is always a threat to the order of the organized church. In the view of the priests they are presumptive pretenders. Joan of Arc was a shaman for she communed directly with the angels of God.
Without the shamans or “presumptive pretenders,” the form is in danger of being dedicated to perpetuating its own existence, rather than a commitment to the original vision and mission that brought it into existence in the first place. It could grow stale, a fossil, dead weight lacking the dynamic force that is necessary for an institution to be in the service of life and vitality.
Shamanistic reform can be of two types: one, pushing the tradition forward in the face of new, unprecedented challenges; two, returning the tradition to its origins in the face of decadent deviation from its roots.
The former is exemplified by the Buddha himself. Born into Hindu tradition, religion, and society, he incorporated much of the religious, social, and philosophical milieu, but he also upended it essentially, vertically, and horizontally. By that I mean, he transformed the central formula of the Upanishads from atman Brahman (you, yourself, are the Supreme Deity, Brahman) to simply anatman (there is no self). Vertically – in terms of the strict hierarchical caste system, he opened up the possibility of nirvana to everyone and anyone, not just the highest priestly caste. And horizontally – he did away with the stages of proper roles according to age (student, householder, semi-retired/semi-spiritual, fully-retired/fully-spiritual practice), and said that anyone at any time can become enlightened. These three heterodox doctrines responded to the rigid Hinduism of his time in the face of a new set of problems in the time of the Buddha.
The latter shamanistic reformer can be seen in the figure of Dogen, who, dissatisfied with the Zen Buddhism of his day in Japan, went back to the sources in China to rediscover its more authentic origins.
Both of these forms of reform can be considered “radical” (the root meaning of which is “root”). The former, in that it is radically breaking from tradition, pulling the tradition up by the roots, as it were. The latter in that it is returning to the roots of the religion in order to revitalize it.
Placing too much faith in the accrediting body (the word “accreditation” itself being derived from the Latin credo – belief, faith) runs the danger of perpetuating formality over vitality. But disregarding the structures that confer legitimacy (root word lex, legis, meaning “law,” “lawful”) runs the danger of distortion and dissipation of the Dharma (one meaning of which, is “law”). Furthermore, the transformation of Buddhism into “mindfulness” is worse than dilettantism, it is to appropriate a venerable tradition and coopt it into serving one’s own purposes and needs.
What we find in modern, particularly American, “mindfulness” practices, from Jon Kabat-Zinn onward, is a notion of transcending the parochial and sectarian “muck” of religion, particularly Buddhism, just as Buddhism uses the metaphor of the lotus lifting and blossoming out of the “muck” of the pond. Though this transcendent mindfulness attempts to leave behind the trappings of Buddhism in general and Zen in particular, the seeds of this transformation can be found in the early advocates of Zen in the west, namely in D.T. Suzuki and Alan Watts, among others. There is, in their writings, a strain of “essentialism,” or purity – a biased and subtle notion that Zen, of all the world’s religions, is the most transcendent and universal.
This essentialist idea can still be detected in a modern defense of the tradition. In her article, “Don’t Strip It All Away,” in Buddhadharma Magazine, Gesshin Greenwood relays the following story:
Last year during a public question-and-answer session at Nisodo, the Soto Zen training monastery for women in Japan, a German nun asked the abbess, ‘How much of the practice here is Japanese culture, and how much is true Buddhism?’ The abbess, Shundo Aoyama Roshi, answered with a metaphor she often uses in dharma talks and writings: Buddhism, she said, is like a wheel turning. The outside of the wheel is everything that depends upon time and place–culture, forms, language. As the wheel makes its way across cultures and time periods, the outside moves and changes. However, the inside, which is the true buddha-dharma, stays the same in every place. It takes a lifetime of practice, she says, to be able to identify what is at the center and what is on the outside. (p. 35)
This lovely little analogy, complex as it may be, does suggest an essentialist, “true Buddha-dharma” that is transcendent to time and space. Of course, as Brad Warner of “Hardcore Zen” points out in his commentary on this article, “The wheel can’t move forward without its rim.” (July 13, 2015, “Form vs Essence”) We can go further and say that without the rim there is no center. But the bigger point is that Buddhism is staunchly anti-essentialist. The notion of anatman, no-self, could also be understood as no essence to anything. There is only dependent arising. There are no absolute truths within the world of dependent arising, only relative ones, dependent ones. Those truths are dependent upon the time, the place, and the relationship of the subjects involved. Again, as so often in Buddhism, we find ourselves running up against the limits of logic and language. Here, the paradox is that Buddhism is, “essentially,” non-essentialist and therefore it follows that there is no “essential” or “true” Buddhism either.
But that doesn’t mean that it’s anything goes. Buddhism is “staunchly” or dogmatically or doctrinally non-essentialist so long as one is in a relationship with a religion that one feels the need to pin it down. In other words, what Buddhism “is” depends upon who you are (how you understand yourself) and what Buddhism is to you (your needs, your ability to understand and realize). As the Buddha has said, once the raft (here, a symbol of the religion of Buddhism) has been used to transport one from the dangerous shore to the safe shore, then the raft is no longer necessary. The raft (doctrine, dogma, concepts) can be discarded once its purpose has been served.
But don’t be so quick to determine that you have arrived safely upon the nether shore!
Perhaps that is the fatal flaw of the mindfulness movement – that it is too eager to believe itself well beyond the need for such “primitive” rituals and practices. There is an ego-aggrandizement to be found is such a stance and that ego-centeredness is only fed by the supposed benefits to be reaped through mindfulness – happiness, productivity, wealth, prosperity, health, and a better you!
The fact is, just as Buddhism is anti-essentialist – a stance that decenters our conceptions of the world around us – through that negation of essence, selfhood, and ego, it also decenters us from being the subject and object of our practice. One doesn’t meditate to be better. One doesn’t meditate to do more, be healthier, happier, or for any other purpose. That’s just the point – that there is no point! There is no reward to be reaped through the diligent effort.
However, this is just scratching the surface of the underlying cultural prejudices that are violently glossed over when meditation and mindfulness are practiced in a Western paradigm of enhancing productivity. E.F. Schumacher, in his article, “Buddhist Economics,” has pointed out that in the West there is a long-standing cultural distinction made between work and leisure. And it is with this underlying cultural assumption that we find surprising common ground between Adam Smith and Carl Marx. Both of them see “work as little more than a necessary evil.” They have different ways of maximizing production or maximizing leisure, but they share this cultural predisposition of a dichotomy that goes as far back in western culture as Adam and Eve.
In Buddhism, however, there is no dichotomy between these two concepts. One doesn’t work for the sake of leisure, nor is leisure, in itself, desirable and work undesirable. Rather, the “dull” and “mundane” tasks of work take on a sacramental quality. They are not done for reward, but rather, as in play, the reward is in the doing.
As the philosopher David E. Storey has pointed out, one can approach one’s activities with the mindset of rut, routine, or ritual. A rut is something that one dreads doing. It takes all of one’s effort just to do it and one often resents the activity. A routine is an act that is done mindlessly. One has neither aversion to it nor cherishes it. And a ritual is an act that is performed for the sake of its performance. One approaches it with awe and devotion. In the West, ritual and this mind-set is usually reserved for acts relating to the sacred. (Or, perhaps, they used to be, but now such sacred acts such as church-going and holy-day obligations are performed at best as routines, and at worst as a rut.) But in Buddhism, every act, no matter how small or how “ordinary,” is undertaken with the mind-set of ritual. That is what mindfulness in the Buddhist context really means. (Note that “ordinary” is etymologically related to “order,” as in a religious order, as well as “ordain,” to make something consecrated, holy.)
One reason that westerners have been so enthusiastic about mindfulness and a possible explanation of its popularity, especially among the wealthy, urban elite, could have to do with this desire in the West to flee the ordinary. As Slavoj Žižek has pointed out in his essay, “From Western Marxism to Western Buddhism,” westerners have long searched for the more exotic in origin of mystery cults rather than the native fruits. (Cabinet Magazine, Issue 2, Spring 2001) A meditative practice with origins in Buddhism from Asia, but in the relatively unimposing form of mindfulness, is more preferable to a western audience than the relatively closer-at-hand tradition of Catholic contemplation. (In the Catholic tradition “contemplation” is the non-verbal, non-imagistic form of prayer, contrasted with “meditation,” which involves positive images and discursive thought.) And, as Žižek points out, this “mindfulness” not only has the cache of exoticism, but it also upholds the status quo while at the same time unburdening the practitioner of any guilt by association with the great inequities of Capitalism. Thus, rather than disrupting and decentering (the tradition, the self, the system), there is a danger that mindfulness could mindlessly reinforce all of the egoistic constellations, easing us into complacency.
Perhaps, despite the great popularity of the Dalai Lama in the U.S., it is in order to counter this fetishism and searching for something else that he cautions, “Don’t try to use what you learn from Buddhism to be a better Buddhist; use it to be a better whatever-you-already-are.” (Source unknown) Perhaps, in the final analysis, this saying sums up best the uses and abuses of Buddhism. By that I mean that the Buddha, in and through his life and teachings, and Buddhism, as an emulation of the Buddha, are both generous and not rigidly doctrinal. A collection of Alan Watts’ essays is entitled, Buddhism, the Religion of No-Religion, and much can be gleaned from that title in conjunction with the parable of the raft. The starting point of Buddhism is that we suffer. In that sense, we are stuck in the pits. Buddhism can be used (and has been used by such folks as Jon Kabat-Zinn) to help one with great and small suffering alike. Buddhism also offers much by way of practical advice and pragmatic approaches to trenchant metaphysical and philosophical problems. In this way, Buddhism speaks to the plains – the day-to-day concerns of life such that the Noble Eightfold Path is a helpful guide. Finally, Buddhism points to and encourages us to climb the peaks – to have “peak experiences” in every moment. But, unlike many western religions that make themselves indispensable to the individual for purposes of salvation, Buddhism preaches not salvation but liberation and that liberation entails liberation even from the attachment to the religion itself. Zen, in particular, preaches that you, as you are, are already enlightened, a Buddha, and not in need of salvation or improvement. All you need to do is accept it. In its generosity and focus on the individual, not the religion, Buddhism says, “Here, take this if you wish, if it helps you, if you can use it. If not, that’s ok too.” In Buddhism’s great generosity, it doesn’t staunchly defend its “turf,” jealously guarding its techniques as if protected by copyright, patent, or trademark. And, in that sense, perhaps all the recent hullabaloo about appropriation of Buddhism by mindfulness is just balderdash. To some extent, that would include this very writing itself, though I hope to encourage mindfulness to be more mindful of what it is actually doing.
So, to return to our original story, the special transmission outside the scriptures implies three very important features that are pertinent to the topics we’ve discussed herein: 1) It focuses on the interpersonal, relational, and contextual conferral of the dharma seal; 2) It simultaneously upholds and disrupts the tradition; 3) It is not a doctrine, dogma, or system.
As we mentioned, Buddhism makes no claims to absolute Truth, but rather only conditional, dependent truths. As the “Flower Sermon” illustrates, the authentic, legitimate, stamp of accreditation occurs only by “pointing directly to one’s mind” and “seeing into one’s true nature.” In other words, don’t pretend to be something you’re not. There is a great story about this in which Ananda, the Buddha’s hand-picked chosen successor to lead the Sangha, knew that he was not enlightened. When it came time for him to lead the first meeting of the Sangha after the Buddha’s death, he stayed up all night trying to become enlightened so that he wouldn’t be seen as a fraud before the congregation. Finally, after much sweat and anxiety, only moments before the meeting was to come to order, alone in his room he conceded, “Oh well, I’m not enlightened.” And by virtue of seeing and accepting things as they were, he became enlightened at that moment.
With regard to a tradition, it is true that a canon is not a smorgasbord, but it also isn’t fixed. Canons do change. The notion of a compulsory canon is only for cocktail party intellectuals. As with an individual painting, for instance, the history of the painting, its deterioration, the damage it incurred over time are as much a part of the art as the original, pristine image – if, in fact, there was an original. So too with canons – whether literary, religions, judicial – canons change across time and space. They provide certain internally generated limits and guides, but they are not inflexible. Of the religious canons, it could be said that the Buddhist canon in general and the Zen canon in particular are the most flexible, even to the point of canonizing perpetual revolution.
In this sense, Buddhism, and certainly Zen, is not doctrinal, dogmatic, or systematic. In many respects, Buddhism shares the sentiment of Jesus when he said to the Pharisees, “the Kingdom of Heaven is within you.” (Luke 17:21) Saying The Kingdom of Heaven is within you is a subversive idea since one who knows and experiences this owes no allegiance to any established institution or church. And, quite the contrary of the Unitarian Universalists, who attempt to bring every tradition into one church, this suggests the ability to feel at home in any and every church. When all traditions are jumbled into one (as with the Unitarian Universalists), the unique is sacrificed for the universal. By the same token, when the distinctive qualities of any tradition are filtered out (as with mindfulness), then the beauty of medium is sacrificed.
One could use a few analogies to illustrate these points. As with food, the former approach is like putting every and all ingredients into a pot and creating a stew that, because it lacks a time-tested recipe, ends up tasting like nothing in particular. The latter approach reminds me of the nutritional paste represented in The Matrix. Or with alcohol – the former is like mixing every drink together resulting in an unpalatable cocktail and the latter is like these new alcohol vaporizers that introduce alcohol directly into the blood stream via inhaling it. It may produce the intended result of intoxication, but without the pleasant, tasty medium of the fine wine, aged whiskey, or perfectly blended mixed drink. Or finally, the metaphor of language: The former approach is like rambling prose, the latter is like summing up the Iliad into a few sentences that say, “Guy takes girl and has temper tantrum when girl is taken from him. People die.” Somehow that misses the beauty and texture of the poetry itself.
On the other hand, even if you are a virtuoso of the spirit and feel at home in any and every place of worship, that doesn’t mean that any and every tradition welcomes you as one of their own. Nor should they. You may be a game master, even a maker of games or game theorist, but that doesn’t mean that you, as a player-participant, are not bound by the rules of the specific game you are playing. To be a master gamer not only entails understanding and seeing the hidden connections between different kinds of games, mapping the meta-rules that organize and undergird all games, but also being able to play a particular game according to its own limited rules. And sometimes those rules exclude you as a participant. Respecting the rules of the game is part of what being a master means.
There is more than just metaphor to the image of a “game master” as relates to religion. But, suffice it to say for now that just as the master gamer sees, finds, and makes a game of all things – all things become play-things – so too does the spiritual adept feel every place as sacred, all time as holy, all things as God incarnate. Incipit Magister Ludi.
To learn more, please visit: http://prosperoproductions.com/zen_sangha
Tags: Buddhism, freedom, games, ideas, law, Life, Meditation, mind, philosophy, play, psychology, Religion, rules, Zen
Categories Buddhism, Dharma, Hermann Hesse, Joseph Campbell, Koan, philosophy, problem, psychoanalysis, psychology, Religion, spirit, Spirituality, Watts, yoga
Daily Obstruction: Being Present
[Today’s Daily Obstruction is in the form of a philosophical poem. Because why not?]
Life Passes You By as You Busy Yourself With More Important Things
If a breeze rustles through the leaves of a tree,
But everyone has their earbuds in,
Does it make a gentle sound?
If a bird sings a song,
But everyone is on the phone,
Does it sing as sweet?
If the sun bestows its light,
But everyone is in offices beneath the florescent glow,
Does it care?
If I am here
And you are there,
Do I love you less or more?
If the world goes about its daily chores
Without even a glance at Nature,
Will it one day wake up to discover
Life is as real as it is rare?
Tags: Buddhism, nature, philosophy, poetry, Taoism, Zen
Categories Buddhism, Daily Obstruction, Koan, Nature, philosophy, poetry, Zen
Daily Obstruction: Religious Obstructions
Religious Obstructions
The West has the concept of sin and the feeling of guilt. The East has the non-conceptual koan and. . .
Tags: Buddhism, guilt, Religion, Zen
Categories Buddhism, Daily Obstruction, God, Koan, psychology, Religion, sin, Zen
Nietzsche & Zen
Announcing the Publication of my review of Andre van der Braak’s book Nietzsche and Zen in the “Journal of Comparative & Continental Philosophy”, 2016, pp. 1-7.
The first fifty readers can have free access to it by clicking on the picture of Nietzsche below:
If you don’t have free access to it and would like a copy, send me an e-mail: jasongiannetti@yahoo.com
Tags: Buddhism, Nietzsche, philosophy, Zen
Categories Buddhism, Koan, Nietzsche, Writing, Zen
Daily Obstruction: Explanation of My Poverty
Explanation of My Poverty
The best things in life are free. . . making it hard to sell what I have to offer.
Tags: philosophy, Writing
Categories art, Buddhism, Daily Obstruction, Koan, money, Writing, Zen
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Mongolia & Spain
Eunice Benedito her husband Martin, and their children Maia, 5, and Angel, 2.
Eunice and Martin Benedicto first bumped into each other at a friend’s wedding in Java, Indonesia – literally.
Martin: It’s a very interesting story, I’ve told it many times. We were both taking photos at the wedding. She was just squatting down in front of me and I was standing behind her. As she stood up, she hit her head on my elbow.
Eunice: I thought I was about to faint.
Martin: I nearly knocked her unconscious.
Nevertheless, Martin, who is from London, says they “hit it off straight away as friends”.
A year after the wedding, Eunice, who is originally from Mongolia, got back in touch with Martin to tell him that she was moving to Nottingham to start her Master’s in Financial Management, after which she moved to London and into a house with Martin and his father.
Two years later – six years after their meeting in Java – the pair were married.
With only a small number of Mongolians in the UK, Eunice says it’s hard to find a community to be part of. “The Mongolian community doesn’t really fully exist,” she says. “It’s not like you can find the Spanish or the Portuguese community. It’s not like that, it’s quite difficult to find.”
In any case, Eunice, who has dual citizenship with the UK, says she thinks of herself as British-Mongolian. “After having children and after seeing them grow up in this country, I totally think of myself as more British than Mongolian in some ways,” she says. “But obviously deep down in my roots I am very Mongolian indeed.”
The pair own property in Mongolia, as well as London and Spain, where Martin’s father is from. “For me, I feel like I have three homes: here, Spain and Mongolia,” says Martin. “When I go to Mongolia, it’s not going away, or going on holiday, it’s going to somewhere that feels just as much home as here almost.” Both Eunice and Martin still visit Mongolia every other year.
In keeping with the couple’s diffuse national allegiances, they decided to name their children Maia and Angel, who are five and two years old respectively, because the names are “nationally neutral,” says Martin. “We wanted to find something that wasn’t typically English, but wasn’t Mongolian that no one could pronounce.”
Also from Spain are the Castedo & Salinas Family, the Brinviyer & Haugaard Family, the Nvumba Family, and the Perez & Khan Family
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Hurricane Creekkeeper Celebrates its 15th Anniversary by Sharing a Cruise with Black Warrior Riverkeeper
COURTNEY MARIE ANDREWS’ “I’VE HURT WORSE” PREMIERES AT ROLLING STONE
BOULEVARD POP-UP SESSION IPA // WORTH A TRY
Teer Gallery: Kentuck Art Center is proud to present the work of Col. Lee Busby (Ret). A native Tuscaloosan and University of Alabama graduate, Lee has had a distinguished career in the United States Marine Corps, was Vice Chief of Staff to General John F Kelly, and ran as a write-in candidate during Alabama’s senate election in 2017. Lee is an accomplished sculptor and ceramicist, and says his most interesting work is a juncture between the two.
“Col. Lee’s interest in sculpting began to overlap with his military experience when he decided to look up Alabamians who’d been killed in Iraq or Afghanistan. He decided to contact one of the families, hoping that the parents would be open to him creating a sculpture honoring their son’s likeness. Col. Lee reached out to the father of Johnny “Mike” Spann, of north Alabama – a Marine Captain killed overseas while he was working for the CIA. Mike’s father met several times with Col. Lee, and they finally got the likeness down. This was only the beginning for Col. Lee, who realized the impact of his gift. ‘I’m no Michelangelo, but I know the world that these people operate in and I know what they went through. And, I do have some ability to sculpt. So, that’s what I want to do.” –Southern Living
Museum Gallery: Missionary Mary Proctor’s exhibitions in the Museum Gallery and Hotel Indigo are on display until the end of July. In 1994, three of Proctor’s family members perished in a home fire while trying to find their way out. A year later, Mary received a spiritual message, “the door is the way.” She followed directions, painted an old door, leaned it up against her chain link fence, and sold it to a passing collector. More doors were commissioned, and a show in New York convinced Proctor that art was her calling. Her work has been featured in the American Visionary Museum, Raw Vision Magazine, the Smithsonian Anacostia Museum, and in Kentuck’s Permanent Collection. In 2016, she was voted Folk Artist of the Year by the Folk Art Society of America. Proctor’s work was recently part of a large gift (entitled “History Refused to Die”) to the Metropolitan Museum of Art from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation.
Courtyard of Wonders: Enjoy live music from Jud & Lisa Cameron and
pop-up shops from local vendors, free cob oven pizza with dough from Mary’s Cakes and Pastries and fresh, locally grown produce from Snow’s Bend Farms.
Artists Studios: Kentuck’s Studio Artists will have open studios for browsing, learning, observing, and buying.
Gallery Shop: Open until 8 pm; members get a 10% discount. Fire Ant and Big Dog members are invited to sample champagne.
Jucifer by Gnarly Barley Brewing Co.
ALABAMA FOOTBALL // Newcomers Making Early Impressions
Basic Venison Chili
ORGERON TALKS ALABAMA vs LSU Football//See What Head Coach Ed Orgeron Has To Say AT Press Conference
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How to make accurate football predictions with linear regression
By Dr. Ed Feng 6 Comments
As a smart football fan, you would like to identify overrated college football teams. This is a difficult task, as half of the top 5 teams in the preseason AP poll have made the College Football Playoff the past 4 seasons.
However, analytics has a nifty trick for identifying teams that don’t belong near the top of the preseason polls.
In addition, this trick lets you look at the statistics on any major media site and identify teams playing above their skill level. In a similar fashion, you can find teams that are better than their record.
The trick relies on regression to the mean.
When you hear the word regression, you probably think of how extreme performance during an earlier period most likely gets closer to average during a later period. It’s difficult to sustain an outlier performance.
This intuitive idea of reversion to the mean is based on linear regression, a simple yet powerful data science method. It powers my preseason college football model that has predicted almost 70% of game winners the past 3 seasons.
The regression model also powers my preseason analysis over on SB Nation. In the past 3 years, I haven’t been wrong about any of 9 overrated teams (7 correct, 2 pushes).
Linear regression might seem scary, as quants throw around terms like “R squared value,” not the most interesting conversation at cocktail parties. However, you can understand linear regression through pictures.
1. The 4 minute data scientist
To understand the basics behind regression, consider a simple question: how does a quantity measured during an earlier period predict the same quantity measured during a later period?
In football, this quantity could measure team strength, the holy grail for computer team rankings. It could also be turnover margin or win percentage in one score games.
Again, consider this question:
How does a quantity in an earlier period predict the same quantity during a later period?
Some quantities persist from the early to later period, which makes a prediction possible. For other quantities, measurements during the earlier period have no relationship to the later period. You might as well guess the mean, which corresponds to our intuitive idea of regression.
To show this in pictures, let’s look at 3 data points from a football example. I plot the quantity during the 2016 season on the x-axis, while the quantity during the 2017 season appears as the y value.
If the quantity during the earlier period were a perfect predictor of the later period, the data points would lie along a line. The visual shows the diagonal line along which x and y values are equal.
In this example, the points do not line up along the diagonal line or any other line. There is an error in predicting the 2017 quantity by guessing the 2016 value. This error is the distance of the vertical line from a data point to the diagonal line.
For the error, it should not matter whether the point lies above or below the line. It makes sense to multiply the error by itself, or take the square of the error. This square is always a positive number, and its value is the area of the blue boxes in this next picture.
The area of the blue boxes is the mean squared error.
In the previous example, we looked at the mean squared error for guessing the early period as the perfect predictor of the later period. Now let’s look at the opposite extreme: the early period has zero predictive ability. For each data point, the later period is predicted by the mean of all values in the later period.
This prediction corresponds to a horizontal line with the y value at the mean. This visual shows the prediction, and the blue boxes correspond to the mean squared error.
The area of these boxes is a visual representation of the variance of the y values of the data points. Also, this horizontal line with its y value at the mean gives the minimum area of the boxes. You can show that every other choice of horizontal line would give three boxes with a larger total area.
Regression requires finding the line that minimizes the squared error, or the area of the boxes. This line is called the best fit line, and the next visual shows the best fit line along with the corresponding minimum mean squared error.
In trying to scare off normal people, the quants will thumb up their nose and say things like “the best fit line explains 70% of the variance.” Even worse, they might call this the “R squared” value.
You can understand this statement through the pictures. The best fit line explains 70% of the variance means that the total area of the red boxes is 70% less than the original blue boxes of the horizontal line.
In this example, the best fit line causes a significant reduction in the area of the box corresponding to the left data point. The box gets larger for the middle point (the blue box is obscured by the red box corresponding to the best fit line). But overall, the area of the red boxes are 70% less than the blue boxes.
You can also think about the error the best fit line doesn’t explain. The area of the red boxes is 30% of the area of the blue boxes. This 30% is the remaining variance after the best fit line removes 70% of the original variance.
The higher the R squared value (70% in the example above), the smaller the red boxes of the best fit line. The line explains the data very well.
In contrast, the lower the R squared value, the larger the red boxes of the best fit line, which will be more horizontal. It doesn’t do much better than the horizontal line of the average.
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2. Persistence versus regression to the mean
The data above come from my team ratings in college football. To develop these numbers, I take margin of victory in games over a season and adjust for strength of schedule through my ranking algorithm. The rating gives an expected margin of victory against an average team on a neutral site.
For the 2014 through 2016 season, here is how the team rating for the season predicted the next season.
The data hug the best fit line, and ratings from the previous season explain more than half of the variance in ratings the following season (54.1%).
Compare this to the same plot with turnover margin, or take aways minus give aways.
For turnover margin, the best fit line is almost flat. Turnover margin in one season explains 2.6% of the variance in turnover margin the following season.
From these two plots, we can make two statements:
Team strength in college football as measured by adjusted margin of victory tends to persist from year to year. This will be useful in making a preseason college football model.
Turnover margin regresses to a mean of zero from year to year. This implies that turnover margin last season has almost zero ability to predict turnover margin this season.
When most people talk about regression, they usually mean the strong type we see in turnover margin. To see this from a different perspective, let’s consider the wins and losses of Coach Average. His results come from flipping of a coin with an equal chance for a win and loss.
For this visual, I generated this data once with 8 lines of Python code. In no way did I search for a sequence with streaks. However, streaks almost always appear in the sequence.
In this simple experiment, the flipping of any one coin has no impact on the outcome of the next coin. The code makes each game for Coach Average independent of all other games.
Regression to the mean implies that despite a hot 8-2 start for Coach Average, he should still expect to win half of the next 10 games. In fact, he wins 6 of the next 10 games.
Coach Average also expects to regress to .500 after 9 straight losses starting on game 19. However, he loses 6 of the next 8 games.
3. Skill versus luck
Phenomena in the real world are not as simple as this coin flipping experiment, and we need to be cautious in making statements about sports. When a quantity like turnover margin has no ability to predict future turnover margin, it doesn’t imply a lack of skill in preventing or forcing turnovers.
While the analytics community doesn’t have a complete picture of turnovers, a few key insights have started to emerge. The game situations matters in turnovers. Over the past decade in college football, teams in the lead have committed a third of all turnovers. For teams ahead by a touchdown or more, the rate drops to 14% of all turnovers.
This would help explain why Alabama has posted +68 turnover margin the past 8 seasons. The Crimson Tide failed to have a positive turnover margin only in 2014, when they gave away the ball 2 more times than they took it away.
The dependence of turnovers on game situation makes sense. Teams in the lead tend to run the ball, especially later in the game. Turnovers happen at a lower rate on running than passing plays. If a team faces a deficit, they need to throw the ball to get back into the game.
For another example of how regression doesn’t necessarily imply a lack of skill, let’s turn to college basketball. Ken Pomeroy wondered how much control teams have over three point shots. He asked how a team’s 3 point shooting percentage in the first half of the conference season predicted the second half.
The visual shows his results.
The left panel shows 3 point percentage on offense. The first half of the conference season has almost no ability to predict the same quantity later in the season. Does that mean shooting is not a skill? Tell that to Steph Curry.
The visual also shows the strong regression for 3 point field goal defense. This suggests a lack of skill in defending the 3. To confirm this, Pomeroy performed a more detailed study on 3 point defense for teams over a 5 year period. He concluded there is some skill, but randomness plays a bigger role than anyone expects.
When a quantity regresses to the mean like turnover margin or 3 point shooting percentage, it doesn’t necessarily imply a lack a skill. Fumbles may regress to the mean, but that doesn’t mean a running back isn’t fumble prone if he palms the ball with one hand while running through the line of scrimmage.
However, it is safe to say that randomness plays a large role in turnovers and 3 point shots.
4. How to make preseason college football predictions
USC had high expectations heading into 2017. Sam Darnold took over the starting QB job the previous season and led the Trojans to a 9-0 finish, which included a dramatic win over Penn State in the Rose Bowl.
At the start of the 2017 season, the pollsters put USC 4th in the preseason poll (both AP and Coaches). This made Clay Helton’s team the favorite to make the College Football Playoff out of the Pac-12 conference.
In contrast, no one knew quite what to expect from Georgia. Just like USC, 2017 was their second under a young coach, Kirby Smart. But in contrast to USC, they struggled in 2016.
Georgia started true freshman Jacob Eason at quarterback, who delivered a mediocre 55% completion rate. They ranked 81st in my adjusted yards per attempt.
Georgia went 8-5 in 2016, a record acceptable only for new coaches in Athens. To start 2017, they landed at 15th in the preseason AP poll.
So what does regression say about these two teams? Each year, I put together a preseason college football model that uses regression on many variables.
In college football, team performance tends to persist from year to year. Programs like Alabama have financial resources and traditions that Rice will never have. These teams will not swap places in the college football hierarchy.
Hence, my preseason model uses the past 4 years of team performance to predict the next season. This part of the model says that team is most likely to perform as some combination of their last 4 years, with recent years weighted more. This makes the model cautious about an outlier season or 9 games.
The preseason model also considers turnover margin. Turnovers can impact the scoreboard, as a key fumble halts a game winning drive, or an interception returned for a touchdown turns a tight game into a laugher.
However, turnover margin regresses to the mean of zero from year to year in college football. Hence, the model uses turnover margin in each of the past 4 seasons. This holds back the excitement for a team that made a huge jump in rating with a +25 in turnover margin.
Last, the model considers returning starters. More experience implies better performance for college football teams.
Over the past 3 season (2015-17), this regression model for college football has predicted 69.8% of game winners. This rate doesn’t include easier to predict cupcake games with FBS teams facing inferior FCS teams. The model only makes predictions for games with two FBS teams.
Heading into 2017, the preseason college football model had USC 16th. In the previous 4 seasons, USC had never finished the season higher than 14th in my college football rankings. Despite their impressive 9-0 finish in 2016, they only rose to 14th because of a poor start.
The model doesn’t distinguish between returning starters at different positions. The quarterback has an outsized impact on a football team, and Darnold’s status as a top NFL prospect could convince you of USC as higher than 16th. However, 4th in the AP poll seemed too optimistic.
In contrast, the regression model agreed with the AP poll on Georgia. The model had the Bulldogs at 18th while the polls had them at 15th. Analytics and polls agreed on Georgia as a solid top 25 team but not a playoff contender.
During the actual 2017 season, USC did not live up to their top 4 ranking. They dropped an early road game at Washington State. Then their playoff hopes ended when Notre Dame stomped their defense for 8.4 yards per carry in a 49-14 win.
Georgia’s season got off to a distressing start as Eason sustained an injury in the first game. However, this turned into a blessing, as true freshman Jake Fromm took over and had a brilliant season. Georgia’s pass offense finished 10th in my adjusted yards per attempt.
The defense also improved, as they jumped from a solid 28th in my adjusted yards per play in 2016 to an elite 3rd in 2017. This unit had only one bad game when they allowed 40 points at Auburn. However, they atoned for this blip by holding Auburn to 7 points in the SEC title game win a few weeks later.
Georgia made the College Football Playoff, and they took Alabama to overtime in the championship game before losing.
Here’s the take home message about college football preseason predictions: It’s much easier to predict regression for a team like USC than a sudden rise for Georgia.
In each of the past 3 seasons, I’ve written about 3 overrated college football teams in the preseason polls on Football Study Hall, an SB Nation site (2015, 2016, 2017). This analysis combines my regression model with knowledge of programs.
Looking back on these predictions, I’ve been right about 7 of 9 teams. The two teams, Penn State and Oklahoma State, finished lower in the final poll than the preseason poll in 2017. However, I’ll call these predictions a push as they both performed better than I predicted.
There’s a good reason I have never written a corresponding 3 underrated teams article. A regression model is unlikely to identify breakout teams like Georgia in 2017. Their true freshman quarterback worked out, and their defense made a leap.
There is a random element to teams that make a sudden rise. These predictions are more difficult than finding an overrated team by a regression model.
5. How to make accurate predictions with regression
I want you to take home two main points.
First, quantities in football like turnover margin show very little persistence from an earlier period to a later period. These quantities regress to the mean, as your best guess for the later period is the average.
To find football teams that might not be as strong as their record suggests, look for teams with large, positive turnover margin. In contrast, teams with large, negative turnover margin might be better than their record. Use these links for data on college football and the NFL.
As another example, consider an NFL team’s record in close games from year to year. Based on data from the 2012 through 2017 season, the visual shows that one year explains 1.3% of the variance the next year.
A team like Oakland, who went 9-2 in one score games in 2016, should not expect the same good fortune again. The Raiders went 4-3 in one score games in 2017. However, regression to the mean isn’t a perfect predictor, as Cleveland has a 2-16 record in one score games the past 3 seasons.
Second, some quantities like team strength in college football tends to persist from year to year. This allows for predictive models based on linear regression.
Even with this persistence, the models still predict regression for outlier performances, both good and poor. The 9-0 stretch for USC to end 2016 serves as an example. However, regression models can not predict teams that jump from ordinary to the outlier, like Georgia in 2017.
These ideas apply for both my preseason regression model at The Power Rank and Bill Connelly’s S&P+ numbers. Use these rankings as a guide to find overrated teams near the top of the polls.
Filed Under: College Football, Football Analytics, National Football League
Marcello De Wit says
Dear Ed Feng,
For school I am writing (something like) a thesis, about the predictability of sport. I am trying to predict soccer, basketball, baseball, american football and ice hockey (the 5 most popular team sports in the US). Afterwards i will compare the results and try to find out what causes the difference in predictability. What i struggled with most until now was choosing which statistics to use for my predictive models. I still have to learn a lot about predictive modeling and this article and the other articles on this site have helped me enormously. The article is very well written and explains everything very clear. What i struggled with most until now was choosing which statistics to use for my predictive models. Just to be sure: if you want to find out which statistics will be useful for your model you have to make a regression between two different years? Consequently if there is a strong correlation betweent the two it would be a good predictor? I am asking this question becuase I was under the impression that a correlation between the value you want to predict and an independed variable would imply that it would be useful for predicting.
Dr. Ed Feng says
I recommend looking at variables such as margin of victory and turnovers and see if there is a correlation, both year to year and early to late season. Then you get a baseline for whether to use the variable.
Craig Ross says
Great stuff, Ed. I really enjoyed the article and will spend more time with it.
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150 Years Since Emancipation: We’ve (Hardly) Come a Long Way, Baby
Saturday, Sept. 22 marked the 150th anniversary of President Lincoln’s early emancipation of slaves from Confederate States which were still rebelling against Union authority by the beginning of 1863. The official Emancipation Proclamation would be signed into law on January 1, 1863. But slavery wasn’t constitutionally abolished until December 18, 1865, when the 13th Amendment was passed. Perhaps because it was the preliminary announcement, there was very little fanfare, save for several NYT pieces. One was a column on Lincon’s Great Gamble, and the other an editorial that traced the beginning of the Laws of War to that event.
Still, some things that come to mind:
The Republicans, in spite of their supposed zeal to appeal to African Americans and other minority voters, missed an opportunity to trumpet the fact that it was a Republican President whose actions would eventually free several million black men and women. There’s still time to commemorate the actual anniversary of the Lincoln’s signing of the EP on Jan. 1, 2013—well after the election. It could mark a change in long-term strategy. Will they?
As Angela Davis (philosopher, Black Panther, and ex-prisoner), Cornel West, and Michelle Alexander have been arguing, the abolition of slavery did not lead to the freedom of black men and women, but rather to the continuation of slavery by other “legal” means. Other means included Jim Crow (apartheid and indentured servitude); more recently, we see the continuation of apartheid and slavery through the massive imprisonment, voter suppression and abrogation of other rights of convicted African Americans and other minority populations for non-violent offenses.
Innumerable Black men, such as Mumia Abu-Jamal are in prison due to shoddy representation, improper trials, or other irregular procedures.
Populations of color make up 30% of the US population, but 60% of the prison population.
1 in 3 Black men in the U.S. can expect to go to prison in their lifetimes. 1 in 10 Black men is in prison or jail in the U.S.
Plea bargains—agreeing to concede guilt in exchange for a shorter sentence—account for 95% of all felony convictions in the U.S. 90% of all criminal convictions are the result of plea bargains. Plea bargains save the courts time and money by bypassing trials; and save prisoners potentially lengthier jail sentences.
Plea bargains also require the arrested to waive three rights guaranteed by the 5thand 6th (right against self-incrimination, right to confront hostile witnesses, and the right to a jury trial). They also enable the waiving of the right to appeal a conviction. By extension, plea bargains do not guarantee that the “convicted” are in fact guilty.
Latinos represent the largest percentage of the 400,000 migrants detained annually in centers across the United States (97%). There are huge profits to be netted in the private management of these facilities. It is one of the most successful jobs program, expanded if not created, by the Obama Administration.
Migrants who are arrested or detained for “unlawful” entry into the United States are at the mercy of the whims of USCIS officers. They are not entitled to lawyers. Nor to judicial review. That means they have no access to judges to review their cases and the accuracy of the charges against them—or of any other facts.
The CIA has decided to offer some transparency by announcing the names of 55 out of 84 prisoners in Guantanamo Bay Detention facilities who have been cleared for released by the United States (court system?). Why not the other 19 men, too?
Adnan Latif, a Yemeni who had been imprisoned without charges in Guantanamo since October 2002, had been cleared for release multiple times over the first 8 years of his unlawful imprisonment; his release was challenged by the Obama Administration and ultimately overturned by the Supreme Court 3 months ago because of “security concerns.”
U.S. citizens Fahad Hashmi and Tarek Mehanna represent only 2 of many Muslim men who were arrested on suspicion of terrorism, confined without charges, and after many years, convicted of material support to terrorism. There is no public documentation of these charges. Public evidence of their “criminal tendencies,” point to their vocal religious and political dissent against U.S. foreign policies and empathies for states that were subject to the war on terror (both are technically protected under the U.S. Constitution’s 1st amendment).
SAM’s—Special Administrative Measures–can be issued by an Attorney General against prisoners for any sort of minute infraction, and not be subject to judicial review after someone is “convicted.” SAM’s can include solitary confinement for years at a time, revoking visiting privileges with one’s mother, refusing to allow a prisoner out of his solitary confinement for even his daily 1 hour allotment for exercise. They can be issued for infractions that don’t need to be known to prisoners or their lawyers. If they are promulgated publicly, the reason for the SAM is because the prisoner is acting in a way that is deemed to incite riots or violence. I mean how else would one view the act of praying, or god-forbid, shadowboxing in solitary confinement?
The NDAA 2011 gave the POTUS the unlimited authority to detain suspected terrorists anytime, anywhere—until a lawsuit against Section 1021 launched by journalist Chris Hedges and other journalists was won in May, and its enforcement stopped with a temporary injunction. A permanent injunction was instituted last week.
The permanent injunction has been challenged by the Obama Administration as of last week.
“Homeland,” a cable show (Showtime) that features a CIA agent who tracks a CIA agent/white U.S. citizen/former prisoner of Al-Qaeda as a potential enemy of the United States, won a 2012 Emmy last night for Best Drama. Isn’t Clare Danes gorgeous as a CIA agent? Just saying.
Author Falguni A. ShethPosted on September 24, 2012 September 24, 2012 Categories Incarceration, National Security Law, Racism, US Politics, War on TerrorTags constitutional violations, enslavement, Indefinite Detention, prisons, Transracial solidarity, undocumented migrants
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In America, Journalists “Push Back”: The Magnificent Hypocrisy of Touré
Update (2/17/13) below:
Yesterday, the news of the leaked Department of Justice white paper brought on a flurry of “debates” about whether POTUS’ ever-expansive rationale for targeting U.S. citizens was acceptable. The rationale is that a mere suspicion WITHOUT evidence that a U.S. citizen was a senior official in Al-Qaeda (designated as a terrorist organization by the U.S.) is an acceptable basis to target him via a drone strike.
It’s hard to have a believable “debate” when folks who should be aware and up-to-date on the Administration’s doings are ignorant, skeptical, or indifferent. Those were the reactions of Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, when she was challenged about the legitimacy of WH-directed kill lists and drone strikes. This clip is from last fall, after the second Presidential debate at Hofstra University. Wasserman-Schultz–an elected Congressional representative from Florida–has NO idea about the secret kill list whatsoever (FF to 00:25 and again to 00:35-60 for “the look”):
Wasserman-Schultz appears confused and skeptical when asked about the kill lists. In fact, she has the same blank look on her face that Touré, a political commentator for cable tv’s “left-leaning” MSNBC’s SpinCity, does when his co-hosts Steve Kornacki and S.E. Cupp confront him about the fact that a drone was used to kill 16 year old Abdulrahman Al-Aulaqi, the son of the alleged “#2 official in Al-Qaeda.” His father, Anwar Al-Aulaqi, was killed by drones on Sept. 30, 2011, 2 weeks AFTER John Brennan, the Obama nominee to be the next director of the CIA, argued for upholding transparency and rule of law when deciding the targets of drone strikes. Abdulrahman was killed exactly 2 weeks later. Both father and son were U.S. citizens.
Compare Wasserman-Schultz’ reactions to those of Touré on the same topic (unfortunately, this clip won’t embed on this site, so you’ll have to click it. It’s short, and I promise it’s worth your time).
https://www.mrctv.org/videos/watch-two-far-left-msnbc-hosts-actually-support-doj-drone-memo
Touré was embroiled in a controversy last year with Piers Morgan over the death of Trayvon Martin, whose 18th birthday would have been yesterday. Martin’s ‘crime,’ as “journalist” Geraldo Rivera and prosecutors allege—was not that he was black, but that he was wearing a hoodie in an exclusive gated community. Touré was especially critical of Morgan about not having interviewed George Zimmerman–who shot and killed Martin–and his brother Robert, critically and forcefully.
You will see from the below clip one such heated discussion between the two of them where, invoking certain nativist sentiments, Touré insisted that because Morgan was not American, he didn’t understand true journalistic rigor.
Morgan is hardly an icon of journalistic responsibility, but Toure’s comments are remarkable and self-righteously patronizing:
Let me explain to you a little bit at what’s at stake here. This is a major moment in American history and America’s reaching a bit of a boiling point in terms of dealing with this issue. And when we allow for misinformation and obfuscation and people to become confused about the truth about what’s going on, then we become part of the problem and not part of the seeking a solution.
He continues to berate Morgan for “being a part of the problem” for allowing the Zimmerman brothers to come on the air and spread misinformation and lies that “we know many people will believe.”
Do you know that in the hallways of MSNBC we were laughing at you today? We wouldn’t even take ‘em–standards of practices at MSNBC wouldn’t even let them through the door. (1:15)
I’m hardly a fan of Piers Morgan; but Touré’s response was an especially interesting one. Remember this part from the SpinCity clip?
If you join Al-Qaeda, you lose the right to due process, you become an enemy of this nation. And you’re committing treason. And I don’t see why we should expand (sic) American rights to people who want to kill Americans. This is not criticizing the United States. This is going to war against the United States.
Treason is a charge that can be leveled at a U.S. citizen, not a “foreign” enemy. He is also surprised to learn that Abdulrahman Al-Awlaki is American minor. Take a look again at 00:34.
Touré: What do you mean a 16-year old who is killed? I’m not talking about civilians.
Steve Kornacki and S.E. Cupp (the ‘conservative’) assure Touré that they are talking about a 16 year old Denver-born teen who was killed. Touré looks confused.
Touré: If people are working against America, then they need to die.
According to Touré’s own standard, he is part of the problem. Is MSNBC laughing at Touré, one wonders?
There is a certain nativist, if not xenophobic, consistency on Touré’s part. Rightfully insisting on paying attention to the racist context surrounding Martin’s death, he nevertheless challenges Morgan’s attitudes on the grounds that Morgan is not “from here.” For all of Touré’s understanding about the racial context of unfair murders, he appears to be ignorant of and indifferent to the fact that a young Muslim (American) boy was killed by a drone under the auspices of the POTUS.
We see a similar nativism in Touré’s sentiments about restricting due process to “Americans”—even after he learns that Abdulrahman Al-Awlaki IS American. [Not to worry though, Kristal Ball jumps in to assure us that this issue is not “black and white,” but “definitely one of those areas of grey.” As S.E. Cupp points out, killing 700 children through drone strikes is hardly “an area of grey.”]
According to Touré (5:30), what Morgan understands as “challenging” interview subjects is barely critical, barely journalistic. Says Touré:
What you understand as challenging, perhaps, maybe that’s what goes in England. That’s not what we do in terms of challenging in America…I would have liked to see him pushed and challenged, more followup, more pushback, more research to understand.
Really? Considering that Touré’s “version” of critical (“leftie”) journalism takes the form of vociferous unwillingness to ask for proof of one’s “terrorist credentials,” or to question the validity of the white paper (never mind the range of “counter-terrorism” law that has increasingly shrouded executive decisions in secrecy), I have to wonder what it is “that we do here in America.”
Touré goes on this vein for another 10 minutes: a lecture to Piers Morgan about aggressive journalism, and how impossible it is that Zimmerman’s story is true, so “at that point, we can’t give him a light pushback; we have to give him a much tougher follow-up than that.” (6:20).
I’m waiting for Touré’s tough follow-up on POTUS’ kill lists, the WH’s Terror Tuesdays, and the white paper on targeted killing. As Touré snidely pretends to be impressed that Morgan has been covering the Trayvon Martin story for “a whole week, wow!” I’m wondering why Touré knows not at all about the 2011 murder of 16 year-old Awlaki or of the deaths of 700 children by drones.
Given his anger over Martin’s death and apparent ignorance about who Abdulrahman Al-Awlaki was, or what his crime was (namely that of having an “irresponsible father”), one could accuse Touré of having double-standards about the value of the lives of African American v. Muslim American 16 year old-teens, not to mention his own hypocritical indignance about Morgan, given that Touré is vociferously spreading misinformation.
Even then, his position regarding the white paper on targeted killings is that America is being attacked, Al-Qaeda is fighting a “post-geographic” war, and therefore the President, as the Commander-in-Chief is correct to decide who to kill–in secret and without any due process.
The last person in this thread is correct; her words point to Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England–back in the 1760’s–when they had kings with political clout (Book 1, Ch. 7):
THE king, moreover, is not only incapable of doing wrong, but ever of thinking wrong: he can never mean to do an improper thing: in him is no folly or weakness.
One wonders how exactly how our “left” political class is “leaning forward.” If they dare to concede that wrong is done, it’s purely an accident. Which must make it morally acceptable.
Feet to the Fire! Or is it “Lean Forward”?
Update (2/17/13): This article by Jemima Pierre on Black Agenda Report is a MUST READ. Written one year ago, it is dead-on accurate and precise. Pierre compares the assassinations of Trayvon Martin and Abdulrahman Al-Awlaki. Pierre, rather than Touré, should have been on this segment of The Cycle–without spin.
Author Falguni A. ShethPosted on February 6, 2013 February 17, 2013 Categories 2013, Election Season 2012, National Security Law, U.S. Foreign Policy, US Politics, War on Terror16 Comments on In America, Journalists “Push Back”: The Magnificent Hypocrisy of Touré
Power, Ethics, Etiquette: The Liberal Sincerity of MSNBC Journalists
Updates I & II below:
I’m having difficulty seeing what others on Twitter have called the ‘mean-spiritedness’ and ‘antagonism’ of Ohtarzie’s latest post, “The Cable News Heroism of Chris Hayes.” His piece emerged after a prolonged exchange on Twitter with journalist Jeremy Scahill. Ohtarzie gave a fair analysis of the significance of ‘left’ figures like Hayes within the context of corporate “liberal” media: Chris Hayes’ role (like those of Rachel Maddow, Melissa Harris-Perry, etc.), is largely symbolic and limited to the degree that MSNBC finds him useful. Hayes’ status as the host of a progressive forum on TV may have been true once, and he might even believe that he is an effective progressive journalist–but self-deception is a rather dependable refuge for the best of us.
There is little worthy in defending someone — Hayes, Chomsky, Obama, Maddow — by insisting that “their intentions are good/sincere/honest/liberal/left.” As Hannah Arendt points out, bureaucrats and functionaries don’t wake up in the morning believing that they have insincere intentions. Ditto mass murderers, presidential candidates, and your husband. Adolf Eichmann thought he was abiding by Kant’s universal moral law. That shows you how vacuous the categorical imperative can be. This is, as she points out, how the extreme ordinariness—the banality—of evil reveals itself: by seeking shelter in “sincere beliefs.”
Insincere intentions are the stuff of fairy tales. They are the simplest way to turn the banality of evil into the thrill of spotting a villain. This is why Hollywood directors are filthy rich. The “sincere” beliefs view is helpfully reinforced by seeking confirmation from other like-minded folks—and friends. It is not convincing to critics. Rightfully. I am neither suggesting that Chris Hayes is evil nor that Jeremy Scahill, an excellent journalist, is at fault for pointing to Hayes’ sincerity. The former is too pat a description. The latter is a natural impulse of friendship, but still a weak defense of Hayes’ shift toward Democratic apologia. There is something corrupt about the argument that one’s sincerity makes one a “good” anything—person, journalist, teacher, parent.
Ohtarzie writes:
[this is] why I consider most establishment lefts fundamentally toxic: their principled, analytical moments are inseparable from the ways in which they more frequently and potently subvert them…
It is impossible to overestimate the importance of presidential elections…to mass indoctrination, mass distraction, and movement killing, where they accomplish a great deal.
I would add that the toxicity of subverted principles is even more all-encompassing: it is a constant undertow that threatens to subsume you. It emanates from everyone you work with. Unless you are forceful in resisting, there is a tide that’s flows over you unceasingly. It becomes something you find—want–yourself to be part of. It is a damn sight more pleasurable to be a part of a crowd that has sincere intentions, gets paid well, believes in liberal principles, and looks the other way collectively, than to find oneself eating brunch alone in one’s tiny kitchen, or awkwardly greeted by upwardly ascending colleagues. The natural response, then, becomes the willingness to acquiesce to the coercion imposed by that tide, that undertow, and of course, to the source of one’s bread—in this case, the defense contractor/corporate employer—and one’s social “network”: those with whom one aspires to be on friendly, intimate terms: other well-known corporate reporters, high visibility newsmakers, and of course, the POTUS himself and his functionaries.
It is at some level natural and to be expected that one will be less critical of the failings of those whom one knows personally or is friends with: one can see those failings in a more holistic aura of other “positive” characteristics. This is also part of why politicians curry favor with journalists and lobbyists curry favor with politicians: the line between business and pleasure becomes happily blurred. It is much more difficult to criticize or challenge someone whose sense of humor, holiday gatherings, or box seats you share.
It is not strange—nor wrong–for Scahill to locate Hayes within the context of his more positive lights. Nor might it be strange for Hayes and Maddow to do the same with Obama. Except that part of Hayes’ and Maddow’s jobs are to keep the President and the Democrats accountable. Which means that “listening to the President’s thoughts on economic messaging” is a dubious project—given that it is a journalist’s job to assess the message, not to help shape it.
This may be why “ethics”—along with physical and social distance from the subject of one’s writings–are useful: because they guide us during those confusing moments when our lust to be counted in another’s intimate circle conflicts with doing our jobs: being on intimate friendly terms with the boss, one’s dissertation advisor, the subject of one’s dissertation or biography, the enemy, or an important news source.
But the denial of that conflict of interest is all-too-rewarding. As Ohtarzie says,
…the price all widely known public lefts from Rachel Maddow to Chomsky must pay to sit at the grownups’ table is agreement that a quadrennial, unconditional allegiance to whomever happens to be the Democratic presidential candidate is both tactically sound and socially responsible.
It is one thing to capitulate to the aspiration to success reluctantly, perhaps with a divided heart and mind. It is quite another to engage in the exhortatory jubilation that Hayes evidenced here (this was on my mind before I read Arthur Silber’s post, but he appears also to have found it vomitorious):
[I can’t successfully embed the clip, so here’s the link to the clip with transcript.]
This was perhaps one of the most noxious displays of Hayes’s turn to Democratic partisanship. It wasn’t just a quiet “ode” to the labor of democracy, but an exhortation of the triumph of Obama’s victory. What made it especially troubling was not the description of his brother’s “the countless hours on the road,” although by the calculus of “hard work,” this victory could also have been Romney’s and his staff, no?
Sixty to ninety hours a week, 52 weeks a year for five years, my brother worked to get Barack Obama elected president, and then from his perch as the Nevada state director this time around, to get him re-elected. I’m biased of course, but to me, Tuesday’s victory was Luke’s victory as much it was anyone else’s.
It was not the exultation in the face of a year of arguments–among progressives and liberals about the miniscule differences that could be used to distinguish the “right” candidate from the “left” candidate–that was disturbing.
