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Hinton Baseball
Conference: War Eagle
Conference Record: 15-2
05/20/19 5:15PM Storm Lake Box Score W 5-3 Storm Lake High School
05/22/19 5:30PM Whiting Box Score W 9-0 Hinton High School
05/24/19 Gehlen Catholic Box Score W 17-0 Gehlen Catholic High School
05/29/19 MMC-RU Game Preview Hinton High School
05/30/19 Alta/Aurelia Box Score W 11-1 Hinton High School
05/31/19 South O Brien Box Score W 11-0 South O'Brien Secondary School
06/03/19 5:30PM Gehlen Catholic Box Score W 12-0 Hinton High School
06/04/19 7:00PM Lawton-Bronson Box Score W 10-0 Hinton High School
06/05/19 Unity Christian Box Score W 4-2 Hinton High School
06/06/19 5:30PM Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn Hawks Box Score W 12-0 Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn High School
06/07/19 5:30PM West Monona Box Score W 11-1 Hinton High School
06/10/19 Harris-Lake Park Box Score W 18-3 Hinton High School
06/12/19 St. Marys, Remsen Box Score W 11-3 St Mary's Catholic School
06/14/19 MMC-RU Box Score W 10-0 Marcus-Meriden-Cleghorn Jr/Sr High School
06/15/19 1:30PM Treynor Box Score W 12-2 Treynor High School
06/15/19 8:30AM Regina Catholic Box Score L 8-5 Treynor High School
06/18/19 Kingsley-Pierson Game Preview Kingsley-Pierson High School
06/18/19 12:00PM MMC-RU Box Score W 10-5 Hinton High School
06/19/19 Akron Westfield Box Score W 8-0 Akron Westfield Senior High School
06/21/19 Trinity Christian Box Score W 5-1 Trinity Christian, Hull
06/22/19 Sheldon Game Preview Hinton High School
06/22/19 TBD Game Preview Hinton High School
06/25/19 Akron Westfield Box Score W 9-0 Hinton High School
06/26/19 5:30PM Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn Hawks Box Score W 16-1 Hinton High School
06/27/19 7:30PM Westwood Box Score W 10-0 Hinton High School
06/28/19 Unity Christian Box Score W 2-0 Unity Christian
06/29/19 11:30AM Woodbury Central Box Score W 9-1 Hinton High School
07/01/19 St. Marys, Remsen Box Score L 4-3 Hinton High School
07/03/19 West Sioux Box Score W 6-5 Hinton High School
07/08/19 7:30PM West Lyon Box Score W 6-4 Larchwood Ball Fields
07/09/19 West Sioux Box Score L 2-1 West Sioux High School
07/11/19 Kingsley-Pierson Box Score L 7-1 Hinton High School
07/11/19 7:30PM Boyden Hull/Rock Valley Game Preview Hinton High School
07/16/19 7:00PM Class 2A District 16 Box Score W 10-0 Hinton High School
07/20/19 7:00PM Class 2A District 16 Game Preview Hinton High School
Fletcher Farrer 24 Senior
Teegan Tschampel 13 Junior
Dylan DeMoss 12 Senior
Turner Schmitt 32 Senior
Aiden Brock 2 Senior
Tate Kounkel 7 Junior
Tanner Eilts 22 Junior
Tyler Smith 30 Junior
Kyle Brighton 48 Junior
Justin Kirwan 21 Junior
Braden Vonk 11 Senior
Bryley Burgad 3 Senior
Tate Linton 6 Sophomore
Logan Chicoine 23 Senior
Jesse Ridgeway 43 Senior
Blake Beller 29 Senior
Andrew Hessa 5 Junior
Carson Turner 4 Senior
05/20/19 31 9 5 1 0 0 3 3 5 @ Storm Lake
05/22/19 32 14 9 2 0 1 9 6 3 vs Whiting
05/24/19 20 10 17 1 0 1 12 4 7 @ Gehlen Catholic
05/30/19 21 7 11 1 0 0 6 4 9 vs Alta/Aurelia
05/31/19 23 7 11 2 0 0 6 1 7 @ South O Brien
06/03/19 26 9 12 1 0 0 8 2 11 vs Gehlen Catholic
06/04/19 21 10 10 2 0 1 9 0 8 vs Lawton-Bronson
06/05/19 24 5 4 2 0 0 2 2 0 vs Unity Christian
06/06/19 28 11 12 3 0 0 11 1 4 @ Hartley-Melvin-San
06/07/19 25 10 11 3 0 0 11 4 4 vs West Monona
06/10/19 23 14 18 3 0 0 15 4 4 vs Harris-Lake Park
06/12/19 37 15 11 1 0 0 8 1 3 @ St. Marys, Remsen
06/14/19 22 9 10 3 1 0 9 2 5 @ MMC-RU
06/15/19 33 9 5 3 0 0 4 2 2 @ Regina Catholic
06/15/19 22 9 12 1 1 1 10 3 4 @ Treynor
06/18/19 32 14 10 1 0 0 8 4 0 vs MMC-RU
06/19/19 34 12 8 4 0 0 6 3 3 @ Akron Westfield
06/21/19 28 8 5 0 0 1 4 3 4 @ Trinity Christian
06/25/19 26 8 9 1 0 1 7 4 5 vs Akron Westfield
06/26/19 29 15 16 1 0 0 15 0 4 vs Hartley-Melvin-Sa
06/27/19 20 6 10 4 0 0 6 5 8 vs Westwood
06/28/19 24 4 2 1 0 1 2 0 0 @ Unity Christian
06/29/19 30 10 9 1 0 0 5 4 5 @ Woodbury Central
07/01/19 27 7 3 0 0 0 2 3 0 vs St. Marys, Remsen
07/03/19 26 6 6 0 0 0 6 1 3 vs West Sioux
07/08/19 30 9 6 1 0 0 3 1 6 @ West Lyon
07/09/19 26 3 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 @ West Sioux
07/11/19 22 3 1 1 0 0 1 1 4 vs Kingsley-Pierson
07/16/19 22 7 10 1 0 1 9 3 10 vs Missouri Valley
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Chelsea Signs American International Christian Pulisic From Borussia Dortmund
by Kavan Flavius
in Soccer, News
English Premier League club Chelsea has announced the signing of American international Christian Pulisic from German Bundesliga side Borussia Dortmund on a five-and-a-half-year deal.
The right winger joined BVB as a 16-year-old in 2015 and has gone on to make 115 appearances for the side, from which he has scored 15 goals and 24 assists. He has also scored nine times in 23 outings for the United States.
Chelsea parted with the sum of €64 million (($72.78 million) to get the player on their books but will allow him to remain on loan with Dortmund until the end of the current season.
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Welcome to Chelsea, @cpulisic_10! https://t.co/bgiLbAtXrl
— Chelsea FC (@ChelseaFC) January 2, 2019
"Christian Pulisic is now a Chelsea player, but will spend the rest of the season back on loan at Borussia Dortmund, where he has spent his entire career so far," the Blues announced via their official website on Wednesday.
"The 20-year-old has signed a five-and-a-half-year contract, and becomes the third American player in our history after his international team-mate, Matt Miazga, and Roy Wegerle."
"We are delighted to have signed one of Europe’s most sought-after young players. Christian has shown his quality during a fantastic spell in Germany and at just 20, we believe he has the potential to become an important Chelsea player for many years to come," club director Marina Granovskaia added.
"We look forward to welcoming him to Stamford Bridge in the summer and wish him and Dortmund every success for the remainder of the season."
Borussia Dortmund has agreed with @ChelseaFC on the transfer of Christian Pulisic for a fee of €64 million 📝
Pulisic will remain at BVB on loan until the end of the season. pic.twitter.com/jAur5xWwuQ
— Borussia Dortmund (@BlackYellow) January 2, 2019
Pulisic, who has spent all of his professional career with the German club, posted an emotional statement via Twitter on Wednesday, claiming he will be leaving with a "heavy heart" and asking fans not to doubt his commitment.
"It feels like only yesterday that I arrived in Dortmund as a raw, excited, very nervous but exceptionally proud 16-year-old from a small American town called Hershey," he wrote.
"I would not be here without the club and their belief in giving young players a chance. Many memorable moments stand out - to have experienced all of them before my 20th birthday, still feels at times like a dream.
"For the next six months, it's all BVB. Please do not doubt my passion, determination and my 110% commitment to the team right until the last ball is kicked this season."
Liebe Borussen 🖤💛 (🇺🇸🇬🇧) pic.twitter.com/nAKgF1sHdI
— Christian Pulisic (@cpulisic_10) January 2, 2019
Despite the player's low scoring numbers for Dortmund, he is one of the most highly rated young players in Europe and has become the face of American soccer. Additionally, many of his appearances for the club have been off the bench.
There's little doubt that he can become one of the best in the world under the correct tutelage and current Chelsea boss Maurizio Sarri is likely to mold him into just that when he joins up with the club in the summer.
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Ball State football: How Morgan Hagee has turned his career around
Inside the mind of kicker Morgan Hagee and how his worst season helped him.
Ball State football: How Morgan Hagee has turned his career around Inside the mind of kicker Morgan Hagee and how his worst season helped him. Check out this story on thestarpress.com: https://www.thestarpress.com/story/sports/college/ball-state/2018/10/17/ball-state-football-why-morgan-hagee-has-turned-his-career-around/1670990002/
Ryan O'Gara, Muncie Star Press Published 4:18 p.m. ET Oct. 17, 2018 | Updated 10:08 a.m. ET Oct. 18, 2018
Ball State Cardinals kicker Morgan Hagee kicks a field goal in the first quarter against the Notre Dame Fighting Irish at Notre Dame Stadium on Sept. 8, 2018.(Photo: Matt Cashore-USA TODAY Sports)
Ball State vs. Eastern Michigan, 3 p.m. Saturday
MUNCIE, Ind. — The end of Morgan Hagee’s worst college season was also a turning point, and it helps explain why the Ball State kicker was able to deliver in the biggest of moments last Saturday at Central Michigan.
When Hagee’s litany of errors on a punt in the 2017 season finale against Miami (Ohio) made SportsCenter’s Not Top 10 plays – the weekly worst plays of the week – he set the tone for a much different senior season. After a letdown junior season in which he overloaded himself with pressure, he decided to get in on the joke too and make fun of himself, tweeting a Will Ferrell GIF from Anchorman and noting how many views his missed punt got.
"It was the end of the season," Hagee said, "and I could take a deep breath now and move on from that whole season.
"After that season, I had to change my mindset," he added. "I had to learn from it and also move past it. Going into my senior year… this could be my last time playing on a team. So I’m just trying to enjoy every moment, not take it for granted and have fun with it."
Hagee’s 38-yard field goal with 47 seconds left gave Ball State a 24-23 victory Saturday and ended a 10-game road losing streak, sending the Cardinals into Saturday’s Homecoming game against Eastern Michigan (3 p.m., ESPN3) on a high note. It also emphasized how different of a place Hagee is in mentally this season because just as Ball State struggled last season, so did Hagee. He was 9 of 16 on field goals for a career-worst 56 percent conversion rate. In his other three seasons combined, he is 41 of 55 (76 percent). Ball State head coach Mike Neu suggested that losing long-snapper Nick Traub played a role in the Cardinals’ inconsistency on field goals, and it has taken some time to get that back.
Who makes the most? The least? Ryan O'Gara, The Star Press
Field-goal kicking is in Hagee’s blood, as his dad, Mark, trains kickers. Hagee excelled at Plainfield High School and graduated early so he could enroll at Ball State for the spring semester in 2015 and challenge for the kicking job as a true freshman. He won the battle and has held it since. After two good years to start his career, Hagee decided he had to take his game to a higher level and pressured himself to be better. And as a result, he lost sight of having fun and focusing on his fundamentals, leading to the subpar season.
"This year he wanted to try to have fun, focus on the process and relax," Neu said. "He’s done a good job of working himself back from last season."
Make no mistake, the 5-foot-11, 175-pound Hagee still takes his craft very seriously, but he’s having fun now. When defensive coordinator David Elson sauntered by during an interview Wednesday and quipped, "Really? Two interviews? I could make a 38-yard field goal!" Hagee laughed and asked if Elson wanted to join him in front of the camera.
Jokes aside, Hagee is a luxury, especially considering Ball State’s propensity to settle for field goals. He has made a MAC-best 11 field goals this season – including a 51-yarder against Northern Illinois – and he has also attempted a MAC-high 15.
As the Cardinals moved across midfield and into position Saturday to complete an improbable comeback, Hagee prepared on the sideline. Since the wind was in his face, his range only extended to about 45 yards. He had never had a chance to win a game like this before in college, and it was an opportunity he craved. "I live for that moment," he said.
And as he went out there, he didn’t think about the 48-yarder he missed in the third quarter. He focused on the relaxation exercises the team does every night before games and focus only on his job. He had faith that longsnapper Joseph Greenwood and holder Nathan Snyder would give him the best possible chance to make it. And after he converted, the feeling was hard to describe.
"The thing is, guys can add more pressure than there needs to be, kind of like I did last year," Hagee said. "The key is to embrace it, learn to control it and focus on the one kick wit what you have to do. Go back to your fundamentals and trust your technique."
Ryan O’Gara covers Ball State and East Central Indiana high schools at the Star Press. Contact him at (765) 213-5829, rogara@muncie.gannett.com or @RyanOGara.
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https://www.thetelegraph.com/news/article/Giving-photos-instead-of-taking-them-12641599.php
Giving photos instead of taking them
Published 12:00 am CDT, Tuesday, September 30, 2014
ALTON — Help Portrait is a worldwide event occurring in the first week of December and the area will have its own edition.
Jim Thompson, who is heading the RiverBend chapter of the event, said the group’s motto is, “We don’t want to take your picture, we want to give it to you.”
Help Portrait offers people who may not be able to hire a professional photographer portraits. They can use these portraits for anything they would like.
“They can use them for Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn if they are looking for jobs,” Thompson said. “They can also send them to relatives if they would like.”
The Help Portrait RiverBend event will take place on Dec. 6 at the cafeteria of Senior Services Plus located at 2603 N. Rodgers Ave. in Alton. Anyone is welcome to attend and have their portraits taken.
“We are looking for people who may be down on their luck or out of a job,” Thompson said. “We want to give them a photograph for the holiday season and say Merry Christmas.”
There are five available portrait sets and Thompson expects to go through 200 sessions throughout that Saturday. He said he has a team of talented amateurs and professionals taking the portraits.
The Help Portrait RiverBend team is currently asking the community for donations to assist them with the event. Besides money, the group also needs supplies such as CD-Rs, CD-RWs, SDHC cards and 8-by-10-inch glossy photographic-grade paper from Epson, Hewlitt Packard or Kodak.
Thompson said they require monetary assistance as well. Their page on www.purecharity.com has a goal of $5,000 to reach before Dec. 5.
“Any donation is welcome, no matter how large or small,” Thompson said.
To donate to the cause, visit the Help-Portrait Pure Charity page at www.purecharity.com/help-portrait-riverbend. There is also a Facebook group called Help Portrait Riverbend that will provide updates as the event draws closer.
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Most Inappropriate TV Shows
Television, Shows that are inappropriate for certain ages.
1 South Park South Park is an American adult animated sitcom created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone for the Comedy Central television network. The show is about four boys, who are Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, Eric Cartman, and Kenny McCormick, and their adventures in South Park, Colorado.
I Hate South Park
That show is so inappropriate, there's cursing, violence, bloody gore, racism, sexual content, smoking and drugs, it's everything inappropriate you could ever imagine.
It's not that inappropriate
You should listen to Kenny's line in the South Park theme song!
2 Breadwinners Breadwinners is a 2014 animated comedy television series produced by Nickelodeon. It is about the adventures of SwaySway and Buhdeuce, two ducks who drive in a rocket van delivering bread to their customers.
Why is this number 2? It was designed for kids - DrayTopTens
I Hate Breadwinners This Show Sucks!
There's just 2 round ducks delivering bread (which is dangerous for ducks) to sick perverts, they also twerk (shake their butt), which is inappropriate for kids.
At least South Park is funny AND makes good points. This is a kids show, isn't either of the things mentioned above, and the fact that its listed as second most innapropiate T.V. show tells you all you need to know.
3 Degrassi Degrassi: The Next Generation (later renamed Degrassi for seasons ten through fourteen) is a Canadian teen drama television series set in the Degrassi universe, which was created by Linda Schuyler and Kit Hood in 1979. It is the fourth series in the Degrassi franchise, following The Kids of Degrassi ...read more.
Parents should know that kids should not be watching soap operas, the melodrama involves sex and violence, which is inappropriate, Degrassi is one example.
Yes but in it's defense, Degrassi is supposed to be an educational drama series for teens so they put innappropriate things to warn people about the possible dangers of High School. - PerfectImpulseX
Yeh its innapropriate I was channel surfing once and went to abc3 (TWEEN CHANNEL) and it was the end of a sex sene AND THEY WERE TEEN SERIOSLY ABC 3
A community school with lots of sex, violence, and drug scandals? Y'know for tweens!!
[in Nostalgia Critic's/Doug Walker's voice] Degrassi: A FAMILY SHOW - PerfectImpulseX
4 Fanboy and Chum Chum Fanboy & Chum Chum is an American 3D CGI animated television series created by Eric Robles for Nickelodeon. It is based on Fanboy, an animated short created by Robles for Nicktoons and Frederator Studios, which was broadcast August 14, 2009 to July 12, 2014 on Random! Cartoons. The series was first ...read more.
Although not as bad as some of those other cartoons, there's still content that's not appropriate for kids, the characters act like they're on too much caffeine, and they also do potty humor.
Me and my sister use to watch Fanboy and chum chum till 5:00 in the morning and it wasn't inappropriate show!
Fanboy and Chum Chum use to give me nightmares, but l never knew why until l got older and watched it again and realized how inappropriate it is.
5 Ren & Stimpy The Ren & Stimpy Show, often simply referred to as Ren & Stimpy, is an American animated television series created by John Kricfalusi for Nickelodeon.
Definitely not for younger kids. I'd say it's for 11+. - Meljacques
This cartoon is not a kids cartoon, it's an adult cartoon and it needed to be sold on Spike and Adult Swim, those channels are meant for adult cartoons.
6 Impractical Jokers Impractical Jokers is an American hidden camera reality series that premiered on TruTV on December 15, 2011, and is produced by NorthSouth Productions.
Not an appropriate show to watch when you are young, there's inappropriate content and rude humor in every scene.
This may have mean humor but its not like anyone is going to do it a sya good show
It�'s not really that inappropriate. it might be a bit dirty, but it�'s way more of a calm comedy. i�'m 14 and barely find it very inappropriate.
7 Sanjay & Craig
Sanjay and craig is an funny kids show
This is arguably the most inappropriate cartoon on Nick, the humor is very crude and all they talk about is butts, pee and poop, which is disgusting, and flesh is often exposed, which can disturb kids, what an abomination.
How the hell is this even a kids’ show, this deserves to air on Adult Swim
Why is this only at 7 it should be 1
8 Family Guy Family Guy is an American adult animated sitcom created by Seth MacFarlane for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series centers on the Griffins, a family consisting of parents Peter (Idiotic Dad) and Lois (Nagging Wife), their children Meg (Socially Awkward Daughter) Chris (Idiotic Son), and Stewie ...read more.
Why are there so many baby shows on this list? - 3DG20
Those show is inappropriate for young audiences, but not as bad as South Park, Family Guy and American Dad are equal.
Family guy has swearing in it
9 Thomas the Tank Engine
Obviously the most Inappropriate
This show is VERY inappropriate for both young and mature audiences!
...? hmmm yup
very inappropriate
Thomas da tank engine so inappropriate LOL JK why is this on da list
10 Squidbillies Squidbillies is an American animated television series on Cartoon Network's late night programming block, Adult Swim.
Another cartoon with tons of inappropriate parts on it, almost as bad as Family Guy and American Dad
11 House of Anubis House of Anubis is a mystery television series developed for Nickelodeon based on the Dutch-Belgian television series Het Huis Anubis.
Not as bad as Degrassi, but still not appropriate for kids, it's also a soap opera just like Degrassi, it was planned to run as long as one and is presented in serial format at the same one and includes melodrama, it's better on TeenNick instead of Nickelodeon.
Not as bad as Degrassi, but still not appropriate for kids, it's also a soap opera just like Degrassi, it was planned to run as long as one and is presented in serial format at the same one and includes melodrama, a girl mentioned making out to a boy in an episode, it's better on TeenNick instead of Nickelodeon.
Should be much lower, there's very little crude humor when you compare it to most of the shows higher on this list, more like close to last place.
It looks like a cheesy tween rip-off of Harry Potter. - PerfectImpulseX
12 SuperMarioLogan
I watched it and it has a lot of sex jokes and swearing - DrayTopTens
Just because it's a Mario plush channel doesn't mean it's kid friendly. Here are just a few examples
Racist: ' The N word is uncensored in several episodes and in Bowser Jr's cellphone, Junior prank calls a Chinese man by asking if he serves cats at his restaurant (he worked at a dry cleaner) '.
Sexist: ' The Playtime series has episodes that feature Junior domestically abusing his wife and kid '.
Religion jokes: ' In Bowser Junior's Halloween Problem, Junior insults Chef Pee Pee's Mario costume by saying that the M on his hat stands for Muslim '.
Pedophiles: ' There are like 2 or 3 of them '.
Culture: ' The "Chinese Eating Cats" is all I need '.
Bad info: ' So the Earth is flat and the Sun is a Planet? It can't be wrong cause Logan said it '.
Serious issues: ' Malaysian Airlines, Ebola, Starvation, Charleston Church Shooting. Yes, I don't think even Family Guy would make a joke about a recent attack people are still upset about '.
It's a YouTube channel but still pretty inappropriate
SuperMarioLogan is a Youtube channel, but still inappropriate. There's a lot of sexual stuff, yet little kids like it. - Popsicles
13 Game of Thrones Game of Thrones is an American fantasy drama television series created by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss. It is an adaptation of A Song of Ice and Fire, George R. R. Martin's series of fantasy novels, the first of which is titled A Game of Thrones.
My mom told me that this show has naked people. It should be higher. Why is breadwinners even on this list? - DrayTopTens
Not as bad as Happy Tree Friends
Its too much violence And sex teens should not watch it
So much gore, violence, sex, profanity - PeeledBanana
14 Happy Tree Friends Happy Tree Friends is an adult animated flash series created and developed by Aubrey Ankrum, Rhode Montijo, Kenn Navarro and Warren Graff for Mondo Media.
If there's a creepypasta episode of this it would get confused with an ACTUAL episode
This is way more inappropriate than South Park. See some clips, they're so bloody and gory and more inappropriate than Game of Thrones and other shows. - PeeledBanana
So much gore...I LOVE IT!
WAY TOO MUCH BLOOD AND GORE!
15 The Suite Life of Zack & Cody
This show isn't really appropriate, there are stereotypical characters and a hint of toilet humor.
16 Drawn Together Drawn Together is an American adult animated sitcom which ran on Comedy Central from October 27, 2004 to November 14, 2007. The series was created by Dave Jeser and Matt Silverstein, and uses a sitcom format with a TV reality show setting.
When you make South Park look tame, you know you're filthy. - KalloFox34
This show is even more inappropriate than South Park and Family Guy combined.
In all seriousness, this should be in the Top Ten.
It is inappropriate but it suppose to that what make it funny.
17 Tomorrow's Pioneers
Antisemitic Politics, Animal Abuse, Suicide Bombings, Martyrs, Murder, and Death
Y'know for kids! - PerfectImpulseX
It is racist and Farfour is a rip-off of Mickey Mouse..
**Mickey’s reaction to this evil show.. “Hot dog, who in the name of Mice would make this evil show! ”
18 Weeds Weeds is an American dark comedy-drama television series created by Jenji Kohan for Showtime. Its central character is Nancy Botwin, a widowed mother of two boys who begins selling marijuana to support her family.
Probably the worst
19 Angry Video Game Nerd
20 Andi Mack Andi Mack is an American comedy-drama series that premiered on Disney Channel on April 7, 2017. The series was created by Terri Minsky and stars Peyton Elizabeth Lee, Joshua Rush, Sofia Wylie, Asher Angel, Lilan Bowden, and Lauren Tom.
Oh where has Disney gone...
21 The Inbetweeners
Every sentence has a swear word and a euphemism/innuendo. - Storrie
22 How I Met Your Mother How I Met Your Mother is an American sitcom that originally aired on CBS from September 19, 2005, to March 31, 2014. The series follows the main character, Ted Mosby, and his group of friends in Manhattan.
Has lots of sexual content More sex and more sex and more sex, did I mention Lots of sex?
23 True Blood
Too much sex And guts
Veary explict for HBO too handle
24 Braceface Braceface is a Canadian/American animated series that aired on Teletoon in Canada, and on Disney Channel and ABC Family in the United States, as well as Fox Kids and then Pop Girl in the United Kingdom.
25 Arthur Arthur is a Canadian/American animated educational television series for children, created by Cookie Jar Group and WGBH for PBS.
Whats wrong with Arthur?
26 Glenn Martin, DDS
27 American Horror Story American Horror Story is an American anthology horror television series created by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk.
Not as bad as Happy Tree Friends.
28 Tosh.0
Messed up humor, inappropriate jokes, sexism, and racism. Funny though
29 Keeping Up With The Kardashians
It Turns Kids Into Mindless Sluts
30 Hollywood Heights
This show is melodramatic and disturbing, yet it doesn't have a good plot.
31 The Suite Life on Deck The Suite Life on Deck is an American sitcom that aired on Disney Channel from September 26, 2008 to May 6, 2011. It is a sequel/spin-off of the Disney Channel Original Series The Suite Life of Zack & Cody.
Any of the Suite Life shows are inappropriate for kids under 9, the stereotypes and the potty humor, and bits of sexual innuendo.
32 Robot Chicken Robot Chicken is an American stop motion sketch comedy television series, created and executive produced by Seth Green and Matthew Senreich along with co-head writers Douglas Goldstein and Tom Root for Adult Swim.
It has allot of bad words!
It kills cartoon characters people love!
It's Rated T.V. MA, Dumbass! It's For Adults! Kids Aren't Supposed to Watch It! God, People on This Website Are so Stupid!
Love it, and I'm 13
33 PAW Patrol PAW Patrol is an Canadian animated television series created by Keith Chapman. It is produced by Spin Master Entertainment with animation provided by Guru Studio. In Canada, the series is primarily broadcast on TVOKids, which first ran previews of the show in August 2013. The series first aired on Nickelodeon ...read more.
There just really cute and annoying dogs.
34 Doc McStuffins Doc McStuffins is an American-Irish animated children's television series produced by Brown Bag Films.
35 Odd Squad Odd Squad is a Canadian/American children's live action television series that premiered on TVOKids in Canada and PBS Kids in the United States on November 26, 2014, both on the same day.
36 Caillou Caillou is a Canadian educational children's television series that was first shown on Télétoon and Teletoon, with its first episode airing on the former channel on September 15, 1997; the show later moved to Treehouse TV, with its final episode being shown on that channel on October 3, 2010. The ...read more.
I feel kind of bad for feeling like Cailou should get slapped in the face, cause the whole show is the mom telling the daughter about the brother she doesn't remember cause she was too little to remember him cause he died from cancer, THE WHOLE SHOW IS A MESSED UP FLASHBACK
He's a Whiny Little Dick Who Should Be Frozen in Ice, Shot Out of a Cannon, and Fed to The Sharks!
37 Peppa Pig
She's just an annoying little twat!
38 Wallykazam! Wallykazam! is an American interactive children's animated television series created by Adam Peltzman. The series was first broadcast on February 3, 2014 on Nickelodeon. In Canada, it is broadcast on Treehouse TV. The literacy series takes place in a colorful world resembling that of inside a fairytale, ...read more.
39 Team Umizoomi Team Umizoomi is an American computer-animated musical children's television series with an emphasis on preschool mathematical concepts, such as counting, sequences, shapes, patterns, measurements, and comparisons.
40 The Slim Shady Show
41 WordGirl WordGirl is an American children’s animated television series produced by the Soup2Nuts animation unit of Scholastic Entertainment for PBS Kids.
The valentine episode of WordGirl had WordGirl trying to hook up with a girl.
42 You're the Worst
43 Californication
Too much sex And drugs And aclahul
44 Archer
Too much sex drugs And beer
45 The Boondocks Cantankerous Robert "Granddad" Freeman is the legal guardian of his grandsons, 10-year-old revolutionary Huey and 8-year-old Riley, a product of contemporary rap culture. After moving the family from Chicago's South Side to the safety of suburban Woodcrest -- aka the boondocks -- Granddad hopes to ignore ...read more.
It's sort of inappropriate but it's a really good show. It is funny, too!
It says the n-word every 5 seconds
46 The Whitest Kids U' Know
The show is full of sex drugs swears that was on IFC which ended
47 Elfen Lied Elfen Lied is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Lynn Okamoto. It was originally serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Young Jump from June 2002 to August 2005, with the 107 chapters collected into twelve tankōbon volumes.
Blood, gore, naked ladies. Definitely not for kids.
This is the most inappropriate show
49 Breaking Bad Breaking Bad is an American crime drama television series created and produced by Vince Gilligan. The show originally aired on the AMC network for five seasons, from January 20, 2008, to September 29, 2013.
50 Beavis and Butthead
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Shoulder Pain? How Dr. Chris Mellano Can Help You Find Real Relief
If you suffer from chronic shoulder pain, then you know how difficult it is to reach for a bag of groceries or swing a golf club. You may even feel pain during routine activities like combing your hair or sleeping.
“Unlike the hip joint, which is a true deep ball and socket joint, the shoulder joint is often compared to a golf ball and tee (shallow socket),” explains Dr. Chris Mellano. “Because of this anatomy the shoulder is one of the most moveable joints in the body, so it’s at great risk for injury. I see a lot of shoulder pain from osteoarthritis or tears in the rotator cuff, a group of muscles and tendons that surround your shoulder joint to keep it in place.”
Dr. Mellano is an orthopedic surgeon who specializes in shoulder and hip replacements.
“Shoulder replacement surgery is a very good option to provide pain relief, and restore shoulder range of motion and function,” says Dr. Mellano. “Patients previously limited by shoulder problems can get back on the golf course or tennis court.”
“Many people over 50 suffer needlessly from shoulder pain that limits their daily activities.”
Shoulder replacement surgery has two broad categories: A standard shoulder replacement, best indicated for shoulder arthritis (bone-on-bone), is where the ball is replaced with metal and the socket is replaced with plastic. A “reverse” shoulder replacement is where the position of the metal ball and plastic socket are switched.
“The reverse shoulder replacement is an option for a painful and weak shoulder from a torn, irreparable rotator cuff tear with arthritis,” says Dr. Mellano.
“The nice thing about recovery is that you can maintain much of your independence,” says Dr. Mellano. “Typically patients perform simple exercises at home and with a therapist and wear an arm sling for six weeks. Within three months they have resumed normal activities.”
Dr. Mellano also specializes in a new approach to hip replacement
New Approach for Hip Replacement Means Faster Recovery for Patients
Traditionally, hip replacement surgery is performed using a posterior approach, with the patient lying on one side. But there’s a newer approach called the anterior approach, where the patient lies on their back.
A total hip replacement is an overwhelmingly successful surgery, regardless of where the incision is made. Perhaps the most important factor of a successful hip replacement is placing the ball and socket components in the correct position. “The anterior-approach allows me to be more precise in positioning the components,” explains Dr. Mellano. “While the patient is on his/her back we can use an x-ray of the hip and computer software that allows us to put the new hip in with more accuracy.”
The Problem of Dislocation
Dislocation can happen after hip replacement surgery when the hip components are not placed in the right rotation. “When the components are properly positioned there is less concern for short term problems such as dislocation of the hip joint after surgery,” says Dr. Mellano. “Furthermore, we know that a hip replacement will last longer if the components are positioned properly so accuracy in the operating room is really essential.”
Dislocation is why patients are given so many restrictions after surgery. But this is not necessary with the anterior approach.
“There’s a recent clinical study that showed patients who had received anterior approach hip replacements recovered faster,” says Dr. Mellano. “They did not need a walker for more than a week or two and were back at work more quickly.”
Solves the Side Effect of Leg Length
The anterior approach can also prevent another side effect of hip replacement surgery: one leg being shorter than the other.
“The most common complaint after hip replacement surgery is that patients may feel one leg to be longer than the other,” says Dr. Mellano. “The anterior approach allow us to match leg length perfectly using X-ray so patients are less likely to have this complaint.”
If you’re suffering from hip pain and a decrease in mobility, ask your primary care physician about over-the-counter and prescription pain relief or physical therapy. If these treatments fail to provide relief or an increase in your mobility, then you may consider hip replacement surgery.
“I want people to know that while I specialize in the anterior approach for hip replacement, there’s certainly nothing wrong with the posterior approach when it’s performed by a surgeon who is an expert in the procedure,” says Dr. Mellano. “Studies show that both operations provide equal results over the long term when performed correctly. I tell patients to pick the surgeon they’re comfortable with and trust him or her to select the right approach for your operation.”
For more information, visit the Orthopedic Surgical Specialists website at www.ossmd.com. There you’ll find out more about Dr. Mellano and his colleagues as well as see videos that explain joint replacement procedures in detail.
5 Tips for Healthier Hips
1. Maintain a healthy weight.
2. Strengthen muscles to reduce joint stress, especially your abdominal, back and inner thigh muscles.
3. Stretch daily to keep joints, ligaments and tendons flexible.
4. Enjoy regular low-impact exercise such as walking, bicycling and swimming
5. Use an ice pack throughout the day for joint pain.
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National Theatre in Lagos to be renovated
British Council to run major theatrical workshop at Lagos Theatre.
Nigeria's National Theatre in Lagos is to be renovated by the federal government and Lagos State, according to the nation's culture minister Alhaji Lai Mohammed.
The minister, who described the theatre as a “valuable national asset”, said the works would include the renovation of the main auditorium, two cinema halls, the exhibition lobby and the banquet hall.
In recent years the theatre, which is Nigeria's primary centre for the performing arts, has fallen into disrepair and been underused. The upgrading works were especially significant, according to the minister, due to the upcoming 50th anniversary of the founding of Lagos State in May.
Between 28 February and 5 March, the Nigerian branch of the British Council will present the Lagos Theatre Festival. Founded in 2013, the festival is designed to present performing arts from Nigeria and the UK each February. This year it will hold a workshop for festival managers, in collaboration with the culture ministry, and over the course of six days more than 500 artists will stage over 100 performances.
Located in Surulere, the same mainland district as the Lagos National Stadium, the theatre was built in 1976 during the military regime of Olusegun Obasanjo and its exterior is designed in the shape of a military hat.
The theatre has a 5,000-seater auditorium with collapsible stage and two capacity cinema halls, in addition to housing the National Gallery of Modern Nigerian Art.
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Russian, Ukrainian defendants among those charged with hacking SEC system in trading scheme
The headquarters building of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C. (Zach Gibson/Bloomberg News)
By Renae Merle
Renae Merle
Reporter covering white-collar crime and Wall Street
Federal authorities on Tuesday filed charges accusing eight people, including individuals from Russia and Ukraine, of hacking into a government database holding corporate secrets in a scheme that led to at least $4.1 million in illegal trading profits.
In a civil complaint, the Securities and Exchange Commission alleged that the defendants launched a sophisticated cyberattack against the agency starting in 2016. Once they penetrated the SEC’s system, the hackers stole thousands of documents with sensitive, confidential information about corporations' financial conditions. They used that information to make a profit from illegal trading, prosecutors said.
“These threats to our marketplace are significant and ongoing and often involve threats from actors outside our borders. No system can be entirely safe from a cyber intrusion,” SEC Chairman Jay Clayton said in a statement.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey filed related criminal charges against two people it says were involved in the scheme. The 16-count indictment charges Artem Radchenko, 27, and Oleksandr Ieremenko, 27, both of Kiev, Ukraine, with securities fraud conspiracy, wire fraud conspiracy and other crimes. Neither are believed to be in the United States or in custody, according to the U.S. attorney’s office.
The hackers and traders compromised “the integrity of the market” and deprived “honest investors of a level playing field,” said Brian Benczkowski, an assistant U.S. attorney in New Jersey.
The system that was breached, known as Edgar, serves as a clearinghouse for public filings companies must make to the agency, including reports on periodic financial results and newsworthy developments. There can be a lapse between the time when reports are electronically filed with the agency and when they can be viewed by the public, making the system a lucrative target for hackers hoping to learn sensitive information before the rest of the market.
The breach of a system so integral to the financial markets immediately raised questions about the government’s ability to protect sensitive information. In the wake of the hack, the SEC hired more cybersecurity experts, started a cybersecurity unit and launched an internal review.
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The case “illustrates that the SEC faces many of the same cyber security threats" that confront publicly traded companies, Clayton said in a statement. “We recognize that we must continuously use the resources available to us efficiently and effectively bolster our cybersecurity defenses.”
According to the criminal complaint, the hackers sent emails to SEC employees that appeared to be from others inside the agency. The employees' computers were then infected with a malware that allowed the hackers to probe the SEC’s network and steal the corporate information.
In one case, an unnamed company submitted a document to the SEC at 3:32 p.m. that included unreleased quarterly financial results, according to the criminal complaint. About six minutes later, the release was stolen from Edgar. Between 3:42 p.m. and 3:59 p.m. that day, the hackers bought about 121,000 shares of the company’s stock, worth about $2.4 million. The company released the financial statement to the public at 4:02 p.m. announcing “record earnings.” The hackers sold the stock the next day after pocketing more than $270,000 in profit, according to the complaint.
The SEC initially discovered the breach in 2016 but didn’t make it public until 2017 after realizing the cyber intrusion may have led to illegal trading.
Its complaint names Sungjin Cho and David Kwon, both of Los Angeles; Igor Sabodakha, Victoria Vorochek and Ivan Olefir, all of Ukraine; and Andrey Sarafanov of Russia. It also names Capyield Systems and Spirit Trade as corporate defendants.
Some of the defendants named in the SEC complaint were involved in a similar scheme to steal more than 150,000 news releases scheduled to be delivered to investors, prosecutors said. In that 2015 case, federal prosecutors said the hackers pocketed more than $100 million from illicit trades.
In the most recent case, the SEC complaint portrays Ieremenko as the mastermind. The hacking began in May 2016 and continued until October, when the SEC patched Edgar software after detecting an intrusion, the complaint states. The group continued to try to penetrate Edgar into early 2017, according to the complaint, including attempting to infect SEC computers with malware.
Then in the summer of 2018, Ieremenko took credit for hacking both the SEC and the news wires, the SEC says. The apparent admission came in response to an online communication, which the SEC did not describe in its complaint.
An attorney for Ieremenko and most of the other defendants could not be reached or identified. Cho’s attorney declined to comment.
There has long been disagreement within the SEC and by legal scholars about whether the agency has the authority to pursue these types of charges, said John Reed Stark, who worked for the SEC’s enforcement division for nearly 20 years and founded its former Office of Internet Enforcement. The defendants could argue that they are not company executives who had a duty not to trade on confidential corporate information and therefore are outside of the SEC’s jurisdiction, he said. This is a case of “outsider” trading rather than insider trading, said Stark, who now teaches cybersecurity law at Duke University.
“These cases are not only challenging forensically but legally as well,” Stark said. “The SEC must have felt an extraordinary amount of pressure to bring this case. They are getting aggressive, and I think they are spot-on.”
Renae Merle Renae Merle covers white-collar crime and Wall Street for The Washington Post. She has also worked for the Wall Street Journal and the Associated Press. Follow
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Meet the artist who invented the Grateful Dead’s skull and roses logo
By Geoff Edgers
Geoff Edgers
Reporter covering movies, museums, comedy, music and pop culture
The famous Grateful Dead “skull and roses” logo designed by Alton Kelley and Stanley “Mouse” Miller. (Evolutionary Media Group, Mouse Kelley via AP)
The artist Stanley “Mouse” Miller hung out with Janis Joplin, came of age around R. Crumb and somehow found himself in a snapshot of John and Yoko during the famous bed-in. But we’re here because this is the 50th anniversary of the Grateful Dead, when products even loosely related to the band are springing up faster than salmon headed for Redfish Lake. To be fair, Miller’s new book, “California Dreams,” is about more than Jerry & Co. Yes, Miller and his collaborator, the late Alton Kelley, did create the famous skeleton and roses logo adopted by the Dead. But the artist’s work stretches from his early ’60s hot-rod-and-monster cartoons to the psychedelic posters pervading San Francisco and, later, iconic album covers for Steve Miller and Journey. “California Dreams” also includes images of the figurative oil paintings that Miller has worked on in recent years. The artist, now 74, spoke with us recently about five specific works in his book.
“Mouse Equipped Hot Rod.” Pen and ink, 1963. (Stanley Mouse)
“Journey Escape.” Album art 1980, airbrush on board. (Stanley Mouse)
Mouse Equipped, 1963, pen and ink
You call this genre “weirdo art.” How did you start down this road?
There were a series of artists, like in Mad magazine, who did these monster faces, and a guy called Monty and he was in Los Angeles and had little ads in the back of hot rod magazines and he made these funny stickers. A fork with an eyeball on the end of it. Little crazy things like that. Kind of the first of the weirdo. I saw that and immediately started doing it in Detroit.
It was a giant fad. I felt like the Beatles. I was the only kid in school with a new Corvette. Imagine that. Become an artist. Get rich. And have fun. That truly was a different era.
Journey Escape, 1980, airbrush on board
Journey’s seventh studio album spawned four hits, including “Don’t Stop Believin’ ” and “Open Arms.”
I did the “Captured” album in 1981, and it is a scarab that carries its eggs in a dung bowl. When the eggs hatch, the babies feed off the dung and become beetles. It’s the regeneration of life. “Escape” is the beetle breaking out of a planet, which was the dung ball he was pushing around.
Do you think singer Steve Perry or anybody in the band knew about this?
I didn’t even know about it. Some Japanese media people came to interview me about it. So I had to do some research. I went into ancient Egyptian mythology and learned myself.
Avalon Ballroom Skeleton and Roses, 1966, ink on illustration board
We [Miller and collaborator Alton Kelley] would go to the San Francisco library and peruse the books on poster art. They had a back room full of books you couldn’t take out with great references. We were just going through that and looking for something. And found this thing and thought, “This says Grateful Dead all over it.” I hate to say this, but Kelley cut it out with a pen knife. I always say that we Xeroxed it, but there weren’t Xerox machines then. I finally found it about two years ago, the actual cut-out piece, and I went, “Oh, my God.” It’s from the book of poems “The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.” The edition was done by an artist called Edmund Sullivan. And the poem that goes with this illustration is fantastic. It’s short and sweet and had to do with wine, women and song.
“Peacock Feather.” 2013, oil on canvas. (Stanley Mouse)
Peacock Feather, 2003, oil on canvas
Miller moved to Santa Fe in the early 1980s, when he began working more on figurative paintings.
I wanted to learn how to oil paint really good, so I picked out the best painter in Santa Fe and asked if he would teach me. He said, “It’s easy, just smoosh the paint around,” and he left the room. And it was so true. All I had to do was learn how the paint worked. He knew I already could draw well.
Miller didn’t expect much when he met the model in “Peacock Feather.”
It was just one of those things where this girl said, “Paint me and make my butt big.” I wasn’t really into it. She sat there like that, and I painted a fantastic painting. I always wanted to paint like that, like I saw in museums all my life. Now when I am approaching that, and I kind of can do it, nobody cares. They’ll look at my book even and they’ll avoid that whole section.
“Earthquake” poster. Bo Diddley, 1966, ink on illustration board. (Stanley Mouse)
“Avalon Ballroom Skeleton and Roses,” 1966, ink on illustration board. (Stanley Mouse)
Earthquake, Bo Diddley, 1966, ink on illustration board
The gig posters that Miller, Kelley and such artists as Victor Moscoso and Rick Griffin crafted used bright colors, elaborate typesets and historic photos. Today, the posters are heavily collected and even featured in museums.
That’s the Santa Rosa earthquake and the Santa Rosa Courthouse. It’s just a thing that all the artists did right then. Like a fad. It’s like finding old stuff that’s good, that’s really cool and bringing back and presenting it again. Taking something like that that’s so iconic and bringing it out again in a new form. All the stuff we used was all public domain. We were very conscious about copyright. Now, I find people like just stealing my stuff and putting it on posters. One of my hot rod things, I don’t want to even mention the guy’s name, he just stole it.
What did you do?
I grumbled.
Correction: An earlier version of this article misstated the name of the 1981 Journey album for which Miller created the cover art. The album is “Captured,: not “Capture.” This version has been corrected.
Geoff Edgers Geoff Edgers, The Washington Post's national arts reporter, covers everything from fine arts to popular culture. He's the author of "Walk This Way: Run-DMC, Aerosmith, and the Song That Changed American Music Forever." He is also the host of "Edge of Fame," a podcast co-produced by WBUR Boston. Follow
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D.C. Politics
Lawsuit: D.C. policies to attract affluent millennials discriminated against blacks
Civil rights attorney Aristotle Theresa, 38, who is suing the D.C. government over gentrification, poses for a portrait in his neighborhood in Anacostia. (Salwan Georges/The Washington Post)
By Paul Schwartzman
Paul Schwartzman
Reporter specializing in political profiles and narratives about life, death and everything in between
For more than a decade, D.C. officials have celebrated the city’s economic renaissance, touting reinvigorated neighborhoods and glittering new attractions as evidence of Washington’s emergence as a world-class metropolis.
But a new federal lawsuit alleges that the policies that officials initiated to attract younger, more affluent professionals discriminated against poor and working-class African Americans who have lived here for generations.
The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court by lawyer Aristotle Theresa on behalf of several African American residents, claims that the residential buildings springing up throughout the city — many of them with studio and one-bedroom apartments — catered to what urban theorist Richard Florida famously identified as the “creative class” and ignored the needs of poor and working-class families.
The lawsuit says the “New Communities” program initiated by the District to turn aging public housing complexes into mixed-income developments was meant to “lighten” African American neighborhoods and break up long-established communities.
D.C. policies that were intended to “economically integrate” neighborhoods, Theresa argues in the lawsuit, “are classist, racist and ageist” and “lead to widespread gentrification and displacement.”
“Every city planning agency . . . conspired to make D.C. very welcoming for preferred residents and sought to displace residents inimical to the creative economy,” Theresa wrote in the 82-page complaint.
Civil rights attorney Aristotle Theresa. (Salwan Georges/The Washington Post)
The plaintiffs — Paulette Matthews and Greta Fuller of Southeast Washington and Shanifinne Ball of Northeast — are seeking in excess of $1 billion in damages.
Robert Marus, a spokesman for the District’s Office of the Attorney General, said the city would not comment on the lawsuit until it files its response, which is due June 25. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D), who is approaching the end of her first term, has focused on growing the city’s stock of affordable housing while celebrating the opening of new attractions such as the Wharf, a $2.5 billion mix of luxury housing, hotels and fine dining along the Southwest Waterfront.
As the District gentrified over the past two decades, income and wealth disparities between whites and blacks deepened. But Derek Hyra, an American University professor who has written about gentrification in Washington, said Theresa would have to produce evidence that D.C. officials were targeting a certain race to prove discrimination.
“Developers are looking at areas in the city where they can buy low and sell high,” Hyra said, pointing to traditionally working-class black neighborhoods such as Shaw and Petworth, which have drawn more affluent residents in recent years. “Developers want to maximize their return. This is not a conspiracy. This is capitalism.”
At the same time, he said, the D.C. government encouraged development, sometimes providing subsidies, “to maximize value and bring in greater revenue.” Even if the District hasn’t explicitly favored anyone, the development has “had a different impact” on whites and blacks, he said.
Theresa, an Anacostia-based civil rights attorney, has in recent years represented a number of community groups opposing massive redevelopment projects in neighborhoods such as Union Market in Northeast and the McMillan reservoir in Northwest, as well as at the Barry Farm public housing complex in Southeast.
In 14 cases, he has asked the D.C. Court of Appeals to overturn city approvals of projects, twice successfully. The rulings forced D.C. officials to review the projects, causing costly delays and widespread consternation among developers who worry that their projects will be slowed by legal challenges.
As a result of appeals filed by Theresa and others, the Bowser administration has proposed changes to the city’s land-use policies to block avenues for what it considers nuisance lawsuits.
Theresa, in an interview, said the federal lawsuit was an outgrowth of the work he has done representing communities fighting development projects. To accommodate more affluent newcomers, Theresa said, D.C. officials and developers over the past decade identified working-class black “communities that aren’t that sophisticated about the zoning process or politics. They slapped it on these communities and took advantage of people.”
He traces the District’s initiatives to the early 2000s, when, as the Internet proliferated and the technology sector flourished nationwide, Florida popularized the idea that cities could become newly prosperous by appealing to a “creative class,” an amalgam of entrepreneurs, tech specialists, artists and other purveyors of creativity.
In the District, according to Theresa’s complaint, which was filed April 13, it was the administration of Mayor Adrian Fenty (D) that embraced Florida’s view as it set out to broaden the city’s identity from government town to a magnet for technology entrepreneurs and others who were part of the “creative economy.”
From Shaw to Bloomingdale to the H Street corridor, developers and business owners descended on neighborhoods, constructing apartment towers, renovating rowhouses and opening restaurants, coffeehouses and bars that catered to new Washingtonians, younger and more affluent than previous generations.
To Theresa, the Fenty administration’s promotion of a “Creative Action Agenda” in 2007 represented a “paradigm shift” for D.C. government. Instead of prioritizing what was best for the land, it was focusing “on the predilections of a certain class of individual,” he says.
Fenty’s successor, Mayor Vincent C. Gray (D), also championed the creative economy by changing zoning regulations to “increase affordable space for creative businesses,” Theresa says. By targeting businesses that “produce innovative goods” or “use innovative processes,” the District offered tax breaks and other incentives that favored a “discrete class” and discriminated against more traditional modes of business, according to the lawsuit.
“District government has a clear preference for millennial creatives, making it somewhat harder for those residents that aren’t notable assets,” Theresa says in the lawsuit.
That focus on millennials had a greater impact on African Americans, he adds, because “they were disproportionately missing from the identified class D.C. was seeking to grow.”
As evidence, Theresa cites census statistics for several gentrifying neighborhoods, including Bloomingdale, which adjoins North Capitol Street, where the overall population grew by 1,000 from 2009 to 2016 but the number of African Americans fell. The population along the U Street corridor grew from 6,700 to 9,400 over a decade, as the number of whites increased by 1,300 and the African American population declined by nearly 400, the lawsuit claims.
Theresa also cites the neighborhood around the Navy Yard, which has exploded with growth over the past decade. As its population soared from 625 to 4,664, the percentage of whites — once 22 percent — rose to 66 percent. At the same time, the percentage of African Americans fell from 73 percent to 22 percent.
For projects larger than what the District’s zoning code allows, developers must seek approval from the Zoning Commission, which Theresa says has sought to “head off any dissent” by refusing to grant party status to neighbors opposing the projects at hearings. He also argues that D.C. officials have routinely failed to produce required reports that analyze whether proposed projects would drive gentrification.
“Such disregard for current residents’ concerns was calculated to re-segregate black communities into white upper class and creative class communities,” he writes in the complaint.
Theresa concludes his complaint by focusing on Anacostia, which he describes as “the newest close-knit black community slated for destruction.”
A number of residential and commercial developments are planned for the area, including the opening of a Busboys and Poets restaurant and a Starbucks franchise. Theresa characterizes the projects as delivering “housing that is for singles in an area that has a great need for family housing not kept in slum conditions.”
“Such development,” Theresa predicts, “will also bring retail out of step with the vast majority of local residents, displacing local, non-creative businesses.”
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On Parenting Perspective
Making Diwali our own, and passing it on
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By Pooja Makhijani
When I was a child, the lead-up to Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, included assembling boxes of sweets for friends and neighbors, buying new clothes for every member of the family and decorating the house with strings of twinkling lights, painted diya (clay lamps) and flower-petal rangoli (traditional floor art).
Diwali is the biggest holiday on the Hindu calendar, and my immigrant parents made sure it remained so in suburban New Jersey. The five-day festival celebrates the victory of good over evil and the vanquishing of darkness with light, although the deities, rituals and stories that are associated with the holiday are different in different parts of the Subcontinent. On this night of a new moon — the last night of the Hindu year and, in 2017, on Oct. 19 — total darkness sets in the night sky.
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My parents, who migrated to the United States in the 1970s, made Diwali their own with what little they had.
“I can’t even imagine how hard it must have been to try to hold on to traditions and celebrations in a country — in a town — where there were very few resources to use and very few people who understood,” said Nisha Sharma, a Pennsylvania-based young adult author, who grew up in a town that was “99 percent white” and, like me, is the daughter of Indian immigrants.
The rituals of Diwali gave me a strong sense of self; the traditions helped to reinforce both cultural and family values, and provided continuity and connection with my community.
Sharma, too, faithfully reproduces the rituals of her childhood. “I read from my tattered English-lettered puja [prayer] book that I got when I was a kid,” she said. “I light one real diya and a few tea candles. I turn on all the lights in the house, and if I’m able to, hang a few Christmas lights as well. Most importantly, I buy myself a festive pair of pajamas and binge on halwa [a fudge-like confection] and channa [chick peas].”
Now, as the America-born parent of a third-generation American child, I have an even deeper appreciation for the ways in which my parents continued the traditions of Diwali in the United States. This sort of cultural torch-passing is hard work, but I know how crucial these rituals were to my well-being and self-identity. I want to provide my daughter with the same security as well.
“Tradition and ritual are very important parts of the human experience, and these are very often embedded in religious or cultural celebrations,” said Ramani Durvasula, a professor of psychology at California State University–Los Angeles and mother. “Children do well with structures, expectations, bench marks, connection, and tradition and rituals such as holidays can really provide [that]. Holidays also bring a predictability to life — much like seasons — which is also so essential for children.”
She added, “To have traditions that are not simply assimilative, but rather represent a long-standing history within the family, can also provide clarity and a sense of self, instead of feeling like the ‘other’.”
Although my traditions are similar to my parents’, I’ve added others to suit my personality. I am both literary and crafty, so reading books and making art are central to celebrations in my home.
Other friends, like Mohan Ambikaipaker, assistant professor of critical race studies at Tulane University and father of two, prioritize community-building on Diwali. Ambikaipaker grew up in Malaysia before immigrating to the United States when he was in high school. “Growing up, Deepavali,” — the name for the holiday in parts of Southern India, including the region from which Ambikaipaker family hails — “was the big festival,” he said. He recalled having “open houses” for his Malay and Chinese neighbors, and everyone was invited home to partake in festivities.
Ambikaipaker and his family continue this tradition of “open house” in New Orleans. “We have a big party,” his 8-year-old daughter, Mallika, told me, reminiscent of her father’s childhood celebrations. “We get treats. And presents. And new clothes,” she said. Her favorite tradition is treat-eating “because [they] are delicious,” and said that her family’s traditions make her “happy.”
“I hope to instill the value that Deepavali is also something we can share with others who are different from us,” Ambikaipaker added. “It is a time where [we] are in the position to bestow hospitality, and there is a lot of joy within that.”
Durvasula added that such cross-cultural sharing is also crucial to identity-formation for children of color. “Traditions provide children with scaffolds that allow them to develop what is often a bicultural identity, and also a means by which to also engage peers and share cultural traditions with them, which can foster identity as well,” she said.
This year, for the first time, my kindergartner has taken an interest in planning our family celebration. So, while we will continue dressing up and decorating the house, we also plan on incorporating some of her ideas, including baking a Diwali cake for her classmates and planting something in the backyard to mark the start of a new year. These two ideas mirror her personality; she loves to bake and being in the soil is her happy place.
Three generations on, our American Diwali continues to transform, but, in whatever form, it provides magic, spirit and texture — and a comforting constant — to our lives.
Celebrate Diwali in your own home with crafts, books and recipes. “It’s such a beautiful holiday with such beautiful imagery, so it ‘translates’ well and allows children to participate via lighting the lamps and enjoying the food and bonhomie that often accompanies it,” said Durvasula.
Salt dough candle holders
Diwali celebrates the victory of light over darkness and good over evil. Every year, we make salt dough candle holders to mark the holiday.
½ cup salt
Mix salt and flour.
Gradually add water, and mix until a dough forms.
Knead for 5 to 10 minutes until dough is smooth and pliable.
Roll fist-sized ball, and depress center to form container for tea candle.
Bake at 325 degrees F until hard, about 1 hour. Decorate with paint, sequins and glitter.
Read about Diwali
For more about Diwali, and the stories and customs that inform the holiday, turn to your local library for these three children’s books:
Rama And the Demon King by Jessica Souhami. Across much of North India, Diwali celebrates the homecoming of Rama after being exiled in the forest for 14 years. The Ramayana, an epic poem that chronicles his quest and return, has inspired countless cinematic and literary works.
Sita’s Ramayana by Samhita Arni and Moyna Chitrakar. This feminist graphic novel reimagines the Ramayana from the perspective of Sita, the abducted queen, and explores the “terrible price that war exacts from women, children, animals and the natural world.”
Ganesha’s Sweet Tooth by Emily Haynes and Sanjay Patel. It’s customary to exchange sweets on Diwali. This charming picture book offers a sweet twist on a Hindu tale; in it, the elephant-headed god, Ganesh, is a sugar-obsessed child with a penchant for ladoo, a traditional Indian dessert.
Make Diwali treats
Jalebi are deep-fried, spiral, funnel-cake like confections made from either wheat or lentil flour, but here’s a tasty hack using store-bought pancake mix (many thanks to my friend, Madhushree Ghosh).
Once fried, jalebi soaked in a warm sugar syrup that’s usually flavored with cardamom and saffron. They’re crispy on the outside and chewy on the inside, and can be eaten as a dessert, at breakfast or with tea or coffee.
For the jalebi:
1 cup pancake mix
½ cup plain Greek yogurt
For the sugar syrup:
5-6 strands saffron
¼ teaspoon ground cardamom
¼ teaspoon lime juice
2 cups of vegetable oil, for frying
Combine the water, lime juice, sugar, saffron threads and cardamom in a medium saucepan over high heat. Bring to a boil, then reduce the heat and simmer for 5 to 7 minutes. Remove from the heat, and set aside
In a large bowl, combine the mix, yogurt and water and mix until there are no more lumps.
Fit a pastry bag with a small writing tip, and pour the batter into the bag.
In a heavy-bottomed pot, heat frying oil to 350 degrees F.
Squeeze 2-inch round whorls of batter into the hot oil. Fry until golden brown on both sides.
Remove the jalebis from the oil and set on paper towels to drain. Transfer the hot cakes to the sugar syrup and let soak for a minute or two. Remove the jalebis from the syrup and set on a rack to dry for 3 to 4 hours, until the syrup has formed a hard shell.
Pooja Makhijani writes children’s books, essays and articles, and also develops educational media and curriculums. She can be found online at poojamakhijani.com.
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Republican presidential hopefuls intensify anti-terrorism message: ‘We will kill you’
By Sean Sullivan and
Reporter covering national politics
Jenna Johnson
National political correspondent covering campaigns and voters
GREENVILLE, S.C. – Ted Cruz bluntly remarked that a police officer who killed two gunmen who were likely inspired by the Islamic State helped them to “meet their virgins.” Bobby Jindal quipped that gun control means “hitting your target.” Marco Rubio quoted the violent action film “Taken” to describe his plan for defeating radical Islam.
One after another, Republicans with an eye on running for president used intensely strong language to describe their hard-line positions at a conservative summit here on Saturday. Although national security and foreign relations have long been a dominant issue at forums like this, many candidates seem to have greatly intensified their rhetoric as they angle to be seen as the staunchest enforcer and fiercest protector of the country.
The positioning comes amid increased concern about terrorism and a raging debate about the negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program, which many Republicans say is endangering the security of U.S. allies.
Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (Tex.) speaks at the Freedom Summit on Saturday in Greenville, S.C. (AP Photo/Rainier Ehrhardt)
[In a propaganda war against ISIS, the U.S. tried to play by the enemy’s rules]
In speeches at the South Carolina Freedom Summit, presidential candidates and likely contenders took turns unveiling their hawkish positions and bashing President Obama's foreign policies. Several zeroed in on a shooting in Garland, Tex., this week -- including Cruz, a U.S. senator from the state who is running for president.
Cruz praised the Garland police officer who shot and killed two gunmen who on Sunday opened fire outside a conference center that was hosting a cartooning contest and exhibit depicting the prophet Muhammad, which is forbidden in Islam. The men were likely inspired by the Islamic State, U.S. officials say.
"We saw the ugly face of Islamic terrorism in my home state of Texas, in Garland where two jihadists came to commit murder. Thankfully one police officer helped them meet their virgins," Cruz said, referring to a belief that such martyrs are greeted in heaven by dozens of virgins.
[Gunmen who attacked Tex. event likely inspired by Islamic State, officials say]
Jindal, the governor of Louisiana who is thinking about running for president, echoed Cruz and said he was "thankful that those two terrorists were sent to their afterlife." He also remarked that the men were foolish to carry out an attack in a Southern state where many people own guns and know how to use them.
"In our states, we think of gun control -- we think that means hitting your target," Jindal said. He received a thunderous applause.
Rubio, a U.S. senator from Florida who is running for president, summed up his strategy for fighting radical Islamists with a quote from a Hollywood blockbuster.
"When people ask what our strategy should be on global jihadists and terrorists, I refer them to the movie, 'Taken,'" Rubio said. "Have you seen the movie 'Taken'? Liam Neeson, he has a line -- this is what our strategy should be: We will look for you, we will find you, and we will kill you."
Rubio tried last week to burnish his hawkish foreign policy credentials by toughening a bill designed to give Congress oversight of the tentative deal the Obama administration and other nations have reached with Iran to prevent them from building a nuclear weapon in exchange for easing crippling economic sanctions.
[Senate approves bill on reviewing a proposed nuclear deal with Iran]
The Republicans addressing the crowd bashed the deal and warned that it endangers Israel. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who is moving closer to officially entering the presidential sweepstakes, received a standing ovation when he said: "We need a president who is going to back away from that deal In Iran."
Carly Fiorina, the former chief executive of Hewlett-Packard who is also running for president, has said several times on the campaign trail that one of the first things she would do in the White House is to stop negotiations with Iran until officials agree to inspections. But on Saturday afternoon she breathlessly fired off the loaded message that she would want to send to the country: "Whatever the circumstances were, the circumstances have changed now, and until and unless you submit to full and unfettered inspections of every single nuclear facility in your country we will exact and enact the most crushing sanctions we can."
Fiorina added, "We have a lot to do with how easy or how hard it is to move money around the global financial system -- and I would ensure that it was very, very hard."
The remarks played well among the older, mostly white crowd, which was eager to hear the speakers explain why they are tough on national security and well-versed on foreign policy matters. One man sold buttons referring to the deadly 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya. Another wore a shirt that said "I'd rather be waterboarding."
"I think they've declared war on us. We need to be prepared to take it overseas if we have to," said Steve Lefevre, 74, of the Greenville area, speaking of Islamic extremists.
Here in South Carolina, national security matters resonate more than they do in many other parts of the country, due to the number of military bases and the substantial veteran population. Political strategists say the winner of the "First in the South" primary will likely be someone touting an aggressive national security platform.
One presidential candidate who was not in attendance was Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who critics charge has been too reluctant to intervene in overseas conflicts. Paul was in San Francisco opening an office there.
Polls show a wide-open Republican race in South Carolina, where many voters are just getting to know the candidates. When Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) asked the audience how many of then had made up their minds, only a few raised their hands.
The competitiveness has drawn interest from many Republicans, including some who have flirted with running in the past only to decline after ginning up attention. The prime example: Donald Trump, the celebrity real estate entrepreneur who, like the the Republicans who spoke before him, used pointed language.
Trump went after Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the U.S. soldier who left his patrol base in Afghanistan in 2009, was captured by the Taliban and was held for five years until the United States bartered for his release.
"I call our president the five-to-one president," Trump said of Obama. "We got Bergdahl; they get five leaders, killers that want to kill us all. And they're all back on the battlefield, by the way, and we got this piece of garbage named Bergdahl, who years ago we would have shot for treason."
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Why Trump’s ICE raids might deport people who weren’t given a chance to stay legally
Foreign nationals are arrested during a targeted enforcement operation in 2017. (Charles Reed/U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement/AP)
One central promise of Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign was that he would deport immigrants living in the country illegally. At times he would insist that law enforcement officials knew exactly where troublesome immigrants lived — Trump would often claim that he would focus on those with criminal records — and that getting them out of the country would be quick and easy. There were signs that he planned to go broader, such as his endorsement of Dwight Eisenhower’s mass deportation effort in 1954. As with so many other Trump proposals, though, any specifics came mostly with a shrug.
Last month, it seemed that Trump’s deportation pledge was finally swinging into motion. While the government has deported thousands of people since Trump took office (as did President Barack Obama), Trump announced his intention to oversee a mass raid, arresting and deporting hundreds of people at once. Facing internal opposition and leaks that tipped off potential targets, Trump delayed the plan at the end of June.
According to the New York Times, the raids are back on, scheduled for this weekend.
There’s a lot of misinformation and misunderstanding about the targets of these raids and the undocumented immigrant population more broadly. Most important is who is being targeted and why.
The raids are reported to be targeting 2,000 people scheduled for deportation but could include more people than that. Most of those reported to be targeted have recently arrived in the United States.
The Times report indicates that the focus of the weekend's raids will be 2,000 people — including children — who had been ordered to be deported. In doing so, "authorities might detain immigrants who happened to be on the scene, even though they were not targets of the raids," Caitlin Dickerson and Zolan Kanno-Youngs report.
