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Turkey seizes smuggled goods worth some $630M in 2018
Published January 26,2019
Turkey seized smuggled goods worth over 3 billion Turkish liras (some $630 million) in 2018, the country's trade minister announced Saturday.
In a statement issued on the International Customs Day, Ruhsar Pekcan said value of smuggled goods captured by the officials surged 20 percent on a yearly basis.
"Smuggling leads to serious loss in public revenues, unfair competition, income inequality, and economic imbalance," Pekcan said.
"While measures are being taken to stimulate the legal trade, we continue to fight against smuggling to prevent financing of crime and terrorist organizations.
"The economic losses of our country are prevented and the competitive capacity of honest traders is protected with the measures taken," she said.
According to the statement, the items included electronic appliances, tobacco, alcohol, food, drugs, fuel, and luxury vehicles.
Official figures revealed that Turkish officials confiscated 15.7 million packages of contraband cigarettes in 2018.
Hitting 21 percent in 2014, the rate of illegal tobacco in the country recorded a gradual decline over the past few years and fell to 5.8 percent in 2018.
"At this point, the rate of smuggled cigarettes in our country fell far below the EU's average of 15 percent and the global average of 10 percent," Pekcan said.
"As a result of this rapid decline, the country's tax revenue from tobacco increased by nearly 4 billion Turkish liras," she added.
The trade minister also said 1,500 tons of illegal fuel and 46.3 tons of narcotics were seized by Turkish authorities through the inspections in 2018.
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12/30/02 ER Doc Goran Visnjic Prescribes a Fur-Free Eastern Europe
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Dramatic operation of rescuing a dog from a 10-meter deep pit, that was thrown into the pit a year ago together with the whole litter
ALONE IN THE PIT FOR A WHOLE YEAR
The dog survived the whole year eating the remains of animals that were thrown into the pit!
In the place called Janja Gora in Lika, near Plasko, at Saturday, November 9, at 1 P.M. an operation of rescuing the dog that was thrown into the pit a year ago was launched. The operation was organised by Animal Friends that contacted the mountain rescue service, whose employee, Dinko Novosel, who is also a veterinarian, got down into the pit and tried to get the desperate animal out of there.
Unfortunately, what we were most afraid of came true - the dog was deliriously frightened and crawled into a narrow hole, and he would neither come out, nor could he be pulled out of there. That is a normal behavior, explained Mr. Novosel, because the dog was thrown into the pit while he was still a puppy and he has never seen any other living creature.
Although completely blind, the dog kept running in circles down in the pit, and after that he crawled deep into the cave and in that way made it impossible for people to approach and rescue him. He is scared and fighting for his life, and the fact that he has never been in contact with other dogs or people makes the whole situation even more difficult.
All we know about the dog is that he's a little black cross-breed, who is probably completely blind, since he has spent his whole life in the darkness of the pit. The dog is afraid of people, which means that he has never been in contact with any other living creature.
Alone in the dark pit for a whole year
As the locals told the reporters of the Croatian Television and the newspaper Jutarnji list, the dog has been here for over a year. He was thrown into the pit while he was still a puppy, together with the whole litter, and it's a miracle that he survived after all. Otherwise, the pit serves as an illegal animal corpses dump and the dog has fed on their flesh for the past year and has managed to survive that way. He has probably drunk rain-water or there is a water spring somewhere in the pit, because the pit spreads over a broad territory - speculated the locals.
However, the question is why nobody reacted to that in the past year and why nobody saved the dog, if all the locals knew about that? "We wanted to throw a bomb into that pit and put him out of his misery" - said some of them, although it would be much easier to do what the Animal Friends did - launch a rescue operation!
During the visit to the place Janja Gora, Mr. Milan Grba talked to the locals and learned about the dog. After that, he personally checked the whole thing and informed his friend, Diana Milicic, a member of Animal Friends, who launched the whole operation on that very day. We contacted the mountain rescue service and arranged for the dog to be pulled out of the pit. Unfortunately, we did not succeed at the first try, which means that we will have to come back as soon as Monday.
After we have taken the dog out, he will be examined and treated at the Veterinary Clinic in Zagreb, as well as put up into the shelter for dogs in Dumovec. Although it is packed with puppies at the moment, the shelter will welcome the dog with open arms. Dr. Adanic, the shelter manager, hopes that the dog will soon find a home with a family that is willing to devote their love and attention to him after he had spent the whole year in a pit in Janja Gora, and he would also like to remind people to a large number of puppies that are kept in the shelter at the moment and that are waiting for "their own" family too.
Animal Friends also asks good-hearted people to find a home for the dog after he has been taken out of the pit, examined and healed. At the same time, we would like to invite all interested people to visit our Internet Ads for finding a home for animals, as well as the shelter in Dumovec, and provide a home that the puppies and rejected animals that are kept there deserve.
You can keep track of events regarding the rescue operation on the web site of the association, www.prijatelji-zivotinja.hr, and see the photographs of the operation, as well as of the dog himself after he has been rescued.
Who threw the dog into the pit?
The dog was thrown into the pit together with the whole litter probably by one of the locals. Since the pit is a veritable animal graveyard packed with corpses of animals of all kinds, it is no surprise that somebody threw living puppies there as well. What the dog went through is beyond belief, and he was probably not the only one who was destined to die in such a horrible way. It is simply unbelievable what the people are capable of doing.
Therefore, it is natural that the following question poses itself: what kind of person can throw living puppies into a 10-meter deep pit?
It is almost unbelievable that anybody can survive a year of complete isolation in a place like the pit in the middle of Lika. But that is precisely what the dog, who was thrown by a cold-hearted person into a 10-meter deep pit a year ago, survived. With almost no chance to survive, the dog was left at the mercy of hunger, cold, darkness and fear. He will remain under those conditions another day or two, until the rescue operation has been completed, and after that the blind and frightened animal will be adopted by a true animal friend.
Torturing of the animals is our everyday life
The case of this dog may be unique because of the fact that he survived. But killing and torturing of the animals are, unfortunately, our everyday life. To throw a dog into the pit is a horrible act. But no less horrible is the fact that all shelters for animals are packed with puppies and dogs thrown out on the street. Every day pigeons and cats are poisoned, domestic and wild animals are killed in sick and sadistic hunting games, and millions of animals all over the world suffer at meat farms, egg farms, dairy farms, fur farms, in laboratories, circuses, zoos... This sequence is almost endless. What is it about people that makes them torture the animals? What motivates them to give vent to their lower instincts in that way?
Let the example of this dog be our lection. Let us learn to respect the animals, instead of using them. There are not objects created to serve people. They exist for their own reasons. Let us respect the life and co-exist with the animals, and not from their pain and suffering.
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About WBO
About Balochistan
Sit-In Protest camp for the recovery of missing people completes 3600 days.
Voice for Baloch Missing Persons’ (VBMP) in front of Quetta press club completed 3600 day.
Mama Qadeer Baloch, Vice President of VBMP said in a statement stated the hinderances he faced while running the camp, “Several times we made this clear that VBMP is totally Non Political organisation but unfortunately the military bans our workings and data collection in major parts of Balochistan and the saddest part is the media and human rights organisations are completely silent on Balochistan’s issue” .
According to VBMP, more than 40,000 Baloch men, women, and children are under Pakistani custody.
VBMP also alleges that at least 5,000 missing persons have been killed and dumped over last one decade.
International campaign groups including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International also accuse Pakistani security forces as the perpetrators of ‘illegal abductions in Balochistan’.
Posted by Bhawal Mengal
Balochistan: Disappearances continue, 6 more disappear
Six persons, including two students, have been forcefully disappeared from different areas of Balochistan.
According to The Balochistan Post, security forces have forcefully abducted six more men from Kalat, Kharan and Awaran districts in Balochistan.
Abductions in Kalat:
According to The Balochistan Post , two students went missing when they were on their way from Quetta to Punjgoor district.
The missing persons have been identified as Feroz Baloch and Jameel Baloch.
According to local sources they were taken away by civilian clothed armed men.
Abductions in kharan:
Three more Baloch civilians were abducted from Kharan Area of Balochistan.
Pakistani Forces arrested at least 3 more Baloch from different areas of kharan, Balochistan in an ongoing military operation on Wednesday.
According to the local sources, during the said military operations, Pakistani security forces arrested and disappeared at least three Baloch civilians. The two arrested were identified as ikram Baloch and kamran, whereas, the identity of the third person is yet to be ascertained.
In another in incident, a person named Diljan Baloch was ‘abducted’ by security forces from Mashkay, area of district Awaran.
Balochistan is plagued by the enforced disappearances of Baloch youth and activists. However, recent instances of ‘women and children abductions’ has added to the concerns of Baloch masses.
International campaign groups including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International accused Pakistani security forces as the perpetrators of ‘illegal abductions in Balochistan’.
UK Houses of Parliament emblazoned with projection raising human rights issue in Balochistan ahead of Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in London.
Last night 17 March, the World Baloch Organisation (WBO) organised a projection over the UK Houses of Parliament that read “Commonwealth Nations must question Pakistan over enforced disappearances in Balochistan” and “Pakistan must answer for crimes against humanity”
The WBO’s latest initiative comes as the city hosts the biennial summit – the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM). The summit brings together heads of governments, ministers and global business leaders from 53 nations to discuss and promote prosperity, democracy and peace. The projection aims to catch the attention of Commonwealth leaders and urge them to contribute in ending the widespread abuse of human rights in Balochistan.
A representative of the organisation, Bhawal Mengal said “ The human rights situation in Balochistan is worsening. Enforced disappearances, arbitrary detentions and extrajudicial killings of Baloch men, women and children are a recurrent experience. Systematic oppression committed on behalf of the Pakistani state has been prevalent for decades.”
The WBO believes that the projection will serve as a key message and reminder to World leaders of their responsibility to speak out against Pakistan’s crimes against humanity in Balochistan. This is of vital importance in improving the economic and socio-political situation and ending human rights violations within Balochistan. The projection also aims to raise awareness amongst Londeners on the dire situation that desperately calls for international attention and support.
The new initiative comes after successful campaigns in London, New York and Manchester, and Geneva where the campaigns attracted mediatic attention and triggered the interest of public opinion. The campaigns were successful in spite of having faced strong opposition from the Pakistani government – in London, Pakistan’s request to ban WBO’s adverts was ruled out by the Council of the UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), proving the peaceful character of the WBO’s initiatives.
Posted by WBO Media Team
Joint WBO & UNPO Press Release: Side-event to the UNHRC Explores the Implications of CPEC for the People of Balochistan
On Tuesday [13 March 2018], the Nonviolent Radical Party, Transnational and Transparty (NRPTT), the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation (UNPO) and the World Baloch Organisation (WBO) co-organised the conference “A Legacy of Injustice: CPEC and its impact on Balochistan” at the United Nations Headquarters in Geneva. The side-event to the 37th Session of the UN Human Rights Council focused on the brutal consequences of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) that are inflicted upon the local indigenous peoples of Balochistan, and allowed a discussion on recent occurrences regarding the struggle of the Baloch people for their rights.
The conference was opened by Ms Natalia Carrusca, representative of the WBO and moderator of the event, who introduced a video presentation in which WBO spokesman, Mr Bhawal Mengal, gave a succinct overview of the dire situation of the Baloch people, mentioning the recurrence of human rights abuses such as extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances. Mr Mengal also addressed the crackdown on freedom of expression in Balochistan, which results in the marginalisation of the issue in the media and makes it essential to raise awareness among the international civil society and in in international organisations such as the United Nations.
Opening remarks were then given by Mr Fernando Burgés, UNPO Programme Manager, who spoke about the political and security contexto surrounding the implementation of CPEC in Balochistan. Mr Burgés highlighted the growing militarisation put in motion to ensure the safety of Chinese workers and construction sites, repressing against any opposition to the project and bringing more tension to the already unstable region. Moreover, he highlighted the change of demographics conjectured to take place in around Gwadar, which could result in even more political, social and economic marginalisation for the Baloch people.
The first speaker, Mr Burzine Waghmar (University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies), drew attention to Beijing’s relentlessness in pursuing its interests abroad and the power that it has consolidated over the West, both reflected in the way it implements CPEC over the heads of local populations in Pakistan. Mr Waghmar brought up the concerning fact that Islamabad has agreed to round-the-clock video surveillance being established by the Chinese and reported the shocking increase in land prices in Gwadar. He denounced the free hand enjoyed by Pakistan in wiping out entire villages in Balochistan, where locating cadavers of missing relatives has become a recurrent practice for many families.
Ms Mahvish Ahmad (University of Cambridge) started the presentation with testimonials from her field work and affirmed that, in spite of the overwhelming atrocities comited against the local population, the region remains a “secret”. She reminded the audience of the historical background of Balochistan, used by Britain as a buffer zone for a long time, and stressed that the past two decades have seen a surge of state violence in Pakistan. Ms Ahmad pointed up that there has been a growing lack of trust among the Baloch themselves: fear of talking to each other, of sharing facts and suffering retaliations. Overcoming suspicion and standing together is, therefore, essential to the Baloch struggle.
Unfortunately, Mr Michael Kugelman (Woodrow Wilson Center) could not take part in the event as planned.
The event concluded with questions and answers.
WBO Annual Report of Activities
The World Baloch Organisation (WBO) has published its annual report of activities, covering the period of March 2017 – February 2018. The report presents a succinct overview of the conferences, seminars, protests and campaigns organised by WBO or in which it participated throughout the past year.
Click here to read and download the report.
The WBO Launches Human Rights Advertising Campaign in Geneva
On 27 February 2018, the World Baloch Organisation (WBO) launched a new human rights advertising campaign, this time in Geneva, Switzerland. The new campaign kicks off as the city hosts the 37th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council at the Palais des Nations, an event that brings hundreds of state and NGO representatives to the city and takes place from the 26 February to 23 March 2018. The initiative provides continuity to the recent campaigns in the United Kingdom and the United States.
The WBO’s new initiative will last for one entire month, displaying adverts with the slogan “Raise your voice – help end human rights abuses in Balochistan” on buses and trams that circulate around Geneva. The human rights situation in Balochistan is increasingly worrying, with recurrent cases of enforced disappearances, arbitrary detentions and extrajudicial killings of Baloch individuals. The Baloch have faced systematic economic deprivation and social and political exclusion since the occupation by Pakistan started in 1948.
The WBO believes that the adverts will serve as an invitation for the local population to find out more about the situation in Balochistan and, at the same time, as a reminder to state leaders of their responsibility to speak out against Pakistan’s cruel acts against ethnic minorities. The Human Rights Council – an intergovernmental body of the United Nations, composed of 47 countries and responsible for promoting and protecting human rights globally – holds three regular sessions per year in Geneva, when states, NGOs and national human rights institutions come together for discussions. The 37th session, taking place at this moment, is the first of 2018.
The new campaign in Geneva comes after three successful initiatives in London, New York and Manchester, where the “#FreeBalochistan campaign” attracted mediatic attention and triggered the interest of public opinion, receiving positive feedback from locals and from the Baloch diaspora in each city. The campaigns were successful in spite of having faced strong opposition from the Pakistani government – in London, Pakistan’s request for the ban of “#FreeBalochistan” was ruled out by the Council of the UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), proving the peaceful character of the WBO’s initiatives.
#FreeBalochistan human rights campaign kicks off in Manchester, UK.
The World Baloch Organisation today has launched its #FreeBalochistan human rights campaign on black cabs in Manchester UK. UK’s iconic black cabs are out once again carrying slogans “Free Balochistan from human rights abuses” in attempt to highlight the worsening human rights situation in Balochistan, where the Pakistani military has been involved in gross human rights violations including enforced disappearances, extra-judicial killings and torture.
This comes 2 months after the government of Pakistan demanded that the British government and Transport for London remove “#FreeBalochistan ” “Stop enforced disappearances” adverts from London taxis. In response to Pakistan government requests, Transport for London within 24 hours had ordered the adverts to be pulled from taxis on the grounds that they violated its advertising policy but it had not said which specific rule had been violated. The WBO maintained that it had not violated any policy and vowed to challenge the decision. Later however the Advertising Standards Authority ruled against Pakistan’s demand and stated that the ads did not violate their policies.
The WBO has also been running an advertising campaign in New York City where several billboards at the iconic Times Square displayed similar slogans during the New Years Eve celebrations, the billboards gained the attention of the international media and the millions watching the event from around the world.
#Free Balochistan billboards go up on Times Square, New York City
As part of its ongoing #FreeBalochistan awareness campaign in New York City, the World Baloch Organisation (WBO) has launched billboards across the iconic Times Square, highlighting Pakistan’s human rights abuses in Balochistan.
Over half a dozen billboards carrying the slogan “#FreeBalochistan from human rights abuses by Pakistan” have gone up in the heart of Times Square in New York and will remain there as the city celebrates New Years Eve – an iconic event witnessed by millions across America and the world. The billboards highlight Pakistan’s kidnappings, torture and massacres in occupied Balochistan and the Baloch peoples right to self determination
“Our aim is to reach out to the American public and make them aware of the worsening situation in Balochistan, which has long been ignored by the international community mainly due to Pakistan’s desperate efforts to stop the truth from reaching the international community. Through media reportage of the Times Square New Years Eve celebrations, we hope to get our human rights message across to the American people and the rest of the civilized world,” said the chief organiser of the WBO, Mir Javed Mengal.
“We appeal to the people of the world to raise their voice against the injustices against the Baloch people who continue to strive for their basic rights and self-determination. We also appeal to the United States and UN to take notice of the crimes against humanity being committed by Pakistan and hold it accountable for violating international laws and covenants” added Mir Javed Mengal
Pakistan has not allowed the international press, human rights monitors and aid agencies to enter Balochistan. The adverts seek to raise awareness about the plight of the secular Baloch people who have suffered gross human rights abuses by the Pakistani authorities for several decades.
The billboard adverts are an addition to the ongoing human rights campaign in the city, which kicked-off with more than 100 taxis carrying similar slogans.
The awareness campaign in New York City comes after a successful month of implementing the campaign in London, UK.
WBO launches #FreeBalochistan human rights campaign in New York City
WBO adds mobile advertising to its ongoing campaign in New York City
The WBO ran a mobile advertising campaign in New York City adding to its ongoing Taxi campaign in the city.
Mobile billboards carrying slogans “#FreeBalochistan from human rights abuses” and ” Raise your voice against human rights abuses in #Balochistan by Pakistan Army” circled prominent locations in the City including the consulates of Pakistan and China.
The ads also read ” No to CPEC, the China-Pakistan project that aims to loot and plunder Balochistan”
The campaign’s goal is to raise awareness among the American public about the ethnic persecution and gross human rights violations in Pakistan-occupied Balochistan and support the Baloch people’s quest for peace and freedom
The WBO earlier in the week launched its New York campaign with 100 taxis carrying similar slogans. The New York campaign will run for a month during which the WBO will continue to apply different methods of campaigning to highlight the dire situation in Balochistan.
Watch the latest video of our mobile awareness campaign in NYC: https://youtu.be/SWfLUTTEgrY
Free Balochistan campaign launches in New York City
Human rights adverts on taxis by World Baloch Organisation
New York City – 20 December 2017
The World Baloch Organisation (WBO) today launched its #FreeBalochistan human rights awareness campaign in New York City, after a successful month of implementing the campaign in London, UK.
The New York campaign has kicked-off with more than 100 taxis carrying adverts with the slogan: “#Free Balochistan from human rights abuses by Pakistan”.
“Balochistan was annexed by Pakistan against the people’s will in 1948 and has been under military occupation ever since, with mass kidnappings, torture and executions by the Pakistan army. Pakistan wants to keep this hidden. We are doing this campaign to expose these abuses,” said Bhawal Mengal, spokesperson for the World Baloch Organisation (WBO), which has organised the advertisements.
“Thousands of Baloch people have been murdered or disappeared by Pakistani security forces. The killings are happening right now, the American weapons that were given to Pakistan to use against the Taliban are being diverted and misused to attack the secular Baloch people, including F-16 fighter jets and Cobra attack helicopters.
“The campaign’s goal is to raise awareness among the American public about the ethnic persecution and gross human rights violations in Pakistan-occupied Balochistan and support the Baloch people’s quest for peace and freedom. We want the US to cut off all military aid to Pakistan and hold it accountable for its crimes in Balochistan,” he said.
In London, the campaign received positive feedback from the public, including from the Baloch diaspora in the United Kingdom. Despite repeated attempts by the Pakistani government to shut down the #FreeBalochistan advertising campaign in London, the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) ruled against Pakistan’s bid to censor the adverts; acknowledging their legitimate, humanitarian and peaceful character.
“Balochistan comprises half the land mass of the current borders of Pakistan. It has fabulous oil, gas and mineral wealth which is being exploited by Pakistan, while the Baloch people live in abject poverty. To keep control, the government in Islamabad is resorting to terror tactics and is giving free rein to religious extremists operate in the region. It is using them as a proxy third force against the nationalist movement, which has a long tradition of democracy and secularism,” added Bhawal Mengal.
“Pakistan’s iron-fisted rule in Balochistan is so brutal that it will not allow journalists, human rights monitors and aid agencies to enter the region. These adverts are much needed to defend the human rights of the Baloch people and to expose the atrocities of the Pakistani military and intelligence agencies.
“We want to alert US public, media and politicians to Pakistan’s secret, dirty war in Balochistan. This war of terror involves the indiscriminate aerial bombardment of Baloch villages, and the kidnapping, torture and assassination by the Pakistan army and intelligence agencies of anyone who peacefully opposes the military occupation and human rights abuses by Islamabad.
“Balochistan was previously a British protectorate that was granted independence in 1947. It was forcefully annexed by Pakistan in 1948 and has been militarily occupied ever since. The people of Balochistan have been denied the right to self-determination, contrary to the UN Charter.
“The World Baloch Organisation is a peaceful, lawful lobby against Pakistan’s war crimes and human rights abuses in Balochistan,” said Mr Mengal.
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MetroNews expands H.S. football broadcast schedule
Photo by Marcus Constantino
Capital's Chance Knox breaks free against South Charleston.
By Joe Brocato in High School Sports, Sports | June 21, 2019 at 7:02PM
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Seven regular season high school football games will be broadcast on the MetroNews Channel at wvmetronews.com this fall.
(This list has been updated with games in the final two weeks of the regular season)
Thursday, August 29 – Williamstown (11-3) at Wheeling Central Catholic (13-1): This is a rematch of the 2018 Class A state championship game, won by the Maroon Knights. Central handed the Yellow Jackets two of their three losses last season.
Thursday, September 19 – Fairmont Senior (14-0) at Bridgeport (11-2): Big 10 Conference rivals meet at Wayne Jamison Field in their annual matchup. The Polar Bears completed an unbeaten march to their first Class AA state championship last fall. The Indians have advanced to the state semifinals in each of the past eight seasons.
Thursday, September 26 – Ritchie County (7-4) at Doddridge County (12-1): Route 50 rivals will square off at the new on-campus stadium at DCHS. The Bulldogs advanced to the Class A semifinals last year and they return many of their key contributors, including first-team all-state running back Hunter America. The Rebels qualified for the postseason in 2018 in their first season under head coach Rick Haught.
Thursday, October 10 – Wheeling Park (7-4) at Morgantown (5-6): Both teams qualified for the Class AAA playoffs last season.
Friday, October 18 – Parkersburg South (7-4) at Morgantown (5-6): PSHS is coming off a playoff season where they earned the No. 6 seed in Class AAA.
Friday, November 1st – Huntington (8-4) at Parkersburg (8-4): Both teams advanced to the Class AAA quarterfinals before falling to teams that advanced to the Super Six.
Friday, November 8th – Capital (11-2) at George Washington (4-6): Charleston rivals meet in the final week of the regular season. The Cougars won eleven games before falling in the state semifinals.
Kyle Wiggs, Travis Jones and Joe Brocato will handle play-by-play and color commentary.
MetroNews will also broadcast all three state championship games from the Super Six in Wheeling on December 6-7.
Joe Brocato
joe.brocato@wvmetronews.com
@joebrowvm
Joe Brocato has covered sports at various levels in West Virginia for seventeen years. As sports director at WDTV in Bridgeport, he coordinated coverage of WVU, Division 2 and high school sports throughout North Central West Virginia. Joe also was a sports reporter/anchor in Laredo, Texas.
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Narratives of the Absurd
by Asma Mundrawala
Bani Abidi trained in painting and printmaking at National College of Arts, Lahore, but her interest moved to video while she was pursuing her MFA at the Art Institute of Chicago. The photographic element in her work ensued as a natural consequence of video-making. Bani’s oeuvre is simultaneously witty and sad, giving her works the poignancy that amazes and startles while it narrates. Artist Asma Mundrawala interviews Bani Abidi.
Asma Mundrawala: I’m going to ask you about the narrative content of your work and its performative aspect. I’m interested in discovering why you choose this form of narrative expression and what influences feed into your work.
Bani Abidi: During my undergrad years at the NCA, for the most part I was painting and it was a very medium-driven interest. Gradually I became more interested in ideas which stood apart from formal issues, and I invested all those into painting. So there was a struggle between following a particular kind of painterly language I was interested in, which was in conflict with the ideas I was interested in. I experimented with that a lot and eventually I felt that I was trying to the push the medium of painting in a direction I could not take it in. During my Masters degree and my time in Chicago, I had been watching a lot of film, and understood the potential of the moving image and other time-based forms. I started working with video after graduating. I think the reason was that with video as with performance, you can incorporate sound, language, action and time, and you find two or three levels functioning simultaneously on the timeline. And so I felt that the fact that something unravels over time was the way I liked looking at art rather than standing in front of a still image and investing that with a narrative.
AM: Also the tradition of storytelling is so important to our culture. How did you find that to come into your work in an oblique kind of way?
BA: I think it was because I’ve grown up in a home where I found that if we ever tried discussing an image, any image, even if it was a photograph or an early modernist painting like Sadequain’s, it was just shunned under the label of being too ‘modern’ or abstract. There was no desire or ability to understand images intellectually, there was just an expectation of visual beauty. Real enjoyment lay in literature. The contrast was so extreme in the way references were made to poetry and prose in daily conversation but images were only ever spoken about formally. And generally in Pakistan, it is poetry, the ghazals, music or Sufi music, literature and writing that plays a role in the public imagination much more than images of any kind.
AM: This is also evident amongst other things in the text that is written on public transport here.
BA: Yes exactly, that’s much more of an active place full of word play and puns.
Initially when I started in Chicago, it was about being true to language. My concerns were about Urdu and English. Mangoes, my first video mixed Urdu and English as an everyday language. And those things were really important because it was about trying to construct little stories which meant something. So yes definitely, it was as a result of belonging to a literary household. It’s also interesting that after having been through this journey of the narrative, I can now start appreciating the abstraction of an image. Because I have confronted, dealt with, enjoyed and tried to produce full-on stories or moments, there is now a desire within me to be able to pull away and get more abstract.
Mangoes, 2000, Video Still
AM: Yes, your work may have this very strong narrative aspect but yet it is so open to meaning and interpretation that it lends itself to both approaches. For instance your Karachi Series about all these fictitious characters doing various everyday chores outdoors in the eveningin Ramazan, unravels the duality that you are talking about; the abstractness and the narrative. I think the Karachi Series is a very good example of that.
Pari Wania, 7:42 pm, 22 August 2008, Ramadan, Karachi – Duratrans Lightbox, 20 x 30 inches, 50.8 x 76.2
BA: After having done a lot of video-based work, for the Karachi SeriesI invested the same kind of planning and compositional qualities and sense of atmosphere into a photograph. The series differs from the form of photography more prevalent here, which is documentary photography, in the mere fact that they are orchestrated, fictional photos. Therefore there is a relationship to the narrative. I don’t know if one would invest a documented photo of reality with the same level of character and role-playing as is seen in the Karachi Series because there is a very clear artifice in it.
Jerry Fernandez, 7:45 pm, 21 August 2008, Ramadan, Karachi – Duratrans Lightbox, 20 x 30 inches, 50.8 x 76.2 cms
AM: For that matter this is the same for the Muhammad bin Qasimseries of works. When I saw you making those works, you were planning the narrative for an excerpt from a television play along with several texts which were to support other works and were written with such aplomb and conviction that it threw the viewer off for a moment. This threshold that your work stands on, between reality and created fiction, is a very exciting place to be in. A place where you orchestrate and direct an entire narrative. This is very different from my experience as a theatre practitioner where I work with somebody else’s text. Here you are making your own text and you are orchestrating the way people will view it.
From the Series “The Ghost of Mohammad Bin Qasim” 2006, Archival Inkjet Prints, 28 x 18.5 cm
BA: It’s also about the skill or the inclination one has, something which you have done recently, to find texts that you have an intellectual relationship with. I’m able to do this now because I’ve read things that have inspired me. The relationship between theatre and the original text is the very essential relationship between theatre and written text. The role of the visual artist as someone who creates everything him/herself is increasingly being challenged because artists now collaborate, and form collectives and rely on other knowledge bases. But I did feel that theMuhammad bin Qasim works emerged from this entire idea of history and the fact that it is so concocted. You know when you look at the Pakistan Studies books that they are so wrong. So for me to write the text that I did wasn’t a big leap, because we’ve grown up on untruthful texts and have believed them. It was just an exaggeration of a very real thing.
AM: Interestingly enough, you recreated the fictional texts that you were studying as a child, and put them next to your works so that somebody else from another generation could start believing them.
BA: Yes, except that in my work there was a very clear level of absurdity that could be seen in the way the figure was photo-shopped so it was floating in the air, or in The Boy who got Tired of Posing, a narrative was created where the boy leaves. Little moments of magic or absurdity actually lightened the seriousness of it.
I’ve always felt that in our lives here, in Karachi or Pakistan everything borders on the absurd. I think it may be true also for a lot of other places. But for instance if I compare my life in Chicago, life there is very highly circumscribed and regulated, and performance and actions are very pre-dictated. The rules of a civic society and a modern city are very clearly played out and there are very few transgressions. But in our lives here, everything is happening everywhere and it’s an absurd culture so deeply full of contradictions. Here, there is modernity, there are parallel demands of tradition and religion, neighbourhoods and areas are deeply divided, people’s circulation across the city and across class is fraught, there are so many ways in which life is inherently absurd. I’ve always felt that our inspiration comes from life, but I don’t need to go out and search for the right characters and make a documentary. Instead I’ll make my own stories and invest my characters with a certain level of truth. So the characters are not actually there, but they could also be there. In the Karachi Series, the character who is sitting on the zebra crossing reading a newspaper, could be real. Because life does not always follow logic.
AM: I want to ask you about the designing of the entire work itself. For instance I find that in the construction of your last body of work ‘Section Yellow’, the folders, the space created by the tarmac pictures, or the people queuing and waiting, were all various characters and props of a production. In fact the objects and people were all characters within the narrative. In a sense you were allowing us to confront the event with such proximity and lendinga history to everything. The folder that somebody held, or the man who wrote this letter for thirty years. This kind of intricate detail that takes you into the narrative is something very unique to your work and a privilege for us as viewers who can access your narrative with such proximity.
BA: I think this happened with this body of work in particular. The film within this work ‘TheDistance from Here’ itself is very tough because it is extremely quiet. It’s not like Reserved which is very familiar and anecdotal. This is almost austere in its structure and in the way it plays out.
AM: How?
BA: Well, there are two places in which the film is shot. One is the outdoor waiting area, which is inspired by the experience of waiting outdoors in the Consulate parking lot in Islamabad before the space was ultimately constructed. The second was an air-conditioned visa room. So there is the difference of sounds of these two different spaces where there are people waiting and nothing happening.
The distance from here. Video still 12 mins
It’s a heavy film and there is no relief. Instead of literally playing out the tension that people face by conversations or any other devices, I made the film psychologically heavy. Besides ‘Section Yellow’ was an entire body of work, and not just a single film, so everything was linked and created meaning when seen together. The whole project included a film, photographs and text works.
The word that I used in my mind, was that I wanted to annotate the film with lots of other details that are marginally present in the film or may not even be present, but all refer back to the film. And there were lots of accidental choices and results that emerged as I did the related work. When I was photographing the folders (which very much come from my security barriers and intercoms drawings), I had decided that I’d take the plastic folders that were used as props and photograph them from the side so I would capture the peculiarities, the height and thickness of each.
I would just label them according to the nature of the visa application and that it would just be the thickness that I would document. But it became fairly abstract because when I photographed it from the side, its depth got lost and it just became this strange line. And then when I assembled them together the image became a horizon or a shore. It became something new which I never intended, but I stayed with it, because I liked the idea of the folders being the repository of dreams for all the people. It was also about it being a vista that the viewer is looking at, which reveals the details and the papers once you go close. And of course there was the collage-like Exercise in Redirecting Lines. So there were different games I played with the material I had with me.
AM: Yes, The Distance From Here has a strong controlling environment about it, one that dictates the behaviour of the characters in its narrative. The spaces you were trying to depict and the environment you are referring to is transferred into the way you have made the work.
The horizon suggested the new world beyond it, yet the physicality of the space controlled the flood of people who come with their dreams. This was very much part of its spirit.
BA: Definitely, and I am interested in this series of the intercoms and security barriers because I’m interested in this very blasé approach which comes from the tradition of documenting that existed in the conceptual art movement in the 50s and 60s in Europe. There is a blandness to the lists and documentation, and all the humour and emotive possibilities that it has are very subliminal.
AM: Tell me how you felt about making a film in India. I keep thinking of Reserved and how much it was about Karachi and Pakistan. Suddenly when I saw the video, and its specificity to India in its characters, I wondered how important it was to you that the work was not specific to Pakistan?
BA: I think it wasn’t important for it to be specific to Pakistan because in this story Indians are in exactly the same place as Pakistanis in terms of being vulnerable to visas. There are so many biases and generally the ethos is very similar. It was however a more foreign experience in its production. I worked with documentary film makers. The documentary tradition is so strong in Delhi. Here, for Reserved, I worked with an advertising person and another who makes soap operas. That was where the difference lay. Also the way the crowds are. I worked with a lot of extras and saw them for the first time on the day of the shoot. So you can’t relate to them immediately as you can to Pakistanis because here there is a familiarity. Perhaps direction may have been easier here. It was more expensive to do it in India. I suppose I have to do a film here again. There has been too much of a gap between my films to make an immediate connection or comparison. I have to see how different it feels to be making a film at home.
AM: And for your forthcoming project you are also making a film in India.
BA: The forthcoming project is inspired by a lot of things. It starts with this obsession with power and power hierarchies, which I noticed when I went to Lahore to work in a professional environment. The experiences I had there were of a very hierarchical structure. In experiencing the way institutions ran, I encountered a hierarchy and a strong feudal mentality.
Because I am interested in power I have found lots of inspiration everywhere. I read Ryszard Kapuscinski’s book The Emperor which was about Haile Selassie and the craziness of power. I’ve spoken a lot about this because it’s been a very important book for me. It makes me think of the excessively feudal culture across the country in Pakistan, or for instance a programme like Waris and the familial and economic structures in that, and just the various manifestations of power. So actually now, it doesn’t matter that the work isn’t in Pakistan. You’ve isolated things about Pakistan that are part of your life, and you can find those motifs all over the world.
Ultimately I have settled with the story of a small-time politician who wants to have a statue made of himself in a central place in his town but he just can’t decide how he wants himself to be represented. The idea moves around a patron and a commercial sculptor who is trying to meet the imagination of this little politician who keeps arguing and thinking about how he wants to be remembered. This is an angst that I think a lot of people in power face. The work is inspired by politicians in India because there’s a lot of political statuary. This is not a practice in Pakistan. If it was and if it could happen, Pakistani politicians would also do it. But there are other ways, such as several police motorcades or huge hoardings with their portraits everywhere. So there is always a possibility of a grandiose manifestation of yourself.
But because I’m talking about political statues, as an artist that language is also extremely exciting for me. Ultimately there are some questions that are very particular to Pakistan, and I think those will remain, but I think it’s also very nice to move away. It’s also nicer to look at everything in a historic light, a broader light.
AM: And also I don’t think you want to be read as someone who makes work specific only to Pakistan. You will make it when your work calls for it but certainly I think it would become a limitation for you if you would make work that is largely specific to Pakistan.
BA: Well, I read into life here and notice details and make work about those, but I don’t know whether I am making work ‘about‘ Pakistan. Like the Karachi series is very particular to Karachi and my understanding of a city I grew up in. But it’s about my surroundings, and my life, which happens to be Karachi in this instance.
And honestly speaking, to be making work ‘about’ Pakistan right now is such a contested and awful space. Everyone is trying to find how to do this. Meanwhile the world already seems to have reached a verdict about Pakistan. The media has overly represented Pakistan but within a particular prism and set of interests. So you ask yourself whether you want to spend your life just negotiating those representations and who for? I need to look at it as a country, or a society. One needs to objectify and step away.
Two of Two – Inkjet Prints, 60.96 x 35.56 cms
For more information about the artist visit her website at www.baniabidi.com
– See more at: http://www.artnowpakistan.com/articles.php?article=Narratives-of-the-Absurd#sthash.E8Tgt1GP.dpuf
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The Centre for Community Knowledge (CCK) has been planned as a premier institutional platform in India in interdisciplinary areas of Social Sciences, to link academic research and teaching with dispersed work on Community Knowledge.
At a time when development is faced with multiple challenges, the Centre for Community Knowledge aims to document, study and disseminate the praxis of community knowledge, so as to improve our understandings of our living heritage, and integrate community-based knowledge in the available alternatives. Drawn from living experience, and mostly unwritten, oral and practice based, community knowledge can play a crucial role in these transformative times in a number of areas, including the empowerment of marginal communities, adapting to environmental impacts and changes in public policy.
The Centre for Community Knowledge at Ambedkar University, Delhi is a university based Interdisciplinary Research Centre engaged in expanding and including new sources, practices and discourse in accommodating for our knowledge diversity. In this way, it is trying to bring oral and community knowledge into the academic knowledge mainstream.
As an Ethnological Research and Documentation Centre, it has initiated programmes, both urban and rural, that develop people centered narratives of knowledge and history and cultural transformations. For example, the Delhi Citizen Memory Project involves students, faculty and local partners in researching and documenting the history and diversity of the residents of the expanding mega city, as opposed the narrative of Delhi 'the Capital'. Similarly, working with the North East Forum at the University, the Centre undertakes field research in the NE region, with special reference to cultural knowledge heritage, material cultures and cultural transformation in the face of dramatic changes in the region over the last half century.
The Centre for Community Knowledge is also an Archiving Centre for community knowledge, and is engaged in creating digital archives of community knowledge, obtained both from ethnological and anthropological researchers, community organisations and self initiated.
We work with cultural and scientific research institutions like the Anthropological Survey of India, Indian Museum, National Museum, Indian National Science Academy and others. By bringing together community knowledge holders with scholars and cultural administrators, the Centre is working towards developing an interdisciplinary reassessment of our cultural pasts, through the reexamination of museum holdings that expand the sources of knowledge by bring community knowledge into the knowledge mainstream.
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It’s on: Triple G and Canelo ready for big middleweight bout
By The Associated Press September 15, 2017
FILE - In this Sept. 12, 2017, file photo, Gennady Golovkin poses on stage during the fighter arrivals in Las Vegas. Mexico's popular Saul "Canelo" Alvarez squares off Saturday, Sept. 16, against Gennady Golovkin in a long-anticipated middleweight bout as part of the Mexico Independence Day celebrations in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)
LAS VEGAS — It’s the kind of fight Gennady Golovkin has been chasing from the moment he walked off an airplane six years ago to make his new home in Los Angeles.
It’s the fight boxing fans have been waiting for almost as long.
Golovkin and Canelo Alvarez meet Saturday night in a middleweight showdown that has been brewing for years. They do it in their prime, and they both bring the kind of power that could make for a night that will be talked about in boxing for years to come.
Three weeks after Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Conor McGregor met in an odd spectacle, boxing shows off its best side in a scheduled 12-round fight that will pay both men millions and make one of them the undisputed top 160-pounder in the world.
“It’s a true fight,” Golovkin said. “You can go back home or go to the hospital. It’s dangerous. Everyone understands that.”
Indeed they do, which is one reason Golovkin has had trouble getting fighters in the ring with him. The fearsome slugger from Kazakhstan has stopped almost everyone put in the ring with him, winning all 37 of his fights, 33 by knockout.
But Alvarez packs power, too, and the red-headed Mexican is a savage counterpuncher with a style that should match up perfectly against the onrushing Golovkin.
“I don’t back down,” Alvarez said. “I’m a counter puncher, and I like to fight.”
The combination of styles has boxing fans salivating over what will happen in the same ring where Mayweather stopped McGregor three weeks ago. The fight quickly sold out and is expected to do well on HBO pay-per-view, though it will not reach the level of last month’s spectacle.
Still, it promises to be a can’t miss fight that brings back memories of the great middleweights of the 1980’s. Both fighters weighed in Friday at the middleweight limit of 160 pounds.
“It all depends on who lands the punch that defines the fight and I think Gennady is going to do that,” said Abel Sanchez, Golovkin’s trainer. “They’re going to hit each other and give fans the kind of fight they want and expect.”
It won’t be the first time the two have met, but it will be under far different circumstances. They sparred together at Golovkin’s camp in Big Bear, Calif., in 2011 as both were preparing for fights and, though accounts vary, both had their moments with each other.
But this is a real fight, with Golovkin’s titles at stake and a lot more. Both will make millions of dollars in a fight that holds risks — and plenty of rewards — for both of their careers.
“These are the fights that define your career,” said Oscar De La Hoya, who promotes Alvarez. “Both guys are not going to back down.”
Alvarez is already an established superstar, arguably the most popular athlete in Mexico. Golovkin, who won a silver medal in the 2004 Olympics, is hoping for the kind of performance that will finally win over fans not overly impressed by a 23-fight knockout streak of 18 middleweight title defences.
Between them they have 86 wins, against only one loss. That was suffered by Alvarez (49-1-1, 34 knockouts) in 2013 against Mayweather in a fight he admitted he was too young to take.
Oddsmakers in this gambling city have made Golovkin a slight 7-5 favourite, but the fighters themselves say anything could happen.
“It’s not an easy fight for him or me,” Golovkin said. “I think the first couple of rounds will be very close. I think the second half will be much crazier, like a street fight.”
For Golovkin, the fight is the culmination of a long battle to establish himself as the top middleweight in the world. Triple G came to the U.S. in 2011 to pursue bigger fights, and has collected the major middleweight titles while trying to get Alvarez into the ring.
It finally happened after Golovkin (37-0, 33 knockouts) was forced to go 12 rounds earlier this year against Danny Jacobs in a fight where he got hit a lot and barely escaped with a decision. Some in boxing thought it showed some vulnerability or suggested that at the age of 35 Triple G is getting a bit old.
Nonsense, he says.
“I am the champion and I bring all my belts,” Golovkin said. “This is my game, my fight. I am the boss, not Canelo.”
Golovkin, who speaks limited English, backed his comments up with a tweet warning Alvarez what was yet to come.
“If you go in the ocean the shark knows,” he wrote. “He’s home. It’s the same for me in the ring. … Let’s do it.”
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California Has MORE to be Proud Of: High Speed Rail Wins Golden Fleece Award.
April 18, 2016 By Stephen Frank 1 Comment
One of the most corrupt and incompetent political/special interest scams in history of mankind, the High Speed Rail has been recognized for what it is, a scam. “The California High-Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA) has won the Independent Institute’s first California Golden Fleece Award for its lack of transparency and history of misleading the public about key details of the state’s “bullet-train” project, which no longer reflect what voters approved in 2008.
The agency’s “bait-and-switch” strategy justifies a statewide vote on whether or not to proceed with the train system. Californians should reject this unnecessary and expensive boondoggle.”
To steal from Californians it took a Governor to openly lie, business people to lie and unions to drools over the payoffs (ur, union contracts they would receive) and the government officials thinking of the power they would have in using, or not using laws to protect the public. For High Speed Rail people, in the bond measure promised to obey California environmental laws, they won in court the right to tell Californians to go to hell. The laws do not mean anything to them—they are the California version of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. When will the people revolt against this corruption?
California’s High-Speed Rail Authority Wins Dishonor of the California Golden Fleece Award
By Lawrence J. McQuillan and Hayeon Carol Park, Independent Institute, 4/13/16
The California High-Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA) has won the Independent Institute’s first California Golden Fleece Award for its lack of transparency and history of misleading the public about key details of the state’s “bullet-train” project, which no longer reflect what voters approved in 2008.
In November 2008, California voters approved Proposition 1A, a $9.95 billion bond measure authorizing construction of a high-speed “bullet train” between downtown San Francisco and the greater Los Angeles area. The vote was 53 percent in favor and 47 percent opposed. The ballot measure contained key details regarding the project’s cost, dedicated tracks, trip time, and financing plan. Many of these details have been changed repeatedly since 2008.
The Cost: A Moving Target
Before the 2008 vote on the bond measure, the California High-Speed Rail Authority said: “The total cost to develop and construct the entire high-speed train system would be about $45 billion.” Proposition 1A also promised voters that the train system would operate without taxpayer subsidies: “The planned passenger service by the authority in the corridor or usable segment thereof will not require a local, state, or federal operating subsidy.” Soon after voters approved the project, however, cost projections escalated.
In its original 2012 Business Plan, the CHSRA set the price tag at a staggering $98 billion. Public and political outcry caused rail officials to quickly backtrack. Just five months later, the revised 2012 Business Plan lowered the cost by $30 billion by moving to a “blended” route: one that would share existing rail tracks in urban areas with other train systems, rather than building new dedicated tracks.
Based on this radical redesign, CHSRA said the entire 520-mile system would be completed in 2029 at a cost of $68 billion, but only by eliminating high-speed service between Los Angeles and Anaheim and between San Jose and San Francisco.
Then in 2016, the CHSRA Business Plan lowered the cost by roughly $4 billion net, to $64 billion, through a combination of vaguely specified “design refinements,” “system optimization,” “value engineering,” and “lessons learned from bids.”
At this point, the ever-changing cost estimates defy belief. As noted by Dan Walters, Sacramento Bee columnist and longtime observer of state government: “Those charged with building California’s north-south bullet train system have been more or less making it up as they go along.” But regardless of whether the final cost is $64 billion, $68 billion, $98 billion, or even higher, the reality should be clear: The cost far exceeds the $45 billion approved by voters in 2008, and now with substantial track redesigns.
Tracks and Trip Time: From Bullet Train to Choo Choo Train
Public outrage over the $98 billion price tag prompted train officials to abandon the original plan of building dedicated tracks in urban areas. Instead, officials shifted to blended tracks in urban areas: the bullet train would share tracks with the existing Metrolink commuter network in Southern California and the Caltrain system in Northern California. But the blended approach increases trip time considerably from what was promised to voters.
Voters in 2008 were told the high-speed train would whisk travelers from San Francisco to Los Angeles in a “maximum nonstop service travel time” that “shall not exceed” 2 hours and 40 minutes. This specific trip time was often mentioned by supporters to sell the bond measure to voters. (See for example, here and here.) But with the blended approach, the fastest time between these cities is now estimated by the CHSRA to be 3 hours and 8 minutes, with zero nonstop trips planned—another violation of Proposition 1A. But more realistic trip times are expected to be 3 hours and 50 minutes, or more, under real-world travel conditions.
The original 2:40 trip time assumed that trains would operate at peak speeds of 220 mph, and “sustained revenue operating speeds of at least 200 miles per hour.” But under the blended approach, high-speed trains must share tracks with commuter trains and freight trains, forcing them to slow down at the urban “bookends.” And today’s older urban tracks can typically handle maximum speeds of only 125 mph.
In February 2016, officials announced that the first operating leg of the high-speed train system would be built for $21 billion from downtown San Jose to an agricultural field in Shafter, north of Bakersfield, which would begin operating by 2025. The previous plan called for trains to operate first from Merced to Burbank by 2022, three years earlier. This change in the initial route might appear innocent, but by moving the first leg of construction further north, officials can delay construction on a tunnel through the Tehachapi and San Gabriel Mountains, which is likely to bust the current $64 billion budget.
According to a Los Angeles Times special report:
The monumental task of building California’s bullet train will require punching 36 miles of tunnels through the geologically complex mountains north of Los Angeles.
Crews will have to cross the tectonic boundary that separates the North American and Pacific plates, boring through a jumble of fractured rock formations and a maze of earthquake faults, some of which are not mapped.
It will be the most ambitious tunneling project in the nation’s history. . . .
However, a Times analysis of project documents, as well as interviews with scientists, engineers, and construction experts, indicates that the deadline and budget targets will almost certainly be missed—and that the state has underestimated the challenges ahead, particularly completing the tunneling on time.
“It doesn’t strike me as realistic,” said James Monsees, one of the world’s top tunneling experts and an author of the federal manual on highway tunneling. “Faults are notorious for causing trouble.”
Serious questions remain about whether sufficient funding will ever materialize to complete the newly proposed first leg from San Jose to Shafter, and then to eventually extend the line north to San Francisco and south through the mountains to Los Angeles as originally promised.
The Financing Plan: Smoke and Mirrors
Supporters of the high-speed rail project envisioned financing coming from multiple partners. Under Proposition 1A, California voters approved a $9.95 billion bond in 2008 to help finance construction of the rail network (interest costs will be an additional $9.5 billion). Voters were told that if they approved the bond, the federal government and the private sector would pay for the rest.
Supporters were counting on private investors kicking in as much as $36 billion. The federal government was also expected to contribute up to $18 billion. Another source of funding that arose in 2014 consisted of earmarking 25 percent of the proceeds from auctioning credits to emit greenhouse gases under California’s “cap-and-trade” program, which is estimated to yield the rail project about $500 million a year. (Under the plan, the rail authority would use the annual “cap-and-trade” revenues through 2024, and then seek to borrow $5.2 billion against future carbon fees from 2025 to 2050.) To date, much of the promised financing has never materialized and largely amounts to wishful thinking.
Congress has pledged an initial grant of $3.3 billion, mostly through President Obama’s economic stimulus package. But the state has received only $503 million of that money as of 2015. And Congress has balked at additional funding. “Congress is never going to allocate more money to a project that lacks the ridership numbers, speeds, private funding, and voter support once promised,” said Rep. Jeff Denham (R-Turlock), chairman of the House rail subcommittee.
The legal authorization to impose the state “cap-and-trade” fees expires in 2020, making the future availability of this money questionable. And a lawsuit seeks to block use of the cap-and-trade fees for the high-speed rail project. According to Jessica Peters, principal fiscal and policy analyst with California’s nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO): “About half of the [San Jose to Shafter] funds would come from cap-and-trade beyond 2020,” when the fees are set to expire. A LAO review of the CHSRA’s 2016 Business Plan also questioned the logic of choosing a field in Shafter as the initial southern terminus:
Even with a temporary station or platform, ending the IOS [initial operating segment] in an unpopulated agricultural area does not appear to be an effective approach. This is because this location would not have the types of facilities and nearby businesses, such as transit connections, rental car facilities, and shops necessary to meet the needs of train passengers.
Finally, the private sector has not invested in the project, which is unlikely to ever be profitable. Summarizing, the LAO said that the CHSRA’s current funding plan is “significantly short of the level needed to complete [the entire San Francisco to Los Angeles system] and does not identify how this shortfall [of $43 billion] would be met.”
Moreover, the pledge to voters in 2008 that the high-speed train would operate without taxpayer subsidies was based on ridership estimates that are quickly evaporating. In 2008, the CHSRA forecasted a base annual ridership of 65.5 million intercity riders and a high projection of 96.5 million intercity riders by 2030.
But independent analysis concluded:
The CHSRA ridership projections are considerably higher than independent figures developed for comparable California systems in Federal Railroad Administration and University of California Transportation Center at Berkeley studies. Using generous assumptions, this Due Diligence Report projects a 2030 base of 23.4 million intercity riders, 64 percent below the CHSRA’s base of 65.5 million intercity riders, and a 2030 high of 31.1 million intercity riders, nearly 60 percent below the CHSRA’s high of 96.5 million. It is likely that the HSR will fall far short of its revenue projections, leading to a need for substantial additional infusions of taxpayer subsidies.
The blended 2012 redesign will increase trip times substantially, making air travel, driving, Skype, or phone calls more attractive relative to a slower train ride:
[A]ssuming the optimistic travel time projection of 3:50, the 2035 interregional ridership would be approximately two-thirds (67 percent) below CHSRA projected levels [of 21 million] at 6.9 million annually. Assuming realistic automobile costs and more-plausible outside-the-corridor ridership, the 2035 interregional ridership would be 77 percent below the CHRSA forecast, at 4.8 million annually. Even if the number of automobile drivers switching to rail equals the European experience, ridership would still fall nearly 65 percent short of the CHSRA projection.
Thus, the CHSRA’s downgraded ridership estimate of 21 million people is still likely to be wildly exaggerated. The promise to operate the high-speed trains without subsidies, therefore, is fantasy using realistic ridership numbers: calculations by Joseph Vranich and Wendell Cox concluded that day-to-day operating losses will generate annual deficits totaling between $124 million and $373 million at the operating-cost midpoint projected by CHSRA for 2035. Subsidies would be needed to backfill these deep deficits.
The money secured to date is far less than needed to complete the project. With no clear path to obtaining the funds needed for completion, many Californians now decry “the train to nowhere.” And realistic ridership projections show that annual subsidies will likely be needed to keep the trains rolling, if the project is built at all.
The Pathologies of Government: A Lesson in Perverse Political Incentives
California’s high-speed rail project highlights that governments do a poor job of assessing the costs and benefits of capital-investment projects since politicians do not personally bear the costs and benefits of the projects or of their calculation errors. In fact, politicians have an incentive to exaggerate the benefits and hide true costs, as was done with the bullet train, to build support for these projects. In contrast, private investors and private operators generally have an incentive to develop accurate projections of capital projects because, if they are wrong, they will typically bear the costs, and, if they are right, they can reap any profits from the wise stewardship of resources.
Train officials and supporters have repeatedly told the public that the train will cover operating costs, will not require any operating subsidies, and “generate sufficient cash flow to attract private capital” for future construction—even the first leg from San Jose to Shafter will feature “non-subsidized operations,” according to CHSRA officials. If the project is as good of an investment as supporters claim, then taxpayer/government involvement to bankroll the construction and operation is unnecessary. Private investors and private operators can, and should, provide this transportation service.
But the evidence indicates that the high-speed rail project will not be self-sustaining. As it will waste scare resources, the bullet train qualifies as a boondoggle and should not be undertaken.
The Recommendation
The serious discrepancies between the original plan for the high-speed rail project and current promises warrant a statewide ballot referendum on whether to proceed with the project and, if so, how. There is growing opposition to the project now that more information is known about the true cost, slower routes, and financing uncertainties.
In February 2015, Gavin Newsom (D), California Lieutenant Governor and former mayor of San Francisco, said:
We’re not even close to the timeline (for the project), we’re not close to the total cost estimates, and the private-sector money and the federal dollars are questionable. . . . I am not the only Democrat that feels this way. I am one of the few that just said it publicly. Most are now saying it privately.
Following Newsom’s candid remarks, Assemblywoman Patty Lopez (D-San Fernando) said that she now opposes the project, and that five other legislative Democrats are also considering a switch to opposing it. Lopez supports a re-vote on the issue.
A January 2016 poll found that 53 percent of Californians support killing the high-speed rail project and using the unspent money on water projects; only 31 percent do not. Dan Walters of the Sacramento Bee echoes this sentiment: “We should put at least as much effort into protecting our vital water supply as we are wasting on a bullet train that we neither want nor need.”
A March 2016 survey found that only 26 percent of likely voters in California consider the high-speed train as “very important” for the future of California. More Californians, 27 percent, view it as “not at all important.” A majority of likely voters, 54 percent, now oppose building the high-speed rail system.
Californians deserve a re-vote on the high-speed rail project. Voters should use the opportunity to kill this unnecessary and expensive boondoggle sold to the public using tricks and deceit.
Filed Under: Stephen Frank's California Political News And Views
About Stephen Frank
Stephen Frank is the publisher and editor of California Political News and Views. He speaks all over California and appears as a guest on several radio shows each week. He has also served as a guest host on radio talk shows. He is a fulltime political consultant.
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Best article I have ever read regarding this stupid, corrupt rail.
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Carlson and Road Construction Go Together
By Karen Cummings • June 20th, 2016
tags: CAD software • Carlson Civil • civil engineering software • road construction • road design software
Big highway anniversaries this year – a look back and ahead
The past 100 years have been the golden age of highway construction in the U.S. From individual road entrepreneurs to massive government highway projects, the creation of our highway network has been dramatic, linking our country with ribbons of gravel, concrete, macadam, and now, asphalt.
Lots of nostalgia for the old Route 66 — but would it answer the transportation needs of today?
April 30th was the 90th anniversary of Route 66, the iconic U.S. highway that connected Chicago and Los Angeles. Today, we are approaching the 60th anniversary (June 29, 2016) of the signing by President Dwight D. Eisenhower of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, which created our country’s interstate highway system.
Having good roads and highways to connect cities and towns and rural and urban areas may seem commonplace or expected now (despite our ASCE Infrastructure Report Card), but less than 100 years ago, that was not the case.
Have a resurfacing project in your future? Here’s a link to a story about how Carlson Civil came to the rescue in a resurfacing project in Missouri.
This in-depth story on the Ozarks Alive web page about the opening of Route 66 notes, “In those days, road trips were epic in both desirability and difficulty.”
In the early part of the 20th century, it was not the government, local or federal, but local people who built (and paid for) the roads. Bill Bryson in his book Made in America provides an interesting look at a private citizen, entrepreneur Carl G. Fisher. He brought our country together, so to speak, by proposing a graveled two-lane road from New York to San Francisco, and to pay for it all through donations.
Bryson notes that, while people were enthusiastic and contributed—President Woodrow Wilson even gave $5–there wasn’t near enough to build the entire 3,389 miles of highway. Fisher’s solution: building little sections of road virtually in the middle of nowhere that eventually “came to be known as ‘seedling miles.’”
Building an early “seedling mile”–we’ve come a long way!
“…once people got a taste of smooth highway they would want the whole concrete banquet,” Bryson writes. “Soon towns all along the route were enthusiastically raising funds to connect themselves to that tantalizing seedling mile.”
Fisher’s road, which officially opened in 1923, was dubbed the Lincoln Highway and laid out from New York City to San Francisco. Even before it was “finished” it was widely used and its popularity, combined with the increase in commerce along the route, prompted the federal government to decide to make money available for road building, ultimately leading to the famous Route 66.
In addition, in 1919 the U.S. Army took the Lincoln Highway route in its first transcontinental motor convoy, which actually helped bring about the U.S. Interstate Highway System. According to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Highway History, “One participant in the convoy was a bored young Army officer, Lt. Colonel Dwight David Eisenhower… That experience plus his observations of the German auto-bahn network during World War II convinced him to support construction of the Interstate System when he became President.”
Road building and maintenance is as important as ever
While the original Lincoln Highway and Route 66 are now hard to find, nostalgia for their heyday remains.
As it approaches its 60th anniversary, Eisenhower’s Interstate Highway System remains “… a part of our culture as construction projects, as transportation in our daily lives, and as an integral part of the American way of life,” as noted by the U.S. Department of Transportation.
While the legacy of the original creators of our highways was connecting a far-flung country, the U.S. is now in a new era. An era of repair, reengineering, and renewal of the system that supports the country’s economy.
Learn more through these videos — Quick Intro and Road Design — and posts — Carlson minimizes cut/fill and linking Carlson Civil to SurvCE — for just a few of the wealth of information about how Carlson’s software solutions can bring your roads up to par.
With new capabilities and new goals, now is the time to use all of our engineering expertise, the ever improving CAD and GIS software, UAVs, and modern, state-of-the-art machines at our disposal together with our imagination to determine the best way to improve and strengthen our often crumbling road, bridge, and transit systems. It’s time to bring the life-changing improvement to our transportation options in the 21st century that Fisher’s Lincoln Highway brought to the 20th. Download a Carlson Civil Suite demo now and get started.
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By Dennis Pajot
I ran across an article in the February 9, 1913, Milwaukee Journal about Native Americans playing in professional baseball. The article said in 1912 the Milwaukee Brewers had an Indian on the team "for all of two days when [business manager] Charlie Moll dug up John House and brought him on here for a tryout. He worked out just one afternoon in right garden, during which time Manager Duffy worried for fear that he would be hit on top of the head with a fly ball and injured before he could be brought in and shipped back to Iowa on the night train."
I looked in the SABR Encyclopedia and Baseball-Reference and found no John House listed as playing with the Brewers. I had no idea when this game was played—if it was even a game he played "right garden" in, or a practice season. I put the name John House into Google News, hoping against hope to find something. Shiver me timbers, there was one entry for John House, and it was the game he played in. Then I had only to back track in the newspapers and find all I could. I found quite a bit for a guy who only played one game with the American Association Brewers.
On Thursday, May 16, 1912, the Milwaukee Journal wrote:
"Looks as if everybody in the A.A. had got the speed bug in their bonnet. [Hugh] Duffy is particularly sweet on the speed stuff and added an outfielder, John Hause [sic], to his gang yesterday. Hause, according to dope, is lightening fast on the field and the bases. They say the newcomer, who is a full blooded Indian, by the way, is about as fast as [Ralph] Capron and you all know what that means."