No. What made it especially sickening was the craven excitement exhibited by Hayes, given the months of shows on race, drones, the faltering economy, the mortgage foreclosures, constitutional violations, etc. As I watched, I wondered how to reconcile his joy with his factual awareness of the violations and punitive treatment of vulnerable and poor populations, people of color—citizens and foreign nationals. Was it
A deep self-deception? Perhaps if we were to believe Hayes’ defenders that he “means well.”
Amnesia? Somehow he forgot the years of outrages that he himself discusses?
Indifference? To interpret Hayes’ “Dashle-like” response that Freddie DeBoer diagnoses, and invoked by Ohtarzie?
To watch Hayes toasting his brother’s victory in the aftermath of yet more drones sent into Yemen (on the day of the election)–while being acutely aware that more people had died in the intervening 4 days between the re-election of Barack Obama and Hayes’ show—made my blood run cold. This man is supposed to hold politicians accountable.
That brings me back to the point with which I began: Several Twitter followers described the stark tone of Ohtarzie’s post as “mean-spirited” and “antagonistic.” They seemed to imply that Ohtarzie was guilty of a breach of etiquette—that one must be “polite” in one’s criticisms. I did not see the “impoliteness.” But I am all too aware that the purpose of “etiquette” is to smooth the frictions of social life, of social interaction. One is polite so as to avoid conflict–as we see in the traditional advice to avoid discussing “religion, politics, and sex” at family gatherings–with one’s fellow journalists or Democrats, or to avoid being dismissed as irrational or crazy—especially when brown or Black. I don’t think rudeness and spite are always political acts. But being openly, unflinchingly disagreeable is an important step towards the political.
The criticism of Ohtarzie’s “antagonism” belies one answer to the very question that is under dispute: Apparently there are those who believe that etiquette should be used to smooth out the criticisms of progressive journalism. But in fact, the answer has been much more deadly to the 4th estate. Etiquette and social intimacy are inevitably successful tactics to induce “progressive journalists” to exploit their radical credentials while accepting the invitation into the corporate fold. At extreme political cost.
Liberal sincere intentions. Doing well by doing good.
Update I: It’s as if the NYT and I coordinated today. Jon Meacham, author of Thomas Jefferson: Art of Power has an Op-Ed in which he endorses “Socializing as a Political Tool.” Obama, he says, should invite his opponents to dinner; it “ameliorates” differences. Bien sur!
Update II: Anonymous posted this link in the comments section below, but I wanted to highlight it here. It is another excellent post by Barry Eisler on a similar topic, “You Will Be Assimilated.” Gut-clenchingly candid in its assessment of the signs of journalists selling out. Must read.
Author Falguni A. ShethPosted on November 26, 2012 November 26, 2012 Categories Election Season 2012, US Politics, VotingTags Chris Hayes, Progressive Journalism9 Comments on Power, Ethics, Etiquette: The Liberal Sincerity of MSNBC Journalists
It’s Still Not Safe to Read The Nation
Update I (below):
I thought it was safe to read The Nation again, since election season is over. I was wrong. I know. People tried to warn me–those who couldn’t bear to turn away from the luridness of liberalnews porn–that the insipid “now the real work begins” trope was gaining steam. So I resisted. For a day. And then, someone tweeted out that Katha Pollitt had a new column. That was it. I was sucked into the vortex.
Truth be told, I’m with Katha on this:
After all, if you can hold people solely responsible for their problems, you can ignore them, deprive them, even hate them.
LOVE it. Katha and me, finally two feminists on the same page. Multiracial solidarity at last. Yeppers. Maybe this Democratic victory thing isn’t going to be so bad after all. Y’know. We can hold Liberals’ feet to the fire together. Maybe warm up a bit of brandy to toast each other while we’re so close to that fire, holding feet up and all.
But wait. Right before she makes that awesome point, she says this:
The logical corollary of “You’re on your own” is “You’re your own damn fault.” Americans in general are keen on seeing social problems in terms of individual weakness—look at how we demonize fat people, as if the reason so many are overweight is just a lack of willpower. But that mindset is particularly part of the right-wing DNA.
She, my feminist ally of righteous liberal persuasion–points out that it was “rightwing DNA” that turned the “we’re all in this together” mindset into the “You’re-your-own-damn” fault mindset.
It’s true: the Romney/Ryan crowd does do that with that durn 47% who want handouts. And binders full of women. And rapey-guys like Richard Mourdoch and Todd Akin. The conservative white guys who don’t give a hoot about anyone else do that. Sheesh.
Glad no one in the Democratic Party does that. You know, that thing, where victims get blamed. Because it would embarrassing and hypocritical—you know—if someone in the Democratic party, say, blamed Black men for being AWOL, or missing from the lives of their children, or were told to buck up and get a job. Right? And that would be, as Katha says, from rightwing DNA. Right.
Fast forward to 2:30 to get to the serious condemnations quickly.
“Too many fathers are AWOL.” “Too many fathers are missing from too many lives and too many homes.” Hm. I’m wondering if any of that has to do with a ramped up drug war, expanded and exploited under this Democratic Administration? 3 strikes laws? Racial profiling?
Again: 1 in 3 Black men can expect to go to prison. 1 in 9 Black men is in prison. Mortgage Foreclosures. Massive unemployment.
“You’re your own damn fault.” Rightwing DNA. Right.
The irresponsible fathers trope apparently is really popular among the Democratic Party folks. Remember Chief Advisor Robert Gibbs on how the murdered 16-year old kid of Al-Qaeda #2 Anwar Al-Aulaqi should have gotten a more responsible father? You don’t? Well, here it is. Starts at 2:00. Gibbs’ response at 2:40:
Abdulrahman Al-Awlaki should have gotten a “far more responsible father.” “You’re your own damn fault.” Rightwing DNA. Right.
How about another? Remember our buddy Bobby Gibbs? Dispenser of “more responsible father” wisdom? Remember his comment about “The Professional Left” and how crazy they are and ought to be drug tested? Here you go (couldn’t find the original clip, but I thought this analysis by Alyona on RT was on point).
The professional left. Reflecting the hopes for change of that part of the crowd that voted in dear POTUS in 2008. “You’re your own damn fault.” So…does that make the Democratic Party hypocritical? Or rightwing? You pick.
“We’re all in this together.” Really. The Dems and Feminists are in this together? Under the ACA act which gave us health insurance negotiated and mediated by the private, for-profit insurance companies, POTUS enshrined the Hyde Amendment in the ACA. Why didn’t feminists complain about the severe and legalized restricting funding for abortions back in March 2010?
As Matt Stoller, apparently a white privileged anti-feminist man, pointed out:
Obama is the president who insisted that women under 17 shouldn’t have access to Plan B birth control, overruling scientists at the FDA, because of his position ”as a father of two daughters.” Girls, he said, shouldn’t be able to buy these drugs next to “bubble gum and batteries.” Aside from the obvious sexism, he left out the possibility that young women who need Plan B had been raped by their fathers, which anyone who works in the field knows happens all too often.
I didn’t hear Katha, whose primary concern is reproductive rights—from which all other rights, including economic rights, apparently stem—complaining about this remarkably misogynist policy. Maybe I missed it.
Pollitt asks:
Of all the divisions between the candidates in this election, perhaps the deepest was over whether, as President Obama put it, we are all in this together. Do we believe in solving our problems by sharing them… Or do we believe, with Mitt Romney, that each of us is on his or her—maybe especially her—own?
In which way can we interpret the Democratic platform as one in which “we are all in this together” when more than a thousand Muslim* men have been detained, incarcerated, pre-emptively arrested without evidence, placed in solitary confinement, extradited from UK when their “white” counterparts are allowed a free pass? How is the deportation of 1.4 million people from the US a victory for minorities? How is the Democrat White House-led separation of hundreds of thousands of undocumented migrants from their US born children a sign of anything other than “you’re your own damn fault”?
I’m not a religious person, so I’ll skip the quotidien mantra about the ways in which the Democrats have eviscerated so many segments of the population, I’ll just link to my first response to Pollitt herself, Emily Hauser and a couple others on Safe States, Democratic Achievements, and Election Day victories.
Pollitt lists a number of social policies passed under the Democrats. And some of them are good (if they exist): progressive taxes, low-income grants, infrastructure, scientific research. But these policies are good for those who get to live. For those who do not have to live in fear of being beaten, tortured, jailed, bombed or droned to death.
Maybe at the end of the day, that is the difference between Pollitt and myself. I’m absolutely in favor of economic and social improvements that enhance the lives of those who struggle. But in our society, where extra-constitutional murder and assassinations and solitary confinement and incarceration are literally everyday occurrences, life is a privilege. Not a right. A privilege. And I’m unwilling to accept that as a policy position from liberals or progressives or Democrats. Or Republicans. Except that the Republican’s political platform doesn’t fool liberals.
Try as I might, I’m fundamentally unable to appreciate those improvements by forgetting about the heinous ways by which we assault brown and black populations—in the US and internationally. And for liberals, ultimately, those two facets are constantly pitted against each other. Well, hey, but we can marginally lower our payroll taxes, yeah! And…well, yeah, the same party that helps the lives of SOME of the vulnerable…their Prez kinda kills people arbitrarily (or maybe not…but we’ll never know cause we can’t see the evidence). And, at the end of the day, not much help was meted out to the living as it was.
Here are some events that have occurred since Tuesday, when the great victory for Liberals occurred:
3 Yemenis were killed by drones within 12 hours of Obama’s re-election.
The US sent a drone into Iranian airspace.
The families of Pakistani drone victims are infuriated by Obama’s re-election.
I understand that neither Pollitt nor her liberal or feminist pals give a good goddamn about foreign nationals, or black or brown men (or women who have a myriad of other issues as a result of heinous Democratic policies) in the US. That’s fine. But it’s the hypocrisy of it all that is so galling.
People who claim to be feminists should care about what happens to women—and men of color–in all of their dimensions—reproductive, social, physical and psychic. But the list of people who count as deserving, for liberals and feminists in the US, doesn’t include Muslim women–in the US or in Pakistan, Iraq, Afghanistan, whose lives and bodies and communities are torn apart because a Black Democratic President and his liberal Democratic cronies. It’s fine to be angry with the Republicans for being indifferent-but I’d much rather that the same critics be as honest about their own indifference.
That way I get to know exactly who my allies and adversaries are, and I don’t waste time wondering why if someone claims to be a “feminist,” they only seem to care about one dimension, applied to a small segment of a population—those who fit their image of who “deserving” women and men are.
Katha and I probably won’t be sharing that brandy after all.
*This number has been corrected from a previous version, which stated that “thousands of men are detained…” My previous reference was to Muslim and undocumented Latino men, who together would have numbered in the hundreds of thousands, but I’ve revised for clarity.
Update I: Several examples of Liberals holding Democrats’ Feet to the Fire:
1. Mother Jones has a photo retrospective that illustrates how much Barack Obama Loves Kids, Chairs, Fedoras, Pirates, and Nancy Reagan.
2. Here’s an article by Tom Junod about how much Barack Obama loved 16 year-old Abdulrahman Al-Awlaki. To paraphrase Mother Jones: Awwwwww. h/t/ @byroncopley57
3. Here is a link to a clip where POTUS sheds a tear. As Mother Jones tweeted: “Obama tears up thanking young volunteers. Their accomplishments will be greater than his. Awwww.: bit.ly/S2inxP
4. Here is The Nation journalist Jeremy Scahill take on photogalleries and weeping. Scahill is an accomplished national security reporter Middle East issues and war. Perhaps a sign of hope for The Nation. or Twitter.
Author Falguni A. ShethPosted on November 9, 2012 November 10, 2012 Categories Election Season 2012, U.S. Foreign Policy, US PoliticsTags Feminism, hypocrisy, Katha Pollitt, Rightwing DNA11 Comments on It’s Still Not Safe to Read The Nation
Post-Election Day 2012: The Good Guys Won, but Did Progressives?
Update I & II & III: Below
Well, here we are. On the other side of that Great American (non)Test. The Democrats won that test: The first Black President was re-elected for a second term. The Democrats retained control of the Senate. The GOP retained control of the House.
The POTUS, re-elected, said in his acceptance speech last night:
Tonight you voted for action. Not politics as usual.
If that is the message, then Democrats have been validated by their victory last night. Unfortunately, many Americans are fine with a murderous foreign policy and heinous domestic policies that violate the US Constitution on multiple levels. Sadly, Democrats have received confirmation that it is a winning strategy to target vulnerable poor white, and black and brown men and women across the United States. Blindly, Democratic voters have indicated that they believe Timothy Geithner, Lawrence Summers, Rahm Emanuel, Robert Gibbs, David Plouffe and David Axelrod were fine choices for Cabinet and advisory positions.
Unfortunately, that message is accurate. But if it is the only message received by the Democrats, then we as a society have lost. The Democrats have not heard the message that some segment of the US voting population wants them to be accountable to their progressive voters. Just because violations of the US Constitution and arbitrary assassination polices and secret kill lists play well to mob approval, that doesn’t mean that the Democrats should engage in it.
My fear in the aftermath of Election 2012: We will return to being as silent, complacent and passive in the face of unconstitutional practices and destructive policies over the next four years as we have been over the last four. This is because at some level, most Democrats believe that “the good guys” are in office.
It is much harder to challenge one’s “own” people. It is more difficult to voice dissent, to express protest, to resist evil when “ours” are in office. Some evidence is here and here and here and here and here and here. The list goes on, and has been repeatedly discussed by a number of us on the left who found these practices to be “dealbreakers” in the words of Conor Friedersdorf.
The POTUS and the Democratic Party have put in place the laws and policies that allow the current and future president the legalized power, immunity, and political repression of American voters—in order to continue the above, and to enact similar policies. The passage of NDAA and H.R. 347, among a myriad of other policies, are guarantees of that. The Supreme Court and Appeals Court verdicts that enable many repressive policies to remain in place will also promise the immunity to POTUS and others to expand the war on terrorizing US men and women and foreign nationals—here and internationally.
Yes. A Romney Administration would have been “worse,” in that Romney and his GOP could have easily gotten down to the business of political, social, and economic repression. But it would have been able do so with the help of policies put in place by the Obama Administration as well as the Bush and Clinton Administrations. So will every future Administration, Democrat or Republican, if we don’t challenge the expansion of federal and executive authority to police, surveil, arrest, detain and incarcerate us without cause.
The goal of slashing Social Security and Medicare (now uncritically and ubiquitously referred to as “entitlements” rather than a forced savings program) will be, according to Robert Kuttner, Matt Stoller, Robert Prasch, and others, taken up immediately after this election—regardless of which party had won. Had the Republicans won, this agenda could—and would– have been vociferously challenged by a united Liberal/Democratic/Progressive coalition.
The same turn to the right, the same prevarications, the same murderous foreign policy, the same harassment of US and foreign nationals in the United States–under a Republican Presidency– did not go unchallenged under the last Republican Presidency, although they were facilitated by numerous obsequious Democrats in the House and Senate. But the POTUS has been excused from those challenges by those very same critics, who were—are–his supporters.
The President also said optimistically in his speech last night:
We are an American family that rises or falls together, as one nation and one people…We know that for the United States of America, the best is yet to come.
Perhaps this is the most insidious and the most untrue logics of the Democratic Administration. In reality, we know that the success of both political parties—Democrat or Republican—has depended upon the strategy to divide and conquer.
That is to say, the Democratic Party has had a standard agenda of eviscerating a social safety net for all but the wealthiest—bankers, corporations, and millionaires. They have done so all the while boasting of and highlighting the scraps that poor whites and middle-class populations will receive from the state: The Democrats have distracted white and middle-class voters from the pernicious effects of mortgage foreclosures & crappy settlements, the financial crisis, and unemployment by showcasing the aggressive and punitive treatment of US minorities and foreign nationals through (to name only a few). As Matt Stoller has convincingly argued, the majority of the US population—including many whites as well as black and brown populations—is worse off today than the day that Obama came into office in 2009. Than the day the recession ended. The recovery has been bad for most Americans.
This brings me to the final and perhaps most difficult fear: American liberals and progressives have a fundamental difficulty in coming to terms with a problematic racial and gender politics that are waged by a Liberal Black President and his Liberal Multiracial Democratic Party. It is much easier to attack and challenge a GOP full of Old White Guys. Such challenges confirm our pre-existing worldviews because they lead from a(n accurate) narrative that the gains of whites/Europeans were built on the genocide of indigenous populations, the enslavement and persecution of West Africans, the persecution of Latinos, Blacks, Chinese, Japanese, and other minorities throughout the history of the Newer World.
But we must confront a more difficult racial politics, and challenge this Administration to stop pitting the fates of vulnerable and poor minority populations against those of wealthier whites and more privileged minorities. We need to resist the mistaken view that the safety of Americans depends on droning, bombing, and murdering brown U.S. citizens or incarcerating Black Americans. We need to insist that the reproductive systems of wealthier women must not be posed against the evisceration of the reproductive systems and health of Muslim women, or decimating Muslim communities around the world.
My fear is that because the “nicer, kinder, wiser, more likeable guys” have won, we will glow in the supposed victory until the next time comes to vote for the” lesser of two evils.” Except that next time, we won’t be able to tell even the slightest difference. But maybe my fears will be proven wrong over the next four years.
Update I. Glenn Greenwald has an excellent column that also considers the impact of a second-term win for the Democrats.
Update II. An old column by Randy Fried, “Your Brain on Obama: Waiting for the Man,” previously published at Counterpunch, is up at Black Agenda Report. Long, important and relevant.
Update III. As we know, Obama was declared the victor by 11:15 last night. This morning, less than 12 hours later, reports of deaths by drones of several individuals in Yemen were reported. Strikes could only have been approved by the POTUS, as Joshua Hersh reports. No negotiations with Republicans are necessary to approve them. The second Democratic term has begun.
Author Falguni A. ShethPosted on November 7, 2012 November 8, 2012 Categories Election Season 2012, Obama, US Politics, VotingTags post-election, progressives, resistance9 Comments on Post-Election Day 2012: The Good Guys Won, but Did Progressives?
Election Day 2012: It’s the Day After That Matters
Update I below:
This past weekend I talked with a philosopher friend about her conundrum over how to vote in Tuesday’s election. She was a woman of color and recognized the egregiousness of the policies put in place over the last four years. Her account was informed and clear-eyed. Yet she worried incessantly about life under a Romney Administration.
What I began to say to her was this: Your vote doesn’t matter much. This isn’t because there isn’t much difference between the Democratic and Republican candidates. It’s not because of the electoral college. It’s not because your vote won’t be tabulated. All of these may in fact be true.
But the primary reason that your vote doesn’t matter precedes all of these: between the previous two terms of a reactionary Republican Administration and one term of an anti-Constitutional Democratic Administration, the conditions that will make it easier to manufacture state-led harm have already been institutionalized. They have been made into laws and policies that will continue to wreak havoc on US citizens, foreign nationals, and other countries. Many of those laws and policies will also now legally protect POTUS and his functionaries (Republican and Democrat) as they continue and expand the vicious economic and political harms, widespread death and destruction, and racial and moral injustice that the United States and the world have had to suffer through over the last decade. Whether we wake up to a second term of President Obama or the first of a President Romney, whoever is elected will take office in January 20, 2013 with the tools and equipment needed to continue on our current disastrous course.
Voting to reelect the president will not change the course of the pernicious racial politics of the last four years (and the previous Republican Administration) that have devastated the wealth, livelihoods, and liberties of poor folks and folks of color. Voting may be a symbolic act for white folks and folks of color, a practice that represents their sense of solidarity with a Black president. Voting may serve as a symbolic act expressing one’s solidarity with a progressive or non-right-wing politics. I understand the need for expressions of racial- or trans-racial solidarity, even symbolic gestures. However, it is difficult to interpret a vote for this president as an example of such a gesture. The incumbent administration has done almost nothing that expresses a progressive or protective attitude towards the vulnerable.
You should vote for whomever you want. Still, it should be acknowledged that such a legacy of racial and political and economic injustice is NOT mitigated by this vote. If you are voting for the incumbent, then you are voting for a President who has quietly and openly waged a war on U.S. poor minorities, which includes increasing the number of African Americans in prison, securing thousands of Muslim men in detention centers without charges, and Latino migrants in deportation centers—for the simple act of migrating without papers. These are crimes only of being human and unwanted. The current Administration has validated the worst elements of the Bush Administration in affirming that even as larcenous bankers will go unpunished, it is a great crime to be poor. Even as war crimes go unpunished and its perpetrators retained or promoted to high office, it is a crime to expose their misdeeds. It is a crime to express moral protest. This message has been confirmed by the fates of Bradley Manning, Julian Assange, and John Kiriakou, among many other brave men and women, such as Occupy protestors who are fighting for the right to challenge injustice.
It is a crime to be Muslim, or Black, or Latino. This was true to for African Americans and some Latinos and Muslims before 2000. However, since 2001, and especially since 2008, that message has been amplified through the harms that have been wrought upon black and brown populations in the US and around the world. This message has been amplified through the expansion of the drug war; increasing incarceration rates for Black and Latino men and women. It has been confirmed through the endorsement and signing of NDAA, S.Comm, preventive detention, kill lists; by helping to expand drone wars on black and brown people around the world and greatly enhance domestic surveillance; by refusing to stop entrapment, FBI framing of foolish young men, by insisting on creating policies empowering the president to whimsically kill US citizens and foreign nationals without any due process or review. I have written about all of these all over this site.
The effects of decades of pernicious policies have taken their toll on a society that has fooled itself into believing that it is more racially liberal than ever before. And what a toll. The same US citizens who believe themselves to be racially and politically progressive with their votes must come to terms with the legacies of their willful blindness. One example: It remains an unforgivable crime to be a black woman in a time of crisis, as Glenda Moore learned last Monday night in Staten Island, as she tried to escape Hurricane Sandy with her two children, aged 2 & 4—and no neighbor would come to her aid as her young boys were washed out to sea. Glenda Moore lost her children and spent the night huddled in a door-step because not a single neighbor opened their doors to give her shelter.
That single story represents the horrors wrought by a society that must wrestle with its racial politics in the face of its first Black president. Voting for a Black president does not solve or alleviate any of these crimes – crimes associated with being human and black. The same Democratic President has initiated and waged murderous drone wars on black and brown people around the world. Yes, people of color can accept the invitation into white supremacy and wage war on other people of color. Yes, liberals can wage assaults on the poor and vulnerable in the name of national security. This is a lesson we have (re)learned from our first Black Democratic President.
Still, if despite the fact-based columns and arguments—written by economists, black policy analysts, lawyerly pundits, former Congressional staffers, and former Inspector Generals of TARP, all reviewing the insidious effects of the series of policies knowingly and consciously pushed and endorsed by this Democratic Administration—don’t convince you that this administration has carefully entrenched the path of the previous Republican administration in abandoning those who are vulnerable and in need—then nothing will change your mind. So if you are not interested in engaging in a protest vote and what you need to do to feel better is to pursue an unwinnable outcome in this election, then by all means vote to reelect this president.
Ah, but what of gender issues? Surely there is a difference here worth protecting? It is a well-kept, but slowly leaking secret that President and his men (and women) have engaged in a vicious gender politics as well: the President has–by deciding to decimate the communities in which black and brown women are located—also decimated the safety, psychic/sexual/physical health of black and brown women –in the US and around the world. You may believe that your obligations only extend to other U.S. citizens (a convenient position that allows you to ignore a fairly murderous and heinous foreign policy). Even in this case, it is difficult to ignore the fact that there are already enough Supreme Court Justices to have a majority vote against abortion…if that is an overwhelming concern. We can guess this in part because Justice Sotomayor is already on record as having defending a Bush Administration decision in 2002 to prohibit funding of international organizations that provide abortions. We know this because POTUS pushed to enshrine the Hyde Amendment –which prohibits the funding of abortions— and other horrific effects for women in the Affordable Care Act as a “compromise” with Rep. Bart Stupak et al. And what of Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan? Besides her support for the evisceration of Medicaid, her most prominent achievement with the Clinton Administration was to write the Welfare Reform Bill – enough said. Who does this affect more but poor women? For more evidence of the Administration’s policies regarding the economically and politically and racially vulnerable, see my post of the other day. And Matt Stoller’s multiple posts. And Glenn Greenwald’s. And Margaret Kimberley’s. And Bruce Dixon’s. And Glen Ford’s. And Robert Kuttner’s. And Robert Prasch’s. And Bill Black’s. And Yves Smith’s. Just google and read. None of this material is secret and it was done in the open and reported publicly.
For progressives the real work will begin the day after the elections: Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012. As Murtaza Hussain explains, the conditions to ensure the ongoing tyranny of the presidency have been put in place. With no counter-veiling forces in sight, we can be assured that we will see even more claims to increased executive authority. That means—regardless of whether Romney or Obama “wins,” the United States Constitution and the rest of us will lose. An increasing number of people at home and across the globe can be expected to lose our freedoms, lives, limbs, and even our minds — from years spent without charges or even a hearing in solitary confinement—for expressing dissent. Many more of us will be vulnerable to losing those same freedoms, lives, and minds.
None of this will change under either a President Romney or Obama. And if we don’t begin to protest, to challenge collectively, to recognize that our fates are intimately linked, then we cannot even hope for change under future presidents. The conditions of a repressive state have been institutionalized over these last 10 years (and really were already beginning to build well before that—by President Clinton). What we need to do, over the medium term, is to reclaim what has been taken and is continuing to be taken.
In 2008, I gave public talks about Barack Obama’s fairly worrying centrism, which still appeared slightly preferable to John McCain’s political positions. I pointed to Sen. Obama’s history of extremely illiberal positions on various issues, most visibly to his promise to be aggressive in sending drones to Pakistan, troops to Afghanistan, and his campaign stop at the Congress to vote to renew FISA in August—2 months before the election. But whether I was seduced by the line that this was a racially progressive vote or whether I just hoped against hope that he would be better than his record illustrated, or that he would be better than any Republican, the fact remains that I voted for Obama in 2008.
Perhaps one or two or three of these lines—in the face of undeniable facts that betray that position—still work for you. But if not, then don’t be goaded by the disingenuous position that a vote for Obama is a racially or politically or economically progressive vote. A vote for Romney isn’t any of these things either. And don’t be seduced into thinking that your vote –Republican, Democratic, or Third Party, will make things any less worse.
It’s not our votes that matter. It’s our concerted, organizable, collective challenge–to increasing power, tyranny and devastating economic and racist politics in the United States and internationally—that will matter. That work, much more complicated, tedious, painstaking, and constant, begins the day after tomorrow.
Update I: I had a great correspondence with @vastleft, whose message at vastleft.blogspot.com today to those who want to discuss “the real work beginning the day after” is to command them to work hard to engage themselves in a fairly awkward sexual act. According to @vastleft, the message is directed to those who are uninterested in pushing beyond the duopoly or to aim for third party votes. My message is different: I don’t endorse voting for either of the duopoly. Still, whether you vote for one of them, or don’t vote, or vote third party, do recognize that none of these decisions erases the problematic effects of a serious racially, politically, economically immoral Administration, which has pushed identical policies as those by the Bush Administration in some ways, and which in some ways has promoted even worse policies.
Author Falguni A. ShethPosted on November 5, 2012 November 5, 2012 Categories Election Season 2012, VotingTags 2012 Elections, Democrats, racial justice, US Politics, Voting, white supremacy4 Comments on Election Day 2012: It’s the Day After That Matters
The Progressive Retreat from Obama: Who is to Blame?
As you may be aware, Matt Stoller’s most recent Salon column and other progressive critical perspectives, including my own, have met with some heavy outrage when they suggested the possibiity that the Democrats and POTUS weren’t exactly interested in addressing the demands or needs of those liberals and progressives who voted them in. TransEx blogger Robert Prasch weighs in on the controversy.
By Robert E. Prasch
Those following the political blogosphere are, no doubt, aware of vitriol being directed at some long-respected progressive voices who have concluded that it is time to vote third party. Fatigued by being again, as they were in 1996, 2000, and 2004, asked to vote for the “lesser of two evils,” they are tired of the “same old song and dance.” And it is old. Some readers may remember the bumper stickers beseeching us to vote for the Neo-liberal pro-Iraq War Senator John Kerry over the Neo-liberal pro-Iraq War George W. Bush: “Kerry Sucks Less.”
But I want to raise a related issue. What, exactly, were these now-vociferous supporters of the President doing and saying in late 2008 and early 2009 when the administration was setting in place the personnel, policies, and decisions that laid the groundwork for today’s dispute? Is it unreasonable to ask how it is even possible that a president, who garnered such fierce and passionate enthusiasm a few short years ago, could even be in such a close election? After all, he is running against an individual who has spent almost the entirety of his adult life acting as the quintessential predatory capitalist. Let’s remember that this is occurring even as most Americans outside of the top 10 to 20% tax bracket are continuing to suffer through the worse economic times in anyone’s living memory. Can we at least agree, Richard Nixon excepted, that this precipitous drop in popularity, despite the “hot hand” he was dealt, represents one of the greatest failures in the history of postwar political leadership?
The reason underlying this monumental failure is not hard to find. President-Elect Obama and his inner circle fundamentally misjudged the political moment. The nation was clearly demanding significant change – so much so that they were willing to elect an unseasoned—Black—politician (remarkable given the U.S.’s unflinching history of racism). Yet Obama and his inner circle somehow convinced themselves that recycling the tired old idea of “triangulation” from the Clinton first term would be their best play. To that end, Barack Obama and his senior advisors immediately set about alienating their core supporters. Within two weeks of election day, the Administration announced that Lawrence Summers and Timothy Geithner–the individuals whose previous records individually and collectively defined what it meant to be monumental failures as public servants–would be placed in charge of the economic recovery. Their appointments indicated, and their performances amply confirmed, that whatever “hope and change” meant as a slogan, it would in no way apply to the president’s economic policies. They have, without a doubt, restored Wall Street’s fortunes – what they have not done is restore the fortunes of anyone else.
On December 1st, 2008 the Obama Administration announced that Robert Gates would be retained as the Secretary of Defense. Gates, let us recall, was more than simply the man George W. Bush appointed to direct his pointless, endless, and immoral wars along with extending them to the rest of the globe via the nascent drone program. No, as the former Deputy Director of the CIA, Gates narrowly escaped prosecution over his role in the Iran-Contra Scandal. Even if we allow that the 1991 investigations into his actions were above-board (a stretch), he was far too closely associated with the rampant criminality of the Reagan regime to warrant appointment to dogcatcher, much less to Secretary of Defense. That he did not belong in a Democratic Administration goes without saying.
What about financial reform? Did the appointment of Goldman Sachs and Citibank impresarios to innumerable offices at the CFTC, SEC, and elsewhere suggest to any of these die-hard Obama partisans that “hope and change” would play a fleeting role in the Administration’s governing agenda? If so, when did they come to that realization? Just to ground the point: Did any of them really think that Rahm Emanuel would lead progressive change within the Democratic Party? We know that Emanuel spent his entire career as a Clinton-era operative fighting against progressives within the Party. Did anyone expect that to change when he became the president’s Chief of Staff? Anyone? Let’s not even get started on Obama’s vigorous pursuit of Bush’s “free trade” agenda or his not-so-secret plans to cut Social Security and Medicare benefits.
To repeat: all of the appointments listed above were announced before the inauguration. They were announced before the president revealed that he had no intention of keeping a broad range of campaign promises. Before he began to prosecute the brave whistle-blowers who reported upon Bush-era war crimes and unconstitutional surveillance. Before he dropped charges against all of those who actually committed these crimes. These latter inconsistencies, we now know, made sense because the Administration was on the cusp of doubling-down on the very worst – really grotesque — Constitutional abuses of the Bush era. Let us be clear, no president has ever claimed the right to kill American citizens, at its own discretion, for reasons untold, and without any outside review of its decision.
My point is a simple one: a betrayal has indeed occurred. It was not instigated by Glenn Greenwald, Matt Stoller, the Black Agenda Report, or any other progressive voice. All these writers have done is put these betrayals before the public. The people who betrayed the once-vibrant and hopeful 2008 coalition that elected Barack Obama president are lodged in the White House. Their betrayal was not a consequence of circumstance. It was the inevitable playing out of decisions taken before January 20th, 2009. The above list of appointments amply affirms that Barack Obama and his leading advisors knew, at the moment that the oath of office was taken, that their priorities and agendas would be in many, if not most, instances antithetical to the priorities and agendas of its supporters. There was to be, neither then nor later, a glass “half-full” or even a “quarter-full.” If anyone tells you otherwise, just ask him or her to show you the glass.
The fact is that the Obama Administration, like the Clinton Administration before it, knowingly engaged in a cynical wager. They bet that they could pursue a host of policies fundamentally odious to their core supporters and yet be reelected. The calculation depended on the premise that rank-and-file Democrats would have no other option. Unsurprisingly, the Obama Administration and its surrogates have invested considerable time and energy convincing its former supporters that there is no option.
Anyone who has ever gone shopping knows that their bargaining power depends ultimately upon his/her willingness to walk away. The ability to walk away explains why the service we get from our local dry cleaner is significantly better than what most of us get from our local cable provider. When you have a choice, and demonstrate a willing to take that choice, you become empowered as consumer (I might add that the same is true of labor markets, which explains why most employers prefer a higher level of unemployment than their employees). Right now, a deeply cynical reelection campaign is betting that progressives will be too afraid of Romney to seek to empower themselves. This, let us remember, has been the strategy pursued by an increasingly right-wing Democratic National Committee for close to thirty years. Every four years we are asked to vote for the lesser evil. In a couple of weeks we will all learn if this plea will pay off again. The question is, will we learn? Will we learn to bargain with a faithless leadership of the Democratic Party? If not this election, then when?
But, let us be clear. Win or lose, Rahm Emanuel, Robert Gibbs, David Axelrod, David Plouffe, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama will all be fine. They win either way. Lucrative lobbying, banking, and advising jobs await all of them. “Speaker fees,” often six-figures, will be plentiful. The gravy awaits, and it’s all good. Of that we can all rest assured. What of the economic fortunes of the vast majority of the American people? Obama’s former supporters? The unemployed? Underwater homeowners? The victims of fraudulent foreclosures?
Well, here’s some news: He’s just not that into you. We’re adults. It is time to get over it. You owe him nothing because he has done nothing for you and plans to do nothing for you – unless you count the positive harm of cutting Social Security and enacting the Trans-Pacific Partnership. If voting for such a person “rocks your boat,” feel free. But surely it can be understood why more than a few people may feel differently.
Author Robert E. PraschPosted on October 29, 2012 October 29, 2012 Categories Election Season 2012, Obama, Robert E. Prasch, US Politics, Voting66 Comments on The Progressive Retreat from Obama: Who is to Blame?
Emily Hauser’s Disgusting Indifference to Women of Color
Update I & Update 2: Below
On yesterday’s on-line “HuffPo Live Debate” on supporting Obama, between Daniel Ellsberg, Daily Beast writer Emily Hauser, and Naked Capitalism writer Matt Stoller, Hauser quickly distinguished herself by trying to shame Stoller into shutting up about basic economic facts that pertained to women and illuminated POTUS in a less than sterling light.
It was the usual run of the mill “white women’s” discussion, reminiscent of the pablum that Katha Pollitt was spewing in January of this year. Hauser scolded Matt Stoller for suggesting that anyone might have a serious “deal-breaking” problem with various policies of POTUS/Democrats.
the suggestion that my life and the life of my daughter, and the life of my mother, sister, and friends is more or the less the same under a Republican as it is under a Democrats is so wildly mistaken as to be delusional, frankly.
Here’s Hauser on the most important implications for the “50% of Americans who are women”:
A woman’s right to choice…A women’s right to bodily autonomy. A woman’s right to be a person. And we’ve seen the Democrats working to stem that tide.…But that doesn’t mean that I’ve agreed with everything [Obama’s] done, or everything that’s been done in Congress while [Obama’s] been there, not even by my fellow Democrats… We’re seeing the Democrats working to stem that tide …But I never expect to agree with everything everybody does, least of all of someone who has to be president of all Americans, least of all me and my fondest dreams…
She continues:
But as a woman who’s raising my daughter, I tell you what, there’s no comparison that can be made between life in these United States under a potential Romney Presidency and life here under a second term with Obama.
Thank goodness that Emily Hauser has reminded us to focus on what’s important.
Reproductive rights matter. Plenty. But apparently—and this will be news to the Democrats and to a number of American feminists–they’re not the only issue that women—or men–should care about. To hear the Democrats and NOW and many other repro health organizations, the differences between O and R are HUGE—when it comes to women’s issues. It’s true that O has mild leanings in favor of reproductive rights. But as I’ve written about over and over again on this blog—they’re mild and rather unaggressive in defending those rights. I’m thinking of Sec. of HHS Kathleen Sebelius’ decision to prevent access to OTC contraception despite widespread support; exempting Catholic organizations from providing contraception under Obama Health Insurance Subsidies (let’s just stop calling it Obamacare. It’s NOT healthcare. It’s a subsidy that draws insurance companies into the mix). It doesn’t count as big in O’s favor that he nominated 2 supposedly pro-choice Supreme Court justices (of which the only proof we have that they’ll be pro-choice is that they’re women), one of whom sided in favor of a conservative decision to limit access to reproductive rights. Of the other one, Kagan, very little favorable can be satisfactorily determined on the issue of choice.
Framing the feminist liberatory potential of an Obama win in the second term on the reproductive choice reduces women to (one—narrow—aspect of) their sexuality. It also ignores how many women—poor white women and women of color have either never had easy access to reproductive rights or have had their access slowly eroded well before now.
It is true that Obama supported and pushed through the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which gives women a more flexible statute of limitations to sue for discriminatory wages; it doesn’t actually mandate that women be paid the SAME as men. Thank the good old religion of free markets for that. The Market! The Market! The Market will provide!
I’m going to extend Emily Hauser’s call to remember what’s important. Let me go out on that delusional limb to consider what the past 11 years—including the most recent 4– has brought women who are part of 50% of Americans AND the world.
Women and their well-being have been aggressively under attack by the current and previous POTUSes. Both the Republicans AND Democrats have attacked women’s psychic, physical, and social/economic well-being. From a global perspective, like the penumbra of the Articles listed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the well-being of a woman—any woman— depends on a range of rights that guarantee safety, well-being, keeping her children safe and protected, ensuring her community is intact because, in fact, it is in “the community in which alone the free and full development of [her] personality is possible.” And that includes a “cultural right to self-determination,” as has been suggested by some in the human rights community.
I know that international constitutions and conventions aren’t big in Hauser’s crowd, what with enemy combatants and all. But they’re a whole lot more protective of the interests of humans than American discussions. So I’m going to keep with that premise.
Such a perspective means that One’s Community Matters. That same view includes the right to be part of a continuing community, where a woman’s family, neighbors, friends, and extended relatives are intact, safe, and free of harm—from others and by the state. When the daily existence of a woman consists of living in fear that her community is slowly being eviscerated, through drones, invasions, assaults, rapes by an invading army, sanctions, and open cultural vilification or outright hatred (as in the case of Islamophobia), then her well-being is no longer intact. Her psychic and physical and social existence is no longer safe from harm.
When a woman’s son or spouse or father or brother or cousin or uncle or nephew faces hourly risks of the following: being droned to death; being arrested for unknown reasons; disappearing into the indefinite detention hole for days, months, years at a time; rendered somewhere far away to be tortured; then she can no longer count on the right of cultural self-determination—because her culture is being demolished. Her family is being destroyed. Her community is disappearing. And her ability to determine herself disappears right along with the rest.
Now, I’m not big into sister-talk, but for the last 11 years (and yes, for the innumerate, that includes the last FOUR as well), my daily routine has involved waking up hearing about one or several of the following, and wondering about the women whose lives are shattered through the following policies and practices (and if the details bore you, or you don’t want to be confused with the facts, skip past the blue):
-More than 1 in 5 children live in poverty in 2011. That’s an increase from 1 in 6 children in 2000.
-1.2 million migrants deported in the last 3 years by the Department of Homeland Security (and that’s only in the first three years under a Democratic president).
-46,000 parental deportations of migrants who had US born children (and that’s just from the six month period of Jan-June 2011).
-1 in 9 Black men are in prison. 1 of 3 Black men can expect to go to prison in his lifetime. These numbers aren’t diminished by the active drug war continued under the current Administration.
-African American & Latino homeowners suffered disproportionately more housing foreclosures than white men or women. According to the Center for Responsible Lending, 17% of Latino homeowners, 11% of African homeowners are at risk for losing their homes. I have not been able to extract the number of women affected, but it’s safe to say black and brown women of color have also been disproportionately affected.
The current Administration did not cause these foreclosures. But according to Neil Barofsky, under Pres. Obama, the Treasury department deliberately and cynically did not use TARP money to help these homeowners despite the express bipartisan intent of the US Congress.
At most, the 49-state mortgage settlement brokered under President Obama will be at most a palliative, if not in fact harmful to these same families.
-Between 800-1000 Muslim men—or more–who are arrested on trumped-up charges made possible by the USA PATRIOT Act (which allows for pre-emptive policing, warrantless surveillance, indefinite detention, interrogation).
-The entrapment, surveillance, and racial profiling of Muslim men in hundreds of mosques under the NYPD and FBI.
-the death of US citizens under the age of 16, like Abdulrahman Al-Aulaqi, who was killed in a drone strike in Yemen. Senior Obama Advisor Robert Gibb’s response (at 2:40 in clip) to whether that was a moral move on POTUS’ part was to point out that Al-Aulaqi should have found a “far more responsible father.” Of course.
-A series of laws, designed and passed to allow the maximum, least-documented, aggressive targeting of Muslim men ALONG with maximum immunity for US government officials and security-related employees. There are so many. Just go read Glenn Greenwald. For the last 5 years.
Internationally:
35,000 have perished in Pakistan, where the US is waging a “shadow” war against “terror groups and militants.”These are deaths from direct violence: bombings, gunshot wounds, missile strikes, etc.
-A celebrated DRONE Program targeted towards militants in Pakistan. More than 3000 militants and civilians will have been killed, more than the number of those who died in the US on September 11, 2011. Other countries being droned include Yemen, Afghanistan, Somalia, and Philippines. Soon to be added: Mali.
-A celebrated “Secret Kill List,” configured and for the authority of the current POTUS.
-As of yesterday, the Secret Kill list will be expanded into a disposition matrix which will make the War on Terror a permanent part of the lives of men and the other 50% of US inhabitants—an ever-increasing list of name of people to kill—gathered by way of National Counterterrorism Center. Here’s an excellent piece that connects the dots.
When American feminists tell me about the importance of protecting reproductive rights, do they believe that Black, Latino, undocumented, Iraqi, Afghan, Pakistani women have reproductive rights, too? Or is that one of those areas where we just can’t expect the Dems to protect “my fondest dreams”? Do we have obligations to hold the Dems accountable for active harms to women around the world?
When Emily Hauser tells me that about POTUS and the Dems’ aggressive attempts to “protect” the bodily autonomy of women—in the face of facts that dispute it, such as increased incarceration rates, poverty, unemployment, mortgage foreclosures for Black and Latina women, and increased every-other-kind-of-targeting for well-being of the brown (most often Muslim) women, I have to wonder what she thinks about the following:
Does the imprisonment/solitary confinement/indefinite incarceration of men–who are Muslim, black, Latino, Asian–count as a “gender issue”?
Does the economic and political detriment to women from having their sons, spouses, brothers, fathers entrapped and arrested–count as “a feminist issue”? By economic and political detriment, I mean the social ostracization, the material effect of the loss of income, the political vulnerability of having a male who is potentially the head of a household.
Does the deportation of hundreds of thousands of men AND women—and the separation of U.S. citizen/children from their parents annually count as an issue that “affects” women? By “affect,” I mean the the psychic, material, social vulnerability to survive, to thrive, to live free of fear and harm. Does the legal adoption of those children to U.S. citizen parents and the subsequent break-up of families count as a “woman’s” issue?
And before someone tells me that that’s a patriarchal question—that women should be able to make their own decisions and survive independently of “their men,” let me suggest that we look around the US for a quick min: It’s a patriarchal society.
When Emily Hauser insists that she “can’t get everything for free,” I wonder what she thinks of the price black and brown women have to pay for their “reproductive rights.” That price is a hell of a lot more costly than hers: Her family isn’t being decimated through deportations, entrapments, surveillance, and indefinite detentions. There appear to be few male relatives in her life who are being decimated. And if there are, she doesn’t appear to care. Not so for most Muslim women.
To the ridiculous argument offered in that HuffPo Live “Debate” that we must support Obama, even thought he “is doing things that are disillusioning to us,” I agree: It IS disillusioning to have the POTUS take the lead on the extra-legal murders of people he and his staff think are terrorists—without EVER offering evidence. It IS a bit disillusioning to hear about a “disposition matrix.” It IS disillusioning to wake up every day and hear about NSA, the CIA, the FBI, and the NYPD harassing Muslim men—who are the family members of Muslim women. Interrogating them. Incarcerating them indefinitely and without charges. Running kangaroo courts. Yes. A bit disillusioning. A bit.
When Daniel Ellsberg (and implicitly) Emily Hauser agree that the POTUS is a murderer, but still good on reproductive rights, I can’t help but think that Mr. Ellsberg, Ms. Hauser, just want to vote for Obama and the Democrats, regardless of ANY facts that detract from the ascription of his supposed moral righteousness. Regardless.
What a remarkable feat of hypocrisy, racist-guilt-tripping, and righteous wealthy American myopia to tell Matt Stoller and all the men that he’s supposed to stand in for, that “[he] doesn’t get to have a say on [her]body,” but that Hauser can cheer and clap as she anxiously runs to the polls to vote for a guy and his party who have aggressively, enthusiastically, and eagerly harmed the bodies of the loved ones of many, many US citizens and foreign nationals here and abroad—brown, black, Muslim,–their children, their spouses, their fathers, their brothers?
Emily Hauser’s feminism is the kind of feminism that deprioritizes the multiple dimensions of the well-being of black and brown women, in order to protect one aspect of women’s lives to detriment of so many others. In light of these facts (which shouldn’t be taken to confuse your ideological commitments), I’d describe Hauser’s voting advice as telling Women of Color to “please f*ck off.”
Update I: I initially omitted the following facts because they happened before 2008. But because they are related to international women’s reproductive rights, I think they bear mentioning as part of the list of atrocities that the US has waged. Dem or Repub or 3rd party, it’s still our collective government waging the assault–and many Democrats voted to go into Iraq, as we know.
Iraqi women have suffered severe reproductive problems and have had children with birth defects as a result of years of cluster bombs: 1 of 2 children born in Falluja has birth defects. That’s 50%. One in Two. Between 2007-2010, 1 in 6 births ended in miscarriage.
Tens of thousands of Afghan women live on soil poisoned by depleted uranium (which has a half-life of 4.5 billion years), resulting in an 18-fold increase in the rate of cancer from 500 cases in 2004 to over 9000 cases in 2009? The damage to their reproductive systems is untold.
Update II (Oct. 27, 2012): In her column, “Not Voting for Obama,” Margaret Kimberley of the Black Agenda Report has another analysis of the harms wrought by the current Democratic Administration. As she says:
“If Democrats also believe in wars of aggression and bail outs and subservience to finance capital, Republicans are only left with abortion and gay marriage as issues to differentiate themselves.”
This conclusion, says Kimberly, has been brought on by progressives themselves:
“It is a lack of progressive activism which has precipitated this crisis. In the absence of strong and coordinated opposition to Democratic Party duplicity, progressives meekly go along with whatever bad deals are presented to them and then recoil in fear every four years when they are told that the barbarians are at the gate. Republicans only help make the case for this complicity with openly racist and misogynistic policies.”
Author Falguni A. ShethPosted on October 24, 2012 October 29, 2012 Categories Drones, Election Season 2012, Feminism, People of Color, U.S. Foreign Policy, US Politics, War on TerrorTags Muslims, Reproductive rights, women of color27 Comments on Emily Hauser’s Disgusting Indifference to Women of Color
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Rory McIlroy: Crazy golf galleries cost Tiger Woods two shots every tournament
Woods confirmed that fans have cost him shots and trophies over his career
It’s no big secret that golf fans can be ridiculous. For every 100 knowledgable, well-meaning patrons, you get one doofus yelping, “Baba Booey!” or “mashed potatoes!” on a random tee shot. We saw this a few weeks ago at the Farmers Insurance Open when somebody piped up as Tiger Woods was putting.
Woods probably gets more of that than anyone, or so said playing partner over the first two days at the Genesis Open, Rory McIlroy. This is the first time Woods and McIlroy have been paired together since the final round of the 2015 Masters.
“It might have been like this like the whole Tiger-mania … but I swear, playing in front of all that, he gives up half a shot a day on the field,” said McIlroy. “Like, it’s two shots a tournament he has to give to the field because of all that that goes on around. So whether that calms down the more he plays and it doesn’t become such a novelty that he’s back out playing again because it’s tiring. I need a couple Advil … I’ve got a headache after all that.”
So what exactly are they yelling?
“Just the whole thing. Guys, you’ve got a six-foot putt, ‘It doesn’t break as much as you think,’ just stuff like this that they don’t have to say,” McIlroy said. “Just stuff. You know, whoever that’s teeing off at 8:30 in the morning doesn’t get that and can just go about his business and just do his thing. That’s tough. He has to deal with that every single time he goes out to play.”
McIlroy was clearly perturbed by the entire scene as thick galleries lined the course at Riviera Country Club to watch Woods play his 5th and 6th rounds of 2018. He went on to miss the cut after shooting 72-76 over the first two days.
“It’s cost me a lot of shots over the years,” confirmed Woods. “It’s cost me a few tournaments here and there. It’s been a lot because all it takes is one shot on a Thursday that you lose a tournament by a shot on Sunday. What people don’t realize, it’s not just something that happens on Sunday afternoon, this is cumulative and it’s par for the course. I’ve dealt with it for a very long time.”
This probably isn’t going to change any time soon. McIlroy is right. Woods being back out on the PGA Tour is still a novelty, and people are excited. He’s played just three events since the end of 2015, and he’ll play No. 4 next week at the Honda Classic. Hopefully the mashed potato bros will keep the schtick at home.
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New York 30/08/1961
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13 December 1975 , in accordance with article 18
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ex officio 13 December 1975
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989 (p.175)
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Belize Accession 14/08/2015 12/11/2015
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Bolivia Accession 06/10/1983
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Mali Accession 27/05/2016 25/08/2016
Montenegro Accession 05/12/2013 05/03/2014
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Nicaragua Accession 29/07/2013 27/10/2013
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Norway Objection 23/05/2001
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Upholding the Authority of Scripture
The following is a slightly edited version of a blog post I originally wrote for the Trinity Fairness Group, published on December 22, 2013.
Trinity is being led to believe the PC(USA) does not unequivocally uphold the authority of scripture. But is this really true? No. So before we let this concerning accusation take us to the point of division we should attempt to understand what is actually going on with the PC(USA) related to authority of scripture.
Earlier this year Los Ranchos Presbytery hosted a discernment event and invited three panelists, representing progressive, moderate and conservative views, to address concerns being raised in the PC(USA), including the authority and interpretation of scripture. The panelist were Laird Stuart, retired PC(USA) pastor and interim president of San Francisco Theological Seminary, Jack Haberer, editor of The Presbyterian Outlook, and Dana Allin, ECO Presbyterian synod executive. In the video below each panelist unequivocally upholds the authority of scripture.
The entire video is only 18 minutes long. It is thoughtful, enlightening and well worth watching in its entirety.
One of the statements made by Laird Stuart starts to bring the real issue into focus. Laird said,
“We have, as Presbyterians, decided, often through long periods of struggle like what we’re going through now, that certain passages are no longer binding and authoritative, but that has never meant that scripture as a whole loses its authority or is cast out.”
It’s because through long struggle we have learned to read the scriptures according to faith and grace in Christ. We read them Christologically, realizing that often passages, particularly those that we naively read as normative instruction, commands, laws, are historically and culturally conditioned, and so cannot be so easily read to apply as law to us. We read the scripture as instructing us in faith in Christ, and a life of faith, faithfulness, which does not mean legal obedience to all that might have been taken as law.
Paul Rack, Stated Clerk of the Presbytery of Elizabeth, has published a response to the claim being made about the denomination rejecting the authority of scripture,
“. . . everything they complain is a ‘rejection of Biblical authority’ has actually been the church responding self-critically to the broader witness of Scripture. We feel this holds the Bible in higher regard than to force it into a doctrinal straitjacket based on a few verses, arbitrarily chosen to prop up the values, doctrines, principalities, and powers of another age.”
The footnote in the Comparative Matrix, provided to the congregation at Trinity, points to different interpretations of scripture in the denomination as the basis for claiming the PC(USA) does not allow any particular interpretation to be authoritative for the Church.
But, the PC(USA) is not dismissing the authority of scripture when it refuses to allow a particular interpretation to be authoritative. The difference is subtle but significant.
The second point referenced in the Comparative Matrix footnote claims there has been a tendency in the PC(USA) “to replace the phrase ‘in obedience to’ Scripture with the phrase ‘guided by’ Scripture.” This is also misleading.
Jack Haberer addresses “guidance” versus “obedience to” in the panel discussion video above. Jack was working with The Presbyterian Coalition to bring fidelity and chastity language to the Church in 1996 when the “Fidelity and Chastity” amendment was approved by the General Assembly. But he and others who had worked to bring this language to the Church were surprised that “obedience to” scripture had been included with the amendment when it came out of the subcommittee of the committee at General Assembly who was working on it.
Jack and others knew that language of “obedience to” scripture was going to be a problem because it was not in the Book of Order at the time, or at any other time that he knew of. Previously the Book of Order had said we were to be “guided” by scripture. “Obedience to” scripture has also not been our confessional language, either.
One of the reasons Jack believes we have traditionally used language of being “guided” by scripture is because,
“the Bible has too often been used as a hammer, taking one text out of context, to say you have to obey that, and you have to obey that, and most especially by men toward women.”
He goes on to say we have a long history of being a little bit more cautious than this when speaking about the role of scripture. Our obedience is to God, who has inspired the scriptures, and we are to totally obey God, understanding God’s will as the scriptures guide.
