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’Game of Thrones’ Star Kit Harington Kicked Out of Bar for Being Drunk and Disorderly
Nick Mojica
Theo Wargo, Getty Images
Game of Thrones star Kit Harington found himself kicked out of a bar after a game of pool got ugly.
According to a report from TMZ, Harington, who plays Jon Snow on the HBO hit show, was forced to leave a New York City bar on Friday night (Jan. 5) after becoming aggressive during a game of pool.
The actor reportedly began banging on the pool table and started grabbing cues before being restrained by fellow bar patrons. In footage obtained by the site, Harington can be seen being escorted from the venue and arguing with security.
One witness who was there claims the actor left the bar after being asked to leave but later returned and was then physically removed.
While fans wait for the eighth and final season of Game of Thrones, HBO revealed they're going to have to wait a little longer. On Thursday (Jan. 4), the network said the series won't return until 2019 for a six-episode season.
In a press release, HBO stated that David Benioff, D.B. Weiss, David Nutter and Miguel Sapochnik will direct the new episodes, alongside writers that include Benioff, Weiss, Bryan Cogman and Dave Hill. Benioff, Weiss, Carolyn Strauss and Frank Doelger will be the show's executive producers.
Check out footage of Harington at the bar below.
Source: ’Game of Thrones’ Star Kit Harington Kicked Out of Bar for Being Drunk and Disorderly
Categories: Celebrity News, Television
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Ben Milbourne
Ben Milbourne is an architect and artist based in Melbourne, utilising hybridised techniques from architecture, art and design to explore a broad range of projects; from ephemeral site-specific instillations through to investigations at the metropolitan scale.
Ben is a founding partner of NAAU, an emerging architecture and urban design practice developing innovative solutions to the challenges of building in cities and urban environments. Ben is also the director of Bild Architecture, an award winning practice specialising in residential projects. In addition to his art and architecture practice, Ben is a lecturer in architecture and design at RMIT University and is actively involved in research investigating the future fabric of cities, and the impact of innovations in information and fabrication technology of the practice of architecture. Ben’s work has been widely published and exhibited both domestically and internationally, including featuring in the Australian Pavilion of the 2010 Venice Architecture Biennale. In recognition of his emerging body of work, Ben was selected for the Dulux International Study Tour by the Australian Institute of Architects in 2014.
Fri 10 Nov 6.00pm–7.00pm
MTalks Friday night debate: Australian Institute of Architects—emerging architects
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Teacher fired over topless selfie plans to sue school district
BELLPORT, Long Island -- A middle school teacher from Long Island is planning to sue her former school district after she was fired, she alleges, for a topless selfie.
Lauren Miranda, 25, has taught math at Bellport Middle School for the past four years.
She says a topless selfie she took of herself in her bedroom in 2016 and sent to a former boyfriend who also teaches in the school district somehow leaked to at least one student at the middle school.
Miranda's attorney John Ray says the superintendent of the South Country School District told Miranda she was being fired because she could no longer serve as a role model for the students. In January, she was placed on administrative leave with pay and was fired by the school board last Wednesday.
Both Miranda and Ray say they have no idea how the photo ended up in a student's hands.
Miranda is planning to file a $3 million federal suit for gender discrimination, alleging her rights as a woman were violated. She said she will not file the lawsuit if the school district gives her her job back.
"What is wrong with my image?" she said. "It's my breasts. It's my chest. It's my body. It's something that should be celebrated."
Ray said the school district is discriminating against Miranda because she's a woman.
"Anytime a man has ever exposed his chest, no one has ever commented or had any problem with it whatsoever," he said. "But when a woman displays her chest, as happened here, she gets fired from her job."
Miranda provided Eyewitness News with her review from last school year, which showed her to be a "highly effective teacher."
The teacher observation review stated, "Ms. Miranda demonstrated in this lesson to be an outstanding math instructor, knowledgeable of her content area, but most of all genuinely dedicated to the academic progress of her students."
Miranda was up for tenure in June and said one of the reasons she is pursuing a lawsuit is to serve as a role model for female students.
"What message is that saying to the girls who have their photos airdropped all over the high school and sent all over?" she said. "What message are we sending to them? To roll over when your picture gets exposed without your permission or consent? So how am I now not being a role model to them?"
The school district would not make anyone available to Eyewitness News to speak about the situation, only saying in a statement on behalf of Superintendent of Schools Dr. Joseph Giani, "The district does not comment on active litigation."
Eyewitness News reporter Kristin Thorne spoke with parents about the picture.
"Whether her intentions were for a student to get it or they weren't, a student did and you have to be responsible for your actions," parent Randy Miller said.
Parent Arlene Henao said she is torn, because it appears Miranda never had any intention of a student getting a hold of the picture.
"I understand why she would be fired, but it's probably more complicated than just a black and white situation," she said.
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-January- 2018-19 Past programs
1/28/19 – Bullying and Lockdowns: Perspectives on School Security
August 1, 2018 April 10, 2019 AgendaAlexandria Community issues, Education, Safety concerns, Tech
Agenda:Alexandria to look at perspectives on both bullying and school security.
What: Agenda Alexandria: Bullying and Lockdowns
Where: Hermitage, 5000 Fairbanks Ave, Alexandria VA 22311
When: Monday, Jan. 28 2019
Time: Reception starts at 6:30 pm, program starts at 7:15 pm
Cost: $5 at the door (free with $35 membership), optional dinner at 6:45 pm, starting at $32 with membership and advanced registration
Background on Bullying
In the Commonwealth of Virginia, bullying is defined as “any aggressive and unwanted behavior that is intended to harm, intimidate, or humiliate the victim; involves a real or perceived power imbalance between the aggressor or aggressors and victim; and is repeated over time or causes severe emotional trauma. “Bullying” includes cyber bullying. “Bullying” does not include ordinary teasing, horseplay, argument, or peer conflict.
According to the National Center for Educational Statistics, more than one out of every five (20.8 percent) students nationwide report being bullied. Data from the 2016 Youth Risk Behavior Survey show that in Alexandria, 10.1 percent of eighth graders surveyed and 12 percent of 10th and 12th graders surveyed reported being bullied at school. Additionally, 23.8 percent of eighth graders and 8.9 percent of 10th and 12th graders reported being bullied electronically. Membership in either bully or victim groups is associated with dropping out of school, poor social development, criminal activity and other negative long-term consequences.
A proclamation announced the start of the Mayor’s Campaign to End Bullying in Alexandria in 2014. The purpose of the campaign, sponsored by the U.S. Conference of Mayors, is to wipe out bullying in our nation’s schools and communities.
Alexandria joins more than 170 jurisdictions from around the country who have signed on to the campaign to raise awareness, foster a safe school climate, end bullying in schools and communities, and encourage everyone to take a stand against bullying.
What do parents need to know about school security and lockdowns? For example, what is the school system’s response and communications strategy for incidents such as this reported on January 7, 2019 by the Patch?:
“Francis C. Hammond Middle School was on lockdown twice Monday due to a police investigation. The building was declared safe and will resume the normal schedule. Alexandria Police said via Twitter they were investigating 911 hang-up calls in both incidents. The first lockdown was reported at 11:07 a.m. Police searched the building and found it was safe as of 11:50 a.m. The second lockdown went into effect at 12:40 p.m. and was lifted at 1:22 p.m. Classes were temporarily held in secured classrooms during the lockdowns. It was unclear what the 911 calls were regarding. Parents were asked to let their students know there are no known threats. A previous 911 hang-up call led to a lockdown at the middle school in December. Police found no threat after a search of the school.”
“Kids who don’t feel safe don’t learn,” says former School Board member Eileen Rivera, who will moderate the panel discussion. “Students and staff must feel comfortable and empowered to identify and address the kinds of threats in our schools. Bullying is one of those threats that can be prevented. As a community, we all can do more to create a safer and productive learning environment.”
Panelists include:
Gregory Hutchings, Superintendent of schools at Alexandria City Public Schools. A native of Alexandria and a graduate of T.C. Williams High School, he returned in July to lead the school division. Prior to becoming a superintendent, Hutchings was a director of pre-K-12 initiatives and director of middle school programs at ACPS and superintendent of Shaker Heights Schools in Cleveland. He has a bachelor’s degree in interdisciplinary studies from Old Dominion University, a master’s in educational leadership from George Mason University and a doctorate in educational policy, planning and leadership from the College of William and Mary.
Mac Slover is a member and former chairman of the Alexandria Mayor’s Campaign to End Bullying Committee. A native of Macon, Ga., he’s lived in Alexandria since 1987. A former city official with the Department of Recreation, Parks and Cultural Activities, he retired in 2018 after 30 years with Alexandria government. During his time with the city, he served as director of three recreation centers after leading the city’s sports program and running youth activities and community outreach. He has a bachelor of science in public recreation from Georgia Southern University.
Marc Solomon is senior corporate security manager for a Dublin-based pharmaceutical company. A native of Buffalo, N.Y., he’s lived in Alexandria since 2014. He’s conducted security assessments for several Northern Virginia preschools, and school security was one of his campaign issues during an unsuccessful bid for Alexandria School Board in 2018. He is a former analyst at the State Department, where he focused on counterterrorism and security issues involving private-sector organizations abroad. He has a bachelor of arts in history from Cornell University and a master of arts in national security studies from Georgetown University.
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Program: Our programs are just $5 each or free for members. You can pay at the door or in advance. Pay In Advance►
Program With Dinner: If you reserve a spot by 5pm the Friday before, dinner is:
members $32 | $37 non-members. There is an additional $5 fee for reservations made after the 5pm Friday cutoff. Dinner►
Options to pay are online by credit card, mail a check, or at the door. Please send your RSVP to: ExecutiveDirector@AgendaAlexandria.com
Checks can be mailed to Agenda:Alexandria
Program Time and Location
Location: The April 22 and May 20, 2019 programs will be held at our home base:
The Hermitage, Auditorium, 5000 Fairbanks Avenue, Alexandria, VA 22311.
Time: Our program begins at 7:15. There is an optional dinner at 6:45 pm, requiring online registration or an RSVP to executivedirector@agendaalexandria.com to pay at the door. Dinner is $32 if RSVP is made by the Friday before the program.
Questions? Contact Executive Director Donna Walker James »
2018-19 Program Topics
9/24/18 – Affordable Housing: Affordable for Whom?
10/22/18 – Return of the Electeds: Perspectives, Lessons and Legends
11/26/18 – Loan Sharks or Lenders of Last Resort?
2/25/19 – Whither Landmark?: What Happens After Wonder Woman?
3/25/19 – Del Ray: The Forgotten Town of Potomac
4/22/19 – Eco-City Report Card: Is Alexandria Cleaning Up Its Act?
5/20/19 – Invasion of the Scooters: Micro-mobility and the future of Alexandria’s streets
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AIDA N AWAD
~ ABOUT EGYPT AND ME
Tag Archives: assassination
Peaceful Opposition?
Posted by Aida N Awad in Uncategorized
assassination, Hisham Barakat, Muslim Brotherhood, Prosecotor General
Hisham Barakat was a courageous patriot, a conscientious prosecutor, a pious man and a gentle, kind human being.
He was a courageous patriot, for during the one year of the rule of the Muslim Brotherhood he did not kneel under their pressure and keep a low profile like many of his colleagues. He did not hide behind red tape or by looking the other way. He spoke up and where there was proven culpability, he did his job.
He was a conscientious prosecutor, for to him, prosecuting the guilty was just as important as exonerating the innocent. At a time when every public figure was literally a moving target to the “peaceful opposition” the Muslim Brotherhood, he issued orders to freeze the assets of all the Brotherhood leaders. It was a very effective way to dry up their resources used in their “peaceful opposition” methods of hiring “martyrs” to blow themselves up in crowded areas, to rig car bombs to assassinate civilians, police and army officers, to burn churches and cause civil strife, to target and shoot or blow up any high profile figure, in other words: “peaceful opposition”.
He was a pious man for he deeply believed in facing his Maker, in being accountable for all his actions and in the final judgement. When asked about certain decisions he made, he said “I shall stand alone before God and have to justify every decision. No one will be there to take the blame for me. I alone will be accountable to Him”. So all his decisions were influenced by a live conscience, a very strong sense of justice, and a love for God.
He was a very kind and gentle man. Every morning on his way to work, he paused a few minutes at his door, smiling, greeting his neighbors and the passers by. He was greatly respected by his neighbors for he never changed after he became Prosecutor General. He remained the same affable, likable, modest family man that he always was.
Hisham Barakat, courageous patriot, conscientious prosecutor, pious, gentle, kind human being was yesterday blown up in his car by the “peaceful opposition”.
Morsi’s Trial
Al Husseini Abu Deif, assassination, demonstrators, District Attorney, inciting to kill, Itehadeya, militias, Morsi, the Brotherhood, torture, trial
One day to go before the trial begins. A couple of days ago was Friday, and as usual this is the day the Brotherhood supporters rampage through town terrorizing people and threatening all sorts of violence. Added to the usual Friday, this was supposed to be a dress rehearsal for Monday November 4, 2013, the day set for the beginning of Morsi’s trial. It was nothing special. The numbers are deteriorating, and although the police ensured that none of the main squares were occupied, none of the Brotherhood even attempted to invade any of those squares.
There are 14 people, besides Morsi, who are supposed to stand trial, but 7 of them are still at large. It seems that according to the law Morsi has the right to refuse to appear before the judge. In such a case the police are forced, by law, to leave him where he is and report to the court the accused’s refusal to attend. The court then would issue a decree requesting the police to bring in the accused, by force if necessary. So the next court session he will have to go. Some people think that he will not avail himself of this right as he might be brought in the next session in handcuffs!
This is the first case against Morsi and he is accused of inciting to kill the demonstrators in front of Al Itihadeya Presidential Palace last December.
What had taken place at the time were very large demonstrations against Morsi, in protest to his Presidential Decree on November 21 where he gave himself absolute power sweeping aside all legislative and judicial checks and balances. These demonstrations marched from all over town and congregated in front of the Presidential Palace. Morsi was in residence at the time. The first line of defense was the plain-clothed militias of the Brotherhood. These were caught on film, through numerous clips taken by mobile phones, showing how these members of the militia would pinpoint some hapless individual then pounce and abduct him from the midst of the other demonstrators and drag him to their lines and their supporters, which happened to be next to gate number 4 of the Place. There, those abducted were lined against the wall of the Palace’s fence and interrogated, beaten and tortured until bloodied, some stripped. There were around 49 individuals who were blindfolded, beaten and tortured. This too is captured on film and the interrogators and torturers were clearly photographed. Of those tortured on film are three people who stand out. The first is an Egyptian Ambassador a retired diplomat, the second was a Christian Engineer, and the third was a house Porter whose place of work was right there next to the Palace. These three people were very badly beaten right there and all this is documented. Besides these there were quite a few who were shot dead, one of them being Al Husseiny Abu Deif, a well know photojournalist who was photographing the Brotherhood members who were shooting at the demonstrators. He was shot at very close range, in the head with an unidentified type of weapon whose ammunition fragmented into several pieces on entering his head. This is premeditated murder. His camera was then stolen. Several young activists were killed that day.
Next came the testimony of the Head of the Presidential Guard who, on being questioned, admitted that Morsi had given him orders to use their armored vehicles in stopping the demonstrators from reaching the Palace fence by either shooting them or running them down. The Head of the Guards refused, stating that it was his job to safeguard the President and he will do his job as he sees fit.
Those who were held by the Brotherhood, and some who were even taken into the Palace, were finally turned over to the police who took them to be interrogated by the District Attorney for that area. The District Attorney started interrogating those brought to him, the next day. On that day Morsi came out with one of his rambling speeches in which he accused all those turned over to the police of being people who were paid by the opposition to escalate unrest against Morsi, and that they had admitted to that. While his speech was going on, the District Attorney had finished with his interrogations and released all those turned over to him by the Brotherhood for lack of any evidence. This caused great embarrassment to Morsi and his Brotherhood. The Brotherhood Attorney General was furious that one of the Attorneys reporting to him should do that and in retaliation issued a decree with immediate effect, to remove that District Attorney from that area and assigned him to Upper Egypt, which is traditional banishment. But the situation was different this time as this was a very high profile case and had great media coverage, so in the face of the storm that broke out, the Attorney General backed down and rescinded his order.
All these facts are publicly known through the media and mainly through Youtube where all those clips were posted and seen worldwide. I am sure there is far more damning evidence to the case which is still not public knowledge. So we are all eager to follow this trial which, as announced, will be covered live by television. Although there are a few voices asking for media blackout, yet the majority are asking for media coverage to show what he is accused of and what the evidence against him is, as well as what sort of defense will be put up.
Meanwhile the Brotherhood are planning to have as many demonstrators on the streets as they could gather to cause as much disruption as possible. If last Friday, was an example, there won’t be much of that. The police are taking all precautions and it is said 14 thousand soldiers have been assigned to ensure the safety of the prisoners and that of the trial. Already the police are now guarding all entrances to Cairo to ensure that the Brotherhood does not import their personnel from the different districts all over Egypt to help those in Cairo. The coming few days will be very interesting.
One Year Under Morsi’s Rule – Part 2
assassination, Internet activists, Itehadeya, police brutality
The unpopularity of the Brotherhood receded slightly when a few weeks after his inauguration Morsi relieved the extremely unpopular leaders of SCAF of their positions, retired them with honor and decorations and appointed them as advisors to the President. But this slight surge in popularity did not last long.
Slowly the general trend within the Government started solidifying in a very clear bias to the Brotherhood at the expense of everybody else, but in particular the youth who were beginning to be vociferous in their criticism of the Brotherhood. A young 18 year old called Gaber Salah aka Jica, started a new Facebook page called “Against the Brotherhood”. The first demonstration he went out for was the anniversary of the Mohamed Mahmoud street massacre of the previous year. Eye witnesses testified that he was pointed out by some informants,then he was shot in the head and killed. His was the first of many such deaths of young internet activists against the Brotherhood. It was the beginning of the reign of terror while the Brotherhood was in charge. Evidence was found, advertised, then the official authorities buried it, of several abductions, torture and killing of young internet activists. The more that happened the angrier the people became, till on November 22, 2012, Morsi issued a Presidential Decree which gave total immunity to all previous and future decrees by him from any judicial objections. The fascist state was in place. It was no longer the youth who objected, it was everybody who was not a Brotherhood member or affiliate. A full upheaval took place, not only did Tahrir fill up again, but also a very large demonstration went on a march to the Itehadeya Palace, where Morsi resided. Some youth pitched tents and began a sit in there in protest.
It was during one of the worst periods in these demonstrations where the Brotherhood members arrested several people randomly, cornered them outside the gates of the palace and systematically beat and tortured them trying to elicit confessions that they were being paid by the opposition to demonstrate against Morsi. These were just ordinary citizens, one an ex Egyptian Ambassador, another a Christian businessman who was brutally beaten and the clip of his torture and bloodied bare torso went viral over the Internet. Some were even taken inside the palace and tortured in there. All this was recorded by individuals through their mobile telephones. Another clip that went viral worldwide was that of the poor carpenter who was beaten and stripped in the street, then bundled into one of the police cars there. At that time many strange looking bearded men were in uniform with the police and were armed. Their behavior differed from the run of the mill police, they were far more vicious and quite often used excessive force. It was strongly suspected that these were the militia set up by the Deputy of the Morshid, Khairat el Shater, to be the iron fist by which to implement their plans when the police balked at the use of force or at killing anybody.
It was at Itehadeya palace that one of the most active journalists was cold bloodedly assassinated by a bullet to the head. El Hoseiny Abu Deif was taking pictures of those who were shooting the people when he was shot at close range in the back of the head. His camera disappeared. So the Brotherhood started on its path of violence and murder. And the people started rising against them in earnest.
Parallel to these assassinations were the threats to both the Judiciary and the Media. The General Prosecutor was offered the position of Ambassador to the Vatican which he turned down, but was replaced anyway by one hand picked by the President. Another MB sleeper.
Continued … One Year Under Morsi’s Rule – Part 3
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World War Two Japanese Army Pilot Flight Suit With Flight Gloves and Boots
Posted on August 2, 2014 by airbornejumpjacket
This WWII Japanese Army Aviator grouping is one my all time absolute favorite groupings. It consists of the Japanese Army flight suit, flight gloves, and flight boots. I obtained all of these items directly from the Veteran that brought them back about 15 years ago.
I was attending a local show in the late 1990s when a gentleman in his late 70s came up to me and started chatting. He told me that he was a WWII Veteran and that he had a box of WWII Japanese pilot items in a box out in his car. He wanted to know if I would be interested in them. I said I probably would and asked if we could go look at them. We went out to his car and in the trunk were these items stuffed in the wooden box that he had mailed them home in. The box still had his WWII military return address on it along with the WWII era postage! He told me that they had not been taken out of the box since he sent them home. I will add a picture of the box at as soon as possible.
I took all of the items out of the box, told him what they were, and made an offer to purchase all of them. He told me he wanted to walk around the show a little bit and think about it. We both went back into the show and I waited hoping he would come back. He did and he agreed to sell the items to me.
He mentioned to me that he had found these items while fighting in the Philippines during WWII. The fighting was still going on and it was difficult to mail boxes, but he said that he was friends with a runner who had the ability to mail things home for him.
During WWII, the aviation personal of the Japanese Army and Navy wore different types of uniforms. All three of these items are Japanese Army and were worn by pilots and aircrews. The flight suit is an electrically heated type. It still has the electrical prong and cord that was plugged in to heat the suit. The flight gloves are made out of a very soft suede and are fur-lined. The flight boots have rubber soles that were designed to help pilots grip their pedals.
As we were parting, the Veteran mentioned to me that he was lucky that these items had survived. He said that he had mailed home many boxes of WWII Japanese war souvenirs during the War. His family kept them for a while, but eventually got tired of all of the boxes in the basement and threw everything they could find in the trash. He said that this box had been covered up in a corner and that the family just overlooked it during the time when they were they were throwing things away.
Please keep in mind that I am interested in all types of WWII Japanese pilot and aviation items. I am especially interested in purchasing items directly from World War Two Veterans or their family members. If you have any of these items you consider selling, please contact me via the information on my War Souvenirs Wanted page.
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Three Mile Island Intruder
Dave Lochbaum, former director, Nuclear Safety Project | July 5, 2018, 6:00 am EDT
This post is a part of a series on The Role of Regulation in Nuclear Plant Safety
Regulation and Nuclear Plant Safety #2
A man recently released from a hospital where he had been treated for mental health issues drove his mother’s station wagon into—literally—the Three Mile Island nuclear plant near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania at 6:53 am on February 7, 1993. Workers responded to the unauthorized entry by locking the doors to the control room and declaring a Site Area Emergency—the second most serious emergency of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC’s) four classifications. The intruder was found more than four hours later hiding in the turbine building.
Less than three weeks later while the NRC was still evaluating the unauthorized entry of a vehicle into Three Mile Island, a rental truck loaded with explosives was detonated in the parking area beneath the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City. The NRC revised its security regulations to better protect nuclear plants against unauthorized vehicle entries and vehicle bombs.
Fig. 1 (Source: President’s Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island)
As suggested by its name, the Three Mile Island (TMI) nuclear plant is located on an island. This specific island is in the Susquehanna River as it flows southeasterly from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. TMI is best known for the worst nuclear power plant accident, so far, in U.S. history. On March 28, 1979, the Unit 2 reactor at TMI experienced a partial meltdown of its nuclear core. The damaged Unit 2 reactor never restarted, but the Unit 1 reactor restarted a few years later and operated at 100 percent power on the morning of February 7, 1993.
At 5:30 am that Sunday morning, security officers opened the gates for the access bridge on the north end of the island (the upper left side of Figure 1). The night shift security personnel turned over duties to the oncoming dayshift crew at 6:00 am. Other dayshift workers and non-shift workers reporting for duty used the north bridge to drive onto the island.
The Party Crasher
At 6:53 am, a vehicle turned off Pennsylvania Route 441 onto the two-lane road to the north bridge. The vehicle continued past the North Gate guard house without stopping to show a badge authorizing access to the island and proceeded at an estimated 35 to 40 miles per hour in the outbound lane across the north bridge. The gates were still opened, so nothing impeded the vehicle’s unauthorized entry.
The vehicle slowed to 15 to 20 miles per hour as it exited the bridge and approached the plant. The night shift operations shift foreman who was in the parking out on his way home after being relieved from duty heard a crashing sound as the vehicle drove through Gate 1 into the protected area around the plant. The protected area detection system alerted security personnel to the gate-crasher.
The vehicle continued for another 189 feet until it smashed into the corrugated aluminum roll-up door at the northeast corner of the turbine building. The vehicle, with a portion of the roll-up door adorning its roof, travelled another 63 feet inside the turbine building until it struck a large container for radioactive waste. The impact slid the container about six feet across the floor.
Fig. 2 (Source: Department of Energy)
The off-duty operations shift foreman went to the Processing Center (where individuals enter and exit the plant’s protected area) and called the control room to report “A guy just went through the fence and roll-up door. This is not a drill. Lock the doors to the control room.” The shift supervisor who answered the call in the control room did not recognize the excited voice and did not hear much of the warning message. Moments later, a security officer entered the control room and announced, “This is not a drill, someone crashed through Gate 1 and then drove into the auxiliary boiler door.” (Basically the same message, but when it’s delivered in person by someone toting a gun, it tends to be better heard and heeded.) The control room is located within the control building adjacent to the turbine building.
Fig. 3 (Source: Nuclear Regulatory Commission NUREG-1485)
The Game of Hide & Seek
At 7:02 am, security officers approached the vehicle in the turbine building. The headlights were on, the engine was off, the driver’s side door was open, but no one was found in or around the vehicle. The security officers retreated because the vehicle could contain explosives.
At 7:07 am, the operations shift supervisor declared a Site Area Emergency. The NRC has four emergency classifications–Unusual Event, Alert, Site Area Emergency, and General Emergency.
At 7:11 am, the Central Alarm Station operator at TMI notified the NRC’s Operations Center about the situation and emergency declaration.
At 7:16 am, the operations shift foreman at TMI began notifying local and state officials about the emergency declaration. He used telephones in the control room instead of the automated notification system because it was in an office outside the locked control room doors.
At 7:23 am, the emergency director at TMI (who was also the operations shift supervisor) called the NRC via the Emergency Notification System telephone. The NRC asked that a direct telephone line to the plant be kept open.
At 7:33 am, the Pennsylvania State Police notified the Middletown Police Department about the security event at TMI. Middletown police officers arrived at the plant at 7:37 am.
At 8:30 am, workers removed restrictions on telephones at the plant. During weekends, the telephone system at the plant prevented many telephones, including some used for emergency response, from dialing offsite.
At 9:00 am, an explosive ordinance disposal unit from the U.S. Army surveyed the vehicle and observed no suspicious packages, containers, or wires.
At 9:28 am, the control room doors were unlocked to allow two workers to enter the shift supervisor’s office and activate the pagers to summon the emergency responders.
At 9:37 am, the NRC resident inspector, a representative of the state’s Bureau of Radiation Protection, and a company public affairs person with an armed escort walked through the turbine building and entered the control building.
At 10:20 am, the explosive ordinance disposal unit completed a more thorough search of the vehicle and found no bomb or “explosive paraphernalia.”
At 10:22 am, site security officers and Pennsylvania State Police officers begin searching for the intruder.
At 10:34 am, security personnel regrouped after completing the first search of the turbine building. Their search efforts had been hampered by dimly-lit areas inside the turbine building. To aid in future searches of darkened places, the team was given a flashlight.
At 10:36 am, the Emergency Director at TMI briefed the security team on the potential effects of using firearms in the turbine building (i.e., what could happen if bullets strike things other than intruder.)
At 10:40 am, the flashlight-equipped security team began a second search of the condenser pit area within the turbine building.
At 10:57 am, the security team found the intruder hiding in a dark area adjacent to a main condenser waterbox. The Pennsylvania State Police took custody of the intruder.
At 11:10 am, the explosive ordinance disposal unit completed a more detailed search of the vehicle and still found no bomb.
At 11:30 am, the explosive ordinance disposal units completed a search of the vehicle using an explosive detection dog. The dog didn’t find a bomb either.
At 11:45 am, the Pennsylvania State Police left the plant site with the intruder.
At 2:39 pm, cadets from the Pennsylvania State Police Academy arrive at the site by bus to search the entire island.
At 4:25 pm, the Site Area Emergency declaration was terminated.
The intruder was identified as a 31-year-old Caucasian male approximately 6 feet 1 inches tall and weighing 140 pounds with thick, black, shoulder-length hair and a heavy beard. At the time, he lived with his mother in a rural community northwest of Harrisburg about 56 miles from TMI.
The man had been admitted to hospitals at least three times for treatment of depression. The most recent hospitalization before this event had been an involuntary admission on January 18, 1993. He had been released on January 22.
The Earlier Intruder
This was not the first time that an unauthorized person had driven onto the island. At around 4:25 pm on April 23, 1980, a watchman at the North Gate observed a vehicle whiz by without stopping and reported the trespassing to the roving security patrol. A security alert was declared, the Pennsylvania State Police were contacted, and an extensive search begun. About four hours later, the trespasser was identified as a plant worker. The worker had been on the island, departed in his vehicle via the North Gate, and returned shortly afterwards. The worker said he’d not stopped on re-entering the site because he believed the watchman would know he was returning.
The Earliest Intruder
That was not the first time that an unauthorized person had driven onto the island, either. At 6:50 pm on January 27, 1976, a vehicle drove past the North Gate without stopping. Fifteen minutes later, a construction worker reported seeing someone climbing the security fence around the protected area. Twenty minutes later, workers called security to report hearing someone singing near the top of the reactor building. At 8:00 pm, the security officer at the North Gate who saw the vehicle whiz by him entering the island saw that same vehicle whiz by him leaving the island. The Pennsylvania State Police tracked down the individual from the vehicle’s license tag. The individual was voluntarily admitted into a local mental hospital. (Might as well admit him—he’d sneak in anyway.)
The NRC “Intruders”
The NRC dispatched an Incident Investigation Team (IIT) to TMI following the unauthorized entry. The IIT consisted of ten members supported by six technical staffers. The IIT identified several factors which impaired the response to the intrusion, including:
There was no vehicle at the North Gate for security officers to use to pursue and intercept the unauthorized vehicle.
The response was delayed by the time it took security personnel to obtain weapons from isolated storage locations.
The search-and-clear efforts were poorly coordinated, delaying searches in some areas. In addition, security officers were not posted after some areas were cleared to ensure those areas remained clear.
The reluctance of some security officers to use response weapons could have placed them at a disadvantage had they confronted an intruder equipped with design basis threat weaponry.
The plant’s security personnel searched for explosive materials before the explosives ordinance disposal unit arrived, but they had received no training on recognizing explosives. (Note: When I toured TMI after 9/11, the security manager conducting the tour told us that security officers are required to search incoming vehicles for bombs, but they have received no training on what a bomb looks like.)
While flashlights were stored in the security “ready room,” they were not retrieved and used during the initial search of the turbine building.
The company conducted quarterly security response drills in the three levels of the Unit 2 turbine building, which is significantly different from the six levels within the Unit 1 turbine building where the real event transpired.
The Drive to More Secure Nuclear Plants
Five hundred and forty (540). That’s how many days elapsed between someone driving into the TMI turbine building and the NRC putting upgraded security regulations on the street.
The NRC had considered security threats posed by vehicles prior to February 7, 1993. For example, in a paper (SECY-86-101) to the Commissioners dated March 31, 1986, the NRC staff noted that the chain link fences surrounding protected areas of nuclear plants would not prevent a vehicle from crashing through. But the staff concluded that prompt response by armed security officers would mitigate any fence-crashers.
The Nuclear Control Institute (NCI) and the Committee to Bridge the Gap (CBG) jointly submitted a petition for rulemaking dated January 11, 1991, to the NRC seeking to upgrade the regulations on nuclear plant security to include protection against explosive-laded vehicles and boats. On June 11, 1991, the NRC denied the rulemaking petition on the grounds “that there has been no change in the domestic threat since the design basis threat was adopted [in 1979] that would justify a change in the design basis threat.”
The events of February 1993 prompted the NRC to reconsider earlier decisions. The NRC noted “The bombing at the World Trade Center demonstrated that a large explosive device could be assembled, delivered to a public area, and detonated in the United States without advance intelligence” and that “The unauthorized intrusion at the Three Mile Island nuclear power station demonstrated that a vehicle could be used to gain quick access to the protected area at a nuclear power plant” (Federal Register, page 58805, November 4, 1993.)
The NRC conducted a Commission briefing on the re-evaluation of the design basis threat of nuclear plant sabotage on April 22, 1993. The NRC held a public meeting on better protection against vehicle intrusion and vehicle bombs on May 10, 1993. The NRC issued a draft rule titled “Protection Against Malevolent Use of Vehicles at Nuclear Power Plants” for public comment on November 4, 1993. And the NRC issued the final rule on August 1, 1994.
The upgraded rule required owners to evaluate their plants for potential damage from detonation of a vehicle laden with explosives and then either install barriers preventing vehicles from getting close enough to cause harm or provide structures protecting vital equipment from blast effects.
Fig. 6 (Source: Nuclear Regulatory Commission)
UCS Perspective
In reviewing momentous events for possible candidates in this series, this event appeared unquestionably to fall into the “just right regulation” bin. It ultimately found its way into that bin, but it became a bank shot rather than the swish or slam-dunk it initially appeared to be.
Slightly more than two years before the TMI intrusion, two non-governmental organizations petitioned the NRC to update its regulations to require protection against vehicle bombs. The NRC took only five months to deny that petition on grounds the perceived threat was really no threat.
Slightly less than 18 months after the TMI intrusion, the NRC revised its regulations to require protection against vehicle bombs.
A strong argument could be made that the NRC had sufficient cause in 1991 to update its regulations. After all, the TMI intrusion and the World Trade Center truck bombing were the very kinds of threats cited by NCI and CBG in their petition and became the leading reasons cited by NRC in 1994 for the revised regulations. This compelling argument could readily persuade an impartial jury to place this event in the “under-regulation” bin.
The counter argument would point out that the NRC addressed the petitioners’ concerns one-by-one. For example, the petitioners identified rise of State-sponsored terrorism as evidence of the need for upgraded security requirements. The NRC responded to this concern contending that unrest has been experienced in other parts of the world, it hasn’t happened here. The NRC also observed that it relies on U.S. intelligence efforts to identify, and thwart, larger coordinated attacks.
In issuing upgraded security regulations on August 1, 1994, the NRC explicitly conceded that it had denied the NCI/CBG petition seeking that outcome just three years earlier. The NRC noted that “The vehicle bomb attack on the World Trade Center represented a significant change to the domestic threat environment that changed many of the points used in denying the petition and eroded the basis for concluding that vehicle bombs could be excluded from any consideration of the domestic threat environment.”
Because the NRC did not stick by its 1991 denial and took steps after the events of February 1993 to better protect nuclear power plants—and more importantly, the people who work in them and live around them—from sabotage using vehicles, this event goes into the “just right regulation” bin. It would never make it into the “just perfect regulation” bin, but also does not deserve to fall into the “under-regulation” bin.
There’s more than a hint of the Nielsen Ratings Commission (NRC) and media spotlight effect described in the Role of Regulation #1 commentary. The NCI and CBG petition garnered trade press coverage. The TMI intruder event garnered local coverage. The World Trade Center bombing days later received international media coverage for weeks. That’s a powerful spotlight helping the NRC see the need for better protection against vehicle bombs.
UCS’s Role of Regulation in Nuclear Plant Safety series of blog posts is intended to help readers understand when regulation played too little a role, too much of an undue role, and just the right role in nuclear plant safety.
Posted in: Nuclear Power Safety Tags: just-right-regulation, NRC, nuclear power, nuclear power safety, The Role of Regulation in Nuclear Plant Safety, tmi
John Tesmer
Do you have any idea why NUREG-1485 is not available on the NRC website?
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Vera Brittain
Vera Mary Brittain (1893 - 1970) was an English poet, feminist, pacifist, and English Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse. Her novel, Testament of Youth (1933) is considered a stand-out autobiography of the 20th century for its vivid account of her traumatic experiences during World War I and gradual embrace of pacifism. She wrote an intensely personal collection of poems, Verses of a V.A.D. in 1918, in which she dedicates many verses to the memory of her only brother, Edward Brittain, and several of her friends, colleagues, and patients who lost their lives because of the War.
Brittain grew up privileged in a family that owned paper mills. She attended boarding school and then studied English Literature at Somerville College, Oxford. Although her father objected, she quit school after one year to become a volunteer nurse in 1915, and served through most of the First World War in Buxton, London, Malta, and France. She lost her brother, fiance, close friends, colleagues, and countless patients.
After the war, Brittain found it difficult to adjust to life back at Oxford where she studied History, developed close friendships and became established in the London literary scene. In 1925, she married political scientist, George Catlin, during which they had a son and daughter (who became the Labour cabinet minister). Her first book, The Dark Tide (1923) met with scandal for its portrayal of Oxford life at Somerville College. Testament of Youth (1933) received lasting acclaim for her intimate descriptions of the traumatic events during World War I.
In her poignant book of poems, Verses of a V.A.D , she expressed her profound suffering due to the loss, particularly of her brother, Edward, in June 1918. She dedicates almost every poem to the place and memory of a specific soldier, nurse, or other casualty whom she knew during the war. Brittain's intimate style of writing gives the reader intense impressions of what it was like for her to live, while so many others died.
Brittain embraced pacifism, and during World War II voiced strong objections to the saturation bombings of German cities, for which she was roundly criticized. She served as the editor of the pacifist magazine, Peace News in the 1950's and 1960's. Brittain died in 1970, and as she requested, her daughter spread her ashes on Edward's grave on the Asiago Plateau, Italy, where he died more than fifty years earlier.
In Memoriam: G.R.Y.T.
Looking Westward
Oxford Revisited
Sic Transit
That Which Remaineth
The Sisters Buried at Lemnos
The Troop-Train
To Them
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Anarchist History Nerd Brigade
… Explorations in North American Anarchist History
Author Archives: anarchist history nerd brigade
Love, Rage, and (Dis)Connection
Here’s a new compilation of writings culled from Love & Rage, the Love & Rage Federation Bulletin, the Chicago-based Wind Chill Factor, and the publication (Dis)Connection. All were produced in the 1990s and help to give an idea of some of the debates that were happening within the anarchist space in the U.S. in the 1990s.
The pieces include:
“Fighting White Supremacy” by Lorenzo Komboa Ervin
“Proposal for a New Love and Rage Initiative on Race and Color” by Lorenzo Komboa Ervin
“Intercollectivism: A Critical View of the Network of Anarchist Collectives” by Brian
In addition to the pieces above, there is a brief introduction with historical information introducing the various projects and publications.
Get the PDF here: Love, Rage, and (Dis)Connection
This entry was posted in General on September 12, 2015 by anarchist history nerd brigade.
Zine: Excerpts from “Passionate and Dangerous”
A. Iwasa, the editor/author of the Anarchist History Nerd Brigade zine, The A-Zone and a Decade of Anarchy in Chicago, recently completed a 24-hour zine challenge title that expands on that history.
The new zine consists of excerpts from the publication “Passionate and Dangerous” which came out in 1998. It was an effort to document the activity of anarchist and anti-authoritarians in the Midwest by way of conversations with folks involved in a range of anarchist projects. The excerpts featured in this zine concern the A-Zone (Autonomous Zone) in Chicago, with the zine reprinting interviews with A-Zone participants while the project was still functioning.
This entry was posted in General on July 15, 2015 by anarchist history nerd brigade.
New Zine: “Johann Most” by Emma Goldman
Johann Most is one of the more misunderstood figures in U.S. anarchist history. His reputation is shaped by a legacy of vilification in the mainstream press, with the foreign-born Most being the target of relentless attacks by the newspapers of his day. In Most, the forces of capitalism and order found the stereotype of the wild-eyed anarchist bent on destruction.
This zine presents a biographical essay about Most by Emma Goldman, originally published in The American Mercury. It is notable for its profoundly human portrayal of Most, providing a biographical sketch and evaluating his role in the movement.
The essay is accompanied by a critical introduction that explores how Most has been portrayed over the years.
Download the PDF: Imposed / Screen Reading
This entry was posted in Zines and tagged anarchist history nerd brigade, emma goldman, history, johann most, north america, zines on July 6, 2015 by anarchist history nerd brigade.
New Zine: Neither East Nor West NYC
We’ve published a new zine, “Neither East Nor West NYC: A De Facto Anarchist Black Cross History, 1980-1994.” The zine is a reformatted version of an essay by Bob McGlynn that explores the history of the group Neither East Nor West. The group was formed in the 1980s in New York City as a way of extending solidarity to comrades in the East (Communist Bloc). Their activities included a variety of educational and organizing efforts. One of their most prominent contribution was the production of On Gogol Boulevard, a publication that provide updates on activities in the East. It was published both as a standalone publication and also appeared as a section in major anarchist publications of the period including Fifth Estate, Anarchy, The Shadow, and Profane Existence. With its focus on political prisoners, Neither East Nor West NYC in many ways functioned as a de facto Anarchist Black Cross.
This entry was posted in Zines and tagged anarchist black cross, anarchist history nerd brigade, history, north america, organizing, zines on June 29, 2015 by anarchist history nerd brigade.
New Zine: The A-Zone & A Decade Of Anarchy In Chicago
We’re excited to announce the completion of our latest project, an updated version of the zine The A-Zone & A Decade Of Anarchy In Chicago.
In this new edition, editor Alex Iwasa expands on their previously published history of The Autonomous Zone (The A-Zone) in Chicago and shares new research that provides additional information about both the A-Zone and the larger context of the U.S. anarchist space in the 1990s and early 2000s. A new contribution in this edition adds additional reflections on the A-Zone, joining an interview and two reflective essays that appeared in the original edition of the zine.
The history of the Autonomous Zone has a relevance for those outside of Chicago, as the A-Zone was typical of anarchist experiments in counter-institutions and infoshops undertaken by anarchists in the 1990s and as such the writings within cover an important aspect of recent anarchist history. It gives an interesting snapshot of the infoshops of the 1990s and the related anarchist milieu. Beyond the A-Zone, the zine talks about the Love & Rage anarchist federation, the anarchist networking project (Dis)Connections and the related Network of Anarchist Collectives, as well as the Chicago-based projects Baklava Collective and Wind Chill Factor. Also covered are Food Not Bombs, Anarchist Black Cross, and Anti-Racist Action.
You can get the zine as a printable or screen readable version
This entry was posted in Zines and tagged anarchist history nerd brigade, infoshops, north america, organizing, the a-zone, zines on March 18, 2015 by anarchist history nerd brigade.
A new version of “Claim No Easy Victories” has been posted as the old version had some odd formatting errors. The new version should be easy to print and reproduce.
Additionally, new versions of all of our zines have been posted. For the most part, they are the same with the addition of proper contact information. We have also added screen readable versions.
We’re currently at work on a few projects, including a zine on the history of the Autonomous Zone in Chicago.
This entry was posted in General and tagged anarchist history nerd brigade on February 26, 2015 by anarchist history nerd brigade.
Zine: Yalensky’s Fable: A History of the Anarchist Black Cross
Recently while reading Michael Schmidt’s Cartography of Revolutionary Anarchism, we came across a reference to an article by Matthew Hart that explores the history of the Anarchist Black Cross. Hart makes the argument that the anarchist prisoner support effort is one of the longest running anarchist projects.
We’ve put together a zine version of the article and also are reprinting it here.
This entry was posted in Zines and tagged anarchist black cross, anarchist history nerd brigade, history, zines on August 6, 2014 by anarchist history nerd brigade.
Zine: Claim No Easy Victories
Claim No Easy Victories: A History and Analysis of Anti-Racist Action is a piece that was written by Rory McGowan in the early 2000s on the history of Anti-Racist Action (ARA). The article originally appeared in the Northeastern Anarchist, a magazine published by the North Eastern Federation of Anarcho-Communists (NEFAC).
We reprinted it as a zine because there unfortunately aren’t many histories of Anti-Racist Action (ARA) out there despite its role in recent anarchist history.
This entry was posted in Zines and tagged anarchist history nerd brigade, anti-racist action, history, north america, organizing, zines on June 7, 2014 by anarchist history nerd brigade.
Zine: Mob Action Against the State
This zine is a reprinted version of Mob Action Against the State: Haymarket Remembered …An Anarchist Convention, a long out of print book that provides a collection of experiences from the 1986 Haymarket Remembered conference in Chicago.
You can download the zine here.
This entry was posted in Zines and tagged anarchist history nerd brigade, gatherings, history, north america, organizing, zines on June 7, 2014 by anarchist history nerd brigade.
Zine: The Political Pre-History of Love & Rage
The Political Pre-History of Love & Rage: Anarchist Struggle in the 1980s and 1990s presents a history of anarchist organizing efforts in North America. From the introduction:
This zine presents one version of the history of the anarchist context out of which the Love & Rage Revolutionary Anarchist Federation emerged in the early 1990s. There is no doubt much that could be said about the period and many different conclusions could be drawn. One route some anarchists took – very controversial at the time – was to form a federation to increase the level of organization amongst anarchists in the U.S.
Love and Rage broke apart in 1998 following wide-ranging internal debates over politics and goals (for example, some folks became Marxists). AK Press published a short book titled A New World In Our Hearts: Eight Years of Writings from the Love & Rage Revolutionary Anarchist Federation on the federation, but folks would do well to dig up the various critiques of Love & Rage’s politics (and practice) that circulated within the anarchist space.
This zine presents Love & Rage’s interpretation of anarchist struggle in the 1980s and 1990s (the history originally appeared in the “1997 Member Handbook” published by the New York Local, it’s been trimmed here for relevance). To be sure, its bias is towards making the case for a federation style of organization. Setting that aside (as hard as that may be), it presents a history that has been largely lost. We present it not to advocate for federations (which have a rather long history of not working out so well), but rather out of interest in the accomplishments and missteps of previous generations of anarchists.
This entry was posted in Zines and tagged anarchist history nerd brigade, history, love & rage, north america, organizing, zines on June 7, 2014 by anarchist history nerd brigade.
The Anarchist History Nerd Brigade is a small anarchist publishing project exploring anarchist history in North America post-1970.
Anarchist History
Anarchist Library
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Radical Archives
Research on Anarchism
Talon Conspiracy
Contemporary Struggle
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Destination ARTS! Free Performances and Events for July 21-24, 2016
Waynesboro, PA: Destination ARTS! activities continue in Waynesboro, PA with art exhibits and special events scheduled at Gallery 50, 42 West ARTS Co-Op, Through the Lens & Beyond, and the Ceramic Arts Center of Waynesboro. The galleries feature oil paintings, watercolors, pottery, sculptures, jewelry, photographs, furniture, and more. This weekend, they will be open on Thursday from 1 to 4 p.m. (Gallery 50 and 42 West ARTS Co-Op only), Friday from 5 to 8 p.m., Saturday from 12 to 6 p.m. and Sunday from 1 to 4 p.m.
Thursday, July 21, 2016 – Gallery Talks: 2 p.m. Gallery 50 – 50 West Main Street, Waynesboro, PA 17268. Curator and Director Marjorie Tressler will share behind-the-scenes information on the art and history of the artists of Gallery 50. Learn about each artist’s individual technique and even their personal history and artistic inspirations. For more information, call 717-655-2915.
Tressler teaches art locally and has conducted classes at the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, where her portraits were featured in a solo show in 1993. She is a former student of the Schuler School of Fine Arts and has studied with several nationally known and prominent local artists over the last 35 years. Tressler has been Gallery 50’s lead curator and director since 2013.
Friday, July 22, 2016 – Wine Down Friday: 5:30-8 p.m. Gallery 50 – 50 West Main Street, Waynesboro, PA 17268.
Jon Ingels will be performing his blend of bluegrass, rock, and blues music. Wine and light refreshments will be available. For more information, call 717-655-2915.
Jon Ingels is a singer/songwriter from Waynesboro, PA and has written songs and performed with several local groups, including the Boro Boogie Pickers. Ingles’ lyrical content is a mixture of storytelling and geographic imagery backed by folk chord patterns, simple melodies, and blues-driven rhythm.
Friday, July 22, 2016 – Book Signing with Dr. Ed Koterba Morgret: 5-8 p.m. Gallery 50 – 50 West Main Street, Waynesboro, PA 17268. Visit Gallery 50 on Friday for a special book signing with Dr. Ed Koterba Morgret, author of “The Essential Ed Koterba: A Most Outstanding Newspaperman.” The book chronicles Koterba’s unlikely rise to become a syndicated columnist in Washington, D.C. during the 1950s. Students of journalism and fans of the 1950s will delight in the rich details provided by the author who also happens to be Koterba’s son. For more information about the book, visit www.TheEssentialEdKorterba.com.
Morgret, son of Ed Koterba, was born in Chambersburg, PA in 1952. He holds a BA from Clemson University, an MA from the Catholic University of America, and a PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was awarded the West Virginia School Psychologist of the year in 2005 and served as president of the school’s Psychologists Association from 2009 to 2010. Today he lives in Hilton Head Island where he enjoys playing jazz piano and tennis.
Friday, July 22, 2016 – Summer in the Square: 5:30-8 p.m. – Center Square, Main Street, Waynesboro, PA 17268. Mountain Ride, a Pennsylvania bluegrass band fancying both progressive and traditional facets of the genre will be playing in Center Square. The group is composed of Eric Avey (guitar and vocals), Scott Matlock (fiddle and vocals), Corey Woodcock (banjo), Chance Hurley (mandolin), and Kate Avey (bass and vocals). For more information, call 717-655-2915 or visit their website at www.mountainridebluegrass.com.
Friday, July 22, 2016 – Folks Songs by Becky Dietrich and Patric Schlee: 6:30-8 p.m. 42 West ARTS Co-Op & Gallery – 42 West Main Street, Waynesboro, PA 17268. Becky Dietrich and Patrich Schlee will present a variety of traditional folk songs in Gallery 50. Wine and light refreshments will be served. For more information, visit the co-op website at www.42westarts.com or call 717-762-8394.
Dietrich has collected and sung folk songs from England, Scotland, and the United States for many years. She is an active artist and writer and owned and operated A Little Gallery in Mont Alto, PA for 20 years.
Saturday, July 23, 2016 – Portrait Painting Demonstration: 12-2 p.m. 42 West ARTS Co-Op & Gallery – 42 West Main Street, Waynesboro, PA 17268. 42 West ARTS Co-Op member, Donna Bingaman, will be demonstrating the art of portrait painting. For more information, visit the co-op website at www.42westarts.com or call 717-762-8394.
Saturday, July 23, 2016 – Potters’ Wheel Demonstration: 1-3 p.m. 42 West ARTS Co-Op & Gallery – 42 West Main Street, Waynesboro, PA 17268. Rod Meyer and his wife Karri Benedict will be working in clay and demonstrating how they create stoneware and decorative Raku pottery. For more information, visit the co-op website at www.42westarts.com or call 717-762-8394.
Rod Meyer and Karri Benedict have been making pottery together for more than 37 years. Their work shows a great respect for fine craftsmanship and their sense of design is strongly influenced by function. They produce a full line of pieces for the home that are lead-free and dishwasher, microwave, and oven safe. They are both juried members of the Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen and own and operate Willow Creek Pottery.
Sunday July 24, 2016 – Songwriters Showcase: 2-5 p.m. Music Makers – 46 West Main Street, Waynesboro, PA 17268. Members of the Songwriters Forum will be performing original songs written as part of the group’s writing exercises in the newly opened Music Makers Center. Featured p erformers include Jon Ingels, Gus and Roonie Rost, Ron Nicodemus, Ginny Gill, John Dolly, Brian Forberger, Michael Weber, and Tim Franklin. For more information, call 717-655-2915.
The Songwriters Forum meets on a monthly basis in Waynesboro. Prior to each meeting, a new title or subject is chosen and members are encouraged to write an original song, resulting in unique works that reflect each participant’s preferred musical genre and unique style.
Sunday, July 24, 2016 – Galleries Open 1-4 PM
Scavenger Hunt & Gallery Tour Passport Contests – 2016
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Trace a Portrait
Samuel John Egbert Jones , 1797–1861
A Landscape with Sportsman & his Pointers hunting Rabbits
50 x 60 cm. (20 x 24 in.)
The history of the Pointer, like many breeds, is a reasonably debatable topic. Records of Pointers in England trace as far back as 1650. According to one source, the Pointer came to be in the 16th and 17th centuries, when pointing breeds, including the Old Spanish and Portuguese pointer, were brought from the European mainland to England.
Through both history and anatomical evaluation, at least four breeds appear to have been instrumental in Pointer crosses: Greyhounds, Foxhounds, Bloodhounds, and Bull Terriers. Each of these were established breeds with unique qualities the Pointer could use to do its job.
Pointers were brought to the United States, where the breed flourished in the abundant open hunting land. At that time (late 1800s), the Setter was considered to be the bird-hunting dog and pointers were not even permitted to compete in field trials with setters. Around 1910, however, the Pointer began to beat the Setter at its own game. The Pointer has dominated the pointing breed field trials since then.
One of the earliest dogs to exert influence on the breed in the US was a dog imported from England in 1876 – "Sensation". He is well known as the dog on the emblem of the Westminster Kennel Club.
One modern American kennel, established in 1936, and known for breeding large quantities of Pointers, Elhew Kennels produced a popular and successful line of gun dogs. Elhew pointers were well-known competitors at field trials for several decades.
In the southern United States, where the dog is so dominant it is often simply referred to as the "bird dog," Pointers are found in abundance. The bobwhite quail is the primary game bird there, and is considered classic English Pointer game, as the bobwhite will hold well for a pointing dog. Pointers also work game birds such as the pheasant, grouse, and woodcock with success.
For an artist of such ability, popularity and wide output, information about Samuel Jones is comparatively scarce. Living in London, the first recorded mention of him was as an exhibitor at the Royal Academy in 1820 with a picture of an old mare, which he later exhibited at the British Institute in 1824.
Jones is best known for the fine quality of his sporting pictures, mainly portraits of hunting and work horses. In addition, he painted coaching, shooting, fishing, (an example of this being in the collection at Hutchinson House), and hunting scenes, paying much attention to the background landscapes. He also painted historical scenes and portraiture. His landscape works, often featuring cattle, were usually of views in Derbyshire, Kent, Sussex, Essex and Wales. Some of these were of substantial size and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London as a number of landscape sketches in its collection.
From notes made in two of his sketch books to be found in the British Museum, it can be seen that Jones thought that landscape painting was very important. This is reflected in the handling of trees and shrubs in his paintings. Wood, in his Dictionary of Animal Painters, says of him, “His landscape, by itself or as a setting for his sporting figures, is well-painted and commands
respect, being far superior to that of most animal painters, amongst whom he can hardly be numbered”.
His works were much engraved and published, the last being in 1849, and these were produced by Charles and George Hunt, Fellows, Hineley, Pyall and Smart.
Jones exhibited fourteen works at the British Institute, including views of watermills in Derbyshire and Kent. A further fourteen of his works were displayed at The Royal Academy including titles such as ‘The Lesson,” “Delightful Task” and “Born to Good Luck.” He also exhibited nineteen paintings at the Royal Society of British Artists in Suffolk Street.
He had two sons, Paul and Charles, who both became well-known landscape and animal painters
Dictionary of British Equestrian Artists - Sally Mitchell
A Dictionary of Artists 1760-1893 - Algernon Graves
Dictionary of British Landscape Painters - M H Grant
A Dictionary of British Animal Painters – J C Wood
Dictionary of Victorian Painters – Christopher Wood
Dog Painting 1840-1940 – William Secord
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Hip injury forces Halep to pull out of Stuttgart Open
World number two Simona Halep said she has been forced to withdraw from the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in Stuttgart after suffering a hip injury in the Fed Cup over the weekend.
Halep sustained the injury in the Fed Cup semi-finals when she beat France’s Caroline Garcia on Sunday. The win was in vain as France won the tie and advanced to the final.
“It was against Garcia in the first set, when I fell down,” Halep told reporters on Tuesday. “I felt pain in the hip. If I’m not 100 percent I don’t want to step on the court.
“I’m also exhausted mentally because I gave my everything in that tie but unfortunately we couldn’t win. That’s why I decided to pull out, because I have to think about my health first.
“It feels bad because I gave everything, I really wanted to win the Fed Cup. I’ve been very sad the last two days, I just need to recover mentally and physically and then just start again.”
Halep’s withdrawal means she will now rely on next month’s clay court tournaments in Madrid and Rome to prepare for her defence of the French Open title.
Meanwhile, Spain’s Garbine Muguruza, the 2016 French Open champion, also pulled out through illness. As a result of the withdrawals, Germany’s Angelique Kerber moved into the position of the second seed to get a bye to the second round.
Belarusian Victoria Azarenka will now play Russia’s Vera Zvonareva while Croatia’s Donna Vekic takes on Italy’s Giulia Gatto-Monticone.
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artist: Clément Bucco-Lechat credit: Own work
Roy Hodgson (born 9 August 1947) is an English former footballer who is the manager of the England national football team.Hodgson, who has managed sixteen different teams in eight countries, guided the Switzerland national team to the last 16 of the 1994 World Cup and qualification for Euro 1996; Switzerland had not qualified for a major tournament since the 1960s. From 2006 to 2007, he managed the Finland national team, guiding them to their highest ever FIFA ranking of 33rd place and coming close to qualifying for a major tournament for the first time in their history. On 1 May 2012, Hodgson was appointed as manager of the England national team and officially assumed duty on 14 May.
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Pain Medicine | January 1994
Carbon Dioxide Absorption Is Not Linearly Related to Intraperitoneal Carbon Dioxide Insufflation Pressure in Pigs
David R. Lister, M.D.; Blair Rudston-Brown, M.D.; C. Brian Warriner, M.D.; James McEwen, Ph.D.; Michael Chan, B.A.Sc.; et al Keith R. Walley, M.D.
David R. Lister, M.D.
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C. Brian Warriner, M.D.
James McEwen, Ph.D.
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* Resident in Anaesthesia, University of British Columbia.
† Resident in General Surgery, University of British Columbia.
‡ Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Anaesthesia, University of British Columbia; Chairman of Anaesthesia, St. Paul's Hospital.
§ Adjunct Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science, University of British Columbia.
∥ Project Engineer, Andronic Devices Ltd.
# Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia.
Anesthesiology 1 1994, Vol.80, 129-136. doi:
David R. Lister, Blair Rudston-Brown, C. Brian Warriner, James McEwen, Michael Chan, Keith R. Walley; Carbon Dioxide Absorption Is Not Linearly Related to Intraperitoneal Carbon Dioxide Insufflation Pressure in Pigs. Anesthesiology 1994;80(1):129-136.
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HomePosts tagged 'farmland'
March 8, 2018 Rose Bridger land rights, Nigeria Africa, agro-cargo airport, cargo airport, Civil Liberties Organisation, CLO, compensation, Ekiti Airport, Ewekoro Local Government Area, farm produce, farmers, farmland, Igbin-Ojo, Indonesia, intimidation, land acquisition, land grabbing, land rights, Nigeria, Ogun State, perishable exports, protest, Wasimi, Wasinmi
5,000 farmers from 20 villages are being displaced for a cargo airport in Ogun State, Nigeria. Residents of Igbin-Ojo and seven other communities have protested over land-grabbing. Crops have been bulldozed and they fear forcible eviction.
A major cargo airport is planned in the Wasimi area (also referred to as Wasinmi) of Ewekoro Local Government Area of Ogun State, near Nigeria’s southeast coast. On 18th December 2017 hundreds of farmers from the village of Igbin Ojo and seven other communities in Ogun State protested against land-grabbing for the airport. Appealing to the Ogun State Governor Ibikunle Amosun to intervene community leader Ademola Tiwalade Adisa stated that, on three occasions, groups of people came onto their land. Adisa reported that, on 17th November a group of people with a bulldozer invaded their land, then, on 24th November and 8th December a larger group of people encroached onto their land and began mapping portions of it. Below are photos of the 18th December protest published by The Sun Newspaper.
Igbin-Ojo residents protest against displacement
Farmland destroyed, cargo airport planned
Narrating their ordeal of 8th December 2017 Adisa said that heavily armed men of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) had forcefully arrested a number of people and, at gunpoint, forced him and his elder brother to sign an undertaking stating that they would not disturb work on their land. Villagers claim that the land trespassing and mapping was led by former chair of the Ewekoro Local Government Area, Mr. Dele Soluade, but he has repeatedly denied all the allegations, dismissing the claims he had illegally invaded the land as “unfounded” and insisting that he was acting under the instructions of Governor Amosun.
Affected villagers had undertaken a survey before the trespassing and mapping exercise began, clarifying the status of their land with the state government. They had obtained a land information certificate dated 13th December 2017 which confirmed that the land in question is completely free of all known acquisitions. The land information certificate was published in the The Sun Newspaper. Farmers’ land rights claims were fortified by this document and Abisa said: “We, therefore, appeal to Governor Ibikunle Amosun to come to our aid before he wipes our communities out in his desperation to grab our lands.”
Farmers dispossessed and crops destroyed
A 4th February an article in The Guardian Sunday Magazine painted an alarming picture of the plight of residents of Igbin Ojo, ‘fighting the battle of their lives’ to resist displacement from their ancestral land. Over the course of a few weeks crops worth millions of Naira, including cassava and pineapple plantations, had been destroyed by bulldozers and caterpillars. Farmland measuring nearly 164 hectares serving as their providing main source of income had been leveled and forcibly taken away. Fear had enveloped other farmers, including people who had invested heavily in poultry facilities which they feared losing. Farmers were distraught, dispossessed of their land and anticipating being evicted from their homes, desperately worried about their own survival and the future for their children. One woman said that that the entire community was living in fear and hunger and that children were unable to attend school because parents were unable to afford the fees.
One of the community elders, Pa Emmanuel Olukunle Opeagbe, said that the community had enjoyed ownership of the land from time immemorial up until 17th November 2017 when the first land invasion took place. He confirmed community leader Abisa’s account of land invasions by a group of people, which he described as “fierce-looking thugs”, and a bulldozer. He backed up community leader Adisa’s allegations of Soluade leading the land invasions and resorting to abuse, harassment, intimidation and threats to bulldoze people along with the crops. Opeagbe reported that Soluade had told villagers that their community would cease to exist. Along with Adisa, Opeagbe had been arrested and forced at gunpoint to sign an undertaking not to interfere with trespassing on the land.
Residents appealed to the Federal Government, Amnesty International and human rights activists for support. On 16th February the Civil Liberties Organisation (CLO) responded, petitioning Governor Amosun over the unlawful acquisition of land and threat to their lives. State chair of CLO, Joseph Enitan, said intervention of the governor is urgently needed because Soluade is acting under his instructions to trespass and grab lands. Farmland was being invaded and destroyed, in the name of constructing a cargo airport. Community members including council chairman Kehinde Adepegba were shocked by recent developments. New areas of land had been claimed for the airport project and encroached upon, even though the land required for the airport was allocated to the project many years previously.
A large portion of land had already been acquired for the proposed Ogun cargo airport, which was first conceived in 2005. Yet, shortly before the reports of land grabbing, in May 2017, the project languished abandoned; the only physical infrastructure that had materialized was a perimeter fence around an area of land measuring 5 x 5 kilometers. Farmers from about 35 communities, who had grown crops like rice and high-yield cassava had been displaced for the project, but they had not received compensation for the loss of their land and livelihoods. Opeagbe said the large portions of land that were “compulsorily taken for the project years back are yet to be compensated for” and that people had not protested against the airport because they believed it would bring development to their area and they would benefit from it.
Farmland is being destroyed, and farmers displaced, for an airport project which aims to export farm produce; the Ogun airport project has been described as an ‘agro-cargo airport‘. It appears that the primary purpose of the airport is envisaged as ‘transportation of agricultural products to other parts of the world’, also referred to as export of perishable (temperature controlled) goods. Only cursory mention has been made of other potential functions for the airport such as import of consumer goods, machinery and industrial raw products, pilot training school, aircraft maintenance facility, helicopter and air taxi services.
Compensation and a possible court case
At the end of February Governor Amosun announced that 500 million Naira (nearly US$1.4 million) had been allocated for payment of compensation to farmers losing their land for the airport, saying that the money would be disbursed to 20 villages directly affected by the airport project. He also said that affected farmers would be relocated to an appropriate location where they could continue their farm business, making assurances that his administration would not bring hardship to the people. It was then reported that 1,000 farmers had been compensated for loss of their agricultural land and crops and the remaining 4,000 would receive compensation within the next few weeks. If it is indeed the case that US1.4 million has been earmarked for compensation of 5,000 farmers, then assuming the same amount is to be allocated per farmer this adds up to a mere US$280 each. Igbin Ojo is one of the villages listed as beneficiaries of the first phase of compensation, along with Pataleri, Igbagba, Mosan, Igbin Orola, Igbin Arowosegbe, Idele and Balagbe.
Airport Project: Ogun Pays N500bn Compensation To Farmers – https://t.co/71wWUwCZ7g
— Independent Nigeria (@IndependentNGR) March 1, 2018
Since this announcement GAAM has not found any reports of affected villagers’ response to the compensation offer, aside from a single resident of Igbagba village reportedly appreciative of prompt payment. There have been newspaper reports of officials making statements urging people to support the project, and exhorting its supposed benefits of employment for local people, economic development and attracting foreign investors. But it is evident that land acquisition for the airport is not supporting development, it is destroying communities. As officials proclaim potential positive impacts of the airport GAAM has not found any information on such vital matters as how the project will be funded and which firms and/or government bodies will be responsible for constructing, operating and managing the facility. But it is evident that a truly gargantuan megaproject is in the works. As he again implored residents to support the cargo airport Governor Amonsun said that ‘thousands of hectares‘ would be required for the project.
Communities resisting loss of their land for Ogun cargo airport are dragging Soluade to court in an attempt to bring the land grabbing to a halt. Their struggle has parallels with farmers’ resistance to the Ekiti airport project, north of Ogun state. In October 2015 the state government of Ekiti sent in bulldozers to clear 4,000 hectares of farmland for an airport, without even discussing the project with affected farm owners in five villages. Farmers succeeded in stalling the land clearance and suspending the airport project. Opponents from within the state government supported the farmers, arguing that the project had begun illegally without adhering to due process and criticized the high level of state funding. The farmers protested and filed a suit seeking damages for unlawful land acquisition, and in March 2016 were vindicated with a court victory upholding their claims. But in the interim ten Ekiti farmers died. Community members attributed their deaths to the terrible trauma of the injustice perpetrated by the state.
February 1, 2018 February 1, 2018 Rose Bridger Campaigns, Notre Dames des Landes Airport farmland, France, Nantes new airport, NDDL, Notre-Dame-des-Landes Airport, ZAD, Zone a Défendre
Zad for ever
On the 17th of December Frances prime minister went onto live TV, with the minister of interior on his right hand side and that of the environment on his left. He was going to finally announce the government’s decision about the airport of Notre-dames-des-Landes and the fate of Europe’s largest defensive land occupation, the ZAD. The destructive infrastructure project, on the western edge of France, has been resisted since its inception 50 years ago, and over the last decade it’s 4000 acres of land have been squatted and turned into a giant laboratory of commoning, with over 100 living spaces and several hundred people occupying and working the land.
The airport has been a thorn in the side of every French government that has ever tried to build it. The prime minister Eduard Phillipe spoke for twenty minutes, the cameras whirled and he tried to remain calm as he announced…
January 2, 2018 January 4, 2018 Rose Bridger Indonesia, land rights aerotropolis, airport city, EIA, eviction, farmland, flooding, Indonesia, Java, Jogja Darurat Agraria, Kulon Progo Airport, land rights, maps, New Yogyakarta International Airport, NYIA, Penolak Penggusuran Kulon Progo, police brutality, protest, PWPP-KP
A new report ‘Solidarity Calls for Kulon Progo Farmers against Airport and Airport City‘ about farmers’ resistance against eviction for New Yogyakarta International Airport (NYIA) gives many insights into one of Indonesia’s key land rights struggles. Opposition to the airport dates back to 2011. The site, on the south coast of Java, comprises six villages which, before eviction commenced, hosted 11,501 residents. Farmers worked for many generations to increase the fertility of the land, establishing successful farms and thriving communities. Eviction from farmland means many thousands of agricultural labourers also lose their livelihoods and excavation of coastal areas has destroyed fishing farmers’ ponds.
The megaproject was approved without the requisite Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) even though there are serious ecological concerns, including the destruction of sand dunes which act as a bulwark protecting from coastal erosion and tsunamis and prevention salinization of groundwater. The report includes a map of the tsunami hazard area. Cultural heritage, such as the Glagah Stupa historical Buddhist site and Mount Lanang prayer monument, is also being obliterated.
The report is filled with striking photographs showing the progress of the airport and the resistance: bulldozers at work clearing land for the airport and the devastation that is left behind, evictions and protest actions including roadside banners, marches, blocking bulldozers, a road block and a hunger strike. Infographics show the projected development of NYIA not just as airport infrastructure but as an airport city, the affected areas of construction and inhabitants, and the food crops (approximately 450 tonnes annually per hectare including melons, eggplant and chilies) and livelihoods being displaced by the airport.
The airport project has divided the community. Many citizens have refused to sell their land for the airport, whilst some are willing to sell their land for compensation. Supporters of the airport worked to widen the social, economic and political rifts, facilitating the project. Resistance to land acquisition has met with state intimidation, repression and criminalization. Four farmers were imprisoned for four months. The report contains a chronology of violence against local residents resisting eviction and their supporters. Most recently, beginning on 28th November 2017, as another phase of eviction took place, police blocked road access to a group of residents’ homes, cut off their electricity supply, destroyed plants in their gardens and intimidated them. Police attacked a woman causing bruising on her neck and a number of citizens supporting the residents experienced violence at the hands of police, one person suffered a head injury and another suffered injuries from being dragged along the road.
An ‘airport city’ or aerotropolis – comprising shopping malls, offices, hotels, golf resort, tourism village, leisure town, industrial park and residential areas – is planned around the new airport, increasing the land area to 2,000 hectares and potentially leading to eviction of even more citizens. A new solidarity organization Paguyuban Warga Penolak Penggusuran Kulon Progo (PWPP-KP), has been formed to oppose the airport and airport city, allied with an organization of neighbouring farmers resisting sand mining, and supported by many citizens and environmental groups, including Jogja Darurat Agraria.
Polish government plans mega-airport and aerotropolis
November 16, 2017 Rose Bridger Poland A2, aerotropolis, AIIB, airport city, airport financing, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, aviation, aviation expansion, bailout, Baranów, CEE Bankwatch Network, Centralny Port Komunikacyjny, China, climate change, COP23, COP24, CPK, EU, farmland, high speed rail, hub, Lodz, LOT airlines, map, megaproject, PFR, Poland, Poland Central Airport, Polish Development Fund, Polski Fundusz Rozwoju, regional airports, roads, Stanisławów, Warsaw, Warsaw Chopin Airport
The Polish government has approved a plan for a mega-airport and ‘airport city’ on a 3,000 hectare site. An area of farmland has been identified as a suitable location for the project.
On 7th November, the second day of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP23) in Bonn, the Polish government approved a plan to build a new mega-airport, called Poland Central Airport or New Central Polish Airport, handling as many as 100 million passengers per year. The project would result in a a major increase in Poland’s greenhouse gas emissions. Poland, host of the next climate summit, COP24, in December 2018, is already widely regarded as a climate renegade for its continued investment in coal plants, and had the dubious honour of being awarded Fossil of the Day award in Bonn, for its relentless efforts to siphon European Union (EU) funds for clean energy into subsidizing its ageing coal plants. Announcement of a major airport project makes a further mockery of the country’s commitments to address climate change.
The proposed airport site is in Baranów, a rural gmina (administrative district) 40 kilometres to the west of Warsaw, Poland’s capital city. The map below, commissioned by Polski Fundusz Rozwoju (PFR) in 2008 and included in an article published on 8th October 2017, about a meeting on the airport between representatives of the government and Baranów municipality, shows two areas identified as suitable for the airport project: a 3,421 hectare area to the north of the map and a larger 11,338 hectare area to the south. Another variant of this map was included in a 100 page document discussed at the government meeting which adopted the airport plan, Poland’s biggest infrastructure project in recent years, on 7th November. At this meeting it was confirmed that the planned location of the airport is the Stanisławów village area, near the southern boundary of the area identified as suitable for the project.
Map commissioned by PFR showing areas suitable for Poland Central Airport
A map produced by GAAM shows the villages within the boundaries of the two areas identified as suitable for the airport project and the existing road and rail links.
A satellite image of the Stanisławów village area, confirmed as the planned location for the new central airport, shows the villages and small parcels of cultivated land that characterize the wider area.
A mega-airport, multi-modal transportation hub and an aerotropolis
The schedule for the new airport is for preparatory works to be complete by the end of 2019, then for construction to be complete and operations to commence by mid-2027. A mega-airport is planned, one of the largest in the world with four runways, initially serving 45 million passengers per year, rising to 100 million, a passenger throughput as high as the world’s busiest airports, almost as high as Atlanta in the US and higher than the current traffic levels at Dubai Airport and Beijing Capital Airport. A multi-modal transportation hub is planned, integrating the new mega-airport with existing and new road and rail infrastructure. Plans for the airport include a rail station and the project is also referred to as Centralny Port Komunikacyjny (CPK), which translates as Central Communication Port. The proposed airport site is between Warsaw and Łódź, Poland’s third largest city, and a high-speed rail line connecting the two cities is planned. The A2 motorway running between Poland’s western and eastern borders is immediately south of the proposed site. Immediately north of the airport site is the rail line between Berlin and Moscow, via Warsaw, providing a high-speed service that commenced operations in December 2016.
The 3,000 hectare land area for the new airport is far larger than would be required even if the number of passengers meets the projection of 100 million per annum. A 3,000 hectare site is more than 50 per cent larger than the world’s busiest airport, Atlanta in the US which handles 104 million passengers per year. Atlanta Airport’s site covers 1,900 hectares and encompasses substantial commercial development including more than 200 concession outlets such as retail, food and beverages. The oversized proposed land area for Poland Central Airport could be linked to plans for an ‘airport city‘ or aerotropolis. A 1,200 hectare new city is envisaged, with hotels and showrooms. Under the government resolution outlining plans for the new airport legal and infrastructural changes to Baranów would allow for construction of business parks, conference centres, an exhibition centre and office complexes.
A government financed megaproject
The budget for the airport project, combined with the road and rail infrastructure, is estimated at between €7 – 8 billion. Polish citizens will bear the brunt of the enormous cost of the project; the main investor is the government. The 7th November 2017 resolution announcing construction of the airport approved the financing structure as well as the location. An article in the second 2017 edition of Airport Development News, an industry newsletter published by Airports Council International, stated that two state-owned financial institutions, Polish Development Fund (Polski Fundusz Rozwoju – PFR) and Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego (BGK), Poland’s national development bank, would be ‘heavily involved’ in financing the project.
Possibilities for European funding have been considered. The Airport Development News article states that between 75 and 80 per cent of airport construction will be financed by international institutions such as the EIB (European Investment Bank) and EBRD (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development). Such investment by the EIB and EBRD is doubtful as state aid rules preclude allocation of EU funds for construction of the airport. But a June 2017 article published by legal analyst firm Lexology stated that EU funds could be tapped for the road and rail elements of the project. The total cost of the rail infrastructure elements of the megaproject complex is estimated to be between €1.89 billion and €2.1 billion, the total cost of roads and highways between €424,000 and €1.6 billion.
Uncertainty over accessing EU funds has led to attempts to secure financing from Chinese sources. The airport was one of the vast transportation and energy infrastructure projects discussed at the May 2017 Summit of the Belt and Road in China, where the President of China repeated assurances about new credit lines by China Development Bank and China Exim Bank, and one of the outcomes was signing of a contract between Polish and Chinese state railways on facilitating container transport. The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), a multilateral financial institution supporting construction of infrastructure in the Asia-Pacific region, is reported to have expressed an interest in co-financing the Poland Central Airport project, if it is in line with the bank’s policy of promoting ‘interconnectivity’ between continents, which would mean that the airport would have to promote passenger traffic with Asia. Potential benefits to Chinese exporters from the airport are evident. The project would support the Polish government’s intention to establish the country as a port of entry for Chinese goods into the EU single market.
Industry experts doubt feasibility of the new airport
Some industry experts are critical of the new airport, doubtful that a new global hub could compete with established European hub airports such as Schiphol and Frankfurt and saying that it would struggle to meet its traffic projections and fail to make a profit. And adoption of Poland Central Airport as a government priority reverses many years of sloughing huge sums of public money into several new small regional airports. A major new hub airport would compete with these regional airports, many of which are already struggling with low passenger levels and unprofitable. Some industry experts warn that opening a new hub airport would be likely to lead to the closure of several existing Polish airports.
Expenditure on a new airport that results in closure of established regional airports would be an astonishing waste of public funds. Between 2007 and 2015 Poland sank at least US$1.58 billion into building and expanding 14 regional airports, with 40 per cent of this funding coming from the European Union (EU). This was highlighted in a report Flights of fancy: A case study on aviation and EU funds in Poland published in 2012 by CEE Bankwatch Network which critiqued the development and operation of small regional airports which were not financially viable, placing a strain on regional and local government budgets, along with allocation of EU funds for rail connections to airports, arguing it should be redirected to serving mobility needs within regions.
Aviation industry consultancy CAPA (Centre for Aviation) reports that Poland Central Airport would replace Warsaw Chopin Airport, the city’s main airport located south of the city with limited room for expansion. Bloomberg also reports that, under the government plan for the new airport, Warsaw Chopin Airport would eventually be shut down. Closing Warsaw Chopin Airport would be a woeful example of enormous waste of public funds and short-sighted planning. A major, multi-million Euro programme of upgrades to Warsaw Chopin Airport, increasing its capacity to 10.4 million passengers per annum, was completed less than a year ago, in December 2016. The terminal was modernized including installation of new check-in desks and an observation deck, a new long-range fuel pipeline constructed and the runways, taxiways and apron have been upgraded. The airport upgrade programme cost €166,760,000 with the EU Cohesion Fund contributing €32,900,000.
Rafal Milczarski, CEO of Poland’s state-owned carrier, LOT Polish Airlines, has said that Warsaw Chopin Airport should be closed down and the land sold to real estate developers to help finance the new airport. This would certainly benefit LOT, a leading proponent of the central airport. Indeed, supporting growth of the national airline is part of the rationale for the project. But the role of LOT in the new airport is a factor in skepticism regarding its viability. LOT is a relatively small carrier with fewer than ten wide-bodied aircraft. A high level of investment would be required for LOT to become one of Central Europe’s main carriers, one of the goals of the the airport project. Critics are of the opinion that the LOT lacks the scale and financial capacity necessary for commercial viability of the new airport project. LOT Polish Airlines also has a history of government intervention to support ailing finances. The carrier was a direct beneficiary of state funds in 2012-2014 when it was rescued from bankruptcy with a €200 million state bailout.
There are serious doubts over the viability of the Poland Central Airport project. The only certainties are vast public expenditure on infrastructure and loss of a large area of farmland.
Resisting Kulon Progo Airport – inspirational artwork
September 4, 2017 September 6, 2017 Rose Bridger art, Indonesia art, artwork, Bandarudara Internasional Jawa Barat, BIJB, farmland, Indonesia, Java, Jogja Darurat Agraria, Kertajati Aerotropolis, Kertajati Airport, Kulon Progo Airport, land rights, New Yogyakarta International Airport, NYIA, posters
Artwork galvanizes local campaigns, and bridges language barriers, forming a powerful tool for building international communication and solidarity. The resistance campaign against Kulon Progo Airport in Indonesia, also called New Yogyakarta International Airport (NYIA) offers some striking examples. Residents of six coastal villages have resisted eviction from their homes and farmland for the airport since 2011. The text on the poster on the right of the top row translates as ‘We strongly condemn destroyers of the healthy environment. We prosper without an airport and mining’, linking the campaign with the grassroots struggle against iron mining. Watermelons are depicted destroying a plane, because this is one of the key crops grown on the site earmarked for the airport, along with squash, eggplant (aubergine), peppers, rice and maize. The anti-eviction struggle intensified on 28th August. Without warning, construction equipment escorted by hundreds of police entered the site, displacing residents and destroying farmland. Citizens attempted to block the entry of the equipment, but were outnumbered by police.
An ‘airport city’ or ‘aerotropolis’ is planned around Kulon Progo Airport, threatening more evictions and the loss of more farmland. The poster on the bottom right brings together the Kulon Progo airport and aerotropolis resistance with the struggle against a similar megaproject, Kertajati Airport, that is already under construction 300 kilometers away near the northern coast of West Java. Kertajati Airport, also referred to as BIJB (Bandara Intenasional Jawa Barat), is the first phase of a major aerotropolis scheme on a 50 square kilometre site which is predominantly fertile agricultural land. Residents of ten villages have been evicted from their homes and productive farmland for Kertajati Airport and in 2016 residents of an eleventh village, Sukamulya, resisted a series attempts to measure their land for the project. Citizens’ resistance against eviction for Kulon Progo and Kertajati airports is supported by Jogja Darurat Agraria. T-shirts with anti-Kulon Progo Airport / airport city artwork have also been produced
Yuk!! bersolidaritas untuk warga yang masih menolak Bandara NYIA. Minat DM ya gaes. pic.twitter.com/zOGiOD22oC
— #GagalkanNYIA (@JDA_SG_PAG) July 13, 2017
Action alert – resisting construction of new airport in Mexico City
June 27, 2017 June 30, 2017 Rose Bridger Mexico, NAICM appeal, Coordinadora de Pueblos y Organizaciones del Oriente del Estado de México, environment, farmland, Lake Texcoco, Mexico, NAICM, new Mexico City airport, roads
ACTION ALERT: A new appeal from residents and groups resisting construction of a new airport in Mexico City
AMBITION, CORRUPTION, FOOLISHNESS, IMPOSITION, PLUNDER, AGGRESSION, IRRESPONSIBLE DEBT AND COLLECTIVE IRREVERSIBLE ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE, ARE THE CONSTANTS IN PRELIMINARY WORKS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION PROJECT OF THE NEW AIRPORT IN MEXICO CITY.
