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A WAR TO REMEMBER
Author Nicholas Sparks Tried to Ban LGBT Club and Student Protests at His Christian School, Emails Reveal
Rosdiana Ciaravolo/Getty
Emails from Sparks—who runs the Epiphany School, a Christian academy in North Carolina—obtained by The Daily Beast paint a damning portrait of the bestselling author.
Tarpley Hitt
In 2006, Nicholas Sparks, the prolific romance writer best known for The Notebook and A Walk to Remember, helped co-found a prep school in New Bern, North Carolina, called the Epiphany School of Global Studies. The idea was to start a small, faith-based academy focused on world issues with an emphasis on language-learning, regular visits to other nations, and a shared understanding that “learning about the world” was an integral part of 21st-century life. In its mission statement, the school of roughly 500 students describes itself as “anchored in the Judeo-Christian commandment to Love God and Your Neighbor as Yourself.”
But since 2014, members of the Epiphany School’s Board of Trustees, including Sparks, have been locked in a legal battle with the academy’s former headmaster and CEO, Saul Benjamin, over what the latter describes as a pattern of harassment, racism, and homophobia. “Sparks and members of the Board unapologetically marginalized, bullied, and harassed members of the School community,” Benjamin’s attorneys wrote in the complaint, “whose religious views and/or identities did not conform to their religiously driven, bigoted preconceptions.“
Sparks rejected the claims in a 29-page declaration to the court. In a statement on Twitter posted after this article first published, Sparks asserted that reporting on the headmaster's claims was “not news” and “false,” and that some of the claims against him had been dismissed. (Sparks would not provide The Daily Beast with additional comment for this story.)
But emails obtained by The Daily Beast show the romance writer repeatedly taking issue with Benjamin’s attempts to make the school inclusive to all faiths, races, and sexualities.
In one stern message, Sparks chastised the former headmaster for “what some perceive as an agenda that strives to make homosexuality open and accepted.” In another, he put forward a motion to ban student protest at the school, an impulse that came directly in response to two lesbian girls planning to announce their orientation during chapel. In a third, while listing complaints against Benjamin, he cites “misplaced priorities at the school level (GLBT, diversity, the beauty of other religions, as opposed to academic/curricular/global issues, Christian traditions, etc.).”
Benjamin, whose suit includes claims of defamation, also alleges Sparks spread rumors that he suffered from a mental disorder. The former headmaster told The Daily Beast he has never received any such diagnosis, but in another obtained email, the romance writer laid out a case for diagnosing him, citing forgetfulness and an “obsession” with what he characterizes as “non-relevant” issues. “While I am not a doctor–and as scary as this may sound to you–I do believe that [Benjamin] is suffering from a mental illness of some sort,” Sparks wrote in the message. “What that is–Alzheimer’s, a variance of bi-polar, something else–I have no idea.”
Sparks, a former pharmaceutical salesman-turned-love-chronicler, has published 20 novels to tremendous commercial success. In the Sparks literary universe, handsome, hard-working, and occasionally brusque men tend to encounter waifish, strong-headed women, fall passionately, chastely in love, only to have some obstacle—status, sickness, hidden histories—intervene. Tragedies are common, love usually conquers, and Christian values can often be found in between. All of Sparks’ books have become New York Times bestsellers, with more than 105 million copies sold internationally, and 75 million in the United States alone; and 11 of them have been adapted to film—each a blockbuster hit, grossing a collective three-quarters of a billion dollars. Just this year, the author announced that a musical version of The Notebook—Sparks’ most successful novel and a meditation on love outlasting Alzheimer’s (the same disease Sparks would later suggest Benjamin had)—was slotted for a Broadway run.
“When Benjamin brought up his concerns or attempted to remedy them, he claims he encountered resistance and outright racism.”
The conflict dates back to early 2013. At the time, Benjamin, a Jewish-born Quaker, was teaching at the Moroccan university Al Akhawayn, when he got a call from a headhunter about Epiphany. The position seemed interesting—the job would come with a huge pay bump, and the school’s emphasis on spirituality and world cultures seemed right up his alley. “I’ve always been an educator, always globally focused, always keenly interested in the ways that different cultures and different religions and different communities try to help young people discover their potential,” Benjamin told The Daily Beast. “That’s not a speech, that’s my faith.”
In 2013, Benjamin accepted the position, and moved with his family to New Bern, North Carolina, to start at the school that fall. Almost immediately, according to Benjamin and court documents, he began to notice problems in the school’s attitude toward diversity. For one, the school was overwhelmingly white and Christian, with just two black students enrolled that year, despite the fact that African-Americans comprise nearly 40 percent of the county’s population. When Benjamin brought up his concerns or attempted to remedy them, he claims he encountered resistance and outright racism.
In one incident, described in Benjamin’s complaint, Sparks allegedly attributed the school’s dearth of black students to the fact that they are “too poor and can’t do the academic work.” In another, Tracey Lorentzen, a member of Epiphany’s Board of Trustees and a defendant in the case, claimed she often drives 35 miles away to shop at the Wal-Mart in Havelock, North Carolina. “Only black people work at the New Bern Wal-Mart,” she allegedly said, rendering the facility “dirty”; the Havelock location better suited her since “white people staff that store.” When Benjamin hired the first full-time African-American faculty member, he claimed in his complaint that she was subjected to “unwelcome comments and increased scrutiny.” When Benjamin arranged a school trip to Washington, D.C. to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s “I Have A Dream” speech, and talked to students about the school’s diversity problems, the Board of Trustees allegedly responded with anger, calling his efforts “provocative.” When Benjamin appeared at an event with the president of the local NAACP chapter, Sparks allegedly confronted him, claiming the public association brought “disrepute to Epiphany.”
But the real strain supposedly began in October of 2013, when Benjamin began to hear reports that students had been asking teachers questions about sexuality. According to the complaint, the kids had been gathering informally to discuss their own identities and orientations. When word spread of the group, Benjamin said, he began to receive complaints about bullying. Two of the students accused of bullying were sons of Epiphany school administrators; another was the son of an “influential Epiphany parent” and the vice president of the Student Senate. The students, including the Student Senate vice president, allegedly told their classmates they wanted to start “homo-caust.”
The incident seeded tension among the student body and staff. Rumor spread that Benjamin had formed what Sparks called a “gay club,” and the Board of Trustees insisted the club be banned. Two bisexual teachers approached administrators about the group, and were allegedly threatened with termination if they continued to discuss the issue, according to Benjamin’s complaint. It further alleges that at a board meeting on Oct. 30, 2013, a Board of Trustees member claimed Benjamin was “promoting a homosexual culture and agenda.” Sparks allegedly warned Benjamin against pushing the subject, suggesting it would be “wasting time on a side issue,” according to the complaint.
By November, resentments were running high. That month, Benjamin states in his complaint that two LGBT students approached Benjamin and informed him of their plan to stage a protest during chapel. They planned to remove their clothes and announce their orientation in body paint. Benjamin says he asked the girls not to protest, claiming it “was a time for healing, not heroics.” Instead, in the Friday morning Chapel Talk, a weekly tradition at the school, Benjamin spoke about bullying, and the school’s commitment to “loving their neighbors.”
The talk was received poorly, spawning two weeks of in-fighting and interventions. It was in this period in mid-November that Sparks sent the emails now entered as discovery into the public record.
In the first message, sent to Benjamin on November 17, 2013, Sparks told Benjamin he was angry and frustrated about the diversity and tolerance issues. “I told you this would happen… if you didn’t follow our advice, which was simply ‘don’t rock the boat on this particular issue.’” He offered Benjamin a list of recommendations to improve his standing at the school, which ranged from “mak[ing] sure all Christian traditions feel especially Christian, especially as we move into the Christmas season,” to refraining from implying the school has problems of tolerance. “It is in fact, the KINDEST school I’ve ever visited,” Sparks wrote. “There has not for instance, been a single fight in 8 years at the school. People accept other people here; our first student here were Jewish [sic].”
Later in the letter, Sparks wrote: “Regarding diversity, I’ve now told you half a dozen times that our lack of diversity has NOTHING to do with the school or anyone at the school. It’s not because of what we as a school has or hasn’t done. It has nothing to do with racism or vestiges of Jim Crow. It comes down to 1) Money and 2) Culture.”
In a message sent the following morning, Sparks echoed the same points, defending his decision to ban the LGBT group (“not allowing them to have a club is NOT discrimination”), and denying the school had any problem with gay students. “Remember, we’ve had gay students before, many of them,” Sparks wrote. “[The former headmaster] handled it quietly and wonderfully… I expect you to do the same.”
Three days later, Sparks called Benjamin into a meeting with the Board of Trustees. In the informal gathering, Benjamin claims in his complaint that the romance writer acted in a “loud, ranting and physically intimidating manner,” calling him a “liar” and insisting he resign. After a lengthy meeting which Benjamin described in the complaint as “false imprisonment,” citing his claim that he was not allowed to speak to a lawyer or use the bathroom, the headmaster resigned. His term lasted 98 days.
Benjamin filed a lawsuit against Sparks and the Board in October of 2014, seeking punitive damages for discrimination, breach of contract, emotional distress and defamation. After five years of hearings and discovery, the case is scheduled for a six-day trial in August.
For his part, Sparks denies the allegations. In his declaration, Sparks attributes the deterioration of their working relationship to complaints that the headmaster could be “aloof, even rude, elitist and dismissive of their beliefs or backgrounds.” He claimed Benjamin had secretly authorized an “official School LGBT club” against school policy, and that the headmaster was often dishonest in his dealings with the Board. “In other words, he lied,” Sparks wrote.
Throughout his career, Sparks has often drawn a hard distinction between “romance novels,” which he characterizes as trite and fantastic, and “love stories,” which he sees as at once more “universal” and realistic. In the FAQ section of his website, the author explains that love stories can differ in theme, while romance novels always have a general theme: “the taming of a man.” In the dichotomy of love and romance, Sparks believes his works err on the side of love.
“Love stories usually end tragically,” Sparks writes, “or, at best, on a bittersweet note.”
Tarpley.Hitt@thedailybeast.com
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New York City LGBT Bar Owner’s ‘Relief’ as Rainbow Flag Burning Suspect Is Caught
Alexi Minko of Harlem’s Alibi Lounge said the arrest ‘serves as a cautionary tale to anyone thinking of targeting anyone for their gender, sexual orientation, or ethnicity.’
Tim Teeman/The Daily Beast
Alexi Minko, the owner of the Alibi Lounge, New York City’s only black-owned LGBTQ bar, said it was “a huge relief” that the NYPD had arrested a suspect Tuesday night for the burning of the bar’s rainbow flags.
The NYPD’s arrest in the much-publicized case followed the burning of three of the Alibi Lounge’s rainbow flags outside its Harlem entrance—two on May 31 at the beginning of Pride month and one sometime between Sunday night and early Monday morning.
Police arrested Tyresse Singleton, 20, of Manhattan, in connection with both incidents. He is charged with two counts each of criminal mischief as a hate crime and arson. It was not clear if an attorney had been assigned to his case. He was awaiting arraignment in Manhattan criminal court Tuesday night.
“It brings a sense of resolution,” Minko told The Daily Beast of the arrest, “and serves as a cautionary tale to anyone thinking of doing something similar not only to us, but to anyone who thinks of targeting anyone else for reasons of gender, sexual orientation, or ethnicity. It is also a reminder that we live in a civilized world and more often than not you get the resolution you deserve. We’re really relieved to put this behind us and just move forward.”
Dermot Shea, the NYPD’s chief of detectives, announced via Twitter late Tuesday afternoon that cops had apprehended a suspect.
The suspect had been apprehended thanks to a Crimestoppers tip. The NYPD had released footage of both incidents to encourage witnesses to come forward.
On Monday evening, when The Daily Beast visited the Alibi Lounge, Minko had kept a beady eye on who was outside, and who was coming in past the rainbow flag flanking its entrance.
Minko opened the bar just over three years ago (on June 24, 2016), and said he had experienced no homophobia during that time. The flag burnings shocked him—and made him determined to stay open “and stay proud.”
The incidents attracted considerable media coverage: on Monday night, news crews from NBC and ABC’s New York stations stopped by for interviews. Governor Andrew Cuomo had directed the state police hate crimes unit to assist the NYPD in its investigation.
Inside the bar on Monday night, Nina Kennedy and April Gibson, who just produced an ‘It’s World Pride’ Club Mix, had come to the bar from the East Village to show their support. Kennedy told The Daily Beast, “I’m outraged. It’s really shocking that this happened in Harlem, where black people are supposed to feel safe. We shouldn’t have to deal with this crap up here.”
Gibson added: “We came to be bodies-in-the-chairs tonight, to show our support, and say, ‘Yes, we are here.’ It is important that there are LGBTQ spaces in all areas of the city, because we are everywhere and we need to be able to feel supported, loved, and welcome no matter where we are.”
Alibi Lounge's title of the only black-owned LGBTQ bar in New York City, “is one we unfortunately inherited after Club Langston closed last year,” said Minko. Like the latter, Alibi serves a predominantly black LGBTQ clientele, although Minko emphasizes: “We are all inclusive. You can be purple as long as your credit card goes through.”
Other customers, who asked not to be named as they sipped their drinks, said they had been disgusted to hear about the flag burnings, and also wanted to come and show their support.
Minko was at the bar when the first incident happened, and heard about the second from staff on duty on Sunday night.
“The first time it happened, my first feelings were around how surreal it looked,” Minko told The Daily Beast. “It was raining that night. I first saw only one flag burning and thought it must be an accident involving lighting a cigarette. Then I saw the second flag burning, and the flames were crazy.
“Then I saw the footage the next day, and saw how malicious it was, how calculated. The person took his time to light both flags in fire. I got angry obviously, and a bit disappointed in humanity”
“The flags are a symbol of Pride, and for the first few minutes I wondered, was this for real? Was it an accident? Was it supposed to be a joke that someone found funny? Then I saw the footage the next day, and saw how malicious it was, how calculated. The person took his time to light both flags on fire. I got angry obviously, and a bit disappointed in humanity.”
The May 31 incident happened close to the anniversary of the Pulse mass shooting, Minko added. The act of seeing the arson had been traumatizing, and made Minko ask himself what would have stopped the perpetrator from coming into the bar itself.
However, his anger lessened with the “level of support and love” he had received from the community. The NYPD had been “brilliant” too, and checked on the bar every night afterwards.
Then it happened again. Barman Lucca Martini was shocked to see the flames. “I don’t know why anyone would do such a thing,” he said.
“It’s absolutely surreal,” said Minko. ‘I just thought, ‘Not again.’ And so we have put another rainbow flag out there, to say ‘We will not be intimidated, we will not give in.’ Of course you start to worry. This has happened twice in five weeks. You have no idea what lies behind such things. Is it the same person or different people? Are they trying to send a message to you? Are they coming back? I feel responsible for every person who walks through that door. I feel a lot of emotions, and they’re not good ones.”
Cole Knapper, LGBTQ chairperson for Al Sharpton’s National Action Network, was also at the bar Monday night and “absolutely shocked” by the attacks. “This is such a great neighborhood—so warm and accepting. Alibi has been here, without incident, for three years. We need to send the message, ‘This is not Harlem. This is not who we are, and it will absolutely not to be tolerated.’
“Harlem keeps getting more diverse and better. If this turns out to be an act of homophobia, it would shock me, but would point to areas where we need improvement in the neighborhood and our cultural competency as a neighborhood. We’ll learn and grow from this”
“Harlem keeps getting more diverse and better. If this turns out to be an act of homophobia, it would shock me, but would point to areas where we need improvement in the neighborhood and our cultural competency as a neighborhood. We’ll learn and grow from this.”
“This sort of terrorism, because that is what it is, has to stop,” Carmen Neely, president of Harlem Pride, and co-chair of the Black and Latino LGBTQ Coalition, told The Daily Beast. “Burning the flag itself is one thing, and it what it represents. For it to have happened a second time is absolutely untenable and egregious.”
The two incidents had bookended a successful Pride month, Neely noted, “and for this to happen in our neighborhood is absolutely ridiculous. We don’t usually have any problems. I’m sure where this is coming from or who it could be or why. It’s very much out of the blue.”
Harlem Pride and the Black and Latino LGBTQ Coalition plan to present Minko with new rainbow flags to put up.
“It’s a heinous act, a criminal act, and it is not to be tolerated or excused. It has to be called out for what it is—a hate crime. I gave birth to this place, it’s like someone harming my child. I’m very defensive and protective of this place”
Minko said he was determined to focus his energy positively, rather than on the offender. “Whatever his problem is, it’s between him or them and the justice system. People are coming to the bar to show support. The positive impact this nonsense has had is that it’s woken up the community. It reminds people we are still vulnerable, and the way to be less vulnerable is to band together.
“It’s a heinous act, a criminal act, and it is not to be tolerated or excused. It has to be called out for what it is—a hate crime. I gave birth to this bar, it’s like someone harming my child. I’m very defensive and protective of this place.”
A lawyer in his earlier professional life, it had been Minko’s dream to own his own business. A bar seemed a good idea, “because I don’t have many skills apart from getting people drunk and making sure people have a good time.”
The warm and witty Minko was determined to keep this philosophy uppermost.
“The rent needs to be paid before the end of the week. Right now there’s no other option! Over the last few weeks I’ve seen the pride, happiness, joy, and love that we are receiving from the community and I hope that we are sending it back into the community”
“You’ve got to get back on the horse and keep going. We can’t give into our fears, otherwise we LGBTQ people wouldn’t be where we are today. We’ve got to move forward. Here at Alibi we stand proud, we stand tall, and we’re not going anywhere. This bar is staying open.”
He laughed. “The rent needs to be paid before the end of the week. Right now there’s no other option! Over the last few weeks I’ve seen the pride, happiness, joy, and love that we are receiving from the community, and I hope that we are sending it back into the community.”
Asked what he wanted to let the public know following the arrest of the suspect, Minko laughed again. “That we’re open seven days a week from 5pm to 4am.”
The recommended cocktail at Alibi Lounge, he added, was the “Elegance Is an Attitude.”
If you have information, call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782); or via the CrimeStoppers website or on Twitter @NYPDTips.
Additional reporting: Pervaiz Shallwani
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Why Trump Is Standing by Acosta on the Epstein Plea Deal
‘The administration should have gotten rid of Acosta after the original Miami Herald story,’ said a former Trump administration official.
Kate Briquelet
Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Getty
Since late last year, different factions have been pressuring Donald Trump to sack Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta, but as of Tuesday evening, the president was still sticking to a script that he’s honed when confronting allegations against his powerful friends and allies: double down and stand by your man.
“For two and a half years, he’s been just an excellent secretary of Labor. He’s done a fantastic job,” Trump told reporters on Tuesday. “If you go back and look at everybody else’s decisions, whether it’s a U.S. attorney or an assistant U.S. attorney or a judge… I would think you’d probably find that they would wish they maybe did it a different way. I do hear that there were a lot of people involved in that decision, not just him. I can only say this from what I know, and what I do is he’s been a great—really great—secretary of Labor.”
The president added that “we’ll look at it very carefully, we’ll be looking at that very carefully, OK?” In February, Trump’s then-press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said the White House was “certainly looking into” Secretary Acosta’s handling of a secret plea deal. It is unclear if that review ever concluded or even started, and if Trump on Tuesday was referring to a different, or the same, alleged internal review.
It’s not the first time in this administration—or in his life as a businessman—Trump has expressed sympathy with his powerful friends and allies in the face of damning allegations, even in situations where people have been accused of horrific sexual assault.
Still, some of Trump’s aides and confidants have privately urged the president to show Acosta the door. And many of the Labor secretary’s prominent defenders have gone publicly silent as the Epstein scandal mounts.
Starting in at least late February, several close advisers and aides have recommended to President Trump that he ditch Secretary Acosta, in large part due to public-relations damage done by a Miami Herald investigative series, according to one senior administration official and another source with knowledge of the conversations. In February, a federal judge also ruled that prosecutors in Florida, including Acosta, broke the law in signing the plea agreement with Epstein.
“The administration should have gotten rid of Acosta after the original Miami Herald story,” said a former Trump administration official. “Even if he did nothing technically illegal, the optics of the plea deal are awful. To give a monster like Epstein such a friendly deal should disqualify Acosta from ever holding another job in the public sector again.”
On top of that, some top officials have recently and repeatedly complained about what they view as Acosta’s insufficiently ruthless approach to deregulation.
“I think the president is right now thinking that this thing is deeper than Acosta,” former Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA), a Trump surrogate, said on Tuesday. “I don’t think he’s going to let the Democrats get away with making this all about Acosta… The great thing that the Trump presidency has established is that the traditional thinking about ‘people are saying bad things about me, I gotta run and hide,’ is over. [President Trump has] challenged the very notion that if someone accuses you of something, you’re gone. He’s given people the chance to live another day.”
But, Kingston said, if Acosta “starts cowering, then I think it’s over for him.”
For now, the secretary of Labor is sticking to his guns, but in recent weeks, federal prosecutors in Georgia met with victims to discuss potential remedies to Epstein’s illegal 2007 plea agreement inked by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Miami—and at least one victim demanded that Acosta resign.
Spencer Kuvin, the attorney for that victim, said her priority is to see Epstein charged for his Florida crimes. She also asked for the government to make Epstein’s entire case file public, including external and internal communications within Acosta’s former office relating to the financier’s sweetheart deal. “And then lastly, I know my client said, ‘I want Acosta to step down,’” Kuvin told The Daily Beast last month.
Earlier this year, a federal judge ruled Acosta’s office violated the Crime Victims’ Rights Act by keeping Epstein’s victims in the dark about the controversial 2007 non-prosecution agreement (NPA). Indeed, Acosta and his team worked behind closed doors (including at a secret “breakfast meeting,” according to court records) with Epstein’s high-powered attorneys to downgrade the charges to state court.
On Tuesday, Kuvin said of Acosta, “It’s truly unbelievable that he continues to hold a job in one of the highest offices of the United States.”
“So now you have a U.S. Attorney who broke the law who is now running the Department of Labor,” Kuvin told The Daily Beast. “How does somebody like that keep their job?”
“It’s unfathomable that the president would keep someone like that on the job. But sadly, it’s unsurprising given Trump’s history with the defendant in this case. Trump socialized with Epstein. He was photographed with Epstein, called him a ‘terrific guy,’” Kuvin said, referring to Trump’s 2002 praises of the pervy financier.
“They lived only blocks away from each other in Palm Beach,” Kuvin added of Epstein and Trump, “ran in the same circles, went to the same parties.”
“Epstein is a man who has and had very powerful friends,” Kuvin said. “Whether a royal in England, with his friendship with Prince Andrew, Trump here in the United States, politicians like [Bill] Clinton that he knew and socialized with.”
Kuvin continued, “The press needs to stay vigilant now on Epstein Part 2. Because in Epstein Part 1, he got all the breaks.”
Meanwhile, Jane Does 1 and 2, who sued the government over Epstein’s plea deal, have asked to meet personally with Acosta, as well as the current U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida—a request the feds ignored in their own court filings. The victims filed court papers on Tuesday in response to the feds, which are arguing that Epstein’s shady NPA should be upheld. (The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia is representing the government, after prosecutors in South Florida, where the Jane Doe case was filed, recused themselves.)
“While Mr. Acosta has chosen not to speak to the Epstein victims previously, he has chosen to make public statements—when it has served his purposes,” the Jane Does stated in the filing. “For example, in a March 2011 statement released to the media (but not to Epstein’s victims), Acosta claimed that going to trial against Epstein would have faced a ‘reduced likelihood of success.’ That claim seemed dubious at the time—and yesterday’s indictment in New York casts further doubt on it.”
“Mr. Acosta should explain to Epstein’s Florida’s victims why his judgment was so much different than the skilled prosecutors in New York,” they added.
For his part, Acosta has been tweeting about Epstein’s bust in New York, and in defense of his handling of the money-manager’s case a decade ago. “The crimes committed by Epstein are horrific, and I am pleased that NY prosecutors are moving forward with a case based on new evidence,” he wrote Tuesday.
“With the evidence available more than a decade ago, federal prosecutors insisted that Epstein go to jail, register as a sex offender and put the world on notice that he was a sexual predator,” Acosta added, referring to his old Miami office.
Kuvin wasn’t buying the damage control.
“Basically what Acosta is saying,” Kuvin said, “is that SDNY did a better job investigating than they did.”
Jack Scarola, an attorney who represents the Jane Does, told The Daily Beast that Trump should join the chorus of people demanding answers on Acosta's role in Epstein's soft treatment and why the deal was kept secret from the dozens of underage girls Epstein molested.
"Federal District Court Judge Kenneth Marra has detailed the factual basis for his specific finding that then-US Attorney Acosta entered into an illegal agreement with attorneys for Jeffrey Epstein to actively conceal from Epstein’s child victims the existence of the Government’s plea deal with Epstein," Scarola said.
But "the victims were not only kept in the dark, they were actively lied to by government agents," Scarola added. "Hiding the secret deal was inexcusable. The terms of the secret deal are totally unjustifiable. The available evidence of Epstein’s guilt was overwhelming a decade ago when Epstein was granted immunity from federal prosecution. Any contrary assertion alleging weaknesses in the case is absurd. That position is clearly evidenced by the decision of the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York to prosecute Epstein more than a decade after his years of child molestation and rape."
Scarola said the fact that Acosta's office also gave Epstein's co-conspirators immunity is "even more egregious."
“That kind of get-out-of-jail-free card is unprecedented and a patent abuse of prosecutorial discretion,” Scarola added. “Mr. Acosta has a lot of explaining to do and none of his public statements to date come anywhere close to providing a rational explanation.”
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Partly cloudy skies early with heavy thunderstorms developing this afternoon. Storms may contain strong gusty winds. High near 85F. Winds SW at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 90%. Rainfall possibly over one inch..
Thunderstorms early, then variable clouds overnight with still a chance of showers. Low 69F. Winds light and variable. Chance of rain 90%.
Bradford County court news, July 7, 2019
Bradford County District Attorney Daniel J. Barrett reported that the following persons were recently sentenced in the Bradford County Court of Common Pleas, Towanda, Pennsylvania:
Ryker Packard, 26, of Gillett was sentenced to incarceration in the Bradford County Correctional Facility for a term of five days to six months followed by six months of probation supervision, and fines of $500.00 plus court costs for the offenses of Driving Under the Influence (Tier II), an ungraded misdemeanor, and Simple Assault, a misdemeanor of the second degree. Trooper Scott Shipman of the Pennsylvania State Police arrested Packard for the first offense following investigation of an incident that occurred on Roaring Run Road in South Creek Township on Aug. 10, 2018. Trooper Peter Lakkis of the Pennsylvania State Police arrested Packard for the second offense following investigation of an incident that occurred in South Creek Township on Feb. 14, 2019.
Veronique Rivera, 31, of Athens was sentenced to incarceration in the Bradford County Correctional Facility for a term of 10 days and 72 hours to 12 months, and fines of $1,500.00 plus court costs for the offenses of Driving Under the Influence (Tier III), and Driving Under the Influence (Tier I), both ungraded misdemeanors. Officer Travis Snyder of the Sayre Borough Police Department arrested Rivera for the first offense following investigation of an incident that occurred on Aug. 5, 2018. Officer James Condusta of the Athens Borough Police Department arrested Rivera for the second offence following investigation of an incident that occurred on Feb. 27, 2019.
Chelsey Aten, 24, of Groveland, New York, was sentenced to incarceration in the Bradford County Correctional Facility for a term of 90 days to 24 months followed by three years of probation supervision, in addition to fines of $2,000.00 plus court costs for the offense of Driving Under the Influence (Tier III), a misdemeanor of the first degree. Trooper Justin Millard of the Pennsylvania State Police arrested Aten following investigation of an incident that occurred in South Creek Township on June 5, 2018.
Jeremy Heckman, 43, of Sayre was sentenced to incarceration in the Bradford County Correctional Facility for a term of three months to 12 months plus court costs for the offense of Resisting Arrest, a misdemeanor of the second degree. Officer Derek Watkins of the Sayre Borough Police Department arrested Heckman following investigation of an incident that occurred on Dec. 16, 2018.
Elvis Chavez, 27, of Sayre was sentenced to incarceration in the Bradford County Correctional Facility for a term of one month to five months, and fines of $500.00 plus court costs for the offenses of Simple Assault, a misdemeanor of the second degree, and Disorderly Conduct, a misdemeanor of the third degree. Officer Jason Serfas of the Athens Township Police Department arrested Chavez for the offenses following investigation of an incident occurring on Jan. 12, 2019.
Kimberly Roy, 41, of Ulster was sentenced to probation supervision for a term of 24 months, fines of $1,000.00 plus court costs, and restitution of $22,528.63 for the offenses of two counts of Forgery, felonies of the third degree. Trooper Nathan Lewis of the Pennsylvania State Police arrested Roy following investigation of an incident that occurred from Jan. 15, 2017 through March 10, 2018.
Ryan Taylor, 32, of Athens was sentenced to incarceration in the Bradford County Correctional Facility for a term of five months to 23 months, fines of $500.00 plus court costs, and restitution of $2,970.00 for the offenses of Theft by Unlawful Taking, a misdemeanor of the first degree and Theft by Unlawful Taking, a felony of the third degree. Officer Steve Burlington of the Sayre Borough Police Department arrested Taylor for the first offense following investigation of an incident that occurred on Feb. 3, 2017. Officer Bruce Hoffman of the Sayre Borough Police Department arrested Taylor for the second offense following investigation of an incident that occurred on Dec. 8, 2019.
Kayden Martin, 17, of Towanda was sentenced to probation supervision for a term of six months for the offense of Disorderly Conduct, a misdemeanor of the third degree. Trooper Justin Walton of the Pennsylvania State Police arrested Martin following investigation of an incident that occurred in Monroe Township on Jan. 9, 2019.
Clayton Tillotson, 25, of Roaring Branch was sentenced to incarceration in the Bradford County Correctional Facility for a term of 90 days to five years, and fines of $2,350 plus court costs for the offenses of Driving Under the Influence, a misdemeanor of the first degree, Possession of a Controlled Substance, an ungraded misdemeanor, Possession of Drug Paraphernalia, an ungraded misdemeanor, and Possession of a Small Amount of Marijuana, an ungraded misdemeanor. Officer Trey Kurtz of the Canton Borough Police Department arrested Tillotson for the offenses following investigation of an incident that occurred on July 12, 2018.
Kenneth Raymond, 35, of Towanda was sentenced to incarceration in a Pennsylvania State Correctional Facility for a term of four years and seven months to 10 years, and restitution of $300.00 plus court costs for the offenses of Person Not to Possess Firearm, a felony of the first degree, Theft by Deception, a misdemeanor of the first degree, and Corruption of Minors, a misdemeanor of the first degree. Trooper Peter Lakkis, Trooper Michael Tracy, and Trooper Joseph Bednarski of the Pennsylvania State Police arrested Raymond following investigation of incidents that occurred in North Towanda, Towanda, and Burlington townships on March 28, 2019, Aug. 10, 2018, and Aug. 2, 2018.
George Raymond Jr., 37, of Ulster was sentenced to incarceration in a Pennsylvania State Correctional Facility for a term of 20 months to five years and fines of $1,000.00 plus court costs for the offenses of Conspiring to Commit Arson — Endangering Property, a felony of the second degree. Trooper Brian Atherholt of the Pennsylvania State Police arrested Raymond following investigation of an incident that occurred in Smithfield Township on Feb. 2, 2018.
Bradford County District Attorney Daniel J. Barrett reported that the following person recently entered a plea of guilty in the Bradford County Court of Common Pleas, Towanda, Pennsylvania:
Terilyn Walters, 22, of Towanda entered a plea of guilty to the offense of Furnishing Alcohol to Minors, a misdemeanor of the third degree. Walters will be sentenced on Aug. 12, 2019 following preparation of a presentence report by the Bradford County Probation Department. Officer Jason Serfas of the Athens Township Police Department arrested Walters for the offense on Dec. 22, 2018.
Kenneth Raymond, 35, of Towanda entered a plea of guilty to the offense of Person Not to Possess a Firearm, a felony of the first degree. Walters was sentenced on June 17, 2019. Trooper Peter Lakkis of the Pennsylvania State Police arrested Raymond following investigation of an incident that occurred in North Towanda Township on March 28, 2019.
Veronique Rivera, 31, of Athens entered a plea of guilty to the offense of Driving Under the Influence (Tier I), an ungraded misdemeanor. Rivera was sentenced on June 17, 2019. Officer James Condusta of Athens Borough Police Department arrested Rivera for the offense following investigation of an incident that occurred on Feb. 27, 2019.
Bradford County District Attorney Daniel J. Barrett reported that the following persons were recently accepted into the Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition (ARD) program in the Bradford County Court of Common Pleas, Towanda, Pennsylvania:
Allen Wright, 37, of Gillett charged with the offense of Driving under the Influence, was accepted into the ARD Program and placed on probation for a term of nine months. While on probation Wright will be subject to supervision by the Bradford county Probation Department. Supervision will include monitoring for drug or alcohol use. Additionally, Wright must perform community service with the DUI Litter Brigade and attend a Victim Impact Panel. He will also lose his Pennsylvania driving privilege for 60 days. Trooper Josiah Reiner of the Pennsylvania State Police arrested Wright for the offense on March 8, 2019 in Towanda Borough.
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Barclay Brothers
Barclay brothers top Sunday Times Rich List in publishing and advertising
Owners of the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph increase wealth to £2bn, while Richard Desmond hits £1bn mark
See the top 20 list
Mark Sweney
@marksweney
Tue 24 Apr 2012 19.03 EDT First published on Tue 24 Apr 2012 19.03 EDT
Sir David (left) and Sir Frederick Barclay top the Sunday Times Rich List for publishing and advertsing. Photograph: James Fraser/Rex Features
Sir David and Frederick Barclay have been named at the top of a list of the richest people in publishing and advertising in Britain with a fortune of more than £2bn, while cost-cutting Richard Desmond has cemented second spot as his wealth hit £1bn.
The reclusive 77-year-old twins, owners of the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph, have been named at the top of the Sunday Times Rich List with assets valued at £2.25bn.
The brothers, who also own the Ritz Hotel and Littlewoods mail order business, increased their wealth by £50m over last year's rich list.
Northern & Shell owner Richard Desmond also increased his wealth, cracking the £1bn mark despite ordering sweeping cuts at Express Newspapers – home to the Daily Express, Sunday Express, Daily Star and Daily Star Sunday – to save cash.
Viscount Rothermere and family, controlling shareholder of Daily Mail publisher DMGT, increased their wealth by £30m to £760m to cement third spot.
The 20-strong list also includes Sir Martin Sorrell, the founder of the world's largest advertising group WPP, who saw his estimated wealth rise almost 18% year-on-year to £174m to rank 12th.
Alan Parker, the founder and chairman of Brunswick group, waved the flag for the PR industry with a £95m fortune to rank 19th.
One of the few to lose ground year-on-year was Ray Tindle, the owner of Tindle Newspapers and investor in the UK's second largest regional newspaper owner Johnston Press, who saw his wealth fall from £145m to £125m to rank 16th.
Sunday Times Rich List 2012 – top 20 in publishing and advertising
Wealth in 2012 (2011 figure in brackets)
1 Sir David and Sir Frederick Barclay £2,250 (£2,200m)
2 Richard Desmond £1,000 (£950m)
3 Viscount Rothermere and family £760m (£730m)
4 The Thomson family £700m (£660m)
5 Paddy McNally £515m (£620m)
6= Viscount Cowdray and the Pearson family £500m (£1,015m)
6= Felix Dennis £500m (£500m)
8 Cristina Stenbeck £369m (£350m)
9 Mark Getty and family £330m (£330m)
10 Mike Danson £310m (£278m)
11 Lord Iliffe and family £266m (£240m)
12 Sir Martin Sorrell £174m (£148m)
13 Mike Luckwell £135m (£135m)
14 Philip and Patricia Brown £132m (£132m)
15 Lord and Charles Saatchi £130m (£125m)
16 Sir Ray Tindle £125m (£145m)
17 Neil Hutchinson £123m (£59m)
18 Nick Forman Hardy and family £102m (£102m)
19 Alan Parker £95m (£95m)
20 Gregory Nasmyth and family £85m (£68m)
Richard Desmond
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Crooner Williams dies at 84
By BOB THOMAS and JIM SALTER Associated Press
BRANSON, Mo. - For the older - OK, squarer - side of the generation gap, Andy Williams was part of the soundtrack of the 1960s and '70s, with easy-listening hits like "Moon River," the "Love Story" theme and "The Most Wonderful Time of the Year" from his beloved Christmas TV specials.
The singer known for his wholesome, middle-America appeal was the antithesis of the counterculture.
"The old cliche says that if you can remember the 1960s, you weren't there," Williams once recalled. "Well, I was there all right, but my memory of them is blurred - not by any drugs I took but by the relentless pace of the schedule I set myself."
The 84-year-old entertainer, who died Tuesday night at his Branson home following a yearlong battle with bladder cancer, outlasted many of the decade's rock stars and fellow crooners such as Frank Sinatra and Perry Como. He remained on the charts into the 1970s and continued to perform into his 80s.
Williams became a major star in 1956, the same year as Elvis Presley, with the Sinatra-like swing number "Canadian Sunset." For a time, he was pushed into such Presley imitations as "Lips of Wine" and the No. 1 smash "Butterfly."
But he mostly stuck to what he called his "natural style" and kept it up throughout his career. In 1970, when even Sinatra had temporarily retired, Williams was in the top 10 with the theme from "Love Story," the Oscar-winning tearjerker. He had 18 gold records, three platinum and five Grammy award nominations.
Williams also was the first host of the live Grammy awards telecast and hosted the show for seven consecutive years, beginning in 1971.
Movie songs became a specialty, including his signature "Moon River."
The longing Johnny Mercer-Henry Mancini ballad was his most famous song, even though he never released it as a single because his record company feared such lines as "my huckleberry friend" were too confusing and old-fashioned for teens.
The song was first performed by Audrey Hepburn in the cherished 1961 film "Breakfast at Tiffany's," but Mancini thought "Moon River" ideal for Williams, who recorded it in "pretty much one take" and also sang it at the 1962 Academy Awards.
Although "Moon River" was covered by countless artists and became a hit single for Jerry Butler, Williams made the song his personal brand. In fact, he insisted on it.
"When I hear anybody else sing it, it's all I can to do stop myself from shouting at the television screen, �No! That's my song!' " Williams wrote in his 2009 memoir titled, fittingly, "Moon River and Me."
At a Wednesday matinee at Williams' Moon River Theatre in Branson, a performer told the crowd Williams would have wanted the show to go on, and it did. The first show after his death included a moving video of him performing "Can't Take My Eyes Off of You."
"It was very emotional, very sad," said Barbara Cox of Atlanta, who came to Branson on vacation. "We've lost a great man."
Because of illness, Williams had not performed in several months.
He had been a constant presence on television with "The Andy Williams Show," which lasted in various formats through the 1960s and into 1971. It won three Emmys and featured Williams alternately performing his stable of hits and bantering with guest stars.
It was on that show that Williams - who launched his own career as part of an all-brother quartet - introduced the world to another clean-cut act - the original four singing Osmond Brothers of Utah.
Four decades later, the Osmonds and Williams would find themselves in close proximity again, sharing Williams' theater in Branson.
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In Good Faith: The soundtracks of our lives
Rev. Tim Schenck More Content Now
May 9, 2019 at 10:24 AM May 9, 2019 at 10:24 AM
Whenever I watch a show on Netflix or see a movie, I’m always struck by how dramatic the scenes are - the courtroom encounters, the romantic professions of love, the stirring chase scenes. And then I contrast this with my own life, and the interactions I have on a daily basis feel somehow … lacking.
It finally struck me one day, that it’s less about the drama in my life. I mean, sure, I don’t engage in many high-speed chases with guns blazing, like some sort of clerical version of James Bond. And my wife wouldn’t take kindly to my living as though I was starring in a romantic comedy. Nor would my bishop.
But I realized the thing that’s really missing is the accompanying soundtrack. What makes so many of these moments tug at the heartstrings or get the heart pumping, is the music that matches the movement.
That training scene in “Rocky” set to “Gonna Fly Now” just wouldn’t fly if Sylvester Stallone was doing one-armed pushups and punching raw meat if it was set to, say, “The Sound of Silence” or simply silence. Or Darth Vader entering a scene from “Star Wars” without composer John Williams’ iconic accompanying “Imperial March” theme, wouldn’t create that same sense of impending doom, than if he just appeared from stage left. Music sets the mood and heightens the drama and intensifies the emotions that go with the script.
Sure, there’s a bit of emotional manipulation, as when the crescendo builds to the climactic fight scene in a Bruce Lee movie or the classic combination of strings, tuba, and trombone that were used to create the “Jaws” soundtrack.
We don’t have this in our own lives, at least not to the same degree. No one plays “Eye of the Tiger” when I stumble into Planet Fitness before work; there’s no on-call string section to play soothing background music when I visit a dying parishioner in the hospital; there’s no trumpet fanfare when I do the dishes without being asked.
But none of this means our lives are any less dramatic than what we witness on our screens. Less purely entertaining, perhaps; not neatly wrapped up in one hour chunks, maybe. Yet our lives do play out in high definition, albeit without the accompanying real-time soundtrack.
Which begs the question, what would your life’s soundtrack be? If you’re like me, it would likely change depending on your mood and situation, spanning the range of human emotions. There are times when we need encouragement and comfort, inspiration and hope, empowerment and strength.
I’m a big fan of the blues, precisely because they encompass a wide range of emotion - joy, grief, anger, hope, faith, love, betrayal, sadness and possibility. In the next moment I may listen to the “Magnificat” by 16th-century Italian church musician Giovanni Palestrina, a master of Renaissance polyphony. And then I may crank some AC/DC.
In other words, the soundtrack of my life, like life itself, is complicated. And I would imagine, yours is as well. Dramatic, full of contradictions, boring at times, over-scheduled at others, messy and confusing. But all blessed by God - all of it. Even when the soundtrack doesn’t perfectly align with the script.
The Rev. Tim Schenck is an Episcopal priest at St. John’s Church in Hingham, MA. This article is excerpted from his newly released book “Holy Grounds: The Surprising Connection between Coffee and Faith - From Dancing Goats to Satan’s Drink.” “Holy Grounds” is available on Amazon at https://amzn.to/2IdFp91. Follow him on Twitter @FatherTim.
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Jonathan Gornall
The cause-and-effect relationship between food and mental health
Research shows that nearly two-thirds of people who do not report daily mental health problems consume fresh fruit or fruit juice every day, compared with less than half of those who do report daily mental health problems.
When it comes to mental health, there is growing evidence that what we consume – and what we don’t – could have a significant impact on the way we feel about ourselves and life in general. Getty Images
‘You are what you eat” might sound like a cliché, but when it comes to mental health there is growing evidence that what we consume – and what we don’t – could have a significant impact on the way we feel about ourselves and life in general.
Dr Asad Sadiq, a consultant psychiatrist at The LightHouse clinic in Dubai, says it is well understood that a “western” diet of red or processed meats, fast food and sugary foods is a major factor in the rise of diabetes, heart attacks, strokes and cancer. But, he says, there is also “a wealth of evidence that poor physical health also causes poor mental health, especially depression and anxiety”.
Poor diet is “both a cause and symptom of mental illness”, says Sadiq, a former clinical director of psychiatry in the United Kingdom’s National Health Service. Having a mental illness makes you likely to eat unhealthily, which in turn worsens your mental illness.
“It’s a vicious cycle,” he says. “For example, depression results in isolation and a sedentary lifestyle, which in turn leads to reduced exercise and eating food that is easily available.” The ensuing weight gain “results in low self-esteem, avoidance of social contacts and physical illness”. This in turn “worsens the depression and so on. Another vicious cycle is set up”.
According to the Mental Health Foundation, which works to promote mental well-being in the UK, there is also mounting evidence of a physical cause-and-effect relationship between food and mood.
“Nutrition is one of the most obvious, yet under-recognised factors in the development of major trends in mental health,” says Dr Antonis Kousoulis, deputy director at the Mental Health Foundation.
“As well as its impact on short- and long-term mental health, the evidence indicates that food plays an important contributing role in the development, management and prevention of specific mental health problems, such as depression, schizophrenia, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and Alzheimer’s disease.”
“This pattern is similar for fresh vegetables and salad,” says Kousoulis. “Those who report some level of mental health problem also eat fewer healthy foods and more unhealthy food.”
Other studies, says Sadiq, have shown that, “for example, vitamin D deficiency contributes to cognitive impairment, depression, bipolar affective disorder and schizophrenia” and there are “three dietary products with proven benefit for mental well-being” – benefits that are “greater for children and younger adults as the brain is developing”.
Omega-3 fatty acids, found in fish and fish oil, have been shown to prevent psychosis – in which sufferers experience hallucinations or delusions – in high-risk people between the ages of 13 and 25. As a bonus, “they also improve cognitive function, improve learning and prevent heart disease”. The UK’s Royal College of Psychiatrists recommends at least two portions of fish a week.
Vitamin D has also been found to help prevent and contribute to improvements in mental illness. Though found in milk, yogurt, orange juice, salmon, tuna and mackerel, the body’s natural production of vitamin D is most important and generated through exposure to sunlight – which can be a problem for those who cover up for cultural or religious reasons.
For the rest, of course, it’s important that adequate production of vitamin D doesn’t come at the expense of sunburn.
Fruit and vegetables also improve mental health outcomes, says Sadiq. A “rainbow” diet of at least five pieces a day of multicoloured fruit and vegetables is recommended.
More controversial is the role of “probiotics”, live bacteria and yeasts found in yogurt products or taken as tablets, and promoted as having various physical and mental health benefits. In many countries, including Europe, they can be marketed only as foods, as the evidence that they have any medical benefits is considered too weak.
However, in a random-controlled study of 124 patients reported in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, it was found that after three weeks, improvements in mood and cognition were significantly greater among people who had consumed a daily milk drink containing probiotics than those who had been given a placebo.
Ultimately, body weight is one of the key indicators that all is well with our psychological relationship with food.
“A normal and stable weight that doesn’t fluctuate too much is the ideal,” says Sadiq.
The standard definition of “normal” is based on the Body Mass Index, or BMI. Any doctor can calculate this, but you can also easily work out your BMI: it’s your weight in kilograms divided by your height in metres squared, and anything between 18 and 25 is considered ideal.
A BMI over 30 is considered obese, “which can result in an increased likelihood of mental illness”, while eating too little can lead to anorexia (a BMI less than 17.5 is one criteria).
But a key sign of a mentally healthy diet, says Sadiq, is that “food should be an enjoyable experience and not an anxiety-ridden one”.
“Our relationship with food is lifelong and therefore parental education is essential to the setting of lifelong healthy habits.”
The key ingredients of a healthy diet are regular, balanced meals, starting with breakfast. And it all begins by making sure the kitchen is stocked with the right foods.
“Meals should be enjoyable and preferably at the table, with the family together, undistracted by phones and tablets,” says Sadiq.
It is, he concludes, “better to live to eat than to eat to live, for food is truly a great blessing and should be enjoyed”.
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Mary J. Blige Co-Starring In ‘The Umbrella Academy’ Netflix Series
Mary J. Blige now a two-time Academy Award nominee, will co-star in Netflix’s live action series, The Umbrella Academy.
Written by Jeremy Slater based on the popular graphic novels, the story follows the estranged members of a dysfunctional family of superheroes known as the Umbrella Academy — Luther (Tom Hopper), Diego (David Castañeda), Allison (Emmy Raver-Lampman), Vanya (Ellen Page), Klaus (Robert Sheehan) and Number Five (Aidan Gallagher) — as they work together to solve their father’s mysterious death while coming apart at the seams due to their divergent personalities and abilities.
Mary will play the series regular role of Cha-Cha, a ruthless and unorthodox hitwoman who travels through time to kill assigned targets. Even though she has a few gripes about the bureaucracy of her employers, this job is her life. She is sadistic, sociopathic, and her reputation precedes her. Her true love is torture, and she thinks of herself as a “pain artist.” She really doesn’t care for people—except for her partner Hazel.
Blige was nominated for an Oscar in a supporting role for “Mudbound.” She also received a nomination for co-writing the song “Mighty River” from the film. She also snagged Golden Globe and SAG Award noms.
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“You know...” the Pro Bowl wide receiver said before a long pause, “you go through the process, you go through the processes of feeling immortal when you are younger. I think we all go through that process, then contemplating where you take this. Then when things start to change and priorities outside of football change and life changes, you start to think about things in a different picture.
“Football is such a small sliver of your lifetime.
“I’ll leave it at that...”
Take that as a yes. He feels his football mortality, now more than ever.
Baldwin knows he’s not going to play many, many more years. This season has reminded him of that. This game reminds that to most players who turn 30 and are fortunate enough to have played in 120 regular-season games, plus 12 more in the postseason including two Super Bowls, as Baldwin has.
Monday night he watched inactive for the third time in 13 games this season as the Seahawks (8-5) won their fourth consecutive game, 21-7 over Minnesota. They are a win Sunday at San Francisco (3-10) away from clinching their sixth playoff appearance in seven years, this one with a young, overhauled team few expected to make the postseason.
And Baldwin isn’t going to miss that chance, a second one in three weeks to play against 49ers cornerback Richard Sherman, his great friend and teammate when they played at Stanford and together for the Seahawks through last season.
“I’ve got so much love for him,” Baldwin said Friday of Sherman.
“It’s so much bigger than football, SO much bigger than football.”
Despite not practicing Wednesday and being limited Thursday and in Friday’s light, indoor workout, Baldwin will play against the 49ers Sunday. Coach Pete Carroll said that Friday. Baldwin confirmed it, even though the Seahawks officially listed him Friday as questionable.
Baldwin thinks this season’s team is uniquely bonded, reformed as it was through the offseason of turmoil and overhaul—including Sherman’s unceremonious exit this spring.
He sees it has the same qualities the 2013 and ‘14 Seahawks had on their way to the Super Bowl: youth, loyalty, unity, chips on their shoulders—and talent.
“I think as it’s always been, when we get in the tournament we know we have a shot,” he said. “And with this team, with the young mindset, with the underdog mentality and attitude, and with the true ability that we have, I think that we genuinely have a shot.
“Once we get in the tournament, it’s going to be very hard to beat us.
“A lot of us our getting healthy at the right time. A lot of us are coming into our own at the right time. So I’m really looking forward to, obviously securing our playoff berth first, but then getting into the tournament and actually being able to show what we are capable of against playoff-level talent.
“I’m really excited about our chances.”
Baldwin is the longest-tenured player Seahawk who will be on the field Sunday in Santa Clara, Calif.; Pro Bowl linebacker K.J. Wright, who joined the league and team with Baldwin in 2011, will miss his 11th of 14 games this season following knee surgery.
Baldwin will play through his latest groin injury, which is a different one than the pulled groin through which he caught five passes last month in the key win at Carolina. That victory propelled Seattle into this current push to the playoffs.
After that game, he looked subdued if not completely spent. He sat pushed back into his locker stall at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, N.C., talking in relatively hushed tones compared to the off-the-hook scene all around him following the stirring comeback win.
Wide receiver Doug Baldwin in the raucous Seahawks’ locker room on his team’s latest huge rally, past Carolina.
He not only started that game that Carroll said he couldn’t believe Baldwin played, he did it while managing pain he’s had in both knees. He’s still managing those issues each week. He missed all of August because of them, then sat out the second and third games of the season.
Those were the first games he’d missed since 2012, when he missed two games in his second NFL season after Seattle signed him as an undrafted free agent from Stanford. His streak of 102 consecutive games played, regular season and playoffs, ended Sept. 17 when he was inactive for the loss at Chicago.
He’s been on an injury report missing practice time each week this season, except the one following the team’s bye in October. That after the win at London, and before he had two catches in the victory at Detroit after the bye.
The team reported him with a groin issue the first time the following week, in early November. He’s been so banged up the Seahawks were listing him through last week with a hip injury, too, though Carroll said that was a groin issue. Different than the pulled groin he played with in Carolina, that is.
He’s been like the guy in the old kids’ game “Operation” this season. Baldwin has 37 receptions in 2018 inside Seattle’s run-first offense that leads the league in rushing. It’s the second-fewest catches for a season of his career. He’s scored two touchdowns, his fewest in the NFL. In 2015 he co-led the league with 14 touchdown receptions.
He has two years and $19.5 million in salary remaining on his contract after this season. Of course, that money is not guaranteed. Few things in the NFL are.
His current deal is from the $46 million extension he signed in the summer of 2016, a year removed from his and Seattle’s second consecutive Super Bowl. He was still in his prime then, still in his 20s.
Not anymore.
“Oh, I am on the downside of my career. I’m 30 years old,” Baldwin said.
“I would not be able to play at the caliber I’m playing now at 38,” he joked.
“I am definitely on the downside.”
He knows he’s at the age the Seahawks waived Sherman. Earl Thomas’ contract is ending with him on injured reserve for the rest of this season with no Seahawks future in sight. He turns 30 in May. Wright is approaching 30, and the end of his contract Seattle may not renew.
Asked if he thinks about his future, whether he will be a Seahawk in 2019 with this team in such a successful youth movement, Baldwin chuckled.
“I do,” he said.
“But if you know me, you know I always have a plan.”
That plan could include politics.
It already includes activism.
Baldwin continues to forge his way past the millions of Americans who either can’t hear his message, or don’t want to.
How? By doing.
For the last three years he’s used his platform as an NFL star to lobby Congress to reduce mandatory minimum sentences for low-level crimes. He’s testified at the Washington State Capitol for police-reform legislation in the training and policies for the use of deadly force. He’s met with law-enforcement officials and community leaders from across the Pacific Northwest on deescalation methods police officers can use to help prevent needless killings in confrontations. He’s met with Washington attorney general Bob Ferguson about these and other issues, as well.
This fall Baldwin has zeroed in on a new target: Fixing what he says is our country’s “antiquated” cash-bail system. Baldwin and many others believe cash bail unfairly jails citizens of lower socioeconomic status for non-violent and minor offenses, simply because they don’t have money to pay standard bail.
“Right now, we are discussing district attorneys and their roles in the criminal-justice system, and treating people fairly, and humanely,” the face and voice for the Seahawks’ protest movement the last two years said in September. “And so one of the things we are addressing right now is the bail system, the cash-bail system, which is an antiquated system. (It) is really exclusive to, or beneficial to, the people who can afford the cash-bail system, right?
“People who are in more impoverished situations, typically, they can’t (pay). I think we have over 100,000 people who are sitting in jail right now who are not in jail because they have been convicted of a crime but because they can’t pay their bail. And it’s not violent offenses, right. These are not violent offenses that I am talking about. These are people who cannot afford their bail, like we probably could.”
Yes, Baldwin has a plan beyond football.
When does he think that might be?
“Dang,” he said Friday, “these are pointed questions.
“Again, if you know me, you know I’ve got a plan for everything. The method to the madness.”
Gregg Bell
Gregg Bell is the Seahawks and NFL writer for The News Tribune. In January 2019 he was named the Washington state sportswriter of the year by the National Sports Media Association. He started covering the NFL in 2002 as the Oakland Raiders beat writer for The Sacramento Bee. The Ohio native began covering the Seahawks in their first Super Bowl season of 2005. In a prior life he graduated from West Point and served as a tactical intelligence officer in the U.S. Army, so he may ask you to drop and give him 10.
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City of Oshkosh names police chief finalists
The Oshkosh Police and Fire Commission have selected five finalists in its search.
City of Oshkosh names police chief finalists The Oshkosh Police and Fire Commission have selected five finalists in its search. Check out this story on thenorthwestern.com: http://oshko.sh/1MAMOqj
Nathaniel Shuda, USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Published 5:26 p.m. CT Nov. 4, 2015 | Updated 9:22 a.m. CT Nov. 6, 2015
Finalists include Fond du Lac Police Department captain
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The Oshkosh Police and Fire Commission has selected five finalists in its search for a new police chief.
After a nationwide search, about 20 people applied for the job. The commission chose the following finalists:
• Aaron Goldstein has served as a captain with the Fond du Lac Police Department since 2012. He joined the department in 1998 and has coordinated field training, ride-along and internship programs. He also developed and implemented standardized briefings training for the department and serves as the assistant director of Marian University's Criminal Justice Program.
Goldstein has more than 17 years of experience, including a decade as a supervisor and commander.
He holds a bachelor's degree in psychology and psycho-biology from Ripon College, a master's degree in management and organizational behavior from Silver Lake College and multiple certifications from the National Fire Academy and the Penn State Police Executive Development Program. He also is a certified peer-to-peer defusing, demobilization and debriefing specialist.
Goldstein is a board member for the Boys & Girls Club of Fond du Lac and previously served as a board member for the Habitat for Humanity of Fond du Lac County. He also is a member of Moraine Park Technical College's Behavior Intervention Team and the Northeast Wisconsin Mutual Aid Box Alarm System Incident Management Team.
• Kurt Leibold has served as an assistant chief with the Milwaukee Police Department since 2013. Since joining the department in 1990, he developed policies and wrote the department's Code of Conduct; created a cold-case homicide task force; and led the department's transition to a community-based policing philosophy. He previously commanded the department's Internal Affairs, Violent Crimes, Metropolitan Investigations divisions.
Leibold has 25 years of experience, including 19 years as a supervisor and six at the executive level.
He holds a bachelor's degree in criminal justice from Concordia University and a certificate in police staff and command from the Northwestern University Center for Public Safety. He also has attended the Senior Management Institute for Police.
Leibold is a member of The International Association of Chiefs of Police, Police Executive Research Forum, Wisconsin Police Executive Group and the National Internal Affairs Investigators Association.
In addition to Oshkosh, Leibold also is one of four finalists in the Green Bay police chief search.
Related story: Panel kicks off Oshkosh police chief search
• Aaron Raap serves as a captain with the Milwaukee Police Department, where he commands the department's Metropolitan Investigations Division, including homicide, cold cases, robbery and arson investigations. Since joining the department in 1990, he has commanded the Investigative Management Division and Forensics Section; the Neighborhood Task Force; the department's Human Resources Division; and The Office of Management, Analysis and Planning.
Raap has 23 years of experience, including 14 years as a supervisor and commanding officer.
He holds both a bachelor's degree in justice administration and a master's degree in management from Marian University, where he also serves as an adjunct instructor. He also has attended the Senior Management Institute for Police and the Northwestern University School of Police Staff and Command and Northwestern's Senior Management Leadership Program.
Raap also served as a member of his church's board of elders and ushering committee, as well as a youth coach with the City of Milwaukee's Recreation Department. He also served as an original board member of Wisconsin's Special Olympics Volleyball Challenge.
• Dean Smith is a deputy chief with the Suffolk (Va.) Police Department, where he has worked since 1989. He oversees criminal, narcotics and gang investigations, as well as forensics and crime analysis and intelligence. He also oversees leadership and management training for the department's administrative command and has focused on community policing, creating partnerships and developing strong ties with the communities.
Smith has 27 years of experience, including more than 16 as a commanding officer.
He holds both associate and bachelor's degrees in criminal justice and law enforcement administration from Herzing University and has attended the University of Richmond's Professional Executive Leadership School. He is a graduate of the FBI National Academy and serves as a general instructor for the Virginia Department of Criminal Justice.
Smith has been a member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police since 2004 and is a past president of the Virginia Chapter of the FBI National Academy Associates. He also previously served as a board member for the Suffolk Shelter for the Homeless.
Related story: Oshkosh police chief to retire in January
• Jeffrey Trotnic has served as chief of the Onalaska Police Department since 2008. Before coming to Wisconsin, he worked for the Joplin (Mo.) Police Department for 20 years, where he retired as investigations lieutenant in 2008. While in Joplin, he led the Tri-State Major Case Squad, investigating homicides in Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma. He also served as police chief in nearby Duenweg.
He has 27 years of experience as a commanding officer.
Trotnic holds a bachelor's degree from Missouri Southern State University and a master's degree from Central Missouri State University, both in criminal justice, and has attended the FBI National Academy and the Southern Police Institution.
He also served on the Coulee Region Joint Municipal Court Committee and the West Salem Law Enforcement Disciplinary Committee.
A public "meet and greet" event is set for 5 to 7 p.m. Nov. 16 at the Oshkosh Convention Center.
The commission plans to conduct interviews with the candidates Nov. 17.
Reach Nathaniel Shuda at 920-426-6632 or nshuda@thenorthwestern.com; on Twitter @onwnshuda.
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Jane Kenyon
My mother comes back from a trip downtown to the dimestore. She has brought me a surprise. It is still in her purse.
She is wearing her red shoes with straps across the instep.They fasten with small white buttons, like the eyes of fish.
She has come back with zippers and spools of thread, yellow and green, for her work, which always takes her far away, even though she works in our house, upstairs, in the room next to mine.
She is wearing her blue plaid full-skirted dress with the large collar, her hair fastened up off her neck. She looks pretty. She always dresses up when she goes downtown.
Now she opens her straw purse, which looks like a small suitcase. She hands me the new toy; a wooden paddle with a red rubber ball attached to it by an elastic string. Some- times when she goes downtown, I think she will not come back.
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“I didn’t know I was going to cry!” I wanted to yell, as I grabbed a tissue from the librarian’s desk. “I did not deliberately get bodily fluids on your books!”
Lewis Lapham, The Art of Editing No. 4
By Lewis Lapham
Photo by Matthew Septimus, courtesy of Harper's Magazine.
It is dangerous to excel at two different things. You run the risk of being underappreciated in one or the other; think of Michelangelo as a poet, of Michael Jordan as a baseball player. This is a trap that Lewis Lapham has largely avoided. For the past half century, he has been getting pretty much equal esteem in a pair of distinct roles: editor and essayist. As an editor, he is hailed for his three-decade career at the helm of Harper’s, America’s second-oldest magazine, which he reinvigorated in 1983; and then, as an encore a decade ago, for Lapham’s Quarterly, a wholly new kind of periodical in his own intellectual image. As an essayist, he was called “without a doubt our greatest satirist” by Kurt Vonnegut.
By the time I arrived in New York in the late seventies, Lapham was established in the city’s editorial elite, up there with William Shawn at The New Yorker and Barbara Epstein and Bob Silvers at The New York Review of Books. He was a glamorous fixture at literary parties and a regular at Elaine’s. In 1988, he raised plutocratic hackles by publishing Money and Class in America, a mordant indictment of our obsession with wealth. For a brief but glorious couple of years, he hosted a literary chat show on public TV called Bookmark, trading repartee with guests such as Joyce Carol Oates, Gore Vidal, Alison Lurie, and Edward Said. All the while, a new issue of Harper’s would hit the newsstands every month, with a lead essay by Lapham that couched his erudite observations on American society and politics in Augustan prose.
Today Lapham is the rare surviving eminence from that literary world. But he has managed to keep a handsome bit of it alive—so I observed when I went to interview him last summer in the offices of Lapham’s, a book-filled, crepuscular warren on a high floor of an old building just off Union Square. There he presides over a compact but bustling editorial operation, with an improbably youthful crew of subeditors. One LQ intern, who had also done stints at other magazines, told me that Lapham was singular among top editors for the personal attention he showed to each member of his staff.
Our conversation took place over several sessions, each around ninety minutes. Despite the heat, he was always impeccably attired: well-tailored blue blazer, silk tie, cuff links, and elegant loafers with no socks. He speaks in a relaxed baritone, punctuated by an occasional cough of almost orchestral resonance—a product, perhaps, of the Parliaments he is always dashing outside to smoke. The frequency with which he chuckles attests to a vision of life that is essentially comic, in which the most pervasive evils are folly and pretension.
I was familiar with such aspects of the Lapham persona. But what surprised me was his candid revelation of the struggle and self-doubt that lay behind what I had imagined to be his effortlessness. Those essays, so coolly modulated and intellectually assured, are the outcome of a creative process filled with arduous redrafting, rejiggering, revision, and last-minute amendment in the teeth of the printing press. And it is a creative process that always begins—as it did with his model, Montaigne—not with a dogmatic axiom to be unpacked but in a state of skeptical self-questioning: What do I really know? If there a unifying core to Lapham’s dual career as an editor and an essayist, that may be it.
—Jim Holt
You started your career with the San Francisco Examiner.
My reasons for going into the newspaper business were twofold. One, to learn how to write. When you’re young you tend to use too many adverbs and adjectives, to think every word you come up with deserves to be engraved in marble. I hoped to cure myself of the habit acquired while writing papers at school and college.
The other reason was to get an education. Having grown up in Pacific Heights in San Francisco and then gone to prep school in Lakeville, Connecticut, and to Yale College, I knew I’d been living in a privileged, safe space and didn’t know much of anything about the rest of the country. Didn’t know how the politics worked, where the water came from, how the garbage was collected, who was living on the wrong side of the tracks. As a newspaper reporter, I expected to learn who were my fellow citizens, where and what was the American democracy.
Let’s back up. Your grandfather was the mayor of San Francisco when you were a boy.
LAPHAM
Also a shipowner, the American-Hawaiian Steamship Company. Intercoastal trade. The ship would start with dry cargo in Seattle, go down the West Coast, through the Canal, around the Gulf, up the East Coast to Portland, Maine, and then back on reversed compass bearings. A very profitable business before the interstate highway system. On December 7, 1941, we owned a substantial fleet of ships. In early 1942, the United States government commandeered all of them for the North Atlantic convoys. Most of them were sunk by German U-boats. If I remember the story correctly, we were never reimbursed for the loss.
As a boy, what were your passions? You must have read widely.
Books were my boyhood. I can remember my mother reading Moby-Dick to me when I was six years old. Each evening I had to know exactly where the story had left off the night before or she wouldn’t read the next page. So I learned to stay with it. My father had a large library, he was himself a constant reader.
And a writer, too. He was a columnist for the paper, right?
Had been, yes. My father came back to San Francisco after graduating from Yale in 1931 to work for the Examiner, on occasion speaking directly to William Randolph Hearst, then enthroned at San Simeon. Under pressure from my grandfather, my father gave up journalism to become president of the family company.
And then my grandfather was elected mayor in 1942. He sometimes would go out to meet the aircraft carriers coming in from the war in the Pacific, take me with him in the launch, bring me up to the bridge to meet an admiral. When I was ten years old I wanted to become a navy carrier pilot. At Yale I didn’t qualify for the naval reserves because I was color blind.
So what did you do?
I was also in love with words. I tried my hand at poetry at Yale, and later at Cambridge in England, attempted to write in imitation of Yeats, Auden, Donne, Shakespeare, and A. E. Housman.
The poetry you wrote back then, it scanned?
It did. At Yale I discovered classical music and that also was an influence.
You were already trained as a pianist?
No. The house in San Francisco offered a fine view of the bay, but it wasn’t furnished with a piano. My parents listened on the Victrola to Cole Porter, Fred Astaire, and the Great American Songbook. At Yale I met Beethoven, Bach, Handel, and Mozart.
Who was the first composer that moved you?
My first lessons were on the harpsichord because I wanted to play Bach.
So when you went on to Cambridge, you had an amateur interest in music and keyboard. You were there to study history.
Medieval English history. At Magdalene College, I met C. S. Lewis, who had just come over from Oxford. I met Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath. Admired the poetry of Robert Graves, wrote him letters in Majorca. He didn’t write back.
At Cambridge, I was never in any kind of inner circle. I wandered around, audited lectures, wrote poetry, acted in plays. It was a lovely year, but I understood at the end of it I was not a scholar. I didn’t have the patience for footnotes. My parents were unwilling to fund my further education unless I was going to make an academic career.
So I went to Washington in the fall of 1957 and applied for work at the CIA, the White House, and the Washington Post. I didn’t pass muster at any of the three gates, ended up at the Examiner. I started on the police beat, moved up to city-desk general assignment. I was good at it.
Good at writing on deadline and turning out clean prose?
Well, yes. You had to be. But then I was fired.
What was the cause?
The weekly Sunday supplements for the Los Angeles Examiner and the San Francisco Examiner were both printed in Bakersfield. On that particular Sunday, in December 1959, the printers had made a mistake. The headline on the San Francisco supplement read “Los Angeles: Athens of the West,” with a twelve-page spread of photographs advertising the Southern California presence of Thomas Mann and Béla Bartók, Igor Stravinsky, Raymond Chandler, Aldous Huxley, and Christopher Isherwood.
When I got to the office at ten that Sunday, the paper’s publisher, Sunday editor, city editor, and managing editor were in a state of acute crisis. I figured a cruise ship had gone down in the bay, thousands dead and washing ashore at Fisherman’s Wharf. The city editor handed me the offending pages, denounced them as anathema, gave me until four o’clock in the afternoon to refute the treasonous fake news. The clarification was marked for page 1 and an eight-column headline in the Monday paper. I was to spare no expense of adjectives.
The task was hopeless. The cultural enterprise in San Francisco amounted to little more than Herb Caen’s gossip column promoting the city’s cable cars and views of the Golden Gate Bridge. The Beat generation had disbanded. Allen Ginsberg was still to be seen in the City Lights bookshop with Lawrence Ferlinghetti, but Kerouac had left town, and so had the Merry Pranksters. Evan Connell was in Sausalito, Wallace Stegner was at Stanford, Henry Miller at Big Sur. The theater was road shows from New York, the opera was second-rate, and so was the symphony orchestra. An hour before deadline, I informed the city editor that if there was such a thing as an Athens of the West, it probably was to be found on a back lot at Paramount. The chief slumped into an awful and incredulous silence, then rose from behind his desk to say I had betrayed the city of my birth, committed the sin of checking a good story for facts. Never could I expect to make good in the newspaper business.
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Productivity and Performance
Five uses of performance analytics in sport, plus three you won’t believe
Elite sport is all about performance – of the individual and the team. By using insight from data, sports teams across the world are increasing their performance and delivering success, says author Bernard Marr
1. FOOTBALL
There are a lot of data points in football. In fact, cameras are now capturing 10 data points per minute per footballer in a match. In pre-analytics days, coaches used to wait until the beginning of the week for a report on the Saturday match. Now they are using the data to apply real-time analytics through machine-learning algorithms. This data includes how many calories a player has used at a certain time in the game and how many are still available to that player. If they are reaching the limit, then they will be substituted. Manchester City and Barcelona are among the clubs using such analytics. Others, such as Burnley and Portsmouth, use profiling tools to scout talent to ensure the most effective decisions are made with regards to likelihood of making the professional game. Currently, less than 1.4% of all youngsters recruited into elite teams make it into the professional game.
2. ROWING
GB Rowing wanted to understand how to ‘make the boat go faster’. It brought together an array of data and combined it with data from competition. Working with Siemens it instrumented the boat with force sensors, angle sensors and accelerometry to get individual athlete data from the boats as well as overall data from the hull for how the boat’s moving as a whole during intense training sessions. The analysis looks at the angles the rowers are rowing through, stroke lengths, forces, power they’re putting onto the water and acceleration. Added to this is individual health and medical data from the rowers. Partnering with SAS it is able to generate much more indepth and speedy analysis of the rowers (previously such data was stored in multiple spreadsheets). Data analytics is also used to spot initial signs of injury, so the training regime can be tailored accordingly, enabling athletes to miss fewer sessions.
Data modelling enables coaches and managers to identify promising young rowers that have the potential to reach the top, as well as matching up rowers in different boat combinations to maximise the performance of every crew. According to GB Rowing: “What’s exciting are the golden nuggets or 'unknown unknowns' that can emerge – those things we didn't even foresee before we started analysing the data, so we can discover more about what factors and combinations of factors affect performance."