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It Burns: In Conversation with Marc Fennell
Georgia Wilde
Cover Image: Isabella Meagher | @kovvu
Marc Fennell’s media career has spanned over a decade and traversed numerous mediums. You may know Fennell as a presenter on The Feed (SBS), or formerly as That Movie Guy on triple j. This year Fennell shares with the world a new type of project with, ‘It Burns: The Scandal-Plagued Race to Breed the World’s Hottest Chilli’ (an Audible Original). It Burns is an episodic podcast that travels across countries and takes us behind the scenes of competitive chilli eating and breeding. For a story about chilli you wouldn’t expect it to come with the intensity of international conflict, world records, and accusations of cheating, but It Burns tackles the drama at the heart of this subculture of society head on. The series goes far beyond the hottest chillies in the world and explores how people interact with pain and define themselves by online community.
For me, listening to the series was addicting as chilli is for the characters within it. I binged it in one sitting and was intrigued by this world into which Fennell had given us a peek. I had to know more. Preparing to interview someone who is a professional interviewer was daunting. However, as soon as our chat started, Marc put me at total ease. Naturally chatty, conversation flowed, and banter ensued. We discussed It Burns and delved into the motivations of the community that drove the creation of the podcast. We also spoke more broadly about Marc’s passion for storytelling and how It Burns has been a turning point in his ever-changing media career.
I wanted to ask you about where your passion for storytelling came from, and what drew you to this particular story?
So I had a bit unusual pathways into journalism at the best of times—like I was a film critic for over a decade. And my pathway into stories like this is actually through interviews. Because, over the last sort of six years most of my work—particularly on The Feed—has been about one-on-one interviews, so when I’m approaching stories it always comes down to characters. You don’t know what the story is until you find characters. I think a background in six or seven years worth of doing one-on-one interviews, and crafting a story through a conversation, which is ultimately what all TV and radio interview is. It’s: can it have a beginning, can it have a middle, can it have an end? Can it take you somewhere, can it make you feel something? And you do that in conversations. So my pathway into all stories is always through people. So if I can find a person who is themselves on an arc or on a journey then we can find the story.
This particular one was very fascinating though, because I had known that there had been some controversy around the World Records’ hottest chilli for a while because years and years ago on the first season of The Feed a friend of mine, Nick, did a story on the world’s hottest chilli and I’d sort of known it was there and been around, but I didn’t realise just how deep and how twisted it was.
Why do you think these chilli growers, or the fanatics who engage in the community, take it so seriously?
I think that’s a really good question. And, even after spending all this time covering it, I think the answer sort of varies from person to person. I think for some of them there’s a really legitimate financial benefit to it, so certainly Ed has built a business out of it. But even for him before it was it was a business, it seemed to be linked to a sense of personal salvation for him. But when it comes to other people I think there’s an element of nationalism. We all look to a handful of things to define ourselves, right? Some people it’ll be their job, for other people it will be their family, for some it will be a sport, or a team. We accept those things. We accept that, some people define themselves by a hobby or they’ve defined themselves by an obsession. All that separates this is that it was an unusual obsession. An obsession sort of wrapped up in some complications of pain, and also wrapped up in a very legitimate battle for the Guinness World Record. That what’s makes it strange. I think what I found fascinating about it is that it was an enormous amount of drama over something that seems, to an outsider, relatively inconsequential, and I think that was the lead-in point for me.
I think it’s really interesting what you’re touching on there about those personal motivations. In terms of the people who engage in these professional chilli-eating competitions, what is their line, do you think, between pain and pleasure?
I think for some people the high is an aspect of it. I will say that for an enormous number of people that compete in chilli-eating competitions it’s just good, old-fashioned peer pressure. Like their mate said, “I reckon you can’t do this,” and then like, “get out.” And then they regretted it. And there’s a lot of people that are like that. It’s the repeat offenders that are different. So, one guy was a multiple winner in Arizona at this particular chilli-eating competition I went to. And he and I were just talking on the side, and he explained that he’s got a very high tolerance for it, and he’s an old guy, he’s an army veteran, and for him it was just something he could do that others could not. And that was enough.
The thing that I took away from that is: in a world which is kind of cruel and not looking to give you a handout, if you have something, if you have anything that you can have a sense of ownership over, that you can feel like you are better than somebody else at people will gravitate towards it. It was just fascinating that it was wrapped up in an enormous amount of pain.
What about the monetary prize aspect of it?
There is not a lot of financial gain. I can’t remember exactly how much they were competing for but it was somewhere between $200 and $500. It’s not an enormous amount of money.
You weren’t going to send your kids to college on it.
No. Although there was one woman who I’ve referenced in an episode of the podcast, who was raising money for her sister that was going through breast cancer, and knowing what we know about the healthcare system in America, that’s helpful. Every bit helps, I’m sure.
Why do you think that it’s mostly a male community?
I think there’s a prevailing thought in masculinity—dare I say it, possibly even toxicness to a degree—that masculinity can be defined through pain. There’s phrases like, “No pain, no gain.” I think there is still an aspect of masculinity in 2019 that seeks to define men through their ability to sustain pain. I mean, it’s hard, we’re speaking in very big generalised terms, at risk of sounding hashtag not all men. I do think that there is still a strong, slightly boofhead, component to a lot of men out in the world and I think this speaks to that.
What I found particularly fascinating doing the series is actually actively seeking out women that compete in this area and asking them what they thought. One woman was saying often she would find men she was competing against kind of appealed to her sensitivity, and she’s an amazing woman but she was just like, “No! I’m here to win!”
With this community, how do you think it forms? Is it only possible in an online world where everyone’s connected, or have you seen other examples where these kind of communities have just naturally formed?
I think that’s a subtext to the whole series, that this is a community that was relatively benign until the internet became a part of it. And the internet, maybe both because of its speed and because it allows people to pick sides, I think that has made it easier for it to become toxic because people can throw things around at each other with very little consequence. Because in large part online discourse is all words. And I think that’s something that you wouldn’t have gotten in a pre-internet era, because it would have been harder. The barrier of entry for abuse would have been higher. I think that is an example of the way in which the speed and the ease of the internet has lubricated some of our worst impulses as human beings. I think this is a pretty good example of that in action.
I know that you’ve worked on a number of different projects, so what was different about creating It Burns in comparison to other projects you’ve worked on?
Great question. So often what I do is built with one person. It’s like, I am interviewing one person and it’s about how much focus can I build on that. And how much information can I build into that one interaction. But when you add up all the episodes, It Burns is the length of a feature film, and it covers three different countries. How it was made was sort of interesting in the sense that I was in Australia and then in the US, but the production team I was working with was primarily based in the UK. So I’m also doing these meetings sort of between 10pm and 1am, working through scripts and other interviews, so I was working with a chain in some ways.
With The Feed, it’s almost all me. I don’t shoot it, but definitely I produce it, I research it, I cut it, I do everything ’cause I’m a control freak that way. And even when I was at triple j, I would write it, produce it, mix it, and load it. I came up through community radio and so you get used to, and good at, doing everything yourself and I loved that flexibility. But what was great about working with this team that had people from quite different disciplines, from different countries, to craft a story. I had a really clear idea going into it about what I wanted it to sound like and the emotions that I wanted to convey, but having to work with a bigger team and convey what you want was a really good experience, because I had never done it before and I think in future I’m going to be doing more of that sort of stuff, so it was good in terms of teaching me how to convey ideas. And I was very lucky in the sense that I ended up working with a really talented group of people.
I think it taught me the value of trust. Because if you’re working with people, in order to delegate you actually just need to really trust a set of ears and a set of eyes outside your own. And if you don’t have that trust, it makes it quite toxic quite quickly. So I was lucky with this one having extremely good people that could point out when I was getting things wrong. I’ve worked on other projects with other people, and you’re like, “Oh, wow, there’s no trust there.” So I think it really taught me that the heart of all collaborations is finding people that don’t always just agree with you. You want somebody that you trust has great taste and great instincts, and you can sharpen each other, if that makes sense?
Yeah, totally. What was your main takeaway from the whole experience?
You know, that’s an interesting point. It taught me that I love telling stories where I have a small doorway into a big world, and I think that’s an area that took me a while to define what it was. This was a quirky, small, entryway, to some very big ideas about bodies, and the internet, and pain, all these big things, big ideas. And it had moments of broad insanity and sadness and whenever I’m working on something, I’m often looking for those emotions. I’m looking for laughter and I’m looking for tears and I’m looking for surprises and I’m looking for something that you don’t expect, those are the sorts of emotions that I most gravitate towards.
I just sort of was curious to know if I could tell a story that lasts a feature film length.
So it was interesting to see if that was a thing that I could do, and I’ve been really fascinated to read the feedback. And I’ve gotta tell you, being a film critic for a decade, reading reviews of your own work is terrifying.Because you know it’s an essential part of the process, you know you just have to take it, but at the same time it’s like “Oh, God! I am not ready for this.”
I’ve had a number of different careers in the media over the years, so I like challenging myself, I like trying new things, and some of it has worked and some of it hasn’t! And becoming okay with that is an important process ’cause if you end up in a media career, what you do will change every two or three years, that’s just how it goes now. Getting used to that elasticity and getting used to jumping headlong into something new and just seeing if it’s going to work, is an important thing to get comfortable with, so it was sort of scary in a sense, because it’s like, can it be done, is it going to be shit? I don’t know. But it seems to have landed okay.
Finally, can you describe eating the Carolina Reaper chilli in three words?
Never again, thank you. Does “thank you” count as one word?
After reading this you would be a total silly billy to not listen to It Burns, and uncover the full story in all its spicy glory. Download it here, free for a limited time.
This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.
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Stories about one person single-handedly taking charge of a situation gone wrong—including one man's mission to rescue two kids who were kidnapped by alleged murderers and taken to Mexico, and another about a professor's mission to keep the educators of a liberal arts college from extinction.
Terrytoons Studio
When Luke Davies was 11 years old in Australia, his family moved from the boring suburbs to an incredibly fun place: A tourist park full of attractions, where his dad had gotten a job. There, he was considered kind of a wimpy kid...until he got his chance to save the day. Luke wrote the novel “Candy” and the films “Lion” and “Beautiful Boy." (12 minutes)
Midlife Cowboy
James Spring
James Spring had hit his late 30s, and found his life utterly unremarkable. He needed to do something big. So James decided to try to rescue two kids who had been kidnapped by suspected murderers, and taken to Mexico. (29 minutes)
Correction: In Act One, the victim found in Richard Carelli's van is identified as Carelli's landlord. He was in fact his housemate, not his landlord. We regret the error.
I'd Like To Spank The Academy
For the last 13 years, the University of Montevallo in Alabama has held an event called The Life Raft Debate, where several professors take the stage and each tries to convince the students that his or her discipline—chemistry, say, or communications—is the most essential field of study. But in 2007, a professor named Jon Smith decided that the debate itself needed saving. Producer Nancy Updike tells the story. (14 minutes)
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Our story continues two years later in Colorado where detectives in four neighboring towns combine resources to run down a serial rapist.
137: The Book That Changed Your Life
More of Alexa Junge and how Moss Hart's autobiography changed her life.
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In 1912, a four-year-old boy went missing in Louisiana. Eight months later, he was found. But two grief-stricken mothers both claimed the same boy as their own.
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Under The Nakba Tree: Fragments Of A Palestinian Family In Canada
by Househ, Mowafa Said
Mowafa's family fled Palestine in 1948 and arrived in Canada in the 1970s. His childhood was spent in Edmonton, Alberta, where he grew up as a visible minority and a muslim whose family had a deeply fractured history. In the year 2000, Mowafa visited his family's homeland of Palestine. It was the beginning of the Second Intifada and Mowafa witnessed first-hand the effects of prolonged conflict and occupation. It was those observations and that experience that inspired him not only to tell his story but to realize many of the intergenerational and colonial traumas that he shares with the Indigenous people of Turtle Island. His moving memoir compares and contrasts the lives of immigrants with the lives of those who live on occupied land and the struggles that define them both.
People of Color, Personal Memoirs
Publisher: Univ of British Columbia Pr
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For the electoral district, see Barrie (electoral district).
For other uses, see Barrie (disambiguation).
City in Ontario, Canada
City (single-tier)
City of Barrie
Downtown Barrie from Kempenfelt Bay
Motto(s):
The People are the City
Location of Barrie
Simcoe (independent)
First settled
End of War of 1812
1854 (village)
1870 (town)
1959 (city)
Named for
Sir Robert Barrie
10 wards
Ward 1 - Councillor C. Riepma
Ward 2 - Councillor K. Aylwin
Ward 3 - Councillor D. Shipley
Ward 4 - Councillor B. Ward
Ward 5 - Councillor R. Thomson
Ward 6 - Councillor N. Harris
Ward 7 - Councillor G. Harvey
Ward 8 - Councillor J. Harris
Ward 9 - Councillor S. Morales
Ward 10 - Councillor M. McCann
• Council
Barrie City Council
• MPPS
List of MPPs
Doug Downey (PC)
Andrea Khanjin (PC)
• MPs
List of MPs
John Brassard (C)
Alex Nuttall (C)
• City (single-tier)
99.04 km2 (38.24 sq mi)
171.53 km2 (66.23 sq mi)
(2016)[3][4][5][6][7]
1,428.0/km2 (3,699/sq mi)
918.27/km2 (2,378.3/sq mi)
219.4/km2 (568/sq mi)
• Ethnicity
92.1% White
2.9% Asian
0.6% Chinese
1.0% South Asian
0.4% Filipino
0.3% Southeast Asian
0.2% Arab
0.2% West Asian
2.2% Korean
0.1% Japanese
1.0% Black
0.7% Latin American
1.3% Multiracial
0.1% White and Chinese
0.1% White and South Asian
0.4% White and Black
0.1% White and Filipino
0.02% White and Southeast Asian
0.06% White and Arab
0.008% White and West Asian
0.01% White and Korean
0.008% White and Japanese
0.2% White and other/multiple visible minority
0.1% Multiple visible minority
2.1% Aboriginal and Other
1.9% Aboriginal
0.2% Other visible minority
Barrian
UTC−5 (EST)
UTC−4 (EDT)
Forward Sortation Area
L4M to L4N, L9J, L9X
GNBC Code
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Barrie is a city, and manifesting regional centre in Central Ontario, Canada, positioned on the shores of Kempenfelt Bay, the western arm of Lake Simcoe. The city is located geographically within Simcoe County, however, it is a politically independent single-tier municipality. It is part of the historically significant Huronia region of Central Ontario and is within the northern part of the Greater Golden Horseshoe, a densely populated and industrialized region of Ontario. As of the 2016 census, the city's population was 141,434 making it the 34th largest in Canada in terms of population proper. The Barrie census metropolitan area (CMA) as of the same census had a population of 197,059 residents, making the city the 21st largest CMA in Canada. The city itself has seen significant growth in recent decades due to its emergence as a bedroom community, and its relatively close proximity to the city of Toronto. Barrie is situated approximately 86.6 kilometres (53.8 mi) from the Toronto Pearson International Airport and 109 kilometres (68 mi) from Downtown Toronto, representing the city's highly centralized and historically strategic geographical orientation and its ease of access to major centres and airports across the region.[9]
The Barrie area was first settled during the War of 1812 as a key supply depot for British forces. It would be named twenty years later for Sir Robert Barrie, who consistently commanded forces through the region. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Barrie's emergence as a bedroom community for the city of Toronto grew in prominence, and its economy would be wrapped around the education, healthcare, information technology and service sectors. Being located in the climatically deterrent snowbelt region of southern Ontario, Barrie is notorious for its deluging snow squalls in the winter. In the summer, its position within a convergence of breezes originating from the surrounding Great Lakes can provoke intense thunderstorms, some of which defying severe limits. Barrie's climate is fairly seasonal, with average January minimums of −12.4 °C (9.7 °F) and average July highs of 26.3 °C (79.3 °F).
Barrie is a tourist destination, with shops, restaurants, boutiques, and access to Kempenfelt Bay.[citation needed]
2.1 Interurban communities
2.2 Expansion
3 Climate
4.1 Religious affiliation
5.1 Tourism
6 Arts and culture
9.1 Municipal
9.2 Provincial
9.3 Federal
10.1 Airports
10.2 Roads
10.3 Public transit
10.4 Interurban/commuter rail
10.5 Interurban/commuter bus
10.6 Passenger rail
11.1 High schools
11.2 Georgian College
12.1 Online
12.2 Print
12.3 Radio
At its inception, Barrie was an establishment of houses and warehouses at the foot of the Nine Mile Portage from Kempenfelt Bay to Fort Willow, an aboriginal transportation route that existed centuries before Europeans arrived in Simcoe County. The portage linked Kempenfelt Bay through Willow Creek, connecting Lake Simcoe to the Nottawasaga River which flows into Georgian Bay off Lake Huron.
Barrie played an integral role in the War of 1812. During the war, the city became a supply depot for British forces, and in addition, the Nine Mile Portage was adopted by the British military as a key piece of their supply line which provided a strategic path for communication, personnel, and vital supplies and equipment to and from Fort Willow and Georgian Bay/Lake Huron. Today, the Nine Mile Portage is marked by signs along roads in Barrie and in Springwater Township. The scenic path from Memorial Square to Fort Willow is accessible to visitors year-round.
The city was named in 1833 after Sir Robert Barrie, who was in charge of the naval forces in Canada and frequently commanded forces through the city and along the Nine Mile Portage.
Barrie was also the final destination for a branch of the Underground Railroad. In the mid-19th century, this network of secret routes allowed many American slaves to enter Barrie and the surrounding area. This contributed to the development (and name) of nearby Shanty Bay.
In 1846, the population of Barrie was roughly 500, mostly from England, Ireland and Scotland. A private school, three churches, a brick courthouse and a limestone jail, (built in 1842), were in operation.[10] Local businesses included three taverns, six stores, three tanneries, a wagon maker, a bakery, a cabinet maker and six shoemakers, as well as a bank.[11]
In 1869, Barrie became the county seat of Simcoe County, flourishing with a population of over 3,000 people. It was a station of the Northern Railway, and was situated on Lake Simcoe's western arm, known as Kempenfelt Bay. Throughout the latter of the 19th century, Steamships ran from Barrie to the Muskoka Territory, Orillia and other communities, and stages were taking passengers to Penetanguishene.[12]
In the midst of World War I, dedicated residents of Barrie helped to hastily construct Canadian Forces Base Borden (CFB Borden) as a means of additional support, and to serve as a major training centre of Canadian Expeditionary Force battalions. The base would open on July 11, 1916, and since then has become the largest Canadian Forces Base in the country, playing a paramount role through the remainder of the war, and throughout history.
During World War II, the Royal Canadian Navy named a Flower-class corvette HMCS Barrie.
On September 7, 1977, a private aircraft dropped to an altitude of 500 feet (152 m) in dense fog, and struck the 1,000-foot (305 m) CKVR-TV tower, killing all five occupants aboard the plane, and destroying the tower and antenna. The station's 225-foot (69 m) auxiliary tower was also destroyed, and damage had been inflicted to the roof of the main studio. CKVR were back on the air in the weeks following using a temporary 400-foot (122 m) tower and a power reduction of nearly 40,000 watts occurred at 8:55 PM on September 19, upon their return to the air. The new 1,000-foot tower was rebuilt in 1978.[citation needed]
On May 31, 1985, an F4 tornado struck Barrie, touching down in Essa Township, less than 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) southwest of Highway 400 and the Barrie city limits. At approximately 4:00 PM, all electrical power in Barrie went out, as the Grand Valley/Tottenham tornado took out the main hydro transformers southwest of the city. It then entered the southern part of Barrie shortly before 5:00 PM, causing devastating damage in the subdivisions within its immediate path. The visibility in the general vicinity had been reduced drastically as the tornado was cloaked in heavy rain and dust. It became known as one of the most violent and deadliest tornadoes in Canadian history, claiming the lives of 8 within the city and injuring over 155 people. A state of emergency had been issued for the city that evening, with services from surrounding municipalities being required as the weeks following wore on.
Between June 12–13, 1987, a sculpture called Spirit Catcher by Ron Baird was moved to Barrie from Vancouver, British Columbia, where it had been exhibited as part of Expo '86. The sculpture was erected permanently at the foot of Maple Avenue on the shore of Kempenfelt Bay and has since become a principal facet in the Barrie city skyline and tourism. However, with the re-development along the waterfront and Lakeshore Drive, the city is considering moving the Spirit Catcher to a gravel outcropping at the foot of Bayfield Street.
On January 12, 2004, the former Molson Brewery in south Barrie was found to be home to an illegal marijuana grow-op housing an estimated 30,000 marijuana plants with an estimated street value of $30 million; at the time, it was the largest marijuana grow-op bust in Canada's history.
Barrie's Park Place, (formerly Molson Park), was chosen to host Live 8 Canada on July 2, 2005.[13] The overall success of the concert contributed to a plan to convert the prior Molson Park lands into a commercial district. On October 31, 2006, commercial real estate developers North American Acquisition Inc (NAA), a subsidiary of North American Development Group, LLC (NADG) won an Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) appeal of a rezoning application that had been previously denied by the City of Barrie to rezone the new Park Place lands from general industrial to business park zones, and general commercial or mixed employment. The proposal was followed by several concepts, including a box store abstraction originally conceived in 2002. The development of the lands was halted temporarily in 2009 due to disputes with the past OMB appeal, and construction of the complex would resume in 2010.
An explosion in the Royal Thai restaurant, housed in the landmark Wellington Hotel at the "Five Points" intersection in downtown Barrie, occurred at 11:20 PM on December 6, 2007. The fire quickly spread to several neighbouring buildings, and firefighters battled the blaze well into the following morning, requiring assistance from other Simcoe County fire services. Officials estimated the damages to be in the millions. The one-hundred-year-old Wellington Hotel building collapsed later in the morning.[14][15] On February 17, 2008, two people were charged in connection with the fire after the Ontario Fire Marshal's office concluded the explosion and subsequent fire were the result of arson.[16]
Barrie is located in the central portion of Southern Ontario, approximately 80 km (50 mi) north of Toronto, 303 km (188 mi) south southeast of Sudbury, and 412 km (256 mi) west southwest of Ottawa, within the Greater Golden Horseshoe subregion. It is additionally located approximately 38 km (24 mi) southeast of the sought-after summertime destination, Wasaga Beach, and 112 km (70 mi) south of the Muskoka District Municipality and cottage country, accessible via Highways 26, 400, and 11.
Barrie's historic downtown area is situated in a distinct curved or wrapped valley, surrounding the western edge of Kempenfelt Bay. The terrain is generally flat near the city's centre, with small but relevant hills and valleys being prominent astride the aforementioned. Moving up the valley slopes toward the city's north and south ends, and the terrain can be rather steep in some areas. The earth flattens considerably just outside the city's limits to the south and northeast, especially beyond the airport where vast expanses of vegetation and farmland are most notable. The land surrounding Barrie is rich with agricultural activity. Barrie falls into Plant Hardiness Zone 5b.
The city does not have any major rivers within its limits but does have numerous creeks and streams, most of which empty into Kempenfelt Bay.
Interurban communities[edit]
Residential condominiums and houses in Barrie after a snowfall
Letitia Heights
Cundles
Ardagh Bluffs
Minet's Point
Expansion[edit]
Barrie has been designated an Urban Growth Centre by the Province of Ontario (Places to Grow Simcoe Area, 2009). Its population growth, largely due to its emergence as a bedroom community for Toronto, has given rise to the development of numerous subdivisions on the southern side of the city. Barrie successfully annexed 2,293 hectares (22.93 km2) of land from the neighbouring Town of Innisfil to the south and southeast on January 1, 2010.[17] The annexation comprised lands south beyond McKay Road and west of the 10th Sideroad, and as far south as Lockhart Road on the east side of the 10th Sideroad.[18] The annexation was intended to allow Barrie to meet its growing population demands without having to extend into the lush countryside on the northern, western, and eastern lakeside boundaries of the city's limits.
Climate[edit]
Climate chart (explanation)
Average max. and min. temperatures in °C
Precipitation totals in mm
Source: Environment Canada[19]
Imperial conversion
Average max. and min. temperatures in °F
Precipitation totals in inches
Barrie has a humid continental climate (Köppen climate classification Dfb), with warm, humid summers, and cold, snowy winters. The city is situated on Lake Simcoe, a climatically insignificant body of water. Barrie is located within close proximity to Georgian Bay, which, along with the Great Lakes, act as a "buffer" of sorts, moderating year-round temperatures to a fair extent, while combined with the lake effect can spawn blinding snow squalls in the winter, and strong thunderstorms in the spring and summer.
The average July maximum in Barrie is 26.3 °C (79 °F), while the average January minimum is −12.4 °C (10 °F). Barrie experiences four distinct seasons, with considerable variance in length. As a result of the rapid passage of weather systems (such as high- and low-pressure systems), the weather is variable from day to day in all seasons, similar to Toronto, the city's southern neighbour,. Barrie does not, however, see the effects of diurnal temperature variation, owing to its northerly location and rural outskirts. The city can be subject of noticeably cooler afternoons in the spring and early summer, due to the influence of a lake breeze since nearby lakes, such as Lake Huron, are cool relative to the air during these seasons. These aforementioned "lake breezes" mostly occur throughout the summer, bringing much-needed relief on hot days. Other low-scale maritime effects on the climate include constant lake-effect snow in the winter, fog, and delaying of spring- and fall-like conditions, known as seasonal lag.
Winters are typically cold with frequent snow. During the winter months, temperatures are usually below 0 °C (32 °F). Barrie winters sometimes feature cold snaps when maximum temperatures remain below −10 °C (14 °F), often made to feel colder by a biting wind chill. Occasionally, temperatures can drop below −25 °C (−13 °F). Snowstorms, sometimes mixed with ice and rain, can disrupt work and travel schedules, while accumulating snow can fall anytime from late-October until mid-April. However, on the contrary, mild bouts also occur in most winters, melting any accumulated snow. The summer months are characterized by very warm temperatures and muggy conditions. Daytime temperatures are normally above 20 °C (68 °F), and often rise above 30 °C (86 °F). However, they can sometimes surpass 35 °C (95 °F), accompanied by high humidity. The short transitional seasons of spring and autumn have generally mild or cool temperatures with alternating periods of dry and wet. Daytime temperatures average around 10 to 12 °C (50 to 54 °F) during these seasons.
Precipitation is fairly evenly distributed throughout the year, but summer is usually the wettest season, the bulk falling during thunderstorms. Barrie is known for heavy thunderstorm activity in the late spring and summer months, all due to its location within a convergence of breezes originating from Georgian Bay, Lake Ontario and Lake Erie. There can be short periods of dry weather, but drought-like conditions are rare. The average yearly precipitation is about 932 millimetres (37 in), with an average annual snowfall of about 223 centimetres (88 in).[citation needed]
The highest temperature ever recorded in Barrie was 38.9 °C (102 °F) on July 5, 1911.[20] The coldest temperature ever recorded was −38.9 °C (−38 °F) on January 8, 1866.[21]
Climate data for Barrie Water Pollution Control Centre – 1981–2010[a]
Record high humidex
— — 28 36 39 43 48 44 32 35 26 — 48
(−38.0) −37.2
(−6.0) −36.7
(−38.0)
Record low wind chill
−41 −44 −37 −20 −7 — — — −4 −10 −37 −42 −44
Average rainfall mm (inches)
Average snowfall cm (inches)
(2.2) 0.1
(0.9) 22.8
(20.2) 223.1
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.2 mm)
14.9 12.3 11.6 12.2 12.9 11.4 11.1 11.8 13.3 15.6 15.4 13.8 156.3
Average rainy days (≥ 0.2 mm)
2.8 3.0 5.4 11.3 12.9 11.4 11.1 11.8 13.3 15.5 11.3 4.6 114.4
Average snowy days (≥ 0.2 mm)
12.4 10.0 6.8 1.5 0.04 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.54 4.5 9.6 45.38
80.00 76.58 72.27 68.50 69.15 74.04 74.73 77.80 79.64 79.96 81.56 82.80 76.42
287.84 294.94 369.96 404.24 458.56 464.14 469.38 433.36 377.54 333.16 288.62 276.30 4,458.04
1.09 1.45 1.82 2.82 4.18 4.73 5.40 4.90 3.50 2.10 1.60 1.20 2.90
Source: Temperature, and precipitation (rain/snow) from Environment Canada,[19][22][23] relative humidity, wind chill, humidex, and sunshine data from weatherstats.ca based on Environment and Climate Change Canada data,[24] UV indices from World Weather Online.[25]
3,398 +579.6%
4,854 +42.8%
5,949 +7.2%
103,710 +31.0%
136,063 +5.9%
Note: 2011 census population
corrected by Statistics Canada[5]
Canada census – Barrie community profile
141,434 (3.9% from 2011) 136,063 (5.9% from 2006)
99.04 km2 (38.24 sq mi) 77.39 km2 (29.88 sq mi)
Population density:
1,428.0/km2 (3,699/sq mi) 1,758.1/km2 (4,553/sq mi)
38.5 (M: 36.9, F: 40.0) 37.2 (M: 36.0, F: 38.3)
Total private dwellings:
Median household income:
$113,575 $80,928
References: 2016[26] 2011[27] earlier[28]
Barrie is one of the most populous municipalities and census metropolitan areas in the Greater Golden Horseshoe subregion. In the 2016 census, the city's population increased to 141,434, a growth of 3.9 per cent over the 2011 population of 136,063. The median age is 38.5 years, somewhat lower than the provincial average of 39.0 years.[3] The census metropolitan area of Barrie is 197,059, and consists of the city proper; the town of Innisfil directly to the south, west of Lake Simcoe's southern arm (population 36,566); and the township of Springwater in the agricultural north (population 19,059). Barrie has a total land area of 898.02 square kilometres (346.73 sq mi) in its metropolitan area, with a significant portion of the precinct being farmland or grassland. Roughly 40% of the Barrie census metropolitan area is developed land.
In the 2016 census, Barrie's "bedroom community" for that of the city of Toronto distinction would be represented once again in another census by its demography. Barrie's median household income was $113,575, far higher than Ontario's median of $74,287, potentially depicting the higher-paying occupations available in the Greater Toronto Area as opposed to those offered within city limits.[3] Barrie's economic stature is not lacking, however several jobs are offered across different fields locally. Barrie's average commute time is the third highest in Ontario at 59 minutes, also possibly displaying the populous' tendency to work abroad in the more desirable and opportunity-oriented south. Barrie's average dwelling value was $395,994, demonstrating a lower household cost than the provincial mean of about $517,000 and a national average of roughly $496,500.
Barrie is approximately 84.2% white, 10.3% visible minorities and 5.5% aboriginal. The largest visible minority groups in the city are Black (2.7%), South Asian (2.2%), Chinese (1.2%) and Latin American (1.1%).[29]
The city's bilingualism is rather distinguished with a fair francophone population of about 9,660 people (or 6.8% of the total population). With this census figure, the seemingly miniscule francophone population still finds itself higher than the Ontario average of 2.4%. Some 92.2% of the population speak mostly English at home. According to the 2011 National Household Survey, the residents of Barrie are predominantly Christian. Around 67% of the population claims adherence to Christian denominations with a Catholic, United Church and Anglican majority, accounting for 41.2%, 14.2% and 13.7% respectively of the total separate Christian statistical figure. Those with no religious affiliation accounted for 31% of the population, and other religions such as Muslim, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Sikhism and other religions all constitute around one per cent of the population. The few visible minorities Barrie boasts display a figure of 7.4%, far less when compared to the Canadian average of 19.1%.
Religious affiliation[edit]
Buddhist 595
Anglican 11,950
Baptist 3,760
Catholic 36,590
Christian Orthodox 1,235
Lutheran 1,460
Pentecostal 2,090
Presbyterian 5,140
United Church 12,315
Other Christian 13,830
Hindu 405
Jewish 660
Islam 1,405
Sikh 140
Traditional (Aboriginal) Spirituality 35
Other religions 350
No religious affiliation 41,275
Barrie in relation to other North American cities
The following are some of the city's major employers:
Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre
Georgian College and the associated University Partnership Centre and Centre for Health and Wellness
County of Simcoe
Simcoe County District School Board
TD Canada Trust and TD Waterhouse Regional Centre
TD Canada Trust Technology and Operations Centre
Scotiabank Regional Centre
BMO Data Centre
IBM Canada Leadership Data Centre
The Source Distribution Centre
Coca-Cola Bottling Company
Canadian Mental Health Association - Simcoe
Hydro One Ontario Grid Control Centre
Notwithstanding these major employers, Barrie has increasingly been perceived as a bedroom community for those commuting to Toronto, which is approximately 90 km (56 mi) south of Barrie. Approximately 32% of the resident-employed labour force (17,040 persons/53,400 persons) commute out of Barrie for employment purposes, however, approximately 28% of the resident-employed labour force (14,880 persons/53,400 persons) commute into Barrie for employment for a net out-commuting figure of only 4.26% (17,040 persons –14,880 persons)/(50,665 persons employed in Barrie)). Source: 2001 Census and City of Barrie Economic Development.
Tourism[edit]
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Tourism plays an important role in the local economy. Barrie's historic downtown and waterfront are at the heart of its tourism industry. Downtown Barrie hosts many older buildings that have been kept up over the years or given new facades that exemplify their historical importance. Many speciality shops, boutiques, pubs and restaurants are located throughout downtown Barrie, most notably along Dunlop Street East. Downtown Barrie is becoming well known for its fashion boutiques, local art, live theatre, indie-music and nightlife scenes.
In addition, downtown Barrie is home to numerous annual festivals and events such as The Barrie Waterfront Festival, Barrielicious, Winterfest, Celebrate Barrie, Ecofest, Jazz & Blues Festival, Promenade Days, Ribfest and Craft Beer Show, Caribfest, Lawnchair Luminata, Kempenfest, The New Music Festival, Barrie Film Festival, Santa Claus Parade and the New Year's Countdown.
In the summer months, the city boasts several beaches including Minet's Point Beach, Johnsons Beach, The Gables, Tyndale Beach, and Centennial Beach. Boating in also very popular in Kempenfelt Bay and Lake Simcoe as it connects to the Trent Severn Waterway. In 2011, Barrie's waterfront was under redevelopment, with the relocation of several roadways to provide more greenspace and parkland along the lakeshore.
There are numerous winter recreation activities and facilities in the surrounding area, including skiing, snow tubing and snowboarding resorts, snowmobile trails and ice fishing. Recreational activities include skiing at nearby Horseshoe Resort, Snow Valley, Mount St. Louis Moonstone and Blue Mountain.
Arts and culture[edit]
Fireworks over Kempenfelt Bay during Barrie's Canada Day celebrations
Barrie is home to vibrant performing and fine arts scenes. There are a number of live performance companies including Theatre by the Bay, Talk Is Free Theatre and the Huronia Symphony. Grove Park Home is the practice hall for On-Stage Performance Group which performs in Cookstown. The Strolling Youth Players, and the Kempenfelt Community Players also all perform in Barrie. In addition, an annual live concert series is hosted by Georgian College.
There are two main performing arts venues in the city: the Five Points Theatre, and the Georgian Theatre. Originally, the Five Points Theatre was known as The Mady Centre For The Performing Arts, but it was renamed in January 2018. It is located in Barrie's downtown at the Five Points intersection and was completed in 2011. This modern facility is home to many professional and amateur cultural productions, film screenings, theatrical plays, concerts, dance recitals and other performances. It is also the main venue for Theatre by the Bay and the Talk Is Free Theatre Companies. The venue features a flexible stage area with lighting and sound for professional theatre, music, dance, and other presentations, an automated riser/seating system with capacity for 120 to 200 seats and a sprung performance floor.
The Georgian Theatre is a professional performing arts facility located in Barrie's north end on the campus of Georgian College. The theatre features a proscenium stage, sound, lights, fly gallery, and seating for 427 on the main level with 3 pods which can be used to increase the seating capacity to 690. The Theatre is used for both theatrical and non-theatrical activity including conferences and seminars.
Ron Baird's The Spirit Catcher (1986), installed along the waterfront in Barrie
The prominent MacLaren Art Centre is located in Barrie. This is an innovative art gallery that inspired the "Art City" project, which has had many different large sculptures installed around the city. These can be found in parks and along the scenic waterfront. The MacLaren Art Centre is a large and beautiful building on Mulcaster Street in downtown Barrie. International and Canadian artists display in the three main galleries. A permanent collection of art is growing, the Radio Cafe, a gift shop, film nights, speakers, theatre and many children's programs and community art projects are just a small part of the gallery's mandate. The gallery contributes overall to a vibrant arts community in the Barrie area with it leading edge arts.
Barrie is also home to many independent galleries and studios. A concentration of independent galleries, studios and boutiques is located in Lakeshore Mews. This area is located behind the downtown's Dunlop Street, and provides a location where one-of-a-kind items can be purchased. Lakeshore Mews artists also organize the annual "Arts ce Soir"; an all-night contemporary art event in celebration of visual, musical, theatrical and literary art. In addition, a studio tour in the Barrie/Orillia area takes place on the Canadian Thanksgiving weekend every year. It is called the Images Studio Tour and has over 25 artists on average. The self-guided tour allows people to visit artists in their working studio and see how the art is created while enjoying the beautiful fall colours driving through the two cities and the countryside. Potters, jewellers, painters, textile artists and fashion designers make up a few of the disciplines of the talents on display.
Barrie is also home to Kempenfest; one of the largest outdoor arts and crafts celebrations in Ontario. This festival occurs annually over the August long weekend and features over 300 artisans, an antique show, food demonstrations, children's activities and live entertainment, including an indie-music stage.
Some of the main arts and culture groups in the city include:
Barrie Art Club
Barrie Concert Band[31]
Barrie Film Festival
Barrie Folk Society[32]
Campus Gallery
Caribbean Culture Institute
Huronia Symphony Orchestra[33]
Kempenfelt Community Players
King Edward Choir[34]
Lyrica Chamber Choir
Simcoe Contemporary Dancers
Talk Is Free Theatre
Theatre By The Bay
Attractions[edit]
Barrie has numerous recreational venues and community centres throughout the city.
Allandale Recreation Centre
Barrie Community Sports Complex
Barrie Public Library
Barrie Uptown Theater
Dorian Parker Centre
East Bayfield Community Centre
Eastview Arena
Holly Community Centre
Lampman Park
Lampman Lane Community Centre
Parkview Community Centre
Southshore Community Centre
Victoria Village
YMCA of Barrie
Sports[edit]
Barrie Colts OHL Hockey Barrie Molson Centre 1995 1
Barrie Baycats IBL Baseball Coates Stadium 2001 3
Barrie is also home to the Mariposa School of Skating which has trained many world-class figure skaters, including Brian Orser, Elvis Stojko and Jeffrey Buttle.
Government[edit]
Municipal[edit]
Main article: List of mayors of Barrie, Ontario
The city hall of Barrie
The current mayor of Barrie is Jeff Lehman, who was elected in November 2010, succeeding Dave Aspden.
Provincial[edit]
Members of Provincial Parliament
Progressive Conservative Andrea Khanjin June 7, 2018 present Barrie—Innisfil
Progressive Conservative Doug Downey June 7, 2018 present Barrie—Springwater—Oro-Medonte
Federal[edit]
Conservative John Brassard October 19, 2015 present Barrie—Innisfil
Conservative Alex Nuttall October 19, 2015 present Barrie—Springwater—Oro-Medonte
Military[edit]
Barrie has a long military history dating back to at least the Nine Mile Portage of the War of 1812. By the time of the 1837 Rebellion, Simcoe County had a sufficient population to form a battalion of Sedentary Militia of almost 600 strong. This battalion was involved in marching suspected rebels down Yonge Street to Toronto in order to face justice. By 1855, Barrie was home to an independent company of Rifle Company of militia, followed in 1863 by a company of Infantry. These companies served during the Fenian Raids.
With the Militia Act of 1866, the companies in Barrie were respectively organized as Number 1 and Number 5 companies, in the newly formed 35th Battalion of Infantry (Simcoe Foresters), gazetted on September 14, 1866. In 1885, four companies the 35th Simcoe Foresters, including those from Barrie, formed with four companies from the 12th York Battalion to form the York-Simcoe Battalion. This specially raised battalion served in Western Canada during the Northwest Rebellion, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel W.E. O'Brien of Shanty Bay, Ontario. For its efforts, The Simcoe Foresters received its first Battle Honour "Northwest Canada 1885."
Citizens of Barrie would next volunteer for military service during the Boer War in South Africa 1899-1902. It was during this conflict that at the Battle of Paardeberg the citizens of Barrie and The Simcoe Foresters suffered their first fatal casualty, Private James Halkett Findlay. Private Findlay was killed-in-action on February 18, 1900, while serving with C Company of the 2nd Battalion Royal Canadian Regiment of Infantry.
In 1914, the First World War broke out and many citizens of Barrie were quick to volunteer for service overseas with The Simcoe Foresters. Late the following year, the Regiment was tasked with raising two overseas battalions, the 157th Battalion (Simcoe Foresters), CEF and the 177th Battalion (Simcoe Foresters), CEF. In the spring of 1916, the Barrie and Collingwood companies of the 157th Battalion began clearing the land and construction of the new military camp on the Simcoe Pines Plain — Camp Borden (now CFB Borden). This began Barrie's long friendship with the Base.
With a re-organization of the Canadian Militia between the two world wars, The Simcoe Foresters, headquartered in Barrie, were amalgamated in 1936 with the Grey Regiment, headquartered at Owen Sound, Ontario. This event created the present-day regiment of The Grey and Simcoe Foresters, which is headquartered at the Armoury in Queen's Park, downtown Barrie.
With the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, citizens of Barrie volunteered for service overseas with The Grey and Simcoe Foresters, the Royal Canadian Navy and the Royal Canadian Air Force. The City of Barrie sponsored a ship in the Royal Canadian Navy, HMCS Barrie, a Flower-class corvette.
Barrie waterfront
Airports[edit]
There are no major airports with scheduled flights near Barrie. There are a few airports that are used for light aviation aircraft:
Barrie/Little Lake Water Aerodrome
Springwater (Barrie Airpark) Aerodrome
Roads[edit]
Barrie is served by Provincial Highway Highway 400, which acts as the primary route between Barrie and Toronto. Highway 400 bisects the city on a roughly north-south basis. Highway 26, also located in the city, is the main route to the Collingwood area and is known as Bayfield Street within the city limits.
Barrie was once served by Highway 27, Highway 90, Highway 93, Highway 131 and Highway 11. However, the province downgraded many highways in 1997 and 1998; these highways are now known as Simcoe County Road 27, Simcoe County Road 90 (Dunlop Street), Simcoe County Road 93 and Simcoe County Road 30. The portion of Highway 11 through Barrie is known as Yonge Street, though it is actually part of the Penetanguishene Road
Major arterial roads within the city include Mapleview Drive, Ferndale Drive, 10th Line, Big Bay Point Road, Essa Road, Huronia Road, Bayfield Street, Cundles Road, Anne Street, Dunlop Street, Livingstone Street, Duckworth Street, Wellington Street, and St. Vincent Street.
Public transit[edit]
Public transport is provided by Barrie Transit, which operates numerous bus routes within the city. Accessible transit is offered by booking with city run Barrie Accessible Community Transportation Service. Most regular bus routes operated by Barrie Transit are accessible using low floor vehicles. Barrie also has GO Trains and Buses.
Interurban/commuter rail[edit]
GO Transit connects the city to the Greater Toronto Area through daily train service along the Barrie line, with trains operating from the Allandale Waterfront GO Station and the Barrie South GO Station. This is primarily a commuter rail service to the GTA, with southbound trips to Toronto's Union Station in the morning rush hour and northbound trips in the evening rush hour. Limited weekend service to and from Toronto is also operated.
Interurban/commuter bus[edit]
In addition to train service, GO Transit offers daily commuter-oriented bus service to the Greater Toronto Area. Barrie is served by various private interurban bus lines such as Penetang-Midland Coach Lines and parent Greyhound Canada, which run buses between Barrie and Toronto's Yorkdale Bus Terminal. Greyhound operates QuickLink commuter service from Barrie to Toronto seven days a week. In the past Gray Coach offered service from Toronto to Barrie; the route was later acquired by Greyhound. Ontario Northland operates bus routes from various locations to and from Barrie. All inter-urban buses operate from the Barrie Transit Terminal at 24 Maple Street.
Passenger rail[edit]
Historically, Barrie was served by scheduled passenger rail service. Allandale Station was a stop for the Grand Trunk Railway, Canadian National Railway and Via Rail. In addition, Ontario Northland's Northlander used the station as a stop, as did CN Rail/Via Rail (namely The Canadian). Regular passenger rail service to the station ended in the 1980s and has largely been replaced by interurban / commuter rail service.
Education[edit]
Barrie has two major English school boards that operate inside the city at a public level. The Simcoe County District School Board administers a Public education in Barrie and Simcoe County, while the Simcoe Muskoka Catholic District School Board administers to the Catholic population and serves the Simcoe and Muskoka areas. It also has two French school boards, Le Conseil scolaire de district catholique Centre-Sud and Le Conseil scolaire Viamonde. There are also several private schools both for K-8 and K-12.
High schools[edit]
Barrie North Collegiate Institute
Bear Creek Secondary School
Eastview Secondary School
École Secondaire Catholique Nouvelle Alliance
Innisdale Secondary School
St. Joseph's High School
St. Peter's Catholic Secondary School
École secondaire Roméo Dallaire
Georgian College[edit]
Georgian College's main campus, with over 10,000 full-time students and approximately 25,000 part-time students, is located in Barrie.
Online[edit]
Village Media operates BarrieToday.com.
Print[edit]
There are both semi-weekly and monthly newspapers serving the City of Barrie.
The Barrie Advance, published by Metroland Media Group, is a free newspaper established in 1983 delivered weekly (Thursdays) to every residence in the city as well as residents of Springwater Township and parts of Oro-Medonte. The newspaper contains local news, classifieds, advertisements and flyers.
Barrie Business is a free newsprint publication covering local and regional business news. Published monthly, and distributed to every business in the City of Barrie through Canada Post, it seeks to highlight and support Barrie's local business community and events.
The Barrie Examiner, established in 1864, was one of Canada's oldest daily newspapers. It was distributed five days a week (Tuesday to Saturday) to paid subscribers and also delivered to the remainder of the market free on Thursdays. The Examiner was one of several Postmedia Network newspapers purchased by Torstar in a transaction between the two companies in 2017.[35] Following the acquisition, Torstar subsidiary Metroland Media Group announced the closure of the paper effective November 27, 2017.[36][37]
Radio[edit]
Local radio stations serving Barrie and area include:
FM 93.1 - CHAY ("Fresh 93.1"), Top 40
FM 95.7 - CFJB ("Rock 95"), active rock
FM 100.3 - CJLF ("Life 100.3"), christian radio
FM 101.1 - CIQB ("Big 101"), Classic Hits
FM 107.5 - CKMB ("1075 Kool FM"), hot adult contemporary
Barrie Police Service
Barrie Speedway
Georgian Mall
Sandy Hollow Landfill
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Book review of R.C. Sproul’s “If there’s a God, why are there atheists?”
I have a key that will unlock a puzzling mystery
Brian Auten has a book review posted up at Apologetics 315.
The book is “If There’s A God, Why Are There Atheists?”, by theologian R.C. Sproul. R.C. Sproul is one of my favorite theologians. The book in question has a very, very special place in my heart, because I think that it is one of the major reasons why I was able to resist pernicious ideas like religious pluralism and postmodernism for so long. Once you put on the glasses of Romans 1 and see for the first time what man is really doing with respect to God, you can never see things the same again. I’ll say more about this at the end, but let’s see what Brian wrote first.
So often, you hear atheists complaining about religion is nothing but wish-fulfillment or some sort of crutch for people who are frightened by a variety of things. They think that God is invented to solve several problems. 1) how does the world work?, 2) is there meaning to suffering and evil?, 3) why should I be moral?, and 4) what will happen to me and my loved ones when I die?. On the atheistic view, God is just a crutch that people cling to out of weakness and ignorance. But is this really the case?
Sproul starts the book by investigating three atheists who sought to explain religious belief as a result of psychological factors.
Brian writes:
Before tackling the psychology of atheism, Sproul spends a chapter on the psychology of theism, from the perspective of Freud’s question “If there is no God, why is there religion?”11 What follows is an overview of various psychological explanations of theistic belief: Feuerbach’s “religion is a dream of the human mind.”12 Marx’s belief that religion is “due to the devious imagination of particular segment of mankind.”13 And Nietzche’s idea that “religion endures because weak men need it.”14 The author properly reiterates: “We must be careful to note that the above arguments can never be used as proof for the nonexistence of God. They can be useful for atheists who hear theists state that the only possible explanation for religion is the existence of God.”15 That being said, Sproul also reveals what these arguments presume:
Their arguments already presupposed the nonexistence of God. They were not dealing with the question, Is there a God? They were dealing with the question, Since there is no God, why is there religion?16
Sproul points out the weaknesses of each of these approaches and says “there are just as many arguments showing that unbelief has its roots in the psychological needs of man.”
Wow, could that really be true? What are the real reasons why people reject God? Does the Bible have anything to say about what those reasons are?
Brian cites Sproul’s contention:
The New Testament maintains that unbelief is generated not so much by intellectual causes as by moral and psychological ones. The problem is not that there is insufficient evidence to convince rational beings that there is a God, but that rational beings have a natural hostility to the being of God.
[…]Man’s desire is not that the omnipotent, personal Judeo-Christian God exist, but that He not exist.
In Romans 1:18-23, the apostle Paul explains what is really going on:
18The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness,
19since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them.
20For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.
21For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.
22Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools
23and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.
On this blog, I regularly present many, many arguments for theism in general, and Christian theism in particular:
The kalam cosmological argument and the Big Bang theory
The fine-tuning argument from cosmological constants and quantities
The origin of life, part 1 of 2: the building blocks of life
The origin of life, part 2 of 2: biological information
The sudden origin of phyla in the Cambrian explosion
Galactic habitable zones and circumstellar habitable zones
Irreducible complexity in molecular machines
The creative limits of natural selection and random mutation
Angus Menuge’s ontological argument from reason
Alvin Plantinga’s epistemological argument from reason
William Lane Craig’s moral argument
The unexpected applicability of mathematics to nature
Six reasons why you should believe in non-physical minds
William Lane Craig’s case for the resurrection of Jesus
Sproul explains why atheists cannot allow themselves to live according to the evidence that is presented to them:
The cumulative effect of this knowledge that is clearly seen is to leave men ‘without excuse.’ Herein lies the basis of the universal guilt of man. No one can claim ignorance of the knowledge of God. No one can cite insufficient evidence for not believing in God. Though people are not persuaded by the evidence, this does not indicate an insufficiency in the evidence, but rather an insufficiency in man.
[…]The basic stages of man’s reaction to God can be formulated by means of the categories of trauma, repression, and substitution.
[…]If God exists, man cannot be a law unto himself. If God exists, man’s will-to-power is destined to run head-on into the will of God.
And this is the force that is animating atheists today. They don’t want to be accountable to God in a relationship, no matter what the evidence is. They have to deny it, so that they can be free to get the benefits of a universe designed for them, without having to give any recognition or acknowledgement back. If they have to lie to themselves to deny the evidence, they will do it. Anything to insulate themselves from the Creator and Designer who reveals himself in Jesus Christ.
The rest of the book review, and the book, deals with explaining in detail how atheists respond to an all-good, all-powerful, all-knowing Creator/Designer. I encourage you to click through and read the whole book review. You can read the review, and the book, and then investigate for yourself whether atheists really are like that.
My survey of atheists
By the way, did you all see my survey of atheists that I did a while back? It’s relevant because one of the questions I asked to my volunteers was “How you begin to follow Christ if it suddenly became clear to you that Christianity was objectively true?”. I got some very strange responses that dovetail nicely with Sproul’s book.
Here are a few of the responses:
I would not follow. My own goals are all that I have, and all that I would continue to have in that unlikely situation. I would not yield my autonomy to anyone no matter what their authority to command me.
I would not follow, because God doesn’t want humans to act any particular way, and he doesn’t care what we do.
I would not follow. Head is spinning. Would go to physician to find out if hallucinating.
I hope I would be courageous enough to dedicate my life to rebellion against God.
I would not have to change anything unless forced to and all that would change is my actions not my values. I would certainly balk at someone trying to force me to change my behavior as would you if you were at the mercy of a moral objectivist who felt that all moral goodness is codified in the Koran.
He would have to convince me that what he wants for me is what I want for me.
This is all part of my series discussing whether morality is rationally grounded by atheism.
Well Spent Journey did a similar survey of atheists, inspired by mine, and got this result on the relevant question:
12. How would you begin to follow Jesus if it became clear to you that Christianity was true?
– Would follow (5)
– Wouldn’t follow (6)
– Might follow the teachings of Jesus, but that isn’t Christianity (2)
– It would depend on how this truth was revealed (3)
– Christianity can’t be true (3)
– No answer given (4)
…What would be the hardest adjustment you would have to make to live a faithful, public Christian life?
– Adjusting wouldn’t be that difficult; would eagerly welcome knowing that Christianity was true (2)
– Praying, since it seems weird, creepy, and strange
– Trying to figure out how the Bible became so corrupted
– Trying to convince myself that the God of the Bible is deserving of worship (2)
– Don’t think it would be possible to adjust
– No clear response, or not applicable (16)
Yes, they really think like that! Just ask an atheist questions and you’ll see how “objective” they really are. Atheism is entirely psychological. It’s adopted in order to feel sufficient and to operate with autonomy, with the goal of self-centered pleasure-seeking above all. Evidence has nothing to do with it.
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Can we raise declining marriage rates by telling men to “man up”?