In order to start the construction of the New Mexico City International Airport (NAICM) on the bed of the historic Texcoco Lake, several associated works have been developed, such as highways, railway, river canalization and land granting for industrial parks, housing units and shopping areas. Likewise, new roads are being opened in farmland ejidos and on the banks of the San Juan and Papalotla rivers, which has involved removal of a large number of mature trees to expand the already existing rural roads and allow the entry of thousands of trucks and trailers which introduce materials such as volcanic rock (tezontle), teyolote, tepetate and stone extracted from the destruction of hills throughout Mexico’s Valley, in an attempt to replace the lake natural soil, destroying its nature, its biodiversity and its regulatory function of temperature (Climate Change), rain water and runoff from the higher parts of the Valley; in addition to affecting the residents of nearby communities, stripping them of their property and demolishing their houses, causing a forced displacement of families, destroying their patrimony and putting at risk their food, housing and economic security.
In addition, sprinkler irrigation network systems are being installed on the ejidos, that reach the perimeter of works prior to the construction of the New Airport as the perimeter wall, pretending to be in support of farmers but which in reality aim to deprive communities of the irrigation water flow from wells to benefit developers of housing, industrial, hotel, commercial, etc., as well as impacting parceled grounds of the river side communities.
In a very few days, were have witnessed and documented the drastic landscape alteration in the area of Texcoco Lake by the works for the New Airport, mainly due to indiscriminate tree cutting, the introduction of pipelines, houses demolition, destruction of wells for agricultural irrigation, the canalization of rivers, the severe ecological damage caused by the construction of the highway Mexico-Tuxpan in the section Ecatepec – Pyramids–Peñon-Texcoco and the development of railroad tracks that is expected to accelerate the introduction of thousands of tons of stone materials from the devastation of the hills, which daily are transported and emptied to cover the fertile soil, vegetation, and the water patches of the lake, destroying life of endemic plants and animal species, the cultivation of healthy food and ancestral nutritional treasures such as Spirulina, the sanctuary of migratory birds, the remnants of the prehistoric remains considered by renowned archaeologists unique in the world and the tranquility and subsistence means of the native population today being attacked, intimidated and submitted through the use of public force and the PRI paramilitary group “antorcha campesina”.
For over 4 years, our non-partisan and anti-capitalist organizational effort, a member of the Indigenous National Congress-CNI, of the Global Action against Airport Projects and Aviation Expansion and the World Social Forum-FSM, has conducted forums, colloquiums, seminars, cultural festivals, itinerant work meetings, press conferences, radio interviews, videos and publications that contribute to the spreading of the problem and to sensitize the population on the infeasibility and illegality of this mega-project of death, as well as the real very high risk of hydric system collapse and the affectation level throughout the Valley and center region of the country, including Mexico city.
While in countries of the first world, their airports have only 2 runways and Austria celebrates the final cancellation decision of the Vienna airport third runway on the basis of the fight against climate change, the New Airport in Mexico is projected to have 6 runways, so that while some function others undergo maintenance, which explains the folly and interest to do so in the Texcoco Lake, for the benefit of companies linked to the large transnational conglomerates involved in the project and to political power groups.
We make an urgent appeal to all society sectors in Mexico, Latin America and the rest of the world, to massively pronounce in defense of life and heritage of Texcoco Lake and of the peoples and communities that depend on it; because as people we cannot agree on such a project that is due to decisions of the high corruption in Mexico, that could even point to shady dealings and that should not be built in any part of our country.
PLEASE SUPPORT APPEAL
You can help us to stop the largest ecocide in Mexico and Latin America by sending letters, e-mails and twitters and/or making phone calls to responsible government instances, to demand the definitive cancellation of this mega-project of death.
Because the life and nature are above the interest of money and alleged jobs…
NO! TO THE UNNECESSARY, ECOCIDAL AND UNAFFORDABLE
NEW MEXICO CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
Enrique Peña Nieto, President of México, Los Pinos, Parque Lira s/n, Col. Chapultepec 1ª sección, Deleg. Miguel Hidalgo, 11850 CdMx, 0052-55 5093-53-00, 01-800 080-11-27, enrique.penanieto@presidencia.gob.mx, @EPN y @PresidenciaMX
Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong, Secretary of the Interior, Bucareli #99, Col. Juárez, 66000 CdMx, 0052-55 5728-74-00, 55 5728-73-00 Secretary ext. 32401 and Citizen Attention Module ext. 34397, secretario@segob.gob.mx, @osoriochong
Gerardo Ruíz Esparza, Communications and Transport Secretary, Xola and Universidad s/n, cuerpo C, floor 1, Col. Narvarte, Deleg. Benito Juárez, 03020 CdMx, 0052-55 5723-93-00, 01-800 888-10-13 Secretary exts. 10402, 10403, secretario@sct.gob.mx, buzon_ucg@sct.gob.mx, @gruizesp y @SCT_mx
Rafael Pacchiano Alamán, Environement and Natural Resources Secretary, Ejército Nacional #223, Floor 22, side B, Col. Anáhuac, 11320 CdMx, Direct Secretary 0052-55 5628-06-02 to 05, Commutator 0052-55 5624-33-00 and 55 5490-09-00, Private Secretary exts. 10905 and 12076, c.secretario@semarnat.gob.mx, rafael.pacchiano@semarnat.gob.mx, fernanda.romo@semarnat.gob.mx, atencion.ciudadana@semarnat.gob.mx @RafaelPacchiano
Roberto Ramírez de la Parra, National Water Commission Director -CONAGUA, Insurgentes Sur #2416, Copilco el Bajo, 04340 CdMx, 0052-55 5174-40-00 and 01-800 2662-482, http://www.gob.mx/conagua, @RobRmzdelaParra and @conagua_mx
Federico Patiño Márquez, México City Airport Group (Director del Grupo Aeroportuario de la Ciudad de México, S.A. de C.V.), Floor 2-Oficina 203, Insurgentes Sur #2453, San Ángel, 01090 CdMx, mark from a cell pone to Commutator 0052 55 9001-40-00, Managing Director 0052 55 9001-40-01, Citizen Attention Module 0052 55 9001-40-02, dirección.general@gacm.mx, @FedericoPatiño_
Miguel Ángel Mancera Espinosa, México City Governor, Plaza de la Constitución #1, planta baja, Col. Centro, Deleg. Cuauhtémoc, CdMx, Citizen Attention Module 0052 55 5345-80-00 ext. 1263 and General Coordination of Citizen Attention ext. 1460, jefaturadegobierno@cdmx.gob.mx, @ManceraMiguelMX, @ManceraConecta y @GobCDMX
Eruviel Ávila Villegas, Mexico State Governor, Palace of the Executive Power, Lerdo Pte.#300, PB door 216, Toluca downtown, State of Mexico, 0052 72 2276-00-51, eruviel.avila@edomex.gob.mx, @eruviel_avila, @Gestion_Eruviel y @edomex
Andrés Ruíz Méndez (PRI-antorcha campesina), Atenco Municipal President, State of Mexico, 27 de septiembre St. s/n, cabecera municipal, 0052 595 95 3-65-06, atencopres.2016@gmail.com, @Andres_Atenco
Higinio Martínez Miranda (MORENA), Texcoco Municipal President, Nezahualcóyotl St. #22, Texcoco centro, State of Mexico, 0052 595 95 2-00-00 ext. 2006 y 2004, secretaria.particular@texcoco.gob.mx, @higinio_mtz
Rosalba Pineda Ramírez, Chimalhuacan Municipal President (PRI-antorcha campesina) I. Zaragoza Square s/n, cabecera municipal, 0052 55 5852-57-71 and 0052 55 5852-57-72 ext. 104, http://chimalhuacan.gob.mx/gobierno_direccion?DR=2, @Rosalba_PinedaR
NON-PARTIES WIDE FRONT vs. THE NEW AIRPORT AND OTHER MEGA-PROJECTS IN MEXICO’S VALLEY ORIGINAL INHABITANTS AND NGO’s EASTERN STATE OF MEXICO COORDINATION IN DEFENSE OF LAND, WATER AND CULTURE
Coordinadora de Pueblos y Organizaciones del Oriente del Estado de México
Facebook – @CPOOEM_Edomex
Youtube: Coordinadora de Pueblos del Oriente Edomex
Photos by Coordinadora de Pueblos y Organizaciones del Oriente del Estado de México:
1) Current View of Lake Texcoco and migratory birds
2) The advance of the devastation on the vegetation and the lake, in the background the Cerro de Chiconauhtla threatened in principle with cut it lower 40 meters in height by clogging the overflight of aircraft but could be blown up and pillaged in its entirety.
3) Indiscriminate felling of trees by staff of the companies hired by the Grupo Aeroportuario, introduction of pipelines, transit of trucks and trailers.
4) Machinery in the area of Texcoco Lake, implementation of a white powder (chemicals) to the fertile land.
5) Recent View of Texcoco Lake, migratory birds and in the background the perimeter fence of the New Airport which is adjacent to the highway Peñón-Texcoco to which are intending to connect the expressway Mexico-Tuxpan highway in its tier Ecatepec-Piramides-Peñón-Texcoco by dividing communities, dispossession them and destroying everything in its path: arable land, agricultural irrigation wells, trees, animals, etc.
Sukamulya villagers resist eviction for Kertajati airport and aerotropolis
April 6, 2017 Rose Bridger Indonesia, land rights aerotropolis, Articles, eviction, farmland, Front Perjuangan Rakyat Sukamulya, Indonesia, Kertajati Aerocity, Kertajati Aerotropolis, Kertajati Airport, Konsorsium Pembaruan Agraria (KPA), land rights, police brutality, protest, Sukamulya, video
An article about resistance to eviction from their homes and productive agricultural land for a new airport in Java, Indonesia, has been published by The Ecologist online magazine: Indonesia: Villagers resist eviction for 50 sq.km ‘aeropolis’ / Airport city on their land. Ten villages, and a vast area of farmland, have already been wiped from the map for Kertajati Airport, which is currently under construction. But Sukamulya village remains. Residents have sustained their resistance to displacement for the airport for over 12 years, since the project was first mooted in 2004. The Front Perjuangan Rakyat Sukamulya (FPRS) was formed to resist eviction for the airport.
Sukamulya villagers have blocked officials from measuring land for Kertajati Airport on many occasions. Starting in August 2016 a series of attempts to measure the land were successful blocked by residents. But on 17th November 2016, when people had gathered yet again to protect their farmland, 2,000 police rushed onto the fields to disperse them and enforce the land measurement. Twelve protesters were injured and the barbaric eviction attempt has been widely condemned by Indonesian human rights organizations and NGOs. Land rights and agrarian reform NGO Konsorsium Pembaruan Agraria (KPA) highlighted resistance against Kertajati Airport as one of Indonesia’s key land rights struggles.
A video by AGRA Indonesia Alliance of Agrarian Reform Movement/Aliansi Gerakan Reforma Agraria shows the firing of teargas at Sukamulya residents attempting to defend their land and resist eviction.
If development of the project goes ahead as planned Kertajati Airport will be the starting point for an even larger development, an aerotropolis. An Aerocity adjoining the airport site is planned. In total, 50 square kilometres of land, predominantly productive farmland, has been earmarked for Kertajati aerotropolis: 1,800 hectares for the airport and 3,200 hectares for the Aerocity.
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Holiday House provides presents to 2,000 kids in Forsyth County
Parents use points system to ‘buy’ gifts
The community building of Freedom Tabernacle Church will hold The Place of Forsyth County’s annual Holiday House for the next few weeks.
Kelly Whitmire
FORSYTH COUNTY -- The community building of Freedom Tabernacle Church will look like a giant toy store over the next few weeks as it hosts The Place of Forsyth County’s annual Holiday House.
Last week, a ribbon cutting ceremony was held for the second year of the program so volunteers could see the result of their work and donations.
The Holiday House allows parents dealing with hardships who have previously registered to use a set number of points to “buy” donated Christmas gifts for their children. The nonprofit emergency services provider’s youth coordinator, Naomi Byrne, said donations from the community will serve thousands of local children.
“We qualify families by income to come in for their kids for Christmas,” Byrne said. “As we qualify them, we have over 2,000 children that we have qualified that we will provide Christmas through the Holiday House for in Forsyth County.
“It’s definitely been a community initiative; everybody has helped. We have collected about 8,000 toys and are still counting.”
Gifts were accepted for children up to age 18, as long as they were still in school, and split into rooms by age and gender.
“We have gotten a lot of bikes; everyone usually likes those,” Byrne said. “In our teen area, we’ve received jewelry for the girls, headphones and things for the boys, gift cards for them, clothing. Elementary school also, the girls have received Barbies, a few clothes. Elementary school boys; the same thing, trucks and Legos. Then, we have a preschool area and infants also.”
Not all items donated were toys — some were holiday decorations and treats for the activity center, where kids will play and be entertained as parents go through the donations.
“Then also, some have donated the snacks for the activity center,” Byrne said. “They’ve donated the gift wrap for the parents. We’ve had five live trees donated, as well as the live wreaths that the families can take home with them if they want it.”
Joni Smith, executive director of The Place, told volunteers and supporters the Holiday House would not be able to exist without input from the community.
“This is a community initiative,” Smith said. “We happen to be the lead agency, but I can’t begin to tell you the number of churches, all of schools that have stepped up and all of the businesses and neighborhoods and communities that have just wrapped their arm around this event.”
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Adventist Chief Justice of Kenya Supreme Court Speaks on Death of Telecom Pioneer
By Tysan, 8 July 2019 | The Honorable David Maraga, chief justice of the supreme court of Kenya, joined other national leaders in the east Africa country in mourning the death of Robert Collymore, the Chief Executive Officer of Safaricom. Maraga is an Adventist.
“In his death we have lost a towering symbol of excellence in corporate governance,” Maraga said via Twitter. “May God comfort his family, friends and colleagues.” President Uhuru Kenyatta said in a statement: “As a country, we’ve lost a distinguished corporate leader whose contribution to our national well-being will be missed.”
In a moment of national unity, former prime minister and an opposition leader Raila Odinga said Collymore “served our country with dedication and sustained us as a communication hub in Africa.”
Safaricom is one of the largest telecommunications corporations in Africa, providing mobile and cable phone service, messaging service, data transmission and Internet access. It also produces and sells mobile telephones, mobile broadband modems, routers, tablets and notebook computers. And it provides online financial services; bill payment, bulk payments and dividend payments.
The corporation is worth about 11 billion dollars (in USD) and is the most profitable company in eastern Africa. It is 35 percent owned by the government of Kenya as a public utility and the remaining 65 percent is publicly traded with share values that grew by more than 500 percent under Collymore’s leadership.
Adventists in Kenya use Safaricom as a means of communication and in making donations and giving tithes and offerings. Collymore was 61 and had battled with cancer for two years.
Tysan is a reporter for Adventist Today who lives in Tanzania. The photo is of Chief Justice David Maraga.
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Market Monitor Automotive Slovakia 2016
Automotive/Transport
Major strengths of the Slovakian automotive industry are its close proximity to core export markets in Europe, low labour costs, and government support.
Slovakia´s automotive industry broke a record in 2015, producing more than a million cars for the first time. The country is the global leader in car production per capita (184 cars per 1,000 inhabitants in 2015). Automotive accounts for 45% of Slovakia´s manufacturing activities and 35% of exports. In H1 of 2016 the sector continued to benefitted from rising car sales in Europe, while domestic car sales remain robust.
Jaguar Land Rover has decided to build a new plant in Slovakia with production expected to start in 2018 (150,000 cars per year planned at the start). This will further increase demand from local car parts suppliers.
Major strengths of the industry are its close proximity to core export markets in Europe, low labour costs, and government support.
Profit margins of vehicle manufacturers are expected to increase further in the coming months due to robust sales, lower costs for steel and plastics and improving efficiency in the production process.
Depending on the level in the supply chain, payment duration in the automotive sector ranges between 30 days and 60 days. Payment behaviour is generally good with a low number of non-payment notifications, and this is expected to remain unchanged in the coming months. The insolvency level in this industry is expected to remain low after decreasing over the last six months.
Our underwriting stance remains open, given the low payment default and insolvency level in this industry. Market conditions are expected to remain favourable. However, due to its high export dependency, the Slovakian automotive sector remains highly susceptible to adverse developments in the global car market, e.g. a major slump in demand in the eurozone and/or China.
Market Monitor Automotive October 2016
Payment Practices Barometer Slovakia 2016
30% of respondents in Slovakia (18% in Eastern Europe) consider maintaining adequate cash flow as the biggest challenge to business profitability in 2016.
Country Report - Slovakia 2016
Growth is expected to remain above 3% but the economy remains vulnerable to an eurozone downturn and adverse developments in the automotive sector.
Payment Practices Barometer Eastern Europe 2016
The economy in Eastern Europe is forecast to continue growing 1.1% this year. However, trade credit risk from foreign late payment is on the rise.
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Renault Nervasport: the record-breaker (1934)
The specifications for the Nervasport des Records were pretty straightforward: the engine would be taken from the assembly line, the body supported by a wooden frame on a standard chassis and the bodywork designed purely with speed in mind.
The aerodynamic design of the car was entrusted to an engineer specialising in the aerodynamics of racing aeroplanes. The resemblance was unmistakeable. The single-seater was shaped like a rocket: a long bonnet, rounded at the front, with a tapered rear… Driven by an eight-cylinder 4,825cc engine, the Nervasport combined power and aerodynamic performance.
On 4 April 1934, the car took to the Montlhéry track as it attempted a 48-hour endurance record. The target record was 6,300 kilometres at an average speed of over 132kph.
Taking it in turns to complete three-hour stints, the four drivers – Roger Quatresous, Louis Fromentin, André Wagner and Georges Berthelon – headed by Auguste Riolfo, the Nervasport des Records ended up covering a massive 8,037km at an average speed of 167.445kph!
The Nervasport crossed the finishing line having broken nine international records and three world records – including the average speed records for 4,000 and 5,000 miles – and thus helped Renault to cement its place in the golden age of motorsport.
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Streaming-Driven Publishing: J. Cole & More
Collect publishing royalties from this hip-hop catalog featuring Grammy-nominated artist J.Cole in addition to Bas, A$AP Ferg and more.
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Up for auction is a streaming-driven catalog featuring current heavyweights from the hip-hop team Dreamville Records including label-creator J.Cole, Bas, K-Quick and more. Streaming earnings make up the majority of the earnings, contributing to over 85% of revenue historically. What’s good news for the winning investor is over the last two years, streaming earnings have remained consistent.
It’s no surprise streaming drives this catalog’s earnings. On YouTube alone, this collection’s highest-earning work “Lit” claims over 10 million spins, contributing to 41% of earnings in the last year. Released in 2014 to the label compilation album Revenge of the Dreamers, the track benefits from placement on the album alongside all Dreamville Records artists. The Bas track features labelmate J.Cole who alone, currently claims over 25 million monthly listeners on Spotify.
In addition, the J.Cole track “Rich Niggaz” contributes to 36% of earnings in the last 12 months alone. Featured on J.Cole’s certified Platinum 2013 album Born Sinner, the album itself debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200, eventually climbing to a number one seat in its third week on the chart.
Additionally, this track benefits from one new release in Bas and A$AP Ferg’s “Boca Raton.” Released in 2018, this track has only just begun to earn. As the winning investor, you are entitled to all future royalties generated by the new release.
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Supreme courts
Swedish court will not extradite fugitive sought by China
By JAN M. OLSENJuly 9, 2019
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Sweden’s top court said Tuesday it won’t extradite a fugitive to China, saying he risks the death penalty, torture or degrading treatment that would violate the European Convention on Human Rights.
The Supreme Court said the extradition of Qiao Jianjun “cannot take place,” adding it had informed the Swedish government of its ruling. There was no immediate reaction from the government.
Qiao, a former head of a grain storage facility in China, is accused of money laundering and embezzling millions of dollars, among other offenses.
He was initially detained in Sweden in August 2018 at China’s request. He was released June 19 but detained again five days later at the request of the U.S. and remains detained pending a decision on whether he can be extradited there. In the United States, Qiao is wanted for money laundering in California in 2015.
“There is a risk that in China, he will be subjected to persecution for political reasons” and “will be sentenced to death and be subjected to torture or inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment,” the court said in its ruling.
“It is probable” that Qiao who had been opposing extradition, committed the alleged crimes in 2011, estimated to be worth up to 290 million kronor ($ 31 million), it said.
When Qiao was released in June, China’s ambassador to Sweden, Gui Congyou, criticized the decision, telling Sweden’s Expressen daily it was “inconceivable” he was released “based on speculation that he might be treated badly or risk the death penalty. It is disrespectful to the law.”
The Swedish Foreign Ministry declined to comment on the issue.
Qiao who is also known as Feng Li, left China in 2011, moved to the United States and became a citizen of Saint Kitts and Nevis in 2012. He later moved to Sweden where he sought asylum in March 2019. No decision about his asylum bid has been made, according to a court document.
Swedish broadcaster SVT said he has been living in Sweden under a different name since 2015.
Relations between Stockholm and Beijing have been tense in past years.
China has rebuked Sweden for demanding the release of Hong Kong-based bookseller Gui Minhai, a naturalized Swedish citizen who was taken off a train by police in eastern China in January 2018 while in the company of two Swedish diplomats with whom he was traveling to Beijing.
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A look at Afghanistan’s parliamentary elections on Saturday
By RAHIM FAIEZOctober 19, 2018
In this Tuesday Oct. 16, 2018 photo, a bus is covered with posters for candidate, Alhaj Abdul Hossain Hossainzada, ahead of parliamentary elections, in Kabul, Afghanistan. The elections are being held Saturday despite deep security concerns and ongoing fighting in as many as 20 out of the country’s 34 provinces. The vote comes amid a particularly vicious campaign by the Taliban and the Islamic State group, which have been staging near-daily attacks and there have also been concerns over the transparency of the vote. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan is holding parliamentary elections on Saturday despite deep security concerns and ongoing fighting in as many as 20 out of the country’s 34 provinces.
The vote comes amid a particularly vicious campaign by the Taliban and the Islamic State group, which have been staging near-daily attacks. On the eve of the balloting, voting in Kandahar province was postponed for a week, following a deadly attack there Thursday that killed at least two senior provincial officials, including its powerful police chief. The Taliban claimed responsibility.
Besides the security challenges, there have also been concerns over the transparency of the vote and for the first time, the election commission has equipped polling stations with biometric identification systems.
Here is a look at the elections, the figures and key issues in the vote:
HOW MANY SEATS, HOW MANY CANDIDATES AND POLLING STATIONS?
There are 2,565 candidates vying for 249 seats in the lower house of parliament, including 417 women candidates. Voters will be able to cast ballots at more than 19,000 polling stations in 33 provinces. Of those, the elections commission says as many as 11,667 polling stations are reserved for men and 7,429 for women, while 46 will serve Afghan nomads, known as Kochis, and 22 will serve minority Sikhs and Hindus. The Kochis have 10 parliament seats reserved for them while the Sikhs and Hindus jointly have one seat.
However, security fears have forced the election commission to close about 2,000 polling stations.
MAJOR PLAYERS AND POLITICAL PARTIES
A few parties have emerged in opposition to the current national unity government of Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and Chief Executive Officer Abdullah Abdullah, but none can be considered major players as most candidates in the vote are running as independents. Afghanistan’s parliament includes both a lower and an upper house, but only members of the lower house are directly elected. The upper house consists of a mixture of parliamentarians chosen from local councils and those appointed by the president, as well as members elected in district elections. Legislature passed in the lower house has to be approved by the upper chamber.
DISPUTE IN GHAZNI PROVINCE
Elections will not take place in eastern Ghazni province amid an ongoing dispute over how to divide its electoral constituencies to ensure a more balanced ethnic representation. Lawmakers elected from Ghazni in 2010 will retain their seats until the province is able to hold a vote. In the last elections, eight years ago, minority Hazaras won all the seats from Ghazni, leaving majority Pashtuns and also Tajiks without representation as voting wasn’t held in their areas, which are mostly controlled by the Taliban.
NO DISTRICT COUNCIL ELECTIONS THIS TIME?
Initially, elections for district councils were supposed to take place at the same time as parliamentary elections but the Independent Election Commission delayed that vote because only a tenth of the country’s 400 districts had enough male and female candidates step forward to run in district races. Security fears and violence are top reasons why so few wanted to run for district seats. Other reasons include high illiteracy rates among Afghans living in districts.
ELIGIBLE VOTERS
Around 8.8 million people have registered to vote. Though there hasn’t been a census for more than 30 years, Afghanistan’s population is estimated to be more than 30 million. Of the registered voters, 64 percent are men and 34 percent are women; the remaining 2 percent are Kochis, Sikhs and Hindus.
SECURITY ARRANGEMENTS
More than 50,000 members of the Afghan security forces will be deployed to secure polling stations. Afghan officials have announced three levels of security belts at each polling center. Police and members of the intelligence force will make up the first two belts, covering a distance of 3 to 5 kilometers (1.8 to 3 miles) from polling centers. The third security belt will be patrolled jointly by police and Afghan army. Officials say elections won’t be held in 10 districts that are completely under Taliban control, including five in southern Helmand province, a Taliban heartland. The other five districts include two in northeastern Badakhshan province and one each in northern Baghlan, Sari Pul and southern Zabul province.
VIOLENCE AHEAD OF ELECTIONS
There have been deadly attacks against candidates and campaign rallies, both by the Taliban and Islamic States militants. Since the 20-day campaign period began, at least two candidates and over 34 civilians have been killed in such attacks, including suicide bombings, motorcycle bombs and drive-by shootings. In the run-up to campaigning, five candidates were killed and two were abducted, their fates unknown. Also, Afghan security forces accidentally killed three bodyguards of an independent candidate during a raid on a house near his residence.
On Thursday, Kandahar’s powerful police chief Gen. Abdul Raziq and at least one other senior provincial official and two policemen were killed when an Afghan guard opened fire at a meeting with U.S. officials to discuss security ahead of the vote. There were conflicting reports on the fate of Kandahar governor, Zalmay Wesa, who was initially reported wounded.
POSTPONEMENT OF ELECTIONS IN KANDAHAR
After Thursday’s attack, the Independent Election Commission postponed the elections in Kandahar for a week, to give voters who might have stayed at home on Saturday over security fears the chance to vote.
TALIBAN WARNINGS
The Taliban, who have been fighting Afghan and NATO forces for more than 17 years, have condemned the elections and warned candidates and Afghan security forces they would be targeted. They have also warned teachers and students not to participate in the elections and not to allow schools to be used as polling centers.
CIVIL SOCIETY AND ELECTON OBSERVIERS
More than 400,000 civil society activists, independents and members of political parties, as well as national and international observers and representatives from media outlets will follow the polling day.
WHAT IS AT STAKE?
The Afghan government is keen to prove it’s capable of holding these elections despite prevailing security challenges. The vote was originally scheduled for 2015 but the situation was too unstable at the time. Politically, there was a crisis following the 2014 presidential elections, and NATO forces had only just handed over security to Afghan forces at the end of 2014.
Now, the government wants to send a message to the Taliban — who are engaging in separate negotiations with the United States on a possible political settlement — that its institutions are functioning, and that if the Taliban decide to come to the negotiating table, they will have to deal with a government and a political process that’s acceptable to the majority of Afghans.
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Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials
By The Associated PressJuly 10, 2019
Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad:
The Boston Herald on H. Ross Perot’s death and his impact on America and politics:
Ross Perot was not a large man: barely 5 feet, 6 inches tall, and maybe 150 pounds. But he was a giant.
Perot died in Dallas (July 9) at age 89. A family spokesman said the cause was leukemia.
He led an amazing life serving his country, amassing a fortune on his own and ultimately launching a third-party run for president in 1992 that wound up garnering 19 percent of the popular vote. It was the most successful third-party run since Teddy Roosevelt’s Progressive Party splintered off from President William Howard Taft’s Republican Party in 1912, throwing the election to Democrat Woodrow Wilson.
Perot may have had a similar effect in 1992, and the reverberations are still being felt today.
By any independent accounting, H. Ross Perot was quintessentially American, and unabashedly Texan. Born Henry Ray Perot in Texarkana in 1930, Perot was a born fireball — he began earning money at age 7, and by the time he was 12 he was delivering his local newspaper, the Texarkana Gazette, on horseback and established a hugely successful route. It was a set piece in Perot’s life. He wasn’t the brightest student, but refused to be outworked. After two years at a junior college, Perot earned an appointment to the Naval Academy. He became class president, graduating in 1953.
His 4-year stint in the Navy was too late for Korea and too soon for Vietnam. In 1957, he joined civilian life and began a Midas-like career. He started at IBM in Dallas, at one point selling his annual quota in three weeks. The slowness of corporate life rankled him, so he quit, founding his own company — Electronic Data Systems — that became a mammoth force in the burgeoning computer industry. He made a fortune when EDS went public in 1968, becoming one of America’s wealthiest men.
He was a titan in business but had bigger ideas. He became not just a philanthropist, but an evangelist for causes he believed in, and one of those was care for veterans. In 1969, alarmed by reports of mistreatment of American POWs in Vietnam, he chartered two jets and filled them with food, medicine and supplies. The North Vietnamese turned him away, but he raised awareness. Even bolder was his rescue effort in 1979 in Iran, where he authorized a commando raid that freed two EDS employees from an Iranian prison and served as the basis for Ken Follett’s best-seller “On Wings of Eagles.”
And the money kept coming. GM bought EDS for $2.6 billion in 1984, then paid Perot $750 million to go away two years later. So he started a new company, Perot Systems, in 1988. Dell bought that in 2009 for $3.9 billion.
But it was Perot’s foray into politics that has had lasting impact. Perot hated inefficiency, and saw it everywhere in Washington, D.C.
George H.W. Bush was poised to get another four years against the Democrats, who settled on a governor from a small southern state: Bill Clinton.
Enter Perot. Bush was flailing, and while Clinton was a new voice, he wasn’t exactly a fresh one. Perot dazzled a disaffected electorate with his straight talk, his impeccable background and his penchant for success.
His populist manner in many ways was the precursor to Donald Trump, another political newcomer with a history of getting things done and saying exactly what was on his mind. Perot took 20 million votes in 1992, although he didn’t win a single state. Bush gained 38% and Clinton became president.
A 1996 run was substantially less successful, and Perot more or less gave up his political aspirations. But his impact remains.
Online: https://www.bostonherald.com/
The Miami Herald on U.S. Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta and the Jeffrey Epstein scandal:
If Alexander Acosta had done in South Florida what Geoffrey Berman just did in New York, Jeffrey Epstein, a sexual predator, might already be behind bars for the rest of his life instead of serving only 13 months.
If Acosta, when he was U.S. attorney in Miami, had shown an ounce of sympathy for the vulnerable girls Epstein sexually exploited, they would have had a powerful voice on their side. They didn’t. Now, Berman, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, is their next best hope for justice.
If Acosta had not shown himself to be ethically challenged 10 years ago, we wouldn’t be calling for his resignation as U.S. secretary of Labor now. But we are — again.
Epstein was arrested Saturday at a New Jersey airport upon his return from Paris. Federal prosecutors in Manhattan charged him with sex trafficking and sex-trafficking conspiracy. He faces a maximum of 45 years in prison if convicted.
Back in 2008, Acosta had the chance to prosecute Epstein for luring dozens of troubled girls to his Palm Beach estate on the pretense of giving him massages — before he escalated things to sex acts. As in a Ponzi scheme, he used those girls to recruit others.
The stomach-turning allegations should have been enough to haul Epstein before judge and jury. Instead, Acosta agreed to a benevolent non-prosecution deal, aggressively pushed by Epstein’s powerhouse attorneys. Epstein pleaded guilty to a state charge of soliciting prostitution, paid a fine, registered as a sexual predator and served 13 months of an 18-month sentence. No federal charges were filed.
Since then, Epstein, along with powerful men who hobnobbed with him, sometimes on his private plane, have done quite well: Donald Trump the businessman now is Donald Trump the president; Bill Clinton still earns big bucks for speeches. Epstein, himself, played in his mansions in Palm Beach, New York and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Acosta now is U.S. labor secretary, a nomination that the Editorial Board cheered in 2017.
However, Epstein’s victims, many of whom are struggling to get past the abuse they suffered, are still waiting for their own day in court. In 2008, Acosta shut them out of the process, failing to even inform them of his lenient plea deal with Epstein. In February, U.S. Judge Kenneth Marra ruled that Acosta’s office broke the law by not telling Epstein’s victims of the sweetheart deal. In contrast, Berman, has issued a public call for women to contact his office to help him build his sex-trafficking case against Epstein.
Saturday, federal agents found a “vast trove” of lewd photographs of girls and young women, some bearing descriptions, in a locked safe in Epstein’s $77 million mansion in Manhattan.
In reality, Acosta’s current job has nothing to do with his former position as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida. Except for this: He is an ethically compromised public servant who has failed to address his suspect actions in this case, but he continues to act on citizens’ behalf in the public domain.
In December, we said: “Acosta is now damaged goods. He should realize it and move on. He does not deserve to be in the halls of power — he abused his power so tragically.”
As evidence grows against Epstein, through both the Miami Herald’s pit-bull reporting and because a U.S. attorney is committed to seeing justice done, it is evidence, too, that not only did Acosta fail to get it right in 2008, but also that he didn’t care to.
He has to go.
Online: https://www.miamiherald.com/
The Los Angeles Times on adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census:
Seizing on an opening provided by the Supreme Court, the Trump administration is scrambling to offer a new, legally defensible rationale for adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census. But it’s all a charade ordered up by President Trump, who is determined to enlist the decennial census in his crusade against people living in the country illegally. Lower federal courts across the country have properly refused to play along; the Supreme Court should belatedly do the same.
The background to this story should be familiar by now. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross announced in March 2018 that the government was amending the census form to ask about the citizenship status of every person in the country. He was sued almost immediately by a number of immigrant-heavy cities and states, which argued that the change would deter some immigrants — and especially those living here illegally — from responding to the census.
The resulting undercount would shift political power and resources away from communities with large immigrant populations, which tend to vote for Democrats. But Ross insisted that the administration’s motives were pure; the idea for the question, he said, came from the Justice Department, which supposedly sought the data to help it enforce the Voting Rights Act.
After lower federal courts blocked the citizenship question, the case made its way to a divided Supreme Court. The majority held that Ross’ explanation wasn’t credible, although the justices gave him the chance to offer one that was.
That should have been that. Administration officials had repeatedly said that they needed to start printing the census forms by July in order to fulfill their constitutional duty, and the court’s ruling left no time to keep the legal battle going.
Sadly, like an investor pouring good money after bad, President Trump doesn’t know when to stop fighting for the wrong thing, especially on issues involving immigration. Contradicting the initial response from administration lawyers, Trump ordered his subordinates to keep searching for a way to add the citizenship question. And on Monday, Atty. Gen. William Barr told reporters that the administration would reveal soon how, exactly, it planned to add the question while complying with the court’s ruling.
Good luck with that. The problem for the administration is that it has been operating from a disingenuous premise from the start. It strains credulity to think that Trump would be eager to bring more Voting Rights lawsuits against cities and states that are suppressing minorities’ right to vote; after all, he appointed an election fraud commission that seemed to exist mainly to justify more vote suppression.
The evidence gathered in the lawsuits against Ross offer a much more believable explanation: The administration recognized that adding a citizenship question would deter noncitizens (or the citizens whose households they share) from responding to the census, leading to an undercount — especially in Latino communities, which tend to be dominated by Democrats. Trump’s uniquely hostile and intimidating rhetoric about illegal immigration would only depress participation more.
But the administration can hardly afford to admit as much in court. It would mean confessing that the Commerce Department was trying not just to make the census less accurate — the Constitution requires a count of “every” person, citizen or not — but also to discriminate on the basis of ethnicity. (And remember, legal residents would be harmed by a census undercount at least as much as those without legal status would be, as their communities lose federal funding and representation in Congress.)
That leaves the administration with only one realistic option: to come up with a new lie about its rationale. While four of his conservative justices might not have a problem with that, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. seems to recognize that letting administrations blatantly deceive the public about the purpose of their actions would give free rein to the basest impulses of the worst presidents.
This case shouldn’t have reached this point. Previous administrations recognized decades ago that it was a mistake to use the census to gather extra demographic information about the population because it prompted more people to toss the questionnaire in the trash. That’s what led the government to create the “short form” census that it mails to every household, confining questions like the one about citizenship to a longer survey that it sends separately to a small fraction of the population.
The constitutional purpose of the census is clear, and the administration should fulfill it. The administration’s purpose in seeking to add the citizenship question is clear too, no matter what it tells the courts. They should not be fooled.
Online: https://www.latimes.com/
The Baltimore Sun on a federal appeals court panel weighing the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act:
Texas v. United States probably doesn’t ring a bell for most Americans, but the legal proceeding heard Tuesday by a federal appeals court in New Orleans could have dire consequences for the nearly 20 million Americans who have health insurance today because of the Affordable Care Act. Last December, a U.S. District Court judge in the Lone Star State struck down the ACA for a suspect legal reasoning — declaring the individual mandate unconstitutional and inseverable from the rest of Obamacare, thus dooming the entire framework.
In the language of the health care debate, that makes the 5th Circuit an actual death panel, not the phony-baloney kind conjured by Obamacare critics a decade ago. The judges literally have in their hands the power to kill the medically needy. According to one Harvard University study, increased insurance enrollment has caused patients to seek medical treatment earlier and thus avoid more risky surgical procedures and other treatments. The federal government’s own analysis show it has saved Americans billions of dollars in the form of lower health care costs. If one 2006 Massachusetts study on the importance of government-backed health insurance can be relied upon, the ACA may have saved 24,000 lives in its first nine years of existence. Kill the ACA and you are going to pull the plug on thousands of human beings, too.
What’s truly breathtaking about Texas v. United States, however, is its legal reasoning. Judge Reed C. O’Connor based his ruling on the decision by Congress to render useless a single provision of the ACA — the individual mandate. The Republican majority did so in 2017 by taking away the penalty as part of its tax cut legislation. No longer do individuals face a fine (or, technically, a tax, according to the Supreme Court) for failing to obtain insurance. No tax? No law. That’s what Judge O’Connor decided. Yet Congress had the option of killing the ACA instead of simply removing the penalty and didn’t take it. And now the courts are going to usurp the legislative function? Isn’t that what conservatives are supposed to hate?
Make no mistake, we argued against congressional action to zero out the individual mandate two years ago because it has been a helpful part of the ACA, spurring young, healthy people to buy health insurance, which not only protects them from medical and financial disaster but makes premiums more affordable for everyone by balancing out the risk pool. It’s a win-win approach. But even without the mandate, the thought of denying health insurance to millions of Americans who wouldn’t otherwise be able to afford it is unacceptable. This country is already suffering enough social and financial division, enough haves versus have-nots class warfare, to throw yet another timber on that particular fire. Forget the ambition of Medicare For All, how about just some basic health insurance coverage of any type for the working poor that they can actually afford?
Twice, the Supreme Court has given its stamp of approval to Obamacare. Kill the health care law now and there will be chaos. The nation’s health care system has adapted. Huge investments have been made. Millions are in the system. If Congress wants to put the nation on a different path, they need to be the ones to make that choice. The jurists of the 5th Circuit aren’t equipped to fundamentally remake health care delivery. Particularly not on such a slender legal thread — on an argument that a provision now rendered useless by the legislative branch was too critical to circumvent.
Let’s recall all the ACA provisions that Americans really, really like. Take, for instance, the ability to keep a child on a family health insurance plan until age 26. Or coverage for preexisting conditions. Or expanded Medicaid coverage in many states. What happens to all that if the entirety of Obamacare goes away? The short answer: They go away, too. As much as some people may truly believe President Donald Trump’s claim that he and Republicans in Congress have a heretofore unknown plan to replace the ACA after the 2020 election, Americans should be skeptical.
That’s like expecting professional saboteurs, vandals and graffiti artists to devote themselves to restoring public infrastructure to pristine conditions. No one is expecting the court to fix the nation’s health care problems, they’d settle for judges not making them much, much worse.
Online: https://www.baltimoresun.com/
The New York Times on the United States women’s national soccer team’s effort to earn equal pay:
It is difficult to understand the argument that the United States women’s national soccer team should get paid just as much as the men’s national soccer team.
The women are much more successful. They should earn more.
On Sunday, the 23 women selected to represent the United States at the 2019 World Cup triumphed over the Netherlands to complete a dominating run to victory. It is the second straight time the United States has won the quadrennial tournament.
During the celebrations, fans chanted “equal pay,” highlighting the fact that the United States Soccer Federation, which employs the members of the men’s and women’s national teams, has long paid larger sums to the men. Megan Rapinoe, honored as the World Cup’s top scorer and best player, used her moment in the spotlight to call on United States Soccer to “set things right for the future” by giving the women’s team a raise.
Ms. Rapinoe and her teammates have also gone to court, suing the federation in March for gender discrimination. The allegations extend beyond pay. The suit says United States Soccer also invests less in the team’s practice facilities, travel arrangements and medical care.
It is an embarrassment that United States Soccer has failed to address this injustice, allowing the joy of Sunday’s celebrations to be tainted by the reality of unfair treatment.
Pay comparisons are complicated because the men’s and women’s teams have separately negotiated contracts. Members of the women’s team are paid by the federation to play in the National Women’s Soccer League, on top of which they receive payments for playing for the national team. The men just get national team payments.
Under the current contract for the women’s team, which took effect in April 2017, the women and the men would earn the same amount if both national teams played 20 games — and lost all 20 games. With each victory, however, the men’s team would enjoy a larger advantage.
The women can earn more in a given year, as they are likely to do this year. But that is only because they achieved so much. For comparable success, the women get less.
Even by this measure, there is a case that the women are being wronged. It is not clear, for example, how United States Soccer treats sponsorships that cover both teams.
But revenue is the wrong measuring stick. United States Soccer is a nonprofit, exempted from taxation because it serves a social purpose: “To make soccer, in all its forms, a pre-eminent sport in the United States.” It should be obvious to the people who run the federation that the women’s team is fulfilling that mission at least as well as the men’s team.
The women’s soccer team, like other national teams, also represents the United States. The women who wear the nation’s colors are ambassadors on an international stage. Their performances inform perceptions of the United States. Millions of people around the world watched on Sunday as a team of strong and skillful women played a game with determination and sportsmanship, and then celebrated freely.
Much of the debate about the pay gap has focused on revenue. Officials have argued that the men’s team should simply be regarded as a more successful business.
The federation is making a statement about America by treating those women as second-class citizens. It has an opportunity to make a very different statement by rectifying the situation. Players should get the same rewards for the same achievements, without regard to gender.
The World Cup presents a special challenge because much of the money comes from FIFA, the international organization that stages the tournament and disburses the proceeds of its television deals and corporate sponsorships to the national federations. The pot of money for the men’s World Cup is larger than the women’s pot.
The women earned bonuses of $37,500 for making the 2019 World Cup team, while the men could have earned $68,750 for making the 2018 World Cup Team — if the team had qualified.
FIFA, too, should be held accountable for moving toward gender equity. But there is no need to wait. United States Soccer could make a powerful statement by equalizing these payments, too.
And the men’s national team wants to help. In 2017, Norway agreed to equalize pay for its men’s and women’s national soccer teams. To make the deal possible, the men’s team agreed to share its sponsorship revenues. Admirably, it agreed to earn less as a matter of principle. The union representing the American men’s national team has endorsed this concept.
Pay gaps are a persistent problem in American society. The case of the national soccer teams is merely an unusually clear and public example of the issue. United States Soccer and its 28 female players suing for gender discrimination have agreed to enter mediation in the hopes of resolving the players’ lawsuit. The federation now has the opportunity to create its own clear and public example — by finally doing the right thing.
Online: https://www.nytimes.com/
The Toronto Star on women not being included in safety research:
More women than men are licenced to drive cars in the United States and they influence 80 per cent of car purchasing decisions there and in Canada, too. But you’d never know that by the disturbing facts in a new study that shows auto accidents are much more dangerous for women than they are for men.
Because, as it turns out, manufacturers are not taking women into account, despite their purchasing power, when they design automotive safety features. Almost all vehicle safety tests are conducted with crash test dummies modelled on a man’s anatomy, not a woman’s.
The shocking result of that exclusion, according to the study from the University of Virginia, are that the odds of a female sustaining a serious to fatal injury when she is in a collision are an alarming 73 per cent higher than they are for a male.
That may sound counter-intuitive, considering that more men than women are injured and die in car crashes each year. But the fact is, the high injury and death tolls for men are mainly the result of risky driving behaviours that result in more collisions, not a lack of built-in safety features designed specifically to protect them when they do crash.
It’s time regulatory authorities mandate that automotive safety tests are designed for both men and women. Anything short of that should be penalized.
Sadly, these latest findings are nothing new. As Caroline Criado-Perez, the author of Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men, points out, researchers at Michigan University made the case for the inclusion of crash test dummies modelled on women in tests as far back as the early 1980s.
But their advice, and the results of numerous studies conducted since then that have echoed the University of Virginia results, were ignored. Why? Manufacturers have been reluctant to invest the millions of dollars required to create anatomically correct female crash dummies.
The result? Safety tests don’t account for the differences between male and female bodies, such as how breasts may alter how seat belts function or how women generally sit closer to the steering wheel because their arms and legs are shorter.
Now Carolyn Roberts, a researcher at the University of Virginia, concludes: “We’re improving automotive safety for males at a faster rate than we’re improving it for females.”
That’s unacceptable. Even worse is the fact that the auto industry is far from alone in ignoring women, with dire results for their safety.
Sadly, designers of body armour and construction safety equipment, such as harnesses, do the same. As a result, women are at a higher risk of dying of everything from stab and gunshot wounds to falls.
Even NASA failed to consider the differences in the bodies of its female and male astronauts when it planned the first all-female spacewalk last March. That had to be scrapped when the space agency realized it did not have a medium-sized space suit on board the International Space Station for one of the female astronauts, so a man was sent in her stead.
Medical researchers often ignore women, as well. For example, women make up more than half the 35 million adults living with HIV worldwide and yet they are vastly under-represented in clinical trials looking for vaccines, treatments and cures.
That’s true, too, of research into heart disease, which focuses on male symptoms even though it is the No. 1 cause of death for women around the world.
Even the lab rats used in clinical drug trials are more likely to be male because female ones are considered more complicated because of their fluctuating hormone levels.
Women should not be dying in 2019 because they are, as Criado-Perez argues, invisible. The study on crash test dummies is a wake-up call for researchers and designers the world over.
Online: https://www.thestar.com/
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Foster + Partners' Mexico City airport scrapped by public referendum
By Drew Zeiba • October 29, 2018
Aerial rendering of the now-canceled new Mexico City International Airport, designed by Foster + Partners (Courtesy Foster + Partners)
Mexico City’s new Foster + Partners–designed airport has been canceled while already under construction. In a referendum today voters rejected the partially completed project that’s been beleaguered by accusations of corruption, ecological irresponsibility, and lack of community involvement.
The referendum was originally proposed by Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the president-elect of Mexico, as popular opposition grew against the project that was approved by President Enrique Peña Nieto in 2014.
Not only was the project, called NAICM (Nuevo Aeropuerto Internacional de la Ciudad de México), deemed inordinately expensive at an estimated USD$13 billion, its location was less than ideal. The wetland plain of Texcoco outside the city that it was to be built on is quite literally sinking—as much as 16 inches a year. Not only does building the airport require thick supports, like much of Mexico City, which was built on former lakes dredged by the colonizing Spaniards five centuries ago, but it the area accommodates stormwater runoff for the city, requiring a complicated and expensive system of plumbing, tunnels, and canals to manage potential flooding. Furthering the environmental infeasibility is the impact it would have had on numerous bird species as well as its effect of exacerbating the decline of the city’s already dwindling water supplies. As Fernando Córdova, a professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico told Alto Nivel as later reported in translation in Citylab: “It’s just the worst terrain.”
The Foster + Partners-designed new Mexico City airport has been cancelled by a public referendum. (Courtesy Foster + Partners)
USD$5 billion has already been put into the airport, which was designed to handle the ever-increasing traffic through North America’s most populous city, which also serves as a travel hub for much of the rest of Mexico and Latin America. The mega-project, which would’ve been the third largest airport in the world and the most expansive in all of the Americas, was noteworthy for its six million square-foot main terminal designed in a sci-fi X-shape with a sweeping canopy.
The no vote won by a large margin, with 70 percent voting in opposition of completing the project, though, as others have noted, voter turnout for the referendum was underwhelming, with only around 1 in 90 registered voters turning out to the polls. Those opposed argued that the project was being built and developed by contractors and other parties as a series of political favors to line each other’s pockets.
Still, regardless of the fate of NAICM, Mexico City needs a new airport. The current main airport, Benito Juárez International, is operating 50 percent over capacity and the strain on it is only growing. López Obrador and others have supported a significantly cheaper project that uses existing infrastructure by converting part of the Santa Lucía air force base into a commercial terminal. As for the thwarted Foster + Projects design, it was reported in The Washington Post that López Obrador suggested turning the remains of the unfinished airport into “a big sports and ecological center for Mexico City.”
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Brett Young and Wife Taylor Are Learning How to Plan Holidays
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Now that Brett Young is a married man, he and wife Taylor Mills are learning to balance family time during the holiday season.
One holiday they've successfully planned for is this Thanksgiving. The couple will be able to celebrate their first holiday as newlyweds with both of their families when they all come together in Oxford, Miss. Young reveals they'll travel to his alma mater, University of Mississippi, for the annual Egg Bowl where Mississippi State faces off against Ole Miss. The occasion is particularly special, as Young and Mills will be able to experience the thankful holiday in the town where they got engaged in February of 2018.
With their marriage comes a union of family members, and the country star says balancing time between all their loved ones is important.
"I'm getting the feeling with our families being as close as they are and as involved as they are, it's going to be a lot of last-minute decisions and not based on who gets what, but who's able to do what or who's able to travel where," Young anticipates about holiday planning. "I think we're intent on splitting time as well as possible. It's brand-new, so that's still a learning curve we haven't figured out yet."
Though the couple is still establishing their plans for Christmas, food is one aspect Young is looking forward to indulging in. His close friend and "Mercy" video director Seth Kupersmith introduced him to a hot buttered rum drink he hopes he can find the time to make.
But one standing tradition he's already anticipating is his mother's unique holiday dish. "My mom makes her homemade chili every year for Christmas and I love my mom's chili. I think it's a little bit weird, but I love it," he describes. "She's got her own thing."
Young and Mills wed on Nov. 3 in Palm Springs, Calif., and their special day featured performances by friends Lee Brice and Gavin DeGraw.
Young is set to release his sophomore album, Ticket to L.A., on Dec. 7. He's also nominated in the New Artist of the Year category at the 2018 CMA Awards,coming up Nov. 14.
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New York Launches Publicly Funded Pro-Abortion Campaign
Governor Cuomo is patting himself on the back for his new program.
Peter D'Abrosca
The far-left Governor of New York is using taxpayer funds to encourage young women to “know their options” for unwanted pregnancies.
“In the face of repeated attacks on access to reproductive health care, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today launched a public awareness campaign to connect women to comprehensive, confidential and medically accurate reproductive health care services,” said a press release from Thursday. “The campaign will include subway ads and information translated into multiple languages to ensure women have appropriate access to all reproductive health options, including family planning, prenatal care and abortion.”
Apparently unsatisfied with some of America’s most relaxed abortion laws, or perhaps simply to smite pro-life conservatives and Trump’s conservative agenda, Cuomo will ensure that every New York taxpayer is forced to contribute to the slaughter of infants.
“While the federal government wages war on women’s reproductive rights, New York will fight back to protect women’s access to comprehensive, safe and affordable health care,” Cuomo said. “In New York, we refuse to let President Trump and Washington take us backwards and jeopardize the rights of New Yorkers.”
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There is no “right” to abortion, constitutionally or otherwise, simply laws that permit the atrocity, but these are minor details to Cuomo.
“These actions are in direct response to widespread reports of organizations known as Crisis Pregnancy Centers or CPCs misrepresenting themselves as health centers to dissuade those seeking abortion from going through with that choice,” the press release said. “These reports show that CPCs often use false and misleading advertising and offer free services to attract women into their offices, where they then allegedly misinform and mislead those who seek pregnancy-related information.”
Conspicuously missing from the release are links to the “widespread reports” that Cuomo used to justify the new campaign. Further, the state plans to force health insurance providers to continue to cover “reproductive health” measures like birth control and abortion, regardless of whether the Affordable Care Act remains in place or not.
“This campaign builds on the Governor’s record of fighting for access to reproductive health services, including abortion,” according to the press release. “Governor Cuomo previously directed that the Department of Financial Services to mandate that health insurers provide coverage for all types of contraceptive drugs and devices without co-pays, coinsurance, or deductibles, regardless of the future of the Affordable Care Act; provide abortion services that are medically necessary without co-pays, coinsurance, or deductibles (unless the plan is a high deductible plan); and provide full and accurate information about coverage.”
Cuomo, of course, does not really care about “women’s health.” He is simply attempting to stick it to the Trump administration for political expedience, and recklessly spending taxpayer funds to do it.
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Dec 31st 2017, 11:52pm
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FIRST BLOOD!
Battle for StarFire
Giem[XIII] from MANILA NCR
Bobodotus[-IKS-] from BobCopolis, Starwiin[-IKS-] from StarFire
............................................. - Archer.................................0(-68)
Hoplite..............................421(-79) - Hoplite................................0(-92)
............................................. - Ram....................................0(-10)
Catapult...............................22(-0) - Catapult................................0(-8)
Sulfur Carabineer.....................107(-0) - .............................................
Military...............................-110.6 - Military...............................-337.8
Winners: Giem[XIII]
Losers: Starwiin[-IKS-], Bobodotus[-IKS-]
The town StarFire has been pillaged by Giem[XIII]. The following resources have been stolen: 5,093 , 2,084
As the only thing left of Starwiin[-IKS-]'s army were the flight or artillery units, they have withdrawn.
One of Bobodotus[-IKS-]'s armies has been completely destroyed.
Jan 1st 2018, 4:09am
King Of Death[XIII] from MONTALBAN
Cansalt[-IKS-] from StoneBridge, Tanked Nation[-IKS-] from
............................................. - Slinger...............................0(-101)
Sulfur Carabineer.....................184(-0) - Sulfur Carabineer.....................0(-118)
Swordsman............................330(-90) - Swordsman.............................0(-406)
Hoplite..............................55(-154) - Hoplite...............................0(-193)
............................................. - Catapult...............................1(-49)
Steam Giant...........................18(-69) - .............................................
Military...............................-751.4 - Military..............................-1818.6
Winners: King Of Death[XIII]
Losers: Tanked Nation[-IKS-], Cansalt[-IKS-]
488 units from King Of Death[XIII] are keeping the town Polis occupied
27 units from King Of Death[XIII] are keeping the town Polis occupied
As the only thing left of Cansalt[-IKS-]'s army were the flight or artillery units, they have withdrawn.
Monkey D Luffy
Battle for Nes
Monkey D Luffy[-IKS-] from crystal
NuclearCoffee[XIII] from Nes
Sulfur Carabineer......................70(-0) - .............................................
Military....................................0 - Military....................................0
Offensive points............................0 - Defence points..............................0
Damage Received.............................0 - Damage Received.............................0
Damage Percent.............................0% - Damage Percent.............................0%
Winners: Monkey D Luffy[-IKS-]
Losers: NuclearCoffee[XIII]
The town Nes has been pillaged by Monkey D Luffy[-IKS-]. The following resources have been stolen: 3,750 , 2,425
Battle for Mich
Monkey D Luffy[-IKS-] from Niqqinogg
NuclearCoffee[XIII] from Mich
Hoplite..............................148(-70) - Hoplite...............................0(-264)
............................................. - Doctor.................................10(-0)
The town Mich has been pillaged by Monkey D Luffy[-IKS-]. The following resources have been stolen: 5,078 , 1,157 , 2,239
As the only thing left of NuclearCoffee[XIII]'s army were the flight or artillery units, they have withdrawn.
Sea battle near No7
What UP[-IKS-] from Island2
Lon[XIII] from Stoneville
............................................. - Steam Ram...............................0(-5)
Military................................-12.4 - Military.................................-120
Offensive points..........................300 - Defence points.............................31
Damage Received...........................620 - Damage Received..........................6000
Damage Percent.............................9% - Damage Percent............................91%
Winners: What UP[-IKS-]
Losers: Lon[XIII]
83 warships are being moved from What UP[-IKS-] to No7
Lon[XIII]'s fleet was completely destroyed.
Sea battle near Marble
What UP[-IKS-] from No7
Kai-Czar[XIII] from Edmonton
............................................. - Ram-Ship...............................0(-20)
Military....................................0 - Military.................................-100
Damage Received.............................0 - Damage Received..........................5000
Losers: Kai-Czar[XIII]
83 warships are being moved from What UP[-IKS-] to Marble
Kai-Czar[XIII]'s fleet was completely destroyed.
Jan 1st 2018, 12:22pm
Battle for Power
Lon[XIII] from Power
Military.................................-1.4 - Military....................................0
Offensive points............................0 - Defence points............................3.5
Damage Received............................70 - Damage Received...........................422
The town Power has been pillaged by What UP[-IKS-]. The following
resources have been stolen: 2,484 Building material, 14,481 Wine, 422
Marble, 2,616 Crystal glass, 4,993 Sulfur
Battle for Sal Sa lanni
Monkey D Luffy[-IKS-] from StarFire
Jenna Cool[XIII] from Sal Sa lanni
Ram.....................................6(-0) - .............................................
Mortar..................................6(-0) - .............................................
Losers: Jenna Cool[XIII]
The town Sal Sa lanni has been pillaged by Monkey D Luffy[-IKS-]. The following resources have been stolen: 7,056 Building material, 4,287 Marble
Jan 1st 2018, 1:47pm
Mortar..................................6(-0) - Mortar.................................0(-12)
Hoplite..............................532(-28) - .............................................
Military................................-39.2 - Military...............................-376.2
Offensive points........................940.5 - Defence points.............................98
resources have been stolen: 6,001 Building material, 20,160 Wine, 2,710
One of Lon[XIII]'s armies has been completely destroyed.
Damage Received...........................280 - Damage Received...........................100
The attackers won the battle because they penetrated the wall and
because the defenders did not have any units on site to close the
breach.
Catapult................................6(-0) - .............................................
Offensive points............................0 - Defence points...........................10.5
Damage Received...........................210 - Damage Received............................58
resources have been stolen: 1,663 Building material, 8,337 Wine, 58
Sea battle near ss1
What UP[-IKS-] from sulfur
memllok[XIII] from ss1
............................................. - Ballista Ship..........................0(-10)
Losers: memllok[XIII]
68 units from What UP[-IKS-] are blocking the port entrance to ss1
memllok[XIII]'s fleet was completely destroyed.
Battle for Hamlet
What UP[-IKS-] from Marble
Lon[XIII] from Marbleville, Shake Spear[XIII] from Hamlet
Swordsman.............................400(-0) - Swordsman..............................0(-16)
Cook...................................10(-0) - Cook....................................4(-0)
Gyrocopter..............................2(-0) - .............................................
Losers: Shake Spear[XIII], Lon[XIII]
The town Hamlet has been pillaged by What UP[-IKS-]. The following
resources have been stolen: 4,408 Building material, 14,485 Marble
As the only thing left of Shake Spear[XIII]'s army were the flight or artillery units, they have withdrawn.
Battle for ULOL
MonkeyMan[-IKS-] from Grovers Mill
Jenna Cool[XIII] from ULOL
Winners: MonkeyMan[-IKS-]
The town ULOL has been pillaged by MonkeyMan[-IKS-]. The following resources have been stolen: 60,000 Crystal glass
Battle for Crystal Ice
Kai-Czar[XIII] from Lethbridge
Daedalus-2927[-IKS-] from Crystal Ice
Sulfur Carabineer.....................177(-0) - Sulfur Carabineer......................0(-40)
............................................. - Spearman...............................0(-40)
Swordsman............................1357(-0) - Swordsman..............................0(-40)
Hoplite.............................1126(-64) - Hoplite...............................0(-161)
Gyrocopter............................179(-2) - Gyrocopter..............................0(-5)
............................................. - Ram.....................................0(-6)
Offensive points.......................1590.5 - Defence points..........................236.5
Winners: Kai-Czar[XIII]
Losers: Daedalus-2927[-IKS-]
The town Crystal Ice has been pillaged by Kai-Czar[XIII]. The following resources have been stolen: 20,719 Building material, 9,780 Crystal glass
As the only thing left of Daedalus-2927[-IKS-]'s army were the flight or artillery units, they have withdrawn.
Sea battle near Crystal Ice
Kai-Czar[XIII] from Crystal Palace
Ram-Ship...............................61(-3) - Ram-Ship...............................0(-25)
............................................. - Fire Ship..............................0(-10)
............................................. - Rocket Ship.............................0(-3)
Tender..................................8(-0) - Tender..................................6(-0)
Military..................................-15 - Military...............................-296.6
Offensive points........................741.5 - Defence points...........................37.5
Damage Received...........................750 - Damage Received.........................14830
272 units from Kai-Czar[XIII] are blocking the port entrance to Crystal Ice
Sea battle near cc11
Waino[-IKS-] from Golden
Kai-Czar[XIII] from Spruce Grove, King Of Death[XIII] from nut shot, Giem[XIII] from MANILA NCR
Ram-Ship...............................0(-53) - Ram-Ship...............................88(-6)
............................................. - Paddle Speedboat......................126(-0)
Fire Ship..............................0(-10) - Fire Ship..............................32(-1)
............................................. - Ballista Ship...........................5(-0)
Military.................................-327 - Military................................-36.2
Offensive points.........................90.5 - Defence points..........................817.5
Damage Received.........................16350 - Damage Received..........................1810
Winners: Giem[XIII], Kai-Czar[XIII], King Of Death[XIII]
Losers: Waino[-IKS-]
268 warships are being moved from Kai-Czar[XIII] to cc11
95 warships are being moved from Giem[XIII] to cc11
33 warships are being moved from King Of Death[XIII] to cc11
The miracle of King Of Death[XIII] 'Hephaistos` Forge' is activated. (01.01.2018 21:57:19)
Waino[-IKS-]'s fleet was completely destroyed.
Jan 2nd 2018, 5:19am
Sea battle near Tetovo
Monkito[-IKS-] from Polis, raf[-IKS-] from Unrestrained, No6, Sulte
DanDaMan[XIII] from Tetovo, Kai-Czar[XIII] from Spruce Grove, Ponoka, cc11
Ram-Ship..............................29(-63) - Ram-Ship...............................0(-57)
Steam Ram............................264(-53) - Steam Ram............................271(-56)
Paddle Speedboat.......................0(-17) - Paddle Speedboat......................58(-13)
Tender.................................20(-0) - Tender..................................8(-0)
Rocket Ship............................26(-0) - .............................................
Military..............................-1695.8 - Military..............................-1991.2
Winners: raf[-IKS-], Monkito[-IKS-]
Losers: Kai-Czar[XIII], DanDaMan[XIII]
The post was edited 1 time, last by Monkey D Luffy ( Jan 2nd 2018, 5:54am ).
Monkey D Luffy[-IKS-] from Polis
The_Chomper[XIII] from Polis
............................................. - Archer................................0(-210)
Sulfur Carabineer......................84(-0) - Sulfur Carabineer......................0(-98)
Swordsman.............................250(-0) - Swordsman.............................0(-120)
Hoplite...............................46(-54) - Hoplite...............................0(-210)
Military..................................-88 - Military..............................-1265.6
Offensive points.........................3164 - Defence points............................220
Losers: The_Chomper[XIII]
The_Chomper[XIII]'s army has fled because they were exhausted from fighting.
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Is naturalization of Muslims in non-Muslim nations forbidden by Islam?
by Mark Durie
When Major Nidal Malik Hasan went on a shooting spree at Fort Hood on November 5, killing 13 and wounding 30, the question on everyone’s lips was ‘Why?’ Many speculated about his mental state, but a Pentagon report has asked why his supervising officers did not pay closer attention to his religious views.
The comprehension deficit is not just in the military. This shocking event also raised questions about the nation’s broader capacity to engage with Major Hasan’s World View. In the days following the shooting, there was still the greatest reluctance to allow any faith-based motives to be attributed to his actions. A spate of stories appeared on the post-traumatic stress in the military. President Obama pleaded with Americans not to “jump to conclusions” and said, “we cannot fully know what leads a man to do such a thing.” Army Chief of Staff General George Casey seemed to apply that attributing faith motivations to Major Hasan could be a greater tragedy than the killings: “what happened at Fort Hood was a tragedy, but I believe it would be an even greater tragedy if our diversity becomes a casualty here.” Newsweek’s Evan Thomas opined “he’s probably just a nut case.”
Yet it was soon revealed that a year and a half previously Major Hasan had presented a seminar ‘The Koranic World View as It Relates to Muslims in the U.S. Military’ in which he explained, citing chapter and verse, why Muslim service personnel could initiate “adverse events”, up to and including deadly attacks on fellow US soldiers. His presentation of his religious World View was clear, logical and copiously referenced from the Koran. Tragically, however, his discussion of the implications of some Muslims’ divided loyalties was not understood.
Although the New York Times described Major Hasan as a ‘lone gunman’, the challenging reality is that the ‘Koranic World View’ outlined by Major Hasan is neither eccentric nor unsupported within the wider world of Islamic opinion. (This is not to say that all Muslims would agree with Major Hasan’s use of the Koran!)
To set Major Hasan’s World View seminar in the context of broader Muslim opinion, one does not have to turn to the American-born Yemeni Anwar al-Awlaki, Major Hasan’s spiritual mentor. One can instead look to the Islamic Fiqh Academy, a body set up by the Organization for the Islamic Conference, a veritable ‘United Nations of Islam’. The Academy’s stated purpose is to “achieve the theoretical and practical unity” of the worldwide Islamic community by providing authoritative interpretations of the teachings of Islam. In other words it seeks to guide the whole Muslim world on the right religious path.
The Fiqh Academy has solicited rulings from the world’s most respected Islamic jurists on certain questions of interest. One of these questions relates directly to the Major Hasan’s issue of divided loyalties: it was asked whether it is lawful, according to Islam, for a Muslim to become a naturalized citizen of a non-Muslim nation such as America.
The Fiqh Academy’s findings, reported on its website in Arabic, are salutary. The Muslim authorities were concerned about the issue of divided loyalties. Their rulings presuppose that naturalization in a non-Muslim nation, without proper justification, is unacceptable. Most considered that it could be allowed, but only under specific conditions of dire necessity, for example if Muslims have been persecuted in their own country, and they could find no Muslim society to escape to.
Another condition was that the naturalized Muslim should not seek to advance the cause of their adopted nation above that of Islam. Former Supreme Court Judge of Pakistan, and vice president of the Fiqh Academy, Justice Muhammad Taqi Usmani stated that “if naturalization in a foreign nationality is for the purpose of rendering it mighty and to be proud of it, or to prefer it to the Muslim nationality, or to resemble its people in practical life, this is absolutely forbidden.”
Another distinguished member of the Fiqh Academy, Sheikh Muhammad Mukhtar al-Salami, the former Grand Mufti of Tunisia, was concerned that if a Muslim adopts a new flag, an adverse consequence could be having to serve in the military against fellow Muslims: “he is one of the members of the state which he has associated with, and should a war occur between this state and an Islamic state, his duty demands him to fight Muslims and to pour bombs over their heads.” Sheikh al-Salami concluded that under such circumstances, to become an American citizen would be “an absolute rejection of the rules of Islam.”
There have been multiple incidents over the past decade where Muslim American service personnel have attacked and killed fellow US soldiers, for self-confessed religious reasons. These events have invariably been dismissed as the acts of isolated extremist individuals. However in the light of clear rulings, reported by the International Fiqh Academy, that Muslims are forbidden to aid the cause of a non-Muslim nation, or to aid in its wars against Muslims, a public debate needs to take place, about whether, to what extent, and in what circumstances, an Islamic World View can be in conflict with loyalty to the nation. To stifle this debate dishonors the innocent victims of these attacks, and invites continued ‘adverse events’.
This debate needs to be pursued without being censored by political correctness. It would, for example, be ridiculous to stigmatize the rulings of respected Muslim legal authorities as Islamophobic.
Religion is something which many in the West would prefer remained as a private category. However an adequate response to the tragic case of Major Hasan demands that his Koranic World View not be dismissed as something belonging to the private world of personal preferences. Major Hasan’s commanding officers should have paid closer attention when he was explaining his beliefs about the Koran, jihad and loyalty. If they had dedicated themselves to comprehending his World View, and acknowledged the implications of its crystal-clear logic, his thirteen victims would still be alive today.
Mark Durie is an Australian human rights activist, and author of The Third Choice: Islam, Dhimmitude and Freedom.
Posted by Mark Durie at 11:45 AM
Labels: Fort Hood, Migration, Quran
If the west does not read this; they are negligent. If the west does not understand what is being said in this article; they are unconscious. If the west does not take what is written here seriously; they are committing a crime against their future generations! A serious crime!
Rich Blessings Revd. Mark.
Wise words. By the way, Mark's book "The Third Choice" is perhaps the most important book ever written on what it is the Islamists are fighting for.
God bless you Dr Mark Durie ,
as an ex Muslim I cant agree more with you,may western countries realize the real danger of Islam before it is too late.
Seosamh Ó Brolcháin May 5, 2014 at 10:19 PM
What else is there to say? Why is nothing being done to remedy this situation? Is there a fear of offending the Oil Barons of the Middle East? This problem will have to be resolved in Europe and in other territories.They are gaining a foothold in Europe, in establishing their schools with taxpayers monies and installing extremist Muslim doctrine by brainwashing the young.They arrogantly demand rights in the West which would never be granted to Westerners in 'Muslim lands'. Persecution of other faiths in their jurisdictions are legion. Ignore this at your peril.
The recent comments by Hizb ut Tahrir at their 01 Nov 2015 conference in Sydney, "Muslim until proven guilty" seem to suggest that a person cannot be a pious Muslim AND a loyal Australian, believing in and practicing Australian values, like toleration, democracy and respect for women.
It would be really good if this claim by HuT were examined. [By the way, I do not think you can be a pious Muslim AND a citizen of a democracy, if you accept, as all Muslims must, tawheed (that Allah is alone and so is the sole legislator and only he can be obeyed), and al-wala wal bara. To accept the legitimacy of civil society and that all people, irrespective of religion are entitled to equal consideration, violates the very axioms of Islam, and salafi islamism & jihadism in particular.
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Tag Archives: labor
Business and Industry, Labor History, Progressive Era
The Conspirators: Eugene V. Debs, Clarence Darrow, and the ARU Trials of 1894-95
July 11, 2017 Justin Clark
Indiana history is replete with trailblazers, those who stood against the norm and fought for what they believed in. One such trailblazer was Eugene Victor Debs, founder of the American Railway Union (ARU) and perennial candidate for president of the United States under the Socialist Party banner. Before his presidential runs, before the “legend” of Debs took hold in the American psyche, a series of events in 1894-95 catapulted Debs’ status from obscure labor leader to “the ideal of the workingmen of America.”
Greencastle Daily Banner Times, December 15, 1894. Hoosier State Chronicles.
Another seminal character in Debs’ rise was Clarence Darrow, the famed litigator and labor supporter who used his considerable legal talents to defend Debs and the ARU. Coincidentally, Darrow’s rise to American consciousness, in some measure, parallels Debs’ own emerging prominence. They both supported and emboldened each other during an era of immense fortunes for those at the top and very little for those at the bottom. This blog details their partnership during one of organized labor’s most trying times and how these two men facilitated each other’s mythos during America’s Gilded Age.
Richmond Palladium, November 13, 1917. Hoosier State Chronicles.
It all began with a labor strike. On May 11, 1894, 2,000 employees walked out of their jobs at the Pullman Palace Car Company in Chicago. While the press concluded that the exact nature of the walk out was unknown, the strike had been brewing for months. The economic Panic of 1893 left hundreds of thousands unemployed or underpaid. As the New York Evening World wrote in their report on the initial walk out, “Trouble had been brewing for some time, the men demanding the restoration of a 33 1/3 per cent cut in the wages made last year.” Conditions worsened when the majority of Pullman workers, living in a company town established by the eponymous owner, found rent, food, and other goods too expensive for their slashed wages. The Pullman Company refused to lower prices, despite the wage decreases. These, among other factors, led to the walkout.
New York Evening World. May 11, 1894. Chronicling America.
Pullman workers walking off the job, 1894. Wikispaces.
Within days, the American Railway Union became involved. Founded in Chicago on June 20, 1893, the ARU “very quickly became the nation’s largest organized union.” Debs served as the union’s president. When the Pullman strike erupted in May, the ARU fended off accusations of trying “to stop the Pullman car service throughout the country in an effort to win the strike at Pullman.” However, that didn’t stop the ARU from creating “assemblies of A.R.U. at Wilmington, Del[aware], Ludlow, “K[entuck]y, and St. Louis among the Pullman employe[e]s at those points.”
Indianapolis Journal, May 13, 1894. Hoosier State Chronicles.
In May, the ARU were merely facilitators for the workers; by June, they had taken over the strike. On June 26, 1894, the ARU “began to fight against the Pullman Palace Car Company. Orders for the boycott have issued to all local branches of the organization and preparations are not complete for what it is said may be the greatest railway fight in history.” ARU Vice President George W. Howard expressed his intent in the Indianapolis News:
We are going to bankrupt George M. Pullman, and we are going to do it in a short space of time. We have shut up his works at Ludlow and St. Louis and we shall be able to close his last door at Wilmington by next week. He will be rendered completely helpless inside of ten days unless he comes to terms before that time.
Chicago Police Chief Michael Brennan. History of the Chicago Police, Internet Archive.
Despite walkouts, threats, and the boycott, the General Managers Association decided to keep the Pullman cars running, including “twenty-two Chicago terminal lines.” The company wouldn’t budge on its commitment to lower wages. A police presence, led by Chief Michael Brennan, was asked for by Pullman “in case of trouble as a result of the boycott by the American Railway Union.” Strikers in St. Louis spoke with its police chief in an effort to stave off violence that might “throw discredit on them.” Things were heating up.
Indianapolis News, July 6, 1894. Hoosier State Chronicles.
By early July, Chicago erupted in a fury. The Indianapolis News reported that “two strikers were killed outright and others injured in a riot in the Illinois Central yards at Kensington.” Meanwhile, some “five hundred men were rushing up and down the yards, overturning freight cars and blocking the tracks in every possible manner.” Law enforcement descended on the mob, “150 United States Marshalls and Cook County deputies,” using everything at their disposal to quell the melee. This resulted in gunshots rippling through the crowd, a short stammering by the mob, and then a full-on retreat by police forces as the hordes of laborers charged at them. This continued well into the afternoon, with hundreds of freight cards either ripped from the tracks or burned to the ground. In all, six men died and the railways suffered roughly $2,000,000 worth of damage (over $56,000,000 in 2016 dollars).
In the middle of all this carnage, both physical and political, was ARU founder and President Eugene V. Debs. During the July 6 riots, Debs released a statement that rankled the capitalists as well as the public, subtly acknowledging the chaos. “If the corporations refuse to yield, and stubbornly maintain that there is ‘nothing to arbitrate,’ the responsibility for what may ensue will be upon their heads and they can not escape the penalties,” Debs declared. However, his tune changed slightly the next day, telling the strikers that “I deem it my duty to caution you against being a party to any violation of law” and “those who engage in force and violence are our real enemies.” Despite his pleas for peace, the ARU’s boycott and ensuing violence animated the United States Court in Chicago to file an injunction against Debs and the ARU. “The injunction was served as Debs was leaving the Sherman House this morning,” the News wrote.
Indianapolis Journal, July 11, 1894. Chronicling America.
The injunction proved fatal to the strike and to Debs’ hopes of representing the workers in their negotiations with the Pullman Company. On July 10, Debs, ARU Vice President Howard, and two other ARU representatives were arrested in Chicago under alleged violation of the US Court’s injunction. “They are charged with conspiracy to commit an unlawful act—that is, to block the progress of the United States mails,” the Indianapolis Journal reported. The men were arraigned in front of a grand jury and ordered to jail unless they posted bond at “$10,000 each.” Debs’ mail and other ARU materials were seized by the government, as potential evidence in the trial. Debs appeared particularly upset about this action. “…I cannot understand under what law the postoffice [sic] authorities are a party to the seizure of my private mail,” Debs barked, “It is an outrage and you call this a free county? It seems to me not to be compatible with the stars and stripes.” Despite his anger, Debs reached out to his fellow laborers and told them to stay vigilant, refrain from violence, and “maintain law and order.”
Clarence Darrow, circa 1900. Library of Congress.
The attorney who defended Debs and the ARU was none other than Clarence S. Darrow. Before his legendary status in American life as one of the country’s greatest litigators, Darrow was a young attorney making a career for himself in Chicago. After leaving a lucrative practice representing the Chicago and North Western Railway Company, Darrow rose to prominence as the public defender of Patrick Eugene Prendergast, the man who murdered Chicago Mayor Carter Harrison during the 1893 World’s Fair. Darrow toiled well over a year to get Prendergast an insanity plea, and when that failed, he diligently worked with state government to stay his client’s execution. Darrow, who sternly against capital punishment, felt it his duty to stand against its use in such a unfortunate case. Sadly, Darrow’s crusade was unsuccessful and the state executed Prendergast by hanging on July 13, 1894, three days after Debs faced arrest in Chicago.
Omaha Daily Bee, July 11, 1894. Chronicling America.
Darrow, disappointed in the state’s decision in the Prendergast case but emboldened in his desire to defend those deemed indefensible, took on the Debs case right away, according to the Indianapolis News and the Omaha Daily Bee. The Bee also reported that a “large number of telegrams sent by Debs from his headquarters” provided “directions which extended the blockade of trains. . . .” Western Union initially withheld the telegrams from the United States Court, but Judge Peter S. Grosscup issued a subpoena and the company relented. To make things worse, the press wrote scurrilous descriptions of Darrow and Debs. The Wichita Daily Eagle called Darrow “an outspoken Anarchist and no party has the courage to nominate him for any position. His political feelings are dangerous.” As for Debs, the Eagle painted him as the “most indignant citizen . . . the dictator of his union and the regulator of the commerce of the country.” Darrow knew as much as Debs that this case could upend their careers – or gain them the public support they craved.
Judge Peter S. Grosscup. Google Books.
The first trial against Debs and the ARU began in Chicago on July 23, 1894. As biographer John A. Farrell noted, the Feds “launched a two-track legal defense on Debs and his men: the contempt proceeding in which there were accused of violating the federal court’s injunction banning anyone from ‘inciting’ workers to strike, and a criminal case that charged the union with conspiring to stop the mails and to interfere with interstate commerce.” Darrow led a defense team with attorneys William W. Erwin and Stephen S. Gregory. They intended to dismiss the charges against Debs and the alleged conspirators by challenging the legality of the federal injunction. “It will be contended that what the court has done amounts to a usurpation of power not given to the federal judiciary [by] either constitution or law,” the Topeka State Journal wrote. The defendants also denied that Debs and the ARU directed the strikers to leave their posts, but rather its members voted in favor to strike. As for the telegrams, the only approved communication between Debs and the strikers came on July 6, when Debs counseled “every one to stand firm,” not to use violence or to block rail lines. Defense attorney Gregory reiterated this point in a passage from the Indianapolis Journal: “The attorney contended that as long as people obeyed the laws they could not be held responsible for the lawlessness of others.” Each defendant consulted extensively with Darrow and his team before their case was filed.
William W. Erwin. Saint Paul Historical.
Indianapolis Journal, July 24, 1894. Hoosier State Chronicles.
Chicago District Attorney Thomas E. Milchrist, Assistant-District Attorney John P. Hand, and special counsel Edwin Walker represented the prosecution, with attorneys for the Santa Fe Railroad assisting. Walker spoke for the state on the first day and argued that, “All the strike orders which had resulted in the stoppage of commerce and mails came from the office of the union in Chicago, and they were responsible for everything that happened in consequence, even to the loss of life.” Walker, by offering evidence against Debs in the criminal case regarding blocking the U. S. Mail, indirectly affirmed the injunction against ARU. This appeared strong enough in the eyes of presiding Judges William A. Woods and Peter S. Grosscup (he advised Woods), who threw out the defense’s plea to drop the contempt charges on July 25. Two days later, Judge Woods postponed further arguments in the trial until September, so the court could accrue evidence under the assistance of a master of chancery. Debs and the other defendants posted bail and awaited the continuation of their case. The ARU was dealt a serious blow, but the fight was only beginning.
Judge William Allen Woods. Google Books.
Chicago District Attorney Thomas Milchrist. Google Books.
On September 26, 1894, arguments were continued in the Seventh Circuit Court in Chicago under presiding Judge Woods. In his four and a half hours of arguments, Clarence Darrow’s defense of Debs became legendary. The Chicago Tribune published a piece the next day entitled, “Darrow Hurts Debs: Counsel for the Ex-Dictator Flies into a Rage,” where Darrow “was credited with having made an exceedingly able argument.” (The article’s splashy title doesn’t match what is said of Darrow; in that regard, it’s a 1890s version of “clickbait.”) Darrow’s argument was twofold. First, the ARU did direct strikers via telegram after the injunction, “but had a perfect right to do so . . . .” Second, the prosecution’s basis for the injunction, the Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890, was legally unfounded. “He argued at length,” the Tribune reported, “to prove the act had no reference to strikes, but was designed exclusively to correct the outrages of the railroad companies. He thought it a shame the railroads should use it against other people.” Darrow also went after prosecuting attorney Milchrist, saying that “I never knew a man who had more abused an office in which chance placed him . . . .” Milchrist was incensed, and fired back with, “I am responsible for my words. I will not take lessons from you in professional ethics.” To which Darrow snapped, “You ought to take lessons from some one [sic].”
Chicago Tribune, September 27, 1894. Chicago Tribune Archives.