3. CYCLING
The US women’s cycling team had never won a major event. By collecting and analysing data, it was able to gain insights that helped it to cycle its way to silver at the London 2012 Olympics. It partnered with San Francisco‐based data analytics and visualisation specialist Datameer, whose spreadsheet approach easily integrated the different types, sizes and sources of data, making it much easier to extract insights and spot patterns in the data. Sources of data included track sensors, sleeping patterns, medical data and environmental data. Facebook and Twitter data were also used to discover the emotional state of cyclists. In one case, data showed a leading cyclist performed better if she slept at a lower temperature the night before a competition. So the team supplied a heat-controlled mattress.
Viewers of Wimbledon have long been able to wonder at the power of Hawkeye, which records whether a shot was in or out. In more recent years, we have been able to see visualisations of angles, swings and how players could have improved if they had stood more to the left or right. Now tennis players are going to be able to use smart racquets, so even more data will be available. But in 2015 a new real-time notifications system was used on the first day of The Championships. Lleyton Hewitt was about to hit the 1500th winner of his Wimbledon tennis career. The system pre-warned Wimbledon’s digital and content team of his impending milestone. It offered sufficient time to build a tile of richer content to share on social media as soon as the event occurred, breaking news faster than global media organisations.
Similar technology is now being used in the minor baseball league in the US, enabling social media and news organisations to cover some 13,000 matches a week that would otherwise remain uncovered in the media.
5. RUGBY
Rugby teams are using an app that asks the player 12 questions about their emotional wellbeing, body aches and so on before they even set off for training. The coach is then aware of that person’s physical and emotional condition when they arrive. Urine samples are used to understand hydration levels and players excluded from training if they are too dehydrated, as the likelihood of injury goes up. This is all about driving the right behaviour. You know you will be excluded if you are dehydrated, so you drink more water. At rugby team London Irish, trackers in the back of a player’s shirt can help coaches track a player across the pitch and see minute-by-minute performance data. Using such data combined with self-assessments enables the creation of an RPE figure, rate of perceived exertion. In training, if players are running more and their RPE is going down, they’re getting fitter, whereas if it is going up it could suggest long-term fatigue or overtraining.
If you look at elite teams across sports, the use of analytics is becoming the norm. It’s no surprise to see US NFL teams like the Seattle Seahawks tie up with Microsoft to create a data-driven training regime, but what about college football team the Minnesota Golden Gophers? Working with digital marketing agency FusionSports, the Gophers captured behind-the-scenes footage of practices, workouts, match day, the atmosphere at a match, campus experiences and more to give a real-life experience to potential recruits (as well as to fans) using Google cardboard glasses.
Or how about US Skiing and Snowboarding? Before the South Korean Olympics they brought the mountains to Utah in a virtual reality experience to enable athletes to learn the terrain, the turns, the position of gates and to mentally prepare for their competition. Virtual reality start up STRIVR uses data gained from a 360-degree camera on the helmet of one of the coaches, who then went down the course multiple times.
Then there’s curling. Eight of the 13 national curling federations who sent teams to the Winter Olympics in PyeongChang used smart brooms, or as some have named them Frankenbrooms. These enable curlers to discover information about body positioning, force, speed to sweep and so on. It appears no sport is immune.
Bernard Marr is author of Data-Driven HR and a strategic adviser to companies and governments. He was a keynote speaker at People Analytics World 18 in London on 11 April 2018
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One dead following shooting in Dayton’s Bluff…
One dead following shooting in Dayton’s Bluff neighborhood, St. Paul police say
A black SUV blocks public view of a man killed from a gunshot wound about 8:30 p.m. Friday, June 28, 2019, in St. Paul near the McLean Avenue and Earl Street intersection. (Deanna Weniger / Pioneer Press)
By Deanna Weniger | dweniger@pioneerpress.com | Pioneer Press
PUBLISHED: June 28, 2019 at 9:35 pm | UPDATED: July 1, 2019 at 9:52 am
A man was killed in a Friday night shooting in St. Paul’s Dayton’s Bluff neighborhood, according to police.
Police responded about 8:20 p.m. on multiple reports of shots fired in the 1000 block of Suburban Avenue. Officers found a man, who had been shot and was unresponsive, on Earl Street just north of Suburban Avenue.
Paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene.
Homicide investigators were interviewing witnesses and working to determine what led to the shooting.
Police said no one has been arrested and they asked anyone with information to call them at 651-266-5650.
UPDATE: Man turns himself in after fatal St. Paul shooting
The identify of the man who was killed will be released after it’s confirmed by the Ramsey County medical examiner’s office, police said. His homicide is the 12th in St. Paul in 2019.
Community activists aiming to stop gun violence are holding a Guns Down St. Paul Youth Summit from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at the High School for the Recording Arts.
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Deanna Weniger
Deanna Weniger is a weekend reporter, covering breaking news and anything left over from the week day reporters. She has worked the environmental beat in Port Huron, MI, where she also was a columnist. She is a pastor's wife, homeschool mom, owner of 11 chickens and veggie gardener extraordinaire.
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Puerto Rico Legislature Approves 100 Percent Renewable Energy Target
Puerto Rico today joined a small, but growing, cohort of jurisdictions pursuing 100 percent renewables when its House of Representatives approved legislation (PS 1121) that revamps the island's energy system.
Hawaii and Washington, D.C. are the only other U.S. localities that have the same ambitious target, although Illinois is currently considering legislation. California and New Mexico now have 100 percent carbon-free targets.
In addition to increasing the island’s renewable energy portfolio standard to 100 percent by 2050, with incremental milestones set for 2025 and 2040, the law bans coal power after 2028. In 2017, coal powered 17 percent of the island’s electricity, while renewables accounted for just 2 percent.
The bill also aims to clear hurdles that have tripped up the clean energy industry in the past.
The package of policies add up to a “very, very complete bill,” according to Javier Rúa-Jovet, Sunrun’s director of public policy in Puerto Rico.
PS 1121 protects net metering for five years, mandates automatic interconnection and net metering for systems under 25 kilowatts, and requires larger systems between 25 kilowatts and 5 megawatts to be approved within 90-days.
The renewables industry hopes the mandates will alleviate frustrations around what P.J. Wilson, president of the island’s Solar Energy and Storage Association, calls the “excruciating process” that’s tied to permitting and interconnecting systems of all sizes.
The law also requires that the island’s utility, the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA), must purchase renewable energy credits from solar installations to meet the RPS and nixes any taxes on solar production, solar panels or storage systems.
Investor trepidation, meet certainty
The new law won plaudits from Puerto Rico’s clean energy industry. Máximo Torres, CEO of local solar installer Máximo Solar Industries, called the streamlined permitting structure “a big victory.”
“I would love to have a permitting process that is not related to PREPA in any way,” he said. “Take away the permitting delays [and] we could do a lot of projects.”
Since Hurricane Maria, support for 100 percent renewables in Puerto Rico has swelled, with many clean energy companies, like Sunrun, jumping into what they viewed as a growth market. But policy delays and uncertainties have so far rendered the true magnitude of the opportunity murky. Rúa-Jovet said the new law adds clarity.
“Since it’s bipartisan, one can really bet on its stability as a policy in the long run,” said Rúa-Jovet. “That’s great for markets and signals to investors and new entrants.”
According to Wilson, though investors have expressed interest in working in Puerto Rico, that's come with "trepidation about the uncertainty of the future of the energy paradigm on the island."
"We’ll know whether or not [the law is] effective when we measure whether or not more investment dollars are flowing,” he said.
“Just half the equation”
At the same time, clean energy advocates said the new RPS and the law’s accompanying renewables policies are only as good as their enforcement. Puerto Rico already had a 20 percent by 2035 RPS that it is still far from meeting.
“Having good policies on the books is just half the equation,” said Rúa-Jovet.
The new law aims to allay those concerns by strengthening the island’s energy regulator, its energy bureau created in 2014, with a bigger budget and a clearly-defined role. Though PREPA has tussled with the energy bureau — most recently over its latest integrated resource plan — Rúa-Jovet said the fact that PREPA did not stand in the way of the bill indicates the 100 percent target has the momentum and support it needs to succeed.
“I don’t want to sound pie-in-the-sky; there are always challenges. Some challenges that we may not even know right now,” he said. “But I think Puerto Rico’s challenges with renewables [have] more to do with will than anything.”
Rúa-Jovet said the law’s passage shows that the will now clearly exists, especially after “having lived what we lived, and knowing the future isn’t going to get any easier in terms of the strength of storms and extreme weather.”
That future is one reason electrical engineering professor Marcel Castro-Sitiriche is concerned about the final law. Castro-Sitiriche, who works at the University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez, said legislation should consider short-term solutions for the most vulnerable, because a hurricane could impact those customers again.
According to Castro-Sitiriche’s research, the customers who experienced the highest number of blackout hours post-Maria also tended to be among the last 500,000 customers to be reconnected.
Advocates who have cheered the bill’s passage hope the proposal in Puerto Rico, and the other 100 percent mandates circulating on the mainland, will act as a catalyst to similar actions elsewhere.
“The aspirational hope is it will be an inspiration for other states that are considering 100 percent clean energy…and other Caribbean islands that are in the same situation as Puerto Rico,” said Wilson.
Next, the law heads to Governor Ricardo Rosselló. He is expected to sign it, though his office did not respond to request for comment.
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Tech Nation 2018 report: UK tech is surging past the rest of the economy amid Brexit worries
Sian Bradley
News / Thu 17 May 2018
The digital tech sector in the UK is booming, employment is high and new tech hubs are cropping up across the nation, according to Tech Nation’s 2018 report.
According to the findings, the UK’s digital tech sector grew 2.6 times quicker than the rest of the economy between 2016 and 2017, with the industry now being worth nearly £184bn.
The report also found that digital tech companies’ turnover grew by 4.5% between 2016-17, whilst UK GDP grew by 1.8%. Digital also beat the non-digital sector for the fourth consecutive year.
Employment and funding
As well as money, job opportunities in this field are reportedly plentiful, too – tech employment is rising at five times the rate of the rest of the economy.
2017 was also a great year for funding. British digital tech companies raised £5.8bn in venture capital investment during the year, almost double the previous year. The 10 biggest rounds totalled £1.9bn, including “mega funding” rounds such as gaming firm Improbable raising £370m from Japan’s Softbank, food delivery service Deliveroo raising £284m and mobile network Truphone raising £249m.
Notable acquisitions made last year include Matchesfashion.com being sold to a private equity investor for almost £750m and Leeds-based CallCredit being acquired by TransUnion for £1bn.
UKTN’s own investment tracker shows that £1.4bn has been invested in UK companies so far this year. Last year’s total reached £4.13bn.
Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport Matt Hancock said: “Tech Nation 2018 highlights the extent to which the digital tech sector is providing new energy to the whole economy. The sector is growing faster and providing more high-paying jobs than the wider economy.
“This is a huge success story for the UK but we also want to make sure that the benefits of the digital tech boom are reaching every corner of the UK, so that we can build a Tech Nation that works for everyone,” he added.
The report also shows how the UK is succeeding in establishing itself as a leading tech hub. It found that Silicon Valley is the only tech ecosystem which is more connected than London; based on the percentage of entrepreneurs from other countries who report a significant relationship with two or more entrepreneurs in a given ecosystem. The UK also invests the third most capital in digital tech companies, lagging behind the US and China.
Regional differences
But, how does this picture differ across the nation? While London still receives the most investment and is home to the most startups, the report also reveals that smaller population centres are attracting more digital tech businesses.
The report pegged 16 towns across the UK as potentials for new tech hubs, because of their above average levels of tech employment. These include Reading, Basingstoke, Burnley, Slough and Heathrow, as well as Telford, Cheltenham, Stafford, Huntingdon and Swindon.
Different cities are also developing specialisms. For instance, blockchain is a popular in Manchester; shown by analysis of Meetup data which found there were 151 meetups and nearly 62000 members. Perhaps unsurprisingly, AI is a key aspect of the tech sector, accounting for 16% of the top 400 UK tech meetups.
Eileen Burbidge, partner at Passion Capital and Chair of Tech Nation, said: “From FinTech to HealthTech, self-driving cars and artificial intelligence, the UK’s digital tech sector is having an impact on every aspect of our daily lives and economy.
“Tech Nation’s survey of the industry shows that confidence and optimism is high, but it is important for us to keep supporting this sector and give British companies the best chance they can to grow and scale,” she added.
A diverse workforce?
The report shows there is some progress being made in terms of diversity, but there is still some way to go. Women are still grossly underrepresented; only 19% of the digital tech workforce is female, compared to 49% across all UK jobs. On a more positive note, on average, 15% of those in digital tech jobs are of black, Asian and ethnic minority (BAME) backgrounds, compared with the 10% average across all UK jobs.
The stereotype that tech is the territory of millennials is also misplaced as 72% of UK digital tech workers are, on average, over 35.
Brexit is often cited as a potential threat to the tech sector, and a survey of 3,428 people involved in digital tech revealed that the only places in which Brexit is cited as a top three challenge are Cambridge and London. In fact, according to the report, tech communities across the UK are highly optimistic about the growth prospects for digital tech companies in their local area, both in terms of scale and number of businesses.
Still, some problems are broadly consistent across the nation. Some 83% of clusters are affected by access to talent, making that the most common challenge. Access to funding (49%) and bad transport links (29%) make up the next two setbacks.
Still, despite some problems, the tech sector feels optimistic about the future. Over 70% of respondents think the number of digital tech businesses in their local area will rise over the next 12 months and over 90% think that the scale of digital tech businesses in their local area will either expand or stay the same.
Gerard Grech, chief executive of Tech Nation, said: “Tech Nation 2018 is the first major milestone of Tech Nation, the organisation now working across the country to build networks that support ambitious entrepreneurs and shine a light on the achievements of our tech sector.
“The UK’s tech sector is growing almost three times faster than the rest of the economy. What started as Tech City is increasingly Tech Nation. London is the world’s second most connected hub after Silicon Valley. We need to make the most of that, as our new relationship with the EU will undoubtedly force us to be even more adaptive, innovative and ambitious,” he concluded.
Reporter at UKTN
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Milwaukee native Arike Ogunbowale hits shot of a lifetime in women's basketball NCAA championship
By: Brandon Rook
<p>COLUMBUS, OH - APRIL 01: Arike Ogunbowale #24 of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish celebrates after scoring the game winning basket with 0.1 seconds remaining in the fourth quarter to defeat the Mississippi State Lady Bulldogs in the championship game of the 2018 NCAA Women's Final Four at Nationwide Arena on April 1, 2018 in Columbus, Ohio. The Notre Dame Fighting Irish defeated the Mississippi State Lady Bulldogs 61-58. (Photo by Andy Lyons/Getty Images)</p>
Notre Dame's final play in Sunday night's NCAA Women's National Championship basketball game was in the hands of Milwaukee native Arike Ogunbowale.
She hit the game-winning shot against Mississippi State with less than three seconds left in the game. Some are calling it the greatest last second shot in championship game history.
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But it's nothing new if you talked to people at her alma mater Divine Savior Holy Angels in Milwaukee. They say Ogunbowale is made for the big stage.
The school's president Ellen Bartel told TODAY'S TMJ4 she always comes through in the clutch.
"Ice water in her veins," said Bartel. "She's worked so hard that she knows when push comes to shove she can do it."
Ogunbowale actually hit two-game winning shots in the Final Four this past weekend, her first against UConn to put the Fighting Irish in the championship game.
"Can anyone name another player who's done it back to back in semi-final and a final game, I've not heard anybody come up with somebody who's equaled that feat," Bartel said.
Milwaukee Native Hits Last Second Shot To Help Notre Dame Beat UConn
This weekend's performance even got her a shout out from NBA legend Kobe Bryant.
WOW! @Arike_O #lifecomplete #MambaMentality
— Kobe Bryant (@kobebryant) April 2, 2018
As her name hangs in the rafters of the DSHA gym, Bartel can only imagine where Ogunbowale’s career will go.
“If the WNBA wasn't already looking at her they have to be looking at her now. I know that she'll be successful with whatever she does because of that incredible work ethic and that ability to focus is so valuable no matter what you do," Bartel said.
Along with hitting the game-winning shot Ogunbowale was also named the tournament's most outstanding player.
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INTERNATIONAL HOTEL CHAINS EXPANDING TO AFRICA
Bill Alen - Oct 15, 2018
African continent strengthens its position as an attractive destination for the largest international hotel chains, which have decided to multiply their investments in the region. The latest to join is Hyatt Hotels, who recently announced the opening of nine establishments in Kenya, Egypt, Morocco, Algeria, Ethiopia, Senegal, and Tanzania.
With an ever-increasing favorable commercial climate and a major rise in tourist expenditure, Africa and particularly East Africa, are becoming important scenarios for hotel expansion strategies, such as the recent initiative by Accor Hotels, which launched a 1 billion fund to promote new projects in the African continent.
According to the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), the number of international arrivals grew by 5.8% in Sub-Saharan Africa between 2005 and 2017 (well-above the world average, estimated at 4.2% according to the UN agency). Only last year, the number of arrivals reported an overall 8.6% increase throughout the continent.
Moreover, the rise in tourism is far from touching the ceiling. It is expected that domestic travels will grow thanks to an initiative known as Single Market for air travel in Africa, launched at the beginning of the year.
For its part, according to the Report in Economic Development in Africa presented in the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), four out of every ten travelers in Africa come from the region.
The rise of large regional centers such as Nairobi, Lagos, Addis Ababa, or Johannesburg, contributes greatly to this type of domestic travelers.
The increase in international long-distance flights to these cities confirms these figures. Only in the case of Nairobi, according to data from the consulting agency Forward Keys, the number of flights grew by 8% in the middle of the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport expansion, as well as the addition of new routes to Amsterdam, Paris, and London, among others destinations.
Hyatt Hotels, the American multinational hospitality company, is one of the hotel chains that have firmly decided to bet on the African continent.
Takuya Aoyama, regional Vice President of Acquisitions & Development for Europe, Africa and the Middle East for Hyatt Hotels Corporation, said that “strengthening our existing hotel presence in the capitals of East Africa has provided Hyatt with a solid foundation to continue expanding our footprint in the rest of the continent.”
Of the nine hotels that Hyatt will open in Africa before 2020, five of these are opening in new markets, specifically Algeria, where plans include the unveiling of the Hyatt Regency Algiers Airport (in the first quarter of 2019); or Ethiopia, with the Hyatt Regency Addis Ababa (last quarter of 2018).
Kenya will start its hotel portfolio with a double entry: the Hyatt Place Nairobi and Hyatt House Nairobi both slated for 2020. The corporation also has investments in Senegal with the Hyatt Centric Dakar, which is expected to open in the first quarter of 2019.
Additionally, Hyatt Hotels will open new stores in other markets where it already has a presence, including Egypt (Hyatt Regency Cairo West), Morocco (Park Hyatt Marrakech and Hyatt Regency Haghazout), and Tanzania (Hyatt Regency Arusha, which will be its third hospitality establishment in the country).
On top of these large initiatives, the company has also announced that, as part of its long-term expansion plan in Sub-Saharan Africa, it will continue to explore “new opportunities in countries such as Rwanda, Uganda, Mozambique, Namibia, Cameroon, Madagascar, Ghana, and Ivory Coast”.
Hilton is another company that announced plans of expansion in Africa. Recently, the representatives reported that one million dollars (864,500 euros) will go to local hotels to boost the continent’s tourism. According to the group’s statement, the five priority areas, the ‘Big Five'’, are youth opportunities, the reduction of water consumption by 50% until 2030, mitigating human trafficking, local hiring through partnerships and protection of wildlife.
“Today we are pleased to take our efforts to the next level with an initial commitment of $1 million, which will allow us to invest in and scale up initiatives that build skills among young people, mitigate risks in human trafficking, engage local entrepreneurs across our supply chain, improve water efficiencies and promote responsible wildlife-based tourism,” said the Hilton’s president, Chris Nassetta, quoted in the statement.
The well-known hotel chain has 41 hotels in 21 countries on the African continent, including Cape Verde and a hotel planned for Mozambique; the expansion plan mentioned in the statement intends to reach a total of 53 units.
Marriott has also announced expansion plans throughout Africa. The company will consolidate its presence in Ghana, Kenya, Morocco and South Africa and will mark the company's entry into Mozambique. Today, Marriott International is present in 21 African countries.
The acquisition of five new hotels in these countries marks the path marked by the company: in 2023 it aims to increase its portfolio by 50% in Africa, with more than 200 hotels and 38,000 rooms. An investment that will generate 12,000 new jobs in the continent.
The company estimates that the five new projects signed will boost an investment of more than 250 million dollars by the owners, which will generate substantial economic activity.
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Car Hacking Issues Spark Change in the Automotive Industry
It seems like something out of an action flick—a hacker taking control of a car remotely, steering it, stopping it, and even stealing it. Not anymore. Modern vehicles are becoming increasingly connected, and more reliant on automated systems. The scenarios we once saw play out on screen have turned into a risky reality. With increasingly connected cars, manufacturers are breaking into a new frontier—but do they have the knowledge and tools to keep their vehicles secure?
In early August, two suspects were arrested in Houston on suspicion of using a laptop to hijack 100 Dodge and Jeep cars, both brands under Fiat Chrysler Automobiles. The video surveillance footage showed how easy it was for the men to take control and get into the vehicle. Security researchers have also been experimenting with connected vehicles for years, showing just how vulnerable they are. Experiments have shown that the cars can be compromised with different methods, through remote or physical access, or in some cases, through the vehicle’s supporting app.
In an experiment with Wired last year, security experts Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek wirelessly hacked into a Jeep Cherokee and demonstrated how they managed to take control of the vehicle’s entertainment system, air conditioning, steering, and brakes—all with someone in the car. Their research prompted Jeep to issue a recall of 1.4 million vehicles to fix the bug.
This year, at the 2016 Black Hat conference, Miller and Valasek presented a new technique for hacking into the Jeep Cherokee. Car manufacturer Chrysler patched the previously exposed vulnerabilities, but the two researchers found a way into the vehicle’s Controller Area Network (CAN bus) which handles communication between the different car systems. This hack allowed them to exert even more control than they previously had, allowing them to accelerate the car, turn the steering wheel, and engage the brakes. But, unlike last year, this was not a remote hack. The researchers’ laptop needed to be physically plugged into the Jeep’s CAN bus for it to work.
The Nissan Leaf is a case of car connectivity outpacing security. A flaw in the companion app was easily exploited, which allowed hackers to access the car. The app only needed the car’s Vehicle Identity Number to take control—a number which is printed on the windows of all the cars. Through this vulnerability an attacker could control heating, air-conditioning, and even drain the electric car's batteries remotely. They could also access trip data, which is something the owner might want to keep private.
The Leaf exploit wasn’t the first time a car with a companion smartphone application had security issues. Škoda Auto had almost the same problem with its Fabio III car and their SmartGate System. In the case of Nissan, the company disabled the app once the vulnerability was publically revealed and released a more secure version in early 2016.
Other car manufacturers were not so quick to act when faced with their vehicle’s security failings. In 2010 a team of researchers disclosed to General Motors (GM) that vehicles with the Generation 8 OnStar computer were vulnerable— hackers could use a simple audio attack as a pivot to gain access to the vehicle’s network of computers, allowing them to control everything from the brakes to the windshield wipers. It took the company five years to fully fix the issue.
Premium electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla Motors focuses more on cybersecurity than other manufacturers, and their cars have a reputation for being hard to hack—but hard doesn’t mean impossible. In 2015, two researchers were able to exploit vulnerabilities in the Tesla Model S and gain control of the car. They unlocked the doors, started the vehicle, and drove away. Although the researchers managed this much, it was a herculean feat. They had to disassemble the Model S and needed constant physical access to the car to pull off the hack. The method they used was largely impractical for most hackers, and shows how effective Tesla's security measures are. Still, the company immediately addressed the vulnerabilities, cutting off even that small avenue of attack.
What is being done?
In light of these proven vulnerabilities and widespread issues, governments and car manufacturers are starting to take this problem seriously. In the United States, legislation has been proposed to set new standards for car cybersecurity. The Security and Privacy in Your Car Act of 2015 mandates that the entire vehicle should be safeguarded against hacking, and that owners be made aware of what data is being collected, transmitted and shared. There is also strict punishment proposed for anyone who infiltrates a vehicle's electronic systems, including penalties as harsh as life imprisonment.
Meanwhile, car manufacturers are also beginning to overhaul their enterprise structure by adding cybersecurity experts in the mix. GM now has a global team of around 80 people dedicated to cybersecurity, enabling them to address security flaws much faster than in 2010. GM has also established a vulnerability submission program that allows researchers to submit security discoveries directly to the company.
Tesla and Chrysler are offering a similar deal, but with the added bonus of compensation for the research. The two companies are offering bug bounties—a reward for any security vulnerabilities found in their vehicles. Chrysler is offering $150 to $1,500 per bug, depending on the severity of the flaws, while Tesla is offering up to $10,000.
A strategy for the future
The smart car market is projected to continually grow. According to studies by industry experts, an estimated 36 million new cars with embedded telematics will be shipped globally by 2018. Autonomous vehicles are also becoming a popular trend. Google has been working on their self-driving cars since 2009 and aim to have their technology fully optimized by 2020. Large manufacturers like Nissan, Ford, and Toyota are also exploring this track.
Tesla is already ahead of the curve. The company unveiled their Autopilot system in 2015, and while it only features basic self-driving functions, many are enthusiastic about its capabilities. However, as quickly as technology develops, vulnerabilities are also exposed, adding more road risks if cybersecurity does not become a bigger priority.
Manufacturers have always been guarded about their research and development, but because of this issue players in the industry are sharing resources and collaborating on better cybersecurity practices. They have established the Auto Information Sharing and Analysis Center (Auto-ISAC), and outlined guidelines that will help manufacturers and suppliers be more prepared for cybersecurity issues. The Auto-ISAC board includes representatives from the largest car manufacturers in the world, with a board of officers that includes executives from Toyota, GM, Honda, and Ford.
The best practices outlined by Auto-ISAC include:
Threat detection and protection
Incident response and recovery
Training and awareness
Collaboration and engagement with appropriate third parties
This provides a strong framework that will allow automakers to share information, as well as analyze and develop solutions. It is a crucial step forward and a solid strategy in the fight against automotive cybercrime.
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Parker Posey biography
Date of Birth: November 8, 1968
Parker Posey has become known as the queen of the indies -- independent films, that is. At one point, it was as if no film could afford to show up at the Sundance Film Festival without having at least considered Posey for a role. "What's fun about these movies," she says, "is that they're moved by the characters, not the plot or the special effects. I do what I do because I love it."
Of course, there is a downside, one of which is the money. For Party Girl , where she played a clothes-stealing club-hopper whose life changes when she learns the dewy decimal system, she was paid the grand sum of $75 a day. Another movie saw her lending the producers her credit card so they could rent cars. And to get to the set of The Doom Generation , she had to cough up half her air fare.
Posey grew up in Laurel, Mississippi, and got her early training in the theater program at the State University of New York College before turning up on the soap opera, As the World Turns. That was before the indie productions came calling, a turn of events she's never regretted. "You know," she says, "I'm grateful for my body of work. I don't like Hollywood movies -- or Hollywood endings."
However, Posey soon had to eat her words when she accepted the role of Kitty Koslowski in the blockbuster film Superman Returns (2006) opposite newcomer Brandon Routh as the new Man of Steel. She has also played a recurring role on the 2006 season of the TV series Boston Legal. She followed this up with roles in the horror flick The Eye (2008), the crime drama Inside Out (2011), and the comedy Price Check (2012).
In recent years, Posey has appeared in films such as Grace of Monaco (2014), Ned Rifle (2014), and Irrational Man (2015). She can now be seen in the dramedies Café Society (2016) and The Architect (2016), the comedy The Brits Are Coming (2016), the drama My Art (2016), and the comedy Mascots (2016).
Parker Posey Filmography
Lost in Space (Netflix)
The Con is On (2018)
Mascots (2016)
Mascots (Netflix)
My Art (2016)
The Architect (2016)
The Brits Are Coming (2016)
Irrational Man (2015)
Princess Grace (2015)
Grace of Monaco (2014)
Ned Rifle (2014)
And Now a Word from Our Sponsor (2013)
HairBrained (2013)
Hemingway & Gellhorn (2013)
Highland Park (2013)
Price Check (2012)
The Love Guide (2011)
Happy Tears (2010)
Spring Breakdown (2008)
The Eye (2008)
Asphalt Beach (2007)
Broken English (2007)
Fay Grim (2007)
For Your Consideration (2006)
Superman Returns (2006)
The OH in Ohio (2006)
Adam & Steve (2005)
Blade: Trinity (2004)
Laws of Attraction (2004)
A Mighty Wind (2003)
The Event (2003)
Personal Velocity (2002)
The Sweetest Thing (2002)
Josie and the Pussycats (2001)
the anniversary party (2001)
Best In Show (2000)
Scream 3 (2000)
Dinner at Fred's (1999)
The Venice Project (1999)
Clockwatchers (1998)
Henry Fool (1998)
The Misadventures of Margaret (1998)
What Rats Won't Do (1998)
You've Got Mail (1998)
Drunks (1997)
House of Yes (1997)
Waiting For Guffman (1997)
Basquiat (1996)
Suburbia (1996)
Frisk (1995)
Kicking and Screaming (1995)
Party Girl (1995)
The Doom Generation (1995)
Dead Connection (1994)
Mixed Nuts (1994)
Sleep With Me (1994)
Coneheads (1993)
Joey Breaker (1993)
The Wake (1993)
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Eddie Griffin Net Worth
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Net Worth: $500 Thousand
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Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.
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About Edward Rubin "Eddie" Griffin
Eddie Griffin is an American comedian and actor with a net worth of $500 thousand. He earned his net worth while working at sitcom, Eddie and Malcolm. On Comedy Central, he is ranked number 62 among the 100 Greatest Stand-up comedians of all time. He has also performed on Dr. Dre’s two tracks and the intro track on the Album Helter Skelter from The D.O.C. He has starred in several films some of which include The Meteor Man in 1993, Deuce Bigalow in 1999, Double Take in 2001, and many more.
Born in Kansas City of Missouri, Griffin was raised by Doris Thomas, his single mother who was working as an operator in a phone company. He enrolled for biological engineering at the Kansas City University but quit after three months. He first married Carla in 1983 when he was only 16 years. He has been married three times to Rochelle, in 2002 and Nia Rivers in 2011.
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U.S. senator wants to withhold 2026 World Cup funding until USWNT gets equal pay
Gordon Brunt
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Sen. Joe Manchin introduced a bill to Congress on Tuesday that could have severe implications for the 2026 World Cup if the United States Soccer Federation (USSF) doesn't agree to enforce equal pay for U.S. national teams.
There have been fresh calls for the USWNT to receive equal compensation after winning the Women's World Cup on Sunday.
The Democratic senator said in a statement posted to his website that he was inspired to propose a bill that, if passed, would prohibit federal funding for the 2026 World Cup - set to take place in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico - until the USSF "agrees to provide equitable pay" to the women and men's teams.
"I received a letter from Coach Izzo-Brown highlighting her worries that women on the WVU Women’s Soccer Team could one day make the U.S. women’s team and not get paid the same as the men’s team. That’s just plain wrong," he said.
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"That’s why I’m introducing legislation that will require the U.S. Soccer Federation to pay the men’s and women’s national soccer teams equitably before any federal funds may be used for the 2026 World Cup.
"The clear unequitable pay between the U.S. men’s and women’s soccer teams is unacceptable and I’m glad the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team's latest victory is causing public outcry.
"They are the best in the world and deserve to be paid accordingly. I’m encouraging everyone to call their Senator and Representatives to help us get this bill passed and finally create a level playing field for all."
Twenty-eight USWNT members, including stars such as Megan Rapinoe and Alex Morgan, filed a lawsuit against the USSF in March.
The lawsuit cited years of "institutionalized gender discrimination," according to a report in the Wall Street Journal, per Reuters. Along with pursuing equitable pay, the plaintiffs were also seeking a resolution to alleged injustices regarding travel conditions, quality of medical personnel, promotion of matches, and training facilities considered inadequate compared to their male counterparts.
The USSF reportedly reached a tentative agreement for mediation with the plaintiffs in June to resolve the issues. It's understood that mediation could take place in the near future now that the Women's World Cup has concluded.
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Les Miserables to retain world record despite switching productions
A scene from Les Miserables at Bord Gais Energy Theatre, Dublin. Photo: Matthew Murphy
by Matthew Hemley - Jan 17, 2019
Les Miserables will hold on to its title of the longest-running musical in the West End, despite the change in production happening later this year.
The current Guinness World Records listing for Les Miserables was awarded to the London production on January 2015, for the longest-running musical in the West End. At that point, it had run for 29 years and 47 days.
Guinness lists the Cameron Mackintosh/Royal Shakespeare Company as the record holder.
However, that production will leave the West End later this year, to be replaced with a version based on the touring staging. This will no longer be produced with the RSC, but Guinness said it will still hold the record.
A spokeswoman for GWR said: “The records team have confirmed that Les Mis will remain the record holder in this category.”
The current production of Les Miserables will leave the Queen’s Theatre later this year, and will have a four-month run at the next-door Gielgud Theatre, while the Queen’s undergoes refurbishment.
The touring version of the musical will be the production that reopens at the Queen’s in December. This has a different creative team to that of the original.
Earlier this week, The Stage reported how RSC bosses are currently in negotiations with Mackintosh about royalty entitlements once the current production closes.
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Matt is news editor for The Stage, having started as the newspaper’s broadcast reporter. He covers all areas of the industry in his role, but has a particular interest in musical theatre. Matt studied acting at Bretton Hall and presents a monthly theatre news round up on BBC London Radio.
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You are here: Home › Sexual assault hidden in culture of silence
Sexual assault hidden in culture of silence
August 6, 2004 in International
JOHANNESBURG – When South Africa’s former deputy president appears on a charge of rape at the Johannesburg High Court next week, he’s likely to draw a crowd of rousing supporters – including many women.
Jacob Zuma, a former leader in the apartheid struggle, had alrea
dy garnered considerable populist support during the corruption scandal that had led to his dismissal in June last year. When the rape allegation became public in November, many South Africans stood by him, and many are eager to voice their scepticism – and anger – at the 31-year-old accuser, a reported family friend who Zuma allegedly raped at his home.
“If it really happened to her, I feel sorry for her, because she’s ruined somebody else’s life politically,” said Lindiwe Tshabalala, 46, an office manager from Pimville, Soweto. Echoing other Zuma supporters around the country, Tshabalala contends he’s the victim of a complicated political conspiracy, and suggested his accuser made up or exaggerated the allegations.
“She should have screamed if this was really rape,” she said, adding that, in any case, it’s a women’s responsibility to defend themselves. “Even with a gun, you have to come out of that without being raped. Even if he slaps you – you run away, you scream, you do whatever you can to stop him.”
Around 2,000 rowdy Zuma supporters turned out at his first court appearance last month, and hurled abuse at a small group of women who carried placards proclaiming: ‘Silence does not equal consent’ and ‘Rape is always a crime’. “Look at those women – what are they doing here? Throw them out!” yelled one man.
The factors that account for the high prevalence of rape and sexual violence in this nation of 45 million are extraordinarily complex. After decades of a sustained liberation struggle, women’s rights are codified in the nation’s constitution. But in today’s democratic South Africa, still reeling from generations of race-based oppression and violence, little progress has been made to eradicate rape and other forms of gender-based and sexual violence.
The public’s response to the Zuma rape trial illustrates how survivors of sexual assault are often blamed for the incident – a consequence that encourages many to keep accusations silent.
“In South Africa, we have fantastic laws, policies, and structures that can compete with – and even lead – any country in the world, but there are massive groups in the population for whom stereotypes about sexual violence remain,” said Carrie Shelver, public awareness manager at People Opposing Women Abuse (POWA), based in Johannesburg.
“This case asks us: Who exactly is our democracy being forged for?” Shelver said.
High Rates of Sexual Violence
South Africa’s incidents of reported rape are among the highest in the world; between April 2004 and March 2005, 55,114 cases were reported to the police.
However, many South African women’s groups and anti-violence organisations say most incidents of sexual violence go unreported, making the true figure much higher. As the Zuma trial gains media attention, the groups have launched a campaign to support the claimant.
The campaign, called “One in Nine”, [www.oneinnine.org.za], refers to the number of women who have been raped and report it to police, according to figures from a 2002 report by the Medical Research Council. The coordinating groups – including POWA, Gender AIDS Forum, Positive Women’s Network, Gender Links, Forum for the Empowerment of Women, and Men as Partners – say that of the reported cases, only 7 percent result in convictions.
In 2004, a nation-wide study of adolescents found that the prevalence of sexual violence against children leads to attitudes that condone or expects such violence. The extensive survey, conducted by Mexico’s Centro de Investigación de Enfermedades Tropicales (CIET), incorporated interviews with nearly 270,000 South African boys and girls aged 10 to 19.
The study found that 58 percent of all respondents felt that “sexual violence does not include forcing sex with someone you know,” while another 30 percent of all respondents said “girls do not have a right to refuse sex with their boyfriend.” A total of 8.6 percent of all respondents, male and female, had been forced to have sex in the past year.
It also found that 66 percent of males and 71 percent of females who admitted to forcing someone else to have sex, had themselves been forced to have sex.
Other studies have corroborated the prevalence of forced sexual initiation in South Africa. A 1996 study published in The South African Medical Journal found that 28 percent of young girls surveyed in the Eastern Cape province first became sexually active because they were “forced by partner”, while another 20 percent cited “peer pressure”.
In 2001, researchers reported in the journal Reproductive Health Matters that 24 percent of adolescent girls surveyed in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province said they were “persuaded” or “tricked” into their first sexual experience.
While sexual violence occurs worldwide and in all strata of societies, many South African children have been particularly vulnerable to assault. Apartheid-era policies meant parents often lived apart from their children, who were instead raised by relatives and neighbours. The isolation and vulnerability of young people continues today, as poverty endures and as more and more children in South Africa are orphaned by AIDS.
Sexual Violence as Response to Oppression
The prevalence of sexual violence in South Africa also relates to the history of state-sponsored oppression, as well as the status of women.
“In general, rape is more common in countries with both a marked gender hierarchy and a culture where violence is used to assert dominance in whatever form that takes – either by the state or by individuals,” said Rachel Jewkes, head of the South African Medical Research Council’s Gender and Health Unit.
The cultural taboos around sexual violence means it tends to be discussed in a very one-dimensional way, said Jewkes, who has spent the last decade studying gender-based violence in South Africa.
She noted that rape occurs within a continuum of sexual violence, which can range from pressurised consensual sex to achieving sexual contact through coercion, lying or threatening; giving someone drugs and alcohol; or using physical force.
One of the dynamics that fuel this continuum is South Africa’s gendered hierarchy, in which women are generally subordinate to men, Jewkes said.
“One way that manifests in South Africa is the idea that men will do anything they can get away with, and it’s up to women to make sure they can’t get away with things,” she said. “That’s where blaming the woman comes in.”
That’s true even among women, she noted. “There’s a sense among women that … if you let him get away with it, it’s a sign that you did want it, and therefore you shouldn’t go around complaining,” she said.
Patriarchy is part of the dynamic, yet the factors that move perpetrators to sexual assault are extraordinarily complicated, particularly within the context of South Africa’s history of oppression, high unemployment and HIV/AIDS.
In a 2001 study of rape cases in South Africa’s Limpopo province, University of Pretoria anthropologist Isak Niehaus found that some men who were marginalised in their community had raped as a means to symbolically assert masculine domination. In three case studies, he found that men had used rape to dramatise their heterosexual virility, to humiliate more successful women, and to enact an ideal of their patriarchal rule within households.
“The disjuncture between men’s ideals and the actuality of their life situations forms the context for the current crisis of sexual violence in post-apartheid South Africa,” he wrote.
Legacy of Silence after the Struggle
In recent years, South Africa has created institutions to respond to the high rates of sexual assault, including special Sexual Offences courts. But advocacy organisations say the measures are not enough to dramatically curb sexual violence, and reflect a lack of political will to address the issue.
In particular, many advocacy groups are frustrated by the slow revision of the nation’s Sexual Offences Act, penned in 1957, which uses a narrow definition of rape. The new bill has stalled in negotiations for seven years.
“Most of us in the field do not understand why this delay has been so long and think the delay reflects the ambivalence about sexual violence in the highest levels of policy making,” Jewkes said.
In addition to bolstering institutions that support sexual assault survivors, Jewkes said the government should launch a nationwide process to examine gender inequality in the same way racial inequality was scrutinised after apartheid.
That is echoed by others who say women’s liberation was subjugated to national liberation during the apartheid struggle, only to have gender equality issues fall by the wayside in South Africa’s new democracy.
“The whole thing of women as property and ownership wasn’t resolved around liberation,” said Rhoda Kadalie, a former Human Rights Commissioner and founder of the Gender Equity Unit at the University of the Western Cape. “While we have those paper rights, in reality the gender politics and behaviour of men towards women … Haven’t changed.”
Part of the problem, Kadalie said, stems from the reluctance of government to expose the sexual violence perpetrated during the struggle, including within the camps of the exiled African National Congress (ANC).
“All the activism around gender equality and sexual equality that was part of the liberation rah-rah has now evaporated now that the ANC is in power,” Kadalie said. “And what I find very troubling is the self-censorship among women in the struggle.”
Yet that self-censorship is deeply rooted in South Africa, according to POWA’s Shelver.
“There’s a culture of, ‘Don’t speak out, because I didn’t speak out’,” Shelver said. “There’s a sense that women have to keep quiet; that speaking out can be a betrayal to the person accused, to the nation, to the political party.”
Power on Trial
Loyalty to Zuma has been at the heart of his support network. Earlier this month, some supporters even turned the rape accusation on its head, with demonstrators wielding placards that read, “Jacob Zuma has been raped”.
Shelver said the One in Nine campaign supports a fair judicial process in which Zuma is innocent until proven guilty. But she hopes the trial will be a catalyst to broaden national awareness – and dialogue – about sexual violence.
“Rape always has to do with power,” Shelver said. “Where the alleged perpetrator is the former deputy president – who has so much power – it was clear to use that we need to have some kind of coordinated support for the claimant.” — IRIN
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Alan Turing – How the mathematician and computer scientist helped win WW2
His pioneering work at the top secret Bletchley Park helped to crack Nazi codes and shorten the war by four years
By Tariq Tahir
THE work of mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing is said to have shortened the Second World War by four years.
His work should have meant he was hailed as a national hero but instead he was hounded for his sexuality. Here’s what you need to know about him.
Turing was acknowledged as a genius from an early ageCredit: Alamy
When was Alan Turing born?
Alan Turing was born on June 1912 in Maida Vale, London and from an early age it was clear that he was highly intelligent.
When he was nine, his both his primary school headmistress and his secondary school maths teacher declared him to be a “genius” in reports.
He passed the time by working out complex chess problems on his own, according to the British Library.
Teachers were often annoyed with him for his high marks in exams despite him paying little attention during lessons.
Where was he educated and what standard of runner was he?
Turing began studying mathematics at King's College Cambridge, in 1931 and graduated in 1934 with a first class degree
During his time at university he enjoyed an active social life, took up rowing and became an excellent long distance runner.
Later in life he finished fifth in qualifying for the 1948 London Olympics with a time of 2 hours 46.03 minutes which for the day was very respectable.
He continued to compete for Walton athletic club until forced to stop by injury.
Turing was an excellent long distance runnerCredit: Alamy
After graduating from Cambridge he obtained a PhD in mathematics at Princeton University in 1938.
It was at Princeton that he developed the notion of a “universal computing machine” which could solve complex calculations.
Later this would become known as the Turing machine, which foreshadowed the digital computer.
At Princeton he also studied cryptology codes and cyphers which can be used to send secret messages.
Bletchley Park was home to Britain's code breakers i the Second World WarCredit: Alamy
How did his work Second World War?
Turing was asked join the Government Codes and Cypher School, a code-breaking organisation which is now known as GCHQ.
The organisation moved to Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire, which became the top secret home of Britain’s code breakers.
He was based in the famous Hut 8 and his most notable achievement at Bletchley was cracking the German’s ‘Enigma’ code.
The Enigma was a machine used by the German armed forces to send encrypted messages securely.
The Enigma machine used by the Germans to send encrypted messagesCredit: Alamy
Together with fellow code-breaker Gordon Welchman, developed a machine called the Bombe which from late 1940 was decoding all messages sent by the Enigma machines.
Turing’s team also cracked complex German naval signals in 1941, contributing to Allied victory in the Battle of the Atlantic.
His other work included developing a machine to encode and decode voice communications.
What happened after the war, how did he die and what is ‘Turing’s Law’?
Turing was as awarded an OBE for his services to the country in 1945 and made deputy director of the Computing Laboratory at Manchester University.
He continued to producing ground breaking work including his famous paper “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” which was published in 1950.
Turing was gay at a time when homosexuality was illegal in Britain.
In January 1952 he began a relationship with Arnold Murray, a 19-year-old unemployed man.
Later that month, Turing reported a burglary to the police and Murray told him that the perpatrator was an acquaintance of his.
During the investigation he acknowledged a sexual relationship with Murray.
Turing was gay at a time when homosexuality was illegalCredit: WARNING: Use of this image is subject to the terms of use of BBC Pictures' Digital Picture
Codebreaker - Alan Turing
Turing was charged with gross indecency and convicted under Section 11 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885.
He pleaded guilty and opted for chemical castration by a series of injections of female hormones.
The scientist was rendered impotent and his security clearance was removed barring him for continuing his code breaking work for GCHQ.
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Turing died two years later from cyanide poisoning in an apparent suicide - though there have been suggestions his death was an accident.
In 2013 he was officially pardoned thanks to a campaign backed by MPs and celebrities like Professor Stephen Hawking, Stephen Fry and Benedict Cumberbatch.
Thousands of other gay and bisexual men convicted of consensual same-sex relationships were also posthumously pardoned under what became known as ‘Turing’s Law’.
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Royal Enfield Continental GT 650 custom motorcycle achieves 241 kmph top speed
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Modified by Harris Performance, a unit of Eicher Motors Ltd owned S&S Cycle Inc, RE Continental GT 650 raced its way into record books on the first day of the attempt. It was being handled by 18 year old Cayla Rivas, 12 time world speed record holder. She clocked a top speed 150 mph (241.40 kmph) at Bonneville Salt Flats - setting a new speed record.
Cayla is the daughter of former National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) motorcycle racer Chris Rivas. Though this record has been confirmed by Siddharth Lal on social media, a formal FIM (Federation Internationale de Motocyclisme) certification is yet awaited.
The modified RE Continental GT650 received Ohlins suspension, a new chassis and swingarm while NOS (nitrous oxide) offered the extra boost allowing for a total of 20 runs. Modifications also included a lower ground clearance, longer wheelbase while the company removed excessive body parts.
Front end got upside down forks instead of regular telescopic suspension while handlebar was lowered and foot pegs moved to the rear for a better riding position and to reduce drag.
Royal Enfield Continental GT650 and the Interceptor 650 are set for launch. These are made in India with inputs from RE UK Tech Center. The bikes were unveiled at the 2017 EICMA Show and once launched will be the most powerful RE bikes on sale.
The RE twins are powered by a new 649cc, parallel twin engine offering 47 bhp power at 7,100 rpm and 52 Nm torque at 5,200 rpm. In its stock format, the new engine will be capable of a top speed of over 140 kmph. The Interceptor 650 is expected to be priced at around Rs 3 lakhs while the Continental GT650 could carry a price tag of Rs 3.5 lakhs. Once launched, the 650 twins could compete against Harley-Davidson Street 750 in India.
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Greater Victoria residents familiar to the Colwood Crawl are likely part of a distinct minority. According to Statistics Canada, Victoria has one of the lowest share of long commuters, who spent at least 60 minutes in a car travelling to work. Of 119,215 car commuters in the CMA, 3.2 per qualify as long commuters. The national share is 6.7 per cent with some CMAs in B.C. (including Abbotsford-Mission) and elsewhere exceeding 10 per cent and approaching 20 per cent. (Black Press File).
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Region has one of the lowest shares of long commutes
Wolf Depner
Feb. 26, 2019 7:30 a.m.
The agony of the Colwood Crawl? It’s overrated.
Greater Victoria residents cannot only brag about better weather than the rest of Canada, but also relatively shorter commutes.
According to Statistics Canada, the Victoria Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) had among the lowest share of long commuters, which the agency defines as workers who spend at least 60 minutes in cars (including trucks and vans) to work.
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In 2016, 6.7 per of the 8.84 million car commuters in Canadian CMAs spent at least 60 minutes in a car, with the average long commute in a car lasting 74 minutes, unchanged from 2011, and covering 57 kilometres.
By comparison, long commuters in Victoria account for 3.2 per cent of all 119,215 car commuters. This was the second-lowest share for British Columbia behind Kelowna’s CMA, where 2.6 per cent of car commuters travel at least 60 minutes. By comparison, 7.7 per cent of car commuters in Vancouver’s CMA and 11.6 per cent in Abbotsford-Mission’s CMA fall into the category of long commuters. Both CMAs share a border with each other, and many residents of Abbotsford-Mission’s CMA commute to Vancouver’s CMA, the third largest in the country.
A comparable relationship also exists between Toronto’s CMA, whose of share of long commuters is just below 12 per cent, and Barrie’s CMA, which has the largest share of long commuters anywhere in Canada, with 18 per cent of its car commuters travelling at least 60 minutes to work.
The more CMAs clustered in an area, the greater the likelihood their respective residents will make longer commutes.
“In contrast, the lowest proportions of commuters with a long commuting time were found in smaller, more isolated CMAs,” the report notes.
Looking at specific commute lengths, Canadian commuters spent an average of 26 minutes travelling to their place of work, up almost one minute from 2011, according to a new report. By comparison, residents of Victoria’s CMA travelled almost four minutes less (22.2 minutes) on average.
Residents of Greater Victoria are also more likely to sustainable forms of transportation (like cycling and car-sharing) than other Canadians.
According to figures, just under 39 per cent of 170,830 employed commuters in the Victoria Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) use sustainable forms of transportation, with the share dropping away, the further away from the City of Victoria, with Saanich somewhere in the middle, when compared to the West Shore and Peninsula communities (excluding Sidney).
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Editorial: Thank you, Santa Paula Airport
It was heartening to see this important facility receive some overdue recognition recently, for the key role it played in fighting the Thomas Fire.
Editorial: Thank you, Santa Paula Airport It was heartening to see this important facility receive some overdue recognition recently, for the key role it played in fighting the Thomas Fire. Check out this story on vcstar.com: https://www.vcstar.com/story/opinion/editorials/2018/08/08/editorial-thank-you-santa-paula-airport/938883002/
Ventura County Star Published 1:06 p.m. PT Aug. 8, 2018
A helicopter lifts off from the Santa Paula Airport for a day of water drops over the Thomas Fire.(Photo: CHUCK KIRMAN/THE STAR)Buy Photo
Eighty-eight years ago on this date, Santa Paula held one of its largest community events ever. The 6,000-plus folks who turned out to celebrate the opening of the Santa Paula Airport were feted with air races, parachute jumps, stunt shows and performances by some of the top aviators of the day.
In recent years, the small, privately owned airport has, excuse the pun, largely flown under Ventura County’s radar, appearing in the news only when a plane crashes nearby. So it was heartening to see this important facility receive some overdue recognition.
The airport earned a 2018 Outstanding Airport Award from the Federal Aviation Administration’s Western Pacific Region for the key role it played in fighting last year’s Thomas Fire, The Star reported last week. It voluntarily suspended normal operations for weeks to accommodate firefighters, aircraft and other support equipment battling the devastating wildfire.
“The airport was within a short distance of the fire. It definitely enabled us to have a quicker response,” Cal Fire Deputy Chief Scott McLean told The Star. “We can set up a helibase in the middle of a field, but having an established airport and the ability to use that airport is very convenient.”
The airport had to forgo revenue from lost fuel sales and hangar rentals, but “the main thing was supporting the community and showing the community that … we can serve a real purpose in times of disaster,” Manager Rowena Mason said. It was a fitting reminder of the airport’s founding and community orientation in the decades since.
The St. Francis Dam disaster of 1928 destroyed an airstrip Santa Paula farmer Ralph Dickenson had built on his ranch for his new airplane. He and fellow rancher/aviator Dan Emmett realized a real airport would greatly benefit Santa Paula. They persuaded 19 others to contribute $1,000 each, bought some land along the banks of the Santa Clara River, and thus an airport was born — during the Great Depression.
It went on to attract the likes of Charles Lindbergh, Chuck Yeager and Steve McQueen, who kept a hangar there. The Air & Space/Smithsonian magazine in 2004 called Santa Paula Airport “one of the most enduring and colorful of America’s old-time, small-town airfields.”
We would add “community-minded” to that description and are grateful Ventura County has such an asset. You can learn more about the airport and its history at the Aviation Museum of Santa Paula, open from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. the first Sunday of every month.
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Drew Westervelt, Brendan Mundorf
They came to UMBC from the Mount St. Joseph’s and John Carroll, high schools not noted for standout lacrosse, in the falls of 2002 and 2003 respectively. Attackmen Brendan Mundorf and Drew Westervelt were not highly-recruited, but by Westervelt’s freshman campaign in the spring of 2004, the duo began a journey together that has now reached the pinnacle of the sport.
In November of 2009, both Retriever alumni were among 23 players named to represent the United States in the 2010 Federation of International Lacrosse World Championships to be held in Manchester,England. The six-nation tournament gets underway on Friday, July 16 as Team USAbattles Team Australia.
Mundorf comes into the tournament in top form. He was named MVP of the Major League Lacrosse All-Star game after leading Team USA to a 13-12 win over the MLL All-Stars. He scored six goals including the game-tying goal with under 2 minutes to go in Team USA’s final tune-up game on July 8. On consecutive goals in the second quarter, he was assisted by Westervelt.
Mundorf and Westervelt, who are current teammates with Major League Lacrosse’s Denver Outlaws, are the third and fourth former Retrievers to represent the USA. Defenseman Gary Clipp (’76) earned the first distinction in 1982, and defenseman George McGeeney (’82) was a two-time selection in 1986 and 1990.
Mundorf earned All America honors in 2005 and 2006 and was the America East Player of the Year in 2006. He is currently sixth on UMBC’s all-time scoring list with 112 goals (6th), 73 assists (9th) for 195 points. A powerful dodger, the southpaw competed for Australia in the 2006 World Lacrosse Championships held in Ontario, Canada and had a brilliant tournament, helping the Aussies to an impressive third-place finish. He finished tied for third overall in the tournament with 32 points (24 goals, 8 assists).
He saved his best for last—tallying three goals and two assists in a tough 13-10 semi-final loss to the USA and adding a personal tournament high nine points (six goals, three assists) in the third-place triumph over the Iroquois Nation.
A 2007 Third Team All American, Westervelt is UMBC’s third all-time leading scorer with 112 goals (6th, tied with Mundorf), 94 assists (3rd) for 206 points. He had a brilliant 2007 campaign, scoring 35 goals and adding 36 assists for 71 points, the second-highest figure in UMBC’s Division I history.
Retriever head coach Don Zimmerman’s products led UMBC to NCAA Tournament appearances in 2006 and 2007 and UMBC maintained the momentum, earning berths in the 2008 and 2009 championships.
Both Mundorf and Westervelt were selected to the 2009 MLL All-Star team. Former UMBC teammate Alex Hopmann has joined the pair in Denver this season and has become a force for the Outlaws. Another teammate, Terry Kimener, competes for the MLL’s Chicago Machine, while former Retrievers Peet Poillon and Kyle Wimer are members of the Chesapeake Bayhawks.
Poillon earned a spot opposite Mundorf and Westervelt on the 2010 MLL All-Star team.
Eighty-four players were invited to the tryouts for Team USA, which took place in June of 2009 and 41 players earned a spot on the training team.
Team USA plays arch-rival Canada on July 17, the Iroquois Nation on July 18, host England on July 19 and Japan on July 20. The semifinals will be played on July 22 and the title game is slated for Saturday, July 24.
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BRI’s Green Coalition Plenary Session held in Beijing
UNOSSC Director and Envoy of SG on South-South Cooperation Mr. Chediek giving a speech
UNOSSC to lead the Thematic Partnership on South-South environment cooperation of the Coalition
The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) International Green Development Coalition plenary session was held in Beijing on April 25, 2019, enlisting “South-South Environment Cooperation and SDGs capacity building” as one of its ten thematic partnerships.
UNOSSC, at the invitation by the Secretariat of the BRI International Green Development Coalition, hosted by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment of China, accepted to serve as a Lead Partner of Thematic Partnership of the BRI International Green Development Coalition on South-South environment cooperation. UNOSSC Director Mr. Jorge Chediek and Deputy Director Ms. Xiaojun Grace Wang attended the session.
Chaired by Minister of Ecology and Environment, H.E. Mr. Li Ganjie, the plenary session was well represented by partner member states and UN agencies. Mr. Chediek gave a brief speech recalling the second United Nations high-level conference on South-South cooperation entitled “Buenos Aires Plan of Action +40” which recently took place in March 2019 in Argentina. At that event, Member States affirmed the development progress that had been made since 1979 when the first conference took place through South-South cooperation. He said, “the South is indispensable to achieve global prosperity.”
Moreover, he shared key consensus reached at the conference. First, while the North remains ardently embraced, the South is increasingly serving as the source of “very valuable experience and very valuable resources” for South-South and triangular cooperation.
Second, South-South cooperation should drift away from its traditional modality which concentrates and heavily relies on technical cooperation among governmental entities. Apart from state governments, private sector, civil society, academia, non-governmental organizations should also be incorporated to better advance South-South cooperation. Sector-wise, South-South cooperation should traverse broader territories such as investment, finance, ecosystem, and other departments.
Mr. Nicholas Rosellini, the UN Resident Coordinator in China and Jorge Chediek, Director UNOSSC
Mr. Nicholas Rosellini, the UN Resident Coordinator in China, Ms. Nosipho Ngcaba, Director General of Department of Environmental Affairs of South Africa, Mr. Wen Gang, Vice President of China Communications Construction Company Limited, Mr. Aban Kabraji, Director of IUCN Asian Regional Office, and Mr. Wang Tianyi, Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of China Everbright International Limited also addressed short speeches at the discussion.
Jointly initiated by Ministry of Ecology and Environment of China and its international partners in May 2017 and chaired by Mr. Li Ganjie, Minister of Ministry of Ecology and Environment of China, the Coalition has attracted more than 120 partners, including over 60 international partners from national environmental authorities, international organizations, think tanks and enterprises.
This plenary Session is a thematic forum of the 2019 Belt and Road Forum and was designed to brief senior representatives of partners about the progress and work plans of the Coalition. Notably, the Coalition adopted a thematic approach in its partnership engagement and it currently has ten clusters of partners, one of which specializes in South-South environmental cooperation and SDGs capacity building.
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Devastating blaze ravages Paris’ iconic Notre Dame Cathedral, collapsing spire
PARIS — A catastrophic fire engulfed the upper reaches of Paris’ soaring Notre Dame Cathedral as it was undergoing renovations Monday, threatening one of the greatest architectural treasures of the Western world as tourists and Parisians looked on aghast from the streets below.The blaze collapsed the cathedral’s spire and spread to one of its landmark rectangular towers, but Paris fire chief Jean-Claude Gallet said the church’s structure had been saved after firefighters managed to stop the fire spreading to the northern belfry. The 12th-century cathedral is home to incalculable works of art and is one of the world’s most famous tourist attractions, immortalized by Victor Hugo’s 1831 novel “The Hunchback of Notre Dame.”
Smoke billows as flames destroy the roof of the landmark Notre-Dame Cathedral in central Paris on April 15, 2019.
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The exact cause of the blaze was not known, but French media quoted the Paris fire brigade as saying the fire is “potentially linked” to a 6 million-euro ($6.8 million) renovation project on the church’s spire and its 250 tons of lead. The Paris prosecutors’ office ruled out arson and possible terror-related motives, and said it was treating it as an accident.
Flames burn the roof of the landmark Notre-Dame Cathedral in central Paris on April 15, 2019.
A hole left by the fallen spire was still burning and sparks rained down from the cathedral’s vaulted ceilings more than five hours after the fire broke out. Gallet said fire crews would keep working overnight to cool down the structure.As the spire fell, the sky lit up orange and flames shot out of the roof behind the nave of the cathedral, among the most visited landmarks in the world. Hundreds of people lined up on bridges around the island that houses the church, watching in shock as acrid smoke rose in plumes. Speaking alongside junior Interior minister Laurent Nunez late Monday, Gallet noted that “two thirds of the roofing has been ravaged.” He said firefighters would keep working overnight to cool down the building.Flames shot out of the roof behind the nave of the cathedral, among the most visited landmarks in the world. Hundreds of people lined up bridges around the island that houses the church, watching in shock as acrid smoke rose in plumes. Speaking alongside junior Interior minister Laurent Nunez late Monday, police chief Jean-Claude Gallet said “two thirds of the roofing has been ravaged.” Gallet said firefighters would keep working overnight to cool down the building.Late Monday, signs pointed to the fire nearing an end as lights could be seen through the windows moving around the front of the cathedral, apparently investigators inspecting the scene.The fire came less than a week before Easter amid Holy Week commemorations. As the cathedral burned, Parisians gathered to pray and sing hymns outside the church of Saint Julien Les Pauvres across the river from Notre Dame while the flames lit the sky behind them.Notre-Dame is aflame. Great emotion for the whole nation. Our thoughts go out to all Catholics and to the French people. Like all of my fellow citizens, I am sad to see this part of us burn tonight. https://t.co/27CrJgJkJb— Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) April 15, 2019French President Emmanuel Macron was treating the fire as a national emergency, rushing to the scene and straight into meetings at the Paris police headquarters nearby. Paris Archbishop Michel Aupetit invited priests across France to ring church bells in a call for prayers for the beloved Paris cathedral.Deputy mayor Emmanuel Gregoire said emergency services were trying to salvage the famed art pieces stored in the cathedral.Built in the 12th and 13th centuries, Notre Dame is the most famous of the Gothic cathedrals of the Middle Ages as well as one of the most beloved structures in the world. Situated on the Ile de la Cite, an island in the Seine river, its architecture is famous for, among other things, its many gargoyles and its iconic flying buttresses.
Smoke and flames rise during a fire at the landmark Notre-Dame Cathedral in central Paris on April 15, 2019.
Among the most celebrated artworks inside are its three stained-glass rose windows, placed high up on the west, north and south faces of the cathedral. Its priceless treasures also include a Catholic relic, the crown of thorns, which is only occasionally displayed, including on Fridays during Lent. French historian Camille Pascal told BFM broadcast channel the blaze marked “the destruction of invaluable heritage.”“It’s been 800 years that the Cathedral watches over Paris”, Pascal said. “Happy and unfortunate events for centuries have been marked by the bells of Notre Dame.”
Flames rise from Notre Dame cathedral as it burns in Paris, Monday, April 15, 2019.
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He added: “We can be only horrified by what we see.”Associated Press reporters at the scene saw massive plumes of yellow brown smoke filling the air above the Cathedral and ash falling on the island that houses Notre Dame and marks the centre of Paris. As the spire fell, the sky lit up orange.
A fire fighter gestures as a hose as Notre Dame cathedral is burning in Paris, Monday, April 15, 2019.
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Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo said in a Twitter message that Paris firefighters were still trying to limit the fire and urged Paris citizens to respect the security perimeter that has been set around the cathedral.Hidalgo said Paris authorities are in touch with the Paris diocese.
Seen from across the Seine River, smoke and flames rise during a fire at the landmark Notre-Dame Cathedral in central Paris on April 15, 2019.
Reactions from around the world came swiftly including from the Vatican, which released a statement expressing shock and sadness for the “terrible fire that has devastated the Cathedral of Notre Dame, symbol of Christianity in France and in the world.”
Flames and smoke rise from a fire at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, France, on Monday, April 15, 2019.
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In Washington, U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted: “So horrible to watch the massive fire at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris” and suggested first responders use “flying water tankers” to put it out.So horrible to watch the massive fire at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. Perhaps flying water tankers could be used to put it out. Must act quickly!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 15, 2019
Bystanders stand on bridges across the River Seine as they watch flames and smoke billowing from the roof of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris on April 15, 2019.
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Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the archbishop of New York, said he was praying “to ask the intercession of Notre Dame, our Lady, for the Cathedral at the heart of Paris, and of civilization, now in flames! God preserve this splendid house of prayer, and protect those battling the blaze.”
A firefighter uses a hose to douse flames and smoke billowing from the roof at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris on April 15, 2019.
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Firefighters douse flames billowing from the roof at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris on April 15, 2019.
A woman reacts as she watches the flames engulf the roof of the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris on April 15, 2019.
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This file photograph taken on June 26, 2018, shows worshippers as they arrive to take part in a mass at Notre Dame de Paris Cathedral in Paris. Crowds of stunned Parisians and tourists — some crying, others offering prayers — watched on in horror in central Paris on April 15, 2019, as flames engulfed the Notre-Dame Cathedral.
— Associated Press writers Elaine Ganley and Sylvie Corbet contributed
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Rob Gronkowski: A career of football and goofiness
Feb. 23, 2019: Rob Gronkowski poses with a fan for a selfie prior to a men's basketball game between Syracuse and Duke at the Carrier Dome. Mark Konezny, USA TODAY Sports
Feb. 5, 2019: Rob Gronkowski celebrates on Cambridge street during the New England Patriots' Super Bowl LIII victory parade. Maddie Meyer, Getty Images
Feb. 5, 2019: Rob Gronkowski waves to the crowd during the Super Bowl LIII championship parade through downtown Boston. Greg M. Cooper, USA TODAY Sports
Feb. 3, 2019: Rob Gronkowski with girlfriend Camille Kostek after winning Super Bowl LIII against the Los Angeles Rams at Mercedes-Benz Stadium. Christopher Hanewinckel, USA TODA
Feb. 3, 2019: Rob Gronkowski catches a pass for 29 yards in the fourth quarter of Super Bowl LIII. The play set up Sony Michel's go-ahead touchdown in a 13-3 win over the Los Angeles Rams. Matthew Emmons, USA TODAY Sports
Jan. 28, 2019: Rob Gronkowski wears a sombrero during Opening Night for Super Bowl LIII at State Farm Arena. Kirby Lee, USA TODAY Sports
Jan. 20, 2019: Rob Gronkowski celebrates after the New England Patriots defeated the Kansas City Chiefs in overtime of the AFC championship at Arrowhead Stadium. Mark J. Rebilas, USA TODAY Sports
Jan. 13, 2019: Rob Gronkowski celebrates with running back Rex Burkhead (34) and quarterback Tom Brady (12) after Burkhead scored a touchdown during the second quarter against the Los Angeles Chargers in an AFC divisional playoff game at Gillette Stadium. Winslow Townson, USA TODAY Sports
Dec. 3, 2017: Rob Gronkowski runs with the ball after a catch against the Buffalo Bills at New Era Field. Timothy T. Ludwig, USA TODAY Sports
April 3, 2017: Rob Gronkowski of the steals Tom Brady's jersey before the opening day game between the Boston Red Sox and the Pittsburgh Pirates at Fenway Park. Maddie Meyer, Getty Images
Feb. 26, 2017: U.S. Olympic gold medalist Laurie Hernandez, rapper Waka Flocka Flame and New England Rob Gronkowski pose prior to the 59th annual DAYTONA 500 at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. Sean Gardner, Getty Images
Feb. 7, 2017: Rob Gronkowski drinks beer during the Super Bowl LI victory parade in Boston. Billie Weiss, Getty Images
Feb. 7, 2017: Rob Gronkowski ospikes a beer can during the Super Bowl LI victory parade in Boston. Billie Weiss, Getty Images
Oct. 30, 2016: Rob Gronkowski celebrates by spiking the ball after scoring a touchdown against the Buffalo Bills at New Era Field. Kevin Hoffman, USA TODAY Sports
May 12, 2016: Rob Gronkowski is pictured with Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Hailey Clauson on the cover of GQ magazine. None, GQ
April 24, 2016: Rob Gronkowski and his brother Gordie pose for a photo prior to the start of Game 4 of the first round of the NBA playoffs between the Boston Celtics and Atlanta Hawks at TD Garden. Bob DeChiara, USA TODAY Sports
Feb. 28, 2016: Rob Gronkowski attends the 2016 Vanity Fair Oscar Party hosted By Graydon Carter at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on in Beverly Hills, California. Alberto E. Rodriguez, WireImage
Feb. 7, 2015: Rob Gronkowski spikes a hockey puck at center ice before an NHL game between the Boston Bruins and the New York Islanders in Boston. Winslow Townson, AP
Oct. 29, 2015: Rob Gronkowski spikes the ball after scoring a touchdown against the Miami Dolphins during the first quarter at Gillette Stadium. Stew Milne, USA TODAY Sports
Oct. 25, 2015: Tom Brady and Rob Gronkowski react after Gronkowski scored a touchdown during the fourth quarter against the New York Jets at Gillette Stadium. Jim Rogash, Getty Images
May 2, 2015: Tom Brady and Rob Gronkowski attend the 141st Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs. Robin Marchant, Getty Images for Churchill Downs
Feb. 14, 2015: Comedian Amy Schumer and Rob Gronkowski attend GQ and LeBron James Celebrate All-Star Style in New York City. Jamie McCarthy, Getty Images for GQ
Feb. 1, 2015: Rob Gronkowski kisses the Vince Lombardi Trophy after Super Bowl XLIX against the Seattle Seahawks. Michael Conroy, AP
Jan. 29, 2015: New England Patriots running back Brandon Bolden pretends to interview Rob Gronkowski during a Super Bowl XLIX press conference at Sheraton Wild Horse Pass. Peter Casey, USA TODAY Sports
Jan. 31, 2012: Rob Gronkowski answers questions during Super Bowl XLVI Media Day at the Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. Matt Kryger, Indianapolis Star
Nov. 11, 2012: Rob Gronkowski catches a touchdown pass during the second quarter at Gillette Stadium. Stew Milne, US PRESSWIRE
Oct. 21, 2012: Rob Gronkowski is congratulated by tight end Aaron Hernandez (81) and wide receiver Wes Welker (83) after scoring a touchdown during the first quarter against the New York Jets at Gillette Stadium. Greg M. Cooper, US PRESSWIRE
Dec. 12, 2010: Rob Gronkowski celebrates with teammates Wes Welker (83) and Brandon Tate (19) after scoring a touchdown against the Chicago Bears at Soldier Field. Jerry Lai, US PRESSWIRE
April 23, 2010: Rob Gronkowski smiles while posing for photographs with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell after he was selected as the 42nd overall pick by the New England Patriots in the second round of the draft at Radio City Music Hall. Jason DeCrow, AP
Oct. 18, 2008: Arizona's Rob Gronkowski runs for a touchdown past California's Anthony Felder during the second half at Arizona Stadium in Tucson, Ariz. Arizona won, 42-27. John Miller, ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Supreme Court rules for death row prisoner seeking mental health defense
A divided court said Alabama denied the defense access to its own mental health expert. It was the first 5-4 decision since Justice Neil Gorsuch joined the court, as he joined the conservative minority.