The Milwaukee Sentinel of the same day reported:
"Manager Duffy announced the purchase of John House, a new outfielder, on Wednesday, from the Ottumwa, Ia. club of the Central association. House, who is an Indian, has been hitting the ball at a frightful pace in the bush, and as he is a reliable fielder and a fast runner, Duffy decided to given him a chance. He is expected to report here on Thursday."
The May 17 Milwaukee Journal reported that House arrived in Milwaukee the day before and there was a chance he would play in that afternoon’s game. The paper reported House was “a big, powerful-looking chap.”
The Milwaukee Sentinel of May 17 was a gold mine. Here is the portion of the local baseball article concerning the new Brewer.
John House, the Oneida brave joined our aggregation of nations on Thursday, and there is a possibility that Duf will insert him in the box score on Friday. House is a son of the Oneidas, and he lives on the Oneida reservation in Wisconsin. He is a big husky looking fellow, and looks not unlike Big Chief Meyers on the Giants.
He started to play professional ball three years ago with the Burlington club of the Central Association. He had some trouble there and jumped to the outlaw league on the Pacific coast where he played until a year ago. Of course he was put on the blacklist but he managed to play ten or twelve games with the Appleton club of the W-I [Wisconsin-Illinois] league last spring before it was discovered that he was under the ban. This spring he was restored to good standing on condition that he would report to the Ottumwa club, which is owned by the former owners of the Burlington franchise. He began to punch the ball like a fiend as soon as the season opened, and his warclub boosted him to our select set. If he can whale the ball the redskin will be a blessing in disguise, for Duffy surely needs an able bodied swatssmith on the club.
—Milwaukee Sentinel May 17, 1912
House was a very popular player in Iowa. Only a few days before the Brewers acquired the outfielder the Waterloo Evening Courier wrote on May 13: "John House, the Indian, who has been on Ned Egans’s pay roll for several seasons, was given an ovation when he stepped to the plate the first time. The 'big chef' was always popular in this city and his absence of two years did not lessen his popularity in Waterloo." A year and a half later (December 20, 1913)—when he was traded by Ottumwa—the Waterloo Evening Courier wrote House was "one of the best drawing cards in the minors." Manager Egan certainly liked the big outfielder, as he owned the rights to him five separate times - in Burlington and Ottumwa.
But there were rumblings about House's playing. On May 17, 1912, the Waterloo Reporter ran this dispatch, originally from the Burlington Gazette:
John House, the full-blooded Indian and thoroughbred base ball player, who in the minds of many is one of the greatest, if not the very greatest, natural ball player ever seen in these parts, has been sold by Manager Ned Egan of Ottumwa to Milwaukee. Report does not state the price secured for the best of all Indians, nor whether or not he will be sent to the new club at once.
The sale of House had been anticipated from the very start of the season. House, by his indifferent manner, wasted some of the best individual baseball talent ever bestowed on any man. He never cared much about the game, but nature had made him an adept at all angles of it. McCloskey, who had him at St. Louis, after purchasing him from Burlington, said that a man was never given a better pair of eyes than the good-natured Indian had, and this was true, for the Burlington fan who saw John House strike out more than twice during the entire time he was with Burlington saw something that few of his friends did.
House refused to stay with St. Louis because he was a bench warmer, and his refusal no doubt robbed him of a chance to become one of the stars of the country. He has wasted the past four or five years, and still is so good that he was picked up two weeks after he got back into the game. The Milwaukee ownership is practically the same as the St. Louis management which owned him, and they know what they are getting. A slugging batter, a position bunter, a speed man in all respects, and a brilliant outfielder, is House, and he may yet make the most of his talent. He is at no disadvantage in faster company, as nothing can embarrass him in playing the game and no pinch can take his presence of mind away from him.
On May 18 the Milwaukee Sentinel wrote:
"House whaled the ball hard in batting practice yesterday morning, but he is said to be an uncertain outfielder.... John House practiced in the field with the Brewers before the game [against the St. Paul Saints] and Duffy had him tabbed for right field until it was announced that [Ed] Karger, a left hand pitcher, would work. [Regular right fielder Newt Randall played right field]. It is probable that the redskin will get in the game this afternoon."
John House played right field in the Saturday May 18, 1912, game at Athletic Park against the Minneapolis Millers. The box score showed he went 0 for 4 with no runs scored, no putouts, assists or errors. The Minneapolis pitcher was the right hander Ralph Comstock.
The Milwaukee Journal game article said this about him: "John House, the Brewers' latest addition in outfielders, was tried but after the first ripple of applause there was very little cause to be overjoyed over his coming. As a fence breaker, he failed to show anything in four chances. In the field he had no chance other than to return the remnants of a single, which he did in anything but a finished manner. However, his surroundings were new and his team mates were not much of an inspiration, so it's hardly fair to judge him yet." In his notes on the game Journal sports columnist Brownie wrote: "House did not have anything but a thinking part in the outfield, while the only time he hit the ball out of the diamond was on his fourth attempt."
The Milwaukee Sentinel did not make mention of House in its game summary in its May 19 issue, but the next morning had these two sentences. "John House, the Oneida Indian secured from the Ottumwa, Iowa club was turned back to that organization by Manager Duffy on Sunday [May 19]. He did not show A.A. class, and was handed the tinware quickly. He only came here for a trial."
The Milwaukee Journal of May 20 wrote: "Outfielder John House, the Oneida Indian, did not last long as a Brewer. He was shipped back right after his showing in Saturday's game."
For the record, the Brewers lost to the Millers 6 to 0 in the game House played in.
John House ended up playing 122 games with the Ottumwa Speedboys of the Class D Central Association in 1912. He played in various lower minor leagues from 1904 to 1914. This is the short stat list for House from Baseball-Reference, to which I added the one game I found with the Brewers:
Games AB Hits Average
1904 Marshalltown-ILPB 108 450 130 .289
1905 Ottumwa 119 475 136 .286
1906 Burlington-ILPB 127 489 129 .264
1908 Burlington- 112 447 137 .306
Central Ass.
1909 Minneapolis-CKSL ? 138 32 .232
1909 Santa Cruz, 16 50 8 .160
Fresno, Ind.
1909 Sacramento-PCL 121 423 109 .258
1912 Ottumwa-Cental Ass. 122 462 151 .327
1912 Milwaukee-A.A. 1 4 0 .000
1913 Ottumwa-Central Ass. 118 431 114 .265
1914 Fort William-Port 126 433 119 .275
Arthur- Northern League
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Here's a great look at the custom glove worn by former Brewer first-sacker George Alvin "Bingo" Binks, who passed away last November.
The glove was his lucky charm, and as the leather wore out he had the pocket replaced with a Frankenstein's Monster of wire.
From Paul Tenpenny's excellent profile of Bingo last year:
George Binks with the 1941 Milwaukee Brewers
(collection of Paul Tenpenny)
As early as 1941, George's first baseman's mitt was a topic of much conversation. Seemingly held together with tape and bailing wire, the team couldn't get him to give it up. It was a good luck charm given to him by a major league scout when he first began playing baseball in 1936. It was the cause of much laughter and some consternation with manager Charlie Grimm who considered it a "hunk of leather."
"I just can't part with it," said Binks in 1944, "There's a lot of memories in that piece of leather. It's not the fanciest glove, I know, but I prefer it to a new one." Binks turned down a new glove offered to him by manager Grimm. The web of the glove is made of bird cage wire put together by a Green Bay clubhouse boy when the leather wore out. "It's been a luck charm so I will go on using it," said Binks.
Well, he did use it until a storm tore the roof off of Borchert field on June 15th. In the ensuing excitement he lost the treasured keepsake.
That homemade glove is one of the hundreds of personal details which color the rich history of the minor league Brewers and the characters who took the field at Borchert's Orchard. And I love the classic block-M uniform he's wearing.
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The lucky bearer of this ticket got to see the Brews open their 1945 season (defending their 1944 American Association pennant) at Borchert Field for a mere $1.40 (including twenty-three cents federal tax).
The running Owgust icon was a staple of the Brews in the early 1940s. Adapting iconography from newspaper cartoons dating back to the beginning of the century, the Brewers introduced this version of the character who rapidly became the club's symbol.
The basic template of this ticket went back at least three seasons, as seen by this 1943 printer's proof:
$1.40 in 1945 dollars had the same buying power as $17.60 does in 2011. Not a bad deal to watch a pretty good club.
Labels: Borchert Field, Opening Day, owgust, ticket stubs
Here it is - the other American League Milwaukee Brewers prototype uniform, as seen in the Milwaukee Journal on April 1, 1970.
NICE UNIFORM—Judy Deters of Milwaukee modeled the uniform the new Milwaukee Brewers will wear when they open the season Tuesday against the California Angels at County Stadium.
The photograph had been making the rounds for several weeks; here it is from the Dubuque Telegraph-Herald on March 18, where the model is identified as Judith Peters.
Although not identified as such in the captions, it has since been reported that the jersey was navy pinstripes. The script was trimmed in navy, like the Brews wore their last few decades in the American Association.
The picture was brought back by Journal on April 1st as part of the paper's coverage of the court decision allowing Bud Selig to buy and move the Seattle Pilots to Milwaukee, coverage that started under the triumphant headline "We're Big League Again!"
Her uniform was also referenced in Associated Press coverage of the case, as in this article published in the St. Petersburg Times just before the decision came down:
...a few things have just possibly been done to get ready (for the team to move to Milwuakee), but you couldn't prove it by anything anyone says officially. You could get more operational details out of a Russian submarine commander than you could out of the Brewers.
Uniforms for instance. Uniforms? Um, yes. Nobody can say about uniforms. But there is a pin stripe model with a script "Brewers" on it hanging in a downtown sporting goods supply store.
This Los Angeles Times article about Milwaukee's preparations for big league call (printed on March 28, 1970), contained another tantalizing nugget:
Opening-day tickets are believed to have been printed. Uniforms for the players with Brewers written in script across the chest have been unveiled, although it is not known if the full order has been completed.
I think it's safe to say that they hadn't, because after the decision came down the Brewers issued this peek at their proposed uniforms.
Piping instead of pinstripes, and "BREWERS" in fancy block capitals instead of script.
So what happened? The day after it printed the picture of the pinstriped prototype, the Milwaukee Journal ran an article on the new club's uniforms:
Brewers Make Uniform Adjustments
There were those who said it would be a cold day when Milwaukee got back into major league baseball, or major league baseball got back into Milwaukee. Sure enough, it was snowing when Bud Selig held his press conference at the Pfister Hotel Wednesday.
The Brewers had been trying for five years, off and on, to get a ball club, and now here they were with one and less than a week to get ready for opening day at County Stadium.
As might be expected, arrangements were hectic, to say the least, but Selig came frowning through the whole thing in good style.
"What about the uniforms?" he was asked.
"Very simple," he said. "We just tear off the 'Pilots' and substitute 'Brewers' and we put an 'M' on the cap in place of an 'S'. Colors for the accessories are blue and gold.
Well, there went the story—and the pictures—that the Brewers had new uniforms all made up and ready for the new team. It turned out that three or four pilot (if you'll excuse the expression) sets were turned out two or three years ago, just in case.
"We figured if the team we got didn't have good uniforms, we'd then make our own," Selig said. Seattle's uniforms are fine, with the minor adjustments."
So there you have it. The pinstripes were out. A couple minor changes to the uniforms they brought with them, and the Brewers were born. They didn't even bother to remove the Pilots' distinctive (if ugly) sleeve trim.
What we don't know is why the intended fancy letters never made it onto the Brewers' jerseys. For whatever reason, they were replaced with arched block letters.
In the following seasons, when the craziness died down and the Brewers had time to make the jerseys more their own, the club modified the trim and ended up with something nearly identical to that second prototype, with piping at the neck and cuffs. The arched block letters remained, survived the 1978 overhaul, and to this day are featured on the club's alternate uniforms.
So the pinstriped prototype, seen prominently displayed "in a downtown sporting goods supply store", never got beyond three or four samples, and never took the field (pinstripes, of course, would make their County Stadium debut in 1978). I wonder if any of those samples survived.
(h/t: DW, Uni Watch)
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The Persuasions
The NY Times names hundreds more artists who lost masters in 2008 UMG fire
By Bill Pearis 3 weeks ago
Just about every area of recorded music was hit by the fire, from jazz to punk to cabaret to comedy, new wave, historical speeches, metal, hip hop, you name it.
Category: Music News Tags: 38 special, 50 Cent, Aaron Hall, Aaron Neville, Adam Ant, Aerosmith, Ahmad Jamal, Al Green, Al Hibbler, Al Jolson, Albert Ayler, Alice Coltrane, Alvin Cash, Amy Grant, Andy Summers, Archie Bell & the Drells, Archie Shepp, Aretha Franklin, Art Blakey, Art Farmer, Art Neville, Ashlee Simpson, Asia, Asleep at the Wheel, Audioslave, Average White Band, B.B. King, B.J. Thomas, Baja Marimba Band, Baker Knight, Banana Splits, Barbara Carr, Barbara Cook, Barbara Mandrell, Barry Gibb, Barry McGuire, Barry White, Beck, Belinda Carlisle, Bell Biv Devoe, Ben Sidran, Ben Webster, Benny Carter, Benny Goodman, Berlin, Bernadette Peters, Bert Kaempfert, Betty Carter, Betty Everett, Beverly Jenkins, Big Bill Broonzy and Washboard Sam, Big Mama Thornton, Big Walter Horton, Bill Anderson, Bill Cosby, Bill Haley and His Comets, Bill Monroe, Bill Plummer, Billie Holiday, Billy Preston, Billy Stewart, Billy Taylor, Billy Vaughan, Bing Crosby, Blackstreet, Blink 182, Blues Traveler, Bo Diddley, Bob Braun, Bob Crosby, Bob Hope, Bob Kames, Bobby Blue Bland, Bobby Brown, Bobby Charles, bobby darin, Bobby Helms, Bobby Vinton, Booker T. 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By Jeff Bergstrom August 26, 2014
In a life that is nothing short of a cornucopia of self-designed regrets, two of my most robust regrets are not ponying up the admittedly exorbitant cash money to catch Roger Waters when he toured "The Wall" back in 2010 and 2012...
Category: Music News, tour dates Tags: benefit, GE Smith, Roger Waters, Rufus Wainwright, Teddy Thompson, The Persuasions
the Park Slope 5th Ave Street Fair is Sunday ++ record fair
By BrooklynVegan Staff May 10, 2009
The annual 5th Avenue Street Fair in Park Slope is not a cookie cutter street fair, and with lots of entertainment along the route, it's always a worthwhile day for music lovers...
Category: Music News, tour dates Tags: 5th Avenue Street Fair, Chin Chin, Miss Fairchild, Nouvellas, Park Slope, record show, Southpaw, The Gate, The Persuasions, V Spot
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Biography – BESSETTE, ARSÈNE (baptized Moïse-Arsène) – Volume XV (1921-1930) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography
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BESSETTE, ARSÈNE (baptized Moïse-Arsène), journalist and writer; b. 20 Dec. 1873 in Saint-Hilaire (Mont-Saint-Hilaire), Que., son of Moïse Bessette, a farmer and politician, and Valérie Lapalme; m. 16 Nov. 1907 Albina Lareau in Saint-Jean (Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu), Que.; they had no children; d. 21 June 1921 in Montreal.
Arsène Bessette was the eldest in a family of eight. After attending the primary school in his native village, he obtained his classical education (1888–95) at the Collège Sainte-Marie-de-Monnoir, in particular through the generous support of Louis-Philippe Brodeur, the mp for the riding of Rouville from 1891. In 1898, as he was in no position to enrol in university – doubtless because of lack of funds – he embarked on a career in journalism, with a brief spell apprenticing at La Patrie. On 3 November of the following year, under the pseudonym Jean Rémuna, he published a story entitled “Michel Carabin” in Le Canada français/Le Franco-Canadien, a Saint-Jean weekly; its editor at the time was his friend Gabriel Marchand, the son of Félix-Gabriel Marchand*, one of the newspaper’s founders. The story relates how the eponymous hero, a staunch supporter of the Liberal party, prevents the tight-fisted Father Crétin, whose vote had been bought by the Conservatives, from getting to the polling station. On 28 June 1901 Bessette announced in Le Canada français that he was giving up Jean Rémuna, the pseudonym he had hitherto used, explaining: “[He] was neither big nor little, neither witty nor stupid, neither good nor evil; he was not a man, far less a woman, he was my pseudonym.” From then on he published articles under his own name on a variety of topics (including happiness, influenza, patriotism, and current affairs), as well as a small number of stories, anecdotes, and novellas. He remained a regular contributor to this paper until the end of 1917, apart from a brief interruption between 1903 and 1905 that can only be partly explained by his collaboration with the short-lived Montreal periodicals L’Étincelle and La Vie artistique.
Through the good offices of his friend Idola Saint-Jean*, he began in 1903 to correspond with a Breton teacher and, later, writer, Marie Le Franc, whom he invited to Canada in 1906 with decided intentions. No sooner had the young woman arrived in Montreal, however, than the idyll came to an end. On 16 Nov. 1907 Bessette married one of his colleagues at Le Canada français, Albina Lareau, who was known as Pimprenette.
Bessette, who had put on a one-act comedy in 1904 entitled “Les pantins,” which remains unpublished, wrote an article three years later in Le Canada français attacking censorship in the theatre. The nature of this piece was such that the chancellor of the archdiocese of Montreal, Émile Roy, was compelled to write a letter of protest to Gabriel Marchand on 7 Nov. 1907: “Monseigneur [the archbishop of Montreal], knowing the fine traditions of your family, is convinced that you do not share such opinions, and that they will no longer find expression in your newspaper.” Reprimanded at that time by his employer, Bessette stepped out of line again in 1909, when he pronounced himself in favour of the creation of a French theatre company in Montreal. This time he aroused the wrath of the Quebec ultramontane weekly La Vérité.
In 1914 Arsène Bessette had his only novel, Le débutant, published in Saint-Jean by La Compagnie de Publication Le Canada Français. It is not known if he had shown it to his friends, if the publisher of Le Canada Français had read the manuscript, or if Bessette himself sent the press release to La Presse, in which his work was described as a novel of the soil and an interesting portrait of social customs with most of the action taking place in the countryside. What is known is that the book was dedicated to “fellow journalists, to the sincere and upright men in public life, [and] to all those who have lost their illusions, before or at the same time as their hair.” The dedication was a premonition, for the author would quickly lose his own illusions when the critics ignored his novel. Since Bessette was on the members list of the masonic lodge L’Émancipation [see Adelstan de Martigny*] published in Le Devoir in 1910, not everyone would have been well disposed towards him, which doubtless explains why the publication of his novel – “the only work of fiction in Quebec literature inspired by masonic ideas,” according to Roger Le Moine – met with a conspiracy of silence. The fact that the book did not come out in one of the major urban centres is not enough to account for the critics’ indifference; on the other hand, their lack of interest may have discouraged Bessette from publishing the two further volumes that were announced when Le débutant appeared.
What is the novel about? Paul Mirot, the hero of the story, and his introduction to journalism, to the world of letters, and to love, was probably a projection of the author. Indeed, Paul has much in common with his creator, for, like Bessette, he is determined, courageous, witty, and intelligent. These qualities led the owner of Le Populiste to hire Paul as a journalist. Soon appreciated by both his employers and his readers, he also wins the heart of Simone Laperle, the beautiful and wealthy cousin of his best friend, Jacques Vaillant. Having become his mistress, the young woman introduces him to society. In partnership with Vaillant, Mirot founds a newspaper, in which he denounces the rigidity of society. He is also engaged in writing a novel that deals with the dangers of nationalistic ideology in literature. The newspaper is censured for its supposedly revolutionary ideas and ceases publication. Mirot’s novel is banned and he loses his job at the newspaper where he is then working. In addition, the death of Simone closes his love life. The novel ends in complete failure, yet the hero remains confident about the future, while attaching no importance to the past.
Contrary to what literary critics would assert for many years, Bessette himself did not lose his job at Le Canada français when Le débutant was published, nor was the novel condemned by the archbishop. The writer remained on the staff of Le Canada français until the end of 1917, when he moved to Montreal to work for Le Pays and La Presse. In 1920 he became an inspector for the Montreal Tramways Commission.
Arsène Bessette died suddenly on 21 June 1921 while visiting a friend. Notices of his death appeared in several newspapers, but Le Canada français, where he had worked for more than 15 years, had only a short article on the life of this writer who had dreamt of becoming famous but whose passing went unremarked. Yet Bessette’s only book, which was well written and carefully researched with regard to the political situation in the province, was distinctly superior to the other Québécois novels written by his generation. As well, by exploring the theme of free love, it anticipated Jean-Charles Harvey*’s Les demi-civilisés, which would cause a scandal when it came out in 1934.
Aurélien Boivin
[Arsène Bessette’s novel, Le débutant, was reprinted in Montreal in 1977, thanks to Madeleine Ducrocq-Poirier, and again in Saint-Laurent, Que., in 2002. The author is grateful to Marie-Frédérique Desbiens, a third-year literature student at the Université Laval, Quebec, for her assistance with the research for this biography. a.b.]
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Energy Market ReportsCatalyst Business Energy Market Brief February 2015
Catalyst Business Energy Market Brief February 2015
by Ian Mckenna 01 February 2015
Falling Energy Prices again this month
Brent crude oil continued its slide throughout January as Saudi Arabia said it was willing to hold out for $40/bl – impacting nearly all producing countries who have higher costs. As a result, Brent crude fell 21.3% over the month to average $50.0/bl, its lowest level in over five-and-a-half years. Brent crude seemed to have bottomed out towards the end of the month. The falls throughout January sent long-term UK gas and power prices lower.
Healthy storage and falling commodities influence long-term contracts
Sharp falls in oil, as well as a continued slide in coal prices, tied in with a healthy storage picture to pull long-term contracts down over January. Summer 15 gas dropped 13.6% to average 43.3p/th.
Power prices followed their gas counterparts, with the summer 2015 baseload power contract dropping 1.6% month-on-month to average £47.1/MWh. Annual April 2015 power was down 9.3% to average £44.7/MWh.
In similar fashion to long-term contracts, UK spot prices were bearish over the month as an increase in LNG deliveries and high wind generation reduced pressure on the system. Day-ahead gas dropped 14.2%, averaging 46.3p/th, as high storage levels outweighed supply disruptions at Norwegian gas fields. Day-ahead power lost 8.3% to average £39.5/MWh, as a result of the consistently high wind generation throughout the month.
The month ahead: Cold weather may increase price volatility
The Bank of America Merrill Lynch has suggested the outlook for oil will continue to be bearish, forecasting prices may drop as low as $31/bl by the end of March. Several analysts have said that $40/bl may be the level at which US oil shale producers are forced to cut back production, and could see some go out of business.
Colder weather is forecast to increase and linger over February, with predictions of snow in the coming weeks. This will support a demand boost and increase sensitivity to any supply issues that may occur, potentially driving short-term prices higher.
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Long-term gas contracts were impacted by continued sharp falls in Brent crude oil prices, as analysts cut their price forecasts throughout January. Despite major outages in Norway, the system was well supplied over the month.
Summer 15 gas dropped 13.6% to average 43.3p/th. The annual April contract fell 13.0% to average 46.4p/th.
The spot gas market also dropped in January above seasonal norm temperatures reduced gas demand. Consistently high wind generation helped reduce demand for the fuel in power generation over the month. A healthy GB gas supply picture also influenced.
Day-ahead gas dropped 14.2%, to average 46.3p/th over the month.
In January long-term power prices followed the continued falls in oil, coal and gas.
Energy-intensives get relief from green levies
The government has detailed its plans for providing electricity-intensive industries (EIIs) with relief from the indirect costs of green policies.
Relief for industry
Between July-October 2014, the government consulted on how it intended to compensate EIIs for costs associated with the Renewables Obligation (RO), micro generation Feed-in Tariffs (FiTs) and the Contracts for Difference (CfDs) scheme. These programmes provide subsidies that aim to incentivise the development of low-carbon generation; however, in the 2014 Budget, chancellor George Osborne announced the government’s intention to alleviate the cost burden that they placed on EIIs.
While industry has broadly welcomed the government’s proposals, some stakeholders have suggested that further products and sectors should be considered eligible for the relief than is currently planned. The government said it would consider these cases and will fully respond in advance of the scheme’s implementation. A report will be published later in 2015 detailing in full those sectors eligible for relief through the scheme.
Third party charges
The news comes as independent research has outlined the continuing challenge presented to business energy consumers, including smaller firms, by third party charges.
Indicative forecasts, unveiled by energy consultants Cornwall Energy, suggested that, from 2014-15 to 2015-16, transmission costs on the electricity bill of small businesses would increase by 0.10p/kWh to 0.81p/kWh. Over the same period, distribution charges were expected to fall from 2.33p/kWh to 1.94p/kWh, though these charges are variable across different regions.
The costs of renewables policies were also expected to rise. Over the year, the cost of the FiT scheme was predicted to grow from 0.33p/kWh to 0.42p/kWh and the Renewables Obligation (RO) to increase from 1.06p/kWh to 1.26p/kWh. The cost impact of the government’s CfD regime will also be felt for the first time from April 2015; though it will initially add only 0.01p/kWh.
The picture for gas is expected to be more stable with minimal cost increases anticipated: transmission charges in 2015-16 were expected to stand at 0.07p/kWh, with distribution charges at 0.54p/kWh.
SMEs could be underestimating energy efficiency potential
The uptake of energy efficiency measures in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is in danger of being undermined by the difficulty of estimating the benefits, a government report has said.
On Friday 16 January, the government published a report on Research to Assess the Barriers and Drivers to Energy Efficiency in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises. It said that businesses faced a challenge in quantifying, understanding and integrating energy efficiency savings into normal business information flows, and that it was therefore difficult for the value of any potential or actual improvement to be accurately analysed. This issue could mean that energy efficiency improvements were “undervalued” by SMEs, the report said. Proposed solutions included improving businesses’ access to metering and monitoring technology.
The government said that its research demonstrated that businesses did not operate on simple “”calculation-decision-implementation” models based on financial factors alone, but were also influenced by wider considerations.
Government sets out network investment needs
The government has said that around £34bn of investment into the electricity networks will be needed before the end of the decade in order to ensure stable power supplies.
Published on 8 January, an official study, Delivering UK: Energy Investment: Networks, said that network investment would be essential during the low-carbon transition, as the UK’s ageing electricity infrastructure would become “unable to cope with changing generation and needs”. Approximately £7.6bn of investment was said to be required in the gas networks over the same period.
Progress made
The report set out the progress that has been made in recent years: between 2010-14, there was over £16bn of investment in electricity networks, plus around £3.8bn in the gas networks. The government has also, over the last five years, increased interconnector capacity to other countries and delivered £500mn in support for the testing and trialling of new smart grid technologies.
The report argued that the UK’s regulatory regime for the networks was “world leading” and was helping to stimulate investment.
The government said that it was continuing to work with the European Commission to reduce Europe’s dependence on foreign gas supplies.
The report further argued that the development of heat networks had “vast potential”. The technology sees heat generated centrally and distributed to local businesses and homes through water pipes, but its roll-out has been slower in the UK than in other countries. The government’s modelling suggests that there is the technical potential for heat networks to supply as much as 43% of demand for buildings by 2050. In order to promote the technology, the government is supporting 122 projects in 91 Local Authorities with almost £7mn in grant funding to support development studies over the coming year.
Future challenges
The government emphasised that the energy networks of the future would need to accommodate far more diverse sources of generation than in the past. To make the networks fit for this challenge, the report said they would need to be reconfigured so as to make them smarter and more integrated – bringing together the use of electricity, heat and gas to maximise efficiency and reduce costs.
Businesses not ready for ESOS: survey
Nearly half (49%) of UK manufacturers say they are unaware of the Energy Saving Opportunity Scheme (ESOS), a survey by npower has revealed.
ESOS is a compulsory energy assessment scheme for organisations in the UK that meet certain qualification criteria, largely based on the size of the company. The survey released on Wednesday 21 January also found that seven out of ten (69%) decision-makers at manufacturing firms felt “uninformed” about the requirements for carrying out an ESOS assessment. In response to the findings, npower is pushing for both the government and energy suppliers to make a better business case for manufacturers to improve their energy efficiency.
Demand side delivers substantial savings
Primary energy demand in the non-domestic sector has stayed flat despite UK GDP doubling since 1980, a new report has claimed.
Fewer power stations
The report, Invisible Energy: Hidden Benefits of the Demand Side, was published on 19 January by industry group The Association for Decentralised Heat (ADE). It analysed the economic benefits delivered by demand reduction since 1980.
The research found that the UK needed 14 fewer power stations now than it otherwise would have done because of the positive effects of demand side measures. The construction of fewer power stations had, the paper said, resulted in less operating and capital costs being passed onto UK businesses.
Demand side measures have also positively impacted energy security, the study said. ADE estimated that, since 1980, liquefied natural gas imports would have been twice as high without the demand-side actions taken by commercial, industry and public sector users.
Benefits for business
The analysis suggested that if, in 2012, as much energy was used in the industrial and services sector per unit of GDP as was used in 1980, business and public sector consumers would be spending an additional £37.2bn on their energy every year. In addition, development of the demand-side sector meant that 136,000 people were employed in the professional energy management service and building technology industries.
2020 potential
The report called on the government to place further emphasis on demand-side policies. ADE recommended that the government’s assessments of policies to reduce emissions should test decentralised and demand side options against traditional centralised solutions. The group said that, at present, the government was focused only on the 16% of energy that reached the end user rather than the 84% that was lost in transition. All new policies must be “clear, simple and integrated” to enable users to make the right decisions to cut energy waste, the report said. ADE projected the potential for a saving of £5.6bn in fuel and power costs by 2020, as well as an extra £25bn in sales.
Business leaders call for carbon trading reform
The EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) is in urgent need of a Market Stability Reserve (MSR) that will keep Europe on target for meeting its climate and green energy goals, The Prince of Wales’s Corporate Leaders Group (CLG) has argued.
The EU ETS works as a “cap and trade” scheme, placing a cap on the total amount of greenhouse gases that can be emitted by public and private sector organisations in the EU. Those that emit more carbon than their cap allows need to purchase extra EUAs, whilst those that manage to reduce their carbon emissions below their cap can sell on their excess allowances. But over the past few years there has, partly as a consequence of the recession, been a growing excess of EUAs in the system, with the carbon price dropping to a level at which it is unable to incentivise low-carbon investment. The EU has proposed setting up an MSR by 2021, which would help to remove excess EUAs from the system.
However, in a letter to EU policy-makers, the CLG called for the MSR to be implemented by 2017 at the latest, a position backed by the UK and German governments. Philippe Joubert, chair of the CLG, said: “The EU ETS is the cornerstone of EU climate policy, so we have to get it right – it must be reformed to drive forward green growth sooner rather than later.”
Political uncertainty tops energy executives’ concerns
Nearly two-thirds (62%) of energy leaders regard political risk as the biggest worry for their business in 2015, according to a special report from The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU).
In a report, Industries in 2015, published on Wednesday 14 January, the EIU found that that the second and third biggest concerns facing leaders in the sector were economic and market risk (52%) and cyber-attacks (9%). But there was also indications of growing optimism in the sector, with fewer than one in 10 (9%) respondents to the survey saying that their expectations of business in 2015 were “worse” or “much worse” than last year.
Wind power could increase UK’s energy resilience
Wind power makes a significant contribution to the UK's energy resilience by cutting "costly" fossil fuel imports, a report commissioned by trade association Renewable UK has claimed.
Published on Friday 16 January, the study, prepared by Cambridge Econometrics, said that in 2013 wind had reduced the UK's need to import coal by an estimated 4.6mn tonnes, and had cut the need for imported gas by 1.4bn cm. Focusing on gas rather than wind within the energy mix would, the report said, cost £3.1bn by 2020, rising to £7.4bn in 2030. Furthermore, the study claimed that if the cost of gas increased in line with DECC's high price forecast, the cost of generating electricity would increase by 8%--as opposed to less than 4% if the UK focused on wind development.
North Sea industry calls for support
The continuing fall in the price of oil has prompted the UK oil and gas industry to call for reforms to ensure that production and jobs are safeguarded.
Industry association Oil and Gas UK has appealed for the abolition of the 30% supplementary charge that is levied on oil and gas companies in addition to corporation tax. The organisation also said that the reforms promised in the 2014 Autumn Statement such an allowance to boost exploration would need to be implemented by the next Budget in March, if they were to have any impact.
In comments reported on 2 January, industry expert Sir Ian Wood argued for a 10% cut to the supplementary charge in order to safeguard jobs and investment in the industry. A day earlier, the government had launched an urgent commission into the industry’s current plight; its initial report will be published in early February.
Companies aim to hit 100% renewables
The internal rate of return for renewable power investment is as high as 18% for businesses and there are other significant benefits, campaign group RE100 has claimed.
The group’s report, The Journey to 100%, described global trends in corporate demand and investment in renewable power. It found that renewables accounted for 41.3% of the new generating capacity installed globally in 2013, and held an increasing market share in new power generation investment.
The most financially attractive direct investments were said to be biomass projects, providing power and heat for industrial processes. However other technologies were also found to be increasingly popular, such as windfarms and solar photovoltaics.
Power purchase agreements were also growing in popularity, the report said, especially for companies with a power footprint spread across multiple large factories. To increase the number of companies working toward 100% renewables, RE100 said it would aim to “increase awareness of the business case for renewable power and encourage others to commit to the journey”.
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Carbon: EU Emissions Trading Scheme carbon is quoted as over-the-counter (OTC) latest opening prices. All carbon prices are in euros per tonne (€/EUA).
Coal: Coal is quoted as OTC latest opening prices. All coal prices are in US dollars per tonne ($/t).
Electricity: UK electricity power base-load and electricity peak-load are quoted as OTC latest opening prices. All UK electricity prices are in pounds per megawatt hour (£/MWh).
Gas: UK National Balancing Point (NBP) gas is quoted as OTC latest opening prices. All UK gas prices are in pence per therm (p/th).
Oil: Brent crude oil is quoted as OTC latest opening prices. All Brent crude oil prices are in US dollars per barrel ($/bl).
Energy Language and Terminology
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Bearish: A bearish market shows a general decline in prices over a period of time.
Bullish: A bullish market shows a general increase in prices over a period of time.
Curve: A graph of forward prices over a future time period.
Margin: The indicated UK imbalance of a given settlement period. It is the difference between the sum of the indicated generation available, and the national demand forecast made by National Grid.
Over-the-counter (OTC): The trade of a commodity directly between two parties, often on standardised terms.
Spark/ Dark spread: The theoretical net income of a gas-/ coal-fired power plant from selling electricity having purchased the necessary fuel. The clean spark/ dark spread is this net income adjusted for the cost of carbon.
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UCF Discovery Could Allow Travel from Coast to Coast in Under 30 Minutes
By UCF Admin May 29, 2019 Print Article
People can travel from the University of Central Florida to Orlando International Airport in about 30 minutes, barring heavy traffic. But what if they could travel from New York to Los Angeles in that time or less?
A recent discovery made at UCF could bring travelers one step closer to turning that fantasy into reality. The results of the study were recently published in the Proceedings of the Combustion Institute.
Aerospace engineering professor Kareem Ahmed and his research team in the UCF Propulsion and Energy Research Lab found that subsonic flames, like those in a candle or a campfire, can be turned into hypersonic flames. With a certain amount of “turbulent mixing,” hypersonic flames burn at an extremely high rate.
Turbulent mixing refers to the right recipe that converts a flame into a self-sustaining explosion that uses all of the ingested fuel and air to release a massive amount of energy.
This discovery can provide insight into dealing with intense fires and massive explosions, but it can also be used to create engines and aircrafts that would allow people to travel by plane or train from one coast to another in fewer than 30 minutes.
The goal is to use this knowledge to design engines that propel objects at five times the speed of sound or above, using less fuel. More research would be needed to determine the effects of this kind of travel on the human body, as well as to develop controlled environments for passengers and pilots.
“This new discovery is key for using these high-Mach fast flames for hypersonic air-breathing scramjet propulsion engines, a specific type of engine that can propel an aircraft to five times the speed of sound and above,” Ahmed says. “And it will aid in fighting intense fires and explosions.”
To conduct the experiments, the team measured flame speeds in a turbulent shock tube using a high-speed laser and camera diagnostics.
Ahmed’s team uncovered these findings during the past year, and the research is already winning awards. The Combustion Institute, a nonprofit scientific society that promotes research in combustion science and technology, selected his paper as one of 13 distinguished paper award winners from the 37th International Symposium on Combustion in 2018. This is the first time that a UCF faculty member has received this award.
The Combustion Institute recognized “Compressible turbulent flame speeds of highly turbulent standing flames,” in the Detonations, Explosions and Supersonic Combustion category. Mechanical and aerospace engineering doctoral students and former Burnett Honors Scholars Jonathan Sosa ’15 ’18MS and Jessica Chambers ’16 ’18MS — who worked with Ahmed at the PERL lab — co-authored the paper. It was also one of 639 papers that were accepted to the symposium out of the 1,600 that were submitted.
Now the team’s paper qualifies for the Silver Combustion Medal, which is awarded to outstanding papers that contribute quality, achievement and significance to the field of combustion science. The winner of the Silver Combustion Medal will be announced in July 2020 at the 38th International Symposium on Combustion in Australia, where Ahmed will also serve as the colloquium co-chair.
Sosa says that it’s fascinating to see their findings shed light on the fundamental understanding of newfound high-Mach number flames.
“But also, these laboratory scale experiments are capable of providing crucial information on the flame behavior for the advancement and design of hypersonic vehicles as well as providing new insight into how these fast flames propagate to deter flame propagation leading to explosions,” Sosa says.
Ahmed earned his doctoral degree in mechanical engineering from University at Buffalo — The State University of New York. He worked at Pratt & Whitney and Old Dominion University prior to joining UCF as an assistant professor in 2015.
Story by Marisa Ramiccio ’11, UCF Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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Zoë Bell
Zoë Bell who was born on Nov 17,1978 in Waiheke Island,Auckland,New Zealand is a stuntwoman, stunt coordinator and actress.Her mom Tish was a nurse and her dad Andrew Bell was a Doctor.She has 2 brothers Jake and Leonhard.She's been active in the field since 1992.
She was recognised for her role in the film Death Proof.She also starred in TV and web series.She did stunts for a number of films which includes Xena:Warrior Princess,Kill Bill:Volume 1 & 2, Catwoman, Poseidon,Penny Dreadful,The Kingdom,Lost,Bitch Slap,The Kingdom,Inglorious Bastards,Iron Man3,The Final Destination,Thor:Ragnarok.
Some of the films in which she played a role are Fallout:New Vegas, Gossip Girl,Mercenaries,The Hateful eight,Cleopatra,Grindhouse,Angel of Death,Gamer,Whip it,Double Dare,Oblivion,Hansel and Gretel:Witch Hunters and Angel of Death.
Zoë Bell Religion
Zoë Bell's religious views are not known as she hardly seems to issue any open statements regarding her religious faith.So it can be assumed that she may be a non-religious person.
Zoë Bell Political Views
Regarding the political views of Zoë Bell not much is known as she neither expressed nor made any statements regarding her ideology.So it can be assumed that she may be a person who wants to stay away from politics.
Though not much is known about her personal life relationship,there are rumors that she may be in a relationship with her boyfriend Gerard Butler.
Zoë Bell Hobbies
Zoë Bell in her young age participated in dance,high diving,scuba and track and field activities.She also participated in gymnastics competition.So she might be involving in any one of the above activities during her spare time or she might be practicing her stunts, as not much information is available about her leisure time activities.
Zoë Bell studied Taekwon-do.She won Best Stunts Awards at Maverick Movie Awards in 2009 for the film Reflections.She also won Best Overall Stunt by a Stunt Woman Award at Screen Actors Guild Awards and World Stunt Awards in 2008 and 2005 respectively.Bell now resides in Los Angeles and have a dream to own a house in New Zealand.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zo%C3%AB_Bell
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1057928/bio
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Charles G. Willis
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Plant Diversity and Climate Change
The projected loss and gain of suitability habitat of the New England Aster (Symphyotrichum novae-angliae) by 2070 under the IPCC's worst-case emission scenario (RCP 8.5). The model used to assess these changes is based on the species' present distribution and the associated climate and soil conditions. The model predicts a loss of over 60% of the species' current range, but a net gain of 10% with a major northward shift in range.
As a Fellow at the Harvard University Center for the Environment, my research focuses on understanding how future climate change will affect the biodiversity of the North American flora. Do to this, I utilize environmental niche modeling on a large-scale to assess which plant species will be winners and losers under future climate change scenarios, and whether these species are concentrated in specific branches of the Tree of Life. Currently, we have data for nearly 12,000 plant species (58% of the total flora).
Phylogenetic distribution of decline in abundance over the past century (1900-2006) for the flora of Concord, MA. Decline abundance was concentrated in specific parts of the tree, highlighted above, and was also correlated with a lack of phenological sensitivity to climate change (Willis et al. 2008)
Phenology & Climate Change
Climate change has led to major changes in the phenology—the timing of seasonal activities, such as flowering—of some species but not others. The extent to which flowering time response to temperature is shared among closely related species might have important consequences for community-wide patterns of species loss under rapid climate change.
My colleagues and I use historic records to study how climate change has impacted the phenology of New England. This research takes on two involves two different, but complementary approaches.
Herbarium record of the common New England orchid, Pink lady’s-slipper (Cypripedium acaule).
The first approach has focused on mining the notebooks of botanists and naturalists from the last two centuries, including Henry David Thoreau, to study how flowering time and abundance have changed in the flora of Concord, MA. By comparing their detailed notes of when species flowered with current observations, we are able to assess how much species have responded to climate change over the last century, as well as, how well they have fared. This research lead to the finding that species that have not responded to climate change by adjusting their flowering time, have also experienced significant declines in abundance.
The second approach focuses on mining the vast collections of the New England herbaria. Known as the New England Vascular Plant (NEVP) project, the aim of this project is to digitize and analyze the over 1.1.3 million herbarium specimens housed in 15 New England herbaria. These records represent snapshots of phenological events (e.g., flowering, fruiting, leaf-out) that can be linked to a specific date and location. In aggregate, these data can provide valuable insights into historic changes in phenology for a wide diversity of species from across the New England area. Furthermore, give the scale of the data that need to be processed, this project also lends itself nicely to utilization of citizen science crowdsourcing, an aspect we are developing with the lead creator, Dr. Edith Law, of the crowdsourcing platform Curio.
Speciation in the genus Cakile (Brassicaceae)
Cumulative post-zygotic reproductive isolation across 18 Cakile and Erucaria taxa in relationship to species' pairwise genetic distance.
I am interested in the mechanisms that underlie the process of speciation. In particular, I am interested in the role of local adaptation in the evolution of reproductive isolation. The biological species concept (BSC) defines species by their reproductive integration, as well as, their reproductive isolation from other species. However, the mechanisms that result in reproductive isolation are many. Furthermore, the evolution of individual mechanisms can occur in multiple ways. The classic model of reproductive isolation is the Dobzhansky-Muller model. In this model, allopatric isolation of two populations inhibits gene flow allowing novel alleles to accrue in one or both populations that result in genic incompatibilities upon secondary contact. Similarly, populations in isolation may evolve other mechanisms of reproductive isolation such as differential habitat or mate preference. I am interested in how local adaptation influences the evolution of these mechanisms. While it is easy to imagine how local adaptation could influence habitat preference, it is not well understood how local adaptation influences the evolution of other mechanisms, in particular, the evolution Dobzhansky-Muller incompatibilities. For instance, local adaptation could accelerate the evolution of Dobzhansky-Muller incompatibilities if incompatible alleles were under selection in the different environments.
To address the role of adaptation in speciation, I study speciation in the genus Cakile (Brassicaceae). I am currently employing hybridization experiments, common garden experiments, and comparative methods to study the evolution of reproductive isolation and ecological diversification across the clade.
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Story event a tale of literary exploration
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At first glance, Shanghai might seem like an unlikely place to host an international conference on English-language short stories. Yet last week, more than 250 writers, scholars and translators from 30 countries turned up for just such an event, organized by the Society of the Study of the Short Story and held at venues around the city.
Attendees from home and abroad take part in the first plenary meeting on the theme "Influence and Confluence in the Short Story: East and West" at East China Normal University during the 14th International Conference on the Short Story in English last week.
Attendees included English-language writers such as Clark Blaise, Robert Olen Butler, Gish Jen, Bharati Mukherjee, Evelyn Conlon and Yiyun Li. They were joined by a fleet of their Chinese peers, many of whom have had their works translated into English. The four-day conference included readings, workshops, book launches and panel discussions. It was also the first time the society has held such a conference in an Asian venue.
East and West
The conference's plenary meeting took place at East China Normal University and centered on the theme "Influence and Confluence in the Short Story: East and West." Writers from the Anglophone world were prompted by this theme to discuss the concepts of East and West as they relate to their own work and world literature as a whole.
Irish writer Evelyn Conlon, whose most recent work "Not the Same Sky" tells the story of three young women who were among the 4,000 orphaned Irish girls shipped to Australia following the Great Famine of 1847, said: "The West is a political concept rather than a place. For people from Ireland, we go East when we set sail for Australia. So, one must choose the borders or settings of the story carefully to make our writing vivid and precise."
Jack Ross, a New Zealand poet and lecturer in creative writing, said: "For years people thought we belonged to the West. However, the colonial and Maori history of New Zealand has made us neither East nor West. With increased immigration from Asian countries like China, Japan and Korea in the latter part of 20th century, the new generation of New Zealanders are eager to take on their own identities."
Mark A. Jarman, a Canadian writer who has traveled extensively in Ireland, the United States and Italy, said he's never worried about the East or the West when writing. However, "in Canada, those who write in English are isolated from those who write in French," he said. "That's why I like the idea of coming to meeting where English writers are meeting Chinese writers to break the barrier of the two solitudes."
The Chinese writers, meanwhile, spoke mainly on the influence of the Western tradition on modern Chinese literature.
Fang Fang, president of the Hubei Writers' Association, said: "Whereas classical Chinese literature developed almost independently of Western influence, modern Chinese literature drew heavily on it. It wasn't until after 1985 that modern Chinese literature started to have its own independent characteristics."
Recalling her own career in writing, Fang said her first novel was named after Guy de Maupassant's short story "Butterball."
"It was a Chinese story of typical characters, but it was my first time to explore the dark side of human nature. Shedding political ideologies and styles, the story was not able to be published at that time. However, to write about human nature has become the theme of my novels ever since," she said.
Su Tong, who is widely acknowledged as a master of short-form literature, gave credit to two American short stories — William Faulkner's "A Rose For Emily" and Carson McCullers' "The Ballad of the Sad Café" — which he said inspired him during his high-school years.
Aside from their vivid depictions of life in the American deep south, Su said his biggest take-away from these works is that: "the secret of writing a good story lies in its characters, in the lives of common men and women."
Zhao Mei, chairperson of the Tianjin Writers' Association as well as a writer of romance stories, said it was Virginia Woolf and Claire de Duras that led her to the feminist approach to literature. Bi Feiyu, winner of the Man Asian Literary Prize in 2010, said he's benefited greatly from Sigmund Freud's writings on the analysis of dreams, which he said gave him a "third eye" to see the world by intuition.
When discussing the future development of the short story over the course of the conference, many writers expressed concern that globalization has led to a more homogenized world culture, where individual perspectives are becoming less unique. Yet, as Gish Jen asked at a separate book-talk event at Shanghai Library, why write fiction at all "when reality today can be much more interesting than any novel?"
Jen is a second generation Chinese-American whose works focus on immigrants experiencing the triumphs and trials of American life.
For other writers though, the interchange between world cultures is also allowing for new experiences and ways of living. Author Clark Blaise, for example, was born in American to an English mother and a French father and now lives with his Indian-born wife in Canada. Blaise said it took him more than 50 years to develop the confidence to write about many important aspects of the modern world, despite his own experiences with globalizing forces.
American fiction writer Robert Olen Butler, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1993 for "A Good Scent From a Strange Mountain" — a collection of short stories about the aftermath of the Vietnam War — told reporters at the conference that writing is "always a form of human yearning in search for self-identity."
Though different writers used different ways to express themselves, the writers all seemed to be in agreement that good stories from outsider perspectives can increase our capacity for empathy and inspire readers to see their world in a whole new light.
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Attendees from home and abroad took part in the 14th International Conference on the Short Story in English in Shanghai.
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Thursday, October 1, 2015 - 7:05pm
Coastal Point • Tracy Johnson: The Union Gospel Choir sang at the Gospel Song Fest at Curtis United Methodist Church in Bishopville, Md., on Saturday, Sept. 19.A majority of the congregation was fully involved in praise and song at the Gospel Song Fest as the Union Gospel Choir from Union UMC in Delmar, Md., sang throughout the event on Saturday, Sept. 19, at Curtis United Methodist Church in Bishopville, Md.
The United Methodist Women (UMW) of Curtis sponsored the event, and one of their own, Priscilla Postley, decided to make the Gospel Song Fest come to life.
Postley’s role in the church is serving as an usher and secretary of the Delmarva Usher Association for Maryland, Delaware and Virginia counties.
Outside the church, Postley works for Compton Trust, also known as Tyson, and has worked in the chicken business for 35 years, with work experience from Showell to Perdue.
Postley said the UMW tries to do different events throughout the year to raise money for mission projects, and a Gospel Song Fest inspired her.
“To help finance in that, we have to do things, and this was one of them I came up with as part of that fundraiser,” she added.
Postley said she was very familiar with the Union Gospel Choir, which was why the UMW decided to choose them for the Gospel Song Fest event.
“They were here at Curtis’ Usher’s Day back in February with their pastor, Rev. James Young, and they did a dynamic, awesome job,” she said.
The UMW advertised their event by word-of-mouth and handing out fliers to different churches.
Postley gave advice to those who wanted to plan a similar event to the Gospel Song Fest — not to carry all the load but to work with a group, rather than doing it alone.
“Pray about it, and if you need help, don’t be afraid to ask for it,” she said.
Union Gospel Choir member Peggy Evans retired after serving the military and has been a part of the choir for 10 years.
Evans said that the choir is very family-oriented because most of them are relatives, and the ones that gave her inspiration were choir members Rosemary Hudson and Lorraine Carrigan, and Gospel singer Mahalia Jackson.
“I just like singing for the Lord,” she added.
Evans said the choir goes to different churches to do full programs like the Gospel Song Fest, and they travel to places such as Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
“This isn’t something that’s new, because we do it all the time,” she added.
Evans said that they would definitely come back if they were asked to return and sing again for the Gospel Song Fest next year.
“Young people need the church, and the older people can’t seem to get them back in anymore,” she added. “So you need to have something that young people like. If they want rap Gospel, give it to them. Whatever the need is, I would suggest bringing it to the forefront.”
Curtis United Methodist church member Edna “Peggy” Solomon said she also enjoyed music. She is the Pastor-Parish Relations chairwoman and a member of the finance committee, serving at the church since 2001.
Outside the church, Solomon retired from the postal service and currently works for the State of Delaware as an administrative assistant, for eight years in February.
Solomon said her favorite part of the Gospel Song Fest was when they started the event off with praise and worship.
“I liked the worship leader, she was wonderful with the way she got the crowd into it and wanted the people to praise God and do what they’re supposed to do,” she added.
Solomon said she would come again if the Gospel Song Fest became an annual event and recommends others to come and attend.
“I think it’s great to get together and praise God and listen to songs. It doesn’t always have to be preaching,” she added.
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Ball Aerospace And Maxar’s SSL Will Be Vying For Opportunity To Construct MethaneSAT
January 12, 2019 – Environmental Defense Fund announced that it has signed contracts with two leading aerospace companies that will compete for the opportunity to build EDF’s MethaneSAT.
Over the next several months, EDF will work with Ball Aerospace and SSL, a Maxar Technologies company, to refine designs and program plans to meet the performance, cost and scheduling requirements of the MethaneSAT project. EDF will then choose one mission partner to build the satellite, including the methane-measuring instrument at the heart of the unique mission.
The decision to move forward with Ball and SSL comes after discussions with nearly two dozen prospective providers. Each of the selected firms offers unique capabilities. The contracts, totaling $1.5 million, are a key milestone for MethaneSAT, which will quantify and map heat-trapping methane emissions from oil and gas facilities and other man-made sources around the globe. Announced last April, MethaneSAT is scheduled to launch in 2021.
“We’ve had the opportunity to work with the some of the most capable companies in the space industry,” said Tom Ingersoll, project director for MethaneSAT and himself a satellite entrepreneur with over 30 years’ experience. “Ball and SSL are the two we feel are best positioned to make this challenging mission a success.”
Competitive Challenge
To meet demanding performance requirements, MethaneSAT is using the latest scientific and technological innovations in sensor design, spectroscopy, data retrieval algorithms and flux inversions, a state-of-the-art modeling technique to distinguish emissions from ambient methane and trace them back to their source. Choosing the right vendor to build it is mission-critical.
Ball Aerospace creates innovative space solutions, enables more accurate weather forecasts, drives insightful observations of our planet and delivers actionable data and intelligence for government and commercial customers. The data captured through Ball-built instruments and satellites facilitates an enhanced scientific understanding of major sustainability challenges, and has allowed governments, industry and other stakeholders to effectively address these challenges over the past 60 years.
SSL, a Maxar Technologies company, provides satellites and spacecraft systems that connect, protect and inform the world. A Silicon Valley innovator for more than 60 years, their product line includes satellites for video broadcast, communications, Earth observation and remote sensing as well as spacecraft systems and robotics for exploration. SSL leverages Maxar’s broad space systems expertise to provide complete solutions and will engage the expertise of sister company DigitalGlobe in developing MethaneSAT.
The competing proposals will be evaluated and the winning vendor chosen by EDF experts working together with seasoned advisors. These include Dr. Dan McCleese, former Chief Scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, who leads the project’s Science Advisory Group, and Joe Rothenberg, former Director of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and Director of Engineering and Operations for Google’s Terra Bella, who heads up the Technical Advisory Group.
The principal scientific investigator on MethaneSAT is Dr. Steven C. Wofsy, Abbott Lawrence Rotch Professor of Atmospheric and Environmental Science at Harvard University. He and EDF worked with a team from Harvard and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory to establish core mission requirements, design selections and launch schedule.
Along with Ingersoll, the in-house MethaneSAT team includes EDF Chief Scientist Dr. Steven Hamburg, and Mark Brownstein, Senior Vice President of the EDF energy program, and remote sensing expert Dr. Ritesh Gautam.
EDF brings a deep understanding to the challenges of quantifying methane emissions and mapping those emissions through its role as organizer of an unprecedented series of ground-based and airborne studies examining emissions across the U.S. oil and gas supply chain that involved more than 140 researchers from 40 institutions in cooperation with 50 oil and gas companies.
Crucial Climate Challenge
The October 2018 report by International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) confirms that our climate is changing even faster than anticipated, requiring dramatic action now to prevent the most catastrophic effects. Human-made methane emissions are responsible for more than a quarter of the warming we experience today, and are a crucial part of the solution; reducing them is one of the fastest, most cost-effective ways to slow the warming rate while we continue to decarbonize the economy.
“MethaneSAT is the single most audacious effort we’ve ever undertaken at EDF, in keeping with the scale and scope of this crucial opportunity,” said Brownstein. “Significant reductions in oil and gas methane emissions now can materially lower the rate of global temperature rise in our lifetime. MethaneSAT will give us the data we need to seize this moment.”
Data from MethaneSAT will be available at no cost, helping both companies and countries identify emission sources, see opportunities to reduce them, and track those reductions over time. EDF’s goal is to reduce global oil and gas methane emissions 45 percent by 2025. This would deliver the same 20-year benefit to the climate as closing 1,300 coal-fired power plants — one-third of all the coal plants in the world.
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Life’s First Handshake: Chiral Molecule Detected In Interstellar Space
Propylene oxide is one of a class of so-called “chiral” molecules — molecules that have an identical chemical composition, but right- and left-handed versions. Chiral molecules are essential for life and their discovery in deep space may help scientists understand why life on Earth relies on a certain handedness to perform key biological functions. Sgr A* in this image indicates the supermassive black hole at the center of our Galaxy. The white features in the composite image are the bright radio sources in the center of our Galaxy as seen with the VLA. The background image is from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The two “handed” versions of propylene oxide are illustrated. The “R” and “S” designations are for the Latin terms rectus (right) and sinister (left). Image Credit: B. Saxton, NRAO/AUI/NSF from data provided by N.E. Kassim, Naval Research Laboratory, Sloan Digital Sky Survey
June 14, 2016 – Like a pair of human hands, certain organic molecules have mirror-image versions of themselves, a chemical property known as chirality. These so-called “handed” molecules are essential for biology and have intriguingly been found in meteorites on Earth and comets in our Solar System. None, however, has been detected in the vast reaches of interstellar space, until now.
A team of scientists using highly sensitive radio telescopes has discovered the first complex organic chiral molecule in interstellar space. The molecule, propylene oxide (CH3CHOCH2), was found near the center of our Galaxy in an enormous star-forming cloud of dust and gas known as Sagittarius B2 (Sgr B2).
The research was undertaken primarily with the National Science Foundation’s Green Bank Telescope (GBT) in West Virginia as part of the Prebiotic Interstellar Molecular Survey. Additional supporting observations were taken with the Parkes radio telescope in Australia.
“This is the first molecule detected in interstellar space that has the property of chirality, making it a pioneering leap forward in our understanding of how prebiotic molecules are made in the Universe and the effects they may have on the origins of life,” said Brett McGuire, a chemist and Jansky Postdoctoral Fellow with the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Charlottesville, Virginia.
“Propylene oxide is among the most complex and structurally intricate molecules detected so far in space,” said Brandon Carroll, a chemistry graduate student at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. “Detecting this molecule opens the door for further experiments determining how and where molecular handedness emerges and why one form may be slightly more abundant than the other.”
McGuire and Carroll share first authorship on a paper published today in the journal Science. They also are presenting their results at the American Astronomical Society meeting in San Diego, California.
Forming and Detecting Molecules in Space
Complex organic molecules form in interstellar clouds like Sgr B2 in several ways. The most basic pathway is through gas-phase chemistry, in which particles collide and merge to produce ever more complex molecules. Once organic compounds as large as methanol (CH3OH) are produced, however, this process becomes much less efficient.
To form more complex molecules, like propylene oxide, astronomers believe thin mantles of ice on dust grains help link small molecules into longer and larger structures. These molecules can then evaporate from the surface of the grains and further react in the gas of the surrounding cloud.
To date, more than 180 molecules have been detected in space. Each molecule, as it naturally tumbles and vibrates in the near vacuum of the interstellar medium, gives off a distinctive signature, a series of telltale spikes that appear in the radio spectrum. Larger and more complex molecules have a correspondingly more complex signature, making them harder to detect.
To claim a definitive detection, scientists must observe multiple spectral lines associated with the same molecule. In the case of propylene oxide, the research team detected two such lines with the GBT. The third was at a frequency difficult to observe from the Northern Hemisphere due to satellite radio interference. Carroll, McGuire, and their colleagues used the Parkes telescope to tease out the final spectral line needed to verify their results.
The current data, however, do not distinguish between the left- and right-handed versions of the molecule. In additional to the same chemical composition, chiral molecules have the same melting, boiling, and freezing points, and the same spectra.
“These spectra are like your hands’ shadows,” said Carroll. “It’s impossible to tell if a right hand or a left hand is casting the shadow.” This presents a challenge for researchers trying to determine if one version of propylene oxide is more abundant than the other.
The S (Latin for sinister, left) and R (Latin for rectus, right) versions of the chiral molecule propylene oxide, which was discovered in a massive star-forming region near the center of our Galaxy. This is the first detection of a chiral molecule in interstellar space. Image Credit: B. Saxton (NRAO/AUI/NSF)
Chirality in Space, a Helping Hand to Biology on Earth
Every living thing on Earth uses one, and only one handedness of many types of chiral molecules. This trait, called homochirality, is critical for life and has important implications for many biological structures, including DNA’s double helix. Scientists do not yet understand how biology came to rely on one handedness and not the other. The answer, the researchers speculate, may be found in the way these molecules naturally form in space before being incorporated into asteroids and comets and later deposited on young planets.
“Meteorites in our Solar System contain chiral molecules that predate the Earth itself, and chiral molecules have recently been discovered in comets,” noted Carroll. “Such small bodies may be what pushed life to the handedness we see today.”
“By discovering a chiral molecule in space, we finally have a way to study where and how these molecules form before they find their way into meteorites and comets, and to understand the role they play in the origins of homochirality and life,” McGuire said.
The researchers believe it may eventually be possible to determine if there is an excess of one handedness of propylene oxide over the other by examining how polarized light interacts with the molecules in space.
“The Prebiotic Interstellar Molecular Survey is the culmination of a nearly decade-long research campaign with the GBT,” said Anthony Remijan, an astrochemist with the NRAO and head of the research team. “It is an invaluable resource and helps us understand the cosmic origins of this and other similarly elusive molecules.”
The 100-meter Green Bank Telescope is the world’s largest fully steerable radio telescope.
The National Radio Astronomy Observatory is a facility of the National Science Foundation, operated under cooperative agreement by Associated Universities, Inc.