Marine prays with his wife on their wedding day
The latest Prager University video features pro-marriage scholar Brad Wilcox:
I watched this video, and, as a card-carrying member of the Christian men’s rights movement, I was concerned that nothing was said about how radical feminism has weakened the attractiveness of marriage to men. I mean specifically things like women carrying debt, having liberal political views, being unchaste and even promiscuous, initiating the majority of divorces (70%), withholding sex if they do marry, and denying men child visitation if they divorce, single mother welfare making men superfluous, big government replacing men as providers, etc. The consequences of divorce for men are catastrophic, and I don’t just mean financially, but emotionally as well.
I contacted Wilcox to ask him why he did not recognize how radical feminism undermines the value of marriage to men, and he pointed me to this article he wrote in the leftist Washington Post.
These days, 20something marriage has gotten a reputation for being a bad idea. That’s partly because parents, peers, and the popular culture encourage young adults to treat their twenties as a decade for exploration and getting one’s ducks in a row, not for settling down. In the immortal words of Jay-Z, “Thirty’s the new twenty.”
Indeed, the median age-at-first marriage has climbed to nearly 30 for today’s young adults, up from about 22 in 1970. Of course, there’s an upside to that. As my coauthors and I report in Knot Yet: the Benefits and Costs of Delayed Marriage in America, women who put off marriage and starting a family earn markedly more money than their peers who marry earlier.
And here he sort of takes on my concerns about chastity, delayed marriage, and fertility:
First, you are more likely to marry someone who shares your basic values and life experiences, and less likely to marry someone with a complicated romantic or family history. Those who marry in their twenties, for instance, are more likely to marry someone who isn’t previously married and shares their level of educational attainment as well as their religious faith. Marrying at this stage in your life also allows couples to experience early adulthood together. In the words of Elizabeth Gilbert, a 31-year-old woman who married in her mid-twenties, “My husband and I got to grow up together—not apart. We learned sacrifice, selflessness, compromise, and became better people for it.”
Women who marry in their 20s generally have an easier time getting pregnant, and having more than one child, than their peers who wait to marry in their thirties. You’ll also be around to enjoy the grandchildren for longer.
You’re less likely to lose the best possible mate for fear of getting started too young on the adventure that is married life. One single, thirtysomething woman struggling to find a good partner put it this way to psychologist Meg Jay, the author of The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter and How to Make the Most of Them Now, and whose TED Talk on twentysomethings has garnered 6.9 million views: “The best boyfriend I ever had was in my mid-twenties. I just didn’t think I was supposed to be [married] with someone then.” And as psychotherapist Lori Gottlieb explains in her book, Marry Him, there’s a higher likelihood of finding a true peer and more appealing partner-for-life in one’s twenties, before those most appealing potential mates marry somebody else by their thirties.
I cannot fault Wilcox or Prager for being ignorant of the social changes that have undermined the value proposition of marriage for men, and that have also undermined men’s ability to fulfill their roles. Far from being a man-blamer, Prager is a warrior against radical feminism, and just today Wilcox tweeted a study showing the boys benefit from single-sex education – a position I favor myself. But I do want to head off the common “men need to man up” objection made by those who deny that the real problem is radical feminism.
Contrary to the “be a man / man up” crowd, my objections to marriage don’t come from a desire to be lazy about education, career and finance. Rest assured that I have a BS and MS in STEM, and nearly two decades of STEM work experience (internships, summer jobs, full-time employment). I do make six figures, like the person Wilcox discussed in the video, and I have the savings you would expect with a gapless STEM resume. So, complaining about “man up” isn’t going to work on me, and probably not on most men who have concerns about marriage.
Radical feminism causes women to delay marriage in order to have fun, travel and ride the carousel of promiscuity in their 20s. Women have been told that they will have more fun by delaying marriage and staying single in their 20s. Church leaders, friends and family should be discussing and demonstrating the value of marriage to women, and showing them how the lasting contentment of marriage is better than the temporary fun of drinking, sex, travel and career. Marriage is a better platform for lasting joy and for quality relationships. It’s up to the woman’s friends and family to make the case for marriage as more fun and fulfilling than the alternatives offered by radical feminism. Her friends and family need to be countering the feminist message that is everywhere in the culture: marriage is boring, children are a burden, and that husbands are needy and demanding fools. And women need to be told how spending a decade being selfish in their 20s undermines their suitability for marriage.
A woman’s friends and family should train her not to view the moral and spiritual leadership of a man as threatening and dangerous, just because it disagrees with her feelings and desires. Instead of recoiling in horror when a well-educated, successful, wealthy man tells a woman with a history of poor decision-making to get a full-time job, pay off her debts, and start investing, her friends and family ought to welcome it. A good man’s practical advice should not be seen as stifling a woman’s freedom to “follow her heart”. And her friends and family certainly should not celebrate when she chooses a penniless, unemployed, empty-resume man who never questions her reckless decisions. Women should be encouraged to choose men who have demonstrated ability as protectors, providers and moral and spiritual leaders, even if she would rather have a doormat who lets her be wild, selfish and irresponsible. Doormats are not intimidating, but they are also not decisive about marriage. When a man wants to marry a woman, he is very interested in encouraging her to be practical and responsible. This is a good thing.
Lesbian relationships are the most unstable and shortest-lived relationships. This suggests that there is a tendency in women to reject commitment when it goes against their feelings and self-interest. Women’s emotions can make them unstable, and less capable of commitment. Friends and family need to recognize that tendency, and help women to learn practicality, responsibility and unselfishness at a young age, so that they are capable of making commitments.Men look for women who have demonstrated that they are able to complete things that they start. We know that women initiate 70% of divorces, and mostly because of feelings of unhappiness. Finish a tough STEM degree, work a tough job for a few years, pay off debts, pay off a car loan, etc. Men look for women who can make and keep commitments through good times and bad times, even when it goes against their self-interest.
A good basic book to read on this issue is Helen Smith’s “Men On Strike“.
Here’s a short video about her book:
A longer interview from News Max:
And an even longer interview with a homeschooling man:
Some men are ignorant of how radical feminism makes women less suitable for marriage while simultaneously making school and work more difficult to boys and men. It is these men who need to “man up” and “be a man” by challenging women to reject radical feminism and embrace early marriage to strong men who lead. If you’re not willing to fight the radical feminism that causes the underlying problems, then you can’t complain when men wisely reject marriage to women who aren’t ready to be wives and mothers.
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War on women: Obama strategy lets ISIS rape, torture and murder women and girls
Hey Obama girls! I found your war on women… it’s in Syria… you voted for it!
This is by foreign policy expert Rebeccah Heinrichs writing in The Federalist.
Women and girls in Nigeria who are murdered or held captive for the sadistic whims of their Boka Haram captors are just one example, but there are countless more. Al-Shabab regularly brutalizes, rapes, and murders women and girls. ISIS has sought out Yazidi women and girls for slaughter and has taken captive thousands who are now victims of torture, systemic rape, and forced abortions, among other horrors. Christian women are also raped and, when they refuse to convert to ISIS’s Islam, are murdered, along with their Christian brothers.
[…][T]he Obama administration has failed to even begin to put together a serious military campaign to destroy the Islamic State, and the president and his supporters, including Hillary Clinton, are unwilling to identify the motivations of the global movement of Islamist groups. This is why it is fair to blame the administration for allowing the recent success and empowerment of these groups, and, consequently, the increased suffering of women and girls.
[…]This became all the more evident right after the horrific November Paris attacks when the French retaliated by taking out ISIS sites. This caused many to ask the obvious question: Why hadn’t the United States already included those specific targets on its list? In fact, if the United States were serious about taking out ISIS, it would have already destroyed those targets along with the rest of the infrastructure ISIS has come to rely on to operate as a government authority.
But, exposing just how selectively limited the U.S. strikes remain, former Central Intelligence Agency Director Mike Morrell recently admitted, “We didn’t go after oil wells — actually hitting oil wells that ISIS controls because we didn’t want to do environmental damage, and we didn’t want to destroy that infrastructure.”
Let that sink in. These militants are brutally killing in ways to maximize suffering, selling children into slavery, raping young women and girls, torturing, recruiting citizens of Western countries to join their forces, gaining and holding territory, and exporting their terror in order to convert by the sword. And President Obama refuses to take out their oil wells out of concern for the environment.
But it’s OK, because as we know from Bernie Sanders, global warming is actually the cause of Islamic terrorism. Obama and John Kerry say that global warming is the top national security threat. So who cares about actual girls and women? We have to be more concerned about global warming.
Ladies and gentlemen, the real war on women.
And one last point for all the compassionate leftists who are pushing for bringing in hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees. Why are there hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees? Why, because the leftists voted for a President who pulled our forces out of Iraq.
Retreat has consequences, ignorant leftists:
The president’s inability to see how his policies share the responsibility for the instability and humanitarian crises is almost unbelievable. Perhaps there’s no better example of this than the way he has inflamed the debate over the Syrian refugees. Waves of suffering Syrian men, women, and children are fleeing their country for fear of their lives.
But just a few years ago, before the refugee crisis, when Assad began terrorizing the Syrian people with chemical weapons and barrel bombs, President Obama could have decided then and there to hit back at Assad. President Obama chose not to empower what was then the more easily distinguishable moderate Syrian forces.
You can do foreign policy by substituting piety and feelings for rational thought. The goal is not to feel good, it is to do good, and retreating from a fight with evil does not do good.
Obama was elected to “end the wars”, but now we know how his deliberate weakness actually started a war on women. The REAL war on women, not the one that college students complain about when they demand free condoms and student loan forgiveness.
AppeasementBarack ObamaDemocrat PartyIraqMuslimsNigeriaPacficismRadical IslamSyriaWar on WomenWeakness
UPDATE: Greg Koukl responded to concerns by Ed Feser, and Ed Feser posted his response here. I agree with Koukl.
Bowe Bergdahl has been charged with treason
What difference does national security make?
Story from Breitbart News.
Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl has been charged with treason, his lawyer says, but the White House is not commenting on the news yet.
A request for comment about the news was referred by the White House to the Department of Defense, which is in charge of the investigation.
President Obama was instrumental in organizing Bergdahl’s release, which included the president’s decision to release five Taliban operatives from Guantanamo Bay to Qatar in order to bring Bergdahl back to the United States. He was held captive by militants in Afghanistan for five years after disappearing from his base.
[…]The Obama administration maintained that Berghdal was a hero when he was first brought back to American soil as a result of the Guantanamo deal.
Here is the video explaining how the deserter served with honor and distinction:
The Weekly Standard:
President Obama’s national security adviser, Susan Rice, said on ABC that Bowe Bergdahl “served the United States with honor and distinction” and that “Sergeant Bergdahl wasn’t simply a hostage; he was an American prisoner of war captured on the battlefield.”
[…]“He is going to be safely reunited with his family. He served the United States with honor and distinction.
[…]Elsewhere in the interview, Rice says, “Sergeant Bergdahl wasn’t simply a hostage; he was an American prisoner of war captured on the battlefield.” She adds, “We have a sacred obligation that we have upheld since the founding of our republic to do our utmost to bring back our men and women who are taken in battle, and we did that in this instance.”
“Captured on the battlefield”? “Sacred obligation”? He deserted his post and is now being charged with treason. I guess we should not be surprised since she also blamed Benghazi on a Youtube video when it was known from the first instant that it was a terrorist attack defended the swap. (Yes, it’s the same Susan Rice who lied about that, too)
But other Democrats praised the terrorists-for-traitor swap as well:
Hillary Clinton, Obama’s former secretary of state, defended the deal in the days following. Clinton dismissed claims at the time that Bergdahl had deserted as “irrelevant.” “We bring our people home,” she said.
Here’s Megyn Kelly interviewing the State Department spokeswoman about the charges:
As Megyn Kelly says in the clip at the top, at least 3 of the 5 released Taliban commanders have tried to reconnect with terrorist networks:
At least three of the five Taliban leaders traded last year for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl have tried to plug back into their old terror networks, a government official familiar with the intelligence told Fox News, describing it as an attempt to “re-engage.”
[…]The director of the Defense Intelligence Agency recently told Congress that, after that expiration, all his officers can do is warn the U.S. government if the men return to the battlefield.
“I’ve seen nothing that causes me to believe these folks are reformed or [have] changed their ways or intend to re-integrate to society in ways to give me any confidence that they will not return in trying to do harm to America,” Rep. Mike Pompeo, R-Kan., a member of the House intelligence committee, told Fox News.
As Hillary Clinton would say, “what different at this point does it make?”. I guess if you are a Democrat, trading five of our strongest enemies for a deserter makes a lot of sense. It’s the right thing to do, and how dare you question their patriotism?
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Legendary Deep Purple Tour Footage Discovered
Unique footage from rock band Deep Purple’s legendary 1970s Made in Japan tour has been discovered.
Seven reels of silent 8mm black & white film taken during the group’s famous trio of concerts in Japan, August 1972, have been unearthed – running to around 26 minutes in total.
Until the discovery no visual footage from the performances, which formed the basis of Deep Purple’s acclaimed Made in Japan live album, was known to exist – though rumours of such material had persisted for years, according to Deep Purple website The Highway Star which broke the story here.
A 90-second clip of Highway Star from the silent film has been synced to audio and is to be included on the forthcoming Deep Purple rarities DVD History, Hits & Highlights, set for release by Eagle Rock Entertainment in June, 2009.
It is the only footage to be utilized on the DVD because the rest of the newly-discovered material comprises many short excerpts from different songs rather than full performances. To see some stills from the footage, click here.
Filed under Music, Releases
Tagged as classic rock, Deep Purple, Eagle Rock Entertainment, film discovered, Highway Star, History Hits & Highlights, Made in Japan, missing material, rare footage, unreleased footage
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Tag Archives: No Hiding Place
“This is Rediffusion, broadcasting on the London station of the Independent Television Authority.”
Kaleidoscope’s 25th year begins with Rediffusion Rewind, an event celebrating the London broadcaster of the fifties and sixties. As well as a special panel on Sexton Blake, we have former Rediffusion continuity announcer Keith Martin on stage to discuss his time at the company and a video interview with veteran director Christopher Hodson. Little of Associated-Rediffusion and Rediffusion’s programming survives today and we are pleased to present a schedule full of rare items, including some recent recoveries by The Tim Disney Archive and Kaleidoscope.
The event will take place on Saturday 9th March 2013 between 12:00 – 7:00pm at our usual venue, The Talbot Hotel, High Street, Stourbridge, West Midlands DY8 1DW. Admission is free, but voluntary donations to our designated charity, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution are encouraged.
THE MAIN ROOM
12:00 pm Recreated Associated-Rediffusion start up – the famous London broadcaster lives again, thanks to some modern technical wizardry…
12:05 pm Crime Sheet – “The Superintendent Hedges A Bet”. Ordinarily the second Associated-Rediffusion series to feature Raymond Francis as Det. Supt. Tom Lockhart, due to Francis contracting mumps this fourth episode featured Chief Supt. Carr, played by Gerald Case. An episode of No Hiding Place, the third Lockhart series can be seen in the Second Room at 1.00pm (TX: 29/04/1959).
12:30 pm Hodson’s Choice – in this comprehensive video interview, veteran director Christopher Hodson reminisces about his career with particular focus on his years at Associated-Rediffusion and Rediffusion.
1:00 pm Our Man at St. Mark’s – “A Previous Conviction”. Recovered by The Tim Disney Archive and Kaleidoscope in 2012, this rare episode of the sixties ecclesiastical comedy stars its original lead, Leslie Phillips. Rev. Parker’s attempt to give an ex-convict a new start has unexpected complications. Also featuring Joan Hickson, Warren Mitchell and Freddie Jones (TX: 23/10/1963).
1:30 pm Half Hour Story – “George’s Room”. John Neville and Geraldine Moffatt star in a two-hander scripted by Alun Owen and directed by Alan Clarke. Made in 625-line colour as an engineering experiment, only the last twelve minutes survive, shot directly on film rather than telerecorded. A rare chance to see material in colour from this period, including a colour Rediffusion animated ident (TX: 30/08/1967).
2:00 pm Guest Panel – Sexton Blake Lives! – A celebration of the much loved Rediffusion adaptation. Roger Foss, Tinker in the series and other surviving cast members talk with Paul Ross, author of a forthcoming book on Sexton Blake. The panel also features surviving clips and photographs from stories now lost.
3.00 pm Break – accompanied by Fusion, a compilation of classic Associated-Rediffusion and Rediffusion moments and title sequences including Benny Hill, Woody Allen, The Rat Catchers, Boyd QC and Object Z.
3:30 pm Betjeman’s London – “The Royal Mint”. Future Poet Laureate John Betjeman presents this documentary series covering the landmarks of his home city. Copies of the original Rediffusion publicity booklet for the whole Betjeman’s London series will be available to own on the day, in return for a donation to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. There will also be duplicated copies of the final Rediffusion programme schedule, a very colourful leaflet giving details of the final month of the station’s output, again available for a donation to our designated charity.
4:00 pm Guest Panel – This is Rediffusion… – Continuity announcer Keith Martin talks about his time at the company and others later in his career. Keith also has the distinction of being one of the regulars “in the bar” on Stars and Garters! Some very rare examples of Rediffusion continuity will feature in the panel.
4:30 pm Uncle Charles – “Gentle Counsels”. Based on the stories of Nigel Balchin, Uncle Charles is the endearing rogue and raconteur propping up the bar, always with a compelling tale to tell. Raymond Huntley heads the cast, supported by David Morton, Alfie Bass and Dudley Foster. This programme was recovered by The Tim Disney Archive and Kaleidoscope in 2012. The series, which has never been shown in the Midlands before now also features music by Ron Grainer (TX: 13/01/1967).
5:30 pm Stars and Garters. The hugely popular Rediffusion variety show hosted by comedian Ray Martine and set in a fictional public house. This edition features The Alan Braden Band and Quartet, Susan Maughan, Kim Cordell, Steve Perry, Luciano, Johnny Sheldon, Sulky Gowers, Tommy (Pudden) Wright and Diana Dors (TX: 01/02/1965).
6:00 pm Maps & Men – “Falkland Islands”. An Associated-Rediffusion schools programme (TX: 20/01/1959).
6:10 pm Small Time – Wally Whyton sings in the sole surviving clip, located as an insert in an ITV programme. Followed by Muskit and Dido, the only remaining adventure of this loveable duo.
6:15 pm The Hippodrome Show. Rediffusion variety show, with Frank Foster as the Ringmaster and also featuring Alan Sherman, Linda Bennett, The Zombies, The Herculeans, Alma Paia, Tagora, Moni The Elephant, The Three Ghezzis and The Band of The Grenadier Guards (TX: 20/10/1966).
7:00 pm Closedown – coverage of the 1959 General Election coverage ends with the Associated-Rediffusion clock and a closedown announcement from Redvers Kyle.
THE SECOND ROOM
12:00 pm Blackmail – “Cut Yourself A Slice Of Throat”. Dramatic anthology drama with stories constructed around the theme of blackmail. This episode features Diane Cilento, Aubrey Richards, Dudley Jones and future Doctor Who producer Derrick Sherwin in an acting role (TX: 15/10/1965).
1:00 pm No Hiding Place – “The White Stick”. An early episode of the celebrated drama series following the cases of Det. Chief. Supt. Tom Lockhart, played by Raymond Francis. Lockhart is assisted by Det. Sgt. Harry Baxter (Eric Lander). Also featuring Terence Alexander, Pauline Jameson and Jack Smethurst in a script by Bill Strutton (TX: 14/07/1961).
2:00 pm Women in Love – a series of short plays on the theme of women in love, with linking introductions by the actor George Sanders. The plays are After So Long by Bridget Balfour, Song Without Words by Michael Meyer and The Stowaway by Charles Terrot. Produced by Peter Graham Scott and directed by Julian Amyes, Peter Graham Scott and Ronald Marriott (TX: 24/09/1958).
3:00 pm At Last the 1948 Show. Before Monty Python or The Goodies, John Cleese and Tim Brooke-Taylor edited this famous satirical show, bringing Cambridge Footlights humour to a wider audience. Masterminded by David Frost, the programme was written by and starring John Cleese, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graham Chapman and Marty Feldman and also featured Aimi MacDonald. The edition presented here was not on the DVD release or seen in more recent repeat showings (TX: 31/10/1967).
3:30 pm Orlando – “Dangerous Waters 3: Rhyme – But No Reason”. Sam Kydd’s character from Crane, ex-Foreign Legionnaire Orlando O’Connor was so successful he was granted his own spin-off series, aimed at children and young adults. An episode of Crane also featuring Orlando will be shown at 6.00pm (TX: 12/10/1966).
4:00 pm Badger’s Bend – “The Animal Hotel episode 1”. First episode of the children’s serial about a girl who moves to the country and becomes interested in caring for animals (TX: 04/01/1963).
4:30 pm Double Your Money – a later edition of the long running quiz show, in its day one of the most popular programmes on British television. Presented by Hughie Green, assisted by Monica Rose and Audrey Graham (TX: 22/11/1966).
5:00 pm The Dickie Henderson Show – “The Maid”. Sitcom starring the famous entertainer at the height of his fame. Also featuring June Laverick as Dickie’s wife and John Parsons as Richard, his son (TX: 10/04/1961).
5:30 pm London – A New Look. Brian Connell presents a discussion programme about the plan to replace the old London County Council with the proposed Greater London Council. Guests are Sir Edwin Herbert KBE, Lord Morrison of Lambeth, Sir Percy Rugg, Professor W. A. Robson, Sir Cyril Black MP, Alderman Leslie Room OBE, Alderman G. A. Pargiter and Alderman W. J. Ridd. This programme has survived on original 405-line videotape (TX: 24.11.1960).
6:00 pm Crane – “The Cannibi Syndicate”. An early episode of the adventure series starring Patrick Allen as Richard Crane. As well as series regulars Sam Kydd, Gerald Flood, Bruce Montague and Laya Raki, David Graham and Derek Benfield also feature (TX: 16/04/1963).
7:00 pm Closedown
All material at Kaleidoscope events is screened with the permission of the copyright holders.
Programmes and timings may be subject to change before the day.
Guests appear subject to professional and personal commitments.
In 2013 Kaleidoscope is supporting the
Royal National Lifeboat Institution once again.
Filed under Events, ITV, Kaleidoscope, Screenings, Television
Tagged as Alfie Bass, Associated Rediffusion, At Last the 1948 Show, Christopher Hodson, John Betjeman, Kaleidoscope, No Hiding Place, Our Man at St. Mark's, Ray Martine, Sexton Blake, Stourbridge, The Tim Disney Archive, Warren Mitchell
CLASSIC TV organisation Kaleidoscope has revealed its annual Raiders of the Lost Archives list for 2009 – 2010, detailing all the missing material located in the last 12 months by the group along with the BBC, ITV, BFI and missing episode hunters.
Particularly notable on this year’s list is the Library of Congress finds, where over 60 long-lost British dramas dating beween the late fifties and early seventies were discovered sitting in an American archive. The assortment of plays and adaptations boast a who’s who of acting talent including Sean Connery, David McCallum, Charles Gray, Susannah York, Patrick Macnee, William Gaunt, Norman Rossington, Ron Moody, Derek Jacobi, Maggie Smith, Ronald Pickup, Nerys Hughes, Patricia Routledge, David Hemmings, Kevin Stoney, Hywel Bennett, Thora Hird, John Gielgud, Michael Gambon, Hugh Paddick, Robert Hardy, Peggy Ashcroft, Leonard Rossiter, John Le Mesurier, Patrick Stewart, Brian Rawlinson, Michael Gough, Bernard Horsfall, Michael Hordern, Patrick Troughton, Jeremy Brett, Patrick Wymark, Bernard Cribbins, Betty Marsden, Edward De Souza, Patsy Rowlands, Gerald Flood, Donald Wolfit, Philip Madoc, Geoffrey Bayldon, Frank Finlay, Henry McGee, Jane Asher and Graham Crowden.
Also on the list are classic comedy shows starring Benny Hill, Dick Emery, Frankie Howerd, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, the Monty Python team, The Goodies, Marty Feldman, Bob Monkhouse, Denis Goodwin, Ronnie Barker, Willie Rushton, Frank Muir, Denis Norden, Alan Bennett and Hattie Jacques; serial dramas such as No Hiding Place and The Troubleshooters; light entertainment including The Rolf Harris Show; music from The Hollies, Cliff Richard and the Shadows, Showaddywaddy, The Arrows and Guys n Dolls; and children’s programmes by animator Oliver Postgate and the Smallfilms studio, including Ivor the Engine.
Last but not least, the list reveals some good progress in the BSB recoveries campaign of Ian Greaves, including episodes of The Happening, I Love Keith Allen and Up Yer News.
Speaking about the impressive list, Kaleidoscope’s Chris Perry said: “It’s been a great year for recoveries all round and goes to show there’s still more out there to find.”
Filed under Audio, BBC, BFI, Clips, Comedy, Episode Hunting, Finds, Kaleidoscope, Lists, Radio, Telesnaps, Television, Top of the Pops
Tagged as Alan Bennett, At Last the 1948 Show, BBC, Benny Hill, Bernard Cribbins, Bernard Horsfall, Betty Marsden, BFI, Bob Monkhouse, Brian Rawlinson, BSB, Charles Gray, Chris Perry, Cliff Richard, Cliff Richard and the Shadows, David Hemmings, David McCallum, Denis Goodwin, Denis Norden, Derek Jacobi, Dick Emery, Donald Wolfit, Dudley Moore, Edward De Souza, Frank Finlay, Frank Muir, Frankie Howerd, Geoffrey Bayldon, Gerald Flood, Graham Crowden, Guys n' Dolls, Hattie Jacques, Henry McGee, Hugh Paddick, Hywel Bennett, I Love Keith Allen, ITV, Ivor the Engine, Jane Asher, Jeremy Brett, John Gielgud, John Le Mesurier, Kaleidoscope, Kevin Stoney, Leonard Rossiter, Library of Congress BFI finds, Library of Congress discoveries, Library of Congress drama shows, Maggie Smith, Marty Feldman, Michael Gambon, Michael Gough, Michael Hordern, Nerys Hughes, No Hiding Place, NOBA, Noel Gay TV, Norman Rossington, Not Only But Also, Oliver Postgate, Patricia Routledge, Patrick Macnee, Patrick Stewart, Patrick Troughton, Patrick Wymark, Patsy Rowlands, Peggy Ashcroft, Peter Cook, Philip Madoc, Raiders of the Lost Archive, Raiders of the Lost Archives, Raiders of the Lost Archives 2009 - 2010, Robert Hardy, Ron Moody, Ronald Pickup, Ronnie Barker, Sean Connery, Smallfilms, Susannah York, The Arrows, The Goodies, The Happening, the Monty Python team, The Rolf Harris Show, The Troubleshooters, Thora Hird, Top of the Pops, Up Yer News, William Gaunt, Willie Rushton
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GALLERY: Classic Beatles Photos in Honor of Paul McCartney's Birthday
GALLERY: Classic Beatles Photos in Honor of Paul McCartney’s Birthday
The Beatles rehearsing at the Prince of Wales Theatre for their Royal Variety Performance.
In honor of Paul McCartney’s birthday today (June 18), we look back during the magical time when the Beatles ruled the world and changed the face of music forever.
Enjoy these classic Beatles images!
Beatles On Stage
The Beatles on stage at the London Palladium during a performance in front of 2, 000 screaming fans. (Photo by Michael Webb/Getty Images)
The Beatles throw a Magical Mystery Party to celebrate the launch of their new film 'The Magical Mystery Tour'. They turned up in fancy dress. From left to right: Maureen Starr, Ringo, John Lennon (1940 - 1980), Paul McCartney and Jane Asher. (Photo by Ian Tyas/Getty Images)
Love Is All You Need
The Beatles sporting multi-lingual 'Love Is All You Need' sandwich boards at the EMI studios in Abbey Road, as they prepare for 'Our World', a world-wide live television show broadcasting to 24 countries with a potential audience of 400 million. Original Publication: People Disc - HU0054 (Photo by Jim Gray/Getty Images)
Beatles Perform In Liverpool
British rock group The Beatles perform in a club prior to signing their first recording contract, Liverpool, England, 1962. L-R: George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and original drummer Pete Best. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Paul McCartney & George Harrison on tour bus
Paul McCartney (left) and George Harrison (1943 - 2001) sit next to each other on their tour bus during a Beatles American tour, c. 1966. Behind them sit Ringo Starr (left) and John Lennon (1940 - 1980). (Photo by Express Newspapers/Getty Images)
McCartney’s Cavern
circa 1960: Paul McCartney on stage at the Cavern nightclub in Liverpool during the early days of British beat group The Beatles. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)
Clay And The Beatles
February 1964: American heavyweight boxer Cassius Clay poses in the ring in mock victory over British pop group The Beatles, meeting the press in New York during an American tour. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)
Pepper Launch
22nd May 1967: The Beatles (clockwise from top left: Ringo Starr, George Harrison (1943 - 2001), John Lennon (1940 - 1980) and Paul McCartney) pose for a photocall to promote their new album 'Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band'. (Photo by John Pratt/Keystone/Getty Images)
Happy Hearts Club
19th May 1967: The Beatles celebrate the completion of their new album, 'Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band', at a press conference held at the west London home of their manager Brian Epstein. The LP is released on June 1st. (Photo by John Pratt/Keystone/Getty Images)
Beatles And MBEs
26th October 1965: Liverpudlian pop group The Beatles proudly display their MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) awards at a press reception held at the Saville Theatre after their Investiture ceremony at Buckingham Palace. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)
Submarine Beatles
1968: Three Beatles; from left to right John Lennon (1940 - 1980), George Harrison (1943 - 2001) and Paul McCartney, record voices in a studio for their new cartoon film 'Yellow Submarine'. (Photo by Keystone Features/Getty Images)
Two Beatles
1st November 1963: Two members of Liverpudlian pop group The Beatles, John Lennon (1940 - 1980), singer and guitarist, left, and Paul McCartney, singer and bass guitarist. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)
Beatles At The BBC
Portrait of British pop group The Beatles (L-R) Paul McCartney, George Harrison (1943 - 2001), Ringo Starr and John Lennon (1940 - 1980) at the BBC Television Studios in London before the start of their world tour, June 17, 1966. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)
Beatles Haircut
13th March 1964: The Beatles, from left to right: George Harrison (1943 - 2001), Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney and John Lennon (1940 - 1980), have their famous hair-dos tidied up before going on to the set at Twickenham Studios to begin filming. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)
Beatles In Paris
16th January 1964: Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney of British pop group The Beatles relax in a Paris hotel room. (Photo by Harry Benson/Express/Getty Images)
Beatles Waiting
23rd October 1963: The four Beatles waiting at London Airport. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)
Beatle Rendezvous
5th October 1963: The Beatles meet for the first time after their holidays by candlelight at the Star Steak House in Shaftsbury Avenue, London. This evening they appear on 'Ready, Steady, Go', the British music television programme. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)
Paul Gets Back
31st July 1967: Paul McCartney of the Beatles and his girlfriend, actress Jane Asher, arrive at London Airport after a trip to Greece. McCartney holds up an issue of the Evening Standard leading with a story about the drugs case involving Keith Richards and Mick Jagger and bearing the headline 'Stones Won't Go To Jail'. (Photo by George Stroud/Express/Getty Images)
Beatles Return
6th February 1964: The Beatles arriving at London Airport after a trip to Paris. From left to right - Paul McCartney, George Harrison (1943 - 2001), Ringo Starr and John Lennon. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)
25th November 1963: A group shot of the Beatles, Ringo Starr (in the background), George Harrison (1943 - 2001), Paul McCartney and John Lennon (1940 - 1980), pictured during a performance on Granada TV's Late Scene Extra television show filmed in Manchester, England on November 25, 1963. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)
The Beatles MBE
26th October 1965: British pop group The Beatles, from left to right; Ringo Starr, John Lennon (1940 - 1980), Paul McCartney and George Harrison (1943 - 2001), outside Buckingham Palace, London, after receiving their MBE's (Member of the Order of the British Empire) from the Queen. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)
The Waving Beatles
2nd July 1964: The Beatles, John Lennon, George Harrison (1943 - 2001), Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, pictured on their arrival in London following a tour of Australia. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)
June 1967: The Beatles at the EMI studios in Abbey Road, as they prepare for 'Our World', a world-wide live television show broadcasting to 24 countries with a potential audience of 400 million. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)
The Beatles With Ed Sullivan
American television host Ed Sullivan smiles while standing with British rock group the Beatles on the set of his television variety series, New York, February 9, 1964. Left to right: Ringo Starr, George Harrison, Sullivan, John Lennon, Paul McCartney. (Photo by Express Newspapers/Getty Images)
British rock group the Beatles at the Dorchester Hotel in London, 1964. From left to right, Ringo Starr, John Lennon, George Harrison and Paul McCartney. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Beatles Rehearsal
English rock band the Beatles prepare to perform their new single 'Hello, Goodbye' on stage at the Saville Theatre, London, 1967. Clockwise from top left, they are Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Ringo Starr and George Harrison. (Photo by Keystone Features/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Pop group The Beatles relax on a beach in Miami, Florida. From left to right John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, circa February 1964. (Photo by Daily Express/Archive Photos/Getty Images)
English pop group The Beatles receiving awards from the Variety Club of Great Britain, 1963. Back row George Harrison, Paul McCartney, front row, Ringo Starr and John Lennon. (Photo by Daily Express/Archive Photos/Getty Images)
Beatles And Maharishi
Left to right: Paul McCartney, George Harrison (1943 - 2001) and John Lennon (1940 - 1980) of the Beatles, backstage with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi after he gave a lecture on transcendental meditation at the Hilton hotel, London, 25th August 1967. (Photo by C. Maher/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Beatles On Board
The Beatles collectively mime going for a drive, 1963. From left to right, Ringo, George, Paul and John. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
NY Press Conference
British pop group The Beatles, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, George Harrison and John Lennon, attend a press conference at Kennedy International Airport in New York having arrived from London for a 10 day US tour, 7th February 1964. (Photo by Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Submarine Premiere
Beatle John Lennon (1940 - 1980) and his Japanese girlfriend Yoko Ono with Beatle Paul McCartney (right), at the premiere of the new Beatles film 'Yellow Submarine' at the London Pavilion, 18th July 1968. John and Paul hold apples, the symbol of their newly formed company, Apple Corps. Thousands of Beatle fans brought traffic to a standstill in Piccadilly Circus as they waited to see the group arrive at the premiere. (Photo by Larry Ellis/Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
John And Paul And Apples
Beatles John Lennon and Paul McCartney at London Airport after a trip to America to promote their new company Apple Corps, 16th May 1968. They are both dressed all in white and carrying apples. (Photo by Stroud/Express/Getty Images)
British pop group the Beatles, (from left to right), John, George, Ringo and Paul, circa 1967. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
John And Paul
13th September 1964: Beatles Paul McCartney (left) and John Lennon (1940 - 1980) at the Variety Club Showbusiness Awards held at the Dorchester, London. (Photo by William Vanderson/Fox Photos/Getty Images)
Silver For Beatles
8th April 1963: British pop group The Beatles holding their silver disc. Left to right are, Paul McCartney, George Harrison (1943 - 2001), Ringo Starr, George Martin of EMI and John Lennon (1940 - 1980). (Photo by Chris Ware/Keystone/Getty Images)
Today’s Your Birthday
18th June 1964: Paul McCartney, singer, bassist, and songwriter with The Beatles, celebrates his 22nd birthday on tour with the band in Sydney, Australia. Giving Paul a birthday kiss are some of the seventeen Australian beauties invited to the party. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)
Beatles Before Ringo
circa 1960: Liverpudlian skiffle beat band The Beatles standing outside Paul's Liverpool home (left to right) George Harrison (1943 - 2001), John Lennon (1940 - 1980), Paul McCartney. Ringo Starr was not to join the band for another two years. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)
Paul McCartney,The Beatles
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Sponsors – Honorees– Tickets – 2014 HLA
2015 Highest Leaf Awards Press Release
Breakfast and Award Ceremony
MetLife Conference Center
1095 Sixth Avenue (at the corner of 42nd Street)
Honoring women whose business or professional contributions significantly impact their industry and exemplify an understanding of the balance between outcome and responsibility in their workplace.
Each year WVF honors women whose business or professional accomplishments positively impact their industry and exemplify an entrepreneurial spirit in the workplace. The recipients of the Highest Leaf Award are role models with the characteristics we try to instill in our clients—risk takers, strategic thinkers and innovators. We are proud to present the 2015 honorees:
Audrey Siegel
Managing Partner,
Audrey helped start an agency from scratch with no clients and no office, just one computer and a dream—to build an agency where great ideas, great media professionals and great clients engage to create innovative and effective communication strategies. On the heels of 9/11, advertising veterans Audrey Siegel and Steve Farella not only imagined this, but created it. That was TargetCast. The agency was named 2013 Advertising Age Agency to Watch and Mediapost’s Independent Media Agency of The Year in 2010 and 2012, before ultimately catching the eye of MDC Partners’ CEO Miles Nadal, who added TargetCast to MDC’s roster of game-changing communications companies in 2012, becoming of the core of what is now called Assembly. One of our industry’s few female entrepreneurs, Audrey Siegel, as one of Assembly’s Managing Partners, leads the growth of this modern media agency with 450 employees and over 100 clients.
A go-to advertising industry resource, Audrey is regularly quoted on the digitization of media, consumer engagement and broader advertising trends in Bloomberg Businessweek, The New York Times, Advertising Age, Adweek and Mediapost. Audrey also regularly contributes her voice and perspective on issues facing the advertising industry at leading conferences on behalf of MIN, OMMA, MPA, AWNY, Ad:Tech, CHPA, Digital Hollywood and others. She serves on the 4 A’s Media Leadership Committee, as well as the Executive Board of the NY Ad Club, and has chaired the Ad Club’s annual Media: NOW conference for over 15 years.
Dawn Fay
District President,
Dawn is a District President for Robert Half International (NYSE:RHI), the world’s first and largest staffing firm. She currently oversees the Professional Staffing Divisions Accountemps, OfficeTeam, RH Management Resources and Robert Half Finance & Accounting throughout offices in the NY Metro Area and NJ.
She joined RHI in 1996 as an Accountemps Staffing Manager in Charlotte, NC. In 1998 Dawn moved to Atlanta and held many different roles in the Southeast District including Division Director, Branch Manager and Regional Manager. In 2005 she was given the opportunity to move to NYC and take on responsibility for RHI’s largest branch operation in Midtown Manhattan. A year later Dawn was promoted to Regional Vice President and then again in 2009 to District President.
Prior to joining RHI she worked as a Financial Analyst in NYC and Washington, DC. Dawn graduated cum laude from The George Washington University with a BA in Economics.
Julie Kampf
CEO, & Chief Possiblilities Officer,
JBK Associates International, Inc.
Julie Kampf is CEO, President and Founder of JBK Associates International, Inc., an award-winning executive talent solutions firm that specializes in building senior-level leadership across many functions with a focus on introducing diverse talent to her client companies. Her industry and search experience spans more than three decades. With headquarters in Englewood Cliffs, NJ, JBK’s other geographic locations include Manhattan, West Palm Beach and Atlanta.
Under Julie’s leadership, JBK Associates International has become one of America’s fastest growing private companies, ranked in the Inc. 500|5000 three consecutive years, and has been named one of Working Mother magazine’s Best Women-Owned Companies. Julie has earned national recognition for driving diversity across a variety of industries including Consumer, Retail, Luxury, Life Science, Financial Services, Academia, and the Not-For-Profit arena. Through her work with Fortune 100 companies and as a thought leader, Julie calls on America’s employers to make diversity a priority. In recognition of her success, Julie has been honored as one of New Jersey’s Best 50 Women in Business, an Enterprising Woman of The Year, A Garden State Woman of The Year, A Girl Scout Woman of Achievement and an Ernst & Young Entrepreneurial Winning Women Finalist.
Julie’s many volunteer activities reflect her commitment to women and diversity. She currently serves on the Executive Committee of Good Grief, a peer support group for grieving children. She also serves on Howard University’s John H. Johnson School of Communications Board of Visitors, is a founding member of the Bergen County (NJ) chapter of Women United in Philanthropy, and is a past-President of the Metro chapter of the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association. She has served on the Advisory Boards for the Linkage Diversity Summit and Enterprising Woman Magazine and is an active member of BioNJ. In addition, she has served on the Board of Directors of the International Association of Corporate and Professional Recruitment (IACPR) and on the Girl Scout Council of Bergen County. In her spare time, she has raised money for charities including Guiding Eyes for the Blind, Table To Table, and The Women’s Health and Counseling Center.
Julie earned a BA in Political Science from the University of Rhode Island, where she minored in Marketing. She lives in Bergen County, New Jersey, with her family.
Angela Dea Moskow
VP, Chronic Disease Prevention & Wellness,
Sanofi, US
Angela leads the Center for Chronic Disease Prevention & Wellness at Sanofi where she works in partnership with others to steer the US healthcare system toward prevention and the development of innovations that lower the chronic disease burden in the country. She is responsible for building alliances with health organizations representing patients, providers, payers, governments and other constituencies that are working to improve health policy, with a view to patient outcomes.
Prior to this position, Angela held multiple marketing roles in cardiovascular and metabolism franchises at Sanofi. She began her career at Sanofi in sales management across primary care, specialty care and institutional markets. Angela graduated from University of Richmond with a BS in Marketing.
Rita E. Rodriguez
Executive Vice President,
Omnicom Group Inc
Rita Rodriguez is currently Executive Vice President at Omnicom Group where she leads the multi-agency integration for PepsiCo.
With more than twenty-five years of marketing experience, Rita has a proven track record of transforming major brands and building businesses. Having worked on both sides of the business, agency and client, Rita has a unique mix of strategic expertise; brand building and collaboration skills that can help define and lead a course of action for clients and their brands
Rita was previously CEO of Imagination, an experiential integrated communications company. Prior to Imagination, she was CEO of the US arm of WPP’s The Brand Union, a strategic branding and design firm, where she led the repositioning and rebranding of multiple businesses and served as a strategic advisor and partner for clients on brand and business issues. Before joining The Brand Union in 2004, Rita was Managing Director of Corporate Branding at Omnicom’s Interbrand.
Rita began her career in Houston at AT&T , where over the course of her 17 year career she served as Director of Business and Consumer Marketing, International Marketing Director, Director of Product Marketing and Communications Services and General Manager of HomeTown Network (HTN), working in both the US and London.
Join us for the HLA Breakfast and Award Ceremony on June 18th.
2018 HLA Honorees
Delilah Mahl
Global Relationship Management, Citigroup
Marian Nakada
Vice President, Venture Investments
Johnson & Johnson Innovation, JJDC Inc.
JoAnn H. Price
Co-Founder and Managing Partner
Fairview Capital Partners
Helena Wong
Top Trend International
Seema Kumar
Vice President, Innovation, Global
Health and Science Policy Communication, Johnson & Johnson
Sheryl Tierney
Senior Equity Analyst
First Eagle Investment Management
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Home›NEWS›UK Hockey News›Cardiff Devils›Will two teams double the British impact in the CHL?
Will two teams double the British impact in the CHL?
The 2017-2018 hockey season is getting closer to the globe. For 32 teams spread across 13 European countries, this also means that the quest for the European trophy, this piece of silverware with strange shapes, is about to begin.
At the dawn of its fourth season, the Champions Hockey League becomes a high level competition in Europe. This is something that has failed several times since the end of the European Cup in 1997. The structure of the competition has changed slightly since last year in the search for the best format and the number of teams and group structure have changed.
The presence of British hockey has also doubled; The only wolves of last season, Sheffield Steelers, have been replaced by new champions, Cardiff Devils. The other British representative is Nottingham Panthers, who was the first British team to win a European trophy last season, winning the IIHF Continental Cup.
But what are the prospects for tasting success from one or the other team in Europe this season?
Cardiff Devils won the EIHL title in Wales for the first time last season and scored his European hockey ticket after a 17-year break. The Devils have already participated in the Continental Cup (1998-99, 1999-00) and the European Trophy in 1994 and 1995.
Their inaugural journey to the CHL had a less than expected departure when they landed in one of the most difficult groups. As a result, major bookmakers such as Betway have had them, and their British companions, at the time of writing (16 August) at 200/1 to win the title.
It takes the Herculean effort of the Devils to break out of group F with Bili Tygri Liberec (Czech runner-up Extraliga), Växjö Lakers (winner of the regular season of the Swedish Hockey League) and HC Davos (semifinalists of Swiss ASL)) On the rise; the team has retained most of its team that won the title, including the guardian of the British team Ben Bowns.
The Devils head to Davos for their opening match on Aug. 24, where Betway currently sees them (on Aug. 16) as heavy outsiders 13/1, followed by a visit to Liberec on 26 August. After that, they take advantage of a three-game home stand before concluding the round robin at Växjö. The three home games are a perfect pitch for the unknown outsider to cause a surprise, but reaching the playoffs is a dream that is likely to remain as one.
The Nottingham Panthers had a bad performance during the EIHL's regular season, despite their recent success in Europe and other national competitions. Before the second visit of the CHL and looking for a faster and more dynamic team, the Panthers' lineup had a good reshuffle during the offseason.
The starts of their star goalie Miika Wiikman and captain Brad Moran leave a hack, but the return of Evan Mosey is a big plus. The three goalies, essentially the backend and a vast majority of their attack is new, making the Panthers an even bigger question mark in Group F. Despite being the weakest, anger against Hamburg Freezers and a tie with Lukko Rauma during their 2014-15 campaign showed that they can hit when given the opportunity.
If the Welsh have difficulties, the Panthers will not go for a walk in the park either. They are accompanied by Czech semi-finalists Extraliga, Mount Turk HK, TPS Turku (Finnish regular season runner-up Liiga) and none other than Switzerland SC Bern. This is a discouraging trio for any team to face when the puck falls on August 24th.
The Panthers are thrown directly in depth, facing Bern out on Betway (Odds Aug. 16) 13/1 before heading to the Czech Republic to face Mountfield HK on Aug. 26. Like Cardiff, they play the next three at home before closing the group stage in Finland against TPS in mid-October.
Regardless of your point of view, the likelihood of a British champion on European ice this season seems distant, but the double representation is a victory in itself. Playing against opponents of this caliber will be a great experience and an excellent teacher for both teams, hoping to send positive waves throughout the sport in Britain.
And perhaps most importantly, it's a great opportunity for British fans to enjoy the best hockey that Europe offers. Delivered directly not only to Wales but also to the Midlands. The 2017-18 hockey season is getting closer to the globe. For 32 teams spread across 13 European countries, this also means that the quest for the European trophy, this piece of silverware with strange shapes, is about to begin.
At the dawn of its fourth season, Champions Hockey League becomes a high level competition in Europe. This is something that has failed several times since the end of the European Cup in 1997. The structure of the competition has changed slightly since last year in the search for the best format and the number of teams and group structure have changed.
The Devils head to Davos for their opening match on August 24, where the bookmaker Betway sees them as heavy outsiders 13/1, followed by a visit to Liberec on August 26 . After that, they take advantage of a three-game home stand before concluding the round robin at Växjö. The three home games are a perfect pitch for the unknown outsider to cause a surprise, but reaching the playoffs is a dream that is likely to remain as one.
The starts of their star goalie Miika Wiikman and captain Brad Moran leave a hack, but the return of Evan Mosey is a big plus. The three goalkeepers, essentially the backend and a large majority of their attack, are new, which places the Panthers in Group F. Even though they are the least good, they are angry at Hamburg Freezers and [] Lukko Rauma during their 2014-15 campaign showed that they could hit when given the opportunity.
Regardless of your point of view, the likelihood of a British champion on European ice this season seems remote, but double representation is a victory in itself. Playing against opponents of this caliber will be a great experience and an excellent teacher for both teams, hoping to send positive waves throughout the sport in Britain.
And perhaps most importantly, it's a great opportunity for British fans to enjoy the best hockey that Europe offers. Delivered directly not only to Wales but also to the Midlands.
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Communist Party Oral Histories
A collection of oral histories currently held at NYU's Tamiment Library
Browse by Interviewee
Tag Archives: CPUSA
Hosea Hudson
Hosea Hudson (1898-1988) was an African-American labor leader, industrial union organizer, activist and a member of the Communist Party of the United States. His early adult years were spent working as a sharecropper in Georgia and eventually as an iron molder in Alabama. He spent a few months in New York studying at a Communist Party training school where he learned to read in write. Hudson remained in the party up until his death in 1988.
This interview was conducted on November 15th & 16th, 1986.
This entry was posted in audio, oral histories, Robin Kelley Hammer and Hoe Oral History Collection and tagged Alabama, Alabama Sharecroppers Union, Birmingham, Communist Party, CPUSA, International Defense League, Labor, Montgomery, Scottsboro boys, Scottsboro case, Unions on July 11, 2017 by akg386.
Esther Cooper Jackson
Esther Cooper Jackson (1917-) is an African-American civil rights activist and one of the founding editors of the magazine Freedomways, a significant political and cultural quarterly journal published from 1961 until 1985. Jackson attended segregated schools as a child. In 1938, she went on to study at Oberlin College and in 1940 earned a master’s degree from Fisk University. She joined the Communist Party in 1939. Jackson worked for the Southern Negro Youth Congress (SNYC) after graduate school. She met James E. Jackson in 1939, and the two eventually married a few years later. She moved to New York City in 1952, and less than a decade later became the managing editor of Freedomways.
This entry was posted in audio, oral histories, Robin Kelley Hammer and Hoe Oral History Collection and tagged Alabama, Birmingham, civil rights, civil rights movement, Communist Party, CPUSA, gender, Interracial Marriage, James Jackson, Pacifism, Progressives, racism, Sexism, southern negro youth congress, Soviet Union, Spanish Civil War, The Left on July 11, 2017 by akg386.
Alice Burke (Jarvis)
This entry was posted in audio, oral histories, Robin Kelley Hammer and Hoe Oral History Collection and tagged Alabama, Birmingham, Children, Communism, Communist Party, CPUSA, gender, Law, racism, Red Diaper Babies, Scottsboro boys, Scottsboro case, Sexism on July 11, 2017 by akg386.
H. D. Coke
H.D. Coke was an African-American Communist Party member from Birmingham, Alabama.
This interview was conducted on November 25, 1986.
This entry was posted in audio, oral histories, Robin Kelley Hammer and Hoe Oral History Collection and tagged Communism, Communist Party, CPUSA, Jim Crow, Jim Crow laws, Law, legal cases, Segregation, sharecroppers, Southern Conference on Human Welfare on July 11, 2017 by akg386.
Charles Echols and Mack Robinson
Charles Echols was a writer, radical minister and a member of the Communist Party. He was active in the Inter-Racial Forum, the Unemployment Association and the Non-Partisan League, among other organizations.
This entry was posted in audio, oral histories, Robin Kelley Hammer and Hoe Oral History Collection and tagged Church, Communism, Communist Party, CPUSA, Interracial Forum, Nonpartisan League, Religion, Unemployment Association, Unions on July 11, 2017 by akg386.
Marge Frantz
Marge Frantz (1922-2015) was a teacher, feminist and activist. Her father, Joe Gelder, joined the Communist Party during the Great Depression as a way to organize for labor rights in the South. She became a member of the Young Communist League when she was 13 years old. She married Laurent Frantz in 1941, who was a lawyer and a member of the Communist Party. She later went on to meet her life partner, Eleanor Engstrand, during her work for UC Berkeley’s Institute of Industrial Relations. She left the CP in 1956, but was an active member up until that point.
This interview was conducted on February 6th, 1987.
This entry was posted in audio, oral histories, Robin Kelley Hammer and Hoe Oral History Collection and tagged 1930s, Alabama Delegation of American Youth Conference, American Youth Congress, Bart Logan, Beth McHenry, Bob Wood, Communism, Communist Party, CPUSA, Don West, feminism, gender, gender discrimination, Homer Wilson, International Labor Defense, interracial relations, Janet Ross, Joe Gelders, Labor, labor unions, League of Young Southerners, National Committee for Defense of Political Prisoners, National Committee for People's Rights, National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners, NDCPP, New York, Politics, racism, Rob Hall, Scottsboro boys, Scottsboro case, Segregation, Sexism, southern negro youth congress, UE, Unions, United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers of America, United Electrical Workers Union, Western Federation of Miners, Young Communist League on July 11, 2017 by akg386.
Rob Hall
Rob Hall (1906-1993) was an author, editor and publisher. During the Great Depression, he sought an alternative to capitalism, and joined the Communist Party. Hall edited one of the party’s student publications, The Student Review. After his graduation from Columbia University, Hall worked for The Daily Worker. Hall left the publication in 1956 after 11 years of employment due to his disagreements regarding the Stalin regime. In his later years, he focused his efforts on environmental preservation and became the editor of The Conservationist.
This interview was conducted on September 18th and 19th, 1987.
This entry was posted in audio, oral histories, Robin Kelley Hammer and Hoe Oral History Collection and tagged activism, African Americans, Alabama People's Educational Association, Alabama Sharecroppers Union, civil rights, civil rights movement, Communism, Communist Party, CPUSA, Daily Worker, farm workers movement, Farming, Labor, MLK, Nazi-Soviet Pact, New South, race relations, racism, Scottsboro boys, Scottsboro case, Sothern Worker, southern negro youth congress, Workers Alliance of America, World War II, WW2, WWII, Youth activism on July 11, 2017 by akg386.
John Abt
John Abt (1904-1991) was a prominent American lawyer and spent most of his career as the chief counsel to the Communist Party of the United States of America. He is known for joining Vito Marcantonio in defending the CPUSA on charges from the McCarran Act, and party members on charges stemming from the Smith Act. One of Abt’s greatest legal victories was the unanimous Supreme Court ruling in 1965 which allowed individuals to invoke their constitutional privilege against self-incrimination by declining to register with the government that they were members of the Communist Party. Abt is said to have remained a member of the CP up until his death in 1991.