Supreme Court rules for death row prisoner seeking mental health defense A divided court said Alabama denied the defense access to its own mental health expert. It was the first 5-4 decision since Justice Neil Gorsuch joined the court, as he joined the conservative minority. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: https://usat.ly/2sIxBo4
Richard Wolf, USA TODAY Published 2:26 p.m. ET June 19, 2017 | Updated 5:24 p.m. ET June 19, 2017
The Supreme Court sided narrowly Monday with a death row prisoner from Alabama who was denied his own mental health expert.(Photo: J. Scott Applewhite, AP)
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court ruled narrowly Monday that indigent defendants have a right to mental health experts who can assist in their defense, rather than merely impartial psychiatrists.
The 5-4 decision, in which newly installed Justice Neil Gorsuch sided with the conservative minority, was another in a series of recent victories by death row prisoners challenging their sentences.
The case was heard as the justices were involved in deciding the fate of eight death row inmates in Arkansas -- two of whom were granted stays of execution based on mental health issues. Ultimately, four prisoners were executed and four others spared.
The court's more liberal justices argued that the 1985 case Ake v. Oklahoma, which established the precedent for a psychiatric examination, was not satisfied by the type of neutral mental health expert that James McWilliams had in the Alabama case. The trial court should have allowed a psychiatrist who would help the defense prepare and present its case, they said.
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The more conservative justices said the earlier case was ambiguous. As a result, Justice Samuel Alito wrote, "the Alabama courts held that Ake is satisfied by the appointment of a neutral expert, and it is impossible to say that there could be no reasonable dispute that they were wrong.”
As is frequently the case, Justice Anthony Kennedy became the swing vote, siding with the liberal justices. During oral argument in April, he appeared to agree with Stephen Bright, the lawyer representing McWilliams, that an expert "can't work both sides of the street" by helping the prosecution as well as the defense. Requiring independent experts, Bright said, "at least gives the defense a shot."
Several conservative justices had argued that the 1985 precedent requires only neutral experts, not partisan ones. Gorsuch said during oral argument that requiring one-sided experts could extend beyond psychiatry to other fields of medicine and forensic science.
"Experts widely disagree on everything," Gorsuch said. "That's why you hire them, and why they cost so very much."
But "assistance of counsel doesn't mean neutral," Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said at the time. "What the decision writer had in mind was assisting the defense, just as a lawyer assists the defense."
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Ashley Tisdale Reveals Why Her “Symptoms” LP Is So Personal
Ashley Tisdale has opened up about the personal struggles that inspired her new album <i>Symptoms</i>. “I had never communicated the things that I personally have been through with anxiety and so for the first time…my fans who know me are getting to really know me for who I am and what I’ve been through,” the singer reveals on <i>Billboard’s</i> Pop Shop Podcast. “And then people who don’t know me will know where I’m coming from. But I just felt like it’s important for me to speak my truth, I guess.” She goes on to describe the project as “the most authentic thing I’ve ever done.” <i>Symptoms</i> serves as the follow-up to Tisdale’s 2009 album, <i>Guilty Pleasure. </i><br />
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Nakba, the Great Tragic Comedy and Forgiveness in the Face of Israel’s Great Global Arrogance and Cruel Indifference Towards Palestinians
Phosphorus bombs and suspected chlorine gas
“The opening of the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem on May 14, 2018, marked yet another finger in the eye of humanity.
The tragic deaths of more than 50 young peaceful Palestinian protesters in Gaza, murdered along with another 1,350 who were also struck by machine gun and sniper fire of an insane acting Israeli military, defied imagination.
Yes, and all of this, just a day before the May 15th 70th anniversary of the Nakba.
Editor’s note: The population of “Gaza” isn’t a population at all, Gaza is a concentration camp, walled in, guard towers, which reminds me of a holocaust joke told me by a “hipster” teen:
“My grandfather died in the holocaust. He got drunk and fell out of a guard tower.”
Bad taste? It seemed so then, not so much now, now that the tales of SS guards, always “ubergrupenfuhrers” and such has passed into remote memory to be replaced by their sniveling equivalent, the human vermin of the IDF and their “einstatsgruppen” commandos such as we saw unleashed this week.
We aren’t afraid of touching on uncomfortable analogies, not when they fit so well.” – Sr. Editor Gordon Duff notes.
Yes, 70 years ago the Nakba, according to Wikipedia, is documented as follows: “The 1948 Palestinian exodus, also known as the Nakba (Arabic: النكبة, al-Nakbah, literally “disaster”, “catastrophe”, or “cataclysm”),[1] occurred when more than 700,000 Palestinian Arabs fled or were expelled from their homes, during the 1948 Palestine war.[2] Between 400 and 600 Palestinian villages were sacked (rampaged)during the war, while urban Palestine was almost entirely extinguished.[3] The term “Nakba” also refers to the period of war itself and events affecting Palestinians from December 1947 to January 1949.
The precise number of refugees, many of whom settled in refugee camps in neighboring states, is a matter of dispute[4] but around 80 percent of the Arab inhabitants of what became Israel (half of the Arab total of Mandatory Palestine) left or were expelled from their homes.[5][6] About 250,000-300,000 Palestinians had fled or been expelled before the Israeli Declaration of Independence in May 1948, a fact which was named as a casus belli for the entry of the Arab League into the country, sparking the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
The causes are also a subject of fundamental disagreement between historians. Factors involved in the exodus include Jewish military advances, destruction of Arab villages, psychological warfare, and fears of another massacre by Zionist militias after the Deir Yassin massacre,[7]:239–240 which caused many to leave out of panic; direct expulsion orders by Israeli authorities; the voluntary self-removal of the wealthier classes;[8] collapse in Palestinian leadership and Arab evacuation orders;[9][10] and an unwillingness to live under Jewish control.[11][dubious – discuss][12]
Later, a series of laws passed by the first Israeli government prevented them from returning to their homes or claiming their property. They and many of their descendants remain refugees.[13][14] The expulsion of the Palestinians has since been described by some historians as ethnic cleansing,[15][16][17]while others dispute this charge.[18][19][20]
The status of the refugees, and in particular whether Israel will grant them their claimed right to return to their homes or be compensated, are key issues in the ongoing Israeli–Palestinian conflict. The events of 1948 are commemorated by Palestinians both in the Palestinian territories and elsewhere on 15 May, a date now known as Nakba Day.”
So Again, the recent May 14, 2018 slaughter of peaceful Palestinian protestors in Gaza, is as prior spoken, another finger in the eye of humanity. More importantly, every sane human being will now more easily recognize that this is a big middle finger to the whole world where Netanyahu and Israel can arrogantly boast to its fellow New World Order Cabal psychopaths something along these lines, as I heard a comedian satirically recount:
“Yep, we did this, thanks for all of the high fives and who cares because they’re just Palestinian terrorists anyway and so everybody just piss off.”
…”Furthermore to all who are shocked (both around the world and especially within the UN) about what we’ve just done and other similar things we’ve done in the past, and what you don’t know we’re still secretly planning to do…basically we know you all a bunch of weenies and spineless cowards who are all talk and will never do anything about it…and by-the-way…to any political person of some substance who wants to dangle his or her neck on our chopping block … rest assured that if you ever have a brain cell spark in the direction of attempting to stop us … be forewarned that we know where all of your skeletons are hidden and buried… and be clear that we will parade our Mossad dossier of photos of your special party times with kiddies, people of the same sex and/or people of the opposite sex who aren’t your spouses or we’ll make sure you get an invitation to one of our special wet-works parties… and by the way and you can take this to the bank that we will continue to do all of these dastardly things and much more and as often as we please as long as we have our big bully best friend buddy, the U.S. Government and military, blackmailed and shouldered up next to us…”
“…And, by-the-way, we can make all of our most horrible crimes invisible to the public because… in the world of storytelling, we’re the world’s best… and if you haven’t figured this out by now we own and control the world’s great media machines who have long trained the American public to think and critically reason at the level of a two-year-old…yep our achieved goal was the attention span of a gnat… and because we can always point their silly short attention span to some worthless sporting event, a horrible news event and some celebrity crisis… yep…we know that they’re this predictably dumb and dumber … and to anyone or movement slightly awake to our machinations… our PR machines can readily pounce on these stories and spin our worst and most dastardly murderous crimes into fairy tales that portray us, Israel, as the heroes, saints and a victims of these most horror-filled and heinous crimes against humanity. “…
“…And Yes, all of this is easily accomplished with a snap of our fingers through our bought and sold international media and broadcast agencies and our soullessly compromised employee journalists and media executives who readily bow to our commands of selling dung lollipops stories to all of the fools in America … all of whom we’ve frankly trained to thankfully lick on them… over and over again until they beg us to put another one in their mouths. And most importantly the especially dumb and ultra uninformed Zionist fundamentalist Christians, whom we’ve trained like a dog to sing our praises while at the same time we press our spiked propaganda boot firmly on the back of their neck(s) so as to make them the squeamishly whimper at our most chosen feet.”…
… And Yes, and at the same time we’ll continue to swindle and sucker these same fools until they’re financially bled dry with guilt about not having built all of the settlements we’ve planned for in Palestine… and yes, they’ve bought, hook line and sinker, what we told them about being God’s chosen ones…and they’ve believed us…and at the same time we know they will continue to blindly follow our masterplan game which enrolls them into damning their own souls to hell in partnership with us and our genocide against the Palestine people … and Yes, with a wink and a nod we’ll allow these same fools to continue to believe that they can outsmart us by getting us all to move to Palestine so that Jesus will magically reappear and so it will be a good day for us Jews who convert to Christianity and for those who don’t… we will supposedly all die in a horrible bloodbath battle called End of Days or Armageddon…”…
…” and to all of these same Zionist Christian fools we say, and under our putrid breath,….piss off you idiots…we’ll gladly keep taking your money because this Jesus return thing is never going to happen…Imbeciles! …who do you think wrote the trickery of Scofield Bible you so proudly praise, study and teach from …who do you think brought the false infections of this false Bible into the minds of your seminary students so that they would propagandize their flocks… And Yes, we proudly acknowledge that Jesus did not call us the “Synagogue of Satan” as a coincidence …. we know from the one we worship, who told us that we were actually smarter than God himself, how to herd our Goyim cattle and how this will all ultimately play out in the bigger game of winning worldwide domination … and by the way again…piss off all you powerless…do nothing cowards…”
So, the comedian continues, “with all of these satirical perspectives, right in your face, one might factually and rationally conclude that most Zionists, Jewish or Christian, fall into three basic categories: 1) They’re crazy. 2) They’re crazier and 3) They’re craziest.
And, the comedian concludes…” knowing all his…let me tell you a quick story about a Zionist Christian couple who had driven to a remote mountain overlook to have some romantic fun. Once parked, all of a sudden and out of nowhere there appeared bandits who forcefully dragged the couple out of their car…”
…”After robbing them, the bandits, isolated the man and drew a circle around him in the dirt and warned him that if under any circumstances he left this circle both he and his girlfriend would die. Leaving the man alone in this circle the bandits then proceeded to assault his girlfriend. One of the leaders of the bandits returned to check in on the man and found him laughing…”
…”Perplexed by the Christian Zionist’s reaction the bandit leader decides to step up his gangs brutal attack on his girlfriend only to return shortly thereafter to find the man laughing even harder. This further angers the bandit leader who then instructs the gang members to leave is girlfriend and instead push the couple’s car off of the cliff…
…”After they’ve done all of this the bandit leader returns to their man who’s surrounded by the dirt circle and finds him virtually rolling on the ground in laughter. Infuriated, the bandit leader confronts the men and recounts what they’ve put the couple through step by step, we’ve robbed you, abused your girlfriend and pushed your car off of the cliff and we return to find you laughing. Are you crazy and what do you have to say about your insanity? The Christian Zionist’s smiled profoundly with pride and replied….’Ya, and while you guys were doing all of that…I jumped out of the circle three times’.”
Main Article, repurposed and republished with Steve Robertson’s permission:
Yes, the laughable atrocities of Israeli Zionists and complicit Christian community who support their current and ongoing genocide against the Palestinians, cause me to ponder the great purported quote by the Jesus figure who is stated, while being tortured and dying on the cross prayerfully spoke of the Jewish people and Roman soldiers who had placed him there, “Forgive them, Father, for they know not what they do.”
I also contemplate the words of one of the great figures in the human potential movement, Dr. Jerry Jampolsky, who concluded and stated, “The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference.”
Imagine a child’s head when hit by a .50 Browning anti-aircraft round…
Gaza gas attack victim, where is Trump and his “smart missiles” now?
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The situation in Gaza, if properly presented by the world media, and it will never be, would be so blatantly appalling that humanity would instantly rise up and forcefully bring to an end to all of these psychopathic actions and imprison all of the supporting leadership of the rogue state of Israel. The problem is the world media and all of its forms (Print, Radio, TV, Film and Social Media) are all owned and controlled by a Zionist Pro-Israel Cabal that affirms a philosophy that all non-Jewish people are deemed as “Goyim,” a term meaning “cattle”. Yes, even the foolish fundamentalist Christians who’ve been duped, through the Rothschild’s Scofield Bible, into believing that Israel is the chosen land and that the Jewish are God’s chosen people ridiculously allow themselves to be called and treated as “cattle”.
The sheer numbers of Israeli instigated proxy wars that have strategically seduced America and its majority Christian soldiers to be sacrificial “cannon fodder” absolutely boggle the mind. The US and World Zionist shill media complacently provides cover for these facts and shamefully hides from view the body bags of the returning victims of these evil schemes. Journalists who fail to cover such stories are clearly soulless hypocrites whose every word has been bought and sold by the Zionist Mafi/Cabal/New World Order media machine who pays for the subsistence of their livelihood.
Let’s be frank, one of the most flagrant realities of how such compromised states of journalistic integrity shows up in how the Zionist controlled media, in monstrous cooperation with our Government, handles and intensionally shields pictures, videos, and coverage of our US soldiers returning home in body bags from the Main Stream media. It further hides images of widows and family members who mourn and then pray at their graves after their sons, daughters, husbands and/or fathers have fought in the numerous and various proxy wars on behalf of Israel. Images like this are just bad business and bad PR for the Zionist war machine and/or military industrial complex who with each bullet, gun, bomb, missile, tank, plane, ship rings the cash register of profit.
Now, back to Palestine. This is the reality of what the mainstream media is hiding from you, the reality of what the Palestinian people, especially in Gaza, deal with daily. This is why Israel is being called, by the UN and leading countries of the world, a Rogue State:
There was clear and undeniable video evidence that showed four Palestinian children playing soccer on the beaches of Gaza being shelled, dismembered and murdered by an Israeli naval gunboat. F-16 fighter jets, provided by the U.S., regularly drop laser-guided one-ton phosphorus bombs on a densely populated area. A phosphorus bomb, for those unfamiliar with it, detonates on the ground and blankets the area with flying molten metal. When this molten metal lands on someone, a small child or an adult, the metal boils through the skin and can’t be put out…even if someone were to jump into a swimming pool.
U.S. provided, Apache helicopters are used machine gun strafe, in-other-words spray bullets, throughout civilian areas. Each day Palestinian people, people just like you and me, are forcefully challenged year in and year out to go through armed military checkpoints when traveling to work, going to buy food or visiting family or friends. Each day the Palestinians must endure multiple hour long checkpoint delays, each of which are engineered to be intentionally harassed, dehumanizing and humiliate.
Palestinian property and homes are regularly and illegally seized and/or bulldozed to the ground. How many of you have heard about the young American peace activist Rachel Corrie who courageously stood in front of Caterpillar bulldozer to protect the home of a Palestinian doctor from being bulldozed to the ground? Protesters who rallied around her watched in horror as the bulldozer operator ran over her and then backed up and ran over her again. She died as a result of these injuries.
As Israel controls the electrical power and water supply grids within the region they psychologically and logistically turned off and on these services as they so choose. Often power and or water is available for just a few hours a day. Imagine, if you will the impact on any home, your home, if you were forced to endure this. No power equals no water pumps means no water to drink, cook with or wash in. No power means that you food spoils because the refrigerator doesn’t work. It also means live or die basic hospital equipment is inoperable. Life saving ICU equipment, nursery incubators don’t work and emergency or scheduled operations can be performed. Add to this that the basic infrastructure of schools have been bombed to the ground and/or have no basic utilities from which to operate.
As the cowardice Israeli military are the resident Gestapo thugs of the region they, fire at will tear gas canisters into Palestinian homes where parents have no means whatsoever of protecting their infants and small children from choking on these toxins and related lung / nervous system damage they cause.
Another popular harassing tactic of the Israeli Gestapo is to drive water cannon trucks through communities that spray the most awfully foul and putrid smelling substances imagined. They stench remains for days, as planned.
Palestinian parents regularly and defenselessly witness their children being kidnapped by the Israeli military. They know they will be imprisoned and tortured in Israel’s gulag and will likely never be seen again.
In addition to this, there are reports of Israel harvesting organs from children. Yes, America’s greatest Democratic alley in the Middle East region appears to regularly farm children for their organs for Israeli population implants. Thus far some 300,000 Palestinians are among the disappeared filling the mass graves of the Negev.
Most recently, and only with the aid of an ever growing civilian reporter movement which is armed with smart video/camera phones, Israeli snipers are known to have murdered over 50 peaceful unarmed Palestinian protestors (again, as of today 5.14.18, another 50 +) and over 1,300 more have been strategically wounded. Many of these intensional sniper shot is targeting the genital areas of the Palestinians or made to ensure to blow their kneecaps off. The results of all of these leaves people living in permanently crippled, emotionally shattered and forces loved ones to become their caretakers. This tactic, as monstrous and cruel as it is, merely informs Israel’s larger agenda of a methodical, psychological and militarily brutal campaign of genocide that is ultimately intended to break the soul of the Palestinians and completely push them out of their homeland.
The media storm, presently unspoken about, is that Palestinian people have been strategically branded by the Zionist Pro-Israel Cabal as worthless terrorists who are both subhuman and dangerous. As a result, when the foolishly misinformed American public along with Zionist Christians around the world see the news of unarmed protesters being shot, wounded and/or killed, their brainwashed mentality turns to: “great another terrorist has been killed and eliminated from our world”. Yes, with every image of a Palestinian death and/or wounding, the Jewish / Zionist media machine makes sure that the invading and monstrous Israeli military is always seen as the hero and the actual victim of their monstrous crimes.
Bottom line, the Zionist media ensures that the common sense perspective of Palestinians being portrayed as a true David vs Goliath is never told. Here’s the logistical reality of Israel’s military occupation of Palestine.
Tanks and every armed vehicle imagined vs NOTHING
High-powered automatic machine guns, tear gas launchers, armed drones vs slingshots, thrown stones, and defensive tunnels;
The latest in U.S. fighter jets, helicopters and warship technology vs zero, NOTHING!…
One ton phosphorus, cluster bombs and missiles (missiles have guidance systems and war heads) vs rockets (which have no guidance systems or war heads, basically a big bottle rocket).
All of this basic common sense reality is completely hidden from public view (who always tend to cheer for the underdog in a fight) and more importantly the conscience of a moral person. Ultimately, this conflict is like the analogy of a Palestinian person being provoked and challenged to fight by a Zionist Jew. At the place and time of the fight, the Palestinian shows up with courage and his fists whilst the Zionist bully shows up with brass knuckles, a baseball bat with nails in it, a knife and a gun.
In reality the more the Palestinian people cry out to the world for help and support in securing protection, freedom, basic human rights and self-determination from an invading Israeli force, of which they have no possible means of defending themselves, the more the Zionist media machine turns up the narrative about sympathy for Israel and its role of the oppressor victim.
Now, knowing what you know, can you imagine any reasonable or sane person or Christian in the world, especially one who sits in a position of power on a world council of governance, conclude anything other than Israel is acting like a Rogue State? And Yes, through all of this and more the Palestinian people serve as a living testament to the power, courage, determination, and resilience of the human spirit that will not bend or break until they secure the most basic of human rights, freedom, and peace. All of these basic freedoms were authored in part by President Roosevelt’s wife Eleanor and then was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly at its third session on 10 December 1948 as Resolution 217 at the Palais de Chaillot in Paris, France.
Respectively, one rationally asks how did all of this insanity occur? How did the truth of brotherly/sisterly love for one another become perverted? How did this new reality of horrors all squarely land on the backs of the Palestinians, especially when Bethlehem, in Palestine, still remains the historical birthplace of Jesus?
Above, Manger Square Bethlehem with the Church of Nativity in the background. Below, the interior of the Church.
Interestingly, the New Testament of the Bible identified the Jewish people as the persecutors of Jesus and as those whose actions ultimately lead to his crucified death in Jerusalem.
John 7:1 “After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him.”
John 7:13 “Howbeit no man spake openly of him for fear of the Jews.”
Flashing forward, and as a result in part, the early World Zionist leaders ultimately sought to secure a new and permanent homeland for Jewish people worldwide so as to escape persecution. This, as it turned out, proved to an indigestible reality for Zionists who now sought to circumvent their historical past and proceed now forward with an irrevocable agenda of befriending and securing the support of American Christian churches in order to induce their cooperation in moving to and occupying Jerusalem (Jesus’s proclaimed homeland), as their envisioned new home.
Therefore, in order to deflect this adverse historic narrative and strategically reorient the deliberation of American Christian churches, the Zionists hatched a brilliant idea called “the Scofield Reference Bible”. Samuel Untermeyer, an attorney and the President of the Koren Hayesod, an agent entity of the Rothschild/Zionist movement within America, would soon be introduced to Cyrus I. Schofield, a civil war veteran, pastor and person who served time in prison for criminal forgery.
As a result, Cyrus was chartered with the task of re-writing the King James Bible with a new and pro-Zionist twist. In essence, the new Schofield Reference version would use highly sophisticated forms of Talmudic “deception ideologies” to propagandize, subvert and brainwash Christian academics and seminary school students who would soon become ministers. Thus it was known that these young, enthusiastic and newly indoctrinated ministers would unconsciously serve to proselytize the Zionist agenda as Christian Zionist Evangelists.
Soon and with the advent of Television, ministers would leverage the might and reach of this new technology to become Televangelists. This significantly, and almost instantaneously, advanced the minister’s reach, of falsely designed partisan teachings, from small community church congregations of hundreds of people to now millions of upon millions of people. In essence, these new Evangelists served to give strategic credibility and tenability to falsified true teachings of the Bible as it specifically related to the Middle East holy land and to whom its’ future and sovereign governance would be historically accorded, secured and entitled.
Untermeyer, who, as it turned out, was also instrumental in the preparations of the 1910 Federal Reserve Banking law, would readily help with the financing of the Scofield’s Reference bible. Cyrus was able to successfully camouflage, strategically spell out and embed specific pro-Zionist narratives throughout the texts of this new bible. This was accomplished by creating the appearance that this new version provided new, insightful and easy to understand scriptural interpretations to its readers from within the texts of the footnotes and margins that laid between various verses and chapters of the book…mini Cliff notes like sections if you will.
This propagandized version of the King James Bible, now known as the Scofield Reference Bible (SRB), first appeared in 1909. As it was published by and at that time one of the world’s most prestigious publishers, the Oxford Press University. As such the SRB was also backed by an unlimited advertising and promotion offensive campaign that landed it as the best-selling “Bible” in America. Since then, and for 90 years, it has remained as such.
More enlightening insights about the Zionist’s long term plot to secure the region of Palestine, through the Balfour Declaration, come from a new book by Laurent Guyénot which will soon to be published by Kevin Barrett, both of whom write for Veterans Today (VT):
“Among the architects of the secret diplomacy leading to the Balfour Declaration, Nahum Sokolow praises very specifically “the beneficent personal influence of the Honorable Louis D. Brandeis, Judge of the Supreme Court.”[1] Louis Brandeis (1856–1941), descended from a Frankist family (adepts of kabbalist Jacob Frank), had been appointed to the highest level of the judiciary in 1916 by President Wilson, at the demand of Wall Street lawyer Samuel Untermeyer who, as rumor has it, blackmailed Wilson with letters to his mistress Mrs. Mary Allen Peck.[2]
Untermeyer would become president of the Keren Hayesod (Hebrew for “The Foundation Fund”), a fundraising organization established at the London World Zionist Conference in 1920, to provide resources for the Zionist movement. Brandeis was, with Untermeyer, one of the most powerful Zionist schemers, exercising an unparalleled influence on the White House. Brandeis established a formidable tandem with his protégé Felix Frankfurter, who would be his successor in exerting influence on Roosevelt.
“Working together over a period of 25 years, they placed a network of disciples in positions of influence, and labored diligently for the enactment of their desired programs,” writes Bruce Allen Murphy in The Brandeis/Frankfurter Connection.[3][1] Nahum Sokolow, History of Zionism (1600–1918), vol. 2, 1919, pp. 79–80, quoted in Alison Weir, Against Our Better Judgment: The Hidden History of How the U.S. Was Used to Create Israel, 2014, k. 387–475.[2] Gene Smith, When the Cheering Stopped: The Last Years of Woodrow Wilson, William Morrow & Co, 1964, pp. 20–23. [3] Bruce Allen Murphy, The Brandeis/Frankfurter Connection: The Secret Political Activities of Two Supreme Court Justices, Oxford University Press, 1982, p. 10…
…The Judaization of American Christianity, and English Christianity to a lesser extent has not been a spontaneous process, but rather one controlled by skillful manipulation.
An example is the Scofield Reference Bible, published in 1909 and revised in 1917. It is characterized by dubious and highly tendentious footnotes. For example, the promise of Yahweh to Abraham in Genesis 12:1–3 merits a two-thirds-page footnote explaining that;
“God made an unconditional promise of blessings through Abram’s seed to the nation of Israel to inherit a specific territory forever,” accompanied by “a curse laid upon those who persecute the Jews,” or “commit the sin of anti-Semitism.”
In reality, at this point Jacob, who would receive the name of Israel and beget the Jewish people, was not even born yet, nor was his father. The same note explains that “Both O.T. and N.T. are full of post-Sinaitic promises concerning Israel and the land which is to be Israel’s everlasting possession.”
…How was Cyrus Scofield, a lawyer without theological training, capable of publishing such a work with the prestigious Oxford University Press? The mystery has been solved: Scofield was only a front man for a project whose real sponsor was Samuel Untermeyer, a Wall Street lawyer, Federal Reserve co-founder, devoted Zionist, and close associate of Woodrow Wilson. As noted in chapter 7, Untermeyer called for a “holy war” against Germany in 1933.[1]” – Laurent Guyénot
The Grand Wizard of Zionism, Theodor Herzl, had this to say:
“The wealthy Jews rule the world; the fate of the governments lies in their hands. They start wars between countries, and when they wish, the governments make peace. When the wealthy Jews sing, the nations and their leaders dance along, and meanwhile, the Jews get richer!” (Published by Herzl in a German newspaper)
Respectively, most Christians and people of other faiths know little or nothing about the mind-controlling prison that the Zionist philosophies have locked them behind. Firstly, it will become an eye opener for Gentiles to learn that the Talmud, the holy book of the Zionists, refers to them and other non-Jews as “Goyim,” a term inferred to mean “cattle.”
The Talmud is the holy book of the Zionists. According to it: “The decisions of the Talmud are words of the living God. Jehovah himself asks the opinions of earthly rabbis when there are difficult affairs in heaven. Rabbi Menachen, Comments for the Fifth Book: “Jehovah himself in heaven studies the Talmud, standing: he has such respect for that book.”
Be forewarned, as you read further you will come face to face with a horrifying and painful reality of how Zionist teachings and propaganda have brought both past and present day Christians to turn against Jesus, their faith and themselves. One can only shake their head in utter disbelief at the foolishness of how Christians, knowing what you’re about to learn, could ever bow to the belief of proclaiming the Zionist Jews as somehow being God’s Chosen Ones.
At the forefront of this herculean deception, you’ll find the San Antonio, Texas Evangelical Christian minister John Hagee of Cornerstone Church. Hagee, aware or not, has successfully misrepresented the Bible’s teachings and seduced his congregation into drinking the Israeli cool aide of the Jewish Zionism. This cool aide which dispenses the historical lie of the Jewish people somehow being designated as “the chosen one’s” is packaged together with a financial shaming and manipulation that seems to compels Hagee’s congregation into financially supporting the expulsion of Palestinians, apartheid and the church’s funding of Israeli settlements.
John Hagee is known for having bamboozled his congregation into giving Israel tens of millions of dollars while contributing virtually nothing to his hometown of San Antonio (a good reason in general to deny his church and/or any other such church who follows in these footsteps, their tax exemption status).
All this said, please prepare yourself for what Talmudic Rabbis say about Mother Mary, Jesus and Christian Gentiles. And yes, this will comes across as blatant insanity and blasphemous…and that is because it is.
Oh, a special thanks to Talmud.Faithweb.com and Rense.com for the following references:
THE TALMUD SAY THIS ABOUT MOTHER MARY and JESUS:
Insults Against Blessed Mary, Sanhedrin 106a: Says Jesus’ mother was a whore: “She who was the descendant of princes and governors played the harlot with carpenters.” Also in footnote #2 to Shabbath 104b it is stated that in the “uncensored” text of the Talmud it is written that Jesus mother, “Miriam the hairdresser,” had sex with many men.
“Jesus was a bastard born of adultery.” (Yebamoth 49b, p.324).
“Mary was a whore: Jesus (Balaam) was an evil man.” (Sanhedrin 106a &b, p.725).
“Jesus was a magician and a fool. Mary was an adulteress”. (Shabbath 104b, p.504).
Gittin 56b-57a: [Onkelos Bar Kalonikus] called up Balaam (JESUS) from the dead. [Onkelos] asked: Who is honored in that world? [Balaam] replied: Israel. [Onkelos asked:] What about joining them? [Balaam] replied: (Deut. 23:7) “You shall not seek their peace or welfare all your days.” [Onkelos] asked: What is your punishment? [Balaam answered]: In boiling semen.
[Onkelos] called up Yeshu (another name for JESUS) from the dead. [Onkelos] asked: Who is honored in that world? [Yeshu] replied: Israel. [Onkelos asked:] What about joining them? [Yeshu] replied: Seek their good. Do not seek their bad. Whoever touches them is as if he touched the pupil of his eye. [Onkelos] asked: What is your punishment? [Yeshu answered]: In boiling excrement. As the mast said: Whoever mocks the words of the sages in punished in boiling excrement.
Gittin 57a. Says Jesus is in hell, being boiled in “hot excrement.”
TALMUD ABOUT NON-JEWS, GENTILES or CHRISTIANS:
Johanan said: A heathen who studies the Torah deserves death, for it is written, Moses commanded us a law for an inheritance; it is our inheritance, not theirs. Then why is this not included in the Noachian laws? — On the reading morasha [an inheritance] he steals it; on the reading me’orasah [betrothed], he is guilty as one who violates a betrothed maiden, who is stoned. An objection is raised: R. Meir used to say. Whence do we know that even a heathen who studies the Torah is as a High Priest? From the verse, [Ye shall, therefore, keep my statutes, and my judgments:] which, if a man do, he shall live in them. Priests, Levites, and Israelites are not mentioned, but men: hence thou mayest learn that even a heathen who studies the Torah is as a High Priest! — That refers to their own seven laws.
Yalkut 245c: Extermination of the Christians is a necessary sacrifice.
Zohar, Shemoth: Tob shebbe goyyim harog – Even the best of the Goyim (Gentiles) should be killed.
Sanhedrin 54b: Raba said. It means this: When a grown-up man has intercourse with a little girl it is nothing, for when the girl is less than this [three years old], it is as if one puts the finger into the eye; but when a small boy has intercourse with a grown-up woman he makes her as ‘a girl who is injured by a piece of wood.’…
Sanhedrin 59a: To communicate anything to a Goy about our religious relations would be equal to the killing of all Jews, for if the Goyim knew what we teach about them, they would kill us openly.
Libbre David 37: A Jew should and must make a false oath when the Goyim asks if our books contain anything against them.
Szaaloth-Utszabot, The Book of Jore Dia 17: We beg Thee, O Lord, indict Thy wrath on the nations not believing in Thee, and not calling on Thy name. Let down Thy wrath on them and inflict them with Thy wrath. Drive them away in Thy wrath and crush them into pieces. Take away, O Lord, all bone from them. In a moment indict all disbelievers. Destroy in a moment all foes of Thy nation. Draw out with the root, disperse and ruin unworthy nations. Destroy them! Destroy them immediately, at this very moment!
Prayer said on the eve of Passover (Pranajtis: Christianus in Talmudae Judeorum, quotations from Synagoga Judaica)
The Feast of Tabernacles is the period when Israel triumphs over the other people of the world. That is why during this feast we seize the loulab and carry it as a trophy to show that we have conquered all other peoples, known as “populace”…
Zohar, Toldoth Noah 63b: When the (Jewish) Messiah comes every Jew will have 2800 slaves.
Simeon Haddarsen, fol. 56-D: Resh Lakish said: He who is observant of fringes will be privileged to be served by two thousand eight hundred slaves, for it is said, Thus saith the Lord of hosts: In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold, out of all the languages of the nations shall even take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you, etc.
Mas. Shabbath 31b: On the house of the Goy [Goy means unclean, and is the disparaging term for a non-Jew] one looks as on the fold of cattle.
Tosefta, Tractate Erubin VIII: When a Jew has a Gentile in his clutches, another Jew may go to the same Gentile, lend him money and in turn deceive him, so that the Gentile shall be ruined. For the property of a Gentile, according to our law, belongs to no one, and the first Jew that passes has full right to seize it.
Schulchan Aruch, Choszen Hamiszpat 156: If it can be proven that someone has given the money of Israelites to the Goyim, a way must be found after prudent consideration to wipe him off the face of the earth.
Choschen Hamm 388, 15: Happy will be the lost of Israel, whom the Holy One, blessed be He, has chosen from amongst the Goyim, of whom the Scriptures say: “Their work is but vanity, it is an illusion at which we must laugh; they will all perish when God visits them in His wrath.” At the moment when the Holy One, blessed be He, will exterminate all the Goyim of the world, Israel alone will subsist, even as it is written: “The Lord alone will appear great on that day!…
Zohar, Vayshlah 177b: That the Jewish nation is the only nation selected by God, while all the remaining ones are contemptible and hateful.
That all property of other nations belongs to the Jewish nation, which consequently is entitled to seize upon it without any scruples. An orthodox Jew is not bound to observe principles of morality towards people of other tribes. He may act contrary to morality, if profitable to himself or to Jews in general.
A Jew may rob a Goy, he may cheat him over a bill, which should not be perceived by him, otherwise, the name of God would become dishonored.
Sanhedrin 58b: [In other words, if a non-Jew kills a Jew, the non-Jew can be killed. Punching an Israelite is akin to assaulting God. (But killing a non-Jew is NOT like assaulting God.] If a goy killed a goy or a Jew he is responsible, but if a Jew killed a goy he is not responsible.
WHAT THE TALMUD SAYS ABOUT CHILDREN:
Schulchan Oruch, Orach Chaim 14, 20, 32, 33, 39: A Jew may do to a non-Jewess what he can do. He may treat her as he treats a piece of meat.
Hadarine, 20, B; Schulchan Aruch, Choszen Hamiszpat 348: A Jew may violate but not marry a non-Jewish girl.
Gad. Shas. 2:2: A boy-goy after nine years and one day old, and a girl after three years and one day old, are considered filthy.
Pereferkowicz, Talmud t.v., p. 11: Raba stated: With reference to the Rabbinical statement that [legally] an Egyptian [Gentile] has no father, it must not be imagined that this is due to [the Egyptians’] excessive indulgence in carnal gratification, owing to which it is not known [who the father was], but that if this was known it is to be taken into consideration; but [the fact is] that even if this is known it is not taken into consideration…. Thus it may be inferred that the All Merciful declared their children to be legally fatherless, for [so indeed it is also] written, Whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.
Yevamoth 98a: [Trans.: A non-Jew is “legally fatherless,” regardless of whether or not the father is known. Gentile children are essentially asses and horses, i.e., animals.]
[The daughters of the heathens] should be considered as in the state of http://jewish.com/askarabbi/askarabbi/askr4942.htm from their cradle…
Avodah Zarah 36b: They decreed in connection with a heathen child that it should cause defilement by seminal emission so that an Israelite child should not become accustomed to commit pederasty with him…. It is, therefore, to be concluded that a heathen girl [communicates defilement] from the age of three years and one day, for inasmuch as she is then capable of the sexual act she likewise defiles by a flux. This is obvious!
Avodah Zarah 36b-37a: Joseph said: Come and hear! A maiden aged three years and a day may be acquired in marriage by coition [intercourse], and if her deceased husband’s brother cohabits with her, she becomes his. The penalty of adultery may be incurred through her; [if a niddah] she defiles him who has connection with her, so that he in turn defiles that upon which he lies, as a garment which has lain upon [a person afflicted with gonorrhoea].
Sanhedrin 55b: Rab said: Pederasty with a child below nine years of age is not deemed as pederasty with a child above that. Samuel said: Pederasty with a child below three years is not treated as with a child above that.24 (24) I.e., Rab makes nine years the minimum; but if one committed sodomy with a child of lesser age, no guilt is incurred. Samuel makes three the minimum.
Jesus had these interesting things to say about Jews:
John 8:44: Jesus says to the Jews, “Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh if his own, for he is a liar and the father of it”.
Revelation 3:9: “Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.”
Respective to the candidly unkind and even monstrously construed quotes from the above Talmud verses, I am compassionately reminded and find comfort in the words of Jesus’s dying words on the cross from Luke 23:34 where he said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.”
From such wise insight, and other illuminated spiritual teaching, it is known and stated that the true Creator God of Universe loves all, even those who appear greatly lost and have forgotten their soul mission on earth, that of remembering and returning to here express and BE only love. We pray that the Lord God will forgive and show mercy for any soul who has thought, written and/or acted from or by the direction of such Talmudic teaching. We pray that ALL will awaken to the truth of love, peace, and forgiveness.
Now, and hopefully, with more opened eyes and a wiser perspective, it is easier to understand the two basic reasons and imperatives behind why the Zionist Cabal have designed and implemented massive worldwide mind control:
No rational or sane person will submit to being labeled and/or treated as a Cattle-slave-servant.
In order to achieve their goal of total domination, they must minimize all decent and/or any attempt by individuals or groups of people to alarm humanity about the nightmare of manipulated enslavement that presently imprisons them.
Therefore, the Cabal employees the greatest levers of mind-controlling and manipulatively coercing powers presently known to humankind:
Syndicated banking cartels that represent the Rothschild’s central banking model. This model that precludes countries from freely and independently printing their own sovereign currency which is backed by their own gold bullion reserves…i.e within America, The US Federal Reserve, an entity owned and run by foreign banking enterprises which print our U.S. currency, determines the amount of it circulation and then sets and controls the interest rates…this is the way our country’s overall financial system works,
The Media and Entertainment industries: Music, TV, Film, magazine / book publications, pornography and the puppet master entertainment executives and celebrities (musicians, actors, etc) who have been morally compromised and manipulatively blackmailed through either promise of fame, money, power, sexual gain and/or whom have allowed themselves to be seduced into black-occult practices, pedophilia and worst) and/or some combination thereof,
Famed celebrities often serve, unknowingly or knowingly, as the public spokesman for the subliminal messaging machine of the Cabal. They use special key words, wear special apparel or insignia and/or make secret hand gestures to inform other cult members of their common club membership or subliminally program their fan base.
Education and Medical systems which are philosophically propagandized and financially manipulated through secret think-tank lobbying entities and pharmaceutical companies that shape treatment protocols, government budgets, and expenditures,
A judicial system which appears to shield and protect unconstitutional black-op government agencies/criminal drug cartel enterprises, and/or U.S. police activities (Municipality Police forces who have been flown to Israel, trained by the Israeli Defense Force then taken into Palestine to engage in live combat interaction with the local civilian population – see Amnesty International Report) who now irrationally and violently treat U.S. civilians as combative terrorists and turn basic interactions with citizens into a cage fighting opportunity that often results in one or more people being physically harmed and/or killed.
The US government’s globally manipulated control over the world’s oil reserves through the US Petrodollar system (all world governments and/or private sector entities must use the U.S. petrodollar to buy, sell or trade oil),
A well funded US military-industrial complex who manufactures and sells all forms of weaponry such as guns, bullets, missiles, jet aircraft, tanks and other armored vehicles, warships/submarines, conventional, nuclear and hydrogen bombs to the highest bidder,
A large scale, well organized and an under-educated group of military personnel who’ve been strategically brainwashed into marching lockstep to any given command from its internal leadership …. a leadership, mind you, that ultimately takes order from Government leadership and who in turn takes orders from the invisible Cabal that President John F. Kennedy referred to.
Now with all of this said, there is a necessary, deep and introspective imperative that is required to properly address the article’s larger subject of forgiveness. I am suggesting here, that in order to move our conversation towards a better definition and application of forgiveness, especially as it appears to relate to the long ongoing apartheid and genocidal actions of the Israeli government and some of its people, I thought it might be helpful to examine the insights of some of history’s great sages and what they had to say on the subject:
The great 18th century Poet, Alexander Pope, penned the insightful thought, “To err is human, to forgive divine. All people commit sins and make mistakes. God forgives them, and people are acting in a godlike (divine) way when they forgive.”
Saint Augustine of Hippo, who was an early (354 AD) Christian theologian and philosopher from Numidia whose writings influenced the development of Western Christianity said, “Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.”
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who, when he reflected on the history of South African Apartheid stated. “Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC’s military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.” Tutu would also later say, “Without forgiveness, there’s no future.”
The inspired South African leader Nelson Mandela, who himself, along with his countrymen endured hateful hand of apartheid concluded: “If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.”
Mahatma Gandhi who created and lead the movement that ultimately overthrew India’s long British military occupation and colonialism stated, “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” He also stated, “I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek – I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. who lead African Americans through an era of racism and bigoted prejudice concluded: “We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.”
The great Poet, William Blake, now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry concluded, “The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.”
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, an American writer, and humorist was best known by his pen name Mark Twain. He poetically stated, ”Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.”
The great Russian-born composer, pianist, and conductor, Igor Stravinsky, concluded, “The Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.”
The contemporary pioneer of the human potential movement Gerald Jampolsky, MD has said, “When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.”
And…the noted French author Francois de La Rochefoucauld of maxims and memoirs who was said to have a world-view that was clear-eyed and urbane, and that he neither condemned human conduct nor sentimentally celebrated it concluded, “One forgives to the degree that one loves.”
In conclusion and with little world media awareness or fanfare … right now Palestinians in Gaza are modeling the true power of love and forgiveness to our world.
This movement of love, peace and forgiveness is being heroically modeled and accomplished through the leadership of an organization in Gaza called the National Center For Community Rehabilitation (NCCR). They serve to help heal and empower children who have been physically injured and/or psychologically traumatized by Israeli bombings and their military occupation. The NCCR’s goal is to help children reestablish a normal childhood again so that they can begin to dream again and imagine the life they want to grow up and live.
My organization, Project Peace On Earth reached out to them after we had produced Volume I of a two-part Gaza and Middle East benefit album called, 2UniteAll. Here is a video, just below, on the story of the little girl from Gaza named Shymaa who inspired the album.
The NCCR, along with the help of our organization, ProjectPeaceOnEarth.org (PPoE), also launched the LOVE ALL LOVE WINS campaign. With this, the NCCR printed up and then distributed t-shirts and armbands to hundreds of children and teenagers which said: “Love All Love Wins”. The campaign message also said “UDHR”, the acronym for the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Leading up to this point of connecting with the NCCR and beginning in September of 2011, the Palestinian Government and Private Sector businesses along with the help of our PPoE organization wanted to make a statement of Love All to the world. This was accomplished by bringing some 1000 Palestinian refugee children to the base of the Mount of Temptation in Jericho, the place where Jesus is told of staying for some forty days and forty nights. Once there, children were instructed to form and become the human image of the Picasso Peace Dove, spell the words “Love All” and also spell the word “Love” in Arabic. Once this formation was made it was filmed and photographed aerially. Almost one year later the UN selected the Picasso Peace Dove / Love All image as one of the 49 most iconic images (out of 800,000 photos) in its history.
On 25 November 2011: Hundreds of Palestinian refugee students from United Nations schools formed Picasso’s ‘Peace Dove’ and “LOVE ALL” at the foot of the Mount of Temptation in Jericho. The youth are demanding a peaceful future. The event was a partnership with international artist John Quigley and was supported by UNRWA and Project Peace on Earth.
Following this up, and about two months later on December 25, 2011, Christmas Day, the Palestinian Government, Private business sector and our PPoE team produced the Love All concert from the Bethlehem Convention Palace. The concert featured Fox Lima, the lead singer from Enigma’s MMX Social Song, Grammy Winning Texas Hall of Fame Country Singer Gary Nicholson, world-famed Oud player Hani Nasser and the Grammy winning Native American singer/songwriter Joanne Shenandoah.
The concert, which was broadcast out to some 80 million homes worldwide, also featured this video just below, which was produced by both Peter Joseph (of the Zeitgeist movies series) and myself. The video’s message showed how all major religions promote the similar message of love. Throughout the entire production process and not one time did one political, religious and business leader ever attempted to censor any part of the message of universal love that was being promoted by the concert.
Next, in 2012 and with the full cooperation of the Palestinian Government and one of the region’s largest private sector companies, Consolidated Contractors Company (CCC) and the Bethlehem Convention Palace, PPoE also helped to produce another Love All image, a Love All concert and Free All peace initiative. On December 24, 2012 the City of Bethlehem, the Palestinian Ministry of Tourism and Palestinian Boy and Girl Scout troops along with PPoE formed another a human “Peace Symbol” and spelling the words “Love All” at the center of Manger Square to send out an aerial image Christmas message of love, peace and joy to the world.
Next, on January 31st of this same 2012 year, Palestinian Boy and Girl Scout organizations, the Palestinian Government, the Minister’s office, the Governors office and the Presidential office along with PPoE’s helped to bring hundreds of Palestinian boy and girl scouts to join in solidarity at the Dividing Wall in front of the Israeli guard tower. This special location was just next to the famed Entry Gate of the Patriarch in Bethlehem (the historical original road into Bethlehem). Here, a portion of the scouts formed the human message of “Free All” while others placed their painted covered hands on the Dividing Wall to send a prayerful plea to all world leaders, and the brotherhood of scouts, to bring the Israeli Dividing Wall down.
In keeping with our exploration of the importance of Forgiveness, Leo Tolstoy, the Russian writer who is considered one of the world’s greatest authors of all time and also the author of the novel “War and Peace” concluded, “To get rid oneself of an enemy, one must love him.”
In conclusion, I offer two important insights from A Course in Miracles teachings:
Forgiveness offers everything I want.
What could you want forgiveness cannot give? Do you want peace? Forgiveness offers it. Do you want happiness, a quiet mind, a certainty of purpose, and a sense of worth and beauty that transcends the world? Do you want to care and safely feel the warmth of sure protection always? Do you want a quietness that cannot be disturbed, a gentleness that never can be hurt, a deep, abiding comfort, and a rest so perfect it can never be upset?
All this forgiveness offers you, and more. It sparkles on your eyes as you awake, and gives you joy with which to meet the day. It soothes your forehead while you sleep, and rests upon your eyelids so you see no dreams of fear and evil, malice and attack. And when you wake again, it offers you another day of happiness and peace. All this forgiveness offers you, and more.
Forgiveness lets the veil be lifted up that hides the face of Christ from those who look with unforgiving eyes upon the world. It lets you recognize the Son of God, and clears your memory of all dead thoughts so that remembrance of your Father can arise across the threshold of your mind. What would you want forgiveness cannot give? What gifts but these are worthy to be sought? What fancied value, trivial effect or transient promise, never to be kept, can hold more hope than what forgiveness brings?
Why would you seek an answer other than the answer that will answer everything? Here is the perfect answer, given to imperfect questions, meaningless requests, halfhearted willingness to hear, and less than halfway diligence and partial trust. Here is the answer! Seek for it no more. You will not find another one instead.
God’s plan for your salvation cannot change, nor can it fail. Be thankful it remains exactly as He planned it. Changelessly it stands before you like an open door, with warmth and welcome calling from beyond the doorway, bidding you to enter in and make yourself at home, where you belong.
Here is the answer! Would you stand outside while all of Heaven waits for you within? Forgive and be forgiven. As you give you will receive. There is no plan but this for the salvation of the Son of God. Let us today rejoice that this is so, for here we have an answer, clear and plain, beyond deceit in its simplicity. All the complexities the world has spun of fragile cobwebs disappear before the power and the majesty of this extremely simple statement of the truth.
Here is the answer! Do not turn away in aimless wandering again. Accept salvation now. It is the gift of God, and not the world. The world can give no gifts of any value to a mind that has received what God has given as its own. God wills salvation be received today, and that the intricacies of your dreams no longer hide their nothingness from you.
Open your eyes today and look upon a happy world of safety and of peace. Forgiveness is the means by which it comes to take the place of hell. In quietness, it rises up to greet your open eyes, and fill your heart with deep tranquility as ancient truths, forever newly born, arise in your awareness. What you will remember then can never be described. Yet your forgiveness offers it to you.
Remembering the gifts forgiveness gives, we undertake our practicing today with hope and faith that this will be the day salvation will be ours. Earnestly and gladly will we seek for it today, aware we hold the key within our hands, accepting Heaven’s answer to the hell we made, but where we would remain no more.
Morning and evening do we gladly give a quarter of an hour to the search in which the end of hell is guaranteed. Begin in hopefulness, for we have reached the turning point at which the road becomes far easier. And now the way is short that yet we travel. We are close indeed to the appointed ending of the dream.
Sink into happiness as you begin these practice periods, for they hold out the sure rewards of questions answered and what your acceptance of the answer brings. Today it will be given you to feel the peace forgiveness offers, and the joy the lifting of the veil holds out to you.
Before the light you will receive today the world will fade until it disappears, and you will see another world arise you have no words to picture. Now we walk directly into light, and we receive the gifts that have been held in store for us since time began, kept waiting for today.
Forgiveness offers everything you want. Today all things you want are given you. Let not your gifts recede throughout the day, as you return again to meet a world of shifting change and bleak appearances. Retain your gifts in clear awareness as you see the changeless in the heart of change; the light of truth behind appearances.
Be tempted not to let your gifts slip by and drift into forgetfulness, but hold them firmly in your mind by your attempts to think of them at least a minute as each quarter of an hour passes by. Remind yourself how precious are these gifts with this reminder, which has power to hold your gifts in your awareness through the day:
FORGIVENESS OFFERS EVERYTHING I WANT. TODAY I HAVE ACCEPTED THIS AS TRUE. TODAY I HAVE RECEIVED THE GIFTS OF GOD.
The Salvation of the world depends on me.
So Be It. Amen. It is Done.
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Harry Haller May 23, 2018 at 10:32 am
There is a way to separate disinformation from reality; and that is to open your eyes and open your mind. Bernays and Plato spelled out how easily we are fooled and controlled. I wish all good fortune in finding truth in the crazy world.
martsiva May 17, 2018 at 9:17 pm
I just read a great article by Gideon Levy in Haaretz in which he stated that Israel has no conscience any more. It`s a good read!
David Odell May 17, 2018 at 10:31 am
A simple practice in self awareness. Become observant of every time a person apologizes to you. Each time, without hesitation, bluntly state, “I do not accept your apology”. Observe the reactions and record the effect.
Critical thinking is enhanced.
Detlef Reimers May 17, 2018 at 6:07 am
Thanks Gordon, for this kafkaeske intro for one of the greatest tragedy and injustice of our times in Palestine now called Israel.
I don’t want to add another comment, which only focusses on the obvious facts, the cold muder of Palestinians at the Ghaza border.
Instead, I want to add some not so well known facts. The news and blogs were filled with reports, pictures and videos about this massacre. They mostly equally shut up on wednesday, why?
Because the Hamas leader was “invited” to Egypt to negotiations with the Egyptian intelligence. He arrived quickly with his two bodyguards and then the shouting began inside the building. They told him face to face, that they don’t mind to see the whole Hamas leadership beeing killed one by one, if they didn’t stop their enterprise. Otherwise it would leed to an open conflict with Israel. They knew very well that Palestinians were payed and transported to the border, it was a well organized event. You can find pictures of 10 Hamas activists, who where shot on their own media.
The Mamas then abruptly stopped the campaign and the killing stopped on Wednesday.
This endless and forceful duality without any chance to escape from the horror, in which the Palastinians are trapped, makes me speechless and sad. No side to this day really want a solution for the people of Palestine, they are pawns in a game, played from both sides and they are not allowed to think otherwise.
Gordon Duff, Senior Editor May 17, 2018 at 2:42 am
Thanks Eduardo. Appreciate your getting the shameful comedy of it all.
Gordon Duff, Senior Editor May 17, 2018 at 12:13 am
Peter…and invited “them” who ? The Palestinians…if so…are they to get trained and then go back into the region to make up cardboard cut outs of dreamed of defensive vehicles and then parade around in them like cartoon Flintstone vehicles.
“Go ahead delete this like you always do”…of what do you speak?…do you understand the meaning of the word “always” which means 100% of the time…is this actually true or do you really mean exaggerate the truth into a lie that makes some unclear point?
Again, who …? jump on the chance to do and be trained on what when if implying the Palestinians …there are no such vehicles and/or weapons within the Palestinian territories…or are we missing something here.?
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Music Videos New Releases Live Reviews Album Reviews Music Premieres
New Music: Justin Bieber 'Hold Tight'
October 21, 2013 - 12:50 pm by VIBE
Justin Bieber has a hard time letting when he's in love, and his latest Music MOnday release makes that loud and clear. The Biebs wants his girl to grab on for dear life at all times. Cuffing season has officially begun, guys.
#MusicMondays continues every week until Justin Bieber’s Believe film hits theatres in December. Head over to iTunes where “Hold Tight” is available for purchase.
Courtesty of euro
Premiere: Motivation And Loyalty Reign On euro’s Two Pack, “Never Fold/Day Ones”
Young Money alum euro gives fans a two for one special with the release of his latest singles, “Never Fold" and "Day Ones.”
The song actually splits into two with “Never Fold” serving fans who are a sucker for lyrical mastery and "Day Ones" providing the right amount of victorious thunder and bravado.
"Never Fold" bloomed out of sheer pride and euro’s determination to throw lyrical jabs at anyone coming his way.
“My brother got a hold of the beat from Ayo the producer and he wanted me to record over it,” euro tells VIBE. “He called me out after I passed on the beat due to writer’s block. At that moment, I had to prove a point and that’s what came out of it.”
As for “Day Ones,” the tune shows how euro is rooted in more ways than one. "The motivation behind "Day Ones" is staying true on this journey, never selling out," he explains. "There have been many times we’ve had opportunities to take the easy way, but we have our minds made up to do this our way - the right way, for our people, with our people."
The tracks will be apart of euro's forthcoming album, Don’t Expect Nothing, to be released August 16th. The rapper has resided under the radar but still managed to snag big co-signs from the likes of Lil Wayne and Drake.
Enjoy the tracks below.
Paras Griffin/Getty Images for The Vanity Group
Rick Ross Announces ‘Port Of Miami 2’ Release Date
The wait is finally over. Rick Ross’ Port of Miami 2 album will be released on the 13-year anniversary of its predecessor, the Maybach Music head announced Tuesday (July 16).
The album's cover art features Ross holding a pendant with a photo of his close friend and manager, Black Bo, who passed away in 2018. In addition to the art work, Rozay debuted a minute-long album trailer where he appears to undergo a baptism.
"Port of Miami started me on this journey,” Ross wrote in June in an Instagram post announcing his 10th studio album. “It's only right I bring it back to where it all started. For my day ones to the new ones, this album is for you."
Earlier in the month, Ross released the singles “Big Tyme” featuring Swizz Beatz and “Act of Fool,” featuring Wale.
Watch the Port Of Miami 2 trailer below.
R.LUM.R Shares Visuals For New Single "How This Feels"
With his forthcoming debut album set to drop this fall, R&B artist R.LUM.R released his latest single and paired visual "How This Feels" on Friday (July 12). He recently inked a deal with Island Records earlier this year, and his new track "builds on the momentum" the entertainer has achieved since he first climbed into the music scene with his breakout single "Show Me."
The Florida-born singer delivers vulnerable lyrics and piercing falsettos in the songs hook when asks, "So can we be real/About how this feels?" As he goes back and forth from guitar chords to nocturnal R&B, R.LUM.R's latest melody lights a fire into his next chapter in the music industry.
The opening scene of the visual shows the vocalist staring at a burning old-school Cadillac set on fire. The picturesque film continues into the opening verse on owning up to intimate feelings and connections that could be conflicting or dangerous if pursued. "I don't wanna lead us in the wrong direction/Force or fake a feeling cause we both need affection/End up co-dependent cause we can't deal with depression/The way we need/ So can we be real?/About how this feels," he croons.
"With this first visual, I wanted to make sure to do something more striking and interesting than I've ever done that makes you feel the isolation that is so felt in the music," he said in a statement. "I think we did it with 'How This Feels,'"
His widely successful single "Frustrated" reached Top 10 at Urban AC Radio in 2017. Most recently he released his project AFTERIMAGE, which reached over 100 million global artist streams.
"I really believed in what Erykah Badu used to say about music, ‘Once I release it into the world, it’s no longer my story.’ Once the audience listens to it, it’s their story. I can’t wait to see how people interpret it. There’s growth to be done, and you don’t have to be afraid of it.”
Listen to "How This Feels" up top.
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Building the Next Remote Control: Kinect is Just the First Step
Tuesday, April 3, 2012, 9:45 AM ET
Today, I'm pleased to share a guest post from Alan Wolk, Global Lead Analyst at KIT Digital. As Alan points out, the Xbox Kinect technology has helped open up a new world of possibilities for navigating video content on TVs (I was recently in KIT's offices and played with their Kinect Sky TV app, which I thought was amazing). Beyond Kinect however, further technology improvements are coming, all of which means the remote control is poised to move far beyond its humble roots. Read on to learn more.
by Alan Wolk
In the pre-cable TV world, the remote control was a truly amazing device. It allowed viewers to raise and lower the volume without getting out of their chair, while jumping seamlessly between the handful of channels that were available.
The advent of cable TV made the remote a little more complicated: with 20 or 30 channels in the line-up, the remote now needed a keypad to enter the actual channel number. The more channels cable systems added, the more critical the remote became. But around the time we moved from dozens of channels to hundreds of them, it become evident that a better system was needed: scrolling through so many channels ten at a time was not particularly time efficient, especially since viewers knew the names of channels they wanted to watch, not their constantly shifting numbers.
That was when search was added to the mix. It worked off the set-top box and required the user to hunt and peck their way through a non-QWERTY on-screen keyboard using the remote. This was anything but simple, but it was the only way to navigate through the increasingly complex experiences created as providers added on-demand and DVR content to the list of available content. Remote controls with slide-out keyboards were about as far as the industry had gotten when the pent-up demand for new ways to interact with the TV finally saw fruit.
Step 1 was smartphone-based remote controls, which rolled out about a year or so ago. These generally replicated the existing remote control on a smartphone screen, while providing built-in keyboard functionality. Unfortunately users did not take to the new apps. They were impractical: you needed to take out your phone, turn it on (most phones auto-lock after a few minutes of inactivity), open the app and then hope you were still connected to the STB.
Now remote controls and navigation are changing in a meaningful way. The advent of TV on the Xbox gives birth to a truly remarkable feature that lets users rely on voice and hand gestures to control the TV via Xbox’s Kinect technology. KIT Digital built these into an app for Sky TV and though I've spent lots of time with the app, it still feels like a trip to the future. Though there are more refinements that need to be made before it becomes a full-time replacement for the remote control, it’s easy to see how hand gestures could soon become the norm for navigation.
Beyond Kinect, voice recognition software is getting much more accurate, and, thanks to Apple’s Siri, more popular. And of course, with rumors swirling about a possible television set from Apple, even more ways to navigate are likely on the way.
So now comes the hard part: figuring out which combination of voice, hand gestures and remote control feels right. Will people want to change channels with a voice command, flip between adjacent channels with hand gestures and program their DVR via an app? Or something completely different?
Some of things UX teams will have to consider are where the action takes place (in front of the TV or elsewhere), what seems like the most natural way to accomplish the action, and, most importantly, is there sense in making a one-size-fits all experience or allowing viewers to heavily customize it?
Television viewing won’t be the only thing that will be informed by the evolution of this interface. The lessons will be applied to all aspects of our digitally enabled world, from self-driving cars to banking to retail checkout. When you stop to think about what's coming in the future world of digital navigation, it's pretty mind-boggling.
Categories: Devices, Technology
Topics: Kinect, KIT Digital, Xbox
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Champions, champions, champions, champions*! Ogier/Ingrassia claim fourth WRC title in a row with Volkswagen
Crowned with a win: Ogier/Ingrassia wrap up world title after eleven rallies
Title defence sees champions join Kankkunen and Mäkinen in exclusive club
Match point number two for Volkswagen in the Manufacturers' Championship
Sébastien Ogier/Julien Ingrassia (F/F) were crowned World Rally Champions for the fourth time in a row after taking victory at the Rally Spain. They guided their Volkswagen Polo R WRC to a fifth win of the season in Catalonia, finishing ahead of Dani Sordo/Marc Martí (E/E, Hyundai) und Thierry Neuville/Nicolas Gilsoul (B/B, Hyundai). Their ninth podium in eleven races triggered wild celebrations. The Frenchmen can no longer be caught at the top of the overall standings in the 2016 FIA World Rally Championship (WRC). Team-mates Andreas Mikkelsen/Anders Jæger (N/N) went into the Rally Spain as their closest rivals in the title race, but the Norwegians' hopes of winning the championship were dashed when they were forced to retire from the rally. Eighth place in the Manufacturers' classifications for Jari-Matti Latvala/Miikka Anttila (FIN/FIN) means Volkswagen is well-placed to claim its fourth Manufacturers' title in a row next time out at the Rally Great Britain.
Kankkunen, Mäkinen and Ogier – up there with the biggest names in rallying
952 days in a row at the top of the table: Sébastien Ogier is only the third World Rally Champion to be crowned champion four years in a row in the pinnacle of rallying, and the fourth four-time world champion in the history of the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC). He is now on a par with Juha Kankkunen (FIN) and Tommi Mäkinen (FIN). Only his compatriot, nine-time world champion Sébastien Loeb (F) has more titles to his name.
Four titles, each wrapped up with a win and races to spare – the Ogier/Ingrassia way
Eleven rallies, nine podium finishes, five of which were wins: victory number 37 of Sébastien Ogier and Julien Ingrassia's careers, their 30th with Volkswagen, tasted particularly sweet. The four-time world champions remained true to form, securing the title with a win for the fourth time in a row. They previously wrapped up the 2013 title at the penultimate rally in France, before achieving the same feat in Spain in 2014. In 2015, they claimed an extremely hard-fought victory at the Rally Australia to win the title before the end of the season. Victory at the 2016 Rally Spain – the only rally on the WRC calendar to be held on both gravel and asphalt – was also contested passionately.
The masterstroke: irresistibly quick and considered at the Rally Spain
The Rally Spain in Catalonia developed into a thrilling battle for the lead between local heroes Dani Sordo/Marc Martí and eventual winners Ogier/Ingrassia. The weather added to the challenge on the opening day, which was held predominantly on gravel. Ogier/Ingrassia lost 17.0 seconds to Sordo/Martí on roads that were muddy in places and drying in others. However, they bounced back on Saturday, the first of two days on asphalt, to convert this deficit into a 5.8-second lead, with wins on five of the eight special stages. Ogier extended his lead on Sunday and ultimately finished 15.6 seconds clear of the rest of the field.
Setback for Mikkelsen, Latvala is back
In contrast, Mikkelsen/Jæger and Latvala/Anttila in the second and third Polo R WRCs suffered disappointments. Friday came to a premature end for Latvala/Anttila, who were running third in extremely wet and slippery conditions when they hit a barrier and were forced to retire. However, they returned under Rally 2 regulations on Saturday and Sunday to win five stages and score valuable points for Volkswagen in the race for the Manufacturers' Championship courtesy of eighth place in the Manufacturers' classification. Their Volkswagen team-mates Mikkelsen/Jæger were unable to return under Rally 2 regulations: the pair second in the world championship got out of shape in a fast right-hand corner on Saturday – also whilst running third – skidded into a barrier and rolled. The Polo R WRC could not be repaired with the materials on site.
Ogier/Ingrassia first, Mikkelsen/Jæger second, Latvala/Anttila sixth: the WRC standings
Mikkelsen/Jæger remain second in the overall standings behind their team-mates Ogier/Ingrassia. After the Rally Spain, the Norwegian Volkswagen duo is level on points with Neuville/Gilsoul. However, they keep their noses in front thanks to better individual results. Latvala/Anttila head to the final two rallies of the season in Great Britain and Australia sixth in the world championship. Volkswagen travels to Great Britain with a 62-point lead in the Manufacturers' Championship. As such, the team has a great chance of winning the world championship title for the fourth time in a row, regardless of other results. To do so, Volkswagen must take a lead of 43 points into the Rally Australia.
The icing on the cake: Latvala ahead of Ogier on the Power Stage
Latvala/Anttila enjoyed a good end to the Rally Spain. They clocked the fastest time on the closing Power Stage and were rewarded with three bonus points. Ogier/Ingrassia finished second to complete the Volkswagen success in this discipline. Victory has now gone to the Wolfsburg-based manufacturer on 38 of the past 49 Power Stages.
Quotes after day three of the Rally Spain
Sébastien Ogier, Volkswagen Polo R WRC #1
"I feel fantastic! The fourth world championship title for Julien and me, it is impossible to describe how this feels. It is an honour to be mentioned in the same breath as such big names as Kankkunen and Mäkinen. I would like to say a huge thank you to our team at Volkswagen. Without them, Julien and I would not be here today. They do a fantastic job all year and we have had a perfect car all season. I had great fun at the wheel of the Polo R WRC once again this weekend. The tension ahead of the closing Power Stage was obviously greater than usual, given the fact that we were within touching distance of the title, and bearing in mind the mistake we made last year. But we've done it. Despite the more difficult regulations, and despite the strong opposition. I am more proud of this title than ever before. It is now time to celebrate in style with a team and my wife – and when I get home I can show my young son Tim the trophy that daddy won. I dedicate this world championship title to him."
Jari-Matti Latvala, Volkswagen Polo R WRC #2
"Congratulations to my team-mate Sébastien Ogier on his fourth Drivers' title. That puts him in the same league as my Finnish compatriots Tommi Mäkinen and Juha Kankkunen. That is a fantastic effort, not only from him, but from the entire Volkswagen Motorsport team. For me, the Rally Spain, as has so often been the case this year, was over far too soon. After the suspension damage on Friday, we had no chance of getting ourselves back in contention. Despite this, we did manage to win some special stages and eventually managed to contribute four points towards the Manufacturers' Championship. Perhaps we will be able to wrap up this title at the next rally in Great Britain. That will definitely be the goal."
Andreas Mikkelsen, Volkswagen Polo R WRC #9
"Congratulations on the title and respect for this victory to our team-mates Sébastien Ogier and Julien Ingrassia. Anders and I are pleased for them. They set the benchmark again in 2016. For us personally, the Rally Spain obviously did not end as we would have hoped. After victory last year, we wanted to do well again here and certainly to extend our lead over third place in the world championship. However, that was not to be. We came into a right-hander too quickly on Saturday, drifted wide, hit the barriers and rolled. That was 100 per cent my mistake. The battle for second place in the world championship is now wide open again, and we will have to be at our very best in the remaining rallies to achieve the goal we have been aiming for since the start of the season. We will work hard to make that possible."
Sven Smeets, Volkswagen Motorsport Director
"To be crowned world champions for the fourth time with a win – that is outstanding. Today is a great day for Sébastien Ogier, Julien Ingrassia and the whole Volkswagen team. They have been extremely consistent and impressive all season. Nine podium finishes, five of them wins, speak for themselves. So does the fact that they have now led the World Rally Championship but just short of 1,000 days in a row. We are very proud of the fastest Volkswagen drivers in the world. We will certainly celebrate in style today. Furthermore, the result here in Spain puts us in a good position in the battle for the Manufacturers' title. We could now also win the title for the fourth year in a row in Wales in two weeks' time, regardless of other results. That is obviously the goal."
And then there was ...
... a first in the World Rally Championship. Sébastien Ogier and Julien Ingrassia are the first Driver/Co-Driver world champions in the history of the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) to win the title without having won an all-gravel rally.
And then there was also …
… the "Breakfast of Champions". Sébastien Ogier started his big day, on which he would be crowned World Rally Champion for the fourth time, by polishing off his usual omelette for breakfast. This was his 200th in total since he started driving the Polo R WRC for Volkswagen.
FIA World Rally Championship (WRC), all-time best list of multiple world champions
Sébastien Loeb, nine world titles (2004–2012)
Sébastien Ogier, four world titles (2013–2016)*
Juha Kankkunen, four world titles (1986, 1987, 1991, 1993)
Tommi Mäkinen, four world titles (1996–1999)
Massimo Biasion, two world titles (1988, 1989)
Marcus Grönholm, two world titles (2000, 2002)
Carlos Sainz, two world titles (1990, 1992)
Walter Röhrl, two world titles (1980, 1982)
*Subject to the official publication of the results by the FIA.
FIA World Rally Championship (WRC), Rally Spain – final result
01. Sébastien Ogier/Julien Ingrassia (F/F), Volkswagen, 3h 13m 03.6s
02. Dani Sordo/Marc Martí (E/E), Hyundai, + 15.6s
03. Thierry Neuville/Nicolas Gilsoul (B/B), Hyundai, + 1m 15.0s
04. Hayden Paddon/John Kennard (NZ/NZ), Hyundai, + 1m 27.8s
05. Mads Østberg/Ola Fløene (N/N), Ford, + 3m 24.4s
06. Ott Tänak/Raigo Mõlder (EST/EST), Ford, + 5m 24.9s
07. Kevin Abbring/Sebastian Marshall (NL/GB), Hyundai, + 7m 31.3s
08. Jan Kopecký/Pavel Dresler (CZ/CZ), Škoda, + 9m 05.1s
09. Pontus Tidemand/Jonas Andersson (S/S), Škoda, + 9m 20.4s
10. Craig Breen/Scott Martin (IRL/GB), Citroën, + 9m 57.1s
14. Jari-Matti Latvala/Miikka Anttila (FIN/FIN), Volkswagen, + 21m 34.4s
FIA World Rally Championship (WRC), Rally Spain – Power Stage Results
01. Jari-Matti Latvala/Miikka Anttila (FIN/FIN), Volkswagen 7m 55.8s
02. Sébastien Ogier/Julien Ingrassia (F/F), Volkswagen + 1.6s
03. Dani Sordo/Marc Martí (E/E), Hyundai + 3.2s
FIA World Rally Championship (WRC), Overall Standings*
Drivers' Championship
1. Sébastien Ogier, 222 points; 2. Andreas Mikkelsen, 127; 3. Thierry Neuville, 127; 4. Hayden Paddon, 114; 5. Dani Sordo, 111; 6. Jari-Matti Latvala, 104; 7. Mads Østberg, 90; 8. Ott Tänak, 60; 9. Kris Meeke, 54; 10. Craig Breen, 36
Co-drivers' Championship
1. Julien Ingrassia, 222 points; 2. Anders Jæger, 127; 3. Nicolas Gilsoul, 127; 4. John Kennard, 114; 5. Marc Martí, 111; 6. Miikka Anttila, 104; 7. Ola Fløene, 90; 8. Raigo Mõlder, 60; 9. Paul Nagle, 54; 10. Scott Martin, 36
Manufacturers' Championship
1. Volkswagen Motorsport, 322 points; 2. Hyundai Motorsport, 260; 3. M-Sport, 144; 4. Volkswagen Motorsport II, 136; 5. Hyundai Motorsport N, 124; 6. DMACK, 74; 7. Jipocar Czech National Team, 18; 8. Yazeed Racing, 4
* Provisional.