Those who will be the focus of the raids are people whose immigration proceedings were expedited by the administration in September, meaning that they’re relatively new arrivals to the country. That’s particularly true in the broader context of unauthorized immigration in the United States. About two-thirds of immigrants in the country illegally have been in the country for at least 10 years, according to Pew Research Center, compared with about a fifth who have been in the United States for five years or less.
The deportation orders include people who missed court hearings — that they may not have known about.
Some of those slated for deportation have been targeted for not having attended required court hearings. In some cases, though, the immigrants may not have known they were supposed to.
That those targeted in these raids were part of the expedited process introduced last year is important. David Leopold, an immigration attorney who served as general counsel for the American Immigration Lawyers Association, explained why in an email to The Washington Post:
"Of the group of immigrants with deportation orders there are serious due process concerns because they either didn’t get notice of the hearings or the hearings were held in absentia or were not held at all," Leopold wrote. In other words, many of them "did not have their day in court."
He referred to a report from Syracuse University’s TRAC program, which analyzes immigration-related data including the outcomes of hearings for family groups included in the expedited process. Of those with legal representation, 99.9 percent attended their initial hearings. Among those without legal representation, that figure fell to 81.6 percent. Those who don’t attend a hearing are flagged for deportation.
But that poses a problem.
“Under our current system, there is no legal requirement that immigrants actually receive notice, let alone timely notice, of their hearing,” the TRAC report reads. Some immigrants, it indicates, “may receive a written notice, but the notice may have been in English, which they couldn’t read.” Others may not have complete address information to be contacted for a hearing.
That works in the other direction, too.
“The Border Patrol states that it is quickly releasing families directly ‘with notices to appear in immigration court,’ " the report reads. ”While families may have been handed notices to appear, these notices are unlikely to contain the actual location and time for their court hearing since such details will not yet have been determined."
On some occasions, TRAC found, no hearing was scheduled at all — but immigrant families were still marked as having not attended.
Unfortunately for those immigrants, there’s not much recourse, Leopold explained. Unless there are exceptional circumstances that prevented their appearance or they can document that they gave the government a correct address but still didn’t receive notice, an order can’t be reopened.
Immigrants who have recently arrived in the country and are here illegally have in recent years been more likely to be Asian than Hispanic and mostly overstayed visas.
It’s worth noting that a focus on immigrants who have crossed the border into the United States without documentation or who have come into the United States across the Mexican border seeking asylum doesn’t address the most common new arrivals in the unauthorized immigrants population in recent years.
Pew analysis finds that in most years over the past decade, there have been more Asian than Hispanic immigrants who arrive in the United States and stay without documentation. That has probably shifted given the recent increase in arrivals at the southern border, but in 2017, for each Hispanic who came into the country without authorization, 1.4 people of Asian descent did.
Most of those immigrants probably arrived on valid visas but didn’t leave once the visas expired. Among immigrants from Mexico and the Central American countries of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, this was less likely.
Most immigrants here illegally live in big cities — but three-quarters of immigrants in the United States are here legally.
This weekend’s raids will reportedly focus on 10 large cities. That’s not a surprise; most of the 11 million immigrants in the country without authorization live in large urban areas. (If you’re curious how we can be confident in that 11 million figure, we’ve written about Pew’s estimation process.) Since the recession, that figure has dropped. As of last year, undocumented immigrants made up about 4.8 percent of the country’s workforce.
While most Americans think that the majority of immigrants in the country are here illegally, that’s not the case. In fact, only about a quarter of the immigrant population is estimated to be in the United States without authorization.
If everyone in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador moved to the United States, the growth in population would be the same as the increase the United States has seen since about 2005.
One useful bit of additional context. The recent increase in migrants at the border with Mexico are coming from the three Central American countries identified above. The recent surge — which has still been more modest than the monthly norm about 20 years ago — has largely included migrants from those countries.
While there’s been some hand-wringing about the effect of heavy migration from Central America, scale is useful. There are about 16.9 million people in Guatemala. El Salvador is home to about 6.4 million, and Honduras is home to about 9.3 million. In total, that’s a population of 32.6 million.
In 2005, the population of the United States was about 295.5 million. Since, it has climbed to 327.2 million — an increase of 31.7 million.
In other words, suddenly dropping the entire populations of all three countries into Kansas would mean a shift in the country’s population about the same as the increase since “The Apprentice” first came on the air.
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Facebook, Google and other tech giants to face antitrust investigation by House lawmakers
Rep. David N. Cicilline of Rhode Island (Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post)
By Tony Romm and
Elizabeth Dwoskin
Silicon Valley Correspondent
House lawmakers plan a sweeping review of Facebook, Google and other technology giants to determine if they’ve become so large and powerful that they stifle competition and harm consumers, marking a new, unprecedented antitrust threat for an industry that’s increasingly under siege by Congress, the White House and 2020 presidential candidates.
The probe, announced Monday by Rep. David Cicilline (R.I.), the leader of the House’s top anti-trust subcommittee, is expected to be far reaching and comes at a moment when Democrats and Republicans find themselves in rare alignment on the idea that the tech industry has been too unregulated for too long. The sentiment spurred a sharp sell-off in tech stocks to start the week.
Cicilline said the investigation won’t target one specific tech company, but rather focus on the broad belief that the “Internet is broken,” he told reporters. In doing so, he pointed out problematic practices at tech giants such as Google, which has faced sanctions in Europe for prioritizing its own services in search returns over those of its rivals, and Facebook, which Cicilline criticized for acquiring competitors or copying their services to ensure its continued dominance in social networking.
Amazon and Apple also could figure into the committee’s early plans, he said, cautioning the goal is a broader look at the industry.
“In a lot of ways, there was a reluctance in the early days of the Internet to interfere,” the Democratic lawmaker said. “It was creating so much value in the lives of people that [some felt] you should get out of the way and allow it to flourish.”
"Over time," Cicilline continued, "people have recognized there are some real dangers here."
Cicilline said Democrats would hold hearings, seek documents — even by subpoena, if necessary — and depose witnesses that could include the leaders of Silicon Valley’s largest companies, who might also be asked to testify publicly. His office said that tech companies, for all their innovations, had created “escalating crises,” from eroding Americans’ privacy rights to depriving ad revenue from cash-strapped local news outlets.
In recent days, the Trump administration has signaled that it, too, has set its sights on Silicon Valley, taking steps to divvy up future anti-trust oversight of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google between the U.S. government’s two antitrust enforcement agencies, the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice. Such a division of labor could pave the way for more formal probes of each company’s practices, though the agencies’ exact interests aren’t known.
[Amazon could face heightened antitrust scrutiny under a new agreement between U.S. regulators]
Still, the early efforts won support even among Democratic presidential candidates, such as Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who long has called for breaking up big tech. Over the weekend, congressional Republicans also praised the Trump administration for turning its attention to the industry. “This is very big news, and overdue,” tweeted Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley.
Amazon, Apple and Facebook did not respond to requests for comment, and Google declined comment. (Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post.)
The broad, bipartisan focus on Silicon Valley presents the whole of the tech industry with what could be its greatest political test after years of enjoying relatively smooth sailing in the nation’s capital. Even when world regulators had sought to challenge these companies’ business practices — Europe has fined Google $9 billion in just the last three years, for example — Washington had remained a staunch ally of Facebook, Google and their peers.
The 2016 election, however, began to erode that political goodwill, as members of Congress began to realize the extent to which malicious actors could capitalize on social networks with vast, perhaps unchallenged reach to spread falsehoods in real time. A flood of privacy violations, particularly at Facebook, further reinforced for some lawmakers the feeling that big tech giants had enriched themselves on their users’ personal information — and left people with little option for alternative services to use.
“For a while, tech could do no wrong. They were the font of all innovation, and good things, and progress and democracy,” said Rob Atkinson, the president of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, a think tank that counts Apple and Microsoft on its board of directors. “And now the bloom is off the rose.”
Atkinson, however, stressed the industry had produced some of consumers’ most well-liked services, from Facebook’s messaging apps to Amazon’s lightning fast delivery of goods that previously had taken weeks to order. “This is one of the reasons why this is such a hard sell,” he said. “Most consumers just don’t see a problem.”
On Monday, Cicilline called it a “monopoly moment” for the tech industry, likening his committee’s investigation into Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google and their tech peers to past congressional probes of airlines and phone providers, each of which resulted in a fine-tuning of the nation’s antitrust laws. Over the next 18 months, he said, the House Judiciary Committee and its top antitrust panel would focus their review on crafting their own recommendations.
“The open Internet has delivered enormous benefits to Americans, including a surge of economic opportunity, massive investment, and new pathways for education online,” said Rep. Jerrold Nadler, the chairman of the full Judiciary Committee. “But there is growing evidence that a handful of gatekeepers have come to capture control over key arteries of online commerce, content, and communications."
New antitrust scrutiny helped drive down tech stocks Monday. Facebook stock was down more than 7 percent, Google fell by 6 percent, Amazon dropped 4 percent and Apple 1 percent, a small loss that came on the same day the iPhone giant unveiled a slew of new software updates at its annual developer conference.
In recent months, a growing chorus of politicians, academics and business leaders have argued that tech giants have accumulated too much power and that they should be regulated — or even broken up. In May, Chris Hughes, a co-founder of Facebook, argued in an op-ed that it was time to break up the company.
Critics of Amazon have pointed to the company’s dominance of retail e-commerce sales — estimated to be nearly 40 percent of the market, according to eMarketer data from May 2019. Meanwhile, Amazon has expanded into new lines of business, such as groceries, and amassed a massive cloud-computing footprint. Amazon argues, however, that it controls a smaller portion of all retail sales in an industry dominated by players such as Walmart, the largest U.S. retailer.
For Apple, the concern consistently is its App Store — a portal for games and other software that Apple controls. The iPhone maker long has tangled with companies such as Spotify, a music-streaming app that rivals Apple’s own offering, over charges that Apple makes it harder for competitors to operate. Apple has denied it, but the European Union is reportedly probing the matter.
[Apple’s Supreme Court loss sends antitrust shock waves through Silicon Valley]
Google long has struggled to battle back EU regulators who feel its search, advertising and smartphone offerings put its competitors at a disadvantage. U.S. regulators previously probed the company but opted against bringing major penalties when they closed the investigation in 2013. With Facebook, its struggles with disinformation and privacy have fueled calls from a wide array of critics — including Chris Hughes, a co-founder of Facebook — who say it is time to break up the company.
“The Internet platforms have operated with impunity since their founding, producing horrific outcomes for democracy, public health, privacy, and competition,” said Roger McNamee, an early investor in Apple, Facebook, and Google and a former adviser to Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg who has since become a critic of the companies.
Elizabeth Dwoskin Elizabeth Dwoskin joined The Washington Post as Silicon Valley correspondent in 2016, becoming the paper's eyes and ears in the region and in the wider world of tech. Before that, she was the Wall Street Journal's first full-time beat reporter covering big data, artificial intelligence, and the impact of algorithms on people's lives. Follow
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Stem-cell filibuster hinges on 6 Democrats
By - The Washington Times - Sunday, March 5, 2006
ANNAPOLIS — Senate Republicans have put their hopes on six Catholic Democrats to defeat an embryonic stem-cell research bill tomorrow.
But the Catholic voting bloc has cracked, and it appears that a Democratic effort to pick off members of a promised filibuster likely will succeed, sources close to the issue said.
Sen. Roy P. Dyson, Southern Maryland Democrat, looks to be the swing vote, sources said.
Republican leaders were confident Friday that they had at least five solid Democratic votes, in addition to their 14, needed for the 19 required to sustain a filibuster in the 47-member Senate.
“There’s no way they can successfully change the bill to pick off our votes,” said Senate Minority Leader J. Lowell Stoltzfus, Eastern Shore Republican.
Mr. Stoltzfus acknowledged that the voting bloc of six had likely lost Sen. John A. Giannetti Jr., Prince George’s Democrat.
But Mr. Stoltzfus was confident in the votes of Mr. Dyson; Sens. James E. DeGrange Sr. and Philip C. Jimeno, Anne Arundel Democrats; Leo E. Green, Prince George’s Democrat; and Norman R. Stone Jr., Baltimore County Democrat.
Four of those senators were solidly in favor of stopping the bill sponsored by Sen. Paula Colodny Hollinger, the Baltimore County Democrat running for Congress, that aims to fund embryonic stem-cell research. “It’s life. It’s destroying a human embryo,” Mr. Jimeno said.
“I don’t intend to change my vote.” Mr. DeGrange said, “I’m absolutely solid, without question.”
Mr. Dyson was noncommittal. When asked if he might budge off a filibuster, he said, “This thing is so fluid right now.” He would not answer whether he thinks an embryo is a form of human life.
“I vote pro-life and will continue to do so,” Mr. Dyson said.
Nancy Fortier, associate director for the Respect for Life department of the Maryland Catholic Conference, said she would “personally [have] a hard time believing” that Mr. Dyson might vote for embryonic stem-cell research.
“He is one of our staunch pro-life leaders,” Ms. Fortier said. “We don’t have any doubts about him. He realizes the magnitude of this. This is a huge pro-life issue. We’ve activated a lot of prayer chains to pray that he sticks it out.”
But Mr. Giannetti said, “There is a lot of work behind the scenes to try to get a bill that will be acceptable to senators on both sides of the aisle. It’s not an easy task, because the moral issues are so great.”
Sen. James Brochin, Baltimore County Democrat, lobbied Mr. Stone as they walked to their offices after the session Friday.
“If you or anyone in your family had Parkinson’s disease, you would depend on this research,” Mr. Brochin told Mr. Stone.
“But I think it creates a lot of problems,” Mr. Stone said.
Embryonic stem-cell research is opposed by many because the embryo is a fertilized egg that has not yet been placed in a woman’s uterus, but could develop into a baby if that happened.
Opponents of embryonic stem-cell research say that adult stem cells have already yielded medical treatments for dozens of degenerative diseases. Proponents say there is incredible potential for actual cures from embryonic stem cells for diseases such as cancer and Alzheimer’s disease.
Mr. Giannetti said he thinks “an embryo is a form of human life,” but that he would vote for a bill that allows research.
“I’m a Catholic and the whole specter of embryonic stem-cell research is very concerning for me. Other people don’t share my concerns,” he said.
Susan O’Brien, with Maryland Families for Stem Cell Research, which promotes research with embryos, said she was confident that the filibuster would fall apart.
“They’ll be able to vote against the bill, but I believe they will not support efforts to keep the legislature from doing the rest of its work,” Ms. O’Brien said. “They’ll get to a point where they have to move on with other issues.”
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Three-quarters of U.S. adults agree environmental standards can't be too high
Recent Harris Poll of 1,217 adults found they also feel continuing improvements must be made regardless of cost. Nearly half think there's too little government regulation and involvement in the area of environmental protection. Over half point to water pollution as the No. 1 priority...
ROCHESTER, NY, Oct. 13, 2005 (PRNewswire) -- Three in four U.S. adults (74%) agree that "protecting the environment is so important that requirements and standards cannot be too high, and continuing environmental improvements must be made regardless of cost." In addition, a plurality of adults (47%) agree that "there is too little government regulation and involvement in the area of environmental protection." These attitudes are significantly more pro-environment than in 2000, the last time Harris Interactive examined these issues.
These are some of the results of a Harris Poll of 1,217 U.S. adults surveyed by telephone by Harris Interactive® between Aug. 9 and 16, 2005. It is important to note that this survey was conducted prior to hurricanes Katrina and Rita, events which have placed some additional focus on environmental issues.
Major findings of the survey include:
* While the proportion of adults who agree that it is important to protect and improve the environment regardless of cost has increased over the last five years (66% in 2000 vs. 74% now), a significant proportion of the public currently disagrees with this statement (25%).
-- This year, Democrats (85%) are more likely to agree with this
statement than Independents (75%) or Republicans (60%).
-- Liberals (82%) and moderates (77%) are more likely to agree with
this statement than conservatives (69%).
* Just fewer than half of U.S. adults (47%) think the amount of government regulation and involvement in the area of environmental protection is too little, while a third (32%) says it is about the right amount and a fifth (19%) believes it is too much. The percentage of adults believing the amount of regulation and involvement is too little has increased since 2000 when 39% of adults felt this way.
-- Currently, Democrats (61%) are more likely to believe there is too
little government oversight with respect to environmental
protection than Independents (55%) or Republicans (23%).
-- At the same time, a higher%age of liberals (67%) than
moderates (56%) or conservatives (27%) feels there is too little
government regulation and involvement.
* According to U.S. adults, water pollution and air pollution are the top environmental priorities for the nation. When asked to rate the priority of seven environmental issues on a scale of one to 10 where one means "a low priority" and 10 means "a high priority,", about half (52%) of adults rate water pollution a "9" or "10" while 48% rate air pollution this high of a priority.
-- The second tier of priorities includes global warming, ozone
depletion, and depletion of forest lands (each rated a "9" or "10"
by 41% of adults).
-- Recycling more material (39% rate it "9" or "10") and insisting
that other nations adhere to our level of environmental standards
(26% rate it a "9" or "10") trail as high priorities.
* Just one of eight groups examined is credited with doing more than their share to help reduce environmental problems.
-- A plurality of adults (42%) believe environmental groups are doing
more than their share to help reduce environmental problems. On the
other side of the coin, 71% believe large corporations are
doing less than their share.
-- The general public does not escape its own wrath as 63% of
adults say the general public does less than its share. Majorities
also feel local businesses (50%), the president (53%), and Congress
(57%) are doing less than their share.
-- Conversely, the public has mixed views on the role of state or
local government. Forty-six percent say they are doing less than
their share, 43% believe their efforts are about right, and
10% believe they are doing more than their share. The media
also receives mixed reviews (44% less than, 37% about right, and
18% more than their share).
* A majority of all U.S. adults (58%) describe themselves as sympathetic to environmental concerns, while 12% say they are active environmentalists, four% are unsympathetic, and 24% consider themselves neutral. These figures are relatively unchanged in the surveys dating back to 1995 (53% sympathetic, 11% environmentalist, 5% unsympathetic, and 29% neutral).
Wirthlin Worldwide conducted this study in 2000 and earlier. The company was acquired by Harris Interactive in 2004.
Included below are portions of other tables provided in the original document ("Three-Quarters of U.S. Adults Agree Environmental Standards Cannot Be Too High and Continuing Improvements Must Be Made Regardless of Cost"). Click on the above link for full data in each table below.
• TABLE 2. IMPORTANCE OF PROTECTING AND IMPROVING THE ENVIRONMENT - 1981-2005
"Do you agree or disagree with this statement: Protecting the environment is so important that requirements and standards cannot be too high, and continuing environmental Improvements must be made regardless of cost. And is that strongly or somewhat agree or disagree?"
Base: All adults -- % saying strongly or somewhat agree 74% up from 66% in 2000 and 45% in 1981.
• TABLE 3. AMOUNT OF REGULATION AND INVOLVEMENT IN ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION - BY POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
"Do you think there is too much, too little, or about the right amount of government regulation and involvement in the area of environmental protection?"
Base: All Adults -- Too much - 19%, Too little - 47%, About right - 32%, Not sure - 2%.
• TABLE 5. PRIORITY OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS
"Now, I am going to read a list of environmental problems. For each problem, please tell me HOW HIGH OF A PRIORITY you feel that problem is, using a scale of 1 to 10, where "1" means the problem is a low priority and "10" means the problem is a high priority."
Base: All Adults --% giving a rating of 9 or 10: Water pollution, 52%; Air Pollution, 48%; Global Warming, 41%; Ozone Depletion, 41%; Forest Lands Depletion, 41%; Recycling More Material, 39%; Insisting that other nations adhere to our level of environmental standards, 26%.
• TABLE 6. REDUCING ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS
"For each of the following, please tell me if you feel they've done more than their share, just about right, or less then their share to help reduce environmental problems."
Categories: Environmental groups, the media, state or local government, general public, local businesses, large corporations, the President, Congress. See link for full data.
"Do you think of yourself as an active environmentalist, sympathetic to environmental concerns, neutral, or unsympathetic to environmental concerns?"
(See link above for full data.)
Harris Interactive Inc. (www.harrisinteractive.com) is the 13th largest and fastest-growing market research firm in the world, perhaps best known for The Harris Poll® and for pioneering and engineering Internet-based research methods. The Rochester, New York-based global research company blends premier strategic consulting with innovative and efficient methods of investigation, analysis and application, conducting proprietary and public research globally to help clients achieve clear, material and enduring results.
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Artist Profile: The Pixies and Their Legacy
Discover WERS :: 07.03.2019
By Owen Murray
Boston has more than its fair share of iconic rock bands.
Aerosmith, The Cars and—of course—Boston. Not to mention favorites like The Dropkick Murphys and The Mighty Mighty Bosstones. All are beloved in their own right. But the Pixies are a Boston band with a particularly unique and special legacy.
The Pixies might not be the biggest band to come out of Boston, but they are certainly one of the most influential.
While talking to Rolling Stone about in 1994 about Nirvana’s seminal 1994 album Nevermind Kurt Cobain said “I was basically trying to rip off the Pixies.”
In 2004 Radiohead was scheduled to follow the Pixies at Coachella, prompting frontman Thom Yorke to say “No! That's just not right! The Pixies opening for us is like the Beatles opening for us. I won't allow it. There's no way we can follow the Pixies!” In the end, they did follow the Pixies, whether or not it sat right with Thom.
David Bowie once described the Pixies as “the most compelling music—outside of Sonic Youth—in the entire 80s.”
What is it about the Pixies that makes them so compelling?
The Pixies kept it simple. Charles Thompson IV (known in the Pixies as Black Francis) took lead vocals and rhythm guitar, Kim Deal took back up vocals and bass, Joey Santiago took lead guitar, and David Lovering took drums. None of them were flashy musicians. Instead, the Pixies focused on writing catchy songs with a hard, punk edge.
Black Francis is an incredibly charismatic singer and lyricist. From the playful melodies of “Here Comes your Man” to the unhinged screaming of “Tame,” Francis is never lacking on personality. His lyrics are quirky, yet dark and unsettling— something that clearly resonated with bands like Nirvana and Radiohead.
Many people who don’t know the Pixies very well can instantly recognize “Where is My Mind?” even if their only exposure to it was as the theme song from Fight Club. Santiago's simple riff and Francis’ soaring vocals— “With your feet in their air and your head on the ground/Try this trick and spin it!”— are as catchy as they can be.
Kim Deal’s punchy bass-lines form the backbone of songs like “Debaser” and “Gigantic.” Her unique style is a staple of the Pixies sound. The riffs are simple, but unforgettable. Kurt Cobain’s guitar playing often took a similar approach. Nirvana songs like “Come As You Are” and “All Apologies” aren’t complicated or difficult to play, but they are creative, musical, and irresistibly catchy.
In stark contrast to other 80s over the top glam rock bands like Bon Jovi and Guns ‘n’ Roses—who Kurt Cobain notoriously hated— the Pixies were stripped back and down to earth. They weren’t glory seeking, or image-obsessed— just focused on making really music.
Grunge was from Seattle, but it has its roots in Boston.
The Pixies were by no means the most popular band of their time. But, their influence in rock music was truly historic. Boston bands like Aerosmith and Boston certainly have incredible legacies, but none can match the musical impact of the Pixies.
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Tofino shows support for T’aaq-wiihak fisheries
Andrew Bailey
Feb. 26, 2014 3:00 p.m.
Tofino’s municipal council has agreed to support the continuation of the T’aaq-wiihak fisheries for the second year in a row and will encourage the federal government to conclude negotiations in good faith with the five First Nations involved.
The T’aaq-wiihak Fisheries are First Nations commercial fisheries occurring in Clayoquot Sound and Nootka Sound, according to Candace Picco, a Central Region Biologist for the Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council.
She said the T’aaq-wiihak fisheries were born out of a court case in Nov. 2009 that five Nuu-chah-nulth Nations won: Ahousaht, Ehattesaht, Hesquiaht, Mowachaht/Muchalaht and Tla-o-qui-aht.
“That’s really relevant to this area because three of those nations- Ahousaht, Hesquiaht and Tla-o-qui-aht-are in Clayoquot Sound,” Picco said. “Those Nations are obviously important contributors to the economy of Tofino and the Alberni Clayoquot region.”
After the court case concluded, the government of Canada and the Nations were instructed to negotiate a new fisheries regime but these negotiations are still under construction.
“On Jan. 30, 2014, the Supreme Court of Canada decided not to hear Canada’s third and final appeal,” Picco said. “Throughout the years the government of Canada has tried to appeal the decision and finally it’s finished.” The Supreme Court’s decision solidified the rights of the five Nations to fish and sell in the commercial marketplace, according to Picco.
“This is the only group of Nations in the country that has this right to fish and sell all species in their territories,” she said adding Geoduck is excluded from the list because it is considered a relatively new fishery.
The next leg of the saga will be a justification trial scheduled for March 2015 where the government will be given a chance “justify why they infringed on these Nations’ rights,” according to Picco.
“We’re hoping that will be able to be negotiated before it goes to trial but based on the way the negotiations have been going up until now, it looks like further litigation will probably occur,” she said. “So far they have not been really negotiating in good faith is how we feel.”
She said the government has only given two small fisheries to the Nations so far-a Chinook fishery and a gooseneck barnacle fishery-while the Nations have submitted detailed fishing plans for: Coho, chum, pinks, lingcod, groundfish, prawns and crabs.
“The case was quite clear in stating that these fisheries were to have a priority over the commercial and recreational fisheries,” Picco said. “That would not expand the amount of fish coming out of the ocean that would just be taking a share of the quota that already exists.”
The gooseneck barnacle fishery began in the fall of 2013 and is the only one currently occurring in North America, according to Picco who said members of the Ahousaht and Tla-o-qui-aht First Nations are participating.
She said the biggest concern with this fishery is safety because it involves fishers jumping on and off wet rocks to harvest and added that since the fishery is unique, work needs to be done to promote the product to buyers both in Tofino and on the mainland.
The Chinook fishery celebrated a successful second season in 2013 with 54 open fishing days between April 19 and Aug 11, according to Picco.
She said the fishery made about $500,000 in 2013, which represented about twice the amount made the year before thanks to higher fish prices, more fish harvested, and increased fisher participation.
“We saw twice the number of fisherman participating so that increased opportunities for employment and also monitoring,” she said. “This is all very well monitored and recorded at the dock.”
She said one of the key successes of the fisheries is the promotion of intergenerational learning of fishing practices.
“This is really important to the Nuu-chah-nulth because there’s a lot of fear that this is going to be lost and that a lot of knowledge about how to fish and where to fish are not transferring to the younger generations because there’s no opportunity for them to fish,” Picco said.
She said the fisheries are also opening the door for First Nations to learn the ins and outs of developing and managing their own fisheries and is fostering business relationships between fishers and buyers “This is also a very well monitored fishery, almost over monitored, which is a result of it being a new fishery and DFO doesn’t really know what to expect,” Picco said.
She said the allocation the fisheries have been given to date has been small and “it is not yet a true rights-based fishery because it’s still being managed by the DFO as a regular commercial fishery.”
The Nations are hoping to develop the T’aaq-wiihak fisheries into integrated multi species fisheries.
“Rather than fishing one target species…they wanted a more holistic fishery where they could retain other species they catch and either sell or retain for home use,” Picco said.
She said the fisheries successes will bring jobs and economic growth to the West Coast and will raise the profile of Tofino.
“The Nations are very keen to work with local governments to see this fishery continue to benefit the local economy,” she said.
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Beyond: Two Souls Has No “Game Over” Screen
August 27th, 2013 / Niraj Shah / News
At gamescom last week, David Cage talked about Beyond: Two Souls and how the game has no “game over” screen; even if the game’s protagonist, Jodie Holmes, dies the narrative will still continue. While speaking to JoyStiq, Cage said “I’ve always felt that ‘game over’ is a state of failure more for the game designer than from the player”
“It’s like creating an artificial loop saying, ‘You didn’t play the game the way I wanted you to play, so now you’re punished and you’re going to come back and play it again until you do what I want you to do.’” He further added that this “doesn’t make any sense” in a story-driven experience.
The game is about death and “one of the big mysteries in the game is to discover what’s on the other side. And it’s definitely not a black screen.” says Cage.
The game will be releasing on the PS3 on October 11th 2013.
BEYOND: Two Souls, Game Over
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Obama: Here’s what would lead me to speak out in the Trump era
Dylan Stableford
Yahoo News• January 18, 2017
President Obama says his priorities after leaving the White House are to write, spend time with his family and take some time for quiet reflection. But as a citizen, Obama said, there may be times he will speak out against his successor, Donald Trump.
“I’m still a citizen and I think it is important for Democrats or progressives who feel that they came out on the wrong side of this election to be able to distinguish between the normal back and forth, ebb and flow of policy,” Obama said Wednesday during his last press conference in Washington as president. “I’m confident on my rightness on a lot of these points, but we got a new president and a new Congress who are going to make the same determinations.”
“But there’s a difference between that normal functioning of politics,” Obama said, “and certain issues or certain moments where our core values are at stake.”
Among them, the president said, are “systematic discrimination,” voter suppression, “institutional efforts to silence dissent or the press” and the targeting of so-called DREAMers, or children who immigrated into the country illegally with their parents.
“And for me at least, I’d put in that category efforts to round up kids who have grown up here and for all practical purposes are American kids and send them someplace else,” Obama said.
During the 2016 campaign, Trump vowed to build a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico and deport millions of undocumented immigrants living in the United States. Critics have said such a plan would threaten the more than 700,000 young people protected from deportation under Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that launched in 2012. Trump has said he is working on a plan to accommodate those children.
“The notion that we would just arbitrarily or because of politics punish those kids, when they didn’t do something themselves … would merit my speaking out,” Obama said.
Earlier, the president said he plans to “spend precious time with my girls” and to make sure first lady Michelle Obama, his wife of nearly 25 years, is “willing to re-up and put up with” him.
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MEN•I•KET•TI ( MEN I KET’ Ē )
V. [ORIGIN: BAY AREA] 1. TO SING WITH A PASSIONATE, GUTSY EMOTION; MUCH EMULATED, NEVER DUPLICATED 2. A SONGWRITER WHO WRITES WITH UNFORGETTABLE HOOKS, UNIQUE MELODIES, CATCHY LYRICS — N. 3. GUITAR PLAYER WHOSE SOLOS HAVE ROCKED THE WORLD OF ROCK AND SENT OTHER GUITAR PLAYERS CRYIN’ FOR THEIR MAMAS — ADJ.
Dave Meniketti—the name is synonymous with music—raw, hard-edged, melodic, soulful. His first solo CD ON THE BLUE SIDE received worldwide acclamation—particularly in Europe and Japan. His sophomore solo CD, the self-titled MENIKETTI revisits, as Dave says, his “melodic, rock-based roots.” From its first churning note on Messin’ with Mr. Big, Dave’s music grabs you. This is not background music. It pins your ears to the speakers and kicks you in the butt. It’s infectious, delicious rock and roll that satisfies the soul. In other words MENIKETTI is pure Meniketti.
For the uninitiated, Dave Meniketti was born and raised in Oakland, CA where he has been an icon for guitar players worldwide and a Bay Area vocal and guitar legend for over two decades. Perhaps it is the diversity of the artists that influenced him as a kid (Hendrix, Coltrane, James Brown, Led Zeppelin) that is responsible for his varied expressions in both his singing and guitar playing. And what truly makes him admired by rock stars to the kid on the street.
As the lead singer/lead guitarist with Bay Area Rockers Y&T, Meniketti has sold over 4 million records worldwide, recorded 17 albums and toured across the United States and around the world. His style has influenced some of the major stars in rock and over the years he’s been asked to join many top bands including Ozzy Osbourne and Whitesnake.
When Y&T took a break from recording and performing in the mid 90s, Dave wasn’t ready to hang up his guitar. After building his own recording studio in his home, he answered a primal call and recorded ON THE BLUE SIDE to quench his passion for the blues. Followed up with his pure rockin’ sophomore solo release MENIKETTI, this CD drives home the reasons why BAM Magazine christened Dave “a guitar hero in the classic sense of the term,“ and why the BBC calls Dave’s guitar playing “special…indeed.”
If you haven’t spun this CD yet, put your leathers on and get ready to rock—you’re in for a good time. You’ve got Dave’s word on that and you can take that to the bank.
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Family man and former actor Albert Shepherd dies, aged 82
By Daniel Willers Reporter
A FORMER actor born and raised in York, who starred in the TV soap Crossroads and a film with Elizabeth Taylor, has died at the age of 82.
Albert Shepherd, who lived in Crayke north of York for the last 45 years of his life, played Don Rogers in the original Crossroads, from 1972 to 1973.
He starred in a TV series called Rosie, which was filmed in Scarborough, from 1979 to 1981, and also appeared in the 1968 film Secret Ceremony alongside Elizabeth Taylor.
He was also the first person to speak on the 1969 movie Battle of Britain, and appeared in a number of other films and TV series.
Albert retired from acting in the mid-1980s following the death of his wife Rosaleen to look after his three children - Anthony, Jonathan and Gerard.
Gerard said: "Dad was very much a family man. He gave up acting in the mid-80s to look after us full-time after the death of my mother.
"He was both our father and mother, deeply caring and always there for us.
"Never met anybody else, a totally devoted husband and father." He added: "He loved acting but shied away from the high life.
"Dad was very well known in the locality by many people.
"When he was in Crossroads he wrote and directed many Crayke village pantomimes to great fun and success and was always helping around the village.
"He very much loved village life."
Albert was born in York in 1936 and attended the now closed St George's Roman Catholic Secondary School.
He worked as a metal machinist at the Holgate Road carriage works in York and was then called up for National Service and went to Egypt.
He was later accepted at Webber Douglas Drama School in London and after this landed roles in TV programmes and films.
Earlier this year, Albert and the family had to come to terms with the death of Anthony at the age of 49.
Albert died at York Hospital from lung cancer, just three weeks after he was diagnosed.
His funeral will take place on July 19 at Our Lady and Saint Benedict's Church in Ampleforth.
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ZGT Team March 11, 2014 November 19, 2016 History of Croatia, Home
Croatia (Hrvatska) Welcome to Zadar Guided Tours, the site dedicated to promoting the natural and cultural beauties of the newest edition to the European Union. Although Croatia is recognized as a small state somewhere in the Balkans, and as a former Yugoslavia country, the history of Croatian people and their country go far into the 7th century when Slavic tribes came to this land. Before Slavic tribes, there existed tribes such as Delmati, Histri, Liburni, Japodi and Ardijejci, also because of the Mediterranean Sea Greeks and Romans made their colonies along the Croatian coast, lots of their remains still can be seen along many Croatian islands and main land cities. After the Slavic tribes came to settle, began the rise of Croatia. In the year 862, came the saint brothers Cyril and Methodius to preach Christianity to Slavic people. For that occasion Cyril created the first alphabet, named Glagoljica (Glagolitic alphabet) and the two brothers translated holy books to Slavic languages and started spreading Christianity along with literacy. It is considered that Methodius students created the second letter used in Croatia, named Ćirilica (Cyrillic alphabet). By the end of the year 800 people accepted Latinica (Latin alphabet) as other nations were using it, but at some point all three types of alphabet were in use, and there exist monuments and incunabula written in it.
In the 9th century we had a couple of Princes such as Višeslav, Borna, Mislav, Trpimir, Domagoj, Branimir: under his rule in the year 879 Croatia was recognized as an independent country. 925, pope Clement IV crowns Tomislav king which brings Croats together to form a unified state and repel Hungarian forces. In 11th century was formed the city of Zagreb, today’s capital city of Croatia. In the 12th century there was created the personal union with Hungary, since then a lot of alliances were created, Venice took over the city of Zadar along with a large part of the coast, later on attacks from the Ottoman emperor though the Ottoman Turks never conquered Croatia, in the 16th century Croatia was considered Antemurale Christianitatis. 18th century and the rule of the Austro-Hungarian empire and Maria Theresa made some progress, schools were opened, and medical institutions which helped to raise the population. 19th century was a struggle to keep the Croatian language intact under constant attempts to Hungarianise the Croats, which resulted in rebellion and the idea of connecting all Slavic nations and creating the Illyrian language and newspapers. The name Illyrian was soon replaced as the project failed, but Ljudevit Gaj created the standard Croatian language from many Croatian dialects. In 1835 he publishes the first orthography. 20th century began with the assassination of Austrian Duke Ferdinand by Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo, Bosnia and the First World War. As the Austro-Hungarian monarchy is destroyed, a new alliance was made, called the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenians, later Yugoslavia was created, but it didn’t last long. After the Second World War the Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia was made, and Tito was the president. After his death in 1980 Yugoslavia started falling apart, and as a result of that the 20th century ended with another war here in the 90’s. Today, Croatia is an independent country; from July 2013 it is also part of the European Union, which made it more interesting and approachable for tourists. Even from the time of Yugoslavia, Croatian coast was always appealing to tourists, many cities are under the UNESCO protection, and Dubrovnik has the title of pearl of the Adriatic Sea. Croatia’s Adriatic Sea coast contains more than a thousand islands on the 31.067 km² of territorial waters. Croatia covers 56,594 square kilometres and is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb.
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The Countway Library Fellowship is Open for Applications
The Foundation provides an annual grant to support research on the history of women in medicine
The Women in Medicine Legacy Foundation's Countway Library Fellowship supports research on the history of women in medicine, providing an annual grant of $5000. This covers travel, lodging, and incidental expenses for a flexible research period between July 1, 2018 and June 30, 2019.
The research is conducted at the Center for the History of Medicine at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Manuscript collections which may be of special interest include the recently-opened Mary Ellen Avery Papers, the Leona Baumgartner Papers, and the Grete Bibring Papers.
Preference is given to:
Projects that deal specifically with women physicians, medical scientists or health workers. Proposals dealing with the history of women’s health issues may also be considered.
Those who are using collections from the Archives for Women in Medicine. Research on the topic of women in medicine using other material from the Countway Library will be considered.
Applicants who live beyond commuting distance of the Countway, but all are encouraged to apply, including graduate students.
In return, the Foundation requests a one page report on the Fellow’s research experience, a copy of the final product (with the ability to post excerpts from the paper/project), and a photo and bio of the Fellow for web and newsletter announcements. The Fellow will also be asked to present a lecture at the Countway Library.
Applicants should submit a proposal of no more than five pages outlining the subject and objectives of the research project, length of residence, historical materials to be used, and a project budget (including travel, lodging, and research expenses), along with a curriculum vitae and two letters of recommendation by May 15, 2018. The fellowship proposal should demonstrate that the Countway Library has resources central to the research topic.
Applications should be sent to:
The Foundation for the History of Women in Medicine Fellowship, Archives for Women in Medicine
Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
10 Shattuck Street, Boston, MA 02115
Electronic submissions of applications, supporting materials, and any questions may be directed to chm@hms.harvard.edu or (617) 432-2170.
For more information, visit the Center for the History of Medicine's page here.
Alicia Lazzaro April 18, 2018
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Supreme Court of Sweden Upholds Pirate Bay Prison Sentences
Sweden's Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the prison sentences of the four founders of The Pirate Bay, the notorious file-sharing service on Hollywood's and the recording industry's most-hated list.
Peter Sunde faces eight months; Fredrik Neij, 10 months; Carl Lundström, four months; and Gottfrid Svartholm, one year. They share combined fines of more than $6.8 million.
They were convicted in 2009 in a joint civil and criminal proceeding in Sweden that pitted the entertainment industry and the government against the four defendants.
Lundström's lawyer, Per E. Samuelsson, blasted the Supreme Court for refusing to review the conviction. "The verdict is absurd," he said. "I am disappointed that the court is so uninterested in dissecting and analysing the legal twists and turns of one of the world's most high-profile legal cases of all time."
Sunde wrote in a blog post that " … I'm just a pawn. But at least I'm a pawn on the morally right side. I am proud as hell of what I have done and I would not change my involvement in any way."
The defense largely hinged on an architectural point. Because of the way BitTorrent works, pirated material was neither stored on, nor passed through, The Pirate Bay's servers. Instead the site merely provided an index of torrent files — some on its servers, some elsewhere — that direct a user's client software to the content.
But the judge in the case did not buy it. Prosecutor Håkan Roswall argued successfully that the defendants were culpable anyway, citing past prosecutions of criminal accomplices. In a Swedish Supreme Court decision from 1963, he noted, a defendant who held a friend's coat while the friend beat someone up was considered culpable.
Among other arguments on appeal, the founders asserted that the trial judge was biased against them.
Days after the convictions, attorneys for the four charged that Tomas Norstrom, the judge presiding over the trial, was hostile to the defense because of his affiliations with the Swedish Copyright Association and the Swedish Association for the Protection of Industrial Property.
The defendants also charged that the Stockholm trial court administrators secretly steered the case to Norstrom.
It was not immediately clear when the four would be required to surrender.
Torrent Freak noted that the site was still online, but was redirecting to a .se domain out of fear of a "possible seizure from the U.S. authorities."
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LAURIER EXPERT ALERT: NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS
WATERLOO – It is a common tradition to make a resolution for the New Year.
There are several Laurier experts available to comment on a variety of topics related to resolutions.
Anne Wilson, professor in Laurier’s Department of Psychology, is an expert on identity and goal setting. She is available to comment on how people think about their past and future, how they set goals and why they succeed or fail at these goals. Wilson has also researched using landmarks, such as the New Year, as symbolic turning points and how this can affect our motivation to make changes. Contact information: awilson@wlu.ca.
Tobias Krettenauer, professor in Laurier’s Department of Psychology, is an expert on self-development. He is available to comment on why New Year’s resolutions don't typically work. Contact information: 519-884-0710 x3894 or tkrettenauer@wlu.ca.
Christian Jordan, associate professor in Laurier’s Department of Psychology, is an expert on self-esteem and self-views. Contact information: 519-884-0710 x2574 or cjordan@wlu.ca.
The university will be closed from Dec. 25 - Jan. 3. Please contact faculty experts directly during this time.
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Women's March on Roanoke
March on Roanoke 2018
THE 2019 WOMEN’S MARCH ON ROANOKE: RALLY IN ROANOKE, RESULTS IN RICHMOND
The Roanoke Women’s March is a non-partisan, women-led movement organized by Roanoke Indivisible and the Blue Ridge Resistance Alliance of Virginia (BRRAVA) providing intersectional education on issues with disproportionate impact on women and their families in Southwest Virginia. When we march, we gather to rally, build our community and our power. When we raise our voices in Roanoke, in Richmond, and in Washington, D.C., we demand, create, and promote solutions for Virginia women and their families and communities. The Roanoke Women’s March builds the political power of women and their diverse communities to create transformative social change and encourage everyone’s participation in our elections and civic life.
In 2018 we marched under the banner of “Hear our Vote.” We marched, we worked, we voted, and we won as women entered our nation’s public life in unprecedented numbers. The 2019 Roanoke Women’s March builds on this success and will educate, empower, and energize us to take our voice and our power to Richmond to hold our state legislators accountable to our core values: equity, justice, democratic governance, and safeguarding our environment and climate future. In 2019, Virginia has a historic opportunity to advance women’s rights nationwide by becoming the final state needed to ratify the ERA Amendment. The 2019 Roanoke Women’s March will focus on ratifying the ERA, encouraging women to enter public life, and rallying us to become effective and forceful advocates in Richmond for the issues that matter to us.
The Roanoke Women’s March is a platform for grassroots activists and organizers in the Roanoke Valley and Southwest Virginia working to dismantle systems of oppression in their local communities. We recognize and affirm that there is no true peace, freedom, or inclusion without equality for all. Our March therefore celebrates and promotes the many voices of resistance aligned with our principles -- including ending violence, fighting for climate and environmental justice, and fighting for full civil rights and social justice for women and for other groups historically marginalized in our communities because of their racial, ethnic, religious, or gender identity; their class, economic, family, or immigration status; or their disability or physical condition.
JOIN US! See you on January 19, 2019 at Elmwood Park
as we RALLY IN ROANOKE FOR RESULTS IN RICHMOND
Statement on the National Women's March
The Women’s March on Roanoke organizers are saddened and angered that the National Team Co-Chairs of the Women’s March, Inc, have repeatedly failed to forcefully denounce anti-Semitism. For this reason, we understand the need to clarify our relationship with the Women’s March, Inc. While the Roanoke March was organized by local women in 2017 as a sister march to the National Women’s March in Washington DC, the Women’s March on Roanoke is not affiliated with the national Women’s March, Inc. For the past two years, the Women’s March on Roanoke has been organized by the women in the leadership team of BRRAVA, (the Blue Ridge Resistance Alliance of Virginia) and Roanoke Indivisible, and has focused on amplifying the power and voice of women in Southwest Virginia, and on highlighting the local and regional issues that most matter to us, including ERA ratification, pipeline resistance and climate justice, and progressive advocacy in Richmond.
We invite you to read the Women’s March on Roanoke Mission to learn more about our values, our mission, and our dreams for the future for which we march, and for which we fight. A central tenet is the intersectional reality of women’s lives and the certainty that any discrimination or hate grounded in religion is abhorrent and unacceptable. The Roanoke Valley was targeted this year with anti-semitic leaflets found at area colleges, and the year before with KKK rallies targeting our Muslim neighbors. We stand, we march, we fight, for both — for all— targeted religious communities.
Join us on January 19, 2019, as we Rally in Roanoke for Results in Richmond.
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Worse than the war
Managua — When I was asked to go to Nicaragua, I didn’t hesitate for a second. I wanted to cover the critical situation that was happening there since April and not just read about it – or, more accurately, suffer – from the close-but-not-so-close vantage point of Venezuela. It was a situation that was “worse than the war”the country went through in the 1980s, according to residents
In 25 years of working at AFP I have encountered extreme, risky and complicate moments in various Latin American countries. A year ago, with the team in Caracas, I covered four long and exhausting months of demonstrations in Venezuela. But this time it was different. Nicaragua is the country where I was born.
Paramilitaries are seen on trucks at Monimbo neighborhood in Masaya, Nicaragua, on July 18, 2018, following clashes with anti-government demonstrators (AFP )
Along its roads, at intersections, next to traffic lights and pedestrian crossings, and crammed in the back of four-door pick-up trucks, the sight of civilians masked and heavily armed greeted my return to Nicaragua’s capital.
Just after arriving at the hotel, my photo and video colleagues and myself headed off to Masaya, a city that historically has always been the most rebellious in the country. In a small, modest cemetery three protesters were being buried. They had been killed by the pro-government forces of President Daniel Ortega while they manned barricades.
A friend of Jorge Carrion, 33, who was shot dead during protests against the government of President Daniel Ortega, carries a homemade mortar and shouts anti-government slogans during Carrion’s funeral in the city of Masaya, 35 km from Managua on June 7, (AFP )
Friends and relatives cry during the funeral of Jorge Carrion, 33, shot dead during protests against the government of President Daniel Ortega, in the city of Masaya, 35 km from Managua on June 7, 2018 (AFP )
A blue and white Nicaraguan flag covered one of the wooden coffins, which lay at the bottom of a two-meter deep grave. Two men shoveled dirt onto it. Looking around at the mourners, I saw faces contracted by tears, impotence and rage.
A demonstrator stands inside a bus set alight during a day-long national strike held to mark two months of violent chaos under President Daniel Ortega, in Tipitapa, about 25 km from Managua on June 14, 2018 (AFP )
A challenge, professionally and personally
Each day I spent in Nicaragua was a challenge, professionally and personally. The violence had swelled beyond the limits of anti-government demonstrations: deaths and gunfire occurred daily, houses were torched – one with an entire family inside, children and adolescents hit by bullets, disappearances, persecution, harassment.
Tear gas, used almost daily in Venezuela during protests, was used only for a few days in Nicaragua. After, it was bullets that were fired.
A riot police officer fires a weapon during clashes with students taking part in a protest in Managua on May 28, 2018 (AFP )
“Liberated territory”
Just like it was at war, the government launched an intense operation combining police, anti-riot forces and paramilitary groups to “liberate” and “retake” territory in Masaya, tearing down to the last the hundreds of road barricades of loose paving stones that had been built in a sign of resistance and as a way of protecting local residents.
Friends and relatives carry the coffin of Jose Esteban Sevilla Medina, who was shot dead during clashes with riot police and paramilitaries at Monimbo neighbourhood in Masaya, some 35 km from Managua, on July 16, 2018 (AFP )
Wearing masks, the paramilitaries go about their business wearing the same-color t-shirts: white one day, sometimes green, other times grey or blue, so they don’t get mistaken for the protesters on the roadblocks. The latter are also masked, so they aren’t identified by the police and especially any neighbors loyal to Ortega. For the government, they are all “terrorists.”
Always in convoy
For our own security, we try to go to the zones of conflict only after a clash has happened, and always in a convoy with colleagues from other media. Despite that, sometimes we get caught in the crossfire of bullets or homemade mortars, as happened one day in Masaya, in the flashpoint neighborhood of Monimbo. According to locals, there was an elite sniper on one of the roofs.
An anti-government demonstrator fires a home-made mortar during clashes with riot police at a barricade in the town of Masaya, 35 km from Managua on June 9, 2018 (AFP )
In this district of indigenous craftsmen, I interviewed a mathematics physics professor. He was a child when a popular uprising in 1979 toppled the dictator Anastasio Somoza. As a young man in the mid-1980s he fought to defend the revolution in the mountains where he lost a leg.
But nothing could console him over the death of his son in April this year, found in a trench. We spoke for a long time through an afternoon. After, we remained in contact. He kept me up to speed when anti-riot units and paramilitary forces approached with the aim of taking Monimbo.
Anti-government demonstrators remain at an improvised barricade in the town of Masaya, 35 km from Managua on June 5, 2018 (AFP )
With a bullet-proof jacket and a helmet making movement difficult, we walked kilometers between the barricades of paving stones to enter villages to find witnesses of what had happened there.
In Sutiaba, an indigenous part of Leon, a city 90 kilometers northwest of Managua, we arrived early in the morning. We left the vehicles on the outskirts of the city and walked toward the center, guided by local colleagues who helped us avoid the routes controlled by police and paramilitaries. Before leaving, one of our guides closed his eyes, lowered his head and prayed.
The few residents we found in the streets of the town, which otherwise seemed deserted, pointed us to houses where, the day before, something had happened as pro-governmental forces had violently invaded. We knocked on the door of one of them and a women opened it to us. In front of us, just a meter and a half away, there was a body covered with a white sheet lying on a bed. On one side, a small bloodstain was barely visible.
A supporter of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega takes part in a pro-FSLN government rally on Nicaragua’s National Mothers Day at the Rotonda Hugo Chavez in Managua on May 30, 2018 (AFP )
Chaos in a church
The most difficult moment is one when a decision needs to be made. To take the risk or not to go to where conflict is happening. In Diriamba, 40 kilometers southwest of Managua, we arrived early in the morning with other international journalists in three vehicles, a day after the government’s forces. According to human rights groups, more than a dozen people had been killed in the operation there.
Paramilitaries surround the San Sebastian Basilica, in Diriamba, Nicaragua on July 09, 2018. Armed supporters of the government of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega burst into the basilica, besieged and insulted bishops who had earlier arrived in Diriamba (AFP )
Coming around the corner of a streets, we found ourselves in front of the basilica, next to which there were around 50 paramilitaries. Inside the church, a dozen people had taken refuge in the priest’s quarters after escaping gunfire the day before. Two flags of Ortega’s Sandinista National Liberation Front had been hoisted atop the town’s clock tower.
Unable to turn back, we continued on our way, projecting calmness and keeping an eye in the rearview mirror to see if we were followed. A few streets on, we stopped and, after discussing it, decided to go back. We first went up to speak to two women in the group of paramilitaries, thinking it would be easier.
Paramilitaries rest in Monimbo neighborhood in Masaya, Nicaragua, on July 18, 2018, following clashes with anti-government demonstrators. The head of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has described as “alarming” the ongoing violence in Nicaragua. (AFP )
Once we convinced the masked men that we simply wanted to know their version of what happened, we called the rest of our colleagues.
A slew of insults
In their interviews, the paramilitaries declared that the didn’t have weapons and were simply residents who had organized themselves against the protesters to “liberate” the people. Several locals supporting them came up. Mid-morning, there were around 100 of them when a delegation of bishops arrived to provide assistance to the residents holed up in the basilica.
Yelling a slew of insults, the government supporters surrounded the clergymen and pushed their way into the church by force when the doors were opened to let the bishops and journalists pass. Chaos followed. Suddenly, between shoves and blows, we saw masked men, some armed, force their way in looking for those taking refuge.
Paramilitaries burst into the San Sebastian Basilica, in Diriamba, Nicaragua on July 09, 2018. Supporters of the government of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega besieged and insulted bishops who had earlier arrived in Diriamba (AFP )
A woman afraid of pro-government Sandinista youths embraces a nun as she takes shelter at the San Sebastian Basilica in Diriamba, Nicaragua, on July 9, 2018. Hundreds of under-pressure Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega supporters broke into the basilica (AFP )
At the altar, two paramilitaries saw me taking photos with my cellphone and turned on me. After an argument one of them snatched my phone.
Stolen camera, broken nose
I followed him and grabbed it back. That enraged him and he fiercely shoved me. Forcing myself to stay calm, I persuaded him to let me delete the photos. Once that was done he allowed me to leave he church.
In the melee, colleagues managed to find each other and we exchanged our respective experiences: our photographer Marvin Recinos was beaten on the arm by one masked man who stole his camera; one journalist from a local TV station had his nose broken and his equipment also stolen; the paramilitaries had also aimed their weapons at a cameraman from an international news channel.
We quickly left Diriamba, shaken and conscious that it could have turned out worse.
A Managua, des paysans ont passé la nuit dans une église après des affrontements mortels la veille ayant suivi une marche dans la capitale. 31 mai 2018. (AFP )
“They have us surrounded”
Several times I found myself at a loss to see how little the rest of the world was paying attention to what was unfolding in this poor little Central American country.
With a history marked by military invasions, civil wars and natural disasters, it seems to forged its own character through suffering.
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Coming from Venezuela, a country often on the front pages of the international press with the turmoil of its never-ending crisis, I was stunned that the situation in Nicaragua attracts less of the world’s interest, even though it was bloodier.
For journalists, it’s also much more dangerous. We never went out at night. Managua and other cities in the country were under a curfew imposed for months. From 6pm, the streets of the towns and cities were deserted. Many businesses were shuttered and nightlife was dead.
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega (R) and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, cheer at supporters during the government-called Walk for Security and Peace in Managua on July 7, 2018 (AFP )
As in Venezuela, official sources of information were unavailable. A request for an interview with the president was politely refused by his wife Rosario Murillo, who is also his vice president and the government’s chief spokesperson.
The international media was also accused by the government of waging a disinformation campaign and to facilitate a “coup d’état,” which put us at risk when we covered pro-governmental demonstrations. But, so far, correspondents sent to the country have had no problem getting in.
A municipal worker sweeps the floor in front of a mural depicting Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro (L) and Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega at Cuba square in Managua on November 26, 2016, the day after Castro died. (AFP )
For the month I was in Nicaragua, I often heard the refrain “it’s worse than the war,” referring to the conflict the country saw with the Sandinista revolution and the subsequent battle against Contra rebels backed by the US. It was said because of the impotence residents felt, not because of fear. They were displaying admirable courage, like that that I saw in Monimbo.
I finished my assignment in Nicaragua a day after an attack on students at the National Autonomous University who had been at the forefront of protests, and on a nearby church where, between raking gunfire, they had taken refuge for a night.
That Sunday, as I traveled out of the country, a government operation began to “retake” the rebel district of Monimbo.
A woman looks back after passing by a barricade in the neighbourhood of Monimbo, in Masaya, a city some 35 km from Managua, on May 21, 2018 (AFP)
“They aren’t attacking. We have people wounded and we can’t evacuate them. They have us surrounded, » the professor told me on WhatsApp.
It was the last message I received from him. I later saw on social media a photo of him next to a little shrine with an image of his son between white and yellow flowers. “Urgent, urgent! The professor has been kidnapped,” read the caption, and since then I’ve had no news about him.
View of the headquarters of the FSLN which were occupied and looted by a mob of protesters in Diriamba, 40 km from Managua, on June 14, 2018 (AFP)
Maria Isabel Sanchez
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Three Year Plan
Mission and Development Priorities 2011-2013
The Socio-Economic Context
The Diocese is located in an area that is a national hotspot, with enormous spiritual, socio-political and socio-economic challenges. Though there are only a handful of Christians in Tarime, yet one of the opportunities for mission is the wider population itself, as well as the climate of the place. A good number of people are hard-working retailers and small-scale farmers who keep cattle and grow a variety of crops and vegetables. Some of these crops include banana, maize (corn), round and sweet potatoes, onions, cabbage, tomatoes, carrot, avocado, among others. Small scale farming is possible because Tarime enjoys good rain and the soil is fertile. The harvest is twice a year. The landscape of Tarime is attractive too, divided largely between the highland and lowland areas.
Mission and Development Priorities
Our main work in the past year or so was to establish the basic administrative and financial structures. We have also set our mission priorities for three 3 years until Dec 2013. This process was participatory and involved the main key stakeholders in the Diocese including parish priests and vestry members (church elders) of each parish, and youth and women's organizations.
We want to engage in programs that will assist the communities to experience the love of God through the ministry of the Word, discipleship, and community development programs. Some of the key community program areas include health, education, food security, sustainability and economic empowerment of communities esp. the poor women and young people.
Our main mission and development priorities and challenges are: Evangelism and Discipleship, Strengthening the Ministry; Resource Mobilization; and Community Development. We are already addressing or planning to address certain aspects of these priorities.
The following details show our plans and strategies for each of the above priorities.
A. Evangelism and Discipleship
1. Tarime has a population of over 360,000 of which only 10% or less are Christians.
(i) start empowerment and discipleship programs for members of our congregations, and enable them to share the Good News.
(ii) plant new churches;
(iii) support catechists who look after the newly planted churches.
2. Many children in Tarime are growing up within families and communities that have no access to the love of God, do not have love for the neighbours – the neighbour being the person next door, members of a neighbouring clan or the person affiliated to a different political party.
(i) strengthen child ministry in each parish by increasing mid-week activities for children.
(ii) construct kindergarten/nursery classrooms in every village where there is a parish.
(iii) provide pre-school education with Christian values.
3. Young people in Church have the potential to become a bridge that connects the Church with many young unbelievers in the villages. It is essential to build the bridges.
(i) start regular youth events involving two or three parishes that form an ecclesiastical district (deanery).
(ii) strengthen youth choirs by helping them to acquire basic music instruments such as keyboard, amplifier, and loudspeakers.
(iii) provide soccer balls to each parish for soccer evangelism.
B. Strengthening the Ministry
1. Over half of the clergy have only acquired basic two-three week training for the catechists prior to ordination. Some catechists have not attended any Bible course.
(i) provide semi-residential and extension theological education for existing and new catechists.
(ii) offer refresher courses for the clergy through extension theological programs and short semi-residential programs.
(iii) provide residential theological education for some of the clergy who received Bible training for catechists prior to their ordination.
2. Many parishes are without permanent places of worship, and clergy houses (bungalows). A church building attracts attention and enhances the visibility of the Church in the village. It is a community centre for village meetings and gatherings. Rain water harvested through the roof is a source of clean drinking water for the surrounding communities.
(i) start diocese-parish partnership schemes.
(ii) encourage each parish to erect the wall for their church building and the pastor’s house.
(iii) raise money locally (within the Diocese and elsewhere in Tanzania) as well as overseas for the roofing material (corrugated iron sheets, timber, and nails).
C. Resource Mobilization
1. The Diocese has young Christians with very limited ability to fund mission in the diocese. Sunday collections in most of the parishes range between $2-5. Many clergy are without stipend, or get $3-4 a month. Resource mobilization is therefore one of the priorities in our work.
(i) encourage congregations to increase their regular giving, tithing, and improve harvest thanksgiving.
(ii) each parish church to have a small income generating project such as growing banana and vegetables.
(iii) start small and medium size investment projects to help the diocese become financially sustainable.
2. Being only a year or so old, the Diocese has no direct support staff for Bishop’s office. Also due to the lack of adequate resources the Diocese is yet to afford the cost of hiring full time staff for the diocesan development office to engage in rigorous community development programs at diocesan level. This may be the case until December 2011, or a little beyond.
(i) hire competent staff to support the Bishop’s office especially in the areas of administration and communication.
(ii) hire competent staff with relevant expertise in development work to design and run health, education and other community development programs.
C. Community Development
1. Tarime has gold. Indeed one of the largest gold mines in Tanzania, operated by the African Barrick Gold (ABG) is located in Tarime. ABG is a company created by Canadian Barrick Gold Corporation – the world’s largest gold producer – to manage the gold mines that it previously held in Africa. The world is in Tarime, but with huge challenges and negative consequences! The land has been taken away from the rural communities that are deeply unhappy with the compensation scheme used. There are frequent clashes between the security organs and many unemployed young people who live in the villages surrounding the mining area. The police often use live bullets to shoot and kill. Tanzanian and Canadian media often cover the dramatic stories from Tarime. In the recent past months, The Globe and Mail (a Canadian national newspaper) and the Toronto Star have reported the incidents at the gold mine. Occasionally the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) gives special reports on the operations of the Canadian mining companies overseas and how that affects Canada’s reputation abroad. Positive steps need to be taken quickly to avert further tragedies and damage to Barrick’s image.
(i) create alternative economic opportunities for young people.
(ii) diversify the local economic activities for the local people in the area. NB: The Diocese is currently implementing food security and income generating projects in the villages surrounding the gold mine. Over 2500 people benefit under the program.
(iii) provide vocational education where practical skills can be taught with a view to enabling the youth to find jobs or become self-employed as carpenters, automobile mechanics, hairdressers, tailors, electricians, etc.
(iv) engage in constructive relationship and responsibility programs.
2. The convergence of so many people in the villages and trade centres surrounding the mining area poses risks that are hard to ignore. The obvious one is spread of HIV infection and sexually transmitted diseases due to rape, commercial sex, alcohol abuse, and drug abuse, especially the use unsafe needles and syringes, among other causes.
(i) start HIV/Aids prevention education programs at community level.
(ii) start anti-stigma programs in the church and society.
(iii) establish and run HIV Voluntary Counseling and Testing Centres (VCTs).
(iv) start women empowerment programs through microfinance.
3. Tarime is one of the few places in Tanzania where large scale female genital mutilation occurs once every two years. For girls, finishing school at an early age and having nothing to do leads to early marriages. Women’s rights are abused.
(i) start health education and awareness program in elementary & secondary schools.
(ii) start sensitization and prevention programs focusing on the rights of young girls and women.
(iii) construct a boarding secondary/high school especially for girls so that they can spend more time at school and avoid early marriages that often follow soon after circumcision.
4. Tarime is one of the opposition strongholds. It has an acute and highly sensitized young electorate. There is often the tendency for the young people to be stereotyped as ‘unruly’ and be neglected after the general election.
(i) start regular civic education programs to reduce and eliminate tensions during and after general or civic elections.
(ii) start advocacy programs that will empower the voters to know their rights and hold the local politicians accountable.
5. Tarime experiences occasional land disputes and frequent cattle theft especially around the border areas, resulting in the loss of peace and lives.
(i) start peace-building programs in the schools.
(ii) start community peace-building programs and work with traditional leaders to seek long term solutions.
Address: PO Box 410 , Tarime , Tanzania
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Women's ordination: the illusion of equality
June 30, 2013 Chad Shakespeare
The proponents of women’s ordination (WO) often rely upon certain tactics of rhetoric and deflection, which preclude reasonable opposition. Terms of high emotive charge are used to piggy back unwarranted initiatives for premature change, the effects of which have not been judiciously, democratically, or biblically validated. This tactic serves to hold the church hostage over special-interest social issues by deferring to an over-simplified and inaccurate social justice paradigm where the church is cast as the “oppressor”, and certain special interest groups as being “victims” of alleged oppression. I call this paradigm subversive, because when using words like “oppression” and “discrimination” leftist proponents are borrowing on the interest from the conceptual capitol of another word. A word which evokes respect and nostalgia, and that has become all but pedestrian at the proverbial discussion tables of American political and social discourse – this word is “equality”.
Equality is in effect, the conceptual antidote to such unsavory social phenomena as oppression, repression, abuse, discrimination, victimization, etc. The ideal of equality is that ubiquitous ingredient which anyone who wishes to usher change, of policy or procedure, in our fractious society must harness. It stands to reason then, that the idea of equality is the underlying philosophical concept from which the agenda of WO derives its political clout and social momentum. Hence, to question WO is to question feminism, and to question feminism is to question equality. That is where the subversion comes in. These brazen changes to biblically validated church policy are paired with the idea of equality, and as such are jockeyed beyond the purview of reasonable debate.
Now, I am not writing this article to broadly criticize the idea of equality, as it seems to have done much good in our secular society. Some quintessential examples are the forcible rescinding of the Jim Crow laws, and the development of Woman’s Suffrage. Arguably both of these examples where motivated by social aspirations toward equality. But, is the noble notion of ideological equality helpful, or applicable in all situations? To answer this question we first need to address our understanding of equality, and derive an operational definition of it.
Definitions of equality
In my observation, most errors in the application of the term “equality” derive from the misunderstanding of the concept itself. Issues of equality can be boiled down to two types: issues of human value, and issues of sameness. Issues of human value refer to issues of the value of life, intrinsic worth, or fundamental acceptability of a person as being a member of the human race. All people being of the same life worth are deserving of the same basic treatments of love, respect, and ethical regard. As such I would term this kind of equality as substantive equality, since it relates to the substance of life value.
Issues of sameness, on the other hand, refer to similarity of aptitude, ability, advantage, or perspective. As diverse people in an imperfect world, we do not all have the same abilities, the same aptitudes, or the same advantages, and we cannot possess exactly the same perspectives. In light of these insights then, when examining the issue of WO, it seems to me that the concept of equality is misapplied at best, and at worst exploited by those who would erode the sound Biblical traditions of our church to coerce culturally popular change for the advancement of their own personal agendas or self-aggrandizement.