Darrow’s strident defense of Deb’s found coverage throughout the nations newspapers, including the Crawfordsville Journal, the Indianapolis Journal, and the San Francisco Morning Call. The Call’s write up was particularly insightful; Darrow’s reasoning on the right of workers to strike found clearer elucidation than had been in the Tribune. “He said the defendants had not committed any wrong and declared that every man had the right to abandon his position either for a good or bad reason. No court could put a citizen into a condition of servitude,” the Call wrote.
San Francisco Morning Call, September 27, 1894. Chronicling America.
Despite Darrow’s passionate and astute defense of his clients, Judge Woods ruled against Debs and the ARU. On December 15, 1894, Eugene V. Debs was sentenced to six months in prison for violating the federal injunction against the ARU. Seven others, including ARU Vice President Howard, received 3 month sentences. In his ruling, Judge Woods declared: “I think there is no doubt these defendants had power to make the men who looked up to them do as they pleased and that they continued to violate this injunction.” As Darrow feared, Judge Woods sentenced them under his reading of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. The act was created to protect the laboring classes, instead Woods applied the law as a weapon against them. “The decision is bad law,” Darrow said, “but the sentence is remarkably lenient.” As for Debs, he was quoted in the Greencastle Daily Banner Times, saying:
I am a law abiding man and I will abide by the law as construed by the judges. But if Judge Woods’ decision is law, all labor organizations may as well disband. According to him, every strike is a conspiracy and unlawful. . . . In the strike of last summer every effort was made by the leaders to prevent violence. Judge Woods intimates that this advice was given to the effect it would have on the public and that the strikers were not expected to heed it. What right has he to draw such an inference? There is nothing in the evidence to support it.
Judge Woods gave Darrow and the ARU ten days to develop a strategy to keep them out of jail. Darrow’s plan consisted of the defendants calling for a writ of habeas corpus in front of the US Supreme Court, bypassing the appeals court process altogether. However, Darrow had to be admitted to the Supreme Court bar and meet with the necessary people to begin the process. This delayed Debs’ and the others’ chances of staying out of prison, and while Darrow did all he could to get them freed, Debs and the others began serving their prison terms.
Iron County Register, December 20, 1894. Chronicling America.
And this was only the contempt trial. The criminal trial charging the ARU with blocking the passage of U. S. Mail also plagued Debs, and its decision would be made by a jury rather than a judge. It began on January 27, 1895, with Judge Grosscup, who assisted Woods in the injunction trial, presiding. Edwin Walker, continuing his work for the prosecution, asked the ARU to produce its meeting minutes from the previous summer. This plan backfired, according to Darrow biographer John A. Farrell, because the ARU made its proceedings public months before and had nothing to hide. Darrow, sensing a good strategy, asked for the prosecution to produce the minutes of the General Managers Association. This proved fatal to the prosecution, for it necessitated railway owner George Pullman to testify. He evaded a subpoena and, ironically, faced possible contempt charges. Once Debs, released on bail just days before, took the stand and testified against the charges, the trial fell apart. What happened next can only be described as serendipitous. One of the jurors, a man named “Coe,” fell ill and the jury was discharged. The trial lingered on a continuance but was eventually dropped. Debs, Darrow, and the defense felt certain that if the trial continued, and Pullman was asked to testify, they would’ve won. As one juror said to Debs on his way out, “when this trial opened I was in favor of giving you a 5-year sentence, but now I am anxious to see you free.”
Indianapolis News, February 12, 1895. Hoosier State Chronicles.
One trial down, one to go. Debs, Darrow, and the ARU were off to Washington. Darrow presented his petitions for a writ of error and a writ of habeas corpus to the Supreme Court; Chief Justice Melville Fuller asked for the legality of each petition to be considered. The justices agreed to hear the case and oral arguments were scheduled for March. The first day of arguments began at 12:40pm on March 25, with Darrow, Gregory, and Lyman Trumbull representing Debs. Walker, Attorney General Richard Olney, and Assistant-Attorney General Edward B. Whitney represented the government. As the Indianapolis Journal reported, Darrow and his team sought to reaffirm their position that the Sherman Anti-Trust Act did not grant courts the authority to issue an injunction against the ARU. Furthermore, Trumbull argued that if the lower court had only used the newspaper as a means of disseminating the injunction, “it was in defiance of Congress, and it was not to be supposed that everybody was to be compelled to read the newspapers.” He further “urged . . . that Debs and his associated were illegally imprisoned, and asked for their release.”
Indianapolis News, May 27, 1895. Hoosier State Chronicles.
After two days of intense oral arguments, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled against Debs and the ARU’s application for a writ of habeas corpus. In the court’s opinion, Justice David Brewer wrote: “The strong arm of the national Government may be put forth to brush away all obstructions to the freedom of interstate commerce or the transportation of the mails. If the emergency arises, the army of the Nation, and all its militia, are at the service of the Nation to compel obedience to its laws.” Debs was devastated by the decision and shared his disgust with a local reporter:
I think it [Supreme Court] is one of the worst demoralized organizations in the country. When the law in the Debs case was made it was intended to apply to check the greed of corporations. No one ever thought it would be twisted to apply to labor organizations. The decision will be a great blow to railroad labor organization. Railroad men will hardly dare to act, under this interpretation.
Darrow and Trumbull also lambasted the decision, calling it “a sort of double barreled shotgun justice—punishing a man for a crime for which he had been indicted but before he was tried.” Not able to accrue time served, Debs began his six-month jail sentence for contempt of the federal injunction; he served out his time in Woodstock, Illinois.
Indianapolis News, November 14, 1895. Hoosier State Chronicles.
While Debs served out his sentence, Darrow, Trumbull, and scores of labor organizers worked on a big reception for the ARU leader upon his release. They rented out Battery D in Chicago, a venue of 6,000 seats. In a subtle bit of goading, they even invited Judge Woods to attend. On November 22, 1895, Eugene V. Debs was released from jail. A throng of supporters rushed from the train depot to pick up their embattled leader and escort him to the reception awaiting in Chicago. The Greencastle Democrat reported that nearly 4,000 attendees crowded into Battery D to hear Debs speak “for about two hours on topics which have become familiar to all labor advocates.” “I have had time for meditation and reflection,” Debs said among his supporters, “and I have no hesitancy in declaring that under the same circumstances I would pursue precisely the same policy. So for as my acts are concerned I have neither apology nor regret.” That night, Debs evolved from regional labor leader into emerging legend in radical politics.
Greencastle Democrat, November 30, 1895. Hoosier State Chronicles.
Eugene V. Debs and Clarence Darrow used the Pullman strike a means for empowering the working man and precipitating their influence in American life. Debs went on to become one of America’s most successful third-party politicians, running for president under the Socialist Party banner five times (1900, 1904, 1908, 1912, 1920). In his final presidential run, he won nearly a million votes while in a jail cell for violating the Sedition Act. He also co-founded one of America’s most influential unions, the International Workers of the World—known colloquially as the “Wobblies.” He died in 1926.
Debs at Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, circa 1920. California Literary Review.
As for Darrow, he became one of America’s celebrated, as well as infamous, lawyers. He set up a law practice (with aspiring poet Edgar Lee Masters) that helped the poor, immigrants, labor activists. In particular, he represented the McNamara brothers in the Llewellyn Iron Works explosion trial and saved Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb from execution in their 1924 trial for murder. However, the trial he is best remember for is the Scopes “Monkey Trial” of 1925. Darrow defended schoolteacher John T. Scopes, on trial for the teaching of evolution. This led to his legendary court battles with William Jennings Bryan, who led the prosecution. Despite Scopes’ conviction, which was later overturned on a technicality, Darrow’s defense of science, secularism, and freedom of thought still resonates today. Darrow died in 1936, at the age of 80.
Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan during the Scopes Trial, 1925. Chicago Tribune.
Both of these men forged indispensable paths during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The eight-hour work day, child labor laws, and workplace protections; all these rights were defended, and often won, as a result of their efforts. The ARU trials of 1894-95 propelled their lives into the national conversation and supplied them a platform for their crusades. So while Debs didn’t win the battle in the courts, he often won in the war of ideas. As a result, Debs’ fight became Darrow’s. Reflecting in his memoir years later, Darrow wrote:
Eugene V. Debs has always been one of my heroes . . . . There may have lived some time, some where, a kindlier, gentler, more generous man than Eugene V. Debs, but I have never known him. Nor have I ever read or heard of another. Mr. Debs at once became the head of the Socialist party of America. I never followed him politically. I never could believe that man was so constructed as to make Socialism possible; but I watched him and his cause with great interest. He was not only all that I have said, but he was the bravest man I ever knew. He never felt fear. He had the courage of the babe who has no conception of the word or its meaning.
Debs and Darrow used their Midwestern smarts, guff, and gumption to take on the biggest powers of their time, from the railroad barons to the Supreme Court. In doing so, their battles changed each other—and changed America.
“King Debs,” Harper’s Weekly, July 14, 1894. Library of Congress.
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Indiana’s Pearl and Button Boom
February 26, 2015 Stephen J. Taylor
Today, we drive over rivers and creeks in a few seconds and barely know their names. But before modern transportation severed so much of our connection to waterways, human contact with rivers practically defined life in water-rich Indiana.
One lost industry that had a brief “boom and bust” over most of the eastern U.S. a century ago was closely tied to the life of the rivers. If you’re keeping a list of industries (like steel and auto manufacturing) that have declined and even vanished from the Midwest, add one more: pearl button making.
Consumers today rarely give a thought to where buttons come from. How synthetic goods are made (i.e., the zippers, plastic buttons, and Velcro that partly replaced shell around 1950) may seem less “romantic” than the work of pearl fishermen hauling shiny treasures out of Midwestern streams in johnboats. Yet in spite of its nostalgic appeal, the pearl button industry also wreaked havoc on the environment and on workers in factories.
(This photo taken on the Wabash River at Vincennes, Indiana, around 1905 shows a pearl fisherman in his boathouse. He kept a “cooker” on hand to steam the mussel shells open. “The meat was fed to hogs or used as bait.” Shells were sent off to button factories.)
(Man on a johnboat on the Rock River outside Beloit, Wisconsin, circa 1911. Mussels would clamp down on hooks and not let go until they were cooked off. The rods were often made out of cast-off gas pipes. Photo by Lloyd Ballard. Beloit College Archives.)
At the time of European settlement, midwestern rivers abounded in mussels. As many as 400 species probably lived in the Ohio Valley in 1800. The Mound Builder cultures that once occupied the American heartland found many ways to use mussels and left behind enormous refuse piles — what archaeologists call “middens” — in their towns, which almost always sat beside creeks and rivers. They were large towns, too. In the year 1200, Cahokia, across the Mississippi River from the future site of St. Louis, was bigger than medieval London.
Excavations in southwestern Indiana have turned up so many freshwater mussel shells that archaeologists dubbed one early group the “Shell Mound People.” Often a fertility symbol, shells may have had a deep spiritual meaning for the Mound Builders and played a role in their rituals of life and death. Pearls — hardened secretions meant to neutralize invading irritants and parasites — were undoubtedly used by Native Americans to decorate their bodies.
(Shell disks from a burial mound at Cahokia, Illinois. St. Louis Community College.)
Among Indiana’s early settlers, “diving” for pearls hidden in freshwater mussels dates back to at least 1846, when farmers at Winamac founded a small stockholders association to try to market shells taken from the Tippecanoe River. They sent a man to St. Louis and Cincinnati to ask about the value of freshwater pearls. Prices were low at the time and the “Pulaski County Pearl Diver Association” went bust.
Though a few button factories existed in Indiana before the Civil War — relying on shell, horn, and bone — the American freshwater pearl boom didn’t really gain momentum until 1900. In that year, a pearl frenzy erupted along the Black and White Rivers near Newport, Arkansas. Arkansas’ pearl boom had all the hallmarks of an old-time gold rush. A writer for the Indianapolis Journal reported in 1903:
Within the past three years more than $3,000,000 worth of pearls have been taken from the Mississippi Valley. . . The excitement spread from the land to the river steamboats. Their crews deserted them, and sometimes their captains, and the Black River was the scene of the wildest excitement. New towns were built and old ones were increased to the size of cities. Streets were laid out, banks and mercantile establishments were started, mortgages were lifted, money was plenty and times were prosperous. . . New York pearl dealers flocked there in great numbers.
The writer tells a story, perhaps exaggerated like much of his account, that an African American family who had lived in poverty made enough money pearling to build a large house and hire white servants. He also mentions that New York dealers were often ripped off by sellers masquerading Arkansas pearls as Asian.
Arkansas’ rivers were quickly “pearled out,” but the pearl boom spread and reached its peak around 1905-1910. Southwestern Indiana is almost as close to Arkansas as it is to Cincinnati. When the Southern boom died down, the hunt for pearls came north. The Jasper Weekly Courier reported in October 1903 that pearls had been found in the Wabash River at Maunie, Illinois, just south of New Harmony. “The river is a veritable bee hive and scores are at work securing mussel shells. The price of shells has risen from $4 to $15 a ton and an experienced man can secure a ton in a day. Farmers find it difficult to get farm hands.”
“Musselers” found an estimated $7000 worth of pearls in the Wabash in the first week of June 1909. Charles Williams, a “poor musseler,” found a “perfect specimen of the lustrous black pearl and has sold it for $1250. Black pearls are seldom found in freshwater shells.”
(The steamboat City of Idaho docked at Vincennes, Indiana, around 1907. For a few years, a small button factory on Willow Street produced as many as 3,000 buttons a week from mussel shells harvested along the Wabash. When the factory closed, mussel fishermen sent shells by steamboat and train to the large button manufacturers in Muscatine, Iowa.)
Vincennes experienced an explosion of musseling in 1905, as pearl hunters converged on the Wabash River’s shell banks. Eastern buyers came out to Indiana and frequently offered $500-$1000 for a pearl, which they polished into jewelry in cities like New York. A thousand dollars was a lot amount of money at a time when factory workers typically made about $8.00 a week. But with several hundred people eagerly scouring the riverbanks, the best pearls were quickly snatched up. For about a decade afterwards, “mussel men” and their families focused on providing shells for button manufacturers.
Interestingly, the shell craze caused a squatters’ village to spring up in Vincennes. A shanty town called Pearl City, made up of shacks and houseboats, sat along the river from 1907 to 1936, when as part of a WPA deal, its residents were resettled in Sunset Court, Vincennes’ first public housing.
At Logansport on the Wabash, patients from the Northern Indiana Insane Hospital spent part of the summer of 1908 hunting for pearl-bearing mussels. “One old man has been lucky, finding several pearls valued at $200 each. Local jewelers have tried to buy them but the old man hoards them like a miser does his gold. He keeps them in a bottle, and his chief delight is to hold the bottle so that he can see his prizes as the sun strikes the gems.” In and around Indianapolis, hunters discovered pearls in Fall Creek and the White River, especially around Waverly, southwest of the city.
Though every fisherman sought to find a high-value pearl and make a tiny fortune, the boom’s more prosaic side — button-making — eventually won out. From the 1890s to the 1940s, hundreds of small factories across the Midwest turned out glossy “mother-of-pearl” buttons. The industry especially flourished along a stretch of the Mississippi near Muscatine, Iowa, called the “button capital of the world.” Muscatine’s button industry was founded by John Boepple, a master craftsman from Hamburg, Germany, who immigrated to Iowa around 1887. Muscatine’s factories turned out a staggering 1.5 billion buttons in 1905 alone. About 10,000 workers were employed by button factories in the Midwestern states.
John Boepple lived to see the industry’s impact on rivers like the Mississippi. In 1910, the industrialist turned conservationist began work at a biological station established by Congress at Fairport, Iowa, to help repopulate mussels by reseeding riverbeds. Congress’ role was simply to preserve the industry, not to save decimated species. In 1912, the embattled mussels had their revenge: Boepple cut his foot on a shell and died of a resulting infection.
Although Iowa dominated the American button industry, numerous tiny factories popped up in small Indiana towns, including Mishawaka, Lawrenceburg, Leavenworth, Madison, and Shoals. (Shoals was named for its founder, Frederick Shulz, not for the mussel shoals on the White River.) Taylor Z. Richey, writing from Cannelton, Indiana, described how the work was done along the Ohio River in 1904. Many factories did not create the actual buttons, merely the “blanks” that were shipped out to Iowa.
(In 1910, three buttonworks in Leavenworth, Indiana, employed twenty-four families — most of the population of the town. This two-story Greek Revival building had once been City Hall. Long chutes connected upper windows to wheelbarrows below. Discarded shells were burned to produce lime. “Old” Leavenworth was permanently wiped out by the 1937 Ohio River Flood.)
(Workers at a button factory along the Ohio River at St. Mary’s, West Virginia, circa 1910.)
Working in the button industry was far from quaint and actually proved a hazardous job. Exposure to hydrochloric acid and poor ventilation took a big toll on workers. Author Jeffrey Copeland notes that there were more cases of pneumonia, typhus and gangrene among button factory laborers than in any other industry. Children as young as eight worked sixty-hour weeks carrying buckets of shells and acid to soften the material up. Eye injuries and loss of fingers often occurred as workers “stamped” the buttons out of shells or operated lathes. Even before the industry reached its turn-of-the-century heyday, gory accidents (such as this one, reported in the Jasper Weekly Courier in 1874) made it into the newspapers:
A French girl, sixteen years old, was caught by her long hair in a revolving shaft at a button factory in Kankakee, Ill., the other day, and the left side of her head was completely scalped. A severe concussion of the brain was also sustained. Her condition was considered critical.
Complaints about filth and dust drove Mishawaka’s factory to relocate to St. Joseph, Michigan, in 1917.
Partly under the leadership of a young activist named Pearl McGill, labor unions in Iowa battled it out with factory owners, culminating in Muscatine’s “Button War” of 1911, a fight that involved arson and the killing of police. (Steve Cable tells the interesting story of labor leader McGill, who was murdered in 1924 at age 29.)
In Vincennes in 1903, however, the usual pattern of Progressive-era labor politics seemed to go the other way around. The Indianapolis Journal reported that Eugene Aubrey, owner of a pearl-button factory at Vincennes and allegedly a member of the Socialist Party, fired worker Charles Higginbottom for serving in the militia during Evansville’s bloody July 1903 race riot, when many African Americans were gunned down. The Journal went on to accuse Aubrey of being a secret anarchist.
In his semi-fictional Tales of Leavenworth, Rush Warren Carter described a small-town Indiana button factory in those years. A boy named Palmer Dotson quits school at 16 and gets a job working under superintendent “Badeye” Williams. (Factory workers often lost eyes.) “Cutting buttons was not a business that developed one’s mind or elevated his thoughts,” Carter wrote. “The cutting process was a dull routine to a background of everything but enlightened conversation. Talk about your ladies’ sewing circles. When it came to gossip, [women] were not in the same league with the men in the button factory, who chewed and rechewed every real or imagined bit of gossip until it had been ground to a fine pulp.” Dotson died of tuberculosis at 21. A co-worker decided that opening a saloon would be preferable to stamping buttons.
In 1917, a silent movie based on Virginia Brooks’ popular novel “Little Lost Sister” was playing at The Auditorium in South Bend. The plot begins in a sordid rural button factory in “Millville” (probably in Iowa), where the heroine, Elsie Welcome, has big dreams about getting out and going to Chicago. A classic stand-off with the foreman ensues:
Although Iowa’s factories were still running in 1946 (the year actor Ronald Reagan chose Muscatine’s Pearl Queen), exhaustion of shell banks all over the Midwest was killing the industry fast. Japanese innovations increased competition after World War II. Synthetic plastics — which were cheap and could withstand washing machines better than shell — were pioneered in the 1920s and eventually took over the industry in the mid-1950s. Instead of smelly buckets of shells, workers handled tubs of polyester syrup. Then, two snazzy new inventions, zippers and Velcro, even cut into the demand for buttons outright.
Indiana’s factories, which had been shipping blanks to Iowa for years, had all gone out of business by the end of World War II. The last independent buttonworks in the U.S., the Wilbur E. Boyd Factory at Meredosia on the Illinois River, closed in 1948. Iowa’s button industry hung on until the mid-1990s, when Chinese innovations in pearl cultivation finally caused it to collapse.
Wabash Valley Visions & Voices has uploaded a rich oral history interview with Arlow Brazeal of Newport, Indiana. Brazeal, who died in 2000, recalled the last days of commercial musseling on the Wabash and Vermillion Rivers after he began fishing there in the 1930s.
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“I never thought I would live just a building away from my sister at this stage in our lives,” Brunson said. “We always kept in touch, but our lives took us to different places over the years. We feel God put us back together in our hometown at this great community.”
Hugghins, 90, and Brunson, 85, get to see each other every day. Instead of catching up over the phone, they spend quality time together in person, looking at old pictures and reminiscing on the past.
“When we were younger our mother would pick up a woman at a Buckner community, and now we live in one,” Brunson said. “We’ve come full circle. We enjoy seeing each other as often as we can. We lost our oldest sister, so it’s nice to be together. I think our mother would be pleased with how things have turned out.”
Hugghins and Brunson grew up in Houston to a close-knit family and attended Houston’s First Baptist Church while it was still located downtown. After graduating high school, they both went on to attend Baylor University before getting married and starting families.
Hugghins, who lived the majority of her life in Houston and raised five children there, moved to Parkway Place after her husband passed away in 2015. Brunson, on the other hand, moved into the community in May. She moved around more than her sister, spending time in Dallas and Fort Worth, as well as 40 years in Monroe, La., where she raised three children.
“It’s inspiring to see the family connections come together at the community,” said Linda Fitzhugh, director of independent living at Parkway Place. “We are thankful they both chose to call Parkway Place home, and we look forward to seeing the new memories they build together.”
“It’s great to be back with my sister,” Hugghins said. “We do different activities at the community and attend different churches, but we find time to catch up or get lunch together. My sister is my best friend and to have her down the hall is amazing. A sisterhood is hard to describe, but no matter what, I know she will be there for me.
“We might not always agree, but we always love each other and we will fight to defend each other against anybody!”
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JT Eberhard speaks on relating to the religious in a positive way
On March 31, 2016, at the Boise State University student union building, JT Eberhard, of Patheos.com, gave a talk on "advice and insight when it comes to talking to religious groups/people in a positive way." Now, I'm not exactly sure if that was his intended topic since his presentation didn't fit the topic title. Nevertheless, that is the wording of the email I received, so I attended.
JT was dressed in casual sneakers, loose blue jeans, and a green T-shirt with a large cartoon dinosaur on the front. Of course, we're not supposed to judge a book by its cover, but I was slightly taken aback by his casual demeanor and mediocre self-presentation. Nevertheless, I quietly took notes and had no intention of causing any trouble whatsoever. I was there for information.
Perhaps he was unaware of the topic at hand about "talking to religious groups/people in a positive way" because his presentation caused me to react very negatively. He accomplished the opposite. He advocated lying, mockery, and disrespect when dealing with Christians.
During his presentation, he showed videos of atheist gatherings with examples of how to use mockery and ridicule to denounce and nullify the message that Christians might be giving to the general populace. I thought it was shameful.
At one point he played a video of a young man at a piano singing a song. The words were blasphemous, and the audience could be heard laughing. So, is this the "positive way" atheists want to employ when dealing with religious people? I certainly hope not. In fact, if we Christians were to use the same techniques against them, they would cry foul. I know because, in my many years of dealing with atheists when they perceive the slightest moral deficiency in myself or other Christians, they are quick to point the finger. The problem is they can't see their own hypocrisy and neither could JT Eberhard.
He continued with his presentation and to illustrate his activism, he mentioned how he was on a school campus years ago, drawing flying spaghetti monsters on a sidewalk. Someone approached him and asked if he was a member of a local student union. He then said, and I repeat this to the best of my memory1), "So being a good atheist, I lied and said I was." The people in the room laughed. He then told us how he made up the name of an on-campus organization to further his lie. His audience received it warmly.
One of the things I found most interesting was when he said that there were plenty of things wrong in the world. But he offered no justification for why his personal opinions about what were problems, were right in the first place. He just made these pronouncements. It appeared that he and his fellow atheists were the self-appointed judges who had the obligation to correct the ignorant religious people who are trapped in mythology. And, since they have reason and evidence, need to make sure that the foolish superstitious people are corrected. This attitude is, in my opinion, self-righteous.
Also, he said that a person cannot choose what he believes in. He hinted at the idea that people are forced to believe in things. Well, aside from his implied materialistic, atheistic position from which this philosophical approach stems, he is simply wrong. Of course, you can choose what you believe in. Let me show you how.
Let's say that you have a good friend who has done something and you are suspicious about the whole thing. But your friend adamantly denies any wrongdoing and tries to explain what really happened and why he is innocent. His explanation is plausible, but not proof. All the loose ends are not tied up. But, because of your friendship, you make the choice to believe that he's telling the truth, even though he can't prove to you he did no wrong.
As I said earlier, I had no intention of causing any problems. My purpose of attending was to learn what the speaker had to offer. When I arrived, they quickly learned that I was a Christian, since I was wearing a cross. After his presentation, he asked if anyone had any questions. I remained silent. After a few atheists had made some inquiries, one of the atheists asked if I had any questions. I then responded that I would present a question because one of the atheist's had asked me to do so.
I asked, "Why the mockery? If this was supposed to be a presentation on how to interact with religious people in a positive way, then why the mockery, the ridicule, and condescending attitudes?"
To my surprise, JT Eberhard justified mockery as a valid form of argumentation. He tried to say it was as a means of substitution, where something is put forth as a representation of something else and then is mocked.
Okay, so lying, mockery, and ridicule, with a smidgen of misrepresentation, are the methods that Mr. Eberhard said are proper methods for talking to religious people in a positive way. Okaaayyy...
Final Comments
It should be obvious that our conversation did not proceed well. I mentioned how, in my opinion, when someone uses mockery, it suggests that he doesn't have a good argument. He didn't like this, and within about a minute our conversation was, shall we say, energetic. At one point he was trying to control our dialogue by speaking over me so I could not complete my sentences.
I managed to ask him if he would come on my radio show. After accusing me of being intellectually dishonest in how I phrased my questions, he said he would have to contact Matt Delahunty (an atheist with whom I'd had previous interaction). He said he wanted to ascertain my worthiness as a person with whom to speak. Okaaayyy...
This, of course, is problematic. First, he accused me of being intellectually dishonest. Really? Can we say, ad hominem? He's the one who promoted lying in his presentation. In my opinion, when he accused me of "intellectual dishonesty," it was as an excuse to avoid radio air time where his views could be cross-examined. I gave him my email address and after four days have not received any correspondence from him.
So, I would not take advice from Mr. Eberhard on how to talk to religious people in a positive way since he doesn't seem to have the foggiest notion of what that really means.
1. I wrote his statement down right after he said it.
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New York Governor pushes sweeping anti-corruption, campaign finance initiatives
on June 12, 2013 at 3:06 am
Speaking yesterday, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo detailed a comprehensive series of reforms that will help prevent public corruption, modernize New York’s outdated voting laws, and reduce the influence of large donors in political elections. The package seeks to restore public trust, remove some of the money from the political process and make it easier for new voters to get registered.
The Governor’s three-part reform package includes a Public Trust Act that would create a new class of public corruption crimes and enhance New York prosecutors’ ability to crack down on public corruption across the state; Voting Reforms that will allow sixteen and seventeen year olds to pre-register to vote, expand access to the ballot for candidates, and allow greater flexibility for affidavit ballots to be counted; and Campaign Finance Reforms that would ensure New Yorkers know who is paying for political campaigns, offer public financing for campaigns to reduce the influence of wealthy donors, and reduce New York’s contribution limits.
The new class of Public Corruption Crimes essentially defines bribery to make it easier for DAs to convict someone for bribing a public servant. The measure would also create a new felony of “Corrupting the Government” and create a misdemeanor for failing to report a bribe or attempted bribe. Current New York laws require prosecutors to prove that both the briber and the official new that the transaction in question was a bribe.
Under current law, only public officials can be convicted of “defrauding the government” not private individuals. The Public Trust Act will create a new felony crime “Corrupting the Government” that will apply to anyone that defrauds the public. Individuals or entities convicted can face sentences of up to 25 years and will be banned for life from doing business with the state.
Penalties for breaking the law are also being strengthened. The Public Trust Act will increase penalties for crimes such as larceny, money laundering, unauthorized uses of a computer or vehicle when they involve public property. In addition, the Act will increase the penalties for “official misconduct” from misdemeanor to a felony with a sentence of up to 15 years. Officials convicted of corruption will also be banned from public service in the state. Current New York law allows for individuals convicted of corruption to return to office in many cases.
Prosecutors will also be able to go after more than just the amount in a specific fraud. Under the new rules, anyone convicted of defrauding the public could see fines up to 3 times the original amount contested.
Voting would also be modernized and streamlined under the new rules. Forms will be made simpler, registration will be expanded to help young people and new residents register to vote. Absentee ballot collection will also be easier.
Finally,the state seeks to establish the toughest campaign disclosure laws in the US. New Yorkers often have no idea who is funding political campaigns or paying for campaign ads on television. This is because under current law, candidates and outside shadow groups are required to disclose only periodically, or never. Under the Governor’s reforms, full disclosure will be required for any ad that expressly advocates for election or defeat of a candidate. In addition, all candidates and parties will be required to disclose contributions within 48 hours of receipt.
Under the Governor’s reforms, the state will also put in place a public financing system modeled on New York City system where contributions up to $175 are matched $6 to $1. Strict limits will be in place to protect taxpayers.
“To restore the trust of the people in state government, we must tackle corruption head-on and ensure our District Attorneys have the tools they need to prosecute those that defraud the public and bring disgrace to the halls of governments,” Governor Cuomo said. “New York’s electoral process, campaign finance system, and our laws to prevent corruption are outdated, ineffective, and in serious need of sweeping reform. This comprehensive package of reforms will strengthen New York’s democracy and is a major step toward restoring the public’s trust and confidence in our government.”
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History of Italian Movies
By Lee Austin June 20, 2014 Movies No Comments
European filmmakers are often considered the most talented in conceptualization, lens work and techniques. Although French names are quite prominent in these areas, Italian maestros such as Piere Pasolini, Fredrico Felini and others have etched their masterpieces with a host of examples citing cinematic excellence. Developments in filmmaking achieved new heights because of these grandmasters. However, the experimental geniuses releasing in contemporary years have a whole new train of concepts, camera work covering unique aspects of filmmaking.
The Christian influence
Much like any other European film genre, Italian art films have held a significant position in social entertainment. The popularity of ‘art films’ often depended on the political weather that preceded the film year. While the superficial public life of the Catholic Church kept diminishing, many fans began to notice unusual changes. Movies like Confessions of a Police Captain (1971), Decameron (1971), Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), Teorema (1968), Accatone (1961) and La Dolce Vita (1960). These had already set the stage for something better in the audiences mind. However, influence of the church, murder of Pasolini by Catholics fanatics and other controversies have often been alleged for cinematic failure towards the later part of the 20th Century.
Past crisis in Italian Cinema
After the 1970s, while there was imminent attack on the freedom of artists throughout the world, rating systems and censorship had begun to widen the gap between mainstream cinema and what they call avant-garde or experimental films. Nevertheless, among movies released in the 1980s, one can find good works from names like Fellini, Sergio Leone and Nanni Moretti. Their notable works include E la nave va, Ginger and Fred, Once Upon a Time in America, Bianca and La messa e finita. Although Bernardo Bertolucci became a prominent Italian filmmaker during this period, his successful work, The Last Emperor, was not an Italian language film.
Revival and criticism of modern Italian cinema
Revival of Italian cinema in modern times goes back to the late 1980s, when the world praised Nuovo Cinema Paradiso (a remake of the older Cinema Paradiso). It also won an Oscar for Best Foreign Film, and later Life is Beautiful also became very popular with three Oscars. However, plotting and conceptualization qualities have apparently taken a plunge. Although the Italian media and prominent actors refuse these criticisms, some people feel there is a dearth of variety in the stories. Nevertheless, Italian cinema is delving into rarely touched subjects such as mentally ill people enjoying holidays and children growing up in somber atmospheres.
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In 1941 Ivan Clark established a funeral home on Delaware Street in Walton. After only six years he outgrew that location and moved to 25 Townsend Street. To better serve local families, Mr. Clark expanded his facility by constructing two additions within ten years. He is still remembered as a kind and considerate man who believed in good service.
Upon Mr. Clark's death in 1968, Robert Knorr operated the funeral home for seven years, and subsequently sold the business to Sidney H. Winter in 1974. Mr. Winter operated Clark & Winter Funeral Home until August 2002, when he sold it to Cal Courtney.
After over 17 years of dedicated service to the people of Walton, Cal Courtney sold the funeral home to Frank Cagnina and Stacy Vertucci in March of 2019. Frank and Stacy plan to follow in Cal's footsteps and continue to serve this great community with the care and compassion it greatly deserves.
(Here's the funeral home in March 1956, before the additions. Notice the old Walton High School to the right.)
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Shared Vision for Our Diocese
Posted by The Catholic Key on 12:52 pm in Bishop James V. Johnston, Catholic Key, News
By Marty Denzer
Catholic Key Associate Editor
KANSAS CITY — The Vision statement for the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph is here.
Remember the listening sessions held throughout this diocese in July, and the updates on the progress of the Visioning Team? After months of prayer, discernment and discussion, it has all come together in the statement: One Family: Restored in Christ – Equipped for Mission.
A letter from Bishop James V. Johnston, Jr., accompanied the Vision statement, with its priorities and goals, which was mailed to all registered Catholics in the diocese at the end of January.
There are three major areas of focus — priorities — and several goals within each priority with outcomes by 2020, 2021 and 2022. The three priorities, of equal importance to the diocese, are Healing Our Family, Using Resources Wisely and Growing God’s Family.
There are two goals under Healing Our Family. The first is establishing “Journey to Bethany,” a diocesan healing center to address a variety of wounds — beginning with the sufferings of victims of the abuse scandal in the Church and other sufferings people bear. The name of the healing center refers to Bethany, the town where Mary and Martha and their brother Lazarus lived, where Jesus visited and later raised Lazarus from the dead.
Part of the healing process involves recognition of the hurt or sorrow, as well as restoration for those hurting as part of the family of Christ again.
The second goal will be implemented in March of this year. “The Light Is On For You,” a reconciliation initiative, will be introduced in Kansas City-St. Joseph diocesan parishes as of Ash Wednesday, March 6, and encouraged, especially during Lent. Bishop Johnston hopes parishes will “use this heightened time to shine the light on the sacrament and its availability.”
The three goals of Using Resources Wisely include Implementing gift and charism programs throughout the diocese to actuate Catholics for service and mission by Pentecost 2020. A comprehensive resource strategy is to be created by October 2021. And, since there is no diocesan camp or retreat center facility within the 27-county area, the third goal of Using Resources Wisely is to establish a retreat center and youth camp facility for use by youth ministries, families and large groups by May 2022.
The third priority is Growing God’s Family — building a culture of discipleship in all parishes by activating the baptismal call to holiness. The first goal includes implementing The Clear Path for Discipleship, a process to help parishes understand the thresholds of conversion and form plans to address the needs of people at every stage of faith development and to form missionary disciples through workshops, leadership development, consulting and resource training. Parishes will be equipped for effective evangelization, which will Grow God’s Family. A diocesan conference to assist the development of parish leadership parishes is planned by October 2020.
The second goal, the crafting of a comprehensive Youth to Young Adult Initiative, including an earlier age for reception of the sacrament of Confirmation, is to be completed by November 2022.
Reflecting over the Listening Sessions in July and the monthly meetings held from mid-August through December to pray, discuss and discern what Catholics in diocese wanted for the upcoming years, Visioning Team member Father Tom Holder, pastor of Our Lady of the Presentation Parish in Lee’s Summit commented that the listening sessions were well attended by a good cross section of the diocese. “We took their concerns into consideration,” he said, and with the faith-filled finesse and adroitness of facilitator “Barb Eckert of the Catholic Leadership Institute, we made good progress and had the Vision Statement, priorities and goals crafted and approved on time. The process was a good one, the diversity of the diocese was well represented.”
Annette Weeks, a member of St. Rose of Lima Parish (Savannah), and Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship, Missouri Western State University, is “excited that we, as a diocese, have this vision we all work toward in unity!” Looking back over the process that began with the listening sessions, she said what really struck her was the bishop’s leadership and his understanding of how this vision was needed here, on many levels. She also remarked on the obvious pain he felt over what this diocese has gone through in the past decade. She hopes that parishes and families will take all three priorities, apply them to their particular situations and come up with their own goals and needs and how to accomplish them.
Bernardino Durando, diocesan Director of the Office of the Domestic Church and Discipleship, coordinator of the Vision Implementation Team, said the stated Vision goals are firm, but the ways of accomplishing them will vary by parishes and families. He said the team would continue to communicate the progress of goals, to keep people updated. He also said, “People understand their gifts— often referred to as time, talent and treasure — but it is also important that Catholics discover the gifts received at Baptism, the spiritual gifts.”
Bishop Johnston thought over the past six months and said, “Those months were encouraging. People in this diocese have a great eagerness for the Church to be at her best. They’ve been waiting for the Church’s leadership to engage that passion and direct it toward the benefit of the diocese and others.” With a smile he added, “There is a great love here for the Church! People want to be active in parishes, united in heart, mind and soul — One Family.”
He hopes that in the future, “we will be leading people to Jesus Christ and assisting them to be his disciples, one by one. We have to be aware of the signs of the times and the situations to be more effective in evangelizing — intentional disciples. I see intentional discipleship as part of our Catholic culture, meeting Jesus through the invitation of another person.”
So, what is the next step in becoming One Family: Restored in Christ – Equipped for Mission.? The diocese will begin to activate the Mutually Shared Vision for the diocese by celebrating a Holy Year of Renewal. The Holy Year will start Ash Wednesday (March 6, 2019) and conclude on the Feast of the Baptism of Our Lord, Jan. 12, 2020. “As good as the plans in the Vision are, with clearly stated Priorities and Goals, it’s ultimately not about what we are doing, it’s about what God is doing through us,” Bishop Johnston said. “The Holy Year is a spiritual time to reflect upon the Vision in a personal and communal way in our homes and parishes.”
Ash Wednesday, March 6, is less than a month away. As our diocese actuates its Vision with the Holy Year of Renewal, may all of us be united, healed, restored in Christ and grow God’s family over the upcoming years.
The diocesan visioning/implementation team paused for lunch and a group photo on the last day of planning meetings in December. Pictured from left to right in back are Frank Uryasz, Fr. Joseph Cisetti, Karen Miller, Arturo Gonzalez, Dain Finney Dino Durando, and Fr. Tom Holder. In front, Deacon Jim Olshefski, Annette Weeks, Bishop James V. Johnston, Jr., Jennifer Doolittle and Catholic Leadership Institute consultant Barbara Eckert. (Megan Marley/Key photo)
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Bringing Excitement to Parish Ministry
by Our Sunday Visitor
Bringing New Excitement to Parish Ministry
Presented by Sue Erschen
Have all the same people been doing all the same things for years in your parish? If so, it might be time to evaluate and rethink your ministry strategies.
Do you need to offer new options? Reach out in new ways? Seriously seek new faces? This webinar will help you think outside the box when it comes to parish ministry. It will offer ideas for developing, promoting, and sustaining the right ministries for this time in the life of your very unique parish.
Sue is a freelance stewardship writer and consultant. Her stewardship articles have appeared in Our Sunday Visitor Newsweekly, Today’s Catholic Teacher, Priest Magazine, and St. Anthony Messenger. Throughout her career she has written numerous stewardship training manuals, newsletters, and brochures, including the Understanding Stewardship pamphlet which is currently available from Our Sunday Visitor. Sue has conducted stewardship training workshops for the International Catholic Stewardship Conference, regional stewardship conferences, the Archdiocese of St. Louis, the dioceses of Colorado Springs, Rochester, NY, and Springfield/Cape Girardeau, and the National Association of Church Personnel Administrators.
From 1999 until 2012 Sue served as the Director of Stewardship Education for the Archdiocese of St. Louis, responsible for providing stewardship and development training and resources to the 200 urban, suburban, and rural parishes in the City of St. Louis and the 10 surrounding counties that make up that Archdiocese. Her background also includes over 20 years of experience in Catholic high school development, non-profit public relations, volunteer relations and business communications. Sue’s stewardship work began in 1992 when she was asked to chair the first stewardship committee in her own parish. Sue holds a degree in business communications from Saint Louis University. She and her husband, Rick, have four grown children and two grandchildren. They have lived and served in Seven Holy Founders parish for over 30 years.
Click the link below for the recorded webinar. This webinar is only available for parishes and parishioners within the Diocese of Lubbock. The Office of Stewardship and Development invested in the future of Lubbock parishes by paying registration and recording fees for these OSV webinars.
https://student.gototraining.com/737js/recording/7559113111774309120
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Plan? ... the Islamic State had a Plan?
If anyone here has been part of a planning group designing a warplan ... even for a moment ... I think you can empathize with one of the Islamic State's staff weenies.
They have to build C2 diagrams too.
Via DerSpiegel;
Sigh. Like we outlined last night - avoidable.
As a last note, say what you want about our time in Iraq, there were never scenes like this of people escaping from American forces.
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Endgame: Slate Goes Salamander on Iraq
Yes, Slate.
Emma Sky at Slate to be specific. Glad to see, however late, that more people are getting word.
“Was it inevitable that Iraq would disintegrate?” I asked Rafi. No, it was not, he assured me. Iraq had been moving in a positive direction after the surge. This downward trajectory began in 2010 when the United States had not upheld the right of Iraqiya to have first chance at trying to form the government after it won the elections. “We might not have succeeded,” he admitted, “but the process itself would have been important in building trust in Iraq's young institutions.”
Bad decisions taken by Americans in 2010 destroyed the country, he believed. Since then, Obama had regularly cited ending the war in Iraq as one of his greatest foreign policy successes. On Nov. 1, 2013, with Maliki by his side in the White House, Obama stated: “We honor the lives that were lost, both American and Iraqi, to bring about a functioning democracy in a country that previously had been ruled by a vicious dictator. And we appreciate Prime Minister Maliki’s commitment to honoring that sacrifice by ensuring a strong, prosperous, inclusive and democratic Iraq.” He appeared to be paying scant attention to Maliki’s growing authoritarianism and the deteriorating situation in the country.
The Iraq war—and the way in which the United States departed—tilted the regional balance of power in Iran’s favor. Iran, Saudi Arabia, and other states in the region all sought to project their influence by supporting sectarian actors in different countries—with devastating consequences.
Nothing that happened in Iraq after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in 2003 was preordained. There were different potential futures for the country.
The Iraq war and its outcome affected few Americans. There is little willingness to reflect on or take responsibility for what happened there. Politicians try to use the situation in Iraq for political advantage, without much consideration of actual Iraqis; Democrats blame Republicans for invading Iraq in the first place and Republicans blame Democrats for not leaving troops there.
But what happened in Iraq matters terribly to Iraqis who hoped so much for a better future—and to those of us who served there year after year. If we refuse to honestly examine what took place there, we will miss the opportunity to better understand when and how to respond to the world’s instability.
I remember how close it was in 2007 to keep it all together, but we did.
I remember when we called it in 2008 too.
I just got through reading most of my posts from 2006-9 on IRQ - you can too by clicking here if you so wish.
Reading them, and then the Slate article I realize that, in a fashion - that team in 2007 did get what they want. From the time ...
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The Character of our Midshipmen
I tell people any chance I get; there is nothing wrong with the younger generation. They are fine - and we are fine. Just give them a chance, however small, and they will show you.
In a moment, you have the data point you need. Not scripted. Not trained. Just a core nature revealed.
Via our friends at the Capital G.
Families and Naval Academy midshipmen had come for dinner before Saturday's Orioles game. Protests over the death of Freddie Gray began peacefully that day, but ended with confrontation. By Monday, the day of Gray's funeral, protests escalated with violence. At least seven officers were injured Monday afternoon and the Orioles game was postponed.
Some midshipmen didn't know about the ongoing protests when they arrived Saturday in Baltimore.
"I didn't realize it would be so close to Camden Yards," said Midshipman Madisen Grinnell, 18, of Sacramento, Calif., on Monday.
She and nine other midshipmen found themselves caught in the protests.
These midshipmen directed families to the back of the Subway. Then they lined up, in front of families, as protesters passed outside, some throwing rocks. Women and children gathered farthest from the windows, except for Grinnell, the only female there from the Naval Academy.
"You're in the military and a midshipmen — you should be in the front," she insisted.
On Monday, academy officials received an email from a grateful father in the Subway shop.
"The plebes were the last to seek safety and only did so after they made sure all others were safely away from the windows," wrote Robert Oshinsky of Montgomery County. "My wife and children were scared but I believe a little less so as a result of the actions."
Oshinsky huddled over his family in the back of the restaurant.
"This might have been two minutes, but it felt like an eternity," he said. "(Midshipmen) helped make a very scary situation less scary."
The midshipmen left the baseball game early and returned without incident to the Naval Academy.
"I don't think it occurred to any of us that we were doing anything special," Sabelstrom said.
BZ lady and gentlemen. You did well, doing good. BZ.
From left, Erik Sabelstrom, 19, of Colorado Springs, Colo.; Brad Kadlubowski, 19, of Colorado Springs, Colo.; Madisen Grinnell, 18, of Sacramento, Calif.; and Harrison Yost, 19, of Auburn, Ala. were among about 10 midshipmen caught in a protest Saturday in Baltimore. The midshipmen directed families to the back of a Subway sandwich shop when protesters began throwing chairs through the windows.
Sheepdogs.
Labels: USNA
Love, Betrayal, Condescension and Poseurism-by-Proxy; Thank you for Your Service
Now and then in the various circles of acquaintances and friends my personalities find themselves in, someone puts something out that resonates with me.
Without further commentary on my part, I want to start the week with it - and I'll let you hash it out in comments.
I publish it here, as otherwise besides just a handful of people, no one lease will read it.
If you want to know what the initiating event was, click here.
Via a great guy with one of the better nom d'plume out there, Andy Wahl. If you get it, you get it.
Standard Kristen warning below - a few tough but necessary words by Andy.
You do not have to agree, but you do have to listen. What Andy outlines is what a lot of those who serve/d feel. Some just some of the time, some all of the time.
Over to you Andy.
I'm struggling to understand why Iraq is strategically irrelevant. Unless you were just being glib, of course.
I understand the emotional response to Dempsey's words, but it's more than just the words.
A few years ago, thousands of men were told to go and secure that province, those cities; because they were important. Men gave their lives because those places were important. Now, suddenly, they are unimportant. Now, their sacrifices are cheapened.
The value put on life is entirely emotional. There is no monetary value. There is no amount that can buy back the dead. Try as we might, there is no universal standard price on human life. There isn't even a national standard price. It is entirely emotional. The value of the sacrifice is also entirely emotional, and in this case open to much interpretation.
When we raise our hands and take the oath, we place trust in our leadership and our nation not to sell our lives and health cheaply. We ask that our lives not be risked for frivolous reasons, nor to satisfy the ambitions of one man or a small group of them, but only for the good of our nation. We also trust that our nation will not abandon us in the middle of that fight or piddle away what we fought for after the fact. War is political, and that will always be the case. It always has been. We, the veterans of this war, share some things with our brethren from Vietnam.
We fought in a war with no discernible outcome. If one were forced to label what we see, it would have to be called a failure because the job was half done. We won in Iraq before we lost. We fought to win, but the gains we made were abandoned for one man's vision of a superpower-less world. All gave some, sure, but some gave a hell of a lot more. Yet, after the blood has dried and the wounds are scarred-over, what was earned? What was saved? What was gained or lost? We are right to ask, "Why?"
I don't know about the rest of you, but I wonder. Perhaps some can see it merely as a temporary job in a longer career, but I can't. People died because of what I did. Real human beings who no longer live and breathe. This wasn't some drunk driving accident; it was for a purpose ... and now, it wasn't.
"I support the troops, but not the war," is an equivocation that led to the asinine withdrawal and squandering of the gains ... and therefore the lives and health of those who were hit.
This supposed ambivalence wasn't support at all. It was a socially correct door, left ajar so that those sacrifices could be made to mean nothing in the end... for convenience sake.
This country can retroactively reduce the value of your effort, your pain and even your life to zero without batting an eye. Our own countrymen do it, and they do it selfishly. They want safety, security, but they are unwilling to pay for it. Certainly not with their blood, sweat and tears; not even with their wallets.
A few of them do seem to enjoy donning accoutrements and mocking us, though. They like to pretend they paid the bill.
What we fought for, what we lost of ourselves or to ourselves to whatever extent, means more. It should, anyway. If it's not important, why do so many struggle with the meaning? This is a question that Vietnam veterans struggle with, and now so do we.
It didn't have to be this way. We have been sold out. I think perhaps this is ever the American way going forward; to "support the troops but not the war," until the political tide turns as it always does. Then, the troop's lives can be rendered moot after the fact.
I love this country, but I don't trust it. I don't trust the people. I don't trust the mass of this mall-going, Kardashian-watching, small-minded, consumer-driven, superfood-eating nitwit nation to keep a thought in its collective head for more than a couple of weeks.
This country will waste your time and your life and walk away from it like it never happened.
After that, they will seek to change the deal on what you earned, like your retirement, so that they can give free shit to those who won't do a thing for even themselves, much less anyone else. Tossing loaves into the crowd at the colosseum so they won't be hungry and bitching when you feed Christians to the lions ... or Bruce Jenner's testicles to the Kardashians or whatever mindless bullshit Americans are on about this week. Nevermind what we said to entice you, we've got other priorities. We got what we want from you, now we will welch on you ... because we can.
Because 1% ain't much of a voting block. Oh, and because fuck you.
They don't deserve what we did. Mindless, self-absorbed, superficial fucks. Remember; these idiots elected the bastard who pissed away what we fought for. Twice. We are sheepdogs for fat, retarded sheep ... and a smattering of retarded screaming goats.
They talk about the gulf between the "military class" and the rest of the citizenry. They blather about how to solve the conundrum. Bleh. I'll give them a clue; stop wasting our lives with your equivocating. You were all behind it when it started. Have the endurance to not drop the ball in front of your TV's. Have the endurance not to buy into Code Pink's bullshit. Have the courage to support the troops through it all, and never tell yourself that withdrawing IS supporting the troops. We know when you turn on us and sell our lives cheaply after the fact, and we disdain you for it. Fucking sheeple. I hate them.
GEN Dempsey has the job of explaining what is going on and why our response is what it is. Unenviable. Difficult. Saddening, I would think, unless he is heartless. He, of all people, should understand the impact of those words on those who sustained losses that can only be valued emotionally. At this point, he is a willing participant in the slamming of the door in the face of the few who went and the even fewer who have lasting, crushing pain as a result.
This war, and this administration, have made me distrust generals as much as I distrust our own memetic, soundbite society. Dempsey is just another one. No one should be surprised.
This wasn't the war to satisfy their boyhood dreams of martial glory, and so they couldn't be bothered to deal with the asymmetry. No, instead they preferred to argue over whether COIN doctrine was sound or counter-guerrilla doctrine was really needed instead. They did neither well enough to prove or disprove any of it, other than to confirm to the world... and our enemies... that we can't deal with asymmetry.
Apparently, it's exculpatory to disbelieve in the efficacy of any doctrine. So while you're fucking it up like a Stryker brigade in the Arghandab, your personal doctrinal proclivities are absolutely what need to be indulged. You are, after all, like the love child of Clauswitz and Sun Tzu. Oh, and it turns out that failure IS an option, and apparently it's quite legitimate.
The generals knuckled under to turn the military into a social petri dish in the middle of a shooting war, stressing an already stressed military to the breaking point. They turned the fight into a fight with ourselves for political and social correctness, just as they threw a war and garrison broke out.
We spend more time getting briefed on how to welcome gays than in learning to deal with asymmetric warfare and counterinsurgency. Rather than adapt to a type of warfare that we aren't good at, but are faced with and will continue to be, we are forced to adapt to gender-norming the combat arms. Because THAT can't wait until the shooting is really over with, which it isn't.
And we thought reflective belts were stupid.
Our society wonders why troops commit suicide. They put us under a dispassionate lens and examine us as if we were odd varieties of potentially dangerous insects. Myriad examinations of our suicides, relationships, domestic abuses and drug/alcohol dependencies litter the news and the web even as they tinker with our very construct. They don't even bother to correlate or compare these events and transgressions to the rest of society; because we are by our nature not part of the whole. They busy themselves with defining us as a class, even as they approve of reengineering the framework that provides any stability.
They separate us out, sell us out, then they wonder how to bridge the divide.
No, they don't deserve what was paid on their behalf. They are spineless will-o'-the-wisps who have the directional stability of a pebble in a blender and the solid character of a marshmallow in a kiln. The only fucks they have to give are reserved for Honey Fucking Boo Boo or whatever is #trending at the moment. Fuck these sheeple.
There. Now they have a fuck to give. They'll probably spend it on a #kardashian. Idiots.
Labels: Culture Wars, Long War
Manpower, Modernization, and Motivation - an Hour with VADM Moran, Chief of Naval Personnel
For the Sailor, nothing is more immediate, more "now" and of more impact to their personal and professional lives than their next set of orders.
For our Navy, nothing defines present operational performance, the development of future leaders, and ensuring success at war for the next few decades than personnel policy.
Our guest for the full hour this Sunday from 5-6pm Eastern will be the Chief of Naval Personnel, Vice Admiral Bill Moran, USN.
We will discuss the drive to man the Fleet to appropriate levels now, while looking at ways to modernize the personnel system to provide greater choice, flexibility and transparency for our Sailors and the commands they serve.
We will also look at the ongoing discussion about how to best keep with one hand a firm hand on what has worked, while with a free hand, reach for those things that will ensure that today's officers and enlisted personnel have a Navy that not only is meeting its needs, but takes in to consideration the individual goals and priorities of its personnel.
So, how was your command tour? Think you accomplished a lot?
Benchmarks? Yes, we have benchmarks.
Made a commander on November 1, he was the commanding officer of USS Laffey during the invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944. The ship was struck by an 8-inch shell, which did not explode.
Laffey broke up an attack by German E-boats on June 12 and bombarded Cherbourg on June 25. Becton was awarded a second Silver Star for his actions in June.
Transferred back to the Pacific Theater, he received his third Silver Star for his handling of Laffey in support of the landing of the 77th Division at Ormoc Bay, Leyte, the Philippines, on December 7, 1944.
His fourth was for entering the "restricted waters of Lingayen Gulf during the initial bombardment and assault at Luzon" in January 1945. In February, Laffey escorted aircraft carriers in airstrikes against Tokyo.
On April 16, 1945, Laffey came under attack from 22 or 30 Japanese kamikaze and bomber aircraft while on radar picket duty off Okinawa.
In a battle lasting 79 minutes, the ship was struck by five, six or eight kamikazes and two bombs, but Becton refused to abandon his ship. For his "unremitting tenacity of purpose, courageous leadership and heroic devotion to duty under fire", he was awarded the Navy Cross.
The ship had to be towed to Seattle.
Rear Admiral Frederick Becton, USN - mensch.
Will someone please tell me why we do not have a DDG-51 named after this man?
OK, if not the man - then can we at least have another LAFFEY, the book Becton wrote a loving tribute to in The Ship That Would Not Die?
You would think, after the above, that she would have never steamed under her own power again. Well, you'd be wrong. She was decommissioned in '47, but was brought back for the Korean War.
The lady could not stay out of trouble;
Although frequently subjected to hostile fire in Wonsan Harbor while embarked in his flagship, the U.S.S. LAFFEY, Captain Whiteside conducted a series of daring counterbattery duels with the enemy and was greatly instrumental in the success achieved by his ship.
She continued to serve until 1975.
Next time you see her when driving around Charleston, give her a nod.
Labels: Destroyer, Fullbore, Korea, WWII
Heather Wilhelm over at RCP took a look at all the special snowflakes, professionally offended, garden variety moonbat feminists, and standard SJW that seem to infest our college campuses and has seen - what is right there if you choose to look - the results of a the long march through the institutions by the narcissistic, self-loathing left.
What has happened to once great centers of Western intellectual development - the fruit of the right's surrender of vast sections of the popular culture - festers in mocking tribute to a worn out political genre; squandering the work of generations.
Heather has just had enough;
If you’ve ever been to a junior high slumber party, you might recognize the following scenario: In the midst of high jinks and general good times, suddenly one girl will drift off to a corner. Her feelings, somehow, have been hurt. Slowly, a few sympathizers, clear suckers for drama, make their way into her corner. They rub her back, ask why she’s crying, and, even if the answer is absurd, spend the rest of the evening casting baleful looks at the rest of the girls, who are oblivious, living large, sucking down Mountain Dew, and gleefully watching movies their parents would never allow them to watch. (In my case, this was almost always “Dirty Dancing.”)
Cowardice might not be fun, but for some, self-pity — cowardice's common companion — certainly is. This is especially true if someone else is egging you on. Sadly, huge swaths of today’s college campuses, supposedly pinnacles of higher learning, have morphed into a giant preteen slumber party with an alarming population of sulking corner girls.
“Civilization,” “The Lessons of History” declares as it closes, “is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew; if the transmission should be interrupted for one century, civilization would die, and we should be savages again.” With the goal of saving civilization, college students, here’s a tip: Lighten up. Watch the movie. Don’t get “offended” every five minutes. And don’t waste your evening rubbing some silly girl’s back.
Labels: Diversity, Education
Program management needs its own measure of time
What is one of the more simple ship designs you can think of? Important, warfighting ship - but simple to design and build?
I think a LCU should be on anyone's short list.
Via Megan Eckstein at USNINews;
The Navy is doing preliminary design work on its Landing Craft Utility (LCU) replacement now to begin construction within about three years, in time to support one-for-one replacement on the surface connectors in 2022.
The LCUs were first built in 1959, and the 32 craft still in service average more than 43 years old – well over the 25 years of service life they were built for, Capt. Chris Mercer, amphibious warfare program manager at Naval Sea Systems Command, said at the Navy League’s Sea-Air-Space 2015 Exposition last week.
OK kiddies, let's get out the whiteboard.
It is 2015. 2022 is seven years from now.
I think "years" does not really tell the best story about how long it takes to get even the most simple ship to displace water after the "go" is given.
Perhaps we need a new measurement - one that provides context. We need one defined in American terms, natch, and I have an idea.
I've used it before; the time from the attack on Pearl Harbor to the signing ceremony on the Mighty Mo.
That is 07DEC41 to 02SEP45. 3-years, 8-months, 26 days. Including the end date, that is 1,366 days. We shall now make that a measure of time. It will be called a WorldWar.
So - back to ...
The LCUs serve as the “workhorse” of the surface connector fleet – they go slower but could originally carry 125 tons of cargo, two tanks, 10 light armored vehicles or more than 400 troops. Landing Craft Air Cushions (LCACs), on the other hand, can exceed 40 knots but only haul 60 tons.
Mercer, who will carry out the Surface Connector X Replacement (SC(X)R) acquisition program based on Walsh’s requirements, said an analysis of alternatives was conducted last year, with the Navy and Marine Corps deciding on “a modified repeat of the LCU – rugged, reliable, designed for ease of maintenance and repair, fuel-efficient, with a high payload, able to do independent operations and really no impact to the infrastructure of the [Assault Craft Units].”
The Navy is currently in the preliminary design review, Mercer said, with Walsh adding the SC(X)Rs – also called LCU 1700s – would come off the production line in time for one-for-one replacements starting in 2022. Production of the LCAC replacements, the Ship-to-Shore Connectors (SSCs), is two years ahead and is also a modified repeat.
“We are replacing them both in-kind while leveraging today’s technology to make these new craft more efficient, easier to operate and maintain,” Walsh said.
For the sake of argument, let's make the start date 21APR15, end date 31DEC22. That is 2,812 days.
We know work is already going ... but we are going to be nice and use 21APR15 as the start date.
That tells us that it is going to take us - in spite of all our technology, communications, automation, etc ... 2.05-WorldWars to have a LCU ready to displace water.
Are we happy with this? Are we satisfied? Is this successful? What does this say about the system we have created to serve the fleet and her nation?
Labels: Amphibs, Shipbuilding
Crossdressing a few hundred million dollars of social justice
How does one address this wonderful example of the power of satire - and the power of pushing back against absurdist policies that the powerful force in to those under their thumb?
Well, our good friend Chap gave me an idea I am more than happy to steal.
Shot:
More than half of some 770,000 soldiers are pessimistic about their future in the military and nearly as many are unhappy in their jobs, despite a six-year, $287 million campaign to make troops more optimistic and resilient, findings obtained by USA TODAY show.
Twelve months of data through early 2015 show that 403,564 soldiers, or 52%, scored badly in the area of optimism, agreeing with statements such as "I rarely count on good things happening to me." Forty-eight percent have little satisfaction in or commitment to their jobs.
the internal data obtained by USA TODAY shows most soldiers today trending in the wrong direction. Two-thirds were borderline or worse for an area called "catastrophic thinking," where poor scores mean the soldier has trouble adapting to change or dwells on the worst possible things happening.
-- About 300,000 soldiers or nearly 40% didn't trust their immediate supervisor
Chaser:
In the “Walk a Mile in Her Shoes” event, cadets were required to wear high heels and march to “raise awareness of sexual assault against women.”
Is there a connection? There sure is. You make the larger connection for yourself ... but I want to dive in to the specifics of this pebble in the shoe.
There are so many ways to address it from here, it is difficult to know where to go.
- Regardless of what the ROTC leadership says, this was not voluntary any more than my wife saying, "I don't think I can even think about cooking dinner after a day like today," is a neutral statement about the odds of a full dinner for the family from the capable kitchen of Mrs. Salamander. Chinese takeout it is.
- There is something very wrong at the ROTC unit at ASU. Just look at their own pics; the fetish for the sloppy ACU everywhere (just look at their website) and the golf shirt by staff puts forth a less than professional image in general. The non-uniform wearing of the ACU during the off shoot of "Slut Walks" needs no further commentary from here.
- This does nothing to address the very real issue of s3xual assault, this is just rolling in the hot-house cause-of-the-moment faux-outrage pushed by agenda driven radicals in the only place they can get away with it; government college campuses and places where opposing viewpoints, and often facts, can be suppressed by intellectual fascist cadres.
The way the broader world knows about this is a reminder how the traditional media continues to fail.
Bravo Zulu to the folks over at AWTFM - they did some top level work bringing fresh air and light to something that can't stand either ... and gave a voice to those whose voices are choked by toxic command climates. They don't mind being called names by bringing out uncomfortable absurdities of the reactionary college leftists and what looks like their Army supporters.
One of the sure ways that the SJW Cultural Marxists know they have been caught out in the open ... they try to cover their tracks. In the 24-hrs after their standard threats and bluff - the guilty parties have resorted to opaque statements and deleting their digital footprints.
Finally, let me quote Chap about a sinister 2nd order effect of forcing Cadets in to what is a humiliating communalist degradation - "voluntary" or not. Reminds the historically literate of;
... the signs on the Chinese they had to parade around during the height of the Cultural Revolution.
You have to, as always, look to the Direction and Guidance coming from leadership.
At ASU, Major MAJ Michelle Bravo, USA. What happened in your command? The folks at AWTFM have a solid track record on things like this - was this really you?
"I saw a comment posted by someone who made a false statement regarding Arizona State University Army ROTC. I am the Professor of Military Science for that program. We are having a "Walk a mile in her shoe" event tomorrow in support of the Chief of Staff of the Army guidance to support efforts to stand against sexual violence. This event is not mandatory and we are not wearing our uniforms. There is no retribution for someone choosing not to participate.
I would like to know the name of the individual that posted that information. They truly are misinformed and are clearly not representing our program or the Army in the way that a future officer should."
Not mandatory? When my commander defines something as a "mission" - I don't give it a pass. As a NROTC guy, I was focused on doing what was needed to get my commission and to stay out of trouble. The Commander has a priority? Well, it is my priority. Maj. Bravo knows this dynamic. If she does not, she is not in the right job.
Uniform requirements? They seem rather clear.
Back to the actions of the guilty.
If it is such a great event ... who do you have to go to googlecache to find it now? All over the place ... googlecache is the only place to find it.
I was willing to give everyone the benefit of the doubt until everything started getting deleted.
I know that I am in the minority opinion that there is a horribly slack attitude towards looking sloppy in uniform in public - but that problem comes from the top. Just spend time in the DC Metro looking at all the combat uniforms, wrinkled, faded with only a shoddy civilian backpack over the shoulders hiding that slop from the public.
Here is another data point.
One would think that a 1-2 day a week ROTC uniform requirement could at least put on a professional veneer ... but again, I know I am the minority. Sloppy cross-dressing? Well ... the pics speak for themselves.
Major General Combs ... this is going on all over your command. I guess you're cool with it then?
A nation at war. At war with a brutal enemy who will be trying to get at our throats for decades to come. One of the only things we have going for us in the enemy's eyes is the fear they have of our military.
In a world where face - especially for men - is critical ... and this is what we are doing to ourselves in front of everyone? And for what besides our own self-preening?
The senior Army officer, General Dempsey and General Odierno ... you're OK with this? Really?
UPDATE: Drudge is linking to a Doug Ernst WashTimes article on it ... so ... yea; lots of air and light;
“Attendance is mandatory and if we miss it we get a negative counseling and a ‘does not support the battalion sharp/EO mission’ on our CDT OER for getting the branch we want. So I just spent $16 on a pair of high heels that I have to spray paint red later on only to throw them in the trash after about 300 of us embarrass the U.S. Army tomorrow,”
UPDATE II - Electric Boogaloo:
A spokesman for U.S. Army Cadet Command, Lt. Col. Paul Haverstick, said ROTC units across the country were directed to participate in Sexual Assault Awareness Month events on their campuses “to help stamp out sexual assault on the campuses where they have a presence.” But Maj. Gen. Peggy C. Combs, the cadets’ commanding general, did not direct how the units would do so, and had other events as options, Haverstick said.
“After receiving some comments about uniforms, we are currently reviewing how local universities implemented their participation in these events designed to raise awareness on the issue of sexual assault,” Haverstick said in an e-mail.
About 15 of the 120 cadets at Temple University wore uniforms for the event, said Army Lt. Col. Gregory Nardi, the professor of military science there. It was an optional event, and most of those involved wore their uniforms, he said. Temple cadets will adhere to any guidance that senior commanders have for the event in the future, he added.
UPDATE: The Navy has beaten Army ... again.
Here be dragons.
Labels: Army, Culture Wars, Uniforms
Moral and Intellectual Heft Gives Us a Nudge
In the little corners of my humble little library ... or in one of the various stacks hither-n-yon about the room, you can find some of the books by those who helped shape the mind of the teenage Sal.
Perhaps it was the annoying habit of old-line Southern families that have a draw to what seem at the time as romantic lost causes, or just the example of intellectual bravery in the face of tyranny - maybe both - but as a budding young man I was drawn to what were in the Cold War, Titans in resistance the tide of history - with time seen as a false tide, but fierce it was at the time.
Vaclav Havel, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, and Natan Sharansky are three of the top-shelf authors of the time.
To this day, I still do not understand how the people of the Left were such apologists for the evils of Communism (and some still are) with such powerful witnesses out there - but such are the mysteries of men.
These men, still living and dead - deserve a hearing when they speak.
At the end of last week, Natan Sharansky had a bit in the NYT that I recommend for your Monday ponderings, When did America forget that it’s America?;
Why the dramatic shift? One could suggest a simple answer: Today there is something the United States wants badly from Iran, leaving Washington and its allies with little bargaining power to demand additional concessions. Yet in fact Iran has at least as many reasons to hope for a deal. For Tehran, the lifting of sanctions could spell the difference between bankruptcy and becoming a regional economic superpower, and in slowing down its arms race it could avoid a military attack.
I am afraid that the real reason for the U.S. stance is not its assessment, however incorrect, of the two sides’ respective interests but rather a tragic loss of moral self-confidence. While negotiating with the Soviet Union, U.S. administrations of all stripes felt certain of the moral superiority of their political system over the Soviet one. They felt they were speaking in the name of their people and the free world as a whole, while the leaders of the Soviet regime could speak for no one but themselves and the declining number of true believers still loyal to their ideology.
But in today’s postmodern world, when asserting the superiority of liberal democracy over other regimes seems like the quaint relic of a colonialist past, even the United States appears to have lost the courage of its convictions.
We have yet to see the full consequences of this moral diffidence, but one thing is clear: The loss of America’s self-assured global leadership threatens not only the United States and Israel but also the people of Iran and a growing number of others living under Tehran’s increasingly emboldened rule. Although the hour is growing late, there is still time to change course — before the effects grow more catastrophic still.
Elections have consequences.
21st Century Ellis - Edited by B.A. Friedman - on Midrats
The next book from USNI's 21st Century Foundations series is 21st Century Ellis, edited by Capt. B.A. Friedman, USMC.
This book covers the work of Lt. Col. "Pete" Ellis, USMC who in 1921 predicted the coming war with Japan.
Included in this collection are some o f his articles on counterinsurgency and conventional war based on his experiences in WWI and the Philippines.
Capt. Friedman will be with us for the full hour this Sunday from 5-6pm Eastern to discuss this and more.
Capt. B.A. Friedman is a field artillery officer in the United States Marine Corps currently stationed at Camp Lejeune, NC. He is pursuing a master's degree in national security and strategic studies through the Naval War College.
UPDATE: Forgot to mention, if you didn't follow the link above, you can find all in the 21st Century Foundations series here.
Labels: Midrats, USMC
So, you think you have a challenging life at your young age? You think you are a bit put upon? You think you are being asked too much of?
You think your sacrifice too much, eh? Well ... take a moment.
I don't think my friend Jim would mind if I overquote;
He was born in Hungary in 1929, and at age 15 was sent to Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria. His first day there an SS captain told the assembled, "None of you will get out of here alive." Ted turned to the man next to him and said, "Nice fellow." Ted survived the next 14 brutal months of captivity, but most of his family perished. His father died in Buchenwald. His ten-year-old sister Elonja was sent to the gas chambers at Auschwitz, and his mother Rosa, who was slated for forced labor, chose instead to face death with her daughter. Mauthausen was liberated by the U.S. 11th Armored Division on May 5, 1945. With nothing left for him in Hungary Ted emigrated to the United States. He promised himself that he would show his appreciation to the country that gave him his freedom, and saved his life.
Ted joined the Army in February 1950, and five months later landed in Korea with the 3rd battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, one of the first American units sent to help repel North Korean invasion forces. Ted was soon involved in the fighting withdrawal to the Pusan perimeter. In one engagement near Chirye, Ted's company was redeploying from one hill to another, and he volunteered to stay behind to keep the enemy guessing until the movement was completed. As Corporal Leonard Hamm relates, "the North Koreans, thinking the hill was still occupied by a whole company, made an all out offensive with all their available troops. PFC Tibor Rubin had stocked each foxhole with grenades, and during the attack the following morning made his way running from foxhole to foxhole, lobbing, one after the other, grenades down upon the enemy, he became almost hysterical in his actions but he held the hill."
For this and other actions, Ted's immediate superiors recommended him for the Medal of Honor. However, before the paperwork could be processed these officers were killed, and a sergeant who might have sent the papers up refused to do so because Ted was Jewish. "Not on my watch," he said. After the Inchon invasion, the 8th Cavalry Regiment moved north towards the Chinese border, and was at the forward edge of the U.N. offensive when the Chinese Red Army entered the conflict. Ted's battalion was destroyed at the Battle of Unsan in early November 1950, while fighting a delaying action against Chinese forces swarming south from the Yalu. Hundreds of Americans were captured, among them Ted, who had manned a machine gun to hold off the enemy as the rest of the unit attempted to withdraw.
Ted found himself in the Pukchin POW camp, also known as "Death Valley," and later at Pyoktong, along with hundreds of Americans, Turks, and others. The camps were at first run by the North Koreans, then by the Chinese, whom Ted said treated them slightly better. Nevertheless, life was nightmarish for the prisoners. They were cold and hungry, and disease was rampant. "Healthy men became like babies, helpless," Ted said. "Everything was stink, death, it was terrible, terrible." Thirty to forty a day were dying. "It was hardest on the Americans who were not used to this," Ted said. "But I had a heck of a basic training from the Germans."
Ted used all the experience he had gained as a Holocaust survivor in helping keep himself and other prisoners alive. "I did it because I was an American," Ted told me, "and because it was a mitzvah. Regardless of color or nationality, they were my brothers." Food was vital for survival, so he began to steal rations from the enemy, who had little enough themselves. Fellow POW Sergeant Carl McClendon stated, "every day, when it got dark, and we went to sleep, Rubin was on his way, crawling on his stomach, jumping over fences, breaking in supply houses, while the guns were looking down on him. He tied the bottom of his fatigue pants and filled up anything he could get ahold of. He crawled back and distributed the food that he had stolen and risked his life."
Ted also did what he could to treat the sick and injured. But many were beyond saving, and diseases such as dysentery could strike anyone. "No one knew when they would die," Ted noted, "It was all random." When prisoners passed away, Ted would bury them, and recite the Kaddish. "I buried my friends, my comrades, American soldiers," Ted said, "and asked the Good Lord to let them rest in peace."
When the Chinese learned that Ted was originally from Hungary they offered to let him return to his home country, which at the time was a Soviet satellite. They promised him a job, good clothes, all the food he could want. But Ted refused to be a pawn for Chinese propaganda and turned them down. "I stood by my oath," he said. Ted stayed in the camp until the end of the war when he was released. The Army credits him with saving over 40 lives during his two and a half years of imprisonment.
When Ted returned to the United States, he finally received his U.S. citizenship. "I was the happiest man in the world," he said. He left the Army and worked at his brother Emery's store. Ted married, and he and his wife Yvonne had two children. By this time there was no talk of medals; the country was moving on, and anyway many men in Ted's original unit thought he was dead. He created a wonder at a 1980 Korean War veterans' reunion simply by showing up.
Ted's case was brought to the Army's attention in 1985, but he was ineligible to receive the award until statutory language was amended in 1996. His is one of many cases being reviewed under section 552 of the 2002 National Defense Authorization Act, which requires the military to "review the records of certain Jewish American and Hispanic American war veterans to determine if any of these veterans should be awarded the Medal of Honor." Most such awards will unfortunately be posthumous. But on September 23, President Bush will give Corporal Ted Rubin long overdue recognition for his many acts of valor in the Korean conflict. Ted will receive, in his own words, "the highest honor of the best country in the world." How does he feel about it? "It still hasn't sunk in," he said. "I'm just a country boy. It's a dream come true."
Much more required reading over at BadAssOfTheWeek.
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Yes, this is one of these DivThu that just write itself. Well, to the point - Ashley Rae Goldberg over at TheDailyCaller wrote it.
This is nothing new to regulars of DivThu - we have been covering this snakepit of grievance, spite, and sectarianism otherwise known as the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute (DEOMI).
Someone has to employ the otherwise unemployable, you know the ones, the ones with the degrees or speciality that only have job security if they work towards keeping everyone in their little sectarian groups, not united. Kept apart, not brought together. You know the drill.
To the tune of tens of millions of dollars, we participate in this socio-political Cultural-Marxism, to our great collective shame.
I really cannot believe that SECDEF Carter is willing to let this stand in his name;
According to a Defense Department-approved “sexism course,” the Bible, the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence all contribute to modern sexism.
Those three cherished texts all count as “historical influences that allow sexism to continue,” according to a presentation prepared by the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute, whose mission is to give a “world-class human relations education.”
It exists all through our organization - the powder-post beetles in our oak frame. It exists because they bully and slander anyone who opposes them. Behold the fruit of fear - fruit that continues to overplay its hand.
Read it all.
As usual, these retrograde hate-pimps cannot survive fresh air and light ... which is why once this went public, it was taken down.
I cannot tell you how glorious that is to see ... another datapoint that we - those who believe in a truly color-blind meritocracy where individuals rise or fall based on merit - are slowly winning over the retrograde forces of division.
This Shipmate does not have an enviable job;
“The content of the lesson is provided to generate academic discussion concerning how these historical documents have been included in discussions about the topic of sexism,” Lt. Cmdr. Nate Christensen, a Defense Department spokesman, told The Daily Caller.
But following TheDC’s request for comment, the sexism course — as well as two other courses listed on DEOMI’s website, entitled “Prejudice & Discrimination” and “Racism” — were taken offline.
“This course is currently offline and under revision,” a notice says under all three courses.
Keep up the pressure. Expose every occasion you run in to. Take pictures, take handouts, save the archive.
Get it published.
Let the broader public know what is being done in their name. Make uniformed and civilian leaders defend or decommission this slander.
Two Top-Tier for Freedom
So, you have a smart kid - a real smart kid - and he has a good shot at the Ivy League ... but. Ah yes, the "but."
We are all aware of the problems of the group-think, cultural masochism that exists in much of the Ivy League ... and do you really want to send that kid to a place full of hate for the civilization that gave it the position it has?
Well, two options are there for you. Nice.
At campuses across the country, traditional ideals of freedom of expression and the right to dissent have been deeply compromised or even abandoned as college and university faculties and administrators have capitulated to demands for language and even thought policing. Academic freedom, once understood to be vitally necessary to the truth-seeking mission of institutions of higher learning, has been pushed to the back of the bus in an age of “trigger warnings,” “micro-aggressions,” mandatory sensitivity training, and grievance politics. It was therefore refreshing to see the University of Chicago, one of the academic world's most eminent and highly respected institutions, issue a report ringingly reaffirming the most robust conception of academic freedom.
At Chicago and Princeton, at least, academic freedom lives!
This is a very serious issue. Here is what they had to say, and yes, it is amazing one has to say it.
‘Education should not be intended to make people comfortable, it is meant to make them think. Universities should be expected to provide the conditions within which hard thought, and therefore strong disagreement, independent judgment, and the questioning of stubborn assumptions, can flourish in an environment of the greatest freedom.' . . . Because the University is committed to free and open inquiry in all matters, it guarantees all members of the University community the broadest possible latitude to speak, write, listen, challenge, and learn. Except insofar as limitations on that freedom are necessary to the functioning of the University, the University of Chicago fully respects and supports the freedom of all members of the University community ‘to discuss any problem that presents itself.' Of course, the ideas of different members of the University community will often and quite naturally conflict. But it is not the proper role of the University to attempt to shield individuals from ideas and opinions they find unwelcome, disagreeable, or even deeply offensive. Although the University greatly values civility, and although all members of the University community share in the responsibility for maintaining a climate of mutual respect, concerns about civility and mutual respect can never be used as a justification for closing off discussion of ideas, however offensive or disagreeable those ideas may be to some members of our community.
The freedom to debate and discuss the merits of competing ideas does not, of course, mean that individuals may say whatever they wish, wherever they wish. The University may restrict expression that violates the law, that falsely defames a specific individual, that constitutes a genuine threat or harassment, that unjustifiably invades substantial privacy or confidentiality interests, or that is otherwise directly incompatible with the functioning of the University. In addition, the University may reasonably regulate the time, place, and manner of expression to ensure that it does not disrupt the ordinary activities of the University. But these are narrow exceptions to the general principle of freedom of expression, and it is vitally important that these exceptions never be used in a manner that is inconsistent with the University’s commitment to a completely free and open discussion of ideas. In a word, the University’s fundamental commitment is to the principle that debate or deliberation may not be suppressed because the ideas put forth are thought by some or even by most members of the University community to be offensive, unwise, immoral, or wrong-headed. It is for the individual members of the University community, not for the University as an institution, to make those judgments for themselves, and to act on those judgments not by seeking to suppress speech, but by openly and vigorously contesting the ideas that they oppose.
Indeed, fostering the ability of members of the University community to engage in such debate and deliberation in an effective and responsible manner is an essential part of the University’s educational mission. As a corollary to the University’s commitment to protect and promote free expression, members of the University community must also act in conformity with the principle of free expression. Although members of the University community are free to criticize and contest the views expressed on campus, and to criticize and contest speakers who are invited to express their views on campus, they may not obstruct or otherwise interfere with the freedom of others to express views they reject or even loathe. To this end, the University has a solemn responsibility not only to promote a lively and fearless freedom of debate and deliberation, but also to protect that freedom when others attempt to restrict it.
Along the same lines, I highly recommend that you listen to Michael Bloomberg's commencement address at Harvard.
Yes, Salamander wants you to listen to Bloomberg. Life isn't binary ... open your mind and find those places you can find agreement with well meaning people.
Labels: Culture Wars, Education
Well, this is good use of the Army's money and manpower
In case you didn't know, Amanda's claim to fame is that he is the first openly transgender woman U.S. Presidential appointee. I guess that gives him the right to work on his self esteem on company time.
Way to fight those stereotypes!
-------- Forwarded Message --------
Why conversion therapy hurts all of us:
Amanda Simpson, U.S. Army
Across the country, there are doctors working to convince people to change their sexual orientation or gender identity. It's known as "conversion therapy," but it could also be called brainwashing, or reprogramming.
Loving and compassionate parents and ministers who are trying to do the right thing are doing just the opposite. They are influenced by bad science, not grounded in fact. This so-called "conversion therapy" is harmful.
A couple of days ago, the White House came out in support of efforts to ban the use of conversion therapy. And as a transgender woman, this is especially personal to me.
No one should be forced to be someone they're not. Everyone should be valued for their authentic, true self -- who they are -- regardless of the gender with which they identify, or who they love.
I recently talked with a few other people in the Administration about why conversion therapy is so dangerous, and why it was so important for the White House to take a strong stance against the practice.
Here's what we have to say:
This isn't just a transgender issue or an LGBT issue -- it’s an American issue. Our nation was founded on the ideals of equality and acceptance for everyone, and forcing an individual to be someone they aren't goes directly against what this country stands for.
If we're going to grow as a society, we must move beyond the way things are, to the way things should be.
That's why I'm glad our Administration is standing up and making it clear that conversion therapy is unacceptable. Our society should allow every child and every person the freedom to be whoever they aspire to be.
And we've already seen the tragic effects of this therapy. Countless people have taken their own lives because they feel they can't fit into the standards that society demands. Others, although they haven't lost their lives, have been forced to live unfulfilled lives and to repress their feelings in the process -- feelings that come out in other ways that we can't always anticipate.