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New Horizons Data Suggests Pluto May Have A Subsurface Ocean
The New Horizons spacecraft spied extensional faults on Pluto, a sign that the dwarf planet has undergone a global expansion possibly due to the slow freezing of a subsurface ocean. A new analysis by Brown University scientists bolsters that idea, and suggests that ocean is likely still there today. Image Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
June 21, 2016 – When the NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft buzzed by Pluto last year, it revealed tantalizing clues that the dwarf planet might have — or had at one time — a liquid ocean sloshing around under its icy crust. According to a new analysis led by a Brown University Ph.D. student, such an ocean likely still exists today.
The study, which used a thermal evolution model for Pluto updated with data from New Horizons, found that if Pluto’s ocean had frozen into oblivion millions or billions of years ago, it would have caused the entire planet to shrink. But there are no signs of a global contraction to be found on Pluto’s surface. On the contrary, New Horizons showed signs that Pluto has been expanding.
“Thanks to the incredible data returned by New Horizons, we were able to observe tectonic features on Pluto’s surface, update our thermal evolution model with new data and infer that Pluto most likely has a subsurface ocean today,” said Noah Hammond, a graduate student in Brown’s Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, and the study’s lead author.
The research, which Hammond coauthored with advisors Amy Barr of the Planetary Science Institute in Arizona and Brown University geologist Marc Parmentier, is in press in Geophysical Research Letters.
The pictures New Horizons sent back from its close encounter with the Kuiper Belt’s most famous denizen showed that Pluto was much more than a simple snowball in space. It has an exotic surface made from different types of ices — water, nitrogen and methane. It has mountains hundreds of meters high and a vast heart-shaped plain. It also has giant tectonic features — sinuous faults hundreds of kilometers long as deep as 4 kilometers. It was those tectonic features that got scientists thinking that a subsurface ocean was a real possibility for Pluto.
“We have been waiting a long time to see the surface of Pluto, and it did not disappoint,” Barr said. “Many people thought that Pluto would be geologically ‘dead,’ that it would be covered in craters and have an ancient surface. Our work shows how even Pluto, at the edge of the Solar System, with very little energy, can have tectonics. We are grateful to the New Horizons team for working so hard to guide the craft to Pluto and return the beautiful images that motivated our study. They have provided another piece in the puzzle of the comparative planetology of icy worlds.”
Scientists think that there may have been enough heat-producing radioactive elements within Pluto’s rocky core to melt part of the planet’s ice shell. Over time in the frigid Kuiper belt, that melted portion would eventually start to refreeze. Ice is less dense than water, so when it freezes, it expands. If Pluto had on ocean that was frozen or in the process of freezing, extensional tectonics on the surface would result, and that’s what New Horizons saw.
There aren’t many other ways on Pluto to get such features. One way might have been through a gravitational tug of war with its moon, Charon. But the active gravitational dynamics between the two have long since wound down, and some of the tectonics look fairly fresh (on a geologic timescale). So, many scientists believe that an ocean is the strongest scenario.
But if Pluto had an ocean, what is its fate today? Could the freezing process still be going on, or did the ocean freeze solid a billion years ago?
That’s where the thermal evolution model run by Hammond and his colleagues comes in. The model includes updated data from New Horizons on Pluto’s diameter and density, key parameters in understanding the dynamics in Pluto’s interior. The model showed that because of the low temperatures and high pressure within Pluto, an ocean that had completely frozen over would quickly convert from the normal ice we all know to a different phase called ice II. Ice II has a more compact crystalline structure than standard ice, so an ocean frozen to ice II would occupy a smaller volume and lead to a global contraction on Pluto, rather than an expansion.
“We don’t see the things on the surface we’d expect if there had been a global contraction,” Hammond said. “So we conclude that ice II has not formed, and therefore that the ocean hasn’t completely frozen.”
There are a few caveats, the researchers point out. The formation of ice II is dependent on the thickness of Pluto’s ice shell. Ice II only forms if the shell is 260 kilometers thick or more. If the shell is thinner than that, the ocean could have frozen without forming ice II. And if that were the case the ocean could have frozen completely without causing contraction.
However, the researchers say there’s good reason to believe that the ice shell is more than 260 kilometers. Their updated model suggests that Pluto’s ice shell is actually closer to 300 or more kilometers thick. In addition, the nitrogen and methane ices that New Horizons found on the surface bolster the case for a thick ice shell.
“Those exotic ices are actually good insulators,” Hammond said. “They may be helping Pluto from losing more of its heat to space.”
Taken together, the new model bolsters the case for an ocean environment in the furthest reaches of the solar system.
“That’s amazing to me,” Hammond said. “The possibility that you could have vast liquid water ocean habitats so far from the sun on Pluto — and that the same could also be possible on other Kuiper belt objects as well — is absolutely incredible.”
New Horizons flew through the Pluto system on July 14, 2015, making the first close-up observations of Pluto and its family of five moons. The spacecraft is on course for an ultra-close flyby of another Kuiper Belt object, 2014 MU69, on January 1, 2019.
New Horizons is the first mission in NASA’s New Frontiers program, managed by the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory designed, built, and operates the New Horizons spacecraft. The Principal Investigator is Dr. Alan Stern of Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in Boulder, Colorado. SwRI leads the science mission, payload operations, and encounter science planning.
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Monday, August 27, 2018 - 01:00
If anything, former Chief Justice Sarath Nanda de Silva is a news maker. From the days he was the country's topmost judicial officer, and, even before, Silva made waves, especially where some of his judgements were concerned. He also courted controversy as regards his conduct while holding high judicial office. No other member of the country's highest court in Sri Lanka's post Independence history had been the subject of so much journalistic comment as the otherwise debonair and flamboyant former Chief Justice.
The Ex-CJ is in the news again. According to the main story of a Weekend English publication yesterday, Sarath Silva had acted against the constitution when he presented himself as legal counsel to former President Mahinda Rajapaksa when the CID questioned the latter at his Official residence in connection with the abduction of journalist Keith Noyahr. Not only that, Silva had taken an active part in the whole affair and even went to the extent of intimidating the investigators, conduct reminiscent of the times he donned the mantle of Chief Justice when counsel pleading their cases were hectored into submission.
It is this self same Sarath Nanda Silva, it was, who begged forbearance from the nation for letting off Mahinda Rajapaksa, in the Helping Hambantota matter. On that occasion Silva, in his unabashed mea culpa, openly pleaded for the countrymen to forgive him for paving the way for a man who should have been behind bars to contest a Presidential Election, instead. It appears that Sarath Silva has gone to the other extreme. Today he was legally representing the very individual he once said should have been thrown behind bars for fleecing Tsunami funds.
Handpicked by former President Chandrika Kumaratunga to head the Supreme Court, by-passing many senior judges, Silva went onto reign with the proverbial iron-fist and brooked no opposition from any quarter.
His was perhaps the most eventful, if not controversial tenure, as Chief Justice in this country that saw a onetime powerful Cabinet Minister thrown behind bars for Contempt of Court and the premature termination of the tenure of a President who was responsible for his appointment. For good measure he also gave judgement against CBK and made her pay compensation to the state in a case where the former President was found guilty of alienating state land for a golf course, for the benefit of a crony.
Controversy did not cease to dog Sarath Silva when he ruled in favour of his chum Mahinda Rajapaksa in the infamous Helping Hambantota case, clearing the path for him to contest the Presidential Election, a ruling which he (Silva) was to bitterly regret later, or so he told the people.
Out of office, Sarath Silva continued to make waves, first by aligning himself with General Sarath Fonseka in the latter's Presidential bid, being an active member of the movement to overthrow the Mahinda Rajapaksa regime which he described as corrupt to the core. It is in this attempt to oust Rajapaksa that Silva made the now famous mea culpa. That this protestation to the public was mere hogwash was proved before long when Sarath Silva did a complete U turn to mount the Bring Back Mahinda platform, addressing rallies in the company of the likes of Wimal Weerawansa, Rohitha Abeygunawardena and Mahindananda Aluthgamage, all over the country.
A lull ensued, where Sarath Silva was concerned, following the defeat of Rajapaksa at the General Election, that is until he was seen at a function to declare open MR's new political office at Battaramulla where he again plunged headlong into controversy. Speaking at the function, this onetime country's Chief Justice taking pot shots at the Prime Minister, flailing the government and FCID and grieving at the ‘plight’ of Yoshitha Rajapaksa (who was then in remand) went onto attack a private TV station for allegedly setting up business with the aid of LTTE money koti salli. This, obviously, was a means of deflecting from how Yoshitha raised Rs.240 million to establish the CSN TV channel.
As the country's one time Chief Juistice, Sarath Silva should have known better than to hurl such an accusation without producing even an iota of evidence. This was unworthy of any retired judicial officer, let alone an Ex-CJ.
According to the constitution, as we now learn, retired judges of the Supreme Court and Court of Appeal are barred from practicing law and appearing for clients. Another proviso should be made in the constitution to prohibit Supreme Court Judges from engaging in politics. The authorities should think of ways to preserve the dignity and honour of the judiciary at all times. Permitting retired judges to mount political platforms and let loose billingsgate stuff was unthinkable in the past.
There was much criticism when Mahinda Rajapaksa re-employed Supreme Court judges as Presidential Advisors and posted as Ambassadors. It was rightly or wrongly thought that such expectations could influence the judgements they deliver. Much worse was to follow, when, for the first time in this country, a retired Chief Justice was seen on the political stage in the company of the riff raff. Isn't this an act of contempt (of court)?
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Hatsujiro Hashimoto Medal for Chunlin Jia
Professor Chunlin Jia of the Ernst Ruska-Centre (ER-C) is to receive the Hatsujiro Hashimoto Medal from the International Federation of Societies for Microscopy. The award, honouring the outstanding contributions of individual scientists in the application of microscopy and other related techniques in physics and material sciences, is named after the pioneer of microscopy research, Hatsujiro Hashimoto. Chunlin Jia will be presented with the prize in September at the 18th International Microscopy Congress in Prague.
The main focus of Chunlin Jia's work is on the investigation of electroceramic materials using advanced electron microscopy techniques, as well as in the development of new methods for the optimal use of so-called aberration-corrected transmission electron microscopy, which he employs in the course of his investigations. The NCSI (negative spherical aberration imaging) technique, which Chunlin Jia developed on the basis of the aberration-corrected microscope, has improved the visibility of lighter elements and has made it possible to determine the occupancies of individual atomic columns in crystalline materials. Employing the NCSI technique, Chunlin Jia has measured the interplay between structural and electron properties in nanomaterials by analysing image contrast quantitatively through comparisons with simulations. One of his most important contributions to materials science is his work on the atomic-scale characterisation of electric dipoles in oxide ferroelectrics. The orientation of the dipoles can be altered by applying an external electric field; such materials are therefore suitable for storing data in a very small amount of space.
Chunlin Jia has been group leader at the Institute of Microstructure Research and the Ernst Ruska-Centre since 1998. Since 2000, he has held professorships at various Chinese universities. In 1993, RWTH Aachen University awarded him the Borchers Medal, and the Chinese Electron Microscopy Society honoured him with the K.H. Kuo Award for outstanding scientists in 2004. In 2010, he was selected by the Chinese government to take part in the 1000 talents programme, which aims to offer the best scientists in the world the opportunity to conduct research in China Since then, Jia travels between Germany and China, where he has established an electron microscopy research platform at Jiaotong University in Xi'an.
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Materialise releases Magics 14 with enhanced customer service
Written by: Chris Shaw | Published: 06 November 2009
Materialise has released a new version of its pre-processing software solution for the rapid prototyping and additive manufacturing industry.
Magics 14 has new features and is backed up in the form of a 'support request button', which provides a route to customer service.
Magics is a core component of the Magics e-RP Solution suite, which the company says offers a range of integrated efficiency boosting solutions for rapid prototyping and additive manufacturing setups.
The new release enhancements such as the ability to increase the efficiency of work preparation, process automation and the capability to increase build success for metal additive manufacturing.
It has the ability to perform cuts using section views, flexibility to speed up mirroring operations and the possibility to directly import Rhino files. All these work preparation operations are recorded to ensure control of the process.
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Louise Shaxson
Senior Research Fellow, Overseas Development Institute
Louise Shaxson is Senior Research Fellow in the RAPID programme at the Overseas Development Institute, the UK’s leading think tank on international development. Previously a director of the management consultancy company Delta Partnership, her work focuses on improving public sector policy and strategy within the broad framework of evidence-based policy making. She is particularly interested in approaches to stimulate the demand for evidence by policymakers, improving the linkages between research and policy, and how power dynamics affect the ways in which knowledge is supplied, brokered and used in policymaking.
Prior to joining ODI, Louise worked as a natural resource economist and researcher in Africa and Latin America, as a research manager in DFID’s London headquarters, and as a management consultant with government departments in the UK and internationally. This breadth of experience has given her substantial insights into the flow of evidence between research, policy and civil society and how they differ between countries. Her current work in South Africa is helping a government department implement the nuts and bolts of an evidence-informed approach to their work, whether that be developing policies around rhino hunting, waste policies for local municipalities, or reporting on progress being made against South Africa’s overarching goals of a sustainable economy, society and environment.
Louise has written extensively on a range of issues: on knowledge brokering (two with Alex Bielak), the political economy of knowledge in developing countries and research uptake by policymakers. She is currently running the Evidence and Policy Group for a DFID-ESRC funded programme on improving economic growth in low-income countries, which focuses on helping researchers to achieve impact. Louise is also an Associate Editor for the journal Evidence and Policy, and was an Impact Assessor on one of the sub-panels for the UK’s 2014 Research Excellence Framework exercise.
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Chemical arms watchdog to 'review security' for Syria gas probe
By AFP Nov 26, 2018 in World
The world's chemical watchdog said Monday it was reviewing security ahead of a possible probe into an alleged chemical attack in Syria's regime-held city of Aleppo over the weekend.
Damascus formally requested the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague investigate the alleged attack on Saturday which Syrian officials and rights groups said left scores of people struggling to breathe.
Both the Syrian regime and its ally Russia have blamed "terrorist groups" -- a term which Damascus uses to mean both rebels and jihadists.
The alleged attack also prompted Russia to launch retaliatory air strikes into a planned buffer zone near the last major opposition stronghold of Idlib.
"The OPCW Secretariat has been monitoring the situation," said director-general Fernando Arias.
It has contacted the UN's security department "in order to assess the security situation on the ground for a possible deployment of the Fact-Finding Mission (FFM) to Syria," the OPCW director-general said.
The body's Secretariat implements the OPCW's verification measures while the FFM, set up in 2014, investigates all allegations of chemical weapons use in war-torn Syria.
"The OPCW's experts will continue to work independently to verify all allegations of the use of chemicals as weapons in Syria," Arias told delegates at a nine-day conference to review the world body's strategy for the next five years.
Syria again Monday blamed "armed terrorist groups" for launching a toxic gas attack which it said left around 100 Syrians hospitalised with breathing difficulties.
"It is believed that the agent used was chlorine," said Bassam al-Sabbagh, Syria's permanent representative to the OPCW.
"We have discussed the potential of launching an investigation into this attack to find out what exactly happened in the city of Aleppo," he told the delegates.
Russia said the shelling came from an area of the buffer zone controlled by the jihadist-dominated Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) alliance.
A rebel coalition has denied any involvement, but neither the HTS, nor the Al-Qaeda-linked Hurras al-Deen group present in the area have commented on Saturday's alleged attack.
It was the latest accusation of a chemical attack in Syria's grinding seven-year civil war, which has killed more than 360,000 people and displaced millions.
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A whole lot of floating fun
Sep 10, 2018 by Rachel Brodrick in Fun
As an island nation, we love the water, and there’s so much fun to be had on our oceans and lakes. Adding a boat to the family can make for some long-lasting memories writes KINETA BOOKER.
It’s a memory etched in my mind from the mid-1980s – out in a two-man row boat and catching the largest fish of the season at Lake Alexandrina with my Aunty Dalma. The photo is long gone, but how I felt as a smiling six-year-old – struggling to hold that trophy fish up, is a moment I will never forget. And, that blue boat helped create that memory – and it’s still in the family, at the bach, to this very day.
That’s the thing about boats – they last for many years, and being out on the water is a great way to spend a family holiday. When the weather is sunny and the days are long, there is nothing better than the sound of laughter as the kids jump off the boat into the water, or enjoy a quiet fish off the side.
Mr Boats, the South Island’s leading marine retailer, has helped thousands of families create those special memories, and adding a boat to your family is more affordable than you might think.
“We proudly promote ourselves as your one-stop boat shop. Whether you’re looking for a great-quality second-hand family boat or a brand new 24ft fishing machine, we can help find the boat to suit your needs.” says Mr Boats’ General Manager Andrew de Lautour.
When a new customer visits one of Mr Boats’ sales yards, they usually have an idea of where they want to take their boat. Whether it’s to Marlborough Sounds, Lake Brunner, or out onto the ocean, Mr Boats has a vessel to suit any environment and every budget.
“We’ve all heard the saying ‘A family who plays together, stays together.’ And it’s true,” Andrew says.
“Our customers are the most fun-loving – because they’re out on the water, one of the happiest places on earth! We are always delighted to help people achieve their dream of owning their own boat, and creating new memories with their families and friends.”
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When do you worship?
During the Fall Winter, and Spring our Sunday service starts at 10:30a.m. From the first Sunday after Memorial Day to the first Sunday after Labor Day, we observe summer church hours and worship at 9:30 a.m.
Once a month, from April through October, we gather for a Saturday evening service beginning at 5 p.m. On those weeks there is no Sunday service or Sunday school. Please check the church calendar for the dates of our Saturday services.
What is your worship service like?
Our Worship service usually lasts about an hour. Our service includes congregational hymn singing, pipe organ and piano music, a choir anthem, prayers, scripture readings, a children’s message, a message from the pastor, and an offering. Our worship service emphasizes deepening our relationship to God, following Jesus, and serving others. We use both printed materials and sanctuary projection to aid in our worship experience, and we have large-print bulletins and hearing assisted devices available. While our service follows a traditional format, we are relaxed in worship and enjoy humor and spontaneity. Dress is informal—come as you are!
Once a month, usually the first Sunday of the month, we share the Sacrament of Holy Communion. You do not have to be a member of the church to share communion with us. In fact, we welcome all who wish to join us, including children.
Following worship we enjoy gathering for coffee and refreshments in Fellowship Hall—you are welcome to join us!
Click here to view a typical service.
Are children welcome in the worship service?
Children are always welcome at First Congregational UCC! We encourage parents to allow their children to be full participants in the worship service. There are activity bags for children to use during the service, and a cry room is available next to the sanctuary in the East Chapel.
Do you have a nursery?
We do not currently staff a nursery but a “Cry Room” is available next to the sanctuary. We also offer activity bags for children to enjoy during worship.
Our address is 1000 Willson Avenue, Webster City, Iowa 50595. We are across the street from the Webster City Community Theater, a block east of Fuller Hall, and a block west of West Twin Parks.
On-street parking is available on the north side of the church on Bank Street, on the west side of the church on Willson Avenue, and on the south side of the church on Dubuque Street.
How do I enter the church?
We have a northwest entrance on Bank Street that takes you directly into the sanctuary, and a west entrance on Willson Avenue that has an elevator and stairs leading to Fellowship Hall, the sanctuary, and the classrooms in the lower level.
Is the church accessible to all?
Yes, the west entrance on Willson Avenue is on ground level, and there is an elevator to take you the upper or lower levels of the church.
Is there Sunday School?
Yes, we have Sunday School for all ages. Adult education and Children’s Sunday School begins at 9:15a.m. Sunday School usually begins the week after Labor Day and ends the week before Memorial Day.
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Jewish World Review May 2, 2008 / 27 Nissan 5768
Has anybody got a flag pin?
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | Patriotism is not always the last refuge of the scoundrel. Sometimes it's just the last refuge of a frightened politician.
Barack Obama, hotly pursued by his preacher and the crazy preacher's aggressive racism, has revised his stump speech. His once formidable polling lead over Hillary Clinton has dwindled to the single digits. The man who wouldn't wear a tiny American flag on his lapel is looking for a flag pin the size of a bass fiddle.
"You want to know who I am?" he asked a crowd in North Carolina this week. "You want to know what's in me? It's a love of country that made my life possible. It's a belief in the American dream."
All no doubt true. But the senator's own dream, which only a fortnight ago looked so dreamy, has begun to feel more like a nightmare. He was leading in North Carolina by 25 points unrealistic then, to be sure and yesterday that lead had shrunk to 14 points (Rasmussen), 12 (Public Policy Polling) or even to 5 (Survey USA), depending on which pollster you believe.
Worse, a poll taken for New York Times-CBS News shows a spectacular decline in the number of voters who think Sen. Obama is the inevitable Democratic nominee. (Hillary was once inevitable, too, so inevitability is not always reliable.) A month ago, nearly 70 percent of the Democrats expected Sen. Obama to be their nominee; now barely half (51 percent) do. Worst of all, such a turnaround comes only five days before crucial primaries in North Carolina and Indiana. The big 'mo is not always everything, but it's always a lot.
Even if he loses both primaries, not likely, it's difficult to see how Hillary can take him. He'll have the delegates and probably even the popular votes, and if the superdelegates override the primaries the mischief in the party won't be repaired for generations, even if there aren't riots in Harlem, on the South Side of Chicago, in Watts and in lots of other little Harlems in between. But the Republicans have stumbled into nominating the only man who could win in November, and all the Republicans have to do to preserve an authentic shot at keeping the White House is to save the unpredictable John McCain from John McCain; there's always the chance that he'll morph into Mr. Nice Guy in a fit of civility and an effusion of good manners in the middle of the high road.
The Obama problem continues to be the blabbermouth preacher who isn't likely to go away. He even has a book coming in October. The more the senator tries to extricate himself from the orbit and embrace of Jeremiah Wright, the more the odor clings (so to speak) to him. He sat down at a picnic table in a park in Indianapolis this week with a few dozen supporters to talk about the economy. These were men and women who would have been glassy-eyed only a few days earlier, awed by sitting on the same grass with the man who was about to save America from America. The first question was about the price of gasoline. Then the barrage began. Everybody wanted to talk about the explosion of the Wright stuff.
"The situation with Reverend Wright was difficult," he said. "I won't lie to you. We want to make sure this isn't a perpetual distraction." But perpetuity threatens nevertheless. He tried to explain why it took him 20 years to discover that his pastor, the man who presided at his marriage and who baptized his two daughters, was a pastor whose views were "appalling" and "unacceptable."
Hillary understands that when your opponent is laming himself the best strategy is to get out of his way. Earlier in the week, she described the Wright stuff as "outrageous," "off base," and "far out," describing until she exhausted her thesaurus. By the end of the week, she resisted a television interviewer's attempt to get her to find more adjectives to hurl.
Nearly everyone, save a few of the liberal pastors who preach to empty pews, is having a high old time denouncing and decrying Jeremiah Wright and generally viewing with alarm. But he's only one of the chickens from the past beginning to flutter down to roost in the Obama campaign. How many more are on final approach?
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MainAll NewsInside IsraelHatnua Party Falling Apart: Mitzna Leaves Politics
Hatnua Party Falling Apart: Mitzna Leaves Politics
MK Amram Mitzna is bowing out of politics – again, informing the leadership of the Hatnua party that he has had enough.
Yaakov Levi, 24/12/14 17:40
MK Amram Mitzna
Flash 90
MK Amram Mitzna is bowing out of politics – again. On Wednesday, Mitzna said that he had informed the leadership of the Hatnua party that he had had enough, and that he wished luck and success to the Hatnua MKs that chose to run in Labor with Tzippy Livni, head of the soon to be defunct party.
He is just the latest party MK to announce their resignation - following Elazar Stern and David Tzur. MK Meir Sheetrit is also said to be on the verge of resigning, and is expected to announce his resignation at a press conference this Thursday.
Mitzna was a long-time Labor party member, and was mayor of Haifa for a decade. He chaired the party during the 2003 elections, when the party won only 19 seats – Labor's worst performance ever until then (although the party now has just 15).
He resigned as party leader (to be replaced by Shimon Peres), and from the Knesset, and ater a stint as the appointed mayor of Yerucham he joined Hatnua in 2012 when Livni broke away from Kadima.
In a post on his Facebook page, Mitzna praised the integration of Hatnua – or what is left of it – with Labor. “This is a step that can truly change Israel,” she said. “The Labor Party was and remains my political home. Led today by Yitzchak Herzog, with the participation of Tzippy Livni and a young and dynamic group, it can bring about regime change. I will be happy to assist in that effort,” he said.
Mitzna, now 69, is one of the last “old-time” leftists still in Israeli politics. He joined the IDF in 1963 at age 18, fighting in both the Six Day War and the Yom Kippur War. In was IDF Chief of Staff from 1990 to 1993, retiring from the army and taking on the job of Mayor of Haifa that year.
Tags:Labor, Amram Mitzna, Hatnua, Elections 2015
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Freedom Festival (Hull, the United Kingdom)
Mikey Martins
“Hull’s art, like all art, is what will promote us and show us to ourselves, both the dark side and the light. Because art is the imagination, and everything that we’ve ever built began in the imagination. Ultimately, imagination is the engine of humanity, and so a festival of the arts, like Freedom Festival, is a celebration of humanity” Lemn Sissay MBE, poet, playwright, author
Freedom Festival,
The United Kingdom (UK)
Freedom Festival celebrates, through artistic and cultural expression, Hull’s independent spirit and historic contribution to the cause of freedom.
We explore, and provide a platform for, local, national and international representations of freedom, independence of spirit through the pure freedom of creative expression. We will always make reference to ‘freedom’ as a concept, pushing boundaries to express it in a variety of ways through our programme.
We work closely with artists, organisations, businesses, families, individuals and community groups to create a world-class urban arts festival that offers something for everyone. We bring renowned national and international programming to our city, while always providing opportunities for supporting, showcasing and developing local and regional talent.
We constantly challenge to ourselves to seek out and work with artists who are brave enough to further explore and debate concepts of freedom, both from a historical viewpoint and also in terms of what freedom means today, in 2016 and beyond. Artists who can create impactful work, work which gets audiences talking and debating and challenging and celebrating
New commissions feature in our programme each year; in 2015, for example, the festival featured Humber Calling, a collection of work curated by sound artist Scanner that celebrated Hull’s iconic cream phone boxes and the changing nature of broadcasting. Read more about our commissions and in-year work here.
CEO and Artistic Director: Mikey Martins
The One & The Many
R.M. Sánchez-Camus
Davina Drummond & Yara El-Sherbini
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/About The Team
Director and expedition Leader, Phil Briggs F.R.G.S
A former Royal Marines Commando and member of UK Special Forces, Phil is director of Indo Trek expedition company and has previously served as race director for the Indo Ultra marathon event held in Indonesia and Sandbaggers Head of Safety and Expedition guide whilst working in Mongolia. Phil has led many expeditions and charity treks throughout the world. Away from overseas treks he divides his time between Head of Operations for a U.A.E based Outdoor education and expedition provider and being Senior Instructor at Venture Medical specialising in remote wilderness first aid training. Amongst his many professional outdoor qualifications, he’s a qualified Wilderness Emergency Medical Technician (EMT), Advanced Medic and has spent many years serving on Mountain Rescue Teams in Scotland. He draws from a wealth of experience, having operated in some of the world’s most extreme desert, arctic and jungle environments. Phil’s passion and commitment for wildlife and conservation has been recognised in receiving awards from leading organisations such as the World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF), Partnership for Action Against Wildlife Crime (PAW) and both the Scottish and UK Governments. He is a fellow of the Royal Geographic Society and continues to share his passion with others and is currently involved in raising awareness of some of Indonesia’s critical endangered species such as the Javanese rhino and orangutans of Kalimantan.
Operations Manager, Stella Marius
Stella is the ‘backbone’ of Indo Trek and is responsible for all in-country operations and logistical support and planning having operated throughout Indonesia.
Stella has been an active athlete of rafting since 2001. The passion to that sport has brought her to compete in some international rafting championships, and proudly present her country some national and international championships.. These achievement led her to be employed in a leading Indonesia rafting company that also ran expeditions and trekking trips, as well as delivering Experiential Learning to many companies and institutions throughout Indonesia. Stella has become a lead facilitator and practitioner in the area of Experiential Learning leading to her being appointed as an executive in AELI (The Indonesia Association of Experiential Learning). Graduating from The Faculty of Languages and Art, University of Manado, in French, makes her french her third language after Indonesia and English. Stella is also an Indonesian government Competent Eco-tourism guide awarded via Tourism Ministry. This nationwide connection links to various kind of communities and institutions, and her instinct on humanity set her to become involved in the Global Rescue Network. This Indonesian Non Governmental Organization which is based on a network of people and various institutions working together to provide Rescue & Relief Operations in response to various disasters. This included the management of rescue, logistical planning and distribution, medical responses, as well as rescue unit by raft boat and kayak. Her cheerful attitude, skillful, responsive and responsible manner would guarantee a productive results in every occasion she held.
Expedition doctor , Linda Rehatta.
Linda has been a qualified doctor since 2006 and brings to the team a wealth of experience of working throughout Indonesia behind her, including spending a couple of years as a Primary Health Doctor in remote Papua. She currently acts as an Occupational Health doctor and coordinator for two companies as well as keeping her hand in on the shop floor as a freelance doctor.
Linda is also a volunteer medic for Global Rescue Network and has assisted in many emergency situations throughout Indonesia including such as tsunami’s, volcanic eruptions and the recent floods in Jakarta. Phil has been fortunate enough to have run several training course with Linda over the last few years and her experience and knowledge is excellent, plus her English is much better than my Indonesian. An asset to the team, Linda is looking forward to meeting you all and welcoming you to her country.
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INReview > The Scuttlebutt Lounge > Politics & Government > Law > You be the JUDGE.
You be the JUDGE. post #1 quote:
Every week, I will put forth a hypothetical scenario, where you are the Judge, either Federal or State. You will be given a list of "facts", about the case, then asked a question at the end.
Also you will be given a list of answers to choose from, or you can make up your own. You are the Judge, you have the power. Make your decision wisely.
You can also discuss other members decisions, and why or why you don't agree with them.
If you are one of those people that wants more detail, just ask and I will give you more "facts" about the case. Within reason.
This thread is not meant to be a device for learning Federal or State laws, or to be 100% accurate when dealing with what sentences can be handed out to the guilty.
This is more of a "fun with ethics" thread, to see how you as a judge, would react to different scenarios.
Also, it's hypothetical, you are not really there, you can't see the people involved, their facial expressions, etc. This isn't real. Anyone who is all uptight, "Well, I can't make a choice because this is too fake, and I would have to see the defendant, and the viticms, etc.", well, don't play. It's just a thread, no one real is being sentenced. It's ethics, and how you would react to given plot points, if they would sway you or not.
And as always, try to keep it polite.
You are a state judge in a large city in the northeast. The jury has just found the defendant guilty of 4 counts of first degree murder.
The defendant was taped during the murder of 4 tourists. He was apprehended five minutes after the murders, with blood all over him.
His face is clearly visible on the tape. He admits to the crime in open court, pleading "Guilty".
The murder weapon was a gun he had owned for years. The crime seen was at a local mall.
He was high on Crank, when he did the crime. There was no motive. His lawyer argued that he is a non violent man, but the drugs turned him into a raving lunatic. And that he feels guilt and remorse for killing the four tourists.
The 4 tourists were White. From the State of Kansas, on vacation together, two married couples.
The defendant is American born, 35 years old, his parents were refugees from Cambodia. The city the trial is held in, has a large percentage of Cambodians. A large number of Cambodian Americans have been demonstrating outside the courthouse during the trial, asking for clemency. The press is involved, and there is talk of Riots if this man is "sentenced unfairly".
The jury who found him guilty was made of 5 white males, 2 white females, 3 black females, 1 black male and 1 Latino. But no one Cambodian was on the jury.
Question: How would you sentence the defendant?
You are ready to hand down the sentence. This is a death penalty state, and the sentence guidelines allow any of the following:
1. Overturn the jury ruling and let him off scott free.
2. Let him off with parole for a certain amount of time.
3. Send him to prison for One to Five years, eligible for parole halfway through.
4. Send him to prison for Five to Ten years, eligible for parole halfway through.
5. Send him to prison for Ten to 20 years, eligible for parole halfway through.
6. Send him to prison for 30 to 50 years, eligible for parole halfway through.
7. Give him life in prison, eligible for parole halfway through.
8. Give him life in prison, no parole.
9. Give him the death penalty.
10. Other, not listed here, make up your own sentence.
I don't care about if a person is on drugs or not. He MADE the decision to use those drugs, therefore, he is responsible for the crime of murder, on four innocent people.
I would have said the death penatly... but, he didn't plan this murder out.
Of course, it would be a little different to know the things that were said during the trial, and if there was a reason, beyond the drugs for this crime. Was he angry with Americans... or these tourists, for something? Or, was it just a random, he was high, and killed people?
So, life in prison, for him, with no chance of parole. He will live, and die, in that cell. And he will work his ass off, in prison, until he can't anymore.
No parole. Simply because obviously the man has issues with drugs. He isn't going to get any help in prison. If he were to get out on parole, he would most likely do the crime again or at least continue his addiction as he has been made able to in prison.
My comments are a slam on the current prison system.
Definitely not the death penalty. Murder under any influence means prison without parole.
He pled guitly in court. Why was a jury ruling necessary?
nikiTa said this in post #4 :
Mostly because I'm not a lawyer and kind of stupid about these things, but also, to try to save face, because in this state, they make you have a jury trial, even if you plead guilty.
Uh, I went a little overboard, I just wanted to make it clear that the guy did it, so we didn't dwell on that. In future senerios, the guilt will not be so clear.
If the remorse was geniune I would maybe go for number 5 but I would also order that he went to the drug rehab unit that some jails have. Parole would only be granted if he was very well behaved, had succesfully completed drug rehab, continued to go to drug rehab for a certain amount of time upon release, I would tag him and set a curfew, he would be banned from owning a firearm of any sort. I think I would also order some kind of physciatric testing before he was even eligible for parole.
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Another Nail in the Dollar’s Coffin: Russia and India Plan to Trade in National Currencies
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Why There Will Be No Suppression Of Free Energy Technology in India
It wasn’t long before carriage makers were driving horseless carriages. It wasn’t long before people crossing the continent on trains abandoned the railroads for airliners. Natural gas is replacing coal and there is nothing the railroads, the coal miners, or the coal companies can do about it. Cheaper and more efficient energy always wins out over more expensive energy. Coal replaced wood, and oil replaced coal as the primary source of energy. Anything that is more efficient boosts the figures on the bottom line of the ledger. Dollars chase efficiency. Inefficiency is suppressed by market forces. Efficiency wins in the market place.
The Engineering Director (electrical engineer) of the Karnataka Power Corporation (KPC) that supplies power to 6 million people in Bangalore and the entire state of Karnataka (10,000 megawatt load) told me that Tewari’s machine would never be suppressed (view the machine here). Tewari’s work is known from the highest levels of government on down. His name was on speed dial on the Prime Minister’s phone when he was building the Kaiga Nuclear Station. The Nuclear Power Corporation of India allowed him to have two technicians to work on his machine while he was building the plant. They bought him parts and even gave him a small portable workshop that is now next to his main lab.
Cropmton Greaves Ltd. (the GE of India) have funded his work and corporate directors CGL as well as Reliance (oil and energy) know of his work.
I have also been told by many Indians that the work of Tewari will never be suppressed. It is a matter of national pride. India is ready to take on the world. You can feel it everywhere you go. I realized, the first night here, while mediating at 3:00 AM in the morning, dealing with serious jet lag, that in just over 100 years. since Vivekananda came to the U.S. and introduced the west to Vedic teachings, that in every country of the world, during every minute and every second of the day or night, people are practicing yogic styles of meditation.
Bottom line; efficiency always wins. There will be no suppression of machines with efficiencies higher than those currently on the market.
The Best Way to Eliminate Carbon Emissions
Eliminate Carbon Fuels.
The USA has spent trillions of dollars on fossil fuels. Renewable Energy Systems have no fuel costs. A Utility that has no fuels costs can provide cheaper electricity and do it without releasing CO2
Nothing Lasts Forever. Coal production has already peaked in terms of BTUs per pound. Peak Volumetric production is not far off, probably by 2025.
If we do not use the energy we have now to build an energy system that does not rely on non-renewable energy, we will live in a preindustrial world when fossil fuels run out.
We have a 50 year window to build a new energy system based on the worldwide fossil fuel depletion rate. We need to start now while protecting the health and safety of the coal miners, who will provide the energy we need to get the job done.
Eliminating carbon emissions is an imperative, not requiring a best way; rather it is the only way.
Writen by Toby Grotz. (You can see a picture of him with Tewari here)
He is an electrical engineer and researcher of new energy technologies since 1973. He has organized numerous conferences and travelled the world interviewing and assisting inventors since 1992. He has been involved on both sides of the energy equation: exploring for oil and gas and geothermal resources and in the utility industry working in coal, natural gas, and nuclear power plants. While working in the aerospace industry, he worked on space shuttle and Hubble telescope testing in a solar simulator and space environment test facility. He has also been involved in research for new energy sources and novel forms of hydrogen production.
Source : www.collective-evolution.com
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Iranian Americans in the California Primary Elections
Washington, D.C. - A number of Iranian American candidates were on the ballot on Primary Election Day this past Tuesday in California. The candidates included, Edesa Bitbadal for San Jose City Council District 10, Farrah Douglas for California State Assembly District 76, and Ron Varasteh for U.S. Congress District 48.
Under California’s new “top-two” open primary system, the two candidates receiving the most votes, regardless of party preference, move on to the general election. If a candidate receives a majority of the vote (50 percent +1), a general election still must be held. Even if there are only two candidates in the open primary, a general election is still required.
Edesa Bitbadal – With all precincts reporting in San Jose’s heated City Council race, Bitbadal emerged as one of three finalists in the race. Bitbadal captured 19.11% of the vote, while her opponents Robert Braunstein captured 19.84% and Johnny Khamis held onto 19.71%. Only two of the top three candidates will make it to the November election. A large number of absentee ballots are yet to be counted, and any candidate could still demand a recount.
Bitbadal, a long time resident of San Jose, CA with over fifteen years working effectively in Government and assisting businesses, was one of six candidates running for the city’s Council District 10. U.S. Congresswoman Anna Eshoo, State Senator Elaine Alquist, San Jose Vice Mayor Madison Nguyen, and San Jose Councilmember Nancy Pyle, were among the many community leaders, public officials, and organizations who have endorsed her campaign.
Farrah Douglas – Douglas was one of three candidates vying for the hotly contested 76th State Assembly seat. A serving Councilmember from the City of Carlsbad, Douglas received 28.8% of the vote as compared to leading candidates Rock Chavez (38.9%) and Sherry Hodges (32.2%). Of the total 48,000 plus votes counted, Douglas was separated from the November runoff by only 1,650 votes.
Elected to the City Council of Carlsbad in 2010, Douglas is the first American of Iranian descent to hold an elective office in San Diego County. Her campaign for CA State Assembly was supported by a number of prominent elected officials and community leaders, including campaign co-chairs Assemblyman Martin Garrick, the incumbent who is retiring due to term limits; Carlsbad Mayor Matt Hall, who works closely with Douglas on the City Council; County Supervisor Pam Slater-Price, who will be retiring in January of 2013 after 20 years of service on the Board of Supervisors; and businessman and former Lincoln Club Chairman Tom Sudberry.
Ron Varasteh – Varasteh (D - Irvine) will face Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-Huntington Beach) in the November general election. Varasteh came in second with 29.3% vote in the primary election with Rohrabacher receiving the most votes at 65.8% and non-affiliated candidate Alan Schlar coming in third with 4.9% vote. A total of 72,826 voters cast their ballots in the Congressional race last Tuesday.
Varasteh is an engineer by education, a small business owner, and an activist for causes pertaining to improved quality of life. He currently serves as a State Delegate to the California Democratic Party (District 70) and was a Council Organizer for MoveOn.Org in Irvine and South Orange County.
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From: The Republic of Cyprus Press and Information Office Server at <http://www.pio.gov.cy/>
TURKISH PRESS AND OTHER MEDIA No. 63/10 08.04.10
[A] NEWS ITEMS
[01] Tension arose between Talat and Eroglu regarding the Cyprus problem; Talat accuses Eroglu of lacking a vision for peace and therefore he cannot negotiate a settlement
[02] Talat stated that the presidential elections will determine the destiny of Turkey and added that if Eroglu is elected the negotiations will end
[03] Talat met with Russian journalists and academicians
[04] Tourists from Iran visit the occupied areas of Cyprus with direct flights
[05] Al Jazeera will broadcast live a workshop at illegal GAU
[06] Seminars on distance learning with the attendance of foreign officials to take part in the occupied areas of Cyprus
[07] EU Socialists voice support to the Direct Trade Regulation
[08] Seven donums of land in the occupied areas of Cyprus will be given to Trabzon Spor football club
[09] Israeli minister refers to Cyprus in his reply to Erdogans criticism
[10] Details on Erdogans meeting with Sarkozy. The French President is to visit Turkey in November
[11] Turkish Prime Minister to meet with Armenian President in Washington
[12] Turkeys Permanent Envoy to the EU elected as Chairman of Energy Charter Conference
[13] Turkish Parliament makes changes in the legislation on elections and allows propaganda in languages other than Turkish
[14] Retires officers, among them a former secretary-general of MGK, arrested in connection to the Sledgehammer case
[B] COMMENTARIES, EDITORIALS AND ANALYSIS
[15] Joost Lagendijk says the approval of the Direct Trade Regulation by the EP cannot be prevented
[16] From the Turkish Press of 07 April 2010
Illegal Bayrak television (07.04.10) broadcast the following:
President Mehmet Ali Talat has repeated that the TRNC people will choose between the past and the world in Aprils Presidential elections. Mr Talat who stands as an independent candidate for re-election, toured some villages in the Gazimagusa [occupied Famagusta] district yesterday.
Speaking during the visits, he said that the Cyprus Turkish people proved to the world during the 2004 referendum that it is in support of a solution and made the Greek Cypriot side accept their legitimate rights.
Referring to the National Unity Partys (UBP) candidate and Prime Minister Dervis Eroglus statement that he will continue the talks if he wins the election, Mr Talat said Eroglu cannot negotiate a settlement, he does not have such a vision. One who does not believe in peace, cannot find a solution.
He also announced that the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has congratulated him over the phone on the progress achieved so far at the Cyprus negotiations and that she has invited him to Washington for a meeting.
Later, President Talat attended a rally in the Akdogan [occupied Lyssi] village. In an address at the event, he said we started a journey with the Cyprus Turkish people and the objective is a settlement.
Furthermore, illegal Bayrak television (07.04.10) broadcast the following:
Prime Minister Dervis Eroglu has said that he is the candidate of all those who want to enjoy peace, freedom and sovereignty under Turkeys guarantee. I am the candidate of the Cyprus Turks who claim the national cause and do not want to become refugees again, Mr Eroglu said during a tour of the Girne [occupied Keryneia] district yesterday.
Addressing his supporters at a rally in Lapta [occupied Lapithos], Mr Eroglu said that President Talat cannot defend the national cause. The one who fails to defend his national cause, and supports single sovereignty, single identity and lowers his citizens status to that of a community, cannot speak about the national cause, he said.
Eroglu accused Talat of continuing the negotiations behind closed doors and of being indifferent to the former Turkish Republican Party (CTP) governments deeds, the countrys problems and unlawful acts. The Premier also accused the President of giving too many concessions to the Greek Cypriot side.
A people who do not have sovereignty can only enjoy the rights of a minority. The TRNC people are sovereign, like the people in south Cyprus. My answer to those claiming that north Cyprus is under Turkeys occupation, is that it is actually the Republic of Cyprus which is under the occupation of the people living in south Cyprus, he said.
In addition, illegal Bayrak television (07.04.10) broadcast the following:
President Mehmet Ali Talats youth centre in [occupied] Lefkosia and the National Unity Partys (UBP) Taskinkoy building have been the target of undemocratic acts. An explosion occurred at Talats youth centre in the Dereboyu Street around 2 am yesterday when unknown persons threw a plastic bottle filled with foil paper and possibly with some hydrochloric acid.
There were no reports of damage or injuries.
President Talat and the Talat Youth Platform have condemned the attack.
Separately, the glasses of the UBPs Taskinkoy building were broken by unidentified persons last night.
A UBP poster hanged on a citizens house in Girne [occupied Keryneia] was also the target of another attack.
The police are continuing their investigation into the incidents.
Turkish daily Aksam newspaper (08.04.10) reports that the Turkish Cypriot leader, Mehmet Ali Talat, stated that the forthcoming presidential elections, to be held on the 18th of April will not only determine the destiny of the occupation regime but the destiny of Turkey as well.
Mr Talat made these statements in an interview with Aksam paper in which he also blamed the decrease of the support towards him to the intransigent behavior of the Greek Cypriots, to the lack of developments as regards the EU process and the failure of the policy of the Republican Turkish Party (CTP). The paper writes that when asked what he is going to do if he is not elected, Mr Talat got a bit angry with the questions and replied that he did not think of it. Am I obliged to do anything?, he stated.
Asked how he evaluates the last five years he is in power Mr Talat stated, inter alia, that the period was very successful as regards the Cyprus process and stated that he has been negotiating with the Greek Cypriot leader for one and a half years now and they received support from the world. He also stated that many positive developments took place like the decision of the European Court of Human Rights for the Compensation Committee.
Mr Talat stated that if Eroglu is elected the negotiations will be ended and added that this development will affect Ankara as well. Mr Talat said that despite the fact that Mr Eroglu said that he will continue the negotiations, he will imposed his policy and this will not affect the negotiations in a positive way. He went on and added that if Eroglu fails to negotiate, Ankara will be held responsible. The elections taking place here is not only about the election of our president. They are also related to Turkeys destiny as well.
They are related to Turkeys relation with the world and the European Union, stated Mr Talat and added that Turkey, which is a member of the UN Security Council, wants the solution of the Cyprus problem.
Turkish Cypriot daily Kibris newspaper (08.04.10) reports that the Turkish Cypriot leader, Mehmet Ali Talat, met yesterday with Russian journalists and academicians from Moscow and Saint Petersburg, who are visiting the occupied areas of Cyprus for contacts and observations. According to a statement issued by Mr Talats office, ways for developing the relations between the Russians and the Turkish Cypriots were discussed during the meeting of the delegation with Mr Talat.
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Turkish Cypriot daily Kibris newspaper (08.04.10) reports that many tourists from Iran visited the occupied areas of Cyprus during the Nauruz holidays thanks to the direct lights, which have been launched by the illegal Turkish Cypriot Airlines linking Iran and the occupied areas of Cyprus, following an initiative of the illegal Near East University and the contribution of the self-styled ministry of tourism, environment and culture. The paper writes that the Iranian tourists visited occupied Lefkosia, Famagusta and Keryneia for shopping. Shop owners expressed their satisfaction over the fact.
Turkish Cypriot daily Kibris newspaper (08.04.10) reports that the International Higher Education and Science Workshop (IHEW) is starting today at the illegal American University of Keryneia (GAU). More than 200 rectors, scientists and high ranking state officials from 40 different countries will participate in the workshop, according to the paper, which notes that the chairman of Turkeys Council of Higher Education (YOK), Prof. Dr. Yusuf Ziya Ozcan, will also be among the participants in the workshop. According to a statement issued by the illegal university, the three-day workshop will be broadcast live by local television channels and Al Jazeera television.
Self-styled prime minister Dervis Eroglu, his so-called minister of education, youth and sports, Kemal Durust and MPs from the Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the Republican Peoples Party (CHP) are expected to attend the opening ceremony of the workshop.
Turkish Cypriot daily Yeni Volkan newspaper (08.04.10) reports that the so-called Higher Education Planning, Evaluation, Accreditation and Coordination Council (YODAK) is set to discuss about long-distance education (e-learning). As the paper writes, after an invitation of YODAK, the General Director of the European Association of Distance Teaching Universities (EADTU), Mr George Ubachs, and Dr. Keith Williams, professor at the UK Open University, will visit the occupied areas of the Republic of Cyprus today.
According to an announcement issued by the president of YODAK, Mr Hasan Ali Bicak, the two officials will attend a meeting at the illegal Eastern Mediterranean University (DAU) in order to discuss about the quality components of distance learning. Specifically, Mr Ubachs will inform the participants about long-distance education in Europe and Dr Williams will explain the long-distance educations quality components in the framework of the European e-excellence project. The seminar will be attended by university officials and representatives of Turkeys Council of Higher Education (YOK).
In addition, Mr Ubachs and Dr. William, during their stay, will attend a meeting at the premises of YODAK with the participation of various illegal universities located in the occupied areas of the Republic of Cyprus, as well as YOKs executive committee member, Prof. Dr. Ali Ekrem Ozkul.
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Illegal Byarak television (07.04.10) broadcast the following:
The Socialists in the European Parliament have expressed their support to the Direct Trade Regulation which was presented by the European Commission to the European Parliament and member countries for approval. The Socialists is the second largest political group within the European Parliament.
The Head of the Socialists Group, Martin Schulz, said that the implementation of the Regulation will increase the competitiveness of the TRNC economy, narrow the prosperity gap between the two communities in Cyprus and make the solution of the Cyprus problem easier by integrating the TRNC economy into the EU.
Mr Schulz also pledged the Socialists Groups support for the immediate approval of the Regulation by the European Parliament. We believe that the approval of the Regulation will facilitate the comprehensive negotiations being carried out by the two leaders in Cyprus, he added.
Turkish Cypriot daily Haberdar newspaper (08.04.10) reports that seven donums (Tr. Note: A land measure of about 1000 square meters) of land in the occupied areas of Cyprus will be given to Trabzon Spor football club from Turkey. The above-mentioned football club is expected to start cooperation with Avdimou (Duzkaya) football club, which is one of the favorites to win the championship in the 2nd division in the occupied areas of Cyprus. This team plays currently at Nihat Bagcier Stadium in the occupied Keryneia area. The paper writes that the Turkish Cypriot team will give to Trabzon Spor seven donums of land behind the dressing rooms of Nihat Bagcier Sadium for building a fully equipped camping ground for the teams of Trabzon Spor.
The paper writes that the reason for the development of this project is the fact that Utku Boz, former president of Trabzon Spor, is the owner of Bumerang Company in the occupied areas of Cyprus and Kratos Hotel in occupied Agios Epiktitos village. The chairman of Duzkaya, Mehmet Hulusioglu, confirmed that they are exchanging views with officials of Trabzon on a project.
Turkish Cypriot daily Star Kibris newspaper (08.04.10) reports that the war of words between Israel and Turkey continues. In statements during his visit to France, Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan described Israel as the biggest threat for peace in the Middle East and added: If a country uses disproportionate force in Palestine and Gaza, if it uses phosphoric bombs, we are not going to say well done.
The paper writes that these statements made at a time when a new page is opened regarding the tension between Turkey and Israel.
Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs Lieberman, who had likened Mr Erdogan with Kaddafi and Chavez, leaders of Libya and Venezuela respectively, said yesterday that if Erdogan wants to make a name in the Islamic world and create a new status for himself, he should not do it over Israel.
The Israeli Minister claimed that his country follows a reconciliatory policy on the issue of Palestine and on foreign affairs issues and added: However, there is no good will any more. This is valid for Turkey as well. The attacks of the Prime Minister did not start today. We all remember the negative stance he showed in the Davos Conference against President Perez and the film showing children in Gaza killed by Israeli soldiers.
Noting that they did not want to create new conflicts or problems with Turkey, Mr Lieberman said: However, we have not heard any protests from Erdogan while thousands of people are killed with bombs in Pakistan or Iraq. Before giving lessons to us, Erdogan should first solve his problems with the Kurds.
The paper writes that Mr Lieberman drew a parallel between the situation in Jerusalem, which caused many reactions all over the world because of the building of settlements, and Cyprus, which is divided between the Greeks and the Turks. Noting that they will not stop building new settlements in Jerusalem, the Israeli Minister said:
No country in the world stops the constructions it builds in its own capital. We have come across similar allegations many times in history. One example is the situation in Cyprus which is divided between the Greeks and the Turks. No one can forbid to one independent state to build on its own territories.
Ankara Anatolia news agency (07.04.10) reported the following from Paris:
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is currently paying a visit to France.
Erdogan, who attended the closing ceremony of Season of Turkey activities in France on Tuesday, held meetings with French officials on Wednesday.
Following his meetings with French Senate President Gerard Larcher, Erdogan was received by French President Nicolas Sarkozy at the Elysee Palace.
Turkeys Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, State Minister Egemen Bagis and their French counterparts Bernard Kouchner and Pierre Lellouche also participated in the meeting.
During the meeting, Erdogan invited Sarkozy to Turkey, and the French President accepted the invitation. Sarkozy said that he may pay a visit to Turkey after November, 2010.
French presidential executives defined the meeting between Erdogan and Sarkozy as positive.
During their meeting, Erdogan and Sarkozy discussed Turkeys European Union (EU) membership bid, bilateral relations, regional issues, and the upcoming G-20 summit.
The two leaders reiterated their views about Turkeys EU full membership bid.
Despite differences of opinion about this issue, the leaders also reaffirmed their will to boost bilateral relations. The two leaders also reiterated their views on Iran.
According to French sources, Sarkozy extended full support to the normalization of Turkish-Armenian relations.
Sarkozy said they also discussed the fight against terrorism, and that his country was extending full support to Turkeys fight against the terrorist organization.
Another topic Sarkozy and Erdogan discussed was the Middle East peace process. Sarkozy underlined Turkeys importance for the region, referred to the role of mediator between Syria and Israel and said France and Turkey would contribute to help resume this process.
Also, Sarkozy and Erdogan said the Season of Turkey activities that ended on Tuesday contributed to bilateral relations.
Sarkozy and Erdogan reiterated their will to enhance economic cooperation.
On April 2, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs released a statement which said Paris wanted to further improve its economic relations with Ankara.
The ministry said Turkish and French executives would debate new cooperation on transportation, energy, and infrastructure projects during Erdogans official visit to France.
In its statement, the ministry said Erdogans visit aimed to boost bilateral relations, and would be an opportunity to discuss issues like Afghanistan, Middle East and Iran.
Subtitle: Season of Turkey in France
Turkish culture was introduced in France with more than 600 activities in 120 cities throughout the Season of Turkey over a period of nine months.
There were events in France on Turkish literature, music, cinema, theatre and visual arts during the Season of Turkey.
Conferences and panel discussions took place in France to boost the trade volume between Turkey and France.
Among the most significant activities, as part of the Season of Turkey activities, was the dance shows of the Anatolian Fire dance group.
The Eiffel Tower, which has become a global icon of France, was lit up with the colors of the Turkish flag (red and white) from October 6 to October 11.
Turkish President Abdullah Gul and his French counterpart Sarkozy inaugurated The Ottoman Caftans exhibition at the Louvre Museum and the Istanbul for Centuries exhibition at the Grand Palais.
Also, Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe presented the key of Paris to Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk, director Nuri Bilge Ceylan and photographer Ara Guler.
Furthermore, Hurriyet Daily News.com (07.04.10) reported from Paris that French President Nicolas Sarkozy promised Turkeys prime minister on Wednesday that he would visit his country soon after France takes the helm of the G-20 grouping at the start of next year, his office said.
Sarkozy accepted Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogans invitation and will go there soon after the start of the French presidency of the G-20 in order to continue cooperation between the two countries, it said.
France is due to begin its stint at the head of the Group of 20 leading global economies in 2011.
Erdogan met Sarkozy for 45 minutes in the Elysee palace on Wednesday and left without making any statement to the press.
In addition, Ankara Anatolia news agency (07.04.10) reported from Paris the following:
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan met with French Senate President Gerard Larcher in Paris on Wednesday. The meeting was closed to press.
Later in the day, Erdogan will meet with French President Nicolas Sarkozy as well as executives of leading French companies.
He will also have a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Francois Fillon. The two premiers will co-chair meetings between Turkish and French delegations.
Erdogan will then meet French Parliament Speaker Bernard Accoyer.
After addressing Turkish people, Erdogan will leave France for Turkey.
Turkish daily Todays Zaman newspaper (08.04.10) reports the following:
A senior Turkish diplomat arrived in Yerevan yesterday to deliver a letter from Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to Armenian President Serzh Sarksyan as a process of rapprochement aimed to restore relations between the two estranged neighbors has come to a stalemate.
Speaking to journalists during a visit to France, Erdogan said Foreign Ministry Undersecretary Feridun Sinirlioglu visited Armenia as his special envoy. We have sent Mr. Sinirlioglu there. We have sent my letter with him, Erdogan said, without elaborating on the content of the letter. Sources told Todays Zaman that the letter contained a message that an agreement would better serve the interests of the two countries, especially when compared to the cost of a failure to make peace.
Erdogan is expected to meet with Sarksyan on the sidelines of a nuclear summit in Washington next week. In Paris he was cautious, saying that whether the meeting will take place or not depends on the response to his letter. Erdogan will attend the summit on April 12-13, along with the leaders of 46 other countries. US President Barack Obama, a staunch supporter of Turkish-Armenian efforts to normalize their relations, will have bilateral talks with Sarksyan but no meeting is currently scheduled with Erdogan, the White House has announced. Turkish officials said meetings with Obama or other world leaders could be scheduled in the coming days if necessary.
Turkey and Armenia signed two protocols on normalizing their ties in October but the ratification of the documents in both national parliaments -- necessary for them to go into effect -- has been stalled as both sides accuse each other of modifying the protocols. Sinirlioglu discussed measures that could be taken to overcome the deadlock in Yerevan, according to Turkish sources. The private NTV television, meanwhile, reported that the Armenian parliament will soon begin discussing the protocols. The parliamentary debate on the protocols will increase the pressure on Turkey to do the same, NTV said.
Sinirlioglus visit to Yerevan also follows tensions between Turkey and the United States over a congressional committee vote on March 4 to pass a resolution acknowledging Armenian claims of genocide at the hands of the late Ottoman Empire. Ankara is now waiting to see if Obama will use the word genocide in an annual message due to be released on April 24, which Armenians claim marks the beginning of the genocide campaign in Anatolia a century ago.
Sinirlioglu was to tell the Armenian leadership that the diasporas efforts to win international recognition for genocide claims had damaged the Turkish-Armenian reconciliation process, diplomatic sources speaking to Todays Zaman said. The senior diplomats visit underlines that Turkey is still committed to the reconciliation process, disregarding the obstacles.
When reminded of the lack of progress in Armenias Nagorno-Karabakh dispute with Azerbaijan, the same sources said Sinirlioglu was not in Yerevan to discuss the Nagorno-Karabakh issue, but that this does not mean it will not come up in the talks. Turkey, a close ally of Azerbaijan, closed its border with Armenia in 1993 in protest of Armenias occupation of Nagorno-Karabakh and the adjacent territory. The dispute is not formally linked with the Turkish-Armenian reconciliation process but Turkish leaders have repeatedly assured Azerbaijan that the border with Armenia will not be opened unless the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute is resolved.
Subtitle: Response to the EU
Meanwhile, Ankara criticized the European Union, which has linked Turkish-Armenian relations with Ankaras bid to join the 27-nation bloc. In a statement on Wednesday, Foreign Ministry spokesman Burak Ozugergin said Turkey was committed to the normalization of its ties with Armenia as part of its vision for regional peace and stability. Turkey does not need to be reminded of this mission that it has [willingly] undertaken, he said.
Good relations with neighbors are very important in the framework of any countrys entry to the European Union, EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fule was quoted as saying by Armenian media on Tuesday during a visit to Yerevan.
On the same issue, Ankara Anatolia news (07.04.10) reported the following from Paris:
The Turkish Prime Minister said on Wednesday that Turkey would not step back regarding the protocols it signed with Armenia in Switzerland.
Replying to questions of reporters following his gathering with CEOs of leading French companies in Paris, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan revealed the content of the letter he sent to Armenian President Serzh Sargsian by a special envoy today.
This is what I can say about the main theme of the letter: Turkey believes in the principle of 'pacta sund servanda' and it is determined to act in accordance to that. Therefore, we will always show commitment to the signatures we have put down in Switzerland. Unless there are extraordinary circumstances, we will not step back, he said.
Erdogan said both Turkey and Armenia should fulfill their responsibilities and be loyal to each other.
Pointing to the importance of carrying out the process through a history commission, Erdogan said, Turkey is ready to do all the necessary things on such a matter, however, this cannot be done through the lobbies formed in the parliaments of various countries. On the contrary, it will make the process more complicated.
Upon a question on whether he would meet with Sargsian in Washington D.C., Erdogan said, As you know, I sent my special envoy to Mr. Sargsian today. I have a letter for him. I will make an assessment once I get some results. I have a positive approach, but I will make my final decision after my envoy returns.
Ankara Anatolia news agency (07.04.10) reported the following from Brussels:
A Turkish diplomat has been unanimously elected as the new chairman of the Energy Charter Conference.
Turkey's Permanent Envoy to the European Union Selim Kuneralp will replace Takekazu Kawamura of Japan who has been acting as chairman of the conference since January 1, 2007.
As an inter-governmental organization, the Energy Charter Conference is the governing and decision-making body for the Energy Charter process, and was established by the 1994 Energy Charter Treaty.
There are 52 member-states and 24 observer countries to the Energy Charter Conference. Turkey became a member of the Energy Charter Conference on December 17, 1994.