When trying to decide whether or not it is right to change the churches stance on WO, it is first necessary to determine whether we are dealing with an issue of substantive or functional equality. If it is a substantive issue, that is to say an issue of treating women as of the same value and respect as men, then steps should be taken to amend the discrepancies in policies and procedures that perpetuate that unfairness. However, if the issue is found to be one of functional equality, then what we need to do is assay whether those differences are expressed harmfully or helpfully in regards to the overall benefit of the church body.
Looking at relevant research can be invaluable in helping us perform these two tasks, and the question of role differentiation becomes one of evidence: Biblical, historical, and scientific. Our initial questions could be: Were the Biblical authors who advocated differentiation of leadership within the church just enslaved to errata of archaic cultural confusion? Are the roles of men and women, where important, interchangeable? If not, does the scientific evidence contradict the Biblical prescriptions of role differentiation set forth in God’s word and codified in official church policy?
Neurologic and Task Performance Differentiation
Men and women are equal in value, but they are not the same. There is myriad evidence to suggest specialization of certain kinds of functioning in brains of the respective sexes. For instance, men and women perform similarly well on broad based intelligence scores derived from standardized intelligence tests, but the methods by which their brains achieve these performances are different. One study by Haier, Jung, Yeo, Head, and Alkire 2005, found that when engaged in intelligence reasoning women used primarily white matter localized in the frontal lobes, whereas men used grey matter distributed throughout the entire brain. Incidently, Grey matter represents information processing centers in the brain, whereas white matter represents the connections between those centers, and the more of it the faster the communication between those centers. (Zaidi, 2010)
Other studies abound, but perhaps the most robust body of evidence concerning differential performances between the sexes is in the areas of spatial ability and language ability. Men have consistently shown an advantage in spatial abilities in tasks involving such skills as depth perception, trajectory estimation, stationary and mobile targeting, and rotation of objects in the mind’s eye. Women have consistently displayed advantages in language abilities, in for example, tasks involving such specific skills as verbal memory, verbal fluency, and speed of articulation. (Kimura, 1992)
The neural correlates of these specialized tasks show different patterns and regions involved for men and women. In one example, Clements, et al. (2006) found that when engaged in a phonological task male brains showed activation only on the left side of the brain, whereas female brains showed greater levels of activation in both hemispheres. This same study found the opposite pattern for visual-spatial tasks, with men showing greater levels of bilateral activation, and women showing activation only in the right hemisphere.
When one begins to look, there is a host of research which clearly demonstrates differences in structure and in the activity patterns of the brains of the respective sexes. Men tend to have thicker right hemispheres, and women tend to have thicker left hemispheres. (Sowel, et al., 2007) Also, women typically have ten times the amount of white matter in their brains that men do, and men typically have six and a half times as much gray matter in their brains as women do. (Haier, et al. 2005) These examples are of course just the tip of the proverbial iceberg, and for those interested, a much more complete list of the neurological and hormonal research concerning sex differences in the human brain can be reviewed in Zaidi (2010), as listed in the reference section of this article.
Moral-motivational Specialization
Perhaps some are inclined to ask, why all this chatter about spatial and language specialization in the two human brains? What does spatial ability and language ability have to do with WO? Well to put it simply, if we see marked differences in these areas of functioning, we can expect to see differences in other areas as well, areas that may be more pertinent to the role of an ordained church pastor. One such key area is the function of moral reasoning.
The disciplines of philosophy and ethics have long recognized that people rely upon four different primary modes of reasoning when faced with moral dilemmas and decisions. These modes of reasoning are termed: egoism, utilitarianism, deontology, and altruism. (Pojman, 2009) Egoism is perhaps the most elementary and obvious and can be characterized as the drive to increase one’s own welfare. Utilitarianism can be defined as motivation to maximize pleasure and minimize pain for the majority of parties involved, another term for this kind of moral thinking is “well-being”. Deontology means to place motivational emphasis on universal moral principles that transcend boarder and epoch; this kind of reasoning relies on concepts of justice and fairness, and is sometimes referred to as principlism. (Batson, pp. 206-208, 2006 ) Altruism, could also be termed “care ethics”, and describes motivation to increase the welfare of specific individuals or groups other than oneself; it is concerned with empathetic orientations to specific relationships. (Batson, p.197, 2006) Considering these definitions and the previously mentioned neural evidence of specialization we might expect to see differential preferences for unique schema of moral reasoning between the genders.
The famous Lawrence Kohlberg, while conducting the research upon which he based his theory of moral development found that men were more prone to use deontological reasoning to address moral dilemmas. (Gilligan, 1985) His research involved presenting subjects with morally sensitive vignettes with long series of follow up questions aimed at teasing out underlying more reasoning. (See Lawrence Kohlberg 1927-1987, n.d.)
From this he derived his model of stage based moral development. According to Kohlberg, the transition from mid-level to higher level stages of moral development can be characterized as a conceptual transition from reasoning based on personal needs and social convention to reasoning that emphasizes the principles of justice with universal application. That is to say, as one develops in moral complexity, the motivational foci of one’s moral reasoning shift from more immediate concern with interpersonal/relational consequences, to concern with overarching universal implications for society. (Gilligan, 1985)
Kohlberg’s model did not bode well for women, who tended to score in lower-mid level stages of moral development where conceptions of “good” are typified by what pleases or helps others and is approved of by them. (Gilligan, 1985). Carol Gilligan, was a colleague of Kohlberg, and rightly criticized his work for misjudging the female moral perspective. She remonstrated that women where inadequately assessed and unfairly classified in Kohlberg’s model. She set out to conduct her own research to exonerate women from their ignominious classification as morally undeveloped, and to demonstrate that they typically possess different moral schemas. (Jorgensen, 2006). She conducted her own research, using methods similar to Kohlberg’s but designed to pay attention to women’s priorities in moral motivation. She found that when faced with moral dilemmas women tend to view solutions in terms of relational factors: the wish not to hurt others, the hope that conflicts can be solved in ways that avoid hurting anyone, goodness is service and meeting one’s obligations and responsibilities to others, etc. (Gilligan, 1985)
In other words, women tended to reason morally from what can be termed, and ethic of care. It is clear from Gilligan’s writings that she was wanted to demonstrate that women were not inferior in their moral reasoning, but rather that they had different inclinations and priorities when applying their moral reasoning to solve problems. I believe she succeeded.
Extrapolating these findings to our own present issue of WO, might we consider that these manifest differences in preference in moral reasoning follow from a design that was intended to allow men and women to help each other in complimentary ways? Might it be that men and women have specific functional aptitudes and perspectives on morality? May we conclude these are not functionally the same, but that they interact to produce a more morally complete outcome? Those of us who believe that God endowed men and women with different and interdependent strengths from the beginning, have no qualms answering, “of course”. But let us take a quick look at what the discipline of ethics has to say about the respective types of moral reasoning in question.
Justice Ethics and Care Ethics: Strengths and Weaknesses
In the discipline of ethics, it is well recognized that both justice based and care based moral reasoning are accompanied by different sets of advantages and problems. (Pojman, p. 97, pp. 131-134, 2009 ) Altruism’s reliance upon specific contact relations is both a strength and a weakness. It has the advantages that it is a very powerful moral motivator, and it is very specific. The perfect example of this kind of moral motivation is that care a mother feels toward her children. She cares about them very powerfully because of her unique relational responsibility as their mother, and she cares about them very specifically because they are her children. They are an exclusive group. Consequently it becomes clear then, that the drawback of care ethics is that the scope of the empathy felt by the moral actor decreases as one moves outward from them in sphere of relativity. (Batson, pp. 203-204, 2009) That is to say that Altruism is contact based, and as such can only apply to those entities and persons whom the moral actor has had contact with, or can imagine having contact with. One cannot truly feel care or empathy for someone they have had not ever encountered or imagined, and as such altruism is consequently vulnerable to bias.
Deontology, on the other hand carries a risk of being too abstract and vulnerable to rationalization. (Batson, p. 208, 2009) The weakness in using this kind of moral motivation is that in its abstractness the rule can be misconstrued by the moral actor either in confusion or deception. When this happens the rule can become so removed from reality that it loses the human element and ceases to be of practical use to the group. The rabbinical legalism during the time of Christ, regarding Sabbath keeping, comes to mind as an example. Even in our own legal justice system we struggle with the abstractness of moral imperatives. Take for instance, the many nuances of homicide we have adopted into the ledgers of our legal codex: premeditated murder, intentional manslaughter, negligent manslaughter, justifiable homicide in defense of a victim, to name a few. (See The Law Offices of Daniel Jensen, n.d.) Of coarse each of these comes with their own specific penal ramifications. More positively though, deontology (principlism) has the distinct advantage of defining moral motivation that most thoroughly transcends reliance on self-interest or on vested interest in specific others and groups. (Batson, p. 209, 2009) In this regard it is the most resistant to bias of all the forms of moral motivation.
Moral Structure in the Church
Morality matters. The church is a moral organization. The dual considerations of the church seem to be human relationships with God and human relationships with other humans. Humans have damaged those relationships by their involvement with a fallen cause on a fallen planet. Subsequently the church is then primarily concerned with how to fix the divine relationship so both God and his creations can once again coexist in harmony and peace; this is to say that the church’s paramount concern is to address sin. The Bible clearly defines sin in the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20), also as transgression of the law (1 John 3:4), and as unrighteousness (1 John 5:17). It is adherence to the law and avoidance of sin that define how we show love to God (Deut. 5:16) and to other people (1 John 5:1-3). Clearly than, sin is just another word for immorality. The Ten Commandments are examples of biblical moral imperatives, and accordingly match all the characteristics of objective moral imperatives as described in secular ethical literature. (Pojman, p. 7, 2009)
When it comes to top tier decision making we need people who demonstrate as much an absence of bias as possible, and the aptitudes of men are catered to these positions. They excel at applying the integral logic of fairness and justice above all else. At the same time, and in equal measure, we want to avoid a system of cold rule-following, that disregards the importance of people, their feelings, and their unique needs. After all, how could we truly extract principles form their bearing on the real people whom they were designed to apply to? This is where the aptitudes of women will prevail. Their penchant for empathetic understanding renders their direct involvement in the ministry indispensible. By promoting care, and exhorting toward compassion, they add clarity to the idea of love, which must be central to our goals.
The leaders of our churches must be the kinds of men and women we find most adept at the types of moral reasoning and motivation that will best represent the churches moral goals. The Bible gives us the optimal gender prescriptions, and that should be enough, but besides this the research evidence gives us auxiliary support for this arrangement. To this extent men and women are not functionally equal, and their roles are not interchangeable. To swap the roles designated to the genders in the church is to disrupt the balance of specialization and interdependence gifted to them, and designed to maximize their mutual moral benefit. One role is not superior to the other, but they are not interchangeable.
Some argue that a discrepancy in monetary remuneration is the problematic factor which necessitates reform and signifies an issue of substantive inequality between the genders. If this is the case then we can review the situation and possibly create a specific female position in the churches of comparable pay to that of the ordained pastor. I for one would be in favor of such action. Nevertheless, we should not disregard the inhering authority of the GC. We should be patient and wait for the GC to determine the best ways of interpreting the biblical prescriptions for gender roles in our church.
An intrinsic level of authority and unique servitude rest in the role of the ordained pastor; he is in a unique position to act as the face and mouth piece of the church. He speaks on moral issues, and can mediate disputes with moral implications within the church. He also acts as the symbol of Christ, being the head of the earthly church. His authority is important, and is tied to his moral reasoning. It is folly to presume that the role of the ordained pastor is a token position open to all willing comers. Paul made it clear that it was a special position designated to a unique kind of person. (1 Timothy 3:1-7)
Friends, I have endeavored to present a body of neurological evidence that men and women utilize the brain in different ways. After this we examined a body of descriptive social evidence to suggest that men and women reason differently using different schema of moral decision making. Subsequently we reviewed a philosophical body of evidence regarding the advantages and disadvantages of the different kinds of moral reasoning each gender tends to use.
Of course, none of this serves to diminish the sound bedrock of biblical evidence that is well established in support of gender roles in the home and the church. Furthermore, it seems clear to me that the confluence of evidence justifies a common sense system that harnesses specific gender advantages in the form of complimentary roles. Having males in top tier pastoral leadership is neither oppressive nor antiquated, but rather such policy is morally beneficial to all and symbolically appropriate of God’s intended order.
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All The She Can See - Carrie Hope Fletcher || Review
Feelings are part of life - feelings are life. If you take away what people feel, you take away anything meaningful. Wanting to diminish the evil in this world is a good cause, one I have fought for the majority of my life, but not like this . . .
Cherry has a hidden talent. She can see things other people can't and she decided a long time ago to use this skill to help others. As far as the rest of the town is concerned she's simply the kind-hearted young woman who runs the local bakery, but in private she uses her gift to add something special to her cakes so that after just one mouthful the townspeople start to feel better about their lives. They don't know why they're drawn to Cherry's bakery - they just know that they're safe there and that's how Cherry likes it. She can help them in secret and no one will ever need to know the truth behind her gift.
And then Chase arrives in town and threatens to undo all the good Cherry has done. Because it turns out she's not the only one who can see what she sees . . .
A story of love, food and a little bit of magic, All That She Can See is an enchanting and beautiful novel that's guaranteed to be the most magical story you'll read all year
I have been a Carrie Fletcher fan for quite some time now and I couldn't believe I hadn't read any of her books. I own All I Know Now and have glanced through it, but when she announced her newest read (When The Curtain Falls) I decided I needed to up my game and read the others before it was released.
This was a deliciously sweet magical read that really surprised me. I don't always like books with a hint of magic in them, as it's not my type but this one just worked. Cherry has a talent, a talent others don't know she has, the ability to see others feelings. Blessed with a skill of being able to bake (inherited from her father) she uses this to help others without them ever knowing it is what the needed.
When she moves to her newest venture and meets someone else, someone slightly similar to her - chaos is caused - and then she learns there is more to her skill than she ever knew. All That She Can See was a lovely Disney esque read with a quirky take on feelings.
Cherry was a warm wonderful character that I instantly took too, I felt all her emotions and that for is what made it so easy to read - I felt for her, in more ways than one. Chase had my back up straight away (a bit like how Cherry felt) but I think that's why the pair worked well together, opposites attract and all that. The cast of supporting characters was a mixed bunch, and all written differently to support and contrast each other.
This read overall surprised me. I knew I would enjoyi it as I really enjoy Carrie - her storytelling in real life so to have it written down and her own ideas on to paper, like I mention magical elements don't always work for me (despite being the biggest HP fan) I just tend to steer clear but I would read this over and over again.
Carrie Hope Fletcher is an actress, a singer-songwriter and an author. She also plays the ukulele, guitar and saxophone.
Carrie is well known on YouTube for her channel 'ItsWayPastMyBedtime' where she has over 600,000 subscribers. Most of her videos consist of giving advice to her younger audience, talking about Disney and covering her favourite songs.
She played Eponine in the West End production of Les Miserables at the Queen's Theatre until February 13th 2016. She is the first actress to have played both young Eponine and older Eponine.
She went on to play Truly Scrumptious in the UK touring production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and Wednesday Addams in the UK touring production of The Addams Family.
Her debut book, 'All I Know Now: Wonderings and Reflections on Growing Up Gracefully' was published in May 2015. The book is based on what she writes on her blog.
Her first fiction novel, 'On the Other Side' was published in July 2016
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Lisa Blach Weil
Mrs. Weil was previously appointed to the Council and served from 2009-2013. During this time she served on Council's Grants Review Committee. Ms. Weil served as Secretary of the Council 2012-2013. On September 22, 2017, Mrs. Weil was reappointed by Governor Kay Ivey to fill the remaining term of Will Sellers who was appointed to the Alabama Supreme Court. She is currently Chair of the Council's Long Range Planning Committee helping to create new long-range goals for the next 10-year cycle.
Mrs. Weil is active in various charitable and community activities. She has served on the Red Cross board since 1982 and has held virtually every position including tri-chair of the capital campaign and was named its first female board chair. She received the Red Cross Volunteer of the Year Award and twice received its Distinguished Service Award.
Currently Mrs. Weil is on the board of the Montgomery Zoo where she started Ballet and the Beasts and helped found the new children’s zoo through the Junior League. She currently serves on the board for the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. In addition, she is on the University of Alabama’s Board of Visitors of the School of Communications and Information Sciences, from which she had graduated with a degree in public relations and a minor in speech communications. Mrs. Weil is an annual tri-chair of the Family Sunshine Center’s charity event, Bridging the Gap for Hope and Healing and continues to serve other charitable and community organizations. She and her husband Andy are co-chairs of the Alexis de Toqueville Society of the United Way. She remains active in the Temple Beth Or Sisterhood and has previously served as its president and has chaired or co-chaired many of its committees.
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About AWaH
The Art With a Heart vision is that all children, regardless of background, have the opportunity to improve their quality of life through artistic expression.
The mission of Art With a Heart is to provide equitable opportunities for high quality visual arts education to Indianapolis children and youth.
Art With a Heart’s mission is to provide hands-on visual arts experiences that educate and inspire children in Indianapolis. Our programs uniquely reinforce academics within the artistic experience and strive to instill confidence in our kids, benefiting them in both school and life.
Our Method:
Art With a Heart positively impacts the lives of thousands of children, and thereby builds better communities through art, education and love.
Using standards-driven fine art curriculum, Art With a Heart offers programming for children both in school and out of school. We strive to teach skills that benefit children in both school and life. Lesson plans are designed to encourage critical thinking and build problem-solving skills. Curricula include state-mandated educational standards. Low student:teacher ratios (15:1) combined with numerous volunteers help us provide the attention our students need. We teach on-site at various locations from IPS classrooms to neighborhood centers to our own studio at 37 Place.
See our Programs for more information on where we serve.
Our Students:
Over 3,500 students served annually
Ages range from Pre-K through 12th Grade
70% of Art With a Heart students come from families who identify as at or below the federal poverty line
60% Black, 20% Latino, 20% Caucasian
The Art With A Heart Story
2002: Founder and art teacher Carol Conrad created Art With a Heart to provide hands-on visual art experiences that educate, inspire, and give hope to children.
2005: Art With a Heart started with two summer camps and quickly grew. Within 3 years, AWaH was running programming year-round and adding after school programs during the school year. Around the same time, AWaH opened its first studio and began offering Saturday classes which grew into the Honors programs that serves the most artistically interested students.
2007: AWaH launched a kindergarten program in response to the state’s decision to fund all-day kindergarten.
2009: Carol Conrad retired, placing the organization in the hands of the Board of Trustees and a new Executive Director.
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Allamakee History
The Heart of the Driftless Area
Dorchester, Part One
This article by Br. Leo Ryan, CSV, was published in Bulletin No. 238 of the Iowa Postal History Association in the third quarter of 2006.
Dorchester, Iowa is located in Section 14 of Waterloo Township, the northwestern most township in Allamakee County. Waterloo Township contains an area smaller than any other Allamakee County township, except Fairfield on the Mississippi. Waterloo Township consists of30 full sections and a narrow strip to the north of only six sections south of the Minnesota state line. Waterloo Township was organized from Union City by an order of the Allamakee County Court, March 3, 1856.
Ellery M. Hancock in his history of Allamakee County notes that “The earliest settlement seems to have been made in the Northeast corner, in 1851, by Mrs. Jas. Robinson and her sons, on Portland Prairie.”(1) Hancock also wrote that “In the northern part of the (Union City) Township, G.W. Carver was among the earliest arrivals, moving on what is called Portland Prairie in May 1852, and securing a large claim.(2)
In 1852 the township population was 157 persons. In 1882 the population of Dorchester was 101. Dorchester has remained unincorporated all these years. The National Census does not record the population of unincorporated communities. The 2000 census records the Waterloo Township population at 322. The zip code for Dorchester is 52140. In 2006 that zip code served 594 persons. Diane Johnson, the present Dorchester Clerk-in-Charge, estimates the 2006 town population at 30 residents.
Dale Ahern writing in The Cedar Rapids Gazette rhapsodizes as following over Dorchester:
As northeast Iowa’s dramatic color pageant kindles bonfires of red and orange among the maple-clad hills here, venturesome
tourists leave the beaten path to seek out more secluded displays.
Here in “Peaceful Valley” -a narrow cut in the steep bluffs along the meandering course of Waterloo Creek -nestles the picturesque old village of Dorchester.3
Two Ohio natives from Mercer County, Ohio, Edmund and Harvey Bell homesteaded government land in the area of the present town of Dorchester in June 1853. They erected a gristmill, a store, a blacksmith shop, wagon shop and sawmill over time. However, Dorchester was not platted until November 27, 1873. Originally the present Dorchester was the site of Haines’ Mill, owned by S.H. and Elise T. Haines, and was simply identified as Haines’ Mill. This mill was important to the growth of the village since settlers in the Portland Prairie area could come here rather than go to Lansing or Bellow’s Mill at French Creek.
As the village grew it was called Waterloo because of nearby Waterloo Creek. Even today Waterloo Creek is one of the best trout streams in Iowa. When the post office was established in 1857 there was already a Waterloo post office in Black Hawk County, so it was necessary to agree on another name for this developing community.
A number of early settlers including the Haines family came from Dorchester, Massachusetts, so the town and post office became Dorchester. The post office was established and Thomas C. Smith was appointed the first postmaster May 21, 1857. There was a mail route from Brownsville, Minnesota to Dorchester, Iowa. Among early families in addition to the Smiths and Haines were Charles Lanenback, William Schwartz, August Schultz and William Rechold. Other early families were Robinson, Kemble, Roof, Peeper, Hartley, Cavanaugh and Matt Kelly.
Dr. Thomas C. Smith came to Dorchester from Buena Vista, Iowa in 1856. He was born in Center County, Pennsylvania, April 1, 1827. He moved west to Illinois to Stephenson Co. (1848) and to Jo Daviess Co. (1850). At Elizabeth, Illinois he clerked in a general store. October 22, 1852 he married Martha J. Tart of Missouri. In 1854 he moved to Buena Vista where he also clerked in a general store. In 1856 he came to Dorchester and was employed as a clerk by G. W. Hayes who operated the Dorchester General Store. In May 1857, T.C. Smith became the postmaster. In Fall 1857 he fonned a partnership with J.M. Tart, brother of his wife Martha. Together they acquired the Hayes General Store which they then operated as Smith and Tart. They were said in 1882 to have carried a stock of three to four thousand dollars. They remained partners until 1872, when Dr. T. C. Smith became the sole proprietor.
There is no record of where Thomas C. Smith acquired the title “Dr”. However, in the section of Allamakee County Biographies under Dorchester in W.E. Alexander’s History of Winneshiek and Allamakee Counties Iowa he is listed as “Dr. T. C. Smith, postmaster and dealer in general merchandise and drugs.” (4) A “dealer in drugs” being in 1856 the description closest to a present day pharmacist, it would be easy to conjecture that the “Dr.” title was a courtesy or compliment conferred by the community because of his knowledge of medicine. The first post office was located in the Smith and Tart General Store. The store remained until 1965. At present the building is home of the Dorchester Supper Club.
Dr. T. C. Smith was appointed postmaster by President Franklin Pierce. He served as Dorchester postmaster for 26 years. (May 21, 1857 – May 27, 1883). The following chart indicates his compensation as Postmaster.
Year Postmaster Compensation Net to Govt
1859 T.C. Smith 23.57 17.83
1865 T.C. Smith 79.46 121.41
1869 T.C. Smith 120.00 84.34
1871 T.C. Smith 100.00
1873 T.C. Smith 73.00
He also served as County Supervisor and various Waterloo Township offices. Dr. Smith retired to Villard, Minnesota where he died December 30, 1905 at age 78.
Lewis Coppersmith, son-in-law of Dr. Smith, became the second postmaster May 28, 1883. He was appointed by President Chester A. Arthur and served eleven years until January 1, 1894. The Coppersmith family operated the Coppersmith General Store until 1945, when Leroy Coppersmith, grandson of the founder and first postmaster, sold the store to Ray Schwartzhoff.
Postmaster Compensation, Dorchester, Iowa
Lewis Coppersmith
First Appointment 1883-1894
(As listed in the biennial Official Register of the United States for the years indicated.)
Year Compensation
A legend developed around the Coppersmith store. Lewis Coppersmith built a two-story native limestone building as his store. From the time the store was built circa 1884 until it was sold in 1945 the family never changed the appearance ofthe building either inside or out. This merchandising philosophy deserves mention.
Burr F. Griswold, writing in the LaCrosse Tribune described the Coppersmith approach as follows:
Dorchester is about 10 miles from its nearest railroad at Spring Grove. This isolation Coppersmith believed to be in his favor. He carried a complete line of groceries, equal to that of many surrounding towns. Patent medicines, small hardware items, notions and dry goods were still to be found in the store in the early 1940’s.
Coppersmith opened his place of business at 6:30 a.m. and kept it opened until 9 p.m. or later every day ofthe week. Hours were shorter on Sunday, but it was the busiest day ofthe week. Farmers would go to church and afterward stop at the store to stock up for the week.(5)
Another local historian, Mrs. Irene (Nathan) Kumpf, whom you’ll meet later as Dorchester postmaster (October 30, 1951-October 5, 1977), told Dale Ahern this story:
From the time the store was built until it was sold in 1945 by the last Coppersmith to run it, the Coppersmiths did not alter the interior or exterior in any way. They had firm convictions about that.
It was their theory they wouldn’t do any more business in a new building with new equipment. Further, they reasoned, ifthey spent money for improvements, part ofthe cost would have to be passed on to the customers in higher prices.
“Give the customer what he wants at the lowest possible price,” the Coppersmiths believed, “and the country store will maintain its place in the economy ofthe community.”(6)
Roy Coppersmith was the last Coppersmith to own and operate the general store. Mrs. Kumpf in her unpublished notes on Dorchester wrote that “Roy Coppersmith who helped many folks in the area with credit and other services. He went to California to retire and said he had many thousands of dollars on the books when he left and (which) he never collected.”(7)
The Coppersmith General Store served as the local post office for three postmasters from 1883 until 1914. Lewis Coopersmith himself served as postmaster (1883-1894) and then his wife, Nora Coopersmith, succeeded him as postmaster (January 20, 1898 -July 04, 1906). Mrs. Coppersmith was appointed by President William McKinley. Lewis Coopersmith resumed the position as postmaster from his wife and served a second term (July 5, 1906 -September 9, 1914). The second Lewis Coppersmith appointment came in the administration of President Theodore Roosevelt.
Second Appointment 1906-1914
After 1911, the biennial listing in The Official Register of the United States no longer listed postmaster compensation.
Little is recorded about Nora Coppersmith except that she succeeded her husband as the fifth postmaster in January 20, 1898. The Official Register ofthe United States of the years indicated shows her compensation as follows:
Nora Coppersmith, 1898-1906
Between her husband, Lewis, first years as postmaster (1883-1894) and his second appointment July 5, 1906 until September 8, 1914, the United States Postal Service Archives list two intervening postmasters. The third postmaster to follow Dr. T. C. Smith and his son-in-law, Lewis Coppersmith was Eugene Burns. Bums served as postmaster for 2 months and 5 days from January 16, 1894 until March 21, 1894. This appointment would have been in the Presidency of Grover Cleveland. This brief tenure apparently involved no postmaster compensation. Nothing has been located to further identify Postmaster Burns. The Burns family was not among the pioneer family names in the Dorchester area, nor is Eugene Burns among the historical biographies in the Alexander County History (1882), nor the Hancock County History (1913).
1) Ellery M. Hancock, Past and Present Allamakee County, Iowa, Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1913, Vol. I, p. 307.
2) Ibid., p. 304.
3) Dale Ahem “Dorchester -Peaceful Valley Off Beaten Path”, The Cedar Rapids Gazette, October 17, 1975, Sec. B, p.l; 20B.
4) W. E. Alexander, History of Winneshiek and Allamakee Counties Iowa, Sioux City, Iowa: Western Publishing Company, 1882, p. 539.
5) Burr F. Griswold, “Dorchester, Iowa, Homestead by Brothers From Ohio In 1853”, LaCrosse Tribune, October (N.d.) 1969, p. 11.
6) Dale Ahern, op cit., p. 20.
7) Mrs. Irene P. Kumpf, “History of Dorchester” An undated one page memoir provided the author by her daughter, Jeanette Danaher. As will be noted later, Mrs. Irene P. Kumph (nee Danaher) was the Dorchester Postmaster 1951-1977. Jeanette Danaher was Officer-in-Charge 1978-1979 and Postmaster 1979-2003.
Author: Br. Leo V. Ryan, CSV
The webmaster had met Br. Ryan several times in the two decades prior to his death. During most of that time, he was retired and indulging a passion for documenting the early history of the Driftless Area corner of Iowa, where as a boy he had been something of an older-brother figure to his boss's son. That son grew into my father-in-law. He and his wife were the first in three generations to have their children outside Iowa, but it held a fond spot, next to home, in them and their fellow siblings. I found the history as interesting as Br. Leo V. Ryan, CSV. Read about Brother Ryan here and here . View all posts by Br. Leo V. Ryan, CSV
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Internet option helps students; High School Online Courses – Sedona, Arizona
Posted October 7th, 2009
Arizona - Sedona Red Rock High School
SEDONA RED ROCK High School educators and administrators, from left, Darrin Karuzas, Todd Gilmore, David Lykins and John Parks learn about new alternative high school software from Backbone Communications educational consultant Tom Stultz on Tuesday, July 28. Principal Lykins has revamped the existing Juniper Canyon alternative high school program into a more comprehensive program called Red Rock Academy.
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Internet option helps students
By Alison Ecklund
Larson Newspapers
Students who need a little extra help, need to work during school hours to support their families or just need more time will still be able to graduate from Sedona Red Rock High School with an alternative diploma thanks to online courses coming this year.
SRRHS Principal Dave Lykins is changing the name of the school’s alternative diploma program, Juniper Canyon, to Red Rock Academy, but the name won’t be the only change.
Red Rock Academy will offer online classes for students to make up credits or graduate with an alternative diploma on a more flexible schedule.
In order to receive a SRRHS diploma, students must earn 30.5 credits, Lykins explained, one of the highest requirements in the state. The state minimum for a high school diploma is 20 credits, but in 2010, it’ll be bumped to 22 credits, so Red Rock Academy will offer an alternative diploma for 22 credits.
“This is for kids who can’t make the 30.5 credits,” he said. “A lot of time they’re prone to drop out. It’s a safety net to hold underneath them to catch those kids.”
Students earning the alternative diploma at Red Rock Academy take the same number of classes as SRRHS students, without any electives. Last year, 23 students graduated from Juniper Canyon with an alternative diploma and just over 90 with SRRHS diplomas.
The school has purchased 20 seat licenses, which means 20 students may be using the software at one time. From 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., the Red Rock Academy will consist of four blocks with one instructor.
The new software, provided by Backbone Communications, will also be available to students to make up credits after school from 3 to 4:30 p.m., and on 16 Saturdays throughout the year. With Lykins’ approval, some students will earn permission to take the online classes from home at anytime.
The catch, Lykins explained, is that the student must take a review test and final exam in the presence of a certified instructor, so it won’t help the students to have someone else doing their work from home.
Students graduating with the 30.5 credit diploma can take advantage of the program by taking a course offered online that the school doesn’t offer such as anthropology, personal finance or psychology.
Lykins is also hoping to offer adult education to community members who want to earn a GED or learn English as a second language.
“Sedona Red Rock High School is a big part of this community but I think it can be a bigger part and play a bigger role by participating in adult education,” he said. “Now we have the technology to teach them English at a small fee.”
Lykins is also working with state legislators in order for the high school to be one of the first in the state to try virtual education. Through the same software, Lykins is hoping to someday serve students statewide by attending Red Rock Academy online.
Although the requirements to apply to the Arizona Department of Education’s virtual education program aren’t set yet, Lykins is preparing Red Rock Academy to make that switch as soon as he gets the go-ahead.
“Ten to 20 years from now, schools aren’t going to look like they do now. This is my way of meeting the needs of students across the state,” he said of students turning to online programs. “I’m going to spend a lot of energy to find means to meet students’ needs, reach into the community and increase attendance, and that’s the three goals of this.”
Alison Ecklund can be reached at
928-282-7795, ext. 125, or e-mail
aecklund@larsonnewspapers.com
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Fan Who Told Dolan to Sell Knicks Gets Lifetime Ban
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New York Knicks owner James Dolan has permanently banned a fan from Madison Square Garden. This is the same fan who heckled him to “sell the team” after a loss to the Sacramento Kings on March 9th.
Dolan publicly addressed the incident he had with a fan for the first time Tuesday on ESPN Radio’s “The Michael Kay Show,” saying the fan had “prepared” for that moment.
“I do understand, for the fans it’s about winning and losing,” Dolan said. “We haven’t been doing much winning. There’s a real big frustration level there. I don’t like losing either.”
Dolan was at the center of a controversy on Saturday when TMZ published a video that showed him threatening to ban a fan who yelled “Sell the team!.” After the fan yelled, he walked over to the railing to address him. The incident was caught on tape.
Knicks owner James Dolan threatens to ban a fan that tells him to sell the Team pic.twitter.com/e5KVhu70UW
— 2Cool2Blog (@2Cool2Blogggg) March 9, 2019
Dolan said that the Garden has video of the fan moving from one side of the arena to another to prepare for the “ambush.”
“Until we found out about the whole setup, what I was thinking is that we’d invite him back to the next game, take him back and have him meet the team and see what was going on,” said Dolan, according to the YES Network. “Give him a sense of, you know, ‘Hey, look, you know what? We’re doing very well. You’re reading too much of the Daily News.’ That was what we were thinking of doing.
“But, now that it’s clear that this whole thing was planned, I can’t see letting him back in.”
“They were stalking me.”
Dolan vehemently quashed the idea that he should sell the team, who haven’t qualified for the playoffs since 2013.
“What it’s really saying is quit. It’s not saying sell the team, it’s saying quit,” Dolan added. “It’s not just me, I mean, it’s the entire organization. We’ve been working on this team for a long time in this particular iteration. Steve (Mills) and Scott (Perry) and the rest of the coaches and managers and players, we’re putting in 100 percent effort on this team. It’s year round. We haven’t been as successful as we want to be. We think we’re going to be successful. We think we have a pretty good plan. It’s very discouraging to hear somebody say quit.
“First off, I’m not a quitter. I don’t do that. Just for the record, I am not selling the team, and I am not quitting, and neither is Steve and neither is Scott and neither are any of the players. We’re going to keep coming there, we’re going to keep playing, we’re going to keep developing and working and doing what we think.”
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Astromythology
Astromythology (Astrotheology) is the study of the astronomical origins of religion; how gods, goddesses, and devils are personifications of astronomical phenomena such as lunar eclipses, cometary appearances and planetary alignments, Christianity(c), Islam(d), Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Mithraism, and the ancient Egyptian(b) faith systems are examples of religions that have been influenced by astronomical observations. A series of videos on the subject is available on YouTube(a).
In Greek mythology, works such as Hesiod’s Theogony has been identified, by commentators including Immanuel Velikovsky, as a description of spectacular clashes between planetary bodies.
Claude Gétaz, a Swiss researcher, has gone further and claimed that the Atlantis story is an interpretation of celestial events. Alan E. Alford[009] similarly suggests that Plato’s Atlantis story is a recounting of a very ancient and dramatic astronomical event, namely the explosion of a planetary body, witnessed by humans.
Graham Phillips, in The End of Eden[036], proposes a close encounter with a large comet as the stimulant for the introduction a range of monotheistic religions.
(a1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lsOJMyM6ZI
(a2) http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL11035B5DCBC56CC2
(b) http://www.africaspeaks.com/reasoning/index.php?topic=908.0;wap2
(c) http://infinite712.hubpages.com/hub/Astromythology-in-the-Bible (offline)
*(d) https://web.archive.org/web/20190401113238/http://answering-islam.org/authors/shamoun/preislamic_allah1.html*
Tagged Alan Alford, astromthology, Claude Gétaz, Graham Philips, Hesiod, Immanuel Velikovsky, Theogony
Etymology of ‘Atlantis’
The Etymology of Atlantis is frequently given in many modern books and websites(b)(c) to means ”daughter of Atlas” while some writers have opted for ”island of Atlas”. Thorwald C. Franke has pointed out that the more correct meaning is “of Atlas” or “Atlas’ …….” with the context determining the precise interpretation.
J. Warren Wells[783.13] has pointed out that the word Atlantis was used by Hesiod in line 938 of his Theogony, centuries before both Plato and Solon, while Hellanicus of Lesbos certainly used the term before Plato.
A collection of pre-Platonic references to Atlantis which do not directly use its name has been compiled by R.Cedric Leonard(a).
(a) http://www.atlantisquest.com/Writings.html (offline March 2018) See: Archive 2055
*(b) http://www.atlantia.de/atlantis_english/myth/myth/atlantis_atlantioi_hesperides.htm (Link broken May 2018)
(c) http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/atlantis
Tagged Hellanicus, Hesiod, J. Warren Wells, R. Cedric Leonard, Solon, Theogony, Thorwald C. Franke
Classical Writers Supporting the Existence of Atlantis
Although many of the early writers are quoted as referring to Plato’s Atlantis or at least alluding to places or events that could be related to his story there is no writer who can be identified as providing unambiguous independent evidence for Atlantis’ existence. One explanation could be that Atlantis may have been known by different names to different peoples in different ages, just as the Roman city of Aquisgranum was later known as Aachen to the Germans and concurrently as Aix-la-Chapelle to the French. However, it would have been quite different if the majority of post-Platonic writers had completely ignored or hotly disputed the veracity of Plato’s tale.
Alan Cameron, a devout Atlantis sceptic, is adamant that ”it is only in modern times that people have taken the Atlantis story seriously, no one did so in antiquity.” Both statements are clearly wrong, as can be seen from the list below and my Chronology of Atlantis Theories and even more comprehensively by Thorwald C. Franke’s Kritische Geschichte der Meinungen und Hypothesen zu Platons Atlantis (Critical history of the hypotheses on Plato’s Atlantis)[1255].
H.S. Bellamy mentions that about 100 Atlantis references are to be found in post-Platonic classical literature. He also argues that if Plato “had put forward a merely invented story in the Timaeus and Critias Dialogues the reaction of his contemporaries and immediate followers would have been rather more critical.” Thorwald C. Franke echoes this in his Aristotle and Atlantis[880.46]. Bellamy also notes that Sais, where the story originated, was in some ways a Greek city having regular contacts with Athens and should thertefore have generated some denial from the priests if the Atlantis tale had been untrue.
Homer(c.8thcent. BC)wrote in his famous Odyssey of a Phoenician island called Scheriathat many writers have controversially identified as Atlantis. It could be argued that this is another example of different names being applied to the same location.
Hesiod (c.700 BC) wrote in his Theogonyof the Hesperides located in the west. Some researchers have identified the Hesperides as Atlantis.
Herodotus (c.484-420 BC)regarded by some as the greatest historian of the ancients, wrote about the mysterious island civilization in the Atlantic.
Hellanicus of Lesbos (5th cent. BC) refers to ‘Atlantias’. Timothy Ganz highlights[0376] one line in the few fragments we have from Hellanicus as being particularly noteworthy, “Poseidon mated with Celaeno, and their son Lycus was settled by his father in the Isles of the Blest and made immortal.”
Thucydides (c.460-400 BC)refers to the dominance of the Minoan empire in the Aegean.
Syrianus (died c.437 BC) the neoplatonist and one-time head of Plato’s Academy in Athens, considered Atlantis to be an historical fact. He wrote a commentary on Timaeus, now lost, but his views are recorded by Proclus.
Eumelos of Cyrene (c.400 BC) was a historian and contemporary of Plato’s who placed Atlantis in the Central Mediterranean between Libya and Sicily.
Aristotle (384-322 BC) Plato’s pupil is constantly quoted in connection with his alleged criticism of Plato’s story. This claim was not made until 1819, when Delambre misinterpreted a commentary on Strabo by Isaac Casaubon. This error has been totally refuted by Thorwald C. Franke[880]. Furthermore it was Aristotle who stated that the Phoenicians knew of a large island in the Atlantic known as ’Antilia’. Crantor (4th-3rdcent. BC) was Plato’s first editor, who reported visiting Egypt where he claimed to have seen a marble column carved with hieroglyphics about Atlantis. However, Jason Colavito has pointed out that according to Proclus, Crantor was only told by the Egyptian priests that the carved pillars were still in existence.
*Crantor (4th-3rd cent. BC) was Plato’s first editor, who reported visited Egypt where he claimed to have seen a marble column carved with hieroglyphics about Atlantis. However, Jason Colavito has pointed out(a) that according to Proclus, Crantor was only told by the Egyptian priests that the carved pillars were still in existence.*
Theophrastus of Lesbos (370-287 BC) refers to colonies of Atlantis in the sea.
Theopompos of Chios (born c.380 BC), a Greek historian – wrote of the huge size of Atlantis and its cities of Machimum and Eusebius and a golden age free from disease and manual labour. Zhirov states[458.38/9] that Theopompos was considered a fabulist.
Apollodorus of Athens (fl. 140 BC) who was a pupil of Aristarchus of Samothrace (217-145 BC) wrote “Poseidon was very wrathful, and flooded the Thraisian plain, and submerged Attica under sea-water.” Bibliotheca, (III, 14, 1.)
Poseidonius (135-51 BC.) was Cicero’s teacher and wrote, “There were legends that beyond the Hercules Stones there was a huge area which was called “Poseidonis” or “Atlanta”
Diodorus Siculus (1stcent. BC), the Sicilian writer who has made a number of references to Atlantis.
Marcellus (c.100 BC) in his Ethiopic History quoted by Proclus [Zhirov p.40] refers to Atlantis consisting of seven large and three smaller islands.
Statius Sebosus (c. 50 BC), the Roman geographer, tells us that it was forty days’ sail from the Gorgades (the Cape Verdes) and the Hesperides (the Islands of the Ladies of the West, unquestionably the Caribbean – see Gateway to Atlantis).
Timagenus (c.55 BC), a Greek historian wrote of the war between Atlantis and Europe and noted that some of the ancient tribes in France claimed it as their original home. There is some dispute about the French druids’ claim.
Philo of Alexandria (b.15 BC) also known as Philo Judaeus also accepted the reality of Atlantis’ existence.
Strabo (67 BC-23 AD) in his Geographia stated that he fully agreed with Plato assertion that Atlantis was fact rather than fiction.
Plutarch (46-119 AD) wrote about the lost continent in his book Lives, he recorded that both the Phoenicians and the Greeks had visited this island which lay on the west end of the Atlantic.
Pliny the Younger (61-113 AD) is quoted by Frank Joseph as recording the existence of numerous sandbanks outside the Pillars of Hercules as late as 100 AD.
Pomponius Mela (c.100 AD), placed Atlantis in a southern temperate region.
Tertullian (160-220 AD) associated the inundation of Atlantis with Noah’s flood.
Claudius Aelian (170-235 AD) referred to Atlantis in his work The Nature of Animals.
Arnobius (4thcent. AD.), a Christian bishop, is frequently quoted as accepting the reality of Plato’s Atlantis.
Ammianus Marcellinus (330-395 AD) [see Marcellinus entry]
Proclus Lycaeus (410-485 AD), a representative of the Neo-Platonic philosophy, recorded that there were several islands west of Europe. The inhabitants of these islands, he proceeds, remember a huge island that they all came from and which had been swallowed up by the sea. He also writes that the Greek philosopher Crantor saw the pillar with the hieroglyphic inscriptions, which told the story of Atlantis.
Cosmas Indicopleustes (6thcent. AD), a Byzantine geographer, in his Topographica Christiana (547 AD) quotes the Greek Historian, Timaeus (345-250 BC) who wrote of the ten kings of Chaldea [Zhirov p.40]. Marjorie Braymer[198.30] wrote that Cosmas was the first to use Plato’s Atlantis to support the veracity of the Bible.
There was little discussion of Atlantis after the 6th century until the Latin translation of Plato’s work by Marsilio Ficino was produced in the 15th century.
*(a) http://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/the-first-believer-why-early-atlantis-testimony-is-suspect*
Tagged Aelian, Alan Cameron, Antilia, Aristotle, Atlantis, Cosmas Indicopleustes, Crantor, Diodorus Siculus, Eumelos of Cyrene, Frank Joseph, Hellanicus of Lesbos, Herodotus, Hesiod, Hesperides, Homer, Marcellus, Marjorie Braymer, Marsilio Ficino, Odyssey, Philo of Alexandria, Plato, Plutarch, Pomponius Mela, Posseidonius, Proclus Lycaeus, Scheria, Statius Sebosus, Strabo, Syrianus, Tertullian, Theogony, Theophrastus of Lesbos, Theopompos of Chios, Thorwald C. Franke, Thucydides
Luce, John Victor
John Victor Luce (1920-2011)(b) was born in Dublin and educated at Cheltenham College, England and Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated with First Class Honours in Classics and Philosophy in 1942. Among other academic honours, he was a lecturer in Greek at Glasgow University, visiting professor in classics at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut and is emeritus professor of classics at Trinity College, Dublin. He has written a number of books including one concerning the eruption of Thera in the second millennium BC. (This was published under slightly different names, in the UK, The End of Atlantis[120] and in the USA, Lost Atlantis: New Light on an Old Legend [121]. During a panel discussion[122] hosted by Indiana University in 1975, Professor Luce presented his view that Plato’s story was a mixture of fact and fiction.
In his book, The End of Atlantis, highlighted[0120.14] how various Greek myths and legends have been proven to contain historical elements and that consequently Plato’s Atlantis story should be studied with this in mind.
He was of the view that the description of Atlantis closely matched that of the 16th century BC Minoan empire.
Luce encapsulates[120.24] the Atlantis narrative in the following terms; “ I have in mind what Aristotle would call the ‘essential plot’: a great and highly civilised island empire aims at universal domination and is defeated by the early Greeks, especially the Athenians, and later succumbs to a natural cataclysm. On this framework Plato embroiders a large number of remarkable details.” In 1994 Luce wrote a brief paper [123](a) reviewing the Thera evidence in the light of contemporary scientific discoveries. Luce also suggested that the eruption of Thera was the inspiration behind details in Hesiod’s Theogony[0120.128].
(a) http://www.ucd.ie/cai/classics-ireland/1994/Luce94.html (offline Oct. 2016 – See Archive 2061)
(b) http://www.tcd.ie/Classics/jvl/ (link broken Dec. 2018) See Archive 2060
Tagged Aristotle, Atlantis, Hesiod, J.V. Luce, Minoans, Theogony, Thera
Zeilinga de Boer, Jelle
Jelle Zeilinga de Boer is anemeritus professor of geology at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut and co-author of Volcanoes in Human History[681] [together with fellow geologist Donald Theodore Sanders. Chapter three of their book is entitled ‘The Bronze Age Eruption of Thera: Destroyer of Atlantis and Minoan Crete?’ in which they add their weight to the suggestion that the Theran eruption played a part in the development of the story of Atlantis (p.70).
What is remarkable is that the two geologists were apparently so seduced by the Minoan Hypothesis and in spite of Plato’s clear statement that Atlantis was destroyed by an earthquake they were prepared to contradict him and support instead the idea that a volcanic eruption was responsible. They also link the eruption with the Flood of Deucalion. In 2005 they co-authored a companion book, Earthquakes in Human History[0984].
Some of Zeilinga de Boer’s views coincide with those of William Lauritzen as expressed in his recent book, The Invention of God. Haraldur Sigurdsson the volcanologist, has also suggested that volcanic eruptions, particularly Thera, have influenced the development of Greek myths such as Hesiod’s Theogony and Plato’s Atlantis!
Tagged Deucalion, Donald Theodore Sanders, Haraldur Sigurdsson, Hesiod, Minoan Hypothesis, mythology, Theogony, Thera, volcanoes, William Lauritzen
The Titans were the ancient gods during the Golden Age of Greece. They were later challenged by a race of younger gods, the Olympians, led by Zeus, to whom they lost in a conflict recorded dramatically in Hesiod’s Theogony. There were originally twelve Titans of whom one was Iapetus the father of Atlas, after whom Atlantis was named. The offspring of the original twelve were also designated as Titans.
Iapetus has been frequently equated with the biblical Japheth (Genesis 9.25-27), the son of Noah, a subject which is investigated at length on the vast and fascinating website(a) of Walter Reinhold Warttig Mattfeld y de la Torre.
Olaf Rudbeck believed that Japheth settled in Sweden after the Biblical Deluge and fathered Atlas, the first king of Atlantis. In a lecture(b) in 1867, Bishop Patrick Lynch of Charleston, S.C. declared “I shall take it as an established fact that America was peopled by the sons of Japheth.” whom he identified more specifically as the Phoenicians. Lynch also identified America as Plato’s Atlantis.
Ignatius Donnelly thought that the kings of Atlantis became the gods of Greek mythology. John D. Baldwin was quoted by Donnelly and later L. Taylor Hansen as believing[653] that the Titans were Atlanteans.
(a) http://www.bibleorigins.net/Japhethmadai.html
(b) http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=MDA18670530.2.2&srpos=7&e=——-en–20–1-byDA-txt-txIN-Plato+Atlantis——-1
Tagged Atlantis, Atlas, Deluge, Iapetus, Ignatius Donnelly, Japheth, John D. Baldwin, L. Taylor Hansen, Noah, Olaf Rudbeck, Patrick Lynch, Phoenicians, Plato, Sweden, Theogony, Titans, Walter Reinhold Warttig Mattfeld y de la Torre.
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The New Hoover Dam Bypass
Creeping closer inch by inch, 900 feet above the mighty Colorado River, the two side of a
$160 million bridge at the Hoover Dam slowly takes shape.
The bridge will carry a new section of US Route 93 past the bottleneck of the old road which can be twisting and winding around and across the dam itself.
When complete, it will provide a new link between the states of Nevada and Arizona. In an incredible feat of engineering, the road will be supported on the two massive concrete arches which jut out of the rock face.
The arches are made up of 53 individual sections each 24 feet long which have been cast on-site and are being lifted into place using an improvised high-wire crane strung between temporary steel pylons.
The arches will eventually measure more than 1,000 feet across. At the moment, the structure looks like a traditional suspension bridge. But once the arches are complete, the suspending cables on each side will be removed. Extra vertical columns will then be installed on the arches to carry the road.
The bridge has become known as the Hoover Dam bypass, although it is officially called the Mike O'Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge, after a former governor of Nevada and an American Football player from Arizona who joined the US Army and was killed in Afghanistan. Work on the bridge started in 2005 and should finish next year. An estimated 17,000 cars and trucks will cross it every day.
The dam was started in 1931 and used enough concrete to build a road from New York to San Francisco. The stretch of water it created, Lake Mead, is 110 miles long and took six years to fill. The original road was opened at the same time as the famous dam in 1936.
An extra note: The top of the white band of rock in Lake Mead is the old waterline prior to the drought and development in the Las Vegas area. It is over 100 feet above the current water level.
(Ed. note: The source of these photos and accompanying text is unknown. I received them in an e-mail, without attribution. If anyone has a correct attribution, I will add it or will remove these photos. They are very high quality and not likely to have come off of someone's Flicker page.)
Update: Several random thoughts regarding these pictures:
1) That's going to be a hell of a view for someone driving across that when it's completed.
2) For $160 million, that looks incredibly fragile and unstable. It looks, at this distance, to be supported by something akin to really tall cement matchsticks. A good gust of wind seems to have more than an even chance of blowing it over sideways.
3) There's NO way I would ever work on something like that! Total freakout time. I doubt I could even drive across it.
4) How'd those guys get out there, anyway?
5) And where is the cement coming from when they are pouring the new sections?
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Wondering What’s Next — thoughts and theories regarding Colony season 3, episode 9
Jul 3, 2018 | Movies & TV shows | 0 comments
This was an amazing episode. Lots to talk about. I’m going to talk about character stuff first and then focus on the theories.
Bram’s Surprise
Wow. I wasn’t expecting Bram to be “in” on the Op to capture Snyder. Not only is he in on it, he is aware of Will’s goal to kill Snyder. Let’s review the timeline:
Will and Katie meet Commander Roger and Michelle suggests that Will apply for a Community Patrol job. Will says law enforcement isn’t his thing. This happens in episode 7.
In that same episode, Bram goes to the job placement office seeking to be moved into a Community Patrol job.
In Episode 8, Bram is in training with the Security Patrol and asks who is in charge of assigning shifts.
Later, Will sees Snyder and bails on the Op, leaving Broussard and Amy to complete it without him.Before this, none of our characters knew Snyder was in Seattle.
Still later, at home, Katie tells Will that Bram has a job with the Security Patrol and Will says, “Good for Bram!” and storms out.
Presumably the next morning (it’s daylight), Will talks to Broussard about interrogating Snyder and then makes it clear he wants to kill him when Snyder is finished.
In Episode 9, we see Bram switching shifts to get the downtown beat, using a story about wanting to meet up with his girlfriend.
So it’s clear Bram is in on the operation by the beginning of Episode 9 when he switches shifts, but why would he have asked about assigning shifts in the middle of episode 8, before any of them knew Snyder was in Seattle? What makes the most sense is that Will asked Bram to help with the Snyder operation after Katie mentioned to him that Bram was working for the Community Patrol.
“You talked me into helping you, and now when we finally have him, you can’t pull the trigger.” I would have loved to have heard that conversation. I bet it was very short. Will: “Wanna help me kill Snyder?” Bram: “I’m in.”
“Snyder ordered his guards to shoot [Bram’s friends.] They fell into the dumpster like garbage. He didn’t have the balls to shoot them himself and neither do you.” “If we left him on the side of the road like we should have, Charlie would still be alive.” Bram hasn’t forgiven Snyder for the friends’ deaths, but has totally forgotten these points:
Snyder’s explanation that he was attempting to save the rest of the labor camp; and
The labor camp was destroyed by the RAPs, which both proves Snyder’s story that the RAPs will retaliate with deadly force, and puts Bram in Snyder’s debt — he could have left Bram there to die; and
If the greyhats had not shown up when they did, Charlie might still be alive, but he and Gracie would be orphans because Will, Katie and Bram would have been killed.
Bram sees the world as very black and white, much like a lot of young people do. He’s also idealistic — he wants to believe Seattle is what the propaganda promised.
What’s Gracie Up To?
The Daleys pointed out that Gracie’s interaction with her parents, and especially Katie, seemed a little odd in this episode. I agree. I think a girl who spent at least 6 months on the run, living in various places including an underground bunker and a resistance camp, and also a cramped cabin with 5 other people, would probably not be bothered much by the small noises of her parents getting ready for work.
My initial thought was that this was a reminder that Katie and Will are keeping completely different schedules and both of them seem to be putting work ahead of Gracie in their list of priorities. I did think it was kind of awkward writing, to have this scene remind us about that, but after listening to the Daley’s podcast, I’m wondering if there’s more going on here.
I did notice Will made a special effort to interact with Gracie and Katie before they all went their separate ways for the day, and it seems like he took the time to fix the door, because later it seems to be working fine. I think he knew he was about to enter into a risky operation and wanted to part from his family on good terms in case he was arrested or worse.
Gracie tells Katie she thinks Bram has a girlfriend, when we know for sure she knows he does. I think this is just her way of trying to get Katie and Bram to talk about this. I’m thinking Katie’s remark about Gracie being smart means Katie already suspected something, but I could be wrong about that.
What’s next for Katie and Will?
I’m hoping they’re turning a corner and that they start working together again. The clips from next week’s show hint that I’m right.
Snyder’s Next Move
Our former Proxy sure does think fast on his feet (and also while sitting on his butt on a toilet). But we know he told some lies:
About his schedule: “Nothing until breakfast.”
When asked why the IGA wanted Snyder to dig up dirt on Kynes, he said it’s above his paygrade, though he later elaborated that it had something to do with the material in the briefcase.
Once it’s clear they’re looking for him, he quickly blurts out: “Maybe they have my schedule wrong. Maybe I forgot a meeting.” Even Amy doesn’t buy that one.
Snyder claims that he had nothing to do with calling the grayhats at the resistance camp. “The signal came from the Host.” It seems like it could be true, but Will isn’t buying it. Too bad Will wasn’t more interested in knowing why Snyder wanted to leave the camp, when they were still at the camp.
“I buried Charlie.” Maybe he wishes he’d done that, but as we see in the clips they showed from previous episodes, he clearly saw Charlie’s body and then hurried off to get on with his trip to Switzerland. It’s possible he made some calls and arranged for him to be buried, after he requested the report we see him reading in the middle of the night in his posh Switzerland townhouse. But that was likely days after Charlie was killed, so it seems like the opportunity would have been passed by then.
Thanks to Broussard and Amy, he now has a hint about what Kynes is up to. We believe it’s true that Snyder doesn’t know what that material is; he’s never seen it before, but he clearly makes the connection that it’s what Kynes is hiding. Too bad he can’t just work with Broussard, Amy and the Bowmans, I bet they’d uncover things faster if they worked together.
Why didn’t Snyder rat out Will and the rest of the crew? I think it’s mostly guilt, but also, I think he’s got the germ of an idea in the back of his mind. He’d rather Kynes doesn’t know that Snyder knows about the bulletproof material.
I wonder — I know Will put Snyder’s phone in his hotel room so it couldn’t give away his location, but wouldn’t the hotel have security cameras? Now that Snyder has returned, would his security detail be curious and try to see where he went? or if his disappearance is reported to Kynes, I can see Kynes accessing the camera feeds to find out what Snyder was up to.
The Algorithm and the Outliers
Some fans are disappointed we didn’t learn more from Snyder. But we have to realize that we, as fans, already knew much more than Broussard and a bit more than Snyder. So what the interrogation accomplished is this:
Broussard, Amy and Will learned about the Algorithm and the Outliers and, if they hadn’t heard it already, they heard the name Everett Kynes and learned the IGA isn’t so thrilled with what he’s up to.
Snyder learned at least one of the secrets that Kynes is hiding from the IGA.
We also learned some things that our characters have yet to find out, most notably from the opening sequence which showed the previous day from the point of view of David Javor, the courier who was ambushed by Broussard and Amy. Here’s the sequence of events:
David the Courier enters Kynes’ office. Kynes directs him to a briefcase that “just came off the plane.” He opens it and we see it contains 6 round petrie-dish-like things and 6 long things that look like they could be hypodermic needles. Each seems to have both a white label and be filled with colored substances. Orange and green and yellow; each seems to have a different color.
Kynes says that David is to drop the briefcase off at Hendrix and then get over to the lab because “we have a sample that needs to be transported to prototyping.” It’s clear from what we see next and from last week’s episode that the sample is the material Broussard and Amy retrieve.
David arrives at the “lab,” which is in the same building as the lab where they are growing what Snyder refers to as the “mutant cabbage.” A technician is testing the bulletproof material. She has a drone hooked up to cables and when she presses a button on her computer, it makes the drone fire at the sample. So she has control of the drone — I bet Snyder doesn’t know that, either.
David gets into the SUV and tells the driver to “head to Joplin.” Of course, they never arrive there because they are ambushed by Broussard and crew. The driver makes a radio call and IDs himself as “Ravenwood.”
It’s even more clear than before that the bulletproof material is almost see-through. It’s not completely clear, like glass, but in the lab it looks much lighter in color than it did in Amy’s back yard. We’ve seen this stuff before, but we learn some new things in this episode:
The IGA knows nothing about it.
Even the Drones’ blasts don’t penetrate this material. It’s hard to tell because the lab has more lighting than Amy’s backyard, but the drone blast seems to have a bit more affect on the material than the bullet Broussard fired, but by the time the tech has walked across to the briefcase, the material has fully recovered its normal appearance.
Kynes says the sample is headed for “prototyping.” So that means they’re going to make something with it. I wonder if the Hosts know about that.
Broussard and Will spent time researching David’s schedule, so they would know where to ambush him. That means that he regularly visits this lab and then always heads off in the same direction, cutting through this alley. So does that mean they have samples of this stuff every day?
Another interesting tidbit we learn from the lab sequence: they’ve got a drone hooked up to cables and are able to control it. I wonder if the Hosts approved that or if Kynes is doing things the Hosts don’t even know about.
What we don’t know:
Do they have more of this material or is this their only sample? Because, remember, this sequence was a flashback, and that sample is now with Broussard and Amy. Does Kynes have more or can he get more?
Is Kynes making something with this material to help the RAPs or to use to defend against their attacks?
I’m really more interested in the briefcase we see at the very beginning of the episode. It “just came off the plane.” What plane? RAPs don’t fly planes, do they? so is this something from the IGA? I’m really confused and don’t know what to make of this (both what’s in it and where it came from) except to store it away in the memory bank as another piece of the puzzle that hopefully will make more sense when we have a few other pieces.
We also learned a new vocabulary term: “stasis chamber.” Stasis means balance, equilibrium or stability, but it also has an ominous meaning if you consider the context in our show: “a slowing or stoppage of the normal flow of a bodily fluid.”
Snyder says the stasis chambers used to go to space but now they’re stored on Blake Island (or under it). So it seems this change in location lines up with the destruction of the Factory, which is something Snyder did not share with our characters.
Who’s Giving the Answers Here?
I also thought there was a moment when all of our interrogators started leaping to their own conclusions rather than asking Snyder for more details:
Broussard makes the leap that the people the drones don’t kill are destined for the stasis chambers, but he never asks if that’s true.
It’s sort of implied that while Snyder knows the people in the stasis chambers are biological weapons of some kind, he doesn’t know exactly how that works. It would have been nice if they’d have questioned him further to get every last detail that he knows, though.
Snyder says the Outliers are a “special group” with “special privileges.” But what is the privilege? not being killed by drones so you can later still be alive to be stuffed into a stasis chamber? Sounds like a much-sought-after privilege indeed.
And we still don’t know this: if Will is indeed earmarked to be the occupant of one of those chambers, why has he not been apprehended when there have been significant periods of time when they knew where to find him — first in LA and now in Seattle.
Many of the Outliers are ex-military, but not all. Some are scientists and engineers. We know this by looking at the screen shots from the computer dossier Broussard saw in the SUV near the end of season 2, and also from the investigative work that Will has been doing in Seattle. There’s something more going on here than just making really strong soldiers.
We still don’t know how the running Outlier we saw at the beginning of episode 8 got loose. In season 2, we saw a man taken and placed into a stasis chamber in San Fernando. It wasn’t like they handcuffed him and drove him somewhere and then put him in the chamber. He was put in the chamber right away, so how did our well-muscled prisoner escape? Do they capture them differently in Seattle? Does being in the chambers cause them to get stronger and thus able to break out of the chambers? Was this one just hungry and looking for a loaf of bread? Is he an anomaly or are they often breaking out of their chambers?
The Daleys pointed out that Amy interrupted the interrogation to conclude the RAPs are building an army, and then later they seemed to think Amy is not to be trusted because she tried to talk Will out of killing Snyder. But I want to point out:
Amy isn’t the only one who jumped to a conclusion and didn’t ask for verification. Broussard concluded people who the drones don’t kill are on the list to be put into one of the stasis chambers, but he never asked Snyder for more details about that. Either the writers are using this sequence partly as exposition so we, the viewers, understand what’s going on, or are our characters jumping to the wrong conclusions? Or, is Amy deliberately trying to mislead them?
Amy is a doctor, so she has an extra motivation for wanting to save any human life, and she also has observed people similar to Will. She knows the affect it will have on Will and may be trying to save him from himself. It may be true that she’s not to be trusted, but I think it’s equally possible that she is just a good doctor.
Are the RAPs purely Evil?
Tracey and Jay on the Talk Colony podcast asked whether we think the RAPs are good or bad? I’m going to phrase it a slightly different way: are they purely evil, or does their situation justify what they are doing? Lots of things to think about here:
The captured RAP said they consider themselves our “allies.” Assuming the RAP is telling the truth, we have to consider
Do the RAPs understand what humans mean when they use the word Allies? The RAP seemed to be struggling with the language, so this word may have a different meaning to them than to us.
The RAPs are not flesh and blood. Do they understand the value we place on human lives? If there are only a few hundred of these entities, do they see how many millions of humans there are and conclude each one has much less value because there are so many of us?
And we also can wonder if they can understand the value we place on freedom, and how being oppressed and being forced to work in unhealthy conditions and being confined to walled-in colonies would be something many of us would be willing to risk our lives to fight against.
The other question I have is which human organization/entity/country first negotiated with the RAPs and what did the negotiation entail?
There was a scene at the beginning of season 2, episode 2, identified as having taken place in 1969. I went back and watched it several times to clarify details:
There are 4 men sitting at a table and listening to a tape of transmissions from the Apollo mission. They also have some still images of the Moon. From their discussion, this happened after the Apollo mission was over, because there has been time to do detailed audio analysis of the tapes, to isolate the sound and analyze it.
3 of the men speak in American accents but the 4th speaks in a European accent. This man is also the only one in what looks to be an expensive wool 3-piece suit. He’s the one who says, “We need to send a response.”
Another man theorizes that the “thing” the astronauts photographed on the dark side of the Moon is “some kind of beacon.” The conclusion is that this is when humans first attempted to communicate with the RAPs.
So from this we can conclude that it wasn’t just Americans involved in the attempt to contact them.
We don’t know what choices the RAPs presented to the humans they were negotiating with. Was it the choice between a rock and a hard place (be completely annihilated or work with us and it won’t be fun for many of you, but your species will survive) or was there an alternative where Earth was completely spared and the RAPs and their enemies went off to fight in a different galaxy? My guess is that if the RAPs had placed some hardware on our Moon, we didn’t have the “get off scott-free” option.