This entry was posted in audio, CPUSA Oral History Collection, oral histories and tagged 1950s, 1970s, African Americans, Chicago, civil rights, civil rights movement, Communism, Communist Party, Communists, CPUSA, Europe, FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigations, Germany, Harry Truman, Henry Wallace, Henry Winston, House Un-American Activities Committee, HUAC, Korean War, Law, Lee Pressman, legal cases, McCarran Internal Security Act, Politics, Postwar Germany, Progressive Party, racism, red baiting, red scare, Richard Nixon, Segregation, Strom Thurmond, United States, voting laws, voting regulations, WFTU, William Albertson, World Federation of Trade Unionists on June 27, 2017 by akg386.
Welcome to the Tamiment Library's digitized collection of Communist Party Oral Histories! Choose to navigate through the site, using the tabs at the top of the page, or use the search portal linked below.
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We list here some of the best London street markets. They are full of colour and character, and are free provided you don't buy anything. We also list memorable shops, which are well worth a visit even if you are not buying. And there are auctions, whose speed and contested nature provide great spectator interest.
OUR FAVOURITE markets & shops
Arthur Beale. Yacht chandler. Westminster. 400 years old, the company originated as a rope maker on the banks of the Fleet river. Rescued from financial decline in 2014. More info.
Columbia Road Flower Market. Tower Hamlets. A Sunday flower market in a characterful street. Bedding plants, shrubs, bulbs and freshly cut flowers. More info.
Davenports Magic. Westminster. Founded in 1898, and in the same family since, Davenports is the oldest continuously owned magic shop in the world. More info.
Gardners. Market sundriesmen. City of London. Paul Gardner sells paper bags and price labels for market traders from the shop opened in 1870 by his great grandfather. More info.
New Covent Garden Market. This vegetable and flower market moved from central London to its 57 acre site, formerly the Nine Elms Locomotive Works, in 1974. More info.
Portobello Road Market. Originating in the 19th century as a fresh food market, it is now the largest antiques market in the UK, busiest on Saturdays. More info.
Selfridges. Department Store. Founded in 1908 by Harry Gordon Selfridge. He transformed British shopping into a social experience. More info.
Sotheby's. World's largest art auction business, with sales of several billion pounds a year. Most auctions are held during the day and are free and open to the public. More info.
Thomas Goode. China and glass. Established in 1827, the shop has been on its present site since 1845. Notable customers included Queen Victoria and the Tsar of Russia. More info.
V.V.Rouleaux. Ribbons & trimmings. Westminster. A breathtaking emporium of ribbons, tie backs, trimmings, tassels, feathers and flowers, in 100 colours. More info.
LIST OF MARKETS & shops
Borough Market. Southwark. London's oldest food market has been operating for 1000 years. The present buildings were built in 1851. Vibrant and colourful, the market describes itself as a place where food is talked about almost as enthusiastically as it is consumed. The retail market operates on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays from about 10am. The wholesale market operates every weekday morning from 2am to 8am. More info. See on map.
Brixton Village Market. Home to more than 20 cafes, restaurants and takeaways. Open late with live music on Thursday and Friday nights. International cuisine. More info. See on map.
Broadway Market. Hackney. An east London street running from London Fields to the Regent's Canal. A thriving produce market was established here in the 1890s. It declined in the late 20th century, and was revived in 2004 as a sucessful Saturday food market. The street is closed to traffic on Saturdays from 9am to 5pm. More info. See on map.
Camden Market. Camden. The market started, with 16 stalls open only on Saturdays, in 1974. Today it is open seven days a week and has over a thousand places to shop, eat, drink and dance. It has around 250,000 visitors each week. Stalls sell crafts, clothing, bric-a-brac, and fast food. In 2014 Israeli billionaire Teddy Sagi bought many properties in the area and announced plans to invest £300m on improvements. More info. See on map.
Chatsworth Road Market. Hackney. After a long decline from its heyday in the 1930s, the market closed in 1990. As a result of campaigning by local residents it reopened in 2010, since when it has been running every Sunday. A lively atmosphere, with stalls providing produce, pies, cakes, sweets, and crafts. More info. See on map.
Crystal Palace Food Market. Bromley. All the produce stallholders are organic, farming without chemicals and keeping animals traditionally. They include tiny farms close by in Kent and Sussex. Most of the cooked food stalls, whose wares include cakes and honey, are very local. Every Saturday from 10am to 3pm. More info. See on map.
Greenwich Market. London's only historic market set in a World Hertage Site. Open 10am to 5.30pm Tuesday to Sunday. Soon to open on Mondays also. Goods for sale include market food, antiques, art, craft, fashion and jewellery. There has been a market in Greenwich since the 14th century; the present market dates from a 1700 charter. More info. See on map.
Herne Hill Market. Lambeth. A Sunday street market with more than 50 stalls selling locally-produced foods and arts and crafts. All produce is from within a 100 mile radius. Located in the Station Square shopping precinct. More info. See on map.
Islington Farmers Market. Established in 1999 by the food writer Nina Planck, this is the first farmers market to open in London. It has changed locations twice, and is now held at the western end of Chapel Market every Sunday from 10am to 2pm. Notable products include fruit and vegetables, plants and herbs, apple juice, pasta, cream, and German style cakes and bread. More info. See on map.
Leadenhall Market. City of London. Originating in the 14th century, Ornate roof structure, painted green, maroon, and cream, by Horace Jones in 1881. More info. See on map.
Marylebone Farmers Market. Westminster. Every Sunday 10am to 2pm. With an average of 40 stalls the market offers seasonal produce from the asparagus in April to strawberries in May and cherries in July. Try oysters for breakfast from Norfolk based Longshore, or a mushroom sandwich from The Mushroom Table. Also artisan bakeries and honey. More info. See on map.
Maltby Street Market. Southwark. Open on Saturdays from 9am to 4pm, and on Sundays from 11am to 4pm. Characterful market jammed into a narrow alley alongside railway arches. Interesting and high quality food, including very special brownies, and raclette melted cheese. Also a LASSCO warehouse selling architectural salvage. More info. See on map.
Mercato Metropolitano. Southwark. A 45,000 square foot covered food market which focuses on sustainability and community development. Committed to 'small is beautiful' and originating in Italy, this is their first branch outside the country. Based in a former paper factory on Newington Causeway it is in the vibrant Nelephant (north of Elephant & Castle) area. It includes an arts centre, cinema, and fitness centre. More info. See on map.
Netil Market. Hackney. A smaller adjunct to Broadway Market. There are 15 permanent shops including a florist, a barbershop and jewellers, also 15 additional market stalls every Saturday. The brainchild of local creative hub Netil House, which houses over 100 creatives including architects, web designers, yoga teachers, and record producers. The Netil House slogan is Eat Work Art. More info. See on map.
New Covent Garden Market. The market moved from central London to this new 57 acre site, formerly the Nine Elms Locomotive Works, in 1974. It is the largest wholesale fruit, vegetable, and flower market in the UK, with 175 companies providing ingredients to many of London's top restaurants and hotels. More info.
Old Spitalfields Market. Tower Hamlets. A market has stood on this site since Charles I gave in 1638 a licence for the sale of flesh, fowl, and roots. The existing buildings were built in 1887 by the City of London Corporation. The wholesale fruit and vegetable market moved in 1991 to Leyton. The modern market is open every day, for the sale of fashion, arts and crafts, food, collectables and bric-a-brac. More info. See on map.
Portobello Road Market. Kensington & Chelsea. Originating in the 19th century as a fresh food market, from the 1940s it has increasingly concentrated on antiques. It is now the largest antiques market in the UK, with its busiest period being Saturday mornings. In addition to antiques, there are stalls selling second-hand goods, clothing and fashion, bric-a-brac and fruit and vegetables. More info. See on map.
Real Food Market. Camden. Every Wednesday, Thursday and Friday afternoon on Kings Cross Square, in front of Kings Cross Station. Stalls selling high quality artisan produce. Managed by Real Food Markets, whose aim is to use high quality food to regenerate and animate cities. More info. See on map.
Ridley Road Market. Hackney. Set in the heart of Dalston, this market has been operating since the 1880s. It now has 150 stalls offering a fusion of Afro-Caribbean, Asian and European goods and food. To the sound of reggae music the market offers fruit and vegetables as well as household goods. More info. See on map.
Smithfield Market. City of London. The oldest market in London to have been operating continuously on the same site. Founded in the 12th century as a livestock market, in 1852 it ceased to deal in livestock and became a wholesale meat and poultry market. New buildings, now Grade II listed, were completed in 1868. Open Monday to Friday from 2am. More info. See on map.
MEMORABLE SHOPS
David Penton. Hardware. Westminster. A hardware shop that displays its goods with the reverence of a museum. Trading from Marylebone Lane for more than 160 years. More info. See on map.
Daunt Books. Bookshop. Westminster. This first shop of the Daunt chain is housed in an elegant Edwardian buil ding reputed to be the world's first purpose-built bookshop. More info. See on map.
Floris. Perfumers. Westminster. Family of perfumers operating from the same premises in Jermyn Street since 1730. Edward Bodenham, the current 'nose' is the 9th generation of the family. More info. See on map.
Fortnum & Mason. Department store. Westminster. Founded in 1707 by William Fortnum, a footman in the royal household of Queen Anne. Food hall and restaurants. More info. See on map.
Get Stuffed. Taxidermists. Islington. A longstanding family taxidermy business which has been trading from its present premises for 40 years. Commissions undertaken. More info. See on map.
Jack Barclay. Bentley cars. Westminster. The world's oldest and largest Bentley dealership. Founded in 1927 by the rakish racing driver and gambler Jack Barclay. More info. See on map.
James Smith & Sons. Westminster. A remarkable umbrella shop, founded in 1830. Also tropical sunshades, swagger canes, and swordsticks. More info. See on map.
James Taylor. Bespoke shoemaker. Westminster. Founded in 1857, all shoes are hand made on the premises, using the most modern 3D foot scanning and CAD/CAM systems. More info. See on map.
Janes Trains. Model trains. Wandsworth. Founded in 1981, Janes carries a large stock of new and second-hand model locomotives, coaches, wagons, and buildings. More info. See on map.
John Lobb. Bootmaker. Westminster. Founded in 1866 to produce hand made footwear for European royalty. Still handmakes shoes one pair at a time. More info. See on map.
L.Cornelisson. Artists colourmen. An outstanding range of artists supplies, including gilding and printmaking materials. Founded in 1855 by a refugee Belgian lithographer. More info. See on map.
Lock & Co. Hatters. Westminster. Founded in 1662, Lock purveys hand made hats for ladies and gentlemen from the shop its has occupied in St. James's St since 1765. More info. See on map.
London Silver Vaults. City of London. With shops created from basement safe deposit rooms, the vaults house the world's largest retail collection of silver. More info. See on map.
Not Just a Shop. Art students' work. Camden. Home, fashion, giftware and artwork by students of the University of the Arts London. In High Holborn. More info. See on map.
Paul Rothe & Son. Westminster. Established in 1900, and still run by the Rothe family (originally from Saxony, Germany) this Marylebone Lane shop offers a huge range of jams and honeys; also excellent soup and sandwiches. More info. See on map.
Paxton & Whitfield. Cheesemongers. Westminster. Originated in 1742 as a cheese stall in Aldwych market. Appointed cheesemonger to Queen Victoria in 1850. More info. See on map.
Selfridges. Department Store. Founded in 1908 by American entrepreneur Harry Gordon Selfridge. He transformed British shopping into a social experience. More info.
Stanfords. Maps & travel books. Westminster. A large map and travel bookshop. Founded in 1853, on same site since 1901. A mecca for travellers. More info. See on map.
St. Martin's Models. Diecast model cars. London's leading retailer of high quality model cars. More than 30 brands in stock. More info. See on map.
Taylors. Buttons. Operating from a building once the home of Charles Dickens, Taylors specialises in hand covered fabric buttons. Also vintage and dyed buttons. More info. See on map.
The Tin Tin Shop. Westminster. A shop dedicated exclusively to books and other merchandise about the cartoon character created by Georges Remi (pen name Herge). More info. See on map.
ART & ANTIQUE AUCTIONS
Bonhams. One of London's largest and oldest auctioneers of fine art and antiques. Also vintage cars. Founded in 1793, and merged in 2001 with Phillips, which wasfounded in 1796. It has two London auction rooms, the former Phillips sale room at 101 NewBond Street, and the old Bonham'ssale room in Montpelier Street, Knightsbridge. Frequent auctions are held in both sale rooms. More info.
Chiswick Auctions. A general auctioneer of art and antiques. Also fortnightly Interiors & Design sales covering decorative arts, painting, furniture and collectables. Two sale rooms in South Kensington and Chiswick, at which over 100 sales are held each year. More info.
Christie's. One of the world's leading auction houses for art and antiques, founded by James Christie in 1766. Now owned by Artemis, the holding company of French billionaire Francois-Henri Pinault. Its main London sale room is on King Street, St.James's, where it has been based since 1823. More info. See on map.
Rosebery's. Lambeth. A privately owned auctioneer, based in Knights Hill, West Norwood. Auctions covering Asian Arts, Modern and Contemporary Art, Decorative Arts and Modern Design, Fine Ceramics, Glass, Silver, Jewellery, Paintings and Collectors' Items. Also Fine Wine, Whisky, Vintage Fashion and Antique Furniture. More info. See on map.
Sotheby's. The world's largest art business, with global sales in 2011 exceeding $5 billion. Its London sale room is in New Bond Street. Most auctions are held during the day. They are free and open to the public, with the exception of occasional evening auctions, which require tickets. More info.
Southgate Auction Rooms. Enfield. A general auction of antique furniture and household goods, held every Monday at 2pm at 55 High Street, Southgate. Viewing is on Saturdays and Monday mornings. Children are allowed to attend viewings, but must leave before the auction starts. More info. See on map.
British Car Auctions. Founded in 1946, BCA is Europe's largest car re-marketing company, selling over a million cars a year. Vendors include fleet operators, rental companies, and finance houses. BCA has 22 car auction centres across the UK, including one on the A10 in Enfield. They typically have 10,000 vehicles available, from runabouts to exotic imports. More info. See on map.
Manheim Auctions. Manheim is the world's largest vehicle auction house, with 145 auction sites worldwide. It operates 16 car auction centres across the UK, including one at Plough Lane, Wimbledon. Auctions are every Wednesday and Friday from 10am. More info. See on map.
GENERAL AUCTIONS
Criterion. London's largest weekly auctions of affordable items of antiques, jewellery, and contemporary furniture. Sale rooms in Islington and Wandsworth. Sales each Monday start at 10am and finsih around 7pm. Viewing 10am to 6pm Wednesday to Sunday. More info.
Frank Bowen Auctions. Waltham Forest. Specialising in auctioning of stolen property on behalf of the police. Sales are held every two weeks on a Thursday. Auctions start at 11am and take two to three hours to complete. Viewing is on the day before sale from noon to 4pm. Sales take place at the Hitchock Business Centre, High Road, Leytonstone. More info. See on map.
General Auctions. Wandsworth. Garratt Mills, Trewint St, SW18 4HA. Auctions of everything from delicate cut glass and crystal to powerful diesel-powered road diggers. A weekly slot is reserved for vehicle lots. Specialises in sale of items confiscated by public authorities, including HM Revenue & Customs. More info.
Greasby's. Wandsworth. 211 Longley Road, Tooting SW17 9LG. Specialise in auctioning confiscated goods on behalf of police and local authorities. Also railway and museum lost property. Greasby's will sell anything provided it is legally compliant with current legislation. Their services to vendors include the clearance of storage units. Bargains to be had. More info.
North London Auctions. Barnet. 9-17 Lodge Lane, North Finchley, N12. Weekly general auctions at 4pm on Mondays selling affordable furniture, rugs, clocks, ceramics, light fittings, and other homewares. Also cameras and jewellery. Most items come from the local community and businesses. Viewing 9am to 1pm Sunday and on Monday prior to sale. More info. See on map.
Allsop & Co. Alsop is the UK|'s leading auctioneer of residential and commercial property. Residential property auctions are held approximately once a month. They take place at central London hotels, including the InterContinental Hotel, Park Lane and the Cumberland Hotel, Great Cumberland Place. More info.
Barnard Marcus Auctions. Residential and commercial property auctions are held monthly in central London, currently at the Grand Connaught Rooms, Great Queen St, WC2B 5DA. More info. See on map.
Strettons. Established in 1931, Strettons holds six combined residential and commercial property auctions each year. They are held in central London, currently at the De Vere Grand Connaught Rooms, Great Queen St, WC2B 5DA. Vendors include mortgagees, receivers, public and private companies,trustees, executors, housing associations, and local authorities. More info. See on map.
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Radio Caroline: Golden age of British pirate radio remembered, 50 years on
By Europe correspondent Lisa Millar
Updated August 13, 2017 13:29:01
Photo: Australian DJ Ian Damon presented music for Radio London from onboard the ships. (ABC News: Lisa Millar)
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They were the pirates of the open seas — bringing rock and pop music to a new generation.
And the British government was furious.
Back in the 1960s, when pop and rock were taking over the music scene, British teenagers had to turn to pirate radio stations to hear bands like the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.
Barred from broadcasting from land, stations such as Radio Caroline and Radio London had taken to the water, using rusty old ships moored in international waters to broadcast to millions of eager listeners across the UK.
The government wasn't happy and 50 years ago, on August 14 1967, the Marine Offences Act made it illegal to support the ships or broadcast from them.
External Link: The Boat That Rocked: The ship is sinking
The story of drama and intrigue and tragedy on the high seas inspired the movie The Boat that Rocked starring Bill Nighy.
The DJs — and their fans who remember that dark time — are marking the anniversary this weekend.
Australian DJ Ian Damon, who presented music for Radio London from onboard the ships, said he remembered the day the rebels gave up in defeat.
"When that transmitter finished with the playing of Paul Kaye saying 'And now Radio London is closing', we all had a tear as you can imagine," he said.
He is one of the original DJs taking part in commemorations in Essex where the last remaining ship, the MV Ross Revenge, sits just a few kilometres offshore.
Photo: Radio Caroline quickly attracted millions of listeners desperate to hear the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. (ABC News: Lisa Millar)
The team from Radio Caroline still broadcast once a month and the original studio remains intact with a library of tens of thousands of records.
Original fans now at the helm
Manager Peter Moore said he always vowed to help Radio Caroline when he was old enough.
"The government were determined to suppress something that was enjoyable and completely harmless, and for me, and I was a young man at the time, that seemed so completely unfair and undemocratic," he said while onboard this week.
Photo: Peter Moore said the government was determined to supress the harmless station. (ABC News: Lisa Millar)
"I made myself a stupid promise that if I could ever help Radio Caroline I would, and here I am.
"Silliest thing I decided in my bloody life but here we are," he added with a laugh.
The ship attracts a slightly younger generation — men who grew up on Radio Caroline and have retired and have the time to present music shows.
"The ship was invisible over the horizon," Mr Moore said.
Photo: Many of the DJs took risks to work on the ship including facing jail time. (ABC News: Lisa Millar)
"It was this mysterious place from where music came and now that you can actually come and stand onboard it produces some very strong emotions."
Steve Anthony said he was inspired by Radio Caroline as a teenager but he had to wait until he had finished a career lasting more than 40 years before he had the time to join the station.
Station kept afloat by passionate presenters
Radio Caroline was the first pirate station and rivals soon followed, some operating from ships and others from old military forts in the Thames estuary.
"When the law was passed and the big stations shut down on August 14 1967, to us, I was a 16-year-old, I would say today it was the equivalent of taking away Facebook, Twitter, all the social media," he said.
"It was that important to us. It linked us all. It was the fabric of our lives.
"It sounds dramatic now and it only lasted three years but it was an intense three years," he said
Many of the DJs took risks to work on the ships.
They faced jail time and a lot of them could not swim.
Photo: Steve Anthony said he was inspired by Radio Caroline as a teenager. (ABC News: Lisa Millar)
Some of them had never been to sea.
"I used to read the news with a brown paper bag near me," Ray Clark said.
The pirate radio stations quickly attracted millions of listeners desperate to hear the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.
"After a couple of weeks we had more people listening than all of the BBC networks combined and that got up their nose somewhat because they were convinced there was no demand for this kind of music," Mr Moore said.
Mr Damon was nicknamed the Wombat and his call sign was "Hi there, you there".
He recalls singers like Lulu and Dusty Springfield coming out to the boats to promote their music.
Photo: The commemorations were held in Essex on the last remaining ship Ross Revenge. (ABC News: Lisa Millar)
"We were pioneers in broadcasting," he said.
Radio Caroline presenter Ray Clark remembers listening to Mr Damon as a nine-year-old on the radio.
"I think it lit a spark," he said.
"It was just so special and so different and worth fighting for."
Radio London shut down when the laws were brought in 1967 but Radio Caroline continued, although eventually ran out of steam.
A group of enthusiasts keep it operating on the Ross Revenge as well as onshore, and it has just been awarded its first AM radio licence.
Photo: The original studio remains intact with a library of tens of thousands of records. (ABC News: Lisa Millar)
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, music, early-music, history, music-industry, united-kingdom
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Japan rescues 26 North Koreans from sinking ship
Posted: 9:50 PM, Jan 11, 2017
TOKYO (CNN) -- Twenty-six North Koreans are in Japanese custody after being pulled from a sinking cargo ship off the coast of Japan late Wednesday.
The Japanese Coast Guard went to the rescue after receiving a distress signal from the ship, which had run into difficulties off Japan's Kyushu Prefecture, 38 miles (61 kilometers) southwest of the Goto Islands, a spokesman said.
The ship's crew members had evacuated and were on life boats when the Japanese Coast Guard reached them.
By early Thursday morning, the ship had completely sunk. All crew members are safe and uninjured, the spokesman said.
Japan does not have formal diplomatic relations with North Korea.
In late 2015, more than 12 so-called "ghost ships" washed up on Japan's coast.
The vessels, all of which had dead and decaying bodies inside, are believed to have originated in North Korea.
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Infinity in Miniature
The first major UK retrospective of work by French artist, Charles Matton, presents his miniature enclosures containing painstakingly exact reflections of reality.
In his influential study of the poetic implications of our interactions with buildings and spaces, The Poetics of Space (1958), the French philosopher Gaston Bachelard observed that it is “reasonable to say we ‘read a house’ or ‘read a room’, since both rooms and houses are psychological diagrams that guide writers and poets in their analysis of intimacy.” Bachelard’s interest is in the powerful correspondence between the spaces we live in and our psyches, the ability of rooms and buildings not only to reflect our personalities and imaginations, but to affect them, and the ability of spaces to harbour our most intimate and deeply personal memories: “Of course, thanks to the house, a great many of our memories are housed, and if the house is a bit elaborate, if it has a cellar and a garret, nooks and corridors, our memories have refuges that are all the more clearly delineated. All our lives we come back to them in our daydreams.”
Bachelard’s observations are useful when understanding the work of the French artist, Charles Matton, (1931 - 2008); the major retrospective, Enclosures, presented by All Visual Arts in London opens this autumn. Matton made work in many media. A talented draughtsman, he was an illustrator for Esquire and designed sets for films. Throughout his career, he worked in photography, painting, sculpture and film, but it is the remarkable series of boites that he created from 1985 until his death, for which he will be remembered. The boites are small enclosures measuring approximately two cubic feet in which he built miniature replicas of real spaces, ranging from exacting models of the studios of artists such as Courbet, Vermeer and Francis Bacon to intimate bedrooms and bathrooms and the vast book-lined spaces of the New York Club’s Library. Presenting 40 of a total 72 boxes that Matton made during his lifetime, the exhibition provides a comprehensive introduction to the work of a little-known, but strikingly original artist.
One of the most immediately impressive aspects of Matton’s miniature boxes is their magical or bewitching quality, inviting the viewer into their spaces with a virtuoso technical skill. Through the subtle and precise use of mirrors and lighting effects, Matton is able to create the illusion and the suggestion of spaces much larger or smaller than his two cubic feet enclosures. Inside the box Boulevard Saint Germain (1991), there’s an exacting miniature replica of a Parisian interior, the corner of a room opening onto two half open doors, behind which sit two other rooms and further doors. As you peer into the space, the room creates the illusion of opening outwards in multiple directions into further doors and further rooms. It has a magical, uncanny quality that makes you wipe your eyes in disbelief. You know there’s only this small enclosure, but you lift your head to check anyway, enchanted and bewitched by the realistic but otherworldly quality of what you’re seeing.
Corridor Library (2000) creates the illusion of an infinitely long corridor lined with books, their tiny spines fastidiously stacked, conveying a sense of great expansion and scope that transcends the work’s miniature scale. In other works, such as Mirrored Cupboard III (1999), Matton makes use of painted glass to give the appearance of a mirrored cupboard door reflecting objects within the room of the box, but which does not reflect anything outside of the box, helping to maintain the illusion of the box’s self-enclosed space. Curator, Joe La Placa, acknowledges Matton’s technical achievements, but believes that his work is distinguished by its content rather than the meticulousness of its form: “With Matton, many people pay attention to the technical aspects of his work, which are extraordinary. But there are many other artists who work in miniature, and it’s what he depicts that is important: moments in time, moods, qualities of light at particular times of day, a certain kind of metaphysical feeling that the boxes exude; that is what makes his work so captivating.”
Many of his boxes have an extremely personal, emotional and intimate quality. Debussy’s Poisson D’Or (2004) depicts a room with faded wallpaper and a slightly worn oriental carpet. In the centre of the room is a grand piano. Using a video projection, the piano stool is inhabited by a young man playing Debussy. The young man is in fact Matton’s son, shimmering and not quite there in the projection, haunting and beautiful. This box has the atmosphere of a particularly vivid memory; a particularly resonant dream. Matton’s box suggests, as Bachelard also argues, that it is our spatial awareness that most vividly suggests memories.
Even the boxes without figures seem haunted by intimacy and particular emotional timbres. Matton created a long series of hotel corridors and lobbies. Hotel du Lac (1994) shows a hotel lobby with faded but lavish curtains and a large bookcase. In the middle of the box there’s an open door, through which, with the use of mirrors, Matton creates the effect of a never-ending corridor. The work has a personal basis in Matton’s biography in the sense that Matton grew up in hotels because his father worked as a hotel manager. This was an uncertain time, the occupation, and the family’s hotel was occupied by soldiers during the Second World War. The doorway to infinity, then, suggests an invitation to escape to the world outside the confines of the space. Hotel du Lac has an enchanting, wondrous quality, while also suggesting extreme loneliness and the sensation of being trapped.
In contrast, many of the boxes exude a playful spirit, suggesting a network of childhood associations such as dolls’ houses, model-making and the surreal, “nonsense” literature of authors such as Lewis Carroll. As La Placa explains: “Matton was a very, very playful character, and that spirit of child’s play is part of the spine of his work.” In order to emphasise this quality, and encourage visitors to enter into this spirit, the exhibition is being held in a specially constructed labyrinth near King’s Cross. The labyrinth will consist of a room within a room. On the outside, the boxes will be displayed alongside preparatory material in a ring around a central room. The central room will contain a large two-way mirror very like the ones used in Matton’s boxes to create the illusion of deep, never-ending space. The experience of walking into the room within a room, then, will approximate the experience of entering into one of Matton’s boxes. As La Placa explains: “Looking through this mirror will hopefully give you the same effect as looking into the boxes, only on a life-scale.” This effect of being inside one of Matton’s boxes is heightened because the inner room will also display a larger-than-life-size sculpture entitled La Grande Lulu (2000), a playful bronze with round cartoonish lines of a woman running, while a miniature version will also be displayed in one of the boxes.
Many of the works have a dramatic quality, as if they are dioramas or stages on which something is about to play out. In some cases, the drama is well known, but the setting perhaps less so. In Paul Bowles’s Bedroom Tangiers (1998), the particular quality of the light and furniture of the room offers a kind of relic of the dramatic, bohemian life lived within its walls. In other cases, such as Untidy Woman’s Bedroom (1991) and Collector’s Bedroom (2002), the occupiers of the rooms are more anonymous, and part of the enjoyment of these works is in supposing the drama of the rooms’ absent characters.
Homage to Edward Hopper (2002) portrays a dusty room in an apartment block draped in evening sunlight streaming through half open windows, which borrows and recaptures the sense of empty tension and anticipation that so inhabits Hopper’s paintings. There are cracks and fading marks in the wallpaper. The floorboards are exposed. There is a pile of newspapers in the middle of the floor. It’s a near-empty room, but it’s filled with an atmosphere of foreboding, the viewer can’t fail to be captivated with a sense of drama about to unfold. Propped up against the wall is a canvas painting of the same room; a Hopper painting, just finished, or in progress. Through his masterful manipulation of light and space, Matton almost enables the viewer to feel what compelled Hopper to paint the scene, what atmosphere he felt there that he conveyed in his painting. Hopper is only one of many artists to whom Matton paid homage in his boites. They provide a fascinating document of his influences and concerns. In his miniature versions of the studios of artists such as Alberto Giacometti, Francis Bacon and Vermeer, one can see his recurring interest in scale and in the relation of interior and domestic spaces to the interior spaces of psychology.
The preparatory materials that will be shown alongside Matton’s boites consist of drawings, paintings, photographs and sculptures and are remarkable artworks in their own right. They occupy a curious relation to Matton’s miniature boxes because the boxes themselves were originally created as preparatory material for large scale realist paintings. He would create meticulous miniature models of rooms and spaces, which he would then photograph, blow up to a large scale and convert into a realist painting on a canvas. At some point while engaged in this process, Matton decided to reverse the order and make the boites the finished artwork, for which he made drawings and photographs as research material. This reversibility of process means that the artworks have a complicated relationship to the idea of a finished piece and to the idea of concrete reality in general. The photographs, drawings, sculptures, models and boxes are intertwined in a complex relational web, in the tangle of which reality dissolves or disappears.
One of the richest and most interesting aspects of Matton’s work is how in-tune it is with much 20th century French philosophy and cultural theory. His circle of friends included Jean Baudrillard and Paul Virilio, both of whom championed his work. Baudrillard’s writings on Simulacra seem particularly relevant. Baudrillard thought that our contemporary experience is so dominated by images, simulations, replicas and references that we have lost our ability to experience what the images are meant to depict: reality. While Matton’s work makes a concerted effort to approximate reality as closely as possible in the boxes, by the act of doing so they also articulate a drama of the hyper-real, where the distinction between reality and replica blurs. For example, Matton’s meticulous recreation of a particular moment in time in the Nice bedroom of Nobel Prize winning author J.M.G Le Clezio (1999) is more real to the viewer than the actual room, which might never again experience quite the same effect of light shining through half-closed jalousie blinds which is captured in Matton’s box. Once we have seen Matton’s box, that virtually becomes the reality of the space depicted and we lose touch with a sense of what the real space might have been.
When Alice hit the ground from what seemed like an endless tumble down the rabbit hole, she was first contracted like a telescope, shrinking so that she thinks she might disappear altogether. Shortly afterwards she’s stretched again (like a Giacometti sculpture) so that she thinks she’ll never see her toes. It’s as if her size is refocusing to deal with the strange and uncanny qualities of her surroundings. Enclosures enacts a similar readjustment of focus on the part of the viewer, as if by refocusing our attention on the miniature we’re able to stretch it liberatingly outwards again. At the core of Matton’s work are questions of scale, and part of the triumph of his art is its ability to open up spaces much larger than the everyday spaces we inhabit, in spite of and in fact because of the miniature platform on which he worked.
Enclosures ran from 9 September 2011 until 7 October 2011 at All Visual Arts, London, www.allvisualarts.org.
Colin Herd
Trisha Baga, Zabludowicz Collection, London
Work by New York-based artist, Trisha Baga, goes on display for the first time in a non-commercial gallery in England at Zabludowicz Collection this February. From 27 February until 11 May.
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Interview with J. Shotti, Project, Every Two Weeks
Photographer J. Shotti works at the intersection between life and art. His first solo project, a collection of instant film images entitled EVERY TWO WEEKS.
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Squad update from the manager
Difficult decisions made by Wally Downes
In his end of season update, Wally Downes has praised the contributions of players that helped to maintain AFC Wimbledon's League One status.
After guiding The Dons to a remarkable Great Escape, Wally aims to build on that achievement by improving Wimbledon’s league position in 2019/20. The manager has today started that process by announcing players that he aims to keep, those leaving the club, squad members under contract, and players offered new deals.
Below is an update on players in last season’s squad, plus quotes from our manager:
Players leaving the club
Deji Oshilaja
Andy Barcham
Tom Soares
Joe McDonnell
Alfie Egan
Osaze Urhoghide
James O’Halloran
Kane Crichlow
Speaking about players leaving the club, Wally said: “It’s been a heart-wrenching part of my job to make these decisions. You don’t like leaving players out when they’ve worked hard in training all week, but you have to. Sometimes as a manager you don’t give players enough credit and you think it’s a difficult conversation, but as long as you’ve got your reasons and you can justify it with the results, they understand football. They are prepared to listen to reasons and get on with their jobs, but some players aren’t and that’s when you have a problem. The players here, to a man, when I’ve explained my reasons for leaving them out, have been superb. It’s the squad that’s got us over the line, not the team, and the players out there every week.
“I’ve had to make some difficult decisions about players that won’t be with us next season. Tom Soares will be leaving us. He has been fabulous as a senior professional. I’ve used him when I thought I could and he did great for me when he came on. He’s been an inspiration to the younger players in training every day and when playing in the reserve games. I’ve highlighted it to the young players that if they want to have long careers in the game, then they don’t need to look any further than Tom Soares.
“I’ve had to have a conversation with Andy Barcham and he’s pre-empted it because he realised he wasn’t getting any chances. He made the conversation easy for me. He has been at AFC Wimbledon for a long time and he’s contributed so much to the club. Barchy told me that he understood the decision. He wished us all the best. He got me the first goal after I was appointed. If we had lost that home game we would have gone down and my tenure would have been different, so I will be eternally grateful for that. I will always remember it. The way he has been around the place every day has been fantastic as well. They are two senior pros that are leaving and in an ideal world I would have kept them, but they need to go out and play, they know that. I need to bring players in that are going to be a bit closer to the first-team.”
Andy Barcham played a key role in AFC Wimbledon’s promotion to League One in 2015/16, his first season at the club. A favourite with supporters for his energetic displays on the left flank, Andy made 161 appearances for The Dons, scoring 17 goals.
Tom Soares joined Wimbledon in January 2017 and he made 79 appearances, scoring two goals.
Deji Oshilaja made 104 appearances for AFC Wimbledon during two spells at the club, scoring four goals. The defender won the Young Player of the Year award in his loan spell here and earned the Player of the Year honour in 2017/18, but Deji has now left the club.
Wally said: “Deji was in a difficult position with the offers that came in for him in the two transfer windows, but he did his best to get himself fit after he was injured. I wish him well in the future.”
Goalkeeper Joe McDonnell joined AFC Wimbledon back in 2014, making his league debut at Shrewsbury back in February 2015 after an injury to James Shea. Joe made 32 appearances in all competitions for Wimbledon and he impressed everyone at the club with his professionalism when he wasn't playing.
Players under contract
Terell Thomas
Scott Wagstaff
Anthony Hartigan
Kwesi Appiah
Mitch Pinnock
Dylan Connolly
James Hanson
Toby Sibbick
Paul Kalambayi
Tommy Wood
Nik Tzanev
Rod McDonald
Anthony Wordsworth
Shane McLoughlin
Joe Pigott
Ossama Ashley
Jack Rudoni
Players offered new contracts
Will Nightingale
Kyron Stabana
Wally is hopeful about Will committing his future to AFC Wimbledon.
The manager said: “We’ve made an offer to keep Will at the club as he played a massive part in keeping us up in the last few months of the season. I’ve given Will a chance to play more and I think he has improved. Hopefully, he will stay with us and improve again.”
Players leaving Wimbledon to go back to their parent clubs
Aaron Ramsdale
Steve Seddon
Tennai Watson
Michael Folivi
Jake Jervis
Tyler Garratt
Wally was quick to salute the contributions of loan players to Wimbledon’s League One survival.
“The three boys I brought in – Ramsdale, Seddon and Folivi – all played massive parts. Aaron helped to get us numerous points. Steve got us the vital goal in injury-time at Luton and what he was doing in their six-yard box at that time I don’t know! Michael also popped up with a couple of goals and played really well when he was called upon. Those players came in and they’ve enhanced their careers with us, but they also enhanced our season. We gave them a little ride that they will never forget. We wish them well and we will continually follow their careers for what they’ve done here.”
Egli Kaja, who has struggled with injuries since returning from a loan spell at Scottish Premiership side Livingston, will be invited back for pre-season training after his contract expired.
All at AFC Wimbledon wish to thank those players leaving for their contributions to the club and every success in their future careers.
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28 days to the draft: Meet the jet-powered, high-flying Callum Ah Chee
Callum Twomey Oct 27, 2015 6:57AM
Draft Trumps: Callum Ah Chee The high-flying West Australian is a classy forward with a nose for a goal
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IN HIS first game for South Fremantle's WAFL team, Callum Ah Chee kicked two late goals, took a hanger and played a pivotal role in the Bulldogs' win.
In a single game, Ah Chee produced enough exciting moments to underline his skill and ability. It was the type of display recruiters had been waiting for him to piece together.
Ah Chee, widely seen as Western Australia's leading NAB AFL Draft hopeful, didn't have the sort of under-18 carnival he had hoped for. He was shifted between a few positions and couldn't quite have the impact he wanted until his match-turning final quarter against Vic Metro in round five.
But the younger brother of Port Adelaide's Brendon Ah Chee turned around his fortunes in the back half of the season with some solid form at senior level for South Fremantle.
The classy half-forward/wingman strung together impressive form, which reminded many scouts why they had him pegged as a possible top-five pick at the start of the year.
Ah Chee is among the most skillful players in the draft, boasting brilliant use by foot. He can pinpoint short passes on both sides of his body, kicks accurately at goal and can make space for teammates by clever passing.
The 18-year-old separates himself from some of his fellow draft hopefuls with his aerial exploits. Despite being only 182cm, Ah Chee has a big leap on him that gives him another way to get into the game. That was evident earlier in the year at the MCG, with his huge mark in the goalsquare playing for the NAB AFL Academy.
Ah Chee's performance that day was his best of the season – he gathered 22 disposals, kicked two goals and won the medal as the best player on the ground. It was also the first sign, before his run of form for South Fremantle's senior team, that Ah Chee lifts when the standard does.
His speed (he has run a 2.88-second 20m sprint) and agility are right at the top end, and as he builds up his body he should be able to influence games on a more consistent basis. Ah Chee is also a humble professional who some clubs rate as one of the best characters in the draft.
The question on Ah Chee – and he has been asked it plenty by clubs throughout the year – is around why he wasn't able to produce consistent form this season. He averaged 14 disposals in the under-18 championships, and there were a handful of games where he couldn't get involved at all.
His endurance will need to lift at the next level, but a full AFL pre-season should go a long way to improving his aerobic base.
It should be remembered Ah Chee had a serious ankle injury last year that ruled him out for more than six months and took a long time to get right. With some extra time in the gym he will also be able to add to his frame and win more of the inside ball.
Because of his marking strength for a player his size, Ah Chee shares some likeness to Jack Billings. Both are excellent overhead and dangerous near goal, and Ah Chee will probably have to follow a similar path to Billings, who has needed to build up his running before shifting from half-forward into the Saints' midfield.
Ah Chee looks to be a first-round pick at next month's draft, but where exactly is hard to pinpoint. The pick 12-25 range seems about where he will fit in. There aren't too many half-forwards in the top rungs of this year's pool.
An inconsistent season shouldn't cloud Ah Chee's talent. He is a player who makes things look easy and teammates look better, and will rarely appear rushed. Ah Chee might take a little while to be ready to play at senior level but is among the most prodigiously talented prospects.
The views in this article are those of the author and not necessarily those of the AFL or its clubs
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World Masters Games 2017 places in demand as some sports sell out
World Masters Games is the world's largest multi-sport event with approximately 25,000 athletes expected to compete in 28 sports at 48 venues in Auckland and Waikato next year.
Registrations for the 2017 Games are currently tracking ahead of Sydney 2009, which were the most successful Games to date and attracted a record 29,000 participants.
For next year's Games, football (140 teams) and softball (150 teams) are already sold out, hockey can accommodate just a few more teams and archery and golf are also nearing capacity.
WMG2017 Chief Executive Jennah Wootten says the message to Kiwis keen to participate and take on the world is simple - sign up now for the other available sports to avoid disappointment, even if you don't have your entire team lined up.
"We are keen to accommodate as many athletes as possible but there is a limit to the number of participants that can compete in many sports, particularly team sports, due to venue capacities," Ms Wootten says.
Where possible WMG2017 has worked with sports partners and venues to increase capacity, with some success. Football's original 108 team capacity was increased to 140 teams while hockey increased from 83 to 100 teams. Archery has had its original capacity increased from 230 to just over 330 athletes with the target and indoor disciplines almost fully subscribed.
Hockey, golf and archery are expected to be the next sports to sell out.
Ms Wootten says since registrations opened in February this year, they have been on a 'first come, first served' basis with prospective athletes encouraged to get their registrations in early to secure their places.
"We're thrilled but not surprised by the response from around the globe, which says plenty about the value athletes place on the World Masters Games. It's one of the few global mega events for amateurs and elite athletes alike, it's all about participation and it only takes place every four years," she says.
"We know people are typically attracted to World Masters Games for the competition, the social aspects and the destination, and the response so far suggests Auckland and New Zealand are seen as ticking all those boxes."
WMG2017 director and former Hockey New Zealand Chair Graham Child says with an event of this nature drawing on athletes from as many as 100 countries around the world, some sports are going to be more popular than others.
"The number of hockey teams registering for the 2017 Games is a reflection of the strong masters competition that is a feature of the sport in New Zealand and overseas," he says.
"We are delighted with the success in selling out the sports we have and we are committed to doing everything we can to try and accommodate all those who want to participate but unfortunately some teams and individuals are likely to miss out," he says.
To help those who want to participate in team sports, WMG2017 organisers have established an online Games Community ( www.worldmastersgames2017.co.nz/get-involved/games-community) where people looking for teams to join can post notices and teams looking for members can do likewise.
Ms Wootten says the key thing for those wanting to participate in team sports such as rugby, netball, touch or baseball, is to register now even if you don't yet have a full team.
"If you do not have all your team members ready to go, an individual can register a team to secure a place for your team at the Games," she says.
To register for World Masters Games 2017 please visit www.worldmastersgames2017.co.nz.
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Merrill supports Trump’s request for U.S. citizenship question on Census
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Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill announced Friday that he supports President Donald Trump’s request that the 2020 Census include a question about whether the respondent is or is not a U.S. citizen.
Merrill has submitted a letter outlining his support for the executive order or other legal remedies requested by Trump to require the inclusion of a U.S. citizenship question on the 2020 United States Census form.
Merrill said the question of citizenship ensures the U.S. Census Bureau gathers accurate information for use in determining the number of congressional seats and Electoral College votes delegated to the state of Alabama in the upcoming redistricting.
“It is devastating news. Alabama could lose a seat in Congress if non-U.S. citizens are calculated in the 2020 Census and in other parts of the nation,” Merrill said. “Alabama has a great deal at stake with the data produced by the 2020 Census if non-U.S. citizens are counted.”
The state of Alabama, through Attorney General Steve Marshall and Congressman Mo Brooks, R-Huntsville, have filed a lawsuit in federal court demanding that non-citizens not be counted for purposes of reapportionment and redistricting.
“We don’t need to be giving benefits to people who are non-citizens over people who are citizens, period,” Merrill said. “There are two districts in Los Angeles County, California, that currently have less than 40 percent United States citizenship in population. That means there are two congressional districts in California that shouldn’t even exist.”
“When you start counting citizens, then you will have citizens represented in Congress,” Merrill added. “When you start counting everybody, even those people that may not be citizens, you’re giving advantage to people that allow illegals to come into their community. That is not a positive thing for anybody.”
The Trump administration announced on Tuesday that it was dropping the citizenship question from the 2020 Census. The decision was made just days after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the administration and stated that the question cannot be included.
Trump initially said he wanted to delay the census while his administration continued to push for the question to be included in the 2020 survey.
On Tuesday, a Justice Department lawyer said the decision was made to start printing the census form without the citizenship question being included.
“We can confirm that the decision has been made to print the 2020 Decennial Census questionnaire without a citizenship question and that the printer has been instructed to begin the printing process,” wrote DOJ attorney Kate Bailey on Tuesday.
The email was sent to civil rights groups, who were challenging the question.
Former President Barack Obama’s White House lawyer Daniel Jacobson made the email public on Twitter.
On Wednesday, Trump told reporters that the administration has not given up on including the citizenship question.
On Friday the Trump Administration released a statement expressing that they are exploring all options on how to include a citizenship question on the 2020 Census.
“The Departments of Justice and Commerce have been asked to reevaluate all available options following the Supreme Court’s decision and whether the Supreme Court’s decision would allow for a new decision to include the citizenship question on the 2020 Decennial Census,” Justice Department lawyers wrote in a filing Friday.
The lack of a citizenship question would put into question the viability of Alabama’s lawsuit.
Without a citizenship question, it will be difficult for the Census Bureau to determine how many of the people counted are or are not citizens.
It is expected that Alabama will lose one of its seven Congressional Districts if undocumented immigrants are counted for purposes of reapportionment and redistricting. California and Texas will be the beneficiaries. They are expected to gain several new House districts and the corresponding electoral college votes in presidential elections after the 2020 election.
On June 5, Judge David Proctor of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama held that the plaintiffs, the State of Alabama and U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Huntsville, have adequately alleged that they will be harmed by the inclusion of undocumented immigrants in the census.
“Alabama will continue to make its case that the Constitution and federal law require that each state’s share of federal political power in Congress be apportioned based on the number of people who are lawfully present in the United States and that illegal aliens must not be included in that calculation,” Marshall said.
Proctor denied the federal government’s motion to dismiss the lawsuit, but there still has to be a ruling from the lower court. A ruling favorable to Marshall and Brooks would almost certainly be appealed to the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, and whichever side lost the appeal would take it to the Supreme Court. All of that takes time. Meanwhile the printers will be churning out millions of Census forms with no citizenship question.
For there to be a citizenship question, the Supreme Court would likely have to overturn its ruling of last week.
To find in favor of Marshall, Brooks and the State of Alabama, that likely will have to happen. Then, the court would have to find in favor of the State of Alabama and order the government not to include non-citizens in congressional reapportionment. The Brooks and Marshall lawsuit still has to be heard in a lower federal court before it can be appealed by the losing side.
Merrill is a candidate for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Sen. Doug Jones.
The 2020 Census will be coming on March and April.
Original reporting by the Hill’s Jacqueline Thomsen and The Washington Post contributed to this report.
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Brandon Moseley is a senior reporter with six and a half years at Alabama Political Reporter. You can email him at [email protected] or follow him on Facebook.
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Cast : Paul Mangwana Release : November 13, 2014 Director : Camilla Nielsson Genre : Documentary Country : Denmark | Zimbabwe Tim's Rating : Bang for your Buck :
Democrats (2014)
Posted by Tim Brayton Posted on Feb - 8 - 2016 10 Comments
The game of politics is pretending
The list of great documentaries about the political process is not a long one, but its highlights are some true all-time masterpieces: Robert Drew's Primary, from 1960; D.A. Pennebaker & Chris Hegedus's The War Room, from 1993. To this rarefied company we must now certainly add Camilla Nielsson's Democrats, an absolute miracle of a film that stares into the dark heart of the sausage-making world of partisan bickering and intra-party power struggles in no less open a country than the Republic of Zimbabwe. The mere fact that Nielsson and her crew were able to snag the kind of access they did with the full faith and support of the Robert Mugabe regime is perhaps the most surprising thing about the film, but it is not the only surprise, nor does Democrats rest on its laurels, having concluded that deep access = high art. This is equal parts thriller, procedural, and unlikely character study, and it's one of the most gripping, accomplished piece of nonfiction cinema of this or many recent years.
It takes a little bit of history to get where we need to be, history that Democrats provides in the form of a regrettable number of opening title cards. But then again, if there's a way of presenting the convoluted nightmare of Zimbabwe politics elegantly, I can't begin to imagine what that might look like. So title cards it must be. The very summary version is that the ruling party, the Zimbabwe African National Union - Popular Front (ZANU-PF), after 28 years of effortlessly crushing any opposition to President Mugabe, bungled the 2008 elections, with Mugabe winning re-election by a wholly improbable margin, while the opposition party Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) was able to wrest control of the Parliament away from ZANU-PF for the first time since 1980. After a great deal of political wrangling, ZANU-PF and MDC agreed to a tentative power-sharing deal, while United Nations pressure in the wake of the obviously rigged presidential election led to international pressure on the government to write a brand new constitution. And here's we we come in.
Democrats focuses mainly on the actions of two men: Paul Mangwana, a member of Mugabe's cabinet, who served as the main ZANU-PF representative in the constitutional negotiations; and Douglas Mwonzora, a human rights lawyer and top man in the MDC, serving as Mangwana's opposite number. As chairs of COPAC, the committee assigned to draft the new constitutions, they were the primary movers in trying to scrounge together a document that would be at least satisfactory to all parties, which given the almost diametrically opposed goals involved was a bit of an impossible nightmare. The title cuts two ways: watching how a nation with little real democracy in its history struggles to perform the mechanics of democratic nation-building; and more sardonically, how Mangwana in particular attempts to produce a document that appears democratic without actually having to be democratic, since certainly his job and probably his life hinge on keeping any provision out of the constitution that might threaten Mugabe's power in any meaningful way.
Nielsson and her team were right in the middle of all this, capturing a remarkably candid array of moments that suggest that Mangwana especially must have really been that worked up about the constitutional process that he would say and do the things he did in front of a presumably hostile European's cameras. But again, the splendid quality of the fly-on-the-wall footage is by no means the best thing about Democrats, even though it is truly impressive cinéma vérité. At least as impressive and valuable is the way that Nielsson and editor Jeppe Maagaard Bødskov shape all of that material into a crackling, fast-paced procedural. In its running time just shy of 100 minutes, Democrats covers years of negotiating, panicking, annoyance, and the smallest sliver of personal growth, moving with an unabashed narrative strive through thorny real-time events. The filmmakers, aided by the big personalities involved, have done a marvelous job of making grueling politics exciting to watch, while leaving enough of the context in the material that we walk away from a film with a tremendously clear sense of the stakes, a real appreciation for the successes that were eked out, and a deep frustration at how very much more didn't get done.
More than anything, it's Mangwana and Mwonzora themselves that make Democrats so engaging. The film built around them is a character sketch as much as it's a political document, and figures from the disarmingly witty Mugabe on down emerge with great vividness from just a few moments that offer windows into their character. And this falls most of all upon the two co-chairs. We spend a good deal of time watching their moods ebb and flow over the months, with Mwonzora's optimism curdling into outrage and settling at a kind of triumphal resignation that he could win any concessions at all. Mangwana, with Mugabe breathing down his neck, has a far more colorful life over the same period, at one point darting around rabidly to assure the press and his fellow party members that he absolutely did not approve of an overtly anti-Mugabe clause getting into a draft of the constitution, and certainly will see that it's removed. That's a particularly dramatic slice of life in a film that makes equal room for such grandiosity as the moment when Mangwana realises that he might actually be shot before he has a chance to fix things, all the way to the most utterly mundane details of human life (Mwonzora has the "Numa Numa" song as his ringtone).
Above all, Democrats is a tribute the the galling hard work of living in a democracy; perhaps all the harder because it's so young and vulnerable as Zimbabwe, but perhaps not. Nielsson certainly never seems to give credence to the idea that this is some kind of primitive political system, even when the men involved try to invoke that as an excuse for behavior. The suggestion is rather that this is how all modern democracies work, and Zimbabwe is getting its first taste of the unsatisfying deal-brokering and watery compromises that drive so many more mature governments. It's a sober lesson, but the film delivers it with such gusto, through such a fascinating specific case, that Democrats is always a wildly engaging movie, even when it's the most like a civics lesson.
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'Legally Blonde' hits the stage
Two performances of "Legally Blonde: The Musical" are planned in Amarillo this week.
The production, part of the 2010-2011 Broadway Spotlight Series season, is scheduled at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday at the Amarillo Civic Center Auditorium, 401 S. Buchanan St.
"Legally Blonde: The Musical" is based on the novel "Legally Blonde" by Amanda Brown and the 2001 film of the same name.
It concerns Elle Woods, a sorority girl who enrolls at Harvard Law School to woo her ex-boyfriend, Warner Huntington.
The production, with music and lyrics by Laurence O'Keefe and Nell Benjamin and book by Heather Hach, staged on Broadway from April 2007 to October 2008.
Tickets to the this week's performances of "Legally Blonde: The Musical" range in price from $16 to $45, depending on seating.
For information, call 806-378-3096 or visit www.panhandle tickets.com.
- Staff writer Brad Newman
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SEPTEMBER 3, 2015 ATLANTA Airport employees pass through the screening checkpoint. Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport officials implemented a new security screening process for employees. More than 40, 000 employees work in the secured areas of the airport. KENT D. JOHNSON
Photo: Kelly Yamanouchi/AJC@ATL
Delta subsidiary employee allegedly smuggled cash through Hartsfield-Jackson
Kelly Yamanouchi, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
An employee of a Delta Air Lines subsidiary and his wife allegedly smuggled hundreds of thousand of dollars in cash through Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, according to the U.S. Attorney’s office.
Bubacarr Drammeh, the employee of Delta Global services, was also charged with bribing airport workers to get the cash through security. He and his wife Matako Drammeh were allegedly transporting the money to California.
Delta said Bubacarr Drammeh was terminated last year. Delta Global Services does ground handling as a subsidiary of Delta.
Byung J. “BJay” Pak, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia, said the alleged actions “put all passengers at risk.”
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Prosecutors say he smuggled guns in backpacks through Hartsfield Jackson International Airport.
Pak’s office alleges that Bubacarr Drammeh, 42, attempted to bring a bag with more than $140,000 in cash through an employee security checkpoint on Sept. 2, 2017.
Hartsfield-Jackson in 2015 began operating a security checkpoint to screen employees, in response to a gun-running scheme uncovered in 2014. Delta has its own screening system of its employees. Airport workers were previously not required to go through security checkpoints.