We can be better than this. We are better than this. We owe it to ourselves, and to all of the children growing up in this country, to work toward a society where everyone is accepted and treated equally.
I hope you'll take the time to listen to what we said, and learn more about why the White House came out in support of banning conversion therapy.
Amanda Simpson
U.S. Army Office of Energy Initiatives
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Listen, Learn, Connect
Hill District Residents Engage with CEC at Community Forum
“The word ‘community’ means to be in union with and connected to,” said Kathy Humphrey, senior vice chancellor for engagement and secretary of the Board of Trustees, at a June 4 community forum hosted by the Hill District Community Engagement Center (CEC).
“It’s very hard for us to be in union with or connected to if we don’t reach out and get to know those who we don’t know and connect in ways that make our lives more fulfilled.”
The event, which took place at the Hill District’s YMCA, provided an opportunity for the more than 150 residents in attendance to connect with Pitt’s newest neighborhood commitment and provide feedback to University leaders, faculty and staff.
With planning and progress on the center underway, Hill District CEC Director Kirk Holbrook is excited about the past year’s accomplishments. “We are continuing to strengthen existing relationships while establishing new collaborations and fostering deeper, more meaningful partnerships on the ground,” he said.
The Hill District CEC is Pitt’s second long-term community partnership — the CEC in Homewood opened in October 2018. These neighborhood commitments enable the University to put its teaching, research and capacity-building programs to service for communities. At the centers, faculty and staff teach students through experiential learning. And, as Holbrook explained, they can see the direct, positive impact of their work — outcomes that meet the needs of the community — in real-time.
“Aligning faculty and staff engagement with the community’s agenda helps Pitt do what it does best, while supporting the work the community is doing,” said Holbrook.
Listening, learning and connecting with the community
The forum included a panel discussion led by neighborhood residents and civic and business leaders, as well as exhibits staffed by a variety of units from Pitt. Attendees were invited to share what they’d like to see at the CEC, and more broadly, how they want Pitt to interact with their community.
Holbrook’s work over the past year has focused on engagement and program development. Pitt units, including the Swanson School of Engineering, School of Computing and Information, School of Education’s Center for Urban Education, Office of Economic Partnerships and Center for African American Poetry and Poetics, have developed and hosted a variety of events for Hill District K-12 students.
“These collaborations show that the CECs are more than a building — they’re part of Pitt’s commitment to building a stronger community and a stronger University,” said Holbrook.
This article originally appeared in @Pitt. Link to the story here.
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Accreditation by ASIIN
CEPI-Certificate
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QUESTE-SI Award
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Ao.Univ.Prof. Dr. Manfred Frühwirth
WU Vienna | Austria
Manfred Frühwirth is Associate Professor at the Department of Finance, Accounting and Statistics at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU) and permanent member of the faculty of WU Executive Academy. He was Vice Head of the Institute for Finance from 2004 to 2005 and Vice Head of the Institute for Corporate Finance at WU from 2008 to 2010. Over the academic year 2005/2006 he was visiting professor at Harvard University.
He held courses for WU, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zürich), the Continuing Education Center of the Vienna University of Technology, Modul University, the University of Bratislava, Budapest University of Economic Sciences, the Polytechnic University of Bucharest and Kiev National University of Economic Sciences. In the spring terms 2003, 2004 and 2005 he was visiting professor at Bordeaux Business School. The courses held include fixed income valuation and analysis, portfolio management, CAPM and cost of capital, business valuation, value-based controlling, capital budgeting, financial management, financial planning, international mergers and acquisitions, option pricing, cost accounting and structure and analysis of financial statements. He gained additional intercultural experience by teaching in the JOSZEF program (special program for young Eastern European students to become future top managers), in the CEMS program (Community of European Management Schools) and in the International MBA program of the University of South Carolina. For his teaching performance in this International MBA program he received Outstanding Teaching Awards for both the Finance course and the Global Finance I course. In 2009 he received the Award for Excellence in Teaching from WU. Moreover, he regularly provides Best Practice Examples to the Teaching & Learning Academy of WU.
His research activities focus on theoretical and practical problems in bond pricing (e.g. yield computation, empirical estimation of the term structure of interest rates, duration, credit risk, pricing of floating rate notes), corporate finance (capital structure optimization, business valuation, real options), accounting (tax strategies, earnings management), long-term investment strategies (cost averaging, savings plans) and behavioral finance (prospect theory, loss aversion, impact of weather on security prices).
He held research presentations at Harvard University, at the University of Minnesota, at Boston University, at Copenhagen Business School, at Bocconi University in Milan, at the University of Lille, at the Swiss-Italian University in Lugano, at the Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe University in Frankfurt, at Hamburg University, at the University of Karlsruhe, at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, at the University of Konstanz, at Friedrich-Alexander-University in Erlangen-Nürnberg, at WU, at the University of Vienna, at Karl-Franzens-University in Graz, at Leopold-Franzens-University in Innsbruck, at the Vienna University of Technology, at Johannes Kepler University in Linz, at the Danube University in Krems, at Vienna Stock Exchange, at the Austrian Institute of Economic Research and at the Austrian Institute of Advanced Studies. In the summer term 2003 he was invited speaker at the First European Deloitte & Touche Conference in Risk Management at the University of Antwerp.
He published books on yield computation and on floating rate note pricing as well as articles on the pricing of floating rate notes subject to default risk (in "European Journal of Operational Research"), on the Heath/Jarrow/Morton duration and convexity (in “International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance”), on the intersection of interest rate and exchange rate risk (in “Journal of Derivatives Markets” and “Multinational Finance Journal”), on the optimal timing of the transfer of hidden reserves (in “International Journal of Intelligent Systems in Accounting, Finance and Management”), on the optimal capital structure considering equity tax shields (in "Zeitschrift für betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung"), on business valuation considering equity tax shields (in “Journal für Betriebswirtschaft” and ”Schmalenbach Business Review”), on the empirical estimation of the Jarrow/Turnbull default risk model (in “European Journal of Finance“) and on the separation of bond-specific and issuer-specific spread of bonds (in “European Financial Management”).
For his achievements in research he was awarded the Stephan Koren Prize for the best Ph.D. thesis at WU. Moreover, he received the Capital Market Award for Research from the Austrian Association for Financial Analysis and Asset Management in 2009. In 2004, 2007, 2008 and 2009 he was a member of the program committee of the European Financial Management Association Conference. He is in the editorial board of the journal Investment Management and Financial Innovations. Furthermore, he was reviewer for the European Journal of Finance, for the European Journal of Operational Research, for Quantitative Finance, for the International Journal of Intelligent Systems in Accounting, Finance and Management, for the International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance, for Investment Management and Financial Innovations, for the Schmalenbach Business Review, for Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft, for the FinanzArchiv, for the Journal für Betriebswirtschaft, for the BankArchiv, for Campus For Finance, for the European Winter Finance Summit and for the Annual Conference of the Swiss Society for Financial Market Research. Furthermore, he was in several reviewing committees for the accreditation of study programs in Germany.
He was Distinguished Instructor at the Merton H. Miller Doctoral Seminars of the European Financial Management Association in 2006, 2007 and 2008. In 2007, he was the Program Chair of the 16th Annual Conference of the European Financial Management Association in Vienna and from 2007 to 2008 he was President of the European Financial Management Association.
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Close Roll 11 Henry VI
To Robert More, escheator of Ire. or his deputy
The K. has learned by various inquisitions taken before Henry Stanyhurst and Walter Glerne, deputy escheators, and returned in the chancery of Ire. that Gerald, late earl of Kildare, was seised in his demesne in fee tail to himself and the heirs of his body on the day of his death of the following, viz.:
The manor of Maynooth with its appurtenances, except for the water-mill there and 50 acres of land in le Waterton, a parcel of the manor; also the manors of Rathmore, Rathmygan, Lea and Geashill, with their appurtenances, by the gift of a certain Richard Barby; and that he held the same in chief of the K. by military service.
Also that he was seised in his demesne [etc.] of the manor of Taghmohok by the gift of Richard Barby, and held the same of Richard, duke of York, as of his manor of Dunamase by fealty and service of one rose p.a. for all service.
Also that James Flattesby held one third of the manor of Naas of Gerald on the day of his death by homage, fealty and knight service; and that William Byrt held another one third part of the same by homage, fealty and knight service; and that Christopher Preston held a moiety of the other one third part of the same of Gerald by homage, fealty and knight service; and that Elizabeth Brun held the other moiety of one third part of the same manor of Naas of Gerald. And that the earl held the manor of Naas of the K. in chief by fealty and service of one rose p.a. for all service.
Also that he was seised in his demesne as of fee in the manors of Rathbryde and Kilcork and held the same on the day he died of the prior of the hospital of St John in Ire. as of the right of the hospital by fealty and service of one rose p.a. for all service.
And that he was seised in his demesnes of fee of the manor of Taghmoho, and held it on the day he died of John Bellew and Anastasia his wife and of Thomas Harbryk and Margaret his wife as of the right of the same Anastasia and Margaret by fealty and service of one rose p.a. Also that he was seised in his demesne, [etc.] of one messuage and 80 acres of land in Cradokeston, and held them of the K. in chief by fealty and service of one rose. Also that he was seised [etc.] of the manor of Balysochan, and held it of the K. in chief by knight service. Also that he was seised in his demesne in fee-tail to him and his heirs on the day he died of the manors of Croom, Adare, and Esgrene by the gift of Richard Barby, and held them of the K. by knight service. Also that he was seised of the manors of Aclakath, Grene, Carrykytyll and Typernevyn and held them on the day he died of the K. in chief by knight service. Also that he was seised [etc.] of a moiety of the manor of Corcomoyd and held it on the day he died of James, e. Desmond, as of his manor of Inskyfty by fealty and service of a rose p.a. Also that he was seised on the day of his death of the manor of Glassare and held it on the day he died of James Butler, e. Ormond, as of his castle of Kilkenny by fealty and service of one otter skin. Also of the manors of […]coyn, Oglassyne, Kilblan, Bewer, Corbyn and Greyeweyn and held them on the day he died of the K. in chief by fealty and the service of a rose p.a. Also of the manors of Sanraynach, Portolehaan and le Boyle, and held them on the day he died of James, e. Ormond, as of his manor of Nenagh by fealty and service of a rose p.a.
Elizabeth, the earl's daughter lawfully begotten between the earl and his wife Agnes, is the nearest heir and is of age 34 years and more, and was married to James Butler, e. Ormond, long before the death of Gerald, and that the said Gerald died on Thursday next before St Luke the Evangelist last past [13 Oct. 1432].
The K. has taken the fealty of the earl of Ormond and Elizabeth his wife, due to the K. for two thirds of the said manors, messuages, lands and tenements, with appurtenances, and has of his special grace respited until Michaelmas next the homage of the earl of Ormond similarly due to him, for 100s paid into the hanaper of the chancery of Ire. Therefore ORDER to the escheator that, having taken security from the earl of Ormond and Elizabeth his wife for the payment of a reasonable relief at the Ex. of Ire., he is to cause them to have full seisin of those two thirds of the manors [etc.] held of the K. and which were taken in to the K.'s hand because of the death of the late earl [of Kildare]. Similar ORDER to deliver seisin of the two thirds of the lands held of the duke, the prior, Anastasia, Thomas, Margaret, the earl of Desmond and earl of Ormond, similarly taken into the K.'s hand on the deeath of the earl of Kildare.1
Attested:
Christopher Plunket kt, deputy of Thomas Stanley kt, Lt of Ire.
COD, iii, §101 (pp 86–9).
1 The original record concludes with the return, dated 14 Dec. 1432, of Henry Stanyhurs, deputy of Robert More escheator, who records that he delivered seisin to the earl of Ormond and Elizabeth his wife in pursuance to this writ and has affixed the seal of the office of escheator of Ire.
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Chairman and Founder, Christian Coalition
Politics, ReligionAir Date 02/25/2000
Pat Robertson discusses George W. Bush, the 2000 Republican primary, and the Christian Coalition.
Republican Primary Election '00; Pat Robertson
PoliticsAir Date 02/25/2000
William Kristol and Dan Balz on George W. Bush's primary losses. On George W. Bush, the 2000 Republican primary, and the Christian Coalition.
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Pat Robertson of the Christian Coalition on the Christian Broadcasting Network and his new novel, "The End of the Age."
Founder and chairman of Christian Broadcasting Network Pat Robertson discusses his political involvement and new book.
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Dr. Valafar recieves one of the top 5 largest grants at SDSU last academic year
By Amy Jensen
SDSU’s Top 5 Grants from the Past Year
Researchers succeeded in winning highly competitive federal funding in fiscal year 2013-14.
By Michael Price
Fiscal year 2013-2014 was a great year for grant awards received by San Diego State University researchers.
More than 250 different organizations sponsored research at SDSU, funding 243 professors, research associates, and graduate and undergraduate students. In total, SDSU investigators brought in 731 awards worth $107.8 million.
While many types of scholarship do not require external funding to be successful, many high-impact, large-scale programs are dependent on faculty receiving multi-million-dollar awards from some of the most competitive funding agencies.
Here are the top five largest grants awarded to SDSU researchers last year:
Mark Sussman, heart stem cell research ($8.5 million over five years)
In November 2013, SDSU Distinguished Professor of Biology Mark Sussman, chief research scientist at the SDSU Heart Institute, received a Program Project Grant from the National Institutes of Health to further his studies of cardiac stem cells. These are proto-cells that can differentiate into different kinds of cells within the heart. A better understanding of cardiac stem cells could pave the way for enormous breakthroughs in regenerative therapy for damaged heart tissues.
Scientists have only known about the existence of cardiac stem cells for a little more than a decade, so Sussman and his colleagues will have plenty of work to do fleshing out novel therapeutic approaches.
Caren Sax, improving the lives of minors on supplementary income ($5.2 million over three years)
Children whose families receive supplemental security income—a government stipend given to low-income families with disabilities—are less likely than their peers to go to college or other postsecondary education, and less likely to find gainful employment. Caren Sax, education professor and co-director of the SDSU Interwork Institute, is seeking to change that.
Funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs, Sax and her colleagues at SDSU, as well as partners in the California Department of Rehabilitation, created CaPROMISE, which stands for California’s Proposal for Promoting the Readiness of Minors in Supplementary Security Income. The program will provide case management, benefits counseling, and work-based career training to these children and their families.
John Elder and Guadalupe X. Ayala, Imperial County asthma project ($4 million over three years)
In California’s Imperial Valley, children are twice as likely as the national average to suffer from asthma. The population is largely Hispanic and Latino/Latina, and previous research has shown that children from these populations are less likely to be prescribed asthma treatment, and they are also less likely to follow prescribed treatment regiments.
SDSU professors John Elder and Guadalupe X. Ayala received funding from the U.S. Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute to better understand the specific asthma needs of the Imperial Valley, as well as develop more effective approaches to treatment for families, communities, and physicians.
Gregory Talavera, increasing Latinos’/Latinas’ understanding of diabetes treatment adherence ($2.8 million over five years)
Latinos and Latinas are disproportionately at risk for type 2 diabetes, and those who do have the disease are also more likely to face challenges such as health care costs, poor health, high degrees of stress and mental health conditions. The upshot is that many Latinos and Latinas don’t adhere to regular diabetes treatment regimens.
SDSU professor Gregory Talavera and his colleagues were awarded a grant by the National Institute of Nursing Research, part of the National Institutes of Health, to conduct a study into improving adherence to diabetes treatment in this population. As part of the study, a subset of people with diabetes who receive care from the San Ysidro Health Center in southern San Diego will undergo an intensive 3-month intervention program integrating clinical and behavioral care as well as health education sessions.
Faramarz Valafar, understanding mutations in drug-resistant tuberculosis ($2.5 million over four years)
Last year, more than nine million people worldwide were affected with tuberculosis, and one million people died from this disease. While effective medications exist, a troubling trend is emerging: The bacterial disease is evolving to become more resistant to currently available drugs. Almost a quarter of the 419 known forms of tuberculosis have been identified as having some drug resistance.
SDSU’s Faramarz Valafar, professor of biomedical informatics and computer science, received a grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, part of the National Institutes of Health, to study mutations in the bacteria related to antibiotic resistance. He and his colleagues hope to discover previously unknown ways in which the organism evolves to survive a barrage of anti-tuberculosis drugs.
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Op-Ed: Her story in support of ending one’s life with dignity
by State Rep. Kelly Luxenberg
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Death with dignity is a tough issue for many of us. Although I have co-sponsored the bill before the Legislature today, I didn’t always support the concept. I have had my doubts even over the last few years. When I started to think about it as a matter of individual choice, I realized what a personal and intimate decision it was.
I also draw my support from a deeply personal experience.
Three weeks before my parents got married, my athletic, exuberant father was diagnosed with early-onset Parkinson’s Disease. Less than a decade later, he was laid off from his job as an executive vice president at a bank and forced onto disability, and he was maxed out on the medications that mitigated his symptoms.
He could no longer drive because he fell asleep at the wheel, and had to have me, his 9-year old daughter, pull him up from chairs and help him in ways that no child should have to help a parent. As his central nervous system progressively failed him, his dignity was lost.
A last hope and prayer came with the new pallidotomy operation in the mid-90s, but all was lost when the surgeon took experimental liberties that cost my father the ability to swallow. He was left with a feeding tube, and was unable to help me with even the easiest of sixth grade math assignments.
Three months after surgery that was supposed to give him new life, he was dead. It wasn’t the Parkinson’s or the operation that killed him; he had taken matters into his own hands. His death was unattractive and undignified. He drowned in our local reservoir. He never learned to swim and was intensely fearful of the water, so there is an even sadder irony to the way he chose to die. The next day, our local newspaper ran the front cover with his lifeless body freshly pulled from the water.
For years, I convinced myself his death was an accident, and he never would have chosen that kind of death. But the truth is, he felt he had no other choice to do what he did that day because Parkinson’s and the operation had robbed him of so much.
It wasn’t until my early 20s that I found peace with his death, and began to understand that he did have a choice and that he was very much in control that day. He did not die because of an unsteady gait – typical of the Parkinson’s – that caused him to slip multiple times and fall to his death. For two decades, my father’s life had been involuntary. But he was not as cold, terrified and alone that day, as I had imagined. In fact, my father’s death was the last thing he was in control of.
Shelly Sindland
State Rep. Kelly Luxenberg,D-12th, right, delivering her testimony to the legislature’s Judiciary Committee on March 18. At left is State Rep. Jesse MacLachlan, Clinton.
I am here before you today because even though death with dignity wouldn’t have applied to my father at that point in his life, it is imperative that we give people choices at the end of their lives. We have fought for decades to have the right to make decisions about our own bodies and this is no different. This is an issue all about choice.
Eventually the Parkinson’s would have taken my father’s life, but what a different experience the end could have been for him, and for me as a survivor. His choice at end of life only added another layer of pain for my family.
People should have control over their bodies, and decisions about their lives should not be made by others.
People don’t like to talk about death, but it’s inevitable; and I hope in the end that I have the choice to decide what is right for me and for my family.
Parkinson’s stripped my father of a life with dignity. Wouldn’t it have been great if in death his dignity could be regained?
State Rep. Kelly Luxenberg, a Democrat, is a first time legislator serving Manchester’s 12th district.
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Black Ribbon Day 2017: Remembering the victims of Soviet Communism and Nazi Tyranny
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - George Santayana
Seventy eight years ago on August 23, 1939 Josef Stalin, the leader of the Soviet Union, the first communist regime, signed a treaty with Adolph Hitler, the leader of Nazi Germany it was initially named after their respective foreign ministers, V.M. Molotov and Joachim von Ribbentrop, as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. However it also became known as the Hitler-Stalin Pact. It was publicly described by both parties as a non-aggression treaty but it had a secret additional protocol that divided up Poland and the Baltic states. In reality it was a an aggression treaty in which the two aggressors Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia agreed before hand how to divide up the spoils as follows:
Article I.
In the event of a territorial and political rearrangement in the areas belonging to the Baltic States (Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania), the northern boundary of Lithuania shall represent the boundary of the spheres of influence of Germany and U.S.S.R. In this connection the interest of Lithuania in the Vilna area is recognized by each party.
Article II.
In the event of a territorial and political rearrangement of the areas belonging to the Polish state, the spheres of influence of Germany and the U.S.S.R. shall be bounded approximately by the line of the rivers Narev, Vistula and San. The question of whether the interests of both parties make desirable the maintenance of an independent Polish States and how such a state should be bounded can only be definitely determined in the course of further political developments. In any event both Governments will resolve this question by means of a friendly agreement. ...
Nine days later on September 1, 1939 at 4:45 am Nazi Germany invaded Poland and World War II started. Sixteen days later the Soviet Union exercising its secret agreement with the Nazis invaded Poland from the East and met their German allies in the middle of Poland and on September 22, 1939 the German Nazi army joined with the Soviet Communist army in a military parade in Brest-Litovsk and the two sides celebrated together.
Rolling Soviet tanks and Nazi motorcyclists in Poland (September 1939).
Each year on August 23rd beginning in 2009 there is a day of remembrance for the victims of Soviet Communism and Nazi Tyranny across Europe, Canada and the United States. The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation will hold a Black Ribbon Day on Wednesday from 5:00pm to 6:00pm at the Victims of Communism Memorial located at the intersection of New Jersey Avenue NW and Massachusetts Avenue NW, in Washington, DC. If you plan to attend please RSVP.
Soviet soldier and Nazi soldiers fraternize after conquering Poland in 1939
This is an important moment to hold such a ceremony here in the United States when far too many Americans have openly marched in 2017 with Nazi Swastika flags and Soviet hammer and sickle flags there is a heightened need for acts of remembrance at the horrors unleashed by these twin symbols of hate and how the bloodiest and most brutal war in human history was unleashed on the world when these two evil systems conspired together under a banner of peace and non-aggression that was a lie. Between 1939 and 1945 an estimated 50 to 85 million people were killed in this conflict. Furthermore the anti-racist credentials of the Workers World Party should be called into question when they support North Korea despite its racist screed against President Obama.
Marching with Communist and Nazi flags in Charlottesville, Virginia
In times of great moral confusion it is important to recall past errors to avoid committing them again in the future. The ongoing debate in the United States of how to confront the menace of violent Neo-Nazism finds far too many Americans looking to AntiFa, a violent fringe group, linked to the Communist Party, to violently counter the white supremacists. The belief is that countering a violent and hateful ideologically motivated movement with another violent and hateful ideologically motivated movement will lead to at least the destruction of one or of both.
Hitler and Stalin salute each other over the corpse of Poland in this 1939 caricature
In the 1920s and 1930s in Germany groups with the same names and carrying the same flags fought in the streets, with each creating their own heroic narratives, in their decade long violent skirmishes. Fires were set, businesses trashed, and brawls carried out with each side portraying the other as dangerous terrorists, but in reality their radical movements fed off one another while weakening German democratic institutions as mob rule co-opted Weimar Germany, eventually it was taken over by Adolph Hitler and the Nazi Party, consolidating power by blaming the communists for burning down of the German Parliament building on February 27, 1933 with the Enabling Laws.
There were other factors that fueled the rise of Nazism: the Great Depression, the punishing Treaty of Versailles, and the later appeasement of the West but the violent dynamic between the Communist Party and AntiFa against the Nazis in the 1930s helped the rise of Hitler more than impede it.
Nazism and Communism are two ideologies that together have claimed more than 160 million lives and remain a threat to civilization. They should not be underestimated, their histories remembered and condemned. This is why it is so important to observe Black Ribbon Day on August 23rd.
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CHIEF EXECUTIVE AND CHAIRMAN
Peter Orchard was born in 1927 and worked for De La Rue from 1950 until 1993;he was a Director from 1963 to 1993, Chief Executive from 1977 to 1987 and Chairman from 1987 to 1993.
He was awarded the Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 1982.
Peter joined De La Rue as a graduate trainee and joked that he was only taken on because the company needed-and gained-a good cricketer.
His first management role was in international sales, making best use of his skills as a linguist,ambassador and negotiator.
By 1959 he was Managing Director in Brazil and later Managing Director of Thomas De La Rue International. In the early 1960s De La Rue was expanding, setting up operations in Colombia and Nigeria as well as opening its Gateshead facility-then the largest banknote factory in the world.
In 1965, Peter was instrumental in setting up a key alliance with Organization Giori to form De La Rue Giori, which supplied banknote printing equipment to the industry. The venture enjoyed great success for more than 30 years.
In 1987, he became Chairman, succeeding Sir Arthur(Gerry)Norman who wrote to Peter at the time saying “I know that your own brand of leadership has been mainly responsible for creating such a good team as we now have” and wishing him good luck.Although in a non-executive role, Peter continued to work and travel extensively for the company
Without warning, Peter collapsed and died on a train station platform on his way to work after 43 years with De La Rue.
During that time he had seen the company expand then contract back to the core business, weather hostile bids, and form great alliances.During this period, Peter Orchard was De La Rue, and his contribution to the company and the wider banknote industry is incalculable.
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CFA boss plunges into Mid East crisis
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Peacemaker: CFA boss Costakis Koutsokoumnis
By Angelos Anastasiou
CYPRUS FOOTBALL Association boss Costakis Koutsokoumnis has been assigned a mission by football’s world governing body FIFA to broker a football settlement between Israel and Palestine, the association said on Monday.
In a statement, the CFA announced that by virtue of a personal decision by FIFA’s head, Joseph Blatter, Koutsokoumnis has undertaken the task of starting contacts aimed at settling football-related issues between the conflicting parties.
The assignment is effective until the end of 2014. Until then, the CFA said, Koutsokoumnis will be holding top-level meetings with officials from the two associations.
The first such meeting was held on Tuesday in Palestine with officials from the Palestinian association, and on Wednesday Koutsokoumnis will be meeting with Israeli officials.
FIFA wants contacts between the sides to start immediately in an effort to provide proposals to address the serious football issues between the two associations.
In his capacity as member of FIFA’s National Associations Committee, Koutsokoumnis has undertaken various important missions in several countries in the past on FIFA’s instructions, said the CFA announcement.
Koutsokoumnis played a pivotal role in a November 2013 landmark temporary agreement in Zurich which would see the Turkish Cypriot football federation (KTTF) become a member of the CFA as an association in accordance with CFA rules.
The agreement also had the full support of President Nicos Anastasiades, who said at the time that the agreement was “a positive outcome that gave hope for the future”.
Despite coming under pressure from both sides, Koutsokoumnis and KTTF head Hasan Sertoglu have ploughed ahead with a series of confidence-building measures to enhance trust between the two, ahead of the Turkish Cypriot federation’s application to join the CFA.
In a speech in July, Blatter reportedly used Cyprus as a reference point, informing the FIFA Congress of the temporary agreement.
He referred specifically to the problems faced in Israel and Palestine, and Kosovo and Serbia.
“We are proud about what happened in Cyprus and the agreement reached. Cyprus is a country that is divided and through football, steps forward are being taken. The parties involved in Cyprus have approved this agreement and all we can do is applaud them,” Blatter told the Congress.
Blatter made it clear that FIFA does not get involved in the politics of countries but only concerns itself with football.
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AEL, APOEL on brink of famous European wins
Fighting near Lebanon-Syria border kills two soldiers, wounds seven
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Cyprus has a strong bilateral relationship with the UK, reflecting the two countries’ long historical ties, which date back to the 19th century. Today, the two countries maintain close links in the political, economic and cultural fields. These are enhanced further through the strong position of Cyprus as member of the European Union and the Commonwealth.
Furthermore, Britain, one of the guarantor powers of Cyprus’ independence and territorial integrity, is committed to a comprehensive, just and lasting settlement in Cyprus.
Person-to-Person contact
The two countries maintain strong person-to-person contacts. It is estimated that there are around 270,000 Cypriots living in the UK and that approximately 12,000 Cypriot students are currently enrolled in British universities. At the same time, there are between 25,000 and 30,000 Britons living in Cyprus. Also, more than 1.3 million British tourists visit the island every year, representing a third of the overall number of tourist arrivals to Cyprus.
The UK is Cyprus’s second most significant trading partner. In 2017, the exports of Cyprus to the UK reached almost €116m whereas the UK exports to Cyprus were around €503m.
The main products exported to the UK were Halloumi cheese (€70m), potatoes, (€10m), pharmaceuticals (€5m), fresh or chilled vegetables (€3m), citrus fruit, (€2m) and bentonite (€2m). These exports represent a 10% share of the worldwide exports of Cyprus.
The UK exports to Cyprus consisted mainly of motor vehicles and parts (€193m), boats (€22m), spirits (€20m), pharmaceuticals (€11m), food ingredients (€9m) and clothing (€7m).
Over the years, the UK has been a close trading partner to Cyprus, not just in goods but also in services, with the UK being in 2017 the most important partner in services for Cyprus of a total value of more than €2b.
Also, in 2017, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) from the UK into Cyprus amounted to €4b whereas Cyprus’ FDI into the UK was €8b. The major sectors, by economic activity, that attracted foreign investments were financial and insurance activities, real estate activities as well as various professional, scientific and technical activities.
More information can be obtained from the Commercial Department’s website here
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CMS 275 A: Perspectives On Visual Culture: Sex, Race And Power
Course Flyer
TTh 10:30am - 12:20pm
José Alaniz
“A nation of paradoxes. Technology existing with primitive traditions … and not always coexisting peacefully.” Thus does writer Don McGregor describe the fictional African nation of Wakanda, afrofuturist utopia and home of King T’Challa, the Black Panther, the first black superhero, introduced by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in Fantastic Four Vol. 1, No. 52 (July, 1966).
This course examines the emergence, development and sociocultural significance of the Black Panther up to the figure’s latest incarnation in the Marvel Studios films. Along the way we will sample some of the comics figure’s key storylines, such as McGregor et al.’s “Panther’s Rage” (Jungle Action #s 6-18, 1973-1975) and Ta-Nehisi Coates et al.’s “A Nation Under Our Feet” (Black Panther, 2016-2017); consider the representation of Africans, African-Americans and superheroes in comics; discuss Wakanda as African homeland; and read some important works by Black authors which inform the character’s political stakes and cultural meaning. Authors covered, in addition to the aforementioned, include Reginald Hudlin, Christopher Priest, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, Nnedi Okorafor, Jackie Ormes, Matt Baker, Chinua Achebe and Chimamanda Adichie.
An introduction to the study of visual texts such as film, television, comics, or digital media. Focus on the representation of cultural differences including, but not limited to, sexuality, gender, ability, and race. Topics vary.
Department Requirements Met:
Pre-req to Declare Cinema & Media Studies Major
GE Requirements Met:
Visual, Literary, and Performing Arts (VLPA)
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Film Review: Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Zack Snyder proves yet again he's hardly the world's finest
by Michael Roffman
on March 23, 2016, 1:30am
Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Jesse Eisenberg, Gal Gadot
Somebody stop Zack Snyder. Somebody save the world.
Way back in 2004, there was reason to believe that the Midwestern filmmaker had a purpose in Hollywood. His unnecessary remake of George A. Romero’s masterpiece Dawn of the Dead managed to shake up the zombie genre with a brand of unforgiving tension that strangled in all the right ways. It wasn’t great, but it was good, and the stuff that was good was seemingly good enough to give him another look. And so everyone did in 2007 with his impressionistic take on Frank Miller and Lynn Varley’s surreal graphic novel, 300, and by 2009 he became the go-to name for bringing comics to screen when he adapted the unadaptable — Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen. Love it or hate it, he got that sucker out.
Now, he’s conquered another feat: He’s finally brought the world of Batman and Superman together on celluloid. Do you know how many filmmakers and writers tried to do that? McG failed. So did JJ Abrams. Wolfgang Petersen couldn’t get it together. Neither could the indestructible George Miller. One might argue Snyder was in the right place at the right time — and that’s an incredibly logical argument (and one this writer would agree with) — but he’s still the one who has that credit on his resume. Sadly, that’s the main reason why Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice is such an insufferable mess of a blockbuster. Three years after he turned Kal-El into a catastrophic post-9/11 metaphor in 2013’s Man of Steel, he’s returned to do it again.
(Ranking: Every Batman Film From Worst to Best)
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice isn’t a film. It’s a two-and-a-half-hour movie trailer. Better yet, it’s one of those videos that pop up on screens before a ride at Universal Studios, where all the actors speak to you and keep hinting at bigger things to come — you know, like a ride? Basically, it’s everything the SEO-friendly title promises — and more. There’s a Superman (Henry Cavill). There’s a Batman (Ben Affleck). They “v” against one another. And eventually they start forming a league to fight for justice, but don’t get ahead of yourself; it’s only the dawn. There’s also Wonder Woman (a solid Gal Gadot), Lex Luthor (a middling Jesse Eisenberg), Alfred Pennyworth (a very funny Jeremy Irons), and half a dozen other soon-to-be regulars.
Those who complained about Thor’s left-field watery dip during last year’s Avengers: Age of Ultron will likely roll their eyes at the number of superfluous scenes that flutter around Snyder’s DC Comics Cinematic Universe Scrapbook. Should anyone be surprised? Probably not. The marketing behind this film has forever been transparent about how overloaded this story was always going to be. Unlike Marvel and Disney, DC and Warner Bros. refused to take things slow and opted instead to work off the big bang theory wherein a giant explosion of ideas will eventually spread out to create some sort of functioning universe. Did it work? It’s too early to tell, but things don’t bode too well if Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice is any indication.
(Read: Batman v Superman: Through the Ages)
The problem isn’t Affleck, Cavill, or any of the actors. In fact, Affleck brilliantly captures the ethos and primal rage of Batman in a way that’s only been exhibited by Kevin Conroy in the Arkham games. This is a big ol’ grump who tortures his body in his own Batgym like a roided out Ryan Steven Lochte. He brands his prey. He stares at his costume like he wants to eat it. He’s visited by Freddy Krueger in his dreams. No, this is the Batman fans deserved. Cavill, on the other hand, continues to embellish the imperfections of the always-perfect Supes. He’s a far cry from the ray of sunshine that Christopher Reeve — or his many imitators, from Tom Welling to Brandon Routh — gave off, but he’s also stuck in a far more cynical world.
What proves to be kryptonite for both of them is a combination of Snyder’s senseless direction and the godawful, clumsy, and hellish script by Chris Terrio and David S. Goyer. Look, it’s not easy adapting Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns while also making a sequel to Man of Steel while also building towards the conceptualization of a Justice League while also maintaining a singular identity, but … well, that’s the whole problem now, isn’t it? Although David Brenner did his damnedest to edit this doomsday of a cash grab together, the whole thing still ricochets around at the manic pace of a cocaine smuggler who’s been addicted to his supplier’s stuff for over a decade. Very rarely do scenes ever last more than a minute, which may cause drowsiness.
That’s not the only thing that’ll have you reaching for the doggie bag. The sound mixing alone will leave viewers in a daze like Roger Daltrey at the end of The Who’s Tommy. This thing is loud — from Hans Zimmer and Junkie XL’s punishing score to the brutal effects that zip back and forth — and since Snyder’s so obsessed with topping Roland Emmerich with regards to destroying the world time and time again, it’s also unnecessarily relentless. We get it, man: Superman is an out-of-this-world titan whose pummeling should cause a sonic boom, but even a drunk carny knows when it’s time to stop the ferris wheel. Once the film reaches maximum “v,” you’re all but a lifeless corpse, clinging to your eyes, your ears, and your sanity.
To be fair, Snyder’s not the only one leaning on Rampage-like destruction. Marvel’s just as guilty of it. So are those asinine Transformers films. The difference is that Snyder has no idea how to execute any of it. A telling example is three-fourths into the film when Batman goes after some guys in cars during a scene that’s all too similar to Christopher Nolan’s Lower Wacker chase in The Dark Knight. But it’s not, and here’s why: Snyder doesn’t have the finesse to shoot proper action scenes. None of it registers. There aren’t any stakes. The tricks have been done. The enemies are useless. What should have been an iconic sequence boils down to meandering action without any consequence. That’s not exciting; that’s dull filmmaking.
Yes, a film about Batman fighting Superman is dull.
Rest assured, die-hard fans will eat this up, and for good reason. After all, Snyder delivered a world where Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, The Flash, and Cyborg can co-exist and fight for justice. Granted, it’s a confusing one — where reality and fiction are continuously blurred thanks to the inclusion of real-world personalities like Anderson Cooper, Nancy Grace, and Neil deGrasse Tyson — but it’s nonetheless a world. Who knows, though. Maybe the other filmmakers, artists like David Ayer (Suicide Squad), Patty Jenkins (Wonder Woman), or James Wan (Aquaman), will smooth things out. There’s also the very likely possibility that Affleck will helm his own Batman flick. That could be neat.
(Ranking: Every Superman Film From Worst to Best)
Yet hardly awesome. No, those days are fading fast. The adrenaline and the excitement of a superhero film has taken back seat to morbid curiosity and blind acceptance. To paraphrase the late Hunter S. Thompson, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice offers us an ideal vantage point to look at the near past, where with the right kind of eyes we can almost see the high-water mark — that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back. Some might say that was 2012’s The Avengers; others might argue it was 2014’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Whatever the case, we’re coasting into a no-wake zone right now, and it’s getting harder to keep the signal on and tiring to glue our eyes toward the sky.
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Ranking: Every Batman Film from Worst to Best
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25 responses to “A Marriage Proposal: My Resolution to the Same Sex Marriage Debate”
Cory Burroughs
Gays have taken up the wrong issue
. It is not the institution of marriage that should be challenged rather it should be Government acknowledging partners so they can have their rights when it comes to to inheritance taxes and the host of other things they want that marriage provides. The Church itself does not ‘compromise ‘ on such an issue.
Cory you are right but that won’t solve the problem because the LGBT community wants to be able to marry and say that they are married. As it stands now if a homosexual dies & even if he or she leaves a will leaving everything to his or her partner, the blood relatives of the deceased can challenge the will and win as they have in many cases since the partner is not a spouse. What you suggest would solve that but it’s about more than that they have an agenda that they want to be mainstream.
I totally agree…I couldn’t have said it better myself.
Cory,right on the money
Sharon Shown
Pretty good article, Talitha, seems to be you have done considerable research. However, in one part: “…sole decision of the religious institution and they cannot be punished or rewarded in any way for it. If you are thinking that such a scenario will never happen, think again, it already has in this instance. There have also been instances where churches refused to marry same sex couples and homosexual pastors have refused to marry heterosexual couples, which is their prerogative. In my opinion, this is inherently in conflict with anti-discrimination laws because of the existing license requirement imposed on leaders of religious institutions by the state. If we take away license requirements, we cut the religious umbilical cord to the state.” My problem with this is the 1st amendment which trumps any ‘anti-discrimation laws’ which have been put into place as the modernity of society who is in the minority have raised their voices louder and louder occurred over the past 30 years. The question I would ask is does the ‘voice of a few’ out way the voices of the majority? It is evident with the DOMA law being recognized in each state’s constitution for 30 states should reveal that the majority do not agree with the ‘umbrella’ of the few being opened to force ALL to gather under one ‘umbrella’. As to the ‘license requirements’ why should the small minority make the decision for the majority in the ‘license requirements’? Additionally, in another part of the article, it is mentioned: “Both spouses and life partners would also have equality in civil and legal matters which are not covered by legal documents such as wills, for example.” I am not aware of any law or legal document that cannot cover everything that the homosexual couple intends to have completed that the heterosexual couple have. So, where would there even be a need to pass additional laws? In my opinion, there needs to be standards within our laws. For example, should there come a day that one would want the laws to be changed in order to ‘murder’ a person should they be allowed to do this with just a change of a law? Where are the standards? Does one continue to head into lasciviousness because a ‘few’ are going that direction? Does a nation lawfully decree anything and everything that one may want to do or to participate in because ‘they may believe it is their ‘right’? Lastly, a comment to this part: “If same sex or opposite sex couples do not want a merger under a civil union because of any perceived inequality or inferiority because of naming, they can seek a marriage from a religious institution which will marry them and these days there is no shortage of institutions willing to do either.” I would respond on this by saying that the absolute main reason that the homosexual couple wants to be ‘married’ and to also have that ‘marriage’ in a church is because as you stated “…couples do not want a merger under a civil union because of any perceived inequality or inferiority because of naming, they can seek a marriage from a religious institution which will marry them…” However, I don’t believe that even this will be satisfactory for the group until the ‘homosexual couple’ has been ‘married’ in a church that is complete disagreement with this [according to many scriptures in the Bible other than the two mentioned in this article] ‘marriage’ in order to have complete recognition in the ‘eyes of all to include all religious institutions’. An example would be if one ‘steals’ something but went on a campaign to fight for the ‘right’ to steal from anyone because it is their ‘right’ and that they should be allowed to exercise that ‘right’. Consequently, where does America end up? What will be the demise of America’s society of one is allowed to anything and everything without any restraint? There would be eventually chaos, wouldn’t there?
Sharon you make some excellent points but you also strengthened mine. because even with all of that in place and having the 1st amendment there is still such societal & government bias against Christianity more than any other religion and there have already been cases where churches were told by the government that they were discriminating against gays including the example I linked. So we know that’s not enough apparently. When you have a president who circumvents the constitution every chance he gets having such things in place is little assurance anymore. The religious community needs to own the narrative and since (unfortunately to me) there are religious institutions willing to marry same sex couples we can keep the government out w/o preventing gays the opportunity to “marry”if they don’t want a civil union. They just have to find a church who will perform such a ceremony or allow it. It protects marriage as a religious entity.
Gail Meek
This is EXACTLY what I have been trying to get across to people. There is Biblical marriage and there is secular (legal) marriage. Take the government out of marriage altogether (except for the dissolution for purposes of property and support of dependents) and leave the matter of marriage to the church. That would allow gay or straight people to choose the civil union or even civil marriage if they want to call it that…but it must have the word “civil” in it. Much like the distinction between civil law and criminal law. It’s law but it’s different law for different circumstances. Now, the problem will be two-fold…gays who insist on ceremonial (Biblical) marriage in the church..and some churches will comply and already do; and straights, evangelicals, who will still not want gays to even have the benefit of a civil union or civil (government recognized) marriage…based on principle alone and the desire to apply their Christian beliefs to everyone else, including non-Christians. But this is a very reasonable proposal. I support it. Of course, then the states would have to vote on it….and leave the federal government out of it completely…that is a dangerous way to go…federal law.
Gail thanks for your thoughts. Actually in this proposal even gays who want to be “married”won’t have a problem because they can do so in a church that allows it/will perform it. Such a church is not a reflection on the entire religion by any means.
@Sharon, I understand your concerns, but sadly many of them have already come to pass in this country. Murder IS sanctioned by our government. Some people say it is their “right.” It’s also done without restraint, as well as being fully funded by all of our tax dollars. It is now in every aspect of our healthcare system along with our public school system through ObamaCare. And it is fiercely defended, as a “right”… (Yes, abortion.) BTW, are you aware that Planned Parenthood will now be in every public school in the nation now?
Gay marriage IS coming to our country, and there is not much we can do about it. Young people these days are extremely sympathetic to this issue. It appears they have very little regard for traditional values or remaining celibate before marriage, as many of them often opt to “live together” prior to marriage anyway. Secular humanism and atheism has taken over huge portions of our educational system, and Christian values and Biblical teachings are largely lost. Without a major revival across this nation, this is the path we are on, and certainly will continue. I came from Texas, but have lived in CA for the past 12 or so years. I’ve seen first hand the huge difference when liberal humanism takes over our government and educational systems. This trend is now nationwide. Moreover, the entire Democratic Party has chosen to make gay marriage a part of their national platform. It is what it is, and it’s a current reality for our Nation.
That said, as Christians, we need to insist that our religious freedoms are not lost. To me, taking it back to when marriages were largely managed through the Church is our only option. We have to figure out a way to live side-by-side with unbelievers and sinners who are going to live the way they want, yet we need to have strong boundaries as well, fiercely guarding our values and rights. We need to make sure we are not forced into condoning and paying for lifestyles which are truly against God’s Will, Word and Ways. Coming down on what some people say is the “wrong side of history” is nothing. Coming down on what our Creator says is wrong, and will surly be judged is deadly and disastrous for our souls, and well being in this life. Obviously if a church is going to agree to sanction and perform same-sex marriages, they would be allowed to under the system we are describing. At least all Christian churches would not be required to, if marriage were taken out of government and given back to the Church.
Linda excellent points! it is so true that young people are very sympathetic to gay marriage so that’s also why I am going to fine tune it and submit to my local legislators and Congress.
I believe churches, cake makers, any and all that serve marriages will be forced to do so or pay penalties.
I do so enjoy reading your articles.
Kay some may think that’s silly but the government can do what it wants & that’s why I don’t want them in charge of marriage.
joycetyler
Talitha this is so interesting and I can’t find any real holes in it. Polygamists may want a piece of the marriage pie from the church and the government so that’s the only problem I see. I do not think polygamy should be legal by the way. Great job!
I am still fine tuning it but I think it is a great compromise. I am collaborating with my conservative BFF Walter Myers III on the polygamy inclusion because I did consider that so look to that in the near future. We are revising it 🙂
Glenyce
Pedophiles are now starting to take the small steps that the homosexuals took in their quest to be considered a condition of birth and just a different way to love. That they are people with a preference for younger partners, instead of the perverts that they are. And with permission of the younger person, any sexual act with that younger person can take place. The president favoring gay marriage just to garner votes from the LGBT community, has thrown the door open to just about anything. We now hear the term of pansexual, which by it’s description sounds like a sexual addiction problem. And when the military was forced to include homosexuals, they were also forced to allow sex with animals! I’ll never understand that one! While your very well written answer to gay marriage is interesting and a step in the right direction, it just doesn’t cover enough possibilities of unacceptable “mergers”.
William Hodges
Luv, once again, you stated your position quite eloquently and given a clear perspective. An excellent article.
Thanks so much William!
lawst
Marriage is not the property of Christianity. All cultures across time have had something akin to it in one way or another and different cultures have different values involved with it. I want the government out of the religious side of it completely. To most Christians it means a man and a woman, in Islam it can mean many wives, athiests….whatever, to Native Americans it’s a convoluted thing involving not just blood kin but clan structure. I would no more marry a man from the Salish tribe who was Bear than I would marry another Seneca Bear because that’s the same as marrying my brother. It doesn’t matter is he’s from WA and the Seneca are in NY, he’s still kin. Christianity says that’s ok, my culture says it’s not. I don’t want to impose my rules on everyone else nor do I want others to impose on me. Each should be left to their own version of what right looks like for their religion (or lack there of). The First Amendment was meant to allow this so that we don’t end up with a Church of America as there is a Church of England. On both sides of this issue each is seeking to use the government as a tool to meet their own ends without thinking how those laws will affect them and their own religious freedoms down the road If the government is allowed to dictate to one you can be assured that it will do so to YOU sometime in the future when another party is in control. It doesn’t matter if you’re for or against gay marriage, the issue at stake here is government control of religious freedom. If you don’t like what the middel east looks like you can blame it on government controlling religious practice. Imagine someone who wants to go back to how things used to be for Christians, not 20 years ago but 1000years ago. Women not working, slavery, public stoning, etc. That’s all there in the Bible. The people of Iran didn’t want that either but that’s what they got when they voted in favor of Sharia law. There are people in this country who *want* to go back to that. I can’t imagine anyone here wants that. Maybe I sound like an alarmist but really, this is the risk being run by anyone who wants to set aside the First Amendment to keet their own goals.
@lawst I never asserted that marriage was the property of Christianity or any other religion so I’m not sure what you’re talking about. Non-religious people can still be merged in civil unions/partnerships & have the exact same rights as married couples so what you are arguing for is a name at this point which is silly.
I’m so glad you are working on this,Talitha! It’s so great that good minds are working on this together and submitting ideas to Congress and our leaders. We need to be proactive on these issues that mean so much to us! We’ve already seen the lengths some government leaders will go to with zero regard to what the People want or need! It’s been stunning to realize how quickly and easily they have foisted THEIR will on the public, behind closed doors and with such little thought–without even reading LAWS we and our children will all live under. It’s scarey.
Thanks Linda! I am going to send to legislators, we need to resolve this once & for all and move on to other things, like the economy. I’m tired of politicians re-igniting this every time I turn around. Enough is enough!
labradorman
The word marriage derives from the word matri (mother) and mony ( being in the state of). What homosexual union, male -male or female- female could cause a woman to naturally end up in the state of being a mother; neither. THe word marriage does not work with respect to either homosexual union. Therefore no homosexual union should be treated or called such. What they have is a very friendly relationship. Lets stop bastardizing the english language as the homosexual community has tried to do with the word “gay” for nearly 30 years. THey are far from gay, they are homosexual. Marriage in fact is a sacrament. It is the divine icon of the trinitarian God; the father, the son and the holy spirit- in essence the whole concept of marriage derives from a religious perspective. TO call any union other than a union in which the complementary sexuality of the partners allows for the complete self donation of one to the other, thereby leaving it open to creation is nonsense.
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Jeffrey Liakos
The Dictionary already defined marriage. Government should stay out of marriage altogether.
Here is an idea: Get government out of the marriage issue altogether. Leave it to the Churches or have a civil union, the latter which should be acknowledged by the government. Give every couple the same benefits, regardless of a Church ordained marriage ceremony or a civil union. Mitt Romney and many conservatives advocate a Constitutional Amendment to define marriage as the union of a man and a woman. These people neglect the fact that the Dictionary has already defined marriage. So, if there is an argument that marriage is being redefined, that argument is null and void. You can’t take civil rights issues and bring them up for a vote. If you did that, we might still have slavery if it was allowed to be voted on. People can claim that there is no violation of the right of the LGBTQ community to marry, that they are free to marry a member of the opposite sex, however, they miss this basic fact: Gays and lesbians are attracted to people of the same sex, not people of the opposite sex. Any person who says that a gay person can marry a person of the opposite sex is clearly not in tune with the fact that biology is a determinant factor in our sexual orientation.
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The Masters is a professional invitational snooker tournament being held annually since 1975. It is one of the most prestigious competition for the sport which is also considered as part of the Triple Crown events, alongside with World Championship and the UK Championship.
It was held for the first time at the West Centre Hotel in London. Now since 2012, the event has been staged at the iconic Alexandra Palace in North London, which attracts sell-out crowd.
Also, in 1984 only ten leading players were invited to take part in the competition, however, the standard invitees have been changed to the top 16 players in the world rankings with the addition of two or three wild-card places in tournaments held between 1990 and 2010.
There were a total of three maximum breaks that have the tournament produced all throughout its history, all by overseas players. Canada’s Kirk Stevens made the first in 1984, China’s Ding Junhui in 2007, and Hong Kong’s Marco Fu in 2015.
Ronnie O’Sullivan holds the record for the most Masters titles, after winning the tournament for seven times (1995, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2014, 2016, and 2017), he appeared in four successive finals from 2004 to 2007, winning in 2005 and 2007. He won his seventh in 2017 by winning his second Masters title in a row and third in four years; that was also his 12th Masters final in 23 appearances.
In 2016, the Masters trophy was renamed as Paul Hunter Trophy to commemorate the three-time champion, who died in 2006 at the age of 27.
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US Embassies Prepare For Violence As Trump Makes Jerusalem Decision
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Jacob Bojesson Foreign Correspondent
December 05, 2017 12:15 PM ET
The U.S. Department of State has urged consulates across the world to boost security if President Donald Trump announces a relocation of the U.S. embassy in Israel.
Trump is expected to make an announcement on whether or not Jerusalem will be recognized as the capital of Israel. Trump promised to move the embassy during his campaign but signed a waiver in June to keep it in Tel Aviv for the time being.
Depending on what Trump says on the issue, violence could erupt in the Middle East with U.S. embassies being a potential target.
“The impending Jerusalem announcement has me very worried about the possibility of violent responses that could affect embassies,” a State Department official told Politico. “I hope I’m wrong.”
Israeli security agencies have met over the past few days to prepare for riots and other attacks, according to the Ynet news agency. Authorities believe Trump’s announcement could spark attacks from established terror groups, as well as so-called “lone wolf” terrorists.
Trump allegedly informed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas Tuesday of his intentions to follow through with the move to Jerusalem.
“President Mahmoud Abbas received a telephone call from U.S. President Donald Trump in which he notified the President (Abbas) of his intention to move the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem,” Nabil Abu Rudeinah, a spokesman for Abbas, said in a statement, Reuters reports. “President Abbas warned of the dangerous consequences such a decision would have to the peace process and to the peace, security and stability of the region and of the world.”
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Caris set for retirement after World Cup of Darts in Hamburg next month
Magnus Caris will bow out of professional darts after appearing in the World Cup of Darts for the final time next month in Hamburg, it has been revealed.
Caris, also known as ‘Poker Face’ has enjoyed a 32 year career and his appearance at the World Cup will be his eighth in total and he partners Dennis Nilsson.
He is most famous for his time on the BDO circuit where he reached the semi-finals in both Lakeside and the World Masters and has long been the trailblazer in terms of Nordic and Baltic darts.
Also he has appeared in the PDC World Championship five times losing in the first round each time he has played but has enjoyed most of his success as of late through the Nordic and Baltic and European Tour; most memorably his run to the Quarter-Finals of the Gibraltar Darts Trophy two years ago where he beat the likes of Jelle Klaasen, Benito van de Pas and Dyson Parody en route.
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Bicyclist In Critical Condition After Being Struck By Vehicle In Frisco
Filed Under:Bicyclist, crash, Critical Condition, Frisco Police, Independence Parkway, Joseph Orzo
FRISCO (CBSDFW.COM) – Frisco police are investigating a crash where a bicyclist was struck from behind by a vehicle early Saturday morning. The crash left the bicyclist in critical condition.
Police say the crash happened at around 5 a.m. in the 10100 block of Independence Parkway. The bicyclist was traveling southbound when he was struck by a vehicle traveling in the same direction.
The bicyclist, later identified as 35-year-old Joseph Orzo of McKinney, was transported to a hospital where he remains in critical condition with severe head injuries. Police say he was wearing a helmet at the time of the crash.
The driver who struck Orzo did stop at the scene of the crash and is cooperating with police. The cause of the crash is still under investigation.
Anyone with information on the crash is asked to call Frisco police at 972.292.6010.
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Choose Your Walled Garden
a free and open world depends on a free and open Internet...
— Vint Cerf
Quartz recently confirmed that millions of Facebook users have no idea that they're using the Internet. It seems that they have no perception of the Internet, only Facebook. The trend was initially noted three years ago by a researcher at LIRNEasia whilst surveying Indonesian’s about their Internet usage. They key conclusion? “It seemed that in their minds, the Internet did not exist; only Facebook.”
The trend has also be repeated in Africa with recent research identifying that the number of respondents saying they used Facebook was much higher than those who said they used the Internet.
At the recent World Economic Meeting in Davos, Sheryl Sandberg announced that in the developing world, "people will walk into phone stores and say 'I want Facebook.' People actually confuse Facebook and the Internet in some places."
For many, their first interaction with connected services and sharing is Facebook - they simply aren't aware of the possibilities of the broader Internet.
Facebook is attempting to appeal to developing nations in a number of ways:
Facebook announced in their latest quarterly results that 85% of their monthly active users connect via mobile devices. To provide connectivity in developing nations, Facebook has developed a lite version of their app for areas with low quality data connections and high usage of low end Android devices. The lite app requires just 250 Kilobytes of storage (compared to the full version's 25 Megabytes) and is designed to work in areas with 2G data network coverage. The app has been released in developing countries including Bangladesh, Nigeria, Nepal, Sudan, Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe.
Pricing is a significant factor, in India you can purchase a data plan that provides access only to Facebook for $2.50 per year.
Finally, Facebook is also planning solar powered drones to provide cheap Internet access to the two thirds of the world that currently have no access.
Connecting the next billion users to the Internet is a noble cause, but that Internet should be unfiltered and open - not enclosed via a proprietary platform.
Additional Quartz surveys found that many respondents "never" follow links out of Facebook. If one service has the vast majority of user engagement, it follows that content, advertisers, application creators and other services will all flow to that service, possibly to the exclusion of other platforms.
As Vint Cerf (one of the founders of the Internet and currently working on the Interplanetary Internet) noted, "a free and open world depends on a free and open Internet". Openness and connectivity has driven online innovation over the past few decades and will be required to continue to do so.
Walled garden - a software system where the service provider has control over applications, content, and media, and restricts convenient access to non-approved applications or content. This is in contrast to an open platform, where consumers have unrestricted access to applications, content, and much more. (Wikipedia)
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Erase the dangerous ideological "legacy" of the pedophilia in international institutions!
Petition to: EU Member State Foreign Ministers and the EU's EU High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs - Ms Federica Mogherini
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17,725 people have signed. Help us reach 20,000 signatures.
By CitizenGO Europe · Madrid, Spain · 03/01/2018
Condemned for the buggery of a boy, UNICEF consultant, Peter Newell, was a key and leading figure in the creation of international "standards" in the field of "child protection".
Sign a petition asking EU Member States to erase his "legacy", so as to ensure the protection of our families and the national security of each EU Member State, from the international "standards" which he created.
On February 16, 2018, British media reported on the conviction and imprisonment of former UNICEF consultant Peter Newell, who, as it happened, repeatedly assaulted a boy in the 1960s. When this happened for the first time, the child was 12 years old. Newell turned out to be a pedophile, which "deeply shocked" the UNICEF representative who spoke to the media.
However, Newell was not just any UN consultant. In fact, he was a key and leading figure in the creation of international standards in the field of "childhood protection".
We are convinced that these facts should make the state look at international "standards and obligations" in the field of "child protection" in a new and sober way.
Sign this petition, demanding that measures be taken to ensure that EU Member States, and the international community, are spared the "legacy" of the pedophile-expert, Peter Newell, as well as the organisations created and led by him.
The movement for the prohibition of corporal punishment in the family goes back to the activity of the pedophile pedagogical organisation, Pedophile Information Exchange (PIE), which existed in Great Britain from 1974 to 1982, when pedophilia was considered by many representatives of the English public as one of the aspects of the "rights" of homosexuals.
This English organisation first began an active struggle for the "right" of children to sexual freedom and for their "release" from parental control in order to facilitate pedophiles' access to children. Soon after PIE was closed by the authorities for "damage to public morality," the fallen flag of the struggle for "children's rights" was picked up by Peter Newell, who previously headed the educational direction in the "National Council for Civil Liberties", of which PIE was a member.
Over the years, he diligently and consistently created a movement for the prohibition of the right, first of teachers, and then, parents, to physically punish children - first at the national and then at the international level. In the pursuit of its goal, this movement was built on manipulation and deception from the very beginning. At the same time, Newell played a key role in all British, and, then, international organisations created to achieve this goal.
The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe based some of their decisions on documents originating from Newell's organisation and their "expert" participation. He was the author, co-author and member of the editorial boards of the official publications of UNESCO, UNICEF, and other documents that determined global policy - for example, the official UN report on violence against children.
Newell was, also, for a long time, a member of the Board of Directors of the influential international organisation, CRIN, the Child Rights International Network, which works with numerous organisations and government institutions associated with "protecting children", in many countries of the world.
Within the framework of this organisation, he was one of the creators and two leaders of the lobbyist coalition, which included 80 organisations from different countries, whose efforts played a decisive role in the adoption of the optional protocol to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, giving children the right to complain about violations of their rights directly to the UN Committee.
The activities of Newell and related structures, in fact, became the basis on which a number of international "standards" in the field of "protection of children's rights" were built.
For example, in 2007, Newell became one of two co-authors (the second was his "home partner" Rachel Hodgkin) of the official "Handbook on the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child", issued by UNICEF. He also actively promoted the idea of creating "children's government" structures. And, it was he who taught non-governmental organisations how to implement the recommendations of the UN Special Report on violence against children (the handbook he published on this subject was released in 2008 by the influential international organization Save the Children).
After the arrest and conviction of Peter Newell as a proven pedophile, the representative of UNICEF stated (as quoted by the BBC): "We are deeply shocked to learn about the arrest of Peter Newell. We did not know about this crime when he worked as a consultant to UNICEF 10 years ago. Since then, UNICEF has instituted rigorous procedures for checking staff and consultants."
But, as we saw above, Newell was not just one of many UNICEF consultants. This is a person who, without exaggeration, can be called a key figure in the creation of many international standards in the field of children's rights.
This situation raises serious and disturbing questions concerning the protection of procedures for the creation of international standards in the field of child protection, and the nature of the purposes for which they are created by various non-state lobbyists.
We are convinced that any legal norms, both internationally and nationally, should be interpreted and applied in favour of the family and the rights of parents. Norms, "standards" and practical approaches that contradict this principle are directed against the family, which means that they are dangerous for society and for the national security of the state. Thus, in the future, they must be rejected.
This situation has arisen as new legal "standards" and new "obligations" in the field of child protection are seriously threatening the international security and national security of our countries, and as these new legal "standards and obligations" are based on radical, anti-family ideologies.
"The past shows very well how many international requirements and norms in the field of children's rights and human rights, in general, are deceptive and dangerous," said the President of the Family Policy Center. "We have been paying attention to the fact that many such claims are based on radical ideologies which are dangerous for society and are literally created out of nothing. This story is very illustrative. It shows that next to the creation of a whole system of standards, there were not just abstract ideologues - but a real pedophile and the institutions he directed. The state should make serious conclusions from such stories!"
"We have known for a long time that the origins of the movement for prohibiting corporal punishment of children in the family are related to the activities of pedophiles, as well as about the key importance of Peter Newell in this area," said Pavel Parfentiev, Director of the Family Policy Center. "And, now, after this revelation (about Newell), we felt it necessary to publicly advert to this situation. The public should know who and how they form the "international standards", supposedly designed to protect the child, but, in fact, often aimed at destroying the family and for other extremely unseemly purposes."
In 2014, UNICEF published a position paper in which they supported the legislative recognition of same-sex couples, called for the repeal of laws restricting the promotion of homosexuality among children and "changing social norms" with regard to homosexuality - all supposedly to "protect" the rights and interests of the world's children. This position of the UN Children's Fund was condemned in a petition on CitizenGO, calling on UNICEF to withdraw its position and collecting more than 112,000 signatures from around the world.
What led UNICEF to these unnatural positions? Could it not be the influence of interested "experts", such as the convicted pedophile and rapist, Peter Newell?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5399247/UNICEF-kids-rights-campaigner-jailed-rape-boy-13.html
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/child-rights-activist-peter-newell-convicted-of-sex-abuse-wrn0cnvm9
http://www.thelawpages.com/court-cases/Peter-Newell-22193-1.law
Protect our families and national security!
For the Kind Attention of:
All EU Member State Foreign and Interior Ministers
EU High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs - Ms Federica Mogherini
Cc'ed to UN Secretary General - Mr António Guterres
On February 16, 2018, British media reported the conviction and imprisonment of a former UNICEF (and other international institutions) consultant , Peter Newell, who, as it turned out, repeatedly assaulted a boy in the 1960s. When this happened the first time, the child was 12 years-old. Newell turned out to be a pedophile, which "deeply shocked" the UNICEF representative who spoke to the media.
In particular, Peter Newell, and the organisations he led (through their lobbying methods), have ensured the creation of a new "duty" of the state, which has no basis in the norms of international law, to ensure the harassment of parents (legal, or otherwise) for using corporal punishment in the upbringing of their children. Along with other equally unfounded "standards", this non-existent obligation was unjustly imposed on the states of the world by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child.
Within the framework of this organisation, he was one of the creators and two leaders of the lobbyist coalition, which included 80 organisations from different countries, whose efforts played a decisive role in the adoption of the optional protocol to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, giving children the right to complain about violations of their rights directly to the UN Committee. Peter Newell was also an adviser to the European Network of Commissioners for Children's Rights, and a number of other international organisations.
Particularly frightening is the fact that the destiny of the whole world, cynically using international institutions as a means to project their own dangerous designs, is seriously influenced by such people as Peter Newell and the groups they create. This poses a huge danger for world security, for our nations, our families and our children.
It is necessary to draw from this situation the most serious conclusions at the state level.
In this regard, we urge:
The Foreign and Interior Ministers of each Member State of the EU to ensure the protection of their nation's families and the national security of their countries, by:
- Launching an investigation to identify officials and nonprofit organisations whose activities could be influenced by the convicted pedophile, Peter Newell, as an expert to UNICEF and other international institutions, or, other structures and organisations created and directed by him. Ensure thorough verification of the legality of their activities.
- Ensuring the refusal to implement any concepts, standards and programs in your nations which were developed and promoted by Peter Newell, as an expert of UNICEF and other international institutions, or, other structures and organisations created and directed by him.
- Completely abandoning the implementation in your nations of international norms, approaches and "standards" in the field of child protection, contrary to the interests of families, the rights of parents, traditional family and moral values.
- Conducting an analysis of the norms of international treaties affecting the interests of the family and the rights of parents to which your nations are party. Take measures to exit those treaties whose norms are unfavourable from the point of view of protecting the family and the rights of parents.
- Demanding an investigation, in the UN and other international institutions, aimed at identifying the extent and nature of the impact on their work of the UNICEF expert and convicted pedophile, Peter Newell, and other international institutions, or, other structures and organisations created and directed by him.
- Demanding, on behalf of your nations, that all international documents and other materials developed with their participation or under their influence be withdrawn and reviewed.
- Consistently opposing any influence on the activities of international organisations and the documents of radical anti-family ideologies that they create, and uncompromisingly upholding the fundamental rights of the family and parents.
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Say NO to the death penalty in Belarus
Why the death penalty should be abolished
How the death penalty was abolished in different countries
The main user of the capital punishment in the history of Italy was the Holy Inquisition, although formally the ecclesiastical court did not execute people, but was authorized by Pope Innocent IV (1252) only to torture during the investigation. The Church was to use every effort to return the heretic to the Church; if he persisted, or if his conversion was feigned – at first the verdict was a simple condemnation for heresy and was accompanied by excommunication or declaration that the defendant was no longer under the jurisdiction of the Church and was passed to the temporal authorities. Over time, the sentences for the transmission to the secular authorities started being accompanied with the words “debita animadversione puniendum”, “shall be punished according to merit”.
The death penalty was used in the UK since the founding of the state. It had been abolished for the first time in the 11th century by William the Conqueror, but was reinstated by his son, William Rufus.
Since the Vatican was a part of Rome, the practice of the death penalty was spread on it both during the Inquisition, and in the period of its decline. Like everywhere in Italy, the death penalty was executed by secular authorities, and used to be approved by the Holy See since its inception. There are many works of religious leaders, starting with Aurelius Augustine "The City of God" (written in 413-427), that approved of the imposition and execution of death sentences by secular authorities.
The history of the death penalty in Mexico has a very old and deep roots. The jurisprudence of the Aztec state had the death penalty and the forms were terrible in their diversity, ranging from decapitation and dismemberment to stoning and hanging. Also, in the era of the Aztecs human lives used to be sacrificed to the gods (often these were prisoners).
During a considerable period of its existence the Netherlands were under the influence of Spain, where the death penalty was widely used. However, in the 16th century the Dutch began the fight for independence, and in 1549 launched the creation of the Dutch Republic, which lasted almost until the occupation of the territory by the French troops in 1895.
Exhibition on death penalty in Belarus opens in London; only Belarusian political prisoner does not qualify for early release; religious group charged for policing pilgrimage forced to call off event
Andrei Paluda: Abolition of the death penalty is what every Belarusian needs
Belarus is the only country in Europe and among post-Soviet states that stills executes people. The people here are killed by shooting in the back of the head. Despite the widely recognized fact that the death penalty does not work as a deterrent and is an apparent vestige of the Middle Ages, the conveyor of death continues to operate, while the veil of secrecy and the inhuman treatment to the families of death row prisoners are reminiscent of the Stalin-era repression.
UN human rights experts denounce execution in Belarus
Belarus must halt the executions of individuals who have submitted complaints to the Human Rights Committee, UN human rights experts said today upon being informed about the execution of Aleksandr Zhilnikov whose case is being examined by the Committee.
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Twitter acquires Posterous
Twitter has raised hundreds of millions of dollars in funding, and yesterday it apparently put some of that money to use in making what might be its most prominent, if not largest, acquisition yet.
What did Twitter buy? Short-form blogging site Posterous.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed. According to Posterous CEO Sachin Agarwal, “The opportunities in front of Twitter are exciting, and we couldn’t be happier about bringing our team’s expertise to a product that reaches hundreds of millions of users around the globe. Plus, the people at Twitter are genuinely nice folks who share our vision for making sharing simpler.”
So what will happen to Posterous itself? In announcing that his company was being acquired, Agarwal wrote, “We’ll give users ample notice if we make any changes to the service,” adding, “For users who would like to back up their content or move to another service, we’ll share clear instructions for doing so in the coming weeks.”
This would appear to be a not-too-subtle hint that Posterous is not long for this world.
As The Telegraph’s Emma Barnett notes, this may be little more than an acquihire for Twitter. She quotes Tumblr and Instagram founder Marco Arment’s prediction: “I give Posterous less than 6 months before it’s euphemistically ‘sunset’.”
Reading the comments to Agarwal’s post, it’s clear that more than a few users are expecting the same thing. One wrote, “Not good. Not at all. Twitter will be the death of Posterous. You had a good thing going and now you’ve ruined it.” Another lamented, “Well this stinks! Posterous is by far the best blogging platform and now I will be forced to find something else. And as of now, Posterous doesn’t provide instructions on how to migrate to another platform … not happy at all!”
Time will tell whether Posterous becomes a victim of its own success. But regardless, for better or worse, the trend of large ‘start-ups’ (like Facebook and Twitter) buying up smaller successful and semi-successful startups is one that shows no signs of abating.
That puts users of new services in a somewhat precarious situation, raising the possibility that it will eventually become harder for some young consumer internet companies to build relationships with users if users become skeptical about their longevity.
That would be quite interesting if nothing else. After all, in the first .com boom, many of us watched as our favorite startups disappeared overnight after they ‘failed’ (read: running out of money).
In today’s .com boom, it’s just as likely that your favorite start-ups will disappear because they ‘succeeded’ (read: got acquired). The question: is that really much better?
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HP set to enter cloud market, but can it compete with Amazon?
Amazon isn’t just the world’s largest ecommerce company. Thanks to its Amazon Web Services (AWS) offering, Amazon has become the 800 pound gorilla of cloud computing.
It’s a role it shows no intention of relinquishing.
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Tesco’s iPad 3 pricing error: accident or strategy?
On Tuesday I received a message from a friend pointing me to an item within Tesco Direct’s website. I clicked the link and was welcomed with a 64GB iPad 3 costing only £49.99.
The person who messaged me had just completed his order and showed me the confirmation email. With that, I set off to buy two (why not?).
Within three minutes the website was down (I was on the delivery stage of the order). 20 minutes after that the site was back up and I could not proceed. I was so annoyed! I could have bought two iPads for £99.98!
An hour later the BBC had already published the story.
Please note: this is purely conspiracy theory, I am not actually accusing Tesco but merely observing a possibility…
B2B social media is easy (honest!)
Recently I’ve been looking a lot more closely at the B2B field, and I’ve noticed that a lot of businesses in the sector are still at the ‘testing the waters’ stage as far as social media goes.
This isn’t true across the board of course, there’s plenty of large B2Bs doing some wonderful stuff, but it struck me that there wasn’t a lot of beginner-level knowledge out there for B2B’s starting out in social media.
The reason I’ve avoided writing about the topic for a while is that most of this has probably been covered in articles we’ve published previously, but it’s always handy to have a quick glance at the principles of what we do and why we do it, and every week more people decide to take the plunge, so hopefully this will help them out as well.
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TMP New Hire: Tim Enright
Tim Enright has more than 12 years of progressive experience in the human capital recruitment field with expertise in account management, requirements development, and solution development.
He has considerable experience developing project solutions including analysis of client needs, setting the strategic sales approach to win new business; leading special project efforts; and creating/conducting client demonstrations and technical presentations.
Mr. Enright joined TMP in September 2010, coming from Monster Government Solutions (formerly QuickHire) where he worked for over eight years in Business Development and Sales Management focusing on selling Human Capital Management Solutions such as Talent Acquisition, Onboarding, and outreach solutions to the Federal Government.
Mr. Enright has served in the active U.S. Army with the 82nd Airborne Division, 1st Cavalry Division and continues to serve in the Maryland Army National Guard. His total service time currently exceeds 21 years. He has worked in the tactical intelligence field supporting a broad range of military operations.
He is a recipient of multiple awards for outstanding performance and excellence throughout his career. Awards include: President's Club, High Achievers Club, as well as such military awards as The Bronze Star, Army Commendation Medal (2), Army Achievement Medal (6), Global War on Terrorism; as well as the Operation Iraqi Freedom and Southwest Asia Campaign Medals.
Tim is a graduate of James Madison University where he received a BS in Psychology with a concentration in Industrial/Organizational Psychology and Employee Training and Development. Tim resides in Northern Virginia with his wife and two daughters.
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Cardiac Catheterization Lab at DCH Regional Medical Center
The Cardiac Catheterization Lab enables a cardiologist to detect blocked arteries in heart attack victims or people experiencing heart attack symptoms, such as chest pain. In order to detect blocked arteries, a physician inserts a flexible catheter into the patient’s vein that supplies blood to the heart, usually through the leg. The catheter releases a dye into the arteries so they can be seen by X-ray.
The Cardiac Catheterization Lab provides invasive diagnostic and therapeutic services, including angioplasty. During angioplasty, a tiny balloon is inserted into an artery to clear it of fatty deposits. Stents are inserted into an artery to prevent it from closing after bypass surgery or angioplasty. Temporary and permanent pacemakers are also implanted in the cath lab. Total patient care is provided by a registered nurse. The Cardiac Catheterization Lab provides coverage for emergency procedures 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
The lab has procedure rooms to prepare patients for a procedure and where they return after a procedure to rest and recover before going home. A spacious waiting room for this area offers convenience and privacy for families. The cath lab also includes a check-in and registration desk for patients, and a consult room for physicians to meet with patients and their family.
Cardiac ablation is used to treat certain heart rhythm problems that medicines are not controlling. These problems may be dangerous if not treated. Click here for more information.
Electrocardiograms detect and diagnose heart abnormalities and generate a record of the electrical currents associated with heart muscle activity. EKGs are provided around the clock at DCH Regional Medical Center and STAT (emergency) response for emergencies is provided.
Echocardiograms use ultrasonic waves to visualize structural and functional abnormalities of the heart. Echocardiograms are performed at DCH Regional Medical Center from 7 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. in the Cardiology department, located on the first floor. Staff is on call 24 hours a day for emergency procedures. STAT response is available for emergency situations. Echocardiograms are performed on patients of all ages with suspected cardiovascular disease, or who are scheduled to undergo a procedure in which a physician desires a baseline Echocardiogram.
Cardiac Surgical Unit at DCH Regional Medical Center
The Cardiac Surgical Unit is designed to care for postoperative cardiac surgical patients. The unit includes an intensive care unit for critical care during the immediate postoperative period, and a step-down unit for further recovery until discharge.
Acute Cardiac Care Unit/Cardiac Intervention Unit at DCH Regional Medical Center
The Acute Cardiac Care Unit provides care for nonsurgical, acutely ill cardiac patients requiring intensive care. ACCU has private rooms and is designed to provide intensive care nursing and close observation of patients. Adjacent to the ACCU is the Cardiac Intervention Unit. The CIU provides patient care for nonsurgical, cardiac patients who require close observation after invasive and intervention procedures.
Cardiac Rehabilitation is a comprehensive, long-term program that involves medical evaluation, prescribed exercise, modifying risk factors, education, counseling and behavioral interventions. These services are designed to help people with heart disease speed up their recovery and return to regular activities. It can also help reduce the risk of having future heart problems. Click here to learn more about Cardiac Rehab.
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Girolamo Fabrici (1537-1619)
Girolamo Fabrici, known as Hieronymus Fabricius in Latin, was given the surname Aquapendente from the city where he was born, near Orvieto, Italy. Born in 1533, Fabrici was the eldest son of a respected noble family, whose coat of arms appears as an illustration in the title page of Fabrici's book on embryology, De formato foetu. Little is known of Fabrici's parents. His father is recorded as Fabricio, and Fabrici is said to have been named for his paternal grandfather.
Center for Reproductive Health (1986-1995)
The Center for Reproductive Health was a fertility clinic run by a partnership of world-renowned fertility specialists from 1986 to 1995. The Center operated at three clinic locations under affiliation with the University of California Irvine 's Medical Center (UCIMC). The Center's renowned specialists and medical success stories attracted clients worldwide until evidence of highly unethical practices conducted by doctors there resulted in over one hundred lawsuits against the University. At issue was the doctors' misappropriation and unauthorized use of eggs and embryos.
Corpus Callosum Defects Associated with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Prenatal exposure to alcohol (ethanol) can result in a continuum of developmental abnormalities that are highly variable depending on the severity, duration, frequency, and timing of exposure during gestation. Defects of the corpus callosum (CC) have proven to be a reliable indicator of prenatal alcohol exposure as it affects the brain. Structural abnormalities of the CC occur along a continuum, like most alcohol-induced anomalies, whereby more severe prenatal exposure results in a greater expression of the abnormal trait.
Patrick Christopher Steptoe (1913-1988)
Patrick Christopher Steptoe was a British gynecologist responsible for major advances in gynecology and reproductive technology. Throughout his career Steptoe promoted laparoscopy, a minimally invasive surgical technique that allows a view inside the abdominal cavity, successfully advancing its usefulness in gynecology. After partnering with embryologist Robert Edwards in 1966, the pair performed the first in vitro fertilization in humans.
José Pedro Balmaceda (1948- )
José Pedro Balmaceda was born 22 August 1948 in Santiago, Chile. His mother Juanita owned a women's boutique in the city and his father José was a successful owner of several timber mills. He grew up with five sisters who remained in Santiago all their lives. Balmaceda attended the college preparatory school San Ignatius where he met Sergio Stone, his future partner at the Center for Reproductive Health fertility clinic in the University of California Irvine Medical Center.
Marie Stopes International
Marie Stopes International (MSI) is a not-for-profit organization based in the United Kingdom that promotes reproductive and sexual health. It grew from one small clinic, founded in North London in 1921, into an international provider of reproductive health care and information that operates in almost forty countries. The Mothers' Clinic, from which it grew, was created in the hopes of expanding couples' reproductive rights, and the modern organization continues to work toward the same goal today.
Parasitic Twins
Parasitic twins, a specific type of conjoined twins, occurs when one twin ceases development during gestation and becomes vestigial to the fully formed dominant twin, called the autositic twin. The underdeveloped twin is called parasitic because it is only partially formed, is not functional, or is wholly dependent on the autositic twin.
Effects of Prenatal Alcohol Exposure on Cerebellum Development
Prenatal exposure to alcohol (ethanol) results in a continuum of physical, neurological, behavioral, and learning defects collectively grouped under the heading fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD). Fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) is the most severe combination of these defects under this heading, and is characterized by pre- and postnatal growth deficiencies, facial abnormalities, and defects of the central nervous system (CNS).
VACTERL Association
VACTERL association is a term applied to a specific group of abnormalities involving structures derived from the mesoderm. Although the defects of this disorder are clearly linked, VACTERL is called an association rather than a syndrome because the exact genetic cause is unknown. "VACTERL" is an acronym, each letter standing for one of the defects associated with the condition: V for vertebral anomalies, A for anal atresia, C for cardiovascular anomalies, T for tracheoesophageal fistula, E for esophageal atresia, R for renal anomalies, and L for limb defects.
Subject: Disorders
Henry Havelock Ellis (1859-1939)
Henry Havelock Ellis was born on 2 February 1859 at Croydon in Surrey, England, to Susannah Wheatley Ellis and Edward Peppen Ellis, a sea captain. A psychologist, essayist, and physician, he is best known for his contributions to the study of human sexuality and his support of sex education and women's rights. Ellis 's work catalyzed the revolution against repressive Victorian views of sexuality.
Trisomy 18 (Edwards Syndrome)
John Hilton Edwards first described the symptoms of the genetic disorder known as Trisomy 18 - one of the most common forms of trisomy, which occurs when cells have an extra copy of a chromosome, in humans - in 1960. Trisomy 18, also known as Edwards Syndrome, occurs approximately once per 6000 live births and is second in frequency only to Trisomy 21, or Down's Syndrome, as an autosomal trisomy. Trisomy 18 causes substantial developmental problems in utero.
Karl Wilhelm Theodor Richard von Hertwig (1850-1937)
Karl Wilhelm Theodor Richard von Hertwig is an important figure in the history of embryology for his contributions of artificial hybridization of sea urchin eggs and the formulation of his coelom theory. He was born 23 September 1850 in Friedelberg, Germany, to Elise Trapp and Carl Hertwig. Richard and his older brother Oscar began their studies at Jena under the direction of Ernst Haeckel from 1868 to 1871. In 1872 Hertwig became a lecturer in zoology at Jena while Oscar lectured in anatomy and embryology.
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723)
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek was born in Delft, the Netherlands, on 24 October 1632 to Margriet Jacobsdochter van den Berch and Philips Thooniszoon, both of whom were middle-class artisans. He attended grammar school in Warmond, and then temporarily moved to Benthuizen to live with relatives. Eventually Leeuwenhoek left for Amsterdam to work as a cloth merchant's apprentice. Returning to Delft, he married Barbara de Mey on 29 July 1654, and worked as a shopkeeper. The marriage resulted in five children, only one of whom, Maria, outlived Leeuwenhoek.
Edward Donnall Thomas (1920-2012)
Edward Donnall Thomas, an American physician and scientist, gained recognition in the scientific community for conducting the first bone marrow transplant, a pioneering form of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). Bone marrow transplants are considered to be the first successful example of tissue engineering, a field within regenerative medicine that uses hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) as a vehicle for treatment. Prior to Thomas's groundbreaking work, most blood-borne diseases, including certain inherited and autoimmune diseases, were considered lethal.
Francesco Redi (1626-1698)
Francesco Redi, son of Florentine physician Cecilia de' Ghinci and Gregorio Redi, was born in Arezzo, Italy, on 18 February 1626. He studied philosophy and medicine at the University of Pisa, graduating on 1 May 1647. A year later, Redi moved to Florence and registered at the Collegio Medico. There he served at the Medici Court as both the head physician and superintendent of the ducal pharmacy and foundry. Redi was also a member of the Accademia del Cimento, which flourished from 1657-1667. It was during this decade that Redi produced his most important works.