Ankara Anatolia news agency (08.04.10) reports the following from Ankara:
The draft law on elections allowing propaganda in languages other than Turkish was adopted in the parliament on Thursday. The law, which makes a series of changes in the legislation on elections, was proposed by Justice and Development (AK) Party Deputy Haluk Ipek.
The law designated Turkish as the primary language for propaganda, however foreseeing no legal action against use of other languages.
With the new law:
The top 4 political parties which receive the highest number of votes, and political parties holding a group in the parliament, will be allowed to send one full and one alternate member to the Supreme Board of Elections.
The candidates or officials of political parties separately or together will be able to attend panel discussions, debates, or give interviews on TV and radio stations from the beginning of elections until 24 hours before the voting begins.
Political parties and independent candidates will also be able to make written and oral, and audio visual propaganda on daily newspapers and the internet through ads until the end of the allowed propaganda time.
Sending propaganda emails, sms and voice messages to voters is prohibited.
In the last ten days before the voting, broadcast of opinion polls or projections on election results, aiming to change the opinion of voters are prohibited.
The broadcasts before this deadline are required to stick to principles of impartiality and accuracy. The broadcasters are required to declare the specifics of the opinion polls and surveys like, the number of participants, by whom it was carried out or funded.
Wooden ballot boxes will be replaced by transparent boxes made of durable plastic.
Votes will be counted out loud twice by the chairman of each ballot box council. In case of contradiction between the two counts votes will be counted for a third time.
During the addition of results from ballot box councils at the District Election Councils, a copy of the results will be given to representatives of political parties.
Retired Gen. Sukru Sariisik, a former secretary-general of the National Security Council (MGK), and two other retired officers have been arrested along with retired Gen. Suha Tanyeri, who was released last week by a judge, as part of a probe into an alleged military plot to overthrow the government.
Retired Gen. Sariiskik, retired Gen. Nuri Ali Karababa and retired Col. Mumtaz Can were detained on Monday in the context of the investigation into the Sledgehammer (Balyoz) coup plot, which allegedly sought to undermine the government to prepare the ground for a military takeover. They were referred to court on Tuesday after their interrogation by the police and then arrested. Retired Capt. Mehmet Ulutas, who was also referred to court, was not arrested. The three retired officers were sent to Metris Prison yesterday.
The interrogation of fourteen retired officers who were detained during Monday's operations is under way at the Istanbul Police Department. A group of suspects was also brought to a courthouse yesterday and submitted to medical examination.
The National Police Department detained the fourteen in raids on Monday conducted at various locations as part of the Sledgehammer probe. Mondays Sledgehammer probe operations were suspended in the evening, when two prosecutors overseeing the probe were taken off the case on the orders of Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor Aykut Cengiz Engin. Engin also removed another prosecutor from the case on Tuesday.
Retired Gen. Suha Tanyeri was also rearrested yesterday as part of the investigation after last weeks ruling by a judge to release him was later rescinded by a panel of judges at the Istanbul 12th High Criminal Court. Retired Gen. Tanyeri is remembered for his participation in a controversial meeting of the Hudson Institute, a neoconservative pro-Bush administration US think tank, in 2007. In the meeting, participants had discussed the outcomes of possible scenarios in Turkey, including increased terrorist attacks killing 50 people in Istanbul and the assassination of the former head of the Constitutional Court, Tulay Tugcu, by a suicide bomber. Tanyeri was the director of the Turkish General Staffs Strategic Research and Study Center (SAREM) at the time.
Tanyeri and eighteen other suspects were released last Thursday by Istanbul 12th High Criminal Court judge Oktay Kuban due to the nonexistence of serious doubt regarding the crime.
A panel of judges at the Istanbul 12th High Criminal Court ordered the rearrest of these 19 suspects in addition to the arrest of Gen. Yurdaer Olcan and Gen. Abdullah Dalay, who were released by Kuban earlier this month without having been arrested.
Nine suspects, including seven active duty military officers, were rearrested on Tuesday and two were rearrested on Monday. With Tanyeris arrest, thirteen of the nineteen have so far been rearrested.
According to the Sledgehammer plot, made public by a newspaper in January, the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) had a systematic plan to create chaos in society by bombing mosques and attacking popular museums with Molotov cocktails. The attacks desired result was to increase pressure on the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) government for failing to provide security to its citizens. The attacks were to eventually lead to a military coup. The plan was drawn up in 2003 and discussed at a seminar held at the General Staffs Selimiye barracks in March of that year.
The Sledgehammer plan was included in the third indictment prepared in the investigation into Ergenekon, a clandestine network charged with plotting to overthrow the government. The prosecutors are now questioning the 24 generals who attended the seminar.
Under the title Good news from Brussels on Cyprus, Turkish Cypriot daily Star Kibris newspaper (08.04.10) reports that in an article published yesterday in Turkish daily Radikal newspaper, Joost Lagendijk, co-chairman of the Joint Parliamentary Committee between Turkey and the European Union, commented on the forthcoming illegal elections in the occupied areas of the Republic of Cyprus and the Direct Trade Regulation with the Turkish Cypriots which is expected to be discussed at the European Parliament (EP). He expressed the following views:
With the upcoming presidential elections in Cyprus on April 18, all attention from now on will probably focus on the repercussions of the results at the ballot box. What will happen when Prime Minister Dervis Eroglu, wins? He is known for his opposition to a federal solution that is championed by Mehmet Ali Talat, the incumbent president, the Greek Cypriots and, not unimportantly, by the Turkish government. Will Eroglu put an end, slowly but determinedly, to the ongoing negotiations between the two communities? And will Ankara try to stop him from doing so, realizing that a continuation of the status quo on the island presents an enormous road block on Turkeys path to the European Union?
In the meantime, there is a very interesting development in Brussels that could directly impact this whole process. A few months ago, the Lisbon Treaty entered into force. It contains the new rules of the game inside the EU. One of the important changes compared to the previous norms, is that, from now on, all trade agreements will be decided together by the EU member states and the European Parliament, or EP. Until now EU countries could take this kind of decisions without the approval of the EP. Even more importantly, when the EU concluded trade agreements with third countries, all member states had to agree on it, meaning that each country had a veto. So what, you may wonder?
How do these internal EU rules influence the situation on Cyprus?
Do you remember the promise made by the EU in 2004 to end the isolation of northern Cyprus by allowing direct trade between the Turkish part of the island and the member states of the EU? It was meant as a reward for the Yes-vote to the Annan-plan by the Turkish Cypriots. Unfortunately, the EU was not able to deliver on that promise because the Greek Cypriots used their presence at the EU table to block the adoption of the trade agreement. The proposal is still there, it was never withdrawn but politically it was dead because of the Cypriot determination to use their veto.
But that is no longer possible under the new rules of the Lisbon Treaty. Trade agreements have to receive the approval of the majority in the EP and of a so-called qualified majority (that means, roughly speaking, a two-third majority) among the EU member states. All pending trade agreements, including the free trade proposal with northern Cyprus, have automatically been transferred to this new decision mechanism.
Soon, the EP will have to take its decision on the plan. In a parallel process, the EU member states will have to express their views in favour or against this.
Subtitle: The Cypriot officials have lost their temper
They accuse the new commissioner, Stephan Fule, of exerting pressure on this. He is clearly happy with this development but it is not something he initiated. It simply follows from the implementation of the new treaty. I am sure the Cypriot government and the Cypriot members of the EP will, again, do everything to stop this process. They realize that they cannot hide behind procedures any longer and that the time has come for the EP and the EU member states to make up their mind on the merits of the proposal.
When it comes to a vote, Cyprus, even with the support of countries like France and Austria, cannot prevent the adoption of this agreement that would allow northern Cypriot companies to export directly, without interference from the Greek Cypriots, to the rest of Europe. When adopted, the Turkish government, that always made the link, could open its harbours and ports to Cypriot planes and vessels. If that happens, the EU-Turkey negotiations, that run the risk of getting stuck soon, will get a new boost.
Lets see what happens on April 18. But lets keep our eyes on Brussels as well.
Following are the summaries of reports and commentaries of selected items from the Turkish press on 07 April 2010:
a) Constitutional reform package amendments:
Viewing the "one-way road" the Justice and Development Party, AKP, has embarked on with the constitutional amendment package in an article in Hurriyet Daily News, Yusuf Kanli details the minefield the AKP will apparently be passing through in the process such as a Republican People's Party, CHP, appeal to the Constitutional Court for the annulment of the amendment package for some reason and a possible demand for the closure of the AKP.
Assessing the conditions set by CHP leader Baykal to extend his support to the amendment package in an article in Vatan, Bilal Cetin says that the three problematic articles that Baykal wishes to separate from the package, namely the ones regarding the structures of the High Council of Judges and Prosecutors, HSYK, and the Constitutional Court and the closure of parties, are actually the fundamental arrangements that Prime Minister Erdogan wants to implement. Describing these three articles as the real essence of the package, Cetin argues that without these three articles the amendment package has no meaning as far as the AKP is concerned. It is impossible for Erdogan to view this proposal in a positive light, writes Cetin, adding that this is the reason why Baykal has appealed to the president and not to Erdogan to separate the articles from the package. The chances of the president accepting this proposal are very weak, according to Cetin who underlines that in the event the president responds positively he will be the target of the wrath of Erdogan as well as of the AKP.
In an article entitled "CHP's prerequisite for support", Zaman columnist Mustafa Unal discusses whether the main opposition Republican People's Party, CHP, might have a hidden agenda in pledging to support the constitutional amendment package on the condition that President Gul puts only three of the proposed amendments to referendum. Questioning the motives behind this suggestion, Unal asserts that there are no guarantees that if the proposal is accepted, the CHP will not file an appeal with the Constitutional Court against the package while Turkey is preparing to hold a referendum on the amendments in question.
b) Sledgehammer investigation:
Holding the government responsible for creating a dispute within the judiciary under the pretext of instituting reforms in an article in Hurriyet, Oktay Eksi goes on to criticize the Justice Ministry for failing to take any action against the Office of the Chief Prosecutor for leaking secret documents and information regarding the Ergenekon investigation. Maintaining that certain prosecutors have entered a race of who will arrest the highest ranking general, Eksi accuses the Justice Minister of protecting those who fail to fulfill their duties instead of safeguarding justice and equity.
In an article entitled "A 'friend' from the General Staff", Vakit columnist Serdar Arseven relates the particulars of a meeting with "an acquaintance or rather a friend (because he is a practicing Muslim) at the General Staff," who gave him "the regards of a very high-level officer," told him that his articles on Cyprus particularly are appreciated by the military, and asked Vakitto do what it can to enhance public awareness about Israel's "expansionist" designs on Turkey, Cyprus, and northern Iraq. Arseven asserts that Vakithas been warning of Israel's expansionist policies for years and that the Turkish General Staff should "put its own house in order" by purging the army of elements affiliated with the Ergenekon network before seeking Vakit's support against "Zionism."
c) Turkish foreign relations:
Viewing the current state of Turkish-US relations in an article in Milliyet, Semih Idiz assumes that Ankara must have received certain assurances from the US Administration that President Obama will not refer to the 1915 incidents as genocide in his 24 April address since ambassador Tan is being returned to Washington. Assessing Prime Minister Erdogan's decision to participate in the nuclear summit in the United States after all, Idiz argues that the decision not to attend the summit was wrong in the first place and Erdogan was forced to take a step back. Underlining that Erdogan will be subject to a tough diplomatic test during his Washington visit, Idiz wonders how he will manage to continue to be the advocate of Iran in the light of the recent developments. Referring to the possibility of an Obama-Erdogan-Sargsyan summit during Erdogan's Washington visit, Idiz maintains that Turkey will be asked not to link the endorsement of the protocols to the Nagorno-Karabakh issue.
Turkey's vacillating foreign policy has been marketed as an independent foreign policy targeting zero problems with its neighbors, writes Cuneyt Ulsever in an article in Hurriyet, arguing that, however, this policy is incompatible with realpolitik. Enumerating the problematic US demands from Turkey such as the opening of the border with Armenia, support for sanctions against Iran, the use of the Incirlik Base during US troop withdrawal from Iraq, and the help of the Turkish Armed Forces, TSK, to fill in the vacuum if necessary, Ulsever argues that Turkey's dream of obtaining concessions from the United States has been replaced with the hope of preventing another US salvo on 24 April.
We should underline the fact that there is considerable discord among the leaders in Ankara regarding Iran's nuclear intentions, writes Sedat Ergin in an article in Hurriyet. Quoting Prime Minister Erdogan and President Gul on the issue, Ergin points out that there is a different tone and line in the Gul front regarding Iran's nuclear program. Now that the United States is about to muster the support of China with regards to the sanctions it wants to impose on Iran, all attention is turn to the vote Turkey will be casting on the issue at the UN Security Council, notes Ergin, wondering whether Erdogan's stand is in Turkey's national interests.
Turkey's opposition to new sanctions against Iran has created a very serious problem between Turkey and its allies, writes Erdal Safak in an article in Sabah, adding: "This is the reason why relations with the United States became tense. This issue has also played a certain part in the stagnation experienced in the EU process." Welcoming Erdogan's approach of trying to resolve the issue through diplomacy and not through sanctions, Safak argues that by preventing the isolation of Iran, Turkey is actually doing the West a favor because according to the European Gas Security report prepared by the Strategic Analysis Center based in Paris, Qatar and Iran should be included as suppliers in the Nabucco Project. In conclusion, Safak writes: "Turkey, by keeping the Iran door open and by preventing the full isolation of this country, is, singlehandedly, laying the foundations of this infrastructure for the EU."
d) Tension with Israel:
In an article entitled "You will have to eat crow", Yeni Safak columnist Ibrahim Karagul slams Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman's remarks comparing Prime Minister Erdogan to the Libyan and Venezuelan leaders as a new example of fanaticism by an Israeli politician who called for "nuclear genocide" against the Palestinian people some time ago. He also argues that Lieberman's "unseemly" remarks reflect Israel's annoyance and concern at the way Turkey has for some time been building "transnational partnerships" with neighbors like Iran, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon, broadening its area of influence, and acting like a major regional and global player.
In an article entitled "What did Lieberman mean?", Yeni Safak columnist Fehmi Koru criticizes Avigdor Lieberman for his latest remarks against Prime Minister Erdogan. He argues that led by "blundering" politicians like Lieberman, Israel is not only alienating Turkey but also becoming increasingly isolated from the international community. He cites US President Barack Obama's "inhospitable" treatment of Netanyahu during the latter's recent visit to the White House as an example of how world leaders have for some time been withdrawing their support for Israel. He also asks Lieberman what he meant by saying that Turkey cannot solve its Kurdish issue.
In an article entitled "Is Israel Training Kurds?", Today's Zaman columnist Dogu Ergil poses the question whether "rumors" that Israeli military and intelligence units are "training Kurdish commandoes in guerilla warfare and anti-terror tactics" in northern Iraq might be partly responsible for Turkey's recent "cold" attitude toward Israel.
e) Kurdish issue:
Referring to the prosecution of those who arrived from Qandil in an article in Referans, Cengiz Candar states that a perfect opportunity on the path to disarmament and on eliminating the dimension of violence from the Kurdish issue has been lost. Recalling that many former Democratic Society Party, DTP, officials have been detained or arrested within the framework of the operations conducted against the Assembly of Communities of Kurdistan, KCK, Candar focuses on the remarks made by Peace and Democracy Party, BDP, Selahattin Demirtas that the BDP deputies will form a human shield in front of the tanks that are preparing to launch an operation on Cudi Mountain. If weapons begin to speak in the southeast and Turkey's political climate is further poisoned it will not be the AKP that favors constitutional amendments that will benefit from the developments, writes Candar, arguing that it will be those who are preoccupied with "coup plans" and who want to topple the AKP who will benefit from them. Commenting on the remarks made by Erdogan that the AKP will bargain with no one with regard to the constitutional amendments, Candar questions what is wrong with bargaining, arguing that bargaining is a requirement of politics. He adds: "When you commit yourself by saying that 'we will not bargain' you are actually making a 'declaration' that 'you will not engage in politics.'" Candar wonders whether we prefer an atmosphere in which those in Qandil will be disarmed and political prisoners will be released or whether we opt for an atmosphere of clashes, operations, and the imprisonment of more Kurdish politicians.
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Title XXXII
REGULATION OF PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS Chapter 456
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F.S. 456.017
456.017 Examinations.—
(1)(a) The department shall provide, contract, or approve services for the development, preparation, administration, scoring, score reporting, and evaluation of all examinations, in consultation with the appropriate board. The department shall certify that examinations developed and approved by the department adequately and reliably measure an applicant’s ability to practice the profession regulated by the department. After an examination developed or approved by the department has been administered, the board, or the department when there is no board, may reject any question which does not reliably measure the general areas of competency specified in the rules of the board. The department may contract for the preparation, administration, scoring, score reporting, and evaluation of examinations, when such services are available and approved by the board.
(b) For each examination developed by the department or contracted vendor, to the extent not otherwise specified by statute, the board, or the department when there is no board, shall by rule specify the general areas of competency to be covered by each examination, the relative weight to be assigned in grading each area tested, and the score necessary to achieve a passing grade. The department shall assess fees to cover the actual cost for any purchase, development, validation, administration, and defense of required examinations. This subsection does not apply to national examinations approved and administered pursuant to paragraph (c). If a practical examination is deemed to be necessary, the rules shall specify the criteria by which examiners are to be selected, the grading criteria to be used by the examiner, the relative weight to be assigned in grading each criterion, and the score necessary to achieve a passing grade. When a mandatory standardization exercise for a practical examination is required by law, the board, or the department when there is no board, may conduct such exercise. Therefore, board members, or employees of the department when there is no board, may serve as examiners at a practical examination with the consent of the board or department, as appropriate.
(c) The board, or the department when there is no board, shall approve by rule the use of one or more national examinations that the department has certified as meeting requirements of national examinations and generally accepted testing standards pursuant to department rules.
1. Providers of examinations seeking certification shall pay the actual costs incurred by the department in making a determination regarding the certification. The name and number of a candidate may be provided to a national contractor for the limited purpose of preparing the grade tape and information to be returned to the board or department; or, to the extent otherwise specified by rule, the candidate may apply directly to the vendor of the national examination and supply test score information to the department. The department may delegate to the board the duty to provide and administer the examination. Any national examination approved by a board, or the department when there is no board, prior to October 1, 1997, is deemed certified under this paragraph.
2. Neither the board nor the department may administer a state-developed written examination if a national examination has been certified by the department. The examination may be administered electronically if adequate security measures are used, as determined by rule of the department.
3. The board, or the department when there is no board, may administer a state-developed practical or clinical examination, as required by the applicable practice act, if all costs of development, purchase, validation, administration, review, and defense are paid by the examination candidate prior to the administration of the examination. If a national practical or clinical examination is available and certified by the department pursuant to this section, the board, or the department when there is no board, may administer the national examination.
4. It is the intent of the Legislature to reduce the costs associated with state examinations and to encourage the use of national examinations whenever possible.
(d) Each board, or the department when there is no board, shall adopt rules regarding the security and monitoring of examinations. The department shall implement those rules adopted by the respective boards. In order to maintain the security of examinations, the department may employ the procedures set forth in s. 456.065 to seek fines and injunctive relief against an examinee who violates the provisions of s. 456.018 or the rules adopted pursuant to this paragraph. The department, or any agent thereof, may, for the purposes of investigation, confiscate any written, photographic, or recording material or device in the possession of the examinee at the examination site which the department deems necessary to enforce such provisions or rules. The scores of candidates who have taken state-developed examinations shall be provided to the candidates electronically using a candidate identification number, and the department shall post the aggregate scores on the department’s website without identifying the names of the candidates.
(e) If the professional board with jurisdiction over an examination concurs, the department may, for a fee, share with any other state’s licensing authority or a national testing entity an examination or examination item bank developed by or for the department unless prohibited by a contract entered into by the department for development or purchase of the examination. The department, with the concurrence of the appropriate board, shall establish guidelines that ensure security of a shared exam and shall require that any other state’s licensing authority comply with those guidelines. Those guidelines shall be approved by the appropriate professional board. All fees paid by the user shall be applied to the department’s examination and development program for professions regulated by this chapter.
(f) The department may adopt rules necessary to administer this subsection.
(2) For each examination developed by the department or a contracted vendor, the board, or the department when there is no board, shall adopt rules providing for reexamination of any applicants who failed an examination developed by the department or a contracted vendor. If both a written and a practical examination are given, an applicant shall be required to retake only the portion of the examination on which the applicant failed to achieve a passing grade, if the applicant successfully passes that portion within a reasonable time, as determined by rule of the board, or the department when there is no board, of passing the other portion. Except for national examinations approved and administered pursuant to this section, the department shall provide procedures for applicants who fail an examination developed by the department or a contracted vendor to review their examination questions, answers, papers, grades, and grading key for the questions the candidate answered incorrectly or, if not feasible, the parts of the examination failed. Applicants shall bear the actual cost for the department to provide examination review pursuant to this subsection. An applicant may waive in writing the confidentiality of the applicant’s examination grades. Notwithstanding any other provisions, only candidates who fail an examination with a score that is less than 10 percent below the minimum score required to pass the examination shall be entitled to challenge the validity of the examination at hearing.
(3) For each examination developed or administered by the department or a contracted vendor, an accurate record of each applicant’s examination questions, answers, papers, grades, and grading key shall be kept for a period of not less than 2 years immediately following the examination, and such record shall thereafter be maintained or destroyed as provided in chapters 119 and 257. This subsection does not apply to national examinations approved and administered pursuant to this section.
(4) Meetings of any member of the department or of any board within the department held for the exclusive purpose of creating or reviewing licensure examination questions or proposed examination questions are exempt from the provisions of s. 286.011 and s. 24(b), Art. I of the State Constitution. Any public records, such as tape recordings, minutes, or notes, generated during or as a result of such meetings are confidential and exempt from the provisions of s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution. However, these exemptions shall not affect the right of any person to review an examination as provided in subsection (2).
(5) For examinations developed by the department or a contracted vendor, each board, or the department when there is no board, may provide licensure examinations in an applicant’s native language. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, applicants for examination or reexamination pursuant to this subsection shall bear the full cost for the department’s development, preparation, validation, administration, grading, and evaluation of any examination in a language other than English prior to the examination being administered. Requests for translated examinations must be on file in the board office at least 6 months prior to the scheduled examination. When determining whether it is in the public interest to allow the examination to be translated into a language other than English, the board shall consider the percentage of the population who speak the applicant’s native language. Applicants must apply for translation to the applicable board at least 6 months prior to the scheduled examination.
(6) In addition to meeting any other requirements for licensure by examination or by endorsement, and notwithstanding the provisions in paragraph (1)(c), an applicant may be required by a board, or the department when there is no board, to certify competency in state laws and rules relating to the applicable practice act. All laws and rules examinations shall be administered electronically unless the laws and rules examination is administered concurrently with another written examination for that profession or unless the electronic administration would be substantially more expensive.
(7) The department may post examination scores electronically on the Internet in lieu of mailing the scores to each applicant. The electronic posting of the examination scores meets the requirements of chapter 120 if the department also posts along with the examination scores a notification of the rights set forth in chapter 120. The date of receipt for purposes of chapter 120 is the date the examination scores are posted electronically. The department shall also notify the applicant when scores are posted electronically of the availability of postexamination review, if applicable.
History.—s. 46, ch. 92-33; s. 23, ch. 93-129; s. 1, ch. 95-367; s. 304, ch. 96-406; s. 1081, ch. 97-103; s. 54, ch. 97-261; s. 238, ch. 98-166; s. 79, ch. 99-397; s. 49, ch. 2000-160; s. 46, ch. 2000-318; s. 12, ch. 2001-277; s. 2, ch. 2005-62; s. 61, ch. 2018-110.
Note.—Former s. 455.2173; s. 455.574.
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by: Lesther Pangilinan (2KK Scholar)
Last September 2016, alongside with my co-scholars, we visited one of the famous museums in Metro Manila - the National Museum of the Philippines, located in Ermita, Manila.
The National Museum is an institution that is currently preserving the national collections made by infamous and famous painters, sculptors, writers and other artists, as well as contemporary ones. The National Museum has sections like the National Art Gallery, Museum of the Filipino People, Planetarium and the Regional Museum.
The Museum gave us students the opportunity to see these precious artworks made by our fellow Filipinos. Unfortunately, we weren’t able to visit all of the sections I have mentioned. We just went to the Museum of the Filipino People and the main hall of the National Museum. Even so, I was very glad that these creations was collected and handled carefully, and I think that it is a good way to bring inspiration to young generations, when they see the works that have been made by their ancestors. I believe that it is also good to have these in display for every Filipino, and for other nationalities as well, showcasing our history and artworks done by our fellow men.
Seeing these pieces made my heart flutter with anticipation and excitement. I have wondered how people lived in the old times. Pondering what materials they used and how they used it. I was also astonished and confused by my own questions. And I even wondered if my drawings and writings could ever be displayed together with these creations.
Thirteen Years of Educating the Heart and the Mind
Written by: Jastine Rosit
“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”
It is one of Aristotle’s words of wisdom. Certainly, the heart and the mind are intertwined in the true essence of education. Feeding the mind with overflowing knowledge while leaving the heart empty would not capture what education is truly about. Thus, it requires a great sense of mission and dedication to teach both the mind and the heart. For thirteen years, Tulong sa Kapwa Kapatid Foundation (2KK) is transforming lives and living out this holistic definition of education.
2KK is helping our fellow Filipinos in “realizing dreams through education”. This mindset motivates and propels every member of the organization to be an instrument of change for more than a decade. They enlighten the path of the underprivileged youths who are living in the shadows of poverty. They give hope through education; through education they build dreams; through building dreams, they build better, happy, and more empowered lives and homes.
Let us take a look on one of the stories of hope - a small leap of faith that led to big ripples of change.
Mickel Dublin ,19, is one of the scholars of 2KK. He is taking up BS Criminology, and he is walking through his childhood dreams of being a policeman.
For this senior college student, “education is not only gaining knowledge. It is also [about] having discipline and love [with what you do].”
Tracing back to 2008, Mickel has started his journey with 2KK. He was just an eleven year old child who viewed his dreams as unreachable stars; the clouds of doubt and uncertainty filled his thoughts.
“Before, I don’t believe that I can reach my goals in life,” he shared.
But through the help of 2KK, his outlook in life has changed. He has mustered every ounce of courage and optimism in his system. He has realized that there are ways to achieve his goals and he would not walk through it alone.
He regains his strength and will power to take little steps forward. He carries his dreams in his pocket as his journey begins. It may be challenging and tough but Mickel is very eager and inspired to reach his goals.
“I want to become a law enforcer someday and I will achieve it because 2KK is helping me,” he said.
“It is also my wish to have a simple family and to live in a simple house, and get a permanent job,” he added.
One of the most valuable lessons that he received from 2KK is to always set a vision and to always prepare himself to cross the path that will lead to his destination. No one can tell him that he cannot do it because he just needs to whisper to himself that he has the potentials to make it. He also realizes that he has his fellow kapatids who will guide and support him.
“Thank you so much to 2KK for your love and trust, and for believing in us that we can achieve our goals in life and be a successful person,” he gratefully said.
Just like how we define education that traces its core in the heart and the mind, Mickel personifies this meaning. He also wants to share the learning and opportunity that he received as one of the scholars of 2KK. This is his way of educating and imparting the life lessons that he obtained.
“I want to serve the community. That’s how I’ll payback the help of 2KK to me.”
Undoubtedly, he acknowledges that “educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” It is by continuously loading his tank of information and filling the spaces of his heart that he truly learns.
He is our kapatid and he has been with us all through this time. It has been thirteen years of being in mission to educate (the heart and the mind), and every year, our family grows. In as much as we plant seeds of hope and inspiration, we reap dreams coming to reality.
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Being "Ate" to our Kapatids.
by Trisha Balan
Filipinos are fond of nicknames. I have quite a few. My name is Trisha but I am called Shasha, Chubs, Twizzie, and many others that I would not like to discuss. My favorite nickname, however, is Ate Trisha, which translates as "older sister Trisha." It was given to me by my 45 younger siblings.
In the gritty, crowded heart of Metro Manila, tucked away from the expensive high-rise buildings and suburban paradises of the middle class, there sits an impoverished community, surrounded by mounds of garbage and decay. This small community is called Payatas and it is home to my 45 little brothers and sisters. They are not related to me by blood, but they are my family through Tulong Sa Kapwa Kapatid (2KK), an outreach organization that aims to provide more opportunities and values education to the youth in Payatas. Every other Saturday, I am given the chance to guide and teach these children life lessons they can carry with them for the rest of their lives. For the past four years, I have learned to become a teacher, a guidance counselor, an event organizer, a playmate, a friend, and an older sister to these kids. Payatas proved to be my best classroom. I might not have learned how to solve algorithms or how to analyze a villanelle poem, but I did learn how to be all these things for my brothers and sisters. Being an older sister is my talent and it is my passion. As the youngest in my biological family, I never thought it was something that I would be good at, but I soon discovered that caring for others is something built within me. As Ate Trisha, I get to see into the minds of my little brothers and sisters. I learn about their lives, discover their dreams, and I grow to care about them. As an older sister, I think of myself less and it gives me purpose in life.
Despite my interest and my passion for this cause, more than once, my friends and even members of my family have told me to quit my organization and to pursue different interests. They believed it was a waste of my time to be with these kids, that I had nothing to gain from being with them. What they said was true, I had nothing to gain, but I did get to find out who I was. I could have done a lot of other things if I was not involved with these children. I would have led a very different life, but I do not regret it. I love being Ate Trisha. I became who I am because of my little brothers and sisters.
Gandhi once said, "the best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others." I was lucky enough to find myself through these kids. Being Ate Trisha makes me feel close to them and it makes me feel unique. They have given me my identity. Being an older sister may not sound special, but to me it is. After all, who else can say that they have 45 younger siblings?
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Bee Time: Lessons from the Hive
Mark L. Winston. Harvard University Press, 2014. 296 pages. $24.95.
By Douglas Whitaker
I – like many people – have little direct contact with bees. I know bees have queens, pollinate flowers, and make honey. I know honey goes well with fresh-baked biscuits, and I know that there more varieties of honey than the one that comes in the plastic bear on supermarket shelves. Beyond these common experiences, I knew very little about bees prior to reading this book. Thankfully, I fall well within the target audience for Bee Time.
The book begins with a concise overview of the importance of bees. Without them, agriculture would look very different: an estimated 65% of all flowering plans require or benefit from pollination be bees. Because of modern society’s reliance upon agriculture, humanity’s millennia-old fascination with bees makes sense. However, there is more to this book than a history or biology lesson.
At its heart, Bee Time is Mark Winston’s love letter to bees. Winston spent his career as an entomologist specializing in bees before he became the director for Simon Fraser University’s newly-created Centre for Dialogue in 2007. As part of his career change, Winston closed his lab and apiaries. While he reports thriving in his new position, he also misses bees, which was one of the key motivations for writing this book.
The other key motivator for Bee Time is colony collapse disorder, a significant threat to bee populations and, in turn, our food supply. Winston describes colony collapse disorder as “a continuing and increasing threat to beekeeping and the numerous crops that rely on bees.” This threat manifests itself as losses of 30% to 40% of all colonies globally each year. The research community has spent years searching for the cause of colony collapse disorder, but it appears that no single cause is to blame. In the chapter devoted to colony collapse disorder (“A Thousand Little Cuts”), Winston reports that the current consensus is that synergy is the real culprit: a complex milieu of causes, each individually manageable, has decimated bee populations. (Technically, decimated is an understatement.)
Winston’s conclusion is that the interactions between diseases, medicinal treatments for diseases, pesticides, and highly-standardized modern agriculture are to blame for the serious decline of bees. Predictably, the proposed solution for such a complex problem is also complex and involves a paradigm shift away from crop monocultures and heavy pesticide use to a more balanced, harmonious approach to agriculture and beekeeping. Such a change will not happen overnight, and Winston cautions against simplifying problems to allow for a straightforward solution.
The “lessons from the hive” that are promised in the subtitle are not all grand statements about balance and harmony with nature. In the latter half of Bee Time, Winston describes the role of bees in the arts and culture as well as connections to socialization and conversation. Lessons that have been learned from bees include breaking complex problems into simpler parts that can be solved individually and linked together, being present in the moment, and conversing deeply. Winston freely admits that beekeeping does not hold a monopoly on such lessons; instead, bees are source of knowledge and inspiration for some as “yoga, meditation, [and] running marathons” are for others.
Beekeeping is a pastoral, contemplative occupation, and this book is a reflection on Winston’s many years of beekeeping experience. Each chapter is filled with descriptions of the scientific or historical aspects of bees under examination with anecdotes from Winston’s time as an entomologist and beekeeper sprinkled throughout. Even when describing his research with “Killer Bees” in French Guiana or the largest food fraud in US History, Bee Time is calm and deliberate, serving as a source of information rather than sensationalism. Bees, and our relationship with them, are fascinating without embellishment, and Winston recognizes this.
Bee Time also benefits from Winston’s time as an academic: the chapters are sensibly organized and could be read individually as part of courses dealing with topics such as sustainability, communication, religion, and urban planning, to name a few. References for each chapter and a good index are included at the back of the book.
Winston’s Bee Time offers a fascinating glimpse of the world of bees and the myriad connections that humans and bees share. More than simply honey-producers, bees are critical for modern human society because of the pollination they provide for agriculture. We also see in bees a reflection of ourselves and endow them with a special place in our culture. Bee Time serves as a great overview of both the biological and social aspects of bees written by someone who clearly loves them.
Douglas Whitaker (ΦBK, University of Florida, 2010) is a doctoral student specializing in statistics education at the University of Florida. The University of Florida is home to the Beta of Florida Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa.
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Kirkland man convicted for 20-year tax evasion scheme
The man used multiple methods to evade taxes, lived in Kirkland and owned a local business.
by Kailan Manandic
Friday, August 24, 2018 8:30am
The owner of a Kirkland interior design business was recently convicted of 25 counts for a nearly 20-year scheme to avoid paying more than $560,000 in income taxes.
Daniel Nix, 58, will face his sentencing hearing on Nov. 9 following a four-day trial and a day of jury deliberation that found him guilty of 13 counts of tax evasion, 11 counts of providing fictitious financial obligations and one count of corrupt interference with the administration of the Internal Revenue Code. U.S. Attorney Annette Hayes announced the conviction on July 15.
“Nix enjoyed a lavish lifestyle with the proceeds of his crime,” Hayes wrote in a press release. “He owns a Kirkland home assessed for more than $1 million. He bought and owned at least 16 luxury vehicles over the years, including a Porsche, a Jaguar, a BMW, a Ford F-150, multiple Mercedes-Benz, Harley Davidsons, and other imported motorcycles.”
Tax evasion is punishable by up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Presentation of fictitious financial instruments is punishable by up to 25 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Attempts to interfere with the administration of the tax code is punishable by up to three years in prison and a $5,000 fine.
A grand jury indicted Nix on April 12, 2017 on each of the charges for which he was convicted.
Karen Street, 58, is a second defendant who was indicted at the same time on two counts of providing fictitious financial obligations.
The indictment release didn’t mention the outcome of her charges.
Nix operated Dannix Design, a medical office interior design firm. According to the release, Nix refused to pay taxes on $3.9 million in gross income and $1.9 million in net profit as early as 1998 and from 2000-13. Nix hid his income and assets by setting up shell companies, filing bankruptcy claims and filing false claims against the government.
Additionally, Nix transferred assets into sham religious entities that he had set up between 2010 and 2013, frustrating IRS efforts to put liens on his assets, according to the indictments.
In February 2013, Nix sent 11 fake money orders to the IRS, totaling more than $1 million, in an attempt to fake his tax obligations.
Street, Nix’s long-time partner, also submitted two fake money orders as payment for back taxes she owed, according to the indictments.
Hayes added in a press release that Nix, on several occasions, harassed IRS and Department of Revenue agents, filing fraudulent liens against them. He also called other unrelated individuals who were subject to IRS liens and falsely claimed the liens filed by the government were invalid.
The case was investigated by the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI).
The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Seungjae Lee and Mark Parrent.
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1 Talad Thai, Pathumthani, Bangkok Shopping Mall Aug. 3, 2012, 1:02 a.m. View
2 Zeer Rangsit, Pathumthani, Bangkok Shopping Mall Aug. 2, 2012, 1:06 a.m. View
3 Pantim Plaza, Bangkok Shopping Mall Aug. 2, 2012, 12:54 a.m. View
4 Dell Service Center, Bangkok Customer Care Point Aug. 2, 2012, 12:46 a.m. View
5 Hossain Hotel, Nana, Bangkok, Bamrungrad Restaurant Aug. 2, 2012, 12:25 a.m. View
6 Tunisian Shwarma, Nana, Bangkok, opposite to Bamrungrad Hotel Street Food Aug. 2, 2012, 12:22 a.m. View
7 Bamrungrad Hospital, Bangkok Hospital Aug. 2, 2012, 12:17 a.m. View
8 MBK, Mabun Krong, Bangkok Shopping Mall Aug. 2, 2012, 12:11 a.m. View
9 Seven Eleven, Thammasat University, Bangkok Shop Aug. 1, 2012, 11:56 p.m. View
10 AIT Van Service Bus Stop Aug. 1, 2012, 11:49 p.m. View
11 Big C, Future Park, Rangsit Shopping Mall Aug. 1, 2012, 11:41 p.m. View
12 McDonald's Fast Food Aug. 1, 2012, 11:36 p.m. View
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Posted on February 18, 2017 February 18, 2017 by Shirley Reiff Howarth
The continuing tragedy of the pollution and destruction of our oceans is being ignored by much of the world’s population – particularly in the United States.
It is an ongoing concern of many of our LandfillArt artists and they are bringing attention to the unfolding tragedy through their art by creating moving images using recycled materials. Here are the statements of six of these artists.
Untitled, by Alek Krylow, Denmark
“In a world where it is easier to throw away than repair it is refreshing to take part in an enterprise where the idea is to reuse a discarded item as a painting canvas instead of allowing it to pollute the environment. “ Alek Krylow
Alek Krylow grew up in England, in a Polish family. He has been drawing since childhood. Alek was educated as a biologist in England. On moving to Denmark in 1980, he began illustrating biology books, later began teaching watercolor painting. In the last 25 years, Alex has taught watercolor and drawing techniques and has produced 18 watercolor teaching videos in Danish. He has recently published a book on watercolor techniques.
Mercury Man, by Dick Dahl
Dirk is a self-taught artist from Washington state. He has been creating art in various forms throughout his life, exploring different mediums and techniques. Dirk works in ceramics creating and teaching the making of Face Jugs in his studio in North Seattle.
“After my family and I were watching a documentary on islands of floating trash in the open sea… This project came to my attention and I was instantly compelled to connect with my roots, creating beauty or art out of discarded items. ”
Jelly Fish, by Virginia Mallon
Virginia’s home town of Crab Meadow, which is located on the Northshore of Long Island was hit by Hurricane Sandy in 2012, which inspired her to launch two projects, the first project, “Washed in on the Salt” is about catastrophic weather related events. The second project titled, “Out is a Place” comments on what is taken away, as well as on what is discarded, thrown out, tossed aside without the conscious awareness that out is a place. These projects resulted in a collection of lost and found items that represent the precarious balance between man and his environment, and the lack of value placed on disposable possessions.
“I am a painter, photographer and blogger with a focus on both human and environmental subjects. In my work I hope to illustrate the juxtaposition man and nature while paralleling the strengths and vulnerabilities of each.” Virginia Mallon
Virginia was educated at Forest Park School of Art, Woodhaven, New York- with Indian Space artist Robert Barrell Queens College, City University of New York, Flushing New York. Her work has been shown in many solo, group and juried exhibitions throughout the East Coast and Italy.
Portal to the Sea, by Becky Luth
“I love being in the ocean and value any efforts to keep it clean, so we can continue to enjoy its magic!” Becky Luth
Most of Becky’s art is related to the ocean and has been inspired by her travels and experiences surfing, diving, snorkeling and exploring the beaches and tide pools. Her latest focus has been surf art which is her expression of thankfulness to our creator who designed the waves and gave us the ability to ride them for our enjoyment!
Her website is at: www.bekisart.com
Metal Hubcap Fish, by Ptolemy Elrington,
Brighton, UK
“Ken Marques’ project looks like a very positive approach to encourage ethical awareness through art and recycling. These are strongly relevant values in the nature of my work and I not only think it’s appropriate for my work to be included, it’s an honor to be a small part of this.” Ptolemy Elrington
Ptolemy, from Brighton, in the UK, has been a professional sculptor for 10 years. He works in recycled materials with regenerative eco aware theme inherent in his work. His work has been shown in numerous venues in London and the surrounding area, as well as Ireland and Greece.
His website is at: www.hubcapcreatures.com
The Salmon Of Knowledge, by Orla Hilton
Limerick, Ireland
“I like the idea of making art from objects that are found. Especially when they are objects that had a previous life and use.” Orla Hilton
Orla was born and raised in Limerick, on the river Shannon. She loved to watch as her dad used to row down it when she was a child, and loved to watch the fishermen and women standing on the bridge watching and waiting.
www.orlahilton.com
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Posted in Deforestation, Environment, Found Objects and Recycling
The artists that have contributed to the Landfillart Collection come from every one of the 50 states in the US and 52 countries. For this article we selected two artists from Malaysia, and give a little information on the environmental challenges in that beautiful country.
Malaysia ranks as the 21st most bio-diverse country in the world, with 2,199 endemic species. 18% of these species are listed as ‘threatened’, and because they are endemic, if Malaysia fails to conserve them, extinction will result.
Green, by Ching Teoh
“I painted the hubcap green with a flowery pattern to signify rebirth… today it celebrates its new life as a decoration piece on the wall!”
Ching Teoh
Ching, born in Penang in 1971, is a self-taught painter with a master’s degree in applied science. Painting with vibrant colors has always been her hobby, inspired by growing up in a multi-cultural environment where traditional art and customs have been embraced. By the year 2000, Ching and her husband, Khoo started ArtBug, an interior decorative art company. She is currently a full time painter, accepting commissions.
Deforestation is Major Environmental Concern in Malaysia
One of Malaysia’s main environmental challenges is deforestation. Much of the country’s economic growth can be attributed to its forest industry, but this has created the problems of deforestation. Between 1990 and 2010 Malaysia lost 8.6% of its forest cover, or around 1,920,000 hectares. There is still a relatively high forest coverage with estimates of 59.9% of the total area covered by forests — a sizeable portion of this is untouched virgin forests which date back to around 130 million years.
But a major problem created by the deforestation has been the elimination of habitat of many of the endemic species. At east a fifth of Malaysia’s mammal species, including the Sumatran serow, Sumatran rhino, dugong and the Malayan tiger, face extinction, with many numbering only in the hundreds.
Data from the World Bank showed that 70 of Malaysia’s 336 mammal species were threatened as of 2014, the seventh highest in the world in this category. Birds, fish and plants are also at risk. Malaysia’s population of Sumatran rhino, for example, has been almost completely wiped out mainly because of the monetary value of its horn.
Another problem created by deforestation has been that the traditional ways of life of the indigenous peoples in Malaysia are being destroyed because they depend on the rainforest for medicine, shelter, food, and other necessities. As the forest disappears, so does their culture.
The Malaysian Nature Society is active in advocating protection of forest and The Forest Research Institute of Malaysia has also been actively conducting research on the biodiversity of Malaysia’s forests as well as in conservation.
Two in One
by Chew Fang Chin
“This is a challenge for me as an artist to transform a rusted metal into an art creation. This is also my support to this meaningful and creative recycle project from Kuching in Malaysia.” Chew Fang Chin
Chew Fang Chin is a professional artist who has had more than 28 solo Art Exhibitions in Malaysia, Singapore, China, Australia, Taiwan, US and other countries. His website is at: www.fangchin.com
In his art, by combining a mixture of watercolor and Chinese ink, he is able to give a deeper insight into the Sarawak indigenous people.
Sarawak is Malaysia’s largest state. Its natural beauty is rich in flora and fauna — many threatened as noted above — and many designs in the arts and crafts are based on age-old legends. Located in the northwestern part of Borneo – known as the land of the Hornbills – it is a place of natural splendor, history, and mystery and is home to numerous indigenous cultures. Sarawak is well known for it’s ethnic diversity and the cultured lifestyle of its people – Sarawak has 27 ethnic groups, 45 languages and dialects who live together in peace and harmony.
The Sarawak Tourism Ministry selected Chin’s “Ethnic Impression” Series for its 1993 and 1994 tourism calendars.
The Ibans – Sarawak’s largest ethnic group – live in longhouses. Known for its warriors, they were one feared headhunters of Borneo. The women are among the finest weavers of Borneo and the “Pau Kumbu” is their masterpiece. The Malays are another major ethnic group and are known for their beautifully crafted wooden houses, and the “kain songkat” and “selayah keringkam” (textiles worked with gold and silver thread). The Bidayuh also live in longhouses, and are known for the “kesah” mats – stoutly woven from rattan and beaten tree bark to produce a hardy floor covering.
The Orang Ulu are the most artistically oriented of Borneo’s ethic people. Their massive longhouses are decorated with murals, their utensils are embellished with intricate beadwork, and the women cover their hands, arms, legs and feet with finely detailed tattoos.
Chew was the country’s first artist to exhibit in Qingdao Museum and Jinan Hall, China. Chew is also the first Malaysian artist to exhibit his artwork in the Academia SINICA Taiwan, R.O.C.
Chew’s paintings are in collections of art galleries and museums around the world in Malaysia, Australia, China, Singapore and Taiwan, as well as private collections in the United States, Europe and Asia.
Posted in Asia, Deforestation, Environment
The World on a Turtle’s Back
Posted on June 22, 2015 June 22, 2015 by Shirley Reiff Howarth
The LandfillArt Collections features over 1000 artworks created from recycled hubcaps. The round shape of the hubcap lends itself readily to themes that encompass the eye, the sun, the wheel of fortune, etc, and the wealth of ideas and interpretations range from pleas for recycling, documentation of myths, personal interests, environmental issues, and many other ideas. However an interesting correlation with the turtle shell prompted several artists to create artworks the reflect on the myths and themes of the turtle.
Here are four artists that used the turtle as their subject for their hubcaps
Turtle Song by Linda Windell
“Ecology and the environment are inherent to American Indian culture. As an Indian artist I am so pleased to be part of this unique endeavor send a message of reclamation to the world.”
From Greensboro, Georgia, Linda is a self-taught Native American artist of Creek/Cherokee decent. Her work has garnered two national awards, four Native American Corps, and was selected for the cover of the Wisconsin Paint Horse Journal. Linda has loyal collectors throughout North and South America, Canada, Europe and Asia. You can find more examples of her work on her website at : www.mstarstudio.com
Once Upon A Turtles Back… by Jeb Prazak
“I love a challenge and taking some ‘thing’ that was essentially nothing and turning it into something meaningful was just that.”
Working now in Dodgeville, Wsconsin, Jeb holds a BA from Gulf Park College in Gulfport, Mississippi and a BFA from Ringling School of Art in Sarasota, Florida. She is founder of Metropolitan Art, renovating a garage into a gallery. She currently works and teaches out of her studio and gallery, Jeb Art. Her website is at: www.jebprazak.com
Turtle by Mark Needham
“To raise awareness of the long-lasting impact of landfills it seemed appropriate to utilize the imagery of longevity embodied in the turtle… What goes to a landfill stays there for a very long time-sometimes passively sometimes menacingly. Smarter manufacturing and consuming is vital to our long term economic and physical survival…“
Louisville, Kentucky. Mark received a Bachelor of Architecture Degree from The School of Architecture, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee. He is experienced in a wide variety of media, and his work has been shown extensively in the United States and is collected publicly and privately. Mark has been published in several publications and has received over forty awards for design excellence in regional, national, and international competitions. He is also past President and Secretary of the Louisville Graphic Design Association. His website is at: www.markneedhamjewelry.com
Spirit Turtle by Libby Maynard
“I have long thought that the next big resource extraction boom would be in landfills and have consciously worked to keep stuff out of landfills since the 1970’s, so being part of a project to create art using materials rescued from landfills was an exciting prospect. I found that during the creation process, I started looking around with newly focused eyes at consumption and what I could do to help promote recycling and minimize consumption. The Eureaka (CA) Art & Culture Commission is now in the process of selecting artists to place art on the City’s recycling bins to encourage public awareness. For my art piece, I chose the turtle spirit to inhabit the hubcap as symbolic of earth and grounding. It is only loosely tied to the hubcap so as not to be permanently tied to human waste.”
Eureka, California. Libby is the Executive Director of the Ink People Center for the Arts and co-founder of the organization. As well as a professional artist, she has over 35 years of nonprofit administration experience, and is a consultant in nonprofit management and program development. She received her BA, K-2 Teaching Credential, and MA in art from Humbolt State University, Arcata, California. Her artwork has been exhibited throughout California, and is in collections across the nation. The Ink People’s DreamMaker program has fostered over 200 community-initiated projects in the past 34 years and currently manages over 75 project Her website is at: www.mstarstudio.com
Posted in Environment, Found Objects and Recycling
A Dangerous Game
Posted on June 9, 2015 June 9, 2015 by Shirley Reiff Howarth
Today, you cannot help but be moved and affected by the shocking tragedies that have been appearing daily in the news. The earthquake and environmental catastrophes, along with the continuing human tragedies coming from the Middle East and Africa have reached staggering proportions.
As we have been selecting some of the recycled hubcap artworks from the Landfillart Collection for the upcoming series of exhibitions, certain ones have been especially thought-provoking.
The artists that have contributed to this collection come from every one of the 50 states in the US and nearly 50 countries.
This extraordinary artwork created by Aida Vosoughi from Iran is especially perceptive and profound
You Were Born & Stuck In The Middle Of A Dangerous Game…Yes! It’s Just A Game! But We Are Sorry To Inform You…You Are The Only Real Object There!!
“I am always dealing with environmental issues and worry about the future of our polluted planet; because we have just one Earth and it is the trust of future generations.
I have a sense of duty to do something for it and the Landfillart Project is a gate to respect it. I am also dealing with events that these days happened in my hometown and as an artist think to the ways I can reflect it to the international audiences and again Landfillart is a true way. Aida Vosoughi
Aida was born in 1982 in Tehran, Iran. She received a Diploma in fine art in 2001, and a BA in painting in 2005. She participated in 11 group exhibitions from 1997-2008 in galleries in Tehran, and is a Member of SIP (The Society of Iranian Painters) cooperating in theater (custom & scene designer). She has also done research on contemporary art since 2007.
Another one of Aida’s beautiful artworks, The Game! can be seen at:
http://www.saatchiart.com/art/-The-Game/76169/567130/view
“I am interested in comparing my personal ideas with social examples to find similarity and/or differences. Since our individual mentality and manner in life is a sample of the big society we live in, huge paradoxes in our minds represent huge paradoxes in real world. So I am trying to create individual icons to express them as much as I can,also the materials and visual elements that I am using depend on my subject of interest and with them I try to achieve the best way possible to explain my vision and thoughts.”
Her hubcap artwork will be included in the upcoming international exhibition of about 150 of the artworks from the LandfillArt Collection that will tour in Europe and Asia during 2016 – 2018
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Sleeping Beauty – 29 December 2017, Sheffield City Hall It’s four days after Christmas, which only means one thing in the world of theatre, panto season, so I was delighted to be in the audience for Manor Operatic Society’s annual pantomine at Sheffield Hall, which this year is the classic fairy tale Sleeping Beauty. The […]
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The School for Scandal – 13 November 2017, Ecclesall Parish Hall, Sheffield This evening we travelled back to the 18th century to attend the full dress rehearsal of The School for Scandal, the first ever performance we have seen by Ecclesall Theatre Company. The comedy of manners, written and published by Irish playwright Richard Brinsley […]
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Goodnight Mister Tom – 17 October 2017, Sheffield Library Theatre ***** One of my favourite children’s book and my mum’s favourite ever television adaption, I was delighted to be in the audience for the opening night of Tudor’s Players and the Sheffield amateur theatre premier of Goodnight Mister Tom. One of the most uplifting stories […]
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West Side Story – 20 September 2017, Montgomery Theatre, Sheffield ***** Considered one of the best musicals of all time, I was delighted to be in the audience for Splinters Theatre Group’s performance of West Side Story on at the Montgomery Theatre, Sheffield until 23 September. Inspired by Romeo and Juliet, West Side Story is […]
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Brief Encounter – 16 May 2017, Sheffield Library Theatre ***** Although I have never seen the film of Brief Encounter, I know so many references from the it that I feel like I do, so I was delighted to be in the audience for the opening night for the Tudor Players 50th anniversary year production […]
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Dirty Rotten Scoundrels – 10 May 2017, Montgomery Theatre, Sheffield ***** As a fan of both musicals and stories of cons, I was delighted to be in the audience for the opening night of the South Yorkshire premier of a show that combines the two, Southey Musical Theatre’s production of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, at the […]
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The Importance of Being Earnest – 13 July 2019, Library Theatre, Sheffield
Bullet & Bullet – 12 July 2019. Merlin Theatre, Sheffield
Footloose – 10 July 2019, Montgomery Theatre, Sheffield
Number, Please – 10 July 2019, The Local Theatre, Sheffield
Chicago – 4 July 2019. Montgomery Theatre, Sheffield
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Over 10,000 Spanish Place Names Submitted for SEAT’s 3rd SUV
The project #SEATseekingName, launched June 1st, has succeeded in rallying huge participation from 133,332 members of the public in 106 countries in the company initiative to name its third SUV, which is coming to market in 2018. The first stage finished yesterday after receiving a total of 10,130 different names from all over Spain, which was the criteria set out by the company, submitted through seat.com/seekingname and seat.es/buscanombre.
Since SEAT announced in March it was going to launch its new SUV, the brand had already received more than 500 proposals of different place names from all over Spain for its new vehicle with capacity for up to seven passengers. The expectations and social impact achieved prompted the company to redefine its habitual naming process, opening it up to brand followers in Spain and around the world, for them to propose their favourite name and then vote for the winner.
SEAT president Luca de Meo expressed his satisfaction with the massive response to this project: “The results obtained have overwhelmingly exceeded all expectations. Not only has this collaborative initiative sparked great interest among our brand followers, but thousands of other people have also contributed by proposing a name for our new SUV. We’re counting on them to vote for their favourite candidate in September”.
The name of SEAT’s new SUV will be announced by October 15th.
With the first stage now finished, it is time for the pre-selection phase of the proposals, involving brand experts and an external naming agency as well as customers from different countries who will be participating in the focus groups organised by SEAT. In addition, testing will be carried out in the markets to select at least three names which will be voted on. In this stage certain criteria will be observed, such as that the names are in line with the brand values and product characteristics and that they are easy to pronounce in several languages.
The Frankfurt Motor Show is the venue selected by SEAT to announce the names of the finalists. Anybody wishing to cast a vote for their favourite candidate will have the chance from 12 to 25 September, and the name with the most votes will be the winner, which SEAT will announce by 15 October.
In this fashion, the company’s third SUV will join the list of 13 models that have been named after a place name from the Spanish geography since SEAT began the tradition in 1982 with the Ronda up to the most recent Arona, the compact crossover which will be unveiled next Monday 26 June in Barcelona. In addition, it will be the first time in the history of the brand that a model carries a name selected by popular vote.
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Green fashion at your fingertips.
Dad, Dex and I are traveling in Europe. We'll be reporting back in the next few weeks on the latest and greenest from across the pond. The thing we've found is how different the whole green thing is in other countries.
Take recycling. We've been staying in Dartmouth, a little seaside town in England. But even here you can find recycling bins in the street and places where you can drop off old clothes.
And the English love their wheelie bins. They're the bins many people have to collect their trash. Some places even have a computer chip in them: it weighs the bin and they pay more for having their trash taken away, to get them to recycle more. They decorate them and disguise them. College students race in them.
I even found this in a BBC Web site, as part of a pretty funny feature on wheelie bins:
"The fact that the average wheelie bin is about four feet tall poses a problem for someone who has unintentionally dropped something in the bottom... Even with an arm outstretched, while clinging desperately to the edge with the other, the bottom of the bin will generally remain out of reach, unless further weight is pressed against the lip of the bin and the feet are partially or completely raised off of the floor. It is at this point, with head and torso stuffed into the bin and feet raised into the air, that one of two things is likely to happen. Either the individual involved will lose balance and fall into the bin; or the bin will tip forward and slam to the ground, taking the poor fool inside with it... The recommended method for getting something out of a wheelie bin is to see if there's anyone else nearby who might do it for you."
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The son of composer Arthur Schwartz, Jonathan Schwartz worked at New York’s WNEW FM and AM from 1967 to 1986. A true scholar of the Great American Songbook, Jonathan entertained listeners with unsurpassed knowledge of composer’s song writers, singers and jazz artists. His music playlist was eclectic and can be described broadly as “The Great American Songbook”, with a high concentration of pop, jazz and pop standards and...
Gene Klavan and Dee Finch
In 1952 Gene Rayburn left WNEW to pursue a career in Television. WNEW needed a new partner and interviewed over 300 people for the coveted position. Aspiring reporter Gene Klavan applied for the position thinking it was a temporary career decision; a detour from his pursuit of a television career. Gene embarked on a career with WNEW for a mere 24 years in the morning spot. In the first few weeks, Klavan brought a new level of craziness to the...
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Pete Myers joined WNEW-AM in the early 1960’s. He had made a big name for himself in Cleveland radio during the height of the Rock and Roll craze. Ultimately the immensely talented Mr. Meyers moved to New York to become a radio talent at WNEW. Myers owned the afternoon slot. Former WNEW-AM Dick Carr recently reflected on Myers: Dick Carr’s Big Bands Ballads & Blues, April 12 2012 “It was when I was being recruited by WHK, Cleveland in...
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Princes Town court temporarily moved to Rio Claro Magistrates' Court
Loop News Created : 10 September 2018 T&T News
The Judiciary is seeking to advise members of the public that the Princes Town Magistrate’s Court has been temporarily relocated as a result of structural damage which the building suffered following the 6.9 earthquake that struck Trinidad and Tobago on August 21.
The court’s operations have been moved to the Rio Claro Magistrates’ Court from September 10 and the following schedule will be implemented:
- The Rio Claro Magistrates’ Court will operate from 8 am to 11 am. Court will continue to sit from 9 am as usual.
- The Princes Town Magistrates’ Court will operate from 11:15 am to 4:15 pm.
The First Court will sit from 11:30 am to 1:30 pm.
The Second Court will sit from 1:45 to 3:45 pm.
The Judiciary said it apologises for any inconvenience but that the move has become necessary in the interest of access to justice and to ensure the safety of all stakeholders.
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PLAYER FEATURE: Family first, softball second
Kyle Funderburk
Tuesday, June 25. 2019
Thursday afternoon, before a doctor’s appointment, Madison County High School graduate Olivia Montgomery receives a phone call from her now former high school head coach Ken Morgan.
Morgan presents her an offer. Play one last time with the Red Raiders. Montgomery accepts the offer and spends the evening playing in an intersquad scrimmage alongside former teammates. It’s at that phone call where her first summer as a high school graduate diverges from that of most other grads.
There’s no extravagant vacation. College is in the future, but not yet on the horizon. This summer for Montgomery is all about softball. The sport she’s played since she was four years old, growing up in the front yard with a father who very seldom missed a chance to watch his daughter play and a mother who would turn cheerleader come game time.
For the first time in those 14 years, she’ll play without her parents in the stands. On July 14, she heads to Santiago, capital of the Dominican Republic to join a group of girls from around the United States for an organization called Americas Team.
For the rest of the story, see the June 20 edition of the Madison County Journal
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Red Square is a large open square in the center of Moscow. It is located in front of the Kremlin's western wall. The square is fenced in the State Historical Museum building, the GUM building, and St. Basil Cathedral. For many centuries Red Square has served as the place for important historical events. Red Square was founded at the end of the 15th century when Ivan III ordered to demolish wooden constructions around the Kremlin walls to prevent the tsar's residence from a fire. On the site of wooden constructions by the Kremlin's western wall a trade square started to form. Originally, it was called Torgovaya Square (Trade Square), then it got the name of Trinity Square, as the Trinity Church was located in the southern side of the square. The square obtained its modern name in the 17th century. In an effort to fortify the Kremlin the 12-meters ditch was dug in 1508-1516. It connected Moscow River and Neglinnaya River. The ditch fenced in walls was filled up only after 1812. In the northern side of the square the Kitai-Gorod gates were located, and the western side featured trade rows. In 1555-1560 on the side of the Trinity Church the Pokrovsky Cathedral (St. Basil Cathedral) was put up by Russian architects Barma and Postnik. In the 30s of the 16th century a dais was constructed on Red Square. It was called the Lobnoe Mesto (place of execution). It served as a rostrum for annunciation of important events such as government communique and solemn ceremonies. Sometimes it was used for executions. The Lobnoe Mesto got its modern shape in 1786 when it was rebuilt by architect M. Kazakov. The Lobnoe Mesto looks like a round stone eminence edged with a parapet and stairs. By the end of the 17th century Red Square grew in importance for Moscow and the whole country. In 1697 the Mint was put up on the square, in 1699 the Zemsky Department was constructed, and later the Main Drugstore was erected. In 1755 Moscow University started to function in the building of the drugstore. In 1786 the new trade rows designed by architect Quarenghi were put up in front of the Kremlin wall. The building was destroyed during the Patriotic War of 1812, and in 1814-1815 it was rebuilt. In 1818 in front of the building the monument to heroes of struggle against Polish intervention Kozma Minin and Prince Dmitry Pojarsky was put up. In 1930 the monument made after sculptor I. Martos's design was moved to the Pokrovsky Cathedral. At the end of the 19th century the look of Red Square changed noticeably. In 1875-1881 on the site of Zemsky Department the Historical Museum was put up. It was designed by architect V. Sherwood. In 1889-1893 the building of the Upper trade rows that nowadays houses the GUM department store was put up to A. Pomerantsev's design. These buildings were constructed in pseudo-Russian style to match the walls and towers of the Kremlin. The next stage of Red Square ensemble formation was closely connected to the Soviet period of Russian history. Red Square together with the Kremlin turned into the symbol of the new power, and its name was associated with Revolution. Since 1918 Red Square served as a place for parades and demonstrations. On Red Square the parade of the 7th of November, 1941 took place, the participants of which were leaving for the front. The parade dedicated to the victory in World War II also took place on Red Sqaure on the 24th of June, 1945. In 1924 the wooden Mausoleum designed by architect A. Shchusev was put up on Red Square. It became the burial place of Vladimir Lenin. In 1929-1930 the Mausoleum was rebuilt in stone, and in 1930-1931 the rostrums above the Mausoleum were constructed after architect V. Frantsuz's design. Along the Kremlin walls the fir-trees were planted, and Red Square that used to be cobbled was covered with cubes. .