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1.48 Air Space And Air Rights.
4.08 Dedicated Areas In Plats Of Subdivision
5.00 Easements And Easement Insurance
5.24 Exceptions And Reservations
5.32 Extended Coverage
15.40 Plats Of Subdivisions
17.36 Residential Title Policies
18.16 Shopping Center Agreements
18.24 Solar Access Easements
18.36 Streets, Alleys And Roadways
18.40 Surveys
21.00 Vacation Of Streets, Alleys And Highways
NL000039 Easements - Commercial Transactions
The Company may insure easements appurtenant if properly described and created. Do not insure easements in gross, licenses, profits a prendre, or easements pursuant to reciprocal easement agreements unless you secure the Company’s approval. Do not include the words “rights” or “privileges” when describing an insured easement unless you secure the Company’s approval; you may be insuring personal rights or covenants the Company does not wish to insure. When excepting to easements, also consider and except to implied easements (e.g., way of necessity or implied easement of necessity) when one tract is landlocked upon severance or mortgage of a portion of land or if a road, line, or other use occurs across a severed tract. Do not rely upon merger to waive easements after the dominant and servient estates are acquired by one owner, a later severance may create an implied easement.
EASR01 STG
Recent Deed in Chain Shows Easement
The instrument recorded _______________ indicates an easement for _______________. If it is desired that said easement be insured, you must request such insurance. At that time, the Company may make additional requirements and exceptions.
Comment: As an accommodation to the customer, you may disclose an easement to the grantor or other person in the chain that is not covered by the title order. Any easement must be examined before it can be insured.
EASX01 ALTA
Uninsurable Easement
The Company does not insure the easement recorded __________.
Comment: An easement may be uninsurable for a variety of reasons. It may have been terminated by merger or foreclosure. It may have been improperly created by a stranger or lack of adequate description. Its size or use may not extend to the insured land. If it is not to be insured, the Company prefers to note its position in the Policy.
Unlocated Easement
The exact location of the easement is not disclosed by the instrument.
Comment: As an accommodation, you may note that an easement exception is not specifically located.
Easement With Stated Width Along Property Line
______ foot _____________ easement along the ____________ property line of the land as set forth in the instrument recorded ____________.
Comment: The exception must be consistent with the use expressed in the instrument. Do not try to interpret an ambiguous easement or rephrase its use.
5.00.7 Easements As Exceptions
Easement – No Stated Width - Not Located
______ easement along _________________ property line of the land as set forth in the instrument recorded _____________.
Easement With Stated Width - Not Located
______ foot ____________ easement as set forth in the instrument recorded ____________.
Easement – No State Width - Located
______ easement along _________________ set forth in the instrument recorded _____________.
Easement – Width Stated and Located
_______ foot _________ easement along ____________ as set forth in the instrument recorded _______________.
______ easement as set forth in the instrument recorded ____________.
Easement on Map or Plat
That certain ______________ easement for ______________ and incidental use as shown on the map or plat of ______________.
Standard Exception to Unrecorded Easements
Rights or claims of easements not recorded in the public records.
Comment: Use this exception unless you determine by a survey that there are no applicable unrecorded easements. This exception is particularly relevant on agricultural or timberland.
11.28.1 In General
14.12.8 Schedule B Of The Owner's Policy
EASX11 STG
Utility Easement Along Property Line
______ foot utility easement along the ____________ property line of the land as set forth in the instrument recorded ____________.
Utility Easement Located
______ foot utility easement along the _______________ of the land as set forth in the instrument recorded ____________.
Drainage Easement Along Property Line
______ foot drainage easement along the ____________ property line of the land as set forth in the instrument recorded ____________.
Drainage Easement Located
______ foot drainage easement along the _________________ of the land as set forth in the instrument recorded ____________.
Sanitary Sewer Along Property Line
______ foot sanitary sewer easement along the ____________ property line of the land as set forth the in instrument recorded ____________.
Sanitary Sewer Located
______ foot sanitary sewer easement along the __________________ of the land as set forth in the instrument recorded ____________.
Railroad Easement Along Property Line
______ foot railroad easement along the ____________ property line of the land as set forth in the instrument recorded ____________.
Railroad Easement Located
______ foot railroad easement along the __________________ of the land as set forth in the instrument recorded ____________.
Access Easement Along Property Line
______ foot access easement along the ____________ property line of the land as set forth in the instrument recorded ____________.
Access Easement Located
______ foot access easement along the __________________ of the land as set forth in the instrument recorded ____________.
Driveway Easement Along Property Line
______ foot driveway easement along the ____________ property line of the land as set forth in the instrument recorded ____________.
Joint Driveway Agreement
Terms and provisions of joint driveway agreement recorded ___________________.
Navigation Easement Along Property Line
______ foot navigation easement along the ____________ property line of the land as set forth in the instrument recorded ____________.
Navigation Easement Located
______ foot navigation easement along the _________________ of the land as set forth in the instrument recorded ____________.
Street Easement Along Property Line
______ foot street easement along the ____________ property line of the land as set forth in the instrument recorded ____________.
Street Easement Located
______ foot street easement along the ___________________ of the land as set forth in the instrument recorded ____________.
Road Easement Along Property Line
______ foot road easement along the ____________ property line of the land as set forth in the instrument recorded ____________.
Road Easement Located
______ foot road easement along the _________________ of the land as set forth in the instrument recorded ____________.
Anchor Easement Along Property Line
______ foot anchor easement along the ___________ property line of the land as set forth in the instrument recorded _____________.
Anchor Easement Located
______ foot anchor easement along the _______________ of the land as set forth in the instrument recorded _____________.
Easement disclosed by Survey
Any easement for ____________ and incidental use along ___________ as disclosed by the survey by ____________ dated ____________.
Comment: Various matters, such as pipelines, sewer lines, manholes, electric lines, and fire hydrants may be shown on a survey and often are consistent with easement use. If not within and consistent with the use of a recorded easement, you should except to the possible easement reflected by the matter.
18.40.6 Check-List For The Examination Of A Survey (not for condominium or air right purposes)
Multiple Easements disclosed by Survey
Any easements for utilities and incidental use as disclosed by the survey by ________________ dated ______________ reflecting the following _________________.
Utility Lines Disclosed by Survey or Inspection
Rights and easement of others to use, maintain and replace the utility wires and poles along the _________ of the land as shown on the survey (or inspection) by _____________ dated ____________.
Comment: If a survey or inspection discloses utility lines not located within an existing recorded easement, you should except to the possible easement for the lines.
Except to Condemned Land
That portion of the land condemned in Case or Action No. _________ recorded ________________.
Comment: This exception may be used if a portion of the land is condemned, particularly if it is unclear as to whether the fee or an easement is taken. If the location and the width are clear, they can be identified.
3.36 Condemnations
Exception Unclear Whether Fee or Easement
The ______________ of the land conveyed by instrument recorded ________________.
Comment: This exception may be used if a portion of the land is conveyed, particularly if it is unclear as to whether the fee or an easement is transferred.
Avigational Easement
Terms and provisions of Avigational easement as described in the instrument recorded ________________.
Flood Easement
Terms and provisions of easement to overflow, flood, and submerge the ____________ portion of the land as set forth in instrument recorded _________________.
Utility Easements in Abandoned Road
Easements for utilities or pipelines in that portion of the land that is an abandoned or vacated road or right-of-way.
Comment: If a road is abandoned or vacated, then state law, the abandonment proceeding, or the deed may reserve an easement for existing utility lines and pipelines.
21.00.3 Rights That Might Not Have Been Terminated By The Vacation Order
Recorded Utility Easements in Abandoned Road
Easements for utilities or pipelines in that portion of the land that is an abandoned or vacated road or right-of-way as set forth in the instrument recorded __________________.
Recitals in Instrument
The following recitals (and rights reflected thereby) contained in that instrument recorded _________________:
Comment: Unusual recitals in an instrument may reflect an easement or similar rights. These recitals may appear in a deed, mortgage, or plat.
Easement Created in Deed of Trust
A _______________ easement as described in that Deed of Trust recorded __________.
Comment: The deed of trust may create an appurtenant easement.
MI 5.00.9 Insuring An Appurtenant Easement
Easement Created in Mortgage
A _______________ easement as described in that mortgage recorded __________.
Comment: The mortgage may create an appurtenant easement.
Reciprocal Easement Agreement
Terms and provisions of that construction, operation and reciprocal easement agreement recorded _____________________.
Overburdening
Any claim that the insured easement or right of access to the land may be overburdened because:
(1) The easement or right of access also serves contiguous land acquired by the owner of the dominant estate, and/or
(2) The dominant estate has been divided or fragmented into separate parcels or lots or the dominant estate is subsequently developed.
Comment: If the sole right of access or an insured easement was granted for a smaller tract, or if the benefited tract has been subdivided, the grantor of the easement may claim it is overburdened by the unanticipated use.
Current Ownership of Easement
The Company does not represent the present ownership of said easement.
Comment: The Company prefers not to show the ownership of an excepted easement. If the ownership is described, add this language to disclose we are not insuring that ownership.
Cable Agreement
The terms and provisions of the Cable Television Installation Agreement recorded ___________.
Aerial Easement
A ___________ foot aerial easement located adjacent to and ____________ above all dedicated easements indicated by the subdivision plat as described in instrument recorded ___________.
That certain ___________ easement for ________ and incidental use as shown on the map or plat of ___________.
Easement Location
Modified by the instrument recorded __________ fixing the location of the easement over the ____________ of the land.
Comment: If a later agreement locates or limits an easement, use this exception to refer to the modification.
Easement Partially Released
Partially released by the instrument recorded __________ releasing the easement except over the following described portion of the land: _________________.
Comment: If a later agreement partially releases an easement, use this exception to refer to the partial release.
Appurtenant easement not located
The exact courses, distances and dimensions of the easement(s) recited in Schedule A will not be insured in the absence of a new agreement defining and locating same.
Appurtenant easement not located; survey requir
The exact courses, distances and dimensions of the easement(s) recited in Schedule A will not be insured in the absence of an accurate survey satisfactory to the Company.
Utility Easement in street
Utility easement in _______________ (affects streets only).
Utility Easement in street with right to trim t
Utility easement in _______________ (affects streets only, with right to trim trees _____ [inches] [feet]).
Underground easements and encroachments in rura
Policy excepts underground encroachments and easements, if any, including pipes and drains, and such right as may exist for entry upon said premises to maintain and repair the same, but policy insures that there are no such easements and rights of record in connection therewith, except as may be shown herein.
Note: You may add additional local exceptions here. Please consult with our underwriting personnel in preparing appropriate provisions.
EASS01 STG
Insured Easement
A nonexclusive easement for _________ over and across ___________ described in instrument dated _______ from _____________ to ___________ recorded ___________.
Comment: The description of the easement should never describe the easement as “exclusive” unless you secure the Company’s approval. When you insure an easement, except to its terms in Schedule B. If you cannot determine whether the right is a fee or an easement, insure it only as an easement.
Insured Appurtenant Easement - Describing Land
A nonexclusive easement for _______________ purposes, appurtenant to ________________ as described in instrument recorded ________________ over the following land:
Comment: The description of the easement should never describe the easement as “exclusive” unless you secure underwriter approval. When you insure an easement, except to its terms in Schedule B.
Insured Right of Way
Together with the benefits and subject to the burdens of an easement for right of way for ingress and egress as defined and limited by _____________.
Note: You may add additional local Schedule A provisions here. Please consult with our underwriting personnel in preparing appropriate provisions.
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An Intro to the Wisconsin Women’s Network
January 27, 2016 by Access Hour
The Wisconsin Women’s Network is a coalition of organizations and individuals that promote the advancement of women and girls in Wisconsin through communication, education, advocacy, and connections. The Wisconsin Women’s Network grew out of the Governor’s Commission on the Status of Women, which was created in 1964.
The organization has two important facets:
It’s a coalition of organizations across Wisconsin that are working to improve the lives of women and girls in the state and promotes the work of these organizations through collaborative efforts, educational events, and by bolstering their projects and programs via social media accounts and an eBulletin.
Second, it promotes its mission through its own unique programming, ranging from the Wisconsin Women’s Policy Institute to its Brown Bag lunch series. In this work, it educates others on the status of Wisconsin’s women to push closer and closer toward equality. It’s a nonpartisan, 501c(3) organization, and its programs promote nonpartisan efforts.
This Access Hour program features several members of the Network, including Board of Directors President Jennifer Cole and Past President Katherine Dellenbach, talking with each other about the organization, its history, what it does, its member organizations, its activities like the Wisconsin Women’s Policy Institute, how to become a member, and how they participants feel about its work!
Sara Finger and the WI Alliance for Women's Health
Community Shares Change-Maker Award Winners!
Civic organization in the digital age
Zapatista Women Tell Their Tales
Access Hour Access Hour, Wisconsin Women's Network, Wisconsin Women's Policy Institute
About Access Hour
WORT turns its airwaves over to members of the community. The show opens up radio production to people that have typically not been on the air before. The show is completely different from one week to the next. Guests have included community groups, musicians, aspiring DJs, story-tellers, call-in discussions, radio plays, live bands, fans of niche music, and lots of other topics.
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Have family affected by Harvey? Here's how you can check in on them
Updated: 5:45 PM EDT Aug 30, 2017
AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
Evacuees ride in a boat down Tidwell Rd. as floodwaters from Tropical Storm Harvey rise Monday, Aug. 28, 2017, in Houston
SOURCE: AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
Thousands of Houstonians were displaced as Tropical Storm Harvey devastated the region, leaving an estimated 40,000 homes damaged and at least 20 people feared dead.With extreme disasters like this, sometimes relatives outside of the impacted area may not know if their family is safe. Disaster relief organizations like the Red Cross and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) lead the charge in ensuring victims of disasters are taken care of.Both organizations point to the Red Cross' Safe and Well website, which marks people as unharmed and sound during devastating tragedies such as Harvey.CLICK HERE TO CHECK IN ON FAMILY MEMBERS IN HOUSTON AREAConcerned family and friends can search the list of those who have registered as "safe and well" in the Red Cross' database. The search will display a loved one's first name, last name and a brief message from the person in the emergency area. Social media network Facebook works in a similar way, though a person has to have an account before they can mark themselves as safe.Keep in mind that this platform only searches for people that have registered themselves. During times when victims lose power, electronic devices and access to the internet, registering in databases and on social media can be difficult.
Thousands of Houstonians were displaced as Tropical Storm Harvey devastated the region, leaving an estimated 40,000 homes damaged and at least 20 people feared dead.
With extreme disasters like this, sometimes relatives outside of the impacted area may not know if their family is safe.
Is it safe to drive to Houston after Harvey? Here are the routes that are still closed
Maps show what Harvey's impact would look like in other U.S. states
People rescue pets from Tropical Storm Harvey flooding
Reporter makes impromptu rescue in Harvey floodwaters
Disaster relief organizations like the Red Cross and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) lead the charge in ensuring victims of disasters are taken care of.
Both organizations point to the Red Cross' Safe and Well website, which marks people as unharmed and sound during devastating tragedies such as Harvey.
CLICK HERE TO CHECK IN ON FAMILY MEMBERS IN HOUSTON AREA
Concerned family and friends can search the list of those who have registered as "safe and well" in the Red Cross' database. The search will display a loved one's first name, last name and a brief message from the person in the emergency area.
Social media network Facebook works in a similar way, though a person has to have an account before they can mark themselves as safe.
Keep in mind that this platform only searches for people that have registered themselves. During times when victims lose power, electronic devices and access to the internet, registering in databases and on social media can be difficult.
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Hello My Name Is: Sam Mitchell
Posted: Mon 6:39 PM, Feb 04, 2019
"My favorite sport is wrestling, because it's all I've ever done. I quit football because of it, and that was tough, that was really tough for me, I love football, but I think it paid off."
If you could be good at any other sport, which would it be?
"Well in high school I'd definitely want to do football, but if you're talking professionally I'd want to do baseball because they make a lot of money and they don't get hit or anything like that. So that would be the best one."
What's the toughest thing a wrestling coach has made you do?
"We've had countless times where we were dog tired and had to run 30 sprints, and it's pretty intense out there. Or we've done hour live matches, and it gets pretty intense."
What is the one food you could eat every day for the rest of your life?
"I'd have to go with steak because I love it. I'm a meat guy and it's good."
You're stranded on an island and can bring any three things, what are they?
"First I'd obviously bring a book that explains to me how to get off a stranded island. I'd bring a lighter, and probably like a knife or something."
What's your favorite subject in school and why?
"It's not math, it's not english. Probably, I like history, I like government history stuff."
What will you study at Buffalo?
"I'll be doing political science, and I'm going to do something in law enforcement."
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Dr. Matthias Ecker-Ehrhardt
ecker [at] zedat.fu-berlin.de
Former Staff Member of the Research Unit
International politics & communication | Public cosmopolitanism | Politics of humanitarian aid | European Integration
Matthias Ecker-Ehrhardt was a senior research fellow at the WZB research unit Global Governance from 2005 until May 2013. After he finished his studies at the Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science, the Free University of Berlin (1990-95), he started working at the WZB as a research associate for the project “German-Polish Elite Study” with Prof. Wolf-Dieter Eberwein (1997-99). He was a postgraduate student at the WZB between 2000 and 2002, and received his degree at the Free University of Berlin in 2003. He was a research fellow at the University of Bremen, Institute for Intercultural and International Studies until 2005, when he started his time as a research fellow at the WZB’s Global Governance. During the winter semester of 2012/2013, he also worked as a professor of International Relations at the Free University of Berlin. Between 2012 and 2014 he held visiting professorships for International Relations at the Free University of Berlin and the University of Leipzig. He is currently the leader of the German Research Foundation (DFG) project "The Communicated IO: Public Relations, Civil Society Inclusion and Global Politicization of International Organizations" at the Free University of Berlin.
Zürn, Michael/Ecker-Ehrhardt, Matthias (Hg.) (2013): Die Politisierung der Weltpolitik. Umkämpfte internationale Institutionen. Edition Suhrkamp. Berlin: Suhrkamp, 427 S.
Ecker-Ehrhardt, Matthias (2012): "'But the UN Said so ...'. International Organisations as Discursive Authorities". In: Global Society, Vol. 26, No. 4, S. 451-471. (Vorab online publiziert 24. August 2012)
Ecker-Ehrhardt, Matthias (2012): "Cosmopolitan Politicization. How Perceptions of Interdependence Foster Citizens' Expectations in International Institutions". In: European Journal of International Relations, Vol. 18, No. 3, S. 481-508. (Vorab online publiziert 22. Februar 2011)
Zürn, Michael/Binder, Martin/Ecker-Ehrhardt, Matthias (2012): "International Authority and Its Politicization". In: International Theory - A Journal of International Politics, Law and Philosophy, Vol. 4, No. 1, S. 69-106.
Zürn, Michael/Binder, Martin/Ecker-Ehrhardt, Matthias/Radtke, Katrin (2007): "Politische Ordnungsbildung wider Willen". In: Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen, Jg. 14, H. 1, S. 129-164.
Ecker-Ehrhardt, Matthias (2007): Rhetorik der Osterweiterung. Politisches Argumentieren mit Normen, Kausalitäten, Gemeinschaftlichkeiten. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 286 S.
The Denationalization of Problem Perceptions and the Assignment of Responsibility to Political Institutions
Public Discourse and Understanding in Light of Humanitarian Crises
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4. Western Stars
5. Sleepy Joe's Café
6. Drive Fast (The Stuntman)
7. Chasin' Wild Horses
8. Sundown
9. Somewhere North of Nashville
10. Stones
11. There Goes My Miracle
12. Hello Sunshine
13. Moonlight Motel
Western Stars is the new album from Bruce Springsteen, and his first new studio album in five years. This collection of songs takes his music to a new place, drawing inspiration in part from the Southern California pop records of the late '60s and early '70s. The album was recorded primarily at Springsteen's home studio in New Jersey, with additional recording in California and New York. "This record is a return to my solo recordings featuring character driven songs and sweeping, cinematic orchestral arrangements," says Springsteen. "It's a jewel box of a record." The 13 tracks on Western Stars encompass a sweeping range of American themes, of highways and desert spaces, of isolation and community and the permanence of home and hope. Ron Aniello produced the album with Springsteen and plays bass, keyboard, and other instruments. Patti Scialfa provides vocals and contributes vocal arrangements on four tracks. The musical arrangements include strings, horns, pedal steel and contributions from more than 20 other players including Jon Brion (who plays celeste, Moog, and farfisa), as well as guest appearances by David Sancious, Charlie Giordano, and Soozie Tyrell. Bruce Springsteen's recording career spans over 40 years, beginning with 1973's Greetings from Asbury Park, NJ.' He has garnered 20 Grammys, won an Oscar and a Tony, been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, received a Kennedy Center Honor, and was MusiCares' 2013 Person of the Year. Springsteen's memoir 'Born to Run' (Simon & Schuster) and its companion album 'Chapter and Verse' were released in September 2016, and he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in November 2016. His historic 236-show run of 'Springsteen on Broadway' at Jujamcyn's Walter Kerr Theatre in NYC ran from October 2017 to December 2018, and also yielded an accompanying soundtrack album and Netflix special.
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Simpson re-signs with Carlton
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - JUNE 30: Kade Simpson of the Blues walks to the coin toss ahead of his 300th match during the 2018 AFL round 15 match between the Carlton Blues and the Port Adelaide Power at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on June 30, 2018 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Adam Trafford/AFL Media/Getty Images)
Blues veteran Kade Simpson has re-signed with Carlton for 2019 to extend his career into a 17th season.
The 34-year old became the fifth Carlton player to reach the 300-game milestone earlier this year, joining former greats Craig Bradley (375), Bruce Doull (356), John Nicholls (328) and Stephen Silvagni (312).
Simpson enjoyed another stellar campaign this season, where he averaged 28 disposals, five rebound 50s, six marks and six intercept possessions per game.
“I love this football club, and after being here nearly 17 years it’s an extension of my family. I still feel I have plenty to offer the group so I’m rapt to be continuing on for another year,” Simpson told carltonfc.com.au.
“You don’t know how quickly things can turn, and we have a group of promising youngsters coming through who I’ve relished working closely with in a bit of a mentoring capacity.
“I want to be part of sustained team success and help build that with this group, so we’ll hit the upcoming pre-season hard over the summer. It’s up to us as leaders to drive those standards so I’m looking forward to getting stuck in.”
Carlton coach Brendan Bolton was thrilled with Simpson’s decision to recommit to the club.
“Kade is the epitome of the player we want at the Carlton Football Club – the heart and soul of our team,” Bolton said.
“While he was clearly uncomfortable with the attention, his milestone earlier this year was incredibly special for our football club. His achievement was a reminder of his longevity and his ability to continually perform at the highest level with the professionalism he characteristically displays.
“He is a terrific role model for our group and an influential leader, and it’s so important to have that type of player with our list profile. We often joke that he’s like a fine wine and this year he has proven that again and showing no signs of slowing down. We’re thrilled Kade is continuing on.”
Brendon Bolton
Carlton Blues
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She Wrote The Patriot Act. Her Next Job Is With Facebook
Facebook announced Monday that Jennifer Newstead, a Trump appointee who served in the Department of Justice (DoJ) under President Bush, will join the social media company as General Counsel, supervising its global legal functions.
Newstead replaces Colin Stretch, who announced in 3Q18 that he will exit. Stretch will remain with Facebook through the transition phase, expected to be completed in the coming months.
"Jennifer is a seasoned leader whose global perspective and experience will help us fulfill our mission," said Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s Chief Operating Officer. "We are also truly grateful to Colin for his dedicated leadership and wise counsel over the past nine years. He has played a crucial role in some of our most important projects and has created a strong foundation for Jennifer to build upon."
Newstead brings a terrifying history of lobbying and legislating for an Orwellian style of mass electronic surveillance of Americans.
The Hill explains she was credited with writing the controversial 2001 Patriot Act, a piece of legislation that stripped Americans of their First and Fourth Amendments in the name of fighting the War on Terror.
In a 2002 statement, Assistant Attorney General Viet Dinh described Newstead's role in drafting the Patriot Act: "Her enhanced leadership duties and her excellent service on a range of issues — including helping craft the new U.S.A. Patriot Act to protect the United States against terror — have earned her this important distinction. She is first among equals."
Congress enacted the Patriot Act in the wake of September 11, 2001 attacks, the Act expanded the scope of the government’s surveillance powers to investigate terrorism, organized crime, and drug trafficking. It allowed government investigators to use roving wiretaps and the ability to collect telephone records from US carriers.
The Patriot Act also launched the national security letter (NSL), an administrative subpoena issued by the government to collect specific data without the authorization of a court or judge, citing threats to national security.
Facebook continues to process the National Security Agency (NSA) data demands, which have spiked in the last five years. The company's lawyers received more than 32,000 requests for data from law enforcement in the second 2H18, and 20,000 accounts were requested by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court over the same period.
Newstead's new position will likely spearhead Facebook's legal troubles as the company continues to fight ongoing privacy battles. Her professional history suggests - she will be more inclined to accept government requests for users' data than fight them.
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Punishments of the Sons of Corah by Sandro Botticelli
Where? On the south wall of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican Museums
When? 1481-1482
Commissioned by? Pope Sixtus IV
What do you see? The punishment of Corah (also spelled Korah), Dathan, and Abiram, because they opposed the leadership of Moses. There are three different scenes:
The scene on the right: The Levites attempt to stone Moses, who is the man on the complete right with the long beard. However, Joshua, the man with the white sleeves, holds them back. You can see that the two people to the left of Joshua are holding stones in their hands. Moses raises his right hand as a sign that God will punish those who rebel against him.
The scene in the middle: Moses, Aaron, and six of the rebellious Israelites (including the sons of Aaron) want to burn their incense dishes as a gift to God. Aaron is the man behind the altar dressed in blue and wearing the papal tiara. Two sons of Aaron are behind the altar and in between Moses and Aaron is the third son of Aaron. The three men on the left are Corah, Dathan, and Abiram. Smoke comes from the incense dish of priest Aaron and goes up to Heaven. The smoke of the rebels does rise to Heaven and rather attacks them at the command of Moses who raises his rod.
The scene on the left: Moses raises his right arm, and the earth swallows the rebellious Israelites, Corah, Dathan, and Abiram (of whom two are depicted). Above them, two people stand on a cloud, which are the two sons of Corah who are saved from the punishment.
The arch in the back is the Arch of Constantine. In the attic of this Arch, a text from Hebrews 5:4 is inscribed: “To be a high priest is an honor. But no one chooses himself for this work. That person must be chosen by God just as Aaron was.” This text directly refers to the three scenes in this painting. However, this text is not inscribed in the real Arch of Constantine.
Backstory: This painting is part of a series of frescos on the stories of Moses on the south wall of the Sistine Chapel. This series includes another fresco of Botticelli, which is Youth of Moses. The fresco on the Punishments of the Sons of Corah is based on three different stories from the Bible. The first one is the attempt to Stone Moses, described in Numbers 14:10. The Israelites were unhappy that they would have to fight against an enemy to conquer their promised land and were afraid to die in that fight. The second scene is a combination of two stories. The first story is in Leviticus 10 and describes the killing of the sons of Aaron after they do not use sacred fire to burn their incense. The second story is based on Numbers 16:7, in which Moses asks Corah, Dathan, and Abiram to burn their incense in a special pan for God. The third scene is based on Numbers 16. Corah, Dathan, and Abiram sinned against God, and God decided that they would have to die differently than normal people. The earth opened and swallowed these three men, their families, and everything they owned.
Youth of Moses by Botticelli
What is the Arch of Constantine? It is the largest triumphal arch in Rome. It was built to commemorate the victory in 312 AD of Roman Emperor Constantine I over another Roman Emperor, Maxentius, during a time in which there were multiple emperors in the Roman Empire. The arch is located next to the Colosseum. The arch is 21 meters (23 yards) high and has three entrances as you can see in this painting. Roman Emperors walked under this arch when they entered the city after a victory. The Arch of Constantine is also depicted twice in the Delivery of the Keys by Perugino which is on the north wall of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican Museums.
Delivery of the Keys by Perugino
Symbolism: This fresco illustrates the claim of power of the Catholic Church and the papacy. It shows that only priests can perform holy duties and that God will punish people if they do not obey him. It also shows that God saves the people who obey Him. The Arch of Constantine is included to symbolize the victory of Christianity over paganism. The inscription from Hebrews 5:4 shows the holiness of the Pope as he was chosen by God.
Who is Botticelli? Sandro Botticelli was born in Florence in 1445 under the name Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi. His father apprenticed Sandro to a goldsmith such that he could soon start making money for the family. As there was a close connection between goldsmiths and painters, Botticelli was able to become familiar with painting and discovered that this was his passion. He became an apprentice of Fra Filippo Lippi, one of the greatest painters of that time. Botticelli is best known for his famous paintings of The Birth of Venus and La Primavera, which are both in the Uffizi Museum.
The Birth of Venus by Botticelli
La Primavera by Botticelli
Moses by Michelangelo
Fun fact: Note that in all three scenes, Moses has light rays coming out of his head, which he got after meeting God on Mount Sinai. The rays signify the grace of God. There are ten rays of light in each beam, which is equal to the Ten Commandments that Moses received from God. In many other depictions of Moses, he has horns on top of his head, but this seems to be a mistake due to an incorrect transcription of Exodus 34:29-30. The reason is that the Hebrew word for ‘qaran’ or ‘keren’ can be translated both by ‘horn’ or ‘ray of light’ and in some of the 15th-century translations the word horn was used. For example, look at the horns on the statue of Moses by Michelangelo in the San Pietro in Vincoli church in Rome.
Temptations of Christ by Sandro Botticelli
Where? On the North wall of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican Museums
What do you see? Five different scenes.
Top left: Jesus and the Devil stand in front of a forest of oak trees. The Devil disguises himself with a beard and holds a rosary and a pilgrim’s staff in his left hand. However, we can still recognize him by the wings of a bat and the feet of a vulture. The Devil proposes to Jesus to turn stones into bread after Jesus did not eat for 40 days.
Top middle: Jesus and the Devil stand on top of the Temple. The Devil asks Jesus to jump from the top of the Temple as angels will catch him anyway.
Top right: The Devil shows Jesus all the kingdoms of the world from the top of a mountain. He promises Jesus all these kingdoms if he worships the Devil. After Jesus refused all three temptations, the Devil drops his disguise and falls from the mountain. The Angels on the top right come to help Jesus and have prepared a table with wine and bread.
Middle left: Jesus seems to explain to the three (or four) angels behind him the ritual that is going on in the fifth scene in the foreground of this painting. The Angel with the green robe holds a lily and is probably the Archangel Gabriel.
Foreground: A large group of people is gathered around an altar that stands in front of the Temple. Two people stand in front of the altar; the High Priest on the left and a young man dressed in white on the right. While it is not entirely clear what this scene represents (even Vasari did not know), it seems likely that they are engaged in a blood offering ritual. The High Priest dips a myrtle branch into a bowl filled with blood. It is not unlikely that the young man with the bowl represents Jesus, in the role of a priest, as all frescos on the North, South, and East wall of the Sistine Chapel depict Moses or Jesus in the central scene. Another explanation for this scene is that it represents a purification sacrifice for a man that was cured of leprosy.
Backstory: Matthew 4: 1-11 describes the temptations of Christ. After Jesus was baptized, he went into the desert to think about how he would present himself to the world. He started by not eating for 40 days, and after this period the Devil visited him and tried to tempt him in three ways.
Surrounding frescos: The scenes on the North wall of the Sistine Chapel illustrate the life of Christ. These scenes are ordered chronologically. When you face the North wall, the first scene is depicted on the right (immediately next to The Last Judgment by Michelangelo). It illustrates the Baptism of Christ, as described in Matthew 3, and is painted by Perugino. This scene took place right before the temptations of Christ as painted by Botticelli. The third scene illustrates the Vocation of the Apostles by Ghirlandaio. This is what Jesus does right after he resisted the temptations by the Devil and this story is described in Matthew 4.
Baptism of Christ by Perugino
Vocation of the Apostles by Ghirlandaio
Symbolism: The scene on the top left takes place in front of a forest with oak trees, which were the symbol of the Della Rovere family to which Pope Sixtus IV belonged. The top window in the Temple refers to the Virgin Mary, who, according to contemporary beliefs, would save people from being seduced by the Devil. The table with wine and bread on the top right refers to the Last Supper of Jesus.
Who is Botticelli? Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi (1445-1510), better known as Sandro Botticelli, was born in Florence. He painted mainly religious subjects, but also some portraits and mythological subjects. Some of his best-known works include The Birth of Venus and La Primavera, which are both in the Uffizi Museum. In 1481, Pope Sixtus IV asked Botticelli to come to Rome to create some frescos for the Sistine Chapel. Over the next two years, Botticelli painted three frescos in the Sistine Chapel among which the current one, Punishments of the Sons of Corah, and Youth of Moses.
Fun fact: This fresco by Botticelli closely follows the Biblical story as described in the Gospel of Matthew. However, Botticelli made some changes to the story to please the commissioner. For example, the scene on the top left takes place in the desert according to the Bible. Botticelli, however, depicted the first temptation of Christ in front of a forest with oak trees, as the oak tree was the symbol of the Della Rovere family to which Pope Sixtus IV belonged. Another clear deviation from the Biblical story is the depiction of the Temple. The large building in the middle of this painting is probably a copy of the old St Peter’s Basilica. It serves both as the backdrop to the scene in the middle foreground, where it is supposed to represent the Church, and the scene on the top middle, where it should represent the Temple.
Other fun facts: Don’t forget to notice the young boy in the right foreground. He has a bunch of grapes in his hand and tries to keep it away from the small snake that is behind him. Also, to the left of the altar is a woman with a basket with two cocks or hens on top of her head, which are to be sacrificed.
Interested in a copy for yourself? Poster or canvas.
Youth of Moses by Sandro Botticelli
What do you see? Seven scenes from the early life of Moses. In each scene, Moses is dressed in a yellow dress, and in five of them, he also wears a green cloak on top of it. The scenes illustrate the phases of Moses’ early life and how he became ready to become the leader of the Israelites. On the bottom right, Moses is killing an Egyptian man with his sword as the Egyptian was beating a young Israelite. To the right of this scene, you can see that a woman in blue comforts the young Israelite while leading him away. On the middle right, Moses flees Egypt as the Pharaoh wanted to kill him. To the left of this scene, Moses is driving away two men, dressed in red and orange, who were preventing the daughters of Reuel to get water for their sheep. In the scene below that one, he helps the girls to get water for their sheep. Moses is getting the water from the water well and pours it into a trough. On the top middle, Moses takes off his sandals as God is telling him that he is standing on holy ground. To the left of this scene, on the top right, Moses is speaking to God who is standing in a burning bush. On the bottom left, Moses is standing in front of the Israelites to lead them out of Egypt to their promised land.
Backstory: This fresco is also known as The Trials of Moses. It is part of a series of frescos on the south wall of the Sistine Chapel in which the life of Moses in depicted. The stories on this wall have many aspects that are related to the stories on the North Wall which depicts the life of Jesus. Specifically, the fresco of the Youth of Moses has various links with the fresco of the Temptations of Christ which is also painted by Botticelli. The idea behind linking the life of Moses to the life of Jesus was to show the continuity between the Old and New Testament.
Temptations of Christ by Botticelli
The Biblical story: This fresco is based on the biblical stories as told in the book of Exodus. In Exodus 2:12, Moses kills an Egyptian man who was beating a Hebrew man. In Exodus 2:15, Moses decides to flee to Midian as the Pharaoh planned to kill him for his deed. In Exodus 2:16, Moses chases the men that were preventing the daughters of Reuel (also known as Jethro) to get water for their sheep and he helped them to give water to their sheep. In Exodus 3:5, God asks Moses to take off his sandals. In Exodus 3, Moses sees God in a burning bush, and God speaks to him and tells him that he should lead the Israelites out of Egypt. In Exodus 13:17, Moses leads the Israelites out of Egypt.
Symbolism: This painting contains many symbols of which some are discussed below. In the scene where Moses flees from Egypt to Midian, you can see a tall tree without any leaves in front of him. This tree signifies the Tree of Knowledge to indicate that Moses will transform himself into a better person when he moves to Midian. In the scene where Moses helps the daughters of Reuel to provide water to their sheep, the woman on the left is Zipporah who Moses will marry later. She has a myrtle leave in her hair which symbolizes the conversion of a non-Jewish person to Christian faith. She also holds a spindle in her right hand (a device to spin wool into a thread), which is a reminder of the Virgin Mary. The water that Moses pours into the trough is a symbol of Baptism and the sheep symbolize the Church. In the scene on the top left, Moses has suddenly a golden rod in his hand which he received from God to lead the Israelites.
Who is Botticelli? Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, better known as Sandro Botticelli, was born around 1445 in Florence where he also died in 1510. He spent most of his life in Florence, except between 1481 and 1482 when he painted three frescos in Rome, and an earlier period in which he spent some months in Pisa. He was an apprentice of Fra Filippo Lippi who taught him how to draw, paint, and how to create frescos. He completed various frescos during his life, but several of his Florentine frescos have been lost over time. He is probably most known for his paintings, including The Birth of Venus and La Primavera, which are both in the Uffizi Museum.
Fun fact: In the scene where Moses helps the daughters of Reuel, only two daughters are present, while the Bible mentions that there are seven daughters. The left of the two daughters is Zipporah, who Moses will marry later on. The fresco to the right of this one by Botticelli is made by Perugino and depicts Moses leaving from Midian to Egypt. In the scene on the right of this fresco, Moses is asked to circumcise his son Eliezer, who he got with his wife, Zipporah. So, while the frescos on this wall should be chronologically over time from right to left, occasionally the chronology is incorrect.
Moses Leaving for Egypt by Perugino
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Mystic Nativity by Sandro Botticelli
Mystic Crucifixion by Botticelli
Where? Room 57 of the National Gallery
When? 1500
Commissioned by? Botticelli probably made this picture for himself
What do you see? In the center of this painting, you can see a naked baby Jesus. His mother, the Virgin Mary is depicted to his right and is much larger than the other figures. His father Saint Joseph is on his left. Behind Jesus are a horse and an ox. Together they are staying in a stable. On top of the stable are three angels. One is reading a book, and the other two are holding an olive branch. To the left of Joseph is an angel in pink, holding an olive branch with a scroll attached to it, while reaching out to Joseph to introduce the three wise men. On the right of Mary is another angel with three shepherds who want to pay their respects to Jesus. In the foreground are three pairs consisting of one angel and one man embracing each other. Each pair holds an olive branch in their hand with a scroll attached to it. They are surrounded by several little imps or devils who are killing themselves with their spears. On top of the painting is a choir of 12 angels holding hands. The angels are doing a mystic ring dance. They are also holding an olive branch in their hands with a scroll attached to it and a crown hanging at the bottom of the branch. The angels are under the golden dome of heaven. Above this dome is a Greek inscription based on some parts of the Revelations of John related to the apocalypse.
Backstory: This painting is also called ‘The Mystical Nativity’, and it is the only painting that Botticelli signed. This painting combines the story of the birth of Jesus with his return to earth according to the apocalypse. The title of this painting contains the word mystic because the parts of the painting referring to the apocalypse are prophetic and express a mystery. The word mystic is occasionally used to refer to exceptional paintings with mysterious and symbolic content. Another example of such a painting is the Mystic Crucifixion by Botticelli which is in the Fogg Art Museum in Boston.
Inscription: The inscription on top of the painting contains a message in Greek. It is translated as: “I Sandro painted this picture at the end of the year 1500 in the troubles in Italy in the half time after the time according to the 11th chapter of St. John in the second woe of the Apocalypse in the loosing of the devil for three and a half years. Then he will be chained in the 12th chapter and we shall see him trodden down as in this picture.” This message of Botticelli is based on the 11th and 12th chapter of the Revelations of John. Botticelli believed that the apocalypse as described in the Bible was going to happen in 1504. Specifically, he believed that he was living in the Tribulation, a short period of time in which the world would suffer from hardship and disasters. He believed that the Millenium, a period of a thousand years during which Jesus would return to earth, would start in three and a half years. This belief of Botticelli was particularly based on the various wars going on at that time and the hanging, two years earlier, of the Florentine preacher Savonarola of whom Botticelli was a follower.
Symbolism: The imps at the bottom of the painting refer to the defeat of Satan. The small size of the imps in this painting is another indication of the defeat of the devil. On the other hand, Botticelli depicts Mary as unusually large to indicate her importance. The olive branches that are held by the angels and that grow out of the ground in the foreground are an indication of the peace that is to come after the return of Jesus to earth. The stable is placed in front of two big rocks, which are a reminder of the crucifixion and burial of Jesus in a tomb. The circle of angels on the top is a symbol of harmony. Finally, the angels are dressed in white, green, and red, which are, respectively, the symbols of faith, hope, and charity.
Who is Botticelli? Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510) was born as Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi in Florence. Most of his paintings have a religious theme, but he also painted portraits and mythological scenes. The latter theme resulted in his most famous works, such as The Birth of Venus and La Primavera, both in the Uffizi Museum. His painting of Venus and Mars, which is also in the National Gallery, is also a masterpiece. In the 1490s, Botticelli got heavily influenced by the extremist preacher Savonarola, and he even stopped painting for a while to become a full member of Savonarola’s sect. However, he picked up painting again after a while, though his productivity was lower than before (though this is not entirely certain as almost all paintings of Botticelli are undated).
Venus and Mars by Botticelli
Fun fact: The Nativity scene in this painting is the story of the birth of Jesus as described in the gospels of Matthew and Luke. Mary was still a virgin, and God promised her that she would give birth to the Christ. The accounts of Matthew and Luke differ, however, quite a bit and both have their unique components. According to Matthew, Jesus was visited by three wise men who followed a star to worship him. Luke describes that an angel announces the birth of Jesus to the shepherds and that they subsequently visit Jesus. Also, according to Luke, but not according to Matthew, the birth of Jesus happened in Bethlehem and Jesus was born in a stable. Botticelli combined elements from both gospels for this painting.
The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli
Venus de' Medici
Where? Room 10-14 of the Uffizi Museum
When? Between 1482 and 1485
Commissioned by? Lorenzo the Magnificent (1449-1492), ruler of the Florentine Republic and one of the most important driving forces of the Renaissance.
What do you see? The goddess Venus is shown naked on top of a shell on the seashore. She is born from the sea as a mature and sexual woman. Her facial expression is very peaceful and innocent. She tries to conceal herself with her hair and arm. This pose of Venus is inspired by the Greek statues made of Venus. For example, you can see the similarity to the positioning of the arms in the statue of Venus de' Medici (which is also in the Uffizi). If you look carefully, it looks like Venus is floating on the shell as the positioning of her feet and body is physically unrealistic. On the left, Zephyr, the god of the west wind, blows Venus to the shore. Meanwhile, Zephyr is carrying the nymph, Chloris. They are surrounded by flowers which are falling from the sky. On the right, Ores, goddess of the seasons, hands a flowered cloak to Venus to cover herself.
Backstory: This is one of the most famous paintings in the world. Venus is born from the sea foam (her Greek name Aphrodite means ‘arisen from foam’). According to the myths, the Greek god Cronus castrated the god Uranus and threw his genitals into the sea. Aphrodite was later born from the foam of his genitals. The theme of the painting is inspired by the poet Ovid’s Metamorphoses (Amazon link to the book), which consists of 15 books and 240 myths starting from the creation of the world until the deification of Julius Caesar. Ovid (also known as Homer) writes in his work about an adult Venus who is rising from the sea to inspire love.
Symbolism: Violets, the flowers of love, are blowing in the wind on the left. The shell represents feminism. The dress of Ores and the robe she is holding for Venus are decorated with various spring flowers related to the birth theme, including red and white daisies, blue cornflowers, and yellow primroses.
Who is Venus? Venus is the Roman goddess of love, beauty, sex, fertility, prosperity, and desire. According to the myths, she was born from the foam of the sea. Venus is known in Greek mythology as Aphrodite. In Latin, Venus means ‘sexual desire’. She is the mother of Aeneas who survived the fall of Troy and fled to Italy. As such, Venus was considered the mother of the Romans and therefore a very popular goddess among the Romans. Perhaps because of this, Julius Caesar claimed to be an ancestor of Venus.
Why Venus? Whereas Mary was the ideal woman to paint from a Christian point of view, Venus represents the moral dangers and shame of the human body. Christianity taught the people to be ashamed of the nude human body. Botticelli was trying to blend the Christian worldview and the arising humanist worldview. From that background, you can understand why Venus is still partly covering her nakedness with her hair (the Venus of Urbino painted in 1538 by Titian will show you a much more explicit depiction of Venus). This is a transition from religious art to Renaissance art. In some sense, Venus represents the opposite of Mary.
Venus of Urbino by Titian
Who is Botticelli? Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510) was a painter that belonged to the Florentine school of painters. Botticelli was in love with Simonetta Vespucci (a cousin-in-law of the explorer Amerigo Vespucci), who was already married to Marco Vespucci. Simonetta was known as the greatest beauty of her time and died in 1476. As a result of that Botticelli never married. Throughout his life, he has been inspired by Simonetta, who has served, according to popular belief, as the inspiration for many of his paintings (including this painting). According to his wish, Botticelli was buried at the feet of Simonetta Vespucci.
Fun fact: Many people have noted the ‘cadaverous’ color of Venus, which is not considered very attractive. This was not some macabre fantasy of Botticelli, but merely a consequence of the deterioration of the pigment over time.
Interested in a copy for yourself? Poster and canvas.
La Primavera by Sandro Botticelli
Commissioned by? Lorenzo de’ Medici as a wedding gift to his cousin Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de’ Medici
What do you see? This painting is full of allegories (hidden meanings), which leads to much debate on how to interpret the painting. In the meadow, you can see hundreds of different flowers. The blue figure on the right is Zephyr, the god of the west wind. Zephyr is chasing the nymph Chloris, who is associated with flowers and spring. Zephyr’s breath turns Chloris into the woman with the dress decorated with flowers (who is thought to be the goddess of Spring, called Flora). The central figure in the middle is Venus. To the left of Venus, the three Graces (Charites in Greek) are dancing. The Graces are minor deities in Greek mythology. To the left of the Graces is Mercury (Hermes in Greek), the messenger of the Greek gods, who is scattering the clouds with his staff. Some people say that Mercury may be modeled after Lorenzo de’ Medici who commissioned this painting. On top on Venus is Cupid (her son) aiming his flaming arrow at one of the Graces.
Backstory: The painting only got his name, La Primavera in 1550 when Giorgio Vasari saw the painting. This painting is also known as the Allegory of Spring ('primavera' is Italian for 'spring'). While many interpretations have been given to the painting, a popular interpretation is that the painting is inspired by a story from the poet Ovid. In his book Fasti (Amazon link to the book), the nymph Chloris is naked and attracts the first wind of the spring, which is represented by Zephyr. When Zephyr captures her, flowers sprang from her mouth and she turns into the goddess Flora.
Symbolism: Venus represents the goodwill (humanitas) and divides the spiritual values on the left from the material values on the right (the earthly desires shown by Zephyr). Notice that Cupid is blindfolded while aiming his arrow on one of the Graces. This is a reference to the saying that love is blind. In the background of the picture, you can see orange trees, which are a symbol of the Medici family. Venus stands in front of a myrtle bush (the dark leaves behind her), which is a sacred plant for her as it was the first plant she used to cover herself when she arose naked from the sea. The Graces on the left and the right are wearing expensive jewelry in the colors of the Medici family. Some people believe that each of the flowers symbolizes a unique message. At least for some of the flowers the message is clear. For example, the strawberries in the crown of Flora represent seduction and the roses in her hand symbolize love. Finally, the city of Florence is named after the goddess Flora (which is Latin for ‘flower’).
Who is Venus? Venus is the Roman goddess of love, beauty, sex, fertility, prosperity, and desire. Venus is also known in the Greek mythology as Aphrodite. Venus and Mars are the parents of Cupid. In art, Cupid is often depicted together with his mother, Venus.
Why Venus? Nudity was the natural state of Venus, which provided a good excuse to include nudity in an artwork. This was an important reason for her popularity in Renaissance art. Whereas in this painting Venus is still dressed, this will quickly change. A few years later Botticelli painted The Birth of Venus in which she is already largely naked.
Who is Botticelli? Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510) was a painter who belonged to the Florentine school of painters. The name Botticelli means “little barrel”. He got this name because people described his brother as “fat like a barrel”. Botticelli was initially trained by his brother to become a goldsmith, but at the age of 14, he became an apprentice to the successful painter Filippo Lippi (1406-1469), known from the painting Madonna and Child with Two Angels. Later in his life, Botticelli became a mentor to both Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo.
Madonna and Child with Two Angels by Filippo Lippi
Fun fact: The painting contains over 500 individual flowers and between 170 and 200 different varieties. Most of these flowers were growing in the spring around Florence. Botanical experts are already inspired for centuries by these flowers. They have been able to identify about 130 flowers, including daisies, forget-me-nots, jasmine, lilies, and violets. For the remaining flowers, there is quite some debate on whether these are fantasy flowers created by Botticelli or real flowers that existed in 15th century Florence but are now extinct.
Written by Eelco Kappe
Commissioned by? Unknown
What do you see? On the left, you see the goddess Venus who is carefully watching the god Mars on the right, who is asleep. Venus and Mars are having an adulterous affair. Uncharacteristically, Mars is unarmed, and he lies on a red cloak. You can also see four fauns. Fauns are mythological figures who are half human and half goat, have small horns and tails, and they are followers of Bacchus. The fauns are blowing a Triton’s shell (a hunting horn in ancient times) like a trumpet in the ear of Mars to show that after making love even this very loud sound will not wake him up. They are also jokingly playing with the weapon of Mars (a lance), his body armor (to be precise, a cuirass; see the faun on the bottom right) and his helmet (the faun on the left). Venus is wearing a beautiful dress. On the top right you can see a swarm of wasps. Also, if you look carefully, you can see the city of Florence in the distance.
Backstory: This painting is both inspired by Greek mythology and a description of the Greek writer Lucian of Samosata (125-180) of a lost painting on Alexander the Great and his wife, Roxana. According to the mythological stories, Venus is still married to the blacksmith Vulcan (the god of fire) when she is having an affair with Mars. Whenever Venus was having an affair, Vulcan would get so angry that he treated the metal with such force that it created a volcanic eruption. Based on the dimensions of the painting (27 x 69 inches – 69 x 174cm), this painting was likely meant to be a decoration for the backboard of a bed or a storage box. The National Gallery acquired the painting around 1874 for £1,050.
Symbolism: The overall message of this painting is that love trumps war. Venus (the goddess of love) is awake, while her lover Mars (the god of war) is asleep. On the top right, you can see a swarm of wasps, which represent the stings of love. They may also refer to the Vespucci family (vespa is Italian for wasp). Simonetta Vespucci was a beautiful woman who most likely served as the model for this painting, and she was the inspiration for many of Botticelli’s paintings. The myrtle trees behind Venus are one of the main symbols of Venus as myrtles are known as a potent aphrodisiac.
Who are Venus and Mars? Venus is the Roman goddess of love, beauty, sex, fertility, prosperity, and desire. Venus is also known in the Greek mythology as Aphrodite. In Latin the noun Venus means ‘sexual desire’. Julius Caesar claimed to be an ancestor of Venus. Mars, the god of war, is one of the lovers of Venus. Mars is also an agricultural guardian. The Greek counterpart of Mars is Ares. The third month of the year, March, is named after him. In many mythological stories, Cupid is portrayed as the son of Venus and Mars.
Who is Botticelli? Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510) was a painter who belonged to the Florentine school of painters. Botticelli was initially trained by his brother to become a goldsmith, but at the age of 14, he became an apprentice to the successful painter Filippo Lippi (1406-1469), known from the painting Madonna and Child with Two Angels. Greek mythological stories often inspired Botticelli’s work, and he used Venus more often as a topic for his work. For example, Venus was also the center of attention in his famous paintings the Birth of Venus and La Primavera. Botticelli was in love with Simonetta Vespucci (a cousin-in-law of the explorer Amerigo Vespucci), who was already married to someone else. Simonetta was known as the greatest beauty of her time and died in 1476. As a result, Botticelli never married. Throughout his life, he has been inspired by Simonetta, who has served, according to popular belief, as the inspiration for many of his paintings (including the current one). According to his wish, Botticelli was buried at the feet of Simonetta Vespucci.
Detail of the faun
Fun fact: Some people believe that this painting is not simply an allegory based on a Greek mythological story. They believe that Venus and Mars are experiencing the effects of a hallucinogenic drug. The faun at the bottom right is supposedly holding a fruit from a plant called poor man’s acid or Devil’s snare. This plant is very powerful, can cause hallucinations, and can get you into delirium. The effects are bizarre behavior, such as taking off your clothes (because it makes you feel hot). This explanation is not that implausible as drugs and hallucinogenic plants were not uncommon during the Renaissance. However, others say that this is not possible as this fruit did not grow in Italy around that time.
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Contraception compromise acceptable if it ends legal challenges, administration says
The Supreme Court, seemingly split in a case involving contraception coverage, issued an unusual order asking both sides to review a possible compromise. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)
By Robert Barnes
Reporter covering the U.S. Supreme Court
The Obama administration said a compromise floated by the Supreme Court to resolve objections from religious organizations to providing their employees with contraceptives would work only if it was clear that the women would receive the coverage through other means, and if it ended the controversy.
Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli Jr. told the court that requiring a modification to the accommodation already offered to the religiously affiliated colleges, charities and hospitals was unnecessary.
[Split Supreme Court floats compromise in contraceptive case]
He said a modification would be acceptable only if the court ruled that it would satisfy the Religious Freedom Restoration Act and if it halted lawsuits from groups that say providing contraceptive coverage would make them complicit in sin.
Anything less, he wrote, “would lead to years of additional litigation, during which tens of thousands of women would likely continue to be denied the coverage to which they are legally entitled.”
In their brief to the court, lawyers for the groups said they were amenable to a compromise if it truly left the groups out of the process — even having to sign documents that said they objected.
“There are many ways in which the employees . . . could receive cost-free contraceptive coverage through the same insurance company that would not require further involvement by the petitioner, including the way described in the court’s order,” lawyers Paul D. Clement and Noel Francisco wrote.
“And each one of those ways is a less restrictive alternative that dooms the government’s ongoing effort to use the threat of massive penalties to compel petitioners to forsake their sincerely held religious beliefs.”
Clement and Francisco represent, respectively, the Little Sisters of the Poor, a charity run by Catholic nuns, and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh, two of the challengers.
[Supreme Court seems divided over challenge to contraceptive mandate]
At oral arguments in the case on March 23, the court’s four liberal justices seemed to agree that the Obama administration had offered an acceptable compromise for religiously affiliated organizations that want to be freed from the obligation to supply their female employees with no-cost contraceptive coverage.
The accommodation requires the groups to tell the government they object, then allows the government to work with the groups’ insurers to provide the coverage without the organizations’ involvement or financial support.
But Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, who could provide the fifth vote to uphold such a plan, seemed to agree with the conservative justices that the government would be “hijacking” the groups’ insurance plans to provide the coverage, even if the groups were not paying for it.
Less than a week later, the justices issued an unusual order asking both the government and the groups to provide their reactions to a proposed compromise: Employees could receive contraceptive coverage through their employers’ plans, “but in a way that does not require any involvement” from the employers beyond their decision to provide health insurance.
The difference between that and what the government had already offered, Verrilli said in his new brief, seemed to be only that the groups did not have to certify in writing that they objected to providing the coverage.
But “a requirement that an employer state in writing its religious objection and eligibility for an exemption is a minimally intrusive process, and petitioners have never suggested an alternative arrangement like the one posited in the court’s order,” Verrilli wrote.
The court faces some urgency in trying to find a solution. Eight of the nation’s regional appeals courts have upheld the mandate and the Obama administration’s accommodation, while one has struck them down. Simply reaffirming those decisions would mean that the national health-care law would be enforced differently depending on the location of an organization and its employees.
The court went into unusual specificity in asking the parties to address how that could happen, and it outlined a scenario.
It said an organization could contract to provide health insurance for its employees but inform the insurance company that it did not want the plan to include contraceptive coverage that it found objectionable.
Then the insurer could separately notify employees “that the insurance company will provide cost-free contraceptive coverage, and that such coverage is not paid for by petitioners and is not provided through petitioners’ health plan.”
Under such a plan, the court’s order said, an organization would have no involvement beyond contracting with an insurance provider.
“Petitioners would have no legal obligation to provide such contraceptive coverage, would not pay for such coverage and would not be required to submit any separate notice to their insurer, to the federal government or to their employees,” the order said.
“At the same time, petitioners’ insurance company — aware that petitioners are not providing certain contraceptive coverage on religious grounds — would separately notify petitioners’ employees that the insurance company will provide cost-free contraceptive coverage, and that such coverage is not paid for by petitioners and is not provided through petitioners’ health plan.”
The groups in their response said that to be truly independent, they would essentially “not be complying with that mandate at all. They would be exempt from that mandate, and the commercial insurer would be complying with a separate mandate imposed by the federal government.”
Both sides said an additional compromise would be needed for those organizations that self-insure or contract with a church plan that does not provide contraceptives.
Each side is required to file a brief reacting to the other by April 20. The court will rule before its term ends in June.
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Law is the least diverse profession in the nation. And lawyers aren’t doing enough to change that.
Lawyers are leading the push for equality. But they need to focus on their own profession.
By Deborah L. Rhode
Loretta Lynch, the new U.S. attorney general, testifies before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee. (Gary Cameron/Reuters)
From the outside, the legal profession seems to be growing ever more diverse. Three women are now on the Supreme Court. Loretta Lynch is the second African American to hold the position of attorney general. The president and first lady are lawyers of color. Yet according to Bureau of Labor statistics, law is one of the least racially diverse professions in the nation. Eighty-eight percent of lawyers are white. Other careers do better — 81 percent of architects and engineers are white; 78 percent of accountants are white; and 72 percent of physicians and surgeons are white.
The legal profession supplies presidents, governors, lawmakers, judges, prosecutors, general counsels, and heads of corporate, government, nonprofit and legal organizations. Its membership needs to be as inclusive as the populations it serves.
Part of the problem is a lack of consensus that there is a significant problem. Many lawyers believe that barriers have come down, women and minorities have moved up, and any lingering inequality is a function of different capabilities, commitment and choices.
The facts suggest otherwise.
Women constitute more than a third of the profession, but only about a fifth of law firm partners, general counsels of Fortune 500 corporations and law school deans. The situation is bleakest at the highest levels. Women account for only 17 percent of equity partners, and only seven of the nation’s 100 largest firms have a woman as chairman or managing partner. Women are less likely to make partner even controlling for other factors, including law school grades and time spent out of the workforce or on part-time schedules. Studies find that men are two to five times more likely to make partner than women.
Although blacks, Latinos, Asian Americans and Native Americans now constitute about a third of the population and a fifth of law school graduates, they make up fewer than 7 percent of law firm partners and 9 percent of general counsels of large corporations. In major law firms, only 3 percent of associates and less than 2 percent of partners are African Americans.
The problem is not lack of concern. I recently surveyed managing partners of the 100 largest law firms and general counsel of Fortune 100 companies. Virtually all of the 53 participants in the study said diversity was a high priority. But they attributed the under-representation of minorities to the lack of candidates in the pool. And they explained the “woman problem” by citing women’s different choices and disproportionate family responsibilities in the context of a 24/7 workplace. As one managing partner put it, “You have to be realistic. It’s a demanding profession. . . . I don’t claim we’ve figure it out.”
Such explanations capture only a partial truth. Minorities’ under-representation in law school does not explain their disproportionate attrition in law firms. And even women who work long hours and never take time out of the labor force have a lower chance of partnership than similarly situated men. Moreover, although data on women’s desires for partnership is lacking, what the research on women’s leadership preferences generally does not show is substantial gender disparities. In law, women experience greater dissatisfaction than men with key dimensions of practice such as level of responsibility, recognition for work and chances for advancement.
Moreover, substantial evidence suggests that unconscious bias and exclusion from informal networks of support and client development remain common. Minorities still lack the presumption of competence granted to white male counterparts, as illustrated in a recent study by a consulting firm. It gave a legal memo to law firm partners for “writing analysis” and told half the partners that the author was African American. The other half were told that that the writer was white. The partners gave the white man’s memo a rating of 4.1 on a scale of 5, while the African American’s memo got a 3.2. The white man received praise for his potential and analytical skills; the African American was said to be average at best and in need of “lots of work.”
Women are subject to a double standard and a double bind. A cottage industry of research suggests that what is assertive in a man seems abrasive in a woman, and female leaders risk seeming too feminine or not feminine enough. They may appear too “soft” or too “strident – either unable to make tough decisions or too pushy and arrogant to command respect. Mothers, even those working full-time, are assumed to be less available and committed, an assumption not made about fathers.
So, too, women and minorities are often left out of the networks of mentoring and sponsorship that are critical to career development. In American Bar Association research, 62 percent of women of color and 60 percent of white women, but only 4 percent of white men, felt excluded from formal and informal networking opportunities. Such networking is often crucial to building client and collegial relationships that are essential to advancement.
To address these issues, legal organizations need a stronger commitment to equal opportunity, which is reflected in policies, priorities and reward structures. Leaders must not simply acknowledge the importance of diversity, but also hold individuals accountable for the results. The most successful approaches generally involve task forces or committees with diverse members who have credibility with their colleagues and a stake in the outcome. The mission of those groups should be to identify problems, develop responses and monitor their effectiveness. Mentoring programs and training in unconscious bias are equally important.
As an ABA Presidential Commission on Diversity recognized, assessment should be a critical part of all diversity initiatives. Leaders need to know how policies that affect inclusiveness play out in practice. That requires collecting both quantitative and qualitative data on matters such as advancement, retention, assignments, satisfaction, mentoring and work/family conflicts. For example, although more than 90 percent of American law firms report policies permitting part-time work, only about 6 percent of lawyers actually use them. Many women believe, with good reason, that any reduction in hours or availability will jeopardize their careers. Those who take reduced schedules often find that their hours creep up, the quality of their assignments goes down, and they are stigmatized as “slackers.” That needs to change
Although bar leaders generally acknowledge the problem of work/life balance, they often place responsibility for addressing it anywhere and everywhere else. Clients get much of the blame. Law is a service business, and expectations of instant accessibility reportedly make reduced schedules difficult to accommodate. Yet the problems are not insurmountable. The evidence available does not indicate substantial resistance among clients to reduced schedules. They care about responsiveness, and part-time lawyers generally appear able to provide it. In one recent survey of part-time partners, most reported that they did not even inform clients of their status and that they adapted their schedules to fit client concerns.
Most important, lawyers need to assume personal responsibility for professional changes. They can support workplace initiatives and expanded efforts to increase the pool of qualified minorities through scholarships and mentoring. To make all these reforms possible, they must not be seen as “women” or “minority” issues, but as organizational priorities in which everyone has a stake. The challenge is to create that sense of unity and to translate rhetorical commitments into daily practices.
Deborah L. Rhode Deborah L. Rhode is the Ernest W. McFarland Professor of Law, the director of the Center on the Legal Profession, and the director of the Program in Law and Social Entrepreneurship at Stanford University. Her new book, The Trouble with Lawyers, will be released in June 2015 from Oxford University Press.
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Scrap metal dealer’s flea-market find turns out to be missing Faberge egg
By Gregory Katz
LONDON — There is good luck, outrageous good fortune — and now there is the case of the scrap metal dealer who found one of the eight missing Faberge imperial eggs at a flea market in the U.S. Midwest.
A London antiques dealer said Wednesday that the man bought the egg for about $14,000, thinking he could make a small profit by reselling the piece for its gold content. It turned out the jewel-encrusted piece was worth millions.
Kieran McCarthy of Wartski, a London firm that specializes in Russian artifacts, said the scrap metal dealer began to suspect he was holding a rare piece after seeing an article online about an imperial Faberge Easter egg made for Russian royalty. The dealer contacted McCarthy, who verified the egg as genuine and negotiated its sale to a collector.
“The second I saw it, my spine was shivering,” said McCarthy, calling the piece a “Holy Grail” for collectors.
Both buyer and seller want to remain anonymous, and McCarthy did not disclose the sale price — but experts note that a non-imperial Faberge egg sold at Christie’s for $18.5 million in 2007.
Independent Faberge expert Geza von Habsburg said the egg is “absolutely genuine” and matches the one-line description found in records kept by Russia’s Imperial Cabinet.
The egg, which contains a Vacheron Constantin watch, sits on a jeweled gold stand and was given by Alexander III to his wife Empress Maria Feodorovna at Easter in 1887.
Only 50 of the imperial eggs were made for the royal family, and eight remained missing before the latest find, although only three of those are known to have survived the Russian Revolution.
“I think it’s pretty exciting,” said Tatiana Zherebkina, spokeswoman for Faberge. “The experts seem to agree it’s authentic and of imperial provenance — one of the eight missing eggs.”
It will be on display at Wartski’s London showroom April 14-17, the first time it will have been seen in public for 112 years.
— Associated Press
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Clinton techie Bryan Pagliano knew server was 'susceptible' to hacking
Bryan Pagliano, a former State Department employee who helped set up and maintain a private email server used by Hillary Clinton, has asserted his constitutional right not to testify before any congressional committees. (Associated Press) more >
By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times - Tuesday, November 1, 2016
Hackers appeared to try at least two different styles of attack on Hillary Clinton’s secret email server in November 2010, her top techies said in emails obtained by Judicial Watch, which released them Tuesday.
Bryan Pagliano, the Clinton staffer who has refused to speak to Congress, citing his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, said the secret server was hit with a denial of service attack, which attempts to be disruptive, and an injection attack, which attempts to gain control of operations.
The server detected 10 failed logon attempts on Nov. 27 and Nov. 29. At least some of those were attempting to use credentials for Huma Abedin and Doug Band, both friends and associates of the Clinton family who had accounts on the server. Mr. Pagliano said it may have been the two themselves, muffing their login attempts.
But he said there had been actual attacks, too.
“Might have been an injection attack launched from their servers prior to this denial of service attack,” Mr. Pagliano said, adding that the way the server was set up to handle Blackberry email traffic, “we’d be susceptible to such an attack.”
The FBI, which investigated Mrs. Clinton’s mishandling of classified information, said it discovered hack attempts, but said it could not say one way or the other if any attempts were successful. Mrs. Clinton’s server was too outdated, and the capabilities of potential foreign hackers too good, to be able to trace them afterward, FBI Director James Comey told Congress this summer.
Judicial Watch said another red flag from the messages, provided by the State Department to the group last week, was the redaction of one email recipient. The State Department said the U.S. Secret Service had been consulted about the redaction.
“We now know that yet another government agency, the United States Secret Service, not only knew about the Clinton email system but that it was the target of hacking,” said Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch. “The Clinton email scandal has now widened to yet another Obama administration agency.”
The newly released messages were among some 15,000 emails Mrs. Clinton didn’t turn over to the State Department but which the FBI recovered during its investigation.
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Abundance in Earth's crust (by weight)
These data reflect the average composition of continental crustal rocks. Units are parts per billion by weight.
Data given in different sources vary quite widely, reflecting the difficulty in assessing these numbers. Values given here are estimates of the average composition of continental crust and are derived by a consensus and averaging process for data abstracted from references 1-8. Values for the more rare elements are probably accurate to within an order of magnitude. Values in any particular location may be very different from those given here.
Image showing periodicity of abundance in Earth's crust (by weight) for 4s and 4p chemical elements.
ppb by weight
The units used in WebElements for all abundance data are ppb by weight which means parts per billion by weight, that is mg tonne-3 or mg per 1000 kg. All abundance data are also presented as ppb by atoms, which means atoms of the element per billion atoms.
The reason for rescaling all data is as follows. It is common to see, say, solar abundances expressed as the number of atoms of the element relative to a scale upon which the abundance of hydrogen is defined as 1012. This makes comparison with, say, crustal abundances difficult, since crustal abundances are often expressed in terms of parts per million by weight. Hence a common scale is used throughout and I chose ppb as this gives manageable numbers for most elements.
For access to other abundance data as ppb by weight, select from:
carbonaceous meteorites
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For access to other abundance data as ppb by atoms, select from:
I.S. Butler and J.F. Harrod in Inorganic Chemistry, Principles and Applications, Benjamin Cummings, California, USA, 1989.
G.W.C. Kaye and T.H. Laby in Tables of physical and chemical constants, Longman, London, UK, 15th edition, 1993.
P.A. Cox in The Elements : Their Origin, Abundance, and Distribution, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 1989.
McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, 7th ed., 1992, McGraw-Hill, New York, USA.
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Centre Court at Wimbledon.
Wimbledon 2016: Women’s Roundup
By James Moseley on July 11, 2016 Sport
In a tournament that was dominated by Serena William’s return to winning ways and in doing so reaching that elusive 22nd grand slam there was still room for plenty action throughout the two weeks of play at Wimbledon.
The biggest story of the two weeks will surely be Serena Williams defending her Wimbledon crown after missing out on the Calendar Grand Slam in the USA and then falling short in France and Australia. And she did it in style, only dropping one set the entire championships to fellow American, McHale, in the second round.
Champion. Again.
Serena Williams joins Steffi Graf on 22 Grand Slam titles after clinching a 7th #Wimbledon crown pic.twitter.com/jSa3cVY54X
— Wimbledon (@Wimbledon) July 9, 2016
The title wasn’t a guaranteed thing though. She had to overcome 4th seed, Angelic Kerber, who had found some impressive form coming into 2016. Just earlier that year, in Australia, Kerber and Williams met in the final and this time Kerber came out on top, winning her first grand slam title. However, this time around the roles would be reversed as Williams looked comfortable playing on arguably the greatest stage of them all, winning the match in straight sets 7-5, 6-3. It wasn’t a walkover, Kerber made a good fight over ever point but she never looked like breaking William’s serve at any point in the match.
The victory gave Williams her 22nd grand slam title, equal with tennis legend Steffi Graf and only 2 behind the most decorated tennis player of all time, Margret Court. One can only feel that Williams will be holding that title very soon.
When asked about whether she considers herself “one of the greatest female athletes of all time” she responded with:
“I prefer the words ‘one of the greatest athletes of all time.” – Serena Williams
And rightly so.
Hours after winning the Women’s title, Serena then joined her sister, Venus, on centre court and claimed the Women’s Doubles title once again in straight sets. A just reward for Venus’ efforts to return to full fitness following a tough career of illness and injury. She will also be very happy with her return to the semi-finals, the first time in seven years.