A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Midwifery, (1752-1764) by William Smellie
A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Midwifery is a three volume collection of patient accounts that William Smellie published from 1752 to 1764. Smellie, a physician and instructor in obstetrics in Great Britain, published these compilations to share his expertise in reproductive medicine, while also providing his students and colleagues with a source of reference in their own medical practices. Smellie wrote these books to shift obstetrics from a discipline practiced by midwives with limited medical training to one practiced in a medical context by physicians.
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Camillo Golgi's Black Reaction for Staining Neurons
In 1873 Italy, Camillo Golgi created the black reaction technique, which enabled scientists to stain and view the structure of neurons, the specialized cells that compose the nervous system. During the nineteenth century, scientists were studying cells and proposed cell theory, which describes the basic characteristics of cells as fundamental units of life. However, cell theory struggled to explain neurons as they are specialized cells and more complex in structure than cells of other tissues.
Fate Mapping Techniques
For more than 2000 years, embryologists, biologists, and philosophers have studied and detailed the processes that follow fertilization. The fertilized egg proliferates into cells that begin to separate into distinct, identifiable zones that will eventually become adult structures through the process of morphogenesis. As the cells continue to multiply, patterns form and cells begin to differentiate, and eventually commit to their fate.
Cerebral Organoid as a Model System in the Study of Microcephaly
Scientists use cerebral organoids, which are artificially produced miniature organs that represent embryonic or fetal brains and have many properties similar to them, to help them study developmental disorders like microcephaly. In human embryos, cerebral tissue in the form of neuroectoderm appears within the first nine weeks of human development, and it gives rise to the brain and spinal cord.
Amniocentesis is a test used for prenatal diagnosis of inherited diseases, Rh incompatibility, neural tube defects, and lung maturity. Normally performed during the second trimester of a pregnancy, this invasive procedure allows the detection of health problems in the fetus as early as fifteen weeks gestation. Although amniocentesis does carry some significant risks, the medical community commonly accepts it as a safe and useful procedure.
Hanging Drop Tissue Culture
The hanging drop tissue culture is a technique utilized in embryology and other fields to allow growth that would otherwise be restricted by the flat plane of culture dishes and also to minimize the surface area to volume ratio, slowing evaporation. The classic hanging drop culture is a small drop of liquid, such as plasma or some other media allowing tissue growth, suspended from an inverted watch glass. The hanging drop is then suspended by gravity and surface tension, rather than spreading across a plate.
Golgi Staining Technique
The Golgi staining technique, also called the black reaction after the stain's color, was developed in the 1870s and 1880s in Italy to make brain cells (neurons) visible under the microscope. Camillo Golgi developed the technique while working with nervous tissue, which required Golgi to examine cell structure under the microscope. Golgi improved upon existing methods of staining, enabling scientists to view entire neurons for the first time and changing the way people discussed the development and composition of the brain's cells.
Subject: Technologies, Processes
Endoscopic Fetoscopy
Endoscopic fetoscopy is a minimally invasive surgical procedure performed during pregnancy that allows physicians to view the fetus in-utero. Physicians use endoscopic fetoscopy to evaluate, diagnose, and treat fetal abnormalities. Physicians use an endoscope, or a thin, flexible surgical device with a light attached to its end, to perform endoscopic fetoscopy procedures. In 1954, Björn Westin performed the first endoscopic fetoscopy in Sweden.
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f(R,L m ) gravity
Tiberiu Harko1 and FranciscoS.N. Lobo2
1 Department of Physics and Center for Theoretical and Computational Physics, The University of Hong Kong, Pok Fu Lam Road, Hong Kong, P.R. China
2 Centro de Astronomia e Astrofísica da Universidade de Lisboa, Campo Grande, Ed. C8, 1749-016, Lisboa, Portugal
harko@hkucc.hku.hk
Revised: 27 September 2010
Published online: 23 October 2010
We generalize the f(R) type gravity models by assuming that the gravitational Lagrangian is given by an arbitrary function of the Ricci scalar R and of the matter Lagrangian L m . We obtain the gravitational field equations in the metric formalism, as well as the equations of motion for test particles, which follow from the covariant divergence of the energy-momentum tensor. The equations of motion for test particles can also be derived from a variational principle in the particular case in which the Lagrangian density of the matter is an arbitrary function of the energy density of the matter only. Generally, the motion is non-geodesic, and it takes place in the presence of an extra force orthogonal to the four-velocity. The Newtonian limit of the equation of motion is also considered, and a procedure for obtaining the energy-momentum tensor of the matter is presented. The gravitational field equations and the equations of motion for a particular model in which the action of the gravitational field has an exponential dependence on the standard general relativistic Hilbert–Einstein Lagrange density are also derived.
© Springer-Verlag / Società Italiana di Fisica, 2010
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gravity and Cardassian-like expansion as one of its consequences
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Non-minimal Maxwell-modified Gauss–Bonnet cosmologies: inflation and dark energy
Friedmann model with viscous cosmology in modified gravity theory
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A Matter of Life and Death: “A.I.”
by Jonathan Rosenbaum
from Film Quarterly Spring 2012, Vol. 65, No. 3
In On Kubrick (BFI Publishing, 2007), James Naremore reflects on his response to the ending of A.I. Artificial Intelligence: “Am I weeping for the death of David’s mother, for the death of humans, for the death of photography, or for the death of movies?” (251) The scene in question, the final one in the film, features a robot boy, David (Haley Joel Osment), and a cloned duplication of a human woman, Monica (Frances O’Connor), who died centuries before and whom David was still earlier programmed by Monica to love as a mother. These characters are shown going to bed together and falling asleep, the robot for the first time and Monica for the last time, after spending a happy day together. This is an experience of orgasmic closure and extinction afforded to David by sympathetic extraterrestials visiting Earth who have found him frozen in ice long after mankind has perished, and have searched his memory for cinematic images of his life that they share among themselves and then reproduce in actuality. The day itself that they create for David is a fiction made up of these shared images—an Oedipal birthday party for the robot boy, who never had a birthday because he was never born, enjoyed without the presence of a father or brother, where David draws “storyboards” of his adventures two thousand years earlier to show to a receptive if uncomprehending Monica.
David—the first in a line of robots designed to love humans—was purchased by Monica’s husband Henry (Sam Robards) after their real-life son Martin (Jake Thomas) entered a long-term coma from which he might never recover. In other words, David was invented in order to fill a gap, and we also discover that David’s unscrupulous inventor, Allen Hobby (William Hurt), made him a precise replica of his own lost son. So he can never be anything more than an approximate substitute, just as the clone of Monica, created from a lock of the real Monica’s hair preserved for two thousand years by David’s teddy bear (a fellow super-toy named Teddy), can also never be anything else.
A.I. Artificial Intelligence. © 2001 Warner Bros. / Dreamworks LLC. DVD: Warner Home Video.
In David’s case, however, the differences between a real and ersatz Monica are crucial because only the latter can love him. Two millennia earlier, some time after she programmed David to love her, the original Monica discarded and abandoned him. He became unacceptable once her own son recovered from his coma and returned home, even though initially David was treated like a second child. But after a series of taunts and challenges by Martin toward his sibling rival, the boy robot started to malfunction. He attempted to eat spinach at one family meal, which necessitated mechanical surgery. Then at a birthday party for Martin, after some of Martin’s friends threatened to cut David with a knife, David seized Martin, asking for his protection, and fell with him to the bottom of a swimming pool.
David has always been a simulacrum, and in the film’s final scene the resurrected Monica is one as well; both are as reproducible as the separate prints of a film. Viewers who criticize their final scene together—also an improved simulacrum, in this case of much earlier scenes between them—as sentimental usually overlook that it’s occurring long after humanity has died out. This means that the death Naremore refers to has to be the death of an emotion or idea—even if, as the film’s offscreen narration implies, it’s also the birth of a dream, a robot’s dream. Perhaps it could be regarded as an artificial and manufactured footnote to the human race, a sort of ghostly echo. Something, in short, that is very much like a film.
Like Naremore, I weep during the final scene of A.I. and I don’t know who or what I’m weeping for—even though, like him, I can recall the line cited in the film by Yeats (a poet who also once wrote, “In dreams begin responsibilities”): “The world’s more full of weeping / than you can understand.” Like him, I suspect that my tears must have something to do with both the loss of my own mother and my experience of cinema—what it means to be born and then to be abandoned, and also what it means to bask in the familial warmth and shelter of a film and a film theater before being ejected from both. Prior to this scene, what has dominated this tragic film has involved a feeling of chill and abandonment, from the ocean waves in the first shot through various images of boys in frozen coffins that recall the “sleeping” astronauts in suspended animation in Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) to an image of David, bereft and alone, at the bottom of the swimming pool. (Similarly, David’s frozen underwater prison in the ruins of Coney Island is created by a detached ferris wheel, an image drawn from Spielberg’s 1979 film 1941.)
In the pessimistic cosmology shared by Kubrick and Spielberg, cinema and death appear to be the only enduring realities, each one dominated by fixation on a maternal figure. The Blue Fairy, a deity from Pinocchio, is described by Hobby as “part of the great human flaw—to wish for things that don’t exist”; David seeks her out to make him a “real” boy and thus gain Monica’s love. And the Monica who loves David and appears only in the film’s final scene is a deity derived from life, but no less a fiction. For Hobby, a version of both Mephistopheles and Frankenstein, human flaws, including his own, can be “great” and therefore cherished, but for David, condemned to love someone who won’t love him back, they can only be lamented. Both characters, in effect, are incurable cinephiles. And the film brings us closer to David than to Hobby, so that we ultimately love a film that refuses to love us back.
A.I. is a film about having been programmed emotionally— something that the cinema does to us all, and a subject that my first book, Moving Places, attempted to explore. This is one reason why, as a profound meditation on the difference between the human and the mechanical, A.I. constitutes one of the best allegories about cinema that I know. And to recount this allegory in terms of a mother’s love makes it even more devastating.
Perhaps the most overrated virtue in science fiction is an aptitude for prophecy. This virtue has almost nothing to do with why Olaf Stapledon’s Star Maker (1937), which recounts the life and breadth of the cosmos, is for me the greatest of all science- fiction novels. “He doesn’t pile on inventions in order to amuse or astonish his readers,” Jorge Luis Borges wrote of Stapledon in his 1965 preface to the novel, never published in English, “he follows and records with rigorous honesty the dark and complex vicissitudes of a coherent dream.”* And the true basis of this coherent dream was Stapledon’s precise grasp of 1937 England, not so much his very beautiful and persuasive vision of the birth, death, and breadth of the cosmos that derived from this concrete experience.
(* Borges, Livre de Préfaces, trans. Françoise-Marie Rosset (Paris: Gallimard, 1980), 196. Original Argentinian edition of the novel: Hacedor de estrellas (Buenos Aires: Ediciones Minotauro, 1965). The rough English translation is mine.)
Stanley Kubrick died in the same country sixty-two years later, only two years prior to 2001 (ironically, the same year that A.I. was released), and prophecy about the persistence of the Cold War into the second millennium, with the planet neatly divided between the U.S. and Russia, clearly isn’t among the many plausible reasons for considering 2001 a masterpiece. By contrast, the initial vision of the future in A.I. seems frighteningly plausible from the vantage point of 1999 or 2001 or 2011 (when this essay was written). Just as 2001 extends portions of the Cold War premises of Doctor Strangelove, A.I. develops the premise of artificial intelligence as represented by HAL in 2001. Yet what seems most prophetically credible is the prediction of what happens to Earth and humanity prior to this development—the destruction of the Earth as we know it that makes the displacement of humans by robots inevitable. “They made us too smart, too quick, and too many,” Gigolo Joe (Jude Law) says to David. “We’re suffering for the mistakes they made because when the end comes, all that will be left is us. That’s why they hate us.” And, by the same token, this is why we prefer the robots in this story to the humans.
Over the image and sound of crashing ocean waves, an offscreen male narrator says, “Those were the years after the ice caps had melted because of the greenhouse gases, and the oceans had risen to drown so many cities along all the shorelines of the world. Amsterdam, Venice, New York, forever lost. Millions of people were displaced, climate became chaotic. Hundreds of millions of people starved in poorer countries. Elsewhere a high degree of prosperity survived when most governments in the developed world introduced legal sanctions to strictly license pregnancies. Which is why robots, who were never hungry and did not consume resources beyond that of their first manufacture, were so essential an economic link in the chain mail of society.”
This prelude morphs into a lecture being given by Professor Allan Hobby at Cybertronics, a company in New Jersey facility about robots, during which he stabs a woman robot in the hand and casually asks her to start undressing as portions of his demonstration. He proposes building a robot who can love humans, creating “a love that will never end,” and the moral issue raised by a woman in the audience, which Hobby refuses to address, remains at the film’s center. I’ve argued elsewhere that Kubrick was more of a moralist than Arthur Schnitzler and that Eyes Wide Shut, unlike Traumnovelle, has a villain (Sydney Pollack’s Victor Ziegler), so it’s important to emphasize that the villains of A.I—Hobby first of all; secondarily Martin, the natural child of Monica and Henry; and more incidentally, the workingclass mob of the Flesh Fair (a violent rally where humans are invited to destroy robots) are exclusively human, and that the recurring détournement performed by the narrative is to shift our identification from humans to androids. (See “In Dreams Begin Responsibilities: Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut,” Essential Cinema: On the Necessity of Film Canons, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004, 265.) Repeatedly the film turns from making us uncomfortable about the otherness of robots to making us even more uncomfortable about the thoughtlessness and cruelty of humans—and by ending the first sequence with Hobby’s female robot applying makeup just before beginning the second sequence with the human Monica applying makeup, the film is already asking us to make comparisons. Ostensibly the film is about the programming of a robot by his adoptive human mother to love him, but the self-programming of Monica—first to accept David as a human and then to reject him—is no less crucial.
Yet one thing that limits A.I. both as prophecy and as vision throughout is a venerable Hollywood staple, the reduction of the world to America. After the fleeting reference to Amsterdam and Venice in the opening narration (a concession that already limits humanity to the West, thereby consigning most of Earth’s population to oblivion), the rest of the world ceases to exist for the remainder of the narrative, which restricts all its action over two millennia to New York and environs. Ironically, even Disney’s Pinocchio (1940) was worldlier in its placement of its own American hero and American Blue Fairy within a European setting populated by various Italian and English characters. Yet curiously and inexplicably, the only English as opposed to American accent that we hear in A.I. is that of the offscreen narrator. So the conception of a twenty-first century in A.I. that is generically and exclusively American already dates the film as a twentieth-century conception. (Ironically, Stapledon’s own first book, in 1930, Last and First Men, purporting to recount the remaining two billion years of human history, founders at least partially as prophecy on a similarly shortsighted premise of an “Americanized” planet.)
Unlike many of my colleagues, I can’t simply accept A.I. as either “a film by Steven Spielberg” or “a film by Stanley Kubrick.” I can only read it as a film deriving from the will and consciousness of both of them—one alive and one dead, and encompassing all the dialectical contradictions that this strange collaboration entails. In a way these contradictions become those of cinema itself, what Gilberto Perez has called the material ghost, which confound us about what is living or dead, animate or inanimate, human or robotic—or, in the terms of A.I., “orga” or “mecha.”
When he was alive, Kubrick proposed that Spielberg—a friend who first read a treatment for A.I. in 1984—direct the film. He gave two reasons: because Spielberg could direct a boy actor more quickly than he could, before the boy had time to visibly age, and because he believed Spielberg would be more adept in handling the story’s emotions. Perhaps he was also correctly thinking of Spielberg as the only true successor of Walt Disney, whose major emotional theme is the traumatic loss or absence of parents—especially in Pinocchio, Dumbo (1941), Bambi (1942), and Song of the South (1946). But it’s worth adding that Kubrick arrived at the notion of Spielberg directing A.I. only after he explored and then rejected the possibility of a robot playing the robot hero. To my mind, Haley Joel Osment’s performance as David is one of the greatest child performances in the history of cinema, but for Kubrick, it seems that any human performance in the role would necessarily qualify as a compromise and concession. So it isn’t surprising that the film makes us care chiefly about the robot characters, not about the human ones.
After he died, Kubrick’s widow and brother-in-law again proposed that Spielberg make the film, because otherwise it would never exist, and Spielberg, after agreeing, wrote his own script derived from the materials generated or supervised by Kubrick—a forty-page treatment by Ian Watson, inspired both by a 1969 Brian Aldiss story (“Super- Toys Last All Summer Long”) and by Carlo Collodi’s 1883 novel Pinocchio, and over a thousand detailed drawings by Chris Baker.
I suspect that Spielberg brought far more faithfulness and seriousness to this project, at least within his own limitations, than he brought to his 1993 adaptation of Thomas Keneally’s novel Schindler’s List or, for that matter, to the subject of the Holocaust. But this is only a suspicion on my part, based mainly on Spielberg’s various statements. (He has published many of Baker’s drawings, both as DVD extras and in a large-format book about A.I. edited by Kubrick’s brother-in-law Jan Harlan and Jane M. Struthers; but virtually none of Watson’s treatment apart from a few stray pages reproduced in the latter has become available.)
I must confess that, even though Spielberg may have made the film’s beginning and ending more emotionally powerful than Kubrick could have, his less focused handling of the film’s middle section as a succession of fairground attractions (Flesh Fair, Rouge City, a drowned Manhattan, and Coney Island) where the sense of spectacle periodically threatens to overwhelm the narrative is somewhat less convincing. Arguably, the only sequence in this section that recovers the purity of the film’s beginning and end is David’s visit to the factory where he discovers with horror not only his doppelgänger but an endless, assembly-line procession of Davids. Yet even here, the film falters by misplacing Hobby—the principal villain whom neither the film nor David himself ever quite succeeds in morally confronting. By this time, the narrative has become so disgruntled with humanity that it can only turn away from Hobby and his co-workers to concentrate on David and Gigolo Joe and their separate forms of existential doom. (Only Teddy, the film’s Jiminy Cricket, seems exempt from the wretchedness of their immortality.) Even Joe, who lacks David’s capacity for love, becomes morally superior to Hobby, whose morbid love for his dead son led to the blighted creation of David.
Even though Joe, unlike Monica and Hobby, can’t experience death, there is no extinction in the film that feels more tragic than his as he’s being reeled away like a captured fish, when he says to David, “I am— I was,” a four-word summary of his existential dilemma. Cinema lives; but is this a blessing or a malediction?
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The metal mecha who find David are the descendants of the Mecha of the film’s storyline. Thousands of years later, they are seeking to understand their creators. As you quote Joe saying, “all that will be left is us,” the film’s ending bears that out. They’re not aliens, they’re mechanical, though the elongated design (which David’s first appearance as a silhouette foreshadows) is certainly meant to invoke the sensation of ‘alien’ to an audience.
Alexandro Aldrete says
Excellent meditation. Just one thing, and I hope I’m not the first person to address this: those aliens at the end are not aliens, but robots. They are mechas of the future on an archeological and anthropological mission of research just as we today look for clues of our early days 3000 years ago. This is the way the film has of telling us Gigolo Joe’s prophecy became true.
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Marya says
I love this film and this is some of the best writing I’ve ever read about it.
Adrian Luca says
The narrator’s is not the only non-American accent heard in the film. Gigolo Joe has a distinct British accent, as does the bounty hunter in the balloon who sells Joe and David and Ted to the flesh fair.
Yes, I have always seen the “aliens” at the end as the descendants of David. A deeper and perhaps more troubling ending than their being aliens.
Dr.Hobby says
To Speak with David Swinton, the mecha in the film go to website and type “I wish to speak to davidswinton”
Is Hobby a villain or a tragic figure in his own right?
Are robots better than humans or were they programmed that way? If robots have no choice but to be ‘better than humans’, are they really good(based on free will) or ‘good'(based on artificial conditioning)? Was Alex really good in Clockwork Orange when he ‘reprogrammed’ to be good?
Real good or bad is a matter of free will. So, only humans can be truly good or bad n A.I.
As robots were programmed never to harm humans, they are not really being good but merely following their programming.
However, there is something like genuine emotions in David and this makes him violently destroy another ‘David’ out of jealousy and egotism: “I am unique!” Paradoxically, more human a robot becomes, more unstable is the barrier between good and bad. Though David would never harm a human–well, he did run over some cops with the amphibicopter but I suppose unintentionally–, he will harm another robot out of childish jealousy.
And though Teddy has been by his side all through those years, David doesn’t think twice about leaving Teddy behind and all alone as he slips into eternity with ‘Monica’.
Love is as selfish as it’s generous. In serving one thing, it disregards all others.
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Generation Z to the Rescue as Manufacturing Faces a 'Silver Tsunami'
2019 L2L Manufacturing Index reveals Generation Z's interest in manufacturing, but the industry needs to fight for their attention and participation
SPARKS, Nev., July 10, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. Manufacturing has a workforce problem. But a new survey conducted by Leading2Lean (L2L) reveals that there is an unlikely hope for a new generation of workers that will spur industry-wide innovation.
The 2019 L2L Manufacturing Index, an annual measurement of the American public's perceptions of U.S. manufacturing, found that adults in Generation Z (those aged 18-22) are 19% more likely to have had a counselor, teacher or mentor suggest they look into manufacturing as a viable career option when compared to the general population. One-third (32%) of Generation Z has had manufacturing suggested to them as a career option, as compared to only 18% of Millennials and 13% of the general population.
Better still, the survey also found that Generation Z is intrigued by careers in manufacturing. They are 7% more likely to consider working in the manufacturing industry and 12% less likely to view the manufacturing industry as being in decline, both compared against the general population. These findings may be in relation to Generation Z having a larger exposure to the industry compared to previous generations with one-third (32%) having family members or friends working in the manufacturing industry, compared to 19% for Millennials and 15% for the general population.
"For many years, manufacturing has struggled to introduce and entice new workers to the industry," said Keith Barr, President and CEO of L2L, the lean manufacturing software company behind the survey. "The industry has failed to compete with technology for their interest. Unfortunately, the industry hasn't fully explained the dynamic, technology-driven environment of the modern plant floor. With Gen Z just moving into the workforce, we need to encourage their participation in modern manufacturing. If we don't, I'm afraid the industry will be hit with the negative effects of the Silver Tsunami."
U.S. Manufacturing peaked in the 1970s when Baby Boomers started entering the workforce. Now, Boomers are retiring and with them goes vast institutional knowledge and experience. According to the latest government data, there are now 522,000 open manufacturing jobs in the United States (an all-time high)1, and a recent report from Deloitte and The Manufacturing Institute (the National Association of Manufacturer's social-impact arm) projects that 2.4 million manufacturing jobs will go unfilled over the next decade.2
Unfortunately, vast misconceptions about the industry persist. For example, the 2019 L2L Manufacturing Index revealed that over half (53%) of the general population assumes the average salary of a mid-level manufacturing manager is under $60,000. In reality, the average salary for a manufacturing manager in 2018 was $118,500, according to IndustryWeek.3
While Generation Z appears to have had greater overall exposure to manufacturing, misperceptions around the highly technical and modern nature of the industry still remain. A majority (56%) of Generation Z would consider working in the tech industry, while only 27% would consider working in the manufacturing industry. Additionally, they are more likely to consider manufacturing jobs boring when compared to Millennials and the general population.
Leading2Lean though has reason to believe that the industry is making positive moves towards a better-informed public. Last year's 2018 Leading2Lean Manufacturing Index measured that 70% of people believed that the American manufacturing industry was in decline. When the same question was asked in this year's survey, only 54% of people believed the industry is in decline, showcasing a surprisingly better understanding of the present state of the industry.
"With Gen Z we have an opportunity as an industry to build a new workforce, but it will be a challenge that the industry is going to have to take seriously in order to get their attention and participation," said Barr. "We know that the workforce crisis is a top concern with a majority of manufacturers.4 Instead of hoping new workers will appear, the industry needs to make changes that will attract the workforce. Gen Z is incredibly tech savvy. The industry needs to consider developing and deploying plant-floor technology that utilizes gamification and transparency to take advantage of Gen Z's unique skills. The greatest opportunity for manufacturing is to have an engaged, empowered workforce that is constantly innovating."
Education is the key, and it is an area that manufacturing continues to struggle in. When surveyed about alternative types of education, the 2019 L2L Manufacturing Index found that a vast 75% of people have never had a counselor, teacher or mentor suggest they look into attending trade or vocational school as a means to a viable career option. The number was slightly lower with Generation Z (59%) and Millennials (67%), but still showcases an extreme disconnect in consideration of alternatives outside of traditional 4-year institutions.
When surveyed about the likeability and availability of work, 54% of Generation Z respondents agreed that there is a shortage of skilled manufacturing workers in the U.S., and 43% agreed that manufacturing jobs are an attractive option to younger workers and the next generation of workers. A majority (59%) of Generation Z also agreed that trade schools offer promising career opportunities for high school students graduating in 2019.
Generation Z grew up in the midst of the Great Recession, watched their older peers accumulate student debt, then struggle to pay it off with low-paying jobs right out of college. They are seeking higher paid jobs in a more transparent and open learning environment, and they're increasingly open to alternative types of education and training. 5 Barr believes manufacturing jobs can meet their needs and provide the diverse and rewarding work experience they crave.
To learn more about the 2019 L2L Manufacturing Index, view more survey results, and download data visualizations, please visit www.l2l.com/leading2lean-manufacturing-index.
The 2019 L2L Manufacturing Index findings are sourced from two online omnibus surveys conducted by Engine in May of 2019 and initiated by Leading2Lean (L2L). The first survey was conducted May 6-8, 2019 and distributed to a sample of 1,003 adults demographically representative of the U.S. at a 95% confidence level. The second survey was conducted May 9-13, 2019 and distributed to a sample of 225 respondents aged 18-22 at a 95% confidence level. A total of 303 respondents were aged 18-22 from the two surveys, providing a 6% margin of error for the total Generation Z (18-22) audience. Leading2Lean has defined "Generation Z" as those born between 1997 and 2012 as defined by Pew Research Center.6
About Leading2Lean
Founded in 2010, Northern Nevada based Leading2Lean (L2L) unifies manufacturing plants toward the common goal of production performance. The company works with manufacturers of all industries to provide a suite of software solutions that break down the silos that inhibit communication, alignment, and efficiency by enabling the right data to the right people at the right times. The company's Lean Execution System (LES) software, CloudDISPATCH, provides critical real-time and actionable data to create a problem-solving, engaged workforce through L2L's Manufacturing 4.0 solution. For more information, visit www.L2L.com.
1 NAM Manufacturers' Outlook Survey – Q4 2018
www.nam.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/NAM-Q4-2018-Manufacturers-Outlook-Survey.pdf
2 Deloitte - 2018 Skills Gap in Manufacturing Study www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/manufacturing/articles/future-of-manufacturing-skills-gap-study.html
3 2018 IndustryWeek Salary Survey
www.industryweek.com/talent/2018-industryweek-salary-survey-pay-takes-dip-morale-stays-high
4 National Association of Manufacturers' 2018 Manufacturers' Outlook Survey
www.themanufacturinginstitute.org/News-Articles/2018/11/14-Skills-Gap-Report.aspx
5 Deloitte Insights – Gen Z Enters the Workforce
www2.deloitte.com/insights/us/en/focus/technology-and-the-future-of-work/generation-z-enters-workforce.html
6 Pew Research Center - Defining Generations: Where Millennials end and Generation Z begins
www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/01/17/where-millennials-end-and-generation-z-begins
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Eustace Mullins - Secrets of The Federal Reserve (FULL)
Fantastic presentation by the late great Eustace Mullins about the Secrets of the Federal Reserve. Eustace Mullins is arguable the best researcher of esoteric topics.
Eustace Clarence Mullins, Jr. (March 9, 1923 – February 2, 2010) was a populist American political writer, biographer. His most famous work is The Secrets of The Federal Reserve. Along with Nesta Webster, he is generally regarded as one of the most influential authors in the genre of conspiracism.
Eustace Clarence Mullins, Jr. was born in Roanoke, Virginia, the third child of Eustace Clarence Mullins (1899–1961) and his wife Jane Katherine Muse (1897–1971). His father was a salesman in a retail clothing store.
Eustace Mullins was educated at Washington and Lee University, New York University, the University of North Dakota and the Institute of Contemporary Arts (Washington, D.C.)
In December 1942, at Charlottesville, Virginia he enlisted in the military as a Warrant Officer. He was a veteran of the United States Army Air Forces, with thirty-eight months active service during World War II.
Mullins frequently visited poet Ezra Pound during his period of incarceration in St. Elizabeths Hospital for the Mentally Ill in Washington, D.C. between 1946 and 1959. According to Mullins it was Pound who set him on the course of research that led to his writing The Secrets of The Federal Reserve
Mullins was a researcher at the Library of Congress in 1950 and worked with Senator Joseph McCarthy investigating Communist Party funding sources.He later stated that he believed McCarthy had "started to turn the tide against world communism". Shortly after his first book came out in 1952, he was discharged by the Library of Congress.
In the 1950s, Mullins wrote for Conde McGinley’s newspaper Common Sense, which promoted the second edition of his book on the Federal Reserve, entitled The Federal Reserve Conspiracy (1954). Around this time, he also wrote for Lyrl Clark Van Hyning's Chicago-based newsletter, Women's Voice. In 1995, he was writing for Criminal Politics. Around the end of his life, he would write for Willis Carto's magazine Barnes Review.
Mullins lived in Staunton, Virginia, in the house on Madison Place where he grew up, from the mid 1970s through the end of his life.
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Eustace was a great speaker of Truth, thou if he understood Bible History the word Jews came from the 2 tribes(Judah n Benjamin) that there land alotment of the Promise Land after Moses led the 12 Tribes out of their captivity in Egypt was Jabez what is now called Jerusalem and they were called The House of Judah. Kenites(Hebrew word meaning children of Cain1John 3:12 tell you who Cains father was)mixed into that House of Judah doing work chopping wood hauling water for the Burnt Offerings.These Kenites were taken captive along with the House of Judah into Babylon by Nebuchadrezzar. During the 60 year captivity the Kenites now calling themselves Jews if you read 1Chr.2:55 that the Kenites were the scribes writing laws n keeping the books for the House of Judah. That my friends gives you a clue as to how satans evil seed got into this world. Its all been deception since satan Beguiled both Adam n Eve in the Garden. No Apple(another false teaching)both being decieved n Seduced when you come to relize Cains father wasn't Adam it was satan. Get the Truth of Fathers Word at ShepherdsChapel from Pastor Arnold Murray. As you can feel n see all the confusion going on in todays world you need to know how its all going to play out. When satan gets cast from Heaven Rev.12:9 to earth appearing in Jerusalem claiming to be Jesus. Its coming sooner than you think....
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Inside ResearchGate, the social network for scientists backed by Bill Gates
When talking about Berlin startups that have lasted more than five years, only a few names come to mind. One of them is undoubtedly ResearchGate, a social network that offers a new kind of collaboration between scientists and is on a mission to “make research open”.
Founded in 2008 by Ijad Madisch, Sören Hofmayer, and Horst Fickenscher, ResearchGate has since grown to a network of 13 million member scientists with around 270 employees. It’s also backed to the tune of over $80 million in funding by investors like Bill Gates, Benchmark Capital, Goldman Sachs and Tenaya Capital. Recently, the company has shifted to focus on monetization and plans to break-even with the coming round, according to Madisch.
We caught up with ResearchGate’s CEO Ijad Madisch about meeting Bill Gates, why it can be dangerous for startups to raise too much money too early on, and how Berlin’s tech scene can improve moving forward.
Before founding ResearchGate, you were on a path to become a medical professor. Did you have any prior knowledge of what being an entrepreneur entailed?
No, not at all. I also didn’t really want to become an entrepreneur. I was never a big fan of the idea of going to a business school to build businesses. I was convinced businesses could only work if they came from people coming from the industry they might want to change.
In the mid-2000s, I was in Boston doing some research at the Harvard Medical School for a couple of years and met a good friend from the Harvard Business School. On my last day before going back to Germany, I still remember we went for a long walk in the city discussing the future, and he said to me: ‘You will be an entrepreneur, for sure. I believe that.’ And I was like, ‘No, no, I’m going to become a medical professor.’ He saw that coming, which I didn’t. Later on, when I started ResearchGate, this friend helped me set everything up and taught me how to talk to investors.
One thing I would recommend to entrepreneurs is to not raise too much money in the first one to three years.
Who were some other mentors and figures that have played key roles in helping the company grow?
Early on, my parents were the ones who taught me a lot of smaller things which I’ve retrospectively recognized as important elements of being a successful entrepreneur. After that, it was my academic professors, friends, our first angel investor Joachim Schoss then Matt Cohler – who became the strongest influence – and, of course, in all the years after we started, the co-founders. We all help each other grow and get through tough times together.
Through Matt Cohler, you met Bill Gates. In 2013, it was announced that ResearchGate raised a $35 million Series C round led by the Microsoft co-founder. What was it like to pitch to someone of that stature?
Pitching to him was surreal. Especially because before that I was just reading about him in articles. In the end, I wasn’t doing anything much different when pitching to Bill Gates as I was pitching to Matt Cohler or anyone else. It’s almost always the same.
A lot of people ask me how I raised so much money. First, $35 million, and then later $53 million. But these numbers only start to make sense – or you can only begin to grasp them in your mind – if you’ve raised €5,000 or €10,000 before, which is also a lot of money. One thing I would recommend to entrepreneurs is to not raise too much money in the first one to three years because it can destroy the company and how you deal with money. You can start becoming numb. A lot of entrepreneurs get way too much money, too early and this huge amount of money can seduce you into decisions you wouldn’t make if had have less money. It doesn’t teach you how to build something up with little money – or to build the right things.
When I last interviewed you in 2014, you told me that turning a profit wasn’t the main priority. Now, the company seems to be taking aggressive steps to becoming a money-making entity. Can you talk about this shift?
If you start to build up a product, you usually see linear growth which accelerates over time. The exponential growth you might see – it usually doesn’t exist and in my opinion, is often fuelled by a lot of marketing. When you build a product and see linear growth, I think it’s crucial that you don’t try to monetize too early because you might destroy the product you’re trying to build. If you don’t treat monetization as a product on its own, it might just be put on top of your product and then it’s not creating value for the user. That’s why we were really strict about not monetizing then.
Once you reach a certain point in your growth though and you’ve already created value with your product for the users, then you’ll find the right moment to monetize. We started monetizing three years ago and started to slowly understand what the users need as well as how we can monetize the network and content in a way that funds a platform like ours long-term.
The appeal of Berlin can only be seen through the success of its companies.
The company has been based in Berlin for nearly a decade – almost as long as SoundCloud has been around. What are some of the biggest changes – good and bad – that you’ve noticed in the evolution of the city’s startup scene?
What we’ve been going through in the past couple of years is a natural evolution. Companies like SoundCloud and ResearchGate have helped to create a scene with a lot of talent. I’ve seen a lot of companies come and go – but I’ve always tried to stay focused on product development, work towards our mission and not be a part of the hype. The appeal of Berlin can only be seen through the success of its companies. For now, we have companies like Delivery Hero, which went public, and Zalando, of course.
Sometimes people try to find simple solutions to complex problems and end up wasting money from other people, which I don’t find so cool. This is where the Berlin scene needs to grow and learn a lot. When looking at founders in the U.S. vs. in Germany, you can see that a lot of founders in Germany come from business schools and not from the industry they’re trying to change. This is where I see a lot of room for improvement when it comes to how we’re building startups, who we’re giving money to and what kind of startups we’re giving money to. Again, this will all come; it’s just a matter of time. It’s not going to happen overnight.
Thank you so much for the inspiring chat, Ijad! To dig deeper into ResearchGate check out their website.
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The Church in the world
“Every human being has the right to life, to dream and to find his or her rightful place in our ‘common home’!
Every person has a right to the future." @Pontifex, March 30
Catholic and Muslim leaders meet
Catholic and Muslim leaders met in late March in Chicago to discuss how to improve relations between these two major world religions. They reflected on a document on the topic of human fraternity, which was signed in February by Pope Francis and Sheikh Ahmad el-Tayeb, a leading authority for Sunni Muslims throughout the world. After the meeting, Chicago Cardinal Blase J. Cupich spoke of three steps to building fraternity: establishing and nurturing dialogue, striving for cooperation in daily life, and working toward mutual understanding of one another's beliefs and practices. He went on to say: “Authentic dialogue requires that we strive to remove the barriers of pretense and subterfuge that so often accompany speech.”
Pope honors Italian missionary
Sister Maria Concetta Esu, an Italian nun from the Congregation of the Daughters of St. Joseph of Genoni, was honored recently with a medal from Pope Francis after a General Audience at the Vatican. Sister Maria Concetta, who is 85, has been a midwife in Africa for almost 60 years, and in that time has delivered thousands of babies. Pope Francis met Sister Maria Concetta on a visit to the Central African Republic in 2015, and spoke of her “tireless” efforts on behalf of children, mothers and families. He thanked her for “the work you have done in the midst of our African brothers and sisters, in the service of life.”
Pope’s prayer intention for may:
The Church in Africa, a Seed of Unity
That the Church in Africa, through the commitment of its members, may be the seed of unity among her peoples and a sign of hope for this continent.
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Jessica L. Neu
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Department of Earth System Science
Neu, J. L., and M. Prather (2012), Toward a more physical representation of precipitation scavenging in global chemistry models: cloud overlap and ice physics and their impact on tropospheric ozone, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 12, 3289-3310, doi:10.5194/acp-12-3289-2012.
Neu, J. L., et al. (2008), Oceanic alkyl nitrates as a natural source of tropospheric ozone, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L13814, doi:10.1029/2008GL034189.
Neu, J. L., M. Prather, and J. E. Penner (2007), Global atmospheric chemistry: Integrating over fractional cloud cover, J. Geophys. Res., 112, D11306, doi:10.1029/2006JD008007.
Gaudel, A., et al. (2018), Tropospheric Ozone Assessment Report: Present-day distribution and trends of tropospheric ozone relevant to climate and global atmospheric chemistry model evaluation, Elem Sci Anth, 6, 39, doi:10.1525/elementa.291.
Santee, M., et al. (2017), A comprehensive overview of the climatological composition of the Asian summer monsoon anticyclone based on 10 years of Aura Microwave Limb Sounder measurements, J. Geophys. Res., 122, 5491-5514, doi:10.1002/2016JD026408.
Millán, L. F., et al. (2016), Case studies of the impact of orbital sampling on stratospheric trend detection and derivation of tropical vertical velocities: solar occultation vs. limb emission sounding, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 11521-11534, doi:10.5194/acp-16-11521-2016.
Fishman, J., et al. (2012), The United States’ next generation of atmospheric composition and coastal ecosystem measurements NASA’s Geostationary Coastal and Air Pollution Events (GEO-CAPE) Mission, Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 93, 1547-1566.
Fishman, J., et al. (2012), The United States’ Next Generation Of Atmospheric Composition And Coastal Ecosystem Measurements: NASA’s Geostationary Coastal and Air Pollution Events (GEO-CAPE) Mission, Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc., 1547-1566.
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eSports will be discussed as an addition to the Olympics
By Sarah O'Brien
The Olympic Games could see the addition of professional video gaming thanks to the head of the British eSports Association (BEA).
The founder and acting CEO of the BEA, Chester King, has revealed he will meet the International Olympic Committee in the next fortnight to convince them to embrace the global phenomenon.
King told the Telegraph Business of Sports conference his plans to talk to the IOC were based on the announcement eSports would be included as an official medal event at the 2022 Asia Games.
The inclusion of eSports at the Asia Games is deduced from a “strategic partnership” between the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) and Alisports – a subsidiary of Alibaba which is similar to eBay.
The multi-million dollar industry is quickly growing but eSports is unlikely to be added to the Olympics in time for the Rio games, or even the Tokyo Games in 2020 as the Asian Games is expected to be a trial.
It might not be an easy feat, with IOC president, Thomas Bach, revealing last month he was unsure if eSports is a sport “with regard to physical activity and what it needs to be considered sport”.
“We do not see an organisation or a structure that will give us confidence, or guarantee, that in this area the Olympic rules and values of sport are respected and in place, and that the implementation of these rules are monitored and secured,” Bach added.
“There is no International Federation that has the necessary authority to give this guarantee and to restrict these activities to the values of sport … I can only give you a very personal remark, but some of these Games are contrary to all our values.”
King countered this belief and said he hopes to persuade the IOC that eSports deserves to be part of the international multi-sport event.
“I think there’s been a lack of awareness about the different types of eSports,” King said.
“I think there’s an education play with the IOC to say, ‘What are good games?’
“There isn’t a global federation, an international federation, that’s recognised, and part of what we’re doing with the IOC is hoping to come together with about seven countries that have the right values.
“For it to be mainstream accepted, there’s got to be a clear strategy on what to do.”
There is hope though as LA 2024 Olympic bid chairman, Casey Wasserman, showed interest in eSports being added to the Olympic program.
“We view esports’ immense global popularity and continued advances in digital technologies as tremendous tools for reconnecting millennials with the Olympic movement,” he said in a statement last year.
“Harnessing the power of new technologies like virtual and augmented reality to promote healthy lifestyles will be a key objective as we seek to create a new Games for a new era in 2024.”
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How to ask questions of opponents of climate change policies to expose ethical problems with cost and scientific uncertainty arguments
Posted on May 8, 2018 by dabrown57
Most arguments against climate change laws and policies are based on claims of unacceptable costs or scientific uncertainty, arguments that hide or ignore ethical problems with these arguments, This video explains how to ask questions of those who oppose climate change policies on the basis of cost or scientific uncertainty which questions are designed to expose ethical problems with these arguments.
The list of questions referenced in the video follows:
Questions to be asked of those opposing government action on climate change on the basis of cost to the economy, cost to specific industries, or job destruction.
When you argue that governments should not adopt policies to reduce ghg emissions to their fair share of safe global emissions on the basis that climate policies will impose unacceptable costs on national economies, destroy specific industries, or kill jobs:
Do you deny high-emitting nations not only have economic interests but also duties and obligations to nations and people most vulnerable to climate impacts to limit their ghg emissions to their fair share of safe global emissions?
Do you deny that a high emitting nation needs to take responsibility for the harms to human health and ecological systems on which life depends which the nation is causing in other nations
Do you deny the applicability of the well-established international norm that polluters should pay for consequences of their pollution?
Do you agree that a nation’s climate change policy is implicitly a position on how high atmospheric concentrations of ghgs should be allowed to rise?
Do you agree that a national ghg emissions target must be understood as implicitly a position on a global emissions reduction pathway necessary to stabilize atmospheric ghg concentrations at safe levels?
Do you agree that no nation has a right kill other people or destroy the ecological systems on which life depends simply because reducing ghg emissions will impose costs on the high-emitting nation?
Do you agree that nations which emit ghgs at levels beyond their fair share of safe global emissions have a duty to help pay for reasonable adaptation needs and unavoidable damages of low-emitting vulnerable countries and individuals who have done little to cause climate change?
Do you agree that the costs of inaction on climate change must be considered by nations who refuse to reduce their ghg emissions to their fair share of safe global emissions on the basis of cost to them?\
Given that the United States has for over twenty-five years failed to adequately respond to climate change because of alleged unacceptable costs to it and that due to delay ghg emissions reductions now needed to avoid potentially catastrophic climate change are much steeper and costly than what would be required if the United States acted twenty-five years ago, is it just for the United States to now defend further inaction on climate change on the basis of cost
Questions to be asked of those opposing national action on climate change on the basis of scientific uncertainty.
When you argue that nations such as the United States or states, regional, or local governments, businesses, organizations, or individuals that emit high levels of greenhouse gases (ghg) need not reduce their ghg emissions to their fair share of safe global emission because of scientific uncertainty about adverse climate change impacts:
On what specific basis do you disregard the conclusions of the United States Academy of Sciences and over a hundred of the most prestigious scientific organizations whose membership includes those with expertise relevant to the science of climate change, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Geophysical Union, the American Institute of Physics, the American Meteorological Society, the Royal Meteorological Society, and the Royal Society of the UK and according to the American Academy of Sciences 97 percent of scientists who actually do peer-reviewed research on climate change which conclusions holds that the Earth is warming, that the warming is mostly human caused, and that harsh impacts from warming are already being experienced in parts of the world, and that the international community is running out of time to prevent catastrophic warming.
Assuming, for the sake of argument, that there are some remaining scientific uncertainties about climate change impacts, are you arguing that no action of climate change should be taken until all scientific uncertainties are resolved given that waiting to resolve uncertainties before action is taken will virtually guarantee that it will too late to prevent catastrophic human-induced climate change harms to people and ecological systems around the world?
Given that waiting until uncertainties are resolved will make climate change harms worse and the scale of reductions needed to prevent dangerous climate change much more daunting, do you deny that those who are most vulnerable to climate change’s harshest potential impacts have a right to participate in any decision about whether a nation should wait to act to reduce the threat of climate change because of scientific uncertainty?
Should a nation like the United States which has much higher historical and per capita emissions than other nations be able to justify its refusal to reduce its ghg emissions to its fair share of safe global emissions on the basis of scientific uncertainty, given that if the mainstream science is correct, the world is rapidly running out of time to prevent warming above 2.Oo C, a temperature limit which if exceeded may cause rapid, non-linear climate change.
If you claim that there is no evidence of human causation of climate change are you aware that there are multiple “fingerprint” studies and “attribution” studies which point to human causation of observed warming?
When you claim that the United States or other nations emitting high levels of ghgs need not adopt climate change policies because adverse climate change impacts have not yet been proven, are you claiming that climate change skeptics have proven in peer reviewed scientific literature that human-induced climate change will not create harsh adverse impacts to the human health and the ecological systems of others on which their life often depends and if so what is that proof?
If you concede that climate skeptics have not proven in peer-reviewed journals that human-induced warming is not a very serious threat to human health and ecological systems, given that human-induced warming could create catastrophic warming the longer the human community waits to respond to reduce the threat of climate change and the more difficult it will be to prevent dangerous warming, do you agree that those responsible for rising atmospheric ghg concentrations have a duty to demonstrate that their ghg emissions are safe?
Given that in ratifying the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) the United States in 1992 agreed under Article 3 of that treaty to not use scientific uncertainty as an excuse for postponing climate change policies, do you believe the United States is now free to ignore this promise by refusing to take action on climate change on the basis of scientific uncertainty? Article 3 states:The Parties should take precautionary measures to anticipate, prevent or minimize the causes of climate change and mitigate its adverse effects. Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty should not be used as a reason for postponing such measures, taking into account that policies and measures to deal with climate change should be cost-effective so as to ensure global benefits at the lowest possible cost. (UNFCCC, Art 3)
Do agree if a government is warned by some of the most prestigious scientific institutions in the world that activities within its jurisdiction are causing great harm to and gravely threatening hundreds of millions of people outside their government’s jurisdiction, government officials who could take steps to assure that activities of their citizens do not harm or threaten others should not be able escape responsibility for preventing harm caused by simply declaring that they are not scientists?
If a nation such as the United States which emits high-levels of ghgs refuses to reduce its emissions to its fair share of safe global emissions on the basis that is too much scientific uncertainty to warrant action, if it turns out that human-induced climate change actually seriously harms the health of tens of millions of others and ecological systems on which their life depends, should the nation be responsible for the harms that could have been avoided if preventative action had been taken earlier?
Comments are welcome.
Widener University Commonwealth Law School
Harrisburg Pa.
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“Notre-Dame de Paris”: (on October 20, Saturday) in THE STATE KREMLIN PALACE. Purchase of tickets. & #9742; +7(495) 620-78-46.
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“Notre-Dame de Paris” “Notre-Dame de Paris”
Starting at 19:00
The musical “Notre-Dame de Paris” will be for the first time performed in Russia in the original.
From October 16 to 21, 2019 you will have the unique opportunity to hear “Belle”, “Danse mon Esmeralda”, “Le temps des cathedrals” and other famous pieces in French.
The news about recreation of the original version of the musical broke out in February, 2016. The world premiere took place later in fall at the Palais des congrès de Paris. It was a roaring success. The show lasted for 8 weeks in a row, and all the tickets had been sold out months before the premiere.
“Notre-Dame de Paris” is very popular in Russia. About 1,500 actors came to the audition for the Russian version, which was an absolute record. The musical premiered in 2002. A decade later Moscow witnessed “Notre-Dame de Paris” musical in English.
Notre-Dame de Paris is a legendary French-Canadian musical by Riccardo Cocciante and Luc Plamondon based on Victor Hugo’s novel “Notre-Dame de Paris” (The Hunchback of Notre-Dame). The musical premiered in Paris in 1998. Soon after that more 12 million people from all over the world had the opportunity to see it too. During 20 years of the musical existence, more than 11 million CDs and DVDs have been sold and more than 4000 shows staged. The musical has been on in 9 languages including Russian.
“Notre-Dame de Paris” is one of the most popular musicals in the world. Its French version broke the Guinness World Record in the number of tickets sold during the first year of performance. The legendary “Belle” has been called the best XX century French song and the best song of the decade in Russia.
The original Notre-Dame musical uses about 200 tons of stage decorations that are transferred by seven mega trailers.
The long-awaited French version of the musical will be shown in Russia for the first time. World’s best actors and dancers were selected for the occasion. Esmeralda is portrayed by Lebanese Hiba Tawaji. The French “Voice” finalist has already released two albums that gained immediate fame. Quasimodo is portrayed by Angelo Del Vecchio who has played the role of Hunchback in the English and Italian versions before. Frollo is portrayed by legendary Daniel Lavoie. The Canadian was the first one to play this part. Gilles Maheu is the stage producer and choreographer of the new version of the musical.
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United Arab Emirates national cricket team
The United Arab Emirates national cricket team (Arabic: فريق الإمارات الوطني للكريكيت) is the team that represents the United Arab Emirates in international Cricket. They are governed by the Emirates Cricket Board (ECB) which became an affiliate member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) in 1989 and an associate member the following year.[6] Since 2005, the ICC's headquarters have been located in Dubai.
Emirates Cricket Board
Mohammad Naveed
Dougie Brown
Associate member with ODI status (1990)
v India at Sharjah Cricket Stadium, Sharjah; 13 April 1994
v Zimbabwe at Harare Sports Club, Harare; 16 April 2019
Group stage (1996, 2015)
World Cup Qualifier appearances
v Netherlands at Kingsmead, Sylhet; 17 March 2014
v United States at ICC Academy Ground, Dubai; 16 March 2019
Group stage (2014)
World Twenty20 Qualifier appearances
3rd (2010)
ODI and T20I kit
As of 3 May 2019
One of the emerging One Day International (ODI) teams,[7] the UAE won the ACC Trophy on four consecutive occasions between 2000 and 2006, and were runners-up in the other three times the tournament has been played in 1996, 1998[6] and 2008.[8] They won the ICC Trophy in 1994, and played their first ODIs that year, later playing in the 1996 Cricket World Cup.[6] Other ODI matches came in the 2004 and 2008 Asia Cups. At the 2014 World Cup Qualifier, the UAE placed second behind Scotland, qualifying for the 2015 World Cup and gaining ODI, and therefore Twenty20 International (T20I), status until 2018.[9]
Early daysEdit
In 1892, the United Kingdom took responsibility of the Sheikhdoms, and cricket was introduced by the British Army in what is now the UAE, but was then known as the "Trucial States". The game spread during World War II, as personnel from the British Royal Air Force and other Commonwealth forces (which included first-class and club cricketers from Australia and New Zealand) stationed in cities such as Ajman, Al Ain, Dubai and Sharjah, continued their favourite pastime. The pitches installed by them around the air base in Sharjah were used by British and other foreign nationals after the war ended.[7]
Sharjah residents began playing the Dubai residents in the local derbies which were held in Dubai. The Garden city of Al Ain has the oldest cricket council in the whole of the UAE. The popularity of the game declined after independence in 1971; however, when South Asians began settling in the country, they brought with them a wish to play cricket. The local Arab population, educated in India and Pakistan, set up clubs and domestic tournaments began in the 1980s.[7]
Making of the national sideEdit
The first match was played by the UAE national side in February 1976 against Pakistan International Airlines in Sharjah. The visitors scored 345/5 from their 50 overs and the UAE were on 88/4 from 28 overs when the game was abandoned due to rain.[7]
Wealthy locals began investing in the sport and an International standard cricket ground was constructed in Sharjah. The Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium hosted its first international event in 1984 when India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka contested the Asia Cup. The venue has gone on to host almost 200 ODIs[10] and four Test matches,[11] the Test matches having been held there due to security concerns in Pakistan.[7]
The Emirates Cricket Board (ECB) was established in 1989[7] and gained affiliate membership of the ICC the same year. They were quickly promoted to associate member status the following year.[6] Also in 1990 the national side returned to action, twice losing heavily to the Netherlands. These heavy defeats showed that much work needed to be done if the UAE were to be successful in the 1994 ICC Trophy and the ECB adopted a controversial policy.[7]
1994 ICC TrophyEdit
Hoping to form a successful national side in time for the tournament in Kenya, the ECB attracted several players with first-class experience in India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka to take up employment in the country so that they could satisfy the residential requirements to represent the UAE in the tournament.[7]
With just one native Arab selected in the shape of Sultan Zarawani, who captained the side, the UAE won the trophy and thus qualified for the 1996 World Cup.[7] UAE had beaten Kenya in the final,[12] and the Kenyan players and cricket board were very vocal in their anger at being defeated by what they and other observers described as a team of imported mercenaries.[7]
Whilst the ICC remained relatively silent on the controversy, the national team eligibility requirements were strongly tightened for all future ICC sanctioned tournaments.[7]
First ODIsEdit
The UAE played their first ODIs in 1994 when they played against India and Pakistan in the Austral-Asia Cup, which they also hosted.[13] They finished last in a tri-series against Kenya and the Netherlands the same year and also finished last in a tournament against the A sides of India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka in 1995. They returned to ODI cricket in the 1996 World Cup where they lost all matches except the one against the Netherlands, which was the first ever ODI between two associate members of the ICC.[6]
Later in 1996 the UAE were runners-up to Bangladesh in the first ACC Trophy. The tightened eligibility rules meant that they were unable to repeat their 1994 success when they finished tenth in the 1997 ICC Trophy in Malaysia.[6] They were beaten by Bangladesh in the semi-finals of the 1998 ACC Trophy.[14]
21st centuryEdit
2000 – 2009Edit
With Bangladesh being promoted to ICC full membership, the UAE began to establish themselves as the top associate side in Asia, though they often fell short against the top associates in Europe and North America, a position that remains to this day.[7] They won the ACC Trophy in 2000 and 2002, beating Hong Kong and Nepal in the respective finals, but finished fifth in the 2001 ICC Trophy in Canada.[6]
UAE hosted the 2004 ICC Six Nations Challenge and finished fifth, level on points with four other teams. The year was a busy one for the UAE cricketers as they played the first Intercontinental Cup match against Nepal, with Ali Asad taking nine wickets in the first innings. They beat Malaysia later in the tournament but lost to Canada in the semi-finals. They also won the ACC Trophy again, beating Oman in the final. They returned to ODI cricket, losing to India and Sri Lanka in the first round of the Asia Cup, and finished fourth in the Hong Kong Sixes, beating India and South Africa on the way.[6]
They reached the semi-finals of the ICC Intercontinental Cup again in 2005, also playing a series against England A at Sharjah, losing all four matches.[6] The 2005 ICC Trophy in Ireland saw them finish sixth.[15] They beat Hong Kong in the final of the 2006 ACC Trophy, but began their 2006 ICC Intercontinental Cup campaign with an innings defeat by Namibia. The campaign continued with a draw against Scotland and a defeat by Ireland, again by an innings. They finished fourth in the first ACC Twenty20 Cup in 2007.[6]
Their campaign in the 2007-08 ICC Intercontinental Cup was unsuccessful, with just one win against Bermuda in their seven matches.[16] Things went better for them in Division Two of the World Cricket League in Windhoek in 2007, winning the tournament after beating Oman in the final.[17]
They again played in the Asia Cup in 2008, losing to Bangladesh and Sri Lanka in the first round.[18] Their 2008 ACC Trophy Elite began with a shock defeat by Saudi Arabia, their first ACC Trophy defeat since the 1998 semi-final.[14] They lost to Hong Kong in the final, ending a run of four consecutive titles.[8]
The UAE hosted and were runners-up at the 2009 ACC Twenty20 Cup, losing the final to Afghanistan, after winning four group matches and accounting for Oman in their semi-final.[19]
2010 – presentEdit
In October 2010, the team announced that it had hired Kabir Khan to become its coach. Khan had great success with the Afghan team during his one-year stint as they became eligible to play ODIs. Kabir Khan also stated that his aim was to help UAE qualify for the 2012 ICC World Twenty20.[20]
In April 2011, the UAE hosted and won Division Two of the World Cricket League without losing a match.[21] In June/July 2011, they played Kenya at Nairobi for the first round of 2011–13 ICC Intercontinental Cup. In December, the UAE participated in the 2011 ACC Twenty20 Cup in Nepal.[22] Then in 2013, they traveled to Scotland to compete in the 2013 Cricket World Cup Qualifier, the final event of the 2009–13 World Cricket League.[23]
UAE finished third in the 2013 ACC Twenty20 Cup which after defeating Hong Kong in the play-off for third place. In November, they hosted 2013 ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier and finished fourth after losing to Nepal in the play-off for third place, and qualified for the 2014 ICC World Twenty20, defeating the Netherlands by 10 runs in the quarter-final.
Afthab Muhammad Nisar is the captain of UAE's under 17 side
UAE participated in the 2014 ICC World Twenty20 but were unsuccessful in the tournament, going without a win. UAE finished second in the 2014 ACC Premier League and qualified for the 2014 ACC Championship. They also qualified for 2015 Cricket World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.
UAE qualified to play in the Cricket World Cup after a lapse of almost twenty years. Unlike other teams in the tournament, the squad of players mainly consisted of semi-professionals.[24] The team registered their highest ODI total ever at the 2015 Cricket World Cup in a group stage match played against Zimbabwe in Nelson, New Zealand.[25] However, they failed to register a win and were eliminated from the 2015 Cricket World Cup with 6 losses out of 6 matches in Pool B.[26]
235/7 (47.5 overs)
226/7 (40 overs)
Rameez Shahzad 59 (61)
Sikandar Raza 3/41 (10 overs)
Sean Williams 80 (80)
Mohammad Naveed 3/40 (8 overs)
United Arab Emirates won by 3 runs (D/L method)
Harare Sports Club, Harare
Umpires: Gregory Brathwaite (WI) and Ahsan Raza (Pak)
Player of the match: Mohammad Naveed (UAE)
Zimbabwe won the toss and elected to field.
Zimbabwe were set a revised target of 230 runs from 40 overs due to rain.
Shaiman Anwar became the first batsman for the United Arab Emirates to score 1,000 runs in ODIs.[27]
This was the United Arab Emirates' first win against a Full Member side in ODIs.[27]
This was their first win against a full member side.
International groundsEdit
Main article: List of international cricket five-wicket hauls on Emirati cricket grounds
International contribution by UAE groundsEdit
Dubai International Cricket Stadium Dubai 10[28] 18[29] 36[30]
Sharjah Cricket Stadium Sharjah 9[31] 226[32] 12[33]
Sheikh Zayed Cricket Stadium Abu Dhabi 9[34] 31[35] 19[36]
ICC Academy Ground Dubai 0 10[37] 11[38]
Updated 3 November 2016
DSC/ICC Academy
Sheikh Zayed
Locations of all stadiums which have hosted an international cricket match within UAE
InfrastructureEdit
In terms of infrastructure, the UAE have the best stadiums as compared to other Associate members: Sheikh Zayed Cricket Stadium in Abu Dhabi; DSC Cricket Stadium, Dubai and Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium, Sharjah, which has hosted around 200 ODIs and Test matches.
International stadiums in Ajman and Al Ain are currently under development.
The following are the main cricket stadiums in UAE:
Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium, Sharjah
Sheikh Zayed Cricket Stadium, Abu Dhabi
Dubai Cricket Council Ground No 1, Dubai
ICC Global Cricket Academy 1, Dubai
Ajman International Cricket Stadium (under construction), Ajman
Al Ain International Cricket Stadium (under construction), Al Ain
Tournament historyEdit
World CupEdit
1975 Not eligible – not an ICC member [6]
1992 Did not participate in qualifying [39]
1996 First Round 11/12 5 1 4 0 0 [6]
1999 Did not qualify [6][40]
2015 Group Stage 13/14 6 0 6 0 0 [24]
2019 Did not qualify [41]
Total 0 Titles 11 1 10 0 0
ICC T20 World CupEdit
2007 Did not qualify
2014 Group Stage 16/16 3 0 3 0 0
2020 TBD
Total 0 Titles 16/16 3 0 3 0 0
ICC World Cup QualifierEdit
1979 to 1986: Not eligible – Not an ICC member[6]
1990: Did not participate[39]
1994: Winners[6]
1997: 10th place[6]
2001: 5th place[6]
2005: 6th place[15]
2014: Runner up (Qualified for 2015 Cricket World Cup)
2018: 6th place
ICC T20 World Cup QualifierEdit
2010: 3rd Place[43]
2015: 13th Place[45]
2019:Qualify as Host
Intercontinental CupEdit
2004: Semi Finals[6]
2006: First round[6]
2009–10 (Shield): 2nd place
2011–13: 4th place
World Cricket LeagueEdit
2007 Division Two: Champions[17]
2009 World Cup Qualifier: 7th place
2011 Division Two: Champions
2011–13 WCL Championship: 3rd place
2014 World Cup Qualifier: Runnerup
Asia CupEdit
1983 to 1988: Not eligible – Not an ACC member[6]
1990/91: Did not participate[6]
1995: Did not participate[6]
1997: Did not qualify[6]
2008: First round[18]
2012 Did not qualify[6]
2016: First round, 5th place
2018:Did not qualify
ACC ChampionshipEdit
2014: Qualified
ACC Fast Track Countries TournamentEdit
2005: Winners
ACC Premier LeagueEdit
ACC TrophyEdit
1996: Runners up[6]
1998: Semi Finals[14]
2008 (Elite): Runners up[8]
2010 (Elite): 6th place
2012: Winners (Shared trophy with Nepal)
ACC Twenty20 CupEdit
ACC Under-19 CupEdit
Coaching staffEdit
Director of cricket:
Chhatee Thakur
Siddhant Shrestha
Assistant head coach:
Umang Shrestha
Batting coach:
Tillakaratne Dilshan
Batting consultant:
Spin bowling coach:
Fast bowling coach:
Jason Gillespie
Bowling consultant:
Darren Gough
Fielding coach:
Julien Fountain
Wicket keeping coach:
Strength & Conditioning coach:
Jade Roberts
Physiotherapist:
John Gloster
Performance analyst:
Laxmi Narayanan
Records and statisticsEdit
International Match Summary – United Arab Emirates[46][47]
Playing Record
One Day Internationals 53 14 39 0 0 13 April 1994
Twenty20 Internationals 32 11 20 0 1 17 March 2014
Last updated 16 April 2019.
One Day InternationalsEdit
Highest team total: 300/6 (49.1 Overs) v Scotland, 23 January 2018 at ICC Academy 1, Dubai[48]
Highest individual score: 132*, Khurram Khan v Afghanistan, 30 November 2014 at ICC Academy 1, Dubai[49]
Best individual bowling figures: 6/34, Zahoor Khan v Ireland, 2 March 2017 at ICC Academy 1, Dubai[50]
Most ODI runs for the United Arab Emirates[51]
Career span
Shaiman Anwar 1,219 31.25 2014-2019
Rameez Shahzad 691 53.15 2016-2018
Rohan Mustafa 662 21.35 2014-2019
Muhammad Usman 618 24.72 2016-2019
Khurram Khan 582 41.57 2004-2015
Most ODI wickets for the United Arab Emirates[52]
Mohammad Naveed 53 33.15 2014-2019
Rohan Mustafa 34 33.52 2014-2019
Imran Haider 32 26.28 2017-2019
Zahoor Khan 28 22.03 2017-2019
Ahmed Raza 25 36.56 2014-2018
Highest individual innings in ODI [53]
Khurram Khan 132*
Afghanistan Dubai 2014
Rameez Shahzad 121*
Scotland Dubai 2018
West Indies Harare 2018
Rohan Mustafa 109
Papua New Guinea Abu Dhabi 2017
Shaiman Anwar 106
Ireland Brisbane 2015
Best bowling figures in an innings in ODI [54]
Zahoor Khan 6/34
Ireland Dubai 2017
Rohan Mustafa 5/25
Mohammad Naveed 5/28
Papua New Guinea Harare 2018
Shaukat Dukanwala 5/29
Netherlands Lahore 1996
Imran Haider 4/25
Hong Kong Dubai 2017
ODI record versus other nations[46]
First match
First win
vs Test nations
Afghanistan 6 3 3 0 0 2 May 2014 28 November 2014
Bangladesh 1 0 1 0 0 24 June 2008
England 1 0 1 0 0 18 February 1996
India 3 0 3 0 0 13 April 1994
Ireland 6 0 6 0 0 25 February 2015
New Zealand 1 0 1 0 0 27 February 1996
Pakistan 3 0 3 0 0 17 April 1994
South Africa 2 0 2 0 0 16 February 1996
Sri Lanka 2 0 2 0 0 17 July 2004
West Indies 2 0 2 0 0 15 March 2015
Zimbabwe 6 1 5 0 0 22 March 2018 22 March 2018
vs Associate Members
Hong Kong 4 2 2 0 0 4 May 2014 4 May 2014
Nepal 4 2 2 0 0 30 August 2018 30 August 2018
Netherlands 1 1 0 0 0 1 March 1996 1 March 1996
Papua New Guinea 4 3 1 0 0 31 March 2017 31 March 2017
Scotland 7 2 5 0 0 1 February 2014 24 January 2017
Records complete to ODI #4124. Last updated 16 April 2019.
Twenty20 InternationalsEdit
Highest team total: 180/3 v Papua New Guinea, 14 April 2017 at Sheikh Zayed Stadium, Abu Dhabi[55]
Highest individual score: 117*, Shaiman Anwar v Papua New Guinea, 14 April 2017 at Sheikh Zayed Stadium, Abu Dhabi[56]
Best individual bowling figures: 3/9, Rohan Mustafa v Oman, 22 November 2015 at Shekh Zayed Stadium, Abu Dhabi[57]
Most T20I runs for the United Arab Emirates[58]
Shaiman Anwar 971 33.48 2014-2019
Mohammad Usman 414 23.00 2016-2019
Mohammad Shahzad 281 15.61 2015-2017
Amjad Javed 271 18.06 2014-2017
Most T20I wickets for the United Arab Emirates[59]
Amjad Javed 33 16.96 2014-2017
Mohammad Shahzad 13 31.61 2015-2017
T20I record versus other nations[47]
Afghanistan 6 1 5 0 0 10 July 2015 19 February 2016
Australia 1 0 1 0 0 22 October 2018
Bangladesh 1 0 1 0 0 26 February 2016
India 1 0 1 0 0 3 March 2016
Ireland 4 1 3 0 0 19 March 2014 16 February 2016
Pakistan 1 0 1 0 0 29 February 2016
Sri Lanka 1 0 1 0 0 25 February 2016
Zimbabwe 1 0 1 0 0 21 March 2014
Hong Kong 1 1 0 0 0 21 February 2016 21 February 2016
Nepal 3 1 2 0 0 31 January 2019 31 January 2019
Netherlands 3 0 3 0 0 17 March 2014
Oman 2 2 0 0 0 22 November 2015 22 November 2015
Papua New Guinea 3 3 0 0 0 12 April 2017 12 April 2017
Scotland 2 1 1 0 0 9 July 2015 4 February 2016
United States 2 1 0 0 1 15 March 2019 16 March 2019
Records complete to T20I #754. Last updated 16 March 2019.
ICC TrophyEdit
Highest team total: 330/9 v Bermuda, 27 February 1994 at Nairobi Club Ground[60]
Highest individual score: 126 not out by Azhar Saeed, 25 February 1994 at Aga Khan Sports Club Ground, Nairobi[61]
Best innings bowling: 5/32 by Ahmed Nadeem v USA, 1 July 2005 at The Meadow, Downpatrick[62]
OverallEdit
Highest team total: 459/4 v Brunei,[7] 14 August 2006 at Kinrara Academy Oval, Kuala Lumpur[63]
Highest individual score: 213 not out by Arshad Ali v Brunei,[7] 14 August 2006 at Kinrara Academy Oval, Kuala Lumpur[63]
Best innings bowling: 9/74 by Ali Asad v Nepal,[7] 25 March 2004 at Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium[64]
World RecordsEdit
Highest ever partnership for 7th wicket in World Cup history(Amjad Javed and Shaiman Anwar 107 v Ireland, Amjad Javed and Nasir Aziz 107 v West Indies).UAE became the first team to score 100+ runstand for the 7th wicket in World Cup history.Thus, Amjad Javed is the only player in World Cup history to involve in two 100+ run stands for the seventh wicket.[65]
Khurram Khan is the oldest player to score an ODI century as well as the oldest player to score his maiden ODI century(at the age of 43 years and 162 days).[66][67]
Current squadEdit
The following list contains the 15 players in UAE's squad for the 2018 Cricket World Cup Qualifier:
Rohan Mustafa (c)
Ashfaq Ahmed
Qadeer Ahmed
Shaiman Anwar
Mohammad Boota
Imran Haider
Amir Hayat
Zahoor Khan
Adnan Mufti
Ahmed Raza
Ghulam Shabber
Rameez Shahzad
Chirag Suri
Muhammad Usman
United Arab Emirates national women's cricket team
List of United Arab Emirates ODI cricket centurions
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^ a b Scorecard of Netherlands v UAE, 11 July 2005 at CricketArchive
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Academics are correct in pinpointing the exact period in which Muslims began turning away from scientific innovation – the 11th century – but in Abu Hamid Al Ghazali they have identified the wrong person. By Hassan Hassan
Much has been said about the Golden Age of Arabic science (800–1100), when the Muslim world was the beacon of innovation and triggered Europe's Renaissance and Enlightenment periods. Today, the contribution of the contemporary Muslim world to science is in a dismal state. India and Spain each produces more scientific literature than all of the Muslim countries combined. The 57 states' contribution to science globally amounts to no more than 1 per cent and is generally of lower quality.
The question of what went wrong is particularly relevant now as the role of religion in the Middle East is again being pushed to the fore in the wake of the Arab Spring and the consequent rise of Islamists.
Al-Ghazali's remarkable intellectual shift
Academics have long maintained that the great Islamic theologian, Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, who lived from 1055 to 1111, single-handedly steered Islamic culture away from independent scientific inquiry towards religious fundamentalism.
Al-Ghazali was a Muslim theologian, jurist, philosopher, and mystic. His work marked a turning point in Islamic philosophy in its vehement rejections of the 'falasifa', a group of Islamic philosophers who drew intellectually upon the Ancient Greeks. Pictured: Supposed mausoleum of Al-Ghazali in Tus, Iran
In a remarkable intellectual shift, he concluded that falsafa (which literally means philosophy but included logic, mathematics and physics) was incompatible with Islam.
After writing his book, The Incoherence of Philosophers, Algazel as he was known in medieval Europe, is said to have "stabbed falsafa in such a manner that it could not rise again in the Muslim world". Thanks to his unparalleled mastery of falsafa and Islamic theology, he injected repugnance among Muslims for science that ultimately led to its decline and, in the process, the decline of Islamic civilisation.
Or at least, this is what academics and Orientalists have argued for over a century. I believe this assessment is misinformed.
Cherchez Nizam al-Mulk
Academics are correct in pinpointing the exact period in which Muslims began turning away from scientific innovation – the 11th century – but they have identified the wrong person. Abu Ali al-Hassan al-Tusi (1018–1092), better known as Nizam al-Mulk, the grand vizier of the Seljuq dynasty, was in fact the driving force.
Nizam al-Mulk had created a system of education known as "Nizamiyah" that focused on religious studies at the expense of independent inquiry. For the first time in Islamic history, religious studies became institutionalised and religious studies were seen as a more lucrative career path. Previously, sciences and Islamic law were intertwined.
The "true culprit": Nizam Al Mulk, vizier of the Seljuq Empire, had created a system of education known as "Nizamiyah" that focused on religious studies at the expense of independent inquiry
Not only did Nizamiyah colleges focus on religion but they also adopted a narrow Sunni interpretation of Islamic jurisprudence as the source of curricula: the Shafi'i school. The choice was not arbitrary. The Shafi'i school focused on the fundamentalist principles of Sharia and disdained the rationalist approach that had gained momentum during the reigns of Damascus-based Umayyad dynasty and the Baghdad-based Abbasid dynasty.
Academically countering non-Sunni currents
Shia Islam was gaining prominence and Batiniyya (groups that adhered to esoteric interpretations of Sharia) began to take root in Iraq, Syria and Egypt. The purpose of Nizamiyah colleges, where al-Ghazali taught but later left, was to counter those growing non-Sunni currents. Nizamiyah colleges were established in major cities under the control of the Abbasids or Seljuks (rulers who were nominally loyal to the Abbasids), including Baghdad, Isfahan, and areas where Shiites formed majorities at the time such as in Basra and the Syrian region of al-Jazira.
Scholars at the time noted the tendency of students to leave their traditional schools to study religion at the colleges. Some Sunni clerics also complained that many had adopted the Shafi'i school as their religious affiliation. Graduates were given priority in key government jobs, namely in the judiciary, hisbah (Sharia enforcement or police) and fiqh (jurisprudence). Nizamiyah colleges were the Ivy League colleges of the 12th century. Scholars graduating from the colleges were armed with argumentative skills to battle the Batiniyya whenever they found them.
Abbasid guardians of science
It was the Nizamiyah colleges which operated for over four centuries, together with the financial and political backing of the powerful Seljuq dynasty, that diverted Muslims towards religion. Dynasties that came after the Seljuqs followed suit, in supporting a specific strand of Islam. Other factors played a role. The Abbasid dynasty, which was the guardian of science, was in decline and the Islamic world splintered into several kingdoms. Religious intolerance started to entrench and scientific inquiry declined.
Al-Ghazali's critique of falsafa was in fact meant to encourage critical thinking. He is arguably the earliest scholar to advocate separation of social sciences from natural science. He argued that some fundamentalists, who perceive falsafa to be incompatible with religion, tend to categorically reject all views adopted by "philosophers", including scientific fact like the lunar and solar eclipse. And when that person is later persuaded of a certain view, he tends to blindly accept all other views held by philosophers.
The medieval Arab 'Ivy League': Under the Abbasid dynasty, the arts and science flororished. But under the Seljuq dynasty, Nizamiyah colleges repudiated rationalism and independent inquiry
Al-Ghazali, in the introduction of the book, described this type of people as "believers by imitation, who rush to accept falsehood without verification and inquiry". He added that the purpose of the book is to "pinpoint the incoherence of [the philosophers'] creed and the contradiction of their words, with regard to theology, and to point out the vicissitudes and shortcomings of their way of thinking".
Religious colleges impeding progress
He distinguished between philosophy and logic on one hand and physics and mathematics on the other. That is the "incoherence" in falsafa that al-Ghazali set out to dissect in his book. The idea that al-Ghazali created repugnance among Muslims to science has been put forward by modern academics. No Muslim scholar at the time had advocated views against science because of al-Ghazali's thesis.
On the contrary, even his contemporaries noted that al-Ghazali remained loyal to philosophy till the day he died. They noted after his death that "our master swallowed philosophy and could not throw it up".
The colleges, on the other hand, stifled scientific innovation by focusing on religious studies to achieve a political end. Their legacy continues today. They are widely praised by Sunni clerics for their role in restraining the influence of Batiniyya and the dominance of Sunni Islam. Those in the contemporary Muslim world that disdain innovation share a distinct quality with the Nizamiyya colleges: being sectarian who obsess about cleansing Islam of any newfangled practices.
There is no one reason for the decline of Islamic scientific inquiry. But it is important to highlight the colossal role the Nizamiyya colleges played in impeding progress, as the role of Islam is yet again under scrutiny and religious intolerance rising to the surface.
Hassan Hassan
Hassan Hassan is a columnist for The National newspaper in Abu Dhabi, the UAE, and a contributor for The Guardian, Foreign Policy and Carnegie Endowment. He graduated from the University of Nottingham, the UK, with MA in International Relations.
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Comments for this article: Don't blame it on al-Ghazali
Comments on this article by Hassan Hassan
Mr. Hassan is not well informed about the academic debate. Otherwise he could not write such a misleading and utterly simplifying text. He also seems to have problems with understanding the complexities of political, religious and intellectual history of the Abbasid caliphate and the Seljuw dynasty. It is simply not true that the madrasa stopped scientific activities in various Islamicate societies after 1100. The Batiniyya was not merely an esoteric offspring of the Shi'a. Seljuq sultans like Malik Shah and his son Sanjar sponsored scholars at their courts who became famous for their contributions to philosophy, mathematics, astronomy and mechanics --- Umar Khayyam, Muzaffar al-Din al-Isfizari, Abd al-Rahman al-Khazini, to name but three of them. Scholars of high reputation who were themselves madrasa teachers in various fields, including hadith, fiqh, mathematics, philosophy and astronomy, were the Shi'ite Nasir al-Din al-Tusi (1202-1274), the Sufi Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi (d. c. 1320) or the Shafi'i Taqi al-Din b. al-Ma'ruf (d. 1588). Again, I have chosen only three scholars among many others of different degrees of importance and reputation. Neither is it correct that madrasas only taught Shafi'i law. If they were Sunni schools, they taught, depending on the stipulations of the donor, either one of the four major law schools (Shafi'i, Hanafi, Maliki, Hanbali) or more than one of them plus Arabic and possibly other languages, mathematics, astronomy, hadith and in some cases also medicine. To claim that before Nizam al-Mulk, sciences and Islamic law were intertwined is utter nonsense. To speak of these two fields of knowledge being intertwined beggs the question which sciences did the author mean: natural philosophy, medicine, astronomy, astrology, arithmetic, mechanics, optics, geometry, algebra, alchemy? The madrasa was a cultural revolution which gave new spaces for the mathematical sciences and parts of philosophy. Qantara, choose a qualified author next time!
Sonja Brentjes09.01.2013 | 20:00 Uhr
I refer to the comment made by the esteemed reader "Brentjes, Sonja" above.
I appreciate your comment on the essay, although I have reservations about the use of language. The text didn’t say anything about Batiniyya being an “offspring of the Shia”.
In my understanding, you seem to ascribe to the traditional reading of the schools’ system of education, which is familiar and widespread. "The diversity of scholars, the vibrant debates and the reliance on persuasion in dealing with religious differences". But the point of my essay is to dispute all that.
Certainly, throughout Islamic history up until now, there have always been bright scholars who existed within the most regressive systems (such as in Taliban Afghanistan or Wahhabi Saudi Arabia). Naming Khayyam as an example of a bright scientist does not challenge the argument.
It is worth emphasising that the nizamiyyat lasted for centuries and took decades to take effect, in that people shifted towards religion at the expense of independent inquiry and from their schools to the Shafi school. Modern Muslim scholars praise that system for the spread of Sunni Islam and the retreat of Batini thought.
Notice that the names you mentioned, especially the scientists ones, are the first generation scholars in the Nizamiyat; they had been brilliant scholars just like Al Ghazali but then that is exactly my point - a seismic shift towards religion was caused by the Nizami government at the time. As you said, the Nizamiyyat were “cultural revolution” but you seem to miss their impact.
The idea that Shafi school as the school of choice for the nizamiyyat is well-established. I quote, as an example, one scholar who lived then saying scholars from different schools were ‘converting’ to Shafi school for the career.
Otherwise, I respect your opinion. Thanks for the discussion.
Hassan Hassan10.01.2013 | 12:27 Uhr
Very informative. Puts a new
Very informative. Puts a new perspective on reasons behind the decline in interest in scientific inquiry in Muslim world. This fundamentalist indoctrination through religious schools have wreaked havoc in Pakistan. Boka Haram is another example of this insanity.
Btw, it is unfortunate that comments from Sonja, who seems to have a strong interest in this discussion, lacked substance due to poor choice of words and extreme aggression against a differing point of view.
Tariq Masood03.06.2014 | 21:41 Uhr
What about the Mongols
The author also seems to miss the *enormous* impact Hulagu Khan had on islamic science. Baghdad continued to remain a center for science and advanced thinking for well over a century after al-Ghazali. Neither the city, nor its scientific institutions ever recovered from the total destruction inflicted by Hulagu.
JustMyself27.06.2014 | 05:16 Uhr
I don't understand how the Golden Age of Islam was reversed to the extent that there has not been one discovery, innovation, invention, advance, idea etc for the benefit of humanity from the Islamic world in the last 500 years. I am talking about ideas such as; germ theory of disease, discovery of electricity, theory of flight, computers, TV, phones etc. These have all developed in the Christian world for the benefit of all humanity and could have not been possible without the amazing ideas from the Islamic world from the 8th Century to the 11th Century; Arabic numerals, algebra, algorithm, alchemy, alkali, alcohol, etc.
If everything happens because Allah wills it to happen, then why has so little happened in the Islamic world in the last 500 years?
Why do so many Muslims leave Muslim lands to live in Christian lands?
David Sea28.10.2014 | 13:52 Uhr
Simplification
I have barely scratched the surface on this subject. But, if Hassan is correct, surely, there would have been those who used a misunderstanding of al Ghazali, to reinforce their own religious fundamentalism. Another factor would have been the social stress of invasion and discord. A stressed society becomes more conservative and resistant to change and innovation. In stressed societies it is always easy to long for a return to simpler times, times that never really existed except as fantasies,. Those with any manner of new ideas would have been increasingly suspect, and scientific innovation would have been strangled in its crib.
Readers such as I, only lately coming to the history of the middle and far east, can find most of the same mechanisms at work in European and American history. There is just such a stifling of intellect beginning in the United States of America, stressed by endless war and increasing social and economic inequality.