What we can’t tell is what authority the human negotiators had to negotiate on behalf of the entire planet. Was the UN involved or was it a completely secret operation? And along with that, did the RAPs believe the negotiators had authority to negotiate on behalf of the entire planet, or did they know that most of humanity was completely in the dark as their futures were being decided?
I have said before that I’m supposing the machine-like bodies the RAPs have may have been a way for the RAPs to outlive their flesh-and-blood bodies and thus be able to travel light-years through space. But also that, because they don’t have flesh-and-blood bodies, maybe they can’t really empathize with us. So their arrangement may seem very reasonable to them, while it’s completely unacceptable to us.
The other factor in this is the unknown race of other aliens, the enemies of the RAPs, who we learned about at the beginning of the current season. Will and Katie found a crashed ship and they saw a body with flesh (and very long fingers), not a machine. So the question is, does this other race actually have more in common with us than the RAPs? Is it too late to form an alliance with them against the RAPs?
Wow, it seems like it’s been forever since last week’s episode, and yet, as I type this, there are still more than 24 hours left before the next episode. Time is dragging . . . but also moving really fast, because we now have only 4 episodes left in the season, and after this week’s episode, there will only be 3 more.
I am worried that they haven’t renewed Colony yet, and then I remember that last year, they renewed it right at the end. And then I remember that last year, the “end” was in May, not July. So I don’t know what to think, except, at least they haven’t canceled it. Please, USA Network, renew our favorite show!
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Bright Invention
Bright Invention is a longform improv ensemble performing community-based shows that explore "immersive improv", which softens the boundary between audience and actor. We create our shows from our personal interactions with our guests, and our shows feel more like dinner parties and less like plays. Bright Invention is the White Pines ensemble, and works within the mission of White Pines Productions.
At a Bright Invention show, you will meet the actors before the show and have friendly conversations with them. Out of those conversations, the ensemble will create an hour-long three-act play inspired by . . . you!
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Bright Invention is a unique group of individuals rehearsing and creating in an atmosphere of trust, provocation and creativity. We are dedicated to the deliciousness our work together. We have fun rehearsing and performing, and we offer each other ongoing emotional and creative support through the ups and downs of our lives as citizen artists.
For our audiences, Bright Invention extends the gift of personalized improvised performance which, in the best moments, feels scripted and leaves audiences stunned, moved to tears and laughter, and unified in their humanity. We believe that (y)our stories, relationships, and personal truths are connective tissues that, when crafted and shared, bring seemingly disparate people together.
Our approach to improv is grounded in theatrical training and dramatic technique. We think of ourselves as actors. We approach each other onstage with the same intensity and preparation that any script-based actor brings to her work. And - while our work is not exclusively comic - we are champions for comedy, believing is that laughter is the first doorway to transformation.
Bright Invention does not wish to simply create more improvised theater, but rather, to expand the boundaries of the form through experimentation, incorporation of varied artistic mediums, and new ways of interacting with, and soliciting information from audience members. We are a long-form improv ensemble expanding the genre, and dedicated to deepening the connection between actors and audience in all we do.
The ensemble:
Aaron Roberge is an actor living in Philadelphia with his beautiful fiance' Leah. He has most recently been seen as Mac Sam in The Miss Firecracker Contest, and Fountainhead in Water by the Spoonful at The South Camden Theatre Company; he is also a member of the Enchantment Theatre company and has just finished up a production of The Bremen Town Musicians. Aaron is thrilled to be working again in improv with Bright Invention and cannot wait to see what this next year holds in store.
Aimee Goldstein (Rising Leader, Executive Assistant) is a Philadelphia based singer, actor, and a big dreamer. She graduated from Temple University in 2014, where she earned her B.A. in Theatre with a concentration in acting. While at Temple, Aimee because the founder and President of Jewkebox, a Jewish a cappella group on campus. After graduation, she went on to become the founder of a post-collegiate group, The ChaiLights: Jewish A Cappella of Philadelphia. Aimee has been an assistant teaching artist for acting and musical theater at the Walnut Street Theatre, a summer intern at The Arden Theatre, and the Arts Management/Company Management intern at Bucks County Playhouse for their award winning 2015 season. Aimee is also extremely grateful to have been the Company Manager for the world premiere of A Taste of Things To Come, directed by Broadway’s Lorin Latarro at Bucks County Playhouse in 2016. Aimee brings her multifacetedskills from being both a performer and a company manager to White Pines and Bright Invention as a Rising Leader and a member of Bright Invention! When she isn’t in the theatre or the a cappella world, Aimee enjoys playing classical guitar. Aimee strongly believes in making all types of music, theater, art, and dance readily available for people of all ages and from all walks of life. She is excited to this by working with Bright Invention!
Benjamin Lloyd (Artistic Director) created White Pines Productions on 2009. He he co-founded Bright Invention: the White Pines Ensemble with Jennifer MacMillan in 2013. Ben has produced and directed several independent theater productions: in New York; Beckett3, Extras and Q1 Hamlet; in Philadelphia, Psycho Drama, Eccentrics and William di Canzio’s Johnny Has Gone for A Soldier, the first White Pines Production; in New York City, Life Without Parole, Please!; in Scotland, Psycho Drama; in The Czech Republic, The Dreamer Examines His Pillow. In 2013 he directed White Pines’ two world premieres: Jerry Perna’s The Music You Remember and Martha Kemper’s Luckiest Kid – the playwrights were both members of Bright Invention. And he facilitated White Pines’ two Original Practices Shakespeare co-productions: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2015) and Much Ado About Nothing (2016). He has a B.A. in Theater Studies from Yale College and an M.F.A. in Acting from the Yale School of Drama and he lives in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania.
Bob Stineman has been an actor/musician/producer /director/writer/performer for the better part of two decades now. An honors graduate from the University of the Arts with a focus in Acting, he has been seen performing throughout the Tri-State area with groups including Candlelight Dinner Theatre, The Bradywiners, Plays and Players, The Covered Bridge Theatre, Luna Theatre Company, as well as participating in workshops, readings, and full productions of new work through Philadelphia New Play Workshop, Philadelphia Theatre Company, and The Philly Fringe Festival. Some past credits include: Soldier Bear (Peytr; World Premier); This is Not About 9/11 (The Voice; Philadelphia Premier & New York run), Broken Wing (Adam), Traveling Light (Brian Epstein; Philadelphia Premiere), Mosque (Felix; World Premiere), LoneStar (Roy), Measure for Measure (Angelo), The Shape of Things (Adam), Travesties (James Joyce), Pippin (Pippin), The Crucible (Proctor), and Bachelorette (Jeff; Philadelphia Premiere). Bob is also one of the founding company members of Bright Invention, White Pines Production’s long-form improv troupe. From 2012 to 2014 he served as the Managing Director for Simpatico Theatre Project, working hand-in-hand with the Producing Artistic Director, Allen Radway, and helped them bring to the stage The Amish Project by Jessica Dickey, The Lysistrata Project by P. Seth Bauer, The Brothers Size by Tarell Alvin McCraney, and In a Dark, Dark House by Neil Labute. Bob also serves as both an associate producer and casting director for Common-Factor Studios, an independent film company operating out of the Greater Philadelphia area. When not working in the theatre world, Bob can be found serving as an accountant and financial consultant. He has had over seven years of experience in accounting and finance within the for-profit and non-profit worlds, and looks forward to bringing insight, new understanding, and profitability to White Pines Productions as its Director of Finance.
A born, bred and fed Philadelphian, Eric Walker has been on a quest to entertain audiences with his poetry, music, and comedic stylings. Performing under the name MC eNDee(Eric never disappoints eager ears), he has hit the stage in University City, Manayunk, and Rittenhouse to share his love of lyricism with the city's open mic crowds. After reading Neil Strauss' The Game while on holiday in Amsterdam, Eric decided to take a bit of Neil's advice on breaking out of his shell by taking an improvisation class. Afterwards, he formed the improv group Wit Jongen Dronken with long time friends and performed multiple shows across Philadelphia. Now as a member of the Bright Inventions team, he hopes to bring his experience and talent to the stage, and make beautiful scenes with a wonderful, knowledgeable, and dedicated cast.
Kiersten M. Adams is a trained musical theater actress from Philadelphia PA. She has participated in a number of singing competitions and has been seen on stages in PA and NC. She has appeared as Aldonza in Man of La Mancha, Magenta in The Rocky Horror Show, and Stuart Little in Stuart Little. She has worked with people like Troy McLaughin and Heitzman and Reid honing her skills and is constantly exploring new crafts. Some of her passions outside of the theater include yoga, aerial arts, painting, clothing design, and being a mother.
Leah Holleran has felt so lucky these past two years to find an artistic home in the performance community of Philly! She graduated from Muhlenberg College in 2012 with a major in Theatre and minors in Music and Creative Writing. Since then, she spent the past 3 years performing in national tours with Enchantment Theatre Company (and last year, Company Managing the tour of Harold and the Purple Crayon in addition to playing Harold!). Now that she’s off the road and settling in to Philadelphia to stay, she is so grateful and excited to be able to make Bright Invention a part of her life. She is trained in acting, dance (ballet, tap, jazz), voice (she will always have a soft spot for musical theatre, her first doorway into the performance world), and since recently, circus aerials (trapeze, ropes, silks), and has worked and performed in Philadelphia with Enchantment, Tribe of Fools (Antihero, Two Street), Luke Allen Productions, Curio Theatre, The Stagecrafters (catch her now through Oct. 11 in Mauritius!), and Vulcan Lyric (regional premier of Heathers: the Musical). Her latest endeavor has been co-creating a satirical sort-of-but-not-quite-counter-protest/street performance in support of Planned Parenthood, which has really affirmed for her that art can make a difference; and she can’t wait to continue giving back as a part of Bright Invention!
Shea Sonsky is a Philadelphia-based actor/singer/all-around creative-type. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Theater with a concentration in acting and a minor in English Literature from Skidmore College in 2015, where she discovered her love of improv and sketch comedy as a member of the Ad-Liberal Artists. With the Ad-Libs, she participated in the Chicago Improv Festival College Tournament, the Brown University Comedy Conference, and four National College Comedy Festivals. Outside of the Ad-Libs, Shea spent her time at Skidmore performing in theatrical productions, workshops and student films, while dabbling behind-the-scenes in directing and makeup design. She also spent a semester studying Shakespeare at the British American Drama Academy in London. Locally, Shea has completed internships at the Hedgerow and Arden Theatres, and taught theater at the Upper Main Line YMCA’s summer programs. During the Fall, you can find her among the ghosts and ghouls haunting Eastern State Penitentiary’s nationally acclaimed Terror Behind the Walls attraction. Outside of the theater world, Shea enjoys reading, writing, spending time with her rescue dog, Lulu, hanging out in nature, and picking apart TV shows on the internet. As someone who is passionate about improv and committed to making the arts accessible to all people regardless of gender, race, age, ability or socioeconomic situation, Shea is absolutely thrilled to be a part of Bright Invention.
One of the newest members of Bright Inventions, Suzanne B. Anderson has been improvising since the 8th grade when she took her first Improvisation class. Suzanne is currently completing her training at PHIT (Philly Improv Theater) and is very excited to be part of the Bright Inventions/White Pines Productions team. Suzanne has performed throughout her life: as an attorney litigating criminal cases, as a psychotherapist leading individual and group therapy and as a comedic improviser with local Improv Team, Time Bandits. Often funny, Suzanne brings a quick irreverence to her work while being able to connect with her scene partners on a deeply emotional level. Suzanne lives with her husband, daughters and dogs in West Philly/Best Philly and is very active in her local community organization.
Jennifer MacMillan, co-founder of Bright invention,
Artistic Director 2013 - 2015
Jenn is a full time working actor/director/theater educator. She holds a BFA in Acting with highest honors, from the University of the Arts, and is a founding and longtime member of premier Philadelphia based long form improvisation company Tongue & Groove. Jenn appeared as a special guest speaker and performance artist on WHYY’s Radio Times, and has performed improvised shows at Temple University, Ursinus University, the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Wilmington Fringe Festival, at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts as a part of thePhiladelphia International Festival of the Arts (2011and 2013), at Philadelphia Theater Company, and for countless improv festivals and venues across the country.
Jenn has studied with master improvisers Joe Bill of the Annoyance Theater and Bobbi Block of ComedySportz, Lunch Lady Doris, and Tongue & Groove. Jenn has been teaching improvisation at The University of the Arts in the Pre-College and Saturday Institutes since 2005 where she is also undergraduate acting faculty teaching acting for non-majors, audition technique, business of theater, solo performance, and co-teaching Freshman Acting Studio. This spring Jenn will co-teach a new course entitled The Meditative Act alongside a long-time practitioner of Zen meditation, Steve Antinoff. Additionally Jenn is a member of the acting faculty at The Actors Cross Roads Studio, has led improvisation master classes at CAPA and Cherry Hill East High Schools, and coaches private acting students.
Members Emeritus
The following performers acted and rehearsed with Bright Invention for a significant time, and their contributions to the ensemble are lasting.
Katherine Perry, Jerry Perna, Randi Alexis Hickey, Langston Hamilton Darby, Eva Farrell, Ed Swidey, Kristin Norine, Kevin Chick, Josh Totora, Martha Kemper, Sarah Knittel.
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Trade negotiation mindset hurts climate change talks: Greens
December 14, 2012Article
Dec. 14 (BusinessDesk) – Global efforts to get a new deal to combat climate change are foundering because they are based on the competitive mindset of trade negotiations rather than collaborative problem-solving, says Green Party climate change spokesman …
Trade negotiation mindset damages global climate change talks, says Graham
Dec. 14 (BusinessDesk) – Global efforts to get a new deal to combat climate change are foundering because they are based on the competitive mindset of trade negotiations rather than collaborative problem-solving, says Green Party climate change spokesman Kennedy Graham.
Speaking at a Victoria University-hosted briefing on the outcomes of the latest round of global climate change talks in Doha, Graham said trade and climate change required “qualitatively different kinds of negotiations.”
Trade talks were competitive, sought to maximise national self-interest and were not bound by any deadlines, whereas climate change required global cooperation, was about protecting the planet to remain habitable, and had a finite timeline if “cataclysmic” climate change is to be avoided.
“We are using a trade mentality, not just New Zealand but especially New Zealand, and we are screwing up at a fundamental level.”
Also addressing the seminar was Business New Zealand’s representative at Doha, John Carnegie, who warned the global business community is steadily losing interest in the United Nations-led talks, which are failing to unlock the new business opportunities that would come with a push to decarbonise global economic activity.
“Expectations (of Doha) were low and those were more than delivered on,” he said of his “two weeks in a bubble of unreality.”
Local commentators have focused on the fact New Zealand was punished for leaving the Kyoto Protocol by being barred from secondary market trading in carbon beyond 2015. But Carnegie said this would be seen by history as “no more than a footnote” compared to the loss of the Clean Development Mechanism, which has generated carbon credits for emitter countries when they invest in approved carbon reduction schemes in developing countries.
The result would see CDM-linked carbon credits eventually become worthless.
“It’s highly unlikely that business will have any trust at all in the development of any new UN market-based initiatives,” he said. “I think we have seen the sun set on the use of UN market mechanisms.”
Instead, businesses were increasingly responding to consumer and supply chain pressure to demonstrate environmental integrity.
New Zealand’s climate change ambassador at the talks, Jo Tyndall, described how saw China, India and other major developing economies fought to keep a “firewall” between rich and poor countries in a post-Kyoto deal which is supposed to take effect from 2020.
The new deal is intended to bind in far more of the world’s total greenhouse gas emissions than were covered in the First Commitment Period of the Kyoto Protocol, which expires at the end of this month.
That means placing carbon constraints on the fast-growing economies of Asia and South America, although Graham said it was neither morally right nor politically possible that there would be no firewall between developed and developing countries in the new deal, which is to be negotiated by 2015.
Former climate change negotiator Adrian Macey told the seminar there was still a gradual move towards a platform for all countries to contribute to a global climate change deal.
He criticised both the business and environmental lobbies, with business disengaged and environmental non-government organisations locked in a mindset of guilt and blame towards wealthy countries.
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Slowing economy shows the Govt has no plan
Press Release – New Zealand National Party
Todays GDP figures show the economy is continuing to weaken under the Labour-led Government and is being driven almost entirely by population growth, Nationals Finance spokesperson Amy Adams says.
Amy Adams – Finance
“Today’s GDP figures show the economy grew just 2.5 per cent in the past year compared with 4 per cent under National.
“Growth per person was just 0.8 per cent for the year and 0.1 per cent for the quarter. In the past five years under National growth per person averaged 1.6 per cent a year. That means growth per person has halved under this Government.
“These figures confirm New Zealanders are struggling to get ahead and cope with the rising cost of living.
“Despite all of the empty rhetoric from the Government, under its watch the economy has been driven almost entirely by migration and a growing population.
“The Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance have repeatedly tried to blame the domestic economic slowdown on global factors but the facts just don’t stack up. New Zealand currently has a historically high terms of trade and our exports are rising.
“The domestic economy is sharply weakening because the Government has introduced a raft of bad policies, created significant uncertainty and has no plan to encourage growth.
“A slower economy means less in the back-pockets of Kiwis and less tax revenue for the Government. A weaker economy means the Government has less for health, education and infrastructure, or to provide tax relief for hardworking New Zealanders.
“The reality that this Government needs to realise is that a strong economy is what pays for more wellbeing. A strong economy requires a Government that actually encourages businesses to invest and hire new staff, reduces red tape and rewards those who work hard to get ahead.”
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RKL Admits Ryan Hurst and Ruthann Woll to Firm Partnership
RKL LLP today announced that Ryan P. Hurst, ASA, and Ruthann J. Woll, CPA, have been admitted to the firm’s partnership, effective January 1, 2019. Hurst was named a partner in RKL’s Business Consulting Services Group and Woll is the firm’s newest partner in its Tax Services Group.
“We’re proud to introduce Ryan Hurst and Ruthann Woll as RKL’s newest partners,” said RKL CEO Edward W. Monborne. “These two professionals are well-respected in their fields of expertise, trusted by their clients and colleagues and focused on positioning businesses and organizations for real, sustained growth.”
Since joining RKL in 2017, Hurst has been instrumental in expanding RKL’s suite of advisory services to support a wider range of organizations through business transactions and ownership transitions. He taps into deep expertise in business valuation, succession planning and mergers and acquisitions to advise clients on buying and selling companies, constructing employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) and evaluating their strategic alternatives. Hurst leads RKL’s Transaction Advisory Services practice.
Hurst is actively involved with the Central Pennsylvania Chapter of the Alliance of Merger & Acquisitions Advisors and also serves the Berks County Estate Planning Council as Board Member and Secretary. He is a member of the Greater Reading Young Professionals and the GFN Philly professional networking organization. Hurst sits on the Board of the Reading Symphony Orchestra and also serves as the organization’s Treasurer. Hurst was also recently acknowledged as one of the Reading Eagle’s 40 Under 40 award recipients.
An Accredited Senior Appraiser (ASA), Hurst earned his B.S. in Business Administration (Accounting and Finance) from Shippensburg University. Hurst resides in Sinking Spring.
Woll oversees RKL’s individual tax planning and compliance efforts and leads the firm’s nonprofit tax niche. Throughout her more than two decades of tax accounting experience, Woll has built a reputation as a trusted advisor to organizations and individual taxpayers. Her expertise in these areas has been critical to RKL’s efforts to help clients adapt to the new tax reform landscape. Woll is an in-demand presenter on individual and nonprofit tax topics for client board and committee members, professional associations and industry organizations.
Woll is an engaged member of the Berks County community, serving a number of organizations through volunteerism or board membership, including Relay for Life of Western Berks, the Greater Reading Chamber of Commerce’s W2W planning committee and the Reading Collegiate Scholars Program at Alvernia University. She is a Leadership Berks at Alvernia University graduate, a member of its Alumni Council and chair of the organization’s Placement Fair.
A member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants (PICPA), Woll earned a B.S. in Economics and Business Administration from Ursinus College. She resides in Bernville.
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The Yankees need more length from their starters
John Bleh· 2 months ago
The Yankees starting staff has exceeded expectations in the early goings this season. Even without their two best pitchers in Luis Severino and James Paxton, the team is currently tied for 4th in WAR (4.0) and 5th in ERA (3.54), while also ranking well in stats like K/9, BB/9, and xFIP.
But where these starters continue to struggle overall is in giving the team depth. The starting pitching staff currently ranks 16th in the majors with 216 innings pitched. Not the worst in the world, but also not what you want to see from a team that should be jockeying with one of the best records in baseball. While one of the big strengths of this team lays in its bullpen, the last thing Aaron Boone and company should be trying to do is overworking his relievers.
This Past Weekend
For a good example, look at what happened on Saturday when the starters of the previous games couldn’t give length. J.A. Happ pitched five innings on Thursday, followed by an inning each from Adam Ottavino, Tommy Kahnle, Zack Britton, and Aroldis Chapman in the team’s 3-1 victory over Seattle. On Friday, Domingo German gave the Yanks five innings, with the same relievers all pitching an inning each for another win. And so, on Saturday when CC Sabathia pitched, you guessed it, five innings, Boone had to go to Jonathan Holder and Nester Cortes Jr. for a combined three innings because the team refuses to use relievers three days in a row (and who can blame them). The results from those two relievers were 7 hits, 1 walk, and 5 runs: the difference in the game.
So you can see where the domino effect occurs. If the starters on Thursday or Friday had been able to pitch even just an extra inning, the Yankees would have had higher leverage relievers rested for a close game in the middle innings on Saturday. And those are basically the options they have: either overuse your high leverage relievers or turn to lower tier arms to finish out games. Both spell eventual disaster for New York.
Pitch and Innings Breakdown
On average, Yankee starters are pitching just 5.4 innings per game. That’s not a recipe for success, no matter how good the bullpen. None of the starters have even had to pitch on short rest so far, while every starter has had at least three instances where they’ve been given more than four days of rest. So fatigue isn’t the issue here.
What’s more interesting is how few pitches they’ve thrown, or perhaps been allowed to throw, per game. Starters are averaging just 87 pitches per game. In fact, they’ve only thrown over 100 pitches in 4 of their 40 games. That’s just 10% for those counting at home. And three of those games were from Paxton, who’s been on the IL (the other came from German).
Now you could argue that pitch count isn’t necessarily indicative of how deep a starter goes into a game. An effective starter, like Tanaka this past Sunday, needed just 73 pitches to get through 7 innings.
But that’s the exception, not the rule. Tanaka has pitched seven innings twice in nine starts so far. He hasn’t pitched out of the 6th inning four of those times, including two starts where he only pitched four innings. Happ has actually been a little worse. While he also pitched seven innings twice in his eight starts, he didn’t get through the 6th inning in five starts, including his first three starts where he couldn’t get through the 5th.
German hasn’t pitched seven innings in any of his starts this season. CC Sabathia has been the biggest culprit, pitching five innings in five of his six starts (with the other start being 5.1 innings). These guys just aren’t giving length.
When you start to add things up, you can see where the bullpen stress comes into play. So far they’ve held fairly strong with a 2.0 WAR, which ranks towards the top in baseball. But the middling bullpen ERA of 4.26 ranks 16th in baseball (though a much better 3.75 xFIP), which means it’s only a matter of time before they start to become overworked. The return of two of their better pitchers in Severino and Paxton should help add length to games, but in the meantime, the current starters need to figure out a way to pitch deeper into games.
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Finding Prosperity
May 8th, 2018 by ewalsh
With the tenth anniversary of Lehman Brothers’ collapse around the corner, economists are talking again about a “Goldilocks” economy – just right. Employment statistics appear strong, reported inflation remains in check, and the stock market is near all-time highs.
Yet America is in the grip of despair, with ever clear evidence of systematically widening inequality, entrenched racism, sexism and misogyny, unconscionable gun violence, a student debt crisis, accelerating health epidemics, and weather-induced disasters now the norm. A complex, war- and climate-triggered global refugee crisis has gripped Europe in fear, with no easy answers. In response to these cascading pressures, our politics have gone from uncivil to tribal, and collapse—social, economic, or political—must no longer be viewed as some remote possibility. Indeed, we may even be experiencing the unfolding of an early phase of collapse already.
America’s past prosperity was derived from the dynamism of capitalism, but evidence of a dark underbelly reveals the truth about its expansionist and extractive core. Expansion has physical limits, and extraction has social limits. We have reached both and are now in desperate need of a new source of prosperity. Yet the mainstream public debate offers a false choice: a kinder, more communitarian capitalism with aggressive wealth redistribution and a stronger safety net from the left; or a competitive, nationalist, us-versus-them fight to the finish from the “freedom”-loving, self-reliant right. Both sides accept economic scarcity as the unquestioned basis of the debate. Both sides are blind to the source of our future prosperity.
It is true, we have reached the end of a road. The half-century-old Modern Era, grounded on Cartesian logic and the brilliant advances of the Scientific Revolution, with its reductionist method of analysis in which we break down what’s complicated into understandable parts is reaching its inevitable limitations. The collapse of communism a quarter century ago and the collapse of finance a decade ago should be understood as the reinforcing evidence of the end of Modernity that it is. This next great era, the integral era, will force us to shed our human arrogance (equally shared on the left and the right) that says we can manage complex systems through objective analysis without creating ever greater problems with our solutions. Of course, this is not the popular view. Instead, to borrow from Vaclav Havel, “we are looking for an objective way out of the crisis of objectivism.”
Our future prosperity lies in giving up the illusion of our separateness from one another and from our environment, and instead, reconnecting the now broken parts into the true wholes of reality, unleashing untold potential and prosperity in the process. Our bodies, our ecosystems, our businesses, our economies, our societies are far more than the sum of the parts we currently use to analyze and manage them, as true for cancer research as it is for equity research. And they are far more complex than we can objectively understand, much less manage. Instead, we must learn to work with the complexity, to understand how it works, and to discern its underlying patterns and principles.
It is not, therefore, new technologies that will save us. It’s a new way to think!
With more integrated, “integral” thinking, we will learn to see our economies through these universal patterns and principles. In the process, we will learn to unlock previously unseen potential, consistent with our true reality of abundance if we only had eyes to see it. We’ve been telling this story for years as we observe it unfolding on the ground in the particulars of place. It’s real, and it’s emergent, enabling us to see human economies as the diverse, complex, self-organizing, living systems that they are in reality and not according to some outdated economic theory built on flawed assumptions such as utility maximizing man, markets in equilibrium, and normal distributions for non-linear complex causes.
Regenerative economies share common patterns and principles, such as the central role of relationships over transactions, the balance of efficiency with resiliency, and the source of new life and potential at the edges between sectors where there is more opportunity for diversity of exchange. The structure of regenerative economies follows a fractal pattern, facilitating healthy and complete circulation across all scales and regions of the system; their subsystems are all empowered to participate in the health of the entire system, for the sake of systemic health. Such principles are “universal” to all healthy living systems, yet they manifest in each context in their own unique and beautiful ways, informed by culture and geography.
This integral approach to economies is ready to scale, but not through some top-down political mandate led by politicians on the left or the right with their bumper stickers. It will be led by us—ordinary citizens—if we accept the responsibilities our rights and freedom entail. “We are the ones we’ve been waiting for!” It is scaling through learning networks, from the bottom up, just as nature herself drives all systemic change at scale. I yearn for the day when politicians from the left and the right engage in productive, evidence-based debate around which creative policies will best support the emergence of regenerative economies while helping to ethically hospice the inevitable decline of Modern Era, extractive businesses, and economies.
This is the beginning of a “new story” that will replace the old story of whence prosperity comes in what Thomas Berry called “The Great Work.” It will define the Integral Era.
Shifting From Parts to Patterns
April 4th, 2017 by ewalsh
“All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.” – Leonardo Da Vinci
I had the pleasure of hearing my friend Nora Bateson speak last week at The Players Club in New York City where she held a reading and conversation around her recently published book, Small Arcs of Larger Circles: Framing Through Other Patterns.
If that title slows you down a bit, well, I think that’s the point. The book is a collection of essays and poems, and the conversation with Nora included personal stories of growing up in the Bateson household (Nora’s father was the pre-eminent systems scientist and anthropologist Gregory Bateson, whose first marriage was to Margaret Mead. Nora’s grandfather William, was a biologist who coined the term genetics.)
Collectively, the passages in Nora’s book draw us into a state of heightened curiosity that leads us to question how we perceive reality, ultimately enabling us to better understand our world and the challenges accelerating all around us. She invites us to probe the profound difference between our now four-hundred-year-old reductionist way of thinking (which is rooted in the Scientific Revolution), and the demands and mystery of a more accurate, complex living systems view of the world. Critical to the understanding of this more accurate world view is Nora’s enigmatic assertion, itself an invitation to the most important conversation we could be having:
“The opposite of complexity is not simplicity; it is reductionism,” she mused.
In the context of our interconnected 21st century social, political, economic and ecological challenges, the critical distinction between complexity and reductionism is far from a trivial one. It is, in fact, a life or death insight.
It is precisely because these indivisible challenges are rooted in complexity that our continually applying reductionist thinking to them has led to disastrous consequences. Overcoming them depends on our shedding our unconscious reliance on reductionist thinking and adopting a more holistic way of looking at our world. In other words, our failure to comprehend complexity itself, in an increasingly complex, interconnected world that seems to be spiraling out of control, may well turn out to have life or death consequences for many of us, and even civilization itself as we’ve come to know it in the Modern Age.
Admittedly, reductionism – breaking down what is complicated into its component parts so they can be analyzed and understood – has made immeasurable contributions to the progress of human civilization. The laptop I’m typing on and the man on the moon are achievements made possible through the reductionist method. But as Wes Jackson says, “there’s nothing wrong with the reductionist method so long as you don’t confuse the method with the way the world actually works.”
Holistic thinker Allan Savory once illuminated for me that complexity is profoundly different than what’s complicated. An iPhone or an airplane is complicated. With time and ingenuity, it can be perfected and then mass produced, the same every time. We humans have become experts in making what’s complicated, thanks to our now well-honed expertise in reductionist reasoning and problem solving.
But complexity is a different animal altogether. A nation is complex. A city is complex. A business is complex. A rainforest is complex. War is complex. So too a marriage, a family, and our human self – our physical body, as well as our collective body/mind/spirit. The complexity of a living system is distinguished by the ever-changing context that surrounds it and affects it, with feedback loops and consequences impossible to fully comprehend in advance. Our political economy, in the context of culture and place, is such a complex living system.
Bateson explains that living systems that survive over time are characterized by mutually supportive learning networks that continuously communicate and interact across multiple contexts and variables in the system. Yet we pretend to believe we can manage complexity as we manage what’s merely complicated, with our rules and protocols, and our key performance indicators designed through reductionist logic. In today’s America — a complex system if there ever was one — the danger is compounded by leaders who seem to think they can govern without reference to accurate information, better known as “facts,” without which trust-based communication is impossible.
Trust issues aside, our challenges run even deeper. Bateson writes, “The education system that reaches around the globe is a mess… The violence of breaking the world into bits and never putting it back together again substantiates the kind of blindness in which we have separated ecology from economy, and psychology from politics.” I would add another reductionist “violence”— the separation of what used to be called “political economy” into politics and economics. From the professional silos in which business and finance, governance and the law operate today, we literally can’t “see” the patterns that define the interconnections of complexity accurately enough to have a chance to manage them in a way that the times demand. In truth, our aim should be to constructively guide and flow with the complexity that defines modern reality, since complexity can’t really be “managed” in the sense of asserting control. How many presidents, CEOs, or regulators, or any of “the people running the world” understand that?
Gregory Bateson famously wrote: “Break the pattern that connects and you necessarily destroy all unity.” Yet we don’t even see the patterns, much less honor the resulting unity as the essence of our health, even our survival. Instead, in our ignorance, we break such patterns all the time, for example, the carbon cycle, which has resulted in the climate change that we now view as a “problem” to solve. In reality, it is the unforeseen but direct consequence of our failure to perceive, understand, and humbly work within complexity.
We humans have evolved into problem solvers using the reductionist method, a direct outgrowth of the Scientific Revolution. It’s now baked into our DNA, limitations included. A Second Scientific Revolution is underway, one that integrates the reductionist method with the patterns of connection that define our integral reality. Our life depends on it.
That’s worth slowing down a bit to ponder.
Progress at COP Encouraging, But Misses Pope Francis as Modernity’s Galileo
December 11th, 2015 by ewalsh
It was exciting to be in Paris during the COP talks on Climate. There was an unprecedented united movement of scientists, civil society, progressive business leaders, investors, and activists representing social and ecological interests from around the world, all demanding our political leaders put the common good ahead of national interests and actually lead. Soon we will know the results.
Even the best-case outcome in Paris will be insufficient, that much is clear. And the hard work of implementing the voluntary pledges on the ground lies ahead. Canada, under new leadership, deserves praiseworthy attention for its 180-degree turn to the right side of history. Saudi Arabia deserves global scorn for its continued disingenuous interference with progress. America did its part, but of course could always do more. Yet Congress awaits…
The course for the next five years has been charted. Action is rightly now the operative word. But a second line of inquiry continues to simmer below the headline grabbing pledges and initiatives, like Bill Gates’s $1 billion leadership commitment (1.25 percent of his net worth, it must be said) on the Breakthrough Energy Coalition that will invest in clean energy innovation. Of course innovation is essential. But genuine solutions that address root causes are far more complex. For starters, our short-term obsessed financial system needs its own reinvention to effectively serve this unprecedented challenge.
That second line of inquiry is at the heart of Pope Francis’s courageous, wise, and now controversial Encyclical, Laudato Si’, calling for an “integral ecology.”
Four hundred years ago, the leading Enlightenment thinker Galileo Galilei was sentenced to house arrest by the Roman Inquisition under the auspices of Pope Paul V for his belief in Copernicus’s heliocentric view of the universe. The idea that the Sun and not the Earth was at the center of the Universe was heretical, and seen as a direct challenge to scripture and the authority of the Church. The injunction ordered Galileo:
“to abstain completely from teaching or defending this doctrine and opinion or from discussing it… to abandon completely… the opinion that the sun stands still at the center of the world and the earth moves, and henceforth not to hold, teach, or defend it in any way whatever, either orally or in writing.”[1]
Today it is the Pope himself being challenged as a heretic of sorts. He is a heretic to those who subscribe to the conventional, reductionist belief system that sees science as separate from spirituality, and religion as separate from politics and economics. At the core of this contemporary belief system is what Berkeley Ecological Economist Richard Norgaard calls “the Church of Economism,” which has “reshaped the diverse cultures of the world and come to function as a modern secular religion.” This is the “religion” of free market, neo-liberal economics as the arbiter of all questions of the day, as advocated by politicians on the left and the right, by business and financial elites, and even by many environmental advocates. Anyone who challenges this faith, including the Pope himself, had better be prepared for scorn and ridicule, the modern-day equivalent of house arrest.
How far we have come since the birth of the Enlightenment! While the irony is rich, the dangers are great. It’s time for a new enlightenment, grounded in a holistic worldview which understands that everything affects everything, and problems cannot be managed within the expert disciplines that currently define our institutions. The Pope’s Encyclical asserts: “It cannot be emphasized enough, that everything is interconnected.”[2]
Modern science in each of its disciplines understands this to be true: quantum physics for example and the web of life in biology. So too the core religious beliefs, Eastern and Western, express this central idea of interconnectedness, often expressed simply as oneness. Similarly our indigenous wisdom traditions promote the idea of the “unity” and the interconnectedness of all life. Yet in the “house of economism,” and particularly in finance, we insist on breaking down complexity to its component parts so we can better manage them, leaving us with ignorant and dangerous concepts such as “shareholder value.” But in doing so, we lose sight of the interconnected whole as the financial crisis made all to clear.
This reality is central to the Pope’s important message. But unlike so many who challenge the modern “church of economism” with the ideology of resistance, be they champions of social justice or champions of the environment, Pope Francis points to a wiser path. He counsels that the genuine systemic solutions lie instead in our embracing “integral” thinking and decision-making: retaining what’s great about the modern system while addressing head-on its deficiencies and transcending our differences.
“We urgently need a humanism capable of bringing together the different fields of knowledge, including economics, in the service of a more integral and integrating vision.”[3]
A recent study funded by NASA, using a cross-disciplinary “Human and Nature DYnamical” (HANDY) model, found that two crucial and contemporary (interconnected) crises—”the stretching of resources due to the strain placed on the ecological carrying capacity” (climate change is a prime example); and “the economic stratification of society into Elites [rich] and Masses [poor]”— have played “a central role in the character or in the process of the collapse” of civilizations in all such cases over “the last five thousand years.”[4]
The bottom line: The stakes could not be higher: if we don’t change course, we are facing the potential collapse of civilization. Climate change is a symptom of a system-design flaw. So too is the grotesque inequality within wealthy countries and among nations. So too even is the scourge of terrorism. While we move to urgent action post the Paris COP as we must, transforming our energy system in particular, we must at the same time heed the message of the Pope and invest in the search for genuinely integral solutions.
Regenerative Economics, rooted in an integral vision, offers a beginning. And it’s already emergent in plain sight![5]
[1] The Inquisition’s injunction against Galileo, 1616
[2] Laudato Si’, paragraph 138
[4] http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/mar/14/nasa-civilisation-irreversible-collapse-study-scientists
[5] http://fieldguide.capitalinstitute.org
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What Day: The 20th of June, 1976, fell on a Sunday.
43 years, 0 months and 27 days have passed since the 20th of June, 1976.
Leap Year: 1976 was a leap year, which means that it contained 366 days instead of 365 (with an extra day in February).
Zodiac Sign (Astrology): Anyone born on this date will have the star sign Gemini.
Zodiac Element: Air.
Chinese Zodiac Animal: In the Chinese Zodiac, 1976 was the year of the Dragon (Yang Earth).
Native American Zodiac: The 20th of June, 1976 falls under the Deer.
Birthstone: Anyone born during the month of June will have the birthstones Pearl and Alexandrite.
Age: Anyone born on the 20th of June, 1976, will be 43 years of age.
Songs that were on top of the music singles charts in the USA and the United Kingdom on the 20th of June, 1976:
United States: Silly Love Songs - Wings
United Kingdom: Combine Harvester - Wurzels
Trending news stories and fads that were prevalent throughout this time period. These are news stories and events that would have been in the media on the 20th of June, 1976.
The 1976 UEFA European Football Championship is held in Yugoslavia. Czechoslovakia win the competition after defeating West Germany on penalties.
Gerald Ford was the President of the United States on the 20th of June, 1976.
A baby that was born on the 20th of June, 1976 was probably conceived around the 11th of September, 1975. (Rough Estimate).
The due date for a baby that was conceived on the 20th of June, 1976 is the 30th of March, 1977. (Rough Estimate).
2nd of June, 1976: Arizona Republic reporter Don Bolles is murdered by a car bomb.
5th of June, 1976: 11 people are killed when the Teton Dam collapses in Idaho.
27th of June, 1976: Palestinian militants hijack an Air France plane before flying it to Entebbe, Uganda.
4th of July, 1976: Israeli commandos free 103 hostages from an Air France plane at Uganda's Entebbe Airport.
Historical events that have occurred on the 20th of June:
20th of June, 1979: ABC TV news correspondent Bill Stewart and his interpreter Juan Espinosa are killed by a Nicaraguan National Guard soldier.
20th of June, 2011: Jackass member Ryan Dunn is killed in a car crash.
20th of June, 1980: The Blues Brothers (1980) is released in cinemas.
20th of June, 1986: The Karate Kid, Part II (1986) is released in movie theaters.
20th of June, 1997: Batman & Robin (1997), starring George Clooney, is released in cinemas.
20th of June, 2003: Hulk (2003) is released.
Laverne & Shirley - Series about two roommates called Laverne DeFazio and Shirley Feeney.
The Bionic Woman - Starring Lindsay Wagner as Jaime Sommers.
Wonder Woman - TV show about a superhero called Diana Prince.
Welcome Back, Kotter - Gabe Kotter returns to his old school as a teacher, where he's put in charge of "the Sweathogs".
Starsky & Hutch - Detectives David Starsky and Kenneth 'Hutch' Hutchinson protect the streets of Bay City.
The Jeffersons - TV show about an African- American couple that have moved into an upscale high-rise building.
Baretta - Starring Robert Blake as street-wise detective Tony Baretta.
The Rockford Files - TV show about a Private Detective that was previously jailed for a crime that he didn't commit.
Little House on the Prairie - TV show that was set in the 1870s.
Good Times - American sitcom about a family living in a poor, black neighborhood in inner-city Chicago.
Celebrities and historical figures that were born on the 20th of June:
20th of June, 1949: Lionel Richie: Singer.
20th of June, 1952: John Goodman: Actor.
20th of June, 1967: Nicole Kidman: Actress.
20th of June, 1978: Frank Lampard: Soccer player.
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1,359,244,800 seconds have passed since the 20th of June, 1976.
Since the 20th of June, 1976, earth has travelled approximately 701,370,316,800 miles through space.
If you were born on this day, you have taken approximately 116,895,053 steps. That's about 51,953 miles!
Time for a quick language lesson! The word for "Sunday" in other languages is:
German: Sonntag.
French: Dimanche.
Italian: Domenica.
Spanish: Domingo.
Portuguese: Domingo.
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27th of January, 1978
21st of June, 1976
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What Day: The 21st of April, 1995, fell on a Friday.
On this exact date: The first episode of "Father Ted" is aired.
24 years, 2 months and 28 days have passed since the 21st of April, 1995.
Zodiac Sign (Astrology): Anyone born on this date will have the star sign Taurus.
Chinese Zodiac Animal: In the Chinese Zodiac, 1995 was the year of the Pig (Yin Wood).
Native American Zodiac: The 21st of April, 1995 falls under the Beaver.
Birthstone: Anyone born during the month of April will have the birthstone Diamond.
Age: Anyone born on the 21st of April, 1995, will be 24 years of age.
Songs that were on top of the music singles charts in the USA and the United Kingdom on the 21st of April, 1995:
United States: This Is How We Do It - Montell Jordan
United Kingdom: Back For Good - Take That
The movie "Bad Boys" was at the top of the box office on this date.
Trending news stories and fads that were prevalent throughout this time period. These are news stories and events that would have been in the media on the 21st of April, 1995.
The Bosnian War
During this time, The Bosnian War was raging on in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Mid-1990s fashion
During the middle of the 1990s, female clothing began to become more form-fitting, as those badly-shaped "mom jeans" began to disappear. Grunge fashion started to decline and popular outfits began to include tartan minikilts, hot pants, slip dresses and knee highs.
The O.J. Simpson murder case.
The People of the State of California v. Orenthal James Simpson ran between the 2nd of November, 1994 and the 3rd of October, 1995.
German model Claudia Schiffer is listed as FHM's sexiest woman in 1995.
Republican politician Newt Gingrich is named as the Time Person of the Year in 1995. This was after he had led the "Republican Revolution".
Popular music artists in 1995 included Coolio, Oasis, TLC, Seal, Boyz II Men, Mariah Carey, Luniz, The Notorious B.I.G., Michael Jackson, Madonna, Real McCoy, Bon Jovi, Des'ree, Shaggy, Boyz II Men, Montell Jordan, Bryan Adams, Green Day and Def Leppard.
Oklahoma City bombing
American terrorists Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols set off a bomb in downtown Oklahoma City on the 19th of April, 1995. 168 people are killed.
Weather information for the 21st of April, 1995:
Dublin, Ireland: It was 10.7 degrees Celsius. It was a very wet day. It was a sunny day.
New York, USA: Temperature: 54.4 degrees Fahrenheit. 12.44 degrees Celsius. Rain fell. Precipitation: 4.83cm.
London, England: Temperature: 7.28 degrees Celsius.
Bill Clinton was the President of the United States on the 21st of April, 1995.
A baby that was born on the 21st of April, 1995 was probably conceived around the 12th of July, 1994. (Rough Estimate).
The due date for a baby that was conceived on the 21st of April, 1995 is the 29th of January, 1996. (Rough Estimate).
27th of March, 1995: The single Back for Good is released by Take That.
31st of March, 1995: The comedy film Tommy Boy (1995) is released in cinemas.
31st of March, 1995: Latin singer Selena is shot and killed.
7th of April, 1995: The movie Bad Boys (1995), starring Will Smith and Martin Lawrence, is released in cinemas.
19th of April, 1995: The Oklahoma City bombing occurs, killing 168 people.
24th of April, 1995: A Unabomber bomb kills lobbyist Gilbert Murray in Sacramento, California.
26th of April, 1995: NWA rapper Eazy-E dies because of complications due to AIDS.
17th of May, 1995: A U.S. Army veteran called Shawn Nelson goes on a tank rampage in San Diego, California.
19th of May, 1995: Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995) is released in cinemas.
20th of May, 1995: The last episode of the "Fresh Prince of Bel Air" is aired.
Historical events that have occurred on the 21st of April:
21st of April, 1966: Ian Brady and Myra Hindley go on trial in England for the murders of 3 children that vanished between 1963 and 1965.
21st of April, 1967: Greece is taken over by a military dictatorship.
21st of April, 1989: The Game Boy is released.
21st of April, 2014: The Flint water crisis begins when the city switches its water source to the Flint River.
21st of April, 2016: Prince passes away due a fentanyl overdose.
21st of April, 2018: Actor Verne Troyer (Mini-Me) passes away due to alcohol poisoning.
21st of April, 2004: Man on Fire (2004) is released.
21st of April, 2006: The movie Silent Hill (2006) is released.
Father Ted - Irish comedy TV series about a group of Catholic priests.
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys - TV series.
Star Trek: Voyager - Wikipedia - Kathryn Janeway is the captain of a starship that is lost in space and must find its way back home.
Gargoyles - Animated series about a group of gargoyles that come to life at night.
The Secret World of Alex Mack - Sitcom about a teenager with special powers.
Friends - Sitcom about a group of friends living in New York City.
Touched by an Angel - Tv series about a group of angels.
ER - Hospital drama series.
Party of Five - TV show about five siblings whose parents died in a car accident.
Ellen - TV series.
Mortal Kombat 3 - The third installment in the series. Fighters band together to fight of an invasion that is being led by Shao Kahn.
Warcraft: Orcs & Humans - Real-time strategy game that was developed by Blizzard Entertainment.
Donkey Kong Country - Platforming video game that was published by Nintendo on the SNES.
Earthworm Jim - Platforming game that featured an earthworm called Jim. Jim finds a super suit that gives him powers.
Celebrities and historical figures that were born on the 21st of April:
21st of April, 1926: Elizabeth II: Queen of England.
21st of April, 1947: Iggy Pop: Singer.
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7th of September, 1990
22nd of April, 1995
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Interview with Bernard Cornwell
One of the great pleasures of hosting New Books in Historical Fiction has been having the opportunity to make the acquaintance of Bernard Cornwell, the bestselling author of The Last Kingdom series—now an ongoing TV production as well—and many other novels, including series set during the Hundred Years War and the Napoleonic Wars.
When I learned that Bernard had produced a one-off novel about the life of William Shakespeare and the theater culture in which Shakespeare played such an important role, I offered a choice of a written or telephone interview, to run concurrently with the release of the novel, Fools and Mortals, in the United States on January 9, 2018.
In the end, we settled on a written Q&A, which I reproduce here. My questions are in bold, and Bernard’s answers follow. Thank you so much to Bernard for his fascinating and informative answers, and don’t forget to check out his official website for more information on this novel, his other books, the television programs, and events. And read the book, of course!
Fools and Mortals is something of a departure for you. No military heroes, no battles, no Agincourt or Napoleonic Wars or Saxons vs. Danes. What made you decide to write a novel about William Shakespeare?
I suppose the short answer is a fascination with Shakespeare. The longer answer is that a dozen years ago I got involved with a summer-stock theater on Cape Cod—the Monomoy Theatre—and ever since have (mis)spent my summers on stage. The theater exists to give drama students from all across America the chance to experience a season of musicals and plays, eight productions in ten weeks, in front of a paying audience . . . the “grown-up” parts and the directors are all Equity professionals, but spear-carriers etc can be drawn from local people, which is how I got involved, except they seemed to quite like me so that over the years I’ve played Toby Belch, Friar Laurence, Henry IV, Peter Quince (twice) and, most memorably, Prospero. I’ve also danced and sung solos (dear God), and been in plays by Chekhov, Neil Simon, Arthur Miller and the wonderful Ken Ludwig. I’d never been on stage before and the experience has intrigued and fascinated me, and really gave rise to a novel about putting on a play!
The protagonist narrating the story is Richard Shakespeare, William’s younger brother. I confess I have no idea whether William had a younger brother, but it’s a great way to showcase a celebrity while maintaining your freedom as an author. Who is Richard, as a character? What does he want most out of life?
Shakespeare had three brothers! Giles, Edmund and Richard. We know something, not much, about the first two (Edmund became an actor, probably in his brother’s company, and died young. He’s buried in Southwark Cathedral), but we know virtually nothing about Richard, other than a parish record of his christening and another of his death. So he’s a wonderful character for an historical novelist! He really existed and we know nothing about him. I decided to invent a theatrical career for him because it gave him access to his brother, but also to make the relationship somewhat hostile because that kept William at arm’s length (and saved me from the hubris of inventing too much dialog for William Shakespeare, really!). Richard is a young man who wants what many young men want, success and a girl, and he doesn’t quite know how to get either, and he’s also stage-struck. He happens to be good-looking and he has natural talent, but he’s still going to need what all actors need—a little bit of luck!
Richard has at best an adversarial relationship with his older brother, who comes across as demanding, difficult, even somewhat rejecting and mean. This portrayal reflects, of course, Richard’s point of view. What made you decide to present them in this way?
I don’t think William is mean! He’s not too fond of his brother because Richard reminds him of Stratford and William has a decidedly mixed view of Stratford. On the one hand it’s where he began, where he probably did not enjoy much success, where his ambitions far exceeded his apparent opportunities, and where, in all probability, he contracted a less than satisfactory marriage. All of this, of course, is supposition based on slender evidence, but novelists thrive on such hints. Yet Stratford is also home and we know he invested heavily in land about the town and eventually built the second largest house there (New Place). That suggests he would only return to Stratford on his own terms, not as the son of John Shakespeare, a failed merchant, but as a very wealthy, prominent and influential citizen. Richard is a reminder of what he fled, and Richard is also a nuisance, wanting favors. William doesn’t need Richard, but Richard needs William, and William really doesn’t want the distraction. He’s a busy man! Entrepreneur, writer, actor, probably director, and the presence of a younger brother is an annoying distraction.
In Elizabethan England women could not play on the stage (the movie Shakespeare in Love’s contrary portrayal notwithstanding). So part of the animosity between the brothers comes about because Richard wants to stop playing women’s parts and move into men’s roles, especially after he falls in love. Why is Will so reluctant to allow this change?
Because the company doesn’t need another man! Actors, as a couple of the characters say in the book, are ten a penny (they still are). The Sharers, the owners of the company, all must have a part in any play and then there are a half dozen regular “Hired Men” who are paid a wage when they are needed, and after that come the apprentices, the boys who play women’s roles, pages and children. Richard is cheap to employ as an apprentice, but once he’s outgrown the roles of young women he’s just another freelance actor . . . of whom there are plenty. Basically he’s just another Hired Man and the Lord Chamberlain’s company already had plenty of those available. I don’t think Will is reluctant so much as he doesn’t see the need to encourage another hungry mouth around a theater already supplied with too many.
Specifically, Fools and Mortals revolves around the first staging of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and the writing of Romeo and Juliet. Why did you pick this period as the setting for your novel?
Probably the most fascinating thing about the period is that it sees the establishment of a professional theater industry—as we know it today. Before the 1570s there were no permanent playhouses. There were plays and players, but they were all peripatetic . . . traveling around the country giving performances in inn yards or wherever else they could. Now the key thing there is that your audience on Monday afternoon in Stratford will not be the same as the audience in Warwick on Wednesday, so you can do the same play, over and over, in different towns, fairly sure that the play will be new to the audience. That means you need very few plays in your repertoire. But then some genius hits on the idea of building a permanent playhouse, a theater. The only city in Britain capable of supporting a playhouse was London and, in short order, there were two such theaters. Now there’s a new problem. The audience is drawn from the same population day after day, week after week, month after month, so you need a lot of new material. Whereas the old traveling companies could probably survive on a half dozen plays, the new permanent companies found themselves producing thirty plus plays a year. You need new plays all the time, and that means you need playwrights! A new profession sprang up overnight, as did the idea of a permanent theater. It’s an amazing development, and one that was immediately successful and, like any emerging industry finding its way, there’s an excitement to the process.
One of the plot lines involves the theft of plays by a rival playhouse. I found this fascinating, especially since it’s implied that it was not uncommon in Shakespeare’s day. Do tell us more about that element of the story.
The playwrights of the 16th century did not enjoy the protection of copyright! It’s that simple. If the script of a play fell into the hands of a rival company, then there was no law to prevent them staging the play and, of course, paying no fee to the playwright. And plays were valuable! The audience was always eager for new material, so the companies guarded their scripts jealously. They did publish some, but only after they had exhausted the chances to perform the play. That’s how we have Shakespeare’s quartos . . . they were published once the company had decided there was nothing more to be squeezed out of them on stage, and of course, the sales of the books provided extra income, especially welcome when the playhouses were closed because of plague. It was probably very uncommon for a really valuable play to be stolen, but the fear of that happening was very real.
Richard also falls foul of the Pursuivants, known to the players as the Percies. Who are the Percies, and what do their activities reveal about the position of the theater in Shakespeare’s day?
Probably nothing! The Pursuivants existed to hunt down Catholics, and that has a great deal more to do with the Pope’s foolish bull that offered heavenly bliss to anyone who succeeded in assassinating Queen Elizabeth. That civil strife grumbles on throughout Elizabeth’s reign, a constant battle between Catholic plotters who wanted to replace Elizabeth with a Roman Catholic monarch and the secret service that combated them, and punished them horribly. The real enemy of the theater was the Puritans, who utterly disapproved of plays and players and who campaigned tirelessly to close down the theaters. In the end, 1642, they were successful, though happily their rule in England was mercifully brief and the theaters reopened in 1660 and have thrived ever since. Richard’s brush with Pursuivants is incidental: they believed, erroneously, that the Theatre (Shakespeare’s playhouse) was a den of secret Catholic sympathizers. They were certainly dangerous and merciless enemies, but they were also loyal to Elizabeth who, we know, was a lover of the theater.
There are some wonderful passages in the novel about writing and the stage. One of my favorites comes on p. 247, where Richard says, “We are players, and we love an audience. Sometimes, if a play is going badly, it is easy to think of the audience as an enemy, but truly they are a part of the play, because an audience changes the way we perform.” I know you act in repertory theater during the summers, and I think anyone who has taken part in a live performance recognizes how the presence of the audience imparts an energy that rehearsal simply doesn’t. We writers don’t interact with our readers that way. As someone who does both, how does that difference change things? Do you prefer one type of interaction over the other, and if so, why?
Bernard Cornwell as Prospero
© Michael & Suz Karchmer
Oh good Lord! I’m not frightened of writing (maybe I should be!), but going on stage is terrifying. Every year I wonder why I do it. I could spend my summers lollygagging on my sailboat, walking the dog, or extending my encyclopedic knowledge of Irish whiskies, but instead I have to learn lines, spend hours in rehearsal, act on a stage which isn’t touched by the theater’s air-conditioning in costumes designed for a Siberian winter, and risk making a complete fool of myself.
But then comes the performance and . . .
Yes, there’s a rush of adrenaline, the challenge of doing something which I never imagined I would ever do and the knowledge that I will probably never master it. I’m totally confident sailing a boat, I’ve crossed the Atlantic under sail, I seem to be doing all right as an author, but as an actor? Dear God, it challenges and frightens me. I must be reasonably good or they wouldn’t give me parts like Prospero, but I don’t know that. And yes, the reward is not just the applause . . . though of course that’s delicious, but the best is utter silence. This year I got the most applause (cheaply) dressed full-fig as a bishop, mitre and all, crossing the stage and singing, “I wanna be loved by you, by nobody else but you,” but that, wonderful as it was (exit applause! Yay!) was nothing to sensing the audience’s utter stillness during “Our revels now are ended.”
Which do I prefer? I love both. Must I choose?
Bernard Cornwell is the author of more than forty-five novels and one nonfiction book, Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies, and Three Battles (2014). His Last Kingdom and Sharpe series have also been turned into hit television programs. He lives in South Carolina with his wife, Judy, whom he married in 1980, and spends his summers acting in repertory theater on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, among other pursuits. Learn more about the topics he discusses here in his 2014 and 2016 interviews at New Books in Historical Fiction.
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Kendall College Welcomes Chef Eric Stein, R.D., as Newest Faculty Member
The Kendall College School of Culinary Arts announces the addition of Chef Eric Stein, MS, RD, to its faculty. As an instructor specializing in culinary nutrition, Stein brings a contemporary cooking style to Kendall that emphasizes nutrient-rich foods and global flavor profiles.
“Kendall College proudly welcomes Chef Stein to our teaching family,” said Renee Zonka, RD, CEC, CHE, MBA, dean of the School of Culinary Arts. “He arrives at a time when interest from prospective students in our nutrition concentration has never been higher. Chef Stein’s wealth of experience teaching in this relatively new, timely and eminent field of study will continue to distinguish Kendall College as a leader in culinary education.”
Prior to arriving at Kendall, Stein spent a year working in the kitchens of the AAA Five Diamond Award-winning Greenbrier resort in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., where he enhanced his technical skills under Certified Master Chef Richard Rosendale. He has also served as Colorado’s state coordinator for the American Dietetic Association’s vegetarian practice group as well as on the board of advisors for Cooking Matters Colorado, a program under the auspices of Share Our Strength that empowers families with the skills, knowledge and confidence to prepare healthy and affordable meals.
“I came to Kendall because of the great reputation of its School of Culinary Arts,” Stein says. “I feel very fortunate that they wanted me to be affiliated with the program. At Kendall, I can teach what I love, continue to expand my skills as a culinary professional, and work with a group of extraordinarily talented chefs. All the while I can also educate students in our ever-changing field.”
Stein is a regular contributor to DiningOut, the nation's premier guide to restaurants in select U.S. cities, as well as Chef Educator Today, the quarterly magazine of the Foodservice Educators Network International (FENI). His first book, Culinary Nutrition Principles and Applications, for the academic market, will be published in early 2012 by American Technical Publishers. Stein is also the owner of Enlightened Flavors, LLC, a consulting company that provides food and nutrition services to consumers, spas and restaurants.
He began his career in culinary education as a graduate teaching assistant at Eastern Illinois University, where he received his master’s degree in nutrition education. From there he returned to his culinary alma mater, Johnson & Wales University’s College of Culinary Arts in Denver, where he taught across the curriculum in both the associate of applied science (AAS) and culinary-nutrition baccalaureate programs.
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Rob’s Review: Ender’s Game
By: Rob Bernard November 6, 2013 Reviews No comments
Good acting from the teen leads.
Ending well-paced.
Top notch visual effects.
Tries to cram a lot of story into 2 hours of movie. Feels rushed.
Directed by: Gavin Hood
Written by: Gavin Hood
Stars: Asa Butterfield, Harrison Ford, Hailee Steinfeld, Abigail Breslin, Ben Kingsley, Viola Davis
Rated PG-13 for some violence, sci-fi action and thematic material.
“I didn’t want to see you.”
“They told me.”
“I was afraid that I’d still love you.” ― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
I need to start this review off with a disclaimer. Ender’s Game is my favorite book of all time, and that puts me in a tricky spot here. The desire to see it on the big screen has fought mightily with the fear that they’d just screw it up. They didn’t screw it up, but they didn’t quite hit it out of the park either.
Andrew “Ender” Wiggen is a child who has been drafted into the International Fleet, who are training child soldiers to lead their space fleets against the Formics, aliens who invaded Earth 50 years previously. Asa Butterfield plays Ender, Abigail Breslin is Ender’s sister who is left behind on Earth as Ender is taken to the orbiting Battle School where students/soldiers train in armies and fight wargames in Zero-G. Hailee Steinfeld is one of Ender’s fellow child soldiers, and Harrison Ford, Ben Kingsley, and Viola Davis are in charge of the training program. The performances are quite good throughout, which is especially impressive given the young age of most of the cast.
I was torn when I heard Gavin Hood would be writing and directing. On the one hand, he wrote and directed Tsotsi, which is good. On the other hand he also directed X-Men Origins: Wolverine, which is not good. Especially when you consider that the worst part of X-Men Origins: Wolverine (except for maybe the unwieldy title) were the special effects, which seemed about half finished. With so much of Ender’s Game being Zero-G battles of one kind or another, it was always going to be a special effects-heavy film and I had serious doubts about whether Hood could handle that. Luckily, I was pleasantly surprised by how the effects turned out, they’re really exceptional throughout.
To the extent that the movie does falter, it’s in the writing. I don’t think Hood ever really figured out how to fit 350 pages of story into 120 pages of script. He hits on all the high points of the original story, but there’s not enough time to spend on any of them to really build the tension and emotional connection that are needed. As a result, the first 3/4 of the movie feels very rushed. What the first 3/4 lacks in heart, though, the last 1/4 makes up for in soaring music. As a fan of the books I could criticize it about all kinds of niggling details like the location of Command School, or colonial governorships, but I won’t. Within the context of the movie the end works very well. It’s well paced and hits the right notes, and you leave the theater on a high note.
Ender’s Game has good acting, great visuals, and is generally a faithful adaptation of the book. I felt it could have used another half hour or so to reinforce the perils of Battle School, but if they did that most people would probably be complaining that it was too slow…
Trailer Tuesday: Final Ender’s Game Trailer
By: Rob Bernard August 6, 2013 News 1 Comment
The final Ender’s Game trailer is out today. More battle scenes, some lake shots, a little more Battle Room, a lot of space scenes…
Ender’s Game tells the story of Andrew “Ender” Wiggin, a boy who is recruited by the military and sent to a space station with other child soldiers to train battle the alien Formics. Directed by Gavin Hood, and starring Harrison Ford, Ben Kingsley, Asa Butterfield, Abigail Breslin, Hailee Steinfeld, and Viola Davis. It comes to theaters November 1st.
*Photo courtesy Summit Entertainment
New Videos: Ender’s Game
By: Rob Bernard July 18, 2013 News 2 Comments
The Ender’s Game movie is at Comic-Con this week, and along with that comes two new preview videos.
The first is a Battle School recruitment video:
And the second is a bit more fleshed out as an intro and covers Mazer Rackham’s exploits in the first invasion:
Teaser Trailer: Ender’s Game
By: Rob Bernard May 7, 2013 News 3 Comments
The first trailer for the Ender’s Game movie has been released! Now please excuse me for a few hours while I geek out…
Ender’s Game tells the story of Andrew “Ender” Wiggin, a boy who is recruited by the military and sent to a space station with other child soldiers to train battle the alien Formics. Directed by Gavin Hood, and starring Harrison Ford, Ben Kingsley, Asa Butterfield, Abigail Breslin, Hailee Steinfeld, and Viola Davis.
First Video From Ender’s Game Movie
In the teaser… to the teaser… to the full trailer… to the movie coming out in November Asa Butterfield and Harrison Ford tell us that the teaser will be available on Google and Youtube next week, and then some brief clips from the film are shown.
I’m not entirely sure Harrison Ford actually knows what “Google” and “Youtube” are…
OMG, an Ender’s Game Trailer Actually Exists!
By: Rob Bernard April 19, 2013 News 7 Comments
Variety reports on Lionsgate’s presentation at Cinemacon today. Asa Butterfield, Hailee Steinfeld and Harrison Ford were on-hand to present an extended look at the Ender’s Game movie, and the trailer was premiered. The trailer will be attached to Star Trek Into Darkness, being released May 17th. Per Variety, Ford “promised that the movie will touch moviegoer’s hearts.” (more…)
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Radford University offers a diverse curriculum of more than 105 undergraduate and graduate degree programs or areas of concentration focused on student achievement and career preparation. A student body of nearly 9,400 studies in seven colleges: Business and Economics , Education and Human Development , Humanities and Behavioral Sciences , Artis College of Science and Technology , Visual and Performing Arts , Waldron College of Health and Human Services , and the College of Graduate Studies and Research.
The College of Graduate Studies and Research offers programs of study at the master’s, specialist and doctoral levels. These programs provide advanced and specialized courses of study, supervised practicum experiences and opportunities for research. The university has an outstanding nationally recruited faculty, about 82 percent of whom hold doctorates or other terminal degrees in their teaching fields. While their primary focus is on the teaching and learning process, the faculty also is engaged in significant scholarly, creative, and public service activities.
Radford University is located in the city of Radford (population 17,184), 36 miles southwest of Roanoke, Va., on Route 11 and I-81 in the New River Valley, close to the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. The university atmosphere is residential. Most students live in university residence halls or in private apartments and houses within walking distance of the campus. The university grounds and facilities are conveniently arranged, beautifully maintained and effectively designed to meet the academic, personal and extracurricular needs and interests of the students.
Radford University serves the Commonwealth of Virginia and the nation through a wide range of academic, cultural, human service and research programs. First and foremost, the university emphasizes teaching and learning and the process of learning in its commitment to the development of mature, responsible and well-educated citizens. RU develops students’ creative and critical thinking skills, teaches students to analyze problems and implement solutions, helps students discover their leadership styles and fosters their growth as leaders. Toward this end, the university is student-focused and promotes a sense of caring and meaningful interaction among all members of the university community. Research is viewed as a vital corollary to the teaching and learning transaction as it sustains and enhances the ability to teach effectively. Radford University believes in the dynamics of change and has a strong commitment to continual review, evaluation and improvement in the curriculum and all aspects of the university so as to meet the changing needs of society.