The Drammehs “exploited Bubacarr Drammeh’s status as an airline employee to evade airport security screenings,” according to the U.S. Attorney’s office.
A screener at the employee checkpoint “found stacks of money” in Drammeh’s bag, and Drammeh allegedly offered the screener $8,000 in cash to not report him to authorities, according to Pak’s office. But airport security refused and contacted law enforcement.
A federal grand jury indicted the Drammehs, who live in Riverdale, on July 24 and charged them with “conspiring to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business and entering an aircraft or airport area in violation of security requirements.”
Hartsfield-Jackson issued a statement saying: “The multi-layered approach to security at ATL addresses passengers and employees alike. We work constantly with our law enforcement and airline partners to maintain a safe, secure environment at the world’s busiest and most efficient airport. Additionally, we will continue to assist the federal authorities as needed in this investigation.”
The U.S. Attorney’s office alleges that the Drammehs from November 2016 to September 2, 2017 transported cash on flights to California, and that they took more than 50 trips.
“While halting bulk cash smuggling is an important Homeland Security Investigations priority, eliminating a potential vulnerability in airport security may serve a larger contribution to national security and protection of national infrastructure,” said Homeland Security Investigations Atlanta special agent in charge Nick S. Annan in a written statement.
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Home/About/News/2018/Court of Appeals Judge Garcia ’89 to Deliver 167th Commencement Address
Court of Appeals Judge Garcia ’89 to Deliver 167th Commencement Address
Albany Law School is proud to announce that the Honorable Michael J. Garcia ’89 will deliver the keynote address at the Law School's 167th Commencement, to be held at Saratoga Performing Arts Center in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., on May 18, 2018.
Judge Garcia's career has been marked by numerous high-profile positions in both the private and public sectors, including U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and lead ethics investigator to FIFA, soccer's international governing body. He currently serves as an Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals, New York State's highest court.
"Judge Michael Garcia is a person of tremendous conviction. Throughout his career he has demonstrated the best of the profession," said Alicia Ouellette, Albany Law School President and Dean. "His path has been an inspiration to us all, and we're thrilled to have him address our graduating students as they prepare to chart their own journeys."
A member of the Albany Law Review, Judge Garcia finished first in his class each year of law school, graduating as valedictorian in 1989. He was honored as part of the Government Law Center's 30th anniversary celebration in 2008, and has made several visits to campus in recent years, including in 2015 to memorialize his mentor, the late Professor David D. Siegel.
"It is an honor to be invited to address the Class of 2018," Judge Garcia said. "I will always be grateful to Albany Law—the place where it all began for me. I look forward to celebrating the accomplishments of this talented class."
Judge Garcia received his undergraduate degree with honors from the State University of New York at Binghamton in 1983 and an M.A. degree from the College of William and Mary in 1984. After graduating from Albany Law School (summa cum laude) in 1989, he began his legal career as an associate at Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP. From 1990 to 1992, he served as Law Clerk to Hon. Judith S. Kaye, then Associate Judge of the New York Court of Appeals.
From 1992 to 2001, Judge Garcia served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, during which time he successfully prosecuted a series of major terrorism cases. In 2001, he became Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Export Enforcement in the Bureau of Industry and Security, and in December 2002 he became Acting Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service at the United States Department of Justice. From March 2003 to August 2005, he served as Assistant Secretary for Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the United States Department of Homeland Security. Judge Garcia was the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 2005 to 2008, when he joined Kirkland & Ellis LLP.
Judge Garcia previously was Vice President of the Americas for INTERPOL, the international police organization, from 2003 to 2006. From 2012 to 2014, he was Chair of the Investigatory Chamber of the Ethics Committee of the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA). His 350-page report on allegations of corruption in the bidding process for FIFA's World Cup tournaments in 2018 and 2022 garnered headlines worldwide.
On January 20, 2016, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo ’82 nominated Judge Garcia to the Court of Appeals, and the New York State Senate confirmed his appointment on February 8, 2016.
Albany Law School is a small, private school located in the heart of New York state’s capital where it has educated leaders since 1851. The institution offers students an innovative, rigorous curriculum taught by a committed faculty. It has an affiliation agreement with University at Albany that includes shared programs, and access for students and faculty to learn from one another. Students have access to New York's highest court, federal courts, the executive branch and the state legislature. With approximately 10,500 alumni practicing across the country and several continents, Albany Law’s graduates serve as a vital community and resource for the school and its students. The magazines “preLaw” and “National Jurist” have named Albany Law 8th in government law, 11th in public interest law, 12th in criminal law, and a top 20 law school for innovation. Visit www.albanylaw.edu.
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Home/About/News/2019/Albany Law School Announces Gift from the Swyer Family Foundation to Support the Community Development Clinic
Albany Law School Announces Gift from the Swyer Family Foundation to Support the Community Development Clinic
Albany Law School announced today that it has received a gift of $500,000 from Edward P. Swyer ’18H and the Swyer Family Foundation in conjunction with the Ethereal Fund. This gift will support the Community Development Clinic and The Justice Center at Albany Law School.
"Ed Swyer and the Swyer Family Foundation have been friends and supporters of Albany Law School and our Justice Center for almost 30 years," said Alicia Ouellette, President and Dean. "In that time, they have been remarkably generous in supporting the life-changing legal programs and services we offer, particularly to entrepreneurs, small businesses, and nonprofits in the Capital Region and beyond."
These funds will support and grow the Community Development Clinic programs that provide legal and business expertise, connections to microloan lenders, and other tools necessary for area residents to take control of their futures as they build businesses and create jobs. The gift will also create innovation funds to promote collaboration with other clinics in The Justice Center, encouraging and empowering clients to work with the Community Development Clinic to foster their entrepreneurial spirit.
"This gift is an incredible investment in the Community Development Clinic, our future students, and the deserving clients they will serve," said Ted De Barbieri, Community Development Clinic Director and Assistant Professor of Law. "We are thrilled to expand our programs delivering critical transactional and business law services to the people and communities of the Capital Region who need them most."
The Justice Center at Albany Law School—previously the Law Clinic and Justice Center—provides free legal services to eligible clients through its clinical and pro bono programs. The Center's students, faculty, and staff represent hundreds of clients each year and assist many more individuals and organizations through technical assistance and community education activities.
Albany Law School has an endowment of approximately $65 million and recently launched We Rise Together: The Campaign for Albany Law School, a $30 million capital campaign.
Learn more at albanylaw.edu/RiseTogether.
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Keep Sydney Open
(Discussion, 12 May 2016, Legislative Assembly, NSW Parliament)
I welcome the many people with us in the gallery today who are here to listen to this discussion, and I thank them for their strong advocacy in getting this petition to 10,000 signatures. I thank them all for the way in which they engaged with politicians and the community to raise awareness of the impacts created as a result of the lockout laws. I will start where the member for Maroubra finished by saying that of course we are dealing with legislation that was rushed through this Parliament and that was imposed in my electorate without any consultation. Indeed we do know that it has had impacts.
I welcome the fact that the Government is now taking an evidence-based approach to the review, and I thank the member for Drummoyne for his very measured contribution to this debate. I thank the Government for the way in which it is engaging with the sector to improve these laws. I thank the member for Newtown for her strong commitment to improving these laws and Sydney's night-life. More than 10,000 people signed this petition, about the same number attended the Keep Sydney Open rally in February, and constituents continue to express to me how Sydney's night-life is suffering as a result of the lockout laws.
The Live Music Office reports that live performance venues in the lockout zone have lost 40 per cent in revenue from gigs, and these venues have decreased spending on live performance by 15 per cent. There are fewer places to go, with live music venues like the Flinders, the Backroom, FBI Social, Spectrum and Q Bar having closed; and I understand that the 1.30 a.m. lockout now acts as a closing time. Sydney is an attractive place to live and visit partly because of its arts and culture scenes, which are heavily supported by the night-time economy. If bands and artists cannot get gigs, they will move elsewhere. If the night-time economy becomes mediocre, fewer people will move here or visit.
I acknowledge that there have been public safety benefits from the restrictions, with a drop in hospitalisations and assaults, and believe that we can improve the laws in a way to maintain these benefits while allowing night-life to flourish. A number of restrictions apply in the inner city, including the 1.30 a.m. lockout, the 3.00 a.m. cessation of service, a freeze on new liquor licences, temporary and long-term banning orders, identification [ID] scanners in Kings Cross, the three strikes policy, responsible service of alcohol [RSA] marshal requirements, risk-based licensing and drink limits. Many studies have shown that blanket lockouts do little to curb violence and that earlier closing times reduce assaults. Interestingly, the 1.30 a.m. lockout is reported to be doing the most damage to Sydney's night-life.
Venues that promote a rich social fabric for our city that do not contribute to violence and antisocial behaviour should not be subject to the same restrictions as those with a history of violence and poor management. A more sophisticated approach to dealing with outlet density than the liquor freeze is needed, which in the environment of lockouts has prevented much-needed diversity. Instead we need saturation zones to enable new and different venues to open while preventing hotspots from emerging. Licensing should be renewable to encourage good management. I have long supported laws to reduce violence and antisocial behaviour associated with late-night trading. However I opposed the lockouts because I was concerned that they went too far. It has now been more than two years and it is clear that the laws need improvement to ensure that Sydney has a safe, civilised, diverse and vibrant night life scene. I support the petition and commit to working towards this goal.
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Body of Filipina maid killed in Kuwait comes home
Joanna Demafelis went to Kuwait four years ago to work as a maid. She came home in a coffin, received by her distraught family.
Last week, the body of a Filipina woman was found in a freezer in an abandoned apartment in Kuwait.
It turned out to be Joanna Demafelis. In 2014, she had gone to Kuwait to work as a maid, hoping to earn enough to support her family.
She went missing in September 2016.
Joanna's body arrived in Manila on Friday, greeted by her distraught family.
Her death prompted the government of the Philippines to order the repatriation of Filipino workers in Kuwait and to place a ban on further deployment there.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte condemned what he sees as a pattern of mistreatment of Filipino workers.
Al Jazeera's Katia Lopez-Hodoyan reports.
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Samsung in 2018: Will it continue to kick ass?
Samsung had its share of problems in 2016. The company had to recall the Galaxy Note 7 for safety reasons and lost a lot of money. Worse, its reputation took a massive beating in the U.S. as well as abroad.
Let’s take a look at what 2017 was like for Samsung, as well as how the company’s future looks.
The good and bad of 2017
Samsung started the year off with a bang. It announced the Galaxy A smartphones in January — A3, A5, and A7 — which impressed with their premium glass design and an IP68 rating for protection against water and dust. All three offer solid specs and are among the best mid-rangers of the year.
We then saw the reveal of the Galaxy Tab S3 at MWC. It’s one of the best tablets of the year, thanks to a large display, high-end specs, and the addition of the S Pen. We didn’t see the Galaxy S8 series in Barcelona, but Samsung did share its announcement date at the show.
The flagships first appeared at the end of March, and they didn’t disappoint. The phones featured large curved displays, a “bezel-less” design, and top-of-the-line specs. They became wildly popular, despite being more expensive than their predecessors. Samsung sold five million units in the first month and 20 million in less than four months.
The next big product launch happened in August in New York, where the tech giant took the wraps off the Galaxy Note 8 — the first Samsung smartphone with a dual-camera setup on the back. It launched at $929, making it one of the most expensive smartphones on the market. Despite the price, it was a hit. Its pre-order numbers in the US and South Korea exceeded those of previous Note handsets, showing the strength of Samsung’s brand and the loyalty of its fans.
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Samsung announced many other great products during the year. These include smartphones like the Galaxy S8 Active, Galaxy Note FE, and Galaxy C7 Pro. The company also revealed a few new wearables like the Gear Fit 2 Pro, Gear Sport, and Gear IconX 2018.
The popularity of Samsung’s smartphones and other products including DRAM and NAND memory chips made it a lot of money in 2017. Samsung generated around $8.8 billion in operating profit in Q1—the company’s most profitable first quarter ever. Things got even better over the next six months. In Q2, Samsung’s made $12.7 billion. In the third quarter of the year, the company made a record $13 billion in operating profit.
Overall, Samsung had a fantastic year. It released a slew of great devices, made lots of money, and closed the Note 7 chapter. But things were far from perfect.
The company’s acting chief Lee Jae-yong went on trial for bribing South Korean president Park in return for her support of a controversial merger between Samsung affiliates — which is said to have helped Lee solidify his control over the company. He was found guilty and sentenced to five years in jail.
The company has also been losing ground in India, the second largest smartphone market in the world. Samsung is having a hard time competing against Chinese brands, which offer smartphones with better price-to-performance ratios. It lost a lot of market share in 2017 and is currently tied with Xiaomi as the largest manufacturer in the country. It may even get knocked to second place soon.
What to expect in 2018?
We expect to see many great devices from Samsung in the upcoming year. The first two to hit the market will be the Galaxy A8 Plus and A8 (see image above). They were announced this month but should go on sale in January. The Galaxy A8 Plus is the successor to last year’s Galaxy A7, while the Galaxy A8 succeeds the Galaxy A5.
They feature a stunning design inspired by the Galaxy S series, with thin bezels around the displays. Like their predecessors, they will likely grab the interest of those looking for a mid-range handset.
The two Samsung devices which will get the most attention in 2018 will be the Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus. When will we see them? Samsung might tease them at CES, before their official reveals in February or March.
The Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus are expected to be minor upgrades over their predecessors.
They are expected to be minor upgrades over their predecessors, with the same 5.8- and 6.2-inch display sizes, and more powerful hardware. The Plus model could come with a dual-camera setup on the back, while its smaller brother might only feature a single primary shooter. You can learn more about the devices by checking our Galaxy S9 rumor roundup post.
Don’t expect the S9 series to come with an under-display fingerprint scanner, the technology isn’t ready yet. It could be ready by the time the Note 9 gets revealed, which will probably happen in August or September. No word yet on what the Note 9 will bring to the table, although we don’t think it will be a massive upgrade over its predecessor either.
We expect to see a number of other devices from Samsung in 2018. These may include a new Chromebook to take on Google’s Pixelbook, many low- and mid-range smartphones, and new wearables. We may also see a Bixby-integrated smart speaker, to lure customers away from Google’s Home and Amazon’s Alexa-powered speakers.
It’s also possible we’ll see the Galaxy X in 2018, Samsung’s long-rumored foldable smartphone. There’s no word on what exactly that might look like, or whether its foldable nature will really be valuable or just another gimmick.
Samsung also has a lot of challenges ahead in the year to come. The company may have to change strategies if it wants to stay on top in India. Focusing more on low- to mid-range smartphone and reducing prices is something it should consider.
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Pricing might cause Samsung problems in Western markets as well. Rumors have it that the Galaxy S9 series will be more expensive than its predecessor. If that’s the case, expect the Note 9 to get a price increase as well.
Sure, Samsung has a large fan base, but raising prices again could give consumers a great reason to take their business elsewhere. Especially because we expect to see many great high-end smartphones from the likes of Huawei, LG, and Google in 2018.
Samsung will also be facing more competition in the OLED display business. The company is the biggest player in the industry with a market share of well over 90 percent. But that number could be reduced this year, as LG and other manufacturers will ramp up production of OLED panels.
The future looks bright for Samsung. The company is expected to remain the biggest smartphone maker in the world next year, and will probably release some of the most attention-grabbing devices. It’s also expected to turn a fat profit each quarter, although it’s hard to predict if it will be able to exceed the financial results achieved in 2017.
This year has shown us the strength of Samsung’s brand. Despite the Note 7 fiasco, higher pricing, and some shady business that landed the company’s acting chief in jail, customers remained loyal. But that loyalty may not last forever.
If Samsung decides to rest on its laurels, it may begin losing business to its competitors.
Samsung will be fine as long as it keeps pricing where it is now and continues to innovate. If the tech giant continues to increase prices and rests on its laurels, it may begin losing business to competitors. The company could have a hard time convincing people to dish out big bucks on a high-end device like the Galaxy S9 and Note 9 without bringing a lot of new things to the table— especially those who already own an S8 or Note 8.
If it starts losing market share in Western markets, like in India, Samsung will have to roll up its sleeves and make changes to its business strategy. Will that happen, or will the tech giant continue to kick ass in 2018? Only time will tell.
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Smt. Bhanumathi Narasimhan is the sister of Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, humanitarian leader and ambassador of peace, and shares his vision for a stress-free violence-free world.
Smt. Bhanumathi is the Chairperson of Women welfare and child care programs of the The Art of Living, a not-for-profit, educational and humanitarian NGO engaged in bringing stress relief and service initiatives in 152 countries. She has deep roots in spirituality and a broad vision for service to humanity. For over three decades she has been committed to bringing a positive social transformation with a focus on education, environment and women empowerment. Enabling people to handle their negative emotions and stress with meditation and breathing techniques, she has helped them regain their self confidence and come to the forefront to take responsibility for a harmonious society through service.
Bhanumathi is a meditator. Under the guidance of Sri Sri Ravi Shankar ( her brother and Spiritual Master) she started teaching meditation as well. She firmly believes that the complete blossoming of the individual potential can be attained through spirituality, through meditation. Her workshops have brought an experience of deep inner peace to hundreds of participants worldwide. Meditation is the journey from the head to the heart. Through meditation she has helped thousands of hearts to heal and experience the connection with the inner -Self resulting in an un-shakable confidence in themselves and a sense of belongingness with society.
Smt. Bhanumathi instituted the “Gift a smile – Care-for-Children” program, which provides value-based holistic education for underprivileged children from rural, tribal, and slum areas free of cost. There are 700+ schools in 20 states of India educating over 70000+ children with a special focus on the girl child.
Through VISTA India (Value Integrated Services To All), an initiative that aims to provide economic and social self-sufficiency for disadvantaged women in India; vocational training, entrepreneurship, and self-development workshops have been provided to over 8,000 women. These women are also educated in hygiene and health issues in rural areas.
Vishalakshi Women Empowerment Program is similar initiative catering to underprivileged women in semi-urban areas. There are two centers currently operating in Tamil Nadu and Bangalore where they are trained in vocational skills including tailoring, candle making, incense stick production, packaging and marketing, and related skills to make them economically self-reliant.
She started the HARA (HIV/AIDS Awareness in Rural Areas) project through which youth volunteers are trained under a qualified medical doctor receive and disseminate this knowledge further in the rural areas. Over 160,000 individuals across India have benefitted from this initiative till date.
The Hara Desh Hari Prithvi project initiated by her is being implemented in villages through the schools run by the “Gift A Smile” program. It includes tree plantation, No plastic drives and cleaning camps to spread awareness about health and hygiene. Till date around 4900 saplings have been planted, over 810 cleaning camps conducted and 117 schools and 2,450 homes have been made plastic free across 300 villages in India.
In support of traditional art and culture, she has initiated the Weaver-to-Wearer project. The project identifies skilled craftsmen in the traditional arts from rural areas and connects them with consumers around the world. Madhurya, a women entrepreneurship initiative inspired by her, provides a platform for marketing these unique hand-crafted products.
In 2007, she was awarded the prestigious Sadguru Gnanananda National Award (India) for her unwavering dedication to social development and to women’s issues.
As the chairperson of the International Women’s Conference (IWC), her vision is to make a global connection of responsible women to catalyze positive transformation in society. The Conference celebrates the dynamism of women and provides a platform to deliberate and share ideas and experiences encouraging the pivotal role of women in creating a harmonious and prosperous society. Over 5000 women from 80 nationalities have participated in these conferences so far with eminent speakers from diverse spheres, political to business to social, cultural and spiritual, addressing and inspiring the delegation. The conference proceeds support global initiatives for education of women, prisoner rehabilitation, poverty eradication, female health awareness, eradication of female feticide, environmental conservation, and domestic violence.
Smt. Bhanumathi’s interests in promoting cultural values and joy through music led her to create multiple albums in Sanskrit, Hindi, and Kannada. Her music transcends borders of language and beliefs and has a relaxing and calming effect on the mind as experienced by thousands worldwide.
She is the author of the bestselling biography ‘Gurudev – On the Plateau of the Peak’ which offers a glimpse into the life of Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar from his childhood to growing-up years, when he was an unassuming boy to a teenager in the company of saints, from a young meditation teacher to a revered spiritual Master.
She has also authored two books, Tejasvini and Lalitha that expound the spiritual significance and mystical meaning behind popular Hindu traditional scriptures and practices. The purpose of the books is to highlight the essence of the practices instead of just focusing on the outer expression or rituals.
She is married with two sons, daughters-in-law and grandchildren. She lives in Bangalore, India and travels all over the world to spread the message of peace, love and compassion.
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ASA and Hope for The Warriors® Recognize Wounded Warriors Sacrifices During ANESTHESIOLOGY 2011
The American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) is partnering with Hope For The Warriors® for the ASA Run For The Warriors® 5K Run/Walk along Chicago’s scenic waterfront on October 16 at 7 a.m. All proceeds from the race go to Hope For The Warriors®, a national nonprofit organization that supports wounded service members, their families, and families of the fallen.
“As the father of two Air Force officers, I am honored to promote the Run For The Warriors®,” said Mark A. Warner, M.D., President of the ASA. “And as an anesthesiologist who has cared for our military personnel wounded in U.S. wars, past and present, I have seen the incredible strength and sense of spirit that these warriors exhibit every day. It allows them to overcome or cope with their injuries and move forward. We all are very proud of them and very appreciative of their service and sacrifices.”
The mission of Hope For The Warriors® (www.hopeforthewarriors.org) is to enhance quality of life for U.S. service members and their families nationwide who have been adversely affected by injuries or death in the line of duty. Hope For The Warriors® actively seeks to ensure that the sacrifices of wounded and fallen warriors and their families are never forgotten nor their needs unmet.
The concept of the ASA Run For The Warriors® originated in 2008 during a symposium on traumatic brain injury (TBI) held by the Uniformed Services Society of Anesthesiologists (USSA). A Purple Heart recipient suffering from TBI provided the keynote address giving an overview of his experiences and ongoing recovery. The Marine’s speech sent a moving and poignant message to an audience experienced in treating wounded military personnel.
“By highlighting the challenges of those who suffer from TBI, the ASA and USSA are helping their members understand the growing needs of our combat wounded,” said Robin Kelleher, President of Hope For The Warriors®. “We are proud to partner with the ASA and to be part of ANESTHESIOLOGY 2011.”
The race begins and ends in Arvey Field located in Grant Park and follows the path along the waterfront with spectacular views of Soldier Field. Participants from ANESTHESIOLOGY 2011 and the Chicago community will join together in this Run For The Warriors®.
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3 Gujarat cricketers in Indian T20 team for disabled players
Wednesday 13th March 2019 03:03 EDT
Three cricketers from South Gujarat, including Surat’s 39-year-old all-rounder Pravin Wankhede, will represent India in the upcoming 3-day bilateral T20 cricket tournament of disabled persons to be played in Agra from March 12 to 15. The other two players are Chirag Gandhi and Mahmud Patel from Navsari district. The trio has left for Agra and are likely to play in all the three T20 matches.
Excited about his selection, Pravin said, “I performed very well in recent selection tournament where I bagged the man of the match in the finals and the man of the series awards. This opened the doors of international cricket for me.”
Coming from a humble background, Pravin has been playing cricket for the last nine years. He suffers 40 per cent disability after he lost one of his heels while driving a tempo as the delivery man. Father of four children, the 39-year-old wants to win a match for the country on his own and also make his family proud. “We have been encouraged by the Viklang Kalyan Trust to play cricket. We are grateful to our coach Sameer Chauhan and others for providing us with such an opportunity,” Pravin said.
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& # 39; Just a question of when & # 39 ;: the $ 20 billion plan to upgrade Singapore with the Australian solar | Environment
THe deserted outside Tennant Creek, deep in the Northern Territory, is not the most obvious place to build and transmit Singapore's future electricity supply. Although few in the southern states have yet to take notice, a group of Australian developers is betting that it will change.
If they are right, they could have far-reaching consequences for the Australian energy industry and what the country sells to the world.
Known as Solar cable, promises to be the largest solar farm in the world. If developed as planned, a series of panels with a capacity of 10 gigawatts will be distributed over 15,000 hectares and will be supported by battery storage to ensure that it can supply energy 24 hours a day.
The transmission lines send electricity to Darwin and plug into the NT network. But most would be exported through a high voltage direct current submarine cable that winds through the Indonesian archipelago to Singapore. The developers say they will be able to supply one fifth of the island's electricity-state electricity needs, replacing its increasingly expensive gas energy.
This will be the channel through which Australian energy production will significantly reduce (global) emissions
Ross Garnaut
After 18 months of development, the $ 20 billion Sun Cable development had a quiet appearance in the Top End three weeks ago in a series of events organized to highlight the NT's solar potential. The idea was embraced by the NT government and attracted the attention of the software billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes, which is considering its involvement through its private investment company Grok Ventures.
The NT plan follows an equally ambitious proposal for Pilbara, where another group of developers is working on an even larger hybrid wind and solar plant to power the local industry and develop a green hydrogen production center. On Friday, project developer Andrew Dickson announced the scope of the proposal Asian hub for renewable energy it had grown by over a third, from 11 GW to 15 GW. "To our knowledge, it is the largest wind-solar hybrid in the world," he says.
The Singapore skyline. The Sun Cable plan could replace one-fifth of the city-state's electricity needs, currently occupied by expensive gas generation. Photography: Edgar Su / Reuters
These developments are still in the early stages of planning. Both teams say it will take four years for finances to freeze, with production expected to start in the middle and end of the next decade. But renewable energy observers are cautiously optimistic and could help stimulate a new way of thinking about Australia's energy exports, one that better aligns with the country's commitment to the climate agreement. of Paris, rather than expanding a trade in fossil fuels in contrast to it.
Opponents of Australia who have taken significant action on the climate crisis often point out that the country is responsible for about 1.4% of greenhouse gas emissions, ranking 15th on a table of polluting nations carbon. A recent report from the Institute of Science and Politics Climate Analytics points out that this underestimates the contribution of Australia, which increases by 5% if fossil fuel exports are included.
This last figure should increase over the next decade. Australia is the world's leading exporter of coal and rivals in Qatar as a leader in the sale of liquefied natural gas (LNG). C is a bipartisan support for a significant expansion of both industries, even though government economists anticipating the proceeds of coal exports will fall.
Ross Garnaut, former adviser to Labor governments who is now professor of economics at the University of Melbourne and president of Hub for the energy transition between Australia and Germany, states that there is another way to go. In a recent conference series which is transformed into a book, exposes his analysis of how Australia, with the best renewable energy resource in the developed world, could expand its energy production by significantly reducing global emissions.
Garnaut emphasizes the transformative reduction in the cost of capital for renewable energy and energy storage over the past two decades. Since most of the cost of clean energy developments is capital (fuel is free), he says the transformation has radically changed the ability of clean projects to compete with fossil fuels. Given that capital costs are lower in developed countries, Garnaut says Australia can, if properly managed, be the low-cost energy center in a future carbon-neutral world.
This would make the natural home for growth in mineral processing for a world that increasingly evaluates production powered by solar, wind and other clean sources. Industries that will thrive under Garnaut's vision include energy-intensive family operations such as aluminum, iron and steel and new opportunities in silica, lithium, vanadium, nickel, cobalt and copper.
"This will be the channel through which energy production in Australia will significantly reduce emissions in the rest of the world. It will also be a basis for a new era of economic expansion and prosperity," he says.
Garnaut believes that exporting electricity through high voltage cables and green hydrogen will be part of this clean energy future, although you'd expect them to come mostly later. Sun Cable's chief executive, David Griffin, is optimistic about the possibility that his company will help feed Singapore from the outback in less than a decade.
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He says the project will use prefabricated solar cells to capture "one of the best solar radiation reserves on the planet". But he states that the main transformation that makes the farm possible is the advent of the high voltage direct current submarine cable, which he describes as the "largest unknown technological development". The Sun Cable submarine link in Singapore will travel 3,800 km.
"It is an extraordinary technology that will change the flow of energy between countries. It will have profound implications and the extent of these implications has not been widely identified," says Griffin.
"If electricity is transmitted over very large distances between countries, then the energy flow changes from liquid fuels – oil and LNG – to electrons. Ultimately, this is a much more efficient way to transport energy. The incumbents will not be able to compete. "
Supporters of Sun Cable believe that Singapore, as a regulated electricity market that mostly operates in pipelines from Malaysia and Indonesia and is shipped as LNG, is ripe for competition.
On the other side of Pilbara, the Asian proposal for Hub for renewable energy has taken another move. The developers – a consortium of InterContinental Energy, CWP Energy Asia, Vestas wind energy company and financiers of the Macquarie Group – started with a plan to send energy to Indonesia via submarine cable. This has been abandoned in favor of green hydrogen – a driven change, says Andrew Dickson, from a reduction in costs and a growing international and local interest that suggests a much larger market.
A expanded hub proposal released this week it says it will be spread across a vast area – 6,500 square km, or about half the size of a large Sydney – and will create 3,000 construction jobs and 400 operations. About two thirds of the 15GW capacity will be reached with giant wind turbines and a third of solar panels. The developers claim that up to a fifth of the total capacity is destined for large industrial energy users in the Pilbara, potentially including new and expanded mines and mineral processing. But most of the electricity generated will be used to run a hydrogen production hub.
Hydrogen would be sold on the domestic market and exported, most likely to Japan and South Korea, which expressed a desire to shift energy consumption in that direction. Dickson claims that the production of green hydrogen at large volumes could open the possibility of using it to replace coking coal in steel production. It could allow an expanded version of the "green steel" model adopted at Whyalla by British industrialist Sanjeev Gupta.
Dickson points to recent assessments by the chief Australian scientist, Alan Finkel, and the International Energy Agency as proof of the potential of hydrogen. "People are realizing, after several decades of promises, that now may be the time to make it become a thing," he says.
Griffin and Dickson both refuse to comment on the role the federal government could or should play in the development of green exports, although voluntarily that some local parliamentarians and state governments are in favor. Both point to the fact that their proposals are off-grid and helped them to isolate them from politically charged debates that fuel renewable energy against fossil fuels.
Roger Dargaville, a professor of renewable energy at Monash University and a member of the Energy Transition Hub, points out the amount of work he is looking at as the future of clean exports will look like. A recent project in which it was involved suggested a 40 gigawatt undersea power cable in Indonesia – much larger than initially proposed by the Asian Renewable Energy Hub – would be profitable by 2035 if the country adopted a low-emission target .
Dargaville believes that future exports will almost certainly be a mix of hydrogen, wired electricity and refined minerals before shipment. He says no one should underestimate the extent of what would be needed to replace the current Australian fossil fuel industries (the coal and LNG industries are worth more than $ 100 billion a year and take tens of thousands) and that the challenges policies and technology will be significant. But he stresses that nobody should exchange where the international markets are taking us.
The only question is whether it is in the period of time that climate scientists say it is necessary. "It's not really yes or no, it's only when."
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Despite Progress, South Asia Faces Daunting Challenges in Water & Sanitation
By Vanita Suneja
In 2030, when I would be turning sixty, I’d like to tell my grandchildren the story of how – once upon a time – the lives of poor people in South Asia were transformed: that leaders came together to bring economic prosperity and social development to people that until then had lived in an unequal and polluted world.
What I am more likely to tell them, is how – even with the knowledge that nearly 800 children under five die every year from diarrhoeal diseases caused by poor water and sanitation – governments failed to act and people remain locked in a cycle of ill-health and poverty.
Ending the cycle of poverty absolutely by 2030, without leaving behind a single person, is the most ambitious promise made to date by world leaders in 2015 when they adopted the sustainable development goals: which included the provision of universal access to water and sanitation that is essential for achieving significant progress in health, education and equality.
When people have access to clean water and decent sanitation, their wellbeing increases: women and girls have time to go to school because they don’t have to fetch water for their families – this responsibility often falls on the female members or a family, and with better health comes increased productivity both in school and at work.
For every £1 invested in WASH at least £4 is returned in increased productivity, primarily based on improved health and more time to work or study.
With floods and droughts affecting the region at different times of the year, it is important that climate-resilient services are set up. This includes managing resources responsibly and minimising the effects of climate change.
Governments in South Asia have taken steps in the right direction. Nepal has taken a rights-based approach to water, sanitation and hygiene in its constitution, which sets the bar for accountability at the highest political level. The constitution states peoples’ right to live in healthy and clean environment as well as the right to access to safe water and sanitation.
Through its Clean India Mission, an incredible story emerges from India, where considerable progress has been made on sanitation. The Indian government aims to ensure that the entire population will have access to a decent toilet by 2019, so that nobody has to go in the open after that.
Bangladesh has shown the way on inclusion, having achieved the Open Defecation Free status before 2015. The government of Bangladesh has since adopted an inclusive approach to water as well, and is working to connect all those living in makeshift houses in the capital’s slums to a piped network.
Despite this progress, South Asia faces daunting challenges. Governments, donors and the private sector must be held accountable if they are not doing enough. While 88 percent of South Asia’s population has access to at least basic water, still more than half the population of South Asia lacks access to even basic sanitation.
Disparities are large between cities and rural areas: while 5.6 percent of the urban population in South Asian nations defecate in the open – having no other option as no decent sanitation is available to them – yet in rural areas, this is as high as 45 percent.
For all nations to deliver on their commitment to provide universal access to water and sanitation by 2030, governments need to prioritise WASH – the NGO term for water, sanitation and hygiene – and ensure that finances are directed towards achieving those goals.
Sanitation, water and hygiene have a bearing on health, education, nutrition, equality and poverty eradication. WASH is thus crucial to breaking the cycle of ill-health and poverty in which too many people still live today.
An important part of the promise to deliver water and sanitation to everyone, everywhere, is to leave no one behind. This requires renewed focus on addressing the equity challenge.
The private sector and civil society groups have an important role to play in partnering with the government to reach out to marginalized and vulnerable populations.
This week, world leaders are coming together at the United Nations in New York to discuss the progress made on sustainable development goal 6 – to provide universal access to clean water and decent sanitation.
This is an important moment to highlight the urgency of having clean drinking water and a proper toilet, and to ensure that the lives of people in South Asia and beyond will be transformed within a generation.
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Phoenix police: 1 man dead, another injured after shooting near 59th Avenue and Encanto
One man died and another was injured after an argument with another man who fled the scene Saturday night, near 59th Avenue and Encanto.
Phoenix police: 1 man dead, another injured after shooting near 59th Avenue and Encanto One man died and another was injured after an argument with another man who fled the scene Saturday night, near 59th Avenue and Encanto. Check out this story on azcentral.com: https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix-breaking/2019/06/23/man-fled-scene-after-shooting-two-men-after-saturday-night-argument/1542316001/
Molly Hudson, Arizona Republic Published 1:39 p.m. MT June 23, 2019 | Updated 1:40 p.m. MT June 23, 2019
Shooting (Photo: The Republic)
One man is dead and another injured after a man fired shots during an argument Saturday night, said Sgt. Vince Lewis, a spokesman for Phoenix police.
Police responded to a call near 59th Avenue and Encanto Boulevard around 8:30 p.m.
The two victims were transported to the hospital where a 25-year-old man was pronounced dead. The second victim, a 35-year-old, is expected to survive, Lewis said. The victims names have not yet been released.
The suspect is described as a Hispanic male, who fled the scene in a silver, four-door vehicle, according to Lewis.
Officials say that anyone with information about this crime is asked to call Silent Witness at (480) W-I-T-N-E-S-S, or for Spanish (480) T-E-S-T-I-G-O. As always, callers may remain anonymous and could earn a reward of up to $1,000.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
Breaking News Intern Molly Hudson can be reached at Molly.Hudson@arizonarepublic.com and follow her on twitter @AsuMollyh.
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Alpha (Weesen) Lang
March 28, 1934 ~ February 1, 2019 (age 84)
Alpha Lang
Alpha Blanche (Weesen) Lang, age 84, longtime Fayette resident, passed away February 1, 2019 at Ashley Manor in Boonville.
Alpha was born in Blackwater, Missouri on March 28, 1934 a daughter of the late Alfred and Mary Bishop Weesen. She married Robert Lang on November 7, 1960 at Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Boonville. Robert preceded her in death July 31, 2014 after nearly fifty-five years of loving marriage.
Mrs. Lang was a longtime member of St. Joseph Catholic Church in Fayette. She was also a member of P.E.O. Chapter NN and the Red Hat Society. She was generous to her family and was a devoted wife, daughter, sister and aunt. She especially loved her time with her nieces and nephews, great and great- great nieces and nephews.
She was a graduate of New Franklin High School and prior to retirement, had been employed with the ASCS Office in Fayette, as the Deputy of Probate and Magistrate Court of Howard County as well as the Howard County Department of Social Services.
Cherishing her memory are her sister, Wanda (Cary) Lang of New Franklin; a sister-in-law, Dorothy (Jim) Bock of Laurie, MO and ten nieces and nephews and numerous great and great-great nieces and nephews. She is also lovingly remembered by her friends and caregivers at Hartman Village where she had made her home the last two years.
In addition to her parents and husband, Alpha was preceded in death by an infant brother.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 11:00 AM, Saturday, February 9, 2019 at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Fayette with Father Bill Peckman officiating. Visitation will be one hour prior to the service at the church.
Interment will follow at Mt. Pleasant Cemetery in New Franklin.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorial contributions to St. Joseph Catholic Church.
Arrangements entrusted to Carr-Yager Funeral Home, Fayette, Missouri.
Condolences may be shared at www.carryager.com.
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The universal service for telecommunications
The purpose of the universal service is to guarantee that a basic telecommunications services offering is made available to all categories of the population and in all the regions of the country. These services must be affordable, reliable and must be of a certain quality. The universal service includes the public telephone service, broadband internet connections and the provision of special services for the disabled.
The universal service licence
On 19 May 2017, ComCom designated Swisscom as the holder of the universal service licence for the next period. This document lays down the obligations of the universal service licensee.
The universal service licence (PDF, 290 kB, 01.01.2018)
For the universal service licence from 2018 to 2022, traditional analogue and digital connections (ISDN - Integrated Services Digital Network) will be replaced from 2018 onwards by a multi-functional connection based on IP (Internet Protocol) technology. Until 2021, Swisscom will have to offer free of charge an interface for analogue and ISDN equipment at the network termination point, for customers who request it, so that they have sufficient time to change their equipment.
With regard to internet access, the minimum data transfer rate will be 3000/300 kbit/s from 1 January 2018 onwards.
Every household will be able to request a free supplementary entry in the subscriber directory.
Services for the disabled will also be extended: in addition to SMS transcription and relay services, and voice access to directory services, the hearing-impaired will also benefit from a sign-language relay service for conversations via video telephony.
Some services where technological progress makes it possible to offer advantageous alternatives, or which the Federal Council no longer considers to be essential to enable the population to communicate, will cease to form part of the universal service (e.g. transmission by telefax, public telephone boxes in each municipality, barring of outgoing calls). Telecommunications service providers will, however, still be able to offer these services at market rates.
Future universal service licence
ComCom awards telecoms universal service licence to Swisscom
The universal service in relation to telecommunications services will continue to be provided by Swisscom: the Federal Communications Commission (ComCom) has awarded the universal service licence for the period from 2018 to 2022 to Swisscom.
The universal service in the EU
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Ravens' Cundiff eager to attempt high-pressure kicks
By By Edward Lee and The Baltimore Sun
Like any player in his position, Billy Cundiff won't say he can make every kick. But the Ravens kicker willingly accepts the chance to do so.
"Yeah, I think you have to," Cundiff said Wednesday about the desire to kick a game-winning field goal. "If you don't have the attitude that you want to make the game-winning kick, then you're probably in the wrong business."
Cundiff's eagerness is a welcome sign to the Ravens, who were beginning to wonder whether last year's AFC representative in the Pro Bowl would be able to overcome a nagging left calf injury. But after Cundiff followed a week of rest with a 42-yard field goal, three extra points and two touchbacks in Sunday's 24-16 win against the Cincinnati Bengals, the club's confidence in the eight-year veteran is on the rise again.
In fact, Cundiff's showing persuaded the team Tuesday to jettison Shayne Graham, who had made both field-goal attempts in a 20-14 victory over the Cleveland Browns on Dec. 24.
"It was big, it was big for all of us," coach John Harbaugh said of Cundiff. "It was big to see him be able to do that. The way he pounded the ball through, we all felt good about that. Obviously, the kickoffs [were important] as well, so he looks like he's 100 percent."
News of Cundiff's ailment surfaced Dec. 8, when he did not participate in practice. Four days earlier, he had missed two of three field-goal tries in a 24-10 victory over the Browns.
Cundiff, who would make just one of two field-goal attempts in his next two games, said the calf injury made it difficult for him to plant his leg and generate the power he was accustomed to on field-goal tries and kickoffs. The pain also affected his stability.
"It was just tough not knowing if it would hold up," he said of his leg. "Not being able to be aggressive definitely stems from not knowing if it's going to hold up. Then not really having the power to pull when I plant, that affects [his] being aggressive. So for me to be able to actually get through a game and do the things I'm supposed to do, I've got to be able to have that strength, and that's obviously what I did not have."
Cundiff said the tipping point occurred after he opened the second half against the San Diego Chargers on Dec. 18 with a kickoff that resulted in a touchback. Cundiff converted an extra point and attempted an onside kick in the fourth quarter but acknowledged that trying to connect on a long field goal or record another touchback would have been a challenge.
"That's the reason why we decided to take a week off," said Cundiff, who sat out the rematch with the Browns on Christmas Eve. "I think the thing I wanted to prove was, 'Look, I'm going to try to play injured.' But if it's going to affect my performance, then I need to step down and do the right thing because I'm not doing the team any favors by playing hurt if I'm not performing at the level that I should."
Cundiff said he is still trying to regain the strength that he had in his left calf but the soreness is a thing of the past. Punter Sam Koch, who is the holder on Cundiff's field goals, said he could discern the difference a week of rest made for the kicker.
"When he was hurt, you could tell that he was kind of maybe saving it, like he didn't know how well it was going to react to everything," Koch said. "I don't see that as an issue now. Just from listening to the ball as it comes off, I know he had said that he had felt it more coming off the kickoffs rather than the field goals and stuff like that. So when he gets through the ball, it sounded solid. It sounded just the way it was supposed to."
Cundiff, who has missed a career-worst nine field-goal attempts this season, said dealing with the calf has been a learning experience. But the most important thing is that he's healthy in time for the Ravens' playoff run — and a potential game-winning scenario.
"For me, I've always wanted that kick," he said. "It's something I've always looked forward to. When I was out of football for two years, those situations are what I missed the most. I'd watch a game and then see somebody kick the game-winning field goal, and a little part of me would be jealous because I would wish that was me. So when you get into the playoffs — and it's this way even in the regular season — you want the game to come down to you, and you want to be able to be the difference. Granted, everybody would love to win by 21, but if it is a close game, I know that I want to be the one to put it away."
edward.lee@baltsun.com
Baltimore Sun reporter Matt Vensel contributed to this article.
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You are here: Home >> Education >> Gov. College >> Govt. Keshob Chandra College Jhenaidah
Govt. Keshob Chandra College Jhenaidah
Govt. Keshob Chandra College, widely known as Govt.KC College is the most renowned and the largest educational institution in Jhenaidah district. It was established in 1960 by the earnest effort of some personalities of the then Jhenaidah sub-division who had keen interest in education. Renowned social worker of the then Jhenaidah town Babu Keshob Chandra was the founder of this college. He donated the main building (the present office of the principal) and land and so the college was named after him. This college is located at the heart of the town. Geographically Magura and Chuadanga are to districts its East and West respectively. Again Kushtia and Jessore districts are to its north and south respectively. S.D.O of the then Jhenaidah sub-division Mr. M.K. Anwar (C.S.P) played the pioneering role in the establishment of this college. The College was nationalized in 1980. At present this college offers Higher secondary education, Degree (pass course), Four years honours course in 14 disciplines and Masters Programms in 8 disciplines. Near about 15 thousand of students in total study here. Apart from study, students are involved in social welfare activities such as BNCC, Rover Scout, Girl-in Rover and Red- crescent. Moreover, students of this institution regularly take part in local and national level sporting and cultural events. Every year, thousands of students are establishing themselves as good citizens of the country after completing their higher education from this institution and is thus contributing to the development of this region. At present, Prof.Dr.BM Rezaul Karim and Prof. Sunil Chandro Das run the office of the Principal and Vice-Principal respectively.
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Dhaka College - Dhaka College, located in Dhaka, is one of Bangladesh’s most important and earliest higher educational institutions. It offers H.S.C., four years honours and one year ma
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NASA Astronaut/Director of Advanced Programs Nichols Research Corp.
Mathematics can be an end in itself for some people, or it can open a multitude of other doors. The first part of my professional career did not rely heavily on a math background. I flew armed helicopters in Vietnam and was a flight instructor in primary helicopters. But soon the dividends were realized.
I was sent to the Army’s Guided Missile Systems Officer Course. The heart and soul of the course was applied mathematics, and I was well prepared. Laplace transforms became tools for stability and control analysis, not mathematical abstractions. Calculus of Variations became a means for computing optimum flight profiles. In short, the mathematics took on a concrete reality.
A Masters Degree in aeronautical engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington set the stage for my next step, the US Naval Test Pilot School (USNTPS). USNTPS is an ideal mix of the theoretical and the practical. The fine nuances of the stability equations explored in the classroom in the morning, are graphically demonstrated in the air that afternoon, thus cementing the relationship between the mathematics and the real world.
As an experimental test pilot assigned to Edwards Air Force Base, CA, I was fortunate enough to test five prototype helicopters in four years. The highlight was being the project officer and chief test pilot on the Apache attack helicopter. The ultimate test of a mathematical analysis is to bet your life on it by flying an aircraft that isn’t quite house broken yet.
Following a very stiff competition, I was selected as a NASA Astronaut. My background led to assignment as the Astronaut Office representative to develop the space shuttle Entry Flight Control System, a task I pursued for three years. I found that it was harder to bet someone else’s life on a mathematical analysis than it was to bet my own.
While at NASA, I flew two space shuttle flights. On STS-41B Bruce McCandless and I conducted the first orbital flight tests of the Manned Manoeuvring Unit (MMU), the first untethered extra-vehicular activity from a spacecraft in flight. Being all alone, 1,000,000 feet above the earth, traveling at nearly 17,500 mph, makes one very happy that Isaac Newton and Johannes Kepler were steadfast in their pursuit of mathematics. In 1987, I was promoted to Brigadier General. Retired from the Army in 1992, I am now Director of Advanced Programs, Nichols Research Corporation, Colorado Springs.
It should be evident that each step in my career has rested on a firm foundation in mathematics. For me, the study of mathematics was the key that opened the doors to the universe.
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Senator John Le Fondre is Jersey's new chief minister
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-jersey-44354189
Image caption John Le Fondre has already indicated which senators he would like in a number of roles
Senator John Le Fondre is the new leader of Jersey's government after he won an open ballot by 30 votes to 19.
He beat former chief minister Senator Ian Gorst, who was looking to serve a third term.
Mr Le Fondre is the island's fourth chief minister.
Each candidate made speeches and took questions from Jersey's States members before the vote. Mr Le Fondre will now be asked to prepare a list of candidates for government ministers.
More news from the Channel Islands.
The appointment of chief minister is the first step in forming the island's new government after the general election in May.
'Absolutely stunned'
Ministers will be chosen to fill the other positions on the executive branch of government, the Council of Ministers, between 7-8 June.
Senator Le Fondre indicated he would be looking to select his competitor Senator Ian Gorst as the Minister for External Relations, Senator Tracey Vallois as Education Minister and Senator Sam Mezec as the minister for housing, who would also be responsible for children's affairs.
He said he was "absolutely stunned" by the difference in votes.
"Senator Gorst has done two terms and he's worked exceptionally hard," he said, but added it was "time for a change".
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Global, regional, and national life expectancy, all-cause mortality, and cause-specific mortality for 249 causes of death, 1980-2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015.
GBD 2015 Mortality and Causes of Death Collaborators None.
Improving survival and extending the longevity of life for all populations requires timely, robust evidence on local mortality levels and trends. The Global Burden of Disease 2015 Study (GBD 2015) provides a comprehensive assessment of all-cause and cause-specific mortality for 249 causes in 195 countries and territories from 1980 to 2015. These results informed an in-depth investigation of observed and expected mortality patterns based on sociodemographic measures.We estimated all-cause mortality by age, sex, geography, and year using an improved analytical approach originally developed for GBD 2013 and GBD 2010. Improvements included refinements to the estimation of child and adult mortality and corresponding uncertainty, parameter selection for under-5 mortality synthesis by spatiotemporal Gaussian process regression, and sibling history data processing. We also expanded the database of vital registration, survey, and census data to 14 294 geography-year datapoints. For GBD 2015, eight causes, including Ebola virus disease, were added to the previous GBD cause list for mortality. We used six modelling approaches to assess cause-specific mortality, with the Cause of Death Ensemble Model (CODEm) generating estimates for most causes. We used a series of novel analyses to systematically quantify the drivers of trends in mortality across geographies. First, we assessed observed and expected levels and trends of cause-specific mortality as they relate to the Socio-demographic Index (SDI), a summary indicator derived from measures of income per capita, educational attainment, and fertility. Second, we examined factors affecting total mortality patterns through a series of counterfactual scenarios, testing the magnitude by which population growth, population age structures, and epidemiological changes contributed to shifts in mortality. Finally, we attributed changes in life expectancy to changes in cause of death. We documented each step of the GBD 2015 estimation processes, as well as data sources, in accordance with Guidelines for Accurate and Transparent Health Estimates Reporting (GATHER).Globally, life expectancy from birth increased from 61·7 years (95% uncertainty interval 61·4-61·9) in 1980 to 71·8 years (71·5-72·2) in 2015. Several countries in sub-Saharan Africa had very large gains in life expectancy from 2005 to 2015, rebounding from an era of exceedingly high loss of life due to HIV/AIDS. At the same time, many geographies saw life expectancy stagnate or decline, particularly for men and in countries with rising mortality from war or interpersonal violence. From 2005 to 2015, male life expectancy in Syria dropped by 11·3 years (3·7-17·4), to 62·6 years (56·5-70·2). Total deaths increased by 4·1% (2·6-5·6) from 2005 to 2015, rising to 55·8 million (54·9 million to 56·6 million) in 2015, but age-standardised death rates fell by 17·0% (15·8-18·1) during this time, underscoring changes in population growth and shifts in global age structures. The result was similar for non-communicable diseases (NCDs), with total deaths from these causes increasing by 14·1% (12·6-16·0) to 39·8 million (39·2 million to 40·5 million) in 2015, whereas age-standardised rates decreased by 13·1% (11·9-14·3). Globally, this mortality pattern emerged for several NCDs, including several types of cancer, ischaemic heart disease, cirrhosis, and Alzheimer's disease and other dementias. By contrast, both total deaths and age-standardised death rates due to communicable, maternal, neonatal, and nutritional conditions significantly declined from 2005 to 2015, gains largely attributable to decreases in mortality rates due to HIV/AIDS (42·1%, 39·1-44·6), malaria (43·1%, 34·7-51·8), neonatal preterm birth complications (29·8%, 24·8-34·9), and maternal disorders (29·1%, 19·3-37·1). Progress was slower for several causes, such as lower respiratory infections and nutritional deficiencies, whereas deaths increased for others, including dengue and drug use disorders. Age-standardised death rates due to injuries significantly declined from 2005 to 2015, yet interpersonal violence and war claimed increasingly more lives in some regions, particularly in the Middle East. In 2015, rotaviral enteritis (rotavirus) was the leading cause of under-5 deaths due to diarrhoea (146 000 deaths, 118 000-183 000) and pneumococcal pneumonia was the leading cause of under-5 deaths due to lower respiratory infections (393 000 deaths, 228 000-532 000), although pathogen-specific mortality varied by region. Globally, the effects of population growth, ageing, and changes in age-standardised death rates substantially differed by cause. Our analyses on the expected associations between cause-specific mortality and SDI show the regular shifts in cause of death composition and population age structure with rising SDI. Country patterns of premature mortality (measured as years of life lost [YLLs]) and how they differ from the level expected on the basis of SDI alone revealed distinct but highly heterogeneous patterns by region and country or territory. Ischaemic heart disease, stroke, and diabetes were among the leading causes of YLLs in most regions, but in many cases, intraregional results sharply diverged for ratios of observed and expected YLLs based on SDI. Communicable, maternal, neonatal, and nutritional diseases caused the most YLLs throughout sub-Saharan Africa, with observed YLLs far exceeding expected YLLs for countries in which malaria or HIV/AIDS remained the leading causes of early death.At the global scale, age-specific mortality has steadily improved over the past 35 years; this pattern of general progress continued in the past decade. Progress has been faster in most countries than expected on the basis of development measured by the SDI. Against this background of progress, some countries have seen falls in life expectancy, and age-standardised death rates for some causes are increasing. Despite progress in reducing age-standardised death rates, population growth and ageing mean that the number of deaths from most non-communicable causes are increasing in most countries, putting increased demands on health systems.Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Lancet (London, England)
GBD 2015 Mortality and Causes of Death Collaborators, Humans, Communicable Diseases, Life Expectancy, Mortality, Cause of Death, Mortality, Premature, Global Health
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Press Release: The Empress Has No Clothes by Joyce Roche & Alexander Kopelman
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The Empress Has No Clothes:
Conquering Self-Doubt to Embrace Success
By Joyce Roch © and Alexander Kopelman
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San Francisco, CA - Joyce Roch © rose from humble circumstances to earn an Ivy League MBA and serve as CEO of Girls Inc. and COO and President of Carson Products Company, now part of L'Oreal. She was the first female African-American Vice President of Avon Products, where she led global marketing. She received the "Legacy Award" at the 2006 "Women of Power" Summit of Black Enterprise Magazine.
Yet despite this success, Roch © couldn't help feeling like a fraud. "I was filled with self-doubt, which sometimes verged on panic, because with every new step up came the familiar fear that this time I would finally be discovered for the impostor I felt myself to be," she writes. The phrase “the empress has no clothes” kept running through her head. She was nothing like the emperor in the Hans Christian Andersen story-she was certainly not a fraud. And yet that’s how she’d always felt.