Alas, the refugees fleeing from North Africa to Europe are bringing their anti-scientific culture with them providing additional social stress with them. Intolerance calls for retaliatory intolerance and the crisis escalates.
Mark LaJoie24.04.2015 | 22:50 Uhr
Ghazali
It is interesting how Persians were so influential and central in the Islamic civilization. I assume that modern day Iran is one of the few countries in the Islamic world in which the universities focus on philosophy a great deal.
Stefan17.07.2015 | 22:45 Uhr
What does science measure?
Scientific progress is only good if it used for good but today it seems to do more harm for more people than it does good for a tiny minority of the worlds population. There is this preconception that scientific progress is the be all and end all measure of success and that is not entirely true.
You have scientifically advanced countries which are light years ahead yet they suffer rampantly from social issues, crime, inequality, prostitution, domestic abuse... These countries also have rampaging drug and alcohol abuse and they have 'flourishing' porn industries where the produced material is sold openly, encouraged and even celebrated. On the other hand you have what modern people would label scientifically retarded countries and communities yet these communities do not suffer from the mentioned problems near as much as their scientifically progressed neighbors do and largely have harmonious and happy social and domestic lives.
We have today people talking about going to Mars or colonizing other planets and spend billions on these projects yet we have not sorted out the problems on our own planet. The progress we have today came and comes at a heavy price which was not worth it and more sadly, for most they got nothing out of it and many had their lives destroyed by its pursuit by others around them.
Curious21.06.2016 | 12:01 Uhr
Scientific progress
It is yet again unfortunate to see comments like the one from Curious.
I am going to waste my time to explain why that is almost completely wrong and misleading but I will say this:
Scientific progress has many directions and levels of impact at any given moment in time. Stupidity of people still thinking and living as if they are in the iron age (christians or muslims or anything else) will never be really solved by science. All the social issues that exist in both developed and not so developed countries exists not due to scientific progress but in spite of it.
Science, unlike religion of any kind, does not impose anything on the individual. Science allows you to understand better, many things, including spirituality, but if one is not capable of seeing this, there isn't much science can or should do. It is a process and if the system in which we live would turn towards science and stop making important decisions based on faith, religion, tradition, politics, ego and so on, the process will clean up much of these social issue.
Before anything else, early education must change. If we continue to bring children into churches and brainwash and abuse them by feeding them constantly stupidity and nonsense, for any reason, you can't expect a better world! Let them be curious, open minded, inquisitive and critical to all things and ideas and everything will change in better for everyone.
Adi14.10.2016 | 20:16 Uhr
I am doing some research on this topic and how and what were the reasons of the decline of the intellectual society and I was wondering if you could help me or provide me with the sources you used to write this article. This would mean a lot. Thank you!!
Rut Mehta01.12.2017 | 03:34 Uhr
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Deiva Vaakku
DVD cover
M. S. Madhu
T. Siva
R. Ravi Shankar
G. Jayachandran
R. R. Ilavarasan
Amma Creations
11 September 1992 (1992-09-11)
Deiva Vaakku (English: Divine promise) is a 1992 Indian Tamil drama film, directed by M. S. Madhu, starring Karthik and Revathi in lead roles. The film, produced by T. Siva, had musical score by Ilaiyaraaja and was released on 11 September 1992. The film generated average profits at the box office.[1][2] The film was a remake of the Telugu film Sankeertana (1987).
Amsaveni (Revathi) after channeling the voice of the Goddess in childhood, is treated as such by her grateful village after water is found after a drought. Her Duplicate elder brother Vallathar (Vijayakumar) exploits his young sister's powers to make himself rich.
When Amsaveni falls in love with misunderstood drunk-with-heart-of-gold Thambidurai (Karthik), Vallathar is unhappy with her decision, due to the difference in status between the two and, more importantly, he can see his money supply running out. So Vallathar tries to put Thambidurai off in various ways from marrying his sister.
Karthik as Thambidurai
Revathi as Amsaveni / Aatha
Vijayakumar as Vallathar
Srividya as Vallathar's wife
Radha Ravi as Veeraiyan
Yuvasri as Thambidurai's mother
Brinda
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Baby Sajana
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A. K. Veerasamy as Priest
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Soundtrack[edit]
Feature film soundtrack
The film score and the soundtrack were composed by film composer Ilaiyaraaja. The soundtrack, released in 1992, features five tracks with lyrics written by Vaali and Gangai Amaran.[3] The song "Valli Valli Ena" is set in Sivaranjani raga.[4]
1 "Katthuthadi Raakkozhi" Ilaiyaraaja Vaali 4:49
2 "Indha Ammanukku Entha Ooru" Ilaiyaraaja Vaali 4:53
3 "Oorellam Saamiyaga" Jayachandran, S. Janaki Gangai Amaran 4:54
4 "Oru Paatale Solli" S. P. Balasubrahmanyam Gangai Amaran 4:58
5 "Valli Valli Enna" Ilaiyaraaja, S. Janaki Vaali 4:55
The Indian Express wrote "Here the storyline is thin, the script is not that engaging, but the effective camera work [..] A superb performance by petite Revathi [..] saves the film from being run-of-the-mill".[5] New Straits Times wrote "This movie should be of special interest to those who frequently seek advice from temple mediums".[6]
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Kryptonite (3 Doors Down song)
"Kryptonite"
Single by 3 Doors Down
from the album The Better Life
1999 in New York, New York
Todd Harrell
Paul Ebersold
3 Doors Down singles chronology
(2000) "Loser"
"Kryptonite" on YouTube
"Kryptonite" is the debut single by American rock band 3 Doors Down. It was originally released as a demo for local play by 97.9 WCPR-FM in Biloxi, Mississippi.[1] The song first charted on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart reaching number one for nine weeks, then hit number one on the Modern Rock Tracks chart for 11 weeks. It also reached number one on the Mainstream Top 40 chart for five non-consecutive weeks, number four on the Adult Top 40 chart, and number three on the Billboard Hot 100, the band's highest-charting single there.
1 Composition and inspiration
2 Music video
3 Live Performances
Composition and inspiration[edit]
The song was written by vocalist/drummer Brad Arnold in a mathematics class when he was fifteen and was one of the first songs he ever wrote.[2]
In terms of the song's meaning, Arnold has said:
"That song seems like it's really just kind of like asking a question. Its question is kind of a strange one. It's not just asking, "If I fall down, will you be there for me?", because it's easy to be there for someone when they're down. But it's not always easy to be there for somebody when they're doing good. And that's the question it's asking. It's like, "If I go crazy, will you still call me Superman?" It's asking, "If I'm down, will you still be there for me?" but at the same time, "If I'm alive and well, will you be there holding my hand?" That's kind of asking, "If I'm doing good, will you be there for me? Will you not be jealous of me?" That's the basic question that song's asking, and maybe throughout the years of singing that song, I might have come up with more meanings for it than it actually might have originally had."[2]
Music video[edit]
Directed by Dean Karr, the music video presents an old man who was a big-time action hero on 1950s TV. The scene cuts between the band hanging around on the roof of the apartments where the old man lives, spying on a man harassing a woman. When the man drags her away, the old man dons his superhero suit and follows. In between shots of the old hero chasing the bad guy and failing to protect himself against a group of goths, the band is shown playing in a club (the Cowboy Palace Saloon in LA) with several other elderly people dressed as caricatures of comic villains. Several of these people are seen riding a mechanical bull during the final chorus. The video comes to a close when the old man dives through the skylight and catches the bad guy off guard, possibly knocking him out by falling on top of him. The video ends with the old man smiling, giving a thumbs up to the camera, having successfully completed his mission.
Live Performances[edit]
"Kryptonite" was first performed live in Pascagoula, Mississippi on January 15, 1997. As of April 1, 2019, it has been performed 493 times, making it the most performed song by 3 Doors Down.[3]
U.S. version
"Kryptonite" (Top 40 Edit) – 3:44
"Kryptonite" (LP version) – 3:54
U.S. version enhanced
"Wasted Me" (Previously unreleased) – 3:11
"Duck and Run" (LP version) – 3:52
"Kryptonite" (Video) – 3:53
"Smack" (LP version) – 2:30
AUS version enhanced
"Wasted Me" – 3:11
"Life of My Own" (Live from Atlanta) – 4:36
"Kryptonite" (Acoustic)
Dutch version enhanced
Chart (2000–2001)
Australia (ARIA)[4] 8
Canada Top Singles (RPM)[5] 6
Canada Rock/Alternative (RPM)[6] 1
Germany (Official German Charts)[7] 85
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[8] 17
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[9] 21
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[10] 13
US Billboard Hot 100[11] 3
US Adult Top 40 (Billboard)[12] 4
US Alternative Songs (Billboard)[13] 1
US Mainstream Rock (Billboard)[14] 1
US Mainstream Top 40 (Billboard)[15] 1
U.S. Billboard Hot 100[17] 15
U.S. Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks 1
U.S. Billboard Modern Rock Tracks 1
Australia (ARIA)[18]
Platinum 70,000^
United Kingdom (BPI)[19]
Silver 200,000
United States (RIAA)[20]
4× Platinum 4,000,000
Superman in other media
Pocket Full of Kryptonite
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^ "Top RPM Rock/Alternative Tracks: Issue 7244." RPM. Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved April 5, 2019.
^ "Offiziellecharts.de – 3 Doors Down – Kryptonite". GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved February 14, 2019.
^ "Nederlandse Top 40 – week 43, 2000" (in Dutch). Dutch Top 40 Retrieved April 5, 2019.
^ "Dutchcharts.nl – 3 Doors Down – Kryptonite" (in Dutch). Single Top 100.
^ "Charts.nz – 3 Doors Down – Kryptonite". Top 40 Singles.
^ "3 Doors Down Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard.
^ "3 Doors Down Chart History (Adult Pop Songs)". Billboard.
^ "3 Doors Down Chart History (Alternative Songs)". Billboard.
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^ "3 Doors Down Chart History (Pop Songs)". Billboard.
^ "End of Year Charts 2000". Recorded Music NZ. Retrieved December 11, 2017.
^ "Billboard Top 100 - 2000". Archived from the original on March 4, 2009. Retrieved 2010-08-31.
^ "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2001 Singles". Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved December 13, 2014.
^ "British single certifications – 3 Doors Down – Kryptonite". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved January 7, 2015. Select singles in the Format field. Select Silver in the Certification field. Type Kryptonite in the "Search BPI Awards" field and then press Enter.
^ "American single certifications – 3 Doors Down – Kryptonite". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved April 8, 2013. If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Single, then click SEARCH.
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City in Illinois, United States
Lake Forest City Hall
Location of Lake Forest in Lake County, Illinois.
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Coordinates: 42°14′5″N 87°51′3″W / 42.23472°N 87.85083°W / 42.23472; -87.85083Coordinates: 42°14′5″N 87°51′3″W / 42.23472°N 87.85083°W / 42.23472; -87.85083
Moraine, Shields, Vernon, West Deerfield
• Mayor
George A. Pandaleon[1]
17.24 sq mi (44.66 km2)
• Land
17.18 sq mi (44 km2)
• Water
0.07 sq mi (0.17 km2)
1,128.59/sq mi (435.75/km2)
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Lake Forest is a city located in Lake County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 19,375.[4] The city is along the shore of Lake Michigan, and is a part of the Chicago metropolitan area and the North Shore.
Lake Forest was founded together with Lake Forest College; it was laid out as a town in 1857, and was a stop for travelers making their way south to Chicago. The Lake Forest City Hall, designed by Charles Sumner Frost, was completed in 1898. It originally housed the fire department, the Lake Forest Library, and city offices.[5]
3 Commercial development
3.1 Top employers
6.1 Elementary schools and middle schools
6.2 High schools
6.3 Colleges
7 Notable people
8 Arts and entertainment
10 In popular culture
10.1 Literature
Geography[edit]
Lake Forest is located in the North Shore area of Chicago, at 42°14′5″N 87°51′3″W / 42.23472°N 87.85083°W / 42.23472; -87.85083 (42.234788, -87.851042).[6]
According to the 2010 census, Lake Forest has a total area of 17.246 square miles (44.67 km2), of which 17.18 square miles (44.50 km2) (or 99.62%) is land and 0.066 square miles (0.17 km2) (or 0.38%) is water.[7]
The Potawatomi inhabited Lake County before the United States Federal Government forced them out in 1836 as part of Indian Removal of tribes to areas west of the Mississippi River.[8]
As Lake Forest was first developed in 1857, the planners laid roads that would provide limited access to the city in an effort to prevent outside traffic and isolate the tranquil settlement from neighboring areas. Though the town is considerably more accessible today, due in part to the extensive new construction taking place further west, the much smaller neighborhood of eastern Lake Forest, near the coast of Lake Michigan, remains relatively secluded. It is one of the most scenic, historical, and architecturally significant suburbs of Chicago. These neighborhoods include estates and homes designed by distinguished architects such as Howard Van Doren Shaw, David Adler, Frank Lloyd Wright, Arthur Heun, Jerome Cerny, Henry Ives Cobb, and modernist George Fred Keck, among others. Landscape architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Jens Jensen also designed projects in Lake Forest. Market Square, designed by Howard Van Doren Shaw, was completed in 1916 as a commercial center for Lake Forest.
The secluded style of Lake Forest was intended as a form of protection. According to the president of the Lake Forest-Lake Bluff Historical Society, the captains of industry and upper-class elite who first settled in Lake Forest sought a refuge from late 19th and early 20th-century Chicago. In their view, the city was overrun with immigrants from southern and eastern Europe who had dangerous socialist ideas and indulged in excessive alcoholic consumption.[8]
Country clubs became important centers of social activity in Lake Forest's early decades. The Onwentsia Club was, in the words of one writer, "the premiere social and sporting club in the Midwest".[8] In 1898, members held a plantation-themed party, dining on fried chicken, corn on the cob, and watermelon served by—in keeping with the party's theme—"little colored girls".[9] After-dinner entertainment included a minstrel show.[9] This was a period in United States history in which there was considerable interest in Southern culture and the mythical plantation society. Both the North and South were active in memorializing their contributions to the Civil War, as well as achieving a kind of reconciliation that, according to historian David W. Blight, pushed issues of race to the side.[10]
One of Lake Forest's most notable features is its virgin prairies and other nature preserves. In 1967, a group of 12 long-time residents of Lake Forest formed a land conservation organization, Lake Forest Open Lands Association.[11] Its express purpose was to purchase or otherwise set aside the rapidly disappearing open spaces in the city, in the interests of preserving animal habitat, restoring ecosystems, and providing environmental education for the city's children. In the next 38 years, the group managed to acquire more than 700 acres (2.8 km2) within the city limits, which now form six nature preserves with 12 miles (19 km) of walking trails open to the public.
Preserved in perpetuity are wetlands, original pre-1830 prairie, woodland, and savanna, all within the community. The restoration of these lands is celebrated by an annual "Bagpipes and Bonfire" event in September, which started as a community event in which controlled fires were burned to clear underbrush and preserve the savannah. From an early time, the playing of bagpipes has accompanied the community gathering, as the town had numerous Scots-Irish residents in its early years. This has also been an annual fundraising event for Lake Forest Open Lands Association.[12]
The Ragdale Foundation, an artists' community and residence, is located in Lake Forest. Formerly Howard Van Doren Shaw's summer retreat and built in 1897, the estate has accommodated notable artist Sylvia Shaw Judson.
In 1992, Lake Forest gained national attention when it attempted to ban the sale of offensive music to anyone under the age of 18.[13] City council members used existing ordinances against obscenity—defined in the codes as "morbid interest in nudity, sex or excretion"—to buttress their campaign.[13] Mayor Charles Clarke stated, "If they sell an obscene tape to somebody underage, we will prosecute."[13] The person who came up most frequently in discussions of obscene content was Ice-T, a rapper who has since also performed as an actor.
Lake Forest has been named a Tree City USA by the National Arbor Day Foundation in recognition of its commitment to community forest. As of 2006, Lake Forest had received this national honor for 26 years.[citation needed] The actor Mr. T notably angered the town by cutting down more than 100 oak trees on his estate, in what is now referred to as the "Lake Forest Chain Saw Massacre."[14]
Commercial development[edit]
Former Marshall Field's at Market Square; closed as of January 2008
Entrance to department store on Market Square, documenting name change; closed as of January 2008
Commercial development in Lake Forest is focused in three areas, two of which have public railway stations. The central business district includes a Metra commuter railroad station on the Union Pacific/North Line. It extends beyond Market Square, providing a mixture of retail, banking, and professional services, as well as restaurants. Market Square is composed of a wide variety of shops and restaurants, including Talbots, Williams-Sonoma, J.Crew, and Einstein Bros. Bagels. The business district to the west includes a Metra commuter railroad station on the Milwaukee District/North Line. It extends beyond Settlers' Square to provide a mixture of retail, banking and professional services, as well as restaurants. A third area of business development, consisting mostly of corporate and office space, has been developed along the city's northwestern border with the Tri-State Tollway.
The headquarters of Fortune 500 companies Tenneco, Brunswick, and Hospira are located in Lake Forest; Covered Logistics, IDEX, Packaging Corporation of America, Pactiv, Prestone, and Trustmark also have their headquarters in Lake Forest, while W. W. Grainger and BFG Technologies are located in unincorporated Lake County, near Lake Forest. The Chicago Bears training facility and headquarters, Halas Hall, opened in 1997 in west Lake Forest, and the Chicago Fire now train at the Bears' previous facility located on the campus of Lake Forest.
Lake Forest is the base for Linking Efforts Against Drugs (LEAD),[15] a national organization aimed at discouraging youth from getting involved in drugs. It empowers parents and community members to encourage the drug-free choice.
Top employers[edit]
According to Lake Forest's 2017 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report,[16] the top employers in the city are:
1 Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital 1,438
2 Pfizer (formerly Hospira) N/A
3 Abbott 721
4 Trustmark Insurance Company 704
5 Lake Forest College 448
6 Pactiv 333
7 Lake Forest Community High School District 115 327
8 Lake Forest Elementary School District 67 305
9 Packaging Corporation of America 275
10 City of Lake Forest 213
Demographics[edit]
%±
1880 877 —
1890 1,203 37.2%
1920 3,657 9.2%
1960 10,687 36.7%
1980 15,245 −2.5%
Est. 2016 19,388 [3] 0.1%
U.S. Decennial Census[17]
As of the 2010 United States Census,[18] there were 19,375 people residing in the city. The racial makeup of the city was 92.11% White, 4.67% Asian, 2.80% Hispanic or Latino (of any race), 1.30% of two or more races, 1.10% Black or African American, 0.14% Native American, 0.01% Pacific Islander, and 0.68% of some other race.
As of the census[19] of 2000, there were 20,059 people, 6,687 households, and 5,329 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,189.4 people per square mile (459.1/km²). There were 7,001 housing units at an average density of 415.1 per square mile (160.2/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 95.80% White, 1.35% African American, 0.06% Native American, 2.45% Asian, 0.13% Pacific Islander, 0.44% from other races, and 0.77% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.87% of the population.
There were 6,687 households out of which 39.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 73.6% were married couples living together, 4.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 20.3% were non-families. Of all households 18.3% Of all households were made up of individuals and 9.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.78 and the average family size was 3.17.
In the city, the population was spread out with 27.5% under the age of 18, 9.6% from 18 to 24, 19.7% from 25 to 44, 28.6% from 45 to 64, and 14.6% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 41 years. For every 100 females, there were 90.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 86.5 males.
According to a 2007 estimate, the median income for a household in the city was $150,670, and the median income for a family was more than $200,000. Males had a median income of $100,000+ versus $44,083 for females. The per capita income for the city was $77,092. About 0.15% of families and 0.2% of the population were below the poverty line.
Transportation[edit]
Lake Forest has Interstate Highway access through the Tri-State Tollway (I-94). In addition, the Skokie Highway (U.S. Highway 41) runs through Lake Forest, roughly bisecting the city. Lake Forest is connected with suburbs west of it through Illinois Route 60. Additionally, Lake Forest has two Metra commuter railroad stations, both of which share the same name. The Union Pacific/North Line has a station in East Lake Forest, while the Milwaukee District/North Line has a station in West Lake Forest.
Most Lake Forest residents attend Lake Forest School District 67 and Lake Forest High School.[citation needed] Lake Forest High School serves Lake Forest as well as neighboring Lake Bluff and Knollwood.
Elementary schools and middle schools[edit]
Deer Path Middle School—public
Cherokee Elementary School—public
Everett Elementary School—public
Sheridan Elementary School—public
Lake Forest Country Day School—private
School of St. Mary—private
East Lake Academy; private
Montessori School of Lake Forest—private; Montessori[20]
Forest Bluff School—private; Montessori; in neighboring Lake Bluff; majority of students live in Lake Forest[21]
High schools[edit]
In early 2019 Lake Michigan froze as temperatures plunged below zero for nearly 48 hours.
Lake Forest High School—public
Lake Forest Academy—private
Woodlands Academy of the Sacred Heart—private
Colleges[edit]
Barat College—closed on June 30, 2005 after 100 years in Lake Forest
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management
Notable people[edit]
Main article: List of people from Lake Forest, Illinois
Arts and entertainment[edit]
Lake Forest is home to Citadel Theatre,[22] the Lake Forest Symphony,[23] the Music Institute of Chicago Lake Forest Campus, the Deer Path Art League and the Wildlife Discovery Center.
Polo[edit]
Lake Forest is noted in the Chicago area for its history of polo, once being the westernmost establishment of the sport in the United States. It was home to the "East-West clash of 1933", in which a team of "Westerners" (who would today be considered Midwesterners), challenged the best of the Eastern US polo teams, winning two of three matches. Box seats sold for $5.50, and the general public was admitted for $1.10. The Chicago press covered the match extensively, including the arrival of every horse and player, the color of the horseflesh, and the color of the goalposts. The match was described as a "gleaming moment in American polo, if not the very zenith of the game in this country." In the early 21st century, Lake Forest continues the tradition, and polo is played yearly throughout August.
Literature[edit]
The Group has a character named Lakey from Lake Forest.
The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald; the character of Tom Buchanan imports his "string of polo ponies" from a Lake Forest farm to Long Island, New York.
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers; Dave (the main character) and his family are from Lake Forest, and the story begins there.
It, novel by Stephen King; Lake Forest is mentioned early in the book.[24]
The Lay of the Land, novel by Richard Ford; Frank Bascombe's in-laws are from Lake Forest.[25]
Ordinary People by Judith Guest; the central characters live in the city, where much of the story takes place.
Tender Is the Night, by F. Scott Fitzgerald; the character of Nicole Warren and her family have an estate in Lake Forest.
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^ "2016 U.S. Gazetteer Files". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved June 29, 2017.
^ a b "Population and Housing Unit Estimates". Retrieved June 9, 2017.
^ "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Lake Forest city, Illinois". U.S. Census Bureau, American Factfinder. Retrieved December 7, 2012.
^ A Preservation Foundation Guide to National Register Properties, Lake Forest, Illinois. Second ed. Lake Forest, IL: The Lake Forest Foundation for Historic Preservation, 1994, p. 31.
^ "US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990". United States Census Bureau. February 12, 2011. Retrieved April 23, 2011.
^ "G001 - Geographic Identifiers - 2010 Census Summary File 1". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved December 27, 2015.
^ a b c Solomon, Jeremy (April 22, 1987). "Lake Forest and Lake Bluff have Grown from Same Roots". Chicago Tribune.
^ a b "Dinner in Dixie Style: Novel Entertainment Given by the Onwentsia Club". Chicago Daily Tribune. September 3, 1898.
^ David W. Blight, Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory, Belknap Press, 2002
^ "Lake Forest Open Lands Association".
^ "Bagpipes & Bonfire", Lake Forest Open Lands Association
^ a b c Parons, Christi and Cindy Schreuder (September 10, 1992). "Lake Forest calls cops on racy CD lyrics". Chicago Tribune.
^ Johnson, Dirk (May 30, 1987). "Genteel Chicago Suburb Rages Over Mr. T's Tree Massacre". New York Times. Retrieved May 1, 2011.
^ "LEAD - Substance Abuse Prevention for Communities". www.leadingefforts.org. Retrieved March 31, 2018.
^ "City of Lake Forest CAFR" (PDF). cityoflakeforest.com. Retrieved March 3, 2019.
^ "Census of Population and Housing". Census.gov. Retrieved June 4, 2015.
^ "Lake Forest, IL Population - Census 2010 and 2000 Interactive Map, Demographics, Statistics, Quick Facts - CensusViewer".
^ "American FactFinder". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved January 31, 2008.
^ mslfadmin. "Montessori School of Lake Forest".
^ "Montessori Schools in Lake Forest - Montessori Schools in Lake Bluff - Forest Bluff School - 847-295-8338".
^ "Citadel Theatre Company".
^ Lawton, Mark (September 12, 2017). "60 years in, Lake Forest Symphony looks to keep up with the times". Lake Forester. Chicago Tribune. Retrieved October 16, 2017.
^ Hodder & Stoughton, p. 76
^ Knopf 2006, pp. 224–226.
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MetLife CFO John Hele leaves abruptly
May 1, 2018 exechange
After about six years in the position
Thanks for Hele
John McCallion taking over
(exechange) — New York, May 1, 2018 — John Hele, finance chief of MetLife, leaves. It is an abrupt change. As announced by MetLife, Inc. in a news release on Tuesday, May 1, 2018, John C.R. Hele leaves his post as Chief Financial Officer at the holding corporation for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company after about six years in the position, effective immediately.
Among the 3,000 largest publicly held companies incorporated in the U.S. based on market capitalization, the average tenure of the CFOs who departed over the past 12 months was 6.5 years, according to data compiled by exechange.
Hele’s duties will be taken over by John McCallion, most recently Treasurer of MetLife, Inc.
Hele’s move is part of a management shake-up also involving the position of Executive Vice President and General Counsel.
In the announcement, MetLife did not explicitly explain the obviously compelling reason for Hele’s sudden move, leaving room for speculation.
Precise information about Hele’s future plans was not immediately available.
Generally speaking, it is often an alarm signal for stockholders when a CFO leaves the position abruptly and without an understandable explanation.
MetLife said: “John C.R. Hele is retiring as Chief Financial Officer and will be succeeded by Executive Vice President John McCallion, currently the company’s Treasurer.”
The change follows a decline in the share price of MetLife, Inc. since January 2018.
Chaired by Steven A. Kandarian
MetLife, Inc. is chaired by Steven A. Kandarian.
John Hele was executive vice president & chief financial officer for MetLife, Inc. and a member of the company’s executive group.
Appointed to this position in September 2012, Hele oversaw all financial management matters for MetLife, including financial reporting, treasury, corporate actuarial, tax, investor relations as well as mergers and acquisitions.
Prior to joining MetLife, Hele was executive vice president, chief financial officer and treasurer of Arch Capital Group Ltd., a public limited liability company that writes insurance and reinsurance globally through operations in Bermuda, the United States, Europe and Canada.
Prior to joining Arch Capital in 2009, Hele was chief financial officer and a member of the executive board of ING Group N.V., one of the largest global financial services companies.
As CFO, Hele was based in Amsterdam and had responsibility for a financial function on five continents.
He was also responsible for financial controls and reporting as well as capital management and tax reporting.
During his six-year tenure at ING, Hele was also deputy chief financial officer, general manager, and chief insurance risk officer, responsible for global insurance risk management.
Hele also served as group actuary.
Hele served as founder, president and chief executive officer of Worldinsure, Bermuda, a technology company that automated life insurance underwriting, from 1999 to 2003.
Prior to that, he spent 11 years with Merrill Lynch in investment banking, marketing and finance positions in the U.S.
In his last role at Merrill Lynch, Hele was responsible for providing strategic and financing advice to leading life insurance chief executive officers and chief financial officers in North and South America.
Before joining Merrill Lynch, Hele held various actuarial, finance and business roles at Crown Life in Toronto.
Hele has been a member of the CFO Forum in Europe, the chair of the Chief Risk Officer Forum, and is a Fellow in the Society of Actuaries.
He holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
MetLife expects that John Hele will stay on at MetLife as a senior adviser until September 2018.
It is not completely certain what forces eventually triggered John Hele’s sudden move.
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International Paper CFO Glenn Landau leaves abruptly
After less than a year and a half in the position
Thanks and good wishes for Landau
Tim Nicholls taking over
(exechange) — Memphis, Tennessee, June 20, 2018 — Glenn Landau, finance chief of International Paper, leaves. It is an abrupt change. As announced by International Paper Company in a news release and in a regulatory filing published on Wednesday, June 20, 2018, Glenn R. Landau leaves his post as Chief Financial Officer at the pulp and paper company after less than a year and a half in the role, effective immediately.
No company wants a CFO to flame out in the first years.
Among the 3,000 largest publicly held companies incorporated in the U.S. based on market capitalization, the average tenure of the CFOs who departed over the past 12 months was 6.6 years, according to data compiled by exechange. Only 15 percent of the CFOs who departed over the past 12 months left the position within two years, and 28 percent left the position within three years.
Landau’s duties will be taken over by Timothy S. (Tim) Nicholls, most recently Senior Vice President – Industrial Packaging the Americas of International Paper Company.
Landau’s move is part of a management shake-up also involving the position of Senior Vice President – Global Cellulose Fibers.
“For personal reasons”
The management change is explained as follows. International Paper said: “Timothy S. Nicholls has been appointed Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, succeeding Glenn R. Landau who is leaving the company for personal reasons.”
In the announcement, the company did not detail the personal reasons causing Landau to leave the position, leaving room for speculation. Generally speaking, “personal reasons” may include, among others, family-related reasons or health reasons.
Precise information about Landau’s future plans was not immediately available.
Generally speaking, it is often an alarm signal for investors when a CFO leaves the position abruptly and without a reasonable explanation.
“Will no longer serve”
International Paper said: “Glenn R. Landau will no longer serve as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, effective June 20, 2018, and is leaving the Company for personal reasons.”
“Not related to any disagreement”
“Mr. Landau’s departure is not related to any disagreement with the Company regarding any strategic, financial, accounting or other business matter,” International Paper said.
Chaired by Mark S. Sutton
International Paper Company is chaired by Mark S. Sutton.
Mark Sutton became chairman of the International Paper Board of Directors on January 1, 2015, and CEO on November 1, 2014.
Glenn Landau was named senior vice president and chief financial officer of International Paper effective on February 22, 2017.
In addition to his role in finance, he also had oversight for the Company’s information technology group.
Prior to becoming CFO, he served as president of International Paper Latin America with overall responsibility for the company’s paper and packaging businesses in Brazil as well as the strategic direction for South America.
He was elected Senior Vice President in November 2014.
He joined International Paper in 1991, as an engineer at the Putnam, Conn., corrugated box plant and held positions of increasing responsibility in the U.S. container and European container businesses, where he served from 2000 to 2003 as managing director of International Paper Italia.
In 2004, he was appointed director of strategic planning for the forest resources sector and played a meaningful role in the company’s transformation, leading the forestland sale process as well as the company’s fiber procurement group in North America post divestiture.
In June 2007, he was promoted to vice president and general manager, containerboard, where he was instrumental in the company’s acquisition, integration and optimization of the former Weyerhaeuser containerboard, packaging and recycling business.
Landau was appointed vice president investor relations in 2011 and served in that capacity through 2013.
Landau serves on the Board of Directors for Factory Mutual Insurance Company (FM Global), elected in September 2017.
He holds a Bachelor of Science in industrial and systems engineering from Rutgers University.
It is not completely certain what forces eventually triggered Glenn Landau’s sudden move.
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China's megalopolises may seem impressive on paper, but they are awful places to live.
By Isaac Stone Fish
| August 13, 2012, 2:28 AM
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In Invisible Cities, the novel by the great Italian writer Italo Calvino, Marco Polo dazzles the emperor of China, Kublai Khan, with 55 stories of cities he has visited, places where "the buildings have spiral staircases encrusted with spiral seashells," a city of "zigzag" where the inhabitants "are spared the boredom of following the same streets every day," and another with the option to "sleep, make tools, cook, accumulate gold, disrobe, reign, sell, question oracles." The trick, it turns out, is that Polo’s Venice is so richly textured and dense that all his stories are about just one city.
A modern European ruler listening to a visitor from China describe the country’s fabled rise would be better served with the opposite approach: As the traveler exits a train station, a woman hawks instant noodles and packaged chicken feet from a dingy metal cart, in front of concrete steps emptying out into a square flanked by ramshackle hotels and massed with peasants sitting on artificial cobblestones and chewing watermelon seeds. The air smells of coal. Then the buildings appear: Boxlike structures, so gray as to appear colorless, line the road. If the city is poor, the Bank of China tower will be made with hideous blue glass; if it’s wealthy, our traveler will marvel at monstrous prestige projects of glass and copper. The station bisects Shanghai Road or Peace Avenue, which then leads to Yat-sen Street, named for the Republic of China’s first president, eventually intersecting with Ancient Building Avenue. Our traveler does not know whether he is in Changsha, Xiamen, or Hefei — he is in the city Calvino describes as so unremarkable that "only the name of the airport changes." Or, as China’s vice minister of construction, Qiu Baoxing, lamented in 2007, "It’s like a thousand cities having the same appearance."
Why are Chinese cities so monolithic? The answer lies in the country’s fractured history. In the 1930s, China was a failed state: Warlords controlled large swaths of territory, and the Japanese had colonized the northeast. Shanghai was a foreign pleasure den, but life expectancy hovered around 30. Tibetans, Uighurs, and other minorities largely governed themselves. When Mao Zedong unified China in 1949, much of the country was in ruins, and his Communist Party rebuilt it under a unifying theme. Besides promulgating a single language and national laws, they subscribed to the Soviet idea of what a city should be like: wide boulevards, oppressively squat, functional buildings, dormitory-style housing. Cities weren’t conceived of as places to live, but as building blocks needed to build a strong and prosperous nation; in other words, they were constructed for the benefit of the party and the country, not the people.
Even today, most Chinese cities feel like they were cobbled together from a Soviet-era engineering textbook. China’s fabled post-Mao liberal reforms meant that the country’s cities grew wealthier, but not that much more distinct from each other. Beijing has changed almost beyond recognition since Deng Xiaoping took power in 1978, but to see what Beijing looked like in the past, visit a less developed part of China: Malls in Xian, a regional hub in central China famous for its row upon row of grimacing terracotta warriors, look like the shabby pink structures that used to dot western Beijing. Yes, China’s cities are booming, but there’s a depressing sameness to what you find in even the newest of new boomtowns. Consider the checklist of "hot" new urban features itemized in a 2007 article in the Communist Party mouthpiece the People’s Daily, including obligatory new "development zones" (sprawling corporate parks set up to attract foreign direct investment), public squares, "villa" developments for the nouveau riche, large overlapping highways, and, of course, a new golf course or two for the bosses. The cookie-cutter approach is such that even someone like Zhou Deci, former director of the Chinese Academy of Urban Planning and Design, told the paper he has difficulty telling Chinese cities apart.
This model of endless fractal Beijings wouldn’t be so bad if the city itself were charming, but it is a dreary expanse traversed by unwalkable highways, punctuated by military bases, government offices, and other closed-off spaces, with undrinkable tap water and poisonous air that’s sometimes visible, in yellow or gray. And so are its lesser copies across the country’s 3.7 million square miles, from Urumqi in the far west to Shenyang way up north. For all their economic success, China’s cities, with their lack of civil society, apocalyptic air pollution, snarling traffic, and suffocating state bureaucracy, are still terrible places to live.
I spent seven years in China, living there until the end of last year. I’ve visited 21 of China’s 22 provinces and all five of its questionably named "autonomous" regions. In a traffic jam in the central metropolis of Wuhan, a barrage of car horns honking at once nearly made me deaf; smog the color of gargled milk hung over Nanjing the week I spent there, obscuring the city’s old rivers and bridges; at one of the nicest hotels in Tangshan, a city of 3 million famous for its steel industry, its 1976 earthquake, and its cabbage, I opened my window and found myself surrounded by smokestacks. I spent six years in Beijing, two months in Shanghai, a week in Tianjin, and 45 minutes in a cab on the way to the Chongqing airport. But of all the places I’ve been, I’d vote Harbin China’s least livable metropolis, at least during the three winter months I spent there as a student in 2005.
Chinese central government propaganda has gotten more sophisticated, even believable over the years, but official descriptions of cities are a major exception. Xiamen, for example, a sweltering concrete mess across the strait from Taiwan, is known as the "Garden of the Sea." Harbin, a gray Manchurian industrial powerhouse 300 miles south of Siberia that McKinsey says will be the world’s 55th-most dynamic city in 2025, gets the award for the worst abuse of language: It is widely known in China as "The Little Paris of the Orient," even though the two cities have nothing in common besides roads, people, buildings, and a fondness for bread.
In the early 20th century, Harbin had a large population of fleeing white Russians. In the 1950s, because of its strategic location, the Soviet Union sent advisors to help develop the city; they are in part responsible for the soulless apartment blocks and the creepy concrete dormitories that ring the campus of the Harbin Institute of Technology, the city’s most prominent university.
Harbin now houses nearly 6 million people, some of whom had fled from bleaker towns farther north, in a wide, flat city bisected by the cleverly named Central Avenue. Aboveground malls compete for customers with massive underground shopping centers that used to be bomb shelters. The post offices, banks, and counterfeit DVD stores looked like run-down versions of the ones in Beijing; even the bus-stop map seemed to be designed by the same person.
Besides karaoke rooms and KFC, popular destinations for locals include the mostly frigid Sun Island Park, across the street from Stalin Park, which features imitation Russian architecture and the Railway River clubhouse, administered by a local railways bureau (and yes, it’s that Stalin). For most of the year, real outdoor activities are difficult: When I arrived in February, the temperature regularly dropped below -15 degrees Celsius; buffeted by Siberian winds, it was physically painful to be outside. Locals have probably gawked at St. Sophia Cathedral, built by the Russian army in 1907, at least once or twice. And some have visited the Siberian Tiger Park, climbing into rickety vans as the guides drive among the tigers (for $8 your guide will toss a chicken at the patiently waiting animals; for $300, he’ll release a cow), and the Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival, billed as one of the world’s "four largest ice and snow festivals."
But mostly, people drink. Chinese alcoholism statistics are hard to come by, but Harbin hits the bottle hard. One Chinese website in 2008 ranked Harbiners as China’s No. 1 beer drinkers, claiming that they drink more than 85 liters of beer a year, on par with Lithuania and nearly twice as much as China’s second-ranked city, also in Manchuria. Many drink in restaurants or in clubs, like the popular Blues, a cavernous dance hall that featured a massive silk-screen print of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin on the wall and a fake octopus hanging from the ceiling, and where a Mongolian prostitute smacking a Korean prostitute with a chair would interrupt only the person who had been sitting on the chair. A Beijing-based blogger who lived in Harbin in 2003 told me about leaving Blues after several drinks and flagging a taxi driver, whom he recognized. "The taxi driver told me, ‘Hi, I just came from a wedding and I’m soused. You drive." So he drove himself home through Harbin’s icy, deserted streets.
Like many Chinese cites, Harbin can be extremely challenging to the health — and not just due to the sometimes scandalously toxic food served in dim, poorly lit restaurants. Hospital bathrooms in Harbin and elsewhere often lack soap and toilet paper, ostensibly out of fear that residents will steal the items. Six months after I arrived, a benzene spill in the nearby Songhua River briefly left the city without running water. The air in Harbin was so polluted that I felt as though the coal dust had sunk into my lungs, and a fine layer of black soot seeped in through our windows overnight. But even Harbin wasn’t as filthy as Linfen, a city of 4 million people in central China’s Shanxi province that Time in 2007, on a list of the world’s 20 most polluted cities, said made "Dickensian London look as pristine as a nature park."
The most livable parts of Chinese cities tend to be those that existed before Communist Party control. Teahouses, sometimes in elaborate, winding wooden structures, populate Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province; the areas around West Lake of Hangzhou, in Zhejiang province near Shanghai, feature an urban peacefulness and quiet. In an essay, dissident artist Ai Weiwei listed a "few nice parks" as one of the two things he liked about Beijing (the other was that "people still give birth to babies"). Chinese cities have little crime; one can stroll safely through Beijing’s magnificent Temple of the Sun park at midnight and lie on the altar, roughly 20 feet high, where the emperor used to offer sacrifices to the sun, and marvel at the luxury of so much space in a crowded city. And on the rare day when the sky is clear, you can even see the stars.
Many of China’s most tolerable areas, though, have foreign elements. Shanghai owes its cafe culture, its warrens of charming alleys, and its stately waterfront buildings to foreign colonization. The former foreign concession Tianjin, a municipality roughly the size of Beijing and 30 minutes away by high-speed rail, still retains some delightfully ramshackle mansions from that period. (Many Chinese, however, see the foreign concessions as a reminder of the early 20th-century colonization and therefore shameful, and some see American cities, with their GDPs expanding at glacial rates of 1 to 2 percent, as relics of the past.) Despite the best efforts of local governments and developers to raze old neighborhoods, the Silk Road oasis of Kashgar and the Tibetan capital of Lhasa still harbor majestic temples and mosques. The former foreign concession Gulangyu, a five-minute ferry ride from Xiamen in South China’s Fujian province, is one of the most pleasant spots in China. A carless island, filled with less than 20,000 residents, it’s experiencing a boom because tourists "want to experience Western culture," a woman named Xie Lida told me in 2010; her family owns one of the island’s most popular coffee shops, called Zhu Family Garden, on the first floor of their massive villa. The European parlor-style decoration features paintings of the British countryside, overstuffed chairs with rose patterns, and Earl Grey served from an imitation British tea set.
Cities that try to replicate the success of places like Gulangyu often do so by plunking a massive Western structure in the center of their city. In 2003, Dalian erected a hulking Bavarian-style fortress above the conference center near where the World Economic Forum held its "Summer Davos"; the castle looked more at home in a Mario Bros. video game than a coastal Chinese city. (It was torn down in 2010.) The southern boomtown of Shenzhen boasts an Eiffel Tower 25 percent the size of the original; Hangzhou’s version is 33 percent. In 2003, Fuyang, an impoverished city of 8 million people in central Anhui province, built a massive government office, at a cost of nearly $5 million, resembling the U.S. Capitol. ("Without the red flag, you can’t tell if it’s America or China," one local resident quipped to a Chinese state journalist.)
The copycat ethos also extends to domestic landmarks. The Water Cube, where Beijing hosted its Olympic swimming events, has spawned a look-alike spa in the metropolis of Chongqing offering brothel service, at least until a 2010 police raid. Chengdu has built a fake version of the Great Wall. Even China’s iconic Tiananmen Square, the site of Mao’s 1949 proclamation of an independent China and 1989’s student massacre, has a fake version in Yinchuan, the capital of Ningxia autonomous region. These faux landmarks, built for the prestige of Chinese mayors and party secretaries, rarely become integrated into the city. According to a photographer who visited Hangzhou’s Eiffel Tower in 2011, migrant workers now use the land adjacent to the tower to grow crops.
And even where China’s urbanization boom has produced impressive architectural feats, it’s not always clear that the country’s cities are ready for them: A free-spending checkbook for development hasn’t yet translated to a way around the Communist Party’s stronghold on history, politics, and everything in between. So yes, there are impressive new urban meccas for the performing arts, like the soaring glass Guangzhou Opera House designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Zaha Hadid that cost more than $200 million to build, or French architect Paul Andreu’s Beijing National Center for the Performing Arts, a gorgeously situated dome that looks like an egg floating in water, with a price tag of more than $300 million. But a pervasive fear of censorship means that many of the best plays and artwork — the lifeblood of great cities — never get created or performed.
That’s not to say Chinese cities aren’t improving. Pictures of Harbin in the 1980s make it look like Pyongyang with smog and traffic. Most Chinese lived in dormitories with shared kitchens or bathrooms, and few appliances.
"The yard is just two metres square," writes author Ma Jian in the travelogue Red Dust, about the "crumbling old shack" he lived in off a Beijing courtyard in 1981, an improvement from his previous quarters in a dormitory. "In the summer months, watermelon skins and empty ice-cream cartons fall from the flats and attract swarms of flies and mosquitoes, so I tend to stay indoors. Winter is the best season as my neighbours seal their windows." Antoaneta Becker, a former journalist from Bulgaria who studied at Peking University, Beijing’s premier college, in the late 1980s, said that it was so boring that "there was nothing to do but sit and meditate on the meaning of existence."
Now, great noodle and sushi joints dot the capital; bars mixing $15 martinis are upstairs from little tents serving beer of dubious provenance for under a dollar. Foreign and Chinese hipsters have colonized some of Beijing’s traditional hutong (small alleys that ramble throughout the center of the city) neighborhoods. The capital’s best microbrewery, Great Leap, set up a bar in one these alleys — its subversive name is borrowed from the Great Leap Forward, Mao’s disastrous forced industrial campaign that led to the starvation of 20 million to 30 million people.
But there is much work to be done before China’s urban wastelands measure up to the world’s great cities. In a different era, but one suited to China’s present condition, England-based novelist Henry James wrote, "It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent." After three decades of breakneck growth and 5,000 years of history, China’s cities have most of that going for them. Now they just need to work on the magnificent.
Isaac Stone Fish is a journalist and senior fellow at the Asia Society’s Center on U.S-China Relations. He was formerly the Asia editor at Foreign Policy Magazine. Twitter: @isaacstonefish
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Wayne Simmonds Turns Heads Again, But Size Could Be A Problem
EL SEGUNDO, CA — Wiry but rugged right wing Wayne Simmonds turned a lot of heads at the Los Angeles Kings’ 2007-08 training camp after being selected in the second round (61st overall) of the 2008 National Hockey League Entry Draft. Almost one year later, he turned heads again at the team’s annual Development Camp last month.
Standing out at the camp comes as no surprise, given Simmonds’ performance in training camp last season as well as his improvement in junior hockey.
To illustrate, in the 2006-07 season, his first in the Ontario Hockey League, Simmonds scored 23 goals and added 26 assists for 49 points in 66 games with 112 penalty minutes for the Owen Sound Attack.
But last season, Simmonds turned on the jets while splitting time with Owen Sound and the Sault Ste. Marie (Soo) Greyhounds, also in the OHL.
In 31 games with Owen Sound, Simmonds scored 16 goals and added 20 assists for 36 points with 68 penalty minutes. After being traded to the Greyhounds, Simmonds scored 17 goals and tallied 22 assists for 39 points with 43 penalty minutes in 29 games.
In all, Simmonds scored 33 goals and 42 assists for 75 points with 111 penalty minutes last season, a 26-point improvement over his 2006-07 season.
To be sure, Simmonds plays a physical style, but he is certainly not a one-dimensional forward.
“I’m just full intensity,” said Simmonds. “If I can get a lick on you, I’ll get a lick on you, but I think I’ve got a little bit of a finesse game at the same time.”
Despite his improvement last season, Simmonds still has a lot to work on.
“I’ve been working hard all year long on parts of my game that I think are weaker,” said Simmonds. “I’ve been getting better at certain things. I’ve been working on puck protection skills and going through the neutral zone with the puck and not stick-handling as much.”
His work on his game notwithstanding, Simmonds might have a problem because he plays a rugged, physical style, but does not have the size to do that at the NHL level.
Indeed, when you look at Simmonds without his hockey gear, the word “skinny” comes immediately to mind. Clearly, getting stronger and adding bulk to his 6-1, 162-pound frame has to be the Kings’ biggest concern. In fact, one look at Simmonds makes one wonder if he can bulk up enough.
“The main focus has been to get bigger and stronger” he said. “I’ve put on a little weight and I got a bit faster.”
Assuming Simmonds can bulk up and get stronger, he would be a welcome addition to the Kings, who have often been pushed around in games over the last few seasons because they have lacked skilled forwards who play with an aggressive, physical edge and can effectively stand up for their teammates.
To be sure, Simmonds is no stranger to dropping the gloves.
“It’s part of my game,” he said. “The aggressiveness comes naturally to me. I don’t really go looking for it, but if it presents itself, I’m not shy.”
Next season, Simmonds is likely to wind up with the Manchester Monarchs of the American Hockey League, the Kings’ primary minor league affiliate. However, even though he is twenty years old, he could find himself back in the OHL.
“I have an over-age year in the OHL, but next year, I’m eligible to play in Manchester,” said Simmonds.
But like all young prospects, Simmonds is hoping to make the Kings’ lineup out of training camp, which starts on September 20.
“I think I’d benefit more playing at the pro level against men who are bigger and stronger,” said Simmonds. “It would be better for me to get used to that. But I’m just going to come into camp focused. I’m going to work as hard as I can and see where that takes me.”
“It would be nice to make the team, that would be a thrill. But whereever they put me I’ll be happy.”
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20 thoughts on “Wayne Simmonds Turns Heads Again, But Size Could Be A Problem”
Bob Bobson says:
Great article Gann. The height is there but the weight is something he will really need to work on. He seems to be a hard-enough worker and has really come a long way since being drafted in 2007 so hopefully he can continue working on his size. I really like this pick and he has the potential to be a diamond in the rough for Dean Lombardi.
cristobal says:
Get this guy some meat and potatoes because he needs the great size to go with his great attitude. I love to hope for a guy like this because, from the little i’ve heard, he sounds like a good kid that respects his abilities. At 6′-1″ he should be able to get up to around 210 eventually. His metabolism is probably going like gangbusters and I would even guess he has trouble sleeping after a full day of work, like I used to be. Good luck kid and get on the exercycle and pull ups.
Gann, any idea what weight Teubert is currently hovering around?
Gann Matsuda says:
You want info on Teubert? I’ll have a story on him eventually, probably later this week or the following week. Gotta spread around the interviews I have to keep things going over the summer. :-)
ericd says:
185-190… but he’s 6’4″…
ericd: You’re referring to Teubert, right?
gann, other guys i’d like to know about where their heads are: handzus and calder. It would be great to know their attitude with the new coach and a new season in which the kings will need them to improve.
That’ll have to wait until training camp.
triplcrown says:
I’m a little confused by this part:
“ext season, Simmonds is likely to wind up with the Manchester Monarchs of the American Hockey League, the Kings’ primary minor league affiliate. However, even though he is twenty years old, he could find himself back in the OHL.
That doesn’t mean he ISN’T eligible to play in the AHL this coming season, does it?
I’m not 100% clear on that.
No…it means that, although he’ll be 20 years old when the 2008-09 season begins, making him eligible to play in the AHL (or ECHL, for that matter), he has a year of junior eligibility left.
I doubt very highly the Kings will want him to return to the OHL.
Wow, is that 162 lbs for SIMMONDS right NOW?
I saw that weight listed for him LAST season.
I figured he would add a few lbs onto that by now.
He hasn’t gained ANY weight this past year?
You’ve got an excellent website, by the way.
–triplcrown
That stat is the most recent available from the Kings and from the Owen Sound Attack, but is probably what he weighed to start last season. That said, his legs still make me think “toothpicks” right off the bat, so he still needs to bulk up…big time.
Thanks for the kind words…now go tell every Kings and hockey fan you know about it! :-)
One thing to keep in mind…hockey players tend to lose weight during the season because they have little time to hit the weight room between practice and games. And during practice and games, they lose weight.
Do these young guys have access to good trainers and strength coaches, or are they left to their own devices outside of LA?
Yes. During the Development Camp and throughout the summer, they work with the Kings’ strength and conditioning staff. In fact, many of the prospects were supposed to stay in LA to work with them through early August before going home for a few weeks before training camp back here next month.
Dippy says:
If he can get up to 185, this kid is going to be dynamite. Caught a couple Owen Sound games when I was up North last year, he is the real deal. Great intensity and a pretty fluid game, it’s no wonder he impressed the Hockey Canada folks and made the team.
BigBoi88 says:
Wayne IS the real deal, went to high school with him and have followed him since his start in owen sound. At first glance everyone notices the weight and yes it is an issue, but he has all the tools in place to be an excellent NHL’er and i hope only the best for him.
also, anyone thinking that his slim build means hes a pushover, you thought wrong.
good luck simmer
Based on what I hear on the radio and read (since pre-season games aren’t televised so I haven’t actually seen him play), Simmonds has the grit, attitude, and skills to be an asset to the Kings now. Those of you who have seen him play, help me out here: Is it too much of a reach to say that his game in some ways resembles O’Sullivan’s and as such, could fill that slot while Sully’s situation plays out? I tell you what, if I’m an opponent watching Simmonds and Brown coming at me, I know this will only end painfully for me… The Kings may not post many wins this season but they sure will be fun to watch.
AzKing says:
Gann, as usual, you are doing more work and should be getting more credit than people who do it for a living. My hope is the more exposure you get, the more recognition will come with it.
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Mrs. Latifa Akherbach, appointed as President of the High Authority of the Higher Council of Audiovisual Communication, is currently and since February 2016, ambassador of His Majesty the King in Tunis. She was previously appointed Ambassador to Bulgaria and Macedonia in 2013. Between 2007 and 2013, she was appointed Secretary of State to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation.
Ms. Akherbach, who has taught in the media field for more than 20 years, was appointed director of the Higher Institute of Information and Communication (ISIC) in Rabat in 2003, a position she held until 2003. In 2007, she was appointed director general of the National Radio.
She has co-authored several books, including "Women and Media" and "Women and Politics". She has published several articles and studies on media and communication. She is a laureate of the Higher Institute of Journalism and holds a PhD in Information Sciences and Communication at Paris II University in 1988. She is married and has three children.
Dr. Mark Lopez, Director of Global Migration and Demography, Pew Research Center
Mark Hugo Lopez is director of global migration and demography research at Pew Research Center. He leads planning of the Center’s research agenda on international demographic trends, international migration, U.S. immigration trends and the U.S. Latino community. He is an expert on immigration globally and in the U.S., world demography, U.S. Hispanics and Asian Americans. He was previously the Center’s director of Hispanic research, and prior to that served as the associate director.
Lopez received his doctorate in economics from Princeton University. He is the co-editor of “Adjusting to a World in Motion: Trends in Global Migration and Migration Policy” and an author of reports about the Hispanic electorate, Hispanic identity and immigration. Lopez frequently appears in U.S. and international media in both Spanish and English.
Ms. Danila Chiaro, Project Manager, EUROMED Migration IV, ICMPD Regional Coordination Office for the Mediterranean
Ms. Chiaro is currently Project Manager at ICMPD, in charge of the program EUROMED Migration IV, which is based in the ICMPD Regional Coordination Office for the Mediterranean in Malta. Before, she worked at the European Commission (DG DEVCO) as program manager, in the thematic unit on Migration and Asylum and previously at the geographical unit covering the Africa Caribbean and Pacific (ACP). She also worked previously as a consultant on EU funding mechanisms, providing technical assistance to national and regional authorities. She has a degree in International Relations and a Master’s degree in EU studies.
Ms. Lucila Rodriguez, Executive Director and Co-Founder, PorCausa
Lucila Rodríguez-Alarcón is the Cofounder porCausa foundation where she has been General Director for the last 3 years. She began her professional carrier in Brussels where she directed a lobbying consultancy for 6 years. She was Communication Director of Oxfam in Spain and Latin America and Head of Press and Communications for the Madrid City Council. She is the Director of the section Con M de in the newspaper Publico which specializes in migrations, and has collaborated with El Pais or The Guardian, among others.
Mr. Reda Ez-Zriouli, on behalf of the young people on the move
Aged 18, Mr. Reda Ez-zriouli has just graduated with a high honors degree. His dynamism is illustrated by his participation in numerous conferences and debates and his commitment to defend the rights of the child. In particular, the rights of young migrants, who, according to Reda, still suffer from a restriction of their fundamental rights.
Reda is a young leader who is trying to make a change in his community. He is also interested in social entrepreneurship and has participated in numerous national and international events (World Merit Council Summit, Reading and Leadership Summer Forum, Injazz Al Maghreb). Named as the best young Moroccan entrepreneur in 2017 (at MYSEC), Reda is vice-director of a 'Start up' which aims to help young migrants to continue their studies in the best conditions. In addition, he participated in the educational competition on migration organized by the Ministry of National Education in which he 'won the prize for best writing in Kenitra. On the other hand, he was elected best delegate of the United Nations Model (A-Mun 2019) whose subject was on migration. His skills were illustrated during his participation in the GFMD, serving as a "panel speaker" during the plenary "Africa, a continent in motion."
Dr. Sarah Lamort, Refugee Status Determination Officer, UNHCR
Sarah Lamort has been working in the area of refugee protection for the last 10 years. She joined UNHCR in 2014 working as a Legal/Protection Officer. She worked in Turkey, Egypt, Brazil and Morocco. She assumes the function of Refugee Status Determination Officer with UNHCR Morocco since 2017.
Before joining UNHCR, she worked for various NGOs in France and Turkey. She holds a Master degree in Human Rights Law and a PhD in Public Law from Lyon University in France. Her PhD thesis on the European Union Asylum Law and Policy received the 2015 Award of Le Monde de la Recherche Universitaire. Her main publication is entitled « Europe, Terre d’Asile? » Paris : Presses Universitaires de France, 2016
Mr. Mohamed Elkaza, Journalist of the Egyptian daily newspaper Al Ahram.
Mr. Elkaya, works as assistant editor in chief of Egypt's Al-Ahram newspaper. He works on Journalism investigations specializing in immigration issues.
Six years ago, he conducted investigations and reports on migration from Egypt, Italy, France and Lebanon, having numerous television interviews on migration issues.
15:00 - 17:00 | Session II: Migration and data: how to rethink migration and renew the narratives?
Session II: Migration and data: how to rethink migration and renew the narratives?
How much do facts and scientific evidence really matter in shaping public perceptions on migration?
Which indicators are key for measuring the impact of communication on public attitudes towards migrants and migration? What challenges do governments and researchers face in collecting data and evidence in relation to those indicators?
How do governments develop messaging on migration? Who is involved?
How can the private sector support governments in their efforts to strengthen the evidence base and project the positive aspects of migration to the wider 3 public? Moderator: Mr. Kamal Lahbib, President of Alternatives Maroc (FMAS)
Mr. Alexander da Costa, Minister-Counsellor and Deputy Permanent Representative, Embassy of The Gambia to The Swiss Confederation and Permanent Mission of The Gambia to the UNOG
Mr. Alex da Costa is a Gambian and a highly developed individual with business and consultancy skills spanning over 35 years in Europe and in Africa. Alex’s experience includes operational and strategic management responsibilities in private, public and “third” sector (public/private) organisations. He is an experienced Diplomat with a demonstrated history of working in the government relations industry. He is skilled in International Relations, Management, Public Speaking, and Public Relations.
Alex is a member of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations UK, Vice President of The Public Relations Association, The Gambia, a member of The Gambia Press Union (GPU), a member of The National Union of Journalists (NUJ), UK and a member of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ). He has served in various capacities such as a member of the Marketing Committee of The Gambia Football Association and Interim Chairman of the National Sports Council - The Gambia, to mention a few. In addition, Alex was the Head of Media, Information & Technology for the African Union (AU) Banjul 2006 Summit at the Coordinating Secretariat.
Dr. James Dennison, Research Fellow, European University Institute, Florence, Observatory of Public Attitudes to Migration
Dr. James Dennison is a Research Fellow at the Migration Policy Centre of the European University Institute in Florence, where he leads the Observatory of Public Attitudes to Migration. His research interests include attitudinal formation, political behavior and advanced research methods. His scientific research has appeared in numerous international journals and books and he regularly appears in international media and offers evidence to international organisations and governments. He received his PhD in Social and Political Sciences from the European University Institute in 2017. He has previously held positions at the University of Oxford and University of Sheffield, where he taught quantitative methods. In 2019-2020 he will be based at Harvard University's Center for European Studies while continuing his work at the Migration Policy Centre. He tweets @JamesRDennison.
Dr. Jasper Dag Tjaden, Data and Survey Officer, Global Migration and Data Analysis Center (GMDAC)
Dr. Jasper Dag Tjaden is the head of the Impact Evaluation Unit within IOM’s Global Migration Data Analysis Centre based in Berlin. Jasper’s team has been coordinating several large scale evaluations including evaluations of information campaigns aiming to raise awareness of the risks of migration. Jasper has been working in the field of migration for nine years including in previous positions at the World Bank and the Migration Policy Group. He holds a PhD in Quantitative Social Sciences from the University of Bamberg, Germany, and the City University of New York (CUNY) and a master degree from London School of Economics and Political Science.
Mr. Rodolfo Córdova Alcaraz, Vice President, Impacto Social Metropolitan Group, Mexico
Mr. Alcaraz is Vice President for Impacto Social Metropolitan Group, an agency that directly impacts social change and builds the capacity of organizations that drive it. Half of its work is designing and implementing campaigns and initiatives that change attitudes, behaviors, practices and policies. The other half is helping organizations develop effective strategic plans and powerful brands, raise funds, and build cultures that better help them drive social change.
He has been working for the past 15 years in strategic communication, strategy development and organizational development. During these years, he has been fostering social impact to bring long lasting change in Central and North America and Europe by working on public policies to guarantee the rights of migrants, refugees and children. He has worked for the IOM in 5 different countries, for the World Bank and several not for profit organizations in the Americas and Europe. Also, he has been involved in the GFMD since 2010, when Mexico chaired the Forum.
Mr. Toufik Cherradi, Président de la Fédération Marocaine du Bâtiment et des Travaux Publics (FNBTP).
Mr. Cherradi has a doctorate degree in civil engineering from the University of Paris-Orsay. He has been the General Manager of a construction company (Raja binaa) since 1986. He is chairman of the Training Commission of the National Federation of Construction and Public Works (FNBTP) since 2006. He is also a member of the executive board of the CGEM branch observatory.
Mr. Cherradi has actively contributed to several structuring projects that focus on employment and vocational training in Morocco: National Certification Framework, Vocational Training Strategy 2021, Employment Strategy, Multilevel Governance of Training, Validation of professional experience, etc. He is also the coordinator of the project « Partenariats de formation germano-marocains pour L’orientation professionnelle des adolescents au Maroc» "funded by GIZ which includes a component that concerns the integration of young sub-Saharan migrants.
Ms. Hataichanok Puckcharern, Inspector of Statistics, National Statistics Office, Thailand, Ministry of Digital Economy and Society
She has been working in TNSO more than 25 years and was a sampling expert for the sample survey including the Migrant Survey in the country.
Ms. Puckcharern was a Director of the Statistics System Management Division which responses for the Statistical System in the country, including the migrant data. She is also a lecturer in the Universities.
09:00 - 09:30 | Summary of the first day.
Summary of the first day.
09:30 - 11:00 | Session III: Building balanced narratives on migration and the contribution of migrants to sustainable development
Session III: Building balanced narratives on migration and the contribution of migrants to sustainable development
What are the facts and evidence from research about the multiple contributions of migrants and migration to sustainable development? (To what extent could such positive interlinkages be useful to influence the migration discourse?
What effective strategies and practices have governments identified to a) react to polemical debates and excessive negative public attention on migrants; and b) lower the emotional level of domestic immigration debates and focus the attention on long-term issues (e.g. social cohesion, labour shortages)?
Please share concrete examples of best practices of communication efforts, depicting migrants as agents for sustainable development. What lessons can be learnt from these examples? What ways of communication/visualization are particularly appealing?
In what specific ways could civil society, business, media and the youth contribute to building a balanced narrative on the contribution of migrants to sustainable development? Moderator: Ms. Paola Pace of IOM Tunisia 4
Hon. Ms. Sarah P. Arriola, Undersecretary for Migrant Workers’ Affairs, Philippines
Sarah Arriola is presently the Undersecretary for Migrant Workers’ Affairs at the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) of the Philippines. As the undersecretary, her duties involve: active participation in international and global conferences and coordination with government agencies, reviews utilization of assistance-to-nationals (ATN) and Legal Assistance Funds provided for distressed overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), as well as initiation of comprehensive labor migration programs with government agencies and global partners, such as the International Organization for Migration and other UN agencies.
Prior to her post at the DFA, she served as the Chief of Staff of the Office of the Majority Leader and concurrently Chief of the Investigation Service of the Senate Blue Ribbon Oversight Office Management, as well as the Committee Secretary of the Senate Committee on Rules.
She is also a Professorial Lecturer 1 of the Philippine Judicial Academy and has been a faculty member of Ateneo Law School for over a decade. She specializes in Administrative Law, Law on Public Officers, and Fundamentals of Thesis Writing where she serves as a Member of the Thesis Committee.
Usec Arriola obtained her Juris Doctor degree from the Ateneo Law School in 1998 and her LLM in International Human Rights Law from the University of Essex in 2004, where she was a University of Essex and British Chevening scholar. She took Bachelor of Arts in Communication at the Ateneo de Manila University College of Arts and Sciences in 1993.
Ms. Kristy Siegfried, UNHCR
Ms. Kristy Siegfried is a senior writer and editor of the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR). She compiles The Refugee Brief, UNHCR’s daily news digest. Prior to joining UNHCR, she was the Global Migration Editor for IRIN News (now The New Humanitarian). After more than a decade in Johannesburg, South Africa, she is now based near Oxford.
Ms. Eliza Marks, Project Technical Officer, ILO REFRAME
Ms. Eliza Marks is Technical Officer of the Regional Fair Migration Project in the Middle East (FAIRWAY). The project promotes policy change for fair migration; strengthens institutional mechanisms to support implementation of laws and policies; and reduces discriminatory attitudes and actions towards migrant workers. The project is operational in Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon and the United Arab Emirates, and focuses on the sectors in which low-skilled migrant workers predominate – construction and domestic work. In this role, Eliza provides technical support in the areas of advocacy, media engagement, and the development of capacity building training programmes.
Eliza holds a BA in Development Studies (Hons Class I) from the University of New South Wales, and a MSc in Migration Studies from the University of Oxford, where she conducted research into citizenship, statelessness and mobility.
Ms. Marta Arias, Global Lead, Campaign on Migrant and Refugee Children, (#ChildrenUprooted), UNICEF
Ms. Marta Arias is the Global Lead of UNICEF’s campaign to raise awareness and increase worldwide support to migrant and refugee children, called #ChildrenUprooted. She has more than 20 years of experience on international development, human rights and social affairs in Spain, Latin America and now globally. Former Director of Campaigns for Oxfam in Spain and the Spanish National Committee for UNICEF, she joined UNICEF Headquarters in Geneva in 2015. Author of several publications and frequent spokesperson with TV, radio and written media.
Ms. Alexis Nadine Bautista, Project Coordinator, Migrant Forum in Asia
Alexis Nadine Bautista is a program officer in Migrant Forum in Asia. She helps coordinate and facilitate MFA programs in the region on the different focus areas such as documentation as evidence-based advocacy, health and migration, as well as women in migration, and is one of the focal persons of the Lawyers Beyond Borders (LBB)—MFA’s lawyers’ network of legal experts interested in advocating for the rights of migrant workers. She is one also one of the focal persons of MFA’s recruitment reform campaign through the Open Working Group on Labor Migration and Recruitment, a platform working on collective advocacy to bring about positive change in recruitment regimes.
In MFA, she is heavily engaged in the national, regional, and international processes on and related to migration, and is currently the point person for the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly, and Regular Migration (GCM). Alexis continues to raise perspective and concerns in the different spaces and platforms around the region in relation to human rights, labor migration, and development.
11:15 - 13:15 | Session IV: Multi-stakeholder-partnerships to demystify prejudices about Migration
Session IV: Multi-stakeholder-partnerships to demystify prejudices about Migration
What efforts have governments taken to promote a balanced public discourse about migrants and migration? What frameworks and mechanisms have they established in order to improve public perceptions of migrants and migration? How have they been effective?
How can governments and other concerned stakeholders work better with the media in promoting a more evidence-based communication about migrants and migration, and addressing misperceptions and misconceptions?
What role could migrants and varied social partners (including schools, employers, businesses, academics, trade unions, civil society, etc.) play in demystifying prejudices about migrants and migration?
What partnerships can be formed – at the local, bilateral, regional and international levels – to try to improve overall global public perceptions about migrants and migration? Moderator: Mr. Mohammed Charef, Président of L’Observatoire Régional des Migrations: Espaces et Sociétés (ORMES)
Dr. Kathleen Newland, Migration Policy Institute
She is Senior Fellow and Co-Founder of the Migration Policy Institute and a Member of the Board of Trustees. Her work focuses on the governance of international migration, the relationship between migration and development, and refugee protection.
Prior to MPI’s establishment in July 2001, Ms. Newland co-directed the International Migration Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment. Earlier, she was a Lecturer in international political economy at the London School of Economics (1988–92) and Special Assistant to the Rector of the United Nations University (1982–87). She has worked as a consultant to the International Labor Organization, the International Organization for Migration, the Office of the Secretary General of the United Nations, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and the World Bank.
Mr. Mohamed Boussraoui, United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG), Steering Committee member, GFMD Mayors’ Mechanism
Mr. Boussraoui is the Director of Programmes at the United Cities and Local Governments UCLG, since its creation in 2004. Mr. Boussraoui brings about 29 years of expertise in urban planning, decentralised cooperation, and local governance in international organizations.
Director of Programmes in charge of Water, Resilience and migration issues; he is also responsible for institutional relations with Sub Saharan Africa and Arab World Members.
He graduated in 1985 from University of Paris XII, in urban planning and urbanism and he obtained his post graduate diploma in Urban Environment from Architecture School of Paris.
Ms. Juliana P. Dobos, Deputy Director, Multilateral Engagement, International and Intergovernmental Relations for Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada
Ms. Juliana Dobos has worked for Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada since August 2010. Since March 2017, she has been the deputy director responsible for Canada’s engagement with a variety of multilateral fora, on migration related issues.
Between 2007 and 2010, she worked for the Department of Canadian Heritage, on Canadian Government initiatives promoting development through sport (2007-2009) and on policies and programs related to youth (2009-2010).
Before joining Canada’s federal public service in 2007, Juliana worked for UNICEF in Rabat and her responsibilities included planning, monitoring and evaluation of UNICEF’s programs in Morocco (2005-2007).
Ms. Dobos obtained her undergraduate degree from the Babes Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, and her Master of Arts in International Affairs from the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Ottawa, Canada.
Ms. Clara Skupien, Project Officer, International Catholic Migration Center, Coordinator of the GFMD Civil Society
Clara Skupien is a Project Officer for the International Catholic Migration Commission (ICMC). She is one of the main focal points for the GFMD Civil Society Days and works for the secretariat of the Civil Society Action Committee. Both projects are hosted by ICMC.
Ms. Skupien helps ensure a smooth communication and coordination between civil society organizations at the global, national and local level, internally as well as with other stakeholders.
With a background in international history and experience in journalism, communications and international coordination, she has worked directly with migrants in Geneva and for the Swiss government in New York.
Ms. Mbemba Florelle Vera, on behalf of the young people on the move
Mrs. Mbemba Florelle Vera lives in Rabat, Morocco as a refugee since 2016. She is representing the young people on the move and is delighted to share her experiences, opinions and ideas during the development of this workshop. She is currently studying Arabic.
Ms. Maria Teresa Rojas, Director of programs for the Open Society Foundations’ International Migration Initiative.
She has previously held several other positions at the Open Society Foundations’ International Migration Initiative, which she established as the founding director in 2010, including director of the US immigrant rights portfolio, deputy director of the US Justice Fund, and associate director for communications.
Ms. Rojas has a varied background in management and communications in the nonprofit and public sectors, and has successfully structured and managed start-up operations. As the first general manager of New York City’s Crosswalks Television. Network, she built five municipal cable channels from the ground up and instituted unprecedented television coverage of local government proceedings. She has been a television producer, radio correspondent, writer, and a New York Emmy nominee.
Rojas holds an MA in public administration from Baruch College, the City University of New York, and a BA in communications from Rutgers University. She is currently a member of the Advisory Committee of the Andrew & Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law at the University of New South Wales, and a member of the Migration Advisory Board of the International Organization for Migration.
13:15 - 14:15 | Lunch
14:45 - 15:45 | Closing session
Closing session:
Highlights of the Thematic Workshop
Mr. Ahmed Skim Director of Migration Affairs, Morocco
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14:30 - 17:30 | Consultation on the relationship between the GFMD and the Global Compact for Migration
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No Country for Old Historians? Thinking about the Future of the Past
August 8, 2016 August 8, 2016 Categories Agriculture, American Cooking, Cookbooks, CookingAlbion’s Seed, Annales, Barbara Tuchman, David Hackett Fischer, Great Man Theory of History, Herbert Butterfield, Historians’ Fallacies, Jörn Rüsen, Lucien Lebvre, Marc Bloch, Peter Charles Hoffer, R. G. Collingwood3 Comments on No Country for Old Historians? Thinking about the Future of the Past
History is written by the victors. ~ Various
I started out, you see, to revisit and reponder the works of several “old” historians – Marc Bloch, R. G. Collingwood, H. Butterfield, E. H. Carr, etc. – the “old men” of history, or better said, the “old (white) men” of the history of writing history.
Or better said, “Historiography.”
Nearly everyone who’s studied history formally at university probably has read some – or all – of these canonical tomes at some point. Especially graduate students and those others faithfully practicing the art (and science) of history. Or at least they should be familiar with the past of the past.
But, as happens, my reading drew me into a meditation on what transpires in historical writing when emotion takes a front seat over logic and analysis, what – if any – benefit there might be to placing emotional rhetoric front and center at Clio’s feet?
History seems like a long shiny necklace to me, for I see the decades strung out like beads on a rosary.
In my earlier days, Butterfield’s work in particular struck me as apt, and his basic philosophy has stuck with me all these years: he believed that 19th-century historians saw certain patterns in history – mostly progressive – and, even when facts or findings contradicted the pattern, these wise men of Clio attempted to squeeze them into the narrative, much as Cinderella’s step-sisters cut off their toes in their eagerness to wear the glass slipper. They ignored the watchword of the historical process – argument – in favor of the standard model, sticking with the system, and making the facts fit, regardless of the cost and the loss of blood.
Butterfield thus shook a finger at one of the major fallacies, or failings, of historians. And that is emotional involvement with a topic to the point of not looking over the fence to the other side, ignoring the very essence of the historical process, and fitting the facts to the theory. In short, historians take on moral stances and tend sometimes to look at certain aspects of the past through the lens of the present. A case in point, I would suggest, is the way in which some historians view the situation of servants of every ilk.
Nice and noxious and neat.
Take the work of another dissenter. Historian David Hackett Fischer, author of the rather systematic-but-intriguing Albion’s Seed (1989), took up questions about fallacies found in so many historical works. Reading his Historians’ Fallacies (1970) almost puckers the mind, because it seems that no historian escapes his scalpel. One of Fischer’s fallacies concerns tautological questions, or “the framing of questions in such a way that they are true by definition and cannot be empirically contradicted without self-contradiction.” (p. 31) The historian in this case develops a theory and sets out to prove it, cherry-picking evidence from sources of every sort.
And there’s Peter Charles Hoffer, an historian who points to dogmatism, magic, and zealotry in The Historians’ Paradox: The Study of History in Our Time (2008). These three qualities play a role in much of what passes for history. Let’s look at what Hoffer says about this:
“History reveals that dogma and dogmatism have a staying power that even their critics must confess. The comforts of being a true believer derive not from the logic of the beliefs but from their psychological benefits.” (p. 31)
Some historians, however, strongly support the injection of emotion into historical dialogue.
Jörn Rüsen of the Kulturwissenschftliches Institut, Essen, makes an interesting case for this approach in his article “Emotional Forces in Historical Thinking: Some Metahistorical Reflections and the Case of Mourning.”
Since much of history contains elements of trauma – war, famine, imprisonment, etc., Rüsen brings up the idea of loss related to historical trauma and suggests that mourning plays a role not always recognized by historians. He turns to the idea of ancestor worship, a ritualized transformation, to explain his point, of which he says, “This mental, personal and social practice can easily be applied to history (astonishingly, this has not yet been done).” (p. 48) He does supply a caveat, writing “While I do not think that history today is ancestor worship, it does have some logical similarity with it: we should realize that historical thinking itself, by its very logic, follows the logic of mourning, at least partly in a formal way: it renders the absent past, which is a part of one’s own identity, present again,” an idea he attributes to Frank R. Ankersmit in “The Sublime Dissociation of the Past: Or How to Be(come) what One is no Longer,” in History and Theory 40 (2001), pp. 295-323.
It is true, for the most part, until now, that what each generation knew of history came from the pens or the mouths of the winners, the victors. Historians in general no longer practice Thomas Carlyle’s and Georg Hegel’s “Great Man” theory of history, thanks in part to the Annales school of historical practice initiated by Marc Bloch and Lucien Lebvre.
But the times in which the historian lives still mold the idea of History and how to write it. It seems that for some, the present provides the only lens he or she holds up to an otherwise blind eye. For people with a vested interest in a certain version of history, those with the need for justification of a point of view, well, this approach is really no different than the very one that Butterfield railed against.
So let’s think about food and cooking, something on which these gentlemen did not waste a nanosecond.
I’m going to end this brief and incomplete examination of historiography with a real-life example, one that probably very few people living in the so-called West have experienced. And this example will take us back to the days without grocery stores and even before the corner markets of many urban neighborhoods. My point in describing this is to attempt to illustrate just how difficult it is to think about food and cooking in the past, when the lens in which one sees food these days is – for most people, and even those who write about the past – through the present day.
When I lived in those several developing countries – Honduras, Haiti, Morocco, and Burkina Faso – places where I ran my own kitchen and cooked most of my own food and raised our son, I had to rethink a lot of things. I learned to live and cook with unsafe water, vegetables fertilized with manure and other things that most Western cooks never have to deal with: flies, and bacteria, amoebas, and giardia.
The romantic open-air market, the farm-to-table romance, was anything but. Shopping – going from vendor to vendor, and hopefully finding produce during certain seasons of scarcity – took hours. Haggling over price and then bringing one’s purchases home cost even more time. Nothing was packaged, not cleaned. I, and the servants whom I hired (it was expected of you to hire at least a cook, a housemaid, a gardener, and a night guard), cleaned vegetables, soaking produce in chlorine bleach-infused boiled water; cut up meat and packaged it for use in the next day or so. All water needed to be boiled and then filtered through a ceramic vat with carbon filters. I baked bread several times a week, and in Morocco I went to the miller to pay for him to grind the flour several times a month.
And this process repeated itself every day for the water, and at least three times a week for the rest of the food.
So when I read about food history, about cooking in the past, and the romantic overtone to it all, I have to laugh.
I’m with Barbara Tuchman, who wrote in her brilliant essay, “History by the Ounce”: “When I come across a generalization or a general statement in history unsupported by illustration I am instantly on guard, my reaction is ‘Show me.’ “*
Emotion doesn’t quite tell the whole story.
Barbara Tuchman
* Practicing History: Selected Essays, p. 37.
Works by historians mentioned in this short blog post:
Marc Bloch, The Historian’s Craft (1953)
Herbert Butterfield, The Whig Interpretation of History (1931)G. Collingwod, The Idea of History (1946)
David Hackett Fischer, Historians’ Fallacies: Toward a Logic of Historical Thought (1970)
Peter Charles Hoffer, The Historians’ Paradox: The Study of History in Our Time (2008)
Digital resource of great value:
Electronic Library of Historiography
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Romantic, emotional, both the same side of the coin, it seems to me, Merril. What “objective examples” need to be supplied? I see these experiences and the way I described them as objective, the reality of it all was what we had to do make our food safe. The reality was that we had to get our food that way, there was no alternative. I did not discuss my feelings about doing that. I used that as an example of how some people writing about history today might do a few re-enactments, but they don’t have to live like that every day. I did, for years. By doing that, I think I gained at least a partial understanding of what the past might have been like. Perhaps I didn’t make the point I was hoping to make, that we cannot write about food,cooking, servants, etc., through the lens of the present. Trying to get into the minds of people living in 18th century Virginia, on the frontier, for example, it’s easy to assume certain attitudes, mindsets, etc., but since we have never done that, some cannot help but look at certain behaviors in an angry way – e.g., treatment of women, Native Americans, enslaved people – but we cannot really get into the heads of the people there and then. There will always be a caveat, a piece missing, unless we are willing to decide to look at history and historical practice in a different way.
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I agree that we’re all influenced by when we live, what we know, and our other biases. I’m not certain about your use of the word “emotional.” I certainly agree that there is nothing romantic about cooking in the past, but if you write about cooking in developing countries, aren’t you influenced by your experiences there? And then isn’t that emotional? Or do you mean emotional in that objective examples are not also supplied?
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Official languages: Dari (Persian), Pashto
GDP (PPP) per capita: $2,000 (2017 est.)
Religions: 99% Muslim, 1% Zoroastrian, <1% other religions
Afghanistan's 16-year War
Recent attacks in Kabul mark one of the most violent periods in Afghanistan's 16-year war. They are reminders that in spite of the Government’s efforts, security is elusive. Attacks have intensified, striking locations that were previously considered safe. As the Taliban and ISIS claim more lives in this vulnerable country, peace may seem like a distant hope for Afghanistan, but God is moving. Afghan refugees in nearby countries are more open to the gospel than ever before. Dozens of Muslim-background Afghans have become followers of Jesus Christ, and their numbers are multiplying. Pray for God’s kingdom to come in this country, for solutions to the threats of violence and for the political stability needed for a healthy economy and just government.
the Dari dialect
At age 14 Zia already had memorized the entire Qur’an, even though he was blind. He mastered English by listening to Christian radio broadcasts, which led him to accept salvation in Christ. He eventually shared with a few people that he had received Jesus as Saviour. Zia wanted to study Islamic Law so that he could defend fellow believers who might be persecuted for their faith. He therefore entered the University of Kabul, from which he graduated with his law degree. Zia also translated the New Testament from Iranian Persian into his own Afghanistan Dari dialect. Pray for the peoples of Afghanistan to experience these blessings when they seek and find Him.
BMS World Mission
Maternal healthcare
Health ministries have been a key aspect of BMS’ approach to integral mission. Many breakthroughs have occurred and we are believing for more. Pray for maternal health work amongst remote communities in the remote mountains of Afghanistan. Pray especially that men would own responsibility for ensuring that their wives have access to safe birthing conditions.
The Chalou
The Chalou are a people group in Afghanistan that has traditionally been greatly despised. They are often even thrown out of the mosques. When aid is being distributed they are mostly overlooked. Our partners were recently able to provide food for six hundred Chalou families living in complete poverty in a camp in Kabul. They would love to have more opportunities to help so pray please for open doors to return to the Chalou. Ask for protection on His people. Pray for the poor, the despised and downtrodden.