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Drug reduces risk of kidney failure in people with diabetes, study finds
A new landmark clinical trial shows that a drug lowers the risk of kidney failure by a third in people with Type 2 diabetes and kidney disease.
"For the first time in 18 years, we have a therapy for patients with Type 2 diabetes
and chronic kidney disease that decreases kidney failure," said Kenneth Mahaffey, MD, professor of medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine and co-principal investigator of the trial. "Now, patients with diabetes have a promising option to guard against one of the most severe risks of their condition."
The trial involved 4,401 participants in 34 countries.
The drug, canagliflozin, improves on a nearly two-decades-old therapy that is currently the only treatment approved to protect kidney function in people with Type 2 diabetes. In the trial, canagliflozin also was found to reduce the risk of major cardiovascular events.
Canagliflozin increases the excretion of glucose through the kidneys. It has already been approved by the Food and Drug Administration to lower blood glucose in patients with Type 2 diabetes and to reduce the risk of major adverse cardiovascular events in patients with Type 2 diabetes and existing heart disease.
A paper describing the findings of the CREDENCE trial was published today in The New England Journal of Medicine and presented at the International Society of Nephrology's World Congress of Nephrology in Melbourne. Mahaffey, who is director of the Stanford Center for Clinical Research, is the study's senior author. The lead author is Vlado Perkovic, MBBS, PhD, executive director of The George Institute for Global Health Australia, and a professor of medicine at the University of New South Wales in Sydney.
'Definitive trial result'
"People with diabetes and kidney disease are at extremely high risk of kidney failure, heart attack, stroke and death," Perkovic said. "With this definitive trial result, we now have a very effective way to reduce this risk using a once-daily pill."
Participants in the trial received the best care available for kidney disease under current guidelines, a type of therapy called renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system, or RAAS, blockade. In addition, half were randomly selected to receive canagliflozin, while the other half were given a placebo.
The primary results of the study found that participants who took canagliflozin were 30 percent less likely than the placebo group to develop kidney failure or die from either renal failure or cardiovascular disease. Their risk of kidney failure or death from kidney failure was reduced by 34 percent, and the risk of hospitalization for heart failure or death due to cardiac causes decreased by 31 percent.
'Eagerly sought' treatment
People with diabetes can develop kidney disease because prolonged high blood sugar harms blood vessels in the kidney. In addition, diabetes often causes high blood pressure, which can stretch and weaken blood vessels in the organ.
For the past two decades, physicians have largely relied on RAAS blockade to prevent the deterioration of kidney function in diabetic patients. Although RAAS blockade lowers blood pressure and delays progression of kidney disease, patients undergoing this treatment remain at a high risk for renal failure and cardiovascular disease, as well as death from these conditions.
Given that the number of people with Type 2 diabetes worldwide is estimated to rise by 20 percent to 510 million in 2030, "a drug like canagliflozin that improves both cardiovascular and renal outcomes has been eagerly sought by both patients with Type 2 diabetes and clinicians caring for them," Mahaffey said.
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John A Wills
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The Nature of Israel
Throughout this tract we translate ‘am and laos as “people”, goy and ethnos as “nation”, qahal and ekklesia as “church”.
Israel is a people which does not count itself among the nations (Nm 23:9). Israel is a church (Nm 20:10-12). The word gentile, “non-Israelite”, comes from Latin gens, “nation”. Israel did indeed go down into Egypt and there become a great nation (Dt 26:5), but the Sinai experience turned that nation and its hangers-on (Ex 12:38) into a church. At the beginning of Joshua (5:8) we read that the nation was circumcised, but after that the Bible does not approvingly call Israel a nation.
In general, Israel gets contrasted with the nations (e.g. Ez 6:21), notably in that Israel has been given the Law and no nation has (Ps 147:20). When Israel does get called a nation, it is generally because God is annoyed with it (e.g. Ml 3:9).
How then can we briefly and usefully portray this church? First we note that it was founded at Sinai and absorbed many tribes and nations in Canaan (Ez 16:3), eventually fixing its central shrine in Jerusalem (2 S 6). It had a state of sorts to protect it in its formative centuries, but this state split (1 K 12:17-20) and so did the church (v. 28-29). One of the successor churches we call the Jews, the other the Samaritans. Each has its own history up to the beginning of the Common Era, when another great split took place.
Because churches have doctrines to teach, both branches of Israel, but especially the Jews, made converts outside the two states. The Book of Jonah proclaims Israel’s duty to spread the doctrines. By the beginning of the Common Era there were Jews from Barbary to Babylon and beyond.
Israel expected a Redeemer, a Messiah (Is 61:1-2 and many other places). At the beginning of the Common Era, Jesus of Nazareth claimed to be the Messiah (Lk 4:21, Jn 4:25-26). About the year 50, at the Council of Jerusalem (Ac 15:5-29), his followers renewed Israel. In the year 70, when the Romans were about to destroy Jerusalem, premessianic Jews stayed in the city while Christians fled beyond Jordan. The Emperor gave permission to rebuild the Temple, but instead the premessianic-Jewish hierarchy stayed in Jamnia, also known as Yavne. About the year 90 the Council of Jamnia founded the Rabbinical Jewish church as a continuing premessianic branch of Israel. Thus the Jews split into Christians and Rabbinical Jews, the most obvious difference being the question of whether Jesus was the Messiah, the most important perhaps the question of which matters of the Law are the weightiest (Mt 23:23 etc.).
Meanwhile we find a reference (Jn 11:48-52) to the people of the Holy Land as a nation, presumably a result of the Herodian conquest’s unifying effect. The chief priest would certainly not call Israel a nation, and John would not make the mistake of putting such a mistake in his mouth. This is the nation we now call Palestine, the first majority-Jewish nation.
Both Rabbinical Judaism and Christianity continued evangelization, the Christians by the year 200 converting a majority of the Palestinians from Samaritanism and premessianic Judaism – an apostasy for which some Rabbinical Jews have not yet forgiven them. The Palestinians remained majority-Christian until after the Crusades. Christians converted most of the Roman Empire, whereas Rabbinical Jews converted several Central Asian peoples, most notably the Khazars, from the remains of whose Empire the original Zionist settlers came.
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Karma for Al Qa’ida
1. Original Sin, which Orthodox Christians – at least those on Mount Athos – insist on calling Ancestral Sin, is the source of most bad karma. Drowning in inadequate minds we experience more dissatisfaction, often clinging to poetry as a raft. Because of original sin we tend to react in actual sin to all dissatisfaction, sending more waves of bad karma down the ages.
2. Lack of a doctrine of Original Sin seems to me to be, within the Abrahamic tradition, the main distinguisher of Islam from the Mosaic/Mussadek/Israelite tradition, which has such a doctrine firmly established in Gn 3 – and Gn 4, for that matter. Original Sin is a reality, and should not need a doctrine, but Mussadeks have the advantage over Muslims of having a definite doctrine and hence the constant reminder that the struggle for right, jihad, must start within each of us. Muslims also believe this, but are more inclined than Mussadeks to forget it. Of course, people on both sides of the divide often forget it, but I think that Muslims are more inclined to start great projects without concern for inner orientation, making the great projects more liable to error.
3. Lack of church music robs Muslims of the rafts they need in inadequate minds. They have poetry – indeed much of the Quran is poetic – but singing and instrumentation are a great help in keeping us afloat in our inner seas of unreason. It should be noted that those Christians who contradict the Bible’s command to sing new songs and play on instruments tend to be nastier and more prone to condemnation than their otherwise similar fellow-Christians – think of the various kinds of Presbyterianism in Scotland, for instance.
4. Lack of monasticism deprives Muslims of an ultra-sane community to give example of a way of life radically different from that to which most of us have been called, and by that example to help us see more clearly our own vocations. I am talking here of an actual contemplative life, with celibacy and some degree of material poverty and obedience, not the life of a friar or cleric. This kind of life has various spin-offs, such as retreat houses and spiritual writing, both of which have special value because of their mode of provision.
Thomas Merton writes somewhere that when we intensely want to do something to better the world we may ultimately decide that the best we can do for the world is to retire from it and pray for it. Muslims do not at present have this option. Taking a very concrete example, would John Walker Lindt have taken up arms had there been monasteries as well as schools in Yemen?
Monks give an example of the inner jihad: they repent their own sins first; they themselves are thus unlikely to have misguided external jihad, but those with strong tendencies to jihad may, in ignorance of the monastic vocation, do crazy things. Elijah lived on Mount Carmel and came down to thunder at kings. He did not work within governments to better things, although that too is good work, but stood aside and pointed out the corruption of the kings; he was better able to rebuke their lack of external jihad because of his own internal jihad. The upbraiding of kings is, of course, more pastoral than monastic, but the lack of monasticism weakens the pastor. There are two places in the Quran – 5:85 and 57:27 – which praise monasticism, but at some time a perhaps spurious hadith “there is no monasticism in Islam” [Ibn Hibban, Ahmad, At-Tabarani, graded authentic by Al-Albani] – which, for all I know, may have been a lament rather than a prescription – was generally received: monasticism, which had in fact arisen in Islam, was actively suppressed.
At the beginning of the Common Era Judaism split into Christianity and Rabbinical Judaism. It seems that Elijah’s followers all became Christian; at any rate I have come across no evidence of a monastic tradition within Rabbinical Judaism, which has apparently for all its nineteen centuries as a distinct church been monk-less. And there are in proportion probably more Rabbinical Jews who support Zionism than Muslims who support Al Qa’ida and the like.
5. Lack of democracy has prevented many Muslims from striving for their political ideals in a peaceable way. There are several reasons for lack of democracy in Dar ul Islam.
Firstly, people often see no need for democracy. In the most recent Yemeni elections some critics condemned the process as mindless aping of the corrupt and decadent West. We know the law of God, let us apply it without the kerfuffle of campaigns and parliaments. It should be noticed that the Catholic Church in the 19th Century had a similar distrust of democracy, with the result that the movements called “liberal” have tended to be anticlerical and even opposed to natural law. In Rerum Novarum we find surprise that any Catholic would wish to associate himself with a political party other than that proposed by the magisterium, showing a complete misunderstanding of the idea of democracy. Communists have a similar idea: “united trade union, of course: why then two parties?” as I read in Berlin’s Die Wahrheit during the 1970s. The 20th-Century Communist and the 19th-Century Catholic were both thinking of political parties as groupings on the basis of something other than political opinion.
This attitude may be at an end in Dar ul Islam. The Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini believed that Iran would remain Islamic only so long as it remained democratic: he thought of democracy as a means of achieving and maintaining rightness. But other democracies have been slow to welcome this change – indeed, the United States had kept in power the regime which preceded democracy in Iran. In reaction there is now in Iran a movement to limit democracy, keeping all power in the hands of the judiciary, who know what is right.
Secondly, the United States has kept undemocratic Muslim governments in power, notably in Araby. President Jimmy Carter issued an executive order preventing the export of weaponry to undemocratic American governments; within a decade all America except Haiti and Cuba was democratic. Why has the order not been extended to the entire world? At one time there might have been arguments for arming non-Communist dictators in a strategy of preventing the expansion of the Kremlin Empire, but that was never a very good policy and the Kremlin Empire is now no more. As far as Araby goes, the obvious answer is that a democratic Arab state is likely – although democracy is unpredictable – to be more anti-Zionist than a despotic Arab state, besides taking from the Zionists the argument that their opponents are all dictatorships. Similar considerations arise for non-Arab states, notably Iran, and Zionism is no doubt one reason the U.S. persists in hostility to Iran.
There may be other reasons for the lack or failure of democracy. I have read the opinion that India has been democratic while Pakistan has stumbled from one despotism to another because in proportion to population Pakistan inherited less than its share of competent high-ranking civil servants from the Indian Empire. I do not wish to discuss such hypotheses, merely to show that the reasons may not have much to do with Islam. After all, China, Belarus, Cuba and Burma are not Muslim countries.
Even in democracy people with big ideas – or ideas which they think big – often descend to violence. In despotism the temptation is greater.
6. Confusion of church and nation is bad for both. Dt 32:28 warns us that when Israel – which is a church, not a nation (Nm 23:9) -, degenerates into a nation it loses its intelligence, as has been demonstrated in Northern Ireland, where both branches of Israel have degenerated into nations. The principle extends to churches outside Israel – and Islam is only just outside.
Muslims have some difficulty in distinguishing church and nation. The official English version of the Iranian Constitution states in Article 11 that all Muslims constitute a single nation. There may be a linguistic problem here, even a translation problem – I imagine that the word translated as “nation” is umma rather than watan -, but Muslims do tend to get more annoyed at wrongs done to fellow-Muslims than Christians do at wrongs done to fellow-Christians. The responses to Zionism and to the Bosnian conflict are here in their different ways instructive.
Church and nation are two modes of identification – a Latin word meaning same-making – of people. If Muslims constitute a church, the Muslim’s attitude to persons of another church should be that, at least in the long run, they should be converted to Islam: there is only one true church. We are more symmetric in our attitude to persons of another nation: we are as foreign to them as they are to us, and, although we secretly think our nation the best, all nations are in principle of equal worth. Unfortunately there are sometimes fights among nations, even tending to genocide, and when we confuse church and nation we bring this kind of fighting more to the fore. When churches as churches fight they have rather different motives from nations fighting each other. We assume that the members of the other church are being deliberately obstinate, and our anger at this obstinacy becomes greater when we confuse nation and church. Humanity and God’s church will go on forever, and so will every person, but all nations will come to an end. We have a calm assurance that the church will not die. The fear that someday our nation will die leads us to insane deeds on behalf of the nation, and of the church if we confuse them. When we confuse nation and church we lose the assurance of the church’s permanence and, panic-stricken, do crazy things to save the nation.
There are other examples of this confusion on a large scale. The descendants of the Khazars have been treated as a nation and have extended their national loyalty to other Rabbinical Jews, so that the Rabbinical Jewish church has degenerated into a nation; this is one of the origins of Zionism. Similarly, the Hindutva policy strives to make Hindu church preference identical with Indian nationality.
7. National and hence ecclesial humiliation have been the lot of Muslims for nearly a century. Through most of the 20th Century most Muslim countries were under some kind of foreign hegemony. Muslim Filipinos, for example, feel themselves to be under Christian Filipino rule. Whereas a Christian may feel sympathy for a Christian group elsewhere under some kind of supposed oppression he does not identify himself with the sufferers, or if he does their Christianity has little to do with the identification. The Muslim does identify himself more with a supposedly suffering Muslim than with other sufferers. Much recent hegemony has been by communities perceived as Christian, so that a Kashmiri rebelling against Hindu stubbornness identifies himself and an Egyptian rebelling against the adoption of Christian social practices.
When Muslim governments try to modernize, they offend conservatives, who are often able to portray the modernization as Christianization. In Lebanon for a long time the Christians were materially better off than their Muslim compatriots; instead of identifying and emulating those Christian practices which made Christians richer – after all, does Fidel Castro consider copying the practices which have made the Puertoricans more prosperous than his own people? -, Lebanese Muslims became resentful. Palestinians, Pakistanis and Indonesians shared that resentment. On a larger scale, nearly all Muslim countries seem to their inhabitants somehow inferior to those of the Christian West, but reject the solution of aping the Christians.
One of the greatest humiliations for a Muslim community has been Zionism. The Palestinians are of course about 20% Christian, which is probably more important for the Zionists than the Muslim majority, but nevertheless a majority-Muslim nation is being wronged. In 1967 Abba Eban proclaimed that the Palestinians opposed Zionism because they were Muslims, not because of Arab nationalism or in objection to dispossession. That was a lie at the time, but the solidarity among Muslims has begun to make it true. And Zionism has, with help from the Christian West, been the most violent external imposition on Dar ul Islam during more half a century. To react to it seems natural, and a large part of the reaction is against Christendom.
8. Homosexualism in Christendom has grown in parallel to the growth of homophobia in Dar ul Islam. I know that there has been in Christendom a big wave of homosexualism – in which I played some small part – starting in the 1960s, but I am ignorant about the rise of homophobia in Dar ul Islam. It appears that sexual self-respect diminished considerably in Europe during World War II: regular Saturday beer and sex became customary in those parts of the British armed forces serving at Home, and the practice continued and expanded after the war; I imagine the same was true elsewhere. Muslims do not admit to similar behavior amongst themselves, and so find something to look down upon in Christendom.
In the 1960s, partly as a result of lessened erotic self-respect generally, sympathy for gays increased. Laws decriminalizing mutual masturbation were urged with the promise that, freed from the risk of prosecution, gays would be more likely to seek treatment for their sexual inversion so that decriminalization would lead to a decline in the behavior complained about. That promise has obviously not been kept, although the majority of cases of sexual inversion were already by that time rectifiable: the gay lifestyle, contrary to the common morality of all the children of Abraham, has become common while its opponents are vilified, accused of homophobia as though the homophobia-homosexualism axis covered all the possible opinions.
It is hardly surprising that Muslims see Christendom as a nauseating cess-pool of fornication, perversion and venereal disease, clearly morally inferior to Dar ul Islam and thus justly meriting God’s punishment at the hands of the faithful. This increases the resentment at Christendom’s material prosperity and the feeling of righteousness in striking the infidel down.
9. The Black Legend of U. S. wickedness parallels the earlier Black Legend of Spanish wickedness. Both result from predominance in the world. Both tend to be believed both outside and inside the hegemonic society. Anything evil the great power does gets exaggerated; anything good gets forgotten or misrepresented.
I once read a letter in The Economist describing seven great evil deeds by the United States. Judging justly, the U.S. was clearly on the right side in five of the cases, the guilty party was doubtful in the sixth, and I could not determine the truth of the seventh. People concocted preposterous – and even contradictory – justifications for North Vietnam’s 1956 attack on South Vietnam, but not until the 1960s, when the U. S. was trying to help the South Vietnamese: the Black Legend of U. S. malice motivated those stories. Many such stories are bandied around, simply because the U. S. is the world’s dominant polity. It is also Christendom’s dominant polity, so all the attacks made on it, whether true or false, are of use to the enemies of Christendom. The Black Legend concentrates hatred on the U. S. in particular and on Christendom in general. Muslims are more conscious of Christendom than most people, and of the centrality of the U. S. to Christendom.
Each of the karmic threads I have identified has its own karmic origins, and consequences besides Al Qa’ida. Al Qa’ida and the associated movements are themselves going to have tremendous consequences for us all.
It is noticeable that Zionism enters the karmic background of Al Qa’ida in two ways: firstly it has similar karma behind it; secondly it enters into several of the elements I have identified. We might follow Hegel and think of Zionism as the thesis, Al Qa’ida the antithesis and… ¿what? as the synthesis.
© 2003, John A. Wills
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Catholics Voting for Abortion
Catholics tend to be left-wing. Left-wingers tend to be pro-abortion. Therefore Catholic constituencies frequently elect pro-abortion politicians.
Now, this is not true in, say, Germany, where both great parties are, in Anglo-Saxon terms, left-wing. But it does seem to be true in both the United States and the United Kingdom. I am pretty certain the pattern can be seen elsewhere too. There is a problem here, and resolving it may by generalization resolve and describe higher-level things. I suspect, for instance, that it may help explain the Italian situation regarding abortion, although one might suppose Italy to be here similar to Germany.
The reason my premise seems paradoxical is that the Catholic Church not only officially but also in the minds of most of the flock condemns abortion: Catholic talk of “dignity” refers to the whole gamut of human rights, of which that to life is the first and most fundamental. What we have is people voting the opposite way from what they explicitly believe and what, I am sure, they have for the most part internalized.
As a first step I resolve the problem into 3 questions:
1. Why are Catholics left-wing?
2. Why are left-wingers pro-abortion?
3. Why do people who believe in human rights vote for left-wing candidates even when those candidates oppose human rights, the defense of which should be to the Catholic prior to any left-right question?
Catholics are left-wing because many of the things called left-wing are desirable from a consistent Christian perspective. A slew of papal and episcopal letters have pointed this out. In addition, many Catholic Anglos are of Celtic descent and so have been low down the social hierarchy, another factor which makes for left-wingery; the Chicanos in California today in this sense resemble the Irish of Massachusetts a century ago.
When I wonder why left-wingers like abortion, I am not wondering about specifically pro-abortion forces or secular inhumanism generally: I am wondering about those who have abortion on a palette of favorite things, most of which are more understandable from a left-wing stance. Contrary to my original intention, answering this question has become the bulk of this essay.
All political movements run a danger of dishonesty, even if only to sidestep explaining difficult ideas. The pro-abortion movement has produced the most contemptibly dishonest arguments of any political trend I have come across. I have in fact only once come across a pro-abortion argument both honest and informed, and that was Libertarian, not left-wing. I see no point in searching dishonest arguments for clues.
Left-wingers are pro-abortion because left-wingers like to be anti-establishment and the establishment until a few decades ago forbade abortion. This is not an adequate answer. Also, pro-abortion propaganda claims sympathy for the unwilling mother and abortion is touted as a relief for her; the unreflective left-winger goes along. Neither is this answer adequate: it should work just as well for right-wingers, and left-wingers are certainly much more pro-abortion than right-wingers(except when the right-wingers are thinking of socially poisonous races).
The real answer goes deeper. Consider the Irish potato famine. Potato blight increased over several years until the potato crop was worthless. There was hunger in the land. The hungry people had not produced any material values which they could exchange for food produced by others. Other people on the island of Ireland, not relying on a single crop, had indeed produced food enough that there was actually “export” of some kinds of food from Ireland. The food could be sold in Great Britain for prices far higher than people in Ireland could afford to pay. So it went east, out of reach of the hungry.
So great is our horror at people (especially of more or less our own race) going hungry in large numbers that we are inclined to say that Her Majesty’s Government should have done something about the situation. My mother used to say that HMG, noticing the annual decline in the value of the potato crop, should have organized the introduction of new varieties and new crops. To this the libertarian would reply that every farmer should have chosen to plant a different crop, as some in fact did, resulting in the possibility of surplus food from some farms. Even if HMG had advised the farmers about alternative crops and farming methods they might have ignored governmental advice – as has happened in recent years in Mexican Chiapas, where peasants insist on continuing unproductive methods, then revolt because they remain poor. It is also said that HMG should have bought vast quantities of food and distributed it to the unfortunate farmers and their frustrated customers. Most of all, however, critics of HMG say it should have forbidden the “export” of food from the island of Ireland. This would have got prices down to a level at which a significant proportion of the hungry people could have afforded at least some food. This kind of argument is common among left-wingers, even among Christian-influenced right-wingers. Many liberals will agree with this socialist argument.
What the socialists and their liberal fellow-travelers forget is that the farmers who had produced the exported food were its owners until they sold it. They had chosen to farm better than their neighbours, and so had a surplus. They were entitled, one might think, to all the benefits resulting from their choice. To prevent them selling their produce where they wanted would be stealing. Even to compulsorily purchase it would be stealing unless the price paid were equal to what could be obtained by “export”-ing it.
Left-wingers sneer at this kind of argument. They seem to themselves and even to many right-wingers to hold the moral high ground because starvation is abhorrent, and because they seem to be advocating charity – a kind of charity they might call justice, ignoring the injustice done to the good farmers, from whom this charity would have been exacted. In recent decades it was for such reasons illegal to export more than a certain quantity of beef from Guatemala, because beef was so expensive in the importing country that it was worth while dedicating land to pasture rather than to corn to sell at a price people could afford to pay. The call for trade restrictions looks like a call for social justice.
The left-wingers may be right: perhaps food exports from hungry areas should be limited. But they are impatient of the intellectual effort required to justify what looks very like stealing. They then go further and ignore private-property rights. George Orwell, for instance, bemoaned the re-fencing of people’s lawns in London after World War II. He said that if it was theft to compel the owners to maintain what would in effect be small public parks, he was in favour of theft . And how had these owners acquired ownership anyway? he wanted to know. Again we see impatience of intellectual effort to justify what seems socially beneficial.
One area where public benefit requires private loss is public projects, such as roads and ports. In deciding whether a proposed project should be carried out, governments typically list all the losses anyone would suffer by the project and all the gains people would realize. If the gains are clearly greater, then the project should go ahead, with such confiscation of private property and loss of private amenity as is needed. Obviously, those who lose property or amenity should be compensated for their losses. The great left-wing economist Kaldor (who gave bad advice to the governments first of Ghana then of the UK) said no, it was not necessary to compensate those who lost by the public project. He went the whole way, approving stealing for the alleged common good. And many people would agree with him, especially if those losing were some kind of outcaste (the Afro-Irish villagers displaced with low compensation to construct Central Park in New York, the allegedly idle rich almost anywhere, the “boss class” hated by the Socialist Workers Party).
One of the functions of government is to construct great common works. All functions of government should fulfil government’s sole purpose, namely the securing of such human rights as those to life, to liberty and to property. But Kaldor says that the functions of government can legitimately involve the violation of human rights. He would be impatient – or at least many of those agreeing with him are impatient – of arguments showing the basic fallacy of this thesis. They choose what seems somehow right and then ignore what makes it wrong.
For a number of minor reasons, often classed as social, left-wingers see something attractive in abortion. With the impatience gained in scorning the right to property they scorn the right to life, even lying about important facts and constructing – or at least regurgitating – the contemptibly dishonest arguments I mentioned earlier, so distracting themselves from their refusal to think. The fashion has taken hold, and there is little that can overcome it.
As for the third question, people do not vote on issues in any hierarchy but on a congeries of issues without any systematic weighting. Having once decided to be left-wing (or right-wing, for that matter), the voter thinks of a candidate’s stand on abortion as one among many issues. Disagreeing with the candidate on several issues, the voter may still choose him for his general tendency. Voters thus give the same weight to methods of securing human rights (which is the purpose of the state) as they do to the question of whether to secure a fundamental right at all. To see the raison d’être for the pursuit of power lost in the pursuit of that power renders the whole thing meaningless, but somehow people get lost in the plethora of arguments about a plethora of secondary, tertiary and n-ary issues. In internal discussions of a party, there is a tendency to mock moral arguments against party doctrine, and even those comparatively clear in mind about why power is being pursued often cannot express themselves and feel ashamed about being the exception on “single issues”, unable to explain, even to themselves, that abortion is so basic, so important that unless we get this right we will not get anything else right .
What, then, is to be done? Firstly, I must be honest on this matter and in all political questions, clearly distinguishing means and ends. I must not make health-care provision, for example, an end which justifies state-funded abortion, just as I must not make tidy streets an end which justifies euthanasia of the homeless. I must in political discourse, whether internal or external, always remember that the purpose of government is to secure such God-given rights as those to life, to liberty and to property. It is better that the state do nothing at all than that it violate these. All my wonderful plans for a better world must be discarded if they imply wrong-doing by me or by the state, my servant.
One thing that has led people astray in reading (often indirectly) papal social encyclicals is that when the earliest of them were written it was generally agreed and understood that personal human rights were inalienable, however often violated. The popes therefore saw no need to reiterate the primacy of personal rights when developing their theories of collective rights. Furthermore, the earlier social encyclicals, at least, preferred the collective rights to be secured less by the state than by other societies, so that the state’s special duty of securing human rights, and in particular personal rights, fell by the wayside. It was even thought that personal rights were so well understood that securing them need not be mentioned among the state’s functions. This was a serious error. All future ecclesiastical pronouncements on collective and social rights should clearly make them subsidiary to personal rights. Among ecclesiastical pronouncements I include guidance from the pulpit at election time. And when politicians are interviewed by clerics, personal human rights should be emphasized even to the extent, where necessary, of forgetting the favourite social projects of the clerics.
In ordinary preaching the clergy should from time to time explain the meaning not so much of the 5th as of the 7th Commandment: Thou shalt not steal. I did not create Bill Gates’ wealth (he got it by making other people’s work more valuable), for example, and it is not my business, apart from taxation, to tell him how to spend it. Similarly, the “windfall” taxes in Britain not long ago were effectively stealing, because they were directed at people who were already paying taxes on the same scale as other enterprise owners, employees and customers. Did one sermon in the realm point this out? If envy (not ambition) and stealing are suitably rebuked, Catholics will develop the reflexes required to protect them also against pro-abortion propaganda disguised as left-wingery.
More generally, to change left-wingers in this regard we must understand how they became pro-abortion, concentrate their attention on the basic human rights, and have them work out in detail why coercion to certain charity-like actions is in truth justified. Then they will see that they cannot apply the same arguments to abortion: we restrict the rights to liberty and property to secure the right to life, and the reverse motivation is insane.
In all political discourse human rights should be prominent. Discussion of them should be prior to left/right, devolution/subsidiarity, democracy/aristocracy, even anarchy/government questions, and when that becomes customary those other questions will doubtless become more tractable. There may be partisanship about methods of implementing, but the principle of securing human rights, firstly by ourselves (including the state) avoiding violations and secondly by punishing egregious violations, should never be subject to partisan politics.
More generally still, in all our discussions about means we should remember our ends. Unless we know roughly what we have in the pantry our trip to the supermarket is pointless. We should not use a scouring pad to polish the car. And in all our votes we should remember the purpose of the state.
John A. Wills 1999.01.01
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Pro-Palestine Movements and Consequences
The recent pro-Palestinian marches in various U.S. cities were reminiscent of the 1960s movement against U.S. aid for South Vietnam. The U.S. is the main provider of money and weaponry to the Israeli state, and one can easily imagine the pro-Palestinian movement growing until that aid stops and Zionism comes to an end. The parallel with the Vietnam demonstrations is not entirely accurate, of course: North Vietnam’s cause was not just. It is a great pity that the demonstrators of the 1960s chose to support a tyranny in the conquest of a democracy rather than an oppressed and exiled people trying to get home. Communism and Zionism are both works of the Devil, who, I suppose, used support for one to avert opposition to the other. But now the pseudoliberals of the U.S. are taking the morally right side. Europeans are now predominantly pro-Palestinian, but U.S.Americans, who have the financial and armament power to end Zionism, have somewhat less competent news media and also tend to identify the Israelis with the Biblical Israelites, who in the Bible have the assumption of being on the right side.
This linguistic confusion is addressed in a chapter of my book Albatross ISBN 0-595-19418-4. The great irony here is that those making this linguistic error are predominantly Christian, and , as I point out in another chapter of Albatross, a prime motive for Zionism is to punish the Palestinians, national descendants of the Biblical Israelites, the first Jewish nation, for following the false Messiah Jesus of Nazareth. Also, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee has wielded tremendous clout from 1957 on, and there was no equivalent lobby for South Vietnam.
These problems will be overcome, as far juster arguments were overcome when the pseudoliberals opposed democracy in South Vietnam; after all, the pseudoliberals will not have to lie this time. In a decade or two, unless better solutions are found, the Zionists will be violently defeated. North Vietnam invaded South Vietnam to replace liberalism and democracy with Communism and despotism; also, perhaps, to pay off some scores from the quarrel between Bao Dai’s people and the Viet Minh and from the later quarrel which split the Viet Minh. It was natural that victory led to horror and poverty. It is not natural that Palestinian vindication lead to horror or poverty, but it is very likely: the Zionists have taught the Palestinians to hate Jews, something new in their history; on the other hand, the Zionists have always hated Palestinians, and have nukes to wreak that hate in their last days of power: the victory is likely to be violent and pyrrhic, leading to bad karma on all sides, with consequences for another century or so. Furthermore, since the June War there has, initially at Zionist prompting, been a tendency to identify Palestinian patriotism and Islamic Fundamentalism, so it is possible that a “liberated” Palestine would be some kind of despotism. Iran has shown that an Islamic state can be a democracy, but the other omens are not good; furthermore, it would be preferable that the democracy be more or less secular, and not only because of the Christians and Rabbinical Jews in the country. There can be no doubt that Christian support of Zionism has been one of the components in the rise of Islamic Theocratic movements. There is a real danger that Palestinian victory may act like a tonic on these dangerous movements, hindering democracy worldwide, and even leading to interstate wars and further atrocities like September 11. We certainly do not want the Holy Land ruled by some Taliban-like group, with resurgent Zionists from abroad attacking them and thus strengthening both ideologies for decades on end.
What then is to be done to end the succession of bad karma? How can we help the Palestinians emerge from Hell with empty hands? As often in politics, the answer is to concentrate on commutative justice. The U.S., as chief beweaponer of the Zionists, is in a position to insist on progress here. If the U.S. were to demand that the Israeli state cede its sovereignty to the PLO the state would refuse and try to carry on without U.S. weaponry and money, nuking Jerusalem rather than lose it, but if the demands were such as to keep the Israeli state itself working, without sudden changes, there is a good chance that the Israeli leaders would acquiesce, with the result of a comparatively peaceful transition without loss of whatever good Zionism has done(Museum of the Diaspora, Yad vaShem Archive, kibbutz idea).
313,000 people own homes and farms and orchards in the 1948 territories, property stolen from them or their parents in the Nakba – and on some later occasions. There are also many people who have been robbed of their property in the 1967 territories. I am not talking here about sovereignty, but about personal property rights, protected by the Seventh Commandment. The Israeli Custodian of Absentee Property is in charge of these properties, although in fact some of the dispossessed live in the 1948 territories and so are not absent, being recognized as Israeli citizens. He delegates his authority to the Jewish National Fund Qeren Qayemeth leIsrael, which rents the property out to immigrants. The Israeli state has an absolute moral obligation to arrange the return of these properties to their owners, with the payment(by the JNF, which has had the profit) of back rent with interest for the time of dispossession. Each returning owner should be given a note from the JNF(or, in some cases, the state) for the back rent with interest, at least the accruing interest to be paid each month, with no reduction in payment until the last payment. Those whose property is in the 1948 territories must also, of course, be given Israeli citizenship without naturalization oaths, because they should never have been expelled from their property or country.
The U.S., as chief beweaponer of the Israeli state, should credibly threaten the withdrawal of all aid and arms sales unless the enabling act is before Knesseth Israel within a month, it gets signed by the President within another month, the Custodian of Absentee Property issues claim(not petition) forms within another month, the first family has returned to its property within another month and within 6 months the speed of restitution is such that one can reasonably expect all the owners to be home within 5 years. This demand should be independent of any irrelevant matter, such as behavior of the Palestinian Authority or other Arab polities.
The property owners, together with their immediate families, make up more than a tenth of the refugees; also most of the settlements in the 1967 territories would be dismantled. This act of simple commutative justice will therefore at once lessen the refugee problem, Palestinian anger at Zionism, the bigoted “Jewish character” of the Israeli state, and the hatred for the Palestinians which the Israelis nourish in themselves by this robbery. Once the Israelis do what they know is right in this matter, some of them will recognize that the Zionist project is mostly immoral and unJewish.
Disputes as to ownership in the 1948 territories should be resolved primarily in Israeli courts. To ensure justice, there should be the possibility of appeal to a bench of the International Court of Arbitration whose members would be appointed half by the Israeli government, half by the PLO or the Palestinian Authority, and the chairman by those appointees or by the president of the International Court of Justice. Further benches of the ICA can be erected later to deal with other problems.
There arises the problem of those currently living in or working on the stolen property. We might think them unentitled to much sympathy, because they have known all along that they are on stolen property, so they have no claim against the owners, the JNF, the Israeli state, or, indeed, anyone. But that matter of justice will not prevent bitterness. Various solutions are possible. Firstly, some of the property consists of blocks of flats and the like, and the Israelis have a Tenant Protection Law, so no-one will be immediately displaced by the restitution. Similarly, owners may choose not to re-occupy their property at once but rather to live somewhere else in the 1948 territories, renting the property out to the current tenants, perhaps until the termination of the current lease from the JNF(usually for 49 years), perhaps for some other period; this is something on which the owner must decide; some such owners may even choose to ask the JNF to administer the tenancies for a while. Other tenants may have family they can live with, either in Eretz Israel or abroad; many, I imagine, would choose to return to their ancestral countries(Arab states already have the administrative machinery in place for the return of their nationals, with restitution of abandoned property and citizenship; but most Arab states are rather unattractive places to live in) or to third countries. A few may move to wherever the owners were living just prior to the restitution; some tenants in Ein Hawd may move up-hill to Ein Hawd al Jadidah – and so understand at first hand what Zionism has meant to the Palestinians.
Another problem arises from the destruction of property carried out by the Zionists not only in 1948 but also later. What is to be done with the property rights in Emmaeus, which the Israelis dynamited and bulldozed after the June War to make Canada Park? What about the Arafat family home, destroyed not out of Zionist spite but for the more or less legitimate purpose of expanding the worship area in front of the Wailing Wall? Some of these difficulties can be resolved with either state or JNF funding of reconstruction, but that will not always be practicable. Still, these are a minority of the cases.
Once having shown that it means business about peace, the U.S. can one by one make other demands. One is similar to the rights of owners: for some kinds of tenancy from the state, e.g. miri, there was in Ottoman and Mandate times a right of the tenant to continue the tenancy, and those with such rights can at some time be treated like the property owners, although the back rent owed would have to be calculated differently, and would obviously be lower. And there are other angles to work from.
As I write the Israelis are demanding the extradition of the killers of a genocidal maniac hight Zeevi, who was murdered in revenge for the murder of a violent resistance activist hight Zibri. There are many such claims being made by the Israelis, and the Palestinians might make many more. If there are to be two states, as there more or less are at present, there should be an attempt at symmetry. Each state should be able to make extradition petitions in the court of the other, with external appeal to a second bench of the International Court of Arbitration. A third bench should be available to ensure that trials have been conducted in accord with relevant law. This would make many people feel uncomfortable, but it is so obviously the right thing to do that most will be ashamed to object to it; at least, I hope they will. It is conceivable that other kinds of dispute will also be resolvable in this general kind of way.
It is probably not worth while to have the parties go to the International Court of Justice to determine their proper boundaries, because there has been so much change since 1948 as to make it most convenient to have borders decided in some other manner. It is conceivable that the Partition of Palestine was contrary to the United Nations Charter(the U.S. wanted the ICJ to decide that, but the U.K successfully begged the U.S. not to suggest it in open forum), and I know that the Mandate of Palestine was contrary to the League of Nations Covenant, but it might be taking states’ rights, a legal fiction, beyond their legitimate function, the securing of human rights, to try to adjudicate these matters now.
The Holy Land question set includes many problems about religion. The oddity is that a solution to an important part of these problems has been known since 1929. In that year the Holy See, central administration of the Catholic Church, was given a microstate, smaller than many city parks, with juridical sovereignty, thus fulfilling the needs formerly fulfilled by the larger Papal States and allowing the Italian territorial state to develop without ecclesiastical domination. This means that the Pope can condemn politicians without being thought to have his own political motives for doing so. It is surprising that the same solution has not been applied to other churches. One reason is, of course, that not all churches have equivalents of the Holy See, but that can be remedied.
The World Jewish Congress should develop a method of choosing a Chief Rabbinate of All Israel, separate and distinct from the Chief Rabbinate of Eretz Israel, and the Israeli state and the Palestinian Authority should in parallel cede a small piece of land up against the Wailing Wall as Zion City State. Historically the Mount of Olives would be a better location, but modern Rabbinical Jews have forgotten that. Just as the Holy See has some say in holy places outside the Vatican, the Chief Rabbinate might have some rights outside its state, notably the Tomb of Abraham. Many people support Zionism who really want something like the Holy See, as I mention in Albatross, though they may not realize that that is what they want.
The World Muslim Federation, which is separate and distinct from the Organization of the Islamic Conference, should develop a method for electing a Supreme Mufti of the Faithful. He would probably not be accepted by Shias, but the Pope is not accepted by Protestants. The Supreme Mufti should be given a trilocal state including the Grand Mosque in Mecca, the Tomb of Muhammad in Medinah and the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. The last would very much annoy some people, but Rabbinical Jews could have rebuilt their temple in the second century of the Common Era(they had imperial permission) but did not even move the Patriarchate to Jerusalem, instead keeping it at first in Jamnia and then in various places in already Christian Galilee, so I think they have abandoned their rights; as indeed have the Christians, who, during the Christian period of the Roman Empire, did talk about erecting a basilica there but never actually did anything. The Supreme Muftiyyah too might have interests in the Tomb of Abraham, as well as in the Tomb of Moses.
The Christian leaders in Jerusalem are quarreling a lot less than formerly, having even taken the keys of the Holy Sepulchre back from the Moslem families who had been holding them for centuries. They should be able to work out some kind of deal for a Holy Sepulchre City State, with recognized interests in the Church of the Nativity, the Church of the Annunciation, and so forth.
For symmetry, any movement for these states would include motions for a Sikh Golden Temple City State and a Buddhist Potala City State.
The three microstates in Jerusalem should over a period of years cool down much of the religion-related anger about the holy city, although obviously a lot of people would be dissatisfied. The Supreme Mufti and his microstates would probably weaken the movements for Islamic theocracy, not because the Supreme Mufti would say anything in particular about it but because the daily working of the Muftiyyah would distinguish church and state in people’s minds.
Somehow, in conjunction with these matters, perhaps, the Chief Rabbinate of Eretz Israel, now appointed by the Israeli state, should become more independent, perhaps following the pattern of the Chief Rabbinate of the British Commonwealth, which too was once state-appointed. Similarly, it is probably a good idea for the Chief Mufti of Jerusalem to be elected by someone other than the Palestinian Authority. For that matter, there should be no more state interference in the appointment of Christian prelates.
There would be a lot more to do to bring peace to the Holy Land. The U.S. can induce this slowly. At present villages formed by people classified as Jews promptly get utilities installed. Other Israeli citizens often have to wait decades; think of Ein Hawd al Jadidah. The U.S. can probably stop this, if the gradually reforming Israeli citizenry does not itself do so. Similarly, public housing, even when administered by the JNF, should be available to citizens regardless of religion. This would go a long way towards transforming Israeli society.
Eventually the Israeli state and the PLO should be merged; not federated. I have ideas of how this might be carried out in stages, but will not go into them here. One can imagine a peaceful, democratic prosperous Palestine as the nucleus of a peaceful, democratic, prosperous Araby, itself the nucleus of a peaceful, democratic, prosperous world. That is not the way I choose to direct my political activity, but I pray God’s blessing on those who do. I do not believe that their next steps can reasonably be very different from what I have described above.
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Goodbye, New York State Residents are Rushing for the Exits
by Fred Siegel 05/28/2011
For more than 15 years, New York State has led the country in domestic outmigration: for every American who comes to New York, roughly two depart for other states. This outmigration slowed briefly following the onset of the Great Recession. But a new Marist poll released last week suggests that the rate is likely to increase: 36 percent of New Yorkers under 30 are planning to leave over the next five years. Why are all these people fleeing?
For one thing, according to a recent survey in Chief Executive, New York State has the second-worst business climate in the country. (Only California ranks lower.) People go where the jobs are, so when a state repels businesses, it repels residents, too. It’s also telling that in the Marist poll, 62 percent of New Yorkers planning to leave cited economic factors—including cost of living (30 percent), taxes (19 percent), and the job environment (10 percent)—as the primary reason.
In upstate New York, a big part of the problem is extraordinarily high property taxes. New York has the 15 highest-taxed counties in the country, including Nassau and Westchester, which rank first and second nationwide. Most of the property tax goes toward paying the state’s Medicaid bill—which is unlikely to diminish, since the state’s most powerful lobby, the political cartel created by the alliance of the hospital workers’ union and hospital management, has gone unchallenged by new governor Andrew Cuomo.
New York City doesn’t suffer from outmigration to the extent that the state does; in fact, the city grew slightly over the past decade, thanks to immigration. And there’s more work in Gotham than in the state as a whole. The problem is that the kind of work available shows that the city accommodates new immigrants much better than it supports middle-class aspirations. A recent report from the Drum Major Institute helps make sense of the Marist numbers: “The two fastest-growing industries in New York are also the lowest paid. More than half of the city’s employment growth over the past year has been in retail, hospitality, and food services, all of which pay their workers less than half of the city’s average wage.” Worse yet, more than 80 percent of the new jobs are in the city’s five lowest-paying sectors. Parts of the country are seeing a revival of manufacturing—traditionally a source of upward mobility for immigrants—but not New York City, whose manufacturing continues to decline. The culprits here include the city’s zoning policies, business taxes, and declining physical infrastructure.
Then there’s the cost of living in New York City. A 2009 report by the Center for an Urban Future found that “a New Yorker would have to make $123,322 a year to have the same standard of living as someone making $50,000 in Houston. In Manhattan, a $60,000 salary is equivalent to someone making $26,092 in Atlanta.” Even Queens, the report found, was the fifth most expensive urban area in the country.
The implications of Gotham’s hourglass economy—with all the action on the top and bottom, and not much in the middle—are daunting. The Drum Major report, which noted that 31 percent of the adults employed in New York work at low-wage labor, came with a political agenda. The institute wants the city to subsidize new categories of work by expanding the scope of “living-wage” laws, which require higher pay than minimum-wage laws do, to all businesses that receive city funds or contracts. But that would mean higher taxes for the middle class and a further narrowing of the hourglass’s midsection.
Governor Cuomo is calling for a property-tax cap, but without “mandate relief” for localities—for example, relaxing state laws that require localities to pay out exorbitant pension benefits. Mayor Michael Bloomberg has pledged not to increase local taxes, but even at their current level, city taxes and regulations will keep serving as an exit sign for aspiring twentysomething workers. In short, we can expect New York to lead the country in outmigration for the near future.
This piece first appeared in the City Journal.
Fred Siegel is a contributing editor of City Journal, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and a scholar in residence at St. Francis College in Brooklyn.
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Submitted by Joanna on Sun, 05/29/2011 - 00:01.
Interesting article. I just found your website while taking a break from packing. I'm moving out of NYC in a few days after living here for 17 years. The high cost of living, taxes and crowds are what's driving me away. It was not too expensive when I first moved here in 1994 after college, but to get a decent place to live now you either have to make a lot of money (e.g, investment banker), have lived in a rent stablized apartment for a long time, or be poor and lucky enough to get a subsidized apartment through various city programs. If you are anywhere in between, you have to spend way too much money on rent, especially in Manhattan. What I will miss is the convenience of having everything I need within a few blocks. I won't miss the crowds. It seems like since 9/11, NYC has become a mecca for tourists, much more than it used to be.
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Mets lose Santana for the season and another one to the Rockies
Johan Santana was placed on the 15-day disabled list with inflammation of his lower back and the New York Mets ace is done for the season. That decision was made prior to the Mets latest loss, 5-2 to the last place Colorado Rockies at Citi Field Wednesday night.
And, because Santana had been ineffective in his last six starts this is a major reason why New York is one game away from last place in the National league east. There are other reasons attributed as to why the team continues to sink further with the lack of hitting and a torrid bullpen.
But since that historic no-hitter by Santana on June 1st, first in the Mets 50-year existence, he has not been the same pitcher. The team has not been the same when Santana fell apart as he seemed to inspire the hitting and propel the pitching staff.
“Something is not right and they don’t want it to get worse,” said a dismal Santana to the media when results of the MRI to his back were revealed. There had been speculation he would get the bad news, and shutting him down for the season makes perfect sense.
The Mets are out of contention and would want the left hander healthy and ready for 2013. He is due $31 million next year which includes a buyout for the following season. The back problem is not related to shoulder surgery, extensive rehab assignments, or a stint on the DL in July due to a sprained right ankle.
And GM Sandy Alderson, along with Santana, said his latest ailment had nothing to do with a career high 134-pitch count when he pitched the no-hitter before the home crowd at Citi Field.
“That’s a long time ago and this just happened a couple days ago,” explained Santana, knocking down any speculation that the high pitch count contributed to his back problem.
He added, “It’s tough to go back and look at that no-hitter and blame it for this.”
Since that no-hitter, Santana is 3-7 with an 8.27 ERA in 10 starts, allowing six runs in his last five starts, 0-5 with a 15.63 ERA. Not numbers that reflect a two-time Cy Young Award winner. Thus the speculation, something was wrong as Santana said he began experiencing tightness a few weeks ago and it progressed during his last start at Washington last week. After he threw a bullpen session Monday, he addressed the issue with team personnel and a decision was made to undergo an MRI.
The 33-year old Santana was scheduled to start the finale of a four-game series against the Rockies Thursday afternoon. He will be replaced on the roster by right hander Collin McHugh. The 25-year old was promoted from Triple- A Buffalo where he went 2-4 with a 3.39 ERA in 12 starts.
Surgery will not be required, just rest and medication and that had Santana and Alderson relieved as it is not a disc problem that has caused the inflammation.
“I want to keep pitching,” commented Santana. I felt I could pitch, but at the same time I am listening to them.”
It is not the starting pitching that has caused New York to lose the first three of four games against the Rockies. They got two quality starts Monday and Tuesday night from R.A. Dickey and Chris Young before the bullpen and sloppy fielding gave the games away.
And, Wednesday night it was the same situation as the Rockies won their seventh straight game at Citi Field. Rookie Matt Harvey, with a fastball clocked over 95, struck out nine Rockies in six innings. He gave up three hits.
New York fell to 57-67, lost their fourth straight and ten games below the .500 mark for the first time since finishing that way in the 2009 season. The numbers have not been good since the all-star break, 11-27, worst in baseball, and the team has scored two or fewer runs in five consecutive games something that has not happened since the 2003 season.
“I feel like there’s more that I could’ve done and more I could’ve helped the team with like going eight innings and not giving up a run would’ve been nice,” said Harvey.
But Mets manager Terry Collins realizes Harvey has an entire career ahead, and 102 pitches was more than enough for the flame thrower.
“Extremely impressed tonight with the way he handled himself, pitching out of trouble , electric stuff again,” said Collins. “During an absolute brutal stretch there’s been a bright spot and he’s been one of them.”
Harvey has 43 strikeouts in his first six games which surpassed the club record of Nolan Ryan of 42. So there is something to look forward to for the Mets when it comes to pitching with or without Santana.
To that Collins said, “And we think we got some more coming.” Time will tell as the 2012 season in other ways becomes more miserable for the Mets and their fans.
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Posted under 31 Million, Ailment, Bullpen, Citi, Colorado Rockies, Contention, Couple Days, High Pitch, Johan Santana, National League East, New York Mets, Perfect Sense, Rich Mancuso, Sandy Alderson, Top Story, Wednesday Night
This post was written by Rich Mancuso on August 23, 2012
Tags: Bad News, Home Crowd, Inflammation, Pitch Count, Speculation, Stint
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January 22 2008-Media Advisory for NYSBAs 2008 Annual Meeting
Contact: Brandon Vogel
Media Writer, Media Services & Public Affairs
bvogel@nysba.org
MEDIA ADVISORY FOR STATE BAR'S 2008 ANNUAL MEETING
TO: Editors, Assignment Editors, and Reporters
FROM: Brandon Vogel, Media Writer, Media Services & Public Affairs 518-487-5535
SUBJECT: 2008 New York State Bar Association Annual Meeting
WHERE: New York Marriott Marquis Hotel (Broadway between 45th and 46th streets) Manhattan
WHEN: Monday, January 28 - Friday, February 1, 2008
MEDIA REGISTRATION
The 131st annual meeting of the New York State Bar Association will be held at the Marriot Marquis Hotel in Manhattan from Monday, January 28 to Friday, February 2. Approximately 5,000 members are expected to attend events throughout the week, with Bar Association President Kathryn Grant Madigan speaking at various events every day and hosting the Presidential Summit on Wednesday, January 30. All events are open to the media, however all reporters must register in the News Center located in the Empire Room, 7th Floor to gain admission into any program or event.
The News Center (212-886-0894) will be open from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Monday, 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Tuesday - Thursday and 8:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. on Friday. It is equipped with telephones, a fax machine, internet access, phones lines, and lap tops for media use. Annual meeting news releases and other reference and information materials will be available in the News Center. Members of the Media Services & Public Affairs staff will be present to assist the media.
• The Presidential Summit - "Breaking the Cycle for Youth At Risk; and "Providing Legal Services in a Globalized World: Radical Change, Opportunity or Both?"
• Criminal Justice Award Winners-Chief Judge Judith S. Kaye and Detective Dennis Delano and the Bike Path Rapist Investigation Team, Buffalo Police Department
• Rules of Engagement: How to Earn Respect, Take Control, and Get the Corner Office - sponsored by the Committee on Women in the Law
• The Subprime Meltdown-How it Affects Communities and Lenders
• Celebrating Diversity Reception-Diversity Trailblazer Award Winner Taa Grays
• Introducing the NYS Commission on Public Integrity: Strengthening the State's Ethics and Lobbying Law
• Animals and Cruelty-From Dog Fighting to Hoarding-The Laws Governing Society's Response
Monday - Jan. 28, 2008
Entertainment, Arts & Sports Law Section (1:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.)
Post Mortem Right of Publicity: Return of the Living Dead?
Real Deals in Virtual Worlds: Business Affairs and Legal Issues in the New Massively Multi-User Universes
Minorities in the Profession (1:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.)
Pipeline Diversity: Best Practices, Programs & Collaborative Diversity Initiatives
Celebrating Diversity Reception (6:00 - 8:00 p.m.)
Tuesday - Jan. 29, 2008
Elder Law (1:30 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.)
A Real Life View of End of Life Decision Making: A Panel Discussion of Legal and Ethical Issues
New Developments in Elder Law
Medicaid Panel Discussion with Department of Health and County DSS Offices of Legal Affairs Attorneys
General Practice (9:00 a.m. - 1:15 p.m.)
Latest Updates in Traditional Areas of Practicing Law
Collaborative Practice/Family Law
Environmental Issues Impacting Residential and Commercial Property
Real Property Titles Update
CPLR Update
Hot Tips from the Experts
Intellectual Property Law (9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. and 2:15 - 5:15 p.m.)
"Crimes and Misdemeanors" in IP Cases
KSR, Medimmune, AT&T v. Microsoft and Seagate: Lessons Learned
The Great Debate: Should the Right of Publicity Survive Death?
Intellectual Property in India
New Patent Office and TTAB Rules
Legal and Business Objectives and Issues in Establishing a Global Brand
Competitive Intelligence and Pretexting: What Is An IP Attorney To Do?
Tax Section (9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. and 2:15 - 4:00 p.m.)
Current Issues in Corporate Taxation
Recent Tax Developments Concerning Private Equity and Hedge Funds
New Heightened Professional Standards under Circular 230 and Section 6694 for Tax Attorneys and Accountants
Speaker: Edward D. Kleinbard, Chief of Staff, Joint Committee on Taxation, Washington, D.C. (12:30 p.m. to 2:15 p.m.)
Attorneys in Public Service (9:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. and 2:00 pm - 5:15 p.m.)
Morning: The Supreme Court Past, Present, and Future
Afternoon: Introducing the NYS Commission on Public Integrity: Strengthening the State's Ethics and Lobbying Law
5:30 - 7:30 p.m. - Awards for Excellence in Public Service Reception
Honorees:
Mark L. Davies, Executive Director and Counsel to the New York City Conflicts of Interest Board
Barbara F. Smith, Executive Director of the New York Lawyer Assistance Fund
Women in the Law (9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.)
Rules of Engagement: How to Earn Respect, Take Control, and Get the Corner Office
Speaker & Panelist: Brigadier General Malinda E. Dunn, Esq., United States Army, J.A.G. Corp.
Panelist: Honorable Carmen Beauchamp Ciparick, New York State Court of Appeals
Wednesday - Jan. 30, 2008
The Presidential Summit (2:00 pm - 5:00 p.m.)
2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. - Breaking the Cycle for Youth At Risk
Panelists Include:
• Honorable Judith S. Kaye, Moderator, Chief Judge of the State of New York
• Kathryn Grant Madigan, Esq., New York State Bar Association President
• Geoffrey Canada, President/CEO, Harlem Children's Zone
• Honorable Michael A. Corriero, Acting Supreme Court Justice
• Karen J. Mathis, Immediate Past President, American Bar Association
• Dr. Thomas Grisso, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts
3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. - Providing Legal Services in a Globalized World: Radical Change, Opportunity or Both?
• Steven C. Krane, Esq., Moderator, former NYSBA President
• Mary C. Daly, Dean and John V. Brennan Professor of Law and Ethics, St. John's Law School
• James P. Duffy, III, Esq., Berg and Duffy, LLP
• Calvin Hamilton, Esq., Monereo Meyer Marinel-Lo, Abogados
• James C. Moore, Esq., former NYSBA President
• Laurel S. Terry, Professor, Penn State Dickinson School of Law
Business Law (9:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.)
The Subprime Meltdown-How it Affects Communities and Lenders
How Business Can Benefit from Alternative Dispute Resolution
Commercial and Federal Litigation (9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.)
Developments in E-Discovery in New York, Federal and State Courts, and Arbitration
The Ethics of Witness Preparation
Stanley H. Fuld Award for Outstanding Contributions to Commercial Law and Litigation presented by Honorable Judith S. Kaye, Chief Judge, New York State Court of Appeals to Honorable Albert M. Rosenblatt, former Associate Judge, New York State Court of Appeals (12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.)
Corporate Counsel (9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.)
Defending Employment Discrimination Claims
Health Law (9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.)
Quality of Care and Medical Malpractice
International Law & Practice (9:00 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.)
Greenhouse Gas Project Finance
Annual Award for Distinction in International Law and Affairs presented to the Lawyers and Judges of Pakistan, as represented by Aitzaz Ahsan, in asbentia
Torts, Insurance & Compensation Law and Trial Lawyers Annual Dinner (6:00 p.m.)
The Water Club, The East River off 30th Street
Speaker: Honorable William C. Thompson, Jr., Comptroller of the City of New York
Trusts & Estates Law (8:45 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.)
A Brave New World for Drafters: The Implications of Building Maximum Flexibility into Your Wills and Trusts
Young Lawyers (9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.)
Practical Advice for the Young Attorney
Committee on Animals and the Law Section (6:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.)
Animals and Cruelty-From Dog Fighting to Hoarding-The Laws Governing Society's Response
Committee on Law, Youth & Citizenship (9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.)
Public Education and the Law: The Year in Review
Committee on Issues Affecting People with Disabilities (1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.)
Can We All Get Along Anymore? The Relationship Between Schools and Parents of Children with Disabilities
Committee on Professional Discipline (10:00 a.m. - 12:05 p.m.)
Significant Rules Changes that Will Change the Face of the Profession
Thursday - Jan. 31, 2008
Antitrust Law (8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.)
Annual Review of Antitrust Developments
Recent Developments in Criminal Antitrust Enforcement
Indirect Purchaser Standing: The Current Answer, the Proposed Answer, the Right Answer
Resale Price Maintenance Post-Leegin
Reception (6:00 p.m.) The University Club, 1 West 54th Street
Dinner (7:00 p.m.)
8:00 p.m. Dinner Speaker - Honorable Deborah Platt Majoras, Chairman, U.S. Federal Trade Commission, Washington, D.C.
Criminal Justice (12:30 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.)
Awards Luncheon - (12:30 p.m. -2:00 p.m.)
New York's Sentencing Structure and Proposals for Reform, Sentencing for Sex Crimes and the New Civil Commitment Procedure for Sex Offenders - (2:00 p.m - 5:15 p.m.)
Family Law Section (12:00 p.m. - 1:55 Reception/Luncheon; 1:55 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. - Program)
Speaker: Hon. Eugene F Pigott, Jr., Associate, Judge, New York Court of Appeals
Separate Property: No Distribution; Separate Property Credit; or Transmutation - When and Why?
Matrimonial Update
Food, Drug & Cosmetic Law (8:45 a.m. - 12:20 p.m. Program; 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Luncheon)
Speaker: Gerald F. Masoudi, Chief Counsel, Food and Drug Administration (12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.)
The Advertising Industry's Self-Regulatory Forum's Challenges in the FDA Regulated Products Arena
Pharmacogenomics: Personalized Medicine-Risk and Potential Liability for Product Manufacturers
FDAAA/PDUFA IV
Pre-Emption (Drug and Device)
Major Drug and Device Regulatory Developments in China
Municipal Law (9:00 a.m. -12:30 p.m. and 1:45 - 4:15 p.m.)