Radford University was established by the General Assembly as the State Normal and Industrial School for Women in 1910 and has been in continual session since its 1913 opening. The university became Radford State Teachers College in 1924 and was authorized to award the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1935. In 1944, the university was consolidated with the Virginia Polytechnic Institute as its Women’s Division and renamed Radford College. The General Assembly severed the formal affiliation of Radford College with Virginia Tech in 1964, and an autonomous administration was established for Radford College. The college also was authorized to grant the Master of Science degree. In 1972, after almost 60 years as an all-women’s college, Radford became coeducational and in 1979 was granted university status by the General Assembly.
Today, Radford University is a coeducational, comprehensive institution with undergraduate and graduate programs.
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The university’s 204-acre campus is in a residential section of the city of Radford. Most of the university’s 23 administrative, academic and student service buildings and 15 residence halls are on two large quadrangles in a 76-acre area. Hurlburt Hall, nicknamed The Bonnie in honor of former Dean of Students Bonnie Hurlburt, opened in 2006.
A new complex to house the College of Business and Economics was completed in August 2012. The building is a three-story business education center housing 16 classrooms, conference rooms, a behavioral laboratory and a trading room.
Construction began in summer 2012 on the Center for the Sciences. The new complex encompasses an existing 1930s-era Georgian building and a Modernist 1960s addition to that building. Opening in January 2016, the $49 million, 115,000-square-foot complex includes faculty and staff offices, teaching and research laboratories and space for the Museum of the Earth Sciences and the Radford University Planetarium.
The College of Humanities and Behavioral Sciences moved into its new building in August of 2016. At 143,600 square feet, it is the largest academic building on the campus, featuring over 50 classrooms and specialized learning spaces including a Broadcasting Studio, an Emergency Operations Center, a Social Media Watch Center and a courtroom.
Radford University has always been committed to educating the whole student, both inside and outside of the classroom. To that end, 110,000-square-foot recreation and wellness center opened in 2014. The facility provides students with recreational, wellness and exercise therapies.
Radford’s recreation and convocation complex, the Dedmon Center, was completed in fall 1981 on a 78-acre tract along the New River across U.S. Route 11 (East Main Street) from the main campus. The Dedmon Center Arena, which seats about 3,500, recently underwent a multimillion dollar face lift, making it one of the premiere athletic facilities in the Big South Conference and Mid-Atlantic Region.
Natural forest growth, unusual rock formations, the surrounding hills and the New River provide a scenic setting for the university. Radford is not completely immune to the extremes of summer and winter weather, but the climate is basically temperate, with hot days and cool nights in the summer and cool to cold weather in the winter. Fall and spring months in the Appalachian Highlands bring some of the most enjoyable weather to be found anywhere on the East Coast. Points of interest for the visitor to Radford and the surrounding areas include Claytor Lake and the scenic Blue Ridge Parkway, which is 45 minutes from the campus. Claytor Lake, off Interstate 81 in Pulaski County, offers picnicking, camping, boating, swimming and hiking areas.
The Radford University Foundation owns a 376-acre tract of land known as the Selu Conservancy. The conservancy, which borders the Little River and is about 5 miles southeast of the campus, was received in two separate donations. John H. Bowles donated the original 185 acres in fall 1989; four additional members of the Bowles family donated 191 acres of adjacent land in spring 1991. Through various campus departments, students are able to use this continuous tract in studies of ecology and botany, mapping geological features, as a model in resource management and maintenance formation on actual building techniques as well as cultural and oral histories. In addition to its educational opportunities, the conservancy offers a glimpse of Southwest Virginia’s distinctive landscape and resources.
Facilities include conference and meeting facilities which are uniquely designed as part of The Barn and Observatory at Selu. The Barn serves as a research center and observatory. The first floor is a science laboratory, and the second floor contains meeting rooms and classrooms. The Selu Observatory, which adjoins The Barn, is designed to resemble a silo. The Farmhouse at Selu is an authentic replica of a 1930s homestead. Reservations are required for use of the facilities at Selu Conservancy.
The influence of the Scottish immigrants who settled Southwest Virginia more than 300 years ago is visible today in many areas of the university. These people were characterized by “firmness of decision, resourcefulness, ardor in friendship, love of country and a generous enthusiasm.” Radford’s athletic teams celebrate that heritage by proudly carrying the Highlander name into competition.
Radford University is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges to award baccalaureate, masters, educational specialist and doctorate degrees. Contact the Commission on Colleges at 1866 Southern Lane, Decatur, GA 30033-4097 or call (404) 679-4500 for questions about the accreditation of Radford University.
Specialized program accreditation has been granted to the following programs: Undergraduate and Graduate Business Administration – by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, International; Teacher Education (all programs) – by the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation and the Virginia Department of Education; Nursing (undergraduate and graduate) – by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education; Computer Science by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology; Social Work (baccalaureate degree) – by the Council on Social Work Education; Interior Design – by the Council for Interior Design Accreditation; Theatre – by the National Association of Schools of Theatre; Recreation, Parks and Tourism – by the Council on Accreditation for Parks, Recreation and Tourism and Related Professions; Music – by the National Association of Schools of Music; Graduate Program in Speech-Language Pathology – by the Council on Academic Accreditation in Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association; Nutrition and Dietetics – by the Accreditation Council for Education in Nutrition and Dietetics ; Counselor Education– by the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs; Master of Occupational Therapy – by the Accreditation Council for Occupational Therapy Education and Doctor of Physical Therapy – by the Commission on Accreditation in Physical Therapy Education, School Psychology (Ed.S.) – by the National Association of School Psychologists and Counseling Psychology – (doctorate) by the American Psychological Association.
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The university year is divided into two semesters, August to December (fall semester) and January to May (spring semester), a winter term, and five summer sessions. Students may enter the university at the opening of either semester or summer session. Students who wish to complete their academic careers in three calendar years are encouraged to enter in May or June and should plan to attend summer sessions for at least three years.
The university is composed of seven colleges: College of Business and Economics , College of Education and Human Development , College of Humanities and Behavioral Sciences , Artis College of Science and Technology , Waldron College of Health and Human Services , College of Visual and Performing Arts , and the College of Graduate Studies and Research. The chief administrative officer of each college is its dean, who reports to the Provost.
Each academic department within a given college is responsible for the content and prerequisites of courses offered by the department and specifies the requirements for the department’s degree and certification programs. The chair is the chief administrative officer at the department level.
The university administers undergraduate and graduate programs at the Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center in Abingdon, the partnership program with Virginia Western Community College in Roanoke, the Roanoke Higher Education Center and at various locations in the service region. Selected classes are also delivered by two-way interactive video and the Internet in support of extended campus programs. For specific information and assistance related to programs at extended campus locations, contact each office coordinator as follows:
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Radford University does not discriminate with regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, disability, age, veteran status, national origin, religion, or political affiliation in the administration of its educational programs, activities, admission or employment practices. Inquiries about this policy may be directed to the Director of Human Resources at 600 Tyler Avenue. Telephone: voice (540) 831-5008; hearing impaired (540) 831-5128. Student inquiries may be directed to the Office of the Dean of Students in Heth Hall; (540) 831-5321.
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Auto executive Iacocca recalled for love of family during funeral Mass
First woman religious to lead Catholic Health Association dies at 101
Msgr. Joseph Corley, beloved pastor and friend, dies at 72
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Bishop Joseph Galante, bishop of Camden, dies at 80
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Deacon John G. Boyle, a retired permanent deacon of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, died March 3 at his home due to complications from COPD and emphysema. He was 74 years old.
Deacon Boyle was ordained June 11, 2006 at the Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul by Cardinal Justin Rigali. He was assigned to Holy Name of Jesus Parish in Philadelphia and had served there actively until he retired for health reasons on Oct. 30, 2016.
Deacon Boyle retired in 2007 from the Internal Revenue Service. For the past 48 years, he was married to the former Anne M. Meir. In addition to his wife, Deacon Boyle is survived by a daughter Anne, two grandchildren, his twin sister, Dominican Sister Joan Boyle, and one other sister.
The funeral Mass was celebrated March 8 at Holy Name of Jesus Church in Philadelphia. Auxiliary Bishop John J. McIntyre was the main celebrant and celebrants included Fathers John Sibel and Francis P. Groarke, who was also the homilist.
The deacon of the Mass was Deacon John J. DuBois. Deacon chaplains were Deacon Michael G. Conroy and Deacon Joseph W. Lonergan.
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Italy Is Unintentionally Advertising Bitcoin, Here’s How
The political and economic tensions between Italy and Europe are shaking the Eurozone. Italy has threatened to launch a currency parallel to the Euro to restore its debts to individuals and businesses, suggesting a possible “Italexit.” This, together with other moves introduced by the Italian government, has increased the demand for alternative assets such as Bitcoin.
Italy Is Shaking the Eurozone
Italy is experiencing a period of unprecedented political and economic instability.
It was enough to come up with a semi-propaganda message sponsored by the Five Star Movement and the League, the two parties in charge of the government, to shake up the rest of Europe.
The proposal would allow Italy to produce “mini-BOTs,” an alternative currency to pay off its debts with businesses and families. The proposal was so shocking that it attracted the attention of European commissioners in Brussels, the President of the ECB Mario Draghi, and the Economy Minister, Giovanni Tria, to reassure the partners of the region that the operation will not be carried out.
The news has even captured the attention of rating agency Moody’s and the Financial Times, which admit that this could be Italy’s first step towards exiting the Eurozone.
In April 2019, just before the rating valuation, Marcus Ashworth, one of the leading commentators of Bloomberg, warned investors about an imminent Italian financial crisis. Specifying that it is only a matter of “when,” not “if.”
The warning was confirmed on April 26, 2019, by Standard and Poor’s which affirmed Italy’s BBB rating thus forewarning the possibility of a downgrade in the next two years. Currently, Italy is just two steps above the investment grade boundary line that would classify its securities as highly-speculative Investments.
But there are other critical points to consider. To carry out their assessments rating agencies consider the trend of three indicators: The growth of the economy, the deficit-debt ratio, and the spread with respect to German government bonds.
Unfortunately, Italy does not transmit good news on any front.
The expected growth in 2019 stood at 1.1 percent; now the estimates range between -0.2 percent (OECD) and +0.2 percent (government and EU Commission). These forecasts mainly reflect the greater weakness of foreign demand observed in recent months and confirm the conditions of high uncertainty in the market.
The Italian deficit-debt ratio is likely to skyrocket in the face of risky government maneuvers including the privatization of 19 billion euros and increasing value-added taxes (VAT) for 2020. Meanwhile, even though the spread decreased from over 300 points in October 2018 to around 260.1 basis points, the Bank of Italy has highlighted that the numbers of which the government must be very careful are a deficit of over three percent and a debt towards 135 percent of the GDP. These levels are defined as unsustainable.
All these elements have fueled tensions between Europe and Italy, placing the latter at risk of an infringement procedure for excessive debt. Such an infringment would be the first time in the history of the European Union.
The Unlikely (but Scary) Italian Proposals
Nevertheless, Matteo Salvini and Luigi Di Maio, leaders of the League and the Five Star Movement respectively, think that the EU will not follow through with the infringement procedure and remove the hypothesis of a possible corrective maneuver to respect the indications of the EU.
Judging from their statements, the two leaders seem completely uninterested in the world of economics. In fact, in recent weeks some of their proposals have caught the attention of the international media for their absurdity while others for the moral implications they entail.
Here is a list of a few of the proposals:
A Fortune Tax: After destroying pensions of thousands of Italians with the homonym reform, Elsa Fornero proposed the introduction of a tax on Italian families’ fortunes. The foundation of this proposal follows that although the Italian state is quite indebted, its citizens are fairly rich on average. The goal would be to transfer private funds to public funds in order to reduce the debt. However, the Cottarelli Observatory estimates that it would take a rate of at least ten percent to bring the debt-to-GDP ratio to 80 percent. The difficulty of these proposal lies in the fact that most Italians’ wealth is immobilized in non-liquid assets (real estate, land, jewelry, art, etc.). If one considers instead financial wealth, one should assume the need for savers to disinvest at least part of their assets to obtain the liquidity needed to pay the tax. But Italy is no stranger to such operations. In 1992, in fact, the Amato government withdrew Italian accounts without warning with the retroactive introduction of a 0.6 percent forced withdrawal.
“Risparmiometro: Officially called “Super Anagrafe dei Conti,” the “Risparmiometro” (literally “savings indicator”) is an algorithm made available by the “Agenzia delle Entrate” (the Italian Revenue Agency) which allows Italians to monitor savings deposited in the bank. To date, the Revenue Agency has relied on unjustified expenditures to find possible tax evasion. Now the process will be reversed. If a citizen spends “little” compared to what they earn or invest, the Revenue Agency will assume that there is unreported income behind and will launch an investigation. If the citizen fails to justify their “few” expenses, they will suffer a forced withdrawal proportionate to the alleged undeclared income, in addition to sanctions.
Tax on Safety Deposit Boxes: A Hypothesis of the Minister of the Interior Matteo Salvini in view of the appointment with Europe at the Ecofin on July 9, 2018, to recover part of those billions that would reassure relations with the EU and the market without having to increases VAT or revert to the fortune tax. The proposal would consist of a tax for those who keep money in a safe deposit (it is estimated that around 200 billion euros in cash would be kept in a million and a half safe deposit services in Italy).
Mini-BOT: Trojan Horse for the Eurozone: The idea of introducing mini-Bots comes from League deputy Claudio Borghi and was presented both in the electoral program of Salvini and in the government contract signed by the League with the Five Star Movement. The mini-BOTs are none other than ordinary Treasury Bonds (Bot) of small denomination (5,10,50, or 100 euros) which would be used to pay debts that the public administration has contracted with the entrepreneurs who invested in government bonds. They have no maturity, do not guarantee interest and, unlike ordinary government bonds, they would be paper and not digital. In other words, they would be Monopoly money produced to benefit the state.
The international tensions and the fear of an Italexit lead to one conclusion: the Euro is anything but solid.
The Role of Bitcoin
Although these tensions between Italy and Europe highlight the political instability of the Eurozone and the Euro, they also increase the appeal for new forms of deflationary, non-political, open, borderless and equitable currencies like Bitcoin (BTC).
Bitcoin represents an equal and opposite alternative to the current monetary system. It is the hardest form of currency ever produced and cannot in any way be manipulated or controlled by governments or banks. Its supply remains fixed and predictable by mathematical rules.
It has no border, meaning proposals like the tax on Italian security deposits do nothing but increase the demand for goods of this type. If people realize that governments and banks have total control over their finances, transferring their savings to “risky” assets like bitcoin will no longer be so scary. It’s a question of survival.
Even though Bitcoin is not advertised, the Bitcoin community is very active in Italy. To date, there are 4,938 bitcoin ATMs spread across 77 countries worldwide according to data collected by CoinATMradar and Italy ranks tenth on this list with 42 ATMs installed in the country.
The concentration of merchants that accepts bitcoin is also high, as we can see from the coinmap.org website.
(Source: Coinmap.org)
The Bitcoin ecosystem is led by a few startups scattered throughout Italy. Notably, one can find a popular trading desk in Milan called Coin Society, the Bitcoin Valley in Trentino, and the payment provider tinkl.it in Bologna. Going further south, Italy has Chainside in Rome and bitcoin4business in Sardinia, both of which are working on Bitcoin payments solutions.
Furthermore, Bitcoin and blockchain are also known at the institutional level. On January 23, 2019, the Italian Senate Committee approved its first piece of legislation which defined the technology to be used for authenticating the time stamp of documents. Italy’s Ministry of Economic Development has also brought on 30 blockchain experts to develop a crypto strategy for the nation.
There is still a long way to go. Although Bitcoin is unknown to the general public, the events in Europe and Italy do nothing but highlight its potential. Bitcoin is not a company, does not have a CEO, and does not do marketing, unlike many other cryptocurrencies. However, this did not stop the pioneer cryptocurrency from reaching billions of dollars in market cap.
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27 November 2018 Under the High Patronage of under the High Patronage His Majesty King Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa, Opening ceremony of the Pearling Path Visitor's Center
Under the High Patronage His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, May God Protect Him, Bahrain Authority for Culture & Antiquities will celebrate the closing ceremony of a year-long amazing cultural events and activities as part of Muharraq Capital of Islamic Culture program 2018, on 28 & 29 November 2018. In addition, on 28 November, there will an inauguration ceremony of Pearling Path Visitor Center, a UNESCO World Heritage List site since 2012, in Muharraq, while the National Theater will host host a music concert announcing the closing ceremony of the celebrations marking Muharraq as the Capital of Islamic Culture 2018.
Thursday, 29 November, Manama will warmly welcome and host the Extraordinary Islamic Conference of Culture Ministers, organized by the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO), in cooperation with Bahrain Authority for Culture & Antiquities.
During the celebrations of Muharraq as the Capital of Islamic Culture 2018, the Kingdom of Bahrain witnessed a series of exceptional events in a year-long whereby amazing cultural events and activities were presented to local, regional and international audiences, enhancing Bahrain’s position as a historical and cultural production center.
Speaking for the occasion, H.E Shaikha Mai Bint Mohammad Al-Khalifa said “ The year of celebrations of a much loved and ever giving and caring city has come to an end under the wise leadership of His Majesty”. H.E added “ Today, Muharraq city’s mission has been accomplished, presenting to the whole world an exceptional cultural infrastructure stereotype of cultural movement’s mechanisms”. H.E rejoined “ In a very short time, we will inaugurate the Pearling Path Visitor Center, successfully made possible thanks to the support and sponsorship of His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, May God Protect Him”. H.E also added that Bahrain Culture Authority has carried out many bright cultural achievements during this year, promoting Bahrain as a culture hub, a bridge connecting between peoples and civilizations. H.E has pointed out that the Extraordinary Islamic Conference of Culture Ministers, is aimed at encouraging countries to exchange universal and historical relations and strong ties between the Islamic countries and the rest of the world.
Inauguration of The Pearling Path Visitor's Center
Bahrain Culture Authority has planned a special event for this occasion to be held His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, May God Protect Him, in the presence of Ministers of Culture in the Organization of Islamic Cooperation. The closing ceremony will be held at the Pearling Path Visitor Center, which is located at the heart of Muharraq city, surrounded by historical commercial buildings and Amarat of the Old Suq. Pearling: Testimony of an Island Economy’s Visitor Center is located in Muharraq’s old Suq amid historical houses, encompassing designs and historical remains of two iconic buildings (Amarat Ali Rachid Fakhro), as well as other artifacts on site. The center also provides a public gathering space for local community and residents. Pearling Path Visitor Center targets a large portion of visitors and the public, a sort of community center engulfing spaces for exhibitions, children’s corners, commercial center as an interactive space, workshops, as well as an archive for pearling history, a library and facilities for conference holding. The center also hosts an pearls’ exhibition, showcasing a selection of
Shimmering Bahraini natural pearls, worldly known for its purity and brightness and are quite literally Bahrain’s national treasure. The selection of pearls, borrowed from Bahrain national Museum also include the most expensive 6 necklaces from Matar Jewelry House, keen to present the most glimmering rarest pearls available in the Golf region. The exhibition also showcases Cartier’s unique selection of natural Bahraini pearls, masterly designed and decorated. The Pearling Path Visitor Center is designed by Swiss world-famous architect Valerio Olgiati architects. Swiss architect Valerio Olgiati spoke at NIDA in Sydney, as a guest of the Australian Institute of Architects’ International Speaker Series, teaching at World’s top universities and a well-known a cult figure in architecture in Europe and America since the beginnings of the 20th century,
Bahrain National Theater Festive Events
Celebrations will then move to Manama city, whereby bells of peace and love will ring, fir the first time outside the USA at Bahrain National Theater, as part of the a joint-event by UNDP and the charity “Torch of Love and Peace” the event focused on the contributions of the Kingdom of Bahrain towards the consolidation of peace around the world and the role of youth in conflict reduction and peace.
Bahrain National Theater will also host the closing ceremony of the celebrations marking Muharraq as the Capital of Islamic Culture 2018, government’s official speeches and honoring ceremony. A special music concert, “Dreams of a Traveler – A Tale from Muharraq” will follow this, presenting award- winning international innovators. Artistic Director Jose Antonio Ruiz, Choreographer Patrick de Bana, and composer Jose Nieto join forces to tell the story of the protagonist Aziz’s journey as he searches for himself.
Islamic Conference of Culture Ministers, Manama
The Extraordinary Islamic Conference of Culture Ministers, will kick off on 29 November 2018 at Ritz Carlton Hotel. The meeting will be attended by Ministers of Culture in the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, an international organization founded in 1969, consisting of 57 member states, as well as by directors of regional and international organizations. The meeting will discuss many recommendations and important cultural projects to be adopted by the general assembly, such as the “ Draft Action Programme on Promoting Islamic and International Support for the Preservation of Civilizational and Cultural Heritage in Al-Quds Al-Sharif”, and “Draft Manama Process on the Activation of Joint Islamic Cultural Action to face Extremism, Sectarianism and Terrorism”. The Conference will also issue the “Bahrain Declaration on Safeguarding Human Heritage and Facing Extremism”.
Worth to mention that the 9th Islamic Conference of Culture Ministers, which was held in Muscat, Sultanate of Oman under the theme: "Towards a Middle Stance Culture Favouring Muslim Societies’ Development", has adopted in 2015, the nomination of Muharraq as the Capital of Islamic Culture in 2018, given the richness of its historical and cultural assets and deeply-rooted universal human heritage, as well as its sustainable development components, reflecting its modernity and genuine endeavors.
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30 Days of Dreamcast – Day 22: Maken X
Mark B. | September 22, 2009 | Archive, Features, Sega Dreamcast, Top Story, Video Game Reviews | No Comments
Maken X
Genre: First-Person Shooter
Developer: Atlus
Publisher: Sega
Release Date: 10/31/99
The Japanese seem to have a drastically different idea of the purpose of FPS titles than Americans do. With the odd exceptions of something like Condemned 2, most American developers look at the FPS genre and try to come up with ways of making their game the best FPS available. The Japanese, by comparison, look at the FPS genre and try (or so it seems) to come up with ways of making their game the WEIRDEST FPS available. This is not to say that “weird” can’t go hand-in-hand with “good”, as products like Metroid Prime and Pathways Into Darkness have shown, but for Japanese developers, the desire to make the product good almost seems a secondary goal; the primary goal seems to be to turn the concept of the FPS on its head in some way or another, and if the end result is tolerable or better, hey, bonus!
Which neatly brings us to Maken X. Released on the Dreamcast in 2000, Maken X was an odd hybrid of action and FPS gameplay that was wrapped up in a weird, Shin Megami Tensei-esque plot and framed with character designs drawn up, oddly enough, by Kazuma Kaneko, and if designs and concepts were enough to make a product an instant-classic, Maken X would be just that five times over. Unfortunately, Maken X had the misfortune of being a niche title on a console not known for its FPS games, and some at-times unfriendly gameplay quirks kept it from being all it could have been, to the point that a PS2 re-release was converted into a straight 3rd person action title that never saw a US release. Time can heal all wounds, however, so let’s take a look and see if Maken X has aged like a fine wine… or like Thunderbird.
The story of Maken X sounds pretty basic on paper: a scientist develops a secret super-weapon that is expected to be of significant benefit to mankind, but a shadowy organization comes to try and steal said super-weapon AND said scientist, and his daughter, Maya, rushes to the defense of her father with said super-weapon in tow. Simple enough, right? The twist, though, is that YOU’RE said super-weapon, a living sword dubbed Maken by his creator, and YOU’RE the one running the show. When Maya first grabs onto you, you fuse with her both physically and spiritually, and the two of you embark on a quest to save her father… if you feel like it. Maken is given several choices throughout the game, and depending on how you feel about a situation, you can choose to be a hero, a villain, amoral or completely chaotic, and as you progress forward the story changes to reflect your decisions, allowing you to reach one of several different endings depending on your choices. You’ll also periodically meet up with several representatives on both sides of this conflict, either as allies or enemies, and the decisions you make while speaking with them shape the way the conflict will resolve, one way or the other.
I’m just going to say this straight out: the story in Maken X is outstanding, period. There’s some solid characterization and world-building involved in making the story as awesome as it is, certainly, but a huge part of what makes the story so good is that the various choices you can make actually make a difference, in ways that are both interesting and unexpected. See, here’s the thing: the “good” guys, though they are doing their best to save the world, are often morally ambiguous and jaded, and they often behave like tyrants. The bad guys, by comparison, aren’t particularly pleasant and nice EITHER, but their ideology isn’t hideous and it’s entirely possible to be sympathetic to their ends, if not their means. If you follow the plans of the good guys and work with them, you’ll end up saving the world and being a hero and whatnot. If you spend your time complaining about having to help the good guys and objecting to their demands, you can eventually join up with the bad guys instead. If you don’t really like anyone, you can instead turn down the offers from everyone and go about ripping EVERYONE asunder, just for your own amusement. No, I’m not kidding. Maken X allows you to be as big of a hero/jerk as you want, and while there are repercussions, both morally and physically, it’s nice to see a story not only allow you to make your own choices, but to also present you the effects of those choices.
Visually, Maken X is still fairly pretty after all these years, and while it’s technologically not particularly impressive, the art style and designs make up for this. The character and enemy models are generally interesting, and the contrast between normal folks and the super-powered beings that make up the opposing sides of the conflict is interesting and well conceived. The texture modeling is a bit dated, but the game still looks pleasant and interesting enough to be acceptable in this day and age, so you won’t be trying to claw your eyes out just for looking at it, even if it isn’t as impressive as it used to be. The in-game music is quite solid and fits the product well, as it’s mostly a mix of upbeat, combat-ready techno with some inspired haunting melodies when the plot calls for them. The voice acting is okay, IE it’s not as bad as that of The House of the Dead but not as good as Persona 4, and the sound effects are mostly quite solid and work with the game well. There are a few complaints to be made about the localization here and there, between the occasionally spotty translation and the not terribly exciting voice work, but by and large, there’s nothing here that’s particularly BAD, just not impressive, so overall, the audio is solid.
As has been stated previously, Maken X is an FPS title, albeit a strange one, so as you might expect, everything is done from the first person perspective. The controls are pretty simplistic; the stick moves you around, and instead of having a second stick to look around with, holding the left trigger allows you to free look. Holding the right trigger allows you to lock on to enemies, A jumps, and X attacks enemies. Holding X allows you to charge up for a power attack, called an EX attack here, that can deal additional damage, but simply pressing it over and over attacks normally. Pressing A while moving left and right allows you to jump sideways to dodge enemies when you’re locked on, holding down on the D-pad allows you to block enemy attacks, allowing you to quickly follow up with an attack to strike down the attacking enemies, and you can also deflect enemy projectiles by attacking them at the right time. Anyone who’s played an FPS in the past few years should be able to grasp the mechanics, though they’re a little odd, as most FPS titles use the triggers to fire and buttons to lock on, while Maken X does the opposite, though this is in no way detrimental to the experience itself.
Now, at first glance Maken X looks to be little more than an odd, science fiction FPS with some Megaten elements and designs tossed in, but there’s a lot more to the product than it seems at first glance. The game’s major gimmick is the Brain Jack system, and it’s through this system that you will gain new and different abilities. Maken, being little more than a soul in a sword, can’t do a whole lot on his own, so it falls to him to take over prospective hosts by jacking into their brains and making them do his dirty work for him. What this means from a gameplay standpoint is that you’ll meet up with various beings, good and bad, who you can take possession of as needed, whether they offer you this option by choice or by force, and you’ll essentially just jack into them, effectively taking them over. At this point you “become” that character and can use all of the skills that character can use in battle. As you meet more and more characters, you’ll notice they all have different Brain Jack levels, which indicates how powerful Maken has to be to take control of them. Maken improves his Brain Jack levels by picking up PSI energy left behind by some defeated foes, which in turn allows him to Brain Jack more powerful characters, which allows you to upgrade your abilities as you progress. Each character you meet that can be Brain Jacked is rated in three categories: Life, or how much health they have, Power, or how much damage they do, and Speed, or how fast they move. Each character also has different abilities they can use as you play, so some characters will have multi-hit charge attacks, some will have ranged attacks, and so on, so you’ll have to make your choice as to which character to use based on the situation at hand.
The other interesting thing about Maken X is the diverging storyline. See, the choices you make determine the outcome of the story, for good or ill, and there are multiple endings to the game, depending on how you choose to do things. These multiple endings also, in most cases, mean that you’ll be able to see multiple different locations based on the choices you make and fight or Brain Jack different characters, depending on what choices you’ve made and who you ally with, if anyone. The core game can take anywhere from eight to twelve hours to plow through, depending on the choices you make and the foes you have to face, and with so many different endings to see, there’s plenty of replay value to be had with the game. I mean, holy crap man, there are SEVEN endings in the game! SEVEN! That’s a ton of replay value right there, and all of the endings are pretty interesting and worth seeing, as they’re all pretty different from one another. The game is also quite challenging, overall, but each path offers differing levels of challenge due to both the abilities of the characters you can Brain Jack and the foes you’ll have to face.
Unfortunately, Maken X’s biggest flaw is that no matter how imaginative it is and no matter how interesting the concept is, the execution leaves a bit to be desired. To call the gameplay “bad” would be something of a disservice to the game, but unfortunately, it’s not terribly intuitive or easy to work with. As the Dreamcast controller only has one analog stick, the free look has been assigned to a trigger, which is fine to a point, but becomes cumbersome when you’re trying to look at enemies in the midst of battle. The vast majority of the characters you’ll Brain Jack are melee fighters, meaning most of the game comes down to running up on enemies and smacking them, which is entertaining until you have to face down someone who uses projectiles from high places that you can’t readily hit. The controls also feel a little stiff at first, and the jumping/dodging/platforming elements don’t work as well in first-person as they should, meaning that there’s something of a steep learning curve in the first couple of stages as you adjust to the mechanics and how they work. The AI is also a bit spotty at times; while the bosses simply repeat various patterns of attacks in most cases, regular foes just kind of come after you and attack, employing little strategy or self-preservation, making them only problematic in groups, which unfortunately happens often.
The bottom line is that Maken X is conceptually sound but functionally flawed, so someone looking for a strong aesthetic or a strong story will enjoy the experience, but someone looking for good gameplay mechanics may find themselves let down a bit. The branching storyline is absolutely fantastic, the visuals are solid for the Dreamcast, and the audio is also nice, if not spectacular. There’s plenty to see and do in the game, and with a multitude of endings to see, there’s plenty of reason to come back to the game if the story interests you. However, the gameplay mechanics are odd at the best of times and frustrating at the worst, the game almost always gives you melee fighters and sticks you up against ranged fighters, the controls are awkward to learn, and the AI is not so hot. The game is more good than bad once you learn the controls, however, and if you’re the sort of person who likes morally conflicting plotlines, lots of depth and games that do things you don’t see every day, Maken X is well worth buying and loving for its odd, endearing quirkiness.
The Scores:
Story: UNPARALLELED
Graphics: GOOD
Sound: GOOD
Control/Gameplay: ABOVE AVERAGE
Replayability: CLASSIC
Balance: ABOVE AVERAGE
Originality: GOOD
Addictiveness: ABOVE AVERAGE
Appeal: MEDIOCRE
Miscellaneous: GOOD
FINAL SCORE: GOOD GAME.
Short Attention Span Summary:
Maken X is a largely forgotten but incredibly entertaining Dreamcast game that is worth adding to your collection if you’re the sort of person who can appreciate odd and awkward games with lots of depth and charm. The story is outstanding, the presentation is solid, there are seven different endings to unlock, and there’s plenty of depth, variety and challenge to the game at all points across the experience. Unfortunately, the controls can be a bit awkward at times and the mechanics aren’t always well thought out, the AI isn’t the best, and after the tenth time you have to face down groups of gunners with a sword you’ll probably get pretty annoyed. That’s a shame, sadly, as Maken X would have probably been a must-have classic otherwise, but even so, it’s still a good time if you can get past the bad things. If you think you can accept the game for what it is and deal with the downsides, Maken X should pretty much be in your collection, as there’s nothing quite like it, and for what it is, it’s pretty sweet.
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Mike Posner is back with “Song About You.” The track received 407 spins for the week of 2018/09/17, putting it at #47 overall at pop radio and #409 overall on the iTunes chart.
During the September 9-15 tracking period Dua Lipa & Silk City’s “Electricity”, and Mike Posner’s “Song About You” earn Top 50 positions at pop radio. Played 714 times during the tracking period, “Electricity” ranks as the Mediabase pop panel’s #44 song. It was #63 last week. This week’s spin count…
Three songs officially debut on this week’s Mediabase rhythmic radio chart. Played Saweetie x London’s “Up Now (featuring G-Eazy & Rich The Kid)” joins the Top 40 at #36. It was below last week’s chart at #42. “Up Now” received 580 spins during the September 9-15 tracking period, besting last…
Honolulu, Santa Cruz, Spokane have emerged as supporters of “Avocado Toast” over the past week. Honolulu’s 102.7 Da Bomb gave the song +19 spins during the seven days ending September 6. 101.7 The Beach (Santa Cruz-Monterey-Salinas) gave +7 spins, and Spokane’s 105.7 Now +6 spins.
Khalid & Normani’s “Love Lies” Approaching #1 At Pop Radio
Khalid & Normani’s “Love Lies” is on its way #1 on Mediabase’s pop radio airplay chart receiving 10,857 spins +2.4% during the September 9-15 tracking period. In comparison Post Malone’s “Better Now,” which currently holds the #1 song on the real-time listing, received 10,858 spins during the aforementioned four-day window.
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Foreign relations of Andorra
Title: Foreign relations of Andorra
Subject: List of heads of government of Andorra, Foreign relations of Romania, Foreign relations of the United Kingdom, Foreign relations of Andorra, Foreign relations of Europe
Collection: Foreign Relations of Andorra
Co-Princes (list)
represented by S. Hubac
Joan Enric Vives Sicília
represented by J. M. Mauri
Head of government
Antoni Martí
General Syndic
Viçenc Mateu Zamora
Recent elections
Parliamentary: 2009
Politics portal
Since the establishment of sovereignty with the ratification of the constitution in 1993, Andorra has moved to become an active member of the international community. In July 1993, Andorra established its first diplomatic mission in the world to the United Nations.
Andorra maintains six embassies abroad: in Austria, Belgium, France, Spain, Portugal and the United States.[1] The principality's permanent mission to the United Nations in New York also serves as their embassy to Canada, Mexico and the United States
France and Spain have embassies in Andorra.
Foreign affairs are supervised by the Ministry of External Affairs (Catalan: Ministeri d'Afers Exteriors).
Memberships 1
Relations with the European Union 2
Relations with the Republic of Kosovo 3
Relations with the United States 4
Notes and references 5
Notes 5.1
References 5.2
Andorra is a full member of the Interpol. Since 1991, Andorra has had a special agreement with the European Union.
Relations with the European Union
Andorra has had a customs union with the European Union (EU) since 1991 though it excludes agricultural produce. Andorra also maintains its border controls by staying outside of Schengen, though citizens holding a Schengen visa can usually enter. Andorra is the only microstate to use the euro without an official agreement, though Andorra is in talks with the EU over an agreement that would allow it to mint its own coins.
Relations with the Republic of Kosovo
On 8 June 2011, Andorra became the 76th member state of the United Nations to recognise the independence of the Republic of Kosovo.[a] The Kosovo Minister of Foreign Affairs stated that the two countries will form diplomatic relations very shortly. Previously in 2008, Andorra was hesitant to recognise the Republic of Kosovo's independence due to a possible precedent in the region and due to pressure from Spain. Andorra and Kosovo established diplomatic relations on 14 September 2011.[2]
Relations with the United States
The United States established diplomatic relations with Andorra on 21 February 1995. The two countries are on excellent terms. The U.S. Ambassador to Spain is also accredited as Ambassador to Andorra. United States Consulate General officials based in Barcelona are responsible for the day-to-day conduct of relations with Andorra. The then-Permanent Representative of Andorra to the United Nations, Carles Font-Rossell, was accredited as Andorra's first Ambassador to the United States as of 14 March 2008.[3] The current Ambassador, serving since 2 November 2009, is Narcís Casal de Fonsdeviela.[3]
a. ^ Kosovo is the subject of a territorial dispute between the Republic of Serbia and the Republic of Kosovo. The latter declared independence on 17 February 2008, but Serbia continues to claim it as part of its own sovereign territory. Kosovo's independence has been recognised by 108 out of 193 United Nations member states.
^ "Adresses of the Andorran diplomatic missions". Government of Andorra - Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 2011-04-19.
^ "Kosova and Andorra establish diplomatic relations". MFA of Kosovo. 2011-09-14. Retrieved 2011-09-14.
^ a b Andorra Ambassador Washington Diplomat, retrieved 2008-09-18
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This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the United States Department of State (Background Notes).
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Series II. Papers and materials relating to the Dillonts' printing careers
Series III. Family material
A. Price Dillont papers
Ms. Coll. 1376
University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
Dillont, A. Price (Abel Price), 1871-1933
circa 1850s-1945
3.75 linear feet (5 boxes)
A. Price Dillont (1871-1933) was a printer who worked for paper companies in New York City and state from the 1890s through the 1920s. This collection documents his work in the paper and print industry as well as his family through correspondence; art and advertising work; patent documents; scrapbooks, sample books of blotters, felt, paper, and printing techniques; publications containing and/or relating to his work; and family papers, ephemera, and photographs.
A. Price Dillont papers, circa 1850s-1945, Ms. Coll. 1376, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania
http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/ead/upenn_rbml_PUSpMsColl1376
Abel Price Dillont (generally called Price or A. Price) was born in 1871, the son of Colonel John Francis "Frank" and Mahala Ames Dillont. He attended public school in Brooklyn, New York, and followed his father in a printing career, working, beginning in 1891, for a variety of paper companies, including Perkins, Goodwin & Co., Perkins & Squier Company, Wanaque River Paper Company as advertising manager, Von Olker-Nell Paper Co. of Boston, the American Writing Paper Company, Merriam Paper Co., Bulkley, Dunton & Co., and Whiting Paper Company. His work appears to have been largely in sales and advertising. Although not mentioned in newspaper clippings, he appears to have owned Hotchkiss & Dillont (plain and artistic mercantile printing and engraving and also philatelic publishers) with his friend, Thomas Hotchkiss, in Brooklyn.
He was also a member of the Advertising Men's League and the Rotary Club, and attended conferences of the American Pulp and Paper Association, the New York Printers' Supply Salesmen's Guild, the New York Master Printers' Association, the National Order of the Pica, and the National Association of Steel and Copper Plate Engravers.
A. Price Dillont appears to have been influential in the paper and printing industry and is mentioned in a number of news articles and industry publications. Based upon the papers in the collection, it seems that he was most active from around 1908 to 1923. He died in 1933.
His father, Frank Dillont, was born in England in 1840 and immigrated to New York City in 1851. He married Mahala Ames Price (1839-1874?) the daughter of Abel Theodore and Sarah Harriot Price. They had four children, Frederick Irving Dillont (1866-1905), Sarah "Sadie" Harriot Dillont (1867-1930), Abel Price Dillont (1871-1933), and Mahala Price Dillont (1872-1873). Definite death dates for Mahalah Ames Price Dillont are difficult to ascertain, but she was certainly alive in 1874 for her tenth wedding anniversary. Frank Dillont remarried in 1881; but he and Elizabeth Evans (1847-1927) did not have any children. Elizabeth seems, however, to have been very much adopted by the family and signs letters as "Mother."
Frank Dillont was a Lieutenant Colonel of the 13th Regiment of Brooklyn during the Civil War and was active in the printing business from the 1860s until his retirement in 1912. Over the years, he worked with Erastus Brooks, the proprietor of The Express and Mail and Express; Hamilton, Johnson and Farrelly; the N.Y. Transcript; the Standard Press Co. (which he owned); the Brooklyn Daily Eagle as superintendent of the mechanical department; McDonald Bros. and Dillont (which he co-owned with Willis McDonald); the New York Independent as superintendent of the mechanical department; and Methodist Book Concern. He died in 1915.
This collection documents the life, career, and family of A. Price Dillont, a printer from New York and New Jersey, who was professionally active from 1891 until his death in 1933. The collection is arranged in three series: Series 1. Correspondence; Series II. Papers and materials relating to the Dillonts' printing careers, and Series III. Family material. The bulk of Series I. Correspondence consists of letters to and from A. Price Dillont and his family, friends, and business colleagues. A. Price Dillont's main correspondent in the collection is his friend and, at one time, business partner, Thomas F. Hotchkiss (1868-1947), who worked for the Phoenix Horse Shoe Company of Poughkeepsie, New York, and later, Joliet, Illinois. The letters between the two are friendly and discuss news, work, and occasionally, financial concerns. During the time of correspondence, it does not appear that Dillont and Hotchkiss were working together at Hotchkiss & Dillont. Dillont also corresponded with his grandmother, father, stepmother, aunt, sister, wife, and daughter. These letters are loving and full of news, and provide a glimpse into A. Price Dillont's role within the family. There are also a few letters to and from friends and/or business colleagues. This series also contains a number of family letters not addressed to or written by A. Price. Correspondents include Elizabeth Evans Dillont, second wife of John Francis "Frank" Dillont; Frank Dillont; Mahala Dillont, first wife of Frank Dillont who died probably in 1874; Maude Nathalie Throckmorton Dillont, wife of A. Price Dillont; Nathalie Dillont, daughter of A. Price and Maude Dillont; and Sarah "Sadie" Harriot Dillont, sister of A. Price Dillont. There are a few letters to unidentified people. By and large, the correspondence documents warm relationships between family members. The letters are arranged in alphabetical order by the family member who was the recipient of the material.
Series II. Papers and materials relating to the Dillonts' printing careers documents the work of both A. Price Dillont (active from 1891 to at least 1926) and his father, John Francis "Frank" Dillont (active from 1862 until his retirement in 1912), who worked in New York City. Much of the material, particularly the samples, are undated and therefore, it is difficult to ascertain who created or collected the material; but the majority is presumed to have been created and collected by A. Price Dillont. This series is arranged first by known creator and then alphabetized by topic thereafter. A. Price Dillont's career is documented through his artistic work and personal design for advertising, newspaper and magazine articles regarding him, notebooks and accounts, patent documents, and scrapbooks. Through his scrapbooks, which contain clippings, event and conference photographs and ephemera, and some of his own writings, it is possible to follow his career. The years best documented in his scrapbooks are 1914 through 1922. One scrapbook contains examples of his work and specifications and prices which may have been used like a portfolio. To a lesser extent, this series documents the work of John Francis "Frank" Dillont with an advertisement for the sale of type and printing machinery from his business with Willis MacDonald, a photograph of him with MacDonald, and stationary from his work with Prospect Heights Quarterly. Clippings about his retirement in 1912 and his death in 1915 can be found in A. Price Dillont's scrapbooks. This series also contains conference ephemera, mock-ups for printing jobs, paper price lists and specifications, photographs of colleagues in the print industry and print shops, examples of blotters, and samples of blotting paper, felt, and paper. There are a few publications about the print industry, including The Upholstery Dealer and Decorative Furnisher, The Printing Art, and Printing found within the collection. This collection not only documents the careers of the two Dillonts, it also provides a glimpse into the paper and print industry in New York during the last half of the 19th century and the first third of the 20th century.
Series III. Family material is arranged in two subseries: A. Papers and ephemera and B. Photographs. As is the case with the rest of the collection, A. Price Dillont is the figure best documented in A. Papers and ephemera. This subseries includes school records, limited financial records, ephemera related to his involvement in organizations and official documents relating to the military and jury. Of particular interest may be the evidence of his very sentimental connection to his wife, Maude, including affectionate notes about her and a flower saved. There are financial records for Frank and Elizabeth Dillont and Maude Dillont; as well as school records for John and Nathalie, A. Price and Maude Dillont's children. There are also a number of records relating to the death and funerals of Dillont family members.
Members of the Dillont family appear to have been enthusiastic photographers, experimenting with and collecting photographs. Subseries B. Photographs contains more than 700 images in the form of tintypes, cabinet cards, cartes-de-visite, cyanotypes, snapshot prints, glass negatives, and film negatives. Unfortunately, the vast majority of these images are unidentified, and therefore, have been grouped into general topics such as children, groups, men, women, etc. The subseries is arranged first with identified images, followed by those that are unidentified. There are three photograph albums, two of which appear to largely document family. Many of the photographs in the albums can also be found in the loose images. There is one album that contains a number of tintypes of boys who are identified by surnames and were possibly schoolmates. The photographs are a mixture of portraits and candid photographs, and the bulk of these photographs are probably family members. In addition, there are a number of photographs of homes, including one in Flatbush, New York, one in Tarrytown, New York, and one in Maplewood, New Jersey, as well as a number of unidentified buildings and street scenes. There are photographs of vacations and travels, pets, and groups of people, painting a vivid picture of the life this family lived.
University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, 2018 November 26
Finding aid prepared by Holly Mengel
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Source of Acquisition
Sold by Michael Brown Rare Books, 2018.
Family Name(s)
Dillont family
Cyanotypes (photographic prints)
Family papers
Glass plate negatives
Tintypes (prints)
Dillont, John Francis, 1840-1915
Paper making and trade
Series I. Correspondence.
Dillont, A. Price, letters to him from business colleagues and friends, 1878-1931.
Dillont, A. Price, letters to him from his father, J. "Frank" Dillont, and stepmother, Elizabeth Evans Dillont, 1900, 1913-1921.
Dillont, A. Price, letter to him from his aunt, Mary, 1905 June 5.
Dillont, A. Price and Maude, letter from their daughter, Nathalie, 1928 September 22.
Dillont, A. Price, letters from his sister, Sally "Sadie" Dillont (some letters addressed also to his wife, Maude, and children, John "Jack", and Nathalie), 1894, 1900-1926.
Dillont, A. Price, letters from Essick (first name unknown), 1887-1892.
Dillont, A. Price, letters from his friend and, at one time, business partner, Thomas Hotchkiss, 1886-1900.
Dillont, A. Price, letters to his friend and, at one time, business partner, Thomas Hotchkiss (largely retained copies), 1888-1889.
Dillont, A. Price, letters to and from his grandmother, Sarah Harriot Price, 1878 July 27-August 1.
Dillont, A. Price, letters from his business colleague, E.V. Reed, 1896.
Dillont, A. Price, letters regarding him, 1907-1908, 1914.
Dillont, Elizabeth Evans, letters from her husband, John Francis "Frank" Dillont, 1880, 1884.
Dillont, Elizabeth Evans, Christmas cards from stepson, A. Price Dillont, undated.
[Dillont, Elizabeth], letter from Frank Egolf addressed to "Cousin Elizabeth", 1925 July 21.
Dillont, Colonel John Francis "Frank," letters from son, A. Price Dillont, 1893-1914.
Dillont, Colonel John Francis "Frank," letters from organizations, 1908-1909, 1919.
Dillont, Colonel John Francis "Frank" and Elizabeth Evans Dillont, letters from daughter/stepdaughter, Sarah "Sadie" Dillont, 1907, undated.
Dillont, Mahala Price, letter from her husband, John Francis "Frank" Dillont (on tenth anniversary), 1874 February 4.
Dillont, Maude Nathalie Throckmorton, letters from her husband, A. Price Dillont, 1913, 1923.
Dillont, Maude Nathalie Throckmorton, letters from mother-in-law, Elizabeth Evans Dillont, 1918-1925.
Dillont, Maude Nathalie Throckmorton, letters from friends, 1915-1947.
Dillont, Maude Nathalie Throckmorton, Christmas card to unidentified recipient, undated.
Dillont, Nathalie, letters from Jack (probably her brother) and unidentified Valentines, 1928, undated.
Dillont, Sarah Harriot, letter to Castello, Edward T., Commander of Company 7 regarding William H. Price, with manuscript response on same page, 1925 March 10.
Unidentified correspondents and recipients, undated.
Series II. Papers and materials relating to the Dillonts' printing careers.
Dillont, A. Price, advertisements, business cards, and letterhead, circa 1888-1933.
Dillont, A. Price, artwork, circa 1888-1933.
Dillont, A. Price, artwork, "Personal design, Advertising", circa 1888-1933.
Dillont, A. Price, newspaper and magazine articles regarding, 1889-1929.
Dillont, A. Price, notebooks and accounts, circa 1888-1933.
Dillont, A. Price, patent documents for "Advertising booklet, lampshade support combined", 1907.
Dillont, A. Price, scrapbook, 1884-1885, 1905-1914.
Dillont, A. Price, scrapbook, 1905-1916.
Dillont, A. Price, scrapbook containing examples of work, specifications, and pricing, undated.
Dillont, John Francis "Frank," advertisement for sale of type and printing machinery from the firm of MacDonald, Dillont, and Co., 1875.
Dillont, John Francis "Frank," stationary for Prospect Heights Quarterly (J.F. Dillont, publisher), circa 1880s.
Mock-ups for printing jobs, circa 1890s-1930s.
Paper and print associations' event invitations, 1906-1907, undated.
Paper price lists and specifications, circa 1890s-1930s.
Photographs of colleagues in the print and paper industry (possibly used in publications), circa 1905-1933.
Photographs of colleagues in the print industry, John Francis "Frank" Dillont and group (possibly fellow printers), printing offices, and large groups (possibly conventions), circa 1880s-1920s.
Photographs of conventions in Ohio and in Louisiana, Missouri, and Texas; a group of workers; and Dillont's exhibit board, "The Manufacture of Newspaper", 1914, undated.
Printed advertisements, possibly used as examples or inspiration, circa 1890s-1930s.
Printing company advertisements, circa 1890s-1930s.
Printing organizations ephemera, 1911-1926.
Publications relating to the history of papermaking and printing, 1914-1915, undated.
Publications regarding printing (probably including work by Dillont), 1904-1911.
Publications regarding printing (not including references to the Dillont family), 1915, undated.
Sample blotters (with advertisements), 1912-1921, undated.
Sample books for blotter paper, undated.
Sample felt swatches, undated.
Sample paper swatches and books, 1925-1926, undated.
Speeches and writings (some by A. Price Dillont), 1914, undated.
Series III. Family material.
A. Papers and ephemera.
Dillont, A. Price, civic activities (military census and jury summons), 1916.
Dillont, A. Price, memorabilia regarding his wife, Maude, 1922, undated.
Dillont, A. Price, notes regarding reading, circa 1880s.
Dillont, A. Price, organizations, 1885-1926.
Dillont, A. Price, Public School No. 1, rewards of merit, 1876-1881.
Dillont, A. Price, receipts for furs, jewelry, etc. and accounts, 1892-1900, 1917.
Dillont, A. Price, train passes and travelers' insurance card, 1927-1928.
Dillont, A. Price and Maude, receipts for household expenses, 1896, 1909-1945.
Dillont, John Francis "Frank," military papers including invitation to Hop at United States Military Academy, and veteran and pension records, 1874-1875, 1902.
Dillont, John Francis "Frank" and Elizabeth, receipts and invitations, 1890-1895, undated.
Dillont, John Throckmorton, commencement program, 1911.
Dillont, Maude Nathalie Throckmorton, receipts, 1942-1943.
Dillont, Maude Nathalie Throckmorton, will, poem, and event cards, 1901-1926.
Dillont, Nathalie Throckmorton, scrapbook of advertisements and church concert program, 1932, undated.
Dillont, Nathalie Throckmorton, Vassar College grades and scholarship information, 1927-1930.
Dillont family funeral bills, death certificates and memorial card (Frederick Irving Dillont, 1905; John Francis "Frank" Dillont, 1915; Hester Deborah C. Evans, 1888; and Almira French, 1926), 1888-1926.
Dillont family, local event invitations and programs, 1883-1925.
B. Photographs.
Albums of family photographs (three), circa 1850s-1910.
Dillont, A. Price, portraits and photographs used in publications, circa 1880s-1933.
Dillont, A. Price, with others, candid photographs, circa 1900-1933.
Dillont, A. Price, with others, tintypes, circa 1870s-1890s.
Dillont, A. Price, with children, probably John and Nathalie, circa 1890s-1933.
Dillont, A. Price and Frederick Irving, tintypes, 1871, circa 1890s.
Dillont, Edna Clara Gunwoldt (wife of John Throckmorton Dillont), candid photograph, 1925.
Dillont, Elizabeth Evans (wife of John Francis "Frank" Dillont), portrait, 1865.
Dillont, John Francis "Frank" and Elizabeth, candid and portrait photographs, circa 1907-1915.
Dillont, John Francis "Frank," candid and portrait photographs, circa 1860s-1915.
Dillont, Frederick Irving, portraits, circa 1880s-1905.
Dillont, Frederick, Sarah, and A. Price, portraits, circa 1870s.
Dillont, John Throckmorton, candid photograph, 1898 April.
Dillont, Maude Nathalie, portrait, circa 1870.
Dillont, Nathalie, portraits, circa 1930s.
Garvin, Eddie and Chauncey (and Garvin house), candid photographs, undated.
Unidentified children, formal portraits and tintypes, 1850s-1945.
Unidentified children with adults, candid and formal portraits, 1860s-1920s.
Unidentified couples, candid and formal portraits, 1860s-1900s.
Unidentified event (parade with flowers), circa 1870s-1890s.
Unidentified groups (possibly NOT family), circa 1896-1920s.
Unidentified groups (probably family), 1884-1933.
Unidentified men, candid, formal portraits, and tintype photographs, 1850s-1930s.
Unidentified people in automobiles, circa 1890s-1930s.
Unidentified people with bicycles, circa 1900-1920s.
Unidentified people with horse and carriages or horses, circa 1870s-1920s.
Unidentified people with pets and/or pets alone, circa 1900-1930s.
Unidentified travels, vacations and landscapes,, circa 1860s-1930s.
Unidentified women, candid photographs, circa 1870s-1920s.
Unidentified women, formal portraits and tintype photographs, 1850s-1930s.
Residence at 629 Ocean Avenue, Flatbush, New York, 1870, undated.
Residence in Maplewood, New Jersey, 1909-1915, undated.
Residence at 8 Fairview Avenue, Tarrytown, New York, 1915-1916.
Unidentified streets and buildings, circa 1890s-1930s.
Unidentified streets and buildings, circa 1900-1930s.
Glass negatives (Flatbush, New York; woman on a bicycle; men on bicycle; and unidentified group), circa 1870s-1930.
Negatives (film) and original envelopes (with text or information), circa 1888-1930s.
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Plumstead Township School Board records
1836-1964 [bulk 1861-1941], 8 linear feet
This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Plumstead Historical Society. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in our reading room, and not digitally available through the web.
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The Free School Act of 1834 established a system of public schools in Pennsylvania. The Plumstead Township (Bucks County) School Board at one point oversaw a dozen small schools in the area. In 1959, Plumstead joined nearby Buckingham and Doylestown townships to form the Central Bucks Joint Elementary School Board, and its remaining schools were consolidated into Gayman Elementary School, finished in 1961. Most of the Plumstead Township School Board records, 1836-1964 (bulk 1861-1941), are school attendance registers for Plumstead Township; the collection also includes various supporting records relating to the Plumstead Township School Board and its successor, Central Bucks Joint School Board.
http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/pacscl/HSP_PLUM01
The Free School Act of 1834 established a system of public schools in Pennsylvania. A century later, Plumstead Township in Bucks County boasted a dozen different schools under the purview of the Plumstead Township School Board: River Hill, Southwestern, Valley Park, Rocky Ridge, Groveland, Plumsteadville, Tohickon Hill, Dyer's Hill, Prospect Corner, Gardenville, Western Brick, and Smith Corner. The schools were consolidated in 1959, when Plumstead joined nearby Buckingham and Doylestown townships to form the Central Bucks Joint Elementary School Board. Gayman Elementary School, finished in 1961, replaced eight remaining one- and two-room schoolhouses in Plumstead Township. George G. Gayman (1886-1972) was a former school teacher active on the school board.
Plumstead Township Historic Advisory Committee. Images of America: Plumstead Township. Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia, 2005.
The bulk of this collection is school attendance registers for Plumstead Township; the collection also includes various supporting records relating to the Plumstead Township School Board and successor, Central Bucks Joint School Board.
The school attendance registers, which include teacher's monthly reports, date from 1861 to 1937 and are organized by school. They consist of the following:
1. Gardenville: 1861-1865, 1865-1871, 1871-1876, 1881-1887, 1887-1894, 1894-1901, 1901-1908, 1908-1915, 1915-1921
2. Dyers Hill: 1861-1865, 1876-1881, 1881-1887, 1887-1864, 1897-1901, 1912-1915, 1915-1920, 1931-1932
3. Southwestern: 1871-1875 (then Curly Hill school), 1876-1880, 1880-1887, 1888-1894, 1894-1901, 1901-1908, 1908-1915, 1915-1921
4. Valley Park: 1861-1865, 1870-1875, 1876-1880, 1881-1887, 1887-1894, 1894-1901, 1901-1908, 1908-1915, 1915-1921, 1932-1933, 1933-1934, 1934-1935, 1935-1936
5. Plumsteadville: 1861-1865, 1865-1871, 1871-1875, 1876-1880, 1880-1887, 1887-1894, 1894-1901, 1901-1908, 1908-1915 (primary), 1911-1918, 1932-1933, 1930-1931 (grades 1-4), 1933-1934 (grades 1-4), 1933-1934 (grades 5-8), 1934-1935 (grades 1-4), 1934-1935 (grades 5-8), 1935-1936 (grades 1-4)
6. Western Brick: 1865-1870, 1871-1875, 1876-1880, 1881-1887, 1887-1894, 1894-1901, 1901-1908, 1908-1915, 1915-1920, 1933-1934, 1935-1936
7. Rocky Ridge: 1865-1871, 1896-1901, 1908-1915, 1915-1921
8. Prospect Corner: 1861-1865, 1894-1901, 1901-1908, 1915-1920, 1923-1924, 1926-1927, 1931-1932, 1933-1934, 1934-1935, 1935-1936, 1936-1937
9. River Hill: 1861-1865, 1871-1876, 1876-1877, 1876-1881, 1881-1882 (primary), 1881-1887, 1887-1894, 1894-1901, 1901-1908, 1908-1915, 1928-1929, 1929-1930, 1930-1931, 1931-1932 (list of pupils), 1932-1933, 1933-1934, 1934-1935
10. Tohickon Hill: 1861-1865, 1865-1871, 1871-1876, 1876-1881, 1881-1887, 1894-1901, 1901-1908, 1908-1915, 1915-1921
11. Groveland (also Easter Brick): 1861-1865, 1865-1871, 1876-1881, 1881-1887, 1887-1894, 1894-1901, 1901-1905, 1908-1915, 1930-1931, 1932-1933, 1934-1935, 1935-1936
12. Smith Corner: 1861-1865, 1865-1871, 1871-1876, 1876-1881, 1881-1887, 1887-1894, 1894-1901, 1901-1908, 1908-1915
Other records of the Plumstead Township School Board and its successor, the Central Bucks Joint School Board, include: financial documents such as treasurer's reports, salary proposals, bills, accounts, and budget reports; school tax materials; correspondence; board reports; meeting agendas (Central Bucks Joint School Board, 1961-1964); correspondence; and newspaper clippings. Of special interest is a minute book of the School Directors of the Township of Plumstead, 1836-1882.
There are also some printed materials (i.e. text books and blank attendance report volumes) and objects (e.g. desk bell, pencil sharpener, hat).
A small number of items with no apparent connection to the School Board are also part of the collection, such as a ledger from the Plumstead Township Road Supervisors (1906-1913), a liquor board pamphlet, several musical scores, and other materials.
A Gayman family photograph album featuring many class photos, circa 1940s, can also be found with this collection.
Finding aid prepared by Celia Caust-Ellenbogen and Sarah Leu through the Historical Society of Pennsylvania's Hidden Collections Initiative for Pennsylvania Small Archival Repositories
This preliminary finding aid was created as part of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania's Hidden Collections Initiative for Pennsylvania Small Archival Repositories. The HCI-PSAR project was made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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Gift of Edward and Linda Gayman, 2013.
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In some cases, more detailed inventories or finding aids may be available on-site at the repository where this collection is held; please contact Plumstead Historical Society directly for more information.
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Members of the Tongva, Juaneño, and Luiseño Native American groups long inhabited the area. After the 1769 expedition of Gaspar de Portolà, a Spanish expedition led by Junipero Serra named the area Valle de Santa Ana (Valley of Saint Anne). On November 1, 1776, Mission San Juan Capistrano became the area's first permanent European settlement. Among those who came with Portolá were José Manuel Nieto and José Antonio Yorba. Both these men were given land grants - Rancho Los Nietos and Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana, respectively. The Nieto heirs were granted land in 1834. The Nieto ranches were known as Rancho Los Alamitos, Rancho Las Bolsas, and Rancho Los Coyotes. Yorba heirs Bernardo Yorba and Teodosio Yorba were also granted Rancho Cañón de Santa Ana (Santa Ana Canyon Ranch) and Rancho Lomas de Santiago, respectively. Other ranchos in Orange County were granted by the Mexican government during the Mexican period in Alta California.
A severe drought in the 1860s devastated the prevailing industry, cattle ranching, and much land came into the possession of Richard O'Neill, Sr., James Irvine and other land barons. In 1887, silver was discovered in the Santa Ana Mountains, attracting settlers via the Santa Fe and Southern Pacific Railroads.
This growth led the California legislature to divide Los Angeles County and create Orange County as a separate political entity on March 11, 1889. The county is generally said to have been named for the citrus fruit (its most famous product). However, in the new county there was already a town by the name of Orange, named for Orange County, Virginia, which itself took its name from William of Orange. The fact the county took the same name as one of its towns may have been coincidence.
Other citrus crops, avocados, and oil extraction were also important to the early economy. Orange County benefited from the July 4, 1904 completion of the Pacific Electric Railway, a trolley connecting Los Angeles with Santa Ana and Newport Beach . The link made Orange County an accessible weekend retreat for celebrities of early Hollywood. It was deemed so significant that the city of Pacific City changed its name to Huntington Beach in honor of Henry Huntington, president of the Pacific Electric and nephew of Collis Huntington. Transportation further improved with the completion of the State Route and U.S. Route 101 (now mostly Interstate 5) in the 1920s. Agriculture, such as the boysenberry which was made famous by Buena Park native Walter Knott, began to decline after World War II but the county's prosperity soared. The completion of Interstate 5 in 1954 helped make Orange County a bedroom community for many who moved to Southern California to work in aerospace and manufacturing. Orange County received a further boost in 1955 with the opening of Disneyland.
In 1969, Yorba Linda-born Orange County native Richard Nixon became the 37th President of the United States.
In the 1980s, the population topped two million for the first time; Orange County had become the second-most populous county in California.
An investment fund melt-down in 1994 led to the criminal prosecution of County of Orange treasurer Robert Citron. The county lost at least $1.5 billion through high-risk investments in derivatives. On December 6, 1994, the County of Orange declared Chapter 9 bankruptcy, from which it emerged in June 1995. The Orange County bankruptcy was the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history.
In recent years land-use conflicts have arisen between established areas in the north and less developed areas in the south. These conflicts have regarded things such as construction of new toll roads and the re-purposing of a decommissioned air base. For example, the El Toro Marine Corps Air Station site was designated by a voter measure in 1994 to be developed into an international airport to alleviate the heavily used John Wayne Airport. But subsequent voter initiatives and court actions have caused the airport plan to be permanently shelved. Instead it will become the Orange County Great Park.
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9 Things We’d Love To See In Chappie
Trevor Price Feb 12, 2015 Features Top Lists
District 9 director Neill Blomkamp’s latest sci-fi movie Chappie is out in cinemas on 6 March.
The movie’s set in a near future where crime is controlled by an oppressive mechanized police force. When police droid Chappie is stolen and reprogrammed, he becomes the first robot able to think and feel for himself.
I’m a big fan of Blomkamp’s previous work on District 9 and Elysium, so I’ve put together a list of 9 things I’d love to see in the upcoming Chappie.
1. Something new in the intelligent robot film genre
This is tough to do, but wouldn’t it be amazing if Chappie did it? There have been a lot of robot-related films in the past 3 decades, with the past 10 years seeing some amazing ideas put forth or brought to life (a lot inspired by Isaac Asimov), however it’s rare for us to see something genuinely new, so it would be fantastic to see Blomkamp pull that off!
2. Nods to current robotics
I can already see from the trailer that there’ll be nods to the current state of robotics, drones etc. But with Chappie being set in the near future (2016+), we don’t know how much its world will be based on our current world and how much backstory about the world we’ll get.
3. More backstory
There doesn’t have to be loads more backstory, but it’d be great to have more explanation about the current state of affairs than we got in Elysium.
4. Realistic robots
I’m talking about robots that fit into the world they inhabit. The way technology was portrayed in District 9 was near perfect. A return to that thinking would make me extremely happy. There was too much of a gap in tech between the classes in Elysium. However, the self-awareness seen in Chappie’s trailers looks like it could be really interesting.
5. New rising stars
Chappie is set back in South Africa, as District 9 was, so as well as big stars like Hugh Jackman and Sigourney Weaver, I’m hoping we see some new on-screen talent get their international break from the movie. After all, it was District 9 that made Sharlto Copley’s name outside his native South Africa back in 2009.
6. Dev Patel delivers a great performance
I’ve liked Patel since his time in Skins, but fell out of love with him a bit when he did the adaptation of The Last Airbender (watch the cartoons, they’re so much better). However his Newsroom performances have reaffirmed my faith in him and I hope he continues to impress in Chappie.
7. To be better than Solo!
Solo is a film from 1996 about an android killing weapon, and it’s so bad it’s good! Ignore the IMDB ratings, it was a fun film to watch! However, I want much more for Chappie, and if anyone can deliver that, it’s Blomkamp!
8. An organic growth to Chappie’s intelligence
Fingers crossed we don’t get giant leaps in Chappie’s thinking without any real explanation.