Hope for women in Afghanistan
A 21-year-old woman was awarded the 2015 International Women of Courage award in Afghanistan for her role as the first female air force pilot in her nation. Despite death threats from insurgents, and even her own extended family, she refuses to be intimidated or silenced. Pray for her safety. Ask that her case could be an example of perseverance and courage for many women struggling under heavy burdens, giving other young women hope and inspiration. Ask the Lord today to bring more women to Himself in Afghanistan. Pray for effective workers among them.
SAT-7
Secret of Life
Christianity in Afghanistan is growing rapidly right now. Following the great demand for programs focusing on everyday issues affecting all Afghans, SAT-7 PARS are releasing Secret of Life. The program focuses on important topics such as the role of women in society, family life and drug addiction problems. It is risky for people in Afghanistan to call SAT-7 PARS programs. Viewers could be imprisoned or even killed for choosing to follow Christ. Despite this threat, many do call. Please pray for the launch of Secret of Life and its impact on viewers, pray for their safety, and pray for lives to change through discipleship.
Praying for stability
Thank God for those who are responding to the call and offering themselves for service in this nation. Pray that there will be a steady flow of people to sustain the work and fill the various vacancies. Pray for stability in the nation and for the government, as the draw down of foreign troops and the security handover to Afghan National Security Forces continues. Pray without ceasing for the Spirit of God to impact and minister to the lives of the Afghan people.
Signs of spiritual growth
Afghanistan’s landslide in the northeast briefly made international news but thousands still suffer. Over 2,500 are believed to have died, but searching for bodies has stopped and the area declared a mass grave due to overwhelming levels of mud and rock. Pray that those who’ve lost everything, from home and livelihood to loved ones, will reach out to the One who can meet their need. There have also been encouraging signs of spiritual growth in the country. Locals are beginning to tackle the responsibility of teaching and training the few new believers, but face serious harm if discovered. Pray the believers would be protected from harm and strongly equipped, united in faith, and filled with His power, courage, and wisdom.
An end to bloodshed
“The vast majority of the Afghan people want an end to the bloodshed and a negotiated settlement. After three decades of war people want to get on with their lives. Mothers and even Kalashnikov-carrying fathers want their children to have a better life than they themselves had,” says an agency staff member reflecting on the future of Afghanistan. Pray for stability in the nation to be maintained over the coming months as presidential and provincial elections take place, foreign troops pull out and security is transitioned to Afghan National Security Forces.
Open Doors UK and Ireland
All Afghan Christians come from a Muslim background. If their conversion to Christianity is discovered, they will be put under huge pressure to recant their faith, both from Muslim clergy and local authorities. Tribal values are deeply entrenched and anyone embracing something new and maybe even foreign will be looked at as a traitor and excluded from the community. Pray too for the Afghan government - presidential elections are to be held in April. With the withdrawal of international forces in 2014, the regime will have to deal with the threat of the Taliban as well as the different ethnic factions in the country.
Hidden effects of war
As well as the obvious physical impact, years of war and instability have had a devastating effect on the mental health of the people of Afghanistan. A recent study of 300 children in Kabul showed that a staggering 90% believed they would die in war and 80% said they felt frightened, sad and unable to cope with life. Psychotherapy and counselling are practically unheard of to the majority of the population. Please pray for progress in the vital work of mental health training so that more doctors, nurses and healthcare workers will be equipped to make a difference to peoples lives. Pray too for those currently suffering from mental health issues, that they would be able to receive the help they need.
Making cheese
If you were asked to name some countries that produce cheese, Britain and France might readily spring to mind. The chances are that Afghanistan wouldn’t. Nevertheless, cheese-production in Afghanistan is proving a valuable, if unlikely, way of combating poverty. So far, nearly 1,000 dairy cows and 900 goats have been provided across three districts through a revolving livestock loan scheme in which vulnerable families and widows receive either a cow or goat. The recipients receive training on caring for the animals, making cheese and selling their produce, much of which now goes to a nearby market. At peak times selling milk and cheese can create an additional income of £35 per month for a family. Praise God for the lives being transformed by this programme and pray for more sustainable ways of overcoming poverty in Afghanistan.
Lost childhood
A recent study has suggested that up to 40% of Afghanistan’s 15 million children might be involved in some sort of paid labour. War, poverty, widespread unemployment and large family sizes have meant that millions of Afghan children are being stripped of their childhood and denied their right to an education. Pray for the government to make wise decisions in order to create more jobs for adults, so that parents would not have to choose between sending their children to school or to work.
A nurse working in the mountains of central Afghanistan describes the discrimination against women that she has witnessed: “The area of education, especially in rural areas (the situation in urban Kabul is becoming very different), is one where discrimination is all too prevalent. Girls are often kept at home to work, or not allowed to walk the distances to school without a male relative to escort them. In some traditional families, girls are married very early and it is not considered an option to allow them an education. Once married, a woman becomes the property of her husband and his family and they can do what they like with her. It is often because women are not educated that they do not realise how badly they are discriminated against and treated. There are high incidences of domestic violence and/or mental health problems seen at our clinic.” Please pray for the women of Afghanistan who are suffering mentally or physically because they do not have free and easy access to education.
The Qizilbash
The Qizilbash people in Afghanistan live in urban areas such as Kabul, Herat and Qandahar, as well as in certain villages in Hazarajat. They are an important and politically influential element of society and many are involved in some form of trade. Much prayer is needed for the Qizilbash people; there are very few gospel resources available in their language and there are currently no known believers. Pray for workers willing to go and minister to the Qizilbash and for opportunities to share the truth of Jesus.
Every one of Afghanistan’s people groups is regarded as among the least-reached in the world today. They have a relatively open government which may well be somewhat tolerant of an ‘outside’ faith, but at grassroots it is very different. The oppression is from within, from one’s peers, from family members all around. The shame and family retribution against a son leaving Islam for faith in Christ has led to many losing their lives. Women too face persecution from within their own homes if they turn to Christianity. Pray for the Lord to build His Church among the Pashtun and the Hazaras, the Uzbecs and Tajiks and among so many where today there is still no knowledge of the all-surpassing grace of God.
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The Challenge of Climate Change: The Danger for the Philippines
Climate change presents enormous challenges for the world, and for organizations that are accustomed to doing business in an environment on the verge of radical transformation. The United States' decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement has added a new complication. Global Network Perspectives asked experts across the Global Network for Advanced Management about impact of climate change—and the U.S. withdrawal—in their regions.
Kenneth Hartigan-Go
Associate Professor Department of Strategic Management Head of the Stephen Zuellig School of Development Management Asian Institute of Management
What are the long-term risks—both of business and the environment—in your region from climate change?
The very nature of the Philippines, being an archipelagic country located at the typhoon belt of the Pacific, leaves it vulnerable to the immediate and long-term effects of climate change. The country is rich in natural resources and these are all in danger of being destroyed by the long-term effects of climate change. Droughts occur when the temperature of the ocean is beyond its average range, which in turn makes weather events difficult to predict. High sea surface temperature also creates more powerful storms, since they gain they strength from warm water. Droughts and floods will devastate existing the agricultural industry of the country, which currently employs 27% of the labor force. Tourism contributes around 9% to the gross domestic product of the country and that is in danger as well, as the majority of tourists visit the country to enjoy the beautiful beaches, which may not stay that way for long. The acidification of the oceans could lead to the death of coral reefs, which are home to diverse mixtures of aquatic life.
Businesses are dependent on the infrastructure of the state, and the long-term effects of climate change could dramatically increase the costs of maintaining their current value chain. The acquisition of commodities is an issue that businesses should be concerned about since climate change will affect the sources of such materials. The majority of the goods arriving in the Philippines are shipped, and unstable weather conditions could make the routes of these vessels treacherous given the idiosyncrasy of typhoons in the region. They key for businesses is to develop cost-efficient and resilient systems that will enable them to reduce their waste products and aid in slowing down the rate of climate change. If their stubbornness to adapting to climate change resilient persists, the cost of maintaining their operations under a very hostile environment could force them to close. Small and medium-sized enterprises would be the most affected by this and so they must come up with creative, cost-effective solutions in order to survive.
How much are employees and consumers holding companies accountable for their business's stance on climate-related issues?
As people all over the world are becoming more educated regarding climate change, they have started demanding products and services that have less of an environmental impact. They will also demand from their employers more climate neutral work environments. That said, the Philippines is a developing country with a multitude of issues to face. Many people live under on around the poverty line and are struggling to provide for their families. Although these people are by and large also the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change, it would be an illogical—perhaps even unethical—stretch to expect these people to incorporate climate change as a relevant factor in their decision-making process. That said, the emerging middle class in the country is aware of the issues and has the economic power and the will to choose for more climate neutral products and services if made sufficiently aware of the available choices.
What impact, if any, could the U.S. leaving the Paris Agreement have on your country or region?
The United States has played a significant role in most of the global events in the past couple of decades, whether it be related in conflict or humanitarian action. The Paris Agreement was a significant global agreement for signatory countries to signify that they stand by each other to support a common goal. In acts or agreements like these, the international community is responsible in policing each other with regards to the pledge they made and purposely keeping away from such agreement only alienates that country from the signatories. That said, the absence of the United States in the Paris Agreement may be quite a headline, but in terms of impact to other nations, it will probably be minute. More than anything, the agreement is for the benefit of the signatory’s country and the world. Even if the U.S. may not be part of it, all the other signatory nations see its importance and will most probably honor it. If anything, all the US did by not being part of this agreement is alienate itself for their own supposed personal goals of helping their own citizens first.
Asian Institute of Management Philippines
Climate Change Philippines Global business
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predatory priests
Victims Sue for Church Records in Pennsylvania Sexual Abuse
The Catholic Church continues to deal with the fallout from this summer’s shocking grand jury investigation into allegations of rampant sexual abuse by clergy members in several dioceses throughout Pennsylvania. In the latest update, two survivors of alleged child sexual abuse have sued the Philadelphia Archdiocese in order to obtain records of misconduct by priests, along with their work histories.
Tagged: pennsylvania, sexual abuse, catholic church, predatory priests, bishops, survivors, lawsuits, philadelphia
Compensation Fund for Victims of Clergy Abuse Opens in Philadelphia
The Philadelphia Diocese of the Catholic Church has announced that it has created a compensation fund for victims of clergy sexual abuse. The new reparations plan, announced yesterday, will be called the Independent Reconciliation and Reparations program, and will be run by a team responsible for a similar fund in New York.
Justice Depart Gets Involved in Pennsylvania Clergy Abuse
The federal government has announced that it will be launched an investigation into the Roman Catholic dioceses in Pennsylvania involved in this summer’s shocking grand jury report into widespread abuse by clergyman over the past several decades.
How to Report Clergy Sexual Abuse in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Attorney General handling the clergy sexual abuse scandal in the state has created a hotline for victims, and the phone is ringing off the hook. The office has received more than a thousand calls, following the naming of more than one thousand victims in the infamous August grand jury report describing widespread sexual abuse by Catholic priests throughout Pennsylvania.
Tagged: pennsylvania sex abuse, new jersey sex abuse, priest abuse, clerical abuse, catholic church, predatory priests
Pennsylvania's Bishops Agree on Victim Fund for Sexual Abuse
In the aftermath of Pennsylvania’s massive Catholic diocese sexual abuse scandal, the state’s bishops have come together with a plan to compensate victims - but, it seems, potentially at the expense of other victims’ rights to pursue justice for themselves.
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Military Bases, Onyx, ONI Facilities
Camp Currahee
ONI base
Battle of Onyx
Known commander(s)
Kurt-051
Known soldier(s)
SPARTAN-III Gamma Company
Era(s)
Office of Naval Intelligence
[Source] • [Talk]
Camp Currahee was a secret United Nations Space Command military camp located on the planet Onyx south of Zone 67. It was commanded by Lieutenant Commander Kurt-051, (operating under the surname "Ambrose"), and the Office of Naval Intelligence for the sole purpose of training the SPARTAN-III supersoldiers.[1] Operations at the base were aided by the ONI AIs Eternal Spring, Deep Winter, and Endless Summer, all of which were primarily assigned to the survey teams in Zone 67.
History Edit
Camp Curahee was constructed in 2531 and was operated until 2552. Alpha, Beta, and Gamma Companies trained there, and Delta Company was planned, but was never formed. All operations at the base were brought to an end during the Battle of Onyx, which culminated in the disintegration of the planet. Camp Currahee was most likely destroyed.
Known Sections Edit
The camp was horseshoe-shaped and contained dormitories, mess halls, offices, parade grounds, firing ranges, and many areas for exercises. As it was the only UNSC installation on the planet (except Zone 67 to the north), the Spartans had ample areas to train in prior to deployment.
Trivia Edit
Camp Currahee is most likely a reference to the real-world Camp Toccoa, a training area for the 101st Airborne Division during World War II, which was located near Currahee Mountain in Georgia. It was popularized by the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers.
Currahee is a Cherokee word for "Stands alone." It has been the battle cry and credo for the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division since World War II.
Camp Currahee is also the name of the camp where the Mobile Infantry start their training in Robert Heinlein's Starship Troopers.
↑ Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, page 68
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WHO’S WORKING ON THE NEW MUSIC BUSINESS MODEL?
No one said it would be easy. But no one also warned that it would be so damn tough to make it in music. Of course, it wasn’t always like this. But there’s always hope. It’s about finding it that’s what is inspiring and keeps one from falling off the edge or steps or trees.
Back in the day, it was as easy as learning to play the guitar or drums, forming a band and getting a recording deal at a time when music companies really were music companies and in the business of supporting their acts and marketing and selling music.
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THE UNIVERSAL BALLAD OF BIG BERTHA AND GEORGE OF THE JUNGLE
The stories from former and current staff at many of the offices about the politics and mismanagement of one of the major music companies in the region is not only a pity, it’s a bloody disgrace, especially having worked for the company when it was the leading music company in the region when PolyGram and Goliath, and then when taken over by Edgar Bronfman Jr’s music company and being reduced to David.
It’s still probably the “biggest music company in the world”, but what does this even mean anymore? Size matters? Why? It’s as pointless as saying that MTV is still a music channel. Nothing is what it is anymore, and here’s another music company that was a con in the Asia Pacific region when there actually was a music industry by all manner of corruption, shenanigans and creative accounting by those in the good books of those at Head Office, who were way too trusting of those in charge of the region, especially the Greater China region, and believing that Mainland China was “potentially the biggest music market in the world”. Please.
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THE BEATLES: THANK YOU, LADS
Their music has been the soundtrack to many of our lives. We grew up with them. Their songs made us smile, sad, think, forgive, forget, fall in love, fall out of love, stay in love.
They gave us answers when there were none. They inspired us when we needed to be picked up when having been put down. Because of them, some of us picked up guitars and tried to write songs and be musicians. At least we tried.
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Posted on February 7, 2017 January 2, 2018
LIFE THROUGH THE MUSICAL LOOKING GLASS
We talk too much. We don’t listen enough. Our priorities are often upside down and back to front. We sleep so much, we lose touch with reality. We have minds, but rarely think. We’re happy to be led. We’re nowhere and everywhere. But think we’re somewhere. Or getting somewhere by doing nothing.
We lose ourselves in this place called social media. Here, we also often lose that human connection. We rarely talk. But we say we’re constantly exchanging and inter-acting and communicating. We’re each different, but we’re all starting to sound the same. We’re lost and confused and want the world to stop because we want to get off.
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The Only Viable Strategy Is Adaptation
Most managers take it for granted that the world has become much more volatile and complex and that we need to constantly adapt. The days when we could simply plan and execute are long gone.
So it was notable, to say the least, when Roger Martin recently wrote in Harvard Business Review that he thinks that all the talk about adaptive strategy is a cop-out. In his mind, it is just a way for managers to get out of making hard, dangerous choices.
Martin, a former partner at the Monitor Group and Dean of the Rotman School of Management, has been one of the sharpest strategic thinkers for over two decades. While I don’t agree with much of his argument, he makes some salient points that cannot be ignored.
Martin’s first objection is what he sees as an obsession with VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity). While there has been much discussion about these forces increasing over recent decades, Martin doesn’t buy it. What about the Black Death killing 25% of Europe? Or Pearl Harbor? Those were volatile, uncertain events weren’t they?
This is a somewhat facile argument. Clearly, uncertainty and disasters are nothing new, but I don’t think anybody is arguing that they are. Just because events were never fully predictable doesn’t mean that volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity haven’t increased. And just because some strategists have argued for a more nimble approach doesn’t mean they’re saying we ought to throw strategy itself out the window. So on logical grounds, he’s beating a straw man.
The simple fact is that managers talk of increased VUCA because that is what they see every day. We’ve seen these changes in our own lifetimes, and even over the span of a single career. Since 1960, the average lifespan on the S&P 500 has fallen from 60 years to less than 20. Technology cycles have begun to outplace planning cycles. Increasingly, we need to manage not for stability, but disruption.
However, Martin’s rant against volatility is only a prelude to his larger point, which he says is that “people arguing that strategy needs to change are making the fundamental mistake of assuming that strategy is planning. This has never been the case.”
Here, he is on much stronger ground. For too long, managers have confused planning for the hard work of strategy. As Jack Welch put it, “the books got thicker, the printing got more sophisticated, the covers got harder and the drawing got better,” but none of that improved how enterprises performed.
In his book, Martin defines strategy as making an integrated set of choices about “where to play and how to win,” which is a very reasonable way to go about it. I’ve previously defined strategy as “a coherent and substantiated logic for making one set of choices rather than another,” which amounts to much the same thing.
Yet to make decisions about “where to play and how to win” we need to make assumptions about the state of the world, the state of our competitors, and the state of technology. But today, billion-dollar businesses can be built and entire categories redefined in a matter of months, so these assumptions need to be constantly revisited.
While I agree with Martin that strategy and planning are two different things, they are undeniably linked. Both require us to make predictions and prepare for future opportunities and challenges. In a fast moving world, where technological cycles outpace planning cycles, we need to continuously reevaluate the context in which we operate.
That’s why I’ve argued for a more Bayesian approach to strategy in which we’re not trying to “get it right” as much as we are trying to become less wrong over time. That requires a more adaptive approach, but also substantive differences in how we operate—less hierarchical, more agile, and more sensitive to changes in the marketplace.
It also compels us to make important changes to our business systems that enable us to integrate prediction and planning into normal operations. It’s no longer possible to separate strategy work from everyday activities – something both Martin and adaptive strategists like Rita McGrath actually agree on.
Clearly, Martin has made some weak arguments, but as I noted above, that shouldn’t obscure his underlying point, which is an important one. Strategy has always required us to make hard choices in an uncertain context and managers have shown a disturbing tendency to seize on any pretext to avoid making those choices.
As he describes in an earlier piece in Harvard Business Review, VUCA is only the latest in a long line of such pretexts. However, as he also writes in that article, “the natural reaction is to make the challenge less daunting by turning it into a problem that can be solved with tried and tested tools” and that’s where he veers off course.
Bayesian strategy is not a reversion to earlier toolsets, but a recognition that our present ones are woefully inadequate. In effect, we must continue to define “where to play and how to win,” but on a radically compressed time frame. That doesn’t make strategy easier, it makes it exponentially harder.
Yet still, it must be done. In an age of disruption, the only viable strategy is to adapt.
Greg Satell is an international keynote speaker, adviser and bestselling author of the new book, Cascades: How to Create a Movement that Drives Transformational Change. His previous effort, Mapping Innovation, was selected as one of the best business books of 2017. You can learn more about Greg on his website, GregSatell.com and follow him on Twitter @DigitalTonto.
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Human-like robots to soon treat social disorders
Humanoid robotics and computer avatars may help rehabilitate people suffering from social disorders such as schizophrenia or social phobiaIANS | April 13, 2016, 12:30 IST
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Humanoid robotics and computer avatars may help rehabilitate people suffering from social disorders such as schizophrenia or social phobia in the near future, finds new research.
A team from European universities created a system to enable a robot or computer avatar to interact with a patient while playing a version of the mirror game, in which two players try to copy each other's motion while playing with coloured balls that can move horizontally on a string.
Initially the avatar was like an alter ego, created to look and move like the patient to enhance his or her feelings of attachment. But over time it was slowly altered to become less similar, therefore, helping with social rehabilitation.
The team found that players sharing similar movement features or motor signature, interacted and co-ordinated better.
This experiment can be used for rehabilitation of patients with serious social disorders as an avatar can be created to act like an alter ego, programmed to look and move like the patient to enhance his or her feelings of attachment, said the authors in a paper published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface.
"It is very challenging to build an avatar that is intelligent enough to synchronise its motion with a human player, but our initial results are very exciting," said Mario di Bernardo from University of Bristol.
The team used the principles of dynamical systems and feedback control theory to embed the avatar with enough "intelligence" to synchronise and respond to the motion of the human player.
The next step would be to build on the technology and set-up multiple human-machine interaction for social rehabilitation and make groups of people and avatars interact with each other to perform joint tasks together.
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Proposal for the Inclusion of Skerries on the Ancient East Trail.
The ‘Bishop Window.’
Sent by Pope Celestine in 432 A.D. Patrick arrived with some few companions, at the island that still bears his name, close to the picturesque town of Skerries in Fingal. This was his first landfall on his return to Ireland, where he had once laboured as a child slave, tending sheep on the Hill of Slemish. He came to convert to Christianity, the people who had once captured him from his home in Roman Britain. The magnanimity and courage of this man, whose community had long been ravaged by Irish raiders, is astounding to contemplate. His earlier experience of Ireland had been one of suffering and loneliness. He survived by dint of faith in God and determination to escape. He returned as a bishop of the Roman church, not to exact revenge but to change Ireland forever. Wherever the Irish have settled around the world, the name of Patrick is honoured and venerated as the Apostle of Ireland. His mission began in Skerries.
Of the many legends that grew up around the story of Patrick, the first one began here. The imprint of his foot can be seen in the rock at Red Island where he first stepped ashore to begin his work. A more colourful version is that he leapt in fury from his island, to challenge the Skerries people over the theft of his goat. Such was the force of his anger that his foot sank into the rock on impact. He was too late. The goat had been killed and eaten by the Skerries people. The thieves denied their guilt and all knowledge of the goat, whereupon the animal inside them bleated loudly, giving the game away.
This episode was a source of embarrassment to Skerries people for sixteen hundred years. The taunt “Skerry Goats” caused many an altercation with neighbouring villages over the centuries. In 1988 a plaque depicting the goat was placed on Saint Patrick’s Church in Skerries, by way of restitution to the saint for the theft and in recognition that the goat has become a much loved symbol of the town and its societies and clubs.
Everything that was ours, was restored to us because of God and our invaluable friends.
Scholars maintain that the influence of the island church remained strong after Patrick’s time,despite it having been the likeliest location of the first Viking raid in 798 A.D. Saint Malachy convened a major synod on the island in 1148 A.D. to discuss re-integration of the Irish church with the Roman system of discipline and organisation. In the thirteenth century the monks moved to the mainland and rebuilt their monastery at Holmpatrick, beside the present Holmpatrick Church. An Ogham stone commemorates Peter Mann, the last abbot at the time of the Reformation and destruction of the monasteries.
Holmpatrick Church.
Patrick’s last resting place is Downpatrick, nestling beside the Mourne Mountains, clearly visible from the island where he began his great mission. It is as if he had almost completed a full circle in his life’s pilgrimage.
A sad footnote to the story of Patrick is the destruction of his crozier. It was long preserved at Ballyboughal, (The Town of the Staff) near Skerries. It was believed to have miraculous powers. It was removed to Armagh and later to Christchurch Cathedral in Dublin. In 1538 Archbishop Brown of Dublin ordered that the staff be stripped of its gold and jewelled ornamentation. He then publicly burned the wooden staff as a relic of old superstition.
Further suggestions for a Saint Patrick Heritage Centre.
Map and images of places closely associated with Patrick’ mission, with lines radiating out from Skerries: Tara, Slane,Croagh Patrick, Lough Derg, Armagh etc.
Panoramic map of the world, with radiating lines showing how his influence started in Skerries. Show world landmarks ‘Greened’ for Saint Patrick’s day.
High definition images of early Christian churches and relics, as a compendium of the Christian influence introduced by Patrick and others.
Images of High Crosses, The Book of Kells and other illuminated manuscripts.
Patrick at Tara.
CGI images and model of the ruined monastery on the island.
Aerial views of Skerries Islands.
Live camera feed from nesting sites on the islands.
Arrival of the clergy and plenary session of the Synod of 1148 (file pictures)
With the development of an Ancient East Trail, based partly on the historical riches of Ireland’s Early Christian Monuments, it would be logical to celebrate Skerries as the starting point and fulcrum of Patrick’s mission to change the Irish people. Without his efforts the ‘Island of Saints and Scholars’ might never have come about and our history would have been the poorer.
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Las Vegas Massacre
This Sunday, Gunman Stephen Paddock killed dozens and injured hundreds at a country music festival in Las Vegas. Approximately 58 innocent civilians were killed.
Paddock had more than 20 different weapons in his possession. Paddock used what is called a “bump stock,” which is a tool that allowed a rifle to fire hundreds of rounds per minute. As a result, this event has brought the politicized issue of gun control to the world’s attention. The debate whether these events could be prevented by tighter and more restrictive gun control laws remains contentious.
Paddock has been described by media to be a “high-stake gambler”, a quiet, antisocial man. He reportedly wired thousands of dollars to the Philippines to girlfriend Marilou Danley days before he committed this massacre. Many have been pushing for the media to label Stephen Paddock as a terrorist.
First responders as well as civilians at the event displayed great acts of heroism, by helping others and some even running back towards the gunman.Video footage have been released during the massacre displaying the horrific screams and hysteria. Some videos also highlighted the heros and their assistance to other victims.
Senior Emily Dauth says “ The whole situation is heartbreaking, these people just went to go have a fun night with friends and family and some of their lives were taken. I think it's incredible how everyone came together to help one another and try their best to save everyone that they could.”
All in all, no matter where someone stands in the gun control issue, everyone wants horrific events like these to be addressed and ended. Hearts go out to victims and their families of Sunday’s shooting.
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How can I get back into work after a career break? – A Virgin Money success story
Have you ever wondered how to return to work after an extended career break? Has it seemed like an impossible dream to step back into a corporate career if you’ve been at home looking after children, been made redundant or taken time off to care for a relative?
Virgin Money has wholeheartedly embraced a supported route back to work for a second year running with the Virgin Money 13 week ReCareer programme aimed at anyone who has been out of work for 18 months or more. Susan Mather, a stay at home mum for four years, can certainly testify following her successful application to the programme in 2017.
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How I returned to work – a Virgin Money ReCareer Success
There is certainly a lot of buzz around the recently launched Virgin Money’s ReCareer programme, now in its second successful year. For anyone who has been out of work for an extended period of time and is wondering how on earth they are going to step back into the corporate world, the ReCareer programme might seem a little too good to be true.
However, what you see is what you get with Virgin Money. They really are passionate about giving professionals a supported route back to work, as Judith Bradbury, a self-confessed unintentional stay-at-home mum found in 2017 when she became a successful graduate of the scheme.
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Return to work – Virgin Money ReCareer success story
In 2017, Virgin Money successfully launched their first return to work career programme aimed at professionals who had been out of work for 18 months or more.
This year, the same programme is back by popular demand. The Virgin Money ReCareer programme is already causing quite a stir and so it should. With Virgin Money being committed to providing a supported route back to work, we caught up with one of the successful applicants from last year to hear more about her experience and why she would recommend applying for the scheme.
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Are you struggling to reignite your career? Sending off applications but hearing nothing back? Searching for flexible / part-time roles but uncovering nothing you want to apply for? Struggling to explain the career break and pitch yourself in a confident manner?
Our Career Reignite Bootcamps run quarterly and are FREE to attend. In these session we get straight to the crux of your job search challenges and empower you to be your own Recruiter. We teach you how to uncover the hidden jobs market, how to find your competitive advantage, and how to network yourself in places where you know hiring managers will be present.
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Our Interview with a Career Returner – Lessons Learnt
Emma Bewley, Head of Fund Investment for a private client business, talks to us about her return to work following a career break:
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US says NAFTA talks are progressing very slowlyhttps://indianexpress.com/article/world/us-says-nafta-talks-are-progressing-very-slowly-5044574/
US says NAFTA talks are progressing very slowly
President Donald Trump called NAFTA a job-killing "disaster" on the campaign trail and has threatened to withdraw from the 24-year-old pact if he can't get what he wants.
By AP |Montreal | Published: January 30, 2018 10:25:20 am
Robert Lighthizer, United States Trade Representative, makes statements to the media following NAFTA round six renegotiations in Montreal, Quebec, Canada January 29, 2018. REUTERS/Christinne Muschi
US Trade Rep Robert Lighthizer said Monday talks to rewrite the North American Free Trade Agreement are progressing very slowly. Lighthizer said the US views NAFTA as a “very important agreement” and said the sixth round of talks between Canada, the United States and Mexico, which concluded Monday, were a “step forward.”
“Some real headway was made here,” Lighthizer said. “We’re committed to moving forward.’
President Donald Trump called NAFTA a job-killing “disaster” on the campaign trail and has threatened to withdraw from the 24-year-old pact if he can’t get what he wants.
Lighthizer said there will be another round in Mexico in late February and said core issues are starting to be discussed.
The negotiators had originally hoped to reach an agreement before Mexico’s July presidential election and U.S. midterms turn up the political pressure.
One of the main sticking points in the latest rounds of negotiations has been the Trump administration’s position on rules of origin for auto parts.
The US is calling for any new agreement to include a proviso stipulating that North American-made car parts must constitute 85 percent of new vehicles in order to avoid tariffs, with 50 percent originating in the United States.
Canada’s proposal would take elements such as research and development and intellectual property into account in those calculations. Lighthizer, however, called the idea “vague.”
“We find that the automobile rules of origin idea that was presented, when analyzed, may lead to less regional content than we have now, fewer jobs in the United States, Canada and likely Mexico,” he said. “So this is the opposite of what we are trying to do.”
Still, Lighthizer said the fact that Canada is willing to discuss core issues like auto parts is encouraging.
“Now they’re starting to realize that we have to begin to talk. And that’s a reason for guarded optimism,” he said.
Lighthizer said the Trump administration’s goal coming out of the negotiations is to boost the number of manufacturing jobs in the United States, either by encouraging new investment or by bringing back jobs that had moved to Mexico.
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Notable Documents: The Sun-Earth Relationship
When I was a kid, I had a serious interest in astronomy. I owned one of those pocket guides to the solar system and read and reread the entries on the Sun and the planets. While it was fun to think about the latter, especially the possibilities of extraterrestrial life (I was also reading Galaxy, If, and other sci-fi magazines), the Sun was mainly the object of a slightly nervous awe. In the age of the Cold War and the hydrogen bomb, the power of the Sun was almost too overwhelming to contemplate. A lot of it was the sheer size and heat – and what sentient creature doesn’t fear a colossal fire?
The Sun, the Earth, and Near-Earth Space, one of Library Journal’s 2009 Notable Government Documents, provides, among other things, hypothetical voyage to, and even into, the Sun. Subtitled “A Guide to the Sun-Earth System”, this handsome, profusely illustrated book from NASA is accessible and well-written enough for a layperson like me to understand; it’s the facts that are overwhelming. I hate to admit it, but despite my youthful interests, I didn’t remember, or didn’t know, that sunspots are huge magnetic fields generated by the Sun’s incredibly turbulent nuclear furnace, their darkness representing their cooler (7,000 C. versus the 10,000 C. of the solar surface) temperatures. I knew that the peak of the 11-year sunspot cycle was prone to cause magnetic disturbances that affected radio electro-magnetic fields on earth, but didn’t realize that the spots themselves were magnetic fields. I also didn’t know that the widespread 1989 electrical blackouts that affected Quebec and parts of the United States were due to the solar flare, coronal mass ejection (CME) and geomagnetic storm of March 13 of that year.
The Sun, the Earth, and Near-Earth Space is packed with historical and scientific information about the Sun and its relationship with our planet – which means with all of us – that I found totally engrossing. The verdict: an excellent read for a non-scientist interested in astronomical phenomena, a fine textbook for a college-level course, and a reminder of how much we depend on this much-worshipped but little-understood source of all energy and life.
To read portions of The Sun, the Earth, and Near-Earth Space, go here. You can get a copy (a scan doesn’t do this book justice) in paperback or hardback. To find it in a library, try this.
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39 Responses to Notable Documents: The Sun-Earth Relationship
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2250hiberius says:
My faith!
Unlike many of my fellow man, I think only on what we know for certain and that is well documented!
We know that energy can not occur!
We know that energy can not disappear!
We know that energy exists!
We know that 0 heat can not exist,
which means that 0 energy does not exist!
Then I think it is logical that energy has always existed!
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Harald Brobakken says:
I do not know if there is a discovery or not, but it is a fact that I have managed to compose a substance, which I think is being charged by what I call the cosmic energy!
The substance is a liquid and placed in an approximately 15 cm. long tube, which is sealed at both ends with an anode and cathode!
The instrument’s red electrode is connected to the + pole of the battery and the instrument’s black electrode is connected to the cathode, while the anode is connected to the battery – terminal, and when there is power in the words of this drug.
But then comes the strange!
I removed the anode from – terminal of the battery, so that contact between the pole and – pole was broken, but still continued to flow through the instrument?
Now I have two gauges where the red electrode is connected to the terminal on the battery, while the black electrode on the instrument can be connected to anywhere in this liquid substance that has no connection with the battery?
Although the instrument is only connected to the pole and on to the substance there that is the power of the instrument, and it’s something I can not explain without assuming cosmic energy, but no one believes it, so therefore someone must take a look at it to see if there is anything to go on!
It is possible to create a battery that is continuously recharged from the room, and it will say that it is never empty?
A bit of thinking, perhaps, but the evidence is with me, so just got to be convinced!
The secret lies in the composition of the electrolysis, and if anyone on this planet is interested in a solution toof world ‘s energy ,they can make an offer to get right to the production of batteries that power is everlasting !
starman says:
Hawking is doomed. The universe will survive with or without our understanding it.
Actually I had not planned to write something more, but when such an important scientist Stephen Hawking said exactly the same as I have previously suggested as a possible salvation for mankind is to colonize other planets and moons in our solar system!
This is not possible without a helping hand from the universe, and therefore it is almost time to sacrifice some time to investigate whether we really have something to gain from the cosmos, for in the opposite case, and according to Hawking, we are all doomed!
I’m beginning to understand that it is very difficult to try to come up with something new in terms of both science and religion!
I have only tried to find a natural explanation for some things that science thinking, and I have tried to get rid of some of the superstition that some are so rooted among people!
So this is my last post, and I just want to thank me and thank those taken in, and pray at the same time that everything I have written will be deleted and forgotten!
If we imagine that we were attacked that an armada of alien beings, I am sure that all mankind will stand together to defend themselves against the intruder!
You will not care whether you are Muslim, Jew or Christian, for then had to stand together against a common enemy!
Today we can say in a way that we are in the situation that we all have a common enemy to fight, but it does not come from space, but from ourselves and called global warming, or changing the climate!
This is something that concerns us all, and all thoughts and ideas that can help us out of this predicament should be well received, and not to be either ridiculously-made, or described as nonsense, until it has been further investigated!
I think there are too many to extolling themselves as omniscient and kill everything that does not fit into their view of life and nature!
So my advice to everyone is to try to think there may be something that might be the best for us all!
The more people who think, the better the chance for survival!
The Bible is the gateway to understanding the master plan of life. The framework needed to supplement what your brain already tells you is true. Keep going Harald. I am enjoying your writing.
EPILOG!
All that we may see and hear is something called the matter!
Everyone knows that matter is energy, which is a
power that we use and benefit of every single day!
We the humans are also matter, it will also say that we are energy, and most expect that we are energy as we fed us energy in the form of food and drink.
This we must do to maintain life, and turn us down with that so it is, and that to eat to drink is the most natural thing in our lives. But even when life is gone, so are we to normal death matter, and when we do not need any extra energy, but believe me, we will not, for the energy that was me, just changes form, and it was me, might be to heat, and something to ground or ash, but the energy that was me, ie it will still be in the universe, but no longer be complex so I can host life, and therefore I have asked myself about the life that I had for a while, if it also remains in the
universe?
These are things that are not as many think, but they are afraid of the day life leaves us, for we can not imagine that we are something other than what we are, but the truth is that we are as what we see around us!
There is no difference for me and a rock.
We are a part of something larger and require no additional energy, because when life is gone, so it consumes no energy, but we will still be just as much energy as when we lived, and when the scholars tell us that we can not be energy
without a different type of energy must transform
themselves to what was me, then you have to re wondering what kind of energy it was that was to me, and where it came from?
But there is no one can answer!
We are only asked to accept, that we will be as we are the years we live, and not worry so much about what we are, when we return to the usual dead materien.
Other people recommend us to learn to read in the Bible, for which it is explained exactly as we receive it even when life is gone!
It is clear that the scholars who lived 2, 000 years ago was straighter forward for that, than those today who had attended school for over 20 years.
But what was the bible made us even frighten, as we reach out to other scholars to be calm again, but they simply said that we should enjoy life as long as we had it, and not worry so much about death.
All this led to that I began to «get into the lettuce» to the learned, and had written down what I thought could give an explanation of what so many did not understand, but it proved to be difficult to get into the clever territory, and I
soon understood that I was not welcome, but a friend of mine tell me, as you know that society is so oriented, that the internal system is such that it is almost impossible to change it. When people are satisfied with life as it is, so there is no reason to change anything, even if the change could be for the benefit of all!
This applies to both science and religion.
My friend warned me to suggest something that could get people to come with obtrusive questions, which could be difficult to answer, and the worst they could come up with was to suggest something that could have economic
Science has accepted and approved the scientific laws that apply now, and reject anything that does not fit into their well-documented views on everything that happens in nature!
History tells us that there must be several generations before anyone can do to change it that is today’s view of the current social structure!
If someone comes with new ideas that are credible and useful for us, they are slaughtered, and if any bother to comment on it, you get to hear that there are serious and distant reality and simply root!
It will not help if one refers to the recognized laws that are accepted and agreed to, and claim to have evidence on the basis of them, you will see is no alternative, and religion must take the blame for it, the people are so secure in his
faith, that ridicules the stamps and all criticism as Satan’s work, if at all will come to in the media!
Such is the situation today!
Unresolved issues that no one can find some explanation for, archived and conduct, and if someone tries to look at it, so it will be stopped, and hung out as intrusive philes!
If only a small hint of truth in the universe is an energy field, which scientists call the clean energy, it is unlikely that we ever manage to define the type of energy in question, for it is probably not a single word in our language that can describe what clean energy is!
But it is not necessary to use the time or money to speculate on this, but just be glad that the matter has the right qualities to take care of, and transform it in such a way that this unknown force can be very useful for us!
When this time becomes a reality, so we get enough energy to conquer the entire solar system, and this time we will not be met with resistance, and can with good conscience settle us where we want!
I know that many look forward to an alluring celestial paradise, but I would rather be in an earthly paradise and have a physical body, and always have something to do!
Harald:
This is perhaps one of your posts that I can understand more readily. Hawking, huh? Well, I can tell you that he does not possess all of the answers, as some of the evidence right in front of his nose he ridicules, as he does those who hold with that evidence as pointing to something greater than physics has admitted openly to existing. The energy/matter density of the cosmos is thinning a bit as one can tell from the cosmic background radiation temperature, but this does not mean that the cooling is uniform or even universal over wide areas, only a statistical average.
Einstein, Hawking and others have had the problem of not believing what the evidence, intutition, or even their own equations were telling them, and as so nature befuddled their thinking and their work. As Einstein said however, “I think I have earned the right to my mistakes.”
Everything in nature is closed circuit. There are no open-loops left as far we know, but everything flows continuously around back to beginning of the process, though it may not be recognizable and exist in a transformed state, the information contained within it still exists. I believe Hawking made some contribution there. As far as the universe, whatever that is supposed to be, rotating, in reference to what? Lol.
You said of the universe, “It is therefore reason to suppose that the universe is really an object with a universal internal structure that can only be changed by an impact of an external force!”
An object without the form of an object, likened unto what we conceive as normal matter, but rather the stuff of which is primordial and is no stuff at all. Without form and void as the Book of Genesis put it.
Later came, Later came Gallilei, Newton, Einstein, and Brobakken!
You are swirling all around the answer to gravity starvation of the universe, such as when the energy density that you hint at with light coming in neutralizing the effect of light coming out, however what is the fate of the universe depends on the balance of forces that are necessary for the stability of the proton. The pressure caused by the energy density of localized space that keeps the quantum the quantum, and the proton relative in volume to the external environment, may reach a critical threshold at some point in the finite future of the cosmos, at least in our present version of it.
When that cooling takes place then the internal pressure of radiation will no longer balance the initial forces that turned inside out created matter and gravity, and therefore the components of the material universe may supernova causing us to not exist in material form, but spirit only, if things ever got that far before an outside entity intervened.
The universe is like the Internet, that grows bigger and bigger, but sooner or later this will cause an instability like a house of cards that at some point no matter (matter, lol) how carefully constructed and balanced in forces will crash down upon itself. Especially if designed that way!
My view of the Universe!
The universe has always fascinated me, and now I’ll try to tell how I imagine the vast and mysterious universe that we belong!
The following are two possible explanations for how the universe was and how I think it looks today!
A little later we see that there may exist a plausible natural explanation that the removal galaxies moving away from each other, the farther they are from Earth. Let’s begin with what came up astronomies and their thoughts about the cosmos!
So let us begin with that Einstein was more interesting, namely the great universe!
At the beginning of last century, there has been an on-going struggle between Einstein and Lemaître to the Universe!
Einstein thought it was static, while Lemaître said it was expanding!
Who was right?
As we have seen before in the context of my theory that the universe once more himself, and is both static and growing, as these two great scientists were right!
However, it is not correct to say that when left to itself, probably because it has always been a closed circuit. Because I think it is a better and more credible explanation that after that date again when its own resources which will always return to your starting point!
Because when the Big Bang started, then it has increased in all directions, and thus formed circles ever more important:
In all phases, so there were a static object!
It also grows because there are reasons to believe that it also turns?
It moves both outward, with a certain speed, and rotated around the center with a specific speed!
To imagine that the universe is infinite is irrelevant, regardless of their size, there is a stable object with borders and an internal system!
It seems that circumstances must be absolutely certain that something be done again. Therefore, the time of the formation of matter because the universe at the time, had bouth size, speed and temperature!
Later came the heavier elements, and therefore also your life. But the expansion of the universe is not stopped, and now we can imagine what would come later. Some will cease to exist, and something new will emerge!
An event may be that the universe will be in a collision with another universe (if they exist), then the energy, which may be the beginning of a new universe?
It does not matter for us, because right now the universe is fit and have a reasonable speed, and therefore we exist!
In the beginning was the time after the Big Bang-divided in a «different era»!
He was placed on the names of articles, etc. Lepton, hadron era, etc,and all had some time!
But when the universe was a small point, but expand with extreme high speed, and therefore not so surprising that the particles collide.
And the energy of them change shape, is that some have called anti-matter, must be at
the collision rate was so high when they have destroyed each other. As we can see today, being the polar aurora. The particles from the sun collided with particles in the atmosphere and become light!
Ordinary matter and anti-matter is the opposite sign, and there are also particles from the sun and atmospheric particles.
But here is the opposite speed particles that are the sign.
There is less anti-matter now, is due to a problem more widespread, and therefore less likely to crash?
At this moment we can be a time we can call life «life-time» or do we rather call it «matter-time»?
And that most mean there is life may also be present elsewhere in the universe!
But once this «era» will end?
And what’s next?
The duration of this «era is shorter, the closer-Big Bang they existed, and we do not know how long our «era» will be. Next «era» may last forever?
That is now observed objects at a distance of 13 billion light years, which means that the object is as it was 600 million years after the Big Bang, is sensational, but it does not preclude the Big Bang has even taken place. But age should perhaps reconsider bee in change?
But the Big Bang, so must be the center of the universe and as we shall see, the more likely this rotation?
That the objects appear to move away from each other, need not be proof that it is running, but without rotation would galaxy (us) to move in one direction and speed would be roughly uniform!
And the increasing distance between objects, follow a geometric pattern, which would be easy to calculate.
Now we see that the galaxy does not comply with these natural laws, and the amplifier to a universe that rotates, or the influence of an unknown power?
The rotation is similar to an LP with a constant speed.
This speed is constant, but the pin back adds stretch, increases with distance from the center!
The speed increases proportionally with Pins distance from the center. Transferred to the universe, they will object that is farthest from the center of the universe back to a long stretch, at the same time as the objects closer to the
center?
Rotation may therefore provide an explanation of why the speed at which a galaxy remove themselves from the other, increases the farther they are seen from Earth?
Something that is red-offset!
This may mean that we see throughout the universe, and that we find ourselves somewhere between the center of the universe and the universe extreme outer point!
If we had set in towards the center, will we see from our point of view, it would seem a galaxy away from each other, and with us, with less speed and destiny!
While offsets blue!
Therefore, I believe that the earth was already created eight billion years before the gamma-flash, and we look outward in space, which means that the universe is older than 13,7 billion years!
It does not exclude the existence of «dark energy» (EF) because it must be that the engine that makes the universe to expand?
It probably affects internal affair stable system, which emits this energy, which is directed opposite direction as the EF, and gravitation?
Exactly the same thing happens with a slight impact on the issue. The light reflected by an object, is directed against the light entering!
It is therefore reason to suppose that the universe is really an object with a universal internal structure that can only be changed by an impact of an external force!
It is possible that I have fantasies of being perceived as tough and frivolous, but I really tried to get answers to my questions of trained scientists in this country but I am absolutely surprised that no one really knows,
(At least not sure) my impression is that one is not surprised by what keeps the heat inside the earth which produces about 5. 000 GWh, which seems to be constantly replaced by an unknown source?
The researchers stress the existing theory, and we reject all attempts to change it. His radioactivity that causes the heat in the earth!
It does not help that it’s coming from inside do not emit radiation?
Nobody can imagine that there may be something else, the researchers have to say!
There are countless examples of science grudges drop on a theory, the absence of evidence of a different theory is correct!
Ptolemy I was a great scholar, and his thesis (Alma Gest) about the universe have been in 1400 years!
But in 1543, Copernicus came up with a new theory which has revolutionized the vision of the world. Since his theory has been improved and expanded, and now there is no doubt that he hade the right!
Later came Gallilei, Newton and Einstein.
Einstein’s theory thought time was in the lead, but in the past, things happen that seem to create doubt that his theory is not completely perfect. Physicist Stephen Hawking is the last, trying to understand the mystery of the universe, and developed his theory, which is now accepted by all scientists. So where are we today. And we oppose all attempts to change the current theory. It is one many scientists believe that the so-called black holes came first!
Matter was about 300. 000 years after the Big Bang, and when the universe was not as great as it is today, so that when the energy was more concentrated than it is now!
And then, a galaxy was the only gas and dust particles which agglomerate together and were perhaps a black hole!
And if it is correct, then added another point that supports my theory that matter is affected by a force (EF) as does not need to be stable, and it emits while gravity?
And if I’m right in that it has been extremely strong gravity, when the universe was very small, and then there is reason to believe that there was a black hole like he was dominating!
If it is correct, then the universe would have been
invisible to us. Dust and gas that were outside the event horizon, escaped the black hole, and continued its journey across the universe, and galaxies, as a p.ex Milky Way!
It may well be that the black hole is still with us, but may be invisible to us, and it is only a galaxy beyond the space that is visible, and follow certain laws, like the above theory suggests. For me it is very important because the gravity is pushed forward, so it must be because the universe of energy affects matter and creates the gravity!
As the universe becomes larger, the energy is more widespread, and the subject have been less and less energy, and gravity had little connection, and then be reduced?
If the universe is finite or infinite is irrelevant because it can theoretically be infinite, but I think that sooner or later will be so great that it comes into contact with another universe and then fuse together and become even larger universe, and, in theory continue forever!
So, our universe might be two universes, or perhaps even more, but it’s something that we can not answer!
A whole lot of questions about the universe is infinite or final?
One thing is for sure!
The universe is final, but we do not know how big it is, and we do not know what size it will be because, since there is no place outside the boundaries of the universe, So It There is no limit to stop the universe, so it can theoretically be infinite, but sooner or later it will dissolve and disappear if it does not collide with another universe, and becomes even larger, but it will never be a limit to stop, no matter how many universes that have merged together!
Finally, we will be so large that it can no longer be called a universe!
The science is fairly certain that an unknown force affecting distant galaxies and it is not unreasonable and believe that this power also affects our galaxy, and then also on the solar system and planets?
An example would be that we know with certaintly that the moon moves away from the earth by 3.8 cm. a year!
Here I think we have a unique opportunity to measure this force, but scientists do not believe what I say and then you will get no more! Likewise, we know that the outer Earth’s atmosphere is quite hot, and it is due to the sun’s rays, or a force from the outside!
But scientists pondering that same phenomenon also appears in the outer solar atmosphere, but they will not admit that there is a power that comes from outside, or the same power that makes distant galaxies to repel each other?
In the past, they found that gravity was repulsive to start me, and then it is logical that when there was no matter, it was not something that reflected this power!
If we assume that there were now planets around the sun then it’s clear that the radiation had only one direction!
And I do not think that there is radioactivity in the soil that allows the heat that does not go off, for the strongest radioactivity we can achieve here on earth is fission, and it is not as strong as a merger, which probably can be achieved, but then one must use fission as a spark rate of a fusion bomb!
If it is true that we are affected by a universal force, it can even be healing explained as a natural thing, without having to see it as something supernatural, which comes from a God who can break the laws of nature!
Stephen Hawking believed that the black holes came first, and it fits well with how I look at the universe!
It is possible that gravity was stronger when the universe was smaller, the researchers look at the singularity as pure energy, and I think it is logical that the power of the universe had to be more concentrated to begin with, but diminishes in strength as it gets larger, and that it is just so great right now, so that life could arise. I think that at first there was the matter only dust and gas that clumped together and became a black hole in the center of the universe, but some escaped and became stars and planetary. And I also believe that the universe as a whole resembles a galaxy, all galaxies appear to have a black hole in the center, and when one can say that galaxies are universes in miniature!
We have seen that this power there is talk of pushing the galaxies apart, yet we know that the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxy are closer to each other, and it seems paradoxical that the same repulsive force acting on the galaxies also leads two galaxies closer to each other, and it can only mean that the stars and planets in a galaxy also remove themselves from each other and it means that the galaxies expands like the universe, and it may well be that the same thing happened with a galaxy of the universe, and that is that somehing escaped the black hole and were stars in a galaxy!
Just the idea that the universe may be like a galaxy, then leads to the idea that the universe is a galaxy in an even larger universe, so facinert that it will be impossible for us to comprehend, but we know that everything is a part of something larger and it could also apply to the universe!
We have so far been in that what we see of a man is only the light reflected, and it is only what we can observe, and if we could take a body from each other so that all that the body consists of being spread out, so will every bit of the body reflect the light, and every man would turn out to consist of billions of different frequencies, and these special rates is part of the overall frequencies of light, and they exist and have always existed and will never cease to exist !
That way we can say that the frequencies of items. Jesus reflected still exists, and if we imagine all light frequencies compiled in a database, we were able to scroll in this database, theoretically find a picture of this man!
This sounds completely crazy, but it’s in the way we can save pictures of anything, and view pictures of long dead people, because we know exactly where to find the right frequencies!
Therefore, there is no doubt that the matter should get power from somewhere and it can not be anything other than the universe!
On the news I have to apologize that I even «walk», but when I see these messages on TV about earthquakes and other natural disasters, so I must be allowed to be disappointed by science, which I consider that taking easy with such disasters, and will not even try to think a little longer than what they read!
But I am concerned about the power that exists in the universe today, proportional decreases with the expansion of the universe, and it must mean that the force was higher before, when the universe was more small, because it is more concentrated!
I know that scientists have come to the conclusion that gravity was repulsive to start, and it fits well with the theory that gravity is reflected energy!
I vainly highlighted the enormous forces that afflict the planet, and suggested that it is impossible to believe that the radioactive decay to trigger the fighting forces!
They call it the radioactive decay, and to achieve a so-called demerger, is used primarily for uranium!
Science explains how radioactive decay (or fission) are able to say that the neutron hits the nucleus, and this means that the nucleus divides and becomes lighter nuclei, but the amount of lighter nuclei are smaller than the original kernel !
And it is this difference which is the energy released!
Although the difference in mass after fission size is small, so I know very well that we need to increase with frequency in both light and power, but I doubt that so much energy is released as we have seen in Chile!
I am not able to understand that the radioactive decay in rocks can release such large amounts of energy that we look after the earthquake in Chile!
The ingredients of uranium in nature is, as far as I understand, no more than 2 ‰ of the soil mass, and perhaps also a small amount of actual cause of these huge forces in the crust?
And when we know that ingrúédients natural uranium is uranium 238 which is not so readily available to make the separation, but for them you need to enrich uranium 235 by degradation, but the uranium 235 is only 0.72% of excistens of natural uranium from the earth, but I also know that by enriching uranium 238, if you get no more than one procent uranium 235, and it is a matter dear!
In nature, it is less than 1% (to 2 ‰), which allow a fission, or break down!
2 grams of uranium 238, thus, only two thousandths down disintegrates or breaks?
But as science enough to trigger these immence powers of the earth?
I noticed that it is possible to get the uranium 238
to effect the separation, but strangely that it must then have an «obstacle» to achieve this, e in this case is «heavy water», which is blocked!
Thus, the neutron hits the nucleus, and I can not understand other than the speed of neutrons, is the way to get rid of neutrons, or reflect the power of touch!
Science speaks quite vague when they say Just when the neutron hits the oyau, without trying to say, why and what is the cause of the collision with the nucleus?
Neutrons is the kernel part, and I think it makes sense that the neutron is subjected to a force (the same effect as proton energy received) as the neutron has with, making a down-quark into a top-quark and a top-quark is lighter than a down-quark, if the neutron rid of this power that affect it, and it should be this difference is the energy that is released!
But science argues that parties of neutrons in the atomic nucleus into smaller nuclei, but I can not understand that a nuclear core can not be less than what it is?
In addition, I believe that nothing is done randomly, but follow the natural laws of the letter!
It should be allowed to be surprised that such radioactive decay does not occur elsewhere in the solar system, because it’s the same basic materials around the world!
Therefore, I think what geologists and others say, and they are so sure, is not very credible, and therefore I keep thinking of a universal!
And when you know you have a thousand kilograms of mass to extract 2 grams of uranium in its natural state is completely harmless so it must broaden that this element is to be effective!
We always know that energy can not disappear but only change form, but must be allowed to ask what it takes, and what is the reason for the change in energy form?
Energy Act of words to say that it changes shape, but only half the truth, because it gives no explanation as to why it changes shape?
When one is convinced that when one type of energy goes to another type of energy, so it is according to the natural result of unwritten laws, and not a random event!
We know that the bond strength between atoms is very strong, and there must be a significant force to break the nuclear cycle!
And when the matter is whether this is exactly what is the secret of energy transfer!
Thus the capacity of the material so I concluded that all energy transfer is due to maintain their atomic system, and therefore has the added energy, and the type of energy with which he has, is dependent on the elements she composed, and how it is put together!
But instead of saying that matter most to get rid of superfluous energy, we can use more understandable to say that the material reflects the energy!
It is a familiar concept, and it’s something that we can see all the time, with the elements, sounds and lights!
But if all the energy we know it is just something that reflects the material, which means a different type of energy affects matter, and that is something that is useful for us because we have no energy at our disposal, so that we can use it to influence the matter, it also reflects a kind of energy that can do the work for us!
And that is precisely what we do when we get electricity!
Electricity is also reflected in the energy!
But for now, we have used that energy to get the material to reflect the power, because we do not, or if you know another way to do it!
This material was created after approx 300,000 years was not any random event, but was the result of the universe, then was so high that good conditions were present, and this means that the energy of the universe, a force that had led to the formation with the laws of nature!
And so it is in the universe, when an event has occurred, as was also the conditions of existing law, and when it happens, because the laws of nature dictate that this should happen!
But if all the energy is reflected energy, the matter should also be the energy that is translated!
This all seems completely crazy, because no energy to be able to reflect the particles?
But none of our senses to observe particles!
They reflect the energy in matter, not particles, but as a type of energy that our brains are built to understand!
Therefore, it is our return, or thinking, only the energy that the particle reflects, and this energy must come from a different energy reflected!
I’m sure nobody will believe it, but I’m sure it reflected the energy of particles is the same as dark matter?
If you’re not too attached to what is in textbooks, making it easier to understand that the Line current itself also reflected the energy and power is the only important way restored their internal system, and therefore it must be a force for that matter to reflect the power, we perceive as electrons, moving, where as in reality, the energy reflected by another energy source, and there is a power that reflected, because the matter is complex, so that power is the dominant, reflected power, and it turns out that the material will remain unchanged and stable, Following a global impact!
The general opinion, or the established paradigm is that of a center responsible positiement has a surplus of electrons, and the negative pole has a deficit of electrons, and so raises a tension between two points, if they are in a vacuum, the electrons flow from the anode and the cathode over to cover the deficit from there!
But I think q’une powerful influence that the anode of the reason has been given to its internal system changed, and aims to restore the system, and it makes just as lightning or a short circuit, so that electron-date!
As far as I know there must be a force of nature that did this and it’s not surprising that there may be a bit of science, nor believe in the influence of the universe?
Claims of Science with great certainty that the power that exists in the matter was then transferred material has been created, which is 13.5 billion years!
It must have been an ongoing process that lasts a long time!
The smaller nuclei constituents, quarks, has been fairly soon after the Big Bang when the universe was very young, but at the same time, also think that what holds together quarks, gluons, was also there with quarks and it is probably quite safe quarks and gluons takes its power boson, and it is only the first atom is created!
At that time there was therefore a force in the universe that has changed shape and was the subject?
The power of the material is still as strong today, and I can not understand that something else that should keep it maintained?
This process is 300 000 years, then suffered the blow in the battle of all matter were created!
As described above, is the nature of matter, entirely determined by the current state of the universe and the organic matter is a deviation from a normal state, and it has arisen because the universe in that time have as much energy as it has now, but there is every reason to believe that is what we call “dark matter” which makes the ordinary matter is just the way it is but force that exists in the universe, it must affect the matter, he gives one of its natural form, and becomes organic matter!
How should I manage convince the right people that all the energy we know, has its origins in the cosmos, where it is called «dark energy», and first fills the matter with energy, and when it is filled up and filling continues, then flows the above, or shall we rather say that the profit is reflected from the matter, and we can exploit the best for us and then we can stop digging in the earth for oil and coal!
This is not hocus-pocus more than to fill up a glass of water!
If we continue to fill in, runs it over and nothing is wasted, which means that in the cosmic context, there is no one who believes that we can try to get the profit to make use of them, so there is time being wasted!
The science is quite sure what light is, but they’ve never seen it and will never see what is the source of light, for what they call light is a power that the matter is converted into electromagnetic radiation, and which must come from the cosmos !
Let us state the following facts:
No one can deny that we will see another human being, we are completely dependent on it reflects the light that falls on it!
It is not certain that the light reflected is the same as the light that falls on it, but it can be verified by looking at two people who get the same light, while they reflect are different?
What we reflect all depends on how we are constructed and dressed!
Therefore, it is not certain that the origin of light is specific frequencies, nor that it is moving, for we know only that which is reflected, and there are frequencies, and therefore we can see it!
And you know we are moving at a constant speed!
And therefore I think that even light can be incorporated into the vast and unknown that we call «dark energy»!
All the light we see is reflected light, and it follows the law of energy that energy can not occur, therefore it is not only light, but all the energy we know that in reality is only reflected energy!
It is amazing how well Einstein’s theory that gravity is also moving, and it must only mean that gravity is also reflected energy!
So I’m stuck in that «dark energy» is the source of all energy we know!
Recipe for a better life!
What comes here is something I have “studied” for years, therefore I am convinced that it really works and why I recommend anyone who has difficulty falling asleep, and all who feel overweight to start with the same try and I guarantee that improvement will come in a few days!
I claim that the reason you put on in the brain, which for some reason priority wrong!
This means that the energy in the food we eat is used incorrectly!
When the body’s primary energy needs are covered, so there will always be something left over, and this surplus of energy should preferably be submitted as heat, and this is where the brain prioritizes wrong and why it is likely that something is preventing the brain to produce this energy, and when it is thus used to produce more cells which means that you put on them!
My method is to commute the brain onto another track, or a way to remove this obstacle so that it uses the surplus of energy to produce heat, and if the obstacle is gone, so it becomes easier to get rid of heat, and then simply follow these procedures to follow now!
When one lies, one should always be at your back! (It is very important)
When one takes a deep breath in filling one lungs with air, but also one should feel that the head is also filled with something that is not air, but memories of it, and when you then breathe out slowly, begin the exercise, for then you should try not to think, and when you feel that all the air has left my head and lungs, should you wait a moment before breathing into the re,(hold your breath) and begin again with the same procedure!
I can assure that it is the moment you hold your breath and not think that there’s something strange!
You get a sense of well being that can not be described but must be experienced!
You will then notice that it will be cooler and that means that the body emits energy as heat instead of producing more cells, and the time of breath holding reduces evidence of and under the evidence of taking over, and they block all supplies of energy to the muscles, and then fall asleep one fast, while the body constantly produces heat!
If there is someone who goes in to try this, you will first feel rested when he wakes up, (no surplus of energy) and it leads to mood rises, and I think after some time that the pounds will disappear, immune system is strengthened and fear will also disappear, in short, life is much better, as it was with me!
Of course, no one believes in this, but I promotes everyone to try it, if nothing else than pure curiosity, and I’m sure it does not take long before you’re convinced!
And it costs absolutely nothing!
If I had the children learned that what is in textbooks is only one truth, there was no need to think differently, but government regulation of business!
Now, I put on the table the idea that energy is something that takes place with what I was first allowed me to have an opinion, namely that all matter is so strongly linked by their inner strength, it is almost impossible to change their identity!
We can do almost anything we want with a particular element, but no matter what we do, what will be the same element, whether liquid, gaseous or solid?
And I think it is not by chance that a drug is just the way it is, but there must be something that makes him just the way it is?
It’s something that I based on living together and found that all the material time are influenced by a force which is currently unknown to us!
Now I dare to claim that all the energy that we can leave the matter, because just the fact that the material object to any change in its internal system, and sends away all the power that affect it, and it is this power we need and knows how to exploit!
But we must say that all matter is affected by a force, which means it will protect against a change in the conversion and unleash the power that affect it, and what types of energy, it gives depends on the type of material it is made of!
When the sun shines on an object, the radiation is a force that affects the object!
To protect themselves against change, he will drive this authority, it does so by reflecting light because it has a chance, so that light is the force that dominates, and as everyone knows, it is useful for us!
But as we know it’s not just the light of this power, but also heat radiation, but the object can not return to power, because it has no place to send it!
The surroundings are just as hot, so they block the radiation of heat!
But when the sun goes down and the power of termination, then get the object the ability to send from the heat and radiation, then the lock away!
For that matter should have this property, it must first be «loaded», which means it is still influenced by an eternal force that continue to load up, and if another force is, so beware identity by return that power, but even there may be a barrier that prevents the material to get rid of all the power, but here as elsewhere, is the least resistance that makes the dominant!
And that is precisely why it may be a difference between this kind of power that reflects the subject!
The dominant power is the one we most need for other types of force may be insignificant, it depends on what type of hardware it can!
When we use the power to work, so we are confident that this material gives us this power, because science has told us that matter is the same as power, and therefore we are making to the field and dig Increasingly, and so far I have not heard one who thinks that the power we use comes from the universe, so actually it does not dig into the ground after the powerful, or
«Go over the stream of water»
but the construction machines and tools that can take all the power they need directly from the universe, so we did not win the trip to go heavy to use the power of the material for electric power as we do today!
Everyone is sure that the electrical power is because we let the lines rotating in a magnetic field, and that electricity is the movement of electrons in the son, and that’s what science says, and as such must be true!
What we do today is to add material strength, as it has with, and we use the right equipment, we obtain the electric current, which is very useful for us.
We say that a battery has a negative and a positive pole and there is some tension between them. I think the chemical reaction within a cell, causes the internal state of the battery is changed, and the distance between the two poles is a barrier that acts as a barrier material to restore the internal system, and happens if the distance is small (with a spark), or we connect the terminals with a wire!
The wire is matter that changes its internal system, and not take damage, it is dismissed with power, and so is the power supply!
How can we go on indefinitely with finding solutions to many things we do not understand, but if you look at it this way for all becomes so much easier to understand!
Finally, I would say that I do not think anything in particular that the ruler of chaos in both micro-and macro-como!
I believe that everything that happens is the result of a mathematical nature that absolutely nobody can manupulere with!
So I take that as a starting point for further reflections!
If we consider the matter if it’s something we can take tangible, but we can not perceive that it consists only of movement, and nothing stops!
And I do not come away from the idea that there must be something that keeps everything moving. And that’s where the idea that FM, which I think is a counterpart to the matter of habit, and that, in addition to thermal energy, the more he can keep everything moving!
Half of the material is such that we can register with one of our senses, because it reflects a type of radiation, but the other half are not there as radiation, but as a state, as We understand that, among other things, with the smell and the sense of taste, and do all matter particles and on the rates!
Full Contents may simply not exist without the influence of the FM!
Who can not exist without the influence of EF?
Is it not possible to imagine the universe as a large permanent magnet?
Magnet has two poles, a south pole and a north pole. The Universe May have two centers of power?
A consisting of a type of energy, (EF) and the other the opposite of energy, (FM)?
Thus, two types of energy with the opposite sign?
She began to think about the negative energy, which is capable of dissolving the black hole?
EF can have such a state!
FM is the matter and is positive energy?
Exactly this idea is fascinating, but not impossible means?
Are we not something that could solve the mystery of the beginning of the universe?
Is it really possible that there is, for us, invisible world that is a copy of ours?
It seems incredible, but FM can have such a character. It will mean that every human being has a corresponding identity in the cosmos!
Thus, a little behind in this story!
I know that sounds completely insane while, when I ask now that he is invisible ourselves, yes, everything around us is invisible, and we recognize that people, things and objects are all scientists have dreamed of understanding, namely the dark matter?
It’s just that we register with our senses are so complex that what we previously thought did not understand actually what we perceive?
And it also means that any substance that exists in nature has a certain rhythm, which is identical with the rhythm that exists in the FM?
Someone wants to experience something before dying, and I have the highest degree, and that is what will follow here!
Think about a time you can destroy its power plants, open our waterfalls and distant all power lines and anything spoiling the nature?
All the energy is almost free, and all means of transport are electrically powered and no nuclear power?
It is a utopia, but even I am quite certain that the universe is our only help!
So just read this and make an opinion, ask who you want, and I think very careful!
He rose for me that I have argued in both books and journal articles, is probably correct, and can have major consequences for people!
So I see that all we can see are influenced by a force of the universe!
That I am not someone to believe, but now he’s gone for me it really is.
And then I must be allowed to request that scientists do not now, not have guessed what gravity is!
Is it difficult to recognize the power of the universe that affect the subject, and not get any change in the internal market system, emits this energy in the direction opposite to the material received?
Thus, gravity!
All that is matter, but there must be some size before gravity is measurable, but the magnetism and electricity do not depend on the size, but the intern-element composition?
Think only of protons?
Even as little as they are electrically charged, and only because the composition of quarks each other!
So why, I believe that the material in certain circumstances, be affected by the EF, so that it can also provide electricity?
That may be what is happening in the atmosphere when it thunders, and it does not surprise me that EF allowing material also produces magnetism!
When the vehicle is stopped, provided the energy balance of FM, which means that it is a stable object with a special internal system, but it is also affected by the EF, which enables disapproves of that energy, it exists as a non-measurable gravitational not a measurable magnetic field and also a power that is not measurable?
The energy it emits is so small it can be considered as potential energy!
After that I see and that amazes me, confirms my belief that dark matter with ordinary matter to a stable energy that can not be changed without outside help, and that the material is rich in power only because of the dark matter or FM makes “feeder” on the frequencies that we know is a form of energy!
There is no energy in the case as such, but when it is converted to frequency, it is energy!
There is also FM is the source of energy to normal matter, and he gets the energy of the EF is also likely to follow the natural law!
And I’m pretty sure this has something with a force of the universe to do?
Conclusion: Everything is a matter of habit energy, but this energy is not something that the matter has ever?
He must have somewhere!
There must be another form of energy that makes the material energy. And here we are at the base material!
The substance is given a power that makes it so it is, and he says I am what is called dark matter which have now all probably heard of it!
He assured that the matter is the same as energy. Normal matter, including us, would not exist without energy supply, and now it is proper to say that the gravity of dark energy, which can be compared with the energy to increase speed the car, which is directed a way?
And all the matter that is affected by dark energy, the pressure in the opposite direction, just that in the car, and also what we call gravity or the force of gravity.
But this is not our understanding of gravity, which is the most important desire in this matter, but the knowledge we can gain energy in the universe, which is an advantage for all, and not lower.
But what I think is understandable that researchers have not thought this could be a solution to the mystery of gravity, because it is a consequence of thermodynamics first major statement I just mentioned!
And my whole theory is built!
At least that’s probably obvious to me that all matter is a stable object with an internal system that is a result of an impact of FM. (Dark Matter), which is influenced by EF. (Dark energy), but I have a strong suspicion that researchers do not want to interfere amateur!
FM to stabilize the material, and make sure it is what it is, and EF is the change of material from the internal system and allows the RU emits energy in the form of a field magnetic, an attractive area field and also an electric field!
If we have a clear understanding of this, so there are many pieces of the puzzle that is taking place!
What we can observe an object is solely due to our five senses, which has the unique ability to convert the given object into energy as a form of energy that allows our brain to register the object now, we have seen that both the formation of a magnetic field and electric field can be caused by an external force?
But now is the serious, we will try to find the origin. Suppose now on the internal system of the Earth, and be open to the idea that energy is supplied continuously from the EF as it is removed need not be permanent item!
Would not the earth, so get rid of this energy as light, and would have the opposite direction, the energy it receives from the EF, and thus is the opposite of gravity?
If we imagine that the universe is a field of energy and that energy is what we call dark matter and dark energy, so I think that space has a form of pressure on matter, and then It is the space that is pushing for, requires that curved space, because energy as a pressure performer, is not in space, but space itself!
The role of dark matter and dark energy plays in the universe, I specified, but I am of the opinion that to call this room is hardly an adequate description of the universe!
Internal system objects have changed, and the function is broken!
In the next chapter we will see a little more on this mysterious phenomenon that we call «dark matter» and «dark energy» and which I have abbreviated to FM and EF!
DARK MATTER AND DARK ENERGY!
This chapter will be about something that even scientists do not understand something, because there is not even mentioned in the Bible, nor in any of the old textbooks that are still relevant when it comes to the universe we find ourselves in!
They call it strange phenomenon of «dark» because they still have not found an adequate name!
Science does not like anyone other than themselves, try to have an opinion about this mysterious and invisible power, which they believe exists in the cosmos!
But I defy science and takes imagination to help, and have arrived at something which I think is both logical and credible! It is therefore of «dark matter» and «dark energy» which is something I just have looked at, and which I have renamed «rate matter», which is simply abbreviated as «FM»!
Second, I have christened «energy frequency» and abbreviated as «EF»!
Throughout my life, I am guided by curiosity huge, and an equally great interest, and it took then I always was seen on a strange character, with too much fantasy!
But Einstein once said that imagination is blessed by all, and stuck to the imagination tells us the future discoveries and inventions!
Therefore, I always wondered, why and how and what!
Therefore, I often researchers and scientists angry at the mine for them, my stupid questions, but have not yet received a satisfactory answer!
Here’s something that I want it now!
Perhaps there is a mind that thinks, as also on the same subject?
But they do not look like someone who came on the idea that we have more than enough energy to move from the universe, so that the time has not come yet!
But the fact is that science is now certain that an unknown force that affect the distant galaxies, and therefore I believe that this force called «dark energy» (EF)also affects our galaxy, which I used as a starting point in considering universe of meaning for us humans!
Even if I do not have university degrees, so I could not help but speculate about what it was, and there are many theories that I made about them. One by one ends in the trash, but I was surprised that when a theory has been rejected, which has created new, almost as if someone stood beside me and gave me new exercises and suggestions for a solution to the problem!
I know this is laughable, but I’m sure my instructor beside me, my true self, then perhaps the last who laughs, and laughs best!
Even if I know I «get into the salad» I dare to come with a solution that seems plausible to me, but considered with security by experts as ridiculous solution on a serious problem, and ask me to keep mine toughts away!
I have with it is entirely consistent with the Energy Act, and take the first sentence of most of thermodynamics that energy can not occur, or not disappear, we must draw the following conclusion:
Everyone agrees that what we call matter is the same as energy, but according to the Energy Act, requires the energy field from another type of energy!
My understanding is that energy to create useful energy, can not be done without with another energy, which becomes the kind of energy we will!
But science surprises from time to time, and now it has come to an acknowledgment that there is another type of matter than we can see, and i is around us, but they do not know what it is, but only call it for «dark matter» and we ask if we can help to get on the trace of the strange cosmic matter!
It’s fun to see the great number of sciences, and the search for dark matter, and once they find a tiny particle, is what they now believe they have finally found the mysterious affair !
It is as if they lack a little imagination, because already in 1929, Louis de Broglie was awarded the Nobel Prize when he stated that the matter being not only particles, but have also a waveform!
And all this could be the key to understanding this mysterious stuff!
Anyway it is possible to imagine that dark matter has the same frequency as its own frequencies to normal matter?
If that once stood as a possible explanation of this unknown substance, it will lead to strange consequences, as we shall see later!
So it’s not so much fantasy to imagine that dark matter is simply the familiar form of the usual waveformed matter?
This means that dark matter is the frequency corresponding to the waveform in the matter of as we know so well?
It is strange that scientists have no imagination to think that the matter should necessarily be something that is not made of atoms and molecules?
If the case we would not had that ability they have to act like waves, and we would not had the chance to watch it!
To our senses are designed so they can only sign waveform matter!
Therefore, it is not the particle that we see, but the particle when it acts as a frequency!
So simple that it is possible, if you think a little more than what is in the textbooks!
It is enough not many who agree that all types of energy we know, comes from a single source of energy?
Then came the theory of dark energy that is
recognized by science today!
I see the dark energy as a huge sun is always in the Zenit everywhere and all matter that exists in the universe!
And it is easy to understand why it is warmer in outer solar atmosphere and colder in the atmosphere?
This may be a simple solution to one of many unsolved riddles science do not know, and it is understandable that scientists ignore this and call it as a nonsense!
Believe it or not, it is as the entire universe, is an energy field that provide the matter to a type of energy as must have to exist!
That’s why I look at the dark matter in the part of dark energy, and this portion is absorbed by ordinary matter, which makes the ordinary matter is able to act as the frequencies, and therefore it is observable!
And the consequence is that a portion of that energy called dark energy affects both dark matter and ordinary matter and dark matter is the part of the dark energy that affects and is absorbed by normal matter, and what is absorbed, forms, or «load» normal matter, so it is as we know!
And that’s exactly why it is possible to call the dark matter of the «frequency-matter» or the abbreviation FM, because only that who does the ordinary matter is just as it should be able to do a work!
But ordinary matter is still influenced by dark energy, and, since normal matter in a totally already are saturate of energy, it must return the energy it receives, and that is how we can benefit from the power that constantly affect the ordinary matter!
But if we added more energy beyond what the matter already has, so will this excess energy, and we know how to operate it, converted to the energy that we know and is useful for us!
It is the purest nonsense, science will tell, but he admits that there is an unknown force acting on distant galaxies, but such an admission revealed that science speaks with two tongues, they recognize when to first there is a force in the universe, but unfortunately so has no influence on our planet?
Then, they must believe the same as they did in the Middle Ages, namely that the earth is something for themselves in the universe, and not have the same laws as the rest of the universe!
But back to my assertion that this means that if any matter is to be matter, there must be a force that takes care of him, but sometimes it happens that some of the business is changing, and when it is suddenly open the door for more energy, but fortunately know the matter of how to protect the interior apartments, and has the power to get rid of that extra energy!
And that means it protects against a change to the reverse and return the power to affect it, and what kind of energy it sends depends on what kind of stuff it is create of!
When the sun shines on us, the radiation is a force that affects us, bringing us more energy, and the interiors of us will remain unchanged, and therefore send some of that power them away, but few energy is also prevented from entering, it said it absorbed, but once the sun went down that barrier is gone, then returned almost all the power!
We humans are fortified with intelligence, who understood little of how matter works, so that we can build machines and tools so that we get exactly the power we have to work!
But we think never that is sufficient power output from the universe, or that the matter has a surplus of power, and that is exactly the power we need!
The power that we love best is electricity, and to obtain it, we found that we can let the spool rotating in a magnetic field, and believed that the unmistakable is the movement of electrons in the spool, and that is what science says and that should it be true?
The wire is matter that changes its internal system, and not take damage, and therefore left it with power, and it may be electricity!
How can we even managed to convince the scientific solution to the many things we do not understand now, but if you look at it this way is that everything becomes so much easier to understand!
Finally, I would say that I do not think anything in particular that there is chaos in both micro-and macro-como!
I believe that everything that happens is the result of a mathematical law that nobody can manupulere with!
At first, I suggested that there would be some words and writings may seem strange and even perhaps a bit misleading!
Therefore, knows that all readers end of these expressions do not always correspond to what we associate with these words!
The terms are well known expression, which is used to evoke associations and should therefore be easy to remember!
They should not be construed as meaning that it is so that we associate with these words.
Because nobody knows with certainty today what it is, or how they work!
First, what we call, what we see and how it is composed?
What we see is called the matter is made up by smaller constituents of nature, which is also called building blocks, which are the atoms and molecules!
Atoms are special requirements related to each other, and the link is strongest in the solid state
form, but weakened in the liquid and gaseous form!
Matter units forming small or large, and it is often called an object!
And that’s something we should philosophize about!
So we see it consists of smaller components and I must emphasize that the binding force between atoms is of great importance to humans, because even if one uses a force for change in their composition mutual, then restores the original shape when the force ceases to work!
An example is that if we stretch a rubber band, as well go back, when one lets go!
Another thing we should note is that we can provide a more object-matter, or we can also share an object into smaller parts, but in both cases, it is an object independent!
But to make the slightest change in an object, we must use the force that the object should get rid of returning to his original form!
The material in solid form smaller units, but as a liquid or gas units too small or large, but has the advantage that they are easier to mix!
Solid material can be liquefied and even with gas, which becomes easier to carry!
An object, a drop of water, yes, everything is
matter and the size does not matter!
It is and will be a stable object and the change is not without affecting the outside with any power!
But what is a stable object?
That means there is a stable internal
system, composed of atoms and molecules that form the identity of the object!
This is the system that allows the object is just the way it is!
Any change in this system goes beyond the object, therefore, opposes any changes that you yourself!
And it has, as we shall see, extremely important when it comes to transforming one energy form to another!
What we see so many examples!
To try to understand what it is, there is no help to get in some textbooks, and no way for scientists and other educated people!
To get clarity in that it is the best help you use your imagination, and that’s what I did, and I feel that I have a little unbelievable!
There is no one like to know what is the singularity, but they said it consisted of energy «pure» but what does this mean?
But at least they called «super-strength»!
But only one type of energy that we can say is in this tiny universe, has been «hot» !
And it is a form of energy known to us, but it was not as hot as we know, but rather closer to heat in the room before it hits the field!
But there was no space to be in, everything has been compressed into this little item!
Today, we know from countless forms of energy, and since energy can not occur, then all that exists now, also existed in the singularity?
And we know that energy is not completely disappear, so it will be even more in the universe!
EF is an abbreviation for «energy frequency» and FM is an abbreviation for «frequency matter»!
And that energy has not left the universe, even if it is larger, but is always present, and q’est do what I called EF and FM?
But many scientists are surprised that distant galaxies appear to deviate from each other with increasing the growing speed and believes they are affected by a force that has the opposite effect gravity and thus cause the theory of dark energy to give, which I call the EF!
But the energy that was singularities is not gone, not just that we have not the slightest idea what form it has and we do not know if it interacts with matter!
But it is obvious that it has become weaker!
Next I want the sender to a summary of the prospects that lie ahead if my theory on «dark matter» and «dark energy» is really true!
I was really onto something that all the astronomers, physicists and many scientists do not understand, but they exist in the universe!
That I think about scientists call «dark matter», which is invisible, but still a kind of material, and the current lack know what it is, they only needed to call the «dark matter»!
Thus, the unknown character!
Therefore, I think that type of energy,
constantly turning over matter and my question is:
What type of energy does the energy-rich matter?
That matter is energy must be a certain proof that one or the other form of energy converted to energy in this area?
And where does it come from?
There must be some form of energy that does matter to energy?
What I am trying to find a credible response
to, and the same recognition that the material is a stable object with an internal system that can not be changed without an external force!
All elementary forces exist in singularity, except perhaps attracting gravity (What was repulsive) but that was in the universe and existence there, had a different character, but she was there and that was what they are today, has been prescribed and not a random event!
Therefore, I based my belief that both the matter and it is so important for us the living, was also present there, and was at one today, and it will forever! .
But it is difficult to get others to view my thoughts on the universe, but he reassures me that all inventions and discoveries began with a thought!
And who knows?
Physicists and astronomers also asserts that there is no interaction between dark matter and ordinary and familiar visible matter!
A dark matter affects the normal matter in the same way as the sun, the stubborn refusal to hear about!
And expect those who believe as ignorant fools.
And also believes it is twice as large amount of dark matter as ordinary matter!
How can they be so sure?
Currently we are discussing the theories and a theory can be just as good as another?
So my theory about the same weight between these two forms of matter, is not only
imagination, because it helps explain, at least for me the outstanding riddles!
Now, when researchers finally concluded that dark matter represents about 25% of the universe!