Land Use and Municipal Ethics, PERB - A New Philosophy
Tax Certiorari and Condemnation Update
Video Camera Surveillance on Public Streets
Real Property Law (8:20 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.)
A Wealth of Real Property Issues Including Your Pocketbook
Torts, Insurance & Compensation Law and Trial Lawyers (8:50 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.)
Morning Session: The Art of Negotiating
Afternoon Session: Great Openings and Closing in History
Young Lawyers Section (9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.)
Bridging the Gap 2008: Practical Pointers for Success
Committee on Alternative Dispute Resolution (9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.)
Who, What, When, Where, How: Recent Developments in Arbitration Law
Committee on Attorney Professionalism (9:00 a.m. - 12:35 p.m.)
Attorney Professionalism in an Age of Profit Seeking
Committee on Civil Rights (2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.)
Military Commissions Act and Habeas Corpus
Haywood Burns Award Reception (5:30 - 7:00 p.m.)
Recipient: Donna Lieberman, Executive Director of the New York Civil Liberties Union
Committee on Condominiums and Cooperatives of the Real Property Law Section (2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.)
Advanced Topics in Condominium and Cooperative Law
Committee on Law Practice Management (1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.)
E-Filing System in New York State
Special Committee on Senior Lawyers-Tips and Tricks for Outlook, Word, PowerPoint and Excel (1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.)
Committee on Media Law (2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.)
Litigating in the Public Eye: How to Deal with the Press when Crisis Hits
Moderator: George Freeman, Esq., General Counsel, The New York Times Company
Leslie Crocker Snyder, Esq., Kasowitz Benson Torres & Friedman, LLP
Seth Faison, Sitrick and Company
Jack T. Litman, Litman, Arche & Gioiella, LLP
Jan Schlichtmann, Jan R. Schlichtmann, P.C.
Jeffrey Toobin, Esq., The New Yorker and CNN
Friday - Feb. 1, 2008
House of Delegates Meeting (8:45 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.)
Environmental Law (9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Program; 12:55 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. Awards Luncheon)
Brownfields Revisited: New Directions/New Opportunities
Speaker: Honorable Pete Grannis, Commissioner, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (12:55 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.)
Labor & Employment Law (9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.) The New Yorker Hotel, 481 8th Ave., Manhattan
Federal Government Perspective on Labor and Employment Law
Ethical Considerations for Attorneys Changing Jobs
Workshop: The New Ethics Rules of Attorney Advertising
Workshop: Court Involvement in the Arbitration Process
Workshop: AFL-CIO v. NLRB: Why Organized Labor is so Unhappy with the
National Labor Relations Board
Workshop: Employee Privacy Rights
Workshop: Effective Practices for Voir Dire and Oral Argument
Young Lawyers (9:00 a.m. - 4:45 p.m.)
Committee on Children & the Law (9:00 a.m. a.m. - 12:10 p.m.)
Children in the Court: Concerns, Challenges and Benefits of Youth Participation in Court Proceedings
Saturday - Feb. 2, 2008
Judicial Section/Council of Judicial Associations Reception Luncheon (12:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.)
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Find this article at: http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000933962/article/roger-goodells-statement-on-national-anthem-policy
Roger Goodell's statement on national anthem policy
Updated: May 23, 2018 at 01:15 p.m.
The policy adopted today was approved in concert with the NFL's ongoing commitment to local communities and our country -- one that is extraordinary in its scope, resources, and alignment with our players. We are dedicated to continuing our collaboration with players to advance the goals of justice and fairness in all corners of our society.
The efforts by many of our players sparked awareness and action around issues of social justice that must be addressed. The platform that we have created together is certainly unique in professional sports and quite likely in American business. We are honored to work with our players to drive progress.
It was unfortunate that on-field protests created a false perception among many that thousands of NFL players were unpatriotic. This is not and was never the case.
This season, all league and team personnel shall stand and show respect for the flag and the anthem. Personnel who choose not to stand for the anthem may stay in the locker room until after the anthem has been performed.
We believe today's decision will keep our focus on the game and the extraordinary athletes who play it -- and on our fans who enjoy it.
The 32 member clubs of the National Football League have reaffirmed their strong commitment to work alongside our players to strengthen our communities and advance social justice. The unique platform that we have created is unprecedented in its scope, and will provide extraordinary resources in support of programs to promote positive social change in our communities.
The membership also strongly believes that:
1. All team and league personnel on the field shall stand and show respect for the flag and the anthem.
2.The Game Operations Manual will be revised to remove the requirement that all players be on the field for the anthem.
3. Personnel who choose not to stand for the anthem may stay in the locker room or in a similar location off the field until after the anthem has been performed.
4. A club will be fined by the League if its personnel are on the field and do not stand and show respect for the flag and the anthem.
5. Each club may develop its own work rules, consistent with the above principles, regarding its personnel who do not stand and show respect for the flag and the anthem.
6. The commissioner will impose appropriate discipline on league personnel who do not stand and show respect for the flag and the anthem.
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TV and radio media partners to host U.S. senate debate
ST. LOUIS – 5 On Your Side, the Nine Network of Public Media, and St. Louis Public Radio are partnering to host an hour-long U.S. Senate debate with Republican Josh Hawley and Democrat Claire McCaskill.
The debate will take place at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 18 with a live audience of 130 Missourians at the Nine Network’s studio in St. Louis. Missouri residents who wish to be considered to be part of the audience should apply here.
The debate will be moderated by the PBS NewsHour’s Judy Woodruff. The panelists will be 5 On Your Side’s Mike Bush and St. Louis Public Radio’s Jo Mannies. The questions asked by the panelists will be developed by a team of journalists from the three participating media organizations.
Nine Network’s Ruth Ezell will field questions from the audience and curate questions from social media, which will allow residents across the state to participate.
For people interested in viewing the debate who are not chosen to be members of the audience, a public watch party will be held in the Public Media Commons, between the Nine Network and St. Louis Public Radio on Olive Street. 5 On Your Side’s Casey Nolen and St. Louis Public Radio’s Jason Rosenbaum will get real-time audience perspective and host a post-debate analysis show.
The debate will be broadcast through NBC, NPR, and PBS affiliates throughout Missouri to help voters make informed decisions for the mid-term election.
About TEGNA
TEGNA Inc. (NYSE: TGNA) is an innovative media company that serves the greater good of our communities. With 46 stations in 38 markets, TEGNA delivers relevant content and information to consumers across platforms. It is the largest owner of top 4 affiliates in the top 25 markets, reaching approximately one-third of all television households nationwide. Each month, TEGNA reaches 50 million adults on-air and 32 million across its digital platforms. TEGNA has been consistently honored with the industry’s top awards, including Edward R. Murrow, George Polk, Alfred I. DuPont and Emmy Awards. TEGNA delivers results for advertisers through unparalleled and innovative solutions including OTT local advertising network Premion, centralized marketing resource Hatch, and G/O Digital, a one-stop shop for local businesses to connect with consumers through digital marketing. Across platforms, TEGNA tells empowering stories, conducts impactful investigations and delivers innovative marketing solutions. For more information, visit www.TEGNA.com.
About the Nine Network of Public Media
The Nine Network of Public Media is a multifaceted organization creating a network of individuals and organizations empowered by public media to strengthen civic life. One of the nation’s most watched public television stations, Nine Network offers the people of the St. Louis region multiple ways to explore the world and become engaged in civic life. Nine’s platforms include four distinct broadcast channels (Nine PBS, Nine World, Nine Create and Nine PBS KIDS), the Nine Center for Public Engagement, the Public Media Commons, social media, and multiple websites accessible at nineNet.org. Nine Network’s rich legacy of serving the community was launched in 1954 and continues through our vision of a strong and healthy community working together through public media and our mission of igniting the spirit of possibility.
About St. Louis Public Radio
St. Louis Public Radio is an award-winning news organization and NPR-member station, providing in-depth news, insightful discussion and entertaining programs to half-a-million people per month on-air and online. With the largest radio or TV newsroom in St. Louis, our journalists find and tell important stories about communities across the region and help people to become deeply informed about the issues that affect their lives. We broadcast on 90.7 KWMU FM in St. Louis, 90.3 WQUB in Quincy, Illinois, 88.5 KMST in Rolla and 96.3 K242AN in Lebanon, Missouri, and share news and music online at stlpublicradio.org. We are a member-supported service of the University of Missouri - St. Louis.
Alicia Elsner 314-444-5256, 5 On Your Side
Amy Shaw, 314-808-1045, Nine Network of Public Media
Madalyn Painter, 314-516-6617, St. Louis Public Radio
Nine to Host Free Screening and Discussion of the Story ...
PBS KIDS Edcamp Recognizes Need for Peer-to-Peer Teacher Networks
About Nine
Matt Huelskamp
Vice President, Chief Marketing Officer
mhuelskamp@ketc.org
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>>>BEHIND THE SCENES
Here’s a peek at some of the project professionals providing an insider’s view in this month’s features:
Project management consultant and blogger BAS DE BAAR offers his take on the profession’s still-nascent use of social media in “PMPs on FB? OMG!” The Zandvoort, Netherlands-based IT project manager has spent more than a decade in the trenches within the publishing, financial and public sectors. Author of
Surprise! Now You’re a Software Project Manager, Mr. de Baar is also a member of the PMI New Media Council.
FRANK COX, PMP, is a project management officer for the Department of Corrections in the Missouri Office of Administration, Jefferson City, Missouri, USA. In this role, he developed the state government’s first tool for tailoring project management processes. Mr. Cox helped establish and charter the PMI Mid-Missouri Chapter in 1999 and has held a variety of offices, including a stint as president for two years. When tasked to save a failing project (“Back From the Brink”), Mr. Cox says he starts off by keeping his mouth shut—and just listening.
As vice president on the Electoral Tribunal, Panama City, Panama,
EDUARDO VALDÉS-ESCOFFERY
took on quite a project: He led the IT team in charge of the national presidential election held last May (“Calling the Election”). The team not only had to contend with security risks, it also developed a smartphone app that could deliver accurate results at super speed.
Nicknamed “The Project Supernanny,” JILL STEFFEY, PMP, is a business systems analyst for the Office of Alumni Relations and Development at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA. In “Making Your Mark,” she explains how she has branded herself as a counselor of sorts to her team members.
FLORIN C.
GHEORGHIU, PMP,
has more than 14 years
of experience in the
energy and construc-
tion sectors. As a proj-
ect manager at Enel
Green Power in
Bucharest, Romania, he’s currently working on
a wind farm construction project. He provides
an insider’s look into the post-recession project
environment in “State of the Economy Report.”
TERESA SHULL, PMP, is an IT project manager at National Government Services Inc., a federal health insurance contractor in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. In her career, she has served as a project or program manager on infrastructure, telecom and development projects. When she’s brought in to rescue a floundering project (“Back From the Brink”), the first item on Ms. Shull’s agenda is to earn the team’s respect.
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Massachusetts Board of Higher Education
Chris Gabrieli is the Chairman of the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education (MA BHE), the CEO of Empower Schools, and a lecturer at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education. He has served as Chair of the MA BHE since being appointed by Governor Charlie Baker in 2015. The BHE is responsible for setting policy and strategic direction for the public higher education system in the state, which includes 29 community college, state university and UMass campuses and serves over 200,000 full-time students. As Chair, he has spearheaded the Early College High School initiative, leading to the creation of a new category of public entity in Massachusetts with designation by a Joint Committee of the Boards of Higher and Elementary & Secondary Education. He lives in Boston, MA.
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There’s Something about Bernie! (Sanders, that is.)
Now don’t get me wrong. I do not support Bernie Sanders’ bid to become the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party. Far from it. In fact, I strongly disagree with almost everything he espouses regarding economic policy.
I believe that Bernie’s policies, if put into practice, would do serious damage to the fabric of the American economy. The entrepreneurial spirit that is the bedrock of American economic success would be smothered. And so would the appeal of this country as a melting pot, attracting the best, the brightest and the most ingenious from around the globe. Gone would be the opportunity to start with little or nothing and be able, through dint of hard work and creativity, to achieve a life’s dream.
But I must admit that I find Bernie Sanders refreshing.
That’s because Bernie doesn’t have the proverbial finger in the air to see which way the political wind is blowing. There’s no sense that his minions (if he has minions!) are poring over poll data to detect trends that would be advantageous to embrace.
What you see with Bernie is what you get, and it’s been that way for more than forty years. His principals, his political philosophy, his rhetoric have changed little since the days of protest in the 1960s.
One might argue that therein lies a problem — the fact that part of the process of maturing in life is the ability to change one’s point of view and to recalibrate the naïve assertions of one’s youth. How many radicals of the 1960s are today’s millionaires (and maybe even billionaires)? For myself, I fully admit to having altered my point of view on many issues — both economic and social — over the last forty years.
But not Bernie. He’s been a self-proclaimed bedrock socialist since he had unkempt black hair and carried his young son to a rally in the early 1970s. Today all that’s changed is the color of the unkempt hair. Have you noticed how many young people attend his rallies and speeches? His appeal is not dimmed by the fact that he could be grandfather to them all. Press reports indicate that no Presidential candidate in this season has had as many attendees.
Crowds demonstrate excitement, but polls indicate the breadth of appeal. In, of all places, conservative New Hampshire, Bernie Sanders (as of this morning) is the leading presidential candidate. Maybe it’s just part of the friendly neighbor effect, but in truth there aren’t two more politically diverse states than the Yankee neighbors of Vermont and New Hampshire.
I think Bernie’s appeal over his Democratic opponents derives from his candor, the evidence of his conviction in his long-held beliefs and his total disregard for what the establishment thinks of him.
He’s David — the one without the heft of money and connections. He’s facing Goliath — the powerful, the globally renowned, with armies of sophisticated fundraisers and business people to ensure the necessary conclusion.
We know the outcome of that Biblical story. Wouldn’t it be fun to see it happen again.
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Change and hope
By Ken Connor
The results are in, and in the words of former President George W. Bush, it was a thumping. What this nation witnessed on November 2nd was not merely a wave election, it was a tsunami. The obvious beneficiary of the voter's frustration this time around was the GOP, but as many have emphasized, it would be a huge mistake to interpret the outcome of this election as a mandate for the Republican establishment to carry on with business as usual.
As I cast my ballot on Election Day, it was difficult to shake feelings of trepidation and cynicism, despite the energy that has animated my fellow conservatives in the past several months. According to a new poll, I wasn't alone. A record 75% of voters surveyed prior to the midterm elections feel that things are not going well in America. Now that the suspense is over and the dust has settled, many questions remain. Is the uncertainty and doubt that has characterized the mood of the American people something that the new crop of reformers can overcome? Are these newly elected agents of the people ready to do the work, take the chances, and make the sacrifices necessary to bring about real change in the way our government does its business? Will the American people's vote of confidence be rewarded, or betrayed?
In the immediate aftermath of an election, it's difficult to tell whether or not the campaign pledges that landed a winning candidate in office will go on to guide their service, or be left on the cutting room floor. For the next couple of months, the winning candidates will bask in their victory and recover from the rigors of the campaign trail. But come January, the American people will be anxious to see if their representatives meant what they said.
The issues that distinguished the winners from the losers in this election were actually quite simple. The most compelling candidates made their case for election by pointing out how far from our constitutional heritage America has veered in recent years, and promising to fight to put us back on course. It's a message that has always resonated in each and every election cycle in which it's been employed as a campaign strategy. But as past elections have shown us, talk is cheap. It's easy to present yourself as a maverick or a rogue willing to take on the establishment when you're trying to get elected yet and everything is theoretical. It's difficult, however, to walk the talk when the special interests apply the pressure and offer up the perks that are part of the quid pro quo system that has prevailed in Washington for decades.
The kind of change the American people voted for requires more than rhetorical grandstanding on the floor of the House. It requires our elected representatives to be willing to risk everything, including their political careers, to do what's right. It means standing up to the special interests that have hijacked the political process in America. At the end of the day, all most fair minded Americans want is the freedom to pursue the American dream and a level playing field on which to do it. No special advantages for a favored few, no thumb on the scale for the special interests, and no Big Brother-engineered redistribution of wealth. These are the basic principles embodied in the Tea Party movement — principles that transcend political affiliation and socioeconomic status.
When the American people find themselves at the polls again in 2012, how can we know that our voice was heard in 2010? Will we find our government smaller, our freedom greater, our taxes lower, our spending wiser? Or will we find ourselves disappointed yet again, trudging dutifully to cast ballots for the latest crop of Johnny-come-lately's promising true change?
Senatorial candidate Marco Rubio, in an election-day interview with Fox News' Neil Cavuto, warned of what will happen if the GOP and its newest members in Congress fail to live up to their campaign pledges:
"Now, I'm proud to be a Republican, I think it's the logical home of constitutional conservatism, but I think if there are big gains around this country tonight, Republicans should not make the mistake of believing that this was a national embrace of the Republican party. This is a second chance for the Republican party to be and do what it has claimed to be, and that is the home of the limited government, conservative movement in America, the center-right coalition that believes in free enterprise and freedom and liberty, and the things that have made America great. And I hope I can be a part of that. . . . If the Republican party does not become about ideas and about principles that speak to everyday people in the real world and in real life, then soon we'll be on the other end of the pendulum again. I mean, this pendulum keeps swinging from election to election because neither party seems to figure it out."
Well said, Senator Rubio. For their part, the President and Speaker-designate Boehner maintain that they have gotten the message. President Obama humbly pledged to do a better job and to seek out fresh ideas from across the aisle, while Mr. Boehner promised the American people (disenchanted Conservatives in particular) a fresh start. The whole nation will be watching to see if they mean what they say. They'd better, because if they don't, the American people are prepared to effect additional change in order to restore the hope that was promised them.
© Ken Connor
Ken Connor is an attorney and co-author of "Sinful Silence: When Christians Neglect Their Civic Duty." He is also the Distinguished Fellow in Law and Human Dignity at the John Jay Institute's Center for a Just Society.
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“QUEENS & COWBOYS: A Straight Year on the Gay Rodeo” chronicles a complete season of the International Gay Rodeo Association (IGRA). Roping and riding across North America, the IGRA’s courageous cowboys and cowgirls brave challenges both in and out of the arena on their quest to qualify for the World Finals at the end of the season. Along the way, they’ll bust every stereotype in the book.
This award-winning film tells the story of five members of the International Gay Rodeo Association. From Wade Earp, a descendant of cowboy legend Wyatt Earp and one of the best competitors on the circuit; to Char Duran, a female bull rider who’s never won a buckle but seems determined to die trying; “QUEENS & COWBOYS” weaves the stories of its protagonists over the course of an entire rabble-rousing year.
The Hollywood Reporter says “delivers a compelling portrait of this little-known subculture” and Variety writes “Matt Livadary’s crowd-pleasing debut feature deserves a look by programmers beyond gay fests.”
An unprecedented look at the strength it takes to be gay in the rural west, this film explores the many struggles threatening the IGRA and the LGBTQ community at large, how far society has come on the subject of LGBTQ equality, and how far we still have to go.
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Host a screening in your town! We’ve partnered with Tugg.com, a web-platform that enables individuals, groups, and organizations to set up personalized screenings of Queens and Cowboys in theaters and community venues across the country.
This is a fantastic opportunity to showcase gay rodeo in your community! To spark change in your area, events can be used as fundraisers and can include audience discussions with local IGRA members or even the cast or director.
There are two ways to host a screening: in a Local Theater or at a Community Center or Campus. Questions? Visit www.tugg.com/titles/queens-cowboys for details.
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Illegitimate Theater
media consciousness
research for action
Pattern number within this pattern set:
Social Dominance Attenuation (4), Teaching to Transgress (20), The Power of Story (114), Public Domain Characters (115), Citizens' Tribunal (129), Tactical Media (131), Media Intervention (132)
Mark Harrison
Public Sphere Project
Theater, viewing and participating in performances, is an ancient yet vital cultural force. Although "legitimate" or mainstream theater has traditionally been a gathering place for the exchange of ideas, it is largely irrelevant in today's world as a tool for social change. Forces which have contributed to this situation include economic factors, dwindling audiences, the talent drain to other mediums, the transformation of audience tastes and expectations as a result of film and television, and the decline of the avant-garde as alternative to legitimate theatre.
Illegitimate Theater can be "legimitate" response in almost any setting of ordinary — and extraordinary — life. It can be practiced in any place where an "audience" might be found.
"Legitimate theater" engages a paying audience sitting inside a theater with the expectation that they will watch the performance of a play or musical. These productions employ conventions normally associated with traditional theater: lights up and down, applause at the end of acts, a proscenium stage, professional actors working with prepared scripts, no significant interaction between performers and spectators.
Less than 2 percent of the population in the United States attends legitimate theater performances.
While legitimate theater has lost much of its relevance to our everyday lives, theater (or performance) in the broad sense is a fundamental human experience. As such it represents a reservoir of immense potential that a mediated experience can rarely provide: the potential for human interaction. Film and video provide a stream of images to watch, but no experiences in which the viewer can actually participate. Everyday life is often a sequence of ordinary, that is expected, events. One's life experiences easily become insulated from important world events — and the possibility of learning from new experiences as well. Ordinariness becomes a form of oppression and a steady dumbing down of society is deleterious to culture and to democracy as well. Performance provides an immediate human experience. Theater — particularly its "illegitimate" varieties — can also punctuate the ordinary and thrust new and unexpected experiences into everyday life. It has the power to bring a person into new, temporary realities in which the self is momentarily forgotten and submerged. Theater can empower the spectator with insight and possibilities.
Baz Kershaw in his insightful study of the British Alternative Theatre Movement over four decades explicitly addresses the role of theater as an instrument of "cultural intervention." His book (1992) "is about the ways in which theater practitioners have tried to change not just the future action of their audiences, but also the structure of the audience's community and the nature of the audience's culture." This pattern affirms Kershaw's observation: New theater should accompany a new society.
Other phrases — such as Theater Without Theater, Anti-Theater, Meta-Theater, The World's a Stage, Social Performance, Guerilla Theater, or Oppositional (or Radical or Provocative) Theater — are variations on the title of this pattern. Each of these alternative formulations focuses on some attributes and not on others. We use the term "Illegitimate Theater" primarily to highlight the differences between it and legitimate theater. Illegitimate theater can describe any performances in which one or more conventions of the legitimate theater are circumvented. For example, the convention of a single, discrete performance can be ignored in illegitimate theater. Thus, a "one-two punch" can be delivered, possibly anonymously: Half of the cast can "perform" — in Starbucks, at the zoo, or, even, a traditional theatrical venue — while the other half of the cast can "accidentally" encounter the audience afterwards and engage with them a second time, perhaps in dialogue, perhaps again as spectators, perhaps as actor / participants in a new performance that builds on ideas of the original one. The French group Le Grand Magic Circus devised a performance which gradually added the spectators (while withdrawing their members) at the "end" of their performance until finally the spectators were the only ones left "performing" (Bennett, 1990).
Performance is an extremely broad term that characterizes an infinite number of situations including sports, rituals, education, carnivals, politics and protest. It can encompass everyday social events such as shopping, eating in restaurants, going to parties or hanging out. Performance can be spontaneous or planned, obviously "staged" or masquerading as "real life," artistic, political, cultural. The advent of performance studies as an academic discipline which transcends the traditional notion of the theater has contributed to our understanding of these myriad forms.
Bertolt Brecht, the most influential artist/advocate of theater for social change, rejected Aristotelian drama (the basis of Legitimate Theater) in favor of the Epic or Dialectical Theater. His theories and plays, such as Three Penny Opera" and Mother Courage, blur the line between real life and performance, reveal the mechanics of production, present actor and character simultaneously, and employ a wide range of techniques designed to rouse the audience to social action. The venerable San Francisco Mime Troupe with performances such as Fact Wino vs. Armagoddonman, Damaged Care, and Mr. Smith Goes to Obscuristan, is a more recent incarnation of Brechtian rebellion. Augusto Boal from Brazil, a Workers' Party (PT) activist, pioneered "Theater of the Oppressed" and other forms of participatory role-playing theater that has helped audiences to explore and recognize their own predicaments while fostering cooperation and critical engagement.
Many public protests, especially those that include role playing, dramatic encounters, or masks, puppets and other props can be viewed as a type of performance. When Greenpeace's sailing ship "Rainbow Warrior" confronts a nuclear submarine or whaling ship, two symbolic worlds collide. Crosses symbolizing those killed in Iraq spring up in Crawford, Texas near the ranch of U.S. President George Bush; Argentine mothers and grandmothers clothed in mourning black stand before the president's Casa Rosa in Buenos Aires. More recently social activists employing techniques of illegitimate theater, have emerged to confront corporate globalization. These include the marching bands and giant puppets in the 1999 protests against the World Trade Organization in Seattle, Reverend Billy from the Church of Not Shopping who orchestrates chain store "interventions" to "unlock the hypnotic power of transnational capital" and the "Yes Men" who have "played the roles" (as they satirically interpreted them) of various corporate and organizational officials to unsuspecting audiences around the world.
As Clifford Geertz would say — and Shakespeare before him — the world is truly a stage and everything we do in public is a type of performance. This of course means in a trivial sense that everyday life provides a venue for exhibition and self-promotion. The media exploits people's desire for "fame" (or publicity — the desire to be made publicly recognizable) and exhibits the ones it considers off-beat enough for public display, in the modern day equivalent of a freak show.
Media is more easily commodified when it assumes rigid forms. When a "package" exists, it's relatively easy — and cost-effective — to replicate it again and again with little effort or creativity. And when commercial broadcast media defines what is "legitimate", the imagination of the people decays, their capacity to create is harder to draw upon, their tolerance for experimentation and "amateurism" diminishes. Illegitimate
Theater, like other patterns in this language, has unsavory manifestations as well: burning a cross in the yard of an African-American or other ethnic minority, militaristic parades and rallies, public intimidates. Since "performance" likely predates language, its effects on people can be deep; it can unlock hate as well as love, anger as well as reason and compassion. Theater, whether legitimate or not, can be driven by emotion and therefore less analytic than many other patterns in this language. Illegitimate
Theater blurs or even negates the line between spectators and performers. In its extreme version everybody, all the time, is an actor. And "actors" in public performances can also be "actors" in social life, actors who help make things happen — for good or for ill. Although our life "in public" is a series of performances, our roles are often construed as "bit parts." But every moment is a "teachable moment;" every public appearance is an opportunity to do something new and to experience something new. Thus anybody, at least in theory, can practice the craft of illegitimate theater. The "performances" that come from this practice can be simple or elaborate, impromptu or painstakingly rehearsed. The point is to cause ripples in the everyday stream of life.
Illegitimate theater, like is predecessors "legitimate" or otherwise, can be used to provoke emotional reactions, discussion or reflection. Practiced successfully and in a great number of venues, illegitimate theater could help foster positive social change and increased democratization of culture.
Illegitimate theater represents a intriguing set of possibilities for interactions between people that can lead to social change. Performance as a deeply human phenomenon can be explored by audience and performers alike in our quest for a better world.
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Theater, viewing and participating in performances, is an ancient yet vital cultural force. Theater — particularly its "illegitimate" forms — can punctuate the ordinary and evoke new and unexpected experiences. Anybody can practice Illegitimate Theater that causes ripples in the everyday stream of life. It can be used to provoke emotional reactions, discussion or reflection. It can even help foster social change and the democratization of culture.
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Movie Review: A Somewhat Gentle Man
by George Hickman on October 6, 2010
in Print Reviews
This film was screened at Fantastic Fest 2010 and ended up on my Top 10 best of the festival list—more #FF2010 coverage here.
After 12 years in prison, life doesn’t seem so bad for the physically imposing yet seemingly docile Ulrik (Stellan Skarsgard). His longtime friend and former crime boss Rune (Bjørn Floberg) has set him up with a place to live and a job as a mechanic. So what if his repulsive landlady is overly hostile when she’s not making sexual advances at him and the owner of the shop where he works talks to the point of exhaustion without ever stopping to listen?
Things are mostly looking up. A visit to his ex-wife isn’t entirely unpleasant, even if she forbids him to see their now adult son. And when Ulrik visits his son anyway that’s also not completely disastrous, even though he lies to his pregnant fiancee about his father’s identity. Ulrik is a man who takes the meager offerings life hands him in stride. He’s always polite and grateful, so it makes sense that middle-aged women starved for attention have a habit of throwing themselves at him.
But when Rune demands Ulrik kill the man whose testimony led to the murder conviction, he is conflicted. Revenge is a game young people play, and he’s just not that person any more. His life is good, if not quite happy. But he’s happy with good; it’s good enough. Will he stand up to one of his oldest friends at the possible risk of his own safety, or will he allow himself to be pressured into murder?
While this may all sound like an odd description for what is primarily a comedy, “A Somewhat Gentle Man” is, in fact, a very funny movie. It mines big laughs from uncomfortable social interactions, awkward sexual encounters, and eccentric but realistic personalities. It recognizes the humor inherent in situations where people are at their most vulnerable, and it feels like the Norwegian cousin to the Alexander Payne/Jim Taylor collaborations such as “About Schmidt” and “Citizen Ruth.”
It’s also extremely well paced, which can be a struggle for this type of comedy. Because the character of Ulrik is often sedentary, it gains the most dramatic traction from people attempting to exert their will upon him or from the carefully handled revelation of his past. Thankfully, this information is conveyed in ways that feel very natural to the characters and situations and less like a screenwriter trying to shoehorn in every last bit of backstory. In fact, the requisite exposition in “A Somewhat Gentle Man” is handled so deftly its screenplay (by Kim Fupz Aakeson) could be studied for its subtlety.
With the sheer volume of his supporting roles in English language films such as the “Pirates of the Caribbean” trilogy, it’s extremely easy to take the excellent work Stellan Skarsgard does for granted. He’s the type of actor who disappears into roles, and his performance here is no exception. He’s not acting, he simply is Ulrik. The rest of the cast also all turn in excellent performances that play off of Skarsgard and each other perfectly.
The direction by Hans Petter Moland is also commendable for keeping everything suitably restrained and never succumbing to the temptation to allow punchlines to overwhelm the story. This is actually the third collaboration between director and star, with the Swedish Skarsgard and Norwegian Moland previously collaborating on “Zero Kelvin” in 1995 and “Aberdeen” in 2000. If this pattern continues, look for their next collaboration in 2030.
The best compliment that I can give “A Somewhat Gentle Man” is that it’s the type of movie that draws you in, that sticks with you, and that makes you want to explore the oeuvre of the people behind it. You can’t help but have affection for the characters, regardless of their past. So far this is the best comedy of 2010, in any language.
George Hickman
George Hickman is the first child conceived and raised by a sentient television and an anthropomorphic video store. He is a true Texan, in the sense that it is true that he lives in Texas. He spends his days making the Internet work and his nights surviving on the sustenance that only flickering lights and moving pictures can bring. There were no survivors.
Tagged as: a somewhat gentle man, fantastic fest 2010, film, hans petter moland, movie, Movie Review, review, stellan skarsgard
1 jack duhamel December 7, 2010 at 12:45 pm
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Infectious Diseases/
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Group A Streptococcus (GAS) is a bacteria commonly found in the throat and on the skin of healthy people. It can cause strep throat, scarlet fever, skin infections and other non-life threatening conditions. In very rare cases, GAS can become invasive . The most severe and least common forms of invasive GAS are necrotizing fasciitis (NF), also known as the "flesh eating disease", and streptococcal toxic shock syndrome (STSS). For more information, see the health unit's fact sheet on iGAS.
Simcoe Muskoka
The following graph shows the number of invasive GAS cases in Simcoe Muskoka between 2000 and 2017. There have been between 10 and 42 cases of invasive GAS cases every year in Simcoe Muskoka since 2000. In 2017, 42 cases of invasive GAS were reported in Simcoe Muskoka.
The following graph shows the incidence rate of invasive GAS in Simcoe Muskoka and Ontario between 2000 and 2017. The incidence rate in Simcoe Muskoka is comparable to the Ontario rate (6.6 cases per 100,000 population) at 7.4 cases per 100,000 population. The increases in the Simcoe Muskoka rate in 2007, 2011 and 2014 have been investigated with no evidence of clusters or links between cases. The increase observed in 2017 appears to be related to an increase in cases among those experiencing homeless or who are under-housed.
There is some variability in the Simcoe Muskoka rate, which means that there are peaks and valleys and it is difficult to determine whether an increase is significant or whether it is within the expected range for this disease in these population.
More detailed data for Ontario and each health unit can be found on Public Health Ontario’s interactive Snapshots tool, by clicking on “Select Indicator”.
There are many factors that influence how many cases are reported to the health unit, as explained on the Infectious Diseases page.
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Rip Torn, Veteran Actor and ‘Larry Sanders Show’ Star, Dead at 88
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by MrFredPFL » Wed Jul 10, 2019 9:53 am
Story : https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-news/actor-rip-torn-dead-at-88-857264/
Rip Torn – whose seven-decade acting career spanned stage, film, TV and voice roles – has died, a rep for the actor confirmed in a statement to Rolling Stone. Torn died at his home in Lakeville, Connecticut on Tuesday afternoon. He was 88.
Born Elmore Rual Torn Jr. in Temple, Texas on February 6th, 1931, he graduated from University of Texas, where he studied acting before serving in the United States Army.
Torn moved to Hollywood, California, where he scored his first major acting role in 1956 film, Baby Doll. He later moved to New York and attended the famed Actors Studio, which led to a number of stage roles. He appeared on Broadway 10 times, beginning with his debut in Elia Kazan’s production of Tennessee Williams’ Sweet Bird of Youth in 1959, where he starred alongside Paul Newman and Geraldine Page, whom Torn was later married to until her death in 1987. Torn was nominated for a Tony Award for his role as Tom Junior in the production and won a Theater World Award.
Torn starred in a number of films, including 1965’s The Cincinnati Kid, 1973’s Payday, 1976’s David Bowie-starring sci-fi film The Man Who Fell to Earth and 1983’s Cross Creek, for which he garnered an Oscar nomination. His breakout comedic role came by way of portraying defense attorney Bob Diamond in Albert Brooks’ 1991 film, Defending Your Life. “R.I.P Rip Torn. He was so great in Defending Your Life. I’ll miss you Rip, you were a true original,” Brooks tweeted Tuesday. Torn also starred alongside Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson in the 1984 comedy Songwriter.
RIP Rip :(
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FREQUENTLY ASK QUESTION
1. Explain terms "Accreditation" and "Certification".
Accreditation is the recognition by an authority to the technical and organizational competence of a conformity assessment body to carry out a specific service in accordance to the standards and technical regulations as described in their scope of accreditation.
Certification is the procedure by which a third party gives written assurance that a product, process, system or person conforms to specified requirements.
2. What are the reasons for existence of these standards?
Its in the absence of these standards, we actually realize the importance of these standards. Its because of these standards we find a benchmark in the products we use. These standards ensure that the products manufactured are of good quality and safe to be used. We are usually unaware of the role played by standards in raising levels of quality, safety, reliability, efficiency and interchangeability – as well as in providing such benefits at an economical cost.
ISO (International Organization for Standardization) is the world’s largest authority of standards. Though its main area is the development of technical standards, ISO standards also have important economic and social repercussions. ISO standards make a positive difference, not just to engineers and manufacturers for whom they solve basic problems in production and distribution, but to society as a whole.
ISO standards contribute to making the development, manufacturing and supply of products and services more efficient, safer and cleaner. They make trade between countries easier and fairer. They provide governments with a technical base for health, safety and environmental legislation. They aid in transferring technology to developing countries. ISO standards also serve to safeguard consumers, and users in general, of products and services – as well as to make their lives simpler.
ISO is a network of the national standards institutes of 153 countries, on the basis of one member per country, with a Central Secretariat in Geneva, Switzerland, that coordinates the system.
Unlike United Nation, ISO is a non-governmental organization: its members are not, delegations of national governments. Nevertheless, ISO occupies a special position between the public and private sectors. This is because, on the one hand, many of its member institutes are part of the governmental structure of their countries, or are mandated by their government. On the other hand, other members have their roots uniquely in the private sector, having been set up by national partnerships of industry associations.
Therefore, ISO acts as a bridge between business and the broader needs of society ,where a consensus can be reached on solutions that meet the requirements of both, such as the needs of stakeholder groups like consumers and users.
4.What does ISO stands for?
Word ISO is derived from the Greek word is, that means “equal”. Though it stands for “International Organization for Standardization”, but it would have different abbreviations in different languages (“IOS” in English, “OIN” in French for Organization international de normalization). Therefore, to avoid any confusion, whatever the country, whatever the language, the short form of the organization’s name is always ISO.
5.How did ISO started?
International standardization began in the electrotechnical field: the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) was established in 1906. Pioneering work in other fields was carried out by the International Federation of the National Standardizing Associations (ISA), which was set up in 1926. The emphasis within ISA was laid heavily on mechanical engineering. ISA’s activities came to an end in 1942.
In 1946, delegates from 25 countries met in London and decided to create a new international organization, of which the object would be “to facilitate the international coordination and unification of industrial standards”. The new organization, ISO, officially began operations on 23 February 1947.
6.What does ‘International Standardization’ mean?
A consensus agreement is signed between national delegations representing all the economic stakeholders concerned – suppliers, users, government regulators and other interest groups, such as consumers, when a large majority of products or services in a particular business or industry sector conform to International Standards, a state of industry-wide standardization can be said to exist.
7.How does ISO standardization benefit society as a whole?
The widespread adoption of International Standards means that suppliers can base the development of their products and services on specifications that have wide acceptance in their sectors. This, in turn, means that businesses using International Standards are increasingly free to compete on many more markets around the world.
the worldwide compatibility of technology which is achieved when products and services are based on International Standards brings them an increasingly wide choice of offers, and they also benefit from the effects of competition among suppliers.
For Governments
International Standards provide the technological and scientific bases underpinning health, safety and environmental legislation.
For trade officials
Negotiating the emergence of regional and global markets, International Standards create “a level playing field” for all competitors on those markets. The existence of divergent national or regional standards can create technical barriers to trade, even when there is political agreement to do away with restrictive import quotas and the like. International Standards are the technical means by which political trade agreements can be put into practice.
For developing countries
International Standards that represent an international consensus on the state of the art constitute an important source of technological know-how. By defining the characteristics that products and services will be expected to meet on export markets, International Standards give developing countries a basis for making the right decisions when investing their scarce resources and thus avoid squandering them.
For Planet Earth
International Standards on air, water and soil quality, and on emissions of gases and radiation, can contribute to efforts to preserve the environment.
8.What are the Hallmarks of the ISO Brand?
Equal footing: Every participating ISO member institute (full members) has right to participate in the development of any standard which it judges to be important to its country’s economy. No matter what the size or strength of that economy, each participating member in ISO has one vote. ISO’s activities are thus carried out in a democratic framework where each country is on an equal footing to influence the direction of ISO’s work at the strategic level, as well as the technical content of its individual standards.
Voluntary: ISO standards are voluntary. As a non-governmental organization, ISO has no legal authority to enforce their implementation. A certain percentage of ISO standards – mainly those concerned with health, safety or the environment – has been adopted in some countries as part of their regulatory framework, or is referred to in legislation for which it serves as the technical basis. Such adoptions are sovereign decisions by the regulatory authorities or governments of the countries concerned; ISO itself does not regulate or legislate. However, although ISO standards are voluntary, they may become a market requirement, as has happened in the case of ISO 9000 quality management systems, or of dimensions of freight containers and bank cards.
Market-driven: ISO develops only those standards for which there is a market requirement. The work is carried out by experts from the industrial, technical and business sectors which have asked for the standards, and which subsequently put them to use. These experts may be joined by others with relevant knowledge, such as representatives of government agencies, consumer organizations, academia and testing laboratories.
Consensus: Although ISO standards are voluntary, the fact that they are developed in response to market demand, and are based on consensus among the interested parties, ensures widespread applicability of the standards. Consensus, like technology, evolves and ISO takes account both of evolving technology and of evolving interests by requiring a review of its standards at least every five years to decide whether they should be maintained, updated or withdrawn. In this way, ISO standards retain their position as the state of the art, as agreed by an international cross-section of experts in the field.
Worldwide: ISO standards are technical agreements which provide the framework for compatible technology worldwide. Developing technical consensus on this international scale is a major operation. In all, there are some 3,000 ISO technical groups (technical committees, subcommittees, working groups etc.) in which some 50 000 experts participate annually to develop ISO standards.
9. ISO and world trade
ISO alongwith with IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) and ITU (International Telecommunication Union) – has built a strategic partnership with the WTO (World Trade Organization) with the objective to promote a free and fair global trading system. ISO, IEC and ITU, as the three principal organizations in international standardization, have the complimentary scopes, the framework, the expertise and the experience to provide this technical support for the growth of the global market.
10. ISO and developing countries
ISO standards are source of knowledge and technology. These countries have limited resources, hence they gain from this wealth of knowledge. For them, ISO standards are an important means both of acquiring technological know-how that is backed by international consensus as the state of the art, and of raising their capability to export and compete on global markets.
11. How to we recognize an ISO standard ?
It can be anything from a four-page document to one several hundred pages’ long and, in the future, will increasingly be available in electronic form. It carries the ISO logo and the designation, “International Standard”. In most cases, it is published in A4 format – which is itself one of the ISO standard paper sizes.
12. Put some light on the vast World of ISO Standards.
Since 1947, ISO has published more than 15 000 International Standards. ISO’s work programme ranges from standards for traditional activities, such as agriculture and construction, through mechanical engineering, to medical devices, to the newest information technology developments, such as the digital coding of audio-visual signals for multimedia applications.
Standardization of screw threads helps to keep chairs, children’s bicycles and aircraft together and solves the repair and maintenance problems caused by a lack of standardization that were once a major headache for manufacturers and product users. Standards establishing an international consensus on terminology make technology transfer easier and can represent an important stage in the advancement of new technologies.Without the standardized dimensions of freight containers, international trade would be slower and more expensive. Without the standardization of telephone and banking cards, life would be more complicated. A lack of standardization may even affect the quality of life itself: for the disabled, for example, when they are barred access to consumer products, public transport and buildings because the dimensions of wheel-chairs and entrances are not standardized.
Standardized symbols provide danger warnings and information across linguistic frontiers. Consensus on grades of various materials give a common reference for suppliers and clients in business dealings.
Agreement on a sufficient number of variations of a product to meet most current applications allow economies of scale with cost benefits for both producers and consumers. An example is the standardization of paper sizes.
Standardization of performance or safety requirements of diverse equipment makes sure that users’ needs are met while allowing individual manufacturers the freedom to design their own solution on how to meet those needs.
13. Why are ISO 9000 and 14000 important?
The ISO 9000 and ISO 14000 are one of the ISO’s most widely known standards ever. ISO 9000 has become an international reference for quality requirements in business to business dealings, and ISO 14000 looks set to achieve at least as much, if not more, in helping organizations to meet their environmental challenges.
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Authorities may have killed cougar that killed female hiker
September 14, 2018 — 9:55pm
ZIGZAG, Oregon — Authorities say they are investigating whether an adult female cougar they killed at the site of a fatal attack on a human is the same animal that killed the 55-year-old hiker.
U.S. Department of Agriculture officers killed a cougar Friday that appeared at the site of the deadly attack near Mt. Hood, the state's highest peak, by a cougar on Diana Bober, an avid and experienced hiker.
Bober's body was found Monday, almost two weeks after she was last heard from. She was the first person known to have been killed by a cougar in the wild in Oregon and the second in the Pacific Northwest this year.
The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife says in a news release that the cougar's body will be taken to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Forensics Laboratory in Ashland. The laboratory will analyze the evidence to determine if the cougar is the same one that killed Bober.
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Iraqi lawmakers elect Sunni Arab as parliament speaker
By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press
September 15, 2018 — 12:35pm
BAGHDAD — Amid escalating political wrangling, Iraqi lawmakers elected an Iran-backed Sunni Arab as speaker of parliament on Saturday, the first step in forming a new government four months after national elections.
The 37-year old speaker was supported by the pro-Iran bloc inside parliament, the Building coalition, which is mainly made up of Iran-backed Shiite militiamen — underscoring the growing Iranian influence in the process of forming the country's new government.
During a secret ballot, 169 lawmakers voted for Mohammed al-Halbousi, the former governor of Anbar, and 89 others voted for the former defense minister, Khalid al-Obeidi, lawmaker Ahmed al-Asadi said.
"This is a victory for the Building coalition," prominent Sunni politician Mahmoud al-Mashhadani told The Associated Press after the session. "No one can ignore the Iranian influence in Iraq, it's stronger than the U.S.'s (influence)," al-Mashhadani added.
Early this month, the newly-elected parliament held its first session, but two Shiite-led blocs came into conflict, each claiming to be the largest bloc that should be tasked to form the new government. Namely, they are the Building coalition and the pro-U.S. Reform and Building coalition led by outgoing Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and populist Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's bloc.
Also Saturday, legislators elected Hassan Karim as the first deputy parliament speaker, according to legislator Dhafer al-Aani. Karim is a member of al-Sadr's bloc.
The parliament has yet to vote for the second deputy parliament speaker, a Kurd. Three members of parliament are running for the seat.
Iran was the among the first countries to congratulate al-Halbousi. Foreign Ministry spokesman, Bahram Qasemi said in a statement that Tehran "has always supported the democracy, territorial integrity and national sovereignty of Iraq and supports decisions made by the people's representatives."
Qasemi said in the remarks carried by state news agency IRNA that he hoped al-Halbousi's election will be followed by electing a president and prime minister, paving the way to establish a new government in Iraq.
Alarmed by the political wrangling and the bloody protests in the southern city of Basra against poor public services and unemployment, the country's Shiite spiritual leader, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, called for the appointment of a new face to lead the government. On Friday, al-Abadi said he'll not "cling to power."
Two Shiite politicians from the Reform and Building coalition who attended meetings between political parties to form the government, said Iran played a major role in undermining al-Abadi's efforts to secure a second term. Iran tried to bribe and threaten lawmakers, they said.
Ahead of the parliament first session in Sept. 3, the U.S. brokered a deal to have Kurds join the Reform and Building coalition so that it becomes the larger bloc, the politicians said. Hours ahead of the session, a politician went to residence of the Kurdish diplomatic mission in the Green Zone to collect signatures from Kurdish lawmakers.
"I was surprised when I saw the Iranian ambassador sitting at the restaurant of the Kurdish residence to discourage the Kurdish (lawmakers)," from joining the coalition, one of the politician said. "He left fifteen minutes before the session started."
Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to brief media.
Tehran had previously dispatched its top regional military commander, Gen. Qassem Soleimani, to Iraq to ensure the pro-U.S. coalition does not threaten its interests in the region.
Baghdad-based political analyst Essam al-Faily said that contributing to Iran's successful sway in Iraq is that it "controls militias that have with influence on the ground. It has influenced even Sunni leaders."
Under an unofficial agreement dating back to 2003, the position of prime minister is reserved for Shiites, the president a Kurd and the parliament speaker a Sunni.
Parliament now has 15 days to elect the president who will task the nominee of the largest bloc to form the government. Political wrangling among the Shiite-led blocs and other factions will likely indefinitely delay the process of naming a prime minister.
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Blue/red Cobridge vase
Blue/red Cobridge vase (mark)
Blue/red Cobridge vase - 7" (177 mm) high. 1998.
Early experimental piece in the Ruskin style.
Cobridge Stoneware
Cobridge Stoneware was a short-lived pottery company born out of the fascination of the head of one of the leading potteries for a process that died with its inventor early in the twentieth century.
Hugh Edwards, owner of Moorcroft, was keen to develop the ideas of William Howson Taylor - the man behind the closely guarded secrets of Ruskin Pottery. A new company and name was needed for the new range - Moorcroft is known and recognized universally by its distinctive appearance. Cobridge, an area of The Potteries, was featured in the Industrial Landscapes that were planned to furnish some of the designs for the new range. Its skyline was dominated in earlier years by bottle kilns, now mainly demolished, and Cobridge was chosen as the new name.
The Cobridge Pottery was set up in a new imposing building a couple of hundred yards from the Moorcroft pottery and the official opening was in September 1998. The building was designed with future needs in mind. Only the outer walls are load-bearing, and the inner walls are built from blocks which can, if the need arises, be knocked down and re-built in another place.
Top designers and the most expert paintresses were enlisted for the decorated stoneware, and the products met with much acclaim, but sadly the company closed in August 2005.
Moorcroft by Paul Atterbury and Beatrice Moorcroft
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‘The people of the north and east have spoken, now the govt. must listen’
Development and money alone won’t do, people need democracy, good governance and dignity and the TNA is willing to hold talks with govt. to achieve this, R.Sampanthan tells Chandani Kirinde
Tamil National Alliance (TNA) Parliamentary Group Leader Rajavarothiam Sampanthan spoke to the Sunday Times after his Party secured a landslide victory in the local government elections in the North, despite widespread use of state power by the ruling party that pulled out all stops to secure a win there.
Mr. Sampanthan said the Government should recognize and respect the verdict of the people of the North adding that his Party was willing to extend maximum cooperation to achieve a workable and durable solution to the conflict.
What is your take on the results of the local government elections in the North where the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) won convincingly?
In every one of the majority Tamil Pradeshiya Sabha areas in the north and the east, other than the three in the island area in the North, the TNA has been returned to power convincingly. The islands in the northern area have been under the control of a para military group for the past 15 years. It was not possible for other parties to carryout a proper polls campaign in these areas.
Those results in my view do not reflect the verdict of the people. A victory of this magnitude has been achieved by the TNA despite very severe odds. A large number of people are still not resettled and were unable to exercise their franchise. The names of a large number of people had been omitted from the electoral registers and they had no vote while many others who did not have their NICs were unable to exercise their franchise. There was no level playing field in these elections. The electoral turf was under the control of the government that deployed its entire machinery both security and civilian to further its elections fortunes.
From the President downwards, many important politicians and ministers campaigned for the government. The Northern Province Governor was also part of the campaign. Leading military officials made political statements and the lower rung of the military engaged in various election malpractices. The voters were threatened, intimidated and subject to duress and undue influence. They tried to bribe them. Water pumps, washing machines, bicycles, sprayers, vertis, saris and even money were lavishly distributed. Foundation stones were laid for several projects . Despite all these actions the people quietly cast their votes. The government’s main campaign was development. The TNA’s campaign was based on effective resettlement and rehabilitation, housing, livelihood opportunities, suspension of several detrimental actions pertaining to land in these areas as well as a political solution which would address the needs of the people of the north and east. The people clearly demonstrated that their democratic sovereign right could not be hijacked on the pretext of development and that there was a more fundamental concern that needed to be addressed. Our earnest wish is that the government would recognize and respect the verdict of the people.
Where did the government misread the needs of the people of the north?
The government’s sole agenda of development activities cannot serve the needs of the people of the north, east or the south and west. Fundamental issues such as democracy, good and acceptable governance, human rights and fundamental rights, the independence of institutions which can ensure the preservation of these values and people being able to live with self respect and dignity are fundamental. By spending money, you cannot achieve these values. The government has already learnt this lesson in so far as the Tamil people of the north and east are concerned.
You have had several rounds of talks with the government. Will the election results have a bearing on future talks?
I would only hope and request the government to take cognizance of the verdict of the electorate. They must not fail in their duty. The democratic will of the people and the message that they have conveyed must not be disregarded.
Do you feel the talks are moving in the right direction or are they just a waste of time as usually happens with such negotiations? Is there a genuine interest on both sides to move forward?
There is an imperative need for something acceptable to come about particularly in the context of these talks taking place at the end of a cruel war that inflicted much suffering on the people in this country. We are engaged in talks with the aim of achieving this objective. We do not want to return to violence. We would like the government to also realize that it has a responsibility to bring about an acceptable workable and durable solution to the conflict. We are prepared to extend to the government our maximum cooperation to achieve this. Unless the government is prepared to discharge its responsibility this will not happen.
The President has said he wants to appoint a Parliamentary Select Committee to draw up proposals for a possible solution to the problem?
There have been talks for so many years on almost every one of the issues that needed to be discussed There have been previous select committees, some known to the public others not. There have been reports submitted by experts committees. The majority multi ethnic report came out when the APRC (All Party Representatives Committee) sat. .All this is available to the government to work out proposals for a political solution. Frankly I do not think a Parliamentary Select Committee, in this context is necessary. But we would like to know what exactly the government’s position is, its terms of reference and other modalities before we publicly announce a decision with regard to this matter. We don’t want to be seen as obstructing the government but we also want to be sure that steps taken by the government will have the capacity to bring about the desired result.
Do you see a role for India in this process?
India is the only country that has played a role for a long period of time after the anti Tamil violence in 1983.India’s good offices were accepted by the Sri Lankan state. India has always been helpful to Sri Lanka in a direct sense to preserve its unity and territorial integrity. There may have been some aberrations in the past but India can play a useful role and I think it is playing a useful role. The Sri Lankan government and the political leadership has discussed the issue with the Indian Government and its political leadership much more than with any other country. This happened because everyone accepts that India as our immediate neighbour can play a useful role.
What about the TNA’s relationship with India .You travel and meet with Indian leaders often don’t you?
We have all along worked with India just like we have worked with the Sri Lankan Government. We have also been in touch with India to achieve a good result for both the country and its people.
There is a lot of controversy regarding the Channel 4 video. How do you feel the government should handle it especially in the light of the UN’s claim that there are credible allegations of war crimes being committed?
When there are serious allegations made by responsible sources they need to be addressed. We may be wrong to think that things can be swept under the carpet by merely denying the allegations. Such a course of action would not be in the interest of this country and the people living in it. The country and people need to come out of this situation.
This can be genuinely done only on the basis of the truth being ascertained and solutions being worked out to take the country beyond this.
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poor people and crime - June 20th 2013, 01:44 AM
Today I went to an office to do some boring adult stuff with my dad
Anyway...it's an office that people go to for public assistance, such as food stamp, medicaid, welfare etc
So I'm sitting there and this lady starts talking in arabic to the person next to her about the people there. From what I understand (I understand arabic so I couldn't resist listening to their conversation ) she is saying that the people here "are scary".
Fast forward to when we left that place. I was telling my dad what I overheard. He said crime is linked to poverty. So he's saying that poor people are more likely to do crime, not because they're bad people but because they don't have opportunity and if they were given jobs and better education, they'd have enough money to sustain themselves and their families and won't join gangs or sell drugs.
While I see what he's saying, I personally feel like he's not thinking for himself, or if he is, he's not thinking deep enough. I thought the same thing until I started doing my own research/thinking/reflecting etc and really the internet changed my understanding of society.
So I disagree because well, the idea of more or less crime, and what is a crime in the first place? Whether you believe there's such thing as the illuminati or not, I think it's pretty clear that the government has a lot of money and power and authority and they often abuse that...isn't that a crime? Next would be corporations....these are crimes that are committed on a wider scale, shouldn't it be considered a crime too?
Drug abuse...using sociological imagination I can say that we have to look into the claims that say poor people do more drugs than rich people. For example, how is this measured? Maybe the rich people just don't get caught. Same thing with prisons. If we looked at a prison and say that African American men are more likely to do crimes...it's not necessarily true. Just because more are in prison, doesn't mean they do more crimes. You see what I'm getting at?
So can we really say poor people do more crimes? First it depends what crime, then it depends how we measure who does what crime and we have to define what it means to be poor. My point is that it goes a lot deeper than a simple statement as poor people do crime. I commend my dad for not blaming the poor people. I mean, he did say that the government doesn't take care of them and help them out. But at the same time, why say they're the ones doing the crimes in the first place? Maybe they're more likely to do certain crimes than others. Like stealing from a grocery whereas a rich person might do a bank fraud. I don't know, hypothetically speaking....
So is it possible we can discuss it further? What do you think about that? Is he his statement ignorant? How much truth is in what he said? How much truth is in what I said? I'm ok with you challenging my ideas too...It's just really hard having a debate in my head
Re: poor people and crime - June 21st 2013, 01:13 PM
I think you are missing the biggie here. Crime is not only linked to poverty, but violence as well. Violence is not “fighting the man” it’s hurting innocent people. There are large amount of violent incidents such as gang violence, rape, domestic violence and murder in poverty stricken areas of the country than anywhere else. I think that is what she meant by “scary” and I think that is what your dad is trying to refer to. Statically those who live in wealthier neighborhoods are more likely to commit ‘white collar’ crimes (money laundering, embezzlement, etc). Hence the name white collar.
Gangs are formed in poor areas by people who feel like they have nothing to lose and no one to look out for them. They come from poor neighborhoods where they feel like that cannot be successful in a career, because no one around them is successful. You rarely see gangs in a wealthy neighborhood because those children have goals. With gangs come drugs, with drugs comes addiction and a lack of respect for others and their property. It just spirals out of control.
So it’s not say that poor people commit more crimes, they just live in an area that attracts more violent criminals. It’s a shame really, but I think your dad’s statement is legitimate.
A little off topic, I think the real problem is that we keep creating ghettos (public housing) and we need to stop. Those are almost always a complete failure and create new poor neighborhoods. The projects, just like any other poor neighborhood, attract criminals and then they are back to square one. We need to stop grouping the poor all together.
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I agree with Lizzie's statement to a certain extent. I think that statistically speaking crimes are more likely to take place in poorer communities than in wealthier ones. However, that doesn't mean it doesn't take place in wealthy communities as well. Domestic abuse, rape, murder and such happen all across the board. Sometimes I wonder if the statistics are so high is because some of the crimes go unreported in the wealthy areas such as domestic abuse and rape but that is just a thought. I do know that living in poverty does expose people to a lot of different things and can be really tough and sometimes people do things they wouldn't normally do. It's all about survival, really.
I don't think it is proper to make the assumption that the reason we don't see gangs in wealthy neighborhoods is because the kids have goals and respect for others. I honestly don't think this is true. I grew up in a rather wealthy area and there were a number of kids who didn't have goals or respect and today they are into drugs and committing crimes that they are just not getting caught for. I think the reason people join gangs is because it is all they know from what I know about gangs most people grow up with family members and so they join because of that. But, that doesn't mean they lack respect or goals all it means is they have different goals that you or I. I don't agree with this decision though.
I do think that poverty does make it harder for people to come up and be 'successful' because of all the hardships they face. I have family members who have struggled with poverty and dealt with things like this and some of them got involved in things they should not have and others chose a better route.
Lastly, I agree that public housing group the poor together and creates 'ghettos' but without them there are a number of people who wouldn't be able to afford housing for their family. It doesn't seem like a good idea to just stop creating them when there are so many people who rely on them.
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Crime in general is more prevalent in deprived areas than in wealthier areas, but I don't think it's really correct to generalise.
I spend a large part of my childhood in an inner-city area. We owned our house, but there were a lot of public housing projects around us (I agree with Lizzie about those by the way). People were involved in gangs, violence was common amongst younger people, and that much I will acknowledge. However, I found that the people I grew up alongside when I lived on the estate to be much more honest and respectful than the people I've come across since we moved to the suburbs (I'll get to that in a while). It has been mentioned that white-collar crime is more likely to occur in wealthier areas, and that much is true. I can guarantee you that a working class family will never rip you off. But I think that anyone who says that people from underprivileged areas aren't as respectful as those from wealthier families are making a swooping generalisation.
I was brought up well by my parents, though we didn't have as much money as others (we weren't poor, but we weren't wealthy either). I was brought up to respect others, to be the one who holds the door open or gives up their seat for an elderly person on the bus. Like I mentioned above, we now live in suburbia. It's not a wealthy area by any means, it's a rather mixed area both economically and ethnically, but the majority of the population lead comfortable, middle-class lifestyles. I'm not going to hold back here, some of the young people in this area are a disgrace. They come from decent backgrounds and were raised to be respectable, young men and women, yet they're out in the streets causing havoc. They have no respect whatsoever for the general population, and they only seem to live for getting into trouble.
Stereotypes exist for a reason. Like I've said, there is trouble in deprived areas, more so than wealthy areas. I can say that from first-hand experience. I would just ask people not to constantly put down people from underclass backgrounds, as I would happily move back to my first neighbourhood, and that's because of the people. Friendly, respectful and accepting for the most part. We could do with more of that in my current area.
I said that gangs create drug problems and are the source of lack of respect to others and their property, not the poor!
I wasn't calling you out or saying you were wrong, I was just saying what I, myself, thought. I just think that people from underclass backgrounds can be generalised, but it had nothing to do with what anyone else said. You made a good point as well. I mean, I agree with Jenna that it's true that a lot of gangs contain members of the same family, but it's common for people outside the family feuds to get involved too, especially if they see no other way out of their situation other than getting involved in drug gangs.
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Well... obviously there are different types of crime. There may be an individual who already has more than enough money to live comfortably for 10 lifetimes, but will still defraud his bank for $50 billion... leading towards a potential bankruptcy of the bank, and a domino effect on the world markets... causing people to have their houses repossessed, pensions cut, government jobs cut, spending fall, poverty rise, small crimes to rise, extremism to rise, extremist political parties to rise... leading to things such as a world war even. That's more less what happened before the second world war in Germany. The Wall Street Crash provoked an already unstable situation in Germany.
Those sorts of crimes... aren't very frequent. Obviously... you can't accuse someone who has stolen $50 billion for anything else than that. I was just illustrating a chain of events. Stealing $50 billion can have a huge impact.