9. A live-action Wall-e
Basically I want to be able to empathise with Chappie as much as those clever bastards at Pixar made us empathise with Wall-e!
Chappie is in cinemas on 6 March 2015.
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About Trevor Price
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First ever encyclopedia documenting the Gaza war released Sunday
The creativity studies and training foundation released Sunday the first ever electronic encyclopedia that documents Israel's late 2008 early 2009 war on the Gaza Strip to mark the war's second anniversary as it approaches.
The encyclopedia, dubbed the Gaza Holocaust, is the product of drawn out efforts by the foundation's strategic research and studies center, said foundation head Mohammed al-Madhoun. More than 120 of the foundation's field researchers contributed to this remarkable work, as well as many more from research centers, rights foundations, and ministries.
The idea, sparked at the time of Israel's aggression, was to document the suffering and crimes that occurred during the war. The encyclopedia contributes to the decay of Israel's legitimacy in the framework of a battle that stripped Israel of its moral and humanitarian legitimacy.
The reference book attempts to correct the past mistake of not recording Israel's crimes. The encyclopedia therefore protects history from being falsified, and provides a reliable reference with voice and picture.
The name the Gaza Holocaust was part of the name battle that Israel had been playing in an attempt to monopolize names. The named heroic disaster was therefore named the holocaust.
Madhoun called on media agencies to deliver the encyclopedia to every household in the world. The encyclopedia should be translated into English, and then continued to be developed and supported with more data and documents.
He added that the reference followed a new approach in documenting history and building cases against criminals in light of the current information revolution.
ISRAELI WAR CRIMES GOES ELECTRONIC
GAZA, The creativity studies and training foundation released Sunday the first ever electronic encyclopedia that documents Israel's late 2008 early 2009 war on the Gaza Strip to mark the war's second anniversary as it approaches.
Israel is the target of at least 65 UN Resolutions and the Palestinians are the target of none.
Chart showing that at least 65 UN resolutions target Israel and none target the Palestinians.
Aside from the core issues refugees, Jerusalem, borders the major themes reflected in the U.N. resolutions against Israel over the years are its unlawful attacks on its neighbors; its violations of the human rights of the Palestinians, including deportations, demolitions of homes and other collective punishments; its confiscation of Palestinian land; its establishment of illegal settlements; and its refusal to abide by the U.N. Charter and the 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War.
Source: Paul Findley's Deliberate Deceptions (1998, pages 192-4).
This number only covers resolutions passed from 1955 through 1992 (!)
1. Resolution 106: condemns Israel for Gaza raid
2. Resolution 111: condemns Israel for raid on Syria that killed fifty-six people
3. Resolution 127: recommends Israel suspend its no-man's zone in Jerusalem
4. Resolution 162: urges Israel to comply with UN decisions
5. Resolution 171: determines flagrant violations by Israel in its attack on Syria
6. Resolution 228: censures Israel for its attack on Samu in the West Bank, then under Jordanian control
7. Resolution 237: urges Israel to allow return of new 1967 Palestinian refugees
8. Resolution 248: condemns Israel for its massive attack on Karameh in Jordan
9. Resolution 250: calls on Israel to refrain from holding military parade in Jerusalem
10. Resolution 251: deeply deplores Israeli military parade in Jerusalem in defiance of Resolution 250
11. Resolution 252: declares invalid%u2019 Israel's acts to unify Jerusalem as Jewish capital
12. Resolution 256: condemns Israeli raids on Jordan as flagrant violation
13. Resolution 259: deplores Israel's refusal to accept UN mission to probe occupation
14. Resolution 262: condemns Israel for attack on Beirut airport
15. Resolution 265: condemns Israel for air attacks for Salt in Jordan
16. Resolution 267: censures Israel for administrative acts to change the status of Jerusalem
17. Resolution 270: condemns Israel for air attacks on villages in southern Lebanon
18. Resolution 271: condemns Israel's failure to obey UN resolutions on Jerusalem
19. Resolution 279: demands withdrawal of Israeli forces from Lebanon
20. Resolution 280: condemns Israeli's attacks against Lebanon
21. Resolution 285: demands immediate Israeli withdrawal form Lebanon
22. Resolution 298: deplores Israel's changing of the status of Jerusalem
23. Resolution 313: demands that Israel stop attacks against Lebanon
24. Resolution 316: condemns Israel for repeated attacks on Lebanon
25. Resolution 317: deplores Israel's refusal to release Arabs abducted in Lebanon
26. Resolution 332: condemns Israel's repeated attacks against Lebanon
27. Resolution 337: condemns Israel for violating Lebanon's sovereignty
28. Resolution 347: condemns Israeli attacks on Lebanon
29. Resolution 425: calls on Israel to withdraw its forces from Lebanon
30. Resolution 427: calls on Israel to complete its withdrawal from Lebanon
31. Resolution 444: deplores Israel's lack of cooperation with UN peacekeeping forces
32. Resolution 446: determines that Israeli settlements are a serious obstruction to peace and calls on Israel to abide by the Fourth Geneva Convention
33. Resolution 450: calls on Israel to stop attacking Lebanon
34. Resolution 452: calls on Israel to cease building settlements in occupied territories
35. Resolution 465: deplores Israel's settlements and asks all member states not to assist Israel's settlements program
36. Resolution 467: strongly deplores Israel's military intervention in Lebanon
37. Resolution 468: calls on Israel to rescind illegal expulsions of two Palestinian mayors and a judge and to facilitate their return
38. Resolution 469: strongly deplores Israel's failure to observe the council's order not to deport Palestinians
39. Resolution 471: expresses deep concern at Israel's failure to abide by the Fourth Geneva Convention
40. Resolution 476: reiterates that Israel's claims to Jerusalem are null and void
41. Resolution 478: censures (Israel) in the strongest terms for its claim to Jerusalem in its Basic Law
42. Resolution 484: declares it imperative that Israel re-admit two deported Palestinian mayors
43. Resolution 487: strongly condemns Israel for its attack on Iraq's nuclear facility
44. Resolution 497: decides that Israel's annexation of Syria's Golan Heights is null and void and demands that Israel rescind its decision forthwith
45. Resolution 498: calls on Israel to withdraw from Lebanon
46. Resolution 501: calls on Israel to stop attacks against Lebanon and withdraw its troops
47. Resolution 509: demands that Israel withdraw its forces forthwith and unconditionally from Lebanon
48. Resolution 515: demands that Israel lift its siege of Beirut and allow food supplies to be brought in
49. Resolution 517: censures Israel for failing to obey UN resolutions and demands that Israel withdraw its forces from Lebanon
50. Resolution 518: demands that Israel cooperate fully with UN forces in Lebanon
51. Resolution 520: condemns Israel's attack into West Beirut
52. Resolution 573: condemns Israel vigorously for bombing Tunisia in attack on PLO headquarters
53. Resolution 587: takes note of previous calls on Israel to withdraw its forces from Lebanon and urges all parties to withdraw
54. Resolution 592: strongly deplores the killing of Palestinian students at Bir Zeit University by Israeli troops
55. Resolution 605: strongly deplores Israel's policies and practices denying the human rights of Palestinians
56. Resolution 607: calls on Israel not to deport Palestinians and strongly requests it to abide by the Fourth Geneva Convention
57. Resolution 608: deeply regrets that Israel has defied the United Nations and deported Palestinian civilians
58. Resolution 636: deeply regrets Israeli deportation of Palestinian civilians
59. Resolution 641: deplores Israel's continuing deportation of Palestinians
60. Resolution 672: condemns Israel for violence against Palestinians at the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount
61. Resolution 673: deplores Israel's refusal to cooperate with the United Nations
62. Resolution 681: deplores Israel's resumption of the deportation of Palestinians
63. Resolution 694: deplores Israel's deportation of Palestinians and calls on it to ensure their safe and immediate return
64. Resolution 726: strongly condemns Israel's deportation of Palestinians
65. Resolution 799: strongly condemns Israel's deportation of 413 Palestinians and calls for their immediate return.
Suffice to say, Israel has never lived up to these terms.
Israel's membership in the UN is therefore null and void.
WikiLeaks: U.S. worried Israel becoming 'the promised land' for organized crime
U.S. Embassy follows Israeli crime families closely and considers them a serious threat, cable shows.
The U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv sent a cable to the State Department in May 2009 expressing little confidence in the Israel Police's ability to counter the growing wave of organized crime.
The cable, released on WikiLeaks, said the embassy was taking pains to prevent members of crime families from being issued visas to the United States.
The cable, under the headline "Israel, a promised land for organized crime?" notes that the U.S. Embassy was following Israeli crime families closely and considered them a serious threat to the United States. The embassy has set up a database on the subject with the help of Israeli and American law-enforcement agencies.
"Given the growing reach and lethal methods of Israeli OC [Organized Crime], blocking the travel of known OC figures to the United States is a matter of great concern," according to the cable, signed by James Cunningham, the U.S. ambassador to Israel.
The author, however, is probably the Tel Aviv consul responsible for granting visas to Israelis, or perhaps a U.S. law-enforcement attache.
The cable describes the violence among crime families that began in November 2008 with the murder of Ya'akov Alperon. "Israeli crime boss Yaakov Alperon was assassinated in broad daylight in a gruesome attack on the streets of Tel Aviv, only about a mile away from the Embassy."
Also described is the shooting of an innocent bystander on a Bat Yam beach during an attempt on the life of Rami Amira. The assassinations of Abutbul family members in Netanya are also noted.
The authors point to leading Israeli crimes families such as the Alperons, Abergils, Abutbuls, Rosensteins and Shirazis. They focus on gambling, extortion, trafficking in women, loan sharking and control over the recycling market.
Quoting a source, the authors note that "in recent years, however, the rules of the game have changed ... the old school of Israel OC is giving way to a new, more violent, breed of crime."
They note that "the new style of crime features knowledge of hi-tech explosives acquired from service in the Israeli Defense Forces, and a willingness to use indiscriminate violence, at least against rival gang leaders. New OC business also includes technology-related crimes, such as stock market and credit card fraud, and operates on a global scale."
The embassy informs the State Department about a new police unit, "called Lahav 433. The elite unit operates under the direct command of the police commissioner, and is charged specifically with infiltrating and eliminating Israel's major crime syndicates."
The embassy source, however, "expressed skepticism that recent arrests will bear fruit in the long term without a sustained commitment to enforcement. He noted that many of the crime leaders remain active while in prison and their operations are not hampered significantly even when they are convicted and jailed."
The cable notes that it is unclear how far the crime families have penetrated the government, but it mentions the 2004 arrest of former minister Gonen Segev, who tried to smuggle thousands of Ecstasy pills into Israel, and the election of Inbal Gavrieli to the Knesset in 2003.
"The election of Inbal Gavrieli to the Knesset in 2003 as a member of Likud raised concerns about OC influence in the party's Central Committee. Gavrieli is the daughter of a suspected crime boss, and she attempted to use her parliamentary immunity to block investigations into her father's business."
Israel’s ‘Organized Crime’: Mafia and Mossad
Alperon's car and body after bomb explosion
I’ve written here about as assassination and attempted assassination in Teheran a few days ago, which Haaretz’ Yossi Melman attributes to the Mossad. In these cases, the two scientists were driving in their cars to work with their wives. They’d pulled into the university parking lot when a motorscooter pulled alongside and the driver threw a magnetic bomb at the driver side window, pulled away and then detonated his device. In one case, the victim was killed; in the second, he was seriously injured.
Compare this account to the following from a May 15, 2009 Wikileaks cable:
In November 2008…Yaakov Alperon was assassinated in broad daylight in a gruesome attack on the streets of xxxx, only about a mile away from the Embassy. According to several media accounts, a motor scooter pulled up alongside Alperon’s car and the rider attached a sophisticated explosive device with a remote detonator to the car door. The bomb killed Alperon and his driver, and injured two innocent pedestrians. The hit was the latest in a series of violent attacks and reprisals, and indicated a widening…war…
What’s the difference? In the first case, criminality was used to pursue state policy. In the second case, criminality was used in pursuit of the ends of Israeli organized crime. In fact, the U.S. embassy cable includes this telling statement:
…The old school of Israel OC [organized crime] is giving way to a new, more violent, breed of crime…The new style of crime features knowledge of hi-tech explosives acquired from service in the Israeli Defense Forces…
This invokes one of the most profound insights of the film, M, that is, that the forces of the state and laws that govern them are sometimes no different than those of the criminals they pursue. Where do we think Israeli criminals learn their “skills?” In killing Palestinians of course while serving their nation. These two passages prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that this experience is exploited for corrosive effect within Israeli society. Bringing the Occupation back home with a vengeance.
The entire cable linked above is instructive reading in terms of educating one about the penetration of organized crime into many corners of Israeli life and world commerce. One claim I find hard to believe is the following:
It is not entirely clear to what extent OC elements have penetrated the Israeli establishment and corrupted public officials. The INP [Israeli National Police] insists that such instances are rare, despite the occasional revelation of crooked police officers in the press.
In fact, the Israeli police are widely regarded by Israelis as corrupt, brutish and ineffective. In some regard, it doesn’t matter whether organized crime has penetrated the ranks. It might as well have considering how useless the cops are there. Besides the tour de force blog post written by Eyal Clyne which documents scores of incidents of police mayhem as reported in the Israeli media, note that only 41% of Israelis have full or partial confidence in the police. In a 2009 Gallup poll, 59% of Americans expressed full or partial confidence in their police. Israeli is a country in which the rule of law is a concept but not a reality. And a good part of the reason for this is the debilitating effect of the Occupation on every aspect of Israeli society.
IDF officers get photo of dead child
"How will you explain this to God?' says letter sent from Spain to homes of officers exposed on 'war criminals' website. 'I've gotten used to curses, but when such a thing arrives at your doorstep, it's very unpleasant,' reserve colonel tells Ynet.
Colonel (res.) Bentzi Gruber, a deputy commander of an Israel Defense Forces division, was at a training base in Tze'elim last week. His wife called to tell him that he had received a letter from Spain, which didn't particularly surprise him. But when she opened the envelope, she was shocked.
"Unfortunately, I've gotten used to curses and scathing words against me, but when such a thing arrives at your doorstep, it's very unpleasant," he tells Ynet.
Gruber is just one of the officers who received a threatening poster from Spain, after his name appeared on a website referring to IDF soldiers involved in Operation Cast Lead as "war criminals".
The poster includes a picture of a young child buried in the sand. His head is the only thing sticking out and he appears to be dead. Two hands in the background, apparently belonging to a soldier, are directed at him. The picture's caption reads, "How will you explain this to God?'
The letter was sent in an envelope from Madrid to the homes of Colonel (res.) Gruber and several other IDF officers, including Central Command Chief Avi Mizrahi and outgoing Military Intelligence Director Amos Yadlin. Some of the posters include a picture of an injured or dead young woman being held by a soldier. The English sentence is similar.
The army does not know at this stage the exact number of letters sent to the officers' home. The website included dozens of addresses of IDF officers, most of whom are believed to have received such letters.
Signed: Rodriguez
"When my wife told me what it was all about, I felt bad," recounts Colonel (res.) Gruber, an Armored Corps officer who played an active role in the Gaza operation due to his senior position.
"It's disgusting. It's really unpleasant when such a thing reaches your doorstep, but it won't make me stop doing what I do."
Since the end of the Gaza operation, Gruber has delivered more than 150 lectures in many countries on the IDF's activity and ethical code. He admits that he has been met with curses and signs reading "wanted" quite a few times.
"I've gotten used to this attitude in some places, but such a letter is much more difficult to deal with," he says
Gruber's exact home address appeared on the same website that was later removed. The letter was signed by "Rodriguez", and the address is handwritten on the envelope.
"There's no doubt that it could get worse," the reserve officer says. "It might even result in real harm to one of the officers. I've been thinking about it a lot. I'm supposed to travel to the United States for a series of lectures, and this is something that cannot be ignored. It's extremely troubling."
After Operation Cast Lead, the army placed a gag on the identity of brigade commander for fear of legal proceedings against them. The prohibition was lifted later on, but fears that the information will be misused remain.
The IDF is also checking whether the details published on the website were revealed by a military source. Officials estimate, however, that the information was collected on the Web and did not originate in the army.
"The phenomenon of classifying IDF officers as 'war criminals' is unacceptable, and it's even worse when their homes and relatives are targeted with this filth. We must do all we can to back this officers, while working to reduce this phenomenon," says a senior military source.
Leftists: Naveh involved in 'illegal killings'
Shulamit Aloni, Nathan Zach and others object appointment of new IDF deputy chief of staff, claiming he's 'not morally suitable'. In High Court petition, they accuse him of illegal targeted killings while serving as central command chief.
Only three days have past since Major-General Yair Naveh returned to his army uniform as the new Israel Defense Forces deputy chief of staff, but on Sunday he received a chilled welcome as several left-wing activists and intellectuals petitioned the High Court of Justice against him.
The leftists claimed in their petition that when Naveh served as Central Command chief, he was responsible for targeted killings considered illegal by the High Court and international law.
Among the petitioners are former Meretz leader Shulamit Aloni, former Knesset Member Mossi Raz, founding member of Gush Shalom (independent peace movement) Uri Avnery, poet Nathan Zach and photographer Alex Levac. They were joined by the left-wing organizations Yesh Gvul and Gush Shalom.
The petitioners claimed that debriefings published in the past based on IDF files' findings state that Naveh, as well as other IDF officials, allegedly confirmed the assassinations and targeted killings of wanted persons, who could have otherwise been arrested, even though their killing cost the lives of innocent people.
They insisted that these actions were done "in complete contradiction to the principles set by the High Court and entirely against the international law and the Israeli law." These accusations, added petitioners, were never refuted by Naveh, who served as Central Command Chief in 2005-2007.
Due to these accusations, the petitioners criticized the Defense Minister Ehud Barak's decision to appoint Naveh as new deputy chief of staff, calling it "extremely unreasonable legally and not morally suitable."
Just last month the poet Nathan Zach, one of the petitioners, stirred up a public discussion when he said he was "willing to volunteer" for the Gaza flotilla and harshly criticizing government policy.
"The cruelty of oppression has penetrated us," he explained at the time. "Not a day goes by when people don't get murdered here. The violence on the roads and in schools began with the occupation."
Palestinian website exposes "war crimes" during Cast Lead
A Palestinian organization on Sunday launched a website ahead of the second anniversary of Operation Cast Lead which documents "Israeli war crimes" called "the electronic encyclopedia of the Gaza holocaust."
The website includes the names and ranks of dozens of soldiers and officers involved in the operation in an attempt to present "crimes" that the IDF committed against the Palestinian population, the sights founders claimed.
Israel: Soldiers’ Punishment for Using Boy as ‘Human Shield’ Inadequate
An Israeli military court's sentence on November 21, 2010, for two soldiers found guilty of using a Palestinian boy as a "human shield" during the 2008-09 offensive in Gaza appears inadequate considering the gravity of the offense, Human Rights Watch said today. "The slap on the wrist for these soldiers is another slap in the face for the victims of violations during Operation Cast Lead," said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at Human Rights Watch. "Not only do these sentences seem unjustifiably lenient, but two years later, they are the only sentences Israel has handed down for serious human rights violations among the many alleged during the Gaza offensive."
The court ruling, which demoted two staff sergeants to the rank of sergeant and gave them suspended three-month sentences, sends a dangerous signal that the Israeli military justice system will not seriously sanction soldiers convicted for offenses that are war crimes under international law, Human Rights Watch said.
The military court ruling took into consideration the sergeants' records of good military service and "the difficult conditions in which [they] had to operate." Israeli media reports said that both soldiers, whose identities have not been made public, had completed their mandatory military service but will still be able to serve as commanders when called for reserve duty.
The Israeli southern command military court indicted the two staff sergeants in March for separating nine-year-old Majed R. from his mother and ordering him at gunpoint to open bags suspected of containing booby-trapped bombs in the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood, south of Gaza City, on January 15, 2009. No explosives were found. The court convicted the soldiers in October of "exceeding authority to the point of endangering life or health," which carries a maximum sentence of three years in prison, and the disciplinary offense of "conduct unbecoming" a commander.
The laws of war applicable during the Gaza offensive prohibit as a war crime the deliberate use of civilians to shield against enemy attack. Shielding is prohibited under Article 28 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which applies to Gaza as an occupied territory. The First Additional Protocol to the Geneva Conventions, which reflects customary international law generally and in this instance, says that, "Individual civilians shall not be used to render certain points or areas immune from military operations, in particular in attempts to shield military objectives from attacks or to shield, favor or impede military operations."
The fact that explosives were not found in the 2009 incident does not alter the laws-of-war violation or the criminal intent behind the soldiers' actions, Human Rights Watch said. The soldiers appeared to have deliberately or recklessly sought to place the boy between them and a potential attack, which could have led to the boy's injury or death. The Fourth Geneva Convention and customary international law also prohibit the compulsory use of civilians for labor during military operations.
The soldiers from the Givati Brigade were two of only four whom Israeli military authorities have indicted for criminal offenses during Operation Cast Lead, despite numerous well-documented instances of apparent deliberate or indiscriminate attacks on civilians and other actions in violation of the laws of war by other soldiers. Israel opened roughly 48 criminal investigations after Operation Cast Lead, but to date only one soldier has been sentenced to prison: he served a seven-and-a-half-month sentence for stealing a credit card.
"It is disturbing that soldiers who risked a child's life in a patently illegal way received a milder punishment than a soldier who stole a credit card," Whitson said.
The Israeli military reprimanded six other soldiers for actions during the Gaza offensive, including a battalion commander who was "warned" as a result of authorizing the use of a Palestinian man as a human shield in the Izbt Abd Rabbo neighborhood on January 6, 2009. In another case, the Gaza Division commander, Brig. Gen. Eyal Eisenberg, and Givati Brigade commander, Col. Ilan Malka, were disciplined for shelling the UN Relief and Works Agency compound in Gaza City on January 15, 2009. In an ongoing criminal investigation, Israeli military police questioned Colonel Malka in October for allegedly authorizing an attack on January 5, 2009, that killed 21 members of the al-Samouni family, despite receiving warnings that there could be civilians in the area, Israeli media reported.
While the Israeli military has convicted and disciplined several soldiers, Hamas authorities in Gaza have not taken any credible steps whatsoever to investigate its own troops or members of other Palestinian armed groups for alleged war crimes and serious human rights abuses during the conflict, including deliberately launching hundreds of rockets at Israeli population centers and extrajudicially executing alleged Palestinian collaborators.
During Operation Cast Lead, Hamas at times unlawfully placed civilians in unnecessary danger by fighting from densely populated areas. International media and reports by nongovernmental organizations described at least two cases in which Palestinian armed groups appeared to have deliberately fired rockets from populated areas to avoid Israeli counterattacks, which would amount to the war crime of human shielding.
Israeli and Palestinian human rights organizations and the Goldstone report commissioned by the United Nations Human Rights Council documented at least 21 allegations of cases in which Israeli soldiers used human shields during the offensive. Israeli human rights groups documented dozens of cases in which Israeli soldiers used human shields in the years before the Gaza conflict.
In May 2002 the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) issued an "unequivocal order" prohibiting soldiers from using human shields. In October 2005 the Israeli High Court of Justice ruled that it was illegal for the IDF to use Palestinian civilians during military actions, in response to a petition filed by Israeli human rights organizations in 2002.
"The Israeli military justice system has failed to address many claims of human shielding by Israeli soldiers before and during Operation Cast Lead," Whitson said. "If soldiers aren't going to be punished seriously for this criminal conduct, we can expect that it will continue."
The Palestine section of Defense for Children International (DCI), a West Bank and Gaza-based human rights organization, filed a complaint with Israeli military authorities on behalf of Majed R. in April 2009. Israeli military authorities first responded to the complaint in June 2009, and later asked the boy to testify for a criminal investigation. In November 2009 the boy and his mother agreed to provide information to Israeli military police investigators at the Erez crossing point, which Israel operates on Gaza's perimeter. DCI told Human Rights Watch that Israeli military authorities had refused their request to have a lawyer present during the boy's questioning.
In a July 2010 report, Israel said it would criminally investigate all allegations of human shielding, but published information about only 5 of at least 21 cases of which nongovernmental organizations and the Goldstone report notified the authorities, making it difficult to assess the adequacy of any other investigations or to know whether and why they were closed.
An expert committee appointed by the UN Human Rights Council reported in September that Israel's investigations of violations during "Operation Cast Lead" were incomplete, as the authorities had failed to investigate some cases of alleged wrongdoing and to examine the alleged responsibility of "officials at the highest levels." The committee found a conflict of interest in the role of the military advocate general, who approved plans for the offensive but was also responsible for prosecuting alleged violations by Israeli soldiers.
Human Rights Watch urged the international community to call on Israel as well as Hamas to bring to justice perpetrators of serious violations of the laws of war and international human rights law. A failure by Israel and the Hamas authorities in Gaza to punish those responsible for laws-of-war violations would necessitate international prosecutions, Human Rights Watch said.
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Elspeth Bryce (Gill ) – daughter of Alex Bryce Film Second Unit Director for The Story of Robin Hood 1952
A few years ago I managed to make phone contact Elspeth – the Daughter of legendary Film Director Alex Bryce. She was very pleasant and shared some of her memories of those days with her father while he was filming The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men at Denham Film Studios and nearby Burnham Beeches during the summer of 1951. Elspeth’s father was in charge of the Second Unit, which specialised in all the action shots and fight scenes of the film. These included the ambush of the royal coach, the rescue of Scathelock in the market square and Robin’s various battles with the Sheriff.
She was about sixteen years old at the time and remembers the filming very well.
“At the age of sixteen, Elspeth had the enviable experience of watching the filming of Robin Hood at not only Burnham Beeches but also the huge sound stages at Denham Studios. During that period she was living in a house approximately four miles from the studios. When Elspeth entered a fancy dress costume at that time, she was lucky enough to be allowed to borrow one of Richard Todd’s Robin Hood costumes. She won the contest-of course! And afterwards rode her horse all the way to the Denham Studios. The security men on the gate were apparently pre-warned of her arrival!
Elspeth Gill actually was on the set with her Father whilst filming The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men. One thing that struck me was that she seemed to be so very fond of father and was with him much of the time he spent on those Walt Disney Films.
She told me that he suffered a stroke only a few years later while he was on the continent filming The Cockleshell Heroes in 1955.
She had been an extra on Rob Roy The Highland Rogue – and danced with Richard Todd in one scene. She also said that it was her father who had persuaded Walt Disney to employ Ken Annakin as the film director for Robin Hood so he was the one that set Ken on his way to becoming an International Film Director.
Although it was over sixty years ago, she could vaguely remember meeting Walt Disney and described the Art Director, Carmen Dillon, as a formidable woman. Richard Todd she said “was such a lovely, lovely, man.” He became a friend of the family and Elspeth had fond memories of Scottish dancing with him during the making of the later movie, Rob Roy The Highland Rogue
Her father, she explained, loved making those live-action Disney movies.”
“Elspeth could also remember being somewhere high up during the filming of a scene in Nottingham Town Square. But she kept feeling something hitting her body and when she looked around, she realised it was Peter Finch (Sheriff of Nottingham) throwing pebbles at her!” It was a memorable experience for me to be able to talk to Elspeth about her fond memories of those golden days. She was a charming and remarkable woman.
One other thing also – I sent her a picture which had the caption ‘Mr and Mrs Perce Pearce’ and she immediately said ‘ That’s not Perce Pearce’s wife – it is Carmen Dillon.
ABOVE – Riding to Denham Film Studios – on Horseback.
She did go on to gain a Diploma in 1956 at RADA – so presumably following her father’s influence and, maybe the filming of The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men – she decided to try her hand in the acting profession/
She was right of course. One of the few people I thought were still around who had actually been there throughout – seems I was wrong as she sadly died in 2012 but what wonderful memories she had
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Ron Brachman ’71 is new director of Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute
Cornell Tech has appointed Rob Brachman its new director of the Joan & Irwin Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute. The Jacobs Institute is the result of an academic partnership between Cornell University and the Technion Israel-Institute of Technology at Cornell Tech. It strives to be an institution with a non-traditional and multidisciplinary approach to research, education and entrepreneurship. Brachman graduated from Princeton in 1971 with a BSE in electrical engineering and received his Ph.D. in applied mathematics from Harvard in 1977. More details can be found here.
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Mr Robin Walker
Professions: Qualifications
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, if he will list the professional qualifications which will no longer be automatically recognised in the EU in the event of the UK leaving the EU without a deal.
Harborough
<p>Currently, UK professionals benefit from automatic recognition of their professional qualifications by EU member states for seven professions: nurses, midwives, doctors, dentists, pharmacists, architects and veterinary surgeons. All other qualifications are only recognised if they are deemed to be of an equivalent standard to the EU Member State’s own standards. If the UK leaves the EU without a deal, UK nationals will no longer have access to the EU’s reciprocal system of automatic professional qualification recognition.</p><p>UK nationals seeking recognition to practice regulated professions in the EU after a no deal exit would have to check the national policies and rules of the relevant Member State in which they intend to practice. The Government has published advice for UK professionals seeking to have their qualifications recognised in EU member states in the event of ‘no deal’ on Gov.uk.</p><p> </p>
Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
Biography information for Neil O'Brien
Schengen Agreement
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, what estimate he has made of the number of UK nationals who (a) work in the Schengen area and (b) live in the Schengen area and have less than five years' residency.
<p>We estimate that there are around 1 million UK nationals living in the EU. We do not at present hold data on the number of UK nationals who work in the Schengen area, nor the number of those who live in the Schengen area with less than five years’ residency.</p><p>The deal we’ve reached will provide EU citizens in the UK and UK nationals in the EU with certainty about their rights going forward. Indeed, the Government has been clear that in any scenario, including no deal, EU citizens and their family members living here by exit day will be able to stay. EU citizens resident in the UK by exit day are able to apply to the EU Settlement Scheme to secure their status. The scheme fully opened on 30 March and over 800,000 applicants have applied. Applications to the scheme are free.</p><p>In a no deal, following extensive engagement by the Government, we are pleased that all Member States have now made commitments to protect the rights of UK nationals in the EU and have guaranteed that UK nationals legally resident by exit day will be able to stay. We continue to encourage Member States to fully reciprocate our offer and communicate plans as soon as possible.</p><p> </p>
British Nationals Abroad: EU Countries
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, which non-UK EU member states have not announced unilateral arrangements for (a) the rights of resident UK nationals and (b) UK nationals to work in those countries in the event that the UK leaves the EU without an agreement.
<p>Following extensive engagement by the Government, we are pleased that all Member States have now made commitments to protect the residence rights of UK nationals in a no deal scenario, albeit to varying degrees of detail. The EU Commission has published details at: <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/info/brexit/brexit-preparedness/citizens-rights_en" target="_blank">https://ec.europa.eu/info/brexit/brexit-preparedness/citizens-rights_en</a>.</p><p>Member States have also made some unilateral commitments to protect the right to work, study, and access to benefits and services in a no deal scenario. For example Poland has committed to offering permanent residency covering the right to work and Malta will create a new ‘ad hoc’ status allowing UK nationals to work without a permit. To understand the extent to which each Member State has put in place protections, UK nationals should visit the FCO “living in guides” on gov.uk and the relevant web pages of their host countries.</p><p>We continue to engage our EU counterparts to encourage full reciprocity of our offer to EU citizens in the UK, in which they will continue to be able to work, study, and access benefits and services in a no deal exit as they can today.</p><p> </p>
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, what unilateral arrangements for the rights of UK citizens living in other EU member states have been put in place in each of those other member states.
<p>The UK government has been clear that in any scenario, including no deal, EU citizens and their family members living here by exit day will be able to stay. EU citizens resident in the UK by exit day are able to apply to the EU Settlement Scheme to secure their status. The scheme fully opened on 30 March and so far over 800,000 applicants have applied. Applications to the scheme are free.</p><p>Following extensive engagement by the Government, we are pleased that all Member States have now made commitments to protect the rights of UK nationals in the EU and have guaranteed that UK nationals legally resident by exit day will be able to stay. We continue to encourage Member States to fully reciprocate our offer and communicate plans as soon as possible.</p><p>The EU Commission have published details of each Member State’s unilateral measures on <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/info/brexit/brexit-preparedness/citizens-rights_en" target="_blank">https://ec.europa.eu/info/brexit/brexit-preparedness/citizens-rights_en</a>. Furthermore, UK nationals can find details of each system on the FCO “living in guides” on gov.uk.</p>
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, with reference to oral Answer of 27 June 2019 on the EU Settlement Scheme, if he will place a copy in the Library of his correspondence with the Department for Education and the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government on the matter of applying for settled status for children in care of local authorities.
Manchester, Gorton
<p>The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, the Home Office and the Department for Education work collaboratively across departments to support children in care who need to apply for the EU Settlement Scheme. Officials have been in contact with the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and I have written to Ministers Nokes and Minister Zahawi whose departments work together to support children in care to apply for settled status.</p><p>Copies of both these letters and the responses from Minister Zahawi and Minister Nokes will be deposited in the House library.</p><p>The Home Office is running a series of MP Parliamentary Caseworker events to inform MPs about the EU Settlement Scheme; we would recommend that MPs who want more information about the scheme attend these sessions.</p><p> </p>
Biography information for Afzal Khan
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that measures that have been bilaterally negotiated and agreed on sovereign bases, Gibraltar, security measures, air transport, and medicines are maintained; and whether he intends to introduce primary legislation before the summer recess for that purpose.
South Northamptonshire
<p>This government has been clear that we do not want a ‘no deal’ scenario. However, it is the responsible thing to prepare for all eventualities. We have therefore ensured we are ready to cooperate with European partners in areas such as security, air transport and medicines, and that the whole UK family, including Gibraltar and the Sovereign Base Areas, will be prepared in the event of a 'no deal'. All the primary legislation necessary for no deal is in place, and work continues to ensure that we are ready for that scenario, while remaining focused on our priority, which is to leave with a deal.</p><p> </p>
Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, what plans the Government has to bring forward legislative proposals before the summer recess to maintain the rights of EU citizens living in the UK; and what recent discussions he has had with the European Commission on maintaining the rights of UK citizens rights in the EU.
<p>The Government has always been clear and steadfast in our commitment to protecting citizens' rights. The Government is already implementing its offer to guarantee the rights of EU citizens in the UK and the EU Settlement Scheme opened fully on 30 March and to date, over 800,000 citizens have made an application.</p><p>The EU Settlement Scheme, has been implemented by the changes to Appendix EU to the Immigration Rules, which are made under section 3(2) of the Immigration Act 1971. These legislative measures are consistent with the Government’s commitment that in any scenario, EU citizens resident in the UK by exit day will be able to stay and continue living their lives broadly as they do now.</p><p>On 27 February, the House supported an amendment tabled by Alberto Costa MP to seek a joint UK-EU commitment to adopt Part II of the Withdrawal Agreement whatever the outcome of negotiations. The Government has since written to Michel Barnier twice on this matter. On 21 June Michel Barnier responded to the Secretary of State’s most recent letter of 17 June and we are carefully considering our response.</p>
Borders: Northern Ireland
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, what recent steps he has taken with the European Commission to ensure that there is not a hard border on the island of Ireland in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal.
<p>My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union has regularly met with the EU Commission to discuss preparations for leaving the EU.</p><p>The Government has been clear that the unique social, political and economic circumstances of Northern Ireland must be reflected in any arrangements that apply in a no deal scenario. We are absolutely committed to upholding the Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement, and would do everything possible to avoid a hard border between Northern Ireland and Ireland.</p><p>In a no deal scenario, the UK Government is committed to entering into discussions urgently with the European Commission and the Irish Government to jointly agree long-term measures to avoid a hard border and to limit the impact of a no deal exit on life on the island of Ireland.</p><p>We have confirmed a unilateral approach to checks, processes and tariffs to do all we can to avoid a hard border. The UK Government would not introduce any new checks or controls on goods crossing from Ireland to Northern Ireland, including any new customs declarations for nearly all goods.</p><p>The UK temporary tariff regime would therefore not apply to goods crossing from Ireland into Northern Ireland.</p><p>We would need to apply a small number of measures strictly necessary to comply with international legal obligations, protect the biosecurity of the island of Ireland, or to avoid the highest risks to Northern Ireland businesses - but these measures would not require checks at the border.</p>
Visas: Musicians
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, what progress he has made in discussions with the Home Secretary on a two-year, multi-entry touring visa for UK musicians in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal.
Ruth Jones
<p>The Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union has regular discussions with Cabinet colleagues on preparations for the UK’s departure from the European Union.</p><p>In the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal, UK nationals undertaking paid work such as tours in the EU should check with the Embassy of the countries they plan to travel to for what kind of visa or permit, if any, they will need. The FCO provides advice on their country-specific travel pages online. Information about entry requirements for those intending to work or provide a service in an EU Member State is listed on our <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/providing-services-to-eea-and-efta-countries-after-eu-exit" target="_blank">advice pages for UK businesses</a> on gov.uk.</p><p>The Political Declaration agreed between the UK and the EU acknowledges the importance of mobility for cultural cooperation. The UK is seeking to agree reciprocal mobility arrangements that would facilitate the temporary mobility of self-employed professionals and employees providing services. The detail will be discussed in the next phase of negotiations.</p><p> </p>
Biography information for Ruth Jones
Health Services: Reciprocal Arrangements
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, what recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on ensuring the maintenance of the European Health Insurance Card for UK citizens when the UK leaves the EU.
<p>DExEU Ministers and officials have regular discussions with their counterparts in the Department for Health and Social Care to discuss a wide range of issues related to the UK’s withdrawal from the EU.</p><p>Subject to the Withdrawal Agreement being agreed by Parliament, where the UK or an EU Member State is responsible for the healthcare of those within the scope of the Agreement, these individuals will continue to be entitled to reciprocal healthcare cover, including EHIC rights, from that country. For individuals not in scope of the Withdrawal Agreement, and as part of our future relationship with the EU, we have said that we want continued participation in the EHIC scheme.</p><p>In the event of a no deal exit, reciprocal healthcare cannot be protected unilaterally and requires reciprocity from the EU or individual Member States. We have a duty to ensure that any potential harmful impacts on our citizens in the EU, and on EU citizens residing in the UK, are minimised as far as possible.</p><p>That is why, in the event of no deal, the UK is seeking an EU-wide approach or bilateral arrangements with Member States to transitionally apply the current social security coordination regulations, including reciprocal healthcare, in full until the end of 2020. This includes current EHIC arrangements. This will provide certainty to individuals who move to, visit or work in the UK or EU until that date. UK Government Ministers highlighted the importance of transitionally maintaining these arrangements in letters sent to Ministerial counterparts in each Member State.</p><p> </p>
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2011 // USA - New Zealand // Steven Spielberg // December 17, 2011 // 3D Digital Theatrical Projection (Wehrenberg Des Peres 14)
Adapting the beloved Tintin stories to film has been a passion project for Steven Spielberg for nearly three decades. The director first sought to option the work of Belgian comic artist Hergé in 1983, after the runaway success of Raiders of the Lost Ark and E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial had solidified Spielberg’s reputation as a Hollywood powerhouse. Twenty-eight years is a staggeringly long time for a film to languish in Development Hell, but the feature that has finally emerged, The Adventures of Tintin, is no worse the wear for its long gestation. In fact, Tintin is that rarest of things in this era when aggressive, directionless ugliness dominates the cinema of big-budget spectacle: a work in which cutting-edge technology allows a genuine film artist to express themselves without the usual analog limitations. It’s telling that the seeds of Tintin were planted by the Steven Spielberg of 1983, a man who had so recently given the world Raiders, one of the most perfect action-adventure films of all time. The Adventures of Tintin—which is, astonishingly, the first animated feature of the director’s career—gives splendid, ebullient expression to the same rousing spirit of derring-do that suffused the first chapter of the Indiana Jones saga. Moreover, Tintin finds the veteran director newly empowered by the potential of the digital film-making space, where his camera can be anywhere and move in any way he might imagine.
Adored in his native Belgium and among comics aficionados the world over, the eponymous Tintin is a young reporter of uncertain age and boundless pluck, who has an affinity for stumbling into globe-trotting adventures with his loyal wire fox terrier, Snowy. Adapted by a trio of British screenwriters—Steven Moffat, Joe Cornish, and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World director Edgar Wright—The Adventures of Tintin incorporates three of Hergé's Tintin stories: The Crab with the Golden Claws, The Secret of the Unicorn, and Red Rackham’s Treasure. Apart from amalgamating the various plot elements from these books, the only significant change that the script makes to the source material is to switch Tintin's nationality from Belgian to British, an alteration that is no doubt heretical among more impassioned devotees of the ginger-haired journalist. However, this change allows the characters to speak in English without the need for distracting logical leaps, while also preserving the decaying colonial tone of Tintin's mid-twentieth-century escapades.
The film's events begin with Tintin's purchase of an antique model ship, and from there proceed to all manner of chases, escapes, fisticuffs, and shoot-outs, at locales ranging from the streets of London to an ocean freighter to a Moroccan palace. To say more about the story would rob the viewer of one of the primary pleasures of The Adventures of Tintin: A thrilling awareness that the next clue could take Tintin and Snowy anywhere in the world and reveal almost any wonder. Aside from Tintin himself (Jamie Bell), the film features many iconic Hergé characters, including the perpetually soused Captain Haddock (Andy Serkis), the imperious Ivanonvich Sakharine (Daniel Craig), bumbling police inspectors Thompson and Thompson (Simon Pegg and Nick Frost), pickpocket Silk (Toby Jones), and opera diva Bianca Castafiore (Kim Stengel). Created with motion-capture animation from Weta Digital, the film boasts a unique look that is at once realistic and cartoonish. Rather than attempt an animated realization of Hergé's style, Tintin uses the character designs of the cartoonist's original stories as a reference point and then extrapolates from there. The result is something that is more soft and natural than the exaggerated plasticity of most computer-animated characters, but also obviously drawn from the traditions of European comic art. As such, it seldom risks the Uncanny Valley of Robert Zemeckis' digital monsters.
Beyond the characters, the world of The Adventures of Tintin is almost ludicrously detailed and gorgeous, an ever-so-slightly stylized vision of the mid-twentieth century. Unlike the setting of the Indiana Jones films, Tintin's world is mostly free of supernatural threats, and as such the obstacles that the reporter and his dog confront seem downright prosaic from a twenty-first century vantage. There are encrypted riddles, secret compartments, locked doors, trackless oceans, searing deserts, and lots of goons with guns. Contemporary viewers might ask, "Shouldn't there be some mummies or aliens in there?" Perish the thought. One of the film's singular achievements is how marvelously thrilling Tintin's materially-grounded adventures seem, in part because the work is saturated with such giddy affection for its source material, without being embarrassingly slavish or self-referential. However, it's also due to Speilberg's enviable skill at rendering elemental action sequences—e.g. Snowy chasing a truck through the London streets—with breathtaking vigor and wit.
That skill achieves its unrestrained potential in Tintin, as the unfettered director luxuriates in the liberation of his virtual camera. For some film-makers, such freedom can become an excuse for indulgent flourishes and headache-inducing excess. Not so with Spielberg, for while Tintin is often breathless and frenetic, it is also one of the most visually seamless and handsome things that the director has ever created. In short, Spielberg takes to the realms of computer animation like a sailor takes to drink, and the result is by turns jaw-dropping and just plain heavenly. A bravura escape sequence through a desert port on a hill—presented as a single, unbroken shot that swoops through windows and roars down narrow alleys—is probably the most thrilling thing to bear Spielberg’s name since Dr. Jones dangled from the grill of a cargo truck. Tintin's scene is lessened only by the knowledge that it did not require the blood, sweat, and tears of analog stuntwork.
However, what's truly novel about Tintin is not the meticulous choreography of its action set pieces—although I am hard-pressed to recall a feature film that is this flat-out gorgeous while also moving very, very fast—but the marriage of its distinctly modern animation approach to a very simple, determinedly old-fashioned story. There's something almost wistful about the way that Tintin goes to the library to do research (!), and then reads vital exposition aloud for Snowy's (i.e. the viewer's) benefit. Quite apart from such quaint details, however, the film impresses with the sheer minimalism of its scenario. Through all the rushing to and fro from one destination to the next—whether by car, boat, or plane—the goal remains clear: Reach the Prize before the Bad Guys. Tintin is presented with a keen awareness that it is not narrative convolutions that draw the viewer into a treasure hunt, but the propulsive progression from A to B to C to X.
Perhaps, in this respect, Tintin risks some flimsiness, for it appears to have no point beyond simply existing as a rollicking action-adventure picture with a Boy Scout's soul. However, given that such pictures are so rare, and almost never this luscious and smartly-crafted, it seems woefully hardhearted to grouse that Tintin lacks depth. Of course it lacks depth: It's a Boy's Own tale brought to glorious life. Other problems do weigh on Tintin here and there. The film possesses all the rhythmic hiccups that one might expect from the first of two feature-length films adapted from multiple books. (Spielberg and producer Peter Jackson will purportedly be co-directing the second Tintin film.) Moreover, Tintin never scans as a particularly rich character, given that his primary qualities are his utter fearlessness, quick-thinking, and almost super-heroic knack for wriggling out of trouble. Such characteristics make him an excellent hero for the purposes of a breezy adventure tale, but don't lend him much personality. Of course, Tintin must be an Everylad who can appeal to any viewer who daydreams of sunken galleons and palm-studded oases. In this sense, Tintin's earnestness and dauntless courage make him exactly the right hero for the film that bears his name. For who wouldn't like to be so brave in the face of danger; to alternately clobber and maneuver and reason their way out of harrowing situations; and to race across the world in search of fortune and glory, all with a loyal pooch by their side?
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Lightning Location Information
Number of lightning strokes detected over the Hong Kong territory in the past hour (0:00a.m. - 0:59a.m.):
Cloud-to-ground lightning: 0 Cloud-to-cloud lightning: 0
Cloud-to-ground lightning count distribution over Hong Kong in the past hour
Recent cloud-to-ground lightning count distribution over Hong Kong
Number of lightning strokes detected over the Hong Kong territory today and for the past three days
Video on how the Observatory detects lightning (in Chinese only)
Maps of past lightning density in Hong Kong
The Lightning Location Network is jointly operated by the Hong Kong Observatory, the Guangdong Meteorological Services and the Macao Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau. Currently, it comprises nine stations located at Chung Hom Kok, Tsim Bei Tsui, Sha Tau Kok and Chek Lap Kok in Hong Kong, Sanshui, Huidong, Yangjiang and Dongao Island, Zhuhai in Guangdong, as well as Taipa in Macao. (Click here to see the location of these stations)
The image shows cloud-to-ground or cloud-to-cloud lightning strokes as detected by the Lightning Location Network over the Pearl River Estuary and nearby regions in the past 30 minutes. The lightning records are updated at 5-minute intervals. Cloud-to-cloud lightning strokes are those detected strokes that did not reach the ground. As such, they might not affect people or facilities on the ground. However, it should be noted that they may sometimes precede cloud-to-ground strokes. The location as shown depicts roughly the starting point of the discharge from one cloud to the other.
The above map can be zoomed into street level so that the lightning symbol may be displayed over a street or a building. Please note that the actual location of the lightning stroke may be more than several hundred metres away from the displayed position. Although the map can be scaled down to show other parts of the world, it will only display lightning location within the vicinity of Hong Kong.
The Observatory's enhanced Lightning Location Information System with new computer hardware and software was put into operation in May 2017.
The Observatory replaced the lightning sensors at Chung Hom Kok, Tsim Bei Tsui, Sha Tau Kok and Taipa with new model sensors and set up new lightning detection stations at Chek Lap Kok and Dongao Island during the period from December 2017 to July 2018. The aforesaid six new sensors became operational in early 2019.
The accuracy of the enhanced system in determining the location of cloud-to-ground lightning strokes is about 250 m within the network when all stations are operative. The lightning detection efficiency, i.e. the probability that a stroke with peak current greater than a certain level can be detected by the network, is estimated to reach 95%. The efficiency of cloud-to-cloud lightning detection is more than 50%. The location accuracy and detection efficiency will be reduced when the lightning stroke occurs outside of the network or when not all of the stations are operative.
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Tranquil Tirades
Earth-2.net Podcasts
Special 02: 2013 Retrospective
By RSS, January 23, 2014 in Tranquil Tirades
After nearly 30 hours of editing, we humbly bring you a look back at the year that was 2013. All of the movies, all of the rants, all of the pain. [ 2:59:44 || 87.4 MB ]
To listen, click here: http://www.earth-2.net/podcasts/tranquiltirades/episodes/tranquiltiradesspecial_002.mp3
Listening to the teaser at the end... wow. Not going to spoil just... listen, I know both of you are straight edge but I'm just going to leave all the booze and drugs over here.
Just keep the revolvers as far from us as possible and we should make it through...somehow.
Guys, whether you listen to the show or not, please try to get this out to as many people as you can.
I conceived this as a primer/starting off point for new listeners, and I really don't want all of that effort to go to waste.
^THIS.
A thousand times ^THIS.
Doctor, we have all the colors of the rainbow!
Hate to be the one stick in the mud but I really enjoy the Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever episode as well as the first era of the show. That being said 2013 was a tough year for you guys and I thank you for gritting your teeth through the pain. Seriously stoked for 2014 and yeah that teaser only cemented my excitement.
There are moments during the BEVS episode that are quite funny. It's just that you have to wade through so much drunken stupidity from Cole that it's hard to find them. And I agree--there are several very high quality episodes during "that" era--Chun-Li, The Room, Wicker Man, Kazaam, Birdemic, even the Showgirls one I think is really funny.
Consider your marketing request carried out on my part!
As for the Tirades as a whole, I wouldn't be so quick to disregard the Cole era, no matter the acrimony of how it ended and the content resulting from it. Speaking as someone who had to edit a LOT of unsavoury material in the For Your Ears Only days, even if Adham and I are still good pals to this day, some of Cole's drunken stupidity sounded awesome to us listeners. Not so much the pissing, but I still find Episode 4 to have some good bits to go back to. Obviously, the Tirades is James's creation and Dubs has put considerable man hours into the project, but I'd be disappointed if Cole & his (somewhat obscene) contribution was whitewashed from the wiki Benoit-style.
I'll admit I have been tempted at times to go back into certain episodes (BEVS) and not completely remove him (that would cause those episodes to become really confusing), but considerably cut down the amount of times we hear him. I've long since decided against that. I'm not going to just Tabula Rasa everything involving Michael. He was part of the show, so we aren't going to just ignore everything he was involved with. I'll be the first to admit it was a mistake allowing him to just be on the show out of nowhere, but keep in mind, when I made that decision, he and I were best friends. I thought it would be good to make it a 3-person show, and obviously, there have been at least a half-dozen episodes that proved it can be.
Still, when you get down to it, the show has dramatically improved in quality, flow, and intelligence without him there bantering and interrupting with stupid, pointless shit constantly. He will still have his place in the annals of our show's history and on the Wiki, though.
I certainly know what it means to produce a podcast with a best friend then Benoit them, and it's a though decision to make. You two have made your decision, you're standing by that, and I fully support and respect it.
As for this episode, though I've yet to finish it, I will say now: this is so much fun!
I think it's pretty obvious that I didn't like Cole and resented the fact that he was added to the show at what felt like the last minute. It got worse when I discovered that he saw us as just supporting players and thought the Tirades was some sort of starring vehicle for him, as if he were the source of all of the fun and comedy and we were just along for the ride. I didn't want the show to turn into a frat boy locker room podcast, and it started to feel that way, which nearly killed the show for good. The only reason I put up with him was for James. You can quite literally hear moments in those shows when I bit my tongue or just didn't say anything while he rambled on about some immature bullshit. What you didn't hear was all of the bickering he and I did. I'm sort of amazed we got as much out of the trio as we did considering you will not find two human beings with less in common than Damien Wilkens and Michael Cole.
All of that said, I have no time in my life to harbor resentment for people. It would be a long list anyway, but the worst thing he really ever did to me was annoy the piss out of me and make it really difficult to enjoy creating something with my best friend. James has a much more legitimate ax to grind, but even he's said it's just something we need to move on from. He was on the show. I don't particularly like listening to those episodes now, but I don't like listening to myself anyway. Whitewashing him would make it feel like I wasted all of those hours working on those shows, and while I can have my doubts, I'd like to think that I didn't.
And hopefully that's the last we"ll ever have to say on the matter.
I also want to thank everyone that's been making the effort to get this episode out to people. Hopefully it pays off.
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I remember when I first heard the name Michael Cole mentioned on the list I thought it said "Michael Coe." I got really excited because ever since i read the book "The True History of Chocolate" I have loved his work. Especially his writings on Mayan Archaeology. If it were not for the fact that he was professor emeritus I would have worked harder at trying to get into his alma mater of Yale University.
. . . in retrospect I should have known better.
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Families of two missing US citizens to host rally Alhagie Ceesay and Ebou Jobe
citizens of Gambian origin, who have been missing in The Gambia since June 2013, have planned a rally in Las Vegas, NV, United States, to demand for their immediate and safe release. The two have been missing for almost 2 years now after they werepicked up at their residence in Brusubi. According to a source, the rally will be staged on June 15th 2015 at midday in front of Senator Harry Reid’s Office at the Lloyd D, George Building in Las Vegas. The source indicated that the purpose of the rally is to raise awareness on this case within the US, with the hope of getting public support in-order to urge the US Government to put more pressure on the Gambia Government for the immediate and safe release of Messrs. Ceesay and Jobe to return to their families in the US. The Ceesay and Jobe Families, it added, appreciate all the work that the US State Department, FBI and the US Embassy in Gambia have done so far, but believe more should be done to bring the 2 back who have disappeared in The Gambian. A former US Charge d’Affairs in The Gambia, Ambassador George Staples, told reporters late last year (2014) that the US Government has offered to the Gambia Government the services of the FBI to help in locating the two and adding that they will leave no stone unturned in searching for their nationals. It is reported that both Ceesay and Jobe are married with young children. Ceesay has two kids, a boy and a girl and Jobe has three boys. Earlier reports have indicated that Ceesay and Jobe came to the Gambia with the hope of investing in businesses in their country of origin. Alhagie Ceesay is said to have had a degree in Information Technology and an MBA and worked for Chevron Texaco for over 10 years as a Systems Analyst. Ebou Jobe had a degree in Business and worked for Walmart as an Operations Manager. The two were picked up by NIA agents and have disappeared ever since.]]>
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More than 1,000 climate rallies for Friday it is planned
Richard Branson takes a stand on mental health
by Gustavo Bishop | October 13, 2018 | 12:28
That said, there appear to be some serious players in this nascent market, the most prominent of which, aside from Virgin Galactic, are Blue Origin, led by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, and SpaceX, run by Elon Musk.
But Sir Richard has a long history of underestimating the time it takes his firm to get test flights into the air, and the company has repeatedly missed his lofty targets.
Virgin Galactic is a few steps behind its main competitor SpaceX, which last month announced it will be sending its first private citizen around the moon in 2023 - Japanese online fashion businessman Yusaku Maezawa.
"So we have got a very, very exciting couple of months ahead,"he said".
When asked whether he had any concerns about consumer demand regarding fare-paying space flights, Branson said: "If I have a room full of 10 people, eight out of 10 would love to go to space if they could afford it". The 42-second burn blasted it to 171,000 feet, almost five times the cruising altitude of a transatlantic passenger plane.
Keep an eye on the sky this month, as Virgin Galactic gears up to finally take its first trip to space.
More news: United States intelligence knew Khashoggi was targeted
According to the businessman, "The market for people who would love to become astronauts and go to space is big".
To reach the Karman line, a spaceship has to cruise at an altitude of 100 kilometers above sea level. "And it is up to us to produce as many spaceships as we can to cater to that demand", he added.
Branson's pursuit of commercializing space travel began in 2004 when he founded Virgin Galactic. Branson told CNBC that he doesn't expect the price to drop any time soon, saying he'd like to see it level out to around $US40,000 ($56,133) to $US50,000 ($70,167) over the next 10 years. Right now the price of a Virgin Galactic ticket is nearly $250,000-and it won't be dropping anytime soon.
All Virgin Australia guests will also have access to the Smiling Mind app guided meditations via the Inflight Entertainment System, enabling the reduction of stress and anxiety during the flight.
In fact, Branson once said in an interview that he's "embarrassed" by displays of wealth, like leaving large tips and buying things for "pure luxury".
The SpaceShipTwo spaceplane can carry six passengers and two pilots, with each ticket costing $US250,000 ($350,834).
Nene out, Mboweni in
Questions have also been raised about a PIC deal involving Nene's son, while he was chairman of the PIC. Nene was widely seen as a hero of the resistance to corruption.
Microsoft Explains Why Windows 10’s October 2018 Update Was Deleting People’s Files
Microsoft enabled new feedback functionality today that adds options to classify impact and severity of the reported issue. This is the feature that lets you move a known folder like C:\Users\Name\Downloads to D:\Downloads, for example.
World's longest direct flight takes off from Singapore to NY
By using this system, the plan burns 25 percent less fuel as compared to the other aircraft with the similar size, said Airbus. Singapore Airlines launched the record-breaking route in 2004, but canceled it nine years later because of rising fuel prices.
As a result, the Galaxy A9 is poised to become the world's first smartphone with 4 separate cameras planted on its backside. Add to that a 24-megapixel autofocus selfie shooter, and you end up with a phone that packs way too many cameras .
‘Astronaut’ dummy Ripley rides aboard SpaceX’s Crew Dragon bound for space
SpaceX crew capsule docks at the International Space Station
Tortoise & Bee Presumed Extinct Recently Rediscovered — Surprise Survivors
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"Super snow moon" will be 2019's biggest and brightest
Decline of insects could cause natural catastrophe, study warns
Mars Opportunity rover is dead, NASA confirms
Check your compass: The magnetic north pole is on the move
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Financial Morning News 02/07/2014 2 July 2014
The General Index in Athens Stock Exchange (ASE) closed at 1,228.85 posting profits of 1.20%, in a turnover of €143,39mn.
The unemployment rate reached at 26.8% in March for 26.9% in the previous month (ELSTAT).
The chairman and chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase mr. Jamie Dimon is expected to arrive in Athens today for a two-day visit and will likely meet with Prime Minister Mr. Antonis Samaras in the afternoon. He will also hold meetings with a number of Greek bankers, entrepreneurs and ship-owners.
OTE: The company submitted a non-binding offer of €250mn to €300mn to acquire rival Forthnet’s pay TV operations. In the event that an agreement is reached, it will be subject to clearance from competent authorities. In other news, OTE plc has launched a tender offer for its existing bonds maturing in February
2015 and May 2016, at purchase spreads of 60 bps and 160 bps over mid-swaps respectively. The total amount of bonds to be bought back will be determined within the next few days, and will depend on the successful completion of a new bond issue. The new bond will be issued under the OTE Plc Global Medium Term Note Programme, will be Euro denominated, bearing a fixed interest rate and will have a benchmark size.
Piraeus Bank: 2nd exercise of warrants at €1.7680 (4.476 shares per 1 warrant).
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Modern Death: How Medicine Changed the End of Life
September 28, 2017 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
« What Social Workers Need to Know about End of Life Care
Third Annual Barbara Swartz Lecture featuring Dr. Haider Warraich »
Dr. Haider Warraich is a young and brilliant new voice in the conversation about death and dying started by Dr. Sherwin Nuland and Atul Gawande. Dr. Warraich takes a broader look at how we die today, from the cellular level up to the very definition of death itself. Dr. Warraich’s debut book, Modern Death:How Medicine Changed the End of Life, explores the rituals and language of dying that have developed in the last century, and how modern technology has not only changed the hows, whens, and wheres of death, but the what of death.
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Good wishes have been coming in this morning from customers around the world in light of Flex receiving Infocomm's 2012 Rental and Staging Award for Best Rental Management Software. I'd like to thank everyone for their kind words and everyone who voted for us. I know a lot of people can be cynical about these awards, but it's hard for us to be cynical this morning.
This award may represent a lot of things to different people, but whatever it may represent, it comes as a much needed boost for us. Flex as a product is not yet where we would like it to be, but getting it to this point took the hard work and sacrifice of a lot of people and years of commitment, over a decade for me if you count Shoptick and shoptick.com.
I think the picture from the ceremony of our CEO, Chris Stein, receiving the award in Las Vegas yesterday says a lot.
Chris looks happy and proud here, but he also looks exhausted, and it's not hard to understand why: This guy works harder than anyone I've ever met and I'm a software engineer, in a profession known for its workaholics and "software widows". It's his dogged determination and focus on the product and user's point of view that took Shoptick's dozen or so customers to 160+ customers in a dozen countries. Though Chris and I don't always agree, he's the linchpin that holds us together, he picks up the managerial slack when I'm stuck in the code, and I consider him an invaluable partner, the piece that was missing during the Shoptick days.
People who work with such dedication and passion aren't in it for the money. I think that's what makes working for Flex such a great experience for me. Not only do I get work on a product I created and believe in, but I get to work in a company culture that focuses on the right things, not just how to extract more money from the customer with the least amount of effort.
And though Chris's determination and limitless energy set the example for all of us, the whole team at Flex makes a big contribution every day.
Suman, from his home in Calcutta, never ceases to amaze me with his endurance and productivity. Whenever I set the bar a little higher, he always reaches it, forcing me to push the bar even higher next time. He recently left E-Force Global to join Flex full time and he's continuing to do great work on our new labor and pricing tier system.
Roger's initiative and hard work allowed us to integrate with QuickBooks and QuickBooks Online in a flexible, meaningful way. It would have been very easy for our QuickBooks integration to be just complete enough to justify the bullet point on our feature list, but Roger worked with our customers to make it as useful as it can be. Roger's also put in countless hours designing and maintaining reports, which can be a dreary and thankless task.
And though Courtney's new to the team, she's quickly become the company's conscience, keeping us honest, and helping us avoid the temptation to just push to production without thorough testing. Though there are always surprises and room for improvement, I personally think Courtney's dedication to her job has made a noticeable difference in the stability and quality of new software updates.
And I want to acknowledge Devon for his work supporting our customers. He's had to do it under less than ideal circumstances, subject to ongoing legal threats and harassment from his former employer. He's been put in a tough position and has handled it with poise and professionalism. His trial by fire has made him a loyal and valuable collaborator, and a passionate advocate for the customer in our design and planning process.
The Future of Flex
An occasion like this always puts one in mind of the future. I've often said that we still have a lot of work left to make Flex the product we want it to be and it always seems like new feature development never moves quite as fast as we or our customers would like. Yet we do have some big things coming just over the horizon.
We're almost done with Phase 1 of a major enhancement intended to add more powerful labor planning features to Flex. Chris has the latest development build with him at Infocomm this week, and in this unreleased version you'll be able to see our approach to labor and tiered pricing, with a powerful tier based model that takes into account complex after hours, overtime and other labor rules without forcing users to remember all the complexity. Our design approach for labor pricing also enables tier based pricing for anything in Flex, including rentals and retail items. This can be leveraged to provide bulk pricing or have different rental tiers without relying on multipliers.
The next phase will greatly expand how labor is scheduled, including new first-in-industry tools for booking freelancers and ensuring that labor requirements are covered without conflicts.
Faster Scanning
Another key enhancement that's been on our radar for some time is providing asynchronous scan processing for use cases where doing everything in real time is unnecessary - like returns. We'll be working on several methods of making the scan process more efficient for high throughput customers. We'll also be introducing methods for supporting in-the-field transfers between shows and bulk scan options intended to support rapid turnarounds.
Multi-Session
We've laid some groundwork and built much of the preliminary architecture needed to support multi-session event planning - for equipment and on-site labor. More work on this is planned for the coming year.
Building a Better Cloud
One of the challenges we face is how to make Flex more fault tolerant as the customer count grows without adding cost and increasing our prices. We'll be working on a number of major architectural enhancements designed to take better advantage of the cloud platform, a project we've taken to calling high-availability Flex or the TruCLOUD. This project is intended to make Flex more fault tolerant without increasing our operating costs. It will include multiple load balanced server instances, out of process report generation (for more consistent performance), and dynamic scaling for peak usage periods.
The can that always seems to get kicked down the road around here is mobile development. Part of the reason for this is that customers have never really stressed it as a priority, but that's changing. We've done some proofs of concept and will likely roll out iPhone and possibly Android applications over the next 12 months, particularly in support of field transfers and our new labor module.
A Very Good Year
It's been a great 2012 so far at Flex and we're looking forward to what happens next. As is often the case, our goals may outstrip our resources, but we'll do our best. Thanks again to everyone for supporting Flex. We'll keep working hard to earn your continued support.
I can't even begin to describe how happy I am for, and proud of, you! From the days "way back when" when it was all just a concept, through the trials and missteps of the dot-com years... to see it finally find its legs and the team to make it truly RUN!
Congratulations and best wishes for the future!
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South Africa floods and mudslides kill 33, children missing
People begin to clear debris at an informal settlement of BottleBrush, south of Durban. (AFP)
AFP Tuesday, 23 April 2019
The death toll from floods and mudslides that crushed homes in the South African port of Durban on Tuesday has risen to 33, with reports of children missing and scores of people displaced, authorities said.
"Heavy rains have since claimed 33 lives so far," Nomusa Dube-Ncube, a KwaZulu-Natal provincial minister, said in a statement. Among those killed were a six-month-old baby and a child aged around 10.
She added that ten children are missing in Durban and 42 people have been injured.
An AFP photographer saw two of the nine bodies - including that of a small child -being pulled out of a house belonging to a school caretaker in Westcliff, a working-class suburb on the outskirts of Durban.
The victims were buried under a wall that had collapsed on them while they were sleeping. At least 145 people have been displaced, the government said.
A Hindu temple in the city was entirely flooded with water levels of up to 10 meters (33 feet), the photographer reported. Heavy rains have lashed South Africa in recent days, with the southern and eastern parts of the country badly hit since the start of Easter weekend.