Murray’s success in the men’s couldn’t be replicated by the British women this year but there are still a number of positives to take from the womens performances’. Johanna Konta, the new British number 1, was the first British women to be seeded in 30 years being seeded 16th. She won her first match at Wimbledon in straight sets against Monica Puig but then lost in the second round to 2014 finalist, Eugenie Bouchard.
Heather Watson, the former British number 1, was knocked out in the first round of the Women’s division but had great success in the mixed division with tennis partner, Henri Kontinen. They advanced to the finals and then went on to win 7-6(7-5), 6-4. This would be the first ever mixed title for Watson and she becomes the first Brit to manage such a feat since 2007.
Heather Watson & Henri Kontinen are the Mixed Doubles Champions after beating Robert Farah & Anna-Lena Groenefeld pic.twitter.com/MmsggYnhlT
— Wimbledon (@Wimbledon) July 10, 2016
Overall the tournament was a thrilling one to watch, even with the British weather trying its best to disrupt proceedings. I once again found myself wishing that women play five set matches to give us more tennis to watch but that is a discussion for another today. At the moment it’s time to reflect on a great two week of tennis and to revel in the making of history by truly one of the greatest athletes of all time.
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Statement from the Press Secretary on the Senate Passing H.R. 1865
Issued on: March 21, 2018
President Donald J. Trump applauds the Senate for passing H.R. 1865, the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act. This bipartisan piece of legislation takes an important step forward in fighting the despicable act of human trafficking. The legislation empowers Federal, State, and local prosecutors to hold websites accountable for supporting the sale of sex trafficking victims. Over the last year, the President and his Administration have worked closely with Members of Congress, industry experts, and human trafficking survivors to develop a comprehensive series of bold actions, including this legislation, to end modern slavery in all of its forms. The President and his entire Administration are firmly committed to holding those who participate in these horrific crimes accountable, and look forward to continued work with these stakeholders in order to put an end to this scourge.
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The History of Music Festivals – Where Did it all Begin?
Tuesday, 28 August 2018 | Kate
The chalky South Downs, which parallel the East and West Sussex coastline for 80 miles, are studded with ancient monuments. One of the finest and least-known, Whitehawk Hill just east of Brighton, is a series of earthen rings 121 metres above sea level known as Whitehawk Camp, a 5500 year old Neolithic causewayed camp that's older than Stonehenge.
Ancient people didn't live there, or hide from their enemies there. It wasn't a fort. It was a place for community gatherings, feasting and burial, just one of many such places where people met to socialise, make music, drink, dance, and fall in love. If that sounds a lot like a festival, perhaps it was. We don't know. But we do know that humans have always gathered together to party, since time immemorial.
We're at a festival this weekend, selling our beautiful, unusual clothing to festival-lovers from all over the UK and beyond. And it made us think. While many people believe the first ever music festival was the infamous Woodstock, in 1969, when half a million hippies took over a dairy farm in Bethel, New York, musical gatherings probably have a much older and more interesting heritage. We went looking for clues, and this is what we found out.
Music festivals through the ages – The Greeks and Scots knew how to party!
In 2017 there were more than 500 music festivals held across the UK. In 2016 alone, live music fans spent an awesome £4 billion on gigs, concerts and festivals. But it's nothing new. Music festivals were almost as common in the ancient world as they are today, and Ancient Greece in the 6th century BC was one of the earliest examples we can pin down. The Pythian Games, forerunners of the Olympics, took place in Delphi, held in honour of the god of music, Apollo. They held music competitions called mousikos agon along with athletics, feats of strength, dance and art.
Roll time forwards to the 10th century BC and the Greeks were still at it, celebrating a three day spring festival dedicated to the vine flower, which kicked off with a silent drinking contest before the music and dancing kicked off.
In the eleventh century the Scottish Mods festivals took place, celebrating Scottish Gaelic song, arts and culture. In the 1700s the Three Choirs Festival attracted Rossini, Mozart, and Beethoven fans to hear the music of their heroes played in cathedrals across England.
Germany's Richard Wagner sets up his own festival
Wagner sets up his own festival in Germany
In 1876 Germany’s Bayreuth Festival was staged for the first time, an event founded by the composer Richard Wagner. He hatched the idea to promote his work, and the king at the time provided the start-up money. Just before the start of World War Two, Adolf Hitler co-opted the festival for sinister purposes, to warn Europe about the forthcoming conflict. These days Wagner fans sometimes have to wait years to get tickets, and the festival is as popular as ever.
The 1950s – Newport Jazz Festival
In the 1950s music festivals as we know them were born. In 1954 more than 11,000 people gathered for the first ever Newport Jazz Festival on Rhode Island, to hear live music from Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie and more. Then came the 1960s, and the music festival scene that we know and love so much finally became set in stone.
The advent of the Reading and Leeds festivals
The Reading Festival is probably the oldest non-classical music festival, dating back to 1961 when it was called the National Jazz and Blues Festival. Today's huge Reading and Leeds Festivals take place simultaneously every August bank holiday weekend, with a total attendance of more than 180,000 people, the size of a town. The first Isle of Wight Festival dates back to 1968, one of the most famous early music festivals in the UK, attracting an eye-watering 600,000 music fans in 1970, when Jimi Hendrix, The Doors and The Who rocked the stage.
The planet's biggest festivals
Glastonbury is the world's biggest greenfield festival, attended by around 180,000 people. It's more like a city that a festival, and all of Britain's best-loved bands have played there at one time or another. It's closely followed by Tomorrowland in Belgium, where almost as many people from more than 75 countries turn up every year to enjoy the very best in live music. Coachella in California, Exit in Serbia, Australia's Splendour in the Grass, Fuji Rock in Japan, Rock in Rio in various Spanish-speaking countries, Mawazine in Morocco and Snowglobe in California are all absolutely massive, all taking place through 2018.
What's your favourite music festival?
We love festivals. Every summer we attend as many as we can to meet our customers in person, sell our gorgeous, unique clothing, and enjoy the vibe. If you're a festival fan, what's your favourite music festival and why? We'd love to know, and we'd love to see some of your photos too.
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Civil Fraud
Tim Penny QC
+44 (0)20 7306 0102tpenny@wilberforce.co.uk
Commercial fraud/cross-border cases
Tim has particular expertise in commercial fraud cases, many of which are cross-border. He therefore has excellent knowledge of search and worldwide freezing orders, jurisdiction and choice of law clauses and applications for permission to serve outside the jurisdiction; these cases often involve cross-examination on asset disclosure, contempt of court applications and without notice applications testing the boundaries of the court’s jurisdiction to ensure that assets are eventually available for the enforcement of judgments or arbitral awards. Tim is also experienced in taking steps to assist fraud disputes taking place abroad (for example, by orders under s.25 CJJA) or in arbitrations. Tim’s cases often involve allegations of breach of fiduciary duty and conspiracy.
Some of his recent cases include:
National Bank Trust v Yurov & Others: in October and November 2018, Tim represented the 2nd and 5th Defendants in a 9 week Commercial Court Trial in which a Russian Bank claims damages for fraudulent breach of duty in the sum of c.US$1 Billion against its former director/shareholders.
Akhmedova v Akhmedov [2019] EWHC 1705 (Fam), in which Tim successfully applied on notice for freezing order relief to prevent assets being removed from Dubai in support of the applicant’s financial relief award of c.£500 million in the Family Division. The decision is notable for the finding of a good arguable case that individual directors of the corporate director of the respondent are to be treated as ‘de facto’ directors of the respondent.
VTB Bank v Skurikhin [2019] EWHC 1407 (Comm), a decision of the Commercial Court dismissing the application of a Liechtenstein Foundation to discharge a receivership order obtained by Tim in 2015. Tim has acted in this matter for the claimant, a Russian Bank, since 2012. The case concerns the enforcement of Russian judgment against assets in England and Italy. The judgment notably applies principles relating to issue estoppel and Henderson v Henderson abuse of the process.
Since April 2017, Tim has been instructed as lead counsel representing the Court appointed receivers of Sebastian Holdings following the US$300m judgment obtained by DBAG against SHI. Tim has appeared in first instance courts and the court of appeal of the Turks and Caicos Islands on a number of occasions since November 2017, as well as appearing in the Commercial Court in England and Wales ([2017] EWHC 3265 (Comm)).
In Hi-Level v Levine [2018] EWHC 1882 (Ch), Tim obtained orders for further searches following a without notice ‘Doorstep Piller’ order relating to breaches of database right and breaches of confidence.
In BM-Bank JSC v Chernyakov [2017] EWHC 2564 (Comm), Tim obtained the maximum 2 years sentence against a contemnor for multiple breaches of a high value WFO.
Abela v Fakih [2017] EWHC 269 (Ch) (search order); a judgment on the jurisdictional basis for the granting of a search order against a third party to the litigation. In 2013, Tim was involved in the Supreme Court ([2013] UKSC 44) in this long-running case in what is now the leading case on applications for permission to serve by alternative means under CPR r6.15 and r6.37 in non-Convention States; in 2015 Tim was involved in contempt of Court proceedings and in 2016 obtained WFOs and a search order.
Marashen v Kenvett [2017] EWHC 1706 (Ch) (service outside the jurisdiction); an appeal on whether the Court was correct to permit alternative service within the jurisdiction of an application for a third party costs order in circumstances where, but for the alternative service order, service would have been effected through Hague Service Convention channels in Russia.
FCA v Capital Alternatives [2016] EWHC 1984 (Ch); a judgment on costs following cross-examination of a defendant on his defective asset disclosure.
During 2016, Tim was instructed by the trustee in bankruptcy of a Russian individual in a complex case in restitution against third parties alleged to have been holding assets of c.$14m belonging to the bankrupt. Tim obtained urgent without notice proprietary injunctive relief and the claim settled before trial.
During 2015 and 2016, Tim was instructed by the claimant to enforce a c.US$40m U.S. judgment in this jurisdiction; a without notice injunction was obtained and the claim eventually settled.
In 2017, Tim obtained a ‘Doorstep Piller’ against a party alleged to have defrauded a well-known technology company.
Between 2016 and 2018, Tim was instructed as lead counsel for the claimant/purchasers in a substantial multi- party cross-border claim arising from alleged breaches of warranty in a Sale and Purchase Agreement and allegations of breaches of fiduciary duty/secret profits by the leaving directors.
Tim acted for the claimant who is endeavouring to enforce a USVI arbitration award in various offshore jurisdictions including in particular the Cayman Islands.
Older cases include:
VTB Bank v Skurikhin and others [2015] EWHC 2131 (Comm); [2014] EWHC 2254 (QB); [2014] EWHC 1053 (Comm); [2014] EWHC 271 (Comm); [2013] 2 All ER 418 (Comm); [2012] EWHC 3116 (Comm); [2012] EWHC 3916 (Comm) : Tim acted for VTB, one of Russia’s largest banks, in a claim which started off as a contested ‘without notice’ claim for interim relief under s25 CJJA 1982 in support of proceedings in Russia against a high profile Russian businessman, and concluded with the appointment of an equitable receiver against the target entity.
A v B [2014] EWHC 719 (Ch); [2013] EWHC 1776 (Ch); [2013] EWHC 330 (Ch): Between 2009 and 2014 Tim acted for the successful claimants in this £3 million fraud claim. Tim obtained a WFO in late 2009 and conducted a 15-day trial in early 2013, following which his clients obtained a substantial judgment for dishonest breaches of fiduciary duty and forfeiture of agent’s commissions/fees. Post-Judgment, Tim obtained a WFO against the judgment debtor’s offshore trust company, post-judgment disclosure orders a post-judgment charging order and the claim settled in the middle of a trial under s423 of the Insolvency act 1986.
A v B: In this case arising in the regulated sphere, Tim acted for a defendant facing allegations of bribery and breach of fiduciary duty.
Key Homes v Patel [2014] WL 16417: Tim acted for the defendant in this case, in which the client sought to challenge the jurisdiction of the Court to hear the claim.
Ukrsibbank v Polyakov (2013): Tim was part of a team instructed by the claimant in a US$100m WFO pursuant to section 25 CJJA in support of proceedings in Ukraine.
Fraser Geddes +44 (0)20 7304 2850
fgeddes@wilberforce.co.uk
Jessica Edson +44 (0)20 7304 2897
jedson@wilberforce.co.uk
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Tim is a member of the LCIA
Registered name: Timothy Charles Penny
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Contracting Parties > Hague Agreement > Monaco
Accession February 9, 1956
Entry into force April 29, 1956
Act(s)
Entry into Force
Geneva Act (1999) June 28, 2000 Ratification: March 9, 2011 June 9, 2011
Protocol of Geneva (1975) Accession: February 5, 1981 March 5, 1981
Complementary Act of Stockholm (1967) July 14, 1967 Ratification: June 27, 1975 September 27, 1975
Additional Act of Monaco (1961) November 18, 1961 Ratification: August 14, 1963 September 14, 1963
The Hague Act (1960) November 28, 1960 Ratification: October 13, 1981 August 1, 1984
Protocol to the Hague Act (1960) Accession: October 13, 1981
London Act (1934) Accession: February 9, 1956 April 29, 1956
Monaco notified acceptance for the termination of the Additional Act of Monaco (1961), on March 9, 2011. The termination of the Additional Act of Monaco became effective on October 18, 2016.
Monaco notified acceptance for the termination of the London Act (1934), on March 9, 2011. The termination of the London Act became effective on October 18, 2016, three months after the Director General of WIPO received the last required notification of acceptance.
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Indians’ Carrasco not slowing down as he fights leukemia
by: TOM WITHERS, Associated Press
Posted: Jul 11, 2019 / 08:36 PM EDT / Updated: Jul 12, 2019 / 12:07 AM EDT
FILE – In this July 9, 2019, file photo, Cleveland Indians pitcher Carlos Carrasco, center without a hat, stands with Indians teammates during the fifth inning of the baseball All-Star Game in Cleveland, as part of Major League Baseball’s “Stand Up to Cancer” campaign. Carrasco, who was diagnosed with leukemia and was honored during Tuesday’s, July 9 All-Star Game, will throw a bullpen session and he’s confident he can overcome his condition and pitch again for Cleveland this season. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak, File)
CLEVELAND (AP) — Carlos Carrasco’s smile remains bright, his mood and outlook as positive as ever.
Outwardly, the Indians’ right-hander doesn’t seem different. He’s determined not to let cancer change him.
“I never put anything bad on my mind,” Carrasco said. “Everything’s good. So I don’t feel different. I just push myself to work more and get stronger.”
Diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukemia last month, the 32-year-old Carrasco spoke to media members Thursday for the first time since his life took a dramatic, unexpected turn. As he dealt with so many unknowns, Carrasco said he’s never once asked “why me” after learning of his condition.
“I’m not that kind of person,” he said. “If it’s happened, it’s for a reason.”
Carrasco said he first knew something was wrong after he took his annual physical at the start of spring training in Arizona. But after more blood work was done, doctors at The Cleveland Clinic told him he had a treatable form of leukemia but that he could continue pitching as long as he felt up to it.
He’s barely slowed down.
Carrasco has been throwing bullpen sessions, doing some recent workouts at Lake County (A) while Cleveland hosted the All-Star Game.
While he everything feels normal when he’s on the mound, Carrasco doesn’t know if he’ll be able to pitch for the Indians again this season.
“Man, I don’t know,” he said. “I’m just here. I’m just going to take it day by day. I don’t know. I don’t have the answer, but I’m glad to be here around my teammates.”
Carrasco said he’s been overwhelmed by the support he’s received from teammates, coaches and Cleveland’s fans.
During his interview session, manager Terry Francona stood just a few away from the popular starter, another sign of the club’s devotion.
On Tuesday night, Carrasco felt all of baseball’s love.
During the fifth inning of the All-Star Game, Carrasco walked on the field for Major League Baseball’s “Stand Up To Cancer” salute along with Francona and All-Star teammates Francisco Lindor, Carlos Santana, Shane Bieber and Brad Hand.
As the group stood in the third-base coach’s box, Carrasco held a sign that read: “I Stand” while the other Indians held placards that said: “Cookie,” Carrasco’s nickname.
When the group was shown on the ballpark’s giant scoreboard, the crowd erupted with loud cheers.
Francona described the powerful moment as perfect.
“Holy smokes,” he said. “You talk about putting an exclamation point on it. It was incredible.”
Indians pitcher Mike Clevinger, who was sitting in one of the dugout suites, said seeing Carrasco embraced like that was special.
“As hard as it was too watch, it was really moving,” Clevinger said. “It was good to see him feel that. I know he knew how much support was out there, but to really feel that not just from the league, but feel it from across America, behind the scenes even when you looked at Twitter afterward.
“That was big for him and definitely big for us.”
When he arrives each day at Progressive Field, Carrasco said he’s quickly greeted with hugs from teammates.
Shortly after the Indians learned about his condition, a meeting was held without him at which Lindor, Santana and others pledged to win for their ailing teammate.
“Everyone from the team, if I could show you, I had like 300, maybe 500 texts from them every day, asking how did I feel,” Carrasco said. “They are special to me. They feel like home. They feel like family. They always send me a text, even the guys that played here before, they send me a text every day. It feels great.”
Carrasco chose not to disclose the type of medical treatment he’s receiving.
In the meantime, the Indians are working off Carrasco and being mindful not to rush him.
“There isn’t a plan and I don’t mean that like we don’t care,” Francona said. “But the idea is for him to do as much as he can — or as much as he can tolerate — because it will be good for him. Other than that, we’re not pushing him. We’re just trying to be supportive.”
And as his teammates have backed him, Carrasco has returned the love.
For Monday’s All-Star Home Run Derby, Carrasco wore a customized jersey with the names Santana, Lindor, Bieber and Hand on the back.
“The way they’ve been supporting me, I just came to the game to support them, too,” he said. “Why not?”
TOULOUSE, France (AP) — Tour de France debutant Caleb Ewan sprinted to victory on Stage 11 of the Tour de France on Wednesday, while Frenchman Julian Alaphilippe kept the race leader's yellow jersey a day before the race enters the high mountains.
Ewan, a 25-year-old Australian, edged fellow sprinter Dylan Groenewegen by a tire's width and was awarded the victory after photo finish. Elia Viviani placed third.
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Atlanta kids star in Ludacris music video ahead of Super Bowl
Can you imagine being in middle school and shooting a professional music video about this place, the city you love — at the stunning stadium behind me with one of the world’s biggest rappers? Pretty cool, right? But that’s far from the most amazing part of this story.
From Luda to Keisha, the biggest names in the ATL wanted to help these kids showcase the city they love.
“Which was ah-mazing,” said Jordan Barber, a student at Ron Clark Academy. “At first I had to keep my cool, but I was so excited.”
If you need a Big Game Super Bowl visitors’ guide to Atlanta, they’ve got it: from the sites to the eats. But, get this: they did this as part of their school.
“I don’t think I’d find this kind of love anywhere else,” Jordan said. “It’s a family, from my teachers to my peers.”
So what kind of school has all that? Ron Clark Academy.. It has an arctic blast, trap doors, a slide, and…
“There’s a big red mystery button when we get a challenge,” Richard Washington said. “I can’t tell you what it does, but it’s amazing!”
So, of course, we had to find out.
What it does? Cues an epic dance party where the kids dance on their desks to a disco ball.
“It all makes more sense when you meet the school’s founder, Ron Clark.
“Our school is so hard, it’s rigorous,” Clark said. “It’s probably the most rigorous middle school in the country, it’s rough. But then what we do is bring it to life through hands on lessons, it’s fun, we rap our lessons. Now let’s get down to some presidential learnin’,” he said then rapped.
If you recognize that beat it’s because it’s from the school’s viral hit in 2008, “You Can Vote However You Like.”
A different generation of Ron Clark kids, but the same concept and it is still working. The school has a 100 percent high school graduation rate for its alumni, a 95 percent college graduation rate, and has won national accolades for robotics, Model UN, and step. More than 50,000 educators from all 50 states and 26 countries have trained at Ron Clark Academy.
The students are remarkable poised and talented whether rapping, talking, or debating. So, how?
“Well ,they tell you you are amazing and can do great things, and eventually you believe it,” Jordan said.
THAT, to use Jordan’s favorite word, is the most amazing part. Well, Richard has one more thing about the ATL he thinks might be almost as good.
“The Varsity,” Richard said.
Clark said he’s just trying to help his kids learn and isn’t trying go viral, that they just do: As of Super Bowl Saturday, the video had more than 87,000 views on its original post alone. You can watch it here.
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Showtime Online has a unique service of being able to be added on to other services that you may already subscribe to. For $9 a month, it can be added to Amazon Prime and Hulu and for $11, Playstation Vue. Showtime offers you award-winning series like Dexter, Weeds and House of Lies as well as a large selection of movies including action, comedies and dramas added each month. The stand-alone service is $11 and it offers both live viewing and streaming.
These do require additional hardware, running extra cables from your TV, and waiting at least a day to watch the newest episodes of cable network shows. And if you're hoping to sever all ties with your cable provider, that's not going to be an option in many regional markets, as you'll still need them for the high-speed Internet service that makes this all work. But the cost savings of dropping the TV package can be substantial, and there have never been as many good choices available as there are today in both hardware and content. Here's what you'll need.
Because the content you get with any of these cable-replacement services, especially local channels, can vary by region, you should go to each company’s website, plug in your ZIP code, and see which channels are available in your area. These video streaming services have been adding more local broadcast channels, such as ABC and CBS, but they’re not always available in smaller markets.
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This does not mean, however, that you can never watch ESPN again after you cancel cable. Nearly every major media brand is moving toward offering its own standalone subscription service. Until then, though, if it’s important to you to maintain some continuity with your current cable-viewing habits, proceed to the next section for your best options.
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I was pissed over that stupid robot test garbage. I complained several times and they have made it a lot better, but maybe not for everybody? I used to use the signs test, I don’t know really why, but I have found the cars panels work well. Hit the left bottom button until you get to cars, Usually just need a few clicks for that to work. I used to have lots of fun when my ISP kept changing my IP address and had to call maybe several times a week to have my Vue location reset. I understand their need to make sure people aren’t using this when it is not allowed but they need to make the access better for customers.
I have been looking for cost effective ways to watch television. I can tell you that we pay $200.00 per month in a bundled package. We do not subscribe to any premium channels either. I have a question for you ? So if I buy one of those DVD players that can go online which would be your suggestion for the best program for me ? My husband loves hunting and fishing shows. Amazon does not have those type of shows. I would appreciate your help. Thanks for putting this info out there.
Consumers nowadays often have multiple cords tying them to a service provider. According to Comcast, nearly 70% of its residential customers in its most recent quarter received at least two Xfinity products because of the bundle discounts. Pricing will continue to be an issue for the industry going forward as new entrants such as Apple mull whether to jump into the market.
This is a big deal for Amazon, which had previously refrained from partnering with any US pay-TV service to offer Amazon Prime Video. (The full scope of the deal is unclear at this point; neither partner revealed financial terms.) It’s arguably a bigger deal for Comcast, however. The partnership lets it remain relevant by allowing it to at least temporarily bypass the existential terror felt by cable providers in response to cord-cutting, the trend for viewers to shift from traditional cable television to streaming services.
Amazon Fire TV. Similar to Roku, Amazon Fire TV comes in both box format and stick format and runs on the Amazon Fire OS that is built on top of Android. This gives it access to Amazon's app store, and while it doesn't have quite the ecosystem of Apple TV, you can use it to both play games, watch TV and boot up other useful apps like Pandora Radio, Spotify, TED, etc.
You could use a number of approaches when faced with the challenge of "How to find cable TV providers near me?" You could spend hours surfing the internet, going through the process of entering your information into each provider's website to see if they service your area. It would be much more effective, however, if you could narrow the search down to the best cable providers in your area before diving into the shopping phase.
For vast libraries of movies and TV content prior to the current season, I recommend getting the 30-day free trial to Amazon Prime. Another big reason to get Amazon Prime is the option of adding Showtime and Starz with your subscription. For just $8.99 per month, you have every TV show and movie offered by Starz and Showtime just as if you had the network with a cable provider.
The cost to networks of paying huge sums for sports rights get passed on to customers in the form of higher monthly bills. Broadcast channels like Fox, CBS, and NBC are also shelling out billions of dollars on sports because it’s one of the few things consumers still watch live, which helps the companies sell advertising. Those broadcasters are raising the prices they charge cable operators, leading to higher consumer bills. Congress handed that new-revenue stream—known as retransmission consent fees –to broadcast channels in the early 1990s.
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I've found Sling TV to not offer competitive package. I was an early user and subscriber for a couple of years. However, I felt that I was able to get a basic cable package with what Sling offered. I also had major buffering issues with Sling, especially when a season premiere or big episode of a popular show was being shown. This year, I searched my options for alternative streaming options. I tried Playstation Vue, but, I found them price-y and did not offer Viacom channels. With a majority of channel apps offering episodes of new tv shows within 24 hours, I do not feel it is really necessarily to have a DVR option. Currently, I am with Directv Now and I've been extremely happy with them. I have not had the buffering issues other people have had. I only had buffering when watching NBC. Other than that, I save money on the cheapest package and a movie channel (Live a Little package and HBO) with more channels than what's out there for $40. I was fortunate to sign up when they were offering free, latest Apple TV. Looking forward to when there is an app on Roku so I can watch tv in bed! Btw, in case anyone is wondering, I do use Comcast for internet services on the cheapest option available with no buffering issues.
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The lowest pricing tier here offers standard definition streaming on one screen at a time. Mid-tier adds High Def and would allow you to watch a Netflix show on your TV at the same time that another family member was watching something different on his or her own device. The top tier includes 4K streams and covers four screens for simultaneous viewing.
I have started cutting the cord by adding antenna outside that is bringing in 34 channels. I use netflicks, hulu and fire tv. All 4 tvs using different devices. Dish reduce my bill and I keep 200 channels as I have no contract for 77.00 a month with one joey. looking forward to learn more from your website to get more value from the services I use.
Switching to streaming isn’t just for binging The Office on Netflix or watching yesterday’s episode of Bob’s Burgers on Hulu. You can sign up for services that allow you to stream select live TV channels, too. Some popular options are DIRECTV Now, PlayStation Vue, and Sling TV. Each allows you to choose between tiers of channels, but their base packages often offer many popular channels and for much cheaper than traditional cable. Curious about your options? We compare the best options in our TV streaming review.
As part of this switch over, we installed an over-the-air antenna. This allows us to pick up a large number of local channels. We live close enough to the Des Moines metro area that we can pick up strong signals from a lot of stations in Des Moines. (It’s worth noting that this is aided by the fact that there’s a repeater tower within five miles of our house, which means the signals are strong.) This includes the major broadcast networks – ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC, PBS – and a large number of additional channels of varying quality, including an all-children’s channel and a channel that seems to be nothing but a loop of the weather forecast.
If you haven’t heard of Tablo, it is a clever little box. You plug it into your wall socket, connect your over-the-air TV antenna to the Tablo, and then download the sister app to your phone or tablet. The Tablo can connect to your house router via WiFi or by using the included Ethernet cable. I used the cable. Then the app brings up an easy-to-use TV guide on your phone. You can record shows and series as you would with any other DVR, and you can watch live TV through it. Its playback functions and interface are awesome -- much easier to traverse than the one I pay for with ATT -- and let me zip through commercials in seconds. In another part of my home, I have a smart TV with Roku built in. It has a Tablo app on it that allows me to watch my recordings or live TV on the big screen. And I also have a Chromecast on my other TV to do the same.
You do need to have Internet in order to take advantage of a lot of streaming options like Netflix, Playstation Vue, Direct TV Now and others. If, however, you only need broadcast channels you can get an antenna and/or an over-the-air DVR, and watch broadcast TV only. As far as finding cheap internet, a lot of the time you’re subject to what options you have in your area. IN my area I have two providers that I usually go back and forth between finding the best deal and sticking with it for a couple of years. Good luck!
If you stream, you should abandon the notion of channels. Many channels do have apps, but not all, and some require a cable log in. Streaming services are more like hubs, or video stores, where you can find thousands of titles, including some popular shows. But if you’re thinking about a cheaper way to maintain your present viewing habits, forget about it. What you’re getting is far superior, ad free content for a fraction of the price.
Amazon Prime Video subscribers should look over what HBO content is already in your membership. There are already full seasons of older, but popular shows like “The Wire” included in your Prime Video subscription. There are plenty of other ways to subscribe to HBO. You can get HBO added to Amazon Channels or a Sling TV subscription, but you’re paying $15 per month in either case. So before you start binging on Game of Thrones, shop around and see what you can get.
Since moving back to New York City and dropping TV service, my Time Warner Cable Internet-only plan costs $40 per month (I'm excluding the $5 promotional discount) for 15Mbps service. The flagship Roku 3 box I'm using costs $103 with sales tax (you can of course choose a lower-priced model). After getting the Roku I signed up for the $8 per month Hulu Plus account. I've always had Netflix in addition to my cable/satellite subscription so I'm not factoring my $8 monthly subscription for that service into the equation.
Not everyone thought this was a good service when it debuted, but it's so far stuck with that "introductory" price that would put it in line with icky cable subscriptions. If you've got an AT&T phone plan, you can add DirecTV Now for just $10 a month; HBO is included if you've got an AT&T Unlimited Choice or Plus plan. You can watch DirecTV Now on your PC via browser, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, ChromeCast, Roku devices, iOS, and Android—it's not on any game consoles. Lacking however: DVR options. There's plenty of video on demand, but not for every show.
Fios TV is #1 in customer ratings in HD picture quality and signal reliability, according to the 2017 American Customer Satisfaction Index. In fact, every major customer satisfaction study ranked Fios higher overall than cable TV providers like Comcast, Spectrum (formerly Time Warner Cable), Cox and Cablevision. If you’re wondering what is the best alternative to cable, then check out how Fios compares to Cable TV, download and upload speeds as well as using video streaming services.
This steady decline is the driving force behind a series of blockbuster mergers reshaping the media landscape, such as AT&T buying Time Warner, Walt Disney acquiring much of Fox, and Comcast pursuing Sky. Entertainment companies, nervously watching their business model waste away like a slowly melting glacier, are deciding they need to get larger and expand globally to compete with deep-pocketed rivals like Netflix—or sell.
The problem with Netflix is that the catalog of (non-original) films and TV shows is constantly in flux as the studio and networks play games, look for better terms, or set up exclusives on other services. We can't guarantee an entire series or movie will be there forever. But original programming makes Netflix a destination, giving it not only market share, but mind share, the likes of which only HBO can rival.
Hulu is a great option if you want to watch Hulu original series or currently airing shows soon after they broadcast (along with many past seasons). The only catch? Unless you want to upgrade to the commercial-free version ($12), you’ll have to sit through some repetitive ads. So if you’d rather not wait to keep watching, maybe cough up the extra four bucks. Still, it's one of the best alternatives to cable tv on the market.
With Sling, there’s no more waiting on a show to air—you can watch it live like with cable or satellite, except you’re watching over the internet! The basic package includes 30 live channels like AMC, CNN, ESPN, ESPN2, HGTV, and Disney Channel. You can get a slightly different lineup of networks for $25, or get both for $40. There are also $5–10 add-on packages for sports fans, movie buffs and your little ones. So if ESPN is the only reason you’re clinging to your cable box, you may be out of excuses now!
You do not have to worry about who is the best cable TV provider in the country. Instead, it is best to do your research to identify the best cable TV service providers near your location. This is because even the top five cable providers are not offering their service in all parts of the country, which means that you will have to initially find the cable TV providers that are operating near you.
So why recommend an HTPC over a set-top box? Full keyboard/mouse lets you actually use the device as a computer, allowing you to type and navigate comfortably. You can play games on it (a PC has always been a better gaming device than consoles, for my money). You can view Hulu on it without paying for Hulu+ (which, in addition to unlocking certain content and providing HD streams, allows you to view Hulu content on mobile and set-top devices). Bringing full computer functionality to your big screen is a big win.
Different Internet Service Providers, known as I.S.P.s, have different tiers. The various streaming services make different recommendations — typically available on their individual sites — as to the minimum requirements that allow their content to look sharp and run smoothly on different devices. Averaging their recommendations out, you’ll probably want to make sure that you have a minimum 4 Mb/s (that’s megabyte per second) connection, which, be warned, isn’t available in some of the more rural areas of the United States.
Another cable or satellite alternative could include simple online viewing. Many TV stations – especially the larger ones like ABC and CBS – give website visitors access to their show episodes that have recently played when you visit their websites. Even some cable TV channels such as The Food Network have full show episodes available online for web site visitors.
One last point on what to watch: If you really want to pay only for what you want to watch and nothing else, don’t forget that iTunes, Amazon, Vudu, Fandango Now, Cinema Now, Google Play and others will gladly sell or rent you movies and episodes of TV series to watch on your computer or TV. If you’re thinking of your various subscriptions as an analogue to cable, then think of this option as akin to the old-fashioned “pay per view.” The fees can add up if you watch a lot, but these vendors have some free videos, too.
Although early (VHF) television receivers could receive 12 channels (2-13), the maximum number of channels that could be broadcast in one city was 7: channels 2, 4, either 5 or 6, 7, 9, 11 and 13, as receivers at the time were unable to receive strong (local) signals on adjacent channels without distortion. (There were frequency gaps between 4 and 5, and between 6 and 7, which allowed both to be used in the same city).
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Netflix.com: There is a monthly cost associated with Netflix , but the added convenience of keeping the movies and TV shows as long as you want, and being able to stream a selection of movies and TV shows over the computer through one of the options above, make it worth it. $8.99 for the basic package, plus you can get a 1 month netflix free trial!
The second change is our budget. Our cable and internet package was roughly $90 per month, and this was about 7 or 8 years ago. Prices have since risen quite a bit in most markets. That was too expensive for what we got out of it (the base TV package, with no premium channels, was over $50 a month after the introductory price expired). We only rarely watched TV, and then it was usually limited to a few channels. We cut the cable TV service and elected to pay for a faster internet service. We pay a lot for Internet, but we are paying for a service we use.
Per your suggestion I have purchased the Roku Streaming Stick, gone thru the installation process, adding some of the free channels, etc. pretty much easy stuff and all working great until I decided to remove the stick from one TV to insert it in another TV. The Stick was VERY HOT! is that normal? I like the stick because of portability, I can take it from the living room TV to the bedroom TV without much hassle, but seems like getting hot is not safe. After a while watching the Pluto channel and going into a couple of commercials when the program re-started, there was NO sound! have to go back to main screen to start Pluto over again. This continue to happen all the time, evening/night as well as during the day. Then another issue started, a screen will come up saying “the USB port didn’t have enough power to run the Roku and needed to be connected to another power source” – I then connected it to the wall, haven’t had this issue anymore. I started running tests, turning on the TV and checking the Stick and it would normally take only about 1/2 hour to start getting hot, after one hour I would need a towel to be able to remove it. Anyone had this problem? Help!!
Did you know that there are over 300,000 home service providers operating in neighborhoods across America? Our system searches hundreds of millions of rows of data to calculate whether or not each service provider will be available in your area. We examine every street, city, and zip code in the country, so that we can display the most accurate results and you can make the most informed decision. Whether you need to find the fastest internet in your area, save money on your cable bill, get a home security system, or set up utilities at your new place - we’ve made it our mission to bring you the best results. Sit back, relax, and let us do the heavy lifting for you. All you have to do is choose which provider you prefer!
What you get: The Hulu with Live TV service offers about 50 channels, including major networks in some areas and sports channels such as CBS Sports, ESPN, and Fox Sports. You can watch on two devices at a time and record 50 hours on a cloud DVR. You can pay extra for more users and extra DVR storage, and the option to skip commercials. Hulu now also offers a combined plan, priced at $13 per month, that bundles a Spotify subscription with Hulu’s entry-level on-demand service.
Cord cutting simply means canceling your pay-TV service. Cord cutting has been a growing trend since 2009, when over-the-air broadcast signals switched from analog to digital. People began to realize that they could now get the vast majority of their favorite TV shows in beautiful HD using a simple television antenna rather than paying monthly fees to a TV provider.
Navigate Computer With Mouse & Keyboard: You connect your computer to the HDTV (for the big screen) and then proceed to go to your favorite websites like hulu.com, Netflix and others (see some options above) to view your shows. You can use the Hulu Desktop application. You can also watch shows that you've downloaded from Amazon, Itunes or other online video sources – or your own videos. You will most likely need a wireless keyboard and mouse to make this easy – although it isn't required.
To qualify for the contract buyout program, a customer must order and install a qualifying Triple Play promotion or limited Double Play promotion (offers not available in all areas). Offer available to qualifying customers only, who have no outstanding obligations to Charter. Check amount will be determined by the early termination fee on the final bill from the previous provider, not to exceed $500.
As a #1 New York Times best-selling author and seasoned communicator, Rachel Cruze helps Americans have a life and a bank account they love. She’s authored three best-selling books, including Love Your Life, Not Theirs and Smart Money Smart Kids, which she co-wrote with her father, Dave Ramsey. You can follow Cruze on Twitter and Instagram at @RachelCruze and online at rachelcruze.com, youtube.com/rachelcruze, or facebook.com/rachelramseycruze.
YouTube TV ($40/mo.): YouTube’s newest venture entered the market as one of the cheapest and simplest. Its channel package is small, there aren’t that many add-ons at the moment, and the service isn’t even available in every city or town in the United States yet (although the range is expanding every day; check here for updates). But if watching local stations live matters a lot to you, then you should know that YouTube TV is making that the cornerstone of its business — along with unlimited DVR cloud storage and enough portability that you should be able to shift easily from one device to another while watching a show you’ve recorded.
Customer service is just as Important as channel selection when it comes to shopping for a TV service. Not only do you want your TV provider to offer reliability, but you also want to see that your provider has a proven track record of keeping people happy. CableTV.com can help! We give you the data you need to find the cable company in Dallas, TX with the highest consumer ratings. By following our recommendation, you can minimize the chances of having a bad customer experience with your chosen provider.
Remember the days when you could watch network television for free? (those under 25, ask your parents). Well those channels are still available at no cost...if you have an antenna. And no, we're not talking about the clunky rabbit ears of old. Antennas have changed substantially in looks and performance over the last several years. Breakthroughs in technology spurred by development of the tiny but powerful digital antennas in smartphones have been adapted to the realm of TV reception. The result? "TV antennas today are 10% of the mass they were decades ago," says Richard Schneider, president of Missouri-based manufacturer Antennas Direct. "And the move to an all digital transmission that the FCC mandated back in 2009 has put those TV signals in a higher frequency which means a better signal with less noise".
However, customers who do not have a cable TV service at their home will also be able to subscribe to a cable internet service, as most cable TV providers offer standalone internet service to customers. However, if you are planning to bundle either two or three of your services, get in touch with your preferred cable TV provider, as they will also be able to help you with that. Below are a few factors that you need to consider before subscribing to a certain cable internet service provider.
Already mentioned in another thread, but, SlingTV has good sports coverage -- otherwise, we use OTA for, e.g. PBS -- but, beware that the SlingTV WebOS client (runs on LG 4K TVs) is unreliable with some sports channels. (With others, it works fine ?!) The SlingTV WebOS client needs to be robustified. SlingTV works fine via web/chrome/Windows10 and on IOS.
Netflix, Apple TV and Hulu are some of the popular broadcasting services that encourage cord cutting. The cord cutting concept received a considerable amount of recognition beginning in 2010 as more Internet solutions became available. These broadcasters have convinced millions of cable and satellite subscribers to cut their cords and change to video streaming.
DirecTV Now. DirectTV Now offers a package that is very competitive with PlayStation Vue, and as you might expect, delivers a very cable-like experience without the actual cable. However, it does have one of the worst interfaces, especially on Apple TV, and lacks the ability to pause live television. One big bonus of DirecTV Now is access to very cheap subscriptions for premium channels like HBO and Starz, so if you load up on all of these, DirecTV Now might come out as the cheapest service. They also don't charge for their DVR service.
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The only blogpost ever about these two teams to never mention Connor McDavid (the title doesn't count)
The Erie Otters are going under.
Okay, no they aren't. Let's try that again.
The Erie Otters are trying to jew the Edmonton Oilers out of some money.
The Oilers, under their shell company "Ontario Major Junior Hockey Corp" [how do you know Daryl Katz has become a Vancouverite? He isn't using a numbered company like every other Alberta scammer. -ed] loaned the Otters $4.6M in an agreement that would allow the team to buy and if necessary move the team if the Otters defaulted.† The Otters had indeed defaulted, but last December a Pennyslvania judge ruled that the Oilers couldn't force the team to be sold in order to pay the debt back, apparently striking down a clause in the deal that violated a securities act or something. An earlier ruling had been in the Oilers' favour.
† There has been some talk, none of which I've been able to track down on Google, which claimed the deal was strategically created to make it impossible for the Otters to pay back without selling the team.
As a result of the December verdict, the Otters didn't have to sell the team in order to raise the $4.6M. So instead, they could just raise the money some other way. But no matter which way you look at it, the Oilers deserved their motherfucking paycheque. The Otters, which have been financially struggling for years, were in need of a saviour that wasn't coming.
So, they file for bankruptcy.
It's not immediately clear what this will accomplish. As a consequence of the bankruptcy protection, the company will be still forced to pay its debts meaning that the Oilers are going to get their money one way or another -- especially if the debt is secured (and if not, somebody in Katz Group is gonna get fired). The Oilers probably aren't even as interested in owning the team anymore, the plan was to move to Hamilton which doesn't look likely now that the Belleville Bulls are moving there instead. With both the AHL Bulldogs and the OHL Bulls in Hamilton it's not likely the city has room to support another team, espeecially with nearby cities like Mississauga and Guelph still having teams of their own. It's clear that the Otters ownership wants the team to remain in Erie, but it's not clear how turning assets over to a trustee will improve that situation. Especially with the Oilers chomping at the bit.
On the bright side, I hear there's room for a team in Belleville, so long as somebody can privately finance a new arena. Daryl Katz can totally do that, can't he?
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We harness the earth’s most abundant resources – the strength of the wind, the heat of the sun and the force of water – to power the world’s biggest economies and the most remote communities. Combining onshore and offshore wind, hydro and innovative technologies, GE Renewable Energy has installed more than 400+ gigawatts capacity globally to make the world work better and cleaner.
Flashing 6 Times: High temperature protection; Flashing 7 Times: PWM driving undervoltage/overvoltage; Flashing 8 Times: Internal voltage reference undervoltage/overvoltage; Flashing 9 Times: Sensor bias current error; Flashing 10 Times: Hardware zero passage detection failure. Noted that the above operations can only be performed with the power grid connected.
Environmental impact of wind power includes effect on wildlife, but can be mitigated if proper monitoring and mitigation strategies are implemented.[76] Thousands of birds, including rare species, have been killed by the blades of wind turbines,[77] though wind turbines contribute relatively insignificantly to anthropogenic avian mortality. For every bird killed by a wind turbine in the US, nearly 500,000 are killed by each of feral cats and buildings.[78] In comparison, conventional coal fired generators contribute significantly more to bird mortality, by incineration when caught in updrafts of smoke stacks and by poisoning with emissions byproducts (including particulates and heavy metals downwind of flue gases). Further, marine life is affected by water intakes of steam turbine cooling towers (heat exchangers) for nuclear and fossil fuel generators, by coal dust deposits in marine ecosystems (e.g. damaging Australia's Great Barrier Reef) and by water acidification from combustion monoxides.
The Solar updraft tower is a renewable-energy power plant for generating electricity from low temperature solar heat. Sunshine heats the air beneath a very wide greenhouse-like roofed collector structure surrounding the central base of a very tall chimney tower. The resulting convection causes a hot air updraft in the tower by the chimney effect. This airflow drives wind turbines placed in the chimney updraft or around the chimney base to produce electricity. Plans for scaled-up versions of demonstration models will allow significant power generation, and may allow development of other applications, such as water extraction or distillation, and agriculture or horticulture. A more advanced version of a similarly themed technology is the Vortex engine which aims to replace large physical chimneys with a vortex of air created by a shorter, less-expensive structure.
Innovative programs around the country now make it possible for all environmentally conscious energy consumers to support renewable energy directly by participating in the "green" power market. The willingness to pay for the benefits of increasing our renewable energy supplies can be tapped within any market structure and by any size or type of energy consumer.
The generator, which is approximately 34% of the wind turbine cost, includes the electrical generator,[38][39] the control electronics, and most likely a gear box (e.g. planetary gear box),[40] adjustable-speed drive or continuously variable transmission[41] component for converting the low-speed incoming rotation to high-speed rotation suitable for generating electricity.
In 2006 California approved the 'California Solar Initiative', offering a choice of investment subsidies or FIT for small and medium systems and a FIT for large systems. The small-system FIT of $0.39 per kWh (far less than EU countries) expires in just 5 years, and the alternate "EPBB" residential investment incentive is modest, averaging perhaps 20% of cost. All California incentives are scheduled to decrease in the future depending as a function of the amount of PV capacity installed.
Taken together, the generation and distribution of electric power in the United States is an astonishingly complex undertaking. Utilities may generate their own power or buy it from other utilities; that power travels over a grid of transformers and high- and low-voltage lines to your house. Ownership of utilities varies from nonprofits to cooperatives to for-profits. Federal regulators ultimately oversee the grid. Amazingly, when you flip a switch, electricity is there.
The first electricity-generating wind turbine was a battery charging machine installed in July 1887 by Scottish academic James Blyth to light his holiday home in Marykirk, Scotland.[7] Some months later American inventor Charles F. Brush was able to build the first automatically operated wind turbine after consulting local University professors and colleagues Jacob S. Gibbs and Brinsley Coleberd and successfully getting the blueprints peer-reviewed for electricity production in Cleveland, Ohio.[7] Although Blyth's turbine was considered uneconomical in the United Kingdom,[7] electricity generation by wind turbines was more cost effective in countries with widely scattered populations.[6]
Green power is a subset of renewable energy and represents those renewable energy resources and technologies that provide the highest environmental benefit. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency defines green power as electricity produced from solar, wind, geothermal, biogas, biomass and low-impact small hydroelectric sources. Customers often buy green power for avoided environmental impacts and its greenhouse gas reduction benefits.[9]
Space-Based Solar Power Satellites seek to overcome the problems of storage and provide civilization-scale power that is clean, constant, and global. Japan and China have active national programs aimed at commercial scale Space-Based Solar Power (SBSP), and both nation's hope to orbit demonstrations in the 2030s. The China Academy of Space Technology (CAST) won the 2015 International SunSat Design Competition with this video of their Multi-Rotary Joint design. Proponents of SBSP claim that Space-Based Solar Power would be clean, constant, and global, and could scale to meet all planetary energy demand.[56] A recent multi-agency industry proposal (echoing the 2008 Pentagon recommendation) won the SECDEF/SECSTATE/USAID Director D3 (Diplomacy, Development, Defense) Innovation Challenge [57] with the following pitch and vision video.[132] Northrop Grumman is funding CALTECH with $17.5 million[133] for an ultra lightweight design.[134] Keith Henson posted a video of a "bootstrapping" approach.
Which is to say that Ross and his co-workers had options. And the city was free to take advantage of them because of a rather unusual arrangement: Georgetown itself owns the utility company that serves the city. So officials there, unlike those in most cities, were free to negotiate with suppliers. When they learned that rates for wind power could be guaranteed for 20 years and solar for 25 years, but natural gas for only seven years, the choice, Ross says, was a “no-brainer.”
Wind turbines are generally inexpensive. They will produce electricity at between two and six cents per kilowatt hour, which is one of the lowest-priced renewable energy sources.[72] And as technology needed for wind turbines continues to improve, the prices will decrease as well. In addition, there is no competitive market for wind energy, as it does not cost money to get ahold of wind.[72] The main cost of wind turbines are the installation process. The average cost is between $48,000 and $65,000 to install. However, the energy harvested from the turbine will offset the installation cost, as well as provide virtually free energy for years after.[73]
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Geothermal energy is produced by tapping into the thermal energy created and stored within the earth. It arises from the radioactive decay of an isotope of potassium and other elements found in the Earth's crust.[144] Geothermal energy can be obtained by drilling into the ground, very similar to oil exploration, and then it is carried by a heat-transfer fluid (e.g. water, brine or steam).[144] Geothermal systems that are mainly dominated by water have the potential to provide greater benefits to the system and will generate more power.[145] Within these liquid-dominated systems, there are possible concerns of subsidence and contamination of ground-water resources. Therefore, protection of ground-water resources is necessary in these systems. This means that careful reservoir production and engineering is necessary in liquid-dominated geothermal reservoir systems.[145] Geothermal energy is considered sustainable because that thermal energy is constantly replenished.[146] However, the science of geothermal energy generation is still young and developing economic viability. Several entities, such as the National Renewable Energy Laboratory[147] and Sandia National Laboratories[148] are conducting research toward the goal of establishing a proven science around geothermal energy. The International Centre for Geothermal Research (IGC), a German geosciences research organization, is largely focused on geothermal energy development research.[149]
There are two types of crystalline silicon, but it’s likely you’ll more often encounter monocrystalline silicon: it has a square-ish structure, and its high silicon content makes it more effective (and more expensive) than other panel materials. The other type of crystalline silicon, polycrystalline, is cheaper but less effective, so it’s used when there’s plenty of space (e.g., on a solar farm)—typically not on residential installs.
The windwheel of Hero of Alexandria (10 AD – 70 AD) marks one of the first recorded instances of wind powering a machine in history.[2][3] However, the first known practical wind power plants were built in Sistan, an Eastern province of Persia (now Iran), from the 7th century. These "Panemone" were vertical axle windmills, which had long vertical drive shafts with rectangular blades.[4] Made of six to twelve sails covered in reed matting or cloth material, these windmills were used to grind grain or draw up water, and were used in the gristmilling and sugarcane industries.[5]
Japan and China have national programs aimed at commercial scale Space-Based Solar Power (SBSP). The China Academy of Space Technology (CAST) won the 2015 International SunSat Design Competition with this video of their Multi-Rotary Joint design. Proponents of SBSP claim that Space-Based Solar Power would be clean, constant, and global, and could scale to meet all planetary energy demand.[56] A recent multi-agency industry proposal (echoing the 2008 Pentagon recommendation) won the SECDEF/SECSTATE/USAID Director D3 (Diplomacy, Development, Defense) Innovation Challenge.[57]
Today that initiative, the Green Climate Fund, is an “empty shell,” Mr. Ban said in a recent phone interview. The lifelong diplomat — who recently assumed the presidency of the Global Green Growth Institute, an international organization based in Seoul, South Korea, that focuses on clean energy development — said he hoped to use the next chapter of his career to help poor countries meet their goals under the Paris agreement on climate change.
Moving towards energy sustainability will require changes not only in the way energy is supplied, but in the way it is used, and reducing the amount of energy required to deliver various goods or services is essential. Opportunities for improvement on the demand side of the energy equation are as rich and diverse as those on the supply side, and often offer significant economic benefits.[60]
The oldest solar thermal power plant in the world is the 354 megawatt (MW) SEGS thermal power plant, in California.[109] The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System is a solar thermal power project in the California Mojave Desert, 40 miles (64 km) southwest of Las Vegas, with a gross capacity of 377 MW.[110] The 280 MW Solana Generating Station is a solar power plant near Gila Bend, Arizona, about 70 miles (110 km) southwest of Phoenix, completed in 2013. When commissioned it was the largest parabolic trough plant in the world and the first U.S. solar plant with molten salt thermal energy storage.[111]
With feed-in tariffs, the financial burden falls upon the consumer. They reward the number of kilowatt-hours produced over a long period of time, but because the rate is set by the authorities, it may result in perceived overpayment. The price paid per kilowatt-hour under a feed-in tariff exceeds the price of grid electricity. Net metering refers to the case where the price paid by the utility is the same as the price charged.
The energy in the wind goes up with the cube of the wind speed. Double the wind speed and you have 2 * 2 * 2 = 8 times the energy! Sit back and let the full weight of that sink in for a moment: It means that even a small difference in annual average wind speed will make a BIG difference in how much your wind turbine will produce: Putting that turbine in a place that has just 10% more wind will net you 1.1 * 1.1 * 1.1 = 1.33 = a full 33% more energy!
In its 2014 edition of the Technology Roadmap: Solar Photovoltaic Energy report, the International Energy Agency (IEA) published prices for residential, commercial and utility-scale PV systems for eight major markets as of 2013 (see table below).[2] However, DOE's SunShot Initiative has reported much lower U.S. installation prices. In 2014, prices continued to decline. The SunShot Initiative modeled U.S. system prices to be in the range of $1.80 to $3.29 per watt.[76] Other sources identify similar price ranges of $1.70 to $3.50 for the different market segments in the U.S.,[77] and in the highly penetrated German market, prices for residential and small commercial rooftop systems of up to 100 kW declined to $1.36 per watt (€1.24/W) by the end of 2014.[78] In 2015, Deutsche Bank estimated costs for small residential rooftop systems in the U.S. around $2.90 per watt. Costs for utility-scale systems in China and India were estimated as low as $1.00 per watt.[79]
With investment subsidies, the financial burden falls upon the taxpayer, while with feed-in tariffs the extra cost is distributed across the utilities' customer bases. While the investment subsidy may be simpler to administer, the main argument in favour of feed-in tariffs is the encouragement of quality. Investment subsidies are paid out as a function of the nameplate capacity of the installed system and are independent of its actual power yield over time, thus rewarding the overstatement of power and tolerating poor durability and maintenance. Some electric companies offer rebates to their customers, such as Austin Energy in Texas, which offers $2.50/watt installed up to $15,000.[96]
Geothermal power plants can operate 24 hours per day, providing base-load capacity, and the world potential capacity for geothermal power generation is estimated at 85 GW over the next 30 years. However, geothermal power is accessible only in limited areas of the world, including the United States, Central America, East Africa, Iceland, Indonesia, and the Philippines. The costs of geothermal energy have dropped substantially from the systems built in the 1970s.[10] Geothermal heat generation can be competitive in many countries producing geothermal power, or in other regions where the resource is of a lower temperature. Enhanced geothermal system (EGS) technology does not require natural convective hydrothermal resources, so it can be used in areas that were previously unsuitable for geothermal power, if the resource is very large. EGS is currently under research at the U.S. Department of Energy.
Jump up ^ James, Paul; Magee, Liam; Scerri, Andy; Steger, Manfred B. (2015). Urban Sustainability in Theory and Practice:. London: Routledge.; Liam Magee; Andy Scerri; Paul James; Jaes A. Thom; Lin Padgham; Sarah Hickmott; Hepu Deng; Felicity Cahill (2013). "Reframing social sustainability reporting: Towards an engaged approach". Environment, Development and Sustainability. Springer.
The comments stand in contrast to those made by Trump administration representatives also speaking at the energy summit, which is known as CERAWeek. Rick Perry, the energy secretary, on Wednesday criticized what he described as the “mind-set of the Paris agreement” that he contends supports renewable energy to the exclusion of other energy sources. And he took aim at countries pledging to phase out coal use.
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Wind energy research dates back several decades to the 1970s when NASA developed an analytical model to predict wind turbine power generation during high winds.[136] Today, both Sandia National Laboratories and National Renewable Energy Laboratory have programs dedicated to wind research. Sandia’s laboratory focuses on the advancement of materials, aerodynamics, and sensors.[137] The NREL wind projects are centered on improving wind plant power production, reducing their capital costs, and making wind energy more cost effective overall.[138] The Field Laboratory for Optimized Wind Energy (FLOWE) at Caltech was established to research renewable approaches to wind energy farming technology practices that have the potential to reduce the cost, size, and environmental impact of wind energy production.[139] The president of Sky WindPower Corporation thinks that wind turbines will be able to produce electricity at a cent/kWh at an average which in comparison to coal-generated electricity is a fractional of the cost.[140]
For a decade now, we’ve stopped this project in its tracks. Thousands of us have shown up at public hearings, tens of thousand of us have marched in the streets, hundreds of thousands of us have taken action. We’ve made phone calls, we’ve rallied at the white house, we’ve organized, worked in solidarity with the tribes and now, a talented group of pro-environment lawyers have held the Trump administration accountable in court.
Renewable energy (and energy efficiency) are no longer niche sectors that are promoted only by governments and environmentalists. The increased levels of investment and the fact that much of the capital is coming from more conventional financial actors suggest that sustainable energy options are now becoming mainstream.[63] An example of this would be The Alliance to Save Energy's Project with Stahl Consolidated Manufacturing, (Huntsville, Alabama, USA) (StahlCon 7), a patented generator shaft designed to reduce emissions within existing power generating systems, granted publishing rights to the Alliance in 2007.
The British Energy Savings Trust report titled “Location, location, location”: This requires some reading-between-the-lines as the Trust is rather closely aligned with the small wind industry. They looked at 57 turbines for a year, a number of them building mounted, others tower mounted, and concluded that building mounted turbines did very poorly.
There are more specific questions you’ll have to ask yourself about your location and home—e.g., is my next-door neighbor’s oak tree going to block all my sunlight? You’ll also have to take local weather conditions into consideration. Luckily, there are plenty of other resources to help you find your solar potential. See our Tools section for more info.
Anaerobic digestion, geothermal power, wind power, small-scale hydropower, solar energy, biomass power, tidal power, wave power, and some forms of nuclear power (ones which are able to "burn" nuclear waste through a process known as nuclear transmutation, such as an Integral Fast Reactor, and therefore belong in the "Green Energy" category). Some definitions may also include power derived from the incineration of waste.
By participating in a green energy program a consumer may be having an effect on the energy sources used and ultimately might be helping to promote and expand the use of green energy. They are also making a statement to policy makers that they are willing to pay a price premium to support renewable energy. Green energy consumers either obligate the utility companies to increase the amount of green energy that they purchase from the pool (so decreasing the amount of non-green energy they purchase), or directly fund the green energy through a green power provider. If insufficient green energy sources are available, the utility must develop new ones or contract with a third party energy supplier to provide green energy, causing more to be built. However, there is no way the consumer can check whether or not the electricity bought is "green" or otherwise.
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“From an unspeakable event a remarkable record has come. One that sits amongst Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds’ best. Skeleton Tree is full of grief, but full of heart too” - musicOMH
The ADM Top 10 2016
The most acclaimed albums of the year: you can't argue with mathematics
Now everyone's had their say with the Best Albums of 2016 roundups, it's time to take stock of the cold hard facts of what really were the most critically-acclaimed albums over the past 12 months.
The AnyDecentMusic top 10 of 2016 is the most reliable guide to what earned the most extensive overall praise from reviewers. It's the widest survey of worldwide critical opinion around, and you can't argue with mathematics.
We have excluded from the rankings any albums with fewer than 10 reviews from our list of 50 sources from the UK, US, Canada, Australia and Ireland, and the formula we apply to arrive at the ADM rating takes the number of reviews into account.
Below, we give our analysis of what it all means.
Skeleton Tree
"This is not an album for the rest of us; it's a reflex reaction to a torment most people will thankfully never have to endure" - NME
"It would be wrong to think these nine tracks morbid or depressing; Cohen's humanity shines throughout" - The Irish Times
"It's a rare album that sounds this warm, this easy, this melodic, this fierce, this startling, this unforgettable" - Pretty Much Amazing
Seat at the Table
"A luscious, absorbing album - but if you're not its intended audience, you'd better be ready for the questions it raises" - The Arts Desk
22, A Million
"A proud, bruised, tranquil gem" - Loud And Quiet
"A troubling and sad view of the state of things in 2016 but shining a much needed light on some of the ills of society" - The Digital Fix
My Woman
"Oozes unhurried glamour and moments of sweeping grandeur" - Consequence Of Sound
We Got It From Here... Thank You 4 Your Service
"A group who haven't made any music together since 1998 have actually managed to make one of the best albums this year" - State
"Blonde has survived the media frenzy: it's a dignified, down-tempo celebration of taking all the damn time you need to get something done that's worth doing right" - The Skinny
"This is as compelling and coherent a collection as they have ever made. It's a record that you can delve deep into and really inhabit; everything's in its right place" - music OMH
And the next 10
11. David Bowie - Blackstar
12. Sturgill Simpson - A Sailor's Guide To Earth
13. Emma Pollock - In Search Of Harperfield
14. Mitski - Puberty 2
15. Chance The Rapper - Coloring Book
16. Kendrick Lamar - untitled unmastered
17. The Dillinger Escape Plan - Dissociation
18. Ian William Craig - Centres
19. Christine and the Queens - Chaleur Humaine
20. Michael Kiwanuka - Love & Hate
Know how you think you like something but you really don't? Maybe you've convinced yourself using a blend of habit and tradition that, towards the end of the year, you actually like to eat brussel sprouts. Of course, you don't like them really. Nobody does. You just think you do. You've attached a false sense of conclusion to the end of year holiday period. You've force fed significance to the last week of December, convincing yourself that it signals change, and that things will be different, when in reality it's just the Earth spinning around the Sun again. And again. This reverence you've attached to the end of the year is coating your tastebuds. It's convincing you that the stuff you like now is the stuff you've always liked. It's a lie. You don't like sprouts in March. It's okay though, it happens to everyone.
Anyway, on a completely unrelated note, let's compare our sources end of year Poll of Polls with what they actually liked the rest of the year.
David Bowie ran away with the ADM Poll of Polls. And it was something of a foregone conclusion too. If a source didn't name Blackstar their album of the year they usually thought it was top 5. But in our chart, which bases purely on how the sources actually reviewed the albums this year, Bowie only places 11th. Is the fact that the album was mostly reviewed before his death a factor? Probably. Art is shaped by context, after all.
Looking at both charts the other way, Nick Cave and his Bad Seeds top the ADM 2016 Chart with a stunning 8.9 rating. A rating which places him third in our All Time Chart. By the end of the year though, our sources collectively only rated Skeleton Tree 8th. Weird.
Weirder still is the story of the ADM chart's second placed album. Leonard Cohen's 8.8 rating wasn't quite enough to beat Cave, but it was enough to place seventh on our All Time chart. In the year-end Poll of Polls, however, Cohen only managed 14th.
It was Drive-By Truckers, though, who were short-changed the most. Or short-changed the least. Wait, which one is it? When you're short-changed it means you haven't been given enough money back, so it means you have less now. Which makes it feel like 'least' is right. It's probably 'most' though. Everyone usually just says 'most' and it's fine. Let's go with 'most'.
It was Drive-By Truckers, though, who were short-changed the most. Their eleventh album American Band got an 8.4 rating and sits up in 6th on the ADM chart. In the year-end Poll? 35th?
There's more of these stories. Sturgill Simpson's album was the 12th highest rated album of the year and was therefore named the 31st best album of the year. Emma Pollock has the 13th highest rated album, but didn't place at all of the Poll of Polls.
The gulf between what our sources liked all year round and what they think they liked when sitting in a chair sipping mulled booze can be exemplified by one album: The Life of Pablo, by Kanye West. Based on what this time of year can do to tastebuds, it's the 10th best album of the year. Based on it's actual reviews, it's the 158th best album of the year.
Maybe all of this just means that you like things when you like things, and that's okay. Or maybe this means that Kanye West is the sprouts of music. If, in 2017, you find yourself craving brussel sprouts before December, maybe then you'll know.
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Julius Eastman
Julius Eastman was a composer, performer, and vocalist remembered for his captivating performances and minimalist and post-minimalist compositions. After studying piano and composition at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia Eastman became part of the Creative Associates, the University of Buffalo, New York based group founded by conductor Lukas Foss. Working in conjunction with colleagues including Petr Kotik, Gwendolin Sims, Morton Feldman, and others he created a number of works including works for voice, multiple instruments, and dance. Eastman first performed at The Kitchen in 1972 as part of the s.e.m. ensemble, and later moved to the city in 1976. Quickly enmeshed in The Kitchen's community and that of the downtown music scene more broadly he went on to perform here many times throughout his career, premiering new works and collaborating with artists including Meredith Monk, Arthur Russell, Andy de Groat, Jeffrey Lohn, and others. During this period he was also part of the Brooklyn Philharmonia and the CETA Orchestra, performing in a wide range of venues from Carnegie Hall and the Brooklyn Academy of Music to downtown lofts and disco clubs. Eastman died in relative obscurity in 1990 but the past few years have seen a resurgence of interest in his work. In 2016 a presentation of his piece "The Holy Presence of Joan d'Arc" was performed by ACME as part of "From Minimalism into Algorithm."
Crazy Nigger
Julius Eastman, 1980s
Taking Refuge In The Two Principles
Julius Eastman, Performance, 1980s
Humanity And Not Spiritual Beings
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» November-26-2010
» Opening day
DMR cranks up the Six Pack on Nov. 26
SideStory: City shoots for mid-December Chapman opening
A snowgroomer prepares the base area at Durango Mountain Resort for opening day, this Friday. Thanks to 2 feet of new snow, the resort will open with top-to-bottom skiing on the Six Pack./Photo by Stephen Eginoire
by Missy Votel
urgatory is no longer in limbo. Thanks to a strong storm that brought two feet of snow to Durango Mountain Resort over the weekend, the ski area will open this Friday for top-to-bottom skiing on the front side.
“We’re in really good shape,” said DMR spokeswoman Beth Holland. “It’s a great start and one of the best early-season openings we’ve had in a while.”
The resort also opened last season on Thanksgiving weekend, but Holland said the most recent storm put this year over the top. “We are going to have a lot better offering this year than last. And more snow is in the forecast this week.”
As of Tuesday, the Purg has a 24-inch mountain base. According to Mike McCormack, senior vice president of Mountain Operations, this latest snow is atypical of wet, warm storms common of this time of year. “It’s fluffy – definitely not slop,” he said.
Snowmaking crews have been working around the clock since Nov. 1 as temperatures and conditions allow. Holland said ideal conditions are temperatures in the 10-20 degree range with low relative humidity. “We’ve been blowing pretty much continually except for a few warm stretches that we’ve had.”
Also this year, the resort expanded snowmaking on Pandemonium, the resort’s signature stair-stepped front side run. “It’s one of our most popular frontside runs, so this will help ensure good conditions throughout the season,” said Holland.
In addition to the expanded snowmaking, DMR also purchased three new snowcats this season. “One will be dedicated solely to the terrain parks,” she said. “They are a lot more efficient than our existing ones, so we can get a lot more terrain groomed with less fuel.”
On the subject of terrain parks, this summer the resort ramped up its offerings by building permanent earthen park features. In past years, the hits, jumps and half pipes were sculpted of snow by grooming machines, and thus, were more snow and labor intensive. The new dirt-based features will help the terrain parks open earlier in the season and with less effort. “Now it won’t require as much snow to get the parks open, and we hope to have them open a lot earlier in the season,” Holland said.
The biggest news in on-mountain improvements this year is the creation of the Ambassador’s Glade. Named for DMR owners, Chuck and Sue Cobb, who served as U.S. Ambassadors to Iceland and Jamaica, the 40-acre tree-skiing area is accessible via Mercy, on the resort’s front
side. “We wanted to change up the frontside offerings,” said Holland. “We think it’s going to be really popular.”
The new black diamond Ambassador’s Glade follows up on last season’s Legends terrain expansion, which added 30 percent more expert terrain to the mountain. The new terrain now gives the resort a total of 1,360 skiable acres comprised of 20 percent beginner terrain, 45 percent intermediate and 35 percent advanced/expert.
Holland said although Chair 1, the six-pack, will be open Friday, the resort won’t know exactly what runs will be open until Thursday. As a result, ticket prices remain an unknown, but will be based on terrain offerings and be discounted at an early-season price. All season passes, including weekday passes, will be honored this weekend. Like last year, the resort is planning to open for daily operations as soon as snow permits. But in the event conditions do not support seven-day-a-week skiing, Purgatory will open for Friday – Sunday operations, switching to daily operations as soon as possible. Weekday passes will be honored if/when this becomes the case.
But resort operators are optimistic, despite predictions swirling around this
winter’s La Niña, which has been known to bring stubborn high pressure to the Southwest. “People like to talk. We don’t pay much attention,” said Holland. “We’ve had some great La Niña years and some great El Niño years. We think we’re in a good location to benefit from both. It doesn’t affect our planning.”
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Agriculture is generally accepted as the critical foundation for the development of any civilisation. Without it man would have remained a hunter-gatherer and have lacked the potential for generating surpluses, the division of labour and the establishment of urban communities. Therefore, it is not unreasonable to assume that if an ancient urban centre is found, it is evidence of the existence of agricultural skills in the locality at the time of its foundation. Evidence has now been gathered to demonstrate that alongside agriculture, carpentry also advanced, as shown by the improvement of woodworking tools at the same time(c). Studies published in 2013(b) indicate that farming first developed more or less simultaneously over a widespread area of the Middle East from Turkey to Iran.
A recent report has indicated that the small-seeded cereal, millet, had provided a link between hunter-gathering and agriculture(m).
At present the oldest known town is Jericho, which is now dated to around 9600 BC. Similarly, the remarkable discoveries at Göbekli Tepe, also dated to the same period, suggest a considerable settled community that would have been dependent on agriculture. There is now evidence that the first farmers grew rye and wheat in Syria around 11,000 BC.
A hugh cache of wild oats and barley, dated to 9000 BC, were discovered near Jericho in 2006(j).
In Egypt, prehistoric granaries that date back to the Neolithic era, which began around 9000 BC, have been discovered in Fayoum, south-west of Cairo.
R. Cedric Leonard had outlined on his website(a) a range of evidence that would seem to prove that agriculture existed in Egypt before the 9600 BC date that is recorded by Plato for the war with Atlantis.
Peripheral to this, is a recent report that when hunter-gatherers encountered early farmers, they made love not war(k)!
If Plato’s Atlantis existed, it is clear that agriculture was an important part of its economy. We are informed (Crit.118E) that two crops were harvested annually, thanks to rain in winter and irrigation canals in summer. Plato also mentions horses and cattle (Crit.117b). These references are written in the context of a need to feed a large city, not to mention its enormous army (and navy). Plato offers no suggestion than that this advanced agricultural system was anything other than part of an advanced Bronze Age society.
North African Algeria, Egypt and particularly Tunisia, were the ‘breadbasket’ of Rome and may also have been so for the Atlanteans who had control from North Africa to Tyrrhenia! Although, conditions have deteriorated over the past few millennia, Tunisia can still produce two crops a year in low-lying irrigated coastal regions.
The commencement of what we would recognise as agriculture began around the 10th millennium BC. So is theoretically possible that agriculture had developed somewhat by the early date of 9600 BC given by Plato for the war with Atlantis. However, the existence of anything over and above the level of subsistence farming, at this early date, is highly improbable. It would seem clear that Plato has described the agriculture of a Bronze Age civilisation because he would have had no clear idea regarding its state of development in preceding millennia.
A 2013 paper(h) from Tübingen University has demonstrated that studies “show that the origins of agriculture in the Near East can be attributed to multiple centers rather than a single core area and that the eastern Fertile Crescent played a key role in the process of domestication.”
In 2008, archaeologist Melinda Zeder offered evidence that the domestication of animals began around the same time as the management of crops in the 9th and 10th millennia BC in the Near East. These new skills gradually spread throughout the length of the Mediterranean. In the same year Dr. Robin Allaby of Warwick presented a paper in which he pushed back the date for the gathering of wild cereals to before the last glacial maximum (18,000-15,000 years ago).
Even more dramatic is a more recent claim(i) that the dawn of agriculture can be pushed back to 23,000 years ago.