Stealing only $50... is unlikely to have a huge impact. Small crimes happen more often, and often as a result financial pressures. I said above that a major financial crash can lead to rise in poverty and crime.
But let's not forget that the same evil shits who have the power to, and are capable of stealing $50 billion, also exist amongst the more "ordinary" population.
I think ideally... it's more the type of person that should be challenged, less the crime itself. Of course, that's mostly impractical, although is to a significant extent represented in the law of most developed countries. If someone's stealing $50 to buy food... I can sympathise. If someone's stealing $50 to buy something pointless like new shoes, I sympathise a lot less.
The same people who steal $50 billion.... do it to buy themselves new cruise liners, jets, and even private armies. The scale is vastly different. The principle is the same.
"I don't care about politics"
Then politics doesn't care about you either. Truth. You've got to make your voice heard, if you want to be listened to. But that's too logical for some people, so let me go a step further. Not making your voice heard, leaves other people free to hijack it by speaking on your behalf, even if they don't actually give a shit about you. That's politics. So, make your voice heard. That's not a quote from anywhere. That's just me.
Re: poor people and crime - June 23rd 2013, 05:49 PM
I mostly agree with what you guys are saying. I've know there's more violence in poverty stricken areas. I guess it was an emotional response, when she said "scary" because these people were waiting in their seats, and weren't in any way showing aggression. I feel like there was no indication they were intimidating and by saying "scary" it reinforces generalizations and stereotypes. Having fear creates hate. Isn't she there for the same reason? So why is she making herself so different from another mother and child who seems to be from a poverty stricken neighborhood.
As long as people go around saying everyone in a particular neighborhood is "scary" instead of understanding, they're allowing harmful things to continue.
I agree there's more violence, I just felt like crime isn't exclusive to poverty.
I grew up in a mixed income neighborhood, and so I didn't have it as bad as other parts of NYC. From an outsider I can see how someone will find it scary. I can see how people avoid going to those neighborhoods unless they absolutely have to. But what about the people living inside that neighborhood? Not everyone is a gang member, What about the children there, they suffer more than the children outside of the neighborhood. So being mistreated from outside residents must feel awful evenmore so.
I also agree with not grouping the poor together. That was a good point.
Re: poor people and crime - June 24th 2013, 01:43 AM
Well, here's the problem. People say something like "there is a correlation between crime and poverty" and people misunderstand that to mean that being poor or marginalized by society equates to being a criminal, thus a lot of people have a hard time with that because either A) they feel like people assume their criminals because of their "lot in life" or B) they know disadvantaged people and know they're definitely not criminals.
But you have to think about what society deems appropriate or criminal. For example, prostitution isn't legal, so if you are a young woman who's been kicked out of her home or have a turbulant home life, what ever, and she turns to prostitution to make ends meet, well, then she's breaking the law. But people don't just become prostitutes because they felt like it or because they thought it was a fabulous career choice, typically it's because they're marginalized by factors such as economic status. But the problem is that prostitution being illegal thus criminalizes a woman, who is usually a victim, instead of the creepy john who's further victimizing a marginalized woman (although I think it's illegal for him too, I'm not hugely well versed to know the depth of the law, I just know the shell of it).
Or maybe someone starts selling drugs to make money. The list runs on. But when people talk about this it isn't to accuse a person of being a bad person for being poor or to make assumptions about them. It's not like that at all. It's simply that there are a lot of factors that go into it that make it harder to a disadvantaged person. There's a lot with kids who become homeless, and how they might turn to drugs or what ever. Or even like how people get asumptions made about them based on racially disadvantaged kids. I can probably direct you to a lot of sociological research on the topic if you are interested, it would probably help you understand it. And the articles I am thinking about are quite easy to read. So PM me and I'll find links ok
Re: poor people and crime - June 27th 2013, 10:58 PM
thank you guys for replying, you all have great points.
Wallflower, I'm gonna PM you for the links, and thank you
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Coming from a poor area, I judge it on how safe I feel walking around the area. I don't feel safe here, but I feel perfectly fine in, say, the west end of Glasgow or in most places in Edinburgh.
Poverty means that people turn to criminal behaviour because they have no hopes or aspirations. It's cyclical, because people are born into it. The school I attended was ranked as the second lowest in the country, and the other school in this town is the second lowest ranked in this county. So, in your teenage years, you're not getting a good experience or education.
Sure, people do break free of it, move away, or manage to find success in a poor area. But that's not the point. Someone in the west end of Glasgow is born into a comfortable area, so they're taught to flourish since childhood. It's the nature of the area. In poor areas, you're surrounded by violence, drugs, high teen pregnancy - it's a sort of a shell community. You're either stuck within it and what comes with it, or you break free and try to not look down or back.
Crime and violence is linked to poverty which is why a firm education is paramount. It's not that they have lack of opportunities, so much as lack of education. Educated people tend to be more civil -- but there are exceptions.
However, what you're bringing up is more of a question on ethics. Not crime.
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Re: poor people and crime - July 1st 2013, 03:05 AM
I agree with most of the points here on the link between poverty and crime. However, I also think that much non-violent "crime" perpetrated by the poor simply results from their living situation and discriminatory police practices. For example, a man without a home cannot avoid "loitering," and is more likely to be "publicly intoxicated" than one who imbibes in his home or a bar. Shoplifting for necessities, welfare and medical insurance fraud, etc. are other crimes for which culpability is questionable. Then, of course, comes the whole world of drug crime, which ranges from innocuous to barbarous.
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There is a correlation between crime and poverty. I know this because of the foster system issues. Often times people who claim they are going to adopt and child and take good care of them really take them in just to screw around with them and get their monthly payment. I know a case of a boy who was taken in by a woman in a downtown part of Washington DC and he displayed a pluthera of new problems upon moving in with her (bed wetting, panic attacks, never talking) and the social worker begged them to check the house. They didn't. A week later that child was murdered by the mother.
As a rule, adoption agencies, foster homes, and orphanages like to give up children to middle class families. White collar crime can be an issue there but crime in general is more prevalent around an impoverished community.
The wealthy are able to get away with crime though. Absolutely. And it's hard because something like rape can happen and never get reported. So we don't know if that happens more often in wealthy or impoverished neighborhoods honestly.
And I hate to say it but there is a correlation between race and crime. African American males are six times more likely to commit a crime than are white males. That is a fact.
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Top court reviews free speech case of man’s anti-police rap
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s highest court is reviewing the conviction of a Pittsburgh man for making threats against police in a rap song after he was charged with drug offenses.
The Supreme Court on Monday said it would take up an appeal by Jamal Knox, who argues his song, which was briefly posted online, is protected by the right to free speech. Knox wants the court to set aside his convictions for witness intimidation and making terroristic threats.
“Just because a police officer arrests you, doesn’t mean you are stripped of any free speech ability to say, àWait a minute, that officer did me wrong, and here’s why I think so,'” Knox’s lawyer Patrick K. Nightingale said Tuesday.
The Allegheny County district attorney’s office, which declined comment for this story, told Superior Court last year the song “was not mere political hyperbole but, rather, the sort of àtrue threat’ that is not protected by the First Amendment.”
The case began with an April 2012 traffic stop in the city’s East Liberty section, when Knox, now 22, drove away after telling an officer he did not have a valid driver’s license. Following a chase in which he hit a parked car and a fence, police found 15 bags of heroin and $1,500 on Knox and a stolen, loaded gun in the vehicle.
Seven months later, an officer came across the video online, performed by Knox under the name “Mayhem Mal” of the “Ghetto Superstar Committee” with co-defendant Rashee Beasley — and accompanied by photos of them both. Knox and Beasley posted another video in which they said they wrote the song.
The title is a vulgar three-word phrase that ends, “the Police.”
A transcript shows the lyrics taunt two officers involved in Knox’s arrest and bring up the name of Richard Poplawski, who’s currently on death row for the shootings deaths of three Pittsburgh police officers in 2009.
The song starts with “If y’all want beef we can beef/I got artillery to shake the … streets,” and uses the two officers’ last names. A verse sung by Beasley says he has a “clip filled to the tippy top wit some cop killas,” and boasts that “like Poplawski I’m strapped naste.”
Knox’s lawyers argued that he did not post it online himself nor did he intend for it to be published. The video was taken down from YouTube after three days.
The two officers identified in the song were provided with additional security protections.
Knox’s lawyers argued to Superior Court that the question of whether the song is protected free speech or a criminal threat “could hardly be of more substantial importance; it is perhaps the most salient issue of our time.”
They said Knox’s objective in creating the song, which they described as “political hyperbole-laced,” was not to intimidate the police officers. Rather, they said, he was trying to engage in therapy for anger management, to express political speech in protest of social injustice, to spread news to the community and to advance his artistic career.
A judge convicted Knox, in relation to the video, of two counts of witness intimidation and two counts of terroristic threats. His sentence on all counts, including drug charges, was two to six years in prison. He was paroled from state prison last month.
Prosecutors have dismissed the argument that Knox and Beasley were engaged in works along the lines of Maya Angelou and Langston Hughes.
“He does not … cite to any works of Ms. Angelou or Mr. Hughes — or any other artist, for that matter — in which they threatened to murder in his home a named police officer who had a pending a case against them,” the DA’s office told Superior Court.
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TWIN PEAKS (TELEVISION SERIES)
Release Date: April 8, 1990 - June 10, 1999 (Setting is February - March 1989)
Series: Twin Peaks
The Story: The murder of a high school homecoming queen brings eccentric FBI agent Dale Cooper to Twin Peaks, Washington to investigate.
Notes: This bizarre, surreal cult classic lasted two seasons and was followed by a prequel film. This series has been referenced as fictional, paid homage to, and spoofed numerous times in films and on other television series.
SEASON 2 EPISODE 10 “THE MAN BEHIND GLASS”
Release Date: October 13, 1990 (Setting is March 5, 1989)
Non-Horror Crosses: James Bond
The Story: Laura Palmer’s diary is found, and Dr. Jacoby is hypnotized, leading to an arrest. Meanwhile, Agent Cooper is recovering from a gunshot wound.
Notes: Another FBI agent informs Cooper that he was shot with the same gun used by James Bond. In situations of comments like this, I could interpret it two ways. So I must analyze the overall Horror Universe context. This could be interpreted as a pop culture reference, where the agent is speaking of a fictional character from novels and movies. However, James Bond has been demonstrated to exist as a real person in the Horror Universe by other crossovers within this guide. Because of that, and because Bond is a government agent of repute, and being discussed by another nation’s government agent, I feel that I can take the liberty to take this as a reference to another person that exists in the same reality rather than a pop culture reference.
SEASON 2 EPISODE 18 “MASKED BALL”
Release Date: December 15, 1990 (Setting is March 19, 1989)
Horror Crosses: Jimgrim; Zanoni
The Story: Cooper finds himself under investigation by the FBI and DEA for his unorthodox methods.
Notes: The White and Black Lodges are mentioned in the story. The White and Black Lodges originated from the Jimgrim story The Devil’s Guard by Talbot Mundy. Jimgrim is brought in via a Tales of the Shadowmen story and so this cross now brings Twin Peaks into the Horror Universe. Also mentioned is the Dweller on the Threshold, who is from Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s Zanoni. Thus, that 1842 story of love and the occult is also brought into the Horror Universe.
December 2009--FRINGE--"The Firefly"--Click here. Fringe crosses with TWIN PEAKS as we learn that Dr. Walter Bishop is friends with Dr. Lawrence Jacoby.
December 2010--PSYCH--"Dual Spires"--Since I know little about either shows in this crossover, I will turn it over to two of my expert cohorts. Click here to read what both Toby O'Brien and Sean Lee Levin have to say about the Psych/Twin Peaks crossover.
THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UNCANNY (NOVEL BY SIMON R. GREEN)
Release Date: December 28, 2010 (Contemporary Setting, about a month after Just Another Judgement Day)
Series: Nightside
Horror Crosses: Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde; War of the Worlds (novel); Twin Peaks; The Monkey’s Paw; Carnacki Ghost Finder; Ghost Finders; Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos; Rocky Horror Picture Show!
Non-Horror Crosses: Deathstalker; Allan Quatermain; Shadows Fall; Secret Histories; Solomon Kane; Indiana Jones; The Mysterious Wu Fang; the Continental Op; The Coming Race; Captain America; Spider-Man
The Story: John Taylor is hired to escort an elf through the Nightside.
Notes: At a drug den, two users of the Hyde formula are fighting for sport. Previous Nightside stories have established the Hyde formula to now be a street drug, and other stories that take place in the Horror Universe outside the Nightside have also established this. Jacqueline Jekyll appears again. She has appeared or has been mentioned in previous Nightside stories. Another drug is Martian Red Weed (from War of the Worlds). This drug has been seen in other Nightside stories. There is some dialogue in the story that suggests that the Nightside exists in the same reality as Twin Peaks. There is “A Hand of Glory”, similar to The Monkey’s Paw. Another character mentions the Carnacki Institute, which is from Green’s Ghost Finders series, a spin-off of the Carnacki Ghost Finder stories. The Collector has stuffed giant albino penguins (as in Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness). He also has a grandfather clock with a cobweb covered skeleton inside, just as the one in the Rocky Horror Picture Show. This story brings the Rocky Horror Picture Show into the Horror Universe. Likely, the musical demon known by some as Mr. Sweet, from Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode “Once More With Feeling”, must have been behind the scenes of those events. At the drug den, there is a street drug called Blood. This is a drug from the futuristic Deathwalker series also by Green. Another drug is taduku, which was used by Allan Quatermain. The elf’s destination is Shadows Fall. There are several references to Green’s Secret Histories. Green is one of the great crossover writers who likes to remind us that all of his series are in the same shared reality. Salvation Kane is mentioned again, clearly a pseudonym for Solomon Kane. Larry Oblivion states that he wants to be the Nightside’s Indiana Jones. Though this sounds like a pop culture reference, considering all the crossovers in the Nightside series, I’m assuming it to be a reference to a real person. There is a gambling den run by Wu Fang, once a famous villain of the pulps. This story features the family of Dash Oblivion, better known as the pulp hero called the Continental Op. He is said to have fought villains like Wu Fang, Vril Inc. (a reference to the Coming Race), and the Nazi Skull (likely meaning the Red Skull, foe of Captain America). The Collector mentions having regrown his leg much in the same way as Spider-Man’s foe, the Lizard. By now, I shouldn’t have to explain how comic book super-heroes work in the Horror Universe, but if you’re still not clear, go back to the first page and start over.
John Small with Jay Paul Gumm.
This is a graphic I created for fun a few years back to illustrate an article I'd actually written several years earlier regarding Star Trek's Eugenics Wars. I wrote the article before the first in Greg Cox's trilogy of Khan novels saw publication, but was gratified to learn that my meager effort and Cox's work did not necessarily contradict one another. If you are interested, my article is posted at Win Eckert's Wold Newton Universe site:http://www.pjfarmer.com/woldnewton/Spock.htm#EUGENICS.
If you're not interested, it's still posted at Win's Wold Newton site...
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THE BLUE ROSE PROJECT - by Michael S. Lucart
A fan-fiction story by Michael S. Lucart, connecting the universes of TWIN PEAKS and THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT. A hidden FBI file is discovered detailing a special agent's investigation into the…
GLITTERROCK.ORG|BY MICHAEL S. LUCART
Toby O'Brien
Scooby Doo! Mystery Incorporated - Twin Peaks references
September 10, 2013 · Stuart, FL
apperantally the town of Twin Peaks has A Mystic Pizza and Central Perk franchise
The Museum Of Old Pop Culture References
Are you too young to get Conan's jokes? Don't worry, there's a place where you can get caught up!
TEAMCOCO.COM
Ivan Ronald Schablotski
Spin-off, reboot, relaunch, whatever. The new series will be in continuity with the old series, so this is relevant to the TVCU (and Toobworld).
David Lynch's Filming 'Twin Peaks' Again, In Fitting With the Series' End
Are you ready to get weird again? Because David Lynch is ready to get weird (continuously). In that he seems to be gearing up to film more Twin Peaks. So…
BUSTLE.COM|BY ALANNA BENNETT
Andrew Brook
Jonathan Creek refers to place of notorious murder? Or just a TV show?
First Trailer For The New Series Of Jonathan Creek - And He's Got Another Companion - Bleeding...
Sheridan Smith has already moved on, leaving Sarah Alexander to step up and take the sidekick role for season 5 of Jonathan Creek.
BLEEDINGCOOL.COM
Toby O'Brien via The Toobworld Dynamic
This is definitely a location link to 'Twin Peaks'!
Richard Diamond: Picture of Fear : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive
Richard Diamond's vacation is disrupted when two…
John D Lindsey Jr
Picked up The X-Files: Year Zero #2 today. Mulder gets a cup of coffee at a diner and says: "Although it is damn fine coffee, as a friend of mine in the Pacific Northwest would say." so...Mulder knows Dale Cooper from Twin Peaks...
Labels: James Bond, Jimgrim, Nightside, Twin Peaks, Zanoni
Chris Nigro and James Bojaciuk
This Saturday, December 26, the TVCU Crew will be recording the episodes 3 and 4 of the Television Crossover Universe podcast from Castle Wolfenstein on the Grand Guignol Network.
In Episode 3, Robert, James and Ivan will be talking with special guest Chris Nigro, author of several short stories, as well as moderator for MONSTAAH, Wold Newton Beyond, and other crossover related websites and discussion groups.
In Episode 4, Robert, Ivan and guest co-host Chris Nigro will be talking with James Bojaciuk, CEO of 18thWall Productions, short story author, co-owner of the Television Crossover Universe website, and co-host of the Television Crossover Universe Podocast.
New episodes of the show are released every Tuesday. You can check out the latest episode at the link provided in the upper right hand corner of this page.
And please join us on Facebook to discuss the episodes. Feel free to join us before the show to post any questions you have for our guests, and then feel free to join us after the shows to provide feedback.
Labels: 18thWall Prodicutions, Castle Wolfenstein, Chris Nigro, Crazy Ivan Schablotski, Facebook Forum, iTunes, James Bojaciuk, MONSTAAH, Podcast, Robert E. Wronski Jr., Sherlock Holmes, Wold Newton Beyond
The Mummy Revisited
I have previously covered the Universal Mummy series, which you can find here.
This post will cover the remake of the film.
GLIMMERGLASS: THE CREATIVE WRITER’S ANNUAL, VOLUME 1 “THE BEAST” (STORY BY JOHN SMALL)
Release Date: October 15, 2009 (Setting is 1700s to Contemporary Times)
Series: King Kong (Original)
Horror Crosses: King Kong (2005 remake); War of the Worlds (novel); War of the Worlds (radio); The Mummy (remake film series); Jurassic Park (film series); Kong: the Animated Series; Jurassic Park (novel)
Non-Horror Crosses: Buckaroo Banzai; Tarzan; Flash Gordon; Tales of the Gold Monkey; Journey to the Center of the Earth; Tales of the Shadowmen; Doc Savage; Indiana Jones; Mighty Joe Young; A-Team; Fu Manchu
The Story: Author John Small discovers that the film King Kong was based on true events and gathers research on the true events of the film and the follow-up events that have happened since.
Notes: John Small uses a popular Farmerian method (named for Philip Jose Farmer) in which he places himself in the world of fiction, imagining that fictional stories are based on true events. Here, he melds together the original Kong story, and its sequels, prequels, and remakes, and makes them all fit into one coherent reality. Along the way, he throws in references to other fictional characters who must have been involved in such events based on their stature and the nature of the event. John Small makes official my conjecture that the 2005 film by Peter Jackson is the same events as the original film, just retold with dramatic license from Mr. Jackson. In explaining how the events of Kong could have happened in a world where most people are unaware of the supernatural and the extraordinary, he references other events that have later been covered up, despite their overly public exposure, such as the 1898 and 1938 Martian invasions from War of the Worlds, and the invasion of Mongo from Flash Gordon. DOC SAVAGE and TARZAN employ Denham to return to Skull Island to do documentary filming. Skull Island is said to be "the Menace of the Monsters". Joining in on the expedition were INDIANA JONES, Alex O'Connell (famous for taking down THE MUMMY), and Joshua Williams (from "Joshua Williams Breaks a Date"). (TARZAN couldn't make it due to events seen in TARZAN ALIVE). Roland Tembo is among the expedition as well. Tembo's CINEVERSE counterpart appears in THE LOST WORLD: JURASSIC PARK. SON OF KONG is a fictionalized version of events that actually happened during this expedition. In Kong Reborn, Dr. Jill Drake is involved in this incident. Jill discovers that BUCKAROO BANZAI has moved a clone of KING KONG to BANDUKI. It may be that the events of KONG: THE ANIMATED SERIES may be based on these events, which involve a female scientist who clones Kong then has to release him in a suitable environment. It was followed by KONG: KING OF ATLANTIS and KONG: RETURN TO THE JUNGLE. Among the crew that journeys to Skull Island in the first expedition is Jake Cutter (TALES OF THE GOLD MONKEY). Kong is of the same species as seen in JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH, TARZAN AT THE EARTH'S CORE, and TALES OF THE SHADOWMEN 3: DANSE MACABRE "The Ape Gigans". Mighty Joe Young is also connected to Kong and one of Denham’s grandsons is tied in as a villain on an episode of the A-Team. Fu Manchu is also said to be the villain secretly behind Jurassic Park.
THE MUMMY (FILM)
Release Date: May 7, 1999 (Setting is 1926)
Series: The Mummy (remake)
Non-Horror Crosses: The Jungle Book
The Story: High Priest Imhotep is mummified for touching the Pharoah’s bride, Anck-su-Namun, and she is killed. Thousands of years later, the priest’s place of unrest is a fabled place considered to be cursed, but also a place of great treasure. Librarian and hopeful archeologist Evie Carnahan and her no-good brother Jonathan enlist Rick O’Connell, who has been there, to show them the way, while a competing team also heads there seeking treasure. Of course, they accidentally resurrect Imhotep, who now has amazing magical powers. He plans to rule Earth, and kind of destroy it, and resurrect his love in the body of Evie. Rick gets the assistance of the Maji to put the bad guy down.
Notes: This is more of an action film, but it is a remake of the classic Universal horror film. Both versions are brought into the Horror Universe, but luckily are different enough to not cause continuity issues. In the film they visit Fort Brydon, which is named for Colonel Brydon of the Jungle Book. Stephen Sommers wrote and directed both 1999’s Mummy and 1994’s Jungle Book. In the Mummy’s commentary, Sommers states this was an intentional linking of the films. This film is followed by a few sequels, starting with the Mummy Returns. This film has been referenced as fictional, paid homage to, and spoofed numerous times in other films and on television.
THE MUMMY RETURNS (FILM)
Release Date: April 29, 2001 (Setting is 1933)
Series: Mummy (remake)
Non-Horror Crosses: Scorpion King
The Story: The reincarnation of Anck-su-namun unearths her beloved Imhotep, who returns for revenge and a new plan to defeat a resurrected Scorpion King and steal his power.
Notes: Sequel to the remake Mummy, this film continues in an animated series and a third film, and the Scorpion King gets his own prequel film series after this, which are not even remotely horror but more of the sword and sandals genre. This film has been referenced as fictional and paid homage to numerous times in other films and on television. It has also been spoofed in the 2001 MTV Movie Awards and Kung Pow: Enter the Fist.
THE MUMMY (ANIMATED SERIES)
Release Date: September 29, 2001 to June 7, 2003 (Set in 1930s following the Mummy Returns)
The Story: Imhotep arises again, but this time the O’Connells must chase the fiend around the world.
Notes: The only thing that may contradict the live action movies is that in Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, Rick states that he put down the same mummy twice, but if we count this series, it would be three times. This series follows the Mummy Returns and is followed by The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor.
SEASON 1 EPISODE 6 “THE ORB OF ATAN”
Release Date: November 3, 2001 (Setting is 1935)
Horror Crosses: The Mummy (Universal)
Non-Horror Crosses: Simon of Gitta; Conan the Barbarian
The Story: I’ve only seen one episode of this series, when it was originally airing. I barely remember the episode, and I’m sure this wasn’t the episode I watched. I tried to do an internet search and came up with nothing.
Notes: The Scroll of Thoth appears in this episode. The Scroll first appeared in Universal’s The Mummy, which was remade into the film that this cartoon is a spin-off of. If the Scroll had appeared in the first remake film, I may have not counted it as a cross, and thus wouldn’t have included the remake for inclusion. But because it shows up here, we can use this as a cross with the original, and so both versions are in the Horror Universe. Incidentally, the Scroll was also seen regularly in sword and sandal series Simon of Gitta, and the Scroll is named for Conan’s adversary Thoth-Amon. My choice for including this series in supported also with the appearance of Shangra-La in Tomb of the Dragon Emperor.
THE MUMMY: TOMB OF THE DRAGON EMPEROR (FILM)
Non-Horror Crosses: Lost Horizon
The Story: The family who should know better find another mystical mummy. This time around, Rick and Evelyn are bored, having no adventures any more. Evelyn has successfully published two “fictional” tales about fighting a mummy in Egypt. (One must wonder if these later became films.) Their boy Alex is supposed to be in college but instead is digging up another mummy. The three must work through their family problems while putting down another mummy.
Notes: The third in a series that was loosely a remake of the Universal Mummy series. This series doesn’t mention the animated series, and in fact mentions that Rick put down the same mummy twice, which might seem to negate the animated series. However, I’m choosing to overlook it since the animated series and this film are both meant to be continuations of the first two films and other than the one remark, there is no other contradiction. In this film, the O’Connells visit Shangri-La, from the novel Lost Horizon. This film follows The Mummy: Secrets of the Medjai and is followed by a 2016 film called the Mummy currently in development at this writing. This film has been referenced on Saturday Night Live, the Tonight Show, and more.
GHOSTBUSTERS II (FILM)
Release Date: June 16, 1989 (Setting is five years after Ghostbusters, in December - January 1)
Series: Ghostbusters
Horror Crosses: Mummy (remake)
Non-Horror Crosses: Sherlock Holmes (Modern Film Series)
The Story: After having been shut down due to the mess they made of the city when they destroyed the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, the team has gone in separate directions with new jobs. But when a supernatural slime under the city starts bringing the ghosts back, the team reunites.
Notes: The film would seem to contradict the animated series, in that the series has the team continue to operate over the past five years, while the film implies that the team went under shortly after the fight with Zuul. It’s been suggested that perhaps due to the slow nature of lawsuits, it took five years to shut them down, and they had only been out of business for a few months. The fact that Slimer shows up a few times in the film, hanging out at the firehouse, and helping in the final battle, would indicate that the animated series did happen before this film. The main supernatural villain of this film, Vigo, is based on Dracula. More specifically, he’s inspired by the historical Vlad the Impaler. In the Horror Universe, Vlad the Impaler is the Count Dracula from Bram Stoker’s novel. Vigo might have been another Son of the Dragon, but it’s doubtful that he was a soul clone. Vigo is quoted as saying just before his execution “Death is only the beginning.” This quote was also said by Imhotep in the 2000s remake of the Mummy and by the villain in the 2000s film Sherlock Holmes. I have done a lot of research to find the source of that quote historically, and have found none. It seems to originate from this film. Viggo of course was an occultist who studied how to return from the dead with great power. Imhotep did as well, and so did the villain from Sherlock Holmes (though in the last instance it was a hoax, but that doesn’t mean he wasn’t still quite the scholar in the occult). I can only conclude that in the Horror Universe, this is an ancient quote from some ancient text of the occult, regarding resurrection. That then provides a link between Ghostbusters and the Mummy, both of which are already in the Horror Universe. It also provides a link to the 2009 Sherlock Holmes film. The 2009 film works for Horror Universe canon, but the sequel must be a divergent timeline. A third Ghostbusters film is currently in development at the time of this writing. This film has been referenced as fiction or paid homage to numerous times in other films and on television. It has also been spoofed on The Super Mario Bros. Super Show, The Van, Yu-Gi-Oh, and Saints Row IV.
Labels: Conan, Ghostbusters, Jungle Book, King Kong, Lost Horizon, Scorpion King, Simon Magus, The Mummy
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After 50 Years, Citi Open To Remain In Washington, D.C.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (April 7, 2019) — The Citi Open, an ATP 500 event, has experienced a change in management but will remain in Washington, D.C., it was announced on Wednesday. Washington-based venture capitalist Mark Ein has acquired the tournament management rights from the Washington Tennis & Education Foundation, a non-profit that provides free tennis and educational programs for children in undeserved communities.
Ein has the option to buy the tournament within five years. He shared the news at the tournament's home since it was first contested in July 1969, the Rock Creek Park Tennis Center, along with #NextGenATP American Frances Tiafoe and fellow D.C. native Denis Kudla, No. 84 in the ATP Rankings. D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, Ward 4 City Councilmember Brandon Todd and WTEF President/CEO Rebecca Crouch also attended.
WTEF held a six-month bidding process that attracted worldwide interest, but Ein's experience, his commitment to keep the storied tournament in the U.S. capital and his ongoing support for WTEF helped the entrepreneur stand out.
Ein grew up close to the tournament site, served as a ball kid at the tournament for many years in his youth and has attended the event throughout his life.
“I grew up with this tournament and I know first-hand the profound impact it can have on individuals like myself and on our community more broadly, so I am thrilled that we were able to come to an agreement to keep this very special event here in Washington,” he said. "This is an iconic tournament on the world stage that has been woven into the fabric of our local community across many generations. I am grateful to the board and leadership of WTEF for working with me to keep the event here, and we now need the continued engagement of the [National Park Service], city leadership and our business and tennis communities to make sure this tournament remains in the District for future generations to enjoy.”
Since the first Citi Open in 1969, the tournament has featured some of the Tour’s great champions, including Arthur Ashe, Jimmy Connors, Michael Chang, Andre Agassi, Andy Roddick, Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan, as well as the players who dominate the singles game today, such as Juan Martin del Potro, John Isner and Alexander Zverev.
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Elected representatives must face the music when they let the public down! - Office of Tessa Munt MP
Politicians must face the music if they let the public down!
Posted by T not in use 403sc on December 09, 2014
The much anticipated Recall Bill is currently making its way through Parliament.
I strongly support voters having the power of recall over MPs who let them down. MPs should face the music if they have abused their position or neglected their basic duties. I am very pleased the Government has introduced legislation, particularly since the Lib Dem Manifesto in the run up to the last General Election outlined our intention to make sure MPs could be recalled by their voters for ‘serious misconduct’.
Last week, the Bill passed its Second Reading, and on Monday this week, it had its first day of debate in Committee. I listened carefully to the discussion on both occasions. At the end of the debate on Monday, I voted against one of forty nine separate amendments which had been suggested to improve the Bill. There are many amendments still to be discussed, and I am sure many more will be put forward as the Bill is debated in the days to come.
The amendments which have attracted the most publicity are those from Zac Goldsmith, MP for Richmond Park, so I have set out my thoughts about these in this letter. If your interest in this Bill related to a different amendment or amendments, then please do not hesitate to let me know and I will write to you separately about your concerns.
Zac’s proposals are quite complex and long-winded. They require firstly a Notice to Recall, signed by 5% of the electorate within the constituency. Following this, 20% of the voters would then have to sign a Recall Petition. Once that threshold was met, a Referendum would be held on whether or not the MP should be recalled, and a majority of voters would have to vote in favour of doing so to move the process to the next stage. Then, and only then, would a by-election be triggered. These four stages could prove a very long and drawn-out affair, particularly when appeals might be launched at any stage, delaying the process even further.
Another problem with Zac’s proposals is that they actually made it harder for voters to recall an MP if he or she was found guilty of a serious criminal offence. Interestingly, the current system used to sanction MPs actually deals with that eventuality swiftly and summarily, although it falls short in a number of other respects.
Additionally, Zac’s version of recall allows for MPs to be recalled on any grounds, at any time. Whilst appearing on the surface to be attractive and democratic, this would, in reality, challenge the whole basis of our representative democracy. Our MPs vote on matters in Parliament and represent those who live in their area as they think best. I for one would not want to see Caroline Lucas recalled because she had been arrested and faced a Court hearing after campaigning against fracking in Sussex. It would be perverse, in my opinion, if MPs were subjected to the potential of repeated challenges and recall by the electorate for their views and votes on contentious matters. Over the years, many MPs have spoken out for societal change on matters considered unpopular at the time, like abortion, homosexuality, ending the death penalty and more recently, equal marriage. It would not be wise, surely, if MPs could be recalled for their views on policy? We all have that opportunity already, as we recall MPs every five years already, at each General Election.
Allowing the recall of MPs on any grounds, at any time would also be a gift to wealthy people, prosperous organisations and well-funded interests. They would be able – purely on political or sectional grounds – to attempt repeatedly to expel an MP from his or her seat. Unless that MP had substantial financial resources to defend, counter-claim and advertise his or her justification effectively across the electorate, the power to wreck an MP’s reputation through continuous repeated suggestions or allegations would lie solely with the wealthy few. In my view, this is not democratic and does not give power equally to constituents.
Zac’s proposals would also allow a party whose candidate lost by a small number of votes to recall the MP repeatedly until the he or she was finally defeated. Vexatious recalls would lead to a constant state of campaigning and ‘election fever’ in marginal seats, rather than allowing an otherwise untarnished MP to get on with his or her job of representing his or her constituents – until the voters had their say at the next General Election.
Interestingly, what the Government’s Bill proposes is simpler than the system preferred by Zac. Only 10% of the voters have to sign a petition before an MP is recalled.
However, in the Government’s Bill there is another threshold which must be reached to start that petition. This requires the Parliamentary Committee for Standards to judge whether ‘wrongdoing’ has taken place. However harsh the Parliamentary Committee’s judgments may be, MPs will be accused nonetheless of ‘marking their own homework’, and I believe the use of this mechanism is completely unacceptable.
It is clear to me that the Government’s Bill should be improved and I have been working with some of my Lib Dem colleagues to ‘sharpen up’ several areas of the legislation, preparing our own amendments. We have been exploring the idea of using an Election Court – a completely independent third party – to judge whether or not an MP has a case to answer on the grounds of misconduct, should there be a request for recall from the voters in his or her constituency. I have had a short discussion with Zac Goldsmith this morning and hope that we can find some common ground on this proposal in the days to come.
I am pleased that both the Labour and Conservative front benches and many backbench MPs from all sides of the House supported our amendments.
I will issue furher updates as the Bill progresses through Parliament.
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Day 5 – When I play it seems that I understand the Shamanic tradition
“When I play it seems that I understand the Shamanic tradition. There was a time when I had a supernatural connection with the audience but now I have lost this a little.”
http://themusicalnomad.com/media/raushan.mp4
Raushan is softly spoken and very articulate . She speaks passionately about Kazak music and in particular about the kobuz. She comes from a musical family. Her father, also a musician, always wanted Raushan to play the kobuz. They are from a region near the Aral Sea, which has its own rich musical tradition. Her sisters play flute and oboe, by all accounts outstandingly well. This musicality stretches back for generations.
I started by asking about the history of the kobuz. She explained that very little had been formally recorded as this was predominantly an oral tradition. She recounted a legend of a real person, Korkut, who is often looked upon as a father of the kobuz tradition. He was a Shaman. At his birth the heavens opened and the climate changed. There was thunder and lightning, people were terrified. When the child was older, it became clear that he could foretell the future, and people were afraid of him. They named him Korkut which means the terrible one. One night he was visited in his dreams by an old man who told him that he would die when he was very young.Korkut set about trying to evade death by playing the kobuz. He could not play day and night and so everywhere he went people would dig graves for him. He would ask “Who are these graves for?” They would reply “They are for Korkut.”
Raushan explained that Korkut wrote many melodies for the kobuz, and is now seen as a classical composer. She performed a piece for us which utilised the metal jingles attached to the instrument. This was a medley of his tunes and is called Abistolgan. This is very ancient music and she often plays it for herself. “It has to be with me always.”
I was very interested by the connection between this instrument and Shamanism. Raushan explained to me that the Shamans had used rattles to heal people. This was the origin of the jingles attached to her instrument. The Shamans improvised on the kobuz, not playing set pieces. It was a sacred instrument.
When Islam came to Central Asia the Muslims disapproved of the Shamans and tried to discourage their practices. As Raushan was a Muslim I asked whether she felt the two traditions were compatible. She said that she felt that they were, but it was not a logical thing. She played me a melody representing how she felt when she read the Koran.
Raushan is a living, creative musician who makes sense of life through sound. This is not a rational process, and it is precisely this ability to evoke things which cannot be explained which marks out a true musician.
“When I play it seems that I understand the Shamanic tradition”.
“There was a time when I had a supernatural connection with the audience but now I have lost this a little.”
Raushan’s instrument is one of the most extraordinary I have ever seen. She explained that the basic design was one which was common amongst the Turkic peoples. This particular one is made in the traditional way, from one piece of wood with no glue or nails. The resonating membrane at the bottom is made of camel skin. The camel, she explained, was almost a sacred animal to her; “A camel’s voice is deeply moving.” The skin used for the instrument comes appropriately from the camel’s throat.
The kobuz has a heart-shaped resonating chamber which in this case is painted dark red emphasising the heart-like imagery. Inside the heart were placed some small pieces of mirror. This was not traditional, but could represent a number of things; summoning ancestral spirits or reflecting bad thoughts were two possibilities. I mentioned the Sufi image of “polishing the mirror of the heart”, a description of purifying the heart for God. She thought it likely that this instrument maker had thought along these lines. There were a number of small details on the instrument – carved symbols representing sun, moon and a star. There were resonances of the Islamic Star & Crescent but subtly changed.
Raushan expressed a wish to search for more repertoire for the kobuz, and to research old pieces.
“Modern composers don’t understand the spirit of the tradition……..they spoil everything…… Kolumbaev was a brilliant player who composed and arranged pieces for the instrument. He was a brilliant improviser…. now he is gone nobody can replace him.”
Raushan aims to play like the ancient masters, not literal authenticity but preservation of the spirit.
Alice, our interpretor during the past few days, invited me to chat with her in her parents home not far from the centre of Almaty. When we arrive the clouds that had been gathering during the day, suddenly opened. The heat of the last few days is immediately quashed by torrential rain. The thunder rages in the darkening sky as I sit down in her room and ask a few questions about her life and music. She talks with an accent divided evenly between Russian and scouse.
Would you like to be called Alia or Alice?
It doesn’t matter, I’m not bothered
Tell us a little bit about what you are doing in Almaty
I am actually involved in pop music, not really classical traditional but I do appreciate traditional roots, mostly pop musicians and blues based musicians. I have just got back from LIPA which is an institute in Liverpool that was opened by Paul McCartney two years ago. What I really want to do is to participate in the music scene here in Almaty, Kazakstan – because I think its booming now at the moment. Brilliant musicians, absolutely fantastic musicians – guitar players, drummers, vocalists. I want to get a band together. I do have a bass player and a singer but we need a drummer and were gonna start gigging at the end of August. What I wanna do is loads of gigs, I think that’s actually the way to success, do loads of gigs so the word gets spread around. Then probably do a single, then probably an album… I know it sounds cynical but I just wanna be rich and famous, have a jet and travel everywhere.
How would you say the musicians here differ from the musicians you’ve come across in England?
Oh they differ tremendously, because all the guitar players at LIPA (Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts) are into really weird stuff like White Zombie, Panthera and Metallica. Even Metallica is too soft for them. I found that really weird. Plus people are into things like Prodigy which are not popular here at all. In the former Soviet Union Rock and Roll was forbidden, you could go to jail for possessing an Elvis Presley record or wearing bell bottoms or whatever, ridiculous things like that. But still people were really into rock and roll, records were brought here illegally and then copied thousands of times onto tapes. People here are still into things like Nazareth and Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple and that sort of stuff. Nazareth are number one in the charts in Moscow at the moment. They’re into classical rock and classical blues.
Can you see in the future a kind of rock that will be unique to this part of the World, perhaps combining traditional music with rock music?
There is a band at the moment here which attempts to do that and they are just bloody, bloody awful. They are all conservatoire graduates and they study things like Dombra and Kobuz but they just sound awful. Just the worst band I have ever heard in my life… At LIPA for example we were studying guitar players like Ingui Malmsteim, Richie Blackmore and Steve Mores. Once they invited a guitarist, a very distinguished player from Moscow whose name Sasha Lipinsk, he came over to demonstrate his technique. he was playing Jimi Hendrix, all the standards Chuck Berry. People were asking questions like do you wanna play some Russian traditional music something specific weve never heard before something authentic. “No thanks just Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Be Good” stuff like that.
So music is primarily a vehicle for you to be rich and famous rather than the music itself?
I do my music and express myself. I would never do the sort of pop music that some people do in Russia, sort of whores on TV that really sell themselves to become rich and famous, I would never do that I think that is ugly and horrible. Rock and roll comes first really.
I am off to Tashkent, Uzbekistan tomorrow. The journey is either a ten hour drive or a two hour flight. I think I will choose the latter. Join us tomorrow, new country, new city, new music.
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Day 39 – Home again
Day 37 – Timeless songs for the next generation
Day 34 – Take the first left on the A351
Day 29 – Home Cooking on the Road to Issyk-Kul
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Thurso (1905)
While the revival was progressing in Wick, there was heard by the believing people of Thurso "a sound of abundance of rain." Earnest prayer abounded. The agents whom the Lord acknowledged in Wick had promised to visit Thurso. Ministers and other Christian workers co-operated heartily in prayer and active service, and much real blessing was experienced before the Albatross crew had arrived. When they did arrive they found the whole town astir with a revived spiritual life. Mr Stewart, a few days after the commencement of the mission, wrote to the Evening Express and Evening Mail Revival Number for April 1st "The movement has now spread to Thurso, and the interest here exceeds what existed in Wick at a similar stage of the mission. There has been nothing like the same interest shown in Divine things in the memory of the oldest inhabitant."
Previous to the spring communion in the Thurso First United Free Church, the minister (Rev. Alex Soutar, M.A.) conducted a series of devotional meetings. In the following week the meetings were continued in the Town Hall, Mr Grieve, one of the Albatross crew leading the singing.
"On Tuesday, 14th March, Mr W. F. Stewart accompanied by other members of the crew of the mission yacht Albatross, came to take charge of the mission, and the meetings increased so rapidly that the Town Hall soon became too small for the large audiences that gathered night after night to hear the gospel in song and speech, and it was found necessary to transfer the week-night meetings to the West United Free Church, which has been filled night after night. The Sabbath evening services have been held in our church, which has been crowded with audiences of from 1400 to 1500 people, and on the last Sabbath evening of the month a sum of ?20 3s. 2d. was put into the plate as a thank-offering. It is impossible to estimate the magnitude and importance of a movement of this kind by mere figures, for the work of the Spirit is far deeper and wider than men know, but many will never forget what happened at the close of the service in the church on the last Sabbath of March. Mr Stewart requested all who during the Mission had given their hearts to the Lord to rise and go into the Church Hall, and such were young men and women responded that the hall was filled to overflowing."
The Rev. John MacKay, M.A., and Mr Cameron continued the meetings with encouraging results. For two months the work went on without a break, and souls decided for Christ at every meeting. Altogether over three hundred declared in writing that they had received the Lord Jesus Christ as their Saviour.
'Revivals in the Highlands and Islands' by Alexander Macrea, Republished in 1998 by Tentmaker Publications.
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Mossad Assassinates Senior Syrian Scientist Dr. Aziz Asber
Syrian missile scientist and the director of the Syrian Scientific Studies and Research Centre (SSRC) Dr Aziz Asber was assassinated in an explosion in his car along with his driver. Despite the assassination being claimed by an armed terrorist group affiliated with the so-called ‘Sham Liberation Organisation,’ fingers have been pointed at the Zionist enemy.
Draining brains who threat foreign hegemony has been long exploited by the enemy. Dr Asber was killed several minutes after leaving his home in Hama on Saturday night, 4 July 2018, after watching him for months by the Mossad. The Zionist Mossad is behind the assassination of Asber, the New York Times by David M. Halbfinger and Ronen Bergman reported on Monday, citing a senior Middle East intelligence source.
The Zionist entity’s media has commented that the assassination is a message to Damascus and a reminiscent of other assassinations of Hamas and Hezbollah officials. Its War Minister Avigdor Lieberman, months ago, has already noted, “There are hundreds of explosions and assassinations in the Middle East every day, and every time they try to pin it on Israel.”
Asber was reported to have close connections to Iranian and Korean scientists. The Zionist entity has reportedly struck the SSRC several times, most recently on July 22, when its jets hit one of the centre’s arms-production sites. Back then, the Syrian air defences dropped three Zionist rockets, near the SSRC in Masayef.
The enemy has hit the secretive Unit 450 a base of the Syrian Army and a branch of the centre, which works on the Syrian chemical weapons program. It has also frequently raised concerns about the transfer of advanced weaponry to Hezbollah resistance.
Obviously, the assassination represents a new development in the Syrian imposed war. The US Treasury Department has already levelled sanctions against 271 staff members of the SSRC, for “developing and producing non-conventional weapons and the means to deliver them.” However, on the list of names, Dr Asber was not listed.
In April, the U.S., Britain and France carried out joint airstrikes against the centre’s Damascus facilities in response to the chemical attack of Khan-Sheikhoun. In an interview with Russia’s state-controlled NTV, in June, Dr Bashar Assad Syrian President said that his government got rid of all its chemical weapons in 2013 and that allegations of their use were a pretext for invasion by other countries.
A Zionist minister has warned, “Israel may target Assad himself for assassination.” Yuval Steinitz, an energy minister and a security cabinet minister, has also stressed, “If Assad allows Iran to turn Syria into a military vanguard against us, to attack us from Syrian territory, and he should know that it would be the end of him, the end of his regime.”
Asber was believed to be the second-most senior scientist at the SSRC, after director Dr Amr Armanazi. He headed Department 4 at the centre, which focuses on the development of all of Syria’s ballistic missile and rocket programs. He reportedly involved in the manufacturing precision-guided missiles in Syria by modifying Syrian SM6000 Tishereen rockets, with the help of Iran’s Quds Force Commander Gen. Qassem Suleimani. He was focused on modifying the Syrian artillery array’s range and accuracy.
Since the beginning of the crisis in Syria, many prominent scientists have been assassinated. For instance, Dr Ahlam Imad, a professor in Petrochemical in Baath University in Homs, was targeted on 28 June 2011. The nuclear scientist Aws Abdul Karim Khalil was also assassinated in Homs on 28 September 2011.
It is noteworthy to mention that, on 21 July 2012, a terrorist group assassinated the basic mind in the Syrian missile program, General Nabil Zogheib with his wife and 2 sons, in Damascus. On 11 February 2012, Brigadier Dr Issa Al Khouli, the head of Hamish military hospital was killed near his house in Rukn Eddin, in Damascus. Further, Dr Mahmoud Tasabihji, the head of the University Hospital in Aleppo and a prominent very well known ENT specialist in Aleppo city was found killed on 12 October 2012, in Aleppo city.
Dr. Aziz Asber, Syrian, Syrian Civil War, The US Treasury Department
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n this Wednesday the US Department of Treasury announced its intention to impose new series of sanctions
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indsay Lohan has faced criticism after accusing a Syrian refugee family of “trafficking” and trying to take
The Battle for Idlib
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Showers and thundershowers likely. High 79F. Winds SSW at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 70%..
The Anchor Bay Triathlon recently returned to downtown New Baltimore, drawing hundreds of racers and spectators to the city for its 34th year.
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It’s no secret that many boomers are struggling to save for retirement. The standard advice from financial experts is to keep working as long as possible and drastically cut back on your lifestyle. We think there’s an overlooked solution worth considering: Retire where the money you do have goes farther. Specifically, retire abroad to a place with a cost of living significantly lower than in the U.S.
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'Excessive fines' ban applies to states, Supreme Court says
By MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Wednesday that the Constitution's ban on excessive fines applies to the states, an outcome that could help efforts to rein in police seizure of property from criminal suspects.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote the court's opinion in favor of Tyson Timbs, of Marion, Ind. Police seized Timbs' $40,000 Land Rover when they arrested him for selling about $400 worth of heroin.
Reading a summary of her opinion, Ginsburg noted that governments employ fines "out of accord with the penal goals of retribution and deterrence" because fines are a source of revenue. The 85-year-old justice missed arguments last month following lung cancer surgery, but returned to the bench on Tuesday.
Timbs pleaded guilty, but faced no prison time. The biggest loss was the Land Rover he bought with some of the life insurance money he received after his father died.
Timbs still has to win one more round in court before he gets his vehicle back, but that seems to be a formality. A judge ruled that taking the car was disproportionate to the severity of the crime, which carries a maximum fine of $10,000. But Indiana's top court said the justices had never ruled that the Eighth Amendment's ban on excessive fines — like much of the rest of the Bill of Rights — applies to states as well as the federal government.
The case drew interest from liberal groups concerned about police abuses and conservative organizations opposed to excessive regulation. Timbs was represented by the libertarian public interest law firm Institute for Justice.
"The decision is an important first step for curtailing the potential for abuse that we see in civil forfeiture nationwide," said Sam Gedge, a lawyer with the Institute for Justice.
In Michigan, Sen. Peter Lucido, R-Shelby Township, introduced Senate Bill 2, which would require an individual to be convicted of a crime before law enforcement could assume ownership of property, valued at $50,000 or less, through civil asset forfeiture. Under the bill, seized personal property would be returned if the individual accused of a crime was not convicted.
The bill was introduced by Lucido in mid-January and passed by the full Senate on Feb. 13. On Tuesday, the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on the bill.
There appears to be bipartisan support in both chambers for the proposed legislation. Two House bills, that were introduced last week, are similar to Lucido's bill and have the support of Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel.
Law enforcement authorities have dramatically increased their use of civil forfeiture in recent decades. When law enforcement seizes the property of people accused of crimes, the proceeds from its sale often go directly to the agency that took it, the law firm said in written arguments in support of Timbs.
As it did in earlier cases applying parts of the Bill of Rights to the states, the court based its decision on the part of the 14th Amendment that says "no state shall deprive any person of life, liberty or property without due process of law." That same provision, the due process clause, also was used in cases that established a woman's right to an abortion and knocked down state laws against interracial marriage and gay sex.
The 14th Amendment was passed after the Civil War to ensure the rights of newly freed slaves.
Justice Clarence Thomas wrote separately to say he would have used a different part of the 14th amendment to achieve the same result. Thomas has long been a critic of the court's application of the due process clause, which also is found in the Fifth Amendment. He wrote that cases that employ the provision "are some of the court's most notoriously incorrect decisions," including the abortion rights landmark case Roe v. Wade and the 1857 Dred Scott case that held that African-Americans were not citizens.
Thomas said he would have relied on the Constitution's language forbidding states from making or enforcing "any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States."
Justice Neil Gorsuch also expressed his preference for the privileges or immunities clause.
The case is Timbs v. Indiana, 17-1091.
- MediaNews Group Reporter Mark Cavitt contributed to this story.
Mark Cavitt is a multimedia journalist at The Oakland Press. Reach him at mcavitt@digitalfirstmedia.com or by calling 248-284-1495.
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It was a thought that germinated in Spain five years ago. While a slew of Indian musicians and dancers, including sitar player Anoushka Shankar, found a common musical ground with the Spanish flamenco, Bharatanatyam dancer Rukmini Chatterjee fell in love with something more unexpected. It all happened on a trip to Bilbaowhen Chatterjee entered a tiny watering hole and found herself hooked to shrieky vocals, highly distorted guitars and some unconventional song structures that mostly spoke about urban issues. Soon, she found herself headbanging to those snarls and growls. "It was something I had not heard before .It was so ritualistic. I was immediately transported to the tantrik rituals happening in India. I knew I wanted to plan a production,” says Paris-based Chatterjee, who then contacted Jarle Kvale, the songwriter and bassist with Norwegian black metal outfit, Vreid(meaning wrath). After corresponding for a year-and-a-half over email, Chatterjee and Vreid members are now presenting Questionings –a production that will combine the symbols and rhythms of Indian classical dance with dark lyrics and intensive black metal- which will take place in Mumbai at the Tata theater, NCPA on Wednesday. "My artistic quest has always been about getting different cultures to meet, something that I have been exploring over the last 15 years,” says Chatterjee, who has used the theme of Kalyug in this production and thus, chose black metal. "I found that black metal artistes are some of the greatest urban poets,” she adds.
As for Jarle Kvale, the songwriter and bassist of the band that has been in existence since the ’90s, he was looking for something out-of-the-box. "Being musicians, the high is to discover unique music,” says Kvale, who is completely aware of Bharatanatyam as a dance from and how it is rooted in the tradition.
‘‘Black metal is relatively new and has evolved from classic rock. It is a modern art form. We are not trying to adapt in a way that we lose our originality. Our lyrics have taken a new direction after being combined with Indian classical dance; something I hadn’t even thought of while writing,” he adds.
With Jorn Holen on drums, Stean Bakketeig on guitars and Sture Dingsoyr on lead vocals, Chatterjee has also roped in a couple of kathak dancers for the performance.
Interestingly, she does not identify with the word fusion. "I don’t believe in fusion. I believe in meeting. The moment you go deeper into the essence of any piece of art, it becomes universal,” says the 41-year-old dancer, who learnt music from Mrinalini Sarabhai in Ahmedabad and move to Paris 22 years ago and has, since then, tried to build bridges between "her own world” and the world she has lived in. And this thought process translates into her performances.
The 50 minute production, divided into five parts, will travel to Mumbai, Ahmedabad and Bangalore after Delhi, and later to various prestigious venues in Europe- including The Opera Oslo in Norway, Theatre De La ville in Paris, apart from a gig at Letemps d’aimer la danse, one of the more popular dance festivals in France.
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When Somebody Believes in You – Part Two
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For some time, Zeshan Akhter had wanted to find out more about early pioneers from other lands who had travelled to Scotland and made their homes there. So when she heard about a Black History Month talk that was taking place at Edinburgh University Chaplaincy, she dropped everything to attend because it seemed like a perfect opportunity to fill in some of the blanks
Emeritus Professor Geoff Palmer explained that the reason the race relations act was created in 1976 was that. in the years leading up to that time, a great deal of unrest had taken place in Britain. There had been racist incidents, attacks, and claims that ethnic immigrants were taking British jobs and preventing natural born white British people from being able to work.
In the Professor’s opinion, racism is more hidden in Britain compared to in the States where it has been blatant. A person of colour could encounter racism in Britain without ever knowing it.
It might be a job interview after which a person is told they didn’t have enough experience in some key area of expertise or that somebody else had more … but a racist motive, if it existed, would be hidden. Whereas, in the States, although racism has resulted in unspeakable acts of violence and barbarism against black people, especially in the Southern States, it has also been possible for people like Colin Powell to be Secretary of State in the government and for a black man to be President of the most powerful country in the world. In contrast, the Professor conjectured that if Colin Powell had been born and brought up in the UK he would be a colonel in the army; his rise through the ranks would not have been possible. He also predicted that it would be a very long time indeed before a black person might be Prime Minister of Britain.
He recalled an incident in his own career. His boss had spoken to him one day and told him that a client had made a complaint against him. The Professor had realised instantly that the complaint was completely untrue. The person who had made the complaint was a brewery director whom the Professor knew well. What the Professor recounted next made me admire him. He had called the director and asked him how long it would take him to get from where he was to the Professor’s office in Edinburgh. “One and a half hours,” replied the man. “You’ve got one and half hours to get to my office here on Chambers Street,” had replied the Professor. The director came. When he did so, the Professor said he asked him a simple question: “Why did you do that?” The man had shrugged. The Professor had tried again: “No, really. I do a lot of work in race relations and I want to understand – why did you do that?” The man paused a second and then he replied, “I don’t like black people. I had a meeting with your boss – alone. I thought to myself: I have a chance here to make a complaint against you and then I wouldn’t have to work with you. So I did it”.
The Professor was again smiling as he related this tale. “Some people,” he said gently, “are just not OK with difference. When you live in a place in which you are aware that you are in some way different, it’s better not to be naïve about it. It’s better to be prepared so that if it happens to you, you can deal with it.”
What changed things was that people began to write about their experiences
He recounted another occasion in Edinburgh when a senior manager at a major brewery contacted him for help. The manager wanted the Professor to recommend able students who would be able to carry out research in a particular area. The manager asked that he not be sent any ‘blue noses’. This term apparently, is used to denote Protestant Christians. The manager wanted only students who were Catholics. The Professor said he was astonished at this flagrant expression of prejudice especially since the manager knew that the Professor actively defended his students from discrimination. The Professor did not comply with the manager’s prejudiced request and instead sent him details of both Protestant and Catholic students who he felt had the right level of skills and knowledge required to carry out the research.
Surprisingly, the manager appointed a Protestant student. Perhaps he did this because he realised that the Professor now knew of his prejudicial religious preference and would not be likely to keep silent if a Catholic student was appointed from a Catholic only list of candidates. The Professor was sad in recounting this story. He ended by wondering how often prejudice had prevented able people from progressing in their careers and lives – instances when nobody had known that prejudice was at work or where nobody felt able to stand up to the discrimination.
In America, said the Professor, what changed things was that people began to write about their experiences.
“Think about Martin Luther King’s speech: ‘I have a dream’,” said the Professor. “It’s famous the world over.”
He told the assembled group, which was made up of many university students, to write about their experiences. “Start a student magazine,” he said. “It doesn’t have to be good! But write.” The Professor was very intense now.
Then he asked us to think about Shakespeare’s play Hamlet. “If you really want to change society write a Hamlet.”
What was so powerful and moving about this was that the Professor truly believed in the people present. It is nourishing at the deepest core levels to feel somebody’s belief in you. It’s much like coming into the light and warmth of a safe room after the stinging cold of a frosty environment.
O you who have believed, be persistently standing firm for Allah, witnesses in justice, and do not let the hatred of a people prevent you from being just. Be just; that is nearer to righteousness. And fear Allah; indeed, Allah is Acquainted with what you do.
The Qur’an, Surah Al-Ma’idah (Chapter of the table spread) 5:8
Zeshan has a degree in Zoology from Cardiff University and works with a government agency on national nature conservation policy in Scotland. Outside of her official work, Zeshan’s interests include a wide range of humanitarian issues that are challenging the world today. Zeshan is a woman of faith and believes that our purpose in life is to use our hands and feet to do the work that our soul would have us to since this is the part that is our true essence: eternal and from the Divine.
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The Summer Olympics are to be held from August 5th – 21st, 2016 in Rio de Janiero, marking the first time that the games have been held in the South American continent. Throughout the 17 days, over ten thousand athletes from 205 countries will compete in 306 medal events held in four areas throughout the city: Barra, Deodoro, Maracanã, and Copacabana. Of the events, 161 are men’s events, 136 are female events, and 9 are mixed events.
The Olympic ring sculpture on Rio's Copacabana Beach are made of 143 pounds of recycled plastic bottles
Whether the medal being awarded at the Rio 2016 Olympics Games in Brazil this month is gold, silver or bronze, the ribbon those medals are hung from will come from plastics, with half the content coming from recycled bottles.
Innovative plastics use is being highlighted in the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, with applications ranging from sports equipment to artificial grass and event venues, along with ribbons for medals and sculptures made from recycled bottles.
Plastics bottles also are part of efforts to highlight pollution, including plastic waste, in Guanabara Bay, where Olympic sailing competitions will take place. An effort to start cleaning the bay was launched after the 2014 FIFA World Cup, when the Dutch government created the Clean Urban Delta Initiative.
One of the projects was the Plastic Madonna sculpture, made from 5,000 plastic bottles collected in Rio de Janeiro. It was coordinated by Dutch social enterprise Dopper with the support of local organizations and government, and built by Brazilian artist Eric Fuly, based on the design by Dutch artist Peter Smith.
Plastic Madonna was unveiled in Rio’s Botafogo Beach and now is in one of the city’s public parks, with the intent to bring awareness to plastic pollution.
“The Plastic Madonna is a reference to the fact that we are literally feeding our future generation with plastic,” Dopper ambassador in Brazil Ellen Sluis told Plastics News. “Plastic is in the oceans, fish misunderstand plastic for seaweed and eat it. We eat the fish and the plastic enters our food chain.”
About 143 pounds of recycled plastic bottles were also used to build the Olympic Rings sculpture on Copacabana Beach.
Sluis said Dopper will also be responsible for building the Paralympic Games symbol using recycled plastic bottles, replacing the Olympic Rings sculpture.
The Plastic Madonna at Rio's Botafogo Beach is made with waste plastics
Cutting the carbon footprint
Dow Chemical Co.’s micro-foaming technology for packaging is part of an initiative to cut 4.4 billion pounds of carbon dioxide impact at the Summer Games.
“We used Dow’s low carbon technologies to deliver this mitigation,” said Guilherme Dias, Dow’s commercial leader for the Olympic Games, “It’s similar to a carbon credit, but it is actually a climate benefit that we are delivering to the Organizing Committee to mitigate the carbon consumed by the games.”
The micro-foaming solution is made with new production methods that lead to higher productivity and improvement in the extrusion process of films, using 15 to 25 percent less raw material.
“The technology is also reducing the cost of packaging production, one of the main concerns for most of the people working in the packaging chain,” said Charly Eid, marketing manager for Dow’s packaging business in Latin America.
Adoption of polyurethane-based insulation panels, to reduce energy consumption in construction, is another plastic-related action that will help Dow deliver carbon footprint mitigation.
Two other initiatives in the agricultural market, and biomass use to generate energy in some of Dow’s units in Brazil, also are helping to balance the greenhouse gas emissions from the Games.