And it fits well with the theory that it is also 25% of ordinary matter!
In ordinary matter accounts for only about 5%, may be that we currently do not observe any normal matter, but if it is true that it is equally clear that the dark matter, this matter constitutes 50% of universe and 50% dark energy!
Now, this is so, that what we perceive with our senses is the light that makes the ordinary matter and light is the frequency of specific wavelengths and frequencies is the only language that our understanding of brain!
What we see is not really normal matter, but only one photo of him, and if we imagine that dark matter is the ordinary matter is potensiale frequency (the material is both particle and wave-shaped form) so it means that what we see is that dark matter and ordinary matter not?
Now we know that matter is energy, and it must be transformed from another energy, then why does the dark energy as the source of energy in all matter!
If we stop focusing on the idea of dark matter and dark energy, and refer instead that «the energy frequency» (EF) and the «frequency matter» (FM), and takes as starting point, so I think research would be a step forward, that’s what I try to suggest in this book.
Which form the subject of a stable object, we can find countless examples!
Although small in an atom or as big as a planet, so that a stable object with an internal system, and that is precisely because of FM!
It allows the material available, and it should for any reason, a change in the internal market system, so make sure that the FM will restore the system!
An example is a piece of iron we can make energy in the form of electrical energy!
It changed the internal system, and to be as is he thinking with the extra energy by creating a magnetic field!
And as long as power goes, it is also a magnetic field.
Then, it is ourselves who starred adds energy. But as we shall see later, so we have not removed to bring the energy of iron, for it to form a magnetic field!
If we add another element, carbon (?) Will in special circumstances energy elsewhere?
And there can be other than that provided EF. And when we are at the heart matters!
But FM is not a form of radiation, but a state which corresponds to the normal matter. We know that light and sound must come from a light source and sound!
FM is not radiation, but it has an energy that must have a source, just like radiation!
I think that FM receives energy from the EF, and when we understand why he has a setback
gravity of ordinary matter!
There is a general feeling that EF-cons weigh the gravity!
So I think the EF is FMs source?
But what impact this recognition means, and what are the benefits of it?
And I think that is about 25% of the universe?
This expression has never been published, but I take the chance and call the rest!
But if we imagine FM as another type of energy in the form of ordinary matter, but develop the same direction, which corresponds to the energy in the normal matter, so it’s understandable that it is not so easy to know what dark matter is!
But I am convinced that the dark matter, the FM, as is the potential for normal matter, like radiation of all kinds is the potential to matter!
FM is the matter, but it is invisible to us because it is only one frequency, but it affects us as a normal user stuff!
The telescope is not exactly the right instrument to FM make visible for us!
But how are we to understand this unknown force, if we have knowledge that there really?
But I think the study of normal matter, we also know on FM!
For it is the same and have as much energy than normal, visible matter!
And it’s not wrong to let your imagination and think a theory as an attempt to provide an explanation to this mystery?
The theory of frequency, the material is something that I found, but I’ll start to say that the many different energy forms can be translated into a single effect!
And think how many different forms of energy that can be used before the formation of electrical power!
Currently, we believe it is not possible to generate electricity in any other manner than what is known today!
For many years we had the old tradition of bringing water from the other side of the creek, our ancestors have always done, because they have always believed that water was better on the other side !
One possible way to harness the energy of the universe are described in the previous chapter,
and if we succeed there, we have a future that is incredibly delicious!
We will see later that I challenge the skills to assert that there are other ways to achieve it in an another way!
So can ordinary matter may, in certain circumstances, be available for us!
But it is so strong that it is so in reality?
Suppose we change the sign?
This idea is amazing, no need so far!
No one can deny that the matter is part of what science considers that empty room, but we see that the universe is not deleted as empty as you thought!
To us humans, it is mainly the field of interest, because we can see and observe, but the rest of the universe is invisible to us!
But now I realized that all matter is in the universe, is also invisible to us, and we do not have a unique opportunity to observe, observe or record, without its being touched by some form of energy!
And now, science has found that there is much more matter than we can see?
They chose to call one of the matters for the dark matter, because we do not know what it is, but we’re pretty sure it’s there!
But we shall soon see that this mysterious and unknown matter, is not so difficult to detect but it is certainly part of that empty space, and is the main reason why we can all do our observations of the universe!
But nobody knows how much ordinary matter, it is in the universe, and then we can not know how much dark matter there is?
Dark matter is invisible, but there is no element of doubt?
Then there must also exist on planets invisible and perhaps even invisible people?
I came to think of words Broglie that ordinary matter is also vague, and that is the same as this matter is also frequencies!
Now, the sound itself invisible, while the particles are visible, but we know with certainty that the particles have also a potential rate!
This material is both frequency (dark matter) and also particles (ordinary matter)!
But then there are two kinds of subject, but some of the matter is not visible to us?
But what is it in the reality that is visible and have been there that is invisible?
To inquire about like this must be the stupidest one must do?
But now listen: if you see a known object, and I say it is invisible, do you think it has plummeted to me?
But wait a minute: Are you sure that you can see, but why are you able to see this object?
You are quite sure that when you see a human being, you do not doubt that you can see that this is the way it is?
But do not be so sure!
It can receive signals from this man, is only reflected light, or certain frequencies that this person!
It is quite possible that you can see the black and dark black can be white?
No one can say with certainty how a person looks in real life!
It depends on the output frequency one, which is done for it is most natural to a living being is to be bleak for all as they are and will hate any interference from the outside!
But fortunately, our eyes are adapted to specific frequencies, and most of us who see it the same way as those who are color blind, who see things differently than the rest of us!
And we do not know how the animals look at us?
It is not certain that the dog looks at you like a human, and if you take care of a baby lion, so I think it’s always like a lion, because the eyes are fitted over the a community is, therefore, they are the best chance of having a good life!
The light reflected from the object, the frequencies your eyes will take care of you, and the contours of the object is sent as an electrical frequency of the brain that makes you feel what you see!
Light is a force that affects particles in the eye, which is transmitted to the brain as electrical impulses!
The conclusion must be that dark matter is the usual frequency of matter-form?
And then he comes to the conclusion that this is strange only dark matter, or FM, we expect?
And no matter what they call normal!
To our senses and our brain is receptive only for frequencies!
Even the smallest particle can not be sent to the brain, without damaging it, so why the frequencies, the only language the brain understands!
So now, suddenly turned things completely opposite?
All we were so confident that we have observed is now invisible, but what we thought was invisible suddenly becomes visible!
As ordinary matter it is also invisible but we know it is not, and I do not know what this matter is not and when it dark?
I think that dark matter appears in the normal matter like the sun, and we do not need to be as we thought we are leaving something in ourselves, or reflects the fact that a particular type of energy!
Matter can not be observed unless it is affected by a force from outside, and he is somehow responsible for energy, which means he still has a volume, and shares borders size!
Or in other words, an object, where the shape of an internal energy and a stable system that can not be changed without the object has changed!
And in this system is both normal matter and dark energy represented!
We can say that in any matter, particles and frequencies emmagasined!
And it is well known and widely used in computers articles!
And precisely here lies the secret!
We humans have managed to find how we can collect particles of an object and that object may have an effect, such elements can transmit a signal!
So we can add this one particular signal, eg a picture of a man, and when it is full spectrum of human which has provided the subject, but it does not change the subject internal system, but part of the object, like a passenger in the car!
So, this table will always be a part of and in the object, but as a passenger may exit the vehicle so that we also delete the image!
So it is not difficult to see that the matter is now invisible, really exists, even if the words are invisible?
Because it has gravity, and why it must also be due to a constant and continuous supply of energy because it must get rid of!
We are saying that there must be a thrust force of the invisible matter all together!
And whence comes this power?
Dark matter, or FM frequencies are, as unveiled by the invisible material matter!
We know with certainty what effect, and where it comes from, the force that makes the visible matter.
When this energy hits the matter, then refer the case for frequencies!
But this is not said that the matter is frequency!
Because often we see that there does not always the same as the output as we send!
But it is certainly not easy to understand what is invisible and what we see rèalitèt, but we must be able to draw the conclusion that our brain gets the impression, that of analysis and process matter of possible frequencies, the material itself is not visible, if what we see is entirely dependent on the type of frequency, it has to!
So how reality can be quite different from how we perceive with our five senses!
Therefore, we must consider the existence of matter with respect to the empty room!
And then just observe that if matter is energy, we need the rest of the universe is energy!
And then we can conclude that matter is not so different than the empty room!
It must be a strength in the empty room that allows the material forming objects, which makes energy visible in the empty room for us humans!
What objects have internal systems must also be due to the energy in empty space, which is required to have a related system!
In the matter inside the system is determined by the energy of empty rooms, which means that the whole matter must be balanced with the empty room!
This means that everything is governed by strict laws of nature, which does not give access to the exemption from those laws?
This matter attracts each other is a necessary feature that is not to make contact with the room empty!
In a case of how the encounter anything that can lead to a change in its relationship to the empty room!
We, and indeed all matter is so complex, that our internal system must be such that it is, we should have a balance with nature that the universe!
If our internal system was not as it is, we would not be in existence!
And yet nobody believes in a certain influence of the universe?
In the research environment, it is very curious about this unknown phenomenon called dark matter!
No idea what it is, because we do not see, but we believe it exists but we do not see why, because we are not equipped with the organs that detect the existence of all matter in the universe!
The only way we humans can understand what dark matter is, is to use your imagination and experience of thought and ask ourselves what we really see what we know as normal, visible matter When we humans view each other as we are fairly confident that what we see, in reality, as we see it!
But it is now certain that what we see is just the way it actually is?
When we first ask ourselves why we see things?
And we know that because things reflect light with specific frequencies, and our eyes are complex and custom tailored exactly these frequencies, the eye (which is already congested FM), return ( not to be destroyed) in the brain that processes and analyzes them, and create an image of the thing!
So when you see a man if that’s what we see, only an image of man, which is determined by the frequency, the person is, and no different than if we had seen on TV!
So do not think he was so certain that the person is in reality as you see it!
But fortunately, our eyes just as composed and suitable conditions on Earth, and it is that everything we see is the same for everyone!
The conclusion must be that the normal matter is under constant pressure from the EF, but not to accept that he was able to absorb, and this quantity of energy absorbed, I think, therefore it is called dark matter, while in reality just one source, Thus, dark energy and the EF is also unknown to us that dark matter, dark matter, but can be as real as it becomes like FM ordinary matter with exactly what the laws of nature dictate the need for a stable subject, and the inertia of matter helps keep the overall system stability and the ability to refer the matter to the powers beyond what it needs!
This means that we can both see and hear, taste, smell what the smell!
Scientists believe that we are dealing with two types of materials, including a type is a mysterious unknown type of matter, but in reality it is both dark and normal to the same thing!
It depends on the frequency that emits matter and how our body, which include both dark and ordinary matter is constructed and composed, so they can receive the frequencies that issues matter and transform them into electrical impulses going to your brain!
If we just imagine that we are being visited by extraterrestrial beings, so they can in our eyes of flesh can be quite different than us, because the light reflected from these beings, have frequencies very different from us because our eyes are so well adapted, they may register only earthly things!
It is not certain they would be visible to us nor for the radiation from their bodies, does not fit with the components of particles in our eyes that are adapted to our planet!
We are, in other words, poorly equipped to detect any matter in the universe!
Therefore, we can be surrounded by unknown forces, without suspecting it, and our instruments are of no help because they show us only what we can perceive with our senses!
I assume that everyone knows the law of energy conservation, which states that energy can not arise nor disappear, but change form from one type of energy to another!
As I argue that what we are made of, and which we see and observe, also called the matter, only a mediator of energy mainly comes from the cosmos, so I think many will protest, and assert that I am astray?
And even worse is when I say that all energy is reflected from another energy!
And that means that what science calls a reaction is only reflected energy from another power, but has the opposite effect!
It is not difficult to ascertain when it comes to light, sound, and also particles!
But it means that the gravitational energy is reflected, even though most will not admit that the gravitational energy, although electricity is a form of energy that comes from the force of gravity!
Likewise, it is with magnetism, which also is regarded as energy, despite the fact that it can pull heavy trains on steep slopes!
I am totally convinced that matter has a special ability to transform an unknown energy to the kinds of energy we know, and I am equally convinced that matter get the energy from the universe!
But it looks as if we still want to go over the brook for water!
If we just for a moment think that we can compare the power of the cosmos and the power from the Sun, we know very well that something in the sun’s rays are absorbed by matter and some is reflected, but once the sun goes down, the matter before the sun shone on it!
But if we think about the power of the cosmos, and think of it as a “Sun” which never goes down, it will always reflect on the matter and always absorb some of the power, and that’s what it absorbs we call “dark matter” and that it reflects the gravity and the sun never goes down, we call the “dark energy”
UTOPIA OR REALITY? ACTION WORDS This book is mainly about three things! One is an attempt to gain a better climate, and in that respect, I ask myself a little dubious about the established scientific view of much of physics and astronomy! I can say that I am in a way, «speaks of Rome opposite!» The second is related to religion and faith, and I argue quite certain that only faith, retarded or inhibiting all progress in society! The third I try to focus attention on the all wars, violence and differential treatment of other people! The purpose of this book is to focus on things that will appear inexplicable for us, and try at least to find a natural explanation, as both researchers and others can accept and maybe do some research on, and bring the idea further, and finally either not confirm it, or at best confirm it! I have put a ring around a number of points that I would like to be elucidated, and look like they are proven wrong with a better explanation is more credible. I put up some points witht things I find difficult to understand, but I must admit that I think my explanation is more credible than the established explanation given by professionals, so therefore I will try to give a reasonable and logical explanation for this to satisfy my own ideas! 1. Why not shut off heat in the Earth’s interior? 2. On the way the brain understands all the senses? 3. The magnet mysterious force?. 4. Is healing really abilities? 5. Why is matter energy? In addition to those mentioned here, is the warmth of the sun’s outer atmosphere, and why gravity was repulsive in the first years after the Big Bang, which can be explained by my theory! It is up to each questioning soul to come up with objections and counter-argument and adopt a skeptical attitude to my assertion that the sun is not the only universal impact on the matter? FOREWORD! It is, in fact, no book, but a set of notes that are recorded over the years, but recently events have led to a desire to be a contributor in the fight against climate change, injustice and differential treatment of certain groups of people! Therefore, the book is marked by poor language use because of low literacy levels, which means that the content is complex, not chronological! But the point is that the desire to carry a message and a tip for those who fight for a better world for all people on this planet! But I think, why not try? But gradually I understood how I set my goals too high, which some regard as frivolous based on fantasy and ignorance! In this book there are some expressions and terms that may seem both strange and incomprehensible for many, therefore I will briefly try to explain the significance of these concepts. First I will mention that all we see is called matter. And this is my first statement, which sure many agree, but it requires a little reflection, and perhaps a bit of interest for the issue about the world we live in, and that I claim we are a part of, and that we never can get out of, namely, the cosmos or the universe! My first assertion is that the matter always creates something that I call a «stable object», with an internal system! Any object, big or small, so it is an object or a thing! That it is stable means that there will always be as it is, if no one touches it, or expose it for one or another influence! That it has an internal system means that nothing in the object is stationary, even though it looks like this for us, for the atomic level is the movement and activity. This system seems to be held by something, and it must be allowed to try to find out why it has this property, for if we change it so it is no longer as it was, but what is so strange is that the system always falls into place again when the external influence ceases! It is only thus that the existence of solids, and that for items, we can go on the floor! You see the perhaps is not something strange in that you can push an object from one place to another? It happens in reality is giving this piece a little energy, and this power converts the object to a different energy, which is the movement from one place to another, because the object has no use for, and would rather not have this power, so the get rid of it as soon as it can! This is something that we must try to understand, and the book is almost about energy, and how we can get just the energy we need! But to achieve it, we need access to some form of energy, as we first need to add matter, and the output is entirely dependent on how matter is put together! I am also very concerned about the environment and the poor man’s problem, and feel it as a duty to contribute something that would improve the situation for us. But no one takes this perhaps seriously, but I am totally convinced that we have something to bring the universe, but I need help to try and experiment! For a long time I have thought about alternative solutions to the energy crisis, and have arrived at a solution which, unfortunately, no one will believe in! I have questioned the researchers and other professionals, but no one is interested, and calls it the silly, even if it is a certain facts! The facts are represented as gibberish, is not new, and it’s not just people with little education who maintain it. Professors and knowledgeable people, refuses to recognize facts, even if the evidence is documented! Here are some of the questions I have submitted for professionals! Why not shut off heat in the Earth’s interior? In response to what I was told that it is due to radioactivity in the rocks! And that the drug was radioactive remained inside the earth and came not out of a volcano erupting! Thanks for that! And here I am therefore not agree with the researchers, who claim with great certainty that energy will not occur, but argues in the same breath that radioactivity occurs in some elements, and the radiation it emits that energy comes from the element because just this element has this property? Radioactive materials that emit radiation, such as uranium, thorium and other substances are therefore, according to researchers, because radioactive energy is stored in this material from the time when the Earth was created, and therefore can be compared to a perpetual mobile! But as you can in a way to say that energy occurs in this material? Contrary to recognized laws of nature! Those who maintain it, while denying a recognized law of nature! And the law knows all good! Energy can not occur, but only change form! If I’m wrong is a matter exception to this law, and has energy all by itself? To imagine that the universe provides us with energy is completely unthinkable, for it is not in the textbooks! And then it will not help with evidence! A typical example of «old woman against the stream!» How should one think further when paragraphs stop any form of innovation? Currently it is focused much on the climate and the need for renewable energy! To make it clear to all we can affirm the following facts! Energy can not occur, but only change form! Matter (what we see) is energy! It is thus not unthinkable that is only a form which is formed of a different form of energy! It must therefore be added to a type of energy that makes the energy. This is the proof for that matter getting a supply of energy from somewhere to be energy! Why is it so hard to believe it? I am completely convinced that it is so! Just think how many arcane puzzles that it will solve? If we have a type of energy available, so you can assemble matter in a certain way to get it converted to just the energy we need! It’s just what we do when we make many different machines! A car is assembled in a very specific way so it can convert gasoline, and the energy it emits is movement, and that’s exactly what we want! But gasoline, we have at hand and can therefore add it to your car, but we provide the car is a completely different energy than the one we want, for what we want is a transfer from one place to another! Matter transforms thus a type of energy to another if it is properly balanced! Radioactive material emits radiation, because it is composed in a certain way that makes it so it is! In many cases it is nature itself that has put the matter together so as to emit radiation, but the release is a completely different energy than that I think it will be added somewhere from! Radiation is energy, therefore it must be the energy from somewhere that causes this radiation! And this energy comes from somewhere, may be quite different than the radiation emitted! All matter is what we call an object, with an internally stable system that makes it just the way it is! This system is not easy to change from being the object changes. We add the energy, then converts the object energy (depending on how it is composed), and release it, not to change its internal system! But this subject that we have energy at hand that can bring the matter! There are so many examples of it that we can turn the firm as facts! We humans are also matter, and also has an internal system, and we know quite well how it works if the system is changing! We will be sick! So I ask if there is anyone who can point out a single power that not comes from a different effect? A type of energy we are familiar with is gravity, which we often use to get the useful energy! (For items Electric power). Science speculates on what gravity is and how it occurs? But if we hold ourselves to the fact that energy can not occur, but is caused by a different energy, then gravity must be a type of energy that is converted from a different energy, and where does it come from? Earth is matter and is therefore an object with an internal system, and gravity must be the energy that it generates to not have changed their internal system, which means that the Earth must be the supply of energy from somewhere? This must be a simple way to understand what gravity is and how it occurs! The science is generally agreed that there exists a type of energy in the universe, but calls it «dark», (unknown) and then one would think that a possible explanation for this unknown energy would have little interest, but no, we explain the any time give out for yourself! Then everything stops there, for the common people only fantasize! But this energy can get to benefit! But we do not need to know what kind of energy this is, but concentrate on how to assemble the matter in order that it shall make electricity! For by putting the matter in certain ways, we can get it converted to just the power we need! To quote Graham Bell invented the phone in the late 1800’s, «I do not know what this power is, but I know it exists!» I can say exactly the same! No one knows what this power is, but we know it exists! Matter is so complex that it always generates gravity, but it must have a certain size before it is measurable! We and all men, yes, everything that exists on earth, is a part of this planet, and if the earth emits energy, as are we in this process! We know how to assemble matter, (by this unknown force) so that it will emit a magnetic force, but currently we do not know how this power can help us to build a power plant that generates electricity! For by putting the matter in certain ways, we can get it converted to just the power we need! But it will come, and when we get more than enough clean energy! How must it simply is, and Bellona and other environmental advocates must understand this and eyes a little hope of a better climate! WHY is there no one who believes in this and adopts the enormous importance it will have on us humans? It must be because it does not come from professors and recognized scholars. CHAPTER 1. NO WRITTEN RULES OF THE NATURE! There are two issues in particular I would like a logical explanation and credible when it comes to the matter! Why not turn off the heat in the earth interior? Why is there so much energy into matter? The purpose of this book is to find answers to things that seem inexplicable to us, and at least try to find a more natural explanation, as both researchers and others can accept and maybe do some research and develop the idea further, and then either confirm, or not confirm at least. I do not know how I’ll manage to convince anyone on this subject, like science and the vast majority regard as an absurdity, but I wanted to do a thought experiment to illustrate what I believe and think! All calls for new technologies to prevent climate change, but is the will there to try something new? It is useless to bring the science out of their paradigm and interest in something that is not in the textbooks, but I try once again! If we have a computer, so you can add text and images to save them! There is probably nobody can deny! That is, we must first collect all the material somehow, and when we do that, we have a stable object, and it has an internal system, which is static, and would prefer not to leave it as it is, because if we change it, the whole object is destroyed and is unable to perform the tasks that we want! All this system is composed of pieces of very numerous small particles, which all have a common goal, and all these particles are composed of even smaller parts, ie the smallest parts of nature, namely atoms and molecules! And why not look at what happens at the atomic level? An atomic nucleus is the smallest object in this case, and it consist of protons, electrons and neutrons. However, everything we see around us exist even these small parts! Although there is only one nucleus, so it is an independent object, whose nature is once and decided that the way it should always be! And nature in this case must be dark matter, which are atom-wave form, and therefore the atom an independent and stable object! And thus, it is something that protects it against being different! And thus the whole matter! Regardless of the number of nuclei join! It is the task and purpose, which is determined by the nature of each piece that counts! When we say p. ex. that the proton is electrically charged, so it means only one thing and that is what the natural laws have ensured, and there’s a reason why it is so, but the laws of nature will also enable the atom to return the natural state! What we do not understand very well, what it means to be changed, and why it is charged, is simply that nature has not yet told us that! When scientists say something is a positive electric charge, so it is difficult to understand or imagine what it is to be positive or negative charge means, but it is much easier to understand that when something is full, there is not room for more, and an addition of more, have to find other places to be if the way is open, otherwise we must condense what is full, so that the volume is smaller, but then we run the risk that what keeps it all together is destroyed! It should be allowed to ask that science does not ask why and how the proton is electrically charged? It is as the reason for charging is not so important, and they are bound to declare that it is as stated in the manual, this way it is, always has been, and goes well in all future! Trying to find an explanation on the matter of the most important qualities that are so obvious, has absolutely no effect, and anyone who suggests a possible explanation is simply fantastic and no credibility! It should not be difficult to see that matter always creates what I call here the stable objects, and that the components of these objects are held together by a force, which is the system’s internal object, and this combination power is so strong, that there must be a significant amount energy for change in this system! When we arrived in this strange happens in nature when the particle charge, we must talk about what happens in the atmosphere when it thunders! Thunderstorms occur when warm, moist air rises and meets colder air, and when it is formed ice particle, and so the science says that when these particles collide as they are charged electrically and there is tension that resulting of lightning? I strongly doubt that collisions between the particles are electrically, and I think we must try to find other more plausible explanations of how lightning occurs! I believe that nuclear is the natural state of being a stable object that has an internal system that protects it against any change, and that the system is held in place by a universal force that affects the entire past all matter. (Dark matter) And then comes the question whether we need to move away from the established view of the positive and negative electricity, but rather see the matter as an object that is stable, and if it is affected by energy so it deny it in different ways! I think we get away from the recognition that matter is electrically charged, either negative or positive electricity, but rather focus more on the matters quality and the fact that the state of all matter is determined by dark matter, so that it rejects all the energy that applied to it, beyond what dark matter is attached to it! And this stability is determined by dark matter, and it is easy to understand that the binding force of atoms is stronger where the density is greatest! If only someone could imagine that there is dark matter that affects the ordinary matter so that it becomes stable, it should not be difficult to understand that, for example. thinner air has less influence of dark matter than the denser air below the atmosphere. Sun’s influence on air masses is a good proof of this, the air is the warmest at the Earth’s surface is colder the higher you get up in the atmosphere. It is also just as dark matter, and therefore there is less energy in colder air than in warmer, but the hot air gets energy from the sun, and if we think that there is dark matter that has been established energy in the air so it can be why hot air has a surplus of energy that it must get rid of to be as dark matter has determined it to be, and therefore flows always warm air to cooler air, but cooler air is also determined by dark matter, so that it also opposes more energy, and I think that it is the cause of thunder and lightning! Because, how would the scientists explain the fact that the particles are equally charged, repelling each other, so that they are unlikely to collide, and there are some who have seen that a collision between particles leads to electric charge? So I think it’s more likely that conditions in the atmosphere now and is such that these ice particles is suggestive of a universal force? And we must not stop until we get concrete evidence that the way we thought it is. The most important thing is to get a secure documentation of an influence of a force from the universe, because then it becomes easier to document things that the moment is a mystery to us! Science tells us that ice particles of one reason or another is electrically charged, and emits energy, like protons, but I think the atmosphere of the subject seeks to return to its natural state, and to do this same way that short-circuit, or that with what we call lightning! This seems more credible, but how many would agree with that? May we not soon change some of our conception about what electricity is, and what is the reason why this useful power occurs? We must not forget that all our senses, converting light, sound, and also particles of electrical impulses, and when we talk on the phone will sound to electrical shock, and electrical frequencies are converted to sound again, so it can not be any doubt about the electrical power is not are particles in motion, but the frequencies corresponding to particle-wave shape! I know many people who share my belief that we can get all the energy we need in the world, but if so, when we know with certainty that we have a stable and secure energy for hand, then will the elements turns this energy such as electricity! Those who think they know better, will perhaps dismiss this as nonsense, but until they can prove that it is impossible, there is no reason to be so secure and confident with to be right! And when I say that electric power is a method used for the matter not to get their internal systems destroyed, so I will be sure that it happen to hear an outcry among people who are sure they know better! But I have a goal of a world as completely use only electricity without contamination as energy, and as long as no one can add the specific evidence, so it is impossible, I continue the fight against climate change! Therefore, I will come with an invitation to experiment with something to refute or confirm my theory of a global impact! We need a battery and a meter that can reflect on a screen, and any liquid that led the power! Thus, electrolysis! The fabric must be gathered in a small container, and placed between two contacts of the battery! When we connect with these contacts, there is power in the liquid, and what we also need, is to add various other drug substances, and break the contact of each substance we add. What we will try to find is the mixture we need, that power will continue to run after we have coupled the power? If this occurs, we have found the right combination, and simultaneously receives proof of a universal power! What we’re trying to do is to make this mixture open to a universal impact, and we can get as much power as we want for free! And now I try to do a little more understandable that people know what I mean! Imagine a glass that is completely full of water, and there is no room for more, so if we fill more water it will overflow, or we can say that it rid of everything we fill, but then we imagine that the glass is hit by a force that moves the glass under the tap, but is linked to a location with a rubber band, so we must use force to hold up under water current, then the glass overflow as it is there, but once we let go and move right back to where it was before, and it is still a full glass, so it is becoming as long as nobody move it! It is well known that water in the glass on an internal pressure on the glass, and if it is very thin, so there is less pressure before cracking and is destroyed! Here I must interpolate the water in the glass is an object that is protected by glass, and when it is full it can not take care of more water, and it must therefore get rid of everything that is supplied, but if it is blocked, then must the protection be stronger, otherwise the object destroyed! And if it overflows are less than what is provided, water is press more and more together, and then it also increases the internal pressure on the glass, and resist the pressure increases must be equivalent to a thicker glass! And it’s the same situation is in q’il cord or wire! If the cord is thin, less able to sustain the supply of energy before it burns and destroys itself as a string, and getting rid of the supply of energy without being damaged, it must be thicker like the glass! If we get a wire or cable, (representing a full glass) and move in a magnetic field, (we move the glass), it is electricity in the cable! Science has taught us that if you break a line of magnetic force, it is producing power! But I will draw the similarities between the cable and the full glass, by imagine that the wire is too «fully» or «fully charged», like the cup? The wire material that is normal, I think that dark matter is impacted on the wire, and fill, or load it (or fill the glass), and the movement of the magnetic field is analogous to the elimination of glass running water, and that the wire is «fully», saturated or «fully load» of dark matter, and then it is in the same situation as the glass under the tap running constantly (or get rid of them) and the cable to do the same by releasing the power, because it is saturated, and because it’s the way it is, and can not get more energy? I think we can said it was just dark matter that holds the material loaded (on line) is always saturated or charged (similar to that which fills the glass) and thus get rid of power (the running water as owerflowing) that affect it, and because it’s just the way it is, so that produce electric power? This is something I believe, and it is possible to have it confirmed experimentally for those who have the equipment and a little ingenuity! It is, in principle, it happens to all normal matter, and I think it is always affected by a force, and this excess energy that must be disposed of so as not to be changed! So the conclusion must be that dark matter is ordinary matter in the wave form, while normal matter is matter in particle shape! But as we shall see later, we get the paradox that we think it is matter particle shape we see, where as in reality it is particle’s wave form that makes the particles visible to us!! And this surplus of energy emitted depends entirely on how assamblé is, and here we can see how we can put together, so it emits only the power we need! Dark matter is a part of the world energy, and also a part of dark energy, and because it recharges ordinary matter is the part we therefore called also that the matter! This material has the ability to transform the force that affects us have many examples! All the machines we have demonstrated this, and also nature has shaped the material, which emits different types of energy! Examples of this is that the iron which creates magnetism, and uranium emits radiation of different types. And believe it or not, in fact all matter can be both waves and particles! But there is reason to believe that all the energy that we know and be useful for us, just by the material, but not just one type of energy, but there is always one which is the dominant, and we must try to do is find the right composition for which electricity is the dominant force? If we all think we get electric power from the universe, it can be done through the matter, and we must try to find how to put the material together so that the energy it receives from dark energy, which is not absorbed by the material, released and emitted as electricity! Here, researchers have quite a task and a challenge to give up fighting against! For it must always be a force behind all kinds of energy! It is clear that many will ask what is the purpose of this experiment is, and say it’s silly, but I do not know until it is establish, but when I say that a successful attempt to prove that any power in the matter at the origin of the universe, and what it would mean for us, should be easy to understand! Providing free electricity, free gas, and outside with oil and coal can become reality! But how can I find someone to believe in this? A permanent magnet is a good example! For it was he who as got me to think that when carbon get magnetism to persist for a long time, so it must be possible to find something that gets electric power also to persist for a time! When we send electricity around a piece of iron, as we open a door to the world, and iron has received visits from the cosmos, but the iron that are not happy as it is, and send this cosmic visitor away, but the door will be closed fairly quickly, which means that we cut the current, and thus peace and calm restored to the family of iron! And that is: A short course around a little iron and iron that is already «fully» or saturated, dark matter, «and the overflows» is transformed to a magnetic field, but when you let it go, (disconnect power), the iron is not magnetic, or the «door» is closed! Elastic has pulled back this power (tap water)? But we know how to remove the «elastic»? If we mix in a few atoms of carbon in iron, and repeat the experiment, if the carbon has absorbed the «elastic» and when the iron is not pulled back, but continues to be magnetic! But what we have learned, is quite certain is that this power is something that the material produced, and perhaps never thought that this power comes handy in the universe, or that it’s the material received and converted an excess of power, to exactly the power we need! Everybody knows what we call static electricity, magnetism, static and static gravity, radioactivity and as static, but most do not know what it is, but if the matter be exposed for a constant force it is likely that static electricity is a thing that matter try to get rid of, and therefore the electric field, gravity, or even radiation! How can we continue indefinitely with the search for solutions to many things we do not understand, but if you look at it this way is that everything becomes so much easier to understand! We have here an opportunity to confirm whether we have something to recover the world, because if it is correct, as the climate and energy crisis will be over! What I believe, therefore, is that there is no electric current creates magnetism, but the current availability of free energy of the universe, and the only way we can verify, is to do as Edison, and it is to try different drugs! The force of an object must be recovered is proportional to the size of objects, and it is difficult to understand when we see the great distance the force is able to overcome! Matter of procedure, the system stability is determined by the concentration of world energy is just the way it is now, and where the internal forces of change that system, there will always be restored! Nature makes sure that it generates an electric field, when that is not in its natural state, because there is nothing that prevents it from being so! Nature supplies protons with a power that enables him to restore the natural state! And what can overcome this obstacle or barrier to be? And why let nature that nothing prevents them from being the way nature has decided that it should be? To understand also leave a peek inside the proton! We find three small particle, and some have called for the quarks! The difference is easier to understand if one claims that they have different colors! We can say that there is a blue, green and red, so we the difference on them! These smaller parts of matter has its specific tasks, and again it is nature which has also given their particular mission! And they called up-and down-quarks, depending on what they are put in significant work to do! Now we know that a proton has two up and one down-quark! When nature we can see that this composition acts as a shield against the state which is decided that the proton should then follow the advice of the nature of the proton, being in charge, making it attractive for another small particle is also the nature provides is loaded, but it fits so well for the proton, which then found its natural state! And it must do to be who he is! Ľabroge this barrier is the electron, and each proton has one electron, but the protons are able to return in their natural state and do not give a little energy! All of the atom, which is composed of protons and electrons are then a stable object with an internal system, and the number of protons determines what element it is! We only mention that the neutron has a single up-quark, but two down-quarks, which are the natural state of neutrons in which quark-composition, so there is no barrier, and when the energy comes from the outside, react the neutron a little differently than the proton to reject the energy that affects it! The power it receives and disposes of the used to transform a down quark to an up-quark and is thus a proton, and then the problem solved, then starts also radiate energy! Arge, but it fits so well for the proton, which then returned to its natural state! And it must do to be who he is! It’s so important for us to understand because it may mean a change in the established paradigm? Sounds like a paradox that the natural state of the proton is changed, and there are natural laws that causes this change, but if you understand that laws of nature do not apply only to the game of universe that we call matter, then it may be paradoxical if the laws of nature should be applicable throughout the universe, then it may happen that something must be temporarily changed, that no natural laws to be broken! If it had not been if we had not been an evolution! Many wonder if there is life elsewhere in the universe? But why be surprised that when we know that life exists in the universe? There is no reason to question what we do exist? Life is a part of the universe as matter and the people, thoughts and consciousness, and above all intelligence! As described above, is the nature of matter, entirely determined by the current state of the universe and the organic matter is a deviation from a normal state, but there is every reason to believe that is what we call dark matter is ordinary matter is just the way it is, but that the force in the universe, it must affect the matter, so he gives up one of its forms natural and organic matter is well! But if organic matter should be, must be the power that caused this condition, which affects the continuous material, which is dependent on the intensity of the force, which in turn depends on size of the universe! But the power of matter are constantly trying to restore their internal systems, but are prevented from doing so, because life in organic matter, blocking the restoration! We believe with certainty that organic matter is completely different from the usual subject of death, but in reality, all matter is composed of the same parts, but the difference is just how nature has put these parts together! The most natural state of matter is dead matter, and if the laws of nature leads to material change other forms, for example. organic matter, is not the natural state of matter, and not a condition that can persist for long! Natural laws allow the material to change shape but the material is high-constant and try to restore the area to its natural state, but it is sometimes prevented this shield or barrier, but nature does not allow the shield work forever, so the materials will always win on everything that prevents him from returning to its natural state! There is no doubt that life is like a shield or a barrier that prevents the case back to its natural state, and the influence of nature on the subject, is the highest content of organic matter, it is only the organic matter decomposes quickly to its original state! And we do not have to wonder about exactly I will never disappear, because I know I’m here as part of all this, with everything in the universe, and have no other place to be at a place other than world eksiserer not! Yet many people floating in the illusion that the laws of nature can break! Now I have sacrificed a whole chapter on what to believe in something, and noted that faith is the same as to wish for anything, or hope for anything! Nature’s unwritten law, I have called this chapter, but in the next chapter we will see that nature has its own language, namely mathematics and it will even in future be our «bible», and then the truth of all natural laws be written! CHAPTER 2. NATURE WRITTEN LAWS We have heard about the unwritten laws of nature, but what will now indicate how to find what is written in the laws of nature! It is truly sad to hear that there is little interest for mathematics in our schools, but it may be because students have not received a proper understanding of the importance of this subject is for us humans! If you get the students to understand that mathematics is a language that is the only language that can tell us truths, they might change their views on this subject, from only numbers and letters, but not to a only international language, but also inter-planetary language that applies to the entire universe! If we even have contact with foreigners, they have exactly the same language and our mathematicians are our interpreters! Mathematics is own language of nature, and that language is the hidden, surprising many priceless treasures, and it will say that studies in mathematics can be compared to the treasure hunt! Each new word is a precious gift of all intelligent life in the universe! The question of whether God is a mathematician is so interesting and so true that I just had to stop all those who disagree with her! Imagine if people had their eyes opened to such an understanding, that in every match I mean, that mathematics is God who decides how everything should look like, and it punishes those who try to think they can break laws or violate the mathematical laws of nature! But the beauty of this god is that it is universal and applies to words in the entire universe, and does not discriminate! So stop, I am entirely sure the idea that God, the laws of nature and mathematics are one and the same thing, and mathematics are the words of God, and mathematicians are the right «priests» to tell us true Word of God! Natural laws are the executive, and mathematics is nature’s way of telling us how the law works, and is therefore in natural language! And that means that natural laws are unassailable, and mathematicians are those who get more insight into the true nature inviolable! If a law of nature can be described as a formula or equation, it is not just evidence, but proof that the evidence is the only truth and is not suitable for dissent or another type of skeptical objections! Or the opposite! If we know with certainty that something we believe, can not be described in mathematical formulas and equations, there is overwhelming evidence that there is not! In other words, believe in something that we certainly do not know can be documented, is the same as superstition and totally useless! It’s completely different with our scientists! They must believe in what they are researching, but I’ve never heard a scientist say that is true until it is well documented! This is my God, and mathematics is the true word of God real! The entire universe is created by mathematical principles, so anything that happened, everything that happens and everything happens, can be derived in the mathematical formulas and mathematical equations! And this means that all laws of nature are governed by mathematical laws, and everything and everyone must abide by those laws! Whatever we do or perceive with our senses, we have no chance to avoid these laws that slavishly follow the mathematical formulas and rules! But mathematics is a difficult subject, but now there are plans for a man-made intelligent machines, and when it comes getting our mathematicians a good tool when it comes to understanding the laws of nature! And I am sure that mathematicians will share their knowledge with us all, and the knowledge we will have will make us confident that the truth is made known to us! If it should happen when something that was previously seen as something supernatural, mathematicians will find a natural law that describes the event as a result of a known natural law! Nothing happens by chance! Many people say that life occurred during a random event? But how can something happen if it does not already exist? Life existed in the universe, but how can we imagine and doubt it? Life, intelligence, thought and conscience and the subconscious will even not longer be something mysterious and incomprehensible to the people! Many believe that these abstract properties comes from our brain, and occurs when because of the complexity of the brain, and there are not many who believe that this is the origin of the universe, and that it is part of the internal structure of the universe, and it is in the world before humans were created! Science has given us ordinary people a good insight into his world so that I can enjoy the diversity that exists in the universe! The same thing applies to our intelligence! It can not be something that arise in our mind, but is designed so that it can convey something that exists, so we were the people! But our brains have not the capacity to store everything that is covered by the laws of mathematics, and therefore we can not understand everything that happens in nature before us in about 25 years, have the intelligence Artificial! But it is not entirely correct, because our brains have sure enough big capacity, while we had to spend perhaps several years on a task, the machine would have managed the same in seconds! Only then will our eyes open, and then we realize that we must rid ourselves of many things that we now consider as almost sacred! The first thing that will disappear are religions, for when the pope comes to have a mathematical document, which is proof that much of what he told people is a physical impossibility! It is possible that he first chose to deny the facts, but eventually it will go up on most people, it denies the truth, and then religions plays a role, and it is definitively lost and deleted forever! For the entire universe, mathematics, and nothing else! No God can break the mathematics or the laws of nature, and it will end on the miracles and wonders and supernatural events, which now assigns an Almighty God! Such a super-intelligent machine will remove the word faith vocabulary of the man, and will be replaced by the certainty word! The machine describe our universal God, not as a human being, but as a mathematical formula that will convince us that everything that happens in the universe are not random events, rather than defined by the laws that can not be end to a questioned! Natural laws are unassailable and can not be manipulated and changed and that no one can overrule, not even an omnipotent God! As I have looked at before, it is to have a faith, a necessary tool, which we thankfully people are in possession, for we are without faith, we are not able to do anything! Therefore, it is both useful and sensible to have a belief in something, not least themselves, but faith can have both positive and negative aspects! A faith begins usually with a thought or an idea, and it is human nature to try to find out if one believes in, in one way or another can be realized or documented, so that faith can be certainty, and only then one is happy, and get more people to believe the same! When an idea comes along, it is not enough only to believe in it, but consider whether it all can be documented, before announcing it to others, but it is within the limits of the possible, set mon it aims to prove that it is right, and then comes the joy of reaching the target, and then it was a positive and creative faith! And here we will get the help of a mathematician, for he will even tell us if the idea is in conflict with the laws of nature, and if so, the whole case shelved, for we know that the mathematician speaks true! And mostly it is positive to have a faith, but the danger lies in a belief that has stuck so firmly that you disclose it to others as fact and when one is on the wild track, especially if we know that it is absolutely impossible in According to the established and well-documented natural laws! One thing we can ascertain, and that is that supernatural events, not violations of the laws of nature, but entirely in keeping with these and can be documented by mathematical equations and mathematical formulas! To believe that such events come from a God who is able to break the laws of nature, is an all too an easy solution which means that one never comes on, but remains at a standstill, and when faith is negative and not the men best! As the religion is practiced today, suggests that believers still live in a past dominated by superstition and harmful dogmas, and they will be glad that not everyone is of the same faith, for then we would still be in the Stone Age! CHAPTER 3. MATTER AND ENERGY! First I would remind that I’ve been inside and that’s when something is full, there is not room for more, and when it is no use pouring in more, for it will only be rejected and sent to other places but as we shall see, it is precisely that which is superfluous, we can make use us! I think it is appropriate to begin with some considerations of what is in us, around us and we think we know very well, and some call this area, mass, stones and earth and everything we can see and hear! Before looking at what we call matter, I will present the most important thing is property and what will follow: I am convinced that all the energy that we know is what I call the reflected energy! When we talk about the matter, it is not possible to avoid, and mention what is called dark matter, for it is just dark matter that makes ordinary matter is the way it is! And when we asked where the energy of the matter comes from, I am convinced that dark matter has a hand in it, and there is no doubt that it is the «charge» up the ordinary matter and make sure it is energy! The reason why the forms of energy, as is also a force dark matter as charged material, so it’s just the way it is! It is, in other words, filled with exactly the amount of energy it needs to be rich in energy! Matter is also fully of energy, and when such a force «dark energy» affects the matter, it must get rid of, or the return of this power, not to be different! But the excess power it gives, is entientièrement determined by how matter is put together! Thus the energy we need comes from outside (the universe), and affects the material that responds to, and give, and this is good for us! To be on earth again meant that I matter, and matter is the same as energy, said Albert Einstein (1879-1955) in 1905 at the famous discovery came! He drew attention in the research world as this éqaucation came and it looks like this simply: E = MC². That is, energy (E)=mass (M) x (C²) square of the speed of light! And it is about 300, 000 km. in seconds, or 7 times around the earth in one second! Now, should we believe that world energy needs could be covered forever! But what happened then? They found that they suddenly had a power that could be used to create weapons that could kill even more people! And so, and I remember well when the bombs exploded in Japan in 1945 and they was terrible! All things that we think we can see in the universe is what we call matter. But matter itself is invisible to us humans, but in certain circumstances make themselves visible by releasing energy in the form of electromagnetic radiation we call light! It’s not that the material is influenced by energy from outside, if we had not been able to observe, or view it. This section of the universe would be invisible to our eyes, just like the rest of the universe! We are totally dependent on issuing various forms of energy for us to sign! Our senses would not be of any benefit, unless the matter reflected the energy that affected it! But in order to provide energy, it must also have the procurement of energy, and it must come from somewhere, and the sun is such a source of energy that adds energy to the matter so it becomes visible sign for us! No one can deny that the only thing that is visible from this vast universe is what we just call matter! But now, science has established that there are two types of matter in the universe and science says they know of only one type of case, because he is visible to us, and they call normal matter, and has devoted his entire attention to it, and I was in the past, if science is merely allowed to ask himself, because our senses are not constructed so they can detect something that is not made up of atoms and molecules! And ordinary matter consists just of these components! This book is very much about what I call stable objects, which have an internal system that is difficult to change! Just think of our bodies that have billions of these objects, and also think how important it is that these small cells are not exposed to something that can change their internal systems! But to avoid such an influence of the environment is impossible, but luckily, these are small pieces become familiar with what affects, and have developed a defense against it, and why is it they have to restore their systems Internal extremely important for us humans, and that is why I give so much attention on! And when we are totally convinced that it is this particular property of matter, which allows all types of energy that we know ahead of this material is its internal system and merely reflects and converts all the influence from the outside! Science can and must reject new theories, but the skeptic should not go so far as to deprive any opportunity to try new things, even if the researcher himself says he is not serious and inimagivable! Some men in science tend to the arrogance of others opinions, and it is unfortunate for science in its superiority! It faces the arrogance of those who believe they alone have the necessary expertica so there are many who abadonnent, then perhaps progress will be lost! On the other hand, should require a new theory is that we know with certainty that we can say with mathematical formulas and equations, and exactly where I think science is the same contradiction when it comes of religion, as we know it is impossible to document! We know that the entire universe expand with tremendous speed! The matter is therefore vulnerable to pressure from the universe, and she resists this pressure by forming a reaction that works in the opposite direction of the universe to expand with enormous speed! And this response must be what we call gravity? Here we are again in the science of the skeptical attitude to the idea that gravity is simply reflected the energy? This should be possible to document, by measuring the weight for a while and see if there is a small gap! But the idea that gravity was stronger when the universe was less sure is rejettée by science! This would in this case be proof that what they call dark energy not only affect distant galaxies, but also the Milky Way, and also the Earth! This is completely analog to the light that affect the material! It also exerts a pressure in a direction for the material, creating a reaction that works in the opposite direction towards the light, and it is the only reason we can see the field! We say only that the material reflects the light! Because that is how we perceive any material, and not that is the way by materials to avoid any change of identity! If we can observe an object is solely due to our five senses, which has the unique ability to convert the given object to an energy-form that allows our brain to record the subject, but if one could accept that there is a force in the universe, which resembles itself as vibrations, or a similar effect, which in any case not intended for new weapons! Energy comes from the Greek word for energy, and means that the strength is the ability to do work, how work is defined as the force applied by a stretch! Standard scientific measure of energy include Joule (J) and this measure is named after James Joule (1818-1889) started to understand the energy that can arise or disappear but only change from one form energy to the other! We are familiar with the measures as kilograms and meters, but what is the Joule? In our food, we use a measuring device that we call the calories, or simply Cal! Joule. is the amount of energy is going to heat up one gram by 1° C. water and a callus is the same as 4.186 joules! So, a joule is a unit small enough! The law on energy conservation on the other, called thermodynamics first the main phrase the Earth’s resources of coal, gas and uranium can be consumed, but the energy stored in the energy carrier can only be released and processed, but will not disappear! On Earth, we have several different forms of energy. We have a motion called kinetic energy, and we have the matching energy is potential energy! And we will mark these two forms of energy because there is an interaction between them! We also thermal (heat), chemical (food) and electrochemical. (Batteries) But be aware that if we say that the energy changes or the potential for change, we can not describe all instances of energy in our physical world! A form of energy is interesting is what we call the internal energy! There is molecular motion, which is the kinetic energy and the rotations and vibrations of atoms of the molecule consists of what is potential energy! And when should it be allowed to ask why the movement of atoms is energetically potensiele? But it may mean that the dark matter affects the normal matter, and it is perhaps more important for us humans, the science of the mind! It is impossible to get rid of the idea that there is dark matter that is involved in the atom? Before turning to our own considerations, we must see what the physicists tell us about energy? What keeps these molecules in a continuous motion, is that all matter is used to transfer energy as heat! The content is always surrounded by the warmth of the environment, and have the same temperature! When I now argue that the cold does not exist in the universe, so to say that I am wrong? But it is true, if it had been the case if we had not been to! What we sometimes think it is called, it is because our body needs an appropriate amount of heat to exist! Matter is always surrounded by the warmth of the environment, and experience the same temperature! That is the environment that creates heat energy system? Let us say that the cause of energy in all matter. An asteroid somewhere in space must also be a cool object. And because space is the bar: 5° Kelvin (- 273° Celsius), and for us, it will appear as very cold! However, it is considered a hot set that in each case is large enough that molecular motion does not stop! This means that if it was possible to reach the absolute 0 point, it would all stop these movements, but this is impossible, so why all matter (by science), always have an internal energy! Einstein showed that matter and energy are one and the same thing, and today there is no doubt that for him. But let me say that energy can not occur, so in advance to an energy-form, which means that there is another type of energy that creates a new form of energy, also creates the matter! It helps not what science says! In this area exist, must be caused by another type of energy balance of matter! And make sure it’s just the way it is. This is elementary, then why science says very clearly not something that is so obvious that even children can understand! Matter is energy! When scientists say it is not created and consist only because of the energy of the universe! And that means it’s just the way it is. But the popular power base must also have the added power from somewhere? I am totally convinced that «clean energy» can we, if we begin to seek, receive from the universe and thus get rid of all fossil energy! We know that there is enough energy in the cosmos, we just do not know how to get it, but let us get on with the search! Science is not sure what «dark matter» is, but I think that it is likely that it is the part of the «dark energy» that the ordinary matter absorbs and we can say it in a way, «loader» up all matter and allows it to form stable objects, so it’s always fully charged and denies all other energy beyond whatever influence it! And the science sais there are up to 22% of the «dark matter»in the universe, the matter should divert the attention of the astronomer in may will have no other explanation, that this part of the unknown substance has a nature different from what we perceive as normal matter! And then it may not be as easy to watch! And it is precisely the energy it rejects that can be useful for us, for the type of energy it rejects is determined by how the matter is complex, and how big an object is, and the elements it consists of! That way you can say that the energy of the matter originally comes from the «dark energy»! Most people know the Energy Act which states that energy can neither be created nor destroyed, and we know that matter is energy, but the law is not occurring, and must thus come from a different energy, and it can not be from anywhere other than cosmos, ie the «dark energy» This I think is a natural and simple explanation for this mysterious phenomenon that scientists call «dark matter» and that they have pondered for years! But even if this is recognized, then you also have to acknowledge a universal effect on all ordinary matter, and when there is a way I’ve always tried to convince people that the salvation of humanity lies in the universe! To me it seems as if the matter is held together by a force, which I have dared to say comes from outside, and in a way, «loader» or absorbed from the scientists call «dark energy», but because some of this energy is transferred to the ordinary matter, we see science on the matter, but calling this part of the «dark energy» for «dark matter»! The force that holds matter together is so strong that it needed significant amounts of energy needed to break this pattern exists in the matter, and it is no doubt that if we bring the matter a type of energy, then send the energy down and it makes it because the civil powers in the matter, does it in a way is «fully» and do not use more energy than it has, and this is a phenomenon that we have great advantage of, for I am convinced that all the energy we use comes from matter, but that’s the beauty of it is that the matter may emit a different energy type, than it will be added! And that is what we understand and know to put the matter together so that we can add the one type of energy we have at hand and get exactly the power we need! But we know very well that we only get the power, as long as we apply it to our energy, and if it stops, stop the power of matter, but in some of our machines, we have found a way to prevent the matter to return their internal pattern, and when we say that we saved what we so much want to keep! Here I presissere that shallow that we get the right effect based on the matter is that everything in nature follows the laws of nature to the letter, so that the matter gives us what we want, be due to nature as it is, and everything can be calculated from the mathematical laws? We do not know yet how and why it saves, but we have learned what we can do to retain an amount of energy! This is similar to the internal composition of the universe! There is a general feeling that the dark energy has the opposite effect of gravity, because it looks as if it pushes the material of the other, so that galaxies and clusters-Galaxy became more and more of each other! This may not be caused by other than the universe expand fréqencies is higher than the speed of the material, if the universe to expand with the same speed as the matter, the gravity would be the dominant power, and this would have led to the Galaxies clump together and eventually became a gigantic lump of matter, density enormous! In other words: The whole universe would become a black hole! Now we know that it is not the case, a galaxy which eliminates one another and must be due to the huge universe of speed! This frequency can not be the same as that described in the form of dark energy, but a kind of energy that can not occur or disappear! We can take for us an element, which is smallest part of matter. While it is small so it is an independent object, and we can not change its internal system, without affecting the exterior and preserve its identity, reject the intruder, and if the impact is constant and persistent and it is also what give as constant and persistent! But this impact would be a halt, stopping as a radiation area, and then restore it to its original identity! But the response has been a positive effect in that it reinforced the idea of a universal influence on the matter, and that science not even know why this phenomenon! I do not understand why you should not wonder that there is no evidence of volcanoes on other planets of our solar system! Why is it only the volcanoes of the Earth caused by the heat in the earth? We know with certainty that these are the known elements which exist in the universe, and it is no less radiation on Mars or Venus? So the explanation of the heat inside the earth to radioactive decay, etc., as geologists and physicists have done, are not sustainable and not very believable! Alternatively, a continuous supply of energy in the universe to be a better explanation of the intense heat! But it says nothing about the textbooks, and then there comes no further! This radioactivity decreases over the years has not been caused by exposure reduction, but the change of the radioactive material! In reality, we must turn it off, and change their name on it, what we can see, and what we can not see! No ordinary matter to any living thing, and what we see around us is in fact dark matter? Yet, many wonder what dark matter is? Dark matter is something that our senses are designed to observe and see, hear, smell and taste? But this is not correct to say that there is dark matter is matter that we see, or say it is that which is visible to us, but there is dark matter made of ordinary matter is able to emit or reflect energy that enabled with dark matter, both sound and lights that activate frequencies from a light or sound, or taste and overflowing odor probably the EF, which we do not yet know the natur of! But in a sense is it possible to say that there is a dark matter can be seen, because it ensures that only the light from an object or a person who thinks that activate the particles in your eye and the ear and makes these organs also able to reflect both light and sound as electrical impulses to the brain! We therefore see no dark matter of an unknown type of matter because it is part of ordinary matter! What we chose to call for frequencies, because we know they are converted into electrical impulses, therefore we think that something as light and sound, and you know that we are the new frequency! The similtude is striking exhibition, but we must recognize that energy supply is also a kind of radiation, and there is not the least doubt that it’s true! Nevertheless, I stand firmly as the dark matter (FM), so that the ordinary matter as it was we were so confident that we have seen is that the way we see it! The frequency of the dead are gone, who will soon frequencies we can not see, but these frequencies, we can not see, can be made visible for frequencies that we can see? But when we come to the conclusion that when ordinary matter is gone, then disappear just as I assumed that the dark matter, except that we did on these frequencies to electrical impulses, and have stored in a computer, such as no frequency, which is the same as the frequencies of missing parts! However, frequencies similar to those disappeared, exists in a specific field of light, and is therefore in no way disappeared, but what we see as light, is no different than what we have seen before they dissparaissent, and is just a small fraction of all the articles! But when some of the frequencies that compose a human being still exists, so I think it’s an opportunity for all frequencies of an individual, also still exists, just that we do not have the skills or some senses to observe the longer! The frequencies that we can not see, but which can be made visible, can theoretically exist in eternity! Or it may be reversed? But the frequencies are energy and can not be born or disappear, so they must always existed! But what is meant by the whole matter is a stable object? It is a term well known. All matter is formed by the thermal energy it receives all the time and the electromagnetic force and the atomic level, weak nuclear and strong! These are the characteristics of a permanent magnet. A permanent magnet is also a stable object with an internal system! But it generates a force that can be consumed, but the power seems to be replaced, and there must be an outside force that is affected? Thus, even an evidence for a universal unknown force! And that’s what makes us just as we are! If it also affected by this universal, unknown force, it will be the internal system to get rid of extra energy to the articles, to provide heat? It must do to keep his identity! According to the Energy Act, which is a natural product, the energy can neither occur or disappear! Therefore, the so-called energy-forms that are mentioned above, not be met, but from another energy form- and it is so totally wrong to think that just of the universe? Thus, dark matter and dark energy, or as I call it: FM and EF!! If I had the children learned that what is in textbooks is only o LikeLike
This is all logical and clear to me. I liked the battery analogy. As a electronics tech for many years, I began to see the beauty of this ebb and flow of energy in all of its myriad ways. Subtle is nature, and this is where its language is heard, or as you have so eloquently put the treasure is hidden. This ‘force’ is not unknown, but simply unrecognized, because of the noise of the greater tides drowning out its voice, but it is their silently recycling all the universe says and does from beginning to end and back to the beginning again.
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Just want to make sure, in case you are serious, tell you that you use this universal power every day, but you’re not even aware of it!
But now listen here:
If we can only imagine the insides of a PC spread over the table, we see only the components and their mutual connection with each other, and the conditions for us to see them is that it is light, meaning that they are affected by a power outside! (Light)
The light reflects it, or we can say it disposes of, or reject this power that nothing in this system should be changed, because if it had happened, the whole PC stop working!
So we imagine that we load into a signal, and just like the light, the signal is also a power that comes from outside, and the signal is also reflected, but our eyes are not adapted to the signal frequencies, so we have to turn them into light that comes on screen, and when the signal is our visible!
If the light is gone, it’s all on the table invisible, and if we in the same way, stops to add tags are also screen dark, and it is because all matter have the ability to retain its internal system that will be so we built it!
But with a single press, we can signal our stored, and it will say that it continues to emit the signal ours, which means that an unknown force keeps the signal our firm, so the system has no chance to be restored back to its original system!
And it’s as if the light had never lost, because then we would always see what we have on the table!
On the way, for example. magnetism is stored in iron, as an unknown force maintains the magnetism, and all believe that in a normal battery is elektristiteten stored, but it is wrong because it is the chemical reaction in the battery that changed the battery’s internal system, and it is only when possibility occurs, then try the battery to return to its original system by getting rid of the power that the chemical reaction causes, making it by emitters electricity!
And when the battery’s internal system is restored, the battery discharged!
What we must try to achieve is to allow the unknown force, it will maintain even the electrical current in the same way that it maintains the signal is ours for the PC, or maintains the magnetism, or maintains radioactivity ETC.
And this is where the treasure is hidden!
I understand the ridicule you face. It is common among the uncommon of this world. Cheer up and be glad for your gift is great as will be your reward. No irony, but honest swearing of unity with you here. I hope you understand by this my sincerity of union with your innovative world view.
Many people make fun of me because I believe in a universal influence, and therefore I can not decide if your answer is meant ironically, or if you are serious!
I understand what you are saying and am merely waiting for the funding to to build a device to collect this energy and put it use.
Science is not sure what «dark matter» is, but I think that it is likely that it is the part of the
«dark energy» that the ordinary matter absorbs and we can say it in a way, «loader» up all matter and allows it to form stable objects, so it’s always fully charged and denies all other energy beyond whatever influence it!
And it is precisely the energy it rejects that can be useful for us, for the type of energy it rejects is determined by how the matter is complex, and how big an object is, and the elements it consists of!
That way you can say that the energy of the matter originally comes from the «dark energy»!Most people know the Energy Act which states that energy can neither be created nor destroyed, and we know that matter is energy, but the law is not occurring, and must thus come from a different energy, and it can not be from anywhere other than cosmos, ie the «dark energy»
This I think is a natural and simple explanation for this mysterious phenomenon that scientists call «dark matter» and that they have pondered for years!
But even if this is recognized, then you also have to acknowledge a universal effect on all ordinary matter, and when there is a way I’ve always tried to convince people that the salvation of humanity lies in the universe!
Thanks for the answer that I have studied very carefully, and here is a little more of what I go and think about!
It hurts me when I see oil’s harmful effects on the coast of America, and therefore we must do everything we can to avoid such disasters!
I also hope to help!
A while ago I ventured to ask why the science of heat in the Earth’s interior never goes out and when I was told that it was something you learned in elementary school, but if I had gone so far that I had learned to read, so was I recommended to consult Wikipedia, so I know it!
And just then it struck me that this is precisely what people have learned, and there are also the students learn, because no one will probably doubt that the science says!
Just think of Copernicus!
It was not the Church, which many believe, his main opponent, but his own astronomy friends who held onto aristotelismen they had learned!
It is perhaps 100 years ago scientists agreed that there was radioactivity in rocks that cause this eternal fire, and people were satisfied with the explanation and settling that’s how it is, so there was no reason to philosophize more about this theme!
Just this year we have seen the enormous forces of the Earth is in possession of, and we have been witness to volcanic activity, where fire and smoke wink pushed several miles up in the air!
And all this because that is what we call fission or radioactive decay, or even radioactive decay, but the radioactivity found in natural state, only strength enough to serve as the spark rate of a fusion bomb!
If you did not know better would think that science does not know the difference between fission and fusion, but of course they know it and they know so very well that a fission in the crust can not cause such destruction that we have seen, and the sole reason that they still determine radioaktivetet as the sole cause of this heat is that they simply do not know the cause of this phenomenon of nature!
But this is something they obviously do not want to admit, and therefore we are at a standstill, and some new measures from the edge does not come before next generation!
However, it’s just that it may be too late to wait for next generation!
The natural occurrence of uranium accounts for only 2 per cent of the earth’s crust, and only 0.7% of these few grams uranium is suitable to demerge!
Will it make a difference something so it must be a merger, and it is an impossibility here on earth, but with a little help from uranium 135 can succeed in making a nuclear bomb with the words of a fission bomb that spark rate!
Meanwhile the more and more of Mother Earth up in smoke, and more and more arable land becomes desert and asphalt, while the population of the Tellus increases more and more!
But we know that we have enough energy, we can populate the many planets in the solar system, but the Earth can not give us the energy we need, therefore, we must put our trust in the universe!
Otherwise, I’d like to tell that now is the eksperimterings set finished and it consists of 8 poles each of which is filled with fluid, and now it must be administered drugs that allows it to conduct current, and when that is done, then must supply electrolysis different fabrics, and everything is arranged so that for each type and amount of drug administered, broken battery power has a small bulb to light, and it is just as exciting every time power is lost, for if it is true that I claim that matter is only a converter of energy originating from the cosmos, so the light will remain on even after the power is gone!
This is no more strange than we can store programs on the PC a spring, and they continue the more to be there, even after we turned off the power!
Thus, we can not save energy, but putting together the matter so that we can be it with a type of energy, which changes little matter internal system and then will matter, if it gets an opportunity, to restore its original system, and it is us themselves who have decided this system, and therefore rid itself with what we have fed it to return to the starting point!
When the PC is turned off, it’s like a regular battery, for the change in the system be fixed by the energy from the cosmos!
So storage is system change, such as the power of the universe maintains an iron grip!
If we think of it is the same as occurs in iron, which is a permanent magnet, or referred to a battery that could become a permanent power plant!
I had so wanted to add a little when it comes to the demerger, for I can not get it to vote as science claims as the reason for the emergence of a spin!
They say that the neutron is sent into a kernel to share it in (as far as I remember) three smaller units that together have become a little lighter than the original kernel, and that the difference be emitted when the radiation!
I believe more in both the proton and neutron are both affected by a force, but they react differently, both will get rid of this power that affect them!
Proton do it by surrounding himself with an electric field (positive charge), and it consists of two up-quarks and a down quark!
Neutron, however, has only one up-quark and two down quark, and to get rid of the cargo, it must make a down quark to an
up-quark, and when it becomes a proton, and the chance to be charged just like a proton, but I have learned (correct) that up-quarks is easier than the down quark, and thus there will be something left over, and there is radiation or fission?
It is too easy to just say that things are being charged, there must be a reason that something is charging, and in a lightning storm is said that ice crystals charged and there is an excitement, but something must be like charging up the atmosphere, and voltage is nothing but matter urge to get back into normal conditions, something that happens quickly as a short circuit, or as we so well know, as lightning!
Otherwise I think it’s strange that absolutely no one will assist me in this attempt, for it requires painful accuracy of both substance and quantity!
Especially strange is that when it is focused so much on both climate and energy, and these days we see the damage of oil and all oil spill that brings with it!
@ Harold Brobakken. You spoke of a universal power source, and it just happens I have written an article on that subject in the recent past. Here is the link:
http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewarticle.asp?AuthorID=83113&id=48586
I am also one who became interested in astronomy when I was only 7 years and saw all the stars and especially the northern lights! Interest has been all my life and I’ve always believed that there is more than empty space between the stars!
And I was right when science one day figured out that it looked like a power got galaxies to move away from each other, contrary to gravity!
They called this power of “dark energy”, for they knew not what it was! Since it appeared things that science did not understand, but if I’m right in my theory, many puzzles to be solved!
So read this and think it may be true!
First I must apologize that I will not charge your time with this message, but like you I am afraid of everything oil leak which unfortunately happens all too frequently around the world!
I believe that if anyone thinks they have an idea that could be a contribution to a better world, then it is not so wrong to share the idea with others, even if it sounds and is seen as fantasy, but I unable to get from me the idea that all energy we know, originally from the universe and that matter is only Provider of all energy!
If we only think I can be in to something new so you will find solutions to many of our problems!
Why would I want someone in the United States offered some time to think about what I provide here, for we are all in the same boat and have only one planet!
Has long been in doubt whether I should send this mail, but when you are passionate about something as stuff you can not not to try to get someone into new thoughts, especially when it comes to things that I know all people is also passionate about, namely renewable energy!
What I hope is that some think for a moment on the importance of what I am here only suggest as a solution to both climate and energy crisis!
Scientists will probably reject such a thought, but they have been wrong before, it tells the story of us!
Therefore, the only means to get it confirmed or disproved is to experiment, and when it can be done and identified as a treasure hunt, and when children can engage in his room, so I think it’s worth a try!
But two things will have to give way, and it is digging into the earth and the religion, but no one will miss it when it can lead to a better world for all people!
The adults merely say that it’s the way it is and that they have learned and settled down with, while the children are very curious and want to know why is it so, and that is what we should encourage them to thinking, and when it can be combined with a treasure hunt, it will increase the interest and the school day will be both interesting and exciting!
So to say to all children:
JOIN THE Treasure HUNTING!
I must admit that I find it surprising and completely incomprehensible that science has not yet been made on the idea that all known energy from the universe!
Matter is just an intermediary or a converter of energy it gets from there, and it reacts the same on this power, as it does with sunlight!
Some absorbed (dark matter?), And the rest twitter it with, or reflect, for example. electricity, magnetism, gravity, etc.
It is quite analogous to the Sun’s influence on the matter!
When it shines on the matter, absorbs the matter somewhat, and some is reflected, depending on the composition of matter, and look!
And we know that when it shines on a particular element (silicon) produce electricity, because the element already been charged, and therefore it is the way it is and will be no change in its internal system!
But the light off stops the production of electricity, because now the power is gone, do not need the element to emit anything, but keeps its internal system intact, and it remains so it must be to be just that element!
But note the similarity in another element?
Iron is magnetic when we give it a dose of electricity!
Here the stream the same mission as the light, but this element has a different structure, and therefore it is magnetic it emits!
But that’s just the same here if power is lost, is also the magnetism is gone, and the iron remains iron and it will say that the system will be restored!
But then comes the most important:
If we let the iron get a small dose of carbon, and repeat the experiment, it is not magnetism gone, even when power is gone!
Magnetism is permanent!
And the question is whether we could have done the same in a solar cell?
And that is precisely what we are trying to achieve with electric power!
And it’s just that the kids can frolic in!
First, we must let it go a little electricity in an electrolysis, and then add a drug, and then take away the power and see if we get electricity in electrolysis that we took away the power source !
His drawback is that we do not know which substance electrolysis needed to keep the stream, and we know the quantity of the substance, we must add!
Therefore require painful accuracy, and it is important that it is listed what kind of drug is added and how much you add!
But when it comes to the proportion of carbon in iron, it is customizable amount of 0.1% carbon!
But this is where everyone can participate in the search for the greatest treasure ever existed!
In particular, this treasure hunt suitable for children, for if anyone finds it they will get rich and very famous!
To eksperimtere this is so easy and cheap, that the child down for 10 years of age can participate, children have a lot of the adults has little, namely, imagination, and when the treasure is so enormous that in this case, it will stimulate children to have greater interest in the important subjects like math, science and especially about the universe!
We know that children have used their imagination to create the most amazing things, and when we let them go on a treasure hunt, so I think they will go in with body and soul, and who knows, maybe they find the treasure?
So back to the matter useful features!
The universe has given the matter this property, therefore, comes all the energy we know, originally from the cosmos, and fortunately for us, the matter capable of transforming it into what we want!
Matter in itself is not energy, but it is by absorbing some of the energy it receives from the universe (dark matter?) And it can not be the only one who doubts that it creates what I call stable objects, and the power that hold matter together, I have called the matter internal system, and it must be pretty heavy artillery to destroy or change this system!
I imagine that this universal power comes from an invisible «source of power or an invisible sun», which always stands in Zenit on every place on earth, only with the difference that this «Sun» never go down, and there is nothing that can stop that power the entire time completely shower upon all matter contained in the universe!
On the way, all matter, «charged with energy» and why it is such as Albert Einsten has described in his equation,
«E=mc²», which no one doubts any longer, but what is surprising me is that science will not admit that the power of matter comes from a power source, even though they know with certainty that energy can not occur themselves, but come from another form of energy, and it is strange that they categorically deny that the matter gets its power from a different type of energy!
And so I’m fairly certain that the universe is the power source of the matter, although preliminary studies do not agree with it!
It is quite confusing when science maintains that it indeed exists a force in the universe that pushes distant galaxies apart with accelererend speed, and in the same breath exclude an interaction of matter, and it must mean that they believe that removing galaxies can not be the same type matter as it is in our galaxy?
Therefore there was no alternative but to begin to experiment yourself (as described before) and is now well under way, but it’s going to take time, and therefore I have vainly tried to convince anyone, so that more could have the same goal, namely to get all the energy we need from the universe!
And I wish that school was started with some of the most exciting children can imagine, and it is just to go on a treasure hunt, and especially when it comes to something as important as the climate!
It is almost unbelievable that such a thought has occurred to a single one, even though it would give us an explanation of many unsolved mysteries, and give us a better climate!
What happens for items. in a battery, is exactly what I have mentioned here!
The chemical reaction in the battery is nothing but matters way to get back to their internal system and get back to its original condition!
That matter reacts differently when it is transferred to energy, is something we can be happy, because we can always control what we get out!
Did not matter had this property, we would not be able to save anything, either on a computer or TV!
Therefore, I am totally convinced that future batteries even going to be added to a substance that prevents the matter to return to his original condition, and when the battery will never be exhausted!
A battery can even become a permanent power plant!
It sounds unbelievable, but so simple you can solve both energy and environmental problem!
This is a good substitute for religion, the universe does not differentiate, and heaven and hell does not exist in the universe!
We can, for example. heat up the entire solar system, and where there is water we can also obtain oxygen, and we do not have to depend on only one planet!
It’s ok that one is skeptical, but if you a little while thinking about it, you will be surprised how easy many problems to be solved, and incredibly enough, you will discover that the Sun is no longer the main source of energy, but will instead be degraded to only be a good help to the nearest planets, but the power of the universe is just as strong on Saturn as on Earth, so there you will be less dependent on the Sun, but totally dependent on the universal power!
But it is possible that it gets bigger and bigger, and the power of the spread gradually over a larger area and therefore weaken gradually, but right now is the right size for us and therefore we exist?
This is what I try to convince people, but it looks as if they consider us who believe in the universe more or less wrong, when we no longer believe in an Almighty, and more likely God, so there was no way around I realized then that it had stronger lye before any renounced him they had heard of since they were small, and became interested in a better and more earthly world!
Please think about what this would mean for us humans!
An example of a problem that can be resolved if this is correct!
Thurs exactly like events must follow the laws of nature have the same cause, and those who deny it, deny the facts!
We know well why it is so hot in the Earth’s outer atmosphere, where it is almost 2000 degrees C!
Cause: The sun’s influence on Earth!
Thus, a power that comes from outside!
Nobody knows what’s hot in the sun’s outer atmosphere where it is several million degrees C!
The reason this must be the same!
So there must also be a force coming from outside!
These are facts, and wonder much that scientists do not think that it’s the same thing happens on the sun!
That’s the way we can learn something!
If it’s something we do not understand and do not understand why it happened, but know of an analogous case where we know the cause, it had then been logical to think that the reason was the same in both cases?
And therefore it is logical to think that the cause of this heat in the solar atmosphere from outside!
Is not this a good enough proof?
As far as I remember it’s plasma in the outskirts of the sun, and it is not impossible that plasma is a substance that reflects just heat radiation?
The light reflects it, or we can say it rid of this power for not that something in this system should be changed, because if it had happened, the whole PC stop working!
So we imagine that we add a tag, and just like the light, the signal is also a power that comes from outside, and the signal is also reflected, but our eyes are not adapted to the signal frequencies, so we have to turn them into light that comes on the screen, and when the signal is our visible!
If the light is gone, it’s all on the table invisible, and if we in the same way, stops to add tags are also screen dark, and it is because all matter has the ability to maintain its internal system that will be so we built it!
But with a single press we can get our signal is saved and that is a power outside the signal keeps our firm, and that means that the road back to the regular system is blocked or obstructed, but once we turn your PC on, the road back open again, and we can easily find our signal, even though it’s been several years since we signed it!
And it’s as if the light had never been away, because then we would always see what we have on the table!
It is exactly the same way we can eg. save magnetism in iron, because an unknown force maintains the magnetism, and all believe that in a normal battery is elektristiteten saved, but it is wrong, for it is the chemical reasjonen in the battery that changed the battery’s internal system, and it is only when matter given the opportunity to do so, as it attempts to return to their original system by getting rid of the power that the chemical reaction causes, making it by emitters electricity!
Storage battery is the same as storing data, a force from outside the system holds firmly, but with even road is opened, turns the matter back to the original system, and fortunately for us emits matter of battery power!
What we must try to achieve is to prevent the matter from returning, and when it will not cease to emit electrical power, and as I’ve said before:
The battery is a permanent power plant!
The unknown power, In other words, maintaining also the electrical current in the same way that it maintains the signal in our PC, or maintaining magnetism, or maintains radioactivity ETC.
The power keeps Thus the modified system is stuck in an iron grip, and because of the barrier have the matter no way to get rid of excess energy and, therefore, the matter is exposed to a constant pressure from the universe, and this pressure must be matter free themselves from, and it does so by emissjon of different types of energy!
If we are able to preserve and safeguard our integrity, it is imperative to find a stable and secure energy that does not pollute our planet!
It is only here the possibilities are, but how should you manage to convince the right people?
If this is correct so you do not need to spend many billions on cleaning of CO2, but rather focus on clean energy from the universe, and thus save humanity from extinction!
Here is something that is easy to get his explanation, if a universal influence is true!
1. Radioactivity!
2. Heat in the Earth’s interior!
3. The heat of the sun’s outer atmosphere!
4. Our senses strange properties!
5. Useful properties of matter!
6. Healing!
7. Gravity!
8. Free power!
9. Free Fuel
10.Trafikk in the air!
11.Saltwater can be fresh and be piped to dry areas!
Is not this even interesting!
ETC!
Thanks, I will definitely put this one on my list.
My interest in astronomy was piqued at an early age. I used to project images of the sun from my telescope and measure them to mathematically determine the size of the sunspots. The average was 8000 miles, roughly the size of the earth.
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I Don’t Really Care How Many Marriages Gingrich Has Had!
Far more important, who has the most smarts and ability and genuine patriotism to become the 2012 President of the United States?
A New Newt: Gingrich Tries to Reconnect With America
Redacted from an article by JEFF ZELENY
New York Times, February 26, 2011
Newt Gingrich needs no introduction to most Republican audiences. It is the reintroduction that is the challenge. If Mr. Gingrich moves forward with a presidential bid, as his advisers and friends say he is poised to do as soon as this week, he will start with a reputation as one of his party’s most creative thinkers and a record of leading Republicans back to power in the 1990s and confronting Democrats on spending.
But, he will also have to grapple with aspects of his life and career that could give pause to elements of the Republican primary electorate, including a lack of a well-established association with religious conservatives and attendant questions about his two divorces. So as he travels the country, he is striking two related notes: that the nation faces not just a fiscal crisis but also a loss of its moral foundation, and that his conversion to Catholicism two years ago is part of an evolution that has given him a deeper appreciation for the role of faith in public life.
On a recent winter night here, Mr. Gingrich, 67, stood on stage at a Catholic school with his wife, Callista, and introduced a film they produced about the role Pope John Paul II played in the fall of Communism in Poland. As Mr. Gingrich looked out over a crowd of 1,300 people, he warned that the United States had become too secular a society. “To a surprising degree, we are in a situation similar to Poland in 1979, he told the audience, which had gathered at a banquet for Ohio Right to Life, one of the nation’s oldest anti abortion groups. In America, religious belief is being challenged by a cultural elite trying to create a secularized America, in which God is driven out of public life. To most audiences, Mr. Gingrich does not talk directly about converting to Catholicism, but his faith has become an important part of his dialogue with conservative voters.
In an interview, Mr. Gingrich said he knew that a campaign would bring new attention on the full scope of his personal and political background. Last week, in an appearance at the University of Pennsylvania, he grew testy when he received a question from a Democratic student activist about the details of his two divorces. “There are things in my life I’m not proud of, and there are things in my life I’m very proud of,” Mr. Gingrich said in the interview when asked what effect his background would have on a candidacy. “People have to decide who I am. Am I a person they want to trust to lead the country or not?”
In Washington, Mr. Gingrich, one of his party’s best known and most polarizing figures, may still be remembered for a spectacular rise and fall: the Republican takeover of the House in 1994, the confrontation with President Bill Clinton that led to a government shutdown the next year, ethics battles and his resignation as speaker in 1998. He also acknowledged having an extramarital affair with Callista Bisek, then a House staff member, while leading impeachment proceedings against Mr. Clinton for lying about his own sexual transgressions.
But elsewhere, Mr. Gingrich’s reinvention has long been under way, amplified through regular appearances on the Fox News Channel, as he tries to build support among the voters who will choose the 2012 Republican nominee. Rival Republicans marvel at his deep well of ideas, his innate intellect and his knowledge of government. They also point to the strategic approach taken by the Gingrich team in the 2010 elections, including holding training sessions for a new generation of elected officials. He has secured important endorsements, including one from the new majority leader of the Iowa House, who has been courted by all potential presidential candidates.
Mr. Gingrich said he believed that the 2012 election was comparable in historic scope to 1932, when Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated Herbert Hoover and ushered in the New Deal, and to 1860, when Abraham Lincoln prevailed over Stephen A. Douglas, setting the stage for the Civil War. He urges Republicans to not settle for rejection conservatism, which simply casts aside liberal arguments, instead of replacement conservatism which would fundamentally change institutions that he believes have outlived their effectiveness.
“That’s part of what the Republican Party has to come to grips with,” Mr. Gingrich said. “Does it want to be a party prepared to replace the failed institutions and move to a very bold new approach? Or does it want to try to muddle through accepting the framework of the systems that are failing?” As always, Mr. Gingrich continues to mix the abstract and the more politically concrete.
The man who introduced the Contract with America in 1994, which still stands as a gold standard of political branding, now has a snappier jingle for today’s shorter attention span. The message is so concise that he pulls it from the breast pocket of his suit, no matter if he is delivering an intimate dinner speech or addressing a large audience, as he did recently at the Conservative Political Action Conference.
The note card reads: 2 + 2 = 4
It is an elementary lesson on spending and debt, he said, that has eluded the Obama administration. He uses it to present his broader view that the next presidential election should be a major debate over the size and scope of government.
When President Obama changed his position last week and said he believed that the 1996 law barring federal recognition of same-sex marriages was unconstitutional, Mr. Gingrich waited a full day to offer his reaction. In a statement on Thursday, Mr. Gingrich kept his criticism confined to process, rather than the merits of marriage, saying: “The president is replacing the rule of law with the rule of Obama.”
It remains an open question how a new inspection of Mr. Gingrich’s record would hold up to scrutiny by voters, including his own spending votes and the 1995 government shutdown, but his advisers believe that it could be well received, given the sentiment of Tea Party supporters. And, in the early going, Mr. Gingrich appears to be getting another look from religious conservatives, especially Catholics, a traditional swing constituency.
Before and after his appearance here, dozens of people lined up to buy books, movies and other mementos that help finance the operations of Mr. Gingrich’s array of business enterprises and provide a window into his growing popularity among some social conservatives. Mr. and Mrs. Gingrich sat for more than an hour signing inscriptions, with his best-selling book, “Rediscovering God in America,” a particularly popular item on this snowy night in Ohio.
When the conversation turned to his marriages at the end of the 30-minute interview, Mr. Gingrich seemed displeased, but fully expecting questions about his personal life along with his ideas to change the country. He said he hoped voters would look at the totality of someone who is 67 years old and a grandfather.
Asked if he believed that people were forgiving, he replied,
” We’ll find out.”
Author Ara RubyanPosted on March 9, 2011 March 31, 2011 Categories Israel, the US and the Immediate WorldTags communism in poland, cultural elite, fall of communism, fiscal crisis, jeff zeleny, newt gingrich, ohio right to life, pope john paul, pope john paul ii, religious conservatives
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