Roch © discovered there was a name for this feeling: the impostor syndrome. In this deeply personal memoir she shares her lifelong struggle with the imposter syndrome and offers advice and coping strategies based on her own experiences and those of other high-achieving leaders who have suffered from it.
Roch © isn't alone with this feeling, as she discovered while researching her book. Debra Lee, Chairman of BET Networks and Ed Whitacre, former chairman and CEO of General Motors, are among the top executives who divulge their similar experiences of impostor syndrome and how they overcame it in this book. This book is especially timely today as our nation's most diverse Congress in history was sworn in earlier this year - 101 women and 86 people of color.
As she tells her story, Roch ©, as well as her friends, identifies the situations and circumstances that can trigger these irrational feelings of inadequacy. For her, being from a working-class background, being black, being a woman, and often being younger than her professional peers made her feel she had to try that much harder to prove herself. But insidiously, the more she achieved, the more inadequate she felt. She was never able to enjoy her success; she just fell into a vicious cycle of ever-increasing work hours and an ever-decreasing personal life.
The imposter syndrome constricts people’s lives, makes them waste time and emotional energy, and can even damage their health. The hard-won advice this book offers may never entirely silence the voice of doubt, but it can quiet it enough so that, like Joyce Roch ©, you can finally live a life of joy, zest, and true fulfillment.
Joyce Roch © has served as CEO of Girls Inc. and COO and President of Carson Products Company, now part of L'Oreal. She was the first African-American Vice President of Avon Products, where she led global marketing. She received the "Legacy Award" at the 2006 "Women of Power" Summit of Black Enterprise Magazine. She holds an MBA from Columbia University and currently sits on the boards of four Fortune 500 companies as well as several nonprofits.
Alexander Kopelman has written or co-written nine books. He holds an MBA from NYU and a degree in English from Vassar College.
Foreword Author Ed Whitacre, Jr. is the former Chairman and CEO of General Motors. He is also a former chairman of the board and CEO of AT&T.
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First time mothers with an epidural who lie down in later stages of labour are more likely to have a normal birth
No adverse consequences of this approach for mother or baby
Adopting a lying down position rather than being upright in the later stages of labour for women with a low dose epidural leads to a higher chance of having a spontaneous vaginal birth (without the need for forceps or suction), finds a study published by The BMJ today.
30% of women choose to have an epidural as it’s the most effective form of pain relief in labour. However, having an epidural leads to an increased risk of an instrumental vaginal birth. The position a woman is in during the second stage of labour (after the cervix is fully dilated) has been suggested to have an effect on the risk of instrumental vaginal birth.
So, Peter Brocklehurst from the University of Birmingham and colleagues investigated whether adopting a lying down or an upright position increased the rate of spontaneous vaginal birth in first time (nulliparous) mothers who had chosen to have a low dose epidural.
They carried out a randomised controlled trial, funded by the National Institute of Health Research, of 3,093 women in 41 UK hospital labour wards between October 2010 and January 2014.
The women were aged 16 or over, and in the second stage of labour, who had opted for an epidural.
Among the 3,093 women, (1556 in the upright group and 1537 in the lying down group), there were fewer spontaneous births in women in the upright group (35.2%), compared with women in the lying down group (41.1%). This represents a 5.9% absolute increase in the chance of spontaneous vaginal birth in the lying down group.
No disadvantages were apparent in relation to short or longer term outcomes for mother or baby.
However, the researchers outline some limitations in the study. NICE guidelines currently recommend women with an epidural should be encouraged to adopt an upright position in late labour. Adherence was lower in the lying down group, which may be because of the current guidance. If that was the case, lying down may be even more effective at increasing the chance of a normal birth. It’s also unclear what the findings mean for women without an epidural or for those who have given birth before (multiparous).
Nevertheless, “The intervention appears to be easy and cost-free to adopt. This evidence will allow pregnant women, in consultation with their healthcare providers, to make informed choices about their position in the second stage of labour” they conclude.
Note to Editors
Research: Upright versus lying down position in second stage of labour in nulliparous women with low dose epidural: BUMPES randomised controlled trial
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Matty Fryatt Remains Hopeful as He Targets a Return to Football
8:15 am Wednesday, 25 October 2017 @BescotBanter BBC Sport Matty Fryatt Nottingham Forest Walsall FC
Matty Fryatt has spoken of his desire to get back football after missing over two-years of action due to a series of achilles injuries.
Striker Matty Fryatt, who has been training with the Saddlers for the last few months following the expiration of his contract with Championship side Nottingham Forest, has spoken to BBC Sport and discussed his desire to make a return to regular football after a suffering a series of achilles injuries over the last couple of years.
31-year-old Fryatt, who hasn't played a competitive game since March 2015, said; "I still have to manage all these things. I am not fixed but I am giving it a go. I'm trying. My contract expired at Forest and it was disappointing to play so few games.
"I know I am running out of time but if I can manage it, feel comfortable and if there is some hope, I will carry on. If that isn't the case I will have to call it a day but you are a long time retired, so if there is some hope I will keep on going and see what happens."
Matty, who was close to agreeing terms with Burton Albion during pre-season, continued; "The pre-season at Burton came a little too soon for me as I was not really in the right condition for them, but it was good to be out there for two weeks with them. The last month or so I have been training with Walsall, so they have given me an opportunity and I am still hopeful of giving it a go."
You can read more of Matty's interview, where he goes on to discuss his injury nightmare in more detail, by clicking HERE.
BBC Sport Matty Fryatt Nottingham Forest Walsall FC
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Tag Archives: public consultation
‘They Are Keeping Us Down By Denying Us Justice’
Ciaran Tierney at 12:28 pm March 13, 2018
From top (left to right) Site of the Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, Co Galway; Peter Mulryan, Catherine Corless; Ciaran Tierney
Galway County Council is currently seeking submissions from members of the public regarding what to do with the site of the Bon Secours mother and baby home in Tuam, Co Galway. The deadline for submissions is this Friday, March 16.
Ciaran Tierney writes:
Imagine you are 70 years old.
Throughout your life you have dealt with the stigma of being branded as ‘illegitimate’ and your long quest to find your birth mother had ended in a Magdalene Laundry, where she had lived for over 30 years.
You used to visit her every fortnight, after managing to track her down, although the nuns warned you to pretend that she was your aunt.
They told you they would prevent you from visiting if you told the other inmates the truth about your relationship with your own mother and it used to pain you to see the defeat, the lack of sparkle, in her eyes.
Together with the other inmates, she washed and cleaned the clothes of the great and the good around the city and county.
For years, she never ventured outside the laundry walls even though she was just minutes from the heart of the city.
But you kept the relationship going, and enthused about how her spirit lifted just a little after you married and she met her first grandchild.
You saw flickers of her spirit on occasional weekend visits to the seaside, when the nuns finally started to allow her out of the laundry for a few hours.
She was buried in 1989, in a grave she shared with other women from the laundry.
You hoped that she was resting in peace after a tough life and you got on with your life.
And then, four years ago, your life was turned upside down once again.
Historian Catherine Corless, who has since become a good friend, was on the other end of the phone.
She told you the startling news that you had a little sister nobody had ever told you about.
She was one of the 796 ‘Tuam Babies’, who were making headlines all across the globe.
Catherine’s painstaking research had placed one of the little babies in the tiny townland in your mother’s rural community.
When you asked around, you discovered it was true. Your mother had given birth to a second child before being locked up again for years.
For all you knew, that little girl was buried in that infamous septic tank in Tuam.
But, that’s the thing. You didn’t know.
For all you know now, too, she was adopted by a loving family in the US or the UK, because nobody has any records of your little sis and what became of her after being born in that now notorious Mother and Baby Home.
That’s what happened to Peter Mulryan, a remarkable man whose quest for justice for his little sister goes on.
Now aged 74, he has been stonewalled by the authorities.
He’s concerned that they will mark the site with a memorial, before he ever finds out what happened to her and whether or not she ended up in that terrible place in Tuam.
On Sunday, he spoke movingly about giving a voice to the voiceless and the need to heal the hurt caused to generations of Irish women and their ‘illegitimate’ children.
A year ago, he brought a graveyard to tears when he spoke about his quest for justice, to find out the truth about the sister he never knew he had.
He returned to that graveyard on Mother’s Day, to pay tribute to his mother and all the other mothers who had been locked up in Magdalene Laundries across Ireland.
It is believed there were 10,000 of these women locked up in institutions throughout Ireland right up until the 1980s.
Many, but not all, were single mothers who were taken away from their families to hide their ‘shame’.
And now Peter Mulryan, like the other survivors, is wondering what is going to become of their loved-ones. They believe the Tuam site should be examined and the bodies of the infants exhumed.
They want DNA testing to be carried out on the little ones, but they are concerned now that the Irish authorities will cover up the site and just put in a memorial plaque on the unofficial burial ground.
Galway County Council is currently seeking submissions from members of the public regarding what to do with the site. The deadline for submissions is this Friday, March 16.
Family members like Peter are concerned that the local authority may decide to put a memorial in place at the site of the former septic tank rather than the more costly option of a thorough examination.
The council has listed five options for the site.
“I’m still looking for my sister. I want her file, to see what happened to her. The council are only adding more pain and hardship to the families. I would like to ask the officials how they would feel if they had a family member in the septic tank there. That’s what I ask them when I meet them and they just go cold,” he said, following a memorial service for the women of the Magdalene Laundry in Galway on Sunday afternoon.
“Those children could not be baptised. That ground was never consecrated. The authorities won’t tell us that they are sorry or admit that they were wrong.
“We never did anything wrong, but they are keeping us down by denying us justice for our loved-ones. If somebody was murdered a hundred years ago they would just go in and analyse what’s there.”
Mr Mulryan said he could not accept the argument that a full forensic examination of the Tuam site would cost too much at this stage.
Speaking beside his own mother’s shared grave, he pointed out that many of the mothers worked for free after being incarcerated in the Magdalene Laundries for decades.
“When you think of the money which was made out of these women, slaving for free in these laundries, it’s unbelievable the way they are still treating us,” he said.
Breeda Murphy of the Tuam Home Survivors’ Network said the Government should have declared the site a crime scene after Catherine Corless’ research was vindicated this time last year.
Ms Corless also faced hostility or indifference from the authorities when she researched what happened to the babies who died at the Tuam home.
“The people who have family members at the Tuam site want to bring them home and give them a proper burial. There’s nothing dignified in concealing children in a structure which was first built to contain sewage or human waste. You can never get away from that, regardless of the time period or saying that that was how things were done back then,” said Ms Murphy on Sunday.
“The way in which the Magdalene Laundry women are being treated is probably a reflection of how the Mother and Baby home survivors will be treated down the road. So I don’t see justice coming at all. I am totally disillusioned.”
A survivor of the Magdalene Laundry in Galway, Angela Fahy, said families also had to take responsibility for their role in the incarceration of women in the Magdalene Laundries.
She said there were 110 women in the Galway home when she was locked up there at just 14 years of age.
“These women were put there in secret, died there in secret, and buried there in secret,” she said.
“Their neighbours in Forster Street did not even know them. These women washed and cleaned the clothes of this entire province. Many of them never came out of there alive.
“We cannot just put this down to religion. Quite a lot of it comes down to their own families, people who denied their own flesh and blood if they had a child outside of marriage. These women had no voice for so many years, but they have now thanks to events like this.”
A year has passed since confirmation that the bodies of babies who died at the home between 1925 and 1961 were found at the site of the former Tuam Mother and Baby Home, which was run by the Bon Secours order of nuns.
Campaigners, who want the babies to be given proper burials in consecrated ground, have been inundated with messages of support from across North America over the past year.
They are insisting that cost should not be the main concern as they seek justice for the 796 ‘Tuam Babies’.
Galway County Council is facilitating a full public consultation process about what to do with the site where the ‘Tuam Babies’ were found, with submissions accepted until this Friday, March 16.
Members of the public can email TuamConsultation@galwaycoco.ie or telephone +353 (0)91 509561 if they have any queries regarding the full public consultation process.
Ciaran Tierney is a journalist, blogger, and digital storyteller, based in Galway.
For Peter and the families, it’s personal… (Ciaran Tierney)
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Posted in Misc and tagged public consultation, Tuam Mother and Baby Home at 12:28 pm on March 13, 2018 by Ciaran Tierney.
Do You Cycle Along The Liffey?
Broadsheet at 10:12 am February 6, 2015
Ormond Quay Lower, Dublin 1
Cian Ginty, of Irish Cycle, writes:
Four options for a segregated two-way cycle route along the quays in Dublin City are expected to be made public next week and public consultation is due to start on the preferred route along the River Liffey next month.
IrishCycle.com understands that 12 options for the project have been narrowed down to 4 options — these are expected to be presented to Dublin City Council commities this month, including the traffic and transport commitie, which is due to take place next Wednesday.
One of a number of options for a two-way cycle route on the north quays is seen as the most feasible route design due a number of issues, including more daylight on the north quays and major pinch points on the south quays which cannot be bypassed.
An insight into the details of the cycle route was given last October when an outline of the plan to extend the Croppies Acre memorial park, at the front of Collins Barracks, out onto the riverside. The plan would allow for a car-free public park at the river side and two-way walking and cycle route along a central section of the north quays. That outline shows how buses could be moved off the north quays between Parkgate Street and Church Street.
Details of Liffey Cycle route set to be made public (irishcycle.com)
H/T Cathal MacCoille
Pic: Google Maps
Posted in Misc and tagged Liffey cycle route, public consultation at 10:12 am on February 6, 2015 by Broadsheet.
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Inquiries continue to trace man reported missing from installation
Searches involving the Coastguard have been carried out
Police Scotland can confirm that inquiries are continuing to trace a 49 years-old man who has been reported missing from the Noble Lloyd Noble installation which is located in the Mariner Field approximately 90 miles (150km) east of Shetland.
Officers received a report around 9.20pm on Tuesday, May 9, that the man could not be located on board.
Searches involving the Coastguard have been carried out but have now been scaled back but the man has not been traced. Rescue vessels are continuing to search and a team of officers led by Detective Inspector Norman Stevenson has flown offshore to carry out inquiries and assist the installation.
Detective Inspector Norman Stevenson said: "An extensive search has been carried out which has involved a search and rescue helicopter as well as standby vessels and a platform supply vessel.
"The next of kin of the man have been informed of the ongoing inquiries and further information will be made available to the public when we have it. There are no apparent suspicious circumstances."
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December 23, 2010 / Sean
I can't say I really dig Christmas movies. The whole Elf, Tim Allen Santa thing just makes me cranky. I will, however, watch Meet Me in St. Louis. It's not particularly Christmas themed, but it has nifty titles, technicolor, and a happy turn of the century setting. I don't quite understand the plot. It's a family, and the world's fair, St. Louis, and a possible move to New York. This is the part that I don't understand: The father gets a better job in New York, so the family needs to move. But everyone is so whiny and spoiled that he decides to forgo this amazing opportunity and stay in St. Louis.
That's not going to end well. They're all happy at the end of the movie, but a few years later when teenage rebellion kicks in there are going to be screaming matches. "I gave up the biggest chance of my life for you girls!" says the father, "F#*k You! F#*kface" screams the teenage daughter. The titles are nice though.
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Elf, Film, Meet Me in St- Louis, Motion Graphics, Tim Allen, Typography
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Bible > Matthew > Chapter 2 > Verse 20
◄ Matthew 2:20 ►
saying, “Rise, take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, for those who sought the child’s life are dead.”
Saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they are dead which sought the young child's life.
Arise and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they are dead that sought the young child's life.
Saying: Arise, and take the child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel. For they are dead that sought the life of the child.
saying, Arise and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they are dead that sought the young child's life.
Saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they are dead who sought the young child's life.
"Rise from sleep, and take the child and His mother, and go into the land of Israel, for those who were seeking the child's life are dead."
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Matthew 2:13 And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appears to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise...
Proverbs 3:5,6 Trust in the LORD with all your heart; and lean not to your own understanding...
Exodus 4:19 And the LORD said to Moses in Midian, Go, return into Egypt: for all the men are dead which sought your life.
1 Kings 11:21,40 And when Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers, and that Joab the captain of the host was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh...
1 Kings 12:1-3 And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for all Israel were come to Shechem to make him king...
But when Herod died, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt,
And he rose and took the child and his mother and went to the land of Israel.
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This Just In...
Apologies for the silence on this blog for the past two weeks — I was completely sucked into the insanity of the SXSW music festival in Austin, Texas. I'm now back and trying to get back up to speed on everything else in my life, though my post-festival haze isn't making it easy.
However, it was music to my bloodshot eyes this morning to find that Big Hair & Plastic Grass has received its first official review... and a very favorable one, at that. From Kirkus Reviews:
Epstein, Dan
BIG HAIR AND PLASTIC GRASS: A Funky Ride Through Baseball and America in the Swinging ’70s
A delightful history of the “weirdness, hairiness, overall funkiness, and sheer amusement” that was America’s pastime in the 1970s.
By the beginning of the decade, the cultural revolution of the ’60s had reached a last bastion of tradition, baseball. Drugs, fashion, the sexual revolution, Black Power and an insistence on quirky individualism all left their mark on the game. The era began with Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Dock Ellis throwing a no-hitter in 1970 while on LSD, and ended with the Chicago White Sox “Disco Demolition” night in 1979 that resulted in the worst on-field riot in baseball history. In between appeared an array of “charismatic rebels, flakes, and hard-nosed hustlers” who challenged many conventions of the game. There was also plenty of good baseball, writes shockhound.com managing editor Epstein (20th Century Pop Culture, 2002). The author proceeds year-by-year through the decade, highlighting the great teams, players and moments: the Oakland As dynasty of the early ’70s; Cincinnati’s Big Red Machine; Hank Aaron breaking Babe Ruth’s home-run record; Reggie Jackson hitting three home runs in one World Series game. But it’s the quirkiness of the era and its players that captivates. For a time, baseball became a game played on an artificial surface that bore no relation to real grass, and players wore form-fitting polyester uniforms in “retina-searing color combinations that would’ve made Ty Cobb choke on his chaw.” Hair was everywhere, from giant Afros to voluminous mustaches. Epstein also discusses the more serious issues of the time, such as the struggle of African-Americans to gain entrance to upper-level positions in baseball, and Frank Robinson becoming the first black manager, in 1975. By the dawn of the ’80s, the weirdness was pretty much over, as “team uniforms gradually became, on the whole, less colorful, and so did the players themselves.”
Baseball fans and non-fans alike will revel in this loving look at a long-gone era.
As Jimmy "JJ" Walker would say, Dy-No-MITE!!! And remember folks, if this sounds like your kinda thang, you can pre-order my book (which comes out May 25) at any of the bookseller links in the right-hand column...
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The $140,000 Man
That's right, folks — in 1970, when these photos were run in an Ebony Magazine article on the highest-paid players in major league baseball (a big tip of the Monsanto Toupée goes out to Mike Funes, an enthusiastic contributor to the Big Hair & Plastic Grass Facebook page, for digging these up), Carl Yastrzemski of the Red Sox was "reported to be the highest paid player ever in major league baseball" — with a salary of $140,000.
That amount, even adjusted for inflation, is chump change compared to the $3.27 million average salary of today's major leaguers. And this brings up one of the thornier conundrums I've encountered this summer when I've been interviewed about the book. Do I think that free agency was a necessary change to the sport? Absolutely. Do I also think that the rapidly escalating player salaries brought on by free agency changed the game irrevocably, and often for the worse? Um, I'd have to say yes to that, as well.
While what major leaguers make today is admittedly pretty obscene compared to the salaries of the really important people in our society — say, school teachers and firefighters — I still believe that ballplayers should receive an equitable slice of baseball's financial pie, since after all it is the players that fans are paying money to see. (I also firmly believe that any team owner these days who says that they are "losing money" on their franchise is either lying or incredibly inept, but that's a rant for another time.) And I believe that players should have greater control over their own destinies, at least in terms of being able to negotiate with other teams if their contract is up, and having a say (at least once they've achieved veteran status) as to if and where they'll be traded.
None of those possibilities existed when these photos were taken. You played your ass off all season for your team — and if your team's owner or front office wanted to pay you the same salary next season, give you a pay cut, or even trade you to another team (even if, like Curt Flood, you'd already put in a over a decade with the same franchise), you had no real recourse. You could complain to the press and threaten to sit out the next season, but that would only get you labeled a malcontent and make you a target for fan abuse...and good luck with landing a spot on another team, pal.
Now, thanks in part to Curt Flood's brave (and career-destroying) lawsuit against baseball's reserve clause, all of that's a thing of the past. But then again, so are the days when most great players would stay with the same team for years or even decades. And while it's nice for the players that they no longer have to work other jobs in the off-season to pay the bills — Pirates infielder Richie Hebner's sideline as a gravedigger being the most famous example — their gigantic salaries have definitely put some distance between them and the fans, and not just financially. (C'mon — how many multi-millionaires can you really relate to?) When I was at Cubs Fantasy Camp this past January, Bob Dernier told me how he and many other players used to go drinking at the bars around Wrigley after day games in the '80s. Not hanging out with their bodyguards in the "VIP" section — just bellying up to the bar and bullshitting with fans. You rarely, if ever, see that happening today.
Such is the complexity of life, I guess — positive and necessary changes can also produce some unforeseen negative developments. But this is part of why I find the '70s such a complex and fascinating period in the sport, and a prime example of how the legacy of that decade continues to impact baseball as we know it in the 21st century.
By 1979, most of the sharply-attired players pictured here — Bob Gibson, Willie McCovey, Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, Juan Marichal, Roberto Clemente, Frank Robinson, Frank Howard — had either retired from playing or (in Clemente's case) passed away. The only ones left on the field were company man Yaz, who was still playing for the Red Sox and making a $375,000 salary, and Pete Rose, who was making nearly three times that amount as a free agent signee with the Phillies. Of course, no amount of money could ever make Charlie Hustle look as smooth and sharp as McCovey does here...
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Mighty,
not fallen
Julian Barratt might not have become the household name that comic partner Noel Fielding has but he’s been making select appearances since the Mighty Boosh and now he’s appearing on the big screen
By Simon Bland
Home Features Mighty, not fallen
“He’s an areshole but within the arsehole there’s a heart,” says writer and comedian Julian Barratt of his new and clearly complex comic creation Richard Thorncroft. Once a prolific actor famed for his turn as the semi-bionic Detective Mindhorn in a 1980s cop show that made Knight Rider look suave, Thorncroft had it all: fame, respect, a robotic eye that could literally see the truth. A man’s man and a ladies man, hunting down wrongdoers on the Isle of Man, Mindhorn was a hit. However, it wasn’t long before Richard Thorncroft discovered the fickle nature of fame.
Cut to 2017 and the washed-up star has seen better days but when a deranged serial killer, who believes Mindhorn is real, forces him to return to his Isle of Man stomping ground, Thorncroft’s offered a rare chance at redemption and more importantly, a bit of a career boost. “I think everyone’s only a couple of bad decisions away from being Richard Thorncroft,” Barratt tells Big Issue North when we catch up with him a few weeks before Mindhorn’s theatrical debut. “Arrogance, selfishness, bitterness, envy – it’s not far below the surface of almost everyone, unless you’ve been in therapy since you were born. Most people have access to that reservoir of emotions so it’s quite good fun to go there and play those things.”
Bursting onto the scene with cult hit The Mighty Boosh in 2003, Barratt has since kept a decidedly lower profile than his Boosh buddy Noel Fielding, avoiding panel shows for select appearances in indie movies and slick telly spots. And when he and writing partner Simon Farnaby stumbled upon the idea for Mindhorn the duo knew they had something special on their hands.
“I’m an incredible baker so I don’t know why they didn’t come to me really.”
“A friend of ours, Olly Ralfe, who’s a singer-songwriter, wrote a song about a man called Bruno Mindhorn,” recalls Barratt. “He wrote it for the Boosh – it was like a surrealist poem. But the name Mindhorn was just something Simon thought sounded like a detective.”
A detective with a very specific skill set, apparently. “His skills were up for grabs when we first came up with the name. We thought maybe he could have a cybernetic nose that smelled the truth. We had all these ideas about him being a normal bloke that’s robotic in some way. Eventually we landed on an eye that can see the truth. It’s a rather silly idea but it was just silly enough. You might call him the Bionic Bergerac.”
“He’s an idiot and he’s kind of dislikeable. He’s sort of racist and sexist and all sort of ‘ists’ and constructed as out of date, out of shape and out of luck but there’s something within him that’s not wholly disgusting and despicable. If you get through all those layers of rubbishness you might find something. It’s just fun to play.”
Infused with a similar strain of off-the-wall, oddball humour that made Barratt’s turn as Howard Moon in The Mighty Boosh so enduring, Mindhorn has late-night cult gem written all over it. While brilliant cameos from the likes of Steve Coogan and Kenneth Branagh certainly help, the majority of the legwork comes from Barratt’s expert comedy chops. “When I was growing up The Pink Panther was quite big, then Python. They were the things that I was into,” says Leeds-born Barratt.
Is there such thing as a distinctly northern comedic style? “It does seem like that sometimes, yeah. When I saw Vic and Bob it sort of reminded me of a lot of people that I knew in Leeds – slightly odd people who were really funny and strange. Different towns seem to have different comedic styles.”
But Barratt’s current comedic tendencies are a little more leftfield. “I’m rewatching Miami Vice at the moment actually. I was initially watching it because I’m trying to make a music video for Richard Thorncroft and I thought I’d watch some Miami Vice to get into the vibe. Now I’m just watching it, not even ironically. When I’m on my own at night I secretly watch Miami Vice – no one else wants to watch it with me so I’m just watching it and really enjoying it. I’m not sure what that means.”
Whatever it means, it looks like this won’t be the last time we see Barratt take centre stage on the big screen. But those crossing fingers for a movie version of The Mighty Boosh may have to hold out a little longer. “Noel and I still see each other quite often because we live very close to each other but we’re doing different things at the moment. We’ve made it and we’re very proud of it and there’s lots of things we haven’t done with it which we could do. I think when we both feel that the time is right we’ll do something. Obviously he’s got to do the Bake Off so we’ll see how he feels after he’s done a bit of baking. I’m an incredible baker so I don’t know why they didn’t come to me really.”
Does Barratt see himself venturing behind the camera? “Yeah, I’d love to direct. I think that’s what I’d like to do next year,” he tells us before hinting that this might not be the last we’ve seen of Detective Mindhorn. “There’s more to be done with him, I think. He’s quite a good character to explore, a certain type of pompous masculinity. I’d quite like to do something live with him as well. He’s like a weird car that you can get inside and drive about in. It’s quite fun to get into that vehicle.”
Mindhorn is released in cinemas on 5 May
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Can hypertension cause dementia?
Washington D.C. [USA], June 13 (ANI): A recent study has found a link between hypertension and dementia.
The research indicates that patients with high blood pressure are at a higher risk of developing dementia.
This research also shows (for the first time) that an MRI can be used to detect very early signatures of neurological damage in people with high blood pressure, before any symptoms of dementia occur.
The clinical approach to treatment of dementia patients usually starts only after symptoms are clearly evident. However, it has becoming increasingly clear that when signs of brain damage are manifest, it may be too late to reverse the neurodegenerative process.
Physicians still lack procedures for assessing progression markers that could reveal pre-symptomatic alterations and identify patients at risk of developing dementia.
This work was conducted on patients with no sign of structural damage and no diagnosis of dementia. All patients underwent clinical examination to determine their hypertensive status and the related target organ damage. Additionally, patients were subjected to an MRI scan to identify microstructural damage.
To gain insights in the neurocognitive profile of patients a specific group of tests was administered. As primary outcome of the study the researchers aimed at finding any specific signature of brain changes in white matter microstructure of hypertensive patients, associated with an impairment of the related cognitive functions.
The result indicated that hypertensive patients showed significant alterations in three specific white matter fiber-tracts. Hypertensive patients also scored significantly worse in the cognitive domains ascribable to brain regions connected through those fiber-tracts, showing decreased performances in executive functions, processing speed, memory and related learning tasks.
Overall, white matter fiber-tracking on MRIs showed an early signature of damage in hypertensive patients when otherwise undetectable by conventional neuroimaging.
As these changes can be detected before patients show symptoms, these patients could be targeted with medication earlier to prevent further deterioration in brain function. These findings are also widely applicable to other forms of neurovascular disease, where early intervention could be of marked therapeutic benefit.
"The problem is that neurological alterations related to hypertension are usually diagnosed only when the cognitive deficit becomes evident, or when traditional magnetic resonance shows clear signs of brain damage. In both cases, it is often too late to stop the pathological process" said Giuseppe Lembo, the coordinator of this study.
"We have been able to see that, in the hypertensive subjects, there was a deterioration of white matter fibers connecting brain areas typically involved in attention, emotions and memory, said Lorenzo Carnevale, first author of the study.
"An important aspect to consider is that all the patients studied did not show clinical signs of dementia and, in conventional neuroimaging, they showed no signs of cerebral damage. Of course, further studies will be necessary, but we think that the use of tractography will lead to the early identification of people at risk of dementia, allowing timely therapeutic interventions."
The study has been published in the journal Cardiovascular Research. (ANI)
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Blame Brexit: New York becomes world's top financial centre
LONDON, U.K. - With Brexit posing as the biggest challenge to the City of London’s finance industry and Britain's divorce from the European Union prompting banks to shift jobs out of the city - London's position globally has taken a beating.
According to a new survey, London has lost the position as the world’s most attractive financial center to its biggest competitor - New York.
The Z/Yen global financial centers index, which ranks 100 financial centers on factors such as infrastructure and access to quality staff has ranked New York as the world’s most attractive financial center.
The survey’s authors have pointed out that London’s ranking fell by eight points from six months ago - which was said to be the biggest decline among the top contenders.
Further, the surveyors noted that the drop reflected the uncertainty around Brexit.
Britain’s decision to leave the European Union has prompted banks to shift jobs out of the city to preserve access to Europe’s single market.
Further, experts have pointed out that Brexit has become London's biggest challenge since the 2007-2009 financial crisis as it threatens banks and insurers who has established presence in the city - and would now lose access to the world’s biggest trading bloc - EU.
Due to this, some of the world’s most powerful finance companies in London have begun moving staff to the EU to preserve the existing cross-border flow of trading after 2019.
A study published by Reuters in March said that around 5,000 roles are expected to be shifted or created in the EU from London by March next year - the date of Britain’s EU exit.
Mark Yeandle, the co-creator of the index pointed out, “We are getting closer and closer to exit day and we still don’t know whether London will be able to trade with all the other European financial centers. The fear of losing business to other centers is driving the slight decline and people are concerned about London’s competitiveness.”
Meanwhile, in the Z/Yen global financial centers index, New York took first place, followed by London, Hong Kong and Singapore.
By Sheetal Sukhija, Big News Network
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1942-1943. Allies Make Gains in North Africa as Soviets Await Second Front
The North African Campaign and the Western Front
"Churchill Mk III tanks of 'King Force' moving forward towards the battle area during the Second Battle of El Alamein," November 5, 1942 (source)
Bill Downs delivered these reports from London in 1942 and Moscow in 1943. He discusses the Allies' strategic goals in the wake of several big victories in North Africa. The Soviets continued to press the Western Allies to reopen the Western Front.
The parentheses indicate portions that did not pass Soviet censors for military security or propaganda reasons.
(For more, see the complete 1943 Moscow reports.)
FROM LONDON, 1942
CBS London
There is little fresh news in London today. Britain's morning newspapers, after reporting the Battle of Stalingrad for the past six weeks, seem to have run out of superlatives to praise the Russian stand. Stalingrad is still the best story of the day in British newspapers. The American Flying Fortresses have given the air experts something to think about—particularly those who said Europe could not be bombed in daylight. British aviation writers have not yet analyzed the reasons behind the success of the American planes that bagged 105 German planes Friday, but their comments should be interesting when they get it figured out.
The leading military experts who hold forth in the Sunday morning papers also found little on which to comment. Some of them took up the old cry for the appointment of a supreme commander of the United Nations forces. This move was intensely discussed in the press about six weeks ago but nothing came of it. Now the Sunday Observer's strategist who writes under the name "Liberator" said the time has come to appoint a Supreme Command including the United States, Russia, China, and Great Britain to "agree on joint grand strategy for global war." The Sunday Express military writer, J. L. Garvin, takes a similar stand, saying that time has become an enemy of the United Nations. He says that Britain and the United States have not yet even come into agreement over the question of what American supplies are supposed to go where—let alone grand strategy. He added that Anglo-American liaison with Russia on strategy was even more widely separated.
In a discussion I had yesterday with high Russian officials over this same question of grand strategy, they agreed that there was a need for closer cooperation between the high commands of the United Nations—particularly Russia.
"Everybody knows that," the Russians said. "But the question of a supreme commander and global warfare and all the rest of those high sounding phrases does not interest Russia. The only thing we are interested in is a second front while there is still time for it to do some good. We don't care who directs it. The important thing is to get it started—and now." That presumably is the official Russian attitude toward the problem of the supreme command which Britain and America have been discussing for the past month.
But I believe the ordinary British Tommy has given the best reason for establishment of a second front in Europe—a better reason than all the armchair strategists put together. A former British newspaperman who is in town on leave told my British friend's story last night. He's now in the tank corps.
"The way our boys in the tank corps figure it out," he said, "we figure that it takes six months to get to India to fight there, four months to get to Syria, and probably three months to get to Egypt to join British forces in those countries. Consequently, there's no home leave. So we figure, why go so far to fight when there's Germans just across the channel? Then we'll be able to lick Hitler, and whether it takes a year or ten years we'll still be able to get home leave maybe once every six months.
President Roosevelt's fireside chat made good reading over British breakfast tables this morning. It wasn't because he promised that the United Nations have new offensives in the making. The British have been told that many times before—perhaps too many times.
But the people of Britain like the tone of Mr. Roosevelt's speech. They like what it implied more than what the speech actually said. On the eve of what promises to be one of the bloodiest winters in the history of this greatest of all wars, President Roosevelt's confidence in what he saw during his tour of the United States reacts on this country like a tonic. The British welcome a change from the dire warnings of "blood, toil sweat, and tears."
Mr. Roosevelt told the American people to expect more hardships—hardships which the British have been enduring for many months. Tommy Atkinses know what the President is talking about when he says women will have to be put in munitions factories, that jobs and wages and prices will have to be strictly controlled, that youngsters of 18 or 20 will be liable for military service. They have been and are going through exactly that right now.
The porter at my apartment house, who is the building's chief fire warden, put the British reaction to Mr. Roosevelt's speech better than I can. The porter, who wears a brace of ribbons from the last war, grinned when he saw me this morning. "Blimey," he said, "I guess you Yanks really are in this war from the bottom up, aren't you?"
There is increasing evidence that the Axis is worried about what America and Britain are planning for the Western Front. The BBC early this morning broadcast a warning to the French people from the British High Command. The warning told Frenchmen that now "as never before" it is important for them to be prepared for Allied air, sea, and land activity. The warning again emphasized that Frenchmen were to keep away from areas where German headquarters and barracks are located. They also were told to keep away from railway centers, repair yards, and from the defended coastal zone.
The Nazi controlled Paris radio again revived reports of imminent Allied action in North Africa. The Paris radio spokesman demanded that the Vichy government take some steps to defend Dakar. The Axis commentator claimed that American contingents are arriving daily on the Gold Coast in Liberia and in the Belgian Congo as well as South Africa.
Meanwhile, Goebbels issued a statement in Berlin saying that British forces will soon launch an offensive in Egypt, where strong Allied motorized columns are being held in readiness.
Allied military officials are quite satisfied to let the Axis propaganda machines go on guessing. There has been and will be no comment or confirmation of what Goebbels and company claim is going on, at least not until that time is ripe.
"Gurkhas advance through a smokescreen up a steep slope in Tunisia," March 16, 1943 (source)
FROM MOSCOW, 1943
CBS Moscow
The Red Army is rolling up the Southern and Trans-Caucasian fronts like a rug. Tonight's special communiqué announcing the capture of Salsk across the Manych Canal represents a twenty mile advance in one day. (And this advance was made over the ravined, swamped steppe land which bogs the Manych River valley.)
The Soviet command now has two choices. It can wheel its forces to the northwest and attack up the Manych Valley railroad one hundred miles to Rostov, or it can continue along the railroad southwest and join the Trans-Caucasian army fighting its way toward the Maykop oil fields. Undoubtedly this decision will be governed by the direction of the retreat of the main body of German troops. Where they go, you can be certain the Red Army will be on their heels.
(It may develop that, from Salsk, the Soviet command will decide to advance both west and south.)
(The one man in all of Russia who I think is more worried about the recent string of Red Army successes than anyone else is) the (wine) waiter at my hotel here in Moscow(. He) was overjoyed when the German troops at Stalingrad were cut off—then came Kotelnikovo, Velikiye-Luki, Millerovo, and Leningrad. (With each successive victory his face got longer and longer).
I told him about the imminent fall of Tripoli this morning, and he only shook his head. Then I asked him was wrong. ("It's the vodka,") he said. ("We have soldiers and sailors and) airmen who are on leave who like to celebrate these victories. (The trouble is that the Red Army is winning victories faster than my vodka comes in. And now you Americans and British have to start. I tell you if it keeps up at this rate, vodka will be kaput.")
(However, my worried wine waiter isn't half as worried about the Allied winter successes as the German high command must be.) The Russian press is devoting most of its foreign page to the North African campaign. A break in the lull in North Africa and a substantial advance against the Germans will be greeted here with the same enthusiasm as with a major Russian victory. People with whom I have talked have been puzzled why the United States Army, Russia's most powerful ally, has been virtually stopped before Tunis.
They are watching the developments in North Africa with interest, and with hope.
On the Russian front, two sectors make the news this morning. Soviet forces have reached a point less than twenty miles from Voroshilovgrad, the industrial and railroad center of eastern Ukraine. The city already has been partially flanked from the north along the northern bank of the Donets. Voroshilovgrad's railroad communications to the east have already been cut. And in connection with this fighting on the southwestern front, a major military mystery has developed. For the past several days there has been no mention of the Red Army column which crossed the Donets southward along the Millerovo-Likhayas railroad and took Kamensk. But whatever has been the disposition of this mystery column, it would appear that the Battle of Voroshilovgrad is imminent.
On the southern front, the Red Army is still advancing. The capture of Salsk announced last night allows the Soviet command to fuse three columns which have been rolling up Hitler's abortive drive for Stalingrad and the Caucasus. The Russian column from Katolenikovo and the column which drove westward from Elista and the Northern Caucasus forces soon will form a solid front stretching southward from the Manych River to the Rostov-Baku railroad. The combined striking power will be tremendous when this fusion is complete.
The Russians don't celebrate any sort of April Fool's Day. I tried to explain this particular bit of American wackiness to one sober citizen of the Soviet Union today. She replied "Yes, but who can you find in the world these days that's fooling?"
She had me there.
This morning's communiqué gives no further details of the renewed Red Army drive in the Kuban, which yesterday resulted in the capture of an important junction of German resistance on the lower reaches of the Kuban River. The communiqué mentioned only local fighting in the Smolensk region, along the Donets River and west of Rostov.
The newspaper Izvestia, the Soviet Union's official government publication, printed lengthy analyses of the North African campaign. They are the first analytic articles published about the Allied campaign (in Tunisia) giving a Russian view of what's happening down there.
The Izvestia military writer praised the simultaneous movements of the American, British, and French forces which, he said, should soon have Rommel in serious trouble. Then Izvestia said "Rommel knows how to retreat and retreat fast—but from Tunisia there is no place to retreat. Perhaps Rommel will try to evacuate across to Sicily. However Allied aircraft and the Allied navies dominate the sea and the air. It is only slightly possible that Rommel could carry out such an evacuation successfully and according to plan."
Then both the Red Star and Izvestia pointed out "These movements of the American, French, and British forces will smash Rommel's plans and accelerate the development of events."
In the Russian view there is only one event that needs developing. That, as you know, is the second front. As the Soviet Union sees the situation, Hitler is now all stooped facing eastward over collecting men and material for further attacks on Russia. The Russians think this is a good time to give him a hard boot in the rear that will throw him flat on his face.
With all the publicity the North African campaign is getting here in Russia, it is not hard to connect those second front hopes with the Allied successes in Tunisia. That's why the Soviet Union is so interested in the fighting in North Africa.
An echo of the unprecedented Nazi chaining of the Canadians captured at Dieppe last year turned up today under the melting snows of the Leningrad front. Red Army men of one artillery unit near Volkhov found the body of a Russian soldier who had been tortured to death. His hands were chained behind him. Several other bodies of tortured men are now being revealed as the snow melts.
This spring in Russia is not going to be a joyous season of birds and bees and flowers. It is going to be a season of bodies, burials, and bereavement.
There were no developments of any importance anywhere along the twelve-hundred mile Russian front last night. The Germans tried another attack at the Balakeysa river crossing but were repulsed after losing 100 men. On the other sectors of the front there were only local scouting operations and minor artillery duels.
This morning's Pravda prints a hands-across-the-seas editorial which represents a new high in Soviet optimism and praise for the American-Russian-British alliance against the Axis. (The editorial is the first Russian newspaper comment on the new slogans chosen for the May 1st celebration).
Pravda says "the unity of the anti-Hitlerian coalition is strengthening. As a result of the resistance of the Soviet people and the big defeats inflicted on the German-Fascist troops, our allies had time for the mobilization of their reserves. They were able to accumulate forces and prepare their troops for telling blows on the enemy."
The statement is the first explanation printed in the Soviet press rationalizing the position of Britain and America during the strained periods when Germany was pushing the Red Army eastward, and later when the Red Army advanced this winter and the pressure for a second front was revived...
The American and British and French troops in North Africa don't know it, but their heroism and sacrifices and courage have achieved something here in Russia that a thousand diplomats and a million words could never have done.
This victory in Tunisia is being heralded on the Soviet press and radio with all the fanfare and praise which usually is reserved for the heroes of the Red Army.
The United States doughboys who took Bizerts are not only soldiers, they are diplomats in arms. And today these doughboys and their comrades have won a hundred and eighty million friends in the Soviet Union—friends who are ready to lay down their lives here on the Eastern Front with the same willingness that the men of America and Britain and France gave theirs in the long fight along the southern shores of the Mediterranean.
The Allied victory in Tunisia concludes the first phase of the first combined operation between Russia and Britain and America. You remember it started last November when the British Eighth Army broke the Alamein line. Then the American troops landed in Africa. And then the Red Army started its winter offensive, beginning with the victory of Stalingrad and the march eastward to the Donets.
All these achievements came within two weeks of each other. It's a thing to remember when we consider the impending battles this summer. Perhaps it will be May, or June, or July that will go down in history as the key month in the second phase of the United Nations' strategy.
That's a question that must be worrying Hitler and Mussolini right now. At any rate, it's the question which is the subject of almost every discussion here in Moscow.
Meanwhile, the Russian people are keeping one eye on their own front as they celebrate the victories of their Allies. The Red Army is still gnawing away at the German defenses in the Kuban—the Soviet Air Force is delivering its bombs with the regularity of enthusiastic milkmen.
American prestige in Russia has never been higher than it is tonight. The complete and utter defeat of the Germans and Italians in North Africa has boosted Allied stock sky-high. The American and British and French troops have achieved a victory big enough for all the United Nations to share—and Soviet Russia definitely is having some.
I talked to a number of Russians today to get their reactions to the great victory in Tunisia. The reactions are virtually all the same—the Russians say "It's a great victory for us," and they emphasize "us."
The waiter at my hotel here in Moscow said he was not surprised by the victory. "We in the kitchen," he said, "knew all the time that you Americans and British would win. We are now calculating for next move on the continent. (Most of us think it will be through Italy or the Balkans.")
(And then I ran into a friend of mine who is a captain in the Red Army. He congratulated me on the Allied victory and then said: "You know, I am a little disappointed. At Stalingrad we only took 93,000 prisoners out of 330,000. Already you fellows have captured over 150,000 of them. It's too bad you couldn't have killed a few more.)
(That's the natural reaction to all men in the army who have fought through one ruined city and village after another that had been held by the Germans.)
There is no longer a question about a second front. People here don't even ask about it any longer. The attitude now is that the second front is something for Hitler to worry about. From now on the Russian people are going to be too busy fighting their own war on this front to do much worrying. They also hope that in the meantime the Allied troops will give them more opportunities to cheer the America, British, and French troops.
This Allied victory in North Africa is the second big setback that the Axis forces have suffered since Hitler came to power. The first was Stalingrad.
No one over here is taking the time or trouble to argue whether Stalingrad is a bigger victory than Tunisia or vice versa.
From the number of casualties inflicted, Stalingrad undoubtedly was a much bloodier battle. But from the standpoint of overall strategy, the North African victory probably is a greater achievement.
It is a cheering sign that there are no such foolish arguments or discussions going on in Moscow tonight such as those which arose in America after the last war—you know the old argument that "we won the war for the Allies."
Russians simply don't think that way. After what the Soviet Union has suffered, the people of Russia don't care to waste time talking about who won what. It has become pretty clear over here that unless everyone puts every ounce of fight and energy into this war, no one is going to be able to talk about winning anything for a long, long time.
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The Power of Place
Help each other and get help here.
Be sure to check out the comments in the archives for this forum. Last year's freshmen faced the same issues you will!
Well, all the activity on this forum is so encouraging...NOT! That''s not a good sign, people who do not take me seriously, and this class seriously, often end up unhappy with the outcome. But that's true of life too, right? Unfortunately, you don't yet know what you don't know, that is, that this level of reading and the kinds of questions you'll face on the exam, are far above what you've experienced before. *sigh* You should definitely review the files on the Geographic Destiny page.
Evelyn de Groot
On the Study Guide for Chapter One I'm confused on question 23, why are the poorest of the poor countries contributing relatively few of the world's Mobals? What also is population explosion? Can you help me? Thank you!
I believe that it because the people in the country are so, so poor, the people do not have enough money to get out, to take chances, and also to support thier family while they are doing it. Most people just have trouble finding a meal, so it is very hard for them to even get enough money to take a bus somewhere else.
Population explosion is a sudden increase in the size of a population.
Do you know if the answer to question one is in the preface like most of the other first questions?
Wow! Finally, some action on the forum! I think Lillian has a good answer.
As for the preface, you should notice that it is a summary of de Blij argument. As is chapter one in expanded form. As is the rest of the book. That's effective writing.
Sam Linda
Since the outcome of the test was so poor and we are reviewing chapter one again, will there be another chapter one test?
OH, and is the chapter two test still the same date as it is currently scheduled on the calendar (because of the problem above)?
Sorry, stupid questions. Checked the calendar. Issue resolved.
Mr. Bingham,
I have been looking for the study guide for the test on the website, but I cannot find it anymore after taking the test. I know that you said that you put it back on after the test, but I have not been able to find it. Would it be in the same spot as before on the website?
Lillian Evans link
Lillian! Just click "post" once! Clicking multiple times doesn't make things happen faster! This will be a big problem for you when you start making credit card purchases on line.
Looks like the file failed to upload when I did it Friday. It's there now.
thank you. Sorry every time I clicked it it said post failed
Maggie Wintz
I'm still confused on whether globals and globalizers are the same thing. I've reread the first chapter several times and I'm still stumped. Does anyone have the answer to this?
I'm glad you are digging so deeply! Obviously global refers to the people, glabalizer implies people activity trying to move the world in a more interconnected direction. For our purposes, don't worry about the distinction. Ask yourself this, if I reworded each question, would you still find the answer in your head because you know the topics so well? Sounds like you are on the right track.
Ely Eastman
Whats up guys. I am a sophomore who took Pre-AP geography with Bingham before. While Power of Place isn't my strength, once you start getting into thesis and essay writing I'm really happy to help you with that.
Please contact me when you get to that part of the course, or even right now if you need help with other study tips.
email: Eastman.ely@gmail.com
Thank you Ely for offering to help us!
I'll be sure to contact you when the going gets rough.
If you were planning to improve your understanding of Chapter one of the P.of P. and followed my advise in class to pull the concepts out of the two tests, you might have ended up with a list that looks like this (see, I do my homework!)
Topics/Concepts in Chapter One, The Power of Place
Note: These topics can be found in multiple places in chapter one. Recognizing them when you read is critical.
1. The “flat world” argument put forward by Thomas Friedman and other “flat worlders” including such ideas as outsourcing, offshoring, could drives, uploading, and all the trappings of high speed communication and jet travel.
2. De Blij’s idea that the world is actually, metaphorically, “rough terrain”. That the world is only flat for a few – the “globals”. There are “staggering” situational differences related to the power of place.
3. The differing circumstances between “Globals”, “Locals” and “Mobals” – and the role each plays in the current and potential future. Each lives in very different worlds and one blanket worldview does not describe them all, especially with regard to opportunity and destiny.
4. That in spite of a human tendency for exclusion, we are all, now more than ever, in a perilous place together on the planet.
5. A walling off of the global core from the expanding periphery and the need for governments in the core and the periphery to work together to successfully accommodate the movement of Mobals to the core.
6. The demographic cycle that included a population explosion in the 20th century changed the scale of these situational differences.
7. That the governments and international businesses of the core have a substantial and disproportionate impact on the world generally, including in the periphery. They (the state) sometimes subjugate Locals for their own economic, cultural and strategic reasons.
8. Mobals are the key to the world dynamic, they are the agents of change and the greatest source of both vitality and danger for a core that is both in need of them and fears them in a weaponized world.
9. That the problem for most Locals is that mobility and globalization are synonymous. That without the means to change location, the power of place holds them in circumstances that offer no choices.
10. The force that has the greatest impact on the human geography of the world today is urbanization.
11. Place and identity are closely linked. Regional norms are often barriers to the forces of choice and reasoning.
12. The physical, political and cultural partitioning (on many scales, from local, to national, to regional, to global) of the core from the periphery slows the leveling implied by flat world proponents and the forces of globalization.
I just had a conversation with my dad about a family issue, and it all led back to the inclusion/exclusion topic that we had discussed in class. I'll use the names Joe and Sue. Joe assumed that Sue felt a certain way about another family member, Jenny. But Sue's feelings were exactly the opposite. Joe called Sue to let her know that something was going on with Jenny, and he "knew" it would upset her. But it didn't. When Sue tried to explain herself, Joe shut her down telling her he was "done" with the issue and was not willing to discuss it. This angered Sue for two reasons. That Joe did not understand her opinion on the issue was one reason. But more importantly, Joe was not interested in hearing her side of things. Joe was not willing to INCLUDE Sue in a discussion of the issue. This is what caused the lasting problem.
I then realized that Eve from the video wasn't bothered about the things that the other kids did, it was just the fact that she wasn't included in the "in" group. This brought me to the quote, "Differences between us did not cause hatred; hatred caused differences between us." This all led me to apartheid.
The blacks in South Africa weren't discriminated against because they were different, at first. It was because the Afrikaners needed to somehow exclude a group of people to fix governmental problems within the Country. The blacks didn't rebel only because they wanted revenge, it was because they wanted to prove that they were worthy of being included in the elite group of people that the Afrikaners were members of. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that I now truly understand what De Blij meant when he said that apartheid was purely human, not racial.
Good thinking. The point is though that people just do that stuff, things like race show up later as a rationalization for the bad behavior.
In the second chapter one test, question 11(about the scale changing) is still confusing me. When you went through it in class, I didn't catch everything you said. Can you explain it one more time?
Sure! This ties in with the notion of an enduring human geography. He's saying here that the settlement patterns of humans on the planet have remained the same (with a couple of exceptions) since our species left Africa. The scale part refers to the huge increase in the sheer numbers of people. Same pattern - enduring as in it lasts, new scale - lots more people.
But there is more to the scale thing. De Blij talks about this timeless process in which the people with power subjugate, or control, other people for their own economic, cultural and strategic benefit. He uses South African apartheid as an example. The scale has changed in this regard as well. People have always controlled others, but now, there are a lot more people to control and more people doing the controlling. Scale.
Yes, Thank you!
Leina Betzer
If a global decides to leave their country and start a business in another country because of new opportunities, are they still globals or do they become mobals?
That's a good question, because it means you're thinking clearly about these topics! But the answer is no, a Global has a more guaranteed outcome, as in the scenario you suggest. For a Mobal, the outcome is far less certain, remember, they're the "risk takers".
Kayelee Ellis
I understand the difference between the core and periphery. But is there a "periphery" in the core? Or are we all mobals and globals? Also, when immigrants that have nothing come to America, are they JUST mobals or, in a sense, locals and globals? I have thoroughly confused myself.
Ha ha! Well, I like that you're thinking deeply about this! But for our purposes now, just keep those categories in mind. Of course, you're right, nothing is ever that simple. Certainly there are Locals among us in the core, and Mobals can often become Locals in a new place. To become true Globals, Mobals have to be able to take advantage of new opportunities to break free of the power of place. Often this doesn't happen in one generation. This is certainly the American story, immigrants setting up a new life so that their children benefit.
Keep at it, you are on the right track!
I believe that there isn't necessarily a periphery in the core, but there are cities and/or countries that could be classified as if they were part of the periphery. In The Power of Place, De Blij says that even though Southeast Asia isn't part of the core, Singapore is one of the major countries in the process of globalization, with a very succesful economy and a high quality-of-life index. This means that, even though it isn't, Singapore could be a part of the core. I believe the same within the core, that some countries could be part of the periphery. As for your other questions, we could be either mobals, locals, or globals, even in the core. It all depends on how our life turns out, whether we get a great job and make advances in technology or we don't have many opportunities in our home country and seek for more opportunites in better countries. And for whether immigrants are mobals, locals, or globals, I think that they are just mobals. They probably wouldn't be globals, since immigrants usually come for a better life in a better country, but at the same time wouldn't be locals, since one trait of theirs is that they are the least mobile and stay in or near their hometown for most of their lives.