It is interesting that Plato also lists (Crit.115b) produce that possibly grew wild or may have been cultivated:
Fruits having a hard rind providing drinks, meats and ointments
Chestnuts*(no evidence of cultivation before 2000 BC)*
Fruits that spoil with keeping
The ‘pleasant’ kind of dessert
It would be worthwhile to investigate whether all the products mentioned by Plato are consistent with the same geographical latitude. Diodorus Siculus recorded that the Atlanteans did not know the fruits of Ceres – cereals. In fact, according to Wikipedia, cereals were unknown to American Indians. Rand and Rose Flem-Ath have an interesting chapter[062.12] on the subject of agriculture and its development in the context of their own theories. In 2013, Rand Flem-Ath republished(d) his paper on the origins of agriculture that first appeared in The Anthropological Journal of Canada in 1981.
Dale Drinnon’s website has a series of extensive articles(l) on the development of agriculture globally.
Similarly, the Golden Age Project website, now run by Edmund Marriage has a lengthy paper(n) by Steve Gagné on the spread of agriculture.
A more recent article considers the possibility that the introduction of agriculture may have inadvertently led to the endangerment of some early civilisations. The author, Annalee Newitz, editor-in-chief of io9.com cites the abandonment of Catal Höyuk as an example(g).
(a) http://atlantisquest.com/Agriculture.html (offline March 2018) See: Archive 2248 or https://web.archive.org/web/20170126225331/http://atlantisquest.com/Agriculture.html
(b) http://news.discovery.com/human/life/ancient-farming-iran-lithic-130714.htm#mkcpgn=emnws1
(c) http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112673605/neolithic-carpentry-081012/(offline May 2018) See Archive 2250
(d) http://www.flem-ath.com/flemath/a-global-climatic-model-for-the-origins-of-agriculture/ (offline Feb. 2016 – See Archive 2247)
(e) http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/11/science/12visuals.html?_r=0
(f) http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/pressreleases/research_pushes_back/
(g) http://io9.com/how-farming-almost-destroyed-human-civilization-1659734601
(h) http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/07/130705101629.htm
(i) http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/1.667258
(j) http://www.jpost.com/Health-and-Sci-Tech/Science-And-Environment/11000-year-old-grain-shakes-up-beliefs-on-beginnings-of-agriculture
(k) https://www.seeker.com/culture/archaeology/ancient-hunter-gatherers-and-farmers-made-love-not-war
(l) http://frontiers-of-anthropology.blogspot.ie/search?q=agriculture (link broken July 2018) See: Archive 3344
(m) https://popular-archaeology.com/article/millet-the-missing-link-in-prehistoric-humans-transition-from-hunter-gatherer-to-farmer/
(n) http://www.goldenageproject.org.uk/965.php
Tagged agriculture, Annalee Newitz, Catal Hoyuk, Dale Drinnon, Diodorus Siculus, Edmund Marriage, Egypt, Gobekli Tepe, Jericho, Melinda Zeder, R. Cedric Leonard, Rand Flem-Ath, Robin Allaby, Steve Gagne, Tunisia, Tyrrhenia
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Space => Images from Space => Topic started by: Where No Man Has Gone Before on May 20, 2018, 05:15:25 pm
Title: Planet-hunting probe captures first image
Post by: Where No Man Has Gone Before on May 20, 2018, 05:15:25 pm
Planet-hunting probe captures first image
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(https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/images/news_large/news-tess-stars.jpg)
The image shows the southern constellation Centaurus. Image Credit: NASA/MIT/TESS
NASA's new spacecraft has returned a breathtaking two-second exposure which features over 200,000 stars.
Designed to carry on where the Kepler Space Telescope left off, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) launched in to space aboard a Falcon 9 rocket back on April 18th.
The new photograph, which was taken as a test of one of the probe's four cameras, shows only a small fraction of the total area of sky that it will be able to scan when operations begin next month.
Once it gets going, scientists hope that TESS will find thousands of previously undiscovered extrasolar planets including many potentially habitable worlds in neighboring solar systems.
The most promising candidates will become targets for the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope.
"TESS will be the first space-based, all-sky surveyor to search for exoplanets - planets outside of our own solar system," NASA wrote on its website.
"However, the spacecraft isn't looking for just any planets. It's specifically searching for those that are Earth-like, and close enough to our own celestial neighborhood that scientists can study them further."
A higher resolution version of the new TESS image can be viewed - here.
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/nasa-s-new-planet-hunter-snaps-initial-test-image-swings-by-moon-toward-final-orbit
Title: Re: Planet-hunting probe captures first image
https://youtu.be/Q4KjvPIbgMI
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Home Works of art Zadkine
Ossip Zadkine - De poëet
Albertplein, Het Zoute
Five specimen were cast from the bronze statue ‘De poëet’ (the poet), also for the city of New York. This statue very delicately expresses the “singer for liberty”. The municipality of Knokke-Heist purchased the statue after the Zadkine exhibition of 1963 in the Casino.
The statue was inaugurated on September 4th 1965, in the presence of the sculptor. The Poet presses Orpheus’ lyre against his chest; it is an ‘incomplete” statue, a plant filled with verses torn loose. The poem Liberté by Paul Eluard was incorporated in the statue.
Purchased in 1963
Zadkine, born in Smolensk, studied drawing and wood engraving at a very young age in England. As of 1908, he studied at the Arts and Crafts School in London. He settled in Paris in October 1909, where he moved in high circles with Leger, Archipenko and Marc Chagall and where he befriended Modigliani. At the start of 1915, he volunteered for military service and served as a soldier-stretcher-bearer in the French army. In the end of 1917, he got injured during a gas attack.
In 1920, Zadkine married the artist Valentine Prax. As of then, he got inspired by cubism, more particularly in fragmenting bodies and an almost musical rhythm, but remained to produce fundamentally expressionistic work. Very gradually, he distanced himself from cubism after 1926 to create his own style, which was strongly inspired by primitive art. Zadkine exhibited his work in various exhibitions home and abroad.
He evolved with his larger bronze Works into a more open style, always balanced between abstract and classical, matter and feeling.
After his stay in America during the Second World War, he exhibited the works he made there in Paris and Rotterdam; there he was commissioned to create his best-known work The destroyed city. He opened The Ossip Zadkine Studio of Modern Sculpture and
Drawing at the Rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs in Paris, mostly directed at American students. He was awarded the Grand Prize for Sculpture at the Venice Biennale in 1950, and gradually became a celebrity, swamped with new assignments. Zadkine died in Paris. This is also where the Zadkine museum was opened in 1980, exhibiting all his works he left to the city.
Belarus, (Smolensk)
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France, (Paris)
Biography Zadkine (NL)
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The Three Feathers Premiere, October 17, 2014
Posted Sunday, September 14, 2014 at 11:32AM
The Three Feathers, my first children's opera, was commissioned by the Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech. The premiere is scheduled for October 17, 2014 at 7:30 pm with additional performances on October 18 and 19, 2014, at the Moss Arts Center in Blacksburg, VA. Please click here for more information and to purchase tickets.
The story is based on a Grimm's fairy tale, and is brilliantly retold by librettist Dana Gioia. The opera takes place in two worlds, each a reflection of the other. Dana writes: "The upper world is a kingdom of daylight, reason and reality. The underworld is a kingdom of shadows, dreams and magic. Each world has its king. Each king is surrounded by a court that challenges his rule — rather ruthlessly in the upper world, quite comically in the underworld. Each world has a lead character — Princess Dora in the upper world (since she will bring in the new rule as her father prepares for his own departure), and the Frog King in the underworld. The opera explores how these two kingdoms, which is to say reality and dream, meet and influence one another."
I started composing the opera in April 2013 and completed the orchestrations in June 2014. Scored for a chamber orchestra of 16 players, the music follows the dramatic arc of the libretto and is thus tuneful, dramatic and appropriately spooky.
Director Beth Greenberg will bring these mysterious and fanciful worlds to life, and Scott Williamson, of Opera Roanoke, will conduct. The production is a collaboration with Virginia Tech School of Performing Arts, Opera Roanoke and the Blacksburg Children's Chorale.
tagged Beth Greenberg, Dana Gioia, Scott Williamson, children's chorus, opera, premiere in Premieres, Public Appearances, The Three Feathers
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Starvationism, Inflationism, and Explotationism
Luzhniki Stadium (1957)
On July 31, 1957, the Grand Sports Arena of the Luzhniki Olympic Complex (commonly referred to the Luzhniki Stadium and previously referred to as the Central Lenin Stadium) was opened in Moscow. This event not only had implications in the world of Russian sports, but also in the worlds of culture and politics.
On the Seventeen Moments in Soviet History site, Lewis Siegelbaum authors a subject essay that refers to the stadium as “The Palace of Sport”. In addition to discussing how Luzhniki Stadium affected Russian sporting abilities, Siegelbaum refers to the building as a manifestation of Soviet progress. He writes, “The opening in 1956 of Moscow’s Luzhniki Sports Complex, located at the southern bend of the Moscow river, was the symbolic culmination of the massive transformations undergone by the entire country.” Siegelbaum goes on to cite numerous improvements in Soviet culture and society, especially in the workforce. He concludes, “All these changes, then, created possibilities for the growth of spectator sports…”. Siegelbaum’s essay illustrates how the construction of the Luzhniki Stadium naturally coincided with the other improvements occurring in Soviet society.
In the Current Digest of the Russian Press database, an article entitled “CONSTRUCTION OF NEW STADIUM IN CAPITAL” discusses the specifications of the new stadium with pride. It finishes by saying, “The new stadium in Luzhniki will be one of the most modern.” The article shows the excitement of the Russian people for such a massive sporting complex. Another article in the database, entitled “GREAT CONCERN FOR THE PEOPLE’S WELFARE“, shows how the stadium could be of political significance to the Soviet people. The author writes, “The constant concern of the Party and government for the welfare of the people is clearly manifested in an event that took place July 31 in Moscow, the capital of our country: the Central Stadium, named for the great Lenin by a decree of the U.S.S.R. Supreme Soviet, was completed and opened in Luzhniki.” The article describes the opening of the stadium in political terms, purporting that it is yet another instance of the Soviet government responding promptly to the needs and desires of its people.
In chapter thirteen of Russia: A History, author Gregory L. Freeze outlines growing discontent amongst the Russian people and the need to address their dissatisfaction. He writes of an anonymous letter sent to the Komsomol at the end of 1956; the letter denounces Soviet propaganda and counters, “‘You [party elites] of course have communism; we have starvationism, inflationism, and exploitationism of the simple working people'” (Freeze 425). This letter illustrates the fact that many Soviet people were discontent with their standard of living. The construction of Luzhniki Stadium can be seen as a concession to the people. Rather than extending certain political freedoms, the Soviet government made efforts to improve Russian life on a cultural level. Although at face value the stadium appears to be merely a sports facility, it could be argued that it dually served the purpose of satiating one desire of the people.
Picture of Luzhniki Stadium taken by me in January of 2013
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2 Responses to Starvationism, Inflationism, and Explotationism
This post offers an essential bridge between some of the key themes of this era: rising popular expectations for opportunity, consumption and leisure; technological advancement; and “peaceful” competition in areas such as sport.
jackscher says:
This is a very interesting post. I really like how it ties a sports stadium to political and cultural circumstances. For people living in bad conditions to be unsatisfied with a luxurious new stadium…. what was wrong with them??
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The Book of Mormon and the X haplogroup….again
The Book of Mormon and the X haplogroup….again [1]
by Tyler Livingston and Ugo Perego on April 29th, 2010
Although this point has been hit on quite a bit, I’d like to add a few points to the discussion of the X haplogroup as evidence for The Book of Mormon. I am not a geneticist, but Ugo Perego, a leading geneticist who has published on the X haplogroup, assisted with the article, and had the final say of it’s content. I’d also like to add that this is not meant to attack anyone, but to just present the facts. Contrary to nearly all the haplogroups in the mtDNA tree, haplogroup X is not geographic specific being found at low frequencies in several places around the world. 1 It is now a commonly accepted theory that the ancient origin of this lineage is the Middle East. 2 In a recent study, the Native American specific branch of haplogroup X (called X2a) was estimated to arrive to North America approximately 14-17,000 B.C. 3 Because X2a entered into the Americas long before Lehi and his party did, it cannot be used as an evidence for any of The Book of Mormon peoples. However, if it is possible that there was an ancient migration originating from the Middle East, would it also be just as possible for a migration to have come from Israel and enter the Americas around 600 BC.?
How haplogroup (X2) arrived in North America, is still a matter of debate that currently cannot be absolutely determined. As stated before, the ancient X root seems to have originated in the Middle East, but by the time it arrived in the Western Hemisphere, it had accumulated enough mutations to differentiate substantially from the other X lineages. As of today, two X2 lineages are found exclusively in North America and nowhere else (X2a and the recently discovered X2g). 4 One recent study placed X2 as being a founding lineage along with the pan American A2, B2, C1, and D1 haplogroups, thousands of years before the Nephites and Jaredites existed:
“Native American populations exhibit almost exclusively five mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroups (A-D and X). Haplogroups A-D are also frequent in Asia, suggesting a northeastern Asian origin of these lineages. However, the differential pattern of distribution and frequency of haplogroup X led some to suggest that it may represent an independent migration to the Americas. Here we show, by using 86 complete mitochondrial genomes, that all Native American haplogroups, including haplogroup X, were part of a single founding population, thereby refuting multiple-migration models. Our results strongly support the hypothesis that haplogroup X, together with the other four main mtDNA haplogroups, was part of the gene pool of a single Native American founding population; therefore they do not support models that propose haplogroup-independent migrations, such as the migration from Europe posed by the Solutrean hypothesis.” 5
Therefore, haplogroup X2 in America is also believed to have come from Asia across Beringia with the other haplogroups. Ugo Perego, a scientist specialized in Native American mtDNA studies, explains why X2 is found only in the Great Lakes area. He writes “haplogroup X2a might have arrived from Beringia through a path that was different from that followed by the pan-American haplogroups. According to environmental and paleoecological data, such a path existed and was represented by the ice-free corridor between the Laurentide and Cordilleran ice sheets, which opened approximately 15 kya or possibly was never completely closed. Through such a corridor, where some glacial-refuge areas have been recently identified, X2a could have moved from Beringia directly into the North American regions located east of the Rocky Mountains. This latter scenario would imply that the X2a expansion in America occurred in the Great Plains region, where the terminal part of the glacial corridor ended, and is in complete agreement with both the extent of diversity and distribution of X2a observed in modern Native American populations.” 6
Since X2a is not found anywhere else in the world, it makes it difficult to trace. A close Asian counterpart to X2a–called X2e–found among the Altai people of Siberia, is thought by some to be the link demonstrating a passage through Asia of the ancestors of Paleo-Indians that eventually brought X2a to the Americas. However, this Asian branch of the X tree is actually a younger “sister” to the American clade, with less genetic variation than the lineages found in North America. In other words, the Asian X2e cannot be considered ancestral to X2a as it has a younger age than the latter. Additionally, X2e is also found among the Druze of the Middle East, thus implying its presence among the Altai as the result of a more recent migratory event. 7
Although it is obvious that the Asian X2e is not ancestral to Native American X2a haplogroup, there is no reason to assume that the ancestor of X2a came also from Asia, through Beringia and then into North America. This could be possible, as geneticist Ugo Perego points out, if “the Asian ancestor of X2a disappeared due to genetic drift (it basically went extinct for not known reasons simply because all the female lineages belonging to the ancestral haplogroup died out – a phenomenon to keep into consideration when studying ancient populations using DNA samples from individuals living today). Genetic drift (a naturally occurring event) and bottleneck (caused mainly by the non-random extermination of millions of Native Americans after the arrival of the Europeans) took over the millennia since the first expansion of the Paleo-Indians to the Americas and greatly shaped the genetic landscape of today’s Native American populations.” 8
He also theorizes that the reason why X2a harbors a unique mutational motif that distinguish it from the other non-American X2 branches is the long period of forced isolation experienced by the ancestors of Paleo-Indians belonging to this haplogroup (as well as to the other Native American lineages) during the time they were “trapped” in Beringia as a consequence of the last Ice Age (20-37,000 years ago). The truly continental in size landmass of Beringia offered a natural refuge for thousands of years. As the water was trapped in ice during that period, the level of the sea was much lower, exposing a natural land bridge connecting Siberia to Alaska. Strong winds and other factors kept ice from forming on the ground, thus providing an ecosystem that would have allowed the survival of small groups of anatomically modern humans. This area was most likely all steppe and tundra and resources were scarce. As such, population growth was not experienced during this time. MtDNA lineages continued to experience accumulation of mutations, which are now observed in the haplogroups that survived and later colonized America’s double-continent. When climate conditions improved, the ice began to melt opening the way into the Americas, for Paleo-Indians belonging to X2a as well as to the other pan-American haplogroups to expand into the inhabited New World. 9
Some North American theorists attempt to show the X haplogroup introduction into the Americas at a more recent time, in an attempt to make it look like it could be from Lehi. While the dating of mtDNA is controversial at best, the dates that are produced by this dating system are generally within an accepted time range. In order for the theory of “Lehi’s X haplogroup” to work, these clocks would have to be off by tens of thousands of years, something that would not be feasible when the evidence is weighed. Ugo Perego wrote “We know few things about [the mutation rate of mtDNA], we assume few things about it- and, as a scientific community, we hope to continue to develop studies that will provide an ever more accurate calculation. However, I seriously doubt that it will move from thousands to hundreds of years ago.” 10
We also have evidence of a late(r) arrival of homo sapiens to the Americas in other dating systems, namely archaeological and geological, which place the populating of the Americas by the founding groups (the X haplogroup being one of them) in the same time period as the mtDNA clocks. Many archaeological sites have been found in the Americas which carbon date to around 12,000 years BP, a date that is not disputed among scholars. Several sites have later dates, but are controversial in one way or another and I do not feel it necessary to enter the debate of arguing for pre-clovis cultures, or whether there was one wave, or three waves of migration into the Americas.
The Clovis culture, a founding population in the Americas, “is considered to be the oldest unequivocal evidence of humans in the Americas, dating between 11,500 and 10,900 radiocarbon years before the present (14C yr B.P.). Adjusted 14C dates and a reevaluation of the existing Clovis date record revise the Clovis time range to 11,050 to 10,800 14C yr B.P.” 11 The melting of the glaciers and the improvement of climate conditions around the same time period allowed for expansion from Beringia.
It has also been claimed that certain cultures in the Great Lakes area, namely the Hopewellian culture, date back to the same time period as The Book of Mormon and therefore, seems to strengthen their case of the geography of The Book of Mormon taking place in North America. In answer to this, one LDS scholar noted “The same principles that scientists use to date the phylogenetic change are used in other processes. Rates of change are indicated and assumed to create a “clock.” That is how archaeological sites are dated, not through phylogenetic changes, but through atomic changes. Same science, different clock.
If you don’t accept any time frame deeper than 7,000 years, then you must also reject the C-14 clock and assume that all dates that it gives are much earlier. If that is really your position, how do you accept the dates for the Hopewell? According to the logic of the way you use science, we shouldn’t trust them and therefore they must be much younger than Nephite society.
How does the C-14 clock get it right only when you want it to, but get it wrong at all other times? Why can you believe that there were people along the Mississippi from AD 200-400 if you believe that all scientific clocks are too fast? They should be much younger than that.” 12
If you accept one form of dating system, you must not reject another when the same principles are used in both. Archaeology and Genetic clocks compliment each other and fit within similar time periods.
1. A 2007 paper reported finding haplogroup X in Mexico: “Characterization of mtDNA Haplogroups in 14 Mexican Indigenous Populations, Rosenda I. Peñaloza-Espinosa et al., Human Biology, June 2007, v. 79, no. 3, pp. 313–320. However, when the samples were retested by a second laboratory, it turned out that they harbored the mutations for haplogroup A2 (a common lineage in Mexico) and therefore they were not X2 as originally reported.
2. Reidla et al. Origin and Diffusion of mtDNA Haplogroup X, American Journal of Human Genetics 73:1178–1190, 2003; Liran I. Shlush et al., The Druze: A Population Genetic Refugium of the Near East, PLoS ONE 3(5): e2105. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0002105
3. Ugo Perego et. Al. Distinctive Paleo-Indian Migration Routes from Beringia Marked by Two Rare mtDNA Haplogroups, Current Biology 19, 1–8, January 13, 2009
5. Nelson J.R. Fagundes, Ricardo Kanitz, et al., “Mitochondrial Population Genomics Supports a Single Pre-Clovis Origin with a Coastal Route for the Peopling of the Americas,” The American Journal of Human Genetics 82/3 (28 February 2008): 583-592
6. Ugo Perego et. Al. Distinctive Paleo-Indian Migration Routes from Beringia Marked by Two Rare mtDNA Haplogroups, Current Biology 19, 1–8, January 13, 2009, pgs. 4-5
7. Liran I. Shlush et. Al., The Druze: A Population Genetic Refugium of the Near East, PLoS ONE 3(5): e2105. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0002105
8. Personal correspondence with Ugo Perego 3-30-09
9. Ibid, this theory is also supported in a 2007 study “These archaeological dates suggest two likely scenarios. First, the ancestors of Native Americans peopled Beringia before the Last Glacial Maximum, but remained locally isolated (likely due to ecological barriers) until entering the Americas at 15,000 ybp (Beringian incubation model, BIM). Second, the ancestors of Native Americans did not reach Beringia until just before 15,000 ybp, and then moved continuously on into the Americas, being recently derived from a larger parent Asian population (direct colonization model, DCM… The finding that humans were present at the Yana Rhinoceros Horn Site dated to 30,000 ybp suggests that the isolation in Beringia might have lasted up to 15,000 years. Following this isolation, the initial founders of the Americas began rapidly populating the New World from North to South America.” ´ Erika Tamm et. Al. Beringian Standstill and Spread of Native American Founders, PLoS ONE 2(9): e829 2007) This would give the X plenty of time for mutation.
10. Personal correspondence with Ugo Perego 3-30-09
11. Michael R. Waters et. Al. Redefining the Age of Clovis: Implications for the Peopling of the Americas, Science 23 February 2007:Vol. 315. no. 5815, pp. 1122 – 1126, http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/315/5815/1122 [2] hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&FIRSTINDEX=0&maxtoshow=&minscore=5000&HITS=10&searchid=1&resourcetype=HWCIT
12. Brant Gardner, September 6, 2008, in a blog post at: http://bookofmormonevidenceblog.wordpress.com/2008/09/04/initial-respons... [3]
Thank you to Ugo Perego in his great assistance with this article.
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Welcome home, Attila
Wednesday, 05 June 2019 14:59:02 CDT David-Braverman Chicago, Entertainment, General (0)
The former owner of Chicago restaurant Embeya has returned to the city to face charges he misappropriated $300,000 of the restaurant's money:
Attila Gyulai hasn’t been seen in Chicago since traveling overseas in 2016 shortly after shuttering Embeya — then one of the city's most illustrious restaurants. At the time, Gyulai blamed family obligations and the demands of running a restaurant.
But his partners, Thai and Danielle Dang, filed a lawsuit alleging he had been looting the business. And more than a year and a half later, federal prosecutors charged Gyulai with wire fraud, alleging he had misappropriated at least $300,000 “by means of materially false and fraudulent pretenses, representations and promises.”
Gyulai was arrested in late December in Valencia, Spain, where he’d traveled from Ecuador on a 10-day vacation. He waived extradition in March and was finally brought back to the U.S. to face the charges this month, court records show.
An upscale Vietnamese restaurant on the highly competitive Randolph Row, Embeya opened in 2012 to praise for polished cooking by chef Thai Dang and the artfully designed dining room.
Yet the charges alleged that Gyulai, who with his wife owned 56.5 percent of the restaurant and handled the finances, was engaged in fraud from as early as August 2011 to just after Embeya closed.
When the Dangs raised concerns about how the restaurant was being managed, Gyulai fired them and brought in a new chef.
The Dangs prevailed in two court cases against Gyulai, one for $90,000 in unpaid wages and another for breach-of-fiduciary duty among other claims, winning a $1.4 million default judgment in May 2017, according to a previous Tribune report.
I guess $300,000 doesn't go as far as it used to. Maybe he's just done running? Or maybe he forgot Spain and the US cooperate on law enforcement?
How many lawsuits is Eddie Lampert party to?
Thursday, 30 May 2019 09:19:52 CDT David-Braverman Chicago, General (0)
Two made the news this week. First, Lampert has sued Sears (which he owns) for not conveying property that his investment firm bought from the doomed retailer:
Lampert's Transform is accusing the Sears estate, a bankrupt shell entity that is winding down under court supervision, of multiple wrongs including breaking the agreement by holding on to the chain's headquarters in Illinois. The estate is also intentionally delaying payments to vendors and trying to shift $166 million in accounts payable costs, according to the Transform complaint filed on Saturday.
The allegations mirror those made in court filings from Transform earlier this year. The Sears estate also sued Lampert, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and others last month, claiming they wrongly transferred $2 billion of company assets beyond the reach of creditors in the years leading up to the retailer’s bankruptcy.
Meanwhile, in another case, Lampert filed court documents in which he threatens not to pay $43m in severance payments he promised to make:
Lampert also denied that he is responsible for making some payments to creditors he says Sears Holdings is trying to force him to pay, according to the filing. Sears Holdings is the bankrupt remnants of the old Sears. It exists only to settle claims against it involving its few remaining assets.
Lampert had previously agreed to pay the severance to workers who lost their jobs before and during Sears' bankruptcy. Creditors objected to Sears paying severance to people laid off before the bankruptcy, so those workers never received an exit package.
Lampert's attorneys told the bankruptcy court that Lampert and his hedge fund ESL were the best owners to help workers who lost their jobs in various rounds of store closings.
But in the latest court documents, ESL said it wouldn't make the severance payments because Sears didn't give the hedge fund all of the assets it spelled out in ESL and Lampert's agreement to buy Sears. That included the amount of store inventory originally promised by Sears, as well as the company's headquarters in suburban Chicago.
Wow, he really wants to win Worst CEO of the Century, doesn't he? And remember, Lampert never cared about Sears as a going entity; he has always and only wanted the land Sears owns. What a schmuck.
What. The. Fuck?
Friday, 24 May 2019 12:00:53 CDT David-Braverman Entertainment, General, Politics (0)
Burger King has decided to embrace the suck:
Sir, this was a Burger King commercial. Part of a partnership with the nonprofit Mental Health America — as well as an unsubtle dig at the McDonald’s Happy Meal — the nearly two-minute “short film” promotes a limited-time, select-city product called “Real Meals,” which correspond to a customer’s “real” mood: Blue, Salty, Pissed, DGAF and YAAAS. In place of information about where to seek help if you’re experiencing feelings of depression, which would usually appear at the end of a public-service announcement, title cards explain: “No one is happy all the time. And that’s O.K.,” followed by an image of each of the Real Meals, jarring pops of color after the gloomy video. (No matter which mood you announce to the cashier taking your order, or to the touch screen that has replaced her, each box contains the same thing: a Whopper, fries and a drink.)
Insulting both the customer and the product might seem like a bad strategy for selling stuff. But it’s consonant with a broader shift in advertising, fueled by social media, whereby brands have felt compelled to veer dramatically off-script and imitate the most attention-seeking people online: Netflix recently ranted on Twitterabout the sexist connotations of the term “chick flicks”; inspired by a negative comparison, Vita Coco threatened to send one hater a jar of urine; Steak-umm has cultivated a bizarre, meme-fluent Twitter presence that breaks the fourth wall to discuss the difficulty of social media marketing and refers to the company’s core product as “frozen beef sheets.” All this antiadvertising has succeeded in doing is making our world feel yet more corporatized. Even our friends’ cheerful recommendations for miracle skin-care products or life-changing apps can sound as if there’s something in it for them. Everywhere is an Arby’s, sir.
“Life sucks — you might as well eat Burger King” is a reasonable attitude for an individual to espouse in this situation. ... [But] Burger King is not a person; life sucks at least in part because of Burger King.
I hope this trend stops soon. Of course, having studied marketing in a data-oriented school, I can tell you that no one really knows if marketing works. So Burger King and the other brands taking these bizarre turns in marketing will continue to do so because they won't have any data telling them not to.
I keep thinking of Robert Heinlein's novel Friday, in which Heinlein's own expy says this: "A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot."
In other news...Therexit!
Friday, 24 May 2019 11:13:02 CDT David-Braverman Entertainment, General, Politics, Travel, Weather (0)
Burger King's brand implosion aside, other, more important news came out in the last couple of days:
This morning, UK Prime Minister Theresa May announced she would step down on June 7th, having lost the confidence of the right-wing crazies holding her majority together. The likely outcome of this will be Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who is actually less popular than May, forcing a general election through incompetence by the August bank holiday.
The heads of NOAA and NASA have raised the alarm that the proposed 24 GHz frequency band proposed for 5G wireless will mask the existing 23.8 GHz frequency of passive microwave energy which weather forecasting systems need to actually forecast weather.
Since February 2017, when he took his first of over a hundred golf trips as president, Donald Trump has cost us more than $100 million playing golf.
San Francisco's KPIX-TV Broadcast Operations Manager Eliot Curtis apparently gave himself an LSD trip while repairing a 1960s-era synthesizer.
Must be Friday.
Is it time to break up Facebook?
Thursday, 09 May 2019 12:41:43 CDT David-Braverman General, Politics, Work (0)
Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes thinks so:
America was built on the idea that power should not be concentrated in any one person, because we are all fallible. That’s why the founders created a system of checks and balances. They didn’t need to foresee the rise of Facebook to understand the threat that gargantuan companies would pose to democracy. Jefferson and Madison were voracious readers of Adam Smith, who believed that monopolies prevent the competition that spurs innovation and leads to economic growth.
A century later, in response to the rise of the oil, railroad and banking trusts of the Gilded Age, the Ohio Republican John Sherman said on the floor of Congress: “If we will not endure a king as a political power, we should not endure a king over the production, transportation and sale of any of the necessities of life. If we would not submit to an emperor, we should not submit to an autocrat of trade with power to prevent competition and to fix the price of any commodity.” The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 outlawed monopolies. More legislation followed in the 20th century, creating legal and regulatory structures to promote competition and hold the biggest companies accountable. The Department of Justice broke up monopolies like Standard Oil and AT&T.
For many people today, it’s hard to imagine government doing much of anything right, let alone breaking up a company like Facebook. This isn’t by coincidence.
Starting in the 1970s, a small but dedicated group of economists, lawyers and policymakers sowed the seeds of our cynicism. Over the next 40 years, they financed a network of think tanks, journals, social clubs, academic centers and media outlets to teach an emerging generation that private interests should take precedence over public ones. Their gospel was simple: “Free” markets are dynamic and productive, while government is bureaucratic and ineffective. By the mid-1980s, they had largely managed to relegate energetic antitrust enforcement to the history books.
This shift, combined with business-friendly tax and regulatory policy, ushered in a period of mergers and acquisitions that created megacorporations. In the past 20 years, more than 75 percent of American industries, from airlines to pharmaceuticals, have experienced increased concentration, and the average size of public companies has tripled. The results are a decline in entrepreneurship, stalled productivity growth, and higher prices and fewer choices for consumers.
The same thing is happening in social media and digital communications. Because Facebook so dominates social networking, it faces no market-based accountability. This means that every time Facebook messes up, we repeat an exhausting pattern: first outrage, then disappointment and, finally, resignation.
Hughes makes excellent points. Just because the industries look different than those in the 1890s doesn't mean they haven't consolidated too much. History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
The fart of the deal
Wednesday, 08 May 2019 11:32:33 CDT David-Braverman Politics (0)
Everyone knew that Donald Trump lost millions on bad business deals and bad management in the 1980s and 1990s. But we never knew how badly he dealt and managed until now. The New York Times obtained official IRS data on Trump's tax returns from the years 1985 to 1994, showing he lost a staggering $1.17 billion during that period—equivalent to more than $2 billion today:
Mr. Trump appears to have lost more money than nearly any other individual American taxpayer, The Times found when it compared his results with detailed information the I.R.S. compiles on an annual sampling of high-income earners. His core business losses in 1990 and 1991 — more than $250 million each year — were more than double those of the nearest taxpayers in the I.R.S. information for those years.
Over all, Mr. Trump lost so much money that he was able to avoid paying income taxes for eight of the 10 years. It is not known whether the I.R.S. later required changes after audits.
The new information also suggests that Mr. Trump’s 1990 collapse might have struck several years earlier if not for his brief side career posing as a corporate raider. From 1986 through 1988, while his core businesses languished under increasingly unsupportable debt, Mr. Trump made millions of dollars in the stock market by suggesting that he was about to take over companies. But the figures show that he lost most, if not all, of those gains after investors stopped taking his takeover talk seriously.
Jennifer Rubin finds five takeaways from the report, and Trump's non-denial of it. Her final point is spot-on:
Finally, do not expect the revelations to dim the Trump cult’s reverence for its leader. If he isn’t really as rich as he said, they will commend him for pulling a fast one (even on voters). If the story is false, it’s one more bit of evidence for their media paranoia. Sadly, the Fox News and talk-radio crowd long ago jettisoned any concerns that they’ve invested their hopes in a con man, someone who has lied and finagled his way through life and into the White House. To admit that would be to recognize they were dupes, victims of another Trump scam. That, they will never do.
The Trump cultists have gone this far and they will go farther. As Matt Ford says, we have not even begun to approach "peak Trump." It's going to be a very long 18 months until the next election.
The Art of the Possible, Illinois marijuana edition
Monday, 18 March 2019 17:13:33 CDT David-Braverman Chicago, Entertainment, Politics (0)
Yet another Chicago-based medical marijuana company has merged with an out-of-state company ahead of an expected legalization of recreational pot this summer:
Chicago’s Cresco Labs on Monday unveiled a $120 million merger that allows it to expand into Florida, where analysts predict demand for medical marijuana will significantly grow in the coming years. By 2022, the market for medical pot could reach a whopping $1.7 billion, according to analysts’ projections.
Under the agreement, Cresco will acquire Florida marijuana grower and retailer VidaCann, a move that will allow Cresco to operate 30 medical dispensaries in the nation’s third most populous state. The company aims to significantly expand its operations by the end of the year, in part by doubling the size of its medical marijuana cultivation center. It also plans to have 20 dispensaries open by year’s end.
Last week, a Phoenix company announced one of the largest pot deals in U.S. corporate history by taking over Chicago-based Verano Holdings for $850 million.
If Cresco’s ownership of VidaCann is approved, Cresco could surpass another major marijuana player based in Chicago — Green Thumb Industries, which currently has 11 cultivation centers.
A vote on legalizing recreational cannabis could come as early as July, and is expected to pass.
What about RICO?
Monday, 04 March 2019 13:05:26 CST David-Braverman Politics (0)
Author Garrett M. Graff, writing for the Times, suggests that Rudy Giuliani's approach to prosecuting cases under the Racketeering-Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) could provide the model for dismantling the Trump Organization:
Fighting the Mafia posed a uniquely hard challenge for investigators. Mafia families were involved in numerous distinct crimes and schemes, over yearslong periods, all for the clear benefit of its leadership, but those very leaders were tough to prosecute because they were rarely involved in the day-to-day crime. They spoke in their own code, rarely directly ordering a lieutenant to do something illegal, but instead offering oblique instructions or expressing general wishes that their lieutenants simply knew how to translate into action.
Those explosive — and arresting — hearings led to the 1970 passage of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, better known as RICO, a law designed to allow prosecutors to go after enterprises that engaged in extended, organized criminality. RICO laid out certain “predicate” crimes — those that prosecutors could use to stitch together evidence of a corrupt organization and then go after everyone involved in the organization as part of an organized conspiracy. While the headline-grabbing RICO “predicates” were violent crimes like murder, kidnapping, arson and robbery, the statute also focused on crimes like fraud, obstruction of justice, money laundering and even aiding or abetting illegal immigration.
The sheer number and breadth of the investigations into Mr. Trump’s orbit these days indicates how vulnerable the president’s family business would be to just this type of prosecution. In December, I counted 17, and since then, investigators have started an inquiry into undocumented workers at Mr. Trump’s New Jersey golf course, another crime that could be a RICO predicate; Mr. Cohen’s public testimony itself, where he certainly laid out enough evidence and bread crumbs for prosecutors to verify his allegations, mentioned enough criminal activity to build a racketeering case. Moreover, RICO allows prosecutors to wrap 10 years of racketeering activity into a single set of charges, which is to say, almost precisely the length of time — a decade — that Michael Cohen would have unparalleled insight into Mr. Trump’s operations. Similarly, many Mafia cases end up being built on wiretaps — just like, for instance, the perhaps 100 recordings Mr. Cohen says he made of people during his tenure working for Mr. Trump, recordings that federal investigators are surely poring over as part of the 290,000 documents and files they seized in their April raid last year.
Indicting the whole Trump Organization as a “corrupt enterprise” could also help prosecutors address the thorny question of whether the president can be indicted in office; they could lay out a whole pattern of criminal activity, indict numerous players — including perhaps Trump family members — and leave the president himself as a named, unindicted co-conspirator.
Of course, the President could try to pardon everyone but himself, even if that leaves himself open to state charges in New York and elsewhere. But for the time being, the Southern District of New York and other bodies seem to be laying out the larger RICO case just fine. Can't wait to see it.
Amazon abandons its HQ2 site in New York
Thursday, 14 February 2019 12:32:39 CST David-Braverman General, Politics (0)
The company announced today that it has given up on building out its new headquarters in Queens:
[T]he agreement to lure Amazon stirred an intense debate about the use of government incentives to entice wealthy companies, the rising cost of living in rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods, and the city’s very identity.
Amazon’s decision is a major blow for Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio, who had set aside their differences to bring the company to New York.
But it was a remarkable win for insurgent progressive politicians led by Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, whose upset victory last year happened to occur in the district where Amazon had planned its site. Her win galvanized the party’s left flank, which mobilized against the deal.
State Sen. Michael Gianaris, a vocal critic who was chosen for a state board with the power to veto the deal, said the decision revealed Amazon’s unwillingness to work with the Queens community it had wanted to join.
“Like a petulant child, Amazon insists on getting its way or takes its ball and leaves,” said Mr. Gianaris, a Democrat, whose district includes Long Island City. “The only thing that happened here is that a community that was going to be profoundly affected by their presence started asking questions.”
In its statement, Amazon said it has no plans to re-open the search for a second campus.
I'm actually glad they pulled out, as I expect so are many people in New York. The concessions Amazon secretly extracted from the state and city were worth more than $3 billion, with only the company's promises guaranteeing 25,000 new jobs in Queens. (Ask Wisconsin what a company's promises are worth.)
Sears lives to die another day
Saturday, 09 February 2019 12:59:30 CST David-Braverman Chicago, General (0)
On Thursday, a court accepted Eddie Lampert's $5.2 bn bid to keep Sears running and himself as its head:
Lampert’s purchase, made through his hedge fund, ESL Investments, is intended to keep 425 Sears and Kmart stores open, preserving some 45,000 jobs. It was the only bid submitted in an auction that would have kept the once-mighty department store giant in business and avoid liquidation.
Lampert’s plan was opposed by a committee of unsecured creditors skeptical that Hoffman Estates-based Sears will be any more successful after exiting bankruptcy. The committee pushed for a liquidation, arguing that shutting down the company and selling its assets could recover more of what Sears owes.
Still unresolved is a dispute between Sears and ESL over which is responsible for paying $166 million for inventory received after Sears filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Oct. 15. Although Drain did not have jurisdiction to decide the issue, he gave an advisory opinion in favor of Sears’ claim that ESL is responsible for those liabilities.
The judge’s decision saves Sears from liquidation, but still unanswered is whether Lampert can reinvigorate a retail chain that many consumers have fond memories of, but no current relationship with. Lampert has said he wants to invest in smaller stores and those that are profitable, with a focus on popular categories like appliances and repair services.
I'm not a bankruptcy attorney, so I don't know whether this is a good ruling. I, personally, would have preferred that Sears stay open and Lampert stay far away from it. But at least it's not dead yet.
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Given a conflict between “good for us” or “good for me,” people generally pick the second. That proposition, obvious as it is, underlies most of economics. Thank goodness, human beings often rise above self-interest in ways that redeem human society.
But politicians shouldn’t push their luck. Consider what the European Union is asking of the Greeks. The austerity imposed as a condition of the bailout goes beyond expecting Greeks to behave like Germans, which would be heroic enough. No, the Greeks are expected to do penance for their past profligacy, the “sackcloth and ashes” Full Monty.
Kidding ourselves
Reluctant to think ourselves selfish, we have a remarkable capacity to convince ourselves that “good for me” is also “good for us.” That capacity for self-delusion is evident in results from the Pew Global Survey: Respondents in Britain, France, Germany, Greece, Spain, Italy, Poland and the Czech Republic were asked to identify the “hardest working” people of Europe. Seven picked the Germans. The Greeks picked themselves. For the title, “least hardworking,” five picked the Greeks, but the Greeks fingered the Italians.
Is it any wonder that the Greeks’ penance is insincere? Or that support for austerity among voters proved to be so tenuous in Sunday’s election?
That invisible hand
If Greece still used the drachma (instead of the euro), global markets would impose austerity impersonally—not only would the hand be invisible, but the fingerprints would be smudged. Here’s how it works. A nation spends money it doesn’t have, as Greece has done habitually. To make up the difference, it borrows on global markets or prints more money. As a consequence, the exchange rate falls.
Remember that a country’s exchange rate is an expression of confidence in the future value of its currency. Excessive borrowing erodes that confidence. And printing money has an even more direct impact on the exchange rate—if the supply of anything rises without a change in demand, the price falls.
The falling exchange rate reduces the value of the nation’s labor and goods, forcing its people to work harder to earn the same amount of foreign stuff—cars, corn, cameras. Voila! Austerity without an election. Sure, lots of people know who is responsible, more or less. But the fingerprints are smudged and everyone has an alibi.
Inside the euro zone
Countries in the euro zone gain the stability of group membership but lose the exchange rate as an instrument of policy. When they get into trouble, the only choices are to spend less, tax more, or borrow. First they try borrowing—but if investors fear default, they’ll ask for higher and higher interest rates, making the fiscal situation worse.
Enter the bailout: Strong euro zone members back loans to weak ones as the alternative—default—would hurt even more. But they extract austerity measures (spending less, taxing more) in exchange.
Which brings us back to the willingness of voters to embrace sacrifice: We can rise above our own self-interest, but we must be inspired to do so.
Are we different?
Cultural and social mores empower us to vote against our personal interest. The New York Times’ David Brooks recently wrote of our increasing tolerance for debt. He speculates that people of previous generations lived with much greater insecurity. My mother’s generation, raised in the Great Depression, learned a deep-seated aversion to debt that has served us well. But no longer. We max out our credit cards, assume massive amounts of debt for college, and take out mortgages we cannot afford. Our willingness to go into debt was one of the (many) triggers of the Great Recession.
Brooks argues persuasively that voters are unwilling to embrace the hard truths of scarcity. The Greeks want to believe that life can go on as before without painful cuts in spending or increased taxes. Americans eagerly embrace tax reduction, but are unwilling to ask less of government.
Democracy may be better than the alternatives, but it is an imperfect tool. We must look to inspired leaders, our educational system, and social and cultural institutions to help us see beyond our own narrow interests.
Greece defers crisis
The rebirth of the drachma may still come, although, in Sunday’s voting, Greek voters narrowly supported what The Economist dubbed “chronic misery” over “acute disaster.” The margin was narrow—the party supporting austerity (the chronic misery option) won only 30% of the votes. Its principal opponent (whose desire to abandon the euro would likely precipitate acute disaster) won 27%. The New Democracy party just formed a government. But it is a perilously weak coalition of uneasy bedfellows. Its ability to act boldly to reform the Greek economy will be quite limited.
Britain: “I Told You So . . .”
Under PM Margaret Thatcher, the British chose to retain the pound, declining an invitation to join the euro. Perhaps they can be excused a little triumphalism, as circumstances have confirmed the wisdom of that decision, at least for Britain. As the likelihood of an immediate euro withdrawal by Greece recedes, markets have turned their attention to Spain, driving up the Spaniards’ cost of borrowing. From the perspective of investors, the Spanish bailout seems too late and too small. Nigel Farage, a British member of the European Parliament, notes in this video clip the absurdity of weak Euro Zone members being forced to add to their indebtedness at a high interest rate to lend to Spain at a lower one. The euro may weather this crisis intact, but currency unions without political union cannot last forever.
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To find a new angle on a topic as saturated with fictional and nonfictional treatments as World War II is a challenge for any author. As Kate Quinn mentions during my most recent New Books in Historical Fiction interview, the war is garnering a great deal of attention at the moment, perhaps because the last members of the generation that lived and fought through it are passing away.
It’s all the more remarkable, therefore, that Quinn does uncover such an angle in her latest novel, The Huntress, released earlier this week. In fact, it would be fair to say that she uncovers three or four different angles, which perhaps explains why her book provides such a good read.
The first detour from conventional approaches to World War II is Quinn’s decision to focus on a female war criminal, not one of the usual leaders or even camp guards, and to pick up her story at the moment when she goes on the run to escape arrest and prosecution at Nuremberg. After an initial short scene from the point of view of this character, the Huntress of the title, we move to the perspective of Jordan, a seventeen-year-old American presented with a new stepmother and stepsister. It’s 1946, and Jordan, a typical American schoolgirl with no direct experience of the war—or, indeed, much experience of life—represents another new angle on the story.
Jordan’s new family members appear to conceal more than a few secrets and sometimes behave in puzzling ways. But what fugitive from the war zone doesn’t have memories she’d rather forget? And the new stepmother is, on the whole, loving and kind. She revitalizes Jordan’s lonely father and even supports Jordan’s own desire to attend college and become a photographer. The new stepsister is even more adorable, winning Jordan’s heart from the moment of their first meeting. Jordan chides herself for her suspicious nature and tries to push her sense of something “off” into a back corner of her mind where it belongs.
This brings me to the third and fourth elements that set this novel apart. From Jordan’s introduction to her new stepmother, we move forward four years to make the acquaintance of Ian Graham, a British war correspondent turned war crimes investigator, who’s intent on tracking down the Huntress and bringing her to justice, not least for the murder of his brother. He receives assistance from his green-card wife, Nina Markova—a former lieutenant in the Soviet Air Force bomber regiment known to its enemies as the Night Witches. Because Nina, it turns out, is the only survivor of the Huntress’s atrocities and thus the only person who can identify their quarry by sight. And how that happened takes us back to Nina’s girlhood on the shores of Lake Baikal in Siberia and forward through her military career and the sequence of events that lead to her encounter with the Huntress.
To say more would be to give away too many details of this wonderfully complex and beautifully realized story. Suffice it to say that the overlapping threads all come together in a satisfying conclusion. So listen to the interview, read the transcript, and most of all, buy the book. You won’t regret it.
The rest of this post comes from New Books in Historical Fiction.
When we think of World War II, we envision a catastrophe of massive proportions: millions killed in concentration camps, on the battlefield, during bombing raids and in the nuclear explosions that ended the war. But World War II can also be seen as a vast collection of small catastrophes—a dozen executions or experiments here, a casual act of antisemitism or cruelty there—committed by otherwise ordinary people who either had no moral compass to start with or lost their bearings in an environment that brought out the worst in them. That insight drives The Huntress (William Morrow, 2019), Kate Quinn’s fast-moving, compelling mystery about Nazi hunters in the decade after VJ Day.
Ian Graham, a British war correspondent, is chasing an escaped Nazi known only as die Jägerin, the Huntress. He is determined to see her tried for her crimes, and his motives are both professional and personal: she murdered his younger brother, as well as a dozen Polish children. With the help of the intrepid Nina Markova, former lieutenant of the Night Witches and the only survivor who can identify the Huntress by sight, Ian follows his quarry’s trail across the Atlantic.
Meanwhile, in Boston, seventeen-year-old Jordan McBride welcomes Anneliese, soon renamed Anna—the love interest her lonely father brings home. A budding photographer, Jordan wants first and foremost to go to college, a goal that Anna supports but Jordan’s father overrules. He considers higher education unnecessary for a young woman in 1946, especially one with marriage plans in her future. But the camera does not lie, and Jordan’s photographs soon raise questions about what Anna really left behind when she fled Europe the year before. And before long, Jordan has to wonder why Anna seems so eager to get her new stepdaughter out of the house.
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February 9, 2008 Thomas Science & Tech, Travel & Leisure
BBC News and The Daily Telegraph wrote earlier this week about the French engineering giant Alstom who has unveiled a new high-speed train. The AGV (Automotrice Grande Vitesse) train will travel at up to 360km/h (224mph), powered by engines placed under each carriage.
Alstom compares the AGV – successor to the TGV – to the world’s largest passenger plane, the Airbus A380 plane, in terms of importance and innovation. The capacity will be increased from 485 to 650 passengers, and at the same time reduce energy consumption by 15 percent. The train will also make less noise.
The first trains will hit the rails in Italy in 2011 and in France around 2014.
Another story that caught my eyes last week was the exploratory plans for a ultrafast eco-friendly passenger jet.
With funding from the European Space Agency, a team of engineers and scientists has come up with the A2, a plane they believe could carry 300 passengers at a top speed of more than 6400km/h (3,000mph)!
Alan Bond, a senior engineer and managing director at the company, said the A2 could be operating within 25 years if there was demand for it.
The A2 is designed to leave Brussels international airport, fly quietly and subsonically out into the north Atlantic at mach 0.9 before reaching mach 5 across the North Pole and heading over the Pacific to Australia.
The flight time from Brussels to Australia, allowing for air traffic control, would be four hours 40 minutes. It sounds incredible by today’s standards but I don’t see why future generations can’t make day trips to Australasia.
The key to the design is the fuel it would use. Conventional fuels would not be able to get the A2 up to the necessary speed, and so Reaction Engines has designed an engine that would run on liquid hydrogen. A spin-off is that liquid hydrogen is potentially much greener than conventional fuel.
Another advantage of the design is that while the 132 metre-long A2 is much bigger than conventional jets it would be lighter than a Boeing 747 and could land on current airport runways.
More information is available at The Guardian.
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Bill Gates, Climate Change and the Capitalist System
written by Richard Ebeling November 12, 2015
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Bill Gates of Microsoft is one of the wealthiest individuals in the world, so when he speaks it is not surprising that the world tends to listen. In a recent interview, Gates has said that capitalism is inherently unable to solve the problem of global warming, and instead there have to be world-encompassing government-business “partnerships” to save Planet Earth.
In the November 2015 issue of “Atlantic” magazine, Bill Gates asserts that private enterprisers are too self-interested, too narrowly focused on short-run market profitability, not innovatively-oriented enough, and not sufficiently incentivized to develop on their own the needed alternative energy sources that can eliminate the use of fossil fuels by the middle of the twenty-first century.
Thus, the only answer is for governments to design an agenda and a plan of action to direct and subsidize the private enterprises that cannot be trusted to solve what he considers the leading problem facing everyone in the world: climate change and global warming.
Bill Gates’ Claim that Climate Change is Real and Government Can Fix It
He pushes aside anyone who questions that: (a) global warming is actually occurring in a scientifically meaningful sense, and (b) that “man” is a leading if not the primary cause of this threat to sustainable life on Earth.
He asserts that anyone who can do a little “math” should see the truth of humanity’s dilemma and the magnitude of its danger. I do not in anyway claim as an economist to know very much about the scientific evidence or its reliability. But there are enough natural scientists and social scientists whose judgment I trust and respect to believe that the case for climate change and global warming is not necessarily a “closed book,” with no basis for questioning the evidence or the climate models used to make the frequent forecasts of planetary doom that are bandied about.
But let us assume for the sake of the argument that the dire predictions were to be true. And that the projected and feared increases in average temperature around the globe threaten to have some or many of the negative effects that are often warned about.
Is Bill Gates correct in his bad-mouthing of private enterprise and his praising of the superiority of government direction and subsidizing of businesses to find solutions to the problem, if it exists?
A number of news and editorial outlets that have commented on Bill Gates’ remarks have said that he declares that only “socialism” can save the planet. In fact, he never uses the word socialism anywhere in the interview, as best as I can tell. But his comments do raise the issue of the institutions of a market economy versus the workings of the political process.
Adam Smith, Self-Interest, and “the Invisible Hand”
Since the time of Adam Smith in the eighteenth century, economists have explained and emphasized that there is no denying that people are guided by the pursuit of whatever they come to consider to be their own “self-interest.” Self-interest, however, comprises more than the distorted and cliché conception of the greedy person who cares for nothing except his own narrowly defined material desires.
Reasonable economists and social scientists in general have always insisted that for people in the real world self-interest includes and incorporates whatever the individual considers to be of value and importance to him. This may include family and friends, neighbors and the community in which a person lives. It can also extend to a serious and thoughtfully benevolent concern for the betterment of humanity as a whole.
But whatever maybe the horizon and content of the individual’s concerns, they are what he defines as important and of value to him. The question is, how shall he proceed to attain the goals and values he wishes to pursue and provide for?
The unique character of the free market society is that it is based on the idea of the rights of the individual to his life, liberty and honestly acquired property. The “rules of the game” in the competitive market economy are fairly simple and commonly shared by most rational and reasonable people: you don’t kill; you don’t steal; and you don’t deceive or defraud.
This means that all human relationships are based upon and require the voluntary choice and mutual consent of the participants. If you want something that another has, you must apply your knowledge, talents and abilities to produce and offer to that person something that they may value more highly than what they have that you want, and therefore will be willing to give to you in trade at terms that have been agreed upon.
This is what Adam Smith and others after him meant by the phrase that, as if by “an invisible hand,” each individual following his own self-interest in the competitive market at the same time serves to improve the circumstances of others in society, even if it was not the original motivating and conscious intention of any of the people participating in the arena of what is, now, a vast market of global trade and exchange.
Precisely because of the inescapable self-interested conduct of each and everyone of us, we all have a motive to wisely, thoughtfully and effectively use, husband, and improve the property that we own whether it be the “human capital” of our own skills and abilities, or the resources and physical capital equipment in our possession, or the financial assets through which we save, investment and plan for the future.
Private Property, Future Gains, and Humanity’s Improvement
Why? Because all of these productive means to our various self-interested ends depend upon not wasting and wrongly applying them in ways that diminish their value and usability both in the present and the future.
Don’t repair the roof on your house and you not only risk ruining everything inside when it rains but also you diminish or even destroy its resale value sometime in the future. Too wastefully or hastily use up a resource that has marketable value both now and in the future, and you reduce its capacity and availability to enable you to earn income in the years ahead to acquire the things that money income can buy both now and then.
This is why businesses take valuable and productive machinery off-line for repair and maintenance so as not to have to incur a greater expense to replace it sooner than would have to be the case. Or why the farmer leaves fields fallow to restore nutrients in the soil so the land may be used for generating profitable crops in future years.
When property rights are secure and income received from profitable use is allowed to be retained by individuals owning that property, the more that prospective gains and personal improvements act as positive incentives for thinking ahead, and planning and acting with opportunities in the future in mind.
The Austrian-born economist, Joseph A. Schumpeter described the market-oriented entrepreneur as the positive innovator of change who, precisely in the pursuit of self-interested improvement and profit constantly, transforms the society through innovations that improve the quality of existing products, offers new and previously unimagined new products, introduces new and more efficient technologies to more cost-efficiently bring goods to market, and devises ways to more effectively organize private enterprises to get more of what people desire through the better arrangement of the production process.
Schumpeter famously called it the market’s competitive process of “creative destruction,” which innovatively substitutes the existing productive means of providing standards of living in society with better means and methods that improve the quality and standard of life for virtually all over time.
Government and the Politics of the Short-Run Horizon
Contrast this with the motivations and incentives of politicians and government planners and regulators. Those in political office or who manage the government bureaucracies have no “assets” to use and spend other than those that have been taxed away from the citizenry of the country.
Their effective control over those tax funds and government-owned assets extends no further than the next electoral cycle, the outcome of which can see them removed from office and replaced from their senior positions of power. Hence, the politician’s horizon of personal interest and planning rarely extents beyond the next election, whether that be two, or four, or six years away in the American political system.
And those who hold the appointed senior positions in the departments, bureaus, and agencies retain their power only for as long as they focus on and serve the interests of the president who has made them the head of a branch of the bureaucracy.
Short-term pay-offs that offer vote-getting photo opportunities, or that satisfies the financial and related interests of individuals and groups whose pockets can provide the campaign contributions for the next run for re-election, or positive “images” for the media and future history books as part of the “legacy” of a president (or prime minister) are as far as those who guide and direct governmental policies and actions have as their decision-making time horizon.
Private vs. Government Incentives and Planning Horizons
The private enterpriser in the marketplace invests his own money or borrowed funds for the use of which he has entered into legal obligations to pay back with interest. When the businessman plans the construction of a new manufacturing factory that once built can stand and be productively used for decades; or purchases land that has on it raw materials under the ground or timber on the surface, for instance, that have marketable value and profitability for even a century ahead if properly conserved and economized; or who buys expensive and durable capital machines, tools and equipment the productive lifespan of which may extent, with proper maintenance and repair, for many years into the future; when he does any or all of this, he must weigh the financial gains in the present with the profitable rewards that may be available in the future with wise use of the private property that he oversees, manages and owns.
Who, therefore, has the greater personal incentive and financial motive to take the future into account before making decisions in the present? The market-oriented private enterprisers who must carefully weigh how his present actions will have a positive or negative effect on his abilities to earn desired revenues and profits in the future, depending on how they wisely use their own property? Or the politician who spends other people’s tax-collected money and has no permanent “skin-in-the-game” outside of his ability to pander to special interest groups before the next election to obtain from them campaign contributions and votes on election day?
Yet, because some other businessmen may not share Bill Gates’ conception of desirable and profitable in terms of what he thinks to be important and should be invested in, those other businessmen are, therefore, shortsighted and “irrational” in their disregard of what should be done to “save the planet.”
While, clearly, politicians, scientific “experts,” and non-governmental organizations that share Gates’ views on the form and types of “solutions” to environmental and related problems are far-seeing, thoughtful, and “rational” in understanding what sacrifices and actions are called for in the present to save the future from disaster.
Private Property, Profits, and Environmental Rationality
In a free, competitive market, private enterprisers direct their production activities to serving and satisfying what they perceive as the most likely and profitable consumer demands of the future.
This applies no less to the environment than any other aspect of economic life. One of the most vital functions performed y a free market economy is to assist in economizing and preserving resources that people value and that are limited in supply.
Nothing is a stronger force for conservation than the profit motive and the institution of private property. When a person is allowed to own something, he has incentive to think twice before he wastes or abuses it. If he does waste or abuse what he owns, he directly suffers the cost because he loses the benefits that could have been his if only he had shown more care. And nothing is likely to result in greater abuse and misuse of something than when it is owned by nobody.
What is worth preserving in nature? What are the best means and methods to care for resources? Should we merely maintain what we have, or should we expand its supply? Have we set aside too much and, in fact, encroached too heavily on the attainment of other ends we also value?
Even the most ardent environmentalist – unless he is one of those few extremists who would like to see man extinct in the belief that everything is worth preserving except the human race – believes that some land also must be used for residential housing, for places of work, and non-wildlife recreation.
To live, man must grow food, raise animals, and use resources for clothing, the daily amenities of life, and the arts and sciences. The advantage of leaving these problems to the marketplace is that it is then up to the people themselves to decide these issues.
Suppose that people want more wildlife areas for aesthetic appreciation or recreational enjoyment. The greater demand for these things, as expressed in the prices that consumers are willing to pay, increases the profitability for land and resources owners to use less of what they own for other purposes and instead shift their resources and property into these more highly valued uses. If owners of land and resources most attractive for these purposes fail to do so, they will miss out on the higher income they could be earning.
If an increased demand for housing and arts and crafts brings about an increased rate of deforestation, the remaining forests not yet touched by the woodchoppers axe will rise in price because of their increased scarcity. This creates incentives on the part of the forest owners to think ahead and replant trees as a greater rate, so the prospective higher profits can be reaped in the future through harvesting or through other uses valued by consumers.
If urban areas begin to encroach on areas of natural beauty – and if members of the society value them enough to be willing to pay for their preservation – the market will see to it that ownership of these areas passes into the hands of these people because that where the greatest monetary return is expected.
Environmental Problems and the Tragedy of the Commons
Where are pollution problems, ecological imbalances and assaults on areas of natural beauty most often taking place? Invariably, they are taking place in areas in society in which private property rights have not been permitted or have not been clearly defined and enforced.
No one knows for certain, in these cases, “what is mine and what is thine.” In many of these areas, the resources in question are either in a no-man’s-land of non-ownership or they are under the jurisdiction of the government. Non-ownership always produces what is known as the “tragedy of the commons.” Where there is no owner, there is no or a reduced cost for excessive misuse of a resource. And when no one directly feels the cost – in terms of lost income or depleted resale value – then everyone who has access to that ownerless resource will try to get as much out of it as is possible before others do.
When property rights are not clearly defined, people will often act in ways that do not take into consideration the full effect and cost upon others. Resources, or land, or the air are wrongly or excessively used because the users do not have to weigh or pay for the full consequences of their own actions upon others. This is the source of practically all of the environmental and pollution problems that are cause for concern today.
If “climate change” and “global warming” are, in fact, problems facing people on Planet Earth, it is due to an atmospheric tragedy of the commons. The question, then, is, are there private solutions to this problem – if it exists as proponents claim – or does it have to be “solved” through the central planning of global governments and government-business “partnership” as asserted by some such as Bill Gates?
That is what will be discussed in next week’s article.
[Originally published at Epic Times]
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Here is a story by Mario Toneguzzi from the Calgary Herald
A welcome reminder that the Calgary Stampede is within sight, the annual chuckwagon canvas auction has become known as a reliable measure of the Calgary economy. And if early interest bears out, the city is in good shape.
“The auction is always a bellwether of what Calgary, and for that matter the Alberta economy, is doing. And we are really, really pleasantly surprised,” said Mark Damm, chairman of the Calgary Stampede chuckwagon committee.
“There seems to be a general uptick in a lot of the sectors. And because it’s the (Stampede’s) Centennial and the significance of that event . . . there’s a lot of new players coming to the auction.”
Since 1990, companies have paid millions to sponsor drivers participating in the GMC Rangeland Derby held during the 10-day Stampede.
This year’s auction takes place March 29 at Stampede Park.
Last year, the auction raised $2.84 million, or an average bid of about $79,000. Kelly Sutherland, known as “King Kelly” in chuckwagon circles, drew the top tarp bid of $170,000 from YaYa Calgary.com.
Sutherland, who’s collected a record 12 Rangeland Derby wins, is no stranger to top-dollar bids. The $210,000 paid for his team in 2008 remains a record. The best take from one auction was $4 million in 2007.
“Now, whether or not a record is in reach or not, I think 2007 was an real aberration,” Damm said. “It was just all the variables fit into play that one particular night. We had a bunch of new bidders in the room and that bid everybody up.
“I don’t think it’s realistic to be shooting for that. But are we going to be top five, maybe even top three, auction that we’ve ever had? Absolutely. It’s looking really positive.”
Damm said he expects 240 to 260 registered bidders for the March 29 auction.
Damm said a number of companies have formed consortiums, thinking the cost of a wagon this year could get out of reach for some.
“What we did a few years ago is we changed up our rules and allowed up to 10 entities to own a particular canvas,” he said. “That caught on slowly, but it’s really picking up steam and we’ve started to see more advertisers going together.”
Lorraine Jones, president of the Chickwagon! Foundation for Women, said the organization has sponsored chuck-wagon tarps for 13 years.
The expectation this year, the Stampede’s 100th, is that the bid floor will be crowded, said Jones, whose Rangeland Derby partner the past six years has been Heninger Toyota.
“It was interesting last year. There were a lot of new corporations that bought tarps and a lot of the tarp owners that had bought for years and years before were not present. The tarp auction is always really interesting.”
That’s especially true for the drivers.
“I’m hoping that we can break an all-time record, but whether that happens I don’t know,” Sutherland said. “I’d be very happy with an increase of some sort over last year, which was an increase over the year before.
“Certainly if you sell high, there’s added pressure. . . . I hope there’s people there with some big budgets.”
Chuckwagon driver Jason Glass said he expects good numbers from this month’s auction.
“With the Centennial and the Calgary Stampede working very hard to promote the Centennial year, it’s going to be exciting,” he said.
David Finch, an assistant professor of marketing at the Bissett School of Business at Mount Royal University, said the canvas auction is about status and prestige for sponsors, rather than a consumer-oriented investment.
“It’s all about building equity amongst a very targeted audience as opposed to a traffic-driving type of promotion,” Finch said.
“When you look at the type of organizations that invest in it, it’s a very targeted investment. It really talks about commitment to the community, commitment to the tradition and the history of the Stampede.”
On the lawn or online, auctions are taking place in communities large and small across the country, with more than a quarter-trillion dollars in assets and goods being sold via auction every year in North America. One of history’s oldest forms of commerce, dating back more than 2,000 years, auctions continue to be the quickest and the most effective means of price discovery today.
However, auctions continue to be plagued with misconceptions in today’s marketplace. Auctioneers are far more than just fast talkers. We’ve heard it before from naysayers who say, “Selling at auction is selling at a discount.”We’ve also heard the rumors that auctions “only exist for selling distressed property” and “only junk is sold at auction.”
As unfortunate as these rumors are, what concerns our proud auction professionals the most is that no one questions the market value attained when rare, one-of-a-kind works of art are sold for millions of dollars at auction. No one doubts the prices achieved when luxury homes are sold at auction. No one questions the method when celebrities sell their personal items at auction. However, the mere mention of selling homes, commercial property and other assets through the competitive bidding of an auction creates immediate doubt and uncertainty.
The auction process is straight forward, but perception often clouds reality. An auction is simply a public marketplace where items or property are sold through competitive bidding with the highest bid winning the rights to own. Only at an auction will the marketplace (buyers) tell you what they are willing to pay—no more, no less. If it is perceived as being of more value, competition continues. If the maximum value has been met, bidding ends.
Auctions ultimately force buyers to be decisive. While auctions are used to dispose of distressed assets, most people fail to understand why assets are sold at auction. Auctions provide the speed and efficiency needed to complete transactions while returning the highest dollar value. The “For Sale” sign languishing in the yard today does not force or motivate buyers to purchase. The sign will be there tomorrow and most likely the day after, but with a Real Estate Auction a for sale sign will not be posted after auction day.
If you have any questions about Calgary Real Estate Auctions or Calgary Real Estate in General, please don’t hesitate to contact me.
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African bishop bargains deals for peace in government’s absence
Birthright center opens in Coatesville
COATESVILLE – Now there are six. That’s the number of Birthright chapters within the Archdiocese of Philadelphia dedicated to assisting women with unplanned pregnancies. The latest location, at 529 E. Lincoln Highway, Coatesville, which was formally dedicated and blessed on May 2, joins the two existing chapters in Philadelphia and others in Bala Cynwyd, Pottstown and West Chester.
The new chapter, with co-directors Celeste DiJohnson and Beth Giangiulio, both of St. Elizabeth Parish in Upper Uwchlan, was an idea conceived about three years ago by DiJohnson. She has been a Birthright volunteer for seven years at the West Chester chapter, which is about 12 miles away.
“I thought there might be women in the Coatesville area who were distressed because of an unplanned pregnancy and in need,” she said.
Her own sympathy for women in that situation comes from a very personal experience. “My mother had a similar situation when she was pregnant with me,” she said, “and I’m here, praise the Lord.”
She’d first heard about Birthright through a flyer and was taken by their motto, “It is the right of every pregnant woman to give birth and the right of every child to be born.”
Giangiulio became a volunteer last year through DiJohnson, whom she met at the parish Respect Life Committee meetings.
“I joined Birthright because I think it’s a tragedy that so many babies are destroyed through abortion in our country every year. Unfortunately, our government is moving further away from a pro-life position,” she said. “I wanted to do something to help save those babies and save young women from going through that pain.”
The need for the Coatesville location has already been demonstrated through approximately 10 young women who came to the facility in the first weeks. At this point, the hours of operation are Tuesday 6 to 8 p.m., Wednesday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. These will expand as more volunteers are trained to staff the facility.
Birthright is an international organization founded in Toronto, Canada, by Louise Summerhill in 1968. At this point it has about 450 chapters, many of them in the United States, and they assist approximately 30,000 women each month.
Services provided include free pregnancy testing, completely confidential help, non-judgmental and caring advice, and referrals for legal, medical and educational assistance. Prenatal information, maternity and baby clothes, housing referrals, social agency referrals and information about community services and adoption care are also available.
For more information concerning Birthright Coatesville, call 610-436-0773. For Birthright chapters elsewhere, call the Birthright International 24-hour North American hotline at 1-800-550-4900.
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Kanye West’s ‘All Day/I Feel Like That’ Video to Premiere in a Museum
It's been a minute since we've gotten a new video from Kanye West. However, it looks like that's all going to change because his latest visual will be premiering in Los Angeles this weekend — and in a very special way.
Directed by the award-winning filmmaker of 12 Years of Slave, Steve McQueen, "All Day/I Feel Like That” will make its American debut at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on Saturday (July 25). The nine-minute clip (which is really more like a short film than a run-of-the-mill music video) will be on display in the gallery for four days during the museum's normal hours.
Franklin Sirmans, the LACMA curator in charge of contemporary art, told the New York Times that they received the video from the director after he couldn't make a scheduled talk at the gallery.
The "All Day/I Feel Like That” video originally premiered during Paris Fashion Week at the Foundation Louis Vuitton back in March. Shot at the Chatham Dockyard in England, the camera follows Kanye as he runs through an empty warehouse. The entire video was done in one take and showcases two singles from Kanye's upcoming album, reportedly titled Swish. (For now, anyway.)
You can see clips of the video from its original Paris debut below. Will you be heading to the museum to check out Yeezy's latest work of art?
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Colin's Little Known Facts: Gustav Holst and Thaxted
The famous English composer Gustav Holst lived for some of his life at the delightful Essex village of Thaxted, in the North West of the county close to Saffron Walden and Finchingfield.
He was born at Cheltenham, on the edge of the Cotswolds, where there is a museum dedicated to his life and work.
Holst was organist at the beautiful St. John the Baptist Church at Thaxted, whose spire is one of the finest in England.
It was here that he wrote most of his best known work “The Planets Suite”. One of the themes from this is even better known as the tune for a much loved hymn “I Vow to Thee My Country”. The tune itself has the name “Thaxted”.
Holst also composed the music which is usually used for the Christmas song “In the Bleak Midwinter”, whose words were written by Christina Rossetti.
He died at Chichester, and has a memorial at Chichester Cathedral.
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Preference for masculine/feminine-looking men and national health
Supplementary Table 1 has the relevant data. I have sorted the data on national health index, and average masculinity preference.
Note that country scores were limited only to those judges who identified themselves as White.
As the authors note health index is related inversely with preference for masculinity. However, there are some interesting cases:
Canada and the USA have similar (high) masculinity preferences, even though they differ substantially in the health index.
Iceland and Norway (small sample sizes, but we can combine the two) have a good health index as does Sweden, but a much stronger preference than masculinity than Sweden.
The vast majority of EU nations are around ~0.4 in the masculinity preference index.
An untested factor is variation in the levels of facial masculinity across different nations. Differences in preference may not reflect differences in health, but rather differences in average facially-expressed masculinity. It would be interesting to use anthropometric data to test this possible influence, as "White" populations from different nations are not anthropometrically equivalent.