"Last night the weather conditions worsened significantly," Dube-Ncube said.
The government said dozens of incidents of collapsed walls and flooded homes were reported throughout the night, as roads were also flooded. Those killed were either crushed to death by mudslides or drowned in flood waters, Rescue Care spokesman Garrith Jamieson told AFP.
Search and rescue operations have combed the debris for those who might be trapped underneath. In addition to collapsed buildings and flooded roads, sewer lines were blocked and electricity pylons had toppled over.
South African military personnel have been dispatched to help rescue and evacuation efforts. Government, political and religious groups were Tuesday handing out food parcels to the affected people.
The South African Weather Services warned that more heavy rain and gale force winds were expected until Wednesday, which could threaten low-lying bridges and roads.
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African News International
Northern healthcare firms target new opportunities in Africa
Health sector businesses from the Northern Powerhouse could benefit from new export opportunities across Africa thanks to a recent trade mission led by Department for International Trade (DIT)
LONDON, United Kingdom, — Businesses including Yorkshire’s Sunflower Medical and Medasil were amongst 16 firms from the north that travelled to trade fair Africa Health 2019 in South Africa as part of a mission organised by DIT and Medilink UK, the UK’s largest association of Life Sciences and Medical Technology companies.
This comes as a new analysis of HMRC data by DIT found that exports of UK medical equipment reached a record high of £1.8 billion in 2018, up by 6% on 2017.
The mission, which saw the delivery of a British pavilion at the exhibition, provided an unrivalled opportunity for the businesses to meet potential new buyers and learn more about overcoming barriers and breaking into new markets in Africa. The businesses were accompanied by life sciences sector specialists from DIT in the north of England.
Bradford’s Sunflower Medical, which manufactures contemporary functional furniture for medical use, has experienced growing demand from several African markets over recent years, and has already supplied its medical furniture into Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Morocco and Nigeria.
Sunflower Medical’s Export Sales Manager Paul Hampton believes there are still significant opportunities for expansion with new healthcare projects across the continent.
“We’re very conscious of the rapidly growing opportunities in African markets, which is why we made the decision to return to Africa Health this year. It’s great that DIT and Medilink host these missions, as being on the ground at these events is invaluable to companies like ours”.
“This year’s trip proved incredibly fruitful, with an encouraging quantity and quality of sales leads generated. Just over half of sales leads over the three days came from the South African market, with interest also coming from companies looking to represent Sunflower Medical in Kenya, Ghana and Malawi”.
Leeds based Medasil, which has been making devices for a range of medical applications since 1974, was also in attendance on the mission.
Medasil’s Christine Casey commented:
“While Medasil doesn’t currently export to African markets, we’re keen to venture into new areas of opportunity, which is why we registered for the DIT mission to Africa Health”.
“We were hugely encouraged by what we saw, and we gained some valuable insights into the opportunities the continent holds. Our exhibit was received very positively and we have returned to the UK with genuine excitement about the opportunities for expansion into the African continent”.
Strengthening the UK’s partnership with African nations is a key element of the UK Government’s vision for Global Britain.
Last year the Department for International Trade appointed its first HM Trade Commissioner for Africa, Emma Wade-Smith OBE, who is working closely with HM Ambassadors, High Commissioners and the wider diplomatic network to promote UK trade and prosperity in the region.
Commenting on the recent mission, HM Trade Commissioner for Africa, Emma Wade-Smith OBE said:
“I’m delighted to see Northern Powerhouse businesses exploring the fast-growing opportunities that African markets have to offer”.
“I’ve seen for myself how the UK’s expertise in the healthcare sector is the envy of many countries around the world. Coupled with our manufacturing heritage and leading innovation, I have every confidence that British businesses operating in this space will experience strong demand for their products and services over the years ahead”.
Distributed by APO Group on behalf of UK Department for International Trade.
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This image from video shows a collapsed bridge in Heyuan, Guangdong Province, China Friday, June 14, 2019. An entire section of a roadway bridge has plunged into a wide river in southern China, sending two vehicles into the water and leaving two people missing. Heyuan city police said that the 120-meter (390-foot) section collapsed early Friday morning. (CCTV via AP)
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Tag: Family show
Family Open Day Success!
Our studio really came alive on Saturday for the launch event! The main…
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The Flying Machine Takes Another Trip
On Sunday we brought out our much beloved show The Flying Machine…
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Twelve Birds in Mansfield…
On Saturday, HandMade had the pleasure of performing last year’s Christmas show,…
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Review: The Great Christmas Dig
This week I had the pleasure of watching HandMade Theatre’s new show…
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Just one day until our archaeologists take to the stage in The…
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New Merchandise for Christmas!
Our new show, The Great Christmas Dig is fast approaching and to celebrate,…
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A Special Performance…
Our highly popular festive show from last year, The Twelve Birds of Christmas is making a…
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The Countdown Begins…
Christmas may be fast approaching, but something to get excited about first…
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The 12 Birds of Christmas: Review This Day I Love
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Already Looking Forward to Christmas!
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We Need Press Reform - but how?
Remain narrowly lost the EU Referendum 2016 for several reasons, and one of these is the fact that of all the newspaper articles about the EU referendum read by the British electorate, they were reading 4 times as many anti-EU articles as pro-EU articles.
On a day-to-day basis, for every single reader of liberal/progressive newspapers in the UK there are three readers of conservative/neo-liberal papers.
That is going to have an effect on the way people think and behave. It is known that newspapers affect their readers' views on the "salience" or importance of events and opinions. If it is carried, it is important, if it is not carried, it is unimportant.
In a healthy democracy, the newsprint split between liberal and neo-liberal should be much closer to 50/50.
Supporters of the status quo say that the split in favour of conservative papers is because of consumer choice, they are only giving people what they want. But there is an interwoven relationship between reader and writer. They feed back onto each other, but the writer affects opinion, and opinion affects what is written. The writer is clearly the more powerful of the two.
Just as it was the Sun Wot Won It in the 1992 general election for the Tories (allegedly), it was the pressure of the tabloid papers that has helped to take us out of the EU (unless we have a second referendum).
To strengthen and balance up our economy it is vital that we reform the press.
What can we do? Here are 5 simple steps:
Implement the Leveson Report
Display the name of the proprietor in the title banner of the paper.
No one person or company to own more than say 10 or 20% of the national paper readership.
Local ownership of local papers
Corrections to be given the same prominence as the original story
Join the #Deadvertise campaign to Boycott major advertisers in right wing tabloids
Leveson means a new body instead of the Press Complaints Commission, a body with teeth. Subscribing to the new body would be voluntary, but subscribers would get a kitemark.
The problem is that the press scream FREE SPEECH UNDER ATTACK! in response to any and every attempt to curb their excesses and disregard of truth . is an attack on free speech. Therefore any campaign will have to be carried out on the internet and in direct communication (leaflets etc) with the people, and even then the campaign will be attacked by the Press.
So we are in a Catch 22 situation - we cannot criticise the right wing press, because the right wing press will criticise us to oblivion.
It's a bleak situation. The only hope is that if things slip into recession again as a result of the press-induced Brexit, people will turn against the right wing tabloids and stop buying them.
So there's a start. Feel free to add any further suggestions you may have. This blog post is just a tiny fragment, a nucleus in a cloud around which a raindrop can grow.
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Fenwick Hall Plantation, Johns Island South Carolina
Date added: October 9, 2015 Categories: South Carolina House Mansion Plantations & Farms
Set along the banks of the Stono River and featuring an oak allee on the land side, Fenwick Hall is one of the earliest surviving eighteenth-century brick plantation houses in the South Carolina Lowcountry. Fenwick Hall was constructed when plantation agriculture, specifically rice cultivation, boomed and merchants grew wealthy on extensive trade with Great Britain. Tradition holds that the earliest portion of Fenwick was built for merchant John Fenwick on the location of a previous log plantation house.
John Fenwick came to South Carolina from England in the early eighteenth century. A noteworthy citizen in his own right, Fenwick fought against the Spanish and French attacks on Charles Towne in 1706, led troops as a garrison commander during the 1715 Yemassee War, was an influential political leader, and prospered in the rice trade. While he grew rice on his Black River land, north of Georgetown, South Carolina, Fenwick Hall served as his plantation residence. Often traveling between Charles Towne and Britain, John Fenwick remained connected to his English family. Near the end of his life, he left Fenwick Hall in the hands of his son, Edward, and returned to England.
When John died in 1747, Edward Fenwick took formal ownership of Fenwick Hall. Like his father before him, Edward traveled between South Carolina and England, maintaining familial ties. He married Mary Drayton, daughter of Thomas Drayton of Magnolia Plantation, connecting two influential families in the burgeoning colony. While he prospered as a rice planter, Edward was also instrumental in making Fenwick Hall famous for horse racing and breeding. He was the founder of the James Island Stud and influential in the beginnings of horse breeding in the American colonies. He selected horses on his travels to England and in doing so introduced the bloodlines of successful English racehorses into America which would eventually make their way to Kentucky and Virginia.
Edward’s venture into the stud business is connected to the evolution of the Fenwick Hall property. He commissioned the east and west flanker buildings in 1750.5 These two structures served as a carriage house and stables for his breeding and racing business. While several sources credit Edward with the addition of the octagonal wing, its Federal design indicates it was constructed later.
Following Edward’s death, ownership of Fenwick Hall passed to his son, Edward Jr., in 1775. Edward Jr. continued horse breeding on John’s Island. His open sympathies with the British during the American Revolution became the source of financial hardship at the war’s end. British General Sir Henry Clinton, who led the siege against Charleston in 1780, used Fenwick Hall as his headquarters, presumably at Edward’s invitation. Edward participated in a formal congratulation to General Cornwallis on his victory at Camden which subsequently caused his holdings, including Fenwick Hall, to be listed in the Forfeiture Act of 1782. Fenwick Hall was eventually removed from the list of properties enumerated in the Forfeiture Act, likely thanks to Edward’s relaying of valuable information regarding British plans to American General Nathaniel Greene. In 1787 Edward was forced, through financial and legal woes, to sell Fenwick to his cousin John Gibbes.
John Gibbes is likely responsible for the construction of the two-story octagonal wing added after his purchase of Fenwick Hall in 1787. The wing includes four rooms and a central staircase. Gibbes also added a portico to the south façade of the original structure at this time. In 1803, Gibbes sold the plantation to Joseph Jenkins. Following Jenkins, ownership changed hands several times prior to the Civil War.
Dr. Daniel Jenkins Townsend of Edisto Island owned Fenwick Hall during the Civil War and his son James Swinton Townsend was born at Fenwick. Fenwick survived the war by serving as a hospital for both Union and Confederate troops. Following the end of the war, Fenwick passed through several owners until it was eventually boarded up in the early twentieth century.
In the 1930s, Victor and Marjorie Morawetz of New York acquired Fenwick Hall and initiated the first major restoration of the property since its construction. The building restoration was overseen by noted Charleston architecture firm Simmons and Lapham. Albert Simons was a leading figure in Charleston’s preservation movement in the early to mid-twentieth century and was responsible for early public housing projects and the construction of numerous other structures within the city. Simons’ restoration work completed at Fenwick Hall featured many Colonial Revival elements. Many original features, among them the southern exterior door surround, were reconstructed during this time. Reconstructed nineover- nine sash windows replaced the existing two-over-two lights, introduced in the late nineteenth century. Colonial Revival style paneled shutters were installed during this time; however they were later removed as exterior shutters were not part of Fenwick’s original design. Non-original elements, such as the Neoclassical portico added by John Gibbes, were removed by Simons. The Phase III west rectangular addition was also added during this period to accommodate a modern kitchen. Fenwick Hall remained a private residence through the 1970s and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.
In 1980, Fenwick Hall became a private drug and alcohol recovery center under the name Fenwick Hall Hospital. The historic design as a private residence presented challenges for the new commercial use. The interior was altered to accommodate patient and staffing needs; bathrooms, partition walls, and mechanical modifications are notable changes from this period. Unique, but compromising design solutions, such as shower facilities built into the volume provided by thick exterior masonry walls at window and door openings, typify the alterations made during this period of Fenwick Hall’s history. Recreational facilities including basketball and tennis courts were also added during this time. The hospital closed in 1995 and Fenwick Hall sat empty until its purchase in 2000. Fenwick Hall has since returned to private residential use.
Fenwick Hall reveals nearly three hundred years of Charleston and American history. Though the plantation’s acreage has diminished, the landscape populated with additional buildings, and modifications made to the building over time, Fenwick Hall serves as one of the most significant architectural connections to plantation life during Charleston’s eighteen-century golden age.
Location: 30 Fenwick Allee, River Road and Maybank Highway
City: John's Island
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STAR of the Month: Shenseea open to meeting her father
Stephanie Lyew
Shenseea
Shenseea admits that not growing up with her father does affect the way she deals with some emotional issues, but does not consider his absence to have had a great impact on her overall development.
According to July's Star of the Month, family members told her that her father, who is Asian, left when her mother was six months pregnant.
They also provided stories about his socio-economic background.
"I asked questions and the response was that my Korean father was wealthy and in a gang, and because of that, he had to travel," Shenseea said.
As a matter of fact, Shenseea believes that even if he had returned to St Elizabeth where her family lived, her father would not know where to start as they migrated to Kingston.
She added that, "Even with all that information [while growing up] I never yet said, 'if my dad was around mi wouldn't ah live suh enuh'. I don't think it impacted me; I don't even know or think it impacted my mother."
The Love I Got For U singjay said she has had a few father figures in her life but for whatever reason, she did not become attached to them.
Both her mother and aunt (who raised her) had men in their lives, but Shenseea shared that her mother's male partner, who has been around since Shenseea's childhood, died recently and she had to force a few tears out.
"I was there forcing myself to cry. That for me was horrible because I don't feel attached to him, and my aunt's man tried to play a father role but after a while began treating her daughter better so it changed," she said.
Shenseea expressed that she would not close the door on her father if he ever turns up, stating that her first words to him would probably be 'wah gwaan?'
She said, "It's not a must [to meet him] but I know I would not be in tears. We could find out about each other. I would not shun him."
"Everything I've been through [including not having a father] really made me the person I am and I love who I am, although I have to work on things like forgiving people," she added.
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Home > Catholic Encyclopedia > S > Scribes
(Greek grammateis, nomodidaschaloi, teachers of the law).
In the New-Testament period the scribes were the professional interpreters of the Law in the Jewish synagogues. The origin of the profession dates from the return of the Captivity, and its subsequent growth and importance resulted naturally from the formal and legalistic trend of Jewish piety during the post-Exilic period. The Law was revered as the precise expression of God's will, and by its multifarious prescriptions the daily life of every pious Jew was regulated in all its minute details. Love of the Law was the essence of piety, and the just or righteous were they who walked "in all the commandments and justifications of the Lord without blame" (Luke, I, 6). But as these commandments and justifications were exceedingly numerous, complicated, and often obscure, the needs of popular guidance called into existence a class of men whose special occupation was to study and expound the Law. The earliest mention of the title occurs in I Esdras, vii, 6, where Esdras is described as a "ready scribe in the law of Moses". What this meant is set forth in verse 10: "For Esdras had prepared his heart to teach in Israel the commandments and judgment". This description doubtless applies to the subsequent scribes of that period. They were pious men who through love of the Divine law occupied themselves in collecting, editing, and studying the sacred literature of the Hebrews and in explaining it to the people. The earlier scribes, like Esdras himself, belonged to the class of priests and Levites (Ezra 7:12; Nehemiah 8:7, 13; 2 Chronicles 34:13) who were originally the official interpreters of the Law, but unlike other priestly duties, the study and exposition of Holy Writ could be engaged in by pious laymen, and thus little by little the scribal profession became differentiated from the priesthood, while the latter remained chiefly occupied with the ever-growing sacrificial and ritualistic functions.
When under Antiochus Epiphanes Hellenism threatened to overthrow the Jewish religion, the scribes joined the party of the zealous Assideans (1 Maccabees 7:12, 13), who were ready to die for their faith (see account of the martyrdom of the scribe Eleazar, 2 Maccabees 6:18-31), while not a few aristocratic members of the priesthood favoured the Hellenistic tendencies. This resulted in a certain opposition between the two classes; the scribes, through their devotion to the Law, acquired great influence with the people while the priesthood lost much of its prestige. As a natural consequence, the scribes as a class became narrow, haughty and exclusive. Under the Asmonean rule they became the leaders of the new party of the Pharisees, and it is with the latter that we find them associated in the New-Testament records. They never wielded any political power, but they were admitted to the Sanhedrin on a par with the chief priests and elders and thus enjoyed official recognition. With the increasing formalism, which their influence doubtless helped to develop, the character of the scribes and their activities underwent a marked change. They neglected the deeper and more spiritual aspects of the Law, and from being men of sacred letters they became mainly jurists who devoted most of their attention to mere quibbles and subtle casuistry. Together with the Pharisees they are represented in the Gospels as being very ambitious of honour (Matthew 23:2-7, Mark 12:38-40; Luke 11:43, 45, 46; 20:46), and as making void the weightier precepts of the Law by their perverse interpretations by means of which they had gradually laid a most heavy burden upon the people. They are also rebuked by Christ because of the undue importance ascribed by them to the "traditions of the elders".
Their teaching on this point was that Moses himself had delivered to Israel an oral as well as a written Law. This oral Law, according to their theory, had come down in an authentic form through the Prophets to Esdras, the first and greatest of the scribes, and rested practically on the same Divine authority as the written Word. Through this conception of an oral law to which all their traditional customs and interpretations, however recent, were referred, the scribes were led into many departures from the spirit of the written Law (Mark 7:13), and even with regard to the latter their teaching was characterized by a slavish literalism. The ever-accumulating mass of legal traditions and legal decisions was designated by the name Halaka (the way). Together with the written precepts it constituted the perfect rule of conduct which every Jew should follow. But while the scribes devoted their chief attention to the Law, both written and oral, they also elaborated in fantastic and arbitrary fashion, teachings of an edifying character from the historical and didactic contents of the Old Testament. These homiletic teachings were called Hagada, and embraced doctrinal and practical admonitions mingled with illustrative parables and legends.
GIGOT, Outlines of New Testament History (New York, 1902), 81 sq.
APA citation. Driscoll, J.F. (1912). Scribes. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13634a.htm
MLA citation. Driscoll, James F. "Scribes." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 13. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912. <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13634a.htm>.
Transcription. This article was transcribed for New Advent by Catharine Lamb. Dedicated to the memory of my mother, Ruth F. Hansen.
Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. February 1, 1912. Remy Lafort, D.D., Censor. Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.
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info@jeffhallpolo.com
Jeff Hall
New Pueblo
Polo Terms
BUMP: A player is permitted to ride into another player so as to spoil his shot. The angle of collision must be slight, posing no serious danger to horses or riders.
CHUKKER: There are six chukkers, or periods, in a full-length outdoor game, four in arena polo. Each lasts seven minutes. There is no overtime at the end of the last chukker unless the score is tied, in which case a seventh period will be played.
GOAL: Any time the ball crosses the line between the goalposts, it is considered a goal-regardless of whether the ball was knocked by a mallet or kicked by a pony. The teams change sides after a goal is scored.
HANDICAP: Handicaps in polo range from -2 to 10 “goals,” with 10 being the best. A player who is playing above his handicap level (i.e. 3 playing as a 5) is known as a ringer and is a very valuable but short-lived commodity, as handicaps are assessed and revised twice a year.
HOOK: A player can interfere with another’s shot by putting his mallet in the way of the striker’s swing. If the player reaches across his opponent’s mount to hook, it’s called a cross-hook and considered a foul.
LINE OF THE BALL: This is the concept governing traffic on the filed: The ball creates an imaginary line as it travels, and the player or players established in this line have the right of way.
NEAR SIDE: The left-hand side of a horse.
OFF SIDE: The right-hand side of a horse.
PENALTY: When a foul is committed, the fouled team gets a free hit toward the offender’s goal. The type of penalty shot awarded depends on the severity of the foul.
RIDE-OFF: This is when one player makes contact with another and attempts to push him off the line of the ball to prevent his hitting the ball.
SAFETY: (Penalty 6) When a defending player hits the ball across his own back=line, the other team is awarded a free hit 60 yards from the backline.
SIDEBOARDS: These 9- to 11-inch boards along the sides of the field are optional; they contain the ball to an extent. A player can cross the boards and remain in play, but if the ball hops over them, it’s out of bounds.
THIRD MAN: If and when the umpires disagree on a call, they refer to the “third man,” or referee sitting on the sidelines.
THROW-IN: A chukker begins (and sometimes play resumes) with the umpire bowling the ball between the two teams.
TIME-OUT: An umpire calls a time-out when a foul is committed, when an accident occurs or at his own discretion. A player may only call a time-out if his tack is broken or he is injured. No time-out is allowed for changing mounts or replacing broken mallets during a chukker, although the player may do so whenever necessary.
UMPIRES: Two mounted umpires control the game, enforce the rules and guard the safety of players and ponies.
Source: International Polo Club Magazine 2013 issue article by Alex Webbe
© 2018 Jeff Hall Polo
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The Case of a Murder Committed by a Slave in Cyprus at the Beginning of the Tanzimat Era
This study examines a murder case which was heard in the Cyprus Islamic Court in 1841. The murderer and the victim, who were mentioned in the case, were Muslim slaves owned by the Russian ambassador to Cyprus. The retaliation sentence concluded under the Sharia Law by the Court in Nicosia was reversed according to the Criminal Code in the Supreme Council of Judicial Ordinances in Istanbul, while the Islamic Criminal Law and the Criminal Code were still both valid. Despite the penalty of retaliation imposed on the murderer by the Court in Cyprus under the Sharia Law, the concluding provision was judged under the Criminal Law of that time. The slave who committed the murder was sentenced to penal servitude for life. The law making authority in the Tanzimat reform era i.e. the Supreme Council of Judicial Ordinances' process of changing the decision, which had been judged under the Sharia Law, the attitudes of the other governmental agencies included in the process, and the influences of the Russian ambassador on the process were examined. The subject was approached with the method of comparing the court records and the state archives with the academic studies published in this field. As a result, it is concluded that the murder cases heard under the traditional rules of the Sharia Law were concluded under the Criminal Code of that time, and, by this means, the long-standing duality of the Sharia Law and the Canon was resolved on behalf of the Canon within the context of the Criminal Law.
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Tag: outsider art
Here’s an essay that did not make the cut for either the print or Kindle versions of the book. It’s an aside on Fletcher Hanks, a strange and tragic character who produced outsider comic books in the early 1940s. Anything that is basically incompetent as most people define the term, yet manages to make it into public awareness always makes me happy. This article was originally posted on UFOmystic on July 1st of 2009.
Pop Culture Reject
Sunday night on Radio Misterioso, my co-host Walter Bosley and I discussed a 1940s comic book artist who was virtually forgotten until just recently. In fact, those who do know about him tend to heap derision upon his memory. Highly unfortunate in my opinion. This name of this misplaced genius is Fletcher Hanks, and to me, his work is the comic book equivalent of cinematic schlockmeister Ed Wood.
His artwork is barely competent, his stories are incredibly surreal, and his dialogue sounds like it was written by a second grader or an illiterate. It is of course amazing that someone deemed his work worthy of publication in the first place, but that is not the only reason why I love his comics so much.
He seemed to have practiced a lot on one type of male face (which looks like Buster Crabbe with an enlarged forehead) and female faces and anatomy (which all look like 1930s blonde starlets in lingerie.) He was also pretty good at depicting running and leaping lions and panthers. Every single line of dialogue (unless it’s a question) is delivered with an exclamation point.
Hanks’ comic book output is a pure distillation of pop culture at a basic level, without any rules or “talent” getting in the way, which I think is much more revealing of our tastes and desires than any “professional” efforts from the likes of Marvel or DC. Hanks lived in his own universe, and it doesn’t matter if he drew and wrote for recognition, some inner need to express himself, or just the money. Any or all of these reasons are good and valid.
For all his personal faults, or perhaps because of them, his vision of drama may have been some kind of tortured effort to exorcise his own demons. His simplistic storylines may also have been his vision of what was wrong with the world, and his own deus-ex-machina efforts to fix it.
Hanks was an alcoholic, and quite abusive to his wife and kids, which makes him a fairly tragic figure, at least as long as you weren’t in his family. This information was gleaned from Fletcher Hanks, Jr. who has a life story that is an adventure in its own right.
Fantagraphics Books published a collection of Hanks’ work (I have the third edition from 2007) with the catchy title I Shall Destroy All The Civilized Planets! Along with his mainstay hero “Stardust the Super Wizard,” the book includes the adventures of “Fantomah, Mystery Woman of the Jungle,” Big Red Maclane, King of the North Woods” and my personal favorite, “Buzz Crandall of the Space Patrol.”
According to Hanks’ wacked-out story, Crandall “lives on the highly civilized planet of Venus, and is in charge of the Interplanetary Secret Service for both Venus and the Earth. He has become the top crime-buster of the Universe.” Crandall foils Lepus The Fiend in his plan to “wreck planets with a ray.” Lepus chuckles with evil glee as he gazes at a viewing screen showing Venus and Earth (which are two orange circles) on a collision course. Hanks added two five-pointed stars in the corner of the screen, just so you know that he’s looking at a shot of outer space.
Apropos of nothing at all, but in a weird coincidence, there was a little-known contactee in the 1950s named Lee Crandall, of whom I have a bit of old film. In the short clip, Crandall runs away from his trailer park home with a space brother (who is conveniently never shown) and leaves a note to his parents which reads: “Gone to Venus. I am OK. Lee.”
According to Paul Karasik, who edited I Shall Destroy All The Civilized Planets!, Fletcher Hanks was found frozen to death on a New York park bench in 1970. Now that’s tragic.
A big hat tip to Kenn Thomas for hipping me to Hanks.
Author GregPosted on May 2, 2016 May 3, 2016 Format AsideCategories UFOmysticTags comics, Fletcher Hanks, outsider art1 Comment on The Ed Wood of Comics
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Incertus
Contraception More Popular Than Puppies
Posted by Brian S at 10:52 AM
Christina Page at Alternet has an informative (if not surprising) piece on contraception and how it's becoming the new fault line in the abortion debate.
It's no surprise to anyone who's followed this discussion closely that the major anti-choice groups are way more concerned about punishing women for having sex than about reducing abortion. No major anti-choice group says it's pro-contraception. At best they're neutral; at worst, they spread false information like the birth control pill is an abortifacient or that condoms have a high failure rate even when used properly. Pro-choicers have been yelling about these lies and the anti-choicer agenda for as long as the debate has been going on, for all the good it's done us.
The reason there's a fault-line forming is because the anti-choicers who favor contraception in particular and expanding the social safety net in general are now calling out their more radical counterparts.
Ryan is committed to preventing abortion so much so that he, unlike every other pro-life legislator in Congress, spent the last few years working to identify the policies proven to reduce the need for abortion....As thanks for his outspoken leadership in trying to make abortion less prevalent, Congressman Ryan was removed from the board of Democrats for Life of America, and with it, disowned by the pro-life movement at large. Pro-life publications have taken to qualifying his pro-life status as "allegedly" pro life or referring to him as someone "who claims to be" pro-life. Because of his support of prevention in 2007-2008 congressional session, Ryan received a "0" rating from National Right to Life Committee. According to the pro-life establishment's new standards, his support for prevention means he no longer qualifies as "pro-life."
Reading that, you might think that it's the radicals calling out the moderates, but in the past, the moderates wouldn't have pushed for this sort of legislation, and they certainly wouldn't have risked offending the radical anti-choice base. That legislators like Ryan are willing to push back shows that they're willing to take on the wingnuts, at least in some small way.
The whole thing is interesting and worth a read, including how among Episcopalians, support for contraception nears 100%, which is higher than support for puppies and goodness.
Labels: abortion debate, Alternet, Christina Page, Tim Ryan
What about the sexism?
Posted by Brian S at 12:37 PM
Lots of people have been giving police officer Justin Barrett holy hell for the email he sent sent a Boston Globe columnist and some of his friends about Henry Louis Gates Jr. Barrett is likely to lose his job over the email, in large part because he calls Skip Gates a "banana-eating jungle monkey." But few people are talking about the rampaging sexism in his email.
Barrett wrote "You are a hot little bird with minimal experiences[sic] in a harsh field.... You have no business writing for a US newspaper nevermind[sic] detailing and analyzing half truths. You should serve me coffee and donuts on Sunday morning." And near the end of the email, he comes back to the coffee and donuts thing. "Again, I like a warm cruller and hot Panamanian, black. No sugar."
Now it's no surprise that the repeated references to Gates as a "jungle monkey" got the most attention--the "debate" over what role race played in Officer Crowley's stupid arrest of him has been (poorly) debated ahead of anything else over the last few days. But it's been a little surprising to me that almost no one has mentioned Barrett's sexism, even in passing. Racism is so much the big sin here, it seems, that the sexism doesn't even register. That's sad, I think.
Labels: Henry Louis Gates, Justin Barrett, racism, Sexism
A Business Opportunity
Posted by Brian S at 6:28 PM
I used to like American Apparel--they were a company that actually made t-shirts and other clothing in the US (instead of in the Mariana Islands, where you can still claim the tag) instead of outsourcing to other countries, and they paid their manufacturing workers relatively well. Unfortunately, they're also owned by King of all Douchebags Dov Charney, who recently implemented a policy "demanding employee group photos from AA store managers so that he can 'personally judge people based on looks.' In the name of 'aesthetic' Dov is encouraging that anyone 'he deems not good-looking enough to work there' be fired. At risk of stating the obvious the store manager writes 'this is blatant discrimination based on looks.'"
So here's what I mean by a business opportunity. There are all kinds of progressives who would love to have another option for buying US made clothing made by reasonably well-paid workers using US materials. I want to buy what American Apparel sells, but not from Dov Charney. I'll buy from another company, or from American Apparel, if Charney gets tossed out. Just my two cents.
Labels: American Apparel, Dov Charney
Via Conscience Continuum, an amazing moment in the debate over health care reform.
At a recent town-hall meeting in suburban Simpsonville, a man stood up and told Rep. Robert Inglis (R-S.C.) to “keep your government hands off my Medicare.”
“I had to politely explain that, ‘Actually, sir, your health care is being provided by the government,’” Inglis recalled. “But he wasn’t having any of it.”
How do you respond to that level of ignorance?
Labels: Conscience Continuum, health care reform, Paul Krugman, Robert Inglis
Perhaps I'm a little immature for enjoying this as much as I am, but I'm so tired of birthers that I'm going to indulge myself. Seems that Rep. Dan Abercrombie of Hawaii has introduced a resolution to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Hawaii's statehood. Why does this affect the birthers?
“In the language of the resolution, there is a statement that Hawaii is the birthplace of the 44th President of the United States,” Abercrombie spokesman Dave Helfert confirms.
That confronts House GOPers with a choice: They can vote for the measure, and endorse the idea that Obama was born in Hawaii, which could earn the wrath of birthers. Or they can vote against commemorating the 50th state’s joining of our blessed Union. Or GOPers can skip the vote, but that could look nutty.
If Abercrombie can get this in before the August recess, even better. Most Congresscritters will be holding town halls and such during the recess in order to deal with health care reform, and you know there are going to be birther wingnuts out in force.
Seriously, though, if this pressure from the psycho wing of the Republican party causes their politicians to moderate, so much the better. If it causes them to drive moderates even further away from their party, that's okay too, but I'd really rather have a two (or more) party system that's more to the left than we currently have. If the Republicans move left and take some Blue Dogs with them, that gives the current Democrats room to move left as well. We're all better off as a result.
Labels: birthers, Dan Abercrombie, Hawaii
Almost certainly the dumbest thing you'll read all day
I'd be more definitive than that, but it's still early afternoon and we've still got the release of the Gates arrest tapes (and their subsequent parsing by authoritarians who will defend the police in any and all circumstances) and the argument that calling a white person a racist is as bad as calling a black person the n-word going on (TNC isn't making the argument--he's addressing it), but I feel relatively safe in saying that Mark Tapscott has written the dumbest thing you'll read all day.
Can you imagine the uproar that would ensue if the Vice President of the United States used the name of Islam's supreme being as a curse word? They rioted all over the Muslim world when a Danish newspaper cartoonist penned a series of satiric pieces on Mohammed, so making "Allah" a curse word would likely incite far more serious violence....
So where is the uproar over Vice President Joe Biden's incredible use of "Jesus Christ" as a curse word?
This is not merely a gaffe or "insensitivity." Taking in vain the name of the man billions of Christians for two millenia have accepted as the creator and Savior of the entire world is either a consciously chosen insult or the kind of unthinking idiocy that disqualifies this guy from being one heartbeat away from the presidency.
If this is satire, it's lost on me. Here, by the way, is the offending quote: "I can see Putin sitting in Moscow saying, 'Jesus Christ, Iran gets the nuclear weapon, who goes first?' Moscow, not Washington." Highly offensive, indeed.
Tapscott might not realize it, but he's really arguing that we need to be more like the religious extremists that Bush and Cheney and Rumsfeld argued were such a danger to western society. He's not using Biden's choice of "epithet" to argue that Muslims need to chill out about the use of the word "Allah"; he's saying that Biden ought to be chased out of the Vice-Presidency, i.e. that the US ought to be just as hard-line over the use of "Jesus Christ." Screw that.
Labels: bringing the stupid, Henry Louis Gates, Joe Biden, Mark Tapscott, racism
Messed-Up Mashup
On those rare occasions when I find myself at a party and there's a guitar handy, I'll get a few grins by singing the first verse of "Pinball Wizard" while playing "Folsom Prison Blues." It's a cheap laugh, I know, but I take what I can get. The downside is that I now have difficulty remembering the lyrics to "Folsom Prison Blues," as well as remembering just how "Pinball Wizard sounds sometimes.
This is likely to mess me up the same way because of how spookily the two songs can be made to meld together. Rick Astley and Nirvana--maybe we are in the End Times.
Labels: mashups, Nirvana, Rick Astley
Wetlands: Not Feminist, Something More
I just read Charlotte Roche's much-read and more-discussed novel Wetlands as a bit of light summer fun, and it came through on that account: it is a lively page-turner that will repeatedly gross you out (as every review has promised), but keep you coming back for more.
What mystifies me, however, having read it, is the reviews I read before I read it. Most of them describe Wetlands as taking feminism to a new, grittier, grosser level. A couple of them then slam the book for including irrelevant and meaningless details about her parents' divorce.
Then I read it and discovered a gross-out novel that has nothing to do with feminism and everything to do with divorce.
So I knew I had to add my review to the blog-o-webs, because it might be that people aren't quite getting it: this book is not a study of feminism; it is a study of the emotional retardation of a woman who never got past her parents' divorce.
It's actually a page torn right out of Freud (I've heard no one reads Freud anymore): a daughter who, though 18, is trapped at the age when her parents divorced, who developed, in response to an especially squeamish mother, an anal-expulsive tendency, who fantasizes about sex with her father and seeks out lots of men to have sex with because she feels the absence of "dad" after the divorce.
There's a big whopping hint to this prior to the first page (one page before the title):
I place a lot of importance on the care of the elderly within a family. I'm also a child of divorce, and like all children of divorce I want to see my parents back together. When my parents eventually need to be taken care of, all I have to do is stick their new partners in nursing homes and then I'll look after the two of them myself--at home. I'll put them together in their matrimonial bed until they die.
But that's not the only hint you get: the 18-year-old narrator speaks of her being 18 like a 4-year-old speaks of being 4, with defensiveness and simplistic sense that the age means something. She revels in her skinny breast-less body. She gets herself secretly sterilized so that she can never be a mother. Her hobby is growing avocado pits in windowsills using toothpicks and glasses of water (a decidedly elementary-school activity). And of course, she finds her own body endlessly fascinating: she's always got her hands down her pants, likes to eat her own boogers and other secretions, and to say that she's a bit anal-fixated is to understate things in the extreme: The novel takes place in the proctology ward of a hospital, where she's quickly identified as an exhibitionist because she lies with her big, gaping anal surgery site facing the window and door: she's basically an infant trapped in a high bed playing and thinking while people come and go checking up on her anus and asking her if she's pooped yet.
You could, I supposed, interpret it as a feminist novel because she likes to have sex. But each description of her sex life seems to me like just another paradigm of infantilism: she has sex with a very old man who wants to teach her things, like a father figure. She likes to go to prostitutes because she's curious what pussies look like, and can't see her own. She wants to have sex with a particular man who only wants to shave her entire body hairless and clean as a child's and then tells her she's "too young" for him. (She responds by masturbating on his couch -- he leaves the room.) And of course while I hate to give away the end of any novel (look away now if you don't want the spoiler!), the end of this story involves her breaking down and crying like a teeny weedle baybay in the arms of her strapping male nurse and telling him she can't go home to mama, she can't go home to dada.... can I go home with yooooou? She sounds just like an unhappy child asking to go home with uncle instead of mom and dad. The difference being of course that the nurse who agrees to take her home (on his bicycle! ha!) wants to fuck her -- but not in the ass, he says, at least, not until she's healed up from her surgery, of course.
Throughout the novel the narrator tries and (spoiler, look away!) fails to get her parents back together. She doesn't regard her parents as individual people at all, but as extensions of herself -- parents ONLY, not people -- who make her angry because they do not do what she wants. In many ways the novel is an extended temper-tantrum, or worse, a small glimpse into what will be a life-long temper-tantrum. And you can't say these traits are unusual or irrelevant to 21st C society: every kid's a narcissist nowadays, or so "they" say, and lots of parents are divorced. If you haven't heard about gross-out culture or the mainstreaming of porn you've been living under a rock. Wetlands is, I think, a glimpse of things to come.
At least, it is if Freud had any merit.
It's ugly, but it's true.
Labels: charlotte roche, review, wetlands
I don't know how they do it
Amanda at Pandagon tweeted this link this morning and I have to say, the escorts on this blog are way more patient than I would be. I couldn't do it--I'd lose it all over those idiot holier-than-thou anti-choice protesters who are making what is usually an already difficult choice even more difficult, with absolutely no thought to the long term consequences for the women who have to make it. That they do this for no pay and with the knowledge that other clinic escorts have been shot by nutjobs just makes them even more incredible.
Labels: abortion debate, Every Saturday Morning, Pandagon
Notice the difference
This is a really good piece on how different police officers react to the public in tense situations. It's dealing with a small sample size, to be sure, but there's a pretty wide gamut of reactions. This one, I thought, was particularly telling.
But in Brooklyn, a 24-year-old officer, with three years on the force, seemed less inclined to walk away from verbal abuse.
"We say, ‘Back down,’" he said. "If they don’t back down and start making direct threats, that’s an offense. They don’t get a free pass."
He said that threats could be defined in different ways, and he preferred to talk people down, but that the rules changed if a crowd formed, which was routine in New York and also occurred during the Gates incident.
“I wouldn’t back down if there’s a crowd gathering,” the Brooklyn officer said, in part out of concern of sending a message of weakness that could haunt another officer later. “We’re a band of brothers. We have to be there to help each other out. If there’s a group and they’re throwing out slurs and stuff, you have to handle it.”
Look at the language he's using, especially with the "band of brothers" comment. He's acting as though he's a soldier, and the public is made up of inhabitants of an occupied land. That's not a healthy attitude to have toward the people you're supposed to be protecting and serving.
Not all police have that attitude, but enough do that, especially if you're a person of color, you can feel like the police are foreign occupiers and that you have only as many rights as they're willing to grant you. No American should feel that way in his or her country.
Posted by Brian S at 9:14 AM
Let me begin by saying that I believe Governor Crist when he says that the thank you note his office sent a white supremacist for a copy of an anti-Semitic film was "an inexcusable mistake by staff in my office." All the elements are there--a form letter, a machine signature, the fact that Crist is running for Senate in a state with a massive and heavily engaged Jewish community. But you'd think that the follow-up might have been a little more, ahem, personal.
"Neither I or anyone in this administration agree with or condone the anti-Semitic content of this DVD," Crist wrote in a second letter that also carried his automated signature.
Puzzling. I guess maybe Gov. Crist was trying to lay all of it off on the staff? Yeah, they probably deserve all the blame, but would it be too much to ask to make the denial just a little personal?
Labels: anti-semitism, Charlie Crist
When are y'all going to learn?
Not funny.
There are a fair number of Republicans and conservatives who see the above picture and get pissed off, because they're not personally racist and they don't want their party to be racist. They might even be in the majority of their party or movement, though that's way iffier a proposition. What they are not, however, is in control of the image of the Republican party.
It's one thing when a random blogger, or worse, a commenter goes off on a hate-filled racist rampage--it's another when it's someone who's got some profile in the party. Dr. David McKalip is the genius who forwarded the above image to his buddies on a google listserv--who's he?
He's also an energetic conservative opponent of health-care reform. McKalip founded the anti-reform group Doctors For Patient Freedom, as well as what seems to be a now defunct group called Cut Taxes Now. Last month he joined GOP congressmen Tom Price and Phil Gingrey, among others, for a virtual town hall to warn about the coming "government takeover of medicine."
Oh, ouch.
This picture is nothing new--it's the same old racist crap recycled for a new campaign. The bone in the nose does double duty here--it's calling out to both racists and birthers--and the hammer & sickle is classic commie-baiting (which worked so well in the general election).
The really sad thing here is that there are legitimate arguments to be made opposing health care reforms--I don't think they're persuasive and I think they generally smack of "Let them eat cake" quality empathy, but they are out there to be made. They don't make much sense to me--on the one hand, free marketeers claim government can never do anything as efficiently as private industry can, but on the other, they oppose a public option because the government would be able to undercut private industry. How's that work again?
But obviously, photoshopping Barack Obama's face onto a picture of a tribesman and calling him a commie isn't a legitimate argument, nor is it likely to be a winning one. If this is the tack the opposition is going to take, we'll be installing the French system in early 2010.
One last thing to the non-racist Republicans out there. If you're not going to kick the racists out of your party, then at the very least, you might want to explain to them that there really is no such thing as a private email. It might cut down on the embarrassment a little.
Labels: David McKalip, Political Circus, President Barack Obama, racism, Talking Points Memo
Make it Sexy
Stock Car Racing and Romance Novels--I don't know who came up with this idea, but good on them for trying to expand their respective fan bases.
It's easy to crack on either group--the head-in-the-clouds reader who doesn't want anything challenging in a story, the gearhead who won't read anything at all--but it seems to me that this is at least worth the gamble. Maybe some NASCAR fans, who are overwhelmingly male, buy a book or two, or maybe some Harlequin readers, who are overwhelmingly women, take up an interest in stock car racing. And if nothing comes of it, the investment can't be too great.
Labels: Harlequin romance novels, NASCAR
That's funny
Not funny enough to buy one, mind you, or to ever watch the last season and a half of Battlestar Galactica again (it's still too soon for me to revisit the miniseries and the first two glorious seasons), but funny. Wired's Underwire blog is covering the San Diego ComicCon where there's all sorts of stuff to geek out over.
This is still the same old Brian posting, by the way--I've just changed the email address I use to log in with. And I promise to post more now that I have a (fingers crossed!) more stable home internet connection.
Labels: Battlestar Galactica, ComicCon, internal, Wired
Which Life Decision is Worse?
Posted by Brian at 12:00 AM
As the proud owner/wearer of two tattoos, I'm certainly not one to mock people who get them, even if they get them in places I never would. And yet...
I can't quite decide which one of these moves will bring the greatest amount of regret later in life--the Harry-Potter-themed tattoos or the Twilight-themed tattoos.
Based only on the photos available at the above links, I have to give the current edge to the Harry Potter ones for worst decision, but only because of the subject matter of the tattoos. About a third of the Twilight tattoos are just quotes that are banal and innocuous enough that they can be passed off later in life as something silly, but not quite as silly as getting the name of a character from a bone-stupid set of novels (or the title of the book itself) permanently inked onto your body.
Labels: Harry Potter, tattoos, Twilight
For Polytheism
The NYTimes "Bloggingheads" has a little exchange this morning titled "Against Monotheism," but the conversation doesn't go anywhere, mainly because the "head" on the left seems a little impatient with the question, is defensive about his own book (he believes he's being accused of mistreating polytheists in his book), and so the idea doesn't go very far.
But it's a very good question.
When I was in elementary school, I was taught that long ago, people were silly stupid polytheists, and that then there was this wonderful transformation in the ancient world where people saw the light, became monotheistic, and all civilization grew up from that point.
You tend to internalize things you are taught very young, so it took me many years to come back to the question -- it actually took, believe it or not, the Battlestar Gallactica miniseries (predating the series). I watched this ultra-modern cast o' characters with their many gods and I wondered why some small part of my brain rebelled at the very idea. Then I remembered what I'd been taught: many gods are for primitives! Only monotheists can build computers and battlestars!
But that's moronic. And I started thinking in the abstract about the merits of the two systems: a system in which people believe in multiple forces, often at odds with one another, or a system in which there is only one force, and whatever it does is "good," and whatever works against it must be "evil." And of course it struck me right away that monotheism isn't a leap forward, it's a plummeting dive back.
With one possible exception, which I'll get to in a minute.*
Imagine a literary tradition in which there can be only one consciousness in a story, and it is taken that every story is from that singular consciousness' point of view. Every children's book, every romance novel, every thriller, every meditation is really another version of the same all-good all-right mind. Anything that impedes this singular protagonist in his or her all-good goals is all-bad, evil, and must be destroyed. The climax of the story comes when the impediment is removed and the protagonist gets what he/she wanted, and there is much rejoicing.
Insomuch as we learn to be human through story, humans would not be what we know them as, if they lived within that tradition. They would be rigid binary thinkers, always on the lookout for the right-aligned authority -- they would have no sense of empathy, compromise, or humility, because they wouldn't need these. Who is aligned with the protagonist is right, all others are evil and must be eliminated.
I would suggest that there actually ARE millions of people living within that tradition, and whose humanity is compromised by their monotheism.
Now most people are not really monotheistic: most Christians (for example -- and I'm limiting this to Christians only out of convenience) love both Jesus AND God, and trinitarians love the holy ghost too. There's also a lot of Mary-worship in this world, John the Baptist worship, all kinds of saint-worship, including Judas-worship. Your more new-age types go in for nature worship, and you could argue that popular culture offers us a whole pantheon of low gods with lives as tumultuous and ribald as the Greek gods'.
And I would suggest that as a result, most people are pretty good at understanding that there are multiple points of view in any situation, that other people have their own goals and perspectives and that when two objectives are at odds, neither need be good nor evil, and that empathy is necessary to navigate, compromise is often moral, and that in a world of many minds, we must be humble and respectful of others. There is not one, all-right protagonist. There are many, many protagonists, all trying to get along.
But there are those whose alignment with, say, Jesus is so complete, that they believe they have a personal relationship with him and talk to the dude on a regular basis -- from such a person's point of view, the world is very much a one-god-show: there is Jesus's agenda, and there are those who further it, and those who hinder it.
So if you're looking for a world in which people have their own individual lives with their own individual goals, yet still get along and live in peace, monotheism is a huge step backwards.
*But there is an exception, or, should I say, an alternate goal: peace love and understanding are nice, but humans are a chaotic rabble who must be organized and coordinated into a single body with a seeming-single mind to get anything done. I speak of pyramids, armies, churches, and so on. It is conceivable that you can organize a large group of people to work hard through empathy, compromise, and humility, but it's a lot more efficient to teach people that there is one god with one mind and this is what he wants them to do -- and you're either moving that block of stone into place, or you're an evil to be eliminated.
It's like Mussolini and time-tables: do you want freedom and dignity, or do you want that train to pull into the station at 07:12 on the dot?
And maybe, from that point of view, monotheism is responsible for creating the modern world -- not because it has any moral advantages (it has moral disadvantages, clearly), but because it whips people out of their state of individualism and turns them into useful cogs in a vast machine. The same machine might be built of volunteers, but who can depend on that? The builders of empires couldn't wait for every Titus, Diccus, and Hector to decide of his own free will how his personal narrative interacted with all these others, or whether his story lie elsewhere, out on the seas, or within a cabin on the Hibernian frontier, or within a library.
But despite a titularly monotheistic culture, we do, as I've mentioned, persist in carrying on the tradition of multiple points of view. And human cultures, all over the world, seem to be a balance of these things. We believe in kings, and we believe in kings of kings, probably because those who didn't, we wiped out millennia ago. But reality is not monotheistic; few of us have minds that will accept a universe in which only one consciousness "matters." And the rest of use find that few terrifying, because they are your Apocalypse-prayers, your suicide-bombers.
We would be more moral if we dropped the idea of one, all-powerful, all-good god, and that has always been true. But for most of history it would have meant losing the ability to get things done. Today we have new technologies that allow individual action to move faster and have more of an effect: maybe these will make the need for that organizing principle obsolete. One can hope. But in the meantime it's worth re-thinking the relative standing of monotheism and polytheism, and the different moral behaviors they inspire.
Labels: Battlestar Galactica, bloggingheads, monotheism, nytimes, polytheism
Who thought this was a good idea?
Posted by Brian at 11:34 PM
Turned on the season premiere of Leverage and was dumbstruck when I saw an ad for this product. My mouth stayed open for a long time.
Maybe my memory is faulty, but I don't remember any previous Presidents ever being so "honored." I feel offended by this product, but I think I'm even more offended that the Chia company would think it was a good idea. What the hell?
Labels: Chia pets, President Obama
Text Etiquette
It's a hot topic, and it's on my mind, because the Spring of 09 was, for me, as a college instructor, the worst "texting" semester of my life. Students, even good students who I know and respect, seemed unable to stop themselves from texting anytime anywhere no matter how small the class (12 students, in one case) and how interesting the class discussion (re-writing the US Constitution is usually a bit of a draw).
I'm "on vacation" right now, but if you teach, "vacation" always has to go in quotes -- yes, I'm not actively teaching in a classroom, but I'm reading and thinking and rebuilding and restructuring and doing all the things necessary to my job that I don't have time to do when class is in session. And one of the biggest things on my mind is how to jiujitsu my students into setting down their f*ing phones and learning.
There is no prohibition that will work. No matter how many rules you make, no matter how draconian you make them, one of the features of texting is that the text-er believes him or herself invisible: forget the glassy eyes (skilled texters don't look down, but they do get a zombie stare on their faces), the forward hunched shoulders, and the light tapping coming from under their desks -- they believe they are not seen nor heard, and they have no concept of how they are disrupting the class, retarding the discussion, and preventing their own learning.
Most of the articles I've read on the subject are about etiquette: whether or not it's impolite to text at a meeting or at a dinner table, etc. And I think they're on to something. But most 19-year-olds are not particularly concerned with maintaining their Emily Post cred. They are, however, of the prime mating age, which means that they do not want to be embarrassed and they do not want to be considered nasty.
Which is when it occurred to me that the prohibition needs to be one not of politeness but of grossness. In this spirit, I've invented an acronym:
F orbidden
A nd/or
R ude
T exting
I will teach this acronym to my students, and every time I catch one of them texting, I will say, "Kayla, you just F.A.R.T.ed in class! This is counting against your participation grade."
With a little luck, I will only have to say it once.
Labels: etiquette, rudeness, text messages, texting, texting in the classroom
Our Florida Marlins?
Posted by Brian at 8:42 AM
Given the amount of money that state and local governments give to professional baseball teams and the very limited positive impact that teams have on local economies, we're long overdue for a close look at the relationship we have with Major League Baseball.
The public's relationship with MLB is so lopsided that maybe MLB's new marketing slogan ought to be "We put the fun in dysfunctional!" The Florida Marlins, fresh off running teams with one of the lowest payrolls in baseball and conning Miami into paying for the majority of a new baseball stadium, are now saying that whether or not the payroll will go up "“will hinge on how well we draw”. Never mind that, thanks to income redistribution, the Marlins have been the most profitable team in all of baseball according to Forbes, and that the Marlins organization has been claiming that they have to run those low payrolls just to stay afloat; no, the real problem is with the fans who aren't showing up to make Jeffrey Loria even richer than he already is.
And what's even better about the current attitude is the underlying hint that things might not change even with the new stadium. It's as though the Marlins are saying "nice new stadium you're building there. It'd be a shame if we had to field a team with 29 year old rookies and 41 year old middle relievers." And they'll keep raking in their millions every year, whether or not we show.
Personally, I'd be more willing to shuck out some bucks for a Marlins game now and again if the Marlins had paid for this new stadium out of their own pockets, or if the local contribution had been limited to things like tax abatements for a limited period and maybe some help clearing the land use issues. That would show me that the Marlins have a commitment to south Florida--they'd be putting their own money at stake in the form of a stadium, much like the Giants did in San Francisco. Loria and the Marlins snuggled up to the public teat and started sucking, all while fielding a team that, were it not for the implosion of both the Mets and the Phillies in the NL East this year, would be dangling players for trade right now--and who still might. The trade deadline is at the end of the month, after all. They could get worse. And what's the public going to do about it? We've just ponied up for a brand-new stadium--we're stuck with them, whether they suck or not.
Labels: florida marlins
Of course cats are useless
That's why they're awesome. Cats are like poetry--a large part of their beauty lies in the fact that by traditional standards of utility, they're pretty useless. But as models of evolution, they're perhaps the most successful domesticated animal, depending on what you value.
Success is a relative term--cows are incredibly successful as a group, but they had to give up so much of their autonomy to hook up with humans that while they live in far larger numbers as domesticated animals than they would have had they stayed wild, they also serve as food stock and often live in deplorable conditions. That's their tradeoff. Same for any animal that humans use as food.
Then there are the kinds of animals that depend on human settlements for survival, but which have never given up their autonomy and become pets--pigeons, crows, those sorts of things. They provide a service--they clean up leftover food and the like--but they also are on the butt end of a lot of human disdain and in many cases, humans try to wipe them out, or at least control their numbers. Their lives don't have the sort of ease that an animal that's become a pet can generally aspire to.
Which brings us to cats and dogs, and I'm going to argue that cats are the more successful of the two. Both groups have largely managed to worm their way into the interior of human life, which means they get the benefits of living close to humans--a secure food source, relatively better sanitation, treatment for injuries and parasites (depending on the owner, of course), and a generally higher standard of living and extended life span--but without having to serve as a food source for said humans (in the US at least). We've even gone so far as to provide them protections against abuse.
Of the two, dogs--at least certain breeds of dog--are expected to be utile, usually as hunters or guards. That this is becoming less the case is a sign, to me, that dogs are becoming more like cats, especially when it comes to the smaller, more frou-frou breeds. After all, is a Pomeranian really a useful animal? Seems more decorative to me.
The real argument to me, it seems, depends on whether you think there's a disconnect between loyalty and independence. Dogs are, in my experience, exuberant about their loyalty, and I think that's a big part of what dog lovers respond to. Cats aren't generally as exuberant, though I would argue that they can be just as loyal, when they're given a reason to be. It's the second half of that equation that I find to be the most interesting--cats, especially indoor cats, haven't given up as much of their autonomy, but they've gotten all the benefits of being close to humans. And they don't really have to give anything in return--they're not expected to do guard duty or flush quail. They're like poems--they're just expected to be, and every so often, they evoke an emotional response in you, good, bad, confused or otherwise.
Labels: cats, dogs, Pandagon, poetry
Four Galaxy Pileup
Posted by Brian at 5:24 PM
This makes an average day on I-95 look like slipping on a booger, I think.
Update: Link fixed. Amazing what leaving an "e" out will do.
Labels: cool science stuff, Wired
So, we're all Nazis now?
Senator Jim DeMint, at the National Press Club last night:
Part of what we're trying to do in Saving Freedom is just show that where we are, we're about where Germany was before World War II where they became a social democracy. You still had votes but the votes were just power grabs like you see in Iran, and other places in South America, like Chavez is running down in Venezuela. People become more dependent on the government so that they're easy to manipulate. And they keep voting for more government because that's where their security is.
I'm not exactly sure of DeMint's point here. Is he saying that a social democracy can't really be a democracy because it always tumbles into tyranny, or is he saying that the current administration is planning a power grab and will use bogus elections to get it? I mean, when you invoke Iran today, you're invoking the specter of a stolen election, and no one on the right believes that Chavez actually won his elections (though UN election watchers have said otherwise).
If he's arguing the first point, that social democracy can't really exist, then I'd suggest he look at the very successful social democracies in western Europe. He's more than welcome to dislike the welfare state--even though his state would be in a damn sight worse condition if it weren't for federal government largesse--but he'd be better off if he kept the stupid at a minimum.
Labels: bringing the stupid, Jim DeMint
Fairly gross story of the day
I'll admit to being a little revolted when I saw the headline "Crooks Littered Cemetery With Bones, Headstones", but then after a second, I had to admit that I'm surprised we don't hear these sorts of stories more often. Cemeteries really are a poor use of space and resources, especially given that the inhabitants aren't aware of their surroundings, and yet there's very little debate about how we should inter our dead. I'm leaving it up to those who survive me, but if it's all the same, I'd just as soon not be taking up unnecessary space once I'm gone.
Labels: burial
Nice sentiment, but...
The Miami Herald's editorial on the need to battle hate based on religious differences is filled with the sorts of platitudes that one expects when a place of worship suffers some vandalism. If there's a problem with the editorial, it's the banality that suffuses the entire piece, like this part near the end.
This is why public and private schools, employment centers and houses of worship of every creed must not become complacent about battling hate crimes through diversity training that seeks to build understanding among people with different points of view.
Bolding is mine, and good luck with that. With only a few exceptions--and those exceptions by no means contain the majority of churchgoers in this country--you're not going to find much more than lip-service for acceptance toward the beliefs of other religions, especially once you start crossing cultural boundaries toward religions like Islam and Hinduism, etc. Maybe it's just me, but when I hear a right-wing evangelical use the term "Judeo-Christian," I get the feeling that they're only using the first half to avoid being tagged as openly anti-Semitic.
I have to say that ecumenism doesn't make an awful lot of sense to me--it seems to fly in the face of the purpose of most western religious traditions. The more radical Christian groups certainly feel that ecumenical dialogue is a waste of time, largely because they feel they have the one true faith and that everyone who doesn't get in line with their version of scripture is going to suffer some divine retribution. There's no point in making friends with the infidel if he's wrong. (Side note: this sort of fanaticism is why so many observers call members of these churches "American Taliban" or theocons.) They may not openly advocate for hostility toward members of other churches or faiths, but there's not likely to be any tsk-ing from the pulpit over vandalism at a mosque or synagogue or even at a church that follows a different dogma.
I can understand the mindset that comes from these churches, probably because I was a member of one for much of my life. That belief that you have the "truth" is a powerful motivator and can drive your conduct to extremes. I don't get the people for whom belief is more wishy-washy, who believe in something but won't or can't define it, whose faith is more malleable--the kind who engage in ecumenical dialogue and say things like "all religions are roads to the same place." Don't get me wrong--I'd rather have a cup of coffee with the latter than the former, but I don't get them. It seems to me that if you're going to buy into a belief system that asks you to accept some vague promises about an afterlife, you ought to go whole hog and have it mean something to you, and defend that belief against others who would challenge it. Otherwise, what's the point? If all roads lead to heaven, then why believe at all? Seems to me that an ecumenical God would accept a flawed-but-moral life led by a non-believer the same as one led by a fervent believer.
Ecumenism is a good idea for us in the here-and-now, especially if you can get more people to buy into it and if, like me, you're a non-believer. I'm a big believer in the power of manners (seriously--at least in real life)--they're the lubricant that smooths the running of a machine that runs roughly at the best of times--and it seems to me that ecumenical dialogue is the religious equivalent of Southerners smiling and nodding at one another to their faces and then rolling their eyes and mumbling bad things about them five seconds later. It may not result in any real friendship, but it probably stops a few fistfights, at least until there's beer involved.
Labels: ecumenism, Miami Herald, religion
Defrauder Atoll
Amy's movie is just about ready. Here's a trailer.
For the record, when I say it's Amy's movie, that's not because I'm ashamed of it or anything. I have a couple of bit parts in it and I do a fair amount of the behind-the-scenes stuff. I'm like the key boy or best grip or something. I say it's Amy's movie because it wouldn't have gotten made if not for her. She's the writer, director, producer, primary camera-person, sound engineer, special effects technician, you name it. It's amazing what you can do with a 3 year old Panasonic point-and-shoot pocket camera, Garage Band and iMovie these days.
Oh, and the title is an anagram of Fort Lauderdale.
Labels: Defrauder Atoll
Maybe they can blame teh gay for Britney and K-Fed also
Florida's Family Policy Council is looking for your help in the war against marriage.
In just the past two weeks we have seen marriage and adultery lead the headlines with Gov. Mark Sanford of South Carolina, and just one week earlier Nevada Senator John Ensign. In addition to these sad examples of fallen men and now struggling wives and families, we see the marital problems of reality-TV's Jon & Kate Plus Eight (Jon and Kate Gosselin) and the Today Show last week featured an outrageous story on how "marriage is an outdated institution". Unbelievable! Everywhere we look, we can't get away from the fact that from without and within, "marriage" is under fire!
You know, I was married once, and it didn't work out, and when it (mercifully) ended, I didn't think that celebrity divorces were weakening my marriage or marriage in general. I didn't blame it on anything but the fact that my wife and I weren't good together, that we were too young when we got married and didn't know who we were or what we were getting into. If it weren't for the fact that our church forbade divorce for any reason other than adultery, we'd have gotten divorced years earlier. You know, for a group who constantly harps on personal responsibility, these Family Policy Council folks are really bad about blaming others for their problems.
Labels: Family Policy Council, Riptide
Obama: Student Radical?
Andrew McCarthy--the moron over at the National Review, not the star of Weekend at Bernies II (trust me, the former is more embarrassing)--has a breathless post up at The Corner concerning President Obama's time as a student at Columbia. He links to this pdf of an article that Obama wrote for his college newspaper in 1983 and then expostulates about how it shows Obama was a loony lefty during his time at Columbia. What did Obama write that was so crazy? I'll give you what McCarthy did, just to prove that I'm not cherry-picking.
Student Obama summed up with near incoherent Lefty gobbledygook:
Indeed, the most pervasive malady of the collegiate system specifically, and the American experience generally, is that elaborate patterns of knowledge and theory have been disembodied from individual choices and government policy. What the members of ARA and SAM try to do is infuse what they have learned about the current situation, bring the words of that formidable roster on the face of Butler Library, names like Thoreau, Jefferson, and Whitman, to bear on the twisted logic of which we are today a part. By adding their energy and effort in order to enhance the possibility of a decent world, they may help deprive us of a spectacular experience — that of war. But then, there are some things we shouldn't have to live through in order to want to avoid the experience.
McCarthy finds that incoherent--says more about his reading comprehension than it does about the writing of a college student. I'll sum it up for him. Leaning too heavily on theory can make it tough to see the consequences of policy decisions, and the people in these organizations are trying to make a better world by looking at previous real-world consequences instead of finding out firsthand that war does a great deal of unnecessary damage.
I guess this is a radical concept, especially for someone like McCarthy who has seen the heat of battle personally, waded though mountains of discarded Cheetos bags to get to his desk and type out arguments for why we should blast Muslims off the planet based on his theories of world politics. I think the real reason McCarthy doesn't like this piece--indeed, doesn't like most writing of the sort that Obama the student did--is because it points out just how dissociated from the real world consequences of his theories he really is. Like his fellow Cornerites, McCarthy likes to talk as though he's seeing the world clearly, but really he's wandering through the fog and haze of theory. He sees war in a mythic sense--lots of glory, not much gore, with good guys and bad--and hates it when someone upsets his way of seeing things.
Labels: Andrew McCarthy, National Review Online, President Barack Obama
Mark Halperin is Tom Smykowski
Mark Halperin gets paid real money to come up with gems like this:
9 Pieces of "Analysis" About Sarah Palin's Decision That Are Flat-Out Totally Wrong
But he just lists them--doesn't give any reason why they're wrong, or even who's making the analyses he's dismissing so blithely. Here they are.
1. This means she can't run for president in 2012.
Take you all day to come up with that one, Halperin? Of course this one is wrong--she was born in the US and meets the age requirement. Mind you, so was I, though her chances of being able to raise the money to mount a campaign are higher than mine.
2. She would have been a stronger candidate for 2012 if she had stayed in office.
The only way this is wrong is if Alaska is about to break off and fall into the sea. Her governing experience when she was nominated as the GOP VP candidate consisted of some time as mayor of Wasilla and half a term as governor. She's added eight more months of governating to that résumé, and is quitting before her first term is complete. How would have finishing that term not made her a stronger candidate?
3. Republican primary and caucus voters in 2012 will care if she served out her term or not.
Some will, some won't, just like some will care that Bobby Jindal's skin color is dark and some won't, and some will care that Ron Paul wants to take the economy back to the 19th century and some won't. That's what caucuses and primaries are for.
4. This means she is definitely running in 2012.
I'm a bit surprised that Halperin didn't pair this with number 1. It's so obvious.
5. Making the announcement on the Friday of a holiday weekend was really stupid.
I'll give him this one. Generally, announcing this stuff on a holiday weekend means that it'll fall into the memory hole, but hey, it's Independence Day weekend and Todd Palin was once a member of that Alaskan Independence Party and besides, Rich Lowry saw starbursts during the VP debate, so it's a great way for Sarah Palin to keep herself relevant. I think I threw up a little in my mouth after typing that.
6. Until today, Palin was well positioned to run in 2012.
So is Halperin saying that Palin wasn't well-positioned to run in 2012 beforehand, or that she's still well-positioned to run after this?
7. Palin made the decision not to run for re-election all of the sudden.
It's all of a sudden, not the sudden. It hasn't been "all of the sudden" since 1590, according to the OED
8. Palin's rhetoric about the politics of personal destruction was not heartfelt.
I don't know that this really matters. Sure, she tried to use the politics of personal destruction when she was the VP candidate and then decried it when she came in for some attacks, but is hypocrisy ever really surprising in a politician? And besides, it's possible that she didn't realize how bad it can be until it was aimed at her--how she reacts as a politician from here on out will determine just how much she means it, but based on her history, it's not beyond the pale to question her sincerity so far.