Mr. Bingham
I know you've already explained this, but I still don't fully understand why globals fear mobals. I think it's because of social changes, but that doesn't seem like a good enough answer. If the only issue is cultural differences, then why does the state create a big hype, spending a lot of money on barriers? Please explain; thanks.
."States " are usually responding to percieved economic issues ; drain on national resources, jobs taken within their borders. These are ofte responses to the fears of their citizens. And don't underestimate the power of cultural changes, people who are living fairly comfortable lives are threatened by issues around religion, language and traditions. People take that stuff personally. To maintain authority, governments have to be percieved as addressing these" threats ".
I'm still pretty confused on what De Blij means about apartheid's "essentially geographic framework." Is it just how specific and "no exceptions" that the government was about the republic system? If you could help me please, thanks!
Adrian JImenez
Hello! Just wanted to know if you will be posting the powerpoint on imperialism from today any time soon. That would be great.
I remember you describing the tone of we and they with a specific word, but I forgot what the word was so could you please tell me?
Just throwing this out there again:
Please contact me when you get to that part of the course, or even right now if you need help with other reading/studying tips.
I don't know how I posted last time, im not even sure that it worked, so I'm sorry if this is the second time that you get this, but I was wondering how you would access the powerpoint on imperialism?
You got my email reply, right?? Unit Info to identity. And membership, scroll down.
Giovanni Youssef
Hey guys like Ely I'm a Sophmore that had Bingham last year and I have him this year. I know like 5 people are already doing this but I figured the more the merrier! If you need help with anything Bingham related, power of place, thesis, how to avoid getting hit in the head with a tennis ball thrown by Bingham, I'd be more than happy to help! I did pretty well last year once I got the hang of it and would love to help all of you with what I've learned. So feel contact me via email: giovanniyoussef@gmail.com text: 713-517-8062
Daryn Jones
Hi Mr. Bingham. i can't seem to find the "Western Wall" in ch. 1 of the book. Do you think you could help me?
Well, I don't have my book with me, but what you need to know is that it separates the core from the perifary.
since yall dont know how to accept a good offer and i have way too much free time
Thanks Ely, again! I can't understand why the geography people aren't taking you up on this offer. They are about to tackle chapter five of POP, and I'm sure many could use your help. Unfortunately, they will likely follow the old pattern of skimming the reading, then act dumbfounded that they didn't pass the test. It's as though the game isn't to learn, but to do the minimum required to get by. What a sad waste!
Thanks Ely, I'll be sure to talk to you once we start writing.
Anna White
Im reading Chapter five and I got confused at one part, de Blij says later in the chapter that although natural forces can affect anyplace in the world, but the natural disasters tend to occur more often in the periphery and in higher severity. Did the "core" develope in places without as many natural disasters because there weren't as many severe natural disasters or was de Blij referring to the fact that because the periphery doesn't have the necessary warning systems or resources to combat natural disasters and have denser populations they are affected more drastically by the natural disasters? Please clarify if possible.
HI Anna! First, you're on the wrong forum, there is a new on for chapter 5.
The short answer to your question is the latter. The distribution of danger in random, but in terms of population and technology, the core will cope better than the periphery.
I like the depth of your thinking, keep it up.
So what chaper's next?
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Nancy Briggs Adv. CBP, Practitioner, Sutton West, Ontario, Canada
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Testimonial from client Sophia W.- May 27.2016 Sophia has been a client since Sept. 2014. She has had 18 sessions of BodyTalk over the last 1.5 years. She recorded the following testimonial for me to share. Below are my session comments and notes.
She experienced severe pain in right side of her head for over 30 years. Many visits to Doctors and specialists were made and many tests were done, over the years, to try to determine what the problem was. She had been prescribed antidepressants (Paxil for years), because they "couldn't find anything". The pressure and pain remained the same. Doctors had given her pain pills, but it never went away. Some days it was worse than others, but it never went away completely. The complete right side of her head was in pain with a kind of pressure. It included ear problems and extended to the mastoid bone behind the right ear. It felt like she had "bugs crawling in her ear". They put scopes up her nose to see if they could find anything. Nothing. She started having panic attacks in 2014 and became desperate. After being offered more pills and antidepressants, she got so bad that she drove to the local Health Hut in Jackson's Point, to see if they could help. A lady working there gave her my business card. She said "she will help you, call her". So Sophia called for her first BT appt. in September 2014. She says, "Nancy helped me. Thank you Nancy!" A month ago Sophia. went to the Dr. for results of some more tests and the family Dr. said, "We found nothing. Go back to BodyTalk!" Sophia told her that the pain was gone. "You can talk about what we have shared. This is working for me. If someone else needs help, I am happy to recommend BodyTalk and my experience with Nancy has helped me become pain free after over 30 years!" Sophia W. Sophia arrived for her first session with a very high level of tension. It became evident to me right away that her marriage of 35 years was abusive in every way. We talked about this situation in the very first session; however, she felt very disempowered and was afraid to leave the situation, due to financial, cultural reasons and a great deal of threatening behaviour. After this first session she had 1 week of huge changes in her physical symptoms, but by the time of the next session 1 week later, the problem was returning. We worked on many stress issues and some earlier blows to the head. Self-care came up in the second session, along with many links that related to the past abuse patterns. The third session found the issue worse again, and it became obvious that she needed to protect herself energetically from the constant emotional abuse. We had various levels of success with some intermittent pain relief, but always it was connected to the environmental issues and fear of speaking up. A few times I referred her back to her Dr. again, just to get heart symptoms checked out, and possible mastoid infection. All tests came back negative. Also, tooth problems were checked and a root canal was needed on the left lower jaw, but nothing on the right. In April of last year, she was feeling very down. We continued to work on self-esteem and self-confidence along with many links to the cranial nerves on the right side of the head. By May of 2015 she was feeling "beautiful"! In July she had a few weeks of being very good and then the pain and pressure returned. At this point, they had begun to build a new house, where she could have her own space. Finally, in Sept. 2015, she could feel a draining feeling in the ear during the session. Many of our links centered on relaxation of the nervous system along with PaRama programs run on the cranial nerves. Over all was always the Consciousness of not wanting to hear the verbal abuse in her environment. In Nov. Sophia had begun to develop her own financial support via work outside the home. Along with this was a budding new self-confidence she had never felt before. She shared with me at this session that a psychologist some 20 years ago had said, "You don't have a problem, your husband is the problem". At this point, her husband began to come for BT, as he was feeling very unwell with shoulder and chest pain. His shoulder issues changed dramatically at the very first session, from a 15* range of motion to the front and to the side, to 180*, but after the shoulder issue was resolved, he discontinued his sessions. By December she only needed 2 Advil to sleep at night. In Jan. of 2016, the ear was hurting only once in a while, she would feel it draining, as if it had been plugged. Later in Jan, she had another setback and so I encouraged her to get a referral to an ENT specialist. This was followed up and again "nothing was found". These were the recent tests. By this session in May 2016, all the pain, pressure and symptoms that were presented with in 2014 had disappeared. Sophia was delighted and grateful and was telling her story as she left my office, so we recorded her testimonial and I have written it up with her permission and approval with the details filled in from my notes. It has been an honour to work with this lovely woman and see the changes she has made in her life! I am thrilled that the BodyTalk system was able to help her. May 29, 2016 Nancy Briggs Adv. CBP
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The bestselling author of American Housewife ("Dark, deadpan and truly inventive." --The New York Times Book Review) is back with a fiercely funny collection of essays on marriage and manners, thank-you notes and three-ways, ghosts, gunshots, gynecology, and the Calgon-scented, onion-dipped, monogrammed art of living as a Southern Lady.
Helen Ellis has a mantra: "If you don't have something nice to say, say something not-so-nice in a nice way." Say "weathered" instead of "she looks like a cake left out in the rain." Say "early-developed" instead of "brace face and B cups." And for the love of Coke Salad, always say "Sorry you saw something that offended you" instead of "Get that stick out of your butt, Miss Prissy Pants." In these twenty-three raucous essays Ellis transforms herself into a dominatrix Donna Reed to save her marriage, inadvertently steals a $795 Burberry trench coat, witnesses a man fake his own death at a party, avoids a neck lift, and finds a black-tie gown that gives her the confidence of a drag queen. While she may have left her home in Alabama, married a New Yorker, forgotten how to drive, and abandoned the puffy headbands of her youth, Helen Ellis is clinging to her Southern accent like mayonnaise to white bread, and offering readers a hilarious, completely singular view on womanhood for both sides of the Mason-Dixon.
Several pieces in this collection originally appeared in the following publications: “Making a Marriage Magically Tidy” in the New York Times column “Modern Love” (June 2, 2017); “How to Stay Happily Married” in Paper Darts (Winter 2017); “Tonight We’re Gonna Party Like It’s 1979” in Eating Well (November/December 2017); “How to Be the Best Guest” as “An American’s Guide to Being the Best Guest” in Financial Times (March 2016); and “When to Write a Thank- You Note” in Garden & Gun (February/March 2018).
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Boozman: White House Policies Are a Step Toward Amnesty
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator John Boozman wants answers from President Obama on the Administration’s new immigration policies that allow individuals who have broken the law to remain in this country.
“Our immigration laws are not being enforced and these polices do not hold illegal immigrants accountable for breaking the law. I am concerned these rules are a step towards amnesty and this is circumvents Congress,” Boozman said.
In a letter sent to the President, Boozman and 18 of his senate colleagues question the authority of a Department of Homeland Security policy that allows prosecutorial discretion and administrative closure of deportation cases pending before the courts.
Boozman joined his senate colleagues in sending a letter to the President encouraging him “halt any initiative, whether through regulation or otherwise, that circumvents Congress or aims to ensure that illegal immigrants are afforded every possibility to remain in this country.”
Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) circulated the letter that was signed by Senators John Barrasso (R-WY), Boozman (R-AR), Roy Blunt (R-MO), Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) , Tom Coburn (R-OK), Mike Crapo (R-ID), Jim DeMint (R-SC), Mike Enzi (D-WY), Orrin Hatch (R-UT), James Inhofe (R-OK), Johnny Isakson (R-GA), Mike Johanns (R-NE), Ron Johnson (R-WI), Mike Lee (R-UT), Rand Paul (R-KY), James Risch (R-ID), Jeff Sessions (R-AL) and David Vitter (R-LA).
The following is full text of the letter:
We write to express serious concern about your immigration policies and ask that you require the Department of Homeland Security to overturn recent directives regarding the increased use of prosecutorial discretion. We also request that the Administration halt any initiative, whether through regulation or otherwise, that circumvents Congress or aims to ensure that illegal immigrants are afforded every possibility to remain in this country.
After the release of the June 17th Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) memorandum, which called for the increased use of prosecutorial discretion, several members of the Senate wrote to Assistant Secretary John Morton. While prosecutorial discretion is justifiable in certain cases, this initiative may result in an impermissible intrusion on Congress’s plenary authority over immigration law. Accordingly, we asked Assistant Secretary Morton to rescind the memorandum outlining ICE’s prosecutorial discretion policies. That request has been ignored.
We are also concerned that the initiative announced by Secretary Napolitano on August 18th will result in the administrative closure of an untold number of cases currently pending before our immigration and federal courts. In combination with the June 17th ICE memo, these new policies send the message that your Administration is turning a blind eye to those who have broken our immigration laws. We are also concerned that these policies appear to be a direct attempt to categorically legalize those who are unlawfully in the country and to allow undocumented individuals to remain in violation of the law without fear of apprehension or deportation. The security of our country depends on our ability to prevent unlawful entry and to respond when such criminals have overstayed their visa or avoided inspection. These policies have the potential to undermine the rule of law and threaten our nation’s security.
While we appreciate Secretary Napolitano’s assurances that these initiatives will not provide categorical relief for any group, we remain concerned about statements being made by certain advocates and members of Congress. For example, in a September 20th speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate, Senator Dick Durbin stated that these initiatives “pave the way” for DREAM Act students. He further stated that “[the Administration] said recently that those eligible for the DREAM Act, good moral character, graduates of high school and pursuing college degrees are not going to be their targets.” The United States Senate and the American people have rejected the DREAM Act and the Executive Branch is not entitled to bypass that determination by administrative fiat.
Further, in a recent speech before the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, Congressman Luis Gutierrez stated: “[President Obama] said, ‘But I can’t bypass Congress,’ and people in the audience said, ‘Yes you can,’ and you want to know something? They were right – he could and he did.” Such statements will only create a rush to the border and encourage the undocumented population to come forward in hopes of receiving a benefit.
There is still time to correct this path. We request that you promptly rescind these initiatives, dismantle the working group designed to identify “low priority” cases before our immigration and federal courts, and direct the agencies within the Department of Homeland Security to abide by our Nation’s immigration laws. We also ask that you make Secretary Napolitano available to members of the Senate for questioning about the Department’s immigration enforcement policies, including granting parole, deferred action, and prosecutorial discretion to keep unlawful immigrants in this country.
Finally, we reiterate our strong commitment to ensuring that the Administration has all of the resources it needs to carry out and enforce our immigration laws. It is unjustifiable for the Administration to sidestep Congress to implement policies that are contrary to the law and the wishes of the American people. We look forward to your timely response.
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The Road to the Final Four® Goes Through Boston 2009 NCAA® Division I Men’s Basketball East Regional
Monday, April 22, 2013 2:38 PM
The Road to the Final Four® Goes Through Boston 2009 NCAA® Division I Men's Basketball East Regional in Boston
March 26 & 28, 2009 Boston, MA: The road to the Final Four® travels through Boston when the 2009 NCAA® Division I Men's Basketball East Regionals are held at the TD Banknorth Garden March 26 and 28.
The Greater Boston Convention & Visitors Bureau, in partnership with the Massachusetts Sports & Entertainment Commission and Boston College booked the NCAA® Regionals four years ago. "This is a great event for the city during what is traditionally a slow time of year for our visitor industry," said Patrick B. Moscaritolo, President & CEO of the Greater Boston Convention & Visitors Bureau. "The weekend is expected to generate more than $7 million in economic spending for the region's visitor industry, in addition to the exposure Boston will receive as the games are broadcast nationally by CBS," Moscaritolo said.
Although the games are sold out, the NCAA® has opened the practices on Wednesday, March 25, to the public. Open Practice Day runs from 11am - 4pm at the TD Banknorth Garden and gives fans the opportunity to see four NCAA® Men's Basketball Regional participant teams up close as they prepare for their games the following day. Pittsburgh will take on Xavier on March 26 at the TD Banknorth Garden with a 7:27p.m. tip-off. And the much awaited Villanova vs. Duke game will follow at approximately 9:57p.m. The winners at Thursday's games advance to the Regional final game on March 28 at the TD Banknorth Garden and that winner will move on to Detroit for the Final Four®.
In 2006, the Greater Boston Convention & Visitors Bureau and the Massachusetts Sports & Entertainment Commission began working together with local sports teams, colleges, universities and city and state officials to secure sports events and sports related meetings.
Sporting events and sports related meetings have significant impact on Boston, representing almost 3 million visitors and $1.6 billion dollars in spending for the region. "The Greater Boston Convention & Visitors Bureau's collaboration with our local colleges and universities, city and state officials and the Massachusetts Sports & Entertainment Commission have driven this success," said Moscaritolo.
Already this year, Boston has hosted the 2009 Champions Cup Boston, an annual series for senior tennis players; 2009 AT&T USA Indoor Track & Field Championships; the 2009 Nike Indoor Nationals; and the 2009 NCAA® Women's Frozen Four®. Later this year Boston will play host to major events such as the world's premier global race and nautical adventure, the Volvo Ocean Race. This nine-month race will make its only stop in North America when it comes to Boston April 25 to May 16. The Greater Boston Convention & Visitors Bureau is forecasting a $20 million shot in the arm from the Volvo Ocean Race, with 20,000 hotel room nights occupied. Once again, the NCAA Men's Lacrosse Championships will return to Gillette Stadium, May 23 - 25. Last year, more than 131,000 fans attended this event over Memorial Day weekend, driving $17 million in visitor spending. The 2009 BDO Women's Jr. World Cup Field Hockey is set for August 13 - 16. Boston, the birthplace of field hockey in the United States, will serve at the showcase of the sports newest wave of international talent. Scheduled for August 3-16, 2009, the 16-team Junior World Cup will be held at Harvard University hosted by USA Field Hockey. Held every four years, the Junior World Cup represents the top international event for athletes under the age of 21.
Stacy Shreffler Greater Boston Convention & Visitors Bureau (617) 867-8203
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HomeNews honoring the winners of the first day of the show jumping competitions of HH Sheikh Sultan Bin Zayed
Mohammed Ghanim Al – Hajri won the 2 Locals Round and Open round
Under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Sultan Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Representative of His Highness the President – Chairman of Emirates Heritage Club, and in the presence of His Highness Sheikh Hamdan Bin Mohammed Bin Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Sheikh Zayed Bin Mohammed Bin Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, attended honoring the winners of the first day of the show jumping competitions of HH Sheikh Sultan bin Zayed Al Nahyan Championship that continue until Saturday evening, and organized by the Emirates Heritage Club at the end of the current equestrian season in cooperation and coordination with the UAE Equestrian Federation and the Abu Dhabi Sports Council and with the participation of many knights and horses representing different S Equestrian clubs and clubs in the state.
Sheikh Hamdan and HH Sheikh Zayed bin Mohammed bin Khalifa Al Nahyan, attended the ceremony of the four-day event sponsored by Longines with total prizes reached 400.000 dirham . The ceremony was attended by His Excellency Senan Al Muhairi the Executive Director of Events and activities in EHC Mr. Abdullah Mohammed Jaber Al Muhairbi , Executive Director of Supporting services in EHC , HE Mr. Mansoor Saeed Amehi AL Mansoori Deputy Director-General of the Sultan bin Zayed Center, and a number of managers and officials, and a collection of stables owners and guests of the championship and those interested in the sport .
The four rounds were all counter against the clock. Beginners and Junior Pupils’ Class on the horses of the age of 4-5 years, and the bans of 95- 105 cm high, Haya Ali Al Shamsi achieved 1st place on (Celtic) horse from the Sharjah Women’s Sports Club.
Ahmed Abdul Rahman Al Shorafa finished 2nd place on (FIFA) horse from the Sharjah Equestrian Club and Racing.
Sheikh Khalid Al Qasimi got the 3rd place riding (HK Shababi) horse from the Sharejah Equestrian Club.
In the same category of young riders , the Sharjah Equestrian and Racing Club dominated the top three positions. The first for Saif Oweidah Mohammed Al-Karbi with Al-Mazyouna. The second for Mohammed Hamed Ali Al-Karbi with Spring Time horse – and the third Abdullah Mohammed Al Mazmi with SS Nojoom.
In the second round, which was allocated to the category of beginners and horses 5-6 years old, bans height up to a maximum of 120 centimeters, it was in two stages; In the first phase, which was dedicated to small horses, won by the rider Salim Ahmed Al Suwaidi ranked first, with Diamond Way from Sharjah Club.
Arif Ahmed Al Ahli came in second place with the horse Said de Maris from the Emirates Equestrian Center. Third place was the Sultan Mohamed Al Marzouki riding Gipsy from the Emirates Heritage Club,
Ahmed Nizar Mansour won the first place on Storle de Vardage from the Desert Palm horse riding club. Khalid Mohammed Al Dhaheri came in second place with NIMA from the Al Ain Club for Equestrian, Shooting and Golf. , And the third place was the rider Omar Abdullah Al Owais with O’Connell from the stables of Al-Safnat,
At the top of the race, with a maximum of 135 centimeters, Mohammed Ghanim Al Hajeri with Hermes de Marbosa came 1st from the Sharjah Equestrian and Racing Club. 2nd place was Sultan Majed Al Awani, with Karodas , from the Abu Dhabi Equestrian Club.
Khaled Ali Al-Junaibi with of the Energy of the Wild Horse from Sporting United Club.
In the final day of the day, the open round for the youth and professionals – with the bans height 130-135 cm. The most powerful rounds of the day were the victory of the rider Mohammed Ghanem Al Hajri with Katan of the Sharjah Equestrian Club and the race, in the first place, and the second was Anita Sandy was 2nd on Catch Up from the Sharjah Equestrian and Racing Club. The 3rd place has gone to Tina Laon with Paez Hoyter from the Dubai Polo and Equestrian Club,
On Saturday, the last day of the championship, the other five rounds will be held. The first tour will be against the clock for Arab horses, at a maximum of 90 centimeters, and a two-stage tour with time for beginners with the horses 4-5 years of age, And the third round in two stages for young people and horses 5-6 years old, at a maximum of 120 centimeters, and a fourth round with (Jump Off) differentiation of citizens, up to a maximum of 140 centimeters, and conclude the tour with differentiation, and be an open for young people and professionals, 130-140 cm high
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SCOTT ALAN IN CONCERT
Internationally acclaimed songwriter, Scott Alan, returns to Crazy Coqs for a one-off concert.
This special concert will include a reunion featuring some of the cast members from the 2018 hit song cycle, The Distance You Have Come, including West End stars Emma Hatton, Jodie Jacobs, and Alexia Khadime.
After the 2007 release of his debut album, Dreaming Wide Awake, Scott has gone on to release six follow up albums that include Keys, What I Wanna Be When I Grow Up, Live, Anything Worth Holding on To, and Cynthia Erivo and Oliver Tompsett sing Scott Alan.
Alan has toured the world and has sold out concerts in New York City, Japan, Holland, Germany, San Francisco, Boston, Los Angeles, Australia & Varies cities in South and North America.
In 2012, Alan's composition, It's Good to See You Again, was featured on the premiere episode of the ninth season of So You Think You Can Dance and was the #1 downloaded song from the series that evening on iTunes and Amazon.
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UN Launches Probe on Philippines Drug War Deaths
The United Nations Human Rights Council has voted to launch an investigation into the alleged killings of tens of thousands of Filipinos during the government's war on drugs.
The measure, put forward by Iceland, was approved 18-14 Thursday. It cites extrajudicial killings, arbitrary arrests and disappearances at the hands of police since President Rodrigo Duterte launched the anti-narcotics campaign in 2016.
Philippines ambassador in Geneva, Evan Garcia, immediately rebuked the U.N. move saying it "does not represent a triumph of human rights, but a travesty of them.''
Filipino activists have claimed that about 27,000 people have been killed as police terrorize poor communities, using cursory drug "watch lists" to identify users or dealers. The government counters that about 6,600 people have been killed by police in shootouts with drug dealers.
The resolution was welcomed by human rights groups. "This vote provides hope for thousands of bereaved families in the Philippines," Amnesty International said in a statement. "It's a crucial step towards justice and accountability."
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Trump seen picking Army head Milley as next chairman of Joint Chiefs
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to name the Army’s top general, Mark Milley, as the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, U.S. officials told Reuters on Friday, in a decision that appears to be coming months earlier than expected.
Trump hinted earlier on Friday that he would be announcing new military leadership on Saturday when he attends the Army-Navy football game.
“It will have to do with the Joint Chiefs of Staff and succession,” he said.
Milley would succeed Marine General Joseph Dunford, who would normally stay in office as chairman until a slated Oct. 1, 2019 handover date. It was unclear whether that date would be brought forward as a result of an early announcement about his successor, if confirmed.
The Pentagon declined to comment and was not expected to issue any statements before Trump speaks on Saturday.
The expected change at the Pentagon comes as Trump overhauls his administration’s top leadership positions in the wake of the November mid-term elections. On Friday, he announced his picks for attorney general and ambassador to the United Nations.
Milley will oversee a U.S. military already in transition, as it wraps up the fight against Islamic State in Syria, seeks to bomb the Taliban into submission in Afghanistan and preserve the balance in the Pacific as China’s military flexes its muscles. It also faces an increasingly assertive Russia.
Like many of America’s top generals, Milley comes from a military family, with both his parents having served in World War Two. Milley was two decades into his military carrier when al Qaeda militants launched the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks against Washington and New York City.
“When that happened, I said I can’t retire: I had to stay until this thing is done,” Milley told a publication linked to Princeton University, his alma mater, in 2014.
Milley served in Iraq and three tours in Afghanistan before becoming the Army’s chief of staff in 2015.
As chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Milley would not be expected to usher in any major strategic shifts for the U.S. military. His views on the threats from Russia and China are in step with Pentagon top brass and the Trump administration.
He also shares U.S. military concerns about a war with North Korea, saying last year a full-blown conflict “would be horrific.”
PRESSURE FROM CONGRESS
Milley would take over as the Pentagon’s top military officer at a time when critics in Congress are accusing Trump of politicizing the military, including with his deployment of U.S. troops to the Mexico border.
When Democrats take over the majority in House of Representatives in January, they are expected to call military officers to testify about that and other Trump policies that have riled their constituents.
Still, the position of chairman is a non-political post. Milley would be entrusted with providing both Trump and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis with the best military advice on any national security issue, and carrying out orders.
The expected change in leadership is part of a routine, periodic rotation of top military posts.
As Army chief, Milley this year launched the Army’s Futures Command, which looks at ways to usher in a new generation of advanced weaponry to preserve the United States’ narrowing edge against potential adversaries like China and Russia.
“We are keenly aware that we need to shift gears rapidly into the modernization in order to make sure that we don’t have parity” with Russia and China, he told the Senate in April.
Another of Milley’s innovations at the Army was this year’s creation of special brigades to help advise local forces in counter-insurgency wars, including the 17-year-old conflict in Afghanistan.
The goal of creating specialised brigades was to allow other forces to increasingly focus on the bigger military challenges posed by China and Russia.
Trump’s announcement of Milley will put Dunford in an uncomfortable position.
Dunford was first selected by President Barack Obama in 2015 and then chosen by Trump to serve a second two-year term in 2017. Acting a bridge of sorts, Dunford has helped ensure continuity in military policy through two very different presidential administrations.
One U.S. official, speaking to Reuters on condition of anonymity because the matter was not yet public, suggested that keeping Dunford in the job until Oct. 1 would be difficult for both him and Milley. Still, there was no sign that Trump was seeking to push Dunford out early.
(Reporting by Phil Stewart and Steve Holland; Additional reporting by Idrees Ali; Editing by Susan Thomas, Jeffrey Benkoe, Daniel Wallis and Richard Chang)
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Xiaona Hou
We asked Xiaona Hou from Smart Futures to give some advice for people considering this job:
Don’t be afraid to speak up, be yourself and always learn from each other.
Studying in Australia / NZ
Why study in Australia or New Zealand?
Going to university can be more than just about studying, so where would you like to live for a few years, while you continue your education?
International students studying in Australia or New Zealand for the duration of their course, have the added advantage of having the time to fully immerse themselves in the local lifestyle and the chance to travel and see that part of the world, at the same time as getting a world-recognised education.
Living such a long way from home for an extended period of time isn’t everyone’s cup of tea – it can be challenging, particularly at first. But if you are someone who is independent by nature, with a sense of adventure and a bit of initiative, and are not afraid of doing something different, there are some amazing experiences and opportunities to be had. Depending where you choose to study, once classes are over you can head to the beach, go skiing for the weekend, take in an exhibition or an art gallery, learn to dive, or just explore the great outdoors.
There are 43 universities in Australia and just eight in New Zealand.
Australian and New Zealand university qualifications are recognised and respected by employers and other universities worldwide. The universities are research-led, and undertake pioneering research in many fields:
The technology for the world’s first vaccine for cervical cancer was discovered at the University of Queensland;
Solar cell researchers at the University of New South Wales played a key role in achieving the highest efficiency for solar power, setting a new world record of 43 per cent of sunlight converted into electricity;
University of Otago researchers have developed a simple urine test to detect kidney transplant rejection, which they hope will eventually replace the current invasive biopsy test.
Governments and businesses worldwide seek the expertise and research power of Australian and New Zealand universities, and their discoveries and academics are in demand by organisations ranging from NATO to NASA. Research excellence is key to ensuring quality undergraduate and postgraduate opportunities, as discoveries and knowledge filter down to inform all levels of university teaching.
Why study in Australia? View infographic here.
There are three main types of higher education which lead to Bachelor, Master and Doctoral Degrees.
In Australia it is quite common for students to enrol in a double or combined Bachelor Degree program which leads to the award of two Bachelor Degrees. This is most common in the fields of arts, commerce, law and science.
How to Search for Courses in Australia and New Zealand
Australian institutions offer a wide range of courses – from science to management and commerce, humanities to engineering, and law to health sciences. Australian institutions rank among the world’s best by discipline, particularly in engineering and technology, medicine, environmental science, and accounting and finance.
There are 43 universities in Australia (40 Australian universities, two international universities, and one private specialty university). Along with our universities, many other institutions offer higher education courses. You can search for institutions and courses using the Institution and Course Search on this website
You can use the Course Search on the Study in Australia website to find courses.
Application Procedures for Undergraduate courses in Australia and New Zealand
University courses in Australia run from early March to late November, with the academic year divided into two semesters. Semester 1 runs from February to June, semester 2 from July to November.
For most Australian universities, applications close one month prior to the commencement of classes. Places are limited in all programmes, especially popular degrees.
Irish students need to apply for a student visa for Australia. From start to finish, the Australian student visa process can take up to three months.
View Infographic here:
To study in Australia, students need to apply for both Admission to an institution and for a Student Visa from the Australian Government.
There are a number of steps you must go through including:
Deciding on your preferred course and institution.
Submitting your application to the institution.
Receiving and accepting a Letter of Offer.
Receiving your electronic Confirmation of Enrolment (eCoE).
Applying for your student visa.
There are a range of entry requirements to meet for both your institution application and for your visa application:
Academic requirements.
English language requirements.
Evidence of funds to support your study.
Overseas student health cover.
Where to Apply
Once you've made the decision to study in Australia and you know where you want to study and which course you want to undertake, there are two ways you can apply:
Apply directly to the institution of your choice
Simply download and complete the college’s application form. You will need to submit a separate application to each institution. You will also need to prepare and submit any supporting documentation required. These will vary depending on the course, the provider and the qualification you are studying for.
Apply though an Australian education agent e.g - Study in Australia.
When you have read through the course lists, discussed your options and decided which universities you want to apply to, you can let them know and they will send you the relevant application forms and a guide to applying. This will include a checklist of all the supporting documents needed. The completed forms and supporting documents can then be submitted to Study Options, who make sure everything is complete and correct before sending your applications to the universities for assessment.
Most institutions partner with a number of agents. Details on the agents an institution works with can be found on their website or by contacting them directly.
Duration of undergraduate courses in Australia and New Zealand
An Undergraduate degree programme is typically 3 years (144 -156 weeks) in duration.
College Fees and Living expenses in Australia and New Zealand
Fees for an Undergraduate Bachelor Degree range from $15,000 to $33,000 per year in Australian dollars. This does not include high value courses such as veterinary and medical. Students should visit individual college websites directly to see costs for these courses.
As an international student, the tuition fees for Australian Universities are payable before you study.
As well as using the Course Search on the Study in Australia website to find courses, you can find details such as tuition fees and any additional costs such as course materials and access to institution facilities.
Accommodation & Living Costs
Knowing the average living costs in Australia is an important part of your financial preparation. For your reference, here are some of the costs associated with living and studying in Australia. (All costs are in Australian dollars.)
Hostels and Guesthouses - $80 to $135 per week
Shared Rental - $70 to $250 per week
On campus - $80 to $250 per week
Homestay - $110 to $270 per week
Rental - $100 to $400 per week
Boarding schools - $10,000 to $20,000 a year
Other living expenses
Groceries and eating out - $80 to $200 per week
Gas, electricity - $60 to $100 per week
Phone and Internet - $20 to $50 per week
Public transport - $10 to $50 per week
Car (after purchase) - $150 to $250 per week
Entertainment - $50 to $100 per week
Minimum cost of living
The Department of Immigration and Citizenship has financial requirements you must meet in order to receive a student visa. Below is a guide on the requirements you must meet to study in Australia:
You - $18,610
Your partner - $6,515
Your first child - $3,720
Every other child - $2,790
All costs are per year in Australian dollars.
Funding Opportunities and Scholarships for Studying in Australia
There are many scholarships, grants, and bursaries available to help support students financially with studying in Australia. They are offered by the Australian Government, education institutions, and a number of other public and private organisations.
You can use the search tool on the Study in Australia website to find relevant scholarships, along with contact details for the institution providing the scholarship. All applications for scholarships are made directly to the providing organisation.
Useful links for Studying in Australia or New Zealand
StudyinAustralia – is the official Australian Government website for international students. Find out about courses, institutions, studying and living costs, the application process, visa requirements and much more.
Why Study Down Under – Why go all the way to Australia or New Zealand to study at university? Here are a few things to consider
Study Options - the official representative of Australian and New Zealand universities in the UK and Ireland. They are here to ensure the process of applying to those universities is as stress-free and straightforward as possible. Study Options is the only organisation in the UK that focuses exclusively on Australian and New Zealand education. Hundreds of UK students apply to Australian and New Zealand institutions through Study Options every year.
My Future - myfuture is Australia’s national career information and exploration service, helping people to make career decisions, plan career pathways and manage work transitions.
The International Education Financial Aid website - provides a database of financial aid information for students who want to study in a foreign country. The site contains a comprehensive list of grants, scholarships, loan programmes and other information that may be helpful to students interested in studying in Europe, or other countries abroad CLICK HERE
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Sign Guy
Tod Swormstedt is the founder and executive director of the American Sign Museum, featured this month on Antiques Roadshow. He talked about the museum’s origins, his family business, and how he figured out what he wanted to be when he grew up.
Becky Linhardt
In college in Florida I had a part-time job at the St. Petersburg Times. Although I graduated with a degree in English literature, I had no intention of working for my family in their magazine publishing business. I wanted to be a writer.
After helping out when they were short of people who could write a basic sentence, my Dad asked which of the publications I would consider working on—just to see if I might like it. I chose Signs of the Times because the sign industry attracted me. I liked the design aspects, the craftsmanship, the history, and the new developments in sign making.
We were cleaning out a safe at the old location in the mid-1990s and found a gold leaf sign painter’s sample kit with a letter to my grandfather that said something like: “I am getting up in years and none of my family has an interest. I don’t know what to do with my salesman samples, but I know they’re in good hands with Signs of the Times magazine.” That discovery came to mind in the late 1990s when I saw a growing interest in preserving the tradition of sign painting and I was figuring out what I really wanted to do when I grew up.
The museum board looked at national sites, including Los Angeles, Memphis, and St. Louis. By 2000, encouraged by the city officials in Las Vegas, we began warehousing signs. When we realized that we had to open somewhere to prove that it was not a whacked-out dream, Cincinnati seemed like a good central location.
The call from the Antiques Roadshow people came out of the blue. They said that they had heard neat things about the American Sign Museum. Next thing I know we have a message that they would like to come by on Friday. When appraiser Leila Dunbar arrived, I found out that her father had been a vendor of antique signs. I was immediately comfortable and since I had a tour to lead, I left her to do the taping.
Swormstedt got involved with The Letterheads in the early 1980s, a group of sign-makers that met informally and studied old-style sign-making techniques.
In the 1980s Signs of the Times floated the idea of a national sign museum, but no formal plans were launched. “Our archives included numerous offers for donations of antique and mid-century modern signs,” says Swormstedt. Many of them were still available two decades later.
Opening in Cincinnati
The first American Sign Museum opened in 4,500 square feet at Essex Studios. In 2012, Swormstedt moved the American Sign Museum to a 19,000-square-foot complex north of downtown.
National Attention
The Cincinnati episodes of Antiques Roadshow, taped at the Duke Energy Convention
Center last July, will air on WCET at 8 p.m. on April 1, 8, and 15.
Originally published in the April 2013 issue.
Photograph by Jonathan Willis
American Sign Museum
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Flybmi collapse - Ryanair, Loganair quick to take advantage and is Brexit really to blame?
Sat, 16 Feb 2019 | ADMINISTRATION
Airlines Ryanair and Loganair are moving quickly to take advantage of the demise of Flybmi, which fell into administration on Saturday.
Flybmi, which cancelled all flights from today, ran scheduled passenger services to 24 local and European destinations, including Milan, Brussels, Hamburg and Munich. Its fleet of 17 Embraer jets carried 522,000 passengers on 29,000 flights in 2018.
Competitor RyanAir were quick to capitalise on the bad news, with the Chief Operations Officer Peter Bellew putting out a video (https://bit.ly/2GxizJE) on social media to invite job applications from ex-Flybmi staff: "At RyanAir we have a variety of jobs throughout the UK and throughout our network for pilots and engineers. We would be delighted to welcome people from Flybmi to apply over the weekend." He added in a tweet: "We will have recruitment staff at East Midlands airport on Monday."
Scotland-based Loganair is thought to be taking over several of Flyby's routes. The airline, which together with Flybmi is owned by the Airline Investments Ltd group, faced questions as to its continued viability. In response, the airline swiftly released a statement on its operational and financial situation.
Loganair Managing Director Jonathan Hinkles said:
“The two airlines are separate businesses, operating separate aircraft fleets on their own distinct route networks,” the airline said, “as such, the closure of bmi Regional – which flew Embraer Regional Jet aircraft on routes throughout 12 European countries – has no impact on Loganair’s continued operation, which predominantly uses turboprop aircraft on routes within the UK and in particular to, from and within the Scottish Highlands & Islands.”
“The same challenges that have led to flybmi ceasing operations, including uncertainty around intra-European traffic rights post-Brexit, do not impact Loganair’s business,” Loganair added.
“Loganair expects to return to profit in the current financial year, is carrying record passenger numbers on many of its routes and is in a strong financial position."
Meanwhile, City of Derry airport in Northern Ireland has been hard hit by Flybmi's collapse, as it has lost its only connection to London Stansted. Last year, council officials had warned that the airport would not be sustainable without the subsidised route.
In a statement on its website, Flybmi placed blame on Brexit uncertainty.
"It is with a heavy heart that we have made this unavoidable announcement today. The airline has faced several difficulties, including recent spikes in fuel and carbon costs, the latter arising from the EU’s recent decision to exclude UK airlines from full participation in the Emissions Trading Scheme. These issues have undermined efforts to move the airline into profit. Current trading and future prospects have also been seriously affected by the uncertainty created by the Brexit process, which has led to our inability to secure valuable flying contracts in Europe and lack of confidence around bmi’s ability to continue flying between destinations in Europe. Additionally, our situation mirrors wider difficulties in the regional airline industry which have been well documented."
"Against this background, it has become impossible for the airline’s shareholders to continue their extensive programme of funding into the business, despite investment totalling over £40m in the last six years. We sincerely regret that this course of action has become the only option open to us, but the challenges, particularly those created by Brexit, have proven to be insurmountable."
"Our employees have worked extremely hard over the last few years and we would like to thank them for their dedication to the company, as well as all our loyal customers who have flown with us over the last 6 years."
But one wonders whether this is management sidestepping the blame at an airline that has struggled with profitability since 2009. How long could they have expected to operate with load factors under 50 per cent?
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Here's everything we know about Germanwings, the low-cost airline whose Airbus A320 crashed this morning
Stefano Pozzebon
Mar. 24, 2015, 9:25 AM
Germanwings aircraft parked during a strike by pilots at Cologne airport in 2010.
REUTERS/Ina Fassbender
A Germanwings Airbus 320 carrying 144 passengers crashed in southern France on Tuesday morning as it was flying from Barcelona, Spain, to Düsseldorf, Germany.
Germanwings is a low-cost airline that is entirely owned by Lufthansa, Germany's flag carrier.
Based in Cologne, it was founded in 2002 as a subsidiary of another Lufthansa-owned airline, Eurowings.
Germanwings was set up as a direct competitor to Ryanair and easyJet, Europe's top budget airlines. The whole fleet features only economy class accommodations.
Germanwings has an excellent safety record, a ccording to AirlineRatings.com, which gave the budget carrier six out of seven stars on its website. According to aeroinside.com, there have been several reports of a cracked windshield in the past, though Tuesday morning's crash is the first major incident for the Lufthansa subsidiary.
In 2012, Lufthansa announced it was combining all its short-haul flights under Germanwings except those from its Munich and Frankfurt hubs. The move was intended to save costs on domestic and short international flights while allowing Lufthansa to focus on intercontinental trips to North America and Asia.
The reorganization brought the Germanwings fleet up to 83 active planes, most of them Airbus A319 and A320 jets. Germanwings flies to 117 destinations in 31 countries.
Germanwings is known in Europe for its "blind-flight" promotions: customers can buy discounted tickets to unknown destinations, choosing their flights only from the departure airport and the type of trip they are looking for. Travelers can choose from clusters like "shopping," "party," or "gay-friendly," and then the system will allocate tickets to the destinations accordingly.
Earlier this year, Lufthansa announced it was transferring all its Germanwings operations to its former parent company Eurowings in another move intended to slash costs and restructure operations.
Last month, hundreds of flights from Munich, Frankfurt, and Berlin had to be cancelled because of a 36-hour walkout over anticipated pension plans for 5,400 Lufthansa pilots and operators, including several Germanwings employees.
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Peter Dinklage's New Movie Is A Major Change From 'Game Of Thrones'
By Rachel Simon
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If you're the star of a show as successful as Game of Thrones, no one would blame you if you chose not to stray too far from the series. After all, there are worse things than being associated with a beloved character on a hugely popular TV show; why bother chasing other, different roles when you can rest your laurels on one serious achievement? Yet for Peter Dinklage, the success he's earned from playing Tyrion Lannister hasn't stopped him from taking on a variety of parts, each as different from his GoT character as it gets.
"I’m on a TV show with a specific character, and I don’t want to do that on my time off," Dinklage tells me, speaking while at the Sundance Film Festival. "Some actors get very popular at doing one thing, so they just do that, and that’s fine, they make a great living and all that, but that bores me. I would rather just change it up."
In his latest movie, the suspenseful drama Rememory, Dinklage plays Sam, a man set on uncovering the truth behind an unsettling murder. The character is shrouded in mystery; his motives only become clear in stages throughout the film. But even though Sam is as much as an enigma as the murder itself, Dinklage's performance makes him utterly compelling. The actor takes on the role with total intensity, and it's easy to see why Rememory director Mark Palansky wrote the part specifically for Dinklage, his longtime friend and collaborator.
"The film needs an actor who allows us into his face and his life in a way that not all actors do — most do not, even great ones," says Palansky, speaking alongside Dinklage. "I think that Peter’s not only one of the best actors working today, but I think there’s also a quality to his work that allows the audience to step inside, and be a part of it."
The duo, who have what they describe as a "dark revenge film" in the works, have collaborated on projects several times before; Rememory marks their second time on set together. Their closeness is sweet — they adorably call themselves "life partners" and muse over a couple name ("Dinklansky" is the final choice) — but more so, it's evidence of a rare director-actor dynamic that neither man takes for granted. "To me, Peter’s my lead. I want to build movies around him," says Palansky, before adding jokingly: "Otherwise I’ll hear about it the next day in the morning."
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Both men are passionate about Rememory, a near-future thriller about, primarily, the creation of a device that can record and replay a person's memories. It's a thought-provoking film that'll pique any Black Mirror fan's curiosity, with a central mystery that attracted its star. "I’m such a fan of noir and mysteries and all of that, the ones that are done well, and I love the fact that this character, he didn’t sign up to solve a mystery, he was put in this situation," Dinklage says.
And while the characters in the film choose to relive their memories or those of their loved ones using the device, the actor says adamantly that he wouldn't partake in such an activity, if it were possible. "To completely relive the exact thing is... unhealthy for someone like me," he says, before adding with a laugh, "I would just slap my younger self and I don’t want my younger self to be slapped."
It's a good thing that Rememory is (at least for now) pure science-fiction, a way of experiencing something totally new for both audiences, and its versatile star.
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Jim Heun, Sr. Vice President, Lockheed Martin & Defense Verticals
Jim Heun
Sr. Vice President, Lockheed Martin & Defense Verticals
Jim Heun is a versatile senior leader with a 25-year history of developing and implementing strategic business initiatives that maximize efficiencies, improve gross margins, and incorporate best practices. Heun began his aviation career as a presidential crew chief at HMX-1 in the United States Marine Corps. In 1988, he joined Sikorsky Aircraft, where he was given increased responsibility during his 24 years there. While General Manager at Sikorsky, he integrated and lead the Maintenance Planning and Publications Departments from 2008 through 2011. Then, in 2012, Heun led the Technical Communications Division at Dayton T. Brown as the Vice President of Operations and served as a board member. Jim’s contributions helped his employers earn various awards including the Malcolm Baldrige Award for quality, ISO 9001 certification and the UTC Achieving Competitive Excellence (ACE) associate certification.
Heun received a MBA with an emphasis in Technology Management from the University of New Haven in 2000. He has authored and taught a Leadership and Technology undergraduate course at Sacred Heart University.
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English Bible Versions
A Tercentenary Memorial of the King James Version, from the New York Bible and Common Prayer Book Society
Author: Henry Barker
This volume was published in 1911 for the New York Bible and Common Prayer Book Society to celebrate the three hundredth anniversary of the King James Bible. The Rev. Henry Barker, described in the preface as 'a late presbyter of this church' but about whom little is known, gives a full historical account of the manuscript origins of the Bible, the development of the biblical canon and the early efforts, made by reformers such as Wyclif in the fourteenth century and Tyndale in the sixteenth, to translate the Bible into the vernacular and thus make its content more accessible to the laity. Barker provides a clear and factual account not only of the evolution of the Bible in English but also of the background of social and political change that fostered the various early translations.
Introductory foreword
1. What the Bible is
2. A short statement as to the sixty-six books of Holy Scripture
3. The fourteen books of the Apocrypha
4. Manuscripts and versions
5. The Septuagint
6. The oldest existing Bible
7. The Vulgate
8. Quotations from early Christian writers
9. Our Hebrew manuscripts of the Old Testament
10. England's early efforts
11. The first English Bible
12. Revision of the Greek Text of the New Testament
13. Early printed English Bibles
14. The Council of Trent and the Authorized Bible of the Roman Church
15. Later English Bibles of the sixteenth century
16. The popular English Bible of the Roman Church
17. The Authorized Version of 1611
18. The need of further revision
19. Further revision of the Greek text of the New Testament
20. The Revised Version of 1881–1885
21. Printers' errors
22. The English Bible-Printing monopoly. The King's Printer, etc.
23. The American Standard Edition of the Revised Version
24. The Marginal Readings Bible
25. Early American versions and prints
26. The different authorities available for the various versions
27. Concluding words
Index (2385 KB)
Henry Barker
The Authorized Version of the English Bible (1611)
Its Subsequent Reprints and Modern Representatives
The Bible Word-Book
A Glossary of Archaic Words and Phrases in the Authorised Version of the Bible and Book of Common Prayer
The Psalter of the Church
The Prayer Book Version of the Psalms
Authorised Version of the English Bible, 1611
The King James Bible
A Short History from Tyndale to Today
A Fourteenth Century English Biblical Version
AJS Review
AJS Review publishes scholarly articles and book reviews covering the field of Jewish Studies. From biblical and…
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Omnicom Media Group's CEO Harish Shriyan to step down
To leave the agency by the end of the year
Harish Shriyan, CEO, Omnicom Media Group India, has decided to move on from the agency.
He will leave the agency by the end of 2019. Over the next six months, Shriyan will work closely with the agencies’ senior leadership team to ensure a smooth transition for the business while the group searches for a new CEO.
He joined the agency in 2007. He was elevated as CEO in December 2017, prior to which he was COO.
Shriyan said, “I am incredibly honoured to have had the opportunity to work with so many talented individuals over the years and been part of the group’s establishment and growth in India. Given its strength in the form of its unique brand positioning, talent pool, infrastructure and exemplary leadership, I am confident that this is the right time for me to pass the baton on. I also have every confidence that the group and its agencies will continue to excel in India and will follow their journey with pride and admiration.”
Tony Harradine, CEO, Omnicom Media Group Apac, added, “Since its launch, Omnicom Media Group India has continued to go from strength to strength, becoming a key part of our Global business; Harish has been an integral part of that journey as a founding member and custodian of our brands. We thank Harish for all of his contributions to our business over the past 12 years and wish him all the best for the future.”
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New Venezuelan cardinal says country's crisis prompted red hat
Red cardinal's biretta. Credit: Elise Harris. CNA.
By Elise Harris
Rome, Italy, Nov 18, 2016 / 11:05 am ().- Venezuelan Archbishop Baltazar Enrique Porras Cardozo is one of the Pope's picks from the peripheries who will get a red hat this weekend, which the new cardinal-elect says is a sign of the Vatican's concern for the people amid the country’s ongoing crisis.
“The Holy Father has shown a special interest for Venezuela,” Cardinal-elect Porras told journalists Nov. 15.
“I think that never as now, here in the Vatican, have there been senior leaders who have had a direct or close relationship with the reality of Venezuela,” he said, adding that “undoubtedly the situation of the country” is what influenced the Pope’s decision to name him cardinal.
This round of consistory red-hatters “is a bit special” in the context of the Jubilee of Mercy, he said, noting that the majority of his fellow cardinal-elects are “’outsiders,’ we come from dioceses or sees which traditionally have never had cardinals.”
On Oct. 9 Pope Francis announced that Archbishop Porras and 16 other priests and bishops would be named cardinals Nov. 19, the eve of the close of the Jubilee of Mercy. His nomination makes him one of just two cardinal-electors from Venezuela, meaning he is eligible to vote in the next conclave, alongside fellow Venezuelan Cardinal Jorge Urosa Savino.
Porras, Archbishop of Merida, spoke to journalists about his nomination in the context of Venezuela’s current social and economic situation Nov. 15, just days before he is set to be elevated as cardinal by Pope Francis.
He recalled receiving a letter from the Pope, which didn't simply offer congratulations, but provided “a program” for how to carry out ministry in his new role.
The letter, he said, cautioned against getting “carried away” by the excitement and compliments for his appointment. To be a cardinal, it read, “is not for a worldly joy, but to know that it’s a responsibility that has to do mainly with the poor.”
The new cardinal-elect spoke about the significance of having two electors from Venezuela for the first time, which he said is due to the fact that the Church is “the strongest and most unified” institution in Venezuela.
“The loss of institutions in Venezuela is very serious. Everything works discretionally in power,” he said, noting that the Church in Venezuela “has been a very critical voice in denouncing the problems that exist in the country.”
Venezuela is currently on the point of a humanitarian emergency in which fundamental necessities are inaccessible and many, including children, die due to the lack of basic foods and medicines.
In the aftermath of Chavez’s stormy reign and the takeover of his successor, Nicolas Maduro, in 2013, Venezuela has been marred by violence and social and economic upheaval. Poor economic policies, including strict price controls, coupled with high inflation rates, have resulted in a severe lack of basic necessities such as toilet paper, milk, flour, diapers and medicines.
Venezuela's socialist government is widely blamed for the crisis. Since 2003, price controls on some 160 products, including cooking oil, soap and flour, have meant that while they are affordable, they fly off store shelves only to be resold on the black market at much higher rates.
The Venezuelan government is known to be among the most corrupt in Latin America, and violent crime in the country has spiked since Maduro took office after former president Chavez died from cancer in 2013. The regime is known to have committed gross abuses, including violence, against those who don’t share their political ideologies.
When it comes to the stance of the Church in the crisis, Porras noted that since the bishops frequently speak out against the Maduro regime, they are labeled as siding with the opposition. However, he stressed that “The Church in Venezuela is not with the opposition, it’s with the people.”
“The hierarchy is with the people,” he said, noting that according to documentation from 1531 when Venezuela first received a bishop until now, the Church has always pointed out the problems that need to be solved.
“All governments, from Romulo Betancourt to now have seen us as the opposition,” he said, insisting that the Church’s behavior, particularly in the past 50 years, “has been in continuity” with her attitude in the past.
“We are on the side of the people and not on the side of any political bias,” he said, explaining that in their meetings with people from both government and opposition parties, “we usually say things quite clearly. And there are those who receive it and those who don’t.”
Porras also spoke about Pope Francis and his Latin American roots, which he says are at the heart of the Pope’s closeness to the people.
In both Europe and North America, Pope Francis’ style “is sometimes seen as something like a good pastor who doesn’t have much depth in thought, that he is simply a good pastor.”
This attitude “is a mistake,” Porras said, saying that if there’s one virtue the Church in Latin America has “it is closeness, simplicity and presence in the midst of problems.”
Different currents of thought since the Second Vatican Council such as liberation theology and the theology of the people, “which Pope Francis represents,” has a lot to do with this cultural sense of closeness, Porras said.
The 'theology of the people' was popular in Argentina in the 1950s as an alternative to radical liberation theology. While radical liberation theologians looked to Marxist interpretations of the Gospel, theology of the people was founded on common peoples' culture and devotion, including their spirituality and sense of justice.
A true “pastoral theology,” Porras said, can be understood by looking to the concept of an internist doctor in medicine, who is the one that has “a fairly general vision” of things, and as such is able to take the richness of other areas of theology “and always relate them to reality, to daily life.”
“This is one of the great contributions” Latin American theology has, Porras said, explaining that the true value of it “is clearly expressed in the thought and actions of Pope Francis.”
He spoke about the Pope’s frequent call for pastors to take on “smell of the sheep,” which is something “we have to be permanently,” particularly given the country’s current situation.
“Unfortunately, in Latin America and Venezuela also, those who arrive at the government remain isolated in a kind of capsule and have very little relation with the people, with real problems,” he said, noting that as bishops, staying close to their flock is a key way “to be able to see what reality” is like.
Many say Venezuela is a rich country, “but what Venezuela has had throughout the 21st century is a rich government, but not a rich population,” the archbishop said, explaining that currently “everything is the opposite.”
“Imagine at this moment that there is no food, where there are no medicines, where violence is unleashed and where impunity and corruption are evident because the mere presence of works and people of the Church is already a call to what should be.”
When asked about the recent election of Donald Trump as the next president of the United States, Porras said Trump’s pre-election rhetoric on immigration has “a short circuit,” especially given the fact that there are many Latinos who live in the U.S.
“Simplistic readings of this should not be made,” he said, noting that in the context of a changing world, when the needs of the people are at least in some way “recognized by political diligence,” the politicians “must also look for solutions to these problems.”
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