Another untested factor is the racial makeup of different nations. It is fairly striking that the top nations in masculinity preference (we can exclude Bulgaria with its small sample) are all the ones with the longest histories of racial co-existence. This may have altered attractiveness standards in these countries, as the Caucasoids within each country may have altered perceptions of attractiveness due either to familiarization with other races or (conversely) due to a desire to distance themselves from them phenotypically.
PS: You can download the paper and other face-related research at the Facelab.
Proceedings of the Royal Society B doi:10.1098/rspb.2009.2184
The health of a nation predicts their mate preferences: cross-cultural variation in women's preferences for masculinized male faces
Lisa M. DeBruine et al.
Recent formulations of sexual selection theory emphasize how mate choice can be affected by environmental factors, such as predation risk and resource quality. Women vary greatly in the extent to which they prefer male masculinity and this variation is hypothesized to reflect differences in how women resolve the trade-off between the costs (e.g. low investment) and benefits (e.g. healthy offspring) associated with choosing a masculine partner. A strong prediction of this trade-off theory is that women's masculinity preferences will be stronger in cultures where poor health is particularly harmful to survival. We investigated the relationship between women's preferences for male facial masculinity and a health index derived from World Health Organization statistics for mortality rates, life expectancies and the impact of communicable disease. Across 30 countries, masculinity preference increased as health decreased. This relationship was independent of cross-cultural differences in wealth or women's mating strategies. These findings show non-arbitrary cross-cultural differences in facial attractiveness judgements and demonstrate the use of trade-off theory for investigating cross-cultural variation in women's mate preferences.
Labels Faces, health, International, Race
(conversely) due to a desire to distance themselves from them phenotypically
Yes, that is probably the case. Caucasoids (including South Asians) are in general more masculine-looking than other races (especially Mongoloids (including Native Americans)).
Maju said...
I'm still trying to figure which of the two guys in the photos (composites?) is more masculine, LOL. The one in the left looks more mature and has a thicker neck, while the one in the right looks more childish but has a less round face.
"Differences in preference may not reflect differences in health, but rather differences in average facially-expressed masculinity".
Here you make a very good point: women may be preferring not an unclear "masculinity" (that I really don't see clear at all) but locally typical faces.
Also I notice that the variations in preference do not seem too strong, even at the extremes, have they checked P (statistical significance)?
marnie said...
"I'm still trying to figure which of the two guys in the photos (composites?) is more masculine, LOL."
LOL. They must be brothers.
"Another untested factor is the racial makeup of different nations. It is fairly striking that the top nations in masculinity preference (we can exclude Bulgaria with its small sample) are all the ones with the longest histories of racial co-existence. This may have altered attractiveness standards in these countries, as the Caucasoids within each country may have altered perceptions of attractiveness due either to familiarization with other races or (conversely) due to a desire to distance themselves from them phenotypically."
Here's an example I can think of where attractiveness standards have changed due the presence of racial co-existence. It's quite nicely documented in Brian Sykes book, "Saxons, Vikings and Celts: The Genetic Roots of Britain and Ireland."
I'll quote directly from Chapter 4:
"The first forays of science into the highly charged arguments about British origins came at the height of the Victorian enthusiasm for Saxon superiority. It is hard to imagine how ingrained was the sense that the people of Britain were split into two entirely different 'races' and how superior the Saxons felt about themselves." Sykes goes on to recount how the Victorians tried to differentiate Saxons from Celts using eye and hair color. There were even notions of "Mixed Blond" and "Mixed Dark", for a light hair color with dark eyes, or dark hair color with light eyes.
My conclusion is that various people from the British Isles and their descendants have long struggled with how to identify "themselves." In fact, I believe there is a paper showing that there has been strong selection for blue eyes in Northern European populations. The authors postulate that this selection is due to a desire to select a racially similar mate.
I'd think that the common American preference for blond hair works in the same way. It could be a kind of unsophisticated attempt to identify a perceived racial similar.
It's my impression that until recently, in certain parts of the British Isles such as Ireland and Wales, with less "racial coexistence", blond hair was not particularly in fashion.
Not sure about how the selection for a more masculine face would work, but the racial co-existance hypothesis is an interesting one.
Has anybody tested how this correlates with the tenor or "masculinity" of voice?
Charles Iliya Krempeaux said...
The paper isn't open access, so haven't read it, but did the author try to see if better health makes it so that women who have a endogenous preference for feminized males breed more?
I.e., did the author check to see if that when there's better health, over time, the population's make up changes due to the increased fitness of women with an endogenous preference for feminized males having more children?
Observer said...
What they didnt looked for is the factor of Feminism and cultural Feminisation in society. Obviously all states which score on the rather feminine side have a stronger tendency towards a peaceful, "new male ideal", rather than the classic one. I doubt that in another sociocultural frame f.e. Sweden & Co. would score the same way, regardless of health status.
The most social democratic nations, with a strong tendency towards Cultural Marxism, have the lowest masculinity indices, chance? I doubt it.
All the "macho countries" with more traditional relationships between males and females score high, chance? I doubt it.
A pacifist intellectual which makes the "50:50 share" in the household and with the children is more of an ideal in Sweden than in Bulgaria, Brazil or Turkey and obviously one could talk about how such a behaviour could be related to the physical appearance, the hormonal status of a male.
"LOL. They must be brothers."
These arent faces of real humans but are computer generated.
In fact, its one and the same face, twisted into average masculin and average feminin proportions.
This is, to make sure, the masculin/feminin proportions are the ones who turn the result and not anything else in this face.
Its absolutely clear to my eyes, wich is the "Masculin" version.
The one with the Neanderthalian jaws, the small eyes, the huge monkey ears. Clearly, the left one is the ogre. Uh, the masculin man I mean. ;)
He looks like a football quarterback.
The right has small jaws. Small ears, big eyes. He has something of the apaearance of a weasel or a rat. ;-P
It can be seen more clearly if you put both images exactly above each other in say photoshop and switch between them.
About eye and hair color.... hmm
I once read that blond is a feminin or even childish hair color and that black hair makes a more masculin/adult impression.
Same goes for skin color. Light skincolors suposedly give a more feminin impression while darker skincolors make one look more masculin.
"What they didnt looked for is the factor of Feminism and cultural Feminisation in society".
Good point, Observer.
I was in fact hoping they had tested some "control" country like Japan, where the natural morphotypes of both men and women are more paedomorphic and hence vaguely "femenine".
"He looks like a football quarterback".
Does he? I usually imagine them more absolutely "cromagnid" with broader faces. This guy looks sensible to me... even if his neck is admittedly rather thick (a detail one can easily ignore).
"The right has small jaws. Small ears, big eyes. He has something of the apaearance of a weasel or a rat".
LOL. Weasels have small eyes. The ears in both photos are identical, the only thing that really changes are the breadth of the jaw (and as women typically have rounder faces, that's the guy at the left) and they also seem to have altered the zone of the eyes, which is more like an individual trait, right?
The one of the right looks more paedomorphic, more childish, younger maybe... but not more femenine.
Hopefully they used other photos because this case is very bad.
"Same goes for skin color. Light skincolors suposedly give a more feminin impression while darker skincolors make one look more masculin".
Actually men tend to have redder (less green) shades in the skin but women have redder shades in key spots such as the lips, enhancing contrast.
Observer:
Not to walk into a hornets nest, but with respect to:
"What they didnt looked for is the factor of Feminism and cultural Feminisation in society. Obviously all states which score on the rather feminine side have a stronger tendency towards a peaceful, "new male ideal", rather than the classic one. I doubt that in another sociocultural frame f.e. Sweden & Co. would score the same way, regardless of health status."
"The most social democratic nations, with a strong tendency towards Cultural Marxism, have the lowest masculinity indices, chance? I doubt it."
I would respectfully disagree.
The 'peaceful, "new male ideal", if it exists at all, has only existed in parts of Europe for about 60 years. Not more than tree generations. It's hard to account for any natural selection in three generations.
And Canada has been doing the supposedly 'peaceful, "new male thing" for as long as Europe. Oh, except for hockey goons:
http://www.hockeygoon.com/
To be honest, I don't see much of a coorelation between countries that have been influenced by feminism or socialism and the results in this chart.
How about Brazil(0.55), Canada(0.46), Iceland(0.87), the Russian Federation(0.43) and Poland(0.42)? These countries all have been influenced by socialism within the last fify years.
It's a bit of a stretch to suggest that these results are due to feminism or socialism.
And speaking as a women, in my unmarried days, it would tick me off when a guy tried to present themselves as the peaceful "new male." Peaceful "new male" or not, I've never men a man who would magically clean the bathroom unprompted. And after a while, the whole "new male" thing started to get on my nerves. "That's nice, I started to think, but you are still going to have to bring home some bacon. AND clean the bathroom."
Most women aren't that dumb. It takes a lot to raise children and women are making that calculation when they are choosing a mate. That hasn't changed in thousands of years.
If there is one additional observation I might suspect, it is that countries with low masculinity preferences appear to be countries with traditionally lower birthrates.
(The outliers are Greece, Portugal and Spain, with traditionally higher birthrates, but moderate masculinity preferences.)
With a low birthrate, you'd have fewer children and would be less dependent on the income of two parents to raise a family.
Anyway, I like the original idea about selection based on a coexistence strategy.
"It's hard to account for any natural selection in three generations".
Cultural "selection"... or mere fashion if you wish.
"These countries all have been influenced by socialism within the last fify years".
LOL, every single country in the world, including the USA, has been influenced by socialism in the last 150 years. Now you have stepped on a true hornets nest!
"It's a bit of a stretch to suggest that these results are due to feminism or socialism".
Is there any difference? Both are about equality and I doubt we'd be talking of Feminism at all now without the Workers' Movement.
"Most women aren't that dumb. It takes a lot to raise children and women are making that calculation when they are choosing a mate. That hasn't changed in thousands of years".
Maybe. But "now" they may prefer one who looks like keeping an office job (more tame and intellectual, so to say) rather than one one who would kill a mammoth barehanded, so to say. The gorilla type may be slightly less interesting if hard works are rare and/or do not pay much.
"... appear to be countries with traditionally lower birthrates".
Like Spain?! The tendency towards low birth rates has some differences (natality control by delaying marriage when land was scarce seems to have been common in Atlantic Europe since "always" but rare in Mediterranean Europe). Nevertheless Mediterranean Europe has caught up quickly towards low birth rates as soon as life quality, education and contraceptive availability improved (and cost of life became prohibitive). Low birth rates are the marker of advanced world, high birth rate is essentially a sign of underdevelopment, illiteracy, lack of access to contraception and no social security (for what the children are expected to put up).
Once low birth rates (and the much related high education levels) are reached they hardly reverse, even if quality of life sinks, as shows the case of Eastern Europe. They may drink more vodka... but they don't have more children... because these are perceived as a very costly investment that really doesn't pay off and also, if the situation is bad, as almost "a crime" to create. Why would you have children if there's no hope and you're not purely selfish (and most people are not)?
"The outliers are Greece, Portugal and Spain, with traditionally higher birthrates, but moderate masculinity preferences."
Spain has now one of the lowest birthrates of Europe and that's because of extremely high unemployment and good education. It's a situation not so different from Russia, except for the vodka and to some extent the weather.
When it had a high birthrate it used to be a totalitarian Catholic fascist state, Iran-like, and then the "Iberian macho" was en vogue. But after the 60s it fell off fashion and Spaniards became more or less standard Europeans with similar tastes and ideals.
But all this is relative. Why there are so many Brits and Germans in the USA? Because these countries once had extremely high birth rates and had to place their offspring somewhere. It's all fashion and culture.
Anyhow, my impression is that those described as low "masculinity" actually prefer low "maturity"... more child-like guys.
"Cultural "selection"... or mere fashion if you wish."
Yes, well that's why I brought up the blond thing. In a mere matter of decades, especially as we have all figured out that Madonna and Marilyn Monroe had die jobs, blond is out and brown is thankfully no longer entirely out of fashion. When I moved to California, my hair stylist insisted on lightening my dark brown hair. I was shocked! It was like she had disappeared me. I had no contrast in my face at all. In a flash, I went back to being a brunette and quickly found myself a new, non Californian, from Massachusetts, ethnically Italian, hair stylist.
Just one of the many traumas of moving from Canada to California.
"LOL, every single country in the world, including the USA, has been influenced by socialism in the last 150 years. Now you have stepped on a true hornets nest!"
I'm good at that.
Well, I didn't bring up Marxism, Observer did it! If ALL these countries have been equally influenced, we can just toss the Marxism => low appearance of masculinity thing onto the pile of flaky ideas.
""It's a bit of a stretch to suggest that these results are due to feminism or socialism".
Is there any difference?"
Quelle horreur! Absolument!
Maybe it's just my Canadian upbringing, but Nellie McClung would keel over backward if you called her a socialist. And I'm not entirely rejecting socialism, just saying that feminism hasn't always been well served by classical socialism. The singular thing that has helped women is to lower the birth rate and increase education of girls and women. Did the Worker's Movement make that happen?
"But "now" they may prefer one who looks like keeping an office job (more tame and intellectual, so to say) rather than one one who would kill a mammoth barehanded, so to say. The gorilla type may be slightly less interesting if hard works are rare and/or do not pay much."
Maju, seriously, do you think there is an "office job look"?
If there is, it amounts to a haircut.
"Like Spain?! contraceptive availability . . .
"Once low birth rates . . . purely selfish (and most people are not)?"
Yes, and ....?
"Spain has now one of the lowest birthrates . . ."
Yes, I am aware of this. I was speaking traditionally. We're talking natural selection, maybe over the last five hundred years, perhaps more, and my goodness if I have stepped on the honour of Spain, with this little comment about birthrate, and aren't you a Basque anyway? Nice to see a little Spanish nationalism creeping in there.
"But all this is relative. Why there are so many Brits and Germans in the USA? Because these countries once had extremely high birth rates and had to place their offspring somewhere. It's all fashion and culture."
Yes, exactly my point.
"Anyhow, my impression is that those described as low "masculinity" actually prefer low "maturity"... more child-like guys."
Hmmm. In general, I think people who are less thoughtful tend to choose a partner based more on socially fashionable norms. People who are more intelligent can push on normative standards of attractiveness. In addition to a broader idea of what is good looking, people who are more intelligent probably weigh in on personality, family history, intelligence, accomplishments and something I'll call grit, that is, the ability to push through in hard times. And clean the bathroom.
However, I'm not sure that this weighs into how people look in the long term, as intelligent people tend to have fewer children.
So perhaps, on average, our looks are a result of dumb natural selection, rather than itelligent natural selection.
Sob!
"Did the Worker's Movement make that happen?"
Largely yes. Of course it was the product, mostly, of women within the Workers' Movement (and some bourgeoises, I guess) but it's not something you can easily dissociate.
But well, universal vote is also an achievement of the Workers' Movement, as is social security, public healthcare, paid vacations and other things we take for granted now. That doesn't mean that there were no capitalists who were totally insensible to the needs of the workers (after all they also needed customers, not just slaves) but they were rather exceptional and normally only conceded after due struggle.
The official ideology and the single-thought propaganda machinery has made us forget all that... but, if you dare to research, the information is still there.
"I was speaking traditionally".
My whole point is that "tradition" changes. It had high birthrates when it was part of the Third World... not so long ago.
"Nice to see a little Spanish nationalism creeping in there".
WTF! I'm just stating the obvious: informing you of the facts. I'm anything but "Spanish nationalist".
Spain is quite pathetic, IMO, and that's why it has such a low birthrate: because it can't provide for its own people, so the people can't have children because it's extremely expensive and their job security is close to none.
If people could get decent jobs and hope to keep them and not have to spend every single euro in a home... then maybe they'd have more offspring. But with people staying at their parents' homes often up to the age of 30... impossible.
In countries like Denmark or Switzerland they make sure young people can get a decent home for little, that, together with much lower unemployment rates, helps a lot in this endeavor (and in general with all in life). Until the state begins to make sure that young people can access homes at reasonable and not bubble prices, and until it makes sure that employment is available for all (or almost all), improving job security and mid-term expectations... until then the birth rate and in general the demand of goods will be low.
And well, I guess you can't know from a picture how likely is the guy in it to clean the bathroom regularly (probably low in any case but it's not something you get from a mere photo, do you?)
Saturday, March 20, 2010 10:10:00 am
Maju,
I'll just be straight with you and tell you that a lot of my political beliefs are shaped by the time in which I grew up in Canada. I'm an ardent admirer of Trudeau, who was a liberal, but also a great thinker. But it takes more than activism to create good government. People from across the political spectrum are capable of acting for the common good. And don't underestimate the role of classical conservatism, Teddy Roosevelt style, in creating good government.
Yes, I do think that we wouldn't have paid vacations, healthcare and social security if it weren't for pressure from the left, and more specifically, from the labor movement. However, at least in Canada, it was people who were politically in the center who managed to implement such policies.
I think there is a healthy interplay between these different political forces.
Anyway, we're gonna get in trouble for talking politics and going OT.
Referring to the comment I made on Spain, yes, I know that things change. But, as I said before, I think the effect that the paper is demonstrating is a long term effect. That's one of the reasons that I put up my original post. What happened in Britain two and three hundred years ago is still rattling through the selection process here in North American. Yes, many people here are not from the British Isles, but a lot of the normative standards of appearance are formed by the idea of WASPiness. So I suspect that people are selecting for what they think is WASPiness. Sorry for the non-technical language. I don't know how else to define it.
From what you are describing about the economy in Spain, you could just as well be describing the economy in Greece, or Italy. When I was in school, a good friend of mine was from Italy (Venice, ooo) and although his Dad was a cardiologist, he told me that even with a PhD, he expected to be living at home without a professional job until he was in his mid thirties.
There's something that grates me about that. The lost ability, energy, the stasis.
One thing I would say is that the wealth of Denmark, Switzerland and other countries like it is not based only on social policy. It is also based on very wise, long term business investment. As examples, I'll give institutions such as the Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology and the Interuniversity Micro Electronics Center in Leuven, Belgium.
Maju, I know the general state of the economy sucks, but you do seem to be bright, and full of life, and if I were you, I would not wait for "the state" to give me anything. Don't accept the status quo. Find your way through. As your parents did. And your grand parents did. And your great grand parents did.
"in any case but it's not something you get from a mere photo, do you?)"
No, it's not. Forget about these dumb pictures. It's dummy selection, not us.
Maju, I see you want war with me. ;)
Like is the nature of you primitive races.
And only the totaly destruction of your people will heal this.
If weasels have small eyes. Then I apologize.
the right face looks like it needs a iron bar in its face. He turns me agressive by his pure looks.
I would command to eliminate peopole with these looks any time.
He cannot be healthy.
But thats not the topic now.
The ears are NOT equal in both images.
I put them both into photoshop into 2 layers. Eyes exactly matching eyes.
Then switched off and on the upper layer (feminine one) to see where the images differ.
They did not match at the ears.
The "grew" by the moment I switched off the visibility of the feminine layer.
The whole forehead exploded forward. The Jaws exploded into my face.
Just because you brain is too small to get this ready, you dont see it.
Thats the way I see it, slave.
Haha, damn I just watched your Profile Maju. I KNEW it.
Scum. :D
For blind people...
this is the difference of the 2 images:
http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/8215/dohw.jpg
"How about Brazil(0.55), Canada(0.46), Iceland(0.87), the Russian Federation(0.43) and Poland(0.42)? These countries all have been influenced by socialism within the last fify years."
But not Cultural Marxism to the same degree, especially not like Sweden. Sweden is most likely the culturally most feminised country in the world with a strong female dominance in various aspects of life and the "equality policy" and re-education on a very high level in the way I talked about it already.
I agree that this might be just one factor among others and that there is indeed a co-selection at work, after all I dont think the differences are that huge, but still I would guess that 50 years ago Sweden would have made a different score, regardless of health status.
You can never compare former Communist countries, which are often socially still more traditional and less politically correct than many Western nations with what happened in countries like Sweden.
But really, I think thats just one factor having an effect among others.
"Anyway, we're gonna get in trouble for talking politics and going OT".
I told you it was a hornets' nest.
Whatever the case without unions and direct political action (and I dare say without the Russian Revolution, which in fact extended to as far west as Germany and was initiated by the Working Women's movement on March 8th 1917, making the point that there were alternatives) there would have been no advances. Advances that were just implemented to secure the system against revolution and that are being largely dismantled as we speak, what will unavoidably lead to a new revolutionary cycle.
"There's something that grates me about that. The lost ability, energy, the stasis".
Absolutely. But they believe that GDP is all about house prices.
This is not a problem only affecting Mediterranean Europe but also the UK, the USA... house prices are not falling as they should and governments, unlike in "socialist" Scandinavia, do nothing to make sure that young people can go independent earlier, like providing cheap homes for rental.
It was not something that happened in the past. When there was full employment and house prices were low (and that was in the fascist era - go figure!) people became independent even before their 20s. But not anymore: the liberal bubble economy is too rigid to allow for such normality.
And you can get fired any day on almost any pretext (not in the past), so even when you become "independent" you have no security whatsoever.
"One thing I would say is that the wealth of Denmark, Switzerland and other countries like it is not based only on social policy".
Maybe not only but there is that factor: the state helps the people, specially young people, to develop their potential instead of just demanding all and offering nearly nothing.
"It is also based on very wise, long term business investment".
Indeed. That's another thing that Spain does very badly: it invests to little in research and development. But again this is a policy failure, a problem of the state (and I dare say of liberal economic ideology, which expects "the market" to do all, which is a fundamental error).
"Maju, I see you want war with me".
I have no damn idea of who you are, why would I want "war"?
"Like is the nature of you primitive races.
And only the totaly destruction of your people will heal this".
Now I do want your head on a pick, sure. You clearly deserve it after making such racist and genocidal apology.
I have nothing more to say except that I hope the owner of the blog to censor your abusive comments.
Hi Observer,
Thanks for pointing out this school of thought to me. I have to admit that I was almost entirely unaware of the history of "Cultural Marxism" and I know very little about the influence of these polices in Sweden.
I would say that I, personally, am uncomfortable with a highly policy driven approach toward achieving greater equality for women, except for things like parental leave and equal pay.
In the work place, I've observed that an excessive institution of political correctness policies often fosters a climate of fear, rather than a positive work environment.
I'll have to keep an eye out on what is happening in Sweden on this front.
Sunday, March 21, 2010 8:18:00 am
“Whatever the case without unions and direct political action . . .”
Just did a little fact checking on Canadian history, and what do you know! the history of the Winnipeg General Strike does suggest that you are correct.
“Advances that were just implemented to secure the system against revolution and that are being largely dismantled as we speak”
As we speak? Hasn’t that already happened?
“. . . will unavoidably lead to a new revolutionary cycle.”
Err. Well, I’m hoping in this country that we can avoid that. Poor Obama. He looks so tired. Big day tomorrow. (today?)
Oddly enough, of the two countries I can speak coherently about, Canada and the US, I’d say that it is the US that has the most progressive policies to assist young people to buy a home. Yes, I’m not kidding, even after the mortgage meltdown.
US: You can write off your mortgage interest against your federal income tax. Interests rates are low, if you have good credit. You can get a 30 year, fixed rate mortgage. Purchase prices of all properties and title (document of legal title) are public record.
Canada: You can’t write off your mortgage interest. Interests rates are about 2% points higher than the US. The maximum term of a fixed rate mortgage is 3 to 5 years. Purchase price is NOT public record. You can’t find about the title on a house without paying an attorney. Ah, yes, the legacy of the British Commonwealth. Very irritating!
My husband just checked Greece. How about that! You can't get a fixed rate mortgage there either. Title information is also painfully difficult to get and in some cases does not exist.
The mortgage meltdown in the US happened because so many banks offered adjustable rate mortgages and option ARMs to people who were clearly not able to understand them (or pay for them.) Hello, regulation?
“It was not something that happened in the past. When there was full employment and house prices were low (and that was in the fascist era - go figure!) people became independent even before their 20s. But not anymore: the liberal bubble economy is too rigid to allow for such normality. “
With respect to full employment or the lack thereof, I’d say we're reaping the effect of living off our seed corn for too many years. Not enough long term government investment. Too much deregulation. To much corporate self interest. General naivety on the part of the consumer. Excessive consumption of stuff we don’t really need.
Here, it’s called “employment at will”. I’ll refrain from making jokes about this.
“Maybe not only but there is that factor: the state helps the people, especially young people, to develop their potential instead of just demanding all and offering nearly nothing.”
What about student loans and tuition. How does that work in Spain?
“But again this is a policy failure, a problem of the state (and I dare say of liberal economic ideology, which expects "the market" to do all, which is a fundamental error).”
On this, read John Kenneth Galbraith. There’s a nice wiki page on him.
Maju, I’m ultimately an optimist. I’ve always tried to look for an open door, and when I find one, I do not tarry, but go through it. And it’s always good to pull out a copy of Invictus and be thankful for just being alive, or Max Ehrmann’s "Desiderata":
"With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world."
I think we are way off topic. Still:
"As we speak? Hasn’t that already happened?"
Only partly. With the pretext of the crisis they're trying to cut even more.
"I’d say that it is the US that has the most progressive policies to assist young people to buy a home".
Compared with Spain, probably even the USA is better. However the homeless rate is very high in both countries (could not find stats for Spain but it is), while in places like Denmark or Switzerland it is virtually nil (because the state helps providing rental and semi-property homes en masse, keeping housing speculation low in the meantime).
"What about student loans and tuition. How does that work in Spain?"
In Europe university and healthcare can generally be obtained almost for free everywhere: it's a public service, as they are considered pillars of civic well-doing. People just don't get in debt to go to the university or because of health problems.
"On this, read John Kenneth Galbraith".
I read Galbraith long ago. The problem with Keynesians is that they want to save Capitalism... and for a while they managed to do it... but they are powerless after Reaganomics, totally off and clueless (thinking of Kurgman for instance).
"Maju, I’m ultimately an optimist".
Me too: I still believe Humankind is able to do much better than this.
Sunday, March 21, 2010 10:59:00 am
El Lurker said...
This study was published in popular newspapers in Argentina.
Their "popular" way of explaining it was that in third world countries women need a macho man next to them much more than in first world countries with low crime rates in which women are often independent professionals who can live alone on their own.
Regarding what Dienekes said.
I have no empirical evidence, but I am sure that beards are and have always been much more popular in Latin America than in Europe or the USA, and one of the reasons for that could be that the predominantly amerindian people can't grow them.
Sunday, March 21, 2010 12:55:00 pm
A Man's a Man for A' That:
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=b2pGWkjwOBw
Robbie Burns, 1795
Monday, March 22, 2010 12:11:00 am
Great song. Robbie used the tune 'There's nae Luck Aboot the Hoose'.
Hey, Terry, I'm looking forward to whiling away another hour on YouTube checking out 'There's nae Luck Aboot the Hoose'. Hope you have a nice week.
Maju, I think Danny is right about the marked differences between the two photos. They are like opposite poles.
Andrew Oh-Willeke said...
"have always been much more popular in Latin America than in Europe or the USA, and one of the reasons for that could be that the predominantly amerindian people can't grow them."
Facial hair was very popular in Rennaisance Europe. Indeed, facial hair fashion is one of the way that people date portraits of that era. There have likewise been times and places in US history when facial hair has been the norm.
IIRC, the current widspread clean shaven trends for European and Anglo Americans dates from sometime in the 17th to 19th centuries and was of a piece with wigs, neckties, suits, and other aspirations to present an urban and "civilized" image to the world.
princenuadha said...
maju said "But "now" they may prefer one who looks like keeping an office job (more tame and intellectual, so to say) rather than one who would kill a mammoth bare handed, so to say."
Where do you get this? That strong hunter type you seem to be suggesting would hunt the mammoth in a group which would take far more cunning than the Guy picking berries for his existence (comparible to repetitive desk work). You may say that the latter of the two is more valuable nowadays, though I would argue differently, but to call him the intellectual is silly.
It sounds like you watch to many high school movies where the jocks are mean and dumb and the nerds are smart...
@daneil:
lmfao you are quite demeaning. But I think you like getting reactions :P
So is a guy either going to look like an ogre (very masculine) or be squirrely looking (very feminine); I hope there is a middle ground.
Where do you get this?
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Sounds like a good casting job honestly. Showtimes & Tickets Top Box Office Coming Soon Most Popular Movies Top Rated Movies Top Rated Indian Movies Lowest Rated Movies Movie News Explore Donna Loetscher's board "Steel Magnolias", followed by 108 people on Pinterest. and more recently the Lifetime TV movie Steel Magnolias, shares her philosophy for a healthy and happy life. Queen Latifah lives by her own set of rules. The new film stars an all-Black American cast, including Queen Latifah as M'Lynn, Jill Scott as Truvy, Condola Rashād as Shelby, Adepero Oduye as Annelle, with Phylicia Rashād as Clairee and Alfre Woodard as Ouiser. If you love the movie Steel Magnolias starring Dolly Parton and Julia Roberts, you'll love these memorable lines. Sunday on Lifetime. The agency will represent the country superstar for North American touring and personal appearances. ET has a first look at the set of Lifetime's remake of the popular film Steel Magnolias and caught up with star Queen Latifah to hear her approach Ensemble chick flicks: ”Steel Magnolias” THE PREMISE A group of close-knit Southern women congregate at the local hair salon, turning to each other for support as they experience life’s The woman who produced the disgustingly sappy tearjerker, "Steel Magnolias" is suing over the upcoming Lifetime TV remake of the film -- claiming she's not getting the credit or the cash she deserves. The movie helped make Julia Roberts more than just a "Pretty Woman", and it gave us all a taste of the sharp-witted humor that only a group of proper southern women can deliver. Steel Magnolias is a 1989 American comedy-drama film directed by Herbert Ross. TV Teaser: Lifetime's 'Steel Magnolias' – Deadline Steel Magnolias is a 1989 American comedy-drama directed by Herbert Ross. I was hopin' she'd sit up and argue with me. Join StageAgent today and unlock amazing theatre resources and Indeed she was — “Steel Magnolias” was the last time Julia Roberts would appear in a movie without A-lister status, and, at 23, she became the source of the movie’s sole Oscar nomination. Supporting each other through triumphs and tragedies, they congregate at Truvy’s Beauty Spot to ponder the mysteries of life and death, husbands and children — all the important issues that Steel Magnolias's wiki: Steel Magnolias is a 1989 American comedy-drama film directed by Herbert Ross. m. Queen Latifah & Condola Rashad: 'Steel Magnolias' Premiere!: Photo #2732883. Blige have been added to the cast of NBC’s upcoming holiday musical production of “The Wiz Live!,” set for Thursday, Dec. Oct 7, 2012 Jill Scott, Queen Latifah and Condola Rashad in "Steel Magnolias" it so much at a young age, and many funerals my first seven years of life, Amazon. For all of those questioning the need for an all-black "Steel Magnolias" remake, critics have found that the answer lies within the cast. The entertainer is a Queen Latifah: 'Brother's Death Was Like Suffering An Amputation' brother's death into her work to help prepare for her latest role in a U. I couldn't leave my Shelby. ; In an updated contemporary version of the beloved stage play and 1989 film, "Steel Magnolias" chronicles the lives and friendship of six women in Louisiana. Queen Latifah was the first hip-hop artist to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Steel Magnolias-2012 is a made for television remake of the 1989 film by the same name. " Photo: Annette Brown, Lifetime Harling played the minister who serves at Shelby's wedding and funeral. Steel Magnolias (2012 TV Movie) Wedding / Funeral Guest (as Christian Higgins) Queen Latifah executive producer. I just sat there and kept pushin' the way I always have where Shelby was concerned. Lifetime to remake "Steel Magnolias" with all black cast (Queen Latifah and Condola Rashad mostly. The movie helped make Julia Roberts more than just a "Pretty Apr 8, 2015 Rumor has Kenny Leon (director of the 2012 Steel Magnolias remake starring Queen Latifah) will helm the film with Spike Lee's wife, Tonya Oct 1, 2012 Queen Latifah, Steel Magnolias British comedy, which turns the setting of a funeral into a farce of family secrets and misplaced bodies. the wedding reception scene in Jun 21, 1990. Queen Latifah & Condola Rashad: 'Steel Magnolias' Premiere!: Photo #2732865. 9 p. Finally we realized there was no hope. couldn't take it. Harling played the minister who serves at Shelby's wedding and funeral. "Steel Magnolias" may be one of the most heartbreaking yet hopeful films we've ever seen. A 2012 made for television remake with an all African American cast was It is a contemporary retelling of the play Steel Magnolias and its 1989 film adaptation. Cast members of Steel Magnolias 2012 talk making the movie and more. The remake of Steel Magnolias is filming today at a private residence stars Queen Latifah as M'Lynn, the role Sally Field played in the original film The scene being filmed earlier today was. 6K likes. Set to air on the Lifetime Network this year, the all-Black adaptation of “Steel Magnolias” begins production next month in Atlanta. Queen Latifah became an influence to R&B, soul, and hip-hop artists, such as Eve, Da Brat, Lil' Kim, Fugees, Jill Scott, Lauryn Hill, Missy Elliott, Remy Ma, Ivy Queen, Foxy Brown, Ms. The play and film are about the bond a group of different women share in a small-town southern community, and how they cope with the death of one of "They laughed together, they cried together and always stuck together" says the first trailer for Lifetime's Steel Magnolias, which promises to cast the 1989 film in a new light. Queen Latifah and her mother Rita Owens attend the "Steel Magnolias" New York Premiere at Paris Theatre in this Oct. “Anyone that NBC has confirmed that Queen Latifah and Mary J. Queen Latifah, Jill Scott star in 'Steel I thought it was very good. Latifah said on the phone call when we Tyler Perry Breaks Record With ‘A Madea Family Funeral’ in Best Answer: Looks awfull Im sorry but queen latifah should stick to music or retire!!! Straight to dvd lol. The 1989 movie that helped make Julia Roberts a star is getting a makeover. Bette Davis invited Harling to her hotel for tea to discuss playing Ouiser. It is the film adaptation of Robert Harling's 1987 play of the same name. ps no its not because they are black. MacLaine presented "Steel Magnolias" at AFI's Night at the said of the 2012 update starring Queen Latifah, Alfre Queen Latifah is mourning the loss of the “love of her life” after her mother, Rita Owens, died on Wednesday. First off its a classic On Sunday a remake of the film Steel Magnolias premieres on the Lifetime network, starring an all-black cast featuring Queen Latifah, Alfre Woodard, Phylicia Rashad, Jill Scott, Adepero Oduye and The majority of the choir's wit is due to a feud between opposing members, played by Queen Latifah and Dolly Parton ('Steel Magnolias'). They turned off the machines. It is adapted from the 1987 off-Broadway play of the same name by Robert Harling. The original producer of Steel Magnolias‘, Victoria L. Perhaps CBS should try again, though. It is the film adaptation of Robert Harling's 1987 play of the same name. ‘Steel Magnolias’ a Mega Hit for Lifetime. S. 84 Madea Family Funeral, ADVD. Six Steel Magnolias supporting each other through their triumphs and tragedies, congregate at Truvy’s beauty shop to ponder the mysteries of life and death, husbands and children – and hair and nails – all the important topics that truly unite and celebrate women. Latifah's version of Sally's cry scene at the funeral was horrible. When I first saw the trailer existed, I was expecting, on the Steel Magnolias stress scale, to jump up to Rhett, Ouiser’s dog (incessent barking, losing hair), but right now I’m more like a Spud (just sittin’ around, doing Spud stuff). Steel Magnolias (2012) Queen Latifah heads this all-star, black cast, replacing Sally Field’s heart-wrenching role, in the recent LifeTime movie. Amazon. Queen Latifah has been in 7 on-screen matchups, including Henry Simmons in Taxi (2004), Kim Coles in Living Single (1993), Afemo Omilami in Steel Magnolias (2012), Djimon Hounsou in Beauty Shop (2005) and Michael Kenneth Williams in Born to Be Blue (2015). With Condola Rashad, Alfre Woodard, Queen Latifah, Phylicia Rashad. In this contemporary version of the beloved stage play and classic film, Steel Magnolias chronicles the lives and friendship of six women in Louisiana. Supporting each other through their triumphs and tragedies, they congregate at Truvy’s beauty shop to ponder the mysteries of life and death, husbands and children - and hair and nails In 2012, Lifetime remade Steel Magnolias with Queen Latifah, Phylicia Rashad, Alfre Woodard, Jill Scott, Adepero Oduyem, and Condola Rashad, which ended up becoming the channel’s third most ‘Steel Magnolias’ reblooms as a Lifetime movie has chosen to remake the 1989 film “Steel Magnolias’’ (itself adapted by Robert Harling from his play of the same name) with an all "Steel Magnolias" may be one of the most heartbreaking yet hopeful films we've ever seen. Dynamite, and Naughty by Nature. Beginning with the cast, Queen Latifah has showed herself to be flawless in blueprint; casting Phylicia Rashad, Jill Scott, Alfre Woodard, as well as Phylicia Rashad's daughter Condola to play the roles of the ladies. It is a film adaptation of Robert Harling's 1987 play of the same name. My favorite part was Queen Latifah singing "Fix Me Jesus. The 2012 version of this award-winning movie stars Queen Latifah, Here’s a peek at other Black remakes of white films that Queen Latifah also will serve as an executive producer on the project alongside Craig Zadan, Neil Meron and Katie Couric, reuniting with Zadan & Meron, Lifetime and Sony TV after collaborating on Steel Magnolias, the third most-watched original telecast ever in the network’s history. Steel Magnolias The Steel Magnolias all black remake finally has an official cast list! Queen Latifah will star alongside Alfre Woodard, Phylicia Rashad and her daughter Condola Rashad (who nabbed the lead role of Shelby), Adepero Oduye and Jill Scott. 3. Supporting each other through triumphs and tragedies, they congregate at Truvy's Beauty Spot to ponder the mysteries of life and death, husbands and children - all the important issues that truly unite and celebrate women. ” The cast stars Queen Latifah, Phylicia Rashad, Alfre Woodward, Jill Scott and Adepreo Oduye. I love Dolly Parton, musically and in films like Steel Magnolias. It is a film After the funeral, M'Lynn breaks down in hysterics but is comforted by the other . July 6, 2012. Watch Steel Magnolias on Netflix. If you don't love this movie, you have problems. In an updated contemporary version of the beloved stage play and 1989 film, Steel Magnolias chronicles the lives and friendship of six women in Louisiana. Queen Latifah, Jill Scott star in 'Steel Magnolias' remake. It is a contemporary retelling of the play Steel Magnolias and its 1989 film adaptation. of the 2012 Steel Magnolias remake starring Queen Latifah) Emmanuel Goes Full Rom-Com in Four Weddings and a Funeral. See more ideas about Magnolia movie, Steel Magnolias and Great movies. White believes that she is not getting the credit or the money The Queen once again subtantiates her thrown, and in a manner that should turn out to make us all extremely proud. When Lifetime put an on all African American version of the film, starring Queen Latifah, Phylicia Rashad, and Condola Rashad, it was the channel's third-most-watched telecast ever. The play and film are about the bond a group of women share in a small-town Southern community, and how they cope with the death of one of their own. Joanna Robinso n. Last fall, Lifetime announced plans to create an updated version of the 1989 movie "Steel Magnolias" with an all-black cast, and so far the project has snagged stars like Queen Latifah and Phylicia Rashad. Andrew H. 7) The premiere of Lifetime's 2012 all African American version of Magnolias, which starred Queen Latifah, Phylicia Rashad, and Condola Rashad, was the channel's third-most-watched telecast ever Steel Magnolias: Made-for-TV film. A new version of playwright Robert Harling's stage-to-screen dramedy Steel Magnolias is geared up as a Lifetime TV movie to air in the fall – but the cable network is already previewing the tear-jerker on its website. he said of the 2012 update starring Queen Latifah, Alfre Woodard, Queen Latifah has signed on to star in and executive produce, the updated contemporary TV adaptation of the play and 1989 film Steel Magnolias, according to Jun 7, 2005 Ensemble chick flicks: ''Steel Magnolias'' THE PREMISE A group of close-knit other for support as they experience life's highs (a wedding), lows (a funeral), and all Queen Latifah, Jill Scott star in 'Steel Magnolias' remake. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Steel Magnolias (DVD, 2013, Includes Digital Copy UltraViolet) at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products! Author Message; mister car from 971 2014-08-21 19:36 There's also a Lifetime TV movie of the same title which aired in October 2012 starring Queen Latifah, Phylicia Rashad, Jill Scott and Alfre Woodard. The movie is centered around newlywed Shelby (Condola Rashad Steel Magnolias. Queen Latifah, Condola Rashad, and Keri Hilson attend the premiere of Lifetime's television movie event Steel Magnolias The Queen's Jewels. Walker/Getty Images NEW YORK — Queen Latifah is Queen Latifah and her mother Rita Owens attend Lifetime’s “Steel Magnolias” premiere event on October 3, 2012 in New York City. In retrospect, this line has to be one of the most selfish lines I've ever heard. M'Lynn: No. Alfre Woodard, Phylicia Rashad and Jill Scott Queen Latifah full list of movies and tv shows in theaters, in production and upcoming films. Queen Latifah on Famous 'Steel Magnolias' Scene. (Pause) Drum left. com: Steel Magnolias: Queen Latifah, Alfre Woodard, Phylicia Rashad, Adepero Oduye, Condola Rashad, Jill Scott, Tory Kittles, Afemo Omilami, King, Anna Colwell Tyler Perry's a Madea Family Funeral steel magnolias queen latifah sally field phylicia rashad alfre woodard julia roberts original movie favorite movies CBS aired a pilot episode of a Steel Magnolias TV series in August 1990, but the show never made it to a full series. STORY-PHOTO AND LINK:STEEL MAGNOLIAS Steel Magnolias Remake??!? Sally fields monologue wasn't at the funeral it was at the hair salon which wasn't effective. It is a film adaptation of Robert Harling's 1987 play of the same name. Steel Magnolias (TV Movie 2012) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Cohost Andy Cohen; "Steel Magnolias" Cast: Queen Latifah, Alfre Woodard, Jill Scott — 2012 2012 Are You Ready for a She’s All That Remake? By . MacLaine presented "Steel Magnolias" at AFI's Night at the said of the 2012 update starring Queen Latifah, Alfre Most of the movie Queen Latifa just lost her southern accent altogether. . Six Louisiana women (Queen Latifah, Phylicia Rashad, Adepero Oduye, Condola Rashad, Jill Scott, Alfre Woodard) gather at a beauty salon for their daily dose Steel Magnolias (TV Movie 2012) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. The play and film are about the bond a group of women share in a small-town Southern community, and how they cope with the death of one of their own. The play and film are about the bond a group of different women share in a small-town southern community, and how they cope with the death of one of their own. com: Steel Magnolias: Queen Latifah, Alfre Woodard, Phylicia Rashad, Steel Magnolias by Sally Field DVD $7. Queen Latifah, Condola Rashad, and Keri Hilson attend the premiere of Lifetime's television movie event Steel Magnolias Parton appeared on NBC's "Today" show this week with her "Joyful Noise" co-star Queen Latifah, and together, they showed off their impressive rapping talents: "Queen Latifah, she's the queen of hip hop, rap, and the movie screen, oh, she's queen of her own 'hood but I'm the queen of Dollywood," rapped Parton during the news segment. Except that Queen Latifah (M'Lynn) and Condola Rashad (Shelby) look more like sisters than mother and daughter (there's only a 17-year age difference, and to make matters worse, Queen Latifah looks much younger than she is). I just don’t know if I can handle two hours of Queen Latifah looking sad. As soon as I seen that queen Latifah Steel Magnolias Remake??!? Sally fields monologue wasn't at the funeral it was at the hair salon which wasn't effective. Queen Latifah's new hour-long, daily syndicated series is actually a Flavor Unit is most recently responsible for producing the Lifetime original movie “Steel Magnolias” starring Queen Latifah , Phylicia Rashad, Jill Scott and Alfred Woodard, which became the Flavor Unit is most recently responsible for producing the Lifetime original movie “Steel Magnolias” starring Queen Latifah , Phylicia Rashad, Jill Scott and Alfred Woodard, which became the Queen Latifah, Condola Rashad, Phylicia Rashad, Adepero Oduye and Jill Scott star in the 2012 "Steel Magnolias. M’Lynn Eatenton's Monologue from Steel Magnolias including context, text and video example. “It is with a heavy heart that I share the news my mother, Rita Owens passed away today,” Latifah said in an exclusive statement to PEOPLE magazine on Wednesday. Directed by Kenny Leon. By . Lifetime's updated take on the 1989 movie, itself an adaptation of Robert Harling's play, premiered on Sunday. Lifetime and Queen Latifah have shot a remake of the classic 1989 film (which was based on Robert Harling’s play), and the cast is made up of famous actresses of color. The movie major characters are portrayed by Queen Latifah, Phylicia Rashad, Alfre Woodard, Lance Gross, Jill Scott, Condola Rashad, and Adepero Oduye. Supporting each other through their triumphs and tragedies, they congregate at Truvy’s beauty shop to ponder the mysteries of life and death, husbands and children - and hair and nails The Steel Magnolias star - along with three other ladies - helped the former teacher into a wheelchair for their outing. Nov 14, 2014 Even though “Steel Magnolias” doesn't open with a “based on a true story” title . Steel Magnolias has some of the best movie quotes EVER. Apr 19, 2012. As soon as I seen that queen Latifah Steel Magnolias Information Steel Magnolias is a 1989 American comedy-drama film directed by Herbert Ross that stars Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine, Daryl Hannah, Olympia Dukakis, and Julia Roberts. From left: Adepero Oduye, Jill Scott, Phylicia Rashad and Alfre Woodard. Steel Magnolias is a 1989 Dramedy film starring Sally Field, Shirley MacLaine, Olympia Dukakis, Dolly Parton, Daryl Hannah, and Julia Roberts. Sadly, she's had so much 'work' done it was hard to look at her. Tv remake of 1989 film classic Steel Magnolias Steel Magnolias is the latest film to undergo this transformation. Red Carpet Bits: Queen Latifah, Alfre Woodard and Jill Scott I love Alfre Woodard, there was Phylicia Rashad and Queen [Interview] Queen Latifah Talks Playing The Wiz we did Steel Magnolias, and now this. 3, 2012 file photo in New York City. Link. White, is suing Sony Pictures and Lifetime Television, according to TMZ. Steel Magnolias is a 1989 American comedy-drama directed by Herbert Ross. Steel Magnolias Most of the movie Queen Latifa just lost her southern accent altogether. ) I've seen comments about the lack of the funeral scene Steel Magnolias written by Robert Harling. The film is about the bond among a group of women from a parish in the Natchitoches, Louisiana, area. A group of women from a parish in the Natchitoches, Louisiana, area bond. According to New York Post, there’s an “All African-American Cast” to star in “Steel Magnolias. "Queen Latifah, Jill Scott for New Take on 'Steel Magnolias'". The Queen's Jewels. Dolly Parton has signed with APA, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. Queen Latifah , Steel Magnolias Buffalo Bills Player To Pay For Funeral Of Girl Shot And Killed In South Carolina. Queen Latifah's Vi Rose Hill is the stuck-in-her-ways, over In an updated contemporary version of the beloved stage play and 1989 film, "Steel Magnolias" chronicles the lives and friendship of six women in Louisiana. Remaking that rousing celebration of Southern womanhood "Steel Magnolias" with an African American cast is such a great idea, you'd But then I saw her perform the funeral scene from Steel Magnolias in the clip below. Jackson left. 4. On October 7th at 9/8c, Lifetime will air the reboot of the beloved story of best friends, mothers and daughters in Louisiana. Playwright Kenny Leon is producing the film that originally In an updated contemporary version of the beloved stage play and 1989 film, "Steel Magnolias" chronicles the lives and friendship of six women in Louisiana. ", I hadn't been familiar with this old spiritual, and it really touched me. Steel Magnolias - Movie Quotes ~ 'I don't trust anybody who does their… One of my favorite movies :) I totally agree! 2 Steel Magnolias quotes See more Whether you saw the 1989 version of Steel Magnolias movie starring Shirley MacLaine, Olympia Dukakis, Dolly Parton, Darryl Hannah, Sally Field, Julia Roberts or the 2012 contemporary remake starring Adepero Oduye, Queen Latifah, Alfre Woodard, Jill Scott, Condola and mom Phylicia Rashad, this beloved classic film is the subject of this post! Steel Magnolias is a 1989 American comedy-drama film directed by Herbert Ross. Latifah’s taking Sally Field’s role (she better have an acting coach if she’s looking to do justice to that party), and Clair Huxtable (Phylicia Rashad) and Alfre Queen Latifah and her mother Rita Owens attend Lifetime’s “Steel Magnolias” premiere event on October 3, 2012 in New York City. Queen Latifah stars and exec produces the movie, which chronicles the lives and friendship of six women in Louisiana. Six Louisiana women (Queen Latifah, Phylicia Rashad, Adepero Oduye, Condola Rashad, Jill Scott, Alfre Woodard) gather at a beauty salon for their daily dose of female bonding. Walker/Getty Images NEW YORK — Queen Latifah is TV Review - Steel Magnolias (2012) A character in this movie says that she would rather have thirty minutes of something wonderful than a lifetime of nothing special. steel magnolias queen latifah funeral
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"Tropic of Capricorn"
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"These things exist!"
I learned recently that there is such a thing as a planet without an orbit. Depending on how it was formed, it could be a protostar that never became massive enough to fire up the typical heat- and light-producing reactions, or a castoff from a new star's protoplanetary disc. The first kind are "sub-brown dwarves", the second sometimes called "rogue planets".
I've loved this image for years; this one and "The Brink" (also an early work) just make me 'hear' and 'feel' the silence of things drifting in the aftermath of a wordless creation... And then I found out they're real. Ryan, either you're more smarter than me (not hard to do) or you've made some outrageously good guesses!
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I don't think I've seen any other wallpaper of yours where you've tried to mix planetscape with abstract fractal art. The effect here is great, and makes me wonder what it would be like if you had done it today. Begging for a higher res as always :P
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ODOC case manager led team of volunteers to Houston for hurricane relief
Allen Woodworth, a Case Manager IV at the Tulsa County District Probation & Parole Office, connects offenders in halfway houses and under GPS supervision with necessary social services.
When he isn’t in the office, Woodworth volunteers with Southern Baptist Disaster Relief, and he spent the week of Nov. 13-17 leading a team of volunteers in Hurricane Harvey relief efforts in Houston.
During the five-day trip, Woodworth’s team of 25 volunteers removed water-damaged debris from three homes and made them safe from looters, water and wild animals. They also worked to secure a women’s substance abuse recovery center.
“Someone had broken into the women’s center and had removed most of the copper wiring in the building,” Woodworth said. “They tore into the walls and ceiling to try to get the copper pipes, too. There was a lot of damage to that center.”
The group patched the walls and ceiling at the center. They put metal bars on the windows and doors to secure the property.
For the homes, Woodworth’s team created temporary roofs with tarps, and they removed the furniture, flooring, sheetrock, damaged ceilings and mold.
“After a tornado or a fire, we could take our Bobcats and just push everything to the curb, but we really do try to go through the stuff to see what we can find that is still intact, mostly the things they ask us specifically to look for,” Woodworth said. “Sometimes we find what they are looking for, and sometimes we will find something they didn’t even think of that actually means much more.”
With more than 100,000 trained volunteers, SBDR is the third-largest disaster relief agency in the United States according to North American Mission Board.
Woodworth is part of SBDR’s more than 1,550 mobile disaster response units on call for local, state and national emergencies.
These units and volunteers from across the U.S. respond to fires, ice storms, tornadoes, hurricanes and floods, providing meals, childcare, shower trailers, debris removal, mold remediation and water purification.
“One of the biggest thing we do is allow the people to release all their emotions,” Woodworth said. “There is very little you can really save once it has been in the contaminated water and mold. We let the homeowners be in control of the demolition and help them heal in that way.”
He got involved with SBDR after being told by an area faith-based organization that he could not assist with Hurricane Katrina refugees because he did not have proper disaster relief training in 2005.
“I saw a need, and I saw how effective the program was and everything they were doing,” Woodworth said. “I personally couldn’t resist getting involved.”
Woodworth trained in 2006. His first SBDR deployment was the January 2007 ice storm in Muskogee, Oklahoma.
He has since assisted with 19 disasters, including Hurricane Ike in 2008, the 2012 Fort Collins, Colorado, fires and the Moore, Oklahoma, tornadoes in 2013.
“When people ask us why we do what we do, we tell them it is because of what Jesus has done in our lives,” Woodworth said. “He’s cleaned up our mess, and we want to give some of that peace back to other people.”
Woodworth, 55, has been with the DOC for 34 years. He began his career as a correctional officer in 1983 at the Horace Mann Community Corrections Center.
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Edouard Vuillard's Oil Paintings
Edouard Vuillard Museum
November 11, 1868-June 21, 1940. French painter.
90,680 paintings total now
Edouard Vuillard.org, welcome & enjoy!
Jupiter and Semele
French 1826-1898 Moreau's main focus was the illustration of biblical and mythological figures. As a painter of literary ideas rather than visual images, he appealed to the imaginations of some Symbolist writers and artists, who saw him as a precursor to their movement. His father, Louis Jean Marie Moreau, was an architect, who recognized his talent. His mother was Adele Pauline des Moutiers. Moreau studied under François-Édouard Picot and became a friend of Th??odore Chass??riau, whose work strongly influenced his own. Moreau carried on a deeply personal 25-year relationship, possibly romantic, with Adelaide-Alexandrine Dureux, a woman whom he drew several times.[1] His first painting was a Piet?? which is now located in the cathedral at Angoul??me. He showed A Scene from the Song of Songs and The Death of Darius in the Salon of 1853. In 1853 he contributed Athenians with the Minotaur and Moses Putting Off his Sandals within Sight of the Promised Land to the Great Exhibition. Oedipus and the Sphinx, one of his first symbolist paintings, was exhibited at the Salon of 1864. Over his lifetime, he produced over 8,000 paintings, watercolors and drawings, many of which are on display in Paris' Mus??e national Gustave Moreau at 14, rue de la Rochefoucauld (IXe arrondissement). The museum is in his former workshop, and was opened to the public in 1903. Andr?? Breton famously used to "haunt" the museum and regarded Moreau as a precursor to Surrealism. He had become a professor at Paris' École des Beaux-Arts in 1891 and counted among his many students the fauvist painters, Henri Matisse and Georges Rouault. Moreau is buried in Paris' Cimeti??re de Montmartre. In Alan Moore's graphic novel, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, it is implied that he was a nephew of Doctor Moreau, and he based a few of his paintings on the Doctor's creations. Related Paintings of Gustave Moreau :. | Ordipus and the Sphinx | Sappho | Europa and the Bull | Prometheus | Pieta |
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Gustaaf Vanaise
painted The Negroe and I in 1886
Francesco Guardi
1712-1793 Italian Francesco Guardi Galleries Francesco Guardi was born in Venice into a family of lesser nobility from Trentino. His father Domenico (born in 1678) and his brothers Niccolo and Gian Antonio were also painters, the latter inheriting the family workshop after the father's death in 1716. They probably all contributed as a team to some of the larger commissions later attributed to Francesco. His sister Maria Cecilia married the pre-eminent Veneto-European painter of his epoch, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. In 1735, Guardi moved to the workshop of Michele Marieschi, where he remained until 1743. His first certain works is from 1738, for a parish at Vigo d'Anuania, in Trentino. In this period he worked alongside his better-known brother, Gian Antonio. The first work signed by Francesco is a Saint Adoring the Eucarist (circa 1739). His works in this period included landscapes as well as figure representations. His early vedutas show influence both from Canaletto and Luca Carlevarijs. On February 15, 1757 he married Maria Mattea Pagani, the daughter of painter Matteo Pagani. In the same year his brother Gian Antonio died and his first son, Vincenzo, was born. His second son, Giacomo, was born in 1764. In 1763 he worked in Murano, in the church of San Pietro Martire, finishing a Miracle of a Dominican Saint clearly influenced by Alessandro Magnasco in its quasi-expressionistic style. Francesco Guardi's most important later works include the Doge's Feasts, a series of twelve canvases celebrating the ceremonies held in 1763 for the election of Doge Alvise IV Mocenigo. In his later years, Canaletto's influence on his art diminished, as showed by the Piazzetta in the Ca' d'Oro of Venice. In circa 1778, he painted the severe Holy Trinity Appearing to Sts. Peter and Paul in the parish church of Roncegno. Miracle of a Dominicane Saint (1763), Lugano, private collection.In 1782 Guardi was commissioned by the Venetian government six canvases to celebrate the visit of the Russian Archdukes in the city, of which only two remain, and two others for that of Pope Pius VI. On September 12 of that year he was admitted to the Fine Art Academy of Venice. A stronger attention to colours is present in late works such as the Concerto of 80 Orphans of 1782, now in Munich, in the Façade of Palace with Staircase in the Accademia Carrara of Bergamo. Guardi died at Venice in 1793.
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Interview: Tigran Sargsyan on the Eurasian Economic Union
Even though the EEU’s primary mandate is to stimulate intraregional trade, some customs union members have periodically been reluctant to expand their trade links with other EEU member states. This reluctance was evidenced by a marked overall decline in Kazakhstan’s trade with other EEU member states immediately after it joined the customs union. What do you think explains the reluctance of some member states, like Kazakhstan, to focus on intraregional trade, and how successful has the EEU been in expanding intraregional trade partnerships?
Tigran Sargsyan: In order to answer your question, first we must understand how you assessed this reluctance. We can assess the desires of member states at the level of president, parliament, and ministers, by looking at what they have said. But I haven’t seen any public area where Kazakhstan expressed this kind of reluctance. I can’t theorize on the topic of desire but I can explain what is going on in our Union.
From 2015-2016, intraregional trade declined by more than 20 percent because of declining oil and gas prices. It is evident that global economic forces triggered the fall in oil and gas prices. That is why we can’t speculate on what happened in the Eurasian Economic Union and conclude that the reduction of mutual trade was triggered by internal Eurasian factors. And we can see that in 2017, this decline in intraregional trade was overcome, and all the EEU member states registered positive GDP growth and increases in intraregional trade. In 2017, we observed almost 30 percent growth in mutual trade as well as 30 percent growth in trade with third countries. We also forecast that there is a great capacity for GDP and mutual trade growth in the years to come.
To stimulate intraregional trade growth, we have worked on eliminating trade barriers within the EEU. We have listed 185 obstacles to intra-egional trade and have already reached a consensus on eliminating on 61 of them. We published on our progress towards tackling these issues in the “white book.” In addition, since 2016, we eliminated 10 major trade barriers, and more than 30 percent of the Eurasian Economic Union’s decisions have been devoted to the elimination of these obstacles.
Many Western critics of the Eurasian Economic Union have argued that the EEU is primarily a political project that aims to entrench Russia’s hegemony over the CIS region. How does the EEU ensure that smaller nation-states are not forced to comply with Russian preferences; and that the EEU does not suffer from the democratic deficit that plagued the European Union’s effectiveness?
The Eurasian Economic Commission has taken several steps to ensure that smaller member states, like Armenia and Kyrgyzstan, can influence the EEU’s decision-making process. All the EEU member states have equal representation within the union’s governing body. Armenia and Kyrgyzstan have the same number of ministers as Russia, Kazakhstan, and Belarus. The decision-making process in the EEU operates by forging a consensus between the member states. Smaller member states have the right to block decisions that are against their interests, and smaller states can influence the policies adopted by larger countries. The creation of the EEU has expanded the economic influence of smaller nations, as these countries now have influence over decisions made in a governing body that has 180 million residents. Russia has welcomed this change, and Moscow’s decision to delegate decision-making on economic issues to supranational entities was aimed specifically at preserving the sovereignty of smaller states.
The Eurasian Economic Union has attempted to expand its economic influence outside the CIS region, by creating a network of free trade agreements and holding discussions about EEU membership with countries around the world. Do you think that Russia will welcome the inclusion of large non-CIS countries like Turkey into the EEU, even if this inclusion dilutes Moscow’s influence over the organization? And how does the EEU convince U.S. allies and EU member states to sign free trade agreements with the organization, when signing a free trade pact with the EEU could have a considerable diplomatic backlash?
The EEU holds negotiations on free trade agreements with those countries that address us. There are a lot of countries that fit into this category. The presidents of all five countries of the EEU arrive at a consensus on which free trade agreements should be prioritized. Any member state can block a trade agreement decision. Before making such decisions, we carefully consider their economic implications, and how profitable it will be to strike this agreement. Right now, we have a free trade agreement that is being negotiated with Vietnam. Our presidents have given us the mandate to hold negotiations with six other countries on free trade agreements. These countries include Egypt, Israel, India, Iran, Serbia, and Singapore. We are planning to sign a trade-economic agreement with China as well.*
I would like to emphasize that free trade agreements are not the only tool we have to expand our international presence. We have memorandums that have been signed with nine other countries. These countries include Greece, Mongolia, Moldova, Chile, Peru, Singapore, Cambodia, Jordan, and Morocco. We are ready to sign a memorandum with Bangladesh, Cuba, Thailand, and a number of other countries. About 50 countries around the world want to cooperate with the EEU, and some of these countries have raised questions about accession to our union.
The EEU is a purely economic institution, and makes decisions strictly on economic feasibility. Unfortunately, the lack of dialogue between the EEU and the European Union ensures that agreements with EU member states cannot be documented. But European businesses have been working with us at the national-level. We are invited into business deals with countries like the United States, Germany, Italy, and Greece. In those countries, businesses take interest in our operations.
However, the reluctance of the EU countries to cooperate with us influences our international trade relations, and the EEU has consequently focused on strengthening its ties with the Asia-Pacific region. In 2016, we noticed that increased trade with the Asia-Pacific region countered corresponding declines in trade with the EU. Now the share of our imports from the Asia-Pacific region is higher than our imports from the EU. It is interesting that business leaders’ desires do not match those of policymakers. This contradiction has been explored at the St. Petersburg economic forum for the last two years. The business leaders of the EEU and the EU are interested in expanded cooperation but the overall trend is still in the reverse direction.
Since the mid-1990s, maintaining open borders in the CIS region has been a central element of negotiations over the creation of a customs union in Eurasia. Some countries, like Kazakhstan, have been unwilling to completely enforce this open borders policy, because of concerns about the movement of terrorist groups and illegal drugs within the EEU. How has the EEU managed to convince member states to fully comply with the open borders policy and overcome border disputes?
First of all, it is necessary to separate the issues of borders and customs. The Eurasian Economic Union, as an economic organization, is strictly interested in customs and the physical movement of goods across borders. The threats of terrorism and drug trafficking, which you mentioned, are and will be security issues that are discussed in the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO).
In addition, I would like to mention that digital security is a growing challenge. It seems to me that we can’t contradistinguish digital security from other security challenges. It is necessary to find solutions. In this respect, we do not differ from the European Union.
The EEU has expressed interest in deepening its cooperation with the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and Chinese-led economic projects, like One Belt One Road (OBOR) and the New Silk Road. How does the EEU ensure that its intraregional trade mandate does not clash with OBOR? And does the EEU view China’s growing influence in Central Asia as a threat?
The existence of a subnational dialogue between the EEU and China does not cancel bilateral links between China and the member states. We have been holding negotiations with China based on the authority and mandate that was given to us by our presidents. The other issues, which are not included in our mandate, are topics of negotiations at the national level. The EEU’s economic cooperation with China is targeted to benefit the EEU’s economic interests. Chinese policymakers have the same approach. So we do not see China as a threat. China and the EEU have many points of mutual interest. For example, we both believe the harmonization of standards will stimulate business cooperation and remove bureaucratic red tape. It is natural that we will make decisions that reflect our interest. And this question is not unique to China, if we come back to the previous question about the influence of big countries on small ones. The trade partnerships forged between the EEU member states and China resemble those that the U.S. forms with its neighbors and smaller countries.
*Editor’s note: In October 2017, after the interview was conducted, the Eurasian Economic Union and China announced the completion of negotiations on Trade and Economic Cooperation Agreement
Samuel Ramani is a DPhil candidate in International Relations at St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford. He is also a journalist who contributes regularly to the Washington Post and Huffington Post. He can be followed on Twitter at samramani2 and on Facebook at Samuel Ramani.
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Erdogan Lashes out at Netanyahu as Tyrant, Child Murderer
TEHRAN (FNA)- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu a “tyrant” who kills Palestinian children, as a heated war of words between the two officials continues.
“Hey Netanyahu, behave yourself. You are a tyrant, you are a tyrant who massacred seven-year-old Palestinian children,” Erdogan told supporters in capital Ankara, presstv reported.
The remarks were a direct response to Netanyahu's attacks earlier in the day, who called the Turkish head of state a “dictator” and “a joke” who put journalists in jail.
The fiery exchanges began a day earlier, when Turkey denounced Netanyahu for his “blatant racism" against Arab Israelis after the rightist premier said the occupied Palestinian territories only belonged to the Jewish people and not all citizens.
“Turkey’s dictator Erdogan attacks Israel’s democracy while Turkish journalists and judges fill his prisons,” Netanyahu wrote in an Instagram post, noting, “What a joke!”
In his remarks on Wednesday, Erdogan pointed to Israel's ongoing violent crackdown on Palestinians in Jerusalem al-Quds, denouncing Israeli security forces for entering a “holy place”.
“Do not provoke. Look, we have not oppressed any of the Jews in this country. We have not done anything you did to any synagogues here. Don’t provoke us. We will not fall into this trap,” he warned Netanyahu.
Ibrahim Kalin, Erdogan's Spokesman, also reacted to Netanyahu's attacks, saying the Israeli PM was mad at Erdogan for exposing him.
“The apartheid state he leads occupies Palestinian lands, kills women & children & imprisons Palestinians in their own land,” he wrote, adding, "Lies and pressure will not hide your crimes."
Meanwhile, Turkish Presidency Communications Director Fahrettin Altun also lashed out on Wednesday at remarks by Israel's prime minister targeting the Turkish leader.
"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results," Altun said, referring to a well-known quote from renowned scientist Albert Einstein.
Omer Celik, the spokesman for Turkey's ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party, took a swipe at Netanyahu.
"I return the dictator statement to Mr Netanyahu, who is the most suitable politician in the world for this designation," Celik stated.
Turkey ended a political rift with Israel in 2016, six years after Israeli commandos stormed a Gaza-bound aid ship and killed 10 Turkish activists.
Netanyahu's demonization of Israeli Arabs, who make up some 17.5 percent of Israel's population, is a bid by him to increase right-wing turnout in upcoming general elections in April.
The embattled premier has been desperately trying to cause a splash on the political scene inside and outside of Israel over the past months as a distraction tactic to avert attention from his ongoing corruption case in the court. After the elections, he will attend a hearing to defend himself against the allegations which have dogged his campaign.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu pointed to Netanyahu's legal troubles in a tweet on Wednesday.
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"Over 20 years ago...
We launched Eventualities knowing with drive, determination, and a spark of creativity we could accomplish anything for our clients. Throughout the years we have designed, guided, created, set-up, and made thousands of celebration dreams come true all across the country. I've been blessed to have my family beside me every step of the way. And everyone we work with becomes a member of the Eventualities family."
~Diana Polsgrove, Founder and CEO
Our family-owned business celebrates every moment of life: from birth to death, corporate to private, 5 to 50,000 people, and everything in-between!
Eventualities was born in June of 1995. However, we need to begin a decade earlier. Diana always volunteered with her daughter's school, church and Girls Scouts. Her first true coordinating event fell in her lap when she accidentally volunteered to be Day Camp Coordinator for her area Girl Scouts.
She had such a great time working on the week-long event that she held the coordinator position for the next 6 years. During that time, Diana worked for Monkey Business Singing Telegrams, and a former event business. As the years went by, balloon décor began to be in great demand in the corporate world. This enabled her to explore her creative side. Diana would cold call companies inquiring on their event needs and increased sales by 20%! She would communicate with the client about their needs, and in so doing discovered her path to business ownership.
She left Master Productions on a Friday and by the following week she had opened Eventualities doors and booked her first job with Baptist East, then Jewish Hospital. Like many other small businesses, she ran the company out of her basement. By the end of the first year she had over $78,000 in sales. Diana wanted to learn everything she could about balloon décor, so she began to attended classes at the balloon-university. In 1997 Diana and her husband moved to Pewee Valley and doubled their house size and Virginia, her eldest, quit her job at UPS to join in the family business. In 1998 she bought out her first company and absorbed it into Eventualities inventory. As the company began to evolve her inventory grew from just balloons to props and furniture. She was growing so fast she could no longer work solely out of her basement anymore. When Diana started the company she never planned to stay in the balloon industry however she dreamt of something bigger; to become a full event planning company. Over the next couple of years, the company grew and so did the storage facilities. Before the end of that year Eventualities even bought out two more businesses inventory!
In March of 2001 Diana's husband suffered a massive stroke that caused him to bleed from 6 main veins in his brain. This changed everyone's world. He spent the next six months in the hospital for rehab: learning to talk, walk, swallow, and move through daily life with the obstacles the stroke left in its wake. Even though she was visiting him she was working non-stop, even the centerpieces for Manual's prom was made in her husband’s hospital room. Her husband's stroke left him unable to return to his job as a letter carrier and Diana became the bread winner of the house hold. Even though her husband, Bobby, was a government employee and had great insurance, the bills began to pile up. She did the only thing she could do, use the business to fund her husband’s medical bills.
Money was so tight that right after her husband made it out of ICU she was visited by a social worker that told her "I am here to help you declare bankruptcy!" Diana looked at her confused and said I'm sorry but I think you have the wrong person. The lady again looked at Diana and said "No, you don't understand what medical debt you will be accumulating with his illness." As the months went on in the rehab facility, Diana and Bobby made friends with the others who were there recovering from strokes as well. Month after month they watched as the other families lost their homes and as their cars got repossessed in the parking lot while visiting their loved ones. But Diana was determined to not let that happen.
Fast forward to 2003 and the company was struggling to stay a float. Diana even went to see a bankruptcy attorney. He wanted to bankrupt them personally but leave the business alone as it was a viable business. She understood everything the attorney had said but in her heart she knew she couldn't let someone else pay for her debt, it's not who she is. So, Diana called her minister that night and told him what was going on and asked her to pray for her. Now, I'm not telling you that God brought her a beer company but the very next day Coors Beer called with a $250,000 job. This was literally a God send! We had 8 weeks to create 5/20' glaciers that would float on a barge in Seattle, Los Angles, Chicago, New York, and Philadelphia. ALL ON THE SAME DAY AT THE SAME TIME! The week after one of the busiest weeks in Louisville Kentucky, none other than the Kentucky Derby!!!! This was the promotional roll out for the new Coors cans that turn blue when they become cold. This job literally allowed Diana to start paying personal and professional bills. Finally, she had the revenue to begin a payment plan with her creditors.
In 2005 Eventualities bought another company and doubled the size of their business once again. This meant the business finally required its own space therefore we had to move out of Diana's home. We moved to our first warehouse that was 1,495 square feet. Two years later, still paying off debit, we had to move again because we had nearly doubled our inventory once again!
We grew to 10,000 square feet space and hired a full-time warehouse man! Eventualities was on a roll, but still digging away at our financial deficit. In 2007, business had picked up with sales reaching $400,000, and two full time employees.
In 2013, sadly Diana had to permanently place her husband into a nursing home. After a roller coaster of illness, surgeries, set-backs, and trying to take care of him herself she finally concluded that she needed help.