Plastics for venues, performance
BraskemBraskem sponsors Alan Fonteles, a Brazilian parathlete competing in the Paralympics.
Rio’s field hockey arena Deodoro Olympic Park was revamped with synthetic turf made with linear low density polyethylene and polyurethane technologies, supplied by Dow and German athletic surface producer Polytan STI.
Maracanã, one of the largest soccer stadiums in the world and the host of the Olympic opening and closing ceremonies, had Dow plastics applied to drainage and irrigation pipes below its natural grass.
The stadium was upgraded for the 2014 FIFA World Cup, when recycled PET bottles were used to make 6,773 seats in the 78,838 seat stadium.
Another five venues of the Olympic Games holding shooting, fencing, basketball, hockey, handball and swimming competitions had seats, armrests, bolts and other items made from nylon supplied by Italian company Radici Group.
Plastic, which have been used in artificial limbs since 1937, are again playing a prominent role in the Paralympic Games.
Currently, most of the Paralympic athletes use flex-foot cheetah prosthetics made from plastics and carbon fiber. They were considered more efficient than human feet during the Beijing 2008 Paralympic games.
Braskem SA is sponsoring the Brazilian Parathletics team and double-amputee runner Alan Fonteles, who is participating in the Rio Paralympics.
“This sponsorship is the result of Braskem’s belief that chemical and plastic make people’s lives better,” said Marcelo Lyra, Braskem’s vice president for institutional relations and development, in a statement. “Prosthesis, which are made from a material that incorporates plastic, are an example of this, providing a leap in quality of life and performance for parathletes.”
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Mornings on the Mall 06.20.19 / Cal Thomas, Josie Urrea, Steve Moore, Star Parker, Chris Stigall
Thank you to @ChrisStigall for co-hosting with @VinceCoglianese on @WMALDC this morning! pic.twitter.com/qc8VcPnNZN
— WMAL DC (@WMALDC) June 20, 2019
Cal Thomas, Anne Arundel School Board member Josie Urrea, Steve Moore, Star Parker and guest host Chris Stigall joined WMAL on Thursday!
Hosts: Vince Coglianese and guest host Chris Stigall
Executive Producer: Heather Hunter
5am – A/B/C Iran shoots down US drone aircraft. Tehran, Iran (CNN) Iranian forces have shot down a United States military drone, a move that appears to have escalated the volatile situation playing out between Washington and Tehran in the Middle East. Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said it had shot down an “intruding American spy drone” after it entered into the country’s territory Thursday, according to state-run Press TV. A US official confirmed to CNN a drone had been shot down, but said the incident occurred in international airspace over the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world’s most vital shipping routes. Press TV reported the downed drone was a US-made RQ-4 Global Hawk, while the US official said it was a MQ-4C Triton. Both are unmanned surveillance aircraft developed by weapons manufacturer Northrop Grumman. The head of the Revolutionary Guard Corps, Maj. Gen. Hossein Salami, said the shooting down of the drone had sent a warning to the US.
5am – D/E REPARATIONS HEARING: Actor Danny Glover was among those asking Congress for reparations to descendants of slaves. Glover told a House Judiciary subcommittee yesterday that his great-grandfather was enslaved and a national reparations policy is “moral, democratic and economic imperative.” The day before, Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell argued against “reparations for something that happened 150 years ago.”
6am – A/B/C AA Co. Board of Education votes to eliminate top GPA as qualification for valedictorian. ANNAPOLIS, Md. (WMAR) — In a 5-4 vote, the Anne Arundel County Board of Education decided to abolish how the county’s school valedictorians and salutatorians are chosen. Previously those honors were awarded to those students with the highest grade point average. With Wednesday night’s vote, students who earn Summa Cum Laude honors, or a weighted GPA of 4.3 or above after seven high school semesters are eligible to apply for class valedictorian or salutatorian. Under the new policy, students will be evaluated on character, leadership, scholarship, and service. Winners will be selected through a school-based process to be determined by the Superintendent of Schools.
6am – D INTERVIEW – CAL THOMAS – Syndicated columnist
AP: Trump, in 2020 campaign mode, calls Democrats ‘radical.’ Addressing a crowd of thousands at Orlando’s Amway Center on Tuesday night, Trump complained he was “under assault from the very first day” of his presidency by a “fake news media” and an “illegal witch hunt” that had tried to keep him and his supporters down. He painted a disturbing picture of what life would look like if he loses in 2020, accusing his critics of “un-American conduct” and saying Democrats “want to destroy you and they want to destroy our country as we know it.” “A vote for any Democrat in 2020 is a vote for the rise of radical socialism and the destruction of the American dream,” he said. Trump made only passing mention of any of the Democrats running to replace him even as he tossed out “radical” and “unhinged” to describe the rival party.
TRUMP VS BIDEN FUNDRAISING:
Trump raised $24.8M in the first 24 hours of his campaign.
Biden raised $6.3M in the first 24 hours of his campaign.
Iran shoots down US drone aircraft. Tehran, Iran (CNN) Iranian forces have shot down a United States military drone, a move that appears to have escalated the volatile situation playing out between Washington and Tehran in the Middle East. Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said it had shot down an “intruding American spy drone” after it entered into the country’s territory Thursday, according to state-run Press TV. A US official confirmed to CNN a drone had been shot down, but said the incident occurred in international airspace over the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world’s most vital shipping routes.
Must we wage war with Iran? By Cal Thomas / “The Pentagon has released new color photos as proof that Iran was behind last week’s attack on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman,” ABC Newsreported. Hours before that attack, Iranians launchedsurface-to-air missile at a U.S. drone monitoring the tankers. The missile missed. In response, 1,000 American troops are being dispatched to the region for the declared purpose of defending American forces already there. Reacting to these charges and U.S. military moves and threats, Iran has said it will resume (did it ever stop?) the enrichment of uranium by next week, which it had pledged not to do for 10 years in an agreement forged during the Obama administration.
6am – E Chuck Todd Says Migrant Detention Facilities Aren’t Nazi Concentration Camps, Gets Ratioed (HotAir) — Chuck Todd came out and said what far too few Democrats were willing to say yesterday. The detention centers on our southern border are not Nazi concentration camps. In saying this he sidestepped the dodge that AOC and other progressives were using yesterday, pretending that when she spoke of concentration camps she wasn’t referring to Nazi camps. That’s clearly not the case though it was a small minority of Democrats willing to admit as much. Todd started from the position that she meant Nazi camps (she used the phrase “never again” and called Trump a “fascist”) and then pointed out that you can disagree with the detention of migrants without breaking Godwin’s Law. “If you want to criticize the shameful treatment of people at our southern border, fine. You’ll have plenty of company. But be careful comparing them to Nazi concentration camps because they’re not at all comparable, in the slightest,” Todd said.
6am – F Syrian refugee arrested for alleged ISIS terror plot to attack Christian church in Pittsburgh. Federal prosecutors say that a Syrian refugee was arrested for allegedly planning a terror attack on a Christian church in Pittsburgh. 21-year-old Mustafa Mousab Alowemer was accused of the plot “to support the cause of ISIS and to inspire other ISIS supporters in the United States.” The Department of Justice announced the arrest on Wednesday. Alowemer was born in Daraa, Syria, and came to the United States as a refugee in 2016, according to the criminal filing. “Alowemer also distributed propaganda materials, offered to provide potential targets in the Pittsburgh area, requested a weapon with a silencer, and recorded a video of himself pledging an oath of allegiance to the leader of ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi,” read a statement from the DOJ. The complaint alleges that he was targeting the Legacy International Worship Center in Pittsburgh for a bomb attack because they had Nigerian attendees and he wanted “revenge for [ISIS] brothers in Nigeria.”
7am – A/B/C – INTERVIEW — JOSIE URREA – Vice President of the Board and a student member of the Anne Arundel School Board
AA Co. Board of Education votes to eliminate top GPA as qualification for valedictorian. ANNAPOLIS, Md. (WMAR) — In a 5-4 vote, the Anne Arundel County Board of Education decided to abolish how the county’s school valedictorians and salutatorians are chosen. Previously those honors were awarded to those students with the highest grade point average. With Wednesday night’s vote, students who earn Summa Cum Laude honors, or a weighted GPA of 4.3 or above after seven high school semesters are eligible to apply for class valedictorian or salutatorian. Under the new policy, students will be evaluated on character, leadership, scholarship, and service. Winners will be selected through a school-based process to be determined by the Superintendent of Schools.
7am – D INTERVIEW – STEVE MOORE – former campaign economic advisor to President Trump, economist at The Heritage Foundation and author of book “Trumponomics: Inside the America First Plan to Revive Our Economy”
President Donald J. Trump awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, to economist Arthur Laffer at a ceremony in the Oval Office of the White House on Wednesday.
Fed holds rates steady, but opens the door for a rate cut in the future. A divided Federal Reserve held the line on interest rates Wednesday and indicated formally that no cuts are coming in 2019. The decision came amid divisions over what is ahead and still leaves open the possibility that policy loosening could happen before the end of the year depending on how conditions unfold.
7am – E Campus food service worker hit with bias complaint after saying ‘hello’ to student in Japanese. (College Fix) — U. of Minnesota student complained of ‘microaggressions’ and ‘implicit bias’ During the fall 2018 semester at the University of Minnesota, an Asian-American student stopped by one of the restaurants in the Coffman Memorial Union to pick up a snack. At the register, a food service worker said something the student didn’t understand. When the student said they didn’t get it, the woman at the register said she was saying “hello” in Japanese, and asked where the student was from. “Wisconsin,” the student replied. The cashier laughed and told the student to have a nice day, but the student did not find much humor in the experience. The student reported the cashier to the campus Bias Response and Referral Network, claiming “these type of microaggressions occur too often on campus” and “this implicit bias needs to be addressed.” The bias team then referred the incident to dining services and referred the complaining student to the campus “Ethical Advocate Program” in case they “want to talk further about the experience.”
8am – A/B/C/D/E INTERVIEW – STAR PARKER – President of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education (UrbanCURE), which she started after consulting on federal welfare reform in the 90s, and she is the author of the upcoming book: “Necessary Noise: How Donald Trump Inflames the Culture War and Why This Is Good for the Future of America”
Heckling, drama mark House hearing on slavery reparations as top Dem asks, ‘Why not now?’
House committee confronts the “inheritance of slavery” in panel on reparations
House Majority leader says he expects reparations bill to get a floor vote. (The Hill) – House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said Wednesday that he has every intention of bringing to the floor a proposal providing reparations for the descendants of slaves. “It will get a vote if it comes out of the committee; I expect it to come out of the committee,” Hoyer said during a press briefing in the Capitol. As Hoyer spoke, Democrats on the Judiciary Committee’s subpanel on the Constitution were holding a historic hearing on the legislation, with testimony from prominent black figures like the author Ta-Nehisi Coates, the actor Danny Glover and Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), a 2020 presidential hopeful.
Star Parker: Why Pursuing ‘Slavery Reparations’ Will Lead to a LOSS of Freedom. The Black Caucus and other Leftists in the House will hold a hearing to begin a reparations commission. They have stacked the committees with leftist and communist experts to discuss “through open and constructive discourse, the legacy of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, its continuing impact on the community and the path to restorative justice.” There will be nothing open nor constructive about this. Cory Booker, who is running as a 2020 presidential candidate, introduced companion legislation in the Senate. And Democrats across the board, including every presidential candidate, have virtue signaled their approval to begin cash payments to descendants of slaves. What is our country coming to? It’s true that enslaved ancestors of blacks were robbed. They were robbed of their labor, their happiness, their lives, their property and their families. And this continued into the 20th century through racist laws that excluded blacks from opportunities available only to whites, such as the GI Bill. But our nation ended these racial hierarchies. We had a war and later a march, a brutal struggle for every American to live the American Dream with equal rights under the law — a very American idea. Since then, leftists determined they could hold power by stoking the cold embers of institutional racism. And for the first time, we are witnessing the emboldened Left push a dangerous idea that will fracture our freedom by organizing our society by the sins of our fathers. When the government determines whether you deserve your property and wealth, we lose our freedom. This is exactly what the Left plans and we need to stop them right now. We know what reparations look like by visiting any urban community in our country. Since the Great Society began in the sixties, we watched out-of-wedlock births for blacks increase from 23 percent to 76 percent today. We’ve watched leftists steal trillions of dollars from Americans’ pocketbooks to give away to voters with nothing to show for it. After all, the poverty rate remains the same today as when the Great Society began in 1964. You won’t hear this on CNN or MSNBC.
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Tennis - 20. June 2019.
Caroline Wozniacki steps up to defend Eastbourne title
Danish former world No.1 Caroline Wozniacki has confirmed her return to the Nature Valley International in her bid to defend her title. As she returns to Eastbourne in June, she will join an exceptional family of WTA stars who have made the pilgrimage to Devonshire Park more than 10 times.
Wozniacki holds an illustrious record at Eastbourne, reaching the semi-finals three times, the final three times, and winning the title twice on Devonshire Park’s iconic lawn courts. She joins an esteemed roll of honour including current top 100 players Sam Stosur and Ekaterina Makarova, 2004 Eastbourne Champion Svetlana Kuznetsova, and legends Martina Navratilova, Virginia Wade and Jo Durie who have embraced Devonshire Park’s uniquely friendly, relaxed tennis setting.
Eastbourne holds a special place in my heart
Currently ranked No.12, Wozniacki said she was looking forward to returning to the Nature Valley International to defend the title she first won in 2009.
“Eastbourne holds a special place in my heart, and it’s nice to see so many loyal fans and families coming to the event year after year who make all the players feel so welcome,” said Wozniacki.
“There are some great things you can do in and around the event, and there aren't many tournaments where we get to interact so closely with the fans. That creates a unique atmosphere that makes Eastbourne a really special place for us to play."
Ranked year-end No.1 in 2010 and 2011, Wozniacki has amassed 30 WTA singles titles and finished eight of the last 10 seasons in the top 10. Appearing in the forty-third Grand Slam tournament of her career in January 2018, she battled to a courageous three set victory over then-No.1 Simona Halep, to claimed her maiden tennis major and recapture the top ranking for the first time in six years.
Caroline is always a fan favourite here in Eastbourne
Nature Valley International Tournament Director Gavin Fletcher said he was delighted to welcome Wozniacki back to the Nature Valley International.
“It’s wonderful to have Caroline back in Eastbourne in 2019 to defend her title,” said Fletcher. “She had a thrilling run through the draw here last year, culminating in a great final against Aryna Sabalenka. Caroline is always a fan favourite here in Eastbourne, and is sure to receive a rousing welcome whenever she competes.
“The Nature Valley International has long been popular with fans because of the tournament’s relaxed, welcoming atmosphere. Our events play a key role in driving the visibility of our sport and inspiring more people, both children and adults, to pick up a racket.
We look forward to building on the success of a record 2018 tournament that saw us sell out centre court and No.1 court on six of the seven main draw days, and achieve a record attendance of 51,641 visitors to the event.”
Wozniacki joins British No.1 Johanna Konta in the draw at the Nature Valley Eastbourne. Konta has has committed to play all three of the LTA’s summer grass court tournaments.
Watch Caroline live in Eastbourne
Tickets are still available for the Nature Valley International - buy your tickets now to witness the action courtside this summer.
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Artist: Joan Jett And The Blackhearts
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts are an American rock band led by artist Joan Jett. After The Runaways split in 1979, Jett pursued a solo career to explore the same aggressive punk style and met Kenny Laguna. Jett soon released her self-titled debut. Shortly after that, with Kenny's assistance, Joan formed the backing group "The Blackhearts" with three obscure New York area musicians: Gary Ryan on bass, Eric Ambel (replaced shortly thereafter by Rick Byrd) on guitar and Lee Crystal on drums. ead more on Last.fm
Top Albums Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
Up Your Alley
Fit to Be Tied: Great Hits by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
I Love Rock & Roll
I Love Rock N' Roll
I Love Rock 'n' Roll
Rock of the 80s Leather & Lace
I Love Rock 'N Roll (Remastered)
I Love Rock 'N Roll
I Love Rock N Roll
Great Hits
Glorious Results of a Misspent Youth
I Love Rock 'N' Roll (Expanded Edition)
The Iggy Pop Tribute: We Will Fall
I Love Rock N' Roll [Bonus Tracks]
Joan Jett and The Blackhearts: Greatest Hits
I Love Rock 'N' Roll 33 1/3 Anniversary
Giga Dance Vol.2
Greatest Hits [Disc 1]
Greatest Hits - DISC 1
Jett Rock: Greatest Hits of Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
Rolling Stone Magazine's 100 Greatest Guitar Songs Of All Time
Fit to Be Tied: Great Hits by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts [Reissue]
Evil Stig
The Coolest Songs In The World! Vol. 4
VH1 100 Greatest Songs of 80’s
Greatest Hits Disc 1
Wayne's World 2
I Love Rock'n Roll
Fit To Be Tied (Great Hits) [ECD] [UK]
Joan Jett and The Blackhearts: Greatest Hits (Deluxe Edition)
Fit To Be Tied: Great Hits By Joan Jett And The Black Hearts
Fit to Be Tied: Great Hits by Joan Jett
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Tinashe’s ‘Joyride’ Album Gets a Release Date
It's been nearly four years since Tinashe released her debut album Aquarius, now the singer is finally ready to release her sophomore album, Joyride. Following the release of two singles, Tinashe's latest project will be releasing on April 13.
"The wait is over. JOYRIDE 4•13," she wrote on Twitter. First announced in September 2015, Tinashe's follow-up to Aquarius has been hit with a number of delays and even saw a supporting tour get cancelled.
But after a few under-performing singles in 2016 and 2017, Tinashe finally hit the mark this year with the Offset-assisted "No Drama" and her Future collaboration, "Faded Love." The singer is also gearing up for her third Joyride single, "Me So Bad" with French Montana and Ty Dolla $ign, hopefully giving her the success she deserves.
Following the release of her debut album, Tinashe actually dropped another project, Nightride, which was supposed to serve as a companion to Joyride. "Nightride is my newest full-length project. I have been working on it quietly for nearly two years, alongside Joyride," she said in 2016.
"This is the beginning of the journey, one piece of the puzzle that makes me who I am both as an artist and as a human. Being human is about embracing the many different sides of you rather than trying to limit, label, or box yourself in... Nightride is an expression of that duality. I'm so exited to share the first side with you now."
Check out the cover for Tinashe's Joyride below.
Source: Tinashe’s ‘Joyride’ Album Gets a Release Date
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NRA Blames Sandy Hook Killings on Video Games, Movies and Music Videos
Media 'Sells, and Sows, Violence Against Its Own People'
By Nat Ives. Published on December 21, 2012.
The National Rifle Association broke its long silence since last week's shooting massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School by blaming the deaths on lax enforcement of existing gun laws, unguarded schools and a media business that "sells, and sows, violence against its own people."
The media "try their best to conceal" the extent of "vicious" video games such as "Bulletstorm," "Grand Theft Auto," "Mortal Kombat," "Splatterhouse" and "Kindergarten Killers," NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre said at a press conference, according to a script provided by the association.
Mr. LaPierre played a video clip of "Kindergarten Killers," a free online game in which a janitor goes on a shooting spree in an elementary school -- one in which the students are armed.
"Then there's the blood-soaked slasher films like 'American Psycho' and 'Natural Born Killers' that are aired like propaganda loops on 'Splatterdays' and every day, and a thousand music videos that portray life as a joke and murder as a way of life," Mr. LaPierre said.
"Rather than face their own moral failings, the media demonize lawful gun owners," he added, "amplify their cries for more laws and fill the national debate with misinformation and dishonest thinking that only delay meaningful action and all but guarantee that the next atrocity is only a news cycle away."
Nor do reporters understand guns, repeatedly inaccurately describing semiautomatics as "machine guns," he said. "They don't know what they're talking about."
In addition to making its first comments on the Newtown shootings, the NRA has re-established its Facebook page, which disappeared last Friday.
A protester interrupted Friday's press conference at one point, shouting that the NRA has "blood on its hands."
Mr. LaPierre called for armed security at every school, saying that the NRA could assist the effort. "Every school in America needs to immediately identify, dedicate and deploy the resources necessary to put these security forces in place right now," he said, according to the script. "And the National Rifle Association, as America's preeminent trainer of law enforcement and security personnel for the past 50 years, is ready, willing and uniquely qualified to help."
The NRA has recruited former Representative Asa Hutchinson to lead that push, which it labeled the National School Shield, Mr. LaPierre said.
"There'll be time for talk and debate later," he said. "This is the time, this is the day for decisive action."
Critics took to social media to dispute his arguments. "I now see what the Mayans predicted about today has come true," wrote "Bowling for Columbine" director Michael Moore wrote on Twitter. "Except that the only world that 's going to end is the NRA's."
Nat Ives
Nat Ives is executive editor at Ad Age, which he joined in 2005 as a reporter on the publishing beat. He previously helped cover the media and ad industries as a news assistant at The New York Times and reported on commercial real estate for Institutional Investor newsletters. He graduated from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 2001.
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MA in Writing Alum Craig Gralley Profiled in Washington Post
MA in Writing alum Craig Gralley is profiled in the Washington Post, for the novel he’s working on, and which he worked on during his time in the program. The novel is about one of the CIA’s most legendary officers, Virginia Hall. Mark Farrington, who served as the program’s assistant director, became Gralley’s thesis adviser, helping him read more…
MA in Writing Alum Monica Hesse’s Book Named a New York Times Notable Book of 2017
The latest book by MA in Writing alum Monica Hesse — American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land — has been named a New York Times Notable Book of 2017. This is a tremendous national honor. In addition to the national bestselling America Fire, Monica is the author of the Edgar Award-winning novel Girl in the Blue read more…
MA in Writing Faculty Rion Scott Wins PEN/Bingham Prize
MA in Writing faculty Rion Amilcar Scott has been named the winner of this year’s prestigious PEN/Bingham Prize for his short story collection Insurrections. The PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction honors an exceptionally talented fiction writer whose debut work — a novel or collection of short stories — represents distinguished literary achievement and suggests great read more…
Karen Houppert, New Associate Director, MA in Writing Program
The Writing Program is very pleased to announce that Karen Houppert has joined the MA in Writing program at Johns Hopkins University as the program’s new Associate Director. An award-winning teacher and writer, Karen has extensive, distinguished publications to her credit. She is the author of The Curse, Confronting the Last Unmentionable Taboo: Menstruation (FSG); read more…
NYT Reviews “The Mirror Thief,” Martin Seay’s Novel That Arose from MA in Writing Course
The NYT book review section had a rave review of the first novel written by Martin Seay, “The Mirror Thief.” It turns out that that the book arose from an AAP’s MA in Writing program course taught by Richard Peabody. More specifically, it started with a particular homework assignment, which became this book after 14 years: read more…
Hundreds Gather to Enjoy Student Readings in Writing & Science Writing
More than 200 students, alumni, and guests gathered on May 6-7 for the Writing and Science Writing Programs’ Spring 2016 thesis readings and awards presentations in Baltimore and Washington. The Baltimore event in Hodson Hall on the Homewood Campus featured nine readers, plus the presentation of awards to Outstanding Graduates, for Teaching Excellence, and for read more…
Acclaimed Author Charles C. Mann Announced as KSAS Master’s Degree Ceremony Speaker
Acclaimed Author Charles C. Mann announced as John Hopkins University Krieger School of Arts and Sciences Master’s Degree Ceremony speaker More than 450 graduates to attend the ceremony Critically acclaimed author and journalist Charles C. Mann has been selected as the Class of 2016 graduation speaker for the Johns Hopkins University Krieger School of Arts read more…
Writing Program Graduate Ty Coleman Has Published an Essay in The Rumpus
Tyrese L. Coleman, a graduate of the Master of Arts in Writing Program, has published a provocative and fascinating essay in The Rumpus: The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Thoughts on My Ancestry.com DNA Results. Reach Tyrese on Twitter @tylachelleco or at tyresecoleman.com.
Writing Program Graduate Eric Zurita in Washington Post
MA in Writing Program graduate Eric Zurita in the Washington Post with some important comments about Cuba: “Yes, my family had to flee Cuba. But staying mad about it doesn’t achieve anything”. The island won’t have a future unless exiles put aside their anger about the past.
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Closing arguments in retrial of man accused of killing wife
By ABC7
Prosecutors allege Quincy Dean Norton Sr., 36, murdered his 31-year-old wife, Tamika Norton, with his children in the next room at their home on Mira Vista Court on July 22, 2006.
Norton's retrial, which began in late August, has included testimony from his two sons and former sister-in-law, who recounted Norton's alleged history of domestic violence against Tamika Norton.
This morning, prosecutor Al Giannini recounted the boys' testimony to a packed courtroom in his closing argument, saying that they heard their mother scream the morning she was murdered, they heard banging noises, and that the defendant was the only person in the room with her.
"It is unwavering, it is uncontradicted, and it is the truth," Giannini said of the boys' accounts.
Defense attorney Lisa Maguire, whose closing argument is scheduled to begin this afternoon, has argued that Norton's girlfriend, Anitra Johnson, was the killer.
Giannini said this morning that Johnson had no motive to kill Tamika Norton, since the victim had intended to divorce the defendant.
Norton's first trial ended with his conviction on May 15, 2008, when a jury found him guilty of first-degree murder.
The conviction was later overturned when Judge Craig Parsons found that Norton's attorney had provided inadequate representation.
Norton evaded police for more than a month while being sought for questioning after the murder. Police arrested him in San Jose on Aug. 27, 2006, when the woman whose home he was staying at told him to leave. Police arrested him as he sat at a bus stop.
Norton remains in custody without bail.
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Therapeutic boarding schools in Fullerton, California – Check out the Agape difference. – best therapeutic schools and therapeutic schools.
Therapeutic Boarding Schools in Fullerton, California
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Therapeutic Boarding Schools for Boys in Fullerton, California May Not Offer What Agape Does.
As you seek out a therapeutic boarding school in Fullerton, California for your teenage son, would you also consider looking at a program that is low-cost, and has helped struggling teen boys for more than 21 years?
Conveniently situated in the center of the country, Agape Boarding School accepts at-risk boys who may be having behavior issues or who have gotten in with the wrong crowd where you live. Agape is also certified to enroll international students. Over the years, a number of boys have come to the therapeutic boarding school from Fullerton, California. Fact is, it is best for a therapeutic program to be some distance away from home.
Therapeutic Boarding School that Welcomes Boys Who are Struggling with Behavior Issues or Falling Grades
Typically, the boys who come to Agape are displaying behavior issues , for instance, rebelliousness, lying, lack of motivation in academics, associating with the wrong crowd, anger, ADHD, experimenting with drugs or alcohol, or otherwise choosing the wrong road in life that could lead to serious problems if it were to continue.
An Affordable Alternative to Therapeutic Boarding Schools, Boots Camps and Military Schools Near Fullerton, California
Even though our main focus is on dealing with inappropriate behavior and mentoring these boys, we also provide an accredited education, competitive sports and an array of daily activities — all at a very cost-effective price. Agape helps teenage boys become respectful, disciplined and educated young men. Agape believes that real change comes from the heart, and only God can change hearts. Agape’s structured environment helps the boys learn positive new patterns and habits for living.
teens at the Agape boarding school receive an opportunity to catch up and complete their high school coursework and prepare for college. Boys complete an accredited curriculum to earn high school diplomas. Boys also receive training in a variety of vocational skills at Agape, including automotive repair, painting, electrical, tiling, laying carpet, cement work, construction, landscaping, welding, and more. Students are well-prepared for college or entry into initial jobs in the workforce, having acquired these skills, as well as the self-discipline that will benefit them all their lives.
The Agape campus includes a full-size gymnasium and well-equipped indoor recreation center; baseball, football, and soccer fields and a volleyball court and boxing arena; a fishing pond and a small lake; horse barns with an outdoor riding arena; and an in-ground swimming pool, among other facilities. The boys ranch also is home to a plethora of exotic animals, from alpacas to zebras.
Though not located in Fullerton, California, Agape Boarding School Enrolls and Helps Boys from Around the Country, Including Fullerton, California.
Please think about looking outside of Fullerton, California and beyond boot camps and military schools to this effective and reasonably priced therapeutic boarding school for boys with behavioral and academic struggles.
To discover more, we invite you to investigate the rest of our website, then complete our inquiry form or call us today to learn more.
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Fullerton is a city located in northern Orange County, California. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 135,161.
It was founded in 1887 by George and Edward Amerige and named for George H. Fullerton, who secured the land on behalf of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. Historically it was a center of agriculture, notably groves of Valencia oranges and other citrus crops; petroleum extraction; transportation; and manufacturing. It is home to several educational institutions, notably the California State University, Fullerton.
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Posted by Aileen in Biography, Drama, Family, Film, Musical, Romance
Hugh Jackman, Michelle Williams, Musical, P. T. Barnum, Rebecca Ferguson, The Greatest Showman, Zac Efron, Zendaya
The Greatest Showman is the latest Hollywood blockbuster to receive critical acclaim across the world. The American musical biopic follows P. T. Barnum (Hugh Jackman), the man who invented show-business and the circus as we know it. Orphaned and penniless, Barnum rises above this to open the first entertainment show introducing extraordinary never-before-seen acts to the public. Not everyone agrees with these acts being in the public eye though and Barnum, plus his collection of “freaks”, must overcome backlash and abuse in order to continue living a better life and bring entertainment to those who want it.
The cast is filled with great names and they really bring the energy throughout. Hugh Jackman in the lead is perfect, he gives out a determination to succeed and improve his life for himself and his family. Therefore it’s easy to see how his character gets swept up in the adoration he receives from the public and inevitably loses sight of what he was actually wanting to achieve. Hugh is a great actor and you will quickly fall in love with his portrayal of Barnum. His relationship with Michelle Williams (Suite Francaise) who plays Barnum’s wife Charity is sweet and clearly full of love. Childhood friends – even though her family forbid it due to Barnum being working class – their love led them to running away and this love carries them through all the ups and downs that follow.
Zac Efron (a personal favourite of mine) is back in a musical role – forever known for playing Troy Bolton in High School Musical! – here, he is Phillip Carlyle, a playwright who Barnum convinces to join in his venture. Upon meeting, Phillip falls in love with Anne (Zendaya, Spider-man Homecoming) an African-American trapeze artist. She returns the feelings but being a white man and a black woman their relationship is forbidden. Both Zac and Zendaya play this really beautifully, their scenes together are touching as the two try to suppress their desires for one another and follow social expectations.
Rebecca Ferguson (The Girl on the Train) is Opera singer Jenny Lund who Barnum brings into his show in order to attract a higher class of audience. However her arrival proves a distraction for Barnum as he focuses all his attentions onto her and loses sight of his family and the other performers. Rebecca is great as Jenny and gives one of the more powerful musical performances of the film with the song Never Enough – think along the lines of Elsa’s Let it Go from Frozen – although Rebecca doesn’t actually sing it in real life, the stunning voice belongs to Loren Allred.
The musical performances are incredible throughout, every member of cast really throws themselves into them and this creates a powerful watch. The stand out song of the film is This is Me, which is an anthem for all those who feel like they are different. The songs are all fantastic – written by Justin Paul and Benj Pasek, who won Oscar’s for their work on La La Land – they fit perfectly within the story and are incredibly catchy, I actually bought the soundtrack right after seeing the film and now have it on repeat!
Overall, I’m going to put it out there and say that The Greatest Showman is possibly one of the best films I’ve seen in a while! Everything about it is mesmerising, from the story line to the musical numbers to the costumes and brilliant acting…I couldn’t fault it! Definitely a must see, it’s family friendly and the catchy songs will be stuck in your head for days to come. I’m actually itching to see it again it’s that good! A great film to start the New Year with and one which is bound to win many awards in the coming weeks.
Posted by Aileen in Animation, Disney, Family, Fantasy, Film, Musical, Romance
Beauty and the Beast, Belle, Dan Stevens, Disney, Downton Abbey, Emma Thompson, Emma Watson, Ewan McGregor, Frozen, Gaston, Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, Ian McKellen, Josh Gad, LeFou, Luke Evans, Lumière, Mrs Potts, Olaf, Stanley Tucci
The film release that the world has been waiting for finally arrived on the 17th March: the live-action remake of the 1991 animated Disney classic Beauty and the Beast. It’s been a long time since I saw the original but everyone knows the story of the young prince who is imprisoned in the form of a beast and can only be freed by true love. When Belle, a girl from the nearby village, enters the castle one day it is clear she might be the one to free the Prince. Alongside the Prince’s enchantment, a few members of his staff were also imprisoned into furniture items, but with the ability to speak and move. The enchantment will be made permanent with the falling of a certain rose’s last petal. It’s a classic Disney story but this remake brings with it a few modern twists.
Emma Watson (aka Hermione Granger from Harry Potter) takes on the role of Belle – much to everyone’s curiosity as no one knew if she could even sing! – but brings to the character a more independent and strong girl to the usual Disney Princess type that we so normally see. This Belle wears trousers under her skirts, knows how to make and improve mechanical objects and wears an ear cuff alongside the classic yellow ballgown. All little things proving that this is the modern day princess. Emma does a great job as Belle, she is believable throughout as she goes through a range of emotions, and she gives us another role for young girls to look up to. However, whenever she sings it doesn’t quite sound right, there is no natural quality to it. It’s almost like it’s been tampered with somehow which slightly spoils the film in places.
Her opening song of Belle, for example, sounds completely off, and totally unnatural. This is all easily forgotten though as you get swept up in the musical numbers. My over-riding thought towards Emma though is just how beautiful she is. There are a lot of extreme close-ups on her face giving us plenty of opportunity to see how stunning she is, and of course the classic ballroom scene when she’s in the yellow gown will take your breathe away.
Dan Stevens (Downton Abbey) is the Beast but spends the majority of the film in the costume so we only get to see his lovely face briefly at the beginning and the end. The CGI of the Beast is very good and Dan makes the character very believable. The relationship between Dan and Emma is great and there is a clear chemistry between the two as they slowly find themselves falling in love.
The rest of the cast is filled with famous names – some of which are given to us through voice right until the end as they are the enchanted furniture, so it was hard to recognise the voices to the people. For example, Mrs Potts was Emma Thompson, I didn’t realise it was her until her character changed back to human. Same with Ewan McGregor as Lumière. Ian McKellen is Cogsworth and Stanley Tucci is Maestro Cadenza and altogether they are fantastic in their animations. Playing live action characters we have the gorgeous Luke Evans who is perfect as the obnoxious Gaston and has a very powerful and manly singing voice. Alongside Gaston is his ever faithful servant LeFou, played here by Josh Gad. This remake caused a lot of fuss when it became clear that LeFou would be the first gay character in a Disney film. Frankly I think it’s terrible that some people took offence to this decision, especially as there are only small undertones in the character that suggest his true feelings towards Gaston. Josh Gad plays the role very well and brings a lot of the laughs throughout. However a lot of time I kept thinking of Olaf from Frozen as Josh also voices him and there’s no difference in how the two roles speak!
Visually the film is stunning, special effects did a fantastic job throughout. The colour schemes match the mood so we are given bright and cheery clothes and surroundings at the beginning but as the film darkens so does the scenery. The musical numbers are done in typical Disney fashion with some exceptional performances from humans and animations alike.
Overall, this live-action remake of Beauty and the Beast is a typical Disney film that’s fun for all the family. Ultimately though the film is an outright copy of the original animation, so everything from the costumes to the settings is exactly the same. So if you want to relive the classic then you’ll definitely enjoy this. The few modern twists to the film really aren’t that noticeable but certainly give Belle a less domesticated feel and a better role model as she strives to better herself through her learning. Of course it being a Disney film she still ends up with the Prince and living happily ever after!
Posted by Aileen in Comedy, Drama, Family, Film, Musical
Emma Stone, Hollywood, John Legend, Musical, Ryan Gosling
Described as being the biggest film of the year (which isn’t much really considering we’re still only a few weeks into the new year..!), La La Land is a musical that follows aspiring actress Mia (Emma Stone) and Jazz musician Sebastian (Ryan Gosling) as they meet, fall in love and persuade each other to follow their dreams. The film has already won numerous awards – including 7 Golden Globes (Best Motion Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress and more) – and has 11 BAFTA nominations. There’s no doubt that the film will also receive several Oscar nominations too.
The film starts with a very impressive musical number staged across an LA freeway in the middle of a traffic jam – but weirdly neither of the lead characters are included. The first twenty minutes or so then follows Mia’s day as we are introduced to her character leading up the point in which she meets Sebastian. We then go back to the start again but this time following Sebastian. After that the film continues normally, seamlessly showing us both characters views.
Visually, everything about the film is stunning from costumes and setting to the musical numbers. There’s a really great moment during one of the numbers when the song slows down and Mia is walking through a crowd. All the characters slow down with the music – almost like they are mimicking slow-motion – and as the music speeds up, they do too. It’s brilliantly choreographed and something which really stuck in my mind after.
Emma Stone is a great actress, and one I’ve always loved, it’s nice to see her in a different role and showing off her singing and dancing skills! One of the reasons this film is so modern is due to the characters singing live in each take. There’s no lip-syncing during scenes, which makes it all the more believable but does mean some lyrics are hard to hear (the opening freeway sequence, a few times it was hard to make out what was being sung). Emma actually has a very good singing voice and her time on Broadway in Cabaret means she’s no stranger to giving great musical performances.
Ryan Gosling is not one I would have immediately thought of in regards to musicals, his voice isn’t fantastic but weirdly it works in this film, he’s not supposed to be a singer, he’s a pianist and apparently he learnt to play for the film. Every scene with a piano Ryan is actually playing it for real which is incredible when you see what he ends up playing! Ryan’s a very good actor and here he excels as the struggling musician trying to follow his dream of bringing Jazz back. This isn’t the first time Emma and Ryan have starred together – it’s actually the third after Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011) and Gangster Squad (2013) – and yet again they work perfectly alongside each other. The chemistry between them is completely true, you can really see their characters falling in love and caring for each other. Not only do they act well together, it now turns out they dance well together too! I’m sure there will be plenty more Stone/Gosling films in the future.
Overall, La La Land has been hailed by critics as being this amazing modern film with links back to the old fashioned Hollywood films. However, I feel very disappointed by this film. Maybe there was too much expectation going in but I just didn’t get what all the hype was about! The story between Mia and Sebastian is great but frankly the musical numbers weren’t needed at all (and I love a musical I really do!), and a lot of the time the performances came about in situations where it didn’t really make sense for there to be one. Also, I genuinely don’t know what time period this film is supposed to be set in, everything is very modern but yet the clothes are all sixties. It’s also classed as a ‘comedy’ but I can’t remember one remotely funny moment. The soundtrack really isn’t all that, there’s not one song that I even remember thinking I really like – even John Legend doesn’t give us any good songs and he’s had some amazing hit songs! Most frustrating though is the ending, not in terms of story as that’s acceptable, but in that we are lead towards the end and then given a 10 minute fast-forward of the whole film but with an alternate ending, and then back to the original ending! It’s completely pointless and made the film one in which I wouldn’t really care about seeing again. Honestly don’t know why the world has gone crazy over it, which is disappointing as I so wanted to love it!
Posted by Aileen in Comedy, Film, Musical
Acapella, Anna Kendrick, Hailee Steinfeld, Pitch Perfect, Rebel Wilson
In 2012 we were first introduced to the Barden Bellas, an all-girl acapella group from Barden University who were determined to win the campus acapella competition. My friend first introduced me to this film and I am so glad she did because I absolutely LOVE the film! Therefore I was eagerly awaiting the sequel and hoping it would be just as good if not better than the first. Which thankfully it most definitely was!
Pitch Perfect 2 finds the girls 3 years later, and now 3 times champions of the campus acapella competition. However after a (hilarious!) disastrous performance in front of Obama – if you’ve seen the trailer you’ll know what happens! (pictured left) – the Bellas are suspended. As a way to be re-instated they ask to compete in the World Championships, a competition in which no American group has ever won. Their request is if they win, the suspension is lifted. They are granted permission and the film follows them as they prepare for the Championships. Their main competition are DSM from Germany, headed by two very tall beautiful people – there is a lot of very funny trash talk between the two groups as they try to put each other down!
As well as the run up to the competition the story follows Be ca (Anna Kendrick) as she prepares for life after graduation, Fat Amy (Rebel Wilson) as she comes to terms with her feelings for Bumper (Adam Devine) and new girl Emily (Hailee Steinfeld – pictured on the right with Kendrick) who’s mum had been a Bella too. The storyline’s all mix well together but Fat Amy definitely has more of a role than in the first one so expect a lot more laughter from her character this time round!
The music is just as good in this film, the mash-ups all work well together and there is a great mix of old and new songs – including ‘Flashlight’ which Emily has written herself (in reality it’s Jessie J who wrote the song!) and is a great song that you’ll be singing way after the film ends. Of course there is the traditional Riff-Off where groups all sing against each other (this time guest-starring the American Football Team The Green Bay Packers!) and there is also a beautiful version of Cups (the breakout song from the first film) which all the girls sing together round a camp fire and will most definitely bring a tear to your eye!
Overall I absolutely loved the film, it’s just as good as the first one but with even more laughs. It’s directed and produced by the brilliant Elizabeth Banks – who is also back as Gail, one of the commentators (with some fabulous hairstyles!). There’s even a cameo from Snoop Dogg! You’ll be laughing the whole way through, it’s a great feel-good film and I shall most definitely be watching it over and over again!
My Top Ten Disney Films!
Posted by Aileen in Adventure, Comedy, Disney, Film, Musical
101 Dalmations, Anne Hathaway, Julie Andrews, Lindsay Lohan, Mary Poppins, Monsters Inc, The Lion King, The Parent Trap, Toy Story
I didn’t make the cinema this week so instead I thought I’d copy something I saw on a few vlogs recently and talk about my Top 10 Disney Films! Now I won’t lie, I had to google Disney films before I started this to make sure I didn’t miss any important ones off my list! I’m also going to say it was incredibly hard to pick just 10 and then put them in order so I’ve cheated slighted and included sequels together, and I’m so sorry if I miss out any of your favourites but these are the ones that mean the most to me! (Also apologies as this is quite a lengthy post!)
Number 10: Mr Magoo (1997) . According to Wikipedia this film received negative reviews and was a “box office bomb”, which seems very strange to me because I used to watch this film constantly when I was younger and absolutely loved it! Admittedly I haven’t seen it for a very long time so maybe my views would differ if I were to watch it again but for now I had to include it in my Top 10 because it meant so much to me as a child. Overall it’s quite a silly film but perfect for children as it gives lots of slapstick comedy. Whenever the film is mentioned or I come across our copy of it on videotape (!) it always brings a smile to my face so of course I had to include it in my favourites.
Number 9: Up (2009). I’m pretty sure all of you w ould have seen Up as it’s not that old but also because it’s such a lovely film about love and friendship and different generations working together. I adore this film because of all those things and also because it’s funny and yet will have you crying in the first 10 minutes alone. The love story between Carl and Ellie is beautiful and in those first 10 minutes when we are taken through their lives together you immediately connect with them which is an incredible feat to achieve. Up is such a good film, and one that all the family can enjoy not just children so that’s why it is at number 9.
Number 8: The Parent Trap (1998). Another film I was obsessed with as a child, as was probably a lot of girls my age. This version is the one starring Lindsay Lohan as twins Annie and Hallie. I’m going to admit here that when I was younger it didn’t ever occur to me that the twins weren’t twins in real life. Genuinely thought the girls were played by two people! Having watched the film again a few years ago, and having now got a Film degree, I can really appreciate how much effort must have gone into making this film with Lindsay playing both parts, it would have taken a lot of planning, for of course partway through the film Annie has long hair and Hallie has short! They couldn’t exactly do any re-shoots for beginning scenes once Lindsay’s hair had been cut! Seriously though, I love this film. It was a huge favourite when I was younger and I still love it now. Lindsay was brilliant as the twins and you can really see how good at acting she is – obviously in recent years her acting isn’t exactly what she’s known for, which is a pity – but overall it’s a funny, feel good film and Natasha Richardson and Dennis Quaid are brilliant as the parents!
Number 7: The Princess Diaries (2001)/The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004). I’ve cheated here and put these two together but I do love both of these films! This was probably the beginning of Anne Hathaway’s career and really put her out there. Anne is brilliant in both films, she is great at comedy and became a character that you could really connect with and admire – and of course every young girl wishes they could be a Princess! The other brilliant thing about these films is that Mia’s Grandmother is played by the brilliant Julie Andrews! (More on her later…!). Both of these films are hilarious and I still love to watch them even as a 22 year old so of course they had to be included!
Number 6: 101 Dalmations (1996)/102 Dalmations (2000). Another joint entry but I adore both these films! There are a lot of brilliant actors in the first film which just cements how good of a film it is! Glenn Close is incredible as Cruella De Vil, Jeff Daniels & Joely Richardson (Natasha’s sister!) are the owners of the Dalmations and the brilliant Hugh Laurie and Mark Williams (Arthur Weasley!!) are Cruella’s helpers. Of course back in ’96 the last two actors weren’t all that well known to the public but since then their careers have accelerated! Again the story lines of both films are suited for children with plenty of slapstick comedy and cute puppies! The second film wasn’t quite such a success and the only returning characters are Cruella and her faithful servant Alonzo played by Tim McInnerny, but I still loved it and think Alice Evans & Ioan Gruffudd are great in the leads and new enemy played by Gérard Depardieu is fantastic! Oh and there’s a talking parrot who thinks it’s a dog. What more could you want? I put them at number 6 because the first film is another childhood classic and the second isn’t far behind in my eyes!
Number 5: Monsters, Inc. (2001)/Monsters University (2013). Didn’t think I could really split these two up but if I’m honest I think Monsters University might be better! The film is hilarious, all the extra characters are brilliant especially the group that make up Oozma Kappa but overall it’s a film about teamwork and the underdog’s triumphing over everyone else. Sully and Mike’s whole university life is hilarious and it’s great to get a background to the characters that everyone fell in love with back in 2001, but for me University is my favourite of the two. I still love the first film though, it’s a classic and again was a favourite when I was younger.
Number 4: The Fox and the Hound (1981). Now this film is what you call a proper classic. I know a lot of people would include films like Cinderella, Dumbo, Jungle Book etc (and believe me I did think long and hard about them!) but for me, out of all of those classic animated Disney films, it’s The Fox and the Hound that means the most. I used to watch this film all the time – even though the scene with the bear in the woods used to terrify me! – the friendship between the two animals is so perfect and makes it even more heart-wrenching when they are forced against each other. I watched this film again a while ago after having not seen it for a very long time and it still moved me, maybe even more so because I now get the underlying storyline throughout the film: just because society says you are destined to be a certain person doesn’t mean that is who you really are. And that is why this film is number 4.
Number 3: Toy Story (1995)/Toy Story 2 (1999)/Toy Story 3 (2010). Cheating massively here and putting all three in one but again they are brilliant films. Toy Story is a classic in it’s own right, the fact that it was made in ’95 is incredible – and something I always forget, how on earth is it 20 years old already?! – the other two sequels are just as good, I genuinely don’t think I could pick a favourite out of the three! One reason I love the films so much is because as a child I was convinced that my toys came alive at night when I was sleeping and so when Toy Story came out it just confirmed by suspicions. Of course now I know it’s not true but at the time it was nice to think my toys were looking after me! The writers of these three films were brilliant in keeping the storyline’s connected to the original audience. For the first film I was 3 and like Andy, very into my toys. The second film I was 7, and again like Andy, starting to be more into bigger/better toys like Game Boys and PC games, so for Woody and the gang to start dreading the coming years and being left in a box somewhere was very real. Most importantly though was Toy Story 3. In 2010 I was 18 and like Andy preparing to head to University, and it’s a time in your life when you finally say goodbye to a lot of your childhood toys as you make way for your new grown-up life. The fact that the writers chose to make the third film in keeping with the real age of Andy, and not just another film with him as a child, meant we still connected with the film and I certainly shed a tear or two when Andy finally says goodbye to Woody and the gang! The power that these three films have had over the years is why they are at number 3.
Number 2: Mary Poppins (1964). I don’t think I really need to explain why this film is at number 2, Mary Poppins is a film that is loved by many generations and I don’t think it will ever get old. Yet again it is one that featured heavily in my childhood and is what put Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke in a special place in my heart. The songs in the film are all classics in their own rights and though the animated sequence is a little odd it doesn’t stop the film from being a beautiful story with brilliant actors. I must add in here something which has made the film even more special. In 2013 we were given Saving Mr Banks, a film that follows the writer and creator of Mary Poppins (P.L. Travers) as she brings her story to the big screen, creating the classic film that we know. However Saving Mr Banks shows us where the characters in the film came from and the struggles that Travers went through both personally and professionally when creating the film. Having seen (and loved!) that film it changes Mary Poppins into a very different watch and makes you love the story and the characters even more!
Number 1: The Lion King (1994). So at number 1 on my Top Ten Disney Films it’s The Lion King, and quite rightly so! This film has always been a favourite of mine, all through childhood and even now as an adult. From the characters to the songs it is a brilliant film (and exceptional on the stage, if you ever get the chance go and see it, you won’t regret it!!) and it will always be a classic even though Mufasa’s death gets me every, single, time. Most importantly though it is a film that brings back a lot of memories. As children, my older brother and I used to watch it all the time, and because of that, the day before my brother left for university, I skipped school and stayed home where we cooked ourselves a special lunch and watched The Lion King. It was a way for us to be children again before he left and we started a new chapter in our lives. For that the film will always be very special to me which is why it is, and always will be, number 1.
Posted by Aileen in Film, Musical
Emily Blunt, James Corden, Meryl Streep
So this was another film that I’ve really been looking forward to seeing, possibly because it feels like we’ve been waiting forever for it come out, and also because a lot of it was filmed in Ashridge (some woods near where I live). Of course the HUGE cast involved was a plus too! The story of Into the Woods follows a baker and his wife (the brilliant James Corden and Emily Blunt) who must lift a curse put upon them in order to be able to have a baby. To do this they have to acquire certain items from well-known fairytales and all in just 3 days.
The film very cleverly brings together the stories of Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, Rapunzel and Jack & The Beanstalk when characters from each venture ‘Into the Woods’ on missions of their own. Everything about this film from the cast to the music to the overall production is fantastic – it’s no wonder that the film has been nominated for three Oscar’s (Costume design, Production design and Supporting Actress)!
I read a review about the film before I went to see it that said the story was wasted in film and they should have kept it as a musical on the stage. Having now seen it I can see where they are coming from, some scenes were worthy of applause like they would have received if it were on the stage, and indeed when the film ended a few brave souls starting clapping in the cinema before awkwardly stopping. In that way the film lost a bit of magic because all the actors involved gave an incredible performance (in particular watch out for the Prince’s duet and Meryl Streep’s stunning solo’s as the Witch), but sitting in the cinema you didn’t feel like you could get involved like you would in the theatre.
The only criticism I would have about the film would be that they promoted it as being ‘the dark side’ of the fairytales, the what happens after the ‘happily-ever-after’ type thing, but in reality this only comes into play in about the last half an hour of the film! Bare in mind it’s over two hours long as well so if that’s what drew you in then you’ll be very disappointed. Also if I’m honest, I felt like the last half an hour was very rushed and could probably have been left out. The rest of the film is very good and all the character’s stories are brilliantly interlinked, but for me the ending ruins it slightly.
That aside, it is worth a watch (if you like musicals that is), James Corden and Emily Blunt work perfectly together creating many comic moments and Meryl Streep is fantastic as the Witch. I really liked it, it’s just a shame about the ending.
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Sea FM’S Spelling Bee Thanks To Station Square
Last Saturday, our Year 3, 4, 5 team represented Albert State School in the Spelling Bee. They achieved an impressive score of nine words correct out of ten, and finishing equal first in their round. Congratulations to Category 1 Team Max, Alex and Eriel who have received certificates and prizes from Station Square for participating in the heats. This team will now progress to the semi-finals.
Our Category 2 Team (Yrs 6/7) will compete in their heat on Saturday 1st September at 10am at Station Square. Competitors are to arrive at Station Square at 9.45am on the scheduled days and meet with Mr Gibson and be dressed in school uniform.
Please note that should we progress in the competition, that the semi-finals will be held on Saturday 8th September, not on the 1st September, as previously advised.
Please come and support our teams.
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Ken Arrow and the Annual Review of Economics
February 23, 2017 May 6, 2019 AR News Journal News economics
From Sam Gubins, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, Annual Reviews
Kenneth Arrow.
It is achingly sad to report the passing of Kenneth Arrow. As described by Michael Weinstein in Monday’s New York Times, Ken Arrow was a brilliant economist, the youngest ever recipient of the Nobel Prize for Economics. He was also the founding Co-Editor of the Annual Review of Economics.
Update: due published in August 2019 – The Economics of Kenneth J. Arrow: A Selective Review.
At a lunch at the Stanford Faculty Club in April, 2007, I invited Ken to launch an Annual Review in economics. Although Annual Reviews had been publishing journals in the social sciences for several decades, none were in economics. While this publishing house is well known in many disciplines, it was largely unknown among economists. For this reason I was concerned that Ken would be unconvinced of the need for extended reviews written by leading economists, and additionally, that leading economists would not easily be persuaded to write them. Ken quickly dispelled both concerns. He said that he was a regular reader of articles in many Annual Reviews series and understood how valuable they were in synthesizing developments in fields. He had been introduced to them by the sociologist Robert K. Merton and the psychologist Gardner Lindzey. In addition to the social science journals, Ken read articles in several Annual Reviews, including Public Health, Neuroscience, Environment, Ecology, and others. So to my request that he take on the task of serving as inaugural editor, he agreed enthusiastically, inviting Timothy Bresnahan to serve as a Co-Editor.
Most of those he invited to join him on the inaugural editorial committee were unfamiliar with Annual Reviews, yet all agreed to serve. And most of those invited to write reviews accepted and delivered a manuscript. Ken was so beloved and revered that the community was eager to join any endeavor of which he was a part.
His colleagues persuaded Ken to write an essay for Volume 1, Some Developments in Economic Theory Since 1940: An Eyewitness Account, which is a personal reflection on his relationship to the development of economic theory over 70 years.
Tim Bresnahan captured the essence of Ken when he wrote, “he was a great man, a great colleague, and a great economist.” We were privileged to have known him.
Photo credit: Linda A. Cicero / Stanford News Service, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Free Trade and the U.S. Election
November 2, 2016 December 6, 2016 Anna Rascouët-Paz News economics, energy, publhealth, resource
As we approach the end of the 2016 presidential campaign in the United States, we explore one of the most heatedly discussed issues: international trade and the various trade deals the country has entered.
Hillary Clinton, the Democratic Party’s nominee, has been criticized by Donald Trump, the Republican Party’s nominee, for her support of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), signed in 1994 between the U.S., Canada, and Mexico by her husband, then-U.S. President Bill Clinton. During her tenure as Secretary of State under President Barack Obama, she spoke in favor of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a proposed deal between 12 countries of the Pacific Rim that has become a priority for the current administration.
Secretary Clinton now says NAFTA didn’t live up to its potential and will need to be renegotiated—a promise made by the Obama campaign in 2008, which his administration didn’t keep. She also says that the latest version of the TPP, which would cover 40% of the global economy with approximately 800 million consumers, doesn’t meet her “high bar” for “creat[ing] American jobs, rais[ing] wages and advanc[ing] our national security.”
Another proposed deal in the early stages of the negotiating process is the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), between the European Union and the United States, covering a third of global trade.
Mr. Trump, on the other hand, has built his platform on a blanket rejection of free trade.
As the political tide seems to have turned toward protectionism, World Trade Organization Director General Roberto Azevedo has expressed concern about the anti-trade rhetoric on both sides of this campaign. With election day looming, what can we learn about trade deals, regional and global, and their long-term effects on participating economies, specifically on poverty, the environment, and public health? Do they result in net gains or net losses?
Learn more with these five articles, which we’ve made freely available:
Regional Trade Agreements, Annual Review of Economics
The Gains from Market Integration, Annual Review of Economics
Trade Liberalization and Poverty: What Have We Learned in a Decade?, Annual Review of Resource Economics
Economic Globlization and the Environment, Annual Review of Environment and Resources
Trade Policy and Public Health, Annual Review of Public Health
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Bolitoglossa bramei
Brame's Web-footed Salamander
Subgenus: Eladinea
family: Plethodontidae
subfamily: Hemidactyliinae
Species Description: Wake DB, Savage JM, Hanken J 2007 Montane salamanders from the Costa Rica-Panama border region, with descriptions of two new species of Bolitoglossa. Copeia 2007:556-563
© 2007 Mario Garcia-Paris (1 of 1)
IUCN (Red List) Status Data Deficient (DD)
Bolitoglossa bramei is a small salamander, with the standard (snout-vent) length reaching 38.1 to 41 mm in females and 37.6 to 39.1 mm in males. The body is slender and has a very long, slender tail with the standard length to tail length ratio between .89 to .99 in females and .93 to 1.1 in males. The narrow head is distinct from the very narrow neck and has prominent, frontally oriented eyes that extend slightly beyond the dorsal profile of the head. The rounded snout has a small nostril and poorly developed nasolabial protuberances. The mouth has many teeth, including 3 or 4 premaxillary teeth, 49 to 57 maxillary teeth, and 24 to 27 teeth on the vomer in males. Females have 6 premaxillary teeth, 52 to 66 maxillary teeth, and 24 to 28 vomerine teeth. This salamander has long legs with moderately wide, webbed hands and feet. The fingers are 1-2-4-3 in increasing length, and toes are 1-5-2-4-3 in increasing length, and have truncate tips and very developed pads near the ends.
Coloration of Bolitoglossa bramei is variable in life. The base color is a dark brown or brownish red. Ventral surfaces are gray with light lines, mottled with random melanophores and larger guanophores, or black. The body has a reddish brown jagged stripe that blends into the tail and has a dark brown trunk otherwise, and the stripe can have cream lines on the border. The tail is also reddish brown, becoming darker near the end and usually with red at the very tip. Ventrally the tail is orange with dark splotches on the bottom. Limbs are yellowish brown, sometimes with bright orange or white marks. The head is a dark brown, with groups of black spots that extend to the shoulders. The iris is mostly black, with a few minute brown areas.
In alcohol, the type specimen is described as having a yellow dorsum, more prominent posteriorly, with dark areas all along. The ventral surface is light gray with yellowish areas in random spots and lines. The head is a dark gray, but located behind the eyes and on the snout are dark yellow spots and the throat is light grey with yellow areas like the snout. The legs are described as dark with minimal yellow areas, with the yellow mainly concentrated on the part of the limb near the body.
Country distribution from AmphibiaWeb's database: Costa Rica, Panama
This species is found in the southern part of the Cordillera de Talamanca on the Atlantic and Pacific slopes, from the Costa Rica-Panama border to southern and eastern localities in Panama, extending to the Chiriqui Province and Boquete area. It lives in tropical lower montane rainforest, at elevations from 1900 to 2300 m.
Bolitoglossa bramei is a nocturnal, arboreal salamander that can be found either on the ground, or in vegetation up to a few meters above the ground. It has a prehensile tail and is good at climbing.
Arden H. Brame, Jr., II was the first to distinguish this species of Bolitoglossa as undescribed from the specimens collected. The specific name bramei also honors his many contributions to salamander studies (Wake et al. 2007).
Wake, D. B., Savage, J. M., and Hanken, J. (2007). ''Montane salamanders from the Costa Rica-Panama border region, with descriptions of two new species of Bolitoglossa.'' Copeia, 3, 556-565.
Written by Kristina Prus (kprus AT fas.harvard.edu), Harvard
Species Account Citation: AmphibiaWeb 2008 Bolitoglossa bramei: Brame's Web-footed Salamander <http://amphibiaweb.org/species/6965> University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA. Accessed Jul 16, 2019.
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Litoria infrafrenata
White-lipped Tree Frog family: Hylidae
subfamily: Pelodryadinae
© 2010 Eric Vanderduys (1 of 22)
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Country distribution from AmphibiaWeb's database: Australia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea
Coastal and adjacent areas of north-eastern Queensland, north of Townsville and extending around Cape York Peninsula and into the Gulf of Carpentaria. The extent of occurrence of the species is approximately 123800 km2
Wide variety of habitats including rainforest, wet sclerophyll forest, cultivated and suburban habitats. Active on warm and humid nights. Breeding in spring and summer. About 4 100 eggs are laid in clumps and tadpoles develop in about 8 weeks.
No known declines and extent of occurrence > 20,000km2.
Loss of habitat through logging.
Protected where it occurs in rainforests.
Banks, C.B., Birkett, J.R., Dunn, R.W., and Martin, A.A. (1983). ''Development of Litoria infrafrenata (Anura: Hylidae).'' Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 107(4), 197-200.
Barker, J., Grigg, G. C., and Tyler, M. J. (1995). A Field Guide to Australian Frogs. Surrey Beatty and Sons, New South Wales.
Cogger, H.G. (1992). Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia. Reed Books, New South Wales.
Written by J-M Hero et al. (m.hero AT mailbox.gu.edu.au), Griffith University
Edited by Ambika Sopory (2008-09-16)
Species Account Citation: AmphibiaWeb 2008 Litoria infrafrenata: White-lipped Tree Frog <http://amphibiaweb.org/species/1257> University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA. Accessed Jul 16, 2019.
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