9. Palin's ambition is limited to electoral politics.
Halperin's right. Governor Palin might want to become First Emperor of the Moon--of course she'll have to beat out Al Gore for that position, but if she gets the right Supreme Court...
Given the quality of the piece above, Mark Halperin, I'd just like to ask you something.
And please don't tell me you have people skills.
Labels: Mark Halperin, Office Space, Sarah Palin
When is a gaffe not a gaffe?
While bopping around the tubes this morning looking for stuff to blurb for the Rumpus, I came across this piece about Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA" at Overthinking It. The author, who seems to be about my age, tells the story of the Reagan campaign's attempt to co-opt Springsteen's song for Reagan's re-election campaign in 1984. Most people who know the story know that much, and most liberals who know it probably know to a small extent why that didn't make any sense. But I wonder how many of them know this part of the story? (I didn't.) The man most responsible for the misunderstanding of Springsteen's song is George Will.
And, in a column about good ol’ fashioned American values, Will thinks it apropos to invoke both The Deer Hunter and a World War I battle in which the U.S. did not participate.
Later:
I have not got a clue about Springsteen’s politics, if any, but flags get waved at his concerts while he sings songs about hard times. He is no whiner, and the recitation of closed factories and other problems always seems punctuated by a grand, cheerful affirmation: “Born in the U.S.A.!”
Will might not have had a clue about Springsteen’s politics, but a casual listen to the lyrics of the song he quotes in that paragraph might have helped:
Born down in a dead man’s town
The first kick I took was when I hit the ground
You end up like a dog that’s been beat too much
‘Til you spend half your life just covering up
And that is, of course, the first verse.
The chain goes thusly--Will misunderstands Springsteen's song and writes a column about it; Will tells Reagan's deputy Chief of Staff Mike Deaver, Deaver tells Reagan's speechwriters, and we get Reagan claiming that Springsteen's song is a celebration of "Morning in America."
And yet, I wouldn't call Reagan's misappropriation of "Born in the USA" a gaffe. Why not? Because it's not all that clear that the general public really understood what Springsteen was talking about either. Here's what I mean--what part of that song resonates for you as a listener? What part is most likely to become an earworm? It's that repetitive chorus. None but the hardcore Springsteen fan remembers these lyrics:
I had a buddy at Khe Sahn
Fighting off the Viet Cong
They're still there, he's all gone
He had a little girl in Saigon
I got a picture of him in her arms
We remember the feel-good part of the song because it's anthemic, because it is the kind of thing that can inspire a crowd to wave flags and scream along at the tops of their lungs. Springsteen intended the song to be an indictment of the way the US was falling apart, but much of his audience refused see it that way. Reagan might have been part of the reason for that--his "Morning in America" message might have been bullshit, but he sold it like it was prime rib, and Americans ate it up to the tune of one of the largest Presidential landslides in our history.
Springsteen famously refuses to perform the song in concert these days, and I can't help but think it has something to do with this incident. He was a victim of his own success, it seems to me--he wrote a song that should have been a call to arms for reform and it was embraced by listeners as a moment of unreasonable pride in one's nation, and it became one of his biggest hits.
It's July 4th, so there's going to be a lot of that sort of pride on display today, and that's fine I guess--I'm not going to shit in anyone's cereal. There's a lot that this nation does that's worth being proud of. But we've also got lots of room for improvement. Springsteen's description of the USA he was born into is easily as apt today as it was in 1984, if not more so. Here's the last verse of his song:
Down in the shadow of the penitentiary
Out by the gas fires of the refinery
I'm ten years down the road
Nowhere to run, ain't got nowhere to go
Labels: Born in the USA, Bruce Springsteen, George Will, Overthinking It, Ronald Reagan
RedState: A Liberal Blogger's Best Friend
When I got the news alert on my Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy that Governor Sarah Palin was not just not going to run for re-election, but was resigning her current post, my second reaction was "I wonder what RedState is going to do with this. My first was to wonder if she actually said "they're not going to have Palin to kick around anymore" or if she'd just leave that between the lines.
Well, RedState didn't disappoint:
The political pundits who are saying she couldn’t take the heat, so she got out of the kitchen, may have found a winning cliche to apply, but then no one has faced the heat Sarah Palin has been subjected to, largely at the hands of the political pundits now dragging out that cliche.
No one? Really Erick? You can't think of another woman in the political arena who was the butt of cruel, sexist, misogynist jokes, and whose daughter was also subjected to those jokes while a minor (as opposed to being an adult and advocate for a social cause)? You don't remember the t-shirts and bumper stickers from the 2008 campaign that said things like "Wanna see Hillary run? Throw rocks at her!"?
Oh, that's right--it's only sexist when it's one of yours who endures the attacks, not when your side is doing the attacking. I see so clearly now.
Anyone who reads this blog knows where I stand on sexist attacks--they're always crap, no matter who's being attacked and who's doing the attacking. I even defended Sarah Palin late last September because the press kept focusing on her sexuality instead of her positions on issues. But come on--Governor Palin has been in the national spotlight for what, a year and a half at best? Secretary of State Clinton has been dealing with this nonsense at the national level since 1992, and she wasn't even a candidate at the time. Let's have a little perspective here.
Labels: Erick Erickson, Political Circus, RedState, Sarah Palin Hillary Clinton
Dear Family Research Council,
You all confuse the hell out of me. For a group of people who like to talk smack about how powerful your faith is and how mighty your God is, you sure act like a bunch of terrified children most of the time. Seriously--this?
This is just sad. Breaking out the whole "gay men are all potential child-molesters" line is so over, and if your faith is really strong, who cares if he mocks it? Or don't you actually believe that God can handle a little mockery and repay it if He so chooses?
I'm sure this will come as no surprise to anyone who's read this blog before, but I'd take a hundred thousand educators just like Kevin Jennings, and our children and our schools would be immeasurably better if we could find them.
Labels: Family Research Council, homophobia, Kevin Jennings
Full of fail
I really don't know where to begin with this whole mess (hat tip to Rick at SFDB). Here's the basics of the story--a Florida atheist group paid for a couple of billboards. This billboard in particular has stirred up some controversy.
Here's where the fail starts to pile up.
The members of the community cite two main problems: born-again Christians own the business right next to the sign, and the billboard is located right in the middle of an African-American community.
The first part actually starts to make a little sense once you read the next couple of paragraphs--local businesses are being blamed--unfairly, of course--for the billboard's content, and they say it's hurting their business. Even if that's more perception than reality, that's at least a legitimate concern.
But what does the fact that the billboard is in an African-American community have to do with anything? Is that a suggestion that African-Americans would never be atheists? Or is atheism supposed to be somehow racist and so putting a billboard promoting it is a particular thumb in the eye to the African-American community? I'm not sure, and the article never explains it either. What's really happening is that the religious community in the area doesn't like the billboard, and it's a black neighborhood, so that's where the protests are coming from. But the skin color of the people in the neighborhood is pretty irrelevant to the discussion, so far as I can tell.
But it's not just the reporting that's full of fail. First, from one of the activists looking to get rid of the billboard:
After seeing the billboard, Team of Life community activist Essie "Big Mama" Reed brought her students out to protest it Wednesday afternoon. "Nothing else matters, but that sign needs to come down. In the name of Jesus," Big Mama chanted, as she led her students in protest.
She said the sign affects something much deeper than business. "I don't know the reason for putting this sign up," said Big Mama. "It says 'Do not believe in God.' How are we going to make it? Look at our schools, everyday. Everyday there's something going on. Kids are out here killing each other, kids are here using drugs. Who else are they going to believe in?"
Look, neither belief or non-belief in God is going to do much to stop crime or drug use. And obviously, God isn't going to personally jump in and do anything about it, because He's had plenty of chances to intervene thus far and we're still dealing with crime, poverty, drug abuse and tons of other social ills. Don't get me wrong--there are plenty of examples of people who've had problems with addiction and the idea of submitting to a higher power has helped them to control that addiction. But so have a lot of other treatments, and there are plenty of violent people as well as drug abusers who confess a deep and abiding faith. It's not a magic bullet.
But this response from the president of FLASH, the organization that paid for the billboards, isn't very good either.
The billboard sponsors said they would like the community to show them the same tolerance they fought for during the civil rights era. "The women and blacks in this neighborhood, they've been discriminated before, in the recent past, as early as 30, 40 years ago," Loukinen said, "and yet, they have no problem discriminating against another group, whether it be gays or atheists."
Dude, no, no, no, no, no. This isn't the Oppression Olympics, and even if it were, we atheists are the equivalent of the Iranian Bobsled team. Even today, women and people of color face more unconscious discrimination than most atheists can even begin to imagine. We get irritated by stuff--we don't have cabs drive past because the cabbies don't like our views on secular humanism; we don't make significantly less money over the course of our lives because we dismiss the divinity of Jesus; we don't go to jail at higher rates than believers when convicted of the same crimes. Let's have a little perspective here.
But even more so, let's not play into the stereotype of African-Americans as being gay-haters. Homosexuality wasn't even a part of this conversation until Loukinen made it one, and there was absolutely no call for it.
I like the idea of the billboards and I like the idea of atheists being more open about their lack of belief. Were that billboard in my neighborhood and the local churches protesting it, I'd counter-protest, because I believe it's important to put a human face on atheism. The message isn't very controversial--you don't have to believe in God to be a good person is so self-evident as to be banal--and I hope to see more of them. Just be careful about how much you try to claim the movements of other groups to bolster your own.
Labels: atheism, Essie "Big Mama" Reed, FLASH, full of fail
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July 9, 2019 by Peter T Young Leave a Comment
Ikua Purdy
The gift of a few cattle, given to Kamehameha I by Captain George Vancouver in 1793, spawned a rich tradition of cowboy and ranch culture that is still here, today.
With a kapu against killing the cattle, by 1830, wild bullocks posed a serious and dangerous threat to humans. Spurred also by the growing business of reprovisioning visiting ships with fresh meat and vegetables, Kamehameha III and Kaʻahumanu saw the wisdom of bringing in experienced cowboys.
They hired Spanish-Mexican vaquero (cowboys) from California to hunt bullocks and train Hawaiians to rope and handle cattle. The cowboys spoke Spanish – “Espanol” which turned into “paniolo” according to one explanation of the term.
The Hawaiian cowboy, nicknamed “paniolo,” played an important role in the economic and cultural development of Hawaiʻi and helped to establish the islands as a major cattle exporter to California, the Americas and the Pacific Rim for over a century.
Some might not realize that Hawaiʻi’s working paniolo preceded the emergence of the American cowboy in the American West.
After winning the Revolutionary war (1781), American settlers started to pour into the “west;” by 1788, the first permanent American settlement in the Northwest Territory was in Ohio.
In 1800, the western frontier extended to the Mississippi River, which bisects the continental United States north-to-south from just west of the Great Lakes to the delta near New Orleans.
Then, in 1803, President Thomas Jefferson’s Louisiana Purchase doubled the size of the nation.
The Battle of the Alamo was in 1836; later that year, Texas became independent, the Mexicans left, leaving their cattle behind. Texan farmers claimed the cattle and set up their own ranches.
It wasn’t until the 1840s that the wagon trains really started travelling to the far west. Then, with the US victory in the Mexican-American war and gold soon found in California, the rush to the West was on.
The cattle trade in the American West was at its peak from 1867 until the early-1880s.
And, when in cattle country, you can expect rodeos.
Headlines in Island and Wyoming newspapers in August of 1908 announced rodeo history.
Twelve thousand spectators, a huge number for those days, watched Ikua Purdy, Jack Low, and Archie Kaaua from Hawaiʻi carry off top awards at the world-famous Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo (the “granddaddy” of rodeo.).
Unlike today’s calf-roping, riders lassoed powerful, full-grown steers.
The Cheyenne paper reported that the performances of the dashing Hawaiians, in their vaquero-style clothing and flower-covered, “took the breath of the American cowboys.”
Under drizzling skies, Purdy won the World’s Steer Roping Championship—roping, throwing and tying the steer in 56 seconds. Kaaua and Low took third and sixth place.
They each accomplished these feats on borrowed horses.
Purdy worked at Parker Ranch prior traveling to Cheyenne, Wyoming; his victory demonstrated the exceptional skills of the paniolo to mainland cowboys who long regarded rodeo and roping as their own domain.
On arriving home, the men were met at dockside by thousands of cheering fans and also honored by parades and other festivities on Maui and Hawai‘i.
Waimea-born Purdy moved to Ulupalakua, Maui and resumed his work as a paniolo until his death in 1945. He did not return to the mainland to defend his title, in fact he never left Hawaii’s shores again. But his victory and legend live on in Hawaiʻi and the annals of rodeo history.
In 1999, Ikua Purdy was voted into the National Cowboy Museum, Rodeo Hall of Fame. That same year he was the first inductee to the Paniolo Hall of Fame established by the Oʻahu Cattlemen’s Association.
In 2003, a large bronze statue of Purdy roping a steer was placed in Waimea town on the Big Island, erected by the Paniolo Preservation Society. In October 2007, Purdy was inducted into the Cheyenne Frontier Days Hall of Fame.
Ikua Purdy in Steer Roping Contest, Frontier Day, 1908
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This undated photo, provided by the Paniolo Preservation Society shows Ikua Purdy, who became Hawaii’s most famous paniolo when he won the steer roping championship at the 1908 Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo in Cheyenne, Wyo. A 16-foot-high statue honors his legacy at the Parker Ranch Shopping Center in Waimea. The legacy of Hawaii’s cowboys will be honored with an entire year of events during the Waiomina Centennial Celebration. (AP Photo/Paniolo Preservation Society)**AP PROVIDES ACCESS TO THIS PUBLICLY DISTRIBUTED HANDOUT PHOTO. THE COPYRIGHT IS OWNED BY A THIRD PARTY. NO SALES**
Ikua Purdy, Billy Spencer, and Archie Ka’au’a (hawaiianhistoricalsociety)
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November 4, 2018 by Peter T Young 1 Comment
Eben’s Glove
“He was always immaculately dressed and tailored when I saw him.” (Lucas; Watumull)
He was married to Elizabeth Pu‘uki Napoleon (“really Napoli. … Became known as Napoleon later.”)
“She was always known as Lizzie Low. My mother’s people were not well known to us because she was hanaied by Judge and Mrs. Sanford B. Dole when she was about twelve years of age [circa 1879].”
“Judge Dole was a teacher at Kawaiaha‘o Sunday School and had in his class a little girl of about six whose name was Lizzie Napoleon. And he became very attached to this little girl so when she got a little older, he asked her mother if she wouldn’t allow her to live with them.”
“She didn’t want to go at first but she did finally become attached to both Judge and Mrs. Dole and lived there until she was married.” (Lucas; Watumull)
“My father was known as Rawhide Ben because ever since he was knee high to a grasshopper, I guess, he loved the ranch life. And he was brought up as a member of the family in Mana and Kamuela with the rest of them.”
“So as a little boy he always had a chance to do something with animals. And this was his whole life. All he ever thought about was his cowboy experiences. But he became known as Rawhide Ben …”
“… I think, because even though he was sent to Maui and then to Honolulu later, at Iolani School, to get educated when he was a little fellow, he always went back to the ranch and that was all he wanted to do.”
“And as soon as he became an adult, his first job – big job – was given him by Theo. H. Davies and Company as manager of Puakea Ranch which is in Kohala – South Kohala there.”
Eben Parker Low was born in Honolulu, a great grandson of John Palmer Parker I and his Hawaiian wife, Kipikane. He spent his early years on Parker Ranch, Handling cows and calves by the time he was six years old.”
“He had very little education; in his own words, ‘… just plain common sense plus some English grammar and arithmetic and writing.’”
“At the age of 26 he became manager of Pu‘uhue ranch in Kohala, and began a career that made him one of the big island’s most famous and colorful paniolo.” (Hawaii Cattlemen’s Hall of Fame)
Unfortunately, he lost a portion of his left arm while roping … “he was trying to get a wild bullock that they had been chasing for a long time and he finally caught it but it was very wild and the thing was just swishing around this way (she indicates to the right and around the back of her) …”
“… so he had just enough time to duck down and the rope (with which the bullock was lassoed) went over his head. But he had the rope tied at the end of his pommel, which he never does ordinarily but he did that time because he didn’t want to lose it. And it caught his hand, see, ‘cause the loop was around his hand and it just tore the thing right off.”
“So then, there was one man with him and I don’t know how long they had – about two hours before they could get to anyplace. And of course he had this thing up and was bleeding like a cut pig.”
“And when they finally found the doctor and could get him up there, hours had passed and gangrene was starting to come in, so they cut it. They had to cut it down here (indicates forearm) and had to cut it again at the elbow.”
“But he got through that and, well, he was a young man then. I think he was about twenty-five when that happened, so he had a lot of time to get over it, too.” (Lucas; Watumull)
“Low was known as ‘one of the better artists with a rope, horse and steer’. Low had lost his left hand in a roping accident, but ‘managed to excel at roping despite his handicap of the one missing hand’”. (Marion Kelly)
“(H)e had that one arm that had to be amputated forearm and so he’d … usually wore a … false hand with a glove on his left hand and then when he roped he had a thing he’d put on with a hook it just you know a mean hook it you’d look like a pirate you look at the pictures of old pirates”. (Billy Paris; Hawaii Cattlemen’s Association)
“And I remember that leather glove. I always remembered that leather glove. I can just see him so clearly.”
“Yeah, he was a rascal with that glove because obviously, you know, there was an artificial arm. Let’s see now, his arm was cut here (indicates it was just below the elbow) so there was just a little leverage here, right below the elbow, and would give him leverage, so this thing – this gloved hand – would fit right into the end of this stump.”
“And so, he could twist it and take it off or not as he pleased. And half the time he would take it off and put a hook on it because he could handle a hook more easily than he could a glove. But oh, he used to do terrible things with that glove.”
“For instance, I remember one time when a woman – I can’t remember who she was now but it was someone that I thought should not have been in any way fooled with because she was very dignified and she was very well dressed and she was so sedate, so prim and proper …”
“… and my father just couldn’t stand it and so he just twisted this thing off and threw the [gloved] hand in her lap. That woman nearly died of a heart attack.” (Lucas; Watumull)
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“In 1777 there was not one cow, sheep, horse or goat anywhere in the area that is now the State of Hawaii. In fact, the only land mammals in the Islands were a small light weight pig, Poi Dogs (eating type), Polynesian rat, Hoary bat, and Hawaiians.”
“All this was destined to change abruptly and dramatically. Goats were introduced to some of the Islands by Captain James Cook, who rediscovered them in 1778 …”
“In two voyages, 1792 and 1793, Captain George Vancouver landed 7 cows, 1 heifer, 2 bull calves, and 1 bull on the Big Island. These animals were for the most part black longhorns, believed to be of the line that the Mexicans used for their bull-bear contest.”
“The animals were obtained from what is now British Columbia and Monterey, Calif. In addition to the 11 longhorns, 7 rams, 9 ewes, and some goats were also presented to the ruling monarch, King Kamehameha.”
“The King placed a kapu (taboo) against the killing of these animals, which were subsequently turned loose upon the unsuspecting vegetation. By 1830, the number of animals on the Big Island alone was estimated to be 20,000 cattle, 3,000 sheep, 1,200 horses (introduced in 1803) and numerous goats.” (Smith)
“Beginning in 1786, ships trading in the Pacific had begun to stop in Hawaiian ports on a regular basis. Their captains were very interested in securing fresh provisions, including water, salt, wood, vegetables, and meat.”
“They also saw Hawaii as a good place to rest and recuperate, especially during the harsh winters of the northern seas. Captains found the protected, natural harbor at Honolulu the most accessible and, therefore, the most attractive in the islands, Thus, by 1810, Honolulu had already become a port of great commercial importance.” (Strazar)
Salt meat could store longer than fresh – what about fresh meat for those in the Islands?
Refrigeration first came to Hawai‘i in the middle of the nineteenth century. “The first Boston ice brought to these islands, was received on the 14th inst. (September 14, 1850) by brig Fortunio, Hasty, via San Francisco.” (Polynesian, September 21, 1850)
Then, “(a) few tons of ice were brought to this port from San Francisco by the bark Harriet T Bartlet, Capt Heeren, and a part sold by our friend Thompson, at auction, on Tuesday.”
“This is the first importation of the kind, in any quantity, to this market, and but the beginning, it is to be hoped, of a regular supply of this luxury to the inhabitants of this city.” (Polynesian, June 26, 1852)
Then, they started to make ice in the Islands. “Ice Manufacture. The establishment on the Esplanade for the manufacture of ice by chemical process, has been in operation during several days past. “
“Like all new beginnings, difficulties have had to be met and overcome, but yesterday the machinery was in the full tide of successful experiment, and to-day we expect to be able to see home-made ice.”
“It is expected that enough will be manufactured to supply the demand for the city, and at such rates as will prevent the necessity of importing the luxury from California.” (Pacific Commercial Advertiser, September 2, 1871)
“Before the days of refrigeration, cattle, for other than the local markets of each island, had to be shipped live to the island of O‘ahu where, because of the larger population and accelerated development, the demand for fresh beef was always greater.”
“The transporting of live cattle posed dramatic technical challenges that were complicated by the absence of deep-water wharfs where an inter-island schooner or steamer could dock for loading of cattle.”
“Ranchers, therefore, had to have their paniolo drag cattle out through the pounding surf to longboats that rowed out to the main steamer with cattle tied by the head to the gunwales.”
“Later solutions included a drop chute utilizing a trap door that released the cattle one by one to the sea where a rope would then be thrown to the waiting longboat.” (Strazar)
“The cattle at Napo‘opo‘o were driven and dragged into the water, a rope around the neck and a cowboy holding the animal’s tail …. Drawn alongside the small boat, another rope was secured to the horns and the one taken from the neck, the head being secured to the side of the boat.”
“They are tied very close together, perhaps eight or ten on either side, and in some cases the animals fought and pawed one another in the water. The small boat is drawn out to the steamer and some of the animals loaded by slings under the middle while others are drawn up by the horns.”
“A woman in Kona, and whose cattle these happened to be, was present and I spoke to her about the nonuse of slings. She said the ‘light’ cattle were always loaded that way and slings used for the heavy ones…” (National Humane Review, July 1919)
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“…the meat-eating population has increased, while the areas devoted to grazing and the numbers of cattle have gradually diminished, so that at the present time we are face to face with a situation in which the supply will no longer cover the demand.”
“Formerly (cattle) had wider ranges to rove over and feed upon; they were possessors of the land, and their value consisted chiefly in the labor and hides that they yielded.”
“At that time the plantations, which were of smaller areas than now, were almost wholly worked by bullock labor… In the course of time, and that very recent, the sugar industry has undergone great expansion.”
“The lands, some of which formerly were among the best for meat-making uses, have been absorbed by the plantations, and the cattle have been gradually forced within narrower limits at higher altitudes.” (Walter Maxwell; Thrum 1900)
Let’s look back …
With the arrival of Western ships, new plants and animals soon found their way to the Hawaiian Islands. In 1793, Captain George Vancouver gave a few cattle to Kamehameha I. When Vancouver landed additional cattle at Kealakekua in 1794, he strongly encouraged Kamehameha to place a 10‐year kapu on them to allow the herd to grow.
In the decades that followed, cattle flourished and later turned into a dangerous nuisance. (By 1846, 25,000-wild cattle roamed at will and an additional 10,000-semi‐domesticated cattle lived alongside humans.)
Kamehameha III lifted the kapu in 1830 and the hunting of wild cattle was encouraged. The king hired cattle hunters from overseas to help in the effort; many of these were former convicts from Botany Bay in Australia.
Wild cattle were hunted for consumption, as well as provisioning ships with salt beef, and hides and tallow to the growing whaling fleets replenished their stocks.
In addition, Kamehameha III had vaqueros (Mexican-Spanish cow hands) brought to the islands to teach the Hawaiians, the skills of herding and handling cattle.
“The formalization of ranching operations on Hawai‘i evolved in response to the growing threat of herds of wild cattle and goats to the Hawaiian environment, and the rise and fall of other business interests leading up to the middle 1800s.” (Maly)
The vaqueros found the Hawaiians to be capable students, and by the 1870s, the Hawaiian cowboys came to be known as the “paniola” for the Espanola (Spanish) vaqueros who had been brought to the islands (though today, the Hawaiian cowboy is more commonly called “paniolo”). (Maly)
“The forest areas of the Hawaiian Islands were very considerable, covering the upland plateaus and mountain slopes at altitudes above the lands now devoted to sugar growing and other cultures.”
“Those areas, however, have suffered great reduction, and much of the most valuable forest cover has been devastated and laid bare. The causes given, and to-day seen, of the great destruction that has occurred are the direct removal of forest without any replacement by replanting.”
“Again, in consequence of the wholesale crushing and killing off of forest trees by cattle which have been allowed to traverse the woods and to trample out the brush and undergrowth which protected the roots and trunks of trees, vast breadths of superb forests have dried up, and are now dead and bare.”
“All authorities of the past and of the present agree in ascribing to mountain cattle, which were not confined to ranching areas, but allowed to run wild in the woods, the chief part in the decimation of the forest-covered lands. (Maxwell; Thrum)
“While the visits of the whaleships were confined to a few ports, the effects were felt in many other parts of the kingdom. Much of the domestic produce, such as potatoes, vegetables, beef, pork, fowls, and firewood, that was supplied to the ships was raised in the back country and had to be taken to the ports for sale.”
“The demand for firewood to supply so many ships over so great a period of time must have had an appreciable effect in reducing the forest areas and helping to create a serious problem for later generations.”
“Cattle for beef were, where possible, driven to the ports on the hoof and slaughtered as needed; at times they were led carelessly through the streets, to the annoyance and danger of the peaceful populace.” (Kuykendall)
In the years prior to the Māhele of 1848, nearly all of the cattle (as well as goats and sheep) belonged either to the King, the government, other chiefs close to the King, and a few foreigners who had been granted the right to handle the cattle. By 1851 there were around 20,000 cattle on the island of Hawai‘i, and approximately 12,000 of them were wild. (Maly)
The issuance of land title through the Māhele and Royal Patent Grant program of the Hawaiian Kingdom facilitated the development of large scale ranching activities on Hawai‘i. Every ahupua‘a in the area between Keauhou to Kealakekua (as well as on lands to the north and south) was put into ranching.
Ranchers, such as Samuel Rice, Charles Hall, William Johnson, Henry N. Greenwell, John D. Paris, James Atkins, Preston Cummings, Henry Weeks, George Trousseau and several others, operated in the uplands of Kona. (Maly)
The ranches of this region were generally situated between the 1,500 to 4,500-foot elevation, above the lands that in the same period were being turned over to the cultivation of coffee and other crops.
There were also important mauka-makai trails at various locations in the Keauhou-Kealakekua vicinity (such as Honalo, Kawanui, Lehu‘ula, Honua‘ino, Kalukalu, Onouli, and Ka‘awaloa), where ranchers would drive their cattle to the lowlands for grazing and shipping.
Māhele records also tell us that the native Hawaiian land owners in the same region, kept pigs and goats (and probably cattle and horses) on their own lands at lower elevations as well.
By 1855, the King signed a law requiring all cattle owners on Hawai‘i to register their brands between April 1st to September 30th 1855. On October 16, 1855, SL Austin (secretary to Governor of Hawai‘i), reported to John Young (Minister of the Interior), that 13 individuals had submitted the necessary documentation. (Maly)
For the most part, Kona Ranching operations continued on leased or fee lands by descendants of the earlier ranchers – Greenwell, Johnson, Paris, Wall and Roy.
Most of the ranching was/is in the uplands (areas extending from the Māmalahoa Highway vicinity to around the 4,800-foot elevation).
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Makawao (literally ‘forest beginning’) is an ahupuaʻa in Hāmākuapoko, Maui. It’s an area with both wet and dry forests.
Growing here were koa, sandalwood and ʻōhiʻa lehua; maile and ferns thrived in these forests. In the drier regions of Makawao, sweet potato was cultivated extensively, as it was in Kula.
The landscape began its transformation following the gift of (and subsequent kapu on killing) cattle and sheep from Vancouver to Kamehameha in 1793.
The cattle numbers increased, in places to the point of becoming a dangerous nuisance. Roaming wild cattle destroyed gardens, scared the population and were a general nuisance.
Then, on June 21, 1803, Captain William Shaler (with commercial officer Richard Cleveland,) gave Kamehameha a mare and a stallion at Lāhainā. Soon the horses, like the cattle, were roaming freely across the Islands.
Kamehameha I employed “a varied crew with unsavory reputations who had immigrated to the islands to escape their pasts” as bullock hunters to capture the animals. (DLNR) The earliest Hawaiian bullock hunters hunted alone, on foot, and used guns and pit traps. (Mills)
Most histories credit Kauikeaouli (Kamehameha III) with the idea of hiring vaqueros to manage the cattle. Joaquin Armas arrived in Hawai‘i on April 4, 1831 and stayed in Hawai‘i at the bequest of the King.
Armas had grown up in Monterey, where undoubtedly he learned how to rope cattle and process hides. He and others began working for the Hawaiian monarchy and teaching the Hawaiians their techniques. (Mills)
Hawaii’s cowboys became known as paniolo, a corruption of español, the language the vaquero spoke. The term still refers to cowboys working in the Islands and to the culture their lifestyle spawned.
Missionary Hiram Bingham noted, “several striking exhibitions of seizing wild cattle, chasing them on horseback, and throwing the lasso over their horns, with great certainty, capturing, prostrating, and subduing or killing these mountain-fed animals, struggling in vain for liberty and life.”
By the 1800s, agriculture in the region had transitioned from a subsistence activity to a commercial one. A market was developed to supply whalers who stopped to replenish their supplies; Upcountry Maui provided vegetables, meat and fruit.
In the early days only sweet potatoes had been obtainable at the Islands, but after 1830, if not sooner, cultivation of the Irish potato was taken up and during the 1840s and 1850s became of great importance.
It was shortly before 1840 that Irish potatoes were first grown in Upcountry, which proved to be so well adapted to them that it soon came to be called the ‘potato district.’ (Kuykendall)
“I had here the first glimpse at the extensive Irish potatoe region. It ranges along the mountain between 2,000 and 5,000 feet elevation, for the distance of 12-miles. The forest is but partially cleared, and the seed put into the rich virgin soil. The crop now in the ground is immense.” (Polynesian, July 25, 1846)
Despite claims that “the soil in this area of Maui grows rocks” due to the many areas of exposed bedrock and scattered boulders and gravels in the surrounding fields, crop production expanded exponentially in the first half of the nineteenth century with sweet potato, potatoes, corn, beans and wheat. (DLNR)
In addition to the changing landscape, there were changes in land tenure.
Kameʻeleihiwa stated that Makawao District was the first area in Hawai‘i to experiment with land sales. In January 1846, land was made available for eventual ownership to the makaʻāinana (commoners.)
Makawao land was reportedly sold for $1-per acre; this would mark the beginning of land grants. Experimental lots purchased by Hawaiians ranged from 5 to 10-acres, with a total land area of approximately 900-acres of grant lands purchased in Makawao. (DLNR)
Today, Makawao continues the Paniolo tradition and proudly proclaims its community as Paniolo Country.
The community participates in an annual Independence Day rodeo and parade (2015 will be its 50th annual parade and 60th annual rodeo celebrations.) Likewise, there are regular ‘Makawao Third Fridays on Baldwin Avenue, closed between Brewer Road and Makawao Avenue.
The image shows a street scene in Makawao. In addition, I have included more related images in a folder of like name in the Photos section on my Facebook and Google+ pages.
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The Keg Royalties Income Fund announces September 2015 cash distribution
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Foodie Calls: Dating For a Free Meal (Rather Than a Relationship)
Washington, DC - When it comes to getting a date, there’s any number of ways people can present themselves and their interests. One of the newer phenomena is a “foodie call” where a person sets up a date with someone they are not romantically interested in, for the purpose of getting a free meal. New research finds that 23 - 33% of women in an online study say they’ve engaged in a “foodie call.”
Upon further analysis, the social and personality psychology researchers found that women who scored high on the “dark triad” of personality traits (i.e., psychopathy, Machiavellianism, narcissism), as well as expressed traditional gender role beliefs, were most likely to engage in a foodie call and find it acceptable.
The research, by Brian Collisson, Jennifer Howell, and Trista Harig of Azusa Pacific University and UC Merced, appears in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science.
In the first study, 820 women were recruited, with 40% reporting they were single, 33% married, and 27% saying they were in a committed relationship but not married. Out of them, 85% said they were heterosexual, and they were the focus for this study.
The women answered a series of questions that measured their personality traits, beliefs about gender roles, and their foodie call history. They were also asked if they thought a foodie call was socially acceptable.
23% of women in this first group revealed they’d engaged in a foodie call. Most did so occasionally or rarely. Although women who had engaged in a foodie call believed it was more acceptable, most women believed foodie calls were extremely to moderately unacceptable.
The second study analyzed a similar set of questions of 357 heterosexual women and found 33% had engaged in a foodie call. It is important to note, however, that neither of these studies recruited representative samples of women, so we cannot know if these percentages are accurate for women in general.
For both groups, those that engaged in foodie calls scored higher in the “dark triad” personality traits.
“Several dark traits have been linked to deceptive and exploitative behavior in romantic relationships, such as one-night stands, faking an orgasm, or sending unsolicited sexual pictures,” says Collisson.
Collisson and Harig said they became interested in the subject of foodie calls after reading about the phenomenon in the news.
As for how many foodies calls might be occurring in the United States, Collisson says that can’t be inferred from the current research.
“They could be more prevalent, for instance, if women lied or misremembered their foodie calls to maintain a positive view of their dating history,” says Collisson.
The researchers also note that foodie calls could occur in many types of relationships, and could be perpetrated by all genders.
Citation: Collisson, Brian; Howell, Jennifer; Harig, Trista (2019). Foodie Calls: When Women Date Men for a Free Meal (Rather than a Relationship). Social Psychological and Personality Science. Online before print June 20, 2019.
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Is Najib Razak the Prime Minister of a two-headed government – whose PM wants Malaysia to be the world “best democracy” but whose AG’s sedition spree aims to make Malaysia the world’s “worst democracy”
Is Datuk Seri Najib Razak the Prime Minister of a two-headed government – whose Prime Minister wants Malaysia to be the world’s “best democracy” but whose Attorney-General’s recent sedition spree of selective and malicious prosecutions aims to make Malaysia the world’s “worst democracy”.
This question automatically arises from the parliamentary answer today on the recent sedition blitz by the Parliamentary Opposition Leader, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim who asked the Prime Minister whether the government’s use of the law against Pakatan Rakyat leaders, activists and intellectuals was in line with the prime minister’s commitment to make Malaysia more democratic.
Answering during Parliament’s Question Time, the Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Nancy Shukri defended the spate of sedition prosecutions, claiming that the Malaysian government practises and upholds the doctrine of the separation of powers and as such the government does not interfere in the Attorney-General’s Chambers affairs.
Nancy is very mixed-up as she has made a fatal error about the doctrine of separation of powers, as the Attorney-General is part of the executive and not the judiciary in the doctrine of separation of powers among the Executive, the Legislature and the Judiciary.
The doctrine of separation of powers is totally irrelevant and does not apply in the blitzkrieg of sedition prosecutions – which is an executive action and not an action of the judiciary.
Although Article 145(3) of the Malaysian Constitution vests in the Attorney-General the sole discretionary power “to institute, continue or discontinue any proceedings for any offence”, the AG’s prosecution decisions are actions of the Executive and not of the Judiciary, which means the Prime Minister must assume full responsibilities for the AG’s decision and cannot disclaim responsibility on the ground of the doctrine of separation of powers.
It is completely unthinkable in any parliamentary democracy that the Attorney-General could give the country a bad international reputation by launching a dragnet of selective and malicious prosecutions under a repressive colonial law like the Sedition Act, and the Prime Minister can fold his arms to disclaim responsibility on the ground that he is not responsible for the actions of the AG on the ground that this is a judicial and not an executive exercise of power.
A responsible Prime Minister would have reined in the Attorney-General and end the spate of sedition prosecutions, especially when they are completely at odds with his mandate to make Malaysia the world’s “best democracy” and are selective and malicious as being aimed at opposition leaders, critics and activists, or alternatively, sack the incumbent and appoint a new Attorney-General.
Why is Najib allowing the Attorney-General to make mince-meat of his pledge to make Malaysia the world’s best democracy with his spate of sedition prosecutions – unless the Prime Minister has given secret authorisation to the AG but dare not openly admit responsibility?
In her reply, Nancy also claimed that the government does not practise favouritism in taking action against anyone found guilty of committing sedition.
There is not only a long list of cases to prove Nancy wrong, and substantiate the sad state of affairs where the administration of justice in Malaysia has gone very awry not only with the selective and malicious prosecution under the Sedition Act but also selective and malicious investigation by the Police under the same Act.
The latest instance happened only today.
Last Sunday, the UMNO mouthpiece, Mingguan Malaysia front-paged and headlined the proposal by a junior Umno leader that the UMNO general assembly next month should debate whether the Chinese vernacular schools should be abolished on the baseless and spurious ground that it had been used by the opposition to breed racial and anti-government sentiments.
Junior MCA, Gerakan and SUPP leaders reacted by calling for the junior UMNO leader to be charged for sedition, but the police today said that they will not investigate the junior UMNO leader for sedition over his suggestion that the Chinese vernacular system be abolished.
Although MCA Youth had even lodged a police report, the Malay Mail Online quoted the Sepang police chief Supt Mohd Yusoff Awang as saying that the case has been categorised as a civil matter after police investigations.
Isn’t this the latest example that the police had been guilty of selective and malicious investigation (or lack of investigation) on sedition cases, apart from the selective and malicious prosecution by the Attorney-General’s Chamber?
Dare the MCA, Gerakan and SUPP Ministers protest at such double standards by the police and the Attorney-General’s chambers in their administration of justice in the next Cabinet meeting and to demand for a halt of the sedition dragnet, with the dropping of all sedition charges?
Lim Kit Siang DAP Parliamentary Leader & MP for Gelang Patah
Media statement by Lim Kit Siang in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday, 7th October 2014
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"The humour was never farcical, always intelligent, but there was a certain madcap, slyness to it which I haven't experienced in fantasy for quite a while. Some scenes had me laughing out loud -- not good when traveling with a bunch of strangers, but a perfect remedy to Life... Catastrophe's Spell, although extremely humourous is also an engaging, interesting story and an excellent start to the Dance of Gods series. I would very much like to see this book back in print -- there are some good books out right now, and there are some not-so-good books ... this one deserves its place with the former, and definitely has at least one big fan."
- Chris, The Book Swede
SPELL OF INTRIGUE
"Ya gotta love a series with a hero named 'Maximillian the Vaguely Disreputable'. READ THIS SERIES, shouts your FAQmaker, it's fast and furious, and fun, and I want the author to make enough money that he keeps writing fantasies."
- Amy Sheldon, The Recommended Fantasy Author List
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While they're not hotlinked to the text of the books in the best Wiki or Web 2.0 style, at least not yet, anyway, this page contains "director's (or writer's) commentary" on The Dance of Gods, on the occasion of re-reading and re-editing them after a long time away. Spoilers are pervasive, so if you're interested enough to read these notes, you've hopefully been interested enough to read the actual text first from this page. Be warned, but please feel welcome, too!
The original computer files for Catastrophe and Intrigue, at least, no longer being available, I've been scanning the manuscript (for Catastrophe) and the page proofs (for Intrigue) and using somewhat problematic OCR software to recreate the digital versions, before the editing pass. Still, I'm sure this process has been freshly minting typos that have eluded me thus far. (The OCR software has a lovely yet consistent tendency to read the 1986 dot-matrix "f" as "£", so I've probably found all of those, anyway.) That said, I'd appreciate hearing about any typos you notice while you're reading. Come to think of it, I'll credit you on the Typo page.
Notes on Spell of Catastrophe
As long as I was diving back into The Dance of Gods, and especially Spell of Catastrophe, which I haven't dared to read in almost twenty years, I thought it might be amusing to use the opportunity for some reminiscences about the experience and some of what I was thinking at the time, and perhaps the influences that led to particular decisions, too. A narcissistic exercise, I'm sure, but it's not as though I expect a whole lot of people to be paying attention. On the other hand, the web is an unpredictable and often magical place, and a little ego is probably mandatory for an exercise such as this, anyway...
As I said, I hadn't opened any of these books in a long time. I've noticed that many writers - perhaps most - don't enjoy revisiting old works, unless there's a reason to market them again and often not even then. You've moved on, and whether you've gotten better or fallen off, why would you remind yourself of where you used to live, class reunions notwithstanding. With Dance of Gods, the resounding commercial failure left me soured on the books themselves, along with the fact that once the books were out of my system, so to speak, I had thought that my tastes in fiction had moved on to the point that I wouldn't like those kinds of things any more, regardless of who had written them.
Jun 1, 2007 at 11:22 AM
SOC Chapter 1: "Max on the Road"
In a way, this entire project started with Max. During college, a friend dragged me down to San Diego for a small Society for Creative Anachronism meet. When I was asked at the registration table who I was, and we got through the usual Alphonse and Gaston routine my real name typically kicks up and I finally understood that I needed to produce an SCA handle of some puckish sort, Maximillian came easily to mind, followed almost immediately by "the Vaguely Disreputable". The root of the Max portion was easy enough - from Maximillian Meen, the character played by Peter Falk in Blake Edwards' 1965 film, The Great Race - but the rest was free association, although the "Disreputable" may have also have a subconscious Great Race link; Max's colleague, Professor Fate, has a line including one of the few appearances of the word "disreputable" in a major motion picture. Some of the characteristics of Peter Falk's Max did make their way into my mental image of the early Dance of Gods Max, although his iron bar wound up in the hands of Shaa, and even though my Max diverged fairly quickly and far, you won't go too far wrong from my own picture of Max if you imagine a squinty-eyed guy slinking around in a half-crouch.
SOC Chapter 2: "The Creeping Sword"
I don't recall if anyone had tried a hard-boiled detective pastiche in a fantasy context before, but whether I'd read one or not, it was clearly an idea whose time was ready, most prominently with the arrival of Glen Cook 's Garrett not longer afterwards (Sweet Silver Blues , 1987). The first Garrett book in particular is more Nero Wolfe than Hammett , as Mr. Cook launched on his tour of famous fictional detectives, but of course Archie is a classic hard-boiled man anyway; it's obviously the interplay between Wolfe and Archie or the Dead Man and Garrett that gives their own special dynamic. There was the other Garrett , too, although Lord Darcy was rooted much more in Sherlock Holmes (and in Mr. Garrett's social milieu and famous love of puns, of course). But Lord Darcy was one of my earliest introductions to the wide world of SF through the hardcover edition of Too Many Magicians , not long after I'd graduated from the kids' section of the Robertson branch of the Los Angeles Public Library. (The library was two blocks from the family house, and when I got my first library card, around the age of nine, I was in there two or three times a week, going home with the maximum number of books each time under the traditional approach of starting at the A's on the childrens' shelves and working my way around to the Z's, with extended stays in the B's, especially Walter R. Brooks , and the H's for Hugh Lofting . I'm not sure what decoyed me out of the beginning of Adult Fiction and into the limited half-height case of Science Fiction, but it was either the Heinlein s, the Norton s, or Too Many Magicians itself.)
SOC Chapter 3: "The Great Karlini's Problem"
Here's something else that also put this book ahead of the curve: you'll notice that the seeds of the bioengineered nanotech plot that become so important in the later books are right here. Engines of Creation was published in 1986, but I'd already been thinking about the biology of magic generation since medical school. The throw-away reference in this chapter was already the tip of a highly developed iceberg...
Of course, there's very little point in tooting a horn that went almost totally unheard, unless it involved a prescient filing with the Patent Office, so feel free to pay it no heed and move smartly along.
SOC Chapter 4: "Shaa Out of Practice"
When I was starting to pull together strands and turn them into a book, I sent an earlier version of Shaa as another standalone story to Gardner Dozois at Asimov's. At that time, the character's name was Sha. I recall the terse rejection letter noted that that the editor had been unable to read through the submission because he kept reading "Sha" as "She". Okay, I thought, reasonable enough, which is how the name acquired an additional "a".
For what it's worth, my vehicle license plate is "ZYN SHAA". It's now followed me through three cars, being re-registered three times. Of course, the plates do have the discontinued California rising sun design that's been unavailable for years.
Oh, so what does "zalzyn shaa" mean, if anything? It's from the Yiddish for "be still," often applied in practice as "shut up." It was my grandfather-in-law's favorite expression, although I'd already named the character before I met him.
SOC Chapter 5: "Shop Talk"
The seagull is the sort of character I obviously enjoy using, who comes into the story in one context, usually in a secondary or background role, and ultimately - after they've been part of the landscape long enough to be pigeon-holed and taken for granted - turns out to be something else. Or perhaps sometimes a seagull is just a seagull.
The stage business with the snacks in the first part of the chapter is, if you can believe, a nod toward Roger Zelazny . Specifically, the wonderful bit at the end of the first short chapter of Lord of Light , when the first characters on stage have been discussing their grand, world-shaking plot, and then one of them, who is currently incarnated as an ape, leads into the scene-change blackout by requesting a banana.
SOC Chapter 6: "The Creeping Sword Stalks Again"
The prototype for Philnn Arol is obviously Errol Flynn . What better mold for an Adventurer's God could there be, personal problems and all, except perhaps Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton (a name which didn't lend itself nearly as well to being mangled). The Flynn of The Adventures of Robin Hood is clearly the one in the descriptions, complete with the brighter-than-life nod to three-strip Technicolor. - oh, right, he doesn't actually appear here. Well, just carry on, then. Nothing to see.
And Gashanatantra? Made up, out of whole cloth. Not at random, of course - names are important, and often you don't know you have the right one until you've tried it out for a bit - but sometimes you can use found words, and sometimes you just have to tinker bit by bit until you converge on the solution. Gash was one of the latter. I knew I needed a word with (1) multiple syllables, (2) vaguely Indian in tenor, and (3) lending itself to a natural abbreviation. Q.E.D.
The name of the chapter, on the other hand, is another Hammett reference, this time to The Thin Man . Actually, the reference is more to the movie series than the book. The Thin Man in the novel was not actually Nick Charles, the co-hero, but in order to establish series title continuity for the films, the Thin Man moniker was pulled along and applied retroactively, in effect, to Mr. Charles himself. When the name of the Creeping Sword appears here in this chapter title it doesn't, strictly speaking, seem to make sense; this can always be read as a potential hint of foreshadowing, if the author knows what he's doing, or example of malpractice, if he doesn't.
SOC Chapter 7: "Shaa Converses"
For many years, the late Theodore Sturgeon took every natural opportunity, and quite a few beyond that, to discourse on his advocacy of rhythmic prose. I was reminded of that particularly in this chapter, which is basically one long conversation, punctuated by stage directions and some minor beats of scene setting. Trying to pay attention to the natural rhythm of words on a page always seemed like a natural goal to me, not that I make any great claims to mastery. Finding and playing with the cadence - as though the text is actually being performed - just seems to make thing flow better. And it definitely helps to punch up any jokes, especially the droll ones.
SOC Chapter 8: "Scientific Interlude"
In this chapter, a central theme of the whole series is starting to raise its eye out of the ooze. I had been thinking through the biological and cellular link to magic for some time before the plot began to precipitate out.
Another theme that intersects with the first is on display here as well, at least in an initial foggy hinted form. One of the main reasons for having a group of characters running around, some even aligned with each other, is to have their goals conflict and collide, producing trouble of a scale that none of them would have anticipated. If they could have anticipated this, they would have been appalled - but then the only place that plots often seem to run on rails is in works of fiction. In a way, the cast of protagonists in The Dance of Gods are designed to be fully qualified to address the challenges they face ... but even people who are super-competent and well grounded, with an accurately jaundiced view of their world and the best of motives, can still screw up. Or can find that events are bigger than their ability to control them.
SOC Chapter 9: "What I Didn't Know"
There's another "inspired by The Great Race " reference in here that probably only I would ever have noticed. The line "You were smoking a payroll?" bears the same relationship to the scene it's embedded in as the famous "Leslie escaped with a chicken?" If I could have worked a chicken into this scene, though, I would have.
The Black Legion, which plays a walk-on role in this chapter? With my admiration for Glen Cook, you'd think it would be a nod toward the Black Company , which first appeared while I was writing. It might have been. This is one I can't remember, though.
The name Iskendarian makes its first appearance here, too. One of my most felicitous discoveries, a completely found name, that I noticed for the first time on a storefront in Culver City. The company is still there; Iskendarian Racing Cams.
SOC Chapter 11: "The Curse of the Creeping Sword"
Some of my most important formative experiences were the pulps, especially Doc Savage and The Shadow , as channeled through the Bantam reprints (and the various incarnations of The Shadow in paperback), but also including the G-8 and His Battle Aces paperbacks with the Steranko covers, The Avenger, and the really bizarre semi-updated versions of The Spider, Master of Men (and if you've ever read The Spider, you know it takes a real act of will to make him even weirder than he already was). As you can see, I was well-steeped in the old-pulp Valhalla before I ever opened a comic. Given this background, the increasingly purple character of the chapter titles in particular should come as no surprise.
Doc Savage and The Shadow also had a more structural effect on Catastrophe, along with Mission: Impossible . The concept of a loose network of collaborating specialists pulled together randomly or by design to accomplish a specific task is one that aligned perfectly with Catastrophe's sprawling cast... although I let them act at cross-purposes much more than the inspirational prototypes.
SOC Chapter 12: "Shaa and Mont Go to Jail"
By this time in the book, I was enjoying writing dialogue for Shaa and Mont so much that I'd started throwing in stuff that was, frankly, a little loopy - and knowing Shaa, this took some doing. Hence, the barely concealed quotation of F. Scott Fitzgerald 's maxim on "Action is character." It had been drummed into my head enough that I thought I should get some more use out of it. It was also nice to see that my characters had absorbed the lesson as well.
Catastrophe, and the larger Dance of Gods, were not outlined and plotted in meticulous detail. I've done this on other projects, and have sometimes had to undo it, too, once the characters started to head off in their own directions. Leaving the plotting on the loose side, though, at least until the cascading complexities of Fate and Apocalypse required more formal choreography, let characters seize the stage in combinations I had not initially anticipated. The interplay between Mont and Shaa, and then Mont's extended family, was one of these opportunities.
SOC Chapter 13: "Max Drops In"
One of the most interesting lessons I've learned as I've been going back over my work of twenty years ago is the fallibility of memory. For all this time, I'd remembered that this chapter held one particularly infelicitous turn of phrase, which I was eager for the chance to edit out; whenever I thought of it, it made me wince, being so pedestrian and unfulfilled. While I don't always turn up my nose at pedestrian, routine prose betrays a lack of vision and a wasted opportunity. Not that prose has to be fancy to work - to the contrary, more often than not - but to settle for a cheap stock reference means the writer hasn't done his job. Imagine my surprise, then, to discover that I had already edited away this unfortunate episode prior to the original publication, and that the only place this unfortunate glitch remained was in my own annoyingly erratic mind. It was almost enough to make me want to try to dredge up the old royalty statements and see if I had imagined the lack of sales, too, but some things are too traumatic to be fabricated.
SOC Chapter 15: "Big Trouble"
Although I've alluded to it before in these notes, this chapter includes one of the most explicit references to the philosophy behind the multiple overlapping plotlines. We have this:
As usual, Shaa thought sardonically, it looks like I've wandered into somebody else's ongoing plot.
The events in these books are so packed with activity that they clearly defy credulity, even given the fact that we're talking about adventures in a fantastic setting to start out with. By splitting the the activities among a group of characters, each one has to do less in order to advance the story. Along with this, when one character is off the scene, is engaged in a less interesting task, or perhaps is even catching a quick nap, another character can keep things moving along. (Which is to say that none of these characters is Jack Bauer, staying up twenty-four hours a day, in frenetic motion, being bashed and tortured on a regular basis.) But it also seems reasonable that these individually well-cast plans keep running afoul of each other, with consequences that spin wildly out of control.
SOC Chapter 18: "Repercussions"
When Catastrophe's Spell had just been published, I appeared on a local SF-centric radio program with another first-time novelist (who subsequently has gone on to a long and apparently fruitful career). The host of the show and I did not, shall we say, experience a felicitous and harmonious meeting of minds. The grand entrance of the Former Lion of the Oolvaan Plain at the beginning of this chapter was his proof text to illustrate my unworthiness. Being young, easily flummoxed, and somewhat intimidated by elders in authority positions, I had no ready answers.
I had not yet realized that sometimes a work doesn't just speak for itself.
I thought, at that time, that no one could read "mighty thews" and not realize that something was going on that did not necessarily mean the inability to distinguish over-the-top purple prose from "good writing". I assumed that no one reasonably conversant with classic genre texts would fail to grasp that a Conan reference was at hand, and that some level of parody playing off Conan and the whole barbarian mythos of which he is the archetype must be the goal.
SOC Chapter 19: "The Castle of Death"
A recurring theme throughout these notes are the previous works that influenced me and that I've drawn on, and subsequent works with similar strains or aims that I respect. It would be inappropriate and downright wrong to claim that any of these works published after mine were similarly influenced by me, for no other reason than it's hard to claim influence when you can't even claim more than a cumulative handful of readers. I'd be overjoyed at the thought that something I'd written had an impact on another writer - positively or negatively - and I'd have absolutely no problem with it. (Within certain limits. I'm completely aghast at the type of literary strip mining practiced by, for example, Michael Crichton. For an example that I am not nearly the first to point out, compare Bruce Sterling's Heavy Weather and Dr. Crichton's Twister.) But I am a huge believer, as these notes emphasize, in the ongoing dialogue that has continued over years and even generations between creative works, a phenomenon that has been particularly powerful in the evolution of speculative fiction, from the hard scientific to the out-and-out fantastical. Watching this call-and-response ping-pong game is quite a rewarding spectator sport.
SOC: The DAW Cover
I actually own the cover painting for Catastrophe's Spell, even though I've never been completely happy with it. The proportions are wrong, for one thing - Max and Haddo are way too large and the bird is far too small for one, although much of that can be explained by the need to fit them on the short dimension of a paperback cover and still have some slight idea of what you're seeing. Overall, though, not bad, and clearly a scene drawn from the book. The artist is Walter Velez.
SOI Chapter 1: "The World Already in Progress"
This title had been kicking around in the back of my mind for years before it finally appeared at the opening of Spell of Intrigue. Until I started ransacking my old papers in storage, I had forgotten just how far I'd been carrying it around: the first limited draft of what later grew into Catastrophe, dated 1980, had this title. (I'll post this version, unedited, after I finish the main series.) It was inspired by what used to be the standard broadcast seque from a program interruption for some item of emergency news: "We return you now to the program already in progress."
One of the most enjoyable parts of doing a series is the opportunity to reintroduce your surviving characters in each new installment. One exemplar of whom I'm particularly font is Dorothy Dunnett. She was one of the greatest practitioners of the art of clever character introductions; in at least three books (Niccolo Rising, Queen's Play, and King Hereafter) she concealed the introduction of her main character for a good stretch of each story, hiding him in plain sight but in disguise, under another name, or through other chameleonic subterfuges.
SOI Chapter 2: "A Crisis of Identity"
The incident with the ox, the sheep, and well is, of course, a small greatest hits version of several famous cases from the Talmud, from a tractate commonly encountered by beginners. This scene in the book had grown organically out of the narrative - I hadn't seen it coming or taken notes on it until the Sword was actually narrating it - but as I reflected on it I realized I might be able to mine this motif further as things moved ahead.
SOI Chapter 5: "Ice Cubes"
This chapter presents as good an example as I can think of of the worldview of my characters. In a situation of unanticipated but increasingly mortal peril, there is no panicked rushing about or frantic raising of voices, but rather a generally blase and workmanlike acceptance of whatever nuttiness happens by. In this, they are attempting to follow in the footsteps of Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser, the coolest characters in fantasy fiction, who somehow managed to keep up a running flow of situationally-appropriate yet unimpressedly jaded commentary, no matter the provocation.
© 2007-2014 by Mayer Brenner
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23 January 1994 | It is a Question of Human Rights, Not Numbers
First published in The Sunday Express
I was on a TV phone-in last week and during the course of a quarter of an hour segment, there were 2,000 calls from young men in the country who wanted to know how to tell their parents they were gay. I was flummoxed as to what to tell them because, if they go to the library and look for a book, they will look in vain. If they call up a gay switchboard, they are very likely to find the lines blocked. That there are 2,000 people, who in their desperation call up a television programme to ask what to do about something so central to their lives, is a sad fact of life.
The House of Commons will soon vote on whether to lower the age of consent for gay men from 21. I firmly believe it should be reduced to 16. I hope that in so doing it will allow us to talk in a mature way about what it is to be gay and to understand that it isn't the end of the world for the individual or society. We know from experience that when men "come out" to their parents — and it took me 49 years — they are likely to be met with a barrage of confusion, shock and disapproval. They are asked why they choose to be gay, when of course they didn't choose it. They just are.
An equal age of consent may open the floodgates to knowledge and discussion and the removal of ignorance and prejudice, then I think that a very good thing. Nobody anywhere in the world has ever come forward to say that he was seduced into homosexuality where, of course, the converse is that many gay men are seduced into heterosexuality. They are encouraged by society to go against their innate nature and to marry and have children, and those marriages fail when finally the man accepts that he is gay and family life breaks up.
The fear people have that, if this law is relaxed, more 16 to 21-year-olds are going to be tempted into having a gay sex experience, has no bearing on adult sexual orientation. That is fixed by puberty, a fact which is recognised by the British Medical Association, the Royal College of Psychiatrists. This should reassure parents' fears that young men go through a homosexual stage, through which they will never emerge if they have homosexual sex.
There are certainly some MPs who think reducing the age to 18 would be some sort of compromise. One of the arguments of those who support 18, or indeed support the status quo, is that sexually active gay men are spreading disease, particularly the HIV/AIDS virus. Research refutes that. Fifty per cent of gay men in a recent newspaper poll had one partner and the rest were practising safe sex.
If consent were fixed at 18, men between the ages of 16 and 18 who have sex with each other would continue to be cut off from safe sex education. They don't receive it now in school because for a teacher even to talk about having gay sex is practically illegal. It is after all a criminal act. Those young men, if they go to their doctors, will find some who feel obliged to report to the police the fact that one of their patients is having sex under the age of 21. They are cut off from the advice of older gay men who are behaving very responsibly, in being adamant that their associations should have a lower limit of 21.
Any 16-year-old going to a gay organisation will be warned: "No, you mustn't come here. What you are doing is a criminal act." They are cut off in every direction they look for advice. One by one, in response to their constituents, MPs are committing themselves to 16. We can be absolutely certain there will be law reform. The people who want to keep the status quo are very small in number.
Whether it is 16 or 18 remains to be seen. The House of Commons is at its best on free votes, because people can speak their minds, and feelings run high on both sides. In the matter of principle of equality, 18 would be a nonsense. The equality one is asking is not that people should think homosexuality is equal to heterosexuality. We all have different lives to live. But since when in a democracy did one say that a person is different, therefore he will not be treated equally? Women are different from men. Blacks are different from whites. Jews are different from Christians. Yet under the law they should be equal.
What would the role of the police be if 18 wins? Will that mean now is the time to root out those 16 and 17-year-olds and protect them from themselves? John Major's Government has decriminalised homosexuality. It was he who announced that homosexuality was increasingly accepted in society and therefore was no longer a bar to advancement in the Secret Services. And it is John Major who has now given one day over to this debate.
I suspect Mr Major would really like the House of Commons to make this a more tolerant society without waiting to be told to do so by Europe. Ireland, Spain, Italy, all these Cathoiic countries have no problem with it. Right across Europe there is equality. And what have been the results? Is there more promiscuity? Is there more disease? Are more people being converted to homosexuality? The answer on all the evidence is, no, no, no.
It is a doubtful and dangerous argument to say that talking about being gay will make people gay. I think part of education is revealing the world as it is. You should then be able to make up your own mind about that world. If 16 is an appropriate age to marry and have children, then surely it is an age when you can choose your partner in bed.
I would expect when the law is chanced, whether now or later, people will continue to find homosexuality unattractive or immoral. I wouldn't agree with them, but they will have every right to educate their children in that way. But for the State it is another matter. If we are talking about health and the position of this minority in society, small as it may be, understanding can only be helpful, not only to gay men but to the world at large.
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Awards • Movies • News & Rumours
Golden Globe Nomination for Marion Cotillard!
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association just announced their nominations on a very early morning at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Beverly Hills in California, presented by Megan Fox, Ed Helmes and Jessica Alba. Marion Cotillard was nominated for Best Actress – Drama for her performance in ‘Rust and Bone‘ (De rouille et d’os). Congratulations! This is her third Golden Globe Best Actress nomination, though the first in the Drama category. She previously won in the comedy/musical category for ‘La Vie en Rose‘ and was nominated for ‘Nine‘.
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture — Drama
Jessica Chastain, “Zero Dark Thirty”
Marion Cotillard, “Rust and Bone”
Helen Mirren, “Hitchcock”
Naomi Watts, “The Impossible”
Rachel Weisz, “The Deep Blue Sea.”
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“Rust and Bone”
The 70th annual Golden Globe Awards will be presented January 13 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, hosted by Tina Fey and Amy Poehler and airing live on NBC.
James Gray about Marion Cotillard
Cotillard: 'Very happy about this movie's journey'
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Water will be distributed on-site at the well facility in six-quart collapsible containers. The City has stored thousands of these containers near the reservoir site. Mercer Island residents are also encouraged to pick up their own containers at the Utility Billing Counter of City Hall – one container for every household member.
In addition, 250-gallon totes will be transported by Well Operations Team volunteers with trucks into neighborhoods around the Island. This service will leave City crews available for other emergency response.
Water from the City of Mercer Island’s emergency well needs to be disinfected before it can be used for food preparation, drinking, or for hygiene purposes. This is a necessary precaution because unlike water from your tap, which is thoroughly disinfected before you receive it, water from this well is taken directly from a deep underground aquifer and has not been treated in any way. It is tested regularly and, unlike water from your tap, contains inorganic compounds such as manganese. As a result, it may look, taste and smell different.
Boiling in combination with chlorination is widely considered the best way to disinfect water. Boil vigorously for three minutes. You must let the water cool before you chlorinate it or the chlorine will not work. Regular household bleach is all you need. Do not use scented bleach or bleach with added cleaners. Add 16 drops of bleach (about 1/5 teaspoon) to a gallon of water, stir, and let it stand for 30 minutes. If the water doesn't have a bleach odor after this time, add another 16 drops and wait another 15 minutes. If the water still does not have a bleach odor after 15 minutes, the water is not suitable for consumption.
If your power is out, Well Operations Team volunteers will provide you with disinfecting tablets when you get water from the well. These tablets will help remove sediment and eliminate common micro-organisms such as harmful bacteria
For more information about water distribution and disinfection, see the Frequently Asked Questions and the Water Disinfection Information.
Emergency Preparedness is Still Your Responsibility
The emergency well was not designed to serve as your only source of water during an emergency situation. You are still responsible to be prepared with supplies in your home. We urge residents to store a three-day supply of water, with one gallon of water per person per day. Residents should change the stored tap water twice a year. Water is essential to survival, so take action now.
Additional Emergency Well Information
In Case of Emergency, Mercer Island Is Ready - New First-of-Its-Kind Emergency Well Now Operational
(News Release, September 23, 2010)
Mercer Island Breaks New Ground in Earthquake Preparedness with Emergency Well
(News Release, February 1, 2010)
Frequently Asked Questions About the City’s Emergency Well
Learn more about the well—how it works, who will operate it in an emergency, the safeguards the City took to protect the well from damage during a major earthquake and other information.
Water Disinfection Information
Water from the City of Mercer Island’s emergency well needs to be disinfected before it can be used for drinking, food preparation or for hygiene purposes. Boiling in combination with chlorination is widely considered to be the best way to disinfect water. This information provides easy, step-by-step instructions to treat water you get from the Emergency Well.
Seismic Stability/Vulnerability of New Groundwater Well, Mercer Island
This memo (dated March 1, 2010) summarizes the most important factors related to the seismic stability and vulnerability of the new Emergency Well. The memo was written by local seismic scientists and engineering experts: Kathy Goetz Troost, LG (University of Washington), Burt Clothier, LHG (Robinson, Noble & Saltbush, Inc.), and Greg Hill, PE (Roth Hill LLC)
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6 February – Andreas Heise
Solving the paradox of metaphor all over again
If metaphors involve a cross-domain mapping, then most metaphors are not processed as metaphors during comprehension. This is the paradox of metaphor. In order to dissolve this paradox, Gerard Steen distinguishes three different levels of analysis with respect to metaphor: metaphor in thought, metaphor in language, and metaphor in communication. In my talk, I want to examine this solution from a philosophical perspective. First, I shall raise the question whether these three levels are mutually independent of each other. By focusing on the level of communication, I am going to argue that this is not evidently the case. Under the assumption that Steen’s solution does, however, require the three levels of analysis to be independent of each other, this would seem to put pressure on his solution to the paradox. In a second step, I will hence propose an alternative solution to the paradox of metaphor. My own proposal makes use of three variables that need to be taken into account when answering the question whether some sentence will be processed as metaphor, these being: expectations of relevance, linguistic competence, and conceptual competence. Theorists of metaphor score naturally high on all these three counts, unlike the average language user. In my view, keeping track of these three variables is all that is needed in order to explain variation across language users as regards the processing of sentences as metaphor.
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