By 2015 Eventualities had $500,000 in sales, with 97,000 pieces of equipment which meant they had to expand yet again to a 15,000-square foot facility.
In 2016 Christian Care Communities decided to drop their major fundraiser, The Derby Festival’s “Battle of the Bounce.” This was the only event that Eventualities continued to sponsor its conception. After multiple discussions, Eventualities purchased the event from Christian Care Communities. Diana decided to keep it as a fundraising event, naming Christian Care and Kentucky Indiana Stroke Association as the non-profit beneficiaries of the event.
On April 7, 2017 Eventualities expanded and more than doubled their company. We acquired Backyard Bounce Events, an inflatables and event company we had worked with, and used for years. The two companies are kept separate financially, however it still falls under the Eventualities family! To date Eventualities has 15,000 square foot warehouse full of inventory items equating to roughly a million-dollars with annual sales of $600,000. Backyard Bounce also has 15,000 square foot facility full of inventory items equating to roughly a million dollars with annual sales over $650,000. Due to our rapid expansion we have grown to 14 employees! Currently this includes third generation family members as full-time employees; Diana’s grandchildren Shelby and Tyler Hart. Although, everyone that has worked for Eventualities eventually becomes family like our event production manager Parker Estes who has been with us for almost four years, and friends with Shelby for 11 years.
Diana has had obstacles thrown at her along the way but has never given up. She has dug herself out of a hole that others would walk away from. She considers what she does as a ministry. To this day Eventualities retains 97% of their clientele. Some of the largest clients are Baptist East, Norton Healthcare, Kentucky One, Humana, Jim, Beam, Heaven Hill, Coors, and American Commercial Lines including numerous non-profit organizations. She has been cleared by the secret service, has worked for 3 United States Presidents, 5 Vice Presidents, 2 First Ladies, numerous Governors, and state officials. Since we do a lot of business with non-profit organizations, Diana always made it a priority to find ways to use their budget wisely, not just simply spend their money. She treats every client like family because Diana is an only child and always wanted siblings. At Eventualities everyone becomes a family member.
Eventualities is your "One Stop" Special Events resource. From concept to completion we help create both the memorable and the hassle-free experience that you require. Eventualities will exceed your expectations! Site development, actors, actresses, comediennes, clowns, jugglers, caricature artists, magicians, mimes, hypnotists and/or psychics are just a few of the entertainment services Eventualities offers. Our service is only limited by your imagination!
Diana Polsgrove, Smart & Sassy Founder-CEO, with her husband, Bobby.
Diana has been a force of nature in leading the Eventualities team to be award-winning. Her love for people and celebrating life is contagious in the community. Her background spans everything from Girl Scouts and singing telegrams to nautical launches and floating custom builds. Her daughters, Virginia Hart and Deanna Polsgrove, both work in the business as well as the grand kids - a full-service family-owned business. Diana currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Prospect Chamber as well as her church.
Virgina Hart, Sweet & Savage COO, with her husband, Steven
Once Eventualities got bigger than Diana could handle alone, Virginia decided to come into the business full time and take the lead where her strengths shine - organization, logistics, and all the detail work. Working with her mom is a daily adventure. One of their mottos, "It's never boring." Virginia currently serves as Vice President on the Board of Directors for the Chamber of St. Matthews as well as Treasurer of the Kentuckiana Chapter of Executive Women International.
Shelby Hart, Little Bit of Everything
Shelby, Virginia's oldest, and recent graduate of Hanover College, does whatever needs to be done around the shop. She's been working in the business her entire life and can do everything from bookkeeping to constructing 2-story faux building walls. She has also been producing the "Hey Diana!" and "Prop Culture" videos (viewed on our YouTube channel)
Parker Estes, Warehouse & Building Guy
Parker, best friends with Shelby, was hired by Diana to do some extra work around the warehouse and during events. He now manages the warehouse and building activities, takes on-site lead, and is finishing his Bachelor's Degree in Marketing from the University of Louisville. Which also makes him a member of our sales team!
James Thompson, Lip Sync Battle Champ & Royal Office Admin
James is a newer addition to the Eventualities family and fits in beautifully! He's great in the office and even knows how to calm Diana when things get too crazy. He brings a wealth of theater knowledge and experience and adds a touch of sass to every day.
Danny, The Behind-The-Scenes Guy
Danny is our guy who likes to work behind the scenes. So much so, we don't even have an official picture for him, but his look-a-like.
Christy Smallwood, CMO and Chief Strategic Guide
Christy handles the marketing and facilitates the strategic planning to keep us on track for ourselves as much as our clients. She helps clients plan their event marketing efforts and even has her own training and development business to help people get to new levels of success.
We have Fun Together!
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Jackson’s Unreal Circus
The Kraken Sea
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Mars Needs Writers
by Elise on November 16, 2018
The year that was at least three years long.
Apparently it’s the season when we recount all we’ve done in a year, and 2018 was a strange one for me. I don’t feel accomplished at all. I don’t do the work that garners awards, but nevertheless, here is the work I did.
This spring, Black Static published my novelette “Sanguinary Scar,” set in a flooded New York City. It is a story of women, their bodies, and taking back consent.
In May, The Dark reprinted “The Sea Half-Held By Night,” set in a bleak Canada where a whaling community is haunted by the horrors it has wrought.
In July, Beneath Ceaseless Skies published “Speak Easy, Suicide Selkies,” which is the selkie story I never intended to write. It is about women, their bodies, and taking back consent. I sense a theme here?
This July also saw the publication of The Quartered Heart, the fifth book in my Folley & Mallory series. It has three reviews on Amazon — “unrelentingly grim,” says one reader. I spent most of the year writing the final book in the series (also grim!), which should be out next year from Apokrupha.
This fall, Black Static #65 included “Marrow,” which is the little lost drone story you’ve always been hoping for. I’ve been told I don’t write horror, so I’m not sure how you’d classify this one at all. After the apocalypse, there’s a long way left to fall. (Yeah, I forgot to include this in my original post, so this is an edit to add it, holy shit where’s my brain. I love this story and if you follow that link above, you can see the smashing artwork it got. TTA Press has sincerely amazing art direction.)
This year, Sword and Sonnet was published; it is a beautiful collection of battle poet stories, all speculative in their natures. I edited this book alongside Aidan Doyle and Rachael K. Jones. I learned a lot in this process, too — I learned how to trust what I already knew, from all my years at Shimmer.
This year also sees the end of Shimmer, which I can’t even type without still tearing up. I have edited Shimmer for twelve years, and it is a hard goodbye, even though it’s time. We never did as much as I hoped we would. I have worked with so many wonderful authors, and fellow editors, and have learned much, about myself and others. I learned who liked me for me, and who liked me because I was an editor.
It has been the longest year.
Cobwebbed
by Elise on October 4, 2018
“Write your story,” the WordPress prompt says. Okay, here’s my story.
This year, my writing pals and I started a group, at the behest of one person who’d been saying since last year that we were all writers and needed a group, by gum. We’ve met four times now, and I think it’s keeping most of us on track with completing new work and meeting goals.
I have spent the summer thinking about a novella I want to write, and in many ways it’s a personal story, although it takes place in a distant year, in a world far different from our present one. It’s science fiction, and also not. It depicts the slow illness my mother struggles with and how it will eat her from the inside out no matter what we do.
I put together a rough outline to present at our recent group meeting, and while I knew there were some gaps in my ideas (it needed bridges and brainstorming, to get from one riverbank to the next), I wasn’t prepared for the “there’s nothing new here” comment.
I am pretty sure no one wants to hear those words leveled at their work, and I was certainly taken aback. A week and change later, I am feeling less enthused about the work than I once was. Despite another group member suggesting some excellent bridges across my weird river of plot, I look at the piece now and think “there’s nothing new here.”
Of course, we tell the same stories over and over; this is not a failing, I don’t feel. Harry Potter was not “new,” by any definition — this is the story that G.K. Chesterton told us we needed because it proves that dragons may be slain. Narnia and Middle Earth showed us the same. Beowulf showed us the same. Does that invalidate all stories that come later and tell us the same?
Maybe I should have asked for clarification — but I was really too surprised to say much, ha. What the comment has done, in addition to taking the wind out of my sails, is make me consider how I have approached crits in the past, and how I should do so in the future. Crits should attempt to help the writer put the best version of their story forward. How can I help this writer refine this idea, without telling them it is lacking, because who makes that kind of judgment? We write what we write for reasons that are not always apparent; perhaps I felt the comment so sharply given my personal intentions for the story, of which this person knew nothing.
Perhaps the comment will be helpful in the end; how can I add to what I have already, how can I make it into something new, though the ideas at the heart of it may never be that. How can I show this idea in a new light, from a new angle? How can I strip whatever cobwebs there are off and show how the silver still shines?
Which is, perhaps, the thing we do with writing every day.
What You Love
by Elise on September 24, 2018
(Well first, holy shit, this WordPress editor is all new — I’m playing around with Gutenberg to see how it works, so we’ll see. Hey, drop caps. Midway in: well Gutenberg won’t let me even make a link, so that’s not the function we’re looking for, WordPress.)
They tell you to write what you love. That the love will shine through the work and all will be well. That people will see what you love and how you love and they will also fall in love and it will simply be a lovely explosion in every way possible.
Except sometimes it’s not. I wrote what I loved. I mashed all the things I loved into one glorious thing: ancient Egypt, Victorian steampunk, creepy gods who roam the earth, dogs and dog men, impossible love, honey, correspondence between ladies who are the best of friends, meteorites, ancient astronomy, curses, the divide between real history and the history told by the winners, time travel, weird tombs, glorious food, women who are monsters and the men who love them, mothers and daughters and granddaughters and the ties that bind, the disasters of colonization, girls disguised as boys to make their way in the world, archaeology, skeletons both real and metaphorical, hidden cameos by real life historical people, airships, addictions, awkward and hot gentlemen.
I wrote what I loved and it didn’t really go. Where do you go from there?
Sure, we don’t love one single thing, but it feels like starting all over, doesn’t it? How do we start? It’s too big. How does anyone ever write a novel? And yet, my shelves are full of them.
Okay, that was telling: I typoed “selves are full of them.” And well. Maybe that’s where you start. Because that calls to mind Ani DiFranco’s “32 Flavors.” I am thirty-two flavors and then some.
The new book is one that has plagued me for years — and I don’t know if I’ll talk about it much here. We’ll have to see how it goes. What I do know is, it has started talking to me, maybe because it knows it’s finally on deck. Its time has come. I keep finding fragments of the book everywhere, in other books, in poetry, in the world around me. All signs point to doing this thing, and what’s the other option, really?
As Alex likes to tell me, you’d just be writing another damn novel, so you might as well leap into this one. Because it’s been in my brain for so long. Why not.
A thousand why nots, omg — it could fail like the last one did.
But yeah yeah yeah, it could also fly. Someone said that about something once. Ultimately, it’s the writing we love, no matter how maddening that is. Help me, Jean-Luc, you’re my only hope!
by Elise on August 27, 2018
When Assassin’s Creed Origins was announced, I was pretty excited. A game set in ancient Egypt? With a setting where you can just explore and not worry about Romans or gods trying to kill you? A game where you can wander around and pet cats, and scritch your pet falcon under the chin?
ACO provides the best of all possible worlds: you can fight Romans and gods, you can slay crocodiles, but you can also be chill and climb pyramids, and wander temples, and swim in the Red Sea. You can dive into shipwrecks (you can discover an underwater beer cache), you can learn about honey making and farming. The world here is huge and ready for exploring — and gets two more layers with expansions (the Red Sea is part of one expansion).
I could probably write entire books about this game, but I think I will talk about the Curse of the Pharaohs/The Hidden Ones expansions mostly, because they tie into the very novels I’ve been writing for four years. Anubis lurks in the shadows of the main game — you see him in statues, and only briefly in the underworld, but then you add the expansions and lo, there are jackal guards stalking you when you enter temples; they are golden and fierce, created in Anubis’s own image. When you explore tombs, you pass through cracks of light to find yourself in various Egyptian afterlifes. (Later, jackal guards slip back into the real world to stalk you there!)
The Duat is the afterlife that factors most heavily into my own novels, so it has been a real kick to wander Ubisoft’s version. The Duat is a kind of purgatory, where souls wait to be judged by Anubis. It’s filled with all kinds of strange monsters — Ubisoft has included sacred blue lotus everywhere, and the cities appear built into the skeletons of giant beasts.
The jackal warriors wander here, too. It was startling to see them, given the way I’ve written about Anubis and the Duat.
You can also explore Aaru, the reed fields where ships move as if in water, where those who were balanced in life spend the rest of eternity. Huge scorpions move through the reeds, antelope concealed until you startle them into motion.
You also get Aten, which is the disk of the sun; this realm is the complete opposite of the Duat. Where one is shadows, this one is blinding sun, the disk taking up most of the sky. In the afterlife, you also acquire a DEATH HORSE for your mount; Bayek wonders how he can ride such a thing, for he is still living.
OR IS HE.
I haven’t played the expansion to the end yet, but I begin to wonder if Our Hero has met with calamity. (I think Kadesh is the final realm we get, but I am not sure!)
The other hugeness of the expansion for me was the opportunity to explore Thebes, which also got me wondering if we’d be allowed across the Nile into the Valley of Kings, WHICH meant we might get to explore Hatshepsut’s temple??
Like Anubis, Hatshepsut and her court play a large part in my Folley and Mallory books; it’s her court Anubis draws them to, for Very Specific Reasons. When this location came up in-game, I shouted. I got chills. I never expected this to be part of ACO, and to find myself about to explore it… Beyond cool.
It’s not historically accurate, but I totally don’t care; it’s a little weird that they didn’t build the Anubis Chapel, given Anubis’s presence elsewhere in the expansion, BUT I can see why they didn’t — they kept the temple innards simple, because the story that plays there doesn’t require more. AND YET, this temple is lovingly made with a good eye on history, because you’ve got those rows of Hatshepsut pharaohs, you’ve got the ramps, you’ve got Mentuhotep II’s temple right nearby (that’s the wee pyramid), and it’s all extraordinary. (But apparently the discovery tour doesn’t reach there, boo!)
It’s a great game and these expansions are fantastic. If you have any interest in ancient Egypt, Ubisoft has done well by it. I’m looking forward to seeing how they handle Greece in Odyssey, too!
Crones
by Elise on July 20, 2018
Leia Organa Solo
We are not taught how to age gracefully. Our culture tells us what has value: beauty, youth, health. Here’s how to mask your wrinkles. Here’s how to hide your gray hair. Never matter that wrinkles come from a body in motion. Never mind that hair losing its color is wholly natural — and happens to some people at early ages. Have some plastic surgery! You’ll be better in no time!
We are not taught how to love our bodies as they get older. We are taught that our peak is a ridiculously low number, that being one of the thirty under thirty is vital and necessary and desirable. If you haven’t published by the time you’re 25, you are surely doomed. If you haven’t found your Dream Job, your Dream House, your Dream Date by the time you’re twenty-one, all is misery.
Chrisjen Avasarala
We know nothing when we’re twenty-one. We know only a little more when we’re twenty-five. The world is vast and we will have seen almost none of it as we emerge from school (if we were so lucky to attend). We are told that what has value is youth! Beauty! We are not taught that experience has its own value, that scars and wrinkles are evidence of a life well and fully lived. Smile lines are not a curse — you smiled so much, your skin made a memory of it.
Beverly Crusher and Jean-Luc Picard
We rarely see older women in loving relationships, because we rarely see older women. We are shown that they are mothers, grandmothers, and do not have sexual or romantic partners because that time in their life has passed. We are taught that older bodies are not as beautiful as younger bodies. We are taught that slender bodies are the only bodies capable and worthy of physical affection. We are not shown how to operate bodies outside the norm, bodies with fault lines.
We are taught that giving something up because we can no longer do it is a failure. We are taught that coming to the end of a life is traumatic and that by merely becoming older, as is the way of every thing in this universe, we have failed. Physical beauty — the kind that is valued, because there is beauty in so many things — is temporary. Youth is temporary, no matter how we chase it with creams, salves, and ointments. “Youth and beauty are not accomplishments,” Carrie Fisher reminded us. “They’re the temporary happy byproducts of time and/or DNA. Don’t hold your breath for either.”
Queen Ramonda
We are perhaps taught that all things come to an end, but never how to handle those endings. How do you stop doing something you’ve done for most of your life, because you can no longer safely do it? “I am angry because I am old,” my mother says, and when I jokingly say it’s better than the alternative, she now says she isn’t quite so sure. She is tired of everything. Tired of trying to live inside a body that has become a stranger. Tired and perhaps scared, because she remembers her grandmother coming to live with them when she could no longer be on her own; afraid of that old woman in the den who bore no resemblance to the grandmother she remembered.
Neither are we taught how to deal with memory, and what happens when sixty years ago feels more present than what happened yesterday. What did you have for dinner last night — I don’t know, but let me tell you about what it was like to move to a completely new community when I was a new bride, when my hair wasn’t gray, when I could stand up straight and walk across the world without assistance. And so we sit and listen, and keep that memory for when she will no longer be able to.
We are not taught how, but we try every day.
Dear Amazon
by Elise on June 13, 2018
Dear Amazon,
Yesterday, you told me that Rings of Anubis could be had for $4! Well that’s deal, I thought, and I went to look at the page, thinking I would advertise the sale to my five readers. Only, when I got to the page, I saw the book was no longer part of Prime, and that Amazon was not, in fact, the seller.
I wrote to my publisher, asking if the book was going out of print — it was the only thing that made sense at the time, that perhaps only used copies were now available. (It’s not the case.) While I waited for a reply, a poked around the page a little more and discovered that there was still an Amazon option for buying the book, further down the page and for more money, where someone who has already seen a $4 deal is probably not going to wander.
Well, that’s bullshit, I thought. My publisher wrote back and said, “it can happen.” Talk about some shrug emoji.
I asked my online writing group about it, and was pointed to this article from Publisher’s Weekly, and then later found this other piece PW did. Apparently it’s a thing you do, Amazon, and apparently it’s not going away.
I asked my publisher what could be done about it, and it’s still radio silence on that front. What can we do about this, Amazon?
Reading more online though, it makes me wonder how this random seller got copies of my books. I have a guess, but haven’t been able to confirm it.
Hundreds of copies of Rings of Anubis were donated by my publisher to a fundraiser built on geeks and their works. Super cheap books for someone — anyone — to buy, to support this charity and their humanitarian efforts around the world. The author sees no royalties from such a donation, or the sales that follow. And people who buy those books can do anything with them, including resell them on Amazon. Is this what happened? I don’t know.
What I do know is, Amazon, I will likely see no income from those copies sold on your platform. Rings of Anubis was not a bestseller; it had no marketing support and no big fanbase; the book has all of 16 reviews in its four years of life. Rings of Anubis is nothing in the scheme of publishing. But it was my debut novel, so means something to me even though it was a failure. It was a story that Apokrupha believed in and wanted to see the conclusion of (book five comes out soon! Book six, the end, is nearly written!).
Amazon, you are engaged in a seriously dishonest business practice and you’re probably cackling because there’s not much I, a super tiny author, can do to change it. But maybe readers can. They can stop supporting your bullshit practices that cut the author out of the equation. They can support their local independent booksellers, who understand that without authors, there are no books.
Fuck you, Amazon. Fuck you for doing this to me and countless others.
by Elise on June 4, 2018
Two weeks ago, I slipped down the stairs — because who doesn’t love doing that, really — and bruised my tailbone. The bruises have only just shown themselves, and it was kind of a relief to see them, and say “oh hey, that really did happen, and I’m not quite nine hundred and three years old after all.”
I suppose I’m bad when it comes to believing in things unseen, sorry Jesus.
I started this blog a week ago, with its title, and now I’m like “Well, what the heck was I going to talk about,” and I’m pretty sure it was this: I wrote eight days in a row on the sixth F&M book (clearly a groove), and made a ton of progress, while also moderately liquefying my brain in the process. Last weekend was writing; this weekend just past was for recovery (which apparently involved a lot of Expanse episodes — they’ve entered book three, where things get INtense. It also involved Solo with my peeps — I thought it was a great escape, very fun).
I used to think that writers had to write every day. I don’t find that to be useful any more — though your mileage may vary. For me, I fill up, I write, my brain gets empty, and then I fill back up so I can put out again (dirty).
Of course, now it’s hard to sit for long periods of time. I find myself needing to stand and move a little more, lest my black and blue behind get very angry with me. This results in finding another kind of groove, the one where you put Madonna on the turntable and relive your youth.
But then Madonna helps fill that well, too, and the book words rush back and you’re excited over structure and mothers and daughters and grandmothers and you think, if you are very-impossibly lucky, you will be able to pull the book out of your head and put it onto the paper exactly as you see it.
Do you know how rare that is?
Will it happen?
We don’t know! I hope the suspense lasts!
But it sure has been going well so far. I never love the middle of novels, but this one is flying and singing, and maybe it’s because it’s the last book, that all the worries have fallen away, and maybe it’s because I know the characters so well now that they just do their thing when I’ve got them on the page. These books have taught me a lot.
As I write F&M #6, the fifth book is soon to launch — I’ve seen the cover art for The Quartered Heart and it’s beautiful and you will not love it as much as I do, but I hope you will look at it and believe it is a book you need to read. TQH is about love and loss, it’s about discovery, and how success can feel very much like failure. It is about losing, and picking yourself up and carrying on anyhow. It is a book about life, the universe, and some very angry jackals.
by Elise on May 23, 2018
I used to really enjoy lifting weights. There’s something comforting about it, which… I know that sounds weird. But it feels good to have moved iron around. And to look at me, you’d certainly never think oh my this lady likes going to the gym, but I used to — until all the other weight I was carrying kind of lodged me in place.
By weight, I mean everything I’m doing — I looked back at my previous post here, and had a come to Jesus talk with a couple of friends, and there’s a plan going forward, but it’s scary, because that’s what the unknown does best, right. There is an abyss out there and the only way across is via clever metaphors that people may never read or understand..erm.
In weightlifting, you don’t put the heavy plates on first, of course. You work your way up to them. Sometimes, as you increase weight, you can only do one rep at this new, heavier weight, but that possibly marks a personal best, given you’ve never hit that weight before. Still, that weight may also be too much; you might not be there yet. You may never get there.
But you look at the others in the gym, adding plates and squatting 300 and you think damn that looks awesome and you wonder why you aren’t doing that, why you can’t do that, and remind yourself that all bodies are different, and that yours is unique because it’s not as strong in places as it used to be, so you lift much less, and watch as others lift even moar, and have support in doing so (stronger thighs and backs, back braces, and wrist guards and spotters and and and).
Is this a metaphor? Is this weightlifting alluding to something else entirely?
And what’s with the Fionna and Cake picture, Elise, really? (I love Fionna and Cake, c’mon, but also you know who they almost are — the stars of the show — yet they’re not that, but still are comfortable being who they are, because they have the support of everyone who also isn’t the star of the show and — God, what’re you even talking about at this point…)
Watching everyone else is part of the problem. Someone can lift 300 because they’ve trained to lift 300, and maybe you feel like you should be at that level because how many years have you been training? But you still can’t do it.
Some backs aren’t meant for that kind of weight.
So you look at the weight you can carry, and the additional weight you have been trying to bear, and you figure out what has to be set aside before you can actually move forward, before you can be not lodged in place.
You wonder, who will I be without this burden I have been trying to carry? Who will I be with a smaller bundle on my back?
And it’s probably terrifying, but look, you can walk straighter without it.
Adventure Time,
C’mon grab your friends,
We’re going to very distant lands…
The Well, Actually
by Elise on May 7, 2018
I first met Anne Lamott in the 90s, via her book Bird by Bird. Someone told my mom about the book and she said she wanted to get it for me, because it was about writing. We gleefully crossed paths with the hardcover (in a bookstore! gasp!) some weeks later, and brought a copy home. It is a book I return to so frequently that its spine has begun to split.
One thing from the book I hold tightly to is the idea that writer’s block doesn’t really exist (your experience may be different, of course, as we are all different humans). It’s more that the creative well inside ourselves runs empty, and we have to allow it to fill again before we can put anything else onto a page. I find this true in my work, that if I haven’t taken something in, I can’t put something out. Lately it feels like there isn’t enough time to take anything in.
This isn’t to say that I’ve been lax — I’ve seen Infinity War, after all, so Important Works are being consumed. I’ve recently finished Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit and A Human Stain by Kelly Robson; I’ve started reading The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton.
I’ve read a writer friend’s drafted manuscript; I’ve read a writer friend’s drafted script; I’ve pondered a writer friend’s poems; I’m taking care of my mom as her memory continues to degrade; I’ve edited stories for an anthology I’m joint editing; I edited stories for Shimmer and those are endless, aren’t they; I formatted the May Shimmer not once but twice because of scheduling conflicts; I assembled the cover design for the May Shimmer; I’ve read an excessive amount of slush and we’re still not caught up.
I edited 60k words of manuscripts for my main freelance gig; I’ve explained exactly why plagiarism isn’t allowed; I’m reading another 200 pages of manuscript for another freelance gig; I have an edit to handle for a Kickstarter reward; I handled three other edits for other Kickstarter rewards; I’m figuring out why the hell the hood over the stove suddenly doesn’t work and oh it’s just the dumb solder on the light that doesn’t allow it to sit flush and actually illuminate; I’m trying not to scowl at the Mormons who broke my doorbell, but c’mon man; I added almost 11k to the Anubis manuscript in April…what.
I’m a little staggered by that last fact there — I didn’t expect that number to be anywhere near that high. I’ve felt very empty when it’s time to work on my own shit; some days, it doesn’t happen, I’m not gonna lie. Some days, you open the file and have nothing to give. Some days, maybe you don’t even get to open the file.
Some days, though, you open the file and add 500 words. Maybe it turned out to only be a session of plotting, of getting people out of a metaphorical corner. Maybe it was 50 words and no more.
Those words add up, though. Small chunks? Keep going.
At writing group, I suggested we talk about everything we’ve accomplished in the time since we last met. I think it’s easy to look at our work and say “omg look at everything I haven’t done.”
Okay, but look at everything you did.
If literally all you’re doing is queuing up video games when you get home and losing yourself for days, then maybe we need to reconsider our choices, but I sure as heck have been exploring Assassin’s Creed Origins when I have bits of time. You could have been writing during that time, someone is thinking right this very second. And no, I don’t think I could have been.
Wells need refilling.
Sometimes that means you need to go pet cats in ancient Egypt.
Neko Atsume, Egypt edition
Not Always Graceful
by Elise on April 30, 2018
Goodbyes aren’t always graceful.
You can’t always plan for them.
Sometimes we know.
Sometimes they come out of left field and sock you in the face like a baseball.
If you haven’t seen Infinity War, you may want to skip this entry. I have no idea what I’m going to say, but suspect a spoiler might leap up and grab you when we least expect it.
Mostly, the movie has me thinking about goodbyes, and how we aren’t always given the space or time to properly process them. This movie ends with a cliffhanger, if you want to call it that. I would call it a pause, because we know there will be more Avengers films. We know certain characters will be returning.
We can also guess about two or three who may not.
But the end of the movie puts a lot of things on hold, leaves a lot of storylines without resolution. I’m okay with that, because it made things feel more real. For all the aliens and super powers, for all the portals and witty quips, the end of the movie feels real, because there’s no time to breathe or to understand what we just saw.
It doesn’t make sense. Death is like that.
It isn’t fair. Death is like that.
It makes you want to scream. Death is like that.
Two stories hit me hardest here — oh hey, here come the spoilers, I can feel it.
First, Gamora. If I have to see or read about another man who said “I love you,” and then killed the woman he just said that to, I’m probably going to hurl the world into the sun, It’s too real. And here I was just advocating that the end of the movie was real so I was okay with that.
But watching another woman get fridged so a dude can complete his Utterly Nonsense Plan?
Were we supposed to be shocked that Thanos actually did love her? Was Gamora’s surprise intended to foster ours? It only made me angry, watching him cry over her, over knowing that he was about to kill her to make the universe a “better place.” Fuck that.
Second, Peter Parker. The movie opens with Tony having dreamed that he and Pepper were pregnant; the movie opens with Tony feeling it’s time to be a dad. The movie ends with Peter turning to ash in Tony’s arms, after Tony has, perhaps unintentionally, spent the movie being a dad to him.
I can’t even with that. Even though we know Peter’s coming back (hi, movie contracts). But. BUT. Even as I can’t, I CAN, because apparently I contain multitudes. If time is reset, and they remember this timeline, how does that change who they are going forward? If the reset button erases memories, that will mean this film was a waste.
Goodbyes aren’t always graceful. Those on screen, in a book, or in real life. I’ve had people vanish without warning. They may as well have turned to ash in my hands. Some of those people never came back. A few of them did and I’m never ever letting them go again.
No matter all the magic and wonder and portals and pryotechnics, goodbyes are sloppy and imperfect, and so is Infinity War. So though it makes me angry, I think I understand it.
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The obligation to respect and to ensure respect for the Geneva Conventions
Geiss, R. (2015) The obligation to respect and to ensure respect for the Geneva Conventions. In: Clapham, A., Gaeta, P. and Sassoli, M. (eds.) The 1949 Geneva Conventions: A Commentary. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 109-134. ISBN 9780199675449
Geiss, Professor Robin
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Chimpanzees can learn “words” for objects, a study suggests.
Captive chimpanzees can learn new vocalizations to refer to specific objects from chimps raised in a different environment, according to a study published this week (February 5) in Current Biology.
In 2010, a group of chimps raised at a safari park in the Netherlands was integrated with a group at the Edinburgh Zoo in Scotland. Prior to the move, the Dutch chimps were enthusiastic about apples and used high-pitched calls to refer to them, whereas the Scottish apes voiced their displeasure for apples by referring to them with low grunts. As the two groups became more closely knit over the following three years, the chimps maintained their respective apple preferences, but a team of researchers from the Universities of York, Zurich, and St Andrews noted that the apes from the Netherlands began referring to apples with the Scottish group’s grunting.
“As far as we know, this is the first evidence we’ve seen of a referential call being modified,” study coauthor Simon Townsend of the University of Zurich told The Verge. Previously, scientists had assumed that these sounds used by chimpanzees and some other primates were closely tied to the emotions the animals had about the object, but the behavior of the chimps at the Edinburgh Zoo suggested that the sound associated with a given object can be decoupled from that item’s emotional value. “This suggests that the way meaning is assigned in human language and in animals might be more similar than previously thought,” Townsend added.
“This is the first bit of evidence which might suggest that [vocal learning] . . . is a much older capability, that maybe our last common ancestor might also have had,” study coauthor Katie Slocombe of the University of York told BBC News.
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Quotes \ Authors \ Belgian Authors \ Audrey Hepburn
Facts about Audrey Hepburn
Audrey Hepburn was a famous Actress from Belgium, who lived between May 4, 1929 and January 20, 1993. She became 63 years old.
She is born under the zodiac taurus, who is known for Security, Subtle strength, Appreciation, Instruction, Patience. Our collection contains 35 quotes who is written / told by Audrey, under the main topic Inspirational.
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Famous quotes by Audrey Hepburn (35)
"There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain"
"The best thing to hold onto in life is each other"
"The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters"
"When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over"
"There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl's complexion"
"If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all"
"If I get married, I want to be very married"
"I've been lucky. Opportunities don't often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them"
"I'm half-Irish, half-Dutch, and I was born in Belgium. If I was a dog, I'd be in a hell of a mess!"
"I'm an introvert... I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky"
"I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it"
"I was asked to act when I couldn't act. I was asked to sing 'Funny Face' when I couldn't sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn't dance - and do all kinds of things I wasn't prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it"
"I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience"
"I never thought I'd land in pictures with a face like mine"
"I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people's minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing"
"I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person"
"I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true"
"I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel"
"I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone"
"I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it"
"I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles"
"I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and... I believe in miracles"
"For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone"
"Everything I learned I learned from the movies"
"As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others"
"Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing"
"Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others"
"Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future"
"People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone"
"Paris is always a good idea"
"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!"
"Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once"
"Let's face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me"
"It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so 'don't fuss, dear; get on with it.'"
"If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough"
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1069. A Black Mound of Canadian Oil Waste Is Rising Over Detroit
By Ian Austen, The New York Times, May 17, 2013
Petroleum coke, a waste byproduct of refining oil sands oil,
is piling up along the Detroit River, Photo: Fabrizio Costantini for The New York Times
WINDSOR, Ontario — Assumption Park gives residents of this city lovely views of the Ambassador Bridge and the Detroit skyline. Lately they’ve been treated to another sight: a three-story pile of petroleum coke covering an entire city block on the other side of the Detroit River.
Detroit’s ever-growing black mountain is the unloved, unwanted and long overlooked byproduct of Canada’s oil sands boom.
And no one knows quite what to do about it, except Koch Carbon, which owns it.
The company is controlled by Charles and David Koch, wealthy industrialists who back a number of conservative and libertarian causes including activist groups that challenge the science behind climate change. The company sells the high-sulfur, high-carbon waste, usually overseas, where it is burned as fuel.
The coke comes from a refinery alongside the river owned by Marathon Petroleum, which has been there since 1930. But it began refining exports from the Canadian oil sands — and producing the waste that is sold to Koch — only in November.
“What is really, really disturbing to me is how some companies treat the city of Detroit as a dumping ground,” said Rashida Tlaib, the Michigan state representative for that part of Detroit. “Nobody knew this was going to happen.” Almost 56 percent of Canada’s oil production is from the petroleum-soaked oil sands of northern Alberta, more than 2,000 miles north.
An initial refining process known as coking, which releases the oil from the tarlike bitumen in the oil sands, also leaves the petroleum coke, of which Canada has 79.8 million tons stockpiled. Some is dumped in open-pit oil sands mines and tailing ponds in Alberta. Much is just piled up there.
Detroit’s pile will not be the only one. Canada’s efforts to sell more products derived from oil sands to the United States, which include transporting it through the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, have pulled more coking south to American refineries, creating more waste product here.
Marathon Petroleum’s plant in Detroit processes 28,000 barrels a day of the oil sands bitumen.
Residents on both sides of the Detroit River are concerned that the coke mountain is both an environmental threat and an eyesore.
“Here’s a little bit of Alberta,” said Brian Masse, one of Windsor’s Parliament members. “For those that thought they were immune from the oil sands and the consequences of them, we’re now seeing up front and center that we’re not.”
Mr. Masse wants the International Joint Commission, the bilateral agency that governs the Great Lakes, to investigate the pile. Michigan’s state environmental regulatory agency has submitted a formal request to Detroit Bulk Storage, the company holding the material for Koch Carbon, to change its storage methods. Michigan politicians and environmental groups have also joined cause with Windsor residents. Paul Baltzer, a spokesman for Koch’s parent company, Koch Companies Public Sector, did not respond to questions about its storage or the ultimate destination of the petroleum coke.
Coke, which is mainly carbon, is an essential ingredient in steelmaking as well as producing the electrical anodes used to make aluminum.
While there is high demand from both those industries, the small grains and high sulfur content of this petroleum coke make it largely unusable for those purposes, said Kerry Satterthwaite, a petroleum coke analyst at Roskill Information Services, a commodities analysis company based in London.
“It is worse than a byproduct,” Ms. Satterthwaite said.“It’s a waste byproduct that is costly and inconvenient to store, but effectively costs nothing to produce.”
Murray Gray, the scientific director for the Center for Oil Sands Innovation at the University of Alberta, said that about two years ago, Alberta backed away from plans to use the petroleum coke as a fuel source, partly over concerns about greenhouse-gas emissions. Some of it is burned there, however, to power coking plants.
The Keystone XL pipeline will provide Gulf Coast refineries with a steady supply of diluted bitumen from the oil sands. The plants on the coast, like the coking refineries concentrated in California to deal with that state’s heavy crude oil, are positioned to ship the waste to China or Mexico, where it is burned as a fuel. California exports about 128,000 barrels of petroleum coke a day, mainly to China.
Tony McCallum, a spokesman for the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, played down the impact of Keystone XL. “Most of the Canadian oil earmarked for the U.S. Gulf Coast is to replace declining heavy oil imports from Mexico and Venezuela that produces the same amount of petcoke, so it doesn’t create a new issue,” he wrote in an e-mail.
Much of the new coking investment has gone into refineries in the Midwest to allow them to take advantage of the oil sands. BP, the British energy company, is building what it describes as the second-largest coke refinery in Whiting, Ind. When completed, the unit will be able to process about 102,000 barrels of bitumen or other heavy oils a day.
And what about the leftover coke? The Environmental Protection Agency will no longer allow any new licenses permitting the burning of petroleum coke in the United States. But D. Mark Routt, a staff energy consultant at KBC Advanced Technologies in Houston, said that overseas companies saw it as a cheap alternative to low-grade coal. In China, it is used to generate electricity, adding to that country’s air-quality problems. There is also strong demand from India and Latin America for American petroleum coke, where it mainly fuels cement-making kilns.
“I’m not making a value statement, but it comes down to emission controls,” Mr. Routt said. “Other people don’t seem to have a problem, which is why it is going to Mexico, which is why it is going to China.”
“One man’s junk is another man’s treasure,” he said. One of the world’s largest dealers of petroleum coke is the Oxbow Corporation, which sells about 11 million tons of fuel-grade coke a year. It is owned by William I. Koch, a brother of David and Charles.
Lorne Stockman, who recently published a study on petroleum coke for the environmental group Oil Change International, says, “It’s really the dirtiest residue from the dirtiest oil on earth,” he said.
Rhonda Anderson, an organizing representative of the Sierra Club in Detroit, said that the mountain’s rise took her group by surprise, but it had one benefit.
“Those piles kind of hit us upside to the head,” she said. “But it also triggered a kind of relationship between Canada and the United States that’s allowed us to work together.”
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Module outline
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Week 2 Hegel on master and slave
Week 3 Kant and Dostoevsky
Week 4 of the slave
Week 5 Commodity fetishism
Week 7 Weber – Capitalism, Protestantism and Reason
Week 8 Vincent van Gogh
Week 9 Nietzsche’s Zarathustra
Modern Liberal Arts
Semester 1 2015
LA 2001 Freedom is to Learn
Thursdays 15.30-17.30 MB2
Module Learning Outcomes
Show engagement with primary sources
Show a knowledge of theoretical perspectives and/or works
Show an understanding of abstract concepts and ideas within theoretical perspectives
Show an ability to work with theorists and their concepts in various forms of assessment as appropriate
Show evidence of engagement with texts and ideas concerned with issues surrounding freedom in the world
Weekly seminars (full list of references at the end)
‘how can light and darkness be in agreement?’ (Erasmus, 1964, Enchiridion, p. 30).
Week 1 Aristotle on masters and slaves
Readings: Aristotle, The Politics, pp. 63-9, 94-97, 451-471.
Plato, The Laws, 713-14
Seneca, The Letters, letter XLVII, pp. 90-6.
St Augustine, City of God, pp. 874-6, 893.
St Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, Q21, art. 1 (vol. 1); Q96, art 4 (vol. 4)
Epictetus, Discourses, book IV, chapter 1
Cicero, Tusculan Disputations, IV, 17.
Newman, The Idea of a University, p. 178.
Proctor, Defining the Humanities, pp. 200-1.
Wider reading: Life of Diogenes the Cynic, in Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Book VI, chapter 2.
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lives_of_the_Eminent_Philosophers/Book_VI#Diogenes
St Augustine, City of God, Book XIX
St Thomas Aquinas, Q105, art. 4 (vol. 8)
http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/
Aquinas, Commentary on Aristotle’s Politics,
Plato, (1971) Gorgias, 483-5.
Smith, A. (1986) Wealth of Nations, pp. 488-9.
Ward, ‘Ethnos in the Politics: Aristotle and Race,’ in Ward and Lott (2002).
Neill, R. (2011) ‘Slavery in the Writings of Thomas Aquinas,’ http://www.sju.ca/sites/default/files/Library/Headley%20essays/Headley%20Ralph%20Neill.pdf
Clarence-Smith, Islam and the Abolition of Slavery
Reading: Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit, §178-196
du Bois, The Education of Black People, 106-8, 128.
McLaurin, Celia, a Slave, pp. 113-119.
Maya Angelou ’Still I rise’ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqOqo50LSZ0
Maya Angelou ‘The Mask’ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UT9y9HFHpU0&feature=youtu.be
Wider reading: Sartre, Being and Nothingness, pp. 235-245.
Adler, The Idea of Freedom, Book 2, Part I, chapter 1.
Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, part 2.
Taylor, Hegel, pp. 148-57.
Lacan, The Other Side of Psychoanalysis pp. 20-36, 148-9, 169-72.
Browning, Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit: A Reappraisal, chapter 12.
Harris, H.S. (1995) Hegel: Phenomenology and System, pp. 35-40.
Rose, Mourning Becomes the Law, chapter 3.
Norman, Hegel's Phenomenology
Rockmore, Before and After Hegel, pp. 103-107.
Tubbs Philosophy’s Higher Education, pp. 28-39.
Readings: Kant, ‘What is Enlightenment’.
Kant, (2012) On the feeling of the beautiful and the sublime, p. 33-4
Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, ‘The Grand Inquisitor’, pp. 283-304. http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/d/dostoyevsky/d72b/chapter36.html
and pp. 360-6, chapter 41
http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/d/dostoyevsky/d72b/chapter41.html
Wider reading: Kant, Political Writings, pp. 64 & 69.
Kant, (2007) ‘Conjectural beginning of human history’
Williams, Dostoevsky: Language, Faith and Fiction, pp. 27-34.
Readings: Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks, Intro 171-3
Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth, conclusion
Ansbro, J.J. (1982/4) Martin Luther King, The Making of a Mind, 119-128, 214-15, 298.
ML King Jnr, Stride Toward Freedom, 88-9.
Tutu, No Future Without Forgiveness, 34-6, 40, 154-5, 212-19.
du Bois, The Souls of Black Folks, chapter 1.
Wider reading: du Bois The Souls of Black Folks, chapter 11
du Bois, ‘du Bois Speaks to Africa,’
http://www.nathanielturner.com/duboisspeakstoafrica1958.htm
du Bois, The Education of Black People
The Correspondence of W.E.B. Du Bois, Vol. 1: Selections, 1877-1934
Tutu, No Future Without Forgiveness
Diop, C.A, (1991) Civilization or Barbarism, chapter 17.
Krog, Country of my Skull,
White, D.G. (1999) Ar’n’t I a Woman? New York, Norton.
ML King Jnr, (1956) ‘Facing the Challenge of a new age’
http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/primarydocuments/Vol3/3-Dec-1956_FacingtheChallenge.pdf
ML King Jnr, ‘Introduction’ to The Papers of ML King Jnr, vol. II Rediscovering Precious Values, Berkley, University of California Press http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/primarydocuments/Vol2Intro.pdf
ML King Jnr, The Papers of ML King Jnr, vol. II Rediscovering Precious Values, Berkley, University of California Press, (on Maritain, pp. 119-24; on Hegel, pp. 154, 196-201).
ML King Jnr, Stride Toward Freedom
Bernasconi, R, (2009) ‘Our Duty to Conserve: W. E. B. Du Bois's Philosophy of History in Context’ South Atlantic Quarterly Summer2009, Vol. 108 Issue 3, p. 519-540.
Bernasconi, R. (2011) ‘The Impossible Logic of Assimilation,’ Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, vol. 19. No. 2 http://jffp.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/jffp/article/view/490
Ellison, R. (1952/2001) Invisible Man.
Genet, J. (1960) The Blacks: a clown show.
Morrison, T. (2005) Song of Solomon.
James Meredith http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19734976
Slave ‘stories’
McLaurin, M.A. (1991) Celia, a Slave, New York, Avon Books.
Douglass, F. (2009) Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
Northup, S, (2014) 12 Years a Slave, London, HarperCollins.
Jacobs, H. (2001) Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, New York, Dover.
Equiano, O. (1789/2005) The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African Written By Himself, London.
Dickens, C. (1883 ) American Notes, New York, John Lovell Company, chapter 17.
Reading: Tucker, R.C. (1978) The Marx-Engels Reader, London, Norton, pp. 302-323
Week 6 Magritte – messing with identity
‘There are names and there are things. A name is a spoken sound which designates a thing and acts as a sign for it. The name is not part of that thing nor part of its substance’ (Montaigne, The Complete Essays, p. 702).
Readings: Gablik, (1985) magritte, chapter 7, pp. 124-135, 168-172.
Torczyner (1979) Magritte: The True Art of Painting, pp. 28, 71, & 118-25.
Readings: Weber, M. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, pp. 91, 60-3, 80-1, 108-9, 117-121, 152-8, 162, 169-75.
Weber, Economy and Society, pp. 223-4.
Weber, M. From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology, pp. 214-6.
Weber, M. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, pp 180-3.
Wider reading Pascal, Pensees, on diversion VIII, pp. 66-72.
Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class,
Bataille, (1997) ‘Letter to X’
Reading: letters from De Leeuw, The Letters of Van Gogh
http://www.webexhibits.org/vangogh/
http://vangoghletters.org/vg/letters.html
Wider reading: Wyschogrod, ‘Disrupting Reason: Art and Madness in Hegel and van Gogh’, in Zizek et al. Hegel and the Infinite.
Augustine, On The Trinity, XI.8.13
Bataille, Visions of Excess, pp. 61-72.
Heidegger, ‘The Origin of the Work of Art’ in Basic Writings, pp. 158-162.
McQuillan, Van Gogh.
Walther, Van Gogh.
Uhde, Van Gogh.
Bruce, Van Gogh.
Bonafoux, Van Gogh: the passionate eye
‘Philosophers Rumble Over Van Gogh’s Shoes’
http://harpers.org/archive/2009/10/hbc-90005828
Montaigne, (2003) ‘How we weep and laugh at the same thing’
Film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvWHOj79vrw
Film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMzh-s8qeSo&feature=youtu.be
Reading: Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra, in The Portable Nietzsche, pp. 121-39, 225-8, 249-53, 267-71, 342-3.
Wider reading: Tolstoy, My Religion: What I Believe, chapter 1.
Deleuze, Nietzsche and Philosophy
Allison (ed.) The New Nietzsche.
Rosen, The Mask of Enlightenment.
Ansell-Pearson, An Introduction to Nietzsche as Political Thinker.
Agamben, The Man Without Content, pp. 85-93.
Tubbs, Contradiction of Enlightenment, chapter 8.
Tubbs, ‘The Return of the Teacher’, Educational Philosophy and Theory, 35: 1.
Tubbs, Philosophy of the Teacher, chapter 7.
Tubbs, Philosophy’s Higher Education, chapter 5.
We will decide the content of weeks 10-12 in discussion in the module, from a list of possibilities.
Assessment 1: (50%) Using texts from weeks 1-3 describe different perspectives on the master/slave relationship (2000-2250 words; deadline: Week 4 Thursday 15 Oct given to Catherine in the Office by 3.30pm).
Assessment 2: (50%) from a list that grows week by week… (2000-2250 words; deadline Week 12 Thursday 8th December given to Catherine in the Office by 3.30pm).
Use Harvard Referencing
We attempt always to return work within 3 working weeks (15 days working days).
Adams St. Pierre, E. (2004) ‘Deleuzian Concepts for Education: the subject undone’, Educational Philosophy and Theory, vol. 36, no. 3.
Adler, M. (1958) The Idea of Freedom, New York, Doubleday and Co.
Adorno, TW. (1983) Prisms, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
Adorno, T.W. (2005) Beethoven, Cambridge, Polity Press.
Agamben, G. (1999) The Man Without Conent, Stanford, Stanford University Press.
Allison, D.B. (1985) The New Nietzsche, Cambridge Massachusetts, The MIT Press.
Ansbro, J.J. (1982) Martin Luther King, The Making of a Mind, New York, Orbis Books.
Ansell-Pearson, K. (1994) An Introduction to Nietzsche as Political Thinker, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
Aquinas, T. (1920) The “Summa Theologica of St Thomas Aquinas, in 22 volumes, trans. By Fathers of the English Dominican Province, 2nd ed., London, Burns Oates & Washbourne Ltd.
Aristotle, (1981) The Politics, London, Penguin.
Armstrong, A.H. (1953) Plotinus, London: George Allen & Unwin.
Auerbach, E. (1961) Dante Poet of the Secular World, New York, New York Review of Books.
Augustine, (1972) City of God, London, Penguin
Augustine, (1998) Confessions, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
Augustine, (2002) On The Trinity, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
Bataille, G. (1985) Visions of Excess, Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press.
Bataille, G. (1997) The Bataille Reader, Oxford, Blackwell.
Boccaccio, G. (2011) Life of Dante, Richmond, One World Classics.
Bonafoux, P. (1992) Van Gogh: The Passionate Eye, London, Thames & Hudson.
Botting, F. and Wilson, S. (1997) The Bataille Reader, Oxford, Blackwell.
Brod, M. (1972) The Diaries of Franz Kafka, London, Penguin.
Browning, G. (1997) Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit: a re-appraisal, Dordrecht, Kluwer.
Bruce, B. (1992) Van Gogh, London, Dorling Kindersley.
Buck-Morss, S. (1979) The Origin of Negative Dialectics, New York, The Free Press.
Bürger, P. (2002) The Thinking of the Master, Evanston, Northwestern University Press.
Canetti, E. (2012) Kafka’s Other Trial, London, Penguin.
Cicero, (2001) Letters to his Friends, Loeb Classical Library.
Clarence-Smith, W.G. (2005) Islam and the Abolition of Slavery, London, C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd.
Claussen, D. (2008) Adorno, one last genius, Harvard University Press
Critchley, S. and Schroeder, W. (eds.) (1999) A Companion to Continental Philosophy, Oxford, Blackwell, chapter 51.
Dante, (1984) The Divine Comedy vol. 1: Inferno, trans. M Musa, London: Penguin.
Dante, (1996) Monarchy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Dante, (2002) The New Life (Vita Nuova) New York, New Review Books.
De Leeuw, R. (1996) The Letters of Van Gogh, Harmondsworth, Penguin.
Descartes, R. (1985) Discourse on Method in The Philosophical Writings of Descartes, vol 1, trans. Cottingham, Stoothoof & Murdoch, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
Dostoevsky, F. (1993) The Brothers Karamazov, London: Penguin.
Du Bois, W.E.B. (2001) The Education of Black People, New York, Monthly Review Press.
Eagleton, T. (2005) Figures of Dissent, London, Verso.
Eliot, TS. (1929) Dante, London, Faber and Faber
Eliot, TS, Dante (from The Sacred Wood) at
http://www.bartleby.com/200/sw14.html
Epictetus, (1877) The Discourses of Epictetus; with the Encheiridion and fragments, London, George Bell and sons.
Erasmus, D. (1964) The Essential Erasmus, New York, Meridian.
Fanon, F. (1986) Black Skin White Masks, London, Pluto Press.
Fanon, F. (2001) The Wretched of the Earth, London, Penguin.
Gablik, S. (1985) magritte, London: Thames and Hudson.
Gilson, E. (1963) Dante and Philosophy, New York, Harper Torchbook.
Harris, H.S. (1995) Hegel: Phenomenology and System, Indianapolis, Hackett Publishing Co.
Hegel, G.W.F. (1967) Philosophy of Right, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
Hegel, G.W.F. (1975) ‘Love’ in Early Theological Writings, Philadelphia, University of Philadelphia Press.
Hegel, G.W.F. (1975) Hegel’s Aesthetics, Clarendon Press, Oxford.
Hegel, G.W.F. (1977) Phenomenology of Spirit, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
Hegel, G.W.F. (1984) Hegel: The Letters, Bloomington, Indiana University Press.
Hegel, G.W.F. (1990) Philosophy of Mind, Oxford, Clarendon Press.
Heidegger, M. (1996) Basic Writings, ed. David Farrell Krell, London, Routledge.
Hyppolite, J. (1974) Genesis and Structure of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, Evanston, Northwestern University Press.
Innocent III, (1969) On The Misery of the Human Condition (De miseria humane conditionis), Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill.
Jay, M. (1996) The Dialectical Imagination, University of California Press.
Jacoff, E. (ed) 1993) The Cambridge Companion to Dante, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
Kafka, (1992) Kafka’s Letters to Felice, London, Minerva.
Kafka, F. (1993) Collected Stories, ed. Gabriel Josipovici, London, Everyman.
Kafka, F. (1994) The Trial, London, Penguin.
Kant, I. (1992) Political Writings, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
Kant, I. (1996) Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View, Carbondale & Edwardsville, Southern Illinois University Press.
Kant, I. (2012) Anthropology, History and Education, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
Kierkegaard, S. (1985) Philosophical Fragments/Johannes Climacus, Princeton, Princeton University Press.
Kierkegaard, S. (1987) Either/Or Parts I and II, Princeton, Princeton University Press.
Kierkegaard, S. (1988) Stages on Life’s Way, Princeton, Princeton University Press.
Kierkegaard, S. (1996) Papers and Journals, A Selection, London, Penguin.
King, ML Jnr, (1958/2011) Stride Toward Freedom, London, Souvenir Press.
Kojeve, A. (1969) Introduction to the Reading of Hegel, Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press
Lacan, J. (2007) The Other Side of Psychoanalysis, New York, Norton.
Lewis, RWB. (2001) Dante a life, London, Penguin.
Lowrie, W. (1944) A Short Life of Kierkegaard, London, Oxford University Press.
Maimonides, M. (1975) The Ethical Writings of Maimonides, New York, Dover Publications.
Montaigne, M. (2003) The Complete Essays, London, Penguin.
Marshall, J.D. (2004) Poststructuralism, Philosophy, Pedagogy, Dordrecht, Kluwer, chapter 5.
McDonald, W. (2003) ‘Love in Kierkegaard’s Symposia’ Minerva - An Internet Journal of Philosophy 7: 60–93.
McLaren, P. and Leonard, P. (1993) Paulo Freire; a critical encounter, London, Routledge.
McQuillian, M. (1989) Van Gogh, London: Thames and Hudson.
Montaigne, M. (2003)The Complete Essays, London, Penguin.
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Müller-Doohm, S. (2005) Adorno, a biography, Cambridge, Polity.
Nasr, Seyyed Hossein. (1987) "Henry Corbin: The Life and Works of the Occidental Exile in Quest of the Orient of Light," Ch. 17, in Traditional Islam in the Modern World, Kegan Paul International, London.
Nietzsche, F. (1982) The Portable Nietzsche, London, Penguin.
Noys, B. (2000) George Bataille A Critical Introduction, London, Pluto Press.
Pascal, B. (1966) Pensées, London, Penguin.
Peters, M. (ed.) (1998) Naming the Multiple, Westport, Bergin and Harvey, Introduction and chapter 6.
Phelps, N. (2007) Longest Struggle: Animal Advocacy from Pythagoras to PETA, Lantern Books.
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Plato, (1971) Gorgias, London, Penguin.
Plotinus, (1991) The Enneads, London: Penguin.
Regan, T. (2004) The Case for Animal Rights, Berkeley, University of California.
Rockmore, (2003) Before and After Hegel, Indianapolis, Hackett Books
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Rose, G. (1996) Mourning Becomes the Law, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press
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Sartre, J.P. (2007) Existentialism and Humanism, London, Methuen.
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Tubbs, N. (2004) Philosophy’s Higher Education, Dordrecht, Kluwer.
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MODERN LIBERAL ARTS MARK SCHEME
We want you to be very clear about how we will mark your work and that means you must know with each assessment what you are expected to do. We hope that this does not mean you will feel that you have to write to a formula. We are trying to build in considerable freedom to your assessments; but as the term ‘liberal arts’ conveys, in every freedom there is a discipline, and in every discipline there is a freedom; together, we hope, they constitute the struggle of learning.
There are (often but not always) two types of essays in MLA: the first assessment title in a module will most often be set by the tutor and will be restricted to texts explored in the first weeks. The second assessment title can be tutor-led, or chosen from a list of titles, or can be negotiated individually; this varies according to the tutor and the module. This assignment can explore wider issues, employ wider reading, or explore a single issue in depth. Students will bear some responsibility for the references consulted in the second essay, increasing through years 1, 2 and 3.
Tutor-set assessments (disciplina)
Student/tutor-set assessments (libertas)
1st module essay
Marks for
depth of understanding specialist terminology
depth of understanding of set texts
depth of understanding of ideas/concepts
evidence by quotation
correct referencing
word limit
2nd module essay
depth of understanding of texts
depth of understanding and application of ideas/concepts
evidence-based critical arguments
depth/breadth of reading (depending on the question)
answering your own question
Note the difference between essays 1 and 2: the first one is marked only on your understanding of texts; the second one is marked on understanding, on your own reading, and your emerging critical voice. Be careful here; being critical does not mean just giving your opinions. It means making a case based on evidence from your reading, using ideas and concepts from texts. It does not mean you have to fight for one side of an argument or another… ambivalence will be treated with great respect. But for every essay, remember this: if we (and you) get the title right, then by answering the question you will be doing exactly what is required. Over years 1, 2 and 3 the levels of your work are raised by using increasingly challenging texts, ideas, concepts and writers, and by the way you are able to employ ideas, concepts and writers from other modules across the degree in increasingly sophisticated ways.
For all essays, then
Depending on the question you will need to
Demonstrate reflection on module material and the wider contexts from across the degree which might impact upon it
Communicate experiences of texts and ideas as appropriate
Show knowledge and understanding of specialist terminology
Demonstrate requisite research skills in gathering, summarizing and presenting evidence including proficiency in referencing and academic conventions.
For essay 1
Show careful reading of primary sources
Show evidence of engagement with texts and ideas concerned with issues raised in the module.
Show an ability to employ theorists critically in relation to issues
Show an ability to use concepts as critical tools in discussing issues and questions as appropriate
Show an ability to employ theoretical perspectives as critical tools
Therein, to develop a critical voice informed and deepened by appropriate use of theory as critique.
Sustain a critical relationship to ideas related to the module
It is often hard to explain in generic terms how any particular essay could have been improved. But, cautiously, we can say the following:
In general,
a 3rd (40-49%) may have ignored the question, may have not given much evidence of reading, may have clumsy sentence structure, but will still have made a bona fide attempt at the work.
a 2.2 (50-59%) will have provided evidence of reading, quotations where appropriate, clear sentence structure, attended to the question or title, but not related the material in ways which synthesise more developed and complex thinking.
a 2.1 (60-69%) will have evidence of reading through effective selection of quotation, being able to make specific points, and to relate material together to make broader and/or deeper and more complex observations. At the higher end, it may have been able to relate material from across modules, or across the degree as a whole, to synthesise separate ideas and issues into more holistic comments, ideas and problems. The questions addressed will be getting ever more difficult and important, including those that are asked without being answered.
a 1st (70-100%) will make a little go a long way. Quotations may carry implications beyond their precise content; sentences will be clear but able to refine complex ideas succinctly; most importantly, it will be able to combine the microcosm of its subject matter with the macrocosm of its place in the wider context, and these contexts will be drawn form the overall, experience of the degree, growing obviously from years 1 to 3. No inaccuracies of grammar or sentence construction, and no referencing mistakes are expected here. The voice of the essay will be in control of difficult material throughout. Above all the questions asked and addressed will be compelling in their difficulty and import.
Module Evaluations (previous year)
Module evaluations commented on a well-designed module, with good teaching, good support, and challenging but enjoyable material. One response commented that some students tended to dominate discussions. This is an issue that we have taken up as a team of tutors, commented on in our Self-Evaluation Document for the revalidation next year, and we have set in place some strategies by which to address this. This is a module where change and flexibility are built-in, able to respond in the second half of the module to student interests, meaning that some material is chosen by the students over that from previous years. This is again proved an interesting and motivating strategy, and is one we intend to continue in the following year.
Catalogue summary
This is the first of two compulsory modules in Modern Liberal Arts at level 5. This module allows students considerable scope in the direction of their work. Each week introduces a new set of issues within which to discuss ideas surrounding freedom. Indicative content here includes assessing freedom within the perspectives of cosmopolitanism, feminism, colonialism, Islamic philosophy, Orientalism, slavery, Holocaust, and existentialism. It is intended that Hegel’s analysis of the master/slave relationship in the Phenomenology of Spirit will form the starting point for discussions.
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Jules ferry on french colonial expansion 1884 Rating: 7,5/10 1056 reviews
Words: 385 - Pages: 2. An exponent of imperialism, he was willing to cooperate with the German chancellor Otto von Bismarck in order to secure French expansion overseas. In-text: Ferry, 1884 Your Bibliography: Ferry, J. Ferry became an acknowledged leader of French republicanism with the publication in Le Temps of a series of articles entitled Les comptes fantastiques d'Haussmann Haussmann's fantastic account books , an exposé of the expenses, profits, and corruption of the rebuilding of Paris under the prefect, Baron Georges-Eugene Haussmann 1809—1891. Entering the Government of National Defense after the fall of the Empire, Ferry became the top civil administrator for Paris and had to struggle with the difficult problems caused by the siege. Ferry also states French colonial policy was inspired by their Navy.
He stated that other countries, United States and Germany, were exporting so much more than France was. By agreeing to abide by those rules, the group hoped to avoid a war in Europe. © Paul Halsall, July 1998. He was immediately named to membership in the republican provisional government, the Government of National Defense. They have the duty to civilize the inferior races. Applause at the center and left. To Treitschke, abandoning the duel for less manly pursuits such as hunting and horseback riding was a sign of decadence.
Jules Ferry on French Colonial Expansion
He received a hefty fine, but he continued to criticize the imperial government in the Parisian press. Conservatives solved this problem by naming Ferry ambassador to Greece, thus removing him from domestic politics. Are you unaware of this? I say that French colonial policy, the policy of colonial expansion was inspired by a truth which I must bring to your attention: a navy such as ours cannot do without safe harbors, defenses, and supply centers on the high seas. Aren't they masters of their own houses? But technology alone does not explain the expansionist fever that swept the Western nations in the late 1800s. Words: 761 - Pages: 4. Translated by Ruth Kleinman in Brooklyn College Core Four Sourcebook.
Applause at center and left. I merely express in a general way what each one of you can see for himself in the various parts of France. The conditions of naval warfare have greatly changed. It looks to be well produced, and it was generally well received by anyone who viewed it. Or is this not a pressing need, one may say a crying need, of our industrial population? Furthermore, he suggests that a nation is great by the activity it deploy rather than spreading peaceable light Overfield, 202. But the Congo Free State, with all its magniloquent heralding of Peace, Christianity, and Commerce, degenerating into murder, mutilation, and downright robbery, differed only in degree and concentration from the tale of all Africa in this rape of the continent already furiously mangled by the slave trade.
For example, the costs associated with making the workplace safe must outweigh the increased payroll expenses due to hazardous conditions. Shot by an Alsatian fanatic on Dec. They included significant progress at creating equal education for girls especially the Camille Sée Law of 1880 for the secondary education of girls but did not remove all barriers especially in matters of curriculum and in higher education. This group of Protestant educational administrators included Ferdinand-Edouard Buisson 1841—1932, later to win the Nobel Peace Prize as the national director of primary education and Pauline Kergomard 1838—1925 , the first woman appointed to Conseil supérieure. Boston: Houghton … Disclaimer Examples provided by Homework Lab are intended for the motivation and research purposes only. The 19th century brought about the greatest prosperity in Britain.
How do his views conflict with those of Rousseau see Chapter 5, source 42? They are turned to who live on pay with the hope that something good is brought to them from the west and in turn their expertise and human capital is used to their own detriment. In our time nations are great only through the activity they deploy; it is not by spreading the peaceable light of their institutions. Ferry was overthrown after a temporary French defeat in Indochina. The ports ye shall not enter, The roads ye shall not tread, Go make them with Your living, And mark them with your dead. What might they have agreed upon? They came to establish rules for dividing up Africa—the only large landmass Europeans had not yet fully colonized.
He played a key role in expanding public education and in developing France's colonial empire. Weimar produced a Goethe and a Schiller;3 still these poets would have been greater had they been citizens of a German national state. By this alliance, Ferry became the in-law of five other members of parliament, including both Charles-Thomas Floquet 1828—1896, a leading voice of radical republicanism and Auguste Scheurer-Kestner 1833—1899, a leading voice of Alsatian émigrés. He later returned for two more terms as minister of education and one long term as prime minister. If what is being said or insinuated is that a republican minister could possibly believe that there are in any part of the world compensations for the disasters which we have experienced,5 an injury is being inflicted.
Jules Ferry on French Empire
Its sources lay in colonial expansion, industrialization, improved transport, and social reforms. The first dramatically changed the Conseil supérieure de l'instruction publique the council of educational experts that over-saw school questions by removing it from control of the Catholic clergy and permitting the minister to name the experts who sat on the council. This is true not only for our agriculture, which has been so sorely tried. By 1815 it had reached 13 million and London was one of the largest cities in Europe 1 million inhabitants. Gentlemen, in Europe such as it is today, in this competition of the many rivals we see rising up around us, some by military or naval improvements, others by the prodigious development of a constantly growing population; in a Europe, or rather in a universe thus constituted, a policy of withdrawal or abstention is simply the high road to decadence! No permission is granted for commercial use of the Sourcebook. He believed that it was the superior races duty to take on a paternalistic type role and show the inferior race how best to live. Ferry was concerned for the industries in his country not getting enough exporting done because of the barriers Germany and the United States had placed.
Her reign lasted until her death in 1901, and it was marked by a steady growth of national wealth and. Paul Robiquet Paris 1897 , 1. The English possess a commercial spirit, a love of money which has killed every sentiment of honor and every distinction of right and wrong. This exceptional tenure in office allowed him to achieve a long series of laws often collectively called the Ferry Laws between 1879 and 1885, and in an equally long and important series of administrative decisions, legislation that created the French system. One wonders how such a thing still exists today, though subtly, with certain nations claiming that they have a duty to enforce certain rules on all parts of the world.
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Roland Garros “2012″ – The History Making Championships!
After four days of intense Grand Slam competition at Roland Garros in Paris the 2012 version of this popular major championship looks like it may well be remembered as the history making championships, already we have seen history created by two of the greats of the game, Roger Federer and Serena Williams.
Federer’s 2nd round victory over Romanian Adrian Ungur meant that the Swiss Maestro surpassed the open era record for number of match wins at Grand Slam events, he was tied with American Jimmy Connors on 233 match wins prior to his round two clash with Ungur but The Fed Express now has his name beside yet another piece of tennis history compiling 234 Grand Slam match victories and still counting. Williams has also created history at this year’s championships but it’s hardly the type of history that she would enjoy reading out to her grandchildren, after previously winning 46 times from 46 attempts in the first round of all Grand Slam events that she has entered, Williams created history by losing her great first round record at the Slams going down in a stunning upset to the world No.111, French veteran Virginie Razzano 6-4, 6-7, 3-6.
The other William’s sister Venus has also departed the championships at Roland Garros, her 2nd round defeat at the hands of Agnieszka Radwanska has created even more history, it marks the first time in 43 major championships in which both Williams sisters have participated that neither player has made it to the third round, while Venus’ result against the in-form Radwanska was way less surprising than her more fancied younger sister it is certainly confirmation that a new age of women’s tennis is now upon us.
Most tennis pundits and fans alike are expecting even more history to be made in the men’s singles final of these championships, many people, including me, have predicted that Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic will go head to head in the final match at Roland Garros in 2012 to see which man will re-write the history books and take their place among the greats of the game, of course Federer and a few other fine players are hoping to prevent a Rafa versus Nole final in Paris but the Spaniard certainly looks like being an odds on favourite to at least make the final once again.
If a men’s singles final between Rafa and Nole does eventuate then the winner will certainly be smiling for more reasons than just winning another major championship, it would be Nadal’s 11th major victory and Djokovic’s 6th if either are successful in Paris but the victor would also take his place in history amongst the greats of the game. Nadal would break the modern day era record of six French Open titles he currently shares with Swedish legend Bjorn Borg while Djokovic would become only the third man in history behind Don Budge and Rod Laver to have won all four Grand Slam titles consecutively, the Serb and current world No.1 would also complete a career Grand Slam by winning the Coupe Des Mousquetaires (The Musketeers’ Trophy) in Paris, he would join the “magnificient seven” of Fred Perry, Budge, Laver, Roy Emerson, Andre Agassi, Roger Federer and Nadal who have previously achieved the feat.
They say records are made to be broken and history is made to be re-written, we may well get to see both on the final day of an exciting 2012 championships at Roland Garros!
Written by: Tono
Dragan says:
I’m not sure about new age of women’s tennis.New age in a way that some new players like Azarenka and Radwanska have emerged as stars, yes.But both Serena and especially Sharapova are proving that old champions are still capable for great titles.
There are many competitive female players who can surprise anybody, and that is, I think, great for the sport.
Although I’m not the biggest fan of Roger Federer, I must admit, it’s nice that he is not planing to retire in the age of 30.
It will be very interesting to see what can he do in Wimbledon playing this well.Also he said few times that Olimpics are his big goal, and the fact that it’s going to be played on the Wimbledon courts will increase his chances.IMO.
Djokovic sure deserves to capture both season, and if that is not possible, then caeer Grand Slam.
He is a great champion, and I believe that he will manage to do that, and have many mare GS titles.
Tono says:
I agree that Serena and Maria are still capable of winning the big events but they no longer dominate like they once did…and I also agree that there are quite a few competitive women players on the tour now too, the big question is will someone like Azarenka start to dominate the women’s game in the next few years like Serena once did?
You know where I think Roger sits in the overall scheme of things, it will be interesting to watch Novak continue his quest for more GS Titles this year and in season’s to come, he definitely has more major titles in him I think, I wonder how many??
dv2jus says:
Your message…love u tono!
I must say this though my friend Tono. All players had to play on the same surface. Whether blue, grey, orange or pink. Bumpy, brittle, slick or soft. Methinks the best thing for the players to do is to enjoy the game, keep the whining to a minimun zero, and have a good tournament. I can go to a tournament as #1 or #2 in the world, or as #500, and if I lose I can blame the surface, the sun, the weather or the stars. I think the best thing to do is to shake my opponents hand and thank them for the wonderful match instead of blaming the surface we all played on. This is the main issue why NO ONE IN HISTORY can quite come to be compared with Federer. Maybe as my wife’s father (Nathan) would say, ASHE, or the like as my father would say the same, that one will never hear the likes of ASHE or Federer blaming one thing or another for losing. This is something that only the weakest of a champion or better said, A NON GENTLEMAN! will do. The game we play is not about the color of the court or the brand of the shoes. The color of one’s dress, or the location of the court, but merely the only one essence of gladiators in time that participate in the only sport left in which gladiators shake hands at the net after battling tooth and nail to determine the winner! in my Opinion…..WHO NEEDS ANYTHING ELSE. VAMOS
Adunar says:
Well I know Sharapova’s been on the tour for a long time but she’s not very old, she just turned 25! I believe she will win each GS once. 2012 might just be her year at Roland Garros
It could be interesting to have three of the greatest players of all time at the same time. Federer being the all-time best at GS with 16 titles (an maybe more?), Nadal the best ever on clay at Roland Garros with a GS career at only 24, Novak could be the first one since Rod Laver to hold the 4 GS at the same time…
Those three achievements are very different and all spectacular. But Novak needs to win RG this year if he wants to be part of this. I believe he will win more GS titles but rather on hard courts. Melbourne suits him VEry well. But I don’t think he will reach a double digit in his whole career. Or win RG once. If he stays under the double digit with no RG, he will be like a McEnroe, Lendl, Becker or Wilander which is already VERY